In other news the RIAA and broadcast radio stations all become utterly irrelevant in less than 10 years time. In 15 years time it's "RIAA who?" and "What's FM/AM?"
Want to listen to streaming music on the go?
Pandora Grooveshark Last.fm
And I'm sure there are a host of others. Want to download that music? emusic and sites like it exist and have existed for decades (anyone remember mp3.com before they were sued?). The fact that the RIAA is still relevant today is a miracle of pure momentum and PR-blitz that has been going on since the original Napster hit the scene. The fact that broadcast radio is still around is pure momentum and the fact that putting in cd players that read MP3s is still an option in many cars (as is the CD-player itself). I'm not one to believe that the car manufacturers are in cahoots with broadcast radio (much like they are claimed to be in cahoots with the oil industry (a lot more believable considering the money involved in oil)), but it sure does smack of it considering the availability of CDs since at least as early as 1980 (with a prototype being shown in 1979). We are now 30 years on into not only the digital audio revolution, but 50 years or more into the computer revolution. No SSDs of substantial size in cars to store audio (or even movies and images for those long drives) in a vehicle yet? When SSD technology is arguably 70 years old?
I guess maybe the broadcast radio folks are in cahoots with car manufacturers because, aside from supposed cost to implement, I see no reason why your average, non-Green car shouldn't have some (if not all) of these as standard features.
San Francisco is in California, after all. Land of the bleeding heart liberals why cry foul any time someone does a good job. Perhaps Child's did overstep himself, but I still can't say I wouldn't do the same. Any time a productive, talented person gets promoted over for political reasons, it's bound to cause bad blood.
You mean, Africa and the Middle East, ostensibly the cradle of humanity (whether or not you buy into creationism or evolution, both are based in those areas), didn't have sexual perversion before Asian societies?
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In other news the RIAA and broadcast radio stations all become utterly irrelevant in less than 10 years time. In 15 years time it's "RIAA who?" and "What's FM/AM?"
Want to listen to streaming music on the go?
Pandora
Grooveshark
Last.fm
And I'm sure there are a host of others. Want to download that music? emusic and sites like it exist and have existed for decades (anyone remember mp3.com before they were sued?). The fact that the RIAA is still relevant today is a miracle of pure momentum and PR-blitz that has been going on since the original Napster hit the scene. The fact that broadcast radio is still around is pure momentum and the fact that putting in cd players that read MP3s is still an option in many cars (as is the CD-player itself). I'm not one to believe that the car manufacturers are in cahoots with broadcast radio (much like they are claimed to be in cahoots with the oil industry (a lot more believable considering the money involved in oil)), but it sure does smack of it considering the availability of CDs since at least as early as 1980 (with a prototype being shown in 1979). We are now 30 years on into not only the digital audio revolution, but 50 years or more into the computer revolution. No SSDs of substantial size in cars to store audio (or even movies and images for those long drives) in a vehicle yet? When SSD technology is arguably 70 years old?
I guess maybe the broadcast radio folks are in cahoots with car manufacturers because, aside from supposed cost to implement, I see no reason why your average, non-Green car shouldn't have some (if not all) of these as standard features.
Unfortunately revoking a chronic drunk-driver's license doesn't help.
You're comparing murder to this? Wow. Talk about having no sense of scale.
This is one area the government needs to interfere in.
San Francisco is in California, after all. Land of the bleeding heart liberals why cry foul any time someone does a good job. Perhaps Child's did overstep himself, but I still can't say I wouldn't do the same. Any time a productive, talented person gets promoted over for political reasons, it's bound to cause bad blood.
Blame the BBC, that quote was lifted verbatim from the fine article.
So Wiktionary was right in calling octopi hypercorrect and M-W needs to update. That's all I needed to know.
The others that went all out bat-crazy on me...well...
Do the Swedish tabloids report on alien cats? I figured they'd be more worried about alien reindeer. :p
maths fail ):
That's even more disturbing.
You mean, Africa and the Middle East, ostensibly the cradle of humanity (whether or not you buy into creationism or evolution, both are based in those areas), didn't have sexual perversion before Asian societies?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopi
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopi
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopode
It's interesting to note that only Wiktionary has octopode where as M-W.com doesn't (at least not in their freely available dictionary).
squid-octopus virus. Not just squid.
I had no idea tentacle porn was so old.
We are doomed.
I thought octopi had 8 arms. Wouldn't that be hex?
Finally, someone got modded up for a truly insightful comment! lol (:
I got that, eventually. See second comment.
The point is, this isn't some novel innovation worthy of patenting. Complex != patent-worthy. Unique? Might have a case there. Useful? Never.
AT&T uses SIM cards.
I don't care if funny doesn't give karma (it should, though, at least half karma).
and only now do I see the pun. durp.
And nothing of value will be created.
insightful? For this? Maybe funny (but then only barely).
I think they are talking about a dead tree book, not one made of chips, PCBs, and PSUs.
are you kidding me? You do a video of the action, break it into frames and go from there. Nothing novel at all.
The only thing novel is, well there's nothing novel, and certainly nothing patent worthy.