"McBride: I saw it, it was published, so the cows are out of the barn. The analogy I like to use is Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" versus David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure." If you just look at the words, I don't see a copyright violation, but if you listen to the riffs, you can hear where they're the same."
Anyone that listens to Vanilla Ice, Bowie and Queen is not only flaming, he's a walking forest fire...
No, actually my '75 Mercedes is 29 years old (legally qualifies as "antique car" and doesn't spend ANY time in a dealers garage being repaired. (BTW, no rust, no dents, perfect interior, ice cold A/C)) I just drive it, and drive it, and drive it. The new Mercedes are rebadged Dodge/Chrysler K cars made with low bid Chinese parts in Mexico and are shit..
Mine was made in Germany, back when they built them like tanks and built them with pride. It still looks good and it still runs good. If I continue to take care of it there's no reason I can't continue to drive it another 20 or 30 years. Many older Mercedes are still on the road even after racking up over a million miles.
The new ones aren't designed or built to do that you know. Can't let consumers become non-consumers because they have a GREAT product that never needs replacing..
My dad impressed upon me the knowledge and skill and desire to maintain an OLD car and keep that old car looking and running as if it were new.
Not top mention I'm a cheap bastard and don't like anything new...
1. Thou shalt keep thy filthy shitrakes of my Mercedes. 2. Thou shalt know and worship commandment 1.
Also, did anyone look at the link to the Wohr site? Look at the picture. Someones piece of shit, dripping oil, transmission fluid, anti-freeze, etc. on your car from above? I think f*cking not. And not even a parking attendant to beat up on when the robots mangle your car.
This is a guarnateed ruinded paint job at best and a trip to the body shop to replace some crushed in fenders and quarter panels..
This is a CRAP idea and I would NEVER put my car in one of these.. Never..
Here's the entire thing graphicly explained
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On NWI (Canada) I saw an interview with Marconi's daughter. She was also the Princess of Italy but that's beside the point.
Anyway, she told of how when she was a little girl her dad would take her and and family friends out on the family yacht and would amaze them with his electrical gadgetry, namely a device that he would throw a line over the side and troll it behind the boat for a few hours. When he would reel it in there would be spider webs of gold thread trailing off of it. She was only 6 or 7 at the time and didn't understand what he was doing but she said it had something to do with radio frequencies that attracted the gold particles in the sea water to the antenna, they would bind and create the spider webs.
That was one cool ass interview. She had LOTS of neat stories about the things her father did back in the day..
F*cking Parasites.. All lawyers should be rounded up and exterminated from the face of planet earth. Lawyers have to reach UP to grab a meal of catfish shit.
If I use packages, they are easy to uninstall (if need be), if I build from source and I have to uninstall them, it's not quite as easy but building from source gets me better performance..
"But Sci-Fi CAN be an inspiration to build something new."
I agree with you 100% on this. Sci-Fi inspired me when I was young to delve into electronics and computers. It was cool then but I do not like the flavor Sci-Fi has taken in recent years, not to mention the Sci-Fi channel SUCKS.
Now that I am older I find no value in escapism, reality is here, now and tangible. Reality also puts food on the table...
They make me pay for all sorts of SHIT that I will not ever, not in one million lifetimes, ever watch.
Like the sewer channels of MTV, BET and other related filth.
Or 30 fscking shop at home channels. No.
Or all the womens channels. No again.
There are about 10 channels that I ever watch out of a possible 225 channels. I won't pay for all the other bullshit that I won't watch and don't allow in my home.
Until they go a la carte they can kiss my ass because they won't get a red cent out of me. Change your offerings and you can sign me up, if not, then get screwed..
Yeah, that's it, one based on OS, GPL and P2P princples and technology??
Instead of having all these commercialized search engines that churn up BULLSHIT with all the commercial sites turning up at the top and the USEFUL sites at the bottom of the heap.
Write it as an OS app and make it Peer to Peer based, better yet, work a little of the seti@home tech into it too.. Yeah, put all those idle computers to work as the worlds biggest NON COMMERCIAL search engine.
And under no circumstances allow commercial websites to take top of the heap as they do now, irregardless of the relevance of the search.
And include a search option you can tick on and off, "(x) exclude commercial and for profit sites"
I'm freaking sick of all these profiteers dictating how we use the Internet, this goes against the concept of an open society. They squash free speech in lieu of profit..
Science fiction is NOT historical fact, it's not an educational instruction book, it's not a "how to" or a "DIY" book.
Science Fiction is, are you ready now? FICTION! WOW! Imagine that! Science Fiction is FICTION! Who would have ever thunk it?
But then of course because you proclaim that the works of Arthur C. Clarke are factual, then I guess we went to Saturn (or Jupiter depending on your favorite of book or movie) and I guess we only have 6 more years to wait for "something wonderful" to happen.
Perhaps HAL is CARNIVORE??
BTW, I am diametrically opposite of a "tree hugging hippy" but I may fit the "rabid" ticket..
and we're going to go bring a dead planet back to life?
