Has no one gone to redsheriff.com? They're a site visitor logging company. I use them at work instead of writing my own huge log files, which were upwards of 2GB/day. Instead, I just log a few things and let the Red Sheriff applet/Javascript combo do the visitor logging.
Red Sherrif got the contract through our... *thinking of how I can make this anonymous*...parent organization. I have never reviewed their terms of service, since we are not technically their customer, our "parent organization" is. I'll be sure to check this out and maybe submit it if I find any interesting info.
Does this include when I plug it into my wall outlet, the electricity from which is generated by a nuclear station?
Perhaps something along the lines of "Portable Nuclear Generator for your Laptop" would have been more appropriate. The next article could be "Portable Birth Control for Men", with the same link.
I've had the whole online record label for indie bands with fairly distributed revenue and p2p service in the back on my head for ages. I can code and I know several other coders who could handle everything that would be needed.
I don't have the money, nor know anyone who can put up any kind of cash for this kind of service. There are a lot of resources that would be needed as the service grows, like a recording studio to get the songs recorded for bands that can't afford it, bandwidth (p2p could cut this a lot) and of course marketing and advertising. I have a lot of contacts, but not enough.
Listen, if anybody really wants to do this, then let's brainstorm. It'll take aa dedicated group of people to pull anything off.
Anyway..mail me at dtait26 *remove* @ *remove* cogeco.ca if anyone's interested in seriously pursuing this. None of my friends care about the state of the industry.
I know it's sci-fi and not science, but I've always wondered about the T-Rex's vision in the JP books and movies. In the first, for example, Dr. Grant and the kids stand perfectly still and the Rex lowers his head to about a meter from them, and doesn't see them.
The argument put forth in the movie and the book is that the Rex's vision is movement-based, like our peripheral vision is. Is this another case about theory being presented as fact? I really don't see how fossilized bones will give any indication of vision.
You're wrong. The RIAA's member companies serve two purposes: distribution, as you said, and marketing. The Internet blows them out of the water on distribution, but can't hold its ground on marketing. Until that happens bands will need the RIAA member companies.
The truth is that radio stations and MTV play what they're paid to play. Call it payola or lobbying or whatever else you want, but the record companies pay for the marketing.
What I can't believe is that many artists think that the RIAA and members are fighting for the artists. Given current artist contracts, it's clear that the artists' well being isn't of any concern to the record companies.
The problem is that Nintendo also controls the price of 3rd party games, so Capcom can't undercut Nintendo's own games. This creates a very monopoly-like situation because you have your game system and one company controls all the software you can use on it.
If it were cheap to switch to another system I'm sure game prices would be down accross the board, but once you're locked in with a big system investment, you either pay high prices for games or have your investment sit there doing nothing.
Nintendo says that they were "more victim than villain" of price fixing.
Exactly how did they arrive at that conclusion? Is not making more money an overall goal of the company that they'd be happy about? Sell your stock now!
And how often is a web developer/master responsible for choosing media formats? I'd guess more often than not they are in small companies. I know I am and I'm not even in a small company. My boss came to me a couple of months ago with a proposal he got to stream our video. The format was Windows media, but I had to say that it was ok because there are no appropriate and available alternatives.
This changes that and you can bet that if this takes off at all I'll be pushing for it next year. With a couple of thousand streams per day this is important for us, and I love the idea of embracing a technology that everyone can use.
Here I am reading the story and thinking "I have a great pr0n joke for this" only to discover that every comment is already a pr0n joke of some kind.
Can't you people think of something more useful for this technology than that? Like for instance... um... er... do you think they could incorporate this into one of those Real Dolls?
one of the greatest and most overlooked art forms
Anybody else catch that quote from John Cusak's movie High Fidelity? I didn't catch any Douglass Adams quotes, so maybe she's only pretending to be a geek.
Ok, seriously, Gnome, KDE et al have some serious usability issues to deal with. While at first they seem pretty much like Windows (or whatever else they're trying to duplicate), when you start to use them every day you begin to see how disconnected they are from the rest of the OS. No Linux interface that exists today provides unified system usability.
I don't know about that. The old guy in the beanie is kind of hot. And I'm not gay either, not that there's anything wrong with that. My father was gay.
Yes, but you need to run Windows and IE in order to use their demo. I can only assume that they want to convert people (or at least show Linux users their great dev ide), but you'd think that it would be helpful to be able to use the demo.
