There's a huge surface area under the house. Figure a house and contents weighs 80,000 lbs, and is 20x40 feet (or 115,000 in^2). So you only need to sustain.7 psi of pressure to float the house. A person can generate that much pressure from their lung - if the house was sitting on a airbag, a person could lift the house just by blowing up the airbag (though it make takes weeks or longer to fill the airbag).
How long would it take for a vaccum cleaner to fill it up? May be, having the air bag constantly inflated could be one way of assuring that it's deployed when there is an earthquake (or may be, it could be deployed through some sort of chemical reaction). In any case, would a 3 cm gap really be enough?
How do the cars do it? With electricity? You could bottle up the compressed air in advance. You could generate the air with a chemical reaction. Either way, just like the cars it's probably going to be an expensive system to maintain.
Add up the weight, washer, dryer, fridge, stove, counter tops, toilet, sink, water heater, computer, bed, my fat ass, a couple of dogs, , wife, some fat kids - what's going to lift all that plus a few tons of house?
It's Japan. The houses are made of wood and paper. The tatamis floors are the beds. The water heaters are just-in-time. And the dogs are rented (you give them back the same night, or you pay a late fee).
What does credit cards and cash have to do with DoS and Anonymous?!
I have no idea.
Also, shouldn't they be called El Anonimoto (or something), since this group only seems to be limiting itself to Spanish-speaking countries and Spanish-related current events?
That's a silly rumor. If there is price drop of the iPad 2, it will be because of the iPad 3 (or the other numerous full-featured Android tablets), not the kindle fire. The kindle fire is a very specialized device. It's not meant to compete head-on with any of them.
In any case, I'm not sure why is everybody so down about ASBO, from what I know of it, it seems like a much surer way of getting laid than urban exploring.
Apple has a long-standing tactic of creating shells to do their brand and part buying, to make it difficult for the rumor mills and competitors to figure out what Apple is up to. And it sounds like they're complaining that they sold the iPad name to a company they didn't realize was buying for Apple.. (otherwise they'd have no doubt have tried to charge them more for it)
Apple has an history of launching a product without getting getting all their trademark ducks lined up in a row. The trademark/company name "Apple" is one example. The Beatles owned that one for their holding company. The trademark "iPhone" is another example. Cisco owned that one for their internet phone.
After the success of the iPod, Apple even began threatening anyone who started naming their product iAnything and demanded that the name and their associated domain names be surrendered to them. They just couldn't sue Cisco, Cisco had legitimately gotten the iPhone name even before the iPod came out, and it had paid its yearly trademark registration fee every year since.
In any case, my original point still stands. Even if Cisco owned the Trademark, Apple still didn't really care, Apple launched the iPhone without securing the rights to its name beforehand (no doubt, it must have cost Apple an arm and a leg to show its hand before the negotiation for the name was even completed, it supposedly settled the matter with Cisco for an undisclosed amount).
These people are only upset at themselves for not recognizing the value of what they were selling, and want someone to cover their loss as a result. This is no different than a buyer trying to go after a seller for overcharging them for something after they realize they paid too much for it. Just the shoe's on the other foot.
Your fanboy'ism is showing. This is only a speculation on your part, spoken by you as it was already an accepted fact. Nothing in the article, or in the previous articles about the same story, even suggests anything of the kind.
And yes, your theory could still be true anyway, I don't dispute that possibility. It's just that neither of us knows what happened in this case, at least right now until we get better information on their claim.
Just don`t get overboard with the number of requests (one every 3 matches should be good but is a wild guess depending on how log each match is)...
That's already overboard for me. I hate games that keep on asking me for ratings repeatedly, since games apparently have no way to tell that I've already rated and reviewed them. Please give an easy way for the user to opt-out from future requests.
Aside from the technical differences, there are also price differences, both on the revenue side and on the cost side, between gaming on those different platforms.
For instance, if you use something like the Unity3D game engine to develop a game for the iPhone/Android platform, your game should also be able to run on the Wii, but you will still be required to pay Nintendo something like $40,000 to register as a developer with them (assuming they even accept you, which they may not, they do not accept many developers).
After all, Nintendo doesn't want to suddenly have games appearing for free, or for 99 cents, on their Wii platform. Not only, those games probably wouldn't take good advantage of their highly specialized hardware, but those games could potentially crowd out the much more expensive other games they have on it.
Of course, your board game will be DRM free. After all, games that are inherently multiplayer over the network don't need DRM anyway if you're the one who controls the server.
If the levels have been underestimated this much, that's a problem for people's health, especially along highways and in cities.
Actually no, if the levels have been underestimated this much, that means the tolerable level of pollution before someone gets cancer is much higher than had been previously calculated. This is such good news, I think I'm going to light myself up a cigar.
1940s? According to this about article, Steve Kordek's contributions to the modern pinball machine didn't start until 1962.
