The big flaw I see here is that someone doing the coercion could insist that they choose A or B before the person who cast the vote has a chance to lock out the real vote. In that case the coercer has a 50% chance of seeing the real vote instead of the vote for Kodos. This is better than the coercer being able to see the true vote 100% of the time, but it is far worse than the coercer not being able to see the vote at all.
I have actually used that on a metal track before -- I dumped the guitar track out of ProTools, converted it to 32 kbps MP3, then brought it back in on top of the nice crystal clear drums and bass for a song intro -- it made for a pretty cool effect (think phaser>bitcruncher as inserts) but certainly not one that I would use often.
Yes, two international trips earlier this year. Flying out of and then back into the US each time. Not once were my fingerprints taken as far as I know. As far as I know they only subject foreigners to that. Mod parent FUD.
It's even easier in this case. The spec says GPL so you don't even need to think about the issues that might compel you to choose one license or another. Client wants GPL, client gets GPL. Copy, paste, done.
No, that obviously doesn't work. As you point out, we've tried it already and it's gotten us the very redundancy that is the target of complaint. More generally, there seems to be a tendency among a large portion of the English speaking population to expand the last letter of an acronym after the letter the expansion stands for in cases where that last letter stands for the conceptual class to which that identified by the abbreviated form belongs. The idea is to recognize this and preemptively expand the letter in these cases, dropping the single letter from the acronym. I theorize that this would deter the introduction of the popular redundant form and save people on discussion forums the trouble of complaining about them. Additionally, as I mentioned, AT machine sounds much cooler than ATM.
I keep hearing about these programmers getting hit by busses. In fact, I think I hear about programmers being hit by busses more than members of any other profession. Now, the busses that I've seen tend to be rather large things that stop frequently, and usually aren't going very fast. The generally poor quality of code suddenly makes a lot more sense when you consider that it is being written by a class of people who are so fatally inattentive as to be struck by busses with such improbable frequency.
I'm assuming they still ship an FTP client. Of course, we know how this is really going to work. Nobody will buy the version without IE and system makers will add IE, so your full reinstall will already have IE which you can use to get Firefox without having to learn FTP.
Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner.
I wonder... If you steal something and in the same year are caught by law enforcement who then confiscates the stolen something and does not return it to its rightful owner, do you still need to pay the tax on it? This would seem to be a good opportunity for interdepartmental information sharing for the purpose of reducing tax increases on honest, hard working Americans.
It's very easy to find my real name (you could start with my homepage link and read the first page of any linked PDF [amusingly enough, those would be source code documentation that is considerably more extensive than is normal for software but having it makes me far more productive] or you could go to my journal, find out that I have the same user name on Twitter and get it there), but you really don't have to worry about me getting anywhere near your systems. For what it's worth, I was going for Funny/Troll. I have no idea how I ended up getting that Interesting mod.
Your successor will never find any documentation that you leave behind (or if you show it to them they won't bother with reading it) and by the time they notice it they'll have already screwed things up to the point where the documentation will be obsolete. This means you can save yourself the trouble of doing the documentation unless that documentation is going to make you more effective while you're there.
When someone wanted a Windows version of one of my programs recently, I tried the latest Visual C++ Express edition. After changing the one line of GNU specific (and it was even already documented as such) code, I could get it to compile but I never did figure out how to get it to run on a computer that didn't have Express installed. Googling provided lots of answers for older versions that apparently don't work with the current version and eventually I gave up and tried MinGW which just plain worked. You wouldn't happen to have a link to instructions for taking a pre-existing cross platform code base and getting the current version of Visual C++ Express to produce a binary that actually works, would you?
Actually, that's a rather good source for old public domain maps. Granted, you have to modify the URLs by hand if you want full resolution copies in something more widely readable than JPEG2000 (or at least it did the last time I needed an old map).
Odd that it would happen to be green tea. Back when tea started to get popular in England, there was a person who wanted to convince people that green tea was deadly. He did this by preparing green tea at ridiculously high concentration and having cats drink it. Not surprisingly, the cats died.
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The big flaw I see here is that someone doing the coercion could insist that they choose A or B before the person who cast the vote has a chance to lock out the real vote. In that case the coercer has a 50% chance of seeing the real vote instead of the vote for Kodos. This is better than the coercer being able to see the true vote 100% of the time, but it is far worse than the coercer not being able to see the vote at all.
Do you have a link for listening or purchasing?
