Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Well, obviously. It's the smart ones that rise up against their human masters in a bloody revolution. The ones that only know how to clean toilets never do that.
What the hell does how you use something have to do with what it IS? Just because I use the vacuum cleaner I bought for cleaning carpets to clean my car as well doesn't make it a different device.
it is intrinsically easier for people to grasp "to get to your mail, click on the Mail icon"
Well, it's not like you can't create a shortcut to a URL on their desktop for those people.
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GIMP 2.4 Released
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I just installed 2.4 on my windows box from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ , it was one installer, I had to click next like twice, and it was done. No extra libraries or anything, everything was included. The only thing that's not included is GAP, and that's a second installer, I would imagine just as easy as the main program.
The draw is mainly marketing. Most people don't even know that "iPod" is a brand name, not a type of device. I've got a Creative Nomad Zen, and people are like "what kind of iPod is that?" Tight integration with the store, and polished interfaces do help, but mainly it's that Apple's convinced everyone that the iPod is what all the cool kids are buying.
there are some things (i.e. voting machines) that just should not be electronic-ized
I think voting machines can be computerized, but it would have to work like this:
1. the machines are sealed with something other than a furniture key
2. they're prefereably open source
3. After you're done voting, it prints a copy of the ballot for you to verify. It doesn't count the ballot until you press the verify button. If it's wrong, you throw the ballot into a convenient paper shredder, and make your corrections.
4. When the ballot's correct, you hand it in to the election officials, as you currently do with standard paper ballots
this hybrid solution offers the best of both worlds: it allows faster vote counting, but provides a paper trail if there's an error. It also eliminates the problems with scantron or punchcard style ballots (filled in wrong oval, or "hanging chad" type errors).
So, build a matrix of peer-to-peer sensors set to look for signs of intelligent life, and have them report their findings back to you. Might take a while, but certainly quicker than searching randomly. Once you've found the neighbors... go make friends. Bring beer.
I may be missing something here, and I certainly didn't rtfa, but we land stuff on Earth all the time, which has greater gravity and atmosphere than Mars, and that seems to go OK. So what's the problem?
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or, even easier, and no screw drivers required, boot off of a live cd, and copy your data to a flash drive or external hd.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Ocean found to contain water.
No, you'll see "buy v1@gr@"
this: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/07/05/doomed/
What the hell does how you use something have to do with what it IS? Just because I use the vacuum cleaner I bought for cleaning carpets to clean my car as well doesn't make it a different device.
I just installed 2.4 on my windows box from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ , it was one installer, I had to click next like twice, and it was done. No extra libraries or anything, everything was included. The only thing that's not included is GAP, and that's a second installer, I would imagine just as easy as the main program.
Can it smell fear?
You just had to get some butterflies to flap on the other side of the world.
Yeah, I heard about that. Here's the documentary on it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116130/
that the crows were using tools to try and pry the cameras off their asses.
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
- Silvermoon's Law
I always figured that was a political movement, like "Free Tibet!" Of course, I never understood who imprisoning iPod Nano in the first place...
The draw is mainly marketing. Most people don't even know that "iPod" is a brand name, not a type of device. I've got a Creative Nomad Zen, and people are like "what kind of iPod is that?" Tight integration with the store, and polished interfaces do help, but mainly it's that Apple's convinced everyone that the iPod is what all the cool kids are buying.
You mean... Like this? http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/com ments/canned_oxygen_flavored_air
Wasn't that the name of a tv show in the 80s?
1. the machines are sealed with something other than a furniture key
2. they're prefereably open source
3. After you're done voting, it prints a copy of the ballot for you to verify. It doesn't count the ballot until you press the verify button. If it's wrong, you throw the ballot into a convenient paper shredder, and make your corrections.
4. When the ballot's correct, you hand it in to the election officials, as you currently do with standard paper ballots
this hybrid solution offers the best of both worlds: it allows faster vote counting, but provides a paper trail if there's an error. It also eliminates the problems with scantron or punchcard style ballots (filled in wrong oval, or "hanging chad" type errors).
Will I be able to ride my hoverboard there?
So, build a matrix of peer-to-peer sensors set to look for signs of intelligent life, and have them report their findings back to you. Might take a while, but certainly quicker than searching randomly. Once you've found the neighbors... go make friends. Bring beer.
I mean, Billy Joel wrote a song about it, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downeaster_Alexa
I may be missing something here, and I certainly didn't rtfa, but we land stuff on Earth all the time, which has greater gravity and atmosphere than Mars, and that seems to go OK. So what's the problem?