Yes, there are more women than men. Even among the people in my friend's list, there are more women (and I know more men than women in real life.) I suppose the low amount of bad photography is pretty amazing, but most people who have myspace accounts will have a digital camera or at least access to one, and then the opportunity to choose which pictures to post. When you see really bad pictures on the internet, chances are it's from a cell phone. Have you been on the internet lately? Noone uses incomplete sentences anymore. Of course most profiles will have the same appearance, changing the layout of your profile page is actually quite non-intuitive. Not hard, just not intuitive (basically css coded into the "about me" section" doesn't sit right with me. Kinda Kludgy)
Of course there will be a lot of people linking from Craigslist to Myspace. There are also lots of people linking from Myspace to Craigslist or Blogspot. Of course people are "trying to get their message heard" or whatever (Yeah, I know, it's all just a form of social positioning, trying to become alpha)
Not to say there aren't a whole lot of fake accounts, in particular there are three kinds: 1)The picture of an attractive model with a link to "Come check out my pictures:b"
2)The picture of an attractive model with a link to "I now have a webcam;b"
3)The picture of a model stolen from some modeling agencies site with an invitation to email at "xxxisweariwontharvestyouradressforspam1234xxx@hot mail.com"
Whenever you set up a free information service, people are going to abuse it for advertising. That's why there's the option to report messages as spam/abuse and to block individual users.
Molecular assembly could indeed stave off the food problem, but I have trouble believing that this would be much more energy effecient than current crop production. Once we run out of fossil fuels, once we have harnessed as much energy of the sun as we can economically do (in all forms: photovoltaic, solar, wind, biofuels etc) once our nuclear tech (of which the mining and purification of fissionable materials is mostly fossil fuel powered) has been put to the limit, then our terrestrial food production capacity will have been met, unless we achieve some holy grail of cheap energy. (I'm not disagreeing with you at all, just extending the thought process)
Energy brings us back to the main topic, I suppose; how much energy would using these magnetic engines use? I would be willing to bet that it would require at least as much energy to use this for propulsion as it would to utilize traditional thrust. The energy required to tear through the fabric of space/time and open up portals through higher dimensions would probably be at least equal to that needed to thrust your vessel through space. Simply creating the gravitational effects (assuming that magnets even do this) for standard impulse propulsion would require massive amounts of energy.
Ahh... that's Alex Chiu, one of the greatest net.kooks out there. He's even been on a Slashdot Interview! He sells immortality rings (magnets you wear on your pinkeys while you sleep) believes deeply in the Torah Code (such as that in the movie Pi) and wants to invent a teleportation machine. Although for some reason I can't get his site up...
What is tripulation? I searched and couldn't find an exact definition, although I did find several references of the word in a language other than english (appears to be romantic language. Portugese maybe?) The closest I could come up with is a line of a translation of a review of a Brazilian sci-fi movie (Hmm... Portugese may have been a good guess.)
In context, it appears that "crew" may be a decent substitute for tripulation, am I close?
With a large enough population sink, we would eventually reach a point where the human population of earth does not increase. We would also eventually reach this without the sink, but it would involve high mortality rates. Basically, we will eventually come to a time when there are not enough resources to feed everyone. I personally think we are a far way away from that, but there is a cap to how many people the earth can hold. The problem is that once we break that cap, we would probably change the environment such that the cap goes down, and therefore there will be a huge mortality rate.
Honestly, it isn't so much that Einstein came up with all these great ideas. What Einstein did was melt down all these complex ideas and then explain them in a way that the common person (okay, at least the average college student) could understand. One might think it stemmed from the difficulty he had in math class... since most theoretical physics is described in pure equations of higher order math, most people simply wouldn't get it. Einstein broke the concepts down into words.
Yeah... that holds true of just about every little thing reported when I've had personal experiences with the event. Not only do they get the general topic completely off base, but you'll find some places inventing little interesting details that just aren't there.
