You're stupid to have your money in anything other than precious metals, i.e. gold.
That's right kids, gold, part of the only market that will never ever crash. (Even finding a huge golden asteroid would do nothing to the price.)
Telecoms rarely beat expectations by any impressive margins, have very little future growth potential (unless they start doing the ubiquitis-service-provider thing, which is already a saturated market), and frankly I'm surprised it's even a question to a slashdotter to dump telecoms like a bad habit. You of all people know that telecoms are data-pushers and that's becoming a very hard market to stay competitive in.
Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, and if you want to diversify your portfolio plenty of cobalt and TUNGSTEN. Tungsten is in a very interesting place right now, as most economically exploitable tungsten is gonna run out by 07, but other deposits in developing countries could continue 1995 levels of use to continue well into the 21st. However in the short term as the easy supply dwindles one will see a large upward price adjustment that should be rather easy to exploit.
Planned downtime my ass, silicon.com just had a tech who luckily spotted the/. about to be laid on his server. They can run this time, but they can't hide forever.
If you've been to Tokyo Dome City (The amusement park next to the tokyo dome) recently you'd have seen people cutting in line by putting their cellphone screens on to little scanning beds. For the modest sum of 1000 yen you could reserve four spots in line at either the main rollercoaster or the ferris wheel. They would send your cell phone an e-mail with a funky barcode that was less bar code and more dot-matrix/bitmappy black and white image. I cut a four hour line into 15 minutes. I love japanese cellphone technology.
Since this is being distributed for free, and is derived from a dead console, do you really believe Nintendo would do anything other than bask in the love of their fanboys? The SNES music composers are probably beaming with pride that their babies are still being appreciated to this day.
Props to the original composers of this and many other games though. SNES Midi stuff has elicited more emotion from me then any of the crap from x-box or ps2 games. "Oh cool, another bad european techno song"
This is neither new nor exciting, as it is possible with hotmail to block every message originating from someone not in one's contact list; spam, e-mail or otherwise. Thus a tight knit family could keep only those members on their contact list and see only their mail.(I'm sure Yahoo and every other webmail service has a similair feature.)Plus, no fancy exclusive e-mail system is going to fix Outlook Express, or the fact that people download and execute viruses despite any fancy warnings.
I'm guilty of that myself, but when my very strange japanese friend (the one who was sent home from his year-long exchange to canada with one week left for threatening to kill his host family's dog) sent me an e-mail with a subject heading of SEX with no body and a 2.meg zip I figured it was.gifs of Hentai...
I was wrong, but at least I knew how to get it off my system and how to stop it from spreading.
WiFi at a place to relax (coffee/drug house? relaxed? suspend disbeleif) is for Slashdot, porn, and gaming. You play Counter-Strike at Starbucks cuz your boss would kill you if you did it at work. Sounds like some people need to rethink their priorities.
But by all means, keep the volume up. Starbucks baristas seem to love the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Hmm... Opium-like substance that puts rats out for long periods of time. Yes, let's definitely try the hibernation thing, but do we want our astronauts hopped up on 'ludes? I guess we could send Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong instead.
Those are horrible analogys. Just because you put your car into drive doesn't mean it is anything like the transmissions of yore. Electronic control, computerized timing, gearing methods and ratios, evertthing has changed tremendously under the hood over the last 100 years. That they use metal gears instead of "cold-fusion-magneto-scopic-inviso-force" to move the car forward does not mean there is no innovation.
Take a look at Formula 1 cars. Sure Kimi Raikonnen has a gear shifter that he is in control of, but do you honestly think it even resembles last year's gearbox? Just because you don't necessarily 'see' the innovation doesn't mean it isn't there.
As for your point about no innovation in telecommunication... well it really should revoke your right to read these webpages. Just because dialing numbers is the same methodology we've used for decades doesn't mean there haven't been leaps and bounds in terms of technology. Just look @ the wireless options one has today for global telecommunication... today (if you're rich enough) you can telnet from the middle of a game reserve in Kenya because some innovator launched a bunch of satellites allowing you to do so.
Frankly, I could have not chosen two fields that have shown more innovation than automobiles and telecommunication. Maybe micro-chips... but that would have been a trememndously difficult argument to make.
The first thing I thought when I was watching the simulation was it would be nerve-wracking sitting in a car when it looks like it's just gonna plow into another car.
