Back in 1997 or so, my very first site was hosted on GeoCites, uploaded via 14.4 modem. I wish I had kept it up, for nostalgic reference. The URL alone was hilarious, you know, that/OuterSpace/Asteroids/7382/ kind of thing, before subdomains became popular.
Most ridiculous thing I've seen in awhile. I guess it would be pretty low power. But why not use a headless torrent server on an older box you weren't using for anything? I just can't see this device being standardized in any way, compared to a regular old server.
Yep. It is crazy. A friend of mine has been traveling. He bought a new gaming laptop in Malaysia, but despite being in a massive electronics store at the time, there were *no* computer games available. It's bizarre logic: there's lots of piracy in the region, so we refuse to sell games.
Same thing in other countries he's been in: Egypt, Jordan, etc., basically large parts of the world you cannot buy legitimate software *even if you want to*. Completely strange. I'm looking into how to gift Steam games to him online if possible.
There's a high degree of probability that that will happen. But it's not certain. Anyway, that's reductio ad absurdum and doesn't really address my point, which is that computer technology changes incredibly quickly and is difficult at best to predict.
Keep in mind that we cannot predict the future. There may come along some amazing, got-to-have killer app that netbooks and five year old Dell desktops can't run. Maybe high-def Twitter video feeds. Who knows? But let's not get complacent and assume that just because hardware is good enough for now, that it will always be.
Intrade.com has been doing this for a long time. All markets are essentially games about the news, whether news of companies, sports teams, or world events.
I really wish that instead of arbitrary TLDs, that from the beginning, domain names would have been a free form string. Say, 64 characters, barring special characters like spaces and so forth. It's not like people use the existing TLDs consistently.
Cool things about such an approach: really creative, fun names would crop up. No more domain squatting nonsense; you'd have much more freedom in naming your site.
I weaned myself 4 cans of soda per day. I seem to try to quit about once a year. I hope this time it sticks. I feel so much better right now. My energy levels are nice and even. No more morning grogginess, beyond the usual amount from being a night person.
I actually kept a.txt file log of Pro and Con symptoms of ingesting caffeine. The cons were outweighing the pros for me. They say people who are prone to anxiety and panic attacks shouldn't do caffeine, and I concur.
Other cons included teeth grinding, impatience with people, quicker to anger, just generally being on edge.
I think I am more sensitive to the stuff than most people, though. I was doing about 250mg of caffeine at my peak, mostly through Diet Coke.
Don't count the current systems' 15 year lifetime as a population-wide trend; count it as a fluke. It's probably sheer, blind luck that's enabled them to last that long.
Modern PCs aren't appliances. They are not an oven with reliable, decades-old technology in them. They are if you're NASA, but not in the real world. They're ever-changing. If your business relies on them, you should learn about how they work and not be afraid of them.
You could write an open letter to the major companies in the relevant industry (and make it clear that several companies are receiving the letter) explaining your inventions. One company may still try to patent them, but the other companies will have signed, dated, and carbon-copied letters from you stating prior art. Hmm, too far fetched?
The Whole Foods store near my home has whole aisles filled with nonsense like homeopathy, herbal medicines, etc. Okay, not all herbs are useless (e.g. there's evidence St. John's Wort helps depression). But much of this stuff is, if you ask me, flat out fraudulent product.
I support a free market so I don't want to get rid of these products. But at the same time... it bugs me that companies basically prey on people's ignorance of science to make money.
You'd be surprised. I know someone who is 61 years old, waiting for his early SS payments, and he's planning to live off them. He screwed around and only accumulated a modest 401k, part of which was wiped out recently by the recession. Yet, he's been traveling and living in countries with low cost of living such as Thailand, Egypt, Jordan, in the future maybe Panama, Costa Rica, etc.
I'd never do it that way, simply because I find travel exhausting. But it's possible to live quite well on SS payments if you live outside of rich countries.
I think "eye candy" gets unnecessary blame much of the time. For me, the worst offenders are things like indexing services, anti-virus, all these programs that run near-invisibly in the background and suck a machine's resources dry. I don't think Aero/etc. are really all that bad, especially with how powerful even onboard video has gotten. I mean, I've seen Compiz running well on Eee PCs! And it's easy to turn the visual stuff off if you want. It's much harder for the average user to go through services.msc (or the Mac, Linux equivalent) and decide what's critical and what's fluff.
