his greatest contribution is a legacy that lasts to this day: he developed the technique of piggyback astronomy.

piggyback astronomy tl;dr: put camera on equatorial mount telescope (disregard the telescope part) so you can do long exposures without (most of) the motion blur.

Google will also soon stop scanning the accounts of Google Apps customers with Business, Government and legacy accounts for the free version.

- http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/...

Right - that's why AMS-IX opened 'their' NY location as a separate company, so that U.S. jurisdiction can't touch their Dutch operations.

https://ams-ix.net/newsitems/1...

Or so their lawyers are interpreting anyway - probably nothing a stroke of the pen in the U.S. can't make disappear.

So you are expecting every small company to afford a large network infrastructure

Not at all - I do expect the large network infrastructure providers to be able to harden themselves against such attacks, especially given their clients.

Like I said - at least it had a switch-over, so although doctors could not access things for 'minutes' (how many are we talking about anyway?), they should have been mostly unaffected.

That said - some absolutely critical things should not be placed under the total care of service providers. Would you do away with your HDD/SSD and rely entirely on cloud storage?

Sounds like your post's subject should be reading "This is why hosted services are Bad MmmKaa."

It's all good and well to blame the 'hackers' - and they should be - but next time a critter chews through a cable, lightning strikes, somebody trips over a wire, or something else rather more benign happens and those doctors would have had the same issue.

On the up side, at least there was a switch-over.

As I have been playing this game lately (friend invite)

2. Can the player open them? Yes. If you have doors in a 3D game and they don't behave like doors, you have failed.

Or succeeded - not every door in real life can be opened.

3. Can the player open every door in the game? Yes. See point 2.

Not necessarily.

4. What tells a player a door is locked and will open, as opposed to a door that they will never open? It's a door. It opens.

Unless the door knob is missing. Then it doesn't open - and every player realizes this visual cue pretty quickly.

5. What happens if there are two players? Doors behave the same for all players. It's a door. See point 2.

Agreed.

6. Does it only lock after both players pass through the door? See point 5.

Except for certain doors that require all players to have passed through. The door opens/closes just fine, but only locks if all players are either in the room, or outside the room but dead. How do players know? It's written on-screen - but after a while, people just know.

7. What if the level is REALLY BIG and can't all exist at the same time? Then your technology is not good enough to implement your vision and one or the other needs to change. See point 2

Or you load/save as applicable and call each section stages/chapters.

The game? Left 4 Dead 2.

Now, should all games be designed that way? No. But it's certainly a solution to the problems put forth, and fits within the game's overall design.

Perhaps you don't actually know anything about golf and how it's played in the real world by real people?

Very little indeed - like I said, I only played for a little while. All the other stuff was the perception thanks to movies/TV shows, etc.

If the image they portray (and repeated in TFA) is terribly wrong, then the golf promotion bunch might go on the offensive on that :)

While I could probably spend the hours, I just don't find the cost justified. I'd rather take some of the younger ones in our family to a putt-putt/minigolf.

I think it's also a bit of perception - most of the time you find a golf scene in a movie/TV show, it will generally be older people (read: men), often in business, more than well off, and generally not about the game itself but about the networking that happens while at the game. I'm inclined that it's that aspect that they're really trying to save, by making people get less frustrated about balls not going in while they're talking business deals, drinking expensive drinks, and paying up the wazoo to play at a course in the first place.

Having now RTFA, that seems to be almost exactly it.

And to think I rather enjoyed my first few rounds at a course after playing Links for years on old computers.

Not just those.. I mean, macros in general is a pain to work with in OO.o (LibreOffice as well), while it's much simpler in VBA. And I'm not talking about syntax here, but things like accessing graph data and manipulating it. Want to highlight a particular point in a graph? I don't even know where to start with OO.o as the documentation is.. well I'm sure it's to be found *somewhere*.

But also rather common things like chart titles based on a cell value. You'd think that "Weekly report - Week #" where # is the current week number would be possible, simply by referencing a cell with the week number OR referencing a cell with the full title. But alas - you cannot.
Instead you have to kludge a work-around using a second chart with completely transparent background and only showing the X Axis Label (which, of course, does auto-adjust based on the categories range set), then move that on top of the other chart.
( Correct me if I'm wrong in that, and it is possible now. )

LibreOffice is worse in this respect... recent updates have caused outright crashes when moving data around, date values getting displayed with the wrong date on charts, etc.

I don't need a machine gun to keep people from stealing my TV. Locks, walls, and intelligence mostly does that. I need the machine gun because it is fun to shoot at rotten pumpkins and cinder blocks out at the gun range.

Wouldn't it make sense to keep the machine gun locked away (relatively) safely at said gun range, then?

Yes, but this one is less than double the price!

Hit F11 - be astounded by the extra browser content screenspace. Now if only that didn't also fill the horizontal, eh.

Out of curiosity... do you feel differently about cars? (e.g. through services such as Uber and Lyft)

What the sibling AC said - care to share your list?

Note that for [your] online viewing habits, you don't need G+. I guess you could be doing it out of solidarity of the internet commenters or those uploaders who curse the requirement while coveting the ad/syndicated partnership income - but if you're just watching the videos, you don't need a Google+ acccount. (Yet. Not likely to change, but then Google pulls all sorts of unlikely things.)

I find turning it around or positioning myself so that I can see the back a lot more efficient (even if it did accept the plug either way around). Of course if it's something that has to be swapped out relatively often, I don't use the ports on the back at all.