And it comes directly from a post higher up. Maybe since teh sample set is not random and therefore not a good representation then their numbers are flawed. To top it off, there are other variables in what make a viewer also susceptible to product placement and adverising. The majority of slashdotters might not even like the products that are being placed. The 5 million of us could have Nielsen boxes in our living room showing what we watch but we might not by a quarter of the TV advertised goods that someone who watches network TV might. I know I used a lot of "ifs" and "maybes", but we won't know. And it seems like it is still a guessing game when it comes to niche markets.
That would be if there was a closed system between the yuan and dollar. But as you know there is not, we have the yen and the euro as two other examples that show relying on "sensible monetary and fiscal policy" set for china doesn't work when the rest of the world is brought into the game.
How is the US supposed to survive through deflation? There is no set in stone policy that can bring you out of that. Its like target practice at night, you won't know until the sun comes up if you hit anything. A deflation situation domestically would hurt the US much more than any of this China affair.
I work as a software consultant and I have to install Firefox on my coworkers laptops so they can actually do work. We have firewalls, spyware catchers and all sort of virus protection but IE is a death trap. For our sites that require Active X I give them shortcuts from the desktop straight to the page so they can't go view sites that may have malicious spyware/malware. But all webmail and other non work related surfing i beg them to use Firefox. It is very annoying being at a client's office acting like the tech for your boss because they can't click on the burning animal icon instead of IE. These are intelligent(ish) computer savvy people. It has been 3 months since we've received our new thinkpads and theirs CRAWL on startup, mine takes about 15 seconds from the button push to be cracking away at any application.
It is not free trade if you create an unfair advantage through currency. To quickly point out what the Business Week article says, "Legislation that would impose 27.5 percent across-the-board tariffs on all Chinese imports is gaining support in Congress because of lawmakers' frustration with the refusal of the Chinese to stop linking their currency tightly to the U.S. dollar -- a practice American manufacturers contend gives Chinese companies a tremendous price advantage over U.S. goods."
Austin Villa is the name of the actual soccer team I play(ed) on while going to UT. One of our players is doing postgraduate robotics at UT. It's nice to know we're the team's namesake.
If you were to take his money to feed the poor then there wouldn't be money to go to sustainable development.
Fun times on slashdot. I need to post more than 5 times a year.
So Larry signs his shares over and we feed the starving for 10 maybe 15 years. When the money runs out, the starving children who are now adults will not have the infrastructure to feed themselves because money was spent feeding them. Instead of looking for short term answers think of the long term independence of the poor countries; creating industry, schooling and a stable, corruption free government. Do you have the answers? (Talk is cheap, Ars-Fartsica)
I agree, the economics lab runs Sun Rays at UT. That was probably the smoothest experience I have EVER had using computers. Not once did I have slowdowns, window manager issues, or anything to slow down my econometrics projects. Against the Dell boxes I had for my graphics class the same semester, ahh, that was hell.
I've been using Paint Shop Pro since version 3. It is great, its not Photoshop, its not for high dollar editing houses But since everyone just pirates Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro never had a chance since free is better than cheaper.
I think typogenerator.net's index has alreadyy been taken down. That was a pretty processor intensive site for the server. Good anti-/.ing script, or someone was lucky... or maybe it will still crash and burn.
Its like Lichens... they grow together in a symbiotic relationsiop. We need their chips in our space shuttles. They need our space shuttles so we buy their chips. I am pretty sure you can draw this down to millions of relationships.
I do find it disturbing how poor the american car makers think of their consumers though. If you have driven an accord post 95 and then jumped into a post 95 american sedan it feels like someone is playing a practical joke on you. I haven't driven either of the new breeds that have popped up recently though; the Chrylser 300C (which is getting a lot of german help - its not really american anymore) or the Ford 500 (which is ugly as sin, as most american cars seem to be. How do these things pass by QC in the design studios?)
Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I've noticed this as well, but I don't think it is a purely Texas thing. In the past year I have seen some companies moving away from having more shiney plastic wrappers to less. This must be a cost issue. Hershey's minibars, the sort that woudl be bought for halloween now only have one wrapper and come in a plastic bag. They used to come wrapped in silver foil, black paper, and a plastic bag. The new one layer of plastic wrapping looks the same, it mimics the metallic and matte areas of the old wrapper but uses half the material, and I assume haf the cost. I hope this wasn't too off topic.
