Living in suburban Adelaide I can tell you that Subscription TV via cable is nearly universal here. Cable internet used to be huge here but has been replaced by DSL services.
And everyone knows wired data transfer is dying (and not in a BSD way), both governments plans are a waste of money.
There is a smidgeon of good news. The last extinction event in this chain happened 11 million years ago so, in theory at least, we have plenty of time to work out where the next catastrophe is coming from.
Without the supernatural? Travelling to earth on rocket powered airplanes and huge aliens blowing up volcanoes with thermonuclear weapons? Well, I do suppose its more science fiction than supernatural
How did this get modded insightful? The guy totally missed the point. He's not saying that they remain tethered for the entirety of the journey, only that they should remain tethered while in the lunar lander.
Ambergris is classified as a product of a whale under Australian law, so the family is unable to sell it commercially. It can be sold for research purposes but it requires permits for export. The most they can do with it in Australia is donate it to a museum or use it as centerpiece for their dining room table.
Now, about that drug usage. Australia has the worlds highest per capita usage of Marijuana and the second highest per capita usage of amphetamines (including methamphetamine and exstacy). There's probably a large weight moving throuh in America, but here a greater percentage of us use them.
While I do love Shadowrun to death, the main problem with it is while its easy for players to pick up, its a nightmare for GMs. Each different archetype has completely different styles of play and rules. While it can be played with just the core rules you are really missing alot if you don't include the expansion books for each archetype. That means learning the rules from 6 books and which ones don't override core rules. It can be a nightmare for new GMs and can lead to bad experiences for new groups. Playing with someone who has been running Shadowrun games for a while is a great experience however and something all tabletop gamers should try atleast once.
A quick glance at the article shows it happened at Seoul University which is in South Korea. Last I heard, South Korea hadn't been overrun by the communists from the north.
Even police officers have their own set of prejudices and interests. Everyone does, wether or not they are privately owned.
And no, it's not bizarre. Is real police tracking down people who break the law bizarre? Why don't they just make it so people can't break the law? See where I'm going here?
Oh, and the "renaissance" is over-rated. The middle ages were the big days when important things were invented - things like representative democracy that you might just have heard of?
Yeah, I've heard of it. Haven't seen it in action yet.
Informative? Did anyone read the article? It's not about college kids, it's about younger kids. Like primary school and junior high. It lets the parents know that they got on and off the bus, and where.
Did anybody reading the patent application before bothering to post?
Therefore, as an alternative to launching applications by using the stylus, the Palm-size PC contains a plurality of buttons (called application buttons) that are used to launch the more common applications installed on a Palm-size PC. Applications can be launched in a variety of states. In the past, the actuation of an application button caused an application to be launched in a particular state, for example a view state. The user was required to take further steps to invoke additional application functionality, such as opening a document. It is desirable to more easily launch applications in various states. The present invention is directed to increasing the functionality of application buttons so as to accomplish this result.
They are not patenting double clicking, or clicking or something that will infringe on your god given rights to click on whatever you want. They are patenting using specialized buttons on a specialized device to launch applications in a different manner depending on how the button is pressed. It's not exact a wide ranging, world destroying patent folks.
But then again, Microsoft was mentioned, that word alone seems to make the average slashdotters IQ drop about 80 points.
My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to.
I would blame your downturn, more on the decline of family values, than on music piracy. Music like that just isn't popular these days. If you want to be successful in the music business, you have to sell whatever obscenity filled, sex-charged, carbon-copy music the record execs are currently pimping.
Plus, there is considerable evidence to support Piracy helps music sales. After all, John and Jane Fileswapper usually don't know how to get their pirated music onto cds, and use the p2p networks as a 'Try before you Buy' service.
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Living in suburban Adelaide I can tell you that Subscription TV via cable is nearly universal here. Cable internet used to be huge here but has been replaced by DSL services.
And everyone knows wired data transfer is dying (and not in a BSD way), both governments plans are a waste of money.
