I have so many cool memories of the Twilight Zone machine. "Battle the Power" and the movable hidden magnets under the board still taunt me in my dreams to this day.
Occam's Razor would like to point out that these symptoms also show up in kids who spent their evening playing World of Warcraft rather than studying for the big math test...
The bigger magic still will be keeping out the porn and gory zombie games, as the aussie government seems hell-bent on doing. The great firewall of Australia has a better chance of coming about if they dig a big moat filled with burning gasoline, if you ask me!
Actually, I think computers *should* have this capability. Maybe we'd finally get users to stop downloading random crap that strangers send them that says "FR33 E-C4RD 4 U!!!one!!!". Preferably it'd happen via education, but some people just don't learn.
Viruses can destroy your whole hard drive and all your data, and people still gleefully accept random files sent to them by email. So I doubt it would be as educative as it sounds on paper.
a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution.
Am I the only here imagining some malware creator cackling as he tries to figure a way to deliver as much current as the battery can pump with a single touch of the screen once his virus gets downloaded?
A lot of people initially resisted the change from paper bills to dollar coins (and later the same for the 2$ denomination), but how did the government make sure usage happened by the public? Simple. They did not give them a choice. Paper bills were retired and new ones were not issued, forcing people to adopt them. While it seems harsh in retrospect, it did make the switch a success. Because there was no other option!
... regulating work conditions. If you don't LIKE how the government runs the coal mines of the great british empire, your only choice is to leave for th ecountry and haul manure on a farm. If the coal industry self-regulates, you're free to go work at another coal mine if you don't like the labor conditions there. This is the case against government interference in the great industrial age.
You can get a new job within hours of losing the old one. You can't get banks and the police to trust you again THAT quickly after your identity's been abused to commit frauds.
Wait what? Someone has gone to the effort of taking all these individual pictures and poses, and you think they had the patience to screw around with paint / photoshop to draw the lines on the board? People on the whole a lazy. That alone should give you an indication that the pictures are real.
I'm thinking some ad company took the pictures of a model with an empty whiteboard as a template for ads where they could write whatever discount of the week they planned on advertizing later. Then someone got a hold of these after seeing the Jet Blue quitting story and thought "hey, quitting stories are hot right now, let's make up a story of our own!"
That whiteboard is surprisingly clean, no smudges, no ghost lines of previous half-erased messages. Even the marker lines themselves are so clean you could swear they were drawn in mspaint rather than with an old dying black marker. But there's no way the internet would ever publish a HOAX, is there?
When someone you care about is missing, rather than going to the FBI who would tell you they have no time to spend on that, go to the RIAA and tell them that person was last seen ripping music CDs and uploading the MP3s to bittorrent. Within half an hour, the FBI will be on a massive manhunt to find them.
So you have four monkeys with bananas, and they give their bananas to the first guy, right? Then the four monkeys each look to recruit four more monkeys, and get their bananas...
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I remember being a college student back in 1993 running Mosaic and Pine from our university's Unix architecture. Ah, those were the days!
I have so many cool memories of the Twilight Zone machine. "Battle the Power" and the movable hidden magnets under the board still taunt me in my dreams to this day.
Occam's Razor would like to point out that these symptoms also show up in kids who spent their evening playing World of Warcraft rather than studying for the big math test...
Remember, if you rub your food on a piece of paper and it turns transparent? It's your window to success!
And as always, the correlations will be published first to feed a hungry media.
Fortunately, there's plenty of plankton for everyone!
"www" is only good for websites, and even then only part of them. My idea targets anyone who's ever touched a pen.
hurricane creation is affected by plankton in the ocean.
Plankton's latest evil plan shows the most promise yet.
I will create a company called "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz0123456789", and will by default own copyrights to ALL english-based written communications!
The bigger magic still will be keeping out the porn and gory zombie games, as the aussie government seems hell-bent on doing. The great firewall of Australia has a better chance of coming about if they dig a big moat filled with burning gasoline, if you ask me!
Actually, I think computers *should* have this capability. Maybe we'd finally get users to stop downloading random crap that strangers send them that says "FR33 E-C4RD 4 U!!!one!!!". Preferably it'd happen via education, but some people just don't learn.
Viruses can destroy your whole hard drive and all your data, and people still gleefully accept random files sent to them by email. So I doubt it would be as educative as it sounds on paper.
Just as long as they don't start staffing their shuttles with bending units!
a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution.
Am I the only here imagining some malware creator cackling as he tries to figure a way to deliver as much current as the battery can pump with a single touch of the screen once his virus gets downloaded?
A lot of people initially resisted the change from paper bills to dollar coins (and later the same for the 2$ denomination), but how did the government make sure usage happened by the public? Simple. They did not give them a choice. Paper bills were retired and new ones were not issued, forcing people to adopt them. While it seems harsh in retrospect, it did make the switch a success. Because there was no other option!
Finally all my years spent playing Operation are going to pay off! Now if I can just master grabbing dang Bread Basket...
... regulating work conditions. If you don't LIKE how the government runs the coal mines of the great british empire, your only choice is to leave for th ecountry and haul manure on a farm. If the coal industry self-regulates, you're free to go work at another coal mine if you don't like the labor conditions there. This is the case against government interference in the great industrial age.
... and iPhone statistics?
We'll be fine as long as we pre-order a crate of red crowbars from Home Depot.
Since when do talibans rely on wikileaks to tell them who to kill publicly to send a message to the rest of the population?
Don't want escapees on my lawn.
You can get a new job within hours of losing the old one. You can't get banks and the police to trust you again THAT quickly after your identity's been abused to commit frauds.
Wait what? Someone has gone to the effort of taking all these individual pictures and poses, and you think they had the patience to screw around with paint / photoshop to draw the lines on the board? People on the whole a lazy. That alone should give you an indication that the pictures are real.
I'm thinking some ad company took the pictures of a model with an empty whiteboard as a template for ads where they could write whatever discount of the week they planned on advertizing later. Then someone got a hold of these after seeing the Jet Blue quitting story and thought "hey, quitting stories are hot right now, let's make up a story of our own!"
That whiteboard is surprisingly clean, no smudges, no ghost lines of previous half-erased messages. Even the marker lines themselves are so clean you could swear they were drawn in mspaint rather than with an old dying black marker. But there's no way the internet would ever publish a HOAX, is there?
When someone you care about is missing, rather than going to the FBI who would tell you they have no time to spend on that, go to the RIAA and tell them that person was last seen ripping music CDs and uploading the MP3s to bittorrent. Within half an hour, the FBI will be on a massive manhunt to find them.
So you have four monkeys with bananas, and they give their bananas to the first guy, right? Then the four monkeys each look to recruit four more monkeys, and get their bananas...