Please, Your Majesty, I know that I, like many other Americans, have behaved like a total buffoon. But we Americans are England's children. I know we don't call as often as we should and we aren't as well- behaved as our goody two-shoes brother, Canada -- who, by the way, has never had a girlfriend -- I'm just sayin'! But, please, find it in your jewel-encrusted heart to forgive me.
And on another note, in 30 years when European women are forced to cover from head to toe those glimpses of an American hottie's calves and ankles are going to look pretty sweet!
"Half the population has..."? It seems American education is sorely lacking to the point you are unaware that we men have nipples too! And with half of males overweight the boobed population of adults increases to at least 70% after taking into account flat chested women.
"1990s. Boo.com's intention was to sell branded fashion wear over the Internet; however, after spending vast sums of its venture capital, it eventually had to liquidate and was placed into receivership on May 18, 2000. Fashionmall.com now owns boo.com."
I don't see how the anti-social, unpopular nerd themse would work in the present day without being a stretch.
After the tech bubble, nerd is chic (So I've been told.) Some of the richest men on the planet are nerds these days. Today, even non-nerds regularly need a nerd around not just to benchpress but to fix their computer so they can get back to MySpace, or to set up their iPod... Nerds make a great amount of money and have some of the best job opportunities in the hippest areas of the country. Or for example, my corporate, Wall Street type boss isn't some ex-jock use to intimidating people in HS, he's a math major.
So the underdogs have come out on top and really gone mainstream.
Plus with the majority of the country either obese or anorexic, shaggy, long hair apparently in style for young guys, and vintage clothing in demand, what exactly is the physical sterotype of a nerd these days?
I don't understand how telecos are going to throttle packets.
It sounds as if the telecos are going to throttle the entire internet, especially the bigger content providers. Then only "paid", higher tiered content providers will be delivered with "premium" speeds? All the while the premium bandwith will be reserved for the telecos digital television over DSL and such.
But how is a teleco operating one of the net backbones going to know what exactly is inside a packet, if the packet is coming from a paid tier source, and where it's destination is without opening it up and examining it? That sounds like a rather ominious intrusion.
Tinfoil hat time but: 1) It's already illegal by the DMCA to bypass software "features" you don't want on your system. For example breaking DRM.
2) It's illegal to modify your hardware in ways the bureacrats decreed. For example mod chips for consoles.
3) Trusted computing means your computer hardware will have "features" like HDCP straight off the shelf.
It's becoming more and more like renting hardware that you don't have the property rights to.
So what can you do when you detect that rootkit
Will removing a RIAA, governnent licensed rootkit be criminalized? Because you must have intent to distribute copyrighted materials, otherwise you should have nothing to hide?
Or perhaps it will be that your hardware rootkit detector a remove a Fony rootkit up to 3 times. The same way a region code on a dvd drive can be only changed so many times with the manufacturers in cahoots with content providers./tries to remove tin-foil hat but gets shocked by hat's user protection "feature."
I don't have stereovision. One eye does near vision, the other does far, the images don't fuse. Our brains are incredibly adept at estimating distances based on expected sizes of things. I don't have any points on my driver's licence and never gave my car any scratches. Though don't ask me to be an professional outfielder any time soon.
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"If you buy my CD, you pay me once and don't have to pay me ever again."
Not quite, I've bought your album once on vinyl, paying you for the material cost of making the record and for your creativity.
Then I purchased your album again on 8-track, you again got paid for your creativity.
When cassette tapes came out you again got paid for the same creative work you did years ago. You didn't have to lift a finger.
When CDs came out even though the manufacturing cost of a disc is miniscule and you didn't activate a single, new creativity neuron, I again had to pay you full price for the same creativity I purchased twice in the past.
Finally today, with distribution costs nearly eliminated, you want to charge me for my own electricity rearranging bits on my own harddrive, so I can again pay you for that same old creativity.
Obviously you can tell I'm a huge fan of yours but youhave been treating me like a groupie slut since 1983. So I maybe, won't and will steal your work creativity when I get my quantum computer.
I'm really not at all familiar with this smart home technology. I live in an old development in the Northeast where my home and the vast majority of my neighbors homes date to around the early 1920s. The neighborhood is designated as a protected landmark so there hasn't been any new home construction really.
Is this technology common in new developments or at least in high end developments? Or do you retrofit your own homes, including older houses? I guess what I'm trying to get is, is it just a novelty or a real "killer app", and two, does it work with all the legacy hardware in my home or would all the electrical wiring, fixtures and appliances have to be ripped out and replaced?
The last console I owned was an SNES. I've tried to convert my console friends to PC games for over a decade. I tried to help my family share my enjoyment computer games.
