Given that contraception is the real barrier to procreation these days, I guess women will evolve to be forgetful (namely in forgetting to their pill), and men will evolve to be impulsive or stupid (too impulsive to use a condom, or too stupid to use one properly).
MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability.
Looking at the site, I completely believe them. Myspace is a teettering pile of junk, and unless I miss my guess, could very well been done in coldfusion (was it, I'm not a full time web guy?).
Bupropion (Wellbutrin and Zyban, for those unfamiliar) is not an SSRI. Bupropion is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, and is a mild stimulant. We don't know exactly how it works to treat depression. My doc likes to say that it treats depression by making you slightly high all the time, in a manner similar to cocaine (a dopamine reuptake inhibitor).
Personally, I love the stuff. I take it for an off-label skin problem, but it also made it really easy for me to quit smoking --plus I'm generally in a good mood all the time too.
I'm not too sure that "keeping up with the Jones" applies in this case:
Even if the PS3 turns out to greatly overpower the XBox 360 (which I doubt), the graphics of either system are limited by the time and artistic resources of the companies that develop the games. Most developers are going to make the most money be releasing a game on both systems. Given the already massive cost of developing 3D artwork, they will most likely design the game for the weaker one, and just up the poly and particle count on the stronger. I doubt either system will really outshine the other.
Speaking of competition: Am I the only one that thinks both Sony and MS are going to lose big on this next round of counsels no matter what they do? In the past, many people bought both a PS2 and an XBox. Because of the high price of both systems, consumers are being forced to choose between the two, which means the market will be halved for either company. I predict the only company that is really going to make out is IBM --as they are making the chips for both.
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Tell it to a childhood leukemia sufferer, a teenager with testicular cancer, or anyone with a disease where heredity or just bad luck are the primary cause. You will get sick, everyone eventually does.
Its true that a lot of 'appropriation' goes on in the art world, and its generally a practice thats both accepted and encouraged, but I can understand if they would take a dim view of a corporation like Google doing it. The big difference is that an artist 'appropriating' another artists work doesn't really gain from it to the same degree that a business like Google doing it. Artists are generally considered successful if they make enough off their art to eat, though some do make bank (like Miro). Google on the other hand makes about $0.12 every-time someone uses the site (this is based on an estimate in an article on either Digg or/. within the past few days, find it yourself).
Google's brand image is based to a large extent on the fact that they are a 'good' company that you can relate to. On way they do that is via their logos. The logos suggest that the 'company has interests' outside of making money. It makes the brand more endearing to its users and helps Google make money. I can see that an artist or individual would want to be compensated for helping Google do that.
I think they kinda overreacted BTW, but I can still see their point of view.
Seems that someone needs to make a TOS blocker, something that hides TOS and changes the button from 'accept' to 'proceed'. You can't agree to something you never read and agreed to (not that you really read it anyway). You could even call the TOS blocking software something else ('BS Blocker' maybe?) and have it block other things (like ads) for plausible deniability purposes.
"Now lets come back to the real world: If you haven't dabbled in windows ever then you're either a recent jail escapee or very good at digging one's own head deeply into sand."
You're crazy. The last version of Windows I installed and used regularly was '95 (in 95-98). Since then its been all Mac, NeXTStep (or OpenStep), and BSD machines. I've never missed it. Most people I know don't use Windows either. Not to long ago I was forced to use XP Home edition for a week, it made me want to throw up all over myself. Now I'm not really digging on XP, but after a decade of UNIX (ok I did use OS9 for a time, it was awful too) it was torture to use. I really love OS X, its simply the best OS I have ever used. I'm intrigued by MS Singularity (are they still calling it that?) though, I might try dual booting that if it ever comes out.
I actually tangentially know some people involved in Video Games Adventure Service. They pretty much do whatever crazy ass thing you want them to. Here is a straight forward explanation of what the do:
UK Guardian.
No, he meant open-apple, its what the command key was called back in the day of the Apple II. Back then there was also a close-apple key. Somewhere along the line the apple keys became command. I think that the second pictograph used on the key (the little tied off square) might have been the closed apple pictograph on some keyboards. I'm not sure though, as at least some keyboards used a filled-in apple for close-apple.
I still catch myself calling the command key the apple key or open-apple key when working with novice users. When you say command they get it confused with control about 80% of the time. Its easier to say apple since the key has an apple on it.
Long term parking at the train station or airport, probably a good place to start. Also, just look for broken-down cars. At least over here in the states, they are all over the place. I imagine you have plenty too given the UK's weather. In my state its actually illegal to take the tags off a broken car, even if its parked on your property (you have to scrap it, or just keep pay the insurance fees --which is the point of the law I suppose). I wonder how often people steal plates in the US. Speed cameras and redlight cameras are getting pretty popular here, at least around DC.
