I honestly can't understand the popularity of things like SMS messaging. How can you even say anything remotely of significance or intelligence with only 160 ch
Oh NO! Don't you see?! The Black Helicopters got him! He's probably locked up underneath Area 52 getting interrogated by their Zeta Reticulin psychics! They know man! They always know!
The best DLC I have seen is the stuff a lot of Korean games go with - purely superficial stuff.
Killing Floor releases DLC character model packs every time they crank out a free update. You don't have to buy the DLC, but it supports the next update and it's only $2 so a lot of people go with it. That's the way to go with DLC IMO.
It would be nice if we could standardise this stuff.
The hopes of that ever happening died the day a cell phone manufacturing executive realized how much money he could make with proprietary $30 chargers.
I can understand additional definitions being added if a word acquires them through use of slang (i.e. "bad" equating to "good" is a prevalent example). However, the scholarly side of me has issues with a different definition supplanting the original meaning of the world, especially when it's tied to another language literal meaning. For example, the word "decimate" is sourced from the Latin word decimare, "to take the tenth part of anything". But nowadays, it's used more as if it meant "utterly and completely destroyed".
While I'm fine with the evolution of language, misuse of a word from its roots doesn't sit very well with me. 8|
For me, the issue here is the use of copyright law to stop this. I don't see why the police would have to get a copyright exemption for the creation of a database, as they are not planning to make or sell shoes with similar patterns.
I guess this will all hedge on whether or not the Swedish court system considers a photo of the sole of a shoe a derivative work.
I've done computer repair freelance (as well as the requisite "family and friends try to mooch for free" package) for many years. In my experience the "average user" treats a computer like an appliance. The iPad and similar devices basically seem to be just that, and people are happy with it.
I have the feeling that the next step Apple will take is a "simple Mac" that runs on the same sort of OS as the iPad and iPod - a little more flexible and powerful but essentially as idiot-proof as possible.
If we can just get the cast of Jersey Shore to swim around in the gulf for a few hours all of the oil will be absorbed by their hair. No more industrial strength pomade for the boys, and no more seagulls that look like they came out of Tolkien's nightmares! Win/win.
Me am thing CERT is do good idea this time. You give TOR exit, you provider of access. Someone make bad no-no with TOR and you let them. You is just as bad as them who is doing bads.
There way of doing things is be good - they no want people to know about secret numbers so they no give you secret numbers.
Doesn't something having gone through more evolution mean that it the process didn't "get it right" the first time? As I recall certain groups of animals - sharks, turtles, alligators - are essentially unchanged for millions of years.
That does sort of boggle the mind, though, how something could essentially just remain the same. The most common examples are often carnivorous predators, too.
I don't think anti-American terrorists are innocent, but they do have a point about that whole imperialistic bastards thing. As of 2009 we have 716 pieces of DoD property (Warning: PDF) in foreign countries. That doesn't count the almost five thousand bases we have on US territory.
I was scanning your post for words from additional verses of the anthem ("Oh thus be it ever / when free men shall stand / between their lost homes / and the war's desolation"). It took me a second to realize that I even knew one of the additional verses. Damn you, elementary school principal, for making us learn it.
Okay, actually, Mr. Maccia was pretty cool. Hope you're enjoying your retirement my man!
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Oh man, I can see it now. The Davinci Code meets The Matrix meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I honestly can't understand the popularity of things like SMS messaging. How can you even say anything remotely of significance or intelligence with only 160 ch
Has NOBODY seen Stargate SG-1? This is how the replicators started, dammit!
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Oh NO! Don't you see?! The Black Helicopters got him! He's probably locked up underneath Area 52 getting interrogated by their Zeta Reticulin psychics! They know man! They always know!
5 years ago I paid $50/month for 15/1 cable. I still pay $50/month for 15/1 cable, except now it runs slower and there's talk of the prices going up.
Fuck you, Optimum.
The best DLC I have seen is the stuff a lot of Korean games go with - purely superficial stuff.
