I don't even want to think what it costs a family of 4 or 5 to go... maybe that is the REAL reason for the mortgage crisis!
A friend of mine tells me that it's close to $100, including fuel. I witnessed a babysitter/nanny tell the three children in tow that they couldn't watch "Cloudy with a Chance for Meatballs" because the only one available was the "3D" version, and it was too expensive. She mollified them with a promise of ice cream. See MPAA? Your real enemy is frozen sugared dairy.
Just noticed I never gave a top-limit for my volume-scale. It's either 0-100 or 0-99, I've never bothered to make it go that high, but 33 is right at the 1/3 mark, and 25 is 1/4.
Enough with the over-exaggeration, she seriously has to close the windows? Maybe shes watching TV too loud in the first place. And Ive never seen an ad that pumps up the volume more than a few bars if at all,
I annoy one of my neighbors with commercials, and although she is a busybody, she is right about this. The problem isn't "loud commercials" it's "soft programming". I play Wii and Xbox games at Volume 14 on my TV. One local station (Fox affiliate) plays content so softly that I have to raise the Volume to the mid 30's, then they play commercials where the volume is comfortable at ~20 (still more quiet than my Xbox, but Crazy compared to the shows). Then, my local NBC affiliate plays shows where 25 is good, and 18 is my dial-down for commercials. Oh, and my auto-volume balancing in the TV menu does nothing.
All these things being said, even though I would like the immediate results of this legislation, I don't like the precedent it sets for lawmaking. "I'm annoyed by XYZ that the government already happens to have control over through some regulatory body. Make a Law!"
Rooted implies that root access was originally disallowed, but gained by some means. I don't know if there is a term for "you're allowed to use the computer/phone as you want" because that's the natural assumption.
Soo... Sitting in a room full of people eating anonymous food, followed by sitting in another room full of people--this time with clear physical boundaries between you--trumps sitting in a room with just you two eating perhaps home-cooked food, followed by sitting in another room alone snuggling on a sofa, with an even more intimate room within 10 seconds' walking distance?
Some women like to snuggle in public (and a movie theater counts). Also, the seats in most theaters have retractable arm-rests these days. Choose a theater close to one person's home.
The reason for the higher revenue? Higher ticket prices. Ticket sales are down 12% since 2002. If you look at a long-term graph of ticket sales, you can see that it's been basically flat in the 2000s, compared to upper single-digit or double-digit growth nearly every year between 1970 and 2000. It's pretty much been stagnant since 2002.
Here's some numbers showing the trend:
2009 - Total Gross $9,782.4
2008 - Total Gross $9,630.6
2007 - Total Gross $9,663.7
2006 - Total Gross $9,209.5
2005 - Total Gross $8,840.5
2004 - Total Gross $9,380.5
2003 - Total Gross $9,239.7
2002 - Total Gross $9,155.0
2001 - Total Gross $8,412.5
2000 - Total Gross $7,661.0
1990 - Total Gross $5,021.8
1980 - Total Gross $2,749.0 http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
1980->1990 = 83% Growth in 10 years, average of 8.2% per year
1990->2002 = 82% Growth in 12 years, average of 6.8% per year
Then, *mysteriously*, something happened around 2002:
Nine... *The audience leans forward, waiting for Myoral Candidate Lois Griffin's next word*
Eleven. *Raucous Cheering*
It was near the end of 2001, and people were sheepishly afraid of gathering in large groups (except at church). Once they stared renting DVDs more at home, they realized that they liked it better.
Or, maybe it was the advent of the HDTVs
Or: The reason ticket sales are down 12% since 2002? Higher ticket prices.
I am seeing that most of slashdot is now on facebook, which is totally sad. I can't reply to everyone, so I had to pick someone, and that was you, congratulations!. Here it goes:
You use Facebook? What a faggot.
There, I feel much better now.
Someone's totally going to troll you on usenet for having an account on/.
The worst part about the new settings: You can't keep your photos from being tied to you. Sure you can make your profile picture a kitchen sink (since you must show your profile picture), but now that you must show your friends list, if any of your friends has an open profile and tags you in a photo, it's game over; cyber-stalker-chick/dude knows what you look like (and your hometown since that's mandatory open now too). So now to be private, you have to police your friends. I'm curious what witness protection plans doing in the coming decades; cabins in the woods?
So if you're in the middle of nowhere with no cars in any direction for 500m and you hit a red light, you should wait for 1 full minute rather than going ahead? Sounds a bit wasteful to me.
Until you get t-boned by the guy that forgot to turn his lights on because it's dusk and he's driving a gray car. He has the green and you ran a red light...
Earlier today, in Tacoma, we had a scum bag pop out of the trunk of a car, fight with the police, jump into the car and try to run the officer down. So, do you understand while law enforcement in Washington is just a little on edge?
