Advertisers have to get off the pollyannish notion that they can track their ads to specific sales.
Eyeballs impressed is useless unless the eyballs gathered are relevant to your product/service.
What advertisers have to do is to specifically target websites that discuss things that are relevant to the readers of that website. That won't happen soon because the shotgun approach is still prevalent (a 1/4 page, one month ad in the back of a more general interest, glossy magazine is worth more than a 6 month ad on a more-specific website).
The web has been a neophyte marketer's dream come true - lots of flash and hype.
When it comes to the earth, it's climate and other unpredictable fluid dynamics-type universal (chaos theory, anyone?) issues, we have no power. Get used to it.
"Think globally, act locally" is mostly a leftist political meme, not a realistic point of view and should be replaced by, "Think rationally, act reasonably."
"Do you ever wonder where all the farts go?... They go into the atmosphere and form the 'fart zone.' It's just above the ozone layer. This, people, is why we MUST PROTECT THE OZONE LAYER!" - Steve Martin
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Did you steal your stage name, or at least borrow from Dav Pilkey?
Ever heard of Dave's Quick Search Deskbar? It predates (2002) all the other similar products (I "wrote" the Slashdot search for it, that's why it works so craptacularly).
Or are we talking about the same type of desktop search tool?
That, along with momentum, is one reason why MS Windows is still predominant. A manager that takes the resposibility of conversion to OO.org, Linux, etc. has noone to blame (even if he is saving the company's money) if things go wrong. With MS, fuckups can easily be blamed on the Bill and everyone will knowingly wink at each other and shrug shoulders.
It's a great blame deflection strategy, and it works. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
...[people are]...rarely prosecuted for this provided the dollar amounts are small.
Doesn't this fit into the spam/sucker theory? I.E., "as a spammer (I am not one), I am only inconveniencing/annoying one person for a nanosecond of their time, so that's OK ethically".
[This reminds me of recently-received, since-deleted junk mail that exclaims "not ethically or morally wrong" in the subject line. If the unsolicited email message has to be prefaced with such a statement, well...]
I only have 10 days left to activate XP Pro (I had been waiting since there were hardware upgrades that needed to be done first) so maybe they got a bit worried.
I promise that I'll register within the alloted time so as to make MS change this new policy and give all you guys a break. Maybe I'll only activate on the last day, just to make them sweat.
If you need a car but you're poor, you buy the Chevy Cavalier, not the Chevy Corvette.
Or just buy a 5 year-old, used Corvette (95% as "good" for performance issues) for about the same price as a new Cavalier and avoid the drive-off-the-lot instant depreciation.
This of course will have an impact on bragging rights and might make you make extra trips when dragging offspring about, but, hey, driving a fast, sexy-looking auto is all about status and metaphoric dick-lengthening, no?
I confess that I do like fast cars for the experience of control over a machine but my perception is that many people buy them as lifestyle accessories and status symbols.
At worst these OSes would need a patch to update their SMP awareness.
That reminds me - if you have an older (~2.5-3 years?) AMD SMP MB and want to upgrade the processors you might have to flash the BIOS for it to see the faster CPUs. Maybe this is a no-brainer for most here, but since I'm doing just that now I thought I'd mention it.
There have been incidents involving hydrogen that nobody hears about because there were no injuries or deaths. For example, a few months ago a major plant had a major failure - no one was hurt, but the sound of the event was noted for quite some distance in the surrounding community.
I'm afraid that I cannot provide details, so this has to remain as apocryphal.
What I can say is that these systems are very carefully designed with safety being in the forefront. The HAZOPS tend to be brutal in detail.
If your multithreaded app is full of "big locks", then dual cores won't help, and the application designer is a failure.
After reading that I visualized "vapour lock" while trying to pump gas into a car's tank. Would that be an appropriate analogy for non-expert readers such as myself or am I intuiting off on a tangent? Seems to me that electron flow can be roughly compared to really tiny fluid flow.
Apparently, Intergraph's SmartPlant Review (3D engineering model realtime viewing software) supports multi-CPUs but it runs OK on a single processor AMD 64. I wonder if it would run a lot faster at home on an older dual MP 2800.
I'd like to see any documentation on that. LH2 is potentially dangerous simply because it is so cold, and can liquefy the surrounding air and cause pools of liquid oxygen.
In a certain major industrial gas supplier's video vault is a tape of a liquid H2 trailer that managed to overturn. It's a compilation of all the local media reports about the impending disaster. Note that this is liquid hydrogen, not high pressure tube trailer transportation.
