He said at the main start screen. You know, where no fps are occurring.
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It seems clear to me that Minecraft ignores the CPU halt command and just loops as fast as possible all the time like some 1990s DOS program. I make our kids quit right out of the program when they aren't using it to avoid the power drain of this lunacy.
Some years back, a friend and I were reclined in the backyard looking straight up. We saw a light that expanded in a circular fashion to about half the size of the full moon, then it went away just as fast. I tried to search on google to see if anyone else in the area had noticed it, but could not figure out how to type such a thing into google. To this day I do not know for sure what it was. That night we assumed it was a meteor that was burning through the atmosphere and headed straight for us, that fizzled out (and I found this disconcerting).
I was mainly curious how common this phenomenon was.
The entrails quote appears to be attributed to Jean Meslier
"I would like -- and this would be the last and most ardent of my wishes -- I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest".
"the move", as you put it, is based on how wide the intersection is, and the speed limit. A small intersection on a 50mph road gets a shorter yellow light that a huge intersection on a 25mph road. Unless the city/county/cops are trying to mess with you.
I've got my own pet peeves, of course. Two of the text editors I used to use... could split the screen window as many times as I wanted (e.g., I could have five or six slices of a file showing)...Microsoft Word can only split the screen in two.
Well, that is true for WinWord.exe, but not for Word.exe (i.e. Microsoft Word for DOS) that supports up to 8 window splits at once. As much as I loved Bob Wallace's program, once I tried Word.exe (version 2), I never went back (or switched to anything else in the next 20 years).
Have you ever noticed what happens to Jeopardy contestants when the question is at all scientific? It is frankly embarrassing. They know a ton about most everything, except basic science.
lot of mark-up and formatting information, and then most of the text
This was true in Word for DOS. WinWord started making it a lot more complicated than that. Capsule summary: a document is now a file system.
while in Word pieces can remain, and all of a sudden text starts turning bold, or some other style, when you don't expect it.
No. In word, formatting is tied to the paragraph mark (PM) at the end of the paragraph. Delete the PM for paragraph #1 and all the text, etc. in that paragraph will inherit the formatting from paragraph #2. Hint 1: click that backward "P" on the format toolbar to reveal where the PMs are (I still use Office 2000 so have no clue how this is done in more recent versions of Office). Hint 2: copy the PM of the paragraph whose format you like and then past it at the end of the paragraph that got messed up -- problem solved.
Disclaimer: I've used WordPerfect
Disclaimer: I still use Word 5.0 for DOS as my main word processor.
A few weeks back, I finally got around to sending back the DVD that I had been holding for about the last six months, having never once been hassled, harassed, or charged extra by Netflix for holding onto it for so long.
Nobody worked harder to assist other people on the Novell mailing list. About as selfless and brilliant as anyone you will ever meet. And even wilder looking in person.
I am surprised at all the "Avatar in 3D" comments, but none (on the first comment page anyway) about Jackass 3D.
It was obvious I would never want to see a movie in 3D, but Jackass 3D seemed like something that would justify it (and I was paid to take someone to see it so had nothing to lose). So I went, I saw and I strongly disliked the 3D "effect". It was tiresome to look at, took me completely out of the movie, parts of one's field of view are fuzzy/distorted/etc., colors messed up, glasses don't work well on top of my glasses (and no I don't have or ever want contacts -- I like having something that protects my eyes while also giving me sight).
So, my testing is over and I'll never watch a 3D video on any subject again. Off to read the next thread...
When I worked at the U. of B.C. I was told to take a way old computer to SERF, the campus recycling center for them to re-purpose. A short time later I got a call that it had been "stolen". I never bothered to take anything to them again.
If I am a PHB at Google, I would not want people trying to get their hands on discarded hard drives as it would be happening on company time but for attempted private gain. As soon as a drive is shredded, geek interest (and lost work productivity) ends.
What doesn't that shirt say "Killed My Television"?
The original bumper sticker, "Kill Your Television", was a suggestion to others. "Killed My Television" would say that the wearer acted on that suggestion. "Killed Your Television" sounds aggressive and PETA-like.
You would pick Vancouver of all places. Being born there, I'll weigh in.
Vancouver has the worst roads of any Canadian or American city I have ever lived in, or visited.
What makes Vancouver roads so bad? How about the slowest speeds, on average, of any city I've driven in. Try commuting daily at 50kph (30mph) on Marine drive, a major artery that connects Surrey, New Westminster & Burnaby to Vancouver. And yes this street has cops giving out speeding tickets!
