Admittedly way off-topic; But could you tell me why journalists disorganize their thoughts into harder-to-recognize structures? I understand the poetic aspects of writing, but I see absolutely no eloquence in (for instance): "The only ones using Windows is us journalists and the suits."
I'm not claiming to know the English language better than you, but to me it doesn't make sense why you wouldn't say: "The Windows Machines are used by the journalists and suits." rather than saying that: "the only ones is"
I'm not trying to flame you, just saying that Journalism seems to have slipped from information-giving and sprung to catchy 'intelligent-sounding' and needlessly complex sentence structures. Maybe people are more likely to listen to you if you sound more intelligent. Maybe it's propagation through 'The Matrix' phenomenon.
RFID = Radio Frequency Identification, not Radio Frequency Sensor. Read ANY fucking RFID article before posting. an RFID chip has absolutely NO logic on it. a "receiver" broadcasts a radio wave with an encrypted signal, if the encryption key matches that of the RFID chip, the chip is powered by the electromagnetic field to broadcast a "reply." The reader knows Absolutely nothing other than the fact that it is within range. There chip can not tell the reader anything.
That was a stupid joke that didn't make any sense to any sensible person. Sensors are not RFID chips and RFID chips are not sensors--they serve different functions, your "joke" was refering to sensors: something that this article is not about. If they were to put sensors in our cars, i'm pretty sure you might have some point to your joke. Your joke is sort of like saying that liscense plates will start telling us that we're driving too fast--it doesn't make ANY sense.
1) He was named "Paris Lane"? like some bastard cross between Paris Hilton and Lois Lane but about 10E8 less sexy?
Probably not
2) This is low-incoming housing, right? where did he get money for a gun if the taxpayers are helping him pay rent?
Something that your middle-class self might not be aware of: There are some places in this country where a gun is almost a neccessity for security. Just because you live in a nice neighborhood where you don't have to worry about someone breaking in, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is like that.
3) does dead people have actual rights regarding privacy? I mean, pretty sure that there are laws against defiling a corpse, but suicide is considered felon in like 9 states anyway, and I am pretty sure felons get less rights than regular people... still beats getting your body dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroad w/ a stake through the heart, though (old english punishment for suicide)
The legality has very little to do with the real issue here: Step out of your preconventional morality world.
4) erm... this appeared on a... pornography website? No.
Here's a question for you: Why ask such stupid questions? Usually a joke takes some sort of form, instead of being merely a random combination of offensive and/or redundant statements.
Did you think they'd never come out with a new version of X?
I don't think they'll come out with a new version. X11R6.7 X Window System is a pretty catchy name, they'll probably just patch it and keep it under the same name.
I meant to say 150k km, or 150.000.000meters. according to what NASA says the diameter of Jupiter is c.a. 142.984.000meters. Wikipedia is not as correct as most people assume. Infact, wikipedia blew up the figure 10888x in this case.
I haven't slept much recently, for some reason that struck me as 100,000km. I guess I play too much UO and don't sleep enough. (k as in thousand gp, gold is worthless, so everything is sold in K's (thousands) or M's (millions))
Ok so in the future we will know when a 100km diameter asteroid is gonna hit earth.
You realize that a 100km asteroid would not be an asteroid, it would be the second largest planet in our solar system (jupiter being around 140km)--9 times larger than earth. Do you REALLY think that there is any way that we could stop a planet 9 times larger than us that's in a collision course with us? Secondly: We would be able to see a 100km dia. planet coming toward us for decades before impact. I think it would be nice to know when life ends, better than this waiting crap.
If you hear the thunder, that means the lighting didn't kill you.
When struck by lightning people hardly ever die immediately. Most of the time the residual effects will kill you over the duration of a year or so.
If you hear the gunshot, the bullet didn't kill you.
So if I shoot you in the heart, you die immediately? The soundwaves would likely hit you at seemingly the same time as the bullet. I seemed to think that a gunshot wound to the heart or lungs that went untreaed wouldn't kill you for at least 5 minutes.
If you smell the engine burning, the car wreck didn't kill you.
Once again, the vital organ thing. Unless your brain suffers damage, fatal damage to your vital organs takes a few minutes to kill you.
They stream the DigitalTV signals on currently idle frequencies to standard UHF/VHF antennas.
Pretty much the same thing, except this time they're using idle freqencies, which means more radio polution. Just what we need, cheaper ways to rot our brains. Who cares if it polutes the airwaves with digital jumble.
But the fact is musicians can't work for free and at some point we need to start paying or the whole industry will die.
Who said free? Artists make alot of money. Who said that artists are immune from getting a second job? The people being hit are the bad artists, the good ones still sell the records because people both want to listen to them and believe that they deserve the money.
