I've lived in places where they would tell you not to move your car, so that it is easier for the cops to decide who caused the accident.
I've always heard the same thing. However, "they" is my dad, who thinks that an accident is the end of the world and an opportunity for someone to cash in on suing you.
In the past when I have been in accidents, I've always left the car where it sat. As soon as the cops show up, they move the cars without looking at anything to get traffic moving again, so I've just succeeded in ticking people off for no tangible reason.
I decided to look up my local laws to see what the real scoop is. In Indiana (US), both IC-9-26-1-1-1 and IC-9-26-1-2-1 state the following: "Immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close to the accident as possible in a manner that does not obstruct traffic more than is necessary." These are the relevant codes for immediate action to be taken by the drivers in accidents that involves injury or death (1-1-1) and accidents that do not (1-2-1).
I think that the "in a manner that does not obstruct traffic more than is necessary" is subject to the opinion of what is "necessary" to the driver(s), but the spirit of the law is to get out of the way.
Quoth Stiletto: The way I read it, the RIAA is requesting that UW itentify the students, and the university decided that it will. Obviously, they are straying from your "standard procedure."
How does UW internally forwarding the letters to students give the RIAA any more information than they already had? UW is not sending the letters back to the RIAA complete with sticky-labels with names and addresses for re-submission to the students. UW is FORWARDING the letters to the students.
Your logic is that because UW forwarded the letters to students (one of the requests by the RIAA), that UW must have caved to all of the requests by the RIAA? So if I send you a letter requesting that you keep breathing and send me a check for $1000, then either you will die out of spite, or cut me a check. Right? By your all-or-nothing logic, you can't comply with one of my requests (keep breathing) and not the other (write a check).
I realize that this example is ludicrous. So is the RIAA.
Read the subject line in your own post. This whole thread has been about this from the beginning. UW forwarded the letters. They did not reveal anything.
If you want unlimited email addresses so that individual humans can use them, then the Google route won't work for you (unless you pay). I think the free version is just up to 25 accounts. There are plenty of hosting places that you can get "unlimited" email accounts if you buy a cheap hosting package (usually web & email hosting are bundled). In reality, you are limited by the amount of disk space and monthly bandwidth you are allocated.
Another option is to run your own server. You can do it relatively cheaply... hardware requirements are pretty low. You will have to pour copious amounts of time into the initial setup and maintenance, tho. I set up a postfix server mostly just to see if I could do it. Then I switched to Google for hosting.
If what you really want is unlimited aliases that all go to one real account, then the catch-all trick will work, and is very inexpensive. All it requires is a domain name (less than 10 USD per year) and free services from Google.
>> Is there a service that will let you customize many e-mail addresses with one domain?
You could register your own domain name (pretty cheap nowadays). Sounds like you may have already done so.
Set up a catch-all that forwards to a real address. Don't want to manage your own server? Use google apps for your domain. You don't need premium features, so it's "free".
Then when you give out email addresses, use addresses like these:
ebay@example.com ameritrade@example.com
-m
Ugh. just realized how much I hate the word "nowadays".
I use the two bulb trick, but with two different brands of CFL, instead of a CFL + incandescent. One of them is instant-on (Sylvania), but has a slow warm-up time. The other (Philips) has about a 0.3 second delay when lighting up, but there is no perceptible warm-up time.
It actually works quite well in the morning when you're not fully awake yet. You flip on the switch, and you get some light right away from the Sylvania... plenty enough not to trip over anything. Then the Philips kicks in. Plenty of light to do whatever. Over the next 15-30 seconds or so, the Sylvania glows up to full brightness. Much easier on the eyes in the morning, and not too annoying the rest of the day. Good trade-off IMO.
Also, using different brands in the same fixture tends to mitigate the color temperature effects, since the bulbs have different light frequency characteristics.
I know there are probably better brands/types/whatever out there. These were the two kinds that were convenient geographically. I live down the street from Lowes... their CFL selection is not that great.
