Personally, I think the trailer designers are slowly taking over the movie industry with their work. I mean, have you seen a movie that didn't have at least 30 minutes worth of trailers. Soon, they'll be longer than the actual movie. The funny thing is, after seeing a trailer, I know I've seen all the entire story and all of the best parts. I don't even need to shell out money for a movie ticket anymore:).
What about for public terminals? Are they going to require special login or biometric securities. If this actually comes to pass, the probability of identity theft will probably increase. Then, what if someone is using your identity to violate copyrights? Are you then banned from the internet? This proposal just seems too short-sighted and stupid to work.
Tiger balls and bile from a bears gall bladder are sure to cure any virus. Though the concoction must be applied rectally every 10 minutes until cure or the unfortunate side effect of death. If symptoms persist, proceed to gouge self with needles until there is no blood left for the virus to infect. This is ancient secret Chinese medicine.
That's not a lot considering the consequences of not censoring material from an oppressive would have greater implications for the company in mind. For example, if google didn't provide censoring for china, china could shut them out on the pretense of anarchy. The only reason large companies would acquiesce is that other nations could simply blackmail them economically into doing what they want.
I didn't mean I thought these people sucked. I seriously meant that these people where initially intimidated at playing because they never played it before. It's sorta like doing something in public for the first time may be awkward because you don't look as good as those who have done it a few times, such as dancing :/. The problem doesn't come in that people feel embarrassed, more so that their embarrassment prevents them from doing anything fun without heavy goading.
As for the competition thing, not all games have to be competitive. Stuff like Pictionary or Charades can be generally fun, particularly if you don't keep score, because everyone looks silly and childish, making embarrassment less of an issue.
As a self-admitted nerd, most of the fun parties I've been to were centered around games: Smash Bros, Halo, Guitar Hero, Chez Geek, Murder Mystery, Pictionary, Settlers, etc. Most of the mediocre parties I've been to involved becoming inebriated and listening to bad music. Good parties should foster social experiences that are fun. For me, games have filled that role more adequately than other things because they give me a common topic with which to start conversations and drift off into random socio-political-theoretical-conversations. Games also tend to be effective, over say an outing like hiking, because they have no physical requirements and appeal to a more general audience. But, then again, this all depends on what appeals to your friends. I've had friends, for whom playing games was childish and annoying (because they thought they sucked at it). Just try to find the appropriate something that gets people to open up to strangers.
"which they claim can be commercialized within 5-10 years and essentially make fuel out of anything that grows."
Soylent Fuel is made from people! PEOPLE!
I don't think it's the brain's computational power that's slowing us up so much as a lack of understanding how the brain works. I doubt that the full chemical pathways that occur when someone experiences something (and has that information stored and processed) has been described anywhere. Sure we know what some of the general components are for long/short term memory and cognitive thinking, but we're still a long way off from understanding how that stuff works. It would be like understanding how a everything in a computer works without having the theory or prior experience to back it up. Sure, that thing looks like a hard drive and stores data, but how does it do that (assuming you've never seen a hd before)?
In fact, I'm sure that if we could characterize the human brain patterns, there would probably be hundreds of grant requests for super computers, or a lot of parallel processors to do the work.
Perhaps, but the captcha task has been centered around can you pattern match this text. What about if you started asking questions of the user in the captcha? That would make the problem a great deal more difficult to automate as the cracker/hacker would have to come up with a way of answering those short answer problems. If they could solve that problem instead of just pattern matching, then they may provide a useful program for the community in the process.
If he has a CHA above 16, it's probably from a party buff cast by a high level illusionist. Fortunately the Glamor is dispelled every time he tries to make a speech.
You are provided with a company car, but it tends to be wired to explosives. On the plus side, you have great health insurance and you get permanent time off after driving it around crowded cafes during lunch time.
I kinda wish adobe would make a decent pdf viewer for linux, or at least make the pdf format open... The current viewer they have sucks as I have to keep agreeing to the license every time I open a document up and each document is opened in an opera-esque parent application (not individually). It's not really pleasant to use the other linux viewers either, as you can't do selection in a dual column document all that well. The flash support for linux, on the other hand seems pretty functional and having vibrant webapps isn't all that critical to me. I just wish Adobe would do a decent job at supporting their core applications on linux, e.g. Acrobat and Photoshop, but maybe that's just me. : /
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Personally, I think the trailer designers are slowly taking over the movie industry with their work. I mean, have you seen a movie that didn't have at least 30 minutes worth of trailers. Soon, they'll be longer than the actual movie. The funny thing is, after seeing a trailer, I know I've seen all the entire story and all of the best parts. I don't even need to shell out money for a movie ticket anymore :).
You forgot to show the ones where people solved it blindfolded:
Girl solves rubiks cube blindfolded
Guy solves rubiks cube blindfolded
Just in case you needed more motivation to gouge out your eyes in shame.
