Is it something to do with the quality of the audio from the phone?
I've come to the conclusion it's the quality of the audio. You just have to concentrate more on cellphone conversations. I'd like to see a study of brain activity during a cellphone conversation v a regular conversation. I think it would show that more mental activity is required for the cellphone conversation.
Increased audio bandwidth in meatspace relative to cellphonespace
This is the key, I think. I have a friend who has quite a strong accent, to the point where I have to concentrate more than usual to understand her. On the phone (landline) it's much worse, and it's the audio quality that is the problem. Cellphones are worse again - I find it's necessary to concentrate harder on a cellphone conversation than a regular conversation, thus they are more distracting while driving.
I agree it's a shame this material will become scattered all around, but the thing that bothers me the most is that much of this stuff will end up in a bunch of different private collections. Stuff like this should be kept together in a safe place after making digital copies and publishing them on the internet to be shared with everybody.
Why? Most of these lots are just first edition printings of academic papers. There's nothing especially unique about the content of these copies, and in most cases the text is already available on the net. It's not like these are the only copies of the works.
Both stories are posted by CmdrTaco. You'd think he'd get that "I've seen this before..." feeling, but then I guess he doesn't read the articles either.
So the conclusion jumping is being done by the Times here, not Slashdot.
Not at all. Look at the headline again: "Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead". Note that they said "allows", not "causes". "Allows" implies that the act is doing nothing to stop spam. Slashdot's headline, however, unambiguously blaims the act for the increase.
I suppose you could consider Virginia a temperate climate, but nevertheless the gas bill for my modest house built in the 50s is $120/mo during the winter. Meanwhile they were opening the windows in my sister's passive solar house (about 10 miles away from mine) they day before yesterday (when the temperature was 19 degrees F) because it was 85 inside, without her backup heating sistem running. She expects her gas bill will be a few dollars a month.
To ask the obvious: why aren't you using a passive solar system, then?
The terms CISC and RISC don't really apply to any modern CPU architecture. Modern architectures use techniques from both types of design, so talking about them in terms of CISC and RISC is pretty meaningless.
actually, the video is an "old" CG animation clip called Tetra Vaal. Still gives me goosebumps to imagine what the powerdrunk elite would probably do if commanding a better-than-human army without a conscience.
Not bad. The "robot" moves and reacts much too naturally to be believable though.
Make no mistake: they will try to appeal and appeal and appeal until they win, the judgement is set aside, or Stan dies. I do not expect he will get a penny while he is alive.
Yes. The article talked about Marvel making $50M from Spiderman alone. They might have got $125-200M in total so far (maybe more). If they now owe Stan Lee $10-$20M, they'll be spending millions on lawyers to avoid paying that debt.
Never ask for points on the profits. No movie has ever made a profit.
Of course movies make profits. But where those profits are buried in the accountancy, nobody will fess up lightly. I hope Stan Lee has an ironclad judgement that can't be wiggled out with some fancy bookwork.
The key words are "profits earned by Marvel". Not the profits of the production (which, as you say, are probably non-existent). Marvel won't be able to conceal the revenue they received for these films.
Two, how much do they spend. Blizzard may be running on smaller hardware and not spend as much as eBay or UPS, but $6M/month from these machines is enough to shake people up.
Where's that $6M per month number from? Is that the subscription revenue? If so, their spending will be a much lower number...
Considering the points above, if this were a problem that could be solved by throwing hardware at it, it would have been.
I agree with you. It's not like they've only had a few days, this has been going on for weeks.
According to the article, these spammers were in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act.
Actually, according to the artcile, these spammers claim they were in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act. Important difference there... especially with a lawsuit looming.
They could even selectively add or omit it based on the comment's moderation. Include the nofollow tag by default, but if a comment with a link in it is moderated highly, remove the tag so search engines can use it. Sounds like the best of both worlds..
I don't think sites like Slashdot should really be contributing to the search engine rankings of sites linked in comments, so I don't see the point in distinguishing between links in differently moderated comments. If you do want to distinguish, even a score of 2 is probably high enough to weed out the spam links. Most of the rubbish is posted at 0, with some at 1.
I agree - I didn't really mean UI designer as a job description, rather UI designer as in the people who actually end up doing the UI design. As you say that's usually programmers, product managers, or artists.
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Both stories are posted by CmdrTaco. You'd think he'd get that "I've seen this before..." feeling, but then I guess he doesn't read the articles either.
I agree - I didn't really mean UI designer as a job description, rather UI designer as in the people who actually end up doing the UI design. As you say that's usually programmers, product managers, or artists.