I would add Half Life 2 to the list of sequels that were better than the original. When Steam had a deal where you got the original included along with the purchase of one of the newer ones I got around to playing it. It was quite lame and I never did play it very far.
Tell you what, you build a reproduction and make it fly. Others will build a Wright Flyer...oh wait they've already done that and it flies.
Yeah, from reading posts in this very thread I went to wikipedia where I saw that there has been a reproduction of the Whitehead 1901 flyer. So I'm thinking that it was aerodynamic enough to fly. Perhaps he didn't continue refining it like the Write brothers did, or it even crashed and was destroyed, whatever the reason he didn't become famous for the first flight.
That's what I was going to say. Serve the ads from your own servers. In fact, make it more like a sponsorship thing. Like the radio people that read the sponsors message rather than play the pre-recorded commercial. You bypass the ad-blockers, and you will vette each and every ad that is shown on your site. If you are allowing the blinking, noisy, annoying ads, then you deserve to lose visitors. By having your own company check each ad for acceptability and lack of malware, then you make sure your page stays acceptable to the visitors and they will keep visiting.
Plus, there are only four or five human desk attendants at the airport and . . . 50+ kiosks. If I have a choice of dozens of empty kiosks or waiting in line for 10 minutes to talk to a person, I would have to be brain-dead, or afraid of technology to wait in line.
I'm referring to the "capable of capturing video such as this" part of that sentence and not the increased sensitivity part. It just sounds like weasel wording implying that the image is a mock up of what it is capable of rather than it actually doing it.
no you sir are as gullible as fuck, go look at what a decent 7 year old DSLR can do under a full moon and report back.. Those of us that have them know its not staged at all.
The fact that the caption on that shot says "After increasing sensitivity, the newly developed CMOS sensor is capable of capturing video such as this." tells me that it is staged. The wording of that sentence doesn't imply a real shot taken with the sensor, but a mock up of what they expect it can do.
I stand by my position that evidence for evolution-driven tolerance to DEET is very weak based on available evidence at this point.
I do think it doesn't prove that they evolved unless you did the same test previously where all of the mosquitoes kept their intolerance of DEET. Perhaps DEET has always been somewhat ineffective and the mosquitoes have always behaved this way. People who work in the sewage treatment plant or a garbage dump get used to the smell there.
But if they have changed, then it would be evolution even though it is just a preference for smells and not some new resistance to toxicity. Plenty of animals have evolved to look for pretty colors in their mates or other preferences that matter little in the overall survival of the species. Being less sensitive to a smell that keeps you away from your meal is a good evolution for that species.
If Microsoft had made "phone" just another app with first-class API support (allowing thirdparty phone apps instead of treating "phone app" as HTC's private domain), and rolled out an open, Android-like app market, they would have been a strong force keeping the fire lit under Google's feet.
That's just the problem that Microsoft faces. Even if someone who was rather involved with Microsoft in the day now recognizes they failed to take over mobile, it is not possible for them to do anything differently. You say "if only they rolled out an open market", which is not something they would ever have been capable of doing. Their "drink-the-coolaid" culture locks them into behaving in a certain way. It is not possible for Microsoft as an organization to behave differently until they fix some of their larger culture issues. They will continue to see market after market slip through their fingers because they are stuck in an old paradigm that doesn't apply to what people want.
Yes they are all of this grade - or worse. One of his was the 'ball-barrow' - wheelbarrow with a ball rather than a wheel at the front. About as good as it sounds.
Actually, that's Dyson who invented the ball-barrow! Check out the Dyson site sometime.
Now that I am looking closer to the information, it is inconsistant between different countries. Spain just has a number and town and Norway has the same. The Netherlands has just number code and country - ex. 5688Dd NETHERLANDS. So it looks like in some locations they don't even send the town where the customer lives. I never see anything that looks like a street name in any of the orders.
I don't see a postal code for the UK orders. I see the town "Cambridge", the country "UNITED KINGDOM" and a group of letters and numbers "Ad3 7pv" (just a made up example, I changed the letters and numbers to protect their identity if this does lead to a block or street). Perhaps that group is the postal code, I don't think I have ever sent mail to the UK so I don't even know what their postal codes look like.
