Internet adverts are just like magazine adverts. I don't notice those ones either (unlike TV adverts).
Hmm. Magazine ads are about the only ads I *do* intentionally pay attention to. Of course, I don't read many magazines, but the ones I do read are ususally small, highly-targeting, niche-markets, and the ads in these magazines are similarly focused. So naturally, the products in the ads would have a high probablity of being interesting to me. So I check them out.
Temporarily, it will put more money in web sites' coffers through more advertising dollars, heavily subsidized by new and unsophisitcated users.
Long term, the preponderance of pop-ups will further motivate and/or educate IE and Netscape users to switch to Mozilla and use its cookie, image and popup blocking capabilities.
At some point, web sites will then have to learn a new way to make money other than pissing of thier users.
My theory is that they are going to cut back on research, because 4-6 ghz chips are going to be fast enough to most things for most non-specialized people.
So joe sixpack won't be motivated to cough up the dough for the upgrade.
No money, no research, no new speed barriers broken.
Specialized markets (cgi movie production? weather modelling?) will require lots more horse power. But most corporate offices won't need it. In these cost-conscious times, that means they won't get it.
So the market for the new high-end processors will be much smaller. This will probably lead to a stratification of the CPU market. Like the difference between Celeron/Duron and P4/Athlon, but with a much bigger difference.
I read some where, maybe on slashdot, that what will push the next threshold of CPU processor speeds will be driven by the rise the accurate, real-time natural-language voice-recognition software. (and, along with it, language-to-language translation). That kind of processing requires lots of cycles, but has broad, not specialized, applications.
The exception, and possibly the hole, to this theory is games. But DOOM III looks pretty damn impressive. What hardware does it require?
Linux costs me anywhere between 1 hour and 5 hours to download an iso of my favorite distro. Win2k costs me 5 minutes to burn a CD-R and 30 cents to buy the blank disc.
This makes no sense.
Compare: burn copy of win2k vs. burn copy of linux or dl iso of win2k vs. dl iso of linux
You can't mix'n match.
Besides burning or dl iso of linux isn't breaking the law. Doing either with windows isn't.
If your not going to compare legal methods of acquisition, then compare the value of going to Best Buy and stealing 10 copies XP, OfficeXP, SQLServer, Exchange. You get a lot of value for your time using that method.
I REALLY can't believe that human beings will still be having sword fights and rustling cattle two centries from now.
The most recent episode took Serenity and crew into the core system. They were in a city that could have been Trantor or Corsicant, or whatever that city was that Bruce Willis lived in, in The Fifth Element. Totally high tech, and well done fx for tv.
The outer planets, where most of the shows take place, is relatively dirt-poor fringe-folk. They are the beaten enemy of a civil war. Mostly second class citizens of the government. It's like the difference between New York City and some unnamed village in Afghanistan. In that context, it makes good sense.
Weren't Luke's aunt and uncle water farmers on Tatooine? For a space opera, that was pretty low tech.
'Andy Richter Controls the Universe' is coming back soon after an extended break, for which I am thankful.
You said it! That's one the few funny shows on TV left. I haven't miss a single one of the (four?) episodes aired so far. Looking forward to the new episodes.
How is the technology used in this context different from the technology used by corporations to ensure the "appropriate use" or thier networks?
In response to stories on those types of subjects, people always say, "It's the company's network, they can do what ever they want with it. They own the bits...," etc.
I rarely do gnutella anymore. I just pick a radio station from shoutcast and go with it. I've got a 128k stream running for about 6-10 hours each weekday. Capping will kill that. It'll also kill any broadband based service -- like those legit movie and music sites popping up.
And people will get extremely pissed off by paying to download all those x10 popup graphics. Not that I see those anymore. (Thanks, Mozilla.)
How much time did you spend searching and researching online for the last car you bought?
Today, it is possible to build a system in which the official interactions (social, fiscal, and oral) of our elected officials can be presented to world in an uncensored, unspinned, and quick-to-market medium.
Why do you want this information? What are you -- some kind of terrorist?
"Please step aside, sir. We would like to ask you a few questions."
Since you went through the trouble of calculating this number, I wish you wold post, somewhere on the net, the exact dollar amout for each tax, and your experience in calculating it.
How might others tally their total tax take?
Might there be a streamlined way to do it?
How many hours did you spend calculating your tax take?
One of the earliest models of the universe was erected by Ptolemy.
It worked fairly well, except for the fact that it assumed that our planet was the center of the universe and that everything rotated around the Earth. As astronomy got more sophisticated, we had to invent ever more elaborate mathematical models to make Ptolemy's picture of reality work. The astral cycles of heavenly movement became cycles within cycles within cycles. Until finally Copernicus suggested we imagine the Sun was the center of the system. The way we conceived the workings of the universe literally shifted and it was simple again both in perception and in mathematics.
