We need some intelligent control mechanisms for song selection with the iPod/car integration. For example, if the control scheme detects rapid acceleration and braking, along with heavy steering, it starts playing something from Crazy Taxi. If we just get left hand turns, then start playing music from, I dunno, Days of Thunder maybe? If the traction control system detects lots of skidding, then music from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Also, we'll need some microphones in the car to listen for gunfire, in which case we have a much wider selection of music to chose from.
Remember, the point of this technology is to let you keep your hands on the wheel at all times - safer driving, you know.
When you have totally humiliated and/or beaten someone, you have "owned" them. A "p" is just an "o" with a stick on it, so "pwned", in my mind, is "owned with a stick".
Teamspeak, Ventrillo
Granted, this isn't really a phone replacement, but if all the people I want to talk to are on their computers anyways, then it works great.
Depleted Uranium is just that - DEPLETED. It gives off very little radiation (about 60% less than naturally occurring uranium), and has a half-life of 4.46 billion years, which means that its radioactive output is WAY low (the longer the half-life, the less radiation). Now, the metal *is* toxic, just like many other heavy metals, but we'd have the same problem if the rounds were lead (slightly less due to DU's propensity to oxidize and its pyrophoric properties).
If you're really that paranoid about radiation, go point a Geiger-counter at a concrete sidewalk some time. That'll convince you to stay indoors.
We also use DU for tank armor and ammunition, did you know? And as weights in race cars and airplanes?
Those are the Iranian F-14's. You know, the ones we castrated before selling them. The ones that they can't really properly maintain because they lack the spare parts and technical experience.
No, you didn't specifically say that this was an American phenomenon, but your vernacular heavily implied it, specifically the "our great country" and "sacrifice for our country" bits (esp. without prior reference to your country of origin - seems a little pompous to me, but whatever). However, why shouldn't you be concerned about the global implications of a percieved problem? You're also living on this planet, I assume?
I made my reference to information abundance after reading your "increasingly becoming so diverse that we have nothing in common" bit. We don't become more diverse by just sitting at home in a pool of intellectual stagnation, we become more diverse by learning, which requires new information, new opinions, new points of view. Anonimity does not cause diversity. Anonimity protects you from any number of attacks on your person. It allows you to share and retrieve information without risk. It also allows you to be an asshat without fear of reprisals. True, anonimity allows you to detach yourself from ties to a region, but that's only if you chose not to share those interest about yourself - a personal decision. The tie to locality may be lost, but it is being lost in favor of a tie to ideals or shared interests or goals, which to me is more important and significant than being tied to, say, "Podunk, Mississippi".
Further, I didn't blame Bush by name for anything. Bush isn't the only leader. If you're a member of a community, then you have leaders on the local, regional, state, and national levels - and not just the President at the national level. We also have Congress and the Supreme Court. I see failures and lack of leadership ability at all levels of government.
And for the record, I'm not one of your "liberals", my values tend to allign more with the Democratic Libertarian party. Trying to dismiss me by labeling me is the height of ignorance and arrogance. I'm not some party-line spewing drone, I'm an individual with my own ideas and opinions about things.
Don't just pigeon-hole this into an American phenomenon - the internet spans the whole world. And this decrease in patriotism that you are percieving isn't necessarily a result of information abundance, but perhaps simply because we lack strong leadership. You are mistaking correlation for causation here, a dangerous proposition.
This is the dark side of online anonymity - freedom from reprocussions if you want to act like an asshat. Fortunatly, many games also allow you to mute the input from obnoxious players, so you don't have to deal with them beyond that. Many other servers also let you kick those players with a majority vote. Worst case scenario, you can always jump to a different server - however, so can they.
Just last night I saw a commercial on TV urging viewers to vote No on a proposition about Net Neutrality. It was trying to say that it would cost consumers more, or at least allow ISP's to charge more. This was in the St. Louis area. Has anyone else seen or heard of anything like this in non-internet media lately?
Of course they should rename the party! Pirates are so lame. To ensure success, they should have called themselves the Ninja Party. Clearly a superior title.
No, don't do that! I played Doom in the 90's, I *know* what happens when demons get borgified! Get me a rocketlauncher quick, before the Cyberdemon spawns!
