Thank you for your years of service, Atlantis. You will be forever remembered:( Billions in bank bailouts, billions in healthcare....but ~$20 billion for NASA? Out of the question!
You don't understand. The two "main streets" in Downtown Olney were slightly crowded when there was only 7500 people there. Now there are 40,000 people, and the streets are the same size. Not to mention that since the city limits haven't expanded outward, there are far more people living in the same square mileage as before.
For anyone stuck with an Intel GMA chipset: GMA Booster may help solve some of your problems. Just make sure you have a decent cooling solution, as it can ramp up the heat output of your system considerably. Still, if you're stuck with GMA, it can make the difference between a game being unplayable and being smooth.
...are the Library of Congress site and the Supreme Court site. Both of them are extremely informative, and have a massive wealth of information that is readily available.
I've lived here my whole life (lived in Montgomery Village until I was 6, then Olney, then lived in Germantown, then Gaithersburg, now downtown Rockville), and I love it around here...but when we leave the area in a few years, I certainly won't miss the traffic, overcrowding, or asshole drivers. I really miss how this area used to be...hell, Olney, my hometown, had only 7500 residents in it when my parents moved in there almost 20 years ago (I'm 26). Now, Olney has close to 40,000 people...and the city limits haven't expanded outward by much. Don't get me started on Downtown Rockville, this place is insanely crowded.
Still, it is my home, and despite its flaws, I do love it:/
I live in Maryland, about 30 minutes outside of DC, and pretty much nothing happens here. Granted, we sometimes get the freak snowstorm (like Feb's Snowmegeddon), or sometimes get the tail end of tropical storms, but for the most part, the DC/Metro area doesn't have to worry about anything like that.
Oh wait....DC...never mind, we have our own brand of disaster to worry about -_-;;
I don't believe that you and the poster really mean what you're saying. I mean, be serious. For as long as I can remember, I've known the difference between being upset about a word, and being upset about a word's use to abuse someone.
People use candles to abuse people...people also use candles to light their homes when the power goes out. No reason to get rid of candles just because they can be shoved up someone's butt.
Shit" is fine. I've no problem with it. But to pretend that when someone says that producing and broadcasting a show called "Shit my dad" or "fuck my dad" to millions of children is the same as complaining about the use of four letters... it's just willfully ignorant and socially irresponsible bullshit.
I would agree with you if you didn't invoke the "protect the children" clause in your argument, especially with the "millions" qualifier. Your kids (and the kids of other people) can see far worse things on the news than in a sitcom. What's worse, hearing about how some nations have hundreds if not thousands of people die every day because their governments commit mass genocide on a regular basis...or hearing William Shatner spout off obscenities?
That's all fine and well, but allowing little Timmy to see someone get shot, but not allow their titty to pop out when they hit the ground or for them to yell "fuck that hurts!" when the bullet hits them is, by all measures, retarded.
The one for the DS ("Twin Age") feels like a cross between Diablo and Seiken Densetsu 2. I don't generally dig games on the DS that are stylus-only, but it's good. The storyline at first glance follows a generic formula, but it's done so well that I don't even care...it got its hooks in me early!
I still have and play the first any only awesome western game. Mad Dog McCree. With its overly pixelled video and awesome kill shots. This new came can only hope to come close it.
...I recently had the misfortune of discovering a couple of older gems on the Nintendo DS. Etrian Odyssey, Summon Night: Twin Age, and a couple of others have been taking up nearly all of my gaming time lately:/
Isn't that the basis of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument? If a system exists where people are going to break it, and requires that people will play nice to each other, then I think the system truly IS broken.
So you blame a system as being broken when it's the people that do the breaking? That doesn't make any sense.
That's like saying cars are a flawed method of transportation because most people drive like assholes. That isn't the car's fault, it's the asshole's fault.
In other words, the patent scheme is broken at it's core.
It's not the patent system that is broken. It's the people who use it that are broken. You can't fault the USPTO when people submit insanely broad patents that have nearly nothing to do with their actual invention. (You can, of course, blame the USPTO when they actually GRANT those patents, but that's a different conversation)
^This. My bank asks for the standard username and password, but then on the next screen they request your PIN. You don't type it in, though...it's completely mouse driven. So not only do they have the extra protection of needing a PIN, but it helps thwart keyloggers because you don't actually type it in.
Well for example I'm logged into facebook right now. As I'm jumping from site-to-site in Tab #2, one of them could hijack the Tab #1 and make it look like a legitimate facebook login screen
Ah, but like you said, you are logged into Facebook right now. Would you not find it suspicious if when you clicked back over to it, you were greeted with a login screen?
That's the thing though...if people applied for patents that were limited in scope and describe only their invention, the system would be working exactly as it was intended to. Unfortunately, greed (on applicant's part) and complacency (on the USPTO's part) prevent this.
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I've tried it, it definitely works. It "transforms" the hardware by greatly overclocking it :-)
Thank you for your years of service, Atlantis. You will be forever remembered :( Billions in bank bailouts, billions in healthcare....but ~$20 billion for NASA? Out of the question!
You don't understand. The two "main streets" in Downtown Olney were slightly crowded when there was only 7500 people there. Now there are 40,000 people, and the streets are the same size. Not to mention that since the city limits haven't expanded outward, there are far more people living in the same square mileage as before.
