There's just no way in hell they have 20 million different songs on there. We have all heard the numbers, and there are not 20 million different songs across 2000 radio stations. Even if each station had a playlist of 500 songs, which is very high, that would only be 1 million songs. I'm not even sure if there have been 20 million professionally recorded and available different songs in existence, can anyone else back me up on that?
... don't you mean their appeal that they hadn't abused the services? Are they appealing the decision that they had, or is their appeal actually that they had abused the services?
True, as everyone should know, they merely ward off the curse of the evil eye. They actually protect you from evil. What nonsense that metal is any more evil than church music... you can find some really screwed up lyrics in older (meaning hundreds of years older) church music. For example, chanting 'crucify', yeah, there's no metal songs that do THAT!! (sarcastic, der)
I can't even imagine having made it through high school without having interesting side projects of my own... that's just dumb. If you don't have projects or interests, and you don't enjoy life, then there's not much anyone can say to help you.
Why does everyone have to start their own space thing? Space travel is freaking expensive -- Jeff would be smarter to partner with virgin galactic, so that they could potentially "get there" 2x as fast with 2x as much money + no impedance from the gov't like NASA runs into.
Just like you can't "remake" the mona lisa into something better, just because acrylic paint came out, you can't "remake" TRON just because technology got better.
"Sternthal told the trade paper that the new conceit is that the computer programmer gets trapped in a cyberworld, so that the film can utilize the Internet."
That's not TRON. That has nothing to do with the movie TRON. If they call it TRON, they're retarded.
Now you have to move the phone and hold the steering wheel still... great job, guys! I'd hope for better voice controls, like 'dial 8-6-7-5-3-0-9" type stuff.
AMD's announcement comes following their failed "Alderon" line of chips, which after just a few months in production were all simultaneously destroyed by a giant moon-shaped pun laser.
The Y2K problem was largely just delayed by clever use of a 100-year window to account for which 2-digit year you're talking about. Once data is required on some system where we need a resolution of 101 or more years, bad stuff will happen. Of course, that's totally separate from a binary representation of "today" being equal to the binary representation of "end of file", but I guess it's easy to lump computer problems all under the same umbrella... and yes, I think the 2038/2029/etc. bugs are going to be a thousand times worse than Y2K, but again, we will come up with a kludge at the last minute that will keep it going for a while longer.
(interviewer) So if there were enough talent here, (offshoring) probably isn't something you would be looking at? (CIO) It's an alternative for me when I can't find the talent in the United States.
WTF??? If this guy can't find talented programmers/etc. in the US, he has no business being CIO of Microsoft. There are (supposedly) a gazillion out of work or underemployed computer scientists. The idea that they can't find what they want here in the states is just preposterous.
They'll actually end up putting out a really low-res POS game instead, and claim that the "big blocks" on the screen are "LEGO's" and not just game pixels.
Other comments have said basically that anyone whose company's not based in country X doesn't have to abide by the laws of country X when acting within the borders of country X. Granted, aerial photos is a bit of a grey area, but within the concept that in order to take a picture of Canada to that resolution, you'd pretty much be intentionally invading Canadian airspace, at least in principle, then it's pretty much like jaywalking in Germany but saying that since you're American, you don't have to abide by German laws.
It's an easy fix... pay per unique visit, per time period that you care to filter by. In other words, the same person clicking 1 time per minute's no good,but up to 2 times per day is worth money to me. I agree that pay-per-click sounds like it's doing exactly what it should -- paying for EVERY CLICK. What the hell is a fradulent click? It sounds like they should be caring more about Unique visitors up to a certain number of visits per day, or sales, etc.
It strikes me that one could set up a server to cache udp requests and serve them back out to the attached/requested clients reliably. However, one must wonder why not just use TCP, which is guaranteed to be reliable. IMHO, What you'd end up with using UDP is a LOT of "did you get it? yes/no"-type network traffic between peers.