Considering how incredible Visual Studio is, I'm sure it would convert some people. Do you think it runs in Wine?
Stop thinking in terms of syntax. VB.net and C#.net have access to all of the same.NET libraries, which is analogous to the way Java works. They're both identical in most everything except syntax and C#'s ability to escape from.NET and compile into native code, as an option.
We're not socialists, we just have some socialist policies. Healthcare may cost a lot in taxes, but at least everyone can be sure to get proper care regardless of income level. This is only because in Canada healthcare is a right, not a priviledge.
To say Canada's crime is skyrocketing is ridiculous. I can walk through downtown Toronto (largest Canadian city) in any area at any time of day or night and not fear for my life at all. There are a couple bad neighbourhoods, but even they are many, many times safer than a bad neighbourhood in a major US city. Per capita there is not a single major US city that has lower violent crime than any major Canadian city. Stick your insanely relaxed gun laws up your ass, Americans, you guys have got it all wrong.
I'm sure we can all wait until it comes out on network television so we're much less directly supporting the MPAA, right? Or is the MPAA only evil on days that are not December 18?
I suppose we could just purchase one ticket, then pass it around to everyone we know.
won't put us into what we think of as an 'ice age'
Are you aware of what an ice age is? An ice age is characterized by summers that aren't hot enough to melt back the advancing ice sheets that developed over the winter. 1C - 2C changes in temp can affect this to some degree. The thing with long ice ages is that they are measured in geographic time, so even a few feet advancement a year can leave much of North America under ice in several tens of thousands of years.
Where are those global warming nutcases now? Methinks they'll be very quit until the ice age ends, then get all worked up about the ice sheet over Calgary thinning.
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Question: Why can't they point Hubble at the Sun and get even better photos? Is Hubble not equipped for such a task?
Has no one gone to redsheriff.com? They're a site visitor logging company. I use them at work instead of writing my own huge log files, which were upwards of 2GB/day. Instead, I just log a few things and let the Red Sheriff applet/Javascript combo do the visitor logging.
...parent organization. I have never reviewed their terms of service, since we are not technically their customer, our "parent organization" is. I'll be sure to check this out and maybe submit it if I find any interesting info.
Red Sherrif got the contract through our... *thinking of how I can make this anonymous*
quote: Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy
Does this include when I plug it into my wall outlet, the electricity from which is generated by a nuclear station?
Perhaps something along the lines of "Portable Nuclear Generator for your Laptop" would have been more appropriate. The next article could be "Portable Birth Control for Men", with the same link.
I've had the whole online record label for indie bands with fairly distributed revenue and p2p service in the back on my head for ages. I can code and I know several other coders who could handle everything that would be needed.
I don't have the money, nor know anyone who can put up any kind of cash for this kind of service. There are a lot of resources that would be needed as the service grows, like a recording studio to get the songs recorded for bands that can't afford it, bandwidth (p2p could cut this a lot) and of course marketing and advertising. I have a lot of contacts, but not enough.
Listen, if anybody really wants to do this, then let's brainstorm. It'll take aa dedicated group of people to pull anything off.
Anyway..mail me at dtait26 *remove* @ *remove* cogeco.ca if anyone's interested in seriously pursuing this. None of my friends care about the state of the industry.
off-topic, but this is killing me...
I know it's sci-fi and not science, but I've always wondered about the T-Rex's vision in the JP books and movies. In the first, for example, Dr. Grant and the kids stand perfectly still and the Rex lowers his head to about a meter from them, and doesn't see them.
The argument put forth in the movie and the book is that the Rex's vision is movement-based, like our peripheral vision is. Is this another case about theory being presented as fact? I really don't see how fossilized bones will give any indication of vision.
I'm sure it'll just cause a delay.
You're wrong. The RIAA's member companies serve two purposes: distribution, as you said, and marketing. The Internet blows them out of the water on distribution, but can't hold its ground on marketing. Until that happens bands will need the RIAA member companies.
The truth is that radio stations and MTV play what they're paid to play. Call it payola or lobbying or whatever else you want, but the record companies pay for the marketing.
What I can't believe is that many artists think that the RIAA and members are fighting for the artists. Given current artist contracts, it's clear that the artists' well being isn't of any concern to the record companies.
The problem is that Nintendo also controls the price of 3rd party games, so Capcom can't undercut Nintendo's own games. This creates a very monopoly-like situation because you have your game system and one company controls all the software you can use on it.
