Yes, but in the end they ultimately discover a way to use the drive without annihilating the target on impact, leading to peaceful exploration of the galaxy.
It's not your fault, it is Slashdot not dynamically updating a rapidly changing comment stream. My post was only three minutes after your original, and two minutes after your correction, but your correction wasn't on my screen until I had finished reading the comments and came back later on a refresh. I guess I could refresh before commenting.
The story in "linear" mode boils down to extremely basic, but you get to see Natalie and Teddy's motivations as they unfold. Watching it linear essentially does the hard part for your brain, which allows you to watch the movie. It puts the cause before the effect. I like it, and have made several friends who didn't like Memento sit down and watch it linear, and it usually results in them understanding it a bit better.
Not to mention that Futurama has distinct passage of time (in show years, they are currently in the year 3010) while the Simpsons has no linear timeline. Bart is still 10, Lisa is still 8, Maggie is still a baby.
I have an unlocked NAM Motorola Milestone, which is essentially the Droid but works on AT&T 3G. It is entirely unbranded except for the firmware version which has the word "Telus" (The Canadian carrier the phone was originally made for), but I haven't updated mine to Android 2.1 yet so maybe that goes away.
Additionally, since AT&T doesn't know I have it, I only pay $15/mo for unlimited data access versus the $30/mo they want. As long as this continues, I see this as my unsubsidized out of contract price.
The fakes are not worthless, they could technically be considered "art", which is the point of claiming that they have value as a collectible. They may not have value to you or me, but then again I don't have any particular urge to hang the Mona Lisa in my living room, either.
Not the same thing. Maybe if someone says they're heading down to the pub for a pintaa, which would be a phrase that would definitely strike me as odd.
I recently purchased a brand new motorcycle in California, and was not given any sort of temporary tag. All I got from the stealer was the slip of paper that says tags had been applied for, but nothing to mount on the motorcycle. I received my plates in the mail 30 days later.
Never got pulled over, though...
I have often wished that searching was more tuned to the way humans ask questions. Ask Jeeves attempted this way back in the early days of websearch, and Google is very good at it now, but not with the types of things I sometimes want to search for. Sometimes you want to find something when you don't know what it is called. Your best bet is to type in a few adjectives and hope something comes up.
For example, I was humming a tune the other day. I know it was an Aerosmith song, and I can hum a few bars, but for the life of me I can't remember any of the lyrics. I wish that I could google for "that song by Aerosmith, the one that goes da daa dada..." and Google would be able to answer it, much like a friend would. Another example is when I see a commercial on TV for a store, and sometimes I'll google a phrase like "such-and-such company's commercials are funny", hoping to find an online forum where other people who agree with me have previously discussed this funny commercial. Doesn't always work, naturally.
The beauty of the way humans interact is that we can process a lot of information very quickly without having all of the information. If I'm working on a project and need a tool, I can tell a buddy, "Hey could you pass me the whatcha-ma-callit, you know the turny-one?" and he can probably deduce that I want a 3/8" socket wrench based on context clues. I hope that one day, Google search will be like that.
In 2063 there will be 30 billion.. All Borg. I haven't seen that film in quite some time, but I distinctly recall that the population of Earth was given as "9 billion, all Borg". However, the 9 billion number referred to the 24th Century Earth, which had been completely converted to Borg in the intervening 3 centuries (The Enterprise had been caught in some sort of temporal "wake" that allowed them to see the 24th Century Earth without their own histories being erased as they traveled to the past). It can be assumed that the reason Earth only has 9 billion in the 24th Century is due to colonization, such as the moon colonies that Riker mentions.
Coincidentally, the number 9 billion was mentioned here in the comments as an equilibrium point in Earth population. Unrelated, but interesting nonetheless.
Most revealing is the claim that Nintendo has been secretly 'waging war' on the likes of Sony and Microsoft by capitalizing on frustrations over cuts to the Xbox Live Arcade royalty rate (down from 70% to 35% for any game making under $4m in revenue) It can't be that difficult to make 4 millidollars on Xbox Live. Many companies use a little m (or sometimes even a big M) to signify thousands. They will then use $MM to signify millions. Not that I agree with it, and it certainly goes against SI units, but it is a common convention.
