The first sentence of the article:
Valve has no intention of charging for downloadable content for games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, despite the increased prevalence of premium add-ons in the PC and console markets.
They said clearly in the article, and this is what the news story should have been, that Valve-created addons are free for those who own or buy HL2. What I wonder about is why then I had to buy a Platinum Pack for Hl1 for $50 with CS, TFC, and HL1.:)
About 6 months ago, a web site showed an AdBrite "please click up top to continue" full page ad. Except, this wasn't a picture, but an actual web page.
The ad itself looked like a blue, medical stock template with a nonsensical press release inside of it. It didn't look like an ad, but an unprofessional scam. Well, my antivirus went off either at that page, or when I clicked to investigate it. The home page itself consisted exactly of that same type of garbage.
So, Google Ads are dangerous because they take you to web sites of hundreds of thousands third party web sites nobody heard of before. AdBrite sticks those pages right into the ad so you can be infected even without clicking on anything; and because of that, you're screwed even if you have an ad-blocker software, because those ads are pulled straight from the advertiser's web sites.
I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING! I have Vista on a Dell with 2 hard drives. When I run an mpeg4 file in quicktime, one of my hard drives is instantly degraded and intel's storage manager goes haywire. It starts running off just one of the drives and says the other drive is corrupted and needs to be replaced. If I didn't have 2 hard drives, I would surely crash. If I run it again, it will take down the other hard drive and then I get a BSOD. Quicktime never shows up, just forces a Vista "there was a problem with the application" error.
Why buy Windows every year when you can buy Windows 3.1 on eBay for the cheap? It has everything except DirectX for games, or the ability to run.NET and Office 2003 applications, but so does Linux.
Now that I think about it, that was my high school. We very often had group work or group discussion or individual projects or group projects to make. Much better than "try to remember this crap" in the crappy college I went to.
In all other countries, if your GPA is high enough, you attend whichever school for free. In the USA, you have to know about scholarships, you have to apply to them all, you have to know about colleges, you have to apply to your choices, never mind saving up money to take the SATs and knowing great English to write great essays and knowing marketing to know the kinds of things you want to write about yourself in those essays. And of course how do I get loans? And most people even who do get some scholarship money have to have a job at the same time, and/or in the summer, or have to take whatever job they can to be able to pay off their loans as soon as possible.
Yes sounds great. Ask any student at a college and they will say that the hardest part of their college was the 'getting in' part.
What you are thinking of is Walmart trying to be stationary and not adapting to the real world. You are thinking that Walmart executives are like government employees who would just want to sit and do the same exact job for 50 years. In THAT case, you are right, Walmart would be afraid of Google, a fast-moving company, taking over Walmart, a company that just wants to be stagnant. But, that's just not true. Walmart, and any other #1 company in their field, gets their company from a $0 income a year company to a billion/year income company in no other way than by always advancing and always saying, I want my share of the pie!
So, I am sure that the Corporate world is looking at Google, but not in that sense. They are thinking more along the lines of, "all that money people are investing into Google, that could be money the consumers could have spent at Walmart." In other words, big companies look at each other as competitors regardless of whether they are in the same niche or field, simply because they all want that consumer $dollar. Doesn't mean they are afraid, it just means they set goals that they want that consumer's $ to go to them and not google. Even if the 2 companies have nothing to do with each other.
Finally, there are a lot of great small businesses out there, and just focusing on Google like it's a god is not fair. There is a Google story on slashdot every hour and rarely about any other company.
No. They are afraid because Google is a company with billions of dollars in reserves. That's all. All companies just want to make money. If Walmart figured out a way to do anything such as DVD rentals, selling food, selling cars, they will do it.
Business is not just about trying to fill a niche. Business is also about trying to make as much money as possible. When people spend money to buy ads for their blog at google, that money could have been spent in Walmart stores. This is normal.
There is not an easy answer. I would pay $5, to answer your question. But I would also want the ability to 1) redownload it again for free 2) watch it anywhere like cell phone using streaming video as well and 3) own the full viewing rights to that movie, so when new formats or display devices come out (such as toasters and refrigerators and cell phones), I get it in a better and newer format.
If you are upset you didn't get first post, simply wait until tomorrow when this story will be posted again.
If a few pounds can burn 50 calories a day that is awesome. However, if you are talking about getting the muscle from working out, and not from simply running, then you are talking about 10 or more extra pounds of muscle, or 150 to 200 extra calories according to your information. That is a lot!
