ok, 2 and a wheel, but seriously... museum quality?
It reminds me of those "modern" art where it's a blank canvass with a line running down the middle.
To me it's not art... nor does it look good. It's just superficial "designers" (Ugof need silence!) who think people want their mouse to have hidden meaning.
Sure it looks ok, maybe i'd even buy one if I needed to, but I'd rather have function over fashion. Right now I'm using Logitechs MX500... and I think it looks sweet too.
I'm sorry, but that's just frekin funny. Way to go to microcrap for their originality.
Is it to late to patent the keyboard? Or how about a method of communicating user interaction on one electronic device to a seperate entity, either via wire or wireless connection. A.K.A, a frekin keyboard.
You have to unblock certain ports as your applications require to make the apps work again.
Sooo... everyone has to unblock whatever port RPC runs on for Windows to work (lets say) and many other ports, so basically the firewall does absolutely nothing except block people from slamming ports that nothing is using anyway.
Simply the fact that Windows Firewall can be turned off by another application is enough to tell me Microsoft has goofed again.
That's horrible, horrible logic. I'm supressing lines of cursing and name calling due to that little line you just spouted because it is just plain stupid to say that. For one, pretty much any program can do anything it pleases if the user has permission to.
What 90% of people forget is that the great majority of users are running windows in an administrator's permission set. It's just like someone running their linux box as root. You run a certian program, you're screwed.
Give me root permissions on your unix machine and I'll write a nice little script, not even a program, to do lots of nice little things to your computer.
...is for humans to find some sort of life on venus or a moon around jupiter. Then how stupid would all these people feel?
But I can already hear their arguments: "Well, it's life in just one solarsystem, so life must have spread internally so we're still unique and alone in the universe. Blah blah blah, I'm a moron."
What people need to realize is that the conditions don't have to be "just right" for life to exist... they just have to be right for a certian type of life to exist.
I hate those "Buy Land On Io!" Places...
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Every single one I run into claims that the UN treaty prohibited government from claiming land on other planets or celestial bodies, but not individuals... but they are wrong.
"States bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, whether carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried on in conformity with the principles set forth in the present Declaration. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the State concerned..."
Which basically means you can claim some land somewhere, but there's no way you can "back it up," so to speak. So what good does that do? That's the whole point of a government/nation... to protect your land and private interests.
Also:
"Outer space and celestial bodies are not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
Notice how the used the term "nation" here, not government. This allows any group to be affected by this clause. For instance, the "Lunar Embassy" crack pot that sells land on other celestial bodies is concidered a nation (a relatively large grouping of people... grows with each idiot that buys land from them), and thus falls under this clause. Even if it were necessary for a group to be a government for this to apply, going by the definition of a government, this "company" would be catagorized as such.
Although I don't endorse patent whording done by microsoft, the title for the patent is grosely misleading. It makes it sound like Microsoft just patented all motion pictures... but not quite.
The patent application states:
"For instance, the technique determines whether the time information is digitally encoded in the image file, or whether it is embedded within the image data itself. The technique next includes extracting the time information from the photograph image file using a technique appropriate to the identified manner in which the time information is stored, to produce extracted time information."
Simply put, the pictures are organized and displayed in a manner according to data embedded in the image file itself... which is halfway innovative.
Although pretty basic and easy to do on your own, it, I assume, can warrant a patent.
...now they just need to learn how to dodge a damn car in the road!
They seem smart in that article, but driving home today I'll probably watch one sitting on the curb, and for some reason runs across the road ONLY when the car is in range... not to mention the ones that run back and forth trying to dodge it - the ones that get all the way across and for some reason decide to run back across the road (and into the car).
...we used to make fun of other countries (like in the middle east) because of how their government censored the public.
Put another religious leader in the american government, and I guess we'll get the same result.
</politeness>
Why is the US so damn anal about nudity and violence? The mid east cuts off people's appendages on TV and normal public, Europe had free nudity on TV and on the beaches (Canadain women can even walk around topless)... but damned if someone curses or shows a little leg on my good ol' American Television!
"Transcendent" has nothing to do with trance.... at all.
1) The spellings are different - trance vs transcendent...
2) Trance is music, transcendent is:
1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
3. Philosophy.
1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
not a damn thing to do with one another... not a damn thing...
...but just hearing "music" and "industry" in the same sentence kinda makes me think that I'm fed a mass-produced, scientifically designed, corporate controlled brain anesthetic instead of actual music.
Now that the "industry" is controlled by fewer companies, closer to one conglomeration, the appreciation for what comes out of it is even smaller.
I guess that's why I stopped buying CDs a long time ago and just listen to online radio of "underground" (progressive trance if you must know my tastes) and classical music.
