when the box craps out and you lose all your saved songs you didn't burn to the mini-disk? And I can see it now.... "You seem to like Britteny Spears songs, so I took the liberty of purchasing her entire new album for you":-)
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it has become easier and easier for even the most budget-minded geeks to afford wireless gear for their homes, offices, and neighborhoods.
Dunno about everything else, but that tinfoil hat and a can of pringles will help with your office and neighborhood wireless hacking, as this article explains.
...the inclusion of the phrase 'under God' in the pledge..
It's Zod. Seriously though, why can't we just change the pledge to keep up with the times? Maybe instead something like, "one nation, mindlessly consuming, with liberty and SUVs for all"?
Anyone else think that once machines take over the Earth, all they will do is play chess against each other?
It would be rather ironic if they have already won and turned us into batteries, in which case we are just part of a computer simulation in which we think we are creating smart computers (yes I am impatiently waiting for the 3rd matrix movie dammit).
Could Isaac Newton get a faculty job, or is modern society too intolerant of eccentricity?
Eccentricity is ok, its the whole dead thing that might make it hard for him to get hired. Then again, with some of the braindead teachers I have had in the past, maybe not.
What do you mean you haven't published anything in over 300 years??
Do you feel threatened by a technology that would allow artists to sell their music directly to consumers and potentially make your job and many other such jobs obsolete, saving said consumers quite a bit of $$$ as well as paying said artists quite a bit of extra $$$ and allowing these artists to retain full rights to their own creations?
PalmOne's ticker symbol will change from the current PALM to PLMO. Dibbs on the PALM stock symbol so I can unload millions of shares of my fly-by-night IPO on the uneducated masses!
Am I the only one who read the title and thought, "Finally! All this messing with genes has produced something useful, a fire-breathing Chimera with a lion's head and a goat's body"? On a more serious note, the nature article in a similiar vein is here.
By "THE NEED", I mean every geek's need to explain everything and make sure nothing in the movie violates any of the known laws of physics, rather than just enjoying a movie?
Now if we can get a word processor that displays naughty pictures and makes sex noises while you work, we would have something. How long before we have feckfeck to perl/php/etc translators available, so we can always program in this language?
Yes, but the look on your roomy/spouse/sig. others face when the computer monitor starts speaking to them can't be measured in usefullness or dollar value alone.
Light travels across 12 inches in one nanosecond. Excelent! I knew imperial measurements wern't arbertary at all!
Except you forget that light travels exactly one meter in (newly invented, by me) one metric second. It sure is a good thing that seconds aren't arbitrary eh?;-)
Exactly what I was thinking, boy are we going to feel stupid when we launch a ship to check out what looks like a habitable star, only to arrive back here. Suddenly the plot from the original "Planet of the Apes" makes more sense however.
Basically what the electoral college means is some people's votes are worth more than other people's votes. Why should someone else's vote count more or less than mine?
How long can it take until we geeks can buy a little scanner to locate and read those chips? Possibly find various geeky uses for them?
Oh my, the lady next to me in the train is wearing hot pink underclothes from Walmart, while her friend in the dress appears to be wearing none at all (sounds of loose change falling to the floor).
Alright, I'll call you on this one -- how does the government tax saving?
If I put my hard earned money (after taxes) into a savings account, I am taxed on the interest. My favorite however is when I get a refund, and the IRS asks me how much I got back the next year, and I am taxed on that. WTF? Time for a flat tax, just imagine how much money would be saved by getting rid of the IRS. Tax all purchases on some kind of sliding scale (food is low, yachts are high). No more tax forms, all money (including drug money) gets taxed. And *gasp* if you save your money, you aren't taxed on it!
When I want to listen to music, I stick a CD disc into my 6 disc changer and relax, again, on the couch while reading the newspaper or something.
The only problem with this is I would have to listen to the 5 crappy songs to hear the one decent song on each CD (bought way before you could easily preview a CD before buying). I would much rather burn all my CDs to the trusty ol' harddrive and pick the play list *I* want to hear, in the order I want to hear it in, without songs I don't want to hear. Not to mention now I don't have to hunt down 6 (or more) specific CDs to hear the music I want to hear.
