Although something like this gives marketing weenies something to do for another couple of months until the next novel idea hits them, I would bet that there is no real market for a beverage like this. I could be wrong, but wine coolers were big almost 20 years ago, and now not even girls are girly men enough to drink wine coolers.
I'm a kinda traditional guy, I'm mostly a beer drinker, I guess you can call me a Joe Sixpack that was so popular here a few months ago. There seems to be a human affinity for the big three alcoholic beverages -- beer, wine, and spirits and we are talking a very long history here.
One big mistake (IMHO) that A-B is making with the B(E) product is by packing it in 10 oz bottles with only 6.6% alcohol. I'm guessing its gonna cost as much or more than the equivalent 12 oz drink, and its just going to be "off" unless everyone else is drinking the same.
BTW, I miss eveyone here trying to get Joe Sixpack to use Linux, that was amusing.
It really is all about branding. MS don't want to bundle any third party application with their OS. They want the user to experience the Microsoft brand, and they will only consider putting in other applications as long as they can label/brand it a Microsoft product. One of the laws of Marketing: never dilute your brand with someone else's.
MS could still call the new thing IE. Even the current IE still has copyright notices from the original NCSA Mosaic browser and the Joint Photographic Experts Group, or JPEGGGG group (love thoe acronyms that need part of the acronym to say the acronym to the point that its like positive feedback), I would bet that over 99% of the current IE users have never heard of Mosaic or JPEG. Actually, I would bet that 50% don't even know IE by name, but rather know it as "the Internet".
MS just give up on the browser, and add some "ie like features/extesions" or some other specific windows features/native gui like Camino for OS X to mozilla and/or geko that are optional to make some broken websites work until the websites get standards compliant and be done with it?
To my knowledge, MS only makes money off of IE by licensing it to people like AOL (and that is a wierd thing, and another discussion), but they make nothing off of having it bundled with the OS, and would loose nothing by bundling some other browser.
It seems evident that there are issues with having a webbrowser tied so closely to the OS. Most of people's issues with switching from IE is that 1) ie is just there, so what else is there to use, and what else is better? 2) There are a few too many broken websites that end users blame the browser for if the website does not work properly.
And if someone feels like adding a completely off topic tangent here. What is up with the IIS websites and those damn "go to # on this page" links or whatever? They are annoying because I don't know what they are doing, and they sometimes break (even in ie) if I open them up in a new window or tab. Grrrrr....
The poor guy asks for advice building an e-bike, and 50% of the +3 comments are "Why don't you just peddle (you lazy f*ck)?" Because I'm sure that thought NEVER CROSSED HIS MIND. Ever.
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I guess you and I are the silent minority that thinks before writing/speaking or whatever.
I wonder how many, if any, telemarketting executives out there appear on the Do-Not-Call lists themselves? I think *THAT* would be an interesting fact to look into. Does anyone have access to the data pertaining to this?
How many executives from various different companies are stupid enough to use thier own products or services? Maybe for the hair club for men, but for most of these short term marketed items, I would bet few if any actually use their products.
Plus, and exec at a telemarketer firm could actually say semi-honestly that "I gave at the office", or at least had the opportunity to do so:)
This usually gets a negative response of "sir, I need your phone number to complete the sale."
Being that they will not be upfront and honest with you about why they need your phone number or what they are going to do with it, I believe its OK to exercise your free speech and lie to them. Its easy and fun! You can tell them:
1) I don't have a phone number. They cannot confirm nor deny this, nor require you to spend money on a telephone so that you can buy goods and services from some companies with stange business practices.
2) Tell them your only phone number is a cell phone and/or business phone where you are charged for incoming calls and are not willing to pay for unwanted and/or unnecessary calls to your phone.
3) Give them the old xxx-555-yyyy phone number. Most clerks are too stupid to know that all 555 numbers are invalid. Even if they do pick up on it, they get paid the same if their form gets filled in with factual information or not, and probably could care less.
And I compensate because I keep the latest version on my usb stick that I carry around in my pocket. And I upgrade it on all my work machines, my home machines and the friends that I visit. So there.
So your anecdotal evidence counters the grandparent's anecdotal evidence, which provides us with what kind of real valid and meaningful data?
I think what they were referring to is the cost per flight, in terms of dollars per pound raised. I don't know the budget of either spaceshipone or nasa per launch but I would assume the cost is much less for spaceshipone. Anyone have the numbers to back this up?
Who knows what they were referring to. This is an excellent firts step for private space flight, but NASA and other government agencies has already been doing this for almost 25 years.
I'll be estatic when I see something that can fly 20+ people (what the space shuttle could probably do if it was a passenger vessel) that can be run rather cheaply.
