On a similar vein, I sure wish DVD player makers like Sony would put all of the controls on the console as well as the remote. I hate the fact that losing the remote means only being able to play, stop, or eject.
Microsoft missed a chance to build hype for Vista -- they could have posted all of the candidate startup sounds and then let users pick by majority vote. It would have driven a ton of traffic to their Vista promotional site. (Heck, they could have even pretended like we had a say kind of like the way management does in most of corporate America).
To me the sound they picked kind of evokes an emperor with no clothes - it is four notes long: sol-do-re-sol. Kind of sounds like a rip off of the beginning of the Gates of Kiev.
Now if you really want a cool startup sound, check this one out:
This just proves my point. I am not saying that someone who is 14 would not understand sex. I am saying that their immaturity leads them to do or be persuaded to do stupid things that are not yet completely their own responsibility, especially when someone else who is older and should know better is involved.
I don't think it is an unreasonable to expect that >=18 yr olds in our society will respect and protect the rights of those who are younger, even if they could argue that the child was "begging for it." In cases like this, it is just to place the majority of fault with the older person.
Why is a 14 year old allowed unsupervised access to the internet. I maybe getting old...
Who said she was allowed unsupervised access? You are implying that parents always have control over their children, usually a myth bought into by people without children until they actually try parenting. She could have been doing it against her parent's wishes either at home, or a friends, a library, school, etc...
Parents learn early on that they have much less control over the behavior of their children then they expected. I remember the first trip to the grocery store with my walking two-year-old. I kind of expected him to follow me around, but he had his own agenda and that is when I learned that the child seats in a shopping cart are not really to give your kids a break, but instead is to keep them from running off.
So the commenters that 1) blame it on the parents lack of control, or 2)seem to think a 14 year old has the reasoning ability of an adult, are in their own way naive.
If you factor in the five years of corporate R&D it took to evolve the design to a fancy version of a regular envelope, I'd venture that a plain white envelope is cheaper.
The "FlixClone" I use is a small company (maybe only a few people as far as I can tell). The librarian responds in less than a half hour to my e-mails, and will even buys DVDs not in the library a few days after I request them. I can have four DVDs out at a time for $15 a month.
If people were smart, they wouldn't all flock to NetFlix. A smaller operation can offer better service and doesn't need to worry about shaving pennies off of the cost of envelopes.
And you are right that I "junk the original envelope" -- right into the paper recycle bin with all the other envelopes I get on a daily basis.
I use a Netflix competitor and they send the DVD in everyday white envelopes.
The movie is sent to me in a 6 inch x 9 inch envelope that contains:
The DVD in a DVD sized paper sleeve (the paper sleeve has a barcode on it)
A 5.5x8 inch return envelope with a first class stamp, addressed back to them
This article makes it sound like you have to be an engineer to send a letter.
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It's a double-edged sword though -- what will motivate game developers to porta Max OS X native version anymore once they can just tell people to install Windows if they want to play their games? And for that matter, how about any other software developer whose primary platform is Windows?
What you have pointed out rounds out the dilemma that faces parents naming a child these days.
When I bring a new child into the world, do I pick a common name for my son or daughter? Or do I pick a unique name? If I pick a unique name, it is likely that many people will be able to find my child's online presence; if I pick a common name, people will probably not be able to distinguish who my child is from the other John Smiths out there. However, if they are shallow, they may incorrectly assume that they have found my child on the first few hits.
A unique name could be both a blessing or a curse, depending on what ends up in the "profile". A common name is safer, but only if you assume people will recognize it is common.
You realize how much power Google now has when it can influence how we might name our children.
A classic game (which is freeware now by the way - probably one of the best freeware games out there, having been donated by Cassady and Green when they went out of business) is Glider. It can be played one or two player. In this game (in retro-2D) you pilot paper airplanes through houses, art museums, ships, grocery stores, and everything else in between. It is essentially a maze/puzzle game that requires dexterity. The game play is quite clever since you have to find air vents and other contraptions to keep yourself afloat.
When you play two-player, once the first player reaches the end of the room, the game play waits until the second player also reaches the end. This might seem frustrating, but if your purpose is to help someone get better at the game, it works quite well since you can turn your attention to helping them once you make it out yourself.
It has quite a following with a multitide of user-created houses and even active newsgroups. When you play two-player you are working as a team to solve the puzzles.
Another one is Ender's Game. I'm still waiting for the Ender's Game movie. I think I started when I was in high school and now I have four children. And no, I didn't name one Ender.
...except that this announcement isn't just coming out of Utah. It is a collaboration between Paul Savage at BYU (Provo Utah), Derya Unutmaz at Vanderbilt (Nashville Tenn) and Ceragenix (Denver Co).
Are you talking about a different demo than the one done after Bill Gates' CES keynote speech? Because in that demo the disc player seemed to work fine. Or did they go back and edit it?
If you really want to appreciate Steve Jobs, watch Wednesday's Bill Gates keynote at CES 2006. At one point he tactlessly suggests that the weather could have been Time's Person of the Year if there had just been one more hurricane, and his presentation is so full of filler words ('um' and 'aw') that you wonder if he ever even practiced. Then the project manager for Vista gets up and tells us he is "super" excited. Puleeze.
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On a similar vein, I sure wish DVD player makers like Sony would put all of the controls on the console as well as the remote. I hate the fact that losing the remote means only being able to play, stop, or eject.
