I had that, and it was indeed impressive -- and not just the programming for the game itself. I learned a few tricks studying its code.
Your linked article, though -- the computer was buggy? A hack and a kludge, perhaps, but impressive kludges and hacks. The only flaws I saw in it were the poorly fitting expansion modules (not needed for the chess game) and the membrane keyboard. But fuggy? What was buggy about it?
I wrote a two player battle tanks game for it in a couple hundred bytes of machine code, but it was nothing compared to that chess game.
If you have your hands in the "proper" position at the time of impact it means you panicked and slammed on the skids without trying to steer your way out of the emergency, unless you're t-boned by someone running a red light. If that happens you're likely in deep medical trouble anyway. So it doesn't really matter where your hands are on the wheel.
That said, the position of the armrests in my car make the preferred 8:00 and 4:00 the most comfortable place to hold the wheel. So if your hands are in teh "wrong" place, blame the engineers who designed the car.
When it comes to magic, there's no such thing as a "cheat". Magic is nothing but cheats. That's part of the draw of it, the "how in the hell did he do THAT?" feeling, which is why magic is always better live than on camera.
Which is why technique is supposed to be and should remain secret. It's no fun if you're in teh audience and know how the magician did his trick.
When I was a younger teen I was into magic, probably started around age 9 or so until I was maybe fifteen. I read every book I could find on the subject, including half a dozen biographies of Houdini and had quite a few tricks of my own. This guy will be ostracised by the magic community.
Someone needs to register both fuckbook.com and fuckfacebook.com. I suggest we stop calling it "facebook" and simply refer to both it and Mark Zuckerberg as "fuckface."
I'm glad I never signed up. Fuck facebook, and fuck Mark Fuckerberg.
Also two of Asimov's Foundation novels. But wikipedia has a more real-world meaning:
The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.
The scientific investigation of the Gaia hypothesis focuses on observing how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms contribute to the stability of global temperature, ocean salinity, oxygen in the atmosphere and other factors of habitability in a preferred homeostasis. The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by the chemist James Lovelock and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. Initially received with hostility by the scientific community, it is now studied in the disciplines of geophysiology and Earth system science, and some of its principles have been adopted in fields like biogeochemistry and systems ecology. This ecological hypothesis has also inspired analogies and various interpretations in social sciences, politics, and religion under a vague philosophy and movement.
Whether or not files are "property", the computer the files reside on certainly is. Searching your computer is no different than searching your physical file cabnet.
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
The nature of the copyrighted work
The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work
I'd say it would be fair use in the US, and IINM it's a US company that's suing. Especially considering "The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work." The effect of the Hobbit pub's "infringemet" is selling more copies of the movie.
Sad, really, and just one more reason we need to get rid of this entire BS charade we call "intellectual property" ASAP
The worst thing is, the concept of "intellectual property" is a very new one. I'd never heard the term before the Bono Act was dry. Prior to that, copyrights were, in fact, limited in time as our Constitution specifies.
Of all the things wrong with the extreme length of copyright, besides the destruction of our cultural heritage (imagine if patents lasted as long, how technological progress would suffer), is the idea that one outright owns what one writes, and that the obscenely long terms have some calling for copyright's abolition.
If the candidate you vote for isn't one of the top two finishers, you have wasted your vote.
That makes no sense, can you explain? It isn't the olympics with a gold and silver medal, there is one winner and four losers. What difference does it make if your candidate finishes second or fifth? You still voted for a loser.
The faster the shutter speed the less blurring. If an object moving on the screen doesn't blur between frames from one position to the next, it looks unnatural.
using aspirin to keep you from getting cancer does need a suitably powered high quality study
I agree, it does need more study.
You can tell if it's going to trash your GI tract in a couple of weeks.
Not so. I had a friend a few years ago who got a hole in her intestine from daily high doses of Naproxin, which has the same effect (good and bad) as aspirin. Ironically, she'd been taking the Naproxin for stomach pain.
IMHO Mac and Linux are more secure just because virus writers haven't bothered spending as much time making viruses for those platforms.
Yes, that is one reason. But since there aare no Mac or Linux viruses (yet?) in the wild, whatever the reason, Mac and Linux don't need AV.
I ended up having to figure out which flag inside of the graphics card driver I had to change to get it to be recognized. Not something your average user is going to be able to, or is going to be interested in solving.
You're going to have issues like whenever you install an OS or hardware. I've had those same kinds of issues with Windows. The folks that are immune are Mac users and Windows users who buy a PC with an OEM installed OS who never change OSes or hardware.
not to mention you have to have another point of access to the internet to read manuals while you try to figure out what you need to do
Yes, that is a real problem. When I installed XP, the first patch hosed my network connection, replacing its perfectly good NIC driver with one that didn't work at all. The modem was on the floor so I figured the cat knocked it off and broke it, the ISP's help desk said they could see the modem but not the computer so my NIC was probably bad. I tried spare cables just in case that was the problem, and was set to buy a NIC. I had to reinstall XP because after I installed the CD burning software I continually got a message on boot that the burner software cause instability and was disabled, and it wouldn't let me uninstall the software. Reinstalling XP worked. It took quite a bit of thought and fiddling to figure out what had gone wrong.