Won't we all! I would never consider riding a airplane for "fun", but I'd go to space in a heartbeat if I could afford it.
This is an amazing feat. Definitely one of the top 5 space events in my lifetime. I do have a beef with the article summary though. This part:
it will win the $10 million purse, and more importantly attain the prestige of repeatably (if only technically) reaching space, on a budget embarrassingly smaller than NASA's
Although this is a great feat for a privately funded venture. This is only equivalent to NASA's first manned suborbital flight which happened in 1961. NASA has still put many people in space for extended periods of time, including 12 manned flights to the moon. And for all practical purposes, NASA started this adventure with no prior experience or knowledge of space flight. Also, a good portion of NASA's budget is for the first "A" in the acronym.
Again, this is a great feat, and its a first, but this is only the very beginning of private space flight.
Ballmer's whole point is that we need to have everything go through a Microsoft certified trust program from hardware, software, and copyrighted media content.
Clinton's BJ got investigated (along with impeachment) because the Republicans controlling the legislature had a chance to embarrass the Democrats (Clinton).
Clinton was impeached not for a BJ, but because he lied under oath about it. This has nothing to do with W, because he will not go under oath for anything.
If it were to erupt again -- fortunately it does so rarely, about once every 600k years -- it would cover most of the Western US in ash and if it did so without warning, would kill millions of people.
Bush: Quick! Lets remove that Mother Nature from power in the name of the War on Terror! She might use her weapons of mass destruction on us sometime in the next 600,000 years.
Cheney: Dumbass, there's no profit in that. (shakes his head and thinks to himself "No wonder this guy needed people to buy out his companies and give him jobs")
I paid for a piece of software that I should be able to use at my leisure. When someone ships a computer they shouldn't be tied down to what the vendor of the OS wants. They should be allowed to do what they want with what they got.
You should have clicked "No, I do not agree to the terms of this license" and installed something else.
Re:This has been known on Slashdot for some time.
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No, it's the new word for recording then watching at a later time.
I believe that the term is refering to the ability to be able to record in realtime, pause, and resume at any point up to "now". Thats slightly different than recording and watching at a later time.
Your mother should have taught you better mannors.
Anyway, I know they were in the process of "upgrading" the G5 system. Its not too common for people to build and completely disassemble a $5 million computer within a couple of months. Yes, I realise that the new systems will have ECC memory. This was the #1 question when the first system was built, and the Tech people said "Oh, we have validation routines in our applications, we don't need ECC memory". Now they are putting in machines with ECC memory.
I can't resist adding that GCC won't use the second FPU on each die...
GCC has never been considered an excellent optimising compiler. Its good enough for basic system tools, the kernel, etc. But when performance matters you use a compiler that comes from your CPU vendor. Typically an archetecure specific compiler can yield 100% speedup and beyond over GCC. Its too bad AMD does not ship a compiler.
I know that when the Mac G5 Cluster was developed they claimed tremendous speed, but when the sustained rate was calculated, it turned out to be much lower...
From what I know when Virginia Tech's G5 cluster's results were submitted they looked OK. You can see the results here. The measured result was about 58% of the theoretical peak which is on par with other similarly configured systems. Now, why Tech spent $5 mil and rushed to get this system put together for the November 2003 top500 list, and then dismantle the machine is another story. Maybe it was just an Apple advertisement like many/. posts. Dunno.
I'm all for improving technology, but how do they verify their "tecords"?
The top500 tecords are submited on an honor system. Most of the systems are thrown together with known processors and interconnects where the tesults should "make sense". Also, the systems teport their theoretical max performance and a measured tesult. It would be pretty hard to fudge a score for the top500 by much without many people questioning it. From this page the top500 people say:
While we make every attempt to verify the results obtained from users and vendors, errors are bound to exist and should be brought to our attention.
Its kinda like any tesearch field. Most people are honest, but anomolies can and do happen, and they are usually found out by others in the field. Two of the most tecent scientist scandles involved the guy from Bell labs, Hendrik Schön, who was found falsifying data, and he was fired, and I believe that he also lost his PhD. The other is from the US government funded tesearch on MDMA by George Ricaurte. Although I believe that nothing really happened in the Ricaurte case.
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Although something like this gives marketing weenies something to do for another couple of months until the next novel idea hits them, I would bet that there is no real market for a beverage like this. I could be wrong, but wine coolers were big almost 20 years ago, and now not even girls are girly men enough to drink wine coolers.
I'm a kinda traditional guy, I'm mostly a beer drinker, I guess you can call me a Joe Sixpack that was so popular here a few months ago. There seems to be a human affinity for the big three alcoholic beverages -- beer, wine, and spirits and we are talking a very long history here.
