Maybe I just don't know enough about the biology and mentality of snails, or even the psycological effects of meth... but did they really come to the most logical conclusion here?
Maybe the snails that were submerged in the meth-water just remembered: "hey, last time i was in this situation, i got a wicked-high! Tube down! Tube down!" Whereas the normal-water snails were like "suffocation? Eff that noise."
Only 3D? No thanks. I had one of those back in the day. I saw it only for a split second and it was gone. I'm currently holding out until they make a 4 dimensional one... which, quite frankly, they should have made in the first place!
So, the first one builds a friend, then each builds a friend, and each of those builds a friend. Soon enough there will be millions, and they will be able to invade your blood cells!
DON'T PANIC. They'll probably just be swallowed by a dog before we even realize they're attacking us.
So, you're saying that the group of people I am working with on this data-warehousing project are also a "guild-like" (and therefore "gang-like") group?
And no, I didn't rtfa because it already sounds sensationalistic... and also because I don't feel the urge to pay to read the PDF.
While I agree, I think the big drawback with having different hardware comes from a programming/user-interface standpoint: how do you develop applications that will run on ALL of these phones when the screen real-estate can be so varied?
Anyone that has done a lot of HTML design knows about the headaches this can cause.
ie. You want to make your site look pretty for someone who runs their OS in 800x600 as well as someone who runs at 1280x1024. While you COULD just develop it for the more popular [higher] resolution, you could be ostracizing a large user-base who opted for the more compact screen. Then you also possibly need to add in the complexity to design your UI for when they turn their phone 90 degrees and want to run your app in portrait mode too...
While I agree with you and several (sub-)responses here in that he has not actually accomplished much (yet??), you guys seem to be ignoring the actually summary of the article here ["the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements"] as well as the statement from the committee [they are recognizing "his extraordinary efforts"].
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
While you may not think he has done a damn thing to deserve it, apparently the committee thinks otherwise.
Plus there are situations where being able to text "help, I'm being held hostage" is a more viable option than making a voice call to say "help, I'm being held hostage"
Since we have made these types of technological advancements over the past several years, does anyone know if 911 is keeping up with the times and accepts text messages or if there is any plan for it? (Not just for "hostage situations" but also for people who are physically unable to talk/listen on a phone.) Can 911 trace your cellphone to a general location using either GPS or just cell-tower triangulation? etc...
I think the most funny part of the whole suit is that they just write: 'Reservella is a company run by Fredrik Neij' -- out of 40 pages of paper that's all they have to say...
Wow. In highschool, I always thought expanding a 3-page term-paper into a 4-page term-paper was kinda rough, but could always be done by tweaking the font-size (ie. 13pt instead of 12pt) or line-spacing (ie. 2.1 instead of standard double-spacing)... but turning 8 words into a 40 page document?!? I am humbled.
Dude, we have stuff from all over the world: people, ideas, religions, languages... why not names too? Or did you actually mean to ask if there was any LAND we didn't steal? XD
Maybe it's just too early in the morning, but am I really reading this correctly off of that one hyperlink in the/. article summary?
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P.S. If you haven't watched "Firefly" / "Serenity" yet, you're missing the best show that was ever on Sci-Fi.
Well, I don't know about other people who didn't watch this show, but _I_ stopped watching it halfway through the pilot episode. I was just baffled by the technology available to the characters. They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
These qualify as 'senses' because they convert environmental information directly into sensations.
By that definition, why not count your sense of humor?
Because people that constantly complain with "there aren't really 5 senses! there are 6 (or 9 or 11 etc...)!!!" most likely do not HAVE a sense of humor. It would be like counting Electroception as a human sense, despite the fact that noone has it.
Vincent Antonelli: Here ya go... What's the difference between a pregnant woman and a lightbulb. [distinct pause and no response from the humorless opponent] Vincent Antonelli: You can unscrew a lightbulb! [still no reaction out of the humorless opponent] Vincent Antonelli: See? No sense of humor whatsoever!
The word on the street is that the next project will most-likely be named Scuzzlebutt. "PatrickDuffyForALeg" was just too much to type in all of their Project-, Resource- and Change- Request forms.
