Everyone seems to be in cheery mood over this patent, as it will scare some would be pop-up advertisers away. However, I think the patent is kind of silly. First off, how can you patent a window? That is part of the patent right there. So part of the patent is patenting a separate window, but the window has to sell things. I don't think that stuff like that should be patentable. Having a browser open up a small pop up window isn't a new thing and is a basic browser function. Deciding to sell something in the same window isn't very genious either. It's annoying, but not special enough to patent.
I guess I have to agree with the people that say that we should have the right to do whatever we want with waves that pass through our backyard. The only problem with that logic is that by the same standard, it is ok to modify a scanner to listen to people's cell phone conversations.
Yeah, you have an excellent point there. If AOL shifts over to Gecko use, websites will be urged to move away from proprietary bullshit Internet Explorer HTML, and back over to the "real" HTML 4.0 standard. But wait, I just realized that in order for websites to make themselves more compliant, they have to actually hire a web designer with talent instead of using MS FrontPage and the lovely HTML it produces.
That isn't what a Trojan is. A Trojan is a program that you actually download because you want to. When you install it, either the Trojan piggy-backs onto the installer of the legit program, or the Trojan is the actual program itself.
Speaking of tobacco-less cigs, I don't understand the point of decaf coffee. I always thought that coffee drinkers drink it because of the caffeine. Why drink the decaf stuff? Can't you think of something better to drink that tastes a lot better, like just about any kind of soda on the market? The only reason to drink decaf coffee is for the taste, which makes no sense because of the 8 gazillion other beverages out there that have a better taste.
When I first read the headline on Slashdot, I thought it had said that all video games were trying to be banned for under 18 people. I had missed the 'violent' part and instantly became worried.
I am a guy, and I just started College with the plan of being a CS major. As soon as I noticed the Calculus I and Calculus II requirements, I quickly switched my major to Network Computing, with a Computer Science minor. I am not that bad at math, but I definitely don't want to take Calculus.
I was in Milwaukee, WI, at a Radio Shack once and I bought a casette tape adapter. They asked me address as usual, and I gave them it. However, I live in Michigan, and the Radio Shack was in downtown Milwaukee, so when I told them the address they were a bit confused. They asked me what the address I gave them was: An apartment or a condo? I said no, a house. The guy stared at me and blinked. I had to repeat myself again before he realized that I actually lived in a house and not an apartment or whatever.
Am I the only person irritated by calling LCD monitors "flat screen", when there are plenty of CRT monitors where the screen part is entirely flat. Calling an LCD monitor flat panel seems to be fine, where you label the entire panel as flat instead of just the screen.
Just to get this out of the way: Imagine a beowulf cluster.....
Seriously though, I have used my palm pilot with the omniremote mentioned in another post to control a TV in my old highschool in math class. That was pretty fun, but imagine all sorts of pranks you could do with a remote that controls everything. Mess around with everyone's lights, flush the toilet from far away, all kinds of insane stuff.
In my Cisco Networking Highschool class everyone had to make a school website. I didn't know (and still don't but thats another story) anything about HTML, so I borrowed a friend's HTML book and thought that I could make a neat page using a javascript image map. The homepage of my website was a giant pie chart with cheerful looking colorful pie slices, each slice went to a separate section of my site. It looked pretty stupid actually, but at the time I felt special because I had programmed all of the HTML in by hand.
imagine if the RIAA somehow won a suit against every ISP in the U.S., and then the ISPs refused to obey the ruling and didn't block the site. So the courts shut down all of the ISPs in America. The RIAA would look really stupid then.
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Everyone seems to be in cheery mood over this patent, as it will scare some would be pop-up advertisers away. However, I think the patent is kind of silly. First off, how can you patent a window? That is part of the patent right there. So part of the patent is patenting a separate window, but the window has to sell things. I don't think that stuff like that should be patentable. Having a browser open up a small pop up window isn't a new thing and is a basic browser function. Deciding to sell something in the same window isn't very genious either. It's annoying, but not special enough to patent.
Step 3, Profit???
I believe the only reason Mayhew plays "everyone's favorite Wookie" is because he plays the only Wookie, at least in the movies.
