I've already told my own mother that I'm taking the keys away when she gets too old. If her reaction is any indication as to how it will go when I actually try, then I'm sure to be in for a fight on that one...
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I hope to die in my sleep like Grandpa, not screaming in fear like the passengers in his car. Oh, and in Korea, only old people drive. In the Soviet Union, old people drive YOU!
Almost everything we need to lessen our impact and the impact of Nature on the global climate is at our fingertips. There is no reason for humanity to be so apathetic and downright stupid about our own ongoing survival.
IANAIPL (I am not an IP lawyer) but doesn't this statement mean that nobody can make ANY type of baseball game? Not just ones with licensed characters, etc, but anythign having to do with baseball?
I'm not sure, but it could mean that nobody is allowed to use the major baseball franchises. Which means that you could probably get away with a baseball game featuring the "Slashcity Dotters", the "Beowulf Clusters" and the "Korea Old Men".
Also, the websites they use probably skew the results as well; Disney, Best Buy, Sony, and Liz Claiborne?
If they want accuracy they should try throwing a few porn sites in, or maybe popular search engines.
I disagree. At first I thought that you could increase measured non-IE browser share by including, say, Slashdot. But then I realized that the whole point of choosing the studied websites is that those websites appeal to Joe Sixpack, and not the geeks who would normally gravitate towards using non-IE browsers.
So in this case we have the worst case scenario (websites used by few geeks), showing that Mozilla is gaining over IE. Ane you're complaining?
Or, instead of "How is the project going?", I get: "How are things going, from a project perspective?"
Well, I could overanalyze this. For example, in business you want to ask a question, but you don't want to ask it directly which makes the other guy think you're treating them like a machine... even though that's what you're doing anyway.
So, instead of asking "How's the project going?", you ask "How are things going...", as in "I'm interested in you!", so they get ready to talk about their latest boring hobby but then you qualify: "...from a project perspective (or context, or basis)." Bzap!
The SF book Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Charles Sheffield, talks about specialty fields becoming so complex and so jargon-filled that they literally become different languages. So, doctors speak "Medicine", of which there are subdialects such as "Neurophysiology".
So maybe we're seeing the birth of a new language, "Sales". Or maybe "Bullshit".
If you're planning on reading the book, beware that it looked to me as a futurist essay thinly disguised as a novel about a guy and his cryogenically frozen wife.
I do work in an office, but when I work on my own projects ( robotics & AI ) I do it in a coffee shop.
Coffee Shop Manager: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Hax0r: Huh? Why? I'm your best customer!
Manager: Well, sir, our patrons keep finding crawly little metal rats nibbling on their shoes. Also, last week one of your larger prototypes tried to mate with our espresso machine.
For one, the theory is that humans evolved from apes. Apes aren't monkeys.
That's for sure! Koko used a telephone to leave a "breather" message on an answering machine. Now if that isn't an ape struggling to become human, I don't know what is!
I never thought Tron was a great movie, and the stupid nerd humor is annoying...
When Tron first came out, I thought it was fun. How many other computer-related movies were there at the time (hint for reply: list of early 80's computer films)? I guess I'm just a stupid nerd!:)
Chisel runes in stone with your foreheads? When *we* were kids, we chopped off our fingers and wrote in blood in the snow, and then we'd get killed by our parents, who would dance on our graves, singing "Hallelujah!"
Many other careers have built-in protections. Lawyers have law-school quotas for example to protect them from a flood of cheap foreign legal geniouses. If they can have protection from raw cheap-labor foreign competition, why can't we? Why are ONLY THEY entitled to protection?
Because THEY can sue your ass to oblivion. What're we gonna do, replace you with a very small shell script?
However, I have a hard time imagining a musician (or any other content creator) sitting down to write a song (or any other content for that matter) but deciding not to because it would only remain protected until 75 years after their death...
We can hardly stand ourselves, let alone people who are legitimately outsiders.
Hear, hear!
It was an American, Robert Frost, who coined a phrase so descriptive of American society, that it became a well-known aphorism: "Good fences make good neighbors".
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I hope to die in my sleep like Grandpa, not screaming in fear like the passengers in his car. Oh, and in Korea, only old people drive. In the Soviet Union, old people drive YOU!
--Rob
Jerry Pournelle, is that you?
--Rob
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I'm not sure, but it could mean that nobody is allowed to use the major baseball franchises. Which means that you could probably get away with a baseball game featuring the "Slashcity Dotters", the "Beowulf Clusters" and the "Korea Old Men".
--Rob
Actually, I liked that show, "Animals Close-Up with a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats".
--Rob
I disagree. At first I thought that you could increase measured non-IE browser share by including, say, Slashdot. But then I realized that the whole point of choosing the studied websites is that those websites appeal to Joe Sixpack, and not the geeks who would normally gravitate towards using non-IE browsers.
So in this case we have the worst case scenario (websites used by few geeks), showing that Mozilla is gaining over IE. Ane you're complaining?
--Rob
Have they looked under the sofa?
--Rob
Well, I could overanalyze this. For example, in business you want to ask a question, but you don't want to ask it directly which makes the other guy think you're treating them like a machine... even though that's what you're doing anyway.
So, instead of asking "How's the project going?", you ask "How are things going...", as in "I'm interested in you!", so they get ready to talk about their latest boring hobby but then you qualify: "...from a project perspective (or context, or basis)." Bzap!
--Rob
So maybe we're seeing the birth of a new language, "Sales". Or maybe "Bullshit".
If you're planning on reading the book, beware that it looked to me as a futurist essay thinly disguised as a novel about a guy and his cryogenically frozen wife.
--Rob
Coffee Shop Manager: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Hax0r: Huh? Why? I'm your best customer!
Manager: Well, sir, our patrons keep finding crawly little metal rats nibbling on their shoes. Also, last week one of your larger prototypes tried to mate with our espresso machine.
--Rob
That's for sure! Koko used a telephone to leave a "breather" message on an answering machine. Now if that isn't an ape struggling to become human, I don't know what is!
--Rob
--Rob
Cue nerd humor.
Except the MCP hasn't cleaned up dead processes yet, so the dead parents are zombies!
--Rob
When Tron first came out, I thought it was fun. How many other computer-related movies were there at the time (hint for reply: list of early 80's computer films)? I guess I'm just a stupid nerd! :)
--Rob
Come on, how could anyone not love the line, "Send in the logic PROBE!"
--Rob
Does anyone hack modules for Leap Pads? Then you could put your own stuff and drawings in there. Cue porn jokes :P
--Rob
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Forget that! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of-- (POW! Thud.)
--Rob
You forgot a term: 2.68 usec = 30 minute sitcom minus commercials, minus the stupid bits.
--Rob
Because THEY can sue your ass to oblivion. What're we gonna do, replace you with a very small shell script?
--Rob
Well, I could be undead.
--Rob
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Yeah, look at those new Pac-Man T's that are selling for $20 a pop :(
--Rob
Cue jokes!
--Rob
Hear, hear!
It was an American, Robert Frost, who coined a phrase so descriptive of American society, that it became a well-known aphorism: "Good fences make good neighbors".
--Rob