No it's not! You can still paint your car, add a garage to your house, and rip holes your clothes. But you can't put missle launchers on your car, coat your house with crack cocaine, or staple dead babies to your shirt.
...that is by far the best analogy I have ever heard.
I believe that there are jurisdictions in which car mods (or some kinds) are illegal. (California comes to mind).
Those are because of pollution controls (i.e. a racing exhaust header, removing the catylitic converter)... not because of the modification itself or the fact that your car goes faster.
...it's called an unshielded speaker. Whenever any data is being transmitted by my phone, my speakers go nuts.
Based on the distance from the speaker (or wire), I can tell how far away the phone is.
On a serious note, the device is simple. The complex part comes in if they can triangulate the actual 2D or even 3D position of the phone, not just the radial distance. Then I'll be impressed...
You contradicted yourself there, and you only used two sentenced... good job.
No, it's not absurd. Refer to the other comment given to my original post for reasons why. I would give numerous examples as to how you don't need to be intelligent to make a large income, or why being intelligent doesn't mean that you will do very well, but that would be a waste of time.
Well, here's two freebees for you:
1) Do you think that jessica simpson or most basketball/football/other athletes are more intelligent than you?
2) My brother was a genious (was tested at a young age to make sure) that could do math like you wouldn't believe. He practically had the dictionary memorized too. Was he good off? No. He was a church organist and lived at home.
Your sly personal insult is in vain. I do make a good income. I'm an engineer with far above average intelligence.
Those that can afford nicer toys are those that usually are smart enough to get better jobs and make more money.
Or those that are smarter realize that you shouldn't waste your money on a mac... and go and buy a PC.
Also, last that I checked the PhD's of the country were making scraps compared to people who have their bachelors in business management. Being smart doesn't have much to do with how much money you'll make.
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ok, 2 and a wheel, but seriously... museum quality?
It reminds me of those "modern" art where it's a blank canvass with a line running down the middle.
To me it's not art... nor does it look good. It's just superficial "designers" (Ugof need silence!) who think people want their mouse to have hidden meaning.
Sure it looks ok, maybe i'd even buy one if I needed to, but I'd rather have function over fashion. Right now I'm using Logitechs MX500... and I think it looks sweet too.
Brin joined Page in proclaiming they should found a nanotech lab at Google.
...same logic...
Talk about a huge leap of focus here...
why doesn't Yahoo! start getting into genetic engineering now?
Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips
Ahha... I misread that as "Dual Crashes..." thinking Windows found a way of really boning up a system when running on dual processors/cores.
the disc has a one terabyte storage capacity and one gigabyte transfer speed
...ppeerr what?
This campaign is not so much against IE, but for the use of safer and more user-friendly browsers.
...I still don't see the difference...
.8041247291... years.
Firefox user for
Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly
What ever happened to treating all men/women equally?
HAHAHHAAHAA
I'm sorry, but that's just frekin funny. Way to go to microcrap for their originality.
Is it to late to patent the keyboard? Or how about a method of communicating user interaction on one electronic device to a seperate entity, either via wire or wireless connection. A.K.A, a frekin keyboard.
I just have to ask... are they sure it's the lack of language that limits their counting, or is it the lack of couting that limits the language?
They can just be born "stupid" and not very good at counting... thus they formed their language to reflect that.
You have to unblock certain ports as your applications require to make the apps work again.
Sooo... everyone has to unblock whatever port RPC runs on for Windows to work (lets say) and many other ports, so basically the firewall does absolutely nothing except block people from slamming ports that nothing is using anyway.
WTF good does that do?
Simply the fact that Windows Firewall can be turned off by another application is enough to tell me Microsoft has goofed again.
That's horrible, horrible logic. I'm supressing lines of cursing and name calling due to that little line you just spouted because it is just plain stupid to say that. For one, pretty much any program can do anything it pleases if the user has permission to.
What 90% of people forget is that the great majority of users are running windows in an administrator's permission set. It's just like someone running their linux box as root. You run a certian program, you're screwed.
Give me root permissions on your unix machine and I'll write a nice little script, not even a program, to do lots of nice little things to your computer.
Corals Adapt to Global Warming ...what global warming?
From the article:
Both AnandTech's and Storage Review's results of the IPEAK are largely contradictory to Tweakers.net's benchmarks
So then it's two against one here? And we should believe the minority?
...is for humans to find some sort of life on venus or a moon around jupiter. Then how stupid would all these people feel?
But I can already hear their arguments: "Well, it's life in just one solarsystem, so life must have spread internally so we're still unique and alone in the universe. Blah blah blah, I'm a moron."
What people need to realize is that the conditions don't have to be "just right" for life to exist... they just have to be right for a certian type of life to exist.
Every single one I run into claims that the UN treaty prohibited government from claiming land on other planets or celestial bodies, but not individuals... but they are wrong.
