It was routine to have a 5 Apple count before rushing the QB in touch football after the snap. Maybe these people should have taken a page from that book when those gates opened.
In the last howevermany years, every "car of the future" article in Pop(Sci|Mechanics) that I've seen features the stuff from Moller International out near Sacramento.
Before the masses get together and complain about the troubles of 3 dimensions vs. 2 when driving, take a look. I've seen the prototypes in action and as far as innovation goes on this topic, it's the most out there and concrete thing I've seen going on for this subject.
Spam, as a criminal activity, affects way more people directly than most other serious offenses. When you look at murder, for example, say one person kills another. That is obviously one victim. Add to that everyone that that person knows, and on average that crime affected ~ 100 people (making the math easy)? If that killer makes the 10 most wanted, there may be a $50,000 bounty out. That would be about $500 / person affected.
Look at spam then. One message goes out to 10 million addresses. Then multiply that one message by a conservative 10 messages per day.
Say both these criminals are out on the street for 100 days before each is ratted out. The killer has affected 100 people in this time, with one occurrence - about 100 effects. The spammer has spammed 10 million people with 10 messages for 100 days. That is 10,000,000,000 occurrences of the "crime".
Actually, the Reuters guy is correct. When a date is listed as in July 4, 1776, the year is parenthetical. Not so if he would have said September 2001 or 2001-09-11.
As an aside, I've also heard that the recently laid cornerstone for the twin towers included the mistake above by not adding the comma. I haven't seen it, though, so I can't support that claim.
Seeing a laser tag story allowed me to reminisce a little. I didn't even remember I had a laser tag system until I read the post. Then I remember why I forgot about it in the first place - paintball.
What was lacking from the laser tag game was a reason to stay out of the way of the laser. No consequence to standing right out in the open, and as a kid, our games usually turned less fun after someone threw themselves into the line of fire for no reason.
Enter paintball a few years later. I, for one, am not jumping out in front of a flying paintball. The consequence (and initial sting) keeps the game fun. I don't think I stand alone in this.
Given the opportunity to play either, 99 times out of 100 I'm going to overlook laser tag without question.
At one time I thought that the new laser tag things were so cool. Finally an answer to the stick-guns we usually ran around with. When I found out that I could thwart my opponents firing by turning my back, it wasn't quite the answer we were looking for. Turn your back to a paintball, you're just going to sting in a different place.
I'm always a fan of modding things, but I can't see the point here when perfectly viable alternatives exist.
"This could solve a lot of the software industry's problems," Steinmetz said.
Right. Henry Ford once said (or at least it was attributable to him), "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." I don't think people are having problems with software they buy off the shelves that this contraption can solve.
A brick-and-mortar store shelf works just like any other store, be it groceries, auto parts, books, etc. The man-on-the-street already knows the protocol for shopping. This thing adds a level of complexity that is unnecessary. Complexity is what screws most people up in the first place.
It is useful if I can download a title because I don't have to leave home. If I have to get out and go to a store anyway, I want the box and the docs to go with it.
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It was routine to have a 5 Apple count before rushing the QB in touch football after the snap. Maybe these people should have taken a page from that book when those gates opened.
Just happens that the count is also fitting here.
In the last howevermany years, every "car of the future" article in Pop(Sci|Mechanics) that I've seen features the stuff from Moller International out near Sacramento.
Before the masses get together and complain about the troubles of 3 dimensions vs. 2 when driving, take a look. I've seen the prototypes in action and as far as innovation goes on this topic, it's the most out there and concrete thing I've seen going on for this subject.
Check it out - http://www.moller.com/
Spam, as a criminal activity, affects way more people directly than most other serious offenses. When you look at murder, for example, say one person kills another. That is obviously one victim. Add to that everyone that that person knows, and on average that crime affected ~ 100 people (making the math easy)? If that killer makes the 10 most wanted, there may be a $50,000 bounty out. That would be about $500 / person affected.
Look at spam then. One message goes out to 10 million addresses. Then multiply that one message by a conservative 10 messages per day.
Say both these criminals are out on the street for 100 days before each is ratted out. The killer has affected 100 people in this time, with one occurrence - about 100 effects. The spammer has spammed 10 million people with 10 messages for 100 days. That is 10,000,000,000 occurrences of the "crime".
Dollars per occurrence - Murderer - $50,000 / 100 = $500 / effect. Spammer - $250,000 / 10,000,000,000 = $0.000025 per effect
So the FTC is spending way less than the FBI for each of us affected by the crimes.
Perhaps they need a bigger budget? =)
Actually, the Reuters guy is correct. When a date is listed as in July 4, 1776, the year is parenthetical. Not so if he would have said September 2001 or 2001-09-11.
As an aside, I've also heard that the recently laid cornerstone for the twin towers included the mistake above by not adding the comma. I haven't seen it, though, so I can't support that claim.
Seeing a laser tag story allowed me to reminisce a little. I didn't even remember I had a laser tag system until I read the post. Then I remember why I forgot about it in the first place - paintball.
What was lacking from the laser tag game was a reason to stay out of the way of the laser. No consequence to standing right out in the open, and as a kid, our games usually turned less fun after someone threw themselves into the line of fire for no reason.
Enter paintball a few years later. I, for one, am not jumping out in front of a flying paintball. The consequence (and initial sting) keeps the game fun. I don't think I stand alone in this.
Given the opportunity to play either, 99 times out of 100 I'm going to overlook laser tag without question.
At one time I thought that the new laser tag things were so cool. Finally an answer to the stick-guns we usually ran around with. When I found out that I could thwart my opponents firing by turning my back, it wasn't quite the answer we were looking for. Turn your back to a paintball, you're just going to sting in a different place.
I'm always a fan of modding things, but I can't see the point here when perfectly viable alternatives exist.
"This could solve a lot of the software industry's problems," Steinmetz said.
Right. Henry Ford once said (or at least it was attributable to him), "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." I don't think people are having problems with software they buy off the shelves that this contraption can solve.A brick-and-mortar store shelf works just like any other store, be it groceries, auto parts, books, etc. The man-on-the-street already knows the protocol for shopping. This thing adds a level of complexity that is unnecessary. Complexity is what screws most people up in the first place.
It is useful if I can download a title because I don't have to leave home. If I have to get out and go to a store anyway, I want the box and the docs to go with it.