Here's what Garriott says about the name "Tabula Risa":
There's a number of ways to interpret "clean slate." We originally picked that name less because of subject matter than the need to start over again. Interestingly, if you go into the way the game is designed, we didn't actively choose to have the fiction behind the game support that title, but the background tale we selected actually wound up fitting the name quite well.
Interesting that the name didn't necessarily have anything to do with the actual product.
The C700 goes from a micro-mini laptop with keyboard to a PDA - with a twist of the screen
This twisting action seems to be becoming standard in the PDA-world. In this case, though, it seems the keys might get accidentally pressed when you flip them around to the other side. Hopefully the keys are hindered inactive during the flipping process. But even if they are, it seems a lot of wear would come to the keys when the PDA is shoved in tiny places.
21. A system as recited in claim 19, wherein male person inserts a penis into the female person. The female person's insertion point (herein referred as "vagina") shall accumulate the male person's semen until such time as the male person has entered the completion phase. This completion phase is what enables the spawning of child persons.
The above is just as rediculous as the real thing.
A friend of mine has the 250th or so (it changes daily) hit for the word 'sex', and he regularly gets 100-200 hits a day from Google and Yahoo (combined).
Sometimes people (horny people) go past the first couple of pages;-).
Humans exist, today, because of billions and billions of tiny factors, and probably about a dozen large factors. If you took any of them away, you wouldn't be alive today.
As a matter of fact, if you won't back in time 1 billion years and swished your hands around, and then came back, nothing would be the same. You guys know the Simpson's episode;-)
And from the article: We should bear in mind that 99.9% of all species that ever dwelled on Earth were wiped out, most likely, as a result of large impacts.
If those species wouldn't have died, we also wouldn't be here today.
If you disagree with the EULA, you can't even sell the software on E-bay. If you try, E-bay will promptly remove your listing. I tried to sell an old unused Windows 95 CD on E-bay, once, and it was removed within 12 hours.
The application is only 400k in size, but many users will notice that the download is over 20MB. This is because Locutus relies on Microsoft's.NET framework, and if a user doesn't have.NET they will automatically download a version of the installer that does.
For some reason, that paragraph really cracked me up...
I don't know about others, but I am partial to printed books.
On the other hand, I'd love to be able to bring 50 books onto an airplane with me, so I can pick out what I want to read. As it is now, I can only bring one or two books with me, and I always seem to get bored with them when I'm at 20,000 feet. I'd love to be able to cram 50 books onto an E-reader and be done with it.
E-readers would also be great if I'm trying to read a novel with an inappropriate (for the little ones) cover. There have been times that I've wanted to read my trashy little novels in public, but I always have to wait.
Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us voluntarily began collecting online sales taxes in most states and all three now charge Internet sales tax in California.
It looks like some big companies decided to voluntarily start collecting taxes, so you can't just blame the government. However, it looks like there is one concrete reason why these companies are starting to tax, and one speculative reason (on my part). First, the article says they are collecting taxes, now, so that the states won't "back-tax" them in the future. Second, I speculate that some of the big companies that are ready to start taxing want to force everyone to start taxing. That way they will have a leg up on the competition. Some companies won't even be able to afford to implement a tax system, they'll just go out of business.
I'd have to agree with you there. This type of voting is contrary to the electoral college (which I don't claim to completely understand, but I think I've got the jist). If this type of voting becomes popular (which I don't think it will), then I wouldn't be surprised if an Electoral College member refused to vote what his constituents told him to.
Scenario: Texas voters trade with California voters, and in California, Candidate Bob narrowly defeats Candidate Nancy (all because of the trades). The Electoral College Rep knows for a fact that the trading is what put Bob over Nancy, so he goes ahead and votes for Nancy anyways (unless he is compelled to vote for Bob by law).
I've been keeping track of those games, and what I found most amazing was that Kasparov played so cautiously. If the last game he played would have been against a human player (who played the same moves), I don't think he would have accepted the draw. It seems he accepted the draw because he was psychologically spent, especially when thinking of his loss to Deep Blue several years ago.
