Proverbs 17:23 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice. Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart. Isaiah 5:23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
It goes on and on...
Although, prayer might work, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Counting your "same meaning" requirement, that makes 4 points.
I rather think that correct words flow better than incorrect ones. As far as dictionary references, you'll find that many perfectly valid words are not presented in all of their possible permutations in the dictionary.
-ability + (Latin: a suffix expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed")
Presented as the noun forms of -able; forming nouns of quality from, or corresponding to, adjectives in -able; the quality in an agent that makes an action possible. The suffix -ible has related meanings.
They found a lot of them. There were white passenger vans pulling in empty and out full. They also had a U-Haul that would pull in empty, and out full of lab gear.
Humorous, yes...we all had a laugh as we were watching the rest of the neighborhood get arrested and cleaning up the mess. "Holy shit dude, we just got raided....We're like the only ones left on the street."
Disturbing, yes. We had done nothing wrong, but were treated as guilty until proven innocent.
My Minnesota experience was hilarious. While at a bar somewhere in Duluth, I was outside having a smoke when a cop car pulled up. The cop got out, and let a guy out of the back that looked like he got beat up pretty good. The cop told the guy to have a good one, and the guy thanked the cop for the ride and went inside.
So, when in Minnesota, if you're too drunk to drive to the next bar, get a ride from the cops.
At one point I lived in Lake Elsinore California in a second story apartment with a balcony that looked down the worst street in town (it was really cheap.) The whole subdivision was tied together by a road called Quail - basically a horseshoe that was the only road in or out of the subdivision.
Cops blocked both ends of Quail and started a house-to-house search with judges walking the street. If you didn't voluntarily allow your home to be searched, the judge would walk up, sign a warrant and the cops would break down your door. No way in or out, no refusal.
My room mates and I sat on the balcony with a cooler full of beer and watched the action. When the cops came to our door and asked "can we search your house" we responded with a question - "Can we stop you?" He answered "No". No need to involve a judge, that would just piss someone off and we didn't need to make any enemies.
We were all handcuffed and put on the living room couch while about 20 cops tore our apartment apart, then left us with a huge mess. They didn't break anything, but we had to replace a lot of food that they dumped out. Clothes were rummaged through, dumped on the floor, walked on. No consideration was made that we weren't the people they were looking for. We got no apology.
We were, however, permitted to return to the balcony to watch the rest of our neighbors get arrested. This began the quietest 2 weeks that neighborhood had ever seen.
Galaxy S = Samsung Flagship - manufactured by Samsung for Samsung. This phone runs the Samsung proprietary RFS filesystem, uses Samsungs TouchWiz interface and is poorly supported by Samsung. Google has nothing to say about it.
Nexus S = Google Flagship - manufactured by Samsung for Google. This phone runs on EXT4 filesystem, uses stock Android with some device specific drivers and will be well supported by Google (if the Nexus One is any indication). Samsung has nothing to say about it.
So, how many smartphones don't come bundled with carrier added applications? Unless your smartphone can be flashed with another OS, these apps cannot be removed. Even then, can you really trust an alternate that you downloaded off the net?
Carriers have already proven their willingness to sell out their customers. So have software developers.
Paypal and Mastercard removed a Wikileaks funding aparatus. Amazon refused to host the Wikileaks website.
So, who was it again that was denying freedom of speech?
Anonymous is attempting to hurt their pocketbooks, not their ability to speak freely. Think of it as a form of forced boycott of these companies and the companies who rely on their services. If it becomes apparent that the actions of the service provider result in diminished capacity or reliability, the clients will go elsewhere.
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I was wondering how as a clone Jenny had only half of the Doctors DNA...
I still like Dr Who though.
The cities probably won't fall out of the sky dead.
They need an ass puffing out that cloud too.
Not everything will be "better in the cloud". If you disagree, I respectfully challenge you to a game of fart-tag.
Can't we bribe god...
He seems to be against that sort of thing.
Proverbs 17:23 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Isaiah 5:23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
It goes on and on...
Although, prayer might work, I wouldn't hold my breath.
This story was already submitted two times before eldavojon managed to get it to the front page in a little over an hour...
http://tech.slashdot.org/submission/1432844/University-of-Glasgow-pioneers-1000-core-processor
http://tech.slashdot.org/submission/1432512/1000-core-processors-
Counting your "same meaning" requirement, that makes 4 points.
I rather think that correct words flow better than incorrect ones. As far as dictionary references, you'll find that many perfectly valid words are not presented in all of their possible permutations in the dictionary.
