So JRR's kids aren't entitled to make a fortune off of their dad's ideas? What if their dad was a master sculptor instead of an author? Would you be okay with them inheriting his statues, and then making a fortune selling THOSE?
For the record, I agree with you. But it's for emotional reasons; I couldn't really make a logical case for allowing your kids to inherit physical property, but not intellectual property.
Honestly, (and I don't know how to codify this) I don't think anybody in life should be allowed to become a millionaire by default. I get so mad (not JUST jealous) when I see people acting entitled to perpetual mega-wealth just because of who their parents were. This is AMERICA! You should live the AMERICAN dream, not the medieval European one!
Ya know, I've been kicking this idea around for a while, and this discussion is as good a place as any to bring it up...
Why on earth do we still have a screen that says "Press start"?!?!? If you ask yourself, why don't any games say "press start 6 times to begin", the answer is obvious. But why do I even have to press it once?
Why do games still have unskippable cut scenes? I can understand an "are you sure?" prompt, or requiring two simultaneous buttons, but c'mon! People either want to skip them, or they don't. If you offer a choice, you've managed to please everybody all of the time- a rare thing to do! Seize the opportunity!
And, heck, on a semi-related tangent- why do TV shows start with a musical number? What does that DO? It's cool once, but from then on, it's just a marker for people who want to press the "record now" button on their VCRs instead of scheduling it. Some shows like Scrubs have taken to making shorter and shorter songs.... Can nobody leap to the obvious conclusion, that if shorter is better, none is best? Okay, show me music over the end credits. But the crappy music video at the beginning is an anachronism that somebody needs to reexamine.
I've not noticed anything "considerably" broken with BIg daddies. I just see them as spawning and searching out the sisters. If you already got all the sisters in the level, then the big daddies just go on looking. It adds texture. Hehe... Poor choice of words. He meant that the collectible Big Daddy figurines that come with the collectors edition frequently come with a piece broken off.;-)
1.) I popped wii sports in first thing, and tried all the events. Last, I tried baseball, and I hit a line drive to the right outfield that caused the system to lock up and emit a horrible buzz. A power cycle fixed it, and the problem never happened again.
2.) I signed in to the Wii Store, and for some reason (heavy launch-day usage?) they weren't responding. I gave it 20 minutes on the "Connecting..." screen, before verifying that although I could move the pointer, no buttons would do anything. It took a power cycle to turn it back into a useable system.
3.) It's a bit disingenuous to say that the system supports 480p, when that resolution requires a $30 cable that nobody will have in stock until mid december. And it's a bit disingenuous to say that the system can connect to a wired lan, when that requires a $25 adapter that won't be available until mid january!
Now the good-
1.) Sports and Zelda are a blast. I got stuck in Zelda's forest temple, but that's nobody's fault but my own.;-) Seriously, this thing is really fun to play, and my gut tells me that I'll still think so once the novelty wears off.
Yeah, but it's not really Tolkien's version of The Hobbit- Uwe is adapting the video game version, because it has more action and less singing and dancing.
Yes, and Gilbert Gottfried as the ring. In order to make the movie more accessible to people who haven't seen the LOTR trilogy, the One Ring will be doing voice-over narration on middle earth and all its creatures.
Well, close... They do patent a "how", but the "what" is "buying something online". And then the how is "with but a single click!". This is one of the dumbest patents, but you'd better believe it was written by a big fat team of competent attorneys.
I don't think that's what he meant- PHYSICS aren't limited by our minds, rather, he was saying that OUR IDEAS about physics are limited by our minds.
I.E., our sun will continue to burn regardless of whether our intelligence observes it; however, what it really IS may be limited by our understanding. Perhaps a trans-temporal being would view it differently, since a creature that is aware of all time simultaneously would not be particularly interested in one more thing which has a beginning, an end, and a completely defined life. Just as a dog, while understanding it should not be stared at, may conceive of it as the "great warm thing".
To the dog, it IS the great warm thing. To the human, it IS a ball of burning gas under immense pressure.
Goldang fence-sitters. If you can't pick a side, it's because you don't have the grapes. Maybe we could grow you some, if you ignorant religious zealots didn't ban medical science. Or maybe you could just harvest a pair by killing somebody's baby- you people don't mind killing babies, do you?
See? I don't even know which position to set up as a straw man! The trolls will starve.:-(
I think a lot of what he did was passive, and a lot was extremely active. In other words, flexible. But as to your specific example, no, he was pretty clear when directly asked.
Matthew 26:63- The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Oh, I have exactly the experience you were asking for. Back in 7th grade, I signed up for "the internet", quickly learned there was something better (although I've never found an easier warez scene than AOL had in those days*), and so we cancelled our account and switched to some generic dialup service. Aside from the hassle of disconnecting our account, I WAS allowed to transfer my AOL name onto the free AIM!
