In case you didn't know, unless you've specified it to do otherwise, clicking the mousewheel/center clicking on a link will open it in a new tab. I don't think IE had that feature when I first came across it, or if it exists now, but it was/is one of the features I love most about FF.
No one's brought it up yet, so I will...
As the price/convenience/long term compatibility and viability of storage goes down and down, I wonder to what end we will end up keeping this stuff? How many hours of video that you're paying (in time, money, security against fire/damage/loss, etc) to keep up you're actually going to watch? Sure, it's nice to have every single event in your child's life on demand at the touch of a button/click of a mouse, but aren't just plain old memories ok? Does his entire life have to be recorded and watchable?
At some point, I came to the realization that I had downloaded over 6 solid months worth of music. This doesn't include CD's, LP's, or 7 inch records, of which I probably have 1000 total. If I were able to put all that music on a big loop, and not repeat anything, I'm thinking it would last over 12 months. Some of these I'll probably never listen to. I'm thinking the same is true for the submitter's videos.
My parents have a big box of photographs from their childhoods, as well as those of their parents. There are some great photos in that box, and I could and have spent hours going through them. Each time I do, I make a mental note that one day I'll scan them and make them digital. Then I realize that we only drag out that box once or twice a year, and never do anything with the photos anyway, and resign to scan them once it gets even cheaper.
I've really enjoyed the science and issues surrounding it in the first two Ringworld books, but it seems like every book of his I've read has some kind of lame sex scene...rishrathra? really?
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps something similar could work for getting onto a bank website? Along with the usual detritus one gets when one signs up for a new bank account, is such a keychain used for authenticating logins...on such a huge scale, how much do those things cost?
Perhaps one day I'll get to use my pager/phone as second path authentication for the bank? I am hoping for it, but any improvement in the meantime is a good thing.
My father in law had a keyfob lcd thing to which his employer would send him passwords when he wanted to use his takehome work laptop. When he turned it on, it sent a signal to the home base, and the keyfob would show a number. He used this number to log in. This way, if the laptop got stolen, it was effectively worthless.
Is this what you're talking about?
1. I go to login to my bank account.
2. The bank server sends a text message to my phone with a one time key/password.
3. I enter the password/key, so the bank has a better idea that I am who I say I am.
Or...
1. ID theif uses my login info to try to get into my online account.
2. The bank server sends a text message to my phone with a one time key/password.
3. I'm not logging in at the moment, so I call the bank to check in, etc.
Interesting.
That's a big (and very noble) goal. Where do you start with a project like that? I realize you're not building the thing from scratch (most likely), but I'm imagining a sort of "worst case scenario" voter, who's got several disabilities, who wants to vote, and you have to design the machine/process around this person. Would you mind discussing some of what goes into enfranchising every voter?
For example, how would you enable a blind and deaf person to vote, using electronic voting? How does the machine verify the vote with such a voter?
Yeah..like THOSE are going to allow me fit a weeks worth of groceries in one trip. That and I usually hit 2-3 stores on Sunday..to get the best deals on things.
The same is true for me. I shop mostly on the weekends. Rarely during the week.
I have a turbo miata...and hell, I can barely get my stuff home in that.
My goodness, how much groceries are you buying?
I can't imagine what a family of four would have to contend with....hell one trip to Sam's and you'd need to tow about 8-10 of those bicycle carts bare minimum.
Once a week? That seems like a lot of groceries, even for a family of 4.
Most of us do not live in an urban setting my friend.
I live in a town of 23 thousand. about 12 miles from the town i work in, which is ~ 90 thousand people. Far from urban, methinks.
I've also not got time to shop every day...I tend to buy a weeks's worth and cook 2-3 meals on Sunday to eat through the week...lunches and some dinners....
Same here. I don't like going to the store every day. Who do you think is going to plan their outings more efficiently, someone in a car, or someone who's pedaling their way around?
so I have time to go to the gym and whatnot after work....
Seriously? You don't ride a bike because then you wouldn't have time to go to the gym?
Sidewalks are for walking. If you're riding your bike, you should ride in the street. Especially if you're commuting. In most states, if you're not on the interstate, bikes have the same rights/responsibilities as cars.
it might be deemed profitable to put the two closer together, so the customers spends more time looking at items they want, rather than walking past items they're not interested in.
You mean, put the two departments farther apart, in order to make the store more profitable, don't you?
