Think of the military value though. Toss a ball into a bunker, bounce it around the corner, throw it straight up to see what's on the other side of a wall, etc...
Think of the high school teenager value. Toss it into the locker room, bounce it around into the shower, instant 36 counts of manufacturing child porn.
But I want to pretend I'm in the UK so I can buy toys from Amazon.co.uk which they won't ship to the US (unless they're attached to a DVD, such as a die cast model of The Liberator attached to a Region 2 season box set of Blakes 7). With my own credit card, too! I can understand that there's differing child safety laws and regulations and costly mandatory testing procedures governing toys but, dammit, I'm an adult!
They'll let me buy things that should be useless due to DRM and region locking and/or differing video standards, but they won't let me buy actually useless toys?!
Yeah, I got confused what with my previous PC and my Blue & White G3 (upgraded to G4 so I could run a patched installer of Final Cut Pro) being PCI-only. I upgrade infrequently, trying to get the most out of the hardware until it is OS-obsolete. Yeah, no chance of there being drivers for this card under Tiger let alone a PPC port of Portal. I really should get that server room wired up for networking and that G3 given file server duties; the case internals have already been modded to accommodate more drives (some rivet popping and moving of the power button board).
As yet there are but one or two video cards compatible with a Mac Pro1,1 capable of playing Portal, and they are still quite expensive ($400+), no longer manufactured, and vendors are unreliable for (1) shipping the correct card for the model of Mac and (2) don't seem to last very long once they do ship a "working" one (apparently a reflashed PC card). The last one I got eventually decided that it had to drive the display connected to it at exactly the same resolution as another display of differing resolution on the original video card. Even if no display was connected to it.
So, how long do you think its will take before the effect can be controlled with targeted, lower power magnetic fields to enhance virtual reality systems, from flight simulators to total immersive video games?
If you're going to use a volcano, why not fly barely operable DC8s destined for the scrapyard full of candidates into it, and then nuke the volcano to be sure?
The guests arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large containers. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows inconveniencing passers-by with this one.
A catch-all is fine if your domain isn't attractive to spammers to use for their outgoing mail. I had to convert one of my two domains away from being a catch-all because of a certain movie being released with the same name became attractive to spammers. I don't even accept e-mail via a webmaster account for the site anymore. At peak volume, my ISP actually disabled my procmail spam filter because it was using too much CPU on their system, replacing my.procmailrc file with a copy with permissions against my editing or removing it.
I've found most businesses I deal with don't spam or distribute my e-mail address. The only exceptions so far has been one company who had their product cease-and-desisted (and apparently sold their e-mail list to recoup their legal costs, which led to spam for similar software, and eventually to multiple attempted botnet infections per day), a political e-mail list that not only did not honor unsubscribe requests but also data-mined a new address for me when I closed the original address I'd given them (at a caucus at which I barely participated), and a rebate fulfillment company that not only provided the alternate address to the political mailing list (directly or indirectly) but also never fulfilled my rebate. Those three usernames now come up as undeliverable.
So yeah: software with legal troubles, political groups, and rebate services are three things not to give your e-mail address.
Yet other, more reputable companies will also try to acquire e-mail addresses through recovery services if you opt out of giving them an address. I had unsolicited e-mails from two businesses I'd done business with previously arrive on the same day, both to addresses I had not given them. Neither one has continued, but only one apologized.
So this is Wake on LAN, but for WiFi? Wake on WiN? No, theirs was better. Though I'd drop the hyphen: "EMiLi" can more easily be pronounced Emily while "E-MiLi" forces the long-E, giving E-Millie or, worse, if HiFi/WiFi/MiFi carries the day, E-My-Lie (WiDi is already unfortunate: "Why Die").
(I duck and take cover as I see clumps of vitriol and ridicule coming my way already...)
Vitriol can be quite nutritious depending on its preparation. Ridicule can have adverse side effects and interactions and should only be taken under prescription.
How a game where you play as a civilian in a war setting, trying to keep you, your family, and friends alive without becoming combatants? It could be "Sims War".
Well, it's no 2001: A Space Odyssey, but if that works for tablet prior art...
But then that's just the crew capsule. You'd have to combine that with other B movies or sci-fi TV series (e.g. The Twilight Zone) where rockets always landed upright (so they could take off again). I don't know of any that had both that and doing it on a carrier.
Seems foolish though. You'd be wasting even more fuel carrying the extra mass in fuel you're going to need to make your safe landing, unless you plan to refuel during your descent, again burning fuel to get fuel to burn.
[on demonstrating Atlantis's gate's energy shield] McKay: Using power. Using power. Using power.
A patent application must be filed before a technology is made publicly available, or it is no longer patentable. That is already the case even under current patent law, and will not change.
Sorry, not true. You have 1 year from public disclosure to patent the idea.
During which time someone else may jump your claim by filing first?
Sounds like we're well on the way to enabling Gogrilla Mincefriend's patenting method.
Sure, and then they'll hollow it out in a series of chambers, except in the seventh chamber they'll perform some experiment that makes it extend beyond the end of the asteroid and open portals to other alternate universes along that tunnel for trade, while also yanking the whole asteroid out of one universe and depositing it in the past of another.
People choose to teach and when they do, they have to follow the resulting requirements. In some cases that means being subjected to prosecution for what would otherwise be legal behavior.
I think you're confusing choosing a career in education with enlisting in the military.
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Think of the military value though. Toss a ball into a bunker, bounce it around the corner, throw it straight up to see what's on the other side of a wall, etc...
Think of the high school teenager value. Toss it into the locker room, bounce it around into the shower, instant 36 counts of manufacturing child porn.
More concisely stated as mission creep.
