I dunno, but it seems to me that one of the main things holding Lego back is the ridiculous price of the kits. I mean, for any kit consisting of more than about 6 pieces, the price is over $10. Mindstorms are generally over $100! Maybe halve prices and a lot of that market share will come back.
IIRC, Microsoft actually dissolved the IE for Mac team because they did such a good job that IE 5.x for Mac was better than IE 5.x for Windows. Hence, no 5.5 for Mac, and most likely, 6.x on Mac will be a shoddy porting effort rather than a slick native app.
Under the Turing Test, testers are supposed to be suspicious. Your friend was not. Furthermore, the fact that he first knew it was not you, and second believed it to be someone who would have reason to fuck around with him (ie, not respond as a normal human would) strongly indicates that he would have realized that the respondant was a machine if he had been informed of the posibility.
X Files episode. In real life, most of what we know about the limitations of human endurance have are from Nazi doctors' notes. How long it takes to drown, how much blood you can lose, ability to recover from concussions, all of this is stuff the Nazis tested under laboratory conditions. Obviously, we would never replicate these experiments, so as grim as it is, it's useful data that is otherwise totally unobtainable.
I *though* I'd heard something about konquerer having the ability to render via gecko or khtml, but I couldn't find any such option in my preferences. How does one do this?
What I'd really like to see is people try to abstract the functionality from the UI. Take Mozilla. If you want a good Gnome interface, use Galeon. Presumably, someone could also make a KDE interface to keep consistency there. I hope we see a lot more toolkit-specific front ends with toolkit-independent back ends in the future.
Er, government agencies came out in favor of patents. So regardless of whether corporate or government money is sponsoring more research, both were in favor of software patents.
I still believe that software patents are stupid, but your argument is flawed.
I think people are more concerned about effects of midiclorians (the spontaneous impregnation of Anakin's mother) than about the fact that they exist. As a concept, it's fine. As an excuse to make weak biblical references, it's lame.
If so, would this be a convenient face-saving measure for the government?
Probably. US law is full of face-saving measures. Perhaps the most well known is the fact that if the president neither vetos nor signs a bill, after some length of time (10 days, I believe) it becomes law. That way, Presidents don't have to lose face vetoing a bill they oppose when their veto will be overridden.
And for some, it literally WILL NOT INSTALL. Seriously, the only way to get Debian on my computer (because of the 1024 sector boot problem) is to install Progeny and then apt-get dist-upgrade. Besides which, PPPoE support doesn't work under Debian (yes, there's a package, but it doesn't work), so I can't actually upgrade that way.
Face it, apt is great, but beyond that Debian is the most worthless piece of shit on earth. Releases only come every couple years, there's little oversight for maintainers of obscure packages, and their licensing snobbiness is downright annoying.
Word to the wise, if you're a dsl user, don't install Debian. If you really like manually editing config files, go ahead, but whatever moron maintains the rp-pppoe package took out all the (rather elegant) configuration scripts, and replaced them with nothing. All you get is a short, poorly written readme file to install dsl with. Bleh.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Remember though, that's TOTAL time. Individual scenes may have been much more processor intensive (in fact, you note he specifically mentioned that he was giving a total rather than an average, because averages were more or less meaningless). So, it will probably be at least another 18 or 36 months.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Don't forget, if a nude photo is black and white, it's art. If it's in color, it's porn. Had they rendered in black and white, it probably would have been accepted as art as well.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Incidentally, I'm told that after 3 abortions, you begin to do permanent damage to your cervix, which affects (among other things) your ability to have children and leaves you prone to nasty infections.
Hmm, I did not know that, thank you. That might alter my strategy somewhat.
Current birth control methods still leave much to be desired, in my opinion.
No arguments there:) Being only 20, however, I don't have to worry about a permanent solution for a little while anyway. Hopefully technology will continue to advance in the interim.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
One defense Microsoft does have though is that they should not be expected to provide support for any non-MS software preloaded by the OEM.
Well, Microsoft doesn't provide support for Microsoft software preloaded by the OEM, so this hardly seems like an issue.
Oh, and by the way, fair use is only a default condition, it can be overridden by a contract, such as in this case. If books had shrinkwrap licenses, they could restrict your fair use too.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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"See honey, you're a business failure. I think it would be best for both of us if you just stayed home with the kids..."
