Reached for comment, the researchers admitted that the actual number was 9%, but they felt some scientists were not willing to admit their wrong-doing, and their editor wasn't going to publish the story unless the number was at least 15%.
while "According to Bex" (which is being adapted for CBS in the fall and will star Jenna Elfman) scored in the bottom five."
Hardly matters. Coupling, at least the first three seasons, was an outstanding British comedy. The American adaptation was so painfully bad that NBC didn't even bother to show all that they had filemd (and they even aired all the filmed episodes of the awful and short lived LAX, so what do that say about their own opnion of the highly promoted US version of Coupling). There is proof we can ruin a good show. We might even be able to improve a poor one.
You can "create" a formula about anything. It would not be too hard to look at the American presidents and presidental election loosers and come up with a formula that includes letters in their name, numbers of brothers and sisters, pets, and other factors and have it fit well with who won and lost the elections (you could even tweek it to show that without voter fraud a few of the elections in the last 50 years would have gone the other way). That that does not mean the formula has any real value or can be used for any valid predictions.
And the purpose of an inkjet printer that uses paper and ink this fast, when there are now color laser printers that produce better output at a lower cost per page, and likely cost less, is what? Who wants this except the over priced Ink sellers (Inkjet ink costs more than Dom Perignon or other expensive champaign, ounce for ounce)? And I have enough problems replacing clogged and spotty inkjet nozzels when I have a small number of nozzels (that therefor get enough use to usually keep them flowing, how hard is it going to be to maintain good quality output for a device with 2656 nozzels per color (that seems like low resolution for a full page head too).
It's a software download. Why does the front page of Slashdot read: Hardware: Video for Skype Users
And, yes, of course you need hardware like a web cam to actually send real time images, but if that's the definition of when something gets flagged hardware then wouldn't almost every story require some hardware?
Boy, what a stupid front page article. Not only is it an obvious fake article, but it doesn't make any sense. The device supposedly transmits to other devices, including laptops and cellphones, but how does the untrusting spouse get the data in real time? Are we to believe that the cell phone constantly transmits the data but the user isn't aware of it? Or maybe incoming calls go to the panties before they go to the phone owner? And it just makes no sense anyway. Maybe the biometrics in the panties, but why waste power and deal with a gps receiver and antenna, when the phone it has to be used with could just have the GPS components anyway? How could you believe this???
The public has long been trained that 800 numbers are free. And with the 800 number running out or exhaused the public is being trained to recognize other numbers as free, including 866 and 877. Other prefixes on the other hand are recognized to run up charges, such as 900 numbers. How do they manage to charge for 866 numbers, and more importantly why would the telephone industry want to subvert their toll free number system by letting them do this? Where does it stop? Can I get an 866 number and run it for some technical service (Microsoft problems come to mind) and then earn income off of all the saps that thought my 866 number was free?
The point of this post seems to be that TOR now has 100 verified nodes. But the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Routing that this points to says they had 100 nodes as of February 2005. Is TOR no longer growing, or is the math off somewhere?
And the logic in blameing Bittorrent is what? Why not just blame computers? The movie is available for download other ways that don't involve Bittoreent at all, but they all involve computers.
Or perhaps could it be that putting the blame on computers whould not be popular and would show there people for what they really are, but that they feel they can get away with putting blame on a somewhat lesser known technology (at least lesser known to members of Congress) and maybe help get laws passed against it, even if it isn't the real problem?
Yes, Lucas originally said that he planned on making 9 episodes, three set before the original 3, three set after. And of course a drive to further commercialize the franchise will drive the production of more. But it's foolish to talk about making the last 3 when the first three, at least as Lucas described them in his original vision, have not yet been made.
When Lucas first talked about making 9 episodes, he clearly stated that his vision was for three independent stories. He stated that the only characters that would be common between each set of three were to be the two droids. His original vision, based on his own statements, certainly was not to make a story about a young Obi-wan and Luke's dad and Yoda. The three episodes that got made were not his original stated vision at all. He blew away his original vision of three episodes that would stand alone in favor of making three espsodes that already had strongly eastablished marketing concepts behind them.
So yes, more episodes will be made. But the original vision for VII, VIII and IX will likely never been seen, any more than the original vision for I, II and III will ever been seen. They were destroyed by the dark force.
Come on, does anyone really think that Microsoft is going to select any of the tough questions that they really don't want to address? This is a sham. It gives them a way to say that they responded to users concerns, when in reality they will pick and choose things that can make them look good or give them a chance to attack open source. The more people who participate in this sham the more it servers their purposes.
There are smart people no longer even signing up to take our introductory courses.
Doh! Maybe that because they have enough sense to see the trend of sending their prespective jobs to India or even giving people from India work visas to come and to take the jobs here at lower wages. Damn right the smart people are not training for programming jobs.
