Akimbo believes that the internet offers a way for content owners to bypass middlemen and go directly to consumers. The company envisions its market evolving as blogs have, with a rapid proliferation of content vendors, much experimentation with business models (and content), and ultimately a substantial impact on traditional channels of distribution. I think it's too early to know if Akimbo is right, but not too early to think about the implications of the model.
They've got that right. The bottleneck is still bandwidth into the home, but as that continues to improve, expect little grassroots content to pop-up all over the place.
Of course the pr0n industry will obviously be an early adopter, but imagine being able to go out with a video camera with your friends
and do your own TV shows, broadcast the local s Jr league soccer match or even your HS football games. Even ambitious people could do up their
own Star-Trek shows. Those which demonstrate real promise could probably sell advertising or subcriptions or even sell out, if they have a mind to.
Consider how low budget you could do your own Dr. Who.
I think television is already losing to the internet, what'll it look like as the barriers come down to hosting your own shows? Interactive, even.
'i don't like what he said, mod him down, enough negative points and it'll launch a rotton tomato at him!
Oh, I dunno about that. Even a horrible flick by the inventor of his 'religion' didn't keep John Travolta from scoring Kelly Preston and having a couple kids.
Quite a few of the new additions are just compounds of existing words. I'd associate new addtions as concepts, like 'grok' for which there wasn't aready an equivilent.
I interviewed at UPS and we did a tour, a monitor fell off a conveyor belt. Everyone heard the tube pop, and the crash of glass, but one of the employees just tossed it back as if nothing had happened. As we were walking away, we heard another one drop and the sound of smashing glass.
Un-fucking-believable.
I once worked in the shipping/logistics business and while that may have shocked and disappointed you, it's standard practice. Even a broken CRT must first be delivered before a claim can be filed on it. Sounds bizzare? Why should it? Distribution hubs aren't the portion of a large organization like UPS to handle damage, they just move the stuff, unless as happened at one of our hubs, the cartons themselves are damaged. (Someone lowered a fork on top of a pallet of Sun servers, rookies, sheesh.)
Is China just some freaking sea of factories? _Everything_ comes from there.
China has been, for hundreds of years, excepting a few decades in the second half of the 20th century when they shut themselves off from the barbarians of the west who were carving up their country into colonies. Expect much, much more to come.
But they are outruning their infrastructure. They dont have the power distirbution, water, roads, etc to support that kind of sustained growth. It should be interesting to see what happens.
Yes. They're increasing their military budget while exhausting their infrastructure and spending more than their GDP can generate government revenue to cover. What a silly thing to do. Seems like there's another country which is doing something like that as well...
Perhaps there will be jobs in China for me to work in? At least the food is better, if not as diverse.
Yeah, they probably don't actually use MSG in all the restaurants over there. You will probably notice the food looks a bit more rustic than the local Ho-Lee Chow or a can of La Choy.
The BBC has been carrying a number of analysis articles on China, where the economy is booming and where it isn't. Still shooting for 7% growth this year and they'll probably make it, while the rest of the world scrambles to sell them raw materials. Notice mining and steel companies are suddenly hot items?
Then again, some people will do anything for manifest destiny.
Indeed. Early settlers in the plains states dug out holes and built their roofs and walls of sod.
From what I gather from BBC articles, it's pretty expensive living in Israel, so tossing up a caravan on a pile of rocks and defending it with an uzi is what some people are driven to.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the sale of Slashdot to Elbonian investors. New color schemes will be in earth tones. "Yes, different colors of mud!", stated one of the eventual new managers of the enterprise.
Glad to see someone is talking out against Qassam rockets [bbc.co.uk] (you know... the rockets fired at civilians that have so far killed 3 infants and one of their fathers)
I don't rely exclusively upon US news sources and listen to the BBC regularly. I'm constantly disappointed when I hear of these iniquities, yet most people in my home town are rather convinced that the palestinians somehow deserved it. Sad... Small wonder there are so many volunteers to strap bombs to their bodies and die for their people. It's all that's left to a desperate people. (I don't justify it, but I understand their point of view. Peace begins with justice and there's been too little of it.)
I do not mean to cast aspersions on D and D players, but if IDF says that people who indulge in fantasy games, as a statistical group, have personality traits that make them a lower security risk, then I am inclined to believe them.
After all, these people have some of the best clinical and occupational psychologists in the world working for them.
Something carried on 60 minutes (take with whativer size grain of salw you wish) One other thing you may wish to consider, few of the radical-right, orhtodox jews, serve in combat rolls in the IDF. Why? Because they're religious scholars and exempt from such duty. Yet, they are usually the ones howling the loudest about how it's their promised land and establish these lovely settlements in whatever speck of land the palestinians have left. You can usually tell, when you see some footage on TV, these people are heavily armed and ready to die for their house on the pile of rocks they claimed for themselves. They also tend to have larger families and are expected to control the majority of the electorate in a country where the armed forces are mostly composed of the secular or moderate jews.
"They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence," the army says.