I think that was a rather big oversight on the part of Lucas, considering the Jedi Master who instructed Ben was Qui-Gonn, not Yoda. That one might be a little more difficult to explain away.
Not really. You are assuming that the phrase "The Jedi Master who instructed me" means that Ben was Yoda's apprentice. It could mean that Ben attended classes led by Yoda, who was an instructor at the academy. Remember the class of younglings that Qui-Gonn interrupted to ask Yoda about the missing clone planet? Thus Ben could have been instructed by Yoda simply because Yoda was an instructor.
Not difficult to explain away at all. I DO think that this is another plot inconsistency introduced by Lucas, and he intended that Ben was Yoda's apprentice at the time that ESB was written/filmed, then changed it later. This inconsistency is just not as severe of one as you make it out to be.
Is that 50 road miles or 50 miles as the crow flies?
Road miles. There's a different limit for each mode of travel, based roughly on how far you can go in an hour. The 50 mile limit is averaged to account for highway vs. smaller roads.
As far as the crow flies, I don't think that the crow is going to be able to carry you and your axe handle very far in an hour. The physics involved are just stacked against you. So if you are travelling by crow, you are essentially limited to swinging distance.
Now if you were planning on doing the assault with a coconut, and there were a couple of swallows chirping away nearby, and you had some string...
More than 90% of of all email is now spam, Cox says, and he doubts that servers worldwide would be able to handle a ten-fold increase in traffic.
Editor:
Others estimate Spamhaus's blocking efficacy as closer to 75%; by this metric spam would increase four-fold
Ok, this is a pet peeve, and sorry for the rant, but this is/. afterall... The phrase you are looking for here is "increased by a factor of n", not "increased n-fold".
The phrase "increase by n-fold" means that the value would increase by a factor of 2^n, not by a factor of n. The terminology comes from the idea of folding some physical object in half. For example, if you fold a piece of paper in half, the overall thickness increases by a factor of 2 (or 2^1). Fold it again, and the overall thickness increases from the original by a factor of 4 (2^2). These are examples of increasing by one- and two-fold, respectively.
In the example in the original submission, the amount of unblocked email traffic (10% of all email traffic) if increased by ten-fold, would increase to 10240% of all email traffic, which is clearly impossible.
In the editor's example, the amount of unblocked email traffic (25% of all email traffic) if increased by four-fold, would increase to 400% of all email traffic. This is also clearly impossible.
The correct phrases to use in these cases are "increase by a factor of ten" and "increased by a factor of four" respectively.
Formating for printing is a completely seperate thought and physical process and should be treated seperately with tools specialized for the job.
You're preachin' to the choir here. A while back my parents wrote a novel, and went to one of those self-publishers. The publisher required that work be submitted in MS Word format. Why, I don't know, but those were the rules.
They also required that you use the margin and indentation controls within Word to control formatting. Sounds like a reasonable rule (to me).
Unfortunately, mom and dad quickly forgot that rule, and thought that as long as it "looked right" on the screen, then it must be OK. They had some paragraphs that used the margin controls, some that used tabs, and some that even used *cringe* a bunch of spaces to control indentation.
Same thing for page breaks. Sometimes they used page breaks, sometimes a bunch of CRLFs!
AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!1!11!11one
Bet you'll never guess who got the happy chore of helping them fix it.
They are talking about writing a sequel. I told them that unless they write it in notepad, I'm not helping.
So you cannot legally play iTunes-encoded music on the iPod
The iTunes Music Store- The service that allows you to buy songs that have a very lax DRM and are completely legal to tranfer to your iPod.
I think that you misinterpreted what the GP meant here (I did the same thing at first). He's not saying that you can't play DRMed music that is currently on the iPod on the iPod. He's saying that you can't copy DRMed music from the iPod to another unauthorized device and play it there, breaking the DRM in the process.
The cargo hold is pressurized the same was as the cabin.
Only some cargo holds are presurized. The only reason for pressurizing a cargo hold is so that you can transport live cargo (read: animals). For example, on a Boeing 727 the front hold is pressurized, the rear hold is not.
