If they make porting games too easy, why would any PC owner buy an Xbox II?
As for market share being Xbox + Windows it's closer to Xbox II + ((Windows machines upgraded to an OS level that supports this new thing AND with suitable hardware) - business machines where games are not allowed).
Gmail seems to be able to offer it's huge storage space by taking advantage of the redundancy in mail messages, removing the need to store things more than once.
Unless you want everyone on earth to be able to read you mail, you'd better hope that it's impossible to reference any of it by URL!
Guess it all depends on the speed the Gmail servers will provide.
Seeing as all they will actually be doing is sending a little bit of text and pointer to a file that's already in Gmail's shared store, it should be pretty much instant.
The servers will only take a hit when people try and download the file.
You are correct, the IRA are not == the Irish, (if anything they were probably outnumbered by Unionist terrorists at the time) but they are a subset of the Irish, so my statement was correct.
Dirfting away from the topic a little, but hopefully still interesting...
Why did American English not pick up the English English word 'cinema'?
"Movie theater" is an ugly construct, and leads to Movies being advertised over here as 'only in Theatres' which implies to us Brits that they are stage productions.
The article mentions SR series paper sizes, but doesn't really go into detail about how and why they are used.
Printing presses require a sacrificial bit of extra paper that they grip the sheet by, and also a bit to be cut off the sides to create the effect that ink goes right up to the edge of the page, so commmercial paper is actually bought in SR sizes, not A sizes.
SR sizes are trimmable to the same number A series, so SRA3 trims easily to A3 or two A4s. The fact that SR paper is always going to be trimmed means you can store it without as much care and attention to not damaging the edges, and the paper seller can get away with being less accurate with the cutting and accuracy of 90 degree corners.
Since only commerical printers tend to buy SR sizes, it's quite common for trade prices or bulk discounts to apply to all SR sizes automatically, so it's often cheaper than the smaller A series it gets trimmed down to, which can save you a lot of money when purchasing paper.
That's one way of interpreting the article, another way is that they have announced a successor to the Little-known GScube which was a workstation with 16 of the PS2's 'Emotion Engines' in one box, aimed at the rendering community.
Unfortunately the article is so short of details that we can't really tell.
Let me put it to you like this: How do your advertisers benefit from me visiting your site and being annoyed by their ads if I go there?
The answer is simple. They don't.
Your advertisers are *less likely* to get my business than when I had never heard of / not been annoyed by them.
If your site took this negative out of the equation by only displaying ads to people who don't mind them (or only up to an agressiveness level they accept) then those ads are *more valuable* to advertisers, which means your revenue *goes up*. Why do you have a problem with this?
There is a fine distinction for site operators to make here: Do you a) have adverts to pay for your site and make a profit or b) have a site to generate ad revenue?
Your posting suggests you've stepped over the line into position b)
You are right when you say "If an advertisement works on two people, and irritates you, then they might as well run the ad.", but that's not the point I was making.
I was pointing out that it's actually better for the advertiser to send it to those two people and NOT to me, and Google could offer that as a facility to their advertisers.
Not only that, but since the advertisers are paying for the bandwidth, it's actually going to be cheaper for them too, which is something they should care about. Since Microsoft seem to be waking up to the fact that Mozilla's ad blocking is a big plus point, they will surely put something similar into their next browser. At that point, advertisers are going to know that 95% of their ads are being blocked.
We all get profiled by ad companies (apart from the tin-hat brigade using proxies every thime they surf), so why not add 'hates adverts' to the profile?
When will they detect that I will NEVER click an ad, and I actively avoid companies that intrusively advertise (and I have a very tight definition of intrusive!).
I was fairly neutral to eBay until I saw userfriendly.org on someone else's manchine and saw it looks like a big flashing eBay advert with a tiny comic in the middle, and I was mildly impressed with Honda until they interrupted the Formula 1 coverage of their own car doing well to show me an advert.
It's in advertisers interests not to lose potential customers by annoying them.
Google would have a real market advantage if they could show that their adverts were going to people who do not block every ad they can, or they targetted less intrusive versions of adverts at people like me who do.
Apple did NOT pay to use one-click. If you read the press releases at the time, it was made very clear that this was a reciprocal IP deal, Apple got a licence for one-click, and Amazon got 'some unspecified IP stuff' from Apple in return.