They don't put the 4 main sections (produce, dairy, meat,frozen) of grocery stores on opposite sides of the store by accident. It behooves them to have you go by product you're not interested in.
If you're not interested in buying it in the first place, and can avoid that section of the store altogether, you're not going to buy it. If you're not interested in buying it in the first place, and you have to walk through/near/by the section on your way to your other purchases/checkout, then you might buy it, ultimately making the store more money.
I don't recall where I saw it, perhaps someone here will have a link...but some web forum(s) out there has artwork by users where they make porn "Safe for work" by painting over the naughty bits in creative ways...lots of porn star girls singing into microphones, eating ice cream cones, etc. Some funny stuff. Google "making porn safe for work", and you're bound to come across some of it.
I didn't get the cognitive dissonance angle at all from this. I figured it's more like one of those waivers you have to sign at things like rock climbing gyms, or high risk activities, where you don't just sign your name at the end of a stack of papers, but you initial every paragraph. I've even seen one where I had to rewrite by hand an entire paragraph about how I wouldn't sue the place if I got injured, etc.
If they include this quiz, and only allow users who score 100%, then maybe the network can't be held responsible for copyright infringement, since they've screened for users who don't know what's off limits.
I would extend that to say that if you can find a critic that you consistently dis agree with, then you can stick with them as well. The fleeting, random internet reviews are about useless. That is, unless you can find a site that has consistent reviews that you either agree or disagree with.
A little confusing when comparing different aspect ratios? I remember learning the "it's measured on the diagonal" thing in high school TV class. It occured to me then and it occurs to me now that someone could come up with some wacky aspect ratio of 42:1 and still advertise that they have a ~42.whatever inch screen. Now that the ratios are all over the place, there needs to be some other standard.
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In case you didn't know, unless you've specified it to do otherwise, clicking the mousewheel/center clicking on a link will open it in a new tab. I don't think IE had that feature when I first came across it, or if it exists now, but it was/is one of the features I love most about FF.
Captured by robots has a whole band of robots that play their own instruments.
No one's brought it up yet, so I will... As the price/convenience/long term compatibility and viability of storage goes down and down, I wonder to what end we will end up keeping this stuff? How many hours of video that you're paying (in time, money, security against fire/damage/loss, etc) to keep up you're actually going to watch? Sure, it's nice to have every single event in your child's life on demand at the touch of a button/click of a mouse, but aren't just plain old memories ok? Does his entire life have to be recorded and watchable?
At some point, I came to the realization that I had downloaded over 6 solid months worth of music. This doesn't include CD's, LP's, or 7 inch records, of which I probably have 1000 total. If I were able to put all that music on a big loop, and not repeat anything, I'm thinking it would last over 12 months. Some of these I'll probably never listen to. I'm thinking the same is true for the submitter's videos.
My parents have a big box of photographs from their childhoods, as well as those of their parents. There are some great photos in that box, and I could and have spent hours going through them. Each time I do, I make a mental note that one day I'll scan them and make them digital. Then I realize that we only drag out that box once or twice a year, and never do anything with the photos anyway, and resign to scan them once it gets even cheaper.
if one took a bullet for NYCL,
What kind of mod points does one get for that?!
Is there also some really bad sex?
I've really enjoyed the science and issues surrounding it in the first two Ringworld books, but it seems like every book of his I've read has some kind of lame sex scene...rishrathra? really?
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps something similar could work for getting onto a bank website? Along with the usual detritus one gets when one signs up for a new bank account, is such a keychain used for authenticating logins...on such a huge scale, how much do those things cost?
Perhaps one day I'll get to use my pager/phone as second path authentication for the bank? I am hoping for it, but any improvement in the meantime is a good thing.
My father in law had a keyfob lcd thing to which his employer would send him passwords when he wanted to use his takehome work laptop. When he turned it on, it sent a signal to the home base, and the keyfob would show a number. He used this number to log in. This way, if the laptop got stolen, it was effectively worthless.
Is this what you're talking about?
1. I go to login to my bank account.
2. The bank server sends a text message to my phone with a one time key/password.
3. I enter the password/key, so the bank has a better idea that I am who I say I am.
Or...
1. ID theif uses my login info to try to get into my online account.
2. The bank server sends a text message to my phone with a one time key/password.
3. I'm not logging in at the moment, so I call the bank to check in, etc. Interesting.
That's a big (and very noble) goal. Where do you start with a project like that? I realize you're not building the thing from scratch (most likely), but I'm imagining a sort of "worst case scenario" voter, who's got several disabilities, who wants to vote, and you have to design the machine/process around this person. Would you mind discussing some of what goes into enfranchising every voter?
