If an end user is trying to block spam, then yes, they are probably not the sort of person likely to buy your product. At least until spam-blocking becomes more main stream in email clients (e.g Mozilla Thunderbird).
However, its very often the end user's ISP doing the spam filtering - and this has no direct bearing on the gullibility of the email recipient.
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You missed out up/down volumne - but that is pretty much what most in car "stalk" mounted controls do anyway.
Customising the language packs...
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As the text-to-speach is done on the computer by iTunes, it shouldn't be too hard to replace the voice talent...
How long before the "Marklar" edition (South Park), or a "Chef" one gets created?
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Never mind accents, what about different languages?
On the plus side, as the text-to-speach is done on the computer (by iTunes) this wouldn't stop me buying a cheap US iPod (if I visited on holiday) for use in Europe (where due to local taxes they tend to cost a lot more).
i.e. The iPod doesn't care what language the converted text is in; that's up to your computer.
Some of the best lines including this one on ejaculation: One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?
Incidentally, SuperMan would need to get hold of some gold kryptonite if he ever wanted to try artificial insemination (as sex with a mere human is out). Read the whole thing though - its worth it.
They are probably specialised for city life : high food (human) density, and potentially they are less tolerant to extremes in temperature (due to living in cities).
We could try "moving" some to other nice warm cities and see how the cope... Miami perhaps?
The most common reasons cited for resigning from the church have been saving church income tax (1.3% on average)
In medieval England, wasn't the church tithe 10%? They're lucky its only about one percent!
Yeah, basically getting two copies of the sickle-cell anemia gene (one from each parent) means you get sickle-cell anemia (which sucks), but getting one copy only gives you a significant advantage against malaria. As a result, at the population level, the mutant gene is overall advantageous and thus hasn't simply died out.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
Its already too late - think about short sightedness, diabetes, fertility treatments in general, and for a particular heart puller: medical support for premature babies.
In our Maths department, Macs are very popular with the accademics for their personal machines - especially the laptops.
Mind you, for their clusters etc they use Linux (i.e. hard core computation). I guess almost all the Windows machines in the building are the generic computer labs managed by central IT services.
I thought that final paragraph was funny, and I'm British:
She claimed that the British are particularly good at hacking as they have "the perfect temperament to be hackers--technically skilled, slightly disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."
Yeah - Myxo and Dicty both have lots of cool tricks.
The Myxo and Dicty spore formation process (with most cells dying and releasing their nutrients for the good of the minority which form spores) is very similar.
As a family the myxo bacteria have a whole range of lovely fruiting bodies.
Did you know they where first mis-classified as fungi when they were spotted down a microscope?
It was the submitter's line I objected to: "Scientists have discovered that some bacteria propel themselves along using tiny jets of slime." And the tone of the New Scientist article also suggested this was all new research.
By the same group as this report, but last year: J Jeon and AV Dobrynin. Polymer confinement and bacterial gliding motility. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter. 2005 Jul;17(3):361-72. Epub 2005 Jul 5. http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=n842206512 0101v4">link
I can't find you a citation right now (this would be easier from a Univeristy machine with journal access), but its long been know they extrude polysaccharides based slime which was thought to hydrolyse and therefore expand - generating the propulsion.
"Scientists have discovered that some bacteria propel themselves along using tiny jets of slime".
No - that has been known for a long time. This research mearly elucidates the mechanism. Which is nice. But, in addition to the slime nozzles at the back end, .
Did you know that at the front end Myxo bacteria have "grappling hooks" which that can extend and then retract? Search for pilus retraction...
Having looked at the proposed text of the bill, it bears chilling comparison to Hitler's 1933 Enabling Act, which allowed him and his cabinet to enact laws without the participation of the Germany's parliament.
Please can you help clarify what the Bill will allow, as by my reading it is disturbingly broad with very few limitation, and whether you will be supporting or opposing it.
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If an end user is trying to block spam, then yes, they are probably not the sort of person likely to buy your product. At least until spam-blocking becomes more main stream in email clients (e.g Mozilla Thunderbird).
However, its very often the end user's ISP doing the spam filtering - and this has no direct bearing on the gullibility of the email recipient.
Or, for an example from 1984 try Elite where 256 planets were procedurally generated.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(computer_game
You missed out up/down volumne - but that is pretty much what most in car "stalk" mounted controls do anyway.
