How the hell am I supposed to pay the chinese food delivery guy without cash? I don't think wireless networking is secure enough for Kwong Fat to start proccessing my Visa from his car.
I think what they are doing is more along the line of existing images. They use a eCommerce/Shopping Cart example. Say there are 4 item on a page. They are tracking which ones you "looked at" with your mouse by using a rollover image/web bug trick. When you rollover an item, it would probably poll a track.script page that would act just like a web bug, but instead of using that information on a per page basis, it's being collected per image. They probably also are using a mouse off function to track how long you "looked" at that image. This could also be used for news stories, but in a more convoluted way. Make each paragraph an image, and link it to this tracking feature. You can see how many people read the whole way through. The "Market-Eers" would probably use this on ads, to see how often you even rollover ad images. A sad, sad internet advertising firm will probably pay content owners soon for "rollovers" the same way they get paid for click throughs or impressions. This is defintely something that could give honest website owners and idea what their users are doing, but anything more than tracking page hits is going to get a lot higher noise/data ratio than would be feasible to use.
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You did remember to support your local merchant instead of a megacorp, didn't you? Even Amazon is more expensive than Best Buy!
Even if I did want to "support" Amazon, they're sold out...
So, I say I like Cool Band X's new album today, so for every user who says they like Cool Band X's new album after I do, I'll get some sort of points. Then there should be a list of the users with the most Cool Points, where I can click their names and see what they recently thought was cool.
A good idea, but a few problems exist:
If I was on top of the Cool List, I would stay number on top, as long as I said ANYTHING else was cool, because everyone would keep checking my latest cool reocmmendations, and then saying it was cool, only because they know Everyone Else Will Do It, because I'm the coolest.
Also, If I'm the Coolest, I defintely wield a lot of power, simply by saying This Is Cool. I could exploit my power, and charge a fee for saying Their Stuff Is Cool. Isn't this the same thing as payola? I'm not saying I would do it, but it's defintiely possible in a system such as this.
It's wrong because it's not what their customers signed up for. They, I would assume, signed contracts for not only unlimited usage, but unlimited bandwidth. Telstra is changing the rules in the middle of the game.
Contrary to popular belief, Apple is not a software company. They are by nature a hardware company. They make most of their profit on hardware, and only make software because their hardware needs it. I'm sure Apple wants to squeeze a few pennies out of OSX, but they aren't going to be basing a business model on it. Unless you consider they will probably be releasing new machines that are "OSX Optimized" soon. Wait, they can't because I'm about to patent the idea, and copyright "OSX Optimized".
Let the top 3 in each game take home a rig, and then put the rest up for sale on ebay. Imagine the seller rating you'd get after you put 3000 gaming machines up for sale.
My company does a lot of ASP work for smaller clients, who don't want to pay 400.month for a dedicated server, so we've found a few shared hosting places that have NT and ASP support. The best one by far is Intermedia.NET (www.intermedia.net). If you go to their control site (hosting.intermedia.net) you can use their demo account to try out their control panel. It does about 75% what the IIS control panel does. Intermedia's shared hosting is about as good as your going to find, and they apply patches and bug fixes relatively fast. If you can stand to run on Microsoft, give these guys a look.
Now I'm from Sweden, but I'm pretty sure we aren't more of sex maniacs
then americans. The pornographic movies, for instance, were american like
99% af all pornography made...
The fact that more pron is made in America than in Sweden is Amrica is less sexually liberated, and therefore need to watch pornography to get sexual satisifaction (or relief) when in Sweden you can go down to the Red Light district everyone always talks about.
I've always thought about driving in the future as something automated, where you enter your final destination in a cimputer, and your car talks to the streets network and takes you in the most direct path.
The greatest feature, and largest problem, with this situation is the fact that there will be no human interaction. Driving is a very dangerous; you're hurling 3 ton pieces of metal at each other at 50 mph, all for the sake of convienience. But driving is something people like to do (if it isn't 5 mph bumper to bumper on your way to work, that is), so we would not want to stop just to save a few lives.
With this system of recording your path, and also a smart driving system that knows not to ram into other drivers and to stop at red lights, you could record that crawl you call a commute once, and then play it every morning. This lets you avoid the monotonous situations, lke reading peoples bumper stickers, and enjoy the good driving times, such as cross country on the open interstate doing 70 mph with the top down.
