i saw the movie and thought it was completely awful. not having read the comic, i gather that the theme of that was pro-anarchy (i.e. all government is essentially bad) and not just "this government we're showing here is bad." if i'm right about that, then clearly that's an enormous change. the movie version was clearly trying to make an analogy between an insanely, over-the-top, everyone-can-agree-this-is-shoddy government and the current US government and IMO they stretched their analogy too far and became bad parody. i can't stand what's going on in this country, but it's a stretch to even call it similar to what happened in that movie.
actually electronic shufflers (more thorough, harder to watch) and shuffling the shoe before it's empty (current count can't go as deep) were the more recent big changes to reduce card counting. i second the recommendation for the book Bringing Down the House
i dunno, some of our worst politicians are the Senators and Representatives that are raping the federal budget for local votes, not to mention some of the less-than-savory people that we've had serve as majority leaders in the recent past. the idea of being lorded over by "President DeLay" doesn't make me feel any better than the current administration, wouldn't one of the two majority leaders be president if we switched to a parliamentary government right now?
that's fine, there's still lots of places to buy things online other than Amazon. they're not going to sell out their DVD sales to all their competitors in that space just to capture the "omg, i have no car and i can't wait two days to watch this movie, so i'll download spyware" crowd.
you're saying that you would have figured it was possible to repeatedly mail DVDs to random customers without losing all of your income to breakage during delivery and the costs of shipping and handling, or turn off their customers with slow delivery or low availability? it certainly doesn't seem obvious to me, it's still not clear how they do it all. but they do, and they've reduced the cost of renting by a lot. i probably rent more than the average 3-at-a-time customers, but i'm going through 4 or 5 movies a week (i.e. 18-22 a month) for $18 a month when that same volume from Blockbuster used to run more than $60? all i ever hear about Netflix is people sharing anecdotes about how their renting may or may not be throttled, when the real news is that they've reduced the cost of renting movies by at least 50% for most people.
so either the camera is sewn-in with the lens aiming into the underpants (in which case you might have trouble finding someone who wants to view your slideshow, but maybe add some hot grits for that niche appeal), or the camera is aiming outward and you get lots of pictures of the world from a Docker's commercial vantage point...
Of course it wasn't a perfect system and if you worked at it, you could hide your deeds from prying eyes (that's what tree forts were for).
i always wondered what those were for. i thought it was to provide cover from the incoming fire of the children of oppressive foreign dictators, but all this time it was as simple as "what happens in tree fort stays in tree fort"
Jigsaw collates this information, locks it behind a subscriber wall, and rewards people that submit new information by letting them read things that have been gathered by others. it's unfair to claim that Jigsaw is just an objective carrier for this information, they're managing it
IE7 is a totally different story. IE7 took exactly as much time as it took for a competitor with non-negligible marketshare to emerge + development time. if Firefox were not around, we'd have IE6 for Vista. IE6 bugs that affect the OS are a closer comparison, and they definitely fix those slower.
also this is actually not totally unlike the way that MMORPG game companies fix bugs that benefit the players way faster than those that are a detriment.
there should be far fewer external apps dependent on Windows Media Player than there are on IE/Explorer bundle, so the test suite to highlight unintended side-effects is probably a lot smaller.
it actually is easier to clean up spam when you have the likely candidates sorted into their own folder. even if you're still looking at each header/sender before deleting it, you're ahead of the game because you're not working in a mixed mode (opening some and acting on them, deleting others) when dealing with spam or dealing with regular mail.
given the current state of the education system in this country, i bet the "number of states" feature makes this all but uncrackable to a large segment of the population
actually the article is low on details, but it seems that the proposed solution is to build a database of presolved captchas so that bots can post on websites unhindered. so having a custom form could be related to this story, because it's an additional hurdle to bots
if it's a Sony TV, i doubt you get a cable along with it. because just having a TV with the HDMI port and the cable is somewhat useless, surely you'll get a cable when you buy a component that would use it...
