Pro tip: drink it cold (not ice cold, fridge cold is close enough, although take it out for a bit so it can not be quite so cold) and you will be able to actually taste it.
Also, if the place you buy sake from has only one variety on the shelf, it's not the right place from which to buy. If you are only going to experiment once, I highly recommend Ginga Shizuku's Divine Droplets, an absolutely fantasic Junmai Daiginjo. If you want to try something completely unlike any sake you might have been served in the past, try a Nigori like Tozai's Snow Maiden.
How has this not come up before, given the decades' worth of fan-made movie and television prop replicas being sold at conventions and websites around the world? I can remember seeing Star Trek props made from the "original molds" on dealer tables twenty-five years ago - has Paramount been going after these folks for copyright/trademark violations all along? Or is this case different because it's a car?
What are they going to do when they realize every vacuum-forming tutorial ever ends with "and now you have your Stormtrooper costume"?
That's a really cynical view. You must work at a really crummy place if that's how concern for long-term code quality is treated.
Where I work, this kind of behavior (helping others with their code quality, even those more senior than you) would be more likely to get you recognized/promoted.
Says the man so proud of his employer that he is posting anon...
Would your opinion be different if Anon said "here at Microsoft"?:)
Of course, this implies your company/group has coding standards to begin with. Some places I have worked at have almost none at all. If you don't, proposing some might be a good way to cause the bad coder to at least defend their way of doing things when you propose the new standards.
I would add to just try to keep an open mind. One person's OOP abuse is another person's OOP leverage, and in the event some of his are offensive to you but a good idea, you should be graceful about adapting as much as you'd like him to be graceful. I've fought in some of the holy wars, and if you can't afford to lose any territory, don't pick the fight.
With so many ways to skin a cat, the key is compromise.
According to Radio-Locator.com, the nearest licensed 104.7 MHz broadcaster is nearly 100 miles away from Hollywood, FL, which means it was effectively unoccupied.
The only two Carribean themed radio stations in the service area are AM, so, most likely is that some kid thought it might be cool to set up his own radio station with higher fidelity and play what he wanted to, fancying himself a DJ. His network of friends probably really liked it.
I'm sure it's cheaper than handing out smartphones and running a shoutcast server.
The internal permissions manifests are actually much more granular. For whatever reason (probably ease of use, but I don't know for sure), Google grouped them up into easy to understand chunks.
I do wish, however, you could tick a box in your settings to get the full story in the permissions confirmation window if you know what you're doing. Looking at that list, though, I can understand why they would choose to fold in some of the more obtuse permissions into some higher-level definitions.
The cost: Give me your best price without playing games, or I'll go to your competition.
There's the rub. When all the competition does the same damn thing, where can you go? Carte Blanche monopolies and corporate mergers/takeovers means that there can only be less than half a dozen competitors of any volume. Anyone else is on the outskirts are wholesale prices for the little guy are maybe one or two cents below what the big boys are charging retail, minus the "loyalty" discount. Walmart is already there, except AFAIK they don't have a discount program.
Yet.
Beancounters will ally with marketers and yell about how there's data mining benefits to be had, and money left on the table as a result of not doing it. Shareholders will demand performance at least as good as their major competitors. The executives will read some puff piece about how data mining your customer base increased profitability 1% and they'll decide they can't afford not do play the games.
In the infancy of these types of things, the discounts aren't big enough to make that big a difference in price to stay private. But when you're playing with big money like travel tickets? People are already willing to drive ten miles to save one penny in gas. And since you can't fly anonymously, they can mine you anyway, it's just slightly harder. That surveillance camera footage is probably available to the highest bidder, and you know all the airlines will share it with each other anyway if it can improve their bottom line.
Anyone crazy enough to unleash nukes at this stage in the game is going to get nuked to oblivion, whether it's blowback from their hand-thrown nuke or launched from half of everyone else.
