Pricing for AdWords is based on the position in which they're shown. Google positions your ad based on how many users click on it over time. Current rates are $15, $12, $10 (
per thousand ads shown) for positions 1, 2, and 3 respectively, and $8 per thousand for positions 4 and beyond. Accounts are opened with a credit card and no minimum deposit is required.
So for every/.er that goes to check it out uses up one more showing. Thanks to the links from the story, I imagine most of them have already been flushed out of the system...
Yeah, that's a good argument. "Because this reviewer viewed an illegally copied and illegally screened pre-release version of a film that's going to make millions, then he's a good guy!" Just because you like the movie doesn't mean that it's not illegal.
You probably support the Napster-supported pirating of copyrighted music too, don't you?
In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, that's a joke, son.
But then, Star Wars comes out. Lord of the Rings comes out. Resident Evil comes out. And all of the sudden, you're forking over your hard-earned money to these devils.
Hey, where does it say in the review that Harry paid the MPAA for the the screening? Score one for our team!
What's so terrifying about make menuconfig && make bzImage && cp arch/i386/bzImage/boot?
Come on, now, how long did it take you to go through all the configuration options the first time? An hour? There's a _ton_ of stuff in there and a lot of it isn't that well documented. I've been doing it for years now and there's still new options that come in that I have to look up. Can he look things up? Certainly. But you have to admit, for the relative newcomer, it's daunting.
Huh? Macs come with OS X, pre-installed even. Or do you mean that you couldn't run software that is sold for money? People sell Linux too, perhaps you should just run HURD- there aren't any for-money distros of that yet, are there? Or are you under the impression that you have to insert a dollar into the computer every time you boot OS X? Or does the "that costs money" part refer to the fact that computer hardware isn't cost-free?
I think you're missing the point. Many people (myself included) believe in free/open source, both technically and philosophically. Running free software, contributing back to it, submitting comments and bug reports all help give back to the community and make the software better -- software that's essentially a gift to millions of people. For people like me, switching over to a commercial closed-source (*) platform means, in the end, doing less for free software and, in the end, fellow users.
Now, I'm not a rabid anti-commericalist. RMS seems to think that proprietary software is practical evil (or at the very least, selfish) and that it's one or the other - you support free software or you support restricted closed-source software. I don't agree with this; there is definately room for free and non-free software to coexist, but I understand where he is coming from. It's a dilemma I have been coping with for a long time and which I still have yet to fully resolve.
So anyway, back to the point - it isn't that he necessarily is against commerical software, but it is easy to feel loyal to Linux, especially when it is the gift of a community made possible, in the end, by the contributions of all users. It can be hard to justify one's belief in free software while at the same time running a non-free OS.
(*) yes, I'm aware Darwin (and other low level components) are open source. Plenty more (one could aruge all) of OS X that makes OS X a Mac OS isn't.
P.S. Subtitute "open source" for "free" in the above as desired.
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Know what? This is absolute FUD on both parts. At least you're both ill-informed. These complaints apply to OS X, yes - but that's the client OS. Buy the Server [apple.com] and get the server tools [apple.com]. It's very easy to do pretty much everything remotely, through a Apple-provided GUI tool.
I'm surprised someone else is saying "mod this up". So your great solution is to spend _more_ money to get a program to update remote via a proprietary system. I wouldn't expect someone to cheer for this idea.
(If I am misinformed about the proprietary nature, sorry, I couldn't view the Quicktime video on my Linux system)
Elf Foundation, a newly-formed non-profit charity organization comprised of consumer and professional electronic dealers, manufacturers, manufacturer's representatives, media and industry organizations, working together for the express purpose of designing and installing entertainment and Internet-based educational systems in Children's Hospitals and ancillary facilities around the country.
I bet there's a bunch of MP3 players you could do this with.
Yep. I got tired of being unable to get in contact with people whose phone numbers I had left at home, so I made a 'phone' subdirectory on my Archos Jukebox 20 and put a bunch of listings like "mom (work) - xxx-xxx-xxxx.mp3" etc. It's come in handy more than once.
I hadn't thought of putting appointments on it or automating the scheme, however.
This time my employer will purchase a laptop for me -- I just have to choose which one. Since the low end Toshibas no longer come with the point-stick (*sigh*) I'm considering alternatives. Suffice it to say I am torn between an IBM A-series or an Apple Titanium.
Er... if your employer is willing to spring for a Titanium, couldn't you also look at the high-end Toshibas?
Like, say, incrementing a value by using variable++; instead of variable += 1;.
I like to use x++ instead of x += 1 because it makes it clearer that you're incrementing exactly by 1. It can also make it more obvious when you are doing a loop for each item or something like that.
