If they track my wife's phone, they'll notice she spends 93% of the time in her desk drawer. Why the heck do I pay for her phone when she never has it on her!?
That's probably a plastic cover for the antenna because metal would interfere with reception. Even the ipod touch has a little plastic corner. I assume this is where it receives wifi.
> I am a firm believer in Gall's Law: the only way to create a large, complex system that works is to evolve it from a small, simple system that works.
That simple system would be the US constitution. Indeed, I've often thought of the Constitution as a "software" program for a nation.
>"There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said.
Ya know, I know a lot of coders, me included, that got paid salary or hourly for the code they wrote, but didn't see any more money from the individual software sales. How's about we charge a fee for every computer sold and then give it to all the coders out there- "There has to be some sort of way to compensate the coders for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making software," says I.
> It's known, for instance, that the Church suppressed the Gospel of Thomas. The only remaining full copy that we know of was found at Nag Hammadi in the 20th century. It escaped the purge by virtue of being hidden for 1800 years or so.
The church suppressed the Gospel of Thomas because it is freakin' stupid. Go Read it. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html It's about as incoherent and bizarre as the teachings of Scientology.
Here's some choice readings:
114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
My Comment: So much for the 'sacred feminine' of the DaVinci Code
4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live. For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one."
13....When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."
22....Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
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> Indeed, pi is exactly (ln -1)/(sqrt -1).
Spock said it best: "Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi"
> To the contrary, it seems like they get confused by things unknown to them
I remember I was an early adopter of the 1st Gen iPod. I put it in a basket at the xray belt and when I got to the other side it was no longer in the basket. Whoooaaa! I said a little too loudly and looked around. A guilty looking security guard handed it to me saying, "I was just checking it." (more like he was checking it out). As I walked away, another guard says "Hey, what is that anyway?" "It's my iPod", I said, and walked away with a grin.
I'm not quite as down on recent movies, although a lot of them aren't that good. But here is the thing: I, and I assume many others, don't want to pirated movies. Not out of moralism, but because I want to see them on the big screen. I don't want to see a pirated version of Iron Man. I want to see the full blown, surround sound spectacle with a bunch of other people in a big crowded movie house. If there is a movie that I would not mind seeing on the small screen, I feel I can wait to rent it. Movies are different than songs. You really only want to see them once or twice, and you would rather pay for a quality experience. IMHO, that is why the movie revenues are not down.
> but also knew that if you bought this special Hymn glass you could take the Coke outside, and you assumed you'd always be able to do that. But suddenly Apple came along and sent a C&D to the company making Hymn glasses.
A real world analogy might be more like if you bought a special cup at a store that gave out free refills. As long as you use the cup, you can get all the Coke you want - but if you want another kind of drink, you have to buy a different special cup. Also, the cup is chained to the store, so you can only have the Coke in the store. Hymn is the product that allows you to cut the chain and take the cup out of the store. Really fine if you just take the coke out of the store and drink it at home, but bad if you take the cup out of the store and loan it to all your friends so they can go and get all the free coke they want. Since Coke is sugar water, it is pretty cheap and they can afford to give free refills to each customer- the store makes money by selling the cups to different customers. But if everyone is using the same cup, the store won't make any money. It sucks that you can't take the Coke out of the store, but the store sees it as their only level of protection. I would rather unchain the cup in this scenario, and not share it with my friends. Sure maybe you could give your friends a drink once in a while, but if they really want all the coke they can drink, they should buy their own cup.
>> Deuteronomy 13:6-9 "If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you... > Within the context of Christianity, Deuteronomy has been aborgated (overridden) by Christ's discussion of the law in Matthew...
Good point. May I also point out the the Deuteronomy quote in the grandparent refers only to Jew on Jew punishment. It is not a command to kill pagans in general. Specifically it is to kill your fellow countryman who tries to get other Jews to worship idols within the Jewish culture. A Jewish/Christian defense of this command would be that God wanted to maintain the Jewish culture and there was a high propensity for the Jews of the OT to switch to the idol worship of their neighbors. Many stories exist in the OT of God trying to wrest the Jews' worship from pagan idols back to him. I think the idea was that if the Jews switched to idols, they would eventually cease to exist as they would so embrace and intermarry the other cultures around them as to be indistinguishable. Plus there is a high degree of truth vs lies issues. The OT saying that God is real and the idols are not.