Which hold your bags go into is determined by when you check your bags, how much they weigh, how oddly shaped they are, and what your final destination is (and maybe some other things too).
As an aside, I have never had anything I have checked break open or leak, whether checked or carried on. I have always packed things like mouthwash and toothpaste in ziplock bags just in case, but have never had any problems.
Wow, he can differentiate a semi-automatic from a nonautomatic from an automatic, just based on how it presses against the back of his head.
Assuming you were being sarcastic, this is actually possible. I think it is unlikely, but possible.
This falls squarely in the don't-try-this-at-home department!
There are two main types of handgun... revolvers and semi-automatics. There are others (muzzleloaders, fully automatic, etc.), but I think it is safe to exclude them here.
Of the two types of gun, the revolver uses the leverage of the shooter pulling the trigger to revolve the cylinder to the next round. All of the mechanics to make this happen are relatively far back in the gun (at or behind the cylinder), leaving only the barrel protruding forward.
On the other hand, the semi-automatic uses a spring mechanism to use some of the kinetic energy from a round fired to load the next round into the firing chamber. This is where the "automatic" part of the name comes from. It automatically loads the next round. The main spring assembly typically runs the full length of the barrel, and lies just below the barrel inside the frame of the gun. The slide (the part of the gun that slides back when fired) typically rests in its full forward position flush against the barrel and the frame (or very close to it).
This means that the "footprint" or "back of the head print" of a revolver is typically just a small circle, and a semi-automatic is a large flat area.
Note that there are some semi-automatics, such as the Beretta 92 and 96, the Luger (and I'm sure many others) that have a protruding barrel and do not have the typical flush front. This would make it seem as though it were a revolver. This would be a false negative (in terms of identifying a semi-auto), which for this instance we can rule out.
I think this is unlikely, because I expect only someone who is familiar with firearms to realize the differences. Further reduce that to exclude those people who would be too afraid to concentrate on the shape of the barrel pressed against the back of their head. I think that you will be left with a very small percentage of the population that could correctly identify the type of gun in the situation. No, I don't expect that I would be in that group.
Since schools also produce professors, I don't see the problem.
That's already answered by the GGP's inflation analogy. If you just print more money to fix poverty, then you devalue the money. Do it enough, and the money becomes worthless. Produce more graduates, and you devalue education in the same way. The labor market would become so flooded with graduates that a degree in $foo would be meaningless.
I looked at the 80 cm in the wiki link (you do inspect your links before you click on them, right?), and thought "Naw, that's gotta be a typo... They are comparing an 80 mm shell to whatever is on a T-34."
The thing about marriage is that it is a partnership. There will be times when your interests are mutual, some times when the interests of one don't interfere with those of the other, and some times when you have conflicts. It's all in how you resolve the last bunch.
Unfortunately, the owner has recently become deceased, and the trousers, not programmed to account for little things like that still executes its normal routine...
Maybe they should borrow some ideas from RFC 2795 (Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite). The KEEPER Message Response Codes would be invaluable here.
The term "X alarm fire" is used to describe how serious a fire is. X refers to the number of fire stations that respond to the fire. So in the story, unless 5 fire stations responded to this blaze, someone is talking out of his arse.
I'm still wondering how they would handle items that are sold by weight
At the self checkouts in my neck of the woods, you put the item on the scanner/scale to measure the weight, then use the touch screen to navigate to the item that it is. You could also print a barcode label at the self-serve barcode printer in the produce dept.
Not sure how closely they watch to make sure you're paying for the right item, though.
exactly the kind of viewer they don't give a crap about.
It'sd like saying "I go to resurant X because ther soda is free." If all you do is drink the free soda, they really don't want your ass there.
That's not really an accurate analysis. You imply that the GP is getting something for nothing, in this case free tv with no commercials. In reality, it's not free TV. For example, say you are a directv subscriber who has a tivo: you are paying both directv and tivo (by proxy) to use the service. This is not free. So the GP wants to skip commercials in something that they have *already paid for*.
