According to my Matrix DVD behind the scenes stuff, bullet-time was first used in The Matrix but due to the 'Time-to-theater' issue, commercials got to showcase the technology before the movie did.
I am willing to pay $20 ($19.95) a year to have unlimited access to Google with their current advertising scheme. It is an enriched service that they offer and it has intense value to me. I would prefer to have it for free, but I also want free cable, free electicity, and free water. Don't get those, so why should I get a free Kick-Ass search engine.
Okay, okay, if I had my druthers and had to pay, I would rather pay $4.95/year.
Perhaps this is my complete ignorance in regards to alternatives to mySQL, but my webhost and many other webhosts already have it set up with rather easy access.
Do I have the option to load in an alternative? Or should I take the time and energy it would take to do that to learn and understand the limitations of mySQL.
When I started using Morpheus I truly wished for some sort of file sharing ratio to be put in place. Share x bytes be able to download x*n bytes/day. Of course, what you download then gets added to what you share, and thus the available files increase, providing more sources.
Of course you'd have 'system cheaters' who would share impossible to download large files, but the few willing to go to that effort wouldn't affect the whole.
And each time the community adapts, it does get stronger. The RIAA attacks a weakness in the system, the next version "corrects" that weakness. The RIAA is helping create the ultimate file-trading application that will A)be perfectly legal within current laws B)robust enough to handle immense system demands and C)hide the users from simple investigation creating an anonymous file-trading system.
And who really benefits from this? The people who are using it for society damaging illegal activities. In this level of perverse logic, the RIAA is helping create a superflu that undermines society. (Yes, it is a slippery slope argument and yes, it is only done partly tongue-in-cheek).
How would Microsoft even know what I used to create my anti-MS site? I always hand edit the code to add in ssi stuff anyhow and normal cut out the meta tags that indicate I used Frontpage (out of shame, seeing as I have two other equal and superior programs for HTML creation).
Boy, you've missed the boat. Does Ford make me sign an agreement that I won't put anti-Ford bumper stickers on the truck I just bought from them?
If Microsoft was so concerned about what their product was used for, then why don't they have provisions against using it to create porn or warez sites? Nope, clearly some MS exec bristled at the idea of an MS product being used to slam MS. Now, I can't wait until I write up my draft copy of how much this license agreement sucks using MS-Word before they tell me what I can and cannot say using that program.
Is secret, unending, requires a lot of money, requires a lot of invasive police action, and shows very little results from year to year. Yet it is a great reason to explain why sugar is being rationed and why War is really Peace.
And for want of the perfect nail, the war was lost.
Of course it is going to be buggy, and *I* as a landlord would be all over it because *I* am confident and comfortable in keeping things fixed. If a particular unit has undue problems, then I cable that apartment directly.
I'd also run an email server so I can keep track of my tenents and spy on them like in that movie. (j/k);)
I recently moved into an apartment building that has never had any broadband access (no one has installed DSL and the cable isn't digital). As I was setting up the DSL service, I realized at a slight extra cost, I could provide wireless access to all the residents.
I'm actually going to present this to my management company and see if this is a perquisite they are willing to offer or if they would mind my going door-to-door and charging a small fee to run an apartment network.
If I were a landlord, I'd be all over this. No cables being pulled through my walls (okay, some wiring may be necessary for quality of service issues) and a selling point only upscale building have.
I bet AOL would pay handsomely to NOT have El do certain voiceovers . . . say be the voice over for an Earthlink commercial.
"You've got great value with Earthlink."
The best route for Linux is to get accepted by the office culture. Once that barrier is passed, then when people buy PC's they'll want to work on what they have at the office. The next step, then, is to come up with a killer game that only runs on Linux but gets the same hype and marketing as a PS2 game or major PC game release.
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I agree. There are bacteria that live right next to underwater lava flows, there are bacteria that love to munch sulfur -- ship a few canisters to Venus and wait a couple million years. It'd be ripe for a colony right up until the Sun explodes. Of course, if it is too hot on Venus, they could always try this trick with it.
I believe what was meant by the 'going after individuals' was they are pitching this to individuals at the distributor willing to turn in customers who buy OS-less computers.