This offer will be restricted to Europe, Middle East and Africa.
What a great way for a major company to thumb it's nose at the U.S. Linux developers that help make Linux available in the first place. Yes, I do understand that the distro they are using does not originate in the U.S., but it's still a slap in the face for developers who want to buy a decent laptop and not pay the Microsoft tax.
I heard that both people who still held respect for TigerDirect no longer do.
Well, with snipeing like this right the news portion of a Slashdot "news" story, I certainly hold no respect for CowboyNeal and have nothing but disgust for wallykeyster. There are two side to this issue. No matter what you believe the proper outcome should be, one has to admit that Tiger did get a trademark on the name for software use well before Apple used it for exactly that. And the above quoted statement is simply a lie. Although I doubt that Tiger would ever have any good software sold under the Tiger trademark, I certainly respect their right to trademark the name and to try to protect that trademark.
I live in such a repressive regime. Heck,in my town we even have to enter our library card number to use an Internet terminal at the Public Library. Two guesses why.
My advice for those tring to avoid such opression is to move to Iraq. We have spent many millions there setting them up free access Internet that is much private than our own citizens enjoy.
Does anyone else find it strange here that almost everyone identifies first person writing with Zork and/or CYOA? Or am I the only English major in the house?
Only in America could an English major writing specifically to complain about the person a text is written in confuse First person with Second person. Gotta love our educational system.
Mr. Young said. 'If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word tiger with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us.'"
What a crock! The context of the use of the word (trademark) is important. This team was using it football, outside of the U.S. Tiger Direct trademarked it as a term applying to Software. For a company like Apple who has alread run aground of trademake issues when they used a name that conflicts with Apple Records and started dealing in the music industry, you would think they would have know better to at least do a simple search before grabbing a name was that clearly registered with the Trademark office. I hope Tiger Direct wins big on this one.
Apples didn't invent the term "Apple". But they would agressively defend the use of the name or related names within the industry if others started using them. They should expect the same when they try to grab Tiger's registered property. Some hoser football team or even some cats in Asia don't change that.
Sure, they could lie, but in the end it wouldn't do them that much good. I might be pushed to buy quickly rather than shop on price if it was "the last one left", but I would be a very discontented customer if I did and then went back to the website and found that there was still one left. Further, I might only buy one or buy none at all if I wanted to buy 5 or 10 (and I often do buy five or ten or more of an item for my office). So by trying to lie to a customer to get them to buy the last one they could be out a lot of business from exactly the type of customer they should want.
There are a few sites that do tell the customer when the inventory count is low (Geeks.com is one) but hide the count when it is higher. This is a step in the right direction but not always enough (they are the ones who lost a large sale when my cart was full and I went to add the item I really wanted only to be shocked that it was gone, it had only shown up a few days previously and there was no ndication that it was in limited supply). And I didn't buy it when I first saw it because the shipping on one small item was too high to justify it, but would have been ok on the combined order I put together.
Its probably cheaper to ship over shorter distances, which would explain the discrepency.
Hardly. Take the case of Newegg. The same type of item (pcmcia cards) can range in shipping cost from free to $5 per item, and if you buy several they just multiply the cost times the number you buy. But you can see the shipping cost based on which item you buy before you ever give them a destination address! In other words, the person in California pays the same shipping cost as the person in New York or North Carolina or any other state (at least of the 48 connected ones). So in this case where the item is being shipped to has no impact at all on the shipping cost, since they don't know where it is being shipped to when they quote you a fixed shipping price.
Significant and even over priced shipping shipping costs often cause buyers to wait to "put together" orders.
Personally, if I can't determine the exact shipping cost before I give my name and address (and maybe even my credit card number), then I go elsewhere.
If the site sets an over priced shipping cost for each item and just adds the shipping costs together if multiple items are bought (greatly inflating prices from the actual shipping cost), I'm inclined to not buy from them at all, but certainly I will not be buying a lot.
Because buyers do shop, it is extremely helpful for both buyer and seller to have real time inventory information posted on the website and actually show the buyer how many of an item are available. More than once a vendor has lost a complete sale when I saw an item I wanted but waited until I could order some other items also, had put several items in my "cart", and then gone to add the item that I really wanted and that had induced me to buy from them, only to find that it was no longer in stock. Had I been able to see inventory numbers I might have known it was selling out and bought faster, instead I just dropped my entire combined order. Even worse are vendors who you can't tell if the item is in stock or not from an on-line website in this computer age.
The seller who charges actual shipping costs, or even actual shipping costs plus a buck or two for costs like the box, if far more likely to gey my business and repeat business than the seller who looks at shipping as a profit center.
