Have you ever heard the term "Mad as a Hatter"? Maybe, but you probably do know who the Mad Hatter is.
Mad as a Hatter is a term that stems from "Hatters" (hat makers) using Mercury in the formation of hats. It was used in the process of removing hair from animal hides. All the hatters ultimately went insane or had the other symptons of mercury poisioning.
That's where the term comes from, and that's where the idea for the "Mad Hatter" came from for Alice in Wonderland. What does this have to do with the article? Nothing really, just trying to spread some random information.
I don't get it either. If I were running for President of the United States, I would do everything in my power to get the team that got Bush elected in 2004 to run my campaign.
Those are probably some of the best campaign managers (if not the best) to ever do the job. There would be reports that "Democratic (my party) candidate Octoberus McSky has hired former Republican campaign managers..." Sure they used to be the enemy, but they're the best.
I average probably 40GBs a month off Usenet, think that would break the threshold of any "caps" that they put in place. Although if their cap is 60GBs then I wouldn't experience it.
I would think that this also has to do with the fact that the format, although new, is still somewhat familiar in terms of the media (looks like a DVD).
When the switch from VHS to DVD occurred (lets pretend Laserdisc never existed) people were going from a big plastic rectangle to a small shiny disc. I would expect some hesitancy there, even though people were accustomed to CDs at that time. But now the change is very small, a Blue Ray disc looks very much like the tried and true DVD disc.
Send me the relevant info, and lets talk about how much I'd make in advertising.
Seriously, while I wouldn't recommend others do it, I would have no problem doing it myself. And if I can make an extra few bucks a month without putting forth much effort, I'm all for it.
We're not talking about buying kids beer, or drugs, or pr0n. We're talking about helping them with their popularity (apparently myspace pages = popularity in many schools, at least that's what the kids tell me).
Also, the police won't be showing up for a proxy server, they would not bother with that. Worst case would be a nice cease and desist letter to your billing address, at which point if it's not economically viable to you, you can just stop it.
The people who are willing to give their girlfriends the "gift" of writing their names on the sides of spacecraft..... aren't usually the type of people that have girlfriends.
Why not? If C. Columbus can sail into the wrong port, land on a continent that has people and societites and history and "discover" it, then why can't these guys discover an island that no one knew existed in the first place?
When Ford Perfect says "you can still design your own tracks" he means "pretty much every track is made by a user" There are about 60 NADEO (game maker) tracks and probably well over 100K tracks on more than 300 worldwide servers (1.4 million players). You have to actively search to find a server that plays the NADEO tracks if that's your thing but the user tracks can be amazing... they can also suck.
If you own one of the other games in the Trackmaina series (TM original or TM Sunrise) you can "activate" your account and use ingame skins that all players can see (if not activated you are the only one to see yours, but you still see others) Activation also has a few more perks but having your own car model is the main attraction.
The game has a pretty good ranking system according to points (you gain points for beating players better than you) and you can find out how you rank in the world, on a certain server, or in your country. For a free game this has many features that games costing $40+ don't even include.
It can be downloaded on many websites (google: Trackmania nations) and at around 220MBs is definetly worth it in my book. System requirements aren't that bad either.
As for the ads... well there are many ways of getting around them. But I just bought TM Sunrise from Overstock for $14. I figured NADEO deserved my money for putting out a game I enjoy so much for free.
Apparently you sir need a lesson in globalization...Recent research has shown that empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited and as a corollary the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it's important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank you.............
There should be at least some freedom, just in case of an emergency. On September 11th, 2001 I was in college, I heard grumblings about a bomb at the Trade Center... this was right around the first tower getting hit. I went to the library to use a computer. Luckily they don't block or filter but as many of you might remember the internet was at a standstill that day. Everything was loading super slow. I couldn't get to any of the major news site (ABC, NYT, CBS, CNN, NBC, I even attempted Fox News) so I had to go to bbc.co.uk to get info on what was going down, that and a forum I frequent. Had they been blocked I would have had no idea what was going on. Not for nothing but I am from NY and had alot of family down there. They were all fine but I had a vested intrest in the happenings, more so then some, but hardly any compared to many.
