It'll probably only work with injections that go into tissue instead of veins. Accuraccy doesn't matter as much with them, so close enough out to be fine.
Also, didn't they already do this some years back? I remember seeing pictures of devices that looked uncomfortably like a pneumatic nail gun that could inject medicine through the skin with pressurized air. Is this just a less sinister-looking version, or did the old one have a habit of giving people embolisms or something?
If the history of space travel has told us anything, it's that getting the robot to Mars is the easy part. Getting it to work once it's there is another matter.
H games are very rarely available retail in the US. Very few companies import them because they're just not that popular here. Where they are sold (I worked at a book store in my area that has a few of them. Even then, not even enough to get their own shelf, and in the eighteen months I worked there, I only remember seeing one customer actually buy one), they're behind the beaded curtain next to the brown-wrapper magazines, and they usually have brown wrappers themselves. Anybody under 18 isn't even allowed in the room where they're kept (this one checked ID, too), and the store I worked at had a policy posted outside the beaded curtain room that if you had somebody under 18 with you, even if it was your child, you couldn't go inside (The justification is that they'd be left unattended, but the reason was just as much to stop people from buying porn for their younger friends). The only way to get H games in most areas is at adult novelty stores, or through catalogs like J-list or Jast USA. Most such catalogs require age verification just to order the catalog, let alone anything in it. Most also require age verification and a credit card to order. Most adult stores are almost religious about making sure nobody under 18 gets through the door. They're often unliked by the local authorities already, so even a small slip can mean getting their land rezoned out from under them.
It's simpler than that, I would think. Even holding the contract as set in stone, it doesn't give them rights over this. The argument can be made that he didn't think this up. He took somebody else's code and worked with it, but somebody else thought of it and created it, not him.
I admit this may not be the most flattering way to look at it from his standpoint, but it would work.
The article's got a slight innaccuracy. There are effective treatments, just no cure. However, some of the treatments are excellent, and can delay the onset of the disease and substantially slow it once it does show up. My great-grandmother was diagnosed with the disease seven years ago, but is still living a perfectly normal life for somebody her age. She worries far more about high blood pressure than Alzheimers.
Even before they had effective medications, it was better to know ahead. They determined a long time ago that people who kept an active mind tended to delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms. Even so much as doing the daily crossword puzzels in the newspaper and staying active is supposed to help. Beyond that, there have been therapies and even simple lifestyle changes available for a while that can be made to make dealing with symptoms easier if and when they do develop, and as a last resort, most visiting physician services have Alzheimer's specialists who can help.
We used miniatures mostly because it settled disputes. We never invested in the real things, though. For the longest time, I was represented on the table as a poker chip. I had a friend who used an army man. We had a handful of 5-cent toy dinosaurs that served as whichever monster was needed at the time. Imagination still played a role, but having a tangible layout on the table just settles those, "Wait, are you even close enough to attack him?" disputes.
The original series had Nazis, Romans, mafia, wild west, and that alternate future Earth where the civil war had turned into some sort of apocalyptic event and they had people living in caves flying the American Flag. That trumps the nazis ten times over.
I've never noticed the sound from monitors much, but it's probably just because it vanishes in the other sounds you get inside of a building. I can hear the sound from AC power when I'm inside, as well as flourescent lights. You notice those sounds a lot more when they're not there. When the power goes out, it's almost eerily quiet. It's the only time I'm glad I had a bad ear infection as an infant and now have a faint but constant low-pitched ringing in my ears. I still have something to listen to when the power goes out (and that's been happening a lot in my area the last couple months).
What kind of monitor? I have a big CRT on one computer, and an LCD on the other. The CRT gives me the same thing, but I can usually play on my LCD monitor all day without issues. Sitting back on my couch, I can play console games on the TV all I want and I usually don't get headaches either.
He registered it before they trademarked iTunes, not before they announced it. Furthur, he registered it over two years after Apple registered itunes.com (link is to whois data).
(why do they insist on "repair" or whatever costs to get money out of the system instead of simple taxes?)
Because it's not just money you want to keep out of the system, it's items. If items last forever, then the economy eventually gets glutted, and even the best equipment is pocket change.
There's also a practical reason: Those items are all data. That data has to be stored on the servers. More items means more data, which means less space on the server and more data being pushed around when people click their inventories and so forth.
