Most papers only charge because advertisers are willing to spend more on ads in papers that charge.
Advertisers are willing to do that because they assume if you are paying for the paper, you are actually reading it, instead of the weekly freebie that gets dropped on your doorstep despite you asking them to stop.
Doesn't nearly every distribution method on the internet have a "if you like A, 70% of everyone who does also like band B" Most of the entertainment I buy these days comes from those suggestions, since I replaced my stereo with a USB stick and haven't heard radio in about 3 years.
I suppose somebody could still bribe video makers to feature songs in the background of their stuff, maybe 10% of my audio comes from that still.
Minimum wage in the US is like USD$7 now. The kindle2 is only USD$300, minimum wage in the US is like USD $7, it'd only take him around a month working part time.
Exactly. I wish everybody had waited until Amazon had deleted it for a different reason.
Since Amazon had no legal right to transfer the (license/property/whatever) to the purchasers, the judge will probably end the suit on that point and inadvertantly strengthen Amazon's defense when they do it again truly bad reasons.
Hey, Verizon isn't claiming to be reliable, just more reliable than the others.
It's like saying you're the cleanest hotel in town. The rooms may be dirty, but all the other hotels are caked in shit.
I think Verizon's plans suck, they overcharge, most of their phones are useless, and I can't wait until they drop CDMA in two years. But they're the only service that gets signal in the 1-stopsign villages I find myself driving through.
By default, no more advanced than using a wiki-page to schedule a meeting. But it'd be trivial to write a robot to match schedules, allocate resources, pop up reminders, etc.
How's about instead of relying on IT to handle of physical security, take all the computers in back corners and put them in central locations visible to the staff and public. Locking everything down won't prevent your pervs from shoulder surfing.
I'm suprised you haven't had a problem with people nicking the ram/mice/etc.
I'm sure somebody could make a RFID version of kismet, if they haven't already. But yah, it'd only be helpful if the book was misfiled, otherwise just look at the section labels on the shelves.
Where it would actually be useful is in shipping containers/pallets, but only if you really needed to find something without sorting through the whole load.
Teenage girls blossom earlier for one reason: calories.
Menses is largely dependant on having sufficient calories, both intake and stored(approaching 20% bodyfat), and estrogen. Fat also emits estrogen, so fat kids means earlier menarche.
Compare a gymnast (high caloric output, minimal caloric input relative to output) to a girl who's economic status is such that she gets sufficient calories in the form of fast food & microwave meals and spends 15+ hours per day sitting on her ass.
On the other hand, the average age of menarche has only changed by maybe 3 or 4 months in the last 30 years.
Actually, it doesn't need fresh water, just a saline gradient. So one could easily use brackish->sea water or even sea water->higher salinity water from evaporation ponds.
Technically, you could even use the "waste" output of a desalination plant, but of course that wouldn't recover anywhere near the energy put in.
Bisexual, attractive, nudist 19yo women who care more about her WoW character's latest adventure than shoes, that are looking to move into a basement, has a couple of friends of a similar nature that also need a place to stay, and hopes to trade their domestic skills in place of rent so they can afford the gigabit fiber drop, which they'd also share, but only if you agree to referee their jello-wrestling.
My earliest recollections were of this really old guy with an angry face and an angry voice who played with toys while demonstrating physics. Not sure I ever knew his name, but as a child, I was fascinated by the things he did.
From that description, I can only assume you mean Julius Sumner Miller, because "physics is my business" is burned into my brain.
When I was a kid, I'd rather watch him instead of cartoons, even if he was freakin scary.
After I thought I'd never need a parallel cable again, I just replaced a mini centronics cable and bought 2 new parallel printers last week.
I'm still trying to find a "perfect" serial-USB dongle for some industrial machinery that requires exact timing so I don't have to keep buying refurb laptops just for the serial port.
After upgrading to a multi-core system where each had more processor and memory than my previous computer and noticing that 1 core was idle unless I was doing something CPU intensive, I virtualized my old machine and saved a snapshot just after bootup and opening a browser.
Then I started using that in seamless mode instead of a browser. Every time I close it, not only is the browser history/cache/etc wiped, every possible change to the entire system is wiped.
It doesn't run AV because that system just doesn't matter anymore. Instead of restarting my browser, I'm effectively wiping & re-installing whenever it feels laggy or "off".
Perhaps it is a false sense of security, but as long as it is firewalled from the rest of the network and there isn't a "Neo" virus that can "escape the simulation", I feel safer than browsing on the host system with all the AV/noscript utilities running.
