Someone needs to combine the tune "God Bless The USA" with some choice lyrics about the TSA to create "God Bless The TSA". It goes viral, everyone hums the tune while boarding and TSA employees start looking like kings with no clothes.
Can we do one of these/. Q&A's with Brian Greene? String theory is another almost-impossible-to-understand subject and his 1999 Elegant Universe is a bit old now. He must have plenty of new thoughts on the subject.
When Microsoft began incorporating the mouse into their applications, their goal was to keep their applications fully accessible by keyboard. What has happened to this goal? Every new version of Windows seems to break keyboard access more and more. Now we are having touch rammed down our throats as the _only_ preferred way to use an OS ?!
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Some of my one-and-only-ever experience with Wal-Mart's web site:
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Products that I (and Google) knew that Wal-Mart sold would not show up when you typed them into the Wal-Mart Search function.
When I tried to find a store near me, the first hit was for a store 50 miles away.
When I made the mistake of emailing this fact to WM, I was forced to put something in almost every field (when only the email field should be mandatory) of the "contact us" form.
The zip that I had to enter was 9 digits. It would not accept the 5 digit form -- other sites accept the 5 and in some cases expand it to the 9 automatically.
The reply I got back included saying they had a "Location near you" function and...
PBS started out sponsor-free and is now sponsor-infested. You are watching some show and suddenly everything grinds to a halt and a seemingly endless stream of overly-happy people start annoying you. What is worse is that they do this for an unknown amount of time -- I just switch the channel and don't switch back.
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Still, given the general tone of what they are saying, you assume (and they are counting on this) when you look into the sponsors of PBS that they will turn out to be honorable entities. Well, it turns out that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for one, is one of the great scams of all time -- check out the book about HH's life (I don't remember which one it was that I listened to on Audible.com 15 years ago, sorry). HHMI is the Monsanto of medical "foundations".
I call this sort of thing the "got milk" scam. Something that seems reasonable that absolutely everyone is bombarded with turns out to be Class A stupid. Happy rich celebrities with milk mustaches are quite a long way from the reality of milk.
Let's go further. What about dropping the volume on over-compressed sound in proportion to how compressed it is? This would solve the problem in short order. Put the feature in "new high fidelity" radios too. Apply everywhere and the loudness war will end in a whimper.
Given that most movies want the explosions super loud and the dialogue quiet, the only way anyone over 18 years of age is happy is if they can keep one finger on the remote's volume dn/up buttons. Yet another reason why the "big screen" experience sucks so badly.
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Adding speakers means there is no way this sucker is going to be quieter than the other sound systems.
How many soccer moms will be loading the theater with children so they may be blasted with ludicrously high levels of audio waves? It is already a criminal act, IMO.
Start them off with the ST:TNG pinball game. That worked for me. I was a huge pinball fan already (over 40 years playing the silver ball today) and hate TOS and "lost in space". But ST:TNG is one of the greatest pinball games ever and once I started watching ST:TNG, my enjoyment of the pin went up considerably.
What this means is that, all other things equal, your dollars will lose value every year. Same as a new car -- the second you buy it the clock starts ticking and it starts losing value. .
Maybe true for a new car but otherwise False. Think of a car as a thing that will take you say 150,000 miles for $15,000 2012 (i.e. present-valued) dollars. If you choose to use it now, you choose to "depreciate" it now. If you choose to not drive it much now, you choose to "depreciate" it less now. And when you use it more later, the car is magically worth more later -- your investment actually "gained value" (but not in 2012 dollars) from lack of use!
Things like cars, dish washers, or home insulation are great things to invest in during inflationary times. The worst thing is to just hold onto your money in that 0.000001% bank account. Then your money true wastes away.
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Her copy of Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North by Peter Freuchen
Someone needs to combine the tune "God Bless The USA" with some choice lyrics about the TSA to create "God Bless The TSA". It goes viral, everyone hums the tune while boarding and TSA employees start looking like kings with no clothes.
The only "muscle car" I ever owned was a Gremlin X. 305 cubes in such a small car...I enjoyed it while it lasted.
Any votes for AMC Pacer of the computing world?
FTFY
Since they removed window shadows, it sounds more like Windows 3.0
Where is the money in compatible products?
Don't forget that autodrive does not have to sleep. What are the savings to a trucking company from that alone?
Can we do one of these /. Q&A's with Brian Greene? String theory is another almost-impossible-to-understand subject and his 1999 Elegant Universe is a bit old now. He must have plenty of new thoughts on the subject.
If ever there was a time for a WTF, this is it.
Products that I (and Google) knew that Wal-Mart sold would not show up when you typed them into the Wal-Mart Search function.
When I tried to find a store near me, the first hit was for a store 50 miles away.
When I made the mistake of emailing this fact to WM, I was forced to put something in almost every field (when only the email field should be mandatory) of the "contact us" form.
The zip that I had to enter was 9 digits. It would not accept the 5 digit form -- other sites accept the 5 and in some cases expand it to the 9 automatically.
The reply I got back included saying they had a "Location near you" function and...
that they sold GPS units to help me navigate.
Bottom line: stupid MFs I have ever seen online.
So you type your "few keywords" into Google, followed by " wiki". Works for me.
What kind of web sites would you get if Megan Garber married Jakob Nielsen?
Still, given the general tone of what they are saying, you assume (and they are counting on this) when you look into the sponsors of PBS that they will turn out to be honorable entities. Well, it turns out that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for one, is one of the great scams of all time -- check out the book about HH's life (I don't remember which one it was that I listened to on Audible.com 15 years ago, sorry). HHMI is the Monsanto of medical "foundations".
I call this sort of thing the "got milk" scam. Something that seems reasonable that absolutely everyone is bombarded with turns out to be Class A stupid. Happy rich celebrities with milk mustaches are quite a long way from the reality of milk.
Let's go further. What about dropping the volume on over-compressed sound in proportion to how compressed it is? This would solve the problem in short order. Put the feature in "new high fidelity" radios too. Apply everywhere and the loudness war will end in a whimper.
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Adding speakers means there is no way this sucker is going to be quieter than the other sound systems.
How many soccer moms will be loading the theater with children so they may be blasted with ludicrously high levels of audio waves? It is already a criminal act, IMO.
Start them off with the ST:TNG pinball game. That worked for me. I was a huge pinball fan already (over 40 years playing the silver ball today) and hate TOS and "lost in space". But ST:TNG is one of the greatest pinball games ever and once I started watching ST:TNG, my enjoyment of the pin went up considerably.
Speaking of dust, will this mottled display be more of a dust magnet?
Shorter lines are more readable.
I hear that Windows 8 will ship with a gumball machine, a flag and a pretty cool hat.
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Paves the way for them to price Windows based on your RAM size, HD capacity, etc.
How much bigger does the surface area of the ocean get, per mm of sea level rise? (as a percent ifyouhaveit).
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How about filling a lake that has no outlet?
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Maybe true for a new car but otherwise False. Think of a car as a thing that will take you say 150,000 miles for $15,000 2012 (i.e. present-valued) dollars. If you choose to use it now, you choose to "depreciate" it now. If you choose to not drive it much now, you choose to "depreciate" it less now. And when you use it more later, the car is magically worth more later -- your investment actually "gained value" (but not in 2012 dollars) from lack of use!
Things like cars, dish washers, or home insulation are great things to invest in during inflationary times. The worst thing is to just hold onto your money in that 0.000001% bank account. Then your money true wastes away.
Is there a robots.txt setting to stop Chrome from doing this to your site?