HAHA! But seriously, even if that did actually happen:
1) ED-209 wasn't inanimate - he moved around under his own power, and had an intelligence of sorts (even if it was just visual recognition software with an expert system).
2) Wouldn't the actual cause of death been a software bug caused by code written by a human?
3) Dick Jones had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!
Show me an instant when a person killed a person with a gun when they didn't have a gun. Show me an instance where a person killed a person with a knife when they didn't have a knife? Or ran over them with a car, when they didn't have a car? Or blast them with a tank, when they didn't have a tank? And then I'll show you an instance where a gun killed someone without any actions of people being behind it.
People kill people, not inanimate objects. They may use the inanimate object to do the killing. They may be careless with the inanimate object, which then accidentally leads to the death of someone. But, short of a natural disaster, an inanimate object is never the cause.
Exactly which people are to keep and bear Arms? Is it only the people of the Militia? For that matter, what Arms are they to bear? And for what purpose? It specifically mentions the "security of a free State". To whom would this security be against? Read the rest of the Constitution. Everywhere else "the people" is used, it is used to mean just that - the people. Not the militia, not the police, and not the government, but the people as in "We the people of the United States".
"Arms" obviously means weapons. And "infringed" pretty blatantly screams that they can't stop the people from keeping and bearing arms. Twisting it to mean otherwise is being dishonest and grasping at straws.
The title is badly worded. The $21M award went to Anascape Ltd., the people suing Nintendo. So, Nintendo does suffer the award to another company. The wording of the title does make it sound like Nintendo is both the receiver and sufferer of the award.
How different does a variation on an organism need to be before you'd call it "something other?"
Say, the difference between a Chihuahua and a Great Dane? They're genetically one millimeter apart from one another Genetically, they are both still the same species, domesticated canines, and as genetically different from each other as you are from me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying evolution is wrong. In fact, I specifically stated that I wasn't saying that! Evolution is a very good theory and model of how things work. The best explanation for how different species came about, and without the need to invoke super natural causes or deities.
However, it is still just a theory. We've seen changes occur within species - both in the wild (moth coloring between wooded and urban areas) and in the lab (bacteria and fruit flies). However, that only verifies natural selection within a species and does not prove that one species can change into different species.
It is implied to happen, but implication is not observed proof. To say otherwise is being scientifically dishonest. However, to use it as a model and basis for other research and to teach it in a science class is fine, because it is the best theory we have.
If you grow E. Coli or other bacteria in a petri dish you can watch it change over many generations as you expose it to various stresses (drug resistance, excessive heat, oxygen deprivation, what have you). Not saying the theory of evolution is incorrect, but just one question: have we ever seen E. Coli (or other bacteria) become something other than E. Coli over many generations?
The idea that one species can change into another species by this process is inferred, but not observed. Which is what I believe he meant with the peanut butter statement.
RoadRunner's DNS servers in Austin are especially "sucky". Shortly after I started using RR, I noticed several times where their DNS servers would just hang and not answer requests. Their customer service wouldn't admit it was an issue, even when I told them that the problem would disappear if I used different DNS servers instead theirs. They would only respond with "it must be a Linux issue on your end." I enabled the DNS server on my home server, and gave up trying to get them to fix theirs.
As an AC said, it is an article specifically about the Apple, but...
Commodore tends to get overlooked a lot, especially the Amiga. I think it has to do with our culture's tendency to want to see two side to a conflict, rather than the actual multiple angles. So, most articles about computer history tend to go for the Gates vs. Jobs story.
You do realize that Warcraft was basically a RTS version of Games Workshop's Warhammer table top miniatures game? So really, WoW is a MMOPRG version of a rip-off of Warhammer, so it's no wonder Warhammer Online looks like a rip-off of WoW to those that don't know it's lineage. That's why the goblins in both games look like cousins.
I have a lifetime subscription, but if I didn't and was torn between paying the cable or TiVo bill, I'd dump cable first. TiVo can pull programming off an antenna, and reception willing, would still be able to time shift a lot of shows to my schedule. So, I don't agree that TiVo is dependent on cable. Better with cable, yes. But not dependent on it.
With my wife, it was Ms Pac-Man on one of those hand-held games you plug into the TV. After she got frustrated with the joystick not being stable, she asked me if there was anyway to get it to feel more like the old arcade game.
"Why yes, mi amor, yes there is."
We converted an old Centipede cabinet and it sits in the kitchen eating area.
I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Sheep?", and it was pretty clear that he wasn't a replicant. The idea that he might have been was dismissed in the middle of the story. After that, the book fell apart for me and made Blade Runner one of the extremely few films that was better than the written story on which it was based. Solely because it left you wondering. Then Ridley had to go and spoil all the fun.
I'm thinking about reading "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", because I always liked to think that "Total Recall" ended with Quaid in a coma at the Total Recall offices and dreaming that he was on Mars. But, with my disappointment in DADoES, I'm a little hesitant about reading even a short story by PKD.
Wings was great! Except that you'd spend what seemed like an eternity trying to shoot down a German, and then one of your wingmen would swoop in from nowhere and get the credit for the kill. We use to "soften" up our wingmen for the Germans by peppering them with a few shots at the beginning. The Germans would then be able to take the out quickly, and that would leave the bulk of the Germans for us. Had to be careful though, because if you're bullet took the wingman down, there'd be hell to pay back at base!
