There we go, we get all the open source developers into the building, Jack manages to "forget" about the meeting and the building mysteriously [insert your favorite catastrophy here]. When the FD gets there they're started to find the doors and windows are bricked over.
A fork doesn't have the ability to change function - it's always a fork.
sorry i have to disagree. Based on my personal experience a fork can also be a "electrical wall outlet current redirector" and a "super happy flingy dart toy", and an "ow i just sneezed while i was tryint to eat my green beans and stabbed my gums with this thing" among other things
It won't happen, though, since these things will almost certainly be for sale at retail stores in exchange for anonymous cash.
Of course it's this type of thinking that will have the *AAs lobbying congress to do away with anonymous cash because it makes the pirates... err i mean terrorists win.
On a kinda-sorta related note, you can download many (3000 and counting) e-texts for free from Project Guetenberg;
Yes, i have quite a few E-books in my PDA for those insanely long trips, all from Guetenburg, though i was originally skeptical about having all the Police Acadamy scipts in my possession at any given time. I have had a chance to read the original Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Pinocchio without all the extra dizney stuffing.
So i get to pay $50 for a piece of software, take it home, and then find out i don't like the EULA. But you've already gotten your money, and since i don't agree, I've gotten nothing. Ok, I'll return it. WAIT, we CAN'T. Not one store I can think of will accept a return on opened software. My local Software Etc. used to, but they killed that policy long ago.
all my local software stores still take returns on open software, as is written in large print usually behind the regesters as well as the receipt, but they only accept the returns for replacement by the same product.
2) This patent is far too broad, and should have never been granted. How can you patent the concept of vibration?! I could see if they patented a certain type of motor that produced a specific form of vibration, and Sony & MS stole the plans, but they are suing because their controllers vibrate. As much as I dislike Sony & MS, this lawsuit is BS.
It's actually a very precisely worded patent:
A multifunction human digit control includes a rotating cylinder journalled in a movable bar slidable in a groove in a deflectable support track. Rotation of the cylinder by a thumb or finger generates a first motion signal and movement of either or both of the bar and the cylinder by tactile movement, generates a second motion signal, representing, for example, X-axis and Y-axis positions, respectively, of a cursor on a computer screen. Various types of motion detectors or encoders are disclosed to detect the various movements of the bar and cylinder. The mechanism also permits actuation of a switch or other motion detector in a Z-axis by deflection of any one of the bar, the cylinder or portions of the support track with respect to a support structure. In a preferred embodiment, the overall control has its digit-operated tactile surfaces exposed in an aperture contained in a device casing, such as an opening in a computer keyboard or in an instrument housing or control panel.
Doesn't sound vague to me.
errr, that doesn't sound so much like any kind of vibration as it does the analouge controllers on the controler, i don't know about how the Xbox controler compares though.
Many are the hours i would run around hitting monkey with a stick on the psx when i was a kid
Does anyone remember the old movie Robot Jocks (i'm pretty sure it's been years since i've seen it) they had giant robots, high power weapons and an audience, though the audience was situated back from the feild and under a reflective screen incase of stay laser fire.
Please actually back up your claims as to SUVs being so much more dangerous and causing more accidents. I see many more smaller passenger car accidents than SUVs.
SUVs account for 100% of all accidents that have occurred to my toyota. given that 1 isn't a great sample size the fact that my car was parked at the time and the person was on the phone eating a burger didn't make me happy either
Why can't he do something more useful? Like measure the cheese composition of the moon...?
Current estimates predict that all known gorgonzola deposits on Earth will be depleted by 2016. We need to think about cheese-mines on the moon now, before it's too late...
and don't forget we can also use the laser to shine in the eyes of the moon-men to annoy and distract them while we are stealing the cheese from their mines
IIRC my city is currently sueing AT&T Broadband for providing substandard service to pretty much everyone, and i personally consider the service i get to be realy crappy, I pay 1.5x more for 52 channels out near the edge of the county than people pay for digital cable 20 miles further into town, and the signal strength is weak even woth one of their amplifiers (adds even more to my bill)
Ahh, we finally burnt out the monitor on our old (original) Ms. Pacman table at the arcade i work in. I called Namco and after about 30 minutes on hold i got someone who knew where to find the things in stock, so i had the company foot the bill and got them to overnight it and insure it. unfortunately i didn't ask who it was being shipped by and was supprised when the box showed up the middle of next week and it was crushed nearly flat with lovely tire tracks on it. i told the ups driver that i wasn't going to sign for the package because it was damaged and immediately got on the phone back to Namco and explained the situation and they cleared everything up with UPS and a new monitor was there the next day in a fed-ex truck.
There's always The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton, the second in a long trilogy, but their blackhole weapon involved a jump-drive and a stasis feild, but they did nova a gas giant with it which was cool
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I smell a lynching.....
There we go, we get all the open source developers into the building, Jack manages to "forget" about the meeting and the building mysteriously [insert your favorite catastrophy here]. When the FD gets there they're started to find the doors and windows are bricked over.
and Microsoft's and etc. software is analagous to the metal used to manufacture guns
remind me never to buy a gun in that universe. pull the trigger the entire gun turns blue and all the bullets go of at once in the wrong directions.
