Being able to receive, record and replay, with pure clarity, in glorious stereo, dozens of simultaneous radio stations... all owned by ClearChannel and all playing the same uniform shit? Not sure I'm that interested...
At any rate, I wager they'll let their law dogs loose the second they realize you can skip commercials with it...
You seem to be forgetting a very basic marketting effect: look at rally racing cars in europe these days: most cars entered are mom-and-pop 4-door sedans, or bargain basement 2-door econoboxes that are strategically souped up and modified for racing by the manufacturers themselves (if not simply a racing chassis with a fake body of the model in question).
That way, mom and pop's teenage son fresh out of getting the driver's license, and young adults, associate the shite econobox with the powerful race cars they see on TV and they buy it.
So guess what? hybrid manufacturers are doing the same. The least thing they want is for their vehicles to be associated with being a mature person's choice for economy and savings. So they race hybrids, even if it makes no sense, to make them sexy to young male drivers. Plain and simple.
a mixture of 1.5 litre petrol engine and an electric motor.
The great thing with the hybrid cars slowly but surely replacing standard cars is that the rice boy scene is likely to disappear, which means no more bumblebee-like 4-banger revving at the red light, no more huge exhaust tip, no more huge hood scoop, and best of all, the full and complete ridiculing of anybody who keeps butchering grocery-getters that way.
And best of all, all these posers might actually stand a chance to get real perfs out of small engines like that with hybrids, with some simple electronic parts or battery swapping.
Buy some decent PC, download Snes9x, quickly peruse the source files to find the sync code and screw it up, compile, run and watch Mario jump through all the screens at mach 3.
How's that for overclocking uh? And if you're desperate to impress your friends (no doubt all over 35), buy one of these micro-mobos and stick it in a NES box as a clever disguise.
* " Don't return product warranty cards."
Maybe that will void your warranty?
Bull. Go back to the store you purchased your faulty device at and they'll take it back under warranty. No warranty card needed.
* " If you have to use a supermarket shopping card, be sure to exchange it with your friends or with strangers. "
Why not? If nothing else, you'll help your friends/strangers save money and preserve their own personal data, and you'll boost your points rating.
* " Pay with cash where possible. Electronic transactions leave a detailed dossier of your activities that can be accessed by the government or sold to telemarketers. "
Many police cases are solved by following credit card trails. Even the WTC terrorists could have been stopped by following their credit card activities. So I expect you'll say "fine, I'm no criminal! why should I worry?". Well, maybe you'll think about it next time you go buy a bottle of scotch at your local convenience store late at night, and the FBI come banging at your door a week later when it turns out that convenience store was held by Ali Bin Terror and they're arresting and detaining everybody who has been in contact with him, "just in case".
you don't want a marketer to know what brand of condom you prefer, even if there is no practical consequence. Well, and I say, fuck it, I don't care. Dear Sir,
We at Foo Health Insurance have reviewed your personal customer file. It appears you use condoms from the SuperStrong[tm] brand, which is statistically consistent with a promiscuous sex life. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, and to better serve you, we have cross-checked your medical claims file and successfully determined that you have started taking tri-therapies recently. What's more, your credit record seems to indicate that you would be better served by another health insurance company. We therefore regret to inform you that you will no longer be able to enroll in your current plan. Please find enclosed a list of plans you are eligible to.
Personally, I do care about privacy. Or rather, I would if it was conceivably possible to have any, but as Scott McNealy accurately said back in 1999, there is no privacy, get over it. He's right unfortunately...
I'm still of firm belief that OLED or color-digital-ink will be the only thing to replace CRT in terms of color sharpness once they're actually useable.
I have a better idea, based on already existing technology: create an e-book that's so compelling that people will buy it en-masse (that is, not DRM-encumbered). Then everybody will quit reading dead tree books and will read their e-books' LCD instead, and so the colors will always be exactly like the author intended. Voilà!
the colour accuracy on an LCD monitor is still nowhere near as good as a high quality CRT.
I don't know about color, but I've clicked on the link in the blurb and it still shows the/. page after 5 minutes. I'd say the refresh rate really sucks...
For those who don't care about reading the entire article, the crux of it is:
Recombining smaller signals in real time, however, requires considerable computing power. So the Siemens team developed new computer algorithms in order to send more data using existing hardware.
In short: programmers managed to push existing hardware with a more efficient code. That's called hacking, albeit with a serious look, and I like that!
