I have been involved in a healthy relationship with a "real adult woman" for 2 years. I am also a full legal adult, and to boot, I don't feel the need to throw insults around. Perhapse you should grow up.
Or worse, California I don't know what to think of this... on the one hand... the problems of one state don't seem worse than the problems of the nation... however, most of the nation's STUPID ideas do come from california, so maybe it is worse if they get the idea.
OK... what happened here? The title makes it sound like he got charged $180m for leading a *privacy conspiracy*, however I think he really was only selling devices to bypass satellite encryption (pirating the channels, basically).
In case 1 - GOOD. If he was doing some very anti-privacy stuff, then I am glad they made an example of him and fined him so much.
In case 2 - DAMN. I have attempted to pirate satellite signals before too... among other things. If he got fined $180m for damages that "might" have happened had he succeeded... this is bad.
As many have pointed out.. what's important is not what ads are getting skipped, but why they are. Here are a few things they have done wrong, that really piss off viewers: 1. Volume. The add should be no louder than the rest of the broadcast material. This should be a standard among all stations - if my tv is set at a specific volume, I should be able to go to any channel at any time and have it be *exactly* the same volume.
2. Timing of product. Tampon/pad commercials during dinner or sport events are probably not very well planned. Similarly, I've seen car/realestate commercials on during saturday morning cartoons...
3. Repeating ad. Ever watch a 30 minute show and see the *same* commercial 4 times (once before, twice during, once after). Or even 2 different commercials for the same product back to back? That gets annoying, and you blank it out.
4. Portrays customer as idiot. This may just be a pet peeve of mine, but it seems to be a fad now in advertising to portray customers as mindless automotons who just consume whatever you give them. For example, the guy in Best Buy staring mindlessly at the new TV, and the salesguy saying "dude, you need these speakers too."
Personally, I am amazed advertising has worked this far at all. We saw how HORRIBLY it failed at supporting websites. What if this (counting ad skips) is effectually the same as counting the lack of clicks on a banner? will advertising firms start to lose money, stop paying content providers for space, causing them to lose money?
This seemed to be more of a priority back when NAT was much less prevalent
Since several states have already banned NAT, and several more are moving in that direction... perhapse IPv6 will be necessary much sooner than we think.
IPv6 has enough IP's to identify each unique second until IPv8 is released. IPv8 won't be released until all IPv6 addresses are used. The longer it takes for IPv8 to be released, the sooner it will happen!
My guess is there's no caching or anything enabled either.
You know what would be nice, is if/. automatically tracked hits to articles.
It could do this easily by automatically inserting something like: http://www.slashdot.org/countHits.pl? befo re everything linked in a submission. Not highly useful, I know... but don't you wonder sometimes just how many hits it takes before it stops responding all together?
Usually I'm against the corporation fighting for its property, because usually I think it's unfounded.
However, just look at the damn screenshot given in the article. It looks *exactly* like wc2. It even has "Strongholds" and orcs and the farms, barracks, etc all look the same.
Come on people. This is like me taking a famous book (that still sells, some) and rewriting it exactly word for word - except character names (which would be Similar), then then giving it away.
Sure you could wrap the image around a perfect cylinder, but without knowing the "stetch factor" at the top and bottom, you wouldn't know how close to the center of the cylinder to render that point.
Think of it like rendering a sky in games like doom/quake/half-life/etc. The sky is really just a very large box with a sky texture applied to the inside. You as a player are inside the box so you don't realize it's a box. Once you go outside the box, it becomes painfully obvious that there is no sky, just a box.
QTVR is inside the cylinder, but with the scanned image, you're outside:)
As with all statistics, you can make them say whatever you want...
Maybe most OSS projects are easier to debug because of lack of features, or smaller scope, etc.
What percentage of OSS projects, on say sourceforge.net, have a version number 1.0? (and are "widely" used). The first one that comes to my mind is MythTV and/or FreeVo. I can't speak of freevo, but mythtv (while being impressive) is still very bug ridden and has been out for over a year.
Another factor is the user group, of course. With OSS I imagine the kernel gets more bugs submitted by users than mythtv, just because the users aren't so much code hackers... they just want to use it.
The one rule in the software engineering is that there are no rules.
On previews: Being as those Hollywood types want you to believe that "not watching a commercial is stealing a tv program", I find hard to believe they'd let you get away with not watching the previews...after all, those previews paid for... wait no, it was my goddamn money!
On the FBI warning: That screen is your contract not to pirate the movie or use it in non-personal ways. If you could skip that screen you could claim you never "signed" the contract and are not bound to it... that's why dvd players won't (shouldn't) let you skip it.
