Apparently six prostitutes who were thought of being HIV-Immune contracted the disease after switching trades. They USED to be prostitutes but did not contract the disease until the exposure STOPPED.
What the scientists believe is prolonged, infinite HIV exposure is possibly what keeps certain people who are exposed to HIV (prostitutes, husband-wifes, etc.) unaffected.
The International Aids Vaccine Initiative (iavi.org) is sponsoring this research. Their web site states they offered vaccine trials in Africa and only 30,000 are taking the drugs--the results will be available by next year.
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terroristsonline.com terroriststech.com terroristsweb.com webterrorists.com
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Somehow I have a feeling that spending $15 to register any of those suggestions is worse in the eyes of the FBI than hacking a broadcasting company website worth hundreds of millions.........;)
Their definition of 'cheap labour' was my definition of a dynamite learning experience and a higher paid co-op job than most people with 2 more years of university than me in a bum job market.
...My whole point was that students (amateurs*), consultants (professionals*), and the the client, all WIN. And sustain each other. They aren't dumber, you're not smarter, Everybody happy. Don't forget, it wasn't YOU that got you the job, it was the incapable "competitor".
This even works both ways: Clients who wouldn't risk spending a lot on professionals for "Internet presence" get students, grow, and after go seek-out professionals. So everybody helps each other out. I wasn't arguing anything you said, just adding insight.
They really invested a lot of time in educating ME about the industry and business in general. Now THAT is very valuable.
I don't know what you're arguing, but even regardless of all that, you earned some $$$ out of it. A lot of people have to work dead-end jobs in which Money is the only thing they can get out of it, and they're happy about it. Don't brush off the money like that. So just being able to earn PAY is a very important opportunity that shouldn't be brushed off. You never sounded too happy in what you posted, that's why I felt I should remind you:)
*Footnote (so you don't jump all over me): amateur/pro defined by how much these people are expected to be paid, i.e. MONEY, not necessarily correlated with skill/experience/talent.-- I am not arguing this either way, just defining my terms.
Interesting... the exact opposite once happenned to me.
Whether consultants first, cheap labor second, or reverse, both parties benefit, the company finally is satisfied, and the BOSS has a good story to tell other bosses about the "Iffy's" of software contracting.:-)
(OH, and that spiel causes the next BOSS to fear software contracting even more, and accept higher bids from both consultands and university students! Hooray!)
To sum it all up, there's nothing difficult. 1) Stand out, by being trim. 2) Do well in school. 3) Apply for black student scholarships. 4) Attend a top school that some white people only dream about. 5) Get any job you want 6) Profit
SCENARIO1: If your pants start at your knees, your clothes are torn and drooping, you have gold chains everywhere, and you have a leather jacket / football jersey on, you WILL be treated like a WHITE person. A white-TRASH person, more specifically...
SCENARIO2: But if you respect yourself, wear CLEAN ironed shirts and pants, clean nails, and nice shoes (not sneakers), you WILL get MORE respect than any white-trash gets.
But most importantly, you will get MORE respect than ANY OTHER RACE gets. Yes even more respect than trim WHITE people get. That's because people are used to seeing 95% of black people not take care of themselves. Therefore, the black "trim" person will stand out.
Take this "trim" black person, do good in school and get any of the millions of BLACK ONLY scholarships.
Next are colleges. Without RACIAL PROFILING, a "trim" black, active, good student can easily get into a top school, COMPETING DIRECTLY with students of ALL races. But because of RACIAL PROFILING, this black trim student is at an advantage--quotas. Colleges will have spots for black students and would rather fill them with trim black students.
Jobs are the SAME exact thing as colleges.
I SWEAR to you it's as simple as that.
*Black is used here to mean African American because Blacks would rather be called Blacks, regular Americans and not singled out.
I was the first to introduce the possibility of the hacked computers being honeypots...
So it's modded down because it's a different view point.
Some moderators gotta stop making/. look bad.
The government set up honeypots to observe and catch hackers fishing for benign data? Yes. And FTec found one? POSSIBLY. The FBI would have raided the company regardless in due time, because the company might have likely been in a MONITORED government honeypot.
Yes, even real users have easy to guess passwords. But if it was too easy, like the FTEC company states, it could have definitely been a honey pot they accessed.
Definition honeypotn.
