I hate to say it but I think we've reached a point where "normal people" use their tech more than the geeks do. At least in the email area. I too would be using a small chunk of my GMail space except for mom emailing me sunsets, uncle John sending pictures of his farm and all those stupid HTML emails they send. Sure its a waste of bandwidth to us, but they're generally more social and tend to fill our mailboxes faster.
Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC's decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with more than 50 cable networks, are signed up to sell TV shows from their upcoming season on iTunes at $1.99 per episode.
"We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes. "We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers."
They say the technique could ultimately be used to make aircraft controls that respond more quickly to a pilot's actions.
*Pilot cruising around Washington DC on anti-Terrorist patrols* (Thinking to himself) "Oh wow, I'm like... right over the White House now, it would like totally suck if I accidentally shot a" *Missle launches at White House* "Oh crap!! Do NOT think about launching missles!!" *Missles launch at various historical monuments* "Craaaaaap!! My Sarge is gonna KILL M" *Plane explodes*
For TiVo being a consumer product is Bad, IBM Being corporate product it is good.
That's just silly, it's not about which company it is, it's what they do with the code they use. Everything would be just peachy with TiVo if they supported the goals of the GPL like IBM seems to be doing. We'll see how it goes with IBM, if they substantially change their practices and start abusing GPL'd code then we'll see their popularity tank as well.
Harvest or "Save" the Little sisters. The guy helping you out says you should kill them to harvest all the "Adam" you can get, this lets you essentially level up faster. Or you can Save them as their creator would like and get some huge reward later on. She has gained some morality after turning little girls into monsters.
I'd just like to add a little perspective on the shooting Little Sisters thing. Nobody complained when Will Smith shot an evil alien disguised as a cute little girl. Perhaps Will Smith is just cooler than us. NAWWWWW
So I read the article and found mainly this counter-point:
But Pace, the University of Colorado microbiologist, thinks there is one very important reason why hydrogen peroxide life is unlikely. "Hydrogen peroxide inside cells is deadly in terrestrial kinds of cells," Pace said. "In fact, that's one way that our cells combat bacteria, by producing hydrogen peroxide locally."
I'm no scientist, but his reasoning doesn't seem very convincing. There's lots of chemicals that are deadly in our own bodies. He even says we make hydrogen peroxide in limited amounts. Why would that fact alone make a lifeform that depends on it unlikely?
Don't be surprised, geeks tend to have Aspergers Syndrome, so more grammar nazis actually means a more intelligent (yet pedantic) audience.
Don't be offended by it though, typos online are the equivalent to mispronouncing things IRL. If you had a friend who was talking about the Packyfick Ocean you'd point it out to him right? Wouldn't want him to look stupid in public? Same thing here. As an aside... as a child I actually called it the Packyfick Ocean, had the hardest time with non-phonetic words in English since I'm deaf and had to guess pronunciation.
Similar to Slashdot: the subscriber option exists but it seems to be a minority who use it.
Yeah, one day Taco said to Hemos "Man if I had a nickel every time someone said 'FIRST POST' I'd... . I'd.. heeeeeey..."
It's the greatest troll of all time, running for years on end and the secret didn't get out til NOW. The trolls are PAYING for their first posts!! HAAAAH!!
I suggest Google run a similar scam and charge $0.50 per first post. It's like a handicapped parking spot for trolls.
Could you cite a link for this? I googled it and could only find beer 3800 year old Babylonian beer. An obscure reference will make you and your buddies feel cool but it won't make your point to the audience.
So next I suppose you'll stop paying your taxes right? Considering how badly the government misuses our money and very little is actually used for what you'd prefer. They should spend all that military money on education right? I understand how you feel, but that doesn't make your argument valid. When the foxes are running the hen house you shouldn't burn it down. Now if you dug a hole out of the back of it and snuck out all the chickens maybe you'd have a better argument.:)
Yikes, so then technically everyone who visits the Pirate Bay would automatically be suspected of seeking out child porn. Visit video.google.com and you have been engaged in activities consistent with someone looking for child porn. Let's say someone posts nasty stuff to Youtube which is later removed, it doesn't matter because that site is now flagged and anyone who visits it now has probable cause for a full-on investigation.
