I've noticed throttling in the last two months and I've always considered myself a fairly moderate user. At most I've had 9 movies in one month (last month) and I have no desire to copy them. But in my case I feel even more ripped off because there are several, if not a majority of months in the past two years I've been with Netflix that I have rented no movies at all, keeping my three movies all month until I had time to watch them.
So not only do they throttle "heavy" (can 9/month be considered heavy?) users, but they also throttle people who have absolutely no history of heavy usage, even a history of non-usage. I was their bread and butter for 16 months and they turn on me in one winter month...
I don't have TV, cable, or sattelite. Blockbuster has ethical problems of their own (to say nothing of their crappy selection in my town), and the other local video store is run by a sexist pig. So I guess it's books for me at this point.
The funny thing is that I'd never heard of NOAA's website until the Santorum bill. It's mercifully ad-free and complete, and now it's the only place I go. And it's pronounced "Noah", how cool is that?
The radar pictures are a little less pretty but it certainly beats not being able to find the damned weather forecast on weather.com.
As crazy as Hussein might be, he is interested in his own survival and maintaining his power. If Iraq is reduced to a parking lot, he looses, no matter how many Americans he can take on the way.
Wow, what a great argument for... not going into Iraq. Secular leaders need engagement, but religious leaders call for wars.
I guess that makes the argument for going into Iran that almost any not particularly friendly Islamic country may be harboring these crazy people who care not a whit about their lives.
That's a lot of blood. And y'know, it probably won't make a dent.
A little too extreme at times, but overall a very down-to-earth and likable guy.
If you want to make them mad, you could say the people over at metafilter (currently down) make for a good political blog. (snicker)
They've already proved it isn't a game: Gödel
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Is Math A Sport?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The formalists thought it was a "game" -- which is to say a formal system interesting mainly because of the relations between various components in the system.
Unfortunately, that was only fun for a little while until Gödel's Incompleteness Proof successfully proved that not all truths of arithmetic could be proved using the rules of arithmetic. The result generalizes.
So the real question here is "Are all sports games?" If so, and it seems quite reasonable, then quite objectively the answer to "Is mathematics a sport?" is no. (Ok, so only if all games are formal systems...)
This might just make your night. Sure it doesn't have all 11, but I believe it gets pretty close to 1, 4, 5, 6, 7. No idea why it never made it to the texturizer.
Gonna point you to the ultimate tab browsing extension, Tabbrowser Extensions. It does what you want (if you let it), and also has an "undo closed tab" feature. That comes in pretty handy too. My favorite is the "send all new windows to tabs" feature.
Since I've posted this a couple of times, I feel obligated to say that I have no idea who the people are who made this extension, or why they don't put it at texturizer, but god bless 'em!
...Rio Rancho is way oversold. Wait until they get the new Glengarry Wifi network. That old Rio Rancho stuff, it's just not moving like the new stuff is. Ya give me that new network and I'll tell ya it's going right out the door -- right out the door -- that's what I'm telling you!
Interestingly, where normal humans had needs of 100 meg, 1 gig, 100 gig storage spaces, this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use. It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.
Unless, of course, storage companies start getting smart and emphasizing fully redundant backups. Think about it. Wouldn't you pay an extra $400 to make sure your parents' data was backed up three separate places, virtually eliminating the chances they would lose it all.
Losing data is the primary reason people don't trust computers. Our terabyte overlords could make it that much more likely this won't happen.
I bought mine and the same thing happened, but then I noticed my school's bookstore had it for 25% off. Apparently there is an education discount on these suckers.
So get yourself to your local college bookstore and either find an oblivious checkout clerk or contact a friend who has a friend who is still in college.
If they ever stop making these pens, I might give up writing in ink altogether. I'll grade with no other pen then the red one of these. The greens are amazingly hard property to keep. I've known people with less interest in property than Buddhist monks to walk off with the green ones.
The extra "nervous clicking" feature comes in very handy in meetings and is a great slow release valve for stress.
