If you travel to a time before your birth, your very presence will change the weather via the butterfly effect. The weather effects our behavior which effects when we do certain actions. If your parents have sex at even 1 second later, a different sperm will make their child effectivly killing you.
In fact, if you travel to a time before you travel, you'll effect your local weather, changing your actions slightly, amplifying it with each itteration, making it impossible to travel into the past.
UNLESS the action of traveling to the past puts you into some sort of "protective time bubble" where your own personal past is set, unchangable while you're in the process of time traveling. But if that where to happen, you'd keep going into the past and millions of yourself would keep apearing in different areas as you change the future slightly. Bummer.
The theatres are already complaining that DVDs are killing their sales. And I'd bet that most people would only go to the theatre because they're not patient enough to wait a year for it to come out on DVD. If you could buy the DVD NOW, even at an inflated cost, it'd flat out kill the theatre sales. If they want to double dip, they'll leave it the way it is.
The other option I could see them doing though, is to realease a "pre-DVD" at twice the cost, ($40) and none of the extras. Then a year later, sell the DVD again with the extras included at $20.
How many people would pay $40 to watch a movie at home as it's released in theatre? Anyone with kids, for one. (2 adults @ $9.50 + 3 kids @ $6.50 = $38.50 + snacks, and you KNOW the kids will want to watch it more then once. Unless it realy sucks)
My wife's deaf, plus her hearing aid broke. But she still "listens" to the music in the truck. She just turns the bass up.
I actually blew my doctors out of the water with how well I can actually function with this hearing loss. When they talk to me, then look at my audiogram, they can't believe I barely have the "accent" that deaf people do.
Sounds like my wife. She lost her hearing when she was a little over a year old. Most people don't realize she's deaf, unless we tell them. (a necessity at times, as I'm sure you know) With her hearing aid, she has pretty good hearing, even able to talk on the phone a little. But without it, she's almost completely deaf.
She does have a "deaf accent" in that she tends to pronounce words as they're spelled, not as they're commonly said. (ie: "science" = "sky-ens" and "chef" = "ch-ef" (It took a while for me to realize she was saying "ch" instead of "sh"))
My wife is deaf, so we almost never go to the theater. Waiting for movies to come out on DVD isn't a problem. Having enough money to see all the movies we'd like to see is.
If these CDs work in your CD player, then your computer will recognize it as an audio CD. The only thing they can do to prevent that is to install software on your computer to do otherwise. This is why it only works on windows machines.
A firewall wouldn't stop a computer from being turned into a zombie, but it WOULD stop it from being used as a zombie. A zombie computer has to listen on a port for instructions on what to do. If that zombie is behind a firewall blocking that port, it'd just sit there and do nothing.
So yes, a firewall would fix the problem of a zombie computer being used to dos a site.
The joke that got the biggest laugh was a Lyme disease joke, but that was only because I was in a theater with a bunch of veterinarians, and the event's focus was Bayer's flea and tick products.
Sure, grandma CAN open an email and get her computer infected all to hell, but it'll end up being a deaf zombie. If your firewall is blocking all incoming ports, the zombie can never recieve instructions on what to do, so it'll just sit there.
If everyone had a hardware firewall hooked up to their computer, the zombies wouldn't be a problem. They'd still exist for a while, but they couldn't do anything. I say a hardware firewall because an infection COULD disable a software firewall if not password protected.
Exactly. Plus, when they advertise their movies, how much effort do they put into showing what the story's really about? All they show is the fancy graphics and the celeb voices.
Madagascar, at the moment, is making me plain sick. They're spending millions on advertisement (with even a Nascar painted with their logo) but so far, looks about as inspired as a... rock. Sorry, I couldn't think of anything as uninspired as a zoo breakout, trip on a boat, living in the jungle. Is that really the whole plot? Animals dig out of the zoo, sneak onto a boat, then find out the jungle isn't as great as they hoped. I ain't watching it until I hear some good reviews about the story line, and I'll laugh if this turns out to be a flop. (though knowing kids today, it won't)
If you mean to talk about those things specifically, say "nanomachines".
You mean, I'm not allowed to say "nanobots"? Well, if you say so. I guess I'll have to go change my resume now.
