The mere mention of.xxx or.porn on/. will attract Googlebots like bees to nectre.
We ran a bit some weeks ago making fun of new domain names like.donkeylove and.spankme and the results have been quite weird. Some days half of my hits are Googlebots. It results in some strange events in our logs. I don't know why, but one mention of media critic Roger Rosenbladt put us at the top of that string's search, above any home page the man himself may have. Our site is very low traffic. Strange.
Pretending that HD is innevitable is foolish. Even with a relatively cheap HD card.
According the original FCC mandate for HDTV, by 2006 all broadcast stations are supposed to cut off NTSC signals. But even if everyone, and I mean everyone coughs up the cash to buy a new set, the broadcast area pattern of an HD tower is reduced in half. So at least half the population would be unable to receive traditional through-the-air HD signals (or any TV for that matter- including tornado warnings, etc).
The magic number is 80%. If that number is reached within a station's "viewable area," then the switch must take place. But is that area calculated at current levels or the future halved area? If 80% of current broadcast area is the mandate (lawyers are still arguing over this), then the 80% level is impossible. HDTV can therefor never replace standard def for home broadcast.
HD will be used to project films for digital theatres because, although it does not look quite as good from a raw image quality standpoint, it is cheaper and more uniform in quality. And cheaper always wins.
But what, oh what, are those broadcasters going to do with all that bandwidth the government just gave away five years ago? ABC is no longer broadcasting Monday Night Football in HD. The Tonight Show may cut back its HD service soon. What's next?
Once again, repeat after me: there is no such thing as a:youth vote." It is what we like to call an oxymoron. The youth simply do not vote. Just ask McGovern. You could lower the voting age to six and the turnout would not change.
It doesn't matter whether or not people should care. They don't. And won't unless something really bad happens (i.e. global depression or Martian invasion).
So, apathy is a symptom of a healthy society and economy.
Go ahead and refuse to vote. More votes for Guandunh, conqueror of worlds. All hail Guandunh!
This cluster is, ironically enough, right next to another grouping of stars which look (from Earth) to be a giant serif-style X. On another part of the sky, deep-seeing telescopes can also see a figure of a serpent with the words "monsters be here."
For people learning these technologies, trying to make an educated decision which is best for their needs, the ability to download and start hacking right away means quite a bit.
Those of you still in the academic environment remember: there will come a day when you can't buy all your software for $5 a license.
It could be the best derned platform on the planet, but you'll end up playing the 5 world's coolest demo games until you decide to fork over the cash for a PS2.
Intellivision was better.
Amiga was better.
We're saying this is better now, not just because of the steller stats. But because we know it is d-o-o-m-e-d.
is that someone will corrupt the Redmond source code by adding all kinds of back doors.
It would be catastrophic if a much-used application like Outlook or scripting platform like VBS had huge security holes that even twelve-year-old kids knew how to exploit.
How would anyone be able to trust Win servers for e-commmerce? Would there need to be "security challenged" notices on all Win2k powered e-commerce sites like genetically-altered poultry? Just a thought.
In terms of the great democracy of eyeballs...
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NASA peaked with the first moon landing.
They have been streamlining for years, "adjusting expectations." And still, if it weren't for the Russians making the US space program look good, there may not be a US space program.
I agree. It's time to end the monopoly that NASA has on the ionosphere and get on with it.
In other news: MS Switches Internal Servers to W2k
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mod me down (-1 troll) I don't care. But you have to admit, M$ and apple take a lot of stick for not using their own products for all of their web serving needs.
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My Octane pulls busses all day long. But the qualitative difference between that and a human brain are enormous. It's apples and dumptrucks.
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We ran a bit some weeks ago making fun of new domain names like .donkeylove and .spankme and the results have been quite weird. Some days half of my hits are Googlebots. It results in some strange events in our logs. I don't know why, but one mention of media critic Roger Rosenbladt put us at the top of that string's search, above any home page the man himself may have. Our site is very low traffic. Strange.
Read all about The Great Googlebot Clusterhump of 2000.
They advertise adult-only products like Win2000 during Pokemon and Batman.
You won't see Linux putting some innane cartoon character or mascot on every product. No sirree!
Focus your hate in this direction.
People don't trust ballots that can be counted by hand. Do you think Hal900 will fare any better?
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Death to the more successful tyrants!
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Forget about the profit motive for a moment. What if someone tried to take credit for code you had written?
Wait a minute... this article was posted as a hyperbolic hit-generating intellectual sink-hole for suckers like me. Oops.
bwahahahaha
According the original FCC mandate for HDTV, by 2006 all broadcast stations are supposed to cut off NTSC signals. But even if everyone, and I mean everyone coughs up the cash to buy a new set, the broadcast area pattern of an HD tower is reduced in half. So at least half the population would be unable to receive traditional through-the-air HD signals (or any TV for that matter- including tornado warnings, etc).
The magic number is 80%. If that number is reached within a station's "viewable area," then the switch must take place. But is that area calculated at current levels or the future halved area? If 80% of current broadcast area is the mandate (lawyers are still arguing over this), then the 80% level is impossible. HDTV can therefor never replace standard def for home broadcast.
HD will be used to project films for digital theatres because, although it does not look quite as good from a raw image quality standpoint, it is cheaper and more uniform in quality. And cheaper always wins.
But what, oh what, are those broadcasters going to do with all that bandwidth the government just gave away five years ago? ABC is no longer broadcasting Monday Night Football in HD. The Tonight Show may cut back its HD service soon. What's next?
ridiculopathy.com - We're trying hard to not talk about the election...
Some say a vote for Fallon is really a vote for Farrel...
this is our last election2000 story EVER- we swear
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It doesn't matter whether or not people should care. They don't. And won't unless something really bad happens (i.e. global depression or Martian invasion).
So, apathy is a symptom of a healthy society and economy.
Go ahead and refuse to vote. More votes for Guandunh, conqueror of worlds. All hail Guandunh!
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Interesting.
Walk the plank!
Now, if they can only get those units out the door...
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/. will get so many hits, it will be like slashdotting itself.
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Intellivision was better.
Amiga was better.
We're saying this is better now, not just because of the steller stats. But because we know it is d-o-o-m-e-d.
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It would be catastrophic if a much-used application like Outlook or scripting platform like VBS had huge security holes that even twelve-year-old kids knew how to exploit.
How would anyone be able to trust Win servers for e-commmerce? Would there need to be "security challenged" notices on all Win2k powered e-commerce sites like genetically-altered poultry? Just a thought.
This is going to give me nightmares.
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They have been streamlining for years, "adjusting expectations." And still, if it weren't for the Russians making the US space program look good, there may not be a US space program.
I agree. It's time to end the monopoly that NASA has on the ionosphere and get on with it.
full coverage of the Playstation2 debalce
Bwahahaha
Parents beating each other up at K-Mart. Load balancers burts into flame. It's a mad mad mad mad world out there.
Check out the full story. You probably won't regret it.
Probably.
your pain, i feel it.
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