The problem is that Ford has licensed other companies to produce calendars, coffee mugs, and the like, as they state in their letter. Since they are affiliated with these companies using their trademarks to make these things, having a non-affiliated company making a similar product creates confusion for the purchaser. Is it an authorized Ford calendar, or is it from a company that is not affiliated with Ford?
If you bought a Ford calendar and found it to be terrible, or unflattering of their vehicles, or something like that, at least a little of that dislike would be carried over to Ford. That's why they want to control it.
Recently, however, carry-on luggage limits were made significantly more strict. It used to be on US airlines that you could have two items, one of them being a bag, and the other a laptop bag, briefcase, etc. Basically, something to go in the overhead and something to stow under the seat in front of you. Nowadays, they won't let me bring both a backpack and roller bag (which fits perfectly in all but prop plane overheads, and the backpack under the seat in front of me).
Calendars in Portal say 1983. So since the Black Mesa incident (Half-Life) was in the 00s (also according to calendars), Portal predates Half-Life by quite a bit.
GLaDOS must be referring to something different.
No, actually, it's not redundant. "Real-Time Strategy" is a genre of computer games, and we're talking about strategies for such. If you said "'Neurotic' is Best RTS," you'd be thinking there was some new game called 'Neurotic' that was the best RTS game.
If it requires a lot of power, it'll probably do like graphics cards do, and have an additional power connector. They've even gone so far as to make a PCI-e-specific power connector (it's absolutely useless, as it provides the same power connections as berg and molex do).
To add to the arguments against space colonization: Think about the exponential growth rate. If you want to maintain that exponential growth rate, by allowing people to have as many children as they want and keeping people alive as long as possible, the exponential rate is going to continue. That means you have a doubling period, with recent growth rates, something like 40 years. Let's fast forward to a point where we're out of space on earth completely. Everything is used up, and the only way to sustain more people is to move to a new planet. So they do. The new planet is colonized and everything is dandy. Except in 40 years, that planet is full up too, and the only solution is to find TWO more planets.
The above explanation mostly taken from a video by a professor, whose name or affiliation I don't remember. The idea of the lecture was that one of humanity's biggest problems is not understanding the exponential growth rate.
And Rabanastre is Mos Eisley. Bhujerba is Cloud City. I haven't got to other cities yet so I can't compare them. Rabanastre is surrounded by deserts, has a whole bunch of different races of things all living in close proximity. Balthier is Han Solo, and Fran is Chewbacca. He's a sky pirate, which is similar enough to Han's role as a smuggler. In one of the deserts, there are very Jawa-like creatures, the Uru-tans.
There are other references too, but I can't remember them at the moment.
I'm 18, and I remember having hard drives the size of a desktop computer that held between 5 and 20 MB. They were hooked up to a UNIX computer. It had a really big monitor, though (probably 21").
In the MP3 found around there, all I could hear was people milling around. I'm 18 and I don't often listen to incredibly loud music. My guess is our computer speakers can't play that frequency, since in physics class I was able to hear extremely high pitch noise that, say, my teacher couldn't.
I don't usually hear televisions anymore though, they used to drive me nuts if there wasn't any audio on. Not a bad thing, in my book =P
Yikes! That link is dangerous. It polluted my history so much that using the back button was impossible. I used the scrolldown bit, found the farthest back, found the farthest back, repeat. Nothing. (Firefox)
You do know that Libertarians are against big government, right? Pretty much the opposite in fact. (I'm not sure whether you were calling Libertarians these "liberals." Are Libertarians liberal?)
In my town, we had a truck pull a transformer off a pole. The thing fell into the street and exploded. I didn't hear it myself, but apparently it was audible for a few miles. Everyone on that line had their power out for the rest of the day.
