Oh yes it was. It bugged me to log in every time I started NS6 (I had no AIM account), and the AIM replaced Mozilla's IRC module, which I personally found far more useful.
From what I heard on the news, the Police only arrested Ruth Turner so they could execute a warrant to seize evidence from her house. I'm assuming this evidence included her (Government) computers, and the "hacking" in question was limited to breaking the passwords.
In my case, several months too long. I'm in the UK, and we were excluded from the service from the outset so it really hasn't been available for me to become dissatisfied with.
It's a shame, though, because I was helping someone set up a small ecommerce site last July and Google Checkout offered exactly the service I needed, except that they didn't because I live in the UK.:'-(
The Garmin will have a CPU, database of landmarks and roads etc., while the 'phone will just have the "front end" chip that spews out some raw numbers. Just sending those numbers in a "header" puts little or no extra load on the system, since you don't actually need to process them unless you're actively tracking the 'phone.
I am not an expert, but I was led to believe that US cellphones have a GPS receiver chip that outputs a string of numbers, and these numbers are incorporated in the "header" every time it talks to a cell tower. The "authorities" can use these at any time to locate where the 'phone is reporting itself to be.
At the moment, only download purchases count towards the top 40. Lets see if they get round to counting songs that are downloaded for free too.
That way, bands would be given the incentive to provide at least one good song from every album as a free download in the hope of hitting the charts; the consumer can only win!
It's also be nice if they tweaked the rules to exclude downloads with restrictive DRM from counting towards chart success...;-D
The point of the massive Beta testing period is to allow you to report sites that don't work properly to Micro$oft so that they can rewrite the browser where appropriate, not so you can all try to come up with new and exciting workarounds for "problems" that may not exist in the final release.
Yeah. To prevent SPAMmers from scraping our machines for addresses and 'phone numbers, let's keep them all stored in one huge central server. Right. Because that's always worked in the past.
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Can your brain project images onto a digital chip or film?
Hint: If you actually want to buy the book, search again on the title. This is the only one with a sensible review, but there are other copies on sale for just $5.
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Can your brain project images onto a digital chip or film?
Well, there was a Russian guy who, when handed a camera with a new roll of film in it and the lens cap taped firmly on, could take it into a dimly lit room and stare at it while sweat flooded off him. On developing the film it would be found to have shots of the Eiffel Tower etc., but I digress...
Or are ALL the photos fake?
That's not what I'm saying. But have you ever noticed that all the good "photographic evidence" seems to come from single sources and that the photographer rarely tries to claim that the experience "changed their life"...?
What I'm suggesting is that there may be more than one phenomenon at work here, and that "group experiences" with no physical evidence to back them up are the ones that might well be explained by ELF phenomena interacting with the brain.
Jeezus, folks, not like you need to enter a room and have enough light to perform brain surgery in under 2 seconds...
No, but I quite often have to flick a light on to see where I left my coffee cup, and if it's in that room try to pick it up without treading on the cat. Anything that takes that experience from 1 second minimum to 4 or 5 seconds is a Bad Thing.
Having said that, all but one of the bulbs in my house are energy savers - the modern ones switch on in well under a second. Yes, I still consider slow start-up a flaw.
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I've studied UFO phenomena on-and-off for the last 30 years or so, albeit not professionally, and one theory seems to fit better than most. Oddly, though, it's the theory that seems to get the least airtime.
The human brain (and, who knows, maybe other animals too) is susceptible to "interference" from extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves. Exposure seems to trigger an experience not unlike the classic UFO report, with memories of "lights in the sky" performing astounding "aerobatics" and feelings of a profound "connectedness" that some say changed their lives.
Many UFO sightings (and fairy stories, and religious experiences etc.) take place over long-standing seismic phenomena, nuclear power stations or during thunderstorms; all places where high powered electromagnetic fields at a low frequency (7-8 Hz has been suggested as a "trigger frequency") would not be uncommon.
