The liquidating CompUSAs didn't honor the sale prices in the weekly ads for stores that weren't closing either. You'd have an item marked down 40% from MSRP in an ad, but the local CompUSA would only sell it to you for 10% off MSRP.
Same thing happened to me with a Radeon 9800 card, only I got a stack of paper instead of an ancient video card. The manager let me exchange it. When I went to pick up another box, I noticed that the shrinkwrap was different from the box I had purchased.
I noticed that you yourself made the following slip up in your post: I didn't nail it down to $.02 cents per meg, I just roughly estimated it at $1 per meg
You probably subconsciously added "cents" to that, but if you pronounced that as "point zero two cents per meg" in your head, then we've arrived at the same situation that caused the Verizon rep to give you a misquote. This is a common mistake that many people make, and isn't really a math problem as much as it is a linguistics problem (except when you explain it over and over again and they still don't get it, I guess). Some people forget that when they write "$", it means "the following number is going to be in units of dollars", but instead just use it as "here comes money". So they don't recognize $2 million dollars as being redundant. Or they'll write "twenty five cents" as "$.25 cents", and when they read that back later they'll say "point two five cents" but still think of it as a quarter.
As for resoving issues like these, a physics or chemistry class will probably help people more in this situation than a math class. You can do all of your math right in a physics or chemistry problem but still come up with the wrong answer if you don't get your units right. Math classes generally don't teach you much about unit conversion.
If a dwarf and a night elf only had cosmetic differences and had the capacity to perform the same tasks equally well, then it would be racist to choose dwarves over night elves. But that's not the case, so this gets tricky.
If in real life, practicioners of a certain profession who are of a certain race have two magical skills unique to their race that members of other races cannot learn, is it racist to make hiring decisions based on those magical skills?
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One of the most offensive terms for female genitalia, the c-word, is the ultimate four-letter word in British English, the final media taboo. The first use of the word in a UK TV drama was in Mosley, a drama about the rise and fall of the British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. This was first shown on Channel 4 in the late 1990s. The word is also the title of a novel by Stewart Home, published in 1999, about the break down of a writer as he rather badly loses the plot, both literally and creatively.
The word has Germanic cognates including old Norse (kunta), middle-Dutch (Kunte) and possibly High German (Kotze meaning prostitute), which all point to a pre-historic germanic ancestor kunton. A Latin word, Kuntus, meaning wedge, might also have been an influence. The word would appear to have entered the English language during the early Middle Ages; in 1230AD, both Oxford and London boasted districts called 'Gropecunte Lane', in reference to the prostitutes that worked there. The Oxford lane was later renamed the slightly less-contentious Magpie Lane, while London's version retained a sense of euphemism when it was changed to 'Threadneedle Street'. Records do not show whether it was a decision of intentional irony that eventually placed the Bank of England there.
The word has good Shakespearian usage, though even he was a little subtle. Hamlet asks whether he can lie in Ophelia's lap, 'I mean, my head upon your lap?' and then says 'Do you think I meant country matters?' and follows up with 'It is a fair thought to lie between maids' legs'. Ophelia answers non-committally to most of this. A slightly more bawdy use of the word appears in Carry On Don't Lose Your Head, one of a series of British comedy films of the 1960s, in which actress Joan Sims refers to her husband, 'The Count', deliberately pronouncing the word 'Count' with just enough room to be (mis)interpreted while still getting past the British film censors.
There is a story in Oxford that one of the religious societies in England's oldest university was the Cambridge University New Testament Society, though that has the whiff of urban legend about it. And more recently, there is a rumour that the former Newcastle Polytechnic had got to the stage of printing their letterheads with the name City University, Newcastle upon Tyne before noticing what they were doing.2
Other Universities can also be hotbeds of a certain inspired madness. Late in 2000, feminists in Penn State in the USA held a 'C***fest' with the stated objective of reclaiming the word, which, according to Inga Muscio in her book C***: A Declaration of Independence, stems from words that were 'either titles of respect for women, priestesses and witches, or derivatives of goddesses' names'. (Though how that squares with what the dictionaries say is not entirely clear). Not surprisingly, the local community did not see the event in quite the same way.
It's also one of the only pieces of space sci-fi that recognizes that a loose screw flying around in orbit can totally fuckup your spaceship. Which is why the heroes are debris collectors.
# Allows a remote attacker full control over the compromised computer to perform various actions, including:
* Downloading and executing files
* Making queries to www.google.com
* Ending processes
* Carrying out dictionary attacks on user passwords
Unless the hackers are only using the IRC zombification of your machine to keep your system clear of spyware, I wouldn't call this gray-hat. It's probably only removing the spyware because those programs hijack browsers and phone home, which might conflict with the workings of this worm.