As the text-to-speach is done on the computer by iTunes, it shouldn't be too hard to replace the voice talent...
How long before the "Marklar" edition (South Park), or a "Chef" one gets created?
Never mind accents, what about different languages?
On the plus side, as the text-to-speach is done on the computer (by iTunes) this wouldn't stop me buying a cheap US iPod (if I visited on holiday) for use in Europe (where due to local taxes they tend to cost a lot more).
i.e. The iPod doesn't care what language the converted text is in; that's up to your computer.
Larry Niven did a great job with Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Some of the best lines including this one on ejaculation:
One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?
Incidentally, SuperMan would need to get hold of some gold kryptonite if he ever wanted to try artificial insemination (as sex with a mere human is out). Read the whole thing though - its worth it.
But welsh spellings ARE phonetic, so it would be "better".
Admittedly they have more than 26 letters (things like double el (ll) are considered letters in their own right), but you get used to that.
Horse shit!
The free manure many farms give away is probably rather popular with keen gardeners. I could have done with some recently...
"College students don't turn down much that's free ... downloads to keep are fee-per-track."
Surprise surprise!
If most of the services charge for downloads you can keep, its hardly free is it? In either sense of the word.
Took me a while to work that out - it just didn't make any sense until I remembered what a US electricity socket looked like.
Here in the UK we have 3 pin plugs.
They are probably specialised for city life : high food (human) density, and potentially they are less tolerant to extremes in temperature (due to living in cities).
We could try "moving" some to other nice warm cities and see how the cope... Miami perhaps?
The most common reasons cited for resigning from the church have been saving church income tax (1.3% on average)
In medieval England, wasn't the church tithe 10%? They're lucky its only about one percent!
Yeah, basically getting two copies of the sickle-cell anemia gene (one from each parent) means you get sickle-cell anemia (which sucks), but getting one copy only gives you a significant advantage against malaria. As a result, at the population level, the mutant gene is overall advantageous and thus hasn't simply died out.
Its already too late - think about short sightedness, diabetes, fertility treatments in general, and for a particular heart puller: medical support for premature babies.
In our Maths department, Macs are very popular with the accademics for their personal machines - especially the laptops.
Mind you, for their clusters etc they use Linux (i.e. hard core computation). I guess almost all the Windows machines in the building are the generic computer labs managed by central IT services.
Yeah - Myxo and Dicty both have lots of cool tricks.
The Myxo and Dicty spore formation process (with most cells dying and releasing their nutrients for the good of the minority which form spores) is very similar.
As a family the myxo bacteria have a whole range of lovely fruiting bodies.
Did you know they where first mis-classified as fungi when they were spotted down a microscope?
Link should be this, and I have noticed at least one spelling error in my above post.
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I should really learn which button is "submit" and which is "preview"
It was the submitter's line I objected to: "Scientists have discovered that some bacteria propel themselves along using tiny jets of slime." And the tone of the New Scientist article also suggested this was all new research.
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By the same group as this report, but last year:
J Jeon and AV Dobrynin. Polymer confinement and bacterial gliding motility. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter. 2005 Jul;17(3):361-72. Epub 2005 Jul 5. http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=n84220651
I can't find you a citation right now (this would be easier from a Univeristy machine with journal access), but its long been know they extrude polysaccharides based slime which was thought to hydrolyse and therefore expand - generating the propulsion.
On the other hand, they have done some rather interesting work with Phage Therapy.
"Scientists have discovered that some bacteria propel themselves along using tiny jets of slime".
No - that has been known for a long time. This research mearly elucidates the mechanism. Which is nice. But, in addition to the slime nozzles at the back end, .
Did you know that at the front end Myxo bacteria have "grappling hooks" which that can extend and then retract? Search for pilus retraction...
Or that they are pack hunters? Or that they will commits suicide to save their buddies?
Myxobacteria - they're great!
Can you ALT+TAB to them instead?
I am: I've just written to my local MP (who happens to be a conservative):
Fellow Brits - write to your MPs www.writetothem.com
Actually, The Register had this story before Wired or Slashdot:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/06/wikipedia
The woman that bought three iBooks was doing so for her self and her two sons, also present.
Apparently she wouldn't have made it to the check out without her boys for muscle!