One other option the article mentioned was to point it away from the planets and the moon and send it off. This sounded like a good idea to me. Maybe it is dying anyway, but why kill it off earlier? Who knows what data it might send back, probably nothing spectacular, but you really never know.
This makes one think differently about the fiasco where one broadcasting company covered up another's ad in Time Square with their own. That was actually in the TV frame.
Another point in the debate is that the amount the broadcasting companies can charge for ads is determined by the number of viewers. If people watched from iCraveTV instead of over their normal TV, that is actually reducing the number of viewers of that TV station and thus the money they can get.
On the other hand, given the choice of watching TV on a TV or on a computer, I think most people would choose the TV. Those who watch on iCraveTV are probably watching shows they can't get on their TV or else they don't have a TV. So maybe viewership would not be reduced much.
They use our calendar, but they also have their own calendar in which the year is the number of years the current emperor has been on the throne. I don't know what the year is now, but when I lived in Japan (mid 80s) it was around year 61 and 62. Now it would be something low because that emperor died and there is a new one.
I would imagine that all computer software uses the western calendar. I don't know how much the traditional Japanese year system is used. I remember the years I was there because I had subway passes that I used everyday that said 61 or 62 on them.
I agree, no standard. One of the things I loved about Un*x and X was the customizability of the gui and the different window managers. That is something I miss now that I must work on Windows most of the time. Although I recently discovered Window Blinds which helps out some.
Which story has the least comments? How many stories have been removed after being put up? (I noticed a story on new flat screen technology this morning that is apparently no longer up.)
Using a nickname is different than playing a role. The comments you post are your own, not your cat's. Or do you try to post comments from a female cat's perspective? If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known Mignon was a female name anyway, so the deception is lost (at least on me).
Here's another one: How many people try to hide their gender completely? On many graphical games this cannot be done, but a gender-neutral name can be choosen, and many MUDs have a neutral option for gender.
I would imagine many women play male characters at least some of the time - I know I do. The traditional heros in most role playing and computer games are male. Men are seen as stronger and more powerful. I have actually not played D&D in a long long time, but I seem to recall that the upper limits on strength for female characters are lower than that for male characters.
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Only 33 surveys were completed and a few other comments were included in the findings. The researcher spends a paragraph explaining that this was very informal. Thus the results should not be taken with any weight. However, the discussion on why men play female roles is interesting.
What if I send the spam from Kuwait (or any other non-US country)? Are we going to impose UN sanctions on spamming nations?
Since the internet is a world-wide thing, it is difficult for any country to enforce laws concerning it, and even more so for a single state. However, does that mean that laws should not even be passed? No. There are plenty of laws that are difficult to enforce, but they are things we don't want people doing. We are setting needed standards for society.
Colorado requires ADV in the subject, say another state required ADS, another requires COM, another requires SPAM, another requires XYZ, etc. Subject lines could get out of hand. Since spammers don't know what state a certain email address lives in, if they want to comply, the subject will end up being
The lone gunmen make great supporting characters for the X-Files, but I honestly don't think they have what it takes to have a show focused on them be successful.
In the X-Files, the show is balanced between Mulder's crazy ideas and Scully's scientific explanations and that is part of what makes it cool. I think a lot of us are scientific types and Scully helps make things not totally unbelievable. A show focusing on the lone gunmen, described in the article as "the Mulder-worhsipping Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists," would be too unbalanced. I, and most people I think, like to see some elements of realism in any TV show. It gives us something to relate to.
$3 a track is a lot, but maybe 350 yen isn't. For one thing, pretty much everything is more expensive in Japan and that is what they are used to. For another thing, fifteen years ago, 350 yen was maybe $1.50. Even though the exchange rates have changed, 350 yen is still 350 yen to the Japanese, no matter what it means to us. It's hard to compare like this across currencies and cultures.
Besides wearing glasses as someone mentioned, you use a "wand" or 3D mouse to control things. When I was working on my master's degree at Tech, I did a project with the CAVE for a class called Computer Supported Cooperative Work. We did some of the first investigations into hooking up multiple CAVEs so that people could collaborate with each other, seeing each other as an avatar in the CAVE. Unfortuntely, the link to the paper is broken, but here is some info on other projects that grew out of that class project.
I think this is a cool idea. Five dollars a month is way less than just an Internet connection would cost, let alone renting a computer and a printer. I have to wonder why the printer though. It's an extra expense for Ford, and does it add much value for the home users?
