Yeah but there's (fairly) concrete statistics on how many people are ACTUALLY watching hulu. Chances are, unless you muted your speakers(so you might forget you have a video running), if you clicked on the link to watch the video, MORE THAN LIKELY you will see their ad. Vs Nielson TV ratings, which are based on something like 10,000 people (I don't know exactly, but it's a very small fraction of the population) across the country. They then divide (current population)/(number of nielson viewers)*(percentage of people probably watching tv during that time slot) to figure out how many people were actually watching. It's a really poor way to figure out who's watching what. They probably have an error margin of +/- 15% or more. With this all they have to do is export their server logs to a fancy flash application at the board/advertising meeting and go "lookee here, with 99.89% accuracy we know that X many people are watching, and not only do we know they're watching, but that they're affluent enough to afford a computer AND broadband internet connection." Lots of viewers are poor, thus not good candidates to advertise to. Webling viewers tend to have more disposable income.
$40 to replace all the 9v batteries in your stomp box effects pedals because you forgot to unplug the input jacks on all of them will quickly change your tune. I wasn't aware guitar hero "guitars" took 9v batteries - maybe that's where the price spike came from:(
Exactly. Call me when I can buy AA sized versions of these at WalMart. Or upgrade my Powerbook(Macbook Pro?)'s batteries using this commercially. The budding musician in me wants a long lasting 9v battery that costs less than $4.
Yeah, but back in MY day, we had to walk uphill BOTH ways, from the Dorm to the Library (where the mainframe terminals were), uphill to the cafeteria (where the food was), BACK uphill to the library, and finally uphill to the cafeteria again, and even further uphill to the dorm. Why the Dorm, Library and Cafeteria were on opposite ends of the campus, on top of steep hills, I'll never know.
And it snowed. Every day. In Texas. In August. All four years.
AND we didn't have the internet to plagiarize from or Wikipedia to research from.
I'm curious why universities need social security numbers at all. Last time I checked (never), the SS administration wasn't the one writing student aid checks. There's no federal database of who has what degrees (except perhaps MD degrees). Until 2004 or so the University of Texas Arlington used your initials and the last 4 digits of your SSN in your email address (which is the facebook login for most anyone who joined facebook at UTA prior to 2004, for you identity thieves).
UT Arlington (UTA) specializes in Engineering, Computer Science, and Social Services. Go figure.
They seem to be a big enough distraction to Japan that they're considering changing their constitution to have a standing army. Japan is (I believe) the third largest economy (pop. 128 million - about 1/3rd the size of the US and twice the size of England) in the world and N. Korea keeps shooting "test" missiles in their direction. With a million-man standing army it's not a country we want to have a ground war with and not a country Japan or S. Korea wants to have a missile ping pong match with.
My experience in Texas has been that the Nikon N2 is pretty much ubuquitous at schools which still have/use/teach darkroom techniques. Usually the N2 is a school loaner unit but they're not difficult to find used. Most people I know are taking DSLR classes these days.
[citation needed] Way to slip that one in there. I haven't heard him say one thing against gay marraige yet. Everything I've heard/read said that he's done everything he can within his powers to improve gay rights. Presidents can only sign things into law, not vote for them. Contact your congressman if you have an axe to grind. They write/vote on actual laws. Gay marriage is definitely on the agenda, but right now I think nationalized health care is a higher priority. We still have 3.5 years to sort out gay rights.
I think "the situation" is that we have a US Navy destroyer tailing a North Korean freighter potentially carrying illegal missiles to a rouge military dictatorship, and North Korea has threatened to fire it's long range missiles (which they've recently been testing, along with detonating a nuclear bomb underground, all in the last 30-60 days) if we board or attempt to intercept. North Korea is looking for a fight, and it's not at all surprising that the US military has turned off the tap for public viewing of a missile tracking system.
They selectively "detuned" civilian GPS during the gulf war. It's not at all shocking that they've cut off public access recently. If the Bush administration allowed this, then it's likely Obama will open the taps once the situation is resolved.
