Actually, that myth will likely be futher crushed with the release of a retrofittable hybrid electric vehicle kit, such as the one being developed by Ecolectric Technology (www.ecolectrictechnology.com). Then, you can take any vehicle, retrofit it to be hybrid electric, race it, and claim a new world record. The inherent increase in low-end torque (and thus acceleration) will probably make it as desirable a modification as turbochargers or superchargers on any performance vehicle.
A hybrid McLaren might be pretty nice if you as me...
Not necessarily. Back when I was using the first version of PC Paint, I found the features terribly limiting. Nowdays we have Photoshop and the GIMP, and I can do pretty much anything I want to an image of a number of formats. Not many people voluntarily put in the effort to make changes to their images using a hex editor.
Multiple formats and increased complexity of the underlying structure do not necessarily imply that the surface must be difficult to work with. Good proprietary (or open source) soultions can exist, especially for web development.
When coding HTML, did you care about individual 1's or 0's, or the assembly language of the browser? No, you simply abstracted your work and delegated those tasks to others. Same goes with using software to do webpages: soon, we won't give too much thought to the underlying tags and all, but how those options should be presented to the developer, regardless of if he/she is a professional or a 14 year old kid.
My question is about the one year in prison: who goes to prison? Does the 10 year old kid go? Does the store owner that solde it go? Does the guy behind the counter go? What if the cashier is under 18? Will it be required that the cashiers at gaming stores be at least 18 (much like the minimum bartender age stuff)? What about playing a violent game in view of kids younger than 18, will that be illegal too?
George, if you're reading this, I would very much like to play that. I yearn for the X-Wing days, and when I learned of Alliance with multiplayer, I got excited, but alas, I didn't have the money back then. Now that I know it required a joystick, I don't think I would have bought it anyways--I got to be too good piloting with the mouse.
The filter automatically checks for 1337n3$$, even in anonymous cowards, and will sucessfully post if that condition is met. It looks like this in slashcode:
if (AC == 1337) post(comment); else filter(comment);
So this must be the house Calvin & Hobbes will live when they grow up. Of course, when it's right side up, it will be time machine; when sideways, a transmogrifier; and when upside down, a duplicator.
Granted he later perfected the transmogrifier in the form of a small gun, but the corrugated cardboard method still works just as well.
Looks like this string of comments is considered "highly informative" (relatively obvious) stuff. Therefore, accept my humble offering of a website we all know as well: Project Gutenburg. http://www.gutenberg.org/
Probably that Project Gutenberg only distributes books which are in public domain. For some crazy reason, some people like to read material still under copyright.
If any Apple marketing guys happen to be reading this, the device should be called an iPage.
Of course, in Apple style, they'll probably start calling eBooks by their new name, iBooks, and before long everyone will be updating their websites to reflect the new naming conventions...
You make a really good point with the school textbook thing, I think that's a really good idea. It'll be nice buying a used book (or even using a used book in high school, etc.) that isn't highlighted a paragraph at a time.
Plus, for public elementary/junior high/high school schools, that could save quite a bit of taxpayers' money. Then the students don't need to worry about books getting stolen either. Their ebook readers on the other hand might sell pretty well on ebay.
1450s people may have had better rendered fonts, but their handwriting was so over-the-top that it negates it. For example, I find monitor text WAY easier to read than, say, the Declaration of Independence.
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I hate to say it, but if you and your alleged wife are taking a bath and she finds reading a book more intereting than you, you've got bigger problems than you think...
So it sounds like the problem here is simply the media, and it seems to be a pretty common problem. Seems like a lot of potential for innovators/inventors. Come up with a easy to read/backlit optional means of reading/viewing ditial information, and someone's gonna get rich. Is there any reason why LCD screens nowdays have such dark backgrounds? I know older ones used to be green with black text, so maybe it's possible to have a white background? Anyone know the answer to this?
Well, I have a PDA and I have access to NetLibrary (a good number of new books), but I as of yet don't know how to put the NetLibrary books on my PDA. Sure would be nice tho..
On the other hand, it works great for text files like what you can get off Project Gutenberg.
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I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure any version of PERL will do that to you...
We are the judge who write "u"
Might I be so bold as to ask...what did the emissions and fuel consumption look like while driving at 130mph?
Actually, that myth will likely be futher crushed with the release of a retrofittable hybrid electric vehicle kit, such as the one being developed by Ecolectric Technology (www.ecolectrictechnology.com). Then, you can take any vehicle, retrofit it to be hybrid electric, race it, and claim a new world record. The inherent increase in low-end torque (and thus acceleration) will probably make it as desirable a modification as turbochargers or superchargers on any performance vehicle.
