First let me say I don't really care if someone shows breastfeeding pictures or not, it doesn't offend or move me either way.
But... What I don't really get is why it is so important to these mothers to put up pictures of themselves breastfeeding in the first place. Show us pictures of the baby, show you holding the baby, there, we have seen the baby. The baby has been seen. Why isn't that good enough? Does life somehow derail if you are not allowed to show the world your baby sucking on your nipple? Is this backlash only because Facebook said "no"? I think so.
Sure, I'll get right on forcing the company I contract for to switch the OS on 1000 machines.
Meanwhile, in non-bizarro-world, I will work with what I've actually GOT, is that ok with you?
Or you could just put the screenshots in a.zip file or something...
And that would be handier and easier how exactly? How do the screenshots become individual files without pasting them into something first, such as Paint? That method sucks if you have several to collect.
Open Word. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Word. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Save. You're not going to beat that with Paint, saving each individual shot into a specially prepared folder somewhere, then zipping that up. Work smarter not harder. What I really don't understand is how that classifies someone as an idiot.
I have distinct memories of the places I have been in in MUDs, and my memories show them most definitely in 3D. Sure, my brain had to do the rendering from the text descriptions of the rooms, but this was an automatic process, exactly like when you read a book. I was immersed in a world as vibrant and real as my imagination could make it. Superior in many ways to actual graphical displays that shortcut the imagination, leaving you stuck with exactly whatever the designers were able to come up with and no personal embellishment at all.
My point was this is not an every day, all the time ocurrance. These would be the "one-off" situations I mentioned. At least, I should hope so - if you're dislodging connections on a regular basis and pulling the thing over with the controller whenever you play, you need to re-examine your setup.
Most notebook optical drives I've ever seen have a friction-lock spindle that you have to "snap" the disc onto or off of. I would expect you could turn the notebook right upside down while a disc is spinning and not scratch it. But again, as already noted, they are designed to be portable.
An XBox 360 on the other hand, is not. I have no idea why anyone would move it around while in use - I mean, the TV isn't coming along with it, why would you suddenly have the need to move the console while in use? There are always little one-off situations I suppose, but that's hardly the manufacturer's concern.
This story is instead about how the thing is poorly engineered so that a normally-spinning disc is able to wobble in some way that allows it to get scratched regardless of what the user does with it, so a lawsuit seems to have merit.
I'd always thought that the American Dream was actually sitting around on your ass while someone hands you a massive payoff for no reason at all. Or at least, that's how people seem to behave.
I paid $10 for a wind-up flashlight that appears to have the same style of 3-LED array as this one. It's nice and bright, requires about 1 minute of winding to provide 15 minutes of full illumination, with less-bright light available after that. Considering that I never need anything other than a working pair of hands to charge it, I think the one I've got is much better for ensuring there will always be light when I need it. In a power outage, or out in a tent somewhere, a 90-second DC charge time doesn't do me any good at all.
Not having to dig out the stupid disc and put it in the drive (and risking a scratch) every time I want to switch to a different game is an awesome reason to use cracks or mounted images for games I have bought. I don't know about you but I don't play only one game every day until I'm sick of it and never play it again, I rotate among several. Each of these games is cracked even though I paid for it, because then I can just launch it and go. Not to mention increased performance in many cases -- that alone should persuade anyone that does play only one game at a time.
How does the signal get into your house? The "last loop" also referred to as the "last mile" is the path to your house from the street. In most all cases that part's still copper. Fiber comes to the neighborhood from the head-end, but it has to be converted onto copper to get it into your house. This is because you haven't got anything in your basement to convert fiber to copper for the old wiring in your walls, plus your modem only takes a copper input.
I've never had trouble finding a walkthrough for a game, unless it didn't exist. I don't see how Google can fix that particular instance, but it's been damn good finding me anything else. Usually within the top three results and very often the top one.
If you've got spots you can set the cruise, I think that's what does it really. As you drive around in city traffic, having to speed up, slow down, speed back up again a lot, your transmission is revving up and shifting a lot more than if you are just cruising at one speed. My 95 Cutlass Supreme gets almost twice the mileage on the highway, because the RPMs sit just under 2000 and don't move, for most of the tank. In the city the RPMs are going past 2000 all the time while accelerating through the gears. It's not your speed of travel, it's the speed of the *engine* that's burning all that gas.
