20 years and that's all we get?! The console with DOS 25 years ago was more powerful than what we have today! After decades of waiting for something _at_least_ as good as we had back then, I got sick of waiting and found ConEmu. It's a wonderful console. I can't imagine ever going back to the built-in Windows console.
Uh... I spent over a decade in the advertising industry. The eyeballs always are the product. This shouldn't be a shock to anyone. Yelp is no different than any other advertising platforms in this regard. We never referred to users as "customers". That's a totally backwards concept. Customers are those that pay you, that is, the advertisers. Users are sometimes given the impression that the company cares about them, but internally, we never did. We cared about the customer, the advertiser.
Here's a concrete example. It was often the case that the search results for my company were TOO relevant. That is, the precise results that user was looking for showed up as the first listings. This hurt our bottom line quite a bit as users' eyeballs would focus on the top listings, ignoring advertising. We fixed this by decreasing the relevance of the search engine. Eyeballs covered more of the page, including our customers' advertising. It was a win-win for the customers and for the company. That's just how the world works.
I was an OS/2 evangelist and apologist, a major fan. I mourned for OS/2 during it's slow, agonizing death and was likely in a state of denial for a while after it did die. However, at this point, anyone who thinks that OS/2 is viable for anything is really just engaging in necrophilia.
This reminds me of an article I read saying that most people in the U.S. have never actually tasted cinnamon, that the product sold in the U.S. is actually cassia a relative of cinnamon, but not actually cinnamon. Supposedly, once you try the real stuff, you'll never want this fake stuff again.
Another similar issue: I grew up putting what I thought was maple syrup on my waffles and pancakes. It was only after I got married that my wife told me that she's not down for that corn syrup and that we needed to get real maple syrup. Once I tried the real stuff, yeah, it's hard to go back.
It's really interesting that this article just came out. I just got back from Walmart where I was attempting to pickup my son's birthday gift. It took me over an hour of waiting to get it. The online system never sent me an email that it was ready for pick up, but instead said that it had already been picked up. It even gave me the option to return it. I went into the store to figure out what was happening. It hadn't been picked up, but it took them over an hour to find the item.
What more disappointing is that this wasn't an isolated incidence. Over half of the time that I have items shipped to the store, I have a similar experience. Last time it took them two hours to find my package, and that was after I had received an email asking me to go pick it up!
As I wait, I see other customers having to go through the same thing.
I'd love to have a browser that blocks ads, but I wonder if it's going to be a resource hog. I used to use Chrome, but had to ditch it because it would end up consuming 300 - 400 MB on my 4 GB phone (2 GB usable space). Now I use CM Browser and have never looked back. Fast, low resource utilization, and still very featureful.
You guys are focusing too much on the game. The Minecraft, as an icon, is valuable in and of itself. Disney has Mickey. Nintendo has Mario. Sega has Sonic. Microsoft could possibly be buying Steve. If Steve, as an icon, can last decades into the future, it will be well worth the price tag to Microsoft.
Think Nintendo has made at least $2 billion off of Mario? They certainly didn't make that much off of Mario Bros. or even Super Mario Bros., but has an icon, I'm sure Mario has been worth way more than that.
Your logic is ridiculous. Incarceration isn't a violent act, and more so, the damage that this guy did is real. It's really not that different from arson. An arsonist might cause many millions of dollars in damage, just so that he can have a moment of entertainment. Should arsonists go unpunished?
I switched for the cash. I don't consider it pathetic at all. The quality of the web results are on par with Google. Image results seem to be slightly behind, but for the $8/month I make, to me it was clearly worth it.
I know that there will be a lot of negative comments here about Bing, but when Microsoft started paying people to use Bing, I switched. The web results seem to be just as good as Google. I can't tell the difference. The image results seem to be slightly behind, but for the ~$8/month I make, I don't mind at all.:)
But seriously, when Microsoft started paying people to use Bing, I switched and haven't looked back. The search results are pretty good and I've already made $6.53 in the past month.:)
Dwolla isn't in any way a competitor to Bitcoin. Dwolla, as you pointed out, is an online payment system. It is a competitor to PayPal, Google Wallet, credit cards, and other forms of online payment. Payments in these systems are done in dollars and other forms of currency.
Bitcoin is a currency. It's not competing with Dwolla but the US dollar.
I checked out the beta. I'll reserve most judgment for now, but I'm thoroughly disappointed that the Slashdot Poll format hasn't changed. It's a shame that a site like Slashdot continues to use plurality voting. We should switch to ranked voting (or at lease approval voting).
This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing, but it _is_ very political. Planet Money had an explanation of the economics of car dealerships and how dealerships and politicians prevent sales directly to consumers.
Agreed. I read the articles. The story has nothing to do with the game at all, yet the articles (and Slashdot) highlight the game in their titles and pictures because the guy plays the game at times. If the guy happened to have a collection of postage stamps, would the media write their headlines as "Teenage Stamp Collector Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke"?
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20 years and that's all we get?! The console with DOS 25 years ago was more powerful than what we have today! After decades of waiting for something _at_least_ as good as we had back then, I got sick of waiting and found ConEmu. It's a wonderful console. I can't imagine ever going back to the built-in Windows console.
Uh... I spent over a decade in the advertising industry. The eyeballs always are the product. This shouldn't be a shock to anyone. Yelp is no different than any other advertising platforms in this regard. We never referred to users as "customers". That's a totally backwards concept. Customers are those that pay you, that is, the advertisers. Users are sometimes given the impression that the company cares about them, but internally, we never did. We cared about the customer, the advertiser.
