with cars lasting longer these days, people will sell their old one just because the new one gets like double the gas mileage. It's a huge selling point that makes people dump their old cars abnormally fast. So that's kinda why. As for the "OMG this can't be true" thing, you dump organic stuff in a tub, let it rot, and drain out the ethanol. Maintain an environment that the bacteria lives in and keep getting cheap organic matter and you're set. How expensive can that be?
there's like 7 determinations always used to test if it's pornography in cases involving minors. The major ones are what part of the picture is the focal point of attention, what actions are being depicted in the pictures, how old does the person appear to be, what the intention of the picture was (education or arousal), release environment context, etc. So yeah that's the big art vs porn determination courts use. Call me a pessimist but somehow I think it's not 100% art being uploaded by kids to myspace.
it's okay, giant Linux penguin bots are almost as good. Btw did you mean "zombies" like infected Windows PC?
"General, your new Windows powered tank is rolling into battle but it keeps sending us something about Canadian pills"
last time I checked, parent's don't know anything about video games most of the time. But hey, my parents decided to put some educational games like Math Blaster on our old windows 95 computer when I was about 8 and I loved em! I thought they were totally awesome! All those games totally improved my math and reading and problem solving skills and I did great in school. And now I'm a software programmer so there you go lol. I say as long as it's kid appropriate and they can read, any age is fine cuz it'll probably help them more than hurt them. As for the screaming 8 year olds on Halo 2 on Xbox Live, that's a big NO though.
That's because the stuff people hate and that doesn't work like the DRM fails-by-design crap they put in on purpose so they don't consider it a flaw. And the shutdown button/menu isn't a flaw, they have like 12 people design that! And draining a laptop battery twice as fast from the graphics isn't a flaw, they put that in to look more flashy.
no, no, the point is that you gotta pay more the more time you spend in traffic. I know I'd wanna pay to sit in traffic! The more sitting I get to do, the more I'd pay! Wait here's an idea that actually makes sense. I should charge them a "pissed off" fee for having to go 15 MPH because of some dumbass a mile up in a Buick is driving with their head up their ass and they pay me at the toll station. Or better yet, just charge the person driving like a moron more and leave the rest of us alone.
When you think about it, it worked for Starcraft. If people had to pay for that, it'd be way less popular. It doesn't take superservers to run an 8 or so year old game so apparently one banner ad in the main lobby is enough to fund the whole operation. Otherwise they would have shut down by now since $15 for the game and expansion probably isn't doing it for them. I wouldn't mind that. But if they go crazy with it like some games, it would just piss everyone off. I still think it would be hilarious if they made the World of Warcraft potions into Pepsi products for a week. Plus people are such big fans, if they had a WOW gaming party, obviously someone would bring some Pepsi as a gag so it'd be pretty effective
an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup.
Wooo! I called it! I said in a post 4 weeks ago they should just have a scantron-like technology and there we go, someone pulled their head out of their ass and discovered that's the best idea too. Although I must add here the same tweak in that they should have a glorified printer with no long term memory or counting ability print a scannable ballot after you press some BUTTONS (not the screen). That way you wouldn't error out on people that can't fill out a ballot well enough for the machine to scan it in. As long as the printer doesn't run out of ink, all the ballots would look the same and scan perfectly. Fast voting, fast counting, and a paper trail. Hurray!
