...they'll also require less training for nurses or police officers. This is because these holograms can be designed to show results graphically, such as morphing into an image of a green car if someone subjected to breath analysis is sober and can drive.
So I have to be able to say the alphabet backwards while standing on one leg and touching my nose, but the cop who pulled me over doesn't need to be capable of knowing if the number on his digital readout is greater than 0.08?
Would you not consider slashdot to be a blog? Sure the frontpage is controled by an select few and is considered to be a good source of news for geeks, but let's face it. This is a blog.
A friend and I had this discussion the last time slashdot posted a "bloggers on the rise" story. In my opinion, while slashdot may fit the technical criteria of a blog, it really isn't a blog when you consider what is really important.
What makes a blog a blog is that there is one central voice, and that central voice is a person who has opinions. Any replies to that person are largely that: Replies to that person.
Slashdot is the exact opposite. The articles and main posts are the spark to generate a much larger discussion. The important part of slashdot isn't the article, but the discussion that ensues from the article. We even make fun of people who read the articles, asking them if they're new here. In that way, slashdot is much more like usenet than it is LiveJournal.
Not to sound like an economist or, worse, a republican, but the cost of doing business is only one piece of the pie when it comes to charging for what you sell. If they are making the most money possible, then they are charging the correct amount. If they are not, they are not (And the correct amount, if they are not charging it, is something else).
If you don't think it is a fair amount, don't pay it. If enough people agree with you, they'll have to lower (or, strangely, sometimes raise) the price eventually or fold. It's the way the (capitalist) world works.
How does this affect MRO? They're not looking at my traffic, impeding my traffic, or even thinking about my traffic. They're routing government traffic.
But how is someone beating you with a digital sword he bought on eBay for $1000 better than him beating you because he's got better hand-eye coordination?
Unimproved properties, railroads and utilities (but not buildings) may be sold to any player as a private transaction for any amount that the owner can get.
Paying $5 in real money seems legal. Or, if you want to get all pedantic, giving the person $5 and then, in a totally separate transaction, him giving you Park Place for $0 in game money.
Just because it's damaged doesn't mean it's bad. I damage a golf ball every time I strike it with a club. Eventually that ball must be replaced. It's perfectly normal, but it's damage. I didn't see anywhere in the article (And not just because it was slashdotted before I got there) where they were talking about banning earthquakes.
Earthquakes cause damage. That's all there is to it.
I'm writing this from a house that is made from a lot of wood, sitting on land that used to be the home of some animals who now get hit crossing the street. It would be easy for me to point my finger at "industry" and say they're wrong, but would I be willing to give up my house, land, and paved roads to my job? I don't think so.
None taken. It's not 25 pixles per square inch. It's 25 pixels per INCH or, if you want to be pedantic, 25 "pixel-edges" per inch.
I'm talking a 1000 pixel LINE from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner equating to a 40 inch LINE.
Granted, pixels don't run diagonally across the screen, but the 800 pixles along the bottom of the screen would run 32 inches if the diagonal was 40 inches, and the 600 along the side would run 24 inches. So you could say 800/32 = 25 pixels/inch or (approx) 3 pixels every 1/8th of an inch.
800x600 has a 1000 pixel diagonal (8x6x10 right triangle. High school math came in handy for once), so a 40 inch projection will have 25 pixels per inch. Each pixel will be 1/25th of an inch, or (about) 3 of them will fit in an 8th of an inch.
Thank you all for definining lumens for me, but I know what a lumen is. What I couldn't understand is why it's a con, and I misread N/A as 'not applicable' not 'not available' (Why I hate N/A in general).
Not having the brightness of the screen listed in the adver^H^H^H^H^Harticle isn't a point against the device.
They added a Windows key in the mid-90s, yet who really uses it all that much?
Are you serious? I use it all the time. Besides the obvious (start menu anyone?) there's Win-M to minimize everything, Win-R for the run menu, Win-E for explorer...
Try all letters, you'll be surprised what you find.
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Funny how greenhouse gases are supposed to 'save' Mars and make it hospitable though, but are destroying our own planet.
Yes, in much the same way that it's "funny" that I run the heater in the winter, when running it in the summer would make the house too hot.
Make sure everybody calls your cell and use your land line for internet. I did that for about two years before DSL was available in my area.
...they'll also require less training for nurses or police officers. This is because these holograms can be designed to show results graphically, such as morphing into an image of a green car if someone subjected to breath analysis is sober and can drive.
So I have to be able to say the alphabet backwards while standing on one leg and touching my nose, but the cop who pulled me over doesn't need to be capable of knowing if the number on his digital readout is greater than 0.08?
We never did the gasoline experiment back in school, but I bet you can imagine what would happen if you dropped a match into a test tube of gasoline.
