To limit the ability of inmates to pass notes using the internal storage of electric typewriters, same reason tape recorders(but not players) are frequently prohibited.
You only need one line to type "shiv jimmy in block 8", so I'm not sure why there is a specific limit instead of only permitting electric typewriters that clear on power down.
For that matter, you could just look at the ribbon and see what the last guy typed.
Considering the very narrow margin on groceries and the fact they can write off the thefts, they probably made more this way. Not that they could feasibly continue this without being dropped by their insurance company.
Think about cargo ships sailing into dangerous areas - such as those with pirates. If you have a ship that is autonomous there are no lives to risk, and if boarded the control systems could be buried under tons of cargo; impossible to reach, and with ability to control from on board.
So the pirates can just climb on, take the cargo, and sail off without anybody trying to stop them? Awesome.
My wife teaches third grade. This year she's got a bunch of CoD:Modern Wafare players (yes, in 3rd grade--their parents must blow) and they all laughed at the sad parts of Where the Red Fern Grows and Island of the Blue Dolphin. Not some sort of laugh to cover sadness--they genuinely thought the dogs dying and the kid getting killed and all that were funny. Anything involving violence is hilarious to them.
She found that pretty damn disturbing, and thinks the fact that pretty much all they do at home (and all they talk about) is CoD might have something to do with it.
Ok, that's the first post I've read that might change my mind. Anybody who thinks WtRFG is hilarious is fucked up.
Eventually he'll have to reinstall, either because he bought a new computer or just because he's running windows. If he uses Impulse to do it, it'll add in all the crap I'm sure Gamestop will eventually add.
Supposedly this only considers pluses from people in your contact list who also has a google account.
I'd much rather have something like Amazon's "other people with similar account habits as you clicked this link". Wider net of recommendations while still eliminating spammers(unless the spammer is remarkably similar to you, in which case is it really spam?).
They should put a line stating "owning a computer connected our network may allow others to own your machine and share illegal material through it, giving the appearance that you are the guilty party."
They're the Feds. If you won't turn your browsing activity over for a free gadget, they'll just go to ATT and get it from them.
That statement is especially funny, because in the terms it says anyone using ATT doesn't need to put all their devices behind the testing router, merely connect the router to the ATT gateway.
Clearly, they don't need to spy on you because ATT is already giving them your traffic so they just need to measure latency.
Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up to the Bell system? Or buy a phone at all, for that matter, instead of leasing it for an exorbitant monthly fee?
That kind of shenanigans paid for all that innovation.
Existing flexible displays don't tolerate hard creases well. Making it a cylinder reduces the angle necessary to flex.
Now if you were willing to put up with some lines, a screen could be made of several 7" displays arranged much like a 2x2 desktop monitor array. But it would be very thick when folded and the keyboard would probably suck more than the usual laptop keyboard.
They only discuss the first 1000 days because that data has been released through a journal. All data after that has only been discussed at conferences and hasn't yet gone through peer review.
Ditto. The sooner serial video transitions from broadcast/cable to standalone, the better. You'll still have somebody with big pockets funding them based on ratings, but at least we can continue to break the "timeslot" mindset where shows "win" or "lose" because of the time of day they are scheduled.
Not having shows interrupted because live events will be nice too.
What characteristic of video games prevents them from being art?
Ebert said:
"Video games by their nature require player choices, which is the opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature, which requires authorial control."
But by this statement, he also excludes practically all art.
While some paintings/drawings/etc are clearly meant to be viewed from a particular angle and distance, many(most?) are nonspecific and some even are created so that the viewer will experience different things at different positions, inviting the viewer to make a choice on what they experience. Are movies shot with 360 degree mirrored lenses no longer able to be art because you can turn your head and see something different whenever you want?
Several plays incorporate audience interaction. Do they cease to be art? Would allowing the audience to view a play from the wings, the lighting scaffolds, or right in the middle of the stage cause it to cease to be art?
Clearly, still images can be art. Lots of images to create the illusion of motion can be art. Plays and movies can be art without perfect authorial control, being compromised by the human nature of all the participants failing to have the same vision as the creator(is that the writer or the director?).
If the key ingredient really is a non-participative observer, would a video game be able to be art if we had someone watching it be played, making the player analogous to an actor?
Or one of those "Is your awesome job about to end? Don't know what you'll do next, but are sure it won't be as awesome as working on the space shuttle? Don't jump off the launch tower, call 1-800-GET-HELP" videos.
If you're carpeting Arizona with solar cells, you can probably do what Google does: just ignore the failures until enough of a unit is bad to justify the manpower, then pull it.
Or measure the distance to the moon. With a pre-calculated table(put it on the back of the map) and a sextant(which we used to measure the stars for latitude), it only takes 10-20 minutes.
He gets 10 times the royalty rate, we get ~10 times the books(depending on how many hardbacks/paperbacks/9.99 ebooks you bought previously). Even if the number of writers increases 10 fold, at worst he's back to where he was with a publisher.
Odds are, a writer's sales will increase, if a writer is any good. I know of several authors I would buy, except I have a limited amount of money to spend and other authors I'd much rather buy. Book prices would have to fall much more before I cleared out my wishlist.
