I'm sure the smaller companies with have common members of their respective board of directors, and common shareholders as well, so virtually not much changes.
There's probably less risk by dividing up the companies. If one company has a screw up, it's sister company can skate by unscathed. It will be more and more difficult for oil companies to find resources; as they take more and more chances, there's more opportunities for public blunders.
I wrote a song recently called Music for Mining on the Moon. http://soundcloud.com/milkshake-daddy/music-for-mining-on-the-moon
I think the senator is getting his ideas from me. Time to start wearing the foil hat again, or stop writing songs about my ideas and putting them on the interwebs.
I stopped going to movie theaters in favor of my giant TV+ DVDs, Blu Rays, NetFlix, YouTube, PS3, etc. I have my fridge full of snacks, and can pause movies at any time, and visit my clean bathroom at any time. The best part is I don't have surly teens kicking the back of my chair, talking on their phones, throwing candy, talking during the movie, etc...
If me, and people like me, abandoning theaters means no more R-rated CG overblown blockbusters, so be it. Intriguing films can be made for relatively low budgets.
If you want Heavy Metal part II, turn on your Mathmos lamp, put on some metal music, and scroll though some pr0n on Tumblr.
One way to look at this is humanity is moving towards more of a hive mind type of intelligence. Rather than having to store vast amounts of information in our brains, we spread that information out across our population. Saves time. Intelligence becomes more about knowing how to ask a question or locate who has the information, rather than wasting time hoarding trivia. The danger is that once one mind is infected, the bad information spreads, and the hive collapses.
They could probably make enough money off of Google ads for "mesothelioma" on their mesothelioma page to give books to millions of children.
Problems arise when advertisers ask Wikipedia to censor content to suit the position of the advertisers. No doubt that would happen.
If ads to show up on Wikipedia, and you don't like it, Google the topic and click the links below Wikipedia -- that's where the Wikipedia editors probably scraped the content from in the first place.
I use Comcast for my ISP, but if this happens - if the tolls go up -- I'll dump as much of their TV service as I can. I get far more entertainment out of NetFlix than I get out of their TV services (cable + on demand + Fancast). My practical alternative is Verizon DSL or FiOS internet, but I don't want to enter into a two year contract with Verizon - and who knows if they'll be adding NetFlix or Hulu tolls as well.
The only thing that concerns me is we might see a drop in future TV content quality as more people move to NetFlix and Hulu. I don't know what slice of the $100 or so dollars a month I shovel over to Comcast ends up in the hands of the folks who produce TV shows, but I have to think it's more than the slice that comes from the $7.99 NetFlix or 9.99 Hulu Plus gets. I know I'll survive, but I don't want to see Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, or even American Pickers go away.
I have two reasons why my gaming in general has dropped dramatically.
One is increased distractions from other devices and entertainment sources vying for my attention. Between my smart phone and iPad, NetFlix and then the constant interaction that comes with social media sites, my attention is constantly pulled away from console gaming. I use my PS3 to watch NetFlix movies 90% of the time and gaming the other 10%.
My other issue is games have become boring in the PS3/XBOX 360 generation of gaming. My guess is all the creativity and man-hours are going into making the games look and sound good, so nothing is left over to go towards intriguing game-play. If game play sucks, I'm not going to waste my time. I think Portal also ruined a lot of games because of the pressure for developers to stick puzzles in everything. Blech! I'm having a great old time blasting aliens, and then all the fun stops because I have to figure out a dumb puzzle. Also, there's too much instructions in games now -- thanks to Mario Bros games. Blech! Instructions, puzzles in non-puzzle games and run-on-rails gameplay have killed gaming for me.
I used to play an excessive amount of Burnout on the PlayStation. In that game you get points for side-swiping other cars. I found myself targeting and aiming for cars in real life. I stopped playing the game because of that.
They're probably spidering the "generated source" of a page, which means any content rendered with JavaScript is now spiderable and indexible [sic, I'm sure] -- what your eyes can see, Google will index.
Google is doing a lot of new things now, like listening to audio files and changing speech to text. Complete parsing of SWF files, including media and XML files called by the SWF. They can pull text off of images as well.
Coincidentally, only 1/5 of the world can purchase a Milkway candy bar. Haw haw haw!
I live in New Jersey (I know "boo!") and my Dobson is all but worthless. The Jersey night sky is like pink mud. I think I'll put my Dobson to better use and fill it with giant Pringles.
Until Google stops chopping the top off of mountains in Kentucky to get coal to fuel the interweb, the sky will continue to get more polluted. Seriously, WTF am I talking about.
I finally, and happily, left the web development business this year, and dealing with IE 6 and the goblins that support it was one big reason why I wanted out.
If you're not testing with IE 7 and IE 8, you can't do your job.
See if you can get your masters to allow you to install some kind of virtual PC, and run windows images with IE 7 and IE 8. That's what we did at work, and it kept IT's mouths shut because we had IE 6 installed as the browser for the OS.
Slashdot Mirror
Ceiling Robot Is Watching You...
Does Tumblr count as one of those sites? I doubt the ISP's have the spine to take on a site that big.
AT&T U-verse customers have been able to use the XBox as their set top box for some time now.
http://www.att.com/u-verse/explore/xbox-receiver.jsp
I'm sure the smaller companies with have common members of their respective board of directors, and common shareholders as well, so virtually not much changes.
There's probably less risk by dividing up the companies. If one company has a screw up, it's sister company can skate by unscathed. It will be more and more difficult for oil companies to find resources; as they take more and more chances, there's more opportunities for public blunders.
