Why not just setup a system similar to how safaribooksonline works?
You would have journalists that write articles. Articles get put in a queue to be looked over by the other authors / journalists*. If nothing glaringly obvious is wrong it gets published as a rough cut. Subscribers can now see all the articles and these rough cuts. your subscribers are probably a bit more loyal, so you can expect a bigger chunk of them to add comments / rate the articles. Those get fed back to the author and he can either listen to all / some / none of it and publish it. once published it is now outside the paywall and can be read freely. Ads on the page bring in revenue etc.
If the article is good, it will get a lot of views and revenue.
*This would allow the journalists themselves to police each other. If I choose to write a article that is clearly a rip off some one else's work, or all the facts in it are bogus, there is a incentive for the other writers to rate it poorly, because if it gets published, it could ruin the reputation of the site, etc.
Sounds like our ticketing system based on some CA crap.
Gotta love it that it can store all this info about who touched what ticket, when they did, how much time they spent, who they transferred it to, when it was opened / closed / delayed etc... Yet they give us no real way to see the data it is collecting.
Oh yay! I can now add how much time i spent on my tickets... but guess what I can't see any aggregate statistics on how well I am doing...
So what have I been forced to do? create a python script to parse the only report you can see (just a big ole table!!!! YAY) and import it into my own database so I can actually get a better idea where i am spending my time! (did I really spend 15 hours replacing keyboards this week!)
They don't show homes probably because they know they would be destroyed in court if they did (Kyllo vs. US). The cars are on a public street so it is fair game.
Depth is relevant... Because there is no light that deep. What is their food source? how do they survive? How did their species evolve to make sure they were born with the same internal pressure? Like your example states, these fish didn't just swim on DOWN there one day and decide to call it home...
He may download them to watch it when it is released, but he is still supporting the show by purchasing the DVDs.
Showtime and HBO would be awesome if you could subscribe to them WITHOUT needing a TV subscription to go along with it.
Why haven't either of these stations come up with a way to release their product to the masses that don't want or have cable? Why not sign a agreement with Netflix or HULU whereby their customers are given the option to signup for X$/month in addition to whatever they are already paying, and they then have access to those "stations" real time (or as close as you can get to it)? I am pretty sure the Netflix infrastructure could support 2 Stations without any hiccup.
On the stat pages, you should be able to click on the referrer and then the chart and the visitor profile data should dynamically update to only showing you stats for that referrer. Ditto if you click on a specific field in the visitor profile as well. We all know they have the data, so just let us see it with some simple scripting.
Check This and see what we have. something like 2,500 Mt in total active nuclear arsenal.
(In the 60's it was something like 20,000 Mt )
The fireball size of a 1Mt nuke is around.5km from what I saw on Wikipedia. so ~2,500.5km diameter spheres. (Area = ~.2km^2) (US = ~9.6 Million km^2)
Expect 3rd degree burns and the destruction of most civilian buildings at 10km out (of the 1Mt explosion). With no overlap that would be ~2% of the US.
Note that were not even touching on fallout, natural disasters from the earthquakes, weather changes, usable food stock getting destroyed, etc.
How many people when resolving the average IT ticket puts down more than a sentence or two?
most of the time the issue is the PC needs to be restarted, plugged back into the network, or equally trivial.
Signing could be done easily with the users finger? (doable on the iPad? I personally don't have one)
If you design your software with a tablet in mind, it can fill a huge void for the IT workforce. Take OPSI for instance. Take the core and build a UI designed around usage on a tablet, and you would have some pretty slick software for imaging / license / asset management.
the Tablet may not actually help you complete tickets / change requests / etc, however I think I would see the biggest benefit in increasing visibility of the IT group. Instead of relaxing in your office all day working on it remotely, you are now walking around and every one sees a productive IT employee instead of well, someone just in an office doing who knows what.
_IF_ we had wifi setup in our building I can see a HUGE use for this in my daily activities.
Update a ticket? use the tablet to update it while you are on the PC dong the work. without one, I usually forget by the end of the day as I just want to leave.
Need to re-image a PC using Altiris / KACE / OPSI / other home grown app? go to the site, log in, and queue up the jobs / tasks necessary for that asset.
Those are just the ones that come to my head.
Hell, regarding tickets / work done, you could create a area for the user to sign his name after you complete the work so that if they ever try to come back at you and say you didn't do it right or it was never completed, you have their sig right there!
