I kinda understand tho. The original Gameboy came out and I was kinda like 'meh, it's not for me.' And then approx. 10 years passed, and it was still a current and active system. I started to kinda want one. Prices were pretty low, and the games library was huge. Then they came out with the GB Advance. The model proliferation has been accelerating ever since.
I can totally see wanting to hold back the tide of technology for the sake of having something that actually lasts.
I understand that this is just a large-screen variant and that it doesn't really obsolete anything, but I see where the guy is coming from.
And really, a lot of the success numbers for the original GB were due to its exceedingly long life span. It flew under the radar until someone noticed that the install base on the thing was completely monsterous. Too bad Nintendo appears to have kinda ditched that strategy. It seems like handhelds would be the appropriate platform for it.
It would be a pretty bad move to block calls with ads, but making calls is hardly all the iphone does. I wouldn't be suprised at all to find ads tacked on to the front of apps. "You got this app from the apple app store! Here are some others you might like..." If the recomendation engine was good, the apple faithful might even recognize it as a feature. And wouldn't location/gps based ads work through a channel like this?
You seem to get yours from Wikipedia, so here's some wiki right back atcha... Looks like you're wrong here...
I remember a time BEFORE there was a flu vaccine (which, BTW, happens to be pre-2002)
"In 1931, viral growth in embryonated hens' eggs was discovered, and in the 1940s, the US military developed the first approved inactivated vaccines for influenza, which were used in the Second World War (Baker 2002, Hilleman 2000)."
And here...
and people were not dying by the hundreds of thousands.
"Known flu pandemics:[23] 1918–20 – Spanish Flu, 500 million ill, at least 20–40 million died of H1N1 1957–58 – Asian Flu, 1 to 1.5 million died of H2N2 1968–69 – Hong Kong Flu, 3/4 to 1 million died of H3N2 "
One might be concerned about executive pay, or about infrastructure investment, but this story isn't really about either of those. It's about control.
Save executive pay to invest in infrastructure? Who cares? Available bandwidth isn't why I can't load user created ringtones onto my phone.
Both Apple and cellular carriers have a history of wresting away user control. I'm not inclined to believe this patent isn't just a continuation of this policy.
My dad worked for Heathkit, wrote the user manual for the Hero 1. We had one in our house for a while when I was a kid. I was too young to do much with it though.
Maybe the REAL insight here is that I should get a police job and then retire from it. That way EVERYONE would want to be my friend and I'd finally be popular!
The problem of humanely euthanizing sick fish has been discussed in the aquarium community. I haven't heard of the alkaseltzer method. 10% vodka in the fish water will euthanize a fish, though this works best / cheapest if the fish is small enough to fit in a cup.
Several of my local fish stores are willing to accept fish for re-sale if you want to reduce your stock. You might get store credit or nothing at all, but you can get rid of the fish and it theoretically has a chance to go home with someone who wants it. Contact the store you are thinking of before you show up there with an unwanted fish.
Please patronize a mostly knowledgable aquarium store, and discuss your livestock choices with a clerk knowledgable in the area. A good store can direct you to a fish appropriate for your style / tank / water parameters. And you'd end up with something more intersting than the everyday Oscar from PetSmart or whatever.
Other people have said all sorts of things, but my understanding of the real reason these are better is that they are faster / more space efficient.
One of these is supposed to pull a ton of CO2 / day. In order to generate a ton of new cellulose a day you would need lots of trees, and this would take up lots of room.
It would also require a large time investment to get your CO2 sequestering forest up to speed. There are difficulties involved in working over this large time span.
Essentially, there are only 4 maps, so this wasn't very hard.
L4D appeared to be so cool. I haven't bought it though. Seriously how am I gonna pay real money for a game with so little content? Glad I waited.
Now I've got this reinforcement to keep waiting until a single game is presented with enough content that I feel the purchase is worth it by the time any money leaves my wallet.
Buy a full-priced game on the promise of future content? No thanks!
Certainly, any decent VGA cable has more than enough bandwidth to carry 1080p.
Kind of a random offshoot here, but spurred by the above comment. Has anyone noticed a decline in the quality of VGA cables lately? At work we've been getting Acer flat panels, and while the panels are entirely satisfactory, the VGA cables have recently been kind of crap. One made significant ghosting, another becoming hot during operation, all of them feeling shoddy.
(we were suprised and dismayed by the one that got hot. Really, it got hot to the touch! we can only guess that something was shorting to ground...? we replaced it and the issue vanished. There were no image effects that we noticed.)