On a side note, the guy next to me had gotten Everquest to run on his computer (still don't know how) and he was getting updates by talking to a person in the game who had a TV. Nothing like finding out the second tower got hit by a guy named "magic_emperor24"
I use IE so intermittenly, and only for 2 reasons. 1. I set up my spam gmail account as the homepage on IE so when I want to check that account I just load IE. 2. Some web sites are still screwed up enough to not work in FireFox.
But I will say this, I have Windows XP x64 and thier IE x64 is pretty frickin amazing. It runs extremely quick (pulling from cache) and is really well done. Although there is still the pesky problem of all the plugins not working (flash, shockwave, video, java) and that is a killer for me.
I remeber reading a (at least) 50 page study on Deja Vu in college (studied Psychology). It concluded that Deja Vu occurs when a "glitch" happens in your brain and you are recalling the current situation from your long term memory.
I will try and better explain. When you recall things from you long term memory you understand that these things are memories. When you think about the current situation you are recalling it from your short term memory, and you undertand it as currently happening or that it just happened. When Deja Vu occurs (according to the study) it is your brain pulling (thinking about) the current information from your long term memory. Thats is why you think it already happened, because you understand it to have already happened. That is also why it only lasts for a short period of time, because the brain catches up.
The study in this article does not prove this theory wrong. They are studying which part of the brain is showing activity, but they do not yet know what part of the brain is actually involved in short term or long term memory. So the parts that are showing activity could be the long term memory banks or the short term, or these parts are used for the same thing. Science just does not know at the present time.
Have "singers" mumble out incoherant words during "performances" then charge fans for the lyrics, so that they can see if said lyrics are "deep."
Already been done, see Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sean Paul ("Fight me Lennon?") The guys who sing "Louie Louie" etc.
But maybe they are doing this to save themseleves from law suits. Remember how long Jeremy from Pearl Jam played on the radio and VH1 and Mtv before they realized Eddie Veder was saying "Harmless little Fuck" If there were no lyric sites then no one would have noticed, and no one would have sued them for playing inappropriate music in Americas Heartland.
Couldn't you say back to them "Your technology stopped working, you pay for it"
If it's the standard grain-of-rice sized RFID they wil just make one thick page with it in inside. If you smash it, no one will be able to tell (probably). Although I do like your Microwave idea.
If they did make these mandatory (like a Nation wide ID card) then we should all throw them in the Microwave on a planned day and the next day go to the issuing agency and say "it no longer works" if 150,000 people or more did this I think the Governement would realize that they can't afford to fix them all, then scrape the program. At least I can dream right?
Could you or I get one of these new Passports and get it home... and proceed to slam it with a hammer? I mean, the passport is still just paper, but with this little thing inside. What would happen? It would break, but you could never tell if it stopped working. So the next time you go to fly/leave the country, you could just say "I didn't know it stopped working?" which is pretty true, unless you had a RFID reciever in your home. This would be the simple answer to all those who fear the wrath of the RFID technology.
But.... AMD just announced a major Facility in the Albany NY region. Republican Gov who is close to Dubya, two very well known Senators (Hillary & Chuck Schumer), one of the most greedy states in the Union as well as one of the most powerful.
I am not saying this is why the Legislation is being passed, I am just pointing out that we could easily play both sides.
This, although meant to be a joke, actually has some merit. When NY passed their "no smoking indoors" bill a few years back the loopholes started. The law was put in place to prohibit smoking in Bars, Restaurants, Clubs, etc. It was there to sheild the employees who work in those places and have to inhale all the second hand smoke. Well Bingo took a huge hit, if you have never been to a bingo parlor they are usually so smoke filled you could barely see the board. Bingo being run by most Churchs and Schools were complaining big time to their elected officals. These places were given "test site" permits which allowed them to stay open to smokers. There were no too many of these "test site" permits given out, but they do exist. And if you could go around the State and find where all of them exist, I am sure you will find they exist in areas where the local Politicians are active members in what ever Church got the pass. I know of two in Rensselaer county were set up in that manner.
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Have you ever heard the term "Mad as a Hatter"? Maybe, but you probably do know who the Mad Hatter is.
Mad as a Hatter is a term that stems from "Hatters" (hat makers) using Mercury in the formation of hats. It was used in the process of removing hair from animal hides. All the hatters ultimately went insane or had the other symptons of mercury poisioning.
That's where the term comes from, and that's where the idea for the "Mad Hatter" came from for Alice in Wonderland. What does this have to do with the article? Nothing really, just trying to spread some random information.