Fifteen years does seem like a long time to come up with a swinging robot monkey. However, what is special is that it learns. Sure, I could build a monkey that swings from tree to tree too. But this monkey does so by trial and error, learning how. That seems to be the goal in AI these days. There is just no way we could give any type of robot (at least one we were trying to make intelligent) all the knowledge it could ever need. Programming the robot so that it will learn is critical.
I'm not saying color matters to me personally. I agree that the color of a person's skin should not affect how others perceive them (ie, their level of intelligence, skill, whatever). And I do not judge a person by their color. The sad fact of the matter is that in today's society, many people still do. There are racists out there, and some of them don't even do it consiously, it is just a stereotype about all people of a certain color that they have in their head and it affects their actions. So when speaking about our world today, I made the statement that color does matter and I stand by that statement, even though I wish things were different.
They are not foregoing the standardized tests. In the article, it said that the kids in this program took the tests, but they didn't score well enough to get into the school. We all know those tests aren't perfect, and these kids were identified by their teachers and counselors as having good potential even though they didn't score well on the standardized test. Thus, they are undergoing further testing with the legos which measure different skills than the standardized tests measure.
The thing I think is wrong about all this is that it is restricted to minorities. There are plenty of non-minorities out there as well with college potential but who are getting passed over because they don't test well.
Who is more likely to be GOOD at these tests, someone who's never seen these blocks, or someone who's played with them all through childhood?
In the article it said that they weren't looking at how the kids did with the lego blocks, but more at how they interacted with each other, who emerged as leaders, etc. These are skills that they don't need to have played with legos in their childhood to posses.
They're fat, ugly, smell funny, and eat potato chips like it's going out of style
I can see ugly and smell funny, but my image of the stereotypical geek/gamer is a skinny guy who is so involved in gaming/hacking/pick-your-computer-pursuit that he forgets to eat.
Once again, the male thing comes into play. The article stated that almost half of gamers are women, but everything is targeted to men. The original poster who said geeks/gamers are fat and ugly was assuming the geeks/gamers were men! (as evidenced by his comment that geeks don't appeal to women.) So gothchik, I don't think he (or she??) meant at all to say you are fat and ugly, but that male gamers are fat and ugly.
I wouldn't be surprised if the military is heavy into the internet in China. Recall the article about the US government looking for hackers. I bet the Chinese government is looking into the same type of warfare.
The picture they show in the article halfway down the page is the same picture they had for the article about IBM's new head-mounted computer a couple months ago! What does that have to do with the Chinese getting online? Yes new technology will make the Internet more accessible but I don't think they will be getting those head-mounted displays out to the Chinese populace any time soon.
I knew a guy who knew a girl who forked her own tongue. She started out by getting her tongue pierced. She put some fishing line through the hole and tied it tightly in front. She would change the fishing wire every so often, tying it tighter each time. Eventually, her tongue split!
Lizardman and others who do things like that are repulsively fascinating.
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Good points, however, we shouldn't retire it just because we got our money's worth out of it. If it is still able to serve, let it serve!
One other option the article mentioned was to point it away from the planets and the moon and send it off. This sounded like a good idea to me. Maybe it is dying anyway, but why kill it off earlier? Who knows what data it might send back, probably nothing spectacular, but you really never know.
Another point in the debate is that the amount the broadcasting companies can charge for ads is determined by the number of viewers. If people watched from iCraveTV instead of over their normal TV, that is actually reducing the number of viewers of that TV station and thus the money they can get.
On the other hand, given the choice of watching TV on a TV or on a computer, I think most people would choose the TV. Those who watch on iCraveTV are probably watching shows they can't get on their TV or else they don't have a TV. So maybe viewership would not be reduced much.
I would imagine that all computer software uses the western calendar. I don't know how much the traditional Japanese year system is used. I remember the years I was there because I had subway passes that I used everyday that said 61 or 62 on them.
I agree, no standard. One of the things I loved about Un*x and X was the customizability of the gui and the different window managers. That is something I miss now that I must work on Windows most of the time. Although I recently discovered Window Blinds which helps out some.
Which story has the least comments?
How many stories have been removed after being put up? (I noticed a story on new flat screen technology this morning that is apparently no longer up.)
Here's another one: How many people try to hide their gender completely? On many graphical games this cannot be done, but a gender-neutral name can be choosen, and many MUDs have a neutral option for gender.