The Treaty states:
"States bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, whether carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried on in conformity with the principles set forth in the present Declaration. The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the State concerned..."
Which basically means you can claim some land somewhere, but there's no way you can "back it up," so to speak. So what good does that do? That's the whole point of a government/nation... to protect your land and private interests.
Also:
"Outer space and celestial bodies are not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
Notice how the used the term "nation" here, not government. This allows any group to be affected by this clause. For instance, the "Lunar Embassy" crack pot that sells land on other celestial bodies is concidered a nation (a relatively large grouping of people... grows with each idiot that buys land from them), and thus falls under this clause. Even if it were necessary for a group to be a government for this to apply, going by the definition of a government, this "company" would be catagorized as such.
I'm with the Christian Scientists on this one...
Although I don't endorse patent whording done by microsoft, the title for the patent is grosely misleading. It makes it sound like Microsoft just patented all motion pictures... but not quite.
The patent application states:
"For instance, the technique determines whether the time information is digitally encoded in the image file, or whether it is embedded within the image data itself. The technique next includes extracting the time information from the photograph image file using a technique appropriate to the identified manner in which the time information is stored, to produce extracted time information."
Simply put, the pictures are organized and displayed in a manner according to data embedded in the image file itself... which is halfway innovative.
Although pretty basic and easy to do on your own, it, I assume, can warrant a patent.
...now they just need to learn how to dodge a damn car in the road!
They seem smart in that article, but driving home today I'll probably watch one sitting on the curb, and for some reason runs across the road ONLY when the car is in range... not to mention the ones that run back and forth trying to dodge it - the ones that get all the way across and for some reason decide to run back across the road (and into the car).
Smart communicators, dumb survivors.
...we used to make fun of other countries (like in the middle east) because of how their government censored the public.
Put another religious leader in the american government, and I guess we'll get the same result.
</politeness>
Why is the US so damn anal about nudity and violence? The mid east cuts off people's appendages on TV and normal public, Europe had free nudity on TV and on the beaches (Canadain women can even walk around topless)... but damned if someone curses or shows a little leg on my good ol' American Television!
"Transcendent" has nothing to do with trance.... at all.
1) The spellings are different - trance vs transcendent...
2) Trance is music, transcendent is:
1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
3. Philosophy.
1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
not a damn thing to do with one another... not a damn thing...
(just some education for the confused)
...but just hearing "music" and "industry" in the same sentence kinda makes me think that I'm fed a mass-produced, scientifically designed, corporate controlled brain anesthetic instead of actual music.
Now that the "industry" is controlled by fewer companies, closer to one conglomeration, the appreciation for what comes out of it is even smaller.
I guess that's why I stopped buying CDs a long time ago and just listen to online radio of "underground" (progressive trance if you must know my tastes) and classical music.
No it's not! You can still paint your car, add a garage to your house, and rip holes your clothes. But you can't put missle launchers on your car, coat your house with crack cocaine, or staple dead babies to your shirt.
...that is by far the best analogy I have ever heard.
Well why would someone take off the speed govenor in their car, if not to break the speed limit (even more)?
I believe that there are jurisdictions in which car mods (or some kinds) are illegal. (California comes to mind).
Those are because of pollution controls (i.e. a racing exhaust header, removing the catylitic converter)... not because of the modification itself or the fact that your car goes faster.
...it's called an unshielded speaker. Whenever any data is being transmitted by my phone, my speakers go nuts.
Based on the distance from the speaker (or wire), I can tell how far away the phone is.
On a serious note, the device is simple. The complex part comes in if they can triangulate the actual 2D or even 3D position of the phone, not just the radial distance. Then I'll be impressed...
You contradicted yourself there, and you only used two sentenced... good job.
No, it's not absurd. Refer to the other comment given to my original post for reasons why. I would give numerous examples as to how you don't need to be intelligent to make a large income, or why being intelligent doesn't mean that you will do very well, but that would be a waste of time.
Well, here's two freebees for you:
1) Do you think that jessica simpson or most basketball/football/other athletes are more intelligent than you?
2) My brother was a genious (was tested at a young age to make sure) that could do math like you wouldn't believe. He practically had the dictionary memorized too. Was he good off? No. He was a church organist and lived at home.
Your sly personal insult is in vain. I do make a good income. I'm an engineer with far above average intelligence.
It seems simply an obvious statement of fact.
Those that can afford nicer toys are those that usually are smart enough to get better jobs and make more money.
Or those that are smarter realize that you shouldn't waste your money on a mac... and go and buy a PC.
Also, last that I checked the PhD's of the country were making scraps compared to people who have their bachelors in business management. Being smart doesn't have much to do with how much money you'll make.