I don't care about those. I mean the ones that actually do something. There should be genes that do something that don't do anything important. And in both humans and animals hair and eye color affect reproduction rates greatly. Humans are hard wired to prefer non-dark colored irises because then you can see when someone's pupils are dilated and they're interested in you. And hair color usually turns into some picky thing in animals where the brightest or the darkest one is more attractive not to mention the whole darker they are, harder they are to find and eat thing. And in humans we're wired to like lighter colored hair because it implies a younger age than an aged adult.
that method is the hardest when you think about it. I actually did think about it during Voyager:D Bending space or using quantum effects is the easiest but having a computer scan every atom and its vector (which direction it's moving and how "hard" would be important) and storing that all then being able to transmit it to another computer and re-assemble it all together and start all the atoms moving at the same vectors is just as hard as it sounds. Plus then we could probably make copies of ourselves with that technology and that'd be TEH COOLNESS for open source projects so finally I wouldn't have to work with lazy and crazy people or 16 year olds lol. And then we could clone the president and put him in stasis in case he gets assassinated! Lotsa possibilities there. But yeah, I don't think anyone should ever pursue that technique cuz it's just too hard and dangerous no matter what your level of technology.
but don't forget, if evolution was random, all creatures would have non-detrimental but non-advantageous neutral traits that they developed randomly. And logically those traits would severely outnumber the amount of advantageous traits. Instead, all creatures seem to have are advantageous traits and no neutral ones
I can't explain it but for humans it's not true for some reason. My family has genes where we don't grow all our wisdom teeth. Well how about that. 99.99% of other people don't have that gene but it doesn't really specifically help or not help me survive. Thus suggesting evolution is random. But then why don't other animals have random traits different than the rest that don't help or hurt its survival?
because when you squeeze the sponge, liquid droplets would fly EVERYWHERE! There's a lot of holes in a sponge you know. That would be a total disaster. You'd have water droplets flying around for weeks. As for the giant, ridiculously long straw idea proposed in the article, I don't see why you can't just float a sphere of water and take bites out of it like an orange. If you're really, really careful, it shouldn't fragment plus that'd be way mroe fun!
Problem: So I'll just hop on my neighbor's wireless when mine's near completion. People could set up a deal like that intentionally or unintentionally. Anyway, people hate even thinking about overages for cell phones. Even if my limit was 250 GB per month I'd always be thinking about it and that would piss me off. The only good thing that would come out is spambot/botnet comp owner would be really encouraged to disinfect their computer. Btw where's the meter going if I have 2 computers? Basically nobody puts their modem in regular view so it can't go there. Plus it'd be cake to reset it there. Well all this doesn't matter because
...however only new subscribers will be charged incrementally for bandwidth usage above the cap. Following the trial, a determination will be made as to whether or not existing subscribers should be charged
People are gonna be PISSED at the new system and start switching so at least new customers are gonna take one for the team before they put this dumb idea to rest. My suggestion is to put some more money into making the network as whole not suck so people could use all the bandwidth they want. Currently I'm getting 1.5 out of 7 in my neighborhood with TWC and I'm pissed.
as a speedreader, I gotta say that maybe they should find someone who can speedread. It's not to hard at the same time to selectively focus on stuff that's important since obviously in 4000 pages, not all of it is. When you think about it, who has time to write that many pages? It's probably quotes and copy-pastes of other documents. I remember for some court case someone made a document and copied in the entire transcript of a similar case and it was like 500 pages.
You know how they say everyone who isn't good with computers should use a mac cuz it's a hand holding type of OS that simplifies everything for the user and doesn't let you into the really technical stuff without a lot of digging. So yeah, simple folk use the macs lol. You could train a monkey to run a mac. And from repairing comps in home for 4 year lemme just tell you that that's the kind of people who download and install fake scanners. The last one I did was from someone who saw a popup that said they have malware so they did the scan and OMG it installed some adware! OH NOZ! They never saw it coming *rolls eyes* yeah, so mac people are either hippies, self important starbucks customers, media ediors, or mac software programmers and 3/4 of them are dumb enough to install this new "scanner"
now all they gotta do is put KDE 4 on Knoppix and I'll have a Linux meltdown (the happy kind). Or better yet, they could put GNOME on it lol. But seriously, I'm glad people are finally, actually updating their distros with newer stuff. More people should do that.
no, I get mine 99.99% pure pyrotechnics grade on ebay. And if you think I'm kidding search 17 pound desolator smoke bomb on youtube. And actually I got the sugar at Woodmans (small Wisconsin chain grocery store). And forget privacy, they can find out how much I love provalone as long as they protect my password but you just know they're gonna beam it wirelessly in plain text without any wireless encryption.
