I never buy books because I'm lazy and I never know if I'll like them, plus the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you. I've never read Larry Niven, instead opting to read the synopsis of the plots of Wikipedia....
Perhaps this is the perfect market for Kindle - people too lazy to read books, who think the only way to find books is online, and who are satisfied with Wikipedia summaries. While there are certainly advantages to a handheld portable library, nothing will replace the real book.
And, seriously, check out a bookstore or library some time -- browse through the shelves and pick up books at random, take one home with you -- I guarantee you'll find it more satisfying than "the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you."
Is there really that much difference between a horse and a donkey in this regard? I mean, why must the word of God clarify that they had donkey-size penises and ejaculated like horses? Do horses shoot significantly more (or less) "emission" than donkeys? Or are their genitals significantly larger or smaller? What if they had horse-size genitals and had emissions like donkeys -- would that make the girl in this passage more or less of a whore? It just seems like a strange detail to be hung up on, but if it's in the Bible, there must be a good reason for it.
3D is just a gateway to harder dimensions. Just wait until you see your kids sitting on street corners with multicolored glasses on mainlining 4- and 5-D. Nothing less than the complete collapse of society as we know it is at stake.
First, they came for the tweeters but I did not complain because I was not on twitter. Then they came for the facebookers but I didn't speak up because I didn't have a facebook account. Then they came for the myspace douchebags but I didn't speak out because I wasn't on myspace. When they came for the slashdotters, there was noone left to speak up for me.
Here's a quote from his article "The Menace of Mechanical Music" from 1906:
I foresee a marked deterioration in American music and musical taste, an interruption in the musical development of the country, and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations by virtue -- or rather by vice -- of the multiplication of various music-reproducing machinesâ¦. The ingenuity of a phonograph's mechanism may incite the inventive genius to its improvement, but I could not imagine that a performance by it would ever inspire embryonic Mendelssohns, Beethovens, Mozarts, and Wagners to the acquirement of technical skill, or the grasp of human possibilities of art.
Some would say he was just greedy, however; he had an investment in marching bands, which is what most of the article is about, especially those using the Sousaphone. The phonograph was seen as a threat to that.
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if I'm going to smell something, it's either going to be on a flat surface, or in MY hand.
Acid fumes teach you that lesson real quick.
Let me get this straight so I don't mess it up ... if I'm going to be smelling acid fumes, I should pour the acid on my hand first?
1) If my car is always garaged, don't the police have to break and enter to install a GPS tracker?
Does it really matter? All they'll find out is that you never leave the house.
And people wonder why I put tape/post it notes over those built in cameras in laptops before I turn them on.
Better idea -- don't steal laptops.
Yes I understand this doesn't take into consideration social networking.
Exactly. OpenBSD lacks the kind of application client support for Facebook and Twitter that the NSA has come to expect.
...except with booze instead of email.
(apologies to The Onion)
Bzzzt... I can download an e-book quicker than I can drive to the library and back.
Try again.
You try again. Yes you can download an e-book quicker - that wasn't my point at all.
(less strain, too, not having to keep reaching for a mouse or touch pad).
Where the hell do you keep your mouse or touchpad that you need to strain to reach it? If you keep it next to your keyboard it's a lot easier to use.
I never buy books because I'm lazy and I never know if I'll like them, plus the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you. I've never read Larry Niven, instead opting to read the synopsis of the plots of Wikipedia....
Perhaps this is the perfect market for Kindle - people too lazy to read books, who think the only way to find books is online, and who are satisfied with Wikipedia summaries. While there are certainly advantages to a handheld portable library, nothing will replace the real book.
And, seriously, check out a bookstore or library some time -- browse through the shelves and pick up books at random, take one home with you -- I guarantee you'll find it more satisfying than "the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you."
It's a slap in the face to any legitimate data recovery business to be "challenged" like that.
But I thought a slap in the face was the proper way to announce your challenge!
Little googling revealed that bacteria could actually do it.
Beats the hell out of reading the article!
Nature is not "wise", and it is wrong to personify it
Yeah man she hates that!
If our overlords are shitting out dung
Actually, we should start to worry if they start shitting out anything other than that. At the very least I'd say a trip to the doctor is in order.
What does that mean, you have to pour a shot of whiskey into your computer before you can connect?
It should be a song about cooking rather than alienation...
"I wanna wok you with some vegetables!!
I want to taste you in a stir-fry..."
Ballmer's kids: Daddy, Daddy, will you show me how to work my Zune?
Ballmer: Sure, let me see show you...
kids: HAHA just kidding Daddy we have ipods like everyone else in the world!
Is there really that much difference between a horse and a donkey in this regard? I mean, why must the word of God clarify that they had donkey-size penises and ejaculated like horses? Do horses shoot significantly more (or less) "emission" than donkeys? Or are their genitals significantly larger or smaller? What if they had horse-size genitals and had emissions like donkeys -- would that make the girl in this passage more or less of a whore? It just seems like a strange detail to be hung up on, but if it's in the Bible, there must be a good reason for it.
You prefer "twitterati"?
Well, the NBA figured out how to make twitter worth at least 25,000 USD, so we only need to account for the other 699,975,000 USD.
Apple doesn't seem to gain very much in its core business from the
acquisition
actually, twitter could turn out to be a very effective tool for reality distortion.
I'll drink to that!
3D is just a gateway to harder dimensions. Just wait until you see your kids sitting on street corners with multicolored glasses on mainlining 4- and 5-D. Nothing less than the complete collapse of society as we know it is at stake.
First, they came for the tweeters but I did not complain because I was not on twitter. Then they came for the facebookers but I didn't speak up because I didn't have a facebook account. Then they came for the myspace douchebags but I didn't speak out because I wasn't on myspace. When they came for the slashdotters, there was noone left to speak up for me.
Here's a quote from his article "The Menace of Mechanical Music" from 1906:
Some would say he was just greedy, however; he had an investment in marching bands, which is what most of the article is about, especially those using the Sousaphone. The phonograph was seen as a threat to that.
Yeah this is totally a dupe. kdawson posted this story in 1898!
Reading Beowulf under the light provided by a cluster of these lamps!