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Once the XMAS rush is over, I'd think we'd see them unbundled more often, to start to move them. Certainly they'll sell a ton for all the little kiddies for XMAS, but I'd think sales would drop off following that (to some degree) and that might prompt stores to get that introductory price down to some degree.
I could be wrong too....
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What about owning the State of Washington? That's got to be in there somewhere as well...
I can't seem to find my way around their bug system, but I'm wondering if these issues are fixed, or anyone else is having similar woes... (Moz 0.9.2, G6-300Mhz, Mandrake 8.1)
1) Closing the mail window takes about 1 min (G6-300 machine).
2) Some menu items are present (copy/paste) but don't work
3) Any support (ever?) for Roaming Access? I loved that in Netscape and hope they'll put it back into Mozilla...
I have a 3.5 year old Gateay G6-300 with an STB (NVidia) graphics card. I can't run many of the new games these days since it does not support the OpenGL software internally. I've tried Quake3, and the updated software driver, but it's no go. As far as I'm concerned, many games are already hardware specific.:-(
I don't disagree with your overthrow point. However, with thousands of busniess people, government officials and others streaming in for several weeks, and with the profilic use of the Internet that many of these peole have come to accept, won't they be screaming about how much it sucks not to have access (other than to the diving scores via a Internet kiosk)?
The more people that visit China for the olympics and come back with a bad taste in their mouths, the more the Chinese government will have to work against the bad PR they *might* get as a result.
Things as trivial as preventing (or restricted) I'Net access for 3 friggin' weeks for the world's largest sporting events for hundreds of thousands of people could have a negative impact on their country's visitor's during that time.
Again, all I'm saying is that it should be interesting to see how they plan to handle this issue (hopefully providing free access to tourists) while continuing to repress their own citizens.
I wonder what China's plan will be when the Olympics roll into town in '08. With thousands of tourists (who likely will want to send email/photos back home and surf the web to see what's happening back home), how do they think they can control the access? Do they plan to only allow unfettered access to the athletes? Or perhaps you'll need to have special access to certain Internet cafe's which will permit access to any web site.
This should be interesting to watch in the next few years.
As someone who's about to re-launch their site with a portion of it to be subscription based, I have to chuckle. Not for the poor Canadians that got hosed here, but for one of my readers that was pointing out how these things work and how us moving to a subscription base was not needed.
Eventually, everyone pays somehow.... now if they could all be paying me!
I recall reading that James Cameron is interested in being the next "tourist" at the space station. Shortly after Tito's return, Cameron expressed interest in doing an IMAX movie up there about life on the station or something along those lines... I can find a link now, but I'm sure this is a convenient tie into James' wish.
NASA, I recall is up for it, but expressed the desire to hold of on more tourism for a while. Cameron agreed. (He could probably fund the damned module anyway....)
Coming Attractions has a page up regarding the possiblity of AI2. Apparently Speilburg has bought the rights for the sequel short story and wanted/wants the rights to a single sentence for the "third idea of the saga". Check it out...
As Michael points out with his "eye twitch" comment, the robots don't blink. Haley Joel O. was on a talk show (can't recall which one) the other night and stated he doesn't blink during the whole movie. I'm reasonably certain none of the mechas do either. (Something interesting/stupid/odd/freaky/etc. to look for...)
Ignorance really is bliss, eh? I'm a hard core UNIX type that just bought his first Mac because of the OS. It's not perfect, but it was good enough to start using.
I wonder if these dudes can port this thing to Mac OS X so I can finally use my damned DVD player on my TiBook. I can't believe it's taking Apple so long to get theirs out the door.... the technology will change before Apple's player is released!
Here at Virginia Tech, everyone (faculty, staff, students) has access to downloading Norton AntiVirus. Apparently, the school signed a license with Norton to make quite a few version available for free for both the PC and the MAC.
It's nice to see the school do this as a "perk" for us, and to help everyone stop the spreak of viruses.
Too bad they don't let you "try" the service by making the demo available as well. Thus, if I like the game, I might spring for the $4.99. Plus, with my old system (P5-300, non-GL card), I can try the demo to see how the game might run on my system.