VGA cables from the occasional non-acer flat panel have had the same appearance. It's getting harder and harder to find one that doesn't seem cheap around here. I don't recall having to worry about cables before maybe a year ago. Most of our work systems aren't DVI, so I don't know if those cables are any better or worse.
There used to be a device you could plug into your phone, and it would light up LEDs according to vocal stress levels. Presuming the device yields info that you can't yourself already hear, I think that would be pretty interesting.
Any social information you could remotely gather about people you were interacting with could significantly alter your day-to-day life.
- Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Man, I've tried a couple of times to read this, and it just doesn't work for me.
I think I see what he's getting at - the book itself is a fugue. But when I try to read it I attempt to hold in my mind what that guy is freaking talking about, except he doesn't make a point, he just moves on to something else. It's like listening to Cliff Claven. After a couple hundred pages I'm like 'this guy is going in circles, not getting anywhere'. Each sentence makes sense, but they don't point in any coherent direction.
I can see how it's good, if that fugue thing is right, but it also kinda sucks.
Do you think it's possible that centuries of colonialism and exploitation by western empires could have contributed to their "arrival"?
Clearly, but there are other things that have led to this conclusion. Certainly, they had to be brought to a point that the Europeans were capable of exploiting them. 'Cause they won a bunch of those Crusades, ya know. Not that I'm an expert, or that the sources I've read can be guaranteed free of bias, but here are some other things I've heard about:
Climate. I may be remembering wrong but I seem to recall that the middle east oscillates between hot and dry and not so hot and dry out of phase with Northern Europe. It has been good for people in the middle east, but mostly it's dry now. Also, back in the day when it was drying out more they created some impressive irrigation. That's cool, but it led to some hella soil salinization. (I got this from some climate reading I did a while back)
My understanding also is that when european monks were hanging out out and being learned, but poor, they had nothing better to do than study farming around the monestary. This was a time of agricultural advancement in the west, but there was no analog in the Arabic world. As a result Arabic farming was generally less sustainable. (I think I got this one from "The Middle East" by Bernard Lewis)
Then there was Ganghis Khan. I read "Genghis Khan and the making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford and he said the mongols pretty much stormed in and spent a long time shipping everything of value out to Mongolia. Lewis (from the afore mentioned book) on the other hand was of the opinion that the mongols came in and went immediately native, and didn't have a big detrimental effect on the culture. Who is right? I don't know. I could see this being a factor damping the Mid East, however.
Also, back in the day, there was a thriving trade empire in Eastern Africa, the MidEast, and India. But this all fell apart at some point. You can check this out in the Time/Life "Lost Civilizations" videos. Man those things are the bomb. Anyway, Time/Life theorized that the trade around there dried up when the plague killed everyone at that one end of the silk road, killing demand. But who knows it may have been more complicated than that.
Finally, the Ottoman Empire, which was in decline and struggling to remain relevent anyway, totally picked the wrong side to back in WWI. I charecterize this a different from colonial exploitation 'cause this was a legitimate war. It happened for the same reasons that european nations fought with each other, it wasn't some sort of "Let's stomp the middle east" conspiracy.
And why was the Ottoman Empire in decline at that point? There's a bunch of Ottoman politics to explain that, but I can't keep track of it. (see Bernard Lewis)
If anyone has additional factors or has heard something counter to what I've presented here I'd be happy to hear it.
Then when I wanna buy some I usually have to go through Amazon, as most physical stores around me are filled w/ top40 pap. That being said I purchase a fair amount of music these days.
Anyone else wanna give a shout out to their own little path through the Top40 wastelands?
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I kinda understand tho. The original Gameboy came out and I was kinda like 'meh, it's not for me.' And then approx. 10 years passed, and it was still a current and active system. I started to kinda want one. Prices were pretty low, and the games library was huge. Then they came out with the GB Advance. The model proliferation has been accelerating ever since.
I can totally see wanting to hold back the tide of technology for the sake of having something that actually lasts.
I understand that this is just a large-screen variant and that it doesn't really obsolete anything, but I see where the guy is coming from.
And really, a lot of the success numbers for the original GB were due to its exceedingly long life span. It flew under the radar until someone noticed that the install base on the thing was completely monsterous. Too bad Nintendo appears to have kinda ditched that strategy. It seems like handhelds would be the appropriate platform for it.
Seriously, this patent is for something about as useful as fifth wheel on a car.
Location based advertisements on your GPS enabled device have been talked about for a while. Wouldn't they go through a channel like this?
