Sometimes we spend hours looking through Getty/Veer/Corbis/iStock stock photo collections looking for 'just the right image'.
This could cut it down to minutes. I'd just sketch out the image I was looking for and stare at it for a few... then turn on and tune out for a few, voila... instant banner ad;-p I mean communications platforms and revenue enhancement strategies...
When they've got a Beowulf cluster... oh shit is it 2006 already? Damn I told the concierge to wake me up in 10 hours... 10 years and this is all we get? Thanks Micro$oft;-p
OTOH anyone can download a copy of Linux and rewrite it however they see fit for their own use.
If this company offered this 'service' as a Service, ie: bring in your DVD and we'll edit out the parts you don't want to see/hear... "look we have an example right over here and a comparison chart of the edited parts"... how would this be any different than paying someone to configure your laptop with a custom setup of Ubuntu?
There's a fine line here between disallowing a derivative product to be sold for profit and disallowing a service provider to cater to their customers wants, for a fee.
It's mostly semantics as far as where the DVD is purchased and whether it came pre-configured or not.
Just like it used to be AOL right? Back in the late 90s when most people started coming online it was via AOL and when they asked if you were 'online' they meant "what's your screenname?"
This is the direction of the internet... obviously communal creatures will seek out community, even virtual ones... what's the point of communication if you've got nothing in common to talk about right?
OTOH, ask someone in S. Korea what the internet is and they'll have a completely different response... or Japan...
Additionally ask the next generation to come online what is cool... I'm betting the kids that are 10-12 now will have a whole new fad they're into and MySpace will be for 'adults' which is perfectly okay by FOX News Corp... they'd rather have 'paying' customers anyways.
What you're describing is copyright violation... MySpace is not personal use, it's publishing (much to the dismay of people trying to get out of convictions for crimes they've published there)...
SO send those people cease and desist emails, then send one to MySpace for being their publishing agent (which I believe is just as culpable for violation)... then file a lawsuit with alleged damages if the activity doesn't stop.
the popularity of pr0n.... I mean 99% of the stuff is 99% the same except for the haircut or the camera angle... but for a genetic addiction to new, apparently the grass is ALWAYS greener.
What kind of junk are you running? My monthly bill is $48-$50/month summer $70-$80 winter or > $800/year for 2 people... live in South Orange County. You must live in a heat trap and run your AC all day long.
Course we just have a 37in HD LCD TV (w/DVD + TiVo +Amp), 2 Mac Laptops (iBook & MBP) our Electric range, Clothes Washer/Dryer (gas heated), Dishwasher, Various FL Bulbs, Water Heater, MicroWave, Forman Fullsize Grill;-p (works great), Espresso Machine and various small electronics (cells, hair dryers, tooth brushes, etc.)
We have AC but don't use it, prefering to open a few windows and run a single overhead fan (never gets over 80 and usually around 77, quite comfortable).
What are you using continuously that boosts your bill 250% over mine?
Much better to simply add an allergen reaction to something we humans like to have around... like jasmine pollen or some plant that flowers at the time that the mosquito's are starting to come out... then just grow jasmine plants along all public avenues and near any areas that would be prone to mosquito breeding...voila... problem solved.
this type of genetic tinkering should be called 'unobtrusive genescripting" and should be the future of accessible and usable genetics engineering, IMHO
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I'll try it in Parallels first, which I paid $30 for just to be able to do this exact thing....
Then after finding out that I'm not missing anything (does Ubuntu have thousands of Games I'm not aware of, hundreds of Pro quality apps, tens of document formats unique to it???)... I'll turn off Parallels and go back to using my Mac w/ OS X.
Now OTOH if I was a poor developer who really needed a good development system w/ a free OS on relatively cheap hardware, well I'd probably be all up in Ubuntu's @SS looking for heaven or some x86 compatible version of it.
As it is, I already make a ton of money and can afford a sweet MBP w/ 30in. HD display to dock it with for doing real work... with added bonus of mobility to Diedrich's free Wi-Fi to get Iced Coffee for a good/. reading fest on a 'working-from-home' day like today.
Hmmmm I went searching for "The EMACS Bible" book... figuring that it was the bible you had to be referring to but was confounded by the fact that one apparently doesn't exist... so maybe you've got a copy of a Lost Translation or something...
I had an infection in my tonsils... bacterial, who knows where from, which swelled them up until I couldn't eat and had to breathe through my nose.
The solution to this problem was to lance it with a needle and then take anti-biotics, since the prescription I tried first didn't do a damn thing.
This wasn't a single prick... this was 10 to 15 jabs straight into the back of my throat with a very long needle, first with anaesthetics to numb the areas, probably 4-5 of those... then a bunch of 'stick it in and pop it out so that bood and pus would gush into my mouth' jabs;-p yeah, there's nothing like blood and pus in the morning... and spit.
Finally the ENT MD. took a spreader, which is a set of tongs that spread things... stuck it into one of the holes he'd made and ripped it open even further, which is when the b and p really drained out... then he did it again.
