Why does it always have to be an implant? Not a bracelet, necklace, belt insert, shoe insert, ring...
That's answered pretty early in the article, actually.
I became interested in RFID and other alternate means of identification a while back. I constantly lose my keys and my wallet -- yeah, I'm one of those guys. So I was sitting around thinking about keys and credit cards, and the obvious truth that these chunks of metal and pieces of plastic were really representing me and basically identifying me to whatever mechanisms and systems they worked with, be it my front door deadbolt or my bank account. I basically just wanted to get rid of my keys and wallet.
I'm guessing that it's not so frequent when he goes somewhere and accidentally leaves his left hand behind.
Read at a distance? If you RTFA, you'll find that the thing is only readable within a range of about 1.5 inches. That's closer than you need to get to read a driver's license, hopefully.
If you seriously consider an inch and a half to be a length that is anything other than "purely insignificant", please pass my condolences on to your wife or girlfriend, if any.
Because African Americans were the only people to be enslaved throughout the world, naturally.
Well, yeah. Just forget that the origin of the word "slave" is from the Slavs who were enslaved by the Romans in the ninth century. That has nothing to do with anything.
Except that the device you mention is really only an option if one is using standard cable. Those of us who have DirecTV + TiVo haven't had a PVR+DVDR option.
We at Ford Motor Company have discovered a fault in this model year's Taurus sedan in which a fire may break out in the engine compartment if the motor is running.
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from engine fire is not to run the engine. Rather, push your vehicle to the top of a hill, get inside, and roll down until you reach your destination. By manually powering your vehicle, you guarantee that the engine will not be running, and thus no fires will start.
Q: how do they confirm it is atlantis?
A: When they find some artifacts in the vicinity and can carbon date them back from 9000 years ago.
Don't you mean 11,000 years ago? Atlantis was supposed to be 9000 years old in Plato's time, and he died in what, 347 BCE? So unless the city was actually lost under a huge glob of some serious anti-aging cream...
Seems to me that Wal-Mart existed prior to the popularity of online shopping.
Ever considered that maybe it's the homogenization that drives people to shop online in the first place? The bulk of the United States doesn't live in major metropolitan areas, but in rural ones. Wal-Marts and K-marts and cookie-cutter strip-malls are all that they've got in many cases. And really, given a choice between shopping at Amazon or braving traffic, rude shoppers, poorly-trained employees, and manhandled products so that you can support your local Wally World, which would you choose?
Then maybe the solution lies not in forcing people to watch commercials, but in delivering commercials that are relevant to the viewer?
Simply monitor which commercials a viewer skips, and treat that as a "thumbs down". Use this information to customize the commercial feed to advertise products that the viewer is actually interested in.
You're right, giving the viewer control *does* mean that fewer commecials are seen. But when the viewer wouldn't buy the product anyway, does it make any sense to waste advertising time trying to sell them on it? Speaking as a guy in his twenties, I can guarantee you that advertising dollars would be better spent showing me a movie trailer than making me sit through a tampon commercial.
If you'll recall, back when Sony, Sega, and Nintendo were first slugging it out with the Playstation, Saturn, and N64 respectively, N64 carts were running ten to twenty dollars more than their equivalent disc-based games.
Consider also that the amount of data packed on a CD or DVD easily dwarfs what can be economically put onto a cart. That's why those same expensive N64 games generally lacked FMV/prerendered CG sequences and lengthy sound samples (such as speech). So while the overall cost of games has remained pretty much a constant over the past ten years or so, the data-to-dollars ratio has swung wildly in the buyer's favor.
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That's answered pretty early in the article, actually.
I'm guessing that it's not so frequent when he goes somewhere and accidentally leaves his left hand behind.
Read at a distance? If you RTFA, you'll find that the thing is only readable within a range of about 1.5 inches. That's closer than you need to get to read a driver's license, hopefully.
If you seriously consider an inch and a half to be a length that is anything other than "purely insignificant", please pass my condolences on to your wife or girlfriend, if any.
* No Ti-99s
Man, sitting on the floor in front of a Ti-99/4a while it loads a text adventure off of tape for ten minutes is a boring place.
