I with you on the mapping concept. Although it's kind of funny - I can build an effective cognitive map, whether driving, playing a game or whatever, but I couldn't use it to help you find your way if you paid me. Some kind of hemispherical disconnect I imagine.
my first memory of this phenomenon is after playing Lode Runner on the C64 for hours, then trying to read a book. the letters would drop off the end of the line as I read.
when I played Katamari for too long I would see everything in terms of "can I roll it up", which could be dangerous when driving.
I still find myself strafing around corners in office building, entering elevators backwards, and being very aware that landing a plane is just a controlled crash.
None of that, however, has made me more likely to shoot someone when the elevator door opens or run my car over a pedestrian to hit my 10m goal.
He'll be back, as the campaign manager for whoever is annointed as the Bush/Cheney successor. Resigning now just lets him rest up and put some theoretical distance between him and the administration.
Why in the name of all that is holy do we rely on insurance to provide routine health care? The whole idea of is to pool risk of unlikely events. Routine health care should not be "unlikely."
"UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
Hunter Thompson pointed out that one of the most effective techniques in politics is to make your opponent take time to respond to outlandish rumors: "I am not, nor have I ever been, a pigfucker."
True. But from what I've read 50% of iPhone buyers have been new to ATT,so may not have that old clunker laying around. Or they do, but can't find the charger.
gotta agree with you there. i find it amusing that a third rate band can take 2 or 3 years to make a new CD, when a band like The Beatles or The Stones could put out 2 a year during their prime.
the first Ramones album was recorded in a day and lasted all of 26 minutes. yet it remains an all time great.
from what I have read the battery will work efficiently through about two years of "normal" usage. two years from now there will be a new iPhone, and given the choice of paying $120 for a new battery (and loaner) versus $500 for the inevitably cooler NEW iPhone, my guess is that most will opt for the new phone. more $ for Apple. i would expect a wave of used iPhones on eBay around the same time. maybe i'll get one then.
I think Paul has it right. One of our local radio stations used to have a segment called, "The Perfect Album Side". Twenty minutes of great music. It's just an accident of technology that albums have grown to 60 or 70 minutes, and it IS too long. The problem now is that no one would buy a CD with only 8 songs and 40 minutes of music. UNLESS, it was priced less than a "normal" CD.
"BTW, Magnatune with Amarok is far better deal then iTunes. Just in case somebody is interested. "
There IS the issue of just how large their respective inventories are: I believe iTunes wins there.
Hey, there are many sources of cheap, independent music. I use them. I like them. But to say that 500 albums at 5 bucks each represents "a far better deal" requires some suspension of reality.
This approach, though, does require a slight modification on the client side. Namely, the server has to be "trusted" within the client's certificate chain. "
Therefore, without user acceptance of the Proxy certificate, no go. Your ISP isn't sniffing your SSL traffic. Your boss MIGHT be.
well, I don't lose sleep at night worrying about spam. Yes, it's an annoyance. But is it on the level of rape and murder? No.
shit like this is why we have a huge prison population. there ARE other means of punishing this guy than locking him up for life (which I doubt will happen anyway). sentence him to work on antispam measures, sentence him to be a teacher in an inner city school, make him work it off.
While I dislike this deal as much as anyone, one thing I've learned from following the SCO lawsuits is that Novell has some pretty sharp lawyers working for them. I know they are expressing concerns over GPL3, but I think that is more for the investment side of things than legal.
Hmm. One of the things I find refreshing about the Wii is that many of its games do not "taste" standard. Elebits, Paper Mario, Monkey Ball, Sports are all games that, to me at least, tend to be less standard than the crop of FPS and racing games that dominate the other consoles.
As for internet play, I truly do not care. Video games to me are about disconnecting from the "real world", I don't want to be social when I'm playing them.
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I with you on the mapping concept. Although it's kind of funny - I can build an effective cognitive map, whether driving, playing a game or whatever, but I couldn't use it to help you find your way if you paid me. Some kind of hemispherical disconnect I imagine.
my first memory of this phenomenon is after playing Lode Runner on the C64 for hours, then trying to read a book. the letters would drop off the end of the line as I read.
when I played Katamari for too long I would see everything in terms of "can I roll it up", which could be dangerous when driving.
I still find myself strafing around corners in office building, entering elevators backwards, and being very aware that landing a plane is just a controlled crash.
None of that, however, has made me more likely to shoot someone when the elevator door opens or run my car over a pedestrian to hit my 10m goal.