Plus, when you do aerobics, you only burn calories for the next 3 hours after you stop. But when you work out to build muscle, that turns up your metabolism for the next 24 hours. So, it's not just about having muscle, it's about trying to build muscle, which will take a long time, but will have great effects on fat every day. I can lose fat very easily, especially belly fat, from working out seriously for a year and non-seriously for several years before that. And though I stopped going to the gym temporarily for a few months, I still have a small amount of belly fat.
1) East as soon as you wake up 2) East 6 times a day 3) Eat mostly healthy food and not cereal, milk, or ice cream.
And that is not only a way to lose weight, that is the most proper way to eat for the rest of your life. People who skipped breakfast were almost 2 or 3x as likely to be obese. Eating breakfast keeps your hunger urges down for the rest of the day.
Eating 6 times a day is important because you eat in small portions to give yourself a boost and you don't have to eat for 30 minutes because you know you will beating again in 2 hours. So, you eat for about 7 minutes. A right portion is about 1/3rd of what a normal dinner is at a restaurant, though you will feel satisfied with just 1/4th. Your body is not designed to eat a whole plateful of food (such as what restaurants serve now a days) at in one sitting, but over about 6-8 hours.
And that's it! Some will say that you also want to avoid eating 3 hours before bedtime. That will work too but that may be hard to keep up long term if the 2 rules mentioned above are not followed. However, by simply following the 2 rules, you will automatically have little want to eat right before you sleep since your brain and your stomach will know that you will eat tomorrow anyway in the morning a meal called breakfast, the biggest meal of the day (which shouldn't be that big.)
And that's all! You simply need to engage your stomach to work non-stop throughout the day by feeding it fuel like a fire. This will eliminate the highs and lows you feel after eating a big meal and then not eating for 2 hours and being hungry and fatigued until 2 more hours later (4 total) when you eat your 2nd meal... ridiculous.
This is awesome! There is nothing like the highest worth technology company paying students to work their ass off in the summer to make and improve products and open source software in the name of Google.
The reason I posted this is because I've read such comments as "you should be taking CS because you have passion, not for a high-paying job", and that has made me think that hey, I have passion, and I'm good, I will have endless opportunities! However, the truth is that you can't get a job with your 'open mindedness' without a degree.
Except that everybody who makes your argument on Slashdot ommits the following: how do you afford taking the CS or Physics degrees to 'broaden your mind' without a high paying job?
I'm a smart guy and I want to get a BS in a good CS program and/or a good Physics program. I think they both will 'broaden the mind' because I am 'passionate.' Not for a job.
How do I pay for it? I will NEED a high-paying job. So, part of the point *for all of us* in taking Computer Science *IS* to get a high-paying job and then 'develop and increase the passion' while you are paying off the college loans.
Of course, one could argue that if all you want is PASSION for CS, you don't need a degree, if you're not after a high-paying job, right? You could sit-in in classes for free, etc. You could read the internet and library textbooks. But you won't have a degree. Then how can I take my PASSION for CS to Google and Yahoo! and Microsoft without a degree?
Speaking of tech shows, whatever happened to "Beyond 2000", a show that used to be on The Learning Channel? It seems to have been canceled about 5 or 6 years ago. I guess now we will never know what will happen in the new millennium.
you're an idiot if you don't understand that what he meant was not whether or not liquid sugar is real, but whether or not your body is adept at processing corn syrup. It is not sugar that comes from a sugar plant (sugar cane.) Almost everything (juice, hot dogs, etc.) have corn syrup. Is the body really designed to process corn syrup? Especially in every single food, such as juice and hot dogs, that you would expect to be healthy?
OKAY, OF ALL 500-word comments that are made on slashdot, THIS ONE is offtopic? What are you smoking, crack? We can't post our own experiences anymore? I own yoU!
My post was a joke about how every single topic this year seems to be about Google. And heck, when I made that joke, I didn't even check that the previous topic was about Google. I just assumed it was. I was right! Which is why the joke is a great joke.
I think there were 10 to 100 topics on/. about Google's IPO. Obviously,/. editors bought a lot of stock and hyped it all up. Now, they continue to bombard slashdot (one of the major news sources used for Google News, so a lot of people see it) with Google information, ensuring that people will see Google this and Google this, causing the stock to go up.
I agree. 1 person discovers most of the hacks that are around. 10 people spread the news around. 100 web sites write about it. 1,000 people create automatic tools based on this information. 10,000 people post those on their web sites. 100,000 people eventually use those tools and consider themselves hackers.
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The first sentence of the article: Valve has no intention of charging for downloadable content for games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, despite the increased prevalence of premium add-ons in the PC and console markets.