1. An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor how they are able to break into a system. Honeypots are designed to mimic systems that an intruder would like to break into but limit the intruder from having access to an entire network. If a honeypot is successful, the intruder will have no idea that s/he is being tricked and monitored. Most honeypots are installed inside firewalls so that they can better be controlled, though it is possible to install them outside of firewalls. A firewall in a honeypot works in the opposite way that a normal firewall works: instead of restricting what comes into a system from the Internet, the honeypot firewall allows all traffic to come in from the Internet and restricts what the system sends back out.
By luring a hacker into a system, a honeypot serves several purposes:
The administrator can watch the hacker exploit the vulnerabilities of the system, thereby learning where the system has weaknesses that need to be redesigned.
The hacker can be caught and stopped while trying to obtain root access to the system.
By studying the activities of hackers, designers can better create more secure systems that are potentially invulnerable to future hackers.) http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/honeypot.html
I do not consider a thief robbing me to be on the same level as an imbecile failing to turn off a cell phone.
If you're the actor on stage, you ARE robbed. If you're an audience member, collectively hundreds (or thousands) of dollars of damage was just done spoiling the atmosphere. You do not consider it the same because you probably don't attend theaters often and robbery of material goods affects you more. But obviously audible alerts do plague theaters and every second of theater time, including the pauses and silence, are part of the performance which are hurt as much by a cell phone ringing as by an idiot who could stand up and yell "HALLELOOYA!" once or twice a show. Audience does look focus.
IS IT THIEVERY? Sure, the imbecile might NOT go to jail while a thief could. However there is no difference between your $3 dollar pen being stolen and a $20 (cheap) thetre experience wasted because of a baffoon who gets a call during a sensitive part of the play, makes the actors "hiccup" their lines, but overall brings all the audience away from fantasy or drama and back to reality.
In the latter case I can make a difference more directly without calling on the force of government, simply by patronizing theatres which have a no-audible-alert policy, and asking the theatre for my money back if they fail to enforce it.
#1, EVERY theater and maybe every cinema does have a NO AUDIBLE ALERT POLICY. Every one. So you ask for a refund, and are told NO. Where are you to go then? To the other theater that also has a NO AUDIBLE ALERT POLICY and clearly states it and someone violates it during the two hour event, and you ask for a refund and they will also say NO.
1. What, you think they are going to AGREE TO A REFUND so next time you keep "patronizing" their theater and get your money back every time? They won't make money that way. ( and 2.--Especially if others ask for the same.) The third or fourth biggest flaw is that if I do find a theater that is happy to do 1. and 2., there will be another idiot that purposely brings a Cell Phone to get that theater bankrupt.
It wouldnt take many people doing that before the theatres started seriously throwing the bums out for disrupting the performance.
As by reasons 1. 2. and 3., no they won't because they AREN'T going to issue refunds in the first place.
And we have to please remember that theater isn't just Broadway. I can bet that most shows are put on by Grade School, High School, College, and Community theater groups. If refunding DOES catch on, how are THEY to issue a refund?
A universal fine would get people to realize that just because the ticket cost you $6 for a High School show, doesn't mean the play is designed to be low class and that people aren't there to enjoy it, making it "okay" for you to bring a cell phone. I'm sure there are people that would leave a cell phone ON at a $6 dollar show who wouldn't even BRING IT to a $100 dollar show. I mean, there are people who believe they are extra important. I propose for people to drop off their gadgets at the entrance which would be tagged with their ticket stub "barcode" or seat number, then kept in a room far away. Sneaking a phone in, even off, would be a fine collected by the theater. Eventually people would stop feeling they are important to have a cell phone ON during these community shows, and leaving cell phones at home/in the car would become second nature.
NO SH*T sherlock. But without a Rio Receiver, an "FM Modulator" will do, okay? I was just describing a product available everywhere that can accomplish the same job. Also at only $30.
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"I'm going to assume" you only play games like Quake that have lots of missiles. Some mod maker / game company might want to use an engine to have only one missile shooting weapon, but one that shoots totally realistic. Obviously, it would be a very good idea in this case if all other weapons are not ballistic--just bullets--and you are striving for realism.
There's a 2D game where physics are 100% realistic and it's fun fun fun! You take advantage of them and it's fun fun fun! Yes maybe you think I'm thinking of SubSpace but there's another one too...