Even without the abrogation you describe, this law would not apply to any country other than the Jewish state of Israel. AFAIK, there are no laws to kill non-Jews for lack of belief inside the OT, there are only specific circumstances where God calls on the Jewish people to destroy 'pagan' cultures in war. There are no general "kill the infidel" commands as there exist in Islam.
Further, I cannot see any place in OT or NT that tells Christians or Jews to impose OT Law on other countries. The idea that countries (like the US) should attempt to impose the 10 commandments (or any of the other 600+ laws of the Bible) onto their lawbooks is just not there. While there may be some agreement between a country's laws and OT Law, there is no mandate that it should be so.
Look I know its a long shot but has anyone considered its Data who might be the one lying?
Actually it's the same visor but hundreds of years later it was given to Data on his birthday and later he brought it back in time and sold it for bus fare.
Apple often announces things that matter to developers long in advance.
That's so they can get developers exited about the new technology, get them working on dozens of cool projects, and then yank the rug out from under them by canceling it. I think they must think it's funny.
With no blade weight, a lightsaber would move faster than your fastest lightest swords, rapiers would be pokey in comparison.
Is this definitive? Perhaps the blades contain some modicum of weight due to their being made of plasma? They produce sound when moving, so they are displacing air. This means they must have some degree of substance to them. Perhaps even as much substance as a rapier. Not contradicting, just speculating.
Anyway, it seems to me, I'd want to rubber band a long sticks onto my Wii controllers for fighting with an opponent.
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If they track my wife's phone, they'll notice she spends 93% of the time in her desk drawer. Why the heck do I pay for her phone when she never has it on her!?
But at least the whole setup is internal so it won't look like you're wearing a hairclip on your face.
Marathon was better :-)
That's probably a plastic cover for the antenna because metal would interfere with reception. Even the ipod touch has a little plastic corner. I assume this is where it receives wifi.
> Amino acids that have shown this have been tryptophan
couldn't they have told us this before thanksgivig?
Then again, epicycles were refinements of observed data but did not get us closer to the real truth.
IE8 defaults to Bing. Many users don't know how to, nor care to change defaults.
Except that 90% of the searches they make are for "google" :-)
How much of the centerfold is taken up by the beehive?
They plan to add a 4th fold.
> But it's pretty ridiculous to try to add online music sales as one definition of "performing", because it's just not.
Agreed. I will pay performance fees if and only if the 30 second sample is an actual live performance at that moment just for me to sample the tune.
> I am a firm believer in Gall's Law: the only way to create a large, complex system that works is to evolve it from a small, simple system that works.
That simple system would be the US constitution. Indeed, I've often thought of the Constitution as a "software" program for a nation.
>"There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said.
Ya know, I know a lot of coders, me included, that got paid salary or hourly for the code they wrote, but didn't see any more money from the individual software sales. How's about we charge a fee for every computer sold and then give it to all the coders out there- "There has to be some sort of way to compensate the coders for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making software," says I.
Humph, cell division...When I first saw the headline I thought it was going to be about leverage.
> (Decision List...)
Even funnier was that I believe the original quote of the landlord was:
"...you got a dead cat in there, or what?"
And one of the response choices on the list was "Or what."
> It's known, for instance, that the Church suppressed the Gospel of Thomas. The only remaining full copy that we know of was found at Nag Hammadi in the 20th century. It escaped the purge by virtue of being hidden for 1800 years or so.
The church suppressed the Gospel of Thomas because it is freakin' stupid. Go Read it. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html It's about as incoherent and bizarre as the teachings of Scientology.
Here's some choice readings:
114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
My Comment: So much for the 'sacred feminine' of the DaVinci Code
4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live. For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one."
13. ...When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."
22. ...Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
WTF?
> Indeed, pi is exactly (ln -1)/(sqrt -1).
Spock said it best: "Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi"
> To the contrary, it seems like they get confused by things unknown to them
I remember I was an early adopter of the 1st Gen iPod. I put it in a basket at the xray belt and when I got to the other side it was no longer in the basket. Whoooaaa! I said a little too loudly and looked around. A guilty looking security guard handed it to me saying, "I was just checking it." (more like he was checking it out). As I walked away, another guard says "Hey, what is that anyway?" "It's my iPod", I said, and walked away with a grin.
