Then there's the increased pesticide use, the fact that it takes more fuel to produce ethonal than you get back, and it's a giant pipe dream.
This is only true for ethanol made from corn in the US. If you go down to Brazil and make it from sugarcane you get more energy out than you put in. Also, you can burn the non-usable part of the cane to generate the energy to run the irrigation system and the refinery, which you can't do with corn.
Whenever I go to the windows update site, all it finds is the Office SP3 patch. When I try to download it manually, IE crashes. I'm not sure if windows update grabbed it automatically, or if Windows is just POS software.
I got mine for free from pointclick.com (click banners to get money during.com boom). My friends and I clicked on the banner ads for 72 hours straight right after it launched. When we had to be in school we'd go to the library and start opening so many new windows in IE that the whole OS would crash. We had one person assigned to crashing all the school computers, and another person assigned to rebooting them and getting them set up again. We just kept going in a big circle around the library for like three days until we all got life bans. I feel like I personally put that website out of business.
I think Firefox has benefitted much more from its open source style community than from the actual source code being open. However, if the source code weren't open then the community wouldn't have been formed around it. Sort of an interesting paradox.
Blogging isn't risky at all. I can see why companies that have trouble getting their message out would be more likely to use blogging, but blogging shouldn't be considered a risk to the more successful ones.
In one of Seth Godin's online talks, he talks about how he stuck a suction cup to his head (he's bald) and burst all the blood vessels underneath, so he had a huge red mark for three or four months. He says, "blogging is like this; what may seem funny at the time may make it impossible to get a job for months or years into the future. What I'm here to tell you all is that you should do it anyway." And I think he's dead on.
I agree with the irregular thing. For sites like Slashdot that are updated every day though I find it's usually easier just to put a button in my bookmark toolbar. RSS is really handy though for things like the mac rumors sites and all the different sections of NPR.
I got the domain for my home page from a free domain registration service. Name Zero eventually went under along with all the other dot coms (the free registration part at least), but the service isn't exactly new.
I hope the game won't run if the engine is on. Otherwise people might play it in the garage with the engine running and the car in park, and end up asphyxiating themselves.
I agree. According to the latest National Adult Literacy Survey which was released last week, less than half of all PhD's in the US are able to read proficiently. You would do well to ensure that the authorities you would surrender your power to are really as authoritative as they claim.
Excellent post. My own question is, what is it exactly that seperates Reddit from Digg? I met the Reddit founders a few months ago, but I never got the chance to ask them.
While I don't disagree with the need for more numbers, I do think that their zeitgeist page is extremely well designed. Whoever did the webdesign on this one should get some options:)
The reason XML is extensible is so that you can use it to create standards like RSS. If you then extend RSS then it is no longer really RSS. It's just like language. The English language is extensible, you can make up new words to describe new things. But that doesn't mean you can change the definitions of words without telling people during a debate and then act like your opponent is an idiot, a la Clinton with the defition of "is."
I don't know any Bluetooth cards for PC that are specifically good (my mac has it built in), but what I do know is that they should all use very little power unless they are designed incorrectly or something. The main advantage of Bluetooth over WiFi is that it uses only 1% of the power (assuming you have it set to the normal 30 foot range).
Only with Microsoft is it the icon that becomes the standard and not the technology. It's funny because now this "standard" will represent both Mozilla's normal RSS and Microsoft's embraced and extended RSS.
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Hey Jean I teabagged your coffee.
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Then there's the increased pesticide use, the fact that it takes more fuel to produce ethonal than you get back, and it's a giant pipe dream.
This is only true for ethanol made from corn in the US. If you go down to Brazil and make it from sugarcane you get more energy out than you put in. Also, you can burn the non-usable part of the cane to generate the energy to run the irrigation system and the refinery, which you can't do with corn.
Whenever I go to the windows update site, all it finds is the Office SP3 patch. When I try to download it manually, IE crashes. I'm not sure if windows update grabbed it automatically, or if Windows is just POS software.
I got mine for free from pointclick.com (click banners to get money during .com boom). My friends and I clicked on the banner ads for 72 hours straight right after it launched. When we had to be in school we'd go to the library and start opening so many new windows in IE that the whole OS would crash. We had one person assigned to crashing all the school computers, and another person assigned to rebooting them and getting them set up again. We just kept going in a big circle around the library for like three days until we all got life bans. I feel like I personally put that website out of business.
Remind me to never ask you for directions. =)
I'm willing to sell mine if you want it.
Actually, the Rio 500 was what put the mp3 player on the map. 279 dollars for 20 or 22 low quality songs.
Yes, but once Wisco goes open source it will be better than what it is currently: vote for a republican or someone who will lose.
I think Firefox has benefitted much more from its open source style community than from the actual source code being open. However, if the source code weren't open then the community wouldn't have been formed around it. Sort of an interesting paradox.
The article says the phone has a download speed of 10 MP3s per minute. At least LOC is a relatively fixed amount, this is just ridiculous.
In one of Seth Godin's online talks, he talks about how he stuck a suction cup to his head (he's bald) and burst all the blood vessels underneath, so he had a huge red mark for three or four months. He says, "blogging is like this; what may seem funny at the time may make it impossible to get a job for months or years into the future. What I'm here to tell you all is that you should do it anyway." And I think he's dead on.
I agree with the irregular thing. For sites like Slashdot that are updated every day though I find it's usually easier just to put a button in my bookmark toolbar. RSS is really handy though for things like the mac rumors sites and all the different sections of NPR.
I used to have that job, but now I'm on disability leave because of an on-the-job injury: carpal tunnel.
The sarcophaguses in the museum are like the women you work with. For looking but not touching.
I got the domain for my home page from a free domain registration service. Name Zero eventually went under along with all the other dot coms (the free registration part at least), but the service isn't exactly new.
So why don't they just use open source data formats? Is there something more complicated here that I'm not seeing?
I hope the game won't run if the engine is on. Otherwise people might play it in the garage with the engine running and the car in park, and end up asphyxiating themselves.
I agree. According to the latest National Adult Literacy Survey which was released last week, less than half of all PhD's in the US are able to read proficiently. You would do well to ensure that the authorities you would surrender your power to are really as authoritative as they claim.
Excellent post. My own question is, what is it exactly that seperates Reddit from Digg? I met the Reddit founders a few months ago, but I never got the chance to ask them.
Don't forget though that if Digital Universe is GFDL then we can import their changes into Wikipedia.
Wikipedia: 850,000 articles, roughly $500,000.
Digital Universe: 0 articles, 10 million dollars.
While I don't disagree with the need for more numbers, I do think that their zeitgeist page is extremely well designed. Whoever did the webdesign on this one should get some options :)
The reason XML is extensible is so that you can use it to create standards like RSS. If you then extend RSS then it is no longer really RSS. It's just like language. The English language is extensible, you can make up new words to describe new things. But that doesn't mean you can change the definitions of words without telling people during a debate and then act like your opponent is an idiot, a la Clinton with the defition of "is."
I don't know any Bluetooth cards for PC that are specifically good (my mac has it built in), but what I do know is that they should all use very little power unless they are designed incorrectly or something. The main advantage of Bluetooth over WiFi is that it uses only 1% of the power (assuming you have it set to the normal 30 foot range).
Only with Microsoft is it the icon that becomes the standard and not the technology. It's funny because now this "standard" will represent both Mozilla's normal RSS and Microsoft's embraced and extended RSS.