"I just love how he thinks this is worth $100 million!"
I think he thinks if he says it enough times it will come true.
Ok Mike Mann, tap your heels together three times and say "Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million..."
FTA: "Should you find yourself multi-monitor curious..."
hey! whoa! slow down there partner! I mean, yeah sure I'm interested in six monitors, but curious? No, no I am not curious... about anything... not that there is anything wrong with that
Apple's patent: "A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items."
If they don't like it they can complain to the USPTO like everyone else.
"Perhaps you should actually learn about our founding fathers views [wikipedia.org] on slavery before you condemn them."
Did you even read the article you linked to?
"According to historian Stephen Ambrose: "Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African Americans to live in society as free people.""
Says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink, then says printer ink is $10,000 per gallon.
Where does it say "We use XXX gallons of ink a (period of time)"?
Example: This is what the article says: "this spoiler results into 30% fuel savings, and fuel is $3 a gallon." Where does it say I even have a car? For all we know they don't have any inkjet printers, article never mentions how much ink they're consuming now.
Very poorly worded article, or a bit of double-talk to make the college sound green and eco-friendly which is very popular right now.
"It's also a lot more technical and creates problems with firmware updates"
He's right. While it was common on the last generation of consoles, the PSP was really the beginning of the end of pirating on consoles, since it introduced new firmwares within the games released every few months. The new firmware was required to play that game and new releases, and it would disable whatever hacked firmware was on the device. There has been at least 23 PSP firmware updates since it's release in 2005. These constant updates force pirates to keep hacking the latest firmwares and users to have to keep searching for new updates.
"The P-500 Bazalt is a liquid-fueled, rocket powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. "
"India successfully tested Sunday a "maneuverable" version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it has jointly developed with Russia."
So Russia found a 40 yr old Bazalt in their basement and "developed" it with India? India didn't even get the good version, they got the crappy one that only holds 200kg with a 290km range. FAIL
You're exactly right. Reason the tablet hasn't succeded is because of the cost. If they had tablets sitting next to tablets with same specs and price we'd all own tablets. Give it time, ultra portable laptops were very expensive at one time untilthey were rebranded as netbooks and the price dropped. People said laptops would never go anywhere either and now it's very common to replace your desktop with a laptop. We'll see how 2015 goes, if they can cram a quad CPU and 10 hr life in one for $500 I think they'll sell well. I love my pentium m equiped tablet.
While I'd admit they look very similar (FlightDeck looks better IMHO) this is the internet, every well designed site ends up on other sites. How many websites look like Amazon? Look at all the identical looking blogs created with wordpress. Honestly MetaLab I think you're mad they took your design and improved upon it.
"If you're paying $400/yr, you're not a cheap bastard. Sorry to shatter your world-view, but you really aren't."
Agreed, who needs to spend $400 every year to keep up with games? Maybe if you throw in the price of the games I could easily see reaching $400 a year, but $400 on just hardware? Let's see, that's a new i7-920 and $200 left over for a decent motherboard and ram, so what are you going to buy next year? Ok, $400 for video card.... then what, new processor? Pretty sure the i7 920 wouldn't be outdated by 2012.
March 2008 you could have bought a Core 2 Quad Q9300 for $266 retail. That gives you $140 left for ram and mb. Let's say you went a little over, $140 wouldn't cut it, spent $240 on mb and ram, leaving you with $300 for 2009. Feb 2009 $300 would buy a Radeon HD 4850 X2 2 GB card. It's two 4850 GPUs built onto one PCI-E card, so basically it's like having two 4850 video cards. It should run everything you throw at it. So now it's March 2010, you have your Core 2 Quad 9300, your mb, your ram, and two 4850 video cards. What else do you need?
"Really? My friend spend about $1000 bucks in 2005 or 2006 for a Quad Core from Intel and has upgraded the Ram Once and it's lasted him this whole time."
