When the book is closed, the ink from facing pages will be mashed together, shouol you will need to be able to tell which page the ink is attached to. Since the ink mostly sits on top of the paper (if it soaks through you wouldn't be able to read the other side veery well) it is a very thin layer. Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink. I don't think we are anywhere close to the necessary precision yet.
Ok, so the fact that a lot of student and employee information was easily available to anyone who cared to look wasn't veer considered a problem? Must be a great campus to be on if you want to stalk a fellow student.
True Slashdot developers bang rocks against a bare wire to transmit 1's and 2's to an IBM 7 track magtape (zero hadn't been invented yet). Who needs this fancy-smancy graphical interface crap anyway?
Two pizza delivery vehicles start 5 miles apart. One drives 85 miles/hr south, the other 90 miles/hr west. How many vehicles will they destroy before they crash into a garbage truck 7 miles out of their way when looking for the correct address while texting each other about the beers they are drinking?
Oh wait, we need to mention pizza's somewhere in there to keep it as a pizza analogy and not a math problem or a car analogy. Ok, and then they threw chairs at the pizza's.
But you might miss important programs, like "Who wants to marry a minimum wage construction worker 17", "Surviver 39: Let's eat some live bugs and run around naked again", "Big Brother 26: Who cares any more", "Bachelor 45: Lets have sex with Russian mail order brides", and "Bachelorette 15: Women want to have indiscriminate sex too".
How could anyone not desire to see such revolutionary important and educational television programs as these?
Shouldn't you apply the kindle type of demands to this phone?
I refuse to use this device unless I can run Duke Nukem Forever on it! I refuse to use any toilet that won't run quake, so why should I use a phone that won't? If it won't directly connect to the Microlasion Frock phone service (with possibly 3 active users), what good is it? After I use up my minutes, can I sell them to someone else?
Technology doesn't help when you put idiots in charge of it. Remember how proudly that one officer was when he displayed the plastic GI Joe rifle he confiscated? Putting stupid people in your security detail means that only really stupid people will be caught. Until airport security figures this out, no technology will be any help. Hiring the cheapest help does not give you the best people.
So, the aliens have successfully stolen all of the water from Mars (as reported in thousands of lousy science fiction movies and TV dramas). Is the Earth next on their list of planets to steal the water from? I mean, it's not like you could possibly manufacture your own water by taking a couple of common elements in the universe, like hydrogen and oxygen, and combine them using a stupid trick like fire.
An important site is being blocked that could earn my company $40,000,000 million dollars (thats fourty million dollars) from the crown prince of Nigeria. We only need to send a small processing fee, to help him transfer the money to us, and all out financial worries would be over. But no, those stupic IT jerks will not remove their stupid ban on nigerian web sites.
If you get sick, the government isn't going to want to waste money it could better use on helping Meicans safely cross the border illegally, so they'll just euthenize you. Thus, we'll have lower rates than any other country, once we replace our disease ridden population with those hardy mexicans.
It they drop POTS, I'm not going to be choosing VIOP as the alternative. I'm going to a cell phone. They've been losing to cell phones a lot lately, with the portability and cheaper prices, and this will just force more people over. They won't be getting a 100% conversion rate, so I expect their customer base to shrink greatly.
When anything goes wrong, they praise Obama, and put the blaim on George W Bush. Doesn't matter what. The panty bomber was Bushes fault, and Obama's delayed response was just soo wonderful that it should be chiseled into stone ("It's all Geroge W. Bushes fault").
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When the book is closed, the ink from facing pages will be mashed together, shouol you will need to be able to tell which page the ink is attached to. Since the ink mostly sits on top of the paper (if it soaks through you wouldn't be able to read the other side veery well) it is a very thin layer. Your scanning technology would need to be able to sense very small volumes of ink. I don't think we are anywhere close to the necessary precision yet.
Ok, so the fact that a lot of student and employee information was easily available to anyone who cared to look wasn't veer considered a problem? Must be a great campus to be on if you want to stalk a fellow student.
But nobody needs more than 640K!
If you want to leave a lot of openings in your sandbox for malicious software to work through, you have to expect things to slow down.
