Yesterday I noticed that a simple plastic bag had been patented. I was looking at the bag to see find it's recycling logo, and there it was. Some patent number. Now, this wasn't a fancy ziplock or super-ultra freezer bag with teflon air foils or anything. This was your regular grocery store plastic bag. Not even one with holes for handles. Just a plastic bag.
What if pointing at stars or whatever he is doing is a hobby. There are a lot of hobby astronomers. I was interested in it as a kid. This guy is being busted for shining a laser in the sky, and the laser happens to go in the cockpit? Give him the benefit of the doubt, "Innocent until Proven Guilty" should still be the way our law system works.
So he's guilty of practicing a hobby. I can think of dozens more potentially damaging things that can happen from 90% of the peoples hobbies (computer programming) on Slashdot.
if the FBI wants to play witch hunt for laser pointer people, imagine the witch hunt for those wacky hackers turned terrorists.
Everyone here is saying things like jail him for life if his intent was harm, castrate him or kill him off if it was stupidity. You guys are all freakin nuts. Step back for a second from your ego, step back and think of a mistake you have made in life, step back and remember a time you got in trouble for something you did by accident or didn't do at all. No imagine if you were facing 25 years of prison, and a life ruined by media abuse.
Time for a "million points of light" protest. Everyone grab your laser pointers and gather outside your town hall. At sundown we point them straight up.
Come to NYC and see a movie at one of the "megaplexes" or whatever you want to call them. 20-30 minutes easy. $10.50 for a movie and advertising. We're lining someone's pockets very quickly.
At places outside of manhattan and it's still 10-20 minutes depending. Less are "ads" and more are trailers. Prices still $$
Yes, I do. I'm a Packer fan. It would take one post on a popular gaming website to get the info needed. Maybe few dozen volunteers to compile the data.
Folks, China is already the "factory of the world"
Yes, that Tradewars... the game. And most Sci-Fi space stories. They had different types of planets that you could capture/create. planets good for mining ore, planets good for gas or whatever...
It's not too different from what earth is doing. we'll have countries that are nothing but factories, countries that are nothing but lawyers, countries that are nothing but managers. Then a few hundred years from now, space travel will be common, other civilizations will start talking with us, and we'll be the Lawyer Planet or the Marketting Planet. Or maybe just the Ore Planet with a few billion miners.
Then they'll blow us up for being morons.
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It seems that over the last 10 years, the term engineer is being loosely(sp?) applied to anything that has a title. I think it all started with the "politically correct" phase of the early 90's ("Sanitation Engineer" aka Garbage Man), but then exploded with the growth of the bubble in the late 90's. So we soon had "website engineers" and software developers were also called "engineers".
Hell, I went through the college of engineering for a B.S. in Computer Engineering at my university, graduated, got a job in my field, and I don't even consider myself an engineer.
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I'd like to videoconference in to welcome them as well, but the time difference is too great.
I participated in beta and I got sick of spending all my time taking damage in fights. Probably 100% of the fights I was in damaged me. It's the primary reason I didn't bother buying the game.
As a non-WoW player, but fan of RPGs, i find this statement rediculous. You are playing a game that has combat as a big componant. Large fleshy things are swinging large metal things at you, or whatever. Of course you will take some damage in fights that are somewhat equal.
Someone should just patent several methods of restricting access to the Internet. That way if the government wants to restrict access, they have to license the technology or take a long hard look at the Patent office.
Interesting. As I loaded/. I was burning a freshly downloaded.iso of Mepis. I need to bring it home to my parents on Thankgiving vacation to do a little rescue, and perhaps a little showing off.
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$15 is a lot if you are a casual gamer.
I would love to be a casual WoW player, but only if it were something in the range of $5-$7, or an hourly rate that would, if used as as much as the average player, would equal out to $15/month. So if the average player plays 40 hours a month, i pay $0.38/hour or so.
One reason I think is that the manuals that come with software suck. Or are non existant in a hard-copy format. Which sucks. Most people aren't used to online documentation and would prefer something they can flip through, book mark, and read anywhere.
I recently bought "C++ GUI Programming with QT" after downloading it (it's free) and reading the first 2 chapters. That was a great idea by the publishers, in my opinion. They also bundled a worthwhile CD with the book. Coupled with the API documentation and tutorials that gets installed with QT, the book is great.
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The problem arises when the FCC also gets to decide what is indecent.
That is not the place of a virtually unregulated department of the government.
Yesterday I noticed that a simple plastic bag had been patented. I was looking at the bag to see find it's recycling logo, and there it was. Some patent number. Now, this wasn't a fancy ziplock or super-ultra freezer bag with teflon air foils or anything. This was your regular grocery store plastic bag. Not even one with holes for handles. Just a plastic bag.
What if pointing at stars or whatever he is doing is a hobby. There are a lot of hobby astronomers. I was interested in it as a kid. This guy is being busted for shining a laser in the sky, and the laser happens to go in the cockpit? Give him the benefit of the doubt, "Innocent until Proven Guilty" should still be the way our law system works.
