Erm, just because it's pr0n does not stop it being copyright material. Just because the porno industry doesn't have politicians in their pockets, they shouldn't have their right to retain copyright control diminished.
Producing pron costs money, just as the music/film industries. They have no less protection than the big companies.
Here, they go for useless shit like hello kitty backgrounds and 64 voice ring patterns and washed out 640x480 pinhole cameras for underskirt photography.
And that's why Japan is great.
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Well, if it was Aphex Twin music, I'd be very impressed that their songs were runnable on a C64:)
Well, why not, they've already managed to conceal faces and other images in their recordings which are only visible when run through a spectrograph:
The main character was a boy who was playing a video game in which he had to be nice in order to succeed (e.g. helping an old lady across the street instead of shooting her).
Yes, I know, sloppy terminology. If I'm using it in conversation I usually add a caveat of "assuming normal distribution", but then people look at me funny.
I dunno, a frozen bird may shatter, whilst a thawed one, or at least one that has been well microwaved is more likely to gunge up the vital components.
Besides, it gets cold up in the sky, how do you know the birds aren't frozen?
And the amazing spatial navigation in the newest version of Opera means you don't need a mouse at all.
Shift+Cursor jumps you through the links, not in the standard as they appear in the markup, but in a visual way, so you can go left, up whatever as you need and then hit enter to activate the link, or ctrl-shift-enter to open in a background tab.
Like mouse gestures, an amazing navigational tool.
I personally use mouse gestures more, particularly if I'm just idly flicking through a few pages as you can sit back relaxed and not worry about needing keyboard modifiers for most actions.
I've aways thought (and the same logic applies to *nix systems) that users of Macs are essentially in love with their machines. People don't buy Macs because they want a cheap computing solution, they are buying into the Mac ethos, which means they are less likely to want to do something that damages the "community".
In addition, the numbers are pretty insignificant, especially in the business world which is where virs writers really want to cause havoc.
Wow, if we could only get the moon to crash into Mars, we'd have the biggest ever ice cream floater. (That's not a combination peculiar to the UK, right?)
Yes, but do you use those two monitors as a single screen, or two seperate workspaces you control from one place? I run dual 19" and I would never have a single application spanning both monitors unless it has a work area and a tool area (eg Photoshop). I can't imagine anyone working well with a text document that has a six inch gap in the middle of words.
By this token, ANY visible gap will be irritating. It took me a while to get used to the lines across my monitor from the tension wire things and they're well under a millimeter.
But in the continued spirit of imperialism, we still don't really use them. Legally, supermarkets and the like label their products metrically, but make sure there are plenty of conversion guides about for everyone to refer to. We still have pounds of butter (just another pound we won't get rid of), talk about people's weight in stones and pounds, height in feet and inches and distances in miles. This isn't just older folk either.
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Of course, my finger hitting submit instead of preview (which I really did mean to do) in no way lessens the comic effect.
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And your life enhancing pastimes are?
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Erm, just because it's pr0n does not stop it being copyright material. Just because the porno industry doesn't have politicians in their pockets, they shouldn't have their right to retain copyright control diminished.
Producing pron costs money, just as the music/film industries. They have no less protection than the big companies.
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Oh come on, if Radiohead weren't whining they lose they key demographic.
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Yes, it sounds as if pulling duct tape off a a blister would be totally painless.
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That's a debasement of science, though in reality I'm just pissed off because I don't get invited to those sort of parties.
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Wait until a traffic light, point and zap, I mean *ZZZZAPP*, and enjoy the silence.
That was freaky, just as I started to read the comment Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence started playing.
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The main character was a boy who was playing a video game in which he had to be nice in order to succeed (e.g. helping an old lady across the street instead of shooting her).
God damn that sounds lame.
Goblin
Yes, I know, sloppy terminology. If I'm using it in conversation I usually add a caveat of "assuming normal distribution", but then people look at me funny.
Goblin
I dunno, a frozen bird may shatter, whilst a thawed one, or at least one that has been well microwaved is more likely to gunge up the vital components.
Besides, it gets cold up in the sky, how do you know the birds aren't frozen?
Goblin
To quote George Carlin:
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Half of them are more stupid than that".
Goblin
And the amazing spatial navigation in the newest version of Opera means you don't need a mouse at all.
Shift+Cursor jumps you through the links, not in the standard as they appear in the markup, but in a visual way, so you can go left, up whatever as you need and then hit enter to activate the link, or ctrl-shift-enter to open in a background tab.
Like mouse gestures, an amazing navigational tool.
I personally use mouse gestures more, particularly if I'm just idly flicking through a few pages as you can sit back relaxed and not worry about needing keyboard modifiers for most actions.
Goblin
That's a know bug and there seems to be solutions to it on the Opera support forums. I haven't tried them as I use a Vaio and the wheel works fine.
Anyway:
Opera Forum - a quick search for Thinkpad brings up a few threads discussing it and ways to fix it. YMMV
HTH
Goblin
I've aways thought (and the same logic applies to *nix systems) that users of Macs are essentially in love with their machines. People don't buy Macs because they want a cheap computing solution, they are buying into the Mac ethos, which means they are less likely to want to do something that damages the "community".
In addition, the numbers are pretty insignificant, especially in the business world which is where virs writers really want to cause havoc.
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Yes, but only to the other suckers who have set their system time back. So that would affect none of us since we're all either honest of OSS zealots.
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Wow, if we could only get the moon to crash into Mars, we'd have the biggest ever ice cream floater. (That's not a combination peculiar to the UK, right?)
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I'm certain that could have been funny if Earth wasn't closer to the Sun than Mars...
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Yes, but do you use those two monitors as a single screen, or two seperate workspaces you control from one place? I run dual 19" and I would never have a single application spanning both monitors unless it has a work area and a tool area (eg Photoshop). I can't imagine anyone working well with a text document that has a six inch gap in the middle of words.
By this token, ANY visible gap will be irritating. It took me a while to get used to the lines across my monitor from the tension wire things and they're well under a millimeter.
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Yeah, but does anyone have a theory on how the three seashells work?
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If your phone beeping is a probable cause for an accident you either shouldn't be driving or shouldn't have a phone, maybe even both.
What's the next plan - suing ice cream vans, or fire services because of the distracting noise?
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This is different how? Joining a computer chat system to meet people interested in chatting on computers.
It may not be the be all and end all of social interaction, but if people enjoy it, what's the problem?
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But in the continued spirit of imperialism, we still don't really use them. Legally, supermarkets and the like label their products metrically, but make sure there are plenty of conversion guides about for everyone to refer to. We still have pounds of butter (just another pound we won't get rid of), talk about people's weight in stones and pounds, height in feet and inches and distances in miles. This isn't just older folk either.
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