The scary thing here is the drug war has a racial bias built into it which affects a lot more than a few people's lives. In fact, it could have very well decided who the President of the United States was. Some states (Florida) do not allow felons to vote, even after they have served their time. The drug war has been a war against black males, disenfranchising them for drug use, even after it was clear that drugs are addicting.
I do not support the legalization of drugs as a whole. I laugh at the people who want to legalize marijauna on the basis hemp can be useful for other things. I don't laugh at medical research on the use of cannabis for pain relief and nausea relief. I do support the decriminalization of drugs though. We need to create a society that allows this problem to be dealt with straight on, with users able to come forward for help if they want it.
We as a society are paying for this drug war in increased costs of running prisons, increased cost in emergency room visits by people taking poison instead of "USDA" certified drugs.
I have to kind of agree with those conspiracy theorists who say that if we really wanted to end rampant drug use in this country we could, but it is politically beneficial to have a universal ethnic enemy (i.e. Drug Lords, crack dealers). I'm not that simple that I think it is completely a race issue, but I can't help wonder if tobacco was grown by Columbians instead of wealthy white Southern gentlemen, that that part of history would be different.
Drugs are already supported and endorsed by the government to control the population. Pardon me, gotta take my Prozac and Rittalin -- aahh, what was I saying? Oh, yes, praise the government for allowing the pharmeceutical companies to bring me this relief. And as for that non-regulated street crap, well, if some major corporation doesn't hold the patent on ecstasy, do you really expect the government to support it? Who would the Senator's get campaign money from?
Citrix, with its new web interfaces, is also a solution for remote workers. Overall, a Citrix server is a great investment for smaller companies with these kind of issues. But I was under the impression the server kind of caps out at a rather low number of users, meaning running several servers in tandem (with balancing issues) for larger companies.
When discussing this amount the tech literate it seems like an anathema. But to a score of phone reps who don't use computers often enough to know what a BSOD even is, this could be a god send.
My company now has over 30 employees who only use dumb terminals. We are now exploring a complete swap out of our enterprise system which means we need to either get thin-clients or some other centralized support system. We have some issues with thin clients and Citrix is our first choice (Citrix with a bunch of used PC's), but it is obvious there is a need within certain corporate environments to keep the actual CPU away from the user, even if it is for psychological reasons.
Let's face it, I've yet to work for a company that gives $.02 towards adequate training and skills enhancement to turn a terminal user into a pc user over night.
Maybe I could go to a special page on your site, and indicate, "I'm in the market for a hard drive.". Then over the next week, I would get ads from advertisers who think they might have something of interest to sell me.
While some of your other ideas (the gradient version of 'never show me this again') are quite good, this one is particularly good. I'd like to have it set with a time out function so I don't have to return to turn off my interest. But I go through phases of being interested in new things. If I'm building a new system, I'm keen at looking at hardware. If I'm in the mood for a new game, that is what I want to see. Talk about effective advertisement.
I'd also like to see a gradient version of what interests me. I like to travel, but not a lot. If those 'Hobbies and Interests' measured level of interest (none-mild-very-intense) then the ads could be more tightly targeted.
I have a similar experience to this. But in my case, I will be working on a project and need something. I remember that somewhere on one of the sites I visit I saw an ad for something that might help me. But since the ad banners rotate, I spend a lot of time reloading webpages.
If a website could keep and index of advertisers it would help refine that process.
At this time I have no need for the QuestionExchange, tomorrow I might, but do you think I'm diligent enough to write down or remember the details of it? Click thru rates depend upon me clicking, at this second, on the banner. But at this second, I am more interested in responding to the forum, not exploring ads.
Micropayments won't work. Even though I visit a handful of websites consistently, none of them are so indisposable that I couldn't go somewhere else (even Slashdot can be done away with) for similar content.
Even pure voluntary payments will create NPR/PBS style pay your dues banners and splash pages. Although, that isn't that bad of an idea.
A website is one of those odd things that can get sunk by its own popularity. It can become so popular, the owner can't afford to pay the bandwidth fees. Some alternative method needs to be developed. I'm not smart enough to figure out what it should be, but the advertising model is failing, at least at the low level scale.
I'm willing to display Coke,Pepsi, Holiday Inn, 7-11, and Pep Boy banners on my site, but for some reason they don't advertiser on the web.
