Ignoramus,
If you are implying that I define taxes as "Money I pay to my government that I'd better be paid back in full for" you are wrong.
Here is how I see it:
"Money that I pay to the government that should be used in a responsible and helpful way... not wasted."
I can think of many better ways to help the less fortunate than building websites to try to trick people. Besides, the neediest people in our contry don't even have internet access, and don't have enough money to consider investing in some bogus company.
OK, who pays for the development and hosting of these web sites? I assume it is my tax dollars being used to tell some gullable shmuck how gullable they really are. My guess is they don't learn anything from this, or worse yet, they think they've learned something but really haven't.
I think the market for this is still largely un-tapped. I see corporate sponsorship of these teams in the future, like they do with Nascar.
Actually, what they are doing sounds alot like Battle Bots, which I think probably has even greater potential. There's something cathartic about seeing a robot get smashed to bits by another robot.
I wonder why they went with 10k RPM drives, when 15k RPM drives are readily available and in use today. Working with large graphics, animations, etc it seems like there would be alot of saving and reading from the disk, enough that it would be worth it. Also, it says it has space for up to three drives, but doesn't mention any sort of hardware-based RAID feature.
But if you buy more than one... the first board is $3,900 and each additional board is $2,340.
I hope the price is alot lower when the final version is produced. The specs are more like those of a $200 motherboard.
How about not making it illegal to spam but make them buy a "license" to spam, and renew it every year... something like $100/yr even would weed out alot of the real clowns, but it wouldn't be so prohibitive as violating their rights.
OK, it's just an spur of the moment thought, so take it easy on me.
A DMA representative said the organization plans to announce the new rules governing commercial e-mail next week. The trade group, one of the largest in the United States with 5,000 members, includes such retailers as Amazon.com, Land's End and Eddie Bauer.
So what? Now Amazon and others will be able to send us email and claim they are within the guidelines set forth by the DMA. These guidelines are nothing more than a mechanism to allow them to legitimize their spamming operations.
Internet: Visitors to www.saltlake2002.com or www.olympics.com will reach the official website for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, where they'll find the latest news and sports information (including the most comprehensive Games results) as well as important business applications. Olympic fans can also visit the website to purchase event tickets via Tickets.com as well as buy official 2002 Olympics merchandise. This site is being produced, hosted and distributed by MSNBC.com and MSN. As the official online content supplier for the Games, MSN will provide consumers with simple access to exclusive Games content and standings. MSN will also use its advertising products and promotions to market the website across MSN. Behind the scenes, broadcasters, press, and other accredited visitors to the Games can place online orders for mobile phones, PCs and other equipment and services for use during their stay in Salt Lake City. SchlumbergerSema is supplying the website with a variety of Games and results information from the competition venues. Qwest will continue its provision of Internet access services and web-based applications. Other contributors to the website include Monster.com, eBay, and Harris Interactive.
This allows there to be a mesh of tracks and stations thoughout a city, as opposed to traditional transport which tends to run along corridor routes to a city center
I've always though the city could use a few more tracks. Seriously though, why do these things have to go to every nook and crany of a city, why cant they just drop you off and let you walk a couple blocks to your destination?
OK, I know we're becoming lazier every day so I have four words for you: George Jetson People Mover. You'll never have to take another step again.
Excessive regulation will increase the entry cost of doing business for the little guy. Regulation is nothing but a speed bump to the really large companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, etc.
We have been lucky that the software industry has been left alone for so long, but it is only a matter of time now.
That aside, show me another game console that can pull this off. Microsoft or not, this is a few years ahead of what Sony or Nintendo is going to be doing.
Just what do you think Sony has been doing since the PS2 was released in Oct/Nov 2000?
Sony holds their cards a little closer than Microsoft does and for good reason. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
I wonder if this is by the same author as either of these titles:
Teach yourself C++ and MFC in 12 minutes
Teach yourself XML Web Services in 5.7 seconds
Instant enligtenment. Why sonny, I remember back in the olden days when we had to read and read and read and scour reference manuals just to write a simple hello world program. Thats the way it was and we liked it!
I can just see it the next time I interview someone for a design role: Well, I haven't actually used UML before, but I bought this book yesterday and...
lately? I'm so tired of the advertising blitz you get when you go to use a search engine these days. Especially the pop ups. Thank goodness for google.
Ultimately these types of advertising tactics will not prevail, as people simply will use something else. And there will always be some new site waiting to take market share away from companies who do this.
Wow! What a great idea! Here are some more sure fire tips off the top of my head relating to advertisment revenue:
Mix up the headlines, so when you click on a legitimate headline, it takes you to some random advertisement site instead, preferably one selling an x10 camera or helping you find your old classmates.