Damn, we're destroying Earth at a faster pace than it can repair itself and we won't accept responsiblity to care for it, how the hell are we going to take care of TWO planets?
Not to mention, what if there is some dormant life there? Do we destroy it to replace it with life as we see fit?
And what about the soil? Are there nutrients there to support growing plant life? I doubt it. How will we fertilize the soil? Who will pay for all this pie in the sky BS..
We better take care of what we have here first. Fix Earth first. Once it's gone, it's gone. Extinction is forever..
I think too many people read too much science fiction. Science fiction is escapism from reality.
IBM and M$ have been peeing in each other's lemonade for years now. There's bad blood there.
Yeah, they sell XP (Xtra Pathetic) but they do so because they are not stupid, they know the market is not primed yet for an all out Linux blitzkrieg but they are rapidly promoting and moving towards that. In the meantime, they sell XP to make money, not because they are in love with it.
True. However most of the one's I've seen in use are the RF type. As mentioned on that page, the RF type is predominant in the US and the magnetic type is predominant in Europe..
They already sort of use RFID, minus the ID part, at store doorways.
Those white plastic things stuck on everything that sets of the store alarm is a radio transmitter. Open one up with a knife sometime and look at it with a magnifying glass or microscope. The transmitter loop at the door generates an RF field that gives power to the transmitter via inductance, causing the transmitter to emit a radio frequency and set off the alarm when one passes through the loop.
It's just a dumb, passive device but it is an RF device none the less..
On a note, if you have someone that you want to screw with, peel one of the little buggers off something that they forget to run over the magnet and stick it in shoe of someone you want to get back at. Or hide one in their wallet, or anywhere else on thier person. You can rest assured they will have interesting times ahead next time they go to the store....
"Kind of like the radiation from your monitor should disperse within a few feet and be unreadable to anyone. I bet the same black vans that are already following you around can read the tags just fine, and what will you do once they know your fashion sense?"
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"McBride: I saw it, it was published, so the cows are out of the barn. The analogy I like to use is Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" versus David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure." If you just look at the words, I don't see a copyright violation, but if you listen to the riffs, you can hear where they're the same."
Anyone that listens to Vanilla Ice, Bowie and Queen is not only flaming, he's a walking forest fire...
We always suspected. Now we know..
No, actually my '75 Mercedes is 29 years old (legally qualifies as "antique car" and doesn't spend ANY time in a dealers garage being repaired. (BTW, no rust, no dents, perfect interior, ice cold A/C))
I just drive it, and drive it, and drive it. The new Mercedes are rebadged Dodge/Chrysler K cars made with low bid Chinese parts in Mexico and are shit..
Mine was made in Germany, back when they built them like tanks and built them with pride.
It still looks good and it still runs good.
If I continue to take care of it there's no reason I can't continue to drive it another 20 or 30 years. Many older Mercedes are still on the road even after racking up over a million miles.
The new ones aren't designed or built to do that you know. Can't let consumers become non-consumers because they have a GREAT product that never needs replacing..
My dad impressed upon me the knowledge and skill and desire to maintain an OLD car and keep that old car looking and running as if it were new.
Not top mention I'm a cheap bastard and don't like anything new...
1. Thou shalt keep thy filthy shitrakes of my Mercedes.
2. Thou shalt know and worship commandment 1.
Also, did anyone look at the link to the Wohr site? Look at the picture. Someones piece of shit, dripping oil, transmission fluid, anti-freeze, etc. on your car from above? I think f*cking not. And not even a parking attendant to beat up on when the robots mangle your car.
This is a guarnateed ruinded paint job at best and a trip to the body shop to replace some crushed in fenders and quarter panels..
This is a CRAP idea and I would NEVER put my car in one of these.. Never..
for those that can't find their orthopedic hats,
Ficken sie, arseloch..
Liebe, Deutscheland..
On NWI (Canada) I saw an interview with Marconi's daughter. She was also the Princess of Italy but that's beside the point.
Anyway, she told of how when she was a little girl her dad would take her and and family friends out on the family yacht and would amaze them with his electrical gadgetry, namely a device that he would throw a line over the side and troll it behind the boat for a few hours. When he would reel it in there would be spider webs of gold thread trailing off of it.
She was only 6 or 7 at the time and didn't understand what he was doing but she said it had something to do with radio frequencies that attracted the gold particles in the sea water to the antenna, they would bind and create the spider webs.
That was one cool ass interview. She had LOTS of neat stories about the things her father did back in the day..
F*cking Parasites..
All lawyers should be rounded up and exterminated from the face of planet earth.
Lawyers have to reach UP to grab a meal of catfish shit.
If I use packages, they are easy to uninstall (if need be), if I build from source and I have to uninstall them, it's not quite as easy but building from source gets me better performance..
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
When they spend so much on crack?
They obviously consume VAST quanities of crack cocaine.
This is the dumbest shit I have EVER seen...
These idiots deserve to go broke, throwing their money down the toilet like this.
All I can say is Muwhahahahhahahahahaha!!!!
http://ideafloodsucks.systemrecycler.com
"But Sci-Fi CAN be an inspiration to build something new."
