Okay, nevermind copyright; doesn't releasing a Flash game called "BurgerTime" infringe on the trademark of the 1982 BurgerTime game? (Trademarks don't expire after a set number of years, do they?)
And next to useless for the average consumer who takes shots over a long day out at the zoo, no wifi access point in sight, no laptop with them
Perhaps it could upload to the hard drive of the iPod (or iPod-like device) that the consumer is carrying in his pocket. (of course, something like Bluetooth might be a better way to do that, and better still might be just putting the hard drive into the camera)
Can't we just go one day without a creation v. evolution thread?!
What, you don't like seeing those two memes battle it out every day? Don't worry, eventually the weaker meme will die off, and the stronger one will successfully reproduce and its descendants will become ubiquitous. In a few thousand years everybody will wonder where the weaker meme went...
Which stage is "Rolling around in an ocean of cash so large that if they never sold another product and just invested their Cash On Hand they'd still be making an ungodly amount of money"?
That stage is called "retirement". It's certainly an option for Bill and friends, but it's not the same thing as running a successful world-dominating software company.
Presumably, this 'gadget' will barf if there really are no rules in such natural language usage...
There must be some rules in natural language, otherwise how would anyone be able to understand what anyone else was saying? The rules used may not be the "official" rules of the language, and they may not even be clearly/consciously understood by the speakers/listeners themselves, but that doesn't mean they aren't rules.
Yes, it has to be crippled, otherwise one copy would be sent to everyone else, and the whole concept of a library wouldn't work.
The point of a library is to give people easy, free access to books. So the whole concept of a library would work really well. It's the concept of selling books that wouldn't work (at least, not in its current form).
However, the only thing I can saw I was pleased about was its performance. On a 2.4 ghz celeron with 512 mb of ram, it ran fine, just as fast as XP on the same system.
I can see the blurb on the side of the retail box now: Windows Vista! Now no slower than the previous version!
Best yet, instead of having to delete and move files around, which thrashes the disk and makes the filesystem a disaster, the filesystem can effeciently use space because it can know exactly how big the files are, and start sticking files right up next to each other.
You lost me here. How does WinFS know exactly how big the files are in any way that a traditional filesystem cannot? Do you mean that WinFS forces every program to declare a file's file size when the file is created, and doesn't allow the file to be truncated or extended later on? I hope not, because that seems like it would be awfully limiting...
It only shreds paper? A proper "anti-printer" would take a stack of printed documents and convert it into a stack of blank paper and a full ink cartridge. Now that would be useful.
Isn't "hearing the voice of God" one of the primary causes of terrorist acts? It's hard to imagine the September 11th hijackers took the job because of the good dental plan...
OK who would bomb the US if the US had done that? Umm nobody
Or, just as likely, somebody -- but we'd never know who, because the bomb would be imported in a lead-lined box, inside one of the many cargo containers that still don't get inspected. All we'd know is that one day, (major US city) existed, and the next day, it didn't.
That's the problem with too many Americans (and yes, I am one myself, keep that in mind when you flame me): they think that waving their dicks around and threatening/bullying the rest of the world will make us safer, when in fact it does the opposite.
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Sure, you type in some stuff, and get something that LOOKS highly relevant. How do you know?
Make use of the information you received from the search. Did the information help you solve the problem that led you to make the query? If it did, then the information was relevant.
How many television shows have you seen depicting the man with lesser intelligence
The telling detail is that all the shows you listed as examples are comedies. Their purpose is to get the audience to laugh, and one way they do this is by presenting a situation that is the opposite of what the audience would expect: in this case, instead of the male being the competent leader, it's the female who is smart and makes him look bad, to humorous effect.
Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
Ask a boy if he'd rather be intelligent or good at a professional sport. Nobody wants to be intelligent, it doesn't get you any of your 15 minutes.
Where did you get that idea? Being intelligent gets you a high-paying job doing something interesting that you like to do, instead of a minimum-wage McJob that keeps you in permanent poverty and drives you insane with boredom. Being good at a professional sport is even worse -- it gives you grandiose dreams of playing in the major leagues, which lead to your skimping on everything else and then having no place to go once you wash out along the way (as 99.999% of all wannabe professional athletes do), and you end up as a bitter, burned-out has-been, endlessly talking about your "glory days" back in college.
Being merely good (as opposed to insanely great) at a professional sport is a curse.
