Most of their zeitgeist was(is) pretty much online. With an old adwords account, the pay per impression kind, you could enter any set of keywords and it would tell you the number of searches per day/week/month. Assumedly you could run a bunch of fairly large lists through it and collect the data you needed that way.
The new adwords doesn't give you absolute hits per day/week/month, but it does give you an indication of how popular keywords are, when it estimates your cost to run a keyword.
The old adwords is being deactivated very soon (if not already).
It's thought that they at least read usenet, the Comic Book Guy is generally a device they use(d) to make fun of members of the usenet newsgroup that nitpicked everything about the show.
My theory: AOL cds can be used for a low cost (almost free!), heat deflecting, RF radiation blocking, roofing material.
The key is to not crack the cds. You need to use flexible washers of some sort and drive the nail through the center hole of the CD, making sure to overlap them like you would normal shingles.
Note that I have not tried this yet, but I plan to build a small outbuilding to house a generator in the not so distant future, and I have started saving up AOL CDs. One hinderance to my stockpile is that they are so much fun to shoot with a pellet gun.:)
Not all lies are FUD. FUD is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. When MS says the GPL is a virus that will infect all your source code, that is FUD. If I say my widget will process 3 trillion zonks per second and was made entirely from recycled used toilet paper, it may be a lie, but it isn't FUD.
If you are going to go the TV->VGA route, check out AV Toolbox stuff.
http://www.avtoolbox.com/
I got their $60 TV->VGA box and it rocks... computer pass through, built in tuner for cable, plenty of inputs to go around.
It's a line doubler so more blocky than a more advanced box that interpolates, which they also sell, but still acceptable. If space is tight, this is a good way to ditch the TV.
All your example did was make the (geeky) people you know look cheap.
They are cheap.
I wasn't arguing that piracy is some rebellion that helps free software, only that few people (not companies) consider the monetary cost of Windows in the decision to pick Linux or Windows.
I think almost all of us "zealots" are very serious about Free (liber) software.
Most (geeky) people that run Windows at home don't pay for most of their copies, at least the Windows using people that I know don't. Sure they may have a legit OEM copy from when they bought a laptop or something, but all the rest just copy it. Same with MS Office. I don't see your price argument very compelling when comparing Linux to Windows users.
I do agree with your cost argument if you are looking at Windows/Linux users as a group, compared to Mac users, however.
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My site poetrycontestonline.com has been around in some incarnation since early 1996 (under a geocities domain though until around 1998). There are many many small sites that have been around forever.
I think a better question would be, "how many sites that get tons of traffic and that aren't run by huge corporations have been around that long?".
It's trivial to keep a page up that gets 1000 hits a week. One that gets 100,000 hits a day is a little more challenging.
None of that money was mine, it was the companies "virtual money" they gave me to "buy" benefits. Check into your work for something simular. It will help cover the costs of a higher quality place.
Oh it was your money, just not directly. That money comes from somewhere, you pay through taxes or through a lower salary. You don't get something for nothing.
Apparently they shine a bright light in your eyes to dialate you pupils.
I seriously doubt it. Think about what you just typed.
He had a seziure.
That was almost definitely a condition that existed before going to the eye doctor. He's lucky that he discovered it in controlled circumstances, and not, say, while driving.
video game, NEW video game are achieving a prett good level of realism. What happens when a video game achieves near perfect realism?
This is the same argument since the 80s. I remember seeing a piece on TV, it had some consorship people showing a video game (in all its 150X150 glory) and they were demonstrating how the enemies "screamed" when you killed them, and it was ushering in an unprecedented level of realism, etc, etc.
People will be arguing this same thing as long as there are violent games, and as long as there are games, there will be violent games.
Hrm, My house has 120 GB of digital video survelliance camera recording time...
Seems like a pretty weak system for the money they are offering. From what I read there, that contract shouldn't be worth more than 500,000-1,000,000 tops, and that's being generous.
