The Web-based news aggregator lets users set up persistent 'traps' or filters on specific topics. Over time, the traps learn to include more articles that match users' interests and exclude those that don't.
House gets out of prison and "virtual doctor" is the only gig he can get. Abrasive bedside manner! Pissed off executives! An interesting life-threatening case stumbled upon out of the blue! The episode writes itself.
The biggest actual problem that has occurred when a Soviet satellite with radioactive material decided to scatter itself over a large part of Canada back in the 1970s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
The satellite
Was out of sight
Radioactive though
Quite all right
When it was high But now it's very low..
...a publisher or a guild of publishers and/or writers are going to say this service violates the terms of a license they already have with the ebook services, and come down on these guys like a bag of hammers.
Apple headquarters, main boardroom. It is full of executives in suits and ties.
John Sculley: Right, all those in favor, say 'aye'.
(all hands go up)
Everyone: Aye!!
(Steve enters, wearing jeans, sneakers, and a denim shirt. His hands are full.)
Steve: Alrighty, folks, I got pizzas and Shastas. Now let's get this meeting started! (silence.) What?
Front of the building.
(Steve is bum-rushed out the front doors. Lying on the ground, a large duffel bag is tossed to him. )
John Sculley: Just take your 400 million dollars and get out of our sight!
(The doors close as the executives walk away inside. Steve gets up, brushes himself off, picks up the bag.)
Steve: (yelling at the doors) Fine! I don't need you guys anyway! I'm gonna start another computer company that'll knock Apple on its ASS! It'll have PostScript-driven grayscale displays! Magnesium casings! I'll sell 'em to colleges for $10,000 each! AND THEY'LL BE GLAD TO PAY IT!
Seriously, I've found a civil and detailed letter to the president or CEO of a company will usually elicit a response.
In Verizon's case, there appeared to be no way to find out when DSL was coming to my neighborhood, from Verizon's web site, through customer service, nothing. So I wrote the company president and asked. Less than a week later, calls came in from both a customer service rep and an engineer with the answer: late 2012. Not what I wanted to hear, but at least it was an answer.
And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind
And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding all other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come
I hope I'm not the only one that read that and thought "Escape capsules? Oh, that is awesome!" Please tell me there's video. Are they all acting calmly and reasonably as expected, or is one of them going "Game over, man! GAME OVER!"?
Yes, I'm glad they weren't actually hit. But in a world where we have PEOPLE! IN! SPACE! and 99.9999% of the population doesn't know their names (me included), a little drama once in awhile isn't such a bad thing.
Slashdot Mirror
~ We've got gas explosions erupting from Sandusky all the way to Portsmouth!
~ We're talking about tectonic plates being pushed up higher than the Himalayas in a matter of minutes!
~ Looks like Ohio really will be high in the middle...
MegaFrack! 10.5 Starring Lucy Lawless, Erik Estrada, and Stacy Keatch. Only on SyFy!
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If it bends its funny. If it breaks its not funny.
Plus words with K in them something something....
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Coincidence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCVrzVr97M
I think not!
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...when patent attorneys themselves were the front line against false claims.
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Dude! Full motion video! On a laptop! That's friggin' crazy!
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The Web-based news aggregator lets users set up persistent 'traps' or filters on specific topics. Over time, the traps learn to include more articles that match users' interests and exclude those that don't.
Allow: Shiny new electronic products
Block: Starving orphans
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"Why, do you realize with a weap..er.. rocket like this, I could - dare I say it? - rule the world?"
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Yeah, probably this.
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House gets out of prison and "virtual doctor" is the only gig he can get. Abrasive bedside manner! Pissed off executives! An interesting life-threatening case stumbled upon out of the blue! The episode writes itself.
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The biggest actual problem that has occurred when a Soviet satellite with radioactive material decided to scatter itself over a large part of Canada back in the 1970s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954
The satellite
Was out of sight
Radioactive though
Quite all right
When it was high
But now it's very low..
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...a publisher or a guild of publishers and/or writers are going to say this service violates the terms of a license they already have with the ebook services, and come down on these guys like a bag of hammers.
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I found prior art!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakweRCSd_s&feature=player_detailpage#t=87s
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Apple headquarters, main boardroom. It is full of executives in suits and ties.
John Sculley: Right, all those in favor, say 'aye'.
(all hands go up)
Everyone: Aye!!
(Steve enters, wearing jeans, sneakers, and a denim shirt. His hands are full.)
Steve: Alrighty, folks, I got pizzas and Shastas. Now let's get this meeting started! (silence.) What?
Front of the building.
(Steve is bum-rushed out the front doors. Lying on the ground, a large duffel bag is tossed to him. )
John Sculley: Just take your 400 million dollars and get out of our sight!
(The doors close as the executives walk away inside. Steve gets up, brushes himself off, picks up the bag.)
Steve: (yelling at the doors) Fine! I don't need you guys anyway! I'm gonna start another computer company that'll knock Apple on its ASS! It'll have PostScript-driven grayscale displays! Magnesium casings! I'll sell 'em to colleges for $10,000 each! AND THEY'LL BE GLAD TO PAY IT!
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This is you do it. You just break into the warden's office, find his PC, go to a command line and enter:
UNLOCK ALL INMATE DOORS
DEACTIVATE SECURITY SYSTEM
Then you smash the screen with a hammer so that no one can override the commands. It's simple.
What?
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Has anybody seen
A dog dyed bright green?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpYDNMb_wY
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AND he still makes a cameo!
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Seriously, I've found a civil and detailed letter to the president or CEO of a company will usually elicit a response.
In Verizon's case, there appeared to be no way to find out when DSL was coming to my neighborhood, from Verizon's web site, through customer service, nothing. So I wrote the company president and asked. Less than a week later, calls came in from both a customer service rep and an engineer with the answer: late 2012. Not what I wanted to hear, but at least it was an answer.
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Done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgjGaIhkUs
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And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind
And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding all other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come
Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
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I said her ass was "da bomb", not...(facepalm)
(also relevant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORwMq9MG-c&feature=player_detailpage#t=55s)
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Words go in, tweets come out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
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I hope I'm not the only one that read that and thought "Escape capsules? Oh, that is awesome!" Please tell me there's video. Are they all acting calmly and reasonably as expected, or is one of them going "Game over, man! GAME OVER!"?
Yes, I'm glad they weren't actually hit. But in a world where we have PEOPLE! IN! SPACE! and 99.9999% of the population doesn't know their names (me included), a little drama once in awhile isn't such a bad thing.
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...and bite my shiny metal ass!
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...but when are you going to make works tailored to female audiences?
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No, I am not like you...I AM SIMION!
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