They said clearly in the article, and this is what the news story should have been, that Valve-created addons are free for those who own or buy HL2. What I wonder about is why then I had to buy a Platinum Pack for Hl1 for $50 with CS, TFC, and HL1. :)
About 6 months ago, a web site showed an AdBrite "please click up top to continue" full page ad. Except, this wasn't a picture, but an actual web page.
The ad itself looked like a blue, medical stock template with a nonsensical press release inside of it. It didn't look like an ad, but an unprofessional scam. Well, my antivirus went off either at that page, or when I clicked to investigate it. The home page itself consisted exactly of that same type of garbage.
So, Google Ads are dangerous because they take you to web sites of hundreds of thousands third party web sites nobody heard of before. AdBrite sticks those pages right into the ad so you can be infected even without clicking on anything; and because of that, you're screwed even if you have an ad-blocker software, because those ads are pulled straight from the advertiser's web sites.
I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING! I have Vista on a Dell with 2 hard drives. When I run an mpeg4 file in quicktime, one of my hard drives is instantly degraded and intel's storage manager goes haywire. It starts running off just one of the drives and says the other drive is corrupted and needs to be replaced. If I didn't have 2 hard drives, I would surely crash. If I run it again, it will take down the other hard drive and then I get a BSOD. Quicktime never shows up, just forces a Vista "there was a problem with the application" error.
Why buy Windows every year when you can buy Windows 3.1 on eBay for the cheap? It has everything except DirectX for games, or the ability to run .NET and Office 2003 applications, but so does Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNBQRXvkps
(This is a joke)
I think we already knew what S.D.K. stands for. What does F.E.A.R. stand for? Any good info on this game?
Now that I think about it, that was my high school. We very often had group work or group discussion or individual projects or group projects to make. Much better than "try to remember this crap" in the crappy college I went to.
In all other countries, if your GPA is high enough, you attend whichever school for free. In the USA, you have to know about scholarships, you have to apply to them all, you have to know about colleges, you have to apply to your choices, never mind saving up money to take the SATs and knowing great English to write great essays and knowing marketing to know the kinds of things you want to write about yourself in those essays. And of course how do I get loans? And most people even who do get some scholarship money have to have a job at the same time, and/or in the summer, or have to take whatever job they can to be able to pay off their loans as soon as possible.
Yes sounds great. Ask any student at a college and they will say that the hardest part of their college was the 'getting in' part.
Maybe it helped find mismatched license plates? Any car with a fake license plate that isn't in the database is a stolen car or should be pulled over!
Spoof-Proof WinSnipe 2006 supports eBay, Yahoo!, and Overstock. www.spoofproof.com
What you are thinking of is Walmart trying to be stationary and not adapting to the real world. You are thinking that Walmart executives are like government employees who would just want to sit and do the same exact job for 50 years. In THAT case, you are right, Walmart would be afraid of Google, a fast-moving company, taking over Walmart, a company that just wants to be stagnant. But, that's just not true. Walmart, and any other #1 company in their field, gets their company from a $0 income a year company to a billion/year income company in no other way than by always advancing and always saying, I want my share of the pie! So, I am sure that the Corporate world is looking at Google, but not in that sense. They are thinking more along the lines of, "all that money people are investing into Google, that could be money the consumers could have spent at Walmart." In other words, big companies look at each other as competitors regardless of whether they are in the same niche or field, simply because they all want that consumer $dollar. Doesn't mean they are afraid, it just means they set goals that they want that consumer's $ to go to them and not google. Even if the 2 companies have nothing to do with each other. Finally, there are a lot of great small businesses out there, and just focusing on Google like it's a god is not fair. There is a Google story on slashdot every hour and rarely about any other company.
No. They are afraid because Google is a company with billions of dollars in reserves. That's all. All companies just want to make money. If Walmart figured out a way to do anything such as DVD rentals, selling food, selling cars, they will do it. Business is not just about trying to fill a niche. Business is also about trying to make as much money as possible. When people spend money to buy ads for their blog at google, that money could have been spent in Walmart stores. This is normal.
There is not an easy answer. I would pay $5, to answer your question. But I would also want the ability to 1) redownload it again for free 2) watch it anywhere like cell phone using streaming video as well and 3) own the full viewing rights to that movie, so when new formats or display devices come out (such as toasters and refrigerators and cell phones), I get it in a better and newer format. If you are upset you didn't get first post, simply wait until tomorrow when this story will be posted again.
If a few pounds can burn 50 calories a day that is awesome. However, if you are talking about getting the muscle from working out, and not from simply running, then you are talking about 10 or more extra pounds of muscle, or 150 to 200 extra calories according to your information. That is a lot! Plus, when you do aerobics, you only burn calories for the next 3 hours after you stop. But when you work out to build muscle, that turns up your metabolism for the next 24 hours. So, it's not just about having muscle, it's about trying to build muscle, which will take a long time, but will have great effects on fat every day. I can lose fat very easily, especially belly fat, from working out seriously for a year and non-seriously for several years before that. And though I stopped going to the gym temporarily for a few months, I still have a small amount of belly fat.
