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This review is from: Alien Life-Sized Facehugger Plush (Toy)

"On those cold rainy lonely nights every good colonist or marine needs some thing to snuggle up to, and this fits the bill perfectly! What is more comforting than your own personal facehugger? Fully articulated legs and tail ensure a proper grip, so there will be no escape"!

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That's a TurboFire model. Looks like a lot like an XBox 360 controller. Which is to be expected; there have been "turbo" 3rd party controllers for consoles for decades.

...Except it's for the PS3.

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Hey, friend, swivelling cameras like that have been around on laptops and handhelds for years.

Eg, Sony TR3A.

Whenever I see yet another Flash security issue, I wonder if Adobie Gillis is their CEO, or maybe they should change their name.

Does the circular pad actually do anything? I can't tell from that page. It looks to me like the buttons are arranged in a circle, but that the circle they're contained in doesn't do anything (e.g. scroll through lists or act like a jog wheel).

I owned one of these. No the circle does nothing special. It's just four buttons.

It was a good player, especially considering it was the second mp3 player to market. The only serious fault (that i found) was the battery door was mechanically secured to the main board alone by a solder joint. This joint would eventually break, and it wouldn't get power. Likely an easy fix, but i had a warranty, so they just replaced 'em. I later got a Nomad II as a replacement, which also had a circular button panel on the front.

NOBODY rapes Astroboy.

My brain hurts!

Well, this one is another good analogy.

I think it's at least partly driven by purposeful misuse of it in that way by people who either do or should know better--- whether because they want to make nuclear power seem scary, or just because they or their publishers want to sell books and push documentaries. One of the first major books on the subject uses the sensational title Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown (1982), and its paperback cover has the even more sensational tagline, "The Untold Story--- Why It Happened And How It Can Happen Again". And even that looks like a sober scholarly analysis compared to subsequent books with subtitles like A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror.

Fortunately there are good books on the subject. But I suspect they don't sell as well.

I had one of these. (Probably not that exact model, but close enough). At the time it was one of the best gadgets I had ever owned. It was much more portable and versatile than a CD walkman, and I didn't have to put up with the hideous quality of audio cassettes ever again.

Minidisc was quickly made obsolete by MP3, but for a short while, it was an awesome product.

Polite folk call it Georgium Sidus.

If there is a technologically viable reason...

...DON'T FUCK WITH BASEBALL.

I don't get it.

If there is a technologically viable reason...

...DON'T FUCK WITH BASEBALL.

I had to wait till i got home to watch that, and now that I have, i've lost my appetite. Ugh. Those look more like legless cockroaches than silkworms - are you sure you bought the right can? I bet they taste better fresh, rather than stewing in their own juices in a can for months on end, but... ugh I can't even drink my beer now. There's something similar to that here in the US: canned chipolte peppers in adobo sauce I bought some once when I have $40 for groceries for two weeks (with an empty kitchen, so this included condiments and all) and needed a condiment.... ugh the half opened can is still sitting in my fridge I can't even bare to touch the can. They look about the same in terms of size shape and consistency... probably taste equally as horrible.

Most adjustable keyboard trays commonly found in office-type furniture will work fine with this keyboard, like this one or this one

The cheap, narrow kind of keyboard trays that you can find in the self-assembly desks (like this one) probably won't allow this keyboard to fit, but if you're concerned about RSI, chances are you don't have a cheap desk like the one in the pic.

That's good to know!

Four upmods please?

BTW, the offending image is viewable in Amazon.

Oh, we have a plan, too.

Perhaps one of these?

I wonder how it looks once the tadpole is fully developed.

A little like this

An interesting book by Carl Sagan points out that the size of babies' heads seems to be bigger than women's pelvises were designed to handle

Aykroyd and co. figured that one out.

Well, I'm hoping they were able to use commodity, off-the-shelf parts.

Borat in the Mankini ... I agree, just as bad if not worse. You just made the throw-up a little.

I give you the most advanced artifact of our civilization, The Dyson Ball Vacuum:

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I'm an established hand model. My agent never told me that my famous "cash from wallet" 8x10 would be cropped and used to represent terrorists! MY CAREER IS RUINED!

They are the ones who make this Baby Shampoo. I think this is probably the most universal shampoo in existence.

And make no mistake about it, viewers are being trained by what, and how, they watch from a very early age. News programming is only one facet of that.

If you're trained to only accept information in time units no larger than the average bowel movement, the chances that you will think critically about any given subject are reduced immmensely.

This works especially well for marketers and companies intent on your "consuming" their products, and for those who have the motives of a three card monte dealer.

Which points up the critical importance of your tax dollars being used to insure everyone has access to the "glass teat".

Bread and circuses anyone?

And make no mistake about it, viewers are being trained by what, and how, they watch from a very early age. News programming is only one facet of that.

If you're trained to only accept information in time units no larger than the average bowel movement, the chances that you will think critically about any given subject are reduced immmensely.

This works especially well for marketers and companies intent on your "consuming" their products, and for those who have the motives of a three card monte dealer.

Which points up the critical importance of your tax dollars being used to insure everyone has access to the "glass teat".