So now when I put stump remover and sugar together on my list I gaurantee I'm gonna be put on some sort of terrorist list (cuz you can make a bomb out of that). Not to mention any other privacy concerns. I don't even want someone to so much as see my list before I get there. They'd have to password it. Then people forget their passwords. Or someone rigs it to record your password. Then you can't log in to your cart cuz the system is down and you have no idea what you were supposed to buy. I can only imagine how many rings of hell it would be to have Walmart employees support that high tech of a system.
If you want to make money on it and you're the only person who worked on it, don't make it open source. Just release it for free and take donations but don't release the source. Open source implies you're going to let other people work on your code and that doesn't sound like what you want to do. Sounds like you'd just be abusing the overused term "Open Source" just because it's free and get all pissed when people e-mail you problems with your code that need to be fixed.
Didn't we just read some equally idiotic bullshit on slashdot about vinyl making a huge comeback because of it's many superiorities. Okay here's something to consider. Digital music sounds the same every time you play it. You hit the seek button and the next track plays. It outputs at speaker level. It doesn't degrade on your hard drive and the file can't melt in the sunlight. I know of one band that releases their songs on vinyl and since my dad's a DJ about ten thousand that don't. What a stupid story. You could even call it anti-geek since we're all into...oh you know, technology and stuff. I haven't heard a hurray for punchcards post recently. If you're going to retro-updgrade to something ancient that doesn't sound like crap, go with WAV
I'll save you all the time of googling this cuz I know you wanna know too. There's 200-400 billion stars in the milky way for example but most are bigger than our sun I think. So 18 billion solar masses is A LOT of stars to suck up in one galaxy. Geeze the think probably looks like a big donut by now.
If you use a computer you have to worry about it being on and that's a lot of wasted power. There's a new Linksys router out there that lets you plus USB flash drives or any external USB drive into it. So get one of those killer 1 terabyte externals off newegg and plug in into the router and as long as your network is up, the storage is there. I always wanted to get one but they're like $200. That's still awfully cheap.
exactly! Let's get real, people. TSA should stop spending all their time strip searching 50 year old american businessmen for no reason. Here, I've got a brand new technology fresh off the blueprints. Check the person's social security number. If they're a felon, search em. If they're not a US citizen, search em. If they're arabic and not from here, search em twice. And if you call that racist, you're an idiot. That's called real. 500k please.
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with cars lasting longer these days, people will sell their old one just because the new one gets like double the gas mileage. It's a huge selling point that makes people dump their old cars abnormally fast. So that's kinda why. As for the "OMG this can't be true" thing, you dump organic stuff in a tub, let it rot, and drain out the ethanol. Maintain an environment that the bacteria lives in and keep getting cheap organic matter and you're set. How expensive can that be?
there's like 7 determinations always used to test if it's pornography in cases involving minors. The major ones are what part of the picture is the focal point of attention, what actions are being depicted in the pictures, how old does the person appear to be, what the intention of the picture was (education or arousal), release environment context, etc. So yeah that's the big art vs porn determination courts use. Call me a pessimist but somehow I think it's not 100% art being uploaded by kids to myspace.
it's okay, giant Linux penguin bots are almost as good. Btw did you mean "zombies" like infected Windows PC?
"General, your new Windows powered tank is rolling into battle but it keeps sending us something about Canadian pills"
last time I checked, parent's don't know anything about video games most of the time. But hey, my parents decided to put some educational games like Math Blaster on our old windows 95 computer when I was about 8 and I loved em! I thought they were totally awesome! All those games totally improved my math and reading and problem solving skills and I did great in school. And now I'm a software programmer so there you go lol. I say as long as it's kid appropriate and they can read, any age is fine cuz it'll probably help them more than hurt them. As for the screaming 8 year olds on Halo 2 on Xbox Live, that's a big NO though.