For example, how would you enable a blind and deaf person to vote, using electronic voting? How does the machine verify the vote with such a voter?
Why would we pay all this money for these fancy machines
Isn't it mostly for quick/reliable/cheap* results?
*Generally speaking, you only get two.
In west Eslamebad, born and raised...
what more do they need other than him answering the phone?
they almost always verify with the office of the prescribing doctor.
You mean, they call the number on the prescription, to make sure it's from a real doctor's office? Whew, that was close.
In my experience, that means that 'tru2way' technology will be a stReaming pile of shit.
There, I fixed it for you.
What we really need is a super-cheap way to use that land for solar generation.
Figure out a way to make the solar cells as robust--or more--than asphault, and start replacing/paving existing roads with solar cells.
Yeah..like THOSE are going to allow me fit a weeks worth of groceries in one trip. That and I usually hit 2-3 stores on Sunday..to get the best deals on things. The same is true for me. I shop mostly on the weekends. Rarely during the week. I have a turbo miata...and hell, I can barely get my stuff home in that.
My goodness, how much groceries are you buying?
I can't imagine what a family of four would have to contend with....hell one trip to Sam's and you'd need to tow about 8-10 of those bicycle carts bare minimum.
Once a week? That seems like a lot of groceries, even for a family of 4.
Most of us do not live in an urban setting my friend.
I live in a town of 23 thousand. about 12 miles from the town i work in, which is ~ 90 thousand people. Far from urban, methinks.
I've also not got time to shop every day...I tend to buy a weeks's worth and cook 2-3 meals on Sunday to eat through the week...lunches and some dinners....
Same here. I don't like going to the store every day. Who do you think is going to plan their outings more efficiently, someone in a car, or someone who's pedaling their way around?
so I have time to go to the gym and whatnot after work....
Seriously? You don't ride a bike because then you wouldn't have time to go to the gym?
Sidewalks are for walking. If you're riding your bike, you should ride in the street. Especially if you're commuting. In most states, if you're not on the interstate, bikes have the same rights/responsibilities as cars.
i need to be able to carry things like groceries.
Gee. It's too bad there aren't working solutions to this problem.
Thank you, Frank Shoemaker!
healing processes we see after we cut ourselves,
Speak for yourself, emo kid.
it might be deemed profitable to put the two closer together, so the customers spends more time looking at items they want, rather than walking past items they're not interested in.
You mean, put the two departments farther apart, in order to make the store more profitable, don't you?
They don't put the 4 main sections (produce, dairy, meat,frozen) of grocery stores on opposite sides of the store by accident. It behooves them to have you go by product you're not interested in.
If you're not interested in buying it in the first place, and can avoid that section of the store altogether, you're not going to buy it. If you're not interested in buying it in the first place, and you have to walk through/near/by the section on your way to your other purchases/checkout, then you might buy it, ultimately making the store more money.
Speaking of cocks and ice cream cones...
I don't recall where I saw it, perhaps someone here will have a link...but some web forum(s) out there has artwork by users where they make porn "Safe for work" by painting over the naughty bits in creative ways...lots of porn star girls singing into microphones, eating ice cream cones, etc. Some funny stuff. Google "making porn safe for work", and you're bound to come across some of it.
I didn't get the cognitive dissonance angle at all from this. I figured it's more like one of those waivers you have to sign at things like rock climbing gyms, or high risk activities, where you don't just sign your name at the end of a stack of papers, but you initial every paragraph. I've even seen one where I had to rewrite by hand an entire paragraph about how I wouldn't sue the place if I got injured, etc.
If they include this quiz, and only allow users who score 100%, then maybe the network can't be held responsible for copyright infringement, since they've screened for users who don't know what's off limits.
I would extend that to say that if you can find a critic that you consistently dis agree with, then you can stick with them as well. The fleeting, random internet reviews are about useless. That is, unless you can find a site that has consistent reviews that you either agree or disagree with.
"Yeeeaaahhh...You're gonna need to talk to payroll..."
A little confusing when comparing different aspect ratios? I remember learning the "it's measured on the diagonal" thing in high school TV class. It occured to me then and it occurs to me now that someone could come up with some wacky aspect ratio of 42:1 and still advertise that they have a ~42.whatever inch screen. Now that the ratios are all over the place, there needs to be some other standard.