From FTA:
There is a smidgeon of good news. The last extinction event in this chain happened 11 million years ago so, in theory at least, we have plenty of time to work out where the next catastrophe is coming from.
Because not every label that is used will go onto a pair of jeans that meets requirements for sale.
Some will be damaged, have defects or be otherwise rendered unusable.
Without the supernatural? Travelling to earth on rocket powered airplanes and huge aliens blowing up volcanoes with thermonuclear weapons? Well, I do suppose its more science fiction than supernatural
single best thread on slashdot ever
Decimals? In MY imperial measurements?
How did this get modded insightful? The guy totally missed the point. He's not saying that they remain tethered for the entirety of the journey, only that they should remain tethered while in the lunar lander.
Ambergris is classified as a product of a whale under Australian law, so the family is unable to sell it commercially. It can be sold for research purposes but it requires permits for export. The most they can do with it in Australia is donate it to a museum or use it as centerpiece for their dining room table.
guess I better be calling my lawyer then
Now, about that drug usage. Australia has the worlds highest per capita usage of Marijuana and the second highest per capita usage of amphetamines (including methamphetamine and exstacy). There's probably a large weight moving throuh in America, but here a greater percentage of us use them.
Not disagreeing with the rest of it though.
Bug? Us hardcore leechers consider this a valuable feature
I live in Adelaide, I would describe it as more of a biological anomaly than a geological one.
While I do love Shadowrun to death, the main problem with it is while its easy for players to pick up, its a nightmare for GMs. Each different archetype has completely different styles of play and rules. While it can be played with just the core rules you are really missing alot if you don't include the expansion books for each archetype. That means learning the rules from 6 books and which ones don't override core rules. It can be a nightmare for new GMs and can lead to bad experiences for new groups. Playing with someone who has been running Shadowrun games for a while is a great experience however and something all tabletop gamers should try atleast once.
What if she is a prostitute?
A quick glance at the article shows it happened at Seoul University which is in South Korea. Last I heard, South Korea hadn't been overrun by the communists from the north.
Not just the Sunday Herald Sun. It was published in atleast all of News Corps. sunday rags. But yeah, they are all of roughly the same quality.
I see it as an intelligence test for all the readers of slashdot.
You failed.
Even police officers have their own set of prejudices and interests. Everyone does, wether or not they are privately owned.
And no, it's not bizarre. Is real police tracking down people who break the law bizarre? Why don't they just make it so people can't break the law? See where I'm going here?
The army don't use stones to fight wars, but its still illegal to beat someone to death with one.
The rule of 6 exists in Shadowrun. It's impossible to score a 6 on any test.
If you roll a 6 you roll the dice again and add the scores together. Therefore the numbers you can roll jump from 5 to 7.
Oh, and the "renaissance" is over-rated. The middle ages were the big days when important things were invented - things like representative democracy that you might just have heard of?
Yeah, I've heard of it. Haven't seen it in action yet.
Informative? Did anyone read the article? It's not about college kids, it's about younger kids. Like primary school and junior high. It lets the parents know that they got on and off the bus, and where.
They are not patenting double clicking, or clicking or something that will infringe on your god given rights to click on whatever you want. They are patenting using specialized buttons on a specialized device to launch applications in a different manner depending on how the button is pressed. It's not exact a wide ranging, world destroying patent folks.
But then again, Microsoft was mentioned, that word alone seems to make the average slashdotters IQ drop about 80 points.
Do I sense a new cliche coming on?
My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to.
I would blame your downturn, more on the decline of family values, than on music piracy. Music like that just isn't popular these days. If you want to be successful in the music business, you have to sell whatever obscenity filled, sex-charged, carbon-copy music the record execs are currently pimping.
Plus, there is considerable evidence to support Piracy helps music sales. After all, John and Jane Fileswapper usually don't know how to get their pirated music onto cds, and use the p2p networks as a 'Try before you Buy' service.