I volunteered for a class like that. I learned many things, such as:
1) how to pick a lock 2) how to palm a beer into your sleeve 3) where to buy illegal drugs 4) classes with high female-to-male ratios are great for 3/4's of the class 5) which uppers made you lose pregnancy weight the fastest(not too useful) 6) "if you don't hate me, why haven't you had sex with me" means Run!, not Awesome!
If only the Department of Health in England could have read this before they spent millions placing kids with higher risk to be a teenage parent in a room with each other, then they wouldn't have been suprised when the pregnancy rates jumped.
Clearly, they should have been thinly distributed amongst the chess clubs and mathlete societies, where they would have either benefited from the complete lack of sex or been instrumental in breeding a new race of promiscuous geeks.
They are doing this in Florida. People in Florida would drink petroleum from the genitals of an GM anthropomorphic bull if it used a song-and-dance routine to explain that they were really drinking "cow's milk"(wink).
Not that all people in Florida are stupid, just that the IQ of the population resembles the graph of the "long tail" instead of a normal distribution.
Yah, they'll just get sued in whatever country they set up in and have the additional difficulty of getting subpoenaed long-distance.
I'm unaware of any country that both has decent bandwidth and does NOT have stupid laws that affect the internet.
I can think of a few regions that fullfil the second clause and could be brought to fulfill the first, but most of them are populated by people who find bronze tools sufficiently indistinguishable from magic and would likely smash the electronics and use them as spear tips.
Oddly, that also describes the legislative body of my country, which explains the bad laws.
I'm sure the EPA or other agency has an "allowable salinity" restriction on water dumped into the ocean. If it is less than, say, double the normal salinity, they'll probably just stick it back in the ocean.
Otherwise, they'll probably sell it as "Organic sea salt, purified by cute widdle ocean organisms".
Maybe creators should stop accepting royalties and ask for a larger advances. Then they wouldn't be screwed.
On the other hand, if copyrights went to life of the creator, I agree that not only would it be likely that they'd be assassinated by the Industry, it would be so likely that insurance companies would refuse or drop coverage of anyone who had taken a creative arts class:)
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Most papers only charge because advertisers are willing to spend more on ads in papers that charge.
Advertisers are willing to do that because they assume if you are paying for the paper, you are actually reading it, instead of the weekly freebie that gets dropped on your doorstep despite you asking them to stop.
Has Microvision ever shipped a consumer product? Still waiting on the wearable display glasses from the 90's.
You can even steal things for a living, I just wish you could get into houses without having to chitchat long enough for them to invite you in.
I've got some nice spotlights in my yard from downtown.
Just because somebody dislikes Bush, doesn't automatically mean they like Obama. Yourself, for example, apparently.
Dems & Reps are just the largest parties, not the only ones.
Doesn't nearly every distribution method on the internet have a "if you like A, 70% of everyone who does also like band B" Most of the entertainment I buy these days comes from those suggestions, since I replaced my stereo with a USB stick and haven't heard radio in about 3 years.
I suppose somebody could still bribe video makers to feature songs in the background of their stuff, maybe 10% of my audio comes from that still.
You must be really old.
Minimum wage in the US is like USD$7 now. The kindle2 is only USD$300, minimum wage in the US is like USD $7, it'd only take him around a month working part time.
Exactly. I wish everybody had waited until Amazon had deleted it for a different reason.
Since Amazon had no legal right to transfer the (license/property/whatever) to the purchasers, the judge will probably end the suit on that point and inadvertantly strengthen Amazon's defense when they do it again truly bad reasons.
Hey, Verizon isn't claiming to be reliable, just more reliable than the others.
It's like saying you're the cleanest hotel in town. The rooms may be dirty, but all the other hotels are caked in shit.
I think Verizon's plans suck, they overcharge, most of their phones are useless, and I can't wait until they drop CDMA in two years. But they're the only service that gets signal in the 1-stopsign villages I find myself driving through.
By default, no more advanced than using a wiki-page to schedule a meeting. But it'd be trivial to write a robot to match schedules, allocate resources, pop up reminders, etc.
How's about instead of relying on IT to handle of physical security, take all the computers in back corners and put them in central locations visible to the staff and public. Locking everything down won't prevent your pervs from shoulder surfing.
I'm suprised you haven't had a problem with people nicking the ram/mice/etc.
I'm sure somebody could make a RFID version of kismet, if they haven't already. But yah, it'd only be helpful if the book was misfiled, otherwise just look at the section labels on the shelves.
Where it would actually be useful is in shipping containers/pallets, but only if you really needed to find something without sorting through the whole load.
As NIR starts at 750nm and the human eye can detect 800nm(barely, I forget the light level required, but full daylight looks like a dimly lit room).
Your retinas can see UV also, but you'll have to remove your corneas first, as they filter UV.