Hmmm, that's not my experience. I'm not talking about legal research as much as research regarding your particular situation. For example, this guy in the Ask Slashdot could go find a lot of authoritative references on the way Klez works, and take that to his lawyer to help him understand the situation. The lawyer's job is to figure out the legal angle, you can help him by finding specifics that he may have overlooked. You're not doing his job for him, you are helping him do his job more effectively.
There's a lot of agricultural failure that could happen that would actually better the food production system of the world and lower taxes. Nobody's done the numbers so we don't really know the specifics.
If food became a self-sufficient market, food prices would increase by about the same amount as the taxes would go down (in theory, after all when is the last time the government passed through savings to the taxpayers?).
Anyway, the Liberals will argue that this amounts to regressive tax increases since the "poor" spend roughly the same amount on food as the "rich". If anything, the indirect welfare will move to direct welfare, or the government will just "keep the change". From what I have seen, once the government gets involved in a market, and there are large commercial superconglomerates like ADM involved to buy congressmen, the markets rarely get more free later on.
One, you don't do the speaking so you don't accidentally stick your foot in your mouth
This is probably the biggest value in getting a lawyer, I know from experience.... I've been in court many times, sometimes pro se and sometimes with a lawyer, mostly family court custody/child support issues. You don't always need a lawyer to win, but it sure makes things much easier.
I still think people should research their situation out fully as if they didn't have a lawyer, even if they get one, because it's a hell of a lot cheaper for you to do the research than to ask your lawyer to do it.
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. when our backbones fail... what do we do?
Slither around on the floor?
But it Swings with performance!
We're gonna rock-tane!
Most of their zeitgeist was(is) pretty much online. With an old adwords account, the pay per impression kind, you could enter any set of keywords and it would tell you the number of searches per day/week/month. Assumedly you could run a bunch of fairly large lists through it and collect the data you needed that way.
The new adwords doesn't give you absolute hits per day/week/month, but it does give you an indication of how popular keywords are, when it estimates your cost to run a keyword.
The old adwords is being deactivated very soon (if not already).
Man, the mission impossible movies sucked. I think I lost interest during the spinning car scene. I mean, suspension of disbelief can only go so far!
It's thought that they at least read usenet, the Comic Book Guy is generally a device they use(d) to make fun of members of the usenet newsgroup that nitpicked everything about the show.
My theory: AOL cds can be used for a low cost (almost free!), heat deflecting, RF radiation blocking, roofing material.
:)
The key is to not crack the cds. You need to use flexible washers of some sort and drive the nail through the center hole of the CD, making sure to overlap them like you would normal shingles.
Note that I have not tried this yet, but I plan to build a small outbuilding to house a generator in the not so distant future, and I have started saving up AOL CDs. One hinderance to my stockpile is that they are so much fun to shoot with a pellet gun.
Besides, for the same $1600 you can get a really nice laptop, that would probably use less power and be faster...
Sounds like marketing FUD to me
Not all lies are FUD. FUD is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. When MS says the GPL is a virus that will infect all your source code, that is FUD. If I say my widget will process 3 trillion zonks per second and was made entirely from recycled used toilet paper, it may be a lie, but it isn't FUD.
If you are going to go the TV->VGA route, check out AV Toolbox stuff.
http://www.avtoolbox.com/
I got their $60 TV->VGA box and it rocks... computer pass through, built in tuner for cable, plenty of inputs to go around.
It's a line doubler so more blocky than a more advanced box that interpolates, which they also sell, but still acceptable. If space is tight, this is a good way to ditch the TV.
All your example did was make the (geeky) people you know look cheap.
They are cheap.
I wasn't arguing that piracy is some rebellion that helps free software, only that few people (not companies) consider the monetary cost of Windows in the decision to pick Linux or Windows.
You know, not everyone can get cable/dsl.
That was what I meant. They want it on P2P. I realize my pretty braindead typo of "uncourages" might have given you the wrong idea.
They probably want it to wind up on P2P, forcing people to download it uncourages that.
