Your body is constantly repairing itself, breaking down dead cells and building new cells. White blood cells are responsible for the break down and disposal. The dead cancer cells and nanoparticles will be broken down by WBC and removed from the body thru your kidneys and urine. Google white blood cells for more information or go to medical school.
" Do you have any tips for stopping cable for people who live with fans of cable news or cable sports?"
Yes: kill them. Tell them all they need is/. If they don't understand get new fans, they're not worth having around anyway.
Only news I get is online (/.) or Colbert. Seriously news is waaay overrated. Haven't watched the local news in 4 years and I don't feel worse for wear.
But if someone must have sports *shutters* then there's NFL Game Rewind with every NFL game in HD, NHL GameCenter Live for live NHL games and MLB. There's also ESPN, ESPN3, Fox Soccer... just google it, and they all work with PlayON which is compatible with PS3 and Xbox360.
I'm not worried, too many people have gone cable-free, if hulu disappears or gets horribly worse (charging huge fees) someone will come along and offer an alternative. I stopped cable in 2008 and downloaded everything. Hulu allowed me stop downloading and stream. It also introduced me to new shows I had never heard of. I use to use a program called TED (torrent episode downloader) that would automatically seek out new episodes of shows and download them. Hulu meant I didnt need TED anymore but if hulu forced everyone to pay or vanished I'd have no choice. I just started paying for Netflix so I rarely use Hulu anymore anyway, only thing I watch is Colbert.
Driverless cars will never happen because they can kill people. It's like anything humans use to do, if you wash dishes by hand you'll eventually break a dish, but if a dishwasher broke dishes OMG alert the press. If a driverless car had even the remote chance of killing someone that would be the end of driverless cars. We will eventually have cars that could drive themselves, cruise control that can stop and steering that stays in the lane, but it won't be called "driverless" and it won't work without a warm body in the drivers seat, and if you kill someone while driving it won't be the car's fault anymore than it's the fault of cruise control for the drunk driver slamming into you at 70mph.
I don't think you'll have to report an asshole to the cops. Onstar already calls you if the car notices a massive deacceleration or acceleration (hit from behind). There's a YouTube video of a supercharged cadalliac cts-v doing a 11 second quarter and Onstar calls them and says they noticed a rapid acceleration and asked if they needed assistance. If we did have driveless cars no doubt the sensors would automatically notify local enforcement that the vehicle was cut off and provide photographic evidence.
Doesn't matter, it will be 20+ years before this hits the masses. Assuming they offered it tomorrow in the latest Mercedes it would be a $10,000 option that few would bother with. It's like cadalliac offering nightvision on their 2000 DTS, almost no one bought that option and here 11 years later still very few cars offer nightvision. Same with laser cruise control that can slow the car down or even stop if it sees something ahead, Lexus and Mercedes have had that for 5+ years but I still dont see it offered in anything GM or Ford.
"We've had the technology to do video calling for quite a while - people just aren't that into it."
Wrong: we want video phones but we don't want to pay a lot for it, especially since it requires both parties to spend $$$. People do want to see each other, webcams seem to have done quite well since they're less than $100 but few wanted to spend the several hundreds of dollars that video calling had cost until just recently.
In response to the synopsis: "we can use Skype to call one another over the Internet and video call with mobile `phones, but the video quality is nowhere near the quality shown in the film 2001 or the aforementioned Transatlantic Tunnel film."
Yep, and they're getting all kinds of bad publicity now, because most the comments here and on gizmag are "I don't believe it exists I need to see a video". Ouch, press release fail guys, you say like our new product and we say what new product. With the press you have one good chance to get your foot in the door, it will be that much harder next time even if they do have a video. That said I'm done with gizmag, every week they have another BS article of something that doesn't exist but sounds amazing. Last week it was the 200mph motorcycle helicopter that's never even been off the ground.
