Another major step forward for triangle-shaped icon technology!
Soon you'll be able to have a desktop full of icons that are whatever low-polygon-count shape you want! I'm talking triangles, squares, trapezoids, you name it... aww yeah.
According to the EPA, advanced technologies designed for the elimination of duplicate stories could reduce the environmental impact of Slashdot by up to 50%. I urge you all to write your Congressional representatives and let them know of your concern on this issue.
I was working the booth at a trade show last summer and who should come rolling up but Dean Kamen himself. Literally rolling, as he was of course riding on one of his Segways. I spent probably ten minutes talking to him about a problem he was having with one of my then-employer's products (or rather, he did most of the talking, as he's a somewhat impatient conversationalist).
The interesting thing about talking to Mr. Kamen while he was standing on the Segway, aside from the fact that he was of course towering a full head above everybody else in the crowd, was the fact that he is one of those people who likes to lean towards you as he talks. As I learned firsthand, talking to one of these people who happens to be standing on an electric scooter that is controlled by leaning your body means that you are constantly being semi-run-over by the thing, in direct proportion to the intensity of the point the other person is trying to make! He kept having to back the thing up a couple feet, like it was an overly-friendly horse that wanted to lick my face (instead of an overly-pricey scooter that wanted to run over my feet).
(I would have liked to have a go with his scooter though, as I was not relishing the prospect of having to slog all the way back across the show grounds to the car yet again!)
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And then I had to catch another fish, only it wasn't as good. And I was all, like... unh.
I've been wondering where I could get a few free cloths. At MacWorld they usually just hand out t-shirts.
Soon you'll be able to have a desktop full of icons that are whatever low-polygon-count shape you want! I'm talking triangles, squares, trapezoids, you name it... aww yeah.
If you're after a recreational substance that makes you smart and attractive when you consume it, I suggest beer.
Awesome, I'm in the clear: I only use P2P to trade valueless Backstreet Boys mp3s!
Presumably the Library of Congress will only be preserving public-domain recordings, eh?
It's just more of the same...
According to the EPA, advanced technologies designed for the elimination of duplicate stories could reduce the environmental impact of Slashdot by up to 50%. I urge you all to write your Congressional representatives and let them know of your concern on this issue.
Actually, in this case it's more like: In Soviet Russia, your idea copies Microsoft!
The Moller philosophy on engine failure seems to be "put a few dozen engines in the thing so at least a few will always work!"
...bad programming causes problems? Golly! What will those crazy scientists come up with next?
Well, I see that Internet voting isn't the magical solution to torn ballots we all thought it would be...
GCS d? s+:- a-- C+++ UB++ P--- L- E W+ N+ o- K w+++++ O----
M-- V-- PS--- PE++ Y+ PGP t+++ 5+++ X-- R++ tv b++
I think you just proved your own point!
The interesting thing about talking to Mr. Kamen while he was standing on the Segway, aside from the fact that he was of course towering a full head above everybody else in the crowd, was the fact that he is one of those people who likes to lean towards you as he talks. As I learned firsthand, talking to one of these people who happens to be standing on an electric scooter that is controlled by leaning your body means that you are constantly being semi-run-over by the thing, in direct proportion to the intensity of the point the other person is trying to make! He kept having to back the thing up a couple feet, like it was an overly-friendly horse that wanted to lick my face (instead of an overly-pricey scooter that wanted to run over my feet).
(I would have liked to have a go with his scooter though, as I was not relishing the prospect of having to slog all the way back across the show grounds to the car yet again!)
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The actual website of The Economist is here... the link given by Hemos only leads you to a scary picture of Alan Greenspan.
It's high time somebody did something about closing down those a-holes! Oh wait, damn, I read the article too fast again...