In a way, I already use a "weird" keyboard, I use a Dvorak keyboard.
Wait, I thought Al Gore invented the internet.....
I guess I have to agree with the people that say that we should have the right to do whatever we want with waves that pass through our backyard. The only problem with that logic is that by the same standard, it is ok to modify a scanner to listen to people's cell phone conversations.
Yeah, you have an excellent point there. If AOL shifts over to Gecko use, websites will be urged to move away from proprietary bullshit Internet Explorer HTML, and back over to the "real" HTML 4.0 standard. But wait, I just realized that in order for websites to make themselves more compliant, they have to actually hire a web designer with talent instead of using MS FrontPage and the lovely HTML it produces.
That isn't what a Trojan is. A Trojan is a program that you actually download because you want to. When you install it, either the Trojan piggy-backs onto the installer of the legit program, or the Trojan is the actual program itself.
Speaking of tobacco-less cigs, I don't understand the point of decaf coffee. I always thought that coffee drinkers drink it because of the caffeine. Why drink the decaf stuff? Can't you think of something better to drink that tastes a lot better, like just about any kind of soda on the market? The only reason to drink decaf coffee is for the taste, which makes no sense because of the 8 gazillion other beverages out there that have a better taste.
I really need to be reading a bunch of stuff for a college class, no time for the Superbowl.
When I first read the headline on Slashdot, I thought it had said that all video games were trying to be banned for under 18 people. I had missed the 'violent' part and instantly became worried.
I am a guy, and I just started College with the plan of being a CS major. As soon as I noticed the Calculus I and Calculus II requirements, I quickly switched my major to Network Computing, with a Computer Science minor. I am not that bad at math, but I definitely don't want to take Calculus.
I was in Milwaukee, WI, at a Radio Shack once and I bought a casette tape adapter. They asked me address as usual, and I gave them it. However, I live in Michigan, and the Radio Shack was in downtown Milwaukee, so when I told them the address they were a bit confused. They asked me what the address I gave them was: An apartment or a condo? I said no, a house. The guy stared at me and blinked. I had to repeat myself again before he realized that I actually lived in a house and not an apartment or whatever.
You know, maybe Sony should call it Heaven's Gate
Math, at least in my highschool, sounds like a bunch of snoring sleeping kids with their heads on the desk.
Am I the only person irritated by calling LCD monitors "flat screen", when there are plenty of CRT monitors where the screen part is entirely flat. Calling an LCD monitor flat panel seems to be fine, where you label the entire panel as flat instead of just the screen.
Every time I game too much, I die too....... In Warcraft 3 that is. I think I have something like 6 losses and no wins.
Damn, I was thinking why can't we have 'Ted' From the Bill and Ted movies to both write and star in the movie? Dude!
Just to get this out of the way:
Imagine a beowulf cluster.....
Seriously though, I have used my palm pilot with the omniremote mentioned in another post to control a TV in my old highschool in math class. That was pretty fun, but imagine all sorts of pranks you could do with a remote that controls everything. Mess around with everyone's lights, flush the toilet from far away, all kinds of insane stuff.
Perhaps, but also, if you are close enough to a nuke, you also have to worry about losing your vision because your are dead too.
In my Cisco Networking Highschool class everyone had to make a school website. I didn't know (and still don't but thats another story) anything about HTML, so I borrowed a friend's HTML book and thought that I could make a neat page using a javascript image map. The homepage of my website was a giant pie chart with cheerful looking colorful pie slices, each slice went to a separate section of my site. It looked pretty stupid actually, but at the time I felt special because I had programmed all of the HTML in by hand.
Ok so now we will have to rename it to a "Die"amond....... and we could also come up with a "death"stone besides a birthstone
imagine if the RIAA somehow won a suit against every ISP in the U.S., and then the ISPs refused to obey the ruling and didn't block the site. So the courts shut down all of the ISPs in America. The RIAA would look really stupid then.
Now all we need is to put the friggin laser (the high powered laser mounted on a jet) and mount it on the friggin 6 legged logging machine.
Thats great, forget pr0n movies when you can order a pr0n movie t-shirt, great for watching pr0n on the go!