The big, huge meteor headed toward Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor--through some kind of a space warp or something. "Go, Bob, go " yelled one of the generals. "Give me that" said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. "Listen, Bob," he said. "you've got to steer that meteor away from Earth." "Yes, but how?" thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the the meteor.
Did you click on the link? Strangely enough, the site for Child's Play has no ads, no links to Penny Arcade, no mention of "buy our shirts" or anything else. It's a separate site that focuses on the charity alone. Sure, there's pictures of Gabe and Tycho, and the e-mail addresses are their PA ones, but that's about it.
Also, can YOU donate $350,000 alone? I don't think they can either.
Yes, but that's not where the bulk of Ontario's business is. Yes, there is billions in trade DAILY over the border, but possibly the most infulential business voices are those of the banks and trading firms. US Market opens at 9:30am ET. Toronto Stock Exchange also opens at 9:30am ET. Both close at 4pm ET. If the the exchanges are out of sync, then there will be huge arbitrage situation with interlisted securities. The fact of the matter is that the TSX is heavily dependent on US activity. On non-shared US holidays, Canadian trading volume drops tremendously. That one hour difference for a few weeks a year is a tremendous pain.
Well, running under the assumption that the goal is for children to still attend school instead of home-schooling, then the most obvious answer would be to organize carpooling and the like. Not that this is better organized by fiber-optics and high speed though. Set up a community board, or a school website that has forums for parents to organize such things. One would assume that most of the students live in the area, so why not discover that Jimmy's mom drives Jimmy to school every day, and he lives 2 streets over, so maybe Mrs. Jimmy's Mom can drive Sally too.
Actually, knowing even one other person's hand could help a fair bit. It immediately changes the outs you know are available to you, and could give you insight into what your opponents have.
Let's say you have a flush draw. You're friend is on, and you're chatting with him offsite at the same time. You're concerned someone has full house, a higher flush, 4 of a kind, or a straight flush. If he has cards that negate any of those possibilities, then you'll be more aggressively because you now have better odds. This naturally increases if you're playing with more people.
A card counter wouldn't really work, because the deck would be reshuffled every hand. As for during the hand, most good poker players can figure out their outs in their head anyway.
Ok, so I can see the argument against ISPs retaining all this information. It's comparable to the idea of the phone company recording all your calls and making them available to the government. What I don't agree with in the submission is the comment of the SEC requirements being a constitutional violation.
Every employee working for a brokerage firm is aware that ALL their communication is recorded. E-mail, phone calls, company-approved IM program logs, etc.. The paper tickets written out for some trades are kept for years afterwards in case of disagreement/lawsuits. You're using COMPANY e-mail, computers, servers, phones, etc., and when there are BILLIONS of dollars being traded daily, you're damned right they're going to want a record of everything.
None of this is accessed unless an investigation is launched by the SEC, and all parties are notified that tapes/logs will be accessed. If someone doesn't want personal information to be recorded, then they DON'T TRANSMIT IT ON COMPANY RESOURCES.
So please, how is this a constitutional violation?
Is this different than Restaurants on the Go here in Toronto? I can order online (or via the phone) from a rather large list of restaurants and have it delivered to my door. Sure, there's a delivery fee, but one might expect that.
So from your comment, one could assume you've seen the show? And one could also assume you're either unable to read or blind, since it's written QUITE CLEARLY on the posters, the playbill, and every piece of PR on the show that it is "lovingly ripped off" from the movie. It's the BLOODY TAGLINE for the show! Not to mention this exact comment has already been addressed at the top of the comments section.
yes.. yes it did. And a friend of mine wrote the original too. I remember the day she produced the crumply lined piece of paper she had hand-written it on in class a few years before I saw it. Ah, the minor, unknown celebrities of then net....
If you're looking at 802.11g for transmission, I'd assume you're taking intereference with your wireless network, 2.4GHz phones, and neighbours' wireless setups into account? Nothing like all your wireless/cordless devices not working at the same time and your neighbours upset at you:)
This article is on Canoe. Same story, different info, and much more thorough I think.
