you could try to find work here. They have a bidding process on contracts. At first you'd only be able to win based on low cost. After you build your portfolio/credit, you can get bigger jobs for more profit. (I am not affiliated with them.)
This is a major problem that I see in this technology. I saw a Discovery or TLC special about this some time ago and basically the water within cells expand and explode the cells. So you have a preserved brain with all it's cells damaged. I don't see this as being too useful. Unless the future holds a way to repair every cell in the brain, there is no hope for this working.
Anyone have an idea as to what the battery life on these things are? I mean, why would you buy refill minutes cards for these if they only last as long as typical cell phones (2hrs talk time or so). You could refill once then would have to spend another 40-60 on a new "disposible" phone. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Also, a deck of playing cards is pretty thick for this phone which makes me think it uses a traditional LiIon battery. Those are pretty expensive the last time I checked. I really don't see how they're going to make any money on this thing.
On a side note, it would definitely be useful for people that want a phone for just emergency purposes. One time charge rather than those pre-paid services that require you to refill every 60-90 days or you lose your service. This would be a true one time emergency phone purchase which would definitely have some sort of market.
I read the article and still don't quite get how you can hear it if it is hypersonic. Does it cause your eardrum to vibrate at hypersonic speeds? If so, how do you hear this and does it cause more damage to your ears than traditional headphones? The military applications are definitely interesting to say the least.
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I second the last post. Just graduated and I definitely would not train her with our drama students.
The problem with the meetup situation is that they seem to think people won't go outside a few blocks from their homes to meet up. I mean there are a lot of/. ppl in newyork but it restricts groups to small locations. There are 5 people in queens, ny for example but there are many in new york city. I bet a larger group of people would be willing to meet up if the venue was larger even if some people have to take public transit into the city.
You believe the cable analogy will apply to music downloads?
I could see a similar thing happening in the music space. What's the business model of Kazaa or Morpheus? How will they make money to support being around long term if the idea is to steal it and give it away for free? And for the average person, you see more spoofing where files were named the same thing, but it wasn't an actual Eminem song, or it was just a couple seconds of it. And the file quality isn't consistent, the directories sometimes are wrong, you get viruses. If we actually offer a product that is extremely convenient, seamless to use, the file quality is guaranteed, the download times are optimised, and it comes with lots of other unique features that make a seamless experience. Would people be willing to pay for that? Absolutely. Over time will it marginalise pirate services? I think so.
Is this guy serious. He likens music trading to the cable tv industry where the value added services provided by cable over tv (better quality signal, improved channel guides, more content, etc) can be provided by his service to cause people to convert from pirating mp3s. First of all, I do not see how he expects to create anything better than mp3 because of the sheer entrenchment that this format has. The quality out there is the generally 128kbit which is not necessarily the greatest but the general populace decided that it was the best bitrate for them. Be it speed of download or that audiophiles aren't all that plentiful. The reasoning does not matter. It simply means that people have already decided what format they want.
McGlade is never going to provide enough value added services in my opinion to actual sway most of the people out there. I believe that the best the music industry can hope for is that people who listen to mp3s enjoy them enough to purchase the albums. He can't provide more content since all the popular songs are the ones distributed on the p2p systems. He might have a chance with the less popular ones.
Channel guides have an interesting correlation. If they can make it easier for people to find songs they enjoy listening to then they may be able to get people to subscribe just to find more songs they enjoy. People will pay for that service. They will not however pay extra for "untethered" (non-DRM media).
This place is a very good reference for practically any web language you want to work in. ADO, ASP, CSS2, HTML, JavaScript, Jet SQL, VBScript, WML, WMLScript, WSH, XHTML, XML DOM, XSLT are all covered.
Don't you realize the potential of having a cheap web server farm? these boxes are worth 450 or so in hardware and you can get them for less than 200 now. You'd save a huge amount of money using these as linux boxes.
Now we can easily see what part of the country/world has the heaviest concentration of/.ers. Go NY! Ack... Washington is beating us... but...if you take both uptown and downtown manhatten and queens into account... yes, i see it now... It all adds up!
