He's asking 2 years too late! If she's a geek, then she already knows that the big Slashbucks aren't going to keep rolling down the pipe, and the Taco will have to get a real job before long! She's probably eyeballin the next sugardaddy down the line as I type.
BTW, I believe that I've met this Kathleen Fent. She's a real friendly girl.
Re:That link to Fatbrain always confuses me...
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Cost for this review? $0
Opportunity to pay the guy for doing some actual work, as opposed to adding a brief comment and clicking 'accept'? Missed
And people wonder why we rarely get good reviews from people other than site editors.
That link to Fatbrain always confuses me...
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I mean, it's at the very least an advertising tracker, and more likely part of an affiliate program... I wonder why exactly people would send their book review in to Slashdot, only to have it be used to feed people through a link (well, maybe not with this review) to put money in VA's pocket. Honestly, I wouldn't mind it so much if the affiliate link wasn't there, or even if the money went to the review's author. Slashdot.com, indeed!
Did anyone else notice that on the polybot demo page, there's something quite disturbing in the Obstacle Course video? As this evil-looking metallic snake traverses a variety of terrains, the man grinning evilly as he takes notes is wearing camo. I shudder to think what he was imagining.
Or does it seem as though a 2-day conference full of children speaking different languages is an awfully short timeframe to train them to reshape the world? In the case of Crystal Age (neal stephenson,) this was only possible because the technology was so powerful as to be able to train the user how to use it without any interaction... are you guys able to do that?
I assume that they intend to use the existing cellular network to move packets around, greatly increasing the range of such connections. Have no doubt though, this kind of connection will be FAR from free.
While you may not have protected yourself sufficiently from them exposing the details of your software, they certainly don't have a claim for IP rights. That would mean that everyone who sent in a complaint to customer service at M$ would be a shareholder by now.
Has anyone had the thought...
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that perhaps Jon Katz is just a super-advanced version of Eliza? Except for that one exception: Eliza required someone to ASK for her input, while the KatzBot it happy to just chime right in.
In theory, they say, you could have a cell phone in a ring on your finger.
Before they get things TOO small, they had better make some major improvements in voice interfaces, and figure out how to miniatuarize those components, as well.
Is that they have not yet reasoned out a way to take a cut of that translation from EQ money to real world money. It looks like the Entropia project aims to correct that oversight, albeit in a very "diminishing returns (as in crack addiction)" manner.
Well, I'm sure the reviewer sent in a nicely documented list of all the errors he found while doing his review. I mean, that IS how they build those errata pages up. Or perhaps he, like most other elitist developers, simply sneered at the error and continued on his merry way?
I disagree.... Honestly, I worry that seeing who axed your last post might encourage retributive axing of their later post. Although, you increase the number of available points, make them positive-only, and introduce a time-based rating decay. That way, posts in which no one saw redeeming value would fairly quickly degrade off of the average users page-view.
Dream on man. I think the purpose of this move is pretty apparent. I mean seriously, combine this with the recent rumors of Homestation and it is clear that M$ is just aligning the two product teams to create the Uber-Box.
Dotcom Scoop first reported earlier today that it appeared that file-sharing service KaZaA had been sold after the company's website was mysteriously changed early this morning and then reverted back to its original form.
The company issued the following statement this morning:
"Jan. 21, 2002 -- Sharman Networks Limited, a privately held company, has purchased certain assets of KaZaA BV, including the popular consumer site KaZaA.com, distributor of KaZaA Media Desktop software. KaZaA BV is the Netherlands-based software and products company that founded KaZaA.com. The transaction was announced by Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming.
KaZaA Media Desktop is a full-featured peer-to-peer file sharing software that allows users to search, download, organize and play media files. Included in Sharman's purchase of assets are the license for the FastTrack P2P Stack, the KaZaA.com Web site, name, and logos.
"We are thrilled at our opportunity to resume the KaZaA service and further develop the KaZaA brand,'' stated Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming. "We value the millions of users of KaZaA's software and will continue to enhance and grow our core offerings."
KaZaA BV will continue to operate its remaining assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."
No further information was provided about Sharman Network Services. As we reported earlier, the company appears to be based in Australia due to information contained in KaZaA's new terms of use agreement.
A search for Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming reveals that she was the CEO of Sega World, an electronic theme park in Sydney, Australia that closed in late 2000. If that is indeed the same Nikki Hemming.
