My tolerance for novocaine, diazepam (valium) and a host of other anesthetics is about 12x normal (tripple the dosage, 1/4th of the duration) and has puzzled more than one specialist. The result of careful analysis has shown that my body eliminates most anesthetics at a much higher rate than normal.
That would be a result of your mutant healing factor. Now retract those claws and get back to the Institute before we lock you up, you filthy mutant.
Mostly The Net just bored me. Sandra Bullock did the best she could with the script, but the entire thing was exactly the sort of paranoid FUD that makes people think they can get sick by using a computer with a virus.
You say that as a joke, but as someone who has lived in Florida for the past ten years, I don't hesitate to say: yes, the vast majority of Floridians are idiots. The natives are the worst, but people who have lived here a few years ('naturalized idiots') can be nearly as bad.
And I'm not just talking about the 'my internet crashed' kind of idiot, I'm talking about the full-blown, all-out, 'what do you mean I need to plug it in?!' kind of idiot. The sort that honestly has difficulty with their remote control - forget programming the VCRs, these folks can't even change the channel. And we expect them to vote electronically? Not gonna happen; frankly, it's a wonder anyone around here finds the polls.
Beam me up, there's no intelligent life in this state.
-- Being a northern import, I am, of course, imyoun. Err, 'immune'. Yeah, that's the tikkit.
Marketer, formerly fast asleep, sits bolt upright with a look of sheer amazement on his face. The sleepiness drops from his face as he slowly turns his head upwards, as if thanking God himself for the incredible inspiration.
Marketer: Tron... Two Point Oh! It's like 'Tron Two', but like a computer! Dear God, am I a genius! This movie must be made!
Good. Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile.
I'm pretty sure that most individual lawyers aren't multithreaded, but a massively parallel system like the legal department at EMI or AOL/TW has got to be able to do more than one thing at a time.
Let's assume that anyone who likes Ogg and is seriously into music will compress their music with both Ogg variants and use the best variant for each file.
Even better, let's assume that anyone who is seriously into music will compress their music with everything and use the best variant for each file.
I guess the Slashdot editors are only interested in preserving their rights when it doesn't involve any action on their part.
Or maybe they're interested in providing a fair and balanced coverage of news issues.
Slashdot is a news site. Part of reporting the news is covering both sides of the issues, regardless of personal belief. Would you prefer the editors simply post their opinions, without linking to documentation? Personally I much prefer the current system, wherein information is provided and I form my own opinion. If you are unable to form opinions, either through brain damage or simple lack of cognitive functionality, perhaps we can arrange a 'Slashdot lite' where the editors can simply tell you what to think.
Again, for the slower readers: This is a news site. It reports the news (for nerds) and stuff that matters.
A regulation turtle is a turtle that is sized and weighted in accordance with National Turtle League (NTL) specifications. To play a regulation game of turtle one must use a regulation turtle inflated to optimal pressure on a regulation field.
Note that this is entirely distinct from a regulation sea turtle, which is used exclusively for sea turtle polo.
See, I don't get this whole "Army of One" business.
I think they're actually shooting themselves in the foot with that campaign... I was going to join the army, but then I saw that commercial and realized, "hey, I'll just let that guy do it."
I mean, that guy's a whole army all by his lonesome... why would they possibly want my help?
57 mbps isn't bad... but compared to gigabit ethernet, it's really not all that fast, particularly when you start splitting it over an office or some such.
Of course, running 45 MPH isn't bad, but compared to a supersonic jet, it's really not all that fast, particularly when you have to carry several tons of cargo or some such.
I have never seen a single star wars movie, never watch an anime, not even a comic book. I hate computer games (specially multi-player games) but I don't mind trying some galaga while I am waiting for my pizza at pizza hut.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."
well, if the MPAA would do a better job of searching folk before they let them come into the prescreening, then this would not be an issue would it.
So, let me get this straight... when they go out of their way to prevent piracy, via CSS or protected CDs, that's wrong... but when someone does pirate something, it's their own damned fault for not trying hard enough to prevent it?
