Right, other than making them govern themselves exactly the way we do. If Iraq comes out of this not being a de facto colony of the US in the mideast, I'll eat my hat.
1. The program is called RoboCode and it is still around. Really engaging and gets them up to speed quickly. My son built a little bot before he even learned any programming. He just programmed by example and cut/paste.
You're in high school, and you can actually write? I mean, without abbreviations or anything? How did you DO that? Really! That's quite an impressive writing piece for something you just whipped up for slashdot. You've restored my faith in the school system.
But in this whole sceme, i'd like to be the game devs who can create 26,000 dollar property at whim. Well, I guess they couldn't as the more they made it would reduce the value, but still, we shouldn't write it off without more details.
Indeed, the actual, real-world bits-on-a-BANK's-computer cost (note the fine distinction) of creating the island may well have exceeded 26000USD. Yes, other copies are free to the developers, but what good are they, really? In any case, whatever their business model is, they have to work in this guys interest or they'll only ever sell the one.
Even the original post says that cash can be exchanged for virtual items and vice versa. While this is done unofficially on other sites, it is strictly against the rules. Here, it is the whole point. I think the guy is a genius personally, as is the seller. And I don't use that term lightly, as in I've never called anyone that before (at least not a businessperson).
According to the timestamps, the before and after are reversed. They are all taken in about 30 seconds. The boat on the right goes from behind the dock to the right, which matches its wake, and the clouds billow up in that order.
Ok, you've caused me to unleash my triviojo: In 1920, the Hopi Indians sent a letter to Woodrow Wilson asking to be admitted to the League of Nations to plead with the "world" not to use the gourd of ashes (a-bomb), which had not yet been invented. They were refused entry.
That movie title, of course, is from the Hopi for crazy life, as opposed to the nature and peace-based life they admonish us to pursue. They were finally admitted to speak before the UN in 1991 on this matter.
Shouldn't that be 'ecivres ecnalubma' so we can read it in our rear-view mirrors?
p.s. I also corrected the subject line, which backwards read "First teft handed post!"
You're looking at the file timestamps, not those set by the camera internally. Note that your timestamps are from days later, probably when the pictures were copied from the camera to the computer. I think if it were shenanigans, they would have done it all in one day, personally. In any case, the order of the pictures is reversed, not permuted, as indicated by the earlier timestamps. It goes after, during, before. The cloud formations grow and the boat with the wake to the left of it goes to the right (correctly) if the pictures are viewed in that order.
Finally, if the middle picture were modified, I wouldn't expect the file timestamps to be so close together but yet out of order. He surely would have doctored the file timestamps correctly if he doctored them, or at least made them match his mistaken assertion about the order. Simplest explanation is that around 7:00 p.m. the lights on the dock were turning on, but one blew. If something was planned, however, it was that event. But why then make a big deal about a meteorite if you really knew all along that it was a light you had rigged to explode and then photographed? Talk about self-incrimination for no good reason.
But if the before and after pictures are swapped, then it still moves correctly, but in the opposite direction. And zooming in, I think I can see the wake to the left of the boat, which agrees with reversed photos. It's behind the dock, then about middle from dock to edge, then near the edge, moving right. It's telling that some of the street lights on the dock are on, and the picture is taken near dusk. Thus, the timing is such that the bulb tries to turn on, but blows.
If you follow the speedboat on the far right, it is heading inbound. It moves a little to the left, then ducks behind the pier except for a small bit of the tail end of it. This happens in proper sequence. Likewise the tugboat moves just a little to the right in each successive picture.
I suspect that the streak is an artifact, caused by the light of the streetlight exploding. The before and after of that streetlight are slightly different if you look at them zoomed in. The smoke is clearly present in the "during" picture, but without the light source of the explosion itself, it might not be visible on the white-noise background of the sea.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. For example, the technology improves just a little bit and you are scanning your stuff before you bag it, out in the aisle with portable scanner. This saves putting stuff in your cart, bringing it to the counter, pulling it out, letting someone scan it, them putting it in a bag, and back in the cart. Instead, by the time you have everything in the cart, it's scanned, bagged and you just go pay for it. Work and money saved for everyone all around. This is happening already. Next step will be you go to the farm and get it yourself.
I would agree completely, especially if you are looking for an academic career. CS School prestige only matters if you are want to work at a CS school. And even then, it is only the grad school work that matters.
Just in time for my new home theater projector! (although this does exceed the recommended run time of the projector for any one stretch) Good thinking scheduling food breaks; I don't think most humans can really take 12 straight hours in front of the tube, as appealing as it sounds on the surface.
p.s., having reasons for things is overrated. teach that to your baby.
Fear? This happens already. They advertise the next program during (on top of) the current one, and Homer does walk into Moe's Bar to advertise MasterCard (d'oh). Product placement is well-entrenched in prime-time TV as well. Whenever you hear a trademark mentioned by name, it was paid for. Frankly, I don't mind this trend at all; I always thought it sounded contived when they had to make up a brand name or say "Cola" generically when everyone says "Coke". Do away with commercials altogether and have the characters using the products in a non-intrusive way, and I'm good to go. On the other hand, if commercials are interesting enough, I will watch them. What's the SuperBowl for, after all?