It has been slightly over 7 years since CS 1.6 was released on STEAM, and I haven't lost access to that yet... (around 6 years from the release of CS:S)
He isn't a "whistle blower" by any means... he is simply providing a service FOR whistle blowers to anonymously release their information to the world.
I'm not sure why, if you have ever talked to or seen one in action, you will know that the XIM does an excellent job. Most users on say MW2, go on about how it is practically identical to the PC version when using a XIM, aside from the aim-assist screwing them up here and there.
I was thinking, you should ask them for Pi to 10 trillion decimal places... but then I thought, by the time they sent you the first half of all those text messages (something like ~31 billion assuming 161 characters max), they would have enough time to calculate the next 5 trillion, along with making a crapload of money from all the fees.
One of the few gaming sites I have found that rarely show bias for stuff... I rarely see a game out there that gets more than a 8, with the majority getting between a 4 and a 7
They also have some awesome down-to-earth write-ups of new CPU / GPU / RAM architecture. If I remember correctly the new i5 / i7 series architecture article was 12 pages and went into great lengths about it. (FYI 1 page is NOT just 2 paragraphs of content and 20 ads and 12 pictures) i7 Architecture Dive
actually this site is more like your boss going to 10 programmers "Hey we need a simple GUI for application XYZ. Work on it off-hours and whichever one of you ends up making the best one will get 600 dollars cash."
Programming takes days / months / years. Creating a simple logo for my website should take no more than a few hours and a good idea.
Everyone keeps bringing up Oh but you get what you pay for with "four color process, spot color, silk screening, etc" but guess what, no one on these sites is asking for all that. If they tried to ask for all of that and only put a prize for 300 bucks, they will end up with no contestants.
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Why not just setup a system similar to how safaribooksonline works?
You would have journalists that write articles. Articles get put in a queue to be looked over by the other authors / journalists*. If nothing glaringly obvious is wrong it gets published as a rough cut. Subscribers can now see all the articles and these rough cuts.
your subscribers are probably a bit more loyal, so you can expect a bigger chunk of them to add comments / rate the articles. Those get fed back to the author and he can either listen to all / some / none of it and publish it. once published it is now outside the paywall and can be read freely. Ads on the page bring in revenue etc.
If the article is good, it will get a lot of views and revenue.
*This would allow the journalists themselves to police each other. If I choose to write a article that is clearly a rip off some one else's work, or all the facts in it are bogus, there is a incentive for the other writers to rate it poorly, because if it gets published, it could ruin the reputation of the site, etc.
Sounds like our ticketing system based on some CA crap.
Gotta love it that it can store all this info about who touched what ticket, when they did, how much time they spent, who they transferred it to, when it was opened / closed / delayed etc... Yet they give us no real way to see the data it is collecting.
Oh yay! I can now add how much time i spent on my tickets... but guess what I can't see any aggregate statistics on how well I am doing...
So what have I been forced to do? create a python script to parse the only report you can see (just a big ole table!!!! YAY) and import it into my own database so I can actually get a better idea where i am spending my time!
(did I really spend 15 hours replacing keyboards this week!)
They don't show homes probably because they know they would be destroyed in court if they did (Kyllo vs. US). The cars are on a public street so it is fair game.
Depth is relevant... Because there is no light that deep. What is their food source? how do they survive? How did their species evolve to make sure they were born with the same internal pressure? Like your example states, these fish didn't just swim on DOWN there one day and decide to call it home...
Maybe he bought the DVDs?
He may download them to watch it when it is released, but he is still supporting the show by purchasing the DVDs.
Showtime and HBO would be awesome if you could subscribe to them WITHOUT needing a TV subscription to go along with it.
Why haven't either of these stations come up with a way to release their product to the masses that don't want or have cable? Why not sign a agreement with Netflix or HULU whereby their customers are given the option to signup for X$/month in addition to whatever they are already paying, and they then have access to those "stations" real time (or as close as you can get to it)? I am pretty sure the Netflix infrastructure could support 2 Stations without any hiccup.
I am assuming you are getting your information from here?
On the stat pages, you should be able to click on the referrer and then the chart and the visitor profile data should dynamically update to only showing you stats for that referrer. Ditto if you click on a specific field in the visitor profile as well. We all know they have the data, so just let us see it with some simple scripting.
Check This and see what we have.
something like 2,500 Mt in total active nuclear arsenal.