If you have a slowdown you will reduce the number of cars passing per minute. But the traffic was already at a capacity flow so the number of cars feeding into this situation continues unabated. It is obvious that the flow of traffic is done until the quantity of vehicles feeding into the situation is drastically slowed to less then the flow of traffic at the restriction. (In Orange County, CA that means waiting till after 6:30PM for a situation that started at 3:00PM.) I can attest to this. However, the real problem seems to be the way in which the road was originally designed. Sunday afternoon, I was heading north on I-5 through Orange County. Portions of this road continously switch between 3 and 5 lanes per side, mostly for a mile or so after a merge. When the extra traffic attempts to merge left when the road goes from 5 lanes to 3, we get the traffic congestion.
By saturating a freeway already operating at capacity by adding 66% more vehicles, you must expect delays. This is compounded by the fact that when the road goes from 3 to 5, 40% of the vehicles immediately fill the two new lanes, which are intended for use by new cars entering the roadway. Everyone grinds to a halt, and average speed drops to below 20mph for all involved. Now, combine this with assholes who try to get somewhere faster (and fail) by continously changing lanes, and you've got a sticky situation.
I agree that more lanes aren't the solution, especially in Los Angeles where there just isn't the real estate available to devote to more roads. The solution is better mass transit. Maybe figuring out a way to reduce the car culture we have here in the States would help, too. Maybe if they finally build that California High Speed Railway they've been talking about for decades (Maybe the LA-Vegas rail, too... I-15 suffers the same fate due to constant changes in the number of available lanes) I could actually get from Bakersfield to downtown Los Angeles without having to plan my day around the time I'll be spending in the car.
My college did this, as well. In addition to assigning static IP to MAC addresses, we were also required to log on to a central authentication server in order to use the school's wireless network. You could connect to the wireless network, but it would refuse to route you to the outside web without that authentication.
This same level of authentication was not required for ethernet, however. Merely registering the MAC address to your username would allow you to connect. Multiple MAC addresses could be registered to the same username as well, each with unique IP (I believe at one point, I had 4 or 5 NICs registered to my username). Incidentally, this is also how they tracked how much data you transferred per day, and you could even log on to a website that would display a graph of your data usages per hour for the last 7 days (At the time, exceeding 1GB/day would drop your bandwidth to modem speeds). It was actually a pain in the butt for using devices that do not have a web browser but needs to access the network, such as a router or video game console. You had to call the IT department and have them manually add your MAC address to your username's MAC table. I usually got around that in the dorms by having all my devices behind one router and assigned LAN IP addresses, with only the router being registered.
So even though we had those protections in place for wireless, by not having the same protections in place for ethernet, students would be open to the MAC spoofing you describe in your post. I don't know that they've required that authentication now for ethernet (its been several years) but I imagine it could be done by requiring you to log onto a VPN or some other central sever in order to have external WAN access.
"Signs" is a good example of a similar idea ("street-level" story, rather than the omniscient point of view taken in "Independence Day" and most of the classic 50's films) told from the point of view of folks out in the boonies. True. But to a certain extent, Independence Day was also like that. When the aliens destroyed most of Earth's major cities, the people that were left were those who didn't live in big cities like New York, LA, or other Global Cities.
With Sim City 2000, I got a copy of something called the SCURK (Sim City Urban Renewal Kit). This was back in the early days of the interwebs for regular people, but I remember downloading copies of buildings like McDonalds and Burger King for restaurants, or various other odd reincarnations of standard buildings. You could also make your own with the editor.
Sim City on the SNES already included a Las Vegas UFO Attack scenario. The SNES version was my favorite incarnation of Sim City Classic, if I must say so myself.
A good name for the new company would be Activard, I think.
My hope is that this move doesn't impact things like Starcraft II negatively. That is a game that millions of gamers have been waiting for since the original Starcraft won Game of the Year in 1998, as evidenced by the fact that people are still playing it 10 years later. It has big shoes to fill, and bureaucracy is generally not good for games (the already mentioned EA Sports, with its monopoly on NFL games and other sports franchises that are a dime a dozen, yet cost $50 each).
Well, its good to know that Slashdot dupes are begining to appear in the summary itself now, mentioning twice who the CEO would be and which company will have the largest stake in the company!
