I love Opera, but their integrated bit torrent client sucks. It doesn't show transfer rates, you can't limit your upstream, you can't see how many people you're connected too, you can't see if there are any seeds and it doesn't keep track of your share ratio.
Nice try Opera, but for now I'm sticking with my old BT client.
If you looked around the site some more you'd see that all of those brands were bought. They started selling WD-40 to consumers in 1958 and bought their first brand from another company in 1995, thus 37 years with one product.
It's not just games, I don't play any games and I find Linux totally unsuitable for use on my desktop (unfortunately). Many of the programs I use do not have linux versions nor comparable open source programs.
Adobe Photoshop - There are people running this with Wine, but I'd have to spend the time configuring it. If this were the only program I needed, I would consider switching. Gimp doesn't cut it BTW.
Adobe Illustrator - I've heard of people running this with Wine with not particularly great results. Might be worth a try. There are a couple of free vector drawing programs that don't completely suck, but still none that quite compare.
Adobe/Macromedia Flex 2.0 Beta 3 - This isn't even available for Macs yet (it will be though).
Toon Boom Studio - No clue if this could be run with Wine, but very few people use it so I'd be totally on my own, unlike with Photoshop and Illustrator where there are a few people who have tried it.
Ableton Live - ditto
That's not a complete list either, there are a lot of other less essential, but very useful programs I use that aren't available.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and I try to convince people to check it out if I think it suits their needs (often), but it's just not a viable option for me.
The commentary against Net Neutrality is written by Mike McCurry, former whitehouse press secretary. So obviously everything he's saying is wrong and full of lies, right?
There are some side-effects to the genetic engineering process though, while the cats are both hypoallergenic and cute beyond belief, you must keep them out of daylight, you can never get them wet and you can never ever feed them after midnight.
Well, they are different. People don't lose their spouses, jobs or house due to a tobacco addiction. As for alcohol, the difference is that it's legal (provided you're of age) -- this is somewhat of a superficial reason for differentiation, but it's not inconsequential. Also, while the relative harmfulness of alcohol and marijuana is debatable, there's less of a case when comparing alcohol to the other substances that fall in the "drug" category.
As a reader, I can tell the world of web writers that until you can get spelling down as a genuine science rather than this witchcraft spells of letters...
$3.7M sounds like a relatively small amount of money to be spread across an entire industry. It seems like the advertising they get from the videos would be more valuable than that, especially considering that inevitably a lot of that $3.7M is going towards keeping videos off of free sites (legal fees, etc.).
It also seems a little foolish for the RIAA because while some of the videos on YouTube and the like are videos record companies could make money off of, the majority of them are videos that are too old or obscure.
Plus, if you're an emacs geek, it allows for perfect ctrl key placement that is perfect for emacs navigation.
Das Keyboard, on the other hand, looks like something a wussy vi user would type on!
Actually, I use vim and I've been considering the happy hacking keyboard partly because of the advantage it gives to a vim user. On the happy hacking keyboard the escape key is where the tilde key is on a normal keyboard, making it a little easier to hit.
No, that means that the underwriters don't have to give you the stock if it's not available (i.e. if by the time you made your bid, all shares had been allocated to other investors. The real key words are right after that: "you are now obligated to purchase the number of shares you have been allocated"
It's not completely meaningless. The first question that comes to mind when you hear about a new BSD distro is "what makes it different from the other BSDs?" and it answers that question -- it's like FreeBSD, but easier to install and get working on the desktop. Sure, FreeBSD also aims to be easy to install and useful as a desktop system, but it's not their main priority.
I read the article when it came out and overall I found it pretty reasonable and full of some good ideas.
I don't think it's a good idea to have a DNA/fingerprint database is a great idea, but the problem he was trying to solve by suggesting it -- easily falsifiable social security cards -- is an important one.
How long would it be before you actually pay the amount that a new PC/Windows would cost for this?
It doesn't matter. What matters is whether people will pay for it. You gave a perfect example with Rent-a-center -- it doesn't matter that it's a bad idea to rent-to-own, what matters is that there are people who do it. Rent-a-center isn't stupid for offering rent-to-own, they're smart for taking advantage of the market and likewise, if there's enough demand for pay-as-you-go computing to make a good profit, then congrats to Microsoft.
I've been to one of these credit card forums (not as a user, I don't have that kind of moral flexibility) and the thoroughness of these forums is quite amazing. The one I went to in particular required that if you wanted sell something, i.e. CC numbers, fake IDs, card skimming equipment (ATM bezels and strip readers), etc. you first had to provide free samples to the administrators of the forum to verify the quality of your product. If your product was found to be satisfactory, you would be allowed to sell your products, but first you had to put up a certain amount of cash (like $500, iirc) to be held by the administrators -- this cash would be used to refund your customers money in case you didn't deliver your products to them.
They have a few videos of their offices, like this one with MC Hammer but none of them are technical. I'd love to see them talking about the technology end of stuff, but I think it's unlikely due to number of other videos sites they're competing with (growing more numerous by the day now that YouTube has gotten big).
I wonder how those guys pay for the bandwidth. How are they handling this? When I visited their site, I saw no advertising - none!
They have Google Ads now, but let's think about this anyway:
In a blog entry from January 9th they said they were serving over 45TB of videos per day. If traffic is, say, $0.10 buck per GB, that's less than $2M per year. Plus the cost of its employees and the fact that they're probably serving even more video now and I'd say a reasonable estimate of their costs would be maybe $5-6M per year. They've already raised $11.5M in venture capital, so even if they have no revenue, they should be able to keep it running for almost 2 years.
