Just trade cards and trade often - preferably with someone who does not share your buying habits.
Look at it this way, if the stores collect zero data, this has a neutral effect on their business decisions. Mess with the data enough so that it is horribly faulty, and that data becomes dangerous and could lead to bad business decisions. In that scenario, the store quits using the data, and may then decide that the cards are a waste of money. Of course, it would take a movement of the people, but that shouldn't be impossible - everybody hates these cards.
I've traded my Haggen card at least 4 times this year already. Just need another million or so participants!
"When the squid is hanging at a 45 angle, all the light organs aim down and produce just enough light to cancel out the silhouette of the squid against the weak light from the surface above. They can even adjust the lights for different depths or time of day."
I've heard estimates that it will be a hundred years before a computer Go program can beat a professional player. Simple rules yet astounding complexity - should be a good platform for AI reasearch.
Late 80s early 90s was also a time when many people were moving from records to cds. That could skew the data a great deal. I would be interested in knowing how sales of the exact same media format change when the economy goes into recession during those times in which no new media format comes out. Without some reasonable controls, this is just "damn lies", i.e., statistics.
I would and do buy movies. However, I buy only the ones I can watch over and over - Brazil, Seven Samurai, things like that. I watch these 1 - 2 times a year. Personally, I wish you good luck on your project. There are definitely not enough good sci-fi movies, and way too many of the "Invasion of the Body Snatching Evil Computer Mechanoid Alien Terminator Clones" type of movies out there.
Can I plug Ian M. Banks' Culture series again for adaptation??;-)
Good sci-fi is so great, like any of the Culture series. I wish there were more good sci-fi movies too, but it seems that Hollywood is much more interested in "Science Fear", as opposed to sci-fi. Even our beloved Matrix is more about how tech is bad for people, than about freeing the storyline to explore other areas that aren't possible with today's tech.
It seems a lot easier to avoid "sci-fear" in text form though... lucky for me, the public library is two blocks away!
Mac's high price must have hurt them. I bought my first computer in 1991. I wanted a Mac and I wanted a color screen for games. As it turned out, I could have either a Mac, or a color screen, but not both. So I got the only thing I could afford and still have color capabilities - a PC.
Here's the thing, if a Mac with a color screen was $2-300 less in 1991, I would have bought it (and most likely 4 more in the last 12 years). If Apple was just a little less greedy, they could have had five purchases out of me - instead they got zero.
I look at Yellow Dog Linux (windows inside Mac inside linux) and I still want one... but they're still so overpriced. Even used Macs on ebay seem way out of line.
If you are a moderate in this day and age, you must be a radical!;-)
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Ideological liberals and conservatives are not opposites at all, they are meerly mirror images of the same thing. The far right and the far left are equally fascist, equally dangerous. It's very frustrating when they are the only ones who really get themselves heard when I'm sure (at least I hope), most people are far more rational.
Think of "hack" as in "poor skills" such as in "doing a hack job". Related to "hack" meaning to cut or chop inartfully, perhaps to "hack" relating to work horses (as opposed to race horses for example). All these senses of "hack" imply characteristics such as: unskilled, common, or base.
So the phrase could mean:
They are excellent at hacking
OR, they are excelently average.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget that autoshops which break down stolen cars to sell as parts, are called "hack shops".... I think at least. Lot's of puns in this one!
No need. I typed all of my exams through law school (the rules required a typewriter that had no spell checking capability, and could hold only a single line in memory (for correction purposes) and could not hold even that single line in memory after being switched off). I did this so I would be in practice to type the bar exam and I typed it as well - even took a spare typewriter with me (which was lucky cause my main one broke down).
The pass rate for typers on the bar exam is much higher than for hand writers. Of course, this could be due to any number of reasons, but I sure wouldn't discount legibility as a large factor.
I think his situation is the very point people are making about copy protection schemes/file format issues. Now in this case, it was only a worthless copy of M$ crap, so he's basically lucky. OOo will read all his old files, but what if he was locked into a file format and could not reinstall without paying for something all over again? Imagine you go buy a car and lose your keys. Should really have to pay $20,000 just to have a key made from the key code?
Lucky for us, Toshiba isn't a US company. And we'll see more of this (extra-US technological innovation) as time goes by. How many years until Bush finishes converting all science classes to bible study lessons?
Haggens cards. I trade mine with other people as often as possible. If more people did this it would be interesting. No data is not helpful. Bunged up data can be harmful. I want to screw with the data - not just avoid it.
You aren't the only one who has changed his music listening/purchasing habits in this manner. I can't remember the last time the radio was interesting, and the music industry tactics have made me absolutely refuse to buy their products (it's not actually a hard choice when they don't have anything interesting to offer me).
I say more power to 'em. Something has to get the US off it's fat ass, and if it won't, someone else needs to carry the torch of science and progress into space.