After following a lot of the news regarding reprisals against palestinians and realizing the IDF
acts with a higher degree of autonomy than US forces, I've wondered who-the-heck's influencing them.
I've known a considerable variety of people who have played D&D and/or been active in the SCA (The Society for Creative Anachronism) and
find most are no more delusional that your average baseball fan, stamp collector or technology geek. I rather expect it's more
along the lines of these people really not being easily subverted, unlike some ultra patriot who will do whatever a commanding officer
says, even it would strike the man-on-the-street as an outrage.
To launch Air To Ground missiles into civilian areas, which may harm innocent bystanders, plow people's homes because they live too close to the egyptian border and enforce some kind of colonial
marshall law in a ghetto takes a special personality, quite likely someone who can be easily broken down and then built up into a new unquestioning soldier, rather than someone who
can think for themselves and consider 'hey, this isn't right'
Re-arranging paths in a URL is not hacking but they all got what they deserved. The other schools will probably follow suit.
''Once we learned about it, within literally 2½ hours, we had made appropriate adjustments to the system. . . . We still remain confident that it's a secure system."
Gotta love that ass-covering quote, too, from ApplyYourself. A secure system? Well, maybe marginally more secure, but how?
We moved the files from HBS to the NotReallyTheHBS directory, noone will ever figure that out!
'This behavior is unethical at best -- a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization... Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school.'"
It's take charge, independent thinkers that the school needs in it's student body.
they better not revoke my admission or i'll send a teenage grrl enforcer over to smack 'em upside their heads!
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, as if that's his real name!! He's really Cohen the Barbarian, and maybe he'll have to defend himself next time, rather than sick his robots on her!
There's a few good stations left around, like KPIG, but I'm so sold on satellite that accidently hitting the FM tuner, while driving, is incredibly unwelcome.
Thing is, I bought the tuner because it could also play MP3's, which I have played a grand total of 0 to date.
I wonder at what point we'll be able to make MP3's of satellite broadcast to listen to later, in the manner we did with cassettes in the days of yore.
I, for one, would welcome it as I miss some great broadcasts on weekends while out cycling.
and when windows gets to the boot screen it locks up.
When I removed the drives in windows, it booted up without problems. Highpoint has sent me diag tools to run rather than building this in their lab!
I'm not too impressed with them so far.
Perhaps it's just another Windows bug? There's scads of them, you know. I remember wasting a couple days trying to get two controllers to behave, only to find windows identified them wrongly and created a conflict. It was a while back I don't recall all the details, but it was one of those deals where Microsoft Tech Support actually suggested re-installing Windows. Which must be a stock answer for everything. Eventually I was elevated to talk to someone with a brain and they explained what went wrong and how to fix it. Not exactly what you're going to find in an FAQ anywhere.
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They've got that right. The bottleneck is still bandwidth into the home, but as that continues to improve, expect little grassroots content to pop-up all over the place. Of course the pr0n industry will obviously be an early adopter, but imagine being able to go out with a video camera with your friends and do your own TV shows, broadcast the local s Jr league soccer match or even your HS football games. Even ambitious people could do up their own Star-Trek shows. Those which demonstrate real promise could probably sell advertising or subcriptions or even sell out, if they have a mind to. Consider how low budget you could do your own Dr. Who.
I think television is already losing to the internet, what'll it look like as the barriers come down to hosting your own shows? Interactive, even.
'i don't like what he said, mod him down, enough negative points and it'll launch a rotton tomato at him!
It honestly would.
There were far worse things that have happened by pretty much any shipping service you could think of.
I've heard of boxes containing new computers, left on the front porch of a house, in a driving rainstorm (won't say who did that one.)
I was stunned when a new bicycle, which I'd paid $3K for was just left on my doorstep, without even requesting the required signature.
Someone else did likewise with a new telescope. Unbelievable!
Oh, I dunno about that. Even a horrible flick by the inventor of his 'religion' didn't keep John Travolta from scoring Kelly Preston and having a couple kids.
Quite a few of the new additions are just compounds of existing words. I'd associate new addtions as concepts, like 'grok' for which there wasn't aready an equivilent.
I once worked in the shipping/logistics business and while that may have shocked and disappointed you, it's standard practice. Even a broken CRT must first be delivered before a claim can be filed on it. Sounds bizzare? Why should it? Distribution hubs aren't the portion of a large organization like UPS to handle damage, they just move the stuff, unless as happened at one of our hubs, the cartons themselves are damaged. (Someone lowered a fork on top of a pallet of Sun servers, rookies, sheesh.)
Where do you work?
China has been, for hundreds of years, excepting a few decades in the second half of the 20th century when they shut themselves off from the barbarians of the west who were carving up their country into colonies. Expect much, much more to come.
That's why I linked to them. They have one in Ann Arbor, Michigan where I got take-away a few times.
Yes. They're increasing their military budget while exhausting their infrastructure and spending more than their GDP can generate government revenue to cover. What a silly thing to do. Seems like there's another country which is doing something like that as well...
Happy times are here again.
