yup. but if you're going to give some one a (good natured) hard time about their grammar...you should expect some ribbing about ipod predictions. Still, it just shows you that most slashdot geeks can't predict the future. (myself included. I thought apple would be long gone by now)
I can't speak for all dating sites, but I can tell you that at Match & yahoo there are no official fake profiles. But you have uncovered the real dirty secret of online dating: scammers. People in russia, nigeria etc create fake profiles with stolen credit cards. These profiles tend to be too good to be true, they then wink a lot of people (not too many, the sites look for this). When they hook someone they basically run the 419 scam on them. They chat enough to convince the guy they are legit, then spring some sort of old fashion advanced payment routine, often its money for a plane ticket.
The "disappearing good profiles" are caused by these scammers. The scammers do you what you noticed, they post a profile that is too good to be true and then start winking. Its not a lure to get you signed up for the site. The profiles disappear because they've been deleted by admins. It isn't a conspiracy to get your money I PROMISE.
Credible? Or possible? Its possible that most scientists are left wing and support Kyoto because it has "socialist" politics. But if you can prove scientists are "mostly" left wing politically you then need to prove that:
This affects their research
They mostly support Kyoto
They support Kyoto because of their politics, not their science.
They want to limit CO2 emmissions for political reasons and look for science to support it, rather than the opposite.
I know you believe these four items are true, but I think that item four can be interpreted either way. But I wonder why, exactly, a "Leftist" is inherently opposed to CO 2 emmisions. I am what you would call a Leftist, and I don't oppose industry! A lot of this conflict comes from the fact that those on the left tend to favor government regulation of industry and those on the right oppose it. The science seems to imply that these emmissions are doing real harm and the free market is not going to save us from this, in the highly likely senario that this is a real problem. (see: the tragedy of the commons) What, exactly, is the cause of your scepticism here? The evidence seems to be pretty strong that this is really happening. What makes you doubt it?
But honestly, I don't see how changing our energy policy could be a bad thing here. Industry isn't going to just give up and fold because of emmissions restrictions anymore than forumla 1 stopped when they banned turbochargers. The end result is more research, cleaner air and less dependance on foreign oil. The industry doesn't want to do it because they believe it will hurt their bottom line. They are right of course, in the short term emission caps will require more investment in r&d, hurting short term profits. But dammit, they aren't just going to close the doors and give up!
To follow this to its conclusion, if this was a 256bit floating-point HDR with that magic post focus things someone presented at siggraph a while ago, you would capture an image and do as you like with it after.
I first used IRIX when I was 13 in 1992. This was because my Dad was in sales for SGI, so I had a loaner indigo2 at home. So it is possible. At this time there were wealthy people with SGI machines at their homes, because they were cool and cost a lot.
I don't think Yahoo would sell the personal information because that would be suicidal, for the reasons you said. Yahoo wants facebook to fight off myspace. I question the widsom of this purchase, but I doubt their will be a mass defection. If you like facebook, why would a Y! scare you off? Has everyone deserted Flickr? I think $1 billion is way too much to pay for facebook, but I find it unlikely that yahoo would ruin the service.
I know you are trolling me, but that isn't the point I was trying to make. College is not just a degree, its an education. I think my education was worth it, even if it hasn't affected my career. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had started my career right after high school. I liked non-relevent education and found it valueable. YMMV.
Well, I understand what the OP is saying, and I disagree with the point. That may be how it is in most countries, but it isn't like that here. So if you don't get it in college, you don't get it at all.
I'm sure you know this, but a university education is not supposed to be technical school. I am a web developer now, and I like to think I am fairly successful. But I took no CS classes at college. I took some amazing liberal arts classes though, that I think really made me a better person. I learned about history, literature, management and I picked up a second language. That stuff is worth something, in my opinion it enriches your life. When you look at higher education as just a means to an end, sure those non-major classes seem pretty worthless. But I had the opportunity to check out of career and spend four years learning, and it was totally worth it.
