I block as many ads on the internet as possible. I find them intrusive and a waste of my time and bandwidth. It's my personal choice though. I *would* advertise using banners, so I don't think that they shouldn't exists, I just want to have a choice.
I avoid commercial television. If I want to watch a TV show I download it from BitTorrent, which cut out the commercials. The commercials are a waste of time and I don't want spend 20% of the time I spend watching television (which I avoid) watching commercials, specially on cable TV which I already paid for. If I want to watch specific news segments I look at crooks and liars. I like PBS, and do not mind the sponsors part in the beginning and ending of shows.
I never listen to commercial radio (does anyone?). I enjoy NPR and do not mind the sponsors being mentioned at the beginning and end of shows.
I never read magazines dense with ads. I enjoy Harpers and Economist. Both have ads but are not dominated by them. Magazine ads I sometimes interesting. They are usually extremely specialized and can sometimes actually be interesting.
I am not apposed to advertising. I think it's useful and important. What I do no like are TV Programs, radio programs, magazines, or websites that are *tools* for creating ad revenue for a company and content is secondary.
I left my own company because my friend and I were going to team up and work freelance. When I told my bosses that I was going to leave (as expected) they first tried to convince me to stay but after they saw that I was not going to stay they said "Well, I guess that is all" and I said "Well, not really" and explained that I can still be contracted to do some of the projects that I worked in. Then, they were really excited and we both saw that it could be a good deal. They didn't have to pay for health insurance and for a flat rate have me work on smaller contracts. I still get emails from them about issues they have with environment I set up for them. And I help them for free for small issues.
I sent them a proposal and quote for how much it would cost to finish a major project they wanted me to work on. I quoted them at half the rate that it would cost for someone internally to do. It was a lot of money for me since at half their rate I would get enough to live on comfortably for a few months and still give me time to work on other projects.
They were slow to respond and never got me feedback on the proposal and eventually got an email telling me that they would like to continue the development internally. It was a bad economic blow for me and was living on the small projects that I expected to have fillers around that big project. I was making a fraction of the salary that I made at that company for many months, but I stuck with it. I ate less went out less. I cut down my bank statements from having hundreds of a transactions per month to a few dozen. The decision to leave was made in the beginning of this summer and used up a lot from savings to sustain, but I learned that a lot of the seeds that I planted a few months ago are just now becoming fruitful. I am in the process of signing 3 major contracts with people who I talked to months ago and I expect to be able to live on this easily for at least a year.
If I were to do it all over again, I would. It was the best decision I ever made. Freedom is great. I work more than I ever did at my old company. I am doing more advanced things and I am learning more. Because I don't have to be at the "office" I work whenever I want. I read more about other topics I am interested in.
BUT! discipline is everything. I make sure that I worked a minimum of 8 hours a day. I tried to do 10 though. If I wake up late, I work late. My housemates always comment about how disciplined I am and how I am always working, and it's true. Every moment you have, work. You also have to set boundaries. I never work on Saturday and Sunday. I turn of my cell phone and computer and don't touch my computer. I have another friend who does this and I suspect he's going to burn out pretty soon (i.e going to grad school).
Greed is a dangerous thing. And now, you can die for it. Make a risky business move, do something that hasn't been done before and see where that takes you. Don't risk risk your life.
I didn't have a chance to read article. But clicking through the links i realized something.. not something new.. just something.
how can we put the burdon on the sender? well. how about a system where the sender cant just send a million mails a second and making a few thousands servers having to deal with it.
I think a model in which the mail is queued on the sending server, until the user accepts to recieve will put a heavy strain on the sending server and make spam not as cheap as it is.
example: when i open up mutt or mozilla-firebird.. i see a basic header information, sender, subject. that information is saved on my mailserver. if i decided to open the mail, the my mailserver checks back with the sending machine and requests for content. given, this will slow down certain types of emails...
now, we have a system that unless the spammer has lots of powerful machines it wont be worth the money to have millions of mails queued in their own server. only to have 1% of the population actually requesting the mail.
basically the sender has to put up with the burdon of sending so many emails.
problems: legit mailing lists.
