People said the keyboard was heading for extinction at one point. I don't buy it. The mouse is still quite effective, and easy to use. Other pointers may pop up, and that's great if they serve a new purpose. But the mouse doesn't have much inefficiency to speak of. It's a natural feeling device, and I personally think that it's got a great many years ahead of it.
Approx 2520 farthings per gallon currently in dino fuel... HP*2wks I guess would be dependent on engine. Mine is 100 hp so 2520/100 = 25.20 f/hp-fortnights, or 1.8 f/hp-days.
It could also be that expensive because we pay for it regardless of the cost. I mean, if most of us decided to go a year without gasoline, I'm sure the price would come back down. The best part is that the in-laws wouldn't show up at your house...
The worst part would be having to farm your own food, and hoping that you can all get to work by walking... And hoping that your work didn't depend on gasoline in any way.
Actually... Would that be illegal? If you purchased the music through MSN, and then downloaded an MP3 of the same song, would there be a case against you?
1) With the GPL - you will provide the source code so that others may customize the product, and send changes back the creator so the product can be improved.
You CAN'T take the source code, rip out the author's information and publish it as entirely your own.
2) The RIAA and MPAA have copyrights, and I'll acknowledge them. The problem I have with the AAs is the fact that they unfairly litigate and punish people using a broken law. Then they try to tell me that I can't copy my CD to my iPod without buying the song again. Oh, and goodness help me if I want to make an MP3 copy for my car's MP3 CD player! I'm not stealing their music and turning around at telling people that I made it.
So I guess what I'm saying is: Damn right. The dude who made that game and copyrighted it should at least *get credit* for writing it. I'd bet even a special thanks, or better yet *permission to use the game* would've been positive steps.
And screw the AAs. They're too busy trying to screw me for me to care what they want.
Emphasis on the blackberry too. I setup and supported those lovely little gremlins.
One customer insisted that it was mission critical, and when they traveled to an area that *didn't have digital cell service* they were infuriated. If it's mission critical, you don't go where it can't work. Getting that message across was one of the worst days of my life, especially since I couldn't bill for that time. Besides, once they got back into range, all their email got delivered! When they were ready to work, they could!
Cell phones have voicemail as a failsafe. It's not perfect, but it does allow the message to get sent.
Email is also a convenience. It's easy, cheap, and right in front of you. But anything official and legally binding should be signed in person.
TV? Cable? The only time those are mission critical is when I'm watching Michigan State Football... And those games get sent to the Big Ten network that Comcast refuses to carry, so out that goes.
Or maybe you're like my parents. I set their machine to automatically grab and install and reboot when patches get released. They never reboot their machine.... It reboots for them. If you have a stable enough config (OS+Office+Firefox, and that's all they use), you can easily get 28 (29 on leap year), 30 or 31 days between boots
It looks like the DEQ is going to need to revise their Smokey commercials. First, campfires, then cigarrettes, now kids walking around with their candle of death.
Once the weather warms up we should have a comparison of the Navy Rail gun vs. this thing over 15 minutes in a forest.
Nothing to see here, move along. If it made news every time someone released something that broke explorer, we couldn't read about our beloved Beowulf clusters of toasters!
What's funny is, if I saw that explorer was missing on my system, by the time I reloaded the OS (cause *obviously* it's infected/broken/normal operating procedure), I never would've known the cause. It was pulled by the time I would've finished installing.
Of course, then I'd have to go and find my Gentoo CD so I could reload GRUB. That would've been more painful than the rest of the OS reload that I expect to do every six months anyway.
Parent has a valid point. Only Office 2007 users can actually create MSOOXML. There is a tool for Office 2003 SP2+ users to read those documents.
If you are running Office XP, or God forbid 2000 you're forcing constituents to "upgrade," which is certainly no help to them.
I do not have enough Mac experience to know - Does Office 2004 have a plugin to read MSOOXML? I'd bet not. That locks out even more people.
At least with ODF, users can create plugins for the Office 2003 and earlier users to *create content.* Or they can get a freely available suite if they don't want to pay. I'd say that gives opportunities to anyone who wants it.
And if those studies are fundamentally flawed, but cause a firestorm to get some attention?
Remember, smokes are dangerous for *everyone* but adults can still buy them. We're assuming that parents can't control what their kid watches. To some extent, that's true. That's where parents come in and say "That's not right." Most of us do. Hooray.
The article makes me think something a bit more obvioius than what the writers are indicating. I thin kafter watching something, you think about it. Woah! I know that's rocking some people's worlds... But whenever I watch something, I spend a little time mentally digesting it.
I'll bet after watching a comedy, the humor centers light up in those people too.
I'd also be willing to bet that if you compare the scans after a day, week, or month, you won't find any real difference at all from the initial scans. Unless the person is *messed up to begin with.* Feel free to define that however you wish.