There's a great quote from the Judge as well, "I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service."
Interestingly enough, this was one of the applications Steve Mann would talk about for his wearcam. The theory was that a sudden increase in pulse rate, body-temperature, etc., would indicate an unexpected event - either good or bad (ie.- a mugging, an accident, or seeing fireworks). If you tied the camera to these responses, and it automatically took pictures, you'd have a record of all those times that "I wish I had a camera" comes up. Would be handy for criminal prosecution as well (in the case of the mugging). In his case, the images would be wirelessly transmitted to a base station though, so that even if the camera was taken or destroyed, the record would still exist. He's been talking about something like this for years now, and I believe even had some very rudimentary prototypes (ie.- a pulse reader, and a band around the chest to catch a sudden inhalation of breath).
Assuming they're AA or AAA batteries, they look like bullets on the x-ray. I remember going on a tour of an airport years ago, and this is one of the things they brought up. They also aren't fond of loose batteries.
Batteries lined-up end-to-end in a standard flashlight are commonplace, so they know what they are. A side-to-side configuration probably looks more like a loaded clip.
Easy, because I have a live quote feed in front of me with the company's ticker symbol (LNUX) and daily trading volume on it. Doesn't have the company's name at the moment, but that can be easily changed. If it makes you feel better, it's VA Software Corp.
What press? Slashdot stories don't count. Just did a Google news search on SCO... not one major media outlet on the first two pages. CNET was the biggest, and that's still directed towards techies. I work in a trading firm, and nobody I work with (granted, I'm not in the tech analysts area) have even HEARD of SCO, let alone the ongoing lawsuits and notices.
Trading volume on SCOX is THIN. about 1/20th of what IBM trades, not even 1% of Nortel's daily volume... hell, VA Linux (or whatever it's called now) trades more than 4x as much stock.
So no, there's is almost no mainstream press about SCO, we sit here with CNBC on all day and I don't think I've seen SCO mentioned once since this whole thing started. I've tried to point it out to traders around me, and they don't really care about the company one way or the other. Heck, the Reuters newsfeed on SCO barely has anything other than reports of large individual trades or press releases. But from Slashdot, you'd think that they've got major front-page headlines on 5 major newspapers, and an expose running on CNN 3 times a week.
So what you're getting is a small number of small-cap technology traders who have seen that this stock has skyrocketed in the past year, and they keep trading it in relatively small amounts. Speculative investors are seeing this as a company that's going up in value, and they want to get in while they can. When will the bubble collapse? When they lose in court, which could take years still, through stalling, appeals, etc.. Throw on top of that the very real possibility that they could actually WIN something if they get the right judge and convincing enough "experts" on their side. Even if they DO lose, since so few people outside of the tech circle care, the price could remain inflated for some time with the right amount of spin on the part of SCO, and investors trying to salvage their investment.
Just remember that just because everyone on Slashdot knows about it and knows it's bullshit doesn't mean that the rest of the world has a clue.
I'm not sure I agree with your statement about the quality-to-crap ratio. Oh, I agree that there's always been crap out there with the good stuff, but it seems that the good stuff had a lot more appeal and long-term potential than it does now. I haven't bought a CD from a new artist in years now, and I've barely downloaded any mp3s in the last 2 years. There is very little out there that I can stand to listen to more than a few times before I'm sick of it. However, Zeppelin, Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, Pearl Jam (mainly Ten), Coltrane, Getz, Peterson, etc, I have never gotten tired of.
The other problem is that a lot of the crap out there today is the mainstream stuff and the good music is underground and college radio play. Seems to be a turnaround from the past, where The Beatles, Stones, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Alice in Chains, Run DMC, Public Enemy, etc, got the airplay, and the one-hit wonders were just that. It's quite sad that the stuff we here is played because it's marketed so hard, and not because of its musical merit. Heard an interesting quote the other day: "Sure, Britney Spears will sell a ton of albums this month, but Pink Floyd has been selling tons of albums for years, even without recording anything new." It's all about short-term gain now.