As for compiling to StampBASIC p-code there isn't much point; you'd still have a very limited instruction store and you'd still be limited to the functions supported by the p-code interpreter, which are quite primitive.
i went to the the mit website when they showcase the robots, link
i downloaded a few of the videos and was not that impressed. i am sure there is a lot of time and effort put into this, but i worked a summer camp where we taught kids a half of the things they were show casing... this company sells little robots and we can even buy little ifrared recieversimiters, light sensors, etc. we program it with BASIC to follow the light/dark, take commands from a remote control, pick things up. all this for just a 200bucks.
now, many of the "crown control" things were odviously a bit more complicated. but is it THAT special? sending signals that push away or get closer to other bots.. not that new.
one thing that i must say is that programming for these premanunfactured bots is easy, but if you ever try to linux-fy, and tweak, or play with the goodies inside, goodluck. Me and friend tried to make a linux compiler for it, and got no support from the company, no techdoc, nothing. (we were not surprised)
i met a guy who had one of these things, and i just dont get it. a PDA now can do so much more. and laptops are so small. i honestly think its the coolness factor of it being rare and a collectors item.
what would be great is if apple revives the newton, to go with with their new style/os.
what will the 'masses' do with a 64-bit processor? the best reason to move up to 64bits is to increase maximum memory, and althought memory is now cheap, its not that cheap!
32bit processors can have up to 4GB of RAM. The most memory i know someone to have is 1GB, and computers most often come with half of that, 512MB. We still have a long way before we hit the 4GB ceiling (a long while!).
I am actually a tad worried for AMD, since they plan on coming out with the x86-64 pretty soon. And i dont know who will actually buy it (or need to buy it).
64bit processors belong where they are most needed, specialized machines.
That is so broad and general it doesn't even make sense anymore.
We haven't stopped evolving. We just haven't had a major disaster to bottle neck the gene pool. we are always evolving (children). When a distaster does come along, and the people with n features/genes can survive and those without die, then there will be drastic changes in the future species.
Trust me. we humans did not hit a plateau in our evolution.
Actually!!!! I am mid-way through the second book now and still on complete shock that Galdalf was dead. i kept denying it and in the book everytime some figure appears and they dont know what it is.. i would (sadly) get excited.. and now.. sigh.. i just look over the trailer quickly and SAW GANDALF!!! i saw GANDALF! and he was IN WHITE! im going to continue reading the book expecting this... there goes my surprise.. im quite disapointed they showed him:o(
but they. they have to get the geeks who've read the series more often than the bible something to cheer about in the trailer.
why suspect a remote control attack? recent terrorist activity would suggest that the method to attack would be more "personal" (with a bomb attached to a guy).
a guy up there says he has no problems with windows (like me)... score? flamebait
this guy here says he has no problems with linux (like me) and he scores? informative,5?
I dont how often exploits are found in AIM, but I haven't heard of too many.
Now are we really going to bash AIM and compare it to outlook or IIS because of this? The tone seems to be "uh oh.. AIM is now just like outlook, i better sign off and use a third party client"
When linux exploits are announced the tone seems to be more forgiving. Unfair?
If, or when one does, it will open a Pandora's box of ethical and philosophical questions. After all, if a computer is perceived to be as intelligent as a person, what is the difference between a smart computer and a human being?
Conscious? Isn't that the same difference between humans and animals (and even bigger difference between any AI in sight), being aware of your being?
Think somebody is making money out of all this hysteria? This sounds like another apocolypse prediction.. first, Y2k... this was for sure going to end life as we knew it.. now this...we have new situation at hand... smaller in scale but just as important...
With all this hype its bound to be a disapointment. The internet will "not cease to exist" and makes you wonder who actually benifits from all this....
we dont even have time to breathe before our next apocolypse prediction anymore, they are coming one after another...
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What a shame. C is an important foundation.
I wrote something about using this technology to build massive 3D maps, with photo repositories such as flickr.
I block as many ads on the internet as possible. I find them intrusive and a waste of my time and bandwidth. It's my personal choice though. I *would* advertise using banners, so I don't think that they shouldn't exists, I just want to have a choice.
