" 'Imagine what will happen when, decades from now, a president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who had access to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook at the age of 15."
This could work in alot of people's favor... When applying as the Head of the Agriculture Department...
"As you can plainly see, I had several successful Farmville farms at age 15."
There is a good side, now the hackers that attacked google will be busy sifting through billions of texts saying, "DOOD, too much rice-wine! just had sex with a goat! gonna hurl..."
here's an idea, I've done this before. Maintain your own OS, beit Windows 7, Linux, whatever. Then, buy a laptop or any hardware that fits your needs. Take the harddrive out, and replace it with one of your own, and install the OS on it.
Sure you don't get the bundled CRAP, that comes with it all, though in the end, you have a clean install that you can restore to factory specs in 5 minutes or less.
Most manufacturers have provisions for upgrading harddrives and memory in their warranty so there is no problem.
And yea, the services suck, worked GS for a year.. I felt like a tool every time i sold 400 dollars in upgrades to some old lady on Social Security and it only took an hour to complete. I got canned when I started telling them to just go get an e-machine instead (heck it was always ATLEAST twice the machine they were going to have after the upgrade at half the cost!)
I'll be honest, I used to help run a virtual Cathouse. The girls involved were VERY talented and took their 'job' very seriously, and we never had an unsatisfied customer. For some of the women, it helped them in Reality get over intimacy issues, or escape some real life hardships, much like some escape into a good book.
Those days are gone for numerous reasons, but not due to the lack of quality of the hired.
I run a set of sims, and this is always on my mind.
I don't ask Real life information because frankly, my customers don't want to give that up, and under Linden Labs TOS, that is a violation. With that contract between me and Linden Labs, I could not require RL information if I wanted to.
monthly I clear the costs of 3 'islands' (295/mo ea) and have to wonder if one day everyone will just poof. I doubt it, but it's a risk I take.
As for the client end (renters) they take the risk of me walking away and canceling my islands, but for their anonymousness, they tolerate that risk.
as one of the other posters said, no those rental contracts I have with them are not 'valid' which is why I simply have a pre-pay agreement with a statement of NO REFUNDS. so if you don't like the terms, don't rent.
My only safety net is to keep a reserve big enough to handle a complete loss of clients just before a billing date. It is just me RP'ing a land-lord, but at least my clients RP paying renters.
I'm wagering Vacuum Florescent (technically VFD)... or Victorian Football League but I don't think he would have admitted to ice picking the entire Victorian Football League.
So, From what I can gather from this article is: It detects Thermal differences and mannerisms as you approach the portal.
So if you have to take a raging dump because you have a FLU and your nervous about this new "don't worry, act normally" sign you see ahead of you, and your worried you'll get stopped and cause even worse embarrassment to you and your travel partners, your likely to get picked up.
I find it quite interesting, the most dogged article of the month, and it's about a program that allows Social interaction... On Slashdot?! Go Figure.
A few Stats for the naysayers: 50,000-75,000 players at any given time (24/7) Well over a Million US Dollars spent daily in world.
Personally, I run 4 'sims' (16 acre chunks of land) and pull in a profit of well over 200-300 US Dollars a month. My community has well over 250 members, and atleast 50 of them are online daily and interact. To the (seems barren, and your always alone) crap, we usually average about 10 - 20 people in-city at any given time, around 40 at bi-weekly events. Personally I pull down 30 bucks in tips whenever we have a gathering.
No Sex/Furry/Slave/camping bullcrap.
The community is a Thriving place for friends, and hell I even get a chance to blow stuff up. Usually disassemble old buildings by Demolition (fire, boom crash).
Reuters Leaving Second Life, well cya. All they tended to do was report on useless stuff and their 'feeds' in world, lagged the hell out of servers.
As for crappy graphics... Hand any amateur a set of 3d tools, you shouldn't expect Fallout 3. Personally, I see graphics in world that blows away any MMO/RPG.
| In Animal Crossing, I don't run across furry malls with gigantic fox penises on the walls and laser-lit dance clubs.
yea, I liked SL better too...