I would think giving enough information to narrow town to the block and side of the street a customer lives on is going a bit too far. If the letter-number groups do give that much information for the UK, then I would agree that Google is giving too much information in their order data.
I guess it's good that I don't have any network infrastructure to scan or test. If there are any rules to follow, I am not aware of them and I don't actually care. In some cases (patents for one example) it is better to not know anything about it. If someone sends me an email, that does not make me require any sort of compliance or anything like that. I don't have their credit card numbers, that is handled by Google. I have their name and their email address and the town they live in. If I told you those pieces of information about me, that does not make you need some sort of 3rd party scan of your home network now, does it?
I am a Google Play developer. I have noticed that I get the names, email, and location of the purchases. This does not include the address though. Only the town, zip, and country. I have looked back at old records and see the email address listed in the purchase records, but I seem to recall this being obscured previously. Unless I am mistaken in some way, it used to give a long apparently randomly created email address for each purchase. I had assumed that this would forward or link to their real email address through Google's records of the purchase, but it looks like they did away with that and now just have your email address listed in the purchase record.
Personally, I find no reason to have the email address. There is nothing I would want to contact them about. But the sales are in a more general form. It's actually Google Checkout that does the sales for the Google Play store. You could sell knitted sweaters through your Google Checkout account and the shipping and delivering and returns are all a part of the processing procedures. When someone cancels a Play purchase, the entry has a notice to me that I should not ship the product to them. This is even though it is an Android App that Google itself handles all the delivery of. So I can see why some contact with the buyer might be necessary in some cases, but not with a typical Play store purchase.
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The people I would really like to be able to contact would be the ones who leave stupid reviews. "One Star - It really needs so and so feature!" Hey dumbass - it has that feature! Of course I am much more polite with my real communications to bug reports and such, but it amazes me how many people don't even pay attention to the hints, instructions, and preferences that I have given to make sure they see what they can change. <Rant End>
I wrote a nice little game that I enjoyed playing on a Palm Treo and could not find on the Android App market. It gets good reviews and I make a couple hundred a month from the sales and the ads in the lite version. Not enough to quit the day job, but a nice side income. My next game will be more involved and I think appeal to a wider audience, the first is very logic puzzle orientated.
There are lots of apps and games on these markets, so finding something new or different in some way can be difficult. Or you can look for areas that are not done very well and try to improve them. I am simply looking at games I would like to play and make those. If others like them, then great, if not, then it was a good exercise and I have a game I like in the end anyway.
Originally the Streisand Effect was about trying to keep something from becoming public. That's not what's going on here. This was a product from a nationally known brand at the top of their field. A company that nearly every American is familiar with. And they've been publicizing the heck out of this product/feature. This product has been all over the news for the better part of the last year. It was WAY to late to attempt to suppress knowledge of this thing.
This is the first I have heard of this awesome new box, the Hopper. I guess it's possible that I would have heard of it also if it won the award. But then it would not have a nice stick-it-to-the-man story attached to it and I may have just skimmed over an announcement of a device that can't touch what my MythBox already does. So to me it looks like they drove attention to a device they wanted people not to notice. A perfect example of the Streisand Effect, different from the original, but still the same effect.
Perhaps most villains are white, but not all villians are white. And given that Vader and Palpatine where both very white, and Lando, Chewie, Yoda and R2 weren't, if anything I think it's the corn fed Nebraskans that should be offended.
Perhaps they will start complaining next that there are not enough non-white villians. It's racist the way all the bad guys in the movies are white. We know there are bad guys in the world that are.
If the universe is expanding everywhere, and if this included the space between protons and atomic particles, then this result would be due to the length we use to measure being larger than it was before. So it's possible that the proton isn't getting smaller, but that everything else in the universe is expanding with the expansion of the universe. Is there anything that precludes this as a possibility?
Is it true that the only/easiest way to kill a cane toad is by putting it in a plastic bag (carefully, you don't want too much of their toxin on your hands) and popping it in the freezer?
I'm sure stepping on them is pretty easy. They aren't that big or dangerous.
