I haven't even bothered to look at the ad yet, but I will. As for it being "pointless" or "ineffective" - are you all kidding? Dozens of nerds on Slashdot going on and on about it, telling their friend(s) too, and watching the video.
Damn right it worked.
And anyone who sees Bill Gates on TV and doesn't think "computers" is not their market anyway, as they are almost certainly dead.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Exodus 22:18
You take this literally? Really? How many have you killed?
I think your fellow believers need no defending, only their mad ideas.
He's not a troll by any definition I am aware of, and funny is a matter of perspective. The creationist schlemiel who slips on the banana peel rarely thinks its funny.
Maybe, maybe not. People often say that all those people with crazy, stupid and or ugly tattoos won't be able to get jobs in the future. Well, if that is true there will be a lot of unemployment in the future because a LOT of millennials have toos, and chances are the manager who is hiring will have a some too. It may be like that with the coming uber transparent world -- that manager who is so picky now will have to stop being so picky as in the future (if there is one) everyone will have a puking video on youtube.
You are correct sir, millions, possibly billions, of people will mindlessly put their faces into a google facial database, thus providing Buhs and fascist scum like him with a powerful tool for social control. We will be trading basic freedom for the ability to find pictures of our friends.
It is a virtual certainty that by hook or by crook, DHS, NSA and CIA will have those data. More likely the google will just give it to them. They've done it before...
"The intelligence community appears to be interested in data mining Googleâ(TM)s vast store of information on each user who uses Googleâ(TM)s services. Google collects data on each userâ(TM)s search queries, which web sites users visited after making a query, and through its Google Analytics service, can also track users on cooperating web sites."
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/02/22/google-in-bed-with-us-intelligence/
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Not happy with supporting nascent fascism in America, Larry and Sergey are busy helping the Red Chinese.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm
I can't find anything about this as it seems to have gone down the memory hole, but shortly after 9/11 there were reports that Microsoft was sharing source code with the FBI. Is Windows bugged? Almost certainly.
As number 6 said, "Be seeing you!".
Looks like your parents were ahead of their times. If you are discussing politics today, I would advise speaking in hushed tones, and never over the phone. Forget email. Remember Echelon.
No, but they did know that every time they killed 1 German, the Germans would kill up to 100 French civilians.
The Iraqis have to fight "while concealed within a crowd" - they live there. I think if you look into it, you will see that the Maquis often conducted operations inside towns and cities, you kill and harass the enemy where you find them. An insurgency by definition does not, indeed cannot, conduct fixed battles.
You could try buying the oil on the open market. You do believe in open markets right?
BTW Canada has the second largest proven oil reserves in the world and is the largest supplier of oil to America.
Yes, "moderate" in an intellectualized, rationalized, "it will never happen to me", kind of way.
This bill, and others like it, has nothing to do with "fighting terrorism", and everything to do with increasing social control by the global elites. That is, the oligarchy that amoral bum boys like Gordon Braun represent.
Korean is the inventor of Digital Textbook technology and numerous other things such as plasma TV, digital radio, wireless phone, CD/DVD players, and Blackberry handheld device. The Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development stated that it will develop the digital textbook as a study assistance tool, which utilizes digital media, to go beyond the limitations of conventional paper textbooks. The digital textbook's available content can be updated on the fly without the need to wait for new yearly revisions. The government tested the system last year with the help of 300 elementary school students from four South Korean schools. According to the study, students, especially those whose school records were in the middle or lower achievement brackets, showed marked improvement.[1]
The Korean Ministry of Education intends to deploy the Digital Textbook program for all fifth and sixth grade students in elementary, three unspecified middle school grades, and two unspecified high school grades. They intend for the new system to be adopted in 20 targeted elementary schools by 2008 and in 100 elementary, middle and high schools nationwide by 2011.
In total, 66 billion South Korean won from the Ministry of Education's budget are earmarked for the project.
Wiki
Producing paper doesn't pollute? I would like to see you support that statement. Have you heard about clear cut logging?
Yes, people will be dislocated by the shift to epaper, this is already happening at newspapers and magazines whose paper based readership is all down - due to the internet. The fact that buggy whip manufacturers will suffer is secondary to the argument.
A single ebook could replace thousands of books and newspapers. That is many tonnes of paper and the oil it took to produce them. We could make ebooks out of mercury -- and they would still pollute less than all that paper. Aside from that, the time will/must come when we learn to produce electronics that are less harmful to the environment.
If this is true, (unlikely) they should outsource their hacking jobs to Russia, who could outsource them to India. Failing that, they could do what every other intel agency in the world does, honeytrap and blackmail someone with access.