If you read between the lines, it seems that the 'some unspecified IP stuff' was a promise not to contest the highly dubious one-click patent and the impression that Amazon were being paid licencing fees by at least one serious company for said dubious patent.
What possible value is there in making me carry a card around with me that matches my eyes/fingerprints? I ALWAYS carry my eyes and fingeprints with me at all times. Does anyone other than me spot the redundancy here?
The standard reasoning is that the card carrys more than just eye/print data.
Well, if you want to store data that relates to terrorists eyes/fingerprints, isn't it obvious that that data should be held somewhere a bit more secure and tamperproof than in the terrorist's pocket?
I've been on the list for a short while now, and the people there are very helpful and willing to take on suggestions. I'm not a html guru, but I was able to contribute in my own small way to the new validator, by pointing out some spelling/layout mistakes in the beta version.
From the point of view of us British people who are facing the threat of ID cards, "beating the iris scanners" means defeating the whole concept and forcing the government to listen when we say we don't want them.
If we all cry when they come to scan us, we can stop this.
"hard drives... they'd require at most 3Gb (OS) + 4Gb (ramdrive backup)"
Which is why they have no problems finding space for GMail - you can't buy full size drives as small as 7Gb anymore, so they already have countless Tbs of unused drive space in their racks.
This might be a case of cultural imperialism on my part, but I'm guessing that Sweden is big importer of IP, and a very tiny exporter.
If they did abolish IP (highly unlikely of course), it would free up their music industry for local bands to compete fairly with imported music and it's huge riaa/etc backing, and actually HELP their economy.
The only Swedes who would lose out are ones who make a living from IP, which is currently just ABBA as far as I can tell, and they are already richer than Croesus.
last I heard, Lamborghini was owned by an Indeonesion group.
I'm guessing you heard before July 1998 then? That's when VAG's Audi division took over from the previous joint owners, the Malaysian holding company Mycom Setdco and the Indonesian V'Power Corporation. The new 'small' Lamborghini Gallardo V10 introduced last year shares some parts with the Audi range.
Currently, you can buy the W8 engine in the VW Passat, and the W12 in the Volkswagen Phaeton, but these are sold on smoothness, not power, and the cars are luxury barges not sports cars. The W16/18 engines are not production ready, even in non-turbo state, and even VAG now admit the 18 (3 banks of 6 cyls, so not really a "w") has been killed off.
It's not even new vapourware, it's just the (abandoned) W16 Bentley Hunadieres with a new badge and some turbos, which in turn is just the (abandoned) W16 Audi Rosemeyer with a different badge, which in turn is just the (abandoned) W12 Audi Avus with 1 extra cyl per head, which is just the (abandoned) Volkswagen W12 with a different badge, which is just an old (abandoned) Audi W8 concept car (the name escapes me for now) with 1 extra cyl per head, which is a rebadged (abandoned) Seat W8, and so on.
See the pattern?
If Piech hadn't gone, we'd be drooling over a succession of fake W24 volkswagen/bentley/audi/lamborghini/seat/skodas by now, but since he has gone, the bait and switching has stopped and people are actually expecting the last of the line to be built.
VW (or more accurately VAG - Volkswagen-Audi Group) don't own the Rolls Royce name, BMW owns it (along with Mini). VAG does have Bentley and Lamborghini though.
Since we can assume a Turing Award is an award capable of modelling all other awards, which makes it functionally equivalent to a Nobel Prize, Oscar, Grammy and Bronze Swimming Certificate.
I'm living proof of this. I was waiting for a train at Liverpoot St Station in London, and took part in the survey once I realised there was a freebie involved. Every single question they asked I made up a false reply to, partly to get the free chocolate but mostly because I hate intrusive market researchers and people trying to profile me.
Sadly, I doubt they will ever realise how worthless their surveys are, after all the NYT still hasn't got the message after about a billion fake login names.
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Do they only go after 50 out of every 100 drugs smugglers, terrorists, etc?
I'm not in the USA (but 99% of the spam I get is for things priced in US$), but can't you force them legally to do the job properly?
Maybe file a freedom of information request to get the other 50 names and adresses?
If they make porting games too easy, why would any PC owner buy an Xbox II?
