If there were such an article, if would probably be because Bill sneezed in the fact of a linux exec...
But right now he's not sneezing, he's laughing, at anyone stupid enough to open up an MS only shop, or to agree to MS's insane EULA's.
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I guess adding a spoiler wouldn't help much in this case eh?:-)
It's a bird... it's a plane... - phorm
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What's the max acceleration one of these would reach? You could tell everyone that your old '89 dodge went 5 times faster than their max speed... just don't mention that it was downward acceleration due to gravity.:-)
Oh, you think THAT'S fast, well the fastest I ever got my old Dodge Colt was 1000mph (insert exact number to the left of mph).
You'd need somebody really honest to vouch for you. Maybe could you cheat the world records for fastest automobile speed, but that's probably detailed as land-speed
NOW we know how they got the VW on top of the schoolhouse - phorm
I remember learning about this one for literary material, and possibly software on a permanent media.
Put the story/software in a well-sealed envelope. have it mailed to yourself, date-stamped by the post-office. Never open the envelope unless your creation is challenged.
Of course in the majority of situations this won't hold its water in court. It does however provide low-case proof of the date you mailed yourself the plans/story/code, and thus when the idea came by you. If somebody else sues you for patent violation, you can then use I-came-first.
First time I heard this was before everyone became patent-lawsuit-crazy though. Other measures are definately recommended.
Maybe I should patent this, in case anyone uses it - phorm
It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card
Anyone know how many NES ROM's one can zip onto a floppy? Quite a few actually. A few CD's and you've got the entire collection of everything made for SNES, NES, and GB (original). The first NES emulator I used was called "nesticle", and had a very interesting icon. Mind you, if they're being made publicly available again, I'd probably just rather own them and have the card.
MS will just nail him on something that wasn't his own intellectual properly, as Word was probably a collaborative effort, and much larger than the original content designed by Mr. Simonyi. Actually, what he may have contributed at the beginning would likely be somewhat common or antiquated by now, bet you a marble he doesn't get any of the current source.
No Score +1 Bonus? Oh Excellent Karma, how I love thee - phorm
Why shouldn't they. Maybe if everybody supported it, we could send Britney to space. Then, if somebody can do some creative hacking on the airlocks, we can eject her at some appropriate moment and then "bye bye Britney. "
In a side note: this is an interesting attention-grabber by pepsi, if it doesn't work I suppose they could up their presense in "the sims"
Oops, we did it again!- phorm
"That was simply due to old refrigerators and old air-conditioners in cars. We knew they were out there and we knew they were leaking. Those CFCs may have been purchased 10 years ago."
When you think about this though, I'm not so concerned at the moment about the ozone layer deplation possibly allowing me to be UV'ed. I would be a tad bit more worried about inhaling all the various gasses leaking from my AC and old fridges, because I'm fairly sure they're not good for the respiratory system either.
Not that ozone depletion isn't a problem, but so's having lungs filled with noxious chemicals.
Maybe I'll just buy a gas-mask and a few hundred oxygen cylinders - phorm
I suppose it depends on how this would spread. Since this is a deliberate genetic failure, as opposed to a virus, chances are it's not contagious but only spread via offspring and not via contagion. Since they likely don't mate with other fish, this should be ok. The alteration should only take place at the fertilization or "sperm" level.
Of course, the problem here is (as mentioned before) the alterned offspring cannot produce female offsping. Thus, the altered species may breed itself out before affecting the wild species.
If you're 16 you can't get a puppy? Maybe this is different in the US but I certainly never had a probably with that type of thing up here in the land 'o' Maple leaf. Oh, and I think our legal for sexual activity is also around 16. At some point it was 14 for male and 16 female, but they've equalized it at one of those points, I can't remember which.
Driving restictions here are also Province dependent, probably state dependent down in your end of the continent.
No puppy for you, come back, one year! - phorm
What we really need here though, is for the game to come out on *nix before windows. Although having a fully ready CD (video drivers and all) sounds pretty sweet - I'll be downloading it - chances are that it won't convert many windows users unless one or more of the 3 occur
It comes out first in *nix
It's more stable in *nix (yes, crash those winblows machines!)
It runs better on *nix (per the actual hardware) or requires less hardware power
Oh, and yes I will be downloading the demo - phorm
Um, I got my license at 16. I'm Canadian pretty sure it's the same in the US (no, I DON'T drive a snowmobile or dogsled).
Kids don't need to be 18 to get a turtle or other reptillian pet either, how many got sick from salmonella and/or died or it? Technically there's probably a higher injury/death rate from kids getting chewed on by their cute little puppy as it gets bigger and they continue to pull on its ear...
No dear, you can't play with the puppy, you're not 18 yet - phorm
Until a bunch of idiots just decide to pirate his stuff, because they're too cheap to pay the cost of even a cheap CD.
No, I do hate the RIAA, but stupidity and cheapness don't always run in the big companies, and there's bound to be a group of losers that despoil cheap music by continuing to download it as mp3.