Yah, I know I sound like a middle-aged hippie trying to hold on to the good old days, but I'm in my mid-20s and rather disappointed by what I hear today. The only time I hear anything I like is when a friend who buys random albums says, "Hey, you should listen to this band nobody's heard of." Of course, finding that band's album anywhere becomes a whole other challenge. Seriously, if every major band I heard didn't sound like every other band that comes out in the genre, I might be interested. Very rarely do I hear something that impresses me these days on the radio, which for better of for worse, IS the major marketing tool for CD sales.
According to this article it's only compatible with games that support the attachment (last paragraph). So any multiplayer games you already have won't have wireless multiplayer. Seems like a big strike against itm especially since I believe there are other wireless adapters for the GBA that DO work with existing games.
- Booze and TOTALLY NAKED women in our strip clubs - Toronto (much like NYC I think) allows women to walk around topless (not that any do, but the possibility is there) - Casinos popping up all over the place - An increasingly larger separation of Church and State (hence the allowed gay marriages) - Better beer - Cheaper CDs, DVDs, computer hardware, software, and just about any other form of entertainment - Cheaper medicine
Of course, a lot of this is paid for with much higher taxes, user fees, levies, and the fact we all live in igloos and have to hunt baby seals once the snow starts in August.
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The big, huge meteor headed toward Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor--through some kind of a space warp or something. "Go, Bob, go " yelled one of the generals. "Give me that" said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. "Listen, Bob," he said. "you've got to steer that meteor away from Earth." "Yes, but how?" thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the the meteor.
Did you click on the link? Strangely enough, the site for Child's Play has no ads, no links to Penny Arcade, no mention of "buy our shirts" or anything else. It's a separate site that focuses on the charity alone. Sure, there's pictures of Gabe and Tycho, and the e-mail addresses are their PA ones, but that's about it.
Also, can YOU donate $350,000 alone? I don't think they can either.
Ok.. not most of Max Payne, but the nightmare/hallucination scenes? Really creepy as you try to follow the cries of your baby.
Of course, System Shock 2 as well... 7th Guest had its moments.
Let us not forget getting chased by those ghosts in Super Mario either..
Yes, but that's not where the bulk of Ontario's business is. Yes, there is billions in trade DAILY over the border, but possibly the most infulential business voices are those of the banks and trading firms. US Market opens at 9:30am ET. Toronto Stock Exchange also opens at 9:30am ET. Both close at 4pm ET. If the the exchanges are out of sync, then there will be huge arbitrage situation with interlisted securities. The fact of the matter is that the TSX is heavily dependent on US activity. On non-shared US holidays, Canadian trading volume drops tremendously. That one hour difference for a few weeks a year is a tremendous pain.
Bill Gates is suspected of having Asperger's Syndrome. His nervous ticks, inability to sit still, lack of social graces, etc., point to this.
There's also been an article or two recently (including one on Slashdot I believe) about how many executives are socio/psychopaths.
Imagine Katamari Damacy with that controller. Whole new level of fun.
Well, running under the assumption that the goal is for children to still attend school instead of home-schooling, then the most obvious answer would be to organize carpooling and the like. Not that this is better organized by fiber-optics and high speed though. Set up a community board, or a school website that has forums for parents to organize such things. One would assume that most of the students live in the area, so why not discover that Jimmy's mom drives Jimmy to school every day, and he lives 2 streets over, so maybe Mrs. Jimmy's Mom can drive Sally too.
Actually, knowing even one other person's hand could help a fair bit. It immediately changes the outs you know are available to you, and could give you insight into what your opponents have.
Let's say you have a flush draw. You're friend is on, and you're chatting with him offsite at the same time. You're concerned someone has full house, a higher flush, 4 of a kind, or a straight flush. If he has cards that negate any of those possibilities, then you'll be more aggressively because you now have better odds. This naturally increases if you're playing with more people.
A card counter wouldn't really work, because the deck would be reshuffled every hand. As for during the hand, most good poker players can figure out their outs in their head anyway.