Don't blame tap tap revenge. Like the angry birds story on here a few months ago, the android market is horribly fragmented so developers have to develop games that will work on the lowliest of devices otherwise risk pissing off customers by telling them the game wont work on their new free droid (which is actually from 2009) and a support nightmare. Angry birds had to make two versions of the game for that reason, one for slower devices. Hence you get games that look like they're for the NES rather than developers making two versions of the same game. iOS avoids all that, if your device isn't fast enough it just won't show you those textures or lighting effects or whatever but the game still works.
Did you miss the part of the story where he says Android users have more support issues? So much for being more tech savvy. In my experience it's been the opposite, iPhone users are tech savvy and went iOS because it has all the big developers and the good apps and the android users were not tech savvy but easily impressed by the whiz bang features (ohhh... 8mp!) and could not really afford an IPhone. I've never met a droid user who bought it because they wanted it, every smartphone argument includes "yeah but you paid $200+ for your iPhone and I only paid....".
I was thinking more "Developer figures out way to get plenty of eyeballs on his press release (by mentioning Android and iOS) which just happens to mention how highly his game is rated on the two systems", but I guess that was too long and not nearly inflammatory enough. Seriously, though, blatant slashvertisement wrapped up in flamebait language to generate lots of clicks - pretty much par for the course.
finally someone figures it out. I also love how he has 4 times the reviews on iOS which probably means he has 4 times the downloads or more since he admits more people are writing reviews of android than they do iOS version, then says android support is a nightmare, but concludes developers should still write android apps because the quality bar is so low. WTH? Thanks, but I think I'll choose the platform with more sales and less support issues. He'd make a great iPhone salesmen.
So just don't have your site hosted in the US and you're instantly safe?
FBI isn't the only problem. There are outages and disasters to worry about, so could this be avoided? As someone with a website, how would I go about having my site mirrored on different hosts so if one goes down another takes over automatically? I know I could "get a good host" but every host claims they have redundant backups and everything, I would feel more comfortable if I used several entirely different hosts and had the content mirrored nightly. Is that possible?
"How many Netflix subscribers actually use the PC version? "
Anyone that uses PlayON to stream Netflix to their HDTV. I believe XBMC and boxee does that too.
I recently had to stop using my XBMC for Netflix because I had so many problems with getting Silverlight to work correctly with XP. Now I stream Netflix through the PS3.
"We have to ask ourselves if keeping grandpa alive for another week (unconscious or in sever pain or zonked out of his gourd ) is really benefiting him. We need to get away from the idea that any extension of life at all cost is worth it. "
And who decides? The relatives, who stand to receive the house, the car, and all the money that grandpa is currently "wasting" by staying alive? The doctors, who want to keep beds full so they can keep making $$$ and dead patients pay $0? The courts and lawyers, who will squabble for years all while racking up court costs and attorney's fees?
Legal suicide is always bad. Whose to say you really wanted to die after you're dead? And how can grandpa consent when he has alzheimers or dementia? It's really bad when grandpa's 70 and gets alzheimers because you know he could live another 20+ years. I work in medicine and you'd be surprised how many times I saw relatives that were tired of grandpa and wanted him gone.
and this is why Americans don't vote and don't care about our government because we feel we have absolutely no power. They say everything we want to hear to get us to vote for them but as soon as they're in office they take bribes from corporations and do whatever the corporations say to do.
This isn't true all the time but it's true enough that voters feel disenchanted with voting.
I know you're AC, but I have to comment. Greek and Roman mythology has been around for thousands of years. Spongeboob came out in 1999. Seriously you're putting a cartoon that's barely 10 years old up against Greek and Roman mythology? Oh right, AC troll, gotcha.
Also naming it after a children's cartoon shows the immaturity of the biologist. I didn't even know what Spongbob was until recently, when my wife, who was young enough to watch Spongebob growing up, introduced me to it. It's a good show but I wouldn't be naming mushrooms after it... unless I was on shrooms at the time and thought "DUDE! We should call it... SPONGEBOB!"