As far as SEO is concerned, text browsers are extremely important as Googlebot views the net in much the way a text browser does. If your site text doesn't look good, Google doesn't get it and your site could be 'ignored'.
Porn has been trending away from fake tits and bleach blonds for some time now. I'm not saying that there isn't plenty still around (Playboy for instance) but its unfair to say porn as a whole as holding up an unrealistic standard. If anything, the unrealistic standard burden would be on the men. Male porn stars tend to posses endowments well above the average.
Granted its been about 4-5 years since I bought a CD, but last I checked CDs cost a lot more then $10 at most major retailers. Plus then you have to rip them to MP3, which isn't a big deal but is still more effort then a download --and you will probably feel obligated to store the CD, packaging, and liner notes. Even if you have no interest in them.
$1.99 puts most programs at about their DVD price, so I expect DVD-ish quality. I wouldn't pay extra, given lack of bonus materials, but I would pay the same for the convenience of downloading them, if they are released closer to the air date of the program.
Apple! Increase the frakking resolution of the video! I would love to download Battlestar Galactica but I won't do it if its only going to look good on my iPod. I want video that will look good anywhere I play it, including my DLP projector.
If we ever manage to invent a matrix-like (or holodeck-like) immersive interface, I really think it will be the end of the species. We will simply stop having children, like Pandas that won't screw to save their species. If a person can just program up a companion or sex partner, or even just participate in anonymous sex using disposable avatars (as people do in Second Life), I really doubt many will do anything else. Obviously it will depend on the quality of the illusion, but many will prefer a reality of their own creation to actual reality with all its compromise and strife.
Oh man, I knew there was an easier way, I should have just sacrificed some virgins. I used to have to walk six miles, uphill, in the snow, to the local 1400 baud modem. Once there I had to wait 2 hours to download the day's newsgroup activity (alt.sex.binaries must have accounted for at least 70% of that time) onto a set of floppies.
Then I had to walk back, six miles in the snow, uphill (again), and boot up my brand new monochrome NeXT cube. It was the first computer I ever had that was coal free -which is a very important feature if you are trying to run it in your Mom's basement.
The wooden stick. Seriously, think about how much time you spent playing with sticks when you were young. They are free, readily available, and you can smack your friend upside the head with one.
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Given that contraception is the real barrier to procreation these days, I guess women will evolve to be forgetful (namely in forgetting to their pill), and men will evolve to be impulsive or stupid (too impulsive to use a condom, or too stupid to use one properly).
Wait....
MySpace told Congress last June that it didn't have this capability.
Looking at the site, I completely believe them. Myspace is a teettering pile of junk, and unless I miss my guess, could very well been done in coldfusion (was it, I'm not a full time web guy?).
In the US, it would fall to the FDIC, I think. Its just another form of bank robbery.
Bupropion (Wellbutrin and Zyban, for those unfamiliar) is not an SSRI. Bupropion is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, and is a mild stimulant. We don't know exactly how it works to treat depression. My doc likes to say that it treats depression by making you slightly high all the time, in a manner similar to cocaine (a dopamine reuptake inhibitor). Personally, I love the stuff. I take it for an off-label skin problem, but it also made it really easy for me to quit smoking --plus I'm generally in a good mood all the time too.
Well, one might infer from this article that there is no 'you'... only brain chemicals.
Now all they have to do is accidently produce a strain of Reaver mice...
I'm not too sure that "keeping up with the Jones" applies in this case:
Even if the PS3 turns out to greatly overpower the XBox 360 (which I doubt), the graphics of either system are limited by the time and artistic resources of the companies that develop the games. Most developers are going to make the most money be releasing a game on both systems. Given the already massive cost of developing 3D artwork, they will most likely design the game for the weaker one, and just up the poly and particle count on the stronger. I doubt either system will really outshine the other.
Speaking of competition: Am I the only one that thinks both Sony and MS are going to lose big on this next round of counsels no matter what they do? In the past, many people bought both a PS2 and an XBox. Because of the high price of both systems, consumers are being forced to choose between the two, which means the market will be halved for either company. I predict the only company that is really going to make out is IBM --as they are making the chips for both.
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Tell it to a childhood leukemia sufferer, a teenager with testicular cancer, or anyone with a disease where heredity or just bad luck are the primary cause. You will get sick, everyone eventually does.
Its true that a lot of 'appropriation' goes on in the art world, and its generally a practice thats both accepted and encouraged, but I can understand if they would take a dim view of a corporation like Google doing it. The big difference is that an artist 'appropriating' another artists work doesn't really gain from it to the same degree that a business like Google doing it. Artists are generally considered successful if they make enough off their art to eat, though some do make bank (like Miro). Google on the other hand makes about $0.12 every-time someone uses the site (this is based on an estimate in an article on either Digg or /. within the past few days, find it yourself).