So he's guilty of practicing a hobby. I can think of dozens more potentially damaging things that can happen from 90% of the peoples hobbies (computer programming) on Slashdot.
if the FBI wants to play witch hunt for laser pointer people, imagine the witch hunt for those wacky hackers turned terrorists.
Everyone here is saying things like jail him for life if his intent was harm, castrate him or kill him off if it was stupidity. You guys are all freakin nuts. Step back for a second from your ego, step back and think of a mistake you have made in life, step back and remember a time you got in trouble for something you did by accident or didn't do at all. No imagine if you were facing 25 years of prison, and a life ruined by media abuse.
You're all a bunch of hypocrites.
Time for a "million points of light" protest. Everyone grab your laser pointers and gather outside your town hall. At sundown we point them straight up.
I believe that the existentialists are wrong, and that the world and the universe do indeed exist even if I can't prove it.
As far as I know, existentialists don't think the world doesn't exist. Or maybe you are making two independent claims of beliefs.
try wikipedia for existentialism or read something by Camus.
The Stranger is one of my favorite books still, after reading it in highschool english class (Who says highschool is boring!)
Nothing will ever get cheaper, Other People will just get richer.
I think it was Stephen Hawking that said he's not sure the human mind can really understand black holes and such.
that's just astro-physicist speak for "I bet you a cup of coffee that you can't write a p2p client in less than 5 lines of perl"
turn MY mental illness into a crowd-pleasing source of income, I'd do it, too.
half way there! just put an iPod pyramid scheme link in your message somewhere...
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did someone say flash mob?
Come to NYC and see a movie at one of the "megaplexes" or whatever you want to call them. 20-30 minutes easy. $10.50 for a movie and advertising. We're lining someone's pockets very quickly.
At places outside of manhattan and it's still 10-20 minutes depending. Less are "ads" and more are trailers. Prices still $$
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
too bad it's not http://www.microsoft.com/windows/stfu/
Yes, I do. I'm a Packer fan. It would take one post on a popular gaming website to get the info needed. Maybe few dozen volunteers to compile the data.
Cullen Jenkins. 4.99 seconds in the 40 yard dash.
You don't click on line 11359 of the Linux kernel to open up Konqueror.
You can now. I've just created an app called Konkernel. It loads the source, and makes line 11359 clickable to start Konqueror.
[nelson]Haa-ha[/nelson]
When we showed our corporate overlords what RSS was, the first thing they asked was "How can we get ads in there" ...
It took some time to explain why RSS was good without ads.
Folks, China is already the "factory of the world"
Yes, that Tradewars... the game. And most Sci-Fi space stories. They had different types of planets that you could capture/create. planets good for mining ore, planets good for gas or whatever...
It's not too different from what earth is doing. we'll have countries that are nothing but factories, countries that are nothing but lawyers, countries that are nothing but managers. Then a few hundred years from now, space travel will be common, other civilizations will start talking with us, and we'll be the Lawyer Planet or the Marketting Planet. Or maybe just the Ore Planet with a few billion miners.
Then they'll blow us up for being morons.
It seems that over the last 10 years, the term engineer is being loosely(sp?) applied to anything that has a title. I think it all started with the "politically correct" phase of the early 90's ("Sanitation Engineer" aka Garbage Man), but then exploded with the growth of the bubble in the late 90's. So we soon had "website engineers" and software developers were also called "engineers".
Hell, I went through the college of engineering for a B.S. in Computer Engineering at my university, graduated, got a job in my field, and I don't even consider myself an engineer.
I'd like to videoconference in to welcome them as well, but the time difference is too great.
I participated in beta and I got sick of spending all my time taking damage in fights. Probably 100% of the fights I was in damaged me. It's the primary reason I didn't bother buying the game.
As a non-WoW player, but fan of RPGs, i find this statement rediculous. You are playing a game that has combat as a big componant. Large fleshy things are swinging large metal things at you, or whatever. Of course you will take some damage in fights that are somewhat equal.
lousy MTv generation.. . no patience.
Someone should just patent several methods of restricting access to the Internet. That way if the government wants to restrict access, they have to license the technology or take a long hard look at the Patent office.
Interesting. As I loaded /. I was burning a freshly downloaded .iso of Mepis. I need to bring it home to my parents on Thankgiving vacation to do a little rescue, and perhaps a little showing off.
$15 is a lot if you are a casual gamer.
I would love to be a casual WoW player, but only if it were something in the range of $5-$7, or an hourly rate that would, if used as as much as the average player, would equal out to $15/month. So if the average player plays 40 hours a month, i pay $0.38/hour or so.
It's gotta happen atleast once a year.
One reason I think is that the manuals that come with software suck. Or are non existant in a hard-copy format. Which sucks. Most people aren't used to online documentation and would prefer something they can flip through, book mark, and read anywhere.
I recently bought "C++ GUI Programming with QT" after downloading it (it's free) and reading the first 2 chapters. That was a great idea by the publishers, in my opinion. They also bundled a worthwhile CD with the book. Coupled with the API documentation and tutorials that gets installed with QT, the book is great.
time for some non-standard mischief! To hell with ISO mischief!