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No, Madoff had the gold and everyone wanted a piece. Since he couldn't pay off the govt he's serving a life sentence
First, truckers are commercial drivers, so they're being paid to drive and supposedly be good at it. Second, the are controlling 20+ tons of hurt.
Trust the computer is modded Insightful with all the recent Toyota problems? This should be modded Funny, he even mentioned putting Hal in charge
"Once the admins and users will start getting jail time and huge fines more often,"
unless they do something crazy, like move to another country. Spain has already ruled P2P and P2P links are legal. Isohunt has 40 million unique searches a month and is worth $51 million dollars, generating $5 million a yr in ad revenue. If the US Govt told me "Hey! You can't make $5 million a year anymore!" I would be on the next plane to where ever it was legal to keep doing what I'm doing.
"I just love how he thinks this is worth $100 million!"
I think he thinks if he says it enough times it will come true.
Ok Mike Mann, tap your heels together three times and say "Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million..."
FTA:
"Should you find yourself multi-monitor curious..."
hey! whoa! slow down there partner! I mean, yeah sure I'm interested in six monitors, but curious? No, no I am not curious... about anything... not that there is anything wrong with that
"I take it, then, that all the volunteers are gay?"
these are 20 guys training to be Roman gladiators, are you sure you want to call them "gay"?
"Apple was granted an extension to respond to it."
Which I don't understand, because Apple already owns a patent on multi-touch, how can you sue the patent holder for infringement of their own patent?
Apple's patent:
"A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items."
If they don't like it they can complain to the USPTO like everyone else.
Even if they didn't multi-touch and "pinching" was demonstrated way back in 1991, long before anyone filed a patent
"Perhaps you should actually learn about our founding fathers views [wikipedia.org] on slavery before you condemn them."
Did you even read the article you linked to?
"According to historian Stephen Ambrose: "Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African Americans to live in society as free people.""
"Let's just hope that EA don't set the sue-monkeys on them."
Why would they? This library in St. Louis, Missouri offers Wii, Xbox360 and Playstation 3 games
Is this rare? Do other US libraries not offer the latest video games for consoles?
"I want to create a free movie lending library that streams to Roku boxes and only allows one person to watch a movie at a time per disc..."
The scenario you're describing is only illegal in the US"
Are you sure about that? Because this US library provides a similar service, downloading printed and audio books directly from the library.
The company that provides it, OverDrive.com, claims there are libraries streaming videos and music too.
"It references saving ink and the cost of ink."
Also means this might save nothing.
Says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink, then says printer ink is $10,000 per gallon.
Where does it say "We use XXX gallons of ink a (period of time)"?
Example: This is what the article says: "this spoiler results into 30% fuel savings, and fuel is $3 a gallon." Where does it say I even have a car? For all we know they don't have any inkjet printers, article never mentions how much ink they're consuming now.
Very poorly worded article, or a bit of double-talk to make the college sound green and eco-friendly which is very popular right now.
"It's also a lot more technical and creates problems with firmware updates"
He's right. While it was common on the last generation of consoles, the PSP was really the beginning of the end of pirating on consoles, since it introduced new firmwares within the games released every few months. The new firmware was required to play that game and new releases, and it would disable whatever hacked firmware was on the device. There has been at least 23 PSP firmware updates since it's release in 2005. These constant updates force pirates to keep hacking the latest firmwares and users to have to keep searching for new updates.
"I think Chavez is a nutbag, but Perez was horrible."
Couldn't have been that bad, he didn't even execute the person who tried to assassinate him
"You're also right that the Venezuelans are the only ones that can do something about him."
Why didn't they kill him 18 yrs ago when he tried to assassinate the president? He even said he "failed (at assassination) for now". But instead of execution, he was released two years later and made president 4 years after that?? We might as well make John Hinckley the next US President
"This is awesome, kudos to the guy who pulled it off."
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It would be awesome if everyone hadn't done this many times already.