Instead of doing it in an intersection make a bumpercar ride out of it and everynow and again put in some fuzzy numbers and send bumper cars filled with people careening into each other. People would call it fun and they'd pay you to torture them! Muahahahahahahahahaha...
If you just got a sound degree why don't you get a job doing sound while you then pursue an education in film? I mean do you want to do sound or do you want to direct your own movies?
I also find it funny that what you are an expert in (sound) will be fucking useless the only instance you are specific about. Water resistant? Bangin german techno? You're gonna film porn, and as far as jizz resistant goes, get a casing.
Yeah, and the Canadian government doesn't send people to jail for selling bongs.
Google Tommy Chong Jail
They sent him to prison for 9 months for selling water pipes on the net.
TWO YEARS?! I'm an American and German citizen, my mom is a Landed Immigrant (i.e. a legal canadian) and it has taken me 5 fucking years with not a peep from Canadian Immigration. A while ago one of the hangups was they couldn't understand my parents divorce papers because they were in German.
At the airport(YVR, vancouver) I can demand immigration assistance in something like 14 languages. But at the headquarters of immigration you can't find one person that can read German?
Also, about 3 years ago a HUGE boatload of chinese illegaly came over. Something like 400 of em packed on to the rustiest piece of shit ever. I went back and reaserched it, and hundreds of em got Canadian citizenship before I even get a word on my application. (And yes, my MP Keith Martin has tried to help out, but he's done all he can.)
But I don't complain, you know why? Vancouver Island grows the best pot. If you really need a reason to move here, do it for the b.c. bud man... I'm buying half ounces for 90 cdn of the most crhonic shit. (I went back to Cali recently, where I spent my life through middle school, and goddamn that weed sucks. Even the Humboldt stuff left me yearning for something with some northern flavour.)
Move to Vancouver Island! Southernmost part of Canda, the capital of BC actually lies below the 49th parallel, as does much of the lower island. Some of the best fishing and crabbing in the world. I see orcas swimming in the juan de fuca from my deck, as well as bald eagles nesting in a nearby treetop.
As far as Land of the Free goes, it's not the USA. Not anymore... (I loved America, too bad ignorance breeds right-wing politics eh?)
Sweet, now use the night-time version of the drug and every-ting will be much better. Melatonin aleviated my insomnaic symptoms nightly, but I almost got depressed about being dependent on chems for sleep. Then a month ago I graduated from high-school and with that stress gone I found myself sleeping like a baby! For the first time in 3 years! I don't know how I got through my senior year getting a tops of 3 hours of unconcious conciousness. Staring at the ceiling for so long that your brain becomes so numb that you lose track of time and thus 'sleep'. It was restful only because I was not moving, but it was more like torture then sleep.
However there was the added benefit of trippy day-time sleep-deprivation hallucinations. Nothing like yelling at your friend for poking you only to realize you're one of three people in a mostly empty room.
I guarantee you the Dollar and the Euro are both used more, and both their values affect the global economy way more. Oil is priced in U.S. $.
Ain't no-one care if the Rupee drops another couple of basis points.
In terms of use, recognizability (sp), and world-wide acceptance, the U.S. Dollar is far more practical. Even now, everywhere I go (Egypt, India, Canada) the u.s. dollar is accepted without hesitation, even in remote areas where currency exchanges don't dot the land-scape.
People please, laser tag places are generally run by minimum-wage white males. If they're really adamant and strict about running pay the idiot off, but I'm always moving quickly. Besides, laser tag arenas are more like a firefight in a building, and you dont see swat sprinting down hallways. It's a quick movement but nothing close to running.
If the guy won't even allow you to hustle tell him to shove it and get a real job. Idiots exercizing pseudo-authority for not-enough money usually don't do anything after being told to go to hell.
It is as Dennis Miller said. To be a true Patriotic American you MUST drive as inefficient a car as you can afford. The market, and innovation, is fueled by demand. As long as there is oil there will be no Hydrogen fuel cells. Too much invested in the infrastructure.
Now, if we all drive big honkin fuckin cars and burn off all the oil that's out there, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. Had we hurried up and burnt the oil 5 years ago, we wouldn't be in Iraq, instead Bush would be harassing Ballard Power to get their fuel cells going.
