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| 2006/2/12-15 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Recreation/Sports] UID:41806 Activity:nil |
2/12 So, does anyone else here play SDL sopwith? That game is awesome,
and I've always wanted to try the network mode. (For, like 15
years) -jrleek
\_ I want to play BZFLAG.
\_ Maybe we should set up a CSUA BZFLAG server...
\_ If you want. I don't think it's worth it. There are
lots and lots of public BZFLAG servers out there.
apt-get install bzflag
if you're a debian nerd. |
| 2006/2/12-15 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Car/RoadHogs] UID:41807 Activity:nil |
2/12 How the state-backed Chinese car manufacturers copy the western designs
for free:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22750-2012852,00.html
\_ My question is, when is GM gonna bring the Matiz home?
\_ They seem to be busy bringing more giant trucks:
http://tinyurl.com/8ov2m
\_ Man, the car that really throws me is the cadillac
pickup. I'm mean, seriously, WTF?
\_ Too much money plus the lack of good state.
\_ There's an article in the newspapers this weekend
about how middleclass Indian families in India
just go to the local village carpenter with an
IKEA catalog in hand and point out what they want built.
\_ I don't see anything wrong with that, except the Indians
showing lack of taste. If I could get the local village
carpenter to build me anything for a buck or two, it
wouldn't be Ikea's crap.
\_ are these those new ikea VR catalogs?
\- this is true with jewelry too ... "the family
jeweler" has asked my mother to save catelogs for
him. although when safeway etc makes generic
versions of oreo etc arent they becailly doing the
same thing? i was surprised to see a clones of
ODWALLA SUPERFOOD by one of the other boutique
juice companies ... i thought that would have been
protected.
\_ Re safeway generics (and drug store brands):
many are manufactured by the same parent co
on behalf of the supermarket or drug store.
A few are manufactured by 3d parties under
the FDA generic license.
Re Odwalla: If the formula for superfood is
protected, it is either as a trade secret or
a patent. I do not think that it is possible
to patent the recipe for a complex food stuff
such as superfood (as opposed to say the
formula for coke) b/c the claims would be too
broad (but I will ask my Patents prof today).
If the protection is under trade secret, in
a likelihood Odwalla cannot prove misapprop-
riation.
\_ Chemical formulas fall under their own section
of patent law. Usually a tiny change in the
formula is enough to avoid a patent. |
| 2006/2/12-15 [Recreation/Interesting, Computer/HW] UID:41808 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
2/12 Multitouch interactive display:
http://gprime.net/video.php/multitouch
\_ http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch |
| 2006/2/12-15 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:41809 Activity:nil |
2/12 Islam is the Vic-20 of cultures:
http://www.joeuser.com/articles.asp?c=1&AID=100703
\_ I miss JUMPMAN
\_ These days it's called "BEHEAD MAN" |
| 2006/2/12-15 [Uncategorized] UID:41810 Activity:nil |
2/12 Happy 197th birthday to Darwin and Lincoln! |
| 2006/2/12-13 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:41811 Activity:moderate |
2/11 "Oh, and the President was arrested for murder. More on that
tomorrow night, or you can turn to another channel." -Kent
\_ Truth stranger than fiction:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4707354.stm
\_ It can't be a murder. It gotta be a suicide, by two control
shots in the back of his head.
\_ He fell down an elevator shaft and landed on some bullets.
\_ I don't know much about hunting, but I thought it's standard bird-
hunting procedure to never point your shotgun near level or lower
when you're aiming, let alone when pulling the trigger.
\_ Pretty much. But they were Quayle hunting, and I think
Quayle tend to stay fairly low to the ground.
\_ Pretty much. But they were quail hunting, and I think
quail tend to stay fairly low to the ground. |