Exactly. His campaign against the Jews was to punish them for killing Jesus. Granted, if Christianity were to be at all true, the Jews would have no sin upon them for the act because Jesus himself asked God to forgive them.
If/when the MPAA get a clue? Trying this does not seem like it would be in their best interests. Offering TV shows for download for $2.00 is not the same as offering a movie for download for $2.00. I assume these were all half hour episodes offered (could be wrong here) minus commercials is 20 minutes of show at best. So, you're paying $1 for every ten minutes of programming. A movie is longer than 20 minutes; releasing a 120 minute movie for the same price would be about 1/6 as profitable per minute (and I believe producing 1 minute of movie costs more than producing 1 minute of TV show) or it would cost $12.00 a movie to download, and who would pay that price? They could try some compromise, but there may simply not be a point between where releasing a movie for download on the internet is profitable for a movie company. Either the fee won't offset the costs (including potential costs of very easy piracy, and the opportunity cost of potential loss of sales of physical media) or it will be so high that nobody is willing to pay it and so get no return on the investment of setting up the store, advertising, support, tracking sales, etc etc etc.
Or if the computer could tell the vintner subtle variations in temperature or other factors during the fermentation process which would help improve the wine. Maybe evnetually the computer could help determine which woods would be the best for storing a certain batch. Computers wouldn't really be able to help a bad winemaker make good wine, but they could help a good winemaker make better wine.
A lot more visitors now that it's on Slashdot. Except I have no idea how likely/.ers would be to click the ads linked. But the advertisers did pay $1 per pixel, which isn't too bad on their end, even as a lark.
I had a feeling it was a joke, and kinda rolled with it. I responded half jokingly. I guess it would have come off better in person. And honestly, I didn't think the original article was all that good. I tried to put that in somewhere, but just made the whole thing feel uneven, and I figured that since truth is beauty, I... I... I have no idea where I'm going with this.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm bored. Happy New Year!
Yeah, after looking into it that would probably be enough bandwith for decent sound. Especially considering the source is going to be compressed anyways. But I thought the white cables was part of the "iPod chic." Especially if you wear all black.
Offtopic, but one of my friends dressed as an iPod commercial thing for halloween. Man, that was creepy. She literally blended into the shadows, as her clothing was black and all exposed skin was painted black. I'd be talking to someone else, and all of a sudden she was just there right next to me.
Or even better, create a "contains no DRM" label and regulate its use.. yes that would be good.
Oh god, I could see this going the way of the "certified organic" label where large corpo-farms tried to get the definitions of certified organic changed to allow for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineered crops. Which sounds... assinine... but I seem to recall this being pushed for. But then again it's been years since I've really cared about organic food (I agree in theory that it could be higher quality, except I can't afford it, which means that many people can't afford it.)
10. Market share still sucks
This really only affects no. 6: the selection for games isn't all that hot.
9. iPod still can't do bluetooth
Why would you want your iPod to do bluetooth? transfering music at 2-12 MB/s would be painfully slow compared to Firewire or even USB2.0. And that wire you plug in? It recharges the iPod. Unless you want to transfer the music FROM the iPod via bluetooth, which means it has to be compressed far enough to push it through that little pipe: yuck. That leaves... a bluetooth remote control. Yippie, that would be SOOO useful.
8. Market share is what 3% or something now
See number 10.
7. Turns out the G5 wasn't a supercomputer on a chip
Have no comment, as I'm not really a mac hardware guy.
6. No Civ IV
Yes, Macs have been known to lack on games, especially since Bungie has been drawn over to "The Dark Side." I thought the macintosh was a hip and trendy tool for getting stuff done, not a toy for playing games. Games go in the living room, not the office.
5. Have to wait more than 3 months for 10.5
How long do Windows users have to wait till Vista? Will there actually be any new features?
4. Mac mini turned out not do have anything to do with Tivo
I thought it was just a little Macintosh. Taking the iMac concept without the builtin monitor. Perfect for a living room media box (play mp3s you downloaded^H^H^H... err... AACs purchased from iTunes.
