Its not a big secret that Kerry lost an election that many feel seemed to be unloseable.
W's secret? A bunch of bible thumpers who vote for whoever Jesus tells them to.
The democrats are just trying to grab an easy piece of the "right wing nutjob" pie. Hoping that if all candidates have the same view on morality, then theres actually a decision to make.
It pertains to their first (and only) book. If memory serves, they accidentally sold the rights to their first 5 years worth or comics to someone who made the book, who basically kept all the money and fled the country.
They haven't made any more books because legally this guy has the rights to the comic strips.
I'm not sure, but I had the distinct impression that the loud noise was not to tip off shoppers, but to tip off ladies that you might be using your camera phone to take rude pictures of. (In the locker room, or up some poor girls skirt)
I'm more concerned with less intelligent companies who read this article and thought... Fake posts on the internet. What a great idea. While Astroturfing has always been around, mainstream articles about it are only going to give the un-enlightened new ideas.
If you can use numrange to search for a certain price range in Froogle, that would make Froogle much more useful, which presently does not even have the ability to sort by price.
Perhaps its new, but I was just using froogle this morning, and saw that it had the ability to sort by price, as well as filter with min / max price settings.
If your friend is a drug dealer, just don't talk about or be involved with drugs with him.
For most people, having a drug dealer friend is no big deal, especially if you're not involved in his / her business.
However, do you want that person running for public office? Even if you're comfortable with it, its unlikely that all of your country would be be so enlightened.
RFID interrogators use a binary tree walking protocol to enumerate tags in the field. Get a tag that responds to every query, and you have effectively jammed RFID interrogation around your person.
Or, Walmart thinks you have stolen every item in their store.
I have heard nothing but bad things about that service. They apparantly switched to some kindof download client, which is unreliable. They also no longer offer "unlimited" service, but before this was done, they banned many users for downloading "too much" although this was never mentioned in any of the EULAs. Finally, they censor their bulletin boards rediculously, so even if many other users are having the same problems as yourself, you'll never see them.
Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi product. It is an independent company, that (I believe) is distributed by Pepsi or Coke, depending on region. You can get Dr. Pepper at burger king in my region (seen it in PA, NJ, NY), which caries Coke products.
I have personally never seen a Dr. Pepper in McDonalds though.
For a while, register.com had a deal with Gator, where all of their "coming soon" pages, would launch one of those Gator auto-install applications.
You could definetly argue that someone visiting your website and seeing that could be upset enough to not visit the site again, even if it wasn't hosted by the purchaser of the domain.
However, this does seem like a rediculous lawsuit, although the settlement is also fruity. 5 bucks off of an overpriced domain renewal?
Oh, and don't buy this crap about RCOM wanting to provide a service... thats what they'll say, but really they just want ads for all of their products and services on all the domains that are held by squatters who have no intention of putting up a website.
I don't see this as a tool for scrolling left in web pages, but rather very handy when working with image manipulation software.
Its definetly not a radical innovation, but it would ne a nice feature to have every once in a while.
Also, I bet it could come in handy in games, particularly the more recent fps games, where there is more than just fire and jump to have to worry about.
The way you describe it is certainly a good idea.
Say a company takes 100 dollars to research something, and it costs 1 dollar to produce 1 unit.
They decide to sell it for 6 dollars, and when they have sold 20 units, they have broken even.
The scenario you describe is the company, in addition to selling the 20 units in the US @ 6 dollars, they also sell units to africa for $2 a pop. They still make money... but it will be alot longer at that price point until they break even, if it wasn't subsidized by the rich. Thus, everyone is happy.
They company still recoups its R&D investment (slightly faster than before) and the domestic customers are getting the item at the same price.
However, targeted pricing has the potential to go the other way. As i'm sure you can see from other stories posted here, the seller can use this to take advantage of people who are willing to pay more.
Imagine for instance that you could be charged for using a restroom. Would you rather have a fixed fee... say.25 cents? Or if you adapt variable pricing, the propietor of the restroom could scan your bladder when you come in... and if charge you $10, because he KNOWS that your bladder is full, and you're going to explode if you can't use the restroom.