Unless cat is being deprecated, does it matter? Some people just think better where everything is just patching black boxes together from stdout to stdin. Also, using both on one command like just looks really really awkward, to me anyway. I can't be the only one.
Instead of having to remember the rare cases, I'd rather use what I know will work. Thankfully the shell isn't very judgmental of my grammar and will do what I expect as I expect it to no matter how needlessly unambiguous I am.
If you can prove your innocence on something like a sex crime, you sure as well don't "Plead out". That makes NO sense.
It definitely makes no sense. But sometimes you lack the cents (dollars, dozens of thousands of them) to put up a fight. And even then you're rolling the dice. The jury might just decide you look like a pervert anyway, since "sex crime" is a moral panic and, well, if you didn't do it, you wouldn't be on trial, would you? Guilty until proven innocent, since it's about protecting our precious little snowflakes.
Your life is pretty much over even if you're acquitted. Your name will forever be google bombed into every rapist directory in existence. Any potential employer that does any research on you at all will find it, and you will be culled. Good luck paying back the costs of the defense.
Yeah, it's getting to be a guy can't commit sex crimes without lasting consequences anymore. Sheesh.
If you think the jail time wasn't enough, then petition for the sentences to be longer. Don't "free" them when their term is over, really free them. Even murderers get a better shake at life out of the big house.
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate and the laws are intended to "protect the children" (or others)...
This fact is the smoking gun that pedophiles need to be treated as mentally ill, not as hardened criminals. With all the after-effects beyond mere incarceration making it impossible to live or work practically any place, I can't imagine any freed sex offenders can ever afford the costs of treatment, let alone rebuild their life. Even when it's a sick compulsion and not necessarily a choice.
Even insane killers, in our society, can get help in an institution. And they KILLED people.
But, hey, can't make any money for the prison industrial complex and give government an excuse to monitor another citizen 24/7 until his death by being compassionate and sensible.
I was referring specifically to why the 1911 was designated by the army as an "automatic pistol" back in 1911. The term automatic then doesn't mean the same as it does today.
IMHO, prebuilt machines for hobby use are a terrible idea for your first printer. The big commerical machines have support contracts with dudes that come to your facility, and everyone needs training. There's a reason for that: even they can't make truly perfect machines, so what chance does a consumer grade machine stand?
With a pre-built machine, it's only a matter of time when it no longer works. And when it doesn't, you won't know enough about it's construction to effectively communicate with others about it, and won't know how to fix it on your own. Worst case scenario, you'll be at the mercy of someone else's parts forever, since they aren't always willing to share their sources or blueprints or anything of the sort.
As an example, I purchased an Ultimaker. The instructions were hazy and while I tried to update their wiki, my edits were quickly removed cabal-style. One thing that attracted me to it was that the main print head was already assembled as a unit in the kit. I feared figuring out how a hot end worked because of how important and non-obvious it is. Fast forward a few weeks of printing and the hot end jammed. It was horrible, I didn't know enough about it to diagnose it on my own, and it look several days of forum-time to even figure out that was the problem. I had assumed that since it was pre-assembled in the kit that it would be pre-assembled the right way, but evidently that turned out to not be the case. In trying to fumble my way through it, there was a very fragile part (heater barrel) that broke in half, leaving me to get two parts to repair it, both custom to the machine. Looking at the shop the replacement the two parts were an obscene price, around US$90 at the time, for just a brass threaded pipe and a small plastic mushroom shaped object. Plus shipping. Plus they weren't in stock, I would have to put my money down and wait for delivery. They never did ship anything out, and it was well over the time limit for me to contest the charges. Sure, my last complaint might be the exception instead of the rule. But I'm trying to escape software land into hardware land, and one thing that keeps coming up is "never single-source your parts". And, well, here's why.