Microsoft rewrites it's BSoD code
A fork doesn't have the ability to change function - it's always a fork.
sorry i have to disagree. Based on my personal experience a fork can also be a "electrical wall outlet current redirector" and a "super happy flingy dart toy", and an "ow i just sneezed while i was tryint to eat my green beans and stabbed my gums with this thing" among other things
What part of the DMCA gives NOA the right to ask for the unsold stock?
but if you send the FALs to NOA wouldn't you be traffiking an (allegedly) illegal device?
It won't happen, though, since these things will almost certainly be for sale at retail stores in exchange for anonymous cash.
Of course it's this type of thinking that will have the *AAs lobbying congress to do away with anonymous cash because it makes the pirates... err i mean terrorists win.
On a kinda-sorta related note, you can download many (3000 and counting) e-texts for free from Project Guetenberg;
Yes, i have quite a few E-books in my PDA for those insanely long trips, all from Guetenburg, though i was originally skeptical about having all the Police Acadamy scipts in my possession at any given time.
I have had a chance to read the original Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Pinocchio without all the extra dizney stuffing.
wow... so 2 whole people (and 63 disembodied left arms, but don't tell the Florida Supreme Court) voted Libertarian...
When faced with the choice between a robot and an idiot, neither is the lesser of the two evils (63 disembodied left arms can't be completely wrong)
So i get to pay $50 for a piece of software, take it home, and then find out i don't like the EULA. But you've already gotten your money, and since i don't agree, I've gotten nothing. Ok, I'll return it. WAIT, we CAN'T. Not one store I can think of will accept a return on opened software. My local Software Etc. used to, but they killed that policy long ago.
all my local software stores still take returns on open software, as is written in large print usually behind the regesters as well as the receipt, but they only accept the returns for replacement by the same product.
2) This patent is far too broad, and should have never been granted. How can you patent the concept of vibration?! I could see if they patented a certain type of motor that produced a specific form of vibration, and Sony & MS stole the plans, but they are suing because their controllers vibrate. As much as I dislike Sony & MS, this lawsuit is BS.
It's actually a very precisely worded patent:
A multifunction human digit control includes a rotating cylinder journalled in a movable bar slidable in a groove in a deflectable support track. Rotation of the cylinder by a thumb or finger generates a first motion signal and movement of either or both of the bar and the cylinder by tactile movement, generates a second motion signal, representing, for example, X-axis and Y-axis positions, respectively, of a cursor on a computer screen. Various types of motion detectors or encoders are disclosed to detect the various movements of the bar and cylinder. The mechanism also permits actuation of a switch or other motion detector in a Z-axis by deflection of any one of the bar, the cylinder or portions of the support track with respect to a support structure. In a preferred embodiment, the overall control has its digit-operated tactile surfaces exposed in an aperture contained in a device casing, such as an opening in a computer keyboard or in an instrument housing or control panel.
Doesn't sound vague to me.
errr, that doesn't sound so much like any kind of vibration as it does the analouge controllers on the controler, i don't know about how the Xbox controler compares though.
Many are the hours i would run around hitting monkey with a stick on the psx when i was a kid
now all i have to do is pop back in time about 15 years, drag myself to this thing and send me back after it's over.
Then i can file patents and copywrites on all the stuff i learned and screw up our recent history.
Does anyone remember the old movie Robot Jocks (i'm pretty sure it's been years since i've seen it) they had giant robots, high power weapons and an audience, though the audience was situated back from the feild and under a reflective screen incase of stay laser fire.
Please actually back up your claims as to SUVs being so much more dangerous and causing more accidents. I see many more smaller passenger car accidents than SUVs.
SUVs account for 100% of all accidents that have occurred to my toyota. given that 1 isn't a great sample size the fact that my car was parked at the time and the person was on the phone eating a burger didn't make me happy either
Why can't he do something more useful? Like measure the cheese composition of the moon...?
Current estimates predict that all known gorgonzola deposits on Earth will be depleted by 2016. We need to think about cheese-mines on the moon now, before it's too late...
and don't forget we can also use the laser to shine in the eyes of the moon-men to annoy and distract them while we are stealing the cheese from their mines
Yes. My sources indicate that a wookie will rip his arms off.
Wouldn't that require Jar-jar being able to beat a wookie at chess?
IIRC my city is currently sueing AT&T Broadband for providing substandard service to pretty much everyone, and i personally consider the service i get to be realy crappy, I pay 1.5x more for 52 channels out near the edge of the county than people pay for digital cable 20 miles further into town, and the signal strength is weak even woth one of their amplifiers (adds even more to my bill)
Ahh, we finally burnt out the monitor on our old (original) Ms. Pacman table at the arcade i work in. I called Namco and after about 30 minutes on hold i got someone who knew where to find the things in stock, so i had the company foot the bill and got them to overnight it and insure it. unfortunately i didn't ask who it was being shipped by and was supprised when the box showed up the middle of next week and it was crushed nearly flat with lovely tire tracks on it. i told the ups driver that i wasn't going to sign for the package because it was damaged and immediately got on the phone back to Namco and explained the situation and they cleared everything up with UPS and a new monitor was there the next day in a fed-ex truck.
There's always The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton, the second in a long trilogy, but their blackhole weapon involved a jump-drive and a stasis feild, but they did nova a gas giant with it which was cool