You know, why are these sites claimed to be so great and useful when they are nothing more than portals. There are literally hundreds of other such fantastic portals such as cool.com and yeah.com which provide plenty of content PLUS great search engines!!!
Not to diss, but isn't thinkgeek's prices for gadgets (such as mentioned above) not very good compared to other online and even real retailers? Of course, you can't beat their t-shirts.
In a similar article, Microsoft released a statement saying they are pushing back the release date of "Longhorn" until the CS301 is ready for home desktop use.
Remember the days when people in the industry made statements such as "512kb of RAM should be more that enough for anyone"? That was about a decade ago. Just wait a few years.
but if he really didn't "do anything bad" and you spent some time fixing your "systems", wouldn't your overall security be enhanced ultimatley protecting you from future attacks therefore saving money?
a hit to their reputation? unless the business is some kind of computer security company, or ISP, i would wager that it does very little to their reputation. come on, any other company (especially outside of any IT related company), which of their customers is even going to *know* the site was hacked. how many of those people are going ever hear that the site was hacked... if they couldn't access they site, they would probably just think their own internet connection was screwy at that time, or just accept the fact that they couldn't access the certain site (happens all the time) and think little of it.
i'm not trying to defend hackers, i'm just trying to set that misconception straight.
e-books have never enjoyed any kind of success. They were dead from the beginning.
I believe there are many reasons for this. A big one would be that most people do not enjoy staring at a computer monitor reading for long hours at a time. This can become very uncomfortable, especially for people who work on computers all day to begin with. I read three 300+ page novels (Star Wars fan fiction, the Snotzenexer Trilogy, awesome stuff, check 'em out) on a computer screen, and pretty much the only reason I did that was because I didn't really have the capability to print those pages. anyway
Another big reason, is that most people don't seem to like the idea of paying for something that is just some digital document that just sits on your hard drive, and doesn't seem to be anything more than a typical word processing document.
Then there's just that psychological factor of books, turning pages, seeing the book on your shelf, being able to hold it in your hands. In this day and age, with so many people doing all kinds of work on computers, the idea of coming home and curling up with a cup of coffee in front of your computer monitor is a whole lot less appealing than in your bed with a book in your hands.
So while e-books have obviously failed this generation, I do not believe that publishers should totally give this idea up. They should wait for a little bit, and then push this idea on this new generation coming up. If they can get the kids to grow up with this concept, books will become far less prominent. ahem.. I shall leave now
server space, maintenence of servers, customer service, support . . .
great new urban legend
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I can see it now, the hordes of inept that were suckered into forwarding e-mails in hopes of obtaining $10 for each e-mail (because it was being traced by the new e-mail tracing thing!), and deleting that obscure Windows system utility because it was a virus, can now be suckered into purging their computers of evil bugs by simply "resetting" the MRAM by holding large magnets to the side of their computers!
I don't remember reading anything about this in reading any of the many articles I've seen on MRAM. This would be a serious drawback, but please give me some proof first. Either way, I think the linux community would quickly find a work around no matter the obstacles.
after a quick google search on toynbee tiles conspiracy (with only 2 pages of resulting material) i found this site which has some assortment of comments and information (way back from march 26, 2002).
funny thing: most of the sites that are linked to from this page seem to have... dissapeared.
i remember reading in a section in... i think it was Pride Before Fall. It went something like, If McDonalds or (some other company i don't remember) were in this (the anti-trust) situation they would've been at the DoJ's door begging please, whatever we can do to make the problem go away.
sorry the quote is so bad, but i think it perfectly illustrates MS's attitude towards all this legal stuff. that they are just so arrogant and think themseleves above it all.
well, considering mozilla is playing the open source community, and therefore linux, i think it makes sense. i would bet that plenty of people have linux boxes with 32mb of RAM.
once again proving that for many people hard "science" and numbers mean very little . . . people too often try to explain life in terms of equasions.
Re:Goedel says benchmarks are inherently flawed.
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not only is there no external reference point, but what always gets me is the enviroments things are tested in. i love chaos, and my mind sometimes runs wild thinking of all the factors that could effect the enviroment, and thus the performance of whatever is being tested.
especially when pcworld or whoever compares entire PC packages... so much can change depending on what background software is being run, system tweaks/factory settings that could be off... no one should really buy a pc package based on those comparisons alone.
most the people that would truley care for what piece of hardware goes into their system knows where and how to find the right type of information.
that said, people should demand accurate/unbiased benchmarking becuase of all budding nerdlings who end up with junk in there system and helping some bloated crap company stay on top
the whole unbiased thing: i personally have a VERY hard time believing almost any scientific study (be it benchmarking or dieting) to be unbiased... whether or not there may be a large commercial company behind the bias or not.
I hate absolute statements. Depends on how loosely you define "media." Also depends on how far you would go to prove indirect payment. What if I get someone to tear all the advertisements out of a free newspaper?
