Nothing gets on my nerves more than unskippable DVD chapters.
I don't us it personally, but doesn't DVDShrink take care of that by letting you re author the disk leaving out the parts you don't want? Plus you then use the copy and keep your shiny factory DVD in a safe place where the kids can't trash it...
Neither crabs nor lobster if you chase them will take into consideration what you might do next. they just scoot "away" even to the point of bouncing off random objects as they flee. It's clear when you see them that they are not "fleeing" so much s just moving their tail quickly.
I understand your point of view, however, here is video proof of a crustacean performing risk/reward analysis and as a result taking assertive action in order to prolong it's life! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVJAAhoYrw
Make an MP3 of random key press noise and music mixed... and play it loud. Better yet write a program to play back individual key stroke noises randomly based on your normal typing speed. I too like the old click clack keyboards, I've even got spares.
Thanks for providing the link. When I saw "Out-of-Order" my mind went to the courts... "I object Your Honor, this instruction is Out-of-Order! I demand the CPU be treated as a hostile witness."
That sounds pretty damn good to me. Most adults are killed by cancer or heart disease, and most cancer and heart disease are curable if caught early. It sounds to me like a system only an idiot would turn down.
Right, but you know it will be taken too far. Blood Alcohol above some arbitrary level? No vehicle will start for you. Been to a party where someone was doping? Your going to have to explain why you remained in an area where unlawful activity was occurring... and that's just the tip of what you can do once you know EVERYTHING about someone's health on a moment by moment basis.
Don't worry, we will make you very, very safe. Even if we have to lock you up for hurting yourself.
You're not charging money, you are asking for donations in a news letter. My understanding was that donations were OK if not solicited in the game... And his problem was reminding people to support his efforts. A periodic newsletter (coinciding with updates) goes out to anyone that asks. If they donate (because you DO ask in the letter) you keep them on the list, if not, slowly downgrade and then unsubscribe them. People that don't want to support your work are certainly not worth keeping informed of the latest developments...
Start a subscription based newsletter. New releases get announced to donating newsletter subscribers first, along with links to download "BETA" (wink wink) releases using the subscribers info (too many downloads from one subscriber and they lose their subscription to your newsletter. Actually have the older releases for free download, so it can be shown that you are not charging for the product. Your newsletter is another product. The people that support you are your real time beta testers, nothing to do with the ability to download your "current" product... Hope you find a way to make it workout.
Well, seeing that there is no way he hung on for the whole ride, it's pretty safe to assume he fell right past the engines flame... I'm thinking "Fireball" or "Cinder".
I'm waiting for the Mythbuster's episode. First we hobble Adam, Jamie and Grant (who can be the control). Then we inject them all with deadly spider venom. If they survive, we see if the spider venom helps them to walk again. Grant gets no venom. Whether they survive or not, it's entertaining and about as scientific as the rest of their testing.
The test groups cannot possibly be equivalent, unless a VERY large sample is taken at random from the population.
Not just a very large sample, you would have to force people to take the tests. No matter how you do it, if it is voluntary, you will always be using the subset of people that have nothing better to do with their time... I'm thinking that's not the best place to go looking for mental acuity.
Frankly, I'll have trouble believing such a study unless it's a prospective study that tests the same volunteers across a span of their lifetime.
I agree, that along with using non-volunteers should give some valid data.
You need to try to imagine more mosquitoes. A hell of a lot more.
Well, insects seem to be able to find a way to make a comeback each time we mess with them. I for one do not want to see what a infrared vision, laser resistant mosquito would be like...
...but I might decide to kill him in the hopes of getting a replacement that can code...
You know, a year or two ago I would not think twice when reading or even writing something like that... but now days stupid jokes turn into career and/or life altering events because everyone takes everything written on the net to be an indicator of character or intent. So, now, when I see that little snippet, I think, I hope that fool trainee does not have an unfortunate accident that comes back to haunt you. Living under the thumb of the humorless lawyers sucks...
(note to self - do not apply for work at a law firm without obscuring slashdot history first).
Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water (47% if you accept a rough approximation of the exact number)...
Well if they want an exact number I bet everyone fails. Tides change the percentage and coastal contour would make that a pain to get exact with the tides varying constantly, and then there is snow and ice covered land, is that considered to be covered in water? Or did they really mean the percentage of planetary crust submerged in liquid water?
I would not bet on that. A quick look at the California law shows plenty of ambiguity. http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/computerlaw/Californ.txt Here are a couple of catchy little numbers from that page, all under the sub heading "any person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a public offense":
Knowingly and without permission disrupts or causes the disruption of computer services or denies or causes the denial of computer services to an authorized user of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
Knowingly and without permission uses or causes to be used computer services.
Knowingly and without permission accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network.
A lawyer would tell you there is a LOT of wiggle room just in those phrases. For example "causes the disruption of computer services" seems to be just what is advocated here.
Depending on exactly what section was applied, fines run up to $10,000 and the cost free, forced accommodations is up to three years. Google is in California, right?
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Nothing gets on my nerves more than unskippable DVD chapters.
I don't us it personally, but doesn't DVDShrink take care of that by letting you re author the disk leaving out the parts you don't want? Plus you then use the copy and keep your shiny factory DVD in a safe place where the kids can't trash it...
http://www.dvdshrink.org/why_en.php
"First they came for my beer, and I said nothing."
Had I not been passed out I would have noticed that...
...Microsoft Mission to Mars...
Making the phrase "Blue Screen Of Death" just so much more realistic...
"we have to be off this rock in three hours or we miss our return window to earth... somebody find that fucking reinstall DVD now!
Neither crabs nor lobster if you chase them will take into consideration what you might do next. they just scoot "away" even to the point of bouncing off random objects as they flee. It's clear when you see them that they are not "fleeing" so much s just moving their tail quickly.
