On the plus side, if you just want to deliver nicotine, we have plenty of ways to do that, in pretty much any quantity and release curve you fancy, with health risks no greater than those imposed by the nicotine directly.
Nicotine is only a small part of the addiction, though. The crinkle of the wrapper, the smell of the pack, the logo on the carton, the mouth feel of the cigarette, the paling around with smoke buddies, and, of course, smoking, are all significant. Straight nicotine probably isn't enjoyable enough to build an industry.
If the epicenter was nearby, and it sounds like it was, then that doesn't strike me as unreasonable and certainly not a matter of profiteering.
I don't know the geology of the area, but it seems so unlikely that the city proper was the only place along the fault to do the experiments. It should be cheaper to do them some distance outside the city even.
It isn't overly human readable and isn't as short as a most URL shorteners, but then if it was you'd run out of links very quickly, even within a single domain.
Consider though that 36^6 = 2,176,782,336. slashdot.org/1x4tgr ?
Thinking about it some more, a default ID for an object (e.g. comment) is probably fine for almost all uses. If it's really necessary to include all the short, threshold, etc. items then the traditional shorteners will handle it. But usually they're superfluous.
I can whip up apps in a few minutes and do things the guys with iPhones only wish they could.
Can your apps do stuff with the actual phone traffic or are they in a separate apps sandbox? e.g. I want to have a filter eat nagios messages and kill ones when a CRITICAL and a RECOVERY come in within a minute of each other during certain hours of the night.
The programming is trivial, but finding a platform that permits it isn't.
'in-depth article' and 'slicing pizza' should never ever appear in the same sentence. Ever.
Agreed, the serving size for a good Pizza is '1 pie', so what's the practical application here? Oh, right, they're mathematicians, and perhaps they eat at Pizza Hut.
All of us using GOOG-411 and Google Voice have done a splendid job training their voice recognition system. Within a year, I predict that you'll be seeing ads relevant to the conversation you're having while you're still having it. "It's been ages since I've had good sushi!" -> ad for nearby expensive sushi restaurants.
It's kind of hard to see the screen when it's next to your ear, but yes, when you hang up, that's reasonable. I rather expect good ads for YouTube is easier to handle.
What we need are some microformats [wikipedia.org] that all browsers support. If we make one for "shortened URL", how long do you think it'll take to make it as a feature in IE?:D
That's a great idea. Microsoft competes when it has to, never before, so I guess how long depends on how useful the feature is.:)
The clever insight here is that most domain names aren't too long for twitter, et. al., it's the query string length.
But should every page on a website have a short version or just when one is requested? The former is wasteful - there are millions of possible pages on Slashdot, for exmaple, maybe billions for each options permutation, but the latter requires a service to be run to request one (and might be hard to do as a microformat).
This is because the hotspot now sits under a much thicker crust (the rocky mountains). But as I saw one geologist quoted, "I wouldn't bet on it either way".
OK, so I thought I was pretty safe from the Yellowstone Supervolcano where I live, and now you tell me I have to worry about a frikkin Rocky Mountain landing on me?
I doubt anybody would get aboard without understanding the ramifications. People volunteer for much worse fates with far smaller reward (satisfaction and/or fame).
Humanity will have to learn patience at some point if we're to outlive the Sun.
Fuck, you people are just sad. You must have had the "free" basic education.
Which prep school did you attend where it was taught that peppering your anonymous rhetoric with expletives would be convincing rather than causing readers of such to think, "boy, what a moron," and move on to the next comment?
There is no more "right to free infrastructure" than there is a "right to free service". If you want some company to run power, water, sewer, or communication lines to you, be prepared to make it worth their while.
As part of the monopoly grant for power, the power company is required to run line to new customers for something resembling a time&materials cost.
Around here cable companies want a 900% mark-up over the amount they pay to their subcontractors for similar work. Poor franchise agreements are part of the problem, and 10-year contracts don't help. Unfortunately these issues aren't well-understood by those creating the franchise agreements.
No the GPL is just somewhere between "actually free" and totally proprietary...
Freedom and benefit aren't always tightly coupled. GPL optimizes community benefit at the expense of individual freedom. BSD optimizes for individual benefit, and sometimes the community suffers (in the opportunity cost sense) for it. Sometimes though BSD gets a company on board and the community gets the leavings, if not the main course. GPL forces the issue, but may eliminate some opportunities if it's the only choice.
Fortunately the evolved status quo (GPL + BSD + others) covers the field pretty well, so we have a good answer for most customers.
I'm not sure how you could legislate this problem away.
They'll have to force all programing to be compressed as well, ruining the dramatic use of audio.
All because some nitwit said, "this annoys me... there ought to be a law" instead of buying a $30 volume regulator. That's OK, broadcast should be mostly gone in 10 years.
Normalize travel and trade with these animals? Really?
The reality is it's either us or Hugo Chavez. Do you really want him 90 miles off Miami?
