RoboFrog v1.0, which will be followed closely by RoboRedneck v1.0 (steel and aluminum telescopic gig accessory standard on the "dee-lux" model!) Also, you won't have to worry about this (although fabricated anyway) happening, as the Kevlar waders accessory are already available for ordering.
I'm amazed and frustrated at how many users simply don't know this!
you shouldn't be; users are notorious for not r'ing-tfm -- and that quirk of human nature generates employment for a surprising number of people who otherwise might be standing at the interstate off-ramp with a sign. Hey, I write software all day and I rarely rtfm; I figure it gives me something to do after all else has failed!;-)
Nice, but the folks who supplied the operating system on my computer thoughtfully included a (free) internet browser in the deal;-) and all I have to do to simulate that functionality is right-click on the link and choose "Open in New Window" -- yes, that's something I could do from Google as well, but being lazy is an important part of my personality.
Interestingly, I forgot to do that when I clicked on the link you supplied, so when I chose to close the window (so I could go back and compose this reply...) I set myself on a few-minute trek to get back where I started from; maybe/. could use that handy little "open in a new window" link, too...
Keep the "open this search result in a new window" link when you do; it's the major reason I search (nearly) exclusively with Yahoo! and almost rarely use plain Google.
And who am I to give advice to a big deal like Yahoo!? Nobody, really. Actually, I'm pretty much your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill nobody... of course, that's who makes up the vast majority of your user base...
It should be more like 5E+50 (that's a 5 followed by 50 zeros -- near enough to a zillion that we ought to just say "let's mod this up to a zillion"...)
"It's always fascinating to see how another culture rules out elements that we think are normal"
The you're going to get a kick out of this: My wife and I were recently in China and though I don't recall much about commercials I did notice that the HBO and Cinemax (actually, "HBO Asia" and "Cinemax Asia") channels there (two of the five English-language channels out of 76 total in our hotel. The rest were CNN, The Weather Channel, and CBS) were somewhat "sanitized"; almost NO nudity (and absolutely no "frontal" nudity -- I don't even *have* cable here in the states, but from what I've seen of Cinemax I know that wasn't a coincidence!) and particularly "violent" scenes were toned-down with the blood and gore cut somewhat (for example, in the latest "Jason" slashfest there's a scene where Jason freezes a woman's face in liquid nitrogen and then smashes her newly-brittle mug against a counter -- I haven't seen the "uncut" version but I'm sure the FX guys made sure the visual matched the "breaking glass" sound though the Asia version was just a "from behind" view with the actual impact of face into counter happening outside the frame.) Also, all the "M-Fer"'s were deleted, but the "G-D"'s were intact (I couldn't help but think how "Scarface" or "Pulp Fiction" would have just been about 30 minutes long over there...) Very curious indeed what they find offensive (and what they don't...)
Anyway, I'm no fan of the nudity, profanity, or the blood-and-gore stuff but, like you, I'm intrigued by the cultural "taboo gap" that international broadcasting or the exportation of entertainment from one country to another often exposes. BTW, I only had a couple of days to carry out my observations while in Beijing; after we got down to Guangzhou and met our new daughter there wasn't much time for TV (or, oddly enough, much interest in it...go figure.)
I can tell you from personal experience you don't have to be of canine or feline ancestry to be bothered by poorly-designed (or poorly-tuned) electronics; the ultrasonic "pest repellers", the car sensor at McDonald's (look for the little hockey-puck shaped thingie mounted outside and below the drive-up window), and televisions with misadjusted horizontal hold bug the daylights out of me (no pun intended...) -- In my hometown there used to be a department that had their electronics department at the front of the store; I had to cover my ears with my hands when we went through the doors because of all the televisions with their horiz. holds just a little out of tune. If you get a headache nearly every time you go into department stores, don't automatically assume it's the crowds or the prices!
What's really interesting is that my wife's voice, while definitely feminine, must not register anywhere near ultrasonic; she's always complaining that I'm not listening but I swear I just didn't hear what she said...
My hope is that doctors will stop over prescribing antibiotics and take a more holistic approach to diseases. Designer, symbiotic organisms might encourage more thought on the body as a whole system.
Slowly but surely, it seems your hope is being fulfilled (though, sadly, probably not in the US for several years for guess which reason(s)...)
These little guys are entirely natural (ie. found in nature without any of mankind's fiddling) critters that kill specific bacteria. There's a particularly cool image of one at the top of this page (you can pretty clearly make out the shape of the thing; it looks like it was designed to latch-onto something and inject it!!)
Also, there's a definite link between the body's immune system(s) and cancer -- ie. a healthy immune system can keep (at least certain) cancers at bay; a relative who had to begin taking immunosuppressant drugs following his kidney transplant suddenly began developing these little cancers on his skin (mostly on his face, neck, and hands; whatever was exposed to light.) His doctor said this wasn't uncommon and calmly referred him to a plastic surgeon who carved about 15 of the little boogers off him the first year alone!