Because they mistook a trunk-monkey television commercial for a real situation?
The day that we do pull out of there - which will be with our tails between our legs - will subject the peoples of Afghanistan and nearby states with the same dangers and indignities they'd face if that day were today. The only difference between now and then will be the body count.
Whose body count? US soldiers, Insurgents/Terrorists, or Civilians? To protect the most innocent civilians, we should pull out only after stability is achieved (maybe decades). To protect the most US Soldiers (still all volunteers), we should pull out now. Now we just need to figure out if a US soldier's life is more important than an Iraqi/Afghani citizen's.
...using the GUI that is. Ubuntu's Live CDs have had problems with the nv driver on the Live CD producing green vertical lines with certain video cards for a long while. Also, the VESA driver is broken and reloads xorg every half-second (the nv driver is better because at least a virt term works).
AT&T just doesn't grasp the idea of upgrading their network.
They did recently create an iPhone "Mark the Spot" app to have people geotag bad service areas (they even realized that tagging within that deadzone wouldn't work).
It's still there. Preview your profile, type a friend's name in to preview as them. I see the Wall tab plain as day. Perhaps your new privacy settings are preventing your friends from seeing your wall?
it wants a password to access the privacy settings.
Notice how it's not https. You can use https to log on to the site (https://login.facebook.com/login.php), and they require https in the "account settings" page where you enter a new password or enter CC info, but there's no https option for the required login to change your privacy settings. They dumb.
Also, there are privacy changes: "Photos of you" and "Videos of you" are now the same thing: "Photos and Videos of you", but thankfully they chose the more restrictive of the two options to be the new setting (I had allowed photos, but not videos, and the new setting took the "videos" value in the change). There are other changes as said explicitly in the Summary.
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Just don't accidentally run over the power source like the electric cord in GP.
I don't even want to think what it costs a family of 4 or 5 to go... maybe that is the REAL reason for the mortgage crisis!
A friend of mine tells me that it's close to $100, including fuel. I witnessed a babysitter/nanny tell the three children in tow that they couldn't watch "Cloudy with a Chance for Meatballs" because the only one available was the "3D" version, and it was too expensive. She mollified them with a promise of ice cream. See MPAA? Your real enemy is frozen sugared dairy.
Just noticed I never gave a top-limit for my volume-scale. It's either 0-100 or 0-99, I've never bothered to make it go that high, but 33 is right at the 1/3 mark, and 25 is 1/4.
Enough with the over-exaggeration, she seriously has to close the windows? Maybe shes watching TV too loud in the first place. And Ive never seen an ad that pumps up the volume more than a few bars if at all,
I annoy one of my neighbors with commercials, and although she is a busybody, she is right about this. The problem isn't "loud commercials" it's "soft programming". I play Wii and Xbox games at Volume 14 on my TV. One local station (Fox affiliate) plays content so softly that I have to raise the Volume to the mid 30's, then they play commercials where the volume is comfortable at ~20 (still more quiet than my Xbox, but Crazy compared to the shows). Then, my local NBC affiliate plays shows where 25 is good, and 18 is my dial-down for commercials. Oh, and my auto-volume balancing in the TV menu does nothing.
All these things being said, even though I would like the immediate results of this legislation, I don't like the precedent it sets for lawmaking. "I'm annoyed by XYZ that the government already happens to have control over through some regulatory body. Make a Law!"
We've found it. Get started on Artificial Gravity and Terraforming tech so we can use it when we fill up Earth that was.
Pbbbhh... chi. Pbbbhh pbbbh chi. Pbbbhh... chi. P'pbbbhh pbbbh chi.
Hoyee Hoyee Hoyee Hoyee
The beat box is back on. Commence.
Rooted implies that root access was originally disallowed, but gained by some means. I don't know if there is a term for "you're allowed to use the computer/phone as you want" because that's the natural assumption.
He's not an engineer. He's an artist. Effectiveness is the least determinant. Evocativeness is the primary.
The killer app was stereoscopic pictures of women showing their ankles.
Oh, hot! She's voting! Yeah, you break all the rules.
So is that unlocked as in "you can use it with any carrier" or unlocked as in "you're allowed access to the root user account"?
Soo... Sitting in a room full of people eating anonymous food, followed by sitting in another room full of people--this time with clear physical boundaries between you--trumps sitting in a room with just you two eating perhaps home-cooked food, followed by sitting in another room alone snuggling on a sofa, with an even more intimate room within 10 seconds' walking distance?
Some women like to snuggle in public (and a movie theater counts). Also, the seats in most theaters have retractable arm-rests these days. Choose a theater close to one person's home.
