Cold is only one limit on the growing cycle in the higher latitudes. Higher latitudes also receive less sunlight, which also limits plant growth. So are you saying we need to redesign the latitude/longitude system or that we need to find a way to tilt the planet a bit?
I think you're missing the point. It's true that people do, in general, buy whatever is advertised, but there are those of us who do not. I have never in my adult life purchased something because I saw it advertised. When I discover I have an unfulfilled need, I search the market to find out what the available products are. Then I compare the features of the different products. Once I've narrowed down the list I ask friends, compare reviews, and do other research. Once I've made up my mind, I buy the product from the cheapest or most convenient retailer I can, although I do have loyalty to certain retailers and I make sure to check BBB and similar listings for retailers.
Since I've been using the internet for over ten years and have never clicked a single banner ad in that time, explain to me why it hurts a company more for my computer to simply not display the advertising than it does for my eyes to simply ignore it.
Personally, I think the internet would be a bit better off if all the idiots out to make a quick buck (by setting up a blog and throwing a bunch of ads on it) would go away. I donate to the sites I enjoy, have several decent websites, and contribute a lot of content. If you think I'm a leech because I refuse to look at stupid advertising for stupid people you belong to one of the groups of people discussed in this sentence.
I also wouldn't mind if CNN went away. They're one of about 5,000 companies running the exact same stories, and many of them are inaccurate or flat-out lies. I could just pay Reuters $1/month for my daily news headlines and get a little less political spin.
At least it's still "Press 1 for English". Can you imagine dialing an Indian call center 50 years from now?
"Press 1 for Indo-European Languages, Press 2 for..." 1 "Press 1 for Indo-Iranian Languages... Press 3 for Germanic Languages" 3 "Press 1 for West Germanic Languages..." 1 "Press 1 for Anglo-Frisian Languages..." 1 "Press 1 for Anglic Languages..." 1 "Press 1 for English, Press 2 for Scots" 1
Here's my prediction for the future: as voice and data continue to merge, expect to see VoIP-like phones with default languages, regions, and other important information stored in the phone somehow. This information will be communicated with interactive voice response (IVR) systems through some sort of data channel to attempt to increase efficiency.
And some of us are resitant to HIV and AIDS. Does that mean we should stop researching cures for those less fortunate? You'd better keep researching if you want me to put away my kryptonite.
If space is finite, when would the expansion of the universe cause it to crash against its edges? If space is nothing, how can you have a finite supply of it?
I have repeated your experiment and regret to say that I was unable to reproduce your results. Since a cat could not be located for this experiment, no cat jumped in the air therefor the universe will not end in such a horrible manner therefor we can all resume believing that everything will be hunky dory. Please forget what you saw. Thank you.
It still feels relatively slow to me. For example, opening an album that has three sub-albums (three thumbnails) took 3.2 seconds, and the pictures loaded sequentially. After 3.2 seconds on Flickr, about 10 thumbnails had loaded. Not incredibly poky, but it could be because I'm now spoiled after having fiber for a few years. I know this could be caused by Flickr having servers geographically closer to me with better connections, but I've noticed it on nearly every g2 site I've been on. It just feels slower than the rest.
I did move my gallery to a shared host, although I was considering hosting it myself. Speaking of which, that's another turnoff for me. I had a rather difficult time moving between hosts and lost all of my comments and additional info the last time I tried moving it.
Before some Grammar Nazi criticizes me for the misplaced apostrophe: I see it, acknowledge its presence, and hereby state that it was not intentional. Damn you for spoiling my fun!
Maybe I should clarify that I did indeed see that he's been a Gallery user for years. Maybe he just haven't kept up with developments, I dunno.
It's OK, most of us were thinking the same thing. Perhaps you were, but I am also a G2 user looking to switch to something else. I've already started using flickr, but I would prefer better software for my site. Gallery is just too slow for me, and I guess I've just become frustrated with it. I can't point to any specific feature that I like or dislike, but I think something web 2.0ish and an uploading client would help.
Thus a person may call a spectacular tragedy "awesome", even though the most common, spoken usage means "great". They may speak like that on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but no one I know uses "awesome" to mean anything but "awe-inspiring". I raise you five anecdote points. I know many people who use the term to mean "great" instead of "awe-inspiring".
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So lets do some math with this new data. You said of the 160,000 friends this page had, only around 2500 will actually vote. Of the 160,000 around 120,000 (160,000*.75) are over 18. Of those, the national turnout (again, the US Census) was at around 58% in 2004. 58% of 120,000 is just under 70,000 people who, statistically, will probably vote. At the asking price of $49,000 for the MySpace page, that's less than a dollar a voter - a good buy for any politician. I agree with the math, but you're ignoring the sample bias. It can be assumed that nearly every "friend" of Obama on myspace already planned to vote for him, and since they're this politically active they are much more likely to vote. The majority of them would have voted for Obama regardless of his presence on myspace, so this is more of a fan site or rallying of supporters than an effort to actually target new supporters.
