I dunno, but I kind of like it. The:@ looks like an angry person shouting with a megaphone, and:W is Homer Simpson's jawline profile. So coupled together,:@ and:W could be Marge yelling at Homer (doh!). I think you've just unlocked a new genre of Simpson emoticons.
Software patents did not exist at the time and IBM patented no software. However there is a huge amount of unpatented prior art from about 1963 onward that can be used to invalidate any operating system fundamentals patents claimed by Microsoft.
Machinery for separating cotton fiber existed for centuries prior to Eli Whitney. Just a few years before the "Cotton Gin" patent, Joseph Eve had his own "Roller Gin" for the same purpose. The long-staple cotton in the Southern states necessitated Eli's modification, and he patented it. So, unpatented or not, at least by PTO standards and history, both Linus and IBM are skating over the Hudson in late December (although I agree with both of them in principle, not the skating though). Also, what followed after Eli were the "Circular Saw gins", which Eli contested as obvious variations. Surprisingly, the PTO ruled in his favor.
I don't think there's anything clear cut one way or the other, except that we need more lawyers and PTO review officers. What a fine mess we're in, aye?
Great insight, but a tad bit Utopian I think. If linux were not commercially usable, which it most certainly is, there would be no money trail to follow, nor a suit for a suit (so to speak).
Good point. I suffer from the same, and am currently wearing my contacts. Like artificial prosthesis, ear implants, or even spinal implants, I think it's only a matter of time. Of course, I remember when the Jarvik heart came out, and it was pretty taboo back then, even more so than fiddling around with the brain - throughout human history, the heart was synonymous with the soul. However, when considering biotechnology procedures, I still think there's some undefined social barrier of tolerance or acceptance between what's necessary and what's convenient.
but who plans on being that important to justify being accesable 24/7 via a brain implant?
I normally set mine to vibrate when someone calls. So, in ten years from now...
"Excuse me, sir, your head is shaking. Are you going to answer that?"
Pretty handy for answering incoming calls. However, pretty hard to carry on a live conversation with frothy bubbles spewing forth from your mouth. But, then again, I could always shave with it. I think I'm still undecided on this technology.
Most of us old codgers just skim right past these doohickeys while reading - like becoming numb to flash adverts and such. Speaking of which, does anybody know of a firefox plugin to strip emoticons?
Or, better yet, somebody make a parody page called Emotikhaaan! This would be a great way for you whooper snappers to educate some of us on your new evolutionary cryptic language - just crop in two of those thingies to alternate over Kirk's face. That would teach me two more right there. Get 'er done! Plus, I would leave an open tab just for that bookmark alone, referring to it quite often when some posts reach my emoticon threshold level > 1. Let's build generation bridges, shall we?
I can't say I have much sympathy for either of them. In the short span of reading some of Rachel Hyman's blog, she seems quite vindictive and equally purile in tone as the ID holders she confiscates. Plus, what guarantee does Rachel have that any of those IDs are truly fake, and then she goes posting those pictures and names on her blog without permission.
It's one thing to deny entrance into your business based on suspicion (as thousands of bar owners do silently each day) - yet another to make a public spectacle of the whole ordeal. Rachel must like dipping her hand into a can of worms.
Not to mention, can you imagine all these services packed into just one card? Carrying this honker in your back pocket would give a whole new meaning to sagging your pants and displaying your Fruit of the Looms. Hell, here in Dallas you can get a ticket for that...
yo yo yo, playa. Packing ID on my side, when I ride. West-siiiiide!
the real reason you don't have a national ID is because you don't need one and the Feds can do fine with what they have.
I agree. FTA:
requires all U.S. residents without a passport to obtain a new state-issued type of driver's license or ID card in order to board commercial airplanes
Air Marshalls. Consult Israel.
enter federal buildings
Empty pockets, metal detectors, and a wave from the "magical wand" which beeps. See Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas for a fine example. Them fellers still owe me a dinner and movie for that patdown.
get Social Security benefits or get into other federal government programs
like ID theft? My cynicism tells me they just want something in the order of $150 or so (like the cost of a passport) per US citizen.
