if we could spend billions of dollars perfecting self-healing civilians. Maybe splice some lizard genes into them so they can regenerate their lost limbs...
I've just submitted a patent on the court's decision. Whatever it is, it won't be obvious, so I'm pretty sure I've got them where I want them now. When they render their decision, if I don't like it I'll sue for patent violations and they'll have no choice but to redact.
Seriously, maybe white wasn't the best choice of colors? I guess it's better than the translucent "Look at all the dust I keep in there!" cases from the first generation iMac era, but Apple really ought to consider going back to the drawing board. Maybe some fashion-conscious people would scoff at the idea of a shit-brown MacBook, but you wouldn't have this problem any longer.
"Hey, Johnson, it looks like someone smeared poo all over your laptop."
"It's not a laptop, it's a MacBook. It's supposed to be brown."
I say he should, ahem, "chair" a committee to get geeks to become more physically fit. Think about it. We all remember the way he got a whole crowd of Microsofties worked up and into a frothy sweat a few years ago. If only there were a Geek Olympics, where geeks could show off their athletic prowess in events such as the chair hurl, the fax machine smash, Quake III, and speed typing. A man with Ballmer's resources and influence could go a long way toward realizing such a dream.
I think that we need to introduce a bill to prevent DNF from ever being released, lest it harm the IP and business model of people who make their living off of jokes about DNF coming out. The joke at this point is far more valuable than the game could ever be.
Agreed. I hope that some day we can all live in peace, and violent activities like chair-throwing at competitors can be relegated to a ceremonial "Geek Olympics" style gaming competition where chairs are thrown for distance and accuracy, not to injure and intimidate.
While the first is something I do agree with, the second stinks of "I don't have content but I want visitors, but if I hand out my sources my visitors might go there instead of to me."
There's a really great article about just what you're talking about over at...
Oh wait, that site no longer exists. The content has been retracted by the copyright holder.
How many web sites do you suppose will continue to host content for the entire duration of the copyright period? After the expiration of which, we'll be able to freely copy and distribute the Public Domain works? If someone doesn't mirror and host those articles, chances are quite good that they'll simply disappear forever when the copyright holder decides they don't have an interest in hosting them any longer.
Also, it's entirely possible for articles to be modified after they've been posted, read, and blogged about by people who have an interest in making their resposes to the original heard by others. News changes to suit the powers that be, and all traces of the original story are destroyed. Orwell predicted this in 1984. This happened quite a bit after Katrina, and after 9/11, and it's very difficult to notice or prove that it happens, unless the site's editor scrupulously notes changes that were made once the article first was posted, and this is often not done. A copy of an article isn't plagiarism, it's a historical record that an article existed as it did at a particular point in time. Of course, the copier can also modify the article to reword it to suit his or her needs as well, but if you are going to refer to an article someone else wrote, you'd probably like to have some assurance that it'll be accessible in the form you first encountered it in so that your commentary still makes sense when others read it.
And last but not least, plagiarism is a two-way street. "Journalists" have stolen blog entries, in whole or part, and have sold them to news syndicates as their own work. They're doing it for profit; bloggers by and large do what they do for free, because they have an interest in intiating a conversation about the article. Getting people talking isn't really such a bad thing, unless you're mainly interested in mind control or advertising revenue.
No, it's not plagiarism if you attribute the source. However, there is the larger issue of TEXT PIRACY. Where you steal some other author's ideas and promulgate them while not giving the advertisers' their revenue. This is such a bad problem that I predict that within six months the entire internet will be shutthefuckdown, and THEN who will the bloggers steal their ideas from? Books?
We need a way to stop these text pirates. How about replacing the easily copy-pasted HTML currently used by most sites with images of text rendered by Flash applet? Run sufficient Javascript on the site to deter any would-be thieves from having the usual theft tools functioning, like the notorious Cmd-C and the diabolical View->Source.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Ah, but you're forgetting Article Zero of the Constitution. I know, you probably haven't heard of it. It's small, and written in pencil on the back side of the Constitution. No one had even noticed it until after 9/11. It reads:
"The President shall have sole interpative power over this here documint. Or if he's busy, then Cheney can read it too."
The whole problem with the First Amendment is that word in the middle of it, respecting. "Congress shall make no law respecting..." You know, I don't see a whole lot of respect for the press here... Ergo, this is entirely Constitutional.
But, due to the Japanese engineers who develop the skeletal typographical style, the resulting model re-creation of your typing style will only be able to output Kanji or Engrish.
People who keep talking about how insane the announced price for the PS3 is are conveniently forgetting the $2000 PS2s for sale on eBay during the initial release week. Witness the $1000+ XBox 360.
The manufacturers have got to realize that if people can go buy one and turn right around and sell it for 2-3x markup, they're underpricing them.
Maybe if the price is still insane after the first month, I'll say Sony's insane. Until then, they're just pricing it at what they feel the market will bear.
I *still* bet they get their asses pounded by Nintendo, though.
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I never dressed up for gaming anyway, I just never saw the point of trying to fit in with all those phonies.
if we could spend billions of dollars perfecting self-healing civilians. Maybe splice some lizard genes into them so they can regenerate their lost limbs...
Now, if only someone will come up with a decent window-manager and GUI toolkit to run on top of it...
How do you say "Fuck you" in Esperanto, anyway? Bablefish doesn't have a translater for that...
Nah, it has already been proven that Microsoft doesn't design anything.
Good, I say. That should keep those scientists busy for a while.
While they're at it, they can sort out my sock drawer. Gotta keep those PhDs employed...
Move to call the trial "The SCO Monkey Trial".
Anyone want to second?
