Wouldn't it just be easier to mark it as spam/delete it? You'll still never have to hear from that particular scammer again, so the net result is the same from your perspective... But you'd save a lot of time.
Yeah. It would be nice if they'd just cross-post it to YouTube. Then I could watch it with my EVO 3d's stereoscopic display. Plus, hey, more exposure for a cool NASA project!
According to: this page, Uranium is the 92nd most common element in Earth's crust. Due to its density, it's probably more common in Earth as a whole, but for the forseeable future, unless it's in the crust, we won't be getting our hands on it.
that's incorrect. i use 250 Lindens = US$1 as my base for calculation, though on http://www.gamingopenmarket.com/market.php?symbol= SLL it does shift a little from time to time. that works out to about 0.4 cents for 1 Linden.
as for 'making' money in the game, each player gets a weekly allowance of either L$50 or L$500, depending on your subscription type. you may also be awarded extra money for hosting public events, or for attracting other players to a place you've built.
then they can opt whether to report in or not, and each person could use a unique 'pin' of their own choosing, without having a special RFID tag or any of that silliness. simple is best!
I was logged into Second Life just yesterday (Sunday) and there was indeed a Catholic mass ceremony being conducted at a virtual cathedral that someone had built. It was on the events list, even.
It's also in use in Second Life -- a real-time VR environment. All of the sound effects in the game (including user-created ones) are streamed to clients as Ogg.
I have a standby button on my remote. It's right at the top, next to the TV on/off button. Of course, I have the lesser-known Sony remote -- which I think is much nicer than that silly peanut anyway.
Conversely, imagine if someone found parts of the 2k/nt4 code that were very similar to previously existing GPL'd code? that would be pretty interesting, too.
After just a couple of minutes of playing Gran Turismo with the joystick, you can feel the strain in your upper arms and shoulder muscles. And then you go back and grab your conventional controller, because who only wants to play their game for 5 minutes?!:)
The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles
...
Surgenor said the whole system eventually will be wireless.
Stray EMI could give you a tic. Someone malicious could actually block/redirect/subvert control of your own body, remotely.
On the other hand... telerobotics, maybe? Use your brain to control a robot doing a dangerous job somewhere! Going into a hazardous environment from the safety of your control lab... Or maybe even a totally virtual environment.
There is. It's called the Nokia Communicator... Unfortunately, the latest version, the 9210, is not available in the U.S. I've heard Nokia decided that Americans were too enamored of the palm/pen style of UI to be very interested in mini-keyboard devices.:( I wish daily for one of these things...
FYI, if anyone from Nokia every reads this, I'm a keyboard kinda guy!:)
I do, being left-handed. Frankly, I don't understand people like the first whiner either. All my life I've been left-handed, but, you know what? It's a right-hand world.
Fortunately for me, human beings are pretty darn adaptable. So I can use right-hand scissors, and I use my mouse with the right hand.
When the world gives you right-hand tools..... Just use your right hand. Anyone CAN learn to do things with the other hand. It's just a little harder. And in the end, it's a whole heck of a lot easier to just teach yourself to use the mouse on the right side, than to rearrange 95% of the workstations whenever you need to use them.
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Yes, man, yes!
THINK OF THE CONSEQUENCES! The world might end if your robotic arm opened a COKE for you!
What a hoser. I wish I had moderator points today so I could relegate your completely irrelevant post to oblivion.
maybe I just got to work too early, but the first thing that popped to mind when I read that title was that slashdot was giving away $100k worth of Beanie Babies.
Well, the idea of a super-thin paper client is very cool... But I'm not sure that it's really suited for the purposes that this guy has in mind. With the advent of the web, and now in recent times, the Free PC (really just a monthly installment - $400 PC with a $400 MSN rebate in trade for $20/mo worth of service), which placing the home computer in reach of everyone everywhere, I don't see any advantage in the voting or advertising arenas, which the article focuses heavily on.
A voting system could easily be implemented on a $400 PC. I'll assume that more than 100 people would vote per station, which is a pretty reasonable assumption... Even if the paper computer was able to hit the sub-$5 range that they want to target, the PC would still be more economical.
As for advertising, a mass-production of CD-ROMs is much less expensive than $5 per for the papercomputer. Their example company (Victoria's Secret) could easily put a nice catalog, even include multimedia if they wanted, and make an easy-to-use interface to order their product on the Internet. Once again, much more economical.
So, anyway, my conclusion is that this is a very neat invention... But I think he's targetting the wrong market.
Great, Dr. Satcher... Feed the plebes just what they want to hear. Tell them all, "It's not your fault! You just need Therapy!". America is degenerating into a bunch of lazy, finger-pointing, irresponsible people.
No one wants to be accountable for themselves; if 20% of the population can now blame their wrongdoings on "mental illness",... Argh.
Because changing the mass of the object wouldn't change its orbit at all... We should all know by now that an object's rate of descent is independent of its mass, even in orbit.
More simply: A feather and a boulder fall the same speed in a vacuum... even if they are falling *around* the sun.
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Wouldn't it just be easier to mark it as spam/delete it? You'll still never have to hear from that particular scammer again, so the net result is the same from your perspective... But you'd save a lot of time.
replying to remove a bad mod. it sure would be nice if there were a better way to do that.
Yeah. It would be nice if they'd just cross-post it to YouTube. Then I could watch it with my EVO 3d's stereoscopic display. Plus, hey, more exposure for a cool NASA project!
And what if my passenger wants to play with the GPS?
