The robots most certainly will (probably more often then you'd like), it's the people you have to worry about-- somewhere betwen 40,000 and 100,000 people die every year due to medical errors.
The classic text on this (if an article from 2000 can be considered classic), is To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
A big advantage for using nonstandard start and end times for real popular shows, is that it locks viewers into watching other programming on the same network by creating conflicts with the beginnings and endings of other shows. So if ER ends 2 minutes late (just an example, I don't watch it so I don't know), by watching ER to the end you miss the start of shows on other networks, making it more likely that you'll watch the show that ER leads into. I've been told that the Japan networks had a battle royal like this years ago, that completely screwed up the tv schedules.
I think frustrating Tivo users is just an added bonus.
You don't need to spend any money on modchips. I have my XBox hacked exclusively using softmods, and have had no problems running any software, or even replacing the HD.
Yeah, that was pretty incredible. Talk about the ads being better than the product. I still have all my A.I. schwag I got from participating in "The Beast."
My junior year of high school, I was rushing off to take the ACTs (like the SATs) and either I couldn't find my calculator, or it wasn't allowed. I ransacked the house, and came up with two calculators: a little four-function calculator my mom used for balancing the checkbook, and my dad's HP (I think it was an 11c). Of course I took the HP, and I was well into the test before I realized that it was "broken." Luckily the math was easy enough that I didn't really need it, but I was sweating when I first tried to use it (45 * 32 Enter)
XBMC is an incredible program, it handles a huge amount of formats, and it will even act as a dumb client for my ReplayTVs. But still, hardly use it to watch TV or movies, because the fan in it is so damn loud. And this is one of the newer Xboxes with only one case fan, if you have an older Xbox with the second fan on the motherboard, you can forget it.
Most congressional offices have been trying to move their constituents towards email correspondence-- it's faster, cheaper, and much less likely to contain harmful anthrax.
I assume things have improved, but for a while there was a huge backlog of mail to be scanned, resulting in a huge delay.
"The idea of the design of him is he actually is basically, originally Homer in clown garb. And the satirical conceit that I was going for at the time was that the Simpsons was about a kid who had no respect for his father, but worshiped a clown who looked exactly looked exactly like his father. But, we sort of lost that."
IANAA, but I'm pretty sure whether or not the project makes it to market has an effect on their ability to write the expenses off of their taxes. So if they already don't think they will make they're money back, it might be better (financially) to cut their loses (further development and marketing) and take the tax benefit
They probably can't release the game in any form for accounting reasons. IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant), but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... If they completely scrap the project, they can write all their expenses for the game, to reduce their taxable income.
But I'm pretty sure that if they sell the game in any form, their ability to write off their production expenses is greatly reduced (becomes just another business expense).
The same thing happens with all these arcade games that never make it beyond prototype, the developers are supposed to destroy all the code. Every so often were lucky, and someone smuggles out a copy to mysteriously leak years later.
Is the crawl appearing on Viacom over the air broadcasts? I doubt Mix Master Mike Powell would really care all that much about it if was. But I've only seen the crawl on cable channels, which the FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate-- thank god.
Well I, for one, wrote him a letter on this very topic only 4 months ago. Though I don't know if my substantial debt-load qualifies me as "someone with money..." Of course, I know that my letter wasn't the impetus for this bill, but it certainly garnered a mark in the 'for' column.
So, just a friendly reminder... WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN!
No, I think it is a very, very good thing that U.S. District Courts aren't ruling on the constitutinality of laws, because, well, that would be unconstitutional.
The only reason druglords are able to exert such control over Columbia (amongst other countries), is because drugs are illegal here. If they were grown domestically, there would be no need to import, and there would be no American dollars for the drug lords armies. It's not drug use that supports terrorism, but rather the prohibition of drugs that diverts money to international terroists, warlords, etc.
I'm not trying to claim that all drugs should be legalized (though I might), as the issue certainly has more factors to consider then the plight of the Columbians. I'm just saying prohibiton, not use, creates a black market.
Wow, 'flamebaited' and 'trolled'... doesn't anybody remember the DARPA Babylon projects logo ("Shall we unleash the kitty?"). I'm not saying my post was funny, I've just never been accused of being a troll before.
I used to work on a NASA research project, and the building we worked in had a large sculpture of Icarus outside the backdoors. At first I thought it was a poor choice, but now I think it is well placed and powerful, serving as a constant reminder against technological hubris, or at least using wax in heat sensitive projects.
In the biblical myth of the tower of Babel, god introduced multiple languages to prevent people from working together. If you ignore the whole sinners-working-against-Yeowah angle, this DARPA project is basically allowing better communication and cooperation, overcoming the obstacle god enforced at Babel. Factor in the fact that much of the current round of fighting/terrorism is the result of religious convictions (or just "god"), and you've got a deep, thoughtful, and symbolic choice for title art.
Of course, somebody probably just thought it looked cool, but...
True, but movies are produced primarily for exhibition, where they traditionally make a majority of their money. Video/DVD release is a secondary source of income, which the studios originally fought tooth and nail to prevent.
Even then, DVDs are only priced low because the studios want to undermine the rental market, and because DIVX went tits-up.
Imagine the possibilities-- a Lego robot that can solve a Rubick's cube *and* store the contents of the Library of Congress.
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The robots most certainly will (probably more often then you'd like), it's the people you have to worry about-- somewhere betwen 40,000 and 100,000 people die every year due to medical errors.