Apple's (& RIAA's) long-term plan
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· Score: 5, Funny
Sell at $1 a song until business gets sluggish, then surprise users with a $20 a month, download-all-the-songs-you-want subsription service. Everyone goes gah-gah because they have been paying $100-a-binge for songs and signs up for the service. Mac users revel in the fantastic deal they're getting from Jobs.
RIAA now has the business model it wants, though Apple gets a small cut, in that instead of people paying $17 a few times a year for a cd, they now have them automatically paying $240 a year. Cell-phone pricing syndrome has everyone blissfully unaware that they are paying way more than they ever wanted to in the first place and the RIAA uses the extra dough to have public executions of P2P software engineers.
Intranet content. A manager with a toy manufacturing company uses its enterprise information portal to see year-over-year sales data on screen. The company has confidence in posting this sensitive information because specific usage restrictions have been applied to it. The manager gets the information she needs, conveniently, but because she cannot print, copy or paste it, sensitive sales data are protected from inadvertent (or deliberate) sharing with a competitor.
Email communications. A senior partner in an accounting firm needs to send email to his partners with a confidential contract proposal attached. Besides specifying who may read the proposal and that they may not copy, paste or edit the information, he specifies that the email itself cannot be forwarded. The recipients' email and word processing applications transparently enforce these policies. All partners worry less about information leaks that might damage ongoing negotiations.
These are some ridiculously stupid executives, unless Outlook is also going to "transparently" enforce policies of not copying it down onto paper and then typing it into a different email message. Or, gates-forbid, someone *snail-mails* the written text.
Oh, I forget, this is where Microsoft FBI XP (tm) starts enforcing policies. Seriously, version control is one thing, but restricting people from copying and pasting as a confidentiality measure would ONLY make sense to pointy-haired bosses.
Tyler: Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency your taking giant panic breaths, Suddenly you become euphoric, docile, you accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour, blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.
#024601 - dingy, unjust, prison-like #070476 - patriotic (#040776 if you're brit) #853593 - Catchy, but better with one more bit #867530 - Ditto #525600 - "Seasons of Love" #042903 - Contemporary (#290403 as well)
Maybe this is what JonKatz working on during his absence up for the last year or so!
...so the question is has he just been waiting around for games.slashdot.org to launch, or has he been working on his own game so he can review it ASAP?
The analogy here is somewhat false. Science fiction is proto-unresearched science, but for Computer Science, that isn't extreme programming, it's just science fiction again.
The WWW and Net were information systems I lusted over in David Brin's Earth, and 10 years later I'm living in the middle of it. I'm not saying the Earth is going to wake up and talk to us, but the did anticipate the Net well. Now if only we could implement his idea that you have to subscribe to a news feed to get the vote...
Similar anticipations in the past have been Voice Recognition, OCR, streaming video, 3d-modeling and so on. Probably in the future: better voice recognition, organic interfaces, nano-technology. On the programming side: increased use of evolutionary algorithms and not so artificial intelligence.
A friend and I once had what tycoons describe as a shining glimpse of outrageous fortune:
IMAX Porn
"Like-you're-there", motion enhanced nakedness. The perfect format, the only route porn can take other than virtual reality. Theaters all across the country and after a tricky patent, the profits in hand. One might say with the gnomes:
Like the GOPHER protocol, used in text-based information outlines, the BEAVER protocol was the first porn-only protocol available on the world-wide-web. BEAVER://hotladies.com certainly had great promise and wide usership in its early days, but the advent of MOSAIC and all things HTTP soon spelled the end of one of the more outrageous experiments in Internet history. Now it joins the long list of Archie, Veronica, and WAIS as the burned out Stuckey's stand on the information super-highway
Notable features were the massive amount of stripped bits in beaver packets, thrust-technology (the precursor of push-technology), ActiveXXX support, and of course evil bit technology which was 10 years (!) ahead of its time.
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I've noticed throttling in the last two months and I've always considered myself a fairly moderate user. At most I've had 9 movies in one month (last month) and I have no desire to copy them. But in my case I feel even more ripped off because there are several, if not a majority of months in the past two years I've been with Netflix that I have rented no movies at all, keeping my three movies all month until I had time to watch them.