(In the 60's it was something like 20,000 Mt )
The fireball size of a 1Mt nuke is around .5km from what I saw on Wikipedia. so ~2,500 .5km diameter spheres. (Area = ~.2km^2)
(US = ~9.6 Million km^2)
Expect 3rd degree burns and the destruction of most civilian buildings at 10km out (of the 1Mt explosion).
With no overlap that would be ~2% of the US.
Note that were not even touching on fallout, natural disasters from the earthquakes, weather changes, usable food stock getting destroyed, etc.
How many people when resolving the average IT ticket puts down more than a sentence or two?
most of the time the issue is the PC needs to be restarted, plugged back into the network, or equally trivial.
Signing could be done easily with the users finger? (doable on the iPad? I personally don't have one)
If you design your software with a tablet in mind, it can fill a huge void for the IT workforce. Take OPSI for instance. Take the core and build a UI designed around usage on a tablet, and you would have some pretty slick software for imaging / license / asset management.
the Tablet may not actually help you complete tickets / change requests / etc, however I think I would see the biggest benefit in increasing visibility of the IT group. Instead of relaxing in your office all day working on it remotely, you are now walking around and every one sees a productive IT employee instead of well, someone just in an office doing who knows what.
Enterprise system administrator here.
_IF_ we had wifi setup in our building I can see a HUGE use for this in my daily activities.
Update a ticket? use the tablet to update it while you are on the PC dong the work. without one, I usually forget by the end of the day as I just want to leave.
Need to re-image a PC using Altiris / KACE / OPSI / other home grown app? go to the site, log in, and queue up the jobs / tasks necessary for that asset.
Those are just the ones that come to my head.
Hell, regarding tickets / work done, you could create a area for the user to sign his name after you complete the work so that if they ever try to come back at you and say you didn't do it right or it was never completed, you have their sig right there!
It has been slightly over 7 years since CS 1.6 was released on STEAM, and I haven't lost access to that yet...
(around 6 years from the release of CS:S)
Assuming a "site" == new domain, that would give us roughly 6%* of the registered domains per week are used for phishing...
Curious what the percentage is for porn sites
* using these statistics.
it's the last review.
So where SHOULD we be going to get similar functionality?
He isn't a "whistle blower" by any means... he is simply providing a service FOR whistle blowers to anonymously release their information to the world.
The article is blocked for me, but how much ISK does this convert to? Last I remember one PLEX was something like 300million ISK?
I'm not sure why, if you have ever talked to or seen one in action, you will know that the XIM does an excellent job. Most users on say MW2, go on about how it is practically identical to the PC version when using a XIM, aside from the aim-assist screwing them up here and there.
I was thinking, you should ask them for Pi to 10 trillion decimal places... but then I thought, by the time they sent you the first half of all those text messages (something like ~31 billion assuming 161 characters max), they would have enough time to calculate the next 5 trillion, along with making a crapload of money from all the fees.
Now I know where they got the idea for "The Prestige"!
Very interesting Idea:
Here is a link to start it off: http://digitalgardening.com/blog
check out bit-tech.net
One of the few gaming sites I have found that rarely show bias for stuff... I rarely see a game out there that gets more than a 8, with the majority getting between a 4 and a 7
They also have some awesome down-to-earth write-ups of new CPU / GPU / RAM architecture. If I remember correctly the new i5 / i7 series architecture article was 12 pages and went into great lengths about it. (FYI 1 page is NOT just 2 paragraphs of content and 20 ads and 12 pictures)
i7 Architecture Dive
Check out some of the demo videos if you haven't already (a thread in the forum).
The XIM3 is already being tested by a few key members of the forum, hopefully ready for a before October sale date.
You want to test this out easily?
Go buy a XIM3 when they come out.
Xim360.com
Make sure to check their forums out for the official Xim 3 dev blog.
I know this is on my Christmas list, and I can't wait tearing it up with a keyboard and mouse on all the 360's FPS games.
actually this site is more like your boss going to 10 programmers "Hey we need a simple GUI for application XYZ. Work on it off-hours and whichever one of you ends up making the best one will get 600 dollars cash."
Programming takes days / months / years. Creating a simple logo for my website should take no more than a few hours and a good idea.
Everyone keeps bringing up Oh but you get what you pay for with "four color process, spot color, silk screening, etc" but guess what, no one on these sites is asking for all that. If they tried to ask for all of that and only put a prize for 300 bucks, they will end up with no contestants.
Awesome post jtara.
Question though, If any of the winners you picked spun off a small time design company, would you think of using them exclusively?