"So if the frozen fish is $2.95 one week, and the next week it's $3.85, but you save 90 cents if you use you card, exactly how much are you actually saving?"
If you use your card and buy it instead of buying it outright, you save (hang on, let me fire up Mathematica for this one...) 90 cents!
If you choose to eat what's already in your pantry, you save $3.85.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's not rocket science. Prices fluctuate, but you will save the exact amount of money you want to, depending on your choices.
Now for the fun part: I have "club cards" at 3 different grocery stores. I could choose to save money by shopping around, since the chains appear to have different promos at different times, but I generally stick with one store because I'm lazy and my time isn't worth the savings (which is what I suspect you were trying to say). All three of these stores have completely bogus information on me. It's not like you're applying for a car loan.
So in other words, it's a modified version of Windows' "search" function that looks for specific extensions. I wonder how much they're charging parents for this wonderful and innovative program.
Back when everyone found out certain pirated copies of XP were blacklisted from Windows Update, I made the prediction that we would see a new type of worm that changed the user's XP key to the one that was blacklisted, to prevent security updates which might stop future payloads. I was a bit disappointed when MS said they were considering lifting the blacklist in order to get everyone on board with SP2, but I'm happy they changed their minds again. Stay tuned for an exciting new batch of business-crippling worms. Also, stay tuned for the pirates to spend a few nanoseconds coming up with cracked updates.
"What gives us the right to blur the species line in the first place?"
Because we can.
That might seem flippant, but think about it. If we were not at "the top" (of, say, a pyramid of living things), we wouldn't be able to do this. The "top" species would be doing it to us.:)
Alternately, the "top" species could have a choice and have chosen not to experiment on us. I guess we'll find out one day if we ever experiment on the wrong species. That would be cool.
"They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells."
Expect fundie retards to be up in arms over this "playing God." When you couple that with their irrational bitching about regular stem-cell research, you'll notice that fundamentalist Alzheimer's patients are poetically hilarious.
I know nothing about robotics, but I know quite a bit about guitar, so it evens out. If you can get your motors to move the slide mechanism accurately enough, a robotic slide guitar is simple. You know the length of the string, and any pitch you want on that string will be played an exact distance from the bottom of that string.
As a musician myself, I am somewhat impressed, especially by guitarbot (based solely on the description, since the videos aren't loading). An obvious improvement which we have the technology for would be to write software that would let it "jam" with live performers instead of taking MIDI input. It would have to "listen" to the performers playing to determine the key, then improvise solos in that key. THAT would impress me a great deal, even if it is relatively easy to implement.
Offtopic PS: yes, I know all about the ad-blocking wonders of Firefox. I use it at home. No need to write 400 followups informing me of it, thanks anyway.
"Astronomers are now measuring stuff -- material, matter, things -- that moves at so close to the speed of light you might think it'd make Einstein a bit nervous."
Popular science writers suck. And can't CNN afford an editor?
"Among thee speed demons of the universe are [...]"
But at least the space.com link popped up multiple ads.
"A second case, Schwarz v. United States Department of Energy, Civil Action 99-3234, named an additional 72 federal entities, various subdivisions, and many individuals, a total of 807 separate defendants.21 Plaintiff's FOIA requests in that case related to the Rathbuns, their attorneys, L. Ron Hubbard, an independent or special counsel, Germans, schools in a submarine village in Great Salt Lake, and Rosemarie Bretschneider."...
That's it! Oh my God, it all just fell into place!
Content control disturbs me enough to re-flash my DVD drives with hacked firmware to kill region encoding, even though all my DVDs are Region 1. Why should I be limited to a small number of region changes on equipment I've BOUGHT and that I OWN OUTRIGHT and even (in some places) PAY EXTRA MONEY FOR because of "piracy tax"? Anything at all that messes with the content cartels makes me extremely happy. I hope they fucking burn.
"in light of all the bad things in the world, we should be happy that we are healthy (yes even you people on insulin) and relatively safe and put up with some truly minor inconveniences for people trying to keep it that way."
Yeah, those American Airlines rent-a-pigs sure are keeping the airport safe.
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Is it your fault for submitting, or the editors' fault for not catching it?
Someone please mod the parent up to +5 informative so we can stop the idiotic whining here.
"So if the frozen fish is $2.95 one week, and the next week it's $3.85, but you save 90 cents if you use you card, exactly how much are you actually saving?"
If you use your card and buy it instead of buying it outright, you save (hang on, let me fire up Mathematica for this one...) 90 cents!
If you choose to eat what's already in your pantry, you save $3.85.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's not rocket science. Prices fluctuate, but you will save the exact amount of money you want to, depending on your choices.