I'll admit I've never managed a presidential campaign before, but I don't think I'd consider spending $1/person to keep a myspace page that primarily appeals to people who are going to vote for me anyways. I do also feel that myspace should simply transfer the account to Obama minus any potentially copyright code in the profile.
I saw the headline and thought.... oh, we have countries sympathetic or turning a blind eye to "HIGH SEAS NAVAL" piracy. Serious stuff, you know, with guns and RPGs... not a small family vendor stall with a DVD duplicator.
The word "piracy" has been hijacked by numbnuts.... Although I normally agree, I have to argue this one. Trust me, this isn't some family in a stall with a DVD duplicator. Most of the pirated movies I've seen here have been very high quality pressed DVDs complete with photographic artwork and holograms on the DVDs. The pirated DVDs are identical throughout the country, down to the brand of the DVD case being used. Many of the vendors have admitted to me that they believe they come from China, but their suppliers won't tell them. It's a huge business, and it's very likely that China is exporting millions of pirated DVDs.
My issues with software patents are two-fold. The first I believe has been mentioned a bit previously. All software patents are, pretty much by definition, a combination of obvious, ideas, and prior art. Software just isn't the same as mechanical engineering. You can patent a specific way a series of gears work within a pocket watch. You shouldn't be able to patent the idea of "allowing a database to import/export data to/from a spreadsheet". Sure, you could possibly patent a way of doing it, but you'd most likely be basing this on the prior art of somebody else's programming language and the obvious implementation of such. Imagine how that patent would read: "A system of using a function to compare the data between the two, followed by a the use of a function to see which data is missing from which file, concluded with a nifty if statement that writes the missing data into the file that doesn't have that data". This leads to what is happening right now, with every company trying to acquire every obvious patent it can think of in order to avoid from getting sued for implementations that a 10 year old could have logically come up with.
Issue number two is, in my opinion, far more terrible. Imagine what would have happened if patents like this were around in the early days of computing! Patents such as "a system of using numbers to address computers over a network" and "a process of interfacing 'network cables' to computers" would be widespread. This would have severely limited the growth of computing and they'd probably still be trying to sort out the legal implications. Given that these patents would have presented a serious hindrance to the fledgling computer industry, I think it's safe to say that they could still be a danger to innovation far into the future.
Your solution would make the world safe for open source, but it would still allow dreadfully damaging lawsuits against companies that are simply trying to use one-click ordering or allow information to be shared between databases and spreadsheets.
Sure, some extremist Muslims are doing it now, but they're not the only ones trying to do it now. Anyone who interprets the bible literally should be doing the same thing, particularly the old testament. I'm just saying that perhaps we could all learn the lesson eventually. Any group is capable of doing it, especially any group that believes it has the only correct answers/truth/beliefs/ways of doing things. We need to stop trying to fight certain groups and instead focus on being intolerant of any group that attempts to use beliefs to trump individual rights.
I understand the law about it, I just don't think our election laws should allow the candidates to have their debates at closed venues. Unless I'm completely wrong and other organizations are going to be allowed to film it. Candidates' debates and speeches should be public domain, just as the speeches of our elected leaders is. I do understand that the video taken by CNN may still be copyrighted, but dozens of legitimate press organizations are allowed to cover, film, and photograph the events. Granted people have to get a white house press pass, etc., but there is legal recourse for being denied that access. The same rules should apply for election campaigns. Since they obviously don't, this is something we should look at changing. That's all I'm trying to say.
In those circumstances both combatants will try to find a wall or column to hide behind. Then the winner is the one who has bullets left when the other has shot all of his. No matter how strong the soldier is, he will be able to carry more bullets if the ammo is lighter.
I wouldn't recommend regularly standing next to walls during urban combat. Bullets have this odd tendency of ricocheting and following the walls... The winner is the one who keeps his cool, knows what he's doing, and actually hits his target. Unless you're a marine; then you can just shoot everything that moves and hope you survive the encounter. Or Navy, then you can just kinda sit on a boat and know that they can't reach you very easily. Or if you just want a free purple heart license plate to reduce the odds of getting a speeding ticket. Outside of those reasons, I really don't see a huge value in cowering next to walls.
I've already done a combat tour and a second tour at a three-letter agency. Whew, you scared me. At first I thought you meant "four-letter agency", and I was scared shitless of the RIAA. Anyways, the M16A2 isn't terrible, but I do think we could do better, and I'd definitely be pissed if it was my only option. Did you see the weight of this "portable" laser rifle they're talking about, though? 15 kilos! Ever hump a 249 anywhere? They weigh about 7 bare, and you'd be hard-pressed to get one up to 10 kg with a rail, scope, heat shield, and talking power ranger doll.
