This was always my reaction to Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Every week for 12 years, one of her closest friends would get knocked off, and she would have to step in and solve the murder. And yet she still had friends! You'd think after a while people would figure out that being her friend was hazardous to their health, wouldn't you? Personally, I would have suspected she was offing them herself and framing other people for it pretty early on.
So, what exactly do you think the reaction down at the country club is like when Cheney rolls in and asks, "Hey! Anybody wanna go huntin'?"
The US was founded on the principle of separation of church and state. And yet, the legal and religious definitions of "marriage" were allowed to intertwine in a quite promiscuous manner. The solution you propose is absolutely correct: rewrite all the legal definitions to not use the term "marriage", and rewrite the laws such that a church wedding has no effect on your legal status and there is no connection between legal and religious "marriage". I realize some people object to allowing religions to continue to pretend that they own the word "marriage", but this sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
No, it was a joke. Apparently IBM got tired of writing the letters "I", "B", and "M" really, really small. But they could have been a lot more creative. E.g. they could have made a really, really tiny map of the human brain, and labeled it "Antitrust Lawyer's Brain (actual size)".
The thought had crossed my mind that this was a deliberate misinformation campaign on Apple's behalf. But it would be insane to development a working prototype just for that. Now, if they had several different prototypes and this was just the one that didn't get chosen, that might make a little sense. But I don't really see much benefit to Apple in leaking a misleading prototype. I also don't think the next gen iPhone is going to be much of a surprise -- it's feature set will be fairly close to the current model, and fairly predictable.
That estimate is based on human visual acuity... it's the point at which, if you are far enough away to see the entire screen without moving your eyes, you cannot make out the individual pixels. Obviously by moving in and focusing on small enough areas of the screen, one will always be able to make out individual pixels. But if you are interested in the picture as a whole, you cannot distinguish resolutions greater than 4096x4096.
Was this really a problem in the past, that globes were too big?!? And really, doesn't a really tiny "3D map of the earth" look exactly like a ball bearing?
I'd be willing to bet Jessica Simpson has much healthier breasts than you do.
"Well, 23 is old! It's almost 25 which is almost mid-twenties." -- Jessica Simpson
Yeah, I think she sucks at math.
I don't believe you know her. I don't believe you know whether or not I know her... in the biblical sense. How do you know "Locke2005" isn't a pseudonym for John Mayer?
I don't know about you, but given a choice between giving my money to a woman who is good at math and giving my money to a woman who is sexual napalm, I'm gonna go with the girl with the nicest tits every time. Being good at math is only useful if you intend to earn and manage your own money! Strippers make lots of money, but I have yet to meet a single one that claims to have a PhD in math...
We're not at the point of diminishing returns yet. The point in human vision where you can no longer distinguish individual pixels while viewing the entire screen is at about 4096x4096 pixels. Anything past that is useless to humans (just magnify the section of the picture you are looking at if you don't want to see the entire picture at once.) So we're not there yet, and I would still like a 2560x2048 screen.
why don't they either add 2 seats or eliminate one so that rounding doesn't complicate things? Because it could _never_ happen that somebody fails to show up, or that somebody abstains from voting? No, I think requiring public officials to be smarter than a 3rd grader is the only solution.
If it is impossible to misinterpret the Koran, how come the Sunnis and Shiites disagree so violently with each other? Aren't they both reading the same exact Koran?
Wonder if we'll ever see Colbert gagged because some right-wing terrorist realized they were being made fun of... Not very likely, 'cause that would require a right-wing terrorist to, you know, actually realize they were being made of! I'm sure subtle satire is beyond the ken of most of them.
Because while Christians will turn the other cheek Unless you commit a truly outrageous sin, like being Jewish and refusing to convert to Catholicism. Then Christians will fucking kill you too! You also can get killed for being Muslim in Sarajevo, Jewish in Germany, etc. But buggering altar boys... that just gets you transferred. (Obviously, as an altar boy, you are expected to "turn the other cheek."
