Having read the books, a large part of the humor for me was Adams' side commentary. I'm not saying the events and characters weren't funny, but at least half of the humor seemed to come from Adams' wry manner of writing.
Is it just me, or does that not carry over especially well into film?
*yawn* Another crybaby who is pissed off that someone made an opinion that they don't agree with. Welcome to the world, jackass.
Nah. I'm pissed off that someone made a completely inane, uninsightful "contribution" to a conversation and is somehow considered insightful.
Paypal exists only to deal with currency tranfers. Why do they care if an adult oriented transaction takes place? As long as it's not fraudulent, it's fair game.
So you deny the right of carriers to make judgements about the things they carry? You deny the right of merchants to make judgements about their clients? In short: you deny the right to freedom of association.
Someone who's not as ignorant as you, that's for sure.
Their job is to handle currency transfers, that's all, not to monitor what THEY think is right/wrong.
This is Insightful? What crack are they feeding the moderators these days? Their "job" is to make a profit, and to make a profit within whatever ethical guidlines they set for themselves. It'd be like middle school kids crying that a liquor store won't sell them alcohol because "their job is to sell alcohol, not to monitor what THEY think is right/wrong."
Don't like it? Don't use PayPal. That's the beauty of the free market. But in all honesty--who do you think you are? Their job is whatever they say it is.
"I've personally spoken to members of the Free Republic web board, and I can tell you that those were the most hate-filled individuals I've ever met."
Don't they have, like, as many posters as Slashdot? It's kinda difficult for me to believe that you've met a large enough sample to really generalize an online community of several thousand members.
...what this means for the SETI guys. I mean, it's not conclusive evidence of anything, but it'll be interesting to see who's working overtime this week.
I may be being incredibly obtuse, and I'm certain someone will point it out, but... isn't the problem solvable by just building background noise (similar to that found by the sound of a keyboard) into devices with keyboards? If you imitated the sounds well enough, a listener couldn't tell the difference.
I do fairly well with my Honda Civic (5 speed stick). Well, ~30-33 MPG in normal commute traffic. It basically comes down to how you drive. If you know how to use a manual transmission, it can give you a significant boost in gas mileage, if only because you can keep the car in the most efficient gear for the condititions. Then again, with a stick you have a lot of temptation to have more fun with it, and the mileage suffers.
Bottom line: drive your car right. It'll be good to you.
After having seent the phrase on a mysterious, technophillic chandelier, teenagers in Milan have begun adopting "A/S/L????" into their vocabluary. No clues yet as to what this cryptic code might mean. News at 11.
Regarding Asimov's First Law ("1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."), and assuming we "hardwired" robots with a "nature" in this sense--how would one (a robot) deal with moral paradoxes?
For instance, what if a robot is on a runaway train car that is about to kill five workers on one side of the track. However, if it pulls a switch, it can move the traincar onto another track. Doing so would save the five workers, but kill one. Does the robot make a qualititative judgement of human life? Does it decide "five lives are better than one," or does it try to decide which human life is "more worth saving?" (IE, if the one worker is a mother of four little children).
(This scenario was adapted from a recent Discover Magazine article on human morality.)
4/2003: "2003: The Year of the Penguin?" 4/2002: "2002: The Year of the Penguin?" 4/2001: "2001: The Year of the Penguin?" 4/2000: "2000: The Year of the Penguin?" 4/1999: "1999: The Year of the Penguin?"
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Having read the books, a large part of the humor for me was Adams' side commentary. I'm not saying the events and characters weren't funny, but at least half of the humor seemed to come from Adams' wry manner of writing.
Is it just me, or does that not carry over especially well into film?
Google's up to ~2Gig now. Just FYI.
Folks, the contest was cancelled.
and have made the difficult decision to cancel our contest. -- Jack Campbell
So unless you already have your own 12V DC source handy, you're going to be spending more than $100.
Your car, most likely, has a 12V DC source built in. You could probably hook this thing up to your vehicle.
*yawn* Another crybaby who is pissed off that someone made an opinion that they don't agree with. Welcome to the world, jackass.
