I recognized his name and I'm over 30. I liked a couple of his cheesy songs back in the day. I wish I hadn't seen his picture, though. Some celebrities should be heard and not seen.
Data Cloud is a silly name for online file storage
I agree. It makes me think of a tag cloud, not hard drive space.
I have the same issue with "VoN (Video on the Net)." Nobody calls online video distribution "VoN," do they? The closest to that I've actually seen is the term "net video."
I read the first few books in the Left Behind series back when they came out. I majored in Religion in college and I've always found stories that interpret the book of Revelations interesting.
The first few books were a good read. But they were so successful that the authors, who had originally planned a 5 or 6 book series, decided to make it a 12-book series. The stories became watered down and obviously pumped full of filler in order to sell more books. I seriously doubt that this was a spiritual decision on the part of the authors; it certainly wasn't a literary one. I stopped reading the series after they did that.
I have no trouble believing that the guys who ruined what started out as a good end-of-the-world adventure story in order to make more money are willingly promoting a crappy video game based on that series, also in order to make more money.
Before there was copyright laws, companies were making buggy whips and butter churns. A. Those things didn't take billions of dollars in R&D to invent a new butter churn and B. Global communication wasn't instant.
And people who did innovate still tried to hide their inventions to keep rivals from stealing them. For example, they wrote their discoveries in code like the engineers described in Brunelleschi's Dome. Being able to file a patent for your invention beats writing it down in a secret glyph with invisible ink and stashing it in a hidden safe, and it also makes the documentation for future generations much simpler.
It is sickening the degree to which contractors will lie, cheat, and inflate their budgets to increase their share of the government pie. I just found out about a project that DHS will be undertaking soon. They will be wasting about $2 billion on a new system that doesn't work as well as the old one it's replacing. The contractors know this, but they stand to make more money from implementing the new technology than upgrading the old one, so that's what they recommended and since they're the experts, the folks at DHS believed them.
That sounds like a really good idea. I currently live in the horribly gerrymandered district of a long-time incumbent who's one of the worst pork barrel spenders in Congress. He's been re-elected so many times, and our district's borders are so carefully tailored to his support base, that no other party will even bother to run a serious candidate against him. I'm voting for the other guy this time just out of principle, but it would be nice if he had to face a real challenge and account for his actions.
That's why when I was pregnant last year I told my doctor not to tell me the details of my test results. I said I only wanted to know if it passed the threshold to be considered a risk for any condition. Otherwise, don't tell me the number, just tell me I was below the risk threshold and won't need additional tests.
I knew that if I had exact numbers, I would worry unnecessarily and look up diseases online. It turned out that I had gestational diabetes, so the testing there was worthwhile, and I did get exact numbers for those results.
Our baby boy was born this past February and is perfectly healthy.
"I considered forming a PAC after this race and actually I was thinking about doing a technology PAC. I'd really like to see some of these open-source advocates get out there and form their own PAC and be more active in the political process."
In my home county, all a private school needed to do to stay open was keep the parents happy so the flow of tuition money didn't stop. In some cases, that meant lots of prayer and Bible lessons. In other cases, it meant having a good sports program. The kids didn't necessarily get a better education at those schools.
You left off the one app of the bunch that I thought was really useful: Hijack. Hijack is a full-featured Message Board app. Most people visit myriad message boards spread all over the internet. This will be the a forum user's answer to RSS.
I am one of those people who regularly participate in several different message boards. It would be awesome to have a better way to keep up with them all, especially for forums that move very fast (I make a post at 5 PM and by 9 AM the next day it's on the 4th page) or slow (it takes a week for someone to respond to my post). I also like the idea of being able to archive threads.
I'm far more worried about the minimum wage employee handling my credit card info or someone digging through improperly discarded credit card receipts than I am of a technophile taking the time and effort to build a mobile card reader.
While I agree that the first scenario is more likely than the second, OTBE, I'm always more wary of the smarter thief.
Reality: If you have no competition the most likely reason for that is that there's no money to be made. There are six billion people on this planet, and it's very unlikely that every last of them will have left a lucrative market niche completely unexploited.
Smart of you to use non-Flash ads. For one thing, I agree that they're more likely to be annoying and therefore blocked. For another thing, you can't right-click on them. If I see an ad for something that interests me, I right-click and open it in a new tab (or, if I'm stuck using IE for whatever reason, a new window) so I can go and check out the page the ad linked to without leaving the page I'm currently on.
