I don't go to the movie theater anymore. I can see the movie at home without sitting through 20 minutes of commercials. I know the commercial didn't kill the movies outright but it was one of the 1000 cuts that was killing me slowly. I don't read a newspaper, too much adds and not enough real news. I don't watch broadcast TV much because I don't want to watch commercials. I have HBO and a Playstation. I guess I know what's next to be dropped. Maybe I'll read more books.
If they were as easy to ignore as some inpage banner adds maybe I wouldn't notice them. Wouldn't care but if they're a delay or an interruption I won't be spending 50-30 dollars on a game.
The other problem I have with advertising is the way the add dollars drive editorial content. I'd like to think that Rockstar would still let me shoot whores but if they're taking add revenue in from NOW and Cosmo magazine I somehow doubt that feature would stay in. Imagine GUN if it was sponsored by Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with the open platform of the IBM PC. That was purely by accident. IBM had failed to maintain control over the market place when they lost the reverse engineering lawsuit with Compaq. Up until then competing computers like the Kaypro ran CPM instead of DOS, a competing operating system. Had IBM maintained a strangle hold on the PC compatible market the story would be completely different.
Then in that respect I have to say that it's Jobs again who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Ford. Prior to the Apple, computers were all big iron. Jobs put them on the desktop as more then just a flashing lights machine (like the Altair). The IBM PC, Commodore 64 and ZX81 all came along after Apple showed the way.
And that's why the cotton gin is so ubiquitous through out the land. No sorry, Ford is why every city, state and nation on earth has spent trillions in the last 100 years to build and mantain roads. Ford changed the surface of the world not Witney.
I don't think anyone is going to top Steve Jobs. I think that like Henry Ford there will be imitators and skillful managers who stand out. Men like Malcolm Bricklin, John Delorean and Lee Iaccoca will be forgotten long before history forgets the man who changed the face of the earth with standardized parts and the moving assembly line.
Jobs will definately surpass Bill Gates in the history books simply because his story is so much more dramatic. Found the first personal computer company that goes beyond the simple needs of the hobbyist, get fired by the guy he hired to manage the business, start a competing business that goes nowhere, start another business that breathes new life into a 100 year old art form, get begged to come back to the company that fired you, see both businesses take off beyond all possible dreams. What did Bill Gates do? Bluff his way into buying an operating system early in the game and copy copy copy then leverage market position to unfairly damage new comers and competitors. Don't get me wrong, Bill Gates had a great idea at the right time but I doubt he'd be anything more then a footnote if he had to do it twice in his life.
I switched from the PC to the Mac because I was damn sick and tired of bloatware and malware slowing my laptop down to a crawl. I was tired of losing functionality in one program because another program installed a.DLL with the same name but different code that would render my previous program useless. I wanted a machine that would work out of the box and continue to do so now 8 months after the switch like it's still day one. How long does the average PC take to slow to a crawl from spyware? Hours? Days? Weeks if you're lucky. That's what drove me away from the PC. For me the switch was well worth it. With the exception of my truck I've never been happy about a purchase for this long in my life.
So you'd gladly pay when any provider shakes you down for protection. Why don't you send a few bucks my way and I'll make certain that all of your potential customers in my household have unrestricted access to your site. There are 5 people and one cat in this house. I'll expect a dollar a week. I'll throw in the cat for free if you pay a year in advance. So $5x52=$260. Don't forget to pay 3% Spanish American War Tax.
I had to study a lot of calculus as part of my degree. Now I barely use it. And even then it's just the occasional exercise for fun, just to keep those skill sharp.
The most commonly used packages were cracked by the NSA years ago. If they really want to brute force it they can. The only secure ways are one time pads or coming up with your own secret method that they haven't encountered before. But then it would be hard to get your friends to use it.
Double encription, using two schemes is also about as useful as rot-13. They've already thought that far ahead.
I had a physics prof who put underscores spaced out for people to neatly print their names on the test form. You know like _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . I have a long hyphenated last name, 10 letters hyphen 11 letters. After the first exam he noticed my name didn't fit the lines. From then on all exams had a last name slot that was _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
They should be honored that Pokemon was chosen as a name. Naming new and increasingly harder to find genes and protiens after cartoon or video game characters is a recent but honored tradition in the scientific community. A tradition very similar to the compas system of naming electrophoretic blots. The lawyers have demonstrated their lack of vision and absolute cluelessness for a culture they could live 100 lifetimes and still not understand. Don't believe me? Just ask Sonic Hedghog.