I was against MFN for China at the time, but it does appear that the free-marketeers were right - China is far more free today than in the mid 90's, and capitalism appears to be responsible.
And they try to fuck you over like the BestBuys of the world do, or ask you to "restore from Tiger" when Snow Leopard is the new cool thing.
Don't take it to an Apple store, call the 800 number and talk to a real tech.
I've turned over each of my last two Apple laptops for 50% of the hardware purchase price by getting a complete makeover on them during the last month of AppleCare, most recently in October.
AppleCare is a fantastic deal, I just left the company over increasingly poor QA and unconscionable judicial actions.
child's job description did not include the self-appointed position of deciding himself who should have access to the network configuration of a public utility.
rIGHt , tHE seCURitY pOLICY - he WAS OperATIng UNdER preVEnTED . HIM FRoM revealing THE paSSworDS SO IT WasN''T seLF-APPOINTED (
so now i get daily emails about how LA and other local governments are going with Google Apps and Gmail. I bet a lot of it has to do with the fact that they can let their unionized admins rot in a hole doing nothing while progress happens
That's OK. If one accepts the premise that a good work environment (some say Google has one) improves productivity, then the end result should be really happy IT folks providing great service at an unbeatable price.
Using a shortening service because Slashdot has crappy URLs doesn't fix the root of the problem.
Yet it's entirely appropriate since he doesn't control Slashdot nor the myriad sites to which the solution can be generalized.
Even if Slashdot added a 'short URL link' feature for people to read over the phone, most people wouldn't know how to find it - there's no standard mechanism to expose or relate such a thing.
As an example, say we want to reduce emissions and stop using coal, so let's use nuclear.
Right, but how many 'environmentalists' are pro-nuclear? 1%? Real ones, e.g. Patrick Moore, are, but the label has been nearly conquered by global socialists who find industrial society untolerable and the Earth's human population in need of a trim.
This is the most influential (self-styled) environmentalist at the UN:
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong
I've been told by Sierra Club members that anti-nuke is one of their platform planks, yet it's the only technology that can provide enough clean power to bring the 3rd world up to modern standards.
Unfortunately the science isn't divorced from the policy. And the politicians know that debunking the science is the shortest path to defeating the policy.
Slashdot Mirror
I've always gotten pretty weak signals that are still generally usable, but worse than I get throughout most of my house with my own wireless router.
perhaps the dozens of microwave ovens in use?
Apple is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying its OS to its hardware. This behavior should be illegal for any OS, Windows, or OSX.
Should the copyright holder not be able to dictate terms of its license? So the GPL should be invalid too?
At the bare minimum it's "anything that contains carbon".
No doubt the USDA would take exception to that definition!
On the plus side, if you just want to deliver nicotine, we have plenty of ways to do that, in pretty much any quantity and release curve you fancy, with health risks no greater than those imposed by the nicotine directly.
Nicotine is only a small part of the addiction, though. The crinkle of the wrapper, the smell of the pack, the logo on the carton, the mouth feel of the cigarette, the paling around with smoke buddies, and, of course, smoking, are all significant. Straight nicotine probably isn't enjoyable enough to build an industry.
Thank you.
...they were going to discuss about the problem with "real" piracy.
Me too - I guess the shipping industry wasn't real high on the contributors list.
If the epicenter was nearby, and it sounds like it was, then that doesn't strike me as unreasonable and certainly not a matter of profiteering.
I don't know the geology of the area, but it seems so unlikely that the city proper was the only place along the fault to do the experiments. It should be cheaper to do them some distance outside the city even.
It isn't overly human readable and isn't as short as a most URL shorteners, but then if it was you'd run out of links very quickly, even within a single domain.
Consider though that 36^6 = 2,176,782,336. slashdot.org/1x4tgr ?
Thinking about it some more, a default ID for an object (e.g. comment) is probably fine for almost all uses. If it's really necessary to include all the short, threshold, etc. items then the traditional shorteners will handle it. But usually they're superfluous.
I can whip up apps in a few minutes and do things the guys with iPhones only wish they could.
Can your apps do stuff with the actual phone traffic or are they in a separate apps sandbox? e.g. I want to have a filter eat nagios messages and kill ones when a CRITICAL and a RECOVERY come in within a minute of each other during certain hours of the night.
The programming is trivial, but finding a platform that permits it isn't.
'in-depth article' and 'slicing pizza' should never ever appear in the same sentence. Ever.
Agreed, the serving size for a good Pizza is '1 pie', so what's the practical application here? Oh, right, they're mathematicians, and perhaps they eat at Pizza Hut.
All of us using GOOG-411 and Google Voice have done a splendid job training their voice recognition system. Within a year, I predict that you'll be seeing ads relevant to the conversation you're having while you're still having it. "It's been ages since I've had good sushi!" -> ad for nearby expensive sushi restaurants.
It's kind of hard to see the screen when it's next to your ear, but yes, when you hang up, that's reasonable. I rather expect good ads for YouTube is easier to handle.
Wouldn't it be easier to just change all the phones into computers?