As for market share being Xbox + Windows it's closer to Xbox II + ((Windows machines upgraded to an OS level that supports this new thing AND with suitable hardware) - business machines where games are not allowed).
Gmail seems to be able to offer it's huge storage space by taking advantage of the redundancy in mail messages, removing the need to store things more than once.
Unless you want everyone on earth to be able to read you mail, you'd better hope that it's impossible to reference any of it by URL!
Guess it all depends on the speed the Gmail servers will provide.
Seeing as all they will actually be doing is sending a little bit of text and pointer to a file that's already in Gmail's shared store, it should be pretty much instant.
The servers will only take a hit when people try and download the file.
Am I the only one wondering what on earth they are filling that much space up with?
Seems bloated to hell to me - what exactly do these routers do that take so much code?
You are correct, the IRA are not == the Irish, (if anything they were probably outnumbered by Unionist terrorists at the time) but they are a subset of the Irish, so my statement was correct.
I suggest the people who modded this comment funny go and look at what the Irish did to London in 1993.
This bomb was intended to topple London's (then) tallest skyscraper.
Dirfting away from the topic a little, but hopefully still interesting...
Why did American English not pick up the English English word 'cinema'?
"Movie theater" is an ugly construct, and leads to Movies being advertised over here as 'only in Theatres' which implies to us Brits that they are stage productions.
The article mentions SR series paper sizes, but doesn't really go into detail about how and why they are used.
Printing presses require a sacrificial bit of extra paper that they grip the sheet by, and also a bit to be cut off the sides to create the effect that ink goes right up to the edge of the page, so commmercial paper is actually bought in SR sizes, not A sizes.
SR sizes are trimmable to the same number A series, so SRA3 trims easily to A3 or two A4s. The fact that SR paper is always going to be trimmed means you can store it without as much care and attention to not damaging the edges, and the paper seller can get away with being less accurate with the cutting and accuracy of 90 degree corners.
Since only commerical printers tend to buy SR sizes, it's quite common for trade prices or bulk discounts to apply to all SR sizes automatically, so it's often cheaper than the smaller A series it gets trimmed down to, which can save you a lot of money when purchasing paper.
That's one way of interpreting the article, another way is that they have announced a successor to the Little-known GScube which was a workstation with 16 of the PS2's 'Emotion Engines' in one box, aimed at the rendering community.
Unfortunately the article is so short of details that we can't really tell.
Let me put it to you like this: How do your advertisers benefit from me visiting your site and being annoyed by their ads if I go there?
The answer is simple. They don't.
Your advertisers are *less likely* to get my business than when I had never heard of / not been annoyed by them.
If your site took this negative out of the equation by only displaying ads to people who don't mind them (or only up to an agressiveness level they accept) then those ads are *more valuable* to advertisers, which means your revenue *goes up*. Why do you have a problem with this?
There is a fine distinction for site operators to make here:
Do you
a) have adverts to pay for your site and make a profit
or
b) have a site to generate ad revenue?
Your posting suggests you've stepped over the line into position b)
You are right when you say "If an advertisement works on two people, and irritates you, then they might as well run the ad.", but that's not the point I was making.
I was pointing out that it's actually better for the advertiser to send it to those two people and NOT to me, and Google could offer that as a facility to their advertisers.
Not only that, but since the advertisers are paying for the bandwidth, it's actually going to be cheaper for them too, which is something they should care about. Since Microsoft seem to be waking up to the fact that Mozilla's ad blocking is a big plus point, they will surely put something similar into their next browser. At that point, advertisers are going to know that 95% of their ads are being blocked.
We all get profiled by ad companies (apart from the tin-hat brigade using proxies every thime they surf), so why not add 'hates adverts' to the profile?
When will they detect that I will NEVER click an ad, and I actively avoid companies that intrusively advertise (and I have a very tight definition of intrusive!).
I was fairly neutral to eBay until I saw userfriendly.org on someone else's manchine and saw it looks like a big flashing eBay advert with a tiny comic in the middle, and I was mildly impressed with Honda until they interrupted the Formula 1 coverage of their own car doing well to show me an advert.
It's in advertisers interests not to lose potential customers by annoying them.
Google would have a real market advantage if they could show that their adverts were going to people who do not block every ad they can, or they targetted less intrusive versions of adverts at people like me who do.
