The entire Bitcoin economy does about the volume of one supermarket.
Did you see the number of exclamation points up there? Not to mention how much Slashdot covers Bitcoin? It's WAY louder than a supermarket. Maybe not as loud as an outdoor auction place like Tsukiji in Tokyo.
Nobody's posted this yet so it's worth a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect . Basically, when your complaint about a tiny amount of publicity attracts a huge amount of publicity, you've made a mistake.
We make a game out of seeing how much money you can lose at a time. The game penalizes you 7% of your cash (with some floor if you've got less than 100$). The wallet visually caps a dollar short of 10^6, but the internal counter keeps going up. I've lost more than 10^8 to a single death. Postgame, death is meaningless...
This has little to no relevance for DNA matching tests. Those tests do not match specific sequences, they usually match lengths of repeats in repetitive elements - elements that are unlikely to have been drawn from mycoplasma (because they don't have them!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
The human genome is surely highly contaminated, just not with mycoplasma. Endogenous retroviruses, retrotransposons, repetitive elements galore, on the other hand...
Experiments done in a cell are in vivo (life); experiments done in a test tube are in vitro (glass); experiments done in a computer are in silico (silicon computer chips). In silico is used to describe computational modeling experiments (think FoldIt or Rosetta@Home), or manipulation and searching of large DNA/RNA/protein sequence databases. You'd expect it to apply to stuff like weather modeling or nuclear physics, but there the analogy to vivo/vitro is lost so I believe those fields don't use the term.
We're already having to sit exactly in one place for the 3D glasses to work - perhaps they'll be like those 50-cents-a-use tourist binocular emplacements and they attach firmly to the couch...?
Or will it become mandatory to sit exactly X distance from your TV in order for the system to work?
Well, they're currently trying to get us to buy into 3D TV which requires exactly this. Actually, that's a good idea - you can embed the odormaker IN THE GLASSES, which ensures it's next to your nose and gets rid of all the diffusion and lingering-odor problems.
Also of note, this fella got caught because this software was actually also popping up strange error messages designed to look like OS X system-launched messages that directed users to "use hot steam to clear a sensor" on their laptop. So maybe he was trying to keep himself in business hoping hapless users damaged their own computers heeding these warnings, so they'd call him back for return business?
He wants them to take the laptop with them when they shower, although you're right that it's probably bad for the laptop to boot...
I know a guy with a common name who got an eviction notice from his landlord. He asked why; they said he was a sex offender who had failed to register. Of course, it turns out there was some other guy who was sex offender with the same common name, and somebody somewhere had failed to use ANY identification other than firstname lastname when deciding to try to kick him out. (He pointed out their mistake and wasn't evicted, but still, huge trouble from his common name.) So, the common-name-effect cuts both ways.
At work, we'll often have multiple people watching TV (sports) on different computers (like your tablet suggestion). It gets hilarious as their feeds get 30 seconds off, so one of them is shouting about a goal, but the others haven't seen the goal yet. I know that sports aren't the big market for TV...but the point is that synchronicity can be an issue with multiple displays.
If anything, I found the DS harder to use on the move, because the stylus controls could be a bit of a pain if you were in a slightly unstable environment (such as a plane or train).
UGH! I've had the same problem with stylus-heavy games. Knights in the Nightmare and The World Ends with You were both unplayable in a car/on a plane.
If you're putting more than 50 words on a slide, you've fucked up.
You know, most people say "pictures, pictures, pictures" instead of words on Powerpoint slides. At an exchange rate of 1000 words/picture, you shatter this rule pretty fast...
I'm hoping it's best at picking up obvious spy phrases, like "the eagle has landed", "the moon fish squicks wickedly at midnight", "long is the gap between cacti"...
Somehow I think it's probably best at "hello".
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The entire Bitcoin economy does about the volume of one supermarket.
Did you see the number of exclamation points up there? Not to mention how much Slashdot covers Bitcoin? It's WAY louder than a supermarket. Maybe not as loud as an outdoor auction place like Tsukiji in Tokyo.
Nobody's posted this yet so it's worth a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect . Basically, when your complaint about a tiny amount of publicity attracts a huge amount of publicity, you've made a mistake.