Just someone trying to scare us into thinking "WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN FROM *EVERYTHING!* OMG!" If you let this article scare you into thinking that you need to further shelter your kid, I'll sell you a personal bubble so you can keep all those nasty bugs and diseases from them too.
Woah there chief. That hippy stuff doesn't fly around here. Everyone knows that the true American way is to strictly adhere to our 2nd amendment rights to the point where you're gagging on your gun! We have to keep our strict Christian values, while maintaining our seperation of church and state!
Remember! Don't get down! Get up and fight some terrorists!
That'll explain why after I play GTA3 for 4 hours: 1. I'll go out and think to myself, "Hm. That car looks nice, I'll jump in that one till I can find a miata. 2. I scan the city for police bribes in the street. 3. "Ooo, if I run through that crowd, I'll be able to hide behind that building till the tank arrives!" 4. "How do I start vigilante mode in this car?"
The wheels of invention have officially come spinning off. Visual voicemail? Does this cover video voicemail? If not, who owns the patent to that... And when do those lawsuits come?
If you own a patent, and have no desire to do anything with it, you're not helping innovation, nor are you protecting anything. You slow progress, and you hurt the people who actually do want to change the world. I'm starting to believe in the idea that the US has about 90 years left. At this rate, we won't be able to develop anything without getting sued. Plus, China will continue to block our products, copy them, and sell them back to us.
I feel a little better now. OK.. for a more reasonable reaction... How about: If you patent something, and you don't have some product to market utilizing that patent in less than 5(? I'm flexible) years, it goes out the window. The patent also expires after 15(3xinitial?) years. By then, you should have improved your product, and you should own the market enough to protect your inventions. If you get swallowed by competition the day after the patent dies, you sucked at running the business. Sure this opens up the possibility of someone coming up with an idea, patenting it, and intentionally not making a product to stop future patenting of the idea.... But is that any worse than what's happening now?
Funny - In my experience, those who know leave and get jobs elsewhere or get promoted to where they don't 'do' anymore. Those that don't know get certifications.
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People said the keyboard was heading for extinction at one point. I don't buy it.
The mouse is still quite effective, and easy to use. Other pointers may pop up, and that's great if they serve a new purpose. But the mouse doesn't have much inefficiency to speak of. It's a natural feeling device, and I personally think that it's got a great many years ahead of it.
1. Leave them with a warm fuzzy feeling while saying nothing.
2. ?????
3. PROFIT! (from the lobbyists and corps in your back pocket!)
The best part will be extra flavor. If you sniff it enough, it might end up being a magic marshmallow.
Approx 2520 farthings per gallon currently in dino fuel... HP*2wks I guess would be dependent on engine. Mine is 100 hp so 2520/100 = 25.20 f/hp-fortnights, or 1.8 f/hp-days.
Sounds efficient to me!
It could also be that expensive because we pay for it regardless of the cost. I mean, if most of us decided to go a year without gasoline, I'm sure the price would come back down. The best part is that the in-laws wouldn't show up at your house...
The worst part would be having to farm your own food, and hoping that you can all get to work by walking... And hoping that your work didn't depend on gasoline in any way.
Brazil: The new Saudi Arabia.
I can feel my karma dropping.
How bad is the ash? Could it be used (say in fertilizer or household items)?
Or am I a moron for asking?
Actually...
Would that be illegal? If you purchased the music through MSN, and then downloaded an MP3 of the same song, would there be a case against you?
And try going to the next strip....
No previous or next button on any of the pages...
BRILLIANT!
So... How long till they can ramp this up to some real heat and mount it on the sharks?
I clicked it... As soon as I did, my phone rang... I'm scared.
1) With the GPL - you will provide the source code so that others may customize the product, and send changes back the creator so the product can be improved.
You CAN'T take the source code, rip out the author's information and publish it as entirely your own.
2) The RIAA and MPAA have copyrights, and I'll acknowledge them. The problem I have with the AAs is the fact that they unfairly litigate and punish people using a broken law. Then they try to tell me that I can't copy my CD to my iPod without buying the song again. Oh, and goodness help me if I want to make an MP3 copy for my car's MP3 CD player! I'm not stealing their music and turning around at telling people that I made it.
So I guess what I'm saying is: Damn right. The dude who made that game and copyrighted it should at least *get credit* for writing it. I'd bet even a special thanks, or better yet *permission to use the game* would've been positive steps.
And screw the AAs. They're too busy trying to screw me for me to care what they want.
Emphasis on the blackberry too. I setup and supported those lovely little gremlins.
One customer insisted that it was mission critical, and when they traveled to an area that *didn't have digital cell service* they were infuriated. If it's mission critical, you don't go where it can't work. Getting that message across was one of the worst days of my life, especially since I couldn't bill for that time. Besides, once they got back into range, all their email got delivered! When they were ready to work, they could!
Cell phones have voicemail as a failsafe. It's not perfect, but it does allow the message to get sent.
