Yeah, but Douglas Adams is dead, so Disney probably won't be able to get much useful feedback from him. And I question the quality of H2G2 after going through the Disneyfication(tm) process.
From the article: Before AFRL researchers stepped in a few years ago, Gordon explained, the Defense Department and NASA paid from $50 million to $100 million for each processor in development and manufacturing costs. Now, after AFRL involvement, the price of a typical processing module dropped to between $500 thousand and $2 million and is available as off-the-shelf hardware.
To me, that is an incredible reduction in cost. Makes me wonder where the money was going, duplication of efforts between development teams (time, materials, facilities)? high beaurocratic overhead?
If the Internet is not a requirement of prior art, then this little bit is interesting. from The Origin of Spacewar Slug tells me that there is a Lost Version of Spacewar! There would be, of course. He says the game is pretty much like the original, but the scoring is much more impressive. After each game of a match, cumulative scores are displayed as rows of ships, like a World War II fighter pilot's tally. Slug says he saw this version for a short time on the PDP-1, but never found out who produced it or what became of it
Granted, it's probably just legend, but I found it of note after reading this slashdot article.
I had a similiar experience, also with Star Trek. I played it on Syracuse University's mainframe during a 7th grade computer summer camp. It got me hooked. I found a book that had source code to Star Trek. It was several pages of photocopies of an Altair basic version. There were areas which I could not fully read the code and I had to translate some of the code to make it work on the Apple 2e. It was quite a learning experience in filling in the blanks and debugging the code.
My point is that one can learn a bit about programming just by typing in the code and figuring out what is not working.
Sciam is a nice science enthusiast magazine. As is the nature of the publication, the article is light on details. The magazine a good tool to be introduced to new information, but I would prefer to read about some hard studies, such as in JAMA
Something I feel compelled to point out, that is a common irritant in much I read (Yeah, I admit it. I try not to, but guilty of it too): You have a logical fallacy in your assertion that I'd say they're as objective as you get, unless of course you believe in some kind of "science-conspiracy".. (Check out Wikipedia logical fallacy
You make the assumption that one needs to believe in a "science conspiracy" in order to presume that the magazine is not "as objective as you get." Bollocks. I don't believe in science conspiracy, yet I don't know the credentials of a particular journalist, so I can't assume that that particular journalist is completely objective or knowledgeable enough to report fully and accurately.
Having said that, I personally dislike polygraphing, I think it is intrusive, like a mental form of body cavity search. Unfortunately, we don't live in a nice world, and sometimes the polygraph is a tempting, and if it IS accurate, then a useful tool. A problem of polygraphing is potential abuse. I hear of abuse stories a good deal. How many are true, how many are fabricated? I don't know.
Polygraphing is a given hot topic, there are zealots in both proponent and opponent camps. I find it diffucult to find an objective source of information on the topic and its accuracy.
Although not the earliest Yahoo, the one I liked and used a lot. Design was clean and fast for us stuck with 14.4. Yahoo before all the page bloat. Yahoo in 1997
The shaking ads look like animated gifs which shake around within their frames (image frame does not move). But thx, I'll keep the javascript settings in mind. Some of our corporate intranet is heavily javascripted, so I can't do a blanket disabling of javascript. What would be nice would be to have selective settings for javascript, be able to enable javascript on a host whitelist, or disable for a host blacklist, like popups are controlled now.
Gee, since mozz is oss, we can do that!
Now that I've been running moz, I almost forget about pop-ups/unders.
I agree that the flashing and shaking ads are horribly annoying. I work at filtering those too. One especially bad one last autumn was the jumping-jack woman on weather.com
I found this link to a court case on truth (or lack of) in journalism.
"In a written decision, the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation."
The topic? BHA. The media agency just happened to be Fox Television.
I don't see this as shocking. Its been part of advertising for a long time, get exposure near your competitors (like businesses clumped together at brick and mortar locations).
A different example is store printed coupons at the check-out. Here in the US, grocery chains print out coupons when you purchase brand name products. Sometimes the coupons are for the brand you buy, most of the time I notice they are for competitors brands.
You can tailor your place to attract a certain group, but that does not guarantee that you will get that clientele, since gaming has become so popular (10 years ago, if you said gaming in a public forum, people would have thought you were talking about gambling, now people ask which kind). For example, you are targetting true geeks, but instead, get blockhead gamer/jocks and dopeheads. So you have a less friendly, less geek-chic place. You still may make money, but the place does not have the dynamics you were looking for.
The questions are: are you willing to accept that to turn a profit, and is there anything you can do to prevent that if that is not what you want?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but Douglas Adams is dead, so Disney probably won't be able to get much useful feedback from him.
And I question the quality of H2G2 after going through the Disneyfication(tm) process.
about the page with the various dB listings.
They must have erred somewhere, rock concert below the threshold of pain?
From the article:
Before AFRL researchers stepped in a few years ago, Gordon explained, the Defense Department and NASA paid from $50 million to $100 million for each processor in development and manufacturing costs. Now, after AFRL involvement, the price of a typical processing module dropped to between $500 thousand and $2 million and is available as off-the-shelf hardware.
