Don't laugh at the 'unbelievable' too hard. It might be next year's Science Today.
You'll excuse me if I take that risk and go ahead and laugh now. Actually, maybe I'll cry instead...
Don't you think that if one single aspect of psychic phenomena was real, we would have seen evidence of it by now?
People have been talking about this for years, and if any of it were true it would radically change the way we view the world. In effect it would turn everything we know about the universe upside down. But guess what? It hasn't. Life continues on. Crimes aren't solved by psychics (regardless of what TV may have us believe). No psychic has won the lottery or been kicked out of casinos. Missing persons have not been located by remote viewing. Sure some spoons get bent, but hey I can do that too (no telekenetic powers required I assure you).
If you want to know how paranormal events have failed scientific investigations, do yourself a favor and check out the James Randi Foundation
Is it possible to order only that one issue of Wired internationally instead of subscribing for 12 months?
I don't know of any way to order single issues online. Perhaps you could find someone to buy issues off a newstand and ship them.
Or maybe you can find someone to burn a CD for you. I know it's not the same as having a nicely labeled official copy (although the real label is pretty bland), but hey, this is one of the few times that we can suggest that a CD be opening copied and shared (viva Creative Commons)!
By the way, the CD ain't bad. I'm listening to it now. Some good songs on it (and some that aren't my cup of tea)...
How many times or how long can you use this device before wearing out the key?
Well, if you set up a RAM disk and only store personal settings on the USB key -- then I suspect that it would last for quite some time. If you don't care about saving settings, then you can boot off the key as a read-only media and never write back to it. So I don't think this would be a major concern.
... that doesn't look like a debate to me. In a debate, there should be some interaction between the parties . . . some followup response and rebuttal.
Hence the "We're supposed to get candidates' rebuttals on or about October 17" comment.
Amen brother. I would not buy a standalone DVD recorder that does not support firewire input (or i-Link as Sony insists on calling it).
So other than double-layer support, what makes this so ground-breaking over this one that they all ready produced (and has firewire)?
I get the impression that the MPAA is highly opposed to firewire on recording devices. I see fewer and fewer devices with this feature. Heck, I'd be willing to settle for input only as a compromise.
But corporate users don't spend a lot of time playing with DirectX-based games, listening to Windows Media Player, or checking e-mail with Outlook Express.
I don't think they know the same corporate people that I know.
They were taking pictures with digital cameras that had wireless cards... The pictures could be picked up at the end of the day when you were ready to leave.
Why wait until the end of the day? I seem to recall roaming photographers at Walt Disney World a couple of years back. They shot on flash media and had to run it to a central station every so often. This type of camera would eliminate the need for that and customers could pick up their pics almost immediately.
Illinois - 1960. Hizonner Mayor Daley (D - Chicago) delivered the state to Kennedy in about as close of a race as Florida 2000.
Yes, but he never resorted to unfairly disenfranchising a large portion of the population, or getting the courts to overturn recount decisions. Instead, he encouraged voters to come to the polls and cast their ballots. So what if some of those said voters happened to be deceased at the time.
OK, I didn't RTFA (goes without saying, right?) but I can understand the desire to simplify things. Go into any Walmart, pick up any game box and figure out if it will work on your PC.
Does it have a fast enough processor? Enough memory? Enough disk space? Is your video card up to the task (Direct X version)? Is your internet bandwidth sufficient? What about the OS (including service packs)?
OK, this may not be difficult for those of us with years of computer experience (except for the font size of the information -- damn these aging eyes). But imagine the neophyte user trying to figure all this out. I can certainly understand the desire to boil it all down to a single number -- you MUST have a level X computer to run this game!
Unfortunately, such a system is probably impractical and of limited usefulness for all the reasons cited in the other posts.
Because there are 4294080000 millisconds in that time period. Just enough to cause a roll-over when using a 32 bit counter (and yes, 49.7 is an approximate value).
Very few Win95 systems ever made it that long without a reboot... but you would've thought that it would've been fixed by Windows 2000.
I really don't think that I could have built up an acceptable level of tolerance to alchohol in only two years. Heck, it took me over five years (but I did get a MS out of it too).
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Don't laugh at the 'unbelievable' too hard. It might be next year's Science Today.
You'll excuse me if I take that risk and go ahead and laugh now. Actually, maybe I'll cry instead...
Don't you think that if one single aspect of psychic phenomena was real, we would have seen evidence of it by now?
People have been talking about this for years, and if any of it were true it would radically change the way we view the world. In effect it would turn everything we know about the universe upside down. But guess what? It hasn't. Life continues on. Crimes aren't solved by psychics (regardless of what TV may have us believe). No psychic has won the lottery or been kicked out of casinos. Missing persons have not been located by remote viewing. Sure some spoons get bent, but hey I can do that too (no telekenetic powers required I assure you).
If you want to know how paranormal events have failed scientific investigations, do yourself a favor and check out the James Randi Foundation
Is it possible to order only that one issue of Wired internationally instead of subscribing for 12 months?
I don't know of any way to order single issues online. Perhaps you could find someone to buy issues off a newstand and ship them.