I don't think that anyone will really care (much) if the content they're viewing on youtube or Google video or whatever else is out there is an advertisement or not - as long as it is entertaining. That's the whole point behind advertising, trying to keep your target audience entertained long enough to maybe get an ad in edgewise. Youtube is chock full of amusing little adverts that I watch to entertain myself. Heck, even if its not blatant advertising or bashing, as long as I get a chuckle or a "That was awesome!" from it, then the point is made. If the advertising people are doing their homework and learning to take advantage of a new medium, then kudos to them, as long as it stays entertaining.
So please, ad people, continue bringing us your Wazzaaaaaa's and your Geico Gekkos and your dancing transforming cars, and whatever else you can think of, blatant or not. Make me laugh. Make me yell. Make me think about buying your products, or of discontinuing service with your competitors. I will continue to temper my decisions with research and past experiences as my guides, but if you have a truely superior product or service to offer, then I will appreciate a truely superior ad campaign to tell me of it.
FTA:
The K-10 runs Red Hat Linux, which NASA says was chosen for its large user base and application compatibility. Additionally, NASA notes that, "Linux's flexibility and scalability enable us to easily add, remove, and extend devices with minimal difficulty."
That'll teach me to read the damn article first next time.
Its not a question of significance, its still a question of jurisdiction. US law still doesn't apply to a British company. If they were a US company based in Oregon, then the "conducting operations in an area" thing you mentioned would be relevant for reasons of interstate commerce and such. Consider the following example:
I make a website that has a lot of content on it that is perfectly fine and legal in my country. However, it is illegal for people in, say, Spain to view. However, lots of Spaniards come to my site anyways. This doesn't mean that now some group/person in Spain can sue me for damages. It just doesn't work that way.
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We need some intelligent control mechanisms for song selection with the iPod/car integration. For example, if the control scheme detects rapid acceleration and braking, along with heavy steering, it starts playing something from Crazy Taxi. If we just get left hand turns, then start playing music from, I dunno, Days of Thunder maybe? If the traction control system detects lots of skidding, then music from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Also, we'll need some microphones in the car to listen for gunfire, in which case we have a much wider selection of music to chose from.
Remember, the point of this technology is to let you keep your hands on the wheel at all times - safer driving, you know.
At least none of the control schemes have tried to introduce the dangerous fusion of the click and steering wheels...
"Honey, why are we driving in circles?"
"I wanted to listen to some Frank Zappa, but we're still in the L's"
Or, worse yet...
"Dammit, I can't change songs because there's a semi along side me!"
When you have totally humiliated and/or beaten someone, you have "owned" them. A "p" is just an "o" with a stick on it, so "pwned", in my mind, is "owned with a stick".
Teamspeak, Ventrillo
Granted, this isn't really a phone replacement, but if all the people I want to talk to are on their computers anyways, then it works great.
Depleted Uranium is just that - DEPLETED. It gives off very little radiation (about 60% less than naturally occurring uranium), and has a half-life of 4.46 billion years, which means that its radioactive output is WAY low (the longer the half-life, the less radiation). Now, the metal *is* toxic, just like many other heavy metals, but we'd have the same problem if the rounds were lead (slightly less due to DU's propensity to oxidize and its pyrophoric properties).
If you're really that paranoid about radiation, go point a Geiger-counter at a concrete sidewalk some time. That'll convince you to stay indoors.
We also use DU for tank armor and ammunition, did you know? And as weights in race cars and airplanes?
Those are the Iranian F-14's. You know, the ones we castrated before selling them. The ones that they can't really properly maintain because they lack the spare parts and technical experience.
I would write a witty responce, but I'm too busy laughing.
Bravo, AC, bravo.
No, you didn't specifically say that this was an American phenomenon, but your vernacular heavily implied it, specifically the "our great country" and "sacrifice for our country" bits (esp. without prior reference to your country of origin - seems a little pompous to me, but whatever). However, why shouldn't you be concerned about the global implications of a percieved problem? You're also living on this planet, I assume?
I made my reference to information abundance after reading your "increasingly becoming so diverse that we have nothing in common" bit. We don't become more diverse by just sitting at home in a pool of intellectual stagnation, we become more diverse by learning, which requires new information, new opinions, new points of view. Anonimity does not cause diversity. Anonimity protects you from any number of attacks on your person. It allows you to share and retrieve information without risk. It also allows you to be an asshat without fear of reprisals. True, anonimity allows you to detach yourself from ties to a region, but that's only if you chose not to share those interest about yourself - a personal decision. The tie to locality may be lost, but it is being lost in favor of a tie to ideals or shared interests or goals, which to me is more important and significant than being tied to, say, "Podunk, Mississippi".