I've thought of systems like this before... only at the time I was thinking racquetball, not basball.
It doesnt seem like it would be that hard using EM fields/very low power radio..
A very simplified explanation: The ball emits a low power electric current Each player has a sensor that detects that current Guy on base catches ball, the ball's current travels through his body. When the guy sliding onto base touches the 1st guy, the current flows over/thru his body and activates the sensor. Similarly, the base emits its own signal, and it is automatically detected which signal reaches the player first.
I know, there are slight problems with this, but nothing that couldn't be overcome if people wanted it.
As far as raquetball, I just wanted to know if the ball had hit the front wall or the floor first, since the difference means a point. That is a much simpler system because there aren't multiple emitters, just the ball.
Finally, I can stop naming my folders like: cute brunette cute brunette in dress hot blonde with guy 1 hot blonde with guy 2 hot blonde with dildo 1...
Now I can attach meta data like hair color, props (clothing, toys, surroundings), # partners, partner gender(s), whatever else... you get the idea;)
Very good point. Here in Colorado we've been in mild-to-severe drought for several years, but this spring/summer seems to be returning to normal.
There is nothing like driving by an empty lake bed, or not seeing a blue sky for 2 months through all the smoke of forrest fires, that makes you truly appriciate water.
On the subject, in the dorms there were always people who would go turn on the shower and then go take a 10 minute crap while the water was running... or leave the sink full blast while brushing their teeth. I wanted to kill them.
The problem is even worse in rural/flat areas where water is taken from pumps. The water table is very easily depleted and will take decades to replenish.
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I have been involved in a healthy relationship with a "real adult woman" for 2 years. I am also a full legal adult, and to boot, I don't feel the need to throw insults around. Perhapse you should grow up.
Or worse, California
I don't know what to think of this... on the one hand... the problems of one state don't seem worse than the problems of the nation...
however, most of the nation's STUPID ideas do come from california, so maybe it is worse if they get the idea.
OK... what happened here? The title makes it sound like he got charged $180m for leading a *privacy conspiracy*, however I think he really was only selling devices to bypass satellite encryption (pirating the channels, basically).
In case 1 - GOOD. If he was doing some very anti-privacy stuff, then I am glad they made an example of him and fined him so much.
In case 2 - DAMN. I have attempted to pirate satellite signals before too... among other things. If he got fined $180m for damages that "might" have happened had he succeeded... this is bad.
As many have pointed out.. what's important is not what ads are getting skipped, but why they are.
Here are a few things they have done wrong, that really piss off viewers:
1. Volume. The add should be no louder than the rest of the broadcast material. This should be a standard among all stations - if my tv is set at a specific volume, I should be able to go to any channel at any time and have it be *exactly* the same volume.
2. Timing of product. Tampon/pad commercials during dinner or sport events are probably not very well planned. Similarly, I've seen car/realestate commercials on during saturday morning cartoons...
3. Repeating ad. Ever watch a 30 minute show and see the *same* commercial 4 times (once before, twice during, once after). Or even 2 different commercials for the same product back to back? That gets annoying, and you blank it out.
4. Portrays customer as idiot. This may just be a pet peeve of mine, but it seems to be a fad now in advertising to portray customers as mindless automotons who just consume whatever you give them. For example, the guy in Best Buy staring mindlessly at the new TV, and the salesguy saying "dude, you need these speakers too."
Personally, I am amazed advertising has worked this far at all. We saw how HORRIBLY it failed at supporting websites. What if this (counting ad skips) is effectually the same as counting the lack of clicks on a banner? will advertising firms start to lose money, stop paying content providers for space, causing them to lose money?
that website actually crashed IE for me, time and time again.
I'm on w2k, sp3, ie6.
This seemed to be more of a priority back when NAT was much less prevalent
Since several states have already banned NAT, and several more are moving in that direction... perhapse IPv6 will be necessary much sooner than we think.
IPv6 has enough IP's to identify each unique second until IPv8 is released.
IPv8 won't be released until all IPv6 addresses are used.
The longer it takes for IPv8 to be released, the sooner it will happen!
/ProductDetail.asp?vID=179
/. automatically tracked hits to articles.
o re everything linked in a submission.
1. ASP
2. Hammering a database
My guess is there's no caching or anything enabled either.
You know what would be nice, is if
It could do this easily by automatically inserting something like:
http://www.slashdot.org/countHits.pl?
bef
Not highly useful, I know... but don't you wonder sometimes just how many hits it takes before it stops responding all together?