Or maybe you can find someone to burn a CD for you. I know it's not the same as having a nicely labeled official copy (although the real label is pretty bland), but hey, this is one of the few times that we can suggest that a CD be opening copied and shared (viva Creative Commons)!
By the way, the CD ain't bad. I'm listening to it now. Some good songs on it (and some that aren't my cup of tea)...
How many times or how long can you use this device before wearing out the key?
Well, if you set up a RAM disk and only store personal settings on the USB key -- then I suspect that it would last for quite some time. If you don't care about saving settings, then you can boot off the key as a read-only media and never write back to it. So I don't think this would be a major concern.
What do expect? Everyone reads the articles before posting, right? Ahhh, who am I kidding.
... that doesn't look like a debate to me. In a debate, there should be some interaction between the parties . . . some followup response and rebuttal.
Hence the "We're supposed to get candidates' rebuttals on or about October 17" comment.
Unless the other candidate is a child molesting, neo-nazi, it really doesn't matter much.
Is he at least a handsome, honest child molesting, neo-nazi?
I will admit I didn't expect them to actually answer the question, but I am still angry that they didn't. This article is worthless to me.
And yet taught you something, it has.
No geek should be excited about this.
Amen brother. I would not buy a standalone DVD recorder that does not support firewire input (or i-Link as Sony insists on calling it).
So other than double-layer support, what makes this so ground-breaking over this one that they all ready produced (and has firewire)?
I get the impression that the MPAA is highly opposed to firewire on recording devices. I see fewer and fewer devices with this feature. Heck, I'd be willing to settle for input only as a compromise.
Google registered it as a ladies' novilty underware store.
Then shouldn't it be gBrassière?
But corporate users don't spend a lot of time playing with DirectX-based games, listening to Windows Media Player, or checking e-mail with Outlook Express.
I don't think they know the same corporate people that I know.
As time progressed so did my needs. Our affair took its next serious step on August 24, 1995.
I think I need a shower...
They were taking pictures with digital cameras that had wireless cards ... The pictures could be picked up at the end of the day when you were ready to leave.
Why wait until the end of the day? I seem to recall roaming photographers at Walt Disney World a couple of years back. They shot on flash media and had to run it to a central station every so often. This type of camera would eliminate the need for that and customers could pick up their pics almost immediately.
Illinois - 1960. Hizonner Mayor Daley (D - Chicago) delivered the state to Kennedy in about as close of a race as Florida 2000.
Yes, but he never resorted to unfairly disenfranchising a large portion of the population, or getting the courts to overturn recount decisions. Instead, he encouraged voters to come to the polls and cast their ballots. So what if some of those said voters happened to be deceased at the time.
OK, I didn't RTFA (goes without saying, right?) but I can understand the desire to simplify things. Go into any Walmart, pick up any game box and figure out if it will work on your PC.
Does it have a fast enough processor? Enough memory? Enough disk space? Is your video card up to the task (Direct X version)? Is your internet bandwidth sufficient? What about the OS (including service packs)?
OK, this may not be difficult for those of us with years of computer experience (except for the font size of the information -- damn these aging eyes). But imagine the neophyte user trying to figure all this out. I can certainly understand the desire to boil it all down to a single number -- you MUST have a level X computer to run this game!
Unfortunately, such a system is probably impractical and of limited usefulness for all the reasons cited in the other posts.
Because there are 4294080000 millisconds in that time period. Just enough to cause a roll-over when using a 32 bit counter (and yes, 49.7 is an approximate value).
Very few Win95 systems ever made it that long without a reboot... but you would've thought that it would've been fixed by Windows 2000.
Angelina Jolie pops her tiddies out! TWICE!!!
Hey! I thought we agreed -- no spoilers!
"Genesis" projects... they always seem to fail...
You forgot one - God's original Genesis project. The jury is still out on whether that one was a success or not...
I wish one of them (Google or Yahoo) would allow typing in an IP address and getting the whois results.
His 10-megabit-per-second service ... enabling a user to download a two-hour movie in a matter of minutes rather than hours.
You don't suppose that we don't have highspeed broadband in the US because the MPAA doesn't want us to, do ya?
Nah, must be some other reason.
Okay, now I'm thoroughly convinced it's a joke...
Of course it's a joke. Now the only question is whether it is an intentional joke or not.
It's not news that security features only keep honest people out.
Yes and sometimes we get locked out of our own homes/vehicles. Sigh.
You know who hangs out at bars? Drunks. I don't want a social circle of drunks.
That's OK. We don't want you either.
why ... fly half way around the world to go to school in the middle of illinois surrounded by corn and only corn for miles.
Now come on... IIRC there is also a sprinkling of cows here and there.
I really don't think that I could have built up an acceptable level of tolerance to alchohol in only two years
Oops, my mistake! I should have RTFA before posting. Turns out Northface is in Utah! The poor souls don't stand a chance.
I really don't think that I could have built up an acceptable level of tolerance to alchohol in only two years. Heck, it took me over five years (but I did get a MS out of it too).