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And also prove you don't have a second camera that has been tampered with to have the same key as the untampered camera?
To limit the ability of inmates to pass notes using the internal storage of electric typewriters, same reason tape recorders(but not players) are frequently prohibited.
You only need one line to type "shiv jimmy in block 8", so I'm not sure why there is a specific limit instead of only permitting electric typewriters that clear on power down.
For that matter, you could just look at the ribbon and see what the last guy typed.
Before video games, those phobia treatments were performed with movies.
Before movies, they were performed with props, and before that they were done with the imagination alone.
Perhaps it is the therapy, and not the tools?
Considering the very narrow margin on groceries and the fact they can write off the thefts, they probably made more this way. Not that they could feasibly continue this without being dropped by their insurance company.
So the pirates can just climb on, take the cargo, and sail off without anybody trying to stop them? Awesome.
Indeed, the sample program even comes with at least one graph that forms a star because it can't be uncrossed.
What, like this?
http://www.eyewriter.org/
Ok, that's the first post I've read that might change my mind. Anybody who thinks WtRFG is hilarious is fucked up.
Eventually he'll have to reinstall, either because he bought a new computer or just because he's running windows. If he uses Impulse to do it, it'll add in all the crap I'm sure Gamestop will eventually add.
Supposedly this only considers pluses from people in your contact list who also has a google account.
I'd much rather have something like Amazon's "other people with similar account habits as you clicked this link". Wider net of recommendations while still eliminating spammers(unless the spammer is remarkably similar to you, in which case is it really spam?).
They should put a line stating "owning a computer connected our network may allow others to own your machine and share illegal material through it, giving the appearance that you are the guilty party."
That statement is especially funny, because in the terms it says anyone using ATT doesn't need to put all their devices behind the testing router, merely connect the router to the ATT gateway.
Clearly, they don't need to spy on you because ATT is already giving them your traffic so they just need to measure latency.
Once all the old people who don't realize AOL is still hitting their credit card have died, so will AOL.
Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up to the Bell system? Or buy a phone at all, for that matter, instead of leasing it for an exorbitant monthly fee?
That kind of shenanigans paid for all that innovation.
Existing flexible displays don't tolerate hard creases well. Making it a cylinder reduces the angle necessary to flex.
Now if you were willing to put up with some lines, a screen could be made of several 7" displays arranged much like a 2x2 desktop monitor array. But it would be very thick when folded and the keyboard would probably suck more than the usual laptop keyboard.
They only discuss the first 1000 days because that data has been released through a journal. All data after that has only been discussed at conferences and hasn't yet gone through peer review.
In 2007, Groupon had 0 revenue. In 2010, they had ~760 million in revenue.
I think you can see where that graph is going.
http://xkcd.com/605/
Hey, maybe this will lead to the Luminiferous Aether getting back into the physics department?
Ditto. The sooner serial video transitions from broadcast/cable to standalone, the better. You'll still have somebody with big pockets funding them based on ratings, but at least we can continue to break the "timeslot" mindset where shows "win" or "lose" because of the time of day they are scheduled.
Not having shows interrupted because live events will be nice too.
What characteristic of video games prevents them from being art?
Ebert said:
But by this statement, he also excludes practically all art.
While some paintings/drawings/etc are clearly meant to be viewed from a particular angle and distance, many(most?) are nonspecific and some even are created so that the viewer will experience different things at different positions, inviting the viewer to make a choice on what they experience. Are movies shot with 360 degree mirrored lenses no longer able to be art because you can turn your head and see something different whenever you want?
Several plays incorporate audience interaction. Do they cease to be art? Would allowing the audience to view a play from the wings, the lighting scaffolds, or right in the middle of the stage cause it to cease to be art?
Clearly, still images can be art. Lots of images to create the illusion of motion can be art. Plays and movies can be art without perfect authorial control, being compromised by the human nature of all the participants failing to have the same vision as the creator(is that the writer or the director?).
If the key ingredient really is a non-participative observer, would a video game be able to be art if we had someone watching it be played, making the player analogous to an actor?
Or one of those "Is your awesome job about to end? Don't know what you'll do next, but are sure it won't be as awesome as working on the space shuttle? Don't jump off the launch tower, call 1-800-GET-HELP" videos.
If you're carpeting Arizona with solar cells, you can probably do what Google does: just ignore the failures until enough of a unit is bad to justify the manpower, then pull it.
Or measure the distance to the moon. With a pre-calculated table(put it on the back of the map) and a sextant(which we used to measure the stars for latitude), it only takes 10-20 minutes.
Cheap product from some company that only has rendered product pics and is recommended by an Anonymous Coward who is posting about it multiple times.
Spam much?
He gets 10 times the royalty rate, we get ~10 times the books(depending on how many hardbacks/paperbacks/9.99 ebooks you bought previously). Even if the number of writers increases 10 fold, at worst he's back to where he was with a publisher.
Odds are, a writer's sales will increase, if a writer is any good. I know of several authors I would buy, except I have a limited amount of money to spend and other authors I'd much rather buy. Book prices would have to fall much more before I cleared out my wishlist.