I have the opposite problem. I have a Star Raiders cartridge and a working 2600, but I don't have the special controller needed to play the game. (So as a child, I'd plug in the game periodically, see only the 4x4 grid, die, think "this game sucks", and play Adventure or Jungle Quest instead.)
Is there any way to get the special controller? Or better yet, homebrew one?
Upon thinking about the issue some more, this reminds me of the case of Daryl Clark. He was arrested for masturbating in his own house, but he was visible to the neighbours. This was a case which went before the Canadian Supreme Court, but none of that is important.
What is important is the neighbours watched him for 10 to 15 minutes at times using binoculars and a telescope before deciding they don't like what they see and calling the police.
I don't know about you, but I don't have malware on my computer popping up divorce cases on screen. I don't get spams saying "Enl4rge your PEN!S, 4nd h3re's some d1v0rce pap3rs t00!" At some point this lady either decided she was going to look for the papers, or if turned up on Google, decided she was going to read the papers. She didn't like what she saw, and now is trying to change the world (for the worse) to suit her.
Ironically, the court papers in the Daryl Clark case name the complainant only as "Mrs. S."
She cites the case of someone who is upset at reading the divorce case of her parents.
Well, here's something: don't read it!
"Wow, reading about the war between Georgia and Russia, the parliamentary fire in Eqypt, and bombings all over the world is really depressing. If only there was a law against printing all that uncomfortable stuff, my life would be a lot better!"
Submission of pornographic or illegal files is strictly prohibited. Do not submit any file that can be construed as pornography or is in violation of any law.
The company is based in Toronto rather than some ultra-conservative U.S. state; that gives me an epsilon more confidence the company won't take the "nudity = pornography" stance. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if a search equivalent to a risqué ad campaign in Europe would get you banned.
I find it funny that someone who is clamouring for scientific units has the wrong number of significant digits in their conversion.
1720 ft has at least 3 and at most 4 significant digits. So your converted number should be 524 m or 524.3 m. Converting to 524.25 m is incorrect, as it implies more accuracy than the original number does.
Screw Kevin Bacon â" every time I'm on Wikipedia, I somehow end up reading about Nazi Germany.
I long ago had the thought (which I should probably ignore) of writing a Firefox plugin which would automatically find how many jumps I need to get to Nazi Germany.
Canada is a democracy, and the Canadians voted for a government to legislate and enforce the laws of the land. This fake outrage around the decision of a Canadian tribunal to prosecute a man, is tantamount to a Dutch citizen getting all riled up because he read in the news that an American was jailed for possession of weed.
You seem to be implying that Canadians don't read Slashdot, as implicit in your statement is that none of the posters here are actually Canadian.
As someone who is Canadian, I find that offensive. It is your right to say things I* find offensive, but it is also my right to call you an idiot.
* White Heterosexual Male. I'd be hard pressed to convince the tribunal to make a ruling in my favour.
Do they desire freedom less than we do? I suspect not...
I question your assumption. Different cultures have different priorities. In the West, "freedom" is held as the highest ideal. However, other cultures hold "harmony" as the highest ideal. There are going to be times where these two ideals are mutually exclusive. Hence the different expectations and norms worldwide.
I can vouch for the multiple partitions method, though my implementation is a bit extreme. Personally, I'm running out of drive letters.
My own advice to add to the post above:
- Round those 20GB partitions down to around 15GB or so, they'll still be big enough and it'll halve your cluster size.
- There's actually no need to avoid NTFS anymore, as Ubuntu now has stable NTFS read-write support. There are also drivers such that you can read/write ext3 partitions under Windows, but I haven't found one I like yet.
I care more that there's no "previous" and "next" buttons near the strip. Sure, if you click "strips" at the top you get an archive with thumbnails, which is good if you want to find a specific strip. But the lack of "previous" and "next" make casual browsing more difficult.
It's a ploy to make us all more productive, and damn it, it shall not stand!"
Monopoly or no, it's undeniable that using secret APIs to give your own software an edge is anti-competitive. Not having a monopoly on the desktop market might mean that it's not illegal, but the legality has no bearing on the ethics.
You don't really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of marketshare Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
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You're missing one of the greatest strengths of the invitation system: it makes trivial the task of tracking who invited whom.
If you've got a bunch of known bot accounts which have a common progenitor, you just have to take a step up the tree and look at the progenitors siblings. Are those also all bot accounts? Keep going. Any bot account or group of accounts could eventually be traced back to a single invitation.
This has already been addressed earlier in the thread. The post refers to her as Hillary because she refers to herself as Hillary. Take a long look at her website. See that graphic in the upper left corner there? It says "Hillary for President." "Hillary for President."
Or maybe take a peek at her swag. Oh look! It all says Hillary on it, in GIANT LETTERS.
Hey, check the URL above. It doesn't say Clinton Store! It says Hillary store! Hillary.
If she doesn't want anybody to call her Hillary, she has a strange way of showing it, spending all that money to put "Hillary" on everything.