I might have given up, but instead decided to double down and build a Prusa Mendel, mostly because I already had a 15 pounds stockpile of plastic. It was definitely harder to put together, but when something broke, I have options. Hot end issues? There are 4 or 5 quality vendors. X-end cracked? 3 store fronts that sell pre-printed parts, one to order, and anyone else with a functioning printer can do it (and hopefully you made a backup!). Things like thread pitch and formulas for steps per mm are well published and they show the work. Today my completely open source printer is printing better than I was able to ever get my Ultimaker printing. And I don't think it has to do as much with the machine design as it does with the knowledge gained in making it work.
The parallels between hobby grade 3d printing and hobby grade home computers in the late 70s are pretty interesting.
If there was a reliable way to disable and contain a murderous attacker on a violent rampage without killing him or her that is at least as reliable as a firearm, I'm pretty sure everyone, including dysfunctional US citizens, would be interested.
That would actually be a pretty disruptive technology, and would make bloodshed obsolete.
These guns aren't for the army, their for the typical idiot consumer.
And, of course, when the government will codify into law the required functionality of the electronic lock.
One of those features will surely be to automatically lock the owner out on demand. Why take everyone's guns in a mass-disarming project when you can just turn them into useless lumps of metal?
It's easy to say if fracking pollutes water. Make the author of the study, the bosses of the drilling companies, the main owners of the banks who finance them and their families drink the water they guarantee as safe. House the japanese government in the Fukushima district.
Then I'll trust them:)
So you're saying that you'll drink the fresh water that gets immediately pumped out of a sewage plant and into rivers? You've a brave person. How about I take a dump in a cup, clean it out with bleach, soap, and water, then pour a glass of water for you to drink. Or you can, ya know, just simply have it tested.
The point is that if the biased, the greedy, and the financiers were forced to drink the water that is forced upon the powerless and voiceless, there would be a lot more care taken to ensure no pollution is made.
Interesting tangent (IMHO) on the whole "drink it, rich man" thing. One highlight:
On October 21, 1959, Chisso was ordered by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to switch back its wastewater drainage from the Minamata River to Hyakken Harbour and to speed up the installation of wastewater treatment systems at the factory. Chisso installed a Cyclator purification system on December 19, 1959, and opened it with a special ceremony. Chisso's president Kiichi Yoshioka drank a glass of water supposedly treated through the Cyclator to demonstrate that it was safe. In fact, the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which the company knew still contained mercury and led to Minamata disease when fed to cats, was not treated through the Cyclator at the time. Testimony at a later Niigata Minamata disease trial proved that Chisso knew the Cyclator to be completely ineffective: "...the purification tank was installed as a social solution and did nothing to remove organic mercury."
IIRC, your standard message pump in Windows won't send mouse events to your window if you don't have focus. Which means they had to do something extra to make it happen. Not for, say, Magnifier, but for a mere web browser.
I think his point was that there are so many -good- games out there that there's not enough time to enjoy them. Why waste the time with bad games? I don't think they have the same "so bad it's good" value as some bad movies do. Bad games are just frustrating.
Bad games can be entertaining in different ways, like for purposes of study. For example, what is it about Wizard of Oz that makes it a bad game? If you don't play it, you don't know. Angry Nintendo Nerd did an overview of it so I guess you don't have to play THAT one. But it's definitely worth looking into what works and what doesn't work in gaming, if you're a fan at all.
I can't believe there were only 721 games for SNES.
That sounds ridiculously small to me, too, considering the complete GBA collection went up to what, 4000-something (combined from all regions but that's a minor quibble)?
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Pro tip: drink it cold (not ice cold, fridge cold is close enough, although take it out for a bit so it can not be quite so cold) and you will be able to actually taste it.
Also, if the place you buy sake from has only one variety on the shelf, it's not the right place from which to buy.
If you are only going to experiment once, I highly recommend Ginga Shizuku's Divine Droplets, an absolutely fantasic Junmai Daiginjo. If you want to try something completely unlike any sake you might have been served in the past, try a Nigori like Tozai's Snow Maiden.
