Ok, imagine that the qubits are Chicken McNuggets. That would make the five qubit register... I wonder if McDonald's is still serving breakfast, I sure could go for one of those steak bagels that drips a pint of grease into your lap. To the Toyota!!
"17th century plans to build a space chariot out of springs, feathers and gunpowder. The design was based on the idea that gravity disappeared at an altitude of 20 miles"
I wonder if the thing could have made it 20 miles up. If someone builds one, I will supply the bound and gagged - erm, I mean "Jacobean Spacesuited" test pilots.
I can see the point he is making here. The SNES versions looked better, you didn't have to deal with the NES crapping out if you bumped the console, you had the bad-ass new 6-button controller that didn't poke you in the hands, and a lot of people bought the All Star collection even though they already had an NES and the old carts. Oh, I think he left out Mario 64 and Mario sunshine (shudder...) because they are 3D. He is totally writing an opinion piece though, and some of them are pretty dumbish. Super Mario RPG = the best RPG ever made !!1
"The first-party titles will include: Super Mario 64 DS, Pokémon Dash, Big Concert! Band Brothers, Touch! Made in Wario, and Intuitive Stroke."
No Intuitive Stroke release in the US? Why don't we ever get the cool games? I want my first-party nintendo pr0n, damnit!
"This is fairly innocuous (they can't stop a screen capture), but it still bothers me a bit that a company whose motto is "Do No Evil" is dabbling in DRM"
How is this DRM? What right is it managing? The right to get on the internet and print pages from a book that you dont own? I would be more worried that google is gonna get all embroiled in lawsuits with publishing companies, which would suck. This is a pretty cool feature. Oh, btw, it is a 1x1 gif stretched to the size of the scanned book page and placed on top of it, the actual scanned page is a non repeating background image.
OK, I know that google says on the FAQ that the ability to print and copy images on their book pages is disabled, and if you re-enable the context menu, you just get a clear 1 by 1 image if you try to copy it, but it makes it pretty pointless if you can just go to view->source, find this section:
".theimg { background-image:url("http://print.google.com/prin t?id=[really long semi-gibberish name]")"
and copy the url, obtaining a plain image that you can do whatever you want with... uhm, within the law, of course!
I believe I would be behind the idea 100% if there was open source software and a celebrity involved. Could we get Mario to do this? Maybe fill up his little water-squirter backpack with white paint? How 'bout starting a project on sourceforge to reprogram the backpack? We could call it Open Asteroid Squirter.
I am also excited about this game. I heard you can drop a hemi in the golf cart, remove the governer, add some aero, and get 0-60 times of less than 2 seconds due to the low weight. The Kawasaki Ninja Golf Bag looks pretty cool too, but I am concerned about the possible lack of realism. I mean, golf bag wheels are pretty small, and the cloth might catch on fire. The game I am really looking forward to, however, is Rockstar's "John Madden's Pro Bikini Auto Thief Kombat Kopter". I heard the fatality that Madden performs involves him stripping down and peeing fire. Awesome and sexy!
It is the turtles, they can finally surf the web, but they waste all of their time reading and submitting to Slashdot. You can tell because they crapped and peed all over the IT section and washed the colors in the Apple section out with their wet feet. They also post a lot of comments with titles like "Frist Psot" or "Important!" about Grits, Natalie Portman, goat sex, and something called GNAA. Damn turtles... screwing everything up, Linking to nasty pictures, modding me down for stupid comments like this one, eating all the hot grits, eating celebrities... Someone get me a plumber suit, a beaver tale, and a fire flower; I got turtles to kill.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a good thing? The Gran Turismo games are, IMHO, the best thing since Tetris. If I want to play against a bunch of assholes, I will just invite my friends over. That way, when they park their cars sideways on the corkscrew in Laguna Seca, I can kick them in the nuts instead of yelling/typing at them. Seriously though, I have always enjoyed single player GT more than multiplayer, and I am kind of glad that they are releasing these as different games. I doubt I will buy the online version.
According to the article, "Any recovery of potential energy above that can be returned to the grid.". I wonder if there is any way you could set this up so that you get credits on your power bill when you exceed a certain amount of waste. That would be awesome! Like getting paid for your hard work in the bathroom! Oh yeah, another thing... this is a story about poop. That is also awesome.
Sounds too much like gonad.
I absolutely refuse to believe for even a second that this was an accident. Maybe they are trying to make it such an obvious joke that it stops being funny after a few days. I hope they try this with more products, they could rename MS Office "Pen by Microsoft", or call the command prompt in the next windows release "Direct Input Command Keyin Like Engine". Also, anything named "Venus" would be cool.
I didn't see helicopters mentioned. Anyone heard anything about that? I am guessing that there won't be any, and that sucks. But hey, I can hope real hard, and maybe some helicopters will pop out...
wait... Where does it say this thing is broken open? TFA at ABC says "radiation levels here were from seven to 10 times higher than normal". That does not seem to be very dangerous when you look into it a little. Natural background radiation is about 1.5 mSev a year, 10 times which would be 15 mSev/yr. Radiation sickness and long term cancer risks begin around 50 mSev in a shorter period of time. You may be thinking radioactive contamination.
From Wikipedia: Radioactive contamination means the distribution in an environment of radioactive material. This differs from direct radiation because the radioactive material may be moved around by wind or water, or it may be taken up by organisms.
BTW, IAAIP (I Am An Ignorant Person)
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"LotRRotK" (pronounced "lahtarrghootkh", like a wet fart from someone sitting on a plastic chair in a quiet classroom.)
Ok, imagine that the qubits are Chicken McNuggets. That would make the five qubit register... I wonder if McDonald's is still serving breakfast, I sure could go for one of those steak bagels that drips a pint of grease into your lap. To the Toyota!!