How about known risk. I know when I go onto a roller coaster that despite all the past history, anything going that fast could in some way cause me injury. If you avoid everything just because of a possible risk, then life would really suck. Better to make the public aware than impose somewhat random or uninformed limitations.
If you know people who have died in auto accidents, does that mean you shouldn't drive?
Cars can cause accidents, TV can cause seizures. How many people were the 42 out of? If it's 42/100000000 that's lower than most things. I'd almost guarantee that there are a number of things you do every day that risk your life more than jumping in a roller coaster (despite the feeling that you're going to die every time).
Life is full of personal risks. We should be informed of the risks, and make our our decisions. Thus is the only way that we can lead a life of freedom - phorm
Just to clarify, since I'm Canadian and not 100% up on US law. The "Wind Done Gone" is parody because it closely follows the concept of the original item, but with an alternative point/plot? The second one isn't parody because it only uses slight references to the original material but an entirely alternate point (attention grabbing)?
Seems alright to me, sometimes I wonder how Weird Al and others get away with some of their works, unless they have contracts/agreements with the original artists?
Somebody may have tried to parody slashdot with "news for jocks", but too many of them couldn't read - phorm
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but is there not a certain degree of freedown allowable in reference parodies? Negativland may have gone a bit far in this case by using clips from the songs, but I've seen lots of other parodies that seemed to go father...
Yup, this I know. The last time I used chargeback, it was to a company that was dodging accepting my return on an invalid item (sent me the wrong one). They received the return product, but kept having "problems" returning my money. Eventually I got tired of waiting and had the Visa people deal with them, got my money back no problem.
Of course when it's a thief charging the card then the company gets screwed, but I tend to use it in the case where I don't 100% trust the company to deliver a proper product or honor their return clauses.
This is why I have fraud protection on my card. I can backcharge anything, and VISA goes after those who frauded me. No fault, no charge. Anyone who messes with VISA goes against some of the most expensive lawyers there are... and a whole lotta pain can ensue....
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Not for me, I record all my favorite movies into divX, hopefully soon to DvD-ROM.
What these things really need is a form of media recorder which they can dump/archive stuff on, rather than superhuge hard-drives.
For all those that want to collect EVERY Star trek episode, a solution will come - phorm
If there were such an article, if would probably be because Bill sneezed in the fact of a linux exec...
But right now he's not sneezing, he's laughing, at anyone stupid enough to open up an MS only shop, or to agree to MS's insane EULA's.
I guess adding a spoiler wouldn't help much in this case eh? :-)
It's a bird... it's a plane... - phorm
What's the max acceleration one of these would reach? You could tell everyone that your old '89 dodge went 5 times faster than their max speed... just don't mention that it was downward acceleration due to gravity. :-)
Oh, you think THAT'S fast, well the fastest I ever got my old Dodge Colt was 1000mph (insert exact number to the left of mph).
You'd need somebody really honest to vouch for you. Maybe could you cheat the world records for fastest automobile speed, but that's probably detailed as land-speed
NOW we know how they got the VW on top of the schoolhouse - phorm
I remember learning about this one for literary material, and possibly software on a permanent media.
Put the story/software in a well-sealed envelope. have it mailed to yourself, date-stamped by the post-office. Never open the envelope unless your creation is challenged.
Of course in the majority of situations this won't hold its water in court. It does however provide low-case proof of the date you mailed yourself the plans/story/code, and thus when the idea came by you. If somebody else sues you for patent violation, you can then use I-came-first.
First time I heard this was before everyone became patent-lawsuit-crazy though. Other measures are definately recommended.
Maybe I should patent this, in case anyone uses it - phorm
Didn't the earlier space missions eject their toiletries out of the craft into space? It had to end up somewhere...
I think I've said enough - phorm
Perhaps pestering Apple will prove a more fruitful
Think this was intentional? If so it's a real groaner...
Apple? Fruit? Oh, I get it. Somebody please hand me a gun - phorm
It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card
Anyone know how many NES ROM's one can zip onto a floppy? Quite a few actually. A few CD's and you've got the entire collection of everything made for SNES, NES, and GB (original). The first NES emulator I used was called "nesticle", and had a very interesting icon. Mind you, if they're being made publicly available again, I'd probably just rather own them and have the card.
8 bit pixellated wonders - phorm
MS will just nail him on something that wasn't his own intellectual properly, as Word was probably a collaborative effort, and much larger than the original content designed by Mr. Simonyi. Actually, what he may have contributed at the beginning would likely be somewhat common or antiquated by now, bet you a marble he doesn't get any of the current source.
No Score +1 Bonus? Oh Excellent Karma, how I love thee - phorm
Why shouldn't they. Maybe if everybody supported it, we could send Britney to space. Then, if somebody can do some creative hacking on the airlocks, we can eject her at some appropriate moment and then "bye bye Britney. "
In a side note: this is an interesting attention-grabber by pepsi, if it doesn't work I suppose they could up their presense in "the sims" Oops, we did it again!- phorm
"That was simply due to old refrigerators and old air-conditioners in cars. We knew they were out there and we knew they were leaking. Those CFCs may have been purchased 10 years ago."
