There have also been double blind taste tests where people quite commonly picked *unfiltered* municipal tap water over fancy bottled brands. It's all in the mind.
wait, so you're telling me we're so stupid that we pay $1.00 or more for something that's so cheap it's freely available at public drinking fountains? You're telling me that something so abundent as water is actually more expensive than a comparable ammount of gasoline for no reason? You're telling me throwing away 25 million plastic drink containers out every hour isn't a good idea?
Frankly sir, I don't beleive you. No one could be that stupid. Take your leftist hippie agenda someplace else!
Whats to stop me put up a load of mirrors around the items I want to protect?
First, it would attract alot of attention if you are trying to hide something...a shimmering metal object is easier to spot then a camoflauged one.
However, I thought you could make a mirrored building or vehicle, then cover it with a fast melting/evaporating coating. The laser hits the coating, disipates it and then hits the mirrored surface.
and I never felt frustrated because of the violence.
When hannibal lecter bit of the nurses face while attactived to a heart rate monitor, his heart rate didn't even elevate.;-)
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but nobody in their right mind would complain that police officers or security guards (or even simply concerned citizens) on patrol watch for suspicious activity
These people don't have photographic memories. When I run for political office they won't be able to print out a picture of me with a piece of snot hanging out my nose because I'm in mid sneeze.
People don't care as much about other people because the processing to be done about a situtation happens right then and there, inside someones head. People care about computers because storage of their activity is indefinate, and has the potential to come back and haunt them much more easily than someones faded memories.
I tried posting this to Ask Slashdot...but it never made it.
I remember a story about ebillboards that would change their display based on what radio station you were listening to while in proximity of the device.
Could this be scaled down and used to locate police, who would be tuned into police radio frequency?
if someone's going to make a million dollars off that idea...please toss just a few bucks my way.
On the apple USB keyboards, F14 is not exactly the same as Scroll lock. I have a MiniView III KVM from IOGear. It's on screen display requires double tapping the scroll lock key. I can't get to the OSD with my apple keyboard because it doesn't have a true scroll lock key. Bummer.
And yes, I know it can be switched to a double tap of cntrl...but when you play PC games...double tapping cntrl is a common occurance.
..why the world is so concerned about Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction when the US undoubtably has far greater Weapons of Mass Destruction at their disposal.
And we use them more frequently to! How much do we spend a day just to blow stuff up? With all that "ordinance" wasted what happens when we face a real threat?
Would you rather they go after the P2P apps again and possibly get even more restrictive internet legislation passed or they go after the people responsible for violating current copyright laws?
We would rather not have them attacking and devestating the lives of innocent people. If someone is sharing massive ammounts of files, fine, throw him in jail and let him get analy raped, contract AIDs and learn how to be an effective criminal, all the while draining my tax dollars. Copyright infringers deserve it!
I recommend the Ion Cross pen as well for its overall usefullness. It's great to drop in your pocket or attach to your keychain. It also makes getting girls phone numbers a little slicker...the thing snaps open and shut with a bit of visual flare.
That being said, I have had one of the many Cross pens I've used leak...only one out of about 5 I have bought so far. (they are easy to lose) The good thing is, even though it leaked, the ink stayed inside the pen and didn't get on my clothing.
You don't have kids going home and crying to his dad because some of the kids in school laughed at him because he didn't have some cool make of computer.
But you do have kids running home and crying that their parents won't buy them an iPod. The rich high schoolers around me consider it a sort of status symbol.
umm no. I dont see why you people are expecting ports with this leaked code. Anyone that even attempted to distrbute a port would be shut down by Valve.
If I had the time and inclination, I would attempt a port. I know alot of geeks who have nothing but time on their hands. If the source is complete, someone out there will attempt a port.
Valve can't stop someone working on a port, if they don't know that that person is working on the port. It would be interesting if the person/group worked on a port, then tried to sell it back to Valve.
Is it conceivable that given todays technology, Apple could cram the features of the messagepad 2100 into the form factor of the palm Zire 71?
I miss the Newton Interface...it was simply amazing. Why hasn't anyone come close? PalmOS, even v5 is utter crap. It feelsl ike some first year cs students half assed homework assignment.
Because that SoBig chump got more newscoverage and has more mindshare than Alamo. If more people were aware of their dwindling rights..the masses might get upset enough to fight back, or atleast become somewhat disagreeable.
Similiarly, it's easier to kill a streetbum than to take out the president. Atleast, in such a way that you can delay being caught until the act is long since past, and no one cares anymore.