Left 4 Dead 4: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
If I had mod points, and if there was a category for it, I'd mod you up for "100% pure Slashdot".
We make a game out of seeing how much money you can lose at a time. The game penalizes you 7% of your cash (with some floor if you've got less than 100$). The wallet visually caps a dollar short of 10^6, but the internal counter keeps going up. I've lost more than 10^8 to a single death. Postgame, death is meaningless...
In silico is the correct term used for communicating science in English. Latin being dead, there's nobody to rule on "correctness", but Wikipedia explains the fight over terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_silico#In_silico_versus_in_silicio
This has little to no relevance for DNA matching tests. Those tests do not match specific sequences, they usually match lengths of repeats in repetitive elements - elements that are unlikely to have been drawn from mycoplasma (because they don't have them!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
The human genome is surely highly contaminated, just not with mycoplasma. Endogenous retroviruses, retrotransposons, repetitive elements galore, on the other hand...
Experiments done in a cell are in vivo (life); experiments done in a test tube are in vitro (glass); experiments done in a computer are in silico (silicon computer chips). In silico is used to describe computational modeling experiments (think FoldIt or Rosetta@Home), or manipulation and searching of large DNA/RNA/protein sequence databases. You'd expect it to apply to stuff like weather modeling or nuclear physics, but there the analogy to vivo/vitro is lost so I believe those fields don't use the term.
We're already having to sit exactly in one place for the 3D glasses to work - perhaps they'll be like those 50-cents-a-use tourist binocular emplacements and they attach firmly to the couch...?
Or will it become mandatory to sit exactly X distance from your TV in order for the system to work?
Well, they're currently trying to get us to buy into 3D TV which requires exactly this. Actually, that's a good idea - you can embed the odormaker IN THE GLASSES, which ensures it's next to your nose and gets rid of all the diffusion and lingering-odor problems.
It's no fun guessing WoW after you tell us it's not The Sims or Farmville.
Also of note, this fella got caught because this software was actually also popping up strange error messages designed to look like OS X system-launched messages that directed users to "use hot steam to clear a sensor" on their laptop. So maybe he was trying to keep himself in business hoping hapless users damaged their own computers heeding these warnings, so they'd call him back for return business?
He wants them to take the laptop with them when they shower, although you're right that it's probably bad for the laptop to boot...
I know a guy with a common name who got an eviction notice from his landlord. He asked why; they said he was a sex offender who had failed to register. Of course, it turns out there was some other guy who was sex offender with the same common name, and somebody somewhere had failed to use ANY identification other than firstname lastname when deciding to try to kick him out. (He pointed out their mistake and wasn't evicted, but still, huge trouble from his common name.) So, the common-name-effect cuts both ways.
Well, it's a quantum supercomputer, so...yes.
At work, we'll often have multiple people watching TV (sports) on different computers (like your tablet suggestion). It gets hilarious as their feeds get 30 seconds off, so one of them is shouting about a goal, but the others haven't seen the goal yet. I know that sports aren't the big market for TV...but the point is that synchronicity can be an issue with multiple displays.
If anything, I found the DS harder to use on the move, because the stylus controls could be a bit of a pain if you were in a slightly unstable environment (such as a plane or train).
UGH! I've had the same problem with stylus-heavy games. Knights in the Nightmare and The World Ends with You were both unplayable in a car/on a plane.
It's not easy needing green...
It also fails in FF3 and Ubuntu.
Maybe all the devs are working on Skyward Sword. God forbid we get a Wii2/Wii release the way we did for Twilight Princess...
Perhaps you are conflating XKCD and SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)?
If you're putting more than 50 words on a slide, you've fucked up.
You know, most people say "pictures, pictures, pictures" instead of words on Powerpoint slides. At an exchange rate of 1000 words/picture, you shatter this rule pretty fast...
Does anybody know if Ireland owes its greenness to moderate temperatures and moist air?
I think it's the leprechauns, actually.
I'm hoping it's best at picking up obvious spy phrases, like "the eagle has landed", "the moon fish squicks wickedly at midnight", "long is the gap between cacti"... Somehow I think it's probably best at "hello".
You'd think all the metal bars would work as a Faraday cage.