It would be a pretty bad move to block calls with ads, but making calls is hardly all the iphone does. I wouldn't be suprised at all to find ads tacked on to the front of apps. "You got this app from the apple app store! Here are some others you might like..." If the recomendation engine was good, the apple faithful might even recognize it as a feature. And wouldn't location/gps based ads work through a channel like this?
Where the fuck do you get your information?
You seem to get yours from Wikipedia, so here's some wiki right back atcha... Looks like you're wrong here...
I remember a time BEFORE there was a flu vaccine (which, BTW, happens to be pre-2002)
"In 1931, viral growth in embryonated hens' eggs was discovered, and in the 1940s, the US military developed the first approved inactivated vaccines for influenza, which were used in the Second World War (Baker 2002, Hilleman 2000)."
And here...
and people were not dying by the hundreds of thousands.
"Known flu pandemics:[23]
1918–20 – Spanish Flu, 500 million ill, at least 20–40 million died of H1N1
1957–58 – Asian Flu, 1 to 1.5 million died of H2N2
1968–69 – Hong Kong Flu, 3/4 to 1 million died of H3N2 "
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#History_of_the_flu_vaccine
Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups... He pushes the world down.
One might be concerned about executive pay, or about infrastructure investment, but this story isn't really about either of those. It's about control.
Save executive pay to invest in infrastructure? Who cares? Available bandwidth isn't why I can't load user created ringtones onto my phone.
Both Apple and cellular carriers have a history of wresting away user control. I'm not inclined to believe this patent isn't just a continuation of this policy.
My dad worked for Heathkit, wrote the user manual for the Hero 1. We had one in our house for a while when I was a kid. I was too young to do much with it though.
Maybe the REAL insight here is that I should get a police job and then retire from it. That way EVERYONE would want to be my friend and I'd finally be popular!
Would that we all were pally with a former police chief who was nearby whenever we needed a witness to verify our story!
The problem of humanely euthanizing sick fish has been discussed in the aquarium community. I haven't heard of the alkaseltzer method. 10% vodka in the fish water will euthanize a fish, though this works best / cheapest if the fish is small enough to fit in a cup.
Several of my local fish stores are willing to accept fish for re-sale if you want to reduce your stock. You might get store credit or nothing at all, but you can get rid of the fish and it theoretically has a chance to go home with someone who wants it. Contact the store you are thinking of before you show up there with an unwanted fish.
Please patronize a mostly knowledgable aquarium store, and discuss your livestock choices with a clerk knowledgable in the area. A good store can direct you to a fish appropriate for your style / tank / water parameters. And you'd end up with something more intersting than the everyday Oscar from PetSmart or whatever.
I understand it's called Expert Mode. I did it. And it's AWESOME.
http://www.sprint.com/cdma/assets/pdfs/services_guides/calling/spcs_voicemail_ug.pdf
I loved the Mech Commander games. I would like some more of those, please.
Awesome! Where do I get my device that paints a "Speed Limit 70MPH" sign wherever I happen to be?
Other people have said all sorts of things, but my understanding of the real reason these are better is that they are faster / more space efficient.
One of these is supposed to pull a ton of CO2 / day. In order to generate a ton of new cellulose a day you would need lots of trees, and this would take up lots of room.
It would also require a large time investment to get your CO2 sequestering forest up to speed. There are difficulties involved in working over this large time span.
My view is that the economics are the chief obstacle to space development and exploration.
ORBITAL SOLAR ENERGY.
Unless you know of a lower-barrier project that has direct financial output.
Essentially, there are only 4 maps, so this wasn't very hard.
L4D appeared to be so cool. I haven't bought it though. Seriously how am I gonna pay real money for a game with so little content? Glad I waited.
Now I've got this reinforcement to keep waiting until a single game is presented with enough content that I feel the purchase is worth it by the time any money leaves my wallet.
Buy a full-priced game on the promise of future content? No thanks!
What about people without the Internet? Well, they will always have hoop and a stick.
They're working on a way to charge $60 for that.
The big news everyone seems to be missing is that everyone and their mom will be able to block ads with very little knowledge.
How much knowledge will actually be required for this? Serious question. Not a web developer over here.
Certainly, any decent VGA cable has more than enough bandwidth to carry 1080p.
Kind of a random offshoot here, but spurred by the above comment. Has anyone noticed a decline in the quality of VGA cables lately? At work we've been getting Acer flat panels, and while the panels are entirely satisfactory, the VGA cables have recently been kind of crap. One made significant ghosting, another becoming hot during operation, all of them feeling shoddy.