==Of course, disregard all previous ramblings,==
==as they are due to a positive outlook on life.==
Well, I have their service, anyway. LocalISP is exactly what they sound like, a local isp in New Jersey that until recently, offered dial up service. They have always had great customer support, to the point where sales and tech staff would recognize me by voice. Recently, thank god, they have started "reselling" DSL through Rhythms, which I'm not sure how that works, I'm sure I've got DSL through my nice, friendly, supportive local isp. It sounds like this is a good business model for broadband service companies, selling the bandwidth to local companies, who can then very effectiely be their front end for sales and support. If anyone else has heard any other company like this, let me know, I'm interested in seeing this work
NameSecure.com is your place. At least it was my place. About a year ago I purchased itfuckingsucks.com, as a joke I had going with my coworkers. It was the standard price of $35 a year, and they have decent support, like dns changes withing 36 hours. I'd suggest it to anyone looking for this such thing.
I know when I started using the internet, around 6 or 7 years ago, the guy who was teach me what the internet was all about, in hindsight, a really cool guy, was always using gopher. He tried to explain it to me a couple times, and it was denfitely he preference to use that instead of http. Anyway, what I do know and have heard about gopher makes it sound like it could be a suitable p2p medium. It's all about sharing media, right? Why not use it as the second coming of scour? I bet this could be done, but again, probably won't. I don't know enough about it, but let me know if this is a feasable solution.
Are companies protecting their translated domain names? Companies like Coca-Cola, which have a big presence in Asia, also have different brand names to accomdate for the language barrier. Could I buy the translated version of Microsoft.com (if there is one, of course).
Since supposively the user owns their posts (as written in the fine print on the bottom of every page), add a function somewhere that would alow each user to remove his/her posts. That would clear/. of any responsibility, except for the anon posts, which/. would have to clear up.
I doubt it. Even if it was big enough, which would turnit into a notebook, no programmer is going to want to code on a PDA. Desktops might die out for consumers ( along, long, long, time form now ) but they will also exists as developmnt machines, servers, and Quake stations.
I know EVERYONE (well almost) here at/. loves Linux in all forms and flavors, but, if it's true, China MAKING everyone use Linux is what you guys don't want. What you say now is that you feel Microsoft is MAKING you (well, probably not you) use Windows. So you (make and) use Linux instead. I not saying using Linux is bad, I personally like it, but what atracts most people to it is that is it's another option. Now in China, people might use Windows for the same reason that we use Linux: it's something else.
Anyways, I suspect China has mandated the use of Linux simply because Windows is an America-based product, where mostly Americans profit from it. Linux, on the other hand, is a global effort in which no one person or group benfits, especially since the source is free. Plus, if they use a China-based company's flavor of Linux, all the better for them.
2 guys and I stayed at the office the whole weekend last week. We worked about 12 hours each day, with 4 hours of "rejuvination" ( quake3arena, jolt cola, and cluck-u/wendy's ). We even invited friends to "hang out" at the office. ( we told them was we needed a little companionship, what we really need was frag fodder ). You just get in a groove. And if you can't, you drink more jolt!
We use a Mac-To-PC Netowrking Software package called DAVE. On in clear print, it says DAVE (tm). A trademarked first name. Now I'm definitely not an advocate for LF, it's just the opposite, but I don't want to see them use this in their case.
I was always one for the large sphere idea, but I like the idea of the bb array better. But you shouldn't use the BB's for tracking, that would be insane. rying to detect the speed and direction of every one is IMO impossible, since the would bb's continue to spin afetr you walk on them. So just use the bb's a walking surface. But instead of bb tracking, use feet tracking. Like special shoes that have a back and front sensor, and maybe a small vertical tube of mercury with sensors at either end to detect jumping, or climbing a ladder. But you do need "the ring", incase ( I mean I know ) that people will fall down their fist time, aand also until the bb floor method is perfected.
insert your favorite sig here, because i don't want to
We run multiple E-Commerce sites at my company, and after about 5 megs of DB data, and an average amount of site hits, access looks like a squirrel under an 18 wheeler. An easier move would definitely be to move from access to SQL. Even on a Linux box, Access will be unwielding poltergheist (poltergiest?) crashing your servers.
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How the hell am I supposed to pay the chinese food delivery guy without cash? I don't think wireless networking is secure enough for Kwong Fat to start proccessing my Visa from his car.
