And if this is offtopic, pray tell me where I should say that. Umm, nowhere. There is no recourse for bad moderation.. except the meta-moderation system, which seems to do nothing.
See, kids who grow up poor get to see the injustice of the world first hand and, unlike adults, they feel the need to do something about it. Problem is, they're kids, so they can't.
Blah, doing a quest where you have to kill n of something is hardly grinding. I can't have a serious conversation with someone who doesn't even understand the terms of the conversation.
'We don't know yet if these results will be transferable to humans, so our next step will be to study the use of hydrogen sulfide in larger mammals.' Uhh, no. The next step is to determine if this is the kind of suspended animation that is good for anything. If the mice enter a reduced metabolic state and then, after 3 days, die, well that's not terribly useful for anything. If, however, the mice managed to live 10 times the usual rodent lifetime then that's something... not terribly great.. but something. Try to make it so the mice are recoverable after 1000x the usual lifespan and you might have something useful.
Most good patents are about something that everyone thinks is a stupid idea. In the competitive patent filing environment it's a good way to "file first" as people are loath to spend money on the legal fees for something that is useless. Thing is, a few years from now the computing environment will change and random-stupid-idea might make sense then.
The perfect example of this is the Amazon "one-click" shopping bullshit. When it was filed people were not only saying it was "obvious" but that it was also "stupid". Storing credit card numbers? What a stupid idea! A year later you couldn't find an online store that wasn't doing it. People had gotten used to it so it was now only a dumb idea from the perspective of security experts. And no-one listens to them anyway.
You fell for the old troll of believing the Slashdot summary of a patent.
For all of these stories, you need to go read the actual patent, including the claims, then you can laugh at the summary and (sometimes) the article for not doing so.
Can't say I'm a physicist but I think it is bullshit. Cleaning up the mess of any conceivable "dirty bomb" is a mop and bucket affair. There's no possible pay to render a city uninhabitable or anything like that.. shit, a full-on nuclear weapon exploded at altitude didn't render Hiroshima uninhabitable. It's just a retarded idea.
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Get over it.
And what about the deaf, will they have to pay this tax, err, I mean, collective licensing?
Let me guess, you were well-to-do right?
See, kids who grow up poor get to see the injustice of the world first hand and, unlike adults, they feel the need to do something about it. Problem is, they're kids, so they can't.
Yes, it's a shame Magneto wasn't around during the Internet era.
Not until the China Olympics this year are boycotted.
From this one you can see how naive he was.
Since then he's been screwed so many times that you talk to him now and he's not at all enthusiastic.
They're working on an Oblivion MMO. Of course, you won't like it. The entire joy of Oblivion was that it wasn't multiplayer.
I'm not sure I know what you're saying, but it seems you don't either, so ok.
Lack of oil might have delayed the creation of the automobile too.
Or maybe, just maybe, the automobile was invented because there was a ready supply of oil.
Who cares? There's plenty of idiots at lvl 70 anyway. Anyone can get to lvl 70, that's what grinding is.
Blah, doing a quest where you have to kill n of something is hardly grinding. I can't have a serious conversation with someone who doesn't even understand the terms of the conversation.
If you feel the need to grind, you're missing the point.
This is why I think MMOs should just provide a lvl 70 (or whatever the cap is) account to anyone who wants one.
Yes indeed, it's the old "copy into ram" bullshit.
For an overview of the legal situation see:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/articles/content/1997041501.html
It'll never work.
all these many years that they've been claiming that mobile phones interfere with navigation equipment, that was just lies right?
Cause if mobile phones really interfere with navigation equipment then why do they let people take mobile phones on the plane?
I bet someone could make a radio jammer that will fit in a mobile phone form factor.
Attacking aircraft is just so damn simple that it is obvious that "terrorists" are just not interested.
Most good patents are about something that everyone thinks is a stupid idea. In the competitive patent filing environment it's a good way to "file first" as people are loath to spend money on the legal fees for something that is useless. Thing is, a few years from now the computing environment will change and random-stupid-idea might make sense then.
The perfect example of this is the Amazon "one-click" shopping bullshit. When it was filed people were not only saying it was "obvious" but that it was also "stupid". Storing credit card numbers? What a stupid idea! A year later you couldn't find an online store that wasn't doing it. People had gotten used to it so it was now only a dumb idea from the perspective of security experts. And no-one listens to them anyway.
If that isn't the patent then the summary has the wrong patent number in it. If that is the patent then the summary is just wrong (as per usual).
You fell for the old troll of believing the Slashdot summary of a patent.
For all of these stories, you need to go read the actual patent, including the claims, then you can laugh at the summary and (sometimes) the article for not doing so.
And that's exactly what I did.
While my friend was still using OpenOffice I was more than happy to help.
Now they are using (warezed) Microsoft Office, they are on their own.
Whatever dickhead. I try to share a bit of my life and fucktards like you can't handle it.
Friend of mine the other day was complaining that Open Office's spell checker doesn't work.
I naturally assumed they were an idiot, so we test it. Turns out they were right, it was saying everything was spelled correctly but it wasn't.
My friend uninstalled Open Office, reinstalled the latest version, problem still didn't go away.
I recommended my friend try AbiWord, but by then another geek had popped up and installed Microsoft Office on the machine.
Do you have any original thoughts or do you just repeat what you are told by CNN.
Everything you just said is either wrong or against the laws of physics.
But hey, don't let me stop you repeating the party line.
Can't say I'm a physicist but I think it is bullshit. Cleaning up the mess of any conceivable "dirty bomb" is a mop and bucket affair. There's no possible pay to render a city uninhabitable or anything like that.. shit, a full-on nuclear weapon exploded at altitude didn't render Hiroshima uninhabitable. It's just a retarded idea.
Ya kinda gotta be libertarian to see the appeal of the frontier. That's always been the case, whether you're talking about space or the old west.
I'm impressed that you actually knew who the governor of your state was. You must be some kind of intellectual.