Oh, you mean you really *can't* read minds? Silly men. I guess we gals just take that ability for granted
At the risk of ruining the joke... there is something to this. Not the ability to literally read minds, but the ability to detect and interpret the subtle non-verbal cues people display that can provide information regarding their mental and emotional state -- for example, a repositioning of the posture of the shoulders, or a slight change in breathing pattern, a miniscule change in facial coloring, or even possibly a change in pheromone composition. I suspect that when women get frustrated with men for "just not knowing" things, it is because they (the women) are used to being easily able to pick up these subtle hints themselves at a subconscious level, and therefore they take having that skill for granted and expect that everyone should be able to do it.
Many men, on the other hand, prefer explicit/formal communication and either dismiss these non-verbal cues as unimportant, or (just as likely) are unable to reliably detect them at all. This is especially the case among the borderline-Aspberger's-Syndrome types that like to frequent Slashdot (you all know who you are;^)), but I suspect it holds true on average for the gender as a whole.
But what about the experiments that show that plants are healthier when you play them classical music? Maybe plants have feelings too?
Only if you assume that "being healthier" is the same thing as "having feelings". I don't see any connection; especially since plants don't have any brain or nervous system that could physically provide those feelings.
"Anyway, I'm a level 5 Vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."
Clever, but keep in mind that humor and attempts to trivialize the subject are defensive mechanisms people use to avoid having to honestly think things through.
I want to know why it's ethical to kill plants, but not ethical to kill animals.
The argument is that animals have thoughts and feelings, whereas plants don't. Therefore by killing an animal you are causing pain (both to it and to the other animals acquainted with it), whereas a plant, being mindless, cannot feel any pain.
Apparently not you... but a better question might be, why are you acting so defensive? It was merely an observation.
Plus, eating real meat has been in my family for generations -- you really think its going to go away in 2 more? I doubt it.
How many previous generations enjoyed the availability of non-animal-derived meat?
but it will be a long time until they can have great Foi Gras, Filet Mignons, Salmon, or Sushi Tuna, and you know it. This article is about filler for Taco bell, nothing else.
I know as much (or as little) about the subject as you do, since I'm not an expert on growing meat in a vat. Predicting the future is remarkably difficult, especially when it's not in one's area of expertise. You might be right, or you might end up like the IBM guy who predicted a world market for "maybe as many as six" computers.
Its called 'Demonstrating Absurdity by being Absurd."
Actually, it's called "Being Stupid While Attempting to be Clever", for two reasons: (1) Watching is not the same as doing, and (2) Many vegans DO have qualms about watching the death and destruction of humans, even if they are not personally responsible for it.
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Okay, nevermind copyright; doesn't releasing a Flash game called "BurgerTime" infringe on the trademark of the 1982 BurgerTime game? (Trademarks don't expire after a set number of years, do they?)
Just to play devil's advocate... is it kid-friendly to deliberately keep children ignorant of what they are eating?
Think what? Is there some mental algorithm I can run that will tell me whether or not a given link will point to a picture of Mr. Goatse?
Perhaps it could upload to the hard drive of the iPod (or iPod-like device) that the consumer is carrying in his pocket. (of course, something like Bluetooth might be a better way to do that, and better still might be just putting the hard drive into the camera)
What, you don't like seeing those two memes battle it out every day? Don't worry, eventually the weaker meme will die off, and the stronger one will successfully reproduce and its descendants will become ubiquitous. In a few thousand years everybody will wonder where the weaker meme went...
That stage is called "retirement". It's certainly an option for Bill and friends, but it's not the same thing as running a successful world-dominating software company.
There must be some rules in natural language, otherwise how would anyone be able to understand what anyone else was saying? The rules used may not be the "official" rules of the language, and they may not even be clearly/consciously understood by the speakers/listeners themselves, but that doesn't mean they aren't rules.
This technology seems effective in expiration dates
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Is it? I wonder what happens if you turn your computer's clock back. (Or is changing your computer's system clock a DMCA violation these days?
The point of a library is to give people easy, free access to books. So the whole concept of a library would work really well. It's the concept of selling books that wouldn't work (at least, not in its current form).
I can see the blurb on the side of the retail box now: Windows Vista! Now no slower than the previous version!
