Neat! I made a similar listing of some of the hard words in _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson, but have been too lazy to put it online. Maybe I'll take the time.
Because ALL governments who had no real accountability and ultimate power were despot regimes
Although the rest of your post is cogent and well argued, I'm afraid I have to take issue with this statment. You are sadly mistaken if you think despot regimes hold ultimate power. It has been well established that real ultimate power is reserved strictly for ninjas.
In the extended addition, they are gifts from the elves. Just like the crystal given to Frodo, and the rope given to Sam. I don't think they gave same the box of dirt in the movie.
Blipverts are exactly what I thought of when I read the summary. Unfortunately, they had the side effect of making their "perpetual, more slothful viewers literally explode" but a similar idea could work here.
This is where we need to turn a crisis into an opportunity. We just need to harness the exploding people, and we can solve our energy and obesity problems all at once!
Most of Africa actually has a very free market (i.e. pure capitalism). There simply isn't enough law and order to prevent anything but total Laissez Faire economy. I doubt African countries have much in the way of social services.
Does editgrid allow you to copy and paste multiple cells to/from editgrid to something (html/excel/wikimarkup/comma seperated values)?
That one limitation completely kept me from using googles spreadsheet. (Maybe there was a way to get the spreadsheet into a csv format, but what I really wanted was a way to transfer my current incarnation in without retyping everything.
About 10 years ago I was in Europe, and used a toilet where the flush behavior was triggered by a pedal on the floor. Probably much more sanitary than everyone touching the same lever with the hands they just used to wipe with. There is an example of a fairly simple modification that hasn't caught on over here yet, and their are probably hundreds of other modifications that could improve the toilet a bit.
In addition, I would love it if my toilet could do a spectrum analysis of my uh, deposit, and let me know if my diet is unhealthy, I've got internal bleeding, imminent liver failure, etc.
I have never sold on ebay, so maybe I am misinterpreting this, but they say they are going to increase store listings, not seller fees. On ebay, high volume sellers have the option of creating their own virtual store front. My guess is they are going to increase the cost to create a store, but not to just sell a single item, in order to encourage more low-volume sellers.
SAFER is also trying to get a ballot initiative for the next Colorado election which will remove any state penalties for marijuana use and possession of up to an ounce for any over 21.
If you live in Colorado be sure to vote for this, and tell your friends.
I can think of one major exception: anything that involves two people sharing a single physical display, such as videoconferencing or playing a multi-player game.
Or watching downloaded porn together. Much easier than constantly burning DVDs.
Just curious where the Whole Foods is you were at. I was getting petitions signed outside the Whole Foods in Boulder, and the manager came out and said it was company policy not to allow that at their stores.
Wife and I were watching _Prozac Nation_ last night, when about half way through it became unwatchable. We called the grocery store we had rented at, but that was their only copy. Next we tried two blockbusters nearby, but neither carried it. Since it was our last resort, I decided to try the toothpaste trick.
What I did was apply a small glob of toothpaste, and just enough water to make it workable. Then using a clean cloth I polished the disk with the paste moving in small circular motions. I had tried this half-assed before, and not gotten good results, so I decided to really go for it this time. I think I applied paste 3 times, and each time rubbed for about 2-3 minutes, before rinsing off. Finally I rinsed well, cleaned with a cloth, and then did one final rinse and wipe.
At the end of this you could tell that the scratches didn't look as deep as when I had started. We put it back in the DVD player, and the movie played 100% perfect, no problems at all. I was amazed.
I think maybe a solution that also incorporated something to fill in the scratches might be even better. Has anyone used any of those special purpose scratch repair solutions that they sell at gaming and office supply stores?
There is clearly prior art for shipping 3 items in one package. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any prior art for 'all-you-can-eat' shipping.
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kick ass! I can't wait to be a responsible parent.
Wife: Honey do the dishes. Me: Are you kidding? I'm only 2/3 of the way through Jumior's christmas parent. WHAT KIND OF A MOTHER ARE YOU?!?!? Wife: (sobbing)
I agree that anyone who wants to use the Make discount code should go ahead and donate to EFF, but I'm not so sure it actually hurts them if someone uses it without donating. In fact, I bet Make magazine still makes money on a subscription, even with the discount. They probably look at the total number of people who use that code as consumers who may not have gotten a subscription if it weren't for the EFF They might even give the EFF a bit of a kickback for each subscriber that uses that code.
I went to Europe for 3 weeks two years ago (Amsterdam, Germany & Paris), and the closest I saw to anti-americanism was some guy sitting in the restaurant who kept glaring at us. No idea if it was because we were Americans, or just sitting at his favorite table or some other reason, but other than that everyone was very friendly and polite.
I haven't tried it, but I was under the impression that extensions could not be installed in firefox under mac (because they relied on the windows API), is that not true?
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That's not funny!
I don't think so, but I hear they are on the lookout for a halfsharkalligator-halfman.
Neat! I made a similar listing of some of the hard words in _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson, but have been too lazy to put it online. Maybe I'll take the time.
