I believe you are responding to a forigner who has confused the libertarian/conservative sentiment here on slashdot for the republican sentiment (traditional or neo-con flavor... neither is libertarian) note the comment about how the liberals here are still on the right? that indicates a non american most of teh time bitching about how we dont know the first thing about progressive politics. This is likely someone from a country where most of the voting power is centralized in the city instead of spread out like it is here.
I believe there are plenty of extremely liberal people in the US, mostly in cities, but they dont have the power to implement what they would like the way the might in other countries so they are "dragged" to the center by the mid west conservative types. It is up to the reader to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just making the observation.
Of course it also helps that in other countries they have more than 2 political parties so you get some representation from the further extremes of the political spectrum.
I remember something about tiny ceramic beads... with micro perforations, helping to hold more hydrogen without leakage. It was a while ago that I saw this though.
Clearly production is the big issue, but these guys are talking about harvesting hydrogen from a hydro carbon right in your car. If you can do that, why not do it somewhere else where you can more easily store, or reprocess the carbon.
I'm certainly no expert on this topic but the articles description makes this seem like an excessively complicated system.
There were already some pretty good ways of storing hydrogen for cars and the issue was just creating the hydrogen in the first place.
Seems like using hydrocarbons and storing liquid carbon in the car for later processing would be a real pain for very little gain. Though maybe this would be a good way to get hydrogen to the "gas station."
It would be one thing if they made traffic like HTTP higher priority than Torrents but from what I understand they are throttling torrents automatically, even if their aren't any HTTP requests on the local network... like say, in the middle of the night when your entire neighborhood is asleep, torrents still run much slower than the amount of bandwidth your supposed to have.
good adverting connects a supplier with the person who needs thier goods. Thats why beer ads in sporting events is good advertising because there is a huge overlap between people who watch the events and people who buy beer.
I don't get all freaked out by the fact that some server somewhere is looking for keywords and matching those to a list of keywords for various ads. Id be much more annoyed with a mail service that bombarded me with bright flash ads for stuff I didn't need.
I also dont mind when it does the same thing with my search results, those ads are pretty damn useful and often better than the search result.
Most importantly (and this applies best to the topic at hand) I think its great advertising that scans the contents of a page it is going to deliver ads to and puts ads up that are relevant to the types of people likely to read that content. Thats what the web is going to need to survive. Targeted ads on web pages that are relavant to what the person is reading and not more "punch the monkey" crap.
yea but I bet a bunch more click through due to the "oooh shiny" effect of those ads. They then get to the web site and see all these numbers and percent signs and don't understand where that damn monkey went so they hit the back button.
All Ebay ads are now automatically ignored by me at the ocular level, doesn't even make it to the higher brain function. A shame really since they do carry a lot of the things I might look for, but I have wasted too much time clicking through on those.
It seemed to me that a lot of the "computer engineering" degrees were mostly for IT people. Admittedly this come from back in the 90s when there were only a few departments with this name. Has this changed?
I felt like my Computer Science degree (which was the only game in town back when I was in school) gave me a pretty good background for the working world. Admittedly I also took some electives that focused on digital electronics (including building a computer from chips and then programming it) and we learned our data structures and algorithms in C before moving on the lisp and scheme for higher level concepts like AI. We also learned a big about how processors worked and what micro-code was so it wasn't entirely divorced from the hardware.
Maybe this isn't what its like these days but I haven't had a reason to look at such things in quite some time. I have no intention of going back to school in my industry any time soon and even if I did I would probably be looking for a masters in Software engineering (looking at programs that are about development process as much as anything else).
I wouldn't be surprised if googles text ads had a better rate than a lot of the banner ads I see.
Seriously, how many people are going to buy anything that was advertised with a "punch the monkey" style ad? How many people choose their mortgage company because they saw some flashing crap on the web. The people who are drawn in by these ads don't buy houses.
On the other hand, every time I do a google search I check those ads out. When I'm emailing about something in gmail I will often see related ads and they are often very relevant. Several times I have written an email to someone with a line like "I wonder where I could buy something like X?" and as soon as I send I see an ad up top for a web site that sells just what I am looking for. Thats good advertising. I'm not clicking through because I felt like playing some stupid flash game in an ad, I'm clicking through because I wanted to buy the product being advertised.
I think its really more an issue of the approach the advertisements take to get those clicks that has been resulting in less sales per click.