If you want to make even more advertising revenue, try sending the user to 10 or so advertising sites, more sites = more $$$.
Have advertisments that fly around the screen in front of what they are trying to do. They will be impressed by this technical feat.
Use lots of blinking. Nevermind that someone will probably get a seizure and sue you, blinking lights make people want to buy things.
Use really big animations and lots of them so the page will take a long time to load. Many people are impressed by lengthy download times.
I'm sure there are many others.
It sounds like Yahoo is well on their way to tricking users, er, generating more advertisment revenue.
Maybe I misinterpreted. The Infrastructure providers are holding it up. The content providers have nothing to do with it. Possibly the article was referring to the infrastructure and content providers as the same. If so, my apologies
I think Broadband companies may be waiting for the government to subsidize the cost of rolling out the infrastructure needed for service. The risk is too high for many of these companies right now especially, with people cutting back on spending across the board.
You see, the argument that the content providers are preventing the rollout of broadband does not carry any weight. If it did, then why do we have Cities within the US who have an abundance of broadband options?
I speculate that the real holdup is that the infrastructure has to be laid out and that takes a big chunk of money UP FRONT. We were lucky in Cincinnati, that Time Warner and Cincinnati Bell chose to take that plunge and lay the infrastructure.
When you think about it, it is a very risky undertaking to provide broadband. You have to pony up alot of money without any guarantee that people will actually sign up for what some non-geek types refer to as a luxury item.
a little consolidation in the home media market in the near future... Maybe Sony buying Tivo, incorporating it's technology into a future version of the Playstation, along with the ability to play Real Media files. You know XBox will have this capability with Windows Media files in the future. Then you also have companies such as AOL/TW who could become a player. I'm sure there are others too.
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Ignoramus,
If you are implying that I define taxes as "Money I pay to my government that I'd better be paid back in full for" you are wrong.
Here is how I see it:
"Money that I pay to the government that should be used in a responsible and helpful way... not wasted."
I can think of many better ways to help the less fortunate than building websites to try to trick people. Besides, the neediest people in our contry don't even have internet access, and don't have enough money to consider investing in some bogus company.
OK, who pays for the development and hosting of these web sites? I assume it is my tax dollars being used to tell some gullable shmuck how gullable they really are. My guess is they don't learn anything from this, or worse yet, they think they've learned something but really haven't.
Enron Investor Relations
I think the market for this is still largely un-tapped. I see corporate sponsorship of these teams in the future, like they do with Nascar.
Actually, what they are doing sounds alot like Battle Bots, which I think probably has even greater potential. There's something cathartic about seeing a robot get smashed to bits by another robot.
I wonder why they went with 10k RPM drives, when 15k RPM drives are readily available and in use today. Working with large graphics, animations, etc it seems like there would be alot of saving and reading from the disk, enough that it would be worth it. Also, it says it has space for up to three drives, but doesn't mention any sort of hardware-based RAID feature.
But if you buy more than one... the first board is $3,900 and each additional board is $2,340. I hope the price is alot lower when the final version is produced. The specs are more like those of a $200 motherboard.
How about not making it illegal to spam but make them buy a "license" to spam, and renew it every year... something like $100/yr even would weed out alot of the real clowns, but it wouldn't be so prohibitive as violating their rights.
OK, it's just an spur of the moment thought, so take it easy on me.
A DMA representative said the organization plans to announce the new rules governing commercial e-mail next week. The trade group, one of the largest in the United States with 5,000 members, includes such retailers as Amazon.com, Land's End and Eddie Bauer.
So what? Now Amazon and others will be able to send us email and claim they are within the guidelines set forth by the DMA. These guidelines are nothing more than a mechanism to allow them to legitimize their spamming operations.
...why not buy one of their Unix Servers or Cisco Routers.
Operations: Technology of the Games contains the following paragraph regarding the website:
Internet: Visitors to www.saltlake2002.com or www.olympics.com will reach the official website for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, where they'll find the latest news and sports information (including the most comprehensive Games results) as well as important business applications. Olympic fans can also visit the website to purchase event tickets via Tickets.com as well as buy official 2002 Olympics merchandise. This site is being produced, hosted and distributed by MSNBC.com and MSN. As the official online content supplier for the Games, MSN will provide consumers with simple access to exclusive Games content and standings. MSN will also use its advertising products and promotions to market the website across MSN. Behind the scenes, broadcasters, press, and other accredited visitors to the Games can place online orders for mobile phones, PCs and other equipment and services for use during their stay in Salt Lake City. SchlumbergerSema is supplying the website with a variety of Games and results information from the competition venues. Qwest will continue its provision of Internet access services and web-based applications. Other contributors to the website include Monster.com, eBay, and Harris Interactive.