I agree with you 100% on this. Sci-Fi inspired me when I was young to delve into electronics and computers. It was cool then but I do not like the flavor Sci-Fi has taken in recent years, not to mention the Sci-Fi channel SUCKS.
Now that I am older I find no value in escapism, reality is here, now and tangible. Reality also puts food on the table...
They make me pay for all sorts of SHIT that I will not ever, not in one million lifetimes, ever watch.
Like the sewer channels of MTV, BET and other related filth.
Or 30 fscking shop at home channels. No.
Or all the womens channels. No again.
There are about 10 channels that I ever watch out of a possible 225 channels. I won't pay for all the other bullshit that I won't watch and don't allow in my home.
Until they go a la carte they can kiss my ass because they won't get a red cent out of me.
Change your offerings and you can sign me up, if not, then get screwed..
Yeah, that's it, one based on OS, GPL and P2P princples and technology??
Instead of having all these commercialized search engines that churn up BULLSHIT with all the commercial sites turning up at the top and the USEFUL sites at the bottom of the heap.
Write it as an OS app and make it Peer to Peer based, better yet, work a little of the seti@home tech into it too.. Yeah, put all those idle computers to work as the worlds biggest NON COMMERCIAL search engine.
And under no circumstances allow commercial websites to take top of the heap as they do now, irregardless of the relevance of the search.
And include a search option you can tick on and off, "(x) exclude commercial and for profit sites"
I'm freaking sick of all these profiteers dictating how we use the Internet, this goes against the concept of an open society. They squash free speech in lieu of profit..
Now we'll never be able to run a search for anything with out all the commercial sites showing up in the first 4000-5000 hits.
I stand by my statement.
Science fiction is escapism from reality.
Science fiction is NOT historical fact, it's not an educational instruction book, it's not a "how to" or a "DIY" book.
Science Fiction is, are you ready now? FICTION!
WOW! Imagine that! Science Fiction is FICTION!
Who would have ever thunk it?
But then of course because you proclaim that the works of Arthur C. Clarke are factual, then I guess we went to Saturn (or Jupiter depending on your favorite of book or movie) and I guess we only have 6 more years to wait for "something wonderful" to happen.
Perhaps HAL is CARNIVORE??
BTW, I am diametrically opposite of a "tree hugging hippy" but I may fit the "rabid" ticket..
and we're going to go bring a dead planet back to life?
Damn, we're destroying Earth at a faster pace than it can repair itself and we won't accept responsiblity to care for it, how the hell are we going to take care of TWO planets?
Not to mention, what if there is some dormant life there? Do we destroy it to replace it with life as we see fit?
And what about the soil? Are there nutrients there to support growing plant life? I doubt it. How will we fertilize the soil? Who will pay for all this pie in the sky BS..
We better take care of what we have here first.
Fix Earth first. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Extinction is forever..
I think too many people read too much science fiction. Science fiction is escapism from reality.
homeland security plans.
When everyone has XP and DRM and ABC and DEF and CIA, then braodband to boot, no amount of tinfoil on earth will cloak your activities from BB...
Of what a joyous future ahead...
IBM and M$ have been peeing in each other's lemonade for years now. There's bad blood there.
Yeah, they sell XP (Xtra Pathetic) but they do so because they are not stupid, they know the market is not primed yet for an all out Linux blitzkrieg but they are rapidly promoting and moving towards that. In the meantime, they sell XP to make money, not because they are in love with it.
What other choice do they have?
They stepped on Bill's weener years ago so M$ is NOT an option.
IBM has put ALL of it's eggs in the Linux basket. It's sink or swim and the ONLY life preserver available to IBM is Linux.
webserver! Buckled to it's knees with only 20 /. comments....
"while it orbits the sun on a horse-shoe shaped path"
Uh, wouldn't it be easier to fly an elliptical orbit?
True. However most of the one's I've seen in use are the RF type.
As mentioned on that page, the RF type is predominant in the US and the magnetic type is predominant in Europe..
I suppose it's up to the retailer...
er, actually, no they don't.h tm
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question601.
They already sort of use RFID, minus the ID part, at store doorways.
Those white plastic things stuck on everything that sets of the store alarm is a radio transmitter. Open one up with a knife sometime and look at it with a magnifying glass or microscope. The transmitter loop at the door generates an RF field that gives power to the transmitter via inductance, causing the transmitter to emit a radio frequency and set off the alarm when one passes through the loop.
It's just a dumb, passive device but it is an RF device none the less..
On a note, if you have someone that you want to screw with, peel one of the little buggers off something that they forget to run over the magnet and stick it in shoe of someone you want to get back at. Or hide one in their wallet, or anywhere else on thier person. You can rest assured they will have interesting times ahead next time they go to the store....
"Kind of like the radiation from your monitor should disperse within a few feet and be unreadable to anyone. I bet the same black vans that are already following you around can read the tags just fine, and what will you do once they know your fashion sense?"
Just when you thought you were safe with your blinds drawn. (Also look up Marcus Kuhn in Germany)
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-912785.html