So not only do they throttle "heavy" (can 9/month be considered heavy?) users, but they also throttle people who have absolutely no history of heavy usage, even a history of non-usage. I was their bread and butter for 16 months and they turn on me in one winter month...
I don't have TV, cable, or sattelite. Blockbuster has ethical problems of their own (to say nothing of their crappy selection in my town), and the other local video store is run by a sexist pig. So I guess it's books for me at this point.
The funny thing is that I'd never heard of NOAA's website until the Santorum bill. It's mercifully ad-free and complete, and now it's the only place I go. And it's pronounced "Noah", how cool is that?
The radar pictures are a little less pretty but it certainly beats not being able to find the damned weather forecast on weather.com.
You should never mix up the spelling of "celebrate" and "celibate". Never, never, never.
Unless you live in Chile or Argentina. Check out the antipodes map to see where you'd end up.
Don't you mean Rollax watches?
As crazy as Hussein might be, he is interested in his own survival and maintaining his power. If Iraq is reduced to a parking lot, he looses, no matter how many Americans he can take on the way.
Wow, what a great argument for... not going into Iraq. Secular leaders need engagement, but religious leaders call for wars.
I guess that makes the argument for going into Iran that almost any not particularly friendly Islamic country may be harboring these crazy people who care not a whit about their lives.
That's a lot of blood. And y'know, it probably won't make a dent.
This story doesn't really mean anything and people are just making up comments.
Team Fortress 2.... oh bother....
You gotta love Oliver Willis and for that matter all of the Media Matters people.
A little too extreme at times, but overall a very down-to-earth and likable guy.
If you want to make them mad, you could say the people over at metafilter (currently down) make for a good political blog. (snicker)
The formalists thought it was a "game" -- which is to say a formal system interesting mainly because of the relations between various components in the system.
Unfortunately, that was only fun for a little while until Gödel's Incompleteness Proof successfully proved that not all truths of arithmetic could be proved using the rules of arithmetic. The result generalizes.
So the real question here is "Are all sports games?" If so, and it seems quite reasonable, then quite objectively the answer to "Is mathematics a sport?" is no. (Ok, so only if all games are formal systems...)
Calvinball does not count.
This might just make your night. Sure it doesn't have all 11, but I believe it gets pretty close to 1, 4, 5, 6, 7. No idea why it never made it to the texturizer.
Gonna point you to the ultimate tab browsing extension, Tabbrowser Extensions. It does what you want (if you let it), and also has an "undo closed tab" feature. That comes in pretty handy too. My favorite is the "send all new windows to tabs" feature.
Since I've posted this a couple of times, I feel obligated to say that I have no idea who the people are who made this extension, or why they don't put it at texturizer, but god bless 'em!
User-definable delay isn't there, but I think that the Tab Browser Extensions does what you want, and quite a bit more.
It's fulfilled my wish for a single window browsing experience.
...Rio Rancho is way oversold. Wait until they get the new Glengarry Wifi network. That old Rio Rancho stuff, it's just not moving like the new stuff is. Ya give me that new network and I'll tell ya it's going right out the door -- right out the door -- that's what I'm telling you!
I, for one, welcome our new terabyte overlords.
Interestingly, where normal humans had needs of 100 meg, 1 gig, 100 gig storage spaces, this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use. It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.
Unless, of course, storage companies start getting smart and emphasizing fully redundant backups. Think about it. Wouldn't you pay an extra $400 to make sure your parents' data was backed up three separate places, virtually eliminating the chances they would lose it all.
Losing data is the primary reason people don't trust computers. Our terabyte overlords could make it that much more likely this won't happen.
I bought mine and the same thing happened, but then I noticed my school's bookstore had it for 25% off. Apparently there is an education discount on these suckers.
So get yourself to your local college bookstore and either find an oblivious checkout clerk or contact a friend who has a friend who is still in college.
You save at least $40.
If they ever stop making these pens, I might give up writing in ink altogether. I'll grade with no other pen then the red one of these. The greens are amazingly hard property to keep. I've known people with less interest in property than Buddhist monks to walk off with the green ones.
The extra "nervous clicking" feature comes in very handy in meetings and is a great slow release valve for stress.