(we were suprised and dismayed by the one that got hot. Really, it got hot to the touch! we can only guess that something was shorting to ground...? we replaced it and the issue vanished. There were no image effects that we noticed.)
VGA cables from the occasional non-acer flat panel have had the same appearance. It's getting harder and harder to find one that doesn't seem cheap around here. I don't recall having to worry about cables before maybe a year ago. Most of our work systems aren't DVI, so I don't know if those cables are any better or worse.
Anyone else notice?
There used to be a device you could plug into your phone, and it would light up LEDs according to vocal stress levels. Presuming the device yields info that you can't yourself already hear, I think that would be pretty interesting.
Any social information you could remotely gather about people you were interacting with could significantly alter your day-to-day life.
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20050820/voice-stress-analyzer-used-as-a-truth-detector-2/
- Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Man, I've tried a couple of times to read this, and it just doesn't work for me.
I think I see what he's getting at - the book itself is a fugue. But when I try to read it I attempt to hold in my mind what that guy is freaking talking about, except he doesn't make a point, he just moves on to something else. It's like listening to Cliff Claven. After a couple hundred pages I'm like 'this guy is going in circles, not getting anywhere'. Each sentence makes sense, but they don't point in any coherent direction.
I can see how it's good, if that fugue thing is right, but it also kinda sucks.
end rant
Do you think it's possible that centuries of colonialism and exploitation by western empires could have contributed to their "arrival"?
Clearly, but there are other things that have led to this conclusion. Certainly, they had to be brought to a point that the Europeans were capable of exploiting them. 'Cause they won a bunch of those Crusades, ya know. Not that I'm an expert, or that the sources I've read can be guaranteed free of bias, but here are some other things I've heard about:
Climate. I may be remembering wrong but I seem to recall that the middle east oscillates between hot and dry and not so hot and dry out of phase with Northern Europe. It has been good for people in the middle east, but mostly it's dry now. Also, back in the day when it was drying out more they created some impressive irrigation. That's cool, but it led to some hella soil salinization. (I got this from some climate reading I did a while back)
My understanding also is that when european monks were hanging out out and being learned, but poor, they had nothing better to do than study farming around the monestary. This was a time of agricultural advancement in the west, but there was no analog in the Arabic world. As a result Arabic farming was generally less sustainable. (I think I got this one from "The Middle East" by Bernard Lewis)
Then there was Ganghis Khan. I read "Genghis Khan and the making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford and he said the mongols pretty much stormed in and spent a long time shipping everything of value out to Mongolia. Lewis (from the afore mentioned book) on the other hand was of the opinion that the mongols came in and went immediately native, and didn't have a big detrimental effect on the culture. Who is right? I don't know. I could see this being a factor damping the Mid East, however.
Also, back in the day, there was a thriving trade empire in Eastern Africa, the MidEast, and India. But this all fell apart at some point. You can check this out in the Time/Life "Lost Civilizations" videos. Man those things are the bomb. Anyway, Time/Life theorized that the trade around there dried up when the plague killed everyone at that one end of the silk road, killing demand. But who knows it may have been more complicated than that.
Finally, the Ottoman Empire, which was in decline and struggling to remain relevent anyway, totally picked the wrong side to back in WWI. I charecterize this a different from colonial exploitation 'cause this was a legitimate war. It happened for the same reasons that european nations fought with each other, it wasn't some sort of "Let's stomp the middle east" conspiracy.
And why was the Ottoman Empire in decline at that point? There's a bunch of Ottoman politics to explain that, but I can't keep track of it. (see Bernard Lewis)
If anyone has additional factors or has heard something counter to what I've presented here I'd be happy to hear it.
This isn't alarmism on the part of the Virginia government. The summary is silly.
Clearly, ANONYMOUS was here! OMGWTFBBQ!
You mean other than 89.3, the radio station? ;)
But it needn't be broadcast over the air to your car to make it a viable path to new music purchases.
Really, I haven't heard a decent mainstream track in the past year.
The key is that you have to get out of the mainstream.
I like electronic music, here's where I've been finding some:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx
http://www.philipsherburne.com/
Also 89.3 the current (MPR's rock station) may not always be good, but it isn't corporate.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/
You can stream it.
Then when I wanna buy some I usually have to go through Amazon, as most physical stores around me are filled w/ top40 pap. That being said I purchase a fair amount of music these days.
Anyone else wanna give a shout out to their own little path through the Top40 wastelands?