I'd prefer an unlocked system that lets me do what I want. I don't need the computer to babysit me.
According to: this page, Uranium is the 92nd most common element in Earth's crust. Due to its density, it's probably more common in Earth as a whole, but for the forseeable future, unless it's in the crust, we won't be getting our hands on it.
that's incorrect. i use 250 Lindens = US$1 as my base for calculation, though on http://www.gamingopenmarket.com/market.php?symbol= SLL
it does shift a little from time to time.
that works out to about 0.4 cents for 1 Linden.
as for 'making' money in the game, each player gets a weekly allowance of either L$50 or L$500, depending on your subscription type. you may also be awarded extra money for hosting public events, or for attracting other players to a place you've built.
then they can opt whether to report in or not, and each person could use a unique 'pin' of their own choosing, without having a special RFID tag or any of that silliness.
simple is best!
Actually, it is!
I was logged into Second Life just yesterday (Sunday) and there was indeed a Catholic mass ceremony being conducted at a virtual cathedral that someone had built. It was on the events list, even.
It's also in use in Second Life -- a real-time VR environment. All of the sound effects in the game (including user-created ones) are streamed to clients as Ogg.
best search engine ever: :)
Searching for XFree69 now takes you to THIS PAGE!
I have a standby button on my remote.
It's right at the top, next to the TV on/off button.
Of course, I have the lesser-known Sony remote -- which I think is much nicer than that silly peanut anyway.
Conversely, imagine if someone found parts of the 2k/nt4 code that were very similar to previously existing GPL'd code? that would be pretty interesting, too.
After just a couple of minutes of playing Gran Turismo with the joystick, you can feel the strain in your upper arms and shoulder muscles. :)
And then you go back and grab your conventional controller, because who only wants to play their game for 5 minutes?!
The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles
...
Surgenor said the whole system eventually will be wireless.
Stray EMI could give you a tic. Someone malicious could actually block/redirect/subvert control of your own body, remotely.
On the other hand... telerobotics, maybe? Use your brain to control a robot doing a dangerous job somewhere! Going into a hazardous environment from the safety of your control lab...
Or maybe even a totally virtual environment.
all in one combo phone/pager/laptop
:( I wish daily for one of these things...
:)
There is. It's called the Nokia Communicator... Unfortunately, the latest version, the 9210, is not available in the U.S. I've heard Nokia decided that Americans were too enamored of the palm/pen style of UI to be very interested in mini-keyboard devices.
FYI, if anyone from Nokia every reads this, I'm a keyboard kinda guy!
Well, with regards to the communication aspect, it's been done. :)
:)
Check this watch from Samsung out.
I do, being left-handed. Frankly, I don't understand people like the first whiner either. All my life I've been left-handed, but, you know what? It's a right-hand world.
Fortunately for me, human beings are pretty darn adaptable. So I can use right-hand scissors, and I use my mouse with the right hand.
When the world gives you right-hand tools..... Just use your right hand. Anyone CAN learn to do
things with the other hand. It's just a little harder. And in the end, it's a whole heck of a lot easier to just teach yourself to use the mouse on the right side, than to rearrange 95% of the workstations whenever you need to use them.
Yes, man, yes!
THINK OF THE CONSEQUENCES! The world might end if your robotic arm opened a COKE for you!
What a hoser. I wish I had moderator points today so I could relegate your completely irrelevant post to oblivion.
You're supporting the MS monopoly!
Aeeeiigghh..
>For picture quality, however, many computer
>screens are put to shame by the
>cheapest discount store portable TV.
Is this guy crazy? Sure, my cheapie monitor can do 1024x768, that's obviously "put to shame" by some TV that can only do 400 lines, NTSC...
*shakes his head*
maybe I just got to work too early, but the first thing that popped to mind when I read that title was that slashdot was giving away $100k worth of Beanie Babies.
:)
I'm glad to see I was wrong.
Well, the idea of a super-thin paper client is very cool... But I'm not sure that it's really suited for the purposes that this guy has in mind.
With the advent of the web, and now in recent times, the Free PC (really just a monthly installment - $400 PC with a $400 MSN rebate in trade for $20/mo worth of service), which placing the home computer in reach of everyone everywhere, I don't see any advantage in the voting or advertising arenas, which the article focuses heavily on.
A voting system could easily be implemented on a $400 PC. I'll assume that more than 100 people would vote per station, which is a pretty reasonable assumption... Even if the paper computer was able to hit the sub-$5 range that they want to target, the PC would still be more economical.
As for advertising, a mass-production of CD-ROMs is much less expensive than $5 per for the papercomputer. Their example company (Victoria's Secret) could easily put a nice catalog, even include multimedia if they wanted, and make an easy-to-use interface to order their product on the Internet. Once again, much more economical.
So, anyway, my conclusion is that this is a very neat invention... But I think he's targetting the wrong market.
Great, Dr. Satcher... Feed the plebes just what they want to hear. Tell them all, "It's not your fault! You just need Therapy!".
... Argh.
America is degenerating into a bunch of lazy, finger-pointing, irresponsible people.
No one wants to be accountable for themselves; if 20% of the population can now blame their wrongdoings on "mental illness",
Oooh! Oooh! I know, teacher! :)
Because changing the mass of the object wouldn't change its orbit at all... We should all know by now that an object's rate of descent is independent of its mass, even in orbit.
More simply: A feather and a boulder fall the same speed in a vacuum... even if they are falling *around* the sun.