A restaurant in Buffalo, where I live (surprised?) has been serving "Pizza Pods" for well over 25 years. I hope they don't happen to excite Apple's attentions.
I'd like to see a robot Chinese dissident in a robot Chinese "reeducation camp" being "treated" by a robot Chinese government torturer. Now that would be a true reflection of the Chinese way of life.
I'm going to karma-whore by posting a funny bit from Family Guy.
Peter: This is worse then that time when I was Kevin Federline's magic mirror.
(Flash to Kevin's apartment)
Kevin Federline: Magic mirror, how can I look like a douchebag today?
Peter: Well, Kevin, um, first of all, I would say don't shave and don't shower.
Kevin: Okay, I won't.
Peter: And you just got out of bed, right?
Kevin: Yeah.
Peter: Uh, I would say just go ahead and wear that tank top all day.
Kevin: Um... okay
Peter: So let's see, we covered the hygiene, no collared shirts... um... oh! Don't forget to walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment.
As we all know, Spider-Man would often fight crime by tossing a spider-shaped transmitter onto a criminal's clothing and following the signal back to the crook's lair.
Could an iPod be rigged up similarly?
Think of the possibilities of tracking a mugger back to his home, or, better yet, the den of thieves where he fences the purloined gadget.
I'm sure the Chinese solutions to the spam problem will be top-notch. They'll go around looking for people who appear that they might be some kind of spammer, toss them into the back of a van, and then drive them to the re-education center where they'll have electric shocks applied to their privates until they confess. Meanwhile, the actual problem of spam in China will continue unabated.
At first glance, I thought the headline said "Chipmunks" instead of "Chipmakers." For a split second I thought maybe Alvin, Simon, and Theodore had a tech column going.
I predict that Tom Toles is going to end up winning, assuming that he enters. He has lampooned the anti-science politician on numerous occasions, and in very funny ways.
Years ago, Phil Foglio did a strip about superhero RPGs in Dragon Magazine, and finished up with "Captain Corporation," a superhero whose powers revolve around product endorsements. Now it looks like they're really bringing that idea around to the real world. Of course, "Captain Copyright" has a sidekick, "Lawsuit Man." They're headquartered in FUD City.
Rather than using the word to describe the process for evaluating empirical knowledge, we need to redefine "science" to mean the process for watching TV, playing videogames, getting high, and meeting up at the shopping mall food court... then we will have the very creme of the crop here in the good ol' USA.
There are so many hosting providers out there, it really is a tough one. I think that if you're a member of various message boards then perhaps you could ask around on every one of them and see if any company's name comes up more than once or twice. Clearly you can't go by the claims made on a company's website, and those "hosting review" sites aren't any help, either, from what I've read.
I don't know if it's all that different from when I was first entering the workplace, but today's youngsters put it all out there. I don't know where kids get the idea that the only ones who would ever look at their MySpace blogs are people in their own age group.
Before this can be rolled out, the power companies will want to run a massive national smear campaign against ham radio operators, you know, just to make sure no-one listens to them when they complain about interference.
I believe that was the original show, "20 Minutes Into the Future," back in 1987.
Also, I think it was on Conan O'Brien not too long ago when they did a parody of the show "24" called "60," where each episode is one single second in a one-minute storyline.
And Hero System does it in a way that calculates exactly how far the bad guy travels after going through that brick wall, and how many dice of damage you get to roll for the impact of hitting the wall and the impact with the floor on the other side.
Oh, and the power "Teleport"? Four pages of rules on how it works. Four pages.
(PS: Hausenwulf, don't flame me, I'm a Hero System GM myself)
This makes me think of the response Groucho Marx typed up when some weinerdog lawyer tried to stop his new film from being called "A Night in Casablanca" because the name "Casablanca" had already been used in a movie title. Not so much the situation but Groucho's description of how he imagined the lawyer himself.
