Mankind had air conditioners 50,000 years ago? Wow, I'm impressed at what we were able to achieve so long ago. And here I was thinking that electricity only came into household use in the last century or two - what a Creationist fool I've been, thinking so short-term.
Were they split systems?
"[McDonalds] also do not attempt to stop you from [...] splitting a cola with your friends"
Actually, the Hungry Jacks (Burger King) down the road won't let me split my coke with my mate. Bloody DRM!... although, that might be because they have a self-serve all-you-can-drink machine for refills.
2 Take out one stick of memory. 3GB is kind of excessive IMO for OS X unless you REALLY need that much memory. I used to run WoW, iTunes, Firefox, Ventrilo, and other apps just fine (when I played WoW) and never had any memory issues with 2 GB. I think the Mac Pro benefits from interleaving as well (don't quote me on that, I don't have one) and requires a specific memory configuration. Thus solving the problem forever.
Actually I'm really looking forward to the iRobot.
Aww, I thought I was so original with that pun, but I decided to google iRobot and looks like I wasn't the first to use it http://www.irobot.com/. Look out iRobot company, Apple will be on to you next.
I've been curious about this one since yesterday. Apple doesn't seem to have any legal right to the name, but could they really call it anything else? Bah just do what the Electical Engineers did when 'i' was already taken.
Yes but MS still get a notch in their belt that way. A portion of what you paid for the computer gets sent to bill gates who, no doubt, will use the money to buy sex toys. Dude, you just bought a leather whip for bill gates. You're a sick sick man.
But if they were only going to do it half-assed (0.196850394-assed for metric folks) whoops, you misspelled "arse" there, but I guess it's obvious what you meant. Because everyone knows:
1 Ass = 0.393700788 Arses
On a more serious note though, I find it odd that the US wasn't one of the first to bring in the metric system. A lot of the little differences between US English and UK English is simply because the US wants to highlight it's independence from the UK. I'm told there's something along the lines of developing your own language written in the declaration of independence. You (USA) were quick to move to a decimal currency, but for some reason when it comes to measurement you lagged behind a little and in the end, the UK overtook you. (Does the UK use metric these days? I'm assuming so, I don't really know I'm aussie).
Good point, it's hard to set a group of people apart and nominate the lot of them as "Person" of the year. I fully anticipate the following announcement next year:
"And the award for Times Person of the Year 2007 is... The Eskimoes! What a bunch of troupers! *wipes away a tear*"
It requires a bit of doublethink to ignore that voice in the back of your head screaming "THAT MAKES NO SENSE" and to just sit back and accept the inconsistency. Doublethink is so prevalent these days it's scary, and people don't even care that they do it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I fully reccommend all australians and russians go out and download a legally free copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell). Americans, you'll need to wait until 2044 before it's free, USA evidentally believes Orwell will still be benefitting from the sales until that point in time:P
*sigh* Where's the delete button? I admit, before anyone flames me, that my previous post was stupid cos I didn't properly comprehend what the original post was saying.
Interesting theory, that volume of water == volume of ice. Go fill up a glass milk bottle with water, stick it your freezer, and then try to tell me tomorrow that it didnt expand. I'm curious how it is that you figure that you take a certain amount of water, you freeze it, it becomes less dense *without* expanding.
a few people have made a similar joke, but, the article goes to show just the opposite -- don't bother documenting stuff, because 2000 years from now it won't help people figure out what your thingamajig does. The device has the instruction manual printed on the side of it.
In fact, truth be told, if the device came with perfectly understandable-at-a-glance instructions as to what it was, the device would lose all mystery and wouldn't be getting anywhere near the kind of attention it's getting right now.
In australia our voting (the election that lead to a prime minister being appointed, that is) is compulsory - every australian citizen must do it. Which leads to this wonderful think called the Donkey Vote. See, it's compulsory to go stand in a voting booth, fill out a form, and but it in the ballot box. but since it's a secret vote, you can just fill the form out deliberately invalidly and nobody would know. This, in itself is a protest, that out of all the candidates your first choice is None. And the protest gets heard, to some degree, because the number of invalid/donkey votes get counted too.
Unfortunately in the US, you don't get that option. Well, I suppose you could go into your voting-place and cast an invalid vote, but the main way people would protest i assume would be to just stay at home. Meaning, your protest just gets counted as one of the many americans who are too lazy to vote.
I prefer to think of it, in Australia, that it's compulsory to "make the effort" to vote, but not necessarily compulsory to cast a valid vote.
I think the writer of the article is either stupid or deliberately FUDding MS. And I'm not an MS supporter, but isn't this obvious?...
FTA: In a statement a Microsoft spokesperson said: "Since Zune is a separate offering that is not part of the Plays For Sure ecosystem, Zune content is not supported on Plays For Sure devices."
Repeat, ZUNE content not support of P4S devices.
In other words, Zune can play the old (play for sure) stuff, and then some. However, older PlaysForSure-only devices won't be able to handle the added extras that Zune supports. MSN Music is changing names and moving to the Zune-ized PlaysForSureAndThenSome. So, MSN music will always be compatible with Zune, but possibly not other devices.
This is the OPPOSITE of what the article writer has decided. He/she thinks that you won't be able to play MS-bought music on an MS-bought device. That's not the case at all.
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Mankind had air conditioners 50,000 years ago? Wow, I'm impressed at what we were able to achieve so long ago. And here I was thinking that electricity only came into household use in the last century or two - what a Creationist fool I've been, thinking so short-term. Were they split systems?
