So I wonder... would a farm rabbit raised on feed taste better if its diet were changed to something more natural say... a month or so... before it was killed? Or is this something that happens over the entire course of its life?
I live in Washington DC, and yes I suppose $30 was pushing it, but it is still quite expensive. I just want to watch a movie and ENJOY it, I don't want to get aggravated by telling people to be quiet or having to tell a manager, I just want to watch a movie in peace.
I usually end up going to some kind of live performance (like a play) if I have a date, and it usually doesn't come out to be much more expensive, and IMHO it is much more fun.
Let me see, which would I rather do: spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and
a drink just so I can watch the latest subpar selection of movies at a time set
by the theater and have popcorn thrown at me by 13 year old cell phone wielding children, OR pick up whatever movie from the redbox for $0.99 (or DVD rentals through the mail) and a drink and popcorn from the local store all for less than $5 and watch it on my widescreen in the comfort of my own home. Tough call.
I wonder if the government will be using these printers themselves, they have more to hide than anyone else. Now when a confidential document is leaked it can be more easily tied to a government official.
I like my idea for a bimodal hand geometry/voice recognition system better, me giving the MPAA the finger while telling them to "bite my shiny metal ass."
There are Motorolas in the world. There are Intels. There are Vias and Alphas, and then There are those that follow Sun, but I've never been one of them.
I'm an AMD user, And have been since before I was born, And the one thing they say about them is: Those processors get quite warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer. You don't have to have a great brain. You don't have to have any clothes on. You're An AMD user the moment the grid is drained.
Because
Every watt is sacred. Every watt is great. If a watt is wasted, God gets quite irate.
a chamber filled with air laced with 80 parts per million (ppm) of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) - the malodorous gas that give rotten eggs their stink ... its possible use in space travel
Hey NASA, I'm your man, I've been enduring riding the elevator with my gaseous coworkers for YEARS.
The thing advertisers don't seem to get is that you don't sell products by annoying the hell out of people. Pop-ups, pop-unders, floating ads, the all singing all dancing flash ads, anything that blinks or wants you to answer a trivia question, ad infested web pages that have half a page of text and require you to hit the next button to continue to the next page. These are all ANNOYING, that is why people are blocking or otherwise avoiding them.
You don't see people going to extreme lengths to block Google text ads. Why? Because they are fairly unobtrusive, yet still visible enough for people to see them.
If advertisers don't want me using Adblock they should use small, unobtrusive, static images and I will happily turn it off. But until then, they can whine and complain all they want. Just my two cents...
I don't see what the big interest with this case is. I think the only reason it is getting as much publicity as it is, is because the general public actually understands the patent. The prior art is clear: ravioli, pierogies, pirags, etc.
There are software patents being passed that are 100 times more ridiculous than this, yet you don't hear much about it outside of Slashdot or some short blurb in the tech section of the NYT.
Six years from now? With logic like that the expansion pack for the original Baldur's Gate should be coming out about now. That's just silly.
I really hate steam and the direction in which video game distribution is headed, it's the whole reason I refuse to buy games like Half Life 2. I would be willing to pay a little extra if I got a nicely packaged product with a large dead tree manual and the reassurance that I will be able to play it years down the road.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation of consoles use a steam like system as well, ala the Phantom Console. Count me out.
The USPS already has this, you can scan in a photograph and have it as a stamp. You do it online though, I can't find the link right now. The catch is that it can only be photos of children. I think the reason for this is that people were using "inappropriate" pictures. Just imagine if you got a stamp with the Goatse guy on it. *shudder*
Yes, you can either download the CD and use it to boot, then do a network install through an FTP or HTTP server (just make sure you find a server before booting because it doesn't give you a list or anything). If you can't even get the CD to boot and you already are running Linux just mount the iso as a "virtual drive." This is how I installed mine.
I voted Microsoft, I imagine the EULA would go something like this:
By viewing or using light relected from the moon you agree to be bound by the terms of this License Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT, LEAVE THE PLANET IMMEDIATELY AND/OR KILL YOURSELF.
Space Quest and the Quest for Glory series are what really got me into gaming. Some of the later Icon based Sierra games were half-way decent, but in my mind the text-input games were the ones that really shined.
Guess I didn't pay much attention to the plot, heh. I still think Doom 1 and 2 are the best FPS' of all time. I used to be a Co-Sysop on a 4 node BBS that ran SirDoom. I haven't played any other FPS online since, and I'm 23 now. The BBS was VRBBS in Houston if anyone cares.
Ahhh those were the good times. I should know better than to correct a low ID anyway.;)
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So I wonder... would a farm rabbit raised on feed taste better if its diet were changed to something more natural say... a month or so... before it was killed? Or is this something that happens over the entire course of its life?