Even after scoring some minor victories with my family and buddies by introducing them to the Sims and Starcraft I thought I lost this console vs pc battle when internet multiplayer came to Xbox. But I was wrong. It's the Revolution that may make the decisive victory here.
I'm really excited about this. 40 hours into Oblivion I'm sick of it. AOE III has been sitting unfinished and unplayed for 2 months. I spend more time using roms on my PPC. I think I'm ready to convert to Nintendo "lite" games... Is there a 12 step program required?
Funny, for years my HMO has only covered stone tool procedures and asphalt fillings. And anesthesia? Sure, if I don't mind waiting 9,000 years for the first available appointment with the plan's first anesthesiologist to come on duty.
The gmen were way ahead of the curve with shoe technology.
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"Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy. TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want"
Because the newer Family Guy episodes are a total bomb? DS9 wasn't nearly as good (or better IMO) than TNG? Okay, so Enterprise is a car rental agency and nothing more in my book, there is no general Law of Resurrecting Series.
Sounds great, sign my boss up!
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I hope this company has henchmen erm actors playing the role of henchmen that blindfold, kidnap and drops your unsuspecting bosses and coworkers into this prison, where they only find out its a game when I'm waiting for them behind plexiglass at the end. I'll even order a dvd of that.
What about the legal battle between MLB and the fantasy baseball leaguess over the right to use real rosters and real stats? How many hits and misses a player makes is a fact, but the MLB claims it owns those stats and the right to license who uses them. http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6507.h tml
I can't wait to get my hands on this game (legally). I loved Sim Ant, Sim Earth and the earlier, simpler versions of Sim City and Civ. This will really be a joy to pick up, play and have fun without too much of a learning curve. Sort of what Sid 's people did for the Pirates remake, I hope this game, and Nintendo Revolution lead to a new trend of addictive titles for casual gamers looking to recapture their youth.
True, but imagine a MMORPG sandbox game. You and your best friend could melt your sister's barbies and blame each other for it when you get caught. An expansion pack could add a kiddie pool until the sequel, Sandbox 2: The Beach is out out of beta.
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It makes me nervous that these rules would be set by the UN. The UN is dominated by blocs of developing nations that have no tradition of free speech.
It would be like asking convicted criminals to enforce the laws and set legal policy.
Just my two cents.
Tooth Phone was a hoax.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,70601-0.html
Please, Your Majesty, I know that I, like many other Americans, have behaved like a total buffoon. But we Americans are England's children. I know we don't call as often as we should and we aren't as well- behaved as our goody two-shoes brother, Canada -- who, by the way, has never had a girlfriend -- I'm just sayin'! But, please, find it in your jewel-encrusted heart to forgive me. And on another note, in 30 years when European women are forced to cover from head to toe those glimpses of an American hottie's calves and ankles are going to look pretty sweet!
"Half the population has..."? It seems American education is sorely lacking to the point you are unaware that we men have nipples too! And with half of males overweight the boobed population of adults increases to at least 70% after taking into account flat chested women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
"1990s. Boo.com's intention was to sell branded fashion wear over the Internet; however, after spending vast sums of its venture capital, it eventually had to liquidate and was placed into receivership on May 18, 2000. Fashionmall.com now owns boo.com."
Enough said?
I don't see how the anti-social, unpopular nerd themse would work in the present day without being a stretch.
After the tech bubble, nerd is chic (So I've been told.) Some of the richest men on the planet are nerds these days. Today, even non-nerds regularly need a nerd around not just to benchpress but to fix their computer so they can get back to MySpace, or to set up their iPod...
Nerds make a great amount of money and have some of the best job opportunities in the hippest areas of the country. Or for example, my corporate, Wall Street type boss isn't some ex-jock use to intimidating people in HS, he's a math major.
So the underdogs have come out on top and really gone mainstream.
Plus with the majority of the country either obese or anorexic, shaggy, long hair apparently in style for young guys, and vintage clothing in demand, what exactly is the physical sterotype of a nerd these days?
expensive physic cards, dual cores, and SLI oh my.
Damn her for advising me to go into technology or law.
She never once advised me to be a ninja.
I was never told of all the expected opportunities in the ninja profession with so many ninjas reaching retirement age or committing hara-kari.
I don't understand how telecos are going to throttle packets.
It sounds as if the telecos are going to throttle the entire internet, especially the bigger content providers. Then only "paid", higher tiered content providers will be delivered with "premium" speeds? All the while the premium bandwith will be reserved for the telecos digital television over DSL and such.
But how is a teleco operating one of the net backbones going to know what exactly is inside a packet, if the packet is coming from a paid tier source, and where it's destination is without opening it up and examining it? That sounds like a rather ominious intrusion.
I expect and demand every cool discovery to be prefixed with "nano"
Tinfoil hat time but:
/tries to remove tin-foil hat but gets shocked by hat's user protection "feature."