If you unplug a suspended system, you have lost whatever the system had been doing, and it will need to do a full bootup again once power is restored. "Hibernate" is the only sleep method that allows you to remove all power from the system, as it writes the contents of RAM to a large file on the hard drive, then does a full power-off of the machine. The file is quickly read back in all at once when you start back up again, registers and stack pointer restored, windows that were open with whatever contents, etc. "Suspend" just puts the computer into a low-power state where the contents of RAM is maintained live: you cannot remove the power cord without losing the state, hence the system continues to draw a small amount of power.
That would actually only apply to poorly-written parodies, that don't make sense without the original work to give it context. Weird Al is not in that class, his parodies stand entirely on their own and do not require explanation from another source.
I'm not sure what you are bitter about (anyone calling other people snobs tends to have a bone to pick for some reason unrelated to the argument at hand), but there are good reasons why expensive tends to equal good, and it is just plain sensible once you realize the expense that goes into making something better than the next thing over. One should not be blinded by this fact, because it is not always true, but you really do get what you pay for.
What I find effective when using Google to find a vendor, is to entirely ignore the sponsored links at the top of the result list. These will tend to have been bought by competitors of the vendor you are looking for. The next result down after the sponsored links is most likely to be the place you are looking for. They need to stick with pagerank and get rid of the "sponsored" crap, it can't be trusted.
So you want him to download the podcast, put it on his portable, then get in his car and drive in some random direction just to make proper use of this rather poor format for the conveyance of information? He's already at a desk, work is on pause, and is ready to read things while listening to something else like music, so his complaint is entirely valid.
It's also shockingly cool because my understanding of C64 vs. IBM formatting indicates that the read/write method is entirely different between the two, making it physically impossible for one machine to run emulation to extract info from a drive of the other.
That's not competition, that's price gouging.
Actually that's just Capitalism. Hard to find means you're going to pay through the nose. We don't have to always like it, but this is the system that we supposedly support being in the countries we are in.
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First let me say I don't really care if someone shows breastfeeding pictures or not, it doesn't offend or move me either way.
But... What I don't really get is why it is so important to these mothers to put up pictures of themselves breastfeeding in the first place. Show us pictures of the baby, show you holding the baby, there, we have seen the baby. The baby has been seen. Why isn't that good enough? Does life somehow derail if you are not allowed to show the world your baby sucking on your nipple? Is this backlash only because Facebook said "no"? I think so.
Sure, I'll get right on forcing the company I contract for to switch the OS on 1000 machines. Meanwhile, in non-bizarro-world, I will work with what I've actually GOT, is that ok with you?
Or you could just put the screenshots in a .zip file or something...
And that would be handier and easier how exactly? How do the screenshots become individual files without pasting them into something first, such as Paint? That method sucks if you have several to collect.
Open Word. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Word. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Save. You're not going to beat that with Paint, saving each individual shot into a specially prepared folder somewhere, then zipping that up. Work smarter not harder. What I really don't understand is how that classifies someone as an idiot.
I have distinct memories of the places I have been in in MUDs, and my memories show them most definitely in 3D. Sure, my brain had to do the rendering from the text descriptions of the rooms, but this was an automatic process, exactly like when you read a book. I was immersed in a world as vibrant and real as my imagination could make it. Superior in many ways to actual graphical displays that shortcut the imagination, leaving you stuck with exactly whatever the designers were able to come up with and no personal embellishment at all.
Go stick your head in a pig!
Maybe assuming that there is a gravitational constant is what the mistake is?
My point was this is not an every day, all the time ocurrance. These would be the "one-off" situations I mentioned. At least, I should hope so - if you're dislodging connections on a regular basis and pulling the thing over with the controller whenever you play, you need to re-examine your setup.
Umm, you're right, these are different scenarios. Kevorkian's intention was to END suffering. Lori Drew's motivation was to CAUSE suffering.
Most notebook optical drives I've ever seen have a friction-lock spindle that you have to "snap" the disc onto or off of. I would expect you could turn the notebook right upside down while a disc is spinning and not scratch it. But again, as already noted, they are designed to be portable. An XBox 360 on the other hand, is not. I have no idea why anyone would move it around while in use - I mean, the TV isn't coming along with it, why would you suddenly have the need to move the console while in use? There are always little one-off situations I suppose, but that's hardly the manufacturer's concern. This story is instead about how the thing is poorly engineered so that a normally-spinning disc is able to wobble in some way that allows it to get scratched regardless of what the user does with it, so a lawsuit seems to have merit.