True Slashdot developers bang rocks against a bare wire to transmit 1's and 2's to an IBM 7 track magtape (zero hadn't been invented yet). Who needs this fancy-smancy graphical interface crap anyway?
Wait for them to require Word and Excell as part of the standard, which they never plan on implementing anyway.
Two pizza delivery vehicles start 5 miles apart. One drives 85 miles/hr south, the other 90 miles/hr west. How many vehicles will they destroy before they crash into a garbage truck 7 miles out of their way when looking for the correct address while texting each other about the beers they are drinking?
Oh wait, we need to mention pizza's somewhere in there to keep it as a pizza analogy and not a math problem or a car analogy. Ok, and then they threw chairs at the pizza's.
But, according to all the experts, you only need it to last till 2012.
Is 600 million years long enough to develop a complete galaxy? I'd think that might be too short for even a solor system to develop.
But you might miss important programs, like "Who wants to marry a minimum wage construction worker 17", "Surviver 39: Let's eat some live bugs and run around naked again", "Big Brother 26: Who cares any more", "Bachelor 45: Lets have sex with Russian mail order brides", and "Bachelorette 15: Women want to have indiscriminate sex too".
How could anyone not desire to see such revolutionary important and educational television programs as these?
So, you're saying that a cell phone is like a beer can?
Maybe that's why I can never get my cell phone to work, and why I always have beer all over myself.
Shouldn't you apply the kindle type of demands to this phone?
I refuse to use this device unless I can run Duke Nukem Forever on it!
I refuse to use any toilet that won't run quake, so why should I use a phone that won't?
If it won't directly connect to the Microlasion Frock phone service (with possibly 3 active users), what good is it?
After I use up my minutes, can I sell them to someone else?
Technology doesn't help when you put idiots in charge of it. Remember how proudly that one officer was when he displayed the plastic GI Joe rifle he confiscated? Putting stupid people in your security detail means that only really stupid people will be caught. Until airport security figures this out, no technology will be any help. Hiring the cheapest help does not give you the best people.
Where was the last place you saw it? You must have lost it somewhere between here and there. Don't forget to check under the sofa cusions.
So, the aliens have successfully stolen all of the water from Mars (as reported in thousands of lousy science fiction movies and TV dramas). Is the Earth next on their list of planets to steal the water from? I mean, it's not like you could possibly manufacture your own water by taking a couple of common elements in the universe, like hydrogen and oxygen, and combine them using a stupid trick like fire.
Want to bet that this will lead to a whole new section of Darwin Awards?
A beowulf cluster of these g-spots
this is slashdot after all.
I don't understand this article. Can someone make a car analogy for me?
If he gets it back, then he can sell it again for another billion to someone else, like Oracle.
A billion here, and a billion there, and soon you are talking about real money.
An important site is being blocked that could earn my company $40,000,000 million dollars (thats fourty million dollars) from the crown prince of Nigeria. We only need to send a small processing fee, to help him transfer the money to us, and all out financial worries would be over. But no, those stupic IT jerks will not remove their stupid ban on nigerian web sites.
information on site supernastyporn.porn is important to our business. The block is costing us money. Please fix.
For some reason, they aren't complying very fast.
If you get sick, the government isn't going to want to waste money it could better use on helping Meicans safely cross the border illegally, so they'll just euthenize you. Thus, we'll have lower rates than any other country, once we replace our disease ridden population with those hardy mexicans.
It they drop POTS, I'm not going to be choosing VIOP as the alternative. I'm going to a cell phone. They've been losing to cell phones a lot lately, with the portability and cheaper prices, and this will just force more people over. They won't be getting a 100% conversion rate, so I expect their customer base to shrink greatly.
but I doubt you could create any meaningful unified scale for comparing humans to dolphins. Where would you start?
Put a TV in their enviornment playing reruns of "surviver" on it. The first species to find a way to rip their eyeballs out is the most intelligent.
Aren't most new stories already quite formuliac?
When anything goes wrong, they praise Obama, and put the blaim on George W Bush. Doesn't matter what. The panty bomber was Bushes fault, and Obama's delayed response was just soo wonderful that it should be chiseled into stone ("It's all Geroge W. Bushes fault").