The ATT suits have it wrong here. If they want to grind as much productivity out of willing slaves, they just need to hand everyone a laptop, blackberry, a Verizon card, and tell them they are working from home from here on with salary as their pay (not hourly) and no sick time and no vacation (hey you are already at home) and there is no esxcuse for having the deadline missed because you have been at work the entire time. Jeez, I hope the AT&T Suits aren't giving their AT&T employees wireless Verizon cards instead of AT&T ones. Anecdotally, as a subscriber to AT&T myself, I'm sure I'd get better signal with the Verizon card.
I disagree. A previous phone of mine, a Samsung I believe, had a warning when you set the volume at its maximum level in the profile. It forced you to accept the volume level before being able to save the setting. And it was still too quiet!
I think one of the other drawbacks of having low volume is that often I'll find myself in a loud area, such as at work (manufacturing environment) or even a bar or sporting event, where the ambient noise is too loud and there is no way to "step outside" and get a quieter environment. I would appreciate being able to hear the sounds coming directly into my ear.
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Yes, but in the end they ultimately discover a way to use the drive without annihilating the target on impact, leading to peaceful exploration of the galaxy.
It's not your fault, it is Slashdot not dynamically updating a rapidly changing comment stream. My post was only three minutes after your original, and two minutes after your correction, but your correction wasn't on my screen until I had finished reading the comments and came back later on a refresh. I guess I could refresh before commenting.
But would Tipper Gore?
The story in "linear" mode boils down to extremely basic, but you get to see Natalie and Teddy's motivations as they unfold. Watching it linear essentially does the hard part for your brain, which allows you to watch the movie. It puts the cause before the effect. I like it, and have made several friends who didn't like Memento sit down and watch it linear, and it usually results in them understanding it a bit better.
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Point to the line in your post where tattoos are either explicitly or implicitly implied as one of the innumerable protections you list.
Not to mention that Futurama has distinct passage of time (in show years, they are currently in the year 3010) while the Simpsons has no linear timeline. Bart is still 10, Lisa is still 8, Maggie is still a baby.
Or Los Estados Unidos for The United States? Or more egregiously, estadounidense/norteamericano for American?
Pound-mass is a unit of mass. lb is a unit of weight that is equivalent to the lbm on Earth.
1 lbm = 1 lb on Earth at sea level. In either event, I agree with the GP that the GGP is being pedantic.
I have an unlocked NAM Motorola Milestone, which is essentially the Droid but works on AT&T 3G. It is entirely unbranded except for the firmware version which has the word "Telus" (The Canadian carrier the phone was originally made for), but I haven't updated mine to Android 2.1 yet so maybe that goes away.
Additionally, since AT&T doesn't know I have it, I only pay $15/mo for unlimited data access versus the $30/mo they want. As long as this continues, I see this as my unsubsidized out of contract price.
The fakes are not worthless, they could technically be considered "art", which is the point of claiming that they have value as a collectible. They may not have value to you or me, but then again I don't have any particular urge to hang the Mona Lisa in my living room, either.
Not the same thing. Maybe if someone says they're heading down to the pub for a pintaa, which would be a phrase that would definitely strike me as odd.
I recently purchased a brand new motorcycle in California, and was not given any sort of temporary tag. All I got from the stealer was the slip of paper that says tags had been applied for, but nothing to mount on the motorcycle. I received my plates in the mail 30 days later. Never got pulled over, though...
Mine is similar: 4552334. 7 digit number starting with 455, I think I picked it up sometime around 96/97.
Don't use it very often, but it still works and even has some of my old database info stored in it.
I have often wished that searching was more tuned to the way humans ask questions. Ask Jeeves attempted this way back in the early days of websearch, and Google is very good at it now, but not with the types of things I sometimes want to search for. Sometimes you want to find something when you don't know what it is called. Your best bet is to type in a few adjectives and hope something comes up.
For example, I was humming a tune the other day. I know it was an Aerosmith song, and I can hum a few bars, but for the life of me I can't remember any of the lyrics. I wish that I could google for "that song by Aerosmith, the one that goes da daa dada..." and Google would be able to answer it, much like a friend would. Another example is when I see a commercial on TV for a store, and sometimes I'll google a phrase like "such-and-such company's commercials are funny", hoping to find an online forum where other people who agree with me have previously discussed this funny commercial. Doesn't always work, naturally.