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when the box craps out and you lose all your saved songs you didn't burn to the mini-disk? And I can see it now.... "You seem to like Britteny Spears songs, so I took the liberty of purchasing her entire new album for you" :-)
Dunno about everything else, but that tinfoil hat and a can of pringles will help with your office and neighborhood wireless hacking, as this article explains.
It's Zod. Seriously though, why can't we just change the pledge to keep up with the times? Maybe instead something like, "one nation, mindlessly consuming, with liberty and SUVs for all"?
I think this is more commonly known as an "exit strategy" in the business world.
It would be rather ironic if they have already won and turned us into batteries, in which case we are just part of a computer simulation in which we think we are creating smart computers (yes I am impatiently waiting for the 3rd matrix movie dammit).
Eccentricity is ok, its the whole dead thing that might make it hard for him to get hired. Then again, with some of the braindead teachers I have had in the past, maybe not.
What do you mean you haven't published anything in over 300 years??
a good reason to go out and get a job instead of posting here all day.
Do you feel threatened by a technology that would allow artists to sell their music directly to consumers and potentially make your job and many other such jobs obsolete, saving said consumers quite a bit of $$$ as well as paying said artists quite a bit of extra $$$ and allowing these artists to retain full rights to their own creations?
PalmOne's ticker symbol will change from the current PALM to PLMO.
Dibbs on the PALM stock symbol so I can unload millions of shares of my fly-by-night IPO on the uneducated masses!
How could a Californian go wrong voting for a candidate selling campaign thongs on their website? Go Georgy!
Am I the only one who read the title and thought, "Finally! All this messing with genes has produced something useful, a fire-breathing Chimera with a lion's head and a goat's body"? On a more serious note, the nature article in a similiar vein is here.
Luckily the software that tallies the votes is closed source, so the outcome should be the way the ISC wants anyway.
By "THE NEED", I mean every geek's need to explain everything and make sure nothing in the movie violates any of the known laws of physics, rather than just enjoying a movie?
Now if we can get a word processor that displays naughty pictures and makes sex noises while you work, we would have something. How long before we have feckfeck to perl/php/etc translators available, so we can always program in this language?
Yes, but the look on your roomy/spouse/sig. others face when the computer monitor starts speaking to them can't be measured in usefullness or dollar value alone.
I wonder how much the person gets paid who comes up with funky product names like "Audigy"? What exactly is it, Audio+Prodigy=Audigy??
Excelent!
I knew imperial measurements wern't arbertary at all!
Except you forget that light travels exactly one meter in (newly invented, by me) one metric second. It sure is a good thing that seconds aren't arbitrary eh? ;-)
Exactly what I was thinking, boy are we going to feel stupid when we launch a ship to check out what looks like a habitable star, only to arrive back here. Suddenly the plot from the original "Planet of the Apes" makes more sense however.
Basically what the electoral college means is some people's votes are worth more than other people's votes. Why should someone else's vote count more or less than mine?
Oh my, the lady next to me in the train is wearing hot pink underclothes from Walmart, while her friend in the dress appears to be wearing none at all (sounds of loose change falling to the floor).
I wonder which lucky bastard here on slashdot is ID number 666 (is it possible to search by id number)?
If I put my hard earned money (after taxes) into a savings account, I am taxed on the interest. My favorite however is when I get a refund, and the IRS asks me how much I got back the next year, and I am taxed on that. WTF? Time for a flat tax, just imagine how much money would be saved by getting rid of the IRS. Tax all purchases on some kind of sliding scale (food is low, yachts are high). No more tax forms, all money (including drug money) gets taxed. And *gasp* if you save your money, you aren't taxed on it!
Designed and Implemented by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer
of Harvey Mudd College
Wait, this wasn't someone's graduate project was it???
The only problem with this is I would have to listen to the 5 crappy songs to hear the one decent song on each CD (bought way before you could easily preview a CD before buying). I would much rather burn all my CDs to the trusty ol' harddrive and pick the play list *I* want to hear, in the order I want to hear it in, without songs I don't want to hear. Not to mention now I don't have to hunt down 6 (or more) specific CDs to hear the music I want to hear.
Well you see there is this thing called proof reading...