Article slashdotted. Here is another source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/07010 3201405.htm
Microsoft missed a chance to build hype for Vista -- they could have posted all of the candidate startup sounds and then let users pick by majority vote. It would have driven a ton of traffic to their Vista promotional site. (Heck, they could have even pretended like we had a say kind of like the way management does in most of corporate America).
To me the sound they picked kind of evokes an emperor with no clothes - it is four notes long: sol-do-re-sol. Kind of sounds like a rip off of the beginning of the Gates of Kiev.
Now if you really want a cool startup sound, check this one out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1bgsvsWms
Now that is a startup sound to make one proud.
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And now I know what inspired my favorite episode of Gilligan's island. Thank you.
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Won't the banks be able to trace the people who pulled the extra cash out and prosecute them?
here: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?e_id=000E 5E86-9BA2-14CF-9BA283414B7F0000&ref=p_house
This just proves my point. I am not saying that someone who is 14 would not understand sex. I am saying that their immaturity leads them to do or be persuaded to do stupid things that are not yet completely their own responsibility, especially when someone else who is older and should know better is involved.
I don't think it is an unreasonable to expect that >=18 yr olds in our society will respect and protect the rights of those who are younger, even if they could argue that the child was "begging for it." In cases like this, it is just to place the majority of fault with the older person.
Who said she was allowed unsupervised access? You are implying that parents always have control over their children, usually a myth bought into by people without children until they actually try parenting. She could have been doing it against her parent's wishes either at home, or a friends, a library, school, etc...
Parents learn early on that they have much less control over the behavior of their children then they expected. I remember the first trip to the grocery store with my walking two-year-old. I kind of expected him to follow me around, but he had his own agenda and that is when I learned that the child seats in a shopping cart are not really to give your kids a break, but instead is to keep them from running off.
So the commenters that 1) blame it on the parents lack of control, or 2)seem to think a 14 year old has the reasoning ability of an adult, are in their own way naive.
Ok. Makes sense. I doubt it only cost them $10,000 to make the changes between envelopes, but your point still stands.
If you factor in the five years of corporate R&D it took to evolve the design to a fancy version of a regular envelope, I'd venture that a plain white envelope is cheaper.
How does there current paper envelope protect the disc any better than the system I described?
But Netflix took 5 years to come to the conclusion that it is most cost effective to send a DVD in a paper envelope. Here is the picture of the current envelope: http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/netflix/pict ure.13.exclude.html
How is that more protective than the basic method that I described?
The "FlixClone" I use is a small company (maybe only a few people as far as I can tell). The librarian responds in less than a half hour to my e-mails, and will even buys DVDs not in the library a few days after I request them. I can have four DVDs out at a time for $15 a month.
If people were smart, they wouldn't all flock to NetFlix. A smaller operation can offer better service and doesn't need to worry about shaving pennies off of the cost of envelopes.
And you are right that I "junk the original envelope" -- right into the paper recycle bin with all the other envelopes I get on a daily basis.
The movie is sent to me in a 6 inch x 9 inch envelope that contains:
This article makes it sound like you have to be an engineer to send a letter.
It's a double-edged sword though -- what will motivate game developers to porta Max OS X native version anymore once they can just tell people to install Windows if they want to play their games? And for that matter, how about any other software developer whose primary platform is Windows?
What you have pointed out rounds out the dilemma that faces parents naming a child these days.
When I bring a new child into the world, do I pick a common name for my son or daughter? Or do I pick a unique name? If I pick a unique name, it is likely that many people will be able to find my child's online presence; if I pick a common name, people will probably not be able to distinguish who my child is from the other John Smiths out there. However, if they are shallow, they may incorrectly assume that they have found my child on the first few hits.
A unique name could be both a blessing or a curse, depending on what ends up in the "profile". A common name is safer, but only if you assume people will recognize it is common.
You realize how much power Google now has when it can influence how we might name our children.
Now that I rechecked the site, I found there is a Windows version too -- it seems to work on Windows XP even. No two-player option though.
A classic game (which is freeware now by the way - probably one of the best freeware games out there, having been donated by Cassady and Green when they went out of business) is Glider. It can be played one or two player. In this game (in retro-2D) you pilot paper airplanes through houses, art museums, ships, grocery stores, and everything else in between. It is essentially a maze/puzzle game that requires dexterity. The game play is quite clever since you have to find air vents and other contraptions to keep yourself afloat. When you play two-player, once the first player reaches the end of the room, the game play waits until the second player also reaches the end. This might seem frustrating, but if your purpose is to help someone get better at the game, it works quite well since you can turn your attention to helping them once you make it out yourself. It has quite a following with a multitide of user-created houses and even active newsgroups. When you play two-player you are working as a team to solve the puzzles.
Another one is Ender's Game. I'm still waiting for the Ender's Game movie. I think I started when I was in high school and now I have four children. And no, I didn't name one Ender.
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=11 60759XSL_NEWSML_TO_NEWSML.xml&css=printOnly.css
...except that this announcement isn't just coming out of Utah. It is a collaboration between Paul Savage at BYU (Provo Utah), Derya Unutmaz at Vanderbilt (Nashville Tenn) and Ceragenix (Denver Co).
Are you talking about a different demo than the one done after Bill Gates' CES keynote speech? Because in that demo the disc player seemed to work fine. Or did they go back and edit it?
If you really want to appreciate Steve Jobs, watch Wednesday's Bill Gates keynote at CES 2006. At one point he tactlessly suggests that the weather could have been Time's Person of the Year if there had just been one more hurricane, and his presentation is so full of filler words ('um' and 'aw') that you wonder if he ever even practiced. Then the project manager for Vista gets up and tells us he is "super" excited. Puleeze.