Unless you assemble yourself, good luck buying a computer without windows. M$ makes money even if you use linux, providing you buy a preassembled computer from practically anyone.
Not to mention shipping lanes. If all that grain from SE Washington had to travel by train or truck, the amount of diesel required to move it around would increase dramatically. All in all, I'm favorable to damns. I think they do have problems, but on balance, are definitely a lesser of potential evils.
There is a lot of opposition to damns in Pacific Northwest where I live (salmon habitat). It's hard to say this without sounding republican (which I most definetely am not), but people must realize that having energy requires trade-offs. I'm not saying damns are absolutely better than coal/gas/oil fired energy plants, but it seems fairly intuitive that the overall negative effects of damns on the environment at the worldwide scale, is far far less than that created by combustion. Plainly, local impacts are more severe with damns, but it seems this places the environmental burden on the users of the power, whereas with combustion, the costs are spread to non-users. In a sense, damns seem a more fair way to distribute the costs associated with power production. With combustion, neighbors who do not share the benefits of the power generated, still share the detriments of the pollution generated.
I'm currious if anyone knows of studies which look at power generation costs from a global, as opposed to local, perspective. For example, even with damns, I could forsee global impacts that would effect others not benefitted by the power, e.g., fewer salmon mean less seal food and thus, fewer seals. Cultures reliant on seals for whatever reason, may be unfairly burdened with the costs of power generation.
This obviously doesn't address the archeological destruction caused by the Three Gorges Damn - significant archeological evidence should be considered a world heritage asset, and be taken into consideration when constructing a damn.
Are you interested in Anagama Kilns? The Japanese
publisher has the original rights to the book - the
translation is worthless without the pictures. We
have their blessing to publish the translation through
an English Language publisher, but nobody seems to
think there is any market value in an anagama book. I've
been considering asking the Japanese publisher if I could
provide a translation along with an original Japanese
language copy of the book. Let me know if you are one
of the 8 people in the English speaking world who
might be interested in such a thing.;-)
And if you are an wood fire enthusiast, my next firing
will be in September (Bellingham, WA). You're welcome
to join the stoking team.
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Just trade cards and trade often - preferably with someone who does not share your buying habits.
Look at it this way, if the stores collect zero data, this has a neutral effect on their business decisions. Mess with the data enough so that it is horribly faulty, and that data becomes dangerous and could lead to bad business decisions. In that scenario, the store quits using the data, and may then decide that the cards are a waste of money. Of course, it would take a movement of the people, but that shouldn't be impossible - everybody hates these cards.
I've traded my Haggen card at least 4 times this year already. Just need another million or so participants!
"When the squid is hanging at a 45 angle, all the light organs aim down and produce just enough light to cancel out the silhouette of the squid against the weak light from the surface above. They can even adjust the lights for different depths or time of day."
Scroll down for the picture of a Jewel Squid.
I've heard estimates that it will be a hundred years before a computer Go program can beat a professional player. Simple rules yet astounding complexity - should be a good platform for AI reasearch.
Late 80s early 90s was also a time when many people were moving from records to cds. That could skew the data a great deal. I would be interested in knowing how sales of the exact same media format change when the economy goes into recession during those times in which no new media format comes out. Without some reasonable controls, this is just "damn lies", i.e., statistics.
I would and do buy movies. However, I buy only the ones I can watch over and over - Brazil, Seven Samurai, things like that. I watch these 1 - 2 times a year. Personally, I wish you good luck on your project. There are definitely not enough good sci-fi movies, and way too many of the "Invasion of the Body Snatching Evil Computer Mechanoid Alien Terminator Clones" type of movies out there.
;-)
Can I plug Ian M. Banks' Culture series again for adaptation??
Good sci-fi is so great, like any of the Culture series. I wish there were more good sci-fi movies too, but it seems that Hollywood is much more interested in "Science Fear", as opposed to sci-fi. Even our beloved Matrix is more about how tech is bad for people, than about freeing the storyline to explore other areas that aren't possible with today's tech.
... lucky for me, the public library is two blocks away!
It seems a lot easier to avoid "sci-fear" in text form though
Mac's high price must have hurt them. I bought my first computer in 1991. I wanted a Mac and I wanted a color screen for games. As it turned out, I could have either a Mac, or a color screen, but not both. So I got the only thing I could afford and still have color capabilities - a PC.
... but they're still so overpriced. Even used Macs on ebay seem way out of line.
Here's the thing, if a Mac with a color screen was $2-300 less in 1991, I would have bought it (and most likely 4 more in the last 12 years). If Apple was just a little less greedy, they could have had five purchases out of me - instead they got zero.
I look at Yellow Dog Linux (windows inside Mac inside linux) and I still want one
"BTW, I am not a liberal, I am a moderate"
;-)
If you are a moderate in this day and age, you must be a radical!