The packaging read "MP3 Player", not "ATRAC player". Yes, you should always research a device online before buying it, and I didn't in this case. And yes, this was just before they abandoned their proprietary format and started making real MP3 players, which is probably why it was on sale. You don't actually need a reason to return something, but "It doesn't play MP3s!" was the reason I gave. (The problem with the DRM was that it locked the file when you copied it to the player, and only unlocked it when it verified it had been deleted from the player. Meaning that if your player was lost or stolen, you needed to purchase any music that was on it all over again!) Also, I prefer to use iTunes to manage my 11,000 song MP3 collection (all legally ripped from CDs I own, honest!), NOT SonicStage.
there really isn't a good console for those that don't want to play kiddie games. But for those that do want to play kiddie games, there is always the Wii. (Yes, I'm hoping the next generation Nintendo console does some catching up in the graphics department. PS3 does have truly impressive graphics, but the games cost too much and you're putting more money into the hands of douchebags every time you buy one.)
Agreed. A credit card is monthly service which may be terminated at will by either party. A hardware purchase is a one-time purchase, with all the legal fitness for use and implied warranty provisions that entails. It's more like if you bought an iTouch, then the manufacturer changed the developer agreement after the fact in order to outlaw any apps designed to workaround it's lack of Flash support...
The hardware changes are understandable; they are due to a common manufacturing process known as "cost reduction". The PS2 backwards compatibility is a side effect of hardware changes. That leaves only SACD playback and Other OS support as truly inexplicable changes which benefit neither the customer nor Sony.
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I find that... highly illogical.
Not only that, but they already knew his cell number, so they could have called him directly! Oh, wait...
There is no truth to the rumor that the recipient is now referred to by his friends as "that two-faced bastard."
This was always my reaction to Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Every week for 12 years, one of her closest friends would get knocked off, and she would have to step in and solve the murder. And yet she still had friends! You'd think after a while people would figure out that being her friend was hazardous to their health, wouldn't you? Personally, I would have suspected she was offing them herself and framing other people for it pretty early on.
So, what exactly do you think the reaction down at the country club is like when Cheney rolls in and asks, "Hey! Anybody wanna go huntin'?"
The US was founded on the principle of separation of church and state. And yet, the legal and religious definitions of "marriage" were allowed to intertwine in a quite promiscuous manner. The solution you propose is absolutely correct: rewrite all the legal definitions to not use the term "marriage", and rewrite the laws such that a church wedding has no effect on your legal status and there is no connection between legal and religious "marriage". I realize some people object to allowing religions to continue to pretend that they own the word "marriage", but this sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
No, he means Statue of Limitations, not statute.
No, it was a joke. Apparently IBM got tired of writing the letters "I", "B", and "M" really, really small. But they could have been a lot more creative. E.g. they could have made a really, really tiny map of the human brain, and labeled it "Antitrust Lawyer's Brain (actual size)".
The thought had crossed my mind that this was a deliberate misinformation campaign on Apple's behalf. But it would be insane to development a working prototype just for that. Now, if they had several different prototypes and this was just the one that didn't get chosen, that might make a little sense. But I don't really see much benefit to Apple in leaking a misleading prototype. I also don't think the next gen iPhone is going to be much of a surprise -- it's feature set will be fairly close to the current model, and fairly predictable.
That estimate is based on human visual acuity... it's the point at which, if you are far enough away to see the entire screen without moving your eyes, you cannot make out the individual pixels. Obviously by moving in and focusing on small enough areas of the screen, one will always be able to make out individual pixels. But if you are interested in the picture as a whole, you cannot distinguish resolutions greater than 4096x4096.
Hey! Stop stealing my sig!
Was this really a problem in the past, that globes were too big?!? And really, doesn't a really tiny "3D map of the earth" look exactly like a ball bearing?