The idea that a group of individuals all see "the same thing" and back each others stories up just suggests to me that they experienced a localised EM field, while others who were further away had a lesser experience and shrugged it off. Has it ever bothered you how many of these stories can be retold by large groups of people, all of whom had cameras yet none of whom photographed anything - the only "evidence" is in a collection of human brains, and we accept it as evidence because they all agree with each other? What if it is possible to introduce this experience into the "mind" externally without leaving any trace? I personally always think of this theory every time someone, when talking about such an experience, says "it changed my life". That, to me, sounds like indirect evidence of a change in neurochemistry. Just seeing an unexplained light in the sky is unlikely to "change your life".
There's a valley, I think it's in Norway but I can't remember for certain at the moment (Google for it if you have the time) where glowing balls of light are regularly seen floating over the centre, but you can only see them if you're standing to one particular side of the valley. People have written articles about these amazing one-sided light balls, giving all sorts of weird theories about how the light could be polarised to only be visible from one direction. As far as I'm concerned, it's much more likely that the light balls are, well, balls(!) and that the hillside you can see them from contains a source of ELF* EM that scrambles the brains of anyone who stands there.
So, returning to TFA, I'd be more worried about what was emitting that level of EM radiation from the cases near the 12 employees who made the sighting... The Soviets "lost" quite a few "suitcase nukes", didn't they?:-/
In the erarly days of UK Channel 4 they had a documentary on the "faking" of the moon landings. For the first two segments they brought on all sorts of conspiracy theorists who showed photos of the landing and explained why the lighting and shadows just couldn't fall the way they did, how features were in front of "registration marks" etc.; pretty much the same arguments you hear nowadays.
The third segment was the memorable one, though. They brought on someone from NASA to refute their claims. Not an astronaut. Not a scientist. An airbrush artist from their "Educational Outreach" initiative.:-)
He looked at all their "proof" and said "I airbrushed every one of those photos for distribution around US Schools in the 1970s, and the airbrushed versions are the ones that have been doing the rounds in the Public Domain ever since. I put the detail into that boot sole. I joined two photos together there, which is why you see that rock twice..." And so on.
Basically he said "If you lot hadn't been too cheapskate to pay $10 for copies from the original negatives instead of analysing non-scientific publicity materials this conspiracy theory would never have started."
That documentary was over 20 years ago now, yet still the theories continue.
It's not the pins that are the constraining factor, but rather the "blades" in the socket that they have to slide across. The specification says they have to carry at least 13 Amps without raising the temperature of the plug at the point of contact, which is a thin strip where the curved edge of the metal blade in the socket presses against the pin of the plug, hence the reason the pins need to be so wide.
Multiple images of a planet I can understand, but multiple images of a photon??? IIRC they only exist in one place and you can't "image" them until they interact with your eye/a sensor. Hmmm.
Many of the ills that Microsoft have inflicted on the computer industry had a reason behind them, whether it be capturing a greater market share or maximising profits. However, the one thing I can't forgive was back in the days when Bill was writing Microsoft BASIC.
He was personally hand-coding it all in assembler, so there's nobody else he can blame. He wrote his implementation based on the definitions of the language in Kemeny & Kurtz' book, but he couldn't understand the MAT() command, so he left it out. That decision set back 3D computer graphics by ten years, and Bill Gates was single-handedly responsible for it.
Yup. I used it as a reasonably-priced alternative to ripping all the vinyl that I already own - I don't see why I should have to pay the RIAA and their stooges a fortune just because I want to change the media I listen to my music on.
Oh...kay... I'm in Scotland at the moment, where it's completely dark about 5:30pm. If I turn off the electric light an hour before bedtime (11pm aiming for midnight) I'm instantly plunged into pitch darkness. What do you suggest...?
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Plus, a multimeter set to AC will register both AC and DC. A multimeter set to DC will only register DC.
