You named a few uses in your post (I've ruined many a book in the tub)... but another potentially valuable application, just off the top of my head, is library use. Old Book Scent is nice, I agree, but it comes from 1) the corrosive chemicals used to treat the paper during processing and 2) the decay of the organic materials in the books. Lots of books are printed so cheaply that they won't last more than 25-30 years even untouched in a library. Not to mention how quickly they get mangled under normal lending conditions.
I can only see books of this type as a boon to libraries (assuming, of course the cost:durability ratio is better than paper books, which I believe it could be.)
I think you've got a thing or two mixed up here. Apologies if I wasn't clear.
First, it's not whole blood that you sell, it's blood plasma - white blood cells. You get hooked up to a machine, it extracts a bunch of your blood, filters out the plasma into a bag, and returns your red blood cells into you mixed with a saline solution so you don't get sick. I think selling whole blood is illegal, but that's never what I was talking about.
Second, the US government doesn't pay anybody for blood or blood plasma. These "plasma centers" are owned by private-sector corporations who resell the plasma to larger biomedical organizations.
I doubt there is much demographic overlap between people who are in the market to sell their plasma (or do paid studies) and people who are overly concerned about invasive advertising.
I was talking about America, where AFAIK it is not illegal anywhere to sell blood plasma. Look up "Sera-Tec" or "Plasma Center" on google. You'll find at least one plasma center in any college town and in the poorer sections of any city. In fact the American Red Cross has been having a hard time finding blood donors for the past few years due to the success of these centers. I did it myself a few times as a teenager - if you can't find a job, you can always sell your plasma twice a week and make up to $40. That's more than a week of groceries - a big difference to someone who really needs the money. And these places are modern, high-tech commercial operations. They screen potential sellers thoroughly before they'll let them near the needle - or at least they claim to, and the places I went to certainly did.
What this has to do with advertising, I can't remember. Oh yeah, there are worse ways to make a few bucks than sitting still for ads. It might even be comparatively interesting to some people.
Are you kidding? People will sell their blood plasma, which requires a really big needle in your arm, for 10 bucks a liter. And they line up to do it. I don't think it'd be difficult at all to find enough people willing to sit in a comfortable chair and watch TV for a couple hours a day for (probably) quite a bit more money than that. There is an entire subculture of people (college students, homeless, etc) who scan the paper daily to find studies to sign up for.
The Pro Keyboard has about 0 tactile feedback. the keys just mash straight down with no resistance. It's pretty or whatever, but I find it really hard to type with.
There's not a resistance to studying this phenomenon. Gluten-free diets are recommended for autistic children by just about everyone. As are lactose-free diets. It's not because anyone thinks lactose or gluten or casein cause autism, but because autistic children usually also exhibit gastrointestinal disorders whose symptoms are exacerbated by lactose and gluten. Gastrointestinal problems are a larger concern for autistic children than for "normal" children because autistic children usually cannot or will not internalize their reactions to pain and can become aggressive, violent or unpredictable. Eliminating gluten, lactose and casein from the diet reduces the frequency and severity of GI disturbances and hence increases the perception of "normal" or "rational" behavior in these children. Recovery from severe autism is extremely rare and there is nothing to indicate any common thread between cases of recovery. People will blame anything for their child's autism (vaccination conspiracies, diet, prenatal trauma, etc.) and, if their child recovers, swear that whatever they were doing at the time was the only reason (orange juice, vitamin cocktails, behavioral therapy, l-carnosine, etc.) But for all we know at this point, the true reasons could be any or all of these, or just "chance."
Yes, I'm so tired of paying a premium for SCSI drives with half the capacity, etc. I'd much rather pay $100 each to convert my IDE drives to low-quality, high seek-time SCSI drives.
True, 5% of computer users is a viable market, if you have a product that you're sure a good portion of them would pay for. But what about the (probably less than).01% of that 5% who would pay for satellite internet service? Could that keep a satellite ISP afloat?
The days of serious homebrew computer repair are over. Regular soldering irons are too big to do anything but burn out your components and besides the only replaceable part of a motherboard these days (besides the cpu) is the bios chip, which can be removed without soldering. If anything seriously breaks, you're going to need to replace the whole piece anyway.