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Correction: By "Jungle Quest", I mean "Jungle Hunt". A short and simple game, but lots o' fun.
I have the opposite problem. I have a Star Raiders cartridge and a working 2600, but I don't have the special controller needed to play the game. (So as a child, I'd plug in the game periodically, see only the 4x4 grid, die, think "this game sucks", and play Adventure or Jungle Quest instead.)
Is there any way to get the special controller? Or better yet, homebrew one?
Sorry, responding to my own post.
Upon thinking about the issue some more, this reminds me of the case of Daryl Clark. He was arrested for masturbating in his own house, but he was visible to the neighbours. This was a case which went before the Canadian Supreme Court, but none of that is important.
What is important is the neighbours watched him for 10 to 15 minutes at times using binoculars and a telescope before deciding they don't like what they see and calling the police.
I don't know about you, but I don't have malware on my computer popping up divorce cases on screen. I don't get spams saying "Enl4rge your PEN!S, 4nd h3re's some d1v0rce pap3rs t00!" At some point this lady either decided she was going to look for the papers, or if turned up on Google, decided she was going to read the papers. She didn't like what she saw, and now is trying to change the world (for the worse) to suit her.
Ironically, the court papers in the Daryl Clark case name the complainant only as "Mrs. S."
Well, here's something: don't read it!
"Wow, reading about the war between Georgia and Russia, the parliamentary fire in Eqypt, and bombings all over the world is really depressing. If only there was a law against printing all that uncomfortable stuff, my life would be a lot better!"
Oh my!
The Joy of Life was simply the first thing that came to mind. (I am not an art connoisseur.) Thank you though for your much better example.
How the hell am I supposed to know what their company considers pornography? Can I search for The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse?
The company is based in Toronto rather than some ultra-conservative U.S. state; that gives me an epsilon more confidence the company won't take the "nudity = pornography" stance. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if a search equivalent to a risqué ad campaign in Europe would get you banned.
I find it funny that someone who is clamouring for scientific units has the wrong number of significant digits in their conversion.
1720 ft has at least 3 and at most 4 significant digits. So your converted number should be 524 m or 524.3 m. Converting to 524.25 m is incorrect, as it implies more accuracy than the original number does.
That's some Guantanamo Bay-esque logic there. How can they "not have a presence" if they own buildings, even if it is indirectly?
It's why I feel guilty buying Pringles here. The recycling guys won't even pick the cans up.
Screw Kevin Bacon â" every time I'm on Wikipedia, I somehow end up reading about Nazi Germany.
I long ago had the thought (which I should probably ignore) of writing a Firefox plugin which would automatically find how many jumps I need to get to Nazi Germany.
* White Heterosexual Male. I'd be hard pressed to convince the tribunal to make a ruling in my favour.
I hope all of those Mozilla developers shower.
Thanks, Hans Reiser. Because of you, they're going to have to redesign the whole quiz.
I can vouch for the multiple partitions method, though my implementation is a bit extreme. Personally, I'm running out of drive letters.
My own advice to add to the post above:
- Round those 20GB partitions down to around 15GB or so, they'll still be big enough and it'll halve your cluster size.
- There's actually no need to avoid NTFS anymore, as Ubuntu now has stable NTFS read-write support. There are also drivers such that you can read/write ext3 partitions under Windows, but I haven't found one I like yet.
I care more that there's no "previous" and "next" buttons near the strip. Sure, if you click "strips" at the top you get an archive with thumbnails, which is good if you want to find a specific strip. But the lack of "previous" and "next" make casual browsing more difficult.
It's a ploy to make us all more productive, and damn it, it shall not stand!"
Oh, wait...
Nevermind.
A 400mm F/2.8 lens - if you were TRYING to make me jealous, it worked.
If anybody is interested in further reading, the campus newspaper did a story on this a couple of months ago, as well as the engineering newspaper.
Monopoly or no, it's undeniable that using secret APIs to give your own software an edge is anti-competitive. Not having a monopoly on the desktop market might mean that it's not illegal, but the legality has no bearing on the ethics.
You're missing one of the greatest strengths of the invitation system: it makes trivial the task of tracking who invited whom.
If you've got a bunch of known bot accounts which have a common progenitor, you just have to take a step up the tree and look at the progenitors siblings. Are those also all bot accounts? Keep going. Any bot account or group of accounts could eventually be traced back to a single invitation.
It would help for rooting out bot accounts.
It'd help the FBI keep track of those illicit sex acts.
This has already been addressed earlier in the thread. The post refers to her as Hillary because she refers to herself as Hillary. Take a long look at her website. See that graphic in the upper left corner there? It says "Hillary for President." "Hillary for President."
Or maybe take a peek at her swag. Oh look! It all says Hillary on it, in GIANT LETTERS.
Hey, check the URL above. It doesn't say Clinton Store! It says Hillary store! Hillary.
If she doesn't want anybody to call her Hillary, she has a strange way of showing it, spending all that money to put "Hillary" on everything.