Comment Re:glide into the edge (Score 1) 44
No, Uranus.
No, Uranus.
(...and I apparently have Tony the Tiger's spellchecker, since it completely missed that typo.)
I'll give them this one, considering one of the purposes of this project is to prove the feasability of extraterrrestrial flight in atmospheres as thin as that of Mars.
Sony
There's your biggest con, right there.
Find another song, click on "Buy", and I have to type in my password again.
Jesus wept.
It's not the ripping software, it's the digital recording function, i.e. the ability to write to disk.
Here's what the court said in the RIAA v Diamond Multimedia case: (internal citations removed)
Unlike digital audio tape machines, for example, whose primary purpose is to make digital audio copied recordings, the primary purpose of a computer is to run various programs and to record the data necessary to run those programs and perform various tasks. The legislative history is consistent with this interpretation of the Act's provisions, stating that "the typical personal computer would not fall within the definition of 'digital audio recording device,'" because a personal computer's "recording function is designed and marketed primarily for the recording of data and computer programs." Another portion of the Senate Report states that "[i]f the 'primary purpose' of the recording function is to make objects other than digital audio copied recordings, then the machine or device is not a 'digital audio recording device,' even if the machine or device is technically capable of making such recordings."
So it really depends on what else the car's ability to write to disk is both primarily used for, and what it is primarily marketed for. The latter is probably worse for them; even if the car happens to be writing map or diagnostic information to disk, probably ripping CDs is what is mainly being advertised.
Oops, that's "get off of Weird Al's lawn."
What the fuck are these so-called "benefits" of a "15 minute open purchase window" that are so obvious and intuitive?
Forget about "the children". Who is so badly damaged as a person that they feel that it's currently just too hard to buy stuff online?
You know, I'm starting to think those kooks over at Adbusters might be on to something. We are one fucked-up society, and it looks like the marketing/industrial complex is in large part to blame.
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And one final point: the fact that you can apply any standard UNIX command to a range of lines in vi is just amazing. Look it up if you don't already know it, but are interested.
BINGO!
Reading this thread, SOMEBODY had to mention this. I use the "use buffer (can be range) as stdin to command and replace with results" feature of vim EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is one of the most amazing and productive features I can't believe it isn't more well known.
And once you've started getting nice snippets of "buffer code", the power grows by typing <CTL-f> at the colon ":" prompt and finding recently used commands. Amazing and powerful stuff. (Set your remembered vim commands to >1000 for long term buffer-command goodness!)
I don't know of any other editors that do this
How can a patent not be disclosed to the public, unless it's some kind of national security thing? Here's one of the patents listed:
System and Method for Selecting a Tab Within a Tabbed Browser
Oh, this makes my head hurt. No wonder Samsung is telling Microsoft where they can stick their patents.
We don't have to be 20 years in the future to look at right now and think what an awful thing chemo is.
The trouble is acting on that knowledge today...
Happiness is twin floppies.