Sellers who play games with shipping costs by greatly varying them for very similar size and weight items (you know who you are, Newegg) actually discourage a lot of sales. Why it costs $2.99 to ship some pcmcia cards, even $1.00 to ship some, but $5 to ship others that are on the same size box and of the same weight makes no sense at all (and even less sense if I want to buy 4 and the shipping jumps to %20).
I don't agree with the term unknowable. Pi is certainly knowable. It just can't be expressed as a finite string of digits after a decimal point. But even if it were unknowable, that doesn't mean it is random. There are many algorithms in mathamatics that produce infinite series, but that doesn't mean they are random. Look at fractals for one example. A very simple math formula can produce an infinite and extremely complex mathmatical result, but even though that result is infinite it is certainly not random. Nor is Pi.
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Reached for comment, the researchers admitted that the actual number was 9%, but they felt some scientists were not willing to admit their wrong-doing, and their editor wasn't going to publish the story unless the number was at least 15%.
Hardly matters. Coupling, at least the first three seasons, was an outstanding British comedy. The American adaptation was so painfully bad that NBC didn't even bother to show all that they had filemd (and they even aired all the filmed episodes of the awful and short lived LAX, so what do that say about their own opnion of the highly promoted US version of Coupling). There is proof we can ruin a good show. We might even be able to improve a poor one.
You can "create" a formula about anything. It would not be too hard to look at the American presidents and presidental election loosers and come up with a formula that includes letters in their name, numbers of brothers and sisters, pets, and other factors and have it fit well with who won and lost the elections (you could even tweek it to show that without voter fraud a few of the elections in the last 50 years would have gone the other way). That that does not mean the formula has any real value or can be used for any valid predictions.
And the purpose of an inkjet printer that uses paper and ink this fast, when there are now color laser printers that produce better output at a lower cost per page, and likely cost less, is what? Who wants this except the over priced Ink sellers (Inkjet ink costs more than Dom Perignon or other expensive champaign, ounce for ounce)? And I have enough problems replacing clogged and spotty inkjet nozzels when I have a small number of nozzels (that therefor get enough use to usually keep them flowing, how hard is it going to be to maintain good quality output for a device with 2656 nozzels per color (that seems like low resolution for a full page head too).
At which chain?
And, yes, of course you need hardware like a web cam to actually send real time images, but if that's the definition of when something gets flagged hardware then wouldn't almost every story require some hardware?
Boy, what a stupid front page article. Not only is it an obvious fake article, but it doesn't make any sense. The device supposedly transmits to other devices, including laptops and cellphones, but how does the untrusting spouse get the data in real time? Are we to believe that the cell phone constantly transmits the data but the user isn't aware of it? Or maybe incoming calls go to the panties before they go to the phone owner? And it just makes no sense anyway. Maybe the biometrics in the panties, but why waste power and deal with a gps receiver and antenna, when the phone it has to be used with could just have the GPS components anyway? How could you believe this???
The public has long been trained that 800 numbers are free. And with the 800 number running out or exhaused the public is being trained to recognize other numbers as free, including 866 and 877. Other prefixes on the other hand are recognized to run up charges, such as 900 numbers. How do they manage to charge for 866 numbers, and more importantly why would the telephone industry want to subvert their toll free number system by letting them do this? Where does it stop? Can I get an 866 number and run it for some technical service (Microsoft problems come to mind) and then earn income off of all the saps that thought my 866 number was free?
It was in many many interviews that Lucas gave just after after the original third came out (and before he re-released the first one as episode 4).
The point of this post seems to be that TOR now has 100 verified nodes. But the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Routing that this points to says they had 100 nodes as of February 2005. Is TOR no longer growing, or is the math off somewhere?
Or perhaps could it be that putting the blame on computers whould not be popular and would show there people for what they really are, but that they feel they can get away with putting blame on a somewhat lesser known technology (at least lesser known to members of Congress) and maybe help get laws passed against it, even if it isn't the real problem?
When Lucas first talked about making 9 episodes, he clearly stated that his vision was for three independent stories. He stated that the only characters that would be common between each set of three were to be the two droids. His original vision, based on his own statements, certainly was not to make a story about a young Obi-wan and Luke's dad and Yoda. The three episodes that got made were not his original stated vision at all. He blew away his original vision of three episodes that would stand alone in favor of making three espsodes that already had strongly eastablished marketing concepts behind them.
So yes, more episodes will be made. But the original vision for VII, VIII and IX will likely never been seen, any more than the original vision for I, II and III will ever been seen. They were destroyed by the dark force.
Come on, does anyone really think that Microsoft is going to select any of the tough questions that they really don't want to address? This is a sham. It gives them a way to say that they responded to users concerns, when in reality they will pick and choose things that can make them look good or give them a chance to attack open source. The more people who participate in this sham the more it servers their purposes.
