I have no strong opinions on whether Kevin is a martyr or the spawn of Satan, but do you think anyone would turn up to his lectures were it not for his reputation gained in "those days"?
Seriously, though, I think I'm in the wrong business. Instead of creating software and hardware, I should just come up with some really cool ideas and patent them. Eventually someone else will come up with the same idea and I can sue for $$$$.
Why bother when you can take things a stage further with the SCO refinement? I get bored of creating software, so I find a really cool idea that someone else had last century and buy it. I then sue everybody's ass in the vain hope that the stuff I paid for has any relevance to curent products.
It's a bit like the French king who paid millions of francs for the Crown of Thorns and a few fragments of The True Cross, built a magnificent church to keep them in (Ste-Chapelle, worth seeing) and then discovered he'd been sold a few brambles and bits of driftwood.
Er...no. The RFID tag can carry a unique code for every individual item, not the same code for every item of that type (as a barcode does). That means YOUR new shirt has a different code to all those others on the rail.
Shoplifters in Manchester, England, put small high-value items into a metal biscuit tin lined with aluminium foil (a bit of overkill there) which is supposed to screen the RFID tags from the sensors by the door. I saw it on a documentary about junkies last week - it's common for the police to find these tins in their houses along with the usual drug paraphernalia.
Unless you're using (even more expensive) archival inks, the magenta and yellow components fade away to nothing in as little as three months when exposed to strong light. You're left with a pale cyan image. Commercial prints are done on conventional photo paper with much more colour-fast dyes.
As for convenience, you just upload the JPEGs over the Internet after doing any manipulation and cropping, then wait a couple of days for them to arrive in the mail. I can live with that.
Is it worth mentioning that the printer manufacturers apparently design their machines to screw up every third piece of expensive photo paper, thereby increasing their profits?
Matalan is a clothing retailer known mainly for its low prices; you know, a pair of jeans for 5 pounds, a T-shirt for a quid etc. As a low-price, low-cost business, I'm sure licensing costs have something to do with this (no slur on Linux intended).
Junk the hard disk. Have something solid-state (and non-volatile).
Make the things boot up quicker. Non-volatile RAM would help.
I agree with TFA about noise and heat. Chip manufacturers should be able to reduce heat output to almost zero when the CPU is at 1% load, which seems to be most of the time unless you're fragging Stroggs. Then you can have the CPU control its own fan speed.
Immunity from viruses. Run the OS from EEPROM (yes, you can still upgrade it, but only via the BIOS or a special boot CD - something that involves stopping the system and physical access to the box)
A clear marking for USB plugs so you don't try and insert them wrong way up!
You should have mixed it with oxygen in the balloon. The pop is more satisfying. I once spent a whole day playing with a Hoffman voltameter, trying out different mixtures for explosiveness, under the pretext of a "science demonstration" for prospective school students.
Not quite as much fun as collecting bathtime farts in an upturned pint glass and setting light to them - it makes a spectacular and unexpectedly orange fireball:-)
I don't see it growing on trees or lying in beach pebbles, so surely it has to be made by electrolysis? Oh, wait, you can make hydrogen by electrolysis, can't you?
During a long wand fight, VOLDEMORT severs HARRY's hand and he loses his wand.
VOLDEMORT: Dumbledore never told you about your father, did he?
HARRY: Nooooooo! It's not true!
HARRY leaps from the battlements of Hogwarts but is rescued by a passing Quidditch player. After having his hand magically regrown by MADAME POMFREY, he tries to get it on with CHO CHANG, not realising at this point that she is in fact his twin sister.
I don't know. The good people of Austria - one of my favourite places - certainly drink a lot. It's legal to drink at the age of 16 [1], and you should see the amount of lager those oompah bands put away during a concert (basically each musician has a big glass under his chair and swigs half of it after each song; waitresses with big jugs (oo-er) come round and refill them at regular intervals.
[1] in the UK, amusingly, the legal drinking age is *5* if at home with a parent/guardian present. But then we exported all the Puritans to the US;-)
As a veteran of three of these, I no longer need a map or a list of pubs. That's a total of 26 drinks, by the way, including the four station bars. It's a LOT easier to do on vodka and orange than on beer.
