How so? As long as there is food, and a place to put the waste therefrom, what is to stop a body from continuing to recycle itself? Do growing children somehow break the law of entropy? No they don't, so why would it be any different if the body could be triggered to maintain this recycling process indefinitely, at least until the brain can't handle fresh memories anymore? That's a separate problem, and possibly the only real show-stopper in the quest for "eternal" life. But there is no reason the body *has* to break down other than so that it can die, making room for others and promoting genetic diversity.
And somehow the country did not grind to a halt and fall apart. If somebody really needs to get to another continent within a day, it should be because somebody they love is on their deathbed. It shouldn't be because of yet another business deal. Our priorities are so screwed these days, but I guess that's progress.
I've also had some sharing issues since SP3, but not general network problems. I can drag files from a local drive to a network drive just fine, but I cannot drag files from a network drive to anywhere, whether network or local. The drag operation does nothing if it's a left-click, and if it's a right-click drag the Move/Copy menu does not come up when releasing. I have to select the files and then hit Cut or Copy, and then I can Paste to the other drive. It's really annoying, and happens from both machines in my little home network. This started when I installed the SP3 release candidate much earlier, and did not get fixed when the actual SP3 got installed.
Umm, weren't the Japanese as a culture already pretty screwed up with regards to how men historically treated women, before widespread porn? Isn't Japanese porn instead a statement about what these men have always wanted from their women?
And I'll tell you right now that their testing/training does not qualify someone to actually work on their products. You really need the hands-on experience, which you don't get with their testing/training process.
I can attest to this - I worked for Dell for three years until they just recently shut down our call center (the Edmonton site, in Canada - curse our rising dollar!). For the past year my job was to field calls from the onsite technicians Dell sends out to fix laser printers. They'd call in having no idea what they were supposed to do, and would frequently make the problem worse in their struggles, prompting me to replace the whole printer rather than trying to replace the parts the tech broke, since it would just be the same inexperienced/untrainable tech going back out with the new parts. It wasn't always a training or documentation issue either though, these contracted locals were often bottom-of-the-barrel labor force types that had no concept of basic troubleshooting. You get what you pay for.
Heh, there are plenty of Americans that are difficult to understand, especially as you go further south. The ones that pronounce the letter "R" with two syllables drive me nuts (sounds almost like they're attempting to say "error"), and there's usually a lot of "could you rephrase that please?" coming from me. Pronunciation aside, there are also quite a few Americans that have such horrible grammar that you need a linguistics degree to figure out what they are trying to communicate.
This was the wrong game to use to try and prove a point about the effect of video games. I play DDR fairly often, and it's not really a video game so much as a physical workout. Working out is good for you on several levels. You get your circulation going, your metabolism picks up, you get endorphins making you happy, and you come out of it feeling like you did something good for yourself. Creativity is enhanced when your sense of well-being is enhanced. The video game aspect of it is, to me, pretty meaningless. They should have compared the effects of DDR with the effects of people doing aerobics to a workout video. I'll bet they would have found the same results.
That said, video games can make you more creative, but this was the wrong way to measure it.
I've seen a few power supply deaths, in which case two of the systems had been working fine right up until the last time they were turned off. One of them had a bad switch (old AT) which made it difficult to turn the system on, so the user had stopped turning it off altogether, for about a year. Then I needed to install a network card in their system so of course had to turn it off. It never powered up again after that, once the system had cooled, rewiring the switch didn't change anything, and the PSU needed to be replaced. Temperature change killed it.
Another one was one of my own, that was near a window, and that side of the room got very cold in the winter. My systems always run 24/7 because this way the internal temperature stays somewhat consistant, avoiding chip creep and spreading solder joints. But then one day, when it was particularly cold out and so also very cold in that corner, I wanted to move another hard drive into it. At first it powered back up for about 30 seconds then shut down. Tried starting it several times but each time the running interval got shorter, until finally, it just wouldn't turn on at all. Replaced PSU and all was fine. Temperature change killed it.
A third one, this time the one in my gaming rig, developed its problem while in use. I was playing Oblivion or something intensive like that, and it was summer, very hot outside and in - my apartment is very poorly insulated as you may have guessed by now. The system started shutting down about every half hour, so after a couple instances of that I stopped playing, but later in the evening when things had cooled down, it was still doing it. Replaced the PSU and it ran fine after that. Temperature killed it.
Quite a few hardware failures I've encountered, CPUs, hard drives, video cards, whether my own or friends or work-related, I've been able to blame on temperature one way or another.
I had something like that happening during the various betas, I think it started around beta 3. I had the same browser and OS version running on two machines with the same settings, worked fine on my secondary but not my primary box, where it would just exit on startup, no messages. So I nuked the profile and it started up just fine. Then I copied the firefox profile from my secondary box to my primary to get all my bookmarks etc back, and it worked fine ever since, so it was apparently something that went screwy in the profile.
Yeah well the "learn to read" gag is just as boring.. If everybody else got it, why did you get modded flamebait?
