FWIW, the marketing term for the functionality this kills is "retargeting." The ability to stalk users with ads across multiple sites because of a previous visit or search days or weeks ago is huge business these days.
(Had to chime in because I don't think anyone's used the right term yet.)
>> Go to public meeting when the ELECTED Congressmen/women who write these laws. Question then send a clear message change it or be removed from office.
Recently, the Tea Party folks tried this and the Occupy folks tried this. Result? Universal derision from major media, and specific derision from the opposite party's political leaders. Almost no changes to the insulated agencies or policies that ticked off ordinary people in the first place.
>> $70? You cheap bastard you don't love your kids...
My 12-year-old straight-A son? Yes, I splurged on a Nexus 7. My 4-year-old daughter and can't-sit-still 10-year-old son? You bet I wasn't going to spend more than $100 each; I plan on replacing at least one of these every year.
FWIW, here are the tech specs of my $70 tablet: 1GHz proc, 1GB DDR3 of system memory, 8GB on-board storage memory, additional memory via microSD card slot, 7.0" touchscreen, 800 x 480 resolution, Built-in 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Front 0.3MP webcam, USB 2.0 port, Micro-USB 2.0 port, mini-HDMI port, 3.5mm jack, Up to 5 hours of run time, Android OS with Play Store.
Books on (any subject) are literally a dime a dozen. They generally benefit only the author (as long as the author is using the book for publicity), publisher (financially) and Amazon (to drive traffic to competing or complementary products), leaving the reader frustrated and bloated (99% of time).
>> Diet books are literally a dime a dozen. They generally benefit only the author, publisher and Amazon, leaving the reader frustrated and bloated.
Welcome to the publishing industry, newbie critic.
I just finished outfitting the rest of my family with 7" Android tablets, each costing about $70. For Microsoft to be competitive, it needs to either come in under $100, or let me have one with Office for under $200 or so. Otherwise - I'm not sure my youngest kids will ever know what Microsoft is. (They do know what Apple is - it's who made the "old" tablets their friends parents used to buy 2-3 years ago.)
If you're too lazy to vote - no, I don't care about your opinion.
(Can't make it to your polling place? I'll bet you can find some time in the months leading up to the election to vote absentee. Don't have transportation to go vote? There are a dozen different programs and thousands of volunteers who will help. GOML!)
Oil pipelines are quiet. A 600-mph train wouldn't be. Ergo, the zone of disruption, lowered property values, health issues, etc.would be much wider for the train.
Oil pipelines don't carry people. Trains do. With people and mass transportation come security concerns you don't see with pipelines.
Launching through cleared airspace is probably much easier than trying to secure right-of-ways for a slightly-subsonic transport through thousands of municipalities, state and federal lands, and individual property owners, not to mention likely tangles with the EPA and whatever unions might be involved. Plus, a high-profile transportation project like that might pick up TSA attention too.
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ronald Reagan
>> Why after these many years, you are not in a management? Do you lack leadership skills?'
That sounds more like what you might hear from your parents around the Thanksgiving table.
>> Have you been a leader in a project?
That sounds more likely. Every top programmer I know, regardless of social ability, has had the ability to answer "yes" to this. Even if they were the kind to back away from formal management responsibilities, a guy who's been coding for 14 years should have had a couple of experiences where he just stepped up as said, "look, I don't want to run the team permanently, but either you follow my lead on X or we'll all fail" by now. (If they haven't, no, I don't want them on my team.)
>> huge flat-top destroyer...bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. The ship, which has a flight deck that is nearly 250 meters (820 feet) long, is designed to carry up to 14 helicopters.
OK, if it's designed with a "flight deck" that designed to carry aircraft (helicopters), how is this NOT an aircraft carrier?
>> with their student debt they can't afford to move
If your worldly possessions don't comfortably fit in a car by the end of your undergrad, you're doing it wrong. (And I would I suspect your debt problems go beyond student loans.)
This whole thing sounds like reading the local chamber of commerce brochure.
>> students from UC Santa Cruz to live and work in the city after they graduate
Look, I went to four different colleges between undergrad and grad school. Besides the degree, the whole point of college is to get out, see new things, and make your sophomoric mistakes (get it?) in some other town where no one will remember you ten years from now. Wherever you go to school...please, please don't just settle down there. You'll thank me later.
...you have too much time on your hands. Get a dog, a girlfriend, or anything else with demands on your attention and your worries about tagging will happily drift away.
Seems like it would be a short book. Step 1: Make a PowerPoint presentation. Step 2: Fricken' upload it to a site designed to accept PowerPoint presentations.
Why did this make SlashDot (once a home of IT gurus and programmers) again?
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW, the marketing term for the functionality this kills is "retargeting." The ability to stalk users with ads across multiple sites because of a previous visit or search days or weeks ago is huge business these days.
(Had to chime in because I don't think anyone's used the right term yet.)
>> Go to public meeting when the ELECTED Congressmen/women who write these laws. Question then send a clear message change it or be removed from office.
Recently, the Tea Party folks tried this and the Occupy folks tried this. Result? Universal derision from major media, and specific derision from the opposite party's political leaders. Almost no changes to the insulated agencies or policies that ticked off ordinary people in the first place.
>> Al Gore's actions showed government can be beneficial for the internet
OK, I'll bite. What DID Gore do for the Internet?
