1) Release mp3s without tags or filenames on filesharing networks 2) Launch song ID service that charges $0.99 per song ($9.99 per album) 3) ??? 4) Profit!
There are proponents of different techniques that supposedly let you choose the sex of your child. One interesting technique is called the Shettles Method. One family that I know swears by this method. They are four for four in getting it to work.
Either that or they're the the one out of sixteen who randomly get four children of sexes desired.
What's with this constant setting of goals then lowering them when they aren't met? "Yes, we met our goal... er well after we lowered it to what we actually achieved."
I thought it said "Phone on your television" and I was like... they already have that, except the people on the TV have a little trouble hearing me unless I yell at them. Even then they sometimes ignore me.
He also outlined plans for Office 12, the next version of its desktop software, which is due to arrive in the second half of next year." From the article: "There is a real temptation that the thing that comes in the latest is the one you shift your attention to, even though that may be the least important...That turns you into a filing clerk."
Sorry, I'm distracted by the announcement of the latest version of Office. Let me do some involuntary beta-testing of it after it's released and then I'll file it away.
Dammit, then, I should be able to push "9-1-1" right now on my numeric keypad and somehow be connected!
I agree totally! Fisher Price phones, calculators, remote controls, car radios with direct entry keypads, etc. should all be required by law to give me emergency service when I dial 911. If I'm in a panic, why should I have to calm down and figure out if they keypad is on a phone or not? The nerve of these people!
[...] The group is researching a method of using RFID as a tool for digital restrictions management (DRM), wherein technologies are employed to protect media file companies from lost sales due to unauthorized use.
After all, the media files themselves don't need protection, since most people who download a whole movie are going to be careful not to corrupt or damage it.
It's interesting that all 3 console manufacturers chose IBM PPC processors this time around. It means that game developers programming in assembly language will only have to learn one. Too bad there aren't many left who do. (A fact of life when the bottlenecks move to memory/art/game-logic).
The PowerPC has a lot of registers, allowing compilers to easily generate fairly efficient code that uses lots of local variables. The instruction set is compiler-friendly so there's not much advantage to coding directly in PowerPC assembly in most cases. The compiler can usually do a better job of scheduling instructions to make best use of the fairly complex pipelines.
I've programmed on a PowerPC for over ten years now and often check the compiler's assembly output for bottleneck functions and it's usually better than anything I can do. Where there are problems I can usually just tweak the C source to get the compiler to generate optimal machine code. Back when I was programming on a M68K machine, writing in assembly made a big speed difference.
Another limitation is that humans in the industrialized nations have more or less driven out natural selection.
Any time there is a differential in offspring based on genes (or indirectly via their phenotype), there is natural selection.
Sometimes the brain dead are allowed to live for fifteen years.
How does this affect natural selection?
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
You've just described natural selection. Apparently it's alive and well.
If surfing can be doubled in speed for nothing, of course nearly everyone will go for it
Bandwidth providers often offer "unlimited" bandwidth, but the price they charge is based on the average bandwidth used by everyone. If many people start using software which prefetches pages, the average bandwidth usage will increase and so will the amount charged.
It's the same deal with SPAM: sure, you only get a few extra messages, but multiply this by everyone and it does add something to the cost of your service.
How about real web pages which consist of non-bloated HTML and a few graphics where necessary?
They are adding a specific provision to outlaw the existence of deep space, since the broadcasts could be picked up at a date much later than the original air date, so-called "time-shifting".
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1) Release mp3s without tags or filenames on filesharing networks
2) Launch song ID service that charges $0.99 per song ($9.99 per album)
3) ???
4) Profit!
Actually, Johns tend to be non-local married men.
I thought John tended to be a local name...
There are proponents of different techniques that supposedly let you choose the sex of your child. One interesting technique is called the Shettles Method. One family that I know swears by this method. They are four for four in getting it to work.
Either that or they're the the one out of sixteen who randomly get four children of sexes desired.
Well, why not whine about that gay now mean homosexual and not jolly or that spam should only used to descripe some kind of food.
Spam now or has ever referred to a kind of food?!?
What's with this constant setting of goals then lowering them when they aren't met? "Yes, we met our goal... er well after we lowered it to what we actually achieved."