If someone from NASA really called this guy then it's obvious no one at NASA reads
Please stop posting these stories, they were cool the first 3 times, now it's belongs to the Redundancy Office of Redundant Redundancy
"Did you even look at this thing?
I agree. It's incredibly difficult to build a real life table that looks like an artist drawing of said table."
No, it's real, as you can see in the photos below, but I agree, it's very strange the website has no real photos of a $8,500 table.
http://www.wraithwerks.net/blog/GenCon%202008%20Photos/Sultan%20Gaming%20Table.jpg
http://www.purplepawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sultan-gaming-table.jpg
http://www.robotviking.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sultan01.jpg
http://www.saveordieradio.com/storage/photo-755372.jpg
http://images.forbes.com/media/blogs/images/digitaldownload/images/2008/08/15/sultan_2.jpg
http://www.robotviking.com/2009/07/08/geek-chic-the-absolute-greatest-gaming-table-ever/
My new Gaming Table: The Emissary from Geek Chic (Picture Heavy)
"The P-500 Bazalt is a liquid-fueled, rocket powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. "
"India successfully tested Sunday a "maneuverable" version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it has jointly developed with Russia."
So Russia found a 40 yr old Bazalt in their basement and "developed" it with India? India didn't even get the good version, they got the crappy one that only holds 200kg with a 290km range. FAIL
and India's only has a 200kg payload and 290km range.
I've never seen an article fail so bad, and it makes India look like a joke in the process.
You're exactly right. Reason the tablet hasn't succeded is because of the cost. If they had tablets sitting next to tablets with same specs and price we'd all own tablets. Give it time, ultra portable laptops were very expensive at one time untilthey were rebranded as netbooks and the price dropped. People said laptops would never go anywhere either and now it's very common to replace your desktop with a laptop. We'll see how 2015 goes, if they can cram a quad CPU and 10 hr life in one for $500 I think they'll sell well. I love my pentium m equiped tablet.
Because 98 sucked and 2000 didn't support games and wasn't marketed towards home users, it was the new NT for businesses.
"Feeling trolly today?"
Did you read what they're accused of stealing? They're accused of stealing website design.
Here's a photo demonstrating exactly what they're accused of stealing
While I'd admit they look very similar (FlightDeck looks better IMHO) this is the internet, every well designed site ends up on other sites. How many websites look like Amazon? Look at all the identical looking blogs created with wordpress. Honestly MetaLab I think you're mad they took your design and improved upon it.
Who?
"If you're paying $400/yr, you're not a cheap bastard. Sorry to shatter your world-view, but you really aren't."
Agreed, who needs to spend $400 every year to keep up with games? Maybe if you throw in the price of the games I could easily see reaching $400 a year, but $400 on just hardware? Let's see, that's a new i7-920 and $200 left over for a decent motherboard and ram, so what are you going to buy next year? Ok, $400 for video card.... then what, new processor? Pretty sure the i7 920 wouldn't be outdated by 2012.
March 2008 you could have bought a Core 2 Quad Q9300 for $266 retail. That gives you $140 left for ram and mb. Let's say you went a little over, $140 wouldn't cut it, spent $240 on mb and ram, leaving you with $300 for 2009. Feb 2009 $300 would buy a Radeon HD 4850 X2 2 GB card. It's two 4850 GPUs built onto one PCI-E card, so basically it's like having two 4850 video cards. It should run everything you throw at it. So now it's March 2010, you have your Core 2 Quad 9300, your mb, your ram, and two 4850 video cards. What else do you need?
"Really? My friend spend about $1000 bucks in 2005 or 2006 for a Quad Core from Intel and has upgraded the Ram Once and it's lasted him this whole time."
Does your friend also have a time machine? Because the first quad core was released Nov 2006, the 2.667ghz Core 2 Extreme QX6700, and it cost $999 just for the processor.. In terms of benchmarks, it's about half the performance of a modern $230 i7-930.
Quad didn't become popular until the Q6600 was released April 2007 for $266.