> I also run an increasingly popular website generating AdSense revenues
4 digits figure?:-) I'm not implying anything -- still, taking into account some "invisible intonations" and the way the question was asked -- Google is expected to shutdown their AdSense program for websites specifically involved in illegal warez and porno activities. The last time I checked the statistics the lion portion of Internet visitors were there.
P.S.: What if the person holds his future lawyer in stock, and would like to learn from personal experience of others? After all, it cannot be denied that the portion of slashdotters used to live outside USA or with H1B working visa is not that insignificant. Personally, I know at least dozen H1B'ers who keep slashdot.org as home page in their browser.
>> The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism. > > Hi, I'm reality.
I was not pondering about TODAY's reality, and it was rather my perhaps naive pondering about TOMORROW.:-)
> Just wondered if you fancied meeting up at some point in the future?
What do you mean? We can love real women, in flesh and blood, and enjoy by works of art, which frequently includes the naked body.
Check any museum, or you are just kidding?;-)
> PS. Had a quick look at your blog (I also enjoy watching car crashes). Generally very dull,
Yes, my blog is not some piece of art, I recognize that. Neither it is an attempt to impress anybody.
> but I noticed you mentioned the old chestnut about us only using 3% of our brains (actually I think it's supposed to be 10%). > Do you have any idea how much energy our brains use? How could natural > selection have produced something so spectacularly inefficient? Or how could an intelligent designer have produced something so stupid? Why not > try applying a little bit of independent thought before parroting misquoted lines from ancient
I appreciate you spent quantum of time on my blog, and regret disappointing you. Still, you were right to say that you had a QUICK look, because you did not see that the article you mentioned to was about stem cells research futuristics and not just about the undisputable fact of not using our brain effectively at all. No offence, but missing this part, and taking something out of context only confirms something about your brain, too:-). Note that I don't imply my brain is better.
Regarding the design-- Can I respond? The design of our brain is is unefficient, because brain was supposed to be in such state MOST OF TIME BY DESIGN, and there are a lot of reasons for that. For survival, quick attacks and relector defense, burst of emotions, i.e. reflexes are prevalent in short-run. Intensive brain activity can hurt you and you could be dead, if you need to solve too complex puzzle in very short period ot time, in general.
In short, the full brain power does not need to be effectively transmitted between all supraliminal and subconsacious levels instantly, and it is about optimal operating speed for the LONG run. Huge bursts of mental energy are possible, and produces the wonderful results sometimes, but it's not expected to be anytime.
Also, there is a catch in definition of effective brain or using brain effectively. Sometimes it looks like this definition is written by morons.:-) Some uneducated member of distant tribe could be more smart and can have better potential than professor in Garvard. If we're talking about nature gifts. They just have some different opportunities and self-realization.
But we're way too far from the main topic...PORNO INDUSTRY (ha-ha-ha)! I did not start that!:-)
I cannot tell that I'm exactly a big "enthusiast" or even porno consumer, but I am thinking how long it will take to see (not like I really care!) the indistinguishability real, or even "better" than real, computer generated video where the original live "model(s)" passed through special sofisticated filter/beautifier, correcting the original till the level absolutely unreal perfection excellence in sense of body constitution, movements, grace, skin tone and structure, and environment texture? So far, such rendering is very time and resource-consuming process, even if you use huge computer grid. But, with the last advances with hardware and processing power, it could change dramatically.
Something, recreated from your childhood dreams, as for example, a beauty emerging from water, with ambient sound of running stream, the babble of some exotic birds. I mean it's not necessarily should be something dirty and could be really poetic.
May be I contradict myself, but it's like the Song of Songs (Canticum canticorum), and nothing to do with porno industry at all.
The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism. Unfortunately, no doubt the future "producers" will come up with new "advances" in sick and degenrative development of agony, torment, blood, and sadism, vindicating such stretches of sick imagination by the fact that it is not real, and nobody was hurt in the process of "creativity".