Now for the fun part: I have "club cards" at 3 different grocery stores. I could choose to save money by shopping around, since the chains appear to have different promos at different times, but I generally stick with one store because I'm lazy and my time isn't worth the savings (which is what I suspect you were trying to say). All three of these stores have completely bogus information on me. It's not like you're applying for a car loan.
Coming soon to a Pocket PC near you!
On the plus side, TI can file John Doe lawsuits against the thieves (for DMCA violations, of course) if your car is stolen.
So in other words, it's a modified version of Windows' "search" function that looks for specific extensions. I wonder how much they're charging parents for this wonderful and innovative program.
And they call *us* the pirates.
Back when everyone found out certain pirated copies of XP were blacklisted from Windows Update, I made the prediction that we would see a new type of worm that changed the user's XP key to the one that was blacklisted, to prevent security updates which might stop future payloads. I was a bit disappointed when MS said they were considering lifting the blacklist in order to get everyone on board with SP2, but I'm happy they changed their minds again. Stay tuned for an exciting new batch of business-crippling worms. Also, stay tuned for the pirates to spend a few nanoseconds coming up with cracked updates.
"It won't be the greatest achievement since the creation of the universe."
An 8' tall walking vagina that spews cotton candy *won't* be the greatest thing ever? What are you smoking?
"What gives us the right to blur the species line in the first place?"
:)
Because we can.
That might seem flippant, but think about it. If we were not at "the top" (of, say, a pyramid of living things), we wouldn't be able to do this. The "top" species would be doing it to us.
Alternately, the "top" species could have a choice and have chosen not to experiment on us. I guess we'll find out one day if we ever experiment on the wrong species. That would be cool.
"Even though I think it is morally reprehensible to fuck with life it's bound to happen, and has been happening for a while."
For about 50,000 years, I'd guess. Maybe longer.
Man, someone was hitting the opium pretty hard.
"They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells."
Expect fundie retards to be up in arms over this "playing God." When you couple that with their irrational bitching about regular stem-cell research, you'll notice that fundamentalist Alzheimer's patients are poetically hilarious.
You just have to love that truth in advertising. Or perhaps they merely redifined "unlimited."
"I have the strangest feeling the Usenet is finally dying its rather long-deserved death."
People have been claiming this since before I first got on Usenet, 13 years ago.
"Now Santorum is frothing"
:)
Subtle.
I know nothing about robotics, but I know quite a bit about guitar, so it evens out. If you can get your motors to move the slide mechanism accurately enough, a robotic slide guitar is simple. You know the length of the string, and any pitch you want on that string will be played an exact distance from the bottom of that string.
As a musician myself, I am somewhat impressed, especially by guitarbot (based solely on the description, since the videos aren't loading). An obvious improvement which we have the technology for would be to write software that would let it "jam" with live performers instead of taking MIDI input. It would have to "listen" to the performers playing to determine the key, then improvise solos in that key. THAT would impress me a great deal, even if it is relatively easy to implement.
Offtopic PS: yes, I know all about the ad-blocking wonders of Firefox. I use it at home. No need to write 400 followups informing me of it, thanks anyway.
"Astronomers are now measuring stuff -- material, matter, things -- that moves at so close to the speed of light you might think it'd make Einstein a bit nervous."
Popular science writers suck. And can't CNN afford an editor?
"Among thee speed demons of the universe are [...]"
But at least the space.com link popped up multiple ads.
Better analogy: Yugo keeps putting out shitty new models every month, but you can always take your trusty Ferrari out for a spin. :)
"A second case, Schwarz v. United States Department of Energy, Civil Action 99-3234, named an additional 72 federal entities, various subdivisions, and many individuals, a total of 807 separate defendants.21 Plaintiff's FOIA requests in that case related to the Rathbuns, their attorneys, L. Ron Hubbard, an independent or special counsel, Germans, schools in a submarine village in Great Salt Lake, and Rosemarie Bretschneider." ...
That's it! Oh my God, it all just fell into place!
Content control disturbs me enough to re-flash my DVD drives with hacked firmware to kill region encoding, even though all my DVDs are Region 1. Why should I be limited to a small number of region changes on equipment I've BOUGHT and that I OWN OUTRIGHT and even (in some places) PAY EXTRA MONEY FOR because of "piracy tax"? Anything at all that messes with the content cartels makes me extremely happy. I hope they fucking burn.
Knight Lightning.
Comparing Phrack to 2600 is like comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.
"in light of all the bad things in the world, we should be happy that we are healthy (yes even you people on insulin) and relatively safe and put up with some truly minor inconveniences for people trying to keep it that way."
Yeah, those American Airlines rent-a-pigs sure are keeping the airport safe.
Fuck them right in their ear. Now I'm glad I dumped their products last year and switched to Canon.
While I'm thinking about it, fuck Lexmark, too.