I was introduced to a different type of programming competition when my team participated in New Mexico's Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge (in association with LANL) during my junior year of high school. We were granted time on a Cray, afforded accounts on a box running OSF/1 and a mentor from Sandia National Labs, and accommodated at a three-day programming retreat. Yet with all that preparation, we were totally unprepared for the presentational aspect of the competition, which was similar to a science fair. Our FORTRAN code was functional and the results were there, but we were unable to present our results effectively.
This just in: the center of a 12" record travels at a greater number of RPMs than the outer edge. Reactions from the Doobie Brothers were not reported.
PubSub have not been "double-counting" and have "admitted" no such thing. Your post is a complete lie. I can only wonder whose interests are served by spreading such lies about the service we provide...
Bob, before your head implodes, realize that it was a joke stemming from the fact that the stated PubSub estimate is exactly twice that of Technorati's.
Space is essentially the only frontier we have left
I've never understood this sentiment. Surely any unexplored planets—and any such discrete bodies that harbor life or unique phenomena, and yet are distinct from space per se—are themselves frontiers from humanity's perspective.
It hasn't been "quietly" put up on the internet - it has been there for a while. MS uses it for testing and research. If you do notice, it is WAY better than Google's start page too
Yeah, the "quietly" qualifier definitely gets abused and misapplied in story blurbs; I see at as part of the slashdot socialization.
Also, I agree that start.com has more functions Google's start page, but in order for it to be "way better", it's going to have to load a lot faster. In my experience, even Yahoo's hefty start page loads faster.
Did ACD buy Deneba or just Canvas, do you know? Is it really good for casual usage? Though I haven't really tried it yet I've got Canvas 7, as freeware/trialware. I wonder how it is for editing photographs. Actually I'd like to get something with the capabilities of Photoshop without the price tag.
ACD Systems acquired Deneba a little over two years ago, and released Canvas 9 some time afterward. Canvas was the only Deneba product I was ever familiar with; afaik, it was their only product. For some tasks, Canvas would be a decent substitute for Photoshop, but no one can match Photoshop feature for feature.
For raster graphics, there's actually another free alternative besides the The GIMP, although it seems like a lot of people forgot about it: in June of 2000, Corel released PHOTO-PAINT 9 for free on Linux. Yeah, that's a bit dated, but to this day it's one of the most powerful Linux graphics apps available.
I suppose a number of posts about software titles missing from the list are inevitable, especially since the list could be enormous once one includes the bevy of CAD and 3D apps. While most of these are ill-suited for casual use, there is one missing title that has broad application: Canvas, which is now is owned by ACD Systems.
Canvas is capable of both vector and raster editing. I would say it's most comparable to CorelDRAW!, but it's clearly superior in many regards (such as the optional GIS and Scientific Imaging modules that ACD Systems added). It's available for Win32 and OSX. Canvas X is the current major version. The US$350 price quoted on the site is for the Professional version; the GIS and Scientifc Imaging modules cost an additional $200-300.
Many distributors, paysite owners, and content promoters have gone offshore. In adult web, offshoring makes sense; IBCs and holding companies make sense. Frankly, if there is anything preventing most Americans in the adult web industry from doing so, it's ignorance and Americentrism.
The efforts of several sex-phobic senators notwithstanding, the US government has--for the past 15 years or more--been far more concerned with attempting to levy pornography than to level it. This has always included chasing tax-dodging porn barons and fining adult theatres as much as a million dollars for "obscenity".
I like how this time the claim is that the bill would simultaneously keep children from viewing pornography and to keep them out of it. Will it fend off the killer bees, too?
In the mid-80s, FBI pornoraphy specialist (yes, that's kinda funny) Bill Kelly reported to the Meese Commission that "Kiddie porn has never been more than 1% of the total problem; but it gets 99% of the grease." And so it goes...
it's not like the guy in question is an idiot, he knew what he was doing when he signed his contract with Microsoft.
And Google's officers are idiots, either. Maybe they fully anticipated this, but it was a calculated risk just to have access to Lee's unique contributions--both as a brilliant engineer and a former MS heavyweight--if even for a few days.
Not many I'm afraid. Too many companies out there are "testing the waters" by posting false job postings and then tracking the number of resumes they receive.
The app's name, "CJ Miner", is strangely appropriate. In the adult web industry, CJ stands for "circle jerk", and refers to ad-laiden websites designed to fool visitors into believing that the site offers free content (pics and videos), when in fact nearly all links actually lead to other CJ sites.
I'd sum it up in one word: usability. Sure, there are other reasons, but the Amazon User Experience (UX) is outstanding. Few other sites compare in terms of ease-of-use.