"Let me just point at cheap date, a gene that imposes heightened alcohol sensitive on the flies; or perhaps the ken and barbie genes, mutations in which cause lack of external genitalia. Then there is superman, a mutation that causes extra male genitalia in the plant Arabidopsis. Naturally, it is suppressed by the kryptonite gene. Leaving the genitalia business, there is also embargo in Drosophila, a mutation in which stops nuclear export..."
I see nothing wrong with any of those since they all make complete sense. I for one welcome our new rational-naming-scheme overlords
Just search the page for your password. Chrome does a great job of this because it starts highlighting matching passwords as you type it. I just checked my passwords, none of them are on this list.
But it wasn't just piracy and PS2 hype. It was also the lack of high quality games and Microsoft stealing from Sega to make the Xbox (they teamed up for Dreamcast for it to run Windows CE).
It's not illegal to own a gun, but an employer can fire you because of it. Hell, they can fire you for wearing a yellow shirt, they can fire you for almost anything and call it a "performance" issue.
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Your body is constantly repairing itself, breaking down dead cells and building new cells. White blood cells are responsible for the break down and disposal. The dead cancer cells and nanoparticles will be broken down by WBC and removed from the body thru your kidneys and urine. Google white blood cells for more information or go to medical school.
Google "kills cancer cells". Apparently garlic, vitamin c, lemon juice, curry spice Turmeric and breast milk all kill cancer cells.
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All these crazy cancer drugs and chemotherapy and all you really needed is a vitamin D injection. Gosh scientists are stupid!
" Do you have any tips for stopping cable for people who live with fans of cable news or cable sports?"
/. If they don't understand get new fans, they're not worth having around anyway.
Yes: kill them. Tell them all they need is
Only news I get is online (/.) or Colbert. Seriously news is waaay overrated. Haven't watched the local news in 4 years and I don't feel worse for wear.
But if someone must have sports *shutters* then there's NFL Game Rewind with every NFL game in HD, NHL GameCenter Live for live NHL games and MLB. There's also ESPN, ESPN3, Fox Soccer... just google it, and they all work with PlayON which is compatible with PS3 and Xbox360.
I'm not worried, too many people have gone cable-free, if hulu disappears or gets horribly worse (charging huge fees) someone will come along and offer an alternative. I stopped cable in 2008 and downloaded everything. Hulu allowed me stop downloading and stream. It also introduced me to new shows I had never heard of. I use to use a program called TED (torrent episode downloader) that would automatically seek out new episodes of shows and download them. Hulu meant I didnt need TED anymore but if hulu forced everyone to pay or vanished I'd have no choice. I just started paying for Netflix so I rarely use Hulu anymore anyway, only thing I watch is Colbert.
Driverless cars will never happen because they can kill people. It's like anything humans use to do, if you wash dishes by hand you'll eventually break a dish, but if a dishwasher broke dishes OMG alert the press. If a driverless car had even the remote chance of killing someone that would be the end of driverless cars. We will eventually have cars that could drive themselves, cruise control that can stop and steering that stays in the lane, but it won't be called "driverless" and it won't work without a warm body in the drivers seat, and if you kill someone while driving it won't be the car's fault anymore than it's the fault of cruise control for the drunk driver slamming into you at 70mph.
I don't think you'll have to report an asshole to the cops. Onstar already calls you if the car notices a massive deacceleration or acceleration (hit from behind). There's a YouTube video of a supercharged cadalliac cts-v doing a 11 second quarter and Onstar calls them and says they noticed a rapid acceleration and asked if they needed assistance. If we did have driveless cars no doubt the sensors would automatically notify local enforcement that the vehicle was cut off and provide photographic evidence.
Doesn't matter, it will be 20+ years before this hits the masses. Assuming they offered it tomorrow in the latest Mercedes it would be a $10,000 option that few would bother with. It's like cadalliac offering nightvision on their 2000 DTS, almost no one bought that option and here 11 years later still very few cars offer nightvision. Same with laser cruise control that can slow the car down or even stop if it sees something ahead, Lexus and Mercedes have had that for 5+ years but I still dont see it offered in anything GM or Ford.