There's a set of books by Peter Hamilton (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Nakid God) which uses the term "nanotechnology" a LOT. But never in the sense of nanobots or gray mater. Good books btw. (Not a great ending though)
I personally have iTunes set to not organize, and not move my music. I keep all my songs in folders organized by genre on the second partition of my HD. iTunes gladly "imports" them by just remembering where they are.
Go to: iTunes->preferences->advanced tab
uncheck "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library"
Create your iTunes playlists the same way your folders are aranged. Select your playlist, drag your folder to it to import those songs into it. Your songs stay where you put them, and just their location is recorded in the DB.
When I was trying to decide whether to learn PHP or Perl a few years back, I ended up deciding on Perl. My programming syle is: Give me a few simple commands I can easily learn, I'll figure out how to get the rest working. (Plus, cpan is just cool)
Also, I like to write a lot of simple CLI programs, and Perl is a natural for that. (Though I still write many of mine in C++ for the speed boost)
"Now, instead of getting poked by a red hot iron, we're going to poke you with a sharp stick. Now doesn't that feel better?"
I try liking Windows, I really do! I have to use it at work after all. But when filling up the c drive causes a registry error, which causes hell in a beige box, I can't help but want to do it much physical harm.
If you want practical 3D displays for something like an airport, you CAN use stereo goggles along with a trackball to rotate around the y axis. A setup like that would work well sitting at a desk, rather then this setup which would require everone standing around the center of the room, getting in each other's way. (Or each person with their own table to walk around)
Stereo goggles only require 2 3D graphics cards, which can easily be run by a single computer, and they end up giving you more freedom, since you can rotate an object quicker with a knob (or trackball) then you could walking around the display.
So why haven't they done this yet? Price sure isn't an issue. Though the price of reprogramming their systems might.
It may be because they want them to be able to see other stats other then just the view of the planes. But if they give multiple views on a single "screen", then use a device like the Nostromo SpeedPad to switch between them, then they'd have just as much control as they have now. Left hand on the screen controls, right hand on the rotation knob.
3D technology has been around for a long time. The problem isn't with the hardware, it's with the software. Hopefully, that's why the PS3 has two screen outputs: for 3D graphics in games. (If the PS3 has built in 3D goggle support, I'm getting a 3rd mortgage)
Basically, this is just a spinning projecter & screen. To make it bigger, just build it with a bigger screen and brighter projecter. The rest of the hardware and software would remain the same.
As a side note, the flicker probably comes from viewing the back of the screen when it's turned away from the viewer. They need to add a second screen & projector to the back of the first.
So, any guesses on how long before we see "porn bowls" 6 feet high projecting full sized 3D porn?
My current setup is a 500Mhz iBook, a PS2, and a 25" low-def TV.
I do all my web and application development on my laptop. And it's more then fast enough for web browsing.
My playstation2 has high enough resolution that most of the newer games I buy run at the same resolution as my tv. Sure, a few objects are blocky around the edges, but the textures are as good as my TV will go. According to the specs I've seen, if I buy a new system, it'll be a PS3, since it doesn't REQUIRE a HD TV, which I have no interest in getting.
So far, I haven't seen any games on the PC that are worth the money to upgrade my computer.
Then again, maybe I'm biased. My first gaming system was Pong, (at a ripe old age of 5) so I'm still blown away by the graphics on the PS2.
BTW: When are they going to come out with Pong on the PS2!? I want to see 3D paddles and IK ball motion and voice acting by Julia Robberts! ("boop"..."beep"..."bonk")
I'm color blind and I'm always trying to explain to my wife what things look like to me. When I saw that site, and what "protanopia" color blindness looks like, I couldn't tell the difference between those pics and the originals.
But that is weird. I can usualy tell red and green apart, no problem. But light greens do look yellow to me. (and purple flowers look blue)
I downloaded the filters so I can show my wife why I'm not interested in sunsets.