Does anyone notice that whenever anything game-related comes up on Slashdot, the grammatical accuracy of the response posts declines ~30% from average and the number of posts lacking any capitalization skyrockets? I'm also tracking a 73% increase in the use of the words 'me', 'mine', and 'my' and a marked upward trend in the use of the letter 'z'.
It's really a fascinating sociological phenomenon, wouldn't you say?
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[Y]ou will talk to AOL, AOL will talk to TiVo and your TiVo box already calls up TiVo WCHQ each night to report on your recent service to the overmind, so the schedule changes from your AOL service will just be added into the mix.
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I can't imagine how else they would do it, since your TiVo only has access the outside world when it dials in anyway.
The new Series2 TiVos have the ability to use USB-Ethernet adapters to obtain guide information over the 'net. At the moment this is an announced but offically unsupported 'hack', but it's been fairly clearly implied that it would eventually have a sanctioned use.
Given that the announcement mentioned instant-messaging, it seems far more likely that the AOL service would require a broadband 'net connection and such an adapter, as having to dial in to retrieve messages makes them a tad less 'instant'. So it may be possible to back-engineer the protocol and use this service without going to AOL. I hope.
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Mostly The Net just bored me. Sandra Bullock did the best she could with the script, but the entire thing was exactly the sort of paranoid FUD that makes people think they can get sick by using a computer with a virus.
Now, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Classic!
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Are you from Jersey?
I'm from Jersey.
Really? What exit?
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And I'm not just talking about the 'my internet crashed' kind of idiot, I'm talking about the full-blown, all-out, 'what do you mean I need to plug it in?!' kind of idiot. The sort that honestly has difficulty with their remote control - forget programming the VCRs, these folks can't even change the channel. And we expect them to vote electronically? Not gonna happen; frankly, it's a wonder anyone around here finds the polls.
Beam me up, there's no intelligent life in this state.
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You've suceeded in saying exactly the opposite of what you mean. (Or you're really, really, really confused)
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Marketer, formerly fast asleep, sits bolt upright with a look of sheer amazement on his face. The sleepiness drops from his face as he slowly turns his head upwards, as if thanking God himself for the incredible inspiration.
Marketer: Tron... Two Point Oh! It's like 'Tron Two', but like a computer! Dear God, am I a genius! This movie must be made!
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Kinda defeats the purpose, eh?
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You might want to get out more.
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Slashdot is a news site. Part of reporting the news is covering both sides of the issues, regardless of personal belief. Would you prefer the editors simply post their opinions, without linking to documentation? Personally I much prefer the current system, wherein information is provided and I form my own opinion. If you are unable to form opinions, either through brain damage or simple lack of cognitive functionality, perhaps we can arrange a 'Slashdot lite' where the editors can simply tell you what to think.
Again, for the slower readers: This is a news site. It reports the news (for nerds) and stuff that matters.
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Note that this is entirely distinct from a regulation sea turtle, which is used exclusively for sea turtle polo.
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Oh, wait... this is Star Trek, not the Simpsons... Umm, Heisenberg compensators to full! Engage!
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I mean, that guy's a whole army all by his lonesome... why would they possibly want my help?
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Next you're going to go and tell us that Spider-Man is some nerdy photographer and Batman is a millionaire playboy. I mean, really.
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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
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Double standard much?
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For those who haven't caught on yet, this is why the MPAA and RIAA dislike technology so strongly.
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Does anyone notice that whenever anything game-related comes up on Slashdot, the grammatical accuracy of the response posts declines ~30% from average and the number of posts lacking any capitalization skyrockets? I'm also tracking a 73% increase in the use of the words 'me', 'mine', and 'my' and a marked upward trend in the use of the letter 'z'.
It's really a fascinating sociological phenomenon, wouldn't you say?
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"dudez my computer rox cuz it gedz me 200 framez perr zecond! w00t!"
Given that the announcement mentioned instant-messaging, it seems far more likely that the AOL service would require a broadband 'net connection and such an adapter, as having to dial in to retrieve messages makes them a tad less 'instant'. So it may be possible to back-engineer the protocol and use this service without going to AOL. I hope.
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