One big mistake (IMHO) that A-B is making with the B(E) product is by packing it in 10 oz bottles with only 6.6% alcohol. I'm guessing its gonna cost as much or more than the equivalent 12 oz drink, and its just going to be "off" unless everyone else is drinking the same.
BTW, I miss eveyone here trying to get Joe Sixpack to use Linux, that was amusing.
Anyway, most satellites in low orbit, around 250 miles ... Satellites in higher orbits, such as geosynchronis
y /GEO_ORBIT/DI146.htm
FWIW, geostationary satellites, a subset of geosynchronous orbits, are a little over 22 miles above the equator.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionar
It'd be a real pain in the butt to have to calculate orbital vectors every time you wanted to take out the trash.
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It really is all about branding. MS don't want to bundle any third party application with their OS. They want the user to experience the Microsoft brand, and they will only consider putting in other applications as long as they can label/brand it a Microsoft product. One of the laws of Marketing: never dilute your brand with someone else's.
MS could still call the new thing IE. Even the current IE still has copyright notices from the original NCSA Mosaic browser and the Joint Photographic Experts Group, or JPEGGGG group (love thoe acronyms that need part of the acronym to say the acronym to the point that its like positive feedback), I would bet that over 99% of the current IE users have never heard of Mosaic or JPEG. Actually, I would bet that 50% don't even know IE by name, but rather know it as "the Internet".
IE's default home-page (MSN) sells more than enough advertising to make the entire operation profitable.
They can still have the default home page with a mozilla/gecko varient.
MS just give up on the browser, and add some "ie like features/extesions" or some other specific windows features/native gui like Camino for OS X to mozilla and/or geko that are optional to make some broken websites work until the websites get standards compliant and be done with it?
To my knowledge, MS only makes money off of IE by licensing it to people like AOL (and that is a wierd thing, and another discussion), but they make nothing off of having it bundled with the OS, and would loose nothing by bundling some other browser.
It seems evident that there are issues with having a webbrowser tied so closely to the OS. Most of people's issues with switching from IE is that 1) ie is just there, so what else is there to use, and what else is better? 2) There are a few too many broken websites that end users blame the browser for if the website does not work properly.
And if someone feels like adding a completely off topic tangent here. What is up with the IIS websites and those damn "go to # on this page" links or whatever? They are annoying because I don't know what they are doing, and they sometimes break (even in ie) if I open them up in a new window or tab. Grrrrr....
The poor guy asks for advice building an e-bike, and 50% of the +3 comments are "Why don't you just peddle (you lazy f*ck)?" Because I'm sure that thought NEVER CROSSED HIS MIND. Ever.
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I guess you and I are the silent minority that thinks before writing/speaking or whatever.
I wonder how many, if any, telemarketting executives out there appear on the Do-Not-Call lists themselves? I think *THAT* would be an interesting fact to look into. Does anyone have access to the data pertaining to this?
:)
How many executives from various different companies are stupid enough to use thier own products or services? Maybe for the hair club for men, but for most of these short term marketed items, I would bet few if any actually use their products.
Plus, and exec at a telemarketer firm could actually say semi-honestly that "I gave at the office", or at least had the opportunity to do so
This usually gets a negative response of "sir, I need your phone number to complete the sale."
Being that they will not be upfront and honest with you about why they need your phone number or what they are going to do with it, I believe its OK to exercise your free speech and lie to them. Its easy and fun! You can tell them:
1) I don't have a phone number. They cannot confirm nor deny this, nor require you to spend money on a telephone so that you can buy goods and services from some companies with stange business practices.
2) Tell them your only phone number is a cell phone and/or business phone where you are charged for incoming calls and are not willing to pay for unwanted and/or unnecessary calls to your phone.
3) Give them the old xxx-555-yyyy phone number. Most clerks are too stupid to know that all 555 numbers are invalid. Even if they do pick up on it, they get paid the same if their form gets filled in with factual information or not, and probably could care less.
And I compensate because I keep the latest version on my usb stick that I carry around in my pocket. And I upgrade it on all my work machines, my home machines and the friends that I visit. So there.
So your anecdotal evidence counters the grandparent's anecdotal evidence, which provides us with what kind of real valid and meaningful data?
I think what they were referring to is the cost per flight, in terms of dollars per pound raised. I don't know the budget of either spaceshipone or nasa per launch but I would assume the cost is much less for spaceshipone. Anyone have the numbers to back this up?
Who knows what they were referring to. This is an excellent firts step for private space flight, but NASA and other government agencies has already been doing this for almost 25 years.
