It's doubly a shame because, unlike so many other patents that we've seen here, this one is actually creative and non-obvious.
It was totally obvious. The inventor says he thought of it from looking at the lines on a tennis ball, but I call shens on that! Anyone who's ever made out with someone in their younger years understands the locking mechanism. He just didn't want to say it.
My 400MHz G4 runs circles around my 2GHz P4 for everything except 3D gaming, which I've never tried. Civilization 3 runs easily twice as fast on the Mac.
Everyone I know with a Windows laptop has had their screens fall off or their batteries die. My PowerBook is over three years old and there's nothing wrong with it.
It's not like it's Wizard of Oz and I'm telling you the Wizard is a man behind a curtain, it's more like finding out the Emerald City is actually a blueish colour.
I must say that I hope something was cut in the American release of Howl's Moving Castle.
It just played on campus last Wednesday. The film quality was pretty bad and the sound was absolutely horrible (I blame the distributer). The drawing had to be the best I think I've ever seen in any anime or Disney flick.
There was one major plot hole that pretty much the whole audience fell through though. At a point late in the movie, after they've alluded to one character having had a curse put on him, the main girl kisses this character and with a *pop* he turns into a real person and exclaims: "I'm the prince from the kingdom next door!"
The audience roared with laughter at that. There was absolutely no mention in the beginning of the movie about this missing prince (that we could hear, maybe it was the shitty sound) and at the very end we realized that he was the whole reason for the war that was the major plot element of the story.
I really hope there was something cut from the Miyazaki version. Or at least that there was something said that we collectively managed to miss.
You also have to realize that some people enjoy holding dead trees in their hands. I know a few people who read *lots* of books and, to put it simply, they're complete Luddites about literature.
It's hard to get a mystical experience from reading some poorly written 16th century manuscript if it's on a computer screen or handheld, but if the same bad prose is printed on the fading yellow pages of a several centuries old stack of paper and wood it becomes a spiritual thing and no amount of poor editing can get in the way.
Do I sound cynical? I have friends who are always complaining that they want to read certain things but can never get around to checking the books out of the library. I point out that I could just email them a copy and they get indignant. It's for this reason that I've taken to buying physical copies of books if I really liked them.
Forget everything anyone ever taught you about proper grammar.
I took a databases class as part of CpSc major and the internet seemed exceedingly lacking in help (as opposed to what I could find for other languages platforms). I managed to get access to Clemson's Oracle forums login so I was set (barely) for the rest of my project.
But you'll have to get over one major hurdle. The most helpful comments I could find looked like this: "I dono't if You can do that unles you deckare it correctly." It seems that with great SQL power comes great grammatical irresponsibility.
With SQL in your name it's funny that you mention this. Apple just threw in all the stuff MS wanted with WinFS when Apple gave us Spotlight on OS X 10.4. The reason they were so quick to do it is in small part due to an extra kernel call for each filesystem write which logs the data to a database and in large part due to the fact that they didn't write their own database for it. They're using MySQL to power Spotlight where Microsoft is trying to use an in-house database for WinFS.
Never overestimate the power of Microsoft in-house innovation.
Oddly enough, I can change the font size in Firefox all I want in the display, but when I want to print something and change the zooms, statically defined font sizes refuse to change.
The windshields of the future will have to be able to deflect these things like the gnats they'll become. Can you imagine how fun it would be navigate around this planet if it's surrounded by a fine dusting of millions and billions of these bugs?
But doesn't this seem just a little... silly? There's something about using new technology specifically to perpetuate antiquated systems of ownership that smacks of being naive. It's as if we can only let technology revolutionize things so far before we get uncomfortable and need to figure out ways to reinforce old habits despite the fact that they are completely unnecessary anymore.
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It's doubly a shame because, unlike so many other patents that we've seen here, this one is actually creative and non-obvious.
It was totally obvious. The inventor says he thought of it from looking at the lines on a tennis ball, but I call shens on that! Anyone who's ever made out with someone in their younger years understands the locking mechanism. He just didn't want to say it.
My 400MHz G4 runs circles around my 2GHz P4 for everything except 3D gaming, which I've never tried. Civilization 3 runs easily twice as fast on the Mac.
Everyone I know with a Windows laptop has had their screens fall off or their batteries die. My PowerBook is over three years old and there's nothing wrong with it.
As if it had any bearing on the storyline...
It's not like it's Wizard of Oz and I'm telling you the Wizard is a man behind a curtain, it's more like finding out the Emerald City is actually a blueish colour.
It's like you finally convince one of your friends to come hang out at a nudist beach and then you point at their genitalia and laugh.