Now I'm not saying that most of the crap on MTV is good music in my opinion, but apparently in the average person's mind it is. Musical artists don't need to make extremely large ammounts of money. I'm a painter, and there's a clear threshold based upon which people you know that defines whether you're living in a one room appartment or a mansion, there's hardly a middle-ground. The same is true with actors. Some go to hollywood, some live in a one room apartment next to their play-house. It's about time that the music industry face the reality that all other artists face these days: Even if that means *gasp* getting a second job.
I am assuming that you're talking about taking money from the mid-ranged/local artists: I hope that you're not talking about money being taken from the millionaire MTV artists. IMHO small artists aren't the ones making money off of record sales; small-time artists make money by playing gigs.
To bring this back on-topic, Painters don't make money off of prints, they make it off of the originals. Actors (not the hollywood kind) and dancers make money per performance, not for selling copies of their work. Why can't musical artists be content with making money off of concerts?
Personally I'm waiting for camera phones with a film-based camera built in. I don't understand the big hype about digital photography. It's not like pictures are important or anything: we take them of family and friends or of pretty things. tell me why we need a digital copy of every picture we take? I mean sure the ocasional family picture is nice to put on your desktop/digital picture frame but you don't exactly need high res for that, you won't notice any quality difference after scanning.
Or you could always, you know, use a real picture and real frame. I don't know anyone that takes pictures wherever they go; But the media hypes these picture phones so much. I guess they have half of us convinced that we might actually go out and take pictures one day.
No one's going to use it, this is just some guy that wanted to say "oh, you had an Amiga? you're leet?" then promptly present him with a title of ownership. It sold for what, $100?
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Admittedly way off-topic; But could you tell me why journalists disorganize their thoughts into harder-to-recognize structures? I understand the poetic aspects of writing, but I see absolutely no eloquence in (for instance): "The only ones using Windows is us journalists and the suits."
I'm not claiming to know the English language better than you, but to me it doesn't make sense why you wouldn't say: "The Windows Machines are used by the journalists and suits." rather than saying that: "the only ones is"
I'm not trying to flame you, just saying that Journalism seems to have slipped from information-giving and sprung to catchy 'intelligent-sounding' and needlessly complex sentence structures. Maybe people are more likely to listen to you if you sound more intelligent. Maybe it's propagation through 'The Matrix' phenomenon.
8 bytes/word Everyone knows that a word is 32 bits (or 4 bytes)
(this is assuming that you're using a 32-bit computer) Sorry, old geek moment.
Nanocells already exist.
Naming a new technology the same name as it's predescessor is a good way to not sell technology.
there's no such thing as a "right" to drive. It's a privilege.
Someone's been talking to my mom.
RFID = Radio Frequency Identification, not Radio Frequency Sensor. Read ANY fucking RFID article before posting. an RFID chip has absolutely NO logic on it. a "receiver" broadcasts a radio wave with an encrypted signal, if the encryption key matches that of the RFID chip, the chip is powered by the electromagnetic field to broadcast a "reply." The reader knows Absolutely nothing other than the fact that it is within range. There chip can not tell the reader anything.
That was a stupid joke that didn't make any sense to any sensible person. Sensors are not RFID chips and RFID chips are not sensors--they serve different functions, your "joke" was refering to sensors: something that this article is not about. If they were to put sensors in our cars, i'm pretty sure you might have some point to your joke. Your joke is sort of like saying that liscense plates will start telling us that we're driving too fast--it doesn't make ANY sense.
1) He was named "Paris Lane"? like some bastard cross between Paris Hilton and Lois Lane but about 10E8 less sexy?
Probably not
2) This is low-incoming housing, right? where did he get money for a gun if the taxpayers are helping him pay rent?
Something that your middle-class self might not be aware of: There are some places in this country where a gun is almost a neccessity for security. Just because you live in a nice neighborhood where you don't have to worry about someone breaking in, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is like that.
3) does dead people have actual rights regarding privacy? I mean, pretty sure that there are laws against defiling a corpse, but suicide is considered felon in like 9 states anyway, and I am pretty sure felons get less rights than regular people... still beats getting your body dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroad w/ a stake through the heart, though (old english punishment for suicide)
The legality has very little to do with the real issue here: Step out of your preconventional morality world.
4) erm... this appeared on a... pornography website?
No.
Here's a question for you: Why ask such stupid questions? Usually a joke takes some sort of form, instead of being merely a random combination of offensive and/or redundant statements.
Did you think they'd never come out with a new version of X?
I don't think they'll come out with a new version. X11R6.7 X Window System is a pretty catchy name, they'll probably just patch it and keep it under the same name.
Guess what happens when a country's economy starts to depend on annother country.
How India is Saving Capitalism
Isn't it a day late for april fools articles?