Or how about the narrowest streets, with fewest lanes per road on average. The reason for this is that (1) 'Stumptown' is surrounded by water to the west, mountains to the north, the US border to the south, leaving only the east for the 'burbs and (2) it was established a hundred years before the car, so road widths are buggy-sized. You can get a similar taste of this in San Diego, but only if you drive right next to the water. Anywhere else in San Diego or any normal city and you get interstates and bypass roads doing their job. Well, imagine a lack of those type of streets throughout the city and voila, you have Vancouver.
Or picture this. A million commuters, literally, barrelling down the 2, count them 2, lanes of our "number one" highway into Vancouver. I kid you not. On a "highway" that dead ends into Cassiar, with a couple of intersections that ICBC (the Insurance Corporation of B.C.) studied because they were in the Top 10 deadliest in the province for some mysterious reason.
Vancouver is a shining example of how not to do things. When in doubt, throw up another traffic light. Whatever you do, do not create through roads that have favorable traffic lights (i.e. 2 minutes for main traffic, 15 or 20 seconds for side traffic). Instead, throw up traffic lights everywhere and then rave about how everyone walks. Small wonder they all walk or bike, they would road rage each other to death if they had to drive!
Vancouver is a parking lot that people love to walk and bike in. Fortunately I've not been there in 7 years. I imagine the traffic has only got worse.
No good dump on Vancouver traffic would be complete without ripping a good one at le piece de resistance that is the Lions Gate bridge. This 3-lane wonder is about a million years old and is one of only two ways to get _through_ Vancouver and on to the ferries that would take you up the coast, or to Vancouver Island. 16 hours a day this bridge has cars parked on it. The parking lot direction changes every few minutes via overhead red-green traffic lights. There are no lane dividers at all, of course, so head-on collisions are a viable way to off yourself. So after 75 or whatever years they are finally thinking they need to replace it. Can you guess what with? A 5-lane bridge that will switch back and forth like its predecessor. You can't make this stuff up.
I could also talk about the ethnic nature of Vancouver, and how the largest ethnic group has, easily, the worst drivers one could imagine. But then you might think I am just racist.
BTW, those random pictures you posted are truly hilarious.
Here is a random one for New York and another for Tokyo to add to your file of green cities.
Oh, did I mention the Deas Island Tunnel? Gotcha! I could have lived almost for FREE, but on the wrong side of that tunnel. I bought a condo downtown instead.
Market forces don't significantly drive down prices until there are THREE competitors
True on roads as well. 2-lane (each way) highways are often choked by the idiot in the fast lane. A lot harder to do that on a 3-lanes each way highway.
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It seems clear to me that Minecraft ignores the CPU halt command and just loops as fast as possible all the time like some 1990s DOS program. I make our kids quit right out of the program when they aren't using it to avoid the power drain of this lunacy.
With its credibility in the shitter, it's what the people who control the government wanted in the first place.
FTFY
I can't believe I turned on Javascript to view a 404 page. Worth it, btw.
Some years back, a friend and I were reclined in the backyard looking straight up. We saw a light that expanded in a circular fashion to about half the size of the full moon, then it went away just as fast. I tried to search on google to see if anyone else in the area had noticed it, but could not figure out how to type such a thing into google. To this day I do not know for sure what it was. That night we assumed it was a meteor that was burning through the atmosphere and headed straight for us, that fizzled out (and I found this disconcerting).
I was mainly curious how common this phenomenon was.
"the move", as you put it, is based on how wide the intersection is, and the speed limit. A small intersection on a 50mph road gets a shorter yellow light that a huge intersection on a 25mph road. Unless the city/county/cops are trying to mess with you.
It is tout de suite.
Well, that is true for WinWord.exe, but not for Word.exe (i.e. Microsoft Word for DOS) that supports up to 8 window splits at once. As much as I loved Bob Wallace's program, once I tried Word.exe (version 2), I never went back (or switched to anything else in the next 20 years).
Have you ever noticed what happens to Jeopardy contestants when the question is at all scientific? It is frankly embarrassing. They know a ton about most everything, except basic science.
How do you figure that Antarctica is clearer than the Atacama desert?
This was true in Word for DOS. WinWord started making it a lot more complicated than that. Capsule summary: a document is now a file system.
No. In word, formatting is tied to the paragraph mark (PM) at the end of the paragraph. Delete the PM for paragraph #1 and all the text, etc. in that paragraph will inherit the formatting from paragraph #2. Hint 1: click that backward "P" on the format toolbar to reveal where the PMs are (I still use Office 2000 so have no clue how this is done in more recent versions of Office). Hint 2: copy the PM of the paragraph whose format you like and then past it at the end of the paragraph that got messed up -- problem solved.
Disclaimer: I still use Word 5.0 for DOS as my main word processor.
55 * 12 * 30 = a lot of room for disagreement
If you want some of what I subscribe to, you can find it here.