Society really only benefits from variable pricing if the seller doesn't take advantage when they have the capability to raise rates. I think that you'd be hard pressed to find evidence that would support that in our Quarterly Report focused economy that variable pricing would truly result in the average person being better off.
I'd agree that the tablet PC wouldn't be very good for your conventional FPS or any game that required alot of 3D stuff.
However, I do think that the tablet could work for RTS games like starcraft, where your mousing accuracy would no longer be a limiting factor.
If you took it a step further, I bet you could make a bunch of neat strategy style games that a pen interface would be better for. Imagine being able to give your troops walking directions by drawing on the screen.
I'm interested in picking up a tablet and seeing what I could make with it, but the cost is just too prohibitive to do it just for kicks.
I always thought it would be a cool project to convert a bunch of subway cars into a liveable house. I especially think it would look pretty snazzy in the middle of one of those pre-planned developments, with all the houses that look alike, and your subway car network right next to them.
$5,000 seems like a reasonable price for such a thing. Assuming you'd need between 5 and 10 cars, thats not so expensive for building your own house.
However, the logistics involved in transporting a 40,000 lb subway car would probably make such a project impossible.
I can't remember the source, but I read that originally, movies were played in something closer to a 4:3 ratio, but once people started getting home TVs, the motion picture industry widened the picture in an attempt to entice people back to the theaters, offering them something they couldn't get at home (wider picture).
Also, widescreen is debateably better because its closer to the aspect ratio at which you see (more wide than tall), so it fills more of your vision.
Personally what gets me is the two widescreen standards... it kills me to have a 53" tv, but still have the top and bottom black because some movies were shot at 2.3ish : 1 instead of 16:9.
As far as I understand it, black holes are black because light can not escape. This is because photons have energy, and thus have a mass equivalent, and can be sucked back in.
Gravity has no mass, thus it can not be sucked back in.
This is a good step, but what good does it do to have a top notch shell, when the vast majority of windows programs are gui based?
Are they going to release command line versions of most of their administrative tools?
Any windows sysadmins out there feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but its generally not the lack of shell features that keeps me from using cmd.exe, but rather the number of programs that you can run with it.
Whats the purpose of digital out then? If i had some high quality tunes on my machine, I would certainly like to use my digital out to send it to my high end stereo system, most likely over the digital output.... seriously, what kindof genius came up with this idea?
Most systems now don't have filters on any of the other fans, why would this be any different? I'd assume that this system is needed because it gets really hot, and adding in a filter wouldn't exactly fascilitate air flow.
As anyone who has ever played a U.S. Game on battle.net can attest, Koreans are blamed (justification is another story) for "lagging down the game."
This will take the pressure of the Koreans, first with the Lunarians, and then Martians, who will make the Lunarians look speedy.
I can't just see it now.
Diablo Player 1: Man, those fucking martians, always lagging down the game and spamming those "Give me items messages"... why don't they play with their own people.
Diablo Player 2: (several minutes later) HELP ME PLEEEZ... NEED SOJ
Diablo Player 1: Fucking Martians.
I'm not sure where you're shopping for dvds son, but generally list price on those things goes around $20 to $30. Granted, you can find deals, but you can do the same for CDs. Comparing the standard overpriced CD to the bargain DVD isn't really fair.
That being said, I agree that CDs are overpriced for carrying 40-70 minutes of stereo audio, while a DVD carries 2-3 hours of video + 5.1 digital surround sound + bonus features, and doesn't cost substantially more.
Power lines are noisy, and not just a little bit. Then you've got the whole shielding issue (mentioned in other posts). X10 made a home communication thing that used powerlines as the means of transmission (had to build a reciever for one in college) and the amount of crap that comes through on those lines is disgusting.
Look at the reviews of home networking / print sharing equipment over powerlines... the speed is pretty poor. Heres a review over at firingsquad While those speeds may be fine for internet sharing in one household, imagine trying to put together an entire town?
Maybe they've got something else going on though. Best of luck to them.
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Its not a big secret that Kerry lost an election that many feel seemed to be unloseable.
W's secret? A bunch of bible thumpers who vote for whoever Jesus tells them to.
