I understand that some cultures feel swine are unclean, however, most cultures (including my own) also feel that the flu is unclean... so what's the issue with referring to the animal believed to have been the one that passed the virus along to humans?
I don't know. But here in NZ, one site alone accounts for apparently 90% of all web site visits.
Also, you said 2.5% of all US traffic. This is not what the article (or summary) said - they said Craigslist accounts for 2.5% of all US web site visits.
My mistake. I guess Craigslist wouldn't use all that much traffic with its austere interface.
Still, 2.5% is quite a large amount for one website to be getting by itself. Out of curiosity, what ebsite in NZ gets 90% of traffic? Is it a web portal, search engine? Please tell me it's not kiwi-porn!
...but it seems to me that there are probably rather specific requirements for an Android Phone in order to ensure compatibility across all the platforms (which seems counter-intuitive to the concept of an open platform...) Like they should all be touchscreen, have GPS, accelerometer, and have really good battery life and an efficient low-energy processor.
Still, you would think that such phones could be found and equipped with Android.
I guess everyone just wants something 'new' even if it is just the same-old in new packaging.
Companies like Amazon and Apple have found ways to monetize music downloads in the USA where we have huge organizations devoted to protecting copyrighted music by threatening with lawsuits that nobody can afford to be involved with. For the other 75% of the world that does not live in such a court-happy western country, however piracy rules the day.
I read the story, but nothing offered through legitimate businesses will ever truly be free (as in beer.) There are associated costs in time, convenience, viewing ads, music selection, and other inconveniences. The fact is, Chinese piracy, like water, will always follow the past of least resistance, and that is certainly not through a Google website that shares profits with record companies.
Can anyone manage to read a single sentance?
Maybe I'll step up and read a whole paragraph when you learn to spell.
If they're hoping this will stop Chinese piracy, they are crazy. Offering higher quality music with a price will only cause the pirates to up their quality, which will trickle down and benefit Chinese downloaders and purchasers of cheap MP3 CDs from Siberia to South Africa.
At my University, most people have laptops or personal computers at home, but not everyone takes them to school - I don't. Sometimes having all your software (games, music, etc...) at your fingertips is too much of a distraction. When I really want to get work done, I go to a computer lab where the hard drives are wiped nightly and only software that students need for school is installed. It helps me be productive and it apparently helps others too. I frequently see computer labs on campus full or near capacity during peak hours.
That said, They'll probably still vanish in fvor of some sort of cloud computing server that students can log into to access university software within 10 years anyway.
But after using Win 7 Beta for a couple months, I have grown to appreciate the search bar in the start menu. whenever I need to use an application that isn't already pinned to my taskbar (something like character map, or an obscure control panel option) I just search for it and it comes up. Sure, I'll miss going
Start->All Programs-> Accessories->System Tools->Character Map
But I think I'll get used to it...
The CS department at my school has a couple Windows labs that follow this naming trend and named all the machines after presidents and Simpsons characters. A couple of our Linux labs are named for "Sports" and "weapons" lab. When you ssh into that lab you are randomly assigned a terminal. I just love seeing [ab672@katana]$
or
[ab672@jujitsu]$
However, my personal favorite, has to be the mac lab - the fruit lab, likely so named for those who work there...
This reminds me of an Onion video that showed a sequel to WoW called World of World of Warcraft that let your characters buy and play WoW themselves. I got a kick out of it, but then again, I'm not a WoW player...
Ha! Who quotes Bananas? I actually own that movie, so I guess I'm not one to judge.
Rebel Leader: You are accused of killing over a thousand people in your term of office... of torturing hundreds of women and children. How do you plead?
General Emilio M. Vargas: Guilty... with an explanation.
No, you know your sport is due for a re-think when its fans riot in the streets and generate massive amounts of property damage. Violence and Premature Death are civilization's long-established barometers of failure.
I think there is just about ONE legal copy of everything in Russia. Music and Movie companies may not know it, but just about every young Russian has TONS of movies and music that you can get for dirt cheap on any street in any city in Russia.
Fortunately, that's just not the way Russian politics work. Even if they managed to bribe politicians to make the laws in their favor, it would change nothing in practice. Besides, Russians wouldn't accept it. They will always get what the want for free or almost free as long as they have the will to.
Does anyone know of any husband/wife pairs that have been in space together? Although they would not be the only ones who would have sex in space, they might be the only ones who would admit to it... Does anyone know if astronauts are hooking up in space at all? Does NASA have policies on this?
I, too, was initially opposed to Steam. I can deal with it now, and can even appreciate some of its benefits. I first got a Steam account so I could keep on playing old CS and TFC many years ago. Now, on the same Steam account I play TF2, BioShock, CSS, DoDS, on a newer PC. I really like the fact that I can still download and play ALL the old Valve games I ever owned (right back to HL, Blue Shift, etc...) on any computer I have now, or will have in the future. Now THAT'S content management that doesn't jack you out of something you bought!
That might encourage people to steal. It makes it so the one person they might know or have a connection to (the host) will have no repercussions for lost property!
Did anyone else notice what appears to be a sniper overlooking the Olympic swimmers in the third picture?
These communists are really taking security seriously! Even their lego recreations constantly have guns pointed at their heads...
That's true. Not all "Red-state" people are over-religious, or even religious at all. Often they share moral standards, but most often we just share a desire for the government to stay out of our lives!
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I understand that some cultures feel swine are unclean, however, most cultures (including my own) also feel that the flu is unclean... so what's the issue with referring to the animal believed to have been the one that passed the virus along to humans?