It's interesting to see this story show up on Slashdot because we've been discussing it here at the university where I work for the past week. A similar hypoxia event occurred off the coast of Myrtle Beach, SC in 2004 and nobody is completely sure what caused it, so it's interesting to see a similar event in progress elsewhere.
I visited Hiroshima about 10 years ago. I was amazed by how new and shiny the city seemed, and then I remembered that it *was* pretty new compared to other Japanese cities.
Schmoozing, bullshitting, backstabbing your peers, politicking, empire building, etc.
I saw students learning these skills at my public junior high school. If you wanted to be part of the popular crowd, if you wanted to rise to the top of the pack of Jennys, you had to master all those. And now I wonder why there aren't more successful prominent businesswomen out there.
You make a good point. Last week I was helping a friend edit some video using iMovie. He thought it was great and wished he could edit video at home. He said he was getting a new computer soon and asked if he could get similar software for Windows. When I asked why not just get a Mac, he said he had a friend who could get him a deal on a Dell system for $400.
Actually, according to TFA, it's not a sermon-writing application, it's software used for planning a church service: "Visual Liturgy contains all of the authorised liturgy for the Church of England. Vicars use the software to choose services, plan Bible readings and create booklets."
You can think of an Anglican church service as having a sort of standard template into which are inserted different prayers, Bible readings, and hymns depending on the day and season. Instead of making people flip through the prayer book, some churches print out the whole service in order in a sort of programme or booklet. It makes sense to me to have software that would make this publishing task easier.
Not that knowing what the acronym stands for makes it any clearer. Mutual funds are traded, presumably at an exchange. At least, their acronyms are usually listed with stocks in the paper and on tickers. How would an ETF be any different?
I hate trying to read about financial stuff, it's nothing but buzzwords and bullshit. Money is just numbers - why can't they use math to describe it?
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I recognized his name and I'm over 30. I liked a couple of his cheesy songs back in the day. I wish I hadn't seen his picture, though. Some celebrities should be heard and not seen.
Data Cloud is a silly name for online file storage
I agree. It makes me think of a tag cloud, not hard drive space.
I have the same issue with "VoN (Video on the Net)." Nobody calls online video distribution "VoN," do they? The closest to that I've actually seen is the term "net video."
I read the first few books in the Left Behind series back when they came out. I majored in Religion in college and I've always found stories that interpret the book of Revelations interesting.
The first few books were a good read. But they were so successful that the authors, who had originally planned a 5 or 6 book series, decided to make it a 12-book series. The stories became watered down and obviously pumped full of filler in order to sell more books. I seriously doubt that this was a spiritual decision on the part of the authors; it certainly wasn't a literary one. I stopped reading the series after they did that.
I have no trouble believing that the guys who ruined what started out as a good end-of-the-world adventure story in order to make more money are willingly promoting a crappy video game based on that series, also in order to make more money.
Before there was copyright laws, companies were making buggy whips and butter churns. A. Those things didn't take billions of dollars in R&D to invent a new butter churn and B. Global communication wasn't instant.
And people who did innovate still tried to hide their inventions to keep rivals from stealing them. For example, they wrote their discoveries in code like the engineers described in Brunelleschi's Dome . Being able to file a patent for your invention beats writing it down in a secret glyph with invisible ink and stashing it in a hidden safe, and it also makes the documentation for future generations much simpler.
as applications such as mobile Skype take hold, data and voice use will become indistinguishable
One can only hope. This is my major beef with the US mobile carriers. Voice and data have been equal in the rest of the world since the 90's.
Hah! I actually am a 30-something woman, and it guessed that I was a teenage guy.
It is sickening the degree to which contractors will lie, cheat, and inflate their budgets to increase their share of the government pie. I just found out about a project that DHS will be undertaking soon. They will be wasting about $2 billion on a new system that doesn't work as well as the old one it's replacing. The contractors know this, but they stand to make more money from implementing the new technology than upgrading the old one, so that's what they recommended and since they're the experts, the folks at DHS believed them.
That sounds like a really good idea. I currently live in the horribly gerrymandered district of a long-time incumbent who's one of the worst pork barrel spenders in Congress. He's been re-elected so many times, and our district's borders are so carefully tailored to his support base, that no other party will even bother to run a serious candidate against him. I'm voting for the other guy this time just out of principle, but it would be nice if he had to face a real challenge and account for his actions.