I don't see how this is going to affect pirating music. People are already perfectly happy with ripping mp3s of CDs even though they technically are lower quality than the original bitstream. Given the ability to still copy the original red book version, I don't think the people that are copying music would care one bit about the higher quality version and wind up buying it. The only thing they could do is possibly make the red book version much worse quality (i.e. FM) and encode the proper version in the SACD track. I just see that as lending itself to more trouble for them as people will undoubtedly hack the new standard.
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Dude. I don't think this is what's holding back electronic record-keeping. It's more that we don't want our privacy invaded by companies. In any case, we should concentrate on securing systems rather than punishing the hackers. Otherwise you're just using a technique akin to security through obscurity.
This cooling system seems to be doing wonders for their mySQL server. Lovely how descriptive the errors are. I'm sure no one would have guessed PASSWORD.
So we'll just have to read "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." off the screen. Same outcome. =P
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This keyboard is designed for thumbs... So many posts about how small the keyboard is and you don't realize the asian population is geared toward tiny electronics. They're thumbs are their most dextrous fingers nowadays as opposed to our index.
They're hearts basically stop. It's the quickest way they have for killing them without harming the native animals. Also from the TLC show I talked about in a previous post.
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These frogs were introduced by a foreign tourist. They are not native to Hawaii. The frogs have no natural enemies now in Hawaii because it is an island and no predators for the frogs evolved. These frogs populate extremely quickly leading to the death of the insect population that native birds and animals feel on there. As a result many species are dying off.
This is all from a TLC show a week or so ago... A little late on the article guys.
3G is great for the all-in-one mobile device but that is only a big thing in Asian countries where the culture supports the idea of being able to do everything on one device (streaming video, mp3, pictures, cell, sms, im). For the US there just isn't the market or demand for it. Studies have been done by the major communications companies and all came up with the result that it isn't cost effective to spend the money required to upgrade the infrastructure to support 3G (G3). That is the reason why G2.5 is being deployed. They are also considering the idea of G3 in major cities using a cheaper micronetwork architecture and then downgrading to G2.5 features when you leave the city.
Take Kramnik's comments on how Fritz can beat Deep Blue with a grain of salt. The program obviously has a neural network component to it and since the time of Deep Blue, many computer chess scientists have had the ability to analyze and disect that particular game played by Kasperov and Deep Blue. Of course they will find better ways to handle that particular game with so much time spent analyzing it. It doesn't not imply that Fritz7 is better than Deep Blue because we don't know how Deep Blue would play out other games. Sadly we will never know.
"Deep Blue has only played twelve games in two years against one single opponent. As such, it is impossible to tell how strong it is or what it is capable of." - Vishwanathan Anand
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I also think you should consult a lawyer. If not, publicity is what we need. Contact the media. You can also create a webpage buy a google adword to it. I'm sure people will donate some money to keep the adword up so everytime someone searches for BestBuy they'll see your story prominently displayed to its right.
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The BBB is so bogged down with complaints that I doubt even 2000+ people would make much of a difference. What they are able to do is put companies on a list. How many people actually go to the BBB and check out this list before purchasing at an establishment? I really don't think the BBB is the way to go. Legal pressure is the only thing I can see working. Also, would the people that keep saying it's a typographical error actually read the page. A typo would be one or two characters, not an entire sentence about the exact savings off the list price.
Although jpg compression is definitely helpful, the article forgets to mention that two image formats are supported by all browsers. GIF being the second. GIFs should be used for vector based graphics and provides a better overall quality/size advantage when done right. Many non-professional webpages confuse the distinction and make solely jpg or gif based websites. He should also have explained the compression techniques using photoshop as that is a much more popular package (although I understand that many home grown websites might be using PSP, they are also the ones that don't really care about bandwidth since they're using geocities or other free hosts).
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you could try to find work here. They have a bidding process on contracts. At first you'd only be able to win based on low cost. After you build your portfolio/credit, you can get bigger jobs for more profit. (I am not affiliated with them.)
