What about all those people like myself who'd be staying at home pretending to be sick with the flu? Make sure you add those in. "*cough* *cough* I can't come into work today. I, ahhh, have a fever and just laid an egg."
I'm sure it would be as big a disaster as the Y2K catastrophe.
"Well now, the result of last week's competition when we asked you to find a derogatory term for the Belgians. Well, the response was enormous and we took quite a long time sorting out the winners. There were some very clever entries. Mrs Hatred of Leicester said 'Let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them.' and a Mr St John of Huntingdon said he couldn't think of anything more derogatory than Belgians. But in the end we settled on three choices: number three, the Sprouts, sent in by Mrs Vicious of Hastings, very nice; number two, the Phlegms, from Mrs Childmolester of Worthing; but the winner was undoubtedly from Mrs No-Supper-For-You from Norwood in Lancashire, Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards!"
I play some PC games online. Online chat is a big aid in coordinating team members that usually run off on their own. A coordinated team is vastly better than the usual "every man for himself".
Speaking of DVD annoyances. There should be a word for the time where you put in the DVD, walk away so the same damn copyright warning, promos, etc can play, then 10 minutes later you come back so you can actually watch it. I'm sure there is a market (i.e. me at least) for a player that will ignore the "force you to watch" codes on DVDs.
I prefer PC games like BF1942 where most people don't use teamspeak and have to type in their obscenity laden tirades. The advantage to this is that the ranter can't play and constantly type comments at the same time so they have to stand still and make easy targets.
Is anyone really surprised that Iran would get involved in events taking place on their border, by a hostile nation's army, and involving a sympathetic cultural group (Shiites)? Last time there was a war on their Iraq border they lost about 1/2 million people. If someone else was occupying Canada I doubt we'd sit back either.
"It's perfectly possible for there to have been an infinite series of previous ones."
On the other hand an infinite sequence can have a begining and an end. An ancient Greek philospher (too lazy to Google his name) used the example of a falling object. If an object can fall half a distance, then half of that, then half of that, ad infinitum, then how does it ever reach the ground? It should fall forever yet it doesn't.
That's where I go for my weather online. Let's face it, all of the other weather services depend on NOAA for their base data anyway so you might as well go to the source. I do find that the NOAA predictions tend to err on the conservative side though (always predicting a chance of precipitation on dry weeks, etc).
I'd go with life+25 or 50 years, whichever is shorter. With lifespans and the amount of material being produced increasing the logjams caused by drawn out IP timespans gets worse.
Haven't game designers been using WWII images and info for decades? Wouldn't that put this info in the public domain at this point since they didn't stop the countless other uses of it?
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Thanks for reminding me, I have to download the latest version of MAME WIN32 tonight. :)
What about all those people like myself who'd be staying at home pretending to be sick with the flu? Make sure you add those in. "*cough* *cough* I can't come into work today. I, ahhh, have a fever and just laid an egg."
I'm sure it would be as big a disaster as the Y2K catastrophe.
"Well now, the result of last week's competition when we asked you to find a derogatory term for the Belgians. Well, the response was enormous and we took quite a long time sorting out the winners. There were some very clever entries. Mrs Hatred of Leicester said 'Let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them.' and a Mr St John of Huntingdon said he couldn't think of anything more derogatory than Belgians. But in the end we settled on three choices: number three, the Sprouts, sent in by Mrs Vicious of Hastings, very nice; number two, the Phlegms, from Mrs Childmolester of Worthing; but the winner was undoubtedly from Mrs No-Supper-For-You from Norwood in Lancashire, Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards!"
"The first-generation design will be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256-by-256 array of silicon neurons."
This already exceeds the connections in the cortex of your average political talk show host.
I play some PC games online. Online chat is a big aid in coordinating team members that usually run off on their own. A coordinated team is vastly better than the usual "every man for himself".
No, he says you are all a bunch of "cheating fags"
Speaking of DVD annoyances. There should be a word for the time where you put in the DVD, walk away so the same damn copyright warning, promos, etc can play, then 10 minutes later you come back so you can actually watch it. I'm sure there is a market (i.e. me at least) for a player that will ignore the "force you to watch" codes on DVDs.
I prefer PC games like BF1942 where most people don't use teamspeak and have to type in their obscenity laden tirades. The advantage to this is that the ranter can't play and constantly type comments at the same time so they have to stand still and make easy targets.
"durring that last time Iran was trying to take over Iraq"
Did you read the link? "The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980..."
The Canada reference was just to make up an analogious situation.
Is anyone really surprised that Iran would get involved in events taking place on their border, by a hostile nation's army, and involving a sympathetic cultural group (Shiites)? Last time there was a war on their Iraq border they lost about 1/2 million people. If someone else was occupying Canada I doubt we'd sit back either.
This is why I make sure all of my zombie systems are physically located in US government facilities.
To hell with ads. Have hired goons come and beat the money out of you. Saves MS the trouble of marketing, etc.
Please master, I'm trying to hit the monkey as fast as I can!
There must be a huge market for acne fetishists.
I be more impressed if they designed a way to ship all Americans OUT of Iraq in 30 days. Don't take "no" for an answer to that problem either.
"It's perfectly possible for there to have been an infinite series of previous ones."
On the other hand an infinite sequence can have a begining and an end. An ancient Greek philospher (too lazy to Google his name) used the example of a falling object. If an object can fall half a distance, then half of that, then half of that, ad infinitum, then how does it ever reach the ground? It should fall forever yet it doesn't.
This is a procrastinator's dream. Now I don't have to do squat, some other universe will do it for me!
Why are you in a science discussion then? You have some nagging doubts?
You mean they didn't solve things by reversing the polarity of the neutron flux?
"I think there is enourmous demand for a widscreen touch screen iPod."
I look forward to meeting the demand for screen wipes as people try to read screens through a thick haze of fingerprints and crud.
That's where I go for my weather online. Let's face it, all of the other weather services depend on NOAA for their base data anyway so you might as well go to the source. I do find that the NOAA predictions tend to err on the conservative side though (always predicting a chance of precipitation on dry weeks, etc).
Sure you don't want to see all of those great prison tattoos on the male actors in HD?
I look forward to seeing HD pubic razor burn.
I'd go with life+25 or 50 years, whichever is shorter. With lifespans and the amount of material being produced increasing the logjams caused by drawn out IP timespans gets worse.
Haven't game designers been using WWII images and info for decades? Wouldn't that put this info in the public domain at this point since they didn't stop the countless other uses of it?
The real problem is that if you have a pet at home and one of these computers you'll never be sure if your pet is alive or dead.