Good way to pick up chicks - wave your hand with the printer concealed in it over a bar napkin and hand her your magically appearing phone number and a dirty limerick (ok, no limerick)
I don't know the kind of bars you go to (maybe they're different in Silicon Valley or something) but good luck with that one.
I've found the best way to pick up chicks is to strike up a conversation rather than show off your gadget. Uhh... you know what I mean.
Ok, I've never played saturn so I guess this is off topic.
Man, I friggin LOVE soul calibur on the dreamcast. Frankly, it's the only reason we kept the damn console plugged into the TV for so long. Although Sega seems pretty bad at business, their system are still pretty badass! Alas, those who ran Amigas understand my sadness, to see such a good system die is quite depressing...
Ahh...back to GTA vice city on PS2, that will make me forget about the beauty of Soul Calibur.
Ok, now the (slightly) on topic section. One of my buddies was buying a CD player for his car the other day, and we went with him (for some reason) to the various auto audio stores. Holy crap, they have some badassed systems available. The thing I don't understand is the DVD players. Why whould someone pay $1000+ for a car DVD player when you could buy a DVD capable laptop for the same price. I mean just set the frigging laptop on the dash and it's just the same, 'cept you payed about $500 less for it and it is a functional computer...
I'd think the atmosphere on mars is too thin for this kind of aircraft. I suppose if you take the lower gravity into account it might make a difference, but I doubt it.
I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE) department at Rensselaer Polytechic Institute (RPI). This post is to inform you that I have recently attempted to slashdot our servers by putting up tons of high bandwidth content.
A game where the only challenge is to guess how hard to hold the triggers would be stunningly boring.
I think you're missing the point of what biofeedback is. It's not just like you sit down and hook up the electrodes and guess how hard to concentrate, you have to do thinks like relax in order to progress. My mom used to get terrible stress headaches and because of biofeedback she's learned how to control that stress. I don't think the game will necessarily be as good as her sessions with a doctor, but it's a pretty neat idea.
Speak for yourself, I got tired of prgramming quite a while ago. I suppose it could've been the university forcing me to take CS101 in Java even though I'd already taken the same class in C and VB (I know).
Uh, I don't get it. You think hosting providers are buying 800 meg harddrives so they don't have to change their static IP addresses? It don't make no sense. And anyway, who cares about static IPs, I mean if your paying for a domainname what difference does it make what number it resolves to? Hosting providers are buying the biggest, cheapest, drives their servers can handle. Period. I think you could make the argument that trying to host hundreds of multiple gig sites might be too much for our little server's processor(s), but this is a special case.
I think it has a lot to do with bandwidth. Although harddrive space isn't expensive, bandwidth is. Hosting services operate on the premise that the more space a site takes, the more things there are to look at (not an entirely stupid assumption) and no bigger sites use more bandwidth. The problem is that some sites (like yours) are big because they are archives and won't consume as much bandwidth as a "normal" site of the same size.
I'd try looking for a hosting service that will let you pay by bandwidth rather disk space. Or look into hosting the site yourself.
I just sortof wonder what they'd look like. Would they be hairy? Would they be intelligent? I agree it's unethical (although my utilitarianism can't explain why) but I think we could learn a lot about chimps from it. and no I'm not volunteering.
I'm glad someone else posted this. I remember learing that mules were a cross between horses and donkeys and wondering if it were possible with humans and other animals. Artificial insemination, obviously, 'cause, uh, gross.
I wonder if the offspring would be fertile (Mules aren't).
I think the windows comparison is a false analogy, a better one would be a self replicating virus. If businesses had to go around the office every year and make sure a certian piece of software hadn't installed itself. But even that doesn't quite work because the pollen from the Roundup Ready canola plants can fertileze other canola plants and pass on Monsanto's IP.
I've seen Percy speak and I really don't think he intended to violate Monsanto's patent. It seems totally possible to me that some plants could naturally develop a resistance to Monsanto's weed killer, Percy was a farmer who had been saving the seed which had the most desirable traits for 25 years, why wouldn't he want to save those plants with such a valuable trait? The problem is it's quite hard to tell when you're violating IP rights when it's a patented gene, it's not like the Monsanto canola plant have a little sign on them.
