If we all stop reply to these stupid Duplicate posts perhaps the advertisers will take notice and make the editors accountable.
A typical/. post gets 100-400 replys. If we can narrow that down to 10 (which will all be first post idiots) then perhaps we can help save this once noble board.
We all know that money talks. Let them hear our plea.
We need to tell Bush, that the real Axis of evil has joined forces in Canada. Spawn of Satan (Bell) and Son of Satan (Rogers), have combined to form the most feared mega-corp the world has seen since Syndicate!
In typical fashion us Canadians will wait for somebody else to put and end to this evil while we complain about taxes and mutter under our breath.
Maybe if we get Tim Hortons coupons too it will be ok.
I very much enjoyed the original DS. I loved how the game allowed you to advance based on how you play.
BUT...
After 20 hours it gets damn annoying to smash every crate and check the loot to find the good upgrades. I would have preferred fewer crates with more 'valuable' goods in them. After finding my 200th Robe of Defence +1 it gets annoying.
Advancing your character: one fun trick that I found at later levels;
Set your healer to auto-heal himself & you, never attack. Have your character start roaming in an area of low-power bad-guys auto-attacking everything he sees with the weapon you want to increase in power.
Let the game play itself for a few days, and your player & healer have both leveled up 10+ levels.
Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel.
Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning to realize the power and benefit of the RSS information avenue. The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent.
Like the Internet when it first started, blogs were emboldened by the "cool factor". As the novelty of being new and cool wears off, Internet webmasters and bloggers alike are realizing that maintaining a website or blog is time-consuming. "Coolness" often wears off if a channel is not monetized. With the ease of blogging and the array of blogs available, only a handful will be able to sustain fresh, constant, unique content and generate any sort of reasonable or significant revenue. As a result, blogs as we know them today will fade into the background, with many blogs being abandoned.
RSS, being a tool that saves Internet surfers time and allows webmasters to re-purpose and re-package existing and new content will, in my opinion, continue to thrive. A business effectively using RSS can bring new site visitors, increase search engine positioning, and generate product interest. The flexibility of RSS as a communication medium and the expansion capabilities of the enclosure tag will allow RSS to flourish as an online marketing tool. Each day businesses are adopting new uses for RSS, and users are becoming accustomed to skimming content that *they* choose in a single centralized location.
As businesses adopt RSS and consumers experiment with feeds, the popularity of RSS will grow. Ultimately, consumers are the driving force behind technology. The convenience of RSS and increased popularity will set a precedent for consumer expectations. Businesses using RSS as a communication vehicle are able to create keyword-rich, themed content, establishing trust, reputation, and ongoing communication with current and prospective customers.
The big consumer benefit to RSS is that consumers opt-in to content of interest, totally controlling the flow of information they receive. If the quality of the content in the feed declines, users simply remove the feed from their RSS reader and they will not receive any additional updates from that source. The RSS reader acts as an aggregator, allowing users to view and scan multiple content streams in a timely fashion.
Consumer expectation will drive businesses that are slow to adopt. Ultimately, RSS will be a standard, like email addresses and websites are now a "must" for businesses. RSS feeds will join their ranks.
Unlike blogs, businesses can easily justify RSS feeds, as they will be increasing customer and corporate communication. RSS will create new revenue channels. RSS has the potential to help companies develop strong relationships with consumers and create brand loyalty. RSS Feeds will draw existing customers and prospective clients, translating to a new or renewed income stream. Businesses using RSS feeds as a communication medium to notify interested customers of specials, discounts, product announcements, technical support tips, news and industry studies will ultimately sustain RSS as a viable and valued communication medium.
About the Author: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com/ software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net/ a wireless text messaging software company.
Am I the only one who thinks it's odd we let them drive at 16 but they're not mature enough to see breasts yet?
hehe that's nothing. In Canada, Age of Consent is 16.
To go watch an "R"estricted film, you must be 18+ years of age.
