Visa and MasterCard debit cards in the United States are also basically directly linked to bank accounts. The logo basically just means your transaction will work as a fake "credit" transaction at Visa/MasterCard merchants who don't have debit support, or when you don't feel like entering your PIN. Or so I understand.
Maybe this (or the more normal work schedule of a normal series rather than the "movies"), will get some of the voice actors to return to their original form.
I think that some of the actors (particuarly Phil LaMarr, interestingly) never quite got the hang of their old characters again.
Losing the old cast would still be a death blow to the show, though.
Apple uses the AAC format which is an open royalty free format designed to replace mp3. Alcatel-Lucent owns the patent on MP3. So, Apple chose the more modern and more open format. Any company can support or use AAC without paying any royalties.
You might want to check on your facts a little more.
I think Windows is officially in the fading phase of its existence: Adobe has FINALLY (After first announcing it way back in 2003) released a 64 bit Flash player - and it's for Linux, not Windows. I think that's the first time I've ever seen a major release of anything coming out on Linux first.
Could this perhaps be because no one on Windows actually uses a 64-bit browser? Mozilla doesn't even offer official 64-bit builds, and while Microsoft gives you a 64-bit Explorer, no one uses it. In the *nix world, people who use compile-from-source distros or distros which like to keep down the 32-bit binaries actually have 64-bit browsers.
That aside, in another moment of rejoicing for 64-bit browser plugins, Java 1.6 update 12 with 64-bit support is finally officially out for both Windows and Linux. Hurrah.
An AC already covered this somewhat, but patents are meant to combat more than just others making money off of the patented invention.
Licensing is by far the most common route, but you can completely block the use of the invention by others for the duration of the patent if you so choose. Drug companies often choose this option, so you'll still have to wait a few more years for generic Viagra to hit the market.
Staying in the software realm, say you hold some software patent, and you actually make and sell a product using it. Now, Microsoft or Apple starts giving away a product that does essentially the same thing. The rights conferred to you by the patent still allow you to stop them from distributing the product, or force them to license the technology, despite the fact that they're not actually making any money off of it.
One would think that if you posted a Wikipedia link, you'd at least have had time to read the first sentence of the article: "Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law..."
Anyway, patent trolls rarely go after free software projects because they lack the money to dole out a big settlement. The various media standards and many other fairly standard features of Linux distros are patent-encumbered up the wazoo. Some projects actually have some fear of litigation and disable features or distribute source-only (FreeType's bytecode interpreter comes to mind), but that's fairly rare.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything like "Snake defeated the boss."
Yeah, no one ever says something like that, but people blame the character for things that go wrong all the time: "I had almost beaten that boss until stupid Snake decided not to fire his stupid gun when I told him to."
People congratulate themselves for progress and successes, but blame the game for errors and failure pretty often. I guess you could say the immersion is broken when things don't behave as they're supposed to.
It's also strange that the post specifically mentions Metal Gear, as that series is pretty well known for intentionally breaking the fourth wall.
Virginia Tech has this now as well. It can optionally also send instant messages, email, and call a cell, dorm and/or other phone. It probably does other marginally-useful things as well.
I posted a similar response somewhere else in the comments, but this decision is pretty upsetting.
This looks like a pretty thinly veiled attempt to "juke the stats" and save some money at the same time. They don't have to administer a few relatively unpopular exams, and they get to claim an improvement in demographic equality.
This seems to be the direction of United States education as a whole. In the quest for "equality," the solution seems to be to just lower standards and opportunities across the board, instead of examining the problems that leave minority-dominated schools underfunded and higher-level programs overwhelmingly monochromatic.
I see somewhere else that "demographic concerns" were the primary motivator, and that there were very few "minority" students taking the 4 removed exams.
While this is all framed as part of the College Board's efforts to reach out to minorities, I'm not sure that simply removing the courses that fewer minorities take is any kind of real answer. Scratch that, I'm entirely sure that it's not. This just seems like an effort to skew the statistics to show more equality than really exists. Treating the symptoms, not the problem.
Another reason to dislike my former school system, which grades on a scale where all the cutoffs are shifted 4 percentage points higher (94 and up is an A, etc.), and AP courses counted as a +.5. The other systems in the area all use the standard 90,80,70... scale and give 1.0 for "honors" or AP classes.
