And while the article states that a most advertisers use a pop-up box to ask if you want to download, I know for a fact that certain companies are not. For instance, about 6 months ago I had the program "TopText" installed on my computer without my permission. It's a relatively useful little application that allows you to get more information about any word in a webpage, but nonetheless something I didn't want, and didn't give permission to install. The only way I figured out it was there was when little yellow lines started appearing below words in some webpages.
We can go on forever about what might be causing the decline in websurfing, but for starters, we should prove that there is a causal link between amount of time spent online and what people actually get out of the internet.
For instance, the decline in amount of time spent online could be linked to many other factors such as:
Users becoming more tech-savvy and learning how to surf faster and more efficiently
The web becoming better organized, thus allowing users to get the information they want more quickly
The average speed of a user's internet access increasing
As for the articles claims that a lot of formerly popular sites are going offline, I'd argue that that's just market saturation and operating costs finally catching up with them.
Plus imagine the power suckage! A collapsible keyboard is great because you just snap your Palm in it and can type. Here you've got wires to hook up, and I'm SURE this thing can't have a long battery life
But all of this doesn't stop the fact that it *looks* reeeeaaaally cool.
Right you are... the two main beers in Australia are XXXX and vic bitters. Though in truth, Fosters is probably a better tasting beer than both of them. XXXX and Vic Bitters are the rough Australian analogs of Bud and Schlitz.
If you want a 16 meg MP3 player, cheap digital camera, and sexy handheld organizer, here's ($31) your ($93) answer ($199).
Oh, and if you're still whining about pocket space, fine($52). STILL under $400.
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Hack in Space
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Why don't you try sending someone to the moon??!?
Or controlling something that's ON MARS. MARS!!!! That's really *%#$ing far away!!! I mean, you may think it's a long way to the grocer's and back, but that's just peanuts to space.
Yeah, but the title of this post does! "Sleep less, live longer"? And that's the way it's being reported in much of the media too. Maybe the scientists should spend more time FINDING the causal link (which I'm guessing has to do with activity of lifestyle) than getting press
is that handspring is pushing it now as their Only Product, which means all the visor prices are dropping drammatically! Check out the sidebar: Visor edge now for $199??!? I'll take that and a visorphone over the $549 treo, any day.
But sometimes that distracting border between the two is REALLY useful.
OK, not for playing Quake... I think I'd like to see the center of my field of vision, thank you very much.But for graphic artists dual monitors is a godsend. Imagine having all your tools / palletes on one screen, and the second screen clear of all clutter so you can work on your video or graphics easily. In a case like that, it'd be really nice to have all the tools separated out onto a separate workspace
It'd be interesting to see how relative keystroke frequencies have changed. My senior honors project on keyboard layout efficiency used a study from the 1960's by Lawrence Stolurow: "Frequency of letters and bigrams in the english language" (or something like that) as a guage of bigram (two-letter combo) frequency, but there are a lot of new factors to account for these days. For instance the frequency of the bigram "ww" (as in www.slashdot.org) is probably a lot higher these days.
4) Put CD in CD-player with digital out... run digital out to digital in on PC, rip, send to all your friends. Laugh hysterically at the idea that copy protection will ever work.
And then send them an e-mail saying that if they really want people to stop pirating their CD's, lowering their prices would be a great start.
A feature on the X-Box where you could copy music from CD's to the internal harddrive, such that you could play any music you wanted while playing video games (such as Project Gotham racing).
I'm not sure if the tracks were encoded to MP3, but it sure would be sweet irony to see copy protection working against Microsoft for once.
that Star Trek: TNG was the best show ever.
(yeah yeah, off topic)
Not only did it have an extraordinarily high percentage of good shows, but it got off the air before major suckage began.
The X-files was a great show up until the movie. When your show is built on two main characters and the tension between them, you just can't have one of them leave without entirely changing the show. If only Carter had realized that earlier...
Oh yeah, and I'm sure the professor uses it to check students aren't cheating on problems like "10 plus 1 in binary is ___"
That too is sarcasm.
Seriously, there's no way they're using this method on ALL asignments (esp. really simple ones, where the solution is simple), and there's no way this is the only method they're using in cheating investigations.