I know MSFTies too, and they are all very smart folks. I really wonder what the business goal of the Zune is though. I highly doubt it will succeed, but someone at Micosoct must think it will. And they must have a way to make a profit on the thing, MS can't have another product that sells at a loss. I hate to think its just the bad crack being passed around the marketing and bizdev team, but I get that impression. Also, something is really disturbing about Allards makeover...what happened, exactly? And why?: http://www.geekonstun.com/mt/archives/hd_allard_05 0605.html
I think they are totally dumb. Seriously, I don't think this is a conspiracy. This is a total fuck up caused by a slow response and now a desperate attempt to catch up with apple. MS changed their strategy from trying to license a music format to other hardware makers (the windows technique) to wanting to have an end to end solution like ipod/itunes. Now they look like assholes and this product is just no going to sell. Or, it will sell as well as MediaCenter or whatever other lifestyle product that they are demoing this month. So far microsoft can't seem to move consumer electronics. (excepting the xbox, which may have sold well, but it could hardly be called a profit center) With Apple microsoft is in the unenviable position of chasing after someone else with a de facto monopoly in the space. Apple floundered in the 90s trying to convince people their product was just as good or better as Microsoft/dell's, but its hard to chase someone that has that kind of market dominence. Microsoft is now facing people who are vendor-locked into ipod, high market penetration and the kind of brand awarence marketing people kill for. No matter how great the Zune is they have to fight being known as the "microsoft ipod" which isn't where you want your product to be.
My question about this is why, exactly, is microsoft even wasting their time on this? Who cares if apple sells a lot of ipods? It doesn't hurt Microsoft's bottom line. Most ipod users run windows on the desktop.
Oh shit! Don't engage the Libertarians, it will just enrage them. I think you are supposed to wave your arms around and look big...or maybe its play dead. I forget which.
Its been around for a long time. I worked for a big media company when I was in college making "fan sites" and I also made a "fan film" on iFilm for $500. I wonder if that piece of crap is still out there somewhere. The fact is that stealth marketing works and can't be escaped. I suspect there is already a lot of it going on at Burning Man. Eventually that event will be totally taken over by marketers. "40,000 people in a choice demographic with disposable income? Where do I sign up?"
With friends and family who ask me for computer advice I have a new policy. When they tell me they are thinking of getting a new computer and ask for advice I always recommend a Mac Mini or Macbook. When they tell me that a dell or something is cheaper I tell them my new policy: no free support for Windows, sorry. (I'm not a mac zealot either...I don't use any macs anymore, but my wife, sister and parents do because of this policy)
There are a lot of weird psychological things going on with movies. For example, a film at 24fps shows a blank screen 50% of the time (persistence of vision fills in the blanks). A progressive scan screen never shows a blank screen (correct me if I'm wrong) from what I remember from film school this was critical because it real changes the perception. The movie feels a little LESS realistic that real life, which is desirable. If you have a 60 fps progressive scan it won't feel right.
Shaun, can't you be civil? It isn't necessary to be a dick. This is a discussion. I disagree with you. I don't think you are an absolute moron, and well, I researched it too and I disagree. I don't trust the government (ANY government) when they promise things. Why do you?
Also, I believe my thumbs are opposable, but I also think I could use the mouse just fine with no thumb.
Uh, ok, so where is the oversight here, exactly? Certifies, under oath. Again, lets try the clinton analogy: if Janet Reno, certified under oath that what she was doing met these requirements, would you trust her? Promising to be good does not constitute oversight.
Narrow definition? I have read this bill, and it requires the most minimal oversight I could imagine. The president and attorney general can do WHATEVER they want as long as they sign an avidavit that says that it was important and then inform the congress about it after the fact. There is no teeth to the requirements and nowhere does it say when, if ever, the courts or congress could stop this activity. Ok Shaun, think about this for a minute. Do you really want to give the president and future, possibly democratic, presidents this power? How would you feel about Bill Clinton being able to tap your phone without warrent or court order merely by asserting (not proving or demonstrating) that you were talking to a terrorist?
As a member of group one...I totally agree with you. I WISH I got a cs degree. I am teaching myself basic algorithms now, so I'm in CS101 and I am working now. Javascript closures were frankly hard for me to understand, because I didn't have a grounding in compilers. I find bitwise operations confusing.
I think people like me, who code exlusively in PHP/c# and javascript are seriously handicapped. We know how to solve problems, but a lot of the time we do it wrong because we don't understand the internals. I am working on filling that gap, but the c++ people I know are way ahead.
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yup. but if you're going to give some one a (good natured) hard time about their grammar...you should expect some ribbing about ipod predictions. Still, it just shows you that most slashdot geeks can't predict the future. (myself included. I thought apple would be long gone by now)
Hey, Loudmusic, just for old times sake, can you make a prediction on the sales of the zune?