I used the similar utility for Yahoo! mail, till the moment I wrote much more flexible and powerful script in Ruby. Such screenscraping libraries as Hpricot/Mechanize made this a breeze!
So, not only can I visit and collect info from all my webmail accounts based on topic and fuzzy search (tags/key words), but I am able to combine it with any other browser search, both online and inside ScrapBook plugin for Firefox.
If not such plugins as ScrapBook, Adplus and some others, I'd rather prefer using Opera browser -- faster.
If I'm on somebody else machine, I use "links" in Linux, or "links" via my USB Key. "links" is very addittive, and as info in email, sometimes you love read the bare text, especially in the news.
One of my friends asked me a favor to reanimate her deceased windoze box, so, I did. I installed AdPlus plugin for her Firefox, and just tumbled to the reason why she uses her hotmail account via browser as webmail and not more convenient regular email client as Thunderbird, or, at worst, Outlook Express. And she said that it is impossible.
I did not touch my old hotmail account like 2 years already, so, it was difficult to recall my password. But when I finally did, I found out that my hotmail account still works. You just set up Server URL to be "http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp ", put your "blah@hotmail.com" as login name, set "3DES" security, and it goes. My very old hotmail account was created when the maximum mailbox size was very misearble, couple Mb or something like this.
But when I was trying to create the new hotmail account (just for fan, I never plan to use it, neither my old one), it does not work with stand alone mail client, incl. Microsoft Outlook Express.
So, MS values advertisement money very much, otherwise I don't see the reason of her change of heart. Probably, she does not believe that sales of Office and new OS will be very good source of income anymore.
> You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC
Desktop PC? Look at all your electricity bills. How much per annum? Per two? The new laptop! Such simple calculations can help to convince your parents and/or yourself to choose laptop over desktop PC.
Note that UPS is not just "nice to have" addition to desktop PC if you appreciate your data and efforts. Electicity outage is rare, but strikes unpredictably.
Laptop consumes ~40Wt, and actually already has the pretty decent "embedded UPS" (rechargable batteries run for >4hrs).
Further, if you have Linux (preinstall some user-friendly Linux distro like Ubuntu for your parents), you don't pay $100-150 (OEM, full version) for some already outdated Microsoft OS.
I could be Ok with Mac OS X, but still waiting for the (may be impossible) event when Apple allows us to buy her OS without coupling it with her hardware.
Follow this logic, Vista OS is illegal then. P2P (with some slight modification) as I heard (cannot stand bond for sure) is an integral part of Microsoft protocols now.
Also, Bittorrent is embedded into Firefox (default plugin?), which means you potentially can just click some url in our browser to find out you're in the p2p swarm already.
This is just a general statistics, based on exposed crimes and detected offence, i.e. something solved, when you have cleared cases.
No doubt, there is self-evident correlation between bad behavior and much higher probability in some point (layoff?) to get the burst of extremely bad behavior in relatively short period of time ("event").
Still, I think that the most dangerous employees are the people with imperturbable common sense and brain of encryption calculator, and they are never ever exposed any bad behavior. Still they did work the greatest mischief, and not in state of some emotional outburst at all. Plus, they continue to work, and are promoted on the regular basis.
There is no ground excuse for any illegalities, but people have healthy emotions, and it could be that some outbursts are caused by the fact that boss does not treat them fair at least on 85%.
Sometimes it is better if employee can express the negative opinion and does not fear and does not need to hide his emotions (we're not talking about the total psychos here). Is not it better to understand the more or less open and visible problem(s) than be dumped by some sneaky insider who commits crime and never being caught.
Sometimes the bad guy is such insider, sometimes it is your boss. Very often a bad employee is the product created by bad working process. Sometimes the analytical researches of such problems are too generic and just confuse thermometer with temperature.