And in other news, the earth is STILL spinning, Keira Knightley is STILL hot and most Slashdotters STILL aren't getting some. Really, is this a newsworthy story? And yes, I did read TFA. Thank you for wasting 2 minutes of my life;-)
1) Yes, the studios are evil scum, but there is nearly always a way to skip this (generally, put the player into standby and hit the "disc menu" button as soon as it comes back up).
2) My DVD player seems to remember this for the last few discs inserted.
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I have no strong opinions on whether Kevin is a martyr or the spawn of Satan, but do you think anyone would turn up to his lectures were it not for his reputation gained in "those days"?
Nope, that was David Lightman (goes off into warped fantasies about Ally Sheedy in gym wear)
The Fujicolor film in my Leica farts in the general direction of your wimpy digicam ;-)
Why bother when you can take things a stage further with the SCO refinement? I get bored of creating software, so I find a really cool idea that someone else had last century and buy it. I then sue everybody's ass in the vain hope that the stuff I paid for has any relevance to curent products.
It's a bit like the French king who paid millions of francs for the Crown of Thorns and a few fragments of The True Cross, built a magnificent church to keep them in (Ste-Chapelle, worth seeing) and then discovered he'd been sold a few brambles and bits of driftwood.
Er...no. The RFID tag can carry a unique code for every individual item, not the same code for every item of that type (as a barcode does). That means YOUR new shirt has a different code to all those others on the rail.
Shoplifters in Manchester, England, put small high-value items into a metal biscuit tin lined with aluminium foil (a bit of overkill there) which is supposed to screen the RFID tags from the sensors by the door. I saw it on a documentary about junkies last week - it's common for the police to find these tins in their houses along with the usual drug paraphernalia.
Or, as the Roman poet Juvenal might have said, Quis microwavet ipsos microwaves?
Unless you're using (even more expensive) archival inks, the magenta and yellow components fade away to nothing in as little as three months when exposed to strong light. You're left with a pale cyan image. Commercial prints are done on conventional photo paper with much more colour-fast dyes. As for convenience, you just upload the JPEGs over the Internet after doing any manipulation and cropping, then wait a couple of days for them to arrive in the mail. I can live with that. Is it worth mentioning that the printer manufacturers apparently design their machines to screw up every third piece of expensive photo paper, thereby increasing their profits?
Matalan is a clothing retailer known mainly for its low prices; you know, a pair of jeans for 5 pounds, a T-shirt for a quid etc. As a low-price, low-cost business, I'm sure licensing costs have something to do with this (no slur on Linux intended).
There was a young man called Bill
Whose software made everyone ill
The film "Antitrust"
It was easily sussed
Was about what he's done (or he will)
Not quite as much fun as collecting bathtime farts in an upturned pint glass and setting light to them - it makes a spectacular and unexpectedly orange fireball :-)
You must be one of those people who lurk on b3ta, with a kitten obsession like that.
I don't see it growing on trees or lying in beach pebbles, so surely it has to be made by electrolysis? Oh, wait, you can make hydrogen by electrolysis, can't you?
We paid for them via the licence fee. Of course this means BBC DVDs should also be sold at cost price to licence payers.
Sounds like the turgid drivel that was "Order of the Phoenix" already.
1. Invent story set in boarding school environment
2. Rehash story for each school year
3. ???
4. Profit!
VOLDEMORT: Dumbledore never told you about your father, did he?
HARRY: Nooooooo! It's not true!
HARRY leaps from the battlements of Hogwarts but is rescued by a passing Quidditch player. After having his hand magically regrown by MADAME POMFREY, he tries to get it on with CHO CHANG, not realising at this point that she is in fact his twin sister.
[1] in the UK, amusingly, the legal drinking age is *5* if at home with a parent/guardian present. But then we exported all the Puritans to the US ;-)
Conversely, in your best Dick Van Dyke mockney accent: "There's them wot lives sarf of the river, and them wot wants to."
As a veteran of three of these, I no longer need a map or a list of pubs. That's a total of 26 drinks, by the way, including the four station bars. It's a LOT easier to do on vodka and orange than on beer.
And in other news, the earth is STILL spinning, Keira Knightley is STILL hot and most Slashdotters STILL aren't getting some. Really, is this a newsworthy story? And yes, I did read TFA. Thank you for wasting 2 minutes of my life ;-)
So what did they do with the 99% of the load they couldn't use? Is there a big mountain of it inside the facility?
Unless you're Israel, then you get away with it because you've got a lot of friends in Washington.
2) My DVD player seems to remember this for the last few discs inserted.
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