3. Damn, that market share sucks
So... are YOU happy using your Mac? Now you get to gloat over being exclusive and not part of the unwashed masses. Besides, I really doubt Macintosh as a single company would be able to consistantly handle production of such a high volume of computers and maintain such tight integration of their hardware while keeping prices reasonable. PCs are primarilly so ubiquitous because of all the different companies offering piecemeal upgrades to individual components: this really doesn't fit into the Apple perspective of tight integration between hardware and software (I've never seen driver hell on an Apple like I have on a PC.)
2. OS X still can't read minds
I suppose you have a point there.
1. Fucking market share
Tell me, how do you really feel about Apple's market share? I think you're holding back.
Oh, and regarding iPod competitors emerge: eh. again, I felt the article was saying that the tight integration between iTunes and the iPod made it a winning combination. It was the video aspect that they felt was entry level, and the author didn't even specifically say that it was entry level for portable video players, could have meant video players in general (probably stretching here.) I have no experience or authority to comment on this feeling, as I generally think that portable movies are a bit too extravagant. But they also felt that, unlike the WMV versions, the iPod video is not painful to use.
But yeah, whenever the author mentioned Apple, it seemed to be saying "Hey PC industry, you're doing this all wrong. Look how Apple did it." Oh, and it makes sense to be PCcentric since the website is modder/gamer focused which, sorry to say, falls mostly outside the realm of Mac enthusiasts. probably because 1)Macs are generally built to be less user servicable 2)macs are already designed to look nice and 3)Well, let's refer to point number 6 that you made. There's not a whole lot of video games on a Mac. But fear not, because I feel that those used to the macintosh Aesthetic would be pleased playing video games on this. I mean... color scheme, simple layout, and that controller just screams "think different." And you know the Revolution will have Mario Kart, and that Macintosh people actually would have friends to play it with. And imagine the realism if they would import the fishing mini-game from Zelda Ocarina of time to the Revolution.
While number 3 is important, I feel that number 9 is the most important. I feel that Sony or any company would be completely within their rights to put DRM or whatever into their music, as long as they let the customer know this before actually paying for it or installing potentially spyware laden software on the computer (if the media company contracted for the software, it would not be trivial to insure that spyware's not bundled or if the software opens up backdoors, even intentionally.
If someone still thinks it's worth it, then they can feel free to go ahead and buy the music/software/whatever. But including something like this (or even including restrictive terms of service in the EULA) in such a manner that the customer wouldn't be reasonably expected to find out untill after they purchased it (And has no legal recourse for refunds) or worse yet, comes to harm because of the DRM, is in my opinion dishonest at best.
My guess is that since these stats are put out by AOL, this is in reality a "Top ten spam subject lines recieved by AOL servers."
Some spammer who used the Donald Trump thing probably decided to simply try [lots of potential email addresses]@aol.com. AOL users have a stereotype of being less computer literate, (or at least less "net savy*") and so more likely to actually make money for spammers.
*Man, I do hate that term. Up there with "Information superhighway" and the whole late 90's trend of putting an e before anything that had to do with computers: e-commerce, e-business, e-culture, e-personality and so on. For a while it got me even annoyed at the word e-mail (it's email in my mind: one word)
While this is technically opt out, I don't believe that it would be legally unsolicited. I thought that having a prior business relationship with a company gives them a lot more leeway in being able to communicate with you. More importantly, in my limited experience companies that have an opt in/out button that is actually functional to any degree will actually respect unsubscribe requests.
Another big physical problem I could see with earbuds is holding in humidity and heat. This could in theory make a better environment for fungus, bacteria and whatever other nasties to thrive. After wearing earbuds for a while, my ear gets itchy and I really get the urge to clean them out with a q-tip or whatever.
