Sell them for $200 in America with the understanding that you're paying for one in the 3rd world. Buy one, get one sent to somebody who really needs it. I'll take two.
So now they aren't even going to be limiting patents to software and "business methods"? In another 5 years we're all going to have to pay license fees to take a crap without being sued for violating a patent for "method of voiding bowels into a porcelain fixture while seated."
But that won't be the end of it: microphones in the toilet will be listening to make sure it doesn't sound like the tune to some Britney Spears song, while cameras examine the shape of the turds to see if they resemble a corporate logo. I can't wait to see which company owns the rights to each particular method for wiping your ass.
Jon Stewart totally skewered the "Oh, we Christians are so persecuted myth" when mock-opined, "and maybe someday we'll have a Christian president. Or 43 of them consecutively."
Maybe if Christians aren't smart enough to realize that they are the government and they are the media, they deserve some persecution.
Here's my gripe: people who distrust science, distrust scientists, and and regularly attack the principles of science still get to drive cars, use the internet, and microwave their hot pockets.
WHY?
I say that if you're going to oppose science that you ought to live like the Amish. We need to have a little test when you go to Best Buy: Do you believe in the scientific method? No? No toaster for you, moron!
And for goodness sakes, can we please stop giving them fertility treatments? The last thing these people need is to keep breeding.
Let me state that if genetic testing were available when my was in utero, I would have wanted to have the test performed. And if my wife were pregnant today, I'd also want it - not so that I could have the chance to terminate the pregnancy, but because we wasted so much time trying to figure out what was wrong with my son.
Autism is soooooo treatable now (for some kids) if you can start early enough. We didn't know what was wrong with my son until he was about 2 years old - and it kills me to think how much better off he could be today if I'd figured out what was going on sooner.
There are good and bad sides to the issues of genetic testing - but this is one where a lot of kids could be a lot better off. Tying it to a hot-button issue like abortion doesn't help make the issue any clearer.
Oh, while I'm posting: geekiness isn't the softer side of Autism. My son doesn't have the sort of social problems that geeks have: can't talk to girls, too embarassed to get up in front of the class, etc. He doesn't notice kids his own age. So fuck off with your "I can feel better about being an outcast cause maybe it's genetic" crap. Us geeks are a separate breed - be proud of who you are.
Wasn't the whole selling point of his product that the Linux guys were using it? I mean, if Open Source is a pile of shit, why did he go to such great lengths to glom onto them and get some of that mojo?
I mean, making a huge exception to his licensing so that a bunch of people who are too stupid to come up with any new ideas can use your code for free seems stupid. Right?
Am I the only one that noticed that all of the images of the Neko on that site are computer generated? I mean, I can come out with a 4-way opteron system with enough time and photoshop...
Why not call the DMA? At their site they list their phone numbers as New York: 212.768.7277 and Washington, D.C.: 202.955.5030. There are fax numbers there as well, but junk faxes are probably illegal.
"Hi, can I speak to the person in charge of making decisions about your long distance service?"
"Sure - Jared?"
"Hi. Hi. Daddy? No video now? Jumping! Jumping! No jumping. [beep] [boop] [beep] Bye bye."
Recently we got Verizon's Call Intercept service, and we only get calls from the local firemen and sherrif's departments trying to get us to donate to their charities. Probably the best $5/month I spend - but Jared misses getting to play with the phone.
Sure thing: First, install LiteStep, then get apptrans.dll installed. You can then assign a hotkey (or multiple hotkeys) to turn a window partially transparent. Best of all you can get a number of themes that already feature transparency, in addition to looking pretty cool.
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Sell them for $200 in America with the understanding that you're paying for one in the 3rd world. Buy one, get one sent to somebody who really needs it. I'll take two.
But they lowered the price on the 12".
So quitcherbitchin.
So now they aren't even going to be limiting patents to software and "business methods"? In another 5 years we're all going to have to pay license fees to take a crap without being sued for violating a patent for "method of voiding bowels into a porcelain fixture while seated."
