If anyone knows how much money you have when you're in their building, it's the casinos.
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Quasicrystals exhibit unusual crystalline symetry not thought possible before their discovery. More to the point, quasicrystalline coatings are cheap, hard, durable, and non-stick.
A device that degrades warheads can be defended against by building more warheads faster than the device can handle. Witness our current administration's interest in developing smaller tactical nukes, for example.
A device that detonates warheads can be defended against only by not building them. In other words, nuclear weapons become a big liability, especially if they're in your territory and near your troops, which they almost certainly will be.
Of course, if we have the technology to create and channel neutrinos we may also have the technology to absorb and redirect them. In other words, sheilding for our stockpile. And even if we didn't, whoever has nukes and builds a nuke-killer first stands a good chance of being the only nuclear power, and will probably abuse it, assuming their opponents didn't pre-empt their efforts by deploying their weapons.
Listen Amazon, your website is slow enough - no need to slow it further by constantly pumping partial queries and results over the net.
Assuming you can get a patent on something as obvious as autocompletion. Whatever happened to not granting patents to the trivial, the almost-identical, and the prior-arted?
America lags behind in consumer adoption. I hear the Japanese are pretty much all widescreen too.
On a side note, I was just noticing how widescreen TV is utterly dependent on flatscreen technology of varying kinds. Too bad widescreen films didn't appear until 1953, after 4:3 TV format was established.
In any case, I don't think you'll see greater adoption of 16:9 until they're comparable in price to 4:3, which may follow the death of the CRT.
From http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/canadian-bacon.ht ml
"Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter 11 months of the year. Anne Murray -- all day, every day. The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here."
Once I played Sim City 2000 for 11 hours straight. Afterwards I was seeing people as mixtures of commercial, residential, and industrial zoning. Took a few hours for that to wear off.
I'm not talking about a new iPod, i'm talking about a new device. The one thing the iPod does really well is play music and store data. It's just a tiny high-capacity hard drive with a little os that lets you browse info and play music. It makes a handy if expensive educational aid for a music class, but with a moderate degree of improvement and cost and you could make a device useful for any (and multiple) classes.
Not a sub-notebook, more like a small tablet or PDA. The iPod is already capable enough for most of the features I mentioned (except flash, which if you went without would save you a lot of trouble, but has a lot of potential: try Rosetta Stone's onlive shockwave service), the hard part would be getting a decent low cost screen with today's technology. LCDs are almost certainly never going to be adequate. Probably we'd have to wait for electronic paper for it to work.
iBook is too big, delicate, powerful, functional, power hungry, and expensive. In other words, a waste of money and an unnecessary diversion. A cheap education-purposed pocketpc/pda/tablet thingy would be better. A special purpose computer would need special-purpose software. What I'm talking about is more like a game console than a computer - (relatively) cheap, simplified, reliable, and mass-produced.
Now add a high-rez screen at least one half-page in size and the ability to play shockwave, flash, small programs and scripts, and up-to-date eBooks/pdfs, and you have a do-all textbook. Add input and networking and you can take tests and do homework on it too.
A standard is only necessary if you use a hardware decoder. With a software decoder, the technology of compression is free to evolve and improve, and it won't matter if it's proprietary or not, so long as you have the codec. If you use hardware, being able to add (low-cost, PC) decoder cards would be a must. I think that's the way it should go. Locking in the standard a la DVD in hardware only means different players support the standard to different degrees, not all of them perfect, so why not just go all the way?
1) The interface is great, much better than working through the web (aka amazon) to buy, especially for sampling. However browsing can be tricky with so many bands, so searching is a must.
2) Like amazon, there should be the ability to post reviews, suggestions, and personal playlists (based on iTunes playlists, naturally, possibly automatically culled). Also it would be nice to have the option to buy the CD, although that would best be addressed with a tie in link. Oh yeah, links to official band/album websites would be nice.
3) $0.99 for a song is not unreasonable, if you're only going to buy a couple of songs off an album. $9.99 for an album is probably more than it could be. No doubt there are actuaries in the works. In fact, for $0.99 is probably too little for albums where the songs are all long, depressing the price of the album. This includes mainly Jazz and Classical works. Really, prices for individual songs and albums should be much more variable, based on the set album cost and the song length, with the popular songs boosted in price a bit over that number.
