Those of us with bad backs or who work long hours and aren't satisfied fork out for more ergonomics.
Being on the large side, I was able to abuse my original chair until it broke and they had to get me a new one. Screws screwed into particle board just don't stand a chance against me...
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Maybe you should start sending your kids to school on the short bus or something, cause I've seen 5 year olds using two (or even *gasp* THREE) button mice without problems.
Mine do too, actually, but when they were two years old it was more confusing. But they generally don't use the right button at all, it's just a pointless thing with the potential for occasional confusion. It's rather like being able to drag the menu bar in Visual C++; I never do it except by accident.
I'll clarify my remarks to say it's the best mouse for small children ever.
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The assumption there is that Mac users can somehow manage to figure out how to use a keyboard with over one hundred little tiny keys yet they are too stupid to be able to figure out how to use a mouse with more than one button.
My 4 year old uses my computer but does not understand a keyboard. My 7 year old hasn't fully figured out the keyboard.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Apple "entire mouse is a button" mouse is the best kid's mouse ever created. The only way it could be better would be for it to have a second optical tracker.
As for missing bits out, the film was still 3 hours long, so it's really a question of what to miss out, not whether to miss stuff out, unfortunately.
Has there been any info about scenes that didn't make it into the movie but may make it into a video release? A five or six hour DVD would be perfectly acceptable to the home audience.
heck, they'll probably lose *more* money this way. Buy 'em, play 'em on a CD player into a digitizer, create a new CD from the WAV files that isn't protected; return the original.
(I'm not advocating this, just saying it'll happen.)
United States patent law, and the contract on the outside of every PlayStation console's box.
Sarcasm on heavily: yeah, that was easy to read before I ordered a machine over the net. Or bought a used one without the box. If I write on the check with which I paid for it that the contract is amended to eliminate those provisions and the clerk takes it, am I off the hook? Or if my 17 year old -- too young to negotiate contracts -- buys it, am I again off the hook?
If you sell me something, you sell it to me. I shouldn't need a lawyer every time I buy something in a store, just when I actually do have a contract. And case law is far from clear on enforceability of those sorts of a agreements.
That's why companies release Demos and shareware. Why do you believe you need to steal the full version of the software when the software developer usually gives you access to a copy that you can use for evaluation?
I tried the NFS: Porsche Unleashed demo on my machine, and it worked fine. The full version crashes my machine whenever I try to race...
I suspect that the list creators see the GB as marketed more to the young'ns than other video/PC games, and thus more in line with their intent to reduce the violent imagery presented to youth.
US$348 million will buy you a nuclear plant in the 1.5 Gigawatt range.
Where are you getting that number? According to one (biased) source I found, a single plant (Pilgrim) in Massachusetts has a $466 million pricetag for decommissioning alone, and the numbers I've seen for plant construction are generally in the $billion range. For example, Southern Company says its 1.8 gigawatt Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant cost $924 million to build, 22 years ago.
It's really not a problem. The reason we don't build taller buildings than we do has been that the taller the building, the more space you need for elevators and stairs, and more recently fear of people trying to destroy them. A 1 km tower isn't an engineering problem or hazard, except to any planes that run into it.
Drugs like the one proposed just encourage laziness, but laziness is the primary problem.
Partially, but there are many people who don't get fat on almost no exercise and poor diet, and others who get fat despite a fair amount of exercise and a reasonable diet. Fixing the latter situation would be a good thing.
Of course, maybe you like corporate sponsors and think that sort of thing is how the world aughtta work.
...which describes most of our politicians. In contrast to what most people think, I don't think our congresscritters are particularly susceptible to bribes as campaign contributions. Instead, many of the people who get the support needed for a successful campaign are people who believe that letting corporations do what they will is in the best interest of the company. So they don't need bribing to make laws that help companies, they already believe that those laws are needed. The contributions are just to make sure they stay in office.
Consider Bush, for example. He'll support Big Oil measures because he comes from Big Oil. Anwar never stood a chance. (I'm not fully decided one way or another on ANWAR drilling myself, I'm just saying there was never a question in Bush's mind.)
Look mate - in your peer group, and on this website, maybe there is a relatatively high percentage minority of people who are going to do this - but in the real world, normal everyday people do not do this. Wake up!!
My mother-in-law uses a PC for e-mail, browsing, and a few other things. If people get Linux running on an XBox, then she could get a Linux DVD for it, start it up, I could walk her through adding a users, and boom! She has a configured Linux PC. No hunting for drivers because it's a standardized system, she would just get a new DVD with the updated OS/apps on it every once in a while (the hard drive stores user files, etc.) The OS can't get corrupted (like her PC did with badTrans), because it's on DVD. And all this for $300 plus the cost of the Linux DVD.
