There is a rather large problem with this idea though - A lot of automatic ordering systems aren't gonna know the difference between an order from John Doe and _SuPaAmAsTaHaXx0r_. If he's got money, it's his...and it's not terribly hard to find/use anonymous money on the Internet. With all the e-commerce trying to move to totally electronic systems, how long will it be before the kiddies are taking advatage of this and employing a "buy once, share infinitely" mentality?
National Geographic News relates that scientists to date have identified less than 2 million distinct species with from 10 million to more than 100 million still undiscovered.
I read the article and it doesn't seem to offer any evidence other than speculation as to where this number comes from. It seems kinda large to me. I know humans don't occupy *every* place on the planet, but there are very few areas within the top 10,000 feet of the Earth's crust that aren't accessible to humans already. Are they suggesting that life is blossoming in the mantle?
Well, it's partially their own ignorance, and significantly more because of AOL's own marketing. If you watch Headline News or any of the Time Warner channels, look for the AOL WebMD ad. This sort of ad is nothing new, and it's highly suspect. Like this:
I found WebMD on AOL. -blah blah blah what I did with it- AOL has all the coolest features you can't get anywhere else!
Basically, the ad is a promo tie-in between AOL and WebMD, which is, as we all know, an Internet site, not an AOL exclusive. Yet, they throw in that one line which aims to imply that WebMD is only available online.
You know, I just have to wonder what AOL users would think the Internet was if they knew it wasn't owned by AOL..."What? Oh there can't be anything entertaining out there...all the *good* stuff is on AOL..."
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Well, I made that comment because while I'm totally offbase from a geek standpoint, for the average home user, Mac OS X presents them the closest semblance of a UNIX-like operating system they'll ever see. And more people out there in this decade have heard of Linux than UNIX (Again, we're talking about average schmoes)...so I think that X's popularity will further the interest in Linux (Even if it is based on BSD, which is another point entirely).
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Not that the majority of Linux users care about the Mac, but the fact is that Mac OS X represents something I believe a whole bunch of Linux users should get behind if they want their OS to succeed - It's Linux with the useability that Joe Sixpack can handle.
BeOS has its uses, but aside from the glory hack of porting its interface to Linux, I'm afraid that this can only serve to fragment the already small effort behind pushing Mac OS X as Linux's true way to combat Windows, because let's face it - Neither KDE nor Gnome are going to make my mother leave Windows anytime soon...
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats.
Yeah, those lawsuits hurt me a lot too when they're not grounded - They build up lots of static.
You must mean PalmOS 6. 5 won't have any of that. The big thing about PalmOS 5 is that it finally supports processors other than the Dragonball...so we'll see StrongARM Palms soon.
I can't point you to any statistics or studies of the fact, but I think you'll agree with me when I cite the fact that while approximately one in two households has Internet connectivity, the lacking half is likely to have lower income. It's that whole "Digital Divide" thing that Bush has been talking about.
Furthermore, not to slight Walmart shoppers, but the majority of Walmart shoppers come from the lower income brackets. Putting two and two together, the majority of Walmart shoppers don't have Internet access.So your Internet comment is way off base. Besides...I think plenty of people proved that you can't run a business by selling groceries and petfood online.
And why do people stop shopping at them? Because of the above reasons. When the majority of Walmart's shoppers are in lower income brackets, they have a tendency of placing more value in the almighty buck than they do of community relationships and small business. You can try all you want to say that it's my fault that Walmart wins, but the fact of the matter is that Walmart is bigger than me and I have no hope of winning when they undercut all the other stores in town. So go ahead...shop at your mom and pop store. Don't come to me and complain when they close because nobody else did, and you couldn't convince them to do otherwise.
In the end, the rich really do rule the world, because they can make the poor their unwitting slaves. Think about it.
Given Walmart's practices of invading cities and eliminating all the mom-and-pop stores, I think I can safely say that they are forcing you to shop there<\QUOTE>.
