The author of new super machine noticed, that it works especially well when placed above buried electricity cable or by the aerial electricity wire hangers. "The Zero Point energy loves our current electricity transports and seem to be attracted to them".
In other stories today, Irish electricity company filed for chapter 11, citing as a reason mysterious drains of electricity from its systems at undisclosed location in Ireland. Company insider says, there were numerous sighting of a man with something, that looked like a washing machine, by systems, experiencing power drainage. He was not identified, and referred to in company's files as simply "an electricity pirate".
It's easy. If the track you want is not available from Emusic what are you going to do?
I want new Vangelis. EMusic has a whopping TWO albums of "Best songs" from 1984. Sweet. Oh wait... I already have those, bought for less than $5 each. Now I am supposed to pay 9.99 per month for right to download those two albums. I don't think it's a good deal.
As for other new services where you can pay for download -- you either can't burn downloaded copies or you have to pay a full price (that exceeds the cost of a "regular" CD album) with a limit of songs. Until it gets to the level of Tivo where for 9.95 a month I can record and play and do whatever I want with the tv shows without limits it won't be a good deal and big guys will be giving out interviews screaming that "those bastards don't want to use our legal system!". Hope they'll get smart one day:)
Hm... reminds me that commercial...
"We have every movie ever made in any language you need...
-- How's that possible?! Q**** connection to the internet?!
-- Naaw. We just got ourself onto campus network."
Did they say they guarantee you that? Did they say they guarantee a bandwidth of NNN mbps? Did they omit usual warning that "we can change this agreement at any time [with prior notice]"? Was AT&T the one who provided the service or were they mentioned as re-seller of @Home services?
No? What a surprise. Well then, you can demand from AT&T to continue to provide you with @Home service which is kinda... nonexistant anymore. And, of course, you are free to sue @Home for breaking the agreement (if it was not carefully crafted).
Otherwise think of people in Europe paying $120 a month for 64Kbps "cable" with a cap on download.
The problem would be an unwillingness to go down to 20% profitability instead of 300%:) I mean if you're used to selling CD for $20 and it only costs $2.5 to print and $2 for artist/studio/percentage payoffs with everything above that going into "Profit Bin" why would you want to move your finger to change the situation?
When suing companies will take more money rather than lowering price down to $7.00 (and allowing therefore selling single download with burning rights for 50c) they lower price and make everyone happy. Until then lawsuits is cheaper solution for them.
:) My current Digital Cable box has "ethernet" output though it's not used as cable modem. But every so often I get software updated (that make it flash funny messages on its LCD)
I also heard that they started to experiment with data collection from digital boxes rather than Nielsen boxes.
Further question would be how much getting precise data would cost to companies that are not affiliated, say, with AT&T Cable unit...:)
Well all cable companies now push "digital cable".
And that box is fully capable of tracking how where and what way you're watching (unless you use RF pass-through and ignore all hundreds of digital channels).
Somewhere in it (or one of the previous bills) you have received "terms of service and privacy notice". That clearly says your cable company is collecting the data and shares it with affiliates "to provide better service" ("this call can be monitored for quality assurance"). In other words, they do know how much time you spent watching Enterprise and fact that you flipped channel during commercials. Why nobody screams about that? And lining up all "affiliates" of cable company will lead to a whole lot of companies that they have business relationship with.
p.s. as MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, they do get report from your cable company on how much time you've spent watching them (so cable company would be able to calculate costs/pay adequately). Question is how detailed that report is now and how detailed it will be but nothing prevents "single user" report from cable company. Read the fine print:)
I understand wiggling of Microsoft and attempts to put everything into its own software. What I don't understand is why Apple hopes people will go out and buy super-hyper-pricey Apple computer for a poor school? Sure they can. One computer instead of ten. But I hope it won't happen.
Kids need computers and more of them. Not one nice-looking (where each will have, say, 5 minutes of working time), but many regular ones.
And a choice of whatever OS they want.
Hey, if somebody likes a freedom of peeing on the lawn of the house you rent are you going to put up "please don't pee on my lawn" sign or do something more meaningful?:)
Remove will work. Except the list is always different:)
I might be stupid but did they actually get them cheaper, than buying intel compatible laptops would be?