If you check the map, you'll see that the IJsselmeer is actually a sea bay that's been closed of with a dam (the Afsluitdijk). It used to be called the Zuiderzee (South Sea).
This is sort of interesting. What if, instead of pumping the water into it, you let the tides in. Then you close off the damn when the tides are leaving and generate power. It's no longer a power storage, but power generation. Would this have the potential to create more power than the other tide generation ideas like the floats and such?
It's almost to the point where the terrorists don't need to actually pull off an attack. They just release "chatter" about an attack and watch the West scurry around.
It's pretty close to how the U.S. brought down our big enemy during the cold war, U.S.S.R. We made these big plans about Star Wars, and having satellites that would be able to shoot down any missile. Our side was mostly talk. On their side they spend enormous amounts of money trying to keep up with what they thought we were doing. Our president actually hired science fiction writers to come up with some of these fantastic ideas that sounded plausible and expensive. If the terrorists figure this out they can just up the chatter until we spend ourselves into bankruptcy and fall like Rome. Then the terrorists win.
Thanks for answering my question. I am glad that there are people like these and the staff at Sandy Hook that risk/give their lives to stop these crazy people. My concern about relying on waiting for a reload to take them down is it would probably be quite difficult to tell when someone is reloading during such a chaotic situation. If it is just a pause in the shooting you run in and get shot. Especially if the shooter had any type of cover so you could not see him clearly. Perhaps it's just FPS game play that has colored my view of this. But if I was crouched down as low as I could get behind something trying not to get shot, and I'm sure scared to death, I don't know how I would be able to tell that they started reloading. Of course the hiding behind cover and being scared would apply if I had a gun on me also, but I would feel better that I would just need to pop my head up to take a peek and if things looked clear, get a shot off. Bullets travel faster than the fastest person.
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I would add Half Life 2 to the list of sequels that were better than the original. When Steam had a deal where you got the original included along with the purchase of one of the newer ones I got around to playing it. It was quite lame and I never did play it very far.
Tell you what, you build a reproduction and make it fly. Others will build a Wright Flyer...oh wait they've already done that and it flies.
Yeah, from reading posts in this very thread I went to wikipedia where I saw that there has been a reproduction of the Whitehead 1901 flyer. So I'm thinking that it was aerodynamic enough to fly. Perhaps he didn't continue refining it like the Write brothers did, or it even crashed and was destroyed, whatever the reason he didn't become famous for the first flight.
That's what I was going to say. Serve the ads from your own servers. In fact, make it more like a sponsorship thing. Like the radio people that read the sponsors message rather than play the pre-recorded commercial. You bypass the ad-blockers, and you will vette each and every ad that is shown on your site. If you are allowing the blinking, noisy, annoying ads, then you deserve to lose visitors. By having your own company check each ad for acceptability and lack of malware, then you make sure your page stays acceptable to the visitors and they will keep visiting.
Among other things, if you read the article, they feel pornography encourages the culture that allows women to make less money than men.
The really ironic part of that statement is that pornography is one of the fields where women make much more money than men.
The parent has a very good point.
Plus, there are only four or five human desk attendants at the airport and . . . 50+ kiosks. If I have a choice of dozens of empty kiosks or waiting in line for 10 minutes to talk to a person, I would have to be brain-dead, or afraid of technology to wait in line.
I'm referring to the "capable of capturing video such as this" part of that sentence and not the increased sensitivity part. It just sounds like weasel wording implying that the image is a mock up of what it is capable of rather than it actually doing it.
no you sir are as gullible as fuck, go look at what a decent 7 year old DSLR can do under a full moon and report back.. Those of us that have them know its not staged at all.
The fact that the caption on that shot says "After increasing sensitivity, the newly developed CMOS sensor is capable of capturing video such as this." tells me that it is staged. The wording of that sentence doesn't imply a real shot taken with the sensor, but a mock up of what they expect it can do.
I stand by my position that evidence for evolution-driven tolerance to DEET is very weak based on available evidence at this point.