Here's the idea of the year (NYT: hint hint nudge)
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FACT: websites with free content that force readers to surrender their details end up collecting garbage information, and also annoy said readers who end up reading some other website with similar content.
IDEA: uuh, like, stop the registration thing perhaps?
You know, it's funny because when I spend a truckload of money on credit, and then decide to spend $XYZ more on some other venture, the repo man eventually comes and nick my stuff.
On the scale of Uncle Sam though, I could just keep running the debt forever and then print more money as I go, looking worryingly at the exchange rate of the dollar on TV from time to time until the whole scam blows in my face like some giant economy-wide internet bubble.
In short, with the US deficit the way it is, there is no way this super huge NASA budget will stay intact after Bush moves out of the White House, and it may in fact be quietly cut before he goes. NASA knows it, and this is why they will do nothing as spectacular as the moon mission effort in the sixties, and they will instead pay for feasability studies after expensive feasability studies until their budget melts away or gets cut.
Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship
The KDE team announced they will sue the Russian government over the use of the "klipper" name, which, as everybody knows, is the name of the KDE clipboard. An outraged free software community is currently demonstrating and marching on Capitol Hill and the Kremlin to demand that justice be meeted out of the space agency. In a gesture of goodwill, the Russian space agency has decided to rename their spacecraft "firefoks". News at 11...
the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet
Supporting MySQL is great. Requiring MySQL sucks, as most users don't have it installed, let alone configured, and automated install scripts are notoriously good at messing up complex servers' config files anyway...
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Being able to receive, record and replay, with pure clarity, in glorious stereo, dozens of simultaneous radio stations ... all owned by ClearChannel and all playing the same uniform shit? Not sure I'm that interested...
At any rate, I wager they'll let their law dogs loose the second they realize you can skip commercials with it...
Dear Sirs at del.icio.us,
You should try hostname v. It'll give you the version of the hostname utility. No really, you should try it!
Regards,
You seem to be forgetting a very basic marketting effect: look at rally racing cars in europe these days: most cars entered are mom-and-pop 4-door sedans, or bargain basement 2-door econoboxes that are strategically souped up and modified for racing by the manufacturers themselves (if not simply a racing chassis with a fake body of the model in question).
That way, mom and pop's teenage son fresh out of getting the driver's license, and young adults, associate the shite econobox with the powerful race cars they see on TV and they buy it.
So guess what? hybrid manufacturers are doing the same. The least thing they want is for their vehicles to be associated with being a mature person's choice for economy and savings. So they race hybrids, even if it makes no sense, to make them sexy to young male drivers. Plain and simple.
a mixture of 1.5 litre petrol engine and an electric motor.
The great thing with the hybrid cars slowly but surely replacing standard cars is that the rice boy scene is likely to disappear, which means no more bumblebee-like 4-banger revving at the red light, no more huge exhaust tip, no more huge hood scoop, and best of all, the full and complete ridiculing of anybody who keeps butchering grocery-getters that way.
And best of all, all these posers might actually stand a chance to get real perfs out of small engines like that with hybrids, with some simple electronic parts or battery swapping.
which explains why you went up to 4.2mhz.....
I think you mean "went down" to 4.2mhz, right?
Buy some decent PC, download Snes9x, quickly peruse the source files to find the sync code and screw it up, compile, run and watch Mario jump through all the screens at mach 3.
How's that for overclocking uh? And if you're desperate to impress your friends (no doubt all over 35), buy one of these micro-mobos and stick it in a NES box as a clever disguise.
Can someone show me the way to an OS with no security issues, please?
/S /Y then reboot. Voilà! No more virus or worm.
Do FORMAT C:
This could explain South Korea's position near the top of the list, as it leads the world for broadband penetration.
Gee, poor guys, if someone threatened me of broadband penetration, I guess I'd send out unsolicited email too...
The US is supposed to have a legal tool against spam, and yet it's the worst offender in the world.
I guess we CAN-SPAM and we're mighty proud of it...
IMHO some of these are bordering on paranioa..
* " Don't return product warranty cards."
Maybe that will void your warranty?
Bull. Go back to the store you purchased your faulty device at and they'll take it back under warranty. No warranty card needed.
* " If you have to use a supermarket shopping card, be sure to exchange it with your friends or with strangers. "
Why not? If nothing else, you'll help your friends/strangers save money and preserve their own personal data, and you'll boost your points rating.