I'm sorry to hear this is your life. What I (and many of my PhD friends) have found is that it's all how you manage and control it (life in academia).
Certainly, now that I'm only teaching and working on my research (and not taking classes), my schedule is far more flexable than when I started my Masters and was TA'ing and taking 2 or 3 computer science courses and doing study groups, etc...
Finding the right advisor is key too. Mine knows me fairly well and knows how to push and when, and when to back away. He (unlike some of his colleagues) also likes to enjoy life and has many outside interests. He encourages my life outside of research.
I was in a similar situation where my company told me I had to do 40 hours for the customer (we were a consulting shop) and then extra for my own benefit and the good of the company (expanding consulting possibilities, learn new technology, etc.) Bah.
Once I was vested (stock was crap anyway) after 5 years, I left. I decided to go back and get a Masters in Comp. Sci. and look for a better position with a more forward thinking group.
What I ended up doing was learning that I loved to teach. Thus I'm now working on a PhD. Sure, I'm not making a lot of money, but when I'm done ('03) I will be able to enter a strong market (CS faculty), pick my position (research/ teaching/ both) and do things I like on the site (write books, write code, consult, play bad golf).
As my Master's advisor said (and keeps telling me), "I want his lifestyle". Summers off, a 9 month a year job.... etc.
That's exactly what I had in mind. I think one needed component of this would be to also allow the communities to share their lists... this way they can break up the task of site location and noting it.
Additionally, parents might want to subscribe (not in the financial sense) to more than one list (for additional coverage).
A number of years ago ('96?) I was at a Software Development Expo in Washington DC. Tim Berners-Lee was the keynote the day I went and he presented what I thought was an interesting solution.
Essentially there would be local communities (churches, schools, etc) who made restricted lists available via the browser to anyone that "agreed" with their standards. That is, if you are a parent and you like the standards your church sets, you "subscribe" or download (or whatever) the church's list of "bad" sites.
In this scheme there's little to no mandating of someone else's standards (what AOL deems inappropriate), and you can decide what's right for your family, situation, children, morals, etc.
I've never heard more about this scheme but I am interested in it (though I have no kids to patrol). One of these days when I get done with my PhD I might try to implement this solution and see how it works out.
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Once the XMAS rush is over, I'd think we'd see them unbundled more often, to start to move them. Certainly they'll sell a ton for all the little kiddies for XMAS, but I'd think sales would drop off following that (to some degree) and that might prompt stores to get that introductory price down to some degree.
I could be wrong too....
What about owning the State of Washington? That's got to be in there somewhere as well...
The title of a movie starring Jim Rome (radio, Fox Sports). OK, clones.... what's your take?
I can't seem to find my way around their bug system, but I'm wondering if these issues are fixed, or anyone else is having similar woes... (Moz 0.9.2, G6-300Mhz, Mandrake 8.1)
1) Closing the mail window takes about 1 min (G6-300 machine).
2) Some menu items are present (copy/paste) but don't work
3) Any support (ever?) for Roaming Access? I loved that in Netscape and hope they'll put it back into Mozilla...
I have a 3.5 year old Gateay G6-300 with an STB (NVidia) graphics card. I can't run many of the new games these days since it does not support the OpenGL software internally. I've tried Quake3, and the updated software driver, but it's no go. As far as I'm concerned, many games are already hardware specific. :-(
.... we see a Micro$oft solution for this voting problem?
The real question is what they'll call it....
Vote XP?
Office Vote?
Election XP?
It's only a matter of time, I'm sure.
I don't disagree with your overthrow point. However, with thousands of busniess people, government officials and others streaming in for several weeks, and with the profilic use of the Internet that many of these peole have come to accept, won't they be screaming about how much it sucks not to have access (other than to the diving scores via a Internet kiosk)?
The more people that visit China for the olympics and come back with a bad taste in their mouths, the more the Chinese government will have to work against the bad PR they *might* get as a result.
Things as trivial as preventing (or restricted) I'Net access for 3 friggin' weeks for the world's largest sporting events for hundreds of thousands of people could have a negative impact on their country's visitor's during that time.
Again, all I'm saying is that it should be interesting to see how they plan to handle this issue (hopefully providing free access to tourists) while continuing to repress their own citizens.