Your shady practices are an employee in a job position that requires access to the user database stealing the list of email accounts and selling it for a large sum of money, and his employer firing him, suing him, and even getting him thrown in jail for leaking company data.
What about that makes AOL in the least bit shady? That they took action against somebody who tried to damage the service the provide their customers?
You can take issue all you want. You've gotten a number or new 2D mario games, if that's how you think of Nintendo. Sure, they're just the same ones that were on the NES and SNES, but you've now gotten twelve new ones out of the original four. TWELVE remakes of four games. Even allowing the fact that one of the original four wasn't really a Mario game, that's pretty excessive. In the same time, how many new Mario games have we gotten? Mario Sunshine, Mario Golf, and Mario Party. We just got the second remake of Zelda 1 - third if you count the Satellaview remake that was only partially finished. Two remakes of Link to the Past, one of which had a rehash of Four Swords included, and supposedly the second to Link's Awakening is on the way. Metroid is only on its first round of remakes right now, but they're busy bees with that. Pokemon's going to have six remakes out within fairly short order. It's already got two with one comming soon. It was a stretch not to call the first nine games remakes, so they're going to make a set of remakes to settle that. Wind Waker's only advancement was that it took the gameplay - and there was much less of it than in the N64 Zeldas - and separated it by around 30 hours of boatriding. Subtract out the boatriding time, and I spent less than half the amount of time on it that I spent on any of the N64 Zeldas. Barely more than I spent my first time through Link to the Past. For the last five years, StarFox is the only one of Nintendo's franchises that hasn't gotten at least two remakes to every new game, and that's just because it's only gotten one game in that time anyway. But, oh, wait, they were planning to remake the original.
I've got to admit, that Zelda trailer makes me drool. It's been a few years since I've had to get a napkin after watching a preview of a game, and I almost regret selling my Gamecube last year. Almost, though, I'm not discounting Nintendo's penchant for dropping the ball. Nintendo could really do some very amazing things if they keep stuff like that up and cut back on the remaking and rehashing.
Because if you go into court, and it appears to the judge that you don't care enough to know read a contract before you get yourself implicated with it, the judge probably won't care enough to hear your defense. The old addage that "ignorance is no defense," is a bit innaccurate. It should really read, "Ignorance is worse than no defense."
Pretty much. But you'll have to get them to give you their credit card or bank numbers first, and that's NOT good for squeezing money out of people
Remember, the best path leading up to the n-1. ???/n. Profit! conclusion is one that involves a major corporation stepping on private citizens. That's what's going on with AOL.
What you're proposing, however, will result in a major corporation getting in an actual fight with several other equally major corporations who are just as fond of litigation as you'd have to be to try that (ever wondered why all banker jokes are just lawyer jokes with the word banker substituted for lawyer?). You can't push Citibank to the edge of bankruptcy and hope they just settle to cut their losses. You can do that to cust_id:11592427, however.
To use GAIM, you still have to sign up for an AIM account. To sign up for an AIM account, you have to click the TOS. I've had a AIM accounts since they had an 8 letter length limit (I think it was 8. It was a long time ago. I had a 486 with windows 3.1 and under a meg of RAM and could say so without being lauged at), and I had to click the TOS to create all of them. They always had the clause that allowed AOL to change them on a whim.
If you never clicked the TOS, then you didn't create your account, and they probably can pull something out of their hat even worse out to throw at you.
Not defending AOL, just pointing out that there's another few thousand words to the TOS than just this. No matter how you're using their network, you signed up for an account, and you're stuck with the TOS.
When you singed up for an account, you agreed to the TOS. The TOS also has that clause that it can be changed at any time without notice, and that you're bound by those changes. The TOS doesn't neccessarily have anything to do with the client you use - You're bound if you install the client OR create an account. You don't even have to download the client, or even any third party client, or even access the network, you signed up for an account, and you're bound by the TOS.
Wether that TOS, the ability to change it unilaterally, or these specific changes are legal or not is a question for the judges to handle, if they ever see it, but like I said in my other post, AOL's big enough to play the RIAA's game and bury you in court costs to make sure it never gets to a judge.