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now that wasn't funny unless you find humor in other people's pain... but then again, I do and I thought it was hilarious after the fact, especially retelling the story to other's grimaced faces;-p
It's easy to verify over-18... there are various ids that can be used to provide some record which in 99% of cases will be close enough to the real person as to make it work for validation (think a kid using parents CC # to authenticate.. you can just call the parent up and confirm permission to use).
Under-18 though... there's no common ID in use. Which means that anyone over-18 can pretend to be under-18 at will. SO you can cut off access to adult services from kids... BUT you can't cut off access to kids services from adults.
Without further compromising the privacy and security via obscurity of the children in question.... through elaborate cross checking of credentials... there's no way to verify that a child is a child and not an adult pretending to be a child.
I've complained before and will again, that dentistry has been the most underwhelming of 'sciences' for the past 100 years. What advances have we seen since the use of anaesthetics to reduce the pain? We got ultra-violet whitening systems.... and veneers.
So finally there's some progress. First was the company in florida which has since sort of gone into hiding... they showed a solution of genetically engineered oral bacteria that would take over control of the mouth by out-competing the native breed.. but were engineered to not create cavities. Haven't heard much on that front recently though. Maybe they got bought up by the makers of Crest or something...
Now we have a device that can regrow eroded tooth material... well it's something at least.
Maybe I can stop thinking of the whole practice of drilling and gouging and filling in with metals as the most barbaric so-called treatments of any human health problem. Dentistry is still at the equivalent stage of just cutting off the leg when it's broken, rather than fixing it. Hopefully that is about to change.
What kind of 1950s life are you talking about.... i'm talking about someguy who thinks it's awesome to show a pic of himself doing a line of coke off an underage naked chick, you know, the kind of stuff that over-priviliged teens and young adults have been doing since the 70s at least.
It would be a combination of micro-classes on topics such as:
- What companies do with your personal profile. - What your neighbors can do with personal stories you publish on the internet. - How to avoid becoming a victim in a social network. - Internet ethics and laws that enforce them. - Social engineering and psychological scams on the web. - Viruses, Worms and Trojan OH MY!!!
Seriously... it's time we educate young people in an organized manner... they're going to learn all about it one way or another, some will abuse - some will be abused... let's level the field at least.
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Sometimes we spend hours looking through Getty/Veer/Corbis/iStock stock photo collections looking for 'just the right image'.
;-p I mean communications platforms and revenue enhancement strategies...
This could cut it down to minutes. I'd just sketch out the image I was looking for and stare at it for a few... then turn on and tune out for a few, voila... instant banner ad
If by Volunteer you mean "pays 100k a year, must be an experienced youtuber..." then sure...
When they've got a Beowulf cluster... oh shit is it 2006 already? Damn I told the concierge to wake me up in 10 hours... 10 years and this is all we get? Thanks Micro$oft ;-p
hmmm but now the question is "Can you copyright your list of time spans?"
Otherwise those lists would get out real quick and an OS version would be on SForge within days.
New ones of course.... I mean who wants to look at the same thing twice?
OTOH anyone can download a copy of Linux and rewrite it however they see fit for their own use.
If this company offered this 'service' as a Service, ie: bring in your DVD and we'll edit out the parts you don't want to see/hear... "look we have an example right over here and a comparison chart of the edited parts"... how would this be any different than paying someone to configure your laptop with a custom setup of Ubuntu?
There's a fine line here between disallowing a derivative product to be sold for profit and disallowing a service provider to cater to their customers wants, for a fee.
It's mostly semantics as far as where the DVD is purchased and whether it came pre-configured or not.
Just like it used to be AOL right? Back in the late 90s when most people started coming online it was via AOL and when they asked if you were 'online' they meant "what's your screenname?"
This is the direction of the internet... obviously communal creatures will seek out community, even virtual ones... what's the point of communication if you've got nothing in common to talk about right?
OTOH, ask someone in S. Korea what the internet is and they'll have a completely different response... or Japan...
Additionally ask the next generation to come online what is cool... I'm betting the kids that are 10-12 now will have a whole new fad they're into and MySpace will be for 'adults' which is perfectly okay by FOX News Corp... they'd rather have 'paying' customers anyways.
What you're describing is copyright violation... MySpace is not personal use, it's publishing (much to the dismay of people trying to get out of convictions for crimes they've published there)...
SO send those people cease and desist emails, then send one to MySpace for being their publishing agent (which I believe is just as culpable for violation)... then file a lawsuit with alleged damages if the activity doesn't stop.
the popularity of pr0n.... I mean 99% of the stuff is 99% the same except for the haircut or the camera angle... but for a genetic addiction to new, apparently the grass is ALWAYS greener.
What kind of junk are you running? My monthly bill is $48-$50 /month summer $70-$80 winter or > $800/year for 2 people... live in South Orange County. You must live in a heat trap and run your AC all day long.
;-p (works great), Espresso Machine and various small electronics (cells, hair dryers, tooth brushes, etc.)
Course we just have a 37in HD LCD TV (w/DVD + TiVo +Amp), 2 Mac Laptops (iBook & MBP) our Electric range, Clothes Washer/Dryer (gas heated), Dishwasher, Various FL Bulbs, Water Heater, MicroWave, Forman Fullsize Grill
We have AC but don't use it, prefering to open a few windows and run a single overhead fan (never gets over 80 and usually around 77, quite comfortable).
