Except out the power lines that are good at radiating RF outside the house just like they are good at carrying RF inside the house. At least until they reach a transformer.
You mean like the one in the meter at the perimeter of the house? My understanding is that the meter blocks the RF. I can understand the hating against long-distance BPL, but the little home devices are -very- convenient.
...but Quick Mask is your friend. I used to muck about with the path tool (no end of frustration there), but being able to paint/erase the quick mask and switch back to selection has changed all of that. Use an automated selection tool to get your selection 90% of the way there, use quick mask to get the rest of the way...
Say what you like about Firefox, it was the first Windows product I've used which devoted a good deal of engineering thought to making updates easy.
Not enough, apparently.
Where I work, they are about to remove the 'fox from all systems because updates make it the default browser, even if it wasn't the previous default. There is currently no way to prevent that from happening.
This doesn't bode well for manned trips further afield.
We can talk all we want about sending multi-year manned missions to other planets, but we can't even build a reliable toilet!
Yes, this makes good joke fodder, but something as simple as a toilet malfunction could spell disaster for a manned mission that is months out in space. I think a lot of the advocates of manned missions to other planets over-estimate the level of systems reliability that we can achieve and under-estimate the level of systems complexity and reliability necessary for manned inter-planetary missions vs. unmanned missions.
In Outlook, make receipts selectable on a per-message basis. As it stands now, it's all or nothing, so if a user thinks they need a receipt once, they end up requesting them for -every- stupid little email for ever and ever.
Just like bombing the "aspirin factory" in the Sudan was a "distraction" from Monica Lewinsky. Turns out, Bin Laden was hanging out in Sudan at the time.
You can't come up with anything better than this partisan horseshit?
A flight to Titan in ten years would be about as difficult as going to the moon in 1965.
What, did the distance to Titan shrink in thae last 45 years? There are many orders of magnitude of difference in the complexity of sustaining astronauts for a one-week journey vs. getting them (alive) to some place as far away as Titan. It's nice to have ambition, but the the laws of physics are a motherfucker.
Or have them burn it to DVD and posted out to you in a couple days.
My backup is currently somewhere in the neighborhood of 600GB (I am an avid photographer and have a large music collection). That would require them to burn/send 150 DVDs.
So I'd have to wait a week to get the DVDs and then spend about a week feeding them into my system to copy back to my hard drive?
Online might be a solution if you have a puny requirement, but I don't see how it would be practical in my (not so out of the ordinary) situation.
I think I'll stick with the external HD and rsync, TYVM.
Responses that, in the past, may have stopped the perpetrators before they had the chance to kill many people, but no longer occur (eg: someone attacking, rather than fleeing, teacher with a gun, more aggressive police response).
I haven't heard any statistics that support any of these theories. Did teachers take guns to school in the past and then stop? Is the police response somehow less aggressive than in the past? Care to come up with some statistics? Or is your answer to just say "it could be anything, therefore games have nothing to do with it because I say so."
Correlation != causation.
Certainly, but causation requires correlation. None of your counter-theories are backed up by any kind of correlation.
I'm just throwing it out there, but my point seems to be whooshing over everyone's head (the slashbots are out in full force today!).
I'm not saying that violent video games are the -cause- of school shootings.
I'm saying that it appears that the school shooters, in terms of body count, have become more effective in the last 15 years or so.
If anyone has a compelling theory about this increase in the -effectiveness- of school shooters, I'm all for hearing it.
Yes, I know that shooting in a game is not the same as shooting a real weapon. But I have seen people who have combat training who are much more effective in games than people without combat training. Conversely, the military does use simulators as part of training soldiers for combat. If it wasn't effective, they wouldn't be pumping millions into simulation software.
A whole lot of 15 incidents? in twenty five years? over some billions of population? wow! That surely seems a spike.
I guess you need to spend less time playing video games and more time working on your reading comprehension.
