Search engines work best by providing an impartial means of finding sites related to the query. News outlets work best by providing an impartial view of current events. When paid promotion hits the scene, they both become completely useless, at best
Not at all. The search results weren't affected, only the "sponsored links" clearly separated to the right.
The Guardian's suggestion that this was a way to take people's attention away from sites that might be critical of the BBC's role is just bullshit. As for the cost of advertising being from the public purse, so what? Google ads are pretty cost effective in being tagetted on people actually searching for a related subject, not spammed to any random page.
we had a fuxed system of exchange, established in '44 at Bretton-Woods. it was scrapped in ~74.
It was scrapped by Nixon, because the huge debt the US had built up to finace the Vietnam War had destroyed confidence in the USD, so people were converting their dollars to gold at the fixed rate. If he hadn't loosened the gold standard all the US's gold would have been exhausted and the dollar would have then crashed.
So what is happening to US debt now? How long will the world finance the occupation of Iraq and the build up of the US military by investing in the US? Eventually, you have to produce stuff and sell it, you can't have an economy that just consumes.
Remember it's being dealt with by the same office that granted patents on one-click shopping, emails of the form user@domain.name tied to http://user.domain.name... etc.
RTFA: It's not the US patent office but Europe and NZ.
And now we know why Hollywood's been so focused on creating perfect CGI characters. It gets rid of all that overhead you just listed. Save a few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you've financed one hell of a render farm.
The world is full of talented actors who didn't get a break into the big time. What makes some able to demand and get 10-20 million a picture isn't just their acting, but their "star power" -- what they do to promote themselves by creating an image, and the months most spend in PR, chat shows, interviews when the movie comes out.
The most successful CGI was Gollum -- very closely based on a real actor. I doubt they could do much more than a weak parody of Gollum without Serkis to add life to it, not to mention appear on the talk shows and do interviews.
They could replace a lot of porn actors with CGI, but most of them work for peanuts anyway. Stuntmen are higher paid, but they are losing out as they mostly can't show their own personalities when performing.
Isn't this a somewhat obvious result of the study? It makes sense that people who are well rested and refreshed from a good night sleep (or a timely nap) would be more alert and better able to think on their feet.
RTFA. They also tested a group that had slept, but not been exposed to the problem, and none of them solved it. Thinking about it before sleeping gave the best result.
Evidence that dinasaurs once roamed the earth isn't taking us towards bringing them back. From a casual observer this seems a pointless exercise, but I'm sure I'm just not informed enough, can someone help me out?
The same reasoning would make anything you do not directly necessary for finding food and shelter "pointless".
they inherited the "executable" syntax from cpm and qdos.
They "chose" not to change this through DOS, Win 3.1, Win 9x, WinNT... when it has been apparent for over 10 years, with the commercialisation of the Internet, that this was reckless.
After visiting their site I find "2MB for 30 seconds". I went to the demo page, which took several minutes to load to 99% before stopping -- probably because I use Opera. Investigatng my cache I found an exe file these pricks had sent. WTF are they trying to do? What an excellent way to install a Trojan.
The article clearly states that the large video advertisement is downloaded in the background, hidden from the user, and doesnt display until the download is complete.
Just how big are these fucking files? I already have to purge my cache after most sessions otherwise it eats up all my free space and causes crashes (Windows, of course).
Here's a page on The Colors of Mars written by Don Davis, a "Space Artist and Animator" before the current beat up, which explains all the problems involved in trying to get a "true" colour image. He has examples of what he thinks a man on the spot might see. Elsewhere on his site he covers other planets and nebulae.
The most positive point of the whole article is that the word piracy is not mentioned. Not once.
"U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman plans to convene a peer-to-peer (P2P) summit within the next two months in hopes of avoiding a federally mandated response to online piracy."
Hear hear: Meaning A shout of support or agreement. Origin Originated in the British parliament in the 18th century as a contraction of 'hear him, hear him'. It is still often heard there although sometimes used ironically these days.
