Yea, I get the economics of ebook readers - but there are other things to consider as well. For example - I have a natural aversion to paper books. They feel weird on my fingers and I get uncomfortable reading them.
So if you measure an ebook reader's value based on how many more books it allows you to read, even if it's not anywhere close to four per month, then it becomes a lot more valuable.
Everyone keeps telling me that evolution is proven and that anyone would be an idiot not to believe it. Now apparently it doesn't work like we thought it works?
I don't deal in absolutes, then I won't ever be proven wrong when the next theory comes out.
Evolution as it is currently understood sounds plausible, but I am yet to be convinced.
Seriously - this article lacks some pertinent details. It's like if I released a sensationalist headline "certain cars prone to suddenly exploding!" and then failed to mention which cars.
At any rate, I will assume it's Microcraps fault and continue to go about my business.
I've seen some pretty bad ass USB microscopes that plug right into your computer and give you a better view then any of the stuff they had when I was growing up. Thinkgeek has one that is perhaps a little bit out of your price range but there are more basic ones available for cheaper.
This is something interesting for all types of sciencey stuff. Check out the effects of magnets at a microscopic level, etc.
1. Invest in Tamiflu (the leading medication to treat flu symptoms) 2. Organize a massive effort to do web searches for "flu symptoms" 3. Wait for Google to sound the flu alarm 4. Profit!
I do not have a lot of experience with the Black Berry but I can say with confidence that stability-wise, smartphone operating systems should be ordered thusly:
Windows Mobile > iPhone > Anything else > Palm
Windows isn't good at a lot of things, but one thing you can say about Windows Mobile is that it is stable.
I've always wanted to flip through coverflow one aggravating album at a time. It would take me all day and some serious arm strain to make it through my whole collection.
I had this happen when I insisted that there was a reasonable argument that glass could be considered a viscous liquid, that objects of different weights fall at the same rate in a vacuum, and that the plural of "Ravioli" is "Ravioli" and not "Raviolies."
Each time it was me alone against my friends, students, and teachers (including supposed science and english teachers!) and each time I was right. Schools are full of retarded people who can't think of anything better to do with their lives (well, higher education facilities anyway).
This is exactly the right answer, although the parent didn't realize it. The first several years of Obama's presidency will be spent accomplishing nothing and blaming Bush for it. There's no way he can deliver the Utopia he has promised, and everyone will give him a free pass because they hate Bush so much.
Will someone please explain to me how global warming is causing mass extinctions? I believe that the average temperature has gone up something like one degree in the last several decades, which is no more than the amount of variation you would see from year to year anyway.
So say the average temperature in some amphibians environment is 70 degrees F. During the last several hundred years, the temperature could have been anywhere from 60-80 degrees and the amphibians were fine. Now the average has gone up to 71 degrees and they're dying out? I don't buy it.
First of all, low bandwidth users have been though of all over the web, use mobile pages instead of regular ones. You can save a ton of bandwidth and can convert high bandwidth pages to low bandwidth ones with skweezer or google mobile.
Second, I believe firefox will let you turn off an option to load images that are not from the domain you are looking at. If that's not an option, there is probably an ad blocking plugin that does it.
Third, look into aggressive caching in firefox, there might be a plugin or something that will help you. Definitely turn off prefetching, though. This will keep your browser from downloading pages that you may never visit.
Fourth, if it was me I would do absolutely anything in my power to get a better connection - up to actually moving to a better area. Contact your crappy ISP first to see if they offer a better plan and tell them their service is not meeting your needs.
I lived in an apartment complex with super crappy wireless Internet and after it became apparent that it wasn't going to get any better I moved. We were paying out the ass for a worthless connection and now I have 50 megabit last mile fiber and pay less than your average cable connection.
Having a decent internet connection is vital to my ability to make a living.
I made a video of the effect I described above. Near the end of the video, you can see me touch the wall where the button is sitting, and even though it is 10 feet away the switch is activated by the discharge of static electricity.
Okay, no joke - I have this big "Yahoo" button that they sent me for doing search marketing with them. It's basically the same as one of those easy buttons you see from Staples.
I have it sitting on a ledge over my stairs. Every time you touch the wall and discharge static electricity, it goes off. Curious, I did some further testing. I found that if I put the button anywhere near an electrical field (such as that created by one of those lightening ball gizmos) it will go off. I cannot explain it other than they are using a very sensitive switch.
It goes to show that static electricity CAN throw a switch though.
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Yea, I get the economics of ebook readers - but there are other things to consider as well. For example - I have a natural aversion to paper books. They feel weird on my fingers and I get uncomfortable reading them.
So if you measure an ebook reader's value based on how many more books it allows you to read, even if it's not anywhere close to four per month, then it becomes a lot more valuable.
Everyone keeps telling me that evolution is proven and that anyone would be an idiot not to believe it. Now apparently it doesn't work like we thought it works?
I don't deal in absolutes, then I won't ever be proven wrong when the next theory comes out.
