I've always assumed this was a William Castle thing, because it's really his style, but the invention you're refering to is apparently called Smell-O-Vision and was never used in a Castle film.
Can we stop calling Instant Messaging "new", please? Since the concept has been around pretty much as long as there have been multi-user computer systems?
You are absolutely right. You don't work in an IT department. Most incompetent people won't want to mess with their settings in the first place. Whooo, that's priceless.
I've been watching this develop and waiting for these to become commercially available for a few years now. Not because I want one, I don't. I want salespeople to buy them in droves, because it will shift the focus (heh) of more traditional digital projectors towards the home theatre market. I don't care if you can fit the projector in a briefcase. I want a good picture from a quiet projector at a reasonable price. If it's the size of a refrigerator, but it costs $50 and the bulbs are $10..? sold.
You pose an interesting intellectual challenge. Is there a way to respond to your comments without invoking Godwin's Law..? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
Which makes perfect sense considering that nothing of any real consequence was accomplished in mathematics or computer science prior to 1980, when the US Patent Office was not considering software patentable.
Totally off topic, of course, but your suggestion that New Coke was an intentional scam undercuts your point that Vista is not. The reality of the New Coke fiasco, though, supports your Vista point. At the time, Coke was losing market share and getting its ass handed to it in blind taste tests against Pepsi. They had every reason to believe they had a serious problem on their hands, and they attempted to solve it by reformulating their product. And initially, despite common wisdom to the contrary, people did buy the new product and did like the taste. What they failed to take into account was the position of the brand itself: through the effects of their own marketing, Coke had become more than just a soft drink. Coke had become part of Americana, and changing the formula was tantamount to changing the rules of football. A small but vocal minority clung to that position, and its effects spread through peer pressure to the point where it became cool to bash New Coke. Eventually the company realised that they had made a mistake: not in introducing the new flavour, but in replacing the old.
Long story short, there's ample evidence that New Coke was a sort of happy accident: an unexpected failure whose aftereffects ultimately strengthened the brand.
If a suppression network is less active, isn't it perhaps just as reasonable to presume that it has less to actively suppress than that it has things to suppress but isn't doing its job as well? It certainly makes sense that as we carry around these violent impulses all day we constantly restrain ourselves from acting upon them, but entertainment depicting scenes of violence provides a harmless, vicarious release. It seems to me this research found the conclusion it was looking for with the facts it had on hand.
Baravelli:...you can't come in unless you give the password. Professor Wagstaff: Well, what is the password? Baravelli: Aw, no. You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It's the name of a fish. [After several unsuccessful guesses] Baravelli: Hey, what's-a matter, you no understand English? You can't come in here unless you say, "Swordfish." Now I'll give you one more guess. Professor Wagstaff:...swordfish, swordfish... I think I got it. Is it "swordfish"? Baravelli: Hah. That's-a it. You guess it. Professor Wagstaff: Pretty good, eh?
I was thinking of this the other day, what effect would reasonably cheap teleportation have on society? My thinking was that businesses would inevitably move to the most inhospitable terrain possible, since the land would be incredibly cheap.
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I've always assumed this was a William Castle thing, because it's really his style, but the invention you're refering to is apparently called Smell-O-Vision and was never used in a Castle film.
Better yet, yousmell.com. :)
Well somebody got it, anyway. :) Can you believe I was actually modded Insightful?
So you're saying that a conversation between 3 five-year-old children will eventually touch on advanced enumerative combinatorics? I call bullshit.
Both options could be included
[X] Allow resizing of chat input area
[X] Automatically control chat input window size
I beg to differ. If experience is any indicator, getting a life definitely does not require root access. Possibly just the opposite. ;)
See, when I read the title I thought the article was about celebrities who play AD&D and the characters they run. That would have been interesting.
Can we stop calling Instant Messaging "new", please? Since the concept has been around pretty much as long as there have been multi-user computer systems?
I am Pinocchio of Borg. Do not worry, you will definitely NOT be assimilated.
Aw, crap.
You are absolutely right. You don't work in an IT department.
Most incompetent people won't want to mess with their settings in the first place.
Whooo, that's priceless.
I've been watching this develop and waiting for these to become commercially available for a few years now. Not because I want one, I don't. I want salespeople to buy them in droves, because it will shift the focus (heh) of more traditional digital projectors towards the home theatre market. I don't care if you can fit the projector in a briefcase. I want a good picture from a quiet projector at a reasonable price. If it's the size of a refrigerator, but it costs $50 and the bulbs are $10..? sold.
You pose an interesting intellectual challenge. Is there a way to respond to your comments without invoking Godwin's Law..? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
A-duh!
I suppose the sarcasm of my comment was more subtle than I'd intended.
Which makes perfect sense considering that nothing of any real consequence was accomplished in mathematics or computer science prior to 1980, when the US Patent Office was not considering software patentable.
Totally off topic, of course, but your suggestion that New Coke was an intentional scam undercuts your point that Vista is not. The reality of the New Coke fiasco, though, supports your Vista point. At the time, Coke was losing market share and getting its ass handed to it in blind taste tests against Pepsi. They had every reason to believe they had a serious problem on their hands, and they attempted to solve it by reformulating their product. And initially, despite common wisdom to the contrary, people did buy the new product and did like the taste. What they failed to take into account was the position of the brand itself: through the effects of their own marketing, Coke had become more than just a soft drink. Coke had become part of Americana, and changing the formula was tantamount to changing the rules of football. A small but vocal minority clung to that position, and its effects spread through peer pressure to the point where it became cool to bash New Coke. Eventually the company realised that they had made a mistake: not in introducing the new flavour, but in replacing the old.
Long story short, there's ample evidence that New Coke was a sort of happy accident: an unexpected failure whose aftereffects ultimately strengthened the brand.
Awesome reference. If only I had mod points.
Where's the +1 Rimshot Mod when you need it?
If a suppression network is less active, isn't it perhaps just as reasonable to presume that it has less to actively suppress than that it has things to suppress but isn't doing its job as well? It certainly makes sense that as we carry around these violent impulses all day we constantly restrain ourselves from acting upon them, but entertainment depicting scenes of violence provides a harmless, vicarious release. It seems to me this research found the conclusion it was looking for with the facts it had on hand.
"The law in all its majesty forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges and stealing bread". - Anatole France
This ain't a new problem.
Baravelli: ...you can't come in unless you give the password. ...swordfish, swordfish... I think I got it. Is it "swordfish"?
Professor Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?
Baravelli: Aw, no. You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It's the name of a fish.
[After several unsuccessful guesses]
Baravelli: Hey, what's-a matter, you no understand English? You can't come in here unless you say, "Swordfish." Now I'll give you one more guess.
Professor Wagstaff:
Baravelli: Hah. That's-a it. You guess it.
Professor Wagstaff: Pretty good, eh?
I was thinking of this the other day, what effect would reasonably cheap teleportation have on society? My thinking was that businesses would inevitably move to the most inhospitable terrain possible, since the land would be incredibly cheap.
You've played this game before...
You're starting to catch on. Cthulhu in 2008! Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2121236