You know what would shift those 74 million unsold CDs? Robot monkeys. A free robot monkey with each CD. Ones wearing little black leather jackets for the rock CDs, pink tutus for girl bands, green hair for punks. You could call them Andy The Happy Robot CD Monkey & His Fab Monkey Pals if you like.
No, what you need is a pair of wiimote-like gloves that you wear which are connected to a tiny robot monkey on the recipients cellphone that mimics your movements. The recipient, in turn, wears another pair of gloves which are connected to the robot monkey on your phone.
OK, so instead of a robot monkey you could have a little animated monkey on your display, but a robot monkey would be better. Tiny robot monkeys is how Apple will implement it on the iPhone while the rest of the industry just has animated monkeys. Either way, watch for "signing monkeys" on Google Trends.
It's not that the consumer devices that are becoming important in themselves, what's important is that they are becoming interoperable. This is what Apple is doing with the iTV, iPhone, and the iPod, and if anything the PC (Mac) becomes more important because it ties all the consumer devices together.
I think it works like it does with art - if it's being called "Religion" (or "Art") then that's what it is, because it's a matter of opinion rather than something to be objectively validated.
And if the mafia tells you it's a religion you better believe it.
It isn't necessary to know the origins of a religion to know that it's made up, just look at it now. You don't know the exact origins of Scientology and you can't prove that it's false, yet you were quick enough to call it made up.
All religions were new once and it's illogical to give more credence to some simply because they've been around longer.
You don't have to like them... but you should respect their rights to exist.
Why? If something is as obviously wrong and causes as much damage as religion then why respect it? If anything the opposite is true and it's time that rational, scientifically-minded people spoke out against this nonsense.
It depends on your attitude. I expect people to be reasonable so I've sorted out problems with neighbours by talking to them. You expect people to be assholes to the core so you don't even try. If you took the step of talking to them you'd see they could be reasonable, unless you come across as an asshole yourself.
You have to build the world you want to live in, make your actions make the world a better place. If you're making the world more unfriendly then you need to sort yourself out.
However, it seems perfectly reasonable that if you do something in public, then there's no problem with presenting the evidence publicly.
No. If you do something in public then you did it in public and that was that. But recording and distributing a public act is entirely different, and in this case the motive is malicious. You're saying that it's fine to humiliate someone in order to solve a problem, but if you actually wanted to solve the problem you'd talk to them and sort it out - the only reason you'd humiliate someone is because you want to see them suffer, and you're deceiving yourself if you try to justify it as being in the public good.
If your neighbour is doing something antisocial you can talk to them and sort it out. It's depressing that so many people here think it's an acceptable response to publicly humiliate them.
You don't see a problem? The problem is How long does someone have to be ashamed for, and in front of how many people? You put something on the internet and potentially it's there forever and can be seen by millions, like with Star Wars Kid. I believe forgiveness is necessary in society - being allowed to learn from your mistakes and move on to become a better person - but we seem to have a culture where nobody forgives and nobody is allowed to forget. The people doing the uploading, who feel the need to shame and humliate someone this much, must be pretty unpleasant themselves.
Throwing away or destroying manufactured items when they are working and reusable is irresponsible, because it does not attempt to minimize environmental impact.
Not necessarily - it's not just the manufacturing cost but also the running cost you need to take in to account. It's like replacing your lightbulbs with fluorescents - is it more environmentally friendly to throw your working incandescent bulbs away now and replace them with fluorescents, or to keep using the power-hungry incadescents for years until they blow?
A lot of old computer equipment is horribly inefficient by today's standards. I used to repair and donate old computers to relatives and friends, but then realized it meant I was making these behemoths with giant power supplies and CRTs suck away 10 times as much power as a new laptop would be doing. It's a shame to throw out things that still have some life in them and could be re-used - we seem to do it a lot in our culture - but sometimes it's for the best.
I defy you to name a single hereditary, undetectable health problem in cattle that is the slightest bit dangerous.
The disease itself doesn't have to be hereditable - the cows could simply have an undetectable hereditary increased susceptibility to, say, BSE. Naturally, the progress of a disease is halting, but when the entire population it is spreading through is uniformly "easy prey", all the cows could become infected very quickly indeed. We could all have eaten infected meat before the disease makes itself apparent in the cattle.
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You know what would shift those 74 million unsold CDs? Robot monkeys. A free robot monkey with each CD. Ones wearing little black leather jackets for the rock CDs, pink tutus for girl bands, green hair for punks. You could call them Andy The Happy Robot CD Monkey & His Fab Monkey Pals if you like.
My pleasure.
No, what you need is a pair of wiimote-like gloves that you wear which are connected to a tiny robot monkey on the recipients cellphone that mimics your movements. The recipient, in turn, wears another pair of gloves which are connected to the robot monkey on your phone.
OK, so instead of a robot monkey you could have a little animated monkey on your display, but a robot monkey would be better. Tiny robot monkeys is how Apple will implement it on the iPhone while the rest of the industry just has animated monkeys. Either way, watch for "signing monkeys" on Google Trends.
Two words: Nearly right.
It's not that the consumer devices that are becoming important in themselves, what's important is that they are becoming interoperable. This is what Apple is doing with the iTV, iPhone, and the iPod, and if anything the PC (Mac) becomes more important because it ties all the consumer devices together.
I think it works like it does with art - if it's being called "Religion" (or "Art") then that's what it is, because it's a matter of opinion rather than something to be objectively validated.
And if the mafia tells you it's a religion you better believe it.
It isn't necessary to know the origins of a religion to know that it's made up, just look at it now. You don't know the exact origins of Scientology and you can't prove that it's false, yet you were quick enough to call it made up.
All religions were new once and it's illogical to give more credence to some simply because they've been around longer.
Maybe you should try avoision.
4) Don't include the email addresses of everyone in the mailing list in the header of your email.
The DMCA doesn't have arms, it has tentacles. Horrible, oozing, pus-filled tentacles.
That applies to most guys on Slashdot.
Solution: Tattoo everyone, then they'll blend right in.
It depends on your attitude. I expect people to be reasonable so I've sorted out problems with neighbours by talking to them. You expect people to be assholes to the core so you don't even try. If you took the step of talking to them you'd see they could be reasonable, unless you come across as an asshole yourself.
You have to build the world you want to live in, make your actions make the world a better place. If you're making the world more unfriendly then you need to sort yourself out.
If your neighbour is doing something antisocial you can talk to them and sort it out. It's depressing that so many people here think it's an acceptable response to publicly humiliate them.
You don't see a problem? The problem is How long does someone have to be ashamed for, and in front of how many people? You put something on the internet and potentially it's there forever and can be seen by millions, like with Star Wars Kid. I believe forgiveness is necessary in society - being allowed to learn from your mistakes and move on to become a better person - but we seem to have a culture where nobody forgives and nobody is allowed to forget. The people doing the uploading, who feel the need to shame and humliate someone this much, must be pretty unpleasant themselves.
A lot of old computer equipment is horribly inefficient by today's standards. I used to repair and donate old computers to relatives and friends, but then realized it meant I was making these behemoths with giant power supplies and CRTs suck away 10 times as much power as a new laptop would be doing. It's a shame to throw out things that still have some life in them and could be re-used - we seem to do it a lot in our culture - but sometimes it's for the best.
I was going to tell you how, but then you said "boxen".
And it's got a degree.
And, um, I made it 7.
Also, web page content changes. A page that gets the all-clear may not be safe for work an hour later.