I avoid commercial television. If I want to watch a TV show I download it from BitTorrent, which cut out the commercials. The commercials are a waste of time and I don't want spend 20% of the time I spend watching television (which I avoid) watching commercials, specially on cable TV which I already paid for. If I want to watch specific news segments I look at crooks and liars. I like PBS, and do not mind the sponsors part in the beginning and ending of shows.
I never listen to commercial radio (does anyone?). I enjoy NPR and do not mind the sponsors being mentioned at the beginning and end of shows.
I never read magazines dense with ads. I enjoy Harpers and Economist. Both have ads but are not dominated by them. Magazine ads I sometimes interesting. They are usually extremely specialized and can sometimes actually be interesting.
I am not apposed to advertising. I think it's useful and important. What I do no like are TV Programs, radio programs, magazines, or websites that are *tools* for creating ad revenue for a company and content is secondary.
I left my own company because my friend and I were going to team up and work freelance. When I told my bosses that I was going to leave (as expected) they first tried to convince me to stay but after they saw that I was not going to stay they said "Well, I guess that is all" and I said "Well, not really" and explained that I can still be contracted to do some of the projects that I worked in. Then, they were really excited and we both saw that it could be a good deal. They didn't have to pay for health insurance and for a flat rate have me work on smaller contracts. I still get emails from them about issues they have with environment I set up for them. And I help them for free for small issues.
I sent them a proposal and quote for how much it would cost to finish a major project they wanted me to work on. I quoted them at half the rate that it would cost for someone internally to do. It was a lot of money for me since at half their rate I would get enough to live on comfortably for a few months and still give me time to work on other projects.
They were slow to respond and never got me feedback on the proposal and eventually got an email telling me that they would like to continue the development internally. It was a bad economic blow for me and was living on the small projects that I expected to have fillers around that big project. I was making a fraction of the salary that I made at that company for many months, but I stuck with it. I ate less went out less. I cut down my bank statements from having hundreds of a transactions per month to a few dozen. The decision to leave was made in the beginning of this summer and used up a lot from savings to sustain, but I learned that a lot of the seeds that I planted a few months ago are just now becoming fruitful. I am in the process of signing 3 major contracts with people who I talked to months ago and I expect to be able to live on this easily for at least a year.
If I were to do it all over again, I would. It was the best decision I ever made. Freedom is great. I work more than I ever did at my old company. I am doing more advanced things and I am learning more. Because I don't have to be at the "office" I work whenever I want. I read more about other topics I am interested in.
BUT! discipline is everything. I make sure that I worked a minimum of 8 hours a day. I tried to do 10 though. If I wake up late, I work late. My housemates always comment about how disciplined I am and how I am always working, and it's true. Every moment you have, work. You also have to set boundaries. I never work on Saturday and Sunday. I turn of my cell phone and computer and don't touch my computer. I have another friend who does this and I suspect he's going to burn out pretty soon (i.e going to grad school).
don't suck!
it did. why would you do this nintendo?
When mixing a human with another animal, I wonder how much DNA would need to be changed before the creature is no longer considered human.
megaman did this.. they got to 1,2,3...X and then just started fresh and went X1, X2 etc.
i was making a bootdisk.. and typed this:
dd if=floppy1.img of=/dev/hda
it sucked
Greed is a dangerous thing. And now, you can die for it. Make a risky business move, do something that hasn't been done before and see where that takes you. Don't risk risk your life.
Actually, do if you want. I wouldn't.
I didn't have a chance to read article. But clicking through the links i realized something.. not something new.. just something.
how can we put the burdon on the sender? well. how about a system where the sender cant just send a million mails a second and making a few thousands servers having to deal with it.
I think a model in which the mail is queued on the sending server, until the user accepts to recieve will put a heavy strain on the sending server and make spam not as cheap as it is.
example: when i open up mutt or mozilla-firebird.. i see a basic header information, sender, subject. that information is saved on my mailserver. if i decided to open the mail, the my mailserver checks back with the sending machine and requests for content. given, this will slow down certain types of emails...
now, we have a system that unless the spammer has lots of powerful machines it wont be worth the money to have millions of mails queued in their own server. only to have 1% of the population actually requesting the mail.
basically the sender has to put up with the burdon of sending so many emails.
problems: legit mailing lists.
just an idea.