[...]
Bumpers, Flippers, and Scoreboards The pinball bumper was invented in 1937. The bumper debuted in game called Bumper made by Bally Hoo.
Harry Mabs invented the flipper in 1947. The flipper made its debut in a pinball game called Humpty Dumpty, made by D. Gottlieb & Company. Humpty Dumpty used six flippers, three on each side.
Pinball machines during the early 50s began to use separate lights behind the glass scoreboard to show scores. The 50s also introduced the first two player games.
Steve Kordek Steve Kordek invented the drop target in 1962, debuting in Vagabond, and multiballs in 1963, debuting in Beat the Clock. He is also credited with repositioning the flippers to the bottom of the pinball playing field.
Sure, there's a market for such things, but it's not going to be in the board room, sensitive as business is regarding Harrassment claims.
It's better that they be upfront about it, so that this stuff can be properly filtered out, than to do like Apple and still allow soft porn/adult content without labeling it as such.
What's really stopping adoption of things like Open Document Format? I understand the limitations regarding change tracking, but this seems like something better handled by revision control systems anyhow.
It is, especially, if you're a government, or even a big corporation, and don't want your PR department to inadvertently issue press releases along with their edit history (as even Microsoft has done in the past).
In my view, a document should be treated as a token, and modifications to that token should be handled by external systems.
That's all well and good for technically-inclined users, but if you want non-technical users to be adopting revision control systems (which are not hosted on some cloud, the less paranoid non-technical users will have gone to the cloud already), you'll probably want to make such a revision control system self-contained and easy to transmit to others as if it was transparently part of the document itself.
That being said, may be we don't need to repeat Microsoft's mistake by duplicating everything they did, and we should just change the extension of that document (and therefore its icon) as soon as it starts storing any kind of edit history.
Is it just me, or is this one of the worst retraction I've ever read?
Clarification: A number of readers have accurately pointed out that electronic messaging predates V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai’s work in 1978. However, Ayyadurai holds the copyright to the computer program called“email,” establishing him as the creator of the “computer program for [an] electronic mail system” with that name, according to the U.S. Copyright Office.
The Smithsonian has acquired the tapes, documentation, copyrights, and over 50,000 lines of code that chronicle the invention of e-mail. The lines of code that produced the first “bcc,” “cc,” “to” and “from” fields were the brainchild of then-14-year0old inventor V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai.
The Washington Post writer Emi Kolawole apparently doesn't want to talk about the the scam she was the subject of, nor the responsibility she bears as a reporter in double-checking some of the more outlandish claims she comes across.
If only the rest of the world saw it his way. If he did invent email, that is.
He doesn't see it that way, and he certainly didn't (unless he had a time machine and could go back in time to invent email before his birth).
This self-proclaimed Venture Capitalist has already filed three BS software patents in 2003-2004. And he's only claiming that he doesn't like software patents now, because he's still trying to imply that he could have patented email in 1982 (despite the fact that email systems and the term "email" itself have been around since the late 60's).
1) He did not invent it. 2) He did copyright the term "EMAIL" in 1982. 3) But he doesn't believe in software patents.
Correction: He did not even copyright the term "email". He copyrighted a program titled "email" in 1982. In other words, he appropriated a term which was already well in use at the time, and named his program after it. That's the only thing he did. The name itself "email" is not protected (that's what trademarks are for, not copyrights). And the only thing that ends up being protected by this copyright is the content of his program, not its actual title. In effect, you and I could send our own code listings, label them "email", and the USPTO would still register the copyright for those code listings without batting an eyelash (Note: the only term that we technically couldn't use is Echo Mail, because that's the registered name of his company as of 1996).
And like you said, the claim that he doesn't believe in software patents is pure BS. In 2003 and 2004, as a self-proclaimed Venture Capitalist he's been patenting email-like programs with org chart interfaces left and right. No, this guy believes in patents alright. If there is anything he's proven so far, it's that he's a very good fast talker and a good scam artist.
If you have evidence that she slept with someone for money, present it in court, dude. Otherwise you can't call her a whore without risking defamation etc.
Are you located in the UK or something? In the US, the burden of proof is on the person claiming that they were defamed. And proving a statement false is not sufficient, you not only have to prove the statement false, but also prove that the person defaming you knew that statement to be false before they made it (which is a terribly difficult thing to do, which is why defamation lawsuits in the US usually don't go very far).
In any case, I'm not a lawyer, please feel free to nitpick at my interpretation.
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There's a huge surface area under the house. Figure a house and contents weighs 80,000 lbs, and is 20x40 feet (or 115,000 in^2). So you only need to sustain .7 psi of pressure to float the house. A person can generate that much pressure from their lung - if the house was sitting on a airbag, a person could lift the house just by blowing up the airbag (though it make takes weeks or longer to fill the airbag).