I think almost all of us "zealots" are very serious about Free (liber) software.
Not serious enough to spell "libre" correctly.
"Liberty" derives from Latin libertas, from liber, "free".
People who spell it "libre" must be spanish or mexican (or idiots) or something.
or feigned moral indignation about
I think almost all of us "zealots" are very serious about Free (liber) software.
Most (geeky) people that run Windows at home don't pay for most of their copies, at least the Windows using people that I know don't. Sure they may have a legit OEM copy from when they bought a laptop or something, but all the rest just copy it. Same with MS Office. I don't see your price argument very compelling when comparing Linux to Windows users.
I do agree with your cost argument if you are looking at Windows/Linux users as a group, compared to Mac users, however.
My site poetrycontestonline.com has been around in some incarnation since early 1996 (under a geocities domain though until around 1998). There are many many small sites that have been around forever.
I think a better question would be, "how many sites that get tons of traffic and that aren't run by huge corporations have been around that long?".
It's trivial to keep a page up that gets 1000 hits a week. One that gets 100,000 hits a day is a little more challenging.
Jesus [...] has spent the last two and a half years investigating so-called megacryometeors
Cut the guy some slack, you think it's easy being the son of God?
None of that money was mine, it was the companies "virtual money" they gave me to "buy" benefits. Check into your work for something simular. It will help cover the costs of a higher quality place.
Oh it was your money, just not directly. That money comes from somewhere, you pay through taxes or through a lower salary. You don't get something for nothing.
Apparently they shine a bright light in your eyes to dialate you pupils.
I seriously doubt it. Think about what you just typed.
He had a seziure.
That was almost definitely a condition that existed before going to the eye doctor. He's lucky that he discovered it in controlled circumstances, and not, say, while driving.
Good point.
video game, NEW video game are achieving a prett good level of realism. What happens when a video game achieves near perfect realism?
This is the same argument since the 80s. I remember seeing a piece on TV, it had some consorship people showing a video game (in all its 150X150 glory) and they were demonstrating how the enemies "screamed" when you killed them, and it was ushering in an unprecedented level of realism, etc, etc.
People will be arguing this same thing as long as there are violent games, and as long as there are games, there will be violent games.
400 Gig DVR
Hrm, My house has 120 GB of digital video survelliance camera recording time...
Seems like a pretty weak system for the money they are offering. From what I read there, that contract shouldn't be worth more than 500,000-1,000,000 tops, and that's being generous.
Hmmm, that's not my experience. I'm not talking about legal research as much as research regarding your particular situation. For example, this guy in the Ask Slashdot could go find a lot of authoritative references on the way Klez works, and take that to his lawyer to help him understand the situation. The lawyer's job is to figure out the legal angle, you can help him by finding specifics that he may have overlooked. You're not doing his job for him, you are helping him do his job more effectively.
There's a lot of agricultural failure that could happen that would actually better the food production system of the world and lower taxes. Nobody's done the numbers so we don't really know the specifics.
If food became a self-sufficient market, food prices would increase by about the same amount as the taxes would go down (in theory, after all when is the last time the government passed through savings to the taxpayers?).
Anyway, the Liberals will argue that this amounts to regressive tax increases since the "poor" spend roughly the same amount on food as the "rich". If anything, the indirect welfare will move to direct welfare, or the government will just "keep the change". From what I have seen, once the government gets involved in a market, and there are large commercial superconglomerates like ADM involved to buy congressmen, the markets rarely get more free later on.
One, you don't do the speaking so you don't accidentally stick your foot in your mouth
This is probably the biggest value in getting a lawyer, I know from experience.... I've been in court many times, sometimes pro se and sometimes with a lawyer, mostly family court custody/child support issues. You don't always need a lawyer to win, but it sure makes things much easier.
I still think people should research their situation out fully as if they didn't have a lawyer, even if they get one, because it's a hell of a lot cheaper for you to do the research than to ask your lawyer to do it.