Y'know, I didn't see yesterday's story, so I for one am glad for dupes, sometimes it helps people see stories that they miss.
So look at the "Older Stuff" panel prominently placed on the front page. If I've been too busy to waste time here I generally skim through those when I come back. Besides which this story was hardly newsworthy the first time around.
... entrepeneurs, as scum-sucking bottom feeders seems more appropriate
Indeed. In the article they're described as "Javaher and Weyer were part of the original group that launched the.md domain in the United States in 1998. With the.md domain, physicians could register URLs ending in.md, such as www.janesmith.md."
No mention that ".md" is just another of those small countries (Moldova in this case) who've signed away rights to some scumbags who think that they can pretend the letters stand for something else. Similar ones:.la (Laos, pretending to be Los Angeles/Latin America (!)/Lousiana),.tv (Tuvalu, pretending to be television). Hopefully all these idiots get burnt when the national governments cancel their domains without compensation or unilaterally multiply the fees.
Because 75 years old used to be the retirement age for copyrights, until the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act made it 95 years. The company knows that they're not going to be able to get extentions forever, so they've already started to diversify while they still can...
Even if the 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoons went into public domain, the later ones don't (until they're 95 years old at least). Regardless of copyright, more importantly, the "Mickey Mouse" trademark will never expire. No one can ever make unlicensed Mickey Mouse paraphernalia without Disney's lawyers beating them not a pulp.
I could be wrong, but I'm not seeing *any* productive uses for GPS, which, btw, wouldn't exist if it weren't for lots of technology that NASA pioneered to begin with. Prove me wrong.
It's revolutionised navigation, both air and sea. Wankers with GPS in their SUV consoles aren't the only applications.
Not necessarily. I'm sure most of those people (had to backspace over a few epithets) who spam Make Money Fast either lose money or get into legal trouble. But the damage is done (to me) before they learn that it won't make money. I think the driving force is selling spam services to gullible clients like these. (Not including the industrious Nigerians who seem to take a more personalised DIY approach.) Even if someone DID want penis-enlarging cream, I think by now they'd have a source of supply, that market must be pretty saturated by now.
The dumb thing is that they don't even have a token page about Tolkien to justify taking browsers there. If they'd bothered to crib together a page of bio and a dozen links they might have had a chance in court.
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You did -- omitted two apostrophes.
Not at all. The search results weren't affected, only the "sponsored links" clearly separated to the right.
The Guardian's suggestion that this was a way to take people's attention away from sites that might be critical of the BBC's role is just bullshit. As for the cost of advertising being from the public purse, so what? Google ads are pretty cost effective in being tagetted on people actually searching for a related subject, not spammed to any random page.
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And at the top of that page: "Dell recommends Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional."
It was scrapped by Nixon, because the huge debt the US had built up to finace the Vietnam War had destroyed confidence in the USD, so people were converting their dollars to gold at the fixed rate. If he hadn't loosened the gold standard all the US's gold would have been exhausted and the dollar would have then crashed.
So what is happening to US debt now? How long will the world finance the occupation of Iraq and the build up of the US military by investing in the US? Eventually, you have to produce stuff and sell it, you can't have an economy that just consumes.
RTFA: It's not the US patent office but Europe and NZ.
The world is full of talented actors who didn't get a break into the big time. What makes some able to demand and get 10-20 million a picture isn't just their acting, but their "star power" -- what they do to promote themselves by creating an image, and the months most spend in PR, chat shows, interviews when the movie comes out.
The most successful CGI was Gollum -- very closely based on a real actor. I doubt they could do much more than a weak parody of Gollum without Serkis to add life to it, not to mention appear on the talk shows and do interviews.
They could replace a lot of porn actors with CGI, but most of them work for peanuts anyway. Stuntmen are higher paid, but they are losing out as they mostly can't show their own personalities when performing.