Whatever justification bait (or other examples) they might wish us to swallow, there are far less expensive measures we can already implement in greater amounts to accomplish _greater_ results than a statewide retooling for something already proven ineffective (by analogous examples like counterfitting or ID theft). Either way, I could care less about the invasion of privacy issues (with the database or whatnot). I just find such new measures as laughable, and not very reassuring if this is the best they came up with (including HSS Michael Chertoff's lip service endorsement).
When will they learn to hack an x64 flash plugin into IE6, 7, or even 8 already? Ubudoobie x64 and firefox are cracking white hot baby. I got this puppy firing on all flash fours with that nspluginwarper doobamajigger. Honestly, I love IE7 and all, but everytime I make love to it, I feel like firefox's hands have been all over it first - from tabs to customizing UI to... you name it. Hey, I'm no fanboi either way fellas, but I call 'em like I see 'em. Microsoft ain't no turtle nor hare in this race - probably some granny with a cane taking the scenic route. It really is impressive when you stop and think how a collective group of worldwide contributors can surpass this organization in swift response to user demand. Personally, I think Microsoft is in dire need of further decentralization of their many software departments, or more personnel, or... something. It use to be I only booted into Windows for the browser, now I only boot into XP when I'm not using a browser. Strange turn of events...
we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion.
So, a slow Rip Van Winkle type recovery process instead?
God forbid, and hypothetically speaking, a heart attack victim from an ambulance ride to finally waking in a hospital recovery room days later could go from this to this?
Since March 28, the list identified more than a dozen corporations, including [...] Bank of America.
"Army of Botness", to be aired May 2, 2007
Bill - "Hey, what's going on here?" Larry - "Stop giving free checks for life Bill." Winston - "And free ATM cash withdrawals!" Charles - "Or we let these spam zombies eat our brains!" Bankers Pen - "Yeah!" Bill - "Whoah! Whoah! Guys. People love all the features of WAMU's spam free online checking." Larry - "Horse Pockey! V1a6rA l0ng D0ng che4p$$! Mmm. Braaaaaains..."
[ Larry, wearing a BOA pin on his collar, begins nibbling on Charles' hairpiece as others join in on the feeding frenzy... ]
[ Bill repeatedly cocks his Remington as the penguin suits start dropping behind the velvet ropes... ]
Thanks for the nice link. It's strange in today's world that free stuff costs more to reuse than new stuff, but maybe that's a good thing for us as capitalist consumers. Your analysis of the scaling problem is a pleasant reminder (to me personally) that I need to get off my Duff (beer and rear) and volunteer more.
A thought occurred to me while reading your specs. Why doesn't the OLPC run a sister project based purely on old hardware donations from across the world? I have 3 shelves full of various vintage green fab which would bring a smile to even Sally Struthers face. Knowledge is food, no?
Granted, older hardware has higher energy demands. But with a sturdy crank at the side, the OLPC could even help train the next gen of Olympic discus throwers as well. Not to be entirely aloof here, but maybe a focus on developing _just_ a portable energy crank to be applied independently across a slew of computer hardware interfaces might be more cost effective.
1. Set up OLPC donation project. 2. Spray dust off. 3. Test and configure. 4. Bolt portable crank. 5. ? 6. Non PROFIT!
Honey bees have lots of little hairs on their body. Even their eyes have hairs. Pollen sticks to the hairs while the bees are visiting the flowers. A furry little bee wiggling around inside the flower picks up a lot of pollen. After getting pollen on their body hairs, the bees move it to a special area on their hind legs called pollen baskets . Foraging bees returning to the hive often have bright yellow or greenish balls of pollen hanging from these pollen baskets.
Pollen is the yellowish or greenish powder-like substance that sometimes comes from flowers. It may be quite sticky. It contains the male contribution to the next generation of plants. Honey bees mix the pollen with some nectar to form a mixture called beebread that is a protein-rich food used to feed the larvae. As the worker bees move from flower to flower, they spread pollen to many different plants, including important foods such as vegetables (squash and cucum bers), fruits (apples, watermelon, plums, sweet cherries, citrus), nuts (almonds), plants grown for seed (sunflower), and animal feed crops such as clover.