Why just video? Why not make it interactive? Put speakers and a microphone one there, and record a series of responses to different people.
"Hi Billy, it's Sarah."
"Hello Sarah... I hope you're doing okay."
"I miss you."
"I don't miss you. But hey, I'm dead, so I'm not really feeling anything. Especially since my nerves have long ago rotted away."
"Umm.. I think I'm going to go now."
"No baby, don't leave. I didn't mean it. Here, I got you flowers...they're right there on my tombstone."
etc.. etc.
Ok, so I can see the argument against ISPs retaining all this information. It's comparable to the idea of the phone company recording all your calls and making them available to the government. What I don't agree with in the submission is the comment of the SEC requirements being a constitutional violation.
Every employee working for a brokerage firm is aware that ALL their communication is recorded. E-mail, phone calls, company-approved IM program logs, etc.. The paper tickets written out for some trades are kept for years afterwards in case of disagreement/lawsuits. You're using COMPANY e-mail, computers, servers, phones, etc., and when there are BILLIONS of dollars being traded daily, you're damned right they're going to want a record of everything.
None of this is accessed unless an investigation is launched by the SEC, and all parties are notified that tapes/logs will be accessed. If someone doesn't want personal information to be recorded, then they DON'T TRANSMIT IT ON COMPANY RESOURCES.
So please, how is this a constitutional violation?
Is this different than Restaurants on the Go here in Toronto? I can order online (or via the phone) from a rather large list of restaurants and have it delivered to my door. Sure, there's a delivery fee, but one might expect that.
So from your comment, one could assume you've seen the show? And one could also assume you're either unable to read or blind, since it's written QUITE CLEARLY on the posters, the playbill, and every piece of PR on the show that it is "lovingly ripped off" from the movie. It's the BLOODY TAGLINE for the show! Not to mention this exact comment has already been addressed at the top of the comments section.
Stupid English.
He's leaving for 6 months to film the next season of Huff. Then he's back. Alan Tudyk is replacing him in the interim.
yes.. yes it did. And a friend of mine wrote the original too. I remember the day she produced the crumply lined piece of paper she had hand-written it on in class a few years before I saw it. Ah, the minor, unknown celebrities of then net....
If you're looking at 802.11g for transmission, I'd assume you're taking intereference with your wireless network, 2.4GHz phones, and neighbours' wireless setups into account? Nothing like all your wireless/cordless devices not working at the same time and your neighbours upset at you :)
This article is on Canoe. Same story, different info, and much more thorough I think.
There's a great quote from the Judge as well, "I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service."
Wow, I'm impressed you were able to track down my old reply to another post and copy it
VERBATIM. A link to the original would have been courteous.
Interestingly enough, this was one of the applications Steve Mann would talk about for his wearcam. The theory was that a sudden increase in pulse rate, body-temperature, etc., would indicate an unexpected event - either good or bad (ie.- a mugging, an accident, or seeing fireworks). If you tied the camera to these responses, and it automatically took pictures, you'd have a record of all those times that "I wish I had a camera" comes up. Would be handy for criminal prosecution as well (in the case of the mugging). In his case, the images would be wirelessly transmitted to a base station though, so that even if the camera was taken or destroyed, the record would still exist. He's been talking about something like this for years now, and I believe even had some very rudimentary prototypes (ie.- a pulse reader, and a band around the chest to catch a sudden inhalation of breath).
Assuming they're AA or AAA batteries, they look like bullets on the x-ray. I remember going on a tour of an airport years ago, and this is one of the things they brought up. They also aren't fond of loose batteries.
Batteries lined-up end-to-end in a standard flashlight are commonplace, so they know what they are. A side-to-side configuration probably looks more like a loaded clip.
Easy, because I have a live quote feed in front of me with the company's ticker symbol (LNUX) and daily trading volume on it. Doesn't have the company's name at the moment, but that can be easily changed. If it makes you feel better, it's VA Software Corp.
