Years that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years. For example, 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. Similarly, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2900 and 3000 will not be leap [...]
The illness is called “TILT,” or Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance. Patients lose tolerance to household products, medication, or even food after being exposed to chemicals, like burning oil, toxic fumes, or dispersants from the spill.”Things like diesel fuel, exposure to fragrances, cleaning agents that never bothered them before suddenly bother them,” adds Dr. Miller.TILT has [...]
Focusing on the financials alone of social computing and how it can help us generate more business revenue, i.e. focusing just on the numbers, on keeping the stakeholders happy, on using the same business models as last century’s is just going to help us get back into the same position we are nowadays in with [...]
“As long as your data is being held by someone else, not only can you not control what they are doing with it right now but you can’t control it in years to come,” said Raphael Sofaer. Colleague Max Salzberg said they don’t necessarily have Facebook in its crosshairs and are motivated by doing something [...]
Confused in Catan? Conflicted about Carcassonne? Puzzled in Puerto Rico? You’ve heard about all these awesome new board games that are out these days, but don’t know where to begin? Help is here! Scott Nicholson knows all about ‘em, and will explain them in great detail in his video series Board Games With Scott! via [...]
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…we have been shown evidence of virtually every one of these concerns over the past, long, ten years and we have chosen not to see them. Or perhaps the problem is that the reports of such incidents have been fragmented and piecemeal, and thus easily mitigated as “accidents” animated by human or technological error (take [...]
“When the IPv4 protocol was developed 30 years ago, it seemed to be a reasonable attempt at providing enough addresses, bearing in mind that at that point personal computers didn’t really exist. The idea that mobile phones might want an IP address hadn’t occurred to anybody because mobile phones hadn’t been invented [and] the idea [...]
HIRPS — Highly Relevant Pitching System. My system includes three elements. Influencer profiles. Influencers would set up their own profiles — not “who I am” but “what I’m looking for” profiles. The profile would include not just general coverage areas, but very specific details (e.g. “I am interested in new mobile devices” or “I am [...]
Rejection of comics from distribution by Apple is less like being banned from Wal-Mart and more like being rejected from Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog. Even if other outlets exist, Apple has the single largest digital media distribution system for portable devices today. While there are numerous “stores” through which to purchase comics for an iPhone or [...]
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The word “alembic” has taken on a metaphorical meaning, anything that refines or transmutes, as if by distillation (as in “the alembic of creative thought”). The word, as does most alchemical terminology, comes from the Arabic: al-inbiq, meaning “still”. The French spelling alambic is also commonly used, especially as the apparatus is often associated with [...]
We do see an emerging Internet marketing discipline, an approach that can be summed up in a word: spam, which has come to be used as a term for any unsolicited commercial message delivered online. However there’s another approach that is lighter and more consistent with digital culture. When I give talks about social media, [...]
All human beings can, if they so desire, commit suicide by simply willing themselves to catch on fire inside and burn up into bits of crunchy blackened human toast. If you don’t know how to do this, you are either: Not human A squirrel/robot hybrid Something else via Infictive Research – Harry Carey via Spontaneous [...]
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Members of Congress have expressed concern that the acquisition could give Comcast the power to favor the content of its own cable and broadcast channels over those of competitors, something that Comcast has said it does not intend to do. Now, members of Congress could also fret that Comcast will also block or slow down [...]
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