My Win 7 box hasn't crashed yet
I had Win 7 crash on an Acer notebook last year, but it wasn't MS's fault; that model had a hardware glitch where if it was set to hibernate on battery and do nothing on mains power, and closed the lid and then plugged it in before all the lights stopped flashing it would go into a loop, with the only way out being to unplug it and pull out the battery. It had the same issue with Linux, although the Winndows side got corrupted so it wouldn't boot. But again, it was a hardware problem, not software. The new one I have now (that one was stolen) doesn't have that problem.
I never had problesm wih crashes in 98 or XP, either, except again because of hardware; I had a flaky power supply that often caused XP to crash. I'd been cursing MS, because Linux seemed rock solid, until it froze in Linux and wouldn't restart. But you can't blame MS on a hardware problem.
I CAN blame them for replacing a perfectly good network driver with one that was completely nonfunctional. I don't expect your Win 7 box to crash, especially if it's OEM. Excep for the Acer hardware problem 7 hasn't crashed on me once.
It could possibly be that what causes you to take the aspirin (pain, fever, heart disease) prevents cancer, and taking aspirin is just a side effect of the cause of the reduced cancer risk, and not the cause itself.
However, it's probably likely that it's the aspirin itself. But you would need more study to be sure.
Spin doesn't decrease gravity's pull, but it counteracts it, giving it the same effect -- lower measured weight at the equator, no effect on mass of either object.
Prostitution, gambling, second-hand sales, some smuggling (importing movies and games), prostitution, some child pornography (manga), currency trading, copyright protected media, and prostitution.
First, tylenol isn't an NSAID. Second, wikipedia says that aspirin only affects the liver of 20% of children who take it in high doses. If aspirin destroyed your liver mine would have been gone in 1971 when I took huge doses daily for arthritis; it was the only effective drug (for me) back then. I'm amazed I never got a stomach ulcer.
Acetaminophen, otoh, has a bad effect on the liver even in lower doses, and in everyone regardless of age.
There are far better reasons to avoid aspirin; it isn't for everyone. But liver damage from low doses isn't one of the risks.
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I had that, and it was indeed impressive -- and not just the programming for the game itself. I learned a few tricks studying its code.
Your linked article, though -- the computer was buggy? A hack and a kludge, perhaps, but impressive kludges and hacks. The only flaws I saw in it were the poorly fitting expansion modules (not needed for the chess game) and the membrane keyboard. But fuggy? What was buggy about it?
I wrote a two player battle tanks game for it in a couple hundred bytes of machine code, but it was nothing compared to that chess game.
If you have your hands in the "proper" position at the time of impact it means you panicked and slammed on the skids without trying to steer your way out of the emergency, unless you're t-boned by someone running a red light. If that happens you're likely in deep medical trouble anyway. So it doesn't really matter where your hands are on the wheel.
That said, the position of the armrests in my car make the preferred 8:00 and 4:00 the most comfortable place to hold the wheel. So if your hands are in teh "wrong" place, blame the engineers who designed the car.
When it comes to magic, there's no such thing as a "cheat". Magic is nothing but cheats. That's part of the draw of it, the "how in the hell did he do THAT?" feeling, which is why magic is always better live than on camera.
Which is why technique is supposed to be and should remain secret. It's no fun if you're in teh audience and know how the magician did his trick.
When I was a younger teen I was into magic, probably started around age 9 or so until I was maybe fifteen. I read every book I could find on the subject, including half a dozen biographies of Houdini and had quite a few tricks of my own. This guy will be ostracised by the magic community.
Someone needs to register both fuckbook.com and fuckfacebook.com. I suggest we stop calling it "facebook" and simply refer to both it and Mark Zuckerberg as "fuckface."
I'm glad I never signed up. Fuck facebook, and fuck Mark Fuckerberg.
at least that's what I learned from Final Fantasy
Also two of Asimov's Foundation novels. But wikipedia has a more real-world meaning:
You left out a word, did you mean "There's a State election, all the weirdo's followers are coming out of the woodwork?" Or did I guess wrong?
Whether or not files are "property", the computer the files reside on certainly is. Searching your computer is no different than searching your physical file cabnet.
Nothing in there says "you may use small clips, stills, and other unique characteristics from privately owned works to advertise your pub"
From the US Copyright Office:
I'd say it would be fair use in the US, and IINM it's a US company that's suing. Especially considering "The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work." The effect of the Hobbit pub's "infringemet" is selling more copies of the movie.
Also, last year was the first time since 1949 that we exported more oil than we imported.
Sad, really, and just one more reason we need to get rid of this entire BS charade we call "intellectual property" ASAP
The worst thing is, the concept of "intellectual property" is a very new one. I'd never heard the term before the Bono Act was dry. Prior to that, copyrights were, in fact, limited in time as our Constitution specifies.