More along the lines of reality, what about tivo's commercial blocking?
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ian plays gandalf, dolt, RTFA... and yes there are more hobbits in there and back again
R O F L ... that was the point, einstein...
why why why, must i always get involved with AC's...
You know, why are these sites claimed to be so great and useful when they are nothing more than portals. There are literally hundreds of other such fantastic portals such as cool.com and yeah.com which provide plenty of content PLUS great search engines!!!
(as featured on bbspot's daily links) has some interesting info on internet radio and it's legality.
Not to diss, but isn't thinkgeek's prices for gadgets (such as mentioned above) not very good compared to other online and even real retailers? Of course, you can't beat their t-shirts.
a Redmond-based software company called Microsoft.
I don't know about the rest of you, but . . .
In a similar article, Microsoft released a statement saying they are pushing back the release date of "Longhorn" until the CS301 is ready for home desktop use.
"Who needs that much speed anyway?"
Remember the days when people in the industry made statements such as "512kb of RAM should be more that enough for anyone"? That was about a decade ago. Just wait a few years.
but /.'ing is still cool
i remember emmanuel on Off the Hook wondering if the CIA paid coolio for their sadaam parody of gangsta's paradise... either way i dunno.
as i recall they were using Barney and metallica on those unfortunate individuals... not sesame street. don't diss jim henson man,, come on
but if he really didn't "do anything bad" and you spent some time fixing your "systems", wouldn't your overall security be enhanced ultimatley protecting you from future attacks therefore saving money?
parent is somehwat a troll, but anyway...
a hit to their reputation? unless the business is some kind of computer security company, or ISP, i would wager that it does very little to their reputation. come on, any other company (especially outside of any IT related company), which of their customers is even going to *know* the site was hacked. how many of those people are going ever hear that the site was hacked... if they couldn't access they site, they would probably just think their own internet connection was screwy at that time, or just accept the fact that they couldn't access the certain site (happens all the time) and think little of it.
i'm not trying to defend hackers, i'm just trying to set that misconception straight.
I believe there are many reasons for this. A big one would be that most people do not enjoy staring at a computer monitor reading for long hours at a time. This can become very uncomfortable, especially for people who work on computers all day to begin with. I read three 300+ page novels (Star Wars fan fiction, the Snotzenexer Trilogy, awesome stuff, check 'em out) on a computer screen, and pretty much the only reason I did that was because I didn't really have the capability to print those pages.
anyway
Another big reason, is that most people don't seem to like the idea of paying for something that is just some digital document that just sits on your hard drive, and doesn't seem to be anything more than a typical word processing document.
Then there's just that psychological factor of books, turning pages, seeing the book on your shelf, being able to hold it in your hands. In this day and age, with so many people doing all kinds of work on computers, the idea of coming home and curling up with a cup of coffee in front of your computer monitor is a whole lot less appealing than in your bed with a book in your hands.
So while e-books have obviously failed this generation, I do not believe that publishers should totally give this idea up. They should wait for a little bit, and then push this idea on this new generation coming up. If they can get the kids to grow up with this concept, books will become far less prominent. ahem.. I shall leave now
server space, maintenence of servers, customer service, support . . .
I can see it now, the hordes of inept that were suckered into forwarding e-mails in hopes of obtaining $10 for each e-mail (because it was being traced by the new e-mail tracing thing!), and deleting that obscure Windows system utility because it was a virus, can now be suckered into purging their computers of evil bugs by simply "resetting" the MRAM by holding large magnets to the side of their computers!
I don't remember reading anything about this in reading any of the many articles I've seen on MRAM. This would be a serious drawback, but please give me some proof first. Either way, I think the linux community would quickly find a work around no matter the obstacles.
funny thing: most of the sites that are linked to from this page seem to have ... dissapeared.
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15831
screw that, just go buy a new beetle and get your iPod...
sorry the quote is so bad, but i think it perfectly illustrates MS's attitude towards all this legal stuff. that they are just so arrogant and think themseleves above it all.
well, considering mozilla is playing the open source community, and therefore linux, i think it makes sense. i would bet that plenty of people have linux boxes with 32mb of RAM.
once again proving that for many people hard "science" and numbers mean very little . . . people too often try to explain life in terms of equasions.
especially when pcworld or whoever compares entire PC packages... so much can change depending on what background software is being run, system tweaks/factory settings that could be off... no one should really buy a pc package based on those comparisons alone.
that said, people should demand accurate/unbiased benchmarking becuase of all budding nerdlings who end up with junk in there system and helping some bloated crap company stay on top
the whole unbiased thing: i personally have a VERY hard time believing almost any scientific study (be it benchmarking or dieting) to be unbiased... whether or not there may be a large commercial company behind the bias or not.
I hate absolute statements. Depends on how loosely you define "media." Also depends on how far you would go to prove indirect payment. What if I get someone to tear all the advertisements out of a free newspaper?
More along the lines of reality, what about tivo's commercial blocking?