When you think about this though, I'm not so concerned at the moment about the ozone layer deplation possibly allowing me to be UV'ed. I would be a tad bit more worried about inhaling all the various gasses leaking from my AC and old fridges, because I'm fairly sure they're not good for the respiratory system either.
Not that ozone depletion isn't a problem, but so's having lungs filled with noxious chemicals.
Maybe I'll just buy a gas-mask and a few hundred oxygen cylinders - phorm
I suppose it depends on how this would spread. Since this is a deliberate genetic failure, as opposed to a virus, chances are it's not contagious but only spread via offspring and not via contagion. Since they likely don't mate with other fish, this should be ok. The alteration should only take place at the fertilization or "sperm" level.
Of course, the problem here is (as mentioned before) the alterned offspring cannot produce female offsping. Thus, the altered species may breed itself out before affecting the wild species.
If you're 16 you can't get a puppy? Maybe this is different in the US but I certainly never had a probably with that type of thing up here in the land 'o' Maple leaf. Oh, and I think our legal for sexual activity is also around 16. At some point it was 14 for male and 16 female, but they've equalized it at one of those points, I can't remember which.
Driving restictions here are also Province dependent, probably state dependent down in your end of the continent.
No puppy for you, come back, one year! - phorm
Oh, and yes I will be downloading the demo - phorm
Um, I got my license at 16. I'm Canadian pretty sure it's the same in the US (no, I DON'T drive a snowmobile or dogsled).
Kids don't need to be 18 to get a turtle or other reptillian pet either, how many got sick from salmonella and/or died or it? Technically there's probably a higher injury/death rate from kids getting chewed on by their cute little puppy as it gets bigger and they continue to pull on its ear...
No dear, you can't play with the puppy, you're not 18 yet - phorm
Until a bunch of idiots just decide to pirate his stuff, because they're too cheap to pay the cost of even a cheap CD.
No, I do hate the RIAA, but stupidity and cheapness don't always run in the big companies, and there's bound to be a group of losers that despoil cheap music by continuing to download it as mp3.
No, but they may shoot their kids after they nag "Can we go to McDonalds... I wanna happy meal" for the 20th day in a row... :-)
How about known risk. I know when I go onto a roller coaster that despite all the past history, anything going that fast could in some way cause me injury. If you avoid everything just because of a possible risk, then life would really suck. Better to make the public aware than impose somewhat random or uninformed limitations.
If you know people who have died in auto accidents, does that mean you shouldn't drive?
Cars can cause accidents, TV can cause seizures. How many people were the 42 out of? If it's 42/100000000 that's lower than most things. I'd almost guarantee that there are a number of things you do every day that risk your life more than jumping in a roller coaster (despite the feeling that you're going to die every time).
Life is full of personal risks. We should be informed of the risks, and make our our decisions. Thus is the only way that we can lead a life of freedom - phorm
For services currently using POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) or related, VoIP can be a heckofa lot cheaper on long distance charges.
and will also open the oldest intact sarcophagus found in moder times."
And after the moderators read some of the various comments on the article, they'll be enjoying 'moder' times too...
Moderation, we don't need no stinking moderation! - phorm
Just to clarify, since I'm Canadian and not 100% up on US law. The "Wind Done Gone" is parody because it closely follows the concept of the original item, but with an alternative point/plot? The second one isn't parody because it only uses slight references to the original material but an entirely alternate point (attention grabbing)?
Seems alright to me, sometimes I wonder how Weird Al and others get away with some of their works, unless they have contracts/agreements with the original artists?
Somebody may have tried to parody slashdot with "news for jocks", but too many of them couldn't read - phorm
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but is there not a certain degree of freedown allowable in reference parodies? Negativland may have gone a bit far in this case by using clips from the songs, but I've seen lots of other parodies that seemed to go father...
Yup, this I know. The last time I used chargeback, it was to a company that was dodging accepting my return on an invalid item (sent me the wrong one). They received the return product, but kept having "problems" returning my money. Eventually I got tired of waiting and had the Visa people deal with them, got my money back no problem.
Of course when it's a thief charging the card then the company gets screwed, but I tend to use it in the case where I don't 100% trust the company to deliver a proper product or honor their return clauses.
To pay for better editors and columnists who can actually spell!
IMG:INTERACTIVES 'Brute force' card theives attack - I think that this should be spelled thieves
Or maybe they're just rolling our the new MSN - "Microsoft" Version of the English language...
"i" before "e" except after "c". Kindergarten time for MS - phorm
This is why I have fraud protection on my card. I can backcharge anything, and VISA goes after those who frauded me. No fault, no charge. Anyone who messes with VISA goes against some of the most expensive lawyers there are... and a whole lotta pain can ensue....