Comment Re:Signal (Score 2) 155
I think you meant ICQ
I think you meant ICQ
If homebrew and programming language development doesn't work flawlessly on launch, the techs are going to dump macbooks in droves and enthusiasm for the platform will take a big hit. Macbooks are useful because they're compatible. If they break compatibility, there's going to be a split and they're going to go back to being toys. iPads are just expensive toys. They're not useful because they're too big to replace phones, and the hard walled garden prevents anyone from doing real work on the platform. While it will give apple a lot of control in the short term to have a hard-walled garden on Mac, it will be extremely detrimental in the long term to foster a rift between it and Windows/Linux. Just look at the MS Arm platform. 100% Microsoft control, no adoption.
iPhotographers
...if any state is a poster child for terrible election practices, it is surely Georgia. Bold claims demand bold evidence, and unfortunately there's plenty; on Monday, McClatchy reported a string of irregularities from the state's primary election in May, including one precinct with a 243-percent turnout...Multiple sworn statements from voters describe how they turned up at their polling stations only to be turned away or directed to other precincts. Even more statements allege incorrect ballots, frozen voting machines, and other issues.
That's what all smatter outbreaks say before they consume your home orbital. "Oh, don't mind me. I'm not a hegemonist swarm. Just a distributed consciousness wandering the galaxy, not hurting anyone. Oh, by the way, mind if I break you down into your constituent subatomic particles and integrate you into my matrix? You do? Well, I do feel bad about this but I'm going to have to insist..."
I'm trying not to get too serious about this argument but Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
<resigned voice> nobody expects the spanish inquisition... </resigned voice>
Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
I mean, if someone has the hardware & software in their own home, there's really no telling what they're going to do with it. Maybe they're just mod the Game:ref to say you're not cheating when you are. Or some other method of circumvention.
The only game competition that I would trust is one where they all played on identical equipment on a controlled network in an room ('arena' seems too lofty for 'place to play computer games'). If money was involved, (10's of thousands or more) I don't think it's unreasonable to request everyone show up in a common location.
Three versions of Windows 8 for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven System Management Apps for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine Office Productivity Tools for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One XBox for the Dark Lord on his dark sharepoint site
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One Cloud to rule them all, One Cloud to find them,
One EULA to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
A company in the Chicago Loop (downtown office district) does something along these lines for cooling.
Company site:
http://www.thermalchicago.com/
Video describing the system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziEbY0oLf-o
If a stranger was using my outdoor hose / spigot without asking, I might have something to say about it.
- Shooting a blue portal beneath it, and an orange one above it.
- Shooting an orange portal beneath it, and a blue one above it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots
I remember playing this on my CoCo2. THAT DARN ALLIGATOR ATE ME AGAIN!!!
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
