What is Bluetooth used for? To eliminate wires? Are you serious? What did you think it was used for? It allows for wireless headsets and audio transmission and slow data transmission and other things. The range can be measured in tens of feet.
So yes, the point is to eliminate the wires. Like the one running from the phone to your earpiece. Or to your headphones. Or to your keyboard and mouse. These can all use bluetooth.
I have seriously broken both arms (not at the same time, mind you), and it never really hurt to any great degree. The last time, I broke my right arm completely in half, and the bone shifted out of place enough to be pulled backwards due to the muscle tension. This gave my arm a rather interesting "S" shape, bending entirely the wrong way. It did not hurt because, well, when you break your arm, you kinda know it and immediately go into a bit of shock. So I grabbed the break and held it in place until my dad came and took me to the hospital. By the time we got there, at a rather leisurely pace mind you, I was swinging it freely, without even thinking about it. The other people in the waiting room were shocked at the sight of it, but the nurses had no problem with it. They've seen worse.
Broken bones don't really hurt unless they a) grind, b) shatter, or c) pinch something else with nerves in it. Bones don't have nerves in them.
1. There is no elegant offline viewing of email. When "on the go" I don't have access to an internet connection half the time so I can't read my gmail. (I don't want the overhead of the entire Google Desktop and that is a hack anyway). Plus, Gmail has been unavailable to me 3 times already this week (Error: please try back later). I've never seen Gmail unavailable, except when Google actually went down due to DNS issues between me and them.
However, with GMail mobile running on my cell phone (Java app for mobiles, browse to http://gmail.com/app ), I'm never without access to quick and easy email.
The backup issue is a potential problem. But you can fire up a POP client and download all your messages locally if you want, so where's the fire there?
The short of it is that since I've started using GMail, I've not needed an email client on my own machine. It's too convenient to have it in the browser instead of having to have extra software. And frankly, gmail's functionality beats hell out of any client I've ever used.
The Gmail threading mechanism is cool, but it makes printing a single email a pain in the buttocks. Huh? Pick the email you want to print, click the right upper corner down down menu on that email, select print. It opens that email in a new window and calls the print function of your browser. Done. One email, printed.
If you have 1000 Windows boxen without running Microsoft's patch system (I forget the name of it, but it's like your own auto-update server which lets you apply updates through the same method as Windows Update does, on your local network), then you need to rethink your plans here. Manually patching 1000 boxes is ridiculous.
Our company does incremental rollouts of all Microsoft patches. First they stick them on several random scattered boxes throughout the company for a while, and watch for problems. When none are reported, they roll it out by departments over a few days. All this rollout is done without ever getting out of your seat, you simply select what boxes will get it and the next time they check in (nightly, or more often if you like), they get the patches and auto apply them.
The latest Linksys routers come with a CD with a configuration program on it. You insert the CD, run the program (or it autoruns) and it goes through a setup dialog which forces you to set the various settings. Then it finds your router and uploads the settings and such.
Of course, you can still use the router without the installation, and it still has the web interface, so users who know what they're doing toss the CD and just configure it themselves, but I thought it was an interesting solution.
Non-knowledgable users invariably think that the CD is required to make the device work, regardless of what the device is. In point of fact, most things that come with CD's nowadays do not require them at all. The CD might contain drivers, but generally Windows will have drivers or can download them from the 'net when it really needs to. More often, the CD contains advertising or product demos.
In Linksys's case, the idea of an unnecessary configuration program for n00b's was slightly marred by the fact that the configuration program did not actually work due to a firmware bug in the shipped router (their QA people should have been shot for that), but nevertheless I thought it was a neat idea. Make the config program able to find and download new firmwares from their website, install them onto the router, etc. Sorta the layman's way of working with the router.
The problem is essentially that they have conflicting goals.
They have to strike a balance between currency and the number of people playing. If the has got too much money, then it's too easy to get the currency and everybody can buy their way to power. If it has too little money, then it's too hard to gain power (requires excessive grinding). Either way is no fun.