The event in question was at least 10 years ago, near Ottawa unless I am mistaken.
Maybe someday they will release the video to the public along with the other documented testing that has been recorded.
I've been doing realtime motion/viewing/zooming/flythroughs with a 3D nVidia 128MB card (low-end Quadro at CAN$400, I think) and it does a pretty good job on dual 21" screens. This is with fairly complex 3D piping models with all ex-refs attached. The whole model does take a while to load.
Why would I need a US$1000+ Wildcat-type card with 256+ MB VRAM? For realtime 3D animation capability? When I move the model view it converts to a simpler sort of shading, but at least the view while panning/rotating is still rendered. The software used is MicroStation-based (PDS) whereas AutoCAD-based stuff doesn't seem to be able to do real-time, rendered movement. Maybe someone can update me on ACAD's 3D abilities - I haven't used it for a few years.
This is because that some investors think that following trends (I.E., pop-culture/management theory-type trends) are good to invest in.
I don't see what all the rush is unless you're trying to make a quick buck. If you're trying to make a quick buck (and that is the only goal) then knocking over a few liquor stores might be a better short-term solution to the desire for immediate gratification and reasons to celebrate often.
Maybe the "investor class" has been co-opted and is now so filled with people focused on wanting a yacht with no brainwork effort that they have lost all touch with reality.
"Can the inflammatory headline..." do what? Isn't that what we're talking about, misunderstanding?
Sorry, that was a troll, I know what you're saying and agree.
I also think that a lot of English word or term-coining is marketing or lifestyle-based branding done for promotion or profit and not necessary. "Ho", "24/7", "good to go", "leet", "bling", etc..
On the other hand, maybe I'm just turning into an "old skool" churlish curmudgeon that just doesn't know what "it" is anymore and is resentful.
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Advertisers have to get off the pollyannish notion that they can track their ads to specific sales.
Eyeballs impressed is useless unless the eyballs gathered are relevant to your product/service.
What advertisers have to do is to specifically target websites that discuss things that are relevant to the readers of that website. That won't happen soon because the shotgun approach is still prevalent (a 1/4 page, one month ad in the back of a more general interest, glossy magazine is worth more than a 6 month ad on a more-specific website).
The web has been a neophyte marketer's dream come true - lots of flash and hype.
Really, we should do everything in our power...
When it comes to the earth, it's climate and other unpredictable fluid dynamics-type universal (chaos theory, anyone?) issues, we have no power. Get used to it.
"Think globally, act locally" is mostly a leftist political meme, not a realistic point of view and should be replaced by, "Think rationally, act reasonably."
"Do you ever wonder where all the farts go?... They go into the atmosphere and form the 'fart zone.' It's just above the ozone layer. This, people, is why we MUST PROTECT THE OZONE LAYER!" - Steve Martin
Did you steal your stage name, or at least borrow from Dav Pilkey?
Ever heard of Dave's Quick Search Deskbar? It predates (2002) all the other similar products (I "wrote" the Slashdot search for it, that's why it works so craptacularly).
Or are we talking about the same type of desktop search tool?
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Maybe one too many beers is to blame, but I intially read, "EU Communism Declines Patent Debate Restart".
That, along with momentum, is one reason why MS Windows is still predominant. A manager that takes the resposibility of conversion to OO.org, Linux, etc. has noone to blame (even if he is saving the company's money) if things go wrong. With MS, fuckups can easily be blamed on the Bill and everyone will knowingly wink at each other and shrug shoulders.
It's a great blame deflection strategy, and it works. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
Doesn't this fit into the spam/sucker theory? I.E., "as a spammer (I am not one), I am only inconveniencing/annoying one person for a nanosecond of their time, so that's OK ethically".
[This reminds me of recently-received, since-deleted junk mail that exclaims "not ethically or morally wrong" in the subject line. If the unsolicited email message has to be prefaced with such a statement, well...]
Sorry guys.
I only have 10 days left to activate XP Pro (I had been waiting since there were hardware upgrades that needed to be done first) so maybe they got a bit worried.
I promise that I'll register within the alloted time so as to make MS change this new policy and give all you guys a break. Maybe I'll only activate on the last day, just to make them sweat.
If you need a car but you're poor, you buy the Chevy Cavalier, not the Chevy Corvette.