Bread and circuses anyone?

Try this link for a substantial discount ;-)
(thanks, nat!)

Hell, they even landed a city (Atlantis) from a non-orbit.

Whatever. I suppose with enough shields and inertia dampeners you can do almost anything.

No Kidding.

The stuff they did with Boston after mounting it on that guitar-shaped spaceframe are really impressive.

Reentry capability after interstellar flight was a necessity, while hovering on pressor beams simplified the search for a suitable landing area. The asteroid clearing capabilities made manouvering in planetary ring systems possible and the debris shielding was impressive. Needed a little boost to get out of the atmosphere, though.

The early prototypes weren't as sleek but worked pretty well, too.

Duh.

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Its about time a movie with worse cover art beat out Kahn.

Judging the book by its cover, the book will involve a guy who climbs a hill faster than some other guys who also are climbing that hill. Then, he will look at something. Maybe he will tell us about what he sees. Sounds thrilling!

This should also help keep cleaning personnel out of the inner sanctums of the datacenter, and therefore prevent downtimes due to accidentally plugged-out cables and stuff. And even in case it fails to keep them _out_, it might keep them _inside_ for a loooong time. Relativley well-preserved.

I'm such a morbid bastard at times :/

So it is time that one patents the concept of a time-account as brought up by Paul Van Herck: Where Were You Last Pluterday?

This way the remains of the poor individuals having subscribed to M$ perhaps have a chance to make M$ richer.

CC.

Already happened, in spades:

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The AA Road Atlas for 2007, published in July 2006, can be found here:

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You'll notice a handy-dandy scale of 3.2 MILES per inch.

Yes, it's true, I'm a dumbass for not properly reading your post. *slaps head*

The actual Linksys iPhone page on Amazon has two product images on it:

• The original image, an oblique shot of the phone with no brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 28-Nov-2006 18:15:15 GMT.
• The user-supplied image by Ben Boyle, a "full frontal" shot of the phone with an "iPhone" brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 19-Dec-2006 06:53:16 GMT.

Yes, it's true, I'm a dumbass for not properly reading your post. *slaps head*

The actual Linksys iPhone page on Amazon has two product images on it:

• The original image, an oblique shot of the phone with no brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 28-Nov-2006 18:15:15 GMT.
• The user-supplied image by Ben Boyle, a "full frontal" shot of the phone with an "iPhone" brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 19-Dec-2006 06:53:16 GMT.

Unfortunately, the image right beside it (a view of the phone from directly in front) does actually have the iPhone moniker above the keypad.

Interestingly, if you HEAD that image it was last modified on 19-Dec-2006:

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:06:17 GMT
Content-Length: 22220
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:53:16 GMT

Gpp is correct, you are multiply wrong. (1) "A minute to learn, a lifetime to master" is indeed the slogan under which Othello is published. (2) Othello is not computationally solved (at least according to Wikipedia, for what that's worth).

The only point on which you are correct is that Go is computationally more difficult than Othello. If you take a moment actually to read the gpp, you will see s/he was not in fact denying this.

My first notebook was very beige.

Some church people have been checking but so far they aren't saying... ;)

"Out of what's left of our meager and withered sensitivity..."

Or, in other words, "our wives finally threatened to leave our sorry asses."

(I was really disappointed that this photo didn't get more publicity. It really sums up the kind of soulless, hardened criminals the RIAA is out there every day, defending us all against.)

Thanks! And, I agree with you on the relative value to society model, although our brains are wired to see faces with large eyes as cute (which is why we don't murder babies when they completely destroy our sleeping patterns).

Tangent: this is why anime is attractive, as the eyes are disproportionately large compared to the rest of the face. Almost every species has this characteristic, which from a developmental view I would imagine means that it's much easier to create eyes fully-formed, than it is to create them small and grow them.

The Eels had a great album cover using this idea, "Beautiful Freak".

Back from tangent: this is why people react so strongly negatively to your analysis: they are wired to "like" babies more than they "like" young adults, mostly for the same reasons you state: a baby needs to have resources expended on it if it is going to become a young adult, so people accept that.

It doesn't matter how right we are; in today's child porn database thread, someone said a paediatrician was targeted by hate crimes because the mob got confused by the leading "paed" and thought ... well, I guess they didn't really think much at all, actually.

It's a neat idea, but this particular model will never catch on as the EyeBud has the unfortunate effect of making the wearer looking like a Borg from Star Trek (and not 7 of 9, either!). While the iPod is a great device, the main reason that it was practically sold-out in stores and online this Christmas is its sleek look, small size, and stylish marketing campaign. In general, that's when all techy devices catch on in the general population, from home PC's to laptops to cell phones -- when they're small enough and attractive enough that the user doesn's look like a geek. Well, that and the price tag; nobody's going to pay $600 to look like the biggest dork on the block.

Bring the price down under $200, and streamline the design so that it looks like an extension of a bluetooth headset or maybe a pair of mirrored Oakley look-alikes. Sure, that'll probably take a couple of years. But only then will it be worth marketing this device as "the next big thing".