What press? Slashdot stories don't count. Just did a Google news search on SCO... not one major media outlet on the first two pages. CNET was the biggest, and that's still directed towards techies. I work in a trading firm, and nobody I work with (granted, I'm not in the tech analysts area) have even HEARD of SCO, let alone the ongoing lawsuits and notices.
Trading volume on SCOX is THIN. about 1/20th of what IBM trades, not even 1% of Nortel's daily volume... hell, VA Linux (or whatever it's called now) trades more than 4x as much stock.
So no, there's is almost no mainstream press about SCO, we sit here with CNBC on all day and I don't think I've seen SCO mentioned once since this whole thing started. I've tried to point it out to traders around me, and they don't really care about the company one way or the other. Heck, the Reuters newsfeed on SCO barely has anything other than reports of large individual trades or press releases. But from Slashdot, you'd think that they've got major front-page headlines on 5 major newspapers, and an expose running on CNN 3 times a week.
So what you're getting is a small number of small-cap technology traders who have seen that this stock has skyrocketed in the past year, and they keep trading it in relatively small amounts. Speculative investors are seeing this as a company that's going up in value, and they want to get in while they can. When will the bubble collapse? When they lose in court, which could take years still, through stalling, appeals, etc.. Throw on top of that the very real possibility that they could actually WIN something if they get the right judge and convincing enough "experts" on their side. Even if they DO lose, since so few people outside of the tech circle care, the price could remain inflated for some time with the right amount of spin on the part of SCO, and investors trying to salvage their investment.
Just remember that just because everyone on Slashdot knows about it and knows it's bullshit doesn't mean that the rest of the world has a clue.
I'm not sure I agree with your statement about the quality-to-crap ratio. Oh, I agree that there's always been crap out there with the good stuff, but it seems that the good stuff had a lot more appeal and long-term potential than it does now. I haven't bought a CD from a new artist in years now, and I've barely downloaded any mp3s in the last 2 years. There is very little out there that I can stand to listen to more than a few times before I'm sick of it. However, Zeppelin, Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, Pearl Jam (mainly Ten), Coltrane, Getz, Peterson, etc, I have never gotten tired of.
The other problem is that a lot of the crap out there today is the mainstream stuff and the good music is underground and college radio play. Seems to be a turnaround from the past, where The Beatles, Stones, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Alice in Chains, Run DMC, Public Enemy, etc, got the airplay, and the one-hit wonders were just that. It's quite sad that the stuff we here is played because it's marketed so hard, and not because of its musical merit. Heard an interesting quote the other day: "Sure, Britney Spears will sell a ton of albums this month, but Pink Floyd has been selling tons of albums for years, even without recording anything new." It's all about short-term gain now.
Yah, I know I sound like a middle-aged hippie trying to hold on to the good old days, but I'm in my mid-20s and rather disappointed by what I hear today. The only time I hear anything I like is when a friend who buys random albums says, "Hey, you should listen to this band nobody's heard of." Of course, finding that band's album anywhere becomes a whole other challenge. Seriously, if every major band I heard didn't sound like every other band that comes out in the genre, I might be interested. Very rarely do I hear something that impresses me these days on the radio, which for better of for worse, IS the major marketing tool for CD sales.
According to this article it's only compatible with games that support the attachment (last paragraph). So any multiplayer games you already have won't have wireless multiplayer. Seems like a big strike against itm especially since I believe there are other wireless adapters for the GBA that DO work with existing games.
I could buy a spindle of 100 CDRs for $32 (CDN)... so $0.32 each.
Works out to about $0.23 each in US$.. or $0.27 after taxes.
- Booze and TOTALLY NAKED women in our strip clubs
- Toronto (much like NYC I think) allows women to walk around topless (not that any do, but the possibility is there)
- Casinos popping up all over the place
- An increasingly larger separation of Church and State (hence the allowed gay marriages)
- Better beer
- Cheaper CDs, DVDs, computer hardware, software, and just about any other form of entertainment
- Cheaper medicine
Of course, a lot of this is paid for with much higher taxes, user fees, levies, and the fact we all live in igloos and have to hunt baby seals once the snow starts in August.