I can't speak for all dating sites, but I can tell you that at Match & yahoo there are no official fake profiles. But you have uncovered the real dirty secret of online dating: scammers. People in russia, nigeria etc create fake profiles with stolen credit cards. These profiles tend to be too good to be true, they then wink a lot of people (not too many, the sites look for this). When they hook someone they basically run the 419 scam on them. They chat enough to convince the guy they are legit, then spring some sort of old fashion advanced payment routine, often its money for a plane ticket.
The "disappearing good profiles" are caused by these scammers. The scammers do you what you noticed, they post a profile that is too good to be true and then start winking. Its not a lure to get you signed up for the site. The profiles disappear because they've been deleted by admins. It isn't a conspiracy to get your money I PROMISE.
Credible? Or possible? Its possible that most scientists are left wing and support Kyoto because it has "socialist" politics. But if you can prove scientists are "mostly" left wing politically you then need to prove that:
I know you believe these four items are true, but I think that item four can be interpreted either way. But I wonder why, exactly, a "Leftist" is inherently opposed to CO 2 emmisions. I am what you would call a Leftist, and I don't oppose industry! A lot of this conflict comes from the fact that those on the left tend to favor government regulation of industry and those on the right oppose it. The science seems to imply that these emmissions are doing real harm and the free market is not going to save us from this, in the highly likely senario that this is a real problem. (see: the tragedy of the commons) What, exactly, is the cause of your scepticism here? The evidence seems to be pretty strong that this is really happening. What makes you doubt it?
But honestly, I don't see how changing our energy policy could be a bad thing here. Industry isn't going to just give up and fold because of emmissions restrictions anymore than forumla 1 stopped when they banned turbochargers. The end result is more research, cleaner air and less dependance on foreign oil. The industry doesn't want to do it because they believe it will hurt their bottom line. They are right of course, in the short term emission caps will require more investment in r&d, hurting short term profits. But dammit, they aren't just going to close the doors and give up!
I live without a car in Denver. The people who need cars live in suburbs designed around them. They should be ok with paying for that priveledge
To follow this to its conclusion, if this was a 256bit floating-point HDR with that magic post focus things someone presented at siggraph a while ago, you would capture an image and do as you like with it after.
I first used IRIX when I was 13 in 1992. This was because my Dad was in sales for SGI, so I had a loaner indigo2 at home. So it is possible. At this time there were wealthy people with SGI machines at their homes, because they were cool and cost a lot.
I don't think Yahoo would sell the personal information because that would be suicidal, for the reasons you said. Yahoo wants facebook to fight off myspace. I question the widsom of this purchase, but I doubt their will be a mass defection. If you like facebook, why would a Y! scare you off? Has everyone deserted Flickr? I think $1 billion is way too much to pay for facebook, but I find it unlikely that yahoo would ruin the service.
No kidding. What, exactly, does youtube have that can't be easily copied? The real winner in this online video thing is adobe and FLV.
I know you are trolling me, but that isn't the point I was trying to make. College is not just a degree, its an education. I think my education was worth it, even if it hasn't affected my career. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had started my career right after high school. I liked non-relevent education and found it valueable. YMMV.
Well, I understand what the OP is saying, and I disagree with the point. That may be how it is in most countries, but it isn't like that here. So if you don't get it in college, you don't get it at all.
I'm sure you know this, but a university education is not supposed to be technical school. I am a web developer now, and I like to think I am fairly successful. But I took no CS classes at college. I took some amazing liberal arts classes though, that I think really made me a better person. I learned about history, literature, management and I picked up a second language. That stuff is worth something, in my opinion it enriches your life. When you look at higher education as just a means to an end, sure those non-major classes seem pretty worthless. But I had the opportunity to check out of career and spend four years learning, and it was totally worth it.
wait a minute...these are HOME installation? Who needs 48U of rackspace and that much cable in their HOME?
Yeah, well I'm not lambasting him. I'm just wary of people that change their names to "J". He could be a wonderful guy, I have no idea.