So to update your analysis, if the GP paid a cover charge to get into the diner, and paid a service fee to sit down at one of the bar stools, and drank "free" soda, then yes, the diner would absolutely want them there... as often as they want to come (supplies for a soda fountain are dirt cheap).
Note: all instances of "free" in the above refer to free as in beer, not free as in Stallman.
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This is going to be outside... why not cover the deck with solar panels to keep the batteries charged? No drag from a turbine in the water.
-m
I've always heard the same thing. However, "they" is my dad, who thinks that an accident is the end of the world and an opportunity for someone to cash in on suing you.
In the past when I have been in accidents, I've always left the car where it sat. As soon as the cops show up, they move the cars without looking at anything to get traffic moving again, so I've just succeeded in ticking people off for no tangible reason.
I decided to look up my local laws to see what the real scoop is. In Indiana (US), both IC-9-26-1-1-1 and IC-9-26-1-2-1 state the following: "Immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close to the accident as possible in a manner that does not obstruct traffic more than is necessary." These are the relevant codes for immediate action to be taken by the drivers in accidents that involves injury or death (1-1-1) and accidents that do not (1-2-1).
I think that the "in a manner that does not obstruct traffic more than is necessary" is subject to the opinion of what is "necessary" to the driver(s), but the spirit of the law is to get out of the way.
YLLMV (your local laws may vary)
Quoth Stiletto:
The way I read it, the RIAA is requesting that UW itentify the students, and the university decided that it will. Obviously, they are straying from your "standard procedure."
How does UW internally forwarding the letters to students give the RIAA any more information than they already had? UW is not sending the letters back to the RIAA complete with sticky-labels with names and addresses for re-submission to the students. UW is FORWARDING the letters to the students.
Your logic is that because UW forwarded the letters to students (one of the requests by the RIAA), that UW must have caved to all of the requests by the RIAA? So if I send you a letter requesting that you keep breathing and send me a check for $1000, then either you will die out of spite, or cut me a check. Right? By your all-or-nothing logic, you can't comply with one of my requests (keep breathing) and not the other (write a check).
I realize that this example is ludicrous. So is the RIAA.
Read the subject line in your own post. This whole thread has been about this from the beginning. UW forwarded the letters. They did not reveal anything.
If you want unlimited email addresses so that individual humans can use them, then the Google route won't work for you (unless you pay). I think the free version is just up to 25 accounts. There are plenty of hosting places that you can get "unlimited" email accounts if you buy a cheap hosting package (usually web & email hosting are bundled). In reality, you are limited by the amount of disk space and monthly bandwidth you are allocated.
Another option is to run your own server. You can do it relatively cheaply... hardware requirements are pretty low. You will have to pour copious amounts of time into the initial setup and maintenance, tho. I set up a postfix server mostly just to see if I could do it. Then I switched to Google for hosting.
If what you really want is unlimited aliases that all go to one real account, then the catch-all trick will work, and is very inexpensive. All it requires is a domain name (less than 10 USD per year) and free services from Google.
>> Is there a service that will let you customize many e-mail addresses with one domain?
You could register your own domain name (pretty cheap nowadays). Sounds like you may have already done so.
Set up a catch-all that forwards to a real address. Don't want to manage your own server? Use google apps for your domain. You don't need premium features, so it's "free".
Then when you give out email addresses, use addresses like these:
ebay@example.com
ameritrade@example.com
-m
Ugh. just realized how much I hate the word "nowadays".
None of these are "harmful to children". They're mostly aimed at adults with room-temperature IQs.
Is that room-temp in Fahrenheit or Celsius? I assume from context that you're not talking about Kelvin.
I use the two bulb trick, but with two different brands of CFL, instead of a CFL + incandescent. One of them is instant-on (Sylvania), but has a slow warm-up time. The other (Philips) has about a 0.3 second delay when lighting up, but there is no perceptible warm-up time.