It's sort of like using an iff instead of an if in mathematics. It's a bit more specific.
You'd better check your student fees again, bucko. You probably don't realize it, but Microsoft does not give away "free" software like you think it does. You're paying 5-10 bucks a semester for your free MS products, along with the rest of your school.
He's not talking about free copies from the campus software library (although we have a decent collection of stuff there). We're talking about the second week of class, when the CS chair comes into class with a large box with a return address from Redmond, WA filled with boxed copies of Visual Studio complete edition. I've had it happen to me and it happens in more than one class.
What a laugh. I can't say what things are like anywhere else, but at here at Case Western Reserve University, there are plenty of CS students who are big Microsoft fans. Many of them are very smart people. Microsoft hires a lot of interns from here and is very active in gaining student mindshare. All the Windows boxes in the CS labs are from Microsoft Research. Entire classes get boxed copies of Visual Studio.NET. The Windows Users Group is one year old and well attended.
Sure, there are still a good number of students who do everything in gcc (we've also got a bunch of sun boxes in the lab) and CWRULUG continues to prosper, but to say an _entire generation_ of CS students are anti-microsoft is absurd.
Microsoft isn't student. They invest a lot of attention (and money) in colleges There are many students who have known only the Microsoft way and are perfectly happy with it.
I just recently became aware of OMNI, a unix printing system by IBM based off Ghostscript. It seems very comprehensive, they list support for *610* printers.
What struck about this is that I thought CUPS was pretty well-agreed upon by the major players as a common unix (the CU in CUPS) standard. How does OMNI compare with CUPS? Or do they perhaps represent different levels of the whole printing system and do they compliment one another?
Close. At the store I worked at, the password for any given department was always the store number and then an abbrieviated version of the department's name.
NEC sells a laptop called the Versa DayLite (aka the LaVie MX in Japan) with a special "reflective LCD" screen that makes it usable outdoors. It also allows it (along with a second internal battery behind the screen) to run up to 8 hours.
On the downside, the screen isn't very good indoors - NEC says it's "suitable for occasional indoor use". The users reviews I've read agree with this. PCWorld also has a review.
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Or hit Guide to go into guide, then FFwd to advance to the next half-hour or Rwd to go to the previous half-hour. Two buttons.
- What's on next? button
What do you mean? Surely, hitting the Guide button to see what's on next isn't difficult, so you must mean something else...
They did Space Quest I also. The first Leisure Suit Larry game may have been the other one, I'm not quite sure.
They redid Hero's Quest (aka Quest for Glory 1) in VGA as well. I don't believe LSL1 ever got this treatment.
So for every
Yeah, that's a good argument. "Because this reviewer viewed an illegally copied and illegally screened pre-release version of a film that's going to make millions, then he's a good guy!" Just because you like the movie doesn't mean that it's not illegal.
You probably support the Napster-supported pirating of copyrighted music too, don't you?
In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, that's a joke, son.
But then, Star Wars comes out. Lord of the Rings comes out. Resident Evil comes out. And all of the sudden, you're forking over your hard-earned money to these devils.
Hey, where does it say in the review that Harry paid the MPAA for the the screening? Score one for our team!
What's so terrifying about make menuconfig && make bzImage && cp arch/i386/bzImage /boot?
Come on, now, how long did it take you to go through all the configuration options the first time? An hour? There's a _ton_ of stuff in there and a lot of it isn't that well documented. I've been doing it for years now and there's still new options that come in that I have to look up. Can he look things up? Certainly. But you have to admit, for the relative newcomer, it's daunting.
Huh? Macs come with OS X, pre-installed even. Or do you mean that you couldn't run software that is sold for money? People sell Linux too, perhaps you should just run HURD- there aren't any for-money distros of that yet, are there? Or are you under the impression that you have to insert a dollar into the computer every time you boot OS X? Or does the "that costs money" part refer to the fact that computer hardware isn't cost-free?
I think you're missing the point. Many people (myself included) believe in free/open source, both technically and philosophically. Running free software, contributing back to it, submitting comments and bug reports all help give back to the community and make the software better -- software that's essentially a gift to millions of people. For people like me, switching over to a commercial closed-source (*) platform means, in the end, doing less for free software and, in the end, fellow users.
Now, I'm not a rabid anti-commericalist. RMS seems to think that proprietary software is practical evil (or at the very least, selfish) and that it's one or the other - you support free software or you support restricted closed-source software. I don't agree with this; there is definately room for free and non-free software to coexist, but I understand where he is coming from. It's a dilemma I have been coping with for a long time and which I still have yet to fully resolve.