I don't know where you are but in the United States lots of civilians have automatic weapons. The licence is not impossible to get although it is very expensive. To the best of my knowledge no crime has ever been commited with an automatic weapon that was legally purchased and owned.
I figure that maybe some Disney afficionado might be lurking here and can answer my question. I know this is totally off topic but does anyone know the name of the movie that features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy getting locked in a haunted house?
Classic case of engineering not listening to customer requests. The question stated that it was for equipment to monitor the air/water interface. Microwaves no matter how weak will impart some measure of rotational and vibrational energy to the water molecules. Thus increasing noise in the already noisy system. The sensors may be microwave proof but the analyte is not.
Are you really reccomending a wireless transmitter as a solution to remove shot noise? Why not reccomend adding another elevator to the building? Or using only fluorescent lights.
I found the monitor to be the noisiest part of the computer. Switching to flat screen LCD almost completely removed noise from the computer setup. Most computers are very well shielded for static and that makes a decent Faraday cage.
The faster the better and don't skimp on memory or coprocessors. Faraday cages are your friend. Also I dont' know if your setup could benefit but for my applications vibration tables significantly reduced noise.
My qualifications? Single cell exocytotic measurements using 5 micron carbon fiber microelectrodes.
And for the love of god do not attach the computer to the internet ever. Collect data and if you have to burn it to a CD and sneaker net it to machines that are.
William Shakesphere wrote plays for the masses. A medium that most resembles television. Were he alive today we'd have "A very special Blossom" that features Joey killing his uncle while Six throws herself into a river. Someday they'll teach Dean Koontz at Harvard when students can no longer relate to Quentin throwing his watch into the Charles. It doesn't matter who writes the great literature. Dean Koontz is just as capable of writing the next 'Sound and the Fury' as Robert Ludlum or Steven King. Anyway, I always figured GTA to be more Mario Puzo.
The source code to the games will be available somewhere. Also true that the Xbox 360 has DRM built in but the computers of tomorrow may well be so powerful that they can brute force the DRM right out of the game. Imagine MAME for a PS3 game running on a quantum computer where speed is measured in yotta flops. The games will live on.
Clearly Roger Ebert doesn't get it. He hasn't immersed himself in the plot and story line of a game like Grand Theft Auto. Games like GTA are more than literature, more than cinema. They're a completely immersive multimedia experience where the story is told not only in the splash screens before game challenges but in the radio stations as the character is driving around or in the billboards and cityscape that the character passes by. That's a more immersive environment then anything Eisenstein, Bergen, Wells, Speilberg or even Bruckheimer could ever hope to bring to their audience.
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If they were as easy to ignore as some inpage banner adds maybe I wouldn't notice them. Wouldn't care but if they're a delay or an interruption I won't be spending 50-30 dollars on a game.
The other problem I have with advertising is the way the add dollars drive editorial content. I'd like to think that Rockstar would still let me shoot whores but if they're taking add revenue in from NOW and Cosmo magazine I somehow doubt that feature would stay in. Imagine GUN if it was sponsored by Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
He pulled that same deal on Altair with Basic. Bill Gates is in fact a one trick pony.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with the open platform of the IBM PC. That was purely by accident. IBM had failed to maintain control over the market place when they lost the reverse engineering lawsuit with Compaq. Up until then competing computers like the Kaypro ran CPM instead of DOS, a competing operating system. Had IBM maintained a strangle hold on the PC compatible market the story would be completely different.
Then in that respect I have to say that it's Jobs again who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Ford. Prior to the Apple, computers were all big iron. Jobs put them on the desktop as more then just a flashing lights machine (like the Altair). The IBM PC, Commodore 64 and ZX81 all came along after Apple showed the way.
And that's why the cotton gin is so ubiquitous through out the land. No sorry, Ford is why every city, state and nation on earth has spent trillions in the last 100 years to build and mantain roads. Ford changed the surface of the world not Witney.
Jobs will definately surpass Bill Gates in the history books simply because his story is so much more dramatic. Found the first personal computer company that goes beyond the simple needs of the hobbyist, get fired by the guy he hired to manage the business, start a competing business that goes nowhere, start another business that breathes new life into a 100 year old art form, get begged to come back to the company that fired you, see both businesses take off beyond all possible dreams. What did Bill Gates do? Bluff his way into buying an operating system early in the game and copy copy copy then leverage market position to unfairly damage new comers and competitors. Don't get me wrong, Bill Gates had a great idea at the right time but I doubt he'd be anything more then a footnote if he had to do it twice in his life.