He's the man. His research has lead to a huge amount of advancements in the homebrew software/application field for the xbox.
This is a major problem that I see in this technology. I saw a Discovery or TLC special about this some time ago and basically the water within cells expand and explode the cells. So you have a preserved brain with all it's cells damaged. I don't see this as being too useful. Unless the future holds a way to repair every cell in the brain, there is no hope for this working.
Anyone have an idea as to what the battery life on these things are? I mean, why would you buy refill minutes cards for these if they only last as long as typical cell phones (2hrs talk time or so). You could refill once then would have to spend another 40-60 on a new "disposible" phone. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Also, a deck of playing cards is pretty thick for this phone which makes me think it uses a traditional LiIon battery. Those are pretty expensive the last time I checked. I really don't see how they're going to make any money on this thing.
On a side note, it would definitely be useful for people that want a phone for just emergency purposes. One time charge rather than those pre-paid services that require you to refill every 60-90 days or you lose your service. This would be a true one time emergency phone purchase which would definitely have some sort of market.
I read the article and still don't quite get how you can hear it if it is hypersonic. Does it cause your eardrum to vibrate at hypersonic speeds? If so, how do you hear this and does it cause more damage to your ears than traditional headphones? The military applications are definitely interesting to say the least.
I second the last post. Just graduated and I definitely would not train her with our drama students.
The problem with the meetup situation is that they seem to think people won't go outside a few blocks from their homes to meet up. I mean there are a lot of /. ppl in newyork but it restricts groups to small locations. There are 5 people in queens, ny for example but there are many in new york city. I bet a larger group of people would be willing to meet up if the venue was larger even if some people have to take public transit into the city.
You believe the cable analogy will apply to music downloads?
I could see a similar thing happening in the music space. What's the business model of Kazaa or Morpheus? How will they make money to support being around long term if the idea is to steal it and give it away for free? And for the average person, you see more spoofing where files were named the same thing, but it wasn't an actual Eminem song, or it was just a couple seconds of it. And the file quality isn't consistent, the directories sometimes are wrong, you get viruses. If we actually offer a product that is extremely convenient, seamless to use, the file quality is guaranteed, the download times are optimised, and it comes with lots of other unique features that make a seamless experience. Would people be willing to pay for that? Absolutely. Over time will it marginalise pirate services? I think so.
Is this guy serious. He likens music trading to the cable tv industry where the value added services provided by cable over tv (better quality signal, improved channel guides, more content, etc) can be provided by his service to cause people to convert from pirating mp3s. First of all, I do not see how he expects to create anything better than mp3 because of the sheer entrenchment that this format has. The quality out there is the generally 128kbit which is not necessarily the greatest but the general populace decided that it was the best bitrate for them. Be it speed of download or that audiophiles aren't all that plentiful. The reasoning does not matter. It simply means that people have already decided what format they want.
McGlade is never going to provide enough value added services in my opinion to actual sway most of the people out there. I believe that the best the music industry can hope for is that people who listen to mp3s enjoy them enough to purchase the albums. He can't provide more content since all the popular songs are the ones distributed on the p2p systems. He might have a chance with the less popular ones.
Channel guides have an interesting correlation. If they can make it easier for people to find songs they enjoy listening to then they may be able to get people to subscribe just to find more songs they enjoy. People will pay for that service. They will not however pay extra for "untethered" (non-DRM media).
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This place is a very good reference for practically any web language you want to work in.
ADO, ASP, CSS2, HTML, JavaScript, Jet SQL, VBScript, WML, WMLScript, WSH, XHTML, XML DOM, XSLT are all covered.
Don't you realize the potential of having a cheap web server farm? these boxes are worth 450 or so in hardware and you can get them for less than 200 now. You'd save a huge amount of money using these as linux boxes.
http://slashdot.meetup.com/top
/.ers. Go NY! Ack... Washington is beating us... but...if you take both uptown and downtown manhatten and queens into account... yes, i see it now... It all adds up!