I picked up links crossbow training for the Wii a couple of weeks ago. 25 bucks and it comes with the zapper (which I will want for other games). Sure the game is short but its also a lot of fun. I'm still going through and trying to higher scores on all the levels even though there is no content left to unlock.
If they made a similar game that didn't come with the zapper I would consider buying it. It would have to be cheaper that 25 bucks or longer than this one but I would definitely consider it.
But its only 10 bucks. Face it, you were going to get the second controller anyway, why not spend 10 bucks and get a handful of mini games out of it too.
I dont know... might be interesting if you interbreed with the locals. not useful now but down the road it would be interesting to see what made it into the pool.
It has nothing to do with releasing on the Wii. I dont care if they release on the Wii... I dont expect they will ever release anything anyway.
Its about choice of words. If this guy comes out and says "we are considering the PC, the X-box and the PS3 for this release" that would be fine, but to say "THE BIG THREE" when you dont mean the single largest selling console on the market today, well your being disingenuous.
My other 2 comments on this thread have been modded as Trolls, but this clown is the one doing the trolling. Look around for his previous comments on the Wii and how it was doomed to failure. The mods here are total suckers.
Ive got no problem with them not releasing on the Wii. I'm not claiming that they should support it (especially given that they will likely never support any hardware ever).
But calling the X-box, the PC and the PS3 "the big three" is completely inaccurate and shows a real disconnect with the realities of the console market.
But hey, they have a total disconnect with the calendar and apparently with reasonable software development techniques that I shouldn't really be surprised.
My assumption was that they were targeting all three platforms but that, if they weren't going to get one of them done "in time" they might drop it and release for that platform later.
How is it that the "big three" platforms doesn't include the biggest selling console?
both versions prohibit insurers from denying coverage based on prior health
Thats certainly something I can get behind.
Heres what I have a hard time with though. The article says that a plan with mandates is going to cost 2.2 billion more but will insure far more people. Is that 2.2 billion tax dollars or is that actual cost. If that number doesn't include the out of pocket cost for people who are currently uninsured but would be forced to get insurance then it is not really a fair assessment of the cost of the plans. Sure, it covers the cost to the taxpayer but it doesn't tell you what the over all cost is insuring all of those people. It makes it sound like somehow, under the mandated plan insurance companies will insure twice as many people while taking in only a touch more money, but those people who are forced to buy insurance must be paying something out of pocket.
The article is just unclear on this. Cost to the tax payer is an important factor, but overall cost matters as well.
Also, here in Ma where we now have mandated health insurance, there is a lot of back lash from people being forced to buy something they cant afford and don't really want. This could be a bigger issue when you start placing a new bill in the mailbox of a larger number of people. Personally, I don't have an issue with the plan here in Ma, but then I already have insurance, so its easy for me.
its tough to know. Given that they will be providing TV service they have the same drive to keep people from downloading rich content. But they are new to the media game, they are a data and voice company and might tend to look at that first and the media (TV) part of the business second.
With things like iTunes movie rentals comcast and time warner cable is effectively competing against itself. As more and more people start using their data network to get their media less and less of them will be using the for pay on demand system that is already in place. Cable gets paid when you rent on demand but when you use your unlimited bandwidth to rent a movie they don't get anything.
That said, I'm a verizon wireless customer and I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, so you might be right. But there might be some value in being the only uncapped game in town.
Do you have any links, preferably to the study, but the article might be interesting as well.
I agree that we wont get rid of the insurance companies overnight, but at the same time, I am not terribly concerned with the particulars of either plan. Neither one will be implemented as described, thats just not how government works. I think the reason I prefer Obama on this topic is because his approach seems less favorable to the insurance companies. While, in the end, any plan will be somewhat beneficial to the insurance companies, I prefer the candidate who starts further away from that position.
That said, the specifics of the plans aren't really enough to sway me one way or another. In this case, I would happily vote for either democrat in the general election.
Inspiring is a more important feature than you give it credit for. A popular president who motivates people is good for the economy. It carries over into the stock market, it can create jobs, it improves foreign relations, it bolsters the currency.
Its certainly not the only thing, but it does have its place.
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I believe you are responding to a forigner who has confused the libertarian/conservative sentiment here on slashdot for the republican sentiment (traditional or neo-con flavor... neither is libertarian) note the comment about how the liberals here are still on the right? that indicates a non american most of teh time bitching about how we dont know the first thing about progressive politics. This is likely someone from a country where most of the voting power is centralized in the city instead of spread out like it is here.