In all seriousnes, I'm in SL Daily... haven't seen a "furry" in over 2 months, and about the same for a laser. It's not all furry heaven, just so happens, thats all anyone looks for. Most new Internet users jump online and look for all the nasty to 'prove' to their friends that it's as bad as they think. Thats like getting on the web and 'proving' that it's nothing but porn sites, by going to google and searching 'nipple'. Sex.com isn't going to give you a 3 page theses on time travel, so don't look there. in SL, don't look for meaningful conversation in the 'FoxXx's Den' on Fur Island.
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funny this hits the headlines... as a kid, a friend and I experimented with binaural beats. Mostly it was to replace sleep, with 30 minute power naps using sound... and YES it worked. After a while we started making mix-tapes for friends and they would use them to stay awake while studying.
One incident that comes to mind is we started to adjust the cycles to see 'how low we could go' and I brought my friends brain cycles down to around 1 cycle per second... and couldn't wake him up. I tried shaking him, water, everything... about a half hour later I had to resort to programming a cycle back up from 1/sec to 6-10/sec to drag him out of it. FINALLY he woke up but felt like crap.
Kinda freaked us out, but did prove once and for all that they do actually work.
knowing now the effectiveness of that experiment, heh, I'm going to hunt down some of these 'mixes' and see for myself!
WORD OF WARNING: In this state, one can inter-twine subconscious suggestions... these do have a deeper effect that without binaural interference! So it would be good to know your source!
A bit on my understanding of the process...
A typical biaural beat is based on a white or pink noise background. Sometimes utilizing music, but normally that tends to fail. then the white-noise is phase shifted slightly so there is a phase offset from left to right. individually, there is no way to know of the offset, but when you listen to both channels, it's like when someone hooks up a speaker incorrectly, it just sounds 'off'. The human mind cannot perceive sound in the 10 hz range or lower, but using this perceived difference, it forces the brain to process this signal, and phased in a pattern, it can induce a symbiotic rhythm. Much like when you find yourself humming to match an ambient sound. By matching the brains normal cycles 16-10 and slowly lowering them, the brain follows the pattern and can find itself lulled into a new state.
I'll tell you though, using this to lock yourself into a REM sleep cycle for an hour at a time can be amazing... completely Lucid dreams are possible. of course, so can completely Lucid Nightmares. Another word of caution, don't try this alone!
Plug the VHS reader with the DVD recorder. Play the tape and record it on a DVDRW (using highest available quality). Voilà. That's the easiest way to do it, and the quality is good. Now put the DVDRW in your PC, and get the files (MPEG2 VOB), and use any software for editing them.
Mod this up... I've worked retail electronics and tech bench, and you can have the most elegant computer solution and still yet, the customer will stare at you blankly as it is so complex.
Fair enough, your coming into this expecting some difficulty.. but cmon.. just because you can chisel a wheel from a piece of cheese with a frozen carp, doesn't mean you need to.. buy a tire.
1. Person A inserts fixed amount of money into a machine. 2. Machine rolls a random number and determines the payout. 3. Machine returns an amount of money to the player....where there is no "escrow" step at which Big Brother can examine the entire transaction and see if it looks like gambling. There are just individual payments: money goes in, stuff happens, and later money comes out.
you actually hit it on the head... but the trick is, the money is paid directly to the owner of the machine, then paid out IF the player wins. Similar to relinquishing a token to a machine, it becomes the houses token, then if they win, they are paid an appropriate amount form the machine(if the machine has tokens and doesn't screw up, in which case, the house reserves the right to deny payment at all if they wish)
One big problem I have found is it is VERY easy to make the machines not pay out... also the odds are adjustable to VERY unfair levels. so basically all you can do is game with friends and hope they can back a payout.... Oh ya, if they don't have the Lindens (in game money) it won't pay the jackpot.