If yes, I am fine with that. Otherwise... well... do kids really nead shabby shick rather than more laptops available for them?
Does that mean if Morpheus & Co manage to get to profitability level of more than $40000 a day they can happinly smile and say "sure, we'll pay this penalty" while continuing operating?
Just think of it. How can you donate $nnn (or even better, $ttt) worth of free software? Donating 1 million of copies of RedHat downloaded from their website would not do it. As the total price for donated software would still be $0. So they went the easy way:).
p.s. on a serious note, in Wired article they say something about being able to choose what the school want.
What can be easier?:) Join rating system with Adult Pass et all and you get instant 89% coverage with extensive in depth rating details for every single page.
Big sites will do ratings without complaining, and small sites will have to do it, 'cause they won't be able to earn any money otherwise:)
p.s. I wish tiple x zone would be introduced on official basis. would make things much easier and convinient.
I don't mind ads in what I read. In fact, sometimes I see nice ads that actually interest me. That look nice, not boring, not being over 200Kb (just because someone at sales dept wanted a flashy thingy to flash on their product). Fine. I like those. But where are they?
Why every freaking time I see SPRINT PCS? Once -- ok. Twice -- hm.... Three times -- do you really thing I will click/buy? Four, five, six....
They do not care if reader is really interested.
The attitude is "hm... he didn't click on flashy banner, let's put three more on the side and one full page".
After that industry starts to cry "they don't click any more:( It used to be a click on every Nth and now it's 0.00032123 percent of that". Well because there's nothing to click on!
And the amount of irrelevant ads increases rapidly. Little cameras that you can stick up.... well... anywhere on that lady with 38D that works for X10 (XXXXXXXXXX ? ) on "politics" section of newspapers. Loose 10 pounds ads everywhere. Psychic readings. Find your pals. Over and over and over again.
Until they stop showing me this crap I ignored about 1384 times I will be bitching about how stupid, ignorant, irrelevant, annoying, NOT WORKING online ads (and online ad industry) are.
I bet banners on Tomshardware.com have double (if not triple) click-through average to the rest of the web. Because they're relevant.
*Author is not affiliated with any of listed resources, all opinions are personal:)
Not entirely correct. You have to pay taxes if US does not have an agreement with that country to avoid double taxation. Otherwise you can pay taxes in either country. Which one - you to choose. Allthough I do not know how would that affect your benefits (social security:) ).
And if you look at how dubbing was done, for example, in Russia - in most cases it was almost flawless. The text is edited so to match lip movement as close as possible (which doesn't matter in high action scenes as a few people would pay attention if character said "ouch" or "eww":) )
In fact there is an archive fotage showing some movies dubbed with 3 or more different texts (that matched) because of the censure:)
Really. Having multilingual domains will create a big mess with top level domains. Are they going to resolve it by adding new zones? Will that mean there is a chance of getting "." or "."? It would be nice if this multilingual ("localized"?) version of DNS would be completely standalone. No messing with translations and no way to get around the registration process. Becaue right now I can "translate" those new non-English domains I want, to register them through regular registrars like Tucows:). Or will I be denied right to register weird domain name on the grounds that it's Cola in Greek, translated with patented algorythm?:)
About number 4... I have seen some reports that new Digital Signature related laws include verbiage that makes ANY response officially valid digital signature (Phone: "Please listen carefully for the following options. For English press 1, for..." [1] "Thank you for donating all your money to our company, good bye!") Therefore having SMTP server putting up the EULA or "Contract for mail delivery services" with final words such as "By continuing using this mail relay you agree to these terms, including word MAIL in the reply statements would digitally sign this contract" would either help us all to get rid of the SPAMmers or... well... from the digital signature laws:) Or am I mixing up something?
There's an easy way to disable those flashy horrors:) Add remotead.cnet.com, ads3.zdnet.com, images.zdnet.com to list of restricted sites in IE. That kills their "new and improved" logic instantly as flash, java and cookies are disabled for restricted sites.