No, it's snot.
"17th century plans to build a space chariot out of springs, feathers and gunpowder. The design was based on the idea that gravity disappeared at an altitude of 20 miles"
I wonder if the thing could have made it 20 miles up. If someone builds one, I will supply the bound and gagged - erm, I mean "Jacobean Spacesuited" test pilots.
Quit making fun of my hat.
I can see the point he is making here. The SNES versions looked better, you didn't have to deal with the NES crapping out if you bumped the console, you had the bad-ass new 6-button controller that didn't poke you in the hands, and a lot of people bought the All Star collection even though they already had an NES and the old carts. Oh, I think he left out Mario 64 and Mario sunshine (shudder...) because they are 3D. He is totally writing an opinion piece though, and some of them are pretty dumbish. Super Mario RPG = the best RPG ever made !!1
I think I creamed my pants.
...when I saw 5
"The first-party titles will include: Super Mario 64 DS, Pokémon Dash, Big Concert! Band Brothers, Touch! Made in Wario, and Intuitive Stroke."
No Intuitive Stroke release in the US? Why don't we ever get the cool games? I want my first-party nintendo pr0n, damnit!
"This is fairly innocuous (they can't stop a screen capture), but it still bothers me a bit that a company whose motto is "Do No Evil" is dabbling in DRM" How is this DRM? What right is it managing? The right to get on the internet and print pages from a book that you dont own? I would be more worried that google is gonna get all embroiled in lawsuits with publishing companies, which would suck. This is a pretty cool feature. Oh, btw, it is a 1x1 gif stretched to the size of the scanned book page and placed on top of it, the actual scanned page is a non repeating background image.
OK, I know that google says on the FAQ that the ability to print and copy images on their book pages is disabled, and if you re-enable the context menu, you just get a clear 1 by 1 image if you try to copy it, but it makes it pretty pointless if you can just go to view->source, find this section:
n t?id=[really long semi-gibberish name]")"
".theimg { background-image:url("http://print.google.com/pri
and copy the url, obtaining a plain image that you can do whatever you want with... uhm, within the law, of course!
sex toys.
I believe I would be behind the idea 100% if there was open source software and a celebrity involved. Could we get Mario to do this? Maybe fill up his little water-squirter backpack with white paint? How 'bout starting a project on sourceforge to reprogram the backpack? We could call it Open Asteroid Squirter.
Why is this on slashdot? I dont even understand what the hoax is. He pretended to write poetry? Anyone get this? Please explain.
I am also excited about this game. I heard you can drop a hemi in the golf cart, remove the governer, add some aero, and get 0-60 times of less than 2 seconds due to the low weight. The Kawasaki Ninja Golf Bag looks pretty cool too, but I am concerned about the possible lack of realism. I mean, golf bag wheels are pretty small, and the cloth might catch on fire. The game I am really looking forward to, however, is Rockstar's "John Madden's Pro Bikini Auto Thief Kombat Kopter". I heard the fatality that Madden performs involves him stripping down and peeing fire. Awesome and sexy!
Forget the hat, this guy is going to build a tin foil bunker.
It is the turtles, they can finally surf the web, but they waste all of their time reading and submitting to Slashdot. You can tell because they crapped and peed all over the IT section and washed the colors in the Apple section out with their wet feet. They also post a lot of comments with titles like "Frist Psot" or "Important!" about Grits, Natalie Portman, goat sex, and something called GNAA. Damn turtles... screwing everything up, Linking to nasty pictures, modding me down for stupid comments like this one, eating all the hot grits, eating celebrities... Someone get me a plumber suit, a beaver tale, and a fire flower; I got turtles to kill.
Does this mean I will finally get telephone calls?
Am I the only one that thinks this is a good thing? The Gran Turismo games are, IMHO, the best thing since Tetris. If I want to play against a bunch of assholes, I will just invite my friends over. That way, when they park their cars sideways on the corkscrew in Laguna Seca, I can kick them in the nuts instead of yelling/typing at them. Seriously though, I have always enjoyed single player GT more than multiplayer, and I am kind of glad that they are releasing these as different games. I doubt I will buy the online version.
That is a good idea (the profane name part).
According to the article, "Any recovery of potential energy above that can be returned to the grid.". I wonder if there is any way you could set this up so that you get credits on your power bill when you exceed a certain amount of waste. That would be awesome! Like getting paid for your hard work in the bathroom! Oh yeah, another thing... this is a story about poop. That is also awesome.
Sounds too much like gonad.
I absolutely refuse to believe for even a second that this was an accident. Maybe they are trying to make it such an obvious joke that it stops being funny after a few days. I hope they try this with more products, they could rename MS Office "Pen by Microsoft", or call the command prompt in the next windows release "Direct Input Command Keyin Like Engine". Also, anything named "Venus" would be cool.
I didn't see helicopters mentioned. Anyone heard anything about that? I am guessing that there won't be any, and that sucks. But hey, I can hope real hard, and maybe some helicopters will pop out...
sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot to mention, I am probably off on the numbers. Someone correct me.
wait... Where does it say this thing is broken open? TFA at ABC says "radiation levels here were from seven to 10 times higher than normal". That does not seem to be very dangerous when you look into it a little. Natural background radiation is about 1.5 mSev a year, 10 times which would be 15 mSev/yr. Radiation sickness and long term cancer risks begin around 50 mSev in a shorter period of time. You may be thinking radioactive contamination.
From Wikipedia: Radioactive contamination means the distribution in an environment of radioactive material. This differs from direct radiation because the radioactive material may be moved around by wind or water, or it may be taken up by organisms.
BTW, IAAIP (I Am An Ignorant Person)