In both cases, it wasn't an easy sell to the majority of voters (who could care less), but to get Senate support from an independent (Harridine) or religious fringe (Family First) members that held/hold the balance of power.
With any luck the new filter proposal will suffer the obvious fate of the last one: doesn't work, unwanted, pisses off voters, and the (currently silent) majority gets listened too instead of the vocal minority and they back off on such exercises in futility.
I voted for a "Clever Country" - not a "Nanny State".
And kudos to the US for using a simple sequentially-numbered system for the patents instead of an indecipherable code involving numbers, letters, and probably hyphens in between every few of those other symbols.
Maybe if they had used an indecipherable code, there wouldn't be so many bogus US patents.
Patent Troll 1: I wonder if anyone has patented "watching grass grow on the Internet" yet?
Patent Troll 2: Let's see: Patent No. 1337-RTFM-OMGWTFBBQ discusses growing plants...
Patent Troll 1: Whoa, too much for me. How about we sell penis-enlargement pills instead?
Of course, since Nvidia have just launched the 9600GT, we may presume there's a 9800GT on the way soon that'll blow both of them away
The the 9600GT is based on the G92 core - the same as later versions of the 8800 (e.g. 512MB.) The renumbering is most likely to distance itself from the 8600, which was rather poorly received (unlike its 8800 brother.)
Why nVidia didn't renumber the newer G92-based 8800 cards as 8900 or 9800, or at least give it a different suffix (GTI?) is beyond me. Keeping the same name confuses consumers, who will probably think that the 640MB version is "better" than the 512MB version when quite the opposite is true.
Otherwise we would still be using artificial limbs using wood and hooks instead of carbon fiber structures, servo motors and computers for our handicapped.
Avast with yer "carbon fiber" talk - wooden legs and hooks be good enough to beat ninjas!
Microsoft: Hello [insert AV vendor here]. Would you like your users to have to upgrade to the latest version of your product for Vista SP1?
AV vendor: Yes please - we need the revenue.
Microsoft: Done - we'll add you to the "disabled with approval" list.
AV vendor: Thanks Microsoft! [evil laugh]
I hate to break this to you and the rest of the illiterates, but Rome and Latin really existed.
Yeah, but what have the Romans ever done for us (apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health)?
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to three. Look, right across the board, three, three, three and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most cores go up to two?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's better? Is it any better?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one better, isn't it? It's not two. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at two. You're on two here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on two on your computer. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to three.
Nigel Tufnel: Three. Exactly. One better.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make two better and make two be the top number and make that a little better?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to three.
"If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory..."
For all we know the real tone may sound like Mozart.
Funny you should mention that. Some train stations, shopping centres etc. in Australia play classical music through their PA systems to discourage youths from loitering. It seems to work without annoying anyone else - unless they play "Greensleeves".
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." - HHGTTG
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Scientists never get invited to pool parties...
It must be their rubber fetish.
In both cases, it wasn't an easy sell to the majority of voters (who could care less), but to get Senate support from an independent (Harridine) or religious fringe (Family First) members that held/hold the balance of power.
With any luck the new filter proposal will suffer the obvious fate of the last one: doesn't work, unwanted, pisses off voters, and the (currently silent) majority gets listened too instead of the vocal minority and they back off on such exercises in futility.
I voted for a "Clever Country" - not a "Nanny State".
Would they be attempting draw the same conclusions if it was called "5 minute time-out", which is what it has more in common with real life?
Do you mean "Counter-Strike"? No respawns suck.
And kudos to the US for using a simple sequentially-numbered system for the patents instead of an indecipherable code involving numbers, letters, and probably hyphens in between every few of those other symbols.
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Maybe if they had used an indecipherable code, there wouldn't be so many bogus US patents.
Patent Troll 1: I wonder if anyone has patented "watching grass grow on the Internet" yet?
Patent Troll 2: Let's see: Patent No. 1337-RTFM-OMGWTFBBQ discusses growing plants
Patent Troll 1: Whoa, too much for me. How about we sell penis-enlargement pills instead?
Of course, since Nvidia have just launched the 9600GT, we may presume there's a 9800GT on the way soon that'll blow both of them away
The the 9600GT is based on the G92 core - the same as later versions of the 8800 (e.g. 512MB.) The renumbering is most likely to distance itself from the 8600, which was rather poorly received (unlike its 8800 brother.)
Why nVidia didn't renumber the newer G92-based 8800 cards as 8900 or 9800, or at least give it a different suffix (GTI?) is beyond me. Keeping the same name confuses consumers, who will probably think that the 640MB version is "better" than the 512MB version when quite the opposite is true.
Otherwise we would still be using artificial limbs using wood and hooks instead of carbon fiber structures, servo motors and computers for our handicapped.
Avast with yer "carbon fiber" talk - wooden legs and hooks be good enough to beat ninjas!
Microsoft: Hello [insert AV vendor here]. Would you like your users to have to upgrade to the latest version of your product for Vista SP1?
AV vendor: Yes please - we need the revenue.
Microsoft: Done - we'll add you to the "disabled with approval" list.
AV vendor: Thanks Microsoft! [evil laugh]
I believe a thousand megatonnes is then commonly called a "shiteload" or, in the US, a "fuckload".
A U.S. fuckload is a thousand megatons. A thousand megatonnes is a metric fuckload.
I hate to break this to you and the rest of the illiterates, but Rome and Latin really existed.
Yeah, but what have the Romans ever done for us (apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health)?
The UK team are too busy doing Top Gear stunts.
It takes time to develop those great ideas and get a bunch of customers on board.
Only if they stay on board. How many of them will jump ship once Microsoft grabs the tiller and heads for the iceberg-laden Windows ocean?
"If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory ..."
Please, won't someone think of the ants?!
For all we know the real tone may sound like Mozart.
Funny you should mention that. Some train stations, shopping centres etc. in Australia play classical music through their PA systems to discourage youths from loitering. It seems to work without annoying anyone else - unless they play "Greensleeves".
You forgot one:
Is far too big to fit on you.
I used this to go one better: Windows XP + SP2 + (most) post-SP2 patches, slipstreamed. When I was last forced to rebuild XP, it worked like a charm.
Life + (X number of years) in the slammer would be a good way to remind studio execs not to be arseholes.
The fact that one maneuvers faster than the other, it's just... inexplicable.
I believe the meme you are looking for is: "inconceivable".
I wouldn't need to keep my password on a Post-It note if you IT security guys didn't make me change it every two weeks!
There, fixed it for you - IT guys get pissed off with frequent demands to change their password, too.
Geez, not all furries are terrorists.
If you're serious about targeting terrorists, why not declare a War on Beards?
Wouldn't any planet not our own be an alien planet?
Only if it has aliens on it.
Pah - reductionists. 3.141592654 should be enough for anyone.
Less civilized: did not wear digital watches.
Indeed. I believe the correct relational term is "both sides of the call center".