Certainly. When I face hard decisions in designing major web applications, I ask myself, "What does Amazon do?" (although sometimes it's "What does Google do", "What does IMDb do", or even "What does eBay do").
As is often the case with great applications, Amazon is easy to use, yet the power is there if you want it. I like to think that I take advantage of what Amazon has to offer as a tool (Amazon Hacks helps here) and as an informational resource, not just as a place to shop. Plus, it's a system that's good enough that people are willing to contribute to it unpaid.
I started contributing additions, corrections, and high-quality product scans because--as a Marketplace and zShops seller--it helps my own sales; but even more than that, I enjoy contributing to distributed projects, and I wanted to make a good system even better. I'm sure there are many other customers/associates/users who feel the same.
I'm offering a free Mensa One-A-Day Online Calendar to whomever can make good use of it. Owners of the Mensa One-Day-Day desktop calendars get a free registration for the online version, but I've already got enough electronic calendaring options.
Email ringbang AT gmail DOT com and I'll send the first respondent the registration code.
You can either login at pageaday.com, or have the one-a-day mailed to you daily, as illustrated in this sample.
Why not just leave it at being entertainment. Making it a science takes all the fun away.
Being involved in cultural studies, I've noticed that some people tend to consider any analysis to be overanalysis. To some extent, I can sympathize with this point of view (I've often said, "You can't dissect something without killing it").
However, ad hoc, I can't distill for you enough of what cultural analysis is about in order to convince you that comic books are not, and never will be, just about entertainment.
But, at least consider that cultural studies (i.e., Comparitive Studies), are ultimately about self understanding. Comic book superheroes and plots may seem innocuous, but myths and popular fictions--and the ways in which they're presented--speak volumes about us. They serve a function; they fulfill needs. That function transcends entertainment by (super) leaps and bounds.
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I do not allow my rat to use a mouse.
Well, if they're both consenting adults...
I was introduced to a different type of programming competition when my team participated in New Mexico's Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge (in association with LANL) during my junior year of high school. We were granted time on a Cray, afforded accounts on a box running OSF/1 and a mentor from Sandia National Labs, and accommodated at a three-day programming retreat. Yet with all that preparation, we were totally unprepared for the presentational aspect of the competition, which was similar to a science fair. Our FORTRAN code was functional and the results were there, but we were unable to present our results effectively.
This just in: the center of a 12" record travels at a greater number of RPMs than the outer edge. Reactions from the Doobie Brothers were not reported.
PubSub have not been "double-counting" and have "admitted" no such thing. Your post is a complete lie. I can only wonder whose interests are served by spreading such lies about the service we provide...
Bob, before your head implodes, realize that it was a joke stemming from the fact that the stated PubSub estimate is exactly twice that of Technorati's.
Technorati recently published that they're seeing 900k new posts per day. PubSub says they're seeing 1.8M.
PubSub later admitted they may have been double-counting.
Negative information is how you erase data on a quantum storage device.
To erase data on a Quantum storage device, you only need an electromagnet or a hammer.
Space is essentially the only frontier we have left
I've never understood this sentiment. Surely any unexplored planets—and any such discrete bodies that harbor life or unique phenomena, and yet are distinct from space per se—are themselves frontiers from humanity's perspective.
It hasn't been "quietly" put up on the internet - it has been there for a while. MS uses it for testing and research. If you do notice, it is WAY better than Google's start page too
Yeah, the "quietly" qualifier definitely gets abused and misapplied in story blurbs; I see at as part of the slashdot socialization.
Also, I agree that start.com has more functions Google's start page, but in order for it to be "way better", it's going to have to load a lot faster. In my experience, even Yahoo's hefty start page loads faster.
Did ACD buy Deneba or just Canvas, do you know? Is it really good for casual usage? Though I haven't really tried it yet I've got Canvas 7, as freeware/trialware. I wonder how it is for editing photographs. Actually I'd like to get something with the capabilities of Photoshop without the price tag.
ACD Systems acquired Deneba a little over two years ago, and released Canvas 9 some time afterward. Canvas was the only Deneba product I was ever familiar with; afaik, it was their only product. For some tasks, Canvas would be a decent substitute for Photoshop, but no one can match Photoshop feature for feature.
For raster graphics, there's actually another free alternative besides the The GIMP, although it seems like a lot of people forgot about it: in June of 2000, Corel released PHOTO-PAINT 9 for free on Linux. Yeah, that's a bit dated, but to this day it's one of the most powerful Linux graphics apps available.
I suppose a number of posts about software titles missing from the list are inevitable, especially since the list could be enormous once one includes the bevy of CAD and 3D apps. While most of these are ill-suited for casual use, there is one missing title that has broad application: Canvas, which is now is owned by ACD Systems.