> criticizes the PC industry for transforming the PC into a useless gaming machine
Humorously ambiguous sentence
I'm not quite as down on recent movies, although a lot of them aren't that good. But here is the thing: I, and I assume many others, don't want to pirated movies. Not out of moralism, but because I want to see them on the big screen. I don't want to see a pirated version of Iron Man. I want to see the full blown, surround sound spectacle with a bunch of other people in a big crowded movie house. If there is a movie that I would not mind seeing on the small screen, I feel I can wait to rent it. Movies are different than songs. You really only want to see them once or twice, and you would rather pay for a quality experience. IMHO, that is why the movie revenues are not down.
> but also knew that if you bought this special Hymn glass you could take the Coke outside, and you assumed you'd always be able to do that. But suddenly Apple came along and sent a C&D to the company making Hymn glasses.
A real world analogy might be more like if you bought a special cup at a store that gave out free refills. As long as you use the cup, you can get all the Coke you want - but if you want another kind of drink, you have to buy a different special cup. Also, the cup is chained to the store, so you can only have the Coke in the store. Hymn is the product that allows you to cut the chain and take the cup out of the store. Really fine if you just take the coke out of the store and drink it at home, but bad if you take the cup out of the store and loan it to all your friends so they can go and get all the free coke they want. Since Coke is sugar water, it is pretty cheap and they can afford to give free refills to each customer- the store makes money by selling the cups to different customers. But if everyone is using the same cup, the store won't make any money. It sucks that you can't take the Coke out of the store, but the store sees it as their only level of protection. I would rather unchain the cup in this scenario, and not share it with my friends. Sure maybe you could give your friends a drink once in a while, but if they really want all the coke they can drink, they should buy their own cup.
I'm curious, since the article says it rains hydrocarbons, what are they called when in cloud form, physocarbons?
>> Deuteronomy 13:6-9 "If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you...
> Within the context of Christianity, Deuteronomy has been aborgated (overridden) by Christ's discussion of the law in Matthew...
Good point. May I also point out the the Deuteronomy quote in the grandparent refers only to Jew on Jew punishment. It is not a command to kill pagans in general. Specifically it is to kill your fellow countryman who tries to get other Jews to worship idols within the Jewish culture. A Jewish/Christian defense of this command would be that God wanted to maintain the Jewish culture and there was a high propensity for the Jews of the OT to switch to the idol worship of their neighbors. Many stories exist in the OT of God trying to wrest the Jews' worship from pagan idols back to him. I think the idea was that if the Jews switched to idols, they would eventually cease to exist as they would so embrace and intermarry the other cultures around them as to be indistinguishable. Plus there is a high degree of truth vs lies issues. The OT saying that God is real and the idols are not.
Even without the abrogation you describe, this law would not apply to any country other than the Jewish state of Israel. AFAIK, there are no laws to kill non-Jews for lack of belief inside the OT, there are only specific circumstances where God calls on the Jewish people to destroy 'pagan' cultures in war. There are no general "kill the infidel" commands as there exist in Islam.
Further, I cannot see any place in OT or NT that tells Christians or Jews to impose OT Law on other countries. The idea that countries (like the US) should attempt to impose the 10 commandments (or any of the other 600+ laws of the Bible) onto their lawbooks is just not there. While there may be some agreement between a country's laws and OT Law, there is no mandate that it should be so.
Look I know its a long shot but has anyone considered its Data who might be the one lying?
Actually it's the same visor but hundreds of years later it was given to Data on his birthday and later he brought it back in time and sold it for bus fare.
Apple often announces things that matter to developers long in advance.
That's so they can get developers exited about the new technology, get them working on dozens of cool projects, and then yank the rug out from under them by canceling it. I think they must think it's funny.
With no blade weight, a lightsaber would move faster than your fastest lightest swords, rapiers would be pokey in comparison.
Is this definitive? Perhaps the blades contain some modicum of weight due to their being made of plasma? They produce sound when moving, so they are displacing air. This means they must have some degree of substance to them. Perhaps even as much substance as a rapier. Not contradicting, just speculating.
Anyway, it seems to me, I'd want to rubber band a long sticks onto my Wii controllers for fighting with an opponent.
>Jetsons was 6 years ago people
>>But The Great Kazoo failed to show up. Don't you know your cartoon history, dude?
I know cartoon history. Kazoo already showed up in the stone age.
Oh, right, topic.
Do you think they will send up Martin Landowski and Barbera Bainovich?