Sell at $1 a song until business gets sluggish, then surprise users with a $20 a month, download-all-the-songs-you-want subsription service. Everyone goes gah-gah because they have been paying $100-a-binge for songs and signs up for the service. Mac users revel in the fantastic deal they're getting from Jobs.
RIAA now has the business model it wants, though Apple gets a small cut, in that instead of people paying $17 a few times a year for a cd, they now have them automatically paying $240 a year. Cell-phone pricing syndrome has everyone blissfully unaware that they are paying way more than they ever wanted to in the first place and the RIAA uses the extra dough to have public executions of P2P software engineers.
From the Ballmer email:
Intranet content. A manager with a toy manufacturing company uses its enterprise information portal to see year-over-year sales data on screen. The company has confidence in posting this sensitive information because specific usage restrictions have been applied to it. The manager gets the information she needs, conveniently, but because she cannot print, copy or paste it, sensitive sales data are protected from inadvertent (or deliberate) sharing with a competitor.
Email communications. A senior partner in an accounting firm needs to send email to his partners with a confidential contract proposal attached. Besides specifying who may read the proposal and that they may not copy, paste or edit the information, he specifies that the email itself cannot be forwarded. The recipients' email and word processing applications transparently enforce these policies. All partners worry less about information leaks that might damage ongoing negotiations.
These are some ridiculously stupid executives, unless Outlook is also going to "transparently" enforce policies of not copying it down onto paper and then typing it into a different email message. Or, gates-forbid, someone *snail-mails* the written text.
Oh, I forget, this is where Microsoft FBI XP (tm) starts enforcing policies. Seriously, version control is one thing, but restricting people from copying and pasting as a confidentiality measure would ONLY make sense to pointy-haired bosses.
Tyler: Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency your taking giant panic breaths, Suddenly you become euphoric, docile, you accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour, blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.
Notable colors also include:
#024601 - dingy, unjust, prison-like
#070476 - patriotic (#040776 if you're brit)
#853593 - Catchy, but better with one more bit
#867530 - Ditto
#525600 - "Seasons of Love"
#042903 - Contemporary (#290403 as well)
Maybe this is what JonKatz working on during his absence up for the last year or so!
...so the question is has he just been waiting around for games.slashdot.org to launch, or has he been working on his own game so he can review it ASAP?
The analogy here is somewhat false. Science fiction is proto-unresearched science, but for Computer Science, that isn't extreme programming, it's just science fiction again.
The WWW and Net were information systems I lusted over in David Brin's Earth, and 10 years later I'm living in the middle of it. I'm not saying the Earth is going to wake up and talk to us, but the did anticipate the Net well. Now if only we could implement his idea that you have to subscribe to a news feed to get the vote...
Similar anticipations in the past have been Voice Recognition, OCR, streaming video, 3d-modeling and so on. Probably in the future: better voice recognition, organic interfaces, nano-technology. On the programming side: increased use of evolutionary algorithms and not so artificial intelligence.
A friend and I once had what tycoons describe as a shining glimpse of outrageous fortune:
IMAX Porn
"Like-you're-there", motion enhanced nakedness. The perfect format, the only route porn can take other than virtual reality. Theaters all across the country and after a tricky patent, the profits in hand. One might say with the gnomes:
1. Invent IMAX Porn.
2. Profit.
3. Profit.
4. Profit.
No question marks needed. But I have come to realize that the gains would be ill-gotten, so I hand the idea to you, oh world.
Internet protocols that never made it:
Like the GOPHER protocol, used in text-based information outlines, the BEAVER protocol was the first porn-only protocol available on the world-wide-web. BEAVER://hotladies.com certainly had great promise and wide usership in its early days, but the advent of MOSAIC and all things HTTP soon spelled the end of one of the more outrageous experiments in Internet history. Now it joins the long list of Archie, Veronica, and WAIS as the burned out Stuckey's stand on the information super-highway
Notable features were the massive amount of stripped bits in beaver packets, thrust-technology (the precursor of push-technology), ActiveXXX support, and of course evil bit technology which was 10 years (!) ahead of its time.
beaver://slashdot.com -- we never knew ya...