If it were cheap to switch to another system I'm sure game prices would be down accross the board, but once you're locked in with a big system investment, you either pay high prices for games or have your investment sit there doing nothing.
Nintendo says that they were "more victim than villain" of price fixing.
Exactly how did they arrive at that conclusion? Is not making more money an overall goal of the company that they'd be happy about? Sell your stock now!
And how often is a web developer/master responsible for choosing media formats? I'd guess more often than not they are in small companies. I know I am and I'm not even in a small company. My boss came to me a couple of months ago with a proposal he got to stream our video. The format was Windows media, but I had to say that it was ok because there are no appropriate and available alternatives.
This changes that and you can bet that if this takes off at all I'll be pushing for it next year. With a couple of thousand streams per day this is important for us, and I love the idea of embracing a technology that everyone can use.
Here I am reading the story and thinking "I have a great pr0n joke for this" only to discover that every comment is already a pr0n joke of some kind.
Can't you people think of something more useful for this technology than that? Like for instance... um... er... do you think they could incorporate this into one of those Real Dolls?
one of the greatest and most overlooked art forms Anybody else catch that quote from John Cusak's movie High Fidelity? I didn't catch any Douglass Adams quotes, so maybe she's only pretending to be a geek.
I CAN'T HEAR A DAMN THING WITH THIS SERVER BESIDE ME
(I sincerely apologise for this crap below. The joke simply doesn't work if I don't type it in all caps)
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The Panama Internet law library might be a good start.
Mod parent up! Funny!
Ok, seriously, Gnome, KDE et al have some serious usability issues to deal with. While at first they seem pretty much like Windows (or whatever else they're trying to duplicate), when you start to use them every day you begin to see how disconnected they are from the rest of the OS. No Linux interface that exists today provides unified system usability.
"Linux will never become mainstream until my grandma can use it."
So Gnome is made so grandma can use it.
"Gnome has sold out to corporate America! They don't care about us power users any more!"
*sigh* some battles you just can't win.
FMC involves giving teams $3000 (?) and one month to build their cars at home with no knowledge of what the challenges will be.
JYW involves sending teams into a scrapyard to find stuff to build various zany vehicles with which they will try to meet specific challenge goals.
Now that I've answered the question can somebody please mod the parent down?
Then the movie industry really would collapse. Who else are they going to market these movies to?
I don't know about that. The old guy in the beanie is kind of hot. And I'm not gay either, not that there's anything wrong with that. My father was gay.
Yes, but you need to run Windows and IE in order to use their demo. I can only assume that they want to convert people (or at least show Linux users their great dev ide), but you'd think that it would be helpful to be able to use the demo.
Considering how incredible Visual Studio is, I'm sure it would convert some people. Do you think it runs in Wine?
C# is "Java"-ish. VB.net is nothing like java
.NET libraries, which is analogous to the way Java works. They're both identical in most everything except syntax and C#'s ability to escape from .NET and compile into native code, as an option.
Stop thinking in terms of syntax. VB.net and C#.net have access to all of the same
We're not socialists, we just have some socialist policies. Healthcare may cost a lot in taxes, but at least everyone can be sure to get proper care regardless of income level. This is only because in Canada healthcare is a right, not a priviledge.
To say Canada's crime is skyrocketing is ridiculous. I can walk through downtown Toronto (largest Canadian city) in any area at any time of day or night and not fear for my life at all. There are a couple bad neighbourhoods, but even they are many, many times safer than a bad neighbourhood in a major US city. Per capita there is not a single major US city that has lower violent crime than any major Canadian city. Stick your insanely relaxed gun laws up your ass, Americans, you guys have got it all wrong.
I'm sure we can all wait until it comes out on network television so we're much less directly supporting the MPAA, right? Or is the MPAA only evil on days that are not December 18?
I suppose we could just purchase one ticket, then pass it around to everyone we know.
won't put us into what we think of as an 'ice age'
Are you aware of what an ice age is? An ice age is characterized by summers that aren't hot enough to melt back the advancing ice sheets that developed over the winter. 1C - 2C changes in temp can affect this to some degree. The thing with long ice ages is that they are measured in geographic time, so even a few feet advancement a year can leave much of North America under ice in several tens of thousands of years.
Where are those global warming nutcases now? Methinks they'll be very quit until the ice age ends, then get all worked up about the ice sheet over Calgary thinning.