You are absolutely correct that ebooks are not completley environmentally friendly. But that does not mean that they never will be. I would argue that even with all the problems you mention, it does not even come close to the devastation caused by the NYT alone.
Managed forests are not good things, they don't have a natural ecosystem, and that space could be a park -- not rows of exactly the same age and type of tree.
One ebook, which weighs a few ounces can hardly be worse than the potentially tonnes of paper that it could/should/would replace. Paper mills may run on bark, but that means they are burning bark which is dirty like hell. You also left out the cost of storing books/mags/newsapers until such time as they must be discarded, or at best, recycled, which also uses more fuel to transport them and then yet more chemicals to turn them into yet more books et al.
Kenaf and hemp are much better alternatives, but only until such time as we can get paper into the museum, where it belongs.
The kindle is not an ebook anymore than a model T was a car, or an MP3 player circa 1999 was an iPod.
In time someone will address all the concerns expressed here. For now I will say that the Kindle is extremely ugly and I won't reiterate its many deficiencies. Having said that though, I will say that the day of dead tree data is over. Killing a tree, grinding it into a pulp with poisonous chemicals, then packaging it with yet more dead tree boxes, shipping it thousands of kilometers with giant polluting trucks, storing them in the huge museums that some people call libraries or book stores, until they are worn out, and then packing them up in more paper boxes and burning them or burying them somewhere is beyond stupid - it is criminal.
As far as paying 10 dollars for a book, this is theft, it is too much. The only true value of a book is in its IP. The ultimate goal is to cut profiteers like bezos right out of the loop.
For those dinosaurs who still love the smell and feel of books you can always recycle by collecting some old newspaper and wrap your kindle in that. That way it will even dirty your fingers - just like a cheap romance novel. The kindle of the future will hold hundreds of thousands of books! And in no way will the paltry power requirements and this tiny bit of plastic be worse than all that trash. Besides it will be solar powered.
Why do we still have newspapers? It is insane! Megatonnes of waste so some dino can get his sports scores! I do not think so.
Think about students who will be able to download the latest textbooks for cheap - assuming that we can get greedy billionaire thieves like Bezos out the loop. Impossible you say? They are already doing it in Korea, a country apparently not crippled by the turgid thinking of stuck in a rut bibliophiles.
A book is a terrible way to acquire data, you cannot look up a word, check a reference, resize the text, and you sure as shit can not read your email in between. In 20 years there will, thank god, be no books. Just like you cannot buy a ridiculous film camera anymore. And good riddance to an outdated, polluting technology. Oh, there may still be specialty books such as coffee table books and the like for a while, but even those will be superseded eventually by superiour storage and display technologies.
I do not love books; I love the stories and the information. And I do not love the dry dead corpses of what were once living trees that breathed, shaded, and were homes for animals.
Save a tree, save the environment, and buy an ebook, just not the Kindle, it is ugly and Bezos has enough money. Most of it stored electronically by the way, not on paper - yeuch
Thank you very much and to all the others that offered help, it really is a serious problem for me. Most of my work is still obtained the old fashioned way, word of mouth, cold calls, et al, but it would be nice if once in a while I got some calls from people who had found the site.
www.eyestir.com
No, my site is hosted by blacksun.ca, other sites that I have done come up on a keyword search just fine, that is part of the reason why I am mystified. Or googled or something like that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks, I think that is the key, I have to load up on the correct search terms.
I just "localized" last night on Google Web last night, so adding Canada really helps. Prior to that, the results were even worse. It's funny but I have a picture of myself and my cat fritz with a ufo in the background, Fritz sees it because I am looking at the camera. The text on the picture reads "I want to believe". The jpeg file has that name too, and because of the new X files movie, I am getting lots of hits from that string.
The other thing Google really likes, and they tell you this quite explicitly, is links from important sites. But of course that can be problematical.
I have a terrible admission to make. I, among other things, design websites. Yet, when I search for me on the google, I don't come up. I use relevant terms that are all over my site, and in the metadata (although I understand they don't really matter anymore), yet my own personal site does not come up, even though the url has been up and running for 8 years.
The final straw was when I did a search for web design, Ottawa, and a newly opened competitor (just around the corner actually) came up on the second page.
I spent the last couple of days researching this (again) and I seem to be meeting all of googles requirements. I have never used a sleazy SEO company, my content is consistent and legal. What's up with that?
Absolutely. How many times have we heard the phrase, "tabloid journalism"? I think that what they meant to say, but point taken. The Post is a tabloid, some of the articles are so slanted as to be cartoonish.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't even bothered to look at the ad yet, but I will. As for it being "pointless" or "ineffective" - are you all kidding? Dozens of nerds on Slashdot going on and on about it, telling their friend(s) too, and watching the video. Damn right it worked. And anyone who sees Bill Gates on TV and doesn't think "computers" is not their market anyway, as they are almost certainly dead.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Exodus 22:18 You take this literally? Really? How many have you killed? I think your fellow believers need no defending, only their mad ideas.