"We've had the technology to do video calling for quite a while - people just aren't that into it."
Wrong: we want video phones but we don't want to pay a lot for it, especially since it requires both parties to spend $$$. People do want to see each other, webcams seem to have done quite well since they're less than $100 but few wanted to spend the several hundreds of dollars that video calling had cost until just recently.
In response to the synopsis: "we can use Skype to call one another over the Internet and video call with mobile `phones, but the video quality is nowhere near the quality shown in the film 2001 or the aforementioned Transatlantic Tunnel film."
Huh? You act like progress on video calling has just ended. You realize 20 years ago a video phone cost $750 and looked and sounded like crap over 56k, right?
It wasn't until 2004 when a real video phone was released by D-Link. Using broadband eliminated the framerate problems but the price was a bit high at $400 each.
Video phones really wouldn't be possible until we had a wireless network that could handle it but 3G cellphones weren't even available in the US until 2004, and 3G was still so new by 2007 that the first iPhone didn't even offer 3G.
Fast-forward just 6 years after 3G first reached the US and Skype now allows video calls through 3G on iPhones for free. That's amazing progress! To go from the network just being setup to transmitting video calls over it for free. And that was all of 6 months ago, give it some time, another 6 years from now using your cellphone as a video phone will look better than it did in 2001 and Transatlantic Tunnel and it will be free.
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Yep, and they're getting all kinds of bad publicity now, because most the comments here and on gizmag are "I don't believe it exists I need to see a video". Ouch, press release fail guys, you say like our new product and we say what new product. With the press you have one good chance to get your foot in the door, it will be that much harder next time even if they do have a video. That said I'm done with gizmag, every week they have another BS article of something that doesn't exist but sounds amazing. Last week it was the 200mph motorcycle helicopter that's never even been off the ground.
Don't blame tap tap revenge. Like the angry birds story on here a few months ago, the android market is horribly fragmented so developers have to develop games that will work on the lowliest of devices otherwise risk pissing off customers by telling them the game wont work on their new free droid (which is actually from 2009) and a support nightmare. Angry birds had to make two versions of the game for that reason, one for slower devices. Hence you get games that look like they're for the NES rather than developers making two versions of the same game. iOS avoids all that, if your device isn't fast enough it just won't show you those textures or lighting effects or whatever but the game still works.
Did you miss the part of the story where he says Android users have more support issues? So much for being more tech savvy. In my experience it's been the opposite, iPhone users are tech savvy and went iOS because it has all the big developers and the good apps and the android users were not tech savvy but easily impressed by the whiz bang features (ohhh... 8mp!) and could not really afford an IPhone. I've never met a droid user who bought it because they wanted it, every smartphone argument includes "yeah but you paid $200+ for your iPhone and I only paid....".
I was thinking more "Developer figures out way to get plenty of eyeballs on his press release (by mentioning Android and iOS) which just happens to mention how highly his game is rated on the two systems", but I guess that was too long and not nearly inflammatory enough. Seriously, though, blatant slashvertisement wrapped up in flamebait language to generate lots of clicks - pretty much par for the course.
finally someone figures it out. I also love how he has 4 times the reviews on iOS which probably means he has 4 times the downloads or more since he admits more people are writing reviews of android than they do iOS version, then says android support is a nightmare, but concludes developers should still write android apps because the quality bar is so low. WTH? Thanks, but I think I'll choose the platform with more sales and less support issues. He'd make a great iPhone salesmen.
So just don't have your site hosted in the US and you're instantly safe?
FBI isn't the only problem. There are outages and disasters to worry about, so could this be avoided? As someone with a website, how would I go about having my site mirrored on different hosts so if one goes down another takes over automatically? I know I could "get a good host" but every host claims they have redundant backups and everything, I would feel more comfortable if I used several entirely different hosts and had the content mirrored nightly. Is that possible?