I believe there are plenty of extremely liberal people in the US, mostly in cities, but they dont have the power to implement what they would like the way the might in other countries so they are "dragged" to the center by the mid west conservative types. It is up to the reader to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just making the observation.
Of course it also helps that in other countries they have more than 2 political parties so you get some representation from the further extremes of the political spectrum.
I remember something about tiny ceramic beads... with micro perforations, helping to hold more hydrogen without leakage. It was a while ago that I saw this though.
Clearly production is the big issue, but these guys are talking about harvesting hydrogen from a hydro carbon right in your car. If you can do that, why not do it somewhere else where you can more easily store, or reprocess the carbon.
I'm certainly no expert on this topic but the articles description makes this seem like an excessively complicated system.
There were already some pretty good ways of storing hydrogen for cars and the issue was just creating the hydrogen in the first place.
Seems like using hydrocarbons and storing liquid carbon in the car for later processing would be a real pain for very little gain. Though maybe this would be a good way to get hydrogen to the "gas station."
They would have made a reality TV show about it if they thought they could get away with it.
It would be one thing if they made traffic like HTTP higher priority than Torrents but from what I understand they are throttling torrents automatically, even if their aren't any HTTP requests on the local network... like say, in the middle of the night when your entire neighborhood is asleep, torrents still run much slower than the amount of bandwidth your supposed to have.
good adverting connects a supplier with the person who needs thier goods. Thats why beer ads in sporting events is good advertising because there is a huge overlap between people who watch the events and people who buy beer.
I don't get all freaked out by the fact that some server somewhere is looking for keywords and matching those to a list of keywords for various ads. Id be much more annoyed with a mail service that bombarded me with bright flash ads for stuff I didn't need.
I also dont mind when it does the same thing with my search results, those ads are pretty damn useful and often better than the search result.
Most importantly (and this applies best to the topic at hand) I think its great advertising that scans the contents of a page it is going to deliver ads to and puts ads up that are relevant to the types of people likely to read that content. Thats what the web is going to need to survive. Targeted ads on web pages that are relavant to what the person is reading and not more "punch the monkey" crap.
yea but I bet a bunch more click through due to the "oooh shiny" effect of those ads. They then get to the web site and see all these numbers and percent signs and don't understand where that damn monkey went so they hit the back button.
All Ebay ads are now automatically ignored by me at the ocular level, doesn't even make it to the higher brain function. A shame really since they do carry a lot of the things I might look for, but I have wasted too much time clicking through on those.
It seemed to me that a lot of the "computer engineering" degrees were mostly for IT people. Admittedly this come from back in the 90s when there were only a few departments with this name. Has this changed?
I felt like my Computer Science degree (which was the only game in town back when I was in school) gave me a pretty good background for the working world. Admittedly I also took some electives that focused on digital electronics (including building a computer from chips and then programming it) and we learned our data structures and algorithms in C before moving on the lisp and scheme for higher level concepts like AI. We also learned a big about how processors worked and what micro-code was so it wasn't entirely divorced from the hardware.
Maybe this isn't what its like these days but I haven't had a reason to look at such things in quite some time. I have no intention of going back to school in my industry any time soon and even if I did I would probably be looking for a masters in Software engineering (looking at programs that are about development process as much as anything else).
I wouldn't be surprised if googles text ads had a better rate than a lot of the banner ads I see.
Seriously, how many people are going to buy anything that was advertised with a "punch the monkey" style ad? How many people choose their mortgage company because they saw some flashing crap on the web. The people who are drawn in by these ads don't buy houses.
On the other hand, every time I do a google search I check those ads out. When I'm emailing about something in gmail I will often see related ads and they are often very relevant. Several times I have written an email to someone with a line like "I wonder where I could buy something like X?" and as soon as I send I see an ad up top for a web site that sells just what I am looking for. Thats good advertising. I'm not clicking through because I felt like playing some stupid flash game in an ad, I'm clicking through because I wanted to buy the product being advertised.
I think its really more an issue of the approach the advertisements take to get those clicks that has been resulting in less sales per click.
Cool! Thanks for the info, Ill take a look at it. Ive always had a soft spot for those old arcade shooters.
Perhaps.
I picked up links crossbow training for the Wii a couple of weeks ago. 25 bucks and it comes with the zapper (which I will want for other games). Sure the game is short but its also a lot of fun. I'm still going through and trying to higher scores on all the levels even though there is no content left to unlock.