The terrorists are good guys. Women should be slaves, and your head should be cut off ofr not praying to Allah 5 times a day. You're fucking brilliant. We see how well that worked for the Spanish; they were slaves for centuries. To be fair, that's exactly what the Spanish did to many other nations both before and after the Muslims did it to them... Sorry, replace the "Allah" with "Jesus" for the Spanish.
Right, they're only limiting your use of their recordings of the debates, but I'm willing to bet that MSNBC camera crews are the only ones allowed at these debates. So how is that not the same thing? Other than legally, of course. Slimy lawyers.
I have to agree with the other posters. Their commentary, analysis, and anything else they really produced should be protected by their copyrights, but video of what the politicians say/do should be either public domain or under one of the Creative Commons Licenses. Either that, or they should not be allowed to restrict anybody with a camera from showing up. This really should be a part of the campaign laws.
You think that's bad? I recently read this book called "The Holy Bible". It's filled with orgies, violence, fire and brimstone, pain, suffering, and sex. Lots of sex. I've been writing my congressman trying to get it banned, but everybody is afraid to help me protect the children. If any investigators are out there, please help me locate the author of this book. There wasn't even a name on it! Whoever wrote it needs to be tracked down and arrested for the betterment of society. Thank you.
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I think you're missing the point. It's true that people do, in general, buy whatever is advertised, but there are those of us who do not. I have never in my adult life purchased something because I saw it advertised. When I discover I have an unfulfilled need, I search the market to find out what the available products are. Then I compare the features of the different products. Once I've narrowed down the list I ask friends, compare reviews, and do other research. Once I've made up my mind, I buy the product from the cheapest or most convenient retailer I can, although I do have loyalty to certain retailers and I make sure to check BBB and similar listings for retailers.
Since I've been using the internet for over ten years and have never clicked a single banner ad in that time, explain to me why it hurts a company more for my computer to simply not display the advertising than it does for my eyes to simply ignore it.
Personally, I think the internet would be a bit better off if all the idiots out to make a quick buck (by setting up a blog and throwing a bunch of ads on it) would go away. I donate to the sites I enjoy, have several decent websites, and contribute a lot of content. If you think I'm a leech because I refuse to look at stupid advertising for stupid people you belong to one of the groups of people discussed in this sentence.
I also wouldn't mind if CNN went away. They're one of about 5,000 companies running the exact same stories, and many of them are inaccurate or flat-out lies. I could just pay Reuters $1/month for my daily news headlines and get a little less political spin.
^ Worst. Troll. Ever. Not only did nobody reply to it (except for me now), but nobody even bothered modding it. Don't quit your day job, kid.
At least it's still "Press 1 for English". Can you imagine dialing an Indian call center 50 years from now?
..." 1
"Press 1 for Indo-European Languages, Press 2 for
"Press 1 for Indo-Iranian Languages... Press 3 for Germanic Languages" 3
"Press 1 for West Germanic Languages..." 1
"Press 1 for Anglo-Frisian Languages..." 1
"Press 1 for Anglic Languages..." 1
"Press 1 for English, Press 2 for Scots" 1
Here's my prediction for the future: as voice and data continue to merge, expect to see VoIP-like phones with default languages, regions, and other important information stored in the phone somehow. This information will be communicated with interactive voice response (IVR) systems through some sort of data channel to attempt to increase efficiency.
I'm afraid to know what you'd do with the "triple-headed hydra" from Swordfish.
I have repeated your experiment and regret to say that I was unable to reproduce your results. Since a cat could not be located for this experiment, no cat jumped in the air therefor the universe will not end in such a horrible manner therefor we can all resume believing that everything will be hunky dory. Please forget what you saw. Thank you.
It still feels relatively slow to me. For example, opening an album that has three sub-albums (three thumbnails) took 3.2 seconds, and the pictures loaded sequentially. After 3.2 seconds on Flickr, about 10 thumbnails had loaded. Not incredibly poky, but it could be because I'm now spoiled after having fiber for a few years. I know this could be caused by Flickr having servers geographically closer to me with better connections, but I've noticed it on nearly every g2 site I've been on. It just feels slower than the rest.
I did move my gallery to a shared host, although I was considering hosting it myself. Speaking of which, that's another turnoff for me. I had a rather difficult time moving between hosts and lost all of my comments and additional info the last time I tried moving it.
It's OK, most of us were thinking the same thing. Perhaps you were, but I am also a G2 user looking to switch to something else. I've already started using flickr, but I would prefer better software for my site. Gallery is just too slow for me, and I guess I've just become frustrated with it. I can't point to any specific feature that I like or dislike, but I think something web 2.0ish and an uploading client would help.