4) There isn't enough content. I couldn't find even half of what I was looking for. There ought to be a way for small labels and independents to get in on the action. Allowing them to host their own music and samples through the iTunes music store interface would be the most reasonable way.
5) There are way too many partial albums. I have no idea why you would only put up some songs off an album - did they not have all the source recordings for the entire album?
6) Once Apple has expanded the service outside of America, they should provide a way to buy music from overseas as well. Under the current distribution model, (true) international music is difficult to find and get.
7) I couldn't find the Fleetwood Mac "Peacekeeper" song that just came out, even though they were right on the front page. Bad Apple. I have a feeling the big 5 made them jump through more than a few hoops to get where they are now, and are still calling a lot of the shots with regard to what is actually offered.
The slashdot crowd is always railing over privacy issues, how bad it would be if you had a single national ID card/number rather than the haphazard system of SSN#s, Licenses, work IDs, etc. And now they're buzzing over how great it would be to have one (phone) number for life!
If everyone really did have one phone number for life, it would quickly be come a de facto identifier. Why not go all the way? Have one unique lifetime number that works for your phone, email, instant messenging, snail mail (via a post office address database updated as you move), and as a general identifier replacing your SSN and Drivers License Number, etc.
GTA: Sloth City (AKA LA) Greed City (AKA LA) Wrath City (AKA LA) Envy City (AKA LA) Lust City (AKA LA) Vanity City (AKA LA) Gluttony City (AKA Houston)
More seriously... Bay City (San Francisco/LA... Triads, Yakuza, Male prostitutes, Hippies,.coms) Motor City (Detroit/Pittsburgh/Chicago - Inner industrial City, corrupt unions/industrials) Border City (San Diego/Tiajuana or El Paso/Juarez - drug and immigrant smuggling, from both sides) Liberty City (New York, any time in history - go nuts)
It makes perfect sense. The fact is, having a shallow conversation full of unverifiabilities with someone with whom you have no real ties to (and in text no less, so there is no body language or tone of voice to read them) has a very limited appeal. You just can't get to know people in any meaningful way that way. Not for romance, obviously, but not for any other collaboration either. Even business transactions are limited to the very simple, and if you buy something online you have to wait for it. The best you can do is share data, and even that has limitations.
A local conversation, OTOH, has definite and immediate potential to go somewhere (or not, as is often the case). Sooner or later, everything worth anything always comes to the real world.
You call yourself an otaku yet you complain about 26 episodes?
Let me put it this way. You could count the number of series that go longer than 26 episodes on both hands, and almost all of them are for young children. Not all anime is continuity dependent - just most of the good stuff. It's one of the reasons people like anime. I appreciate the fact that these shows are made for people who have an attention span longer than an hour.
What CN needs to do is bring more series over, and not rerun them so much. IMHO, they should show them once all the way through (maybe with a midway break for 26 eppers) on a weekly schedule like a normal TV series, perhaps reshowing it in another time slot for people who missed it the first time, then save reruns for another time.
As for quality of series, that's subjective, and there are significant constraints due the present nature of CN (i.e. kid oriented 90% of the time). Much as I'd like to see Berserk uncut on TV I'm not holding my breath for CN to do so. Ditto the service-oriented series. Until/Unless the Adult Swim block becomes recognizable to the general cable public as someplace you might actually want to point the remote towards in the evenings (and this is why Futurama was so important) I'm not expecting significant improvement.
CNN, MSNBC, and especially Fox News: every one of them can hardly be called news channels at all. They're commentary channels. Even when they supposedly are reporting news, the talking heads are always throwing around (usually smarmy) comments. And the vast majority of the time, it's just straight commentary, frequently of the loud, repetetive variety.
So forget them. Try reading the paper instead. If you must have video, try C-Span, which has completely unedited and uncommented broadcasts.
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If anyone knows how much money you have when you're in their building, it's the casinos.
Quasicrystals exhibit unusual crystalline symetry not thought possible before their discovery. More to the point, quasicrystalline coatings are cheap, hard, durable, and non-stick.
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Whatever happened to the idea about using a balanced ternary system of money?
