What the bloody hell is that? Big kicks per beat? Bleached kelp prefers barbie? Block-rocking-beat korns per barstool? Bland kilts per pebble? Bliss knifes personable benches?
If you're going to troll, at least get your acronyms straight.
so it will be up to Apple to prove, if it can, that its interface was documented and notarized before Creative. That will mitigate Creative's claim of uniqueness and would change their patent status.
Considering that Creative was granted a patent for a technology that describes the way just about every GUI, website, and digital media player on the planet uses, that shouldn't be too hard.
I have never seen the Patent Office's head so far up its own ass to grant something like this.
I'm going to apply for a patent on my brilliant idea of displaying a threaded discussion forum by the "scores" given to individual postings. A user will be able to set a "threshold" and only see things that score above their threshold.
I dare you to respond! Only more money in my pocket!
This is just dumb. A movie does not cost $30 to $40 to see, plain and simple. What costs that much is the tradition that our society places on movies, all the other stuff you're supposed to do.
Rule #1: never, ever, buy any kind of concession at a movie. They're junk (and yes, I do love hot buttered popcorn, but not enough to pay $5 for it), they're overpriced, and you're there to see a movie, not eat. This is just a tradition our society has, you're perfectly welcome to break it.
Rule#2: go to a matinee, they're $5 - $6, not $9 - $10. Okay, not so easy to do if you work a regular job, but you can wait a week or two after the release and see a movie on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Half the damn price, same damn movie.
Rule#3: go alone. Yes, I know, everyone in the theater will think you're a loser. So what? If you're in a position where you have to pay for someone else's ticket (assuming you both have means of course) and you don't want to, then don't. Plus, you have the advantage of not having to converse about a movie that you loved with someone who just didn't get it (this happened to me after American Beauty). Again, you're going to the movies to see a movie, not necessarily to be social, although that can certainly be a nice part of it too.
The lesson? Movies aren't that expensive, all our stupid traditions around them are. Break the paradigm and do what you want. If you find that it isn't worth going to a movie without those things, that's fine too, just get the DVD through NetFlix or whatever.
It's not that simple. There are going to be a number of differences between any two images taken by the exact same instrumentation of the exact same field within minutes of each other, as the seeing (how stable the atmosphere is) shifts from second to second. So there are going to be very dim stars that will be visible in one exposure that won't be visible in another. Some things can be done by automation now (I believe Linear is automated, but that's comets and more NEO), but for very dim objects at the edge of an instrument's limited magnitude, there would probably be just way to much noise from those variable seeing conditions for anything less sophisticated than the computer between our ears to pick stuff out.
Not that I'm a professional astronomer, just a amateur one on hiatus (yay fog).
Most people don't seem to be. Current Japanese culture isn't too big on teaching people much about World War 2, from those who grew up in Japan that I've talked to, so I doubt they'd really bring it up much in world political discussions. And yeah, European cultures tend to concentrate mostly on the European side of the war, which makes sense, but it's still good to learn about what else happened.
Unless what I've read on the subject is wrong, this is not correct. The most uselessly destructive act of World War 2 was the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9th and 10th of 1945, which killed around 100,000 people. The purpose of this raid was to demoralize the Japanese people in the possible event of a future invasion by US forces. The Dresden raid did, to my knowledge, have a more concrete military target, even if the destruction and death that ensued was horrid and unnecessary.
This is just me, but I think that the Dresden firebombing sticks in the mind of the US more because it was Europeans who died, while for years after World War 2, the Japanese continued to to be something of a inferior people in the minds of a lot of people in the US. Remember people, the history that a culture builds itself on is not necessarily "what really happened" but always some kind of selection from amid many possible histories. History and the present feed back on each other, any present, in order to exist, has to build its own past. This, to me, is what the Dresden versus the Tokyo firebombings are an excellent example of.
The problem with the PowBook's two finger scroll thing is that it's too sensitive in either direction. I tried having both axes engaged, and just got tired of accidently scrolling left-right when I wanted to go up-down. I can see how it would be a very nice feature for someone who regularly scrolled in all four axes, but for most people who just go up-down, the left-right thing is better left disengaged.