It seems to me that anyone willing to shell out for this would probably be better off with a used Boss Dr. Sample, the Dr.S being the de facto industry standard for cheesy little loops,etc. It'd certainly hold more respect in the biz than showing up on stage with a gameboy advance, which will be difficult to use under the (no)/lights, etc.
and an orange, and a bag of m&m's, a sled and a foam bat to hit people on the way down the hill. Trippy space-age color-changing stuff, food, and transportation -- That's a few days'worth of vacation time well spent!
The internet's not going to "die", but the ongoing shakeout of crap will continue. As things get overwhelmed with crap, THOSE THINGS will die. The rest of the internet will continue, and likely will get better. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, WalMart, you name it... these companies aren't going to give up their internet sales & distro channels without a final, furious attempt to save the medium. That would actually be a good thing, because as they're sinking who knows how much money into it, we'll all get great jobs and be able to say we helped fix the cruft and make the net better.
This is a knife! Oh wait, that's me cellphone mate. Give us a sec--ah, that's a knife! Whoops! Cut me balls off, I did.
I am super glad to see p2p... but what happens if it's a massive network, i.e. times square on new years' eve? Can the thing keep up with a gazillion connections?
You mean, they very cleverly hid the defects in their products and touted the crap out of any possible benefit one would gain... So they encouraged you to see value that wasn't necessarily there... isn't that a form of fraud? I know it's not, but it ought to be. Of course, ads would be a lot less interesting if they had to be truthful the whole time (i.e. showing consequences of drinking vodka instead of just how some people feel for the first 15 minutes after drinking a shot)
Artists like myself feel that this can only make hand-drawings and handmade arts more valuable and rare, as every shlub can and will do art with the computer. However, since I have done some art with a computer, I feel that I too am a shlub and will eventually use this to increase the value of my own hand renderings by selling limited edition copies of my own works that the computer did for cheaper.
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There's just no way in hell they have 20 million different songs on there. We have all heard the numbers, and there are not 20 million different songs across 2000 radio stations. Even if each station had a playlist of 500 songs, which is very high, that would only be 1 million songs. I'm not even sure if there have been 20 million professionally recorded and available different songs in existence, can anyone else back me up on that?
... don't you mean their appeal that they hadn't abused the services? Are they appealing the decision that they had, or is their appeal actually that they had abused the services?
True, as everyone should know, they merely ward off the curse of the evil eye. They actually protect you from evil. What nonsense that metal is any more evil than church music... you can find some really screwed up lyrics in older (meaning hundreds of years older) church music. For example, chanting 'crucify', yeah, there's no metal songs that do THAT!! (sarcastic, der)
I can't even imagine having made it through high school without having interesting side projects of my own... that's just dumb. If you don't have projects or interests, and you don't enjoy life, then there's not much anyone can say to help you.
Why does everyone have to start their own space thing? Space travel is freaking expensive -- Jeff would be smarter to partner with virgin galactic, so that they could potentially "get there" 2x as fast with 2x as much money + no impedance from the gov't like NASA runs into.
Just like you can't "remake" the mona lisa into something better, just because acrylic paint came out, you can't "remake" TRON just because technology got better.
"Sternthal told the trade paper that the new conceit is that the computer programmer gets trapped in a cyberworld, so that the film can utilize the Internet."
That's not TRON. That has nothing to do with the movie TRON. If they call it TRON, they're retarded.
"The prototype's main feature allows users to prepare documents and forward them in a usable form. "
This just in, the FBI invented email!
Now you have to move the phone and hold the steering wheel still... great job, guys! I'd hope for better voice controls, like 'dial 8-6-7-5-3-0-9" type stuff.
AMD's announcement comes following their failed "Alderon" line of chips, which after just a few months in production were all simultaneously destroyed by a giant moon-shaped pun laser.
The Y2K problem was largely just delayed by clever use of a 100-year window to account for which 2-digit year you're talking about. Once data is required on some system where we need a resolution of 101 or more years, bad stuff will happen. Of course, that's totally separate from a binary representation of "today" being equal to the binary representation of "end of file", but I guess it's easy to lump computer problems all under the same umbrella... and yes, I think the 2038/2029/etc. bugs are going to be a thousand times worse than Y2K, but again, we will come up with a kludge at the last minute that will keep it going for a while longer.
