I think laws should be put in place that would require these guys to use 'period weapons' to hunt these ancient animals. I wonder how many whales they'd catch if all they had were gun power and some rusty spearheads. I suspect they'd value their catch a lot more after having to go through all that work.
Adding positive content to combat negative mentions isn't against Google Inc.'s rules [...] as long as the content is original and the companies don't use manipulative techniques to push pages higher in search results.
Since when do Internet websites have to obey rules from anyone, especially a search engine?
If I ran a web-reputation repair company, I would do everything I could to determine what was "against" the rules in Google's mind and do it on every website where one or more of my clients had trouble. Consequently, those sites would be flagged "rule breakers" and immediately drop very low in Google's search ratings.
You can prove this is a viable technology by building the reciever first, which would be much less expensive, thus easier to fund. If the technology actually works it would follow that you will ultimately build the (much more expensive) transmitter in the future and as a test you would transmit a message into the past so that your past self can receive the message. It's non-paradoxical and would satisfy any VC that would even consider investing in something like this.
In fact, I would recommend transmitting the total dollar amount of the funding needed to build the transmitter as your first message back to yourself.
Don't let anyone here on/. fool you! A silent movie of our cops doing their job is perfectly legal here in PA, the Keystone state. You'll need to add your own music soundtrack to keep audiences coming back for more, though.
This will not give you that much practical experience compared to being in a more traditional controlled test environment.
The advantages of simulated training environments extend into the metaphysical realm by enabling capabilities unavailable to us in the real world: Repeatable scenarios with zero reset time and zero physical impact, multi-variable scenario configurations, visually replayable and multi-angle post motum analysis, time dialation and multiplication, etc.
Simulators give trainees a chance to work on specific skills without having to go to the time, expense, and danger (in this case) of dealing with the real thing. I consider simulators to be the computer equivilant of the Universal equipment in the gym. Using only the Upper-Torso machine every day will not make someone physically fit, but it will still acomplish the goal: work a specific muscle group.
Consider also the long-term impact Flight Simulators have had on the safety and preparedness of pilots in many areas of their daily job. An example could be an alarm that doesn't go off more than once every five years suddenly starts sounding in the cockpit at 35,000 for example, then they will have the advantage of at least going through the exercise in a simulator several times and it won't be a big surprise.
The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection.
Phrased the other way: Participants who concentrated on relevant words had an easier time remembering them.
Fuck Microsoft [...] and fuck the douchebags who sell out to them.
First, it's spelled "douchebag$"
Secondly, despite popular belief, MS bashing has no instrinsic value other than somehow increasing the "Insightful" property of/. postings (go figure).
Finally, innovators have the right to sell their technology to anyone they want, even the highest bidder.
the only way that some Americans can feel good about themselves to lob gratuitous insults So your answer to an objectionable generality is to spout another objectional generality?
Nice.
Gildas has not, however, registered the Vista trademark in categories of activity 9 and 42, which cover software. With this in mind, his case might be hard to prove. He's in France. Do they even have software there?
Read notes: "It feels like the Cold War all over again"
Clearly the reader didn't live through the cold war. You'll know its cold war time again when each time you look at the horizon you wonder: 'Is today the day I'll see a mushroom cloud?' The Cold War was about REAL nuclear threats from REALLY big arsenals.
This is nothing more than politicians playing politics.
Do yourself a huge favor and dump 'em. Spending a few bucks more for something that sounds better, feels better, and will last longer just makes sense; after all, you only get one set of ears in life.
Spending 5 1/2 hours in a plane sitting between two earbud-style headphone wearing music listeners made it painfuly clear those things fail miserably in one of their primary purposes: Provide a private listening experience for the user so as not to disturb others as would be the case with speakers.
I'd rather have people user speakers, at least that way I could hear all of their music, instead of what I hear now - which is just enough to annoy me.
Can we mod-down article titles? "Ban" is completely inaccurate. Reading the title you immediately envision Secret Service guys barging through the crowds, confiscating cell phones from people. When did/. become a sensationalist news source? Have they been receiving advertising dollars from the National Inquirer?