Therefore, if you are 16 years old, you can legally have sex, just not watch it. If you were tape yourself having sex, you could goto jail and be labeled a sex-offender.
It wasn't a programmer/developer/sysadmin/etc position, it was for the equivilent of a tech support role, so yes they were relevent.
The point behind asking the Ip address wasn't to see if he knew it, easy way to find an IP: ping it!
If the ping didn't work, find out why. (ethernet not plugged in!)
The position required _basic_ tech support skills, I didn't feel that I asked for info outside what he would need to know in the field. And yes, i was surprised he didn't just quit either.
Yes I am lucky, and I know what you mean about 'paper-mcse' type people. (I have helped interview them for our company.) I usually give them an easy test to prove what they know or don't know.
it's a fun test. 1) What is the IP address of www.HP.com? (Ethernet cable was unplugged)
2) Install this printer driver. (lpt1 disabled in BIOS)...etc...
In total there were 10 questions. I've had a few that I just told to give-up after 2 hours and only getting a couple of answers.
I've never thought of the company (only promoting based on Certs.) as being lucky, but I guess you are right. I hate programming, so that leaves me with Company XYZ Certified Eng. style certs for me to go after.
..."No-one hires someone just because they can obtain a certificate."...
That's how I got hired, and that is how I get raises.
I got my foot in the door by having a bunch of certs. That got the interview. I just found out that the _only_ thing keeping me from getting bumped up the $ ladder is to upgrade my exams.
Skill? nah knowledge? no Charisma? Hell no. A bunch of stupid letters after my name? yeah. That is how I am rewarded.
All I want is some small single screen device that I could use bluetooth to connect my cell & PDA and let me SSH into my boxes. 640x480 should be good enough. (hehe I'd even pay more if it had borg-green glowing things on it! )
France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.
Orange SA, one of the world's leading wireless companies with 52 million customers in 16 countries, will bundle a MicroOptical binocular video eyewear with Samsung's SGH-D600 cell phone as part of its new "Orange World" wireless multimedia service. The bundled package, unveiled in June 2005 at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, is scheduled to be available to Orange subscribers in October 2005.
MicroOptical's video eyewear contains two of Kopin's full-color, QVGA-resolution (320 x 240) CyberDisplay 230K microdisplays. The sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, yet simultaneously view their surroundings thanks to the small size of the frame and MicroOptical's patented optics which allow the user to see around the screen. Europe's AFP news wire service called the bundled technology "a sure fire hit," saying that the eyewear's "big screen effect" is stunning, especially when combined with built-in stereo earpieces.
"Kopin CyberDisplays are becoming the standard microdisplays of choice for mobile video applications thanks to their ability to provide the highest video quality in the smallest footprint and with very low power consumption," said Dr. Mark Spitzer, MicroOptical's founder and CEO. "We are very happy with our partnership with Kopin and really excited about being a part of Orange's multimedia wireless service. We are ramping up the production to meet the initial customer demand."
"The mobile video revolution is unfolding in the cellular phone market as we speak," said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin's president and CEO. "Consumers want to be able to watch movies, music videos and TV, browse the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones on the go. But the phone's small screen has inhibited widespread consumer adoption. MicroOptical's innovative video eyewear is enabling the big screen capabilities that consumers demand, and yet is very lightweight and similar to eyeglasses."
The Kopin CyberDisplay 230K's tiny size (0.24-inch diagonal) enabled MicroOptical to design a featherweight (2.5 oz.), comfortable and stylish video eyewear solution for Orange SA. MicroOptical's binocular video eyewear delivers crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. The eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players.
Built with nanotechnology, the CyberDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal is the highest resolution transmissive display of its size. In addition to displaying standard text and graphics, the display operates at traditional video speeds and consumes only five milliwatts of power. Kopin's power-efficient CyberDisplay 230K is ideal for a range of portable consumer and industrial applications such as video eyewear and viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders.