The counselors and universities claim that they take these differences into account and scale the GPA accordingly, but I'm skeptical. That first impression of seeing the reported number counts for a lot, I suspect.
Well, I took it after the switch to Java, and the fish were still around. It's not an awful way to teach some of the fundamentals of how the inheritance hierarchy works, but it just looks so stupid. I've never really been a fan of Karel the robot either, so whatever...
My school didn't even offer a computer science A class. I suppose you could've taken the normal (AB) class and then sat for the A exam, but I don't think I knew anyone who did that. At my college, a 4 or 5 on the AB exam gets you out of just the most basic Java-based "intro to programming" class. The class you end up taking instead is basically the same type of material as the less-trivial portions of AP CS.
Well, you seem to be assuming that they'd be writing this linked-list class in C++. If so, I'd agree, if you take people who've only learned Java and tell them to implement a data structure in C++, the results won't be pretty, unless of course you teach them some of the fundamentals of C++-style memory management.
Now, if they were making this list in Java, I don't really think they'd have much of a problem...
I took AP CS AB the first year it switched to being taught in Java, my initial college CS course was data structures in Java, then C++ the next year, and now it's operating systems using C, and human-computer interaction where we're mostly using C#.
DARPA Chief Outlines Array of Future Projects Just make sure it's not one of those fake DARPA Chiefs who'll go an have a "heart attack" right at the beginning of the game...
Also, remember: Meryl's CODEC frequency is on the back of the disc case.
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Visa and MasterCard debit cards in the United States are also basically directly linked to bank accounts. The logo basically just means your transaction will work as a fake "credit" transaction at Visa/MasterCard merchants who don't have debit support, or when you don't feel like entering your PIN. Or so I understand.
I can see the problem with "slashdoted," but "horn in" isn't a typo.
To think that I was a native of a country (UK) being harassed by immigrants (Africans) about harassing immigrants (Aboriginals)!
In what way are Aboriginal people immigrants?
Maybe this (or the more normal work schedule of a normal series rather than the "movies"), will get some of the voice actors to return to their original form.
I think that some of the actors (particuarly Phil LaMarr, interestingly) never quite got the hang of their old characters again.
Losing the old cast would still be a death blow to the show, though.
Apple uses the AAC format which is an open royalty free format designed to replace mp3. Alcatel-Lucent owns the patent on MP3. So, Apple chose the more modern and more open format. Any company can support or use AAC without paying any royalties.
You might want to check on your facts a little more.
I think Windows is officially in the fading phase of its existence: Adobe has FINALLY (After first announcing it way back in 2003) released a 64 bit Flash player - and it's for Linux, not Windows. I think that's the first time I've ever seen a major release of anything coming out on Linux first.
Could this perhaps be because no one on Windows actually uses a 64-bit browser? Mozilla doesn't even offer official 64-bit builds, and while Microsoft gives you a 64-bit Explorer, no one uses it. In the *nix world, people who use compile-from-source distros or distros which like to keep down the 32-bit binaries actually have 64-bit browsers.
That aside, in another moment of rejoicing for 64-bit browser plugins, Java 1.6 update 12 with 64-bit support is finally officially out for both Windows and Linux. Hurrah.
An AC already covered this somewhat, but patents are meant to combat more than just others making money off of the patented invention.
Licensing is by far the most common route, but you can completely block the use of the invention by others for the duration of the patent if you so choose. Drug companies often choose this option, so you'll still have to wait a few more years for generic Viagra to hit the market.
Staying in the software realm, say you hold some software patent, and you actually make and sell a product using it. Now, Microsoft or Apple starts giving away a product that does essentially the same thing. The rights conferred to you by the patent still allow you to stop them from distributing the product, or force them to license the technology, despite the fact that they're not actually making any money off of it.
One would think that if you posted a Wikipedia link, you'd at least have had time to read the first sentence of the article: "Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law..."
Anyway, patent trolls rarely go after free software projects because they lack the money to dole out a big settlement. The various media standards and many other fairly standard features of Linux distros are patent-encumbered up the wazoo. Some projects actually have some fear of litigation and disable features or distribute source-only (FreeType's bytecode interpreter comes to mind), but that's fairly rare.
