Typecasting is only something knowingly mediocre actors worry about. If you can't make people image you in some other role that's down to your ability, period. I can also be down to the person making so much money off the original role that they decide to coast and milk it for all it's worth. It's when they get bored and try to get back in the game that they hit the typecasting wall. .
If the site was smartly built the paper subscribers shouldn't have to go through a registration process at all.
Type in your choice of unique identifier - subscriber number off the label, home phone number, OR credit card number.
"We found a matching subscription - is this you? Yes/No"
Slap a cookie on the browser - done. No password required.
Yes, someone could fake their way in using just this info, but compared to people not using the site AT ALL it's a minimal concern. If there's a feature on the site that involve some one-off charges THEN you hit the user up for harder verification. Otherwise, keep it simple.
I should really say that's where we are now. Cable/satellite, music, books/magazines, video, DVDs, games, etc. etc. etc. Paying a monthly fee to one or more providers for all-you-can-eat access to content. The monthly fee's automatically deducted from your bank account and unless you're skint you kinda forget about it like sales tax. Some users swamp the system while other use it only occasionally; profits are divided up to the content providers based on usage. "To each according to his ability, to each according to his need," to paraphrase a certain economist. Information may not be free, but it'll still remain relatively inexpensive. (Unless you're talking about useful information - business research, racing tips, etc. - then yeah, you gotta pay.)
"I was classed as a madman, a charlatan, outlawed in a world of science that previously honored me as a genius! Now here in this forsaken jungle hell, I have proven that I am all right!"
You and two of your crew are returning to the base ship on the sunlit side of the moon after carrying out a 72-hour exploration trip. Your small rocket craft has crash-landed about 300 kilometers from the base ship. You and the crew need to reach the base ship. In addition to your spacesuits, your crew was able to remove the following items from the rocket craft:
4 packages of food concentrate
20m nylon rope
1 portable heating unit
1 magnetic compass
1 box of matches
1 first-aid kit
2 50-kg tanks of oxygen
20 L of water
1 star chart
1 case of dehydrated milk
1 solar-powered radio set
3 signal flares
1 large piece of insulating fabric
1 flashlight
2 45-caliber pistols, loaded
Using what you know about the moon, rate each item in the above list according to how important it would be in getting you back to the base ship. List the most important first, the least important last. Number them 1 through 15. Answer the following:
- - Which three items were the most important? Explain.
- - Which items would be useless? Explain your answer.
To score your list against the astronauts' list, do the following:
Beside each item on your list place the number that represents the difference between your ranking and the astronauts' ranking. For example, if you listed oxygen first, you would write 0 in front of oxygen on your list. If you had listed it third, then you would write 2, and so on.
After placing a score beside each item on your list, add up the individual scores to get a total. Compare your score with those of other students.
What is your total score?
The lower your total score, the closer you came to surviving the return trip to the base ship. How did your chance of surviving compare to other students' chances?
Conclusions:
- - What does the moon lack that humans need for survival?
- - What materials would you need to survive on the moon?
Narrator: Meanwhile, at the International Conference of Mathematics...
(In a oak-walled conference room, about two dozen bearded and bespeckled men gathered around a long table, cluttered with papers, a large blackboard on the wall full of figures, cross-outs and erase marks. The man at the center of the table stands from his chair and wearily proclaims:)
Conference Leader: Well, gentlemen, I fear a solution to the Riemann hypothesis eludes us once again...
(Suddenly, a masked man bursts through the conference room doors.)
All: It's the Lone Mathematician!
LM: Gentlemen, I believe this is what you're looking for! (Slaps a paper on the desk. They all look down at it, then look up astonished)
All: A solution to the Riemann hypothesis! BUT HOW!?
CL (holding up the paper): So elegant and precise, and yet so simple! You're a man of true genius!
LM: I'm merely standing on the shoulders of giants, gentlemen.
(The Lone Mathematician gracefully leaps onto a nearby windowsill and steps out. They all run to the window and look down, seeing that he has jumped onto the back of a horse in the courtyard.)
LM (riding off): Hi Ho Sliderule, Away!!
CL: Who was that masked man? I wanted to thank him...
What about when, for example, you're out of AA batteries and need device X to work NOW, but you happen to have some AAAs handy, so you use those instead and jam a wad of aluminum foil into the extra space? Doesn't sound like that would still work with this design.
Now a gizmo that lets you use any size battery as well as in any direction - now we're talking!
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Typecasting is only something knowingly mediocre actors worry about. If you can't make people image you in some other role that's down to your ability, period. I can also be down to the person making so much money off the original role that they decide to coast and milk it for all it's worth. It's when they get bored and try to get back in the game that they hit the typecasting wall.
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but they left out the cricket-bat-vs-femur sound comparison. This will be used in video games after all.
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If the site was smartly built the paper subscribers shouldn't have to go through a registration process at all.
Type in your choice of unique identifier - subscriber number off the label, home phone number, OR credit card number.
"We found a matching subscription - is this you? Yes/No"
Slap a cookie on the browser - done. No password required.
Yes, someone could fake their way in using just this info, but compared to people not using the site AT ALL it's a minimal concern. If there's a feature on the site that involve some one-off charges THEN you hit the user up for harder verification. Otherwise, keep it simple.
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Entertainment! Education! Medicine! Pornography! The mind boggles!
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It's when the nerds and the bullies start working together that things really get ugly.
