The only business you made with these patents was sending cassette tapes with some recorded articles that were chosen by the customer through the mail. How does this transfer to creating playlists and podcasting? Picking the listening order of sound files I got from the internet doesn't really seem like it should be protected intellectual property. How do you justify what you've done (a failed business in 1995) to justify payment (much much later) from people who had never heard of you or your patents when they made their services/products, and who apparently never tried to patent that process as it seemed too obvious to them?
I've never heard of the guy and was looking a bit into his stuff on Amazon. How "humorous" are his writings?
I don't think I'd ever describe his writings as "humorous". They are well written with amazing story-lines and well worth reading, but they're definitely on the more serious side,
The more defining characteristic of his writing would be how much he can pack into each line, without it seeming cramped. It's incredible how much happens in the Cadwal Chronicles (three books, although the third one is super short, kind of like an extended epilogue).
RIP, Jack Vance.
(PS, all my WoW toons are named for his characters)
Proportionality. That's what the kid with a BB gun has to do with this. An accidental death caused by a white boy gets no punishment. An accidental chemical hazard that kills no one, but is caused by a black girl gets charged with felonies. That's disproportionate. What exactly is the non-racist explanation for that lack of proportionality?
I would kill for 2-days of battery life. I have a SG2 and with the stock battery I was lucky to get 8 hours out of it. I now have a 3800mAh battery that gets me through the work day but not by much...
Yeah, I bought the Samsung Galaxy Nexus right when it came out because the performance on it was great and it was the first US phone with ICS, but the battery sucks. I have to charge it two or three times a day now and it's only a bit over a year old and this is for just standard phone calls and facebook type stuff.
I'd love to get an S4 but not if I can only use it for an hour before plugging the damn thing back in. Anyone see any battery life metrics for this phone yet? I can't seem to find them.
except that is NOT where HL 1 ends, there's four more levels after that, Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper, and Nihalinth.
There's a reason why the "disappointing last level" page on TV Tropes used to be called "Xen syndrome". Perhaps they intentionally set out the parts not widely thought to suck.
Thanks a lot, I just lost three hours to TV Tropes again.
I assume he was at a casino. And at a casino they will not let you change your bet after placing it. I've seen it happen at a blackjack table where the guy claimed he didn't mean to throw in the $200 (of course this was right after the cards went down, although that does happen fast as shit). Easy mistake but once the bet is in, it's in.
Totally agree. I mean, WTF is this? It seems like a blog entry from a blog I would never ever read, not a slashdot news item. I usually get pissed at all the "How is this news for nerds?" comments on stories that aren't all that slashdotty, but this isn't even news. The book reviews actually review something, this is just one guy who really wants to bitch about something but can't seem to find anyone to care so he's trying with us.
Uh, I was just extending the original metaphor, which if you recall, had the sheep being eaten. I think it's pretty clear I was stating the problems with the current political situation and why more direct democracy isn't the boogeyman that the OP was making it out to be, not advocating genocide.
Ok, so you've got four wolves and a sheep. The sheep votes for grass, and the wolves vote on eating the sheep. So the sheep dies, the wolves are fine. If the minority interest of the sheep is followed, the sheep is just fine, and the four wolves starve to death because they can't live on grass.
In the current system, there's a wool maker deciding what the wolves and sheep eat, and the sheep has bought him off with continued "donations" of wool. So he votes grass and the wolves are fucked. So next time, the wolves vote to pick a different wool maker to decide. He also votes for grass as the sheep has plenty of wool to spread around to both candidates. The wolves are fucked.
In case you didn't get it, we're the wolves, and we can't do anything about it because the wool makers have guns and won't to keep that steady stream of wool coming in.
Yeah, Jesus Fucking Christ. Microsoft does something good, going carbon neutral by trying to reduce their energy use and paying for carbon capture through trees and such and the entire comment threads are just anti-Microsoft crap: "Carbon neutral doesn't mean anything" "Google was already carbon neutral" "i don't like windows" "microsoft is going to fake it" "blah blah blah"
Why can't we just be glad they're doing something they don't need to for social (and sure reputation) good?
I come to slashdot to learn about cool things and find that I learn quite a lot when someone who knows what they're talking about expands on the article with an in depth comment on the science or history behind the topic. For the videos, every comment is "Give me a transcript" or "This is an ad" and frankly that's because the subject matter sucks. I think it could be a great idea, but the content really needs to be better. We're all nerds here, we can handle something technical and interesting rather than PR buzz speak or "look what I can fit in my Jacket!" (really? WTF.) We already have YouTube, we don't need another.