Personally as an "eco-nut" I'd rather that Monsanto put terminator genes into their Roundup Ready plants, because farmers have been increasing their use of Monsanto's Roundup pesticde (i.e. polluting a hell of a lot more) since they started using the breed. Terminator genes are bad when sold to farmers in developing countries, however, because they foster a dependency on one corporation for their seed.
If I were to find a copy of Windows "accidentally", am I then entitled to start selling copies without a license from MS? I don't think so!
Copies of windows don't tend to blow into offices of their own accord. My point isn't againt IP rights, I'm saying that Monsanto should be held responsible for cleaning up their messes. Which is why I think patenting a breed of plant is stupid, there's no way to keep it out of other farmer's fields.
The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that Monsanto isn't being held responsible for contaminating Percy's field. I think clearly he made the decision to keep the Roundup resistant plants, but the Monsanto seed had essentially polluted his crop.
If I decide to patent toxic waste can I sue a farmer when it ends up on his field? It makes more sense to me to allow patents on higher organisms because they can't spread corporate IP rights as easily. If Harvard was given their patent on the mice, how would the courts react if they released them into the wild and started suing people for the content of their mousetraps?
I hope you're being sarcastic, but this is still bullshit. As a feminist (male, before you ask) I find this offensive. I hope you're not a racist too, but put the joke in racial terms and I think you'll see the problem.
I know it's "just a joke" but that kind of thing send a subtle message that somehow for women to ask for equal status is silly.
More on topic, I do think the article goes overboard. The author seems to say that having women in fighting games means it's ok to hit women, which isn't what the feminists they quote are complaining about. I'd say that it's great to include empowered women, and it is just as ok to hit women as it is to hit men.
I think it's more about the context of the violence. The only real beef anyone quoted had was with vice city. I haven't had time to play much vice city what with finals and all but I remember GTA3 having a somewhat sexist bent (I still played it 'cause it kicks ass). How many of the women were just there to hang on the men, or be looked after like children? I think that kind of thing is worse than Kilik beating the shit out of Sophitia with a stick. The violence against women in GTA3 focuses on weak women that's why it's bad.
I think it's pretty clear from the post: Today someone you've never heard of announced that he got something you've never heard of running on something else you've never heard of using the open source Java virtual machine you've never heard of for.NET by someone else you've never heard of. Apparantly this is the first time anyone has ever done anything like this.
I know it's a little late now that there are like 400 comments but how can American Greetings trademark something that's already part of the language? I'm pretty sure people were calling that delicious dessert "strawberry shortcake" way before AG invented that stupid character.
What we did when my Grandfather started losing his sight is set up a scanner so that he could just zoom in in the ways the other posters have suggested.
I can see this being a problem because it's possible that your Grandmother doesn't have a computer or the slightest idea about how to use them (like my Grandmother).
On another note, we had a program called kurzweil when I worked in a library. It would automatically scan text, OCR it, and read it out Stephen Hawking style. It was pretty slick except for the price (I can't remember other than WAY too expensive) and the obnoxious installer. If I get motivated or if Grandpa's eyes get worse, I may try to cobble together an open source ripoff ala: scan >> ocr >> tts hell it probably already exists...
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you just want to write code, might I suggest the text editor that came with your PocketPC. Seriously though, you should install linux on it and just use gcc. Am I missing something here, 'cause this seems like a "no brainer".
I sense the assumption here that if you were born in a developing country you would buck the trend and use contraceptives, etc. I doubt it. You seem to pretty well represent the most ignorant worldview in the culture you were born into, why would you be any different if you were Somali born?
The idea is that the "oil" used in this process is part of a closed loop. Think of it this way: plants absorb carbon, turkeys eat the plants, turkeys get turned into oil, oil gets burned, carbon returns to atomosphere. What we do now amounts to digging up carbon and putting it into the atomosphere.
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Good way to pick up chicks - wave your hand with the printer concealed in it over a bar napkin and hand her your magically appearing phone number and a dirty limerick (ok, no limerick)
I don't know the kind of bars you go to (maybe they're different in Silicon Valley or something) but good luck with that one.
I've found the best way to pick up chicks is to strike up a conversation rather than show off your gadget. Uhh... you know what I mean.