How long would it take for a vaccum cleaner to fill it up? May be, having the air bag constantly inflated could be one way of assuring that it's deployed when there is an earthquake (or may be, it could be deployed through some sort of chemical reaction). In any case, would a 3 cm gap really be enough?
How do the cars do it? With electricity? You could bottle up the compressed air in advance. You could generate the air with a chemical reaction. Either way, just like the cars it's probably going to be an expensive system to maintain.
Add up the weight, washer, dryer, fridge, stove, counter tops, toilet, sink, water heater, computer, bed, my fat ass, a couple of dogs, , wife, some fat kids - what's going to lift all that plus a few tons of house?
It's Japan. The houses are made of wood and paper. The tatamis floors are the beds. The water heaters are just-in-time. And the dogs are rented (you give them back the same night, or you pay a late fee).
What does credit cards and cash have to do with DoS and Anonymous?!
I have no idea.
Also, shouldn't they be called El Anonimoto (or something), since this group only seems to be limiting itself to Spanish-speaking countries and Spanish-related current events?
That's a silly rumor. If there is price drop of the iPad 2, it will be because of the iPad 3 (or the other numerous full-featured Android tablets), not the kindle fire. The kindle fire is a very specialized device. It's not meant to compete head-on with any of them.
Did you mean Oracle instead of IBM?
But as the New Yorker article referenced, there was "no posting, no observed sex, and no closet."
Are you saying (or they saying) that the make-out session wasn't posted/streamed online?
The Principality of Sealand would be one candidate.
In any case, I'm not sure why is everybody so down about ASBO, from what I know of it, it seems like a much surer way of getting laid than urban exploring.
Who the hell targets CDE?!
Blind people?
For someone who MUST have Flash (almost no-one) this is a perfect compromise.
Flash is useful for watching videos. Thought, I'm not sure anyone MUST have Flash, or even an iPad for that matter.
There are many other ways to get content from the web either way.
Apple has a long-standing tactic of creating shells to do their brand and part buying, to make it difficult for the rumor mills and competitors to figure out what Apple is up to. And it sounds like they're complaining that they sold the iPad name to a company they didn't realize was buying for Apple.. (otherwise they'd have no doubt have tried to charge them more for it)
Apple has an history of launching a product without getting getting all their trademark ducks lined up in a row. The trademark/company name "Apple" is one example. The Beatles owned that one for their holding company. The trademark "iPhone" is another example. Cisco owned that one for their internet phone.
After the success of the iPod, Apple even began threatening anyone who started naming their product iAnything and demanded that the name and their associated domain names be surrendered to them. They just couldn't sue Cisco, Cisco had legitimately gotten the iPhone name even before the iPod came out, and it had paid its yearly trademark registration fee every year since.
In any case, my original point still stands. Even if Cisco owned the Trademark, Apple still didn't really care, Apple launched the iPhone without securing the rights to its name beforehand (no doubt, it must have cost Apple an arm and a leg to show its hand before the negotiation for the name was even completed, it supposedly settled the matter with Cisco for an undisclosed amount).
These people are only upset at themselves for not recognizing the value of what they were selling, and want someone to cover their loss as a result. This is no different than a buyer trying to go after a seller for overcharging them for something after they realize they paid too much for it. Just the shoe's on the other foot.
Your fanboy'ism is showing. This is only a speculation on your part, spoken by you as it was already an accepted fact. Nothing in the article, or in the previous articles about the same story, even suggests anything of the kind.
And yes, your theory could still be true anyway, I don't dispute that possibility. It's just that neither of us knows what happened in this case, at least right now until we get better information on their claim.
Just don`t get overboard with the number of requests (one every 3 matches should be good but is a wild guess depending on how log each match is)...
That's already overboard for me. I hate games that keep on asking me for ratings repeatedly, since games apparently have no way to tell that I've already rated and reviewed them. Please give an easy way for the user to opt-out from future requests.
Aside from the technical differences, there are also price differences, both on the revenue side and on the cost side, between gaming on those different platforms.
For instance, if you use something like the Unity3D game engine to develop a game for the iPhone/Android platform, your game should also be able to run on the Wii, but you will still be required to pay Nintendo something like $40,000 to register as a developer with them (assuming they even accept you, which they may not, they do not accept many developers).
After all, Nintendo doesn't want to suddenly have games appearing for free, or for 99 cents, on their Wii platform. Not only, those games probably wouldn't take good advantage of their highly specialized hardware, but those games could potentially crowd out the much more expensive other games they have on it.
Of course, your board game will be DRM free. After all, games that are inherently multiplayer over the network don't need DRM anyway if you're the one who controls the server.
Or Zynga will simply buy you out, as they have for so many games.
If the levels have been underestimated this much, that's a problem for people's health, especially along highways and in cities.