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Yes, there are more women than men. Even among the people in my friend's list, there are more women (and I know more men than women in real life.) I suppose the low amount of bad photography is pretty amazing, but most people who have myspace accounts will have a digital camera or at least access to one, and then the opportunity to choose which pictures to post. When you see really bad pictures on the internet, chances are it's from a cell phone. Have you been on the internet lately? Noone uses incomplete sentences anymore. Of course most profiles will have the same appearance, changing the layout of your profile page is actually quite non-intuitive. Not hard, just not intuitive (basically css coded into the "about me" section" doesn't sit right with me. Kinda Kludgy)
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Of course there will be a lot of people linking from Craigslist to Myspace. There are also lots of people linking from Myspace to Craigslist or Blogspot. Of course people are "trying to get their message heard" or whatever (Yeah, I know, it's all just a form of social positioning, trying to become alpha)
Not to say there aren't a whole lot of fake accounts, in particular there are three kinds: 1)The picture of an attractive model with a link to "Come check out my pictures
2)The picture of an attractive model with a link to "I now have a webcam
3)The picture of a model stolen from some modeling agencies site with an invitation to email at "xxxisweariwontharvestyouradressforspam1234xxx@ho
Whenever you set up a free information service, people are going to abuse it for advertising. That's why there's the option to report messages as spam/abuse and to block individual users.
Molecular assembly could indeed stave off the food problem, but I have trouble believing that this would be much more energy effecient than current crop production. Once we run out of fossil fuels, once we have harnessed as much energy of the sun as we can economically do (in all forms: photovoltaic, solar, wind, biofuels etc) once our nuclear tech (of which the mining and purification of fissionable materials is mostly fossil fuel powered) has been put to the limit, then our terrestrial food production capacity will have been met, unless we achieve some holy grail of cheap energy. (I'm not disagreeing with you at all, just extending the thought process)
Energy brings us back to the main topic, I suppose; how much energy would using these magnetic engines use? I would be willing to bet that it would require at least as much energy to use this for propulsion as it would to utilize traditional thrust. The energy required to tear through the fabric of space/time and open up portals through higher dimensions would probably be at least equal to that needed to thrust your vessel through space. Simply creating the gravitational effects (assuming that magnets even do this) for standard impulse propulsion would require massive amounts of energy.
Ahh... that's Alex Chiu, one of the greatest net.kooks out there. He's even been on a Slashdot Interview! He sells immortality rings (magnets you wear on your pinkeys while you sleep) believes deeply in the Torah Code (such as that in the movie Pi) and wants to invent a teleportation machine. Although for some reason I can't get his site up...
What is tripulation? I searched and couldn't find an exact definition, although I did find several references of the word in a language other than english (appears to be romantic language. Portugese maybe?) The closest I could come up with is a line of a translation of a review of a Brazilian sci-fi movie (Hmm... Portugese may have been a good guess.)
In context, it appears that "crew" may be a decent substitute for tripulation, am I close?
With a large enough population sink, we would eventually reach a point where the human population of earth does not increase. We would also eventually reach this without the sink, but it would involve high mortality rates. Basically, we will eventually come to a time when there are not enough resources to feed everyone. I personally think we are a far way away from that, but there is a cap to how many people the earth can hold. The problem is that once we break that cap, we would probably change the environment such that the cap goes down, and therefore there will be a huge mortality rate.
Honestly, it isn't so much that Einstein came up with all these great ideas. What Einstein did was melt down all these complex ideas and then explain them in a way that the common person (okay, at least the average college student) could understand. One might think it stemmed from the difficulty he had in math class... since most theoretical physics is described in pure equations of higher order math, most people simply wouldn't get it. Einstein broke the concepts down into words.
Yeah... that holds true of just about every little thing reported when I've had personal experiences with the event. Not only do they get the general topic completely off base, but you'll find some places inventing little interesting details that just aren't there.
Exactly. His campaign against the Jews was to punish them for killing Jesus. Granted, if Christianity were to be at all true, the Jews would have no sin upon them for the act because Jesus himself asked God to forgive them.
I propose that someone write a article on the ten worst top-ten articles of 2005.