I would imagine many women play male characters at least some of the time - I know I do. The traditional heros in most role playing and computer games are male. Men are seen as stronger and more powerful. I have actually not played D&D in a long long time, but I seem to recall that the upper limits on strength for female characters are lower than that for male characters.
Only 33 surveys were completed and a few other comments were included in the findings. The researcher spends a paragraph explaining that this was very informal. Thus the results should not be taken with any weight. However, the discussion on why men play female roles is interesting.
Since the internet is a world-wide thing, it is difficult for any country to enforce laws concerning it, and even more so for a single state. However, does that mean that laws should not even be passed? No. There are plenty of laws that are difficult to enforce, but they are things we don't want people doing. We are setting needed standards for society.
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In the X-Files, the show is balanced between Mulder's crazy ideas and Scully's scientific explanations and that is part of what makes it cool. I think a lot of us are scientific types and Scully helps make things not totally unbelievable. A show focusing on the lone gunmen, described in the article as "the Mulder-worhsipping Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists," would be too unbalanced. I, and most people I think, like to see some elements of realism in any TV show. It gives us something to relate to.
$3 a track is a lot, but maybe 350 yen isn't. For one thing, pretty much everything is more expensive in Japan and that is what they are used to. For another thing, fifteen years ago, 350 yen was maybe $1.50. Even though the exchange rates have changed, 350 yen is still 350 yen to the Japanese, no matter what it means to us. It's hard to compare like this across currencies and cultures.
Besides wearing glasses as someone mentioned, you use a "wand" or 3D mouse to control things. When I was working on my master's degree at Tech, I did a project with the CAVE for a class called Computer Supported Cooperative Work. We did some of the first investigations into hooking up multiple CAVEs so that people could collaborate with each other, seeing each other as an avatar in the CAVE. Unfortuntely, the link to the paper is broken, but here is some info on other projects that grew out of that class project.
I think this is a cool idea. Five dollars a month is way less than just an Internet connection would cost, let alone renting a computer and a printer. I have to wonder why the printer though. It's an extra expense for Ford, and does it add much value for the home users?
Fifteen years does seem like a long time to come up with a swinging robot monkey. However, what is special is that it learns. Sure, I could build a monkey that swings from tree to tree too. But this monkey does so by trial and error, learning how. That seems to be the goal in AI these days. There is just no way we could give any type of robot (at least one we were trying to make intelligent) all the knowledge it could ever need. Programming the robot so that it will learn is critical.
I'm not saying color matters to me personally. I agree that the color of a person's skin should not affect how others perceive them (ie, their level of intelligence, skill, whatever). And I do not judge a person by their color. The sad fact of the matter is that in today's society, many people still do. There are racists out there, and some of them don't even do it consiously, it is just a stereotype about all people of a certain color that they have in their head and it affects their actions. So when speaking about our world today, I made the statement that color does matter and I stand by that statement, even though I wish things were different.
Because unfortunately, it does matter.
The thing I think is wrong about all this is that it is restricted to minorities. There are plenty of non-minorities out there as well with college potential but who are getting passed over because they don't test well.
In the article it said that they weren't looking at how the kids did with the lego blocks, but more at how they interacted with each other, who emerged as leaders, etc. These are skills that they don't need to have played with legos in their childhood to posses.
I can see ugly and smell funny, but my image of the stereotypical geek/gamer is a skinny guy who is so involved in gaming/hacking/pick-your-computer-pursuit that he forgets to eat.
Once again, the male thing comes into play. The article stated that almost half of gamers are women, but everything is targeted to men. The original poster who said geeks/gamers are fat and ugly was assuming the geeks/gamers were men! (as evidenced by his comment that geeks don't appeal to women.) So gothchik, I don't think he (or she??) meant at all to say you are fat and ugly, but that male gamers are fat and ugly.
I wouldn't be surprised if the military is heavy into the internet in China. Recall the article about the US government looking for hackers. I bet the Chinese government is looking into the same type of warfare.
The picture they show in the article halfway down the page is the same picture they had for the article about IBM's new head-mounted computer a couple months ago! What does that have to do with the Chinese getting online? Yes new technology will make the Internet more accessible but I don't think they will be getting those head-mounted displays out to the Chinese populace any time soon.
Lizardman and others who do things like that are repulsively fascinating.