Are these the same people who prefer MP3 Sizzle?
Yes, two international trips earlier this year. Flying out of and then back into the US each time. Not once were my fingerprints taken as far as I know. As far as I know they only subject foreigners to that. Mod parent FUD.
Separate user account for porn browsing. Problem solved.
It's even easier in this case. The spec says GPL so you don't even need to think about the issues that might compel you to choose one license or another. Client wants GPL, client gets GPL. Copy, paste, done.
It seems to be back on here, so this doesn't really seem all that distinguishable from normal twitter down time.
No, that obviously doesn't work. As you point out, we've tried it already and it's gotten us the very redundancy that is the target of complaint. More generally, there seems to be a tendency among a large portion of the English speaking population to expand the last letter of an acronym after the letter the expansion stands for in cases where that last letter stands for the conceptual class to which that identified by the abbreviated form belongs. The idea is to recognize this and preemptively expand the letter in these cases, dropping the single letter from the acronym. I theorize that this would deter the introduction of the popular redundant form and save people on discussion forums the trouble of complaining about them. Additionally, as I mentioned, AT machine sounds much cooler than ATM.
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I wonder if this would happen less if we started calling these things AT machines, PI numbers, and the HI virus. All of these sound cooler anyway.
The whole thing is 1.68GB and the flac files come in at 1.26GB. Still big, but not 3GB big.
The new fashion accessory that every criminal thug just has to have: an umbrella.
There's never the widow of a Nigerian prince around when you need one.
I keep hearing about these programmers getting hit by busses. In fact, I think I hear about programmers being hit by busses more than members of any other profession. Now, the busses that I've seen tend to be rather large things that stop frequently, and usually aren't going very fast. The generally poor quality of code suddenly makes a lot more sense when you consider that it is being written by a class of people who are so fatally inattentive as to be struck by busses with such improbable frequency.
I'm assuming they still ship an FTP client. Of course, we know how this is really going to work. Nobody will buy the version without IE and system makers will add IE, so your full reinstall will already have IE which you can use to get Firefox without having to learn FTP.
20 line sigs? I take it you never saw some of Eyeglazer's sigs. Typical example here: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.final-fantasy/msg/60d7eecf20b2e63d?hl=en
That depends on what the exact wording of the agreement you signed is. Could be yes, could be no. Practically, they probably don't really care.
I wonder... If you steal something and in the same year are caught by law enforcement who then confiscates the stolen something and does not return it to its rightful owner, do you still need to pay the tax on it? This would seem to be a good opportunity for interdepartmental information sharing for the purpose of reducing tax increases on honest, hard working Americans.
Given that most of the Web back then was pages about Star Trek, pi, and Urusei Yatsura, search was an easier problem.
I hear they have drugs for that now.
Yes, I saw that episode of Lost in Space. The robot self-destructed (or something like that) after losing at the cup game.
It's very easy to find my real name (you could start with my homepage link and read the first page of any linked PDF [amusingly enough, those would be source code documentation that is considerably more extensive than is normal for software but having it makes me far more productive] or you could go to my journal, find out that I have the same user name on Twitter and get it there), but you really don't have to worry about me getting anywhere near your systems. For what it's worth, I was going for Funny/Troll. I have no idea how I ended up getting that Interesting mod.
Your successor will never find any documentation that you leave behind (or if you show it to them they won't bother with reading it) and by the time they notice it they'll have already screwed things up to the point where the documentation will be obsolete. This means you can save yourself the trouble of doing the documentation unless that documentation is going to make you more effective while you're there.
When someone wanted a Windows version of one of my programs recently, I tried the latest Visual C++ Express edition. After changing the one line of GNU specific (and it was even already documented as such) code, I could get it to compile but I never did figure out how to get it to run on a computer that didn't have Express installed. Googling provided lots of answers for older versions that apparently don't work with the current version and eventually I gave up and tried MinGW which just plain worked. You wouldn't happen to have a link to instructions for taking a pre-existing cross platform code base and getting the current version of Visual C++ Express to produce a binary that actually works, would you?
Actually, that's a rather good source for old public domain maps. Granted, you have to modify the URLs by hand if you want full resolution copies in something more widely readable than JPEG2000 (or at least it did the last time I needed an old map).
Odd that it would happen to be green tea. Back when tea started to get popular in England, there was a person who wanted to convince people that green tea was deadly. He did this by preparing green tea at ridiculously high concentration and having cats drink it. Not surprisingly, the cats died.