They could make it worse on GAIM users if it came down to it. All they have to do is make the AIM client is the only program authorized to access the AIM network (if they're turning TOS tricks like this, it probably already is, for that matter). If you want to make a stink about things, they pull out words like electronic tresspassing since you'd then be accessing the network without authorizatioin. In this case, the way you'd "get away" with using GAIM or Trillian is that the server can't tell the difference between that and the AIM client. The only way to try to claim that you're not bound by the TOS is to admit to unauthorized access. Would it stand up in court? I don't know, but it's AOL. They're big enough to play RIAA-ball and kill you with legal bills.
I must have seen that episode a dozen times. Only seeing it in print did the Chief Wiggum bit register properly. Great show. Find new things to laugh at even years after you thought you'd wrung an episode dry.
Not those parts alone. At least, I doubt very much those parts alone. If that were all it would take, it'd probably cost less than $1 billion. It'll take more work to build the replacement, but at an ultimate savings over repairing the current. I doubt they'd leave out functionality that Hubble already has. If they do, they'd probably get a good deal of criticism from the scientific community, and right now, they're one of NASAs increasingly few fans.
Building a new Hubble would also allow for things that would be difficult to do with the existing one. New instruments, better ones, and so forth. Hubble is being matched by some groundbased observatories now because of advancements in telescope technology. I imagine those advancements, as well as advancements in optics and imaging, if they can be incorporated into a new Hubble, would produce another leap in the quality of data we can collect just like we saw when Hubble was fixed the first time.
On the other hand, I do agree with you. If they're just going to build a Hubble Lite with castrated capabilities, then I'd rather they let the current one die and wait for a few more years until a completely new space telescope can be built.
Have you ever compared stills to motion pictures from the time? Still cameras have been able to make very good images for fifty years. There were even color cameras in WWII that could match the camera I bought at K-Mart in 1992. Motion pictures were, by comparison, pretty crummy. Television broadcasts were grainy, and movie theaters had very large and expensive optics to produce good quality. The moon missions neccessitated very light cameras, and on top of that, the images were broadcast to earth to be recorded, the stills were captuerd on film and brought back to be developed.
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It'll probably only work with injections that go into tissue instead of veins. Accuraccy doesn't matter as much with them, so close enough out to be fine. Also, didn't they already do this some years back? I remember seeing pictures of devices that looked uncomfortably like a pneumatic nail gun that could inject medicine through the skin with pressurized air. Is this just a less sinister-looking version, or did the old one have a habit of giving people embolisms or something?
If the history of space travel has told us anything, it's that getting the robot to Mars is the easy part. Getting it to work once it's there is another matter.
H games are very rarely available retail in the US. Very few companies import them because they're just not that popular here. Where they are sold (I worked at a book store in my area that has a few of them. Even then, not even enough to get their own shelf, and in the eighteen months I worked there, I only remember seeing one customer actually buy one), they're behind the beaded curtain next to the brown-wrapper magazines, and they usually have brown wrappers themselves. Anybody under 18 isn't even allowed in the room where they're kept (this one checked ID, too), and the store I worked at had a policy posted outside the beaded curtain room that if you had somebody under 18 with you, even if it was your child, you couldn't go inside (The justification is that they'd be left unattended, but the reason was just as much to stop people from buying porn for their younger friends). The only way to get H games in most areas is at adult novelty stores, or through catalogs like J-list or Jast USA. Most such catalogs require age verification just to order the catalog, let alone anything in it. Most also require age verification and a credit card to order. Most adult stores are almost religious about making sure nobody under 18 gets through the door. They're often unliked by the local authorities already, so even a small slip can mean getting their land rezoned out from under them.
Yes, because rolling dice is far more attractive than D&D...
It's simpler than that, I would think. Even holding the contract as set in stone, it doesn't give them rights over this. The argument can be made that he didn't think this up. He took somebody else's code and worked with it, but somebody else thought of it and created it, not him.
I admit this may not be the most flattering way to look at it from his standpoint, but it would work.
The article's got a slight innaccuracy. There are effective treatments, just no cure. However, some of the treatments are excellent, and can delay the onset of the disease and substantially slow it once it does show up. My great-grandmother was diagnosed with the disease seven years ago, but is still living a perfectly normal life for somebody her age. She worries far more about high blood pressure than Alzheimers.