Further, I didn't blame Bush by name for anything. Bush isn't the only leader. If you're a member of a community, then you have leaders on the local, regional, state, and national levels - and not just the President at the national level. We also have Congress and the Supreme Court. I see failures and lack of leadership ability at all levels of government.
And for the record, I'm not one of your "liberals", my values tend to allign more with the Democratic Libertarian party. Trying to dismiss me by labeling me is the height of ignorance and arrogance. I'm not some party-line spewing drone, I'm an individual with my own ideas and opinions about things.
Don't just pigeon-hole this into an American phenomenon - the internet spans the whole world. And this decrease in patriotism that you are percieving isn't necessarily a result of information abundance, but perhaps simply because we lack strong leadership. You are mistaking correlation for causation here, a dangerous proposition.
This is the dark side of online anonymity - freedom from reprocussions if you want to act like an asshat. Fortunatly, many games also allow you to mute the input from obnoxious players, so you don't have to deal with them beyond that. Many other servers also let you kick those players with a majority vote. Worst case scenario, you can always jump to a different server - however, so can they.
Oh Cod, it makes me eel listening to you guys carp and whale with your tales of roe. But whatever. I'll throw my own in for the halibut.
Just last night I saw a commercial on TV urging viewers to vote No on a proposition about Net Neutrality. It was trying to say that it would cost consumers more, or at least allow ISP's to charge more. This was in the St. Louis area. Has anyone else seen or heard of anything like this in non-internet media lately?
Perhaps a Ninja Party instead?
Of course they should rename the party! Pirates are so lame. To ensure success, they should have called themselves the Ninja Party. Clearly a superior title.
Encrypt the data holds, batton down tha security patches, argh thar be spyware abound!
No, don't do that! I played Doom in the 90's, I *know* what happens when demons get borgified! Get me a rocketlauncher quick, before the Cyberdemon spawns!
I don't think that anyone will really care (much) if the content they're viewing on youtube or Google video or whatever else is out there is an advertisement or not - as long as it is entertaining. That's the whole point behind advertising, trying to keep your target audience entertained long enough to maybe get an ad in edgewise. Youtube is chock full of amusing little adverts that I watch to entertain myself. Heck, even if its not blatant advertising or bashing, as long as I get a chuckle or a "That was awesome!" from it, then the point is made. If the advertising people are doing their homework and learning to take advantage of a new medium, then kudos to them, as long as it stays entertaining.
So please, ad people, continue bringing us your Wazzaaaaaa's and your Geico Gekkos and your dancing transforming cars, and whatever else you can think of, blatant or not. Make me laugh. Make me yell. Make me think about buying your products, or of discontinuing service with your competitors. I will continue to temper my decisions with research and past experiences as my guides, but if you have a truely superior product or service to offer, then I will appreciate a truely superior ad campaign to tell me of it.
The *future* of IM? With goatse and tubgirl, the future is NOW!
Enough with the sharks.
You're right of course. We can't get the sharks anyways. We do, however, have some ill-tempered sea-bass...
FTA:
The K-10 runs Red Hat Linux, which NASA says was chosen for its large user base and application compatibility. Additionally, NASA notes that, "Linux's flexibility and scalability enable us to easily add, remove, and extend devices with minimal difficulty."
That'll teach me to read the damn article first next time.
It would be interesting to see which distro NASA picked, and for what reasons. Guesses anyone?
Its not a question of significance, its still a question of jurisdiction. US law still doesn't apply to a British company. If they were a US company based in Oregon, then the "conducting operations in an area" thing you mentioned would be relevant for reasons of interstate commerce and such. Consider the following example:
I make a website that has a lot of content on it that is perfectly fine and legal in my country. However, it is illegal for people in, say, Spain to view. However, lots of Spaniards come to my site anyways. This doesn't mean that now some group/person in Spain can sue me for damages. It just doesn't work that way.
...especially since there's just no juresdiction in the first place.
Shame on them from not coming to fight it
Why fight it if it doesn't affect them?