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1. The program is called RoboCode and it is still around. Really engaging and gets them up to speed quickly. My son built a little bot before he even learned any programming. He just programmed by example and cut/paste.
You're in high school, and you can actually write? I mean, without abbreviations or anything? How did you DO that? Really! That's quite an impressive writing piece for something you just whipped up for slashdot. You've restored my faith in the school system.
Define real money. Do you mean bits in a computer, like at your bank?
Even the original post says that cash can be exchanged for virtual items and vice versa. While this is done unofficially on other sites, it is strictly against the rules. Here, it is the whole point. I think the guy is a genius personally, as is the seller. And I don't use that term lightly, as in I've never called anyone that before (at least not a businessperson).
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/humanface/art icles/mask.html
According to the timestamps, the before and after are reversed. They are all taken in about 30 seconds. The boat on the right goes from behind the dock to the right, which matches its wake, and the clouds billow up in that order.
Ok, you've caused me to unleash my triviojo: In 1920, the Hopi Indians sent a letter to Woodrow Wilson asking to be admitted to the League of Nations to plead with the "world" not to use the gourd of ashes (a-bomb), which had not yet been invented. They were refused entry. That movie title, of course, is from the Hopi for crazy life, as opposed to the nature and peace-based life they admonish us to pursue. They were finally admitted to speak before the UN in 1991 on this matter.
Shouldn't that be 'ecivres ecnalubma' so we can read it in our rear-view mirrors? p.s. I also corrected the subject line, which backwards read "First teft handed post!"
You're looking at the file timestamps, not those set by the camera internally. Note that your timestamps are from days later, probably when the pictures were copied from the camera to the computer. I think if it were shenanigans, they would have done it all in one day, personally. In any case, the order of the pictures is reversed, not permuted, as indicated by the earlier timestamps. It goes after, during, before. The cloud formations grow and the boat with the wake to the left of it goes to the right (correctly) if the pictures are viewed in that order. Finally, if the middle picture were modified, I wouldn't expect the file timestamps to be so close together but yet out of order. He surely would have doctored the file timestamps correctly if he doctored them, or at least made them match his mistaken assertion about the order. Simplest explanation is that around 7:00 p.m. the lights on the dock were turning on, but one blew. If something was planned, however, it was that event. But why then make a big deal about a meteorite if you really knew all along that it was a light you had rigged to explode and then photographed? Talk about self-incrimination for no good reason.
But if the before and after pictures are swapped, then it still moves correctly, but in the opposite direction. And zooming in, I think I can see the wake to the left of the boat, which agrees with reversed photos. It's behind the dock, then about middle from dock to edge, then near the edge, moving right. It's telling that some of the street lights on the dock are on, and the picture is taken near dusk. Thus, the timing is such that the bulb tries to turn on, but blows.
If you follow the speedboat on the far right, it is heading inbound. It moves a little to the left, then ducks behind the pier except for a small bit of the tail end of it. This happens in proper sequence. Likewise the tugboat moves just a little to the right in each successive picture.
I suspect that the streak is an artifact, caused by the light of the streetlight exploding. The before and after of that streetlight are slightly different if you look at them zoomed in. The smoke is clearly present in the "during" picture, but without the light source of the explosion itself, it might not be visible on the white-noise background of the sea.
Right on. This whole copyright issue OUGHT to be about changing business models in recognition of this fact, but is instead about armies of lawyers.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. For example, the technology improves just a little bit and you are scanning your stuff before you bag it, out in the aisle with portable scanner. This saves putting stuff in your cart, bringing it to the counter, pulling it out, letting someone scan it, them putting it in a bag, and back in the cart. Instead, by the time you have everything in the cart, it's scanned, bagged and you just go pay for it. Work and money saved for everyone all around. This is happening already. Next step will be you go to the farm and get it yourself.
I would agree completely, especially if you are looking for an academic career. CS School prestige only matters if you are want to work at a CS school. And even then, it is only the grad school work that matters.
Just in time for my new home theater projector! (although this does exceed the recommended run time of the projector for any one stretch) Good thinking scheduling food breaks; I don't think most humans can really take 12 straight hours in front of the tube, as appealing as it sounds on the surface.
p.s., having reasons for things is overrated. teach that to your baby.
Dang, beat me to it. You get the cookie.
Yes, but there is a serious problem. In both cases, the tallest piece is on the black square. (It's meant to be the king that's tallest).
Fear? This happens already. They advertise the next program during (on top of) the current one, and Homer does walk into Moe's Bar to advertise MasterCard (d'oh). Product placement is well-entrenched in prime-time TV as well. Whenever you hear a trademark mentioned by name, it was paid for. Frankly, I don't mind this trend at all; I always thought it sounded contived when they had to make up a brand name or say "Cola" generically when everyone says "Coke". Do away with commercials altogether and have the characters using the products in a non-intrusive way, and I'm good to go. On the other hand, if commercials are interesting enough, I will watch them. What's the SuperBowl for, after all?
I saw Vint Cerf speak one time, using PowerPoint, and he apologized, saying:
Power Corrupts
PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely
but I play one on SlashDot.
20%? I wish. Closer to half. My all-inclusive plan is 25 bucks a month, but the bill I receive each month, with no long distance calls, is 48ish.
Yes, and without Ashcroft having ever secured a single conviction on terrorism. How effective!