Teenage girls blossom earlier for one reason: calories.
Menses is largely dependant on having sufficient calories, both intake and stored(approaching 20% bodyfat), and estrogen. Fat also emits estrogen, so fat kids means earlier menarche.
Compare a gymnast (high caloric output, minimal caloric input relative to output) to a girl who's economic status is such that she gets sufficient calories in the form of fast food & microwave meals and spends 15+ hours per day sitting on her ass.
On the other hand, the average age of menarche has only changed by maybe 3 or 4 months in the last 30 years.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/111/1/110
Let me know if the study is bullshit.
Actually, it doesn't need fresh water, just a saline gradient. So one could easily use brackish->sea water or even sea water->higher salinity water from evaporation ponds.
Technically, you could even use the "waste" output of a desalination plant, but of course that wouldn't recover anywhere near the energy put in.
Bisexual, attractive, nudist 19yo women who care more about her WoW character's latest adventure than shoes, that are looking to move into a basement, has a couple of friends of a similar nature that also need a place to stay, and hopes to trade their domestic skills in place of rent so they can afford the gigabit fiber drop, which they'd also share, but only if you agree to referee their jello-wrestling.
Why would you think that GPD stands for gallons per dollar, when the left part of the statement was in gallons per minute? /I know, WOOOSH, probably.
From that description, I can only assume you mean Julius Sumner Miller, because "physics is my business" is burned into my brain.
When I was a kid, I'd rather watch him instead of cartoons, even if he was freakin scary.
After I thought I'd never need a parallel cable again, I just replaced a mini centronics cable and bought 2 new parallel printers last week.
I'm still trying to find a "perfect" serial-USB dongle for some industrial machinery that requires exact timing so I don't have to keep buying refurb laptops just for the serial port.
That's what I've got on my setup now.
After upgrading to a multi-core system where each had more processor and memory than my previous computer and noticing that 1 core was idle unless I was doing something CPU intensive, I virtualized my old machine and saved a snapshot just after bootup and opening a browser.
Then I started using that in seamless mode instead of a browser. Every time I close it, not only is the browser history/cache/etc wiped, every possible change to the entire system is wiped.
It doesn't run AV because that system just doesn't matter anymore. Instead of restarting my browser, I'm effectively wiping & re-installing whenever it feels laggy or "off".
Perhaps it is a false sense of security, but as long as it is firewalled from the rest of the network and there isn't a "Neo" virus that can "escape the simulation", I feel safer than browsing on the host system with all the AV/noscript utilities running.
I volunteered for a class like that. I learned many things, such as:
1) how to pick a lock
2) how to palm a beer into your sleeve
3) where to buy illegal drugs
4) classes with high female-to-male ratios are great for 3/4's of the class
5) which uppers made you lose pregnancy weight the fastest(not too useful)
6) "if you don't hate me, why haven't you had sex with me" means Run!, not Awesome!
If only the Department of Health in England could have read this before they spent millions placing kids with higher risk to be a teenage parent in a room with each other, then they wouldn't have been suprised when the pregnancy rates jumped.
Clearly, they should have been thinly distributed amongst the chess clubs and mathlete societies, where they would have either benefited from the complete lack of sex or been instrumental in breeding a new race of promiscuous geeks.
They are doing this in Florida. People in Florida would drink petroleum from the genitals of an GM anthropomorphic bull if it used a song-and-dance routine to explain that they were really drinking "cow's milk"(wink).
Not that all people in Florida are stupid, just that the IQ of the population resembles the graph of the "long tail" instead of a normal distribution.
Yah, they'll just get sued in whatever country they set up in and have the additional difficulty of getting subpoenaed long-distance.
I'm unaware of any country that both has decent bandwidth and does NOT have stupid laws that affect the internet.
I can think of a few regions that fullfil the second clause and could be brought to fulfill the first, but most of them are populated by people who find bronze tools sufficiently indistinguishable from magic and would likely smash the electronics and use them as spear tips.
Oddly, that also describes the legislative body of my country, which explains the bad laws.
I'm sure the EPA or other agency has an "allowable salinity" restriction on water dumped into the ocean. If it is less than, say, double the normal salinity, they'll probably just stick it back in the ocean.
Otherwise, they'll probably sell it as "Organic sea salt, purified by cute widdle ocean organisms".
Maybe creators should stop accepting royalties and ask for a larger advances. Then they wouldn't be screwed.
On the other hand, if copyrights went to life of the creator, I agree that not only would it be likely that they'd be assassinated by the Industry, it would be so likely that insurance companies would refuse or drop coverage of anyone who had taken a creative arts class:)