Comment Re:lets use electroshock! (Score 1) 439
Coming soon to the Wii: "Wiiiiii Me? The Zappy Fun-er-cizer!"
Comment As Steve Ballmer himself might say... (Score 1) 607
Refurbishers, refurbishers, refurbishers, refurbishers!
Comment Definition of "addiction" for Americans (Score 4, Funny) 278
ad . dic . tion, n.: The state or practice of engaging in an activity that does not earn money for one's boss. See antonymns at "well-adjusted" and "slave."
Comment The key question (Score 4, Funny) 295
How long before I can play Doom on my copy of Entertainment Weekly?
Comment Re:this is so sad! (Score 1) 565
to me, this is as if a relative had died :-(
I see you are grieving, and I hurt with you, my brother.
Just, er, don't tell any relatives that you equate them emotionally with a stripper-loving redneck in a canceled video game.
Comment Quick! Call Jack Bauer! (Score 1) 212
Kelly suggested that 'perhaps it is because of the NYPD's reach into the international arena' that they are being targeted for computer hacking 'in much the way the Pentagon has been.'
OK, let's address this calmly. Who has to be tortured to make things right here?
Comment In Soviet Russia... (Score 5, Funny) 424
...YOU pay Microsoft severance!
Comment Re:iphone = toy (Score 2, Funny) 205
the iphone is a toy, not a business tool.
Toy?!
I suppose you think designer clothes, plucked eyebrows and exposed midriffs aren't business tools, too.
Comment iFwwrrrrp! (Score 1) 205
If you've developed a "long term relationship" with your iFarting app, it probably isn't because you paid for it.
Comment Patentus patentum avocat (Score 1) 151
If IBM were more bold, it would let this trifle go in lieu of richer fields of conquest. Why seek to patent the patenting of possible somethings when the known universe is teeming with so much less -- that is, with so much more of nothing?
Today, there exists a great untapped opportunity that, for mysterious reasons, is still awaiting those pioneers who will man its papery frontiers: I refer, of course, to patenting ideas that do not nor ever shall exist. This area has been called "the ultimate white space."
I do not mean ideas that should not exist -- the so-called Cthulhu Codex (see Cox, J., Von Wolfgut, T., "The Patent Out Of Time," Journal of Patents, Vol. 27, No. 4).
No, far sexier and lucrative are those patents that haven't been devised yet because the ideas at their root are in a highly theoretical state of pre-existence.
Exploiting these synaptic absences is a vast project going forward. Moreover, it is timely. As the American economy reels from the devastating evaporation of fictitious wealth on Wall Street, new imaginary sources of wealth generation are clearly needed if our economy is to return to a robust delusional grandeur.
It is unknown exactly how much wealth can be derived from ideas that do not exist, but it is believed the sum is nearly incalculable, or, alternatively, "huge."
Submission + - Petco redefines the definition of a rectangle! (reefcentral.com)
petes97 writes: Trying to purchase an aquarium on a current advertisement I had the occassion to speak with a corporate customer service representative who informed me that "Petco do[es] not consider a square a rectangle" as I attempted to purchase a rectangle with a square base, but rectangular in height, marketed as a "cube." Full recount of the fiasco.
Submission + - Sony to release new PS2 (efluxmedia.com)
jshriverWVU writes: "In what might be a way to regain some turf in the console war Sony is releasing a revamped PS2 this winter season.
"Sony plans to attract casual and non-casual gamers with a Ceramic White limited edition of PlayStation 2, bundled with SingStar Pop, the second installment in the popular SingStar franchise. Of course, for wannabe artists that would be an incomplete package without the two high-quality USB microphones Sony plans to add to the promotional wrapping.""
"Sony plans to attract casual and non-casual gamers with a Ceramic White limited edition of PlayStation 2, bundled with SingStar Pop, the second installment in the popular SingStar franchise. Of course, for wannabe artists that would be an incomplete package without the two high-quality USB microphones Sony plans to add to the promotional wrapping.""
Submission + - HTML as a graphic format
An anonymous reader writes: I've discovered WHIPIE.COM a site where you can make a web page using graphic tools quite different from the HTML normal code, I think is an interesting idea. The editor looks very powerful, is based in something called WHIP (Web Human Interaction Pages)
Submission + - General Strike Called For 9/11/2007 In U.S.
cybermage writes: Organizers around the U.S. are working to coordinate a General Strike for 9/11/2007. Their reasoning is as follows: "Since the tragic events of 9/11/01, America has fallen under a spell of fear and deception. The government peddles lies and steadily chips away at our democratic rights. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in the Iraq war — mostly civilians. Torture, surveillance, tyranny, empire. Many of us can recognize the fascistic direction of this government. But what do we do?"
Submission + - Chomsky in feature film on Outsourcing to India
agslashdot writes: "Project Outsourced, a 150 minute indie docu on Outsourcing of IT jobs to India, now on Google Video in 6 parts — Part 1,
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Features Brian Behlendorf ( Apache ), Dr. Noam Chomsky (MIT), Dr. Dennis Dalton(Columbia), Dr. William Easterly( NYU) and a host of economists, programmers & venture capitalists."
Features Brian Behlendorf ( Apache ), Dr. Noam Chomsky (MIT), Dr. Dennis Dalton(Columbia), Dr. William Easterly( NYU) and a host of economists, programmers & venture capitalists."
