In the XIXth century, in my country, button makers were organized as a powerful guild that controlled prices. A clever tailor invented a system that, only with pieces of cloth, allows to close a shirt without buttons. Button makers tried to lobby in order to forbid this. I see this as an anti-progressive stance (you are free to not call that 'evil' as I do)
I have heard that story a couple of times... do you have any citations for it? I would like to research it a little bit more...
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Botnets As "eWMDs"
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Actually, an attack consisting of several simultaneous bombs in several areas of a city, combined with a systematic botnet attack of the major hospitals of the same city sounds quite evil...
Although I must admit that only 1 of my friends of similar age has kids... One of my buddies even got a vasectomy done, claiming that he will never reproduce...
well, imagine small and light position sensors placed in velcro bands that are then placed in the elbows, knees, ankles, waist, shoulders and head, plus a wii-mote and nunchuk.
With this, you get (almost) full body motion capture without having to do the nightmare of trying to sell several sizes of "gaming suits"
I have been told that you need to be gay to fully appreciate 300 [ducks!]
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Python 3.0 Released
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Signs of the apocalypse:
* A black man was elected President of the US - November 4, 2008 * Chinese Democracy was released - November 23, 2008 * Python 3000 is released - December 4, 2008 * ? * ? * Large Hadron Collider starts operations - ? * Duke Nukem Forever is released - ?
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There's a lot of people who do that in the third world... build a nice, professional-looking arcade cabinet around an XBox or a PS2
Its a very illegal, but quite popular alternative to NeoGeo cabinets
Thats what I thought... "But, but it hasn't even been a year!"
Anyway, let me know when we can get it from the Ubuntu repositories...
In the XIXth century, in my country, button makers were organized as a powerful guild that controlled prices. A clever tailor invented a system that, only with pieces of cloth, allows to close a shirt without buttons. Button makers tried to lobby in order to forbid this. I see this as an anti-progressive stance (you are free to not call that 'evil' as I do)
I have heard that story a couple of times... do you have any citations for it? I would like to research it a little bit more...
Not socialism, but an oligarchy...
Actually, an attack consisting of several simultaneous bombs in several areas of a city, combined with a systematic botnet attack of the major hospitals of the same city sounds quite evil...
Who is willing to bet that the testing is done over "carefully controlled" conditions designed to hide all the faults of the system?
Sad but true... NDISwrapper anyone?
Meh, alien invasion is more likely to happen.Duke Nukem Forever is a myth that's told to give nerds hope.
Well, Chinese Democracy was released a few weeks ago
I usually set my headquarters in Australia and occupy all of Oceania with one army each, heavily fortifying Siam instead
Better him than president Palin
I just imagined thousands of gringos ilegally crossing the Rio Grande to escape global cooling...
For a few months now, my bible-thumping inlaws have been claiming that an asteroid (Wormwood) will crash upon the earth on December 2012
Has anyone else heard such a thing? Or is the local evangelical pastor mixing up his Mayan and Biblical eschatologies?
Don't look at me, I already have two kids!
I'm even raising them! I am doing my duty!
Although I must admit that only 1 of my friends of similar age has kids... One of my buddies even got a vasectomy done, claiming that he will never reproduce...
well, imagine small and light position sensors placed in velcro bands that are then placed in the elbows, knees, ankles, waist, shoulders and head, plus a wii-mote and nunchuk.
With this, you get (almost) full body motion capture without having to do the nightmare of trying to sell several sizes of "gaming suits"
Well, you can still find a lot of used air-cooled Beetles here in Mexico, for cheap.
That car was so popular here that the local VW plant was still producing them until 2003 (with only a few changes from the original 1938 model!)
VW stopped production of air-cooled Beetles in 2003
The so-called "New-Beetle" is liquid-cooled like any other modern car
I have been told that you need to be gay to fully appreciate 300 [ducks!]
Signs of the apocalypse:
* A black man was elected President of the US - November 4, 2008
* Chinese Democracy was released - November 23, 2008
* Python 3000 is released - December 4, 2008
* ?
* ?
* Large Hadron Collider starts operations - ?
* Duke Nukem Forever is released - ?
Mandatory whitespace in python is not a bug, its a feature!
...You actually get used to reconstructing the web page in your head, much like web developers can see their sites when writing code.
I don't even see the code anymore. I just see blond, brunette, redhead...
Lessig sounds like he's writing letters to Santa...
Same here, the Linux version of the AAO is not even available here in Mexico.
So I bought the Windows version, installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix and it works like a charm
That's how they did it in my University admittance test here in Mexico...
But then again, our overwhelmed public Universities have to screen out 90% of applicants (not enough spaces), so tests are really hard.
You:
-Im here to visit my dear mom who works here
Robotic voice: ... dear aunt ... hovercraft ... so double ... the killer ... delete ... select all ... eels
-You are here to
...and they will walk in the tips of their toes, supported by anti-grav generators hidden in the folds of fat of their bellies, buttocks and thighs
Supersize me 2, anyone?