To a certain extent, having a real market demand for item pricing would be helpful. Instead of having shops with infinite numbers of items, and having a few items that are known to be the best, you spread it out. a) There is no one perfect item. All high end items have a few serious weaknesses and some strengths. Only weak items are all strengths. This spreads out demand as people specialize. b) Some items are limited in number, but these numbers are flexible based on the number of people actively playing. If more items need to be introduced via bosses and such, you do so and don't tell anybody. You also introduce new items from time to time. The number of items should be in the thousands, only weaker ones are infinitely available. c) Items nobody wants become cheaper. You could thusly increase the money everybody gets from grinding and such. d) Item marketplaces. People can buy and sell and auction items at prices they set. For realism, let 'em setup shops and rent space for their shop and such. You skim a floating percentage off the top for auctions, you get money from rented spaces for shops. This lets you reduce available money in the realm at a fairly steady but adjustable pace.
This gives you enough ability to balance the realm financially. Basically, everybody should be able to do things as real-world-like as possible, but you must keep an overriding finger on it to avoid rapid inflationary actions. You'd need to know, at all times, how much cash and how much product/services are in the realm, and try to keep them balanced, even with players leaving and joining and such.
Money has an intrinsic value in the real world. Namely, that other people will give you goods and services in exchange for it.
To a certain degree, game-money has the same value as real money, except that usually there is not a fixed amount of game money. Therefore game money is, essentially, inflationary, except that prices are generally fixed and so price inflation cannot actually occur.
See, in the real world, money is the medium of exchange for goods and services. But in the game world, realistically, goods (items) are the same as money. They can be gained in the same ways (battles, trade, etc). So what occurs instead of price inflation is item inflation. The number of items in the game always increases. Now, if you can sell items back for, say, half price, then this serves as a deflationary method, reducing the amount of items in the world without putting as much money back in.
Of course, most games I've seen are unbalanced in this way. Games where there is a market for a brisk trade in money sales are more balanced than others, since somebody actually finds it profitable to put in time to gain money from the game system to sell in real life. This means it's hard enough to get money to make it not fun... just like real life...:)
Surprisingly, it's not registered. Of course, somebody will go and register it now. There's probably a law stating that any domain name posted jokingly which is unregistered becomes registered within a day. And it's probably at anydomainnamepostedjokinglywhichisunregisteredbeco mesregisteredwithinaday.com too.;)
The Peabody Place mall in downtown Memphis, TN has their slogan/logo/whatever painted onto the roof, and it's clearly visible on Google Maps. I never noticed it for a long time until scrolling around near where I live and spotted it. In retrospect, it's clearly visible from several rooftops around the place, which is the original motivation, I think. I've also spotted it flying into town.
But democracy is just that, mob rule. What ever the majority of the mob wants, the mob gets. Actually, no. "Mob rule" would be a "mobocracy", or an "ochlocracy" if you prefer the latin/greek roots of your words. It means "rule by the mob" or "rule by the majority". It implies a rule by force, although that is not necessarily literal.
Democracy is "rule by the people", which implies *all* the people, not just the majority of them. There's many forms of democracy, of course, but it is definitely not "mob rule".
Perhaps someone here can tell me, what is the real difference between this fancy 'Activia' brand, and normal live culture yogurt (such as the Yoplait custard style I've been eating for 20 years when I want yogurt)?
Good yogurt has always had live bacteria in it, and the health effects of eating that live bacteria are not news. The real difference is that Activia invented some fake-latin sounding names for their bacteria, trademarked 'em, and then used it in their marketing campaign.
Consumer Reports mentioned them a few issues ago, and said that a test of Activia's bacteria showed that only 0.1% of them survived the passage through the stomach. So the idea that they somehow aid digestion is rather silly.
I believe, technically, you're not an independent nation unless other independent nations officially recognize you as one. This sort of thing is never "technical", because it's not well-defined.
Your theory is known as the constitutive theory, and it basically says that other nations have to officially recognize you. Your theory is generally rejected because it leads to subjectivity. Even though a place may be recognized by lots of other nations, unless they can actually act like a nation, they probably won't stay a nation for very long.
The other, and somewhat more practical, theory is the declarative theory, and it basically says that you're a nation when you can act as a nation. Unspoken in this theory (but essential to it) is actually being able to back your status as a nation up, with force if necessary.