I just hope that they're rewritable tags, so we can rename them like poke`mon.
I choose you, Bumachu!
I think it will be useful for more than just tracking them. Think about it:
Homeless guy just walks into a store and the alarm sounds, preemptive damage consolidation.
(so even though mine was a typo, I was still 10 times as accurate as you were, RTFcorrectM)
I meant to say 150k km, or 150.000.000meters. according to what NASA says the diameter of Jupiter is c.a. 142.984.000meters. Wikipedia is not as correct as most people assume. Infact, wikipedia blew up the figure 10888x in this case.
I haven't slept much recently, for some reason that struck me as 100,000km. I guess I play too much UO and don't sleep enough. (k as in thousand gp, gold is worthless, so everything is sold in K's (thousands) or M's (millions))
sorry, I live in the states, we use miles, I use k to mean thousand, I guess my mind subconsciously didn't want me to say 140kkm.
Ok so in the future we will know when a 100km diameter asteroid is gonna hit earth.
You realize that a 100km asteroid would not be an asteroid, it would be the second largest planet in our solar system (jupiter being around 140km)--9 times larger than earth. Do you REALLY think that there is any way that we could stop a planet 9 times larger than us that's in a collision course with us? Secondly: We would be able to see a 100km dia. planet coming toward us for decades before impact. I think it would be nice to know when life ends, better than this waiting crap.
If you hear the thunder, that means the lighting didn't kill you.
When struck by lightning people hardly ever die immediately. Most of the time the residual effects will kill you over the duration of a year or so.
If you hear the gunshot, the bullet didn't kill you.
So if I shoot you in the heart, you die immediately? The soundwaves would likely hit you at seemingly the same time as the bullet. I seemed to think that a gunshot wound to the heart or lungs that went untreaed wouldn't kill you for at least 5 minutes.
If you smell the engine burning, the car wreck didn't kill you.
Once again, the vital organ thing. Unless your brain suffers damage, fatal damage to your vital organs takes a few minutes to kill you.
If you are still reading, the asteroid missed.
Actually, the asteroid just hit me. you lose.
They stream the DigitalTV signals on currently idle frequencies to standard UHF/VHF antennas.
Pretty much the same thing, except this time they're using idle freqencies, which means more radio polution. Just what we need, cheaper ways to rot our brains. Who cares if it polutes the airwaves with digital jumble.
But the fact is musicians can't work for free and at some point we need to start paying or the whole industry will die.
Who said free? Artists make alot of money. Who said that artists are immune from getting a second job? The people being hit are the bad artists, the good ones still sell the records because people both want to listen to them and believe that they deserve the money.
Now I'm not saying that most of the crap on MTV is good music in my opinion, but apparently in the average person's mind it is. Musical artists don't need to make extremely large ammounts of money. I'm a painter, and there's a clear threshold based upon which people you know that defines whether you're living in a one room appartment or a mansion, there's hardly a middle-ground. The same is true with actors. Some go to hollywood, some live in a one room apartment next to their play-house. It's about time that the music industry face the reality that all other artists face these days: Even if that means *gasp* getting a second job.
I am assuming that you're talking about taking money from the mid-ranged/local artists: I hope that you're not talking about money being taken from the millionaire MTV artists. IMHO small artists aren't the ones making money off of record sales; small-time artists make money by playing gigs.
To bring this back on-topic, Painters don't make money off of prints, they make it off of the originals. Actors (not the hollywood kind) and dancers make money per performance, not for selling copies of their work. Why can't musical artists be content with making money off of concerts?
requiring manual mounting of the iPod
AND
but that isn't as seamless as a solution if you ask me
Did you ever mount your ipod? *giggles* If so, I should hope it were an ipod mini.
Personally I'm waiting for camera phones with a film-based camera built in. I don't understand the big hype about digital photography. It's not like pictures are important or anything: we take them of family and friends or of pretty things. tell me why we need a digital copy of every picture we take? I mean sure the ocasional family picture is nice to put on your desktop/digital picture frame but you don't exactly need high res for that, you won't notice any quality difference after scanning.
Or you could always, you know, use a real picture and real frame. I don't know anyone that takes pictures wherever they go; But the media hypes these picture phones so much. I guess they have half of us convinced that we might actually go out and take pictures one day.
Only on slashdot does an article about a 14 year old boy and legislation turn into a marijuana debate.
No one's going to use it, this is just some guy that wanted to say "oh, you had an Amiga? you're leet?" then promptly present him with a title of ownership. It sold for what, $100?
I enjoyed his spam. I would look forward to it like a letter from an ex-girlfriend that I haven't spoken to in a while.
Maybe he'll write me from prison. ^_^
This is clearly a violation of the 5th ammendment.