Patents by themselves aren't bad. Protecting the inventor/inventing company and granting them the possibility to reap the profit from their invention by either selling it or using it for your own products.
Well I was going to say just as slashdotters stopped drooling someone had to come along with a story about Natalie Portman. Then I remembered the story with the pictures and the one with jessica alba and realized.. no they hadn't stopped drooling:)
People already shake things when there is something wrong with them. I wonder what this phone will do when it becomes victim of someones urge to "shake-it-and-it-might-work" reflex.
I guess some jokester software engineer will make it call tech support...
Your points are valid and powergamers/oldies will probably be happier if they wait a couple of months for battlefields and more high end raid content to be added.
However level 60 isn't meant to be only for the leet in this game, Blizzard wants normal people to be able to become max level without it taking them years. They want people to be able to sit down for just an hour or 2 and feel they have made some progress. I'm pretty sure they want people to think "hmm I've made level 60 I wonder what that other class is like I have got to try that too".
High end content is coming, but Blizzard concentrated on making a game that lots of people could enjoy before adding the stuff for the "junkies".
Well, in this case, I believe the "communists" are the "good guys", and the "capitalists", who want to profit from their innovations by using closed source, are the "bad guys".
So you my friend, are the bloody commie bastard. Kinda makes you think doesn't it.
Growing up with people who talk a lot help. I can now go into/ignore mode and not even register what people are saying or notice that they are talking at all.
It is very convenient. The background buzz from talking also makes the tinnitus go away which is nice.
Of course it does make people think you are not paying attention to them and just answering "yes" every once in a while. Which is true.
Lets take it one step further, everything is "big bang" powered.
"So, ladies I'm big bang powered, wanna join me for some big bang action in my apartment?"
I'll patent this concept and get filty rich from all the p0rn that will use the big bang action! Luckily for me the patent office doesn't care about prior art! MWAHAHAHAHA!
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All the more incentive to the "innocent" ISPs to do something about the spammers on their network.
Apparently lots of posters here don't know.
1M = 1000000000m
So tired of seeing mHz.
90mHz chip that can raytrace far more efficiently than a p4
;)
90 millihertz beating a p4. My confidence in Intel has been going down since I started reading this site, but that is just ridiculus
Make a program that'll solve their math homework. That'll get them interested.
;)
You can probably charge them their lunch money too
He wanted a reason I gave him the core reason, how they went about making sure the companies didn't buy the competitors chips is just details.
What I think was the case here was this.
2 vendors sell x amount of intel CPUs.
1 vendor only sells intel
1 vendor sells intel and another brand in equal amounts.
The intel only vendor gets a bigger discount.
Too bad the name PalmOS is already taken... ;)
and demanding your 30 pieces of silver
Let me guess, World of Warcraft player?
I have a few IRC logs that suggests drinking and chatting can be even more hazardous.
Patents by themselves aren't bad. Protecting the inventor/inventing company and granting them the possibility to reap the profit from their invention by either selling it or using it for your own products.
The problem comes when people abuse the system.
So... We have a love-hate relationship we have to the multinational corporations that makes all our nerdy stuff?
Oh yeah, breaking their knees wouldn't make them even harder to break your business.
Crushing their hands on the other hand might have some effect on their l337 H4x0rZ abilities.
Well I was going to say just as slashdotters stopped drooling someone had to come along with a story about Natalie Portman. Then I remembered the story with the pictures and the one with jessica alba and realized.. no they hadn't stopped drooling :)
What's up with this site lately?
"News for Nerds. Anything pr0n or hot chicks will be accepted because the editors haven't gotten any in ages."
Right?
People already shake things when there is something wrong with them. I wonder what this phone will do when it becomes victim of someones urge to "shake-it-and-it-might-work" reflex.
I guess some jokester software engineer will make it call tech support...
Starring Jessica Alba.. now this may get me to actually pay for some porn ;)
... the last tsunami was caused by the largest earthquake in the last 40 years, over a length of 1200 km.
You seriously think a localized collision will cause any noticable reaction at all in Chile? There just isn't enough energy to cause much of anything.
Sure there may be waves around the collision, but if you have sense enough to stay away from that you'll be fine.
Your points are valid and powergamers/oldies will probably be happier if they wait a couple of months for battlefields and more high end raid content to be added.
However level 60 isn't meant to be only for the leet in this game, Blizzard wants normal people to be able to become max level without it taking them years. They want people to be able to sit down for just an hour or 2 and feel they have made some progress. I'm pretty sure they want people to think "hmm I've made level 60 I wonder what that other class is like I have got to try that too".
High end content is coming, but Blizzard concentrated on making a game that lots of people could enjoy before adding the stuff for the "junkies".
I was just visiting Malaysia.
The cost for an sms message there is about 4 cents / message.
Seems the western countries could use some of that competition...
Well, in this case, I believe the "communists" are the "good guys", and the "capitalists", who want to profit from their innovations by using closed source, are the "bad guys".
So you my friend, are the bloody commie bastard. Kinda makes you think doesn't it.
This is what happens when they have to explain why their wives say they are "a fool" when they have friends visiting.
Growing up with people who talk a lot help. I can now go into /ignore mode and not even register what people are saying or notice that they are talking at all.
It is very convenient. The background buzz from talking also makes the tinnitus go away which is nice.
Of course it does make people think you are not paying attention to them and just answering "yes" every once in a while. Which is true.
Great joke! :)
You need to hotkey this page. Now you'll have a way out whenever /. starts to rub you the wrong way. Expect to use it daily ;)
Lets take it one step further, everything is "big bang" powered.
"So, ladies I'm big bang powered, wanna join me for some big bang action in my apartment?"
I'll patent this concept and get filty rich from all the p0rn that will use the big bang action! Luckily for me the patent office doesn't care about prior art! MWAHAHAHAHA!