It actually works quite well in the morning when you're not fully awake yet. You flip on the switch, and you get some light right away from the Sylvania... plenty enough not to trip over anything. Then the Philips kicks in. Plenty of light to do whatever. Over the next 15-30 seconds or so, the Sylvania glows up to full brightness. Much easier on the eyes in the morning, and not too annoying the rest of the day. Good trade-off IMO.
Also, using different brands in the same fixture tends to mitigate the color temperature effects, since the bulbs have different light frequency characteristics.
I know there are probably better brands/types/whatever out there. These were the two kinds that were convenient geographically. I live down the street from Lowes... their CFL selection is not that great.
Not really. You are assuming that the phrase "The Jedi Master who instructed me" means that Ben was Yoda's apprentice. It could mean that Ben attended classes led by Yoda, who was an instructor at the academy. Remember the class of younglings that Qui-Gonn interrupted to ask Yoda about the missing clone planet? Thus Ben could have been instructed by Yoda simply because Yoda was an instructor.
Not difficult to explain away at all. I DO think that this is another plot inconsistency introduced by Lucas, and he intended that Ben was Yoda's apprentice at the time that ESB was written/filmed, then changed it later. This inconsistency is just not as severe of one as you make it out to be.
Road miles. There's a different limit for each mode of travel, based roughly on how far you can go in an hour. The 50 mile limit is averaged to account for highway vs. smaller roads.
As far as the crow flies, I don't think that the crow is going to be able to carry you and your axe handle very far in an hour. The physics involved are just stacked against you. So if you are travelling by crow, you are essentially limited to swinging distance.
Now if you were planning on doing the assault with a coconut, and there were a couple of swallows chirping away nearby, and you had some string...
-m
Ok, this is a pet peeve, and sorry for the rant, but this is
The phrase "increase by n-fold" means that the value would increase by a factor of 2^n, not by a factor of n. The terminology comes from the idea of folding some physical object in half. For example, if you fold a piece of paper in half, the overall thickness increases by a factor of 2 (or 2^1). Fold it again, and the overall thickness increases from the original by a factor of 4 (2^2). These are examples of increasing by one- and two-fold, respectively.
In the example in the original submission, the amount of unblocked email traffic (10% of all email traffic) if increased by ten-fold, would increase to 10240% of all email traffic, which is clearly impossible.
In the editor's example, the amount of unblocked email traffic (25% of all email traffic) if increased by four-fold, would increase to 400% of all email traffic. This is also clearly impossible.
The correct phrases to use in these cases are "increase by a factor of ten" and "increased by a factor of four" respectively.
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-m
That's exactly what he's saying. The high divorce rate is not confined to the IT field.
-m
KFG... Trying to remember if you have the same initials as my old analog electronics prof.
-m
You're preachin' to the choir here. A while back my parents wrote a novel, and went to one of those self-publishers. The publisher required that work be submitted in MS Word format. Why, I don't know, but those were the rules.
They also required that you use the margin and indentation controls within Word to control formatting. Sounds like a reasonable rule (to me).
Unfortunately, mom and dad quickly forgot that rule, and thought that as long as it "looked right" on the screen, then it must be OK. They had some paragraphs that used the margin controls, some that used tabs, and some that even used *cringe* a bunch of spaces to control indentation.
Same thing for page breaks. Sometimes they used page breaks, sometimes a bunch of CRLFs!
AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!1!11!11one
Bet you'll never guess who got the happy chore of helping them fix it.
They are talking about writing a sequel. I told them that unless they write it in notepad, I'm not helping.
-melandy
I do prefer them
with line break delimiters
yours is just freaky
I think that you misinterpreted what the GP meant here (I did the same thing at first). He's not saying that you can't play DRMed music that is currently on the iPod on the iPod. He's saying that you can't copy DRMed music from the iPod to another unauthorized device and play it there, breaking the DRM in the process.
