I just got a Chainsaw today, and it looks like a good excersise machine.
Not only can you unleash all your built up stress on defenseless trees, but you get your muscles worked out by maintaining control of the chainsaw.
I recommend a STIHL if you want quality that lasts...
BTW, I moved from the barren deserts of Arizona to Louisiana and have 7 acres of riverfront wetlands and pine forest that I need to clear enough trees to build a house. Cut the first couple trees today, and can't wait to clear the rest. (Not to mention making weird sculptures out of the fallen logs.)
Here is an example of a Flash movie I've made which has a pause/play button, as well as a Fast Forward and Rewind Slider that acts just how you want and expect it to.
BIG advantage of using Flash is that it's more likely to appear the way you want it to on your website, as opposed to Quicktime, RealPlayer, WindowsMedia, etc, which adds all their controls to it.
Bear in mind the example above is only a rough example that I placed on the web to show a couple other people.
Imagine if a secure DRM system was in place, and it was adopted with widespread usage.
Maybe all books, movies, magazines, t.v., artwork, etc could be instantly accessed. Instead of waiting for a book to be shipped, or going to the movie rental store, everything could be secure enough to be trusted.
Don't flame me for saying DRM may have potentially good uses. It doesn't mean you have to use it for everything!
I'd much rather pay a small fee and instantly access the full media of my choice, than wait around for days or weeks to get a DIVX from p2p.
If you really want to shred papers faster, just use a mulcher or high-power bulk chipper. The larger version can turn a full tree trunk into chips in mere seconds.
I believe the signs work by the light reflecting off tiny spheres.
The spheres are contained in the mixture which is 'painted' onto the sign, or in the mixture which the reflective tape is made out of.
When the light hits the sphere, there will always be a surface perpendicular to the source of the light, resulting in it reflecting back. Of course, some of it will reflect in other directions, but would scatter.
Then again, I may be totally wrong, but I believe I've read about that somewhere...
Consider this as a reverse kung-fu revenge strategy:
eBay suddenly pays out large bonus to employees, managers, etc. (enough to depelete eBay's cash reserves)
eBay racks up a lot of large (hundreds of millions) purchase orders. Make sure they are 30-day or 90-day billable.
All ebay employees move offshore with their billions in cash.
eBay signs over 100% of the stock shares to Woolston
Woolston now owns a bankrupt company with millions of dollars due for the orders, bills, debts, etc..
Yeah, yeah, I know this would never work in practice.
But I get pretty damn mad when people sue other people for working hard. Woolston could have easily spent a few months reading books and learning CGI programming, and then made an auction website. Instead, he had searched for funding and gave up, deciding to patent instead.
Anybody besides me thinks this thing acts like a Ouiji Board when you play with it? Strange...
Maybe this will help write those e-mails you don't want to get around to writing... Just play with the mouse some until it spews out a bunch of jumbo, then click send.
Wonder if EarthSimulator could run a version of SimEarth, down to every country,state,city,person,etc. Doesn't the Sim series also throw in weather events? Tornados, etc.? EarthSimulator should be able to crank out a few of those...
True, putting all your eggs in 1 basket exposes you to risks.
However, think about the converse:
Secure one OS and one browser 100%, then everybody is secure.
Possible? Maybe, maybe not..
Right now there are thousands of developers working on many variations of OS's and browsers, both open source and closed source.
Imagine what would happen if ALL of those developers worked on a single OS/Browser!
100,000 developers could make a single product pretty damn secure if each person focused entirely on making their little portion bulletproof. Though the problem arises of having 100,000 developers not knowing how the whole program works, but if each functionality was black-boxed well enough, then why wouldn't it be possible to have a completely bulletproof system?
You can say that a virus that runs one a single platform will knock 'em all out, while all the other distros remain alive. But the same catch occurs with Applications - they will only work on some systems. The web has lots of means of making more advanced applications and appearances. Everything from CSS, Java, Javascript, DHTML, Flash and more. The closest of all those client-side services that is most cross-platform consistant is Flash ( I'm talking about web-browser usage by a client), yet even that has a few 'Gotchas' with all the species of systems available to use. The whole internet could evolve a heck of a lot faster if user's browser system was 100% compatible with each other, even more so if they could all upgrade together so it all stays latest tech.
Is there any coincidence between AOL's subscriber base and the fact that they have mailed out zillions of CD's to sign up for their 'service'?
IE is the default browser for 'commoners', because it's there when they turn on Windows. AOL got their software in everybody's hands via snail mail.
Maybe find some method of getting Mozilla to every person's mailbox, and you might have a shot.
Not that I'd bet my money on it, though.
Though Marc did make the hypothetical scenerio of AOL bundling Mozilla with AOL CD's (hence, the existing means of getting Mozilla to everybody), however states that AOL has no internal motive for getting browser market share.
Not that I think they should.... personally, the higher the percentage of the world using a single browser version, the further along advanced web-based development could progress, because gone is the issue of making everything compatible with the lowest common denomanator.
These people better watch out what they try to make happen.
Modular Windows Would Cost More!
Why do I say this?
