It should go without saying that these are really for novelty only. The "flying cars" we all demand from the 21st Century are not just cars that fly, but cars that *hover* a la/The Jetsons/. This is just a car with wings.
*(No, you don't get a prize for seeing what's wrong with this sentence.:-P)
I'm all against nefarious software creeping onto my system, but this is like complaining that the guy you tried to buy drugs from turned out to be a cop.
What, you don't get pissed when that happens to you?
I know you're just a troll, but still... "ignorant". Are you saying that, in reality, language walked up to humans one day and taught them how to speak it correctly?
I would caution you against pointing out the arbitrarity of language on a site populated mostly by anal-retentive nerds. We're people who grew up convinced of our superiority to the other kids because we were too smart to say "ain't".
In fact, it would appear you've already felt out wrath.
The most efficient form of governance is a dictatorship.
History indicates otherwise, actually. The Soviet Union under Stalin was probably the closest thing in (modern) history to a one-man dictatorship. The Party, which in the popular imagination controlled all of Russia with near-absolute power, was in fact marginalized into pure symbolic status under Stalin, who created institutions directly under his control that eventually monopolized all power in the Union.
The things he could directly control (such as the virtual slave labor camps that were the gulags) were indeed highly efficient, and more responsible than anything else for the rapid industrialization seen under the five year plans. But everything else became a bureaucratic monstrosity.
For another example, look at how wildly successful the Great Leap Forward was. (I don't mean to pick on communists. In fact, I am one. But, you know, "credit" where credit's due.)
Speaking of not getting jokes... How can two 64-bit CPUs give you a 65-bit machine?
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Many people take sleeping pills, pain pills, mix them with booze. And these all cloud or fog the memory, and bring out bizarre behavior.
I'm sorry, but I don't know where you get your information. It may be true about specifically alcohol, but it's not an accurate blanket statement about the other two categories. Opiates, for instances, which count as both sleeping pills and pain killers, have no effect on memory or behavior (unless you count the change in behavior resulting from the change in mood and degree of consciousness).
Sigh. Starting at paragraph 6, halfway down the page: "In any event, a push for term extension is being made across Europe. While the UK says it will work to extend musical copyright from 50 to 70 years, the European Union is considering a plan (backed by Commissioner Charlie McCreevy) to extend musical copyrights to 95 years."
This is ironic. Spore is the only game besides WOW that I *didn't* pirate and actually *payed* for in the last two years or so. Playing Spore without the online component sounds like missing the point to me.
However, my DVD drive ended dying right when I got the game, so I downloaded the image via BitTorrent to install.
So, wait... They asked people to rate how much various cars appear to have certain human traits, and then said "Look! They're describing the cars as having human traits!"?
The theory of relativity gave us atomic weapons, whereas incompetent patent offices give us patents on making a sandwich. It's obvious that Albert Einstein's change of profession was a mistake humanity has suffered from ever since.
Oh, we've got some great computer-generated music. Check out Brian Eno's ambient recordings (or the background music in Spore, designed by Eno). But its application, so far, is very limited.
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One word: air traffic accidents.*
It should go without saying that these are really for novelty only. The "flying cars" we all demand from the 21st Century are not just cars that fly, but cars that *hover* a la /The Jetsons/. This is just a car with wings.
*(No, you don't get a prize for seeing what's wrong with this sentence. :-P)
I'm all against nefarious software creeping onto my system, but this is like complaining that the guy you tried to buy drugs from turned out to be a cop.
What, you don't get pissed when that happens to you?
I know you're just a troll, but still... "ignorant". Are you saying that, in reality, language walked up to humans one day and taught them how to speak it correctly?
I would caution you against pointing out the arbitrarity of language on a site populated mostly by anal-retentive nerds. We're people who grew up convinced of our superiority to the other kids because we were too smart to say "ain't".
In fact, it would appear you've already felt out wrath.
Yeesh, Mr. Coward, you call *every* Slashdot story spam these days. I think we all got the message already.
that was supposed to be "nothing but >3 for <3"...
Lake Superior State University has nothing but >3 for 3. :(
You mean "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all ('notable') human knowledge."?
The most efficient form of governance is a dictatorship.
History indicates otherwise, actually. The Soviet Union under Stalin was probably the closest thing in (modern) history to a one-man dictatorship. The Party, which in the popular imagination controlled all of Russia with near-absolute power, was in fact marginalized into pure symbolic status under Stalin, who created institutions directly under his control that eventually monopolized all power in the Union.
The things he could directly control (such as the virtual slave labor camps that were the gulags) were indeed highly efficient, and more responsible than anything else for the rapid industrialization seen under the five year plans. But everything else became a bureaucratic monstrosity.
For another example, look at how wildly successful the Great Leap Forward was. (I don't mean to pick on communists. In fact, I am one. But, you know, "credit" where credit's due.)
Speaking of not getting jokes... How can two 64-bit CPUs give you a 65-bit machine?
Many people take sleeping pills, pain pills, mix them with booze. And these all cloud or fog the memory, and bring out bizarre behavior.
I'm sorry, but I don't know where you get your information. It may be true about specifically alcohol, but it's not an accurate blanket statement about the other two categories. Opiates, for instances, which count as both sleeping pills and pain killers, have no effect on memory or behavior (unless you count the change in behavior resulting from the change in mood and degree of consciousness).
I don't get it. What's wrong with this story? It's interesting. Why are people complaining about it so much?
Is anything without hard science or with a picture now unacceptable to the anti-Idleistas?
Sigh. Starting at paragraph 6, halfway down the page: "In any event, a push for term extension is being made across Europe. While the UK says it will work to extend musical copyright from 50 to 70 years, the European Union is considering a plan (backed by Commissioner Charlie McCreevy) to extend musical copyrights to 95 years."
Because that only clears things up when you say "gratis", not when you say "free".
No, absolutely not.
(I figured *someone* had to give a negative answer, or it would look like a pretty unnecessary question to ask on Slashdot)
I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones who looked for Nazi pictures before looking at anything else.
I wonder if, one day, "German history -> Nazis" might *not* be imprinted into the minds of our children's children.
I realize they changed their name to capitalize on Blizzard's reputation, but can't we just call them "Activision"?
Fuck your own rights, asshole.
This is ironic. Spore is the only game besides WOW that I *didn't* pirate and actually *payed* for in the last two years or so. Playing Spore without the online component sounds like missing the point to me.
However, my DVD drive ended dying right when I got the game, so I downloaded the image via BitTorrent to install.
So, wait... They asked people to rate how much various cars appear to have certain human traits, and then said "Look! They're describing the cars as having human traits!"?
GNU is not UNIX.
And don't forget the Final Fantasy games.
I'm not sure if I'm being sarcastic.
I'm willing to bet porn games actually pay much more attention to dialog than most other genres.
The theory of relativity gave us atomic weapons, whereas incompetent patent offices give us patents on making a sandwich. It's obvious that Albert Einstein's change of profession was a mistake humanity has suffered from ever since.
Oh, we've got some great computer-generated music. Check out Brian Eno's ambient recordings (or the background music in Spore, designed by Eno). But its application, so far, is very limited.