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A couple of specific points -- if you're going for real world physics, then your horizontal momentum is going to make nearly no difference to that rocket
I have to disagree here. It's not really the momentum that affects the projectiles and Half-Life train. And it's also not the gravity. What I was describing, but forgot to name, is called INERTIA. "A body in motion stays in motion." So if it was going sideways, it will continue going sideways (the force would eventually slow to nill due to air resistance, but AR is not a big factor.) And in games like Descent, some projectiles are slow enough to be affected. FYI Descent is a game where you control a ship in freespace unaffected by gravity. However there is INERTIA even in space:)
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Yeah, I would think that because it would be relatively easy for Carmack to implement, he should. So that, if not he, the other mod makers/licensees could take advantage of it.
There's a huge difference between enacting a law to preserve public saftey and enacting one to prevent morons from annoying you.
Imagine, you go to a play, movie, opera, restaurant, pub to relax. But no--everywhere you go there are people who act like they are above others. If it saves just one man from being stoned to death by a stressed-out man in vicinity, a law like this is worth it.
This is a case where "the market" can regulate itself
Other immoral, anti-social functions besides this exist--for example, stealing. Installing signs that say "Remember to please pay before you leave!" at stores wouldn't help much, would they? But laws kind of help out. When you pay $10-50 for a performance, you do not want to be robbed of your enjoyment/time/money. Theater is UNIQUE in that you pay for the experience. A good performance is priceless and worth thousands, while time and money spent at any performance ruined by cell phones could become worthless.
Interestingly enough, I'm sure that both thieves and many people who "need" a phone every second, even during sleep, feel they are smarter and above others in society or the same people. (I'm sure you know of people who are BOTH.)
Here's one to prime your pump: charge an extra $5 for a "cellphone ticket."
If you want to enter the theatre with a cellphone, you have to pay the cellphone ticket price
I'm sorry to state the obvious, but who the **** would search the patrons? And if you can answer that, tell me exactly what that is supposed to solve? A profit deficit for the cinema?;) So anyway, people will still bring cell phones in. And people won't necessarily even disclose that they have one on their posession. Also, movie companies would be strongly against this.
EVERYONE who attends theater plays attends to see art, not because they're eating out with a friend at the mall, not to have sex in the back, not to chit chat. As for cinemas, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are ALSO people who associate them with seeing art on the big screen with friends and strangers to share. Yes, some people actually go to performances to get away from work, to get AWAY from THEIR OWN cell phone.
If you believe bringing a cell phone is an essential part of the experience, it must be because you bring your cell phone to the movie/play/opera/orchestra/concert/show. Am I right?:)
the stage manager goes out on stage and says "Hi. We understand that some people simply CANNOT turn their cellphones off
I can guarantee that nobody does say that... because THEY DONT WANT PEOPLE TO RUIN THE SHOW. Also, if somebody is so important that they need a cell phone DURING MUTUAL ENTERTAINMENT-ONLY TIME, they must be so important as that they would have to skedaddle quickly (I agree with you on that.) But directors do tell people to turn off their cell phones, yet every show there's that one guy. It's better to charge people $250. (See here)
If there's one thing that Cartoons and Westerns taught me... It's that patrons dump their weapons at the door when patronizing their favorite bars. Why not the same for all electronics that can beep?
SOLUTION
Number one, all such devices would be collected at entry and each cell phone gets a sticker with the same bar code that's on the user's ticket stub. (Maybe any cheap theater, one that isn't cool enough to be a theaTRE, would just ban such devices, period.)
Step two: Anyone caught sneaking one in, whether it stays silent or not, would be a mandatory fine of $250 to the theatre. (Deterrant)
Number three, if you do sneak in a device but it does Beep, the fine is also $250. If the user doesn't answer the beeps, they might keep going thus making it obvious whose it is. If they reach to stop it, that would help show the culprit, also:)
"But I'm sorry, we are REQUIRED by the city to collect the fine," the director or owner would say.
The devices would be digital watches, cell phones, pagers, beepers, PDAs, laptops, and anything else a patron might bring (REMEMBER that each can also elect to NOT bring any of that crap into the building.)
Also, a lot of theaters aren't movie cinemas but dramas. So in terms of live theater, it is NOT fun (in ANY level of performance) to have the ambience "interrupted". I don't know who gets screwed more. The actor gets screwed, the audience is screwed, the theather company is screwed. The $250 would help screw the theater company less, although audience and actors still won't be too happy. Now the theater wouldn't have the balls to threaten their patrons with fines on their own (as obviously evidenced in any theater/cinema I've been), so that is where the government steps in.