(*used to be, when one AOL subscriber forwarded an email file attachment to, say, 4 other AOLians, it was instantaneous, since it as just a disk copy from AOL's pov. So you could go into these chat rooms, warez1, warez2, etc..., say type "list packages", type "get (photoshop|msword|midi-composer)", and IMMEDIATELY begin downloading the email that just arrived in your inbox. way cool)
In astronomical (or geological) terms, "smooth" almost never equates to new. Full of depressions (craters, etc) implies that it lacks a protective atmosphere to ablate the majority of meteoroids, and lots of convex formations (mountains, etc) means it's geologically active.
For an object with a decent atmosphere, I expect smoothness implies the OPPOSITE of "new" - this thing is so old that the mountains have blown away.
You listed.as twice. I'm beginning to think your list of suggested new TLDs was just typed off the top of your head, with no thought to appropriateness or practicality.
What would you file under.domain? and.TLD is meta-confusing!
Your stupid suggestions aside, I propose a new.spam domain, and all spammers would have to use it. Then I could block it all! Muahahaha!
Read the plotlines for some of the other movies by the same director as half-life, something tells me this isn't going to be in the same vein as Doom or Resident Evil:
The Matrices : Follows the adventures of aspiring screenwriter Neato Ampersand in the virtual labyrinth of the Los Angeles Film Industry. Neato attends Hollywood parties and takes the requisite meetings with powerful literary Agents, yet he cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong... that the world around him is a reality-based illusion... that what he really wants to do is act. After a disturbing encounter with an Agent, Neato meets McTrinity and McMorpheus, a pair of indie film rebels who show him the truth: that Los Angeles does not exist.
Target Audience 9.1 : An alien race bent on invading the Earth first gathers a focus group to study the weaknesses and strengths of the human race.
Love, Ltd. : When a gay asian brother and sister decide to "come out" at dinner on the very same night the unexpected happens.
I agree with the parent, it is entirely possible that the man is slower on his feet than when he's at a desk. But I CRACKED UP when I saw this was modded +5 Funny.
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Excuse me? Not to be offensive, but you don't play with very competent people.
I went to a xbox party where even the noobs were sniping with the pistol when targets were so far away they were just pixels.
Halo is just as susceptible to bad physics as any other game. You want realism? Try Doom 3!
Just kidding. Games aren't realistic, and Halo less than most.
Slashdot Mirror
Some guy bought a motion-sensitive webcam, pointed it out his window, and set it up to email him whenever it took a picture.
Except he misspelled his own email address, and the images started coming to me, a complete stranger.
I stitched all the shots together into this time-lapsed movie:
http://knodi.com/images/floral_park/time_lapse.gif
I think I used to work for you. Don? Is that you?
So JRR's kids aren't entitled to make a fortune off of their dad's ideas? What if their dad was a master sculptor instead of an author? Would you be okay with them inheriting his statues, and then making a fortune selling THOSE?
For the record, I agree with you. But it's for emotional reasons; I couldn't really make a logical case for allowing your kids to inherit physical property, but not intellectual property.
Honestly, (and I don't know how to codify this) I don't think anybody in life should be allowed to become a millionaire by default. I get so mad (not JUST jealous) when I see people acting entitled to perpetual mega-wealth just because of who their parents were. This is AMERICA! You should live the AMERICAN dream, not the medieval European one!
Ya know, I've been kicking this idea around for a while, and this discussion is as good a place as any to bring it up...
Why on earth do we still have a screen that says "Press start"?!?!? If you ask yourself, why don't any games say "press start 6 times to begin", the answer is obvious. But why do I even have to press it once?
Why do games still have unskippable cut scenes? I can understand an "are you sure?" prompt, or requiring two simultaneous buttons, but c'mon! People either want to skip them, or they don't. If you offer a choice, you've managed to please everybody all of the time- a rare thing to do! Seize the opportunity!
And, heck, on a semi-related tangent- why do TV shows start with a musical number? What does that DO? It's cool once, but from then on, it's just a marker for people who want to press the "record now" button on their VCRs instead of scheduling it. Some shows like Scrubs have taken to making shorter and shorter songs.... Can nobody leap to the obvious conclusion, that if shorter is better, none is best? Okay, show me music over the end credits. But the crappy music video at the beginning is an anachronism that somebody needs to reexamine.
I've heard of these guys, I think the product is being branded as "IP Freely"
No, gerrymandering isn't a cheat code. It's a 'sploit. There's a distinct difference between hacking the system, and merely exploiting its weaknesses.
(anyone else think that it's about time they release the government 2.0 patch, though?)
First, the bad:
;-) Seriously, this thing is really fun to play, and my gut tells me that I'll still think so once the novelty wears off.
1.) I popped wii sports in first thing, and tried all the events. Last, I tried baseball, and I hit a line drive to the right outfield that caused the system to lock up and emit a horrible buzz. A power cycle fixed it, and the problem never happened again.
2.) I signed in to the Wii Store, and for some reason (heavy launch-day usage?) they weren't responding. I gave it 20 minutes on the "Connecting..." screen, before verifying that although I could move the pointer, no buttons would do anything. It took a power cycle to turn it back into a useable system.
3.) It's a bit disingenuous to say that the system supports 480p, when that resolution requires a $30 cable that nobody will have in stock until mid december. And it's a bit disingenuous to say that the system can connect to a wired lan, when that requires a $25 adapter that won't be available until mid january!
