Hand in your geek card. You'll get it back when we get confirmation that you've seen Galaxy Quest [imdb.com] at least three times.
Waitaminute. You're claiming a geek card on a Galaxy Quest reference?!
Any Trek, Doctor Who, or even Red Dwarf reference - sure, but a Tim Allen movie?!
Tim Allen!! *You* hand in your geek card sir.
^C
Cybernetic experiments have proven that a monkey can control an arm through brain electrodes exactly like he could move his own arm.
The future of prosthetics and articulated replacement limbs lies in this control scheme for certain and is promised to a bright future.
Bright future? Oh yeah?
and who the hell would want a monkey to control their arms?
Personally, I do a fair amount of scientific computation and software development...
A 3 app limit would be a joke. I wouldn't even tolerate that in my Windows VM that I run on my notebook
You sound more like a power user. Perhaps you are not the target for the "Starter Edition" of the OS?
Any form of online voting is insecure because it's not a secret ballot. You can prove to someone else how you voted (by letting them look over your shoulder) and that means it is possible to bribe or threaten voters. A secret ballot means that you cannot show your vote to anyone, even if you wanted to. It's surprising that governments are so quick to give up this basic guarantee of a fair election
By your standard voting by mail should be ruled out as well then, right?
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- 5 passenger
- mid size and safe
- 500km range
- a/c and heat
- charge up at home and work
- under $20,000
I agree to almost everything except that on a plug-in charge, its range should be around 40 miles.
It needs to go 500km, but that would be using gas-electric or other hybrid technology, but there is certanly no need to do it purely on electric power.
Are you saying that Apple is lying in their SEC filings? Because from everything they've reported to their shareholders, what you say is the opposite of true.
Of course I'm not saying that they are lying, but filings report results, not strategy. I'm saying that iTunes and the iTunes store is a long term strategy for Apple. Take it ten yerars down the line, and if apples strategy pans out and the iTunes store really replaces purchasing CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays off amazon, pay-per-view, watching tv shows, and other things still in its infancy, then people will find themselves spending much more money on itunes than on the hardware.
iTunes Store exists only to sell more iPods and AppleTVs.
Actually I think the long term plan for apple is the reverse.
When you buy an ipod they make like 20 bucks (or whatever) on the deal, with all the costs involved in making the hardware.
When they, by using that ipod they sold you, tie you into becoming a subscriber (eventually) spending all your bucks for music, movies, tv shows and all your other media needs on *their* itunes infrastructure, making 30% on all your media, then that's way more worth for them than an ipod sale.
>>Patenting software is like patenting a math equation.
It's not even "like", it is patenting math. Software is math.
So you mean Windows Vista is actually a 3GB equation?
You could probably simplify it down to something along the lines of 1/0 then, or perhaps sqrt(-1)...
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The article asks "has anyone ever been brave enough to sell a version 13 of anything?"
There was AutoCAD Release 13 back in the day.
Strange - In my world Germanic languages are much easer to learn than Latin languages.
^C
...when your tinfoil hat can save you from brain cancer... ^C
Well, if anyone is the daleks my pick would be Oracle.
Running around pointing and screaming "Exterminate" is totally Larry Ellson'ish.
Jesus Fucking Christ!
What the hell is going on in this country?!
Yeah, except the big brain thing. ;)
Waitaminute. You're claiming a geek card on a Galaxy Quest reference?!
Any Trek, Doctor Who, or even Red Dwarf reference - sure, but a Tim Allen movie?!
Tim Allen!! *You* hand in your geek card sir.
^C
Who do you think you are? MacGyver??
> It's also very noisy.
Hang on.. your post was too long - were you replying to the guy who suggested duct tape?
Exactly! The first one that presses "I'm feeling lucky" and their own submission come up wins.
Bright future? Oh yeah?
and who the hell would want a monkey to control their arms?
You sound more like a power user. Perhaps you are not the target for the "Starter Edition" of the OS?
and what about Paula?
That indeed brings back memories of many late nights with the head deep in the ROM Kernel reference manual set...
By your standard voting by mail should be ruled out as well then, right?
Fstr, a book by James Gleick (or Chaos fame)
His book is more about making you reflect about the ever increasingly faster society than actually help you speed up, but it's an enlightening read never the less.
http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Acceleration-Just-About-Everything/dp/067977548X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237833148&sr=8-5
^C
Universally, as in the English speaking universe? ;)
I agree to almost everything except that on a plug-in charge, its range should be around 40 miles.
It needs to go 500km, but that would be using gas-electric or other hybrid technology, but there is certanly no need to do it purely on electric power.
Woahh - great idea!
And then if we really wanted to push something, we'd just run your negative mass photon emitter in a field of anti-time!
Now where are the mod points when I need them?
Agreed. I myself was proven to be connected to Kevin Bacon in only three steps!
Of course I'm not saying that they are lying, but filings report results, not strategy.
I'm saying that iTunes and the iTunes store is a long term strategy for Apple.
Take it ten yerars down the line, and if apples strategy pans out and the iTunes store really replaces purchasing CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays off amazon, pay-per-view, watching tv shows, and other things still in its infancy, then people will find themselves spending much more money on itunes than on the hardware.
^C
Actually I think the long term plan for apple is the reverse.
When you buy an ipod they make like 20 bucks (or whatever) on the deal, with all the costs involved in making the hardware.
When they, by using that ipod they sold you, tie you into becoming a subscriber (eventually) spending all your bucks for music, movies, tv shows and all your other media needs on *their* itunes infrastructure, making 30% on all your media, then that's way more worth for them than an ipod sale.
^C
I agree. The same thing happened to me. It's like they say - once you go black...
So you mean Windows Vista is actually a 3GB equation?
You could probably simplify it down to something along the lines of 1/0 then, or perhaps sqrt(-1)...