Doctor cuts her:
1) face
2) wallet,
Lawyer cuts
1) her wallet
2) her doctor's wallet
Result:
Lawyer could be less evil than doctor (sometimes)
Kidding...
Why do not tool up all busy road crossings with wide frequency generator broadcasting IN VERY SHORT DISTANCE RANGE (strictly inside of cross-road diameter) the very loud pre-recorded or live warning message. It is supposed to suppress any other sound from any gudget inside this perimeter, plus causes the interference and unability to use PDAs and other pointing devices, too. After awhile, everybody will find using any gudget during road crossing just useless and counter-productive (Pavlov's reflex). In case somebody need emergency call, s/he anyways has not do this in the middle of the busy traffic, and just steps away a bit to be totally comfortable to do so. Just a thought.
My concern could be to avoid interference with heart-pacers (if any), doh.
Why do not tool up all busy road crossings with wide frequency generator broadcasting IN VERY SHORT DISTANCE (strictly inside of cross-road diameter range) the very loud pre-recorded warning message, or even live warning by more smart interactive software embedded kinda "Watch out! The bus at the left is gonna kill you now!") It could supposedly suppress any other sound from any gudget, plus causes the interference and unability to use PDAs and other gudgets.
After awhile, everybody will find using any gudget during road crossing just useless and counter-productive (Pavlov's reflex).
In case somebody need emergency call, s/he anyways has not do this in the middle of the busy traffic, and just steps away a bit to be totally comfortable to do so.
Just a thought.
I think the point of the whole article is missed then.
All we need is to make sure that it compares apples with apples, and not oranges, and it does.
Some API calls are not totally identical, nevertherless.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, Silicon Valley is still important.
As a geographical location.
The same as Queen is important for England today.
Yet it does not mean that Silicon Valley location is a panacea, or some sort of passing score.
The really successful startups don't even need venture money. Did you hear that?
Some companies are in Chicago, others are in East Coast, and some are in garages.
What really important is who in this garage, and not where it is located.
> I also run an increasingly popular website generating AdSense revenues
:-) I'm not implying anything -- still, taking into account some "invisible intonations" and the way the question was asked -- Google is expected to shutdown their AdSense program for websites specifically involved in illegal warez and porno activities. The last time I checked the statistics the lion portion of Internet visitors were there.
4 digits figure?
P.S.: What if the person holds his future lawyer in stock, and would like to learn from personal experience of others? After all, it cannot be denied that the portion of slashdotters used to live outside USA or with H1B working visa is not that insignificant. Personally, I know at least dozen H1B'ers who keep slashdot.org as home page in their browser.
>> The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism.
:-)
;-)
:-). Note that I don't imply my brain is better.
:-) Some uneducated member of distant tribe could be more smart and can have better potential than professor in Garvard. If we're talking about nature gifts. They just have some different opportunities and self-realization.
...PORNO INDUSTRY (ha-ha-ha)! :-)
>
> Hi, I'm reality.
I was not pondering about TODAY's reality, and it was rather my perhaps naive pondering about TOMORROW.
> Just wondered if you fancied meeting up at some point in the future?
What do you mean? We can love real women, in flesh and blood, and enjoy by works of art, which frequently includes the naked body.
Check any museum, or you are just kidding?
> PS. Had a quick look at your blog (I also enjoy watching car crashes). Generally very dull,
Yes, my blog is not some piece of art, I recognize that. Neither it is an attempt to impress anybody.
> but I noticed you mentioned the old chestnut about us only using 3% of our brains (actually I think it's supposed to be 10%).
> Do you have any idea how much energy our brains use? How could natural
> selection have produced something so spectacularly inefficient? Or how could an intelligent designer have produced something so stupid? Why not
> try applying a little bit of independent thought before parroting misquoted lines from ancient
I appreciate you spent quantum of time on my blog, and regret disappointing you. Still, you were right to say that you had a QUICK look, because you did not see that the article you mentioned to was about stem cells research futuristics and not just about the undisputable fact of not using our brain effectively at all. No offence, but missing this part, and taking something out of context only confirms something about your brain, too
Regarding the design-- Can I respond?