The classic text on this (if an article from 2000 can be considered classic), is To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
A big advantage for using nonstandard start and end times for real popular shows, is that it locks viewers into watching other programming on the same network by creating conflicts with the beginnings and endings of other shows. So if ER ends 2 minutes late (just an example, I don't watch it so I don't know), by watching ER to the end you miss the start of shows on other networks, making it more likely that you'll watch the show that ER leads into. I've been told that the Japan networks had a battle royal like this years ago, that completely screwed up the tv schedules.
I think frustrating Tivo users is just an added bonus.
You don't need to spend any money on modchips. I have my XBox hacked exclusively using softmods, and have had no problems running any software, or even replacing the HD.
Yeah, that was pretty incredible. Talk about the ads being better than the product. I still have all my A.I. schwag I got from participating in "The Beast."
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My junior year of high school, I was rushing off to take the ACTs (like the SATs) and either I couldn't find my calculator, or it wasn't allowed. I ransacked the house, and came up with two calculators: a little four-function calculator my mom used for balancing the checkbook, and my dad's HP (I think it was an 11c). Of course I took the HP, and I was well into the test before I realized that it was "broken." Luckily the math was easy enough that I didn't really need it, but I was sweating when I first tried to use it (45 * 32 Enter)
XBMC is an incredible program, it handles a huge amount of formats, and it will even act as a dumb client for my ReplayTVs. But still, hardly use it to watch TV or movies, because the fan in it is so damn loud. And this is one of the newer Xboxes with only one case fan, if you have an older Xbox with the second fan on the motherboard, you can forget it.
Most congressional offices have been trying to move their constituents towards email correspondence-- it's faster, cheaper, and much less likely to contain harmful anthrax.
I assume things have improved, but for a while there was a huge backlog of mail to be scanned, resulting in a huge delay.
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Matt Groening on Fresh Air:
"The idea of the design of him is he actually is basically, originally Homer in clown garb. And the satirical conceit that I was going for at the time was that the Simpsons was about a kid who had no respect for his father, but worshiped a clown who looked exactly looked exactly like his father. But, we sort of lost that."
So there you go.
LSL has been around a lot longer then 1991, that's the VGA remake. I remember crawling through it in CGA on my dad's 8086.
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I posted this upstream a bit, but...
IANAA, but I'm pretty sure whether or not the project makes it to market has an effect on their ability to write the expenses off of their taxes. So if they already don't think they will make they're money back, it might be better (financially) to cut their loses (further development and marketing) and take the tax benefit
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They probably can't release the game in any form for accounting reasons. IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant), but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... If they completely scrap the project, they can write all their expenses for the game, to reduce their taxable income.
But I'm pretty sure that if they sell the game in any form, their ability to write off their production expenses is greatly reduced (becomes just another business expense).
The same thing happens with all these arcade games that never make it beyond prototype, the developers are supposed to destroy all the code. Every so often were lucky, and someone smuggles out a copy to mysteriously leak years later.
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Is the crawl appearing on Viacom over the air broadcasts? I doubt Mix Master Mike Powell would really care all that much about it if was. But I've only seen the crawl on cable channels, which the FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate-- thank god.
So, just a friendly reminder...
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN!
Sounds like someone needs a visit to the Museum of Independent Telephony, in Abilene, KS.
No, I think it is a very, very good thing that U.S. District Courts aren't ruling on the constitutinality of laws, because, well, that would be unconstitutional.
The only reason druglords are able to exert such control over Columbia (amongst other countries), is because drugs are illegal here. If they were grown domestically, there would be no need to import, and there would be no American dollars for the drug lords armies. It's not drug use that supports terrorism, but rather the prohibition of drugs that diverts money to international terroists, warlords, etc.
I'm not trying to claim that all drugs should be legalized (though I might), as the issue certainly has more factors to consider then the plight of the Columbians. I'm just saying prohibiton, not use, creates a black market.
Wow, 'flamebaited' and 'trolled'... doesn't anybody remember the DARPA Babylon projects logo ("Shall we unleash the kitty?"). I'm not saying my post was funny, I've just never been accused of being a troll before.
It's a smilling cartoon cellphone, in front of a burning WTC, encased in the Pentagon.
In the biblical myth of the tower of Babel, god introduced multiple languages to prevent people from working together. If you ignore the whole sinners-working-against-Yeowah angle, this DARPA project is basically allowing better communication and cooperation, overcoming the obstacle god enforced at Babel. Factor in the fact that much of the current round of fighting/terrorism is the result of religious convictions (or just "god"), and you've got a deep, thoughtful, and symbolic choice for title art.
Of course, somebody probably just thought it looked cool, but...
Even then, DVDs are only priced low because the studios want to undermine the rental market, and because DIVX went tits-up.
Imagine the possibilities-- a Lego robot that can solve a Rubick's cube *and* store the contents of the Library of Congress.
But now thanks to a little something called the resistor, I'm looking at gaining that hour back... only now, I don't have to wait until I'm old to use it!
Flavor Country, here I come...
Applied Digital Solutions thinks it can take on the industry juggernaut that is Vivianne Robinson? Her procedure is well established, non-evasive, and only $9.99 (plus $2.00 shipping).
...all that wasted time, worrying about those three bleeding sixes on my chest.
Paul Simon has announced a full recall of his "Graceland" CD...