You lost me here. How does WinFS know exactly how big the files are in any way that a traditional filesystem cannot? Do you mean that WinFS forces every program to declare a file's file size when the file is created, and doesn't allow the file to be truncated or extended later on? I hope not, because that seems like it would be awfully limiting...
It only shreds paper? A proper "anti-printer" would take a stack of printed documents and convert it into a stack of blank paper and a full ink cartridge. Now that would be useful.
You're absolutely right. To do so would be suicidal. That's why they would do indirectly, by carefully sneaking in a nuke with no return address.
You don't! Nobody every promised you that it would be. If you're unhappy with the service, write Google and ask for your money back.
Isn't "hearing the voice of God" one of the primary causes of terrorist acts? It's hard to imagine the September 11th hijackers took the job because of the good dental plan...
Or, just as likely, somebody -- but we'd never know who, because the bomb would be imported in a lead-lined box, inside one of the many cargo containers that still don't get inspected. All we'd know is that one day, (major US city) existed, and the next day, it didn't.
That's the problem with too many Americans (and yes, I am one myself, keep that in mind when you flame me): they think that waving their dicks around and threatening/bullying the rest of the world will make us safer, when in fact it does the opposite.
Make use of the information you received from the search. Did the information help you solve the problem that led you to make the query? If it did, then the information was relevant.
The telling detail is that all the shows you listed as examples are comedies. Their purpose is to get the audience to laugh, and one way they do this is by presenting a situation that is the opposite of what the audience would expect: in this case, instead of the male being the competent leader, it's the female who is smart and makes him look bad, to humorous effect.
Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
Where did you get that idea? Being intelligent gets you a high-paying job doing something interesting that you like to do, instead of a minimum-wage McJob that keeps you in permanent poverty and drives you insane with boredom. Being good at a professional sport is even worse -- it gives you grandiose dreams of playing in the major leagues, which lead to your skimping on everything else and then having no place to go once you wash out along the way (as 99.999% of all wannabe professional athletes do), and you end up as a bitter, burned-out has-been, endlessly talking about your "glory days" back in college.
Being merely good (as opposed to insanely great) at a professional sport is a curse.
"Ahh, the internet. Where men are men, the women are men, and the kids are FBI agents" -- Deviant
At the risk of ruining the joke... there is something to this. Not the ability to literally read minds, but the ability to detect and interpret the subtle non-verbal cues people display that can provide information regarding their mental and emotional state -- for example, a repositioning of the posture of the shoulders, or a slight change in breathing pattern, a miniscule change in facial coloring, or even possibly a change in pheromone composition. I suspect that when women get frustrated with men for "just not knowing" things, it is because they (the women) are used to being easily able to pick up these subtle hints themselves at a subconscious level, and therefore they take having that skill for granted and expect that everyone should be able to do it.
Many men, on the other hand, prefer explicit/formal communication and either dismiss these non-verbal cues as unimportant, or (just as likely) are unable to reliably detect them at all. This is especially the case among the borderline-Aspberger's-Syndrome types that like to frequent Slashdot (you all know who you are
Only if you assume that "being healthier" is the same thing as "having feelings". I don't see any connection; especially since plants don't have any brain or nervous system that could physically provide those feelings.
"Anyway, I'm a level 5 Vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."
Clever, but keep in mind that humor and attempts to trivialize the subject are defensive mechanisms people use to avoid having to honestly think things through.
The argument is that animals have thoughts and feelings, whereas plants don't. Therefore by killing an animal you are causing pain (both to it and to the other animals acquainted with it), whereas a plant, being mindless, cannot feel any pain.
Apparently not you... but a better question might be, why are you acting so defensive? It was merely an observation.
Plus, eating real meat has been in my family for generations -- you really think its going to go away in 2 more? I doubt it.
How many previous generations enjoyed the availability of non-animal-derived meat?
but it will be a long time until they can have great Foi Gras, Filet Mignons, Salmon, or Sushi Tuna, and you know it. This article is about filler for Taco bell, nothing else.
I know as much (or as little) about the subject as you do, since I'm not an expert on growing meat in a vat. Predicting the future is remarkably difficult, especially when it's not in one's area of expertise. You might be right, or you might end up like the IBM guy who predicted a world market for "maybe as many as six" computers.
Actually, it's called "Being Stupid While Attempting to be Clever", for two reasons: (1) Watching is not the same as doing, and (2) Many vegans DO have qualms about watching the death and destruction of humans, even if they are not personally responsible for it.