This sounds to me like Sun is just trying to give the impression that they're staying with the times. Which they are, I'll grant, but after being dusted by Oracle last week over Linux, it seems to me that Sun is still licking their wounds and hoping to make things look better for them and worse for Oracle.
This cost $40k, excluding labor, because technically, student labor is "priceless"
You mean free, as in beer?
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Keyloggers are a thing of the past now! Now the big bad men in suits can just sit outside your apartment and scan your brainwaves to detect all your pr0n and warez passwords! Just think! Or...erm...don't!
It's very easy to miss, but if you read the instructions, you'll notice that the survey answers are ranked from 10-1, and NOT 1-10. 10 is the value of least importance, and 1 is the value of most importance. I nearly submitted my results before noticing this, and I wonder how many people have already made the same mistake. It's quite possible NASA might think that nobody wants to go to Mars because everyone voted "10" for it...
I think it's reasonably obvious - Spielberg had been eyeing this script ever since the game was published by LucasArts, and for good reason - It's got all the important Indy elements, with what I feel to be a much more gripping and encompassing storyline than Temple of Doom or Last Crusade.
If you haven't already played this one, give it a shot - It's well worth it, even if it runs in DOS. And hey...while you're at it, play through Full Throttle and The Dig again too, why don't you?
Don't laugh...honestly. If MS were to stifle off OpenGL, then NVIDIA would have a corner on the non-Microsoft-OS rendering market, since they own all the core assets to the only other viable multi-purpose rendering API out there.
Think about it. MS turns out the lights on OpenGL. No new hardware with OpenGL support under threat of contract lawsuit. NVIDIA ports GLide (Or finishes the port, rather) and is instantly the only supplier of non-DirectX consumer and professional level rendering equipment.
It's got great color, and it plays MP3s, but I hesitate to say that it's the coolest. I'm absolutely in love with my HandEra 330. This sucker has support for SD memory as well as CF+, meaning that it supports Ethernet connectivity, 802.11b, GSM cell modems, etc. etc., as well as huge honkin' memory cards and the Microdrive. I can run a shell on my HandEra to my uni's Unix server. Can yours do that?
Mine also has a high-resolution screen which makes many programs easier to use since they can fit more data on the screen. It also has a Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery pack available, it comes with a built-in microphone and voice-recording software (Which can record straight to SD or CF if you want), it has that cool jog-dial button so that you can scroll text or start apps with it...and it has a virtual Graffiti area, so that I can reclaim the space it uses if I'm reading e-mail or PDFs. Also, using CardPro, you can install Palm apps directly from SD or CF without syncing. You could even get an FTP app or a web browser and download apps and install them that way.
If color is your thing, HandEra's already got a color model slated for release in a few months. But the flexibility and capability of my unit *far* outweighs the benefits of a measly MP3 player.
A quick Google turned up a single solitary link that happened to have those three names in it, but it was just a list of names on some Russian site.
I have a hard time believing that such a high-falutin computer consultant would use lawyers that don't even have an Internet presence. Then again, it's also highly likely that the retard just mispelled their names.
My mom lives outside Chicago. I think next time I go visit her I'll have to pay a visit to his office just so I can tell him that he's a moron.
But still, they're right. I think I can be correct (mostly) in saying that Apple wouldn't exist today if it weren't for Adobe, and without X-native Adobe apps, X will flounder. It's a *wonderful* OS, but Adobe has long been providing Apple with the killer apps it needs to stay alive, and OS X is no exception.
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Nope. Just SSX Tricky...
Neither company has affirmed the port status of FFXI. It's almost a sure thing, but it's *not* confirmed.
There is a rather large problem with this idea though - A lot of automatic ordering systems aren't gonna know the difference between an order from John Doe and _SuPaAmAsTaHaXx0r_. If he's got money, it's his...and it's not terribly hard to find/use anonymous money on the Internet. With all the e-commerce trying to move to totally electronic systems, how long will it be before the kiddies are taking advatage of this and employing a "buy once, share infinitely" mentality?