That's why when I was pregnant last year I told my doctor not to tell me the details of my test results. I said I only wanted to know if it passed the threshold to be considered a risk for any condition. Otherwise, don't tell me the number, just tell me I was below the risk threshold and won't need additional tests.
I knew that if I had exact numbers, I would worry unnecessarily and look up diseases online. It turned out that I had gestational diabetes, so the testing there was worthwhile, and I did get exact numbers for those results.
Our baby boy was born this past February and is perfectly healthy.
"I considered forming a PAC after this race and actually I was thinking about doing a technology PAC. I'd really like to see some of these open-source advocates get out there and form their own PAC and be more active in the political process."
What about iPac? They've already endorsed you.
In my home county, all a private school needed to do to stay open was keep the parents happy so the flow of tuition money didn't stop. In some cases, that meant lots of prayer and Bible lessons. In other cases, it meant having a good sports program. The kids didn't necessarily get a better education at those schools.
You left off the one app of the bunch that I thought was really useful: Hijack.
Hijack is a full-featured Message Board app. Most people visit myriad message boards spread all over the internet. This will be the a forum user's answer to RSS.
I am one of those people who regularly participate in several different message boards. It would be awesome to have a better way to keep up with them all, especially for forums that move very fast (I make a post at 5 PM and by 9 AM the next day it's on the 4th page) or slow (it takes a week for someone to respond to my post). I also like the idea of being able to archive threads.
I'm far more worried about the minimum wage employee handling my credit card info or someone digging through improperly discarded credit card receipts than I am of a technophile taking the time and effort to build a mobile card reader.
While I agree that the first scenario is more likely than the second, OTBE, I'm always more wary of the smarter thief.
shouldn't this be happening all along since youtube is popular BEFORE google decided to buy it out?
Once Google bought YouTube, it hit the radar of investment bankers, who can't spell.
from the avoid-the-large-yellow-barbeque dept.
I'll have you know that yellow barbeque is actually quite delicious.
I think this entrepreneur might disagree with that statement.
Smart of you to use non-Flash ads. For one thing, I agree that they're more likely to be annoying and therefore blocked. For another thing, you can't right-click on them. If I see an ad for something that interests me, I right-click and open it in a new tab (or, if I'm stuck using IE for whatever reason, a new window) so I can go and check out the page the ad linked to without leaving the page I'm currently on.
For the same reasons, would be nice if it came in gray - not silver, gray.
To date, I have not seen anything approaching a casual description of DRM.
How about this little book "The Pig and The Box"? It was written to help explain DRM to kids.
It's interesting to see this story show up on Slashdot because we've been discussing it here at the university where I work for the past week. A similar hypoxia event occurred off the coast of Myrtle Beach, SC in 2004 and nobody is completely sure what caused it, so it's interesting to see a similar event in progress elsewhere.
I visited Hiroshima about 10 years ago. I was amazed by how new and shiny the city seemed, and then I remembered that it *was* pretty new compared to other Japanese cities.
Schmoozing, bullshitting, backstabbing your peers, politicking, empire building, etc.
I saw students learning these skills at my public junior high school. If you wanted to be part of the popular crowd, if you wanted to rise to the top of the pack of Jennys, you had to master all those. And now I wonder why there aren't more successful prominent businesswomen out there.
You make a good point. Last week I was helping a friend edit some video using iMovie. He thought it was great and wished he could edit video at home. He said he was getting a new computer soon and asked if he could get similar software for Windows. When I asked why not just get a Mac, he said he had a friend who could get him a deal on a Dell system for $400.
Actually, according to TFA, it's not a sermon-writing application, it's software used for planning a church service:
"Visual Liturgy contains all of the authorised liturgy for the Church of England. Vicars use the software to choose services, plan Bible readings and create booklets."
You can think of an Anglican church service as having a sort of standard template into which are inserted different prayers, Bible readings, and hymns depending on the day and season. Instead of making people flip through the prayer book, some churches print out the whole service in order in a sort of programme or booklet. It makes sense to me to have software that would make this publishing task easier.
By "ETF" do you mean "Exchange-Traded Fund"?
Not that knowing what the acronym stands for makes it any clearer. Mutual funds are traded, presumably at an exchange. At least, their acronyms are usually listed with stocks in the paper and on tickers. How would an ETF be any different?
I hate trying to read about financial stuff, it's nothing but buzzwords and bullshit. Money is just numbers - why can't they use math to describe it?