In short, anybody who says they're a nation and can act like a nation, is a nation.
If I was to start calling my house a country that doesn't make it one. You're correct. If you loaded up with guns and was able to fight off anybody who disagrees with you, *that* is what makes it a country.
I can just see Joe Public managing that. Not. You can buy a prehacked Xbox with XBMC already on it off ebay for around $100. Heck, mine came with an upgrade hard drive (to 200 Gig) and it was only $120. And that was a hardware mod, not a softmod.
Really, it requires very little technical knowledge to setup and use. Plays anything and everything I've thrown at it so far.
This would be an interesting way to solve the problem of municiple wifi. Too bad it won't work.
a) Range of WiFi is limited in these devices. The power levels are intentionally low so as to avoid interference. Even if you were to crank them up, the distance is not significant. How far are you from a street where one of these cars could be reasonably expected to be?
b) 3G networking is not free. Whoever has these devices in their rental cars will be paying for it. There will be access controls of some sort, these won't be open hotspots. Probably just a WEP key on the side of the box or something.
c) WiFi's authorization/response method is too slow to hit moving targets with any kind of reliability. If you're having to get handed off to another AP every time a car drives by, you never stay connected for long enough to actually get anything. WiMax (802.16) would be better at this, but it cannot compensate for Doppler effect (seriously, it can't, look it up).
Realistically, if you want access in a city, then buy access from a provider. It's a lot easier to wire up metro areas than it is to wire the countryside or the suburbs. This is why major metro areas are all already wired for the most part. Wireless is trickier, admittedly, but it's still easier to stick access points all over the place than to try to fake it with roaming APs.
First off, before you dismiss blimps you should be informed that in the 4th century the Koreans used blimps to successfully invade and conquer Japan. WHAT? Sorry, but you're going to have to back up that one with a reference or something.
The first airships are still credited to the Montgolfier brothers, 14 centuries later, AFAIK. Fully steerable airships didn't even appear until the mid-1800's.
Andromeda was a perfectly good show until Kevin Sorbo turned it into Hercules in Space.
Well, to be fair, he is Kevin Sorbo. It's not like his acting ability has any particular range or anything. If you cast Kevin Sorbo and expect something different, then you really can't blame him.
Saving the environment at any financial cost is always worth the expenditure. Saying that we shouldn't do something this important because of the cost to business... Who said anything about the cost to business? Biased much?
Some people argue that the cost of attempting to implement brain dead schemes like Kyoto will be measured in human lives and suffering. Nobody but actual businesses give a shit about their profits.
I'm utterly amazed at the complete intolerance towards Christians these days. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Telling somebody that their position is wrong is not intolerance. And comparing reasonable discussion and argument to the holocaust is more than a bit silly.
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So yes, the point is to eliminate the wires. Like the one running from the phone to your earpiece. Or to your headphones. Or to your keyboard and mouse. These can all use bluetooth.
I have seriously broken both arms (not at the same time, mind you), and it never really hurt to any great degree. The last time, I broke my right arm completely in half, and the bone shifted out of place enough to be pulled backwards due to the muscle tension. This gave my arm a rather interesting "S" shape, bending entirely the wrong way. It did not hurt because, well, when you break your arm, you kinda know it and immediately go into a bit of shock. So I grabbed the break and held it in place until my dad came and took me to the hospital. By the time we got there, at a rather leisurely pace mind you, I was swinging it freely, without even thinking about it. The other people in the waiting room were shocked at the sight of it, but the nurses had no problem with it. They've seen worse.
Broken bones don't really hurt unless they a) grind, b) shatter, or c) pinch something else with nerves in it. Bones don't have nerves in them.
However, with GMail mobile running on my cell phone (Java app for mobiles, browse to http://gmail.com/app ), I'm never without access to quick and easy email.
The backup issue is a potential problem. But you can fire up a POP client and download all your messages locally if you want, so where's the fire there?
The short of it is that since I've started using GMail, I've not needed an email client on my own machine. It's too convenient to have it in the browser instead of having to have extra software. And frankly, gmail's functionality beats hell out of any client I've ever used. The Gmail threading mechanism is cool, but it makes printing a single email a pain in the buttocks. Huh? Pick the email you want to print, click the right upper corner down down menu on that email, select print. It opens that email in a new window and calls the print function of your browser. Done. One email, printed.
