Howdy.
I'm studying electromagnetic waves in physics this semester, so I'm curious how someone would reflect only visible light onto an area. Would there be some kind of coating on the reflecting surface that would refract the higher frequency energy away from the area? Are there existing examples of this technology?
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Not a lawyer (won't use the abbreviation, because it's gross)
I agree with your points regarding law, which I know nothing about, but what's so gross about IANAL? Is it because it contains the letters A-N-A-L, in that order? If so, how do you refer to Panama's famous waterway?
From what I've seen, the term web 2.0 refers to the fact that most people now recognize that websites today are much more like desktop apps than they used to be.
And if you're outside the U.S., you might have missed the best Hootie song, like, ever! Well, it was Harry McClintock's song originally, but his version didn't mention bacon as much.
I believe, in time, the advertising will become less annoying. If a game took place in the modern day, I wouldn't mind seeing an ad for an upcoming movie or a popular band on a billboard. I could also see it being something like the Gap selling clothes for your avatar, and advertising the in-game store on in-game media - in the end, it would still create brand awareness. Some games, great games, will be like Tarantino films which avoid any and all advertisements in them and you'll love them more for it.
And what's more, I believe they are succeeding in their goal of reaching new markets for video games. I say this because my mother recently dropped some pretty big hints about how cool the pink DS Lite is and how it would be perfect to have the Brain Age sudoku with her when she's at the airport, and how Christmas is pretty soon. If they can get my mom to scheme for a video game console they way I schemed for the NES in the 80s, I'd say their marketing is dead on.
I used to work at the hosting company that John Zuccarini used for all these squatting domains. He would just buy thousands of domains at a time and point them to his different porn sites. When he got sued, he had no idea what domains he even owned, and I had to write scripts to find all the domain names that were pointed to his IPs.
Because it's been hours since the last Nintendo story. These days people are going to be posting about the Wii and DS anyways, they might as well post a story so it's on topic.
In the interest of being on topic, I should say that I just finished playing Brain Age a few minutes ago and I feel much smarter. My prefrontal cortex is hella fit.
My friend and I had a theory that the politicians were waiting until we had 5 states to come in to the union at the same time, so as to keep the same basic style to the stars on the flag. I believe our candidates were.
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
New and improved democratic Iraq
Northern California
Any other randomly picked tropical island territory. (I hope it's American Samoa!>
Funny you should mention that, I used to do that too. I worked for a porn hosting company (imagine how much different it was to work for Apple) where people on different shifts shared the same Windows 2000 workstations. IIRC, the registry had a different key for each user on the box, so we would go in and change other people's wallpaper to Tiger-beatesque Backstreet Boys wallpaper and such. I often thought about doing the screenshot of the desktop thing, I bet it was awesome.
Pagers were the other key element of office fun. The back page of the Phoenix New Times used to have these local numbers that would play a recording that told you all the 1-900 numbers for whatever kind of phone sex floated your boat. I would page the engineers sitting in the next desk with those numbers and listen when they called. When they got confused it was funny, when they used the speakerphone it was epic.
I think I might have figured out why the job search is taking so long.
I used to work at an Apple store across the street from a high school. I would estimate that 75% of the packets coming into that store came from myspace.com. Of course, these kids would never log out, which meant you could walk up to just about any computer, launch safari, go to myspace and start editing the profile of whomever last used the computer. Favorite edits included
Changing interests to include homosexuality, drugs, etc.
Changing background images
Changing profile photos
Joining a group of people who check their myspace at the apple store. (I'm in that group too)
I couldn't bring myself to break off any friendships, that's a bit too mean.
Since we're already spending so much time here and acting like junior high kids, I want myspace style slashdot profiles. Imagine what this would do to the community. When you read a post and think to yourself "Overweight, Undersexed Wow junkie" you can click the link and see their photos to confirm your suspicions. Plus, think of the fun we'd all have writing the CSS code to design our pages. Instead of harping on people for their grammar, we could point out how their profile page isn't XHTML compliant.
Taco would be everybody's friend by default, but if you're friends with the real CowboyNeal (or a girl) you would totally put that in your top eight.
As a musician and geek, I believe the solution I would want for my band would be a la carte downloads for the individual songs, and an album-only additional track of the entire album as a continuous mix.* Reward the fans who want the whole thing, but don't refuse sales from people who might only dig one or two of your songs. It really isn't that much to download, considering they're planning on selling online movie downloads soon.
* Well, if it were my band I would want two album only downloads for side-a and side-b as an homage to vinyl.
Oh, offtopic, this is my first post with my new Apple wireless mighty mouse. I dig it.:)
Conversely, I occasionally like to see an ad that has no chance of affecting my current or future purchasing decisions, as it is an interesting chance to think about how the advertising industry works. For example, I like to think that there was a director who had to say something like, "Remember, don't dance too enthusiastically; your side to side motion is supposed to represent the inferior tampon design." Of course, I only really see ads when I can' find the Tivo's remote, but that happens often enough I know the more common tampon ads on tv.
Slashdot Mirror
That would depend on where you got cut. If they took off some surface cells, probably not, but if a long one cut you in half I bet you'd notice.
Squirrels love gay butt sex, btw
Howdy. I'm studying electromagnetic waves in physics this semester, so I'm curious how someone would reflect only visible light onto an area. Would there be some kind of coating on the reflecting surface that would refract the higher frequency energy away from the area? Are there existing examples of this technology? H.