I thought it said "Phone on your television" and I was like... they already have that, except the people on the TV have a little trouble hearing me unless I yell at them. Even then they sometimes ignore me.
Let me guess, everyone's handle is "Tor"? "Sorry officer, you'll have to tell us which Tor you're looking for."
1) Let MPAA be central directory service for torrents
2) MPAA sues itself for linking to unauthorized distributions
3) ???
4) NO profit!
Hopefully it will have more features than version 1.
I guess Pac Man can confidently claim the record of eating the most power pellets.
Oh sorry, it's a little early. I was thinking "wow, electric prices sure must be high to resort to pouring wine into a generator!"
Wave powered, eh... if I crank up my stereo will that generate power and make a perpetual motion machine?
Wow. I can delete mine for free.
Oh sure, that's what spam-allowers say at first. You'll eventually see the cost of hitting the delete key, I'm warning you!
I wasn't aware that the US owned space.
This "intellectual property" idea has gone too far! Now we're talking about owning nothing at all, and who owns this nothingness!
He also outlined plans for Office 12, the next version of its desktop software, which is due to arrive in the second half of next year." From the article: "There is a real temptation that the thing that comes in the latest is the one you shift your attention to, even though that may be the least important...That turns you into a filing clerk."
Sorry, I'm distracted by the announcement of the latest version of Office. Let me do some involuntary beta-testing of it after it's released and then I'll file it away.
Dammit, then, I should be able to push "9-1-1" right now on my numeric keypad and somehow be connected!
I agree totally! Fisher Price phones, calculators, remote controls, car radios with direct entry keypads, etc. should all be required by law to give me emergency service when I dial 911. If I'm in a panic, why should I have to calm down and figure out if they keypad is on a phone or not? The nerve of these people!
I thought MSNing something was when you made it disappear from search engines.
But you like the word "meatspace?"
Mmmmmm....meat.
Got any evidence of this happening in the past? Or has your tin-foil cap bubbled your brain away?
Duh! They covered all the evidence. You're probably one of them anyway, so you already know about this.
[...] The group is researching a method of using RFID as a tool for digital restrictions management (DRM), wherein technologies are employed to protect media file companies from lost sales due to unauthorized use.
After all, the media files themselves don't need protection, since most people who download a whole movie are going to be careful not to corrupt or damage it.
It's interesting that all 3 console manufacturers chose IBM PPC processors this time around. It means that game developers programming in assembly language will only have to learn one. Too bad there aren't many left who do. (A fact of life when the bottlenecks move to memory/art/game-logic).
:)
The PowerPC has a lot of registers, allowing compilers to easily generate fairly efficient code that uses lots of local variables. The instruction set is compiler-friendly so there's not much advantage to coding directly in PowerPC assembly in most cases. The compiler can usually do a better job of scheduling instructions to make best use of the fairly complex pipelines.
I've programmed on a PowerPC for over ten years now and often check the compiler's assembly output for bottleneck functions and it's usually better than anything I can do. Where there are problems I can usually just tweak the C source to get the compiler to generate optimal machine code. Back when I was programming on a M68K machine, writing in assembly made a big speed difference.
I really like the PowerPC architecture
Another limitation is that humans in the industrialized nations have more or less driven out natural selection.
Any time there is a differential in offspring based on genes (or indirectly via their phenotype), there is natural selection.
Sometimes the brain dead are allowed to live for fifteen years.
How does this affect natural selection?
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
You've just described natural selection. Apparently it's alive and well.
they'll be actual blood-suckers.
If surfing can be doubled in speed for nothing, of course nearly everyone will go for it
Bandwidth providers often offer "unlimited" bandwidth, but the price they charge is based on the average bandwidth used by everyone. If many people start using software which prefetches pages, the average bandwidth usage will increase and so will the amount charged.
It's the same deal with SPAM: sure, you only get a few extra messages, but multiply this by everyone and it does add something to the cost of your service.
How about real web pages which consist of non-bloated HTML and a few graphics where necessary?
Terrorism search engine> search "terrorism" | shutdown_site
Searching...
Found: "Terrorism search engine"
Shutting site down...
Lost connection
They are adding a specific provision to outlaw the existence of deep space, since the broadcasts could be picked up at a date much later than the original air date, so-called "time-shifting".