Schmoopy Ahead of ED-209 In Objective WKRP Quality Posted by tomzyk on Thu May 08, '09 10:41 AM from the whats-the-whozits-huh dept. [ Media ] [ Technology ] somebody writes "Bliggerblah hackers have been hard at work improving the Schmoopy codec over the past year, with the latest versions gaining on and passing ED-209 in objective WKRP quality measurements. From the update: 'Amusingly, it also shows test versions of Quasimodo pulling ahead of ED-209 in terms of objective quality as bitrate increases. It's important to note that WKRP is an objective measure that does not exactly represent perceived quality, and PSNR measurements have always been especially kind to Schmoopy. This is also data from a single clip. That said, it's clear that the gap in the fundamental infrastructure has closed substantially before the task of detailed subjective tuning has begun in earnest.' Momentum is building with a major Open Video Conference in June, the impending launch of Firefox 3.5 and excitement about wider adoption in a top-4 web site. It's looking like free video codecs may pose a serious threat to the ED-209 bait-and-switch plan to start charging millions for internet streaming of ED-209 in 2010."
yeah. so um... this article has something to do with "video codecs". gotcha. And I only got that after reading the article multiple times and bolding some of those keywords in there.
Shouldn't an "article summary" at least summarize what the hell it's talking about? Even a simple "[an open video codec]" inserted right after the initial mention of "Theora" would have done wonders to the layman's comprehension of it, thus preventing my head from asploding in trying to understand this gibberish. Maybe we could even add in some more useful links to the summary to make it easier on us folks that aren't in-the-know? (H.264TheoraPSNR etc...)
Or is this too much to ask?
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>This probably should wait until George Lucas is dead, just to be safe. 1. GreyStones Wars 2. Revenge of the Adamas 3. The Greystones Strike Back 4. Profit! Shudder.....
More like: 4. GreyStones Wars 5. The Greystones Strike Back 6. Revenge of the Adamas 7. Profit! 1. Make up some cheesy name and add in some REALLY annoying characters, which results in angering all current fans 2. Somehow STILL Profit!...
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4b) Commenting 'why' has approximately 100% chance of getting a smart-assed response.
Maybe I just don't know enough about the biology and mentality of snails, or even the psycological effects of meth... but did they really come to the most logical conclusion here?
Maybe the snails that were submerged in the meth-water just remembered: "hey, last time i was in this situation, i got a wicked-high! Tube down! Tube down!" Whereas the normal-water snails were like "suffocation? Eff that noise."
Aahhh aaahh AHHH ACHOOO!
"What?! No I didn't!!"
Only 3D? No thanks.
I had one of those back in the day. I saw it only for a split second and it was gone.
I'm currently holding out until they make a 4 dimensional one... which, quite frankly, they should have made in the first place!
DON'T PANIC. They'll probably just be swallowed by a dog before we even realize they're attacking us.
Maybe you're misinterpreting. I took it to mean that t0p was using the correct point of entry, but just ENTIRELY the wrong depth.
Is that the German flick that Cartman's mom was in? (back when she was young and needed the money...)
So, you're saying that the group of people I am working with on this data-warehousing project are also a "guild-like" (and therefore "gang-like") group?
And no, I didn't rtfa because it already sounds sensationalistic... and also because I don't feel the urge to pay to read the PDF.
While I agree, I think the big drawback with having different hardware comes from a programming/user-interface standpoint: how do you develop applications that will run on ALL of these phones when the screen real-estate can be so varied?
Anyone that has done a lot of HTML design knows about the headaches this can cause.
ie. You want to make your site look pretty for someone who runs their OS in 800x600 as well as someone who runs at 1280x1024. While you COULD just develop it for the more popular [higher] resolution, you could be ostracizing a large user-base who opted for the more compact screen. Then you also possibly need to add in the complexity to design your UI for when they turn their phone 90 degrees and want to run your app in portrait mode too...
While I agree with you and several (sub-)responses here in that he has not actually accomplished much (yet??), you guys seem to be ignoring the actually summary of the article here ["the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements"] as well as the statement from the committee [they are recognizing "his extraordinary efforts"].
From the Nobel website:
While you may not think he has done a damn thing to deserve it, apparently the committee thinks otherwise.
Since we have made these types of technological advancements over the past several years, does anyone know if 911 is keeping up with the times and accepts text messages or if there is any plan for it? (Not just for "hostage situations" but also for people who are physically unable to talk/listen on a phone.) Can 911 trace your cellphone to a general location using either GPS or just cell-tower triangulation? etc...