You know.
Ken.
When I go to work, I don't make something meant to absorb butter and gravy.
You might, if you worked in Idaho.If you have 1000 Windows boxen without running Microsoft's patch system (I forget the name of it, but it's like your own auto-update server which lets you apply updates through the same method as Windows Update does, on your local network), then you need to rethink your plans here. Manually patching 1000 boxes is ridiculous.
Our company does incremental rollouts of all Microsoft patches. First they stick them on several random scattered boxes throughout the company for a while, and watch for problems. When none are reported, they roll it out by departments over a few days. All this rollout is done without ever getting out of your seat, you simply select what boxes will get it and the next time they check in (nightly, or more often if you like), they get the patches and auto apply them.
The latest Linksys routers come with a CD with a configuration program on it. You insert the CD, run the program (or it autoruns) and it goes through a setup dialog which forces you to set the various settings. Then it finds your router and uploads the settings and such.
Of course, you can still use the router without the installation, and it still has the web interface, so users who know what they're doing toss the CD and just configure it themselves, but I thought it was an interesting solution.
Non-knowledgable users invariably think that the CD is required to make the device work, regardless of what the device is. In point of fact, most things that come with CD's nowadays do not require them at all. The CD might contain drivers, but generally Windows will have drivers or can download them from the 'net when it really needs to. More often, the CD contains advertising or product demos.
In Linksys's case, the idea of an unnecessary configuration program for n00b's was slightly marred by the fact that the configuration program did not actually work due to a firmware bug in the shipped router (their QA people should have been shot for that), but nevertheless I thought it was a neat idea. Make the config program able to find and download new firmwares from their website, install them onto the router, etc. Sorta the layman's way of working with the router.
The problem is essentially that they have conflicting goals.
They have to strike a balance between currency and the number of people playing. If the has got too much money, then it's too easy to get the currency and everybody can buy their way to power. If it has too little money, then it's too hard to gain power (requires excessive grinding). Either way is no fun.
To a certain extent, having a real market demand for item pricing would be helpful. Instead of having shops with infinite numbers of items, and having a few items that are known to be the best, you spread it out.
a) There is no one perfect item. All high end items have a few serious weaknesses and some strengths. Only weak items are all strengths. This spreads out demand as people specialize.
b) Some items are limited in number, but these numbers are flexible based on the number of people actively playing. If more items need to be introduced via bosses and such, you do so and don't tell anybody. You also introduce new items from time to time. The number of items should be in the thousands, only weaker ones are infinitely available.
c) Items nobody wants become cheaper. You could thusly increase the money everybody gets from grinding and such.
d) Item marketplaces. People can buy and sell and auction items at prices they set. For realism, let 'em setup shops and rent space for their shop and such. You skim a floating percentage off the top for auctions, you get money from rented spaces for shops. This lets you reduce available money in the realm at a fairly steady but adjustable pace.
This gives you enough ability to balance the realm financially. Basically, everybody should be able to do things as real-world-like as possible, but you must keep an overriding finger on it to avoid rapid inflationary actions. You'd need to know, at all times, how much cash and how much product/services are in the realm, and try to keep them balanced, even with players leaving and joining and such.
Money has an intrinsic value in the real world. Namely, that other people will give you goods and services in exchange for it.
:)
To a certain degree, game-money has the same value as real money, except that usually there is not a fixed amount of game money. Therefore game money is, essentially, inflationary, except that prices are generally fixed and so price inflation cannot actually occur.
See, in the real world, money is the medium of exchange for goods and services. But in the game world, realistically, goods (items) are the same as money. They can be gained in the same ways (battles, trade, etc). So what occurs instead of price inflation is item inflation. The number of items in the game always increases. Now, if you can sell items back for, say, half price, then this serves as a deflationary method, reducing the amount of items in the world without putting as much money back in.
Of course, most games I've seen are unbalanced in this way. Games where there is a market for a brisk trade in money sales are more balanced than others, since somebody actually finds it profitable to put in time to gain money from the game system to sell in real life. This means it's hard enough to get money to make it not fun... just like real life...