I dig AMD. But I'm not a fan of their megahertz-doesn't-equal-performance marketing, because it just seems designed to mislead consumers.
How exactly does their "marketing ploy" mislead consumers, when it happens to be true? In fact, they don't just slap the number on there. They discuss it on the packaging material, on their website, and are pushing for a benchmark based standard to be used across the board. Now, if they completely obfuscated the actual clockspeed of their processor, I could see where you're coming from. But that's not the case. Instead, they're straightforward about saying "don't be a dufus!"
A mere two weeks after releasing the Athlon XP 2000+, AMD today announced the 1.3GHz AMD Duron processor for the "mainstream PC market." AMD says the new Duron processor is optimized for Windows XP Home and Professional OSs and supports DDR memory. It'll be priced at $118 in 1,000-unit quantities. The 1.3GHz Duron has 192KB of total on-chip cache, a 200MHz front-side bus, a superscalar floating point unit with 3DNow! Professional technology, and hardware data pre-fetch. Durons are manufactured on AMD's 0.18 micron process. I know I haven't griped about this in a while, but if AMD switched to its new "MHz doesn't equal performance" naming scheme for its higher end Athlons (where one would assume that the users probably look at benchmarks) why is it sticking with GHz for "mainstream PC" chips (where you would imagine that users are less likely to look at benchmarks)?
Aha! It is you who are making incorrect assumptions. There has never been any study to correlate the presence of mass-transit to a decline in roadway congestion.
The objection that most American taxpayers have to massive Mass-Transport infrastructure projects is not the presence of an alternative, but rather the fact of 100% of taxpayers being forced to pay insane amounts of money for a project that will benefit roughly 5% of the state's population. For example, Minneapolis/St. Paul is currently involved in a $Billion project to build a LRT system which is roughly 5 miles long, running between the airport, mall, and an impoverished neighborhood. When the DOT comes back the same year a $Billion was just dropped on LRT and says that many upgrades to conventional roads have been tabled because of a $Billion budget shortfall, the 95% who don't get to ride the golden train get upset.
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BTW, I believe that I've met this Kathleen Fent. She's a real friendly girl.
Cost for this review? $0
Opportunity to pay the guy for doing some actual work, as opposed to adding a brief comment and clicking 'accept'? Missed
And people wonder why we rarely get good reviews from people other than site editors.I mean, it's at the very least an advertising tracker, and more likely part of an affiliate program... I wonder why exactly people would send their book review in to Slashdot, only to have it be used to feed people through a link (well, maybe not with this review) to put money in VA's pocket. Honestly, I wouldn't mind it so much if the affiliate link wasn't there, or even if the money went to the review's author. Slashdot.com, indeed!
Did anyone else notice that on the polybot demo page, there's something quite disturbing in the Obstacle Course video? As this evil-looking metallic snake traverses a variety of terrains, the man grinning evilly as he takes notes is wearing camo. I shudder to think what he was imagining.
Or does it seem as though a 2-day conference full of children speaking different languages is an awfully short timeframe to train them to reshape the world? In the case of Crystal Age (neal stephenson,) this was only possible because the technology was so powerful as to be able to train the user how to use it without any interaction... are you guys able to do that?
I assume that they intend to use the existing cellular network to move packets around, greatly increasing the range of such connections. Have no doubt though, this kind of connection will be FAR from free.
BTW does XP now have winzip as part of the OS, or am I missing something? Actually, it does now. Take that communist!
While you may not have protected yourself sufficiently from them exposing the details of your software, they certainly don't have a claim for IP rights. That would mean that everyone who sent in a complaint to customer service at M$ would be a shareholder by now.
that perhaps Jon Katz is just a super-advanced version of Eliza? Except for that one exception: Eliza required someone to ASK for her input, while the KatzBot it happy to just chime right in.
In theory, they say, you could have a cell phone in a ring on your finger. Before they get things TOO small, they had better make some major improvements in voice interfaces, and figure out how to miniatuarize those components, as well.
Is that they have not yet reasoned out a way to take a cut of that translation from EQ money to real world money. It looks like the Entropia project aims to correct that oversight, albeit in a very "diminishing returns (as in crack addiction)" manner.
Now I can ciew postage-stamp sized video clips while I browse the postage-stamp sized web!