Ooh, that's gotta sting!
Just kidding, brother. I'm no beekeeper either, but I did find your honest skepticism (like mine) to be provocatively informative, since it encouraged me to read a little bit this lazy saturday morning. I'm still recovering from a concussion and stitches from yesterday, so take my reference above (and the source cited) with an equal amount of skepticism.
Yeah, things have changed a bit. When it comes to admissions, the SAT is pretty much secondary to the 10% rule now. Of course, everyone else still has to meet those SAT minimums. I attended TAMU in the late 80s, and it was pretty clear cut for me back then too - SAT scores and letters. As an alumnus, I figured I could throw some weight around on his behalf, so we took a bag of Cheetos and a case of Shiner Bock for a little road trip together - back to the motherland in College Station, Tx.
I pretty much gathered from my discussions with advisors and admissions counselors there that they had already long since met their freshman admission quota (in mid November). In fact, they told me they had some 15000 or so more applications just sitting on the shelf. My cousin had sent his application off only two weeks after every one else did (in large part, the delay was caused by his hectic HS curriculum at PESH). So, the lesson learned for all you college candidates in Texas is: get your application off the _first_ week you can do so. Otherwise, you're just fighting thousands more after 1/4th of the seats have already been taken by the 10%'rs, and it's pretty much first come first serve if you meet the basic acceptance requirements.
Anyways, it's good to hear from a fellow Texan. Much love to ya brother, even though you went to UT (err, I mean TU).
Chief executive Richard Pike also said universities were increasingly having to run remedial classes in maths.
Is this proper English, King's English, or just my failure at grasping either?
Either way, excuse the pun, but this plan just doesn't add up. Here in Texas, my younger cousin had to fight against the top 10% rule (guaranteeing poorer school districts college entrance acceptance). He scored in the 98th percentile on the SAT and had over a 4.0 coming from Plano East High School (considered in the elite top 10 of Texas public school districts). I encouraged him in his Senior year to take calculus, chemistry, physics, and a few other college credit classes, which he did - quite the full load too. He still didn't get accepted his first try at Texas A&M, but later transfered from the University of Texas at Dallas after two semesters. Sure, such high standards are unfair, but it shouldn't be any other way. He has a 3.65 now in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M and will be starting for Raytheon next January with a fat paycheck to boot. I still think it pays off in the long run to challenge yourself, regardless of how others are beneficiaries of lower standard acceptance normalizations. I guess for me, just what messages do we wish to send to our future generations?
I've been looking since release date and have never seen a Wii for sale, they are always out of stock.
I've never even owned a game console, except for the Atari 2600 and the original Pong. I feel like I gotta see what the buzz is all about. If I were to buy one of these modern doohickey thingamadoobers, I think the Wii is for Mii. So...
Shh! Be veWii veWii qwiet. I'm eBay bargain hunting for Wiibits!
What I want to know is while posing for the group picture...
Was the gold kitty pretending to pull the cord as a train conductor, "choo! choo!", or... Was the kitty mid stride in a left leg power lift release move? If so, that would explain the monster's reaction behind him, and the delirium cast over the M&M candy's face.
Pesticides? One beekeper thinks it's genetic engineering of agricultural plants. I tend to agree. I say, let's just put the beaker and lazer tweezers away already. Let insects do what they do best - suckling off mother nature's teat, not father human's trampling feet.
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I dunno, but I kind of like it. The :@ looks like an angry person shouting with a megaphone, and :W is Homer Simpson's jawline profile. So coupled together, :@ and :W could be Marge yelling at Homer (doh!). I think you've just unlocked a new genre of Simpson emoticons.
Why is kettle the asshole here? Afterall, you did say pot.
I don't think there's anything clear cut one way or the other, except that we need more lawyers and PTO review officers. What a fine mess we're in, aye?
Great insight, but a tad bit Utopian I think. If linux were not commercially usable, which it most certainly is, there would be no money trail to follow, nor a suit for a suit (so to speak).
