I think AT&T was just tired of those commercials pointing out how bad AT&T is. Luke Wilson probably wasn't available to run counter ads, so it was just cheaper to buy them.
If you don't really want the person's information in your system, you can just take the card and then throw it away later. If you get the info electronically then you have extra people in your contact list that you don't need and that makes it harder to find the people you do want to call.
When you start a channel called "The Sci-Fi Channel" everyone knows you're not really targeting the mainstream. You're going after a niche that the mainstream isn't serving.
There's a reason our society has progressed to the point of having internet access almost everywhere -- it has been built on all the things that came before it. We developed clean drinking water systems, sanitation, roads, markets, all of which lead us to a point where we not only had the tech to have internet everywhere -- but also the time to use it since we don't have to worry about all the other things.
"If all consoles had something like that I bet piracy would go down just because people developing homebrew wouldn't have to punch holes that pirates can crawl through."
The XBox360 seems to help your argument. They have a program in place to let homebrew developers write for the console -- and as far as I know, the 360 hasn't been hacked yet. Of course, it could be that they just have better security than the others.
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I think you just wrote the script for the next SyFy movie of the week!
Looks like Lisp to me
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM&feature=player_embedded
"used to offset the costs of highway maintenance" I thought that was what the gas tax was for.
"being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally"
The totally electric cars aren't going to be paying any gas tax, so are their mileage charges going to be greater so that they pay the same thing?
Besides, I thought we wanted a reward people who are "going green".
"either you see it my way our you're wrong"
Isn't that pretty much what RMS and FSF say?
"As I recall"
You were there? Just how old are you??
I think AT&T was just tired of those commercials pointing out how bad AT&T is. Luke Wilson probably wasn't available to run counter ads, so it was just cheaper to buy them.
Wouldn't it be better to not build nuclear plants in earthquake prone areas?
Any time Slashdot posts a story titled "Is X dead?", X is usually still alive.
If you don't really want the person's information in your system, you can just take the card and then throw it away later. If you get the info electronically then you have extra people in your contact list that you don't need and that makes it harder to find the people you do want to call.
So that's how they stay in business...
"Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine?"
If so, that's an awful expensive clock.
That problem solves itself -- no one actually drinks Pepsi.
Where's Michael Moore when you need him?
I wonder if it's worth more whole or if they break it up and sell the parts.
Perhaps he was referring to a school that teaches how to engineer aquatic constrictors.
My wife is pregnant and pregnant women aren't supposed to be around mercury. So I'm actually replacing some CFLs in my house with incandescent bulbs.
When you start a channel called "The Sci-Fi Channel" everyone knows you're not really targeting the mainstream. You're going after a niche that the mainstream isn't serving.
LOFAR = Lord of the Far Away Rings?
You're saying there weren't many Honeycomb tablets out yet and because of that Honeycomb was born too early?
If you did a bit-for-bit copy of a Blu-ray disc, wouldn't the copy protection go along with it?
Their classes are an hour and a half long? When I was in school classes were 50 minutes.
There's a reason our society has progressed to the point of having internet access almost everywhere -- it has been built on all the things that came before it. We developed clean drinking water systems, sanitation, roads, markets, all of which lead us to a point where we not only had the tech to have internet everywhere -- but also the time to use it since we don't have to worry about all the other things.
"If all consoles had something like that I bet piracy would go down just because people developing homebrew wouldn't have to punch holes that pirates can crawl through."
The XBox360 seems to help your argument. They have a program in place to let homebrew developers write for the console -- and as far as I know, the 360 hasn't been hacked yet. Of course, it could be that they just have better security than the others.
If you think that's something, you should see what the definition of a meter is now.