So far, the sofa can only deliver a personalized greeting to the person who plops down on it... and from that they extrapolate any number of WOW things that it *may* be able to do in the future (if the hack who is programming it doesn't get borde or run out of grant money and give up!!!).
"This bill would broaden access to the Internet, expand consumer choice, promote certainty and growth in the IT sector of our economy and encourage the deployment of broadband services at lower prices. "... so how come a bill that ensures that the Internet will stay as untaxed as it already is (for Americans at least), manages to promote all those great changes huh?
Oh well, can't complain too much, at least it's positive news. I just though it made good spin!:-D
Typical - the first step probably seemed perfectly reasonable to JetBlue - I mean what could be safer than a Security Administration huh?
But then the records get given to a private firm and like Chinese Whispers, the privacy implications are completely forgotten.
I notice the exact same effect at work. I explain the ethical implications of not spamming to my boss. He then exlpains to clients that it's fine for them to send information to existing client lists. They then come and ask us to send mail to a list they have bought in from a 3rd party supplier!
I guess that problems like this are going to crop up more and more as we give up more and more of our personal data to large companies.
And I got a bunch of replies back, including *gasp* two written by actual human beings!
Remember folks, if you're going to write and complain, try and keep it civil. The porr bugger who hsa to read your complaint isn't the same person who actually took the decision to introduce sitefinder!
Not surprising the author didn't know his niche...
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If you think about it there are very few people who actually *need* to get down and dirty with the HTTP protocol itself. OK - most of those who do are probably reading this and I'll be shouted down, but in reality there aren't that many people who'll be jumping up and down saying "Wow! All I ever wanted to know about HTTP!!".
Now *that's* some good creative thinking there. Who ever said that all marketing folk are good for nothen eh?;-)
Seriously, I'm looking forward to seeing how this initiative pans out - getting it mentioned on Slashdot is a good step towards getting the viral marketing concept going though!
I love his commenta about mailing disks to Europe and Asia..
The biggest problem I have mailing disks is customs. If you mail a disk to Europe or Asia, you have to pay customs, which about doubles the shipping cost and introduces delays.
Thereby adding a corrolary to the old adage "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a vanload of tapes barrelling down the highway"...
"Never underestimate the bottleneck caused by a far-Eastern customs inspector.".-D
An idea like this sounds fantastic - but is riddled with potential problems.
If they produce something with low capabilities, but a low, low price, then they will be accused of producing underpowered rubbish.
As soon as you start to increase the potential of the platform, the costs start to rise until you have an elitist product that the intended market cannot afford.
There *may* be a happy medium somewhere, but the edvil is in the details of finding it. In the consumerist marketplace we have in the West, production prices are already pushed as low as possible. Squeezing out extra pennies in production is almost impossible. The potential is there though to reduce prices through the marketing and adminitration side of things (pay no fat-cat salaries to the sales & management departments), but then again the product quickly becomes unfashionable and therefore undesirable.
I would love to see such a product to succeed, but it's a hell of an uphill stuggle!
Tereby helping to prove the old adage that the Internet will just route around regulation! (OK, it's not strictly regulation, but with any luck Verisgn will find that "controlling" the underlying technology of the Internet is not as easy as they first though).
I would absolutely *love* to see something like this introduced in the UK - people there (and pretty much anywhere else) drive like fscking idiots!
Of course - it'll never happen and as many have pointed out, the Sun is a complete and utter rag! But I do not understand why car drivers think that the laws laid down don't *actually* apply or have any meaning.
Yup, this bike is probably "single speed" - but it also probably has a hub brake rather than a fixed gear. This means that it can still freewheel (allowing the cyclist to rest their legs occassionally, and to remove feet from the pedals without the pedals continuing to spin), but to brake you apply a backwards pressure which induces a controlled brake effect. Hub brakes are very popular here in Scandinavia on "shopping bikes" - my GF hates to ride anything with hand brakes having grown up with hub brakes.
It's unlikely to be a fixed wheel, but instead it's probably a hub brake. With those you can freewheel and to brake you apply backwards pressure on the pedals. Hub brakes are extremely popular on "shopping bikes" here in Scandinavia - I would estimate that over 50% of the bikes on the streets here in Sweden have them. The advantages over a fixed wheel are that you can stop pedalling and rest your legs, plus a more controlled braking effect. Also if you take your feet from the pedals you run less risk of injury as the pedals don't continue to spin.