All that guy had to do was not steal,
You said the above. You're saying he's guilty, when you have no evidence. But I think I see the problem, my mistake was in assuming that we are both using the same dialect of English. I'm using the form that originated on Earth, so apparently we are not going to be able to communicate properly.
Umm, standing up for the law is one thing, but you seem quite convinced the guy did what they claim, when none of the so-called "evidence" has been provided to the public. This is why we argue about such things, because if we didn't, people like you would have most of the planet in jail based on the possibility they may have done something without any proof.
And what I heard about the primary use of that venom is that it is for immobilizing a swimming female, who will proceed to go limp and float helplessly, so that he can get his freak on. The platypus is Nature's date-rapist.
What concerns me is that, while I have had constant internet "service" as defined by me paying my cable bill and them not cutting me off on purpose, it does go down for me semi-regularly. It's usually back within an hour or less, but if I want to watch a blueray disc that requires checking on the net first, and it happens to be one of those times, I'm going to be frustrated, and I am going to rip that sucker at the first opportunity. And then I'll probably make copies for friends out of sheer spite.
Absolutely, I buy all of my games yet nearly every one of them gets its protection removed one way or another since I hate switching discs around when I want to change games, and also hate the risk of an accidental scratch every time I have to take one out. The routine is something like this: Get home with game, begin installation, look for official patches while waiting and start downloading those... Then while the game is patching, I attempt to create a working disc image to mount with Daemon Tools/YASU, and if that doesn't work then I go looking for a crack for the patched game. I prefer disc images to cracks since you never have to worry about getting an updated crack when there's another official patch for the game. Although full disc images take up a lot of space, HDD space is dirt cheap these days. I've got around 75 games installed at the moment and only three of them still require the disc.
I don't see how brute force would work since the answer keeps changing. Most of the captchas I've encountered show you a whole new one each time you get it wrong.
By measuring how strongly the fluid resisted the movement of this paddle, the experiment could determine the xenon's thickness. CVX-2 searched for changes in this thickness as it slowly changed the speed of the stirring and the temperature of the fluid.
My guess is that they needed to keep constant freefall for more than just a minute or so at a time.
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How so? As long as there is food, and a place to put the waste therefrom, what is to stop a body from continuing to recycle itself? Do growing children somehow break the law of entropy? No they don't, so why would it be any different if the body could be triggered to maintain this recycling process indefinitely, at least until the brain can't handle fresh memories anymore? That's a separate problem, and possibly the only real show-stopper in the quest for "eternal" life. But there is no reason the body *has* to break down other than so that it can die, making room for others and promoting genetic diversity.
And somehow the country did not grind to a halt and fall apart. If somebody really needs to get to another continent within a day, it should be because somebody they love is on their deathbed. It shouldn't be because of yet another business deal. Our priorities are so screwed these days, but I guess that's progress.
"Thank you for calling, how may I help you? I see. *sigh* Click 'Allow'. There you go, have a nice day."
"Thank you for calling, how may I help you? Oh really? *sigh* Click 'Allow'. Thanks for calling."
"Thank you for calling, how may I help you? Oh for Chris-- *sigh* Click 'Allow'. Yeah good, bye."
Or what if you "clean" the gun with something corrosive?
So when they see a pack of coyotes taking down one of their cows, they just wave their arms menacingly and shout at them?
I've also had some sharing issues since SP3, but not general network problems. I can drag files from a local drive to a network drive just fine, but I cannot drag files from a network drive to anywhere, whether network or local. The drag operation does nothing if it's a left-click, and if it's a right-click drag the Move/Copy menu does not come up when releasing. I have to select the files and then hit Cut or Copy, and then I can Paste to the other drive. It's really annoying, and happens from both machines in my little home network. This started when I installed the SP3 release candidate much earlier, and did not get fixed when the actual SP3 got installed.
Umm, weren't the Japanese as a culture already pretty screwed up with regards to how men historically treated women, before widespread porn? Isn't Japanese porn instead a statement about what these men have always wanted from their women?
And then you put a person who was born blind into the MRI and ask them to think about a car. Now what?
And I'll tell you right now that their testing/training does not qualify someone to actually work on their products. You really need the hands-on experience, which you don't get with their testing/training process.
I can attest to this - I worked for Dell for three years until they just recently shut down our call center (the Edmonton site, in Canada - curse our rising dollar!). For the past year my job was to field calls from the onsite technicians Dell sends out to fix laser printers. They'd call in having no idea what they were supposed to do, and would frequently make the problem worse in their struggles, prompting me to replace the whole printer rather than trying to replace the parts the tech broke, since it would just be the same inexperienced/untrainable tech going back out with the new parts. It wasn't always a training or documentation issue either though, these contracted locals were often bottom-of-the-barrel labor force types that had no concept of basic troubleshooting. You get what you pay for.
Heh, there are plenty of Americans that are difficult to understand, especially as you go further south. The ones that pronounce the letter "R" with two syllables drive me nuts (sounds almost like they're attempting to say "error"), and there's usually a lot of "could you rephrase that please?" coming from me. Pronunciation aside, there are also quite a few Americans that have such horrible grammar that you need a linguistics degree to figure out what they are trying to communicate.