Killing Floor releases DLC character model packs every time they crank out a free update. You don't have to buy the DLC, but it supports the next update and it's only $2 so a lot of people go with it. That's the way to go with DLC IMO.
We'll just have the Windows situation. The EU version and the "everywhere else version". =|
It would be nice if we could standardise this stuff.
The hopes of that ever happening died the day a cell phone manufacturing executive realized how much money he could make with proprietary $30 chargers.
Dear mods,
The parent post is Insightful, not just Karma-Bonus Modified.
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I don't know if I agree with that, though.
I can understand additional definitions being added if a word acquires them through use of slang (i.e. "bad" equating to "good" is a prevalent example). However, the scholarly side of me has issues with a different definition supplanting the original meaning of the world, especially when it's tied to another language literal meaning. For example, the word "decimate" is sourced from the Latin word decimare, "to take the tenth part of anything". But nowadays, it's used more as if it meant "utterly and completely destroyed".
While I'm fine with the evolution of language, misuse of a word from its roots doesn't sit very well with me. 8|
Actually IMO we're going more in the Brave New World direction. Tons of shoddy entertainment to keep people pacified, etc.
For me, the issue here is the use of copyright law to stop this. I don't see why the police would have to get a copyright exemption for the creation of a database, as they are not planning to make or sell shoes with similar patterns.
I guess this will all hedge on whether or not the Swedish court system considers a photo of the sole of a shoe a derivative work.
I've done computer repair freelance (as well as the requisite "family and friends try to mooch for free" package) for many years. In my experience the "average user" treats a computer like an appliance. The iPad and similar devices basically seem to be just that, and people are happy with it.
I have the feeling that the next step Apple will take is a "simple Mac" that runs on the same sort of OS as the iPad and iPod - a little more flexible and powerful but essentially as idiot-proof as possible.
If we can just get the cast of Jersey Shore to swim around in the gulf for a few hours all of the oil will be absorbed by their hair. No more industrial strength pomade for the boys, and no more seagulls that look like they came out of Tolkien's nightmares! Win/win.
Are you kidding? He must have been a ladykiller back in the day.
Geez, thanks for ruining a good meme with facts. Next thing you know we'll find out all those cats have been misquoted time and time again.
How can you agree in broken Engrish?
Easy! Like this:
Me am thing CERT is do good idea this time. You give TOR exit, you provider of access. Someone make bad no-no with TOR and you let them. You is just as bad as them who is doing bads.
There way of doing things is be good - they no want people to know about secret numbers so they no give you secret numbers.
Doesn't something having gone through more evolution mean that it the process didn't "get it right" the first time? As I recall certain groups of animals - sharks, turtles, alligators - are essentially unchanged for millions of years.
That does sort of boggle the mind, though, how something could essentially just remain the same. The most common examples are often carnivorous predators, too.
Detecting sarcasm?
I guess there isn't an app for that...
Because people who jailbreak iPhones are clearly doing it to pirate software, whereas that would never happen on the PS3.
I don't think anti-American terrorists are innocent, but they do have a point about that whole imperialistic bastards thing. As of 2009 we have 716 pieces of DoD property (Warning: PDF) in foreign countries. That doesn't count the almost five thousand bases we have on US territory.
Q: How do you turn a dishwasher into a snowblower?
A: Hand your wife a shovel.
Bullshit, the reason Google is the number one internet advertiser is because they are the number one search provider.
Hail, fellow member of the tautology club!
I was scanning your post for words from additional verses of the anthem ("Oh thus be it ever / when free men shall stand / between their lost homes / and the war's desolation"). It took me a second to realize that I even knew one of the additional verses. Damn you, elementary school principal, for making us learn it.
Okay, actually, Mr. Maccia was pretty cool. Hope you're enjoying your retirement my man!
And to swing the scale the other way, I for one welcome our sharks-with-laser-beams-attached-to-their-frickin'-heads-owning overlords.