How has this not come up before, given the decades' worth of fan-made movie and television prop replicas being sold at conventions and websites around the world? I can remember seeing Star Trek props made from the "original molds" on dealer tables twenty-five years ago - has Paramount been going after these folks for copyright/trademark violations all along? Or is this case different because it's a car?
What are they going to do when they realize every vacuum-forming tutorial ever ends with "and now you have your Stormtrooper costume"?
Not everyone is over 350lbs
He wasn't speaking about sitting on a chair, but about throwing it. You know, like Steve Ballmer does...
Well, ok. The typical slashdotter doesn't have the strength to throw a chair.
That's a really cynical view. You must work at a really crummy place if that's how concern for long-term code quality is treated.
Where I work, this kind of behavior (helping others with their code quality, even those more senior than you) would be more likely to get you recognized/promoted.
Says the man so proud of his employer that he is posting anon...
Would your opinion be different if Anon said "here at Microsoft"? :)
Of course, this implies your company/group has coding standards to begin with. Some places I have worked at have almost none at all. If you don't, proposing some might be a good way to cause the bad coder to at least defend their way of doing things when you propose the new standards.
I would add to just try to keep an open mind. One person's OOP abuse is another person's OOP leverage, and in the event some of his are offensive to you but a good idea, you should be graceful about adapting as much as you'd like him to be graceful. I've fought in some of the holy wars, and if you can't afford to lose any territory, don't pick the fight.
With so many ways to skin a cat, the key is compromise.
According to Radio-Locator.com, the nearest licensed 104.7 MHz broadcaster is nearly 100 miles away from Hollywood, FL, which means it was effectively unoccupied.
The only two Carribean themed radio stations in the service area are AM, so, most likely is that some kid thought it might be cool to set up his own radio station with higher fidelity and play what he wanted to, fancying himself a DJ. His network of friends probably really liked it.
I'm sure it's cheaper than handing out smartphones and running a shoutcast server.
Funny, the doors on my car can be unlocked by my phone and it is an economy car from Hyundai.
Isn't it great? I just wish it wouldn't do it every time my phone got a call.
Bravo whoever modded you Insightful
The internal permissions manifests are actually much more granular. For whatever reason (probably ease of use, but I don't know for sure), Google grouped them up into easy to understand chunks.
Full list is here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html
I do wish, however, you could tick a box in your settings to get the full story in the permissions confirmation window if you know what you're doing. Looking at that list, though, I can understand why they would choose to fold in some of the more obtuse permissions into some higher-level definitions.
From the article:
Most drivers were forced to read their owner's manual to learn how to access their manual key, Camara said.
Well, this IS in Florida
The cost: Give me your best price without playing games, or I'll go to your competition.
There's the rub. When all the competition does the same damn thing, where can you go? Carte Blanche monopolies and corporate mergers/takeovers means that there can only be less than half a dozen competitors of any volume. Anyone else is on the outskirts are wholesale prices for the little guy are maybe one or two cents below what the big boys are charging retail, minus the "loyalty" discount. Walmart is already there, except AFAIK they don't have a discount program.
Yet.
Beancounters will ally with marketers and yell about how there's data mining benefits to be had, and money left on the table as a result of not doing it. Shareholders will demand performance at least as good as their major competitors. The executives will read some puff piece about how data mining your customer base increased profitability 1% and they'll decide they can't afford not do play the games.
In the infancy of these types of things, the discounts aren't big enough to make that big a difference in price to stay private. But when you're playing with big money like travel tickets? People are already willing to drive ten miles to save one penny in gas. And since you can't fly anonymously, they can mine you anyway, it's just slightly harder. That surveillance camera footage is probably available to the highest bidder, and you know all the airlines will share it with each other anyway if it can improve their bottom line.