If/when the MPAA get a clue? Trying this does not seem like it would be in their best interests. Offering TV shows for download for $2.00 is not the same as offering a movie for download for $2.00. I assume these were all half hour episodes offered (could be wrong here) minus commercials is 20 minutes of show at best. So, you're paying $1 for every ten minutes of programming. A movie is longer than 20 minutes; releasing a 120 minute movie for the same price would be about 1/6 as profitable per minute (and I believe producing 1 minute of movie costs more than producing 1 minute of TV show) or it would cost $12.00 a movie to download, and who would pay that price? They could try some compromise, but there may simply not be a point between where releasing a movie for download on the internet is profitable for a movie company. Either the fee won't offset the costs (including potential costs of very easy piracy, and the opportunity cost of potential loss of sales of physical media) or it will be so high that nobody is willing to pay it and so get no return on the investment of setting up the store, advertising, support, tracking sales, etc etc etc.
I imagine this would be a start
Or if the computer could tell the vintner subtle variations in temperature or other factors during the fermentation process which would help improve the wine. Maybe evnetually the computer could help determine which woods would be the best for storing a certain batch. Computers wouldn't really be able to help a bad winemaker make good wine, but they could help a good winemaker make better wine.
Firefox 1.5?
A lot more visitors now that it's on Slashdot. Except I have no idea how likely /.ers would be to click the ads linked. But the advertisers did pay $1 per pixel, which isn't too bad on their end, even as a lark.
I had a feeling it was a joke, and kinda rolled with it. I responded half jokingly. I guess it would have come off better in person. And honestly, I didn't think the original article was all that good. I tried to put that in somewhere, but just made the whole thing feel uneven, and I figured that since truth is beauty, I... I... I have no idea where I'm going with this.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm bored. Happy New Year!
Cream Savers candy are like Life Savers, but with creamy stripes. This picture might clarify things for you.
Yeah, after looking into it that would probably be enough bandwith for decent sound. Especially considering the source is going to be compressed anyways. But I thought the white cables was part of the "iPod chic." Especially if you wear all black.
Offtopic, but one of my friends dressed as an iPod commercial thing for halloween. Man, that was creepy. She literally blended into the shadows, as her clothing was black and all exposed skin was painted black. I'd be talking to someone else, and all of a sudden she was just there right next to me.
Or even better, create a "contains no DRM" label and regulate its use.. yes that would be good.
Oh god, I could see this going the way of the "certified organic" label where large corpo-farms tried to get the definitions of certified organic changed to allow for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineered crops. Which sounds... assinine... but I seem to recall this being pushed for. But then again it's been years since I've really cared about organic food (I agree in theory that it could be higher quality, except I can't afford it, which means that many people can't afford it.)
10. Market share still sucks
This really only affects no. 6: the selection for games isn't all that hot.
9. iPod still can't do bluetooth
Why would you want your iPod to do bluetooth? transfering music at 2-12 MB/s would be painfully slow compared to Firewire or even USB2.0. And that wire you plug in? It recharges the iPod. Unless you want to transfer the music FROM the iPod via bluetooth, which means it has to be compressed far enough to push it through that little pipe: yuck. That leaves... a bluetooth remote control. Yippie, that would be SOOO useful.
8. Market share is what 3% or something now
See number 10.
7. Turns out the G5 wasn't a supercomputer on a chip
Have no comment, as I'm not really a mac hardware guy.
6. No Civ IV
Yes, Macs have been known to lack on games, especially since Bungie has been drawn over to "The Dark Side." I thought the macintosh was a hip and trendy tool for getting stuff done, not a toy for playing games. Games go in the living room, not the office.
5. Have to wait more than 3 months for 10.5
How long do Windows users have to wait till Vista? Will there actually be any new features?
4. Mac mini turned out not do have anything to do with Tivo
I thought it was just a little Macintosh. Taking the iMac concept without the builtin monitor. Perfect for a living room media box (play mp3s you downloaded^H^H^H... err... AACs purchased from iTunes.