Actually, with a little work, you can even use regenerative breaking with an internal combustion engine. Many of these hybred cars already turn off the engine when coasting, breaking, or using the batteries. So instead of turning off the engine, just use it as a compressor to compress air into a storage tank. When the pressure is high enough, or the torque on the engine low enough, the air can be used to drive the motor instead of the burning gas. (usually, this would be while costing at a sustained speed)
The nice thing about electric regen breaking is it can be used at the same time as gas for an extra punch of power. But it requires an extra motor and heavy batteries. (an air tank would be much lighter)
Honestly, do we even need an example to justify why you should be able to club marketing reps to death?
I agree. When I was working at a credit union, (Boeing Employee's Credit Union, 3rd largest CU in the nation) I remember seeing one time a bunch of marketing for a new product we were comming out with. I wondered to myself who was programming it, because this was the first I had heard of it. A couple days later they come to me and asked if I could get this product made in two weeks.
Now this was no small task. It required a rewrite of our ATM software which I had no experience in, and there was no test enviroment. Compile code, restart routines, walk down to atms in lobby and try it out. More then once, I've entered the loby to see people upset over the ATMs not working, followed by a quick retreat back upstairs.
The moral of the story: Beat the marketing reps to death, and this won't happen again.
FYI: On average we processed 100,000 ATM transactions per day. And this was during the day when it's the busiest.
The problem is: You can use stolen credit cards to pay for servers. You can use public hot spots to access your servers. You can use fake IDs to open bank accounts to transfer the money to. When you withdrawn the money, do it at a different branch so no one's waiting for you.
I use to use CodeWarrior for both Mac and Windows development. I even bought the newest version a year or so ago. When I first started using XCode, I was really upset. Now my new version of Codewarrior is useless. XCode is just so much better, and faster at compiling.
At least I can still use CodeWarrior for Windows development.
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You're so lucky. At my last job, working for the state, I showed them how we could save over $100,000 a year just by switching our servers to OSS. Of course they wouldn't listen, because that's not how they've been doing thing for the last decade.
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Here's how the translation went: (I've had this on my HD for a while now)
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Cats: Take off every "zig".
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move "zig".
Captain: For great justice.
If you travel to a time before your birth, your very presence will change the weather via the butterfly effect. The weather effects our behavior which effects when we do certain actions. If your parents have sex at even 1 second later, a different sperm will make their child effectivly killing you.
In fact, if you travel to a time before you travel, you'll effect your local weather, changing your actions slightly, amplifying it with each itteration, making it impossible to travel into the past.
UNLESS the action of traveling to the past puts you into some sort of "protective time bubble" where your own personal past is set, unchangable while you're in the process of time traveling. But if that where to happen, you'd keep going into the past and millions of yourself would keep apearing in different areas as you change the future slightly. Bummer.
The theatres are already complaining that DVDs are killing their sales. And I'd bet that most people would only go to the theatre because they're not patient enough to wait a year for it to come out on DVD. If you could buy the DVD NOW, even at an inflated cost, it'd flat out kill the theatre sales. If they want to double dip, they'll leave it the way it is.
The other option I could see them doing though, is to realease a "pre-DVD" at twice the cost, ($40) and none of the extras. Then a year later, sell the DVD again with the extras included at $20.
How many people would pay $40 to watch a movie at home as it's released in theatre? Anyone with kids, for one. (2 adults @ $9.50 + 3 kids @ $6.50 = $38.50 + snacks, and you KNOW the kids will want to watch it more then once. Unless it realy sucks)
My wife's deaf, plus her hearing aid broke. But she still "listens" to the music in the truck. She just turns the bass up.
I actually blew my doctors out of the water with how well I can actually function with this hearing loss. When they talk to me, then look at my audiogram, they can't believe I barely have the "accent" that deaf people do.
Sounds like my wife. She lost her hearing when she was a little over a year old. Most people don't realize she's deaf, unless we tell them. (a necessity at times, as I'm sure you know) With her hearing aid, she has pretty good hearing, even able to talk on the phone a little. But without it, she's almost completely deaf.
She does have a "deaf accent" in that she tends to pronounce words as they're spelled, not as they're commonly said. (ie: "science" = "sky-ens" and "chef" = "ch-ef" (It took a while for me to realize she was saying "ch" instead of "sh"))
I eat my dinner DURING the movie. At home.
My wife is deaf, so we almost never go to the theater. Waiting for movies to come out on DVD isn't a problem. Having enough money to see all the movies we'd like to see is.