I understand your point of view, however, here is video proof of a crustacean performing risk/reward analysis and as a result taking assertive action in order to prolong it's life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVJAAhoYrw
At 50K for nine months, your wallet might be devastated...
http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html
Make an MP3 of random key press noise and music mixed... and play it loud. Better yet write a program to play back individual key stroke noises randomly based on your normal typing speed. I too like the old click clack keyboards, I've even got spares.
Also the concentrator part means that she's concentrating on physics. Some universities call it concentrating on a subject rather than majoring.
Thanks for clearing that up. I've had enough issues with gravity, inertia, etc. that the idea of concentrated physics was somewhat disturbing...
Well, I guess that's better than his wife "Incontinentia Buttocks".
The whole bit is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8_jgiNqUc&NR=1
Thanks for providing the link. When I saw "Out-of-Order" my mind went to the courts... "I object Your Honor, this instruction is Out-of-Order! I demand the CPU be treated as a hostile witness."
That sounds pretty damn good to me. Most adults are killed by cancer or heart disease, and most cancer and heart disease are curable if caught early. It sounds to me like a system only an idiot would turn down.
Right, but you know it will be taken too far. Blood Alcohol above some arbitrary level? No vehicle will start for you. Been to a party where someone was doping? Your going to have to explain why you remained in an area where unlawful activity was occurring... and that's just the tip of what you can do once you know EVERYTHING about someone's health on a moment by moment basis.
Don't worry, we will make you very, very safe. Even if we have to lock you up for hurting yourself.
You're not charging money, you are asking for donations in a news letter. My understanding was that donations were OK if not solicited in the game... And his problem was reminding people to support his efforts. A periodic newsletter (coinciding with updates) goes out to anyone that asks. If they donate (because you DO ask in the letter) you keep them on the list, if not, slowly downgrade and then unsubscribe them. People that don't want to support your work are certainly not worth keeping informed of the latest developments...
Start a subscription based newsletter. New releases get announced to donating newsletter subscribers first, along with links to download "BETA" (wink wink) releases using the subscribers info (too many downloads from one subscriber and they lose their subscription to your newsletter. Actually have the older releases for free download, so it can be shown that you are not charging for the product. Your newsletter is another product. The people that support you are your real time beta testers, nothing to do with the ability to download your "current" product... Hope you find a way to make it workout.
Next we'll be hearing what the lawyers are eating for lunch.
No need to report that, it's still the little people...
80% of all statistics are exaggerated...
A real name is definitely in order.
Well, seeing that there is no way he hung on for the whole ride, it's pretty safe to assume he fell right past the engines flame...
I'm thinking "Fireball" or "Cinder".
I'm waiting for the Mythbuster's episode. First we hobble Adam, Jamie and Grant (who can be the control). Then we inject them all with deadly spider venom. If they survive, we see if the spider venom helps them to walk again. Grant gets no venom. Whether they survive or not, it's entertaining and about as scientific as the rest of their testing.
+1 Hilariously Accurate
The test groups cannot possibly be equivalent, unless a VERY large sample is taken at random from the population.
Not just a very large sample, you would have to force people to take the tests. No matter how you do it, if it is voluntary, you will always be using the subset of people that have nothing better to do with their time... I'm thinking that's not the best place to go looking for mental acuity.
Frankly, I'll have trouble believing such a study unless it's a prospective study that tests the same volunteers across a span of their lifetime.
I agree, that along with using non-volunteers should give some valid data.
You need to try to imagine more mosquitoes. A hell of a lot more.
Well, insects seem to be able to find a way to make a comeback each time we mess with them. I for one do not want to see what a infrared vision, laser resistant mosquito would be like...
Didn't Jack Thompson die?
No, they shot him in the heart with a silver tipped wooden arrow that had been dipped in holy water, but it had no effect.
...but I might decide to kill him in the hopes of getting a replacement that can code...
You know, a year or two ago I would not think twice when reading or even writing something like that... but now days stupid jokes turn into career and/or life altering events because everyone takes everything written on the net to be an indicator of character or intent. So, now, when I see that little snippet, I think, I hope that fool trainee does not have an unfortunate accident that comes back to haunt you. Living under the thumb of the humorless lawyers sucks...
(note to self - do not apply for work at a law firm without obscuring slashdot history first).
In the end, we will never know exactly what he looks like, but we do have a pretty good idea.
And it's a pity someone so talented did not write an autobiography... at least then we could have looked at the dust jacket inside the back cover...
Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water (47% if you accept a rough approximation of the exact number)...
Well if they want an exact number I bet everyone fails. Tides change the percentage and coastal contour would make that a pain to get exact with the tides varying constantly, and then there is snow and ice covered land, is that considered to be covered in water? Or did they really mean the percentage of planetary crust submerged in liquid water?
Internally, very few devices would consciously choose to use FAT...
If any of my devices consciously choose what file system to use, I have a hammer that will correct such behavior.
Carl? Carl Icahn? Is that you?
I would not bet on that. A quick look at the California law shows plenty of ambiguity.
http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/computerlaw/Californ.txt
Here are a couple of catchy little numbers from that page, all under the sub heading "any person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a public offense":
Knowingly and without permission disrupts or causes the disruption of computer services or denies or causes the denial of computer services to an authorized user of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
Knowingly and without permission uses or causes to be used computer services.
Knowingly and without permission accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network.
A lawyer would tell you there is a LOT of wiggle room just in those phrases. For example "causes the disruption of computer services" seems to be just what is advocated here.
Depending on exactly what section was applied, fines run up to $10,000 and the cost free, forced accommodations is up to three years. Google is in California, right?