The reason for the higher revenue? Higher ticket prices. Ticket sales are down 12% since 2002. If you look at a long-term graph of ticket sales, you can see that it's been basically flat in the 2000s, compared to upper single-digit or double-digit growth nearly every year between 1970 and 2000. It's pretty much been stagnant since 2002.
Here's some numbers showing the trend:
2009 - Total Gross $9,782.4
2008 - Total Gross $9,630.6
2007 - Total Gross $9,663.7
2006 - Total Gross $9,209.5
2005 - Total Gross $8,840.5
2004 - Total Gross $9,380.5
2003 - Total Gross $9,239.7
2002 - Total Gross $9,155.0
2001 - Total Gross $8,412.5
2000 - Total Gross $7,661.0
1990 - Total Gross $5,021.8
1980 - Total Gross $2,749.0
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
1980->1990 = 83% Growth in 10 years, average of 8.2% per year
1990->2002 = 82% Growth in 12 years, average of 6.8% per year
Then, *mysteriously*, something happened around 2002:
Nine... *The audience leans forward, waiting for Myoral Candidate Lois Griffin's next word*
Eleven. *Raucous Cheering* It was near the end of 2001, and people were sheepishly afraid of gathering in large groups (except at church). Once they stared renting DVDs more at home, they realized that they liked it better.
Or, maybe it was the advent of the HDTVs
Or: The reason ticket sales are down 12% since 2002? Higher ticket prices.
I am seeing that most of slashdot is now on facebook, which is totally sad. I can't reply to everyone, so I had to pick someone, and that was you, congratulations!. Here it goes:
You use Facebook? What a faggot.
There, I feel much better now.
Someone's totally going to troll you on usenet for having an account on /.
I hate replying to a troll, but I must... Mark Z is friends with OJ Simpson?
Right... checkout the post right under yours: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1476946&cid=30425522
The worst part about the new settings: You can't keep your photos from being tied to you. Sure you can make your profile picture a kitchen sink (since you must show your profile picture), but now that you must show your friends list, if any of your friends has an open profile and tags you in a photo, it's game over; cyber-stalker-chick/dude knows what you look like (and your hometown since that's mandatory open now too). So now to be private, you have to police your friends. I'm curious what witness protection plans doing in the coming decades; cabins in the woods?
So if you're in the middle of nowhere with no cars in any direction for 500m and you hit a red light, you should wait for 1 full minute rather than going ahead? Sounds a bit wasteful to me.
Until you get t-boned by the guy that forgot to turn his lights on because it's dusk and he's driving a gray car. He has the green and you ran a red light...
Earlier today, in Tacoma, we had a scum bag pop out of the trunk of a car, fight with the police, jump into the car and try to run the officer down. So, do you understand while law enforcement in Washington is just a little on edge?
Because they mistook a trunk-monkey television commercial for a real situation?
The day that we do pull out of there - which will be with our tails between our legs - will subject the peoples of Afghanistan and nearby states with the same dangers and indignities they'd face if that day were today. The only difference between now and then will be the body count.
Whose body count? US soldiers, Insurgents/Terrorists, or Civilians? To protect the most innocent civilians, we should pull out only after stability is achieved (maybe decades). To protect the most US Soldiers (still all volunteers), we should pull out now. Now we just need to figure out if a US soldier's life is more important than an Iraqi/Afghani citizen's.
You'll always find the odd usb controlled nerf gun turret or whatnot that lacks a driver, but that's not really an issue for most people.
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=4022
http://www.thok.org/intranet/python/usb/README.html
...using the GUI that is. Ubuntu's Live CDs have had problems with the nv driver on the Live CD producing green vertical lines with certain video cards for a long while. Also, the VESA driver is broken and reloads xorg every half-second (the nv driver is better because at least a virt term works).
AT&T just doesn't grasp the idea of upgrading their network.
They did recently create an iPhone "Mark the Spot" app to have people geotag bad service areas (they even realized that tagging within that deadzone wouldn't work).
Close, but the gravitational mass is still the same as the inertial mass in GR. The hammer and the feather still land at the same.
I believe GP assumed non-vacuum as part of the joke.
It's still there. Preview your profile, type a friend's name in to preview as them. I see the Wall tab plain as day. Perhaps your new privacy settings are preventing your friends from seeing your wall?
it wants a password to access the privacy settings.
Notice how it's not https. You can use https to log on to the site (https://login.facebook.com/login.php), and they require https in the "account settings" page where you enter a new password or enter CC info, but there's no https option for the required login to change your privacy settings. They dumb.
Also, there are privacy changes: "Photos of you" and "Videos of you" are now the same thing: "Photos and Videos of you", but thankfully they chose the more restrictive of the two options to be the new setting (I had allowed photos, but not videos, and the new setting took the "videos" value in the change). There are other changes as said explicitly in the Summary.