From what I heard on the news, the Police only arrested Ruth Turner so they could execute a warrant to seize evidence from her house. I'm assuming this evidence included her (Government) computers, and the "hacking" in question was limited to breaking the passwords.
In my case, several months too long. I'm in the UK, and we were excluded from the service from the outset so it really hasn't been available for me to become dissatisfied with.
:'-(
It's a shame, though, because I was helping someone set up a small ecommerce site last July and Google Checkout offered exactly the service I needed, except that they didn't because I live in the UK.
The Garmin will have a CPU, database of landmarks and roads etc., while the 'phone will just have the "front end" chip that spews out some raw numbers. Just sending those numbers in a "header" puts little or no extra load on the system, since you don't actually need to process them unless you're actively tracking the 'phone.
I am not an expert, but I was led to believe that US cellphones have a GPS receiver chip that outputs a string of numbers, and these numbers are incorporated in the "header" every time it talks to a cell tower. The "authorities" can use these at any time to locate where the 'phone is reporting itself to be.
Don't forget there's a genetic component too. Kim Jong-il imports the finest food the West has to offer and he's still a midget without his lifts.
"Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
At the moment, only download purchases count towards the top 40. Lets see if they get round to counting songs that are downloaded for free too.
;-D
That way, bands would be given the incentive to provide at least one good song from every album as a free download in the hope of hitting the charts; the consumer can only win!
It's also be nice if they tweaked the rules to exclude downloads with restrictive DRM from counting towards chart success...
The point of the massive Beta testing period is to allow you to report sites that don't work properly to Micro$oft so that they can rewrite the browser where appropriate, not so you can all try to come up with new and exciting workarounds for "problems" that may not exist in the final release.
Yeah. To prevent SPAMmers from scraping our machines for addresses and 'phone numbers, let's keep them all stored in one huge central server. Right. Because that's always worked in the past.
Not the Russian, but this guy is interesting too:
http://www.amazon.com/World-Ted-Serios-Thoughtogr
Hint: If you actually want to buy the book, search again on the title. This is the only one with a sensible review, but there are other copies on sale for just $5.
Well, there was a Russian guy who, when handed a camera with a new roll of film in it and the lens cap taped firmly on, could take it into a dimly lit room and stare at it while sweat flooded off him. On developing the film it would be found to have shots of the Eiffel Tower etc., but I digress...
That's not what I'm saying. But have you ever noticed that all the good "photographic evidence" seems to come from single sources and that the photographer rarely tries to claim that the experience "changed their life"...?
What I'm suggesting is that there may be more than one phenomenon at work here, and that "group experiences" with no physical evidence to back them up are the ones that might well be explained by ELF phenomena interacting with the brain.
No, only discussions that take the extraterrestrial hypothesis into account.
No, but I quite often have to flick a light on to see where I left my coffee cup, and if it's in that room try to pick it up without treading on the cat. Anything that takes that experience from 1 second minimum to 4 or 5 seconds is a Bad Thing.
Having said that, all but one of the bulbs in my house are energy savers - the modern ones switch on in well under a second. Yes, I still consider slow start-up a flaw.
I've studied UFO phenomena on-and-off for the last 30 years or so, albeit not professionally, and one theory seems to fit better than most. Oddly, though, it's the theory that seems to get the least airtime.
:-/
The human brain (and, who knows, maybe other animals too) is susceptible to "interference" from extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves. Exposure seems to trigger an experience not unlike the classic UFO report, with memories of "lights in the sky" performing astounding "aerobatics" and feelings of a profound "connectedness" that some say changed their lives.
Many UFO sightings (and fairy stories, and religious experiences etc.) take place over long-standing seismic phenomena, nuclear power stations or during thunderstorms; all places where high powered electromagnetic fields at a low frequency (7-8 Hz has been suggested as a "trigger frequency") would not be uncommon.
