Unfortunately, in the case of 2 girls the full potential is reached at the first cup

Read the GP's comment. He is not saying that it will be 'better' next year, he is clearly stating that it will be 'butter'. I cannot understand that you didn't bread that correctly.

Isn't x264 (heavily) patent encumbered? And does that mean that the makers(or distributers?) have to pay a licensing fee? I know that it makes me weary to roll this out in a setting other than my home computing enviroment.

Anyone to easy my mind/confirm my suspicions?

I currently volunteer at a student based non-profit shop that mostly sells computers and computer parts. 21 years ago, we started as a shop selling pretty nothing but old 5.25" floppies and we made tons of money doing it. We even had a rivalry with another non-profit shop who could sell the things at the lowest price so we had volunteers doing 400km drives just to get floppies at a lower price than the competition.

At the moment, parts are crazy-ass cheap and webshops drive down the margin to nearly zero. Making money was a lot easier back then and PCs costed small fortunes $2000 was normal.

Nowadays, we still have some tangible memories left: some old 5.25" floppies and a copy of MS-DOS 4.0 still in the original box.

We also have an unsold copy of Windows Vista. We decided to add that one to the collection too.

"As far as I'm concerned real capitalist make money within the system NOT change the system so they can keep making money."

And as far as I'm concerned, real Scotsmen don't put sugar in their porridge.

it's the only way to be sure

"Bipeds are much slower, tire much easier,"

While the first statement is true, the second is most certainly false. Bipeds actually have a more efficient way of walking(and running) which allows us to run greater distances than quadrupeds.

In fact, some tribes in Africa use this advantage in their huntings methods. They simply run after a prey(I believe they favour fleeing prey to fighting prey) and chase them until the prey tires and then they strike when it is exhausted.

This meager Wikipedia article has some information about this fenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

I am a geek and I still bite the heads off chickens you insensitive clod!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe1gd-pBRo -- There have been ARM-powered tablets on the market for quite awhile now, and they don't have the limitations you mention... Unlike the iPad, this one not only supports tethering to cell phones, it even steps you through BT pairing and configuring the DUN connection during the out-of-box setup wizard. You can also dual-boot different operating systems (Android, Ubuntu, Mer, etc.) stored internally or on removable SD cards. Not bad for something that costs less than half the price of the iPad. There are surely better ones available if one were to look around.

The joke is on you. I work in a shop that basically sells HDMI cable for less then 1 EUR per meter, goldplated.

If you factor out the greed, prices can go down by a large amount.

Well, in WWII it was not uncommon to use German POWs as an expendable force to remove mines from heavily mined areas. The Germans are pretty much the only nation in the world who had the right system to map minefields and that came in handy. And yes, a lot of Germans lost their lives during the process.

I expect all Slashdot verbally abusing this guy for being a neocon and an enemy of freedom and a paranoid lunatic but the fact is this guy actually got threatened. This means that somebody has tried to intimidate him and state that he will hurt him/his family. Since no biker gangs have done this but a gamer did(you can never tell how dangerous these people are) he is absolutely right that gamers are scarier to him than biker gangs.

Then comes the internet and blows this totally out proportion and saying that this guy thinks that gamers are generally more dangerous than bikers in order to discredit him. I find that incredibly lame and it reeks of an attack campaign against the Australian Attorney General.

Good job loser(s), you just ruined your credibility. In the meantime this guy has got some arrows on his bow to fire at gamers. Congratulations again, you just helped your opponent by giving him media attention.

On hand hand this is malignant censorship, the forebode to a society with no free information. On the other hand, this is 4chan.....

it's the opposite of wiining