I'd always thought that the American Dream was actually sitting around on your ass while someone hands you a massive payoff for no reason at all. Or at least, that's how people seem to behave.
I paid $10 for a wind-up flashlight that appears to have the same style of 3-LED array as this one. It's nice and bright, requires about 1 minute of winding to provide 15 minutes of full illumination, with less-bright light available after that. Considering that I never need anything other than a working pair of hands to charge it, I think the one I've got is much better for ensuring there will always be light when I need it. In a power outage, or out in a tent somewhere, a 90-second DC charge time doesn't do me any good at all.
Not having to dig out the stupid disc and put it in the drive (and risking a scratch) every time I want to switch to a different game is an awesome reason to use cracks or mounted images for games I have bought. I don't know about you but I don't play only one game every day until I'm sick of it and never play it again, I rotate among several. Each of these games is cracked even though I paid for it, because then I can just launch it and go. Not to mention increased performance in many cases -- that alone should persuade anyone that does play only one game at a time.
How does the signal get into your house? The "last loop" also referred to as the "last mile" is the path to your house from the street. In most all cases that part's still copper. Fiber comes to the neighborhood from the head-end, but it has to be converted onto copper to get it into your house. This is because you haven't got anything in your basement to convert fiber to copper for the old wiring in your walls, plus your modem only takes a copper input.
I've never had trouble finding a walkthrough for a game, unless it didn't exist. I don't see how Google can fix that particular instance, but it's been damn good finding me anything else. Usually within the top three results and very often the top one.
People lose their freedoms when they join the other mob you mention, please try to keep up.
If you've got spots you can set the cruise, I think that's what does it really. As you drive around in city traffic, having to speed up, slow down, speed back up again a lot, your transmission is revving up and shifting a lot more than if you are just cruising at one speed. My 95 Cutlass Supreme gets almost twice the mileage on the highway, because the RPMs sit just under 2000 and don't move, for most of the tank. In the city the RPMs are going past 2000 all the time while accelerating through the gears. It's not your speed of travel, it's the speed of the *engine* that's burning all that gas.
If you unplug a suspended system, you have lost whatever the system had been doing, and it will need to do a full bootup again once power is restored. "Hibernate" is the only sleep method that allows you to remove all power from the system, as it writes the contents of RAM to a large file on the hard drive, then does a full power-off of the machine. The file is quickly read back in all at once when you start back up again, registers and stack pointer restored, windows that were open with whatever contents, etc. "Suspend" just puts the computer into a low-power state where the contents of RAM is maintained live: you cannot remove the power cord without losing the state, hence the system continues to draw a small amount of power.
That would actually only apply to poorly-written parodies, that don't make sense without the original work to give it context. Weird Al is not in that class, his parodies stand entirely on their own and do not require explanation from another source.
I think you broke my brain.
I'm not sure what you are bitter about (anyone calling other people snobs tends to have a bone to pick for some reason unrelated to the argument at hand), but there are good reasons why expensive tends to equal good, and it is just plain sensible once you realize the expense that goes into making something better than the next thing over. One should not be blinded by this fact, because it is not always true, but you really do get what you pay for.
What I find effective when using Google to find a vendor, is to entirely ignore the sponsored links at the top of the result list. These will tend to have been bought by competitors of the vendor you are looking for. The next result down after the sponsored links is most likely to be the place you are looking for. They need to stick with pagerank and get rid of the "sponsored" crap, it can't be trusted.
So you want him to download the podcast, put it on his portable, then get in his car and drive in some random direction just to make proper use of this rather poor format for the conveyance of information? He's already at a desk, work is on pause, and is ready to read things while listening to something else like music, so his complaint is entirely valid.
It's also shockingly cool because my understanding of C64 vs. IBM formatting indicates that the read/write method is entirely different between the two, making it physically impossible for one machine to run emulation to extract info from a drive of the other.
That's not competition, that's price gouging. Actually that's just Capitalism. Hard to find means you're going to pay through the nose. We don't have to always like it, but this is the system that we supposedly support being in the countries we are in.