Well, FPSRussia was able to infiltrate a recent episode of Epic Meal Time, so.. maybe?
http://youtu.be/kMyPD1VKk60
I wrote a song recently called Music for Mining on the Moon. http://soundcloud.com/milkshake-daddy/music-for-mining-on-the-moon
I think the senator is getting his ideas from me. Time to start wearing the foil hat again, or stop writing songs about my ideas and putting them on the interwebs.
Related, Conductor, a link broker, is dropping the link brokering business and focusing on automated SEO tools.
http://blog.conductor.com/2011/02/conductor-to-focus-exclusively-on-seo-technology-in-2011-beyond/
I stopped going to movie theaters in favor of my giant TV+ DVDs, Blu Rays, NetFlix, YouTube, PS3, etc. I have my fridge full of snacks, and can pause movies at any time, and visit my clean bathroom at any time. The best part is I don't have surly teens kicking the back of my chair, talking on their phones, throwing candy, talking during the movie, etc...
If me, and people like me, abandoning theaters means no more R-rated CG overblown blockbusters, so be it. Intriguing films can be made for relatively low budgets.
If you want Heavy Metal part II, turn on your Mathmos lamp, put on some metal music, and scroll though some pr0n on Tumblr.
One way to look at this is humanity is moving towards more of a hive mind type of intelligence. Rather than having to store vast amounts of information in our brains, we spread that information out across our population. Saves time. Intelligence becomes more about knowing how to ask a question or locate who has the information, rather than wasting time hoarding trivia. The danger is that once one mind is infected, the bad information spreads, and the hive collapses.
I hope you like our little aquarium.
Jersey? They're too close to Snookie for my comfort. The end is near.
If this was Fark (and 2003) I would be making a photoshop of guidos installing pizza boxes in place of blade servers.
They could probably make enough money off of Google ads for "mesothelioma" on their mesothelioma page to give books to millions of children.
Problems arise when advertisers ask Wikipedia to censor content to suit the position of the advertisers. No doubt that would happen.
If ads to show up on Wikipedia, and you don't like it, Google the topic and click the links below Wikipedia -- that's where the Wikipedia editors probably scraped the content from in the first place.
There's blekko http://blekko.com/
I use Comcast for my ISP, but if this happens - if the tolls go up -- I'll dump as much of their TV service as I can. I get far more entertainment out of NetFlix than I get out of their TV services (cable + on demand + Fancast). My practical alternative is Verizon DSL or FiOS internet, but I don't want to enter into a two year contract with Verizon - and who knows if they'll be adding NetFlix or Hulu tolls as well.
The only thing that concerns me is we might see a drop in future TV content quality as more people move to NetFlix and Hulu. I don't know what slice of the $100 or so dollars a month I shovel over to Comcast ends up in the hands of the folks who produce TV shows, but I have to think it's more than the slice that comes from the $7.99 NetFlix or 9.99 Hulu Plus gets. I know I'll survive, but I don't want to see Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, or even American Pickers go away.
I have two reasons why my gaming in general has dropped dramatically.
One is increased distractions from other devices and entertainment sources vying for my attention. Between my smart phone and iPad, NetFlix and then the constant interaction that comes with social media sites, my attention is constantly pulled away from console gaming. I use my PS3 to watch NetFlix movies 90% of the time and gaming the other 10%.
My other issue is games have become boring in the PS3/XBOX 360 generation of gaming. My guess is all the creativity and man-hours are going into making the games look and sound good, so nothing is left over to go towards intriguing game-play. If game play sucks, I'm not going to waste my time. I think Portal also ruined a lot of games because of the pressure for developers to stick puzzles in everything. Blech! I'm having a great old time blasting aliens, and then all the fun stops because I have to figure out a dumb puzzle. Also, there's too much instructions in games now -- thanks to Mario Bros games. Blech! Instructions, puzzles in non-puzzle games and run-on-rails gameplay have killed gaming for me.
The damage is done. 10 years from now his daughter will get her revenge for years of fatherly neglect by dating a geriatric yet suave Billy Mitchell.
I just had my 22-year High School Reunion and personality wise no one changed. Kind of sad.
I used to play an excessive amount of Burnout on the PlayStation. In that game you get points for side-swiping other cars. I found myself targeting and aiming for cars in real life. I stopped playing the game because of that.
They're probably spidering the "generated source" of a page, which means any content rendered with JavaScript is now spiderable and indexible [sic, I'm sure] -- what your eyes can see, Google will index.
Google is doing a lot of new things now, like listening to audio files and changing speech to text. Complete parsing of SWF files, including media and XML files called by the SWF. They can pull text off of images as well.
Coincidentally, only 1/5 of the world can purchase a Milkway candy bar. Haw haw haw!
I live in New Jersey (I know "boo!") and my Dobson is all but worthless. The Jersey night sky is like pink mud. I think I'll put my Dobson to better use and fill it with giant Pringles.
Until Google stops chopping the top off of mountains in Kentucky to get coal to fuel the interweb, the sky will continue to get more polluted. Seriously, WTF am I talking about.
I finally, and happily, left the web development business this year, and dealing with IE 6 and the goblins that support it was one big reason why I wanted out.
If you're not testing with IE 7 and IE 8, you can't do your job.
See if you can get your masters to allow you to install some kind of virtual PC, and run windows images with IE 7 and IE 8. That's what we did at work, and it kept IT's mouths shut because we had IE 6 installed as the browser for the OS.
Have a cola and a banana, Squire! That will sort things out.
I wrote a song about Spirit and Opportunity on my album The Secret Lives of Probes, Satellites and Rovers (2008). The song is called Good Life.
Free (as in beer) to download and share of course http://milkshakedaddy.rpmchallenge.com
Valtrex to the rescue again.