Anyone crazy enough to unleash nukes at this stage in the game is going to get nuked to oblivion, whether it's blowback from their hand-thrown nuke or launched from half of everyone else.
Unless cat is being deprecated, does it matter? Some people just think better where everything is just patching black boxes together from stdout to stdin. Also, using both on one command like just looks really really awkward, to me anyway. I can't be the only one.
Instead of having to remember the rare cases, I'd rather use what I know will work. Thankfully the shell isn't very judgmental of my grammar and will do what I expect as I expect it to no matter how needlessly unambiguous I am.
If you can prove your innocence on something like a sex crime, you sure as well don't "Plead out". That makes NO sense.
It definitely makes no sense. But sometimes you lack the cents (dollars, dozens of thousands of them) to put up a fight. And even then you're rolling the dice. The jury might just decide you look like a pervert anyway, since "sex crime" is a moral panic and, well, if you didn't do it, you wouldn't be on trial, would you? Guilty until proven innocent, since it's about protecting our precious little snowflakes.
Your life is pretty much over even if you're acquitted. Your name will forever be google bombed into every rapist directory in existence. Any potential employer that does any research on you at all will find it, and you will be culled. Good luck paying back the costs of the defense.
Yeah, it's getting to be a guy can't commit sex crimes without lasting consequences anymore. Sheesh.
If you think the jail time wasn't enough, then petition for the sentences to be longer. Don't "free" them when their term is over, really free them. Even murderers get a better shake at life out of the big house.
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate and the laws are intended to "protect the children" (or others) ...
This fact is the smoking gun that pedophiles need to be treated as mentally ill, not as hardened criminals. With all the after-effects beyond mere incarceration making it impossible to live or work practically any place, I can't imagine any freed sex offenders can ever afford the costs of treatment, let alone rebuild their life. Even when it's a sick compulsion and not necessarily a choice.
Even insane killers, in our society, can get help in an institution. And they KILLED people.
But, hey, can't make any money for the prison industrial complex and give government an excuse to monitor another citizen 24/7 until his death by being compassionate and sensible.
I was referring specifically to why the 1911 was designated by the army as an "automatic pistol" back in 1911. The term automatic then doesn't mean the same as it does today.
IMHO, prebuilt machines for hobby use are a terrible idea for your first printer. The big commerical machines have support contracts with dudes that come to your facility, and everyone needs training. There's a reason for that: even they can't make truly perfect machines, so what chance does a consumer grade machine stand?
With a pre-built machine, it's only a matter of time when it no longer works. And when it doesn't, you won't know enough about it's construction to effectively communicate with others about it, and won't know how to fix it on your own. Worst case scenario, you'll be at the mercy of someone else's parts forever, since they aren't always willing to share their sources or blueprints or anything of the sort.
As an example, I purchased an Ultimaker. The instructions were hazy and while I tried to update their wiki, my edits were quickly removed cabal-style. One thing that attracted me to it was that the main print head was already assembled as a unit in the kit. I feared figuring out how a hot end worked because of how important and non-obvious it is. Fast forward a few weeks of printing and the hot end jammed. It was horrible, I didn't know enough about it to diagnose it on my own, and it look several days of forum-time to even figure out that was the problem. I had assumed that since it was pre-assembled in the kit that it would be pre-assembled the right way, but evidently that turned out to not be the case. In trying to fumble my way through it, there was a very fragile part (heater barrel) that broke in half, leaving me to get two parts to repair it, both custom to the machine. Looking at the shop the replacement the two parts were an obscene price, around US$90 at the time, for just a brass threaded pipe and a small plastic mushroom shaped object. Plus shipping. Plus they weren't in stock, I would have to put my money down and wait for delivery. They never did ship anything out, and it was well over the time limit for me to contest the charges. Sure, my last complaint might be the exception instead of the rule. But I'm trying to escape software land into hardware land, and one thing that keeps coming up is "never single-source your parts". And, well, here's why.