Here's why I don't apply the same argument to other videogame genres: learning to play a real guitar is not likely to result in injuries, death, or imprisonment. Unless you turn out to be really, really bad at it.
Race a real friggin' car... Why not? Just shell out a few hundred thousand dollars for a race car, reserve some time at the track, hire a team of mechanics. Yeah, sure, you're a millionaire, go for it!
Shoot a real friggin' gun... yeah, there's exactly the same amount of personal risk, expense, and legal paperwork to fill out to be able to shoot a real gun as there is to pick up a guitar and learn some chord progressions. Exactly the same amount. So go and grab a real gun and fire away.
Use a real friggin' sword... um... use it to do what, exactly? I'm looking around, and I... hmm... don't see any orcs or trolls to battle in the real world, unless you count lawyers, and it's illegal to take a sword to them, at least at the moment...
From an "Alfred P. Sloan" professor.
Take a look at the Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
It's basically "Who's Who" of People Who Want This Talk of Global Warming to Go Away.
That article was written by someone who hasn't been using a Mac lately. Phrases like "I doubt it" and "my Windows machine" are a dead giveaway. Let's hear from someone who knows what he's talking about.
You know what makes a good fax machine? An old iMac running OS X. It can receive faxes and just store them as PDFs, and even forward them to an email account, and you don't have to use one lick of toner, ink, or paper that you don't want to use. Got a junk fax? Just delete it. Use your email filters to separate out faxes from legit sources (the fax header appears in the Subject: header of the email) from the junk ones. The fax function is included with OS X, and if you buy some additional software and hardware, you can use that old iMac as a custom voicemail system as well.
Punishing a massive spam operation by fining them $475,000 is like punishing a murderous street gang by making them surrender a leather jacket. If anything, this is going to encourage more spam, since spammers will see how utterly light and inconsequential the punishments truly are.
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A restaurant in Buffalo, where I live (surprised?) has been serving "Pizza Pods" for well over 25 years. I hope they don't happen to excite Apple's attentions.
I'd like to see a robot Chinese dissident in a robot Chinese "reeducation camp" being "treated" by a robot Chinese government torturer. Now that would be a true reflection of the Chinese way of life.
I'm going to karma-whore by posting a funny bit from Family Guy.
Peter: This is worse then that time when I was Kevin Federline's magic mirror.
(Flash to Kevin's apartment)
Kevin Federline: Magic mirror, how can I look like a douchebag today?
Peter: Well, Kevin, um, first of all, I would say don't shave and don't shower.
Kevin: Okay, I won't.
Peter: And you just got out of bed, right?
Kevin: Yeah.
Peter: Uh, I would say just go ahead and wear that tank top all day.
Kevin: Um... okay Peter: So let's see, we covered the hygiene, no collared shirts... um... oh! Don't forget to walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment.
As we all know, Spider-Man would often fight crime by tossing a spider-shaped transmitter onto a criminal's clothing and following the signal back to the crook's lair. Could an iPod be rigged up similarly? Think of the possibilities of tracking a mugger back to his home, or, better yet, the den of thieves where he fences the purloined gadget.
I'm sure the Chinese solutions to the spam problem will be top-notch. They'll go around looking for people who appear that they might be some kind of spammer, toss them into the back of a van, and then drive them to the re-education center where they'll have electric shocks applied to their privates until they confess. Meanwhile, the actual problem of spam in China will continue unabated.
At first glance, I thought the headline said "Chipmunks" instead of "Chipmakers." For a split second I thought maybe Alvin, Simon, and Theodore had a tech column going.
I predict that Tom Toles is going to end up winning, assuming that he enters. He has lampooned the anti-science politician on numerous occasions, and in very funny ways.
Years ago, Phil Foglio did a strip about superhero RPGs in Dragon Magazine, and finished up with "Captain Corporation," a superhero whose powers revolve around product endorsements. Now it looks like they're really bringing that idea around to the real world. Of course, "Captain Copyright" has a sidekick, "Lawsuit Man." They're headquartered in FUD City.
