Pay phone calls used to cost 10 cents too... last I checked, I think its up to 50c now, AND you have to be tethered to a wall at some predetermined location to use it. Think how much that would be worth if you could carry it around and do it anywhere...
Yeah that would work for postal mail too, if only there was a fee per letter I wouldn't get so many credit card offers and sales papers in my mailbox every day... It MIGHT serve to at least increase the quality of spam above the random gibberish about penis enhancers or cheap prescription drugs that I get now.
Besides, what you're talking about is impossible to do. If I set up my own e-mail server and use it to send encrypted messages to your own e-mail server, who's in the middle to keep track of the bill?
Clement Adler, who flew 60 yards in a powered monoplane in 1890, and 320 yards in 1987
I find this hard to believe, unless old Clement flew on their day of birth and then again when they were 97 years old..?
One error like this, typo or not, kind of throws off your whole point.
Doom 3's way-too-dark theme would have been cool for a special effect in one or two levels, but after a while it was just really annoying and just made the game harder in a way that didn't really add to the fun.
This would be good in the capacity of a suggestion type thing, like predictive text on your cell phone, but I think it would be wrong far too often to actually narrow your choices. I mean, there are produce items in the grocery that I can't tell apart myself, like most of the green, leafy products, and they are going to write a program to do it?
I can't imagine a computer could reliably tell the difference in lettuce and cabbage just by looks, but maybe if Clippy popped in and said, "I think you want to buy a head of lettuce, is that right?"
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Pay phone calls used to cost 10 cents too... last I checked, I think its up to 50c now, AND you have to be tethered to a wall at some predetermined location to use it. Think how much that would be worth if you could carry it around and do it anywhere...
Yeah that would work for postal mail too, if only there was a fee per letter I wouldn't get so many credit card offers and sales papers in my mailbox every day... It MIGHT serve to at least increase the quality of spam above the random gibberish about penis enhancers or cheap prescription drugs that I get now. Besides, what you're talking about is impossible to do. If I set up my own e-mail server and use it to send encrypted messages to your own e-mail server, who's in the middle to keep track of the bill?
UH oh!
I was also at the Lexington show. Small world isn't it?
Clement Adler, who flew 60 yards in a powered monoplane in 1890, and 320 yards in 1987
I find this hard to believe, unless old Clement flew on their day of birth and then again when they were 97 years old..? One error like this, typo or not, kind of throws off your whole point.
Doom 3's way-too-dark theme would have been cool for a special effect in one or two levels, but after a while it was just really annoying and just made the game harder in a way that didn't really add to the fun.
This would be good in the capacity of a suggestion type thing, like predictive text on your cell phone, but I think it would be wrong far too often to actually narrow your choices. I mean, there are produce items in the grocery that I can't tell apart myself, like most of the green, leafy products, and they are going to write a program to do it? I can't imagine a computer could reliably tell the difference in lettuce and cabbage just by looks, but maybe if Clippy popped in and said, "I think you want to buy a head of lettuce, is that right?"