I switched from the PC to the Mac because I was damn sick and tired of bloatware and malware slowing my laptop down to a crawl. I was tired of losing functionality in one program because another program installed a .DLL with the same name but different code that would render my previous program useless. I wanted a machine that would work out of the box and continue to do so now 8 months after the switch like it's still day one. How long does the average PC take to slow to a crawl from spyware? Hours? Days? Weeks if you're lucky. That's what drove me away from the PC. For me the switch was well worth it. With the exception of my truck I've never been happy about a purchase for this long in my life.
So you'd gladly pay when any provider shakes you down for protection. Why don't you send a few bucks my way and I'll make certain that all of your potential customers in my household have unrestricted access to your site. There are 5 people and one cat in this house. I'll expect a dollar a week. I'll throw in the cat for free if you pay a year in advance. So $5x52=$260. Don't forget to pay 3% Spanish American War Tax.
I had to study a lot of calculus as part of my degree. Now I barely use it. And even then it's just the occasional exercise for fun, just to keep those skill sharp.
I did read the article I missed that. I was focused more on the design specs at the bottom. Comment withdrawn with tail between legs.
You know what would be really cool this time around? Macintosh support.
Double encription, using two schemes is also about as useful as rot-13. They've already thought that far ahead.
Mmmmm fresh baby from my Easy Bake Oven. 40 Watts of cake like goodness.
I had a physics prof who put underscores spaced out for people to neatly print their names on the test form. You know like _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . I have a long hyphenated last name, 10 letters hyphen 11 letters. After the first exam he noticed my name didn't fit the lines. From then on all exams had a last name slot that was _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
They should be honored that Pokemon was chosen as a name. Naming new and increasingly harder to find genes and protiens after cartoon or video game characters is a recent but honored tradition in the scientific community. A tradition very similar to the compas system of naming electrophoretic blots. The lawyers have demonstrated their lack of vision and absolute cluelessness for a culture they could live 100 lifetimes and still not understand. Don't believe me? Just ask Sonic Hedghog.
I don't know where you are but in the United States lots of civilians have automatic weapons. The licence is not impossible to get although it is very expensive. To the best of my knowledge no crime has ever been commited with an automatic weapon that was legally purchased and owned.
I figure that maybe some Disney afficionado might be lurking here and can answer my question. I know this is totally off topic but does anyone know the name of the movie that features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy getting locked in a haunted house?
Classic case of engineering not listening to customer requests. The question stated that it was for equipment to monitor the air/water interface. Microwaves no matter how weak will impart some measure of rotational and vibrational energy to the water molecules. Thus increasing noise in the already noisy system. The sensors may be microwave proof but the analyte is not.
Are you really reccomending a wireless transmitter as a solution to remove shot noise? Why not reccomend adding another elevator to the building? Or using only fluorescent lights.
I found the monitor to be the noisiest part of the computer. Switching to flat screen LCD almost completely removed noise from the computer setup. Most computers are very well shielded for static and that makes a decent Faraday cage.
My qualifications? Single cell exocytotic measurements using 5 micron carbon fiber microelectrodes.
And for the love of god do not attach the computer to the internet ever. Collect data and if you have to burn it to a CD and sneaker net it to machines that are.
William Shakesphere wrote plays for the masses. A medium that most resembles television. Were he alive today we'd have "A very special Blossom" that features Joey killing his uncle while Six throws herself into a river. Someday they'll teach Dean Koontz at Harvard when students can no longer relate to Quentin throwing his watch into the Charles. It doesn't matter who writes the great literature. Dean Koontz is just as capable of writing the next 'Sound and the Fury' as Robert Ludlum or Steven King. Anyway, I always figured GTA to be more Mario Puzo.
So changing the ending of a movie because the focus group didn't get it is not the same as player choice? I think it is.
The source code to the games will be available somewhere. Also true that the Xbox 360 has DRM built in but the computers of tomorrow may well be so powerful that they can brute force the DRM right out of the game. Imagine MAME for a PS3 game running on a quantum computer where speed is measured in yotta flops. The games will live on.
Clearly Roger Ebert doesn't get it. He hasn't immersed himself in the plot and story line of a game like Grand Theft Auto. Games like GTA are more than literature, more than cinema. They're a completely immersive multimedia experience where the story is told not only in the splash screens before game challenges but in the radio stations as the character is driving around or in the billboards and cityscape that the character passes by. That's a more immersive environment then anything Eisenstein, Bergen, Wells, Speilberg or even Bruckheimer could ever hope to bring to their audience.