I like tiny electronics as much as the rest of us, but for desktop PCs I don't think they're always the way to go, especially not for Do-it-yourself-ers. If you're going to be inside moving around parts and whatnot, a lot of times a small case will just piss you off (hell, I have the same problem with my full-size case, and it's one of the better designed ones). For normal desktop users they make more sense because [i]they're[/i] not going to be the ones playing with the guts when they want to add something or need it repaired, some repair tech will be.
I think if you're fed up with your PC taking up all your desk space, a better solution would be investing in a graphical dumb terminal and just use your current PC as a server you throw in your basement or a closet. Sure it's more expensive in the short run, but you'll be able to keep it between anytime you upgrade your system. Plus it'll be smaller and run quieter than any small system you would build yourself. Also, anytime you upgrade you'll be upgrading a cheaper full-size desktop rather than a more expensive "compact" system.
How many Bladerunner jokes do you think there will be in this article's discussion? I'll be taking all bets. Also, what percentage do you suppose will break off into discussions about the differences between Bladerunner and Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"?
I don't know if this is the best place to mention this, but I like to pronounce "X.org" like it was all one word, i.e. sounding like "Zorg". It sounds like some futuristic GUI monster that would crush towns at its whim. This alone is enough to justify Xorg the Conqueror's rising popularity and XFree86's decline. I mean, XFree86 sounds kind of like a fighter jet, which while kind of cool, would be useless against Xorg. He would use an XFree86 fighter jet to pick his teeth! All hail Xorg!
I think it's safe to say, that there probably is no resolution to this "mystery" beyond it being a marketing tactic, and if there is any resolution, it's surely contained in the game so you have to buy it to find out.
You people are reading too much into this. Maybe the Halo 2 team (developers, marketers etc.) just happen to like bees and wanted to share this fact with us.
I would like to outfit every coffee machine where I work with one of these filters so that I can pee in the coffee and not get in trouble (again). Satisfying for me, but still delicious for them. It's win-win!
These guys are just now making flyring robots that may one day be able to fight? Gigantor the space age robot has been fighting and flying for over 40 years now! Further proof that the Japanese are lightyears ahead of us in robot technology.
Gigantor Gigantor Gigaaaaa-aaa-aaantor!
Gigantor the space aged robot,
He is at your command.
Gigantor the space aged robot,
His power is in your hand.
Bigger than big, taller than tall,
Quicker than quick, stronger than strong.
Ready to fight for right, against wrong.
I was actually going to mention the case of Tommy Chong.
It's definitely a grey area. There are many shops around that are blatantly catering to drug users (mainly pot smokers) that never get busted, but there are cases like Tommy Chong where it was decided that his products were drug paraphrenalia because of what they were sold with in the shops of some of his clients, that is, some stores that sold his bongs were selling clearly marijuana related goods (tshirts, wallets, etc.) and so his somewhat ambiguous products became officially drug paraphrenalia.
There are also cases where sellers of drug paraphrenalia will almost never get prosecuted. For instance, have you ever seen those tiny fake flowers in little glass tubes at convenience stores? Those are very very often (I would say the slight majority of the time) bought by people whose sole intention when buying them is to use the glass tube to smoke crack or crystal methamphetamine. I would almost guarantee that no 7-11 or other convenience store, nor the manufacturers will ever get prosecuted for selling them though.
This isn't really pertinent to the issue, but the article states that bongs are legal to sell, but illegal to use. This isn't quite true.
The Article:
Wait, you may askI can go to HyperLink Technologies or other companies and buy antennas with the right connectors and attach them to my Wi-Fi gateway. If its illegal, how can I buy this gear? Simple. Its legal to sell antennas; its illegal to use them. Its the same logic that guides the sale of bongs and switchblade kits.
With bongs the case is that you can sell them, own them, use them, whatever, but not for illegal drugs, only tobacco and other legal smokables. What this means is that while it is generally legal to sell bongs, if you're selling stuff like pot leaf print wallets and shirts, etc. or the store's name is "Drug Paraphrenalia 'R' Us", you'll get taken down for drug paraphrenalia. Similarly, if you have a bong that you're clearly using only for tobacco (i.e. a turkish hookah), then it's entirely legal to own and use it. However, things that have no legitimate consumer purpose other than drug use are outlawed across the board (i.e. crack/meth pipes and tie-off bands for heroin and other IV drugs).