The idea that a group of individuals all see "the same thing" and back each others stories up just suggests to me that they experienced a localised EM field, while others who were further away had a lesser experience and shrugged it off. Has it ever bothered you how many of these stories can be retold by large groups of people, all of whom had cameras yet none of whom photographed anything - the only "evidence" is in a collection of human brains, and we accept it as evidence because they all agree with each other? What if it is possible to introduce this experience into the "mind" externally without leaving any trace? I personally always think of this theory every time someone, when talking about such an experience, says "it changed my life". That, to me, sounds like indirect evidence of a change in neurochemistry. Just seeing an unexplained light in the sky is unlikely to "change your life".
There's a valley, I think it's in Norway but I can't remember for certain at the moment (Google for it if you have the time) where glowing balls of light are regularly seen floating over the centre, but you can only see them if you're standing to one particular side of the valley. People have written articles about these amazing one-sided light balls, giving all sorts of weird theories about how the light could be polarised to only be visible from one direction. As far as I'm concerned, it's much more likely that the light balls are, well, balls(!) and that the hillside you can see them from contains a source of ELF* EM that scrambles the brains of anyone who stands there.
So, returning to TFA, I'd be more worried about what was emitting that level of EM radiation from the cases near the 12 employees who made the sighting... The Soviets "lost" quite a few "suitcase nukes", didn't they?
(* Let the Elf jokes begin...)
In the erarly days of UK Channel 4 they had a documentary on the "faking" of the moon landings. For the first two segments they brought on all sorts of conspiracy theorists who showed photos of the landing and explained why the lighting and shadows just couldn't fall the way they did, how features were in front of "registration marks" etc.; pretty much the same arguments you hear nowadays.
:-)
The third segment was the memorable one, though. They brought on someone from NASA to refute their claims. Not an astronaut. Not a scientist. An airbrush artist from their "Educational Outreach" initiative.
He looked at all their "proof" and said "I airbrushed every one of those photos for distribution around US Schools in the 1970s, and the airbrushed versions are the ones that have been doing the rounds in the Public Domain ever since. I put the detail into that boot sole. I joined two photos together there, which is why you see that rock twice..." And so on.
Basically he said "If you lot hadn't been too cheapskate to pay $10 for copies from the original negatives instead of analysing non-scientific publicity materials this conspiracy theory would never have started."
That documentary was over 20 years ago now, yet still the theories continue.
It's not the pins that are the constraining factor, but rather the "blades" in the socket that they have to slide across. The specification says they have to carry at least 13 Amps without raising the temperature of the plug at the point of contact, which is a thin strip where the curved edge of the metal blade in the socket presses against the pin of the plug, hence the reason the pins need to be so wide.
I liked the letter from the WHO, politely thanking him for sending samples of his "artistic endeavours"...
Multiple images of a planet I can understand, but multiple images of a photon??? IIRC they only exist in one place and you can't "image" them until they interact with your eye/a sensor. Hmmm.
Many of the ills that Microsoft have inflicted on the computer industry had a reason behind them, whether it be capturing a greater market share or maximising profits. However, the one thing I can't forgive was back in the days when Bill was writing Microsoft BASIC.
He was personally hand-coding it all in assembler, so there's nobody else he can blame. He wrote his implementation based on the definitions of the language in Kemeny & Kurtz' book, but he couldn't understand the MAT() command, so he left it out. That decision set back 3D computer graphics by ten years, and Bill Gates was single-handedly responsible for it.
Yup. I used it as a reasonably-priced alternative to ripping all the vinyl that I already own - I don't see why I should have to pay the RIAA and their stooges a fortune just because I want to change the media I listen to my music on.
It's called a Peltier device, and has been around for decades.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier-Seebeck_effe
Oh...kay... I'm in Scotland at the moment, where it's completely dark about 5:30pm. If I turn off the electric light an hour before bedtime (11pm aiming for midnight) I'm instantly plunged into pitch darkness. What do you suggest...?
They don't call it "the Red Planet" for nothing... ;-)