Besides (and maybe even more important) a lot of people want a game console, like a Nintendo Wii. Giving away such devices for free when people are sick is going to make a lot of people sick.
Hospitals keep track of who has what hospital-owned item so that they can recover/charge for it after your prescribed time with it is up. So people won't be able to keep using it after they've recovered using WiiFit or similiar.
I suppose they could go out and buy / rent a game to use while they own it, but why would they do that and NOT use WiiFit as well, since I assume they'd want to recover from whatever it is the doctor recommended the Wii for?
Assuming regular play DOES get in the way of actual treatment to the point that hospitals want to do something about it, you don't think Nintendo would be willing - chomping at the bit, even, for the publicity on top of the money - to manufacture special "Medi-Wiis" that have WiiFit/Similiar installed internally and no Eject/game slot/internet connection? In fact, if hospitals want to save money, how much would it cost for them to buy an off-the-shelf model, slap WiiFit in there and then remove / "sodder" some metal over the eject button and game-slot?
Heck, if we're really really worried, we can just have people go to the hospital for treatment sessions with game cabinets locking the wii up (same as what gamestores have allowing people to test games). We already have DDR being used in P.E. for classes, so how's this so much different?
In the short term, yes, people may try to claim work-comp to score a free Wii. But many of these cases will quickly disappear once people realize it'd just be easier (and probably cheaper) to just buy one instead.
The problem I see here is that as the language degrades, so will corporations' abilities to hire people with such skills and eventually it will end up in upper management.
In that case, when all of upper management thinks it's the norm, they would probably seek to hire those who use it throughout the organization, right? And so, in an effort to be hired, would students not *demand* to be taught English in this way, forcing even English teachers to eventually yield or find new careers?
This would then seed the entire workforce with those who speak/write this way. And when it's become prevelant throughout the organization at all levels, would it not *become* the norm? And, by extension from organization to country/world, would it not also become the norm if the large majority of writers considers it so?
We may simply be seing the next phase of phonetic/literary evolution in progress, as has occured through out history as long as humanity has possessed a written/spoken language. After all, I'm sure people today certainly would not consider the very small people who know and can speak/write in original Old English from the dark ages to be "the norm" with current phrasing. Heck, even a realatively more recent transition in the late Colonial period of America saw us give birth to a whole new "English Language" that is seperate from proper Queen's English to the point that we need lessons to be able to bridge the gap and prevent misunderstandings in mixed crowds.
We geeks have a hard time with sports. But I got a little mind-twist for you: How about you see your body as this extremely advanced machine that it is. And you want to tune it, hack it, and keep it running nicely, just like do with your (really much much more primitive computer).
Great idea! I'll just treat it like I'm upgrading my computer! Quick, someone give me a hacksaw, I want to swap out my arms for the "Chiseled Weight Lifter" models...!
In all seriousness, this idea fails because of the time difference. For someone who knows what they're doing, it takes about a day or two at most to build/upgrade a typical PC (faster if you just go buy a pre-made one). For someone to get from "flabby" to "fantastic" (or even just "fit") it would take at least a month, possibly more depending on how bad off they are. Someone using this mindset would probably be put into a short-term perspective on working out, and would then likely be disappointed later when it doesn't happen.
I should sell stickers, saying “My other computer... is my body!”.;)
Not bad, actually. Might appeal to the small-but-growing Bodybuilding Geek demographic.
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I'm sorry, that is not recogSHOCNOCJAOAIJDHZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Alright, Google. I can't do much about your beliefs on privacy. After all, you are free to run your company as you see fit within the bounds of the law. However, I do like my privacy on certain personal topics.
So how will I serve both? Simple: I'll stop using the internet entirely.
I'm sure you'll agree that this is the preffered solution for both parties: you get to keep using the information that you've already obtained freely (so long as it's legal), and I get to retain all of my personal information that I collect from this point forward.