Does this work the other way around as well? If it never appears on P2P networks will they delay the release of their album indefinitely? Please God, I hope so. I would give money to the RIAA to help keep this album off the networks if it meant no more U2.
Has anyone done a study on whether human bipedalism is due to the behavior learned from surrounding people or if there are practical reasons for why we hardly ever walk on all fours? That is, do we just walk on two legs most of the time because everybody else does?
Can anyone with more perspective on this, clue me in on what this really means? It seems like it would be a big breakthrough in quantum computing, making full on Quantum systems a possibility within a decade or so. Is this accurate, or are there still many more problems to solve that are more important than this one?
I don't know why senators even bring this stuff up. There's no chance in hell that this will pass because even the industry will be against it (besides the fact that it's ridiculous). Nutsy stuff like the DMCA can be passed because some people don't understand the full ramifications of the law and it is pushed by the industry, but this law would just be ridiculous.
It's similar to the "Hollings Bill" which could easily be interpreted as requiring that every digital to analog converter have copyright protection abilities. Any electronics hobbiest or EE knows that that is absolutely ridiculous considering the simplicity of most D/A converters and the expense of adding an adequate copy protection mechanism. Furthermore, any copy protection mechanism is pretty useless anyways because it's not like you can't get the analog signal that's coming out and re-encode as an unencumbered file. Plus, building your own D/A is rather trivial!
Yes, but while Quantum computing allows current encryption to be cracked, it also allows use of stronger encryption which is equally difficult to crack.
So supposing there's some impossible miracle breakthrough and by this time next year we've all got quantum computers on our desktop. Any communications you made previous would be crackable, but everything you were doing at the time would still be secure. I can't speak for everyone, but for most places you use encryption in your daily life, the information becomes stale and nearly useless pretty quickly. Governments (and terrorists) are probably in a different situation though.
Not to be overly concerned with grossness, but are they planning on actually putting up a video of someone throwing up if it happens? If so, I believe that would be a first. I've heard astronauts talk about people throwing up, and obviously there's the plane's name, but I've never once seen a picture of it happening, or even heard one alluded to. Which really is quite remarkable since the site for NASA's KC-135 says that they've flown over 80,000 flights with it.
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I like tiny electronics as much as the rest of us, but for desktop PCs I don't think they're always the way to go, especially not for Do-it-yourself-ers. If you're going to be inside moving around parts and whatnot, a lot of times a small case will just piss you off (hell, I have the same problem with my full-size case, and it's one of the better designed ones). For normal desktop users they make more sense because [i]they're[/i] not going to be the ones playing with the guts when they want to add something or need it repaired, some repair tech will be.
I think if you're fed up with your PC taking up all your desk space, a better solution would be investing in a graphical dumb terminal and just use your current PC as a server you throw in your basement or a closet. Sure it's more expensive in the short run, but you'll be able to keep it between anytime you upgrade your system. Plus it'll be smaller and run quieter than any small system you would build yourself. Also, anytime you upgrade you'll be upgrading a cheaper full-size desktop rather than a more expensive "compact" system.
IDE over IP. Yes, it does exist.
How many Bladerunner jokes do you think there will be in this article's discussion? I'll be taking all bets. Also, what percentage do you suppose will break off into discussions about the differences between Bladerunner and Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"?
"Hello, my name is Rick Deckard and I'll be your steward this afternoon..."
Honestly, if Darryl Hannah is on board, I'll take this bladerunner thing anywhere.
Thank God, it's almost over. Soon we'll be able to leave these prequels behind us.
I don't know if this is the best place to mention this, but I like to pronounce "X.org" like it was all one word, i.e. sounding like "Zorg". It sounds like some futuristic GUI monster that would crush towns at its whim. This alone is enough to justify Xorg the Conqueror's rising popularity and XFree86's decline. I mean, XFree86 sounds kind of like a fighter jet, which while kind of cool, would be useless against Xorg. He would use an XFree86 fighter jet to pick his teeth! All hail Xorg!
I think it's safe to say, that there probably is no resolution to this "mystery" beyond it being a marketing tactic, and if there is any resolution, it's surely contained in the game so you have to buy it to find out.
You people are reading too much into this. Maybe the Halo 2 team (developers, marketers etc.) just happen to like bees and wanted to share this fact with us.
Yeah, probably not.
So now MREs taste like piss instead of tasting like shit? I'm not sure which is preferrable to be honest.