The biggest problem the FBI is probably looking at, is there is no regulation. I could make a box look like a machine, run a random set of symbols across it, then just reply "nope sorry you lost. please play again"
This is one reason I keep my money in my account not theirs:)
What a stupid comment. If a carbon nanotube conducts electricity then it is by definition a metal. |People will conduct electricity (otherwise the electric chair wouldn't work), does that mean that people are made out of metal?
And if they float, they are witches! BUUURN..... er ahem.... carry on.
I'm all for the trees, but to be honest, I'm with the parent post.
This whole discussion started because there was question as to how to make an electric car from a gas. I've now dived through piles of steaming replies and nothing addresses this issue. If there was a conversion for my Prelude Si 4 wheel steering driving machine, I'm all for it. Until then, I'll wave when your waiting at the bus-stop.
Public/mass transit is a great idea in concept, but I'll be honest, I'm weirded out by contact with public facilities. Maybe I'm neurotic and need to see a shrink, but i can bet alot out there dislike the distinct urine smell of most public transit.
Mod me down/up, whatever. it would be nice to have something eco-friendly, I just don't see this guilt trip getting us there.
Yes but now they have 4 total people that Love the game and now reccomend it to their friends... only one copy floating around so everyone else has to buy their own.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you should write a note to ask the author. If he doesn't respond with an objection, you can take that as permission.
Also, enclose a towel with your note. He'll appreciate that.
It'd help him clean up after all that dirt some person threw on top of him
" 'Imagine what will happen when, decades from now, a president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who had access to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook at the age of 15."
This could work in alot of people's favor...
When applying as the Head of the Agriculture Department...
"As you can plainly see, I had several successful Farmville farms at age 15."
There is a good side, now the hackers that attacked google will be busy sifting through billions of texts saying,
"DOOD, too much rice-wine! just had sex with a goat! gonna hurl..."
here's an idea, I've done this before. Maintain your own OS, beit Windows 7, Linux, whatever. Then, buy a laptop or any hardware that fits your needs. Take the harddrive out, and replace it with one of your own, and install the OS on it.
Sure you don't get the bundled CRAP, that comes with it all, though in the end, you have a clean install that you can restore to factory specs in 5 minutes or less.
Most manufacturers have provisions for upgrading harddrives and memory in their warranty so there is no problem.
And yea, the services suck, worked GS for a year.. I felt like a tool every time i sold 400 dollars in upgrades to some old lady on Social Security and it only took an hour to complete. I got canned when I started telling them to just go get an e-machine instead (heck it was always ATLEAST twice the machine they were going to have after the upgrade at half the cost!)
Did I say you could talk!? CODE!!! *click*
I'll be honest, I used to help run a virtual Cathouse. The girls involved were VERY talented and took their 'job' very seriously, and we never had an unsatisfied customer. For some of the women, it helped them in Reality get over intimacy issues, or escape some real life hardships, much like some escape into a good book.
Those days are gone for numerous reasons, but not due to the lack of quality of the hired.
I run a set of sims, and this is always on my mind.
I don't ask Real life information because frankly, my customers don't want to give that up, and under Linden Labs TOS, that is a violation. With that contract between me and Linden Labs, I could not require RL information if I wanted to.
monthly I clear the costs of 3 'islands' (295/mo ea) and have to wonder if one day everyone will just poof. I doubt it, but it's a risk I take.
As for the client end (renters) they take the risk of me walking away and canceling my islands, but for their anonymousness, they tolerate that risk.
as one of the other posters said, no those rental contracts I have with them are not 'valid' which is why I simply have a pre-pay agreement with a statement of NO REFUNDS. so if you don't like the terms, don't rent.
My only safety net is to keep a reserve big enough to handle a complete loss of clients just before a billing date. It is just me RP'ing a land-lord, but at least my clients RP paying renters.
Wait for the bootleg, it'll be on all the torrents in no time
>WTF is a VFL clock?
