Uhh, bullshit. We haven't been able to buy affordable digital receivers, ever. In fact, there's still no affordable digital receivers - they're all built into expensive HDTV's.
It really only affects you, though, if you still watch broadcast TV...since most people have cable or satellite, it's not really *that* big a problem, is it?
Yeah, that'll be just great. "Oops! I mistyped the address...I forgot the e was supposed to be #DD44AA, while the s and the x are supposed to be #FF22BB".
And Super Mario 3 instead of regular old Super Mario Bros? I mean, yeah, 3 was a great game, but the first one was a huge hit at the time. It's still a fun game to play.
You haven't seen Ubuntu then, which for some reason is still lacking such a thing.
I think Ubuntu would work quite well for the average "grandma" user...setting up simple things is very easy, and there's even an update reminder thing like Windows and OSX so you don't fall behind on updates.
I agree. Just pick a distro, and offer those computers at a reduced rate. That seems possible, since Microsoft isn't getting a cut of the profits...In the end, those who are planning to install something other than Windows will choose it regardless of the distro, and plenty of people will just go with whatever distro it came with...
Heck, by the "as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet" definition, pretty much everything up there is a planet...the moon, the stars, some comets, satellites...the international space station...just about everything but the sun, I guess...
I can garauntee that they don't work well in television. At least, not on me. Because, even if they're only 1 frame, I can see them at 24fps.
Why does "subliminal" have to be visual? Music affects the mood/emotions of a viewer in a way that isn't fully conscious. Probably quite a bit better than flashing single frames of food or whatever on the screen...
And even if it is visual, why does it have to be the single-frame thing? Product placement works somewhat subliminally, doesn't it? Most people aren't really all that aware when they see someone in a movie drinking a Coke, because you see people drinking Coke all the time. So, you're not consciously thinking about it, but it's there, and clearly it has some effect on consumers because advertisers are willing to pay to place their objects in movies/TV...
Until the practice was outlawed in 1993, movie theaters used to insert single-frame ads for concessions during the course of films to try to subliminally influence viewers to buy popcorn.
Well, I'm glad that's a fake...I can picture our government trying to make such a law, but I can't imagine any sequence of events that would allow that to remain illegal...terrorists or not...
It's actually impossible, in the way the OP phrased it. Solar heating would by definition heat from the outside in, so the internal heat has to be either stored up from waaaaaaay long ago before the planet was at all habitable, or else generated by some other mechanism.
Maybe he assumes the sun is a basically just a big microwave oven...
So you mean only source of heat and energy for the planet is responisble for it's weather and tempreture? Wow. I bet these guys went to post-graduate school to figure that one out.
Well, that's clearly a gross oversimplification. For starters, the Earth has its own geothermal heat, and without greenhouse gases, the sun's heat would be reflected back out into space, leaving the planet quite cold. The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere clearly does warm the Earth. Nobody seriously debates that. The Earth has also been getting warmer in recent years. Nobody really debates that either. The only question still open for debate is whether humans are the primary cause of the increase in temperature.
"Sequel" always seemed like too much of a businessland buzz-word to me...I always say the letters. It's not like it's 50 letters long or something...Although I do pronounce etc "Et-See".
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Have to agree with you there...I think developers are going to be planning for DX9 compatibility for some time...
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But we cannot get rid of paper, for paper beats rock, and rocks are the BIGGEST concern.
Not true! You can bring a rock on an airplane, but try boarding with a pair of scissors...
That's it! We can't wait any longer! We have to declare a WAR ON FILE SHARING. I mean, it's worked for everything else, right?
I can give you all the attosecond pulses of light you want -- as long as they're all ones.
or all zeros...
One of these days I'll actually learn to spell or /. will integrate a checker and there will be much rejoicing.
Just use Firefox 2, it has a spell checker built in...
Uhh, bullshit. We haven't been able to buy affordable digital receivers, ever. In fact, there's still no affordable digital receivers - they're all built into expensive HDTV's.
It really only affects you, though, if you still watch broadcast TV...since most people have cable or satellite, it's not really *that* big a problem, is it?