He's not a troll by any definition I am aware of, and funny is a matter of perspective. The creationist schlemiel who slips on the banana peel rarely thinks its funny.
The trick is to search for incriminating shit on your boss. Can that promotion you seek be so far away?
Maybe, maybe not. People often say that all those people with crazy, stupid and or ugly tattoos won't be able to get jobs in the future. Well, if that is true there will be a lot of unemployment in the future because a LOT of millennials have toos, and chances are the manager who is hiring will have a some too. It may be like that with the coming uber transparent world -- that manager who is so picky now will have to stop being so picky as in the future (if there is one) everyone will have a puking video on youtube.
You are correct sir, millions, possibly billions, of people will mindlessly put their faces into a google facial database, thus providing Buhs and fascist scum like him with a powerful tool for social control. We will be trading basic freedom for the ability to find pictures of our friends. It is a virtual certainty that by hook or by crook, DHS, NSA and CIA will have those data. More likely the google will just give it to them. They've done it before... "The intelligence community appears to be interested in data mining Googleâ(TM)s vast store of information on each user who uses Googleâ(TM)s services. Google collects data on each userâ(TM)s search queries, which web sites users visited after making a query, and through its Google Analytics service, can also track users on cooperating web sites." http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/02/22/google-in-bed-with-us-intelligence/ -- Not happy with supporting nascent fascism in America, Larry and Sergey are busy helping the Red Chinese. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm I can't find anything about this as it seems to have gone down the memory hole, but shortly after 9/11 there were reports that Microsoft was sharing source code with the FBI. Is Windows bugged? Almost certainly. As number 6 said, "Be seeing you!".
Looks like your parents were ahead of their times. If you are discussing politics today, I would advise speaking in hushed tones, and never over the phone. Forget email. Remember Echelon.
No, but they did know that every time they killed 1 German, the Germans would kill up to 100 French civilians. The Iraqis have to fight "while concealed within a crowd" - they live there. I think if you look into it, you will see that the Maquis often conducted operations inside towns and cities, you kill and harass the enemy where you find them. An insurgency by definition does not, indeed cannot, conduct fixed battles.
You could try buying the oil on the open market. You do believe in open markets right? BTW Canada has the second largest proven oil reserves in the world and is the largest supplier of oil to America.
Yes, "moderate" in an intellectualized, rationalized, "it will never happen to me", kind of way. This bill, and others like it, has nothing to do with "fighting terrorism", and everything to do with increasing social control by the global elites. That is, the oligarchy that amoral bum boys like Gordon Braun represent.
Korean is the inventor of Digital Textbook technology and numerous other things such as plasma TV, digital radio, wireless phone, CD/DVD players, and Blackberry handheld device. The Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development stated that it will develop the digital textbook as a study assistance tool, which utilizes digital media, to go beyond the limitations of conventional paper textbooks. The digital textbook's available content can be updated on the fly without the need to wait for new yearly revisions. The government tested the system last year with the help of 300 elementary school students from four South Korean schools. According to the study, students, especially those whose school records were in the middle or lower achievement brackets, showed marked improvement.[1] The Korean Ministry of Education intends to deploy the Digital Textbook program for all fifth and sixth grade students in elementary, three unspecified middle school grades, and two unspecified high school grades. They intend for the new system to be adopted in 20 targeted elementary schools by 2008 and in 100 elementary, middle and high schools nationwide by 2011. In total, 66 billion South Korean won from the Ministry of Education's budget are earmarked for the project. Wiki
Producing paper doesn't pollute? I would like to see you support that statement. Have you heard about clear cut logging? Yes, people will be dislocated by the shift to epaper, this is already happening at newspapers and magazines whose paper based readership is all down - due to the internet. The fact that buggy whip manufacturers will suffer is secondary to the argument. A single ebook could replace thousands of books and newspapers. That is many tonnes of paper and the oil it took to produce them. We could make ebooks out of mercury -- and they would still pollute less than all that paper. Aside from that, the time will/must come when we learn to produce electronics that are less harmful to the environment.
If this is true, (unlikely) they should outsource their hacking jobs to Russia, who could outsource them to India. Failing that, they could do what every other intel agency in the world does, honeytrap and blackmail someone with access.