It seems that eventually all the big companies will be engaged in the deadly embrace with each other. Every company will have 10 companies sueing it and will be sueing 10 companies. They will all settle into the mutually assured disruption. Nothing will have been accomplished besides a bunch of lawyers walking away with money that could be better spent on sceintists and engineers creating more shiney things to play with.
I know this sounds weird, but maybe someone should form an Open Marketing standard. It has short essays and forms that can be customised easily so that the network admins or tech guys who aren't exactly skilled in rhetoric could hand in a memo that is written by someone who is skilled.
I know this is going against the slant of a lot of people here. But streaming windows media video works really well. The Champ Car World Championship now has a $20/year subscription where you get every race fed to your computer with 6 camera angles, race positions and times on the left, the 19 drivers on the right side with streams of their pit to car radio. I mean, for $20/year this is great. Only shame is it is one of those times I had to crank up IE instead of Mozilla. Apparently there must be some ActiveX involved in the page that was making it act weird.
I at times have overactive sweat glands but I have never thought about doing something about it. I figure if my body wants to cool itself down who am I to tell it to stop? I would rather sweat than overheat.
But the record company still paid for the crap to be recorded. Yes, a cd may have only cost $.40 to produce, but a single video for MTV will set an artist back 100,000 cd sales. So now if people are buying the single for.99 instead of the cd for $12, the company needs to sell 1.2million downloads to offset the video. This is why they are going to raise the prices. They can't sell that many downloads. Soon enough they will have to justify charging $4 per song since Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and a whole host of other names I can't think of right now only have 3 or 4 songs per album that the majority of people would consider buying.
It will keep the search text in the text box when you click between search/images/groups/news etc. it is so you don't have to retype in if you are changing what section you are searching in.
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And it comes directly from a post higher up. Maybe since teh sample set is not random and therefore not a good representation then their numbers are flawed. To top it off, there are other variables in what make a viewer also susceptible to product placement and adverising. The majority of slashdotters might not even like the products that are being placed. The 5 million of us could have Nielsen boxes in our living room showing what we watch but we might not by a quarter of the TV advertised goods that someone who watches network TV might. I know I used a lot of "ifs" and "maybes", but we won't know. And it seems like it is still a guessing game when it comes to niche markets.
That would be if there was a closed system between the yuan and dollar. But as you know there is not, we have the yen and the euro as two other examples that show relying on "sensible monetary and fiscal policy" set for china doesn't work when the rest of the world is brought into the game. How is the US supposed to survive through deflation? There is no set in stone policy that can bring you out of that. Its like target practice at night, you won't know until the sun comes up if you hit anything. A deflation situation domestically would hurt the US much more than any of this China affair.
I work as a software consultant and I have to install Firefox on my coworkers laptops so they can actually do work. We have firewalls, spyware catchers and all sort of virus protection but IE is a death trap. For our sites that require Active X I give them shortcuts from the desktop straight to the page so they can't go view sites that may have malicious spyware/malware. But all webmail and other non work related surfing i beg them to use Firefox. It is very annoying being at a client's office acting like the tech for your boss because they can't click on the burning animal icon instead of IE. These are intelligent(ish) computer savvy people. It has been 3 months since we've received our new thinkpads and theirs CRAWL on startup, mine takes about 15 seconds from the button push to be cracking away at any application.
It is not free trade if you create an unfair advantage through currency. To quickly point out what the Business Week article says, "Legislation that would impose 27.5 percent across-the-board tariffs on all Chinese imports is gaining support in Congress because of lawmakers' frustration with the refusal of the Chinese to stop linking their currency tightly to the U.S. dollar -- a practice American manufacturers contend gives Chinese companies a tremendous price advantage over U.S. goods."
Austin Villa is the name of the actual soccer team I play(ed) on while going to UT. One of our players is doing postgraduate robotics at UT. It's nice to know we're the team's namesake.
If you were to take his money to feed the poor then there wouldn't be money to go to sustainable development. Fun times on slashdot. I need to post more than 5 times a year.
So Larry signs his shares over and we feed the starving for 10 maybe 15 years. When the money runs out, the starving children who are now adults will not have the infrastructure to feed themselves because money was spent feeding them. Instead of looking for short term answers think of the long term independence of the poor countries; creating industry, schooling and a stable, corruption free government. Do you have the answers? (Talk is cheap, Ars-Fartsica)
I agree, the economics lab runs Sun Rays at UT. That was probably the smoothest experience I have EVER had using computers. Not once did I have slowdowns, window manager issues, or anything to slow down my econometrics projects. Against the Dell boxes I had for my graphics class the same semester, ahh, that was hell.