I like this idea. In fact, I like it so much, I'm going to tell my friends to do it; most of them have issues that they want kept private, and the internet is only a source of idle time-wasting anyway. And they will tell theirs. Assuming the trend keeps up, after a while there won't be anyone left who uses the internet at all.
But that's not a big deal to you, right, Google? After all, it's not like the internet is part of your business in any way...
As a video game player, I find that I can actually get enjoyment from gambling (blackjack being a personal favorite) in a similiar manner. The difference being that, while V-games have a more action/story as a reward for playing well, gambling has apayout of something concrete (chips/money/etc) as a reward for playing well.
Heck, I remember spending many a dollar with my friends when I was young just putting tokens/quarters into the "gambling machines" you'll find at all (smart) arcades that spit out tickets. Sure winning tickets was awesome, but it was also the possibility of winning that was exciting for me as well.
Is that The World's Largest Internet Encylopedia in your pocket, or am I happy to see you (leaving)?
Seriously, who are they marketing this toward? Most people who like Wikipedia enough to want to spend $100 to always have it with them probably already have some form of internet-capable device that gives them access at almost any location they could want (laptop, cellphone, netbook, etc). And many of those same people probably enjoy Wikipedia because they can modify articles as they choose (for good, bad and/or ugly), something this does not sound like it would allow them to do as it only transfers data internet-to-device. So I guess their market is toward that segment who believes that The Great Wiki is made up entirely of articles free from all forms of bias and subjectivity thus making it unconditionally gospel, and who have never heard of a "wireless connection" before.
...which, upon further thought and remembering past articles, may actually be a rather large target market...so I guess I do understand why they've made this, even though I'll pretend I don't.
Great idea! Protect us from the presumed dangers of the internet! After all, such terms as "presumed innocence" are overrated and outdated terms anyway...
I started to do without movies and TV in general about 3 years ago because I was getting bored. As of now, I am saving additional money which I'm putting away in my savings account, having already used it to help get myself out of student debt sooner. I also have a clean appartment, clean and wrinkle-free clothes without going to the dry cleaner, and have taught myself to cook so my health has improved. I've also started a weight-lifting regimen a couple of weeks ago, and have missed only one day so far.
Not to mention that I have more time to get online and search for w-browse Slashdot.
If someone signs something which supposedly makes them give up their human rights (I imagine "freedom from theft" would be included in those), then the US courts declare the contract to be non-binding, EVEN IF that person does so willingly. The assumption being that basic human rights are things which NONE of us would want to give up, and which are required for any sort of life as a full citizen to be possible.
So it's only a small leap to assume that people who install Limewire, even though they've created a backdoor onto their personal property, still have a right not to have that property misused or stolen.
As another example, if I place a chair on my front porch because I enjoy sitting in the sun, and don't latch my gate or have a guard dog, does that give you the privilege of taking my chair from me?
Same deal here (though I admit that it's not that applicable since the article mentions that most victims weren't even aware that Limewire was on their computer in the first place).
So, if this works, would we then have whole artifical forests creating hydrogen and methanol? How safe would these things be? I imagine a forest would require access to sunlight, but it's somewhat difficult to have proper safeguards on a place that has a big window in it. And with these "trees" being full of methanol/hydrogen, one spark or too MUCH sun/heat and the whole place goes up like a bomb.
Alread did. Let's see them hack into my "2 + 2 = pie" algorithm! Of course, they have to figure out if I'm thinking of cherry of banana cream, first...
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The key to that lock is metaphysical.
Same as the girlfriend.
Besides (and maybe even more important) a lot of people want a game console, like a Nintendo Wii. Giving away such devices for free when people are sick is going to make a lot of people sick.
Hospitals keep track of who has what hospital-owned item so that they can recover/charge for it after your prescribed time with it is up. So people won't be able to keep using it after they've recovered using WiiFit or similiar.
I suppose they could go out and buy / rent a game to use while they own it, but why would they do that and NOT use WiiFit as well, since I assume they'd want to recover from whatever it is the doctor recommended the Wii for?