You're supposed to do the following things:
1) East as soon as you wake up
2) East 6 times a day
3) Eat mostly healthy food and not cereal, milk, or ice cream.
And that is not only a way to lose weight, that is the most proper way to eat for the rest of your life. People who skipped breakfast were almost 2 or 3x as likely to be obese. Eating breakfast keeps your hunger urges down for the rest of the day.
Eating 6 times a day is important because you eat in small portions to give yourself a boost and you don't have to eat for 30 minutes because you know you will beating again in 2 hours. So, you eat for about 7 minutes. A right portion is about 1/3rd of what a normal dinner is at a restaurant, though you will feel satisfied with just 1/4th. Your body is not designed to eat a whole plateful of food (such as what restaurants serve now a days) at in one sitting, but over about 6-8 hours.
And that's it! Some will say that you also want to avoid eating 3 hours before bedtime. That will work too but that may be hard to keep up long term if the 2 rules mentioned above are not followed. However, by simply following the 2 rules, you will automatically have little want to eat right before you sleep since your brain and your stomach will know that you will eat tomorrow anyway in the morning a meal called breakfast, the biggest meal of the day (which shouldn't be that big.)
And that's all! You simply need to engage your stomach to work non-stop throughout the day by feeding it fuel like a fire. This will eliminate the highs and lows you feel after eating a big meal and then not eating for 2 hours and being hungry and fatigued until 2 more hours later (4 total) when you eat your 2nd meal... ridiculous.
Ew! I'm older than the first dot com...
This is awesome! There is nothing like the highest worth technology company paying students to work their ass off in the summer to make and improve products and open source software in the name of Google.
To practice the craft at Google, MSN, Yahoo!, you would need the degree.
To get any job period that you might, to be an officer in the military, to work for the government, you would need a degree.
The reason I posted this is because I've read such comments as "you should be taking CS because you have passion, not for a high-paying job", and that has made me think that hey, I have passion, and I'm good, I will have endless opportunities! However, the truth is that you can't get a job with your 'open mindedness' without a degree.
Except that everybody who makes your argument on Slashdot ommits the following: how do you afford taking the CS or Physics degrees to 'broaden your mind' without a high paying job?
I'm a smart guy and I want to get a BS in a good CS program and/or a good Physics program. I think they both will 'broaden the mind' because I am 'passionate.' Not for a job.
How do I pay for it? I will NEED a high-paying job. So, part of the point *for all of us* in taking Computer Science *IS* to get a high-paying job and then 'develop and increase the passion' while you are paying off the college loans.
Of course, one could argue that if all you want is PASSION for CS, you don't need a degree, if you're not after a high-paying job, right? You could sit-in in classes for free, etc. You could read the internet and library textbooks. But you won't have a degree. Then how can I take my PASSION for CS to Google and Yahoo! and Microsoft without a degree?
Speaking of tech shows, whatever happened to "Beyond 2000", a show that used to be on The Learning Channel? It seems to have been canceled about 5 or 6 years ago. I guess now we will never know what will happen in the new millennium.
you're an idiot if you don't understand that what he meant was not whether or not liquid sugar is real, but whether or not your body is adept at processing corn syrup. It is not sugar that comes from a sugar plant (sugar cane.) Almost everything (juice, hot dogs, etc.) have corn syrup. Is the body really designed to process corn syrup? Especially in every single food, such as juice and hot dogs, that you would expect to be healthy?
OKAY, OF ALL 500-word comments that are made on slashdot, THIS ONE is offtopic? What are you smoking, crack? We can't post our own experiences anymore? I own yoU!
My post was a joke about how every single topic this year seems to be about Google. And heck, when I made that joke, I didn't even check that the previous topic was about Google. I just assumed it was. I was right! Which is why the joke is a great joke.
/. about Google's IPO. Obviously, /. editors bought a lot of stock and hyped it all up. Now, they continue to bombard slashdot (one of the major news sources used for Google News, so a lot of people see it) with Google information, ensuring that people will see Google this and Google this, causing the stock to go up.
I think there were 10 to 100 topics on
I agree. 1 person discovers most of the hacks that are around. 10 people spread the news around. 100 web sites write about it. 1,000 people create automatic tools based on this information. 10,000 people post those on their web sites. 100,000 people eventually use those tools and consider themselves hackers.
You can call this the Integer Effect.