Only some cargo holds are presurized. The only reason for pressurizing a cargo hold is so that you can transport live cargo (read: animals). For example, on a Boeing 727 the front hold is pressurized, the rear hold is not.
Which hold your bags go into is determined by when you check your bags, how much they weigh, how oddly shaped they are, and what your final destination is (and maybe some other things too).
As an aside, I have never had anything I have checked break open or leak, whether checked or carried on. I have always packed things like mouthwash and toothpaste in ziplock bags just in case, but have never had any problems.
Good old rock, wins everytime...
Poor Bart... always picks rock.
This falls squarely in the don't-try-this-at-home department!
There are two main types of handgun... revolvers and semi-automatics. There are others (muzzleloaders, fully automatic, etc.), but I think it is safe to exclude them here.
Of the two types of gun, the revolver uses the leverage of the shooter pulling the trigger to revolve the cylinder to the next round. All of the mechanics to make this happen are relatively far back in the gun (at or behind the cylinder), leaving only the barrel protruding forward.
On the other hand, the semi-automatic uses a spring mechanism to use some of the kinetic energy from a round fired to load the next round into the firing chamber. This is where the "automatic" part of the name comes from. It automatically loads the next round. The main spring assembly typically runs the full length of the barrel, and lies just below the barrel inside the frame of the gun. The slide (the part of the gun that slides back when fired) typically rests in its full forward position flush against the barrel and the frame (or very close to it).
This means that the "footprint" or "back of the head print" of a revolver is typically just a small circle, and a semi-automatic is a large flat area.
Note that there are some semi-automatics, such as the Beretta 92 and 96, the Luger (and I'm sure many others) that have a protruding barrel and do not have the typical flush front. This would make it seem as though it were a revolver. This would be a false negative (in terms of identifying a semi-auto), which for this instance we can rule out.
I think this is unlikely, because I expect only someone who is familiar with firearms to realize the differences. Further reduce that to exclude those people who would be too afraid to concentrate on the shape of the barrel pressed against the back of their head. I think that you will be left with a very small percentage of the population that could correctly identify the type of gun in the situation. No, I don't expect that I would be in that group.
Since schools also produce professors, I don't see the problem.
That's already answered by the GGP's inflation analogy. If you just print more money to fix poverty, then you devalue the money. Do it enough, and the money becomes worthless. Produce more graduates, and you devalue education in the same way. The labor market would become so flooded with graduates that a degree in $foo would be meaningless.
I looked at the 80 cm in the wiki link (you do inspect your links before you click on them, right?), and thought "Naw, that's gotta be a typo... They are comparing an 80 mm shell to whatever is on a T-34."
Man, was I wrong.
Don't point that thing at my planet!
The thing about marriage is that it is a partnership. There will be times when your interests are mutual, some times when the interests of one don't interfere with those of the other, and some times when you have conflicts. It's all in how you resolve the last bunch.
Wish I had mod points.
Unfortunately, the owner has recently become deceased, and the trousers, not programmed to account for little things like that still executes its normal routine...
Maybe they should borrow some ideas from RFC 2795 (Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite). The KEEPER Message Response Codes would be invaluable here.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt
The term "X alarm fire" is used to describe how serious a fire is. X refers to the number of fire stations that respond to the fire. So in the story, unless 5 fire stations responded to this blaze, someone is talking out of his arse.
Not sure how closely they watch to make sure you're paying for the right item, though.
That's not really an accurate analysis. You imply that the GP is getting something for nothing, in this case free tv with no commercials. In reality, it's not free TV. For example, say you are a directv subscriber who has a tivo: you are paying both directv and tivo (by proxy) to use the service. This is not free. So the GP wants to skip commercials in something that they have *already paid for*.
So to update your analysis, if the GP paid a cover charge to get into the diner, and paid a service fee to sit down at one of the bar stools, and drank "free" soda, then yes, the diner would absolutely want them there... as often as they want to come (supplies for a soda fountain are dirt cheap).
Note: all instances of "free" in the above refer to free as in beer, not free as in Stallman.