NStar (the power company here) has had problems with transformers failing due to summer heat as well. Now, some parts of town are underground and some are above. The town center is buried, which may have happened sometime recently in this huge effort to beautify it (since we're becoming a rich suburb, we've got to have a nice downtown... so they tear up the roads every year and a half) and newer residential areas have buried wires. Older neighborhoods like mine have above ground wiring. I get a better cable connection than my pals living in the million dollar houses.
Sorry, you looked up Fascism. There's a difference between Fascism and fascism. Despite what Internet Windows has taught us, capitalization does matter.
"You are a fucking moron. No car on the market can stop as quickly or maneuver as well as a motorcycle and riders get killed all the time. Ever hear of "Ben Roethlisberger"? Oh wait, you're just a typical opinionated Slashdot poser/poster."
Let me stick up for your target there. Here's a couple ideas why motorcyclists get killed more often. None of these are backed up by sources, but they are simply possibilities my uninformed head has thought of.
1)The motorcycle would tend to turn if you stopped the wheels. Meaning you have to put a part of person on the ground. Ouch.
2)Motorcycles don't have roll cages, side bars, or any other form of safety feature.
3)Motorcycles are small, really small. They're so small that a quick check to the blind spot might not reveal their presence.
4)Some motorcycle drivers like to weave traffic. Mucho dangerous, combined with the other above.
And no, I've never heard of "Ben Roethlisberger," but yes, I am a typical opinionated Slashdot poster. Hi! I'm just like you, you see.
"Here is a question for your stupid ass, ever seen the rear of a small car after a crash? Fucking crumple zone pushes the rear bumper almost to the rear seat. Needless to say it doesn't leave much room for the any kids to survive."
From what you said, it sounds like the rear bumper did NOT touch the rear seat. Seems to me like the passengers would have survived, if their seat wasn't touched. Most sedans I see have a lot of
"Accidents happen and they are unavoidable, hence being called an accident. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when."
It's people like this that cause accidents. When you take Driver's Education you're supposed to be taught about something called Defensive Driving. It means you don't tailgate, and otherwise always have an "escape route" in case somebody else does something crazy. Yes, most of the time it's inconvenient to do, but accidents ARE avoidable.
"Some people like to have metal around them when they do have an accident. My wife hit a deer while driving 70mph in a rural area. 4k worth of damage to an Expedition, no injuries. Try that in a compact car. Or try getting through two miles of mud to get to pavement. Or going camping with a troop of girl scouts. Or camping (towing a pop-up). Hell, camping period with kids, especially if there is swimming involved."
This is a situation in which the high chassis of an SUV is good. With a smaller car, deer might go through the windshield. Bad problem. The other examples are good cases for driving an SUV. But when you're in suburbia, the only case for an SUV is trucking kids.
"Jackasses like you dump dogs in the country all the time. Try going to the vet with 5 fucking stray dogs in a compact."
Plenty of people live in cities and suburbs. Don't find many stray dogs here. Cats, yeah. When you do find them here though, police take care of it.
"Not everyone is a loser who sits at home and pretends to have a life while going on a virtual date with a guy who's screen name is Sally. Until you actually have kids, and DO things with them, don't judge others."
Irrelevant? I think so. My sedan seats 5, by the way. If I had more than 3 children, I could see owning a minivan, or a 7-seater SUV.
"How about instead of whining about people who try to buy a safer vehicle for their families you whine about the shitty drivers on the road. Fuckers going ten miles under the speed limit in the left lane. Going too fast, weaving in and out of traffic - usually smaller cars BTW. Old people who can't drive for shit anymore. Young people who haven't learned how to drive yet and think they can."
I thought you said accidents weren't avoidable? Hm! This is quite a quandary. It would seem that you are saying accidents are avoidable.
I do agree that smaller cars tend to be the dodge and weave type.
"(Or he is simple misquoted)"
I don't think he's even being misquoted. It doesn't seem from his quotes that he's against net neutrality at all. He seems to simply state that he wants legislation to be very careful not to illegalize distributed content delivery (like his own venture).
Sensationalist headline.