What this is really, is a legal way of labeling everyone on the internet as a potential criminal. Oh... so you didn't know someone put some illegal files on Wikipedia? Your problem.
I think it's related to their "pain & suffering = justice" religious beliefs. In all seriousness, when you accept the idea of eternal torture as fair punishment for every sort of crime it causes all manner of logical and moral aberrations.
I can see wanting to add more mini-maps, but here's what I do right now. Click print, click cancel... then adjust the viewpoint on all 3. I like the 1st one to be an overview for a long drive, then the last one is close up of where I'm arriving, the 2nd I use for freeway exits or anything tricky. You can ALMOST get it how you want right now. Then click print again and you're good. (Clicking print formats it a lil better it seems)
In addition, the Bibles recording of the Jews as leaving KMT with Moses (A KMT name) is odd because the people of the Nile were meticulous record keepers. If so many people had departed as suggested in the Bible, then many critical tasks would have gone undone or would have been performed poorly due to low staffing or unskilled workers performing the tasks in the place of the slaves.
There are no records to indicate any such crisis to the KMT economy.
It would be more accurate if you had said "There are no records that I am aware of". Unfortunately many pro-Bible discoveries of history, archaeology, etc... are not often publicly displayed nor discussed. It's not a subject academic people want to be seen supporting, who wants to be labeled some kind of religious nutcase?
I was just in Rome a few months ago and wanted to see the stone with Pontius Pilate's name on it. I didn't have net access at the time and assumed it might be at the Colosseum, or that they'd at least know where to point me to find it. Well instead they just laughed and told me that he never existed and I'm sadly uneducated. Sad that the people who work there still believe those old myths and weren't even aware that the stone I was asking for was found there at the Colosseum. It's actually in a museum in England I believe. Anyhow.
IANAH (Historian) but I do take an interest in religion and history, and I too have wondered if there's any evidence for the claim that the Hebrew people were once slaves in Egypt and had a mass exodus. As has already been discussed in other posts, the Egyptians were notorious for removing unpleasant events from their history and frequently erased prior rulers that were no longer popular. It's sad that so much ancient history has been lost, but there are secondary sources for the Egyptian exodus. Specifically I'm speaking of Josephus' writing "Against Apion". I'm not saying you have to accept what he wrote as fact, from what I understand he's generally highly regarded as a historian of his time. In "Against Apion" Josephus rebuts arguments made by the Greeks that the Jewish people are of a recent origin and that their entire history was an invented fraud. (Hey that's still an argument people make today) In those two books he uses foreign historians and evidence from Greek, Egyptian, Shebite and other's writings to prove that the Hebrew people were indeed around long before the Greeks were well developed and that further there was specific records that named real Hebrew rulers such as David and Solomon. Also in the course of his writings he points out three contradictory accounts in Egyptian histories that explain why the Hebrew slaves left their nation. I don't recall all three but I remember 2 of them, one that the Hebrew people were all sick and dirty people, so the Egyptians ran them off, and another that claims they rioted and overthrew the cities and then liberated themselves.
If you're interested in reading some of his accounts, I'm not sure exactly where to find it in the text, but search for the term "buboes" and you'll end up in the general area. There's an interesting little story there about how the Egyptians claimed the word "Sabbath" came from the fact that the Hebrews all got "buboes" (hemorrhoids) from all that walking in the desert and on the 7th day had to rest because they couldn't walk any more. Again, that was part of the Egyptian story on how and why the Hebrews left their country en mass.
I'm not attacking you personally, just pointing out what I have personally discovered while reading old books. While there may not be first-hand accounts written by the Egyptians, there are second-hand sources stating that they did write about it long ago.
Original article is titled "The Psychology of Mac Zealots", which was changed here to "The Psychology of Fanboys" a much more neutral sounding title. Yet the summary still includes enough information to pass on the meme that Apple fanboys are suffering from a Napoleon Complex. Let's see... small marketshare, check. Support for their favorite company, check. Yeah... it's fun to slam Mac users ain't it? Couldn't possibly be any Windows fanboys out there right? Or even "PCs" in general, naw only those small-marketshare crazies. Those poor misguided children.