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...but it's a legally binding bar napkin!
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As well as an option to only filter out reports of their successes; failures are allowed through.
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Monkey vs Robot!! - James Kochalka Superstar
(fyi/spoiler - somewhat-now-famous person in the monkey suit!)
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IT'S PEOPLE!!
Oh, wait, what? It's made out of cows? Oh, that's cool, never mind...
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I should really say that's where we are now. Cable/satellite, music, books/magazines, video, DVDs, games, etc. etc. etc. Paying a monthly fee to one or more providers for all-you-can-eat access to content. The monthly fee's automatically deducted from your bank account and unless you're skint you kinda forget about it like sales tax. Some users swamp the system while other use it only occasionally; profits are divided up to the content providers based on usage. "To each according to his ability, to each according to his need," to paraphrase a certain economist. Information may not be free, but it'll still remain relatively inexpensive. (Unless you're talking about useful information - business research, racing tips, etc. - then yeah, you gotta pay.)
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"I was classed as a madman, a charlatan, outlawed in a world of science that previously honored me as a genius! Now here in this forsaken jungle hell, I have proven that I am all right!"
Video excerpt of his discussion with Prof. Vladimir Strowski:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPI2Z0Pv_A
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but can it predict whether it lands heads or tails?
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Actually in New York street vents are all over the place. Knowing what street vents are separates the real NYers (and civil engineers) from the rest.
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Prepare your PC for razzle-dazzle!!
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Just don't let the Nitrous Mafia find out. They'll want a cut of the action.
(Of course, since it's concrete the MAFIA Mafia might have something to say about that...)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#Unit_System
http://webofstories.com/play/17067
Don Knuth wrote this system up, won an award for it, and got it published in MAD Magazine - all by the age of nineteen. Check and mate, Sendek!
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New petition! Replace zepto- with zeppo-. To be followed of course by:
10^-24: chico-
10^-27: harpo-
10^-30: groucho-
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Survival on the Moon
You and two of your crew are returning to the base ship on the sunlit side of the moon after carrying out a 72-hour exploration trip. Your small rocket craft has crash-landed about 300 kilometers from the base ship. You and the crew need to reach the base ship. In addition to your spacesuits, your crew was able to remove the following items from the rocket craft:
4 packages of food concentrate
20m nylon rope
1 portable heating unit
1 magnetic compass
1 box of matches
1 first-aid kit
2 50-kg tanks of oxygen
20 L of water
1 star chart
1 case of dehydrated milk
1 solar-powered radio set
3 signal flares
1 large piece of insulating fabric
1 flashlight
2 45-caliber pistols, loaded
Using what you know about the moon, rate each item in the above list according to how important it would be in getting you back to the base ship. List the most important first, the least important last. Number them 1 through 15. Answer the following:
- - Which three items were the most important? Explain.
- - Which items would be useless? Explain your answer.
Compare your list with the one supplied by NASA. Astronauts would list the items in this order.
To score your list against the astronauts' list, do the following:
Beside each item on your list place the number that represents the difference between your ranking and the astronauts' ranking. For example, if you listed oxygen first, you would write 0 in front of oxygen on your list. If you had listed it third, then you would write 2, and so on.
After placing a score beside each item on your list, add up the individual scores to get a total. Compare your score with those of other students.
What is your total score?
The lower your total score, the closer you came to surviving the return trip to the base ship. How did your chance of surviving compare to other students' chances?
Conclusions:
- - What does the moon lack that humans need for survival?
- - What materials would you need to survive on the moon?
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Phase 1: Say something to the press completely outrageous i.e. "the internet is over"
Phase 2: Let people on the internet comment and argue about what you said
Phase 3: ?????
Phase 4: Profit!
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I know. You'd think they'd be on the Euro at this point.
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Narrator: Meanwhile, at the International Conference of Mathematics...
(In a oak-walled conference room, about two dozen bearded and bespeckled men gathered around a long table, cluttered with papers, a large blackboard on the wall full of figures, cross-outs and erase marks. The man at the center of the table stands from his chair and wearily proclaims:)
Conference Leader: Well, gentlemen, I fear a solution to the Riemann hypothesis eludes us once again...
(Suddenly, a masked man bursts through the conference room doors.)
All: It's the Lone Mathematician!
LM: Gentlemen, I believe this is what you're looking for! (Slaps a paper on the desk. They all look down at it, then look up astonished)
All: A solution to the Riemann hypothesis! BUT HOW!?
CL (holding up the paper): So elegant and precise, and yet so simple! You're a man of true genius!
LM: I'm merely standing on the shoulders of giants, gentlemen.
(The Lone Mathematician gracefully leaps onto a nearby windowsill and steps out. They all run to the window and look down, seeing that he has jumped onto the back of a horse in the courtyard.)
LM (riding off): Hi Ho Sliderule, Away!!
CL: Who was that masked man? I wanted to thank him...
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"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"
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What about when, for example, you're out of AA batteries and need device X to work NOW, but you happen to have some AAAs handy, so you use those instead and jam a wad of aluminum foil into the extra space? Doesn't sound like that would still work with this design.
Now a gizmo that lets you use any size battery as well as in any direction - now we're talking!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4KMk6T5mQU
(Note the video poster makes a Freudian decontextualization of the scene in his comments. Dude, sometime as cigar is just a cigar.)
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only outlaws will have Mentos.
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