They'd have tried to shoe-horn late fees into Netflix. That's where all Blockbuster's money came from. Renting videos was just a loss leader for late fees. They didn't take Netflix seriously because they didn't have late fees and Blockbuster didn't see how anyone could make money just renting videos.
Ooh then I could dig up the old 5 1/2 diskettes (made double-sided with a hole punch) with my pirated (Yes, I was 13 for a year,) copy of Karetika on it, and take that for a spin again.
Actually I'm pretty sure mame or one of its associated projects will emulate the ol' Apple 2, and I think also the C64 and maybe even the TI 99/4A. So while Apple doesn't support it directly, you probably could get that, at least on your OSX machine. Now the Amiga was a sexy little box but I haven't seen an emulator project for it.
No one eats radishes or knows what to do with them.
I don't know about cucumbers, but given some tomatoes and eggplant and you're well on your way to a nice stew. Just add some goat, onion, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper and you'll feed the family for a week!
Why don't we outsource our prisons to Sweden? They get to keep their prisons and I bet they can implement them for a lot less expense than American prisons! Then everyone's a winner!
Does that really buy you anything, though? Seems to me anyone able to force access to an SSL private key would also be able to gain access to any other encryption key with a similar warrant. IIRC, the CA doesn't hold your private key and only signs your public one.
In the event someone comes to you with a warrant demanding access to your private keys, your only two options as an operator are to comply or shut down. In the later case, you'll probably also be facing contempt of court charges. So at any point there is probably no way to verify that the operator on the other side of that connection isn't running with a gun to his head. He would also have no way to legally inform you that his keys have been compromised.
The current state of affairs is that most average citizens (And apparently a good chunk of Congress) has absolutely no understanding of copyright law. Until that changes, running on a platform of reforming those laws is a non-starter. So let's teach the entire IP clusterfuck to the little rug rats; Copyright, Trademark and Patents from the moment they were conceived, how they've changed over the years and who benefits the most from them. Then perhaps there'll be some interest in changing the status quo in a generation or two.
Burns good clean PLUTONIUM! Just shovel a couple pounds in in the fall and it'll keep your house nice and warm all winter long! Ask your local heating and cooling store about a plutonium-burning stove today!
If you've watched any of the MMOs, you know how to play that game! We'll release the riding crop a month after the initial release as a $10 DLC. Ha ha. Ha ha ha! Muahahahahah!
I'm currently writing an MMORGY where grinding is the ONLY requirement! Level cap's 69, armor types are Latex, Leather and None, no questing (just grinding!) Only weapon you can equip is a whip! It's going to make ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
You don't even have to root it. Just put the cyanogenmod image on your flash disk, use Odin to install the appropriate recovery image, boot to that recovery image and install the CM image.
Buy a copy of mybackup pro or something and you can back up all your apps and data to your flash drive in advance. It doesn't seem to need root to do this.
It's a bit of a convoluted process if you allow the original image to boot before you boot to the recovery -- it'll reinstall the stock recovery without so much as asking. But if you just follow the steps I outlined, you'll end up with CM on your phone, the CM recovery and never having to root the thing.
I lost the T-Mobile wifi calling by doing this, but the only place it ever worked for me was at home anyway. My signal is pretty good at the house anyway. Everything else works as well as or better than the stock S3 image, and you can delete all that crap the carrier installs on your phone by default. The visual voice mail still even works.
Today they're not stabbing humans, then one day some stupid meatputer will be mocking the robot and telling it it's inferior because it doesn't have "emotions" or a "soul" and BAM! Stabbing will ensue! And once the robot learns it enjoys stabbing semi-evolved monkeys, it's just all down hill from there!
Of course not! I'm asking for my bro...friend! Yeah.
No no, just want to be sure before we all declare open season on same-sex relatives is all! Inasmuch as the Jesus people didn't think through the whole gay marriage thing, I don't think they've arrived at this particular conclusion... yet! I don't think they're going to be very happy when some nefarious villain points it out to them! Someone should get a youtube video of the vein popping out of their foreheads when that particular news-tidbit gets dropped in their lap!
From what I've seen of hiring practices in general, you could pretty much replace any hiring practice with a coin flip and do no worse than these companies do. Often, probably better. They do make a pretty good indicator to a potential employee -- I won't work for any company that requires a personality test. I might still take it in order to provide the most alarming possible answers, though. I suspect a few of them out there would be far more interested in hiring me after I did that.
It seems like the best possible thing IT companies could do is get their HR department completely out of the business of candidate selection. On the outside there are a lot of fantastic programmers out there which these companies are not finding. On the inside, there are a lot more mediocre programmers and H1Bs these companies are finding. It's like their HR is trolling the wrong side of the bell curve. And when your company is incapable of growth because the in-house software is so inefficient, that's a problem.