That's because the stuff people hate and that doesn't work like the DRM fails-by-design crap they put in on purpose so they don't consider it a flaw. And the shutdown button/menu isn't a flaw, they have like 12 people design that! And draining a laptop battery twice as fast from the graphics isn't a flaw, they put that in to look more flashy.
no, no, the point is that you gotta pay more the more time you spend in traffic. I know I'd wanna pay to sit in traffic! The more sitting I get to do, the more I'd pay! Wait here's an idea that actually makes sense. I should charge them a "pissed off" fee for having to go 15 MPH because of some dumbass a mile up in a Buick is driving with their head up their ass and they pay me at the toll station. Or better yet, just charge the person driving like a moron more and leave the rest of us alone.
When you think about it, it worked for Starcraft. If people had to pay for that, it'd be way less popular. It doesn't take superservers to run an 8 or so year old game so apparently one banner ad in the main lobby is enough to fund the whole operation. Otherwise they would have shut down by now since $15 for the game and expansion probably isn't doing it for them. I wouldn't mind that. But if they go crazy with it like some games, it would just piss everyone off. I still think it would be hilarious if they made the World of Warcraft potions into Pepsi products for a week. Plus people are such big fans, if they had a WOW gaming party, obviously someone would bring some Pepsi as a gag so it'd be pretty effective
I don't care about those. I mean the ones that actually do something. There should be genes that do something that don't do anything important. And in both humans and animals hair and eye color affect reproduction rates greatly. Humans are hard wired to prefer non-dark colored irises because then you can see when someone's pupils are dilated and they're interested in you. And hair color usually turns into some picky thing in animals where the brightest or the darkest one is more attractive not to mention the whole darker they are, harder they are to find and eat thing. And in humans we're wired to like lighter colored hair because it implies a younger age than an aged adult.
that method is the hardest when you think about it. I actually did think about it during Voyager :D Bending space or using quantum effects is the easiest but having a computer scan every atom and its vector (which direction it's moving and how "hard" would be important) and storing that all then being able to transmit it to another computer and re-assemble it all together and start all the atoms moving at the same vectors is just as hard as it sounds. Plus then we could probably make copies of ourselves with that technology and that'd be TEH COOLNESS for open source projects so finally I wouldn't have to work with lazy and crazy people or 16 year olds lol. And then we could clone the president and put him in stasis in case he gets assassinated! Lotsa possibilities there. But yeah, I don't think anyone should ever pursue that technique cuz it's just too hard and dangerous no matter what your level of technology.
but don't forget, if evolution was random, all creatures would have non-detrimental but non-advantageous neutral traits that they developed randomly. And logically those traits would severely outnumber the amount of advantageous traits. Instead, all creatures seem to have are advantageous traits and no neutral ones
I can't explain it but for humans it's not true for some reason. My family has genes where we don't grow all our wisdom teeth. Well how about that. 99.99% of other people don't have that gene but it doesn't really specifically help or not help me survive. Thus suggesting evolution is random. But then why don't other animals have random traits different than the rest that don't help or hurt its survival?
because when you squeeze the sponge, liquid droplets would fly EVERYWHERE! There's a lot of holes in a sponge you know. That would be a total disaster. You'd have water droplets flying around for weeks. As for the giant, ridiculously long straw idea proposed in the article, I don't see why you can't just float a sphere of water and take bites out of it like an orange. If you're really, really careful, it shouldn't fragment plus that'd be way mroe fun!
they're from Wisconsin and so am I so sorry to post a major spoiler but they're gonna name it either Packers, The Packers, or Packeroid :D
or maybe it's all the bittorrent programs .exe files rendered as ASCII rofl. That'd be a real page turner I gotta say.
as a speedreader, I gotta say that maybe they should find someone who can speedread. It's not to hard at the same time to selectively focus on stuff that's important since obviously in 4000 pages, not all of it is. When you think about it, who has time to write that many pages? It's probably quotes and copy-pastes of other documents. I remember for some court case someone made a document and copied in the entire transcript of a similar case and it was like 500 pages.
