I wish I could find "The Mechanical Universe" I used to love that show as a kid.... I remember all the formulae moving around on the screen as they wor worked out. -That show taught me algebra, geometry and calculus through physics before I was in 5th grade.
Isn't is amazing how the aliens who built stonehenge carved pictures on it knowing only modern man would be able to view them once he had discovered lasers.
Well I guess their latest advertising scheme where they intercepted all bad url requests worked out well for them.
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But ask yourself....
Would gramma buy a set of blue wolf dentures for her mean and scary computer?
Probably not
And that has a lot to do with it. You can say the technology stands on its own merits but when it comes down to it, you shouldn't scre the hell out of people who we may commonly have to help out with their 1D10T errors.
Illiterate or not, the money is in that sector of the market.
It's important to point this out, because if you can't spell GATTACA you missed an entirely important aspect of the movie.
The chemicals used for information are: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). Hence the name GATTACA is a sequence of DNA. -Sometimes things are subtle, PAY ATTENTION!
My point being, what good is naming it after someone when the people you are going to sell it to just don't get it.
We're lucky as many people figure out Nero Burning ROM as do. I mean: think about what images you are conjering in someone's head and then name it. I suppose it could be worse, Volkswagen could name a car the Hitler and sell it in Israel
Maybe it's because of it's name. We already have enough people who fear they may get bitten by their computer. If you were one, would you buy it teeth?
ROFLOL! I dare you to walk in to a bar in a small town in say Kansas State and shout out loud, "I'm gay and I'm proud!".
There is a difference here.
Being beat up by your fellow citizens is not the same as being beat up by your government.
Freedom of speech also means having to deal with the consequences of your speech. Just because the government allows it doesn't mean you can get away with anything you like.
Remember the government in China shoots people in the headsends the bill for the bullet to the family. ---Suddenly getting beat up by bubba redneck doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
Call Sprint and have them send a tower list update to your phone if you haven't yet done so.
I had a few dead spots in my town and they ran their update and it filled them in.
I don't know how much is real and how much is smoke and mirrors but according to the Sprint rep the PCS phones do not automatically just find new towers. They have a list of towers in their firmware they can talk to. The list does not update automatically ---they assume if it's working you don't need it as it allows them to keep other towers free from overload.
according to the Sprint rep, if they haven't specifically done this, your towerlist in your phone may not have been updated since the manufacture date of the phone. Your phone may not even see new hardware a block away.
I wish I could find out more about this from someone other than a help guy on the Sprint network. Is ther any trueth to this? Is it just a ploy --- a placebo to comfort irate customers? I don't know.
What I'd do:
* Redesign the dollar coin to be 1/10th larger than the quarter. This would be smaller than the half dollar, but still be big enough to tell what it is by touch.
* Make it a different SHAPE. Square or pentagonal with rounded edges, for example.
Making a coin a different shape helps, but it does make the coin wear out very fast.... The dollar coins are smooth (like a nickel) vs a quarter which has ridges.
But the differnet shape idea isn't that bad --- if it has enough sides. Why not make it a triskaidecagon? 13 sides would be "round enough" amd you could call it "Good old American symbolism".
Maybe if I was a customer of theirs, they might exchange the bill. However, I wasn't, so the chances of getting a real 20 dollar bill replacement looked slim.
Your chances would have been better had you called the Secret Service. BofA would probably have wanted to keep this quiet too-and paid you off. Keeping a counterfeit is just as bad as passing or making them.
You do realize that you are only helping the counterfeiters by not doing soemthing about it. You know... like hiding evidence of a crime and stuff like that.
I do find most Americans abroad are quite loud and obnoxious, but on the times I have visited your country I've only experienced courtesy and service of the highest order.
The reason you experience all of those Americans abroad is because we can't stand them either.
---This is America do it our way or get out.... Those people got out.
The part that concerns me is that Hollywood will almost certainly insist on shoving DRM (that's Digital Restrictions Management) down our throats.
I'm giving you a gold atr for pointing this out. Particularly with your exposing the real meaning of the acronym. We should all make a point of helping or less technical family and friends realize this; It is a restriction imposed upon us.
Moral or Legal or what not, sanitizing it by calling it Digital Rights Management is very mis-informative, a practice used mainly in wars and espionage
I live in a small house and I have that much room on my roof with a southern exposure and then some (53 sqft is like lest than 8' by 8' or (less than 3Mx3M). At the prices of these cells I can cover all faces of my roof and afford it and not care if there's even a tree casting shadows on the cells on the northern side.
I wouldn't use batteries, i would feed excess power to the power co, and consume fossils all night
Uh, actually, yes it is. And so far, nothing is being done about it. The economy was softening prior to Bush. However, because of Bush's greed and neglect, it has continue to flounder much longer than anyone predicted. And it really isn't getting much better, despite what Fox news insists.
NO it's NOT!
If you want it fair; think laissez faire!
Enough of this crap. It is not the government's job to control me, or the economy. It's bad enough they tinker with it as much as they do. You're just Bush ranting and don't even have a clue about what you are talking about.
If you want such control over the economy, I can quote you several In Soviet Russia Jokes.