Let me be the first to complain about billboards in games. I really don't like the billboards in Burnout 3. Why? Its the same four or five ads over and over and over. Plus, they are almost all for other EA games. I find it annoying. Then there's this one for Axe deodorant with a sunglassed face of indeterminate sex that is just disturbing.
Maybe if they had thirty real billboards, it would make them more money and would annoy me less.
Video games didn't have to adapt to what the music industry or Hollywood was using, they simply latched on because it was a format that was easy to use and produce and was superior in terms of storage capacity to their current media.
If it follows their standard for HTML, it sure doesn't for CSS. Getting a page to look the same in Opera/Firefox and IE7 was as much a challenge as if I substituted IE6 for IE7. The only difference I've noted is the interface, which I like a lot for its minimalism, and the antialiasing it applies to everything, which makes reading hard but everything else look pretty nice.
Unless things have changed in the past few months, IE7 is not standards compliant.
Even having read that, I still think a few levels up, idea (ii) was more correct. I refer to "Basic research to meet one set of objectives can lead to interesting ideas for our society." Seems to me that the joke was "I tune into the Ipod occasionally, you know?"
My experience in EQ was that EQ players were more intelligent than WoW players. I've played both. WoW has got better, especially on newer servers, but still, I find more idiots than I did in EQ. I think a lot of it has to do with how easy it is to solo and how a group can be made up of any sort of combination.
Well, I personally claim to not be infected, having no scanner, by looking at my running processes list. If there's something there that I don't recognize, I find out what it is or kill it. Sure, I wouldn't know if I had a rootkit or something, but a virus scanner wouldn't either. I know there's other ways of being infected, but the consequences of that are apparently not affecting me or my network, so I am willing to hazard that I'm probably not infected at all.
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The problem is that Ford has licensed other companies to produce calendars, coffee mugs, and the like, as they state in their letter. Since they are affiliated with these companies using their trademarks to make these things, having a non-affiliated company making a similar product creates confusion for the purchaser. Is it an authorized Ford calendar, or is it from a company that is not affiliated with Ford?
If you bought a Ford calendar and found it to be terrible, or unflattering of their vehicles, or something like that, at least a little of that dislike would be carried over to Ford. That's why they want to control it.
Recently, however, carry-on luggage limits were made significantly more strict. It used to be on US airlines that you could have two items, one of them being a bag, and the other a laptop bag, briefcase, etc. Basically, something to go in the overhead and something to stow under the seat in front of you. Nowadays, they won't let me bring both a backpack and roller bag (which fits perfectly in all but prop plane overheads, and the backpack under the seat in front of me).
Calendars in Portal say 1983. So since the Black Mesa incident (Half-Life) was in the 00s (also according to calendars), Portal predates Half-Life by quite a bit. GLaDOS must be referring to something different.
No, actually, it's not redundant. "Real-Time Strategy" is a genre of computer games, and we're talking about strategies for such. If you said "'Neurotic' is Best RTS," you'd be thinking there was some new game called 'Neurotic' that was the best RTS game.
If it requires a lot of power, it'll probably do like graphics cards do, and have an additional power connector. They've even gone so far as to make a PCI-e-specific power connector (it's absolutely useless, as it provides the same power connections as berg and molex do).
Ounces are different from Fluid Ounces.
I may just be making this up, but a Fluid Ounce is the volume of water that weighs one Ounce.
Technically it would be "Ounces per Fluid Ounce."
Ounce is one of those words that looks weird after seeing it a bunch.
To add to the arguments against space colonization: Think about the exponential growth rate. If you want to maintain that exponential growth rate, by allowing people to have as many children as they want and keeping people alive as long as possible, the exponential rate is going to continue. That means you have a doubling period, with recent growth rates, something like 40 years. Let's fast forward to a point where we're out of space on earth completely. Everything is used up, and the only way to sustain more people is to move to a new planet. So they do. The new planet is colonized and everything is dandy. Except in 40 years, that planet is full up too, and the only solution is to find TWO more planets.
