Comment Re:Happy Birthday to Shatner (Score 1) 226
I don't follow... Kirk won't be born until 2233! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk#Depiction
Pendantry indeed!
Comment Re:Table (Score 1) 789
It's a plug for a newspaper app (I forget which one) where the family is having breakfast...the dad is reading the paper on his iPad and then a fly starts buzzing around him...
In the end, he tries swatting it...and the iPad cover glass shatters. IIRC they mention that their app *almost* replaces the newspaper.
(SPOILER ALERT: the fly lives.
Comment Re:Live Long and Please End Raw Nerve (Score 0) 226
It probably didn't help that Shatner kept saying stuff like "I'm... sorry... that you.... *perceived*... me......... as being selfish........... or hostile.... to you..... back... then."
FTFY
Comment Thanks! (Score 1) 237
Comment Re:Table (Score 1) 789
To me, they're very different devices, and used very differently.
Yes, and although iPads can be used to read news, they still don't replace newspapers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVyOKq-KXU
Comment Re:I've been saying this for years... (Score 1) 468
Comment Mafia economics? (Score 1) 791
Nah. Settling conflict with guns is for the low rung of the ladder. I think organized crime has found it to be much more profitable and safer to influence the political system, just like the businessmen---but I repeat myself.
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Comment Re:...exceeding 40 hours (Score 2) 791
only in America is working over 40 hours a badge of honor. The Germans seem to be doing pretty well with their 30 hour work weeks and their 2 months paid vacation every year. We Americans often confuse competence with numbers of hours worked.
Agree wholeheartedly. Somehow managers (MBA's) have sold workers on the idea that they are just another commodity/expense, rather than human beings. Therefore, for a worker to advance or seem valuable, they should work for less, or work extra for free, etc.
I'ts as if the workers believe they are owners, but without the ownership.
Comment Re:All your comments are pointless (Score 1) 332
not only will the LHC destroy the earch, it will have done it before any of you ever existed.
That's why I arranged for the genetic soup I descended from to be sent to earth instead!
Comment Re:"Information can neither be created nor destroy (Score 1) 332
... Our universe now contains more information than it did before
If these particles move through time, what does it actually mean for them to be in our universe at time t ? As for the information, I didn't read anything about how the sending/receiving information from these time traveling particles affects the current amount of information in our universe. Perhaps there is only an exchange of information between the two different times using this hypothetical particle as the conduit.
As others have noted, I personally don't see how sending information vs. sending a person avoids any paradoxes. Any solution for one would seem to be a solution for explaining paradoxes of the other.
Comment Video should be done Benny HIll style.. (Score 1) 129
Comment FPS game!! (Score 2) 148
Oooh! Can they set up a web interface and charge money for us to shoot them!!!?
Who wants high score??
Comment Re:Technicalities (Score 1) 270
Selective enforcement of laws is a major vector for corruption.
But suing isn't about enforcement of laws. Selectively defending ownership, perhaps. And there is nothing requiring them to sue everyone they intend to sue all in one lawsuit.
Wait...I'm defending the MPAA? Forget what I said!
Comment Now that the day is shorter... (Score 1) 253
can we get rid of daylight savings time!??