National Geographic News relates that scientists to date have identified less than 2 million distinct species with from 10 million to more than 100 million still undiscovered.
I read the article and it doesn't seem to offer any evidence other than speculation as to where this number comes from. It seems kinda large to me. I know humans don't occupy *every* place on the planet, but there are very few areas within the top 10,000 feet of the Earth's crust that aren't accessible to humans already. Are they suggesting that life is blossoming in the mantle?
How exactly did scientists come upon this number?
PLEASE explain to me how 53-25=40. Something is HORRIBLY wrong with this story!
Easy. 53 * 0.25 = 13.25
53 - 13.25 = 39.75
Therefore, 40 is 75% of 53, and 25% lower than 53.
Well, it's partially their own ignorance, and significantly more because of AOL's own marketing. If you watch Headline News or any of the Time Warner channels, look for the AOL WebMD ad. This sort of ad is nothing new, and it's highly suspect. Like this:
I found WebMD on AOL. -blah blah blah what I did with it- AOL has all the coolest features you can't get anywhere else!
Basically, the ad is a promo tie-in between AOL and WebMD, which is, as we all know, an Internet site, not an AOL exclusive. Yet, they throw in that one line which aims to imply that WebMD is only available online.
You know, I just have to wonder what AOL users would think the Internet was if they knew it wasn't owned by AOL..."What? Oh there can't be anything entertaining out there...all the *good* stuff is on AOL..."
Well, I made that comment because while I'm totally offbase from a geek standpoint, for the average home user, Mac OS X presents them the closest semblance of a UNIX-like operating system they'll ever see. And more people out there in this decade have heard of Linux than UNIX (Again, we're talking about average schmoes)...so I think that X's popularity will further the interest in Linux (Even if it is based on BSD, which is another point entirely).
Not that the majority of Linux users care about the Mac, but the fact is that Mac OS X represents something I believe a whole bunch of Linux users should get behind if they want their OS to succeed - It's Linux with the useability that Joe Sixpack can handle. BeOS has its uses, but aside from the glory hack of porting its interface to Linux, I'm afraid that this can only serve to fragment the already small effort behind pushing Mac OS X as Linux's true way to combat Windows, because let's face it - Neither KDE nor Gnome are going to make my mother leave Windows anytime soon...
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats.
Yeah, those lawsuits hurt me a lot too when they're not grounded - They build up lots of static.
How about groundless?
You must mean PalmOS 6. 5 won't have any of that. The big thing about PalmOS 5 is that it finally supports processors other than the Dragonball...so we'll see StrongARM Palms soon.
I can't point you to any statistics or studies of the fact, but I think you'll agree with me when I cite the fact that while approximately one in two households has Internet connectivity, the lacking half is likely to have lower income. It's that whole "Digital Divide" thing that Bush has been talking about.
Furthermore, not to slight Walmart shoppers, but the majority of Walmart shoppers come from the lower income brackets. Putting two and two together, the majority of Walmart shoppers don't have Internet access.So your Internet comment is way off base. Besides...I think plenty of people proved that you can't run a business by selling groceries and petfood online.
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And how do they eliminate the mom and pop stores?
When you stop shopping at them
And why do people stop shopping at them? Because of the above reasons. When the majority of Walmart's shoppers are in lower income brackets, they have a tendency of placing more value in the almighty buck than they do of community relationships and small business. You can try all you want to say that it's my fault that Walmart wins, but the fact of the matter is that Walmart is bigger than me and I have no hope of winning when they undercut all the other stores in town. So go ahead...shop at your mom and pop store. Don't come to me and complain when they close because nobody else did, and you couldn't convince them to do otherwise.
In the end, the rich really do rule the world, because they can make the poor their unwitting slaves. Think about it.
Given Walmart's practices of invading cities and eliminating all the mom-and-pop stores, I think I can safely say that they are forcing you to shop there<\QUOTE>.