I'm not sure what Gates's net worth is at the moment, but let's say he's got 40 billion in the bank, which is probably about right.
At 2.5 million dollars a day, he'd be bankrupt in 54 years, assuming absolutely no income or other expenditures.
I'm sure the company's pockets are much deeper than Gates's personal fortune.
I've just submitted a patent on the court's decision. Whatever it is, it won't be obvious, so I'm pretty sure I've got them where I want them now. When they render their decision, if I don't like it I'll sue for patent violations and they'll have no choice but to redact.
Oooh! Ohh! Even cooler! What if BOTH of them were girls? And liked to make out with each other? And you could join in sometimes? Or even just watch?
Considering Neptune's proximity to Uranus, that's a good thing I'd say.
Seriously, maybe white wasn't the best choice of colors? I guess it's better than the translucent "Look at all the dust I keep in there!" cases from the first generation iMac era, but Apple really ought to consider going back to the drawing board. Maybe some fashion-conscious people would scoff at the idea of a shit-brown MacBook, but you wouldn't have this problem any longer.
"Hey, Johnson, it looks like someone smeared poo all over your laptop."
"It's not a laptop, it's a MacBook. It's supposed to be brown."
"Ooooh, nice then. Keep up the great work!"
I say he should, ahem, "chair" a committee to get geeks to become more physically fit. Think about it. We all remember the way he got a whole crowd of Microsofties worked up and into a frothy sweat a few years ago. If only there were a Geek Olympics, where geeks could show off their athletic prowess in events such as the chair hurl, the fax machine smash, Quake III, and speed typing. A man with Ballmer's resources and influence could go a long way toward realizing such a dream.
I think that we need to introduce a bill to prevent DNF from ever being released, lest it harm the IP and business model of people who make their living off of jokes about DNF coming out. The joke at this point is far more valuable than the game could ever be.
Agreed. I hope that some day we can all live in peace, and violent activities like chair-throwing at competitors can be relegated to a ceremonial "Geek Olympics" style gaming competition where chairs are thrown for distance and accuracy, not to injure and intimidate.
Any developer with any intelligence @ all would've hopped jobs at this point.
And give up all that JOB SECURITY???
Pitfall was not a paddle game, it was a joystick game. If you tried playing it with the paddle controllers, no wonder you found it so hard.
Nope; it was "Inside UFO 54-40".
There's a really great article about just what you're talking about over at...
Oh wait, that site no longer exists. The content has been retracted by the copyright holder.
How many web sites do you suppose will continue to host content for the entire duration of the copyright period? After the expiration of which, we'll be able to freely copy and distribute the Public Domain works? If someone doesn't mirror and host those articles, chances are quite good that they'll simply disappear forever when the copyright holder decides they don't have an interest in hosting them any longer.
Also, it's entirely possible for articles to be modified after they've been posted, read, and blogged about by people who have an interest in making their resposes to the original heard by others. News changes to suit the powers that be, and all traces of the original story are destroyed. Orwell predicted this in 1984. This happened quite a bit after Katrina, and after 9/11, and it's very difficult to notice or prove that it happens, unless the site's editor scrupulously notes changes that were made once the article first was posted, and this is often not done. A copy of an article isn't plagiarism, it's a historical record that an article existed as it did at a particular point in time. Of course, the copier can also modify the article to reword it to suit his or her needs as well, but if you are going to refer to an article someone else wrote, you'd probably like to have some assurance that it'll be accessible in the form you first encountered it in so that your commentary still makes sense when others read it.
And last but not least, plagiarism is a two-way street. "Journalists" have stolen blog entries, in whole or part, and have sold them to news syndicates as their own work. They're doing it for profit; bloggers by and large do what they do for free, because they have an interest in intiating a conversation about the article. Getting people talking isn't really such a bad thing, unless you're mainly interested in mind control or advertising revenue.
No, it's not plagiarism if you attribute the source. However, there is the larger issue of TEXT PIRACY. Where you steal some other author's ideas and promulgate them while not giving the advertisers' their revenue. This is such a bad problem that I predict that within six months the entire internet will be shutthefuckdown, and THEN who will the bloggers steal their ideas from? Books?
We need a way to stop these text pirates. How about replacing the easily copy-pasted HTML currently used by most sites with images of text rendered by Flash applet? Run sufficient Javascript on the site to deter any would-be thieves from having the usual theft tools functioning, like the notorious Cmd-C and the diabolical View->Source.
And the eighth rule of Fusion Club is: If this is your first time at Fusion Club, you have to fuse.
Ah, but you're forgetting Article Zero of the Constitution. I know, you probably haven't heard of it. It's small, and written in pencil on the back side of the Constitution. No one had even noticed it until after 9/11. It reads:
"The President shall have sole interpative power over this here documint. Or if he's busy, then Cheney can read it too."
The whole problem with the First Amendment is that word in the middle of it, respecting. "Congress shall make no law respecting..." You know, I don't see a whole lot of respect for the press here... Ergo, this is entirely Constitutional.
Except, you don't really own beer, so much as rent it...
But, due to the Japanese engineers who develop the skeletal typographical style, the resulting model re-creation of your typing style will only be able to output Kanji or Engrish.
People who keep talking about how insane the announced price for the PS3 is are conveniently forgetting the $2000 PS2s for sale on eBay during the initial release week. Witness the $1000+ XBox 360.
The manufacturers have got to realize that if people can go buy one and turn right around and sell it for 2-3x markup, they're underpricing them.
Maybe if the price is still insane after the first month, I'll say Sony's insane. Until then, they're just pricing it at what they feel the market will bear.
I *still* bet they get their asses pounded by Nintendo, though.