A device that degrades warheads can be defended against by building more warheads faster than the device can handle. Witness our current administration's interest in developing smaller tactical nukes, for example.
A device that detonates warheads can be defended against only by not building them. In other words, nuclear weapons become a big liability, especially if they're in your territory and near your troops, which they almost certainly will be.
Of course, if we have the technology to create and channel neutrinos we may also have the technology to absorb and redirect them. In other words, sheilding for our stockpile. And even if we didn't, whoever has nukes and builds a nuke-killer first stands a good chance of being the only nuclear power, and will probably abuse it, assuming their opponents didn't pre-empt their efforts by deploying their weapons.
Listen Amazon, your website is slow enough - no need to slow it further by constantly pumping partial queries and results over the net.
Assuming you can get a patent on something as obvious as autocompletion. Whatever happened to not granting patents to the trivial, the almost-identical, and the prior-arted?
Those vapid, empty eyes, the mouth hanging open 90% of the time... for sure SHE would never notice if money was counterfeit or not.
America lags behind in consumer adoption. I hear the Japanese are pretty much all widescreen too.
On a side note, I was just noticing how widescreen TV is utterly dependent on flatscreen technology of varying kinds. Too bad widescreen films didn't appear until 1953, after 4:3 TV format was established.
In any case, I don't think you'll see greater adoption of 16:9 until they're comparable in price to 4:3, which may follow the death of the CRT.
Speaking of light, what's happening with Lumeloid/Alvin Marks? I was never able to contact him.
From http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/canadian-bacon.ht ml
"Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter 11 months of the year. Anne Murray -- all day, every day. The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here."
Once I played Sim City 2000 for 11 hours straight. Afterwards I was seeing people as mixtures of commercial, residential, and industrial zoning. Took a few hours for that to wear off.
I'm not talking about a new iPod, i'm talking about a new device. The one thing the iPod does really well is play music and store data. It's just a tiny high-capacity hard drive with a little os that lets you browse info and play music. It makes a handy if expensive educational aid for a music class, but with a moderate degree of improvement and cost and you could make a device useful for any (and multiple) classes.
Not a sub-notebook, more like a small tablet or PDA. The iPod is already capable enough for most of the features I mentioned (except flash, which if you went without would save you a lot of trouble, but has a lot of potential: try Rosetta Stone's onlive shockwave service), the hard part would be getting a decent low cost screen with today's technology. LCDs are almost certainly never going to be adequate. Probably we'd have to wait for electronic paper for it to work.
iBook is too big, delicate, powerful, functional, power hungry, and expensive. In other words, a waste of money and an unnecessary diversion. A cheap education-purposed pocketpc/pda/tablet thingy would be better. A special purpose computer would need special-purpose software. What I'm talking about is more like a game console than a computer - (relatively) cheap, simplified, reliable, and mass-produced.
Now add a high-rez screen at least one half-page in size and the ability to play shockwave, flash, small programs and scripts, and up-to-date eBooks/pdfs, and you have a do-all textbook. Add input and networking and you can take tests and do homework on it too.
A standard is only necessary if you use a hardware decoder. With a software decoder, the technology of compression is free to evolve and improve, and it won't matter if it's proprietary or not, so long as you have the codec. If you use hardware, being able to add (low-cost, PC) decoder cards would be a must. I think that's the way it should go. Locking in the standard a la DVD in hardware only means different players support the standard to different degrees, not all of them perfect, so why not just go all the way?
I have tried it. It works for me.
1) The interface is great, much better than working through the web (aka amazon) to buy, especially for sampling. However browsing can be tricky with so many bands, so searching is a must.
2) Like amazon, there should be the ability to post reviews, suggestions, and personal playlists (based on iTunes playlists, naturally, possibly automatically culled). Also it would be nice to have the option to buy the CD, although that would best be addressed with a tie in link. Oh yeah, links to official band/album websites would be nice.
3) $0.99 for a song is not unreasonable, if you're only going to buy a couple of songs off an album. $9.99 for an album is probably more than it could be. No doubt there are actuaries in the works. In fact, for $0.99 is probably too little for albums where the songs are all long, depressing the price of the album. This includes mainly Jazz and Classical works. Really, prices for individual songs and albums should be much more variable, based on the set album cost and the song length, with the popular songs boosted in price a bit over that number.