* " Pay with cash where possible. Electronic transactions leave a detailed dossier of your activities that can be accessed by the government or sold to telemarketers. "
Many police cases are solved by following credit card trails. Even the WTC terrorists could have been stopped by following their credit card activities. So I expect you'll say "fine, I'm no criminal! why should I worry?". Well, maybe you'll think about it next time you go buy a bottle of scotch at your local convenience store late at night, and the FBI come banging at your door a week later when it turns out that convenience store was held by Ali Bin Terror and they're arresting and detaining everybody who has been in contact with him, "just in case".
you don't want a marketer to know what brand of condom you prefer, even if there is no practical consequence. Well, and I say, fuck it, I don't care.
Dear Sir,
We at Foo Health Insurance have reviewed your personal customer file. It appears you use condoms from the SuperStrong[tm] brand, which is statistically consistent with a promiscuous sex life. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, and to better serve you, we have cross-checked your medical claims file and successfully determined that you have started taking tri-therapies recently. What's more, your credit record seems to indicate that you would be better served by another health insurance company. We therefore regret to inform you that you will no longer be able to enroll in your current plan. Please find enclosed a list of plans you are eligible to.
Regards,
Joe S. Bastard, Foo H.I., Inc.
Personally, I do care about privacy. Or rather, I would if it was conceivably possible to have any, but as Scott McNealy accurately said back in 1999, there is no privacy, get over it. He's right unfortunately...
I'm still of firm belief that OLED or color-digital-ink will be the only thing to replace CRT in terms of color sharpness once they're actually useable.
I have a better idea, based on already existing technology: create an e-book that's so compelling that people will buy it en-masse (that is, not DRM-encumbered). Then everybody will quit reading dead tree books and will read their e-books' LCD instead, and so the colors will always be exactly like the author intended. Voilà!
the colour accuracy on an LCD monitor is still nowhere near as good as a high quality CRT.
/. page after 5 minutes. I'd say the refresh rate really sucks...
I don't know about color, but I've clicked on the link in the blurb and it still shows the
For those who don't care about reading the entire article, the crux of it is:
Recombining smaller signals in real time, however, requires considerable computing power. So the Siemens team developed new computer algorithms in order to send more data using existing hardware.
In short: programmers managed to push existing hardware with a more efficient code. That's called hacking, albeit with a serious look, and I like that!
FACT: websites with free content that force readers to surrender their details end up collecting garbage information, and also annoy said readers who end up reading some other website with similar content.
IDEA: uuh, like, stop the registration thing perhaps?
For 16 Billon I want a space elevator! I know we don't currently have the tech. to build one, but we have the vision and money.
16 billions wouldn't even buy you one of the 13 countries the equator passes through, to anchor the cable on. Well, maybe Kiribati...
Don't panic, we've got aproximately 5 billion years to think of a way off this planet...
Nothing an e-book that says "don't panic" on the cover and a towel can't solve...
You know, it's funny because when I spend a truckload of money on credit, and then decide to spend $XYZ more on some other venture, the repo man eventually comes and nick my stuff.
On the scale of Uncle Sam though, I could just keep running the debt forever and then print more money as I go, looking worryingly at the exchange rate of the dollar on TV from time to time until the whole scam blows in my face like some giant economy-wide internet bubble.
In short, with the US deficit the way it is, there is no way this super huge NASA budget will stay intact after Bush moves out of the White House, and it may in fact be quietly cut before he goes. NASA knows it, and this is why they will do nothing as spectacular as the moon mission effort in the sixties, and they will instead pay for feasability studies after expensive feasability studies until their budget melts away or gets cut.
I wonder if you've noticed, but they did send human beings in space after Laika the dog and Albert the monkey...
Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship
The KDE team announced they will sue the Russian government over the use of the "klipper" name, which, as everybody knows, is the name of the KDE clipboard. An outraged free software community is currently demonstrating and marching on Capitol Hill and the Kremlin to demand that justice be meeted out of the space agency. In a gesture of goodwill, the Russian space agency has decided to rename their spacecraft "firefoks". News at 11...
the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet
Like you can count on networks to embrace new useful technology...
A mouse pad with an induction coil eh? sounds like a great diskette/ZIP/hard-disk eraser to me...
The chances of readerships for blogs with videos (mainly ones read rarely) neing large enough for this to work is slim to none.
Just wait till Natalie Portman or Jenifer Lopez start video-P2P-blogging and you'll see the readership increase quite a bit.
Supporting MySQL is great. Requiring MySQL sucks, as most users don't have it installed, let alone configured, and automated install scripts are notoriously good at messing up complex servers' config files anyway...