Not a lawyer (won't use the abbreviation, because it's gross)
I agree with your points regarding law, which I know nothing about, but what's so gross about IANAL? Is it because it contains the letters A-N-A-L, in that order? If so, how do you refer to Panama's famous waterway?
You sir, must never has scratched your balls after slicing jalapenos.
From what I've seen, the term web 2.0 refers to the fact that most people now recognize that websites today are much more like desktop apps than they used to be.
Easier yet, you can push the little lever that controls the light with your fucking finger.
we're gonna see metric asstons of it
My Physics professor always told me asstons (at) were imperial and fuckloads (Fl, kFl, mFl, etc) were metric.
"with magic flying dildos for controllers"
"teens were looking for a homoerotic wrestling game"
I'm a music major, so I never took any business classes. To whom would I speak if I wanted to sell a game idea to a software company?
Who said they were hot?
And if you're outside the U.S., you might have missed the best Hootie song, like, ever! Well, it was Harry McClintock's song originally, but his version didn't mention bacon as much.
I believe, in time, the advertising will become less annoying. If a game took place in the modern day, I wouldn't mind seeing an ad for an upcoming movie or a popular band on a billboard. I could also see it being something like the Gap selling clothes for your avatar, and advertising the in-game store on in-game media - in the end, it would still create brand awareness. Some games, great games, will be like Tarantino films which avoid any and all advertisements in them and you'll love them more for it.
Those two lines are lyrics from my song "Eating Babies With the Spawns of Hell." Expect to hear from the RIAA shortly.
I wish I could mod this as "actually funny." H.
And what's more, I believe they are succeeding in their goal of reaching new markets for video games. I say this because my mother recently dropped some pretty big hints about how cool the pink DS Lite is and how it would be perfect to have the Brain Age sudoku with her when she's at the airport, and how Christmas is pretty soon. If they can get my mom to scheme for a video game console they way I schemed for the NES in the 80s, I'd say their marketing is dead on.
I used to work at the hosting company that John Zuccarini used for all these squatting domains. He would just buy thousands of domains at a time and point them to his different porn sites. When he got sued, he had no idea what domains he even owned, and I had to write scripts to find all the domain names that were pointed to his IPs.
Why .. oh why .. is this news to anyone?
Because it's been hours since the last Nintendo story. These days people are going to be posting about the Wii and DS anyways, they might as well post a story so it's on topic.
In the interest of being on topic, I should say that I just finished playing Brain Age a few minutes ago and I feel much smarter. My prefrontal cortex is hella fit.
A vote for Cherry is a vote for Plum. Thanks for throwing away your vote, asshole.
AC said: So when you see open windows in houses, you just jump in and trash things, I take it?
No, but I would think it was funny to rearrange a church's "Bingo night" sign to say "Bong night."
Oh, grammar nerds, was the period in the last sentence supposed to be inside or outside the quotes. I don't need any more kickings.
Funny you should mention that, I used to do that too. I worked for a porn hosting company (imagine how much different it was to work for Apple) where people on different shifts shared the same Windows 2000 workstations. IIRC, the registry had a different key for each user on the box, so we would go in and change other people's wallpaper to Tiger-beatesque Backstreet Boys wallpaper and such. I often thought about doing the screenshot of the desktop thing, I bet it was awesome.
Pagers were the other key element of office fun. The back page of the Phoenix New Times used to have these local numbers that would play a recording that told you all the 1-900 numbers for whatever kind of phone sex floated your boat. I would page the engineers sitting in the next desk with those numbers and listen when they called. When they got confused it was funny, when they used the speakerphone it was epic.
I think I might have figured out why the job search is taking so long.
What was this story about again?
I used to work at an Apple store across the street from a high school. I would estimate that 75% of the packets coming into that store came from myspace.com. Of course, these kids would never log out, which meant you could walk up to just about any computer, launch safari, go to myspace and start editing the profile of whomever last used the computer. Favorite edits included
- Changing interests to include homosexuality, drugs, etc.
- Changing background images
- Changing profile photos
- Joining a group of people who check their myspace at the apple store. (I'm in that group too)
I couldn't bring myself to break off any friendships, that's a bit too mean.Since we're already spending so much time here and acting like junior high kids, I want myspace style slashdot profiles. Imagine what this would do to the community. When you read a post and think to yourself "Overweight, Undersexed Wow junkie" you can click the link and see their photos to confirm your suspicions. Plus, think of the fun we'd all have writing the CSS code to design our pages. Instead of harping on people for their grammar, we could point out how their profile page isn't XHTML compliant.
Taco would be everybody's friend by default, but if you're friends with the real CowboyNeal (or a girl) you would totally put that in your top eight.
Our mail system would be IMAP though
As a musician and geek, I believe the solution I would want for my band would be a la carte downloads for the individual songs, and an album-only additional track of the entire album as a continuous mix.* Reward the fans who want the whole thing, but don't refuse sales from people who might only dig one or two of your songs. It really isn't that much to download, considering they're planning on selling online movie downloads soon.
* Well, if it were my band I would want two album only downloads for side-a and side-b as an homage to vinyl.
Oh, offtopic, this is my first post with my new Apple wireless mighty mouse. I dig it. :)
Conversely, I occasionally like to see an ad that has no chance of affecting my current or future purchasing decisions, as it is an interesting chance to think about how the advertising industry works. For example, I like to think that there was a director who had to say something like, "Remember, don't dance too enthusiastically; your side to side motion is supposed to represent the inferior tampon design." Of course, I only really see ads when I can' find the Tivo's remote, but that happens often enough I know the more common tampon ads on tv.