But that won't be the end of it: microphones in the toilet will be listening to make sure it doesn't sound like the tune to some Britney Spears song, while cameras examine the shape of the turds to see if they resemble a corporate logo. I can't wait to see which company owns the rights to each particular method for wiping your ass.
He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system.
You know, I don't think it's entirely his fault that he's an idiot: I blame the education system.
Nannies.
And yes, they've been around for years.
Jon Stewart totally skewered the "Oh, we Christians are so persecuted myth" when mock-opined, "and maybe someday we'll have a Christian president. Or 43 of them consecutively."
Maybe if Christians aren't smart enough to realize that they are the government and they are the media, they deserve some persecution.
Here's my gripe: people who distrust science, distrust scientists, and and regularly attack the principles of science still get to drive cars, use the internet, and microwave their hot pockets.
WHY?
I say that if you're going to oppose science that you ought to live like the Amish. We need to have a little test when you go to Best Buy: Do you believe in the scientific method? No? No toaster for you, moron!
And for goodness sakes, can we please stop giving them fertility treatments? The last thing these people need is to keep breeding.
Let me state that if genetic testing were available when my was in utero, I would have wanted to have the test performed. And if my wife were pregnant today, I'd also want it - not so that I could have the chance to terminate the pregnancy, but because we wasted so much time trying to figure out what was wrong with my son.
Autism is soooooo treatable now (for some kids) if you can start early enough. We didn't know what was wrong with my son until he was about 2 years old - and it kills me to think how much better off he could be today if I'd figured out what was going on sooner.
There are good and bad sides to the issues of genetic testing - but this is one where a lot of kids could be a lot better off. Tying it to a hot-button issue like abortion doesn't help make the issue any clearer.
Oh, while I'm posting: geekiness isn't the softer side of Autism. My son doesn't have the sort of social problems that geeks have: can't talk to girls, too embarassed to get up in front of the class, etc. He doesn't notice kids his own age. So fuck off with your "I can feel better about being an outcast cause maybe it's genetic" crap. Us geeks are a separate breed - be proud of who you are.
Wasn't the whole selling point of his product that the Linux guys were using it? I mean, if Open Source is a pile of shit, why did he go to such great lengths to glom onto them and get some of that mojo?
I mean, making a huge exception to his licensing so that a bunch of people who are too stupid to come up with any new ideas can use your code for free seems stupid. Right?
I could buy that if you add "over the next 100 years" and imply "of near-continual airline travel." Maybe.
No google cache of this one - whoese browser cache can we use as a tivo for this web page?
"How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?"
Courtesy of the World's Shortest Blog.
Luckily, .xxx and .sex are easy to type with your left hand. .adult, on the other had, requires both hands, so to hell with that.
Am I the only one that noticed that all of the images of the Neko on that site are computer generated? I mean, I can come out with a 4-way opteron system with enough time and photoshop...
. . . and another way to pretend that reading Slashdot may eventually lead to body movement.
Well, it would if the editors would accept more of my Natalie Portman stories, it would.
Why not call the DMA? At their site they list their phone numbers as New York: 212.768.7277 and Washington, D.C.: 202.955.5030. There are fax numbers there as well, but junk faxes are probably illegal.
I love having a three-year-old.
Recently we got Verizon's Call Intercept service, and we only get calls from the local firemen and sherrif's departments trying to get us to donate to their charities. Probably the best $5/month I spend - but Jared misses getting to play with the phone.
And a very special "fuck you" to Taco for complaining about there being nothing worth posting today.
Why isn't there a knoppix-like iso available?
...Too bad the server keeps timing out. (No, really!)
Static? I hope they weren't sharing copyrighted static... Or worse yet, silence!
Hey, with Linus working for TM, maybe Linux can be the first OS with support for DRM! Woohooo!
Oh, wait... Dangit.
...but if you find out, please forward the information to whoever is coding bryce now that meta sold it to corel...
Sure thing: First, install LiteStep, then get apptrans.dll installed. You can then assign a hotkey (or multiple hotkeys) to turn a window partially transparent. Best of all you can get a number of themes that already feature transparency, in addition to looking pretty cool.
(For the Goatse-fearing: http://www.glyphs.com/art/kandinsky/)