For anyone stuck with an Intel GMA chipset: GMA Booster may help solve some of your problems. Just make sure you have a decent cooling solution, as it can ramp up the heat output of your system considerably. Still, if you're stuck with GMA, it can make the difference between a game being unplayable and being smooth.
Wrong article, clod!
...are the Library of Congress site and the Supreme Court site. Both of them are extremely informative, and have a massive wealth of information that is readily available.
I've lived here my whole life (lived in Montgomery Village until I was 6, then Olney, then lived in Germantown, then Gaithersburg, now downtown Rockville), and I love it around here...but when we leave the area in a few years, I certainly won't miss the traffic, overcrowding, or asshole drivers. I really miss how this area used to be...hell, Olney, my hometown, had only 7500 residents in it when my parents moved in there almost 20 years ago (I'm 26). Now, Olney has close to 40,000 people...and the city limits haven't expanded outward by much. Don't get me started on Downtown Rockville, this place is insanely crowded.
Still, it is my home, and despite its flaws, I do love it :/
I live in Maryland, about 30 minutes outside of DC, and pretty much nothing happens here. Granted, we sometimes get the freak snowstorm (like Feb's Snowmegeddon), or sometimes get the tail end of tropical storms, but for the most part, the DC/Metro area doesn't have to worry about anything like that.
Oh wait....DC...never mind, we have our own brand of disaster to worry about -_-;;
I don't believe that you and the poster really mean what you're saying. I mean, be serious. For as long as I can remember, I've known the difference between being upset about a word, and being upset about a word's use to abuse someone.
People use candles to abuse people...people also use candles to light their homes when the power goes out. No reason to get rid of candles just because they can be shoved up someone's butt.
Shit" is fine. I've no problem with it. But to pretend that when someone says that producing and broadcasting a show called "Shit my dad" or "fuck my dad" to millions of children is the same as complaining about the use of four letters... it's just willfully ignorant and socially irresponsible bullshit.
I would agree with you if you didn't invoke the "protect the children" clause in your argument, especially with the "millions" qualifier. Your kids (and the kids of other people) can see far worse things on the news than in a sitcom. What's worse, hearing about how some nations have hundreds if not thousands of people die every day because their governments commit mass genocide on a regular basis...or hearing William Shatner spout off obscenities?
Put yo'self to the test...unless you jest.
That's all fine and well, but allowing little Timmy to see someone get shot, but not allow their titty to pop out when they hit the ground or for them to yell "fuck that hurts!" when the bullet hits them is, by all measures, retarded.
CSI shows chest cavaties that have been ripped open. Law and Order discussed horrible sex crimes. But heaven forbid you say a naughty word!
Didn't South Park already cover this?
Their port of Vice City was pretty sweet, actually. Then again, that was, as The Dark Crystal put it, another world and another time.
The one for the DS ("Twin Age") feels like a cross between Diablo and Seiken Densetsu 2. I don't generally dig games on the DS that are stylus-only, but it's good. The storyline at first glance follows a generic formula, but it's done so well that I don't even care...it got its hooks in me early!
I still have and play the first any only awesome western game. Mad Dog McCree. With its overly pixelled video and awesome kill shots. This new came can only hope to come close it.
Uh....Outlaws? Hello?
...I recently had the misfortune of discovering a couple of older gems on the Nintendo DS. Etrian Odyssey, Summon Night: Twin Age, and a couple of others have been taking up nearly all of my gaming time lately :/
Isn't that the basis of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument? If a system exists where people are going to break it, and requires that people will play nice to each other, then I think the system truly IS broken.
So you blame a system as being broken when it's the people that do the breaking? That doesn't make any sense.
That's like saying cars are a flawed method of transportation because most people drive like assholes. That isn't the car's fault, it's the asshole's fault.
In other words, the patent scheme is broken at it's core.
It's not the patent system that is broken. It's the people who use it that are broken. You can't fault the USPTO when people submit insanely broad patents that have nearly nothing to do with their actual invention. (You can, of course, blame the USPTO when they actually GRANT those patents, but that's a different conversation)
Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They're mammals!
Or is this another "it can be spelled multiple ways, clod!" kind of thing...?
Licence approvals have become a much more onerous process
Apparently, so have spell checkers.
^This. My bank asks for the standard username and password, but then on the next screen they request your PIN. You don't type it in, though...it's completely mouse driven. So not only do they have the extra protection of needing a PIN, but it helps thwart keyloggers because you don't actually type it in.
"Man, I'm tellin' you Bob...the things that chick does with her flagella? Oof, it's enough to make you divide!"
Well for example I'm logged into facebook right now. As I'm jumping from site-to-site in Tab #2, one of them could hijack the Tab #1 and make it look like a legitimate facebook login screen
Ah, but like you said, you are logged into Facebook right now. Would you not find it suspicious if when you clicked back over to it, you were greeted with a login screen?
That's the thing though...if people applied for patents that were limited in scope and describe only their invention, the system would be working exactly as it was intended to. Unfortunately, greed (on applicant's part) and complacency (on the USPTO's part) prevent this.