Although what I'd really like/. to focus on is making a fucking mobile site that works. The/. demographic has a higher concentration of smart phones than the normal population and we like to use them, but slashdot looks like crap on every mobile browser I try and is hard to read without paning around all the damn time.
Also, thanks for providing me with thousands of lost work hours for free:)
Oh shit, how did I miss that? I didn't see a/. article about google maps doing that (and I avoided the internet on 4/1). Dragon Warrior was my first video game and I've made custom maps for them and everything. DQ forever! That is so awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
C. Have you seen this person's website? It only manages to make you hate her more (enough so that you stop caring about the fact that she is also completely mentally ill).
My eyes! Oh god! I thought old geocities and myspace pages were bad... This bitch needs to go to jail just for that website design alone.
Rhetoric solves nothing and I believe I was quite polite enough in responding to someone who suggested that I'm not American enough to continue to be part of the United States. Dissolving the Union would cause untold amounts of problems, economically and politically. and would solve none of the issues you seem to have. Besides, the nation is only on the brink of civil war if you believe the nuts whose job is scare everyone in order to raise ratings so they can sell you more crap. I've been in almost every state and worked or lived in several of them, north and south, east and west. There are plenty of Americans in every state that could be called bible thumpers, just as there are plenty of overly enthusiastic atheists. Most Americans are somewhere in the middle with maybe some religion, but also an understanding and appreciation of science, even if they don't really understand much of it. Stereotypes of the southern and midwestern states as ignorant raving Jesus humpers shouting "I aint no damn monkey!" are nonsense even if there are a few of those people out there.
My original statement stands. Yes, I am a Real American. And a southerner. And a person who understands science. Please take your secessionist bullshit elsewhere.
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The only business you made with these patents was sending cassette tapes with some recorded articles that were chosen by the customer through the mail. How does this transfer to creating playlists and podcasting? Picking the listening order of sound files I got from the internet doesn't really seem like it should be protected intellectual property. How do you justify what you've done (a failed business in 1995) to justify payment (much much later) from people who had never heard of you or your patents when they made their services/products, and who apparently never tried to patent that process as it seemed too obvious to them?
I've never heard of the guy and was looking a bit into his stuff on Amazon. How "humorous" are his writings?
I don't think I'd ever describe his writings as "humorous". They are well written with amazing story-lines and well worth reading, but they're definitely on the more serious side,
The more defining characteristic of his writing would be how much he can pack into each line, without it seeming cramped. It's incredible how much happens in the Cadwal Chronicles (three books, although the third one is super short, kind of like an extended epilogue).
RIP, Jack Vance.
(PS, all my WoW toons are named for his characters)
I hate you.
Proportionality. That's what the kid with a BB gun has to do with this. An accidental death caused by a white boy gets no punishment. An accidental chemical hazard that kills no one, but is caused by a black girl gets charged with felonies. That's disproportionate. What exactly is the non-racist explanation for that lack of proportionality?
Maybe they're just sexist?
I would kill for 2-days of battery life. I have a SG2 and with the stock battery I was lucky to get 8 hours out of it. I now have a 3800mAh battery that gets me through the work day but not by much...
Yeah, I bought the Samsung Galaxy Nexus right when it came out because the performance on it was great and it was the first US phone with ICS, but the battery sucks. I have to charge it two or three times a day now and it's only a bit over a year old and this is for just standard phone calls and facebook type stuff.
I'd love to get an S4 but not if I can only use it for an hour before plugging the damn thing back in. Anyone see any battery life metrics for this phone yet? I can't seem to find them.
I wish I had mod points today!
brilliant.
Google says it's Chasey Lain.
Also that woman is hideous.
if the user space can be fixed with a reboot though why would you use a few terminal commands?
Forgot about those. Personally, I was thinking in terms of Caprica's paper computer things people carried around in their pocket (link)
I'd love to have one of those.
except that is NOT where HL 1 ends, there's four more levels after that, Xen, Gonarch's Lair, Interloper, and Nihalinth.
There's a reason why the "disappointing last level" page on TV Tropes used to be called "Xen syndrome". Perhaps they intentionally set out the parts not widely thought to suck.
Thanks a lot, I just lost three hours to TV Tropes again.
I assume he was at a casino. And at a casino they will not let you change your bet after placing it. I've seen it happen at a blackjack table where the guy claimed he didn't mean to throw in the $200 (of course this was right after the cards went down, although that does happen fast as shit). Easy mistake but once the bet is in, it's in.