The design of our brain is is unefficient, because brain was supposed to be in such state MOST OF TIME BY DESIGN, and there are a lot of reasons for that. For survival, quick attacks and relector defense, burst of emotions, i.e. reflexes are prevalent in short-run. Intensive brain activity can hurt you and you could be dead, if you need to solve too complex puzzle in very short period ot time, in general.
In short, the full brain power does not need to be effectively transmitted between all supraliminal and subconsacious levels instantly, and it is about optimal operating speed for the LONG run. Huge bursts of mental energy are possible, and produces the wonderful results sometimes, but it's not expected to be anytime.
Also, there is a catch in definition of effective brain or using brain effectively. Sometimes it looks like this definition is written by morons.
But we're way too far from the main topic
I did not start that!
I cannot tell that I'm exactly a big "enthusiast" or even porno consumer, but I am thinking how long it will take to see (not like I really care!) the indistinguishability real, or even "better" than real, computer generated video where the original live "model(s)" passed through special sofisticated filter/beautifier, correcting the original till the level absolutely unreal perfection excellence in sense of body constitution, movements, grace, skin tone and structure, and environment texture? So far, such rendering is very time and resource-consuming process, even if you use huge computer grid. But, with the last advances with hardware and processing power, it could change dramatically.
Something, recreated from your childhood dreams, as for example, a beauty emerging from water, with ambient sound of running stream, the babble of some exotic birds. I mean it's not necessarily should be something dirty and could be really poetic.
May be I contradict myself, but it's like the Song of Songs (Canticum canticorum), and nothing to do with porno industry at all.
The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism.
Unfortunately, no doubt the future "producers" will come up with new "advances" in sick and degenrative development of agony, torment, blood, and sadism, vindicating such stretches of sick imagination by the fact that it is not real, and nobody was hurt in the process of "creativity".
I used the similar utility for Yahoo! mail, till the moment I wrote much more flexible and powerful script in Ruby. Such screenscraping libraries as Hpricot/Mechanize made this a breeze!
So, not only can I visit and collect info from all my webmail accounts based on topic and fuzzy search (tags/key words), but I am able to combine it with any other browser search, both online and inside ScrapBook plugin for Firefox.
If not such plugins as ScrapBook, Adplus and some others, I'd rather prefer using Opera browser -- faster.
If I'm on somebody else machine, I use "links" in Linux, or "links" via my USB Key. "links" is very addittive, and as info in email, sometimes you love read the bare text, especially in the news.
One of my friends asked me a favor to reanimate her deceased windoze box, so, I did.
p ", put your "blah@hotmail.com" as login name, set "3DES" security, and it goes. My very old hotmail account was created when the maximum mailbox size was very misearble, couple Mb or something like this.
I installed AdPlus plugin for her Firefox, and just tumbled to the reason why she uses her hotmail account via browser as webmail and not more convenient regular email client as Thunderbird, or, at worst, Outlook Express. And she said that it is impossible.
I did not touch my old hotmail account like 2 years already, so, it was difficult to recall my password. But when I finally did, I found out that my hotmail account still works. You just set up Server URL to be "http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.as
But when I was trying to create the new hotmail account (just for fan, I never plan to use it, neither my old one), it does not work with stand alone mail client, incl. Microsoft Outlook Express.
So, MS values advertisement money very much, otherwise I don't see the reason of her change of heart.
Probably, she does not believe that sales of Office and new OS will be very good source of income anymore.
> You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC
Desktop PC? Look at all your electricity bills. How much per annum? Per two? The new laptop!
Such simple calculations can help to convince your parents and/or yourself to choose laptop over desktop PC.