The above explanation mostly taken from a video by a professor, whose name or affiliation I don't remember. The idea of the lecture was that one of humanity's biggest problems is not understanding the exponential growth rate.
WoW grind is a LOT more enjoyable than for instance EQ grind. Leveling in WoW is always fun. It was the most enjoyable MMORPG I ever played.
And Rabanastre is Mos Eisley. Bhujerba is Cloud City. I haven't got to other cities yet so I can't compare them. Rabanastre is surrounded by deserts, has a whole bunch of different races of things all living in close proximity. Balthier is Han Solo, and Fran is Chewbacca. He's a sky pirate, which is similar enough to Han's role as a smuggler. In one of the deserts, there are very Jawa-like creatures, the Uru-tans.
There are other references too, but I can't remember them at the moment.
I'm 18, and I remember having hard drives the size of a desktop computer that held between 5 and 20 MB. They were hooked up to a UNIX computer. It had a really big monitor, though (probably 21").
In the MP3 found around there, all I could hear was people milling around. I'm 18 and I don't often listen to incredibly loud music. My guess is our computer speakers can't play that frequency, since in physics class I was able to hear extremely high pitch noise that, say, my teacher couldn't. I don't usually hear televisions anymore though, they used to drive me nuts if there wasn't any audio on. Not a bad thing, in my book =P
Yikes! That link is dangerous. It polluted my history so much that using the back button was impossible. I used the scrolldown bit, found the farthest back, found the farthest back, repeat. Nothing. (Firefox)
You do know that Libertarians are against big government, right? Pretty much the opposite in fact. (I'm not sure whether you were calling Libertarians these "liberals." Are Libertarians liberal?)
Of course they could! They'd just buy the rights from him.
In my town, we had a truck pull a transformer off a pole. The thing fell into the street and exploded. I didn't hear it myself, but apparently it was audible for a few miles. Everyone on that line had their power out for the rest of the day. NStar (the power company here) has had problems with transformers failing due to summer heat as well. Now, some parts of town are underground and some are above. The town center is buried, which may have happened sometime recently in this huge effort to beautify it (since we're becoming a rich suburb, we've got to have a nice downtown... so they tear up the roads every year and a half) and newer residential areas have buried wires. Older neighborhoods like mine have above ground wiring. I get a better cable connection than my pals living in the million dollar houses.
Sorry, you looked up Fascism. There's a difference between Fascism and fascism. Despite what Internet Windows has taught us, capitalization does matter.
"You are a fucking moron. No car on the market can stop as quickly or maneuver as well as a motorcycle and riders get killed all the time. Ever hear of "Ben Roethlisberger"? Oh wait, you're just a typical opinionated Slashdot poser/poster." Let me stick up for your target there. Here's a couple ideas why motorcyclists get killed more often. None of these are backed up by sources, but they are simply possibilities my uninformed head has thought of. 1)The motorcycle would tend to turn if you stopped the wheels. Meaning you have to put a part of person on the ground. Ouch. 2)Motorcycles don't have roll cages, side bars, or any other form of safety feature. 3)Motorcycles are small, really small. They're so small that a quick check to the blind spot might not reveal their presence. 4)Some motorcycle drivers like to weave traffic. Mucho dangerous, combined with the other above. And no, I've never heard of "Ben Roethlisberger," but yes, I am a typical opinionated Slashdot poster. Hi! I'm just like you, you see. "Here is a question for your stupid ass, ever seen the rear of a small car after a crash? Fucking crumple zone pushes the rear bumper almost to the rear seat. Needless to say it doesn't leave much room for the any kids to survive." From what you said, it sounds like the rear bumper did NOT touch the rear seat. Seems to me like the passengers would have survived, if their seat wasn't touched. Most sedans I see have a lot of "Accidents happen and they are unavoidable, hence being called an accident. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when." It's people like this that cause accidents. When you take Driver's Education you're supposed to be taught about something called Defensive Driving. It means you don't tailgate, and otherwise always have an "escape route" in case somebody else does something crazy. Yes, most of the time it's inconvenient to do, but accidents ARE avoidable. "Some people like to have metal around them when they do have an accident. My wife hit a deer while driving 70mph in a rural area. 4k worth of damage to an Expedition, no injuries. Try that in a compact car. Or try getting through two miles of mud to get to pavement. Or going camping with a troop of girl scouts. Or camping (towing a pop-up). Hell, camping period with kids, especially if there is swimming involved." This is a situation in which the high chassis of an SUV is good. With a smaller car, deer might go through the windshield. Bad problem. The other examples are good cases for driving an SUV. But when you're in suburbia, the only case for an SUV is trucking kids. "Jackasses like you dump dogs in the country all the time. Try going to the vet with 5 fucking stray dogs in a compact." Plenty of people live in cities and suburbs. Don't find many stray dogs here. Cats, yeah. When you do find them here though, police take care of it. "Not everyone is a loser who sits at home and pretends to have a life while going on a virtual date with a guy who's screen name is Sally. Until you actually have kids, and DO things with them, don't judge others." Irrelevant? I think so. My sedan seats 5, by the way. If I had more than 3 children, I could see owning a minivan, or a 7-seater SUV. "How about instead of whining about people who try to buy a safer vehicle for their families you whine about the shitty drivers on the road. Fuckers going ten miles under the speed limit in the left lane. Going too fast, weaving in and out of traffic - usually smaller cars BTW. Old people who can't drive for shit anymore. Young people who haven't learned how to drive yet and think they can." I thought you said accidents weren't avoidable? Hm! This is quite a quandary. It would seem that you are saying accidents are avoidable. I do agree that smaller cars tend to be the dodge and weave type.
"(Or he is simple misquoted)" I don't think he's even being misquoted. It doesn't seem from his quotes that he's against net neutrality at all. He seems to simply state that he wants legislation to be very careful not to illegalize distributed content delivery (like his own venture). Sensationalist headline.
You can't make taxes simple: it would be bad for accountants and CPAs' business!
Let me be the first to complain about billboards in games. I really don't like the billboards in Burnout 3. Why? Its the same four or five ads over and over and over. Plus, they are almost all for other EA games. I find it annoying. Then there's this one for Axe deodorant with a sunglassed face of indeterminate sex that is just disturbing.
Maybe if they had thirty real billboards, it would make them more money and would annoy me less.
Video games didn't have to adapt to what the music industry or Hollywood was using, they simply latched on because it was a format that was easy to use and produce and was superior in terms of storage capacity to their current media.
If it follows their standard for HTML, it sure doesn't for CSS. Getting a page to look the same in Opera/Firefox and IE7 was as much a challenge as if I substituted IE6 for IE7. The only difference I've noted is the interface, which I like a lot for its minimalism, and the antialiasing it applies to everything, which makes reading hard but everything else look pretty nice.
Unless things have changed in the past few months, IE7 is not standards compliant.
Even having read that, I still think a few levels up, idea (ii) was more correct. I refer to "Basic research to meet one set of objectives can lead to interesting ideas for our society." Seems to me that the joke was "I tune into the Ipod occasionally, you know?"
My experience in EQ was that EQ players were more intelligent than WoW players. I've played both. WoW has got better, especially on newer servers, but still, I find more idiots than I did in EQ. I think a lot of it has to do with how easy it is to solo and how a group can be made up of any sort of combination.
Well, I personally claim to not be infected, having no scanner, by looking at my running processes list. If there's something there that I don't recognize, I find out what it is or kill it. Sure, I wouldn't know if I had a rootkit or something, but a virus scanner wouldn't either. I know there's other ways of being infected, but the consequences of that are apparently not affecting me or my network, so I am willing to hazard that I'm probably not infected at all.