It's these Europeans with their hate for anything American, a hate spawned entirely by what they see in the media. Do not tell me that individual Americans have influenced your opinion of us, because that would be making an ignorant person's mistake. Our mistake. I don't speak for American's, but I am one.
Your stupid efficient cars are killling Iraqis! Get rid of the oil POST HASTE.
The sooner everyone smart realizes that 98% of the world is RETARDED, the sooner the 2% will be happy.(This includes America. Britain. Germany. Holland. Whatever. 98% of your population is too stupid for me to befriend.) I would assume most of SlashDot agrees(because you're intelligent), so here's my proposal. Let's take the world from these nincompoops. Let the smart and rich rule the world, not an idiot who couldn't do his own taxes if he tried.
(Half of America hates Bush too, I'm one of them.)
IMAX is such a brilliant form of cinema but it's really restricted due to film costs. The length of the film (Not in minutes but kilometers) is also a problem that drives up cost. (The Human Boday which just came out on IMAX recently is 12 km long)
If we could digitize the process it would allow for widespread IMAZ screen implimentation. However, due to the colossal massive-ness of the screen you need some hiiiiiiigh ass resolution. You would also need some 30 fps out of the camera, so maybe film will be essential to IMAX in the cmoing years, but we can get there!
I'm sure data storage isn't a problem, but resolution and projection are. I'm not calling for implimentation tomorrow, but the digitization of all formats benefits the art, so maybe a 10-year goal?
The major advantage is cutting out the cost for the film (which is high) and the cost of processing the film. (Also high)
Just think of IMAX pr0n!!! Minka can truly be the number one, asian, big-boob queen.
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You're stupid to have your money in anything other than precious metals, i.e. gold.
That's right kids, gold, part of the only market that will never ever crash. (Even finding a huge golden asteroid would do nothing to the price.)
Telecoms rarely beat expectations by any impressive margins, have very little future growth potential (unless they start doing the ubiquitis-service-provider thing, which is already a saturated market), and frankly I'm surprised it's even a question to a slashdotter to dump telecoms like a bad habit. You of all people know that telecoms are data-pushers and that's becoming a very hard market to stay competitive in.
Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, and if you want to diversify your portfolio plenty of cobalt and TUNGSTEN. Tungsten is in a very interesting place right now, as most economically exploitable tungsten is gonna run out by 07, but other deposits in developing countries could continue 1995 levels of use to continue well into the 21st. However in the short term as the easy supply dwindles one will see a large upward price adjustment that should be rather easy to exploit.
(My tungsten numbers from http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/circular/c930-o.html)
Planned downtime my ass, silicon.com just had a tech who luckily spotted the /. about to be laid on his server. They can run this time, but they can't hide forever.
Why couldn't we use Wind-power to extract Hydrogen from water? That seems like an infinite supply of hydrogen right there...
If you've been to Tokyo Dome City (The amusement park next to the tokyo dome) recently you'd have seen people cutting in line by putting their cellphone screens on to little scanning beds. For the modest sum of 1000 yen you could reserve four spots in line at either the main rollercoaster or the ferris wheel. They would send your cell phone an e-mail with a funky barcode that was less bar code and more dot-matrix/bitmappy black and white image. I cut a four hour line into 15 minutes. I love japanese cellphone technology.
Since this is being distributed for free, and is derived from a dead console, do you really believe Nintendo would do anything other than bask in the love of their fanboys? The SNES music composers are probably beaming with pride that their babies are still being appreciated to this day.
Props to the original composers of this and many other games though. SNES Midi stuff has elicited more emotion from me then any of the crap from x-box or ps2 games. "Oh cool, another bad european techno song"
This is neither new nor exciting, as it is possible with hotmail to block every message originating from someone not in one's contact list; spam, e-mail or otherwise. Thus a tight knit family could keep only those members on their contact list and see only their mail.(I'm sure Yahoo and every other webmail service has a similair feature.)Plus, no fancy exclusive e-mail system is going to fix Outlook Express, or the fact that people download and execute viruses despite any fancy warnings.
.gifs of Hentai...
I'm guilty of that myself, but when my very strange japanese friend (the one who was sent home from his year-long exchange to canada with one week left for threatening to kill his host family's dog) sent me an e-mail with a subject heading of SEX with no body and a 2.meg zip I figured it was
I was wrong, but at least I knew how to get it off my system and how to stop it from spreading.