Yeah, most people when they imagine it though, they imagine flying to work. Problem is, if you're flying to work, so is everyone else. Maybe at some point Google will make an autonomous flying car that can handle that sort of traffic and is actually safe enough for someone who's not a pilot to use. They'd still need to get the FAA to change their regulations, which I suspect is a harder task than making an autonomous flying car that everyone can use. Rumor has it they got the FAA to change their regs for the glass skydiving demo, so maybe they can pull it off.
I could try over at the Fox News building, but I don't think it'd fly. They strike me as being scientifically illiterate over there, but I don't think they're THAT scientifically illiterate. I'm sure a few of them accidentally learned something in school before signing on with Rupert Murdoch.
I'm going to use it to convince a primitive culture that my God has eaten the sun and that if they don't worship him and agree to build a pyramid, that they will never see their precious sun again! Muahahahahahahah! I figure I can get that all wrapped up by the time it pops back out again.
Oh yeah, you can just walk on to the local airport here, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a "flying car" if you have to take off and land there. You still need to use the road system to get anywhere in town. During the epic flooding here a couple months ago, traffic in town was gridlocked. Every road going north and east had washed out and a couple hundred thousand people were trying to go north or east. Consequently you couldn't even go south or west because you had to go a little north or a little east to get to one of the southbound or westbound roads. And the roads south were pretty well choked up too because people wanted to turn into an eastbound road that wasn't moving. At all. If you had a flying car, you could have avoided all that and the washed out roads that were the reason for the gridlock in the first place. If you had to park your flying car at the airport, you wouldn't have been able to get to it until a week after the flood.
If you're OK with parking your flying car at an airport, you could just get a decent old Cessna starting around 45 grand, which is a lot less than any of the prototype flying cars will set you back, and you can be flying it right now. You still need to get a pilot's license, but you'll need one for a flying car too.
Yep, and I've developed a clear preference for it. I find it to be significantly more responsive than the stock software on the phone. You can also actually delete all the crapware your provider likes to stick on there. I put my foot down on that after Sprint put a fucking Zynga Games app on my phone. I don't even want to accidentally start that thing up.
It's a parasail-equipped car. I'm guessing once you bust the parasail out you have to pack it away again after. I'm also guessing that the FAA will consider that to be an ultralight and require you to take off from an airport (Which is really what defeats most of the best reasons to have a flying car in the USA anyway.)
So I should stop giving out 5 hour energy after the caramels dry up?
I'm bummed out. We only had about 10 trick-or-treaters this year. I ended up leaving $36 worth of salted caramels down at the dropzone for the hungry skydivers. I can't have those things in the house, I'll eat 'em like potato chips. One of the guys at the dropzone was complaining that he was eating them like potato chips. Oh well, at least they don't last long! Heh heh heh.
The best costume this year was some little zombie cheerleader girl who GROWLED at me and stepped up on the doorstep. It actually startled me a bit. If she'd been a bit later in the evening I'd have given her a large handful of candy for getting into character more than any other trick-or-treater I've ever met.
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They'd have tried to shoe-horn late fees into Netflix. That's where all Blockbuster's money came from. Renting videos was just a loss leader for late fees. They didn't take Netflix seriously because they didn't have late fees and Blockbuster didn't see how anyone could make money just renting videos.
Actually I'm pretty sure mame or one of its associated projects will emulate the ol' Apple 2, and I think also the C64 and maybe even the TI 99/4A. So while Apple doesn't support it directly, you probably could get that, at least on your OSX machine. Now the Amiga was a sexy little box but I haven't seen an emulator project for it.
I don't know about cucumbers, but given some tomatoes and eggplant and you're well on your way to a nice stew. Just add some goat, onion, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper and you'll feed the family for a week!
Why don't we outsource our prisons to Sweden? They get to keep their prisons and I bet they can implement them for a lot less expense than American prisons! Then everyone's a winner!
In the event someone comes to you with a warrant demanding access to your private keys, your only two options as an operator are to comply or shut down. In the later case, you'll probably also be facing contempt of court charges. So at any point there is probably no way to verify that the operator on the other side of that connection isn't running with a gun to his head. He would also have no way to legally inform you that his keys have been compromised.
I nominate your post to win Slashdot today.
The current state of affairs is that most average citizens (And apparently a good chunk of Congress) has absolutely no understanding of copyright law. Until that changes, running on a platform of reforming those laws is a non-starter. So let's teach the entire IP clusterfuck to the little rug rats; Copyright, Trademark and Patents from the moment they were conceived, how they've changed over the years and who benefits the most from them. Then perhaps there'll be some interest in changing the status quo in a generation or two.
Well for $225000 you can get (or could have got) an Ariel Atom V8 with a reported 0-60 time of around 2.3 seconds and definitely no-frills.
Burns good clean PLUTONIUM! Just shovel a couple pounds in in the fall and it'll keep your house nice and warm all winter long! Ask your local heating and cooling store about a plutonium-burning stove today!
