We asked the same question in the spanish sister site, Barrapunto, and the winner was the aforementioned TFT screen. Interestingly, very few voted for a slashdot subscription. Many wanted a barrapunto tee. It's not too late. You can still vote.
Man, just wanted to answer to show my appreciation for this post. It deserves a history, just by itself. It would help, also, if there were some links. But it's helpful by itself.
The arms race has just started: spambots becoming increasingly more sophisticated, and bloggers having to go to greater lengths to avoid spam. The root of the problem might be in the impact a weblog link has on google ranking. Spammers have taken note, and they're acting on it.
What will then SGAE (spanish author and editor society, who has recently levied a charge on blank digital media) charge for? Breathing air? Or will they introduce a 0.001 per-transmitted-bit charge?
Since everything is a computer nowadays, they seem to have also the right to crash. Mi Nikon CoolPix camera does it from time to time, and the only way to ctlr-alt-del is to take off the batteeries and leave it there for a while.
Does that mean that games will be (officially) considered art? Will whatever you pay for a game be tax-deductible? Will there be a national endowment for first-person shooters (NEFPS)?
Well, at least in Comdex you get the chance to smell, weigh, shake, and look under the things that are available mostly anywhere in the web. But the plain truth is that attedance to trade fairs is going down anywhere; the same happened in SIMO, the spanish Comdex (if there's such a thing), which happened a short while ago. Product presentations are mainly done outside them, so it does not make a lot of sense to go to a trade fair to see booth after booth of computers, laptops, palmtops or whatever is the rage that year.
What is not straight away compatible, will have to be converted, but that will be done, in 95% of cases, automatically. Only some quirky regexps will have to be translated by hand (and then, there's a perl 5 compatibility mode for them).
In Distraction: a Novel, Valparaiso's boss, whose name I don't remember but sounded Greek, made a buck by creating stuff for self-assembling buildings; I seem to remember furniture was also mentioned.
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We asked the same question in the spanish sister site, Barrapunto, and the winner was the aforementioned TFT screen.
Interestingly, very few voted for a slashdot subscription. Many wanted a barrapunto tee.
It's not too late. You can still vote.
Is it just me, or are dotcom bubble things back in fashion?
This was back in '99
Or nihil novum sub sole, in another words...
Why not consider BookCrossing too? Free the public library books!
From 1 to 7. With huge pixels, please.
Since games make more money than movies, movies have just become teasers for the videogames that follow it.
KOffice, Gnome Desktop...
If the rest haven't made so far a dent in Office's imperium, I don't think anything will.
Man, just wanted to answer to show my appreciation for this post. It deserves a history, just by itself.
It would help, also, if there were some links. But it's helpful by itself.
...and he'll be sued for irreparably damaging M$ good image.
The arms race has just started: spambots becoming increasingly more sophisticated, and bloggers having to go to greater lengths to avoid spam.
The root of the problem might be in the impact a weblog link has on google ranking. Spammers have taken note, and they're acting on it.
That might shift the balance of power to sun-soaked states, right? At least if you couple it with fuel cells.
That mean there'll be domain squatters in many different levels. And for free!
What will then SGAE (spanish author and editor society, who has recently levied a charge on blank digital media) charge for? Breathing air? Or will they introduce a 0.001 per-transmitted-bit charge?
Any pointer? Wasn't that an old text-processing terminal company?
I have found this but I have no idea what this story refers to.
is it included?
Since everything is a computer nowadays, they seem to have also the right to crash. Mi Nikon CoolPix camera does it from time to time, and the only way to ctlr-alt-del is to take off the batteeries and leave it there for a while.
Do these guys have something to do with the *trak scam unearthed by Wired 5 years ago?
Who would play the Mule? de Niro? Tommy Lee Jones?
Does that mean that games will be (officially) considered art?
Will whatever you pay for a game be tax-deductible?
Will there be a national endowment for first-person shooters (NEFPS)?
Will koreans and russians follow suit?
I must learn to spell "advertisement" in all these languages, so that I can filter them!
Looks like it's mostly dead: last update to the FAQ comes from 1996. I have found a reference in freshmeat from 2001, though.
Computers are universal machines. Its industry is bound to collide, sooner or later, with any other industry. And viceversa.
Well, at least in Comdex you get the chance to smell, weigh, shake, and look under the things that are available mostly anywhere in the web.
But the plain truth is that attedance to trade fairs is going down anywhere; the same happened in SIMO, the spanish Comdex (if there's such a thing), which happened a short while ago. Product presentations are mainly done outside them, so it does not make a lot of sense to go to a trade fair to see booth after booth of computers, laptops, palmtops or whatever is the rage that year.
What is not straight away compatible, will have to be converted, but that will be done, in 95% of cases, automatically. Only some quirky regexps will have to be translated by hand (and then, there's a perl 5 compatibility mode for them).
In Distraction: a Novel, Valparaiso's boss, whose name I don't remember but sounded Greek, made a buck by creating stuff for self-assembling buildings; I seem to remember furniture was also mentioned.