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I hate to say it but I think we've reached a point where "normal people" use their tech more than the geeks do. At least in the email area. I too would be using a small chunk of my GMail space except for mom emailing me sunsets, uncle John sending pictures of his farm and all those stupid HTML emails they send. Sure its a waste of bandwidth to us, but they're generally more social and tend to fill our mailboxes faster.
How I wish you hadn't replied AC.
Let's just wait a little longer and we won't have to reprint all those textbooks.
Fun to laugh and all, but it I'm wondering if the pilot is alright. Seems his chute didn't open up all the way, he break anything?
in a drawer at my parents'
Upstairs isn't usually considered an "offsite" backup.
From Apple press release.
They say the technique could ultimately be used to make aircraft controls that respond more quickly to a pilot's actions.
*Pilot cruising around Washington DC on anti-Terrorist patrols*
(Thinking to himself)
"Oh wow, I'm like... right over the White House now, it would like totally suck if I accidentally shot a"
*Missle launches at White House*
"Oh crap!! Do NOT think about launching missles!!"
*Missles launch at various historical monuments*
"Craaaaaap!! My Sarge is gonna KILL M"
*Plane explodes*
That's just silly, it's not about which company it is, it's what they do with the code they use. Everything would be just peachy with TiVo if they supported the goals of the GPL like IBM seems to be doing. We'll see how it goes with IBM, if they substantially change their practices and start abusing GPL'd code then we'll see their popularity tank as well.
Harvest or "Save" the Little sisters. The guy helping you out says you should kill them to harvest all the "Adam" you can get, this lets you essentially level up faster. Or you can Save them as their creator would like and get some huge reward later on. She has gained some morality after turning little girls into monsters.
I'd just like to add a little perspective on the shooting Little Sisters thing. Nobody complained when Will Smith shot an evil alien disguised as a cute little girl. Perhaps Will Smith is just cooler than us. NAWWWWW
I'm no scientist, but his reasoning doesn't seem very convincing. There's lots of chemicals that are deadly in our own bodies. He even says we make hydrogen peroxide in limited amounts. Why would that fact alone make a lifeform that depends on it unlikely?
Don't be offended by it though, typos online are the equivalent to mispronouncing things IRL. If you had a friend who was talking about the Packyfick Ocean you'd point it out to him right? Wouldn't want him to look stupid in public? Same thing here. As an aside... as a child I actually called it the Packyfick Ocean, had the hardest time with non-phonetic words in English since I'm deaf and had to guess pronunciation.
Similar to Slashdot: the subscriber option exists but it seems to be a minority who use it.
... . I'd .. heeeeeey..."
Yeah, one day Taco said to Hemos "Man if I had a nickel every time someone said 'FIRST POST' I'd
It's the greatest troll of all time, running for years on end and the secret didn't get out til NOW. The trolls are PAYING for their first posts!! HAAAAH!!
I suggest Google run a similar scam and charge $0.50 per first post. It's like a handicapped parking spot for trolls.
Packets for my own VoIP service get routed at a higher priority than other VoIP services. No their service is no longer almost as good as mine.
And this is legal?
So why does more violence and sex make it more of an art form?
Because "art" is an euphemism for "YAAAAY BOOBIES!!!".
Just for trying to talk to them? That's a bit harsh!
Could you cite a link for this? I googled it and could only find beer 3800 year old Babylonian beer. An obscure reference will make you and your buddies feel cool but it won't make your point to the audience.
So next I suppose you'll stop paying your taxes right? Considering how badly the government misuses our money and very little is actually used for what you'd prefer. They should spend all that military money on education right? I understand how you feel, but that doesn't make your argument valid. When the foxes are running the hen house you shouldn't burn it down. Now if you dug a hole out of the back of it and snuck out all the chickens maybe you'd have a better argument. :)
Monkey Nutsack Linux is born.
That's a great name for a distro. See that's what we need! Open-source project naming consultants.
Actually it's more like someone trying to Osbourne Apple's stock.
