Ditto for Japan. In fact, lots of (anime, at least) shows go through the same 2-week-delayed cable rerun cycle you only see with extremely popular shows in America (House, Family Guy).
Sounds like Hasbro wants to have a Monopoly on word games. Yeah. If they aren't careful they might find their feet caught in a Mousetrap, with a proverbial Twister of counterlitigation headed in their direction. Boy, then they'll be Sorry. Their Battleship is pretty much sunk, man. They just don't have a Clue...
Well, one problem with having a mass-produced, delicious UbiquiCow(TM), as was touched on indirectly earlier in this article's discussion, is that they would all be equally susceptible to some future strain of mad cow disease, etc. One cow goes down, they all go down in an identical manner. Subverting natural variation in our food supply is not a good idea.
Well, this has many of the same problems the Classmate does, according to TFA. It isn't waterproof, it's not very durable despite your assertions (if you don't know someone with a broken one, you need to get out more), and the battery life/expense/environmental-effect isn't very good. Like the sibling posts mentioned, it also requires licenses to develop for, and it has no keyboard, making input tedious. In addition, there are some general factual errors with your post. Hanafuda isn't "for children," so I wouldn't say Nintendo has been in the toy business for a 100 years. Also I don't know of any software to "learn cooking" on the DS any better than you can "learn guitar" on the PS2... Cooking Mama gives you a "general idea," but you're not going to succeed without a real recipe. The kind you can look up on Google. With an XO.
If you're more interested in the technology, try looking at this. It doesn't work "like a hydroelectric plant." (spinning a turbine doesn't = "hydroelectric") It simply uses an array of mirrors to aim sunlight at salt and heat it. The molten salt can then be used to steam water and turn a turbine, or saved for later.
First of all, if they were just consumers of advertising, of course they'd care. Would you like another cable company or two in your area? Of course you would. Competition is good for the consumer. But my second point is that that's their sheepskin, because they do sell ads. Look carefully at their graph, see the Windows Live and MSN shares? Between Vista and IE I doubt this diagram is to scale, and they also cleverly show Google as this huge bundle, and make their similar integration look like completely separate businesses. I'm not an expert on the search industry, but their "Integrated Publisher" sounds pretty monopolistic in and of itself.
I'm not a neuroscientist, but it seems like you're kinda taking a jump to get to this conclusion from this experiment. Even though your senses may still be going "at the normal rate", it doesn't take into account any sort of internal speedup that may occur...
Of course it's subject to vandalism and other issues, but so is any other source. Encyclopedia Britannica doesn't triple the number of elephants, proclaim that librarians/Liberians/ libertarians are hiding something, or state that time travel doesn't guarantee your safety. And they don't (as far as I know) have a top brass that subverts the very self-criticism and error-checking that supposedly makes their site great in the first place. They're trying to pin the recent scandal on some sort of elaborate revenge by Overstock.com, but just look at Wikitruth, this is nothing new.
I suppose Wikitruth is also pegged as a conspiracy, but most of their articles are pretty verifiable. For instance, proof of "Jimbo" Wales' utter insanity can be found via the Wayback Machine (if their silence about the matter doesn't say enough).
Don't be silly and use examples like Death Note. Death Note was insanely popular in Japan and has been out in translated manga form in the US for a while now and NANA has also been available in manga form in the US as well. If you're going to use examples, at least mention Azumanga Daioh, which is more likely to have been licensed because of fansub popularity. Keep in mind that research from fansubs determine what people want to watch, and not necessarily what people want to pay money for. I agree. Heck, Death Note is a key example of a show where the Japanese copyrightholders took it off of Youtube. Not exactly the posterchild of the "Japan loves fansubs!" movement...
Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested. Wrong. Go to any anime convention with Japanese creator guest panels and ask them what they think of it. Either the translator will dodge the question, or they'll be pretty pissed at you. Media Factory, a publisher, and several Japanese TV stations (such as TV Nippon on Youtube I believe) have filed DMCA notices on subbed material. Ignorance isn't some sort of certification that they're okay with it.
This is hardly a troll. It's true, a missing airplane is far more of an immediate danger to the country than private conversations you somehow can't obtain a FISA warrant to tap. Steve Fossett's right to travel wherever he wants freely should have yielded far before everyone else's right to privacy.
Umm, that's a different episode entirely, with Henry Polic II as the Scarecrow. The episode where he cured fear was Never Fear, which actually featured Jeffrey Combs.