Pretty much. The credit check is for the fact that the company is essentially loaning you $300-500 for a smart phone, which is liable to be dropped, broken or lost, or at least returned in non-functioning form. That's considerably more risky than say, a car, which can at least be sold for the value of scrap metal and tracked with law enforcement. So yeah, a $5 credit report (bought in bulk) is worth it for a cell phone company. If you don't like it you can buy an unlocked Pre and use it on a budget carrier like boost or metropcs (when Palm releases their non-sprint frequency Pre this fall).
Join a kickball league (cheap), or buy a sailboat and hang out there on weekends. The with amount of time you spend outdoors fixing expen$ive shit on your boat you're bound to make some new acquaintances (though doesn't leave you much beer money). If that fails there's always baseball, softball and ultimate frisbee (but you need to own equipment to play those sports). Most of these activities are a) outdoors b) involve exercise, even in small spurts and c) cost in the range of $20-100 a month - about what a gym membership costs.
Truth in advertising laws were designed to protect gullible babyboomers who did not grow up with advertising from a young age. Consumers these days are so jaded by marketing and advertising they just ignore it for the most part, or at least do research on the products they buy before plunking down $100+.
Most people expect 2.5 hours of "good use" out of a laptop battery when new. This number hasn't really changed since 1998 or so. I can't remember the last time I used battery life when evaluating a laptop - if you NEED more than 2.5 hours of battery life, you just buy a second battery. People assume half the life stated as rule of thumb the same way I assume real world gas mileage as (EPA gas mileage * 0.8) for cars I drive.
The correct title for this article is "Does anyone still pay attention to marketing hype about batteries, or, how I learned to stop caring and ignore the marketing hype".
Ah, I was at work and that came up when i googled Sony ebook 9.7". 9.7" must be one of the external dimensions. My apologies. BUT from further googling it sounds like Sony is releasing a 9.7" model later this year. I suspect Amazon has an exclusive contract through the end of this year or 6 months, or similar on the display to meet demand.
The DX and Sony PRS700BC have the Exact. Same. Screen. DX: 9.7". PRS700BC: 9.7". They come from the same factory, they use the same control module, they have the same part number when disassembled.
Amazon Kindle 9.7" DX $489.95 with free shipping Sony PRS700BC 9.7" $349.95 with free shipping
I wasn't aware of any official announcement of free internet forever on the kindle; last I read Amazon reserved the right to change the terms of service (including charging for whispernet) at any time. Where did you read that? Also the point still stands that if you can afford a kindle you probably already are happy to pay the premium for broadband vs dialup and will continue to be able to present economy excepted. The $150 price difference buys you between 3 and 10 months of broadband depending on where you live, or the cost of a plan-subsidized smartphone(BBcurve)+1 months' service.
I'm not arguing that the kindle isn't good for reading on compared to a smart phone. As far as I know sony sells the same exact screen as what's used in the dx in their reader for about $150 less than the DX. If you're downloading articles via wispernet then you're still buying DRM"d stuff from amazon which is what the OP was against. Unless you're manually moving articles to your kindle everyday, which seems awfully cumbersome.
Why did you pay the $150 "amazon tax" for a reader you're not using with the bundled store? The Sony ereader has the same screen for less and less format conversion hoops to jump through. If both are displaying non-DRM text on the same screen it's essentially a commodity item to you unless the kindle is providing some additional service that the Sony does not provide.
With the New York Times to $2/ea (newsstand price, what I pay/buy), as soon as this drops in price by $50-100 it becomes cheaper than buying it at the newsstand. $100 pricebreak or faster refresh (next gen e-ink tech) is what will make me buy one. If the NYT would give a $100 rebate for a 1 year subscription I would buy one tomorrow. There's a lot of people waiting for the price to come down 10-20% and I think you'll see a bunch of people ordering them that would otherwise never have been in the market for one of these. The larger screen size is a big selling point to a lot of people. Now if I could get the articles @ 12pt New Times Roman from edge to edge in two columns, I'd be a very happy camper.
