I had lived in Houston for over 5 years and not really made any friends. I hooked up with the EFNET #houston IRC channel and within weeks was going out to clubs with people I had met in the channel. We even got reserved seating for a few movie premiers because of the group.
`Lumpy`
Exactly! I was wondering how they knew so many people had stopped using their accounts altogether but this number is just those who actively closed their account. I suspect the number of dormant accounts is triple or more.
Well I imagine they get ad revenue from the banner ads plastered on the fartville and nafiawars game pages (they probably get paid whether you are using adblock or not). And Zynga sells prepaid game cards to buy items in the games. Don't know if FB gets a slice of that or not.
There have been several technologies over the last 10-20 years that could have easily and somewhat economically decentralized the grid. Some were even developed and marketed for home use only to quickly and quietly disappear. While solar panels work they are extremely inefficient and the cost of entry is still prohibitively expensive making them less competitive with your local power co.
Basically focusing the suns rays into a laser beam that super heats salt. The superheated salt runs a steam turbine. Of course the mirrors could be focused to take down overhead aircraft or satellites as well.
I like how OP gets modded funny but each reply is getting modded flaimbait/troll. I guess there are a few Global Warming/ Climate Change fanbois with mod points today. Is it just me or do these guys seem more like a religion than some religions?
All the comments seem to be steering you towards text editors which are great for the pro and serious hobbyist but if you are looking for true WYSIWYG DoodleKit is probably more of what you are looking for. I'll probably get flamed for even suggesting such a simple, platform independent, powerful tool that requires no coding and that is fine. Everything is done in your browser so you can edit your web site no matter where you are or what type of machine you are working on.
The thing is your brain is actually doing several billion things at once. You are only conscious of about 15-20 of those things. When you reach for a glass of water you do it slowly and gently and when you swing your arm to hit something you do it with a lot of force. You didn't "think" about how hard or soft you were going to use your arm. A good coder has to anticipate thousands of possible decisions in creating a single simple app.
You missed the key term "regulated" meaning the government would determine what they could charge. It would be like they have done with electricity deregulation. I live in Texas and here is how it was done here. The local government mandated monopoly (Houston Lighting & Power) was split into two companies. One became the owner of the infrastructure and was named CenterPoint Energy. The other became the independent seller of electricity to end users Reliant Energy. Reliant Energy must purchase electricity from power brokers and CenterPoint delivers the power to Reliant's customers. CenterPoint charges Reliant a fee for using it's lines. CenterPoint is regulated by ERCOT. Reliant is free to charge the customer whatever it likes but it now must compete with other electricity providers for the privilege. For cable companies it would be like splitting Comcast into two companies. One would own the infrastructure and be regulated and the other would simply sell programming packages and service. I also advocate this model for Telco and Cellular.
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When you play a FPS you can actually use your feet to WASD.
That sounds eerily similar to what the king of England said a little over 200 years ago when tea was dumped in a harbor by some "criminals".
Maybe...maybe not. But unless he told them upfront he was polygamous he has a LITTLE xplainin to do.
I had lived in Houston for over 5 years and not really made any friends. I hooked up with the EFNET #houston IRC channel and within weeks was going out to clubs with people I had met in the channel. We even got reserved seating for a few movie premiers because of the group. `Lumpy`
You forgot to delete your cache.
Exactly! I was wondering how they knew so many people had stopped using their accounts altogether but this number is just those who actively closed their account. I suspect the number of dormant accounts is triple or more.
Well I imagine they get ad revenue from the banner ads plastered on the fartville and nafiawars game pages (they probably get paid whether you are using adblock or not). And Zynga sells prepaid game cards to buy items in the games. Don't know if FB gets a slice of that or not.
I hope your wives and families don't read /.
Except a few of the aforementioned companies existed prior to Best Buy IIRC.
I mean...to hang someone by the color of their balls and all.
I can hear the sound of Jeff Bezos calling Mark Zucherberg now.
There have been several technologies over the last 10-20 years that could have easily and somewhat economically decentralized the grid. Some were even developed and marketed for home use only to quickly and quietly disappear. While solar panels work they are extremely inefficient and the cost of entry is still prohibitively expensive making them less competitive with your local power co.
hackertourist==buzzkill
How would companies get paid if you were allowed to make your own power? Communist!
Basically focusing the suns rays into a laser beam that super heats salt. The superheated salt runs a steam turbine. Of course the mirrors could be focused to take down overhead aircraft or satellites as well.
I like how OP gets modded funny but each reply is getting modded flaimbait/troll. I guess there are a few Global Warming/ Climate Change fanbois with mod points today. Is it just me or do these guys seem more like a religion than some religions?
All the comments seem to be steering you towards text editors which are great for the pro and serious hobbyist but if you are looking for true WYSIWYG DoodleKit is probably more of what you are looking for. I'll probably get flamed for even suggesting such a simple, platform independent, powerful tool that requires no coding and that is fine. Everything is done in your browser so you can edit your web site no matter where you are or what type of machine you are working on.
Thinking, it isnt as tough as you would think...
The thing is your brain is actually doing several billion things at once. You are only conscious of about 15-20 of those things. When you reach for a glass of water you do it slowly and gently and when you swing your arm to hit something you do it with a lot of force. You didn't "think" about how hard or soft you were going to use your arm. A good coder has to anticipate thousands of possible decisions in creating a single simple app.
At first blush yes. But what they don't tell you is they have a back door into this system so it won't work in the US.
You missed the key term "regulated" meaning the government would determine what they could charge. It would be like they have done with electricity deregulation. I live in Texas and here is how it was done here. The local government mandated monopoly (Houston Lighting & Power) was split into two companies. One became the owner of the infrastructure and was named CenterPoint Energy. The other became the independent seller of electricity to end users Reliant Energy. Reliant Energy must purchase electricity from power brokers and CenterPoint delivers the power to Reliant's customers. CenterPoint charges Reliant a fee for using it's lines. CenterPoint is regulated by ERCOT. Reliant is free to charge the customer whatever it likes but it now must compete with other electricity providers for the privilege. For cable companies it would be like splitting Comcast into two companies. One would own the infrastructure and be regulated and the other would simply sell programming packages and service. I also advocate this model for Telco and Cellular.
A couple of coats of lead based paint will take care of that.
Godwin...is that you?
John Does is correct. Does is lazy and incorrect.
First 23,000 filesharing Does and now Vulns...WTF? Did /. hire someone from gizmodo or engadget?
You still have the problem that you are telling Amazon DRM is OK by buying the Kindle.