Oh come on, if he was an anyway serious hacker he would be able to factor 256bit RSA keys in his head while getting head and a gun to his head. The grades would also be a spinning cube rotating on 9 seperate flat screens.
Getting sent to the principals office is oldskool.. now where did I put my rollerblades?
Not crappier games. More likely smaller running games. Like Portal/HL2:EP1/HL2:EP2. Less material, cheaper price.
I remember it was only a few years ago you could buy a single player game and expect to get a months play out of it. Now days your lucky to get more then 5 hours.
I thought maybe/. people were not reading it properly (as is the case) but I had a look at the patent and all I can say is WOW, how on earth did this get through?
But if you read it they actually invalidate their own patent.
For example they explain that normal search URLs tend to use commands like "?query=". However their patent uses "-/" to determine the rest is a search string, or can use something like "?".
So they aren't even using a non-formatted string to pass in the query.
I recall seeing a patent that did this. Instead of a photocopier though it did it through the network. So for example you sent an email externally or copied a file to a database with lower security access it would be auto-redacted.
Can't remember the number, but should be easy to find.
1. in the new version of GIMP on the image in the bottom left is a button that will switch you over to selection mask mode. After that you can use normal paint tools to adjust your selection.
You can also use Wand and lasso.
2. on the image window go to "Dialog" menu and select "Undo History"
Taiwan is part of China. You may not think that, and a lot of Taiwanese don't think that either. However the Chinese government does and forbids any companies doing business with China (or companies they do business with) from saying Taiwan is a country.
That includes pretty much all US companies. Ironic.
> Iraq was an issue that should have been delt with.
Who made you the world police? It was brought to the UN and was being dealt with and yet the US still went in when told to wait.
So we should invade and kill leaders of a country who are bad? So you won't have a problem when some other country assassinates the US President when he is as bad as those you are going on about.
>The most influential country in the world.
Rome, Victorian England, and many others have said the same thing. You stopped being the most influential country in the world sometime in the last 8 years.
The America you are going on about is a pipe dream.
Have you been to china? I don't think you have. I have.
They allow a certain level of dissent as long as that dissent doesn't interfere with the status quo. A bit like the USA. It gives the illusion of free will.
Don't know about US law but in Ireland some years back this came up at an ISPs convention (think it was IOL).
The ISP was berated for censorship for dropping alt.sex.binaries section.
The presenter pointed out it would be impossible for them to censor anything that passes through their server. Common Carrier laws forbid it. The second they start censoring anything then they become liable for all content that passes through the system. So for example at that time someone posting to a newsgroup in Ireland abortion information would of been illegal for the user would not make the company liable unless they had censored the newsgroups.
After that he pointed out that majority of bottleneck traffic was from those groups and gave the guy a URL to download them from if he still wanted them.
As I understand it they are building ways to counter eBay sales of laptops supplied to the poorer nations. So the laptop you get in the US will not be 100% like the released ones.
I agree with you. I think it is more likely that LL want to be in charge of the system which is bad. So I guess they would offer some kind of payment system that requires you to pay them to host a server, followed up by having currency mandated by them.
The thing is SL is for the most part pointless. There is nothing in it that can't be done better in other systems (web, IM, video/voice chat). The system seems to thrive on Furries and prostitution. Previously gambling as well but they banned that.
As soon as you get to 50 protesters everyone else will be locked out of that area because SL can't scale.
Also SL for the most part is a ghost town and IBM are working on their own virtual world. You have a better chance of being seen in that one (which is internal afair).
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Oh come on, if he was an anyway serious hacker he would be able to factor 256bit RSA keys in his head while getting head and a gun to his head. The grades would also be a spinning cube rotating on 9 seperate flat screens.
Getting sent to the principals office is oldskool.. now where did I put my rollerblades?
Not crappier games. More likely smaller running games. Like Portal/HL2:EP1/HL2:EP2. Less material, cheaper price.
I remember it was only a few years ago you could buy a single player game and expect to get a months play out of it. Now days your lucky to get more then 5 hours.
Actually these numbers came up in the Irish lottery some time back.
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24
How many people do you know would return a box of cereal with a brick in it?
But your example is a bit silly, most of the thefts from cereal boxes are from kids and they just steal the toys straight out of the store.
I thought maybe /. people were not reading it properly (as is the case) but I had a look at the patent and all I can say is WOW, how on earth did this get through?
But if you read it they actually invalidate their own patent.