But I want to pretend I'm in the UK so I can buy toys from Amazon.co.uk which they won't ship to the US (unless they're attached to a DVD, such as a die cast model of The Liberator attached to a Region 2 season box set of Blakes 7). With my own credit card, too! I can understand that there's differing child safety laws and regulations and costly mandatory testing procedures governing toys but, dammit, I'm an adult!
They'll let me buy things that should be useless due to DRM and region locking and/or differing video standards, but they won't let me buy actually useless toys?!
Yeah, I got confused what with my previous PC and my Blue & White G3 (upgraded to G4 so I could run a patched installer of Final Cut Pro) being PCI-only. I upgrade infrequently, trying to get the most out of the hardware until it is OS-obsolete. Yeah, no chance of there being drivers for this card under Tiger let alone a PPC port of Portal. I really should get that server room wired up for networking and that G3 given file server duties; the case internals have already been modded to accommodate more drives (some rivet popping and moving of the power button board).
The 1,1 was '06 with EFI32, the '08 has EFI64. Lion can really make that work on the '06?
Can it be flashed with Mac-compatible firmware?
As yet there are but one or two video cards compatible with a Mac Pro1,1 capable of playing Portal, and they are still quite expensive ($400+), no longer manufactured, and vendors are unreliable for (1) shipping the correct card for the model of Mac and (2) don't seem to last very long once they do ship a "working" one (apparently a reflashed PC card). The last one I got eventually decided that it had to drive the display connected to it at exactly the same resolution as another display of differing resolution on the original video card. Even if no display was connected to it.
I imagine that if you could prove your immortality, you wouldn't be required to buy health insurance.
So, how long do you think its will take before the effect can be controlled with targeted, lower power magnetic fields to enhance virtual reality systems, from flight simulators to total immersive video games?
Except for it being exothermic.
If you're going to use a volcano, why not fly barely operable DC8s destined for the scrapyard full of candidates into it, and then nuke the volcano to be sure?
The guests arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large containers. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows inconveniencing passers-by with this one.
A catch-all is fine if your domain isn't attractive to spammers to use for their outgoing mail. I had to convert one of my two domains away from being a catch-all because of a certain movie being released with the same name became attractive to spammers. I don't even accept e-mail via a webmaster account for the site anymore. At peak volume, my ISP actually disabled my procmail spam filter because it was using too much CPU on their system, replacing my .procmailrc file with a copy with permissions against my editing or removing it.
I've found most businesses I deal with don't spam or distribute my e-mail address. The only exceptions so far has been one company who had their product cease-and-desisted (and apparently sold their e-mail list to recoup their legal costs, which led to spam for similar software, and eventually to multiple attempted botnet infections per day), a political e-mail list that not only did not honor unsubscribe requests but also data-mined a new address for me when I closed the original address I'd given them (at a caucus at which I barely participated), and a rebate fulfillment company that not only provided the alternate address to the political mailing list (directly or indirectly) but also never fulfilled my rebate. Those three usernames now come up as undeliverable.
So yeah: software with legal troubles, political groups, and rebate services are three things not to give your e-mail address.
Yet other, more reputable companies will also try to acquire e-mail addresses through recovery services if you opt out of giving them an address. I had unsolicited e-mails from two businesses I'd done business with previously arrive on the same day, both to addresses I had not given them. Neither one has continued, but only one apologized.
Am I the only one who imagined the theme to Blakes 7 while watching this?
So this is Wake on LAN, but for WiFi? Wake on WiN? No, theirs was better. Though I'd drop the hyphen: "EMiLi" can more easily be pronounced Emily while "E-MiLi" forces the long-E, giving E-Millie or, worse, if HiFi/WiFi/MiFi carries the day, E-My-Lie (WiDi is already unfortunate: "Why Die").
"And taking a look at the long range forecast, continued snow, darkness, and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme, saying goodnight... and goodbye."
(I duck and take cover as I see clumps of vitriol and ridicule coming my way already...)
Vitriol can be quite nutritious depending on its preparation. Ridicule can have adverse side effects and interactions and should only be taken under prescription.
How a game where you play as a civilian in a war setting, trying to keep you, your family, and friends alive without becoming combatants? It could be "Sims War".
Well, it's no 2001: A Space Odyssey, but if that works for tablet prior art...
But then that's just the crew capsule. You'd have to combine that with other B movies or sci-fi TV series (e.g. The Twilight Zone) where rockets always landed upright (so they could take off again). I don't know of any that had both that and doing it on a carrier.
Seems foolish though. You'd be wasting even more fuel carrying the extra mass in fuel you're going to need to make your safe landing, unless you plan to refuel during your descent, again burning fuel to get fuel to burn.
[on demonstrating Atlantis's gate's energy shield]
McKay: Using power. Using power. Using power.
"What is Lupus?"
Yes, we must redouble our efforts to incentivise John Lennon to produce more new music.
Shouldn't the iOS version of Safari need a patch too?
A patent application must be filed before a technology is made publicly available, or it is no longer patentable. That is already the case even under current patent law, and will not change.
Sorry, not true. You have 1 year from public disclosure to patent the idea.
During which time someone else may jump your claim by filing first?
Sounds like we're well on the way to enabling Gogrilla Mincefriend's patenting method.
We must make sure we keep this out of enemy hands. The Daleks could reclaim their planet Skaro from the Thals with this technology.
Sure, and then they'll hollow it out in a series of chambers, except in the seventh chamber they'll perform some experiment that makes it extend beyond the end of the asteroid and open portals to other alternate universes along that tunnel for trade, while also yanking the whole asteroid out of one universe and depositing it in the past of another.
People choose to teach and when they do, they have to follow the resulting requirements. In some cases that means being subjected to prosecution for what would otherwise be legal behavior.
I think you're confusing choosing a career in education with enlisting in the military.