A notification has been sent to "911 Emergency Response". The user must accept your friend request before they will appear in your friends list.
[meanwhile, the victim dies because "911 Emergency Response" is actually "sleeping in today and not going to class cuz last night was so crazy omfg".]
I just briefly scrolled through the list and for a half of a second thought I saw "90210" listed as an up-and-coming Sci-Fi movie.
"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." -- Steven Wright
Wow. In highschool, I always thought expanding a 3-page term-paper into a 4-page term-paper was kinda rough, but could always be done by tweaking the font-size (ie. 13pt instead of 12pt) or line-spacing (ie. 2.1 instead of standard double-spacing)... but turning 8 words into a 40 page document?!? I am humbled.
Dude, we have stuff from all over the world: people, ideas, religions, languages... why not names too?
Or did you actually mean to ask if there was any LAND we didn't steal? XD
Actually, I thought it sounds like something Professor Farnsworth would come up with. (Fing-Longer, Maternifuge, Smell-O-Scope, etc...)
Maybe it's just too early in the morning, but am I really reading this correctly off of that one hyperlink in the /. article summary?
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Well, I don't know about other people who didn't watch this show, but _I_ stopped watching it halfway through the pilot episode. I was just baffled by the technology available to the characters. They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?
Because people that constantly complain with "there aren't really 5 senses! there are 6 (or 9 or 11 etc...)!!!" most likely do not HAVE a sense of humor. It would be like counting Electroception as a human sense, despite the fact that noone has it.
Vincent Antonelli: Here ya go... What's the difference between a pregnant woman and a lightbulb.
[distinct pause and no response from the humorless opponent]
Vincent Antonelli: You can unscrew a lightbulb!
[still no reaction out of the humorless opponent]
Vincent Antonelli: See? No sense of humor whatsoever!
The word on the street is that the next project will most-likely be named Scuzzlebutt.
"PatrickDuffyForALeg" was just too much to type in all of their Project-, Resource- and Change- Request forms.
Schmoopy Ahead of ED-209 In Objective WKRP Quality
Posted by tomzyk on Thu May 08, '09 10:41 AM
from the whats-the-whozits-huh dept.
[ Media ] [ Technology ] somebody writes
"Bliggerblah hackers have been hard at work improving the Schmoopy codec over the past year, with the latest versions gaining on and passing ED-209 in objective WKRP quality measurements. From the update: 'Amusingly, it also shows test versions of Quasimodo pulling ahead of ED-209 in terms of objective quality as bitrate increases. It's important to note that WKRP is an objective measure that does not exactly represent perceived quality, and PSNR measurements have always been especially kind to Schmoopy. This is also data from a single clip. That said, it's clear that the gap in the fundamental infrastructure has closed substantially before the task of detailed subjective tuning has begun in earnest.' Momentum is building with a major Open Video Conference in June, the impending launch of Firefox 3.5 and excitement about wider adoption in a top-4 web site. It's looking like free video codecs may pose a serious threat to the ED-209 bait-and-switch plan to start charging millions for internet streaming of ED-209 in 2010."
yeah. so um... this article has something to do with "video codecs". gotcha. And I only got that after reading the article multiple times and bolding some of those keywords in there.
Shouldn't an "article summary" at least summarize what the hell it's talking about? Even a simple "[an open video codec]" inserted right after the initial mention of "Theora" would have done wonders to the layman's comprehension of it, thus preventing my head from asploding in trying to understand this gibberish. Maybe we could even add in some more useful links to the summary to make it easier on us folks that aren't in-the-know? (H.264 Theora PSNR etc...)
Or is this too much to ask?
(Yes, I know... "Welcome to Slashdot!" and "You must be new here.")
If it smells like chicken, and tastes like chicken then yes, it could very-well BE chicken... but it could also just be grilled frog.
heh, that reminds me of the old joke:
If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what's the opposite of "congress"?
More like: ...
4. GreyStones Wars
5. The Greystones Strike Back
6. Revenge of the Adamas
7. Profit!
1. Make up some cheesy name and add in some REALLY annoying characters, which results in angering all current fans
2. Somehow STILL Profit!