-ability +
(Latin: a suffix expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed")
Presented as the noun forms of -able; forming nouns of quality from, or corresponding to, adjectives in -able; the quality in an agent that makes an action possible. The suffix -ible has related meanings.
uh...points of the challenge:
Wait a minute, there are only 2 points to the challenge. I was promised a 3 point challenge!
They are referring to the LED backlight. If you take the time to review the spec sheet, you'll realize that it's an LCD screen:
FTS (From The Spec):
27-inch (diagonal viewable image size) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display with in-plane switching (IPS).
You beat me to it.... I had to be sure, so I looked it up on dictionary.com and it's not there.
I'm sure that it will be in the Urban Dictionary shortly though, right next to convertablization.
sheesh, this happened around 15 years ago, at least
725 Quail Dr, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530
http://m.google.com/u/m/dMmg48
Bite my sphincter
I live in Texas now. 'nuff said.
They were looking for meth dealers/labs.
They found a lot of them. There were white passenger vans pulling in empty and out full. They also had a U-Haul that would pull in empty, and out full of lab gear.
Humorous, yes...we all had a laugh as we were watching the rest of the neighborhood get arrested and cleaning up the mess. "Holy shit dude, we just got raided....We're like the only ones left on the street."
Disturbing, yes. We had done nothing wrong, but were treated as guilty until proven innocent.
My Minnesota experience was hilarious. While at a bar somewhere in Duluth, I was outside having a smoke when a cop car pulled up. The cop got out, and let a guy out of the back that looked like he got beat up pretty good. The cop told the guy to have a good one, and the guy thanked the cop for the ride and went inside.
So, when in Minnesota, if you're too drunk to drive to the next bar, get a ride from the cops.
I've seen this tactic used.
At one point I lived in Lake Elsinore California in a second story apartment with a balcony that looked down the worst street in town (it was really cheap.) The whole subdivision was tied together by a road called Quail - basically a horseshoe that was the only road in or out of the subdivision.
Cops blocked both ends of Quail and started a house-to-house search with judges walking the street. If you didn't voluntarily allow your home to be searched, the judge would walk up, sign a warrant and the cops would break down your door. No way in or out, no refusal.
My room mates and I sat on the balcony with a cooler full of beer and watched the action. When the cops came to our door and asked "can we search your house" we responded with a question - "Can we stop you?" He answered "No". No need to involve a judge, that would just piss someone off and we didn't need to make any enemies.
We were all handcuffed and put on the living room couch while about 20 cops tore our apartment apart, then left us with a huge mess. They didn't break anything, but we had to replace a lot of food that they dumped out. Clothes were rummaged through, dumped on the floor, walked on. No consideration was made that we weren't the people they were looking for. We got no apology.
We were, however, permitted to return to the balcony to watch the rest of our neighbors get arrested. This began the quietest 2 weeks that neighborhood had ever seen.
haha, or the programmer....oh wait, they can do that.
In the spirit of your comment, how does that apply to all the other *nixes out there? Servers, non X-Box consoles, modern smartphones....
What happened to the Nexus One? is it even getting Gingerbread?
Yes
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/07/android-gingerbread-nexus-one/
Galaxy S = Samsung Flagship - manufactured by Samsung for Samsung. This phone runs the Samsung proprietary RFS filesystem, uses Samsungs TouchWiz interface and is poorly supported by Samsung. Google has nothing to say about it.
Nexus S = Google Flagship - manufactured by Samsung for Google. This phone runs on EXT4 filesystem, uses stock Android with some device specific drivers and will be well supported by Google (if the Nexus One is any indication). Samsung has nothing to say about it.
So, how many smartphones don't come bundled with carrier added applications? Unless your smartphone can be flashed with another OS, these apps cannot be removed. Even then, can you really trust an alternate that you downloaded off the net?
Carriers have already proven their willingness to sell out their customers. So have software developers.
CNC mills cannot cut internal structures.
This is a task for which a 3d printer shines.
Flash, ChromeOS, COBOL....
This is Slashdot - where unless it's tomorrow, it's yesterday.
These dinosaurs aren't extinct though.
Banks still use COBOL heavily.
COBOL was my first language, so I have a soft spot for it.
Paypal and Mastercard removed a Wikileaks funding aparatus. Amazon refused to host the Wikileaks website.
So, who was it again that was denying freedom of speech?
Anonymous is attempting to hurt their pocketbooks, not their ability to speak freely. Think of it as a form of forced boycott of these companies and the companies who rely on their services. If it becomes apparent that the actions of the service provider result in diminished capacity or reliability, the clients will go elsewhere.
You said it all wrong! What Wash said next was:
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"