Universal broadband access is a separate story today. :)
What we need are some microformats [wikipedia.org] that all browsers support. If we make one for "shortened URL", how long do you think it'll take to make it as a feature in IE? :D
That's a great idea. Microsoft competes when it has to, never before, so I guess how long depends on how useful the feature is. :)
The clever insight here is that most domain names aren't too long for twitter, et. al., it's the query string length.
But should every page on a website have a short version or just when one is requested? The former is wasteful - there are millions of possible pages on Slashdot, for exmaple, maybe billions for each options permutation, but the latter requires a service to be run to request one (and might be hard to do as a microformat).
This is because the hotspot now sits under a much thicker crust (the rocky mountains). But as I saw one geologist quoted, "I wouldn't bet on it either way".
OK, so I thought I was pretty safe from the Yellowstone Supervolcano where I live, and now you tell me I have to worry about a frikkin Rocky Mountain landing on me?
I doubt anybody would get aboard without understanding the ramifications. People volunteer for much worse fates with far smaller reward (satisfaction and/or fame).
Humanity will have to learn patience at some point if we're to outlive the Sun.
Fuck, you people are just sad. You must have had the "free" basic education.
Which prep school did you attend where it was taught that peppering your anonymous rhetoric with expletives would be convincing rather than causing readers of such to think, "boy, what a moron," and move on to the next comment?
There is no more "right to free infrastructure" than there is a "right to free service". If you want some company to run power, water, sewer, or communication lines to you, be prepared to make it worth their while.
As part of the monopoly grant for power, the power company is required to run line to new customers for something resembling a time&materials cost.
Around here cable companies want a 900% mark-up over the amount they pay to their subcontractors for similar work. Poor franchise agreements are part of the problem, and 10-year contracts don't help. Unfortunately these issues aren't well-understood by those creating the franchise agreements.
No the GPL is just somewhere between "actually free" and totally proprietary...
Freedom and benefit aren't always tightly coupled. GPL optimizes community benefit at the expense of individual freedom. BSD optimizes for individual benefit, and sometimes the community suffers (in the opportunity cost sense) for it. Sometimes though BSD gets a company on board and the community gets the leavings, if not the main course. GPL forces the issue, but may eliminate some opportunities if it's the only choice.
Fortunately the evolved status quo (GPL + BSD + others) covers the field pretty well, so we have a good answer for most customers.
I'm not sure how you could legislate this problem away.
They'll have to force all programing to be compressed as well, ruining the dramatic use of audio.
All because some nitwit said, "this annoys me ... there ought to be a law" instead of buying a $30 volume regulator. That's OK, broadcast should be mostly gone in 10 years.
Normalize travel and trade with these animals? Really?
The reality is it's either us or Hugo Chavez. Do you really want him 90 miles off Miami?
I was against MFN for China at the time, but it does appear that the free-marketeers were right - China is far more free today than in the mid 90's, and capitalism appears to be responsible.
And they try to fuck you over like the BestBuys of the world do, or ask you to "restore from Tiger" when Snow Leopard is the new cool thing.
Don't take it to an Apple store, call the 800 number and talk to a real tech.
I've turned over each of my last two Apple laptops for 50% of the hardware purchase price by getting a complete makeover on them during the last month of AppleCare, most recently in October.
AppleCare is a fantastic deal, I just left the company over increasingly poor QA and unconscionable judicial actions.
child's job description did not include the self-appointed position of deciding himself who should have access to the network configuration of a public utility.
rIGHt , tHE seCURitY pOLICY - he WAS OperATIng UNdER preVEnTED . HIM FRoM revealing THE paSSworDS SO IT WasN''T seLF-APPOINTED (
so now i get daily emails about how LA and other local governments are going with Google Apps and Gmail. I bet a lot of it has to do with the fact that they can let their unionized admins rot in a hole doing nothing while progress happens
That's OK. If one accepts the premise that a good work environment (some say Google has one) improves productivity, then the end result should be really happy IT folks providing great service at an unbeatable price.
Using a shortening service because Slashdot has crappy URLs doesn't fix the root of the problem.
Yet it's entirely appropriate since he doesn't control Slashdot nor the myriad sites to which the solution can be generalized.
Even if Slashdot added a 'short URL link' feature for people to read over the phone, most people wouldn't know how to find it - there's no standard mechanism to expose or relate such a thing.
As an example, say we want to reduce emissions and stop using coal, so let's use nuclear.
Right, but how many 'environmentalists' are pro-nuclear? 1%? Real ones, e.g. Patrick Moore, are, but the label has been nearly conquered by global socialists who find industrial society untolerable and the Earth's human population in need of a trim.
This is the most influential (self-styled) environmentalist at the UN:
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong
I've been told by Sierra Club members that anti-nuke is one of their platform planks, yet it's the only technology that can provide enough clean power to bring the 3rd world up to modern standards.
Unfortunately the science isn't divorced from the policy. And the politicians know that debunking the science is the shortest path to defeating the policy.