Yeah, and I remember the days when MS didnt even give you any paint, all they gave you was the paintbrush (or "pbrush" for short)
Wouldn't it be nice is ReactOs got to a stage where it could Embrace, Extend and Extinguish the NT line? Oh well, just a fantasy.
"[McDonalds] also do not attempt to stop you from [...] splitting a cola with your friends" Actually, the Hungry Jacks (Burger King) down the road won't let me split my coke with my mate. Bloody DRM! ... although, that might be because they have a self-serve all-you-can-drink machine for refills.
Actually I'm really looking forward to the iRobot.
Aww, I thought I was so original with that pun, but I decided to google iRobot and looks like I wasn't the first to use it http://www.irobot.com/. Look out iRobot company, Apple will be on to you next.
Introducing the jPhone.
Yes but MS still get a notch in their belt that way. A portion of what you paid for the computer gets sent to bill gates who, no doubt, will use the money to buy sex toys. Dude, you just bought a leather whip for bill gates. You're a sick sick man.
1 Ass = 0.393700788 Arses
On a more serious note though, I find it odd that the US wasn't one of the first to bring in the metric system. A lot of the little differences between US English and UK English is simply because the US wants to highlight it's independence from the UK. I'm told there's something along the lines of developing your own language written in the declaration of independence. You (USA) were quick to move to a decimal currency, but for some reason when it comes to measurement you lagged behind a little and in the end, the UK overtook you. (Does the UK use metric these days? I'm assuming so, I don't really know I'm aussie).
I'm also pretty sure DVD+/-R is keeping all the bears and lions away from my suburb. I haven't seen any since they hit the market.
People also don't know the best technique for getting on a penny farthing and riding off. What's you're point?
Good point, it's hard to set a group of people apart and nominate the lot of them as "Person" of the year. I fully anticipate the following announcement next year: "And the award for Times Person of the Year 2007 is... The Eskimoes! What a bunch of troupers! *wipes away a tear*" It requires a bit of doublethink to ignore that voice in the back of your head screaming "THAT MAKES NO SENSE" and to just sit back and accept the inconsistency. Doublethink is so prevalent these days it's scary, and people don't even care that they do it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I fully reccommend all australians and russians go out and download a legally free copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell). Americans, you'll need to wait until 2044 before it's free, USA evidentally believes Orwell will still be benefitting from the sales until that point in time :P
i hear ya, two of my favs too. but they've both had movies to tie up loose ends, they're not coming back *wipes away a tear*
X-Blender? One of the robot appliances that revolted upon Mom's orders?
I've got a feeling the motive behind mythtv distros is more to do with poaching (potential) windows MCE users than hardcore linux users
of course *slaps forehead* we could just overclock titan, then it would just heat itself up! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of THOSE.
*sigh* Where's the delete button? I admit, before anyone flames me, that my previous post was stupid cos I didn't properly comprehend what the original post was saying.
Interesting theory, that volume of water == volume of ice. Go fill up a glass milk bottle with water, stick it your freezer, and then try to tell me tomorrow that it didnt expand. I'm curious how it is that you figure that you take a certain amount of water, you freeze it, it becomes less dense *without* expanding.
Wait, is this legit? is this really word-for-word what the Can-SPAM act says? "expressly regulates the use of electronic male" Electronic MALES?!?
a few people have made a similar joke, but, the article goes to show just the opposite -- don't bother documenting stuff, because 2000 years from now it won't help people figure out what your thingamajig does. The device has the instruction manual printed on the side of it. In fact, truth be told, if the device came with perfectly understandable-at-a-glance instructions as to what it was, the device would lose all mystery and wouldn't be getting anywhere near the kind of attention it's getting right now.
No, what we need is for terrorists from Venus to attack, then the US and it's puppies will can go invade Mars. It makes perfect sense, somehow.
In australia our voting (the election that lead to a prime minister being appointed, that is) is compulsory - every australian citizen must do it. Which leads to this wonderful think called the Donkey Vote. See, it's compulsory to go stand in a voting booth, fill out a form, and but it in the ballot box. but since it's a secret vote, you can just fill the form out deliberately invalidly and nobody would know. This, in itself is a protest, that out of all the candidates your first choice is None. And the protest gets heard, to some degree, because the number of invalid/donkey votes get counted too. Unfortunately in the US, you don't get that option. Well, I suppose you could go into your voting-place and cast an invalid vote, but the main way people would protest i assume would be to just stay at home. Meaning, your protest just gets counted as one of the many americans who are too lazy to vote. I prefer to think of it, in Australia, that it's compulsory to "make the effort" to vote, but not necessarily compulsory to cast a valid vote.
I think the writer of the article is either stupid or deliberately FUDding MS. And I'm not an MS supporter, but isn't this obvious? ...
FTA: In a statement a Microsoft spokesperson said: "Since Zune is a separate offering that is not part of the Plays For Sure ecosystem, Zune content is not supported on Plays For Sure devices."
Repeat, ZUNE content not support of P4S devices.
In other words, Zune can play the old (play for sure) stuff, and then some. However, older PlaysForSure-only devices won't be able to handle the added extras that Zune supports. MSN Music is changing names and moving to the Zune-ized PlaysForSureAndThenSome. So, MSN music will always be compatible with Zune, but possibly not other devices.
This is the OPPOSITE of what the article writer has decided. He/she thinks that you won't be able to play MS-bought music on an MS-bought device. That's not the case at all.