Even before they had effective medications, it was better to know ahead. They determined a long time ago that people who kept an active mind tended to delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms. Even so much as doing the daily crossword puzzels in the newspaper and staying active is supposed to help. Beyond that, there have been therapies and even simple lifestyle changes available for a while that can be made to make dealing with symptoms easier if and when they do develop, and as a last resort, most visiting physician services have Alzheimer's specialists who can help.
We used miniatures mostly because it settled disputes. We never invested in the real things, though. For the longest time, I was represented on the table as a poker chip. I had a friend who used an army man. We had a handful of 5-cent toy dinosaurs that served as whichever monster was needed at the time. Imagination still played a role, but having a tangible layout on the table just settles those, "Wait, are you even close enough to attack him?" disputes.
The original series had Nazis, Romans, mafia, wild west, and that alternate future Earth where the civil war had turned into some sort of apocalyptic event and they had people living in caves flying the American Flag. That trumps the nazis ten times over.
I've never noticed the sound from monitors much, but it's probably just because it vanishes in the other sounds you get inside of a building. I can hear the sound from AC power when I'm inside, as well as flourescent lights. You notice those sounds a lot more when they're not there. When the power goes out, it's almost eerily quiet. It's the only time I'm glad I had a bad ear infection as an infant and now have a faint but constant low-pitched ringing in my ears. I still have something to listen to when the power goes out (and that's been happening a lot in my area the last couple months).
What kind of monitor? I have a big CRT on one computer, and an LCD on the other. The CRT gives me the same thing, but I can usually play on my LCD monitor all day without issues. Sitting back on my couch, I can play console games on the TV all I want and I usually don't get headaches either.
He registered it before they trademarked iTunes, not before they announced it. Furthur, he registered it over two years after Apple registered itunes.com (link is to whois data).
Apple registered itunes.com in August 1998, though. Over two years before Cohen's domain.
(why do they insist on "repair" or whatever costs to get money out of the system instead of simple taxes?)
Because it's not just money you want to keep out of the system, it's items. If items last forever, then the economy eventually gets glutted, and even the best equipment is pocket change.
There's also a practical reason: Those items are all data. That data has to be stored on the servers. More items means more data, which means less space on the server and more data being pushed around when people click their inventories and so forth.
Just wondering, did you read those links?
Your shady practices are an employee in a job position that requires access to the user database stealing the list of email accounts and selling it for a large sum of money, and his employer firing him, suing him, and even getting him thrown in jail for leaking company data.
What about that makes AOL in the least bit shady? That they took action against somebody who tried to damage the service the provide their customers?
You can take issue all you want. You've gotten a number or new 2D mario games, if that's how you think of Nintendo. Sure, they're just the same ones that were on the NES and SNES, but you've now gotten twelve new ones out of the original four. TWELVE remakes of four games. Even allowing the fact that one of the original four wasn't really a Mario game, that's pretty excessive. In the same time, how many new Mario games have we gotten? Mario Sunshine, Mario Golf, and Mario Party. We just got the second remake of Zelda 1 - third if you count the Satellaview remake that was only partially finished. Two remakes of Link to the Past, one of which had a rehash of Four Swords included, and supposedly the second to Link's Awakening is on the way. Metroid is only on its first round of remakes right now, but they're busy bees with that. Pokemon's going to have six remakes out within fairly short order. It's already got two with one comming soon. It was a stretch not to call the first nine games remakes, so they're going to make a set of remakes to settle that. Wind Waker's only advancement was that it took the gameplay - and there was much less of it than in the N64 Zeldas - and separated it by around 30 hours of boatriding. Subtract out the boatriding time, and I spent less than half the amount of time on it that I spent on any of the N64 Zeldas. Barely more than I spent my first time through Link to the Past. For the last five years, StarFox is the only one of Nintendo's franchises that hasn't gotten at least two remakes to every new game, and that's just because it's only gotten one game in that time anyway. But, oh, wait, they were planning to remake the original.
I've got to admit, that Zelda trailer makes me drool. It's been a few years since I've had to get a napkin after watching a preview of a game, and I almost regret selling my Gamecube last year. Almost, though, I'm not discounting Nintendo's penchant for dropping the ball. Nintendo could really do some very amazing things if they keep stuff like that up and cut back on the remaking and rehashing.