>> The government has commandeered the Internet
Somewhere, I'm sure Al Gore is pissed.
>> As long as you're fixing thing, take
things
>> $70? You cheap bastard you don't love your kids...
My 12-year-old straight-A son? Yes, I splurged on a Nexus 7. My 4-year-old daughter and can't-sit-still 10-year-old son? You bet I wasn't going to spend more than $100 each; I plan on replacing at least one of these every year.
FWIW, here are the tech specs of my $70 tablet: 1GHz proc, 1GB DDR3 of system memory, 8GB on-board storage memory, additional memory via microSD card slot, 7.0" touchscreen, 800 x 480 resolution, Built-in 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Front 0.3MP webcam, USB 2.0 port, Micro-USB 2.0 port, mini-HDMI port, 3.5mm jack, Up to 5 hours of run time, Android OS with Play Store.
Let me fix that for you:
Books on (any subject) are literally a dime a dozen. They generally benefit only the author (as long as the author is using the book for publicity), publisher (financially) and Amazon (to drive traffic to competing or complementary products), leaving the reader frustrated and bloated (99% of time).
>> Diet books are literally a dime a dozen. They generally benefit only the author, publisher and Amazon, leaving the reader frustrated and bloated.
Welcome to the publishing industry, newbie critic.
I just finished outfitting the rest of my family with 7" Android tablets, each costing about $70. For Microsoft to be competitive, it needs to either come in under $100, or let me have one with Office for under $200 or so. Otherwise - I'm not sure my youngest kids will ever know what Microsoft is. (They do know what Apple is - it's who made the "old" tablets their friends parents used to buy 2-3 years ago.)
If you're too lazy to vote - no, I don't care about your opinion.
(Can't make it to your polling place? I'll bet you can find some time in the months leading up to the election to vote absentee. Don't have transportation to go vote? There are a dozen different programs and thousands of volunteers who will help. GOML!)
>> We don't know what programming is. We don't know what computing is. We don't even know what a computer is.
Aha - they found the guy who trains InfoSys employees.
>> Chicago is only major city between New York and LA if you drive
You sure you weren't lost, Fozzy?
http://goo.gl/maps/ujfk1
I count at least Las Vegas, Denver and Cleveland along the road...
>> differences with oil pipelines
Oil pipelines are quiet. A 600-mph train wouldn't be. Ergo, the zone of disruption, lowered property values, health issues, etc.would be much wider for the train.
Oil pipelines don't carry people. Trains do. With people and mass transportation come security concerns you don't see with pipelines.
Launching through cleared airspace is probably much easier than trying to secure right-of-ways for a slightly-subsonic transport through thousands of municipalities, state and federal lands, and individual property owners, not to mention likely tangles with the EPA and whatever unions might be involved. Plus, a high-profile transportation project like that might pick up TSA attention too.
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ronald Reagan
>> Why after these many years, you are not in a management? Do you lack leadership skills?'
That sounds more like what you might hear from your parents around the Thanksgiving table.
>> Have you been a leader in a project?
That sounds more likely. Every top programmer I know, regardless of social ability, has had the ability to answer "yes" to this. Even if they were the kind to back away from formal management responsibilities, a guy who's been coding for 14 years should have had a couple of experiences where he just stepped up as said, "look, I don't want to run the team permanently, but either you follow my lead on X or we'll all fail" by now. (If they haven't, no, I don't want them on my team.)
>> You may have read about this on Slashdot
I think I just did.
>> huge flat-top destroyer...bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. The ship, which has a flight deck that is nearly 250 meters (820 feet) long, is designed to carry up to 14 helicopters.
OK, if it's designed with a "flight deck" that designed to carry aircraft (helicopters), how is this NOT an aircraft carrier?
>> How do you digest the thousands of XXXs in a week?
Dude, step away from SlashDot RIGHT NOW.
>> More plants on the Great Lakes might be a possibility
Doubt it. They just shut down one in Wisconsin: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewaunee_Power_Station ) . One near Chicago was shut down in the late 1990s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Nuclear_Power_Station )
>> Illinois is already the top nuclear-power-producing state
The remaining plants are nowhere near Lake Michigan. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Illinois )
>> with their student debt they can't afford to move
If your worldly possessions don't comfortably fit in a car by the end of your undergrad, you're doing it wrong. (And I would I suspect your debt problems go beyond student loans.)
This whole thing sounds like reading the local chamber of commerce brochure.
>> students from UC Santa Cruz to live and work in the city after they graduate
Look, I went to four different colleges between undergrad and grad school. Besides the degree, the whole point of college is to get out, see new things, and make your sophomoric mistakes (get it?) in some other town where no one will remember you ten years from now. Wherever you go to school...please, please don't just settle down there. You'll thank me later.
>> At just over 30 minutes, this is the longest Slashdot video interview we've ever run
You're not hearing us, are you?
...you have too much time on your hands. Get a dog, a girlfriend, or anything else with demands on your attention and your worries about tagging will happily drift away.
Seems like it would be a short book. Step 1: Make a PowerPoint presentation. Step 2: Fricken' upload it to a site designed to accept PowerPoint presentations.
Why did this make SlashDot (once a home of IT gurus and programmers) again?
Troll...fed. :)