Yes and no. It is based on angle of view, so it is worthless for determining size and DPI without also specifying distance from the screen.
I'd be willing to bet Jessica Simpson has much healthier breasts than you do.
"Well, 23 is old! It's almost 25 which is almost mid-twenties." -- Jessica Simpson
Yeah, I think she sucks at math.
I don't believe you know her. I don't believe you know whether or not I know her... in the biblical sense. How do you know "Locke2005" isn't a pseudonym for John Mayer?
I don't know about you, but given a choice between giving my money to a woman who is good at math and giving my money to a woman who is sexual napalm, I'm gonna go with the girl with the nicest tits every time. Being good at math is only useful if you intend to earn and manage your own money! Strippers make lots of money, but I have yet to meet a single one that claims to have a PhD in math...
We're not at the point of diminishing returns yet. The point in human vision where you can no longer distinguish individual pixels while viewing the entire screen is at about 4096x4096 pixels. Anything past that is useless to humans (just magnify the section of the picture you are looking at if you don't want to see the entire picture at once.) So we're not there yet, and I would still like a 2560x2048 screen.
Jessica Simpson has a lot better health, more money, and is generally a lot better off than you are. I rest my case.
why don't they either add 2 seats or eliminate one so that rounding doesn't complicate things? Because it could _never_ happen that somebody fails to show up, or that somebody abstains from voting? No, I think requiring public officials to be smarter than a 3rd grader is the only solution.
If it is impossible to misinterpret the Koran, how come the Sunnis and Shiites disagree so violently with each other? Aren't they both reading the same exact Koran?
Wonder if we'll ever see Colbert gagged because some right-wing terrorist realized they were being made fun of... Not very likely, 'cause that would require a right-wing terrorist to, you know, actually realize they were being made of! I'm sure subtle satire is beyond the ken of most of them.
Because while Christians will turn the other cheek Unless you commit a truly outrageous sin, like being Jewish and refusing to convert to Catholicism. Then Christians will fucking kill you too! You also can get killed for being Muslim in Sarajevo, Jewish in Germany, etc. But buggering altar boys... that just gets you transferred. (Obviously, as an altar boy, you are expected to "turn the other cheek."
2/3 of 206 is 137.33333333... the town clerk and accountant fail at math. 66% is NOT the same as 2/3; in fact 2/3 would be 67% if you rounded it.
I had a chip in my rectum once... it was pretty shitty.
The packaging read "MP3 Player", not "ATRAC player". Yes, you should always research a device online before buying it, and I didn't in this case. And yes, this was just before they abandoned their proprietary format and started making real MP3 players, which is probably why it was on sale. You don't actually need a reason to return something, but "It doesn't play MP3s!" was the reason I gave. (The problem with the DRM was that it locked the file when you copied it to the player, and only unlocked it when it verified it had been deleted from the player. Meaning that if your player was lost or stolen, you needed to purchase any music that was on it all over again!) Also, I prefer to use iTunes to manage my 11,000 song MP3 collection (all legally ripped from CDs I own, honest!), NOT SonicStage.
there really isn't a good console for those that don't want to play kiddie games. But for those that do want to play kiddie games, there is always the Wii. (Yes, I'm hoping the next generation Nintendo console does some catching up in the graphics department. PS3 does have truly impressive graphics, but the games cost too much and you're putting more money into the hands of douchebags every time you buy one.)
Agreed. A credit card is monthly service which may be terminated at will by either party. A hardware purchase is a one-time purchase, with all the legal fitness for use and implied warranty provisions that entails. It's more like if you bought an iTouch, then the manufacturer changed the developer agreement after the fact in order to outlaw any apps designed to workaround it's lack of Flash support...
The hardware changes are understandable; they are due to a common manufacturing process known as "cost reduction". The PS2 backwards compatibility is a side effect of hardware changes. That leaves only SACD playback and Other OS support as truly inexplicable changes which benefit neither the customer nor Sony.