In the long term, they could pay for it several ways. At the very least, they could do something lame like put a 5 second video ad in front of every video. Another post on their blog quotes the number of 25 Million videos per day. I don't really have much idea what space like this would be worth to an advertiser, but if it were only worth $0.001 per impression, that turns 25M videos per day into $25,000 per day or well over $9M per year, which would easily cover their costs and provide a good profit.
Hopefully they'll figure out a better advertising strategy though.
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I love Opera, but their integrated bit torrent client sucks. It doesn't show transfer rates, you can't limit your upstream, you can't see how many people you're connected too, you can't see if there are any seeds and it doesn't keep track of your share ratio.
Nice try Opera, but for now I'm sticking with my old BT client.
The word you're looking for is "analysis".
Yes, but it does require Internet2.
If you looked around the site some more you'd see that all of those brands were bought. They started selling WD-40 to consumers in 1958 and bought their first brand from another company in 1995, thus 37 years with one product.
...if anybody tells me that you're not forced to work for a company that forces you to use linux, I'll punch them in the face.
- Adobe Photoshop - There are people running this with Wine, but I'd have to spend the time configuring it. If this were the only program I needed, I would consider switching. Gimp doesn't cut it BTW.
- Adobe Illustrator - I've heard of people running this with Wine with not particularly great results. Might be worth a try. There are a couple of free vector drawing programs that don't completely suck, but still none that quite compare.
- Adobe/Macromedia Flex 2.0 Beta 3 - This isn't even available for Macs yet (it will be though).
- Toon Boom Studio - No clue if this could be run with Wine, but very few people use it so I'd be totally on my own, unlike with Photoshop and Illustrator where there are a few people who have tried it.
- Ableton Live - ditto
That's not a complete list either, there are a lot of other less essential, but very useful programs I use that aren't available.Don't get me wrong, I love linux and I try to convince people to check it out if I think it suits their needs (often), but it's just not a viable option for me.
The commentary against Net Neutrality is written by Mike McCurry, former whitehouse press secretary. So obviously everything he's saying is wrong and full of lies, right?
There are some side-effects to the genetic engineering process though, while the cats are both hypoallergenic and cute beyond belief, you must keep them out of daylight, you can never get them wet and you can never ever feed them after midnight.
Well, they are different. People don't lose their spouses, jobs or house due to a tobacco addiction. As for alcohol, the difference is that it's legal (provided you're of age) -- this is somewhat of a superficial reason for differentiation, but it's not inconsequential. Also, while the relative harmfulness of alcohol and marijuana is debatable, there's less of a case when comparing alcohol to the other substances that fall in the "drug" category.
$3.7M sounds like a relatively small amount of money to be spread across an entire industry. It seems like the advertising they get from the videos would be more valuable than that, especially considering that inevitably a lot of that $3.7M is going towards keeping videos off of free sites (legal fees, etc.).
It also seems a little foolish for the RIAA because while some of the videos on YouTube and the like are videos record companies could make money off of, the majority of them are videos that are too old or obscure.
Do I need to be on Internet2 to use sites that are part of Web 2.0 or is it backwards compatible?
No, that means that the underwriters don't have to give you the stock if it's not available (i.e. if by the time you made your bid, all shares had been allocated to other investors. The real key words are right after that: "you are now obligated to purchase the number of shares you have been allocated"
It's not completely meaningless. The first question that comes to mind when you hear about a new BSD distro is "what makes it different from the other BSDs?" and it answers that question -- it's like FreeBSD, but easier to install and get working on the desktop. Sure, FreeBSD also aims to be easy to install and useful as a desktop system, but it's not their main priority.
Here's his Op-Ed piece on immigration from Wednesday's Wall Stret Journal: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.ht ml?id=110008420
I read the article when it came out and overall I found it pretty reasonable and full of some good ideas.
I don't think it's a good idea to have a DNA/fingerprint database is a great idea, but the problem he was trying to solve by suggesting it -- easily falsifiable social security cards -- is an important one.
I've been to one of these credit card forums (not as a user, I don't have that kind of moral flexibility) and the thoroughness of these forums is quite amazing. The one I went to in particular required that if you wanted sell something, i.e. CC numbers, fake IDs, card skimming equipment (ATM bezels and strip readers), etc. you first had to provide free samples to the administrators of the forum to verify the quality of your product. If your product was found to be satisfactory, you would be allowed to sell your products, but first you had to put up a certain amount of cash (like $500, iirc) to be held by the administrators -- this cash would be used to refund your customers money in case you didn't deliver your products to them.
They have a few videos of their offices, like this one with MC Hammer but none of them are technical. I'd love to see them talking about the technology end of stuff, but I think it's unlikely due to number of other videos sites they're competing with (growing more numerous by the day now that YouTube has gotten big).
In a blog entry from January 9th they said they were serving over 45TB of videos per day. If traffic is, say, $0.10 buck per GB, that's less than $2M per year. Plus the cost of its employees and the fact that they're probably serving even more video now and I'd say a reasonable estimate of their costs would be maybe $5-6M per year. They've already raised $11.5M in venture capital, so even if they have no revenue, they should be able to keep it running for almost 2 years.
In the long term, they could pay for it several ways. At the very least, they could do something lame like put a 5 second video ad in front of every video. Another post on their blog quotes the number of 25 Million videos per day. I don't really have much idea what space like this would be worth to an advertiser, but if it were only worth $0.001 per impression, that turns 25M videos per day into $25,000 per day or well over $9M per year, which would easily cover their costs and provide a good profit.
Hopefully they'll figure out a better advertising strategy though.
Little use in fashion? I've got one word for you: T-shirts.
Running a chip hotter would mean that the fans would be on more.