Apple did NOT pay to use one-click. If you read the press releases at the time, it was made very clear that this was a reciprocal IP deal, Apple got a licence for one-click, and Amazon got 'some unspecified IP stuff' from Apple in return.
If you read between the lines, it seems that the 'some unspecified IP stuff' was a promise not to contest the highly dubious one-click patent and the impression that Amazon were being paid licencing fees by at least one serious company for said dubious patent.
Also for the 123rd time...
What possible value is there in making me carry a card around with me that matches my eyes/fingerprints? I ALWAYS carry my eyes and fingeprints with me at all times. Does anyone other than me spot the redundancy here?
The standard reasoning is that the card carrys more than just eye/print data.
Well, if you want to store data that relates to terrorists eyes/fingerprints, isn't it obvious that that data should be held somewhere a bit more secure and tamperproof than in the terrorist's pocket?
Maybe you should post this feature request to the Validator mailing list?
I've been on the list for a short while now, and the people there are very helpful and willing to take on suggestions. I'm not a html guru, but I was able to contribute in my own small way to the new validator, by pointing out some spelling/layout mistakes in the beta version.
From the point of view of us British people who are facing the threat of ID cards, "beating the iris scanners" means defeating the whole concept and forcing the government to listen when we say we don't want them.
If we all cry when they come to scan us, we can stop this.
"hard drives ... they'd require at most 3Gb (OS) + 4Gb (ramdrive backup)"
Which is why they have no problems finding space for GMail - you can't buy full size drives as small as 7Gb anymore, so they already have countless Tbs of unused drive space in their racks.
This might be a case of cultural imperialism on my part, but I'm guessing that Sweden is big importer of IP, and a very tiny exporter.
If they did abolish IP (highly unlikely of course), it would free up their music industry for local bands to compete fairly with imported music and it's huge riaa/etc backing, and actually HELP their economy.
The only Swedes who would lose out are ones who make a living from IP, which is currently just ABBA as far as I can tell, and they are already richer than Croesus.
last I heard, Lamborghini was owned by an Indeonesion group.
I'm guessing you heard before July 1998 then? That's when VAG's Audi division took over from the previous joint owners, the Malaysian holding company Mycom Setdco and the Indonesian V'Power Corporation. The new 'small' Lamborghini Gallardo V10 introduced last year shares some parts with the Audi range.
Currently, you can buy the W8 engine in the VW Passat, and the W12 in the Volkswagen Phaeton, but these are sold on smoothness, not power, and the cars are luxury barges not sports cars. The W16/18 engines are not production ready, even in non-turbo state, and even VAG now admit the 18 (3 banks of 6 cyls, so not really a "w") has been killed off.
It's not even new vapourware, it's just the (abandoned) W16 Bentley Hunadieres with a new badge and some turbos, which in turn is just the (abandoned) W16 Audi Rosemeyer with a different badge, which in turn is just the (abandoned) W12 Audi Avus with 1 extra cyl per head, which is just the (abandoned) Volkswagen W12 with a different badge, which is just an old (abandoned) Audi W8 concept car (the name escapes me for now) with 1 extra cyl per head, which is a rebadged (abandoned) Seat W8, and so on.
See the pattern?
If Piech hadn't gone, we'd be drooling over a succession of fake W24 volkswagen/bentley/audi/lamborghini/seat/skodas by now, but since he has gone, the bait and switching has stopped and people are actually expecting the last of the line to be built.
VW (or more accurately VAG - Volkswagen-Audi Group) don't own the Rolls Royce name, BMW owns it (along with Mini). VAG does have Bentley and Lamborghini though.
If I (as a Britain) am going to be identified by my iris and fingerprints, what do I need a card for?
I already tend to carry my eyes and fingers with me at all times.
Since we can assume a Turing Award is an award capable of modelling all other awards, which makes it functionally equivalent to a Nobel Prize, Oscar, Grammy and Bronze Swimming Certificate.
I'm living proof of this. I was waiting for a train at Liverpoot St Station in London, and took part in the survey once I realised there was a freebie involved. Every single question they asked I made up a false reply to, partly to get the free chocolate but mostly because I hate intrusive market researchers and people trying to profile me.
Sadly, I doubt they will ever realise how worthless their surveys are, after all the NYT still hasn't got the message after about a billion fake login names.