:-)
So maybe they're warming up to the idea. That's cool. We don't have to make them uncomfortable.
Send them a beer and say "Bully for you!"
The topic of my post is about cuts. Obviously I'm going to talk about things in the movie.
Too subtle? I though "At one point in the movie..." was a pretty good hint too.
No problem.
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I must say that I hope something was cut in the American release of Howl's Moving Castle.
It just played on campus last Wednesday. The film quality was pretty bad and the sound was absolutely horrible (I blame the distributer). The drawing had to be the best I think I've ever seen in any anime or Disney flick.
There was one major plot hole that pretty much the whole audience fell through though. At a point late in the movie, after they've alluded to one character having had a curse put on him, the main girl kisses this character and with a *pop* he turns into a real person and exclaims: "I'm the prince from the kingdom next door!"
The audience roared with laughter at that. There was absolutely no mention in the beginning of the movie about this missing prince (that we could hear, maybe it was the shitty sound) and at the very end we realized that he was the whole reason for the war that was the major plot element of the story.
I really hope there was something cut from the Miyazaki version. Or at least that there was something said that we collectively managed to miss.
You also have to realize that some people enjoy holding dead trees in their hands. I know a few people who read *lots* of books and, to put it simply, they're complete Luddites about literature.
It's hard to get a mystical experience from reading some poorly written 16th century manuscript if it's on a computer screen or handheld, but if the same bad prose is printed on the fading yellow pages of a several centuries old stack of paper and wood it becomes a spiritual thing and no amount of poor editing can get in the way.
Do I sound cynical? I have friends who are always complaining that they want to read certain things but can never get around to checking the books out of the library. I point out that I could just email them a copy and they get indignant. It's for this reason that I've taken to buying physical copies of books if I really liked them.
Forget everything anyone ever taught you about proper grammar.
I took a databases class as part of CpSc major and the internet seemed exceedingly lacking in help (as opposed to what I could find for other languages platforms). I managed to get access to Clemson's Oracle forums login so I was set (barely) for the rest of my project.
But you'll have to get over one major hurdle. The most helpful comments I could find looked like this: "I dono't if You can do that unles you deckare it correctly." It seems that with great SQL power comes great grammatical irresponsibility.
There was one -1 overrated so at least one person was too ashamed to speak up about it.
I got some steel shelving at Sam's Club for about $60. It's got 6 shelves and each are supposed to be able to support 200lbs.
It also has wheels. Wheee!
That'll teach me to listen to a Solaris zealot.
Ack!
Sorry SQLite people.
The 17-inch PowerBook runs Eclipse perfectly.
Heck, I have a 15-inch 400MHz PowerBook that keeps up with everyone else in my classes (we use Eclipse, btw).
OSX 10.4 comes with Java 1.5 and Apache w/ PHP5.
With SQL in your name it's funny that you mention this. Apple just threw in all the stuff MS wanted with WinFS when Apple gave us Spotlight on OS X 10.4. The reason they were so quick to do it is in small part due to an extra kernel call for each filesystem write which logs the data to a database and in large part due to the fact that they didn't write their own database for it. They're using MySQL to power Spotlight where Microsoft is trying to use an in-house database for WinFS.
Never overestimate the power of Microsoft in-house innovation.
Oddly enough, I can change the font size in Firefox all I want in the display, but when I want to print something and change the zooms, statically defined font sizes refuse to change.
Nip the virus problem in the bud: keep OSX up to date on all the laptops.
*ducks*
I ride a bike these days, but I envision a future in which me with my billions will build a castle to house my company and all my employees.
That would kinda kick ass.
I don't have spare drive bays you insensi... oh. Wrong section.
The computer doesn't really matter if you cover it right.
Otherwise, I suggest a PowerBook. I beat someone with mine a couple of months ago and it still works fine.
Why is anyone even planning to go back? Doesn't living there now seem to smack of idiocy?
It's like owning a mobile home in Florida or building a multi-million dollar home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Tenochtitlan.
Later known as Mexico City, but it was a good idea at one point.
The windshields of the future will have to be able to deflect these things like the gnats they'll become. Can you imagine how fun it would be navigate around this planet if it's surrounded by a fine dusting of millions and billions of these bugs?
The antiquated part comes in when you say "virtual good" and you're not talking about a service but an abstraction as if it were a distinct entity.
But doesn't this seem just a little... silly? There's something about using new technology specifically to perpetuate antiquated systems of ownership that smacks of being naive. It's as if we can only let technology revolutionize things so far before we get uncomfortable and need to figure out ways to reinforce old habits despite the fact that they are completely unnecessary anymore.