Right. It's usually the Democratic politicians that try to create an uproar about games being bad influences to children. The complaint about the hot coffee mod and ESRB was brought by a Democratic assemblyman. Hilary Clinton made a speech against violent games this year, with the quote: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's okay to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place.". Senator Charles Schumer, who's been trying to ban "25 to Life" is also a Democrat. Democrats seem to think attacking video games is a safe way to get some "social and moral issues" cred with conservatives.
The Wachowskis probably didn't take the reference from Sandman, since Gaiman himself probably chose the name as a reference to the bibilcal Daniel, who was famous for his ability to interpret dreams. See here and here for more information.
When that writer lady accused J.K. Rowling of stealing the idea of Harry Potter from her books, either she or the media made note of the similarities between Potter and Neil Gaiman's Tim Hunter character from Books of Magic, such as the spectacled brown-hair look and the owl companion. But Gaiman stated that the owl was based on the Merlin legend, and that's probably where Rowling got her owl from too.
Correction: Morpheus <- Chewbacca (Forgot to switch to code mode.)
I think we should change the death penalty to something where Chewbacca rips you open and stuffs himself inside of your still-warm body. I genuinely believe that this will deter crime better than that pansy chair or gas chamber.
It was pseudocode. You're allowed to use the single = to indicate equality in pseudocode. If I wanted to put Chewbacca inside Morpheus, I would have done Morpheus - Chewbacca.
(That actually would have been a much cooler way to kill off Morpheus. By shoving Chewbacca inside of him somehow.)
Can't we just dig up the old "They killed Chewbacca in a book" debate, replace the word "Chewbacca" with "Morpheus" and pretend we've already discussed this in all of its glorious nerdy detail?
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You'd think they would be able to hire another voice actor, though. Most of the Star Wars games have different people voicing the major characters.
When I read the headline, I went "Duh. Morpheus died because Lyta Hall swore vengeance upon him after the Maiden-Mother-Crone Triple Goddess led her to believe that he took her son Daniel away from her. And after Morpheus's death, the dream-child Daniel transformed into the new manifestation of the Dream King."
Also, in the book Darksaber, which takes place in the post-Thrawn era, Durga the Hutt hires one of the original designers of the Death Star to build him a Death Star stripped of its extraneous crap, like defensive turrets and crew quarters, leaving only a cylinder in which the Death Star's BFG is held. But it falls apart and is crushed by asteroids because it was built by a bunch of inattentive monkeys that share a hive mind. (I am not making this up.)
A game can be a work of art , but if you just shove on bob from marketing who sounds like a squeaking rabbit as the all Macho one man army charichter then it can really blow the immersion.
For example, in the orginal Hitman: Codename 47, IO Interactive had someone who sounded like Professor Frink provide 47's voice.
Try hovering over a link in fark. It seems the text to display it is so complex, it overhwelms Firefox.
I wouldn't call it overwhelming Firefox (nor would I call it overhwelming Firefox). You probably have Firefox set to disable javascript from changing the status bar text. If you enable having javascript change the status bar text in options > web features > Javascript Advanced or if you completely disable javascript, the links show up fine in the status bar.
It uses onMouseOver to hide the click tracker from the status bar. The appropriate behavior for Firefox would be to show the actual url the link points to when you disable status bar text changing, so it's still broken.
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The liquidating CompUSAs didn't honor the sale prices in the weekly ads for stores that weren't closing either. You'd have an item marked down 40% from MSRP in an ad, but the local CompUSA would only sell it to you for 10% off MSRP.
I guess it's cheaper for NASA to fund simulated moon action than real Mars action.
Same thing happened to me with a Radeon 9800 card, only I got a stack of paper instead of an ancient video card. The manager let me exchange it. When I went to pick up another box, I noticed that the shrinkwrap was different from the box I had purchased.
I noticed that you yourself made the following slip up in your post:
I didn't nail it down to $.02 cents per meg, I just roughly estimated it at $1 per meg
You probably subconsciously added "cents" to that, but if you pronounced that as "point zero two cents per meg" in your head, then we've arrived at the same situation that caused the Verizon rep to give you a misquote. This is a common mistake that many people make, and isn't really a math problem as much as it is a linguistics problem (except when you explain it over and over again and they still don't get it, I guess). Some people forget that when they write "$", it means "the following number is going to be in units of dollars", but instead just use it as "here comes money". So they don't recognize $2 million dollars as being redundant. Or they'll write "twenty five cents" as "$.25 cents", and when they read that back later they'll say "point two five cents" but still think of it as a quarter.
Also, in this blog post, you used kilobits instead of kilobytes as the unit in your Google Calculator query.
As for resoving issues like these, a physics or chemistry class will probably help people more in this situation than a math class. You can do all of your math right in a physics or chemistry problem but still come up with the wrong answer if you don't get your units right. Math classes generally don't teach you much about unit conversion.