Would you not consider slashdot to be a blog? Sure the frontpage is controled by an select few and is considered to be a good source of news for geeks, but let's face it. This is a blog.
A friend and I had this discussion the last time slashdot posted a "bloggers on the rise" story. In my opinion, while slashdot may fit the technical criteria of a blog, it really isn't a blog when you consider what is really important.
What makes a blog a blog is that there is one central voice, and that central voice is a person who has opinions. Any replies to that person are largely that: Replies to that person.
Slashdot is the exact opposite. The articles and main posts are the spark to generate a much larger discussion. The important part of slashdot isn't the article, but the discussion that ensues from the article. We even make fun of people who read the articles, asking them if they're new here. In that way, slashdot is much more like usenet than it is LiveJournal.
P.S. Slashdot bad-posting guilt-by-subnet-association sucks.
Hear, hear. I still can't post from home. It's been like a week. I emailed them and got a form letter back.
Not to sound like an economist or, worse, a republican, but the cost of doing business is only one piece of the pie when it comes to charging for what you sell. If they are making the most money possible, then they are charging the correct amount. If they are not, they are not (And the correct amount, if they are not charging it, is something else).
If you don't think it is a fair amount, don't pay it. If enough people agree with you, they'll have to lower (or, strangely, sometimes raise) the price eventually or fold. It's the way the (capitalist) world works.
Ooops, there's a bit of egg on my face. Let me try that again.
This keeps slashdot from putting spaces in the url, messing them up.
C'mon, how hard is it to slap an anchor around that?
This keeps slashdot from putting spaces in the url, messing them up.
How does this affect MRO? They're not looking at my traffic, impeding my traffic, or even thinking about my traffic. They're routing government traffic.
/confused.
And they're a government agency.
This is modded Funny.
I would personally mod it +5: Scary.
I think you misread the grandparent.
But how is someone beating you with a digital sword he bought on eBay for $1000 better than him beating you because he's got better hand-eye coordination?
Actually, according to the rules of Monopoly:
Unimproved properties, railroads and utilities (but not buildings) may be sold to any player as a private transaction for any amount that the owner can get.
Paying $5 in real money seems legal. Or, if you want to get all pedantic, giving the person $5 and then, in a totally separate transaction, him giving you Park Place for $0 in game money.
OhmygawdArtistShareisthenewmp3.com!
I swear, I know the proper use of an apostrophe.
Really.
...Until they DRM it every way but sideways.
Just because it's damaged doesn't mean it's bad. I damage a golf ball every time I strike it with a club. Eventually that ball must be replaced. It's perfectly normal, but it's damage. I didn't see anywhere in the article (And not just because it was slashdotted before I got there) where they were talking about banning earthquakes.
Earthquakes cause damage. That's all there is to it.
I'm writing this from a house that is made from a lot of wood, sitting on land that used to be the home of some animals who now get hit crossing the street. It would be easy for me to point my finger at "industry" and say they're wrong, but would I be willing to give up my house, land, and paved roads to my job? I don't think so.
Which explains why, even though he's never even been to suborbital space, he was listed first.
I keed.
No offense intended
None taken. It's not 25 pixles per square inch. It's 25 pixels per INCH or, if you want to be pedantic, 25 "pixel-edges" per inch.
I'm talking a 1000 pixel LINE from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner equating to a 40 inch LINE.
Granted, pixels don't run diagonally across the screen, but the 800 pixles along the bottom of the screen would run 32 inches if the diagonal was 40 inches, and the 600 along the side would run 24 inches. So you could say 800/32 = 25 pixels/inch or (approx) 3 pixels every 1/8th of an inch.
800x600 has a 1000 pixel diagonal (8x6x10 right triangle. High school math came in handy for once), so a 40 inch projection will have 25 pixels per inch. Each pixel will be 1/25th of an inch, or (about) 3 of them will fit in an 8th of an inch.
Not bad for most uses of a wall projector.
Maybe you can project a HUD on your windshield?
Thank you all for definining lumens for me, but I know what a lumen is. What I couldn't understand is why it's a con, and I misread N/A as 'not applicable' not 'not available' (Why I hate N/A in general).
Not having the brightness of the screen listed in the adver^H^H^H^H^Harticle isn't a point against the device.
TFA is already slashdotted, so I can't R it.
Why is Lumens (N/A) a con? And what does Lumens (N/A) mean? it doesn't use light?
They added a Windows key in the mid-90s, yet who really uses it all that much?
Are you serious? I use it all the time. Besides the obvious (start menu anyone?) there's Win-M to minimize everything, Win-R for the run menu, Win-E for explorer...
Try all letters, you'll be surprised what you find.