Okay, I'm working on Saturday and Sunday and I already had Monday off anyways (no joke).
I would like to outfit every coffee machine where I work with one of these filters so that I can pee in the coffee and not get in trouble (again). Satisfying for me, but still delicious for them. It's win-win!
After reading a description of the bill, vomitting did not need to be induced, it came naturally to me.
I was actually going to mention the case of Tommy Chong.
It's definitely a grey area. There are many shops around that are blatantly catering to drug users (mainly pot smokers) that never get busted, but there are cases like Tommy Chong where it was decided that his products were drug paraphrenalia because of what they were sold with in the shops of some of his clients, that is, some stores that sold his bongs were selling clearly marijuana related goods (tshirts, wallets, etc.) and so his somewhat ambiguous products became officially drug paraphrenalia.
There are also cases where sellers of drug paraphrenalia will almost never get prosecuted. For instance, have you ever seen those tiny fake flowers in little glass tubes at convenience stores? Those are very very often (I would say the slight majority of the time) bought by people whose sole intention when buying them is to use the glass tube to smoke crack or crystal methamphetamine. I would almost guarantee that no 7-11 or other convenience store, nor the manufacturers will ever get prosecuted for selling them though.
The Article: With bongs the case is that you can sell them, own them, use them, whatever, but not for illegal drugs, only tobacco and other legal smokables. What this means is that while it is generally legal to sell bongs, if you're selling stuff like pot leaf print wallets and shirts, etc. or the store's name is "Drug Paraphrenalia 'R' Us", you'll get taken down for drug paraphrenalia. Similarly, if you have a bong that you're clearly using only for tobacco (i.e. a turkish hookah), then it's entirely legal to own and use it. However, things that have no legitimate consumer purpose other than drug use are outlawed across the board (i.e. crack/meth pipes and tie-off bands for heroin and other IV drugs).
Does this work the other way around as well? If it never appears on P2P networks will they delay the release of their album indefinitely? Please God, I hope so. I would give money to the RIAA to help keep this album off the networks if it meant no more U2.
Has anyone done a study on whether human bipedalism is due to the behavior learned from surrounding people or if there are practical reasons for why we hardly ever walk on all fours? That is, do we just walk on two legs most of the time because everybody else does?
Somebody get Charleton Heston on the phone!
"Get your hands off me you damned dirty Macaque monkey!!!"
Oh hells no. We need to stop this race of super-human monkeys at the source! If we wait much longer it'll be too late.
Can anyone with more perspective on this, clue me in on what this really means? It seems like it would be a big breakthrough in quantum computing, making full on Quantum systems a possibility within a decade or so. Is this accurate, or are there still many more problems to solve that are more important than this one?
Orrin Hatch, Republican, Utah.
Nope, I'm not particularly fond of any of those three.
I don't know why senators even bring this stuff up. There's no chance in hell that this will pass because even the industry will be against it (besides the fact that it's ridiculous). Nutsy stuff like the DMCA can be passed because some people don't understand the full ramifications of the law and it is pushed by the industry, but this law would just be ridiculous.
It's similar to the "Hollings Bill" which could easily be interpreted as requiring that every digital to analog converter have copyright protection abilities. Any electronics hobbiest or EE knows that that is absolutely ridiculous considering the simplicity of most D/A converters and the expense of adding an adequate copy protection mechanism. Furthermore, any copy protection mechanism is pretty useless anyways because it's not like you can't get the analog signal that's coming out and re-encode as an unencumbered file. Plus, building your own D/A is rather trivial!
Yes, but while Quantum computing allows current encryption to be cracked, it also allows use of stronger encryption which is equally difficult to crack.
So supposing there's some impossible miracle breakthrough and by this time next year we've all got quantum computers on our desktop. Any communications you made previous would be crackable, but everything you were doing at the time would still be secure. I can't speak for everyone, but for most places you use encryption in your daily life, the information becomes stale and nearly useless pretty quickly. Governments (and terrorists) are probably in a different situation though.
Not to be overly concerned with grossness, but are they planning on actually putting up a video of someone throwing up if it happens? If so, I believe that would be a first. I've heard astronauts talk about people throwing up, and obviously there's the plane's name, but I've never once seen a picture of it happening, or even heard one alluded to. Which really is quite remarkable since the site for NASA's KC-135 says that they've flown over 80,000 flights with it.
When thinking the penis, many adjectives come to mind. Useful is not the first. Probably not even in the top 20.