I don't get it either. If I were running for President of the United States, I would do everything in my power to get the team that got Bush elected in 2004 to run my campaign.
Those are probably some of the best campaign managers (if not the best) to ever do the job. There would be reports that "Democratic (my party) candidate Octoberus McSky has hired former Republican campaign managers..." Sure they used to be the enemy, but they're the best.
I mean, they got Bush elected... again!
Upstate NY area. No capping.
I average probably 40GBs a month off Usenet, think that would break the threshold of any "caps" that they put in place. Although if their cap is 60GBs then I wouldn't experience it.
I would think that this also has to do with the fact that the format, although new, is still somewhat familiar in terms of the media (looks like a DVD).
When the switch from VHS to DVD occurred (lets pretend Laserdisc never existed) people were going from a big plastic rectangle to a small shiny disc. I would expect some hesitancy there, even though people were accustomed to CDs at that time. But now the change is very small, a Blue Ray disc looks very much like the tried and true DVD disc.
Send me the relevant info, and lets talk about how much I'd make in advertising.
Seriously, while I wouldn't recommend others do it, I would have no problem doing it myself. And if I can make an extra few bucks a month without putting forth much effort, I'm all for it.
We're not talking about buying kids beer, or drugs, or pr0n. We're talking about helping them with their popularity (apparently myspace pages = popularity in many schools, at least that's what the kids tell me).
Also, the police won't be showing up for a proxy server, they would not bother with that. Worst case would be a nice cease and desist letter to your billing address, at which point if it's not economically viable to you, you can just stop it.
The people who are willing to give their girlfriends the "gift" of writing their names on the sides of spacecraft..... aren't usually the type of people that have girlfriends.
With a strong arugment like that, how can Jobs respond?
Seriously, that's all the linked article quotes him as saying. Next up we'll discuss what President Bush meant when he said "The Iraq situation is"
Why not? If C. Columbus can sail into the wrong port, land on a continent that has people and societites and history and "discover" it, then why can't these guys discover an island that no one knew existed in the first place?
Because there were no chairs left.
Ballmer got there early this year... (too easy?)
When Ford Perfect says "you can still design your own tracks" he means "pretty much every track is made by a user" There are about 60 NADEO (game maker) tracks and probably well over 100K tracks on more than 300 worldwide servers (1.4 million players).
You have to actively search to find a server that plays the NADEO tracks if that's your thing but the user tracks can be amazing... they can also suck.
If you own one of the other games in the Trackmaina series (TM original or TM Sunrise) you can "activate" your account and use ingame skins that all players can see (if not activated you are the only one to see yours, but you still see others) Activation also has a few more perks but having your own car model is the main attraction.
The game has a pretty good ranking system according to points (you gain points for beating players better than you) and you can find out how you rank in the world, on a certain server, or in your country. For a free game this has many features that games costing $40+ don't even include.
It can be downloaded on many websites (google: Trackmania nations) and at around 220MBs is definetly worth it in my book. System requirements aren't that bad either.
As for the ads... well there are many ways of getting around them. But I just bought TM Sunrise from Overstock for $14. I figured NADEO deserved my money for putting out a game I enjoy so much for free.
Apparently you sir need a lesson in globalization...Recent research has shown that empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited and as a corollary the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it's important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank you. .... .... ....
What happened, I blacked out.
Just to play Devils Advocate...
There should be at least some freedom, just in case of an emergency.
On September 11th, 2001 I was in college, I heard grumblings about a bomb at the Trade Center... this was right around the first tower getting hit. I went to the library to use a computer. Luckily they don't block or filter but as many of you might remember the internet was at a standstill that day. Everything was loading super slow. I couldn't get to any of the major news site (ABC, NYT, CBS, CNN, NBC, I even attempted Fox News) so I had to go to bbc.co.uk to get info on what was going down, that and a forum I frequent. Had they been blocked I would have had no idea what was going on. Not for nothing but I am from NY and had alot of family down there. They were all fine but I had a vested intrest in the happenings, more so then some, but hardly any compared to many.
On a side note, the guy next to me had gotten Everquest to run on his computer (still don't know how) and he was getting updates by talking to a person in the game who had a TV. Nothing like finding out the second tower got hit by a guy named "magic_emperor24"
I'll admit he isn't my favorite comedian, but there is no reason to call David Allen Grier stupid.