Rather than using the word to describe the process for evaluating empirical knowledge, we need to redefine "science" to mean the process for watching TV, playing videogames, getting high, and meeting up at the shopping mall food court... then we will have the very creme of the crop here in the good ol' USA.
There are so many hosting providers out there, it really is a tough one. I think that if you're a member of various message boards then perhaps you could ask around on every one of them and see if any company's name comes up more than once or twice. Clearly you can't go by the claims made on a company's website, and those "hosting review" sites aren't any help, either, from what I've read.
I don't know if it's all that different from when I was first entering the workplace, but today's youngsters put it all out there. I don't know where kids get the idea that the only ones who would ever look at their MySpace blogs are people in their own age group.
Before this can be rolled out, the power companies will want to run a massive national smear campaign against ham radio operators, you know, just to make sure no-one listens to them when they complain about interference.
All hold hands for the traditional singing of the theme from Flipper.
I believe that was the original show, "20 Minutes Into the Future," back in 1987. Also, I think it was on Conan O'Brien not too long ago when they did a parody of the show "24" called "60," where each episode is one single second in a one-minute storyline.
And Hero System does it in a way that calculates exactly how far the bad guy travels after going through that brick wall, and how many dice of damage you get to roll for the impact of hitting the wall and the impact with the floor on the other side. Oh, and the power "Teleport"? Four pages of rules on how it works. Four pages. (PS: Hausenwulf, don't flame me, I'm a Hero System GM myself)
This makes me think of the response Groucho Marx typed up when some weinerdog lawyer tried to stop his new film from being called "A Night in Casablanca" because the name "Casablanca" had already been used in a movie title. Not so much the situation but Groucho's description of how he imagined the lawyer himself.
Here's why I don't apply the same argument to other videogame genres: learning to play a real guitar is not likely to result in injuries, death, or imprisonment. Unless you turn out to be really, really bad at it. Race a real friggin' car... Why not? Just shell out a few hundred thousand dollars for a race car, reserve some time at the track, hire a team of mechanics. Yeah, sure, you're a millionaire, go for it! Shoot a real friggin' gun... yeah, there's exactly the same amount of personal risk, expense, and legal paperwork to fill out to be able to shoot a real gun as there is to pick up a guitar and learn some chord progressions. Exactly the same amount. So go and grab a real gun and fire away. Use a real friggin' sword... um... use it to do what, exactly? I'm looking around, and I... hmm... don't see any orcs or trolls to battle in the real world, unless you count lawyers, and it's illegal to take a sword to them, at least at the moment...
Call me crazy, but couldn't you spend all that time and effort actually learning how to play a real friggin' guitar?!
I mean, c'mon, I don't want a converted WWII battleship flying up and launching the Wave Motion Gun at me!
From an "Alfred P. Sloan" professor. Take a look at the Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It's basically "Who's Who" of People Who Want This Talk of Global Warming to Go Away.
That article was written by someone who hasn't been using a Mac lately. Phrases like "I doubt it" and "my Windows machine" are a dead giveaway. Let's hear from someone who knows what he's talking about.
I mean, he hit the big time! He was on American Dad!
You know what makes a good fax machine? An old iMac running OS X. It can receive faxes and just store them as PDFs, and even forward them to an email account, and you don't have to use one lick of toner, ink, or paper that you don't want to use. Got a junk fax? Just delete it. Use your email filters to separate out faxes from legit sources (the fax header appears in the Subject: header of the email) from the junk ones. The fax function is included with OS X, and if you buy some additional software and hardware, you can use that old iMac as a custom voicemail system as well.
Punishing a massive spam operation by fining them $475,000 is like punishing a murderous street gang by making them surrender a leather jacket. If anything, this is going to encourage more spam, since spammers will see how utterly light and inconsequential the punishments truly are.
Is this a good time to be doing Western RPGs, what with Brokeback Mountain coming out on DVD? Think of all the horrible jokes!