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HAHA! But seriously, even if that did actually happen:
1) ED-209 wasn't inanimate - he moved around under his own power, and had an intelligence of sorts (even if it was just visual recognition software with an expert system).
2) Wouldn't the actual cause of death been a software bug caused by code written by a human?
3) Dick Jones had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!
People kill people, not inanimate objects. They may use the inanimate object to do the killing. They may be careless with the inanimate object, which then accidentally leads to the death of someone. But, short of a natural disaster, an inanimate object is never the cause.
"Arms" obviously means weapons. And "infringed" pretty blatantly screams that they can't stop the people from keeping and bearing arms. Twisting it to mean otherwise is being dishonest and grasping at straws.
The title is badly worded. The $21M award went to Anascape Ltd., the people suing Nintendo. So, Nintendo does suffer the award to another company. The wording of the title does make it sound like Nintendo is both the receiver and sufferer of the award.
I don't know. If he has access to a computer from prison, he'll have plenty of time on his hands to make updates and patches.
Calvin Ball!
Kahn?
Say, the difference between a Chihuahua and a Great Dane? They're genetically one millimeter apart from one another Genetically, they are both still the same species, domesticated canines, and as genetically different from each other as you are from me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying evolution is wrong. In fact, I specifically stated that I wasn't saying that! Evolution is a very good theory and model of how things work. The best explanation for how different species came about, and without the need to invoke super natural causes or deities.
However, it is still just a theory. We've seen changes occur within species - both in the wild (moth coloring between wooded and urban areas) and in the lab (bacteria and fruit flies). However, that only verifies natural selection within a species and does not prove that one species can change into different species.
It is implied to happen, but implication is not observed proof. To say otherwise is being scientifically dishonest. However, to use it as a model and basis for other research and to teach it in a science class is fine, because it is the best theory we have.
The idea that one species can change into another species by this process is inferred, but not observed. Which is what I believe he meant with the peanut butter statement.
As well as a portion of his meals at the homeless shelter, until his settlement is paid.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum.
RoadRunner's DNS servers in Austin are especially "sucky". Shortly after I started using RR, I noticed several times where their DNS servers would just hang and not answer requests. Their customer service wouldn't admit it was an issue, even when I told them that the problem would disappear if I used different DNS servers instead theirs. They would only respond with "it must be a Linux issue on your end." I enabled the DNS server on my home server, and gave up trying to get them to fix theirs.
As an AC said, it is an article specifically about the Apple, but...
Commodore tends to get overlooked a lot, especially the Amiga. I think it has to do with our culture's tendency to want to see two side to a conflict, rather than the actual multiple angles. So, most articles about computer history tend to go for the Gates vs. Jobs story.
I've always found that the second scariest thing on Halloween was a bored Engineer. The scariest? Multiple bored Engineers, working together.
Because only the rich should be allowed to use the roads
/sarcasm
So none of his games will be using this, http://www.ageia.com/physx/, then?
Funny, that's what I thought was the entire reason for having Home and Professional versions.
"Windows Server 2008 in a production environment."
So even MS has given up on Vista.
Don't forget the Nixonian Theorem:
If two wrongs don't make a right, try a third.
You do realize that Warcraft was basically a RTS version of Games Workshop's Warhammer table top miniatures game? So really, WoW is a MMOPRG version of a rip-off of Warhammer, so it's no wonder Warhammer Online looks like a rip-off of WoW to those that don't know it's lineage. That's why the goblins in both games look like cousins.
I have a lifetime subscription, but if I didn't and was torn between paying the cable or TiVo bill, I'd dump cable first. TiVo can pull programming off an antenna, and reception willing, would still be able to time shift a lot of shows to my schedule. So, I don't agree that TiVo is dependent on cable. Better with cable, yes. But not dependent on it.
With my wife, it was Ms Pac-Man on one of those hand-held games you plug into the TV. After she got frustrated with the joystick not being stable, she asked me if there was anyway to get it to feel more like the old arcade game.
"Why yes, mi amor, yes there is."
We converted an old Centipede cabinet and it sits in the kitchen eating area.
SIX FOOT TALL titanium-shelled cockroaches.
Sleep tight, don't let the large alien space bugs bite.
I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Sheep?", and it was pretty clear that he wasn't a replicant. The idea that he might have been was dismissed in the middle of the story. After that, the book fell apart for me and made Blade Runner one of the extremely few films that was better than the written story on which it was based. Solely because it left you wondering. Then Ridley had to go and spoil all the fun.
_ Electric_Sheep%3F#Differences_between_the_novel_an d_film) seems to confirm that he was pretty solidly in the human camp.
Admittedly, I did not finish the book, due to the story falling apart for me after Deckard's V-K test about midway through. But, Wikipedia (in all of its "truthiness" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of
I'm thinking about reading "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", because I always liked to think that "Total Recall" ended with Quaid in a coma at the Total Recall offices and dreaming that he was on Mars. But, with my disappointment in DADoES, I'm a little hesitant about reading even a short story by PKD.
Wings was great! Except that you'd spend what seemed like an eternity trying to shoot down a German, and then one of your wingmen would swoop in from nowhere and get the credit for the kill. We use to "soften" up our wingmen for the Germans by peppering them with a few shots at the beginning. The Germans would then be able to take the out quickly, and that would leave the bulk of the Germans for us. Had to be careful though, because if you're bullet took the wingman down, there'd be hell to pay back at base!
Ah, good times, good times.