The problem with this is that it has to be customized for each person. A more convenient solution that is already in use in infant soothing toys is a simulated heartbeat noise, like the kind a fetus would hear while inside the mother. It reminds the baby of being inside the womb, and comforts them into falling asleep faster. But I've found that this also works well even on adults, as I think this "comfort pattern" that is etched in our brains from before birth remains in our subconscious as long as we live. Far easier than mapping your brainwaves, and you can pick one up in a department store for under $50.
The majority of pop-up ads can be turned off by simply closing the window. This takes a fraction of a second, and you return to the content you were originally viewing. Seems much less intrusive than television, where several commercials play consecutively for several minutes, and the only way to avoid is it to switch to entirely different content.
Tactful and entertaining have nothing to do with advertising that works. Advertising that works is presenting a product to a person who needs it, nothing more.
I always get off on the guys who think it's their right to access on content on the internet for free and with no inconvenience to their almighty selves.
There is a simple and fullproof way for all browsers to view the internet without pop-ups. Don't visit the offending sites. Click on the ad banners of sites that don't use pop-ups. Buy products from sites that don't use pop-ups. In short, prove that pop-ops are not worth the trouble they cause. Because most web advertisers have come to realize that pop-up advertisements are the only way to pay the bills and make putting that content online worthwhile.
In the anime Tokyo gets destroyed by a "meteor", built is rebuilt completely anew in only 16 years. Looked quite cool.
I think a more interesting question is, if you could built a large metropolis completely from scratch, what should be done for this modern-day Brasilia?
Fantomaster is a good site that talks about advanced placement techniques like cloaking (providing alternate content for spiders that is different than what appears on normal browsers), spider IP addresses, etc.
Split one condom down the middle and cut into two pieces. Use them as dental dams to have oral sex with two women while wearing the other condom and banging the third.
The original riddle comes from a Japanese TV show, and they used a katorisenkou, a mosquito releeant which is shaped like a spiral and burns lying down. But none of you would know what that is, so incense was the closest I could think of to that...
Okay, after puzzling over it for some time I think I have it. Guy puts both condoms on and has sex with woman 1. He the takes the outside condom off and has sex with woman 2. The he flips the condom he'd taken off inside out, and puts it back on and has sex with woman 3.
Well, besides the fact that it's damned near impossible to put on a used condom inside out, and assuming he hasn't released any seminal fluid at all into it already, wouldn't he now be in contact with the fluids from engaging in sex with woman 1?
A stick of incense takes exactly one hour to burn out. Given nothing but a lighter and three sticks of incense, how can you accurately measure 1 hour and 45 minutes of time?
The thing is that these people have access to electricity and unless you have a device that charges via solar cells, you're going to have problems in poor third world areas.
Since we already have solar-powered calculators...why not a solar-powered computer? Surely you could whip up something with a cheap black LED display that could run under the intense sunlight that's available in India?
There is no World Wrestling Federation. The World Wildlife Fund laid the smack down on them in court, taking away their right to use the initials "WWF"
The newly renamed World Wrestling Entertainment now uses the initials "WWE", so there is now only one WWF of consequence in the world to deal with.
A million dollars would buy freedom of choice for over one-third of my life: the time I'm at work. With a million dollars, most of it placed in safe investments, I would never have to work at a job I didn't like just for the money. I could work for minimum wage if I wanted to, and still never worry about having to pay the bills for the rest of my life.
Unfortunately, I would still have to work. Would need about four million dollars before I could decide to stop doing that if I so fancied...
And finally... at least in Tokyo, you're probably weird if you don't have a cell phone. I know a lot of people that probably have absolutely no need for a cell phone, but friends and co-workers would look at you funny if they asked for your cell phone number or e-mail address and you didn't have one. Unlike the U.S., owning a color screen fancy cell phone (at least in Tokyo and other large cities) is the majority, not a small bunch of people.