That seems like wishful thinking to me. People aren't stupid, but these companies play dirty. You won't want to switch your ISP because you get it at a discount from the same people you get your cable from, who in turn use said cable to tell you that your other options suck (and, coincidentally, that net neutrality is evil). These ISPs already only give, like, what, 60% of their advertised speed? If a "good" company wanted to step up, the situation for that kind of competition is pretty much as good as it ever would be with a non-neutral net. No one's doing so in my area, so I'd hardly count on it. I'd feel safer with the legislation...
WTF?? The article doesn't mention cancer. No, but it does mention that Nikola Tesla was the last one to try it. And look at him, he's dead! That doesn't bode too well, not well at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Batman Begins.
Ditto for Japan. In fact, lots of (anime, at least) shows go through the same 2-week-delayed cable rerun cycle you only see with extremely popular shows in America (House, Family Guy).
Well, instead of "the CEO," I would have said "their numero Uno"...
Well, one problem with having a mass-produced, delicious UbiquiCow(TM), as was touched on indirectly earlier in this article's discussion, is that they would all be equally susceptible to some future strain of mad cow disease, etc. One cow goes down, they all go down in an identical manner. Subverting natural variation in our food supply is not a good idea.
Well, this has many of the same problems the Classmate does, according to TFA. It isn't waterproof, it's not very durable despite your assertions (if you don't know someone with a broken one, you need to get out more), and the battery life/expense/environmental-effect isn't very good. Like the sibling posts mentioned, it also requires licenses to develop for, and it has no keyboard, making input tedious. In addition, there are some general factual errors with your post. Hanafuda isn't "for children," so I wouldn't say Nintendo has been in the toy business for a 100 years. Also I don't know of any software to "learn cooking" on the DS any better than you can "learn guitar" on the PS2... Cooking Mama gives you a "general idea," but you're not going to succeed without a real recipe. The kind you can look up on Google. With an XO.
Wireless power was simply never meant to be. Nikola Tesla tried it, and look what happened to him. He's DEAD!
I wouldn't touch wireless power with a ten foot, umm... wire.
Is ogg on the chip too? If so we have ourselves a case.
If you're more interested in the technology, try looking at this. It doesn't work "like a hydroelectric plant." (spinning a turbine doesn't = "hydroelectric") It simply uses an array of mirrors to aim sunlight at salt and heat it. The molten salt can then be used to steam water and turn a turbine, or saved for later.
First of all, if they were just consumers of advertising, of course they'd care. Would you like another cable company or two in your area? Of course you would. Competition is good for the consumer. But my second point is that that's their sheepskin, because they do sell ads. Look carefully at their graph, see the Windows Live and MSN shares? Between Vista and IE I doubt this diagram is to scale, and they also cleverly show Google as this huge bundle, and make their similar integration look like completely separate businesses. I'm not an expert on the search industry, but their "Integrated Publisher" sounds pretty monopolistic in and of itself.
I'm not a neuroscientist, but it seems like you're kinda taking a jump to get to this conclusion from this experiment. Even though your senses may still be going "at the normal rate", it doesn't take into account any sort of internal speedup that may occur...
In UPS's underwater branch...
Brain: "Drat, Pinky, the sub club! No matter, we'll just use only right turns."
Am I the only one who was immediately reminded of that?
I suppose Wikitruth is also pegged as a conspiracy, but most of their articles are pretty verifiable. For instance, proof of "Jimbo" Wales' utter insanity can be found via the Wayback Machine (if their silence about the matter doesn't say enough).
That too.
This is hardly a troll. It's true, a missing airplane is far more of an immediate danger to the country than private conversations you somehow can't obtain a FISA warrant to tap. Steve Fossett's right to travel wherever he wants freely should have yielded far before everyone else's right to privacy.
Umm, that's a different episode entirely, with Henry Polic II as the Scarecrow. The episode where he cured fear was Never Fear, which actually featured Jeffrey Combs.
You're thinking of Soviet Slashdot...
That seems like wishful thinking to me. People aren't stupid, but these companies play dirty. You won't want to switch your ISP because you get it at a discount from the same people you get your cable from, who in turn use said cable to tell you that your other options suck (and, coincidentally, that net neutrality is evil). These ISPs already only give, like, what, 60% of their advertised speed? If a "good" company wanted to step up, the situation for that kind of competition is pretty much as good as it ever would be with a non-neutral net. No one's doing so in my area, so I'd hardly count on it. I'd feel safer with the legislation...