Yeah, that'll be just great. "Oops! I mistyped the address...I forgot the e was supposed to be #DD44AA, while the s and the x are supposed to be #FF22BB".
That's it? Use a proxy? Who here didn't already know that?
This FAQ seems to suggest that MTBF would imply actual hours of active use:
o n-151.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/arch-storage/part2/secti
There is significant evidence that, in the mechanical area "thing-time" is much more related to activity rate than it is to clock time.
How about Doom? Or is FPS a fad? :-P
Doom is already on the list...
The Legend of Zelda, anyone?
Yeah, that should definitely be on the list, though.
And Super Mario 3 instead of regular old Super Mario Bros? I mean, yeah, 3 was a great game, but the first one was a huge hit at the time. It's still a fun game to play.
Cool, yes. But as easer eggs go, kinda lame...where's the fighting monster video or hidden game?
You haven't seen Ubuntu then, which for some reason is still lacking such a thing.
I think Ubuntu would work quite well for the average "grandma" user...setting up simple things is very easy, and there's even an update reminder thing like Windows and OSX so you don't fall behind on updates.
I agree. Just pick a distro, and offer those computers at a reduced rate. That seems possible, since Microsoft isn't getting a cut of the profits...In the end, those who are planning to install something other than Windows will choose it regardless of the distro, and plenty of people will just go with whatever distro it came with...
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Heck, by the "as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet" definition, pretty much everything up there is a planet...the moon, the stars, some comets, satellites...the international space station...just about everything but the sun, I guess...
I can garauntee that they don't work well in television. At least, not on me. Because, even if they're only 1 frame, I can see them at 24fps.
Why does "subliminal" have to be visual? Music affects the mood/emotions of a viewer in a way that isn't fully conscious. Probably quite a bit better than flashing single frames of food or whatever on the screen...
And even if it is visual, why does it have to be the single-frame thing? Product placement works somewhat subliminally, doesn't it? Most people aren't really all that aware when they see someone in a movie drinking a Coke, because you see people drinking Coke all the time. So, you're not consciously thinking about it, but it's there, and clearly it has some effect on consumers because advertisers are willing to pay to place their objects in movies/TV...
Until the practice was outlawed in 1993, movie theaters used to insert single-frame ads for concessions during the course of films to try to subliminally influence viewers to buy popcorn.
Well, I'm glad that's a fake...I can picture our government trying to make such a law, but I can't imagine any sequence of events that would allow that to remain illegal...terrorists or not...
I'm so tired of hearing the press use "scientists say" as a legitimizing opener.
Next up? "Scientists say light bulbs use sound, not electricity"
If you believe something because "scientists" say so, you are probably not a scientist
You're probably a politician...assuming the scientists in question are ones who work for the people who give you money...
"We can put a man on the moon, so we can put 10 men on the moon, leave them there, and make a reality show out of it on the Internet..."
Gravity's not a power source.
Pressure creates heat. Just ask your nearest diesel engine...
It's actually impossible, in the way the OP phrased it. Solar heating would by definition heat from the outside in, so the internal heat has to be either stored up from waaaaaaay long ago before the planet was at all habitable, or else generated by some other mechanism.
Maybe he assumes the sun is a basically just a big microwave oven...
True, although this could actually be built-up heat that has resulted from the continuous process in which the sun cooks our planet.
Could be, but it's more likely that it's heat caused by the extreme pressure at the Earth's core caused by gravity...
So you mean only source of heat and energy for the planet is responisble for it's weather and tempreture? Wow. I bet these guys went to post-graduate school to figure that one out.
Well, that's clearly a gross oversimplification. For starters, the Earth has its own geothermal heat, and without greenhouse gases, the sun's heat would be reflected back out into space, leaving the planet quite cold. The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere clearly does warm the Earth. Nobody seriously debates that. The Earth has also been getting warmer in recent years. Nobody really debates that either. The only question still open for debate is whether humans are the primary cause of the increase in temperature.
"Sequel" always seemed like too much of a businessland buzz-word to me...I always say the letters. It's not like it's 50 letters long or something...Although I do pronounce etc "Et-See".
Have to agree with you there...I think developers are going to be planning for DX9 compatibility for some time...