Clicked it? Hell, I did a whois on it.
o mesregisteredwithinaday.com too. ;)
Surprisingly, it's not registered. Of course, somebody will go and register it now. There's probably a law stating that any domain name posted jokingly which is unregistered becomes registered within a day. And it's probably at anydomainnamepostedjokinglywhichisunregisteredbec
There was only 1 on a bridge/overpass, and we're not talking about an above water bridge here.
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Link to pics of all the locations of these things: http://www.zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/miss
The thing is *obviously* not a bomb. It's a sign. It has big glowing flashing LEDs. Come on. Use your brain, people.
Only if the little guy registered his domain first.
Unfortunately, in this case, denic.de isn't giving enough info in their whois lookups to tell when gmail.de was registered.
So it's hard to know who to root for.
True, but nobody claims that sperm aid digestion in the intestines, after passing through the stomach.
Well, okay, I'm sure that somebody does claim that, but that's rather beside the point.
The Peabody Place mall in downtown Memphis, TN has their slogan/logo/whatever painted onto the roof, and it's clearly visible on Google Maps. I never noticed it for a long time until scrolling around near where I live and spotted it. In retrospect, it's clearly visible from several rooftops around the place, which is the original motivation, I think. I've also spotted it flying into town.
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http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=35.141323
Democracy is "rule by the people", which implies *all* the people, not just the majority of them. There's many forms of democracy, of course, but it is definitely not "mob rule".
Good yogurt has always had live bacteria in it, and the health effects of eating that live bacteria are not news. The real difference is that Activia invented some fake-latin sounding names for their bacteria, trademarked 'em, and then used it in their marketing campaign.
Consumer Reports mentioned them a few issues ago, and said that a test of Activia's bacteria showed that only 0.1% of them survived the passage through the stomach. So the idea that they somehow aid digestion is rather silly.
Your theory is known as the constitutive theory, and it basically says that other nations have to officially recognize you. Your theory is generally rejected because it leads to subjectivity. Even though a place may be recognized by lots of other nations, unless they can actually act like a nation, they probably won't stay a nation for very long.
The other, and somewhat more practical, theory is the declarative theory, and it basically says that you're a nation when you can act as a nation. Unspoken in this theory (but essential to it) is actually being able to back your status as a nation up, with force if necessary.
In short, anybody who says they're a nation and can act like a nation, is a nation.
Really, it requires very little technical knowledge to setup and use. Plays anything and everything I've thrown at it so far.
a) Range of WiFi is limited in these devices. The power levels are intentionally low so as to avoid interference. Even if you were to crank them up, the distance is not significant. How far are you from a street where one of these cars could be reasonably expected to be?
b) 3G networking is not free. Whoever has these devices in their rental cars will be paying for it. There will be access controls of some sort, these won't be open hotspots. Probably just a WEP key on the side of the box or something.
c) WiFi's authorization/response method is too slow to hit moving targets with any kind of reliability. If you're having to get handed off to another AP every time a car drives by, you never stay connected for long enough to actually get anything. WiMax (802.16) would be better at this, but it cannot compensate for Doppler effect (seriously, it can't, look it up).
Realistically, if you want access in a city, then buy access from a provider. It's a lot easier to wire up metro areas than it is to wire the countryside or the suburbs. This is why major metro areas are all already wired for the most part. Wireless is trickier, admittedly, but it's still easier to stick access points all over the place than to try to fake it with roaming APs.
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The first airships are still credited to the Montgolfier brothers, 14 centuries later, AFAIK. Fully steerable airships didn't even appear until the mid-1800's.
Andromeda was a perfectly good show until Kevin Sorbo turned it into Hercules in Space.
Well, to be fair, he is Kevin Sorbo. It's not like his acting ability has any particular range or anything. If you cast Kevin Sorbo and expect something different, then you really can't blame him.
Some people argue that the cost of attempting to implement brain dead schemes like Kyoto will be measured in human lives and suffering. Nobody but actual businesses give a shit about their profits.
Telling somebody that their position is wrong is not intolerance. And comparing reasonable discussion and argument to the holocaust is more than a bit silly.