The democrats are just trying to grab an easy piece of the "right wing nutjob" pie. Hoping that if all candidates have the same view on morality, then theres actually a decision to make.
It pertains to their first (and only) book. If memory serves, they accidentally sold the rights to their first 5 years worth or comics to someone who made the book, who basically kept all the money and fled the country.
They haven't made any more books because legally this guy has the rights to the comic strips.
I'm not sure, but I had the distinct impression that the loud noise was not to tip off shoppers, but to tip off ladies that you might be using your camera phone to take rude pictures of. (In the locker room, or up some poor girls skirt)
I'm more concerned with less intelligent companies who read this article and thought... Fake posts on the internet. What a great idea. While Astroturfing has always been around, mainstream articles about it are only going to give the un-enlightened new ideas.
If you can use numrange to search for a certain price range in Froogle, that would make Froogle much more useful, which presently does not even have the ability to sort by price.
Perhaps its new, but I was just using froogle this morning, and saw that it had the ability to sort by price, as well as filter with min / max price settings.
If your friend is a drug dealer, just don't talk about or be involved with drugs with him.
For most people, having a drug dealer friend is no big deal, especially if you're not involved in his / her business.
However, do you want that person running for public office? Even if you're comfortable with it, its unlikely that all of your country would be be so enlightened.
RFID interrogators use a binary tree walking protocol to enumerate tags in the field. Get a tag that responds to every query, and you have effectively jammed RFID interrogation around your person.
Or, Walmart thinks you have stolen every item in their store.
I have heard nothing but bad things about that service. They apparantly switched to some kindof download client, which is unreliable. They also no longer offer "unlimited" service, but before this was done, they banned many users for downloading "too much" although this was never mentioned in any of the EULAs. Finally, they censor their bulletin boards rediculously, so even if many other users are having the same problems as yourself, you'll never see them.
the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
This is technically only true if shirts are the limiting reagent in your laundry process. For me, its boxer shorts.
Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi product. It is an independent company, that (I believe) is distributed by Pepsi or Coke, depending on region. You can get Dr. Pepper at burger king in my region (seen it in PA, NJ, NY), which caries Coke products. I have personally never seen a Dr. Pepper in McDonalds though.
For a while, register.com had a deal with Gator, where all of their "coming soon" pages, would launch one of those Gator auto-install applications.
You could definetly argue that someone visiting your website and seeing that could be upset enough to not visit the site again, even if it wasn't hosted by the purchaser of the domain.
However, this does seem like a rediculous lawsuit, although the settlement is also fruity. 5 bucks off of an overpriced domain renewal?
Oh, and don't buy this crap about RCOM wanting to provide a service... thats what they'll say, but really they just want ads for all of their products and services on all the domains that are held by squatters who have no intention of putting up a website.
I don't see this as a tool for scrolling left in web pages, but rather very handy when working with image manipulation software.
Its definetly not a radical innovation, but it would ne a nice feature to have every once in a while.
Also, I bet it could come in handy in games, particularly the more recent fps games, where there is more than just fire and jump to have to worry about.
The way you describe it is certainly a good idea. Say a company takes 100 dollars to research something, and it costs 1 dollar to produce 1 unit. They decide to sell it for 6 dollars, and when they have sold 20 units, they have broken even. The scenario you describe is the company, in addition to selling the 20 units in the US @ 6 dollars, they also sell units to africa for $2 a pop. They still make money... but it will be alot longer at that price point until they break even, if it wasn't subsidized by the rich. Thus, everyone is happy.
.25 cents? Or if you adapt variable pricing, the propietor of the restroom could scan your bladder when you come in... and if charge you $10, because he KNOWS that your bladder is full, and you're going to explode if you can't use the restroom.
They company still recoups its R&D investment (slightly faster than before) and the domestic customers are getting the item at the same price.
However, targeted pricing has the potential to go the other way. As i'm sure you can see from other stories posted here, the seller can use this to take advantage of people who are willing to pay more.
Imagine for instance that you could be charged for using a restroom. Would you rather have a fixed fee... say
Society really only benefits from variable pricing if the seller doesn't take advantage when they have the capability to raise rates. I think that you'd be hard pressed to find evidence that would support that in our Quarterly Report focused economy that variable pricing would truly result in the average person being better off.