Ideological liberals and conservatives are not opposites at all, they are meerly mirror images of the same thing. The far right and the far left are equally fascist, equally dangerous. It's very frustrating when they are the only ones who really get themselves heard when I'm sure (at least I hope), most people are far more rational.
The pun: "premier hack shop"
.... I think at least. Lot's of puns in this one!
Think of "hack" as in "poor skills" such as in "doing a hack job". Related to "hack" meaning to cut or chop inartfully, perhaps to "hack" relating to work horses (as opposed to race horses for example). All these senses of "hack" imply characteristics such as: unskilled, common, or base.
So the phrase could mean:
They are excellent at hacking
OR, they are excelently average.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget that autoshops which break down stolen cars to sell as parts, are called "hack shops"
No need. I typed all of my exams through law school (the rules required a typewriter that had no spell checking capability, and could hold only a single line in memory (for correction purposes) and could not hold even that single line in memory after being switched off). I did this so I would be in practice to type the bar exam and I typed it as well - even took a spare typewriter with me (which was lucky cause my main one broke down).
The pass rate for typers on the bar exam is much higher than for hand writers. Of course, this could be due to any number of reasons, but I sure wouldn't discount legibility as a large factor.
I think his situation is the very point people are making about copy protection schemes/file format issues. Now in this case, it was only a worthless copy of M$ crap, so he's basically lucky. OOo will read all his old files, but what if he was locked into a file format and could not reinstall without paying for something all over again? Imagine you go buy a car and lose your keys. Should really have to pay $20,000 just to have a key made from the key code?
Lucky for us, Toshiba isn't a US company. And we'll see more of this (extra-US technological innovation) as time goes by. How many years until Bush finishes converting all science classes to bible study lessons?
Haggens cards. I trade mine with other people as often as possible. If more people did this it would be interesting. No data is not helpful. Bunged up data can be harmful. I want to screw with the data - not just avoid it.
;-)
I've graduated to a stainless steel helmet.
You aren't the only one who has changed his music listening/purchasing habits in this manner. I can't remember the last time the radio was interesting, and the music industry tactics have made me absolutely refuse to buy their products (it's not actually a hard choice when they don't have anything interesting to offer me).
Keep up the good work.
I can't tell either. He sounds so goofy I'm tending to believe he was being humorous, but failed to give enough clues to that fact.
I say more power to 'em. Something has to get the US off it's fat ass, and if it won't, someone else needs to carry the torch of science and progress into space.
I say this as a US citizen BTW.
"And FWIW, IAAL, but this isn't legal advice, you aren't my clients, etc."
;-)
Nice CYA!
Unless you assemble yourself, good luck buying a computer without windows. M$ makes money even if you use linux, providing you buy a preassembled computer from practically anyone.
Not to mention shipping lanes. If all that grain from SE Washington had to travel by train or truck, the amount of diesel required to move it around would increase dramatically. All in all, I'm favorable to damns. I think they do have problems, but on balance, are definitely a lesser of potential evils.
There is a lot of opposition to damns in Pacific Northwest where I live (salmon habitat). It's hard to say this without sounding republican (which I most definetely am not), but people must realize that having energy requires trade-offs. I'm not saying damns are absolutely better than coal/gas/oil fired energy plants, but it seems fairly intuitive that the overall negative effects of damns on the environment at the worldwide scale, is far far less than that created by combustion. Plainly, local impacts are more severe with damns, but it seems this places the environmental burden on the users of the power, whereas with combustion, the costs are spread to non-users. In a sense, damns seem a more fair way to distribute the costs associated with power production. With combustion, neighbors who do not share the benefits of the power generated, still share the detriments of the pollution generated.
I'm currious if anyone knows of studies which look at power generation costs from a global, as opposed to local, perspective. For example, even with damns, I could forsee global impacts that would effect others not benefitted by the power, e.g., fewer salmon mean less seal food and thus, fewer seals. Cultures reliant on seals for whatever reason, may be unfairly burdened with the costs of power generation.
This obviously doesn't address the archeological destruction caused by the Three Gorges Damn - significant archeological evidence should be considered a world heritage asset, and be taken into consideration when constructing a damn.
Ahhhh .... Brochli. I wonder why he was in so few episodes. I liked him.
Might I suggest Operation Infinite Purity?
I'm hoping for some good old west style vigilante justice!
Are you interested in Anagama Kilns? The Japanese publisher has the original rights to the book - the translation is worthless without the pictures. We have their blessing to publish the translation through an English Language publisher, but nobody seems to think there is any market value in an anagama book. I've been considering asking the Japanese publisher if I could provide a translation along with an original Japanese language copy of the book. Let me know if you are one of the 8 people in the English speaking world who might be interested in such a thing. ;-)
And if you are an wood fire enthusiast, my next firing will be in September (Bellingham, WA). You're welcome to join the stoking team.