Actually no, if the levels have been underestimated this much, that means the tolerable level of pollution before someone gets cancer is much higher than had been previously calculated. This is such good news, I think I'm going to light myself up a cigar.
It's also useful to have a rooted phone so you can take proper backups of your apps.
1940s? According to this about article, Steve Kordek's contributions to the modern pinball machine didn't start until 1962.
[...]
Bumpers, Flippers, and Scoreboards
The pinball bumper was invented in 1937. The bumper debuted in game called Bumper made by Bally Hoo.
Harry Mabs invented the flipper in 1947. The flipper made its debut in a pinball game called Humpty Dumpty, made by D. Gottlieb & Company. Humpty Dumpty used six flippers, three on each side.
Pinball machines during the early 50s began to use separate lights behind the glass scoreboard to show scores. The 50s also introduced the first two player games.
Steve Kordek
Steve Kordek invented the drop target in 1962, debuting in Vagabond, and multiballs in 1963, debuting in Beat the Clock. He is also credited with repositioning the flippers to the bottom of the pinball playing field.
[...]
No, that would imply nude pictures of little boys. And I don't think they have that yet.
Sure, there's a market for such things, but it's not going to be in the board room, sensitive as business is regarding Harrassment claims.
It's better that they be upfront about it, so that this stuff can be properly filtered out, than to do like Apple and still allow soft porn/adult content without labeling it as such.
What's really stopping adoption of things like Open Document Format? I understand the limitations regarding change tracking, but this seems like something better handled by revision control systems anyhow.
It is, especially, if you're a government, or even a big corporation, and don't want your PR department to inadvertently issue press releases along with their edit history (as even Microsoft has done in the past).
In my view, a document should be treated as a token, and modifications to that token should be handled by external systems.
That's all well and good for technically-inclined users, but if you want non-technical users to be adopting revision control systems (which are not hosted on some cloud, the less paranoid non-technical users will have gone to the cloud already), you'll probably want to make such a revision control system self-contained and easy to transmit to others as if it was transparently part of the document itself.
That being said, may be we don't need to repeat Microsoft's mistake by duplicating everything they did, and we should just change the extension of that document (and therefore its icon) as soon as it starts storing any kind of edit history.
Is it just me, or is this one of the worst retraction I've ever read?
Clarification: A number of readers have accurately pointed out that electronic messaging predates V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai’s work in 1978. However, Ayyadurai holds the copyright to the computer program called“email,” establishing him as the creator of the “computer program for [an] electronic mail system” with that name, according to the U.S. Copyright Office.
The Smithsonian has acquired the tapes, documentation, copyrights, and over 50,000 lines of code that chronicle the invention of e-mail. The lines of code that produced the first “bcc,” “cc,” “to” and “from” fields were the brainchild of then-14-year0old inventor V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai.
The Washington Post writer Emi Kolawole apparently doesn't want to talk about the the scam she was the subject of, nor the responsibility she bears as a reporter in double-checking some of the more outlandish claims she comes across.
If only the rest of the world saw it his way. If he did invent email, that is.
He doesn't see it that way, and he certainly didn't (unless he had a time machine and could go back in time to invent email before his birth).
This self-proclaimed Venture Capitalist has already filed three BS software patents in 2003-2004. And he's only claiming that he doesn't like software patents now, because he's still trying to imply that he could have patented email in 1982 (despite the fact that email systems and the term "email" itself have been around since the late 60's).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#Email_claims
1) He did not invent it.
2) He did copyright the term "EMAIL" in 1982.
3) But he doesn't believe in software patents.
Correction:
He did not even copyright the term "email". He copyrighted a program titled "email" in 1982. In other words, he appropriated a term which was already well in use at the time, and named his program after it. That's the only thing he did. The name itself "email" is not protected (that's what trademarks are for, not copyrights). And the only thing that ends up being protected by this copyright is the content of his program, not its actual title. In effect, you and I could send our own code listings, label them "email", and the USPTO would still register the copyright for those code listings without batting an eyelash (Note: the only term that we technically couldn't use is Echo Mail, because that's the registered name of his company as of 1996).
And like you said, the claim that he doesn't believe in software patents is pure BS. In 2003 and 2004, as a self-proclaimed Venture Capitalist he's been patenting email-like programs with org chart interfaces left and right. No, this guy believes in patents alright. If there is anything he's proven so far, it's that he's a very good fast talker and a good scam artist.
If you have evidence that she slept with someone for money, present it in court, dude. Otherwise you can't call her a whore without risking defamation etc.
Are you located in the UK or something? In the US, the burden of proof is on the person claiming that they were defamed. And proving a statement false is not sufficient, you not only have to prove the statement false, but also prove that the person defaming you knew that statement to be false before they made it (which is a terribly difficult thing to do, which is why defamation lawsuits in the US usually don't go very far).
In any case, I'm not a lawyer, please feel free to nitpick at my interpretation.