Actually, I disliked the last episode, and I think it was over-explained and too neatly finished. The last bit at the end, 150,000 years later? That should have been left off. We don't need everything laid out. For a show that relied on mystery, that last part was anti-mysterious.
And there were way too many neat explanations. Everyone agrees to give up technology? Send the ships off into the sun? The whole series they're scrapping to make use of every little bit of material, and they suddenly give it up? I don't buy it. They send the Centurions off on their own with no concerns? I don't buy it.
I really loved the first three seasons of this show, but the fourth lost its direction, and the ending was a disappointment.
I second this. Ebay/PayPal is sketchy at best. I think the power of craigslist comes from the emphasis on local sales, whereas with Ebay, you normally don't meet up with the person you're doing business with.
With craigslist, if I price something appropriately, there will be someone willing to stop by, pick it up, and be very grateful for the chance. I have made hundreds of dollars this way, getting rid of stuff that was otherwise junk to me.
Most recent example was a set of about 200 CDs that were just sitting in my closet (storing them for a family member who was traveling... he never picked 'em up). The local CD shop refused to take CDs without jewel cases and album art. But I found a local guy who drove to my place within like an hour of posting the ad, and he super happy to buy them off me for a nice price. He gets great music, I get cash, win win for everyone. No shipping fees, no bidding wars, etc.
Not to mention I've gotten jobs and dates off craigslist too. Truly a great website that's serving the community.
1) I never watch "cam" quality pirated movies. The video and audio quality are awful. I'll just wait a few weeks/months for a DVD rip.
2) I haven't been to a movie theater in about a year, and this isn't encouraging me to go back. 15 minutes of commercials at the beginning, overly loud speakers, people with their cell phones, sticky floors, people kicking the back of my seat, laser pointers, laughter at random/inappropriate times... theaters suck!
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If you build it, subscribers will come.
Your advice is far too vague to be useful.
Back in 1997 or so, my very first site was hosted on GeoCites, uploaded via 14.4 modem. I wish I had kept it up, for nostalgic reference. The URL alone was hilarious, you know, that /OuterSpace/Asteroids/7382/ kind of thing, before subdomains became popular.
Most ridiculous thing I've seen in awhile. I guess it would be pretty low power. But why not use a headless torrent server on an older box you weren't using for anything? I just can't see this device being standardized in any way, compared to a regular old server.
Yep. It is crazy. A friend of mine has been traveling. He bought a new gaming laptop in Malaysia, but despite being in a massive electronics store at the time, there were *no* computer games available. It's bizarre logic: there's lots of piracy in the region, so we refuse to sell games. Same thing in other countries he's been in: Egypt, Jordan, etc., basically large parts of the world you cannot buy legitimate software *even if you want to*. Completely strange. I'm looking into how to gift Steam games to him online if possible.
Is my email address being harvested when I opt out?
Yes.
There's a high degree of probability that that will happen. But it's not certain. Anyway, that's reductio ad absurdum and doesn't really address my point, which is that computer technology changes incredibly quickly and is difficult at best to predict.
Keep in mind that we cannot predict the future. There may come along some amazing, got-to-have killer app that netbooks and five year old Dell desktops can't run. Maybe high-def Twitter video feeds. Who knows? But let's not get complacent and assume that just because hardware is good enough for now, that it will always be.
Intrade.com has been doing this for a long time. All markets are essentially games about the news, whether news of companies, sports teams, or world events.
AVI is not a codec, it's a container format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI
What does FLAC have to do with movies?
Girl uses YouTube to broadcast videos of herself. News at 11.
You have much to learn about karma whoring, young padawan.
Just this morning, Lifehacker posted about this very topic: http://lifehacker.com/5205221/acidrip-for-linux-rips-dvds-with-two+click-ease
I really wish that instead of arbitrary TLDs, that from the beginning, domain names would have been a free form string. Say, 64 characters, barring special characters like spaces and so forth. It's not like people use the existing TLDs consistently. Cool things about such an approach: really creative, fun names would crop up. No more domain squatting nonsense; you'd have much more freedom in naming your site.
I weaned myself 4 cans of soda per day. I seem to try to quit about once a year. I hope this time it sticks. I feel so much better right now. My energy levels are nice and even. No more morning grogginess, beyond the usual amount from being a night person.