If a dwarf and a night elf only had cosmetic differences and had the capacity to perform the same tasks equally well, then it would be racist to choose dwarves over night elves. But that's not the case, so this gets tricky.
If in real life, practicioners of a certain profession who are of a certain race have two magical skills unique to their race that members of other races cannot learn, is it racist to make hiring decisions based on those magical skills?
More detailed New York Times article from a few weeks ago with an interview with Bill Lawrence.
Here's Kevin Reilly greenlighting the show over the phone on Carson Daly. (With Ashton Kutcher in his office for some reason talking in the background.)
Every city should have a Gropecunte Lane.
It's also one of the only pieces of space sci-fi that recognizes that a loose screw flying around in orbit can totally fuck up your spaceship. Which is why the heroes are debris collectors.
That's not all it does. Did you miss the following?
Unless the hackers are only using the IRC zombification of your machine to keep your system clear of spyware, I wouldn't call this gray-hat. It's probably only removing the spyware because those programs hijack browsers and phone home, which might conflict with the workings of this worm.
I don't see how it's narrow-minded if it's one of the primary dictionary definitions of the word. World War II wasn't an intergalactic conflict.
How do you classify a riot that occurs because your favorite sports team won something? It's not as much "I'm protesting" as it is "I'm drunk".
Right. It's usually the Democratic politicians that try to create an uproar about games being bad influences to children. The complaint about the hot coffee mod and ESRB was brought by a Democratic assemblyman. Hilary Clinton made a speech against violent games this year, with the quote: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's okay to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place.". Senator Charles Schumer, who's been trying to ban "25 to Life" is also a Democrat. Democrats seem to think attacking video games is a safe way to get some "social and moral issues" cred with conservatives.
Also, Daniel worked for a guy named King Nebuchadnezzar, so it's pretty solid evidence that there's no Sandman connection.
The Wachowskis probably didn't take the reference from Sandman, since Gaiman himself probably chose the name as a reference to the bibilcal Daniel, who was famous for his ability to interpret dreams. See here and here for more information.
When that writer lady accused J.K. Rowling of stealing the idea of Harry Potter from her books, either she or the media made note of the similarities between Potter and Neil Gaiman's Tim Hunter character from Books of Magic, such as the spectacled brown-hair look and the owl companion. But Gaiman stated that the owl was based on the Merlin legend, and that's probably where Rowling got her owl from too.
Correction: Morpheus <- Chewbacca
(Forgot to switch to code mode.)
I think we should change the death penalty to something where Chewbacca rips you open and stuffs himself inside of your still-warm body. I genuinely believe that this will deter crime better than that pansy chair or gas chamber.
It was pseudocode. You're allowed to use the single = to indicate equality in pseudocode. If I wanted to put Chewbacca inside Morpheus, I would have done Morpheus - Chewbacca.
(That actually would have been a much cooler way to kill off Morpheus. By shoving Chewbacca inside of him somehow.)
Can't we just dig up the old "They killed Chewbacca in a book" debate, replace the word "Chewbacca" with "Morpheus" and pretend we've already discussed this in all of its glorious nerdy detail?
You'd think they would be able to hire another voice actor, though. Most of the Star Wars games have different people voicing the major characters.
When I read the headline, I went "Duh. Morpheus died because Lyta Hall swore vengeance upon him after the Maiden-Mother-Crone Triple Goddess led her to believe that he took her son Daniel away from her. And after Morpheus's death, the dream-child Daniel transformed into the new manifestation of the Dream King."
And then I realized it was about the Matrix.
Also, in the book Darksaber, which takes place in the post-Thrawn era, Durga the Hutt hires one of the original designers of the Death Star to build him a Death Star stripped of its extraneous crap, like defensive turrets and crew quarters, leaving only a cylinder in which the Death Star's BFG is held. But it falls apart and is crushed by asteroids because it was built by a bunch of inattentive monkeys that share a hive mind. (I am not making this up.)
A game can be a work of art , but if you just shove on bob from marketing who sounds like a squeaking rabbit as the all Macho one man army charichter then it can really blow the immersion.
For example, in the orginal Hitman: Codename 47, IO Interactive had someone who sounded like Professor Frink provide 47's voice.
I wouldn't call it overwhelming Firefox (nor would I call it overhwelming Firefox). You probably have Firefox set to disable javascript from changing the status bar text. If you enable having javascript change the status bar text in options > web features > Javascript Advanced or if you completely disable javascript, the links show up fine in the status bar.
Fark formats its links like this:It uses onMouseOver to hide the click tracker from the status bar. The appropriate behavior for Firefox would be to show the actual url the link points to when you disable status bar text changing, so it's still broken.
Another high-quality app is DVD Rebuilder (but you need to purchase CinemaCraft Encoder). Here are some guides for it.