Note that UPS is not just "nice to have" addition to desktop PC if you appreciate your data and efforts. Electicity outage is rare, but strikes unpredictably.
Laptop consumes ~40Wt, and actually already has the pretty decent "embedded UPS" (rechargable batteries run for >4hrs).
Further, if you have Linux (preinstall some user-friendly Linux distro like Ubuntu for your parents), you don't pay $100-150 (OEM, full version) for some already outdated Microsoft OS.
I could be Ok with Mac OS X, but still waiting for the (may be impossible) event when Apple allows us to buy her OS without coupling it with her hardware.
Just my 2 cents.
Follow this logic, Vista OS is illegal then.
P2P (with some slight modification) as I heard (cannot stand bond for sure) is an integral part of Microsoft protocols now.
Also, Bittorrent is embedded into Firefox (default plugin?), which means you potentially can just click some url in our browser to find out you're in the p2p swarm already.
The same here, that's why I stick to DSL so far.
> Life isn't about winning the lottery. It's about feeling like you could.
Verdict: lottery is just a feeling...
This is just a general statistics, based on exposed crimes and detected offence, i.e. something solved, when you have cleared cases.
No doubt, there is self-evident correlation between bad behavior and much higher probability in some point (layoff?) to get the burst of extremely bad behavior in relatively short period of time ("event").
Still, I think that the most dangerous employees are the people with imperturbable common sense and brain of encryption calculator, and they are never ever exposed any bad behavior. Still they did work the greatest mischief, and not in state of some emotional outburst at all. Plus, they continue to work, and are promoted on the regular basis.
There is no ground excuse for any illegalities, but people have healthy emotions, and it could be that some outbursts are caused by the fact that boss does not treat them fair at least on 85%.
Sometimes it is better if employee can express the negative opinion and does not fear and does not need to hide his emotions (we're not talking about the total psychos here). Is not it better to understand the more or less open and visible problem(s) than be dumped by some sneaky insider who commits crime and never being caught.
Sometimes the bad guy is such insider, sometimes it is your boss. Very often a bad employee is the product created by bad working process. Sometimes the analytical researches of such problems are too generic and just confuse thermometer with temperature.
Doctor cuts her: 1) face 2) wallet, Lawyer cuts 1) her wallet 2) her doctor's wallet Result: Lawyer could be less evil than doctor (sometimes) Kidding...
Why do not tool up all busy road crossings with wide frequency generator broadcasting IN VERY SHORT DISTANCE RANGE (strictly inside of cross-road diameter) the very loud pre-recorded or live warning message. It is supposed to suppress any other sound from any gudget inside this perimeter, plus causes the interference and unability to use PDAs and other pointing devices, too. After awhile, everybody will find using any gudget during road crossing just useless and counter-productive (Pavlov's reflex). In case somebody need emergency call, s/he anyways has not do this in the middle of the busy traffic, and just steps away a bit to be totally comfortable to do so. Just a thought. My concern could be to avoid interference with heart-pacers (if any), doh.
Sorry, wrong forum. Meant to be in totally different one, http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/ 07/2115233
"New York to Ban iPods While Crossing Street?"
Why do not tool up all busy road crossings with wide frequency generator broadcasting IN VERY SHORT DISTANCE (strictly inside of cross-road diameter range) the very loud pre-recorded warning message, or even live warning by more smart interactive software embedded kinda "Watch out! The bus at the left is gonna kill you now!") It could supposedly suppress any other sound from any gudget, plus causes the interference and unability to use PDAs and other gudgets. After awhile, everybody will find using any gudget during road crossing just useless and counter-productive (Pavlov's reflex). In case somebody need emergency call, s/he anyways has not do this in the middle of the busy traffic, and just steps away a bit to be totally comfortable to do so. Just a thought.
I think the point of the whole article is missed then. All we need is to make sure that it compares apples with apples, and not oranges, and it does. Some API calls are not totally identical, nevertherless.