I do think it doesn't prove that they evolved unless you did the same test previously where all of the mosquitoes kept their intolerance of DEET. Perhaps DEET has always been somewhat ineffective and the mosquitoes have always behaved this way. People who work in the sewage treatment plant or a garbage dump get used to the smell there.
But if they have changed, then it would be evolution even though it is just a preference for smells and not some new resistance to toxicity. Plenty of animals have evolved to look for pretty colors in their mates or other preferences that matter little in the overall survival of the species. Being less sensitive to a smell that keeps you away from your meal is a good evolution for that species.
If Microsoft had made "phone" just another app with first-class API support (allowing thirdparty phone apps instead of treating "phone app" as HTC's private domain), and rolled out an open, Android-like app market, they would have been a strong force keeping the fire lit under Google's feet.
That's just the problem that Microsoft faces. Even if someone who was rather involved with Microsoft in the day now recognizes they failed to take over mobile, it is not possible for them to do anything differently. You say "if only they rolled out an open market", which is not something they would ever have been capable of doing. Their "drink-the-coolaid" culture locks them into behaving in a certain way. It is not possible for Microsoft as an organization to behave differently until they fix some of their larger culture issues. They will continue to see market after market slip through their fingers because they are stuck in an old paradigm that doesn't apply to what people want.
Yes they are all of this grade - or worse. One of his was the 'ball-barrow' - wheelbarrow with a ball rather than a wheel at the front. About as good as it sounds.
Actually, that's Dyson who invented the ball-barrow! Check out the Dyson site sometime.
Now that I am looking closer to the information, it is inconsistant between different countries. Spain just has a number and town and Norway has the same. The Netherlands has just number code and country - ex. 5688Dd NETHERLANDS. So it looks like in some locations they don't even send the town where the customer lives. I never see anything that looks like a street name in any of the orders.
I don't see a postal code for the UK orders. I see the town "Cambridge", the country "UNITED KINGDOM" and a group of letters and numbers "Ad3 7pv" (just a made up example, I changed the letters and numbers to protect their identity if this does lead to a block or street). Perhaps that group is the postal code, I don't think I have ever sent mail to the UK so I don't even know what their postal codes look like.
I would think giving enough information to narrow town to the block and side of the street a customer lives on is going a bit too far. If the letter-number groups do give that much information for the UK, then I would agree that Google is giving too much information in their order data.
I guess it's good that I don't have any network infrastructure to scan or test. If there are any rules to follow, I am not aware of them and I don't actually care. In some cases (patents for one example) it is better to not know anything about it. If someone sends me an email, that does not make me require any sort of compliance or anything like that. I don't have their credit card numbers, that is handled by Google. I have their name and their email address and the town they live in. If I told you those pieces of information about me, that does not make you need some sort of 3rd party scan of your home network now, does it?
I am a Google Play developer. I have noticed that I get the names, email, and location of the purchases. This does not include the address though. Only the town, zip, and country. I have looked back at old records and see the email address listed in the purchase records, but I seem to recall this being obscured previously. Unless I am mistaken in some way, it used to give a long apparently randomly created email address for each purchase. I had assumed that this would forward or link to their real email address through Google's records of the purchase, but it looks like they did away with that and now just have your email address listed in the purchase record.
Personally, I find no reason to have the email address. There is nothing I would want to contact them about. But the sales are in a more general form. It's actually Google Checkout that does the sales for the Google Play store. You could sell knitted sweaters through your Google Checkout account and the shipping and delivering and returns are all a part of the processing procedures. When someone cancels a Play purchase, the entry has a notice to me that I should not ship the product to them. This is even though it is an Android App that Google itself handles all the delivery of. So I can see why some contact with the buyer might be necessary in some cases, but not with a typical Play store purchase.
<Rant Begin> The people I would really like to be able to contact would be the ones who leave stupid reviews. "One Star - It really needs so and so feature!" Hey dumbass - it has that feature! Of course I am much more polite with my real communications to bug reports and such, but it amazes me how many people don't even pay attention to the hints, instructions, and preferences that I have given to make sure they see what they can change. <Rant End>
I wrote a nice little game that I enjoyed playing on a Palm Treo and could not find on the Android App market. It gets good reviews and I make a couple hundred a month from the sales and the ads in the lite version. Not enough to quit the day job, but a nice side income. My next game will be more involved and I think appeal to a wider audience, the first is very logic puzzle orientated.