He'll be back, as the campaign manager for whoever is annointed as the Bush/Cheney successor. Resigning now just lets him rest up and put some theoretical distance between him and the administration.
but why does NASA need a fleet of luxury BMW sedans?
Why in the name of all that is holy do we rely on insurance to provide routine health care? The whole idea of is to pool risk of unlikely events. Routine health care should not be "unlikely."
"The real question, in my mind, is this: what would a robot do with all those virgins?"
I believe Japanese animators have already answered that question.
hell, I must have missed the first one. how was it?
.....where in the Soviet Union a political officer was attached to just about every governmental agency, department, road crew etc.
when do we start calling a spade a spade?
"UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
Hunter Thompson pointed out that one of the most effective techniques in politics is to make your opponent take time to respond to outlandish rumors: "I am not, nor have I ever been, a pigfucker."
on the one hand, a new window into what's out there is good.
on the other hand, will a gov't funded search engine "overlook" material said gov't doesn't want you to find?
on the gripping hand, "Tim Berners Lee vs Al Gore for the undisputed Inventor of the Internet!"
a movie about the return of the sideshow freaks might be good.
and a high probability of a good soundtrack.
True. But from what I've read 50% of iPhone buyers have been new to ATT,so may not have that old clunker laying around. Or they do, but can't find the charger.
gotta agree with you there. i find it amusing that a third rate band can take 2 or 3 years to make a new CD, when a band like The Beatles or The Stones could put out 2 a year during their prime.
the first Ramones album was recorded in a day and lasted all of 26 minutes. yet it remains an all time great.
from what I have read the battery will work efficiently through about two years of "normal" usage. two years from now there will be a new iPhone, and given the choice of paying $120 for a new battery (and loaner) versus $500 for the inevitably cooler NEW iPhone, my guess is that most will opt for the new phone. more $ for Apple. i would expect a wave of used iPhones on eBay around the same time. maybe i'll get one then.
I think Paul has it right. One of our local radio stations used to have a segment called, "The Perfect Album Side". Twenty minutes of great music. It's just an accident of technology that albums have grown to 60 or 70 minutes, and it IS too long. The problem now is that no one would buy a CD with only 8 songs and 40 minutes of music. UNLESS, it was priced less than a "normal" CD.
"BTW, Magnatune with Amarok is far better deal then iTunes. Just in case somebody is interested. "
There IS the issue of just how large their respective inventories are: I believe iTunes wins there.
Hey, there are many sources of cheap, independent music. I use them. I like them. But to say that 500 albums at 5 bucks each represents "a far better deal" requires some suspension of reality.
You mean that now Nintendo can make all their retailers sell the Wii for the same price? Or Sony, or Microsoft, or even Apple?
whatever will we do?
Gee, you left out the very next part:
"Modifications are required on the client
This approach, though, does require a slight modification on the client side. Namely, the server has to be "trusted" within the client's certificate chain. "
Therefore, without user acceptance of the Proxy certificate, no go. Your ISP isn't sniffing your SSL traffic. Your boss MIGHT be.
Confirms the Standard Model.. again.
More like, "confirms that the Standard Model can be used to make predictions about the Standard Model."
Takes us one more step closer to a Grand Unified Theory.
No. You can look at strong force/weak force interactions forever, and never see gravity.
and if this is what they're doing in Washington while Iraq burns it's time for the revolution.
this is their first stab. they'll get better at it.
since we have no idea what Gore would have done your question is irrelevant. for all we know Gore would have nuked Afghanistan after 9/11.
well, I don't lose sleep at night worrying about spam. Yes, it's an annoyance. But is it on the level of rape and murder? No.
shit like this is why we have a huge prison population. there ARE other means of punishing this guy than locking him up for life (which I doubt will happen anyway). sentence him to work on antispam measures, sentence him to be a teacher in an inner city school, make him work it off.
While I dislike this deal as much as anyone, one thing I've learned from following the SCO lawsuits is that Novell has some pretty sharp lawyers working for them. I know they are expressing concerns over GPL3, but I think that is more for the investment side of things than legal.
Hmm. One of the things I find refreshing about the Wii is that many of its games do not "taste" standard. Elebits, Paper Mario, Monkey Ball, Sports are all games that, to me at least, tend to be less standard than the crop of FPS and racing games that dominate the other consoles.
As for internet play, I truly do not care. Video games to me are about disconnecting from the "real world", I don't want to be social when I'm playing them.