Have the ability to detect that your program is being streamed to an iPad and offer additional options on commercials. "After the show, tap this button to be taken directly to our website to learn more about this product!" Regular TV commercials are passive, but interactive advertising gives you direct feedback into the efficacy of the advertising campaign. Make it easy and seamless and legitimate looking, and bored people will happily click away.
I've been a netizen for 13 years, the most formative of which were during the height of the dot com bubble when I was in college. I was addicted long before smart phones and Facebook. But as I matured and realized that the Internet was 90% crap (like most of life), I found myself spending less and less time each day online. The same thing will happen to the majority of these college kids. If you use social media to enhance your real life relationships rather than substitute them, it's fine. My little circle of 20 or so friends and acquaintances in real life uses Facebook as our party planning hub these days. I think we have 8 events - real life events - spelled out for the next month alone.
The glut of new buildings on the local campus always bothers me. It's a boom and bust cycle. "We have money lets invest it in new facilities." Three years later, the state budget panics and strips funding for schools by 60 million. School cannot afford to operated, so hikes tuition. Suddenly, that 15 million new research facility is looked upon by the students with a great deal of resentment, and the school cannot actually afford any faculty members to put into it.
Probably the most embarassing thing I've seen was at the UC Berkeley campus, in a 4 story math building. A sign on the elevator said, "Elevator repairs have been delayed due to budget restrictions." When one of the top research universities in the entire planet can't afford to fix an elevator, we've got serious problems with our priorities.
"Musk also claimed the Falcon Heavy would cost a third per flight than the Delta IV rocket, and sets a new world record for the cost per pound to orbit of around about a thousand dollars." Not an apples to apples comparison, but if he's claiming a new record, then it is pretty impressive. Any direct comparisons to the Saturn V would also need to take into account inflation, as the 1965 dollar was about six times as valuable as today's dollar. Ah, Wiki says: " In 1969, the cost of a Saturn V including launch was US $ 185 million (inflation adjusted US$ 1.11 billion in 2011)." Yikes.
Yup, this. My last system was $370 for all parts including a mid-line GPU. I'm waiting until the older Intel SSDs to drop in price when the new ones are released, then I'll add that into the system, probably bringing it to a total of $400 for a machine that kicks the butt of any brand name PC sold in stores for twice the price. Couldn't have done it without being able to handpick my CPU and mobo.
All drop down boxes should have a minimum of 20 word choices pulled from an online thesaurus. For example, the word choice I would have used after Twitter is "compacted."
So very very very true. Nothing like going about your business thinking your backups are cool, then discovering your initial base image on your BDR was corrupted and you have no valid chain - i.e your backups won't load. And its better to find this out during a regularly scheduled test, once a month, than to learn about it when your main server died!
I had 30 accounts at the height of my Farmville game. (It wasn't an addiction: I could quit at any time, although I made sure to exploit the hell out of it before I did.) The little baby accounts fed my main account the 16 farmville buck Mystery Boxes, so I could unlock the mystery box blue ribbon. The accounts have since been passed on to friends playing other games since I've decided to ignore Zynga. I still get the occasional FB notice about reconnecting with them, so they haven't been swept away just yet.
Except Amazon's "similar habits" occasionally introduces something from completely left field, such as that I'm looking at a fantasy novel and there's a twelve pack of baby bottles among the "other recommended products." So it's not perfect, either.
At least in my high school physics class. Diagrams and everything, and a wink and a nod to look at Anarchist's Cookbook for more zany projects. Then again, my physics and chemistry teacher was a weird guy. An award winning weird guy, but a weird guy nonetheless. He must have done something right because I still love physics and chemistry and remember a surprising amount of it.
I did creative things in calculus lab. Instead of working through my 3D volume homework, I instead made nifty pots and vases by spinning equations around the Y axis in fun shapes. Way more entertaining than the actual math.
They happen in languages too, but it's not as impressive. As a child, I was 20 years ahead in age for reading comprehension and writing, but only barely above average in math. Yet no one suggested I go take college level English classes in middle school. Instead my English teachers just let me go off to the library and write for an hour during class time, which was fine with me.
Martian winter powered down the rover as it wasn't getting enough sunlight to run. They waited until the last few weeks because that's when peak sunlight hit the collectors again at its last position. They'll give it another month just in case it needs to warm up some more, but things aren't looking good.
Oh, I'm still on Livejournal too. But very few of my friends are still there actively, and many of my favorite communities are now ghost towns except for the occasional drive by spam in Russian.
MySpace is destined to go the way of Geocities, Livejournal, etc. The latter is still hanging on by a thread, the former was devoured by Yahoo! who then killed it. And yes, Twitter is about to follow suit.
Facebook I'm not so sure will suffer the same fate. The partnership with Zynga and its addictive games means that it will have users for years who would have otherwise dumped the site for greener pastures. The only danger is when/if Zynga abandons Facebook to strike out on its own, allowing access via apps from mobile devices directly. That will be FB's downfall.
I'm not going to run out and replace my $100 2TB external backup with one of these any time soon. However, I've been tempted to snag a small 40 gig model and use that as my OS drive, and use my existing internal 1TB HDD for the actual data. I think the article is right, in that the price per gig needs to hit $1 before you start seeing acceptance for mass storage solutions from consumers. 95% of users can't tell the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM one, so they won't care about SSD speeds that much either.
There are rumors that they overstuffed the #4 pool with more fuel than it was safely designed to handle. Someone needs to be given criminal charges for signing off on that.
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Have the ability to detect that your program is being streamed to an iPad and offer additional options on commercials. "After the show, tap this button to be taken directly to our website to learn more about this product!" Regular TV commercials are passive, but interactive advertising gives you direct feedback into the efficacy of the advertising campaign. Make it easy and seamless and legitimate looking, and bored people will happily click away.