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Yeah but there's (fairly) concrete statistics on how many people are ACTUALLY watching hulu. Chances are, unless you muted your speakers(so you might forget you have a video running), if you clicked on the link to watch the video, MORE THAN LIKELY you will see their ad. Vs Nielson TV ratings, which are based on something like 10,000 people (I don't know exactly, but it's a very small fraction of the population) across the country. They then divide (current population)/(number of nielson viewers)*(percentage of people probably watching tv during that time slot) to figure out how many people were actually watching. It's a really poor way to figure out who's watching what. They probably have an error margin of +/- 15% or more. With this all they have to do is export their server logs to a fancy flash application at the board/advertising meeting and go "lookee here, with 99.89% accuracy we know that X many people are watching, and not only do we know they're watching, but that they're affluent enough to afford a computer AND broadband internet connection." Lots of viewers are poor, thus not good candidates to advertise to. Webling viewers tend to have more disposable income.
$40 to replace all the 9v batteries in your stomp box effects pedals because you forgot to unplug the input jacks on all of them will quickly change your tune. I wasn't aware guitar hero "guitars" took 9v batteries - maybe that's where the price spike came from :(
Exactly. Call me when I can buy AA sized versions of these at WalMart. Or upgrade my Powerbook(Macbook Pro?)'s batteries using this commercially. The budding musician in me wants a long lasting 9v battery that costs less than $4.
Yeah, but back in MY day, we had to walk uphill BOTH ways, from the Dorm to the Library (where the mainframe terminals were), uphill to the cafeteria (where the food was), BACK uphill to the library, and finally uphill to the cafeteria again, and even further uphill to the dorm. Why the Dorm, Library and Cafeteria were on opposite ends of the campus, on top of steep hills, I'll never know.
And it snowed. Every day. In Texas. In August. All four years.
AND we didn't have the internet to plagiarize from or Wikipedia to research from.
I'm curious why universities need social security numbers at all. Last time I checked (never), the SS administration wasn't the one writing student aid checks. There's no federal database of who has what degrees (except perhaps MD degrees). Until 2004 or so the University of Texas Arlington used your initials and the last 4 digits of your SSN in your email address (which is the facebook login for most anyone who joined facebook at UTA prior to 2004, for you identity thieves).
UT Arlington (UTA) specializes in Engineering, Computer Science, and Social Services. Go figure.
Please stop using the term "crowdsource" and all variations thereof.
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They seem to be a big enough distraction to Japan that they're considering changing their constitution to have a standing army. Japan is (I believe) the third largest economy (pop. 128 million - about 1/3rd the size of the US and twice the size of England) in the world and N. Korea keeps shooting "test" missiles in their direction. With a million-man standing army it's not a country we want to have a ground war with and not a country Japan or S. Korea wants to have a missile ping pong match with.
My experience in Texas has been that the Nikon N2 is pretty much ubuquitous at schools which still have/use/teach darkroom techniques. Usually the N2 is a school loaner unit but they're not difficult to find used. Most people I know are taking DSLR classes these days.
[citation needed] Way to slip that one in there. I haven't heard him say one thing against gay marraige yet. Everything I've heard/read said that he's done everything he can within his powers to improve gay rights. Presidents can only sign things into law, not vote for them. Contact your congressman if you have an axe to grind. They write/vote on actual laws. Gay marriage is definitely on the agenda, but right now I think nationalized health care is a higher priority. We still have 3.5 years to sort out gay rights.
I think "the situation" is that we have a US Navy destroyer tailing a North Korean freighter potentially carrying illegal missiles to a rouge military dictatorship, and North Korea has threatened to fire it's long range missiles (which they've recently been testing, along with detonating a nuclear bomb underground, all in the last 30-60 days) if we board or attempt to intercept. North Korea is looking for a fight, and it's not at all surprising that the US military has turned off the tap for public viewing of a missile tracking system.
They selectively "detuned" civilian GPS during the gulf war. It's not at all shocking that they've cut off public access recently. If the Bush administration allowed this, then it's likely Obama will open the taps once the situation is resolved.
Pretty much. The credit check is for the fact that the company is essentially loaning you $300-500 for a smart phone, which is liable to be dropped, broken or lost, or at least returned in non-functioning form. That's considerably more risky than say, a car, which can at least be sold for the value of scrap metal and tracked with law enforcement. So yeah, a $5 credit report (bought in bulk) is worth it for a cell phone company. If you don't like it you can buy an unlocked Pre and use it on a budget carrier like boost or metropcs (when Palm releases their non-sprint frequency Pre this fall).