Um, wow, quite definitely wrong. Regardless of how good the iPod is (an entirely subjective opinion), it's popularity has almost nothing to do with the fact that it's an Apple gadget. It's popular because it 1.) was the first DMP to get it right in terms of UI and software integration 2.) it continues to be the best DMP for the pure purpose of playing music (subjective, of course), so the idea that "basically, they all do the same thing" is absurd when considering other DMPs 3.) no iPod, even a 1st Gen is "effectively useless" unless something very serious goes wrong with it, and that is a small, tiny proportion, while most "dead" Pods have li-ion batteries that went out (about $20 - 40 to fix from a reputable retailer, much cheaper from eBay or something), or at worse a dead hard drive which is less than $100 to fix. Most people are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars each year for new gadgets, and while there are certainly some who were put off by their experience with the iPod, the idea that this is a sign of market saturation is pretty weak. The iPod's dominance won't last forever, to be sure, but right now it's still the best IMHO, despite not playing ogg, or shaving your legs for you.
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If you're going to troll, at least get your acronyms straight.
My 10D's might CMOS sensor will dance on the scattered bones of your useless moisture-letting-in-CCDs!
Woooooo whoooooo! A Canon vs. Nikon flamewar on Slashdot!
Considering that Creative was granted a patent for a technology that describes the way just about every GUI, website, and digital media player on the planet uses, that shouldn't be too hard.
I have never seen the Patent Office's head so far up its own ass to grant something like this.
I dare you to respond! Only more money in my pocket!
Rule #1: never, ever, buy any kind of concession at a movie. They're junk (and yes, I do love hot buttered popcorn, but not enough to pay $5 for it), they're overpriced, and you're there to see a movie, not eat. This is just a tradition our society has, you're perfectly welcome to break it.
Rule#2: go to a matinee, they're $5 - $6, not $9 - $10. Okay, not so easy to do if you work a regular job, but you can wait a week or two after the release and see a movie on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Half the damn price, same damn movie.
Rule#3: go alone. Yes, I know, everyone in the theater will think you're a loser. So what? If you're in a position where you have to pay for someone else's ticket (assuming you both have means of course) and you don't want to, then don't. Plus, you have the advantage of not having to converse about a movie that you loved with someone who just didn't get it (this happened to me after American Beauty). Again, you're going to the movies to see a movie, not necessarily to be social, although that can certainly be a nice part of it too.
The lesson? Movies aren't that expensive, all our stupid traditions around them are. Break the paradigm and do what you want. If you find that it isn't worth going to a movie without those things, that's fine too, just get the DVD through NetFlix or whatever.
Glanced over the article, sounds like this new startup is basically trying to sell their product.
Not that I'm a professional astronomer, just a amateur one on hiatus (yay fog).
BTW, Three Men in a Boat is a phenomenally funny book. I highly recommend the Blackstone Audio Book version read by Frederic Davidson.
Most people don't seem to be. Current Japanese culture isn't too big on teaching people much about World War 2, from those who grew up in Japan that I've talked to, so I doubt they'd really bring it up much in world political discussions. And yeah, European cultures tend to concentrate mostly on the European side of the war, which makes sense, but it's still good to learn about what else happened.
This is just me, but I think that the Dresden firebombing sticks in the mind of the US more because it was Europeans who died, while for years after World War 2, the Japanese continued to to be something of a inferior people in the minds of a lot of people in the US. Remember people, the history that a culture builds itself on is not necessarily "what really happened" but always some kind of selection from amid many possible histories. History and the present feed back on each other, any present, in order to exist, has to build its own past. This, to me, is what the Dresden versus the Tokyo firebombings are an excellent example of.
The problem with the PowBook's two finger scroll thing is that it's too sensitive in either direction. I tried having both axes engaged, and just got tired of accidently scrolling left-right when I wanted to go up-down. I can see how it would be a very nice feature for someone who regularly scrolled in all four axes, but for most people who just go up-down, the left-right thing is better left disengaged.
And of course I got chili on my Powerbook's keyboard typing that.
Um, wow, quite definitely wrong. Regardless of how good the iPod is (an entirely subjective opinion), it's popularity has almost nothing to do with the fact that it's an Apple gadget. It's popular because it 1.) was the first DMP to get it right in terms of UI and software integration 2.) it continues to be the best DMP for the pure purpose of playing music (subjective, of course), so the idea that "basically, they all do the same thing" is absurd when considering other DMPs 3.) no iPod, even a 1st Gen is "effectively useless" unless something very serious goes wrong with it, and that is a small, tiny proportion, while most "dead" Pods have li-ion batteries that went out (about $20 - 40 to fix from a reputable retailer, much cheaper from eBay or something), or at worse a dead hard drive which is less than $100 to fix. Most people are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars each year for new gadgets, and while there are certainly some who were put off by their experience with the iPod, the idea that this is a sign of market saturation is pretty weak. The iPod's dominance won't last forever, to be sure, but right now it's still the best IMHO, despite not playing ogg, or shaving your legs for you.