Assuming regular play DOES get in the way of actual treatment to the point that hospitals want to do something about it, you don't think Nintendo would be willing - chomping at the bit, even, for the publicity on top of the money - to manufacture special "Medi-Wiis" that have WiiFit/Similiar installed internally and no Eject/game slot/internet connection? In fact, if hospitals want to save money, how much would it cost for them to buy an off-the-shelf model, slap WiiFit in there and then remove / "sodder" some metal over the eject button and game-slot?
Heck, if we're really really worried, we can just have people go to the hospital for treatment sessions with game cabinets locking the wii up (same as what gamestores have allowing people to test games). We already have DDR being used in P.E. for classes, so how's this so much different?
In the short term, yes, people may try to claim work-comp to score a free Wii. But many of these cases will quickly disappear once people realize it'd just be easier (and probably cheaper) to just buy one instead.
The problem I see here is that as the language degrades, so will corporations' abilities to hire people with such skills and eventually it will end up in upper management.
In that case, when all of upper management thinks it's the norm, they would probably seek to hire those who use it throughout the organization, right? And so, in an effort to be hired, would students not *demand* to be taught English in this way, forcing even English teachers to eventually yield or find new careers?
This would then seed the entire workforce with those who speak/write this way. And when it's become prevelant throughout the organization at all levels, would it not *become* the norm? And, by extension from organization to country/world, would it not also become the norm if the large majority of writers considers it so?
We may simply be seing the next phase of phonetic/literary evolution in progress, as has occured through out history as long as humanity has possessed a written/spoken language. After all, I'm sure people today certainly would not consider the very small people who know and can speak/write in original Old English from the dark ages to be "the norm" with current phrasing. Heck, even a realatively more recent transition in the late Colonial period of America saw us give birth to a whole new "English Language" that is seperate from proper Queen's English to the point that we need lessons to be able to bridge the gap and prevent misunderstandings in mixed crowds.
We geeks have a hard time with sports. But I got a little mind-twist for you: How about you see your body as this extremely advanced machine that it is. And you want to tune it, hack it, and keep it running nicely, just like do with your (really much much more primitive computer).
Great idea! I'll just treat it like I'm upgrading my computer! Quick, someone give me a hacksaw, I want to swap out my arms for the "Chiseled Weight Lifter" models...!
In all seriousness, this idea fails because of the time difference. For someone who knows what they're doing, it takes about a day or two at most to build/upgrade a typical PC (faster if you just go buy a pre-made one). For someone to get from "flabby" to "fantastic" (or even just "fit") it would take at least a month, possibly more depending on how bad off they are. Someone using this mindset would probably be put into a short-term perspective on working out, and would then likely be disappointed later when it doesn't happen.
I should sell stickers, saying “My other computer... is my body!”. ;)
Not bad, actually. Might appeal to the small-but-growing Bodybuilding Geek demographic.
HAHAHA Stop making me laugh you're going to give me a heart atta
It will if condoms are involved.
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Downloading.....................Complete.
Installing.....................Complete.
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I'm sorry, that is not recogSHOCNOCJAOAIJDHZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Alright, Google. I can't do much about your beliefs on privacy. After all, you are free to run your company as you see fit within the bounds of the law. However, I do like my privacy on certain personal topics.
So how will I serve both? Simple: I'll stop using the internet entirely.
I'm sure you'll agree that this is the preffered solution for both parties: you get to keep using the information that you've already obtained freely (so long as it's legal), and I get to retain all of my personal information that I collect from this point forward.
I like this idea. In fact, I like it so much, I'm going to tell my friends to do it; most of them have issues that they want kept private, and the internet is only a source of idle time-wasting anyway. And they will tell theirs. Assuming the trend keeps up, after a while there won't be anyone left who uses the internet at all.
But that's not a big deal to you, right, Google? After all, it's not like the internet is part of your business in any way...
It's alright. As a citizen of the US, I, too, have problems understanding and learning English, so I sympathize with your plight.