14 of the 15 deadliest school shooting incidents occurred since 1996.
That is to say, if you take all school shooting incidents that have ever been recorded and rank them by number of deaths, 14 of the top 15 happened between 1996 and 2009.
I know that correlation is not causation.
I would be interested to hear alternate theories about the cause of this statistic. Why have the school shooters become more effective at killing?
Overall, you see a societal decrease in violence. But a troubling trend is spree-killing in schools. That is largely a more recent phenomenon. 14 of the 15 deadliest incidents have occurred since 1996.
Does this conclusively prove that violent games are the root cause? No.
But I strongly suspect that the kids who have gone off the deep end have been more effective killers because they have trained extensively on killing simulators (ie., violent video games).
it's a huge jump to go from there to claiming that shooting a few pixels on a screen using a mouse button in the comfort of your own home will make the average person more likely to go on a killing spree.
It was a "few pixels" back in the days of Space Invaders, but now the push is to make it more and more pixels, to get more realistic.
While I don't think that legislation is appropriate, you're fooling yourself if you think that slaying a monster by bumping into a single ASCII character (ala Nethack) has the same psychological impact as blasting away at a very realistic looking human with a BFG, splashing realistic gore all over the place at 1600x1200.
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I doubt any EM leaked out of that house.
Except out the power lines that are good at radiating RF outside the house just like they are good at carrying RF inside the house. At least until they reach a transformer.
You mean like the one in the meter at the perimeter of the house? My understanding is that the meter blocks the RF. I can understand the hating against long-distance BPL, but the little home devices are -very- convenient.
...but Quick Mask is your friend. I used to muck about with the path tool (no end of frustration there), but being able to paint/erase the quick mask and switch back to selection has changed all of that. Use an automated selection tool to get your selection 90% of the way there, use quick mask to get the rest of the way...
The only other possible explanation is that God is a dick, and I don't believe that.
I do. Occam's razor...
If the OS is open source they're covered.
Audacity - audio editing
JFK was assassinated by time travelling Nazi robots sent back by the NWO in league with the communist vampires, controlled by the Zionist overlords.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
They know about front-motion, but it's not approved at higher levels. Welcome to Dilbert world...
Does it do that? I use Firefox at work and it auto-updates, but IE7 is my default (for intranet apps).
It does if you push the update. Unfortunately, where I work they can't allow auto-updates. Again, very enterprise unfriendly...
Say what you like about Firefox, it was the first Windows product I've used which devoted a good deal of engineering thought to making updates easy.
Not enough, apparently.
Where I work, they are about to remove the 'fox from all systems because updates make it the default browser, even if it wasn't the previous default. There is currently no way to prevent that from happening.
Not exactly enterprise-friendly behavior...
(there should be upper/lower body separation)
Exactly. The upper body should stay mostly still and the feet should move back and forth under the body.
Looking at the image, it doesn't look like there is any lateral flexibility in the hips and knees. Not much chance of good technique there...
This doesn't bode well for manned trips further afield.
We can talk all we want about sending multi-year manned missions to other planets, but we can't even build a reliable toilet!
Yes, this makes good joke fodder, but something as simple as a toilet malfunction could spell disaster for a manned mission that is months out in space. I think a lot of the advocates of manned missions to other planets over-estimate the level of systems reliability that we can achieve and under-estimate the level of systems complexity and reliability necessary for manned inter-planetary missions vs. unmanned missions.
In Outlook, make receipts selectable on a per-message basis. As it stands now, it's all or nothing, so if a user thinks they need a receipt once, they end up requesting them for -every- stupid little email for ever and ever.
...you insensitive clod!
Such hogwash.
Just like bombing the "aspirin factory" in the Sudan was a "distraction" from Monica Lewinsky. Turns out, Bin Laden was hanging out in Sudan at the time.
You can't come up with anything better than this partisan horseshit?
A flight to Titan in ten years would be about as difficult as going to the moon in 1965.