Indeed, I can confirm this.
Switching the keylock on and off gets a little cumbersome, up up down down left right left right B A start.
It sounds perfectly cromulent to me.
I live in Washington DC, and yes I suppose $30 was pushing it, but it is still quite expensive. I just want to watch a movie and ENJOY it, I don't want to get aggravated by telling people to be quiet or having to tell a manager, I just want to watch a movie in peace.
I usually end up going to some kind of live performance (like a play) if I have a date, and it usually doesn't come out to be much more expensive, and IMHO it is much more fun.
Let me see, which would I rather do: spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink just so I can watch the latest subpar selection of movies at a time set by the theater and have popcorn thrown at me by 13 year old cell phone wielding children, OR pick up whatever movie from the redbox for $0.99 (or DVD rentals through the mail) and a drink and popcorn from the local store all for less than $5 and watch it on my widescreen in the comfort of my own home. Tough call.
I wonder if the government will be using these printers themselves, they have more to hide than anyone else. Now when a confidential document is leaked it can be more easily tied to a government official.
I like my idea for a bimodal hand geometry/voice recognition system better, me giving the MPAA the finger while telling them to "bite my shiny metal ass."
There are Intels.
There are Vias and Alphas, and then
There are those that follow Sun, but
I've never been one of them.
I'm an AMD user,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about them is:
Those processors get quite warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
An AMD user the moment the grid is drained.
Because
Every watt is sacred.
Every watt is great.
If a watt is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
The thing advertisers don't seem to get is that you don't sell products by annoying the hell out of people. Pop-ups, pop-unders, floating ads, the all singing all dancing flash ads, anything that blinks or wants you to answer a trivia question, ad infested web pages that have half a page of text and require you to hit the next button to continue to the next page. These are all ANNOYING, that is why people are blocking or otherwise avoiding them.
You don't see people going to extreme lengths to block Google text ads. Why? Because they are fairly unobtrusive, yet still visible enough for people to see them.
If advertisers don't want me using Adblock they should use small, unobtrusive, static images and I will happily turn it off. But until then, they can whine and complain all they want. Just my two cents...
I don't see what the big interest with this case is. I think the only reason it is getting as much publicity as it is, is because the general public actually understands the patent. The prior art is clear: ravioli, pierogies, pirags, etc.
There are software patents being passed that are 100 times more ridiculous than this, yet you don't hear much about it outside of Slashdot or some short blurb in the tech section of the NYT.
Most of these software patents are just as absurd as patenting a method of making a PB&J sandwich, often worse. A "System and method for creating, processing and managing educational content within and between schools," I mean come on, or a "method and system for processing input from a command line interface."
I wish the general public would realize the ramifications of software patents like these. It is essentially re-patenting the wheel.
And talk about missing options sheesh! Best evolutionary adaptation? I vote breasts!
I really hate steam and the direction in which video game distribution is headed, it's the whole reason I refuse to buy games like Half Life 2. I would be willing to pay a little extra if I got a nicely packaged product with a large dead tree manual and the reassurance that I will be able to play it years down the road.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation of consoles use a steam like system as well, ala the Phantom Console. Count me out.
Paint your house with this stuff? Psshh, I take care of the SOURCE of the problem, I shoot war drivers with my paintball gun.
For those of you who don't know what TES (Thermal Emission Spectrometer) is, here is some more information. The webpage is quite interesting.
The USPS already has this, you can scan in a photograph and have it as a stamp. You do it online though, I can't find the link right now. The catch is that it can only be photos of children. I think the reason for this is that people were using "inappropriate" pictures. Just imagine if you got a stamp with the Goatse guy on it. *shudder*
Are we going to start measuring stuff in MIT building heights now?
Yes, you can either download the CD and use it to boot, then do a network install through an FTP or HTTP server (just make sure you find a server before booting because it doesn't give you a list or anything). If you can't even get the CD to boot and you already are running Linux just mount the iso as a "virtual drive." This is how I installed mine.
Best Buy has been accused of doing this.
Space Quest and the Quest for Glory series are what really got me into gaming. Some of the later Icon based Sierra games were half-way decent, but in my mind the text-input games were the ones that really shined.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Guess I didn't pay much attention to the plot, heh. I still think Doom 1 and 2 are the best FPS' of all time. I used to be a Co-Sysop on a 4 node BBS that ran SirDoom. I haven't played any other FPS online since, and I'm 23 now. The BBS was VRBBS in Houston if anyone cares.
;)
Ahhh those were the good times. I should know better than to correct a low ID anyway.
So basically what your saying is don't play Judas Priest around the baby.