I know that you're just making a joke, but it irks me when people laugh at the US for spending millions of dollars developing a pen that can be used in space.
The real story being that Paul Fisher (owner of Fisher) invented the pen on his own, then sold it to both the US and Russian space programs. Both programs preferred the pens to the risk of broken pencils or pencil shavings floating into crucial equipment.
Many of the devices are indeed prohibitively expensive, but the inability for your average person — or even your average tech hobbyist — to pick it up and start experimenting is an even bigger obstacle
Hold up for a second there.
I'm pretty sure that the "prohibitively expensive" part is the bigger obstacle.
Even if the printers were free and the software was perfectly consumer-friendly, the cost of maintenance, materials, design time, and printing time would still be steep for something made from cheap plastic.
Why not make it so that people are legally responsible for their firearms?
Don't block people from being able to purchase firearms because of their family members, but make sure that they know that they can be tried for criminally negligent manslaughter if their gun is taken and used to kill someone because it wasn't properly secured.
To play devil's advocate, perhaps Apple simply didn't get any complaints until the issue involving gay sex, or that they had gotten a complaint from a previous episode but hadn't gotten around to shutting it down until it coincided with the one with gay sex.
I would like you to back up the statements that Obama is on board with 1) "abolishing the constitution, especially the 2nd amendment," and 2) "which will lead us to a socialist global society."
1) Placing limits on the 2nd amendment isn't abolishing it. Every other amendment from the Bill of Rights has limits that have progressively become more well defined over the last 220 years. The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech, yet defamation is illegal. Obama isn't taking your guns. He's saying that we should run background checks on gun purchasers and limit the number of bullets that can be fired without reloading to a number higher than THE standard service rifle during WWII.
2) How to argue this really depends on your meaning of "socialist global society."
I would argue that the US became a global society during WWI, and a socialist society during the Great Depression. Over the last 80 years, we've become more global via commerce and war, and the most socialistic bills are the ones that guarantee defense contractors and oil companies free money, not the bill that said "if you get sick before getting insurance, you can still get insurance, but they still don't have to pay if you were sick before you got insurance," nor the ones loaning money to tech and car companies that have mostly been paid back.
I actually don't think that fragmentation is the big issue.
Rather, Linux developers seem to be like that one friend that takes a joke and tells it in a way that it is funnier than the original, but they take it too far, and it becomes apparent that they never really got the joke in the first place.
I can't say as I've ever used an mp3 player as a timepiece.
The only "lack of attention to detail" that I suffered from using my Zune was that one time in college where I almost got hit by a truck. I was listening to my Zune while walking through the main quad to my advisor's office, and the quad was completely closed to motor vehicles except for the delivery truck that served the coffee shop in the library. I turned the back corner of the library, noticed tail lights, and dove into the nearest snowbank. Listening to the Zune caused a "lack of attention to" the "detail" of the backing-up noise that delivery trucks make.
Apparently, my advisor saw it out of his window, and laughed at me for showing up wet and covered in sand (when you're far enough north, salting the sidewalks isn't useful for melting snow, but sand gives you traction).
I know that Zunes get a bad rap, but I bought my Zune as an open box item at Best Buy when it first came out, and it's probably the only device that I own that's that old and still works perfectly.
(I own a number of old video game consoles, but they tend to all need special treatment. For example, for my Sega Genesis, I have to blow into the cartridge, blow into the slot on the console, insert the game in all the way, raise the cartridge back up about 1-2mm, shove my wallet underneath the power cable where it meets the console so that it's at exactly the right angle, and pray that when I turn on the power that all works so I don't have to start over from the beginning)
It is interesting, though, that after all these years of/. saying that "20XX is the Year of Linux on the Desktop," Unix-Like devices actually account for more than half of computing devices.
Granted, they aren't as FOS as we might have hoped for.
Why are you bemoaning something that promotes terrorism on a nerd website?
For a lot of people on here, their favorite movie is one where a young male from the desert becomes part of a terrorist organization, and blows up a government building.
Worse, two movies later his terrorist friends blow up the same government building before they've even completed reconstruction.
Given the size of the building, that's 9/11 times 100, times 2! That's 182,200!
Oh and to get back on topic, the only GOOD Disney game, was an inhouse title as well, Stunt Island. Google it, it was amazing for its time and is still unique.
You make a few good points, but this is NOT one of them.
The best Disney games were outsourced to Capcom in the early 90's.
My first thought it that it might be the first non-stop cross-country flight. Not so.
"The cross-country tour will begin in the Bay Area and end in New York, with stops in Phoenix, Dallas and Washington DC in between. Solar Impulse will also land in either Atlanta, Nashville or St. Louis, with the plane and its pilots set to stay in each locale for about a week to ten days to talk about the project before moving on."
Both are accurate, but describe different things. Global warming describes when the average global temperature increases. Climate change describes changes in local climates.
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I know that you're just making a joke, but it irks me when people laugh at the US for spending millions of dollars developing a pen that can be used in space.
The real story being that Paul Fisher (owner of Fisher) invented the pen on his own, then sold it to both the US and Russian space programs. Both programs preferred the pens to the risk of broken pencils or pencil shavings floating into crucial equipment.
Many of the devices are indeed prohibitively expensive, but the inability for your average person — or even your average tech hobbyist — to pick it up and start experimenting is an even bigger obstacle
Hold up for a second there.
I'm pretty sure that the "prohibitively expensive" part is the bigger obstacle.