You know how they say everyone who isn't good with computers should use a mac cuz it's a hand holding type of OS that simplifies everything for the user and doesn't let you into the really technical stuff without a lot of digging. So yeah, simple folk use the macs lol. You could train a monkey to run a mac. And from repairing comps in home for 4 year lemme just tell you that that's the kind of people who download and install fake scanners. The last one I did was from someone who saw a popup that said they have malware so they did the scan and OMG it installed some adware! OH NOZ! They never saw it coming *rolls eyes* yeah, so mac people are either hippies, self important starbucks customers, media ediors, or mac software programmers and 3/4 of them are dumb enough to install this new "scanner"
now all they gotta do is put KDE 4 on Knoppix and I'll have a Linux meltdown (the happy kind). Or better yet, they could put GNOME on it lol. But seriously, I'm glad people are finally, actually updating their distros with newer stuff. More people should do that.
no, I get mine 99.99% pure pyrotechnics grade on ebay. And if you think I'm kidding search 17 pound desolator smoke bomb on youtube. And actually I got the sugar at Woodmans (small Wisconsin chain grocery store). And forget privacy, they can find out how much I love provalone as long as they protect my password but you just know they're gonna beam it wirelessly in plain text without any wireless encryption.
So now when I put stump remover and sugar together on my list I gaurantee I'm gonna be put on some sort of terrorist list (cuz you can make a bomb out of that). Not to mention any other privacy concerns. I don't even want someone to so much as see my list before I get there. They'd have to password it. Then people forget their passwords. Or someone rigs it to record your password. Then you can't log in to your cart cuz the system is down and you have no idea what you were supposed to buy. I can only imagine how many rings of hell it would be to have Walmart employees support that high tech of a system.
If you want to make money on it and you're the only person who worked on it, don't make it open source. Just release it for free and take donations but don't release the source. Open source implies you're going to let other people work on your code and that doesn't sound like what you want to do. Sounds like you'd just be abusing the overused term "Open Source" just because it's free and get all pissed when people e-mail you problems with your code that need to be fixed.
Didn't we just read some equally idiotic bullshit on slashdot about vinyl making a huge comeback because of it's many superiorities. Okay here's something to consider. Digital music sounds the same every time you play it. You hit the seek button and the next track plays. It outputs at speaker level. It doesn't degrade on your hard drive and the file can't melt in the sunlight. I know of one band that releases their songs on vinyl and since my dad's a DJ about ten thousand that don't. What a stupid story. You could even call it anti-geek since we're all into...oh you know, technology and stuff. I haven't heard a hurray for punchcards post recently. If you're going to retro-updgrade to something ancient that doesn't sound like crap, go with WAV
I'll save you all the time of googling this cuz I know you wanna know too. There's 200-400 billion stars in the milky way for example but most are bigger than our sun I think. So 18 billion solar masses is A LOT of stars to suck up in one galaxy. Geeze the think probably looks like a big donut by now.
If you use a computer you have to worry about it being on and that's a lot of wasted power. There's a new Linksys router out there that lets you plus USB flash drives or any external USB drive into it. So get one of those killer 1 terabyte externals off newegg and plug in into the router and as long as your network is up, the storage is there. I always wanted to get one but they're like $200. That's still awfully cheap.
exactly! Let's get real, people. TSA should stop spending all their time strip searching 50 year old american businessmen for no reason. Here, I've got a brand new technology fresh off the blueprints. Check the person's social security number. If they're a felon, search em. If they're not a US citizen, search em. If they're arabic and not from here, search em twice. And if you call that racist, you're an idiot. That's called real. 500k please.