The report cost $25,000 and recommended $7.5 million, but I see no evidence the Air Force authorized spending the $7.5 million.
I guess you could argue that it's worth spending $25,000 to have a report on the subject on file, just so it's out there for reference. If only so you know it's something you don't want to spend any more money on. It's a little silly, but it's not insanely ridiculous or anything.
As long as they don't actually fund the $7.5 million, that is.
Hmm. The site is still playing it straight. I agree it's pretty much a fake site, though I don't know about the marketing angle. Might be, might not be.
Funny he's still playing it as if it's real, though.
Thailand requires a passport photo for visa applications from US citizens. That's different from photographing people who enter Thailand how? It's stored in a filing cabinet instead of a computer?
Way back like 20+ years ago. I was part of a regular market test group for video games, and one day they brought us in to test this thing that wrapped around your head and would "read" simple left/right thoughts. I never knew how it worked, if it was really reading brainwaves or muscles, or what, but it worked.
I played River Raid with it, on the 2600. That's how old it was.
Ten bucks is roughly what a record store pays the distributor for a CD. The music industry is just cutting out the middleman and keeping their profit the same. Not a bad thing to try.
For a non commerical station, assuming your math is right.
Where exactly is that money supposed to come from?
Pledges?
You'd pay $2200 a year to listen to a radio station 8 hours a day?
Let's be generous and assume you only listen 1/22 of the time, or a little over 20 minutes a day using your 8 hour a day station example. You'd still need to pay $100 just so the station could pay their music license. Not to mention bandwidth, staffing costs, etc.
And you'd have to have every single listener do so. Good luck on that one.
Yep. I saw one at Disneyland in that World of Tommorrow or whatever that place is called. It's a big advertisement show. One of the things was a microwave that programmed itself based on bar codes of the food. And a toaster that burned the day's weather into the bread. Don't ask me.
Too bad they started to rush reviews. That was the main reason I went to the site, because I knew the reviewers would actually spend an appreciable amount of time paying the game.
If they've stopped doing that, they may as well not exist. There are plenty of other rush-review sites in the world.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems the link is to a bad downloader version.
n =w ow-tech-support&t=34903&p=1&tmp=1#post3490 3
See this page.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?f
The report cost $25,000 and recommended $7.5 million, but I see no evidence the Air Force authorized spending the $7.5 million.
I guess you could argue that it's worth spending $25,000 to have a report on the subject on file, just so it's out there for reference. If only so you know it's something you don't want to spend any more money on. It's a little silly, but it's not insanely ridiculous or anything.
As long as they don't actually fund the $7.5 million, that is.
Does this expert political analyst know what state ABQ is in?
And geeks with "rebel" in them are fooling noone but themselves.
You should really look into that "UN" thing, as you don't seem to understand it very well.
The above post and its moderation makes my point just fine.
Quiet you! Don't interruput poorly thought out /. anti-americanism, which is required in every single thread.
Hmm. The site is still playing it straight. I agree it's pretty much a fake site, though I don't know about the marketing angle. Might be, might not be.
Funny he's still playing it as if it's real, though.
Thailand requires a passport photo for visa applications from US citizens. That's different from photographing people who enter Thailand how? It's stored in a filing cabinet instead of a computer?
Howard Dean had proposed this, we'd be seeing tons of posts on how visionary it was.
I loved "independent" thinkers.
Call me crazy, but I bet she didn't put her email and full name on the website because she didn't want a million emails.
So why post it here? To show you can lookup?
Seriously, we should respect her wishes and NOT contact her except via snail mail.
Repsect is not that difficult a concept.
Yeah, I saw that. Of course, I'd already emailed this story to some people as a "real life Stalker".
Without a doubt one of the best websites I've ever visited, and that's saying something. Wow.
Uh Oh.
Of course, if they looked up my handle in imdb, they'd just confirm their suspicions.
Way back like 20+ years ago. I was part of a regular market test group for video games, and one day they brought us in to test this thing that wrapped around your head and would "read" simple left/right thoughts. I never knew how it worked, if it was really reading brainwaves or muscles, or what, but it worked.
I played River Raid with it, on the 2600. That's how old it was.
And why wouldn't companies want you to void your warranty?
Then they spend less supporting you.
"This means that the profits will stay in the US/Europe."
So what, we're all supposed to make our livings as stockholders now?
Cause if you're not employed by the company, that's the only way their profits can make you money.
I wanna know how one flipped in the starting area. Heh.
Sounds like DAD got a bad break.
Seeing so many die right off. And noone making it very far.
I suppose it's all training for the next go.
Didn't the flying vehicle challenge start off this badly the first couple of years?
Ten bucks is roughly what a record store pays the distributor for a CD. The music industry is just cutting out the middleman and keeping their profit the same. Not a bad thing to try.
For a non commerical station, assuming your math is right.
Where exactly is that money supposed to come from?
Pledges?
You'd pay $2200 a year to listen to a radio station 8 hours a day?
Let's be generous and assume you only listen 1/22 of the time, or a little over 20 minutes a day using your 8 hour a day station example. You'd still need to pay $100 just so the station could pay their music license. Not to mention bandwidth, staffing costs, etc.
And you'd have to have every single listener do so. Good luck on that one.
It's way out of line as a cost.
Is anyone sure the film will actually be playing at any of them?
El Capitan in LA seems unlikely, for example (being a Disney owned showcase theater).
Yep. I saw one at Disneyland in that World of Tommorrow or whatever that place is called. It's a big advertisement show. One of the things was a microwave that programmed itself based on bar codes of the food. And a toaster that burned the day's weather into the bread. Don't ask me.
Too bad they started to rush reviews. That was the main reason I went to the site, because I knew the reviewers would actually spend an appreciable amount of time paying the game.
If they've stopped doing that, they may as well not exist. There are plenty of other rush-review sites in the world.
for us oldtimey gamers?