"Our negative correlation list is a fool's lexicon: ur, u, wat, wont, and so on."
I do use 'wont' occasionally, but with its correct meaning. *ahem* It is my wont to use the word when I want.
You know, pretty much all places already have rules against inattentive driving. Why make a lot of additional rules banning "this one thing that people sometimes distract themselves with to become inattentive while driving"? Just put in heavier penalties against inattentive driving, since that's what people are really worried about.
All these creations of additional bans benefit no one but the lawyers.
For legal, technical support, and a host of other reasons, if the charity knows what it's doing, it'll be wiping all computers that get donated and installing something fresh, along with a limited suite of applications/games for the kids.
For all they know, you could be a member of a pedophile ring and carelessly leave a folder full of child porn hidden somewhere on the hard drive.
Or you could be a cracker who left a bunch of malware ready to crawl into their network the instant they hook the computer up to it.
So the article is basically saying that Twitter is not a social network, and because it's not a social network, it can't possibly survive.
Ok. I hope the authors are having fun in their happy place.
In contrast to a deliberate attack on game buyers, it sounds more like Sony's trying to separate the game itself (which can be played offline in most cases) from the service it connects to in order to use online capabilities. The first buyer gets a free pass to use the online service (bundled into the money Sony gets off it). Any subsequent buyers have to buy online access (since Sony doesn't get money off that sale).
The long-term practicality, business-wise, for Sony is questionable in my opinion, but I can't really see moral issues with it.
Does anyone else find it odd that this is a Junior-level college course in English, and the course is limited to zombie movies and comic books? If you want to study zombie movies, go to film studies. I can accept using zombie comic books, but few, if any, zombie comic books I've seen would qualify as quality literature. (Yes, some comic books do qualify as quality literature, just not those.)
The real travesty for these students is that this course could actually be leveraging an interest in zombies to actually study good literature, like World War Z, the Zombie Survival Guide, the zombie Jane Austen books, and various fiction books from different eras in the evolution of the modern zombie. (The history of the zombie concept is quite the story.) Instead, they get to watch movies and read comic books.
Au contraire. I don't refer to the things those sciences are used to manipulate, but the sciences themselves. Those ways of looking at the world are fundamentally built upon mathematics.
Really, can't a very similar argument be applied to nearly every field of applied knowledge? Mathematics is a model for how the universe works; all practical science is just applied mathematics in some form or another. Music, anthropology, biology, conspiracy theories--they can all be described as applications of mathematics.
Regardless of any functionality this phone will have, it only takes a very short time to come up with the "if-one" pronunciation of iPhone. I can't imagine that Jobs would let anything that could be turned into a such an obvious mockery of Apple be released. I have no idea what the phone will be called, but I am betting heavily against "iPhone" - and yes I have been following all the reports on companies being purchased etc.
There, fixed it for you. We are as dedicated to exploring ways in which product names can be twisted as we were about making fun of our classmates' names back in kindergarten.
Have you considered that the reason they make such high profits is because they need to plow so much money into research and development? Profits don't just sit there; they get spent.
Cutting back on any drugs is going to reduce the need for your liver et al to work on getting rid of potentially harmful products.
As far as the rest of the things you mentioned, this requires someone to actually have downtime for about four hours in the evening, and actually get eight hours of sleep. How many people can fit that kind of leisure time in? I'd say it's the lack of running around and being stressed that helps more than the eating early and drinking copious amounts of water.
The laws of physics don't just stop working. More likely, we just aren't observing the phenomenon correctly.
Actually, yes, the laws of physics do stop working. Or, rather, we're seeing our theories (which will never be completely right but we call 'laws' anyhow), which we've put together according to observations, fail.
All this means is that we have to formulate new 'laws'.
Now, you could be referring to 'laws of physics' in the sense of 'this is the way things work, whether we know it or not'. If that's the case, why call them laws? Laws can be broken; fundamental principles can't.
Back then, the average life expectancy was so low because of infant mortality. People who got to puberty didn't, on average, die much younger than people do nowadays.
For Pete's sake, GameSpy's been pumping this as the Second Coming for a while now. They even have a section dedicated to the N-Gage--putting it on the same level as PCs and the various consoles!
That's the first article from them that I've heard that questions the feasibility of the N-Gage. I was beginning to think that Nokia offered them some lucrative package in return for pimping their product.
(Don't get me wrong--I like GameSpy. I just wanted to speak out against the injustice.)
On a related note, I work at a hospital that is starting a barcode initiative on drugs. We only just now had the power to convince the drug companies that they need to supply us their drugs in individual doses, prelabeled and barcoded.
So your hospital gives everyone the same dosage of drugs? I didn't think that drugs were given on a 'one size fits all' basis...
Of course, the alternative is to work out a deal with the drug company where the doctor does a overnight special order to the drug company for the guy who the fire department shipped over from that apartment house on lake drive. Probably not a good idea.
But in July, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did away with that principle.
I wonder if this case (or a similar one) ever made its way to the Supreme Court. It might help matters, and it would be much more likely than waiting for Congress to do something about the situation. Any action in Congress limiting these kinds of patents would certainly be opposed by entrenched corporations (which might not control Congress yet, but do have substantial influence in it).
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"Our negative correlation list is a fool's lexicon: ur, u, wat, wont, and so on." I do use 'wont' occasionally, but with its correct meaning. *ahem* It is my wont to use the word when I want.
You know, pretty much all places already have rules against inattentive driving. Why make a lot of additional rules banning "this one thing that people sometimes distract themselves with to become inattentive while driving"? Just put in heavier penalties against inattentive driving, since that's what people are really worried about. All these creations of additional bans benefit no one but the lawyers.