I'm wagering Vacuum Florescent (technically VFD)... or Victorian Football League but I don't think he would have admitted to ice picking the entire Victorian Football League.
So, From what I can gather from this article is:
It detects Thermal differences and mannerisms as you approach the portal.
So if you have to take a raging dump because you have a FLU and your nervous about this new "don't worry, act normally" sign you see ahead of you, and your worried you'll get stopped and cause even worse embarrassment to you and your travel partners, your likely to get picked up.
This make me wanna fly just that much more.
I find it quite interesting, the most dogged article of the month, and it's about a program that allows Social interaction... On Slashdot?! Go Figure.
A few Stats for the naysayers:
50,000-75,000 players at any given time (24/7)
Well over a Million US Dollars spent daily in world.
Personally, I run 4 'sims' (16 acre chunks of land) and pull in a profit of well over 200-300 US Dollars a month. My community has well over 250 members, and atleast 50 of them are online daily and interact. To the (seems barren, and your always alone) crap, we usually average about 10 - 20 people in-city at any given time, around 40 at bi-weekly events. Personally I pull down 30 bucks in tips whenever we have a gathering.
No Sex/Furry/Slave/camping bullcrap.
The community is a Thriving place for friends, and hell I even get a chance to blow stuff up. Usually disassemble old buildings by Demolition (fire, boom crash).
Reuters Leaving Second Life, well cya. All they tended to do was report on useless stuff and their 'feeds' in world, lagged the hell out of servers.
As for crappy graphics... Hand any amateur a set of 3d tools, you shouldn't expect Fallout 3. Personally, I see graphics in world that blows away any MMO/RPG.
>I haven't quite figured out how to say that to my boss yet.
How about answering his next question "why were you late?" with, I had to pull over and let you finish talking on the phone... it's illegal you know."
Yes but they used a "beam pipe" not a "Peep pipe."
oooh yea, "Peep Pipes" we used to have those in college.. wooah that was awesome! ...is the room spinning or is that just me?
| In Animal Crossing, I don't run across furry malls with gigantic fox penises on the walls and laser-lit dance clubs.
yea, I liked SL better too...
In all seriousnes, I'm in SL Daily... haven't seen a "furry" in over 2 months, and about the same for a laser. It's not all furry heaven, just so happens, thats all anyone looks for. Most new Internet users jump online and look for all the nasty to 'prove' to their friends that it's as bad as they think. Thats like getting on the web and 'proving' that it's nothing but porn sites, by going to google and searching 'nipple'. Sex.com isn't going to give you a 3 page theses on time travel, so don't look there. in SL, don't look for meaningful conversation in the 'FoxXx's Den' on Fur Island.
| You sound like you've thought this through. ;-)
Na, saw it in a videogame...
funny this hits the headlines... as a kid, a friend and I experimented with binaural beats. Mostly it was to replace sleep, with 30 minute power naps using sound... and YES it worked.
After a while we started making mix-tapes for friends and they would use them to stay awake while studying.
One incident that comes to mind is we started to adjust the cycles to see 'how low we could go' and I brought my friends brain cycles down to around 1 cycle per second... and couldn't wake him up. I tried shaking him, water, everything... about a half hour later I had to resort to programming a cycle back up from 1/sec to 6-10/sec to drag him out of it. FINALLY he woke up but felt like crap.
Kinda freaked us out, but did prove once and for all that they do actually work.
knowing now the effectiveness of that experiment, heh, I'm going to hunt down some of these 'mixes' and see for myself!
WORD OF WARNING: In this state, one can inter-twine subconscious suggestions... these do have a deeper effect that without binaural interference! So it would be good to know your source!
A bit on my understanding of the process...
A typical biaural beat is based on a white or pink noise background. Sometimes utilizing music, but normally that tends to fail. then the white-noise is phase shifted slightly so there is a phase offset from left to right. individually, there is no way to know of the offset, but when you listen to both channels, it's like when someone hooks up a speaker incorrectly, it just sounds 'off'.