This should be interesting to watch in the next few years.
Wow, think of what can now be done with pop-up ads on a park bench with users sitting on it. Opens up a whole new area for Internet advertising.
As someone who's about to re-launch their site with a portion of it to be subscription based, I have to chuckle. Not for the poor Canadians that got hosed here, but for one of my readers that was pointing out how these things work and how us moving to a subscription base was not needed. Eventually, everyone pays somehow.... now if they could all be paying me!
NASA, I recall is up for it, but expressed the desire to hold of on more tourism for a while. Cameron agreed. (He could probably fund the damned module anyway....)
Coffee dude must be for real, he's got a poster presentation ready to go... that makes it real "research".
Coming Attractions on AI2
As Michael points out with his "eye twitch" comment, the robots don't blink. Haley Joel O. was on a talk show (can't recall which one) the other night and stated he doesn't blink during the whole movie. I'm reasonably certain none of the mechas do either. (Something interesting/stupid/odd/freaky/etc. to look for...)
Ignorance really is bliss, eh? I'm a hard core UNIX type that just bought his first Mac because of the OS. It's not perfect, but it was good enough to start using.
I wonder if these dudes can port this thing to Mac OS X so I can finally use my damned DVD player on my TiBook. I can't believe it's taking Apple so long to get theirs out the door.... the technology will change before Apple's player is released!
It's nice to see the school do this as a "perk" for us, and to help everyone stop the spreak of viruses.
antivirus.vt.edu
Too bad they don't let you "try" the service by making the demo available as well. Thus, if I like the game, I might spring for the $4.99. Plus, with my old system (P5-300, non-GL card), I can try the demo to see how the game might run on my system.
Can I get your autograph too? (It's for my kid!).
Quick, someone file an RFC for an IP over oil so we can take advantage of a new protocol...
Second, let's patent the IP over oil so someone else doesn't.
I'm sorry to hear this is your life. What I (and many of my PhD friends) have found is that it's all how you manage and control it (life in academia).
Certainly, now that I'm only teaching and working on my research (and not taking classes), my schedule is far more flexable than when I started my Masters and was TA'ing and taking 2 or 3 computer science courses and doing study groups, etc...
Finding the right advisor is key too. Mine knows me fairly well and knows how to push and when, and when to back away. He (unlike some of his colleagues) also likes to enjoy life and has many outside interests. He encourages my life outside of research.
To answer your question: Virginia Tech
I was in a similar situation where my company told me I had to do 40 hours for the customer (we were a consulting shop) and then extra for my own benefit and the good of the company (expanding consulting possibilities, learn new technology, etc.) Bah.
Once I was vested (stock was crap anyway) after 5 years, I left. I decided to go back and get a Masters in Comp. Sci. and look for a better position with a more forward thinking group.
What I ended up doing was learning that I loved to teach. Thus I'm now working on a PhD. Sure, I'm not making a lot of money, but when I'm done ('03) I will be able to enter a strong market (CS faculty), pick my position (research/ teaching/ both) and do things I like on the site (write books, write code, consult, play bad golf).
As my Master's advisor said (and keeps telling me), "I want his lifestyle". Summers off, a 9 month a year job.... etc.
*Just one option*
I didn't say I was using them, I was wondering if there was some industry calculation based upon the IPs.
I've not dealt with cookies before and had not considered using them.
That's exactly what I had in mind. I think one needed component of this would be to also allow the communities to share their lists... this way they can break up the task of site location and noting it.
Additionally, parents might want to subscribe (not in the financial sense) to more than one list (for additional coverage).
Essentially there would be local communities (churches, schools, etc) who made restricted lists available via the browser to anyone that "agreed" with their standards. That is, if you are a parent and you like the standards your church sets, you "subscribe" or download (or whatever) the church's list of "bad" sites.
In this scheme there's little to no mandating of someone else's standards (what AOL deems inappropriate), and you can decide what's right for your family, situation, children, morals, etc.
I've never heard more about this scheme but I am interested in it (though I have no kids to patrol). One of these days when I get done with my PhD I might try to implement this solution and see how it works out.