WiFi at a place to relax (coffee/drug house? relaxed? suspend disbeleif) is for Slashdot, porn, and gaming. You play Counter-Strike at Starbucks cuz your boss would kill you if you did it at work. Sounds like some people need to rethink their priorities.
But by all means, keep the volume up. Starbucks baristas seem to love the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Hmm... Opium-like substance that puts rats out for long periods of time. Yes, let's definitely try the hibernation thing, but do we want our astronauts hopped up on 'ludes? I guess we could send Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong instead.
Those are horrible analogys. Just because you put your car into drive doesn't mean it is anything like the transmissions of yore. Electronic control, computerized timing, gearing methods and ratios, evertthing has changed tremendously under the hood over the last 100 years. That they use metal gears instead of "cold-fusion-magneto-scopic-inviso-force" to move the car forward does not mean there is no innovation.
Take a look at Formula 1 cars. Sure Kimi Raikonnen has a gear shifter that he is in control of, but do you honestly think it even resembles last year's gearbox? Just because you don't necessarily 'see' the innovation doesn't mean it isn't there.
As for your point about no innovation in telecommunication... well it really should revoke your right to read these webpages. Just because dialing numbers is the same methodology we've used for decades doesn't mean there haven't been leaps and bounds in terms of technology. Just look @ the wireless options one has today for global telecommunication... today (if you're rich enough) you can telnet from the middle of a game reserve in Kenya because some innovator launched a bunch of satellites allowing you to do so.
Frankly, I could have not chosen two fields that have shown more innovation than automobiles and telecommunication. Maybe micro-chips... but that would have been a trememndously difficult argument to make.
You'd think so, but hey, you never know, in the movie they haven't finished shooting yet, the Sith just might exact some form of revenge.
Can you see the sarcasm shooting out of my ass?
Let them eat Freedom-Fried Womprat...
The first thing I thought when I was watching the simulation was it would be nerve-wracking sitting in a car when it looks like it's just gonna plow into another car. Instead of doing it in an intersection make a bumpercar ride out of it and everynow and again put in some fuzzy numbers and send bumper cars filled with people careening into each other. People would call it fun and they'd pay you to torture them! Muahahahahahahahahaha...
Go to film school.
If you just got a sound degree why don't you get a job doing sound while you then pursue an education in film? I mean do you want to do sound or do you want to direct your own movies?
I also find it funny that what you are an expert in (sound) will be fucking useless the only instance you are specific about. Water resistant? Bangin german techno? You're gonna film porn, and as far as jizz resistant goes, get a casing.
p.s. underwater pron's been done.
another industry like it... drugs(from coffee to cocaine... though i like those two much more then making something in powerpoint.)
Cuz no one ever put gravy on potatoes... yeap... not once...
Yeah, and the Canadian government doesn't send people to jail for selling bongs. Google Tommy Chong Jail They sent him to prison for 9 months for selling water pipes on the net.
TWO YEARS?! I'm an American and German citizen, my mom is a Landed Immigrant (i.e. a legal canadian) and it has taken me 5 fucking years with not a peep from Canadian Immigration. A while ago one of the hangups was they couldn't understand my parents divorce papers because they were in German.
At the airport(YVR, vancouver) I can demand immigration assistance in something like 14 languages. But at the headquarters of immigration you can't find one person that can read German?
Also, about 3 years ago a HUGE boatload of chinese illegaly came over. Something like 400 of em packed on to the rustiest piece of shit ever. I went back and reaserched it, and hundreds of em got Canadian citizenship before I even get a word on my application. (And yes, my MP Keith Martin has tried to help out, but he's done all he can.)
But I don't complain, you know why? Vancouver Island grows the best pot. If you really need a reason to move here, do it for the b.c. bud man... I'm buying half ounces for 90 cdn of the most crhonic shit. (I went back to Cali recently, where I spent my life through middle school, and goddamn that weed sucks. Even the Humboldt stuff left me yearning for something with some northern flavour.)
Move to Vancouver Island! Southernmost part of Canda, the capital of BC actually lies below the 49th parallel, as does much of the lower island. Some of the best fishing and crabbing in the world. I see orcas swimming in the juan de fuca from my deck, as well as bald eagles nesting in a nearby treetop.