Evolution as it is currently understood sounds plausible, but I am yet to be convinced.
Calling evolution "random" or not seems like semantics. Changes can occur randomly, but wether or not they become part of the species is not random.
If you don't know what they should contain, then why are you making them?
"Hey guys, we don't have enough pointless paperwork. Any ideas on new things we could get people to sign?"
If I still had my mod points I'd give you that extra +1 on funny.
Seriously - this article lacks some pertinent details. It's like if I released a sensationalist headline "certain cars prone to suddenly exploding!" and then failed to mention which cars.
At any rate, I will assume it's Microcraps fault and continue to go about my business.
Anyone who is familiar with dogs should have already known this for at least a couple centuries.
At least I finally figured out that elusive third step...
United Nuclear has all sorts of fun little thing like this spinthariscope that let's you watch atom splitting. http://unitednuclear.com/spinthariscope.htm
I've seen some pretty bad ass USB microscopes that plug right into your computer and give you a better view then any of the stuff they had when I was growing up. Thinkgeek has one that is perhaps a little bit out of your price range but there are more basic ones available for cheaper.
This is something interesting for all types of sciencey stuff. Check out the effects of magnets at a microscopic level, etc.
1. Invest in Tamiflu (the leading medication to treat flu symptoms)
2. Organize a massive effort to do web searches for "flu symptoms"
3. Wait for Google to sound the flu alarm
4. Profit!
I do not have a lot of experience with the Black Berry but I can say with confidence that stability-wise, smartphone operating systems should be ordered thusly:
Windows Mobile > iPhone > Anything else > Palm
Windows isn't good at a lot of things, but one thing you can say about Windows Mobile is that it is stable.
I've always wanted to flip through coverflow one aggravating album at a time. It would take me all day and some serious arm strain to make it through my whole collection.
I had this happen when I insisted that there was a reasonable argument that glass could be considered a viscous liquid, that objects of different weights fall at the same rate in a vacuum, and that the plural of "Ravioli" is "Ravioli" and not "Raviolies."
Each time it was me alone against my friends, students, and teachers (including supposed science and english teachers!) and each time I was right. Schools are full of retarded people who can't think of anything better to do with their lives (well, higher education facilities anyway).
This is exactly the right answer, although the parent didn't realize it. The first several years of Obama's presidency will be spent accomplishing nothing and blaming Bush for it. There's no way he can deliver the Utopia he has promised, and everyone will give him a free pass because they hate Bush so much.
There is no better time to be elected president.
The copy I downloaded from usenet had a working key. Phew!
Whatever dude, I saw a special on 20/20 about 10 years ago where kids were already able to do illegal haz0ring over power lines!
Here, here! People have to be boring to have valid messages!
Will someone please explain to me how global warming is causing mass extinctions? I believe that the average temperature has gone up something like one degree in the last several decades, which is no more than the amount of variation you would see from year to year anyway.
So say the average temperature in some amphibians environment is 70 degrees F. During the last several hundred years, the temperature could have been anywhere from 60-80 degrees and the amphibians were fine. Now the average has gone up to 71 degrees and they're dying out? I don't buy it.
...I've never missed Windows.
First of all, low bandwidth users have been though of all over the web, use mobile pages instead of regular ones. You can save a ton of bandwidth and can convert high bandwidth pages to low bandwidth ones with skweezer or google mobile.
Second, I believe firefox will let you turn off an option to load images that are not from the domain you are looking at. If that's not an option, there is probably an ad blocking plugin that does it.
Third, look into aggressive caching in firefox, there might be a plugin or something that will help you. Definitely turn off prefetching, though. This will keep your browser from downloading pages that you may never visit.
Fourth, if it was me I would do absolutely anything in my power to get a better connection - up to actually moving to a better area. Contact your crappy ISP first to see if they offer a better plan and tell them their service is not meeting your needs.
I lived in an apartment complex with super crappy wireless Internet and after it became apparent that it wasn't going to get any better I moved. We were paying out the ass for a worthless connection and now I have 50 megabit last mile fiber and pay less than your average cable connection.
Having a decent internet connection is vital to my ability to make a living.
Here's a video of this phenomenon in action: http://qik.com/video/361273
I made a video of the effect I described above. Near the end of the video, you can see me touch the wall where the button is sitting, and even though it is 10 feet away the switch is activated by the discharge of static electricity.
http://qik.com/video/361273
Okay, no joke - I have this big "Yahoo" button that they sent me for doing search marketing with them. It's basically the same as one of those easy buttons you see from Staples.
I have it sitting on a ledge over my stairs. Every time you touch the wall and discharge static electricity, it goes off. Curious, I did some further testing. I found that if I put the button anywhere near an electrical field (such as that created by one of those lightening ball gizmos) it will go off. I cannot explain it other than they are using a very sensitive switch.
It goes to show that static electricity CAN throw a switch though.
Perhaps they are using the same electronics here?