I think you underestimate how much a common platform helps make configuration easier, and overestimate how hard Linux is to use if it's essentially been set up for you.
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I'm waiting for the day when I get to wipe with a McDonalds commercial.
Speaking of which, I assume a significant fraction of you use public urinals some of the time. Ever notice at the bottom of many there's a "Say No To Drugs" label on the rubber splash reducer, and there's no way to avoid pissing on that slogan?
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Advertisings displays out of BRunner and Neuromancer, entire urban Downtowns morphed into 24/7 streaming video walls
Times Square (among other places) is already rather like this, isn't it?
I just hope the RIAA has made enough of an enemy (in Felton) that he's up for pushing the issue, i.e., preparing more publications they won't like and publishing them anyway if threatened.
I found it interesting that the 2600 case made the home page of both USA Today and BBC News, and Felton's appeal dismissal also made the home page of USA Today. Sometimes I wonder if these issues are of interest beyond the/. crowd, but that seems to be an indication that someone else cares.
Did someone else noticed that transgamin has licensed macrovision safedisc copy protection ?
Yeah, yuck. One of my hopes for Linux was to be able to avoid having to sort through my myriad CDs for the one I want at a given time; and even more so, to avoid that for my kids, whose CD handling isn't as gentle as one might desire.
Now you can shut up anyone watching a sci-fi movie who complains that sound doesn't travel through outer space. Clearly the TIE fighters are just emitting ELFs, and probably intentionally too...
ALF could probably hear ELFs and VLFs with all that fur.
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Another licensee on my patent on "a method in which a female and male, in combination, create a being of signifigant mental incompetence."
Sorry, but there's just way, way, way too much prior art...
Those of us with bad backs or who work long hours and aren't satisfied fork out for more ergonomics.
Being on the large side, I was able to abuse my original chair until it broke and they had to get me a new one. Screws screwed into particle board just don't stand a chance against me...
Maybe you should start sending your kids to school on the short bus or something, cause I've seen 5 year olds using two (or even *gasp* THREE) button mice without problems.
Mine do too, actually, but when they were two years old it was more confusing. But they generally don't use the right button at all, it's just a pointless thing with the potential for occasional confusion. It's rather like being able to drag the menu bar in Visual C++; I never do it except by accident.
I'll clarify my remarks to say it's the best mouse for small children ever.
The assumption there is that Mac users can somehow manage to figure out how to use a keyboard with over one hundred little tiny keys yet they are too stupid to be able to figure out how to use a mouse with more than one button.
My 4 year old uses my computer but does not understand a keyboard. My 7 year old hasn't fully figured out the keyboard.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Apple "entire mouse is a button" mouse is the best kid's mouse ever created. The only way it could be better would be for it to have a second optical tracker.
As for missing bits out, the film was still 3 hours long, so it's really a question of what to miss out, not whether to miss stuff out, unfortunately.
Has there been any info about scenes that didn't make it into the movie but may make it into a video release? A five or six hour DVD would be perfectly acceptable to the home audience.
So buy 'em, return em.
heck, they'll probably lose *more* money this way. Buy 'em, play 'em on a CD player into a digitizer, create a new CD from the WAV files that isn't protected; return the original.
(I'm not advocating this, just saying it'll happen.)
My wife left me ten years ago.
Given that it's been ten years, hopefully it's no longer a sensitive enough issue that you'll take offense for the following attempt at humor:
Given you saying you won't lie, it wasn't from her asking "Does this make me look fat?", was it?
United States patent law, and the contract on the outside of every PlayStation console's box.
Sarcasm on heavily: yeah, that was easy to read before I ordered a machine over the net. Or bought a used one without the box. If I write on the check with which I paid for it that the contract is amended to eliminate those provisions and the clerk takes it, am I off the hook? Or if my 17 year old -- too young to negotiate contracts -- buys it, am I again off the hook?
If you sell me something, you sell it to me. I shouldn't need a lawyer every time I buy something in a store, just when I actually do have a contract. And case law is far from clear on enforceability of those sorts of a agreements.
How do you determine if a diamond is from DeBeers?
Given people manufacturing diamonds, I understand DeBeers may already be microengraving their diamonds with a statement of authenticity.
That's why companies release Demos and shareware. Why do you believe you need to steal the full version of the software when the software developer usually gives you access to a copy that you can use for evaluation?