First Amendment.
This sounds to me like Sun is just trying to give the impression that they're staying with the times. Which they are, I'll grant, but after being dusted by Oracle last week over Linux, it seems to me that Sun is still licking their wounds and hoping to make things look better for them and worse for Oracle.
This cost $40k, excluding labor, because technically, student labor is "priceless"
You mean free, as in beer?
Keyloggers are a thing of the past now! Now the big bad men in suits can just sit outside your apartment and scan your brainwaves to detect all your pr0n and warez passwords! Just think! Or...erm...don't!
Where was it before Comedy Central? I thought it was a ComCen original show.
Just as long as they don't get that asshole from "Robotica" to do it.
Robotica is *okay* on its own merits, but if he hosted Battlebots or Junkyard Wars, that'd totally ruin the show by itself.
It's very easy to miss, but if you read the instructions, you'll notice that the survey answers are ranked from 10-1, and NOT 1-10. 10 is the value of least importance, and 1 is the value of most importance. I nearly submitted my results before noticing this, and I wonder how many people have already made the same mistake. It's quite possible NASA might think that nobody wants to go to Mars because everyone voted "10" for it...
You think viruses and bacteria are bad?
"I'm sorry I couldn't make it to class yesterday, Dr. Scratchensniff...I caught CIH from a friend of mine yesterday...
I think it's reasonably obvious - Spielberg had been eyeing this script ever since the game was published by LucasArts, and for good reason - It's got all the important Indy elements, with what I feel to be a much more gripping and encompassing storyline than Temple of Doom or Last Crusade.
If you haven't already played this one, give it a shot - It's well worth it, even if it runs in DOS. And hey...while you're at it, play through Full Throttle and The Dig again too, why don't you?
Don't laugh...honestly. If MS were to stifle off OpenGL, then NVIDIA would have a corner on the non-Microsoft-OS rendering market, since they own all the core assets to the only other viable multi-purpose rendering API out there.
Think about it. MS turns out the lights on OpenGL. No new hardware with OpenGL support under threat of contract lawsuit. NVIDIA ports GLide (Or finishes the port, rather) and is instantly the only supplier of non-DirectX consumer and professional level rendering equipment.
It's got great color, and it plays MP3s, but I hesitate to say that it's the coolest. I'm absolutely in love with my HandEra 330. This sucker has support for SD memory as well as CF+, meaning that it supports Ethernet connectivity, 802.11b, GSM cell modems, etc. etc., as well as huge honkin' memory cards and the Microdrive. I can run a shell on my HandEra to my uni's Unix server. Can yours do that?
Mine also has a high-resolution screen which makes many programs easier to use since they can fit more data on the screen. It also has a Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery pack available, it comes with a built-in microphone and voice-recording software (Which can record straight to SD or CF if you want), it has that cool jog-dial button so that you can scroll text or start apps with it...and it has a virtual Graffiti area, so that I can reclaim the space it uses if I'm reading e-mail or PDFs. Also, using CardPro, you can install Palm apps directly from SD or CF without syncing. You could even get an FTP app or a web browser and download apps and install them that way.
If color is your thing, HandEra's already got a color model slated for release in a few months. But the flexibility and capability of my unit *far* outweighs the benefits of a measly MP3 player.
A quick Google turned up a single solitary link that happened to have those three names in it, but it was just a list of names on some Russian site.
I have a hard time believing that such a high-falutin computer consultant would use lawyers that don't even have an Internet presence. Then again, it's also highly likely that the retard just mispelled their names.
My mom lives outside Chicago. I think next time I go visit her I'll have to pay a visit to his office just so I can tell him that he's a moron.
It's in the /. MacWorld coverage.
But still, they're right. I think I can be correct (mostly) in saying that Apple wouldn't exist today if it weren't for Adobe, and without X-native Adobe apps, X will flounder. It's a *wonderful* OS, but Adobe has long been providing Apple with the killer apps it needs to stay alive, and OS X is no exception.