It's like a motorcycle - once you lose control of it, get as far away from it as possible. A bag on a strap will come back and hit you, wrap around you, your arms, your legs, damage your suit, etc. It could pull you off the platform. And don't forget that even though the bag is "weightless", it has a very high mass, higher than what you'd carry on Earth, and therefore pack quite a wollop.
The Anthropic Principle states that our universe must be special
I kinda thought I saw our universe getting off the short bus the other day.
All of this sounds like a bunch of hoo-ha to explain away the 1/infinity odds that need to be overcome to create life without a diety. I guess scientists are incapable of admitting we just got lucky.
Yeah, saying there hasn't been a good game in 5 years is getting old, but mostly because we've been saying it since 5 years after Doom. For 15 years we've just been getting the same old crap with upgraded graphics.
Is there a minimum IQ requirement for being the tester? Because Elbot came off like Eliza with a larger vocabulary. It took about 3 inputs before it gave itself away very clearly. When I said it talked like a snob, it answered "A what?". A snob. "Why is it that it is like that." No indignance, just non-understanding. It was very obvious that a very common word was not in it's vocabulary. Also, I wasn't talking about an it, I was talking about him. Even very stupid humans are capable of keeping track of whether they are an "I" or an "it".
We've seen the cost, quality, and DRM of Apple TV. Do you think they'll suddenly drop DRM, go from 2 gigs/movie to 40 gigs/movie, and drop the price to be competitive with Netflix?
Why buy a TV, and a Blu-Ray player, and a load of discs when you can buy AppleTV and rent/buy your content without levering your fat ass off the couch?
Although I love it when Slashdot posts an article for no other reason that to give us a chance to exercise our comedy chops, I ran out of Weird Al jokes in 1987.
Funny, that's exacly the point I stopped readin, also. Nobody has the right to use my time without my permission, even if it's only the 1 second it takes to hit delete.
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It never ceases to amazes me what Slashdotters will argue about. Somebody makes a reasonably funny smart-ass remark and the next 5,000 posts are dedicated to arguing about whether his premise is correct.
For those of you whose reading comprehension is not up to par, we were talking about netbooks, not the iPhone. And I was offering up the MacBook as something Apple made that is affordable. The MacBook is not their netbook, and neither is the Air. The Air is clearly positioned as a boutique product, so why quote its price as proof that Apple can't make anything affordable? Apple's computers are made in the same plants as everyone else, so there is no reason the could not produce something as cheaply as everyone else. I have no doubt that Apple could produce a ~$500 netbook, I just see no reason why they would want to.
And you are not talking about Apple's laptops or desktops, just the iPhone and and Touch. There are no restrictions on developing software for their computers.
Also, you are free to play DRM-free music and movies on any of their devices.
I wonder if meteorologists on Mars break into regular programing every 15 minutes to tell Martians viewers that there's a thunderstorm 4 counties over.
If they say it's unlimited without telling you there are limits, and then they put a limit on anything, then they are ripping you off. It doesn't matter at all what limits there were 10 years ago, unlimited doesn't just mean one limit has been removed, it means all limits have been removed.
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It's like a motorcycle - once you lose control of it, get as far away from it as possible. A bag on a strap will come back and hit you, wrap around you, your arms, your legs, damage your suit, etc. It could pull you off the platform. And don't forget that even though the bag is "weightless", it has a very high mass, higher than what you'd carry on Earth, and therefore pack quite a wollop.
The Anthropic Principle states that our universe must be special
I kinda thought I saw our universe getting off the short bus the other day. All of this sounds like a bunch of hoo-ha to explain away the 1/infinity odds that need to be overcome to create life without a diety. I guess scientists are incapable of admitting we just got lucky.
Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2
Great, now you've gone and blabbed their secret to everybody.
Yeah, saying there hasn't been a good game in 5 years is getting old, but mostly because we've been saying it since 5 years after Doom. For 15 years we've just been getting the same old crap with upgraded graphics.
As far as I can tell, most TV shows come ready for use as fertilizer. No composting required.
Have you never noticed that everything they build on the show is completely destroyed at the end?
As an alternative, they could just make "sleep" mode actually work.
Is there a minimum IQ requirement for being the tester? Because Elbot came off like Eliza with a larger vocabulary. It took about 3 inputs before it gave itself away very clearly. When I said it talked like a snob, it answered "A what?". A snob. "Why is it that it is like that." No indignance, just non-understanding. It was very obvious that a very common word was not in it's vocabulary. Also, I wasn't talking about an it, I was talking about him. Even very stupid humans are capable of keeping track of whether they are an "I" or an "it".
Yeah, it only to 2 years to get a version of Shockwave that didn't require Intel Mac users to run their browser in the (much slower) PowerPPC mode.
We've seen the cost, quality, and DRM of Apple TV. Do you think they'll suddenly drop DRM, go from 2 gigs/movie to 40 gigs/movie, and drop the price to be competitive with Netflix?
Picture quality? Cost? Media portability?
Fox needs to learn the difference between a siege and an invasion.
Really, there's not enough meat on her bones to keep me alive for 21 years.
Except that the typical 10MB cable connection usually only gets you 5MB. Mine tops out at 3MB.
Although I love it when Slashdot posts an article for no other reason that to give us a chance to exercise our comedy chops, I ran out of Weird Al jokes in 1987.
Funny, that's exacly the point I stopped readin, also. Nobody has the right to use my time without my permission, even if it's only the 1 second it takes to hit delete.
It never ceases to amazes me what Slashdotters will argue about. Somebody makes a reasonably funny smart-ass remark and the next 5,000 posts are dedicated to arguing about whether his premise is correct.
For those of you whose reading comprehension is not up to par, we were talking about netbooks, not the iPhone. And I was offering up the MacBook as something Apple made that is affordable. The MacBook is not their netbook, and neither is the Air. The Air is clearly positioned as a boutique product, so why quote its price as proof that Apple can't make anything affordable? Apple's computers are made in the same plants as everyone else, so there is no reason the could not produce something as cheaply as everyone else. I have no doubt that Apple could produce a ~$500 netbook, I just see no reason why they would want to.
And you are not talking about Apple's laptops or desktops, just the iPhone and and Touch. There are no restrictions on developing software for their computers. Also, you are free to play DRM-free music and movies on any of their devices.
An Apple Netbook wouldn't be affordable and it would include the usual Apple restrictions and digital rights violations.
You're talking about Apple circa 1992. The MacBook is quite affordable and doesn't have any "digital rights violations" that I can see.
I wonder if meteorologists on Mars break into regular programing every 15 minutes to tell Martians viewers that there's a thunderstorm 4 counties over.
Um, no, sorry.
Unlimited: Having no restrictions or controls
If they say it's unlimited without telling you there are limits, and then they put a limit on anything , then they are ripping you off. It doesn't matter at all what limits there were 10 years ago, unlimited doesn't just mean one limit has been removed, it means all limits have been removed.
And ugly. Don't forget ugly.
If the design works in a real test stage, I want to find a company to manufacture and market it.
And retire. At 13.
Go Democrats!