MP4/AAC has been around for a while now, and there is no excuse for non-WMA stores to not be selling it...
Excuse #1: Cannot play MP4's on an MP3 player
Explaining to the average music consumer that they need to upgrade their MP3 player to an MP4 player is like explaining to a person with cataracts that they need to upgrade from regular TV to HD. Sure, it's the future, but don't expect them to run to the store any time soon. Without a groundswell of new consumers flocking to MP4, retailers are hard pressed to justify moving to MP4. Again, think HD.
Perhaps someone should find a legislator to sponsor a bill to require music retailers to move to MP4 by 2010 so we can be forced to pay for high-definition music along with our high-definition video.
Given the demographic involved in this case, it's almost certainly the same thing. I think it shows up in Wikipedia as an example under "Inevitable" or "Foregone Conclusion."
I found it strange that the underlying article, from which McNamara quotes, goes on to say that the CDC's report also draws conclusions concerning this trend's potential impact on Political Polls.
That's a potential problem because people with only cell phones tend to be disproportionately young and have lower incomes. Studies have so far concluded that cell-phone-only users are not a large or diverse enough group to affect the accuracy of broad polls that omit them.
When was the last time anyone cared what a 'broad poll' had to say? It's the pointed, narrowly focused polls that drive people to action. Heck, even the very poll used by the CDC to generate this data from 14,000+ households was not a 'broad poll.'
I have to wonder what the heck the CDC was doing checking up on people's phone situation? Did they also ask about car ownership, house ownership, or if they owned a washer and dryer or used a laundramat on Saturdays?
If we are to believe even half of what Al Gore is spouting, the only moderate climates left on Earth in 20 years will be Chris Kringle's home town and some place in Northwestern Ontario.
I'm finally vindicated after all these years! Everyone kept claiming the Terminator's accept was Austrian, or some such rot, but I knew it was British.
Hey! You proved the point again by showing the need to point out that mission to everyone. It wasn't linked to Star Trek either, so it wasn't *obviously* cool. Logic dictates they should have had Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) co-host the launch.
As the booster enters the atmosphere of the planet it will burn up into dust. If any chunks do survive, they will have already reached the same temp needed to sterilize it.
Best-case scenario is some poor sod on a distant planet gets the hover-car in his driveway crushed by a chunk of a booster, with the NASA logo on it, and getting noted in the local paper as the guy that found the space debris with the fossilized bacteria attached to it.
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I think laws should be put in place that would require these guys to use 'period weapons' to hunt these ancient animals. I wonder how many whales they'd catch if all they had were gun power and some rusty spearheads. I suspect they'd value their catch a lot more after having to go through all that work.
Since when do Internet websites have to obey rules from anyone, especially a search engine?
If I ran a web-reputation repair company, I would do everything I could to determine what was "against" the rules in Google's mind and do it on every website where one or more of my clients had trouble. Consequently, those sites would be flagged "rule breakers" and immediately drop very low in Google's search ratings.
My job here is done!
You can prove this is a viable technology by building the reciever first, which would be much less expensive, thus easier to fund. If the technology actually works it would follow that you will ultimately build the (much more expensive) transmitter in the future and as a test you would transmit a message into the past so that your past self can receive the message. It's non-paradoxical and would satisfy any VC that would even consider investing in something like this.
In fact, I would recommend transmitting the total dollar amount of the funding needed to build the transmitter as your first message back to yourself.
Don't let anyone here on /. fool you! A silent movie of our cops doing their job is perfectly legal here in PA, the Keystone state. You'll need to add your own music soundtrack to keep audiences coming back for more, though.
Does this signal the dawn of a new backronym for LG?
Linux is Gold
The advantages of simulated training environments extend into the metaphysical realm by enabling capabilities unavailable to us in the real world: Repeatable scenarios with zero reset time and zero physical impact, multi-variable scenario configurations, visually replayable and multi-angle post motum analysis, time dialation and multiplication, etc.