Why the hell is everything called a "solution" these days?! A network card isn't a network card, but a "wireless network access solution". Samsung displayed their latest LCD and flat TV solutions! Yamaha had their DVD+RW solution on display as well.
Jesus! Someday soon a mouse won't be a mouse but a "cursor-moving and activation solution". I liked it better when a monitor was a "monitor" and a flat-panel monitor was an "expensive, cool-looking monitor".
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Agreed. There's a perfectly good place for non-geeky (e.g. not sci-fi / fantasy / AntiTrust) already. And they have a far superior command of the english language.
Do I want to know what people think of Orange County? Yes! But is it News for Nerds, or Stuff That Matters? No.
Is it me or does your own link disprove you?
Most of the people in that forum are talking about how people have mistakenly wrote the Mario Party 3 forum because they own Mario Party 1, but they got confused because on the cover Mario is holding a die with a 3 on top. So it would seem to me that the original Mario Party is just that: Mario Party, NOT Mario Party 3.
As for the digital board game hoo-ha, yes there were plenty of games that came out based on old board games, but Nintendo was the first (as far as I know) to come out with a digital board game that didn't have a physical analog. The minigame-based play was also something new, which has been extensively copied by Sony (Crash Bash), et al.
Nintendo has a consistent history of really innovative hardware and software, which is one of the reasons I decided on a gamecube.
This article has a pretty good run-down of some major innovations by nintendo, including the standardization of analog controls and rumble features, the introduction of the big-headed racing game genre (Mario Kart), and the digital boardgame (Mario Party), all of which have been extensively copied by competitors at this point.
The amount of games on PS2 doesn't really impress me either (after all, I can't buy them ALL). Sure, PS2 has 50 racing titles for every 1 on gamecube, but I'll take one great game like Mario Kart over 50 mediocre racers.
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And while the article states that a most advertisers use a pop-up box to ask if you want to download, I know for a fact that certain companies are not. For instance, about 6 months ago I had the program "TopText" installed on my computer without my permission. It's a relatively useful little application that allows you to get more information about any word in a webpage, but nonetheless something I didn't want, and didn't give permission to install. The only way I figured out it was there was when little yellow lines started appearing below words in some webpages.
We can go on forever about what might be causing the decline in websurfing, but for starters, we should prove that there is a causal link between amount of time spent online and what people actually get out of the internet.
For instance, the decline in amount of time spent online could be linked to many other factors such as:
As for the articles claims that a lot of formerly popular sites are going offline, I'd argue that that's just market saturation and operating costs finally catching up with them.
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Plus imagine the power suckage! A collapsible keyboard is great because you just snap your Palm in it and can type. Here you've got wires to hook up, and I'm SURE this thing can't have a long battery life
But all of this doesn't stop the fact that it *looks* reeeeaaaally cool.
Yeah, but the X-Box weighs 9 POUNDS!!! Nine %^&*%ing pounds!! That's as much as a human head!
BOTH of the competitors (Gamecube and PS2) offer far more enjoyment per pound.
Exactly! Did anyone else read the title of this article and think "Ewww!!! 50 year old trackball??!? I hope he's cleaned it recently"
Right you are... the two main beers in Australia are XXXX and vic bitters. Though in truth, Fosters is probably a better tasting beer than both of them. XXXX and Vic Bitters are the rough Australian analogs of Bud and Schlitz.
A-friggin-greed!
If you want a 16 meg MP3 player, cheap digital camera, and sexy handheld organizer, here's ($31) your ($93) answer ($199).
Oh, and if you're still whining about pocket space, fine($52). STILL under $400.
Why don't you try sending someone to the moon??!?
Or controlling something that's ON MARS. MARS!!!! That's really *%#$ing far away!!! I mean, you may think it's a long way to the grocer's and back, but that's just peanuts to space.
Yeah, but the title of this post does! "Sleep less, live longer"? And that's the way it's being reported in much of the media too. Maybe the scientists should spend more time FINDING the causal link (which I'm guessing has to do with activity of lifestyle) than getting press
is that handspring is pushing it now as their Only Product, which means all the visor prices are dropping drammatically! Check out the sidebar: Visor edge now for $199??!? I'll take that and a visorphone over the $549 treo, any day.