I might have given up, but instead decided to double down and build a Prusa Mendel, mostly because I already had a 15 pounds stockpile of plastic. It was definitely harder to put together, but when something broke, I have options. Hot end issues? There are 4 or 5 quality vendors. X-end cracked? 3 store fronts that sell pre-printed parts, one to order, and anyone else with a functioning printer can do it (and hopefully you made a backup!). Things like thread pitch and formulas for steps per mm are well published and they show the work. Today my completely open source printer is printing better than I was able to ever get my Ultimaker printing. And I don't think it has to do as much with the machine design as it does with the knowledge gained in making it work.
The parallels between hobby grade 3d printing and hobby grade home computers in the late 70s are pretty interesting.
If there was a reliable way to disable and contain a murderous attacker on a violent rampage without killing him or her that is at least as reliable as a firearm, I'm pretty sure everyone, including dysfunctional US citizens, would be interested.
That would actually be a pretty disruptive technology, and would make bloodshed obsolete.
When the technology for automatic one-pull-multiple-shots doesn't exist, one-pull-one-shot-no-recock sure sounds pretty automatic.
Simply put, it's not longer the correct terminology. We no longer refer to the four humors as a source of health or phrenology as a science, either.
These guns aren't for the army, their for the typical idiot consumer.
And, of course, when the government will codify into law the required functionality of the electronic lock.
One of those features will surely be to automatically lock the owner out on demand. Why take everyone's guns in a mass-disarming project when you can just turn them into useless lumps of metal?
It's easy to say if fracking pollutes water. Make the author of the study, the bosses of the drilling companies, the main owners of the banks who finance them and their families drink the water they guarantee as safe.
House the japanese government in the Fukushima district.
Then I'll trust them :)
So you're saying that you'll drink the fresh water that gets immediately pumped out of a sewage plant and into rivers? You've a brave person. How about I take a dump in a cup, clean it out with bleach, soap, and water, then pour a glass of water for you to drink. Or you can, ya know, just simply have it tested.
The point is that if the biased, the greedy, and the financiers were forced to drink the water that is forced upon the powerless and voiceless, there would be a lot more care taken to ensure no pollution is made.
Interesting tangent (IMHO) on the whole "drink it, rich man" thing. One highlight:
On October 21, 1959, Chisso was ordered by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to switch back its wastewater drainage from the Minamata River to Hyakken Harbour and to speed up the installation of wastewater treatment systems at the factory. Chisso installed a Cyclator purification system on December 19, 1959, and opened it with a special ceremony. Chisso's president Kiichi Yoshioka drank a glass of water supposedly treated through the Cyclator to demonstrate that it was safe. In fact, the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which the company knew still contained mercury and led to Minamata disease when fed to cats, was not treated through the Cyclator at the time. Testimony at a later Niigata Minamata disease trial proved that Chisso knew the Cyclator to be completely ineffective: "...the purification tank was installed as a social solution and did nothing to remove organic mercury."
IIRC, your standard message pump in Windows won't send mouse events to your window if you don't have focus. Which means they had to do something extra to make it happen. Not for, say, Magnifier, but for a mere web browser.
Craziness.
why are you playing bad games?
The same reason you play any game: entertainment.
I think his point was that there are so many -good- games out there that there's not enough time to enjoy them. Why waste the time with bad games? I don't think they have the same "so bad it's good" value as some bad movies do. Bad games are just frustrating.
Bad games can be entertaining in different ways, like for purposes of study. For example, what is it about Wizard of Oz that makes it a bad game? If you don't play it, you don't know. Angry Nintendo Nerd did an overview of it so I guess you don't have to play THAT one. But it's definitely worth looking into what works and what doesn't work in gaming, if you're a fan at all.
I can't believe there were only 721 games for SNES.
That sounds ridiculously small to me, too, considering the complete GBA collection went up to what, 4000-something (combined from all regions but that's a minor quibble)?