I chose to opt-out and receive no annoying spam email from any extra-terrestrial sources. I just gave them my name, SSN, all email addresses, and home phone and cell phone numbers to not call. Then I opted out of any credit card theft stuff by giving them all my Visa, MC, and Amex numbers to identify accounts not to use. I provided Mom's maiden name for verification. I wear my tin-foil hat during solar flare storms.
Think about it. Barring breakage, the mirrors are sold once. Sunglasses will be sold in greater volumes, and Merry Maids who do windows/mirrors will laugh all the way to the bank. James Bond movies will film there, Dr Evil will exploit them, and The Shadow wil avoid the place altogether. Hoo-hoo-haa-haa-haa.
Perhaps some developer will take this input and create a new interface app that filters the trash words out and distills the ads into brief, factual text, and gives you the average sale price of the last N of these item.
I think this is a wonderful opportunity for some innovative but underfunded folks to develop cool apps to "enhance" my moneymaking schemes. I may start by developing a mechanism to auction off "first post rights" on specific slashdot articles.
I, for one, welcome our new ebay developer overlords.
... since 1994, the Standish Group has been publishing the results and reasons of IT projects...
You beat me to it. Now, 10 years later its coming to light.... with a reference to the Standish Group CHAOS REPORT. More study is a good thing. Lots of replies above seem to reflect a lot of "who cares, just get it done", combined with lots of "I know what it is, its xyz..." Folks, read the CHAOS REPORT report if you havent.
I disagree. Its not in our brains - it IS the media. I tuned in as soon as I heard. Network news comes on (Baltimore-Washington, DC area). they mention the possible loss of 10-20,000 lives, "more coverage later". Then they go to local news, sports, weather, THEN Tsunami Tragedy coverage. I was livid. Thousands dead, thousands missing, thousands homeless, thousands will be starving, thousands left with nothing while we sit near our Christmas trees with thousands of dollars in retail-frenzied purchases, watching the media advertise to us on commercial break before showing us what may be the largest single loss of human life in a single day.
Will display URLS on your computer for the product you photographed. Not neccesarily a purchase, but neither is the Amazon way. More at http://semacode.org/
IIRC, Maxis, the company that brought you SimCity, SimEarth, SimTrain, SimAnt, SimWhatever has contracted with companies for several years providing its simulation engine for use in petroleum refinery research, manufacturing automation, factory floor managment simulation. I would be surprised if they HAVE NOT done similar work with DoD. Me thinks a nice beowulf cluster of xboxes running linux would make a nicer story...
excerpted from http://www.fcc.gov/eb/broadcast/sponsid.html Section 507 of the Communications Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 508 requires that when anyone pays someone to include program matter in a broadcast, the fact of payment must be disclosed in advance of the broadcast to the station over which the mater is to be carried. Both the person making the payment and the recipient are obligated to disclose the payment so that the station may make the sponsorship identification announcement required by Section 317 of the Act. Failure to disclose such payments is commonly referred to as ``payola'' and is punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year or both. These criminal penalties bring violations within the purview of the Department of Justice.
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...to deliver a message of peace and understanding. And he is set upon and attacked. {sigh}Will we ever learn?{/sigh}
You can view her experience at http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/polly.ht m
Guns don't kill people. Linux does!
Does the Constitution of the United States guarantee the right to keep and bear Linux?
I chose to opt-out and receive no annoying spam email from any extra-terrestrial sources. I just gave them my name, SSN, all email addresses, and home phone and cell phone numbers to not call. Then I opted out of any credit card theft stuff by giving them all my Visa, MC, and Amex numbers to identify accounts not to use. I provided Mom's maiden name for verification. I wear my tin-foil hat during solar flare storms.
And I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night
...welcome our Sunglass Hut vending overlords.
Think about it. Barring breakage, the mirrors are sold once. Sunglasses will be sold in greater volumes, and Merry Maids who do windows/mirrors will laugh all the way to the bank. James Bond movies will film there, Dr Evil will exploit them, and The Shadow wil avoid the place altogether.
Hoo-hoo-haa-haa-haa.
Mod me insightful - I dare you!
Perhaps some developer will take this input and create a new interface app that filters the trash words out and distills the ads into brief, factual text, and gives you the average sale price of the last N of these item.
... you're correct! There should be a "," after ion.
I think this is a wonderful opportunity for some innovative but underfunded folks to develop cool apps to "enhance" my moneymaking schemes. I may start by developing a mechanism to auction off "first post rights" on specific slashdot articles.
I, for one, welcome our new ebay developer overlords.
the developers of Sony's excellent DRM rootkit. Shop for it today at your nearest brandname superstore, or Buy it now! online.
With speeds like this I'm giving up the Wifi version, but only after I've teleported cables there.
"IT workers polled believe that decision-makers are spending an average of 45.9 hours per week making poor decisions."
You beat me to it. Now, 10 years later its coming to light.... with a reference to the Standish Group CHAOS REPORT. More study is a good thing. Lots of replies above seem to reflect a lot of "who cares, just get it done", combined with lots of "I know what it is, its xyz..." Folks, read the CHAOS REPORT report if you havent.
As a painter with Wifi on his mind...
"You know what one rotation of the earth is called, right? One of those is 3 microseconds faster."
These go to eleven! - SpinalTap
I disagree. Its not in our brains - it IS the media. I tuned in as soon as I heard. Network news comes on (Baltimore-Washington, DC area). they mention the possible loss of 10-20,000 lives, "more coverage later". Then they go to local news, sports, weather, THEN Tsunami Tragedy coverage. I was livid. Thousands dead, thousands missing, thousands homeless, thousands will be starving, thousands left with nothing while we sit near our Christmas trees with thousands of dollars in retail-frenzied purchases, watching the media advertise to us on commercial break before showing us what may be the largest single loss of human life in a single day.
...but:
1. Invent dry quicksand
2. Entice investors
3. ?
4. PROFIT!!!!
Will display URLS on your computer for the product you photographed. Not neccesarily a purchase, but neither is the Amazon way. More at
http://semacode.org/
Same for me at NASA's Mission to Planet Earth - EOSDIS project http://spsosun.gsfc.nasa.gov/eosinfo/Welcome/index .html.
Amazing how fast a cluster of Cray YMPs can execute "Hello world"!
Great. A bunch of little illegitimate gadgets runnig around beeping Mommy, Daddy.
Thas all folks
perhaps I should rtfm.
IIRC, Maxis, the company that brought you SimCity, SimEarth, SimTrain, SimAnt, SimWhatever has contracted with companies for several years providing its simulation engine for use in petroleum refinery research, manufacturing automation, factory floor managment simulation. I would be surprised if they HAVE NOT done similar work with DoD. Me thinks a nice beowulf cluster of xboxes running linux would make a nicer story...
excerpted from http://www.fcc.gov/eb/broadcast/sponsid.html
Section 507 of the Communications Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 508 requires that when anyone pays someone to include program matter in a broadcast, the fact of payment must be disclosed in advance of the broadcast to the station over which the mater is to be carried. Both the person making the payment and the recipient are obligated to disclose the payment so that the station may make the sponsorship identification announcement required by Section 317 of the Act. Failure to disclose such payments is commonly referred to as ``payola'' and is punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year or both. These criminal penalties bring violations within the purview of the Department of Justice.
Read my sig - no new keyboards er taxes.
I for one [...] copy mp3 to free up space. Wesley Crusher needs more room to h^(k.
And for p0rn!