Comment Re:multiple social providers on the desktop (Score 2) 246
I just cleared my download history from Firefox 21. My browser history is still there.
I just cleared my download history from Firefox 21. My browser history is still there.
That's easy. The next number in the sequence is (not responding).
They're not patenting the entire concept of "cartoon face generation", just a particular approach to the problem that they worked on. Read the patent - they even refer to almost three dozen existing papers on the subject, so they're certainly not pretending to have invented the entire field. MS Research's algorithm tends to produce results that are recognisable and flattering at the same time, which I imagine they could find very useful for XBox Live.
I think the real problem here is the misleading "X patents Y" headings used on Slashdot to alarm people.
That's interesting. I've never encountered "New Coke" in my lifetime, but I find Coke Zero much better than Diet Coke.
Your thesis? Well, there goes my grant. Damn you, Lamar Smith!
C'mon, Lamar, I realize that not much gets past your shit-eating grin and incredible density; but surely you don't imagine that scientists who could be out raking in the nobels and lucrative startup stock by cranking out world-altering research of staggering utility are just holding out on us, and sequencing random beetle genomes because grantwriting is just so much fun? If there were plenty of 'groundbreaking' research that 'answers questions or solves problems of utmost importance to society at large' scientists would be shiving one another with broken Erlenmeyer flasks to be the first to do it.
Not me. I miss out on all the groundbreaking research because of my demanding studies of which flasks make the best shivs. But once my experiments are complete I'll show them. Yes, then I'll show them all...
So... $500 for the console, plus an optional $40 for financing plus two years LIVE Gold membership (normally priced at $120). I can see that the latter would be the obvious choice for anyone interested in the gold membership.
"You fool! I asked for general anesthetic bullets, not local. Now they're unstoppable!
The Onion needs to find and publish on the 1st of April a notable and mildly implausible story which is completely true but all the other news sources are waiting for the 2nd to report (for obvious reasons). That would be one of the best April Fools pranks.
Same, except I don't think that my right-handedness is particularly strong. The fact is that a left-handed person writing with his left hand is not equivalent to a right-handed person writing with his right hand. One is pushing the pen while the other is pulling it - a completely different type of action. I find that writing backwards (unfamiliar) with my off hand (also unfamiliar) is much easier than writing forwards with my off hand or writing backwards with my strong hand.
It's free for non-commercial purposes. If you make money from converting web pages to PDF then it might just be worth that price - particularly if you need to automate PDF rendering.
echo alias rtfm=man>>~/.bashrc
Now it is
I have a couple of questions:
Are Internet-users in the UK actually limited to one ISP per area?
How do ISPs profit from scarcity of addresses? I assume that you're referring to the practice of reserving static IP addresses for a premium, but they already did that pre-scarcity. Now that addresses are exhausted wouldn't it simply mean that they have fewer IPs available to sell to new customers, while existing customers who already lease static IPs will cling to the ones they already have?
"Literally" doesn't mean what you think it does, dipshit.
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Yes, unless they're willing to license Sony's new patent.
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."