I know MSFTies too, and they are all very smart folks. I really wonder what the business goal of the Zune is though. I highly doubt it will succeed, but someone at Micosoct must think it will. And they must have a way to make a profit on the thing, MS can't have another product that sells at a loss. I hate to think its just the bad crack being passed around the marketing and bizdev team, but I get that impression. Also, something is really disturbing about Allards makeover...what happened, exactly? And why?: http://www.geekonstun.com/mt/archives/hd_allard_05 0605.html
I think they are totally dumb. Seriously, I don't think this is a conspiracy. This is a total fuck up caused by a slow response and now a desperate attempt to catch up with apple. MS changed their strategy from trying to license a music format to other hardware makers (the windows technique) to wanting to have an end to end solution like ipod/itunes. Now they look like assholes and this product is just no going to sell. Or, it will sell as well as MediaCenter or whatever other lifestyle product that they are demoing this month. So far microsoft can't seem to move consumer electronics. (excepting the xbox, which may have sold well, but it could hardly be called a profit center) With Apple microsoft is in the unenviable position of chasing after someone else with a de facto monopoly in the space. Apple floundered in the 90s trying to convince people their product was just as good or better as Microsoft/dell's, but its hard to chase someone that has that kind of market dominence. Microsoft is now facing people who are vendor-locked into ipod, high market penetration and the kind of brand awarence marketing people kill for. No matter how great the Zune is they have to fight being known as the "microsoft ipod" which isn't where you want your product to be.
My question about this is why, exactly, is microsoft even wasting their time on this? Who cares if apple sells a lot of ipods? It doesn't hurt Microsoft's bottom line. Most ipod users run windows on the desktop.
Oh shit! Don't engage the Libertarians, it will just enrage them. I think you are supposed to wave your arms around and look big...or maybe its play dead. I forget which.
Its been around for a long time. I worked for a big media company when I was in college making "fan sites" and I also made a "fan film" on iFilm for $500. I wonder if that piece of crap is still out there somewhere. The fact is that stealth marketing works and can't be escaped. I suspect there is already a lot of it going on at Burning Man. Eventually that event will be totally taken over by marketers. "40,000 people in a choice demographic with disposable income? Where do I sign up?"
With friends and family who ask me for computer advice I have a new policy. When they tell me they are thinking of getting a new computer and ask for advice I always recommend a Mac Mini or Macbook. When they tell me that a dell or something is cheaper I tell them my new policy: no free support for Windows, sorry. (I'm not a mac zealot either...I don't use any macs anymore, but my wife, sister and parents do because of this policy)
There are a lot of weird psychological things going on with movies. For example, a film at 24fps shows a blank screen 50% of the time (persistence of vision fills in the blanks). A progressive scan screen never shows a blank screen (correct me if I'm wrong) from what I remember from film school this was critical because it real changes the perception. The movie feels a little LESS realistic that real life, which is desirable. If you have a 60 fps progressive scan it won't feel right.
Shaun, can't you be civil? It isn't necessary to be a dick. This is a discussion. I disagree with you. I don't think you are an absolute moron, and well, I researched it too and I disagree. I don't trust the government (ANY government) when they promise things. Why do you?
Also, I believe my thumbs are opposable, but I also think I could use the mouse just fine with no thumb.
Uh, ok, so where is the oversight here, exactly? Certifies, under oath. Again, lets try the clinton analogy: if Janet Reno, certified under oath that what she was doing met these requirements, would you trust her? Promising to be good does not constitute oversight.
Um, we have a process for this. Its called a warrant. I don't understand how so many people can just trust their government to do the right thing.
Narrow definition? I have read this bill, and it requires the most minimal oversight I could imagine. The president and attorney general can do WHATEVER they want as long as they sign an avidavit that says that it was important and then inform the congress about it after the fact. There is no teeth to the requirements and nowhere does it say when, if ever, the courts or congress could stop this activity. Ok Shaun, think about this for a minute. Do you really want to give the president and future, possibly democratic, presidents this power? How would you feel about Bill Clinton being able to tap your phone without warrent or court order merely by asserting (not proving or demonstrating) that you were talking to a terrorist?
As a member of group one...I totally agree with you. I WISH I got a cs degree. I am teaching myself basic algorithms now, so I'm in CS101 and I am working now. Javascript closures were frankly hard for me to understand, because I didn't have a grounding in compilers. I find bitwise operations confusing.
I think people like me, who code exlusively in PHP/c# and javascript are seriously handicapped. We know how to solve problems, but a lot of the time we do it wrong because we don't understand the internals. I am working on filling that gap, but the c++ people I know are way ahead.