RTFA. They also tested a group that had slept, but not been exposed to the problem, and none of them solved it. Thinking about it before sleeping gave the best result.
The same reasoning would make anything you do not directly necessary for finding food and shelter "pointless".
They "chose" not to change this through DOS, Win 3.1, Win 9x, WinNT... when it has been apparent for over 10 years, with the commercialisation of the Internet, that this was reckless.
According to Unicast's "Format Overview":
"The Video Commercial is:
After visiting their site I find "2MB for 30 seconds". I went to the demo page, which took several minutes to load to 99% before stopping -- probably because I use Opera. Investigatng my cache I found an exe file these pricks had sent. WTF are they trying to do? What an excellent way to install a Trojan.
Hmmm.. Kool-Aid: Jonestown; Goya: 18th C Spanish artist; Apple: The Beatles' label, Atari: Battlezone; Levis: jeans; Adidas: shoes; Fender: electric guitars; Phat Farm: no idea.
How'd I score?
Just how big are these fucking files? I already have to purge my cache after most sessions otherwise it eats up all my free space and causes crashes (Windows, of course).
Here's a page on The Colors of Mars written by Don Davis, a "Space Artist and Animator" before the current beat up, which explains all the problems involved in trying to get a "true" colour image. He has examples of what he thinks a man on the spot might see. Elsewhere on his site he covers other planets and nebulae.
"U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman plans to convene a peer-to-peer (P2P) summit within the next two months in hopes of avoiding a federally mandated response to online piracy."
However, it doesn't appear to be in his press release.
Meaning A shout of support or agreement.
Origin Originated in the British parliament in the 18th century as a contraction of 'hear him, hear him'. It is still often heard there although sometimes used ironically these days.
Phrase Dictionary
It's understandable for people to mix this up, but not someone who is paid to be an "editor".
So look at the "Older Stuff" panel prominently placed on the front page. If I've been too busy to waste time here I generally skim through those when I come back. Besides which this story was hardly newsworthy the first time around.
Perhaps if he'd read the story when it was posted yesterday it wouldn't be.
Indeed. In the article they're described as "Javaher and Weyer were part of the original group that launched the .md domain in the United States in 1998. With the .md domain, physicians could register URLs ending in .md, such as www.janesmith.md."
No mention that ".md" is just another of those small countries (Moldova in this case) who've signed away rights to some scumbags who think that they can pretend the letters stand for something else. Similar ones: .la (Laos, pretending to be Los Angeles/Latin America (!)/Lousiana), .tv (Tuvalu, pretending to be television). Hopefully all these idiots get burnt when the national governments cancel their domains without compensation or unilaterally multiply the fees.
A trademark is not just a word. In this case, I'm sure there are hundreds of illustrations of said rodent documented and registered.
Even if the 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoons went into public domain, the later ones don't (until they're 95 years old at least). Regardless of copyright, more importantly, the "Mickey Mouse" trademark will never expire. No one can ever make unlicensed Mickey Mouse paraphernalia without Disney's lawyers beating them not a pulp.
It's revolutionised navigation, both air and sea. Wankers with GPS in their SUV consoles aren't the only applications.
Not necessarily. I'm sure most of those people (had to backspace over a few epithets) who spam Make Money Fast either lose money or get into legal trouble. But the damage is done (to me) before they learn that it won't make money. I think the driving force is selling spam services to gullible clients like these. (Not including the industrious Nigerians who seem to take a more personalised DIY approach.) Even if someone DID want penis-enlarging cream, I think by now they'd have a source of supply, that market must be pretty saturated by now.
For the curious, www.pamelaanderson.com looks legit, but www.pamanderson.com goes to the same celebrity1000 squatters.
The dumb thing is that they don't even have a token page about Tolkien to justify taking browsers there. If they'd bothered to crib together a page of bio and a dozen links they might have had a chance in court.