There are lots of apps and games on these markets, so finding something new or different in some way can be difficult. Or you can look for areas that are not done very well and try to improve them. I am simply looking at games I would like to play and make those. If others like them, then great, if not, then it was a good exercise and I have a game I like in the end anyway.
No, actually it's all Netflix and Torrents lately. We even got rid of the cable TV.
Originally the Streisand Effect was about trying to keep something from becoming public. That's not what's going on here. This was a product from a nationally known brand at the top of their field. A company that nearly every American is familiar with. And they've been publicizing the heck out of this product/feature. This product has been all over the news for the better part of the last year. It was WAY to late to attempt to suppress knowledge of this thing.
This is the first I have heard of this awesome new box, the Hopper. I guess it's possible that I would have heard of it also if it won the award. But then it would not have a nice stick-it-to-the-man story attached to it and I may have just skimmed over an announcement of a device that can't touch what my MythBox already does. So to me it looks like they drove attention to a device they wanted people not to notice. A perfect example of the Streisand Effect, different from the original, but still the same effect.
If the GP is young enough, they enjoy Jar-Jar and the other lame jokes and potty humor that made up that movie.
Perhaps most villains are white, but not all villians are white. And given that Vader and Palpatine where both very white, and Lando, Chewie, Yoda and R2 weren't, if anything I think it's the corn fed Nebraskans that should be offended.
Perhaps they will start complaining next that there are not enough non-white villians. It's racist the way all the bad guys in the movies are white. We know there are bad guys in the world that are .
If the universe is expanding everywhere, and if this included the space between protons and atomic particles, then this result would be due to the length we use to measure being larger than it was before. So it's possible that the proton isn't getting smaller, but that everything else in the universe is expanding with the expansion of the universe. Is there anything that precludes this as a possibility?
Is it true that the only/easiest way to kill a cane toad is by putting it in a plastic bag (carefully, you don't want too much of their toxin on your hands) and popping it in the freezer?
I'm sure stepping on them is pretty easy. They aren't that big or dangerous.
If you check the map, you'll see that the IJsselmeer is actually a sea bay that's been closed of with a dam (the Afsluitdijk). It used to be called the Zuiderzee (South Sea).
This is sort of interesting. What if, instead of pumping the water into it, you let the tides in. Then you close off the damn when the tides are leaving and generate power. It's no longer a power storage, but power generation. Would this have the potential to create more power than the other tide generation ideas like the floats and such?
It's almost to the point where the terrorists don't need to actually pull off an attack. They just release "chatter" about an attack and watch the West scurry around.
It's pretty close to how the U.S. brought down our big enemy during the cold war, U.S.S.R. We made these big plans about Star Wars, and having satellites that would be able to shoot down any missile. Our side was mostly talk. On their side they spend enormous amounts of money trying to keep up with what they thought we were doing. Our president actually hired science fiction writers to come up with some of these fantastic ideas that sounded plausible and expensive. If the terrorists figure this out they can just up the chatter until we spend ourselves into bankruptcy and fall like Rome. Then the terrorists win.
Thanks for answering my question. I am glad that there are people like these and the staff at Sandy Hook that risk/give their lives to stop these crazy people. My concern about relying on waiting for a reload to take them down is it would probably be quite difficult to tell when someone is reloading during such a chaotic situation. If it is just a pause in the shooting you run in and get shot. Especially if the shooter had any type of cover so you could not see him clearly. Perhaps it's just FPS game play that has colored my view of this. But if I was crouched down as low as I could get behind something trying not to get shot, and I'm sure scared to death, I don't know how I would be able to tell that they started reloading. Of course the hiding behind cover and being scared would apply if I had a gun on me also, but I would feel better that I would just need to pop my head up to take a peek and if things looked clear, get a shot off. Bullets travel faster than the fastest person.
Again, thanks for the reply.
Barf: What the hell was that?
Lonestar: Spaceball 1.
Barf: They've gone to plaid!