AND ANYWAY I imagine that after a bunch of these incidents, in 5 years, leaving electroshit et al at home would become second nature.
Alternatively, a new law could require noise chips installed in everything that would be told by the building to operate in Silent mode.
My point was that I was jealous for that one second when I saw that you had a 3, Informative post that was based on something not true. Also you knew it was inaccurate.
I wrote that because it just seemed sad that some people have to stretch the truth a bit to make their points even more valid. But that was an insightful post, however.
It's a little FM transmitter that plugs into your device's headphone jack then transmits it to one of four frequencies between 80.1 and 80.7 to any nearby radio.
The device could be an MP3 Player, a Tape Player, a portable CD player, and of course even a computer.
The radio could be your car's radio, the radio in the living room, you get the idea.
And it's only $30 bucks... (but the transmitter is to the radio, the better the quality. The best use of this is to hear MP3 Player music through your car's speakers. Many even have a tape deck so it's an excellent alternative to Car Casette Adapter--which iRock also makes..)
The pricing specifically states that it's $70 AFTER a $150 dollar rebate. And the rebate is for STAND ALONE USERS. Not for wholesale pricing. As in, wholesale pricing would maybe be $100 of the 200+ "retail" price. Which is still more than the price Joe Cheap Consumer would pay. You state instead that wholesale would be $50....
I'm not arguing that companies that buy in bulk can get much better prices than consumers most of the time. But it is upsetting that you are using "facts" out of context knowingly to support a point.
And the other upsetting thing is that moderators put "3, Informative" on your post. Not just because what you said is clearly obvious, but that the moderators did not even check facts before modding you up. Whereasin people make real points that SHOULD be seen that don't get rated. It's like moderators don't care. No wonder a lot of modded up stuff is stupid "funny" stuff and "informative" incorrect stuff. Only once or twice a topic is something "funny" or "informative" or "insightful."
For example, Buying something for $0 after many rebates does not mean that another company can also get these products in bulk for $0 or even $1.
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Apparently six prostitutes who were thought of being HIV-Immune contracted the disease after switching trades. They USED to be prostitutes but did not contract the disease until the exposure STOPPED.
What the scientists believe is prolonged, infinite HIV exposure is possibly what keeps certain people who are exposed to HIV (prostitutes, husband-wifes, etc.) unaffected.
The International Aids Vaccine Initiative (iavi.org) is sponsoring this research. Their web site states they offered vaccine trials in Africa and only 30,000 are taking the drugs--the results will be available by next year.
Here's the Kenya article: Prostitutes lose HIV immunity
Now, juniors and seniors can bring Cell Phones to class and the professors don't have a say.
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"Tomorrow" ON SLASHDOT:
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Hey, how come your posts start out at 2?
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Somehow I have a feeling that spending $15 to register any of those suggestions is worse in the eyes of the FBI than hacking a broadcasting company website worth hundreds of millions.........
I don't think Lamo has anything to be afraid of
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Their definition of 'cheap labour' was my definition of a dynamite learning experience and a higher paid co-op job than most people with 2 more years of university than me in a bum job market.
...My whole point was that students (amateurs*), consultants (professionals*), and the the client, all WIN. And sustain each other. They aren't dumber, you're not smarter, Everybody happy. Don't forget, it wasn't YOU that got you the job, it was the incapable "competitor".
:)
This even works both ways: Clients who wouldn't risk spending a lot on professionals for "Internet presence" get students, grow, and after go seek-out professionals. So everybody helps each other out. I wasn't arguing anything you said, just adding insight.
They really invested a lot of time in educating ME about the industry and business in general. Now THAT is very valuable.
I don't know what you're arguing, but even regardless of all that, you earned some $$$ out of it. A lot of people have to work dead-end jobs in which Money is the only thing they can get out of it, and they're happy about it. Don't brush off the money like that. So just being able to earn PAY is a very important opportunity that shouldn't be brushed off. You never sounded too happy in what you posted, that's why I felt I should remind you
*Footnote (so you don't jump all over me): amateur/pro defined by how much these people are expected to be paid, i.e. MONEY, not necessarily correlated with skill/experience/talent.-- I am not arguing this either way, just defining my terms.
Interesting ... the exact opposite once happenned to me.
:-)
Whether consultants first, cheap labor second, or reverse, both parties benefit, the company finally is satisfied, and the BOSS has a good story to tell other bosses about the "Iffy's" of software contracting.
