Silent hardware is nice, but there can't be too many people willing to pay a large premium for it (as oppposed to, say, flat screens.) Until the price is comparable to the noisy varieties, this is going to be a non-event.
You may be new media, but don't forget traditional channels. Print ads in specialist journals are pretty cheap, and if your product is worth having word of mouth will run its course.
Monitor newsgroup and when relevant mention that your product solves a users problem. Don't do it a lot, and be helpful, modest and honest about it. Ask for feedback and suggestions. Be available.
Get reviews, in both print and new media. Hundreds of review websites need new content daily. Send a webmaster/reviewer a free (time limited if necessary) copy of your product, and ask for a fair and frank review.
Use legitimate email channels, like relevant foo-announce mailing lists.
Add in to the other informed replies, that UK and US English also differ in this, which is noticeable in sentences such as:
USians would say
"Blondie is a group".
However, would they also say: "The Rolling Stones is a group"? (ugh)
How about "The Walker Brothers is a group"?
What about "The Righteous Brothers is a group"? Should it make any difference that the latter were neither brothers or named "Righteous".
Vanity presses are under threat from the internet, where publishing for yourself is both easy and cheap. Given the techie background of the audience I can't imagine any reason why anyone would want to see a book in print, besides the fetish and fondlement value of the binding.
Why WOULDN'T they make it widely available. It's widely available now, restricting it to just AOL users just reduces the market share.
Suppose TW had some fantastic exclusive interview with, say, Natalie Portman. They could say "this is only for AOL subscribers", so you muts join AOL to read her opinions on grits.
Its leveraging an existing dominant market position (in media) into a new market (ISPs) and its against US antitrust laws.
This just isn't that bad. There is no way that the fact of the existence of a bug can be copyrighted, only the text. No judge in the world would uphold an action for reporting, in your own words, the existence of a security hole.
"Stranger" is a woefully overrated book. The portrayal of organised religion, for which it is often praised, has always struck me as terriblyo bvious. The subjects Heinlein attacks are badly drawn: their utter lack of redeaming features, or any character and humanity at all, renders them as straw dogs that Heinlein then takes apart with all the skill and subtlety of shooting fish in a barrel.
The sex scenes are just laughably bad, as clumsily written with one eye on the censors and one eye on increasing his adolescent readership and the story, such as it is breaks down towards the end with endless pages extolling free love delaying the inevitable second rate martyrdom that our second rate profit of beatnik pseudo-mysticism so richly deserves.
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The problems in Florida were not the fault of the older methods. The whole punch-out ballot paper was designed to be *machine-readable*. There is no gray area in putting a large 'X' in a box next to your preferred candidate and having the ballots counted by hand (takes too long - get more people)
Given the aging population in Florida, it strikes me that a gratuitously tech solution would only serve to disenfranchise some of the wisest people in the community.
Do you really want your politicians pandering to each audience in turn. At least the shrub is consistently giving the same bland, unintelligent, corporately sponsored answers to everyone.
There is little doubt in my mind that the best candidate got in, but holding up the London mayoral election as a paragon of the democratic process is ludicrous. The in-party elections to nominate a candidate were either rigged (Labour) or devalued after nominating a perjurer (Conservative).
Having said that, the eventual winner was both an independent and a socialist (still not quite a rude word in the UK, despite the efforts of Blair and Thatcher) so I can see why McReynolds liked it.
You simply can't have something that is "grassroots" and "open" combined with "owned by an enormous multinational". They're legally bound to protect their own interests, which means cracking down on anything which may compromise their interests (read "lose them money in a court case"). Its not as if you can't host your "Culture Jamming" (WTF?) information in 700 million other places.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Hell, using *that* definition, anything that doesn't include a coffee machine shouldn't count.
my british cousins are learning basic integral and differential calculus for their O-levels (grade 10 equivalent IIRC).
No they're not. O-Levels vanished in the 80s, and calculus at that level vanished with them. There is a fair amount of integral calculus at A-level (which is done at ages 17-18), moments of inertia, continuous probability distributions etc.