Google's brand image is based to a large extent on the fact that they are a 'good' company that you can relate to. On way they do that is via their logos. The logos suggest that the 'company has interests' outside of making money. It makes the brand more endearing to its users and helps Google make money. I can see that an artist or individual would want to be compensated for helping Google do that.
I think they kinda overreacted BTW, but I can still see their point of view.
Seems that someone needs to make a TOS blocker, something that hides TOS and changes the button from 'accept' to 'proceed'. You can't agree to something you never read and agreed to (not that you really read it anyway). You could even call the TOS blocking software something else ('BS Blocker' maybe?) and have it block other things (like ads) for plausible deniability purposes.
"Now lets come back to the real world: If you haven't dabbled in windows ever then you're either a recent jail escapee or very good at digging one's own head deeply into sand."
You're crazy. The last version of Windows I installed and used regularly was '95 (in 95-98). Since then its been all Mac, NeXTStep (or OpenStep), and BSD machines. I've never missed it. Most people I know don't use Windows either. Not to long ago I was forced to use XP Home edition for a week, it made me want to throw up all over myself. Now I'm not really digging on XP, but after a decade of UNIX (ok I did use OS9 for a time, it was awful too) it was torture to use. I really love OS X, its simply the best OS I have ever used. I'm intrigued by MS Singularity (are they still calling it that?) though, I might try dual booting that if it ever comes out.
I actually tangentially know some people involved in Video Games Adventure Service. They pretty much do whatever crazy ass thing you want them to. Here is a straight forward explanation of what the do: UK Guardian.
No, he meant open-apple, its what the command key was called back in the day of the Apple II. Back then there was also a close-apple key. Somewhere along the line the apple keys became command. I think that the second pictograph used on the key (the little tied off square) might have been the closed apple pictograph on some keyboards. I'm not sure though, as at least some keyboards used a filled-in apple for close-apple.
I still catch myself calling the command key the apple key or open-apple key when working with novice users. When you say command they get it confused with control about 80% of the time. Its easier to say apple since the key has an apple on it.
Long term parking at the train station or airport, probably a good place to start. Also, just look for broken-down cars. At least over here in the states, they are all over the place. I imagine you have plenty too given the UK's weather. In my state its actually illegal to take the tags off a broken car, even if its parked on your property (you have to scrap it, or just keep pay the insurance fees --which is the point of the law I suppose). I wonder how often people steal plates in the US. Speed cameras and redlight cameras are getting pretty popular here, at least around DC.
Home defense?!? I suppose if your home is in the middle of a battlefield.
"That it's illegal won't stop Timmy from acquiring his arsenal..."
As far as SEO is concerned, text browsers are extremely important as Googlebot views the net in much the way a text browser does. If your site text doesn't look good, Google doesn't get it and your site could be 'ignored'.
Porn has been trending away from fake tits and bleach blonds for some time now. I'm not saying that there isn't plenty still around (Playboy for instance) but its unfair to say porn as a whole as holding up an unrealistic standard. If anything, the unrealistic standard burden would be on the men. Male porn stars tend to posses endowments well above the average.
Granted its been about 4-5 years since I bought a CD, but last I checked CDs cost a lot more then $10 at most major retailers. Plus then you have to rip them to MP3, which isn't a big deal but is still more effort then a download --and you will probably feel obligated to store the CD, packaging, and liner notes. Even if you have no interest in them.
$1.99 puts most programs at about their DVD price, so I expect DVD-ish quality. I wouldn't pay extra, given lack of bonus materials, but I would pay the same for the convenience of downloading them, if they are released closer to the air date of the program.
Apple! Increase the frakking resolution of the video! I would love to download Battlestar Galactica but I won't do it if its only going to look good on my iPod. I want video that will look good anywhere I play it, including my DLP projector.
If we ever manage to invent a matrix-like (or holodeck-like) immersive interface, I really think it will be the end of the species. We will simply stop having children, like Pandas that won't screw to save their species. If a person can just program up a companion or sex partner, or even just participate in anonymous sex using disposable avatars (as people do in Second Life), I really doubt many will do anything else. Obviously it will depend on the quality of the illusion, but many will prefer a reality of their own creation to actual reality with all its compromise and strife.
Oh man, I knew there was an easier way, I should have just sacrificed some virgins. I used to have to walk six miles, uphill, in the snow, to the local 1400 baud modem. Once there I had to wait 2 hours to download the day's newsgroup activity (alt.sex.binaries must have accounted for at least 70% of that time) onto a set of floppies.
Then I had to walk back, six miles in the snow, uphill (again), and boot up my brand new monochrome NeXT cube. It was the first computer I ever had that was coal free -which is a very important feature if you are trying to run it in your Mom's basement.
The wooden stick. Seriously, think about how much time you spent playing with sticks when you were young. They are free, readily available, and you can smack your friend upside the head with one.
The speed with which dupes are posted is getting dangerous.