The human mind cannot perceive sound in the 10 hz range or lower, but using this perceived difference, it forces the brain to process this signal, and phased in a pattern, it can induce a symbiotic rhythm. Much like when you find yourself humming to match an ambient sound.
By matching the brains normal cycles 16-10 and slowly lowering them, the brain follows the pattern and can find itself lulled into a new state.
I'll tell you though, using this to lock yourself into a REM sleep cycle for an hour at a time can be amazing... completely Lucid dreams are possible. of course, so can completely Lucid Nightmares. Another word of caution, don't try this alone!
Really, I wonder how many times people have used bugs like this to steal an identity, only to find that it's all fake info anyhow.
Personally, every few years, I Re-invent someone... Use a fake(completely fake, not false) identity for everything from Cellphones to gmail.
I google my real name, nothing, google my 'fake' like 20 pages. My 'fake' identity is WAY more famous than I am... I'm kinda jealous.
Pee in moat.
Plug the VHS reader with the DVD recorder. Play the tape and record it on a DVDRW (using highest available quality). Voilà. That's the easiest way to do it, and the quality is good. Now put the DVDRW in your PC, and get the files (MPEG2 VOB), and use any software for editing them.
Mod this up... I've worked retail electronics and tech bench, and you can have the most elegant computer solution and still yet, the customer will stare at you blankly as it is so complex.
Fair enough, your coming into this expecting some difficulty.. but cmon.. just because you can chisel a wheel from a piece of cheese with a frozen carp, doesn't mean you need to.. buy a tire.
1. Person A inserts fixed amount of money into a machine.
2. Machine rolls a random number and determines the payout.
3. Machine returns an amount of money to the player.
you actually hit it on the head... but the trick is, the money is paid directly to the owner of the machine, then paid out IF the player wins.
Similar to relinquishing a token to a machine, it becomes the houses token, then if they win, they are paid an appropriate amount form the machine(if the machine has tokens and doesn't screw up, in which case, the house reserves the right to deny payment at all if they wish)
One big problem I have found is it is VERY easy to make the machines not pay out... also the odds are adjustable to VERY unfair levels.
so basically all you can do is game with friends and hope they can back a payout....
Oh ya, if they don't have the Lindens (in game money) it won't pay the jackpot.
The biggest problem the FBI is probably looking at, is there is no regulation. I could make a box look like a machine, run a random set of symbols across it, then just reply "nope sorry you lost. please play again"
This is one reason I keep my money in my account not theirs
What a stupid comment. If a carbon nanotube conducts electricity then it is by definition a metal.
|People will conduct electricity (otherwise the electric chair wouldn't work), does that mean that people are made out of metal?
And if they float, they are witches! BUUURN..... er ahem.... carry on.
I for one welcome our RNA Based..... HEEEY waitaminute... isn't the president DNA/RNA based?
OH GOD NO!
IT'S ALLREADY STARTED!
A new "Pimp My Anvil" mode will allow extensive anvil customization
OOOOh I want the lowered Anvil(TM), all flat and stylin!
I'm all for the trees, but to be honest, I'm with the parent post.
This whole discussion started because there was question as to how to make an electric car from a gas. I've now dived through piles of steaming replies and nothing addresses this issue. If there was a conversion for my Prelude Si 4 wheel steering driving machine, I'm all for it. Until then, I'll wave when your waiting at the bus-stop.
Public/mass transit is a great idea in concept, but I'll be honest, I'm weirded out by contact with public facilities. Maybe I'm neurotic and need to see a shrink, but i can bet alot out there dislike the distinct urine smell of most public transit.
Mod me down/up, whatever. it would be nice to have something eco-friendly, I just don't see this guilt trip getting us there.
Yes but now they have 4 total people that Love the game and now reccomend it to their friends... only one copy floating around so everyone else has to buy their own.