As far as Land of the Free goes, it's not the USA. Not anymore... (I loved America, too bad ignorance breeds right-wing politics eh?)
Sweet, now use the night-time version of the drug and every-ting will be much better. Melatonin aleviated my insomnaic symptoms nightly, but I almost got depressed about being dependent on chems for sleep. Then a month ago I graduated from high-school and with that stress gone I found myself sleeping like a baby! For the first time in 3 years! I don't know how I got through my senior year getting a tops of 3 hours of unconcious conciousness. Staring at the ceiling for so long that your brain becomes so numb that you lose track of time and thus 'sleep'. It was restful only because I was not moving, but it was more like torture then sleep.
However there was the added benefit of trippy day-time sleep-deprivation hallucinations. Nothing like yelling at your friend for poking you only to realize you're one of three people in a mostly empty room.
I guarantee you the Dollar and the Euro are both used more, and both their values affect the global economy way more. Oil is priced in U.S. $.
Ain't no-one care if the Rupee drops another couple of basis points.
In terms of use, recognizability (sp), and world-wide acceptance, the U.S. Dollar is far more practical. Even now, everywhere I go (Egypt, India, Canada) the u.s. dollar is accepted without hesitation, even in remote areas where currency exchanges don't dot the land-scape.
People please, laser tag places are generally run by minimum-wage white males. If they're really adamant and strict about running pay the idiot off, but I'm always moving quickly. Besides, laser tag arenas are more like a firefight in a building, and you dont see swat sprinting down hallways. It's a quick movement but nothing close to running.
If the guy won't even allow you to hustle tell him to shove it and get a real job. Idiots exercizing pseudo-authority for not-enough money usually don't do anything after being told to go to hell.
Hah, the accent previously chided as sounding 'like mushmouth after a gram of coke' is infact Canadian.
I love it.
Yeah no shit, that was my dad's response to automating the lawnmowing.
Just have kids.
Oh wait... that requires sex...
sorry...
A truly effective rebuttal. Torture -- Spam. The connection is oooh sooo clear. And since Americans do it it must be bad!
It is as Dennis Miller said. To be a true Patriotic American you MUST drive as inefficient a car as you can afford. The market, and innovation, is fueled by demand. As long as there is oil there will be no Hydrogen fuel cells. Too much invested in the infrastructure.
Now, if we all drive big honkin fuckin cars and burn off all the oil that's out there, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. Had we hurried up and burnt the oil 5 years ago, we wouldn't be in Iraq, instead Bush would be harassing Ballard Power to get their fuel cells going.
It's these Europeans with their hate for anything American, a hate spawned entirely by what they see in the media. Do not tell me that individual Americans have influenced your opinion of us, because that would be making an ignorant person's mistake. Our mistake. I don't speak for American's, but I am one.
Your stupid efficient cars are killling Iraqis! Get rid of the oil POST HASTE.
The sooner everyone smart realizes that 98% of the world is RETARDED, the sooner the 2% will be happy.(This includes America. Britain. Germany. Holland. Whatever. 98% of your population is too stupid for me to befriend.) I would assume most of SlashDot agrees(because you're intelligent), so here's my proposal. Let's take the world from these nincompoops. Let the smart and rich rule the world, not an idiot who couldn't do his own taxes if he tried.
(Half of America hates Bush too, I'm one of them.)
IMAX is such a brilliant form of cinema but it's really restricted due to film costs. The length of the film (Not in minutes but kilometers) is also a problem that drives up cost. (The Human Boday which just came out on IMAX recently is 12 km long)
If we could digitize the process it would allow for widespread IMAZ screen implimentation. However, due to the colossal massive-ness of the screen you need some hiiiiiiigh ass resolution. You would also need some 30 fps out of the camera, so maybe film will be essential to IMAX in the cmoing years, but we can get there!
I'm sure data storage isn't a problem, but resolution and projection are. I'm not calling for implimentation tomorrow, but the digitization of all formats benefits the art, so maybe a 10-year goal?
The major advantage is cutting out the cost for the film (which is high) and the cost of processing the film. (Also high)
Just think of IMAX pr0n!!! Minka can truly be the number one, asian, big-boob queen.