So you don't need any special tools. I've been repairing PCs for almost 20 years now and it's extremely infrequent that you need anything outside this list (and you shouldn't go beyond these tools without some electronics training anyway):
1 #2 phillips-head screwdriver with magnetized tip (removes almost every screw in a modern PC and no, you can't damage anything with the magnet)
1 small flathead screwdriver (not used that often, except to remove spring clips on CPU coolers)
1 set tweezers or needle-nose pliers (to move jumpers and small wires around)
1 set pliers (to remove and install motherboard riser screws, etc)
1 flashlight
1 small ziploc bag or pill tube to hold extra screws
1 grounding wrist strap
1 can compressed air (or tiny vacuum)
That's it. Keep them in a pouch if you want. Don't go buying any fancy toolkits; they're for suckers. The only other tools you need are probably going to be software-based.
Ultraedit is nice and all, but syntax highlighting is severely messed up. Try editing a moderately complex mixed-HTML-and-PHP page with strings quoted in different ways and you'll see what I mean. It was enough to make me stop using it.
The following editors kick varying amounts of ass: - PrimalScript: very cool. Shareware. - HTML-kit: would be best but lacks search-and-replace in files (it's available via kludgy plug-in.) Free until next release. - 1stPage 2000: great and free, but eerily resembles HomeSite (really!) - NuSphere's PHPedit is excellent. Commercial. - ActiveState's Komodo is incredible, maybe the best of all. Commercial.
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hehe.... you almost made me spit out my coffee.
my school is imprepared to answer anything that comes up
Your school is imprepared? That's unpossible!
You named a few uses in your post (I've ruined many a book in the tub)... but another potentially valuable application, just off the top of my head, is library use. Old Book Scent is nice, I agree, but it comes from 1) the corrosive chemicals used to treat the paper during processing and 2) the decay of the organic materials in the books. Lots of books are printed so cheaply that they won't last more than 25-30 years even untouched in a library. Not to mention how quickly they get mangled under normal lending conditions.
I can only see books of this type as a boon to libraries (assuming, of course the cost:durability ratio is better than paper books, which I believe it could be.)
When you turn on the light display, do ten other light displays pop on under it?
Yeah, but obfuscated doesn't mean non-standards-compliant. It means hard to read.
yeah, yeah.
I think you've got a thing or two mixed up here. Apologies if I wasn't clear.
First, it's not whole blood that you sell, it's blood plasma - white blood cells. You get hooked up to a machine, it extracts a bunch of your blood, filters out the plasma into a bag, and returns your red blood cells into you mixed with a saline solution so you don't get sick. I think selling whole blood is illegal, but that's never what I was talking about.
Second, the US government doesn't pay anybody for blood or blood plasma. These "plasma centers" are owned by private-sector corporations who resell the plasma to larger biomedical organizations.
I doubt there is much demographic overlap between people who are in the market to sell their plasma (or do paid studies) and people who are overly concerned about invasive advertising.
I was talking about America, where AFAIK it is not illegal anywhere to sell blood plasma. Look up "Sera-Tec" or "Plasma Center" on google. You'll find at least one plasma center in any college town and in the poorer sections of any city. In fact the American Red Cross has been having a hard time finding blood donors for the past few years due to the success of these centers. I did it myself a few times as a teenager - if you can't find a job, you can always sell your plasma twice a week and make up to $40. That's more than a week of groceries - a big difference to someone who really needs the money. And these places are modern, high-tech commercial operations. They screen potential sellers thoroughly before they'll let them near the needle - or at least they claim to, and the places I went to certainly did.
What this has to do with advertising, I can't remember. Oh yeah, there are worse ways to make a few bucks than sitting still for ads. It might even be comparatively interesting to some people.
Are you kidding? People will sell their blood plasma, which requires a really big needle in your arm, for 10 bucks a liter. And they line up to do it. I don't think it'd be difficult at all to find enough people willing to sit in a comfortable chair and watch TV for a couple hours a day for (probably) quite a bit more money than that. There is an entire subculture of people (college students, homeless, etc) who scan the paper daily to find studies to sign up for.