Well, my mom works for a software company. I don't think this is a very difficult test.
Ok, I've never played saturn so I guess this is off topic.
Man, I friggin LOVE soul calibur on the dreamcast. Frankly, it's the only reason we kept the damn console plugged into the TV for so long. Although Sega seems pretty bad at business, their system are still pretty badass! Alas, those who ran Amigas understand my sadness, to see such a good system die is quite depressing...
Ahh...back to GTA vice city on PS2, that will make me forget about the beauty of Soul Calibur.
Ok, now the (slightly) on topic section. One of my buddies was buying a CD player for his car the other day, and we went with him (for some reason) to the various auto audio stores. Holy crap, they have some badassed systems available. The thing I don't understand is the DVD players. Why whould someone pay $1000+ for a car DVD player when you could buy a DVD capable laptop for the same price. I mean just set the frigging laptop on the dash and it's just the same, 'cept you payed about $500 less for it and it is a functional computer...
I'd think the atmosphere on mars is too thin for this kind of aircraft. I suppose if you take the lower gravity into account it might make a difference, but I doubt it.
I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE) department at Rensselaer Polytechic Institute (RPI). This post is to inform you that I have recently attempted to slashdot our servers by putting up tons of high bandwidth content.
Too bad for those students running kazaa.
A game where the only challenge is to guess how hard to hold the triggers would be stunningly boring.
I think you're missing the point of what biofeedback is. It's not just like you sit down and hook up the electrodes and guess how hard to concentrate, you have to do thinks like relax in order to progress. My mom used to get terrible stress headaches and because of biofeedback she's learned how to control that stress. I don't think the game will necessarily be as good as her sessions with a doctor, but it's a pretty neat idea.
Uh, yeah, they do already make them. PCMCIA
Speak for yourself, I got tired of prgramming quite a while ago. I suppose it could've been the university forcing me to take CS101 in Java even though I'd already taken the same class in C and VB (I know).
I do agree with the serial hobbyist thing.
Uh, I don't get it. You think hosting providers are buying 800 meg harddrives so they don't have to change their static IP addresses? It don't make no sense. And anyway, who cares about static IPs, I mean if your paying for a domainname what difference does it make what number it resolves to? Hosting providers are buying the biggest, cheapest, drives their servers can handle. Period. I think you could make the argument that trying to host hundreds of multiple gig sites might be too much for our little server's processor(s), but this is a special case.
I think it has a lot to do with bandwidth. Although harddrive space isn't expensive, bandwidth is. Hosting services operate on the premise that the more space a site takes, the more things there are to look at (not an entirely stupid assumption) and no bigger sites use more bandwidth. The problem is that some sites (like yours) are big because they are archives and won't consume as much bandwidth as a "normal" site of the same size.
I'd try looking for a hosting service that will let you pay by bandwidth rather disk space. Or look into hosting the site yourself.
Hey, that's the address of my router!
(and yes I know what 192.168.*.* means)
I just sortof wonder what they'd look like. Would they be hairy? Would they be intelligent? I agree it's unethical (although my utilitarianism can't explain why) but I think we could learn a lot about chimps from it. and no I'm not volunteering.
I'm glad someone else posted this. I remember learing that mules were a cross between horses and donkeys and wondering if it were possible with humans and other animals. Artificial insemination, obviously, 'cause, uh, gross.
I wonder if the offspring would be fertile (Mules aren't).
I think the windows comparison is a false analogy, a better one would be a self replicating virus. If businesses had to go around the office every year and make sure a certian piece of software hadn't installed itself. But even that doesn't quite work because the pollen from the Roundup Ready canola plants can fertileze other canola plants and pass on Monsanto's IP.
I've seen Percy speak and I really don't think he intended to violate Monsanto's patent. It seems totally possible to me that some plants could naturally develop a resistance to Monsanto's weed killer, Percy was a farmer who had been saving the seed which had the most desirable traits for 25 years, why wouldn't he want to save those plants with such a valuable trait? The problem is it's quite hard to tell when you're violating IP rights when it's a patented gene, it's not like the Monsanto canola plant have a little sign on them.