I live in Sweden and it seems like the majority of "shopping bikes" sold over here have coaster brakes. I would point out that these are NOT the same thing as a fixed wheel - you can stop pedalling without braking, you have to apply backwards pressure on the pedals in order to brake. I personally hate them, but my GF can't imagine riding a bike with hand-brakes.
I noticed during the Tour De France coverage that apparently one of the main reasons pro-cyclists shave their legs is because they get a massage every day and having smooth legs helps avoid getting irritated hair follicles from the regular massaging.
The other 2 reasons are to reduce infection chance if they get road-rash and quite simply to look good! The aerodynamic effect is negligible (even for top cyclists).
Re:biodegradable containers have been around for a
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yup - here in Europe I'll be travelling to a huge rock festival in Denmark in a week or so where all the disposable cutlery for food is made from this stuff (or at least something similar). Works pretty well for the disposable market.
Nope - it would only be Aibos or Asimos there wouldn't it?
Or perhaps you're implying that people would fear the possibility that the Segway was actually a transforming autobot that would react rather badly to being stolen;-)
Slashdot Mirror
So far, the sofa can only deliver a personalized greeting to the person who plops down on it ... and from that they extrapolate any number of WOW things that it *may* be able to do in the future (if the hack who is programming it doesn't get borde or run out of grant money and give up!!!).
Sometimes I despise articles like this!
Definitely not....
:-p
Oh - you're a Scorpio too. Cool! I guess you're an interesting, wild, complex, sexually driven person too then!
"This bill would broaden access to the Internet, expand consumer choice, promote certainty and growth in the IT sector of our economy and encourage the deployment of broadband services at lower prices. " ... so how come a bill that ensures that the Internet will stay as untaxed as it already is (for Americans at least), manages to promote all those great changes huh?
:-D
Oh well, can't complain too much, at least it's positive news. I just though it made good spin!
Typical - the first step probably seemed perfectly reasonable to JetBlue - I mean what could be safer than a Security Administration huh?
But then the records get given to a private firm and like Chinese Whispers, the privacy implications are completely forgotten.
I notice the exact same effect at work. I explain the ethical implications of not spamming to my boss. He then exlpains to clients that it's fine for them to send information to existing client lists. They then come and ask us to send mail to a list they have bought in from a 3rd party supplier!
I guess that problems like this are going to crop up more and more as we give up more and more of our personal data to large companies.
Would that give you a PC with BuTtoX Extreme inside?? :-D
I mailed this little lot earlier today:
authenticode-support@verisign.com, billing@verisign.com, channel-partners@verisign.com, clientpki@verisign.com, consultingsolutions@verisign.com, dbms-support@verisign.com, dcpolicy@verisign.com, digitalbranding@verisign.com, dnssales@verisign.com, enterprise-pkisupport@verisign.com, enterprise-sslsupport@verisign.com, info@verisign-grs.com, internetsales@verisign.com, IR@verisign.com, jobs@verisign.com, mss@verisign.com, objectsigning-support@verisign.com, paymentsales@verisign.com, practices@verisign.com, premiersupport@networksolutions.com, press@verisign.com, privacy@networksolutions.com, renewal@verisign.com, support@verisign.com, verisales@verisign.com, vps-support@verisign.com, vts-csrgroup@verisign.com, vts-mktginfo@verisign.com, webhelp@verisign.com, websitesales@verisign.com, websitesupport@verisign.com
And I got a bunch of replies back, including *gasp* two written by actual human beings!
Remember folks, if you're going to write and complain, try and keep it civil. The porr bugger who hsa to read your complaint isn't the same person who actually took the decision to introduce sitefinder!
If you think about it there are very few people who actually *need* to get down and dirty with the HTTP protocol itself. OK - most of those who do are probably reading this and I'll be shouted down, but in reality there aren't that many people who'll be jumping up and down saying "Wow! All I ever wanted to know about HTTP!!".