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According to my Matrix DVD behind the scenes stuff, bullet-time was first used in The Matrix but due to the 'Time-to-theater' issue, commercials got to showcase the technology before the movie did.
$20 a year.
I am willing to pay $20 ($19.95) a year to have unlimited access to Google with their current advertising scheme. It is an enriched service that they offer and it has intense value to me. I would prefer to have it for free, but I also want free cable, free electicity, and free water. Don't get those, so why should I get a free Kick-Ass search engine.
Okay, okay, if I had my druthers and had to pay, I would rather pay $4.95/year.
Perhaps this is my complete ignorance in regards to alternatives to mySQL, but my webhost and many other webhosts already have it set up with rather easy access.
Do I have the option to load in an alternative? Or should I take the time and energy it would take to do that to learn and understand the limitations of mySQL.
When I started using Morpheus I truly wished for some sort of file sharing ratio to be put in place. Share x bytes be able to download x*n bytes/day. Of course, what you download then gets added to what you share, and thus the available files increase, providing more sources.
Of course you'd have 'system cheaters' who would share impossible to download large files, but the few willing to go to that effort wouldn't affect the whole.
And each time the community adapts, it does get stronger. The RIAA attacks a weakness in the system, the next version "corrects" that weakness. The RIAA is helping create the ultimate file-trading application that will A)be perfectly legal within current laws B)robust enough to handle immense system demands and C)hide the users from simple investigation creating an anonymous file-trading system.
And who really benefits from this? The people who are using it for society damaging illegal activities. In this level of perverse logic, the RIAA is helping create a superflu that undermines society. (Yes, it is a slippery slope argument and yes, it is only done partly tongue-in-cheek).
How would Microsoft even know what I used to create my anti-MS site? I always hand edit the code to add in ssi stuff anyhow and normal cut out the meta tags that indicate I used Frontpage (out of shame, seeing as I have two other equal and superior programs for HTML creation).
And the standard Redmond reply:
"We offer no comment on this at this time."
Boy, you've missed the boat. Does Ford make me sign an agreement that I won't put anti-Ford bumper stickers on the truck I just bought from them?
If Microsoft was so concerned about what their product was used for, then why don't they have provisions against using it to create porn or warez sites? Nope, clearly some MS exec bristled at the idea of an MS product being used to slam MS. Now, I can't wait until I write up my draft copy of how much this license agreement sucks using MS-Word before they tell me what I can and cannot say using that program.
Is secret, unending, requires a lot of money, requires a lot of invasive police action, and shows very little results from year to year. Yet it is a great reason to explain why sugar is being rationed and why War is really Peace.
And what about the theme song to 'Muppets Take Manhattan'?
If the President is promoting war, anyone who is promoting peace is 'anti-American', at least in Dubya's point-of-view.
Or more appropriately to a ClearChannel's playlist, Marilyn Manson's remake of Suicide is Painless.
And for want of the perfect nail, the war was lost.
;)
Of course it is going to be buggy, and *I* as a landlord would be all over it because *I* am confident and comfortable in keeping things fixed. If a particular unit has undue problems, then I cable that apartment directly.
I'd also run an email server so I can keep track of my tenents and spy on them like in that movie. (j/k)
I recently moved into an apartment building that has never had any broadband access (no one has installed DSL and the cable isn't digital). As I was setting up the DSL service, I realized at a slight extra cost, I could provide wireless access to all the residents.
I'm actually going to present this to my management company and see if this is a perquisite they are willing to offer or if they would mind my going door-to-door and charging a small fee to run an apartment network.
If I were a landlord, I'd be all over this. No cables being pulled through my walls (okay, some wiring may be necessary for quality of service issues) and a selling point only upscale building have.
I bet AOL would pay handsomely to NOT have El do certain voiceovers . . . say be the voice over for an Earthlink commercial. "You've got great value with Earthlink."
The best route for Linux is to get accepted by the office culture. Once that barrier is passed, then when people buy PC's they'll want to work on what they have at the office. The next step, then, is to come up with a killer game that only runs on Linux but gets the same hype and marketing as a PS2 game or major PC game release.