Of all the things wrong with the extreme length of copyright, besides the destruction of our cultural heritage (imagine if patents lasted as long, how technological progress would suffer), is the idea that one outright owns what one writes, and that the obscenely long terms have some calling for copyright's abolition.
I wonder why you got downmodded? It's a true statement. In fact, sometimes you don't even need a badge, just be on the neighborhood watch.
Well, you can give me a free shit sandwich and I won't eat that, either. If they want my eyeballs they're going to have to clean up their act.
If the candidate you vote for isn't one of the top two finishers, you have wasted your vote.
That makes no sense, can you explain? It isn't the olympics with a gold and silver medal, there is one winner and four losers. What difference does it make if your candidate finishes second or fifth? You still voted for a loser.
The faster the shutter speed the less blurring. If an object moving on the screen doesn't blur between frames from one position to the next, it looks unnatural.
using aspirin to keep you from getting cancer does need a suitably powered high quality study
I agree, it does need more study.
You can tell if it's going to trash your GI tract in a couple of weeks.
Not so. I had a friend a few years ago who got a hole in her intestine from daily high doses of Naproxin, which has the same effect (good and bad) as aspirin. Ironically, she'd been taking the Naproxin for stomach pain.
IMHO Mac and Linux are more secure just because virus writers haven't bothered spending as much time making viruses for those platforms.
Yes, that is one reason. But since there aare no Mac or Linux viruses (yet?) in the wild, whatever the reason, Mac and Linux don't need AV.
I ended up having to figure out which flag inside of the graphics card driver I had to change to get it to be recognized. Not something your average user is going to be able to, or is going to be interested in solving.
You're going to have issues like whenever you install an OS or hardware. I've had those same kinds of issues with Windows. The folks that are immune are Mac users and Windows users who buy a PC with an OEM installed OS who never change OSes or hardware.
not to mention you have to have another point of access to the internet to read manuals while you try to figure out what you need to do
Yes, that is a real problem. When I installed XP, the first patch hosed my network connection, replacing its perfectly good NIC driver with one that didn't work at all. The modem was on the floor so I figured the cat knocked it off and broke it, the ISP's help desk said they could see the modem but not the computer so my NIC was probably bad. I tried spare cables just in case that was the problem, and was set to buy a NIC. I had to reinstall XP because after I installed the CD burning software I continually got a message on boot that the burner software cause instability and was disabled, and it wouldn't let me uninstall the software. Reinstalling XP worked. It took quite a bit of thought and fiddling to figure out what had gone wrong.
My Win 7 box hasn't crashed yet
I had Win 7 crash on an Acer notebook last year, but it wasn't MS's fault; that model had a hardware glitch where if it was set to hibernate on battery and do nothing on mains power, and closed the lid and then plugged it in before all the lights stopped flashing it would go into a loop, with the only way out being to unplug it and pull out the battery. It had the same issue with Linux, although the Winndows side got corrupted so it wouldn't boot. But again, it was a hardware problem, not software. The new one I have now (that one was stolen) doesn't have that problem.
I never had problesm wih crashes in 98 or XP, either, except again because of hardware; I had a flaky power supply that often caused XP to crash. I'd been cursing MS, because Linux seemed rock solid, until it froze in Linux and wouldn't restart. But you can't blame MS on a hardware problem.
I CAN blame them for replacing a perfectly good network driver with one that was completely nonfunctional. I don't expect your Win 7 box to crash, especially if it's OEM. Excep for the Acer hardware problem 7 hasn't crashed on me once.
Naproxen Sodium is not to be taken daily for a long term or it can cause kidney problems.
Thank you, I didn't know that. Glad I don't hurt every day.
All it takes is a kitchen knife, simply quarter the full dose with it and you have a dose that costs 1/4 of the high dose.
Well, we're a little off topic here but I have karma to burn, so here you go.
It could possibly be that what causes you to take the aspirin (pain, fever, heart disease) prevents cancer, and taking aspirin is just a side effect of the cause of the reduced cancer risk, and not the cause itself.
However, it's probably likely that it's the aspirin itself. But you would need more study to be sure.
Spin doesn't decrease gravity's pull, but it counteracts it, giving it the same effect -- lower measured weight at the equator, no effect on mass of either object.
Prostitution, gambling, second-hand sales, some smuggling (importing movies and games), prostitution, some child pornography (manga), currency trading, copyright protected media, and prostitution.
I take it you like prostitution.
First, tylenol isn't an NSAID. Second, wikipedia says that aspirin only affects the liver of 20% of children who take it in high doses. If aspirin destroyed your liver mine would have been gone in 1971 when I took huge doses daily for arthritis; it was the only effective drug (for me) back then. I'm amazed I never got a stomach ulcer.
Acetaminophen, otoh, has a bad effect on the liver even in lower doses, and in everyone regardless of age.
There are far better reasons to avoid aspirin; it isn't for everyone. But liver damage from low doses isn't one of the risks.
Stephen Hawking Disagrees. And so do Rority and Gumal.
Some people still visit brick and mortor stores.