I use IE so intermittenly, and only for 2 reasons.
1. I set up my spam gmail account as the homepage on IE so when I want to check that account I just load IE.
2. Some web sites are still screwed up enough to not work in FireFox.
But I will say this, I have Windows XP x64 and thier IE x64 is pretty frickin amazing. It runs extremely quick (pulling from cache) and is really well done. Although there is still the pesky problem of all the plugins not working (flash, shockwave, video, java) and that is a killer for me.
Don't give the Enquirer a bad name, that is a reputable news sorce.
You'll be sorry when ManBearPig comes to your town, just ask Al Gore if you don't believe me.
I remeber reading a (at least) 50 page study on Deja Vu in college (studied Psychology). It concluded that Deja Vu occurs when a "glitch" happens in your brain and you are recalling the current situation from your long term memory.
I will try and better explain. When you recall things from you long term memory you understand that these things are memories. When you think about the current situation you are recalling it from your short term memory, and you undertand it as currently happening or that it just happened. When Deja Vu occurs (according to the study) it is your brain pulling (thinking about) the current information from your long term memory. Thats is why you think it already happened, because you understand it to have already happened. That is also why it only lasts for a short period of time, because the brain catches up.
The study in this article does not prove this theory wrong. They are studying which part of the brain is showing activity, but they do not yet know what part of the brain is actually involved in short term or long term memory. So the parts that are showing activity could be the long term memory banks or the short term, or these parts are used for the same thing. Science just does not know at the present time.
C) Bigger PSU.
D) With ads on it, with revenue paying your Power Company Bill.
Already been done, see Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sean Paul ("Fight me Lennon?") The guys who sing "Louie Louie" etc.
But maybe they are doing this to save themseleves from law suits. Remember how long Jeremy from Pearl Jam played on the radio and VH1 and Mtv before they realized Eddie Veder was saying "Harmless little Fuck" If there were no lyric sites then no one would have noticed, and no one would have sued them for playing inappropriate music in Americas Heartland.
Couldn't you say back to them "Your technology stopped working, you pay for it"
If it's the standard grain-of-rice sized RFID they wil just make one thick page with it in inside. If you smash it, no one will be able to tell (probably). Although I do like your Microwave idea.
If they did make these mandatory (like a Nation wide ID card) then we should all throw them in the Microwave on a planned day and the next day go to the issuing agency and say "it no longer works" if 150,000 people or more did this I think the Governement would realize that they can't afford to fix them all, then scrape the program. At least I can dream right?
Could you or I get one of these new Passports and get it home... and proceed to slam it with a hammer? I mean, the passport is still just paper, but with this little thing inside. What would happen? It would break, but you could never tell if it stopped working. So the next time you go to fly/leave the country, you could just say "I didn't know it stopped working?" which is pretty true, unless you had a RFID reciever in your home.
This would be the simple answer to all those who fear the wrath of the RFID technology.
But.... AMD just announced a major Facility in the Albany NY region. Republican Gov who is close to Dubya, two very well known Senators (Hillary & Chuck Schumer), one of the most greedy states in the Union as well as one of the most powerful.
I am not saying this is why the Legislation is being passed, I am just pointing out that we could easily play both sides.
I thought it was just there to temp you to (unsuccessfully) delete it from your computer. I didn't know it was an actual messanger.
Screw Halo 2 in your XBOX 360, I want to put Duke Nukem in my 360 and have it play with Duke Nukem Forever graphics.
For those wondering who "scientists" are, it's the Dharma crew.
I would recommend not flying/sailing for the next few months.
This, although meant to be a joke, actually has some merit. When NY passed their "no smoking indoors" bill a few years back the loopholes started. The law was put in place to prohibit smoking in Bars, Restaurants, Clubs, etc. It was there to sheild the employees who work in those places and have to inhale all the second hand smoke.
Well Bingo took a huge hit, if you have never been to a bingo parlor they are usually so smoke filled you could barely see the board. Bingo being run by most Churchs and Schools were complaining big time to their elected officals. These places were given "test site" permits which allowed them to stay open to smokers.
There were no too many of these "test site" permits given out, but they do exist. And if you could go around the State and find where all of them exist, I am sure you will find they exist in areas where the local Politicians are active members in what ever Church got the pass. I know of two in Rensselaer county were set up in that manner.