Nah. I'm pissed off that someone made a completely inane, uninsightful "contribution" to a conversation and is somehow considered insightful.
Paypal exists only to deal with currency tranfers. Why do they care if an adult oriented transaction takes place? As long as it's not fraudulent, it's fair game.
So you deny the right of carriers to make judgements about the things they carry? You deny the right of merchants to make judgements about their clients? In short: you deny the right to freedom of association.
Someone who's not as ignorant as you, that's for sure.
See: Kettle, Pot and.
Their job is to handle currency transfers, that's all, not to monitor what THEY think is right/wrong.
This is Insightful? What crack are they feeding the moderators these days? Their "job" is to make a profit, and to make a profit within whatever ethical guidlines they set for themselves. It'd be like middle school kids crying that a liquor store won't sell them alcohol because "their job is to sell alcohol, not to monitor what THEY think is right/wrong."
Don't like it? Don't use PayPal. That's the beauty of the free market. But in all honesty--who do you think you are? Their job is whatever they say it is.
"I've personally spoken to members of the Free Republic web board, and I can tell you that those were the most hate-filled individuals I've ever met."
Don't they have, like, as many posters as Slashdot? It's kinda difficult for me to believe that you've met a large enough sample to really generalize an online community of several thousand members.
The Bourne Again and Again and Again Shell! Again!
and girls
I believe that's girl.
...what this means for the SETI guys. I mean, it's not conclusive evidence of anything, but it'll be interesting to see who's working overtime this week.
While in Communist China this may or may not be the case, it is certainly beyond dispute that in Soviet Russia, Moon lands on YOU!
(Sorry--I couldn't resist).
...but this just irks me.
"...honored to be named among the many influential companies that comprise the SD Times 100.
"Comprise" is not the word you want. That would be "constitute." See Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.
I may be being incredibly obtuse, and I'm certain someone will point it out, but... isn't the problem solvable by just building background noise (similar to that found by the sound of a keyboard) into devices with keyboards? If you imitated the sounds well enough, a listener couldn't tell the difference.
I do fairly well with my Honda Civic (5 speed stick). Well, ~30-33 MPG in normal commute traffic. It basically comes down to how you drive. If you know how to use a manual transmission, it can give you a significant boost in gas mileage, if only because you can keep the car in the most efficient gear for the condititions. Then again, with a stick you have a lot of temptation to have more fun with it, and the mileage suffers.
Bottom line: drive your car right. It'll be good to you.
...does it have Clippy?
"He wasn't really hacking... he was really just being a jerk."
Wait... can't the exact same thing be said about Kevin Mitnick?
Remember, fellow Linuxers (Linoxen?), Microsoft is our friend.
I...LOVE...THIS...COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!
This just in...
After having seent the phrase on a mysterious, technophillic chandelier, teenagers in Milan have begun adopting "A/S/L????" into their vocabluary. No clues yet as to what this cryptic code might mean. News at 11.
Regarding Asimov's First Law ("1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."), and assuming we "hardwired" robots with a "nature" in this sense--how would one (a robot) deal with moral paradoxes?
For instance, what if a robot is on a runaway train car that is about to kill five workers on one side of the track. However, if it pulls a switch, it can move the traincar onto another track. Doing so would save the five workers, but kill one. Does the robot make a qualititative judgement of human life? Does it decide "five lives are better than one," or does it try to decide which human life is "more worth saving?" (IE, if the one worker is a mother of four little children).
(This scenario was adapted from a recent Discover Magazine article on human morality.)
"Wanna cyber, sister?"
Previous headlines in the Toronto Star:
4/2003: "2003: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2002: "2002: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2001: "2001: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2000: "2000: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/1999: "1999: The Year of the Penguin?"
Actually, we'll send hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, middle management...
Actually, they'll probably be hearing the sound of many, many phones ringing...
I had no idea that within 24 hours, Sun Microsystem would be throwing in the towel, trading its so-called principles for $1.95 billion in cash.
Does this mean that ESR was right? Or at least, that his critics were wrong?
So much for Sun needing to hang on to Java...
What ever happened to caveat emptor?
If you don't know what you're buying...don't buy it.