(OH, and that spiel causes the next BOSS to fear software contracting even more, and accept higher bids from both consultands and university students! Hooray!)
first
Black* people have everything going for them.
To sum it all up, there's nothing difficult. 1) Stand out, by being trim. 2) Do well in school. 3) Apply for black student scholarships. 4) Attend a top school that some white people only dream about. 5) Get any job you want 6) Profit
SCENARIO1: If your pants start at your knees, your clothes are torn and drooping, you have gold chains everywhere, and you have a leather jacket / football jersey on, you WILL be treated like a WHITE person. A white-TRASH person, more specifically...
SCENARIO2: But if you respect yourself, wear CLEAN ironed shirts and pants, clean nails, and nice shoes (not sneakers), you WILL get MORE respect than any white-trash gets.
But most importantly, you will get MORE respect than ANY OTHER RACE gets. Yes even more respect than trim WHITE people get. That's because people are used to seeing 95% of black people not take care of themselves. Therefore, the black "trim" person will stand out.
Take this "trim" black person, do good in school and get any of the millions of BLACK ONLY scholarships.
Next are colleges. Without RACIAL PROFILING, a "trim" black, active, good student can easily get into a top school, COMPETING DIRECTLY with students of ALL races. But because of RACIAL PROFILING, this black trim student is at an advantage--quotas. Colleges will have spots for black students and would rather fill them with trim black students.
Jobs are the SAME exact thing as colleges.
I SWEAR to you it's as simple as that.
*Black is used here to mean African American because Blacks would rather be called Blacks, regular Americans and not singled out.
I was the first to introduce the possibility of the hacked computers being honeypots... So it's modded down because it's a different view point. Some moderators gotta stop making /. look bad.
What?
The government set up honeypots to observe and catch hackers fishing for benign data? Yes. And FTec found one? POSSIBLY. The FBI would have raided the company regardless in due time, because the company might have likely been in a MONITORED government honeypot.
Yes, even real users have easy to guess passwords. But if it was too easy, like the FTEC company states, it could have definitely been a honey pot they accessed.
Definition
honeypot n. 1. An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in potential hackers in order to study their activities and monitor how they are able to break into a system. Honeypots are designed to mimic systems that an intruder would like to break into but limit the intruder from having access to an entire network. If a honeypot is successful, the intruder will have no idea that s/he is being tricked and monitored. Most honeypots are installed inside firewalls so that they can better be controlled, though it is possible to install them outside of firewalls. A firewall in a honeypot works in the opposite way that a normal firewall works: instead of restricting what comes into a system from the Internet, the honeypot firewall allows all traffic to come in from the Internet and restricts what the system sends back out.
By luring a hacker into a system, a honeypot serves several purposes: The administrator can watch the hacker exploit the vulnerabilities of the system, thereby learning where the system has weaknesses that need to be redesigned. The hacker can be caught and stopped while trying to obtain root access to the system. By studying the activities of hackers, designers can better create more secure systems that are potentially invulnerable to future hackers.)
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/honeypot.html
ha ha har lol. Ha lol
I don't attend theaters, I perform in theaters. That's the viewpoint I was coming from.
Suing a DOT com for 2.2 Trillion dollars...
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This isn't 1999
"Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion"
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I do not consider a thief robbing me to be on the same level as an imbecile failing to turn off a cell phone.
If you're the actor on stage, you ARE robbed. If you're an audience member, collectively hundreds (or thousands) of dollars of damage was just done spoiling the atmosphere. You do not consider it the same because you probably don't attend theaters often and robbery of material goods affects you more. But obviously audible alerts do plague theaters and every second of theater time, including the pauses and silence, are part of the performance which are hurt as much by a cell phone ringing as by an idiot who could stand up and yell "HALLELOOYA!" once or twice a show. Audience does look focus.
IS IT THIEVERY? Sure, the imbecile might NOT go to jail while a thief could. However there is no difference between your $3 dollar pen being stolen and a $20 (cheap) thetre experience wasted because of a baffoon who gets a call during a sensitive part of the play, makes the actors "hiccup" their lines, but overall brings all the audience away from fantasy or drama and back to reality.
In the latter case I can make a difference more directly without calling on the force of government, simply by patronizing theatres which have a no-audible-alert policy, and asking the theatre for my money back if they fail to enforce it.
#1, EVERY theater and maybe every cinema does have a NO AUDIBLE ALERT POLICY. Every one. So you ask for a refund, and are told NO. Where are you to go then? To the other theater that also has a NO AUDIBLE ALERT POLICY and clearly states it and someone violates it during the two hour event, and you ask for a refund and they will also say NO.