Now *that's* some good creative thinking there. Who ever said that all marketing folk are good for nothen eh? ;-)
Seriously, I'm looking forward to seeing how this initiative pans out - getting it mentioned on Slashdot is a good step towards getting the viral marketing concept going though!
ARE in place. I meant to say that
;-)
"the evdil is in the details" of course
I love his commenta about mailing disks to Europe and Asia..
.-D
The biggest problem I have mailing disks is customs. If you mail a disk to Europe or Asia, you have to pay customs, which about doubles the shipping cost and introduces delays.
Thereby adding a corrolary to the old adage "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a vanload of tapes barrelling down the highway"...
"Never underestimate the bottleneck caused by a far-Eastern customs inspector."
An idea like this sounds fantastic - but is riddled with potential problems.
If they produce something with low capabilities, but a low, low price, then they will be accused of producing underpowered rubbish.
As soon as you start to increase the potential of the platform, the costs start to rise until you have an elitist product that the intended market cannot afford.
There *may* be a happy medium somewhere, but the edvil is in the details of finding it. In the consumerist marketplace we have in the West, production prices are already pushed as low as possible. Squeezing out extra pennies in production is almost impossible. The potential is there though to reduce prices through the marketing and adminitration side of things (pay no fat-cat salaries to the sales & management departments), but then again the product quickly becomes unfashionable and therefore undesirable.
I would love to see such a product to succeed, but it's a hell of an uphill stuggle!
Tereby helping to prove the old adage that the Internet will just route around regulation! (OK, it's not strictly regulation, but with any luck Verisgn will find that "controlling" the underlying technology of the Internet is not as easy as they first though).
Who have they convinced to sit there holding down the keys for the chord for the next 1.9 years???
I would absolutely *love* to see something like this introduced in the UK - people there (and pretty much anywhere else) drive like fscking idiots!
Of course - it'll never happen and as many have pointed out, the Sun is a complete and utter rag! But I do not understand why car drivers think that the laws laid down don't *actually* apply or have any meaning.
He's the first person I've seen who makes ESR look like he's *not* a paranoid conspiracy nut! :-D
.. and the system will convert into a high-pressure water scalpel!
What the hell are you talking about? You don't run on a bike - you cycle on a bike!
Yup, this bike is probably "single speed" - but it also probably has a hub brake rather than a fixed gear. This means that it can still freewheel (allowing the cyclist to rest their legs occassionally, and to remove feet from the pedals without the pedals continuing to spin), but to brake you apply a backwards pressure which induces a controlled brake effect. Hub brakes are very popular here in Scandinavia on "shopping bikes" - my GF hates to ride anything with hand brakes having grown up with hub brakes.
It's unlikely to be a fixed wheel, but instead it's probably a hub brake. With those you can freewheel and to brake you apply backwards pressure on the pedals. Hub brakes are extremely popular on "shopping bikes" here in Scandinavia - I would estimate that over 50% of the bikes on the streets here in Sweden have them. The advantages over a fixed wheel are that you can stop pedalling and rest your legs, plus a more controlled braking effect. Also if you take your feet from the pedals you run less risk of injury as the pedals don't continue to spin.
I live in Sweden and it seems like the majority of "shopping bikes" sold over here have coaster brakes. I would point out that these are NOT the same thing as a fixed wheel - you can stop pedalling without braking, you have to apply backwards pressure on the pedals in order to brake. I personally hate them, but my GF can't imagine riding a bike with hand-brakes.
What? Covered in luxutious long hair you mean??
:-D
Bizarre!
I noticed during the Tour De France coverage that apparently one of the main reasons pro-cyclists shave their legs is because they get a massage every day and having smooth legs helps avoid getting irritated hair follicles from the regular massaging.
The other 2 reasons are to reduce infection chance if they get road-rash and quite simply to look good! The aerodynamic effect is negligible (even for top cyclists).
yup - here in Europe I'll be travelling to a huge rock festival in Denmark in a week or so where all the disposable cutlery for food is made from this stuff (or at least something similar). Works pretty well for the disposable market.
Nope - it would only be Aibos or Asimos there wouldn't it?
;-)
Or perhaps you're implying that people would fear the possibility that the Segway was actually a transforming autobot that would react rather badly to being stolen
Perhaps they should contact a local observatory for some help in finding the elusive "space" :-D