With $100,000 I'd be too busy spending it to bother hacking anything.
"How many Netflix subscribers actually use the PC version? "
Anyone that uses PlayON to stream Netflix to their HDTV. I believe XBMC and boxee does that too.
I recently had to stop using my XBMC for Netflix because I had so many problems with getting Silverlight to work correctly with XP. Now I stream Netflix through the PS3.
"We have to ask ourselves if keeping grandpa alive for another week (unconscious or in sever pain or zonked out of his gourd ) is really benefiting him. We need to get away from the idea that any extension of life at all cost is worth it. "
And who decides? The relatives, who stand to receive the house, the car, and all the money that grandpa is currently "wasting" by staying alive? The doctors, who want to keep beds full so they can keep making $$$ and dead patients pay $0? The courts and lawyers, who will squabble for years all while racking up court costs and attorney's fees?
And at what age is the cut-off? Grandpa's 60, should he get a 250k heart? What about 70? 80? But 98 yr old grandpa just finished a marathon, he's got many years left in him!
Legal suicide is always bad. Whose to say you really wanted to die after you're dead? And how can grandpa consent when he has alzheimers or dementia? It's really bad when grandpa's 70 and gets alzheimers because you know he could live another 20+ years. I work in medicine and you'd be surprised how many times I saw relatives that were tired of grandpa and wanted him gone.
and this is why Americans don't vote and don't care about our government because we feel we have absolutely no power. They say everything we want to hear to get us to vote for them but as soon as they're in office they take bribes from corporations and do whatever the corporations say to do.
This isn't true all the time but it's true enough that voters feel disenchanted with voting.
I know you're AC, but I have to comment. Greek and Roman mythology has been around for thousands of years. Spongeboob came out in 1999. Seriously you're putting a cartoon that's barely 10 years old up against Greek and Roman mythology? Oh right, AC troll, gotcha.
Also naming it after a children's cartoon shows the immaturity of the biologist. I didn't even know what Spongbob was until recently, when my wife, who was young enough to watch Spongebob growing up, introduced me to it. It's a good show but I wouldn't be naming mushrooms after it... unless I was on shrooms at the time and thought "DUDE! We should call it... SPONGEBOB!"
"Let me just point at cheap date, a gene that imposes heightened alcohol sensitive on the flies; or perhaps the ken and barbie genes, mutations in which cause lack of external genitalia. Then there is superman, a mutation that causes extra male genitalia in the plant Arabidopsis. Naturally, it is suppressed by the kryptonite gene. Leaving the genitalia business, there is also embargo in Drosophila, a mutation in which stops nuclear export..."
I see nothing wrong with any of those since they all make complete sense. I for one welcome our new rational-naming-scheme overlords
Here's a link to the passwords so you can check if your password is on there
Just search the page for your password. Chrome does a great job of this because it starts highlighting matching passwords as you type it. I just checked my passwords, none of them are on this list.
" It took a few years for pirates to figure-out how to copy the 1GB disc onto a file"
Wrong, took 10 months, Utopia BootCD came out 10 months after Dreamcast US release
"It was killed by Piracy and the hype around the upcoming PS2."
:), and the Utopia Boot Disk allowing booting from CD-Rs was released June 2000, only 10 months after the Dreamcast came out. Many claim piracy had nothing to do with death of Dreamcast but I disagree. The fact that the dreamcast could run cracked games without a modchip is what did it. Playstation had modchips but it required soldering chips yourself or finding someone to do it for you, both of which was difficult for many average consumers.
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Dreamcast came out in 1999 in US (9.9.99, remember?
But it wasn't just piracy and PS2 hype. It was also the lack of high quality games and Microsoft stealing from Sega to make the Xbox (they teamed up for Dreamcast for it to run Windows CE).
It's not illegal to own a gun, but an employer can fire you because of it. Hell, they can fire you for wearing a yellow shirt, they can fire you for almost anything and call it a "performance" issue.