1. What, you think they are going to AGREE TO A REFUND so next time you keep "patronizing" their theater and get your money back every time? They won't make money that way. ( and 2.--Especially if others ask for the same.) The third or fourth biggest flaw is that if I do find a theater that is happy to do 1. and 2., there will be another idiot that purposely brings a Cell Phone to get that theater bankrupt.
It wouldnt take many people doing that before the theatres started seriously throwing the bums out for disrupting the performance.
As by reasons 1. 2. and 3., no they won't because they AREN'T going to issue refunds in the first place.
And we have to please remember that theater isn't just Broadway. I can bet that most shows are put on by Grade School, High School, College, and Community theater groups. If refunding DOES catch on, how are THEY to issue a refund?
A universal fine would get people to realize that just because the ticket cost you $6 for a High School show, doesn't mean the play is designed to be low class and that people aren't there to enjoy it, making it "okay" for you to bring a cell phone. I'm sure there are people that would leave a cell phone ON at a $6 dollar show who wouldn't even BRING IT to a $100 dollar show. I mean, there are people who believe they are extra important. I propose for people to drop off their gadgets at the entrance which would be tagged with their ticket stub "barcode" or seat number, then kept in a room far away. Sneaking a phone in, even off, would be a fine collected by the theater. Eventually people would stop feeling they are important to have a cell phone ON during these community shows, and leaving cell phones at home/in the car would become second nature.
NO SH*T sherlock. But without a Rio Receiver, an "FM Modulator" will do, okay? I was just describing a product available everywhere that can accomplish the same job. Also at only $30.
"I'm going to assume" you only play games like Quake that have lots of missiles. Some mod maker / game company might want to use an engine to have only one missile shooting weapon, but one that shoots totally realistic. Obviously, it would be a very good idea in this case if all other weapons are not ballistic--just bullets--and you are striving for realism.
There's a 2D game where physics are 100% realistic and it's fun fun fun! You take advantage of them and it's fun fun fun! Yes maybe you think I'm thinking of SubSpace but there's another one too...
A couple of specific points -- if you're going for real world physics, then your horizontal momentum is going to make nearly no difference to that rocket
:)
I have to disagree here. It's not really the momentum that affects the projectiles and Half-Life train. And it's also not the gravity. What I was describing, but forgot to name, is called INERTIA. "A body in motion stays in motion." So if it was going sideways, it will continue going sideways (the force would eventually slow to nill due to air resistance, but AR is not a big factor.) And in games like Descent, some projectiles are slow enough to be affected. FYI Descent is a game where you control a ship in freespace unaffected by gravity. However there is INERTIA even in space
Yeah, I would think that because it would be relatively easy for Carmack to implement, he should. So that, if not he, the other mod makers/licensees could take advantage of it.
There's a huge difference between enacting a law to preserve public saftey and enacting one to prevent morons from annoying you.
Imagine, you go to a play, movie, opera, restaurant, pub to relax. But no--everywhere you go there are people who act like they are above others. If it saves just one man from being stoned to death by a stressed-out man in vicinity, a law like this is worth it.
This is a case where "the market" can regulate itself
Other immoral, anti-social functions besides this exist--for example, stealing. Installing signs that say "Remember to please pay before you leave!" at stores wouldn't help much, would they? But laws kind of help out. When you pay $10-50 for a performance, you do not want to be robbed of your enjoyment/time/money. Theater is UNIQUE in that you pay for the experience. A good performance is priceless and worth thousands, while time and money spent at any performance ruined by cell phones could become worthless.
Interestingly enough, I'm sure that both thieves and many people who "need" a phone every second, even during sleep, feel they are smarter and above others in society or the same people. (I'm sure you know of people who are BOTH.)
Here's one to prime your pump: charge an extra $5 for a "cellphone ticket."
;) So anyway, people will still bring cell phones in. And people won't necessarily even disclose that they have one on their posession. Also, movie companies would be strongly against this.
:)
If you want to enter the theatre with a cellphone, you have to pay the cellphone ticket price
I'm sorry to state the obvious, but who the **** would search the patrons? And if you can answer that, tell me exactly what that is supposed to solve? A profit deficit for the cinema?