For example they explain that normal search URLs tend to use commands like "?query=". However their patent uses "-/" to determine the rest is a search string, or can use something like "?".
So they aren't even using a non-formatted string to pass in the query.
I recall seeing a patent that did this. Instead of a photocopier though it did it through the network. So for example you sent an email externally or copied a file to a database with lower security access it would be auto-redacted.
Can't remember the number, but should be easy to find.
I am aware of what you are saying but any country that does any kind of business with China has to clearly define Taiwan as part of China.
If your going to support Taiwan in that sense you better make sure your company never does any kind of business directly or indirectly with China.
Forget about funding his care. I have no wish to have some moron launch through his windscreen and kill me in the event of a collision.
1. in the new version of GIMP on the image in the bottom left is a button that will switch you over to selection mask mode. After that you can use normal paint tools to adjust your selection.
You can also use Wand and lasso.
2. on the image window go to "Dialog" menu and select "Undo History"
The latest version is grand. They moved the UI around. The learning curve is not as bad as it was and it is an exceptional program for the price.
The only thing missing that it needs to be on par with Photoshop is CYMK support.
> They literally patent the hell out of everything they can to avoid being sued themselves.
That isn't entirely true. If they feel the idea is not worth protecting they publish it to stop people from patenting it.
To file a patent isn't cheap. So I doubt very much they just put in silly ones for the sake of it.
this prehaps?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/06
Taiwan is part of China. You may not think that, and a lot of Taiwanese don't think that either. However the Chinese government does and forbids any companies doing business with China (or companies they do business with) from saying Taiwan is a country.
That includes pretty much all US companies. Ironic.
Manufactured in America is not the same as Made in America. I would be very surprised if 100% of the shoe came from the USA.
We playing a logic game now?
> Iraq was an issue that should have been delt with.
Who made you the world police? It was brought to the UN and was being dealt with and yet the US still went in when told to wait.
So we should invade and kill leaders of a country who are bad? So you won't have a problem when some other country assassinates the US President when he is as bad as those you are going on about.
>The most influential country in the world.
Rome, Victorian England, and many others have said the same thing. You stopped being the most influential country in the world sometime in the last 8 years.
The America you are going on about is a pipe dream.
Have you been to china? I don't think you have. I have.
They allow a certain level of dissent as long as that dissent doesn't interfere with the status quo. A bit like the USA. It gives the illusion of free will.
> do you think that world consumers should punish the people of the US economically because of it?
They don't have to. Bush is doing it all for us.
Don't know about US law but in Ireland some years back this came up at an ISPs convention (think it was IOL).
The ISP was berated for censorship for dropping alt.sex.binaries section.
The presenter pointed out it would be impossible for them to censor anything that passes through their server. Common Carrier laws forbid it. The second they start censoring anything then they become liable for all content that passes through the system. So for example at that time someone posting to a newsgroup in Ireland abortion information would of been illegal for the user would not make the company liable unless they had censored the newsgroups.
After that he pointed out that majority of bottleneck traffic was from those groups and gave the guy a URL to download them from if he still wanted them.
I think your assuming the person in question would get a day in court. That's being covered too.
As I understand it they are building ways to counter eBay sales of laptops supplied to the poorer nations. So the laptop you get in the US will not be 100% like the released ones.
I agree with you. I think it is more likely that LL want to be in charge of the system which is bad. So I guess they would offer some kind of payment system that requires you to pay them to host a server, followed up by having currency mandated by them.
The thing is SL is for the most part pointless. There is nothing in it that can't be done better in other systems (web, IM, video/voice chat). The system seems to thrive on Furries and prostitution. Previously gambling as well but they banned that.
As soon as you get to 50 protesters everyone else will be locked out of that area because SL can't scale.
Also SL for the most part is a ghost town and IBM are working on their own virtual world. You have a better chance of being seen in that one (which is internal afair).
I only have one thing bad to say about OOo. That is templates. If someone can point me to templates then I'd change my mind. :)
Otherwise it is grand. Everything works fine, UI is grand. Impress + Draw + Writer are pretty much used daily.
Think he was just chancing his arm after getting a cheer on the first question. S&B is common knowledge, not tinfoil hat land. Just a rich boy frat.
What annoyed me is I would of liked to hear Kerrys excuse as to why he didn't contest the election after so much voter fraud going on.
After watching Kerry sit back as the kid got tasered he is probably as bad as Bush.