Totally agree.
I mean, WTF is this? It seems like a blog entry from a blog I would never ever read, not a slashdot news item. I usually get pissed at all the "How is this news for nerds?" comments on stories that aren't all that slashdotty, but this isn't even news. The book reviews actually review something, this is just one guy who really wants to bitch about something but can't seem to find anyone to care so he's trying with us.
Uh, I was just extending the original metaphor, which if you recall, had the sheep being eaten. I think it's pretty clear I was stating the problems with the current political situation and why more direct democracy isn't the boogeyman that the OP was making it out to be, not advocating genocide.
Ok, so you've got four wolves and a sheep. The sheep votes for grass, and the wolves vote on eating the sheep. So the sheep dies, the wolves are fine. If the minority interest of the sheep is followed, the sheep is just fine, and the four wolves starve to death because they can't live on grass.
In the current system, there's a wool maker deciding what the wolves and sheep eat, and the sheep has bought him off with continued "donations" of wool. So he votes grass and the wolves are fucked. So next time, the wolves vote to pick a different wool maker to decide. He also votes for grass as the sheep has plenty of wool to spread around to both candidates. The wolves are fucked.
In case you didn't get it, we're the wolves, and we can't do anything about it because the wool makers have guns and won't to keep that steady stream of wool coming in.
Yeah, Jesus Fucking Christ. Microsoft does something good, going carbon neutral by trying to reduce their energy use and paying for carbon capture through trees and such and the entire comment threads are just anti-Microsoft crap:
"Carbon neutral doesn't mean anything"
"Google was already carbon neutral"
"i don't like windows"
"microsoft is going to fake it"
"blah blah blah"
Why can't we just be glad they're doing something they don't need to for social (and sure reputation) good?
however, it just took me a minute to find the spell check option. great example!
Spell check? Who still uses that? The green and red squiggly underlines totally removed the need to ever use spell check.
I can top it. It miss Clippy. I thought the Ewoks and Jar Jar were cute. And I liked disco.
You like things that everyone else hates, so...... you're a hipster?
Nope, it was a joke. I think I'd fucking know, I posted it.
GTFO yourself.
Maybe you should learn how to tell jokes better.
He posted the article so we don't have to pay the $32 to get past the paywall.
I come to slashdot to learn about cool things and find that I learn quite a lot when someone who knows what they're talking about expands on the article with an in depth comment on the science or history behind the topic. For the videos, every comment is "Give me a transcript" or "This is an ad" and frankly that's because the subject matter sucks. I think it could be a great idea, but the content really needs to be better. We're all nerds here, we can handle something technical and interesting rather than PR buzz speak or "look what I can fit in my Jacket!" (really? WTF.) We already have YouTube, we don't need another.
/. to focus on is making a fucking mobile site that works. The /. demographic has a higher concentration of smart phones than the normal population and we like to use them, but slashdot looks like crap on every mobile browser I try and is hard to read without paning around all the damn time.
:)
Although what I'd really like
Also, thanks for providing me with thousands of lost work hours for free
Oh shit, how did I miss that? I didn't see a /. article about google maps doing that (and I avoided the internet on 4/1). Dragon Warrior was my first video game and I've made custom maps for them and everything. DQ forever! That is so awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
C. Have you seen this person's website? It only manages to make you hate her more (enough so that you stop caring about the fact that she is also completely mentally ill).
My eyes! Oh god! I thought old geocities and myspace pages were bad... This bitch needs to go to jail just for that website design alone.
Wow. That is brilliant. And insane. I can't believe I hadn't heard of it yet.
Rhetoric solves nothing and I believe I was quite polite enough in responding to someone who suggested that I'm not American enough to continue to be part of the United States. Dissolving the Union would cause untold amounts of problems, economically and politically. and would solve none of the issues you seem to have. Besides, the nation is only on the brink of civil war if you believe the nuts whose job is scare everyone in order to raise ratings so they can sell you more crap. I've been in almost every state and worked or lived in several of them, north and south, east and west. There are plenty of Americans in every state that could be called bible thumpers, just as there are plenty of overly enthusiastic atheists. Most Americans are somewhere in the middle with maybe some religion, but also an understanding and appreciation of science, even if they don't really understand much of it. Stereotypes of the southern and midwestern states as ignorant raving Jesus humpers shouting "I aint no damn monkey!" are nonsense even if there are a few of those people out there.
My original statement stands. Yes, I am a Real American. And a southerner. And a person who understands science. Please take your secessionist bullshit elsewhere.
Please go fuck yourself.