Simulators give trainees a chance to work on specific skills without having to go to the time, expense, and danger (in this case) of dealing with the real thing. I consider simulators to be the computer equivilant of the Universal equipment in the gym. Using only the Upper-Torso machine every day will not make someone physically fit, but it will still acomplish the goal: work a specific muscle group.
Consider also the long-term impact Flight Simulators have had on the safety and preparedness of pilots in many areas of their daily job. An example could be an alarm that doesn't go off more than once every five years suddenly starts sounding in the cockpit at 35,000 for example, then they will have the advantage of at least going through the exercise in a simulator several times and it won't be a big surprise.
Phrased the other way: Participants who concentrated on relevant words had an easier time remembering them.
First, it's spelled "douchebag$"
Secondly, despite popular belief, MS bashing has no instrinsic value other than somehow increasing the "Insightful" property of /. postings (go figure).
Finally, innovators have the right to sell their technology to anyone they want, even the highest bidder.
Too bad he's in France. Do they even have software there?
Clearly the reader didn't live through the cold war. You'll know its cold war time again when each time you look at the horizon you wonder: 'Is today the day I'll see a mushroom cloud?' The Cold War was about REAL nuclear threats from REALLY big arsenals.
This is nothing more than politicians playing politics.
Spending 5 1/2 hours in a plane sitting between two earbud-style headphone wearing music listeners made it painfuly clear those things fail miserably in one of their primary purposes: Provide a private listening experience for the user so as not to disturb others as would be the case with speakers.
I'd rather have people user speakers, at least that way I could hear all of their music, instead of what I hear now - which is just enough to annoy me.
Can we mod-down article titles? "Ban" is completely inaccurate. Reading the title you immediately envision Secret Service guys barging through the crowds, confiscating cell phones from people. When did /. become a sensationalist news source? Have they been receiving advertising dollars from the National Inquirer?
Excuse #1: Cannot play MP4's on an MP3 player
Explaining to the average music consumer that they need to upgrade their MP3 player to an MP4 player is like explaining to a person with cataracts that they need to upgrade from regular TV to HD. Sure, it's the future, but don't expect them to run to the store any time soon. Without a groundswell of new consumers flocking to MP4, retailers are hard pressed to justify moving to MP4. Again, think HD.
Perhaps someone should find a legislator to sponsor a bill to require music retailers to move to MP4 by 2010 so we can be forced to pay for high-definition music along with our high-definition video.
Given the demographic involved in this case, it's almost certainly the same thing. I think it shows up in Wikipedia as an example under "Inevitable" or "Foregone Conclusion."
When was the last time anyone cared what a 'broad poll' had to say? It's the pointed, narrowly focused polls that drive people to action. Heck, even the very poll used by the CDC to generate this data from 14,000+ households was not a 'broad poll.'
I have to wonder what the heck the CDC was doing checking up on people's phone situation? Did they also ask about car ownership, house ownership, or if they owned a washer and dryer or used a laundramat on Saturdays?
I for one welcome our new LED overlords.
If we are to believe even half of what Al Gore is spouting, the only moderate climates left on Earth in 20 years will be Chris Kringle's home town and some place in Northwestern Ontario.
I'm finally vindicated after all these years! Everyone kept claiming the Terminator's accept was Austrian, or some such rot, but I knew it was British.
Hey! You proved the point again by showing the need to point out that mission to everyone. It wasn't linked to Star Trek either, so it wasn't *obviously* cool. Logic dictates they should have had Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) co-host the launch.
As the booster enters the atmosphere of the planet it will burn up into dust. If any chunks do survive, they will have already reached the same temp needed to sterilize it.
Best-case scenario is some poor sod on a distant planet gets the hover-car in his driveway crushed by a chunk of a booster, with the NASA logo on it, and getting noted in the local paper as the guy that found the space debris with the fossilized bacteria attached to it.
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AMEN BROTHER! [pulling out wallet to throw in some money as the collection basket comes around]
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