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That's just letting the terrorists win...isn't it?
All you have to do is make the fool believe he wants to buy Ford Brand Gasoline.
wait, so you're telling me we're so stupid that we pay $1.00 or more for something that's so cheap it's freely available at public drinking fountains? You're telling me that something so abundent as water is actually more expensive than a comparable ammount of gasoline for no reason? You're telling me throwing away 25 million plastic drink containers out every hour isn't a good idea?
Frankly sir, I don't beleive you. No one could be that stupid. Take your leftist hippie agenda someplace else!
I think I'll wait until I can get a robot that'll go down. :-)
First, it would attract alot of attention if you are trying to hide something...a shimmering metal object is easier to spot then a camoflauged one.
However, I thought you could make a mirrored building or vehicle, then cover it with a fast melting/evaporating coating. The laser hits the coating, disipates it and then hits the mirrored surface.
When hannibal lecter bit of the nurses face while attactived to a heart rate monitor, his heart rate didn't even elevate. ;-)
These people don't have photographic memories. When I run for political office they won't be able to print out a picture of me with a piece of snot hanging out my nose because I'm in mid sneeze.
People don't care as much about other people because the processing to be done about a situtation happens right then and there, inside someones head. People care about computers because storage of their activity is indefinate, and has the potential to come back and haunt them much more easily than someones faded memories.
Because, it will be cooler to do that then have a standalone PDA. The sheep want form over function.
I remember a story about ebillboards that would change their display based on what radio station you were listening to while in proximity of the device.
Could this be scaled down and used to locate police, who would be tuned into police radio frequency?
if someone's going to make a million dollars off that idea...please toss just a few bucks my way.
I know it's somewhat off topic, but eh...
That depends, am I getting paid hourly to fix the problems? :-)
I work with raw DV files on a daily basis. DV takes up 13GB per hour of footage. At that rate, a 300GB drive could fit almost 23 hours of video.
As someone who has worked on a project with over 40 hours of video, I can tell you there is a need. I'll take two, please.
That's because Walmart employees laugh at puppies and kick old people, duh.
Just follow the money.
It won't stop out of state spammers, but anyone in Missouri (my home state) would be a damn fool to not follow the law.
On the apple USB keyboards, F14 is not exactly the same as Scroll lock. I have a MiniView III KVM from IOGear. It's on screen display requires double tapping the scroll lock key. I can't get to the OSD with my apple keyboard because it doesn't have a true scroll lock key. Bummer. And yes, I know it can be switched to a double tap of cntrl...but when you play PC games...double tapping cntrl is a common occurance.
How long before someone makes a client to merge the two transparently to the user?
And we use them more frequently to! How much do we spend a day just to blow stuff up? With all that "ordinance" wasted what happens when we face a real threat?
We would rather not have them attacking and devestating the lives of innocent people. If someone is sharing massive ammounts of files, fine, throw him in jail and let him get analy raped, contract AIDs and learn how to be an effective criminal, all the while draining my tax dollars. Copyright infringers deserve it!
Don't they?
I recommend the Ion Cross pen as well for its overall usefullness. It's great to drop in your pocket or attach to your keychain. It also makes getting girls phone numbers a little slicker...the thing snaps open and shut with a bit of visual flare.
That being said, I have had one of the many Cross pens I've used leak...only one out of about 5 I have bought so far. (they are easy to lose) The good thing is, even though it leaked, the ink stayed inside the pen and didn't get on my clothing.
But you do have kids running home and crying that their parents won't buy them an iPod. The rich high schoolers around me consider it a sort of status symbol.
If I had the time and inclination, I would attempt a port. I know alot of geeks who have nothing but time on their hands. If the source is complete, someone out there will attempt a port.
Valve can't stop someone working on a port, if they don't know that that person is working on the port. It would be interesting if the person/group worked on a port, then tried to sell it back to Valve.
I miss the Newton Interface...it was simply amazing. Why hasn't anyone come close? PalmOS, even v5 is utter crap. It feelsl ike some first year cs students half assed homework assignment.
Inputing numbers with the stylus is painful, and the minature keyboards are just as bad.
Most teachers only cram in facts and don't develop their pupils critical thinking skills.
Because that SoBig chump got more newscoverage and has more mindshare than Alamo. If more people were aware of their dwindling rights..the masses might get upset enough to fight back, or atleast become somewhat disagreeable.
Similiarly, it's easier to kill a streetbum than to take out the president. Atleast, in such a way that you can delay being caught until the act is long since past, and no one cares anymore.
You are making a very big assumption.