(interviewer) So if there were enough talent here, (offshoring) probably isn't something you would be looking at?
(CIO) It's an alternative for me when I can't find the talent in the United States.
WTF???
If this guy can't find talented programmers/etc. in the US, he has no business being CIO of Microsoft. There are (supposedly) a gazillion out of work or underemployed computer scientists. The idea that they can't find what they want here in the states is just preposterous.
They'll actually end up putting out a really low-res POS game instead, and claim that the "big blocks" on the screen are "LEGO's" and not just game pixels.
Other comments have said basically that anyone whose company's not based in country X doesn't have to abide by the laws of country X when acting within the borders of country X. Granted, aerial photos is a bit of a grey area, but within the concept that in order to take a picture of Canada to that resolution, you'd pretty much be intentionally invading Canadian airspace, at least in principle, then it's pretty much like jaywalking in Germany but saying that since you're American, you don't have to abide by German laws.
It's an easy fix... pay per unique visit, per time period that you care to filter by. In other words, the same person clicking 1 time per minute's no good,but up to 2 times per day is worth money to me. I agree that pay-per-click sounds like it's doing exactly what it should -- paying for EVERY CLICK. What the hell is a fradulent click? It sounds like they should be caring more about Unique visitors up to a certain number of visits per day, or sales, etc.
IMHO the greatest internet-related quote ever, and one that I will post at any remotely relevant opportunity (forgive my bad memory for inaccuracies)
Karl: "Hey Homer! You got the #1 non-adult-oriented website!"
Lenny: "...which makes it 10 trillionth overall!"
Since when is silencing one person's allegations worth 9 million dollars? Couldn't they just have arranged an "accident" for him?
It strikes me that one could set up a server to cache udp requests and serve them back out to the attached/requested clients reliably. However, one must wonder why not just use TCP, which is guaranteed to be reliable. IMHO, What you'd end up with using UDP is a LOT of "did you get it? yes/no"-type network traffic between peers.
It seems to me that anyone willing to shell out for this would probably be better off with a used Boss Dr. Sample, the Dr.S being the de facto industry standard for cheesy little loops,etc. It'd certainly hold more respect in the biz than showing up on stage with a gameboy advance, which will be difficult to use under the (no)/lights, etc.
and an orange, and a bag of m&m's, a sled and a foam bat to hit people on the way down the hill. Trippy space-age color-changing stuff, food, and transportation -- That's a few days'worth of vacation time well spent!
Stop copying the AP wire and not crediting them. That's plagiarism, everyone.
The internet's not going to "die", but the ongoing shakeout of crap will continue. As things get overwhelmed with crap, THOSE THINGS will die. The rest of the internet will continue, and likely will get better. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, WalMart, you name it... these companies aren't going to give up their internet sales & distro channels without a final, furious attempt to save the medium. That would actually be a good thing, because as they're sinking who knows how much money into it, we'll all get great jobs and be able to say we helped fix the cruft and make the net better.
This is a knife! Oh wait, that's me cellphone mate. Give us a sec--ah, that's a knife! Whoops! Cut me balls off, I did.
I am super glad to see p2p... but what happens if it's a massive network, i.e. times square on new years' eve? Can the thing keep up with a gazillion connections?
I hereby volunteer to sign my name huge as hell on that declaration of independence.
You mean, they very cleverly hid the defects in their products and touted the crap out of any possible benefit one would gain...
So they encouraged you to see value that wasn't necessarily there...
isn't that a form of fraud?
I know it's not, but it ought to be. Of course, ads would be a lot less interesting if they had to be truthful the whole time (i.e. showing consequences of drinking vodka instead of just how some people feel for the first 15 minutes after drinking a shot)
Artists like myself feel that this can only make hand-drawings and handmade arts more valuable and rare, as every shlub can and will do art with the computer. However, since I have done some art with a computer, I feel that I too am a shlub and will eventually use this to increase the value of my own hand renderings by selling limited edition copies of my own works that the computer did for cheaper.