My best guess would be that the Japanese don't buy into the whole "good movie == good game" idea. If I recall correctly, they prefer the "good anime == good game" concept.
One of the other crypto distributed computing projects that's testing a higher level on encryption is only giving away $1,000 to the winner out of the $10,000 coming from RSA.
Here's Distributed.net's cash distribution:
$1000 to the winner
$1000 to the winner's team (or to the winner if not on a team)
$6000 to a non-profit organization chosen by all participants
$2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
And as ECC2-109 in being run by the company that owns the process, the costs of running the severs that support the project are not factored into the prize distrobution.
Are the Most Unwired Airports and Most Unwired Cities lists.
Also, do these lists just count wireless access points that Centrino supports? It almost sounds like some sort of propaganda...
I saw a similar effect on one of my brother's contraptions. Essentially, it was a roller skate wheel that had powerful magnets embedded in it. When it was spun, the magnetic field would act on a spool of wire underneath and create a charge that went into a capacitor. When tinkering with the thing, I found that one could take a magnet and place it a small ways away and that magnet would repel the other magnets on the wheel, making the thing spin longer for the same amount of energy. Later, my brother's acquaintance found a similar effect by placing the magnet on the bar that held the wheel up. I'm guessing that the process is more similar to the latter than the former. As all of these sorts of posts are appended IANAP, so I could be wrong.
Step one: learn that you're being replaced.
Step two: train your trainee to be incompetent. Step three: laugh at the karmic justice of them firing you for being expensive and getting a useless employee in return. Step four: read the classified ads and fail to find a new job.
One of the things I've always wondered is why solar panels don't come standard on new houses. Why not use the copious amount of area wasted on lame, black tiling and replace it with an large area of power production? I suppose the best argument against such an idea is that be don't have the battery technology yet to make such a thing feasible, but perhaps, starting such a project could make the public crave such research. It's unlikely, but we can always hope.
Netflix doesn't rent porn.
They will once they look at the numbers. Porn is one of the best selling things ever, and nobody would want to lose an opportunity that large. Except, possibly, some religious or morally incensed people, but greed should rule those out.
but I don't want to download PS2 games on demand. They're freaking huge! I've only got 512 down, and it would take forever to download some of those four disk RPGs.
But if I could make a backup copy...
Is there an opensource alternative for streaming low-bitrate streaming media? Would people be able to encode an.oog that's streamable? If we want people to stop using the bloated, patented media formats, we need to make them aware that there are alternatives.
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My best guess would be that the Japanese don't buy into the whole "good movie == good game" idea. If I recall correctly, they prefer the "good anime == good game" concept.
I wish I had some mod points.
I never turn on that cathode ray tube anyway.
One of the other crypto distributed computing projects that's testing a higher level on encryption is only giving away $1,000 to the winner out of the $10,000 coming from RSA. Here's Distributed.net's cash distribution:
$1000 to the winner
$1000 to the winner's team (or to the winner if not on a team)
$6000 to a non-profit organization chosen by all participants
$2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
And as ECC2-109 in being run by the company that owns the process, the costs of running the severs that support the project are not factored into the prize distrobution.
Are the Most Unwired Airports and Most Unwired Cities lists.
Also, do these lists just count wireless access points that Centrino supports? It almost sounds like some sort of propaganda...
LAN Inspector: "Hello, mam. I need to search your house for networking cables in order to tax you properly."
How many people are going to open their door to a guy that that? It seems more like a wallet inspector position to me.
I saw a similar effect on one of my brother's contraptions. Essentially, it was a roller skate wheel that had powerful magnets embedded in it. When it was spun, the magnetic field would act on a spool of wire underneath and create a charge that went into a capacitor. When tinkering with the thing, I found that one could take a magnet and place it a small ways away and that magnet would repel the other magnets on the wheel, making the thing spin longer for the same amount of energy. Later, my brother's acquaintance found a similar effect by placing the magnet on the bar that held the wheel up. I'm guessing that the process is more similar to the latter than the former.
As all of these sorts of posts are appended IANAP, so I could be wrong.
What? Joysticks aren't cheap enough for you? If you can use it in Quake, why can't you rig it up to work the same way for your 3D desktop?
You know, it kind of makes an odd sort of sense that lawyers were the first spammers. Aren't they the first to ruin most fun things?
special burst-resistant canister
Water ballons, perhaps?
trading its so-called principles for $1.95 billion in cash
How many people wouldn't trade their principles for almost 2 billion dollars?
People listened to Brittany Spears, N'Sink and other such "artists;" I doubt most of them could tell the difference in quality.
Personally, I hope that SpaceShipOne does much better than RealPlayerOne.
IRS's nearly failed $8 billion modernization attempt
So, the IRS can't manage money? Then why are we giving our taxes to them?
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
Step two: train your trainee to be incompetent.
Step three: laugh at the karmic justice of them firing you for being expensive and getting a useless employee in return.
Step four: read the classified ads and fail to find a new job.
At least both you and the company are screwed.
The most important operating system is not Windows.
Finally Microsoft figured it out.
One of the things I've always wondered is why solar panels don't come standard on new houses. Why not use the copious amount of area wasted on lame, black tiling and replace it with an large area of power production? I suppose the best argument against such an idea is that be don't have the battery technology yet to make such a thing feasible, but perhaps, starting such a project could make the public crave such research. It's unlikely, but we can always hope.
"Hey, you stupid kids, stop poking well enough and leave him alone!"
Netflix doesn't rent porn.
They will once they look at the numbers. Porn is one of the best selling things ever, and nobody would want to lose an opportunity that large. Except, possibly, some religious or morally incensed people, but greed should rule those out.
but I don't want to download PS2 games on demand. They're freaking huge! I've only got 512 down, and it would take forever to download some of those four disk RPGs. But if I could make a backup copy...
I take it you never heard of Textfiles.com.
Cue both a Slashdoting and people saying how much mwv sucks.
Is there an opensource alternative for streaming low-bitrate streaming media? Would people be able to encode an .oog that's streamable? If we want people to stop using the bloated, patented media formats, we need to make them aware that there are alternatives.
Will be be seeing pentagonal wheels or maybe even octogonal wheels? Or better yet n-gonal wheels where n is an incredibly large number?