Because ALL governments who had no real accountability and ultimate power were despot regimes
Although the rest of your post is cogent and well argued, I'm afraid I have to take issue with this statment. You are sadly mistaken if you
think despot regimes hold ultimate power. It has been well established that real ultimate power is
reserved strictly for ninjas.
In the extended addition, they are gifts from the elves. Just like the crystal given to Frodo, and the rope given to Sam. I don't think they gave same the box of dirt in the movie.
Blipverts are exactly what I thought of when I read the summary.
Unfortunately, they had the side effect of making their "perpetual, more slothful viewers literally explode" but a similar idea could work here.
This is where we need to turn a crisis into an opportunity. We just need to harness the exploding people, and we can solve our energy and obesity problems all at once!
Most of Africa actually has a very free market (i.e. pure capitalism). There simply isn't enough law and order to prevent anything but total Laissez Faire economy. I doubt African countries have much in the way of social services.
Is anyone using an online service to do backups (like Amazon's S3 service?)? I wonder how it compares price wise to DVDs or external hard drives.
Does editgrid allow you to copy and paste multiple cells to/from editgrid to something (html/excel/wikimarkup/comma seperated values)?
That one limitation completely kept me from using googles spreadsheet. (Maybe there was a way to get the spreadsheet into a csv format, but what I really wanted was a way to transfer my current incarnation in without retyping everything.
About 10 years ago I was in Europe, and used a toilet where the flush behavior was triggered by a pedal on the floor. Probably much more sanitary than everyone touching the same lever with the hands they just used to wipe with. There is an example of a fairly simple modification that hasn't caught on over here yet, and their are probably hundreds of other modifications that could improve the toilet a bit.
In addition, I would love it if my toilet could do a spectrum analysis of my uh, deposit, and let me know if my diet is unhealthy, I've got internal bleeding, imminent liver failure, etc.
What's this about a new Canon 400D DSLR?
You missed out. It doesn't really get good until about 400 pages in. ;)
I have never sold on ebay, so maybe I am misinterpreting this, but they say they are going to increase store listings, not seller fees. On ebay, high volume sellers have the option of creating their own virtual store front. My guess is they are going to increase the cost to create a store, but not to just sell a single item, in order to encourage more low-volume sellers.
Based on his website, I'd say he's gay.
SAFER is also trying to get a ballot initiative for the next Colorado election which will remove any state penalties for marijuana use and possession of up to an ounce for any over 21.
If you live in Colorado be sure to vote for this, and tell your friends.
What do you expect, that they nuke them from orbit the second you delete them
Well, it is the only way to be sure.
In my book, people who posted direct affiliation link on Slashdot should have their creditibility discounted.
Also people who have the word 'troll' right in their user name.
I can think of one major exception: anything that involves two people sharing a single physical display, such as videoconferencing or playing a multi-player game.
Or watching downloaded porn together. Much easier than constantly burning DVDs.
Just curious where the Whole Foods is you were at. I was getting petitions signed outside the Whole Foods in Boulder, and the manager came out and said it was company policy not to allow that at their stores.
Wife and I were watching _Prozac Nation_ last night, when about half way through it became unwatchable. We called the grocery store we had rented at, but that was their only copy. Next we tried two blockbusters nearby, but neither carried it. Since it was our last resort, I decided to try the toothpaste trick.
What I did was apply a small glob of toothpaste, and just enough water to make it workable. Then using a clean cloth I polished the disk with the paste moving in small circular motions. I had tried this half-assed before, and not gotten good results, so I decided to really go for it this time. I think I applied paste 3 times, and each time rubbed for about 2-3 minutes, before rinsing off. Finally I rinsed well, cleaned with a cloth, and then did one final rinse and wipe.
At the end of this you could tell that the scratches didn't look as deep as when I had started. We put it back in the DVD player, and the movie played 100% perfect, no problems at all. I was amazed.
I think maybe a solution that also incorporated something to fill in the scratches might be even better. Has anyone used any of those special purpose scratch repair solutions that they sell at gaming and office supply stores?
There is clearly prior art for shipping 3 items in one package. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any prior art for 'all-you-can-eat' shipping.
kick ass! I can't wait to be a responsible parent.
Wife: Honey do the dishes.
Me: Are you kidding? I'm only 2/3 of the way through Jumior's christmas parent. WHAT KIND OF A MOTHER ARE YOU?!?!?
Wife: (sobbing)
I agree that anyone who wants to use the Make discount code should go ahead and donate to EFF, but I'm not so sure it actually hurts them if someone uses it without donating. In fact, I bet Make magazine still makes money on a subscription, even with the discount. They probably look at the total number of people who use that code as consumers who may not have gotten a subscription if it weren't for the EFF They might even give the EFF a bit of a kickback for each subscriber that uses that code.
I went to Europe for 3 weeks two years ago (Amsterdam, Germany & Paris), and the closest I saw to anti-americanism was some guy sitting in the restaurant who kept glaring at us. No idea if it was because we were Americans, or just sitting at his favorite table or some other reason, but other than that everyone was very friendly and polite.
I haven't tried it, but I was under the impression that extensions could not be installed in firefox under mac (because they relied on the windows API), is that not true?