No, we were talking about people here.
Not really, although I note that sharia law seems to typically specify a trial first... So did the inquisition.
No, he's a Yale man.
I'll admit I've never managed a presidential campaign before, but I don't think I'd consider spending $1/person to keep a myspace page that primarily appeals to people who are going to vote for me anyways. I do also feel that myspace should simply transfer the account to Obama minus any potentially copyright code in the profile.
The word "piracy" has been hijacked by numbnuts.... Although I normally agree, I have to argue this one. Trust me, this isn't some family in a stall with a DVD duplicator. Most of the pirated movies I've seen here have been very high quality pressed DVDs complete with photographic artwork and holograms on the DVDs. The pirated DVDs are identical throughout the country, down to the brand of the DVD case being used. Many of the vendors have admitted to me that they believe they come from China, but their suppliers won't tell them. It's a huge business, and it's very likely that China is exporting millions of pirated DVDs.
My issues with software patents are two-fold. The first I believe has been mentioned a bit previously. All software patents are, pretty much by definition, a combination of obvious, ideas, and prior art. Software just isn't the same as mechanical engineering. You can patent a specific way a series of gears work within a pocket watch. You shouldn't be able to patent the idea of "allowing a database to import/export data to/from a spreadsheet". Sure, you could possibly patent a way of doing it, but you'd most likely be basing this on the prior art of somebody else's programming language and the obvious implementation of such. Imagine how that patent would read: "A system of using a function to compare the data between the two, followed by a the use of a function to see which data is missing from which file, concluded with a nifty if statement that writes the missing data into the file that doesn't have that data". This leads to what is happening right now, with every company trying to acquire every obvious patent it can think of in order to avoid from getting sued for implementations that a 10 year old could have logically come up with.
Issue number two is, in my opinion, far more terrible. Imagine what would have happened if patents like this were around in the early days of computing! Patents such as "a system of using numbers to address computers over a network" and "a process of interfacing 'network cables' to computers" would be widespread. This would have severely limited the growth of computing and they'd probably still be trying to sort out the legal implications. Given that these patents would have presented a serious hindrance to the fledgling computer industry, I think it's safe to say that they could still be a danger to innovation far into the future.
Your solution would make the world safe for open source, but it would still allow dreadfully damaging lawsuits against companies that are simply trying to use one-click ordering or allow information to be shared between databases and spreadsheets.
Sure, some extremist Muslims are doing it now, but they're not the only ones trying to do it now. Anyone who interprets the bible literally should be doing the same thing, particularly the old testament. I'm just saying that perhaps we could all learn the lesson eventually. Any group is capable of doing it, especially any group that believes it has the only correct answers/truth/beliefs/ways of doing things. We need to stop trying to fight certain groups and instead focus on being intolerant of any group that attempts to use beliefs to trump individual rights.
I understand the law about it, I just don't think our election laws should allow the candidates to have their debates at closed venues. Unless I'm completely wrong and other organizations are going to be allowed to film it. Candidates' debates and speeches should be public domain, just as the speeches of our elected leaders is. I do understand that the video taken by CNN may still be copyrighted, but dozens of legitimate press organizations are allowed to cover, film, and photograph the events. Granted people have to get a white house press pass, etc., but there is legal recourse for being denied that access. The same rules should apply for election campaigns. Since they obviously don't, this is something we should look at changing. That's all I'm trying to say.
I wouldn't recommend regularly standing next to walls during urban combat. Bullets have this odd tendency of ricocheting and following the walls... The winner is the one who keeps his cool, knows what he's doing, and actually hits his target. Unless you're a marine; then you can just shoot everything that moves and hope you survive the encounter. Or Navy, then you can just kinda sit on a boat and know that they can't reach you very easily. Or if you just want a free purple heart license plate to reduce the odds of getting a speeding ticket. Outside of those reasons, I really don't see a huge value in cowering next to walls.
Right, they're only limiting your use of their recordings of the debates, but I'm willing to bet that MSNBC camera crews are the only ones allowed at these debates. So how is that not the same thing? Other than legally, of course. Slimy lawyers.
I have to agree with the other posters. Their commentary, analysis, and anything else they really produced should be protected by their copyrights, but video of what the politicians say/do should be either public domain or under one of the Creative Commons Licenses. Either that, or they should not be allowed to restrict anybody with a camera from showing up. This really should be a part of the campaign laws.
You think that's bad? I recently read this book called "The Holy Bible". It's filled with orgies, violence, fire and brimstone, pain, suffering, and sex. Lots of sex. I've been writing my congressman trying to get it banned, but everybody is afraid to help me protect the children. If any investigators are out there, please help me locate the author of this book. There wasn't even a name on it! Whoever wrote it needs to be tracked down and arrested for the betterment of society. Thank you.