I don't know. But here in NZ, one site alone accounts for apparently 90% of all web site visits.
Also, you said 2.5% of all US traffic. This is not what the article (or summary) said - they said Craigslist accounts for 2.5% of all US web site visits.
My mistake. I guess Craigslist wouldn't use all that much traffic with its austere interface.
Still, 2.5% is quite a large amount for one website to be getting by itself. Out of curiosity, what ebsite in NZ gets 90% of traffic? Is it a web portal, search engine? Please tell me it's not kiwi-porn!
That's astonishing! Does any other site (besides search engines and forced home pages like MSN.com) have that much of a share?
Besides Slashdot of course...
...but it seems to me that there are probably rather specific requirements for an Android Phone in order to ensure compatibility across all the platforms (which seems counter-intuitive to the concept of an open platform...) Like they should all be touchscreen, have GPS, accelerometer, and have really good battery life and an efficient low-energy processor. Still, you would think that such phones could be found and equipped with Android. I guess everyone just wants something 'new' even if it is just the same-old in new packaging.
Companies like Amazon and Apple have found ways to monetize music downloads in the USA where we have huge organizations devoted to protecting copyrighted music by threatening with lawsuits that nobody can afford to be involved with. For the other 75% of the world that does not live in such a court-happy western country, however piracy rules the day.
Can anyone manage to read a single sentance?
Maybe I'll step up and read a whole paragraph when you learn to spell.
If they're hoping this will stop Chinese piracy, they are crazy. Offering higher quality music with a price will only cause the pirates to up their quality, which will trickle down and benefit Chinese downloaders and purchasers of cheap MP3 CDs from Siberia to South Africa.
At my University, most people have laptops or personal computers at home, but not everyone takes them to school - I don't. Sometimes having all your software (games, music, etc...) at your fingertips is too much of a distraction. When I really want to get work done, I go to a computer lab where the hard drives are wiped nightly and only software that students need for school is installed. It helps me be productive and it apparently helps others too. I frequently see computer labs on campus full or near capacity during peak hours. That said, They'll probably still vanish in fvor of some sort of cloud computing server that students can log into to access university software within 10 years anyway.
But after using Win 7 Beta for a couple months, I have grown to appreciate the search bar in the start menu. whenever I need to use an application that isn't already pinned to my taskbar (something like character map, or an obscure control panel option) I just search for it and it comes up. Sure, I'll miss going Start->All Programs-> Accessories->System Tools->Character Map But I think I'll get used to it...
I'd like to see that!
The CS department at my school has a couple Windows labs that follow this naming trend and named all the machines after presidents and Simpsons characters. A couple of our Linux labs are named for "Sports" and "weapons" lab. When you ssh into that lab you are randomly assigned a terminal. I just love seeing
[ab672@katana]$
or
[ab672@jujitsu]$
However, my personal favorite, has to be the mac lab - the fruit lab, likely so named for those who work there...
This reminds me of an Onion video that showed a sequel to WoW called World of World of Warcraft that let your characters buy and play WoW themselves. I got a kick out of it, but then again, I'm not a WoW player...
Ha! Who quotes Bananas? I actually own that movie, so I guess I'm not one to judge.
Rebel Leader: You are accused of killing over a thousand people in your term of office... of torturing hundreds of women and children. How do you plead?
General Emilio M. Vargas: Guilty... with an explanation.
No, you know your sport is due for a re-think when its fans riot in the streets and generate massive amounts of property damage. Violence and Premature Death are civilization's long-established barometers of failure.
America - Win, Soccer - fail
How naive of them. Several models of iPod had "touch sensitive" buttons before the iPhone even came out!
I see Russian writing on that bus, and from my years of living in Russia, I am not all that surprised.
I think there is just about ONE legal copy of everything in Russia. Music and Movie companies may not know it, but just about every young Russian has TONS of movies and music that you can get for dirt cheap on any street in any city in Russia.
Fortunately, that's just not the way Russian politics work. Even if they managed to bribe politicians to make the laws in their favor, it would change nothing in practice. Besides, Russians wouldn't accept it. They will always get what the want for free or almost free as long as they have the will to.
Hmmm, Mac OS is already way past 10, but I guess they're beating the Linux kernel in version numbering...
Does anyone know of any husband/wife pairs that have been in space together? Although they would not be the only ones who would have sex in space, they might be the only ones who would admit to it... Does anyone know if astronauts are hooking up in space at all? Does NASA have policies on this?
I, too, was initially opposed to Steam. I can deal with it now, and can even appreciate some of its benefits. I first got a Steam account so I could keep on playing old CS and TFC many years ago. Now, on the same Steam account I play TF2, BioShock, CSS, DoDS, on a newer PC. I really like the fact that I can still download and play ALL the old Valve games I ever owned (right back to HL, Blue Shift, etc...) on any computer I have now, or will have in the future. Now THAT'S content management that doesn't jack you out of something you bought!
Awarding points for participation is rarely the most effective way to get people involved. Modded +5 insightful
That might encourage people to steal. It makes it so the one person they might know or have a connection to (the host) will have no repercussions for lost property!
Did anyone else notice what appears to be a sniper overlooking the Olympic swimmers in the third picture? These communists are really taking security seriously! Even their lego recreations constantly have guns pointed at their heads...
That's true. Not all "Red-state" people are over-religious, or even religious at all. Often they share moral standards, but most often we just share a desire for the government to stay out of our lives!