Now we can easily see what part of the country/world has the heaviest concentration of
http://slashdot.meetup.com/top
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Now we can easily find out what area of the country has the greatest concentration of us...
Ok, how many of you are also refreshing and watching the slashdot effect in action? How sad are we... =P
I don't see how this is going to affect pirating music. People are already perfectly happy with ripping mp3s of CDs even though they technically are lower quality than the original bitstream. Given the ability to still copy the original red book version, I don't think the people that are copying music would care one bit about the higher quality version and wind up buying it. The only thing they could do is possibly make the red book version much worse quality (i.e. FM) and encode the proper version in the SACD track. I just see that as lending itself to more trouble for them as people will undoubtedly hack the new standard.
Dude. I don't think this is what's holding back electronic record-keeping. It's more that we don't want our privacy invaded by companies. In any case, we should concentrate on securing systems rather than punishing the hackers. Otherwise you're just using a technique akin to security through obscurity.
This cooling system seems to be doing wonders for their mySQL server. Lovely how descriptive the errors are. I'm sure no one would have guessed PASSWORD.
So we'll just have to read "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." off the screen. Same outcome. =P
This keyboard is designed for thumbs... So many posts about how small the keyboard is and you don't realize the asian population is geared toward tiny electronics. They're thumbs are their most dextrous fingers nowadays as opposed to our index.
They're hearts basically stop. It's the quickest way they have for killing them without harming the native animals. Also from the TLC show I talked about in a previous post.
These frogs were introduced by a foreign tourist. They are not native to Hawaii. The frogs have no natural enemies now in Hawaii because it is an island and no predators for the frogs evolved. These frogs populate extremely quickly leading to the death of the insect population that native birds and animals feel on there. As a result many species are dying off.
This is all from a TLC show a week or so ago... A little late on the article guys.
3G is great for the all-in-one mobile device but that is only a big thing in Asian countries where the culture supports the idea of being able to do everything on one device (streaming video, mp3, pictures, cell, sms, im). For the US there just isn't the market or demand for it. Studies have been done by the major communications companies and all came up with the result that it isn't cost effective to spend the money required to upgrade the infrastructure to support 3G (G3). That is the reason why G2.5 is being deployed. They are also considering the idea of G3 in major cities using a cheaper micronetwork architecture and then downgrading to G2.5 features when you leave the city.
Take Kramnik's comments on how Fritz can beat Deep Blue with a grain of salt. The program obviously has a neural network component to it and since the time of Deep Blue, many computer chess scientists have had the ability to analyze and disect that particular game played by Kasperov and Deep Blue. Of course they will find better ways to handle that particular game with so much time spent analyzing it. It doesn't not imply that Fritz7 is better than Deep Blue because we don't know how Deep Blue would play out other games. Sadly we will never know.
"Deep Blue has only played twelve games in two years against one single opponent. As such, it is impossible to tell how strong it is or what it is capable of." - Vishwanathan Anand
I also think you should consult a lawyer. If not, publicity is what we need. Contact the media. You can also create a webpage buy a google adword to it. I'm sure people will donate some money to keep the adword up so everytime someone searches for BestBuy they'll see your story prominently displayed to its right.
The BBB is so bogged down with complaints that I doubt even 2000+ people would make much of a difference. What they are able to do is put companies on a list. How many people actually go to the BBB and check out this list before purchasing at an establishment? I really don't think the BBB is the way to go. Legal pressure is the only thing I can see working. Also, would the people that keep saying it's a typographical error actually read the page. A typo would be one or two characters, not an entire sentence about the exact savings off the list price.
Although jpg compression is definitely helpful, the article forgets to mention that two image formats are supported by all browsers. GIF being the second. GIFs should be used for vector based graphics and provides a better overall quality/size advantage when done right. Many non-professional webpages confuse the distinction and make solely jpg or gif based websites. He should also have explained the compression techniques using photoshop as that is a much more popular package (although I understand that many home grown websites might be using PSP, they are also the ones that don't really care about bandwidth since they're using geocities or other free hosts).