Yikes, so then technically everyone who visits the Pirate Bay would automatically be suspected of seeking out child porn. Visit video.google.com and you have been engaged in activities consistent with someone looking for child porn. Let's say someone posts nasty stuff to Youtube which is later removed, it doesn't matter because that site is now flagged and anyone who visits it now has probable cause for a full-on investigation.
What this is really, is a legal way of labeling everyone on the internet as a potential criminal. Oh... so you didn't know someone put some illegal files on Wikipedia? Your problem.
I think it's related to their "pain & suffering = justice" religious beliefs. In all seriousness, when you accept the idea of eternal torture as fair punishment for every sort of crime it causes all manner of logical and moral aberrations.
I can see wanting to add more mini-maps, but here's what I do right now. Click print, click cancel... then adjust the viewpoint on all 3. I like the 1st one to be an overview for a long drive, then the last one is close up of where I'm arriving, the 2nd I use for freeway exits or anything tricky. You can ALMOST get it how you want right now. Then click print again and you're good. (Clicking print formats it a lil better it seems)
Dang! Missed the opportunity to say "First Pole!"
I'm sure there's been Polish Slashdotters here before you.
It would be more accurate if you had said "There are no records that I am aware of". Unfortunately many pro-Bible discoveries of history, archaeology, etc... are not often publicly displayed nor discussed. It's not a subject academic people want to be seen supporting, who wants to be labeled some kind of religious nutcase?
I was just in Rome a few months ago and wanted to see the stone with Pontius Pilate's name on it. I didn't have net access at the time and assumed it might be at the Colosseum, or that they'd at least know where to point me to find it. Well instead they just laughed and told me that he never existed and I'm sadly uneducated. Sad that the people who work there still believe those old myths and weren't even aware that the stone I was asking for was found there at the Colosseum. It's actually in a museum in England I believe. Anyhow.
IANAH (Historian) but I do take an interest in religion and history, and I too have wondered if there's any evidence for the claim that the Hebrew people were once slaves in Egypt and had a mass exodus. As has already been discussed in other posts, the Egyptians were notorious for removing unpleasant events from their history and frequently erased prior rulers that were no longer popular. It's sad that so much ancient history has been lost, but there are secondary sources for the Egyptian exodus. Specifically I'm speaking of Josephus' writing "Against Apion". I'm not saying you have to accept what he wrote as fact, from what I understand he's generally highly regarded as a historian of his time. In "Against Apion" Josephus rebuts arguments made by the Greeks that the Jewish people are of a recent origin and that their entire history was an invented fraud. (Hey that's still an argument people make today) In those two books he uses foreign historians and evidence from Greek, Egyptian, Shebite and other's writings to prove that the Hebrew people were indeed around long before the Greeks were well developed and that further there was specific records that named real Hebrew rulers such as David and Solomon. Also in the course of his writings he points out three contradictory accounts in Egyptian histories that explain why the Hebrew slaves left their nation. I don't recall all three but I remember 2 of them, one that the Hebrew people were all sick and dirty people, so the Egyptians ran them off, and another that claims they rioted and overthrew the cities and then liberated themselves.
If you're interested in reading some of his accounts, I'm not sure exactly where to find it in the text, but search for the term "buboes" and you'll end up in the general area. There's an interesting little story there about how the Egyptians claimed the word "Sabbath" came from the fact that the Hebrews all got "buboes" (hemorrhoids) from all that walking in the desert and on the 7th day had to rest because they couldn't walk any more. Again, that was part of the Egyptian story on how and why the Hebrews left their country en mass.
I'm not attacking you personally, just pointing out what I have personally discovered while reading old books. While there may not be first-hand accounts written by the Egyptians, there are second-hand sources stating that they did write about it long ago.
Original article is titled "The Psychology of Mac Zealots", which was changed here to "The Psychology of Fanboys" a much more neutral sounding title. Yet the summary still includes enough information to pass on the meme that Apple fanboys are suffering from a Napoleon Complex. Let's see... small marketshare, check. Support for their favorite company, check. Yeah... it's fun to slam Mac users ain't it? Couldn't possibly be any Windows fanboys out there right? Or even "PCs" in general, naw only those small-marketshare crazies. Those poor misguided children.