If we had automated highways, they'd probably have to be optional, perhaps an additional lane or two parallel to the standard highway. I'd love to be able drive my auto-car to the auto-highway entrance ramp and get an auto-ride to work. It'd essentially be like joining onto a flexible commuter train. I'd even pay a toll to do so.
However, there are certainly times I like to just go out for a drive--when the travel is half the fun of getting to my destination.
Seriously, though, I think that the top selling lists on Amazon are very time sensitive. I'll put on a conspiracy hat and say that if Sony execs decided to buy a bunch Casino Royale blue ray discs, it could make that disc jump up in the rankings.
According to wikipedia, the President's salary traditionally serves as the cap for all government employees, and is currently near half a million dollars.
That cap is one reason why the military has trouble holding onto its higher paid employees, such some specialties of doctors. Once their obligations are up, they can make much more in the civilian world.
Nah, if the Earth gets destroyed, you'll either get to spend eternity in paradise with whatever god you believe in, or we'll all just blink into nothingness and nobody will be around to even care anymore. It's win-win!
The janitor at my elementary school did something similar. The kids would dump their food waste into one garbage can and their trash in another during lunch. He'd take the food waste to his farm to feed his pigs.
Okay, Norway. You want to play hardball? Saddle up the reindeer, strap some body armor over your queer-ass Dale sweaters, wrap your pretentious scarf tight around your chicken neck, and meet us on the field of battle.
I use both a Mac and Windows at work. They're fairly equivalent to me, since I spend most of my day SSH'd into a linux box using vim. A black terminal window is a black terminal window.:)
I found it: Laser Surgeon: The Microscopic Mission. Man, looking at those screenshots, I'm not sure how I could have stared at the screen for so long.:)
Does anyone remember a computer game from the 1980s where you'd pilot a probe through a human body, zapping bacteria and plaques with a laser, dispensing drugs for various emergent conditions, and eventually traveling to the brain to destroy a tumor? I can't remember the name of it.
I played that game for hours when I was a kid. My wife is a doctor and she's surprised when I can whip out some medical vocabulary that I learned from that game.
Plus the quests are lame - all take X to planet Y and speak to Z.
Sounds like WoW.:) Except sometimes they throw in: Go kill X and bring me N of their body_part, though only very few of them actually have said body_part.
Can you really "discover" an island these days? I'm sure some arctic researchers in a lab somewhere saw these on recent satellite photos. Even more so, I bet the appearance of these islands was predictable, given melt rates and knowledge of what was under the ice.
Yeah, that was the first computer game I ever got. I have a feeling it wouldn't be all that great if I went back to play it now, but I spent many hours playing it on my Tandy.
I had a similar, but opposite experience. I started setting up Yet Another Job Site, but I never got around to making it useful (see Click. Hired!). Google decided that it sort of liked it for a while, sending some traffic my way. I went from making nothing on my google ads to a few bucks a day. It wasn't much money, but it was fun seeing the traffic come in. Then google decided it was the crappy site that it was and my traffic went back to its deserved trickle. I wrote an article about it with pretty graphs:
The offer is inherent in it being a torrent. By having a torrent available, especially in a location designed for torrent distribution, you are offering it to be downloaded.
I probably don't need to have it with me all at once, but that kind of kills the best part of being able to carry 40 GB in my pocket: I don't have to choose ahead of time what I want to listen to.
It was probably some schmuck trying to make an unreasonable deadline for some reports, trying to put in a few extra hours of work at home so he doesn't get yelled at by his PHB, who didn't give said schmuck the approval needed to get a secure remote connect because it would have cost his department a few extra dollars.
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If we had automated highways, they'd probably have to be optional, perhaps an additional lane or two parallel to the standard highway. I'd love to be able drive my auto-car to the auto-highway entrance ramp and get an auto-ride to work. It'd essentially be like joining onto a flexible commuter train. I'd even pay a toll to do so.
However, there are certainly times I like to just go out for a drive--when the travel is half the fun of getting to my destination.
The problem with letting them kill themselves is that they may kill me along with thems.
Ok, since you asked, here you go. :)
Seriously, though, I think that the top selling lists on Amazon are very time sensitive. I'll put on a conspiracy hat and say that if Sony execs decided to buy a bunch Casino Royale blue ray discs, it could make that disc jump up in the rankings.
According to wikipedia, the President's salary traditionally serves as the cap for all government employees, and is currently near half a million dollars.
That cap is one reason why the military has trouble holding onto its higher paid employees, such some specialties of doctors. Once their obligations are up, they can make much more in the civilian world.Nah, if the Earth gets destroyed, you'll either get to spend eternity in paradise with whatever god you believe in, or we'll all just blink into nothingness and nobody will be around to even care anymore. It's win-win!
The janitor at my elementary school did something similar. The kids would dump their food waste into one garbage can and their trash in another during lunch. He'd take the food waste to his farm to feed his pigs.
I use both a Mac and Windows at work. They're fairly equivalent to me, since I spend most of my day SSH'd into a linux box using vim. A black terminal window is a black terminal window. :)
I found it: Laser Surgeon: The Microscopic Mission. Man, looking at those screenshots, I'm not sure how I could have stared at the screen for so long. :)
Does anyone remember a computer game from the 1980s where you'd pilot a probe through a human body, zapping bacteria and plaques with a laser, dispensing drugs for various emergent conditions, and eventually traveling to the brain to destroy a tumor? I can't remember the name of it.
I played that game for hours when I was a kid. My wife is a doctor and she's surprised when I can whip out some medical vocabulary that I learned from that game.
Heh, if you're a fan, you can get the Limited Edition, Bill Gates Signature Version of Vista Ultimate Upgrade. Better hurry. Only available while supplies last! :)
Sounds like WoW.
Can you really "discover" an island these days? I'm sure some arctic researchers in a lab somewhere saw these on recent satellite photos. Even more so, I bet the appearance of these islands was predictable, given melt rates and knowledge of what was under the ice.
Yeah, that was the first computer game I ever got. I have a feeling it wouldn't be all that great if I went back to play it now, but I spent many hours playing it on my Tandy.
I had a similar, but opposite experience. I started setting up Yet Another Job Site, but I never got around to making it useful (see Click. Hired!). Google decided that it sort of liked it for a while, sending some traffic my way. I went from making nothing on my google ads to a few bucks a day. It wasn't much money, but it was fun seeing the traffic come in. Then google decided it was the crappy site that it was and my traffic went back to its deserved trickle. I wrote an article about it with pretty graphs:
:)
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I should have submitted it for a slashvertisement.
Ooh, and if the can fold my clothes, then I'm on board.
With the dollar declining, I'd rather get paid in pounds. :)
The offer is inherent in it being a torrent. By having a torrent available, especially in a location designed for torrent distribution, you are offering it to be downloaded.
I probably don't need to have it with me all at once, but that kind of kills the best part of being able to carry 40 GB in my pocket: I don't have to choose ahead of time what I want to listen to.
Except it doesn't replace my $300 iPod. I have more than 8 GB of music that easily fits on my 40 GB iPod.
Well, maybe they took the hypocritic oath.
I just scraped off all of the algae from the walls of my neglected fish tank. I should have saved it. :)
It was probably some schmuck trying to make an unreasonable deadline for some reports, trying to put in a few extra hours of work at home so he doesn't get yelled at by his PHB, who didn't give said schmuck the approval needed to get a secure remote connect because it would have cost his department a few extra dollars.
Don't you know that typesetting is very expensive? Slashdot pays by the letter.
Nor is vim!