Good point. I suffer from the same, and am currently wearing my contacts. Like artificial prosthesis, ear implants, or even spinal implants, I think it's only a matter of time. Of course, I remember when the Jarvik heart came out, and it was pretty taboo back then, even more so than fiddling around with the brain - throughout human history, the heart was synonymous with the soul. However, when considering biotechnology procedures, I still think there's some undefined social barrier of tolerance or acceptance between what's necessary and what's convenient.
"Excuse me, sir, your head is shaking. Are you going to answer that?"
Pretty handy for answering incoming calls. However, pretty hard to carry on a live conversation with frothy bubbles spewing forth from your mouth. But, then again, I could always shave with it. I think I'm still undecided on this technology.
Most of us old codgers just skim right past these doohickeys while reading - like becoming numb to flash adverts and such. Speaking of which, does anybody know of a firefox plugin to strip emoticons?
Or, better yet, somebody make a parody page called Emotikhaaan! This would be a great way for you whooper snappers to educate some of us on your new evolutionary cryptic language - just crop in two of those thingies to alternate over Kirk's face. That would teach me two more right there. Get 'er done! Plus, I would leave an open tab just for that bookmark alone, referring to it quite often when some posts reach my emoticon threshold level > 1. Let's build generation bridges, shall we?
If it's not a hoax, then tell me why after all those moon missions not one single astronaut brought back one single slice of cheese?
I hope they compete more like GLOW constestants - except this time the only difference is the W, for wire.
I can't say I have much sympathy for either of them. In the short span of reading some of Rachel Hyman's blog, she seems quite vindictive and equally purile in tone as the ID holders she confiscates. Plus, what guarantee does Rachel have that any of those IDs are truly fake, and then she goes posting those pictures and names on her blog without permission.
It's one thing to deny entrance into your business based on suspicion (as thousands of bar owners do silently each day) - yet another to make a public spectacle of the whole ordeal. Rachel must like dipping her hand into a can of worms.
Not to mention, can you imagine all these services packed into just one card? Carrying this honker in your back pocket would give a whole new meaning to sagging your pants and displaying your Fruit of the Looms. Hell, here in Dallas you can get a ticket for that...
yo yo yo, playa. Packing ID on my side, when I ride. West-siiiiide!
Whatever justification bait (or other examples) they might wish us to swallow, there are far less expensive measures we can already implement in greater amounts to accomplish _greater_ results than a statewide retooling for something already proven ineffective (by analogous examples like counterfitting or ID theft). Either way, I could care less about the invasion of privacy issues (with the database or whatnot). I just find such new measures as laughable, and not very reassuring if this is the best they came up with (including HSS Michael Chertoff's lip service endorsement).
you digg your own grave rather than rob anothers.
When will they learn to hack an x64 flash plugin into IE6, 7, or even 8 already? Ubudoobie x64 and firefox are cracking white hot baby. I got this puppy firing on all flash fours with that nspluginwarper doobamajigger. Honestly, I love IE7 and all, but everytime I make love to it, I feel like firefox's hands have been all over it first - from tabs to customizing UI to ... you name it. Hey, I'm no fanboi either way fellas, but I call 'em like I see 'em. Microsoft ain't no turtle nor hare in this race - probably some granny with a cane taking the scenic route. It really is impressive when you stop and think how a collective group of worldwide contributors can surpass this organization in swift response to user demand. Personally, I think Microsoft is in dire need of further decentralization of their many software departments, or more personnel, or ... something. It use to be I only booted into Windows for the browser, now I only boot into XP when I'm not using a browser. Strange turn of events...
God forbid, and hypothetically speaking, a heart attack victim from an ambulance ride to finally waking in a hospital recovery room days later could go from this to this?
Bill - "Hey, what's going on here?"
Larry - "Stop giving free checks for life Bill."
Winston - "And free ATM cash withdrawals!"
Charles - "Or we let these spam zombies eat our brains!"
Bankers Pen - "Yeah!"
Bill - "Whoah! Whoah! Guys. People love all the features of WAMU's spam free online checking."
Larry - "Horse Pockey! V1a6rA l0ng D0ng che4p$$! Mmm. Braaaaaains..."