The present moment in physics has the whiff of Ptolemaic epicycles about it. Perhaps the universe is actually incredibly complex and incomprehensible. Or, just maybe, it is our models that have become complex and incomprehensible. Perhaps new theories will yield ways of seeing things that are not as simple minded as the clockwork universe of the 19th century or as illusive as the unimaginable world of the 20th century. In our new understanding of the relationships of the very large to the very small, we may literally revisualize the universe around us.
I had to figure in the cost of one of my customer's IT staff staying active on that list and learning enough about the product to provide in-house support supplemented by the email list. Estimating this at one tenth of an FTE and that FTE at a low $80,000 per year resolved to $8,000 per year. This was nearly three times the cost of the most expensive commercial product support!
When factored in with equal administration costs, adding in training and support (available from these vendors) and other one-time and yearly costs (for such things as licenses), the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs, after which the Open Source product became more expensive....
I must admit that any commercial product will require some time from their IT staff, but because there is 'support' available this is seen as being much less important. Major fixes or changes can be dealt with by hiring consultants like myself, and lesser issues dealt with by calling customer support. They might even be right in this estimation.
Did you caculate the cost of the "much-less-important" but still necessary time of the FTE to support the commercial product? Did you calculate the cost of hiring consultants for "major upgrades." The text above sounds like you did not include them, and only mentioned incidentially. What percentage of time will an FTE need to be allocated to support the commercial product? How many hours of consultant time will be needed for the major upgrades?
From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.
So, it's quite straightforward really - if they can prove Reuters knew they weren't supposed to be looking at that material, then if the access was from the UK, a crime was committed.
Humans already have loads of free time now and what do we do? We piss it away watching Jerry Springer and WWF eating cheezy poof's on the sofa turning into fat slobs.
Slashdot Mirror
This story is so good it could be re-posted on slashdot at least once a week and still be good every time.
Internet adverts are just like magazine adverts. I don't notice those ones either (unlike TV adverts).
Hmm. Magazine ads are about the only ads I *do* intentionally pay attention to. Of course, I don't read many magazines, but the ones I do read are ususally small, highly-targeting, niche-markets, and the ads in these magazines are similarly focused. So naturally, the products in the ads would have a high probablity of being interesting to me. So I check them out.
I'll never see them anyway. I use Mozilla.
:)
Temporarily, it will put more money in web sites' coffers through more advertising dollars, heavily subsidized by new and unsophisitcated users.
Long term, the preponderance of pop-ups will further motivate and/or educate IE and Netscape users to switch to Mozilla and use its cookie, image and popup blocking capabilities.
At some point, web sites will then have to learn a new way to make money other than pissing of thier users.
In the meantime, I'm unaffected.
why would anyone do this?
Why do they sell "Eddie Bauer" Ford Explorers?
*shrug* I have no idea why, but they seem popular.
My theory is that they are going to cut back on research, because 4-6 ghz chips are going to be fast enough to most things for most non-specialized people.
So joe sixpack won't be motivated to cough up the dough for the upgrade.
No money, no research, no new speed barriers broken.
Specialized markets (cgi movie production? weather modelling?) will require lots more horse power. But most corporate offices won't need it. In these cost-conscious times, that means they won't get it.
So the market for the new high-end processors will be much smaller. This will probably lead to a stratification of the CPU market. Like the difference between Celeron/Duron and P4/Athlon, but with a much bigger difference.
I read some where, maybe on slashdot, that what will push the next threshold of CPU processor speeds will be driven by the rise the accurate, real-time natural-language voice-recognition software. (and, along with it, language-to-language translation). That kind of processing requires lots of cycles, but has broad, not specialized, applications.
The exception, and possibly the hole, to this theory is games. But DOOM III looks pretty damn impressive. What hardware does it require?
Just idle speculation...
I will become a user of fatwallet. I will support thier advertisers. Any company that has the balls to do this deserves my support.
$5.50? you must really be living in the fucking sticks.
That could be the matinee price.
Linux costs me anywhere between 1 hour and 5 hours to download an iso of my favorite distro. Win2k costs me 5 minutes to burn a CD-R and 30 cents to buy the blank disc.
This makes no sense.
Compare:
burn copy of win2k vs. burn copy of linux
or
dl iso of win2k vs. dl iso of linux
You can't mix'n match.
Besides burning or dl iso of linux isn't breaking the law. Doing either with windows isn't.
If your not going to compare legal methods of acquisition, then compare the value of going to Best Buy and stealing 10 copies XP, OfficeXP, SQLServer, Exchange. You get a lot of value for your time using that method.