Well, I'm sure the reviewer sent in a nicely documented list of all the errors he found while doing his review. I mean, that IS how they build those errata pages up. Or perhaps he, like most other elitist developers, simply sneered at the error and continued on his merry way?
I disagree.... Honestly, I worry that seeing who axed your last post might encourage retributive axing of their later post. Although, you increase the number of available points, make them positive-only, and introduce a time-based rating decay. That way, posts in which no one saw redeeming value would fairly quickly degrade off of the average users page-view.
If the slash codebase could be extended to show when an Administrator moderates your comments?
Dream on man. I think the purpose of this move is pretty apparent. I mean seriously, combine this with the recent rumors of Homestation and it is clear that M$ is just aligning the two product teams to create the Uber-Box.
Sue That!
Well, I think that says it all. They should just contract out like the rest of us content providers.
Dotcom Scoop first reported earlier today that it appeared that file-sharing service KaZaA had been sold after the company's website was mysteriously changed early this morning and then reverted back to its original form.
The company issued the following statement this morning:
"Jan. 21, 2002 -- Sharman Networks Limited, a privately held company, has purchased certain assets of KaZaA BV, including the popular consumer site KaZaA.com, distributor of KaZaA Media Desktop software. KaZaA BV is the Netherlands-based software and products company that founded KaZaA.com. The transaction was announced by Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming.
KaZaA Media Desktop is a full-featured peer-to-peer file sharing software that allows users to search, download, organize and play media files. Included in Sharman's purchase of assets are the license for the FastTrack P2P Stack, the KaZaA.com Web site, name, and logos.
"We are thrilled at our opportunity to resume the KaZaA service and further develop the KaZaA brand,'' stated Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming. "We value the millions of users of KaZaA's software and will continue to enhance and grow our core offerings."
KaZaA BV will continue to operate its remaining assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."
No further information was provided about Sharman Network Services. As we reported earlier, the company appears to be based in Australia due to information contained in KaZaA's new terms of use agreement.
A search for Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming reveals that she was the CEO of Sega World, an electronic theme park in Sydney, Australia that closed in late 2000. If that is indeed the same Nikki Hemming.
How exactly does their "marketing ploy" mislead consumers, when it happens to be true? In fact, they don't just slap the number on there. They discuss it on the packaging material, on their website, and are pushing for a benchmark based standard to be used across the board. Now, if they completely obfuscated the actual clockspeed of their processor, I could see where you're coming from. But that's not the case. Instead, they're straightforward about saying "don't be a dufus!"
1.3GHz AMD Duron Arrives
A mere two weeks after releasing the Athlon XP 2000+, AMD today announced the 1.3GHz AMD Duron processor for the "mainstream PC market." AMD says the new Duron processor is optimized for Windows XP Home and Professional OSs and supports DDR memory. It'll be priced at $118 in 1,000-unit quantities. The 1.3GHz Duron has 192KB of total on-chip cache, a 200MHz front-side bus, a superscalar floating point unit with 3DNow! Professional technology, and hardware data pre-fetch. Durons are manufactured on AMD's 0.18 micron process. I know I haven't griped about this in a while, but if AMD switched to its new "MHz doesn't equal performance" naming scheme for its higher end Athlons (where one would assume that the users probably look at benchmarks) why is it sticking with GHz for "mainstream PC" chips (where you would imagine that users are less likely to look at benchmarks)?
Favorable at MP3.Com
Negative at CNET.COM
Brief at IGN FOR MEN (heh)
Mixed at Epinions
This is for all of you who don't have google-equipped browsers.
Man, it's not like this is for the Special Olympics.
Aha! It is you who are making incorrect assumptions. There has never been any study to correlate the presence of mass-transit to a decline in roadway congestion.
The objection that most American taxpayers have to massive Mass-Transport infrastructure projects is not the presence of an alternative, but rather the fact of 100% of taxpayers being forced to pay insane amounts of money for a project that will benefit roughly 5% of the state's population. For example, Minneapolis/St. Paul is currently involved in a $Billion project to build a LRT system which is roughly 5 miles long, running between the airport, mall, and an impoverished neighborhood. When the DOT comes back the same year a $Billion was just dropped on LRT and says that many upgrades to conventional roads have been tabled because of a $Billion budget shortfall, the 95% who don't get to ride the golden train get upset.