.txt file log of Pro and Con symptoms of ingesting caffeine. The cons were outweighing the pros for me. They say people who are prone to anxiety and panic attacks shouldn't do caffeine, and I concur.
I actually kept a
Other cons included teeth grinding, impatience with people, quicker to anger, just generally being on edge.
I think I am more sensitive to the stuff than most people, though. I was doing about 250mg of caffeine at my peak, mostly through Diet Coke.
Don't count the current systems' 15 year lifetime as a population-wide trend; count it as a fluke. It's probably sheer, blind luck that's enabled them to last that long.
Modern PCs aren't appliances. They are not an oven with reliable, decades-old technology in them. They are if you're NASA, but not in the real world. They're ever-changing. If your business relies on them, you should learn about how they work and not be afraid of them.
You could write an open letter to the major companies in the relevant industry (and make it clear that several companies are receiving the letter) explaining your inventions. One company may still try to patent them, but the other companies will have signed, dated, and carbon-copied letters from you stating prior art. Hmm, too far fetched?
The Whole Foods store near my home has whole aisles filled with nonsense like homeopathy, herbal medicines, etc. Okay, not all herbs are useless (e.g. there's evidence St. John's Wort helps depression). But much of this stuff is, if you ask me, flat out fraudulent product.
I support a free market so I don't want to get rid of these products. But at the same time... it bugs me that companies basically prey on people's ignorance of science to make money.
You'd be surprised. I know someone who is 61 years old, waiting for his early SS payments, and he's planning to live off them. He screwed around and only accumulated a modest 401k, part of which was wiped out recently by the recession. Yet, he's been traveling and living in countries with low cost of living such as Thailand, Egypt, Jordan, in the future maybe Panama, Costa Rica, etc.
I'd never do it that way, simply because I find travel exhausting. But it's possible to live quite well on SS payments if you live outside of rich countries.
I think "eye candy" gets unnecessary blame much of the time. For me, the worst offenders are things like indexing services, anti-virus, all these programs that run near-invisibly in the background and suck a machine's resources dry. I don't think Aero/etc. are really all that bad, especially with how powerful even onboard video has gotten. I mean, I've seen Compiz running well on Eee PCs! And it's easy to turn the visual stuff off if you want. It's much harder for the average user to go through services.msc (or the Mac, Linux equivalent) and decide what's critical and what's fluff.
Here's a hint: take your user Id, and subtract 1. That's about how many DIFFERENT people registered here before yoi did.
Hmm... 5,212? Holy moly!
Actually, I disliked the last episode, and I think it was over-explained and too neatly finished. The last bit at the end, 150,000 years later? That should have been left off. We don't need everything laid out. For a show that relied on mystery, that last part was anti-mysterious.
And there were way too many neat explanations. Everyone agrees to give up technology? Send the ships off into the sun? The whole series they're scrapping to make use of every little bit of material, and they suddenly give it up? I don't buy it. They send the Centurions off on their own with no concerns? I don't buy it.
I really loved the first three seasons of this show, but the fourth lost its direction, and the ending was a disappointment.
I second this. Ebay/PayPal is sketchy at best. I think the power of craigslist comes from the emphasis on local sales, whereas with Ebay, you normally don't meet up with the person you're doing business with.
With craigslist, if I price something appropriately, there will be someone willing to stop by, pick it up, and be very grateful for the chance. I have made hundreds of dollars this way, getting rid of stuff that was otherwise junk to me.
Most recent example was a set of about 200 CDs that were just sitting in my closet (storing them for a family member who was traveling... he never picked 'em up). The local CD shop refused to take CDs without jewel cases and album art. But I found a local guy who drove to my place within like an hour of posting the ad, and he super happy to buy them off me for a nice price. He gets great music, I get cash, win win for everyone. No shipping fees, no bidding wars, etc. Not to mention I've gotten jobs and dates off craigslist too. Truly a great website that's serving the community.
1) I never watch "cam" quality pirated movies. The video and audio quality are awful. I'll just wait a few weeks/months for a DVD rip.
2) I haven't been to a movie theater in about a year, and this isn't encouraging me to go back. 15 minutes of commercials at the beginning, overly loud speakers, people with their cell phones, sticky floors, people kicking the back of my seat, laser pointers, laughter at random/inappropriate times... theaters suck!
P.S. Get off my lawn.
Is this really fair? If a Nazi child molester is the best candidate for the job and has the skills neeeded, why discriminate against him?