I'm going to start a company, patent 1 million things (shouldn't be too hard considering the garbage the passes for a patent these days) and then I'll be invincible?
And here I thought you had to patent something useful to be successful, it's only the number of patents that you have that counts.
Let's say I buy an exoplanet for 100$... then what? In 500+ years when space travel becomes commonplace will my descendants be able to claim mineral rights on this exoplanet?
I've had a similar WTF moment in Phantasmagoria. The very last puzzle/challenge before finishing the game requires an item that should have been picked up near the beginning of the game, if you don't have it then you can't beat the puzzle or the game and you die.
Let's just say that after spending countless hours playing through it, I was rather miffed that I had to start all over, and I never did.
I'm ok with consequences (I was kinda sad to see my helicopter pilot explode in Deus Ex) but I'm not ok with game breaking consequences.
Just start RTFAing: "In my last post I outlined the general bufferbloat problem."
Follow the link:
"Each of these initial experiments were been designed to clearly demonstrate a now very common problem: excessive buffering in a network path. I call this bufferbloat
Woa, woa, woa! Not only are we expected to RTFA, but RTFAPA (Read the F*cking Article's Parent Article) as well?!?! Screw that shyte.
I think that in this case, you're not so much paying for a license but for a new model. If you bought a car last year, the manufacturer won't freely upgrade you to the new model, you need to buy it too.
Of course, with a car you have the option of trading it in. I suppose you could try to sell your old version of the DVDs to offset the cost.
Won't anybody be serious about this, even if we all think that ghosts are a figment of people's imagination? If anything, the investigation should be fun to do AND an excuse to use cool gadgets.
I don't know much about required gear, but if you want to make as accurate a comparison as possible, you need to run your investigation in 2 houses which are extremely similar. Old houses are always the haunted ones, but most of the hauntings can be explained by the amplification of creaking pipes through the walls and things like that. So your best bet would be to find a haunted house which has an almost identical brother (preferably built at around the same time and by the same contractor), not too far away either because some spooky behavior could be caused my micro earthquakes combined with the ground composition and what not.
And to those who think saying that "the burden of proof is on the believer", how's that stance working out with religious groups, creationists and kids that believe in Santa Claus? To me, that stance is a cop-out.
Quirkz, if you're in the Montreal, Canada area, let me know I'd like to help out;)
You obviously don't understand how patterns work.
The fact that it's so freaking vague that it can apply to anything makes it an amazing patent! Now its owner can sue anyone and everyone!
Good Lord, you talk like patents are supposed to protect intellectual property or something.
For the love of god, everyday there's a new gadget out that removes the responsibility from people, this is getting ridiculous.
You need an app to prevent you from using your cell while driving?? Just don't answer the fucking thing!
You need your credit card to tell you when to stop spending? Are you retarded?
People will eventually rely on tech for everything and their brains will whither and die out of sheer boredom and lack of use.
Am I the only one who finds similarities with how the DHS is getting more and more control over things, just like FEMA did in the first Deus Ex game? That didn't end well...
Japan has had this payment method for almost everything for years, I wonder how they handle security?
Über encryption of your transaction info in all smartphones and used women's underwear vending machines (I'm not kidding, they really do have those in Japan)?
I'd like to point out that the younger generations (today's teens and early 20's) are wired differently than the older generation. It's a fact that they are great at multitasking, however they have the attention span of a squirrel. That generation simply doesn't have the attention span required to play through a 20-30 hour game, they're easily distracted by the next shiny.
Anyone with a kid in that age range can tell you that they constantly see them chatting on Facebook while texting a friend while listening to music while chatting on MSN while watching videos on TV/Youtube. You can't do all that and properly concentrate on finishing a game.
I don't know about that, I'm sure that there are many applications where a system like that could be used where precision isn't a key factor, ex: sorting through a lot of pictures, sound/movie editing, animating characters (not their actual design/creation but just moving them around), viewing security camera feeds, etc.
Forget about "teh Facebook is da devilz yo!" rhetoric for a moment and think about the feature itself. You send a message to a person and he receives it in the most convenient way possible for the moment (sms, chat window, email), that's pretty neat.
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I'm going to start a company, patent 1 million things (shouldn't be too hard considering the garbage the passes for a patent these days) and then I'll be invincible?
And here I thought you had to patent something useful to be successful, it's only the number of patents that you have that counts.
Thanks for clearing that up!
Let's say I buy an exoplanet for 100$... then what? In 500+ years when space travel becomes commonplace will my descendants be able to claim mineral rights on this exoplanet?
Seriously, I'm really not surprised. What has the pope done that deserves admiration?
Bill has (or will anyways) given half of his fortune (what ~30 billion now?) to charity. That's admirable.
The pope has... uh... allegedly not had sex and... uh... that's it.
*ding-dong*
*sound of feet scampering off*
Yes, but will it have more than 2-3 games that are actually worth playing on it?