Join a kickball league (cheap), or buy a sailboat and hang out there on weekends. The with amount of time you spend outdoors fixing expen$ive shit on your boat you're bound to make some new acquaintances (though doesn't leave you much beer money). If that fails there's always baseball, softball and ultimate frisbee (but you need to own equipment to play those sports). Most of these activities are a) outdoors b) involve exercise, even in small spurts and c) cost in the range of $20-100 a month - about what a gym membership costs.
Thanks.
Truth in advertising laws were designed to protect gullible babyboomers who did not grow up with advertising from a young age. Consumers these days are so jaded by marketing and advertising they just ignore it for the most part, or at least do research on the products they buy before plunking down $100+.
That's one trippy-ass music video. Thanks for sharing(!)
Let's start with a mole hill and work our way from there.
Most people expect 2.5 hours of "good use" out of a laptop battery when new. This number hasn't really changed since 1998 or so. I can't remember the last time I used battery life when evaluating a laptop - if you NEED more than 2.5 hours of battery life, you just buy a second battery. People assume half the life stated as rule of thumb the same way I assume real world gas mileage as (EPA gas mileage * 0.8) for cars I drive.
The correct title for this article is "Does anyone still pay attention to marketing hype about batteries, or, how I learned to stop caring and ignore the marketing hype".
Ah, I was at work and that came up when i googled Sony ebook 9.7". 9.7" must be one of the external dimensions. My apologies. BUT from further googling it sounds like Sony is releasing a 9.7" model later this year. I suspect Amazon has an exclusive contract through the end of this year or 6 months, or similar on the display to meet demand.
So is this a balloon on a 100,000' tether?
The DX and Sony PRS700BC have the Exact. Same. Screen. DX: 9.7". PRS700BC: 9.7". They come from the same factory, they use the same control module, they have the same part number when disassembled.
Amazon Kindle 9.7" DX $489.95 with free shipping
Sony PRS700BC 9.7" $349.95 with free shipping
What else do I have to do to explain this
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Reader-Digital-screen-PRS700BC/dp/B001HHZ1S6/ref=sr_1_1/176-8278100-6630836?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1245266500&sr=8-1
I wasn't aware of any official announcement of free internet forever on the kindle; last I read Amazon reserved the right to change the terms of service (including charging for whispernet) at any time. Where did you read that? Also the point still stands that if you can afford a kindle you probably already are happy to pay the premium for broadband vs dialup and will continue to be able to present economy excepted. The $150 price difference buys you between 3 and 10 months of broadband depending on where you live, or the cost of a plan-subsidized smartphone(BBcurve)+1 months' service.
I'm not arguing that the kindle isn't good for reading on compared to a smart phone. As far as I know sony sells the same exact screen as what's used in the dx in their reader for about $150 less than the DX. If you're downloading articles via wispernet then you're still buying DRM"d stuff from amazon which is what the OP was against. Unless you're manually moving articles to your kindle everyday, which seems awfully cumbersome.
If you're posting about this on slashdot and can afford a kindle chances are you already have "whispernet" on your blackberry/iphone in full color
Why did you pay the $150 "amazon tax" for a reader you're not using with the bundled store? The Sony ereader has the same screen for less and less format conversion hoops to jump through. If both are displaying non-DRM text on the same screen it's essentially a commodity item to you unless the kindle is providing some additional service that the Sony does not provide.
With the New York Times to $2/ea (newsstand price, what I pay/buy), as soon as this drops in price by $50-100 it becomes cheaper than buying it at the newsstand. $100 pricebreak or faster refresh (next gen e-ink tech) is what will make me buy one. If the NYT would give a $100 rebate for a 1 year subscription I would buy one tomorrow. There's a lot of people waiting for the price to come down 10-20% and I think you'll see a bunch of people ordering them that would otherwise never have been in the market for one of these. The larger screen size is a big selling point to a lot of people. Now if I could get the articles @ 12pt New Times Roman from edge to edge in two columns, I'd be a very happy camper.