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CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame
CMU_Nort writes "Carnegie Mellon University has just unveiled the Robot Hall of Fame. Along with that announcement, MSNBC has an article about the first honorary inductees, including R2D2 and Mars Pathfinder. You also have the chance to nominate other robots."
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
Q: How tall are Ewoks?
A: Just about right! *mphghththpph*
Seriously, I though that Microsoft would never remove pop-ups because internet advertisers would pay Microsoft to prevent it.
Then again, I thought Microsoft would never fix its security problems either.
Are Americans and Europeans really like we expect?
Answer the following question to find out.
State your country, and put in order the things you would most hate your child (or other children) to watch on television.
1. Man being shot (acted)
2. Man being shot (real)
3. Somebody saying "God damn it!"
4. Somebody saying "The fucker's fuckin' fucked."
5. Women's breasts
6. People having sex
1. Man being shot (real)
2. Man being shot (acted)
3. Somebody saying "The fucker's fuckin' fucked."
4. People having sex
5. Women's breasts
6. Somebody saying "God damn it!"
United States
2,1,6,4,5,3
LOAD "SIG",8,1
I dont get it.
:)
You invite people to respond and not mod down to your sig, I do on your journal, and you do not respond!
Your sig read that 75% of the palestinians supported the Haifa restaurant attack...
but nearly 75% of Fox news viewers in the U.S. supported the war on Iraq, and thought that Saddam Hussein had access to Nukes and was ready to use them, as well as being behind the 9/11 attacks. Wrong on both counts!
How many Al-Jazeera viewers do you think had those same beliefs as the Fox news folks?
Just food for thought, nothing more... why not check out foriegn sources of news, more impartial sources with less to gain/lose? Please respond, don't mod down
Here's to finally giving Bush his exit strategy in November
Looking for the Paris Hilton porno tape? Look no further than Freenet.
s nr QhkXEiBw/parissexmovie_256k.wmv
CHK@qGlSiCK3HPMx38fCuSPlo81ws2AMAwI,LRhfAE-DMDc
(Remove the spaces that Ashdotslay inserted into the key)