You are absolutely correct that ebooks are not completley environmentally friendly. But that does not mean that they never will be. I would argue that even with all the problems you mention, it does not even come close to the devastation caused by the NYT alone. Managed forests are not good things, they don't have a natural ecosystem, and that space could be a park -- not rows of exactly the same age and type of tree. One ebook, which weighs a few ounces can hardly be worse than the potentially tonnes of paper that it could/should/would replace. Paper mills may run on bark, but that means they are burning bark which is dirty like hell. You also left out the cost of storing books/mags/newsapers until such time as they must be discarded, or at best, recycled, which also uses more fuel to transport them and then yet more chemicals to turn them into yet more books et al. Kenaf and hemp are much better alternatives, but only until such time as we can get paper into the museum, where it belongs.
The kindle is not an ebook anymore than a model T was a car, or an MP3 player circa 1999 was an iPod. In time someone will address all the concerns expressed here. For now I will say that the Kindle is extremely ugly and I won't reiterate its many deficiencies. Having said that though, I will say that the day of dead tree data is over. Killing a tree, grinding it into a pulp with poisonous chemicals, then packaging it with yet more dead tree boxes, shipping it thousands of kilometers with giant polluting trucks, storing them in the huge museums that some people call libraries or book stores, until they are worn out, and then packing them up in more paper boxes and burning them or burying them somewhere is beyond stupid - it is criminal. As far as paying 10 dollars for a book, this is theft, it is too much. The only true value of a book is in its IP. The ultimate goal is to cut profiteers like bezos right out of the loop. For those dinosaurs who still love the smell and feel of books you can always recycle by collecting some old newspaper and wrap your kindle in that. That way it will even dirty your fingers - just like a cheap romance novel. The kindle of the future will hold hundreds of thousands of books! And in no way will the paltry power requirements and this tiny bit of plastic be worse than all that trash. Besides it will be solar powered. Why do we still have newspapers? It is insane! Megatonnes of waste so some dino can get his sports scores! I do not think so. Think about students who will be able to download the latest textbooks for cheap - assuming that we can get greedy billionaire thieves like Bezos out the loop. Impossible you say? They are already doing it in Korea, a country apparently not crippled by the turgid thinking of stuck in a rut bibliophiles. A book is a terrible way to acquire data, you cannot look up a word, check a reference, resize the text, and you sure as shit can not read your email in between. In 20 years there will, thank god, be no books. Just like you cannot buy a ridiculous film camera anymore. And good riddance to an outdated, polluting technology. Oh, there may still be specialty books such as coffee table books and the like for a while, but even those will be superseded eventually by superiour storage and display technologies. I do not love books; I love the stories and the information. And I do not love the dry dead corpses of what were once living trees that breathed, shaded, and were homes for animals. Save a tree, save the environment, and buy an ebook, just not the Kindle, it is ugly and Bezos has enough money. Most of it stored electronically by the way, not on paper - yeuch
Thank you. Excellent advice. I will look at this for sure. I am already doing some of the things you suggest, will try the rest.
Thank you very much and to all the others that offered help, it really is a serious problem for me. Most of my work is still obtained the old fashioned way, word of mouth, cold calls, et al, but it would be nice if once in a while I got some calls from people who had found the site. www.eyestir.com
Yes, I know that, but why doesn't my site come up on Google? Oh, sorry I thought you said "incontinent".
No, my site is hosted by blacksun.ca, other sites that I have done come up on a keyword search just fine, that is part of the reason why I am mystified. Or googled or something like that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Google webmaster informs me that there are 789 links to my site. What does it take?
www.eyestir.com I have submitted to google.
Yes, thanks, I am using webmaster, very powerful and useful.
Thanks, I think that is the key, I have to load up on the correct search terms. I just "localized" last night on Google Web last night, so adding Canada really helps. Prior to that, the results were even worse. It's funny but I have a picture of myself and my cat fritz with a ufo in the background, Fritz sees it because I am looking at the camera. The text on the picture reads "I want to believe". The jpeg file has that name too, and because of the new X files movie, I am getting lots of hits from that string. The other thing Google really likes, and they tell you this quite explicitly, is links from important sites. But of course that can be problematical.
I have a terrible admission to make. I, among other things, design websites. Yet, when I search for me on the google, I don't come up. I use relevant terms that are all over my site, and in the metadata (although I understand they don't really matter anymore), yet my own personal site does not come up, even though the url has been up and running for 8 years. The final straw was when I did a search for web design, Ottawa, and a newly opened competitor (just around the corner actually) came up on the second page. I spent the last couple of days researching this (again) and I seem to be meeting all of googles requirements. I have never used a sleazy SEO company, my content is consistent and legal. What's up with that?
Absolutely. How many times have we heard the phrase, "tabloid journalism"? I think that what they meant to say, but point taken. The Post is a tabloid, some of the articles are so slanted as to be cartoonish.