In most cases Java's memory management is just... dying. Take a really long (say 300k) string and do a simple search and replace (in the dumbest way of a=substring(a)+b+substring(a) ). Run it. Go eat, drink, play poker, watch an episode of Futurama, come back and - whoopie... it's about to finish.
Java is easier than C++ but you pay for that. C-Pound on the other hand could be more optimized because there will be no "run everywhere" thing. So compiler will be able to do its job once and do it right. No Java Virtual Machine, and more built-in classes...
But hey... why would you care is Sun or Microsoft owns you?:) Go with the one who has more money...
What you can also do is to put them on hold.
Elevator music didn't kill anyone yet and after 10 minutes you can always say that something really important (Oh Ma-m, I've just been decapitated - I have to run) happened.
Unfortunately none of those tricks (including requests to remove from the list etc) work for Austin American Statesman - the worst telemarketer in Austin. And people who work for them are stupid.
I had a verbiage on my answering machine that says "If you are from Austin American Statesman - never call me again about your subscriptions, I won't buy it". And then they called me again.
Lady said "But this is not about the subscription. It's a special offer and you can get our paper for just $$$ a week".
After short lection about what the subscription is I had to hang up on he.
Now one more (actually more) questions. As Yahoo! auctions content is prohibited from viewing by French citizens does it mean every French tourist visiting other countries should explicitly disclose his origin every time he access internet in other countries? (just to turn on all the blocks etc) Will it be illegal to dialup ISPs from other countries to gain access to those pages? Using proxies? Will an US citizen travelling to France be provided with controlled access to prohibited content? If not then why? It's his right to access the information as he's not French, right? Will somebody sue French government on those grounds? Will AOL europe co-operate in providing location of dial-up customer to blocking systems?
Oh well... It's all somewhat likely to conflict in Canada about being required to have web sites in English and French in some areas (hm... French again... is it me or just de ja vu?:) )
So... does it mean that if she to leave a print somewhere before this "deep cut" and then after the healing they would not match? Part of the pattern would be rotated and concidering possible chance she left a print that doesn't have "cut lines" it would mean two prints identified as "similar but not the same"?:)
Slashdot Mirror
The author of new super machine noticed, that it works especially well when placed above buried electricity cable or by the aerial electricity wire hangers. "The Zero Point energy loves our current electricity transports and seem to be attracted to them".
:)
In other stories today, Irish electricity company filed for chapter 11, citing as a reason mysterious drains of electricity from its systems at undisclosed location in Ireland. Company insider says, there were numerous sighting of a man with something, that looked like a washing machine, by systems, experiencing power drainage. He was not identified, and referred to in company's files as simply "an electricity pirate".
*the above story is completely fictious
It's easy. If the track you want is not available from Emusic what are you going to do?
:)
I want new Vangelis. EMusic has a whopping TWO albums of "Best songs" from 1984. Sweet. Oh wait... I already have those, bought for less than $5 each. Now I am supposed to pay 9.99 per month for right to download those two albums. I don't think it's a good deal.
As for other new services where you can pay for download -- you either can't burn downloaded copies or you have to pay a full price (that exceeds the cost of a "regular" CD album) with a limit of songs. Until it gets to the level of Tivo where for 9.95 a month I can record and play and do whatever I want with the tv shows without limits it won't be a good deal and big guys will be giving out interviews screaming that "those bastards don't want to use our legal system!". Hope they'll get smart one day
Hm... reminds me that commercial...
"We have every movie ever made in any language you need...
-- How's that possible?! Q**** connection to the internet?!
-- Naaw. We just got ourself onto campus network."
:)
Did they say they guarantee you that? Did they say they guarantee a bandwidth of NNN mbps? Did they omit usual warning that "we can change this agreement at any time [with prior notice]"? Was AT&T the one who provided the service or were they mentioned as re-seller of @Home services?
No? What a surprise. Well then, you can demand from AT&T to continue to provide you with @Home service which is kinda... nonexistant anymore. And, of course, you are free to sue @Home for breaking the agreement (if it was not carefully crafted).