Hold down the shift key.
If these CDs work in your CD player, then your computer will recognize it as an audio CD. The only thing they can do to prevent that is to install software on your computer to do otherwise. This is why it only works on windows machines.
A firewall wouldn't stop a computer from being turned into a zombie, but it WOULD stop it from being used as a zombie. A zombie computer has to listen on a port for instructions on what to do. If that zombie is behind a firewall blocking that port, it'd just sit there and do nothing.
So yes, a firewall would fix the problem of a zombie computer being used to dos a site.
The joke that got the biggest laugh was a Lyme disease joke, but that was only because I was in a theater with a bunch of veterinarians, and the event's focus was Bayer's flea and tick products.
OUCH!
Well, I'd put up with a lot for free food.
Sure, grandma CAN open an email and get her computer infected all to hell, but it'll end up being a deaf zombie. If your firewall is blocking all incoming ports, the zombie can never recieve instructions on what to do, so it'll just sit there.
If everyone had a hardware firewall hooked up to their computer, the zombies wouldn't be a problem. They'd still exist for a while, but they couldn't do anything. I say a hardware firewall because an infection COULD disable a software firewall if not password protected.
As far as what it is with Brittney, repeat after me: "Lowest Common Denominator." "White Trash Schadenfreude."
That, and the fact that "Click here for Bill Gates p0rn" doesn't get quite the response the virus writers want.
Exactly. Plus, when they advertise their movies, how much effort do they put into showing what the story's really about? All they show is the fancy graphics and the celeb voices.
Madagascar, at the moment, is making me plain sick. They're spending millions on advertisement (with even a Nascar painted with their logo) but so far, looks about as inspired as a... rock. Sorry, I couldn't think of anything as uninspired as a zoo breakout, trip on a boat, living in the jungle. Is that really the whole plot? Animals dig out of the zoo, sneak onto a boat, then find out the jungle isn't as great as they hoped. I ain't watching it until I hear some good reviews about the story line, and I'll laugh if this turns out to be a flop. (though knowing kids today, it won't)
I for one would welcome our new search engine overloards, except google already runs my life, so it'd be a bit redundant.
I continue to welcome the mighty all-knowing google as the ruler of our lives.
If you mean to talk about those things specifically, say "nanomachines".
You mean, I'm not allowed to say "nanobots"? Well, if you say so. I guess I'll have to go change my resume now.
There's a set of books by Peter Hamilton (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Nakid God) which uses the term "nanotechnology" a LOT. But never in the sense of nanobots or gray mater. Good books btw. (Not a great ending though)
I personally have iTunes set to not organize, and not move my music. I keep all my songs in folders organized by genre on the second partition of my HD. iTunes gladly "imports" them by just remembering where they are.
Go to: iTunes->preferences->advanced tab
uncheck "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library"
Create your iTunes playlists the same way your folders are aranged. Select your playlist, drag your folder to it to import those songs into it. Your songs stay where you put them, and just their location is recorded in the DB.
When I was trying to decide whether to learn PHP or Perl a few years back, I ended up deciding on Perl. My programming syle is: Give me a few simple commands I can easily learn, I'll figure out how to get the rest working. (Plus, cpan is just cool)
Also, I like to write a lot of simple CLI programs, and Perl is a natural for that. (Though I still write many of mine in C++ for the speed boost)
"Now, instead of getting poked by a red hot iron, we're going to poke you with a sharp stick. Now doesn't that feel better?"
I try liking Windows, I really do! I have to use it at work after all. But when filling up the c drive causes a registry error, which causes hell in a beige box, I can't help but want to do it much physical harm.
If you want practical 3D displays for something like an airport, you CAN use stereo goggles along with a trackball to rotate around the y axis. A setup like that would work well sitting at a desk, rather then this setup which would require everone standing around the center of the room, getting in each other's way. (Or each person with their own table to walk around)
Stereo goggles only require 2 3D graphics cards, which can easily be run by a single computer, and they end up giving you more freedom, since you can rotate an object quicker with a knob (or trackball) then you could walking around the display.
So why haven't they done this yet? Price sure isn't an issue. Though the price of reprogramming their systems might.