Netflix, great for people who are bad at math!
Joe Doupnik, Hall of Famer.
Nobody worked harder to assist other people on the Novell mailing list. About as selfless and brilliant as anyone you will ever meet. And even wilder looking in person.
I walked on the moon.
I am surprised at all the "Avatar in 3D" comments, but none (on the first comment page anyway) about Jackass 3D.
It was obvious I would never want to see a movie in 3D, but Jackass 3D seemed like something that would justify it (and I was paid to take someone to see it so had nothing to lose). So I went, I saw and I strongly disliked the 3D "effect". It was tiresome to look at, took me completely out of the movie, parts of one's field of view are fuzzy/distorted/etc., colors messed up, glasses don't work well on top of my glasses (and no I don't have or ever want contacts -- I like having something that protects my eyes while also giving me sight).
So, my testing is over and I'll never watch a 3D video on any subject again. Off to read the next thread...
When I worked at the U. of B.C. I was told to take a way old computer to SERF, the campus recycling center for them to re-purpose. A short time later I got a call that it had been "stolen". I never bothered to take anything to them again.
If I am a PHB at Google, I would not want people trying to get their hands on discarded hard drives as it would be happening on company time but for attempted private gain. As soon as a drive is shredded, geek interest (and lost work productivity) ends.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948)
The original bumper sticker, "Kill Your Television", was a suggestion to others. "Killed My Television" would say that the wearer acted on that suggestion. "Killed Your Television" sounds aggressive and PETA-like.
You would pick Vancouver of all places. Being born there, I'll weigh in.
Vancouver has the worst roads of any Canadian or American city I have ever lived in, or visited.
What makes Vancouver roads so bad? How about the slowest speeds, on average, of any city I've driven in. Try commuting daily at 50kph (30mph) on Marine drive, a major artery that connects Surrey, New Westminster & Burnaby to Vancouver. And yes this street has cops giving out speeding tickets!
Or how about the narrowest streets, with fewest lanes per road on average. The reason for this is that (1) 'Stumptown' is surrounded by water to the west, mountains to the north, the US border to the south, leaving only the east for the 'burbs and (2) it was established a hundred years before the car, so road widths are buggy-sized. You can get a similar taste of this in San Diego, but only if you drive right next to the water. Anywhere else in San Diego or any normal city and you get interstates and bypass roads doing their job. Well, imagine a lack of those type of streets throughout the city and voila, you have Vancouver.
Or picture this. A million commuters, literally, barrelling down the 2, count them 2, lanes of our "number one" highway into Vancouver. I kid you not. On a "highway" that dead ends into Cassiar, with a couple of intersections that ICBC (the Insurance Corporation of B.C.) studied because they were in the Top 10 deadliest in the province for some mysterious reason.
Vancouver is a shining example of how not to do things. When in doubt, throw up another traffic light. Whatever you do, do not create through roads that have favorable traffic lights (i.e. 2 minutes for main traffic, 15 or 20 seconds for side traffic). Instead, throw up traffic lights everywhere and then rave about how everyone walks. Small wonder they all walk or bike, they would road rage each other to death if they had to drive!
Vancouver is a parking lot that people love to walk and bike in. Fortunately I've not been there in 7 years. I imagine the traffic has only got worse.
No good dump on Vancouver traffic would be complete without ripping a good one at le piece de resistance that is the Lions Gate bridge. This 3-lane wonder is about a million years old and is one of only two ways to get _through_ Vancouver and on to the ferries that would take you up the coast, or to Vancouver Island. 16 hours a day this bridge has cars parked on it. The parking lot direction changes every few minutes via overhead red-green traffic lights. There are no lane dividers at all, of course, so head-on collisions are a viable way to off yourself. So after 75 or whatever years they are finally thinking they need to replace it. Can you guess what with? A 5-lane bridge that will switch back and forth like its predecessor. You can't make this stuff up.
I could also talk about the ethnic nature of Vancouver, and how the largest ethnic group has, easily, the worst drivers one could imagine. But then you might think I am just racist.
BTW, those random pictures you posted are truly hilarious. Here is a random one for New York and another for Tokyo to add to your file of green cities.
Oh, did I mention the Deas Island Tunnel? Gotcha! I could have lived almost for FREE, but on the wrong side of that tunnel. I bought a condo downtown instead.
I better stop before I turn this into a rant.
Not so fast. This page says it happened in two places simultaneously -- PC-File being the other program.
True on roads as well. 2-lane (each way) highways are often choked by the idiot in the fast lane. A lot harder to do that on a 3-lanes each way highway.
Somewhere a million Microsoft employees are smiling.
This is worse than