3. Damn, that market share sucks
So... are YOU happy using your Mac? Now you get to gloat over being exclusive and not part of the unwashed masses. Besides, I really doubt Macintosh as a single company would be able to consistantly handle production of such a high volume of computers and maintain such tight integration of their hardware while keeping prices reasonable. PCs are primarilly so ubiquitous because of all the different companies offering piecemeal upgrades to individual components: this really doesn't fit into the Apple perspective of tight integration between hardware and software (I've never seen driver hell on an Apple like I have on a PC.)
2. OS X still can't read minds
I suppose you have a point there.
1. Fucking market share
Tell me, how do you really feel about Apple's market share? I think you're holding back. Oh, and regarding iPod competitors emerge:
eh. again, I felt the article was saying that the tight integration between iTunes and the iPod made it a winning combination. It was the video aspect that they felt was entry level, and the author didn't even specifically say that it was entry level for portable video players, could have meant video players in general (probably stretching here.) I have no experience or authority to comment on this feeling, as I generally think that portable movies are a bit too extravagant. But they also felt that, unlike the WMV versions, the iPod video is not painful to use.
But yeah, whenever the author mentioned Apple, it seemed to be saying "Hey PC industry, you're doing this all wrong. Look how Apple did it." Oh, and it makes sense to be PCcentric since the website is modder/gamer focused which, sorry to say, falls mostly outside the realm of Mac enthusiasts. probably because 1)Macs are generally built to be less user servicable 2)macs are already designed to look nice and 3)Well, let's refer to point number 6 that you made. There's not a whole lot of video games on a Mac. But fear not, because I feel that those used to the macintosh Aesthetic would be pleased playing video games on this. I mean... color scheme, simple layout, and that controller just screams "think different." And you know the Revolution will have Mario Kart, and that Macintosh people actually would have friends to play it with. And imagine the realism if they would import the fishing mini-game from Zelda Ocarina of time to the Revolution.
While number 3 is important, I feel that number 9 is the most important. I feel that Sony or any company would be completely within their rights to put DRM or whatever into their music, as long as they let the customer know this before actually paying for it or installing potentially spyware laden software on the computer (if the media company contracted for the software, it would not be trivial to insure that spyware's not bundled or if the software opens up backdoors, even intentionally.
If someone still thinks it's worth it, then they can feel free to go ahead and buy the music/software/whatever. But including something like this (or even including restrictive terms of service in the EULA) in such a manner that the customer wouldn't be reasonably expected to find out untill after they purchased it (And has no legal recourse for refunds) or worse yet, comes to harm because of the DRM, is in my opinion dishonest at best.
My guess is that since these stats are put out by AOL, this is in reality a "Top ten spam subject lines recieved by AOL servers."
Some spammer who used the Donald Trump thing probably decided to simply try [lots of potential email addresses]@aol.com. AOL users have a stereotype of being less computer literate, (or at least less "net savy*") and so more likely to actually make money for spammers.
*Man, I do hate that term. Up there with "Information superhighway" and the whole late 90's trend of putting an e before anything that had to do with computers: e-commerce, e-business, e-culture, e-personality and so on. For a while it got me even annoyed at the word e-mail (it's email in my mind: one word)
What this will do is prevent zombie networks from sending out spam.
I believe the whitehouse guideline was a clarification on the privacy act of 1974, which is law. I doubt this guideling has been court tested, though.
While this is technically opt out, I don't believe that it would be legally unsolicited. I thought that having a prior business relationship with a company gives them a lot more leeway in being able to communicate with you. More importantly, in my limited experience companies that have an opt in/out button that is actually functional to any degree will actually respect unsubscribe requests.
Another big physical problem I could see with earbuds is holding in humidity and heat. This could in theory make a better environment for fungus, bacteria and whatever other nasties to thrive. After wearing earbuds for a while, my ear gets itchy and I really get the urge to clean them out with a q-tip or whatever.