But the time slot will not increase in value if nobody watches the commercials during that time slot. That is the way that the networks make money, so if they are certain that the people watching have tivos and are just skipping the commercials, then the time slot is still a waste for them.
Yeah, well that is what you might think but... guess what- the 1989 Toyota Camry has exactly that same issue- and guess what the manufacturer has done about it
gotta take the wind right outta my sails dont ya?:) i was hoping for a reply from the master himself but i suppose a smack in the face for showing my ingnorance is enough...
As any self respecting geek has a slashdot account i have to figure John Carmack of all people does... So how bout it, what do you have to say for yourself?
hate speech is not protected to begin with. It can, and in many cases, will be censored.
How exactly do you define hate speech? what would you say is and is not hate speech? Would you say that hate speech includes anything that degrades a particular group of people or individuals, so could you say that, if I stated "I hated enron's executives and wish they would die horrible deaths"... is that wrong? I think most people think that they are bad people and would not argue against me (maybe, but that is not the point) so does that mean that hate speech is only protected if the majority of people agree with it. What about if I post hate speech against the KKK or simialar groups?
I really don't see how you can say that "hate" speech is not protected. Although I am seriously wondering what exactly you mean by your comment and who or where is not protecting hate speech.
Was he "practicing" terrorism? No. But neither were the 9/11 hijackers untill that day.
So now we do not need to commit the crime before we get in trouble? Is it only required that someone must have the capability to commit a crime, maybe someone with just the thought to commit crime, before that person is persecuted? Should we start calling the fbi the thought police?
Maybe we should start calling America the home of the safe instead of home of the free?
I dont suppose it includes an attatched fire extinguisher does it?
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I just read last night in the science section about a virus being used to fight AIDS by latching on to the HIV virus and preventing it from turning it into AIDS. I didnt understand it all that well but it does sound like this virus is doing much the same thing.
The problem is maintenance. It can cost you a big deal of money to keep the flywheel in the working condition
That is actually not true - this company's flywheels are housed in a vacuum and moving parts have no contact (the actual flywheel is suspended with magnets). Hence, there is very little or no maintenance considering that there is very little chance for wear to occur. The only maintinance that would ever be needed is in the event of a catastrophic failure, which would require complete replacement, although, considering that the design is very simple this is not likely to happen - barring outside interfernce, such as an earthquake or something like that. I read about these a while ago, and, if I remember correctly the company would gauruntee them for 50 years, even though they believed they would last longer.
Not to mention the fact that a camera that cheap would be on my list of things to take with me on a druken night out - as opposed to my $300 digital camera, which i would be a lot more worried about losing or breaking. So what happens if I break thier rental? they can't make me promise to not break it. My point is - if i break it or steal it, it is all the same to them, right?
AFAIK film distributors charge based on a fixed ticket price, I am not sure exactly what that is but I think it is around 6.50 or 7.00 and the theaters are allowed to charge whatever they want, so long as they pay the agreed upon percentage of the preset ticket price. So if a theater charges 4.00 for a ticket they will still be required to pay the distributor like 60% of 6.50. The percentage varies but the base ticket price will remain the same. If this is the case, which I am fairly certain that it is, then I do not understand why this would be an issue unless easyCinema is only willing to pay based on the actually purchase price of each individual ticket. Granted, they would have to charge a much higher price closer to show time to make up the difference.
And another note, easyCinema is not going to have a concession stand, while that does seem to be the model for how they do business - require as few people as humanly possible. Concession stands have such a large profit margin, its not even funny. For example a 35 lb bag of popcorn kernels costs about 10.00 (it is about the size of a medium size bag of dog food) and then a theater can turn around and sell a (large) bag of popped popcorn for 5.00 (or even more, sometimes). A bag of kernels will yeild well over 100 (large) popcorns, so, you do the math. It really does not seem smart to me to discontinue the concession stand all together, maybe things are different in the UK though
honestly, why would i want to waste my time reading Descartes? Sure he brings up points, and maybe he was the first to do it, but does that really matter? does he actually answer anything? (with any sort physical application, i actually, really dont know) Or are you just some sort of elitist that has some notion that either a. Everyone gives a rats ass about philosophy (and cares to spend a sufficient amount of time reading about it) or b. has nothing else better to do
dont get me wrong, I am not saying that philosophy is a waste of time. I myself cannot justify spending much time or effort in such an intangable area.
I got to see a exhibitor screening last friday, and, to put it simply, The Matrix Reloded was the first movie that I wanted to watch again immediatly after it ended. The other people I was with also agreed that it was an increadibly good movie, not only for the action (which it seems nobody is debating) but I thought the story was really good also, and brought up some interesting points of discussion. And that alone is light years more than most summer blockbuster films.
The reviewer seems to be saying that reloaded would be a terrible movie if it were not for its action, I can only think that the reviewer is an idiot, or maybe he just didnt understand the film.