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i saw the movie and thought it was completely awful. not having read the comic, i gather that the theme of that was pro-anarchy (i.e. all government is essentially bad) and not just "this government we're showing here is bad." if i'm right about that, then clearly that's an enormous change. the movie version was clearly trying to make an analogy between an insanely, over-the-top, everyone-can-agree-this-is-shoddy government and the current US government and IMO they stretched their analogy too far and became bad parody. i can't stand what's going on in this country, but it's a stretch to even call it similar to what happened in that movie.
actually electronic shufflers (more thorough, harder to watch) and shuffling the shoe before it's empty (current count can't go as deep) were the more recent big changes to reduce card counting. i second the recommendation for the book Bringing Down the House
when did eye-candy change from a noun to an adjective anyway?
try the first search result on Google for "deriving the quadratic formula"
Blade Runner is largely a love story as well
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i dunno, some of our worst politicians are the Senators and Representatives that are raping the federal budget for local votes, not to mention some of the less-than-savory people that we've had serve as majority leaders in the recent past. the idea of being lorded over by "President DeLay" doesn't make me feel any better than the current administration, wouldn't one of the two majority leaders be president if we switched to a parliamentary government right now?
that's fine, there's still lots of places to buy things online other than Amazon. they're not going to sell out their DVD sales to all their competitors in that space just to capture the "omg, i have no car and i can't wait two days to watch this movie, so i'll download spyware" crowd.
you're saying that you would have figured it was possible to repeatedly mail DVDs to random customers without losing all of your income to breakage during delivery and the costs of shipping and handling, or turn off their customers with slow delivery or low availability? it certainly doesn't seem obvious to me, it's still not clear how they do it all. but they do, and they've reduced the cost of renting by a lot. i probably rent more than the average 3-at-a-time customers, but i'm going through 4 or 5 movies a week (i.e. 18-22 a month) for $18 a month when that same volume from Blockbuster used to run more than $60? all i ever hear about Netflix is people sharing anecdotes about how their renting may or may not be throttled, when the real news is that they've reduced the cost of renting movies by at least 50% for most people.
so either the camera is sewn-in with the lens aiming into the underpants (in which case you might have trouble finding someone who wants to view your slideshow, but maybe add some hot grits for that niche appeal), or the camera is aiming outward and you get lots of pictures of the world from a Docker's commercial vantage point...
Jigsaw collates this information, locks it behind a subscriber wall, and rewards people that submit new information by letting them read things that have been gathered by others. it's unfair to claim that Jigsaw is just an objective carrier for this information, they're managing it
IE7 is a totally different story. IE7 took exactly as much time as it took for a competitor with non-negligible marketshare to emerge + development time. if Firefox were not around, we'd have IE6 for Vista. IE6 bugs that affect the OS are a closer comparison, and they definitely fix those slower.
also this is actually not totally unlike the way that MMORPG game companies fix bugs that benefit the players way faster than those that are a detriment.
there should be far fewer external apps dependent on Windows Media Player than there are on IE/Explorer bundle, so the test suite to highlight unintended side-effects is probably a lot smaller.
seriously, they really released 3.0!?!
being the first to hear about things like this makes wading through all the dupe stories worth it
it actually is easier to clean up spam when you have the likely candidates sorted into their own folder. even if you're still looking at each header/sender before deleting it, you're ahead of the game because you're not working in a mixed mode (opening some and acting on them, deleting others) when dealing with spam or dealing with regular mail.
hah! that fool is completely ignoring all the available evidence!
given the current state of the education system in this country, i bet the "number of states" feature makes this all but uncrackable to a large segment of the population
actually the article is low on details, but it seems that the proposed solution is to build a database of presolved captchas so that bots can post on websites unhindered. so having a custom form could be related to this story, because it's an additional hurdle to bots
of course it says right in the summary that this is old news, so your statement that this is old news...is old news
if it's a Sony TV, i doubt you get a cable along with it. because just having a TV with the HDMI port and the cable is somewhat useless, surely you'll get a cable when you buy a component that would use it...