I live and work in the Tokyo area and I have one, but only because my company bought one for me and forced me to carry it last month (is this the cue to start looking for a new job?) I really don't have either the desire to be contactable 24/7, nor the desire to fill in the few moments of free time in my day with "productivity" I have yet to see any evidence that the ability to get a hold of me while taking a shower or playing with my daughter in the park improves the quality of my life in any way.
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I would permanently rent the best suite in Walt Disney World, and spend my life there!
The problem with this is that it has to be customized for each person. A more convenient solution that is already in use in infant soothing toys is a simulated heartbeat noise, like the kind a fetus would hear while inside the mother. It reminds the baby of being inside the womb, and comforts them into falling asleep faster. But I've found that this also works well even on adults, as I think this "comfort pattern" that is etched in our brains from before birth remains in our subconscious as long as we live. Far easier than mapping your brainwaves, and you can pick one up in a department store for under $50.
So, you ask the second question only if you answer No to the first one?
Why would any self-respecting anime fan buy a English dub of "Spirited Away" when the Japanese DVD includes a very good set of English subtitles?
When you write haiku
Do not forget to include
season expression
The majority of pop-up ads can be turned off by simply closing the window. This takes a fraction of a second, and you return to the content you were originally viewing. Seems much less intrusive than television, where several commercials play consecutively for several minutes, and the only way to avoid is it to switch to entirely different content.
Tactful and entertaining have nothing to do with advertising that works. Advertising that works is presenting a product to a person who needs it, nothing more.
I always get off on the guys who think it's their right to access on content on the internet for free and with no inconvenience to their almighty selves.
There is a simple and fullproof way for all browsers to view the internet without pop-ups. Don't visit the offending sites. Click on the ad banners of sites that don't use pop-ups. Buy products from sites that don't use pop-ups. In short, prove that pop-ops are not worth the trouble they cause. Because most web advertisers have come to realize that pop-up advertisements are the only way to pay the bills and make putting that content online worthwhile.
Man, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of quantum computers!
I think a more interesting question is, if you could built a large metropolis completely from scratch, what should be done for this modern-day Brasilia?
Fantomaster is a good site that talks about advanced placement techniques like cloaking (providing alternate content for spiders that is different than what appears on normal browsers), spider IP addresses, etc.
Combine this with the one-handed keyboard and a pocket-sized computer, and you can look like a complete moron walking down the street!
Always carry at least three condoms with you at all times, in case you a cornered by a group of women who demand immediate safe sex.
Split one condom down the middle and cut into two pieces. Use them as dental dams to have oral sex with two women while wearing the other condom and banging the third.
Because they are heavy. You can roll a round manhole around much easier than you could carry a triangular one.
Hmmm...well, if you ask me, this question had to be written by a guy who's never actually used a condom during sex in his life.
The original riddle comes from a Japanese TV show, and they used a katorisenkou, a mosquito releeant which is shaped like a spiral and burns lying down. But none of you would know what that is, so incense was the closest I could think of to that...
I thought for days about this riddle, but it is impossible! I give up! Nothing could be the answer to that!
The one with Benjamin Franklin on it?
A stick of incense takes exactly one hour to burn out. Given nothing but a lighter and three sticks of incense, how can you accurately measure 1 hour and 45 minutes of time?
There is no World Wrestling Federation. The World Wildlife Fund laid the smack down on them in court, taking away their right to use the initials "WWF"
The newly renamed World Wrestling Entertainment now uses the initials "WWE", so there is now only one WWF of consequence in the world to deal with.
Unfortunately, I would still have to work. Would need about four million dollars before I could decide to stop doing that if I so fancied...
I live and work in the Tokyo area and I have one, but only because my company bought one for me and forced me to carry it last month (is this the cue to start looking for a new job?) I really don't have either the desire to be contactable 24/7, nor the desire to fill in the few moments of free time in my day with "productivity" I have yet to see any evidence that the ability to get a hold of me while taking a shower or playing with my daughter in the park improves the quality of my life in any way.