Personally as an "eco-nut" I'd rather that Monsanto put terminator genes into their Roundup Ready plants, because farmers have been increasing their use of Monsanto's Roundup pesticde (i.e. polluting a hell of a lot more) since they started using the breed. Terminator genes are bad when sold to farmers in developing countries, however, because they foster a dependency on one corporation for their seed.
If I were to find a copy of Windows "accidentally", am I then entitled to start selling copies without a license from MS? I don't think so!
Copies of windows don't tend to blow into offices of their own accord. My point isn't againt IP rights, I'm saying that Monsanto should be held responsible for cleaning up their messes. Which is why I think patenting a breed of plant is stupid, there's no way to keep it out of other farmer's fields.
The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that Monsanto isn't being held responsible for contaminating Percy's field. I think clearly he made the decision to keep the Roundup resistant plants, but the Monsanto seed had essentially polluted his crop.
If I decide to patent toxic waste can I sue a farmer when it ends up on his field? It makes more sense to me to allow patents on higher organisms because they can't spread corporate IP rights as easily. If Harvard was given their patent on the mice, how would the courts react if they released them into the wild and started suing people for the content of their mousetraps?
ok I guess it's not AC it just unmodded it all, crap.
OK, I'm posting AC 'cause I modded you down.
I hope you're being sarcastic, but this is still bullshit. As a feminist (male, before you ask) I find this offensive. I hope you're not a racist too, but put the joke in racial terms and I think you'll see the problem.
I know it's "just a joke" but that kind of thing send a subtle message that somehow for women to ask for equal status is silly.
More on topic, I do think the article goes overboard. The author seems to say that having women in fighting games means it's ok to hit women, which isn't what the feminists they quote are complaining about. I'd say that it's great to include empowered women, and it is just as ok to hit women as it is to hit men.
I think it's more about the context of the violence. The only real beef anyone quoted had was with vice city. I haven't had time to play much vice city what with finals and all but I remember GTA3 having a somewhat sexist bent (I still played it 'cause it kicks ass). How many of the women were just there to hang on the men, or be looked after like children? I think that kind of thing is worse than Kilik beating the shit out of Sophitia with a stick. The violence against women in GTA3 focuses on weak women that's why it's bad.
That "William Shakespeare" primate of yours was actually an ape
and we all know that monkeys and apes have no common ancestors...
no wait they were all monkeys at one point.
also I believe the monkeys would produce "what do you get when you multiply six by nine" if they were to randomly pull tiles from the scrabble bag.
I think it's pretty clear from the post: .NET by someone else you've never heard of. Apparantly this is the first time anyone has ever done anything like this.
Today someone you've never heard of announced that he got something you've never heard of running on something else you've never heard of using the open source Java virtual machine you've never heard of for
I know it's a little late now that there are like 400 comments but how can American Greetings trademark something that's already part of the language? I'm pretty sure people were calling that delicious dessert "strawberry shortcake" way before AG invented that stupid character.
What we did when my Grandfather started losing his sight is set up a scanner so that he could just zoom in in the ways the other posters have suggested.
I can see this being a problem because it's possible that your Grandmother doesn't have a computer or the slightest idea about how to use them (like my Grandmother).
On another note, we had a program called kurzweil when I worked in a library. It would automatically scan text, OCR it, and read it out Stephen Hawking style. It was pretty slick except for the price (I can't remember other than WAY too expensive) and the obnoxious installer. If I get motivated or if Grandpa's eyes get worse, I may try to cobble together an open source ripoff ala:
scan >> ocr >> tts
hell it probably already exists...
I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you just want to write code, might I suggest the text editor that came with your PocketPC. Seriously though, you should install linux on it and just use gcc. Am I missing something here, 'cause this seems like a "no brainer".
I sense the assumption here that if you were born in a developing country you would buck the trend and use contraceptives, etc. I doubt it. You seem to pretty well represent the most ignorant worldview in the culture you were born into, why would you be any different if you were Somali born?
The idea is that the "oil" used in this process is part of a closed loop. Think of it this way: plants absorb carbon, turkeys eat the plants, turkeys get turned into oil, oil gets burned, carbon returns to atomosphere. What we do now amounts to digging up carbon and putting it into the atomosphere.