As I was talking to one of my boss, after the movie, he didnt seem to think that it would do very well (boxoffice wise) because most people would not understand some of the more complex issues that the film touched on.
There was a lot of reference to the inner workings of computer systems, very vauge references - but they were there none the less. I cannot really elaborate without giving too much away, but I am sure that a lot of the/. crowd will catch on some of the stuff.
I must say though, do not get discouraged- this is an awesome film! there are also a number of reviews on aint-it-cool-news.com
When are they going to make driving robots
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I think it would be a lot cooler if these robots would drive my car instead of just playing soccer.
I bought the same notebook at office depot for 950 with a $50 mail in rebate and a free 32MB usb flash disk thing... I think that office depot and sams are the only ones selling sotec notebooks though
My guess would be that it might be possible to do that with the ppc, but definetly not on the x86 hardware. The binaries would not be able to run on the x86 because darwin is not an interpreter AFAIK the actually instructions in aqua are not x86 so the x86 processor would not be able to understand them.
I think one point you forgot to mention was that china also has a very large military, I am not sure if that is what you ment as far as the US not helping out taiwan, if it were to come to war it would not be like pitting two 800 pound gorillas together not like and 800 pound gorrilla and a spider monkey.
OMG think of a crowded train or street, it says that it can transfer through clothes so think of how anonymous a virus would be, virtually untraceable(back to the origin) think of how fast a virus with this hardware could spread. I am just thinking of a morning commute in ny, train transfers etc., how many people do you suppose one rubbs against-regardless of how lightly The worst part would be that complete strangers could be infected. I guess I was kinda thinking more along the lines of like klez but that is e-mail and this is bio-mail uhhhh its late but damn
A professor at my school wrote a language called jboxes, it has the same basic design as java- it is a actually some sort of extention to java but all the programming is done using a gui where boxes are moved around and connections added. I myself have never used it but it looks neat, he gave a class that I was in a demo shortly after he finished. It looked like it might have helped me in some of my first cs classes, although I did not have that much trouble.
Anyway the point of creating Jboxes was to help students who had trouble with OOP and writing code, Jboxes takes away the problems of syntax to help new cs students understand the structure of programming and think of the design instead of getting hung up on syntax problems.
I could not seem to find a page dedicated to jboxes on his website but he does have the executables and pdf files(for his classes) at http://clem.mscd.edu/~shultzj/190kf02/
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But the time slot will not increase in value if nobody watches the commercials during that time slot. That is the way that the networks make money, so if they are certain that the people watching have tivos and are just skipping the commercials, then the time slot is still a waste for them.
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Yeah, well that is what you might think but... guess what- the 1989 Toyota Camry has exactly that same issue- and guess what the manufacturer has done about it
gotta take the wind right outta my sails dont ya? :) i was hoping for a reply from the master himself but i suppose a smack in the face for showing my ingnorance is enough...
As any self respecting geek has a slashdot account i have to figure John Carmack of all people does... So how bout it, what do you have to say for yourself?
hate speech is not protected to begin with. It can, and in many cases, will be censored.
How exactly do you define hate speech? what would you say is and is not hate speech? Would you say that hate speech includes anything that degrades a particular group of people or individuals, so could you say that, if I stated "I hated enron's executives and wish they would die horrible deaths"... is that wrong? I think most people think that they are bad people and would not argue against me (maybe, but that is not the point) so does that mean that hate speech is only protected if the majority of people agree with it. What about if I post hate speech against the KKK or simialar groups?
I really don't see how you can say that "hate" speech is not protected. Although I am seriously wondering what exactly you mean by your comment and who or where is not protecting hate speech.
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Was he "practicing" terrorism? No. But neither were the 9/11 hijackers untill that day.
So now we do not need to commit the crime before we get in trouble? Is it only required that someone must have the capability to commit a crime, maybe someone with just the thought to commit crime, before that person is persecuted? Should we start calling the fbi the thought police?
Maybe we should start calling America the home of the safe instead of home of the free?
who cares??? imagine a beowulf cluster eh???!!!
I dont suppose it includes an attatched fire extinguisher does it?
I just read last night in the science section about a virus being used to fight AIDS by latching on to the HIV virus and preventing it from turning it into AIDS. I didnt understand it all that well but it does sound like this virus is doing much the same thing.
Children and old people - NOT ALLOWED!!!
The problem is maintenance. It can cost you a big deal of money to keep the flywheel in the working condition
That is actually not true - this company's flywheels are housed in a vacuum and moving parts have no contact (the actual flywheel is suspended with magnets). Hence, there is very little or no maintenance considering that there is very little chance for wear to occur. The only maintinance that would ever be needed is in the event of a catastrophic failure, which would require complete replacement, although, considering that the design is very simple this is not likely to happen - barring outside interfernce, such as an earthquake or something like that. I read about these a while ago, and, if I remember correctly the company would gauruntee them for 50 years, even though they believed they would last longer.
