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God cannot exist because He would break the second law of thermodynamics.
...But apparently, the good professor's research is full of cr*p anyway, so...
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Honestly, I don't really understand the decision of the UK court. Without undue love for Lucas, it does seem to me that nobody would buy these costumes if they were not part of the movies... Are the toys based on Star Wars and, say, Transformers movies, works of art? I am pretty certain you are not allowed to copy them... Is it just that they are expressing their independence from US courts?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/dec/11/tiger-woods-law-injunction-media
Maybe they think they are allowed to report that the US media are reporting that the UK high court has blocked the publication of XXXX XXXXXXXX of XXXXX (almost slipped there). It is true that at some point, not talking about the subject sounds like sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "la la la not listening"...
Anyway, one more victim of the Streisand effect. You have to admire the futility of it all. Who gave the order? Are they actually trying to ramp up the attention on the case? I would have thought Woods would want to keep out of sight for a bit...
Google wants to give me search results I want to click on, and sponsored links are clearly marked..
SEO want to give me search results THEY want me to click on. And considering how little I want to visit commercial web sites, what I want and what they want rarely coincide.
I am not quite sure that science is to the point you can pretend to know what the whales hear or do not hear. And even if they do not hear, they can still be affected. How about studying the way whales react rather than making bold and unconvincing statements?
I agree that whale beaching is not a huge problem, but pseudoscience is.
You would be surprised how few people that do not follow IT closely have heard about the crash.
And actually, I would still feel rather safe buying one. I'm not saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but I assume Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile will be extra careful about everything now...
But anyway, my trusty ol' Treo (of pre-iPhone days) is still chugging along, so I won't be buying anything right now...
I don't think your post has much point. So what if the internet is not a country?
It is still legal for the guy to say whatever he wants as long as he is doing it from a country where it is legal. The guy did end up in jail when he got caught in Austria, but as long as he stays in the US, he can publish whatever he wants on the web.
IIRC, about the only thing we can do with a quantum computer that we cannot do about as well with a normal one is to crack public key cryptography. That is, some of the systems only, and and of course a computer with around 3000 qubits would be needed.
"Quantum computing" sounds really good, but it is pretty much useless.
PH, because she looks good too, but...
She was that close of getting a Darwin Award...
Though i guess that even being drunk and falling on the tracks does not even rate high enough in stupidity for a nomination.
On the plus side, she managed to have her fall recorded from three angles. Worth it to keep the video and show it to her grandchildren if she survives long enough to have them!
I vote to have PH be the standard Darwin Award icon...
Quite right, quite right. I was commenting on the article claim that the doubling of the Apple stock price meant they were doing well. Even though the stock of Palm gained more, there are few people who would claim it is doing better...
In this case, I guess the augmentation reflects more the near-death experience Palm's stock had before the launch of the Pré, than the success they have now...
"Cupertino's stock price doubled while the rest of the world slogged through the Meltdown mire."
Not so. The stock of a certain company was multiplied by SEVEN since last December. The name of that obviously incredibly successful company? Palm.
PH Icon... Palm... Ahem.
I mean, they wrote the program, built the computer, they have every right to decide what device can work with it, right? How come they accept to work with a Dell computer mouse, but not with a Palm Pre phone?
Still pissed off when anybody takes pain to stop something that works from working.
Is free advertising. They haven't uttered a single word about their thingummy yet, and the world is tethered to their lips.
...a friend of mine works in the e-book industry. They say that it is useless to choose formats or readers now, because whatever Apple has in store is going to blow everything else out of the water...
The weird thing is that Google MISquotes Wikipedia...
e.g (the correct e.g):
http://www.google.com/search?q=population+density+in+australia
The answer reads:
Australia — Population - Density: 2.6/km2 (235th)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
So Google quotes answers from Wikipedia... OR DOES IT??
If you go check the page itself, you find a different number of 2.833/km2 for the population density of Australia... And I precise, despite the mutating nature of Wikipedia, the number quoted has not changed for months. What gives?
Why would Google give a number and pretend it was found on a Wikipedia page? Cui bono?
Err.... The article in Xinhua news, I mean... Not the city...
...Sorry...
Here it is (Google translations is your friend):
http://jx.xinhuanet.com/travel/2009-08/06/content_17322231.htm
Not only it is still on the site, it can still be found using the search tool from the main site. This is from the site of the Jiangxi branch, Jiangxi being the local equivalent of Arkansas.
The Chinese Wikipedia does have a page on the city, but it is denying its existence:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%99%E7%A7%91%E4%BF%9D%E5%B8%82
But who are you going to believe, the glorious communist media, or a western fake encyclopedia?
By the way, a Google search for 沙科保 (the name of the city in Chinese) returns 61'000 sites, quite a few being news site. This is not a recent story.
What if Microsoft sold printers, and rigged Microsoft Word so that it would only print on Microsoft printers?
Microsoft does sell mice. What if they blocked Logitech USB mice using the vendor ID?
I understand that Apple wants people to buy iPods, but I hate it that they are, on purpose, blocking a functionality that it working.
There has been for years videos on youtube explaining how to find the password of another user. Every time, the method necessitated sending your own login and password to some weird e-mail address purported to be an official Blizzard account (say, wow-password-recovery@hotmail.com).
Ha, just found another one. The guy says he has found a way to generate codes for gamecards from unused codes. So just send him the code of a unused gamecard, and he'll send you back plenty of other codes that will work. He'll get right up to it, yessir!