Words can be found here
What about the Dragon CPU? You know, the homebrew one which will keep China free from IP shackles in the Santa Clara?
Yeah, they probably don't actually use MSG in all the restaurants over there. You will probably notice the food looks a bit more rustic than the local Ho-Lee Chow or a can of La Choy.
The BBC has been carrying a number of analysis articles on China, where the economy is booming and where it isn't. Still shooting for 7% growth this year and they'll probably make it, while the rest of the world scrambles to sell them raw materials. Notice mining and steel companies are suddenly hot items?
Indeed. Early settlers in the plains states dug out holes and built their roofs and walls of sod.
From what I gather from BBC articles, it's pretty expensive living in Israel, so tossing up a caravan on a pile of rocks and defending it with an uzi is what some people are driven to.
You don't have to be Carnac to guess most motherboards, CD drives, DVD drives, PSUs, cabinets and wiring is already being manufactured in the PRC.
Chances are the keyboard and mouse you used in your posting, as well as the screen you are viewing, came from there as well.
i for one welcome our new Lenoverlords!
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the sale of Slashdot to Elbonian investors. New color schemes will be in earth tones. "Yes, different colors of mud!", stated one of the eventual new managers of the enterprise.
I don't rely exclusively upon US news sources and listen to the BBC regularly. I'm constantly disappointed when I hear of these iniquities, yet most people in my home town are rather convinced that the palestinians somehow deserved it. Sad... Small wonder there are so many volunteers to strap bombs to their bodies and die for their people. It's all that's left to a desperate people. (I don't justify it, but I understand their point of view. Peace begins with justice and there's been too little of it.)
Something carried on 60 minutes (take with whativer size grain of salw you wish) One other thing you may wish to consider, few of the radical-right, orhtodox jews, serve in combat rolls in the IDF. Why? Because they're religious scholars and exempt from such duty. Yet, they are usually the ones howling the loudest about how it's their promised land and establish these lovely settlements in whatever speck of land the palestinians have left. You can usually tell, when you see some footage on TV, these people are heavily armed and ready to die for their house on the pile of rocks they claimed for themselves. They also tend to have larger families and are expected to control the majority of the electorate in a country where the armed forces are mostly composed of the secular or moderate jews.
After following a lot of the news regarding reprisals against palestinians and realizing the IDF acts with a higher degree of autonomy than US forces, I've wondered who-the-heck's influencing them. I've known a considerable variety of people who have played D&D and/or been active in the SCA (The Society for Creative Anachronism) and find most are no more delusional that your average baseball fan, stamp collector or technology geek. I rather expect it's more along the lines of these people really not being easily subverted, unlike some ultra patriot who will do whatever a commanding officer says, even it would strike the man-on-the-street as an outrage.
To launch Air To Ground missiles into civilian areas, which may harm innocent bystanders, plow people's homes because they live too close to the egyptian border and enforce some kind of colonial marshall law in a ghetto takes a special personality, quite likely someone who can be easily broken down and then built up into a new unquestioning soldier, rather than someone who can think for themselves and consider 'hey, this isn't right'
I blame it on the american political system, which has already taught me too much for my own good!
''Once we learned about it, within literally 2½ hours, we had made appropriate adjustments to the system. . . . We still remain confident that it's a secure system."
Gotta love that ass-covering quote, too, from ApplyYourself. A secure system? Well, maybe marginally more secure, but how?
We moved the files from HBS to the NotReallyTheHBS directory, noone will ever figure that out!
It's take charge, independent thinkers that the school needs in it's student body. they better not revoke my admission or i'll send a teenage grrl enforcer over to smack 'em upside their heads!
The contest was set up by Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, as if that's his real name!! He's really Cohen the Barbarian, and maybe he'll have to defend himself next time, rather than sick his robots on her!
Been there. Welcome to the club, robots
Doesn't bode well for BattleMechs, either.
and they seemed so fierce in those novels!
Not yet, but they keep trying to kill themselves.
There's a few good stations left around, like KPIG, but I'm so sold on satellite that accidently hitting the FM tuner, while driving, is incredibly unwelcome.
Thing is, I bought the tuner because it could also play MP3's, which I have played a grand total of 0 to date.
I wonder at what point we'll be able to make MP3's of satellite broadcast to listen to later, in the manner we did with cassettes in the days of yore.
I, for one, would welcome it as I miss some great broadcasts on weekends while out cycling.
When I removed the drives in windows, it booted up without problems. Highpoint has sent me diag tools to run rather than building this in their lab!
I'm not too impressed with them so far.
Perhaps it's just another Windows bug? There's scads of them, you know. I remember wasting a couple days trying to get two controllers to behave, only to find windows identified them wrongly and created a conflict. It was a while back I don't recall all the details, but it was one of those deals where Microsoft Tech Support actually suggested re-installing Windows. Which must be a stock answer for everything. Eventually I was elevated to talk to someone with a brain and they explained what went wrong and how to fix it. Not exactly what you're going to find in an FAQ anywhere.