GGP was an AABA scheme.
It just used some quasi-limerick-style syllable pattern, which is why it sounds so weird.
Citrix knows
that CIO's
won't use a product
without tons of holes
Burma Shave
Still not great, as well as inaccurate, but it's closer.
It was clearly a d10.
Sheesh.
According to a recent article, you may be suffering from dementia.
At least I refrained from including the phrase "feathers, not dots".)
So close...
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything like "Snake defeated the boss."
Yeah, no one ever says something like that, but people blame the character for things that go wrong all the time: "I had almost beaten that boss until stupid Snake decided not to fire his stupid gun when I told him to."
People congratulate themselves for progress and successes, but blame the game for errors and failure pretty often. I guess you could say the immersion is broken when things don't behave as they're supposed to.
It's also strange that the post specifically mentions Metal Gear, as that series is pretty well known for intentionally breaking the fourth wall.
The timing would be just about right....
http://www.bestbuy.com/gunsnroses
Even though this tactic seems pretty unlikely to succeed, the issue that's being pointed out seems to be that the statutory damages are so high.
Punitive damages can be sky-high, but I don't think that the RIAA generally seeks them.
No you can't.
Firefox checks to see if it's the default on every startup as well, unless you specifically uncheck the box and tell it not to.
This behavior's pretty much expected of browsers at this point
Virginia Tech has this now as well. It can optionally also send instant messages, email, and call a cell, dorm and/or other phone. It probably does other marginally-useful things as well.
I posted a similar response somewhere else in the comments, but this decision is pretty upsetting.
This looks like a pretty thinly veiled attempt to "juke the stats" and save some money at the same time. They don't have to administer a few relatively unpopular exams, and they get to claim an improvement in demographic equality.
This seems to be the direction of United States education as a whole. In the quest for "equality," the solution seems to be to just lower standards and opportunities across the board, instead of examining the problems that leave minority-dominated schools underfunded and higher-level programs overwhelmingly monochromatic.
I see somewhere else that "demographic concerns" were the primary motivator, and that there were very few "minority" students taking the 4 removed exams.
While this is all framed as part of the College Board's efforts to reach out to minorities, I'm not sure that simply removing the courses that fewer minorities take is any kind of real answer. Scratch that, I'm entirely sure that it's not. This just seems like an effort to skew the statistics to show more equality than really exists. Treating the symptoms, not the problem.
Another reason to dislike my former school system, which grades on a scale where all the cutoffs are shifted 4 percentage points higher (94 and up is an A, etc.), and AP courses counted as a +.5. The other systems in the area all use the standard 90,80,70... scale and give 1.0 for "honors" or AP classes.
The counselors and universities claim that they take these differences into account and scale the GPA accordingly, but I'm skeptical. That first impression of seeing the reported number counts for a lot, I suspect.
Well, I took it after the switch to Java, and the fish were still around. It's not an awful way to teach some of the fundamentals of how the inheritance hierarchy works, but it just looks so stupid. I've never really been a fan of Karel the robot either, so whatever...
My school didn't even offer a computer science A class. I suppose you could've taken the normal (AB) class and then sat for the A exam, but I don't think I knew anyone who did that. At my college, a 4 or 5 on the AB exam gets you out of just the most basic Java-based "intro to programming" class. The class you end up taking instead is basically the same type of material as the less-trivial portions of AP CS.
Well, you seem to be assuming that they'd be writing this linked-list class in C++. If so, I'd agree, if you take people who've only learned Java and tell them to implement a data structure in C++, the results won't be pretty, unless of course you teach them some of the fundamentals of C++-style memory management.
Now, if they were making this list in Java, I don't really think they'd have much of a problem...
I took AP CS AB the first year it switched to being taught in Java, my initial college CS course was data structures in Java, then C++ the next year, and now it's operating systems using C, and human-computer interaction where we're mostly using C#.
Well, if anything, Acrobat Reader is more precise of a name. It reads Acrobat files. Seems pretty clear to me.
Also, remember: Meryl's CODEC frequency is on the back of the disc case.