So, let me get this straight. Fox is making a reality show that's exactly like Firefly, only lacking the the good acting, scripts, universe, and cheapness? (Which costs more: Making 10 hours of high-quality CG, or several weeks of it?) Cheezus Crust, I hate fox.
The last thing I need is getting a fatal error because the OS on my fridge had a fatal error and let the mayo get a little too warm. I don't trust windows to store my text-files, how do they expect me to entrust it with my foodstuffs?
It's a tough call - do developments like this merely improve life for already isolated old people, or do they make it easier (particularly on the conscience) to dump old people in isolated apartments with less and less social contact?
No, it's just the Ikea ARM (Analog Rights Management). It prevents the user from ilicitly tranfering the product from one system to another. It helps prevent piracy... somehow...
Now, think of the McDonald's "Yes The Hot Coffee Is Actually Hot" case
To be fair, Hot Coffee wasn't that hot. To pixelaty.
In all seriousness, it's space. Do you know how many non-liability school-style permission slips one would have to sign to get into fucking SPACE! ("We are not responsible for any liability if you die from gross negligence, failure to provide oxygen or food, or accidently launching the rocket into the sun")
You have to sign away your rights to sue before you go on Survivor or go Skydiving. I doubt the lawyers for virgin galactic will actually let people put themselves in that much danger without ironclad legal documents.
That doesn't make any sense. You're saying Sony doesn't want what's basically a monopoly on fuel-production. The more people using Sony's technology, the more money Sony gets. Eventually, if this tech takes off, other companies will start producing fuel (after the patent expires), but Sony will still have a major headstart. And Sony loves money.
It's not a social non-problem! It's a major problem! Porn! Children! Porn! Children! PORN! CHILDREN! You can't deny the innate and irrascible logic possessed by this argument. You just hate children, you anti-family values bigot.
You fools! they obviously got their CDs mixed up with their MP3s and the resulting BSOD caused the OMG to WTF in the BBQ! Since when does M$ syncopate blogosphere podcast Kekekeke MMORPG LOLOLOL? When will M$ and BG get their DIAL?
Firefox support is coming. As soon as Microsoft helps finish up Duke Nukem Forever, they'll work on Firefox support.
(For the people who don't get the joke, replace Duke Nukem Forever with "Grand Unification Theory". For people who don't get THAT reference, insert a reference to pigs flying.)
Welcome our new datamongering google overlords.
But seriously, is google starting to become big brother?
I mean, in five years you will get on google to google the location of your nearest google pizzeria, order a google pizza, talk to your friends over Gmail or GVoIP, look at all the kids at GoogleOrphanage, then get your google pizza with a nice side dish of googlent-Green. Mmm Mmm good.
I'm not a bio major or anything (yet) but here's how I assume it works:
The stream of 'cold plasma' is just energized oxygen and helium, packing extra electrons. When it comes into contact with a bacteria, it oxidizes the bacterias cell wall, causing them to lyse. Bam, no more bacteria. There isn't any real danger of the bacteria evolving an immunity, as we've been throwing similar tactics at them for a long time, and you probably have some in your home: Hydrogen Peroxide functions on basically the same principals.
As for the cancer element, I'm a little skeptical. It could be used to take out cancers, but you would need to cut the patient open, locate the cancer, and spray the tumor with magic cold plasma for a couple minutes, and then you get a dead and rotting tumor inside the patient's body. It's better just to remove the damn thing.
For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizer
Perhaps after we reach true photorealism game companies will actually start to sell their products based on good gameplay instead of the latest flashy graphics.
That hasn't worked for the movie industry yet... They've had photorealism for awhile, but they still don't offer any content, in general.
Silly rabbit, don't you know magnets are nature's medicine! They reorganize your chakram, keep your blood flowing, cure arthritis, do menial chores like dusting, cure cancer, and get Bush impeached. don't you know anything? http://www.qray.com/default.aspx?source=google_mag netic_bracelet [some bullshit website selling overpriced novelty bracelets with no scientific backing whatsoever to dumb aging hippies.com]
What the RIAA does (or rather, the RIAA member companies) is extremely expensive. Their job is to make artists well-known enough to sell a lot of music. If you want to make a living making music, you have to sell a LOT of music. At $10 a CD, you need to sell 1,500 CDs just to get yourself to the poverty line, and that's before you've paid for producing, printing, pressing, much less the advertising that makes people want your CD in the first place. You can tour like crazy but getting thousands of people to cough up $10 for your CD is going to be a challenge, especially when there are literally thousands of bands like yours out there. So real number is more like tens of thousands of CDs. If you want to get rich you'd better sell a million of them, and unless you're REALLY friendly you haven't got a million friends to sell CDs to.