Think about it... XP currently ships with lots of middleware 'built-in'. When you sell a product like a OS, it is easy and marginally INEXPENSIVE to simply add a few dozen middleware applications and only raise the total cost of the OS by a few dollars, if even that.. MS has $199 and $299 set as target prices for the home and pro versions of the OS, so they probably don't have qualms about adding in a few more middleware apps without raising the price.
However, if you sell a bare-bones XP, you now have to purchase all of those middleware apps separately. You could by them from Microsoft, which are a good bet they will work perfectly with the OS. Or you could buy them from 3rd party sources, which probably will work just fine, maybe better, (or worse) than the current MS apps.
Regardless, consumers will then need to buy 5-20 additional middleware apps for the price of $5-$100 each. $19.95 would be an average price, roughly.
So instead of consumers currently paying $299 for the whole collection of OS and middleware, they will pay $99 for the OS, then pay $400 more to get the same functionality.
I can just see a bunch of consumers sueing MS 6 months after MS is forced to sell a bare-bones OS, because then MS will be making MORE money, and consumers will get reduced functionality and more hassle and expenses.
Gotta watch out what you ask for, you just might get it!
The more insane sculptures are still lurking in my head waiting to come out....
I mostly do custom work for trade show displays, restaurants, etc.
Just raised prices on my website tonight.. Migrating my focus from lower-priced productions to higher-priced one-of-a-kind sculptures and custom work only...
Given that the Star Wars name will attract millions of players, this game stands a very good chance of getting the largest following for a multi-user online game.
The more people avidly playing a game like this, the more intricate the society will become within the game, which in turn will probably make it the best game of it's genre.
Maybe it won't be the best game technically or gameplay wise, but any game sporting a mass society will be hard to ignore.
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People talk about loosing money in stocks is 'only a paper loss'.
Well, what is money printed on??
Hard cash is just paper...
Yeah, yeah, I know how the stock market works -- it's just kinda funny how people relate different terms of money in different ways.
I'd like to move currency back to the OLD style -- live goats. Kinda hard to fudge the value of those, eh?
"I want professional software"
"I Don't Wan't to Pay for it"
"Why aren't you guys writing all of this for free for me???"
ha!
Isn't this kinda like lemmings blindly following someone else's instructions.
What if it was a 'trap', and everybody who joined in on the flash mob got kidnapped, shot, raped, etc?
I just got a Chainsaw today, and it looks like a good excersise machine.
Not only can you unleash all your built up stress on defenseless trees, but you get your muscles worked out by maintaining control of the chainsaw.
I recommend a STIHL if you want quality that lasts...
BTW, I moved from the barren deserts of Arizona to Louisiana and have 7 acres of riverfront wetlands and pine forest that I need to clear enough trees to build a house. Cut the first couple trees today, and can't wait to clear the rest. (Not to mention making weird sculptures out of the fallen logs.)
Nothing a couple lines of ActionScript can't fix.
Here is an example of a Flash movie I've made which has a pause/play button, as well as a Fast Forward and Rewind Slider that acts just how you want and expect it to.
BIG advantage of using Flash is that it's more likely to appear the way you want it to on your website, as opposed to Quicktime, RealPlayer, WindowsMedia, etc, which adds all their controls to it.
Bear in mind the example above is only a rough example that I placed on the web to show a couple other people.
Imagine if a secure DRM system was in place, and it was adopted with widespread usage.
Maybe all books, movies, magazines, t.v., artwork, etc could be instantly accessed. Instead of waiting for a book to be shipped, or going to the movie rental store, everything could be secure enough to be trusted.
Don't flame me for saying DRM may have potentially good uses. It doesn't mean you have to use it for everything!
I'd much rather pay a small fee and instantly access the full media of my choice, than wait around for days or weeks to get a DIVX from p2p.
If you really want to shred papers faster, just use a mulcher or high-power bulk chipper. The larger version can turn a full tree trunk into chips in mere seconds.
Forget paper shredders.
Similar experiences for me...
That let to me forming Beyond 7 Designs, found at www.Beyond7.com
I received crazy ideas for making acrylic bubble fountains, and one thing led to another...
He said the Wayback machine is 150-odd computer. 150 is EVEN, not odd
Not like it really matters, though.
Just one more comment to be archived forever and nitpicked from the future.
Why let the worms have all the fun?
A spider attack could crawl all the webservers looking for IIS machines, or flaws on other servers. Link by link taking down servers...
I believe the signs work by the light reflecting off tiny spheres.
The spheres are contained in the mixture which is 'painted' onto the sign, or in the mixture which the reflective tape is made out of.
When the light hits the sphere, there will always be a surface perpendicular to the source of the light, resulting in it reflecting back. Of course, some of it will reflect in other directions, but would scatter.
Then again, I may be totally wrong, but I believe I've read about that somewhere...
Will RMS want this guy to call it GNU/Linux/FreeBSD/Windows/OS2/DOS/DRDOS/Netware?
He should watch out what he asks for!!
Consider this as a reverse kung-fu revenge strategy:
Yeah, yeah, I know this would never work in practice.