"people" don't. Just a couple very clever trolls (such as alewando).
Their virginity? Hot Damn, I'd bid on that!
I dunno, but it seems to me that one of the main things holding Lego back is the ridiculous price of the kits. I mean, for any kit consisting of more than about 6 pieces, the price is over $10. Mindstorms are generally over $100! Maybe halve prices and a lot of that market share will come back.
No, I was not on the IE for Mac team. I do read the newspaper sometimes though.
IIRC, Microsoft actually dissolved the IE for Mac team because they did such a good job that IE 5.x for Mac was better than IE 5.x for Windows. Hence, no 5.5 for Mac, and most likely, 6.x on Mac will be a shoddy porting effort rather than a slick native app.
Hitting "parent" has not worked for me since the switch to 2.2, so that's probably why mESSDan thought that it was already a top level comment.
Under the Turing Test, testers are supposed to be suspicious. Your friend was not. Furthermore, the fact that he first knew it was not you, and second believed it to be someone who would have reason to fuck around with him (ie, not respond as a normal human would) strongly indicates that he would have realized that the respondant was a machine if he had been informed of the posibility.
Exactly, I too am using IE 5.01 from work, and would use Moz .9.3 at home.
But it's the only method of birth control endorsed by the Pope, so it must be good :)
X Files episode. In real life, most of what we know about the limitations of human endurance have are from Nazi doctors' notes. How long it takes to drown, how much blood you can lose, ability to recover from concussions, all of this is stuff the Nazis tested under laboratory conditions. Obviously, we would never replicate these experiments, so as grim as it is, it's useful data that is otherwise totally unobtainable.
I *though* I'd heard something about konquerer having the ability to render via gecko or khtml, but I couldn't find any such option in my preferences. How does one do this?
What I'd really like to see is people try to abstract the functionality from the UI. Take Mozilla. If you want a good Gnome interface, use Galeon. Presumably, someone could also make a KDE interface to keep consistency there. I hope we see a lot more toolkit-specific front ends with toolkit-independent back ends in the future.
I still believe that software patents are stupid, but your argument is flawed.
I think people are more concerned about effects of midiclorians (the spontaneous impregnation of Anakin's mother) than about the fact that they exist. As a concept, it's fine. As an excuse to make weak biblical references, it's lame.
Probably. US law is full of face-saving measures. Perhaps the most well known is the fact that if the president neither vetos nor signs a bill, after some length of time (10 days, I believe) it becomes law. That way, Presidents don't have to lose face vetoing a bill they oppose when their veto will be overridden.
Yes, it's stupid, but so is most law.
Face it, apt is great, but beyond that Debian is the most worthless piece of shit on earth. Releases only come every couple years, there's little oversight for maintainers of obscure packages, and their licensing snobbiness is downright annoying.
Word to the wise, if you're a dsl user, don't install Debian. If you really like manually editing config files, go ahead, but whatever moron maintains the rp-pppoe package took out all the (rather elegant) configuration scripts, and replaced them with nothing. All you get is a short, poorly written readme file to install dsl with. Bleh.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
He didn't get any patches or bugfixes. RTFA. All he got are user designed maps, which he's taking out for the commercial version.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Ouch, that is a tasteless pun. Pretty damn funny though :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Remember though, that's TOTAL time. Individual scenes may have been much more processor intensive (in fact, you note he specifically mentioned that he was giving a total rather than an average, because averages were more or less meaningless). So, it will probably be at least another 18 or 36 months.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Don't forget, if a nude photo is black and white, it's art. If it's in color, it's porn. Had they rendered in black and white, it probably would have been accepted as art as well.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hmm, I did not know that, thank you. That might alter my strategy somewhat.
Current birth control methods still leave much to be desired, in my opinion.
No arguments there :) Being only 20, however, I don't have to worry about a permanent solution for a little while anyway. Hopefully technology will continue to advance in the interim.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Well, Microsoft doesn't provide support for Microsoft software preloaded by the OEM, so this hardly seems like an issue.
Oh, and by the way, fair use is only a default condition, it can be overridden by a contract, such as in this case. If books had shrinkwrap licenses, they could restrict your fair use too.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.