1) It's already illegal by the DMCA to bypass software "features" you don't want on your system. For example breaking DRM.
2) It's illegal to modify your hardware in ways the bureacrats decreed. For example mod chips for consoles.
3) Trusted computing means your computer hardware will have "features" like HDCP straight off the shelf.
It's becoming more and more like renting hardware that you don't have the property rights to.
So what can you do when you detect that rootkit
Will removing a RIAA, governnent licensed rootkit be criminalized? Because you must have intent to distribute copyrighted materials, otherwise you should have nothing to hide?
Or perhaps it will be that your hardware rootkit detector a remove a Fony rootkit up to 3 times. The same way a region code on a dvd drive can be only changed so many times with the manufacturers in cahoots with content providers.
Boeing eh?
I have two words for you and your people.
Flying cars.
Not to mention the tail would just be extra stress on the heart of an already densely packed body.
I don't have stereovision. One eye does near vision, the other does far, the images don't fuse. Our brains are incredibly adept at estimating distances based on expected sizes of things. I don't have any points on my driver's licence and never gave my car any scratches. Though don't ask me to be an professional outfielder any time soon.
"If you buy my CD, you pay me once and don't have to pay me ever again."
Not quite, I've bought your album once on vinyl, paying you for the material cost of making the record and for your creativity.
Then I purchased your album again on 8-track, you again got paid for your creativity.
When cassette tapes came out you again got paid for the same creative work you did years ago. You didn't have to lift a finger.
When CDs came out even though the manufacturing cost of a disc is miniscule and you didn't activate a single, new creativity neuron, I again had to pay you full price for the same creativity I purchased twice in the past.
Finally today, with distribution costs nearly eliminated, you want to charge me for my own electricity rearranging bits on my own harddrive, so I can again pay you for that same old creativity.
Obviously you can tell I'm a huge fan of yours but youhave been treating me like a groupie slut since 1983. So I maybe, won't and will steal your work creativity when I get my quantum computer.
I'm really not at all familiar with this smart home technology. I live in an old development in the Northeast where my home and the vast majority of my neighbors homes date to around the early 1920s. The neighborhood is designated as a protected landmark so there hasn't been any new home construction really.
Is this technology common in new developments or at least in high end developments? Or do you retrofit your own homes, including older houses?
I guess what I'm trying to get is, is it just a novelty or a real "killer app", and two, does it work with all the legacy hardware in my home or would all the electrical wiring, fixtures and appliances have to be ripped out and replaced?
The last console I owned was an SNES. I've tried to convert my console friends to PC games for over a decade. I tried to help my family share my enjoyment computer games.
Even after scoring some minor victories with my family and buddies by introducing them to the Sims and Starcraft I thought I lost this console vs pc battle when internet multiplayer came to Xbox. But I was wrong. It's the Revolution that may make the decisive victory here.
I'm really excited about this. 40 hours into Oblivion I'm sick of it. AOE III has been sitting unfinished and unplayed for 2 months. I spend more time using roms on my PPC. I think I'm ready to convert to Nintendo "lite" games...
Is there a 12 step program required?
Funny, for years my HMO has only covered stone tool procedures and asphalt fillings. And anesthesia? Sure, if I don't mind waiting 9,000 years for the first available appointment with the plan's first anesthesiologist to come on duty.
The gmen were way ahead of the curve with shoe technology.
"Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy.
TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want"
Because the newer Family Guy episodes are a total bomb? DS9 wasn't nearly as good (or better IMO) than TNG? Okay, so Enterprise is a car rental agency and nothing more in my book, there is no general Law of Resurrecting Series.
I hope this company has henchmen erm actors playing the role of henchmen that blindfold, kidnap and drops your unsuspecting bosses and coworkers into this prison, where they only find out its a game when I'm waiting for them behind plexiglass at the end.
I'll even order a dvd of that.
What about the legal battle between MLB and the fantasy baseball leaguess over the right to use real rosters and real stats?h tml
How many hits and misses a player makes is a fact, but the MLB claims it owns those stats and the right to license who uses them.
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6507.
I can't wait to get my hands on this game (legally). I loved Sim Ant, Sim Earth and the earlier, simpler versions of Sim City and Civ. This will really be a joy to pick up, play and have fun without too much of a learning curve. Sort of what Sid 's people did for the Pirates remake, I hope this game, and Nintendo Revolution lead to a new trend of addictive titles for casual gamers looking to recapture their youth.
Before peaceful muslims no one thought about using suicide bombers against civilians.
True, but imagine a MMORPG sandbox game. You and your best friend could melt your sister's barbies and blame each other for it when you get caught. An expansion pack could add a kiddie pool until the sequel, Sandbox 2: The Beach is out out of beta.