What are you using continuously that boosts your bill 250% over mine?
Ha... I only paid $30 for it... sometimes early adoption pays off...
When did Microsoft start selling PCs? 4.7 million to 0 million in my book makes Apple the clear leader over Microsoft in total PC unit sales.
Maybe in the big City... but for country folk...
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house."
Much better to simply add an allergen reaction to something we humans like to have around... like jasmine pollen or some plant that flowers at the time that the mosquito's are starting to come out... then just grow jasmine plants along all public avenues and near any areas that would be prone to mosquito breeding...voila... problem solved.
this type of genetic tinkering should be called 'unobtrusive genescripting" and should be the future of accessible and usable genetics engineering, IMHO
Didn't we use to have AOL for this?
I'll try it in Parallels first, which I paid $30 for just to be able to do this exact thing....
/. reading fest on a 'working-from-home' day like today.
Then after finding out that I'm not missing anything (does Ubuntu have thousands of Games I'm not aware of, hundreds of Pro quality apps, tens of document formats unique to it???)... I'll turn off Parallels and go back to using my Mac w/ OS X.
Now OTOH if I was a poor developer who really needed a good development system w/ a free OS on relatively cheap hardware, well I'd probably be all up in Ubuntu's @SS looking for heaven or some x86 compatible version of it.
As it is, I already make a ton of money and can afford a sweet MBP w/ 30in. HD display to dock it with for doing real work... with added bonus of mobility to Diedrich's free Wi-Fi to get Iced Coffee for a good
The site isn't that ugly... and I think #9 is actually titled "Voice Candy" with the company's name being Potion Factory.
I had an infection in my tonsils... bacterial, who knows where from, which swelled them up until I couldn't eat and had to breathe through my nose.
The solution to this problem was to lance it with a needle and then take anti-biotics, since the prescription I tried first didn't do a damn thing.
This wasn't a single prick... this was 10 to 15 jabs straight into the back of my throat with a very long needle, first with anaesthetics to numb the areas, probably 4-5 of those... then a bunch of 'stick it in and pop it out so that bood and pus would gush into my mouth' jabs ;-p yeah, there's nothing like blood and pus in the morning... and spit.
Finally the ENT MD. took a spreader, which is a set of tongs that spread things... stuck it into one of the holes he'd made and ripped it open even further, which is when the b and p really drained out... then he did it again.
[/anecdote]
now that wasn't funny unless you find humor in other people's pain... but then again, I do and I thought it was hilarious after the fact, especially retelling the story to other's grimaced faces ;-p
so Enjoy!
It's easy to verify over-18... there are various ids that can be used to provide some record which in 99% of cases will be close enough to the real person as to make it work for validation (think a kid using parents CC # to authenticate.. you can just call the parent up and confirm permission to use).
Under-18 though... there's no common ID in use. Which means that anyone over-18 can pretend to be under-18 at will. SO you can cut off access to adult services from kids... BUT you can't cut off access to kids services from adults.
Without further compromising the privacy and security via obscurity of the children in question.... through elaborate cross checking of credentials... there's no way to verify that a child is a child and not an adult pretending to be a child.
I've complained before and will again, that dentistry has been the most underwhelming of 'sciences' for the past 100 years. What advances have we seen since the use of anaesthetics to reduce the pain? We got ultra-violet whitening systems.... and veneers.
So finally there's some progress. First was the company in florida which has since sort of gone into hiding... they showed a solution of genetically engineered oral bacteria that would take over control of the mouth by out-competing the native breed.. but were engineered to not create cavities. Haven't heard much on that front recently though. Maybe they got bought up by the makers of Crest or something...
Now we have a device that can regrow eroded tooth material... well it's something at least.
Maybe I can stop thinking of the whole practice of drilling and gouging and filling in with metals as the most barbaric so-called treatments of any human health problem. Dentistry is still at the equivalent stage of just cutting off the leg when it's broken, rather than fixing it. Hopefully that is about to change.
What kind of 1950s life are you talking about.... i'm talking about someguy who thinks it's awesome to show a pic of himself doing a line of coke off an underage naked chick, you know, the kind of stuff that over-priviliged teens and young adults have been doing since the 70s at least.
R U just sheltered?
After submitting just realized the title of the course was premature... maybe something more like:
Internet Society 101: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for your Digital Life
How to Avoid getting Used by Marketers 101
Every college should require it.
It would be a combination of micro-classes on topics such as:
- What companies do with your personal profile.
- What your neighbors can do with personal stories you publish on the internet.
- How to avoid becoming a victim in a social network.
- Internet ethics and laws that enforce them.
- Social engineering and psychological scams on the web.
- Viruses, Worms and Trojan OH MY!!!
Seriously... it's time we educate young people in an organized manner... they're going to learn all about it one way or another, some will abuse - some will be abused... let's level the field at least.
ABC News says that the second largest in todays dollars would have been 7 Billion by Rockefeller, IIRC