For legal, technical support, and a host of other reasons, if the charity knows what it's doing, it'll be wiping all computers that get donated and installing something fresh, along with a limited suite of applications/games for the kids. For all they know, you could be a member of a pedophile ring and carelessly leave a folder full of child porn hidden somewhere on the hard drive. Or you could be a cracker who left a bunch of malware ready to crawl into their network the instant they hook the computer up to it.
So the article is basically saying that Twitter is not a social network, and because it's not a social network, it can't possibly survive. Ok. I hope the authors are having fun in their happy place.
In contrast to a deliberate attack on game buyers, it sounds more like Sony's trying to separate the game itself (which can be played offline in most cases) from the service it connects to in order to use online capabilities. The first buyer gets a free pass to use the online service (bundled into the money Sony gets off it). Any subsequent buyers have to buy online access (since Sony doesn't get money off that sale). The long-term practicality, business-wise, for Sony is questionable in my opinion, but I can't really see moral issues with it.
Does anyone else find it odd that this is a Junior-level college course in English, and the course is limited to zombie movies and comic books? If you want to study zombie movies, go to film studies. I can accept using zombie comic books, but few, if any, zombie comic books I've seen would qualify as quality literature. (Yes, some comic books do qualify as quality literature, just not those.) The real travesty for these students is that this course could actually be leveraging an interest in zombies to actually study good literature, like World War Z, the Zombie Survival Guide, the zombie Jane Austen books, and various fiction books from different eras in the evolution of the modern zombie. (The history of the zombie concept is quite the story.) Instead, they get to watch movies and read comic books.
Wait. Italians are sober?
Au contraire. I don't refer to the things those sciences are used to manipulate, but the sciences themselves. Those ways of looking at the world are fundamentally built upon mathematics.
Really, can't a very similar argument be applied to nearly every field of applied knowledge? Mathematics is a model for how the universe works; all practical science is just applied mathematics in some form or another. Music, anthropology, biology, conspiracy theories--they can all be described as applications of mathematics.
Regardless of any functionality this phone will have, it only takes a very short time to come up with the "if-one" pronunciation of iPhone. I can't imagine that Jobs would let anything that could be turned into a such an obvious mockery of Apple be released. I have no idea what the phone will be called, but I am betting heavily against "iPhone" - and yes I have been following all the reports on companies being purchased etc.
There, fixed it for you. We are as dedicated to exploring ways in which product names can be twisted as we were about making fun of our classmates' names back in kindergarten.
Have you considered that the reason they make such high profits is because they need to plow so much money into research and development? Profits don't just sit there; they get spent.
Cutting back on any drugs is going to reduce the need for your liver et al to work on getting rid of potentially harmful products. As far as the rest of the things you mentioned, this requires someone to actually have downtime for about four hours in the evening, and actually get eight hours of sleep. How many people can fit that kind of leisure time in? I'd say it's the lack of running around and being stressed that helps more than the eating early and drinking copious amounts of water.
True, it's not for everyone, but it's not crap. You want crap, read John Norman's Gor books.
Time doesn't slow down. That's like saying that length slows down. The only thing that changes is the speed at which objects move through time.
The laws of physics don't just stop working. More likely, we just aren't observing the phenomenon correctly.
Actually, yes, the laws of physics do stop working. Or, rather, we're seeing our theories (which will never be completely right but we call 'laws' anyhow), which we've put together according to observations, fail.
All this means is that we have to formulate new 'laws'.
Now, you could be referring to 'laws of physics' in the sense of 'this is the way things work, whether we know it or not'. If that's the case, why call them laws? Laws can be broken; fundamental principles can't.
Back then, the average life expectancy was so low because of infant mortality. People who got to puberty didn't, on average, die much younger than people do nowadays.
Well, at least GameSpy seems to be coming to their senses, publishing some more realistic views from their writing staff.
One can only hope the trend continues.
I actually like a lot of GameSpy's content. They do their best when they're not trying to be serious, but they do often have good reviews.
It's just times like this when I feel compelled to speak out.
For Pete's sake, GameSpy's been pumping this as the Second Coming for a while now. They even have a section dedicated to the N-Gage--putting it on the same level as PCs and the various consoles!
That's the first article from them that I've heard that questions the feasibility of the N-Gage. I was beginning to think that Nokia offered them some lucrative package in return for pimping their product.
(Don't get me wrong--I like GameSpy. I just wanted to speak out against the injustice.)
I've got to say, if I walk into a server room and see a 'For Dummies' book sitting on a shelf, I'll be scared.
Very scared.
In sexual creatures (like people!), only the female can produce young.
Really? I thought females needed a little thing like SPERM to produce spawn...
On a related note, I work at a hospital that is starting a barcode initiative on drugs. We only just now had the power to convince the drug companies that they need to supply us their drugs in individual doses, prelabeled and barcoded.
So your hospital gives everyone the same dosage of drugs? I didn't think that drugs were given on a 'one size fits all' basis...
Of course, the alternative is to work out a deal with the drug company where the doctor does a overnight special order to the drug company for the guy who the fire department shipped over from that apartment house on lake drive. Probably not a good idea.
But in July, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did away with that principle.
I wonder if this case (or a similar one) ever made its way to the Supreme Court. It might help matters, and it would be much more likely than waiting for Congress to do something about the situation. Any action in Congress limiting these kinds of patents would certainly be opposed by entrenched corporations (which might not control Congress yet, but do have substantial influence in it).
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Dude, you shouldn't be buying pantyhose for your girlfriend. The only thing more emasculating than that, is buying her tampax or whatever.
Ummm...
(Sheepish look)