It's not just Bing that lit the fire under Google that helped make this happen, Facebook is actually their most potent threat - wrote about it here. They're challenging Google for ad revenue, for search, for email, the list goes on. I saw some pretty compelling discussion on Twitter speculating about how long till Facebook comes out with their own browser.
So the question I have is, will we see a Facebook superbowl ad next year?
Right - communications off island provided by Ericsson? I don't think so. That and hams aren't trying to provide emergency communications forever- fundamentally they really are just there because they have radios and they hear people asking for help- if you had one and you heard someone asking for help would you respond? That's how it goes and that's basically how amateur radio helps out in disasters. Ham radios are everywhere - when disaster strikes the closest working radio is fired up and whoever hears the call from that radio on the other side does whatever they can do to help the person making the call. It's that simple.
Great post - something else to note was the Duke scripting engine- it was so much fun to get in there and tweak it - they got that much right in terms of mods, but beyond that I agree Quake excelled (and benefited as you said).
I just have to share this here - if you are a Duke Nukem fan... or really if you are just a fan of 'the funnay' then be sure to visit 3D Realms' Duke Nukem outtakes collection page: http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/outtakes.html (note, it says realplayer is required by they also have.wav links)
Congrats to The Nameless Mod team, the mod (well, now a full retail game in development) I'm really looking forward to is Alien Swarm: Infested - been in development since 2005 - http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/ - I played the UT2004 total conversion mod back in the day and it was AWESOME.
According to this post it doesn't look like we were looking in the right place:
"I was involved in the mturk search for Fossett last fall and saved all of those overlays we were using. None of the ones I saved cover the area where the Fossett items were recently discovered near Minaret Lake/Minaret Mine. All of the overhead imagery covered areas further to the north of Mammoth."
I dunno it seems like a case of bad judgment on the driver of the mapping vehicle. If you look at the pictures it seems like they drove right up to their garage, taking pictures the whole time.
But, there doesn't seem to be any "private road" labeling on the map nor was their any sign visible when I followed the street via Streetview to their house (though they did delete the offending pictures, so maybe the sign was there?)
Regardless though, I would expect that the drivers of these vehicles would know better then to keep the pictures they took of a property while parked in front of a garage.
I recall reading this in a relatively recent edition of 2001- very cool stuff: (from wikipedia) - In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), astronaut Dave Bowman finds an enigmatic alien monolith waiting for him on the surface of Iapetus. Iapetus' two tone coloration is caused by a vast white ellipse on the moon's surface, with the monolith appearing as a black dot in its exact center. When the Voyager space probes arrived at Iapetus thirteen years later, they discovered that there was indeed a black region within the moon's brighter hemisphere. Clarke reports that Carl Sagan, who was on the Voyager imaging team, sent him a photo, with the note "Thinking of you...". Because of difficulties achieving a convincing model of Saturn's rings, the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey relocated the monolith to an orbit around Jupiter.
fuck, I also meant to tie my post back into it's subject but walked away from the computer midpost to come back and finish it.
SO- what I'm saying, is that Libertarians and Ron Paul do not support net neutrality - which seems counter to most of the/. crowd, however it also seems most of the/. crowd is more libertarian minded, so therefore we must have a Nintendo/Apple thing going on here. There is some irrational, unexplained connection that's happening and I think the poster is right to wonder why.
I too am interested, I think that other posters have done a good job making a connection, but I think it's gotta be more then what has been discussed so far...
I am definitely libertarian minded (Ron Paul bumper sticker, going to vote for him in the NH primary)- and.. I'm definitely a nerd... well geek.. I dunno. Anyways, I think that libertarianism is the Nintendo of politics on/. am i rite guys? - that would definitely contribute to what the poster is seeing.
I still haven't been able to nail down his most infamous predictions.... anyone got anything good to offer up? I know that when he comes up it's time for commenters to bash him for his predictions, but can I have the supporting evidence/origination of the meme for $500 Alex?
Guys, guys- they aren't going to measure how long your WINDOW is open, they are going to measure how long your session is active for. Your session will timeout eventually. They'll be able to account for that, and voila- problem solved.
They already do it, and will be doing it. Google Analytics delivers it. It's quite informative.
That Publius Enigma stuff is really cool- I wonder if Year Zero was inspired that or in part?
Enjoy the album. I've even started listening to the old ones thinking about possible intertextual references... start with Pretty Hate Machine and go on up and try to make up a story about how they relate.
Can't wait to see the live shows-- did you see this?
That website, open source restance, is part of the ARG as was the event I think- if this is an indication of what the live shows might be like then holy crap, sign me up!:P
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Sweet! Does this mean Nokia will start bundling Microsoft's NIBBLES.BAS with handsets instead of their snake game?
(ahem) ^^^^this^^^^ ....... did I win?
It's not just Bing that lit the fire under Google that helped make this happen, Facebook is actually their most potent threat - wrote about it here. They're challenging Google for ad revenue, for search, for email, the list goes on. I saw some pretty compelling discussion on Twitter speculating about how long till Facebook comes out with their own browser.
So the question I have is, will we see a Facebook superbowl ad next year?
I read this and thought, haven't I seen this before? But no, apparently The Telegraph published a similar story in 2008 about another gentleman, living in england, who has also taken some amazing space photographs from his "garden shed." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3526362/Amateur-astronomer-captures-dawn-of-the-universe-from-back-garden-observatory.html - interesting.