Even if the printers were free and the software was perfectly consumer-friendly, the cost of maintenance, materials, design time, and printing time would still be steep for something made from cheap plastic.
One still can have the expectation of privacy when they are in public.
The building is growing by 300,000 square feet, to 1.4 million square feet.
Plus, given that it's a data center, I'm guessing that a lot of the cost is infrastructure.
Why not make it so that people are legally responsible for their firearms?
Don't block people from being able to purchase firearms because of their family members, but make sure that they know that they can be tried for criminally negligent manslaughter if their gun is taken and used to kill someone because it wasn't properly secured.
Soundgarden was great, back in the day when you didn't expect a real soundtrack in a game.
However, I still love the music from the Genesis games.
Watching the trailer, it doesn't remind me that much of Road Rash.
For one, you can see the cars before you hit them.
Yes. Because when you think about luxurious comfort "designed by engineers" is the first thing that comes to mind.
They HAVE to be much more luxurious and comfortable than some of the art installations I've seen.
Is general jackass territory the place where they don't have quality broadband?
To play devil's advocate, perhaps Apple simply didn't get any complaints until the issue involving gay sex, or that they had gotten a complaint from a previous episode but hadn't gotten around to shutting it down until it coincided with the one with gay sex.
I would like you to back up the statements that Obama is on board with 1) "abolishing the constitution, especially the 2nd amendment," and 2) "which will lead us to a socialist global society."
1) Placing limits on the 2nd amendment isn't abolishing it. Every other amendment from the Bill of Rights has limits that have progressively become more well defined over the last 220 years. The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech, yet defamation is illegal. Obama isn't taking your guns. He's saying that we should run background checks on gun purchasers and limit the number of bullets that can be fired without reloading to a number higher than THE standard service rifle during WWII.
2) How to argue this really depends on your meaning of "socialist global society."
I would argue that the US became a global society during WWI, and a socialist society during the Great Depression. Over the last 80 years, we've become more global via commerce and war, and the most socialistic bills are the ones that guarantee defense contractors and oil companies free money, not the bill that said "if you get sick before getting insurance, you can still get insurance, but they still don't have to pay if you were sick before you got insurance," nor the ones loaning money to tech and car companies that have mostly been paid back.
I actually don't think that fragmentation is the big issue.
Rather, Linux developers seem to be like that one friend that takes a joke and tells it in a way that it is funnier than the original, but they take it too far, and it becomes apparent that they never really got the joke in the first place.
I can't say as I've ever used an mp3 player as a timepiece.
The only "lack of attention to detail" that I suffered from using my Zune was that one time in college where I almost got hit by a truck. I was listening to my Zune while walking through the main quad to my advisor's office, and the quad was completely closed to motor vehicles except for the delivery truck that served the coffee shop in the library. I turned the back corner of the library, noticed tail lights, and dove into the nearest snowbank. Listening to the Zune caused a "lack of attention to" the "detail" of the backing-up noise that delivery trucks make.
Apparently, my advisor saw it out of his window, and laughed at me for showing up wet and covered in sand (when you're far enough north, salting the sidewalks isn't useful for melting snow, but sand gives you traction).
I know that Zunes get a bad rap, but I bought my Zune as an open box item at Best Buy when it first came out, and it's probably the only device that I own that's that old and still works perfectly.
(I own a number of old video game consoles, but they tend to all need special treatment. For example, for my Sega Genesis, I have to blow into the cartridge, blow into the slot on the console, insert the game in all the way, raise the cartridge back up about 1-2mm, shove my wallet underneath the power cable where it meets the console so that it's at exactly the right angle, and pray that when I turn on the power that all works so I don't have to start over from the beginning)
It is interesting, though, that after all these years of /. saying that "20XX is the Year of Linux on the Desktop," Unix-Like devices actually account for more than half of computing devices.
Granted, they aren't as FOS as we might have hoped for.
Why are you bemoaning something that promotes terrorism on a nerd website?
For a lot of people on here, their favorite movie is one where a young male from the desert becomes part of a terrorist organization, and blows up a government building.
Worse, two movies later his terrorist friends blow up the same government building before they've even completed reconstruction.
Given the size of the building, that's 9/11 times 100, times 2! That's 182,200!
(exclamation point, not factorial)
Oh and to get back on topic, the only GOOD Disney game, was an inhouse title as well, Stunt Island. Google it, it was amazing for its time and is still unique.
You make a few good points, but this is NOT one of them.
The best Disney games were outsourced to Capcom in the early 90's.
Don't apply "April Fools" status to this.
It is indeed April, but nobody could have possibly been fooled by the headline.
It seems to be a poor attempt at a joke.
My first thought it that it might be the first non-stop cross-country flight. Not so.
"The cross-country tour will begin in the Bay Area and end in New York, with stops in Phoenix, Dallas and Washington DC in between. Solar Impulse will also land in either Atlanta, Nashville or St. Louis, with the plane and its pilots set to stay in each locale for about a week to ten days to talk about the project before moving on."
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/28/solar-impulse-across-america/
Both are accurate, but describe different things. Global warming describes when the average global temperature increases. Climate change describes changes in local climates.
As I've pointed out on YouTube, the cost of the two videos together was $60,000, or 12 seconds in Afghanistan.
According to TFA, the savings in training cost was $1.5 million, or 5 minutes in Afghanistan.
You can get out of a signed contract if that signed contract is illegal.
It is literally the catchiest tune in existence.
Second place goes to Doug.
Third goes to the Gummi Bears.
No, it's part of being a human.