It takes up less horizontal space when folded, but provides a full screen when unfolded.
The whole thing of course is..
a) worthless tech
b) stupid, clueless marketting
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"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
Like others said, IntelliJ is EXCELLENT (though very much not free - $99 for student license, much much more for commercial).
:)
It fits like a good pair of underwear... supports you in all the right places, but still gives you plenty of room to do what you want
Antitrust beat the hell out of movies like Hackers and The Net.
Atleast Antitrust used GNOME, real unix commands, etc... had hot girls, and an actual plot.
Maybe it didn't portray the fineprint of the GPL, but it did pretty well (I thought) at showing how corrupt corporations can be.
Getting sued for violating their copyright protection scheme by modding the xbox: life savings.
Anyone else get the instant urge to close the window (thinking it was a popup) when they saw the host www.top500.org?
Usually I'm against the corporation fighting for its property, because usually I think it's unfounded.
However, just look at the damn screenshot given in the article. It looks *exactly* like wc2. It even has "Strongholds" and orcs and the farms, barracks, etc all look the same.
Come on people. This is like me taking a famous book (that still sells, some) and rewriting it exactly word for word - except character names (which would be Similar), then then giving it away.
Sure you could wrap the image around a perfect cylinder, but without knowing the "stetch factor" at the top and bottom, you wouldn't know how close to the center of the cylinder to render that point.
:)
Think of it like rendering a sky in games like doom/quake/half-life/etc. The sky is really just a very large box with a sky texture applied to the inside. You as a player are inside the box so you don't realize it's a box. Once you go outside the box, it becomes painfully obvious that there is no sky, just a box.
QTVR is inside the cylinder, but with the scanned image, you're outside
As with all statistics, you can make them say whatever you want...
Maybe most OSS projects are easier to debug because of lack of features, or smaller scope, etc.
What percentage of OSS projects, on say sourceforge.net, have a version number 1.0? (and are "widely" used). The first one that comes to my mind is MythTV and/or FreeVo. I can't speak of freevo, but mythtv (while being impressive) is still very bug ridden and has been out for over a year.
Another factor is the user group, of course. With OSS I imagine the kernel gets more bugs submitted by users than mythtv, just because the users aren't so much code hackers... they just want to use it.
The one rule in the software engineering is that there are no rules.
On previews:
Being as those Hollywood types want you to believe that "not watching a commercial is stealing a tv program", I find hard to believe they'd let you get away with not watching the previews...after all, those previews paid for... wait no, it was my goddamn money!
On the FBI warning:
That screen is your contract not to pirate the movie or use it in non-personal ways. If you could skip that screen you could claim you never "signed" the contract and are not bound to it... that's why dvd players won't (shouldn't) let you skip it.
I've thought of systems like this before... only at the time I was thinking racquetball, not basball.
It doesnt seem like it would be that hard using EM fields/very low power radio..
A very simplified explanation:
The ball emits a low power electric current
Each player has a sensor that detects that current
Guy on base catches ball, the ball's current travels through his body.
When the guy sliding onto base touches the 1st guy, the current flows over/thru his body and activates the sensor.
Similarly, the base emits its own signal, and it is automatically detected which signal reaches the player first.
I know, there are slight problems with this, but nothing that couldn't be overcome if people wanted it.
As far as raquetball, I just wanted to know if the ball had hit the front wall or the floor first, since the difference means a point. That is a much simpler system because there aren't multiple emitters, just the ball.
Don't give them any ideas...
here
this occured on the Steve Jobs/Segway story a day or 2 ago as well.
Wonder what's goin on.
Finally, I can stop naming my folders like: ...
;)
cute brunette
cute brunette in dress
hot blonde with guy 1
hot blonde with guy 2
hot blonde with dildo 1
Now I can attach meta data like
hair color,
props (clothing, toys, surroundings),
# partners,
partner gender(s),
whatever else... you get the idea
Very good point. Here in Colorado we've been in mild-to-severe drought for several years, but this spring/summer seems to be returning to normal.
There is nothing like driving by an empty lake bed, or not seeing a blue sky for 2 months through all the smoke of forrest fires, that makes you truly appriciate water.
On the subject, in the dorms there were always people who would go turn on the shower and then go take a 10 minute crap while the water was running... or leave the sink full blast while brushing their teeth. I wanted to kill them.
The problem is even worse in rural/flat areas where water is taken from pumps. The water table is very easily depleted and will take decades to replenish.
I also noticed this... here are 2 possible causes I can think of:
- someone did actually retype it
- it was originally misspelled on the article, copied and pasted, and then the article was updated to fix the typo.