They should market those things to the Star Trek crowd. Lots of geeks will pay top $ to have a 'functional' visor so they too can look like Geordy.... All kidding aside, I would rather have a single eye-piece then this wrap-around your head design.
I wish companies and.gov would stop pushing biometrics as the end-all solution to password & user security.
If the server where the passwords are stored is insecure, then the passwords are insecure!
The only benefit that fingerprint scanners offer is the instant ability to have 10 different passwords "at your fingertips"! Downside: I have to label each of my fingers so I know which password belongs to which site. Well, there's one finger that i don't need to label, that special middle finger is reserved for just one site.
the article could be seen as a summary of the last 100 years of American culture. (or 1000 years of Western culture).
Art is the only true form of originality that exists in the world. It takes a creative mind to 'create' something from nothing.
- an image of beauty from a plain piece of canvass - a new tool that saves a person the work of 3 - a way of thinking about ones place in the world that is of harmony with nature.
Modern society is more about consuming then it is about co-existing. The 'American' trend of sit-back and be entertained has led us to this cut&paste culture where things are just re-hashed for later use.
I believe that we are approaching the decedant state that Rome was in just before the fall.
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If we all stop reply to these stupid Duplicate posts perhaps the advertisers will take notice and make the editors accountable.
/. post gets 100-400 replys.
A typical
If we can narrow that down to 10 (which will all be first post idiots) then perhaps we can help save this once noble board.
We all know that money talks. Let them hear our plea.
Thank-you very much for the link to the source code. I am not a coder, the closest I get are simple bash scripts to automate stuff on my servers.
2 things that I noticed while looking at that file;
(1) how awesome GPL really is. Sprinkled throughout are snippets of code that was borowed from other sources (with links back to original docs).
(b) Why do differenct programming languages use different codes to "comment-out" areas?
It wasn't untill 6 months ago that I found out REM doesn't work anymore!!
So we have:
# for bash scripts
/ for HTML
REM for basic
Can't we all just get along and WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
=)
We need to tell Bush, that the real Axis of evil has joined forces in Canada. Spawn of Satan (Bell) and Son of Satan (Rogers), have combined to form the most feared mega-corp the world has seen since Syndicate!
In typical fashion us Canadians will wait for somebody else to put and end to this evil while we complain about taxes and mutter under our breath.
Maybe if we get Tim Hortons coupons too it will be ok.
I very much enjoyed the original DS. I loved how the game allowed you to advance based on how you play.
BUT...
After 20 hours it gets damn annoying to smash every crate and check the loot to find the good upgrades. I would have preferred fewer crates with more 'valuable' goods in them. After finding my 200th Robe of Defence +1 it gets annoying.
Advancing your character: one fun trick that I found at later levels;
Set your healer to auto-heal himself & you, never attack. Have your character start roaming in an area of low-power bad-guys auto-attacking everything he sees with the weapon you want to increase in power.
Let the game play itself for a few days, and your player & healer have both leveled up 10+ levels.
cool.
Future of RSS is Not Blogs
Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel.
Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning to realize the power and benefit of the RSS information avenue. The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent.
Like the Internet when it first started, blogs were emboldened by the "cool factor". As the novelty of being new and cool wears off, Internet webmasters and bloggers alike are realizing that maintaining a website or blog is time-consuming. "Coolness" often wears off if a channel is not monetized. With the ease of blogging and the array of blogs available, only a handful will be able to sustain fresh, constant, unique content and generate any sort of reasonable or significant revenue. As a result, blogs as we know them today will fade into the background, with many blogs being abandoned.
RSS, being a tool that saves Internet surfers time and allows webmasters to re-purpose and re-package existing and new content will, in my opinion, continue to thrive. A business effectively using RSS can bring new site visitors, increase search engine positioning, and generate product interest. The flexibility of RSS as a communication medium and the expansion capabilities of the enclosure tag will allow RSS to flourish as an online marketing tool. Each day businesses are adopting new uses for RSS, and users are becoming accustomed to skimming content that *they* choose in a single centralized location.