Here's a concrete example. It was often the case that the search results for my company were TOO relevant. That is, the precise results that user was looking for showed up as the first listings. This hurt our bottom line quite a bit as users' eyeballs would focus on the top listings, ignoring advertising. We fixed this by decreasing the relevance of the search engine. Eyeballs covered more of the page, including our customers' advertising. It was a win-win for the customers and for the company. That's just how the world works.
I was an OS/2 evangelist and apologist, a major fan. I mourned for OS/2 during it's slow, agonizing death and was likely in a state of denial for a while after it did die. However, at this point, anyone who thinks that OS/2 is viable for anything is really just engaging in necrophilia.
enough animals have died in the process.
As a member of the American Solidarity Party, I advocate for an exploration of a universal basic income / citizen's dividend. It may or may not work, but it's worth exploring. Finland is currently experimenting with this.
This reminds me of an article I read saying that most people in the U.S. have never actually tasted cinnamon, that the product sold in the U.S. is actually cassia a relative of cinnamon, but not actually cinnamon. Supposedly, once you try the real stuff, you'll never want this fake stuff again.
Another similar issue: I grew up putting what I thought was maple syrup on my waffles and pancakes. It was only after I got married that my wife told me that she's not down for that corn syrup and that we needed to get real maple syrup. Once I tried the real stuff, yeah, it's hard to go back.
It has a strong resemblance, but it's not identical.
I, too, am against capital punishment. I have absolutely nothing against corporal punishment though.
"Get his ass whipped with 20 lashes like that dude up in Singapore"
-- Ice Cube
Yeah, that would be a better headline, except if they did a 360, they would still be walking forward. ;)
http://www.alternet.org/news-a...
Couldn't agree with you more. Have you read Laborem exercens? It perfectly conveys the argument that you're making.
It's really interesting that this article just came out. I just got back from Walmart where I was attempting to pickup my son's birthday gift. It took me over an hour of waiting to get it. The online system never sent me an email that it was ready for pick up, but instead said that it had already been picked up. It even gave me the option to return it. I went into the store to figure out what was happening. It hadn't been picked up, but it took them over an hour to find the item.
What more disappointing is that this wasn't an isolated incidence. Over half of the time that I have items shipped to the store, I have a similar experience. Last time it took them two hours to find my package, and that was after I had received an email asking me to go pick it up!
As I wait, I see other customers having to go through the same thing.
I'd love to have a browser that blocks ads, but I wonder if it's going to be a resource hog. I used to use Chrome, but had to ditch it because it would end up consuming 300 - 400 MB on my 4 GB phone (2 GB usable space). Now I use CM Browser and have never looked back. Fast, low resource utilization, and still very featureful.
How is the Android Firefox browser on resources?
You guys are focusing too much on the game. The Minecraft, as an icon, is valuable in and of itself. Disney has Mickey. Nintendo has Mario. Sega has Sonic. Microsoft could possibly be buying Steve. If Steve, as an icon, can last decades into the future, it will be well worth the price tag to Microsoft.
Think Nintendo has made at least $2 billion off of Mario? They certainly didn't make that much off of Mario Bros. or even Super Mario Bros., but has an icon, I'm sure Mario has been worth way more than that.
Your logic is ridiculous. Incarceration isn't a violent act, and more so, the damage that this guy did is real. It's really not that different from arson. An arsonist might cause many millions of dollars in damage, just so that he can have a moment of entertainment. Should arsonists go unpunished?
I switched for the cash. I don't consider it pathetic at all. The quality of the web results are on par with Google. Image results seem to be slightly behind, but for the $8/month I make, to me it was clearly worth it.
I know that there will be a lot of negative comments here about Bing, but when Microsoft started paying people to use Bing, I switched. The web results seem to be just as good as Google. I can't tell the difference. The image results seem to be slightly behind, but for the ~$8/month I make, I don't mind at all. :)
Hopefully not.
But seriously, when Microsoft started paying people to use Bing, I switched and haven't looked back. The search results are pretty good and I've already made $6.53 in the past month. :)
Dwolla isn't in any way a competitor to Bitcoin. Dwolla, as you pointed out, is an online payment system. It is a competitor to PayPal, Google Wallet, credit cards, and other forms of online payment. Payments in these systems are done in dollars and other forms of currency.
Bitcoin is a currency. It's not competing with Dwolla but the US dollar.
I checked out the beta. I'll reserve most judgment for now, but I'm thoroughly disappointed that the Slashdot Poll format hasn't changed. It's a shame that a site like Slashdot continues to use plurality voting. We should switch to ranked voting (or at lease approval voting).
This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing, but it _is_ very political. Planet Money had an explanation of the economics of car dealerships and how dealerships and politicians prevent sales directly to consumers.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buying-a-car-never-changes
Not quite true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Cable_plugs_.28USB_3.0.29
Agreed. I read the articles. The story has nothing to do with the game at all, yet the articles (and Slashdot) highlight the game in their titles and pictures because the guy plays the game at times. If the guy happened to have a collection of postage stamps, would the media write their headlines as "Teenage Stamp Collector Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke"?
You mean the renminbi. _A_ yuan is the unit of _the_ renmimbi currency in the same way that _a_ dollar is the unit of _the_ dollar currency.
A garage door opener!