Canvas is capable of both vector and raster editing. I would say it's most comparable to CorelDRAW!, but it's clearly superior in many regards (such as the optional GIS and Scientific Imaging modules that ACD Systems added). It's available for Win32 and OSX. Canvas X is the current major version. The US$350 price quoted on the site is for the Professional version; the GIS and Scientifc Imaging modules cost an additional $200-300.
Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone.
:(
Oh, if only we could all be normal like Alistair MacGibbon.
Many distributors, paysite owners, and content promoters have gone offshore. In adult web, offshoring makes sense; IBCs and holding companies make sense. Frankly, if there is anything preventing most Americans in the adult web industry from doing so, it's ignorance and Americentrism.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1007689/
The efforts of several sex-phobic senators notwithstanding, the US government has--for the past 15 years or more--been far more concerned with attempting to levy pornography than to level it. This has always included chasing tax-dodging porn barons and fining adult theatres as much as a million dollars for "obscenity".
I like how this time the claim is that the bill would simultaneously keep children from viewing pornography and to keep them out of it. Will it fend off the killer bees, too?
In the mid-80s, FBI pornoraphy specialist (yes, that's kinda funny) Bill Kelly reported to the Meese Commission that "Kiddie porn has never been more than 1% of the total problem; but it gets 99% of the grease." And so it goes...
it's not like the guy in question is an idiot, he knew what he was doing when he signed his contract with Microsoft.
And Google's officers are idiots, either. Maybe they fully anticipated this, but it was a calculated risk just to have access to Lee's unique contributions--both as a brilliant engineer and a former MS heavyweight--if even for a few days.
They have their spin that their talking points are designed to get across
I submit that neologisms like "spin" and "talking points" are just as evil and damaging to our language and the cultures it informs.
"1) How many of these ads are actually real?"
Not many I'm afraid. Too many companies out there are "testing the waters" by posting false job postings and then tracking the number of resumes they receive.
The app's name, "CJ Miner", is strangely appropriate. In the adult web industry, CJ stands for "circle jerk", and refers to ad-laiden websites designed to fool visitors into believing that the site offers free content (pics and videos), when in fact nearly all links actually lead to other CJ sites.
Yay, now we can hear the real thing, not that fake robot rock that almost got me fired.
Forbes is reporting on the teaming of the RIAA and the Yakuza to go directly to college campuses and start slapping people around.
I'd sum it up in one word: usability. Sure, there are other reasons, but the Amazon User Experience (UX) is outstanding. Few other sites compare in terms of ease-of-use.
Certainly. When I face hard decisions in designing major web applications, I ask myself, "What does Amazon do?" (although sometimes it's "What does Google do", "What does IMDb do", or even "What does eBay do").
As is often the case with great applications, Amazon is easy to use, yet the power is there if you want it. I like to think that I take advantage of what Amazon has to offer as a tool (Amazon Hacks helps here) and as an informational resource, not just as a place to shop. Plus, it's a system that's good enough that people are willing to contribute to it unpaid.
I started contributing additions, corrections, and high-quality product scans because--as a Marketplace and zShops seller--it helps my own sales; but even more than that, I enjoy contributing to distributed projects, and I wanted to make a good system even better. I'm sure there are many other customers/associates/users who feel the same.
Nero (because Microsoft doesn't have a media burning framework).
Yes, they do. As illustrated in this example
DVD Express (because Microsoft doesn't have a DVD player).
Yes, it does: Windows Media Player. However, it requires a third-party MPEG-2 codec, which are freely available.
At any rate, Shipley's comment was so glib and cavalier, it's hardly worth taking seriously.
This 800x600 screenshot should survive a slashdot throttling.
I'm offering a free Mensa One-A-Day Online Calendar to whomever can make good use of it. Owners of the Mensa One-Day-Day desktop calendars get a free registration for the online version, but I've already got enough electronic calendaring options.
Email ringbang AT gmail DOT com and I'll send the first respondent the registration code.
You can either login at pageaday.com, or have the one-a-day mailed to you daily, as illustrated in this sample.
I, for one, am shocked.
Why not just leave it at being entertainment.
Making it a science takes all the fun away.
Being involved in cultural studies, I've noticed that some people tend to consider any analysis to be overanalysis. To some extent, I can sympathize with this point of view (I've often said, "You can't dissect something without killing it").
However, ad hoc, I can't distill for you enough of what cultural analysis is about in order to convince you that comic books are not, and never will be, just about entertainment.
But, at least consider that cultural studies (i.e., Comparitive Studies), are ultimately about self understanding. Comic book superheroes and plots may seem innocuous, but myths and popular fictions--and the ways in which they're presented--speak volumes about us. They serve a function; they fulfill needs. That function transcends entertainment by (super) leaps and bounds.