As businesses adopt RSS and consumers experiment with feeds, the popularity of RSS will grow. Ultimately, consumers are the driving force behind technology. The convenience of RSS and increased popularity will set a precedent for consumer expectations. Businesses using RSS as a communication vehicle are able to create keyword-rich, themed content, establishing trust, reputation, and ongoing communication with current and prospective customers.
The big consumer benefit to RSS is that consumers opt-in to content of interest, totally controlling the flow of information they receive. If the quality of the content in the feed declines, users simply remove the feed from their RSS reader and they will not receive any additional updates from that source. The RSS reader acts as an aggregator, allowing users to view and scan multiple content streams in a timely fashion.
Consumer expectation will drive businesses that are slow to adopt. Ultimately, RSS will be a standard, like email addresses and websites are now a "must" for businesses. RSS feeds will join their ranks.
Unlike blogs, businesses can easily justify RSS feeds, as they will be increasing customer and corporate communication. RSS will create new revenue channels. RSS has the potential to help companies develop strong relationships with consumers and create brand loyalty. RSS Feeds will draw existing customers and prospective clients, translating to a new or renewed income stream. Businesses using RSS feeds as a communication medium to notify interested customers of specials, discounts, product announcements, technical support tips, news and industry studies will ultimately sustain RSS as a viable and valued communication medium.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com/ software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net/ a wireless text messaging software company.
A 2-pronged answer:
Take a red pen, and cross-out the parts that you disagree with (and in theory want to negotiate).
And/Or
Where you sign it also write: Under duress of Termination.
Or, more importantly; Talk to a REAL lawyer.
Am I the only one who thinks it's odd we let them drive at 16 but they're not mature enough to see breasts yet?
hehe that's nothing. In Canada, Age of Consent is 16.
To go watch an "R"estricted film, you must be 18+ years of age.
Therefore, if you are 16 years old, you can legally have sex, just not watch it. If you were tape yourself having sex, you could goto jail and be labeled a sex-offender.
You miss-understand a few things.
It wasn't a programmer/developer/sysadmin/etc position, it was for the equivilent of a tech support role, so yes they were relevent.
The point behind asking the Ip address wasn't to see if he knew it, easy way to find an IP: ping it!
If the ping didn't work, find out why. (ethernet not plugged in!)
The position required _basic_ tech support skills, I didn't feel that I asked for info outside what he would need to know in the field.
And yes, i was surprised he didn't just quit either.
You are right. The catch here is that Dell and all other pre-configured PC sellers will include the new secure monitors.
John Q Public won't even know he is being screwed.
Yes I am lucky, and I know what you mean about 'paper-mcse' type people. (I have helped interview them for our company.) I usually give them an easy test to prove what they know or don't know.
...etc...
it's a fun test.
1) What is the IP address of www.HP.com? (Ethernet cable was unplugged)
2) Install this printer driver. (lpt1 disabled in BIOS)
In total there were 10 questions. I've had a few that I just told to give-up after 2 hours and only getting a couple of answers.
I've never thought of the company (only promoting based on Certs.) as being lucky, but I guess you are right. I hate programming, so that leaves me with Company XYZ Certified Eng. style certs for me to go after.
Last night, my wife & I went out for dinner to "East Side Mario's".
I was SHOCKED to find an advertisment for Tide lanudry detergent INSIDE the menu!!!
Needless to say, I felt humanity slip another rung down the ladder.
..."No-one hires someone just because they can obtain a certificate."...
That's how I got hired, and that is how I get raises.
I got my foot in the door by having a bunch of certs. That got the interview. I just found out that the _only_ thing keeping me from getting bumped up the $ ladder is to upgrade my exams.
Skill? nah knowledge? no Charisma? Hell no. A bunch of stupid letters after my name? yeah