I've been using Paint Shop Pro since version 3. It is great, its not Photoshop, its not for high dollar editing houses But since everyone just pirates Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro never had a chance since free is better than cheaper.
I digress
I likes armadillos!
crunchy on the outide, smooth on the inside.
its from a Dime bar commercial in the mid 90s. Its a UK thing, maybe other parts of europe. But I guess in the states things are king size so...
I Likes t-rex-adillos!
I think typogenerator.net's index has alreadyy been taken down. That was a pretty processor intensive site for the server. Good anti-/.ing script, or someone was lucky... or maybe it will still crash and burn.
Possibly because Google is overvalued?
Its like Lichens... they grow together in a symbiotic relationsiop. We need their chips in our space shuttles. They need our space shuttles so we buy their chips. I am pretty sure you can draw this down to millions of relationships.
I do find it disturbing how poor the american car makers think of their consumers though. If you have driven an accord post 95 and then jumped into a post 95 american sedan it feels like someone is playing a practical joke on you. I haven't driven either of the new breeds that have popped up recently though; the Chrylser 300C (which is getting a lot of german help - its not really american anymore) or the Ford 500 (which is ugly as sin, as most american cars seem to be. How do these things pass by QC in the design studios?)
What about TV? Without instantaneous ballot counts how do you create hard-ons at Fox News so they can get more money for commercials inbetween
"LIVE ELECTION COUNT!!! WATCH AS EACH INDIVIDUAL VOTE CLOCKS ON OUR ELECTION ERECTION COUNTER 2008!!!"
you know its coming... you can catch it on SBC Yahoo Monopoly FBI highspeed DSL straight into the comfort of your home.
Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I've noticed this as well, but I don't think it is a purely Texas thing. In the past year I have seen some companies moving away from having more shiney plastic wrappers to less. This must be a cost issue. Hershey's minibars, the sort that woudl be bought for halloween now only have one wrapper and come in a plastic bag. They used to come wrapped in silver foil, black paper, and a plastic bag. The new one layer of plastic wrapping looks the same, it mimics the metallic and matte areas of the old wrapper but uses half the material, and I assume haf the cost. I hope this wasn't too off topic.
arrogant or ignorant? I find a lot of other countries to have much more arrogant population on average but usually a lot less ignorant.
It seems that eventually all the big companies will be engaged in the deadly embrace with each other. Every company will have 10 companies sueing it and will be sueing 10 companies. They will all settle into the mutually assured disruption. Nothing will have been accomplished besides a bunch of lawyers walking away with money that could be better spent on sceintists and engineers creating more shiney things to play with.
People, view the link before commenting and realise that you just got taken by a storm trooper.
I have an idea
*said in a German voice*
Let's play frisbee... OVER THERE!
I know this sounds weird, but maybe someone should form an Open Marketing standard. It has short essays and forms that can be customised easily so that the network admins or tech guys who aren't exactly skilled in rhetoric could hand in a memo that is written by someone who is skilled.
I know this is going against the slant of a lot of people here. But streaming windows media video works really well. The Champ Car World Championship now has a $20/year subscription where you get every race fed to your computer with 6 camera angles, race positions and times on the left, the 19 drivers on the right side with streams of their pit to car radio. I mean, for $20/year this is great. Only shame is it is one of those times I had to crank up IE instead of Mozilla. Apparently there must be some ActiveX involved in the page that was making it act weird.
I at times have overactive sweat glands but I have never thought about doing something about it. I figure if my body wants to cool itself down who am I to tell it to stop? I would rather sweat than overheat.
But the record company still paid for the crap to be recorded. Yes, a cd may have only cost $.40 to produce, but a single video for MTV will set an artist back 100,000 cd sales. So now if people are buying the single for .99 instead of the cd for $12, the company needs to sell 1.2million downloads to offset the video. This is why they are going to raise the prices. They can't sell that many downloads. Soon enough they will have to justify charging $4 per song since Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and a whole host of other names I can't think of right now only have 3 or 4 songs per album that the majority of people would consider buying.
It will keep the search text in the text box when you click between search/images/groups/news etc. it is so you don't have to retype in if you are changing what section you are searching in.