now i will RTFA
As for compiling to StampBASIC p-code there isn't much point; you'd still have a very limited instruction store and you'd still be limited to the functions supported by the p-code interpreter, which are quite primitive.
we were bored. we weren't trying that hard.
i went to the the mit website when they showcase the robots, link
i downloaded a few of the videos and was not that impressed. i am sure there is a lot of time and effort put into this, but i worked a summer camp where we taught kids a half of the things they were show casing... this company sells little robots and we can even buy little ifrared recievers imiters, light sensors, etc. we program it with BASIC to follow the light/dark, take commands from a remote control, pick things up. all this for just a 200bucks.
now, many of the "crown control" things were odviously a bit more complicated. but is it THAT special? sending signals that push away or get closer to other bots.. not that new.
one thing that i must say is that programming for these premanunfactured bots is easy, but if you ever try to linux-fy, and tweak, or play with the goodies inside, goodluck. Me and friend tried to make a linux compiler for it, and got no support from the company, no techdoc, nothing. (we were not surprised)
i met a guy who had one of these things, and i just dont get it. a PDA now can do so much more. and laptops are so small. i honestly think its the coolness factor of it being rare and a collectors item.
what would be great is if apple revives the newton, to go with with their new style/os.
what will the 'masses' do with a 64-bit processor? the best reason to move up to 64bits is to increase maximum memory, and althought memory is now cheap, its not that cheap!
32bit processors can have up to 4GB of RAM. The most memory i know someone to have is 1GB, and computers most often come with half of that, 512MB. We still have a long way before we hit the 4GB ceiling (a long while!).
I am actually a tad worried for AMD, since they plan on coming out with the x86-64 pretty soon. And i dont know who will actually buy it (or need to buy it).
64bit processors belong where they are most needed, specialized machines.
That is so broad and general it doesn't even make sense anymore.
We haven't stopped evolving. We just haven't had a major disaster to bottle neck the gene pool. we are always evolving (children). When a distaster does come along, and the people with n features/genes can survive and those without die, then there will be drastic changes in the future species.
Trust me. we humans did not hit a plateau in our evolution.
-eddie
In response to my own comment.
:o)
who's read the bible? thats not saying much about how often LOTRs is read. oops
Actually!!!! I am mid-way through the second book now and still on complete shock that Galdalf was dead. i kept denying it and in the book everytime some figure appears and they dont know what it is.. i would (sadly) get excited.. and now.. sigh.. i just look over the trailer quickly and SAW GANDALF!!! i saw GANDALF! and he was IN WHITE! im going to continue reading the book expecting this... there goes my surprise.. im quite disapointed they showed him :o(
but they. they have to get the geeks who've read the series more often than the bible something to cheer about in the trailer.
sure 1984 passed. but we are getting closer to it.
why suspect a remote control attack? recent terrorist activity would suggest that the method to attack would be more "personal" (with a bomb attached to a guy).
my machine
i used partspc.com
and monitorsdirect.com
and econopc.com
biased rating.
a guy up there says he has no problems with windows (like me)... score? flamebait
this guy here says he has no problems with linux (like me) and he scores? informative,5?
i dont approve. im ready...mark me a troll
I dont how often exploits are found in AIM, but I haven't heard of too many.
Now are we really going to bash AIM and compare it to outlook or IIS because of this? The tone seems to be "uh oh.. AIM is now just like outlook, i better sign off and use a third party client"
When linux exploits are announced the tone seems to be more forgiving. Unfair?
From the article:
If, or when one does, it will open a Pandora's box of ethical and philosophical questions. After all, if a computer is perceived to be as intelligent as a person, what is the difference between a smart computer and a human being?
Conscious? Isn't that the same difference between humans and animals (and even bigger difference between any AI in sight), being aware of your being?
its called diminishing returns
Think somebody is making money out of all this hysteria? This sounds like another apocolypse prediction.. first, Y2k... this was for sure going to end life as we knew it.. now this...we have new situation at hand... smaller in scale but just as important...
With all this hype its bound to be a disapointment. The internet will "not cease to exist" and makes you wonder who actually benifits from all this....
we dont even have time to breathe before our next apocolypse prediction anymore, they are coming one after another...