4) There isn't enough content. I couldn't find even half of what I was looking for. There ought to be a way for small labels and independents to get in on the action. Allowing them to host their own music and samples through the iTunes music store interface would be the most reasonable way.
5) There are way too many partial albums. I have no idea why you would only put up some songs off an album - did they not have all the source recordings for the entire album?
6) Once Apple has expanded the service outside of America, they should provide a way to buy music from overseas as well. Under the current distribution model, (true) international music is difficult to find and get.
7) I couldn't find the Fleetwood Mac "Peacekeeper" song that just came out, even though they were right on the front page. Bad Apple. I have a feeling the big 5 made them jump through more than a few hoops to get where they are now, and are still calling a lot of the shots with regard to what is actually offered.
Open iTunes:Preferences...:Effects and turn on Crossfade playback with 0 seconds. And there you go.
At least I assume that's what you meant.
I thought it was amazing when I was a kid. Now I think it's retarded.
The slashdot crowd is always railing over privacy issues, how bad it would be if you had a single national ID card/number rather than the haphazard system of SSN#s, Licenses, work IDs, etc. And now they're buzzing over how great it would be to have one (phone) number for life!
If everyone really did have one phone number for life, it would quickly be come a de facto identifier. Why not go all the way? Have one unique lifetime number that works for your phone, email, instant messenging, snail mail (via a post office address database updated as you move), and as a general identifier replacing your SSN and Drivers License Number, etc.
GTA:
.coms)
Sloth City (AKA LA)
Greed City (AKA LA)
Wrath City (AKA LA)
Envy City (AKA LA)
Lust City (AKA LA)
Vanity City (AKA LA)
Gluttony City (AKA Houston)
More seriously...
Bay City (San Francisco/LA... Triads, Yakuza, Male prostitutes, Hippies,
Motor City (Detroit/Pittsburgh/Chicago - Inner industrial City, corrupt unions/industrials)
Border City (San Diego/Tiajuana or El Paso/Juarez - drug and immigrant smuggling, from both sides)
Liberty City (New York, any time in history - go nuts)
It makes perfect sense. The fact is, having a shallow conversation full of unverifiabilities with someone with whom you have no real ties to (and in text no less, so there is no body language or tone of voice to read them) has a very limited appeal. You just can't get to know people in any meaningful way that way. Not for romance, obviously, but not for any other collaboration either. Even business transactions are limited to the very simple, and if you buy something online you have to wait for it. The best you can do is share data, and even that has limitations.
A local conversation, OTOH, has definite and immediate potential to go somewhere (or not, as is often the case). Sooner or later, everything worth anything always comes to the real world.
'nuff said.
You call yourself an otaku yet you complain about 26 episodes?
Let me put it this way. You could count the number of series that go longer than 26 episodes on both hands, and almost all of them are for young children. Not all anime is continuity dependent - just most of the good stuff. It's one of the reasons people like anime. I appreciate the fact that these shows are made for people who have an attention span longer than an hour.
What CN needs to do is bring more series over, and not rerun them so much. IMHO, they should show them once all the way through (maybe with a midway break for 26 eppers) on a weekly schedule like a normal TV series, perhaps reshowing it in another time slot for people who missed it the first time, then save reruns for another time.
As for quality of series, that's subjective, and there are significant constraints due the present nature of CN (i.e. kid oriented 90% of the time). Much as I'd like to see Berserk uncut on TV I'm not holding my breath for CN to do so. Ditto the service-oriented series. Until/Unless the Adult Swim block becomes recognizable to the general cable public as someplace you might actually want to point the remote towards in the evenings (and this is why Futurama was so important) I'm not expecting significant improvement.
CNN, MSNBC, and especially Fox News: every one of them can hardly be called news channels at all. They're commentary channels. Even when they supposedly are reporting news, the talking heads are always throwing around (usually smarmy) comments. And the vast majority of the time, it's just straight commentary, frequently of the loud, repetetive variety.
So forget them. Try reading the paper instead. If you must have video, try C-Span, which has completely unedited and uncommented broadcasts.
I got the white MicroLight. I use it ALL the time. Best keychain I ever bought.