I REALLY can't believe that human beings will still be having sword fights and rustling cattle two centries from now.
The most recent episode took Serenity and crew into the core system. They were in a city that could have been Trantor or Corsicant, or whatever that city was that Bruce Willis lived in, in The Fifth Element. Totally high tech, and well done fx for tv.
The outer planets, where most of the shows take place, is relatively dirt-poor fringe-folk. They are the beaten enemy of a civil war. Mostly second class citizens of the government. It's like the difference between New York City and some unnamed village in Afghanistan. In that context, it makes good sense.
Weren't Luke's aunt and uncle water farmers on Tatooine? For a space opera, that was pretty low tech.
Check out John Doe. A slightly sci-fi, slightly X-Files, slightly CSI type show that delivers on suspense, mystery, and solid writing.
Solid writing? Surely, you jest.
Here is a line of dialog from the show. I will never forget it:
"You're ball-and-chained and you don't even know who your sig-other is?"
It's so bad, it's funny.
'Andy Richter Controls the Universe' is coming back soon after an extended break, for which I am thankful.
You said it! That's one the few funny shows on TV left. I haven't miss a single one of the (four?) episodes aired so far. Looking forward to the new episodes.
How is the technology used in this context different from the technology used by corporations to ensure the "appropriate use" or thier networks?
In response to stories on those types of subjects, people always say, "It's the company's network, they can do what ever they want with it. They own the bits...," etc.
Interesting parallels to be drawn there, eh?
New or updated themes will probably support this soon.
I rarely do gnutella anymore. I just pick a radio station from shoutcast and go with it. I've got a 128k stream running for about 6-10 hours each weekday. Capping will kill that. It'll also kill any broadband based service -- like those legit movie and music sites popping up.
And people will get extremely pissed off by paying to download all those x10 popup graphics. Not that I see those anymore. (Thanks, Mozilla.)
How much time did you spend searching and researching online for the last car you bought?
I think it will dampen the online economy.
Today, it is possible to build a system in which the official interactions (social, fiscal, and oral) of our elected officials can be presented to world in an uncensored, unspinned, and quick-to-market medium.
... and we never heard from him again.
Why do you want this information? What are you -- some kind of terrorist?
"Please step aside, sir. We would like to ask you a few questions."
I'm on linux, but my wife refuses to give up Windows until there's a Dreamweaver equivalent. Mozilla Composer don't cut it.
I may drop Evolution in favor of Mozilla Mail.
i on/2002-August/020845.html
I tried to find out if the Evolution dev team was going to do this. The only thread I could find on the topic is here:
http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolut
Doesn't look like it's part of their vision.
Sir,
Since you went through the trouble of calculating this number, I wish you wold post, somewhere on the net, the exact dollar amout for each tax, and your experience in calculating it.
How might others tally their total tax take?
Might there be a streamlined way to do it?
How many hours did you spend calculating your tax take?
I'm typing this from a RHCE classroom.
And I see you are making wise use of your investment.
Rethinking Everything. The above quote is on page 4.
I had to figure in the cost of one of my customer's IT staff staying active on that list and learning enough about the product to provide in-house support supplemented by the email list. Estimating this at one tenth of an FTE and that FTE at a low $80,000 per year resolved to $8,000 per year. This was nearly three times the cost of the most expensive commercial product support!
...
When factored in with equal administration costs, adding in training and support (available from these vendors) and other one-time and yearly costs (for such things as licenses), the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs, after which the Open Source product became more expensive.
I must admit that any commercial product will require some time from their IT staff, but because there is 'support' available this is seen as being much less important. Major fixes or changes can be dealt with by hiring consultants like myself, and lesser issues dealt with by calling customer support. They might even be right in this estimation.
Did you caculate the cost of the "much-less-important" but still necessary time of the FTE to support the commercial product? Did you calculate the cost of hiring consultants for "major upgrades." The text above sounds like you did not include them, and only mentioned incidentially. What percentage of time will an FTE need to be allocated to support the commercial product? How many hours of consultant time will be needed for the major upgrades?
And since nothing seems to be able to stop all of these Windows viruses, the best way to win is to just stop using Windows.
The immediately brought to mind a line from the old Wargames movie: "Strange game: the only winning move is not to play."
From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.
Links! Where are the links?!
So, it's quite straightforward really - if they can prove Reuters knew they weren't supposed to be looking at that material, then if the access was from the UK, a crime was committed.
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Humans already have loads of free time now and what do we do? We piss it away watching Jerry Springer and WWF eating cheezy poof's on the sofa turning into fat slobs.
JER-RY! JER-RY! JER-RY! JER-RY!
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!