What, did the distance to Titan shrink in thae last 45 years? There are many orders of magnitude of difference in the complexity of sustaining astronauts for a one-week journey vs. getting them (alive) to some place as far away as Titan. It's nice to have ambition, but the the laws of physics are a motherfucker.
Or have them burn it to DVD and posted out to you in a couple days.
My backup is currently somewhere in the neighborhood of 600GB (I am an avid photographer and have a large music collection). That would require them to burn/send 150 DVDs.
So I'd have to wait a week to get the DVDs and then spend about a week feeding them into my system to copy back to my hard drive?
Online might be a solution if you have a puny requirement, but I don't see how it would be practical in my (not so out of the ordinary) situation.
I think I'll stick with the external HD and rsync, TYVM.
And spend a month trying to download it when your system fails and you need a full restore...
Responses that, in the past, may have stopped the perpetrators before they had the chance to kill many people, but no longer occur (eg: someone attacking, rather than fleeing, teacher with a gun, more aggressive police response).
I haven't heard any statistics that support any of these theories. Did teachers take guns to school in the past and then stop? Is the police response somehow less aggressive than in the past? Care to come up with some statistics? Or is your answer to just say "it could be anything, therefore games have nothing to do with it because I say so."
Correlation != causation.
Certainly, but causation requires correlation. None of your counter-theories are backed up by any kind of correlation.
I'm saying that it appears that the school shooters, in terms of body count, have become more effective in the last 15 years or so.
Please define "effective".
Higher body count per incident. More people dead.
Does anyone around here speak fucking English?
Have you considered that it's not the shooters who are getting better, but the victims who are getting worse ?
Please define "worse".
Somehow I think the military does a little more than just plonk people down in front of a computer running Team Fortress.
And your point is?
I'm just throwing it out there, but my point seems to be whooshing over everyone's head (the slashbots are out in full force today!).
I'm not saying that violent video games are the -cause- of school shootings.
I'm saying that it appears that the school shooters, in terms of body count, have become more effective in the last 15 years or so.
If anyone has a compelling theory about this increase in the -effectiveness- of school shooters, I'm all for hearing it.
Yes, I know that shooting in a game is not the same as shooting a real weapon. But I have seen people who have combat training who are much more effective in games than people without combat training. Conversely, the military does use simulators as part of training soldiers for combat. If it wasn't effective, they wouldn't be pumping millions into simulation software.
Your mastery of statistics is astounding(ly incomplete)...
A whole lot of 15 incidents? in twenty five years? over some billions of population? wow! That surely seems a spike.
I guess you need to spend less time playing video games and more time working on your reading comprehension.
14 of the 15 deadliest school shooting incidents occurred since 1996.
That is to say, if you take all school shooting incidents that have ever been recorded and rank them by number of deaths, 14 of the top 15 happened between 1996 and 2009.
I know that correlation is not causation.
I would be interested to hear alternate theories about the cause of this statistic. Why have the school shooters become more effective at killing?
Overall, you see a societal decrease in violence. But a troubling trend is spree-killing in schools. That is largely a more recent phenomenon. 14 of the 15 deadliest incidents have occurred since 1996.
Does this conclusively prove that violent games are the root cause? No.
But I strongly suspect that the kids who have gone off the deep end have been more effective killers because they have trained extensively on killing simulators (ie., violent video games).
it's a huge jump to go from there to claiming that shooting a few pixels on a screen using a mouse button in the comfort of your own home will make the average person more likely to go on a killing spree.
It was a "few pixels" back in the days of Space Invaders, but now the push is to make it more and more pixels, to get more realistic.
While I don't think that legislation is appropriate, you're fooling yourself if you think that slaying a monster by bumping into a single ASCII character (ala Nethack) has the same psychological impact as blasting away at a very realistic looking human with a BFG, splashing realistic gore all over the place at 1600x1200.