This was the wrong game to use to try and prove a point about the effect of video games. I play DDR fairly often, and it's not really a video game so much as a physical workout. Working out is good for you on several levels. You get your circulation going, your metabolism picks up, you get endorphins making you happy, and you come out of it feeling like you did something good for yourself. Creativity is enhanced when your sense of well-being is enhanced. The video game aspect of it is, to me, pretty meaningless. They should have compared the effects of DDR with the effects of people doing aerobics to a workout video. I'll bet they would have found the same results.
That said, video games can make you more creative, but this was the wrong way to measure it.
I've seen a few power supply deaths, in which case two of the systems had been working fine right up until the last time they were turned off. One of them had a bad switch (old AT) which made it difficult to turn the system on, so the user had stopped turning it off altogether, for about a year. Then I needed to install a network card in their system so of course had to turn it off. It never powered up again after that, once the system had cooled, rewiring the switch didn't change anything, and the PSU needed to be replaced. Temperature change killed it.
Another one was one of my own, that was near a window, and that side of the room got very cold in the winter. My systems always run 24/7 because this way the internal temperature stays somewhat consistant, avoiding chip creep and spreading solder joints. But then one day, when it was particularly cold out and so also very cold in that corner, I wanted to move another hard drive into it. At first it powered back up for about 30 seconds then shut down. Tried starting it several times but each time the running interval got shorter, until finally, it just wouldn't turn on at all. Replaced PSU and all was fine. Temperature change killed it.
A third one, this time the one in my gaming rig, developed its problem while in use. I was playing Oblivion or something intensive like that, and it was summer, very hot outside and in - my apartment is very poorly insulated as you may have guessed by now. The system started shutting down about every half hour, so after a couple instances of that I stopped playing, but later in the evening when things had cooled down, it was still doing it. Replaced the PSU and it ran fine after that. Temperature killed it.
Quite a few hardware failures I've encountered, CPUs, hard drives, video cards, whether my own or friends or work-related, I've been able to blame on temperature one way or another.
But Japan has a very different culture, are you sure they are being abused less, or are they perhaps just coming forward less?
I had something like that happening during the various betas, I think it started around beta 3. I had the same browser and OS version running on two machines with the same settings, worked fine on my secondary but not my primary box, where it would just exit on startup, no messages. So I nuked the profile and it started up just fine. Then I copied the firefox profile from my secondary box to my primary to get all my bookmarks etc back, and it worked fine ever since, so it was apparently something that went screwy in the profile.
Yeah well the "learn to read" gag is just as boring.. If everybody else got it, why did you get modded flamebait?
All that guy had to do was not steal,
You said the above. You're saying he's guilty, when you have no evidence. But I think I see the problem, my mistake was in assuming that we are both using the same dialect of English. I'm using the form that originated on Earth, so apparently we are not going to be able to communicate properly.
Then I suggest you learn how to write what you are actually trying to say instead of just whatever spews out.
There has to be a reason I don't come to Slashdot any more.
Obviously not a very compelling reason, since here you are.
Umm, standing up for the law is one thing, but you seem quite convinced the guy did what they claim, when none of the so-called "evidence" has been provided to the public. This is why we argue about such things, because if we didn't, people like you would have most of the planet in jail based on the possibility they may have done something without any proof.
And what I heard about the primary use of that venom is that it is for immobilizing a swimming female, who will proceed to go limp and float helplessly, so that he can get his freak on. The platypus is Nature's date-rapist.
What concerns me is that, while I have had constant internet "service" as defined by me paying my cable bill and them not cutting me off on purpose, it does go down for me semi-regularly. It's usually back within an hour or less, but if I want to watch a blueray disc that requires checking on the net first, and it happens to be one of those times, I'm going to be frustrated, and I am going to rip that sucker at the first opportunity. And then I'll probably make copies for friends out of sheer spite.
Absolutely, I buy all of my games yet nearly every one of them gets its protection removed one way or another since I hate switching discs around when I want to change games, and also hate the risk of an accidental scratch every time I have to take one out. The routine is something like this: Get home with game, begin installation, look for official patches while waiting and start downloading those... Then while the game is patching, I attempt to create a working disc image to mount with Daemon Tools/YASU, and if that doesn't work then I go looking for a crack for the patched game. I prefer disc images to cracks since you never have to worry about getting an updated crack when there's another official patch for the game. Although full disc images take up a lot of space, HDD space is dirt cheap these days. I've got around 75 games installed at the moment and only three of them still require the disc.
Umm, yeah, it's just so obvious the movie must suck since it keeps showing up here. Does all of your logic come from substance abuse?
I don't see how brute force would work since the answer keeps changing. Most of the captchas I've encountered show you a whole new one each time you get it wrong.
Gives a new meaning to having shitty cable service.
By measuring how strongly the fluid resisted the movement of this paddle, the experiment could determine the xenon's thickness. CVX-2 searched for changes in this thickness as it slowly changed the speed of the stirring and the temperature of the fluid.
My guess is that they needed to keep constant freefall for more than just a minute or so at a time.