To me, that is an incredible reduction in cost. Makes me wonder where the money was going, duplication of efforts between development teams (time, materials, facilities)? high beaurocratic overhead?
Captain Kangaroo started in B&W in 1955, but went color in 1969. Check it out here
If the Internet is not a requirement of prior art, then this little bit is interesting.
from The Origin of Spacewar
Slug tells me that there is a Lost Version of Spacewar! There would be, of course. He says the game is pretty much like the original, but the scoring is much more impressive. After each game of a match, cumulative scores are displayed as rows of ships, like a World War II fighter pilot's tally. Slug says he saw this version for a short time on the PDP-1, but never found out who produced it or what became of it
Granted, it's probably just legend, but I found it of note after reading this slashdot article.
I had a similiar experience, also with Star Trek.
I played it on Syracuse University's mainframe during a 7th grade computer summer camp. It got me hooked. I found a book that had source code to Star Trek. It was several pages of photocopies of an Altair basic version.
There were areas which I could not fully read the code and I had to translate some of the code to make it work on the Apple 2e. It was quite a learning experience in filling in the blanks and debugging the code.
My point is that one can learn a bit about programming just by typing in the code and figuring out what is not working.
Maud is an anagram of MUDA
Duma is another anagram of MUDA.
What does this all mean?
Diddly squat.
Have a nice day!
Sneezes, eh?
For the timing, what do you use instead of a bolt gun? a pepper gun?
Box of course.
All the better to resell on eBay.
Given Duke Nukem Forever's track record, I'd say the safer bet is on Pluto in 3 years.
Sciam is a nice science enthusiast magazine. As is the nature of the publication, the article is light on details. The magazine a good tool to be introduced to new information, but I would prefer to read about some hard studies, such as in JAMA
(They do have this to say)
Something I feel compelled to point out, that is a common irritant in much I read (Yeah, I admit it. I try not to, but guilty of it too): You have a logical fallacy in your assertion that I'd say they're as objective as you get, unless of course you believe in some kind of "science-conspiracy".. (Check out Wikipedia logical fallacy
You make the assumption that one needs to believe in a "science conspiracy" in order to presume that the magazine is not "as objective as you get."
Bollocks. I don't believe in science conspiracy, yet I don't know the credentials of a particular journalist, so I can't assume that that particular journalist is completely objective or knowledgeable enough to report fully and accurately.
Having said that, I personally dislike polygraphing, I think it is intrusive, like a mental form of body cavity search.
Unfortunately, we don't live in a nice world, and sometimes the polygraph is a tempting, and if it IS accurate, then a useful tool. A problem of polygraphing is potential abuse. I hear of abuse stories a good deal. How many are true, how many are fabricated? I don't know.
Polygraphing is a given hot topic, there are zealots in both proponent and opponent camps. I find it diffucult to find an objective source of information on the topic and its accuracy.
Antipolygraph.org has a link here
and the American Polygraph Association has a link here
He's bin Laden low
Although not the earliest Yahoo, the one I liked and used a lot. Design was clean and fast for us stuck with 14.4. Yahoo before all the page bloat.
Yahoo in 1997
And found it funny that CDW advertises there.
The shaking ads look like animated gifs which shake around within their frames (image frame does not move). But thx, I'll keep the javascript settings in mind. Some of our corporate intranet is heavily javascripted, so I can't do a blanket disabling of javascript.
What would be nice would be to have selective settings for javascript, be able to enable javascript on a host whitelist, or disable for a host blacklist, like popups are controlled now.
Gee, since mozz is oss, we can do that!
Now that I've been running moz, I almost forget about pop-ups/unders.
I agree that the flashing and shaking ads are horribly annoying. I work at filtering those too.
One especially bad one last autumn was the jumping-jack woman on weather.com
I found this link to a court case on truth (or lack of) in journalism.
"In a written decision, the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation."
The topic? BHA. The media agency just happened to be Fox Television.
Have you seen Finding Nemo? They must be afraid that they will escape into the wild ocean.
I don't see this as shocking. Its been part of advertising for a long time, get exposure near your competitors (like businesses clumped together at brick and mortar locations).
A different example is store printed coupons at the check-out. Here in the US, grocery chains print out coupons when you purchase brand name products. Sometimes the coupons are for the brand you buy, most of the time I notice they are for competitors brands.
Its only a flesh wound.
Sounds like the standard round of buzzword bingo.
Fark has a Florida tag, /. could use a SCO tag.
Oh, wait...
Blu-Ray
and it seems that HP and Dell support Blu-Ray for what its worth
You can tailor your place to attract a certain group, but that does not guarantee that you will get that clientele, since gaming has become so popular (10 years ago, if you said gaming in a public forum, people would have thought you were talking about gambling, now people ask which kind). For example, you are targetting true geeks, but instead, get blockhead gamer/jocks and dopeheads. So you have a less friendly, less geek-chic place. You still may make money, but the place does not have the dynamics you were looking for.
The questions are: are you willing to accept that to turn a profit, and is there anything you can do to prevent that if that is not what you want?