The beauty of the way humans interact is that we can process a lot of information very quickly without having all of the information. If I'm working on a project and need a tool, I can tell a buddy, "Hey could you pass me the whatcha-ma-callit, you know the turny-one?" and he can probably deduce that I want a 3/8" socket wrench based on context clues. I hope that one day, Google search will be like that.
Coincidentally, the number 9 billion was mentioned here in the comments as an equilibrium point in Earth population. Unrelated, but interesting nonetheless.
By saturating a freeway already operating at capacity by adding 66% more vehicles, you must expect delays. This is compounded by the fact that when the road goes from 3 to 5, 40% of the vehicles immediately fill the two new lanes, which are intended for use by new cars entering the roadway. Everyone grinds to a halt, and average speed drops to below 20mph for all involved. Now, combine this with assholes who try to get somewhere faster (and fail) by continously changing lanes, and you've got a sticky situation.
I agree that more lanes aren't the solution, especially in Los Angeles where there just isn't the real estate available to devote to more roads. The solution is better mass transit. Maybe figuring out a way to reduce the car culture we have here in the States would help, too. Maybe if they finally build that California High Speed Railway they've been talking about for decades (Maybe the LA-Vegas rail, too... I-15 suffers the same fate due to constant changes in the number of available lanes) I could actually get from Bakersfield to downtown Los Angeles without having to plan my day around the time I'll be spending in the car.
My college did this, as well. In addition to assigning static IP to MAC addresses, we were also required to log on to a central authentication server in order to use the school's wireless network. You could connect to the wireless network, but it would refuse to route you to the outside web without that authentication.
This same level of authentication was not required for ethernet, however. Merely registering the MAC address to your username would allow you to connect. Multiple MAC addresses could be registered to the same username as well, each with unique IP (I believe at one point, I had 4 or 5 NICs registered to my username). Incidentally, this is also how they tracked how much data you transferred per day, and you could even log on to a website that would display a graph of your data usages per hour for the last 7 days (At the time, exceeding 1GB/day would drop your bandwidth to modem speeds). It was actually a pain in the butt for using devices that do not have a web browser but needs to access the network, such as a router or video game console. You had to call the IT department and have them manually add your MAC address to your username's MAC table. I usually got around that in the dorms by having all my devices behind one router and assigned LAN IP addresses, with only the router being registered.
So even though we had those protections in place for wireless, by not having the same protections in place for ethernet, students would be open to the MAC spoofing you describe in your post. I don't know that they've required that authentication now for ethernet (its been several years) but I imagine it could be done by requiring you to log onto a VPN or some other central sever in order to have external WAN access.
With Sim City 2000, I got a copy of something called the SCURK (Sim City Urban Renewal Kit). This was back in the early days of the interwebs for regular people, but I remember downloading copies of buildings like McDonalds and Burger King for restaurants, or various other odd reincarnations of standard buildings. You could also make your own with the editor.
Sim City on the SNES already included a Las Vegas UFO Attack scenario. The SNES version was my favorite incarnation of Sim City Classic, if I must say so myself.
A good name for the new company would be Activard, I think. My hope is that this move doesn't impact things like Starcraft II negatively. That is a game that millions of gamers have been waiting for since the original Starcraft won Game of the Year in 1998, as evidenced by the fact that people are still playing it 10 years later. It has big shoes to fill, and bureaucracy is generally not good for games (the already mentioned EA Sports, with its monopoly on NFL games and other sports franchises that are a dime a dozen, yet cost $50 each). Well, its good to know that Slashdot dupes are begining to appear in the summary itself now, mentioning twice who the CEO would be and which company will have the largest stake in the company!
I disagree. A previous phone of mine, a Samsung I believe, had a warning when you set the volume at its maximum level in the profile. It forced you to accept the volume level before being able to save the setting. And it was still too quiet!
I think one of the other drawbacks of having low volume is that often I'll find myself in a loud area, such as at work (manufacturing environment) or even a bar or sporting event, where the ambient noise is too loud and there is no way to "step outside" and get a quieter environment. I would appreciate being able to hear the sounds coming directly into my ear.