This allows there to be a mesh of tracks and stations thoughout a city, as opposed to traditional transport which tends to run along corridor routes to a city center
I've always though the city could use a few more tracks. Seriously though, why do these things have to go to every nook and crany of a city, why cant they just drop you off and let you walk a couple blocks to your destination?
OK, I know we're becoming lazier every day so I have four words for you: George Jetson People Mover. You'll never have to take another step again.
...to check the resumes of candidates for their head football coaching position.
Considering the last guy who coached there was George O'Leary...
Excessive regulation will increase the entry cost of doing business for the little guy. Regulation is nothing but a speed bump to the really large companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, etc.
We have been lucky that the software industry has been left alone for so long, but it is only a matter of time now.
That aside, show me another game console that can pull this off. Microsoft or not, this is a few years ahead of what Sony or Nintendo is going to be doing.
Just what do you think Sony has been doing since the PS2 was released in Oct/Nov 2000?
Sony holds their cards a little closer than Microsoft does and for good reason. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
Almost every time anyone looks for a webpage these root servers are consulted.
Surely this cannot be true... Don't DNS servers cache address resolutions?
I wonder if this is by the same author as either of these titles:
...
Teach yourself C++ and MFC in 12 minutes
Teach yourself XML Web Services in 5.7 seconds
Instant enligtenment. Why sonny, I remember back in the olden days when we had to read and read and read and scour reference manuals just to write a simple hello world program. Thats the way it was and we liked it!
I can just see it the next time I interview someone for a design role: Well, I haven't actually used UML before, but I bought this book yesterday and
I figure out how much time it will take me to just sit down and do it without any interruptions.
Then I multiply that by the number of DBA's I have to go through to have a table get created for me divided by two.
Then I add to that the 10 times the number of project branches I need to request the PVCS administrator to create.
Then I count up the number of consultants sitting within 50 feet of my desk and multiply by that number times 20.
Then I multiply that number by the number of status reports I have to submit per week.
Finally, I add to that the number of games of foosball I play per day on average * 10.
That number is the final number of days it will take to complete the project.
lately? I'm so tired of the advertising blitz you get when you go to use a search engine these days. Especially the pop ups. Thank goodness for google.
Ultimately these types of advertising tactics will not prevail, as people simply will use something else. And there will always be some new site waiting to take market share away from companies who do this.
Wow! What a great idea! Here are some more sure fire tips off the top of my head relating to advertisment revenue:
Mix up the headlines, so when you click on a legitimate headline, it takes you to some random advertisement site instead, preferably one selling an x10 camera or helping you find your old classmates.
If you want to make even more advertising revenue, try sending the user to 10 or so advertising sites, more sites = more $$$.
Have advertisments that fly around the screen in front of what they are trying to do. They will be impressed by this technical feat.
Use lots of blinking. Nevermind that someone will probably get a seizure and sue you, blinking lights make people want to buy things.
Use really big animations and lots of them so the page will take a long time to load. Many people are impressed by lengthy download times.
I'm sure there are many others.
It sounds like Yahoo is well on their way to tricking users, er, generating more advertisment revenue.
I've long suspected Cowboy Neal of rigging the slashdot polls.
Maybe I misinterpreted. The Infrastructure providers are holding it up. The content providers have nothing to do with it. Possibly the article was referring to the infrastructure and content providers as the same. If so, my apologies
I think Broadband companies may be waiting for the government to subsidize the cost of rolling out the infrastructure needed for service. The risk is too high for many of these companies right now especially, with people cutting back on spending across the board.
You see, the argument that the content providers are preventing the rollout of broadband does not carry any weight. If it did, then why do we have Cities within the US who have an abundance of broadband options?
I speculate that the real holdup is that the infrastructure has to be laid out and that takes a big chunk of money UP FRONT. We were lucky in Cincinnati, that Time Warner and Cincinnati Bell chose to take that plunge and lay the infrastructure.
When you think about it, it is a very risky undertaking to provide broadband. You have to pony up alot of money without any guarantee that people will actually sign up for what some non-geek types refer to as a luxury item.
Here in Cincinnati we've had several options for a couple years now:
1. Zoom Town (ADSL from Cincinnati Bell)
2. Road Runner from Time Warner
3. Whatever this new Delta-V thing is (can you really call that broadband?)
a little consolidation in the home media market in the near future... Maybe Sony buying Tivo, incorporating it's technology into a future version of the Playstation, along with the ability to play Real Media files. You know XBox will have this capability with Windows Media files in the future. Then you also have companies such as AOL/TW who could become a player. I'm sure there are others too.