Well, you can Trademark it, but you'll have to actually make use of that trademark or you'll lose it, and if you do trademark it, the actual inventor will just use a different name. You could patent it, but you'll have to actually invent something to do that, which would be pretty cool, but probably not that easy. Or you could just be another whiny 15 year old bitching about "imaginary property" on the internet without even the slightest concept of how patents, copyrights and trademarks work.

I was only there to get directions on how to get away from there.

Incidentally, no, XXX goes back to porn promoters in the 1970s, long before 'school nets'. Incidentally, you also can't spell incidentally.

assigning a second IP address, that you also control, to an interface is not 'spoofing' in any sense of the word. If you assign an IP address that I control, then you're spoofing, at which point you have the same problem in IP6 that you have in IP4.

Regrettably, it’s true. Standards have fallen in adult entertainment. It’s video, Dude. Now that we’re competing with the amateurs, we can’t afford to invest that little extra in story, production value, feeling.

Of course, you do get the good with the bad. The new technology permits us to do exciting things with interactive erotic software. Wave of the future, Dude. 100% electronic.

meme /mim/ Show Spelled[meem] Show IPA
–noun
a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.

I think it means exactly what I think it means.

you're right, that's not what it means. It's a completely meaningless meme that gets tossed around every time there's an article about open source.

The article is talking about companies that are exclusively open source. IBM, Intel and Xerox are all involved in open source products, but all of them make three of them make their money selling proprietary, closed source hardware.

except once you log into gmail.com you wind up in mail.google.com, and all the scripts for gmail are served up from that domain.

They definitely can't just swap positions, I'm ultimately hoping for something closer to the ION kit, that lets you customize where you want the pieces. I need the high hat to the left and raised or I'm severely limited in my speed, and my form gets sloppy. I feel like I can never get into the right position with the base kit, one hand is always uncomfortable. If I angle myself towards the snare, my right hand is all over the place, if I'm straight ahead or angled to the right, I'm too slow on the snare. I guess it comes down to preference (some people play real drums with their high hat to the right) which is why I'm really hoping for the ability to customize.

You're kind of contradicting yourself here. You say that search results are all the same, people pick their search engine based on aesthetics (which I strongly disagree with) but then you also say that a change in aesthetics is not a new feature.

That aside, I definitely don't think Google should force a background image on their users, but it is a nice choice to have. Turning it on by default probably wasn't the best way to promote it, although it did make everyone aware of it's existence and I highly doubt it cost them any customers, so maybe I'm wrong.

That's a pretty false dichotomy. Yes, the majority of people do seem to like Google better than they like Bing, Yahoo etc. But that doesn't mean all those people think everything Google does is perfect and they never want anything changed or have any new features added. Ultimately, if Google took your advice and search development became completely stagnant, then eventually the other search providers would improve over time and overtake Google.

Yea, they haven't talked about the new drum kit at all yet, but i'm certainly hoping for massive improvements. The reason people hold drum sticks poorly when playing the rock band kit is because they basically have to. First off, the pads have a pretty crappy response, forcing you to hit harder than you'd like to get the right response. But more importantly, the damn high hat is on the wrong side of the snare, which makes anything but the most basic rhythms extremely awkward. Now, the other reason people hold sticks improperly that probably won't change is they've never been taught the right way. Hopefully pro mode will start with some (optional) tutorial videos to help people out on that front.

Man are you gonna look stupid when Valve releases the cure for cancer at E3 this year.

If you want to troll, try harder. Here's a hint, tampons aren't pads, they're cylindrical. You did however do a nice job of proving beyond any doubt that you've never had a girlfriend.