Now the good-
1.) Sports and Zelda are a blast. I got stuck in Zelda's forest temple, but that's nobody's fault but my own.
Yeah, but it's not really Tolkien's version of The Hobbit- Uwe is adapting the video game version, because it has more action and less singing and dancing.
Yes, and Gilbert Gottfried as the ring. In order to make the movie more accessible to people who haven't seen the LOTR trilogy, the One Ring will be doing voice-over narration on middle earth and all its creatures.
Well, close... They do patent a "how", but the "what" is "buying something online". And then the how is "with but a single click!". This is one of the dumbest patents, but you'd better believe it was written by a big fat team of competent attorneys.
I don't think that's what he meant- PHYSICS aren't limited by our minds, rather, he was saying that OUR IDEAS about physics are limited by our minds.
I.E., our sun will continue to burn regardless of whether our intelligence observes it; however, what it really IS may be limited by our understanding. Perhaps a trans-temporal being would view it differently, since a creature that is aware of all time simultaneously would not be particularly interested in one more thing which has a beginning, an end, and a completely defined life. Just as a dog, while understanding it should not be stared at, may conceive of it as the "great warm thing".
To the dog, it IS the great warm thing. To the human, it IS a ball of burning gas under immense pressure.
Goldang fence-sitters. If you can't pick a side, it's because you don't have the grapes. Maybe we could grow you some, if you ignorant religious zealots didn't ban medical science. Or maybe you could just harvest a pair by killing somebody's baby- you people don't mind killing babies, do you?
:-(
See? I don't even know which position to set up as a straw man! The trolls will starve.
Not necessarily. In Pascal, that does what a layperson would think.
I think a lot of what he did was passive, and a lot was extremely active. In other words, flexible. But as to your specific example, no, he was pretty clear when directly asked.
Matthew 26:63-
The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
Yes, and also because the overwhelming majority of handicapped people have legs (you insensitive clod).
However, none of the leggy blind slashdotters will be able to defend themselves to you, thanks to this new craptcha thing.
Try this one, too:
http://1089053032/
Convert any IP to an 8-digit hex #, concatenate the digits, and convert back to decimal.
They're called "captchas", a product of Carnegie Mellon
Oh, I have exactly the experience you were asking for. Back in 7th grade, I signed up for "the internet", quickly learned there was something better (although I've never found an easier warez scene than AOL had in those days*), and so we cancelled our account and switched to some generic dialup service. Aside from the hassle of disconnecting our account, I WAS allowed to transfer my AOL name onto the free AIM!
(*used to be, when one AOL subscriber forwarded an email file attachment to, say, 4 other AOLians, it was instantaneous, since it as just a disk copy from AOL's pov. So you could go into these chat rooms, warez1, warez2, etc..., say type "list packages", type "get (photoshop|msword|midi-composer)", and IMMEDIATELY begin downloading the email that just arrived in your inbox. way cool)
In astronomical (or geological) terms, "smooth" almost never equates to new. Full of depressions (craters, etc) implies that it lacks a protective atmosphere to ablate the majority of meteoroids, and lots of convex formations (mountains, etc) means it's geologically active.
For an object with a decent atmosphere, I expect smoothness implies the OPPOSITE of "new" - this thing is so old that the mountains have blown away.
Of course, IANAPS (planetary scientist).
You listed .as twice. I'm beginning to think your list of suggested new TLDs was just typed off the top of your head, with no thought to appropriateness or practicality.
.domain? and .TLD is meta-confusing!
.spam domain, and all spammers would have to use it. Then I could block it all! Muahahaha!
What would you file under
Your stupid suggestions aside, I propose a new
Read the plotlines for some of the other movies by the same director as half-life, something tells me this isn't going to be in the same vein as Doom or Resident Evil :
The Matrices : Follows the adventures of aspiring screenwriter Neato Ampersand in the virtual labyrinth of the Los Angeles Film Industry. Neato attends Hollywood parties and takes the requisite meetings with powerful literary Agents, yet he cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong... that the world around him is a reality-based illusion... that what he really wants to do is act. After a disturbing encounter with an Agent, Neato meets McTrinity and McMorpheus, a pair of indie film rebels who show him the truth: that Los Angeles does not exist.
Target Audience 9.1 : An alien race bent on invading the Earth first gathers a focus group to study the weaknesses and strengths of the human race.
Love, Ltd. : When a gay asian brother and sister decide to "come out" at dinner on the very same night the unexpected happens.
Good lord, did it take you a full hour to type that paragraph? Or are you watching it on fast-forward?
I agree with the parent, it is entirely possible that the man is slower on his feet than when he's at a desk. But I CRACKED UP when I saw this was modded +5 Funny.
Excuse me? Not to be offensive, but you don't play with very competent people.
I went to a xbox party where even the noobs were sniping with the pistol when targets were so far away they were just pixels.
Halo is just as susceptible to bad physics as any other game. You want realism? Try Doom 3!
Just kidding. Games aren't realistic, and Halo less than most.