Otherwise think of people in Europe paying $120 a month for 64Kbps "cable" with a cap on download.
The problem would be an unwillingness to go down to 20% profitability instead of 300% :) I mean if you're used to selling CD for $20 and it only costs $2.5 to print and $2 for artist/studio/percentage payoffs with everything above that going into "Profit Bin" why would you want to move your finger to change the situation?
When suing companies will take more money rather than lowering price down to $7.00 (and allowing therefore selling single download with burning rights for 50c) they lower price and make everyone happy. Until then lawsuits is cheaper solution for them.
:) My current Digital Cable box has "ethernet" output though it's not used as cable modem. But every so often I get software updated (that make it flash funny messages on its LCD)
:)
I also heard that they started to experiment with data collection from digital boxes rather than Nielsen boxes.
Further question would be how much getting precise data would cost to companies that are not affiliated, say, with AT&T Cable unit...
Well all cable companies now push "digital cable".
And that box is fully capable of tracking how where and what way you're watching (unless you use RF pass-through and ignore all hundreds of digital channels).
Somewhere in it (or one of the previous bills) you have received "terms of service and privacy notice". That clearly says your cable company is collecting the data and shares it with affiliates "to provide better service" ("this call can be monitored for quality assurance"). In other words, they do know how much time you spent watching Enterprise and fact that you flipped channel during commercials. Why nobody screams about that? And lining up all "affiliates" of cable company will lead to a whole lot of companies that they have business relationship with.
:)
p.s. as MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, they do get report from your cable company on how much time you've spent watching them (so cable company would be able to calculate costs/pay adequately). Question is how detailed that report is now and how detailed it will be but nothing prevents "single user" report from cable company. Read the fine print
I understand wiggling of Microsoft and attempts to put everything into its own software. What I don't understand is why Apple hopes people will go out and buy super-hyper-pricey Apple computer for a poor school? Sure they can. One computer instead of ten. But I hope it won't happen.
Kids need computers and more of them. Not one nice-looking (where each will have, say, 5 minutes of working time), but many regular ones.
And a choice of whatever OS they want.
Hey, if somebody likes a freedom of peeing on the lawn of the house you rent are you going to put up "please don't pee on my lawn" sign or do something more meaningful? :)
:)
Remove will work. Except the list is always different
I might be stupid but did they actually get them cheaper, than buying intel compatible laptops would be?
If yes, I am fine with that. Otherwise... well... do kids really nead shabby shick rather than more laptops available for them?
:)
Just a thought...
p.s. on a serious note, in Wired article they say something about being able to choose what the school want.
Big sites will do ratings without complaining, and small sites will have to do it, 'cause they won't be able to earn any money otherwise
p.s. I wish tiple x zone would be introduced on official basis. would make things much easier and convinient.
Hey, if people bitch there is a reason.
....
:( It used to be a click on every Nth and now it's 0.00032123 percent of that". Well because there's nothing to click on!
.... well... anywhere on that lady with 38D that works for X10 (XXXXXXXXXX ? ) on "politics" section of newspapers. Loose 10 pounds ads everywhere. Psychic readings. Find your pals. Over and over and over again.
:)
I don't mind ads in what I read. In fact, sometimes I see nice ads that actually interest me. That look nice, not boring, not being over 200Kb (just because someone at sales dept wanted a flashy thingy to flash on their product). Fine. I like those. But where are they?
Why every freaking time I see SPRINT PCS? Once -- ok. Twice -- hm.... Three times -- do you really thing I will click/buy? Four, five, six
They do not care if reader is really interested.
The attitude is "hm... he didn't click on flashy banner, let's put three more on the side and one full page".
After that industry starts to cry "they don't click any more
And the amount of irrelevant ads increases rapidly. Little cameras that you can stick up
Until they stop showing me this crap I ignored about 1384 times I will be bitching about how stupid, ignorant, irrelevant, annoying, NOT WORKING online ads (and online ad industry) are.
I bet banners on Tomshardware.com have double (if not triple) click-through average to the rest of the web. Because they're relevant.