BTW, for those of you who have been living in a (different) fantasy world for the last 50 years, "Spy-vs-Spy" refers to the long running
Mad Magazine cartoon about two competing spies whose attempts to eliminate each other (and each's counter-elimination actions, and counter-counter-elimination actions, etc.) escalate, well, madly.
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RoboFrog v1.0, which will be followed closely by RoboRedneck v1.0 (steel and aluminum telescopic gig accessory standard on the "dee-lux" model!) Also, you won't have to worry about this (although fabricated anyway) happening, as the Kevlar waders accessory are already available for ordering.
you shouldn't be; users are notorious for not r'ing-tfm -- and that quirk of human nature generates employment for a surprising number of people who otherwise might be standing at the interstate off-ramp with a sign. Hey, I write software all day and I rarely rtfm; I figure it gives me something to do after all else has failed! ;-)
- INGENIOUS!!
I never realized that I could hold the [SHIFT] key down and click on a link to force it to open in a new window... Thanks!Nice, but the folks who supplied the operating system on my computer thoughtfully included a (free) internet browser in the deal ;-) and all I have to do to simulate that functionality is right-click on the link and choose "Open in New Window" -- yes, that's something I could do from Google as well, but being lazy is an important part of my personality.
/. could use that handy little "open in a new window" link, too...
Interestingly, I forgot to do that when I clicked on the link you supplied, so when I chose to close the window (so I could go back and compose this reply...) I set myself on a few-minute trek to get back where I started from; maybe
Keep the "open this search result in a new window" link when you do; it's the major reason I search (nearly) exclusively with Yahoo! and almost rarely use plain Google.
And who am I to give advice to a big deal like Yahoo!? Nobody, really. Actually, I'm pretty much your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill nobody... of course, that's who makes up the vast majority of your user base...
It should be more like 5E+50 (that's a 5 followed by 50 zeros -- near enough to a zillion that we ought to just say "let's mod this up to a zillion"...)
"It's always fascinating to see how another culture rules out elements that we think are normal"
The you're going to get a kick out of this: My wife and I were recently in China and though I don't recall much about commercials I did notice that the HBO and Cinemax (actually, "HBO Asia" and "Cinemax Asia") channels there (two of the five English-language channels out of 76 total in our hotel. The rest were CNN, The Weather Channel, and CBS) were somewhat "sanitized"; almost NO nudity (and absolutely no "frontal" nudity -- I don't even *have* cable here in the states, but from what I've seen of Cinemax I know that wasn't a coincidence!) and particularly "violent" scenes were toned-down with the blood and gore cut somewhat (for example, in the latest "Jason" slashfest there's a scene where Jason freezes a woman's face in liquid nitrogen and then smashes her newly-brittle mug against a counter -- I haven't seen the "uncut" version but I'm sure the FX guys made sure the visual matched the "breaking glass" sound though the Asia version was just a "from behind" view with the actual impact of face into counter happening outside the frame.) Also, all the "M-Fer"'s were deleted, but the "G-D"'s were intact (I couldn't help but think how "Scarface" or "Pulp Fiction" would have just been about 30 minutes long over there...) Very curious indeed what they find offensive (and what they don't...)
Anyway, I'm no fan of the nudity, profanity, or the blood-and-gore stuff but, like you, I'm intrigued by the cultural "taboo gap" that international broadcasting or the exportation of entertainment from one country to another often exposes. BTW, I only had a couple of days to carry out my observations while in Beijing; after we got down to Guangzhou and met our new daughter there wasn't much time for TV (or, oddly enough, much interest in it...go figure.)
I can tell you from personal experience you don't have to be of canine or feline ancestry to be bothered by poorly-designed (or poorly-tuned) electronics; the ultrasonic "pest repellers", the car sensor at McDonald's (look for the little hockey-puck shaped thingie mounted outside and below the drive-up window), and televisions with misadjusted horizontal hold bug the daylights out of me (no pun intended...) -- In my hometown there used to be a department that had their electronics department at the front of the store; I had to cover my ears with my hands when we went through the doors because of all the televisions with their horiz. holds just a little out of tune. If you get a headache nearly every time you go into department stores, don't automatically assume it's the crowds or the prices!
What's really interesting is that my wife's voice, while definitely feminine, must not register anywhere near ultrasonic; she's always complaining that I'm not listening but I swear I just didn't hear what she said...
Slowly but surely, it seems your hope is being fulfilled (though, sadly, probably not in the US for several years for guess which reason(s)...)
These little guys are entirely natural (ie. found in nature without any of mankind's fiddling) critters that kill specific bacteria. There's a particularly cool image of one at the top of this page (you can pretty clearly make out the shape of the thing; it looks like it was designed to latch-onto something and inject it!!)
Also, there's a definite link between the body's immune system(s) and cancer -- ie. a healthy immune system can keep (at least certain) cancers at bay; a relative who had to begin taking immunosuppressant drugs following his kidney transplant suddenly began developing these little cancers on his skin (mostly on his face, neck, and hands; whatever was exposed to light.) His doctor said this wasn't uncommon and calmly referred him to a plastic surgeon who carved about 15 of the little boogers off him the first year alone!