Email is also a convenience. It's easy, cheap, and right in front of you. But anything official and legally binding should be signed in person.
TV? Cable? The only time those are mission critical is when I'm watching Michigan State Football... And those games get sent to the Big Ten network that Comcast refuses to carry, so out that goes.
Or maybe you're like my parents. I set their machine to automatically grab and install and reboot when patches get released. They never reboot their machine.... It reboots for them. If you have a stable enough config (OS+Office+Firefox, and that's all they use), you can easily get 28 (29 on leap year), 30 or 31 days between boots
Only if the following conditions are met:
1) The target is under water.
2) The target is very near water, or can be seem from water.
If these conditions aren't met, then the sharks can't see them.
It looks like the DEQ is going to need to revise their Smokey commercials. First, campfires, then cigarrettes, now kids walking around with their candle of death.
Once the weather warms up we should have a comparison of the Navy Rail gun vs. this thing over 15 minutes in a forest.
Ahem - Vista *capable*
Nothing to see here, move along. If it made news every time someone released something that broke explorer, we couldn't read about our beloved Beowulf clusters of toasters!
What's funny is, if I saw that explorer was missing on my system, by the time I reloaded the OS (cause *obviously* it's infected/broken/normal operating procedure), I never would've known the cause. It was pulled by the time I would've finished installing.
Of course, then I'd have to go and find my Gentoo CD so I could reload GRUB. That would've been more painful than the rest of the OS reload that I expect to do every six months anyway.
Parent has a valid point. Only Office 2007 users can actually create MSOOXML. There is a tool for Office 2003 SP2+ users to read those documents.
If you are running Office XP, or God forbid 2000 you're forcing constituents to "upgrade," which is certainly no help to them.
I do not have enough Mac experience to know - Does Office 2004 have a plugin to read MSOOXML? I'd bet not. That locks out even more people.
At least with ODF, users can create plugins for the Office 2003 and earlier users to *create content.* Or they can get a freely available suite if they don't want to pay. I'd say that gives opportunities to anyone who wants it.
For those of us who missed that joke.
And if those studies are fundamentally flawed, but cause a firestorm to get some attention?
Remember, smokes are dangerous for *everyone* but adults can still buy them. We're assuming that parents can't control what their kid watches. To some extent, that's true. That's where parents come in and say "That's not right." Most of us do. Hooray.
The article makes me think something a bit more obvioius than what the writers are indicating. I thin kafter watching something, you think about it. Woah! I know that's rocking some people's worlds... But whenever I watch something, I spend a little time mentally digesting it.
I'll bet after watching a comedy, the humor centers light up in those people too.
I'd also be willing to bet that if you compare the scans after a day, week, or month, you won't find any real difference at all from the initial scans. Unless the person is *messed up to begin with.* Feel free to define that however you wish.
Just someone trying to scare us into thinking "WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN FROM *EVERYTHING!* OMG!" If you let this article scare you into thinking that you need to further shelter your kid, I'll sell you a personal bubble so you can keep all those nasty bugs and diseases from them too.
Woah there chief. That hippy stuff doesn't fly around here. Everyone knows that the true American way is to strictly adhere to our 2nd amendment rights to the point where you're gagging on your gun! We have to keep our strict Christian values, while maintaining our seperation of church and state!
Remember! Don't get down! Get up and fight some terrorists!
Hoorah!
-FCC
That'll explain why after I play GTA3 for 4 hours:
1. I'll go out and think to myself, "Hm. That car looks nice, I'll jump in that one till I can find a miata.
2. I scan the city for police bribes in the street.
3. "Ooo, if I run through that crowd, I'll be able to hide behind that building till the tank arrives!"
4. "How do I start vigilante mode in this car?"
The wheels of invention have officially come spinning off. Visual voicemail? Does this cover video voicemail? If not, who owns the patent to that... And when do those lawsuits come?
If you own a patent, and have no desire to do anything with it, you're not helping innovation, nor are you protecting anything. You slow progress, and you hurt the people who actually do want to change the world. I'm starting to believe in the idea that the US has about 90 years left. At this rate, we won't be able to develop anything without getting sued. Plus, China will continue to block our products, copy them, and sell them back to us.
I feel a little better now. OK.. for a more reasonable reaction... How about: If you patent something, and you don't have some product to market utilizing that patent in less than 5(? I'm flexible) years, it goes out the window. The patent also expires after 15(3xinitial?) years. By then, you should have improved your product, and you should own the market enough to protect your inventions. If you get swallowed by competition the day after the patent dies, you sucked at running the business. Sure this opens up the possibility of someone coming up with an idea, patenting it, and intentionally not making a product to stop future patenting of the idea.... But is that any worse than what's happening now?
Funny - In my experience, those who know leave and get jobs elsewhere or get promoted to where they don't 'do' anymore. Those that don't know get certifications.