So anyway, back to the point - it isn't that he necessarily is against commerical software, but it is easy to feel loyal to Linux, especially when it is the gift of a community made possible, in the end, by the contributions of all users. It can be hard to justify one's belief in free software while at the same time running a non-free OS.
(*) yes, I'm aware Darwin (and other low level components) are open source. Plenty more (one could aruge all) of OS X that makes OS X a Mac OS isn't.
P.S. Subtitute "open source" for "free" in the above as desired.
Know what? This is absolute FUD on both parts. At least you're both ill-informed. These complaints apply to OS X, yes - but that's the client OS. Buy the Server [apple.com] and get the server tools [apple.com]. It's very easy to do pretty much everything remotely, through a Apple-provided GUI tool.
I'm surprised someone else is saying "mod this up". So your great solution is to spend _more_ money to get a program to update remote via a proprietary system. I wouldn't expect someone to cheer for this idea.
(If I am misinformed about the proprietary nature, sorry, I couldn't view the Quicktime video on my Linux system)
OED Online: 'piracy'
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They accept donations here.
(Because I had no idea what is was either.
I bet there's a bunch of MP3 players you could do this with.
Yep. I got tired of being unable to get in contact with people whose phone numbers I had left at home, so I made a 'phone' subdirectory on my Archos Jukebox 20 and put a bunch of listings like "mom (work) - xxx-xxx-xxxx.mp3" etc. It's come in handy more than once.
I hadn't thought of putting appointments on it or automating the scheme, however.
This time my employer will purchase a laptop for me -- I just have to choose which one. Since the low end Toshibas no longer come with the point-stick (*sigh*) I'm considering alternatives. Suffice it to say I am torn between an IBM A-series or an Apple Titanium.
Er... if your employer is willing to spring for a Titanium, couldn't you also look at the high-end Toshibas?
If I bought a product from everyone the RIAA sued, I'd be broke in no time...
This OYE page suggests that it is still possible to purchase the Infinite Visions re-release.
Like, say, incrementing a value by using variable++; instead of variable += 1;.
I like to use x++ instead of x += 1 because it makes it clearer that you're incrementing exactly by 1. It can also make it more obvious when you are doing a loop for each item or something like that.
It's sort of like using an iff instead of an if in mathematics. It's a bit more specific.
Microsoft isn't student.
Whoops, that should be "Microsoft isn't stupid." Erp.
You'd better check your student fees again, bucko. You probably don't realize it, but Microsoft does not give away "free" software like you think it does. You're paying 5-10 bucks a semester for your free MS products, along with the rest of your school.
He's not talking about free copies from the campus software library (although we have a decent collection of stuff there). We're talking about the second week of class, when the CS chair comes into class with a large box with a return address from Redmond, WA filled with boxed copies of Visual Studio complete edition. I've had it happen to me and it happens in more than one class.
What a laugh. I can't say what things are like anywhere else, but at here at Case Western Reserve University, there are plenty of CS students who are big Microsoft fans. Many of them are very smart people. Microsoft hires a lot of interns from here and is very active in gaining student mindshare. All the Windows boxes in the CS labs are from Microsoft Research. Entire classes get boxed copies of Visual Studio .NET. The Windows Users Group is one year old and well attended.
Sure, there are still a good number of students who do everything in gcc (we've also got a bunch of sun boxes in the lab) and CWRULUG continues to prosper, but to say an _entire generation_ of CS students are anti-microsoft is absurd.
Microsoft isn't student. They invest a lot of attention (and money) in colleges There are many students who have known only the Microsoft way and are perfectly happy with it.
I thought the article was about Disney acquiring another senator... Hollings is annoying enough already.
I just recently became aware of OMNI, a unix printing system by IBM based off Ghostscript. It seems very comprehensive, they list support for *610* printers.
What struck about this is that I thought CUPS was pretty well-agreed upon by the major players as a common unix (the CU in CUPS) standard. How does OMNI compare with CUPS? Or do they perhaps represent different levels of the whole printing system and do they compliment one another?
Close. At the store I worked at, the password for any given department was always the store number and then an abbrieviated version of the department's name.
NEC sells a laptop called the Versa DayLite (aka the LaVie MX in Japan) with a special "reflective LCD" screen that makes it usable outdoors. It also allows it (along with a second internal battery behind the screen) to run up to 8 hours.
On the downside, the screen isn't very good indoors - NEC says it's "suitable for occasional indoor use". The users reviews I've read agree with this. PCWorld also has a review.
During the hearing, Eisner played a clip from Sony Pictures' "Black Hawk Down" -- now playing in theaters -- that was ripped from the Internet.
Heh. I can't help wondering about the employee at Disney who was instructed to go out on Gnutella and warez some movies for Michael Eisner...