Right - communications off island provided by Ericsson? I don't think so. That and hams aren't trying to provide emergency communications forever- fundamentally they really are just there because they have radios and they hear people asking for help- if you had one and you heard someone asking for help would you respond? That's how it goes and that's basically how amateur radio helps out in disasters. Ham radios are everywhere - when disaster strikes the closest working radio is fired up and whoever hears the call from that radio on the other side does whatever they can do to help the person making the call. It's that simple.
Great post - something else to note was the Duke scripting engine- it was so much fun to get in there and tweak it - they got that much right in terms of mods, but beyond that I agree Quake excelled (and benefited as you said).
I just have to share this here - if you are a Duke Nukem fan... or really if you are just a fan of 'the funnay' then be sure to visit 3D Realms' Duke Nukem outtakes collection page: http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/outtakes.html (note, it says realplayer is required by they also have .wav links)
Nobody got fired for shipping a buggy product, but people have been fired for not meeting deadlines.
That, right there, explains the entire situation. No need for a 24 page paper.
Congrats to The Nameless Mod team, the mod (well, now a full retail game in development) I'm really looking forward to is Alien Swarm: Infested - been in development since 2005 - http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/ - I played the UT2004 total conversion mod back in the day and it was AWESOME.
Bring it on! (also DNF)
According to this post it doesn't look like we were looking in the right place:
"I was involved in the mturk search for Fossett last fall and saved all of those overlays we were using. None of the ones I saved cover the area where the Fossett items were recently discovered near Minaret Lake/Minaret Mine. All of the overhead imagery covered areas further to the north of Mammoth."
Ahh, one more step closer to the Nintendo On!
I dunno it seems like a case of bad judgment on the driver of the mapping vehicle. If you look at the pictures it seems like they drove right up to their garage, taking pictures the whole time.
It also seems like provider of the maps is also at fault, if you follow along on Google maps you can see that the street appears to extend all the way to their garage.
But, there doesn't seem to be any "private road" labeling on the map nor was their any sign visible when I followed the street via Streetview to their house (though they did delete the offending pictures, so maybe the sign was there?)
Regardless though, I would expect that the drivers of these vehicles would know better then to keep the pictures they took of a property while parked in front of a garage.
I recall reading this in a relatively recent edition of 2001- very cool stuff: (from wikipedia) - In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), astronaut Dave Bowman finds an enigmatic alien monolith waiting for him on the surface of Iapetus. Iapetus' two tone coloration is caused by a vast white ellipse on the moon's surface, with the monolith appearing as a black dot in its exact center. When the Voyager space probes arrived at Iapetus thirteen years later, they discovered that there was indeed a black region within the moon's brighter hemisphere. Clarke reports that Carl Sagan, who was on the Voyager imaging team, sent him a photo, with the note "Thinking of you ...". Because of difficulties achieving a convincing model of Saturn's rings, the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey relocated the monolith to an orbit around Jupiter.
I think this spells it out pretty well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2d_political_sp ectrum.png
fuck, I also meant to tie my post back into it's subject but walked away from the computer midpost to come back and finish it.
/. crowd, however it also seems most of the /. crowd is more libertarian minded, so therefore we must have a Nintendo/Apple thing going on here. There is some irrational, unexplained connection that's happening and I think the poster is right to wonder why.
SO- what I'm saying, is that Libertarians and Ron Paul do not support net neutrality - which seems counter to most of the
I too am interested, I think that other posters have done a good job making a connection, but I think it's gotta be more then what has been discussed so far...
I am definitely libertarian minded (Ron Paul bumper sticker, going to vote for him in the NH primary)- and.. I'm definitely a nerd... well geek.. I dunno. Anyways, I think that libertarianism is the Nintendo of politics on /. am i rite guys? - that would definitely contribute to what the poster is seeing.
I still haven't been able to nail down his most infamous predictions .... anyone got anything good to offer up? I know that when he comes up it's time for commenters to bash him for his predictions, but can I have the supporting evidence/origination of the meme for $500 Alex?
And here is the link.
Looks like they couldn't stop the story before it hit the wires... I wonder if they'll issue a retraction? :P
My point was directed at the idle window problem and that there is a solution. Now, how well it works is a different story.
Guys, guys- they aren't going to measure how long your WINDOW is open, they are going to measure how long your session is active for. Your session will timeout eventually. They'll be able to account for that, and voila- problem solved.
They already do it, and will be doing it. Google Analytics delivers it. It's quite informative.
and by "it'll be" I meant- "it is" - doh!
Sessions is what they'll use- and it'll be what many analytics (google included) use for measuring time spent at a site.
That Publius Enigma stuff is really cool- I wonder if Year Zero was inspired that or in part?
:P
Enjoy the album. I've even started listening to the old ones thinking about possible intertextual references... start with Pretty Hate Machine and go on up and try to make up a story about how they relate.
Can't wait to see the live shows-- did you see this?
On April 18, 2007, Open Source Resistance hosted a gathering in LA. Musicians, artists, and ordinary people gathered in support of a simple message: speak up to defend the things that matter to you. The concert planned to end the evening was broken up by police. -- that link contains a video of the gathering and the concert that followed.. DIGG's coverage of the event is also worth noting.
That website, open source restance, is part of the ARG as was the event I think- if this is an indication of what the live shows might be like then holy crap, sign me up!
Hahah for AC this is pretty good. Mod parent up plz for maximum funnay.