Or just buy a 5 year-old, used Corvette (95% as "good" for performance issues) for about the same price as a new Cavalier and avoid the drive-off-the-lot instant depreciation.
This of course will have an impact on bragging rights and might make you make extra trips when dragging offspring about, but, hey, driving a fast, sexy-looking auto is all about status and metaphoric dick-lengthening, no?
I confess that I do like fast cars for the experience of control over a machine but my perception is that many people buy them as lifestyle accessories and status symbols.
At worst these OSes would need a patch to update their SMP awareness.
That reminds me - if you have an older (~2.5-3 years?) AMD SMP MB and want to upgrade the processors you might have to flash the BIOS for it to see the faster CPUs. Maybe this is a no-brainer for most here, but since I'm doing just that now I thought I'd mention it.
There have been incidents involving hydrogen that nobody hears about because there were no injuries or deaths. For example, a few months ago a major plant had a major failure - no one was hurt, but the sound of the event was noted for quite some distance in the surrounding community.
I'm afraid that I cannot provide details, so this has to remain as apocryphal.
What I can say is that these systems are very carefully designed with safety being in the forefront. The HAZOPS tend to be brutal in detail.
If your multithreaded app is full of "big locks", then dual cores won't help, and the application designer is a failure.
After reading that I visualized "vapour lock" while trying to pump gas into a car's tank. Would that be an appropriate analogy for non-expert readers such as myself or am I intuiting off on a tangent? Seems to me that electron flow can be roughly compared to really tiny fluid flow.
Apparently, Intergraph's SmartPlant Review (3D engineering model realtime viewing software) supports multi-CPUs but it runs OK on a single processor AMD 64. I wonder if it would run a lot faster at home on an older dual MP 2800.
Slashdot is just a pump that is primed daily by the owners. The pumped fluid (content) is supplied by the readers in the form of comments.
I'd like to see any documentation on that. LH2 is potentially dangerous simply because it is so cold, and can liquefy the surrounding air and cause pools of liquid oxygen.
In a certain major industrial gas supplier's video vault is a tape of a liquid H2 trailer that managed to overturn. It's a compilation of all the local media reports about the impending disaster. Note that this is liquid hydrogen, not high pressure tube trailer transportation.
The event in question was at least 10 years ago, near Ottawa unless I am mistaken.
Maybe someday they will release the video to the public along with the other documented testing that has been recorded.
I've been doing realtime motion/viewing/zooming/flythroughs with a 3D nVidia 128MB card (low-end Quadro at CAN$400, I think) and it does a pretty good job on dual 21" screens. This is with fairly complex 3D piping models with all ex-refs attached. The whole model does take a while to load.
Why would I need a US$1000+ Wildcat-type card with 256+ MB VRAM? For realtime 3D animation capability? When I move the model view it converts to a simpler sort of shading, but at least the view while panning/rotating is still rendered. The software used is MicroStation-based (PDS) whereas AutoCAD-based stuff doesn't seem to be able to do real-time, rendered movement. Maybe someone can update me on ACAD's 3D abilities - I haven't used it for a few years.
Do they have their content ready?
This is because that some investors think that following trends (I.E., pop-culture/management theory-type trends) are good to invest in.
I don't see what all the rush is unless you're trying to make a quick buck. If you're trying to make a quick buck (and that is the only goal) then knocking over a few liquor stores might be a better short-term solution to the desire for immediate gratification and reasons to celebrate often.
Maybe the "investor class" has been co-opted and is now so filled with people focused on wanting a yacht with no brainwork effort that they have lost all touch with reality.
Probably about two-fifty. Where the decimal point goes depends on the gullibility of the buyer.
Anyone with detailed knowledge of co-gen want to comment?
Steve Martin, paraphrased:
"Those French - it's like they have a different word for everything".
Would you like a shoe with cheese on it?
Can the inflammatory headline.
"Can the inflammatory headline..." do what? Isn't that what we're talking about, misunderstanding?
Sorry, that was a troll, I know what you're saying and agree.
I also think that a lot of English word or term-coining is marketing or lifestyle-based branding done for promotion or profit and not necessary. "Ho", "24/7", "good to go", "leet", "bling", etc..
On the other hand, maybe I'm just turning into an "old skool" churlish curmudgeon that just doesn't know what "it" is anymore and is resentful.
Hmmm, Xel'Naga might just be a master (de)baiter.
AH at that point in history was effectively saying that he'd shoot the puppy unless Churchill turned a blind eye.