[ Larry, wearing a BOA pin on his collar, begins nibbling on Charles' hairpiece as others join in on the feeding frenzy... ]
[ Bill repeatedly cocks his Remington as the penguin suits start dropping behind the velvet ropes... ]
Bill - "Key log this EFT, baby! Groooovy..."
Thanks for the nice link. It's strange in today's world that free stuff costs more to reuse than new stuff, but maybe that's a good thing for us as capitalist consumers. Your analysis of the scaling problem is a pleasant reminder (to me personally) that I need to get off my Duff (beer and rear) and volunteer more.
A thought occurred to me while reading your specs. Why doesn't the OLPC run a sister project based purely on old hardware donations from across the world? I have 3 shelves full of various vintage green fab which would bring a smile to even Sally Struthers face. Knowledge is food, no?
Granted, older hardware has higher energy demands. But with a sturdy crank at the side, the OLPC could even help train the next gen of Olympic discus throwers as well. Not to be entirely aloof here, but maybe a focus on developing _just_ a portable energy crank to be applied independently across a slew of computer hardware interfaces might be more cost effective.
1. Set up OLPC donation project.
2. Spray dust off.
3. Test and configure.
4. Bolt portable crank.
5. ?
6. Non PROFIT!
Just kidding, brother. I'm no beekeeper either, but I did find your honest skepticism (like mine) to be provocatively informative, since it encouraged me to read a little bit this lazy saturday morning. I'm still recovering from a concussion and stitches from yesterday, so take my reference above (and the source cited) with an equal amount of skepticism.
Yeah, things have changed a bit. When it comes to admissions, the SAT is pretty much secondary to the 10% rule now. Of course, everyone else still has to meet those SAT minimums. I attended TAMU in the late 80s, and it was pretty clear cut for me back then too - SAT scores and letters. As an alumnus, I figured I could throw some weight around on his behalf, so we took a bag of Cheetos and a case of Shiner Bock for a little road trip together - back to the motherland in College Station, Tx.
I pretty much gathered from my discussions with advisors and admissions counselors there that they had already long since met their freshman admission quota (in mid November). In fact, they told me they had some 15000 or so more applications just sitting on the shelf. My cousin had sent his application off only two weeks after every one else did (in large part, the delay was caused by his hectic HS curriculum at PESH). So, the lesson learned for all you college candidates in Texas is: get your application off the _first_ week you can do so. Otherwise, you're just fighting thousands more after 1/4th of the seats have already been taken by the 10%'rs, and it's pretty much first come first serve if you meet the basic acceptance requirements.
Anyways, it's good to hear from a fellow Texan. Much love to ya brother, even though you went to UT (err, I mean TU).
Either way, excuse the pun, but this plan just doesn't add up. Here in Texas, my younger cousin had to fight against the top 10% rule (guaranteeing poorer school districts college entrance acceptance). He scored in the 98th percentile on the SAT and had over a 4.0 coming from Plano East High School (considered in the elite top 10 of Texas public school districts). I encouraged him in his Senior year to take calculus, chemistry, physics, and a few other college credit classes, which he did - quite the full load too. He still didn't get accepted his first try at Texas A&M, but later transfered from the University of Texas at Dallas after two semesters. Sure, such high standards are unfair, but it shouldn't be any other way. He has a 3.65 now in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M and will be starting for Raytheon next January with a fat paycheck to boot. I still think it pays off in the long run to challenge yourself, regardless of how others are beneficiaries of lower standard acceptance normalizations. I guess for me, just what messages do we wish to send to our future generations?
Shh! Be veWii veWii qwiet. I'm eBay bargain hunting for Wiibits!
What I want to know is while posing for the group picture...
Was the gold kitty pretending to pull the cord as a train conductor, "choo! choo!", or...
Was the kitty mid stride in a left leg power lift release move? If so, that would explain the monster's reaction behind him, and the delirium cast over the M&M candy's face.
"Everybody say cheeeeeeeeeese!"
Pesticides? One beekeper thinks it's genetic engineering of agricultural plants. I tend to agree. I say, let's just put the beaker and lazer tweezers away already. Let insects do what they do best - suckling off mother nature's teat, not father human's trampling feet.