Doh! Maybe that because they have enough sense to see the trend of sending their prespective jobs to India or even giving people from India work visas to come and to take the jobs here at lower wages. Damn right the smart people are not training for programming jobs.
With the shortage of things to read on the Internet we will have no other choice than to shell out $50 for this "service".
What a great way for a major company to thumb it's nose at the U.S. Linux developers that help make Linux available in the first place. Yes, I do understand that the distro they are using does not originate in the U.S., but it's still a slap in the face for developers who want to buy a decent laptop and not pay the Microsoft tax.
Well, with snipeing like this right the news portion of a Slashdot "news" story, I certainly hold no respect for CowboyNeal and have nothing but disgust for wallykeyster. There are two side to this issue. No matter what you believe the proper outcome should be, one has to admit that Tiger did get a trademark on the name for software use well before Apple used it for exactly that. And the above quoted statement is simply a lie. Although I doubt that Tiger would ever have any good software sold under the Tiger trademark, I certainly respect their right to trademark the name and to try to protect that trademark.
My advice for those tring to avoid such opression is to move to Iraq. We have spent many millions there setting them up free access Internet that is much private than our own citizens enjoy.
Only in America could an English major writing specifically to complain about the person a text is written in confuse First person with Second person. Gotta love our educational system.
You might want to do a Google search on this term and see what is considered the "universal solvent".
But aren't Quakers pacifists?
What a crock! The context of the use of the word (trademark) is important. This team was using it football, outside of the U.S. Tiger Direct trademarked it as a term applying to Software. For a company like Apple who has alread run aground of trademake issues when they used a name that conflicts with Apple Records and started dealing in the music industry, you would think they would have know better to at least do a simple search before grabbing a name was that clearly registered with the Trademark office. I hope Tiger Direct wins big on this one.
Apples didn't invent the term "Apple". But they would agressively defend the use of the name or related names within the industry if others started using them. They should expect the same when they try to grab Tiger's registered property. Some hoser football team or even some cats in Asia don't change that.
There are a few sites that do tell the customer when the inventory count is low (Geeks.com is one) but hide the count when it is higher. This is a step in the right direction but not always enough (they are the ones who lost a large sale when my cart was full and I went to add the item I really wanted only to be shocked that it was gone, it had only shown up a few days previously and there was no ndication that it was in limited supply). And I didn't buy it when I first saw it because the shipping on one small item was too high to justify it, but would have been ok on the combined order I put together.
Hardly. Take the case of Newegg. The same type of item (pcmcia cards) can range in shipping cost from free to $5 per item, and if you buy several they just multiply the cost times the number you buy. But you can see the shipping cost based on which item you buy before you ever give them a destination address! In other words, the person in California pays the same shipping cost as the person in New York or North Carolina or any other state (at least of the 48 connected ones). So in this case where the item is being shipped to has no impact at all on the shipping cost, since they don't know where it is being shipped to when they quote you a fixed shipping price.
Personally, if I can't determine the exact shipping cost before I give my name and address (and maybe even my credit card number), then I go elsewhere.
If the site sets an over priced shipping cost for each item and just adds the shipping costs together if multiple items are bought (greatly inflating prices from the actual shipping cost), I'm inclined to not buy from them at all, but certainly I will not be buying a lot.
Because buyers do shop, it is extremely helpful for both buyer and seller to have real time inventory information posted on the website and actually show the buyer how many of an item are available. More than once a vendor has lost a complete sale when I saw an item I wanted but waited until I could order some other items also, had put several items in my "cart", and then gone to add the item that I really wanted and that had induced me to buy from them, only to find that it was no longer in stock. Had I been able to see inventory numbers I might have known it was selling out and bought faster, instead I just dropped my entire combined order. Even worse are vendors who you can't tell if the item is in stock or not from an on-line website in this computer age.
The seller who charges actual shipping costs, or even actual shipping costs plus a buck or two for costs like the box, if far more likely to gey my business and repeat business than the seller who looks at shipping as a profit center.
Sellers who play games with shipping costs by greatly varying them for very similar size and weight items (you know who you are, Newegg) actually discourage a lot of sales. Why it costs $2.99 to ship some pcmcia cards, even $1.00 to ship some, but $5 to ship others that are on the same size box and of the same weight makes no sense at all (and even less sense if I want to buy 4 and the shipping jumps to %20).
I don't agree with the term unknowable. Pi is certainly knowable. It just can't be expressed as a finite string of digits after a decimal point. But even if it were unknowable, that doesn't mean it is random. There are many algorithms in mathamatics that produce infinite series, but that doesn't mean they are random. Look at fractals for one example. A very simple math formula can produce an infinite and extremely complex mathmatical result, but even though that result is infinite it is certainly not random. Nor is Pi.