I'd agree that the tablet PC wouldn't be very good for your conventional FPS or any game that required alot of 3D stuff.
However, I do think that the tablet could work for RTS games like starcraft, where your mousing accuracy would no longer be a limiting factor.
If you took it a step further, I bet you could make a bunch of neat strategy style games that a pen interface would be better for. Imagine being able to give your troops walking directions by drawing on the screen.
I'm interested in picking up a tablet and seeing what I could make with it, but the cost is just too prohibitive to do it just for kicks.
I always thought it would be a cool project to convert a bunch of subway cars into a liveable house. I especially think it would look pretty snazzy in the middle of one of those pre-planned developments, with all the houses that look alike, and your subway car network right next to them.
$5,000 seems like a reasonable price for such a thing. Assuming you'd need between 5 and 10 cars, thats not so expensive for building your own house.
However, the logistics involved in transporting a 40,000 lb subway car would probably make such a project impossible.
I can't remember the source, but I read that originally, movies were played in something closer to a 4:3 ratio, but once people started getting home TVs, the motion picture industry widened the picture in an attempt to entice people back to the theaters, offering them something they couldn't get at home (wider picture).
Also, widescreen is debateably better because its closer to the aspect ratio at which you see (more wide than tall), so it fills more of your vision.
Personally what gets me is the two widescreen standards... it kills me to have a 53" tv, but still have the top and bottom black because some movies were shot at 2.3ish : 1 instead of 16:9.
As far as I understand it, black holes are black because light can not escape. This is because photons have energy, and thus have a mass equivalent, and can be sucked back in.
Gravity has no mass, thus it can not be sucked back in.
This is a good step, but what good does it do to have a top notch shell, when the vast majority of windows programs are gui based?
Are they going to release command line versions of most of their administrative tools?
Any windows sysadmins out there feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but its generally not the lack of shell features that keeps me from using cmd.exe, but rather the number of programs that you can run with it.
Whats the purpose of digital out then? If i had some high quality tunes on my machine, I would certainly like to use my digital out to send it to my high end stereo system, most likely over the digital output.... seriously, what kindof genius came up with this idea?
Firing Squad, also has some preview (with pictures) up here. From a technical stand point, seems to be pretty nifty, but I'm not convinced I'd rather have this card instead of 3 hours with a "massage therapist".
Most systems now don't have filters on any of the other fans, why would this be any different? I'd assume that this system is needed because it gets really hot, and adding in a filter wouldn't exactly fascilitate air flow.
As anyone who has ever played a U.S. Game on battle.net can attest, Koreans are blamed (justification is another story) for "lagging down the game."
This will take the pressure of the Koreans, first with the Lunarians, and then Martians, who will make the Lunarians look speedy.
I can't just see it now.
Diablo Player 1: Man, those fucking martians, always lagging down the game and spamming those "Give me items messages"... why don't they play with their own people. Diablo Player 2: (several minutes later) HELP ME PLEEEZ... NEED SOJ Diablo Player 1: Fucking Martians.
I'm not sure where you're shopping for dvds son, but generally list price on those things goes around $20 to $30. Granted, you can find deals, but you can do the same for CDs. Comparing the standard overpriced CD to the bargain DVD isn't really fair.
That being said, I agree that CDs are overpriced for carrying 40-70 minutes of stereo audio, while a DVD carries 2-3 hours of video + 5.1 digital surround sound + bonus features, and doesn't cost substantially more.
Power lines are noisy, and not just a little bit. Then you've got the whole shielding issue (mentioned in other posts). X10 made a home communication thing that used powerlines as the means of transmission (had to build a reciever for one in college) and the amount of crap that comes through on those lines is disgusting.
Look at the reviews of home networking / print sharing equipment over powerlines... the speed is pretty poor. Heres a review over at firingsquad While those speeds may be fine for internet sharing in one household, imagine trying to put together an entire town?
Maybe they've got something else going on though. Best of luck to them.
What about Cooper Union? All students recieve full tuition scholarships.
Not many people have heard about it, but those who do know that we're hard core.