EVERYONE who attends theater plays attends to see art, not because they're eating out with a friend at the mall, not to have sex in the back, not to chit chat. As for cinemas, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are ALSO people who associate them with seeing art on the big screen with friends and strangers to share. Yes, some people actually go to performances to get away from work, to get AWAY from THEIR OWN cell phone.
If you believe bringing a cell phone is an essential part of the experience, it must be because you bring your cell phone to the movie/play/opera/orchestra/concert/show. Am I right?
the stage manager goes out on stage and says "Hi. We understand that some people simply CANNOT turn their cellphones off
I can guarantee that nobody does say that... because THEY DONT WANT PEOPLE TO RUIN THE SHOW. Also, if somebody is so important that they need a cell phone DURING MUTUAL ENTERTAINMENT-ONLY TIME, they must be so important as that they would have to skedaddle quickly (I agree with you on that.) But directors do tell people to turn off their cell phones, yet every show there's that one guy. It's better to charge people $250. (See here)
If there's one thing that Cartoons and Westerns taught me... It's that patrons dump their weapons at the door when patronizing their favorite bars. Why not the same for all electronics that can beep?
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SOLUTION
Number one, all such devices would be collected at entry and each cell phone gets a sticker with the same bar code that's on the user's ticket stub. (Maybe any cheap theater, one that isn't cool enough to be a theaTRE, would just ban such devices, period.)
Step two: Anyone caught sneaking one in, whether it stays silent or not, would be a mandatory fine of $250 to the theatre. (Deterrant)
Number three, if you do sneak in a device but it does Beep, the fine is also $250. If the user doesn't answer the beeps, they might keep going thus making it obvious whose it is. If they reach to stop it, that would help show the culprit, also
"But I'm sorry, we are REQUIRED by the city to collect the fine," the director or owner would say.
The devices would be digital watches, cell phones, pagers, beepers, PDAs, laptops, and anything else a patron might bring (REMEMBER that each can also elect to NOT bring any of that crap into the building.)
Also, a lot of theaters aren't movie cinemas but dramas. So in terms of live theater, it is NOT fun (in ANY level of performance) to have the ambience "interrupted". I don't know who gets screwed more. The actor gets screwed, the audience is screwed, the theather company is screwed. The $250 would help screw the theater company less, although audience and actors still won't be too happy. Now the theater wouldn't have the balls to threaten their patrons with fines on their own (as obviously evidenced in any theater/cinema I've been), so that is where the government steps in.
AND ANYWAY I imagine that after a bunch of these incidents, in 5 years, leaving electroshit et al at home would become second nature.
Alternatively, a new law could require noise chips installed in everything that would be told by the building to operate in Silent mode.
My point was that I was jealous for that one second when I saw that you had a 3, Informative post that was based on something not true. Also you knew it was inaccurate. I wrote that because it just seemed sad that some people have to stretch the truth a bit to make their points even more valid. But that was an insightful post, however.
http://www.myirock.com/players/irock300w.htm
It's a little FM transmitter that plugs into your device's headphone jack then transmits it to one of four frequencies between 80.1 and 80.7 to any nearby radio.
The device could be an MP3 Player, a Tape Player, a portable CD player, and of course even a computer.
The radio could be your car's radio, the radio in the living room, you get the idea.
And it's only $30 bucks... (but the transmitter is to the radio, the better the quality. The best use of this is to hear MP3 Player music through your car's speakers. Many even have a tape deck so it's an excellent alternative to Car Casette Adapter--which iRock also makes..)
They sell these at Radio Shack.
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The pricing specifically states that it's $70 AFTER a $150 dollar rebate. And the rebate is for STAND ALONE USERS. Not for wholesale pricing. As in, wholesale pricing would maybe be $100 of the 200+ "retail" price. Which is still more than the price Joe Cheap Consumer would pay. You state instead that wholesale would be $50....
I'm not arguing that companies that buy in bulk can get much better prices than consumers most of the time. But it is upsetting that you are using "facts" out of context knowingly to support a point.
And the other upsetting thing is that moderators put "3, Informative" on your post. Not just because what you said is clearly obvious, but that the moderators did not even check facts before modding you up. Whereasin people make real points that SHOULD be seen that don't get rated. It's like moderators don't care. No wonder a lot of modded up stuff is stupid "funny" stuff and "informative" incorrect stuff. Only once or twice a topic is something "funny" or "informative" or "insightful."
For example, Buying something for $0 after many rebates does not mean that another company can also get these products in bulk for $0 or even $1.