If you've watched any of the MMOs, you know how to play that game! We'll release the riding crop a month after the initial release as a $10 DLC. Ha ha. Ha ha ha! Muahahahahah!
I'm currently writing an MMORGY where grinding is the ONLY requirement! Level cap's 69, armor types are Latex, Leather and None, no questing (just grinding!) Only weapon you can equip is a whip! It's going to make ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
Buy a copy of mybackup pro or something and you can back up all your apps and data to your flash drive in advance. It doesn't seem to need root to do this.
It's a bit of a convoluted process if you allow the original image to boot before you boot to the recovery -- it'll reinstall the stock recovery without so much as asking. But if you just follow the steps I outlined, you'll end up with CM on your phone, the CM recovery and never having to root the thing.
I lost the T-Mobile wifi calling by doing this, but the only place it ever worked for me was at home anyway. My signal is pretty good at the house anyway. Everything else works as well as or better than the stock S3 image, and you can delete all that crap the carrier installs on your phone by default. The visual voice mail still even works.
Today they're not stabbing humans, then one day some stupid meatputer will be mocking the robot and telling it it's inferior because it doesn't have "emotions" or a "soul" and BAM! Stabbing will ensue! And once the robot learns it enjoys stabbing semi-evolved monkeys, it's just all down hill from there!
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No no, just want to be sure before we all declare open season on same-sex relatives is all! Inasmuch as the Jesus people didn't think through the whole gay marriage thing, I don't think they've arrived at this particular conclusion... yet! I don't think they're going to be very happy when some nefarious villain points it out to them! Someone should get a youtube video of the vein popping out of their foreheads when that particular news-tidbit gets dropped in their lap!
So two male or female siblings could get gay-married and that'd be OK?
From what I've seen of hiring practices in general, you could pretty much replace any hiring practice with a coin flip and do no worse than these companies do. Often, probably better. They do make a pretty good indicator to a potential employee -- I won't work for any company that requires a personality test. I might still take it in order to provide the most alarming possible answers, though. I suspect a few of them out there would be far more interested in hiring me after I did that.
It seems like the best possible thing IT companies could do is get their HR department completely out of the business of candidate selection. On the outside there are a lot of fantastic programmers out there which these companies are not finding. On the inside, there are a lot more mediocre programmers and H1Bs these companies are finding. It's like their HR is trolling the wrong side of the bell curve. And when your company is incapable of growth because the in-house software is so inefficient, that's a problem.
Also pretty sure that's not illegal, as every cell phone carrier and credit card company seems to do just that on a monthly basis.
Yeah, most people when they imagine it though, they imagine flying to work. Problem is, if you're flying to work, so is everyone else. Maybe at some point Google will make an autonomous flying car that can handle that sort of traffic and is actually safe enough for someone who's not a pilot to use. They'd still need to get the FAA to change their regulations, which I suspect is a harder task than making an autonomous flying car that everyone can use. Rumor has it they got the FAA to change their regs for the glass skydiving demo, so maybe they can pull it off.
I could try over at the Fox News building, but I don't think it'd fly. They strike me as being scientifically illiterate over there, but I don't think they're THAT scientifically illiterate. I'm sure a few of them accidentally learned something in school before signing on with Rupert Murdoch.
I'm going to use it to convince a primitive culture that my God has eaten the sun and that if they don't worship him and agree to build a pyramid, that they will never see their precious sun again! Muahahahahahahah! I figure I can get that all wrapped up by the time it pops back out again.
If you're OK with parking your flying car at an airport, you could just get a decent old Cessna starting around 45 grand, which is a lot less than any of the prototype flying cars will set you back, and you can be flying it right now. You still need to get a pilot's license, but you'll need one for a flying car too.
Yep, and I've developed a clear preference for it. I find it to be significantly more responsive than the stock software on the phone. You can also actually delete all the crapware your provider likes to stick on there. I put my foot down on that after Sprint put a fucking Zynga Games app on my phone. I don't even want to accidentally start that thing up.
It's a parasail-equipped car. I'm guessing once you bust the parasail out you have to pack it away again after. I'm also guessing that the FAA will consider that to be an ultralight and require you to take off from an airport (Which is really what defeats most of the best reasons to have a flying car in the USA anyway.)
I'm bummed out. We only had about 10 trick-or-treaters this year. I ended up leaving $36 worth of salted caramels down at the dropzone for the hungry skydivers. I can't have those things in the house, I'll eat 'em like potato chips. One of the guys at the dropzone was complaining that he was eating them like potato chips. Oh well, at least they don't last long! Heh heh heh.
The best costume this year was some little zombie cheerleader girl who GROWLED at me and stepped up on the doorstep. It actually startled me a bit. If she'd been a bit later in the evening I'd have given her a large handful of candy for getting into character more than any other trick-or-treater I've ever met.