I think what they are doing is more along the line of existing images. They use a eCommerce/Shopping Cart example. Say there are 4 item on a page. They are tracking which ones you "looked at" with your mouse by using a rollover image/web bug trick. When you rollover an item, it would probably poll a track.script page that would act just like a web bug, but instead of using that information on a per page basis, it's being collected per image. They probably also are using a mouse off function to track how long you "looked" at that image. This could also be used for news stories, but in a more convoluted way. Make each paragraph an image, and link it to this tracking feature. You can see how many people read the whole way through. The "Market-Eers" would probably use this on ads, to see how often you even rollover ad images. A sad, sad internet advertising firm will probably pay content owners soon for "rollovers" the same way they get paid for click throughs or impressions. This is defintely something that could give honest website owners and idea what their users are doing, but anything more than tracking page hits is going to get a lot higher noise/data ratio than would be feasible to use.
You did remember to support your local merchant instead of a megacorp, didn't you? Even Amazon is more expensive than Best Buy!
Even if I did want to "support" Amazon, they're sold out...
So, I say I like Cool Band X's new album today, so for every user who says they like Cool Band X's new album after I do, I'll get some sort of points. Then there should be a list of the users with the most Cool Points, where I can click their names and see what they recently thought was cool. A good idea, but a few problems exist: If I was on top of the Cool List, I would stay number on top, as long as I said ANYTHING else was cool, because everyone would keep checking my latest cool reocmmendations, and then saying it was cool, only because they know Everyone Else Will Do It, because I'm the coolest. Also, If I'm the Coolest, I defintely wield a lot of power, simply by saying This Is Cool. I could exploit my power, and charge a fee for saying Their Stuff Is Cool. Isn't this the same thing as payola? I'm not saying I would do it, but it's defintiely possible in a system such as this.
It's wrong because it's not what their customers signed up for. They, I would assume, signed contracts for not only unlimited usage, but unlimited bandwidth. Telstra is changing the rules in the middle of the game.
I calculate even less b/w than a 28.8kbps modem
3 GB / 30 days
3072 MB / 720 hours
3145728 KByte / 43200 mins
25165824 kbit / 2592000 secs
9.7 kbps
That's just wrong.
Contrary to popular belief, Apple is not a software company. They are by nature a hardware company. They make most of their profit on hardware, and only make software because their hardware needs it. I'm sure Apple wants to squeeze a few pennies out of OSX, but they aren't going to be basing a business model on it. Unless you consider they will probably be releasing new machines that are "OSX Optimized" soon. Wait, they can't because I'm about to patent the idea, and copyright "OSX Optimized".
Let the top 3 in each game take home a rig, and then put the rest up for sale on ebay. Imagine the seller rating you'd get after you put 3000 gaming machines up for sale.
My company does a lot of ASP work for smaller clients, who don't want to pay 400.month for a dedicated server, so we've found a few shared hosting places that have NT and ASP support. The best one by far is Intermedia.NET (www.intermedia.net). If you go to their control site (hosting.intermedia.net) you can use their demo account to try out their control panel. It does about 75% what the IIS control panel does. Intermedia's shared hosting is about as good as your going to find, and they apply patches and bug fixes relatively fast. If you can stand to run on Microsoft, give these guys a look.
Now I'm from Sweden, but I'm pretty sure we aren't more of sex maniacs then americans. The pornographic movies, for instance, were american like 99% af all pornography made...
The fact that more pron is made in America than in Sweden is Amrica is less sexually liberated, and therefore need to watch pornography to get sexual satisifaction (or relief) when in Sweden you can go down to the Red Light district everyone always talks about.
I've always thought about driving in the future as something automated, where you enter your final destination in a cimputer, and your car talks to the streets network and takes you in the most direct path.
The greatest feature, and largest problem, with this situation is the fact that there will be no human interaction. Driving is a very dangerous; you're hurling 3 ton pieces of metal at each other at 50 mph, all for the sake of convienience. But driving is something people like to do (if it isn't 5 mph bumper to bumper on your way to work, that is), so we would not want to stop just to save a few lives.
With this system of recording your path, and also a smart driving system that knows not to ram into other drivers and to stop at red lights, you could record that crawl you call a commute once, and then play it every morning. This lets you avoid the monotonous situations, lke reading peoples bumper stickers, and enjoy the good driving times, such as cross country on the open interstate doing 70 mph with the top down.