I tried the NFS: Porsche Unleashed demo on my machine, and it worked fine. The full version crashes my machine whenever I try to race...
...interestingly, all for the GameBoy Advance.
I suspect that the list creators see the GB as marketed more to the young'ns than other video/PC games, and thus more in line with their intent to reduce the violent imagery presented to youth.
US$348 million will buy you a nuclear plant in the 1.5 Gigawatt range.
Where are you getting that number? According to one (biased) source I found, a single plant (Pilgrim) in Massachusetts has a $466 million pricetag for decommissioning alone, and the numbers I've seen for plant construction are generally in the $billion range. For example, Southern Company says its 1.8 gigawatt Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant cost $924 million to build, 22 years ago.
Also the affect of wind shear.
It's really not a problem. The reason we don't build taller buildings than we do has been that the taller the building, the more space you need for elevators and stairs, and more recently fear of people trying to destroy them. A 1 km tower isn't an engineering problem or hazard, except to any planes that run into it.
Actually Nuclear is much cleaner [environmentally], efficient and safer then any other power source out there.
Then get rid of the Price-Anderson Act.
(U.S. nuclear plants have an absolute cap on their liability, without which they are believed to be uninsurable and thus not economically viable.)
Drugs like the one proposed just encourage laziness, but laziness is the primary problem.
Partially, but there are many people who don't get fat on almost no exercise and poor diet, and others who get fat despite a fair amount of exercise and a reasonable diet. Fixing the latter situation would be a good thing.
Of course, maybe you like corporate sponsors and think that sort of thing is how the world aughtta work.
...which describes most of our politicians. In contrast to what most people think, I don't think our congresscritters are particularly susceptible to bribes as campaign contributions. Instead, many of the people who get the support needed for a successful campaign are people who believe that letting corporations do what they will is in the best interest of the company. So they don't need bribing to make laws that help companies, they already believe that those laws are needed. The contributions are just to make sure they stay in office.
Consider Bush, for example. He'll support Big Oil measures because he comes from Big Oil. Anwar never stood a chance. (I'm not fully decided one way or another on ANWAR drilling myself, I'm just saying there was never a question in Bush's mind.)
Whaddya think?
I think an oral contract's not worth the paper it's printed on.
What does KPMG do?
I think they make hats for pro golfer Phil Mickelson.
Look mate - in your peer group, and on this website, maybe there is a relatatively high percentage minority of people who are going to do this - but in the real world, normal everyday people do not do this. Wake up!!
My mother-in-law uses a PC for e-mail, browsing, and a few other things. If people get Linux running on an XBox, then she could get a Linux DVD for it, start it up, I could walk her through adding a users, and boom! She has a configured Linux PC. No hunting for drivers because it's a standardized system, she would just get a new DVD with the updated OS/apps on it every once in a while (the hard drive stores user files, etc.) The OS can't get corrupted (like her PC did with badTrans), because it's on DVD. And all this for $300 plus the cost of the Linux DVD.
I think you underestimate how much a common platform helps make configuration easier, and overestimate how hard Linux is to use if it's essentially been set up for you.
I'm waiting for the day when I get to wipe with a McDonalds commercial.
Speaking of which, I assume a significant fraction of you use public urinals some of the time. Ever notice at the bottom of many there's a "Say No To Drugs" label on the rubber splash reducer, and there's no way to avoid pissing on that slogan?
Advertisings displays out of BRunner and Neuromancer, entire urban Downtowns morphed into 24/7 streaming video walls
Times Square (among other places) is already rather like this, isn't it?
I just hope the RIAA has made enough of an enemy (in Felton) that he's up for pushing the issue, i.e., preparing more publications they won't like and publishing them anyway if threatened.
I found it interesting that the 2600 case made the home page of both USA Today and BBC News, and Felton's appeal dismissal also made the home page of USA Today. Sometimes I wonder if these issues are of interest beyond the /. crowd, but that seems to be an indication that someone else cares.
Did someone else noticed that transgamin has licensed macrovision safedisc copy protection ?
Yeah, yuck. One of my hopes for Linux was to be able to avoid having to sort through my myriad CDs for the one I want at a given time; and even more so, to avoid that for my kids, whose CD handling isn't as gentle as one might desire.
Now you can shut up anyone watching a sci-fi movie who complains that sound doesn't travel through outer space. Clearly the TIE fighters are just emitting ELFs, and probably intentionally too...
ALF could probably hear ELFs and VLFs with all that fur.