So you're saying there are now fnords on the iPad?
I've been a netizen for 13 years, the most formative of which were during the height of the dot com bubble when I was in college. I was addicted long before smart phones and Facebook. But as I matured and realized that the Internet was 90% crap (like most of life), I found myself spending less and less time each day online. The same thing will happen to the majority of these college kids. If you use social media to enhance your real life relationships rather than substitute them, it's fine. My little circle of 20 or so friends and acquaintances in real life uses Facebook as our party planning hub these days. I think we have 8 events - real life events - spelled out for the next month alone.
The glut of new buildings on the local campus always bothers me. It's a boom and bust cycle. "We have money lets invest it in new facilities." Three years later, the state budget panics and strips funding for schools by 60 million. School cannot afford to operated, so hikes tuition. Suddenly, that 15 million new research facility is looked upon by the students with a great deal of resentment, and the school cannot actually afford any faculty members to put into it. Probably the most embarassing thing I've seen was at the UC Berkeley campus, in a 4 story math building. A sign on the elevator said, "Elevator repairs have been delayed due to budget restrictions." When one of the top research universities in the entire planet can't afford to fix an elevator, we've got serious problems with our priorities.
"Musk also claimed the Falcon Heavy would cost a third per flight than the Delta IV rocket, and sets a new world record for the cost per pound to orbit of around about a thousand dollars." Not an apples to apples comparison, but if he's claiming a new record, then it is pretty impressive. Any direct comparisons to the Saturn V would also need to take into account inflation, as the 1965 dollar was about six times as valuable as today's dollar. Ah, Wiki says: " In 1969, the cost of a Saturn V including launch was US $ 185 million (inflation adjusted US$ 1.11 billion in 2011)." Yikes.
Yup, this. My last system was $370 for all parts including a mid-line GPU. I'm waiting until the older Intel SSDs to drop in price when the new ones are released, then I'll add that into the system, probably bringing it to a total of $400 for a machine that kicks the butt of any brand name PC sold in stores for twice the price. Couldn't have done it without being able to handpick my CPU and mobo.
What if I'm already in a relationship but want to play? Are they partnering up with Ashley Madisan to provide a "having an affair" version?
All drop down boxes should have a minimum of 20 word choices pulled from an online thesaurus. For example, the word choice I would have used after Twitter is "compacted."
The sad thing is, I can honestly believe this.
So very very very true. Nothing like going about your business thinking your backups are cool, then discovering your initial base image on your BDR was corrupted and you have no valid chain - i.e your backups won't load. And its better to find this out during a regularly scheduled test, once a month, than to learn about it when your main server died!
I had 30 accounts at the height of my Farmville game. (It wasn't an addiction: I could quit at any time, although I made sure to exploit the hell out of it before I did.) The little baby accounts fed my main account the 16 farmville buck Mystery Boxes, so I could unlock the mystery box blue ribbon. The accounts have since been passed on to friends playing other games since I've decided to ignore Zynga. I still get the occasional FB notice about reconnecting with them, so they haven't been swept away just yet.
Another one billion are people's pet's accounts made for Farmville and Mafia Wars.
Except Amazon's "similar habits" occasionally introduces something from completely left field, such as that I'm looking at a fantasy novel and there's a twelve pack of baby bottles among the "other recommended products." So it's not perfect, either.
At least in my high school physics class. Diagrams and everything, and a wink and a nod to look at Anarchist's Cookbook for more zany projects. Then again, my physics and chemistry teacher was a weird guy. An award winning weird guy, but a weird guy nonetheless. He must have done something right because I still love physics and chemistry and remember a surprising amount of it.
I did creative things in calculus lab. Instead of working through my 3D volume homework, I instead made nifty pots and vases by spinning equations around the Y axis in fun shapes. Way more entertaining than the actual math.
They happen in languages too, but it's not as impressive. As a child, I was 20 years ahead in age for reading comprehension and writing, but only barely above average in math. Yet no one suggested I go take college level English classes in middle school. Instead my English teachers just let me go off to the library and write for an hour during class time, which was fine with me.
My favorite is the fake UPS invoices. "Hey, we have an invoice from a recent UPS packed that was shipped to you. Click the attachment to see it!"
Martian winter powered down the rover as it wasn't getting enough sunlight to run. They waited until the last few weeks because that's when peak sunlight hit the collectors again at its last position. They'll give it another month just in case it needs to warm up some more, but things aren't looking good.
Oh, I'm still on Livejournal too. But very few of my friends are still there actively, and many of my favorite communities are now ghost towns except for the occasional drive by spam in Russian.
MySpace is destined to go the way of Geocities, Livejournal, etc. The latter is still hanging on by a thread, the former was devoured by Yahoo! who then killed it. And yes, Twitter is about to follow suit. Facebook I'm not so sure will suffer the same fate. The partnership with Zynga and its addictive games means that it will have users for years who would have otherwise dumped the site for greener pastures. The only danger is when/if Zynga abandons Facebook to strike out on its own, allowing access via apps from mobile devices directly. That will be FB's downfall.
Went from 4-5 spam messages a day in gmail to just one today. That is awesome.
I'm not going to run out and replace my $100 2TB external backup with one of these any time soon. However, I've been tempted to snag a small 40 gig model and use that as my OS drive, and use my existing internal 1TB HDD for the actual data. I think the article is right, in that the price per gig needs to hit $1 before you start seeing acceptance for mass storage solutions from consumers. 95% of users can't tell the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM one, so they won't care about SSD speeds that much either.
It's called an odometer.
Okay then, that explains where the heck they came up with it. Thank you for sharing.
There are rumors that they overstuffed the #4 pool with more fuel than it was safely designed to handle. Someone needs to be given criminal charges for signing off on that.