I mean, there must be a reason why for every PSP I see someone using, I also see 10-12 people with a Nintendo DS?
I've had a similar WTF moment in Phantasmagoria. The very last puzzle/challenge before finishing the game requires an item that should have been picked up near the beginning of the game, if you don't have it then you can't beat the puzzle or the game and you die.
Let's just say that after spending countless hours playing through it, I was rather miffed that I had to start all over, and I never did.
I'm ok with consequences (I was kinda sad to see my helicopter pilot explode in Deus Ex) but I'm not ok with game breaking consequences.
Just start RTFAing: "In my last post I outlined the general bufferbloat problem."
Follow the link:
"Each of these initial experiments were been designed to clearly demonstrate a now very common problem: excessive buffering in a network path. I call this bufferbloat
Woa, woa, woa! Not only are we expected to RTFA, but RTFAPA (Read the F*cking Article's Parent Article) as well?!?! Screw that shyte.
I think that in this case, you're not so much paying for a license but for a new model. If you bought a car last year, the manufacturer won't freely upgrade you to the new model, you need to buy it too.
Of course, with a car you have the option of trading it in. I suppose you could try to sell your old version of the DVDs to offset the cost.
oooh... "spirit"
I see what you did there ;)
Our police department just got a radio controlled drone and the damn thing doesn't even have a Visual Basic interface to control it!
Well you know,
*Puts on sunglasses*
There's no use to drone on about it all day.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See what I did there, 2 CSI memes in one post, I rock.
Won't anybody be serious about this, even if we all think that ghosts are a figment of people's imagination? If anything, the investigation should be fun to do AND an excuse to use cool gadgets.
I don't know much about required gear, but if you want to make as accurate a comparison as possible, you need to run your investigation in 2 houses which are extremely similar. Old houses are always the haunted ones, but most of the hauntings can be explained by the amplification of creaking pipes through the walls and things like that. So your best bet would be to find a haunted house which has an almost identical brother (preferably built at around the same time and by the same contractor), not too far away either because some spooky behavior could be caused my micro earthquakes combined with the ground composition and what not.
And to those who think saying that "the burden of proof is on the believer", how's that stance working out with religious groups, creationists and kids that believe in Santa Claus? To me, that stance is a cop-out.
Quirkz, if you're in the Montreal, Canada area, let me know I'd like to help out ;)
You obviously don't understand how patterns work. The fact that it's so freaking vague that it can apply to anything makes it an amazing patent! Now its owner can sue anyone and everyone! Good Lord, you talk like patents are supposed to protect intellectual property or something.
For the love of god, everyday there's a new gadget out that removes the responsibility from people, this is getting ridiculous. You need an app to prevent you from using your cell while driving?? Just don't answer the fucking thing! You need your credit card to tell you when to stop spending? Are you retarded? People will eventually rely on tech for everything and their brains will whither and die out of sheer boredom and lack of use.
Here's a link to the paper in the British Medical Journal, complete with pictures!
"100million yen is 1 million dollars...That really isn't much money."
Oops the original text should have said <DrEvil>100 million yen</DrEvil>
[...] and act like a bunch of Nancys.
I've always wondered, who it Nancy and how exactly did she act and why?
These guys grepped wiki's On This Day... database and the day with the least entries is April 11th 1954?
Woopee
Note that this doesn't even require explosives...
Or a terrorist come to think of it, Amtrak has been derailing trains by itself for years!
If you ran for office, and I was an American, I'd vote for you. Hell, I'd try to get a job in your cabinet.
Am I the only one who finds similarities with how the DHS is getting more and more control over things, just like FEMA did in the first Deus Ex game? That didn't end well...
Japan has had this payment method for almost everything for years, I wonder how they handle security?
Über encryption of your transaction info in all smartphones and used women's underwear vending machines (I'm not kidding, they really do have those in Japan)?
I'd like to point out that the younger generations (today's teens and early 20's) are wired differently than the older generation. It's a fact that they are great at multitasking, however they have the attention span of a squirrel. That generation simply doesn't have the attention span required to play through a 20-30 hour game, they're easily distracted by the next shiny.
Anyone with a kid in that age range can tell you that they constantly see them chatting on Facebook while texting a friend while listening to music while chatting on MSN while watching videos on TV/Youtube. You can't do all that and properly concentrate on finishing a game.
Bernadette, Howard's microbiologist girlfriend (Penny's blond coworker at the Cheesecake Factory).
I don't know about that, I'm sure that there are many applications where a system like that could be used where precision isn't a key factor, ex: sorting through a lot of pictures, sound/movie editing, animating characters (not their actual design/creation but just moving them around), viewing security camera feeds, etc.
Forget about "teh Facebook is da devilz yo!" rhetoric for a moment and think about the feature itself. You send a message to a person and he receives it in the most convenient way possible for the moment (sms, chat window, email), that's pretty neat.