I agree. There are bacteria that live right next to underwater lava flows, there are bacteria that love to munch sulfur -- ship a few canisters to Venus and wait a couple million years. It'd be ripe for a colony right up until the Sun explodes. Of course, if it is too hot on Venus, they could always try this trick with it.
I believe what was meant by the 'going after individuals' was they are pitching this to individuals at the distributor willing to turn in customers who buy OS-less computers.
I do not support the legalization of drugs as a whole. I laugh at the people who want to legalize marijauna on the basis hemp can be useful for other things. I don't laugh at medical research on the use of cannabis for pain relief and nausea relief. I do support the decriminalization of drugs though. We need to create a society that allows this problem to be dealt with straight on, with users able to come forward for help if they want it.
We as a society are paying for this drug war in increased costs of running prisons, increased cost in emergency room visits by people taking poison instead of "USDA" certified drugs.
I have to kind of agree with those conspiracy theorists who say that if we really wanted to end rampant drug use in this country we could, but it is politically beneficial to have a universal ethnic enemy (i.e. Drug Lords, crack dealers). I'm not that simple that I think it is completely a race issue, but I can't help wonder if tobacco was grown by Columbians instead of wealthy white Southern gentlemen, that that part of history would be different.
Drugs are already supported and endorsed by the government to control the population. Pardon me, gotta take my Prozac and Rittalin -- aahh, what was I saying? Oh, yes, praise the government for allowing the pharmeceutical companies to bring me this relief. And as for that non-regulated street crap, well, if some major corporation doesn't hold the patent on ecstasy, do you really expect the government to support it? Who would the Senator's get campaign money from?
Citrix, with its new web interfaces, is also a solution for remote workers. Overall, a Citrix server is a great investment for smaller companies with these kind of issues. But I was under the impression the server kind of caps out at a rather low number of users, meaning running several servers in tandem (with balancing issues) for larger companies.
My company now has over 30 employees who only use dumb terminals. We are now exploring a complete swap out of our enterprise system which means we need to either get thin-clients or some other centralized support system. We have some issues with thin clients and Citrix is our first choice (Citrix with a bunch of used PC's), but it is obvious there is a need within certain corporate environments to keep the actual CPU away from the user, even if it is for psychological reasons.
Let's face it, I've yet to work for a company that gives $.02 towards adequate training and skills enhancement to turn a terminal user into a pc user over night.
Maybe I could go to a special page on your site, and indicate, "I'm in the market for a hard drive.". Then over the next week, I would get ads from advertisers who think they might have something of interest to sell me. While some of your other ideas (the gradient version of 'never show me this again') are quite good, this one is particularly good. I'd like to have it set with a time out function so I don't have to return to turn off my interest. But I go through phases of being interested in new things. If I'm building a new system, I'm keen at looking at hardware. If I'm in the mood for a new game, that is what I want to see. Talk about effective advertisement. I'd also like to see a gradient version of what interests me. I like to travel, but not a lot. If those 'Hobbies and Interests' measured level of interest (none-mild-very-intense) then the ads could be more tightly targeted.
I have a similar experience to this. But in my case, I will be working on a project and need something. I remember that somewhere on one of the sites I visit I saw an ad for something that might help me. But since the ad banners rotate, I spend a lot of time reloading webpages. If a website could keep and index of advertisers it would help refine that process. At this time I have no need for the QuestionExchange, tomorrow I might, but do you think I'm diligent enough to write down or remember the details of it? Click thru rates depend upon me clicking, at this second, on the banner. But at this second, I am more interested in responding to the forum, not exploring ads.
Micropayments won't work. Even though I visit a handful of websites consistently, none of them are so indisposable that I couldn't go somewhere else (even Slashdot can be done away with) for similar content. Even pure voluntary payments will create NPR/PBS style pay your dues banners and splash pages. Although, that isn't that bad of an idea. A website is one of those odd things that can get sunk by its own popularity. It can become so popular, the owner can't afford to pay the bandwidth fees. Some alternative method needs to be developed. I'm not smart enough to figure out what it should be, but the advertising model is failing, at least at the low level scale. I'm willing to display Coke,Pepsi, Holiday Inn, 7-11, and Pep Boy banners on my site, but for some reason they don't advertiser on the web.