The Sony VIAO W-10 sells for $1599 while the 15inch iMac will run you $1299 while the Gateway Profile 4s Plus sets you back $1209.
This desktop certainly looks unique, but the price is still pretty steep. Believe it or not, a difference of only $300 made my decision when I bought my last computer. That's $300 cheaper I have to sell it for on Ebay to help recoup my cost to get my next computer;-).
But few cases have been successfully prosecuted under state laws, partly because spammers hide their identities -- by forging e-mail headers and routing information or by relaying spam through an unsuspecting host. That makes it hard to pinpoint the humans responsible for sending out the illegal missives.
For crying out loud. If you are going to spam 1,000,000 people with a penis replacement advertisement, then you'd at least better give an address so that people know where to send you money! Does a lot of spam, nowadays, not include any way at all to contact the spammer? How can that be profitable?
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There's a number of ways to interpret "clean slate." We originally picked that name less because of subject matter than the need to start over again. Interestingly, if you go into the way the game is designed, we didn't actively choose to have the fiction behind the game support that title, but the background tale we selected actually wound up fitting the name quite well.
Interesting that the name didn't necessarily have anything to do with the actual product.
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Where are those pictures ;-)? Weren't there some night-vision camera's that also did that?
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Taken directly from the announcement, but it's short enough to just put here.
Most important changes in 0.3:
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Or really, just do a search for "footagehead" at Google and you'll get several reviews and an excerpt or two.
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This twisting action seems to be becoming standard in the PDA-world. In this case, though, it seems the keys might get accidentally pressed when you flip them around to the other side. Hopefully the keys are hindered inactive during the flipping process. But even if they are, it seems a lot of wear would come to the keys when the PDA is shoved in tiny places.
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The above is just as rediculous as the real thing.
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Why can't scientists drop bowling balls ?
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Humans exist, today, because of billions and billions of tiny factors, and probably about a dozen large factors. If you took any of them away, you wouldn't be alive today.
As a matter of fact, if you won't back in time 1 billion years and swished your hands around, and then came back, nothing would be the same. You guys know the Simpson's episode ;-)
And from the article: We should bear in mind that 99.9% of all species that ever dwelled on Earth were wiped out, most likely, as a result of large impacts.
If those species wouldn't have died, we also wouldn't be here today.
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For some reason, that paragraph really cracked me up...
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Pixar has port... Did somebody say Portman ?
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On the other hand, I'd love to be able to bring 50 books onto an airplane with me, so I can pick out what I want to read. As it is now, I can only bring one or two books with me, and I always seem to get bored with them when I'm at 20,000 feet. I'd love to be able to cram 50 books onto an E-reader and be done with it.
E-readers would also be great if I'm trying to read a novel with an inappropriate (for the little ones) cover. There have been times that I've wanted to read my trashy little novels in public, but I always have to wait.
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It looks like some big companies decided to voluntarily start collecting taxes, so you can't just blame the government. However, it looks like there is one concrete reason why these companies are starting to tax, and one speculative reason (on my part). First, the article says they are collecting taxes, now, so that the states won't "back-tax" them in the future. Second, I speculate that some of the big companies that are ready to start taxing want to force everyone to start taxing. That way they will have a leg up on the competition. Some companies won't even be able to afford to implement a tax system, they'll just go out of business.
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Scenario: Texas voters trade with California voters, and in California, Candidate Bob narrowly defeats Candidate Nancy (all because of the trades). The Electoral College Rep knows for a fact that the trading is what put Bob over Nancy, so he goes ahead and votes for Nancy anyways (unless he is compelled to vote for Bob by law).
Make sense?
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This desktop certainly looks unique, but the price is still pretty steep. Believe it or not, a difference of only $300 made my decision when I bought my last computer. That's $300 cheaper I have to sell it for on Ebay to help recoup my cost to get my next computer ;-).
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For crying out loud. If you are going to spam 1,000,000 people with a penis replacement advertisement, then you'd at least better give an address so that people know where to send you money! Does a lot of spam, nowadays, not include any way at all to contact the spammer? How can that be profitable?
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