Heck, you might already have a sweetie pie around.
Well, if he did, I hope he doesn't have any accidents around her with this thing. Then she'd be a rather crispy fritter.
Technology is supposed to make out lives easier, not the other way around.
So easier lives aren't supposed to make technology?
Of course: Cuba doesn't yet have the financial resources to afford it.
As a video game player, I find that I can actually get enjoyment from gambling (blackjack being a personal favorite) in a similiar manner. The difference being that, while V-games have a more action/story as a reward for playing well, gambling has apayout of something concrete (chips/money/etc) as a reward for playing well.
Heck, I remember spending many a dollar with my friends when I was young just putting tokens/quarters into the "gambling machines" you'll find at all (smart) arcades that spit out tickets. Sure winning tickets was awesome, but it was also the possibility of winning that was exciting for me as well.
Is that The World's Largest Internet Encylopedia in your pocket, or am I happy to see you (leaving)?
...which, upon further thought and remembering past articles, may actually be a rather large target market...so I guess I do understand why they've made this, even though I'll pretend I don't.
Seriously, who are they marketing this toward? Most people who like Wikipedia enough to want to spend $100 to always have it with them probably already have some form of internet-capable device that gives them access at almost any location they could want (laptop, cellphone, netbook, etc). And many of those same people probably enjoy Wikipedia because they can modify articles as they choose (for good, bad and/or ugly), something this does not sound like it would allow them to do as it only transfers data internet-to-device. So I guess their market is toward that segment who believes that The Great Wiki is made up entirely of articles free from all forms of bias and subjectivity thus making it unconditionally gospel, and who have never heard of a "wireless connection" before.
I thought that Dark Energy was supposedly unknowable by design?
So we had the Big Freeze and the Big Crunch...now we have "the Big Burn"?
Now all we need is one that's Wind related and all the Natural elements will be represented.
Interesting that this should be brought up when We actually have the real thing.
Great idea! Protect us from the presumed dangers of the internet! After all, such terms as "presumed innocence" are overrated and outdated terms anyway...
I hope it's postponed. As if the water shortages weren't bad enough NOW...
"Girlfriend"? This must be some new beta product that's out. What are the specs, and where can I download it?
I started to do without movies and TV in general about 3 years ago because I was getting bored. As of now, I am saving additional money which I'm putting away in my savings account, having already used it to help get myself out of student debt sooner. I also have a clean appartment, clean and wrinkle-free clothes without going to the dry cleaner, and have taught myself to cook so my health has improved. I've also started a weight-lifting regimen a couple of weeks ago, and have missed only one day so far. Not to mention that I have more time to get online and search for w-browse Slashdot.
Doesn't quite work like that in the US:
If someone signs something which supposedly makes them give up their human rights (I imagine "freedom from theft" would be included in those), then the US courts declare the contract to be non-binding, EVEN IF that person does so willingly. The assumption being that basic human rights are things which NONE of us would want to give up, and which are required for any sort of life as a full citizen to be possible.
So it's only a small leap to assume that people who install Limewire, even though they've created a backdoor onto their personal property, still have a right not to have that property misused or stolen.
As another example, if I place a chair on my front porch because I enjoy sitting in the sun, and don't latch my gate or have a guard dog, does that give you the privilege of taking my chair from me?
Same deal here (though I admit that it's not that applicable since the article mentions that most victims weren't even aware that Limewire was on their computer in the first place).
So, if this works, would we then have whole artifical forests creating hydrogen and methanol? How safe would these things be? I imagine a forest would require access to sunlight, but it's somewhat difficult to have proper safeguards on a place that has a big window in it. And with these "trees" being full of methanol/hydrogen, one spark or too MUCH sun/heat and the whole place goes up like a bomb.
Not to mention if you need money to survive (food, bills, etc) if you lose your current job and start looking for a new one.
Alread did. Let's see them hack into my "2 + 2 = pie" algorithm! Of course, they have to figure out if I'm thinking of cherry of banana cream, first...