==Of course, disregard all previous ramblings,==
==as they are due to a positive outlook on life.==
Well, I have their service, anyway. LocalISP is exactly what they sound like, a local isp in New Jersey that until recently, offered dial up service. They have always had great customer support, to the point where sales and tech staff would recognize me by voice. Recently, thank god, they have started "reselling" DSL through Rhythms, which I'm not sure how that works, I'm sure I've got DSL through my nice, friendly, supportive local isp. It sounds like this is a good business model for broadband service companies, selling the bandwidth to local companies, who can then very effectiely be their front end for sales and support. If anyone else has heard any other company like this, let me know, I'm interested in seeing this work
NameSecure.com is your place. At least it was my place. About a year ago I purchased itfuckingsucks.com, as a joke I had going with my coworkers. It was the standard price of $35 a year, and they have decent support, like dns changes withing 36 hours. I'd suggest it to anyone looking for this such thing.
I know when I started using the internet, around 6 or 7 years ago, the guy who was teach me what the internet was all about, in hindsight, a really cool guy, was always using gopher. He tried to explain it to me a couple times, and it was denfitely he preference to use that instead of http. Anyway, what I do know and have heard about gopher makes it sound like it could be a suitable p2p medium. It's all about sharing media, right? Why not use it as the second coming of scour? I bet this could be done, but again, probably won't. I don't know enough about it, but let me know if this is a feasable solution.
Are companies protecting their translated domain names? Companies like Coca-Cola, which have a big presence in Asia, also have different brand names to accomdate for the language barrier. Could I buy the translated version of Microsoft.com (if there is one, of course).
www.ermac.org - pick a number.
The world's first commercially available electronic clothing is about to go on sale in high streets across Europe.
You might have to smoke a few to believe this jacket can access the internet.
Since supposively the user owns their posts (as written in the fine print on the bottom of every page), add a function somewhere that would alow each user to remove his/her posts. That would clear /. of any responsibility, except for the anon posts, which /. would have to clear up.
You I know, it sucks. He's not a NUte, but come on, you got to let a guy try...
no sig today...
I doubt it. Even if it was big enough, which would turnit into a notebook, no programmer is going to want to code on a PDA. Desktops might die out for consumers ( along, long, long, time form now ) but they will also exists as developmnt machines, servers, and Quake stations.
--add sig here--
I know EVERYONE (well almost) here at /. loves Linux in all forms and flavors, but, if it's true, China MAKING everyone use Linux is what you guys don't want. What you say now is that you feel Microsoft is MAKING you (well, probably not you) use Windows. So you (make and) use Linux instead. I not saying using Linux is bad, I personally like it, but what atracts most people to it is that is it's another option. Now in China, people might use Windows for the same reason that we use Linux: it's something else.
Anyways, I suspect China has mandated the use of Linux simply because Windows is an America-based product, where mostly Americans profit from it. Linux, on the other hand, is a global effort in which no one person or group benfits, especially since the source is free. Plus, if they use a China-based company's flavor of Linux, all the better for them.
But what do I know.
2 guys and I stayed at the office the whole weekend last week. We worked about 12 hours each day, with 4 hours of "rejuvination" ( quake3arena, jolt cola, and cluck-u/wendy's ). We even invited friends to "hang out" at the office. ( we told them was we needed a little companionship, what we really need was frag fodder ). You just get in a groove. And if you can't, you drink more jolt!
Long live Jolt cola!!
We use a Mac-To-PC Netowrking Software package called DAVE. On in clear print, it says DAVE (tm). A trademarked first name. Now I'm definitely not an advocate for LF, it's just the opposite, but I don't want to see them use this in their case.
I was always one for the large sphere idea, but I like the idea of the bb array better. But you shouldn't use the BB's for tracking, that would be insane. rying to detect the speed and direction of every one is IMO impossible, since the would bb's continue to spin afetr you walk on them. So just use the bb's a walking surface. But instead of bb tracking, use feet tracking. Like special shoes that have a back and front sensor, and maybe a small vertical tube of mercury with sensors at either end to detect jumping, or climbing a ladder. But you do need "the ring", incase ( I mean I know ) that people will fall down their fist time, aand also until the bb floor method is perfected.
insert your favorite sig here, because i don't want to
We run multiple E-Commerce sites at my company, and after about 5 megs of DB data, and an average amount of site hits, access looks like a squirrel under an 18 wheeler. An easier move would definitely be to move from access to SQL. Even on a Linux box, Access will be unwielding poltergheist (poltergiest?) crashing your servers.