It may be because they want them to be able to see other stats other then just the view of the planes. But if they give multiple views on a single "screen", then use a device like the Nostromo SpeedPad to switch between them, then they'd have just as much control as they have now. Left hand on the screen controls, right hand on the rotation knob.
3D technology has been around for a long time. The problem isn't with the hardware, it's with the software. Hopefully, that's why the PS3 has two screen outputs: for 3D graphics in games. (If the PS3 has built in 3D goggle support, I'm getting a 3rd mortgage)
Basically, this is just a spinning projecter & screen. To make it bigger, just build it with a bigger screen and brighter projecter. The rest of the hardware and software would remain the same.
As a side note, the flicker probably comes from viewing the back of the screen when it's turned away from the viewer. They need to add a second screen & projector to the back of the first.
So, any guesses on how long before we see "porn bowls" 6 feet high projecting full sized 3D porn?
My current setup is a 500Mhz iBook, a PS2, and a 25" low-def TV.
I do all my web and application development on my laptop. And it's more then fast enough for web browsing.
My playstation2 has high enough resolution that most of the newer games I buy run at the same resolution as my tv. Sure, a few objects are blocky around the edges, but the textures are as good as my TV will go. According to the specs I've seen, if I buy a new system, it'll be a PS3, since it doesn't REQUIRE a HD TV, which I have no interest in getting.
So far, I haven't seen any games on the PC that are worth the money to upgrade my computer.
Then again, maybe I'm biased. My first gaming system was Pong, (at a ripe old age of 5) so I'm still blown away by the graphics on the PS2.
BTW: When are they going to come out with Pong on the PS2!? I want to see 3D paddles and IK ball motion and voice acting by Julia Robberts! ("boop"..."beep"..."bonk")
Thanks for that link!
I'm color blind and I'm always trying to explain to my wife what things look like to me. When I saw that site, and what "protanopia" color blindness looks like, I couldn't tell the difference between those pics and the originals.
But that is weird. I can usualy tell red and green apart, no problem. But light greens do look yellow to me. (and purple flowers look blue)
I downloaded the filters so I can show my wife why I'm not interested in sunsets.
Actually, with a little work, you can even use regenerative breaking with an internal combustion engine. Many of these hybred cars already turn off the engine when coasting, breaking, or using the batteries. So instead of turning off the engine, just use it as a compressor to compress air into a storage tank. When the pressure is high enough, or the torque on the engine low enough, the air can be used to drive the motor instead of the burning gas. (usually, this would be while costing at a sustained speed)
The nice thing about electric regen breaking is it can be used at the same time as gas for an extra punch of power. But it requires an extra motor and heavy batteries. (an air tank would be much lighter)
Honestly, do we even need an example to justify why you should be able to club marketing reps to death?
I agree. When I was working at a credit union, (Boeing Employee's Credit Union, 3rd largest CU in the nation) I remember seeing one time a bunch of marketing for a new product we were comming out with. I wondered to myself who was programming it, because this was the first I had heard of it. A couple days later they come to me and asked if I could get this product made in two weeks.
Now this was no small task. It required a rewrite of our ATM software which I had no experience in, and there was no test enviroment. Compile code, restart routines, walk down to atms in lobby and try it out. More then once, I've entered the loby to see people upset over the ATMs not working, followed by a quick retreat back upstairs.
The moral of the story: Beat the marketing reps to death, and this won't happen again.
FYI: On average we processed 100,000 ATM transactions per day. And this was during the day when it's the busiest.
Just follow the money trail, right?
The problem is:
You can use stolen credit cards to pay for servers.
You can use public hot spots to access your servers.
You can use fake IDs to open bank accounts to transfer the money to. When you withdrawn the money, do it at a different branch so no one's waiting for you.
Easier then robbing a bank.
I use to use CodeWarrior for both Mac and Windows development. I even bought the newest version a year or so ago. When I first started using XCode, I was really upset. Now my new version of Codewarrior is useless. XCode is just so much better, and faster at compiling.
At least I can still use CodeWarrior for Windows development.
You're so lucky. At my last job, working for the state, I showed them how we could save over $100,000 a year just by switching our servers to OSS. Of course they wouldn't listen, because that's not how they've been doing thing for the last decade.