A hybrid McLaren might be pretty nice if you as me...
Not necessarily. Back when I was using the first version of PC Paint, I found the features terribly limiting. Nowdays we have Photoshop and the GIMP, and I can do pretty much anything I want to an image of a number of formats. Not many people voluntarily put in the effort to make changes to their images using a hex editor.
Multiple formats and increased complexity of the underlying structure do not necessarily imply that the surface must be difficult to work with. Good proprietary (or open source) soultions can exist, especially for web development.
When coding HTML, did you care about individual 1's or 0's, or the assembly language of the browser? No, you simply abstracted your work and delegated those tasks to others. Same goes with using software to do webpages: soon, we won't give too much thought to the underlying tags and all, but how those options should be presented to the developer, regardless of if he/she is a professional or a 14 year old kid.
My question is about the one year in prison: who goes to prison? Does the 10 year old kid go? Does the store owner that solde it go? Does the guy behind the counter go? What if the cashier is under 18? Will it be required that the cashiers at gaming stores be at least 18 (much like the minimum bartender age stuff)? What about playing a violent game in view of kids younger than 18, will that be illegal too?
George, if you're reading this, I would very much like to play that. I yearn for the X-Wing days, and when I learned of Alliance with multiplayer, I got excited, but alas, I didn't have the money back then. Now that I know it required a joystick, I don't think I would have bought it anyways--I got to be too good piloting with the mouse.
"PARC, which a few years ago was said be be targeted for a spin-off from Xerox"
Hmm, looks like the Xerox copying feature got got out of hand...
Yes, but he did it with mere mortals...Pixar did it with the Incredibles!
I must say, for such an application, I am very grateful that they make it very hard to do a full erase.
Yeah, if there's one thing I look for in a girl, it's nice, long legos, which she most certainly would have if she's seven feet tall.
(I know, I know, it's lego and not legos...)
The filter automatically checks for 1337n3$$, even in anonymous cowards, and will sucessfully post if that condition is met. It looks like this in slashcode:
if (AC == 1337) post(comment);
else filter(comment);
My guess would be running with right-handed scissors...
You're right, they might trick us. You can never be to careful.
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So this must be the house Calvin & Hobbes will live when they grow up. Of course, when it's right side up, it will be time machine; when sideways, a transmogrifier; and when upside down, a duplicator.
Granted he later perfected the transmogrifier in the form of a small gun, but the corrugated cardboard method still works just as well.
By jove, your right. Looks like they've painted themselves into corner on this one.
How about iDoc (short for iDocument)? Is that taken yet?
Looks like this string of comments is considered "highly informative" (relatively obvious) stuff. Therefore, accept my humble offering of a website we all know as well: Project Gutenburg. http://www.gutenberg.org/
You may now begin the Modding Up process...
Probably that Project Gutenberg only distributes books which are in public domain. For some crazy reason, some people like to read material still under copyright.
If any Apple marketing guys happen to be reading this, the device should be called an iPage.
Of course, in Apple style, they'll probably start calling eBooks by their new name, iBooks, and before long everyone will be updating their websites to reflect the new naming conventions...
You make a really good point with the school textbook thing, I think that's a really good idea. It'll be nice buying a used book (or even using a used book in high school, etc.) that isn't highlighted a paragraph at a time.
Plus, for public elementary/junior high/high school schools, that could save quite a bit of taxpayers' money. Then the students don't need to worry about books getting stolen either. Their ebook readers on the other hand might sell pretty well on ebay.
1450s people may have had better rendered fonts, but their handwriting was so over-the-top that it negates it. For example, I find monitor text WAY easier to read than, say, the Declaration of Independence.
I hate to say it, but if you and your alleged wife are taking a bath and she finds reading a book more intereting than you, you've got bigger problems than you think...
So it sounds like the problem here is simply the media, and it seems to be a pretty common problem. Seems like a lot of potential for innovators/inventors. Come up with a easy to read/backlit optional means of reading/viewing ditial information, and someone's gonna get rich. Is there any reason why LCD screens nowdays have such dark backgrounds? I know older ones used to be green with black text, so maybe it's possible to have a white background? Anyone know the answer to this?
Well, I have a PDA and I have access to NetLibrary (a good number of new books), but I as of yet don't know how to put the NetLibrary books on my PDA. Sure would be nice tho..
On the other hand, it works great for text files like what you can get off Project Gutenberg.
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be programmers of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a program so foul, so cruel that no developer yet has compiled it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave programmers, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.