But sometimes that distracting border between the two is REALLY useful.
OK, not for playing Quake... I think I'd like to see the center of my field of vision, thank you very much.But for graphic artists dual monitors is a godsend. Imagine having all your tools / palletes on one screen, and the second screen clear of all clutter so you can work on your video or graphics easily. In a case like that, it'd be really nice to have all the tools separated out onto a separate workspace
It'd be interesting to see how relative keystroke frequencies have changed. My senior honors project on keyboard layout efficiency used a study from the 1960's by Lawrence Stolurow: "Frequency of letters and bigrams in the english language" (or something like that) as a guage of bigram (two-letter combo) frequency, but there are a lot of new factors to account for these days. For instance the frequency of the bigram "ww" (as in www.slashdot.org) is probably a lot higher these days.
Yeah, and TOO little time spent on grammar.
Yeah, the original poster should check into non-lossy compression algorithms for their brain.
4) Put CD in CD-player with digital out... run digital out to digital in on PC, rip, send to all your friends. Laugh hysterically at the idea that copy protection will ever work.
And then send them an e-mail saying that if they really want people to stop pirating their CD's, lowering their prices would be a great start.
A feature on the X-Box where you could copy music from CD's to the internal harddrive, such that you could play any music you wanted while playing video games (such as Project Gotham racing).
I'm not sure if the tracks were encoded to MP3, but it sure would be sweet irony to see copy protection working against Microsoft for once.
that Star Trek: TNG was the best show ever.
(yeah yeah, off topic)
Not only did it have an extraordinarily high percentage of good shows, but it got off the air before major suckage began.
The X-files was a great show up until the movie. When your show is built on two main characters and the tension between them, you just can't have one of them leave without entirely changing the show. If only Carter had realized that earlier...
Oh yeah, and I'm sure the professor uses it to check students aren't cheating on problems like "10 plus 1 in binary is ___"
That too is sarcasm.
Seriously, there's no way they're using this method on ALL asignments (esp. really simple ones, where the solution is simple), and there's no way this is the only method they're using in cheating investigations.
I have an idea. Slashdot could use the diff command to stop people from posting redundant comments!
Why the hell is everything called a "solution" these days?! A network card isn't a network card, but a "wireless network access solution". Samsung displayed their latest LCD and flat TV solutions! Yamaha had their DVD+RW solution on display as well.
Jesus! Someday soon a mouse won't be a mouse but a "cursor-moving and activation solution". I liked it better when a monitor was a "monitor" and a flat-panel monitor was an "expensive, cool-looking monitor".
Agreed. There's a perfectly good place for non-geeky (e.g. not sci-fi / fantasy / AntiTrust) already. And they have a far superior command of the english language.
Do I want to know what people think of Orange County? Yes! But is it News for Nerds, or Stuff That Matters? No.
Of course, all the terrorists got driver's licenses just fine, at the Arlington MVA... where I was getting my driver's license a few months ago!!!
Is it me or does your own link disprove you?
Most of the people in that forum are talking about how people have mistakenly wrote the Mario Party 3 forum because they own Mario Party 1, but they got confused because on the cover Mario is holding a die with a 3 on top. So it would seem to me that the original Mario Party is just that: Mario Party, NOT Mario Party 3.
As for the digital board game hoo-ha, yes there were plenty of games that came out based on old board games, but Nintendo was the first (as far as I know) to come out with a digital board game that didn't have a physical analog. The minigame-based play was also something new, which has been extensively copied by Sony (Crash Bash), et al.
Nintendo has a consistent history of really innovative hardware and software, which is one of the reasons I decided on a gamecube.
This article has a pretty good run-down of some major innovations by nintendo, including the standardization of analog controls and rumble features, the introduction of the big-headed racing game genre (Mario Kart), and the digital boardgame (Mario Party), all of which have been extensively copied by competitors at this point.
The amount of games on PS2 doesn't really impress me either (after all, I can't buy them ALL). Sure, PS2 has 50 racing titles for every 1 on gamecube, but I'll take one great game like Mario Kart over 50 mediocre racers.