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Sounds like a great way for the RIAA members to publish their music. It'll dissolve before the copyright expires.
Next Up: Carl Sagan speaks on grains of sand....
I wish I could find "The Mechanical Universe" I used to love that show as a kid.... I remember all the formulae moving around on the screen as they wor worked out. -That show taught me algebra, geometry and calculus through physics before I was in 5th grade.
RMFC before you post :P
This flame was meant in good fun, I don't hate you
Bridges... get your bridges right here
Well I guess their latest advertising scheme where they intercepted all bad url requests worked out well for them.
Would gramma buy a set of blue wolf dentures for her mean and scary computer?
Probably not
And that has a lot to do with it. You can say the technology stands on its own merits but when it comes down to it, you shouldn't scre the hell out of people who we may commonly have to help out with their 1D10T errors.
Illiterate or not, the money is in that sector of the market.
It's important to point this out, because if you can't spell GATTACA you missed an entirely important aspect of the movie.
The chemicals used for information are: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). Hence the name GATTACA is a sequence of DNA. -Sometimes things are subtle, PAY ATTENTION!
We're lucky as many people figure out Nero Burning ROM as do. I mean: think about what images you are conjering in someone's head and then name it. I suppose it could be worse, Volkswagen could name a car the Hitler and sell it in Israel
Maybe it's because of it's name. We already have enough people who fear they may get bitten by their computer. If you were one, would you buy it teeth?
ROFLOL! I dare you to walk in to a bar in a small town in say Kansas State and shout out loud, "I'm gay and I'm proud!".
There is a difference here.
Being beat up by your fellow citizens is not the same as being beat up by your government.
Freedom of speech also means having to deal with the consequences of your speech. Just because the government allows it doesn't mean you can get away with anything you like.
Remember the government in China shoots people in the headsends the bill for the bullet to the family. ---Suddenly getting beat up by bubba redneck doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
Call Sprint and have them send a tower list update to your phone if you haven't yet done so.
I had a few dead spots in my town and they ran their update and it filled them in.
I don't know how much is real and how much is smoke and mirrors but according to the Sprint rep the PCS phones do not automatically just find new towers. They have a list of towers in their firmware they can talk to. The list does not update automatically ---they assume if it's working you don't need it as it allows them to keep other towers free from overload.
according to the Sprint rep, if they haven't specifically done this, your towerlist in your phone may not have been updated since the manufacture date of the phone. Your phone may not even see new hardware a block away.
I wish I could find out more about this from someone other than a help guy on the Sprint network. Is ther any trueth to this? Is it just a ploy --- a placebo to comfort irate customers? I don't know.
I often choose Spanish language instructions just for the hell of it :)
The Vatican Bank has ATM's in Latin
Making a coin a different shape helps, but it does make the coin wear out very fast. ... The dollar coins are smooth (like a nickel) vs a quarter which has ridges.
But the differnet shape idea isn't that bad --- if it has enough sides. Why not make it a triskaidecagon? 13 sides would be "round enough" amd you could call it "Good old American symbolism".
Maybe if I was a customer of theirs, they might exchange the bill. However, I wasn't, so the chances of getting a real 20 dollar bill replacement looked slim.
Your chances would have been better had you called the Secret Service. BofA would probably have wanted to keep this quiet too-and paid you off. Keeping a counterfeit is just as bad as passing or making them.
You do realize that you are only helping the counterfeiters by not doing soemthing about it. You know... like hiding evidence of a crime and stuff like that.
I bet this isn't a problem with Linux copy machines or hold down the Window key when sending it as a fax
First we take over the world
Then we allow it to fall into chaos
um... 3. PROFIT!!!!! (sorry couldn't help it)
I do find most Americans abroad are quite loud and obnoxious, but on the times I have visited your country I've only experienced courtesy and service of the highest order.
The reason you experience all of those Americans abroad is because we can't stand them either.
---This is America do it our way or get out.... Those people got out.I'm giving you a gold atr for pointing this out. Particularly with your exposing the real meaning of the acronym. We should all make a point of helping or less technical family and friends realize this; It is a restriction imposed upon us.
Moral or Legal or what not, sanitizing it by calling it Digital Rights Management is very mis-informative, a practice used mainly in wars and espionage
I wouldn't use batteries, i would feed excess power to the power co, and consume fossils all night
I'm very curious if other Slashdot readers have become dependent on the Internet to that level, and what their thoughts are on the subject.
YUP. DUH. NEXT QUESTION PLEASE.
Reading this stuff reall makes me wonder what they're smoking over there.
Oh wait it's Amsterdam... Never Mind
They also send you to a desert full of armed people who'd like to see you dead.
Considering the number of Americans serving there and how many have been killed, although any is too many, your odds are actually pretty good.
by trying to drill in ANWR?? Are you serious?
You're right, no drilling in ANWAR until we've used up everyone else's oil! Then we'll soak the rest of the world
NO it's NOT!
If you want it fair; think laissez faire!
Enough of this crap. It is not the government's job to control me, or the economy. It's bad enough they tinker with it as much as they do. You're just Bush ranting and don't even have a clue about what you are talking about.
If you want such control over the economy, I can quote you several In Soviet Russia Jokes.