I think the line is drawn at the twelve button mark. If you have more than 12 buttons on your mouse and joystick combined, it's a gaming console.
How about a System Optimization Guide For Web Admins instead...
This is so close to a perfect product... if it only supported DivX, I'd buy two.
The Pro Keyboard has about 0 tactile feedback. the keys just mash straight down with no resistance. It's pretty or whatever, but I find it really hard to type with.
Also in the news, George W Bush proposes another new protocol:
VOICBM
I think he'd prefer ICBMOV.
Hehe. I wish I had mod points right now...
to illustrate what happens when technical expertise and business success can lead to.
Is that you, Butch "Rooster" McCrory?
There's not a resistance to studying this phenomenon. Gluten-free diets are recommended for autistic children by just about everyone. As are lactose-free diets. It's not because anyone thinks lactose or gluten or casein cause autism, but because autistic children usually also exhibit gastrointestinal disorders whose symptoms are exacerbated by lactose and gluten. Gastrointestinal problems are a larger concern for autistic children than for "normal" children because autistic children usually cannot or will not internalize their reactions to pain and can become aggressive, violent or unpredictable. Eliminating gluten, lactose and casein from the diet reduces the frequency and severity of GI disturbances and hence increases the perception of "normal" or "rational" behavior in these children. Recovery from severe autism is extremely rare and there is nothing to indicate any common thread between cases of recovery. People will blame anything for their child's autism (vaccination conspiracies, diet, prenatal trauma, etc.) and, if their child recovers, swear that whatever they were doing at the time was the only reason (orange juice, vitamin cocktails, behavioral therapy, l-carnosine, etc.) But for all we know at this point, the true reasons could be any or all of these, or just "chance."
Maybe they could just dig up Jack Ruby and have him shoot her before she can take the stand.
So you only have 1 real email in all of that?
Yes, I'm so tired of paying a premium for SCSI drives with half the capacity, etc. I'd much rather pay $100 each to convert my IDE drives to low-quality, high seek-time SCSI drives.
Not to pick nits, but shouldn't it have been called the ringtones concert?
Better yet, as a piece performed by ringtones, it could just be called a "ringpiece."
True, 5% of computer users is a viable market, if you have a product that you're sure a good portion of them would pay for. But what about the (probably less than) .01% of that 5% who would pay for satellite internet service? Could that keep a satellite ISP afloat?
So you don't need any special tools. I've been repairing PCs for almost 20 years now and it's extremely infrequent that you need anything outside this list (and you shouldn't go beyond these tools without some electronics training anyway):
- 1 #2 phillips-head screwdriver with magnetized tip (removes almost every screw in a modern PC and no, you can't damage anything with the magnet)
- 1 small flathead screwdriver (not used that often, except to remove spring clips on CPU coolers)
- 1 set tweezers or needle-nose pliers (to move jumpers and small wires around)
- 1 set pliers (to remove and install motherboard riser screws, etc)
- 1 flashlight
- 1 small ziploc bag or pill tube to hold extra screws
- 1 grounding wrist strap
- 1 can compressed air (or tiny vacuum)
That's it. Keep them in a pouch if you want. Don't go buying any fancy toolkits; they're for suckers. The only other tools you need are probably going to be software-based.Show your support for this petition then.
I hereby support this petition.
Is there a petition i can sign to show my support for it?
Ultraedit is nice and all, but syntax highlighting is severely messed up. Try editing a moderately complex mixed-HTML-and-PHP page with strings quoted in different ways and you'll see what I mean. It was enough to make me stop using it.
The following editors kick varying amounts of ass:
- PrimalScript: very cool. Shareware.
- HTML-kit: would be best but lacks search-and-replace in files (it's available via kludgy plug-in.) Free until next release.
- 1stPage 2000: great and free, but eerily resembles HomeSite (really!)
- NuSphere's PHPedit is excellent. Commercial.
- ActiveState's Komodo is incredible, maybe the best of all. Commercial.