*Author is not affiliated with any of listed resources, all opinions are personal
Not entirely correct. You have to pay taxes if US does not have an agreement with that country to avoid double taxation. Otherwise you can pay taxes in either country. Which one - you to choose. Allthough I do not know how would that affect your benefits (social security :) ).
-----
And if you look at how dubbing was done, for example, in Russia - in most cases it was almost flawless. The text is edited so to match lip movement as close as possible (which doesn't matter in high action scenes as a few people would pay attention if character said "ouch" or "eww" :) )
In fact there is an archive fotage showing some movies dubbed with 3 or more different texts (that matched) because of the censure :)
-----
Really. Having multilingual domains will create a big mess with top level domains. Are they going to resolve it by adding new zones? Will that mean there is a chance of getting "." or "."? It would be nice if this multilingual ("localized"?) version of DNS would be completely standalone. No messing with translations and no way to get around the registration process. Becaue right now I can "translate" those new non-English domains I want, to register them through regular registrars like Tucows :). Or will I be denied right to register weird domain name on the grounds that it's Cola in Greek, translated with patented algorythm? :)
-----
About number 4... I have seen some reports that new Digital Signature related laws include verbiage that makes ANY response officially valid digital signature (Phone: "Please listen carefully for the following options. For English press 1, for ..." [1] "Thank you for donating all your money to our company, good bye!") Therefore having SMTP server putting up the EULA or "Contract for mail delivery services" with final words such as "By continuing using this mail relay you agree to these terms, including word MAIL in the reply statements would digitally sign this contract" would either help us all to get rid of the SPAMmers or... well... from the digital signature laws :) Or am I mixing up something?
-----
There's an easy way to disable those flashy horrors :) Add remotead.cnet.com, ads3.zdnet.com, images.zdnet.com to list of restricted sites in IE. That kills their "new and improved" logic instantly as flash, java and cookies are disabled for restricted sites.
-----
In most cases Java's memory management is just... dying. Take a really long (say 300k) string and do a simple search and replace (in the dumbest way of a=substring(a)+b+substring(a) ). Run it. Go eat, drink, play poker, watch an episode of Futurama, come back and - whoopie... it's about to finish.
:) Go with the one who has more money...
Java is easier than C++ but you pay for that. C-Pound on the other hand could be more optimized because there will be no "run everywhere" thing. So compiler will be able to do its job once and do it right. No Java Virtual Machine, and more built-in classes...
But hey... why would you care is Sun or Microsoft owns you?
-----
What you can also do is to put them on hold. Elevator music didn't kill anyone yet and after 10 minutes you can always say that something really important (Oh Ma-m, I've just been decapitated - I have to run) happened.
Unfortunately none of those tricks (including requests to remove from the list etc) work for Austin American Statesman - the worst telemarketer in Austin. And people who work for them are stupid.
I had a verbiage on my answering machine that says "If you are from Austin American Statesman - never call me again about your subscriptions, I won't buy it". And then they called me again. Lady said "But this is not about the subscription. It's a special offer and you can get our paper for just $$$ a week". After short lection about what the subscription is I had to hang up on he.
-----
Subj.
Anybody knows why? Lots of Dune fans or just network irregularity?
-----
Now one more (actually more) questions. As Yahoo! auctions content is prohibited from viewing by French citizens does it mean every French tourist visiting other countries should explicitly disclose his origin every time he access internet in other countries? (just to turn on all the blocks etc) Will it be illegal to dialup ISPs from other countries to gain access to those pages? Using proxies? Will an US citizen travelling to France be provided with controlled access to prohibited content? If not then why? It's his right to access the information as he's not French, right? Will somebody sue French government on those grounds? Will AOL europe co-operate in providing location of dial-up customer to blocking systems? :) )
Oh well... It's all somewhat likely to conflict in Canada about being required to have web sites in English and French in some areas (hm... French again... is it me or just de ja vu?
-----
So... does it mean that if she to leave a print somewhere before this "deep cut" and then after the healing they would not match? Part of the pattern would be rotated and concidering possible chance she left a print that doesn't have "cut lines" it would mean two prints identified as "similar but not the same"? :)
-----