Because if you go into court, and it appears to the judge that you don't care enough to know read a contract before you get yourself implicated with it, the judge probably won't care enough to hear your defense. The old addage that "ignorance is no defense," is a bit innaccurate. It should really read, "Ignorance is worse than no defense."
Pretty much. But you'll have to get them to give you their credit card or bank numbers first, and that's NOT good for squeezing money out of people
Remember, the best path leading up to the n-1. ???/n. Profit! conclusion is one that involves a major corporation stepping on private citizens. That's what's going on with AOL.
What you're proposing, however, will result in a major corporation getting in an actual fight with several other equally major corporations who are just as fond of litigation as you'd have to be to try that (ever wondered why all banker jokes are just lawyer jokes with the word banker substituted for lawyer?). You can't push Citibank to the edge of bankruptcy and hope they just settle to cut their losses. You can do that to cust_id:11592427, however.
To use GAIM, you still have to sign up for an AIM account. To sign up for an AIM account, you have to click the TOS. I've had a AIM accounts since they had an 8 letter length limit (I think it was 8. It was a long time ago. I had a 486 with windows 3.1 and under a meg of RAM and could say so without being lauged at), and I had to click the TOS to create all of them. They always had the clause that allowed AOL to change them on a whim. If you never clicked the TOS, then you didn't create your account, and they probably can pull something out of their hat even worse out to throw at you. Not defending AOL, just pointing out that there's another few thousand words to the TOS than just this. No matter how you're using their network, you signed up for an account, and you're stuck with the TOS.
When you singed up for an account, you agreed to the TOS. The TOS also has that clause that it can be changed at any time without notice, and that you're bound by those changes. The TOS doesn't neccessarily have anything to do with the client you use - You're bound if you install the client OR create an account. You don't even have to download the client, or even any third party client, or even access the network, you signed up for an account, and you're bound by the TOS.
Wether that TOS, the ability to change it unilaterally, or these specific changes are legal or not is a question for the judges to handle, if they ever see it, but like I said in my other post, AOL's big enough to play the RIAA's game and bury you in court costs to make sure it never gets to a judge.
They could make it worse on GAIM users if it came down to it. All they have to do is make the AIM client is the only program authorized to access the AIM network (if they're turning TOS tricks like this, it probably already is, for that matter). If you want to make a stink about things, they pull out words like electronic tresspassing since you'd then be accessing the network without authorizatioin. In this case, the way you'd "get away" with using GAIM or Trillian is that the server can't tell the difference between that and the AIM client. The only way to try to claim that you're not bound by the TOS is to admit to unauthorized access. Would it stand up in court? I don't know, but it's AOL. They're big enough to play RIAA-ball and kill you with legal bills.
I must have seen that episode a dozen times. Only seeing it in print did the Chief Wiggum bit register properly. Great show. Find new things to laugh at even years after you thought you'd wrung an episode dry.
Not those parts alone. At least, I doubt very much those parts alone. If that were all it would take, it'd probably cost less than $1 billion. It'll take more work to build the replacement, but at an ultimate savings over repairing the current. I doubt they'd leave out functionality that Hubble already has. If they do, they'd probably get a good deal of criticism from the scientific community, and right now, they're one of NASAs increasingly few fans.
Building a new Hubble would also allow for things that would be difficult to do with the existing one. New instruments, better ones, and so forth. Hubble is being matched by some groundbased observatories now because of advancements in telescope technology. I imagine those advancements, as well as advancements in optics and imaging, if they can be incorporated into a new Hubble, would produce another leap in the quality of data we can collect just like we saw when Hubble was fixed the first time.
On the other hand, I do agree with you. If they're just going to build a Hubble Lite with castrated capabilities, then I'd rather they let the current one die and wait for a few more years until a completely new space telescope can be built.
Have you ever compared stills to motion pictures from the time? Still cameras have been able to make very good images for fifty years. There were even color cameras in WWII that could match the camera I bought at K-Mart in 1992. Motion pictures were, by comparison, pretty crummy. Television broadcasts were grainy, and movie theaters had very large and expensive optics to produce good quality. The moon missions neccessitated very light cameras, and on top of that, the images were broadcast to earth to be recorded, the stills were captuerd on film and brought back to be developed.