I'll be estatic when I see something that can fly 20+ people (what the space shuttle could probably do if it was a passenger vessel) that can be run rather cheaply.
Won't we all! I would never consider riding a airplane for "fun", but I'd go to space in a heartbeat if I could afford it.
This is an amazing feat. Definitely one of the top 5 space events in my lifetime. I do have a beef with the article summary though. This part:
it will win the $10 million purse, and more importantly attain the prestige of repeatably (if only technically) reaching space, on a budget embarrassingly smaller than NASA's
Although this is a great feat for a privately funded venture. This is only equivalent to NASA's first manned suborbital flight which happened in 1961. NASA has still put many people in space for extended periods of time, including 12 manned flights to the moon. And for all practical purposes, NASA started this adventure with no prior experience or knowledge of space flight. Also, a good portion of NASA's budget is for the first "A" in the acronym.
Again, this is a great feat, and its a first, but this is only the very beginning of private space flight.
... you can use iPods with the PC. What's this about "critical mass"?
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But for how long?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/09/16462
Ballmer's whole point is that we need to have everything go through a Microsoft certified trust program from hardware, software, and copyrighted media content.
So, remind me again where the CIA fits into our constitution and the checks and balance system?
Clinton's BJ got investigated (along with impeachment) because the Republicans controlling the legislature had a chance to embarrass the Democrats (Clinton).
Clinton was impeached not for a BJ, but because he lied under oath about it. This has nothing to do with W, because he will not go under oath for anything.
I guess you have never seen the FBI warning before a movie or read the law.
Good music doesn't need to be marketed. Just like good drugs, cars, homes, or whatever. Most people feel ripped when they buy some marketed crap.
If it were to erupt again -- fortunately it does so rarely, about once every 600k years -- it would cover most of the Western US in ash and if it did so without warning, would kill millions of people.
Bush: Quick! Lets remove that Mother Nature from power in the name of the War on Terror! She might use her weapons of mass destruction on us sometime in the next 600,000 years.
Cheney: Dumbass, there's no profit in that. (shakes his head and thinks to himself "No wonder this guy needed people to buy out his companies and give him jobs")
I paid for a piece of software that I should be able to use at my leisure. When someone ships a computer they shouldn't be tied down to what the vendor of the OS wants. They should be allowed to do what they want with what they got.
You should have clicked "No, I do not agree to the terms of this license" and installed something else.
3. Ask the porn preview portals how they make $$$.
is time shifting the new buzzword for recording?
No, it's the new word for recording then watching at a later time.
I believe that the term is refering to the ability to be able to record in realtime, pause, and resume at any point up to "now". Thats slightly different than recording and watching at a later time.
Your mother should have taught you better mannors.
Anyway, I know they were in the process of "upgrading" the G5 system. Its not too common for people to build and completely disassemble a $5 million computer within a couple of months. Yes, I realise that the new systems will have ECC memory. This was the #1 question when the first system was built, and the Tech people said "Oh, we have validation routines in our applications, we don't need ECC memory". Now they are putting in machines with ECC memory.
http://www.tcf.vt.edu/systemX.html
I can't resist adding that GCC won't use the second FPU on each die...
GCC has never been considered an excellent optimising compiler. Its good enough for basic system tools, the kernel, etc. But when performance matters you use a compiler that comes from your CPU vendor. Typically an archetecure specific compiler can yield 100% speedup and beyond over GCC. Its too bad AMD does not ship a compiler.
I know that when the Mac G5 Cluster was developed they claimed tremendous speed, but when the sustained rate was calculated, it turned out to be much lower ...
/. posts. Dunno.
From what I know when Virginia Tech's G5 cluster's results were submitted they looked OK. You can see the results here. The measured result was about 58% of the theoretical peak which is on par with other similarly configured systems. Now, why Tech spent $5 mil and rushed to get this system put together for the November 2003 top500 list, and then dismantle the machine is another story. Maybe it was just an Apple advertisement like many
The top500 tecords are submited on an honor system. Most of the systems are thrown together with known processors and interconnects where the tesults should "make sense". Also, the systems teport their theoretical max performance and a measured tesult. It would be pretty hard to fudge a score for the top500 by much without many people questioning it. From this page the top500 people say:Its kinda like any tesearch field. Most people are honest, but anomolies can and do happen, and they are usually found out by others in the field. Two of the most tecent scientist scandles involved the guy from Bell labs, Hendrik Schön, who was found falsifying data, and he was fired, and I believe that he also lost his PhD. The other is from the US government funded tesearch on MDMA by George Ricaurte. Although I believe that nothing really happened in the Ricaurte case.