What about for public terminals? Are they going to require special login or biometric securities. If this actually comes to pass, the probability of identity theft will probably increase. Then, what if someone is using your identity to violate copyrights? Are you then banned from the internet? This proposal just seems too short-sighted and stupid to work.
Tiger balls and bile from a bears gall bladder are sure to cure any virus. Though the concoction must be applied rectally every 10 minutes until cure or the unfortunate side effect of death. If symptoms persist, proceed to gouge self with needles until there is no blood left for the virus to infect. This is ancient secret Chinese medicine.
That's not a lot considering the consequences of not censoring material from an oppressive would have greater implications for the company in mind. For example, if google didn't provide censoring for china, china could shut them out on the pretense of anarchy. The only reason large companies would acquiesce is that other nations could simply blackmail them economically into doing what they want.
This would actually make a really great Jenga game for lazy people.
...or the government.
Website is not up. :(
Did Slashdot get slashdotted?
Where are my overlords?
Hehe, so any time you find a picture of a hot girl you can say: I'd google that.
I didn't mean I thought these people sucked. I seriously meant that these people where initially intimidated at playing because they never played it before. It's sorta like doing something in public for the first time may be awkward because you don't look as good as those who have done it a few times, such as dancing : /. The problem doesn't come in that people feel embarrassed, more so that their embarrassment prevents them from doing anything fun without heavy goading.
As for the competition thing, not all games have to be competitive. Stuff like Pictionary or Charades can be generally fun, particularly if you don't keep score, because everyone looks silly and childish, making embarrassment less of an issue.
As a self-admitted nerd, most of the fun parties I've been to were centered around games: Smash Bros, Halo, Guitar Hero, Chez Geek, Murder Mystery, Pictionary, Settlers, etc. Most of the mediocre parties I've been to involved becoming inebriated and listening to bad music. Good parties should foster social experiences that are fun. For me, games have filled that role more adequately than other things because they give me a common topic with which to start conversations and drift off into random socio-political-theoretical-conversations. Games also tend to be effective, over say an outing like hiking, because they have no physical requirements and appeal to a more general audience. But, then again, this all depends on what appeals to your friends. I've had friends, for whom playing games was childish and annoying (because they thought they sucked at it). Just try to find the appropriate something that gets people to open up to strangers.
"which they claim can be commercialized within 5-10 years and essentially make fuel out of anything that grows."
Soylent Fuel is made from people! PEOPLE!
This begs the question, how much user testing did they do? Obviously very little or they would have had backup solutions :/.
I don't think it's the brain's computational power that's slowing us up so much as a lack of understanding how the brain works. I doubt that the full chemical pathways that occur when someone experiences something (and has that information stored and processed) has been described anywhere. Sure we know what some of the general components are for long/short term memory and cognitive thinking, but we're still a long way off from understanding how that stuff works. It would be like understanding how a everything in a computer works without having the theory or prior experience to back it up. Sure, that thing looks like a hard drive and stores data, but how does it do that (assuming you've never seen a hd before)? In fact, I'm sure that if we could characterize the human brain patterns, there would probably be hundreds of grant requests for super computers, or a lot of parallel processors to do the work.
They should, otherwise they'll suffer from buffer overflow errors.
//toilette = (char*) malloc (TOO_MANY_BURITTOS * sizeof(byte));
int TOO_MANY_BURITTOS = 10;
byte poop[TOO_MANY_BURITTOS];
void codeToMuch(byte *poop){
char *toilette;
memmove(toilette, poop, TOO_MANY_BURITTOS * sizeof(byte));
}
Then you might get radiation poisoning AND lead poisoning.
Perhaps, but the captcha task has been centered around can you pattern match this text. What about if you started asking questions of the user in the captcha? That would make the problem a great deal more difficult to automate as the cracker/hacker would have to come up with a way of answering those short answer problems. If they could solve that problem instead of just pattern matching, then they may provide a useful program for the community in the process.
Erds only has a Wheeler number of 3. Who's the amateur now?
Hah, you've both been fooled. That's not a True/False question, it's multiple choice. :)
I'm sure this computer would do the job: Fridge Computer
If he has a CHA above 16, it's probably from a party buff cast by a high level illusionist. Fortunately the Glamor is dispelled every time he tries to make a speech.
You are provided with a company car, but it tends to be wired to explosives. On the plus side, you have great health insurance and you get permanent time off after driving it around crowded cafes during lunch time.
I kinda wish adobe would make a decent pdf viewer for linux, or at least make the pdf format open ... The current viewer they have sucks as I have to keep agreeing to the license every time I open a document up and each document is opened in an opera-esque parent application (not individually). It's not really pleasant to use the other linux viewers either, as you can't do selection in a dual column document all that well. The flash support for linux, on the other hand seems pretty functional and having vibrant webapps isn't all that critical to me. I just wish Adobe would do a decent job at supporting their core applications on linux, e.g. Acrobat and Photoshop, but maybe that's just me. : /
Technically, if you don't count redundant information, that data fits on a CD. You could probably check out the NCBI ftp site to verify.
Or a bomb hitting your house.