In my experience, US university research is excellent because (a) its extremely well funded by the NSF and private sources and (b) it can attract the best overseas researchers (who love working in well funded, high quality labs, and good researchers tend to attract (and produce) good graduate students. Its a virtuous circle.
You can do *all*, (and considerably more) with dired-mode in Emacs (which has been my default file manager since time immemorial). Who'd have thought Emacs would fit all the design criteria of a (supposedly) easy to use interface?
The last thing I saw from him was a psychedelic, updated version of the old Atari classic Tempest (remember the rotary control?) for MS-Dos (and the Jaguar IIRC). Tempest 2000, it was called.
Blindingly fast (on a DX66) and insanely addictive.
This is one of the clearest examples of network abuse I've seen. These people seem to have fewer scruples than the average script kiddie.
But it is ironic that a network tool that is popular because it enables people to do things of dubious moral character (copyright violations) is being f*cked over by people doing even less moral things. Given that no-one had heard of Gnutella 6 months ago, it won't take long for a replacement that deals with this in some way (killfiles, moderation, whatever).
I guess a new slogan is needed: "Hackers view advertising as damage, and route around it."
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Ahh, so one union boss is corrupt therefore all unions are corrupt. Tell me, do you design code with that "brain"?
You tweak all you like, but if its only tweaking there's no need for a new major number, so no Perl7, only Perl6.147.3
Silent hardware is nice, but there can't be too many people willing to pay a large premium for it (as oppposed to, say, flat screens.) Until the price is comparable to the noisy varieties, this is going to be a non-event.
USians would say "Blondie is a group".
However, would they also say: "The Rolling Stones is a group"? (ugh)
How about "The Walker Brothers is a group"?
What about "The Righteous Brothers is a group"? Should it make any difference that the latter were neither brothers or named "Righteous".
Convinced of the silliness of your pedantry yet?
Vanity presses are under threat from the internet, where publishing for yourself is both easy and cheap. Given the techie background of the audience I can't imagine any reason why anyone would want to see a book in print, besides the fetish and fondlement value of the binding.
Its leveraging an existing dominant market position (in media) into a new market (ISPs) and its against US antitrust laws.
This just isn't that bad. There is no way that the fact of the existence of a bug can be copyrighted, only the text. No judge in the world would uphold an action for reporting, in your own words, the existence of a security hole.
Intel aren't distributing their modified version in any form, so they're not obliged to release the the source code. Read the GPL
Yeah, I spotted my dumb typo, but was faintly pleased with the accidental double meaning
Yes it is. The book of Exodus 2:22
The sex scenes are just laughably bad, as clumsily written with one eye on the censors and one eye on increasing his adolescent readership and the story, such as it is breaks down towards the end with endless pages extolling free love delaying the inevitable second rate martyrdom that our second rate profit of beatnik pseudo-mysticism so richly deserves.
Given the aging population in Florida, it strikes me that a gratuitously tech solution would only serve to disenfranchise some of the wisest people in the community.
Do you really want your politicians pandering to each audience in turn. At least the shrub is consistently giving the same bland, unintelligent, corporately sponsored answers to everyone.
Having said that, the eventual winner was both an independent and a socialist (still not quite a rude word in the UK, despite the efforts of Blair and Thatcher) so I can see why McReynolds liked it.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Hell, using *that* definition, anything that doesn't include a coffee machine shouldn't count.
In my experience, US university research is excellent because (a) its extremely well funded by the NSF and private sources and (b) it can attract the best overseas researchers (who love working in well funded, high quality labs, and good researchers tend to attract (and produce) good graduate students. Its a virtuous circle.
You can do *all*, (and considerably more) with dired-mode in Emacs (which has been my default file manager since time immemorial). Who'd have thought Emacs would fit all the design criteria of a (supposedly) easy to use interface?
Blindingly fast (on a DX66) and insanely addictive.
I guess a new slogan is needed:
"Hackers view advertising as damage, and route around it."
Fortran 77 (which is still fairly widely used in engineering/mathematics) does something pretty similar
i f(x. lt. 7) t h e n
y = 2
e n d if
is identical to
if(x.lt.7) then
y=2
endif
Only, this being f77, you've got to indent it all six columns before you type.