If they made a similar game that didn't come with the zapper I would consider buying it. It would have to be cheaper that 25 bucks or longer than this one but I would definitely consider it.
I would suggest that Wii boxing with semi accurate Miis makes for pretty good relationship therapy.
But its only 10 bucks. Face it, you were going to get the second controller anyway, why not spend 10 bucks and get a handful of mini games out of it too.
Never noticed that before, although the drag target at least has the little double line thing to indicate it is drag-able.
Still, there is no reason why the cursor shouldn't change in those circumstances.
- Screenshotting needs to be waaaay easier (i.e. single key rather than shift-command-3 or whatever)
Thats all well and good till you are on a laptop and your back to some crazy combination.
I dont know... might be interesting if you interbreed with the locals. not useful now but down the road it would be interesting to see what made it into the pool.
most people who played the original Duke Nukem are over 30 now.
It has nothing to do with releasing on the Wii. I dont care if they release on the Wii... I dont expect they will ever release anything anyway.
Its about choice of words. If this guy comes out and says "we are considering the PC, the X-box and the PS3 for this release" that would be fine, but to say "THE BIG THREE" when you dont mean the single largest selling console on the market today, well your being disingenuous.
My other 2 comments on this thread have been modded as Trolls, but this clown is the one doing the trolling. Look around for his previous comments on the Wii and how it was doomed to failure. The mods here are total suckers.
Ive got no problem with them not releasing on the Wii. I'm not claiming that they should support it (especially given that they will likely never support any hardware ever).
But calling the X-box, the PC and the PS3 "the big three" is completely inaccurate and shows a real disconnect with the realities of the console market.
But hey, they have a total disconnect with the calendar and apparently with reasonable software development techniques that I shouldn't really be surprised.
My assumption was that they were targeting all three platforms but that, if they weren't going to get one of them done "in time" they might drop it and release for that platform later.
How is it that the "big three" platforms doesn't include the biggest selling console?
both versions prohibit insurers from denying coverage based on prior health
Thats certainly something I can get behind.
Heres what I have a hard time with though. The article says that a plan with mandates is going to cost 2.2 billion more but will insure far more people. Is that 2.2 billion tax dollars or is that actual cost. If that number doesn't include the out of pocket cost for people who are currently uninsured but would be forced to get insurance then it is not really a fair assessment of the cost of the plans. Sure, it covers the cost to the taxpayer but it doesn't tell you what the over all cost is insuring all of those people. It makes it sound like somehow, under the mandated plan insurance companies will insure twice as many people while taking in only a touch more money, but those people who are forced to buy insurance must be paying something out of pocket.
The article is just unclear on this. Cost to the tax payer is an important factor, but overall cost matters as well.
Also, here in Ma where we now have mandated health insurance, there is a lot of back lash from people being forced to buy something they cant afford and don't really want. This could be a bigger issue when you start placing a new bill in the mailbox of a larger number of people. Personally, I don't have an issue with the plan here in Ma, but then I already have insurance, so its easy for me.
its tough to know. Given that they will be providing TV service they have the same drive to keep people from downloading rich content. But they are new to the media game, they are a data and voice company and might tend to look at that first and the media (TV) part of the business second.
With things like iTunes movie rentals comcast and time warner cable is effectively competing against itself. As more and more people start using their data network to get their media less and less of them will be using the for pay on demand system that is already in place. Cable gets paid when you rent on demand but when you use your unlimited bandwidth to rent a movie they don't get anything.
That said, I'm a verizon wireless customer and I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, so you might be right. But there might be some value in being the only uncapped game in town.
Do you have any links, preferably to the study, but the article might be interesting as well.
I agree that we wont get rid of the insurance companies overnight, but at the same time, I am not terribly concerned with the particulars of either plan. Neither one will be implemented as described, thats just not how government works. I think the reason I prefer Obama on this topic is because his approach seems less favorable to the insurance companies. While, in the end, any plan will be somewhat beneficial to the insurance companies, I prefer the candidate who starts further away from that position.
That said, the specifics of the plans aren't really enough to sway me one way or another. In this case, I would happily vote for either democrat in the general election.
Inspiring is a more important feature than you give it credit for. A popular president who motivates people is good for the economy. It carries over into the stock market, it can create jobs, it improves foreign relations, it bolsters the currency.
Its certainly not the only thing, but it does have its place.