But I get pretty damn mad when people sue other people for working hard. Woolston could have easily spent a few months reading books and learning CGI programming, and then made an auction website. Instead, he had searched for funding and gave up, deciding to patent instead.
Curses to him!!
I made one of these before...
Fibre optics work by transmitting light thru a clear substance: glass.
Why not transmit light thru the ice directly?
Yeah, yeah, i know that the nature of ice would cause massive distortion and interference, and that the light probably wouldn't go very far.
I'm just trying to suggest a wild concept, which might help other people think of more unique solutions to this problem.
Who knows, solving this problem might end up with solutions to solve many other problems related to broadband connectivity or long distance spans.
If the ice is 4 km thick, maybe some high power laser could strobe the signal from underground.
Don't flame the idea, use it to spur your imagination!
Anybody besides me thinks this thing acts like a Ouiji Board when you play with it? Strange...
Maybe this will help write those e-mails you don't want to get around to writing... Just play with the mouse some until it spews out a bunch of jumbo, then click send.
Wonder if EarthSimulator could run a version of SimEarth, down to every country,state,city,person,etc. Doesn't the Sim series also throw in weather events? Tornados, etc.? EarthSimulator should be able to crank out a few of those...
True, putting all your eggs in 1 basket exposes you to risks.
However, think about the converse:
Secure one OS and one browser 100%, then everybody is secure.
Possible? Maybe, maybe not..
Right now there are thousands of developers working on many variations of OS's and browsers, both open source and closed source.
Imagine what would happen if ALL of those developers worked on a single OS/Browser!
100,000 developers could make a single product pretty damn secure if each person focused entirely on making their little portion bulletproof. Though the problem arises of having 100,000 developers not knowing how the whole program works, but if each functionality was black-boxed well enough, then why wouldn't it be possible to have a completely bulletproof system?
You can say that a virus that runs one a single platform will knock 'em all out, while all the other distros remain alive. But the same catch occurs with Applications - they will only work on some systems. The web has lots of means of making more advanced applications and appearances. Everything from CSS, Java, Javascript, DHTML, Flash and more. The closest of all those client-side services that is most cross-platform consistant is Flash ( I'm talking about web-browser usage by a client), yet even that has a few 'Gotchas' with all the species of systems available to use. The whole internet could evolve a heck of a lot faster if user's browser system was 100% compatible with each other, even more so if they could all upgrade together so it all stays latest tech.
Is there any coincidence between AOL's subscriber base and the fact that they have mailed out zillions of CD's to sign up for their 'service'?
IE is the default browser for 'commoners', because it's there when they turn on Windows. AOL got their software in everybody's hands via snail mail.
Maybe find some method of getting Mozilla to every person's mailbox, and you might have a shot.
Not that I'd bet my money on it, though.
Though Marc did make the hypothetical scenerio of AOL bundling Mozilla with AOL CD's (hence, the existing means of getting Mozilla to everybody), however states that AOL has no internal motive for getting browser market share.
Not that I think they should.... personally, the higher the percentage of the world using a single browser version, the further along advanced web-based development could progress, because gone is the issue of making everything compatible with the lowest common denomanator.
How about a major computer virus or worm?
Some of those have cost the economy millions of dollars!
All for just a few lines of script....
These people better watch out what they try to make happen.
Modular Windows Would Cost More!
Why do I say this?
Think about it... XP currently ships with lots of middleware 'built-in'. When you sell a product like a OS, it is easy and marginally INEXPENSIVE to simply add a few dozen middleware applications and only raise the total cost of the OS by a few dollars, if even that.. MS has $199 and $299 set as target prices for the home and pro versions of the OS, so they probably don't have qualms about adding in a few more middleware apps without raising the price.
However, if you sell a bare-bones XP, you now have to purchase all of those middleware apps separately. You could by them from Microsoft, which are a good bet they will work perfectly with the OS. Or you could buy them from 3rd party sources, which probably will work just fine, maybe better, (or worse) than the current MS apps.
Regardless, consumers will then need to buy 5-20 additional middleware apps for the price of $5-$100 each. $19.95 would be an average price, roughly.
So instead of consumers currently paying $299 for the whole collection of OS and middleware, they will pay $99 for the OS, then pay $400 more to get the same functionality.
I can just see a bunch of consumers sueing MS 6 months after MS is forced to sell a bare-bones OS, because then MS will be making MORE money, and consumers will get reduced functionality and more hassle and expenses.
Gotta watch out what you ask for, you just might get it!
...and...
Hours spent reading Slashdot
The more insane sculptures are still lurking in my head waiting to come out....
I mostly do custom work for trade show displays, restaurants, etc.
Just raised prices on my website tonight.. Migrating my focus from lower-priced productions to higher-priced one-of-a-kind sculptures and custom work only...
At least I hope X-10 pop-under don't start appearing on graves.....
Given that the Star Wars name will attract millions of players, this game stands a very good chance of getting the largest following for a multi-user online game.
The more people avidly playing a game like this, the more intricate the society will become within the game, which in turn will probably make it the best game of it's genre.
Maybe it won't be the best game technically or gameplay wise, but any game sporting a mass society will be hard to ignore.