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
Not true, not true!
If you buy the Half Life 2 Collector's Edition, you get a shirt!
Because African Americans were the only people to be enslaved throughout the world, naturally.
Well, yeah. Just forget that the origin of the word "slave" is from the Slavs who were enslaved by the Romans in the ninth century. That has nothing to do with anything.
ITYM, "Like what, bitch?"
I am saying that many of us can trace our online lineage back to Quake 2
:)
Quake 2? What?
Man, some of us can trace our online gaming lineage back to the original DOOM over a null modem cable.
n00b.
- Minilla
Oh, like Godzilla is going to have any sort of difficulty fighting an envelope.
- Monster X
Ooh. Okay. If the name is any indication, this one is a mutated Xbox, which means it certainly has the size advantage. Godzilla is screwed.
despite development of superior codecs.
ITYM "despite development of superior codecs and WMA."
HTH. HAND!
So what you're telling me is that the Intel sticker on my laptop should actually say something more akin to "Catcher Inside".
Except that the device you mention is really only an option if one is using standard cable. Those of us who have DirecTV + TiVo haven't had a PVR+DVDR option.
Until now, that is. And I think that's the point.
Fajitas night again, is it?
Dear Customer,
We at Ford Motor Company have discovered a fault in this model year's Taurus sedan in which a fire may break out in the engine compartment if the motor is running.
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from engine fire is not to run the engine. Rather, push your vehicle to the top of a hill, get inside, and roll down until you reach your destination. By manually powering your vehicle, you guarantee that the engine will not be running, and thus no fires will start.
Sincerely,
Ford Motor Company
Q: how do they confirm it is atlantis?
A: When they find some artifacts in the vicinity and can carbon date them back from 9000 years ago.
Don't you mean 11,000 years ago? Atlantis was supposed to be 9000 years old in Plato's time, and he died in what, 347 BCE? So unless the city was actually lost under a huge glob of some serious anti-aging cream...
I've already conclusively proven that male robots cannot handle gender-conversion.
I removed my robot's nuts, and it just totally fell apart.
Seems to me that Wal-Mart existed prior to the popularity of online shopping.
Ever considered that maybe it's the homogenization that drives people to shop online in the first place? The bulk of the United States doesn't live in major metropolitan areas, but in rural ones. Wal-Marts and K-marts and cookie-cutter strip-malls are all that they've got in many cases. And really, given a choice between shopping at Amazon or braving traffic, rude shoppers, poorly-trained employees, and manhandled products so that you can support your local Wally World, which would you choose?
Then maybe the solution lies not in forcing people to watch commercials, but in delivering commercials that are relevant to the viewer?
Simply monitor which commercials a viewer skips, and treat that as a "thumbs down". Use this information to customize the commercial feed to advertise products that the viewer is actually interested in.
You're right, giving the viewer control *does* mean that fewer commecials are seen. But when the viewer wouldn't buy the product anyway, does it make any sense to waste advertising time trying to sell them on it? Speaking as a guy in his twenties, I can guarantee you that advertising dollars would be better spent showing me a movie trailer than making me sit through a tampon commercial.
If you'll recall, back when Sony, Sega, and Nintendo were first slugging it out with the Playstation, Saturn, and N64 respectively, N64 carts were running ten to twenty dollars more than their equivalent disc-based games.
Consider also that the amount of data packed on a CD or DVD easily dwarfs what can be economically put onto a cart. That's why those same expensive N64 games generally lacked FMV/prerendered CG sequences and lengthy sound samples (such as speech). So while the overall cost of games has remained pretty much a constant over the past ten years or so, the data-to-dollars ratio has swung wildly in the buyer's favor.
Um... how will you know it's yours if you can't identify it?
when was the last time you heard the phrase: "That flick was like a two-hour MTV music video!" used in a complimentary fashion?
Um... Magnolia , actually. After all, it was nominated for an award or two.
Charlies Angles 3
Well, you have to admit, they're really acute.
But if you've got kids, who needs a roomba? Put the little bastards to work, already.