Actually, to be balanced you need more than this. The fact is, your body is an inverted pendulum. That's right: you're a system at an unstable equlibrium. That means you need regular communication between your feet and your head to correct wobbles quickly so you don't fall down.
Ahh, but then it gets interesting: you CAN'T get infromation up and down your nerves fast enough to decide how you are falling, compute which way to lean to stop falling, then actually lean that way. You stay balanced because you wobble on your feet in a random way, occasionally recieving some good information on how to lean from the ole' brain. The distribution of this random wobble is of critical importantce to staying on your feet. Twenty year-olds have one distro, eighty year-olds have another. In otherwords, they've forgotten how to balance themselves on a muscular level. For the exoskeleton to work right, it needs to have a good wobble built in. Perhaps it can even re-train the random wobble of its wearer, which would be really cool.
However, this is all academic. When will the US invade Japan for developing giant Mechas as they've always threatened to do? Nuke now, before they have some sort of plane-robot transformer piloted by ninety year-old gradmas. Our future, and the future of the free world is at stake.
The WTO is supposed to support free trade and globalization. All sorts of countries are behind it, yet it hasn't bestirred itself to do anything about the most blantant anti-world market move ever made: region encoding on DVDs and videogames. Why can studios divide market? Why can't I buy Japanese games and play them in the US?
Well, I guess the answer is obvious. But it irks me that everyone bought into international trade organizations that are so clearly biased.
By the way, does this price-fixing crap remind anyone else of a similar US case? Did members of the industry get personally fined, or were they protected behind the corporate veil? Good thing Australia's got its act together. At least someone does.
Most of the successful websites I've seen make money though merchandizing. Take www.homestarrunner.com -- it makes flash cartoons and sells tee-shirts, stickers, and other stuff with the characters on them. This isn't some new business model. They're creating demand and selling a physical product.
Many other comic sites auction original artwork in addition to merchandizing. This is the face of successul business on the web.
I've got it at home. All calls that I don't want, I ask politely to be put on the no call list. Then I hang up and they don't call anymore.
Combine this with sounding upbeat and intereted when they start their sales pitch, and very few salespeople avoid the crushing blow of the DNC request.
The only calls that do get through are those I've had buisness with before, but I don't give out my phone number to just any buisness.
Sure, the entire system costs $0/mo, but it's worth it.
The sad, sad next step will be when companies estimate they're loses by multiplying the cost of their software by the supposed number of pirated copies. Of course, this approach assumes that all of the people who have pirated the software would have paid full price for it if there was no other option. Of couse, by that logic, no store would ever have a sale. If you'd buy a wiget for 50% off, then you'd buy it for full price, right?
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Actually, to be balanced you need more than this. The fact is, your body is an inverted pendulum. That's right: you're a system at an unstable equlibrium. That means you need regular communication between your feet and your head to correct wobbles quickly so you don't fall down.
Ahh, but then it gets interesting: you CAN'T get infromation up and down your nerves fast enough to decide how you are falling, compute which way to lean to stop falling, then actually lean that way. You stay balanced because you wobble on your feet in a random way, occasionally recieving some good information on how to lean from the ole' brain. The distribution of this random wobble is of critical importantce to staying on your feet. Twenty year-olds have one distro, eighty year-olds have another. In otherwords, they've forgotten how to balance themselves on a muscular level. For the exoskeleton to work right, it needs to have a good wobble built in. Perhaps it can even re-train the random wobble of its wearer, which would be really cool.
However, this is all academic. When will the US invade Japan for developing giant Mechas as they've always threatened to do? Nuke now, before they have some sort of plane-robot transformer piloted by ninety year-old gradmas. Our future, and the future of the free world is at stake.
The WTO is supposed to support free trade and globalization. All sorts of countries are behind it, yet it hasn't bestirred itself to do anything about the most blantant anti-world market move ever made: region encoding on DVDs and videogames. Why can studios divide market? Why can't I buy Japanese games and play them in the US?
Well, I guess the answer is obvious. But it irks me that everyone bought into international trade organizations that are so clearly biased.
By the way, does this price-fixing crap remind anyone else of a similar US case? Did members of the industry get personally fined, or were they protected behind the corporate veil? Good thing Australia's got its act together. At least someone does.
Profit's not imaginary.
...On the other hand, imaginary prices do present the option of a 0.5i off sale. Let Joe and Jill consumer figure that one out.
That's right! The day I have to pay $0.50+3i for a pack of gum is the day those pinko commie bastards rule the earth.
Most of the successful websites I've seen make money though merchandizing. Take www.homestarrunner.com -- it makes flash cartoons and sells tee-shirts, stickers, and other stuff with the characters on them. This isn't some new business model. They're creating demand and selling a physical product. Many other comic sites auction original artwork in addition to merchandizing. This is the face of successul business on the web.
Three words:
No Call List.
I've got it at home. All calls that I don't want, I ask politely to be put on the no call list. Then I hang up and they don't call anymore.
Combine this with sounding upbeat and intereted when they start their sales pitch, and very few salespeople avoid the crushing blow of the DNC request.
The only calls that do get through are those I've had buisness with before, but I don't give out my phone number to just any buisness.
Sure, the entire system costs $0/mo, but it's worth it.
(1) Hack into US SoldierNet. (2) Remotely tighten all tourniquets
The sad, sad next step will be when companies estimate they're loses by multiplying the cost of their software by the supposed number of pirated copies. Of course, this approach assumes that all of the people who have pirated the software would have paid full price for it if there was no other option. Of couse, by that logic, no store would ever have a sale. If you'd buy a wiget for 50% off, then you'd buy it for full price, right?