Not to mention the fact that a camera that cheap would be on my list of things to take with me on a druken night out - as opposed to my $300 digital camera, which i would be a lot more worried about losing or breaking. So what happens if I break thier rental? they can't make me promise to not break it. My point is - if i break it or steal it, it is all the same to them, right?
Is it still indecent exposure if you are wearing clothes that are merely displaying whats underneath? A bikini would be so awesome!
AFAIK film distributors charge based on a fixed ticket price, I am not sure exactly what that is but I think it is around 6.50 or 7.00 and the theaters are allowed to charge whatever they want, so long as they pay the agreed upon percentage of the preset ticket price. So if a theater charges 4.00 for a ticket they will still be required to pay the distributor like 60% of 6.50. The percentage varies but the base ticket price will remain the same. If this is the case, which I am fairly certain that it is, then I do not understand why this would be an issue unless easyCinema is only willing to pay based on the actually purchase price of each individual ticket. Granted, they would have to charge a much higher price closer to show time to make up the difference.
And another note, easyCinema is not going to have a concession stand, while that does seem to be the model for how they do business - require as few people as humanly possible. Concession stands have such a large profit margin, its not even funny. For example a 35 lb bag of popcorn kernels costs about 10.00 (it is about the size of a medium size bag of dog food) and then a theater can turn around and sell a (large) bag of popped popcorn for 5.00 (or even more, sometimes). A bag of kernels will yeild well over 100 (large) popcorns, so, you do the math. It really does not seem smart to me to discontinue the concession stand all together, maybe things are different in the UK though
honestly, why would i want to waste my time reading Descartes? Sure he brings up points, and maybe he was the first to do it, but does that really matter? does he actually answer anything? (with any sort physical application, i actually, really dont know) Or are you just some sort of elitist that has some notion that either a. Everyone gives a rats ass about philosophy (and cares to spend a sufficient amount of time reading about it) or b. has nothing else better to do
dont get me wrong, I am not saying that philosophy is a waste of time. I myself cannot justify spending much time or effort in such an intangable area.
I got to see a exhibitor screening last friday, and, to put it simply, The Matrix Reloded was the first movie that I wanted to watch again immediatly after it ended. The other people I was with also agreed that it was an increadibly good movie, not only for the action (which it seems nobody is debating) but I thought the story was really good also, and brought up some interesting points of discussion. And that alone is light years more than most summer blockbuster films. /. crowd will catch on some of the stuff.
The reviewer seems to be saying that reloaded would be a terrible movie if it were not for its action, I can only think that the reviewer is an idiot, or maybe he just didnt understand the film.
As I was talking to one of my boss, after the movie, he didnt seem to think that it would do very well (boxoffice wise) because most people would not understand some of the more complex issues that the film touched on.
There was a lot of reference to the inner workings of computer systems, very vauge references - but they were there none the less. I cannot really elaborate without giving too much away, but I am sure that a lot of the
I must say though, do not get discouraged- this is an awesome film! there are also a number of reviews on aint-it-cool-news.com
I think it would be a lot cooler if these robots would drive my car instead of just playing soccer.
I bought the same notebook at office depot for 950 with a $50 mail in rebate and a free 32MB usb flash disk thing... I think that office depot and sams are the only ones selling sotec notebooks though
My guess would be that it might be possible to do that with the ppc, but definetly not on the x86 hardware. The binaries would not be able to run on the x86 because darwin is not an interpreter AFAIK the actually instructions in aqua are not x86 so the x86 processor would not be able to understand them.
I think one point you forgot to mention was that china also has a very large military, I am not sure if that is what you ment as far as the US not helping out taiwan, if it were to come to war it would not be like pitting two 800 pound gorillas together not like and 800 pound gorrilla and a spider monkey.
OMG think of a crowded train or street, it says that it can transfer through clothes so think of how anonymous a virus would be, virtually untraceable(back to the origin) think of how fast a virus with this hardware could spread. I am just thinking of a morning commute in ny, train transfers etc., how many people do you suppose one rubbs against-regardless of how lightly The worst part would be that complete strangers could be infected. I guess I was kinda thinking more along the lines of like klez but that is e-mail and this is bio-mail uhhhh its late but damn
A professor at my school wrote a language called jboxes, it has the same basic design as java- it is a actually some sort of extention to java but all the programming is done using a gui where boxes are moved around and connections added. I myself have never used it but it looks neat, he gave a class that I was in a demo shortly after he finished. It looked like it might have helped me in some of my first cs classes, although I did not have that much trouble.
Anyway the point of creating Jboxes was to help students who had trouble with OOP and writing code, Jboxes takes away the problems of syntax to help new cs students understand the structure of programming and think of the design instead of getting hung up on syntax problems.
I could not seem to find a page dedicated to jboxes on his website but he does have the executables and pdf files(for his classes) at http://clem.mscd.edu/~shultzj/190kf02/