I agree totally. The reason they need to spend so much money on advertising is because advertising is so damn expensive, they need to remake their money. Oh wait, no, the other one. The reason they need to spend so much on advertising is because they want people to buy fluff without having any decent substance. Good musicians don't need advertising.
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You can shoot puppies in Nintendogs? Hot Dog, I need to gets me a DS!
So, let me get this straight. Fox is making a reality show that's exactly like Firefly, only lacking the the good acting, scripts, universe, and cheapness? (Which costs more: Making 10 hours of high-quality CG, or several weeks of it?)
Cheezus Crust, I hate fox.
The last thing I need is getting a fatal error because the OS on my fridge had a fatal error and let the mayo get a little too warm. I don't trust windows to store my text-files, how do they expect me to entrust it with my foodstuffs?
No, it's just the Ikea ARM (Analog Rights Management). It prevents the user from ilicitly tranfering the product from one system to another. It helps prevent piracy... somehow...
To be fair, Hot Coffee wasn't that hot. To pixelaty.
In all seriousness, it's space. Do you know how many non-liability school-style permission slips one would have to sign to get into fucking SPACE! ("We are not responsible for any liability if you die from gross negligence, failure to provide oxygen or food, or accidently launching the rocket into the sun")
You have to sign away your rights to sue before you go on Survivor or go Skydiving. I doubt the lawyers for virgin galactic will actually let people put themselves in that much danger without ironclad legal documents.
That doesn't make any sense. You're saying Sony doesn't want what's basically a monopoly on fuel-production. The more people using Sony's technology, the more money Sony gets. Eventually, if this tech takes off, other companies will start producing fuel (after the patent expires), but Sony will still have a major headstart. And Sony loves money.
So, the PSP II will explode when you drop it?
It's not a social non-problem!
It's a major problem!
Porn!
Children!
Porn!
Children!
PORN!
CHILDREN!
You can't deny the innate and irrascible logic possessed by this argument.
You just hate children, you anti-family values bigot.
You fools! they obviously got their CDs mixed up with their MP3s and the resulting BSOD caused the OMG to WTF in the BBQ! Since when does M$ syncopate blogosphere podcast Kekekeke MMORPG LOLOLOL? When will M$ and BG get their DIAL?
Firefox support is coming. As soon as Microsoft helps finish up Duke Nukem Forever, they'll work on Firefox support. (For the people who don't get the joke, replace Duke Nukem Forever with "Grand Unification Theory". For people who don't get THAT reference, insert a reference to pigs flying.)
Welcome our new datamongering google overlords. But seriously, is google starting to become big brother? I mean, in five years you will get on google to google the location of your nearest google pizzeria, order a google pizza, talk to your friends over Gmail or GVoIP, look at all the kids at GoogleOrphanage, then get your google pizza with a nice side dish of googlent-Green. Mmm Mmm good.
I'm not a bio major or anything (yet) but here's how I assume it works: The stream of 'cold plasma' is just energized oxygen and helium, packing extra electrons. When it comes into contact with a bacteria, it oxidizes the bacterias cell wall, causing them to lyse. Bam, no more bacteria. There isn't any real danger of the bacteria evolving an immunity, as we've been throwing similar tactics at them for a long time, and you probably have some in your home: Hydrogen Peroxide functions on basically the same principals.
As for the cancer element, I'm a little skeptical. It could be used to take out cancers, but you would need to cut the patient open, locate the cancer, and spray the tumor with magic cold plasma for a couple minutes, and then you get a dead and rotting tumor inside the patient's body. It's better just to remove the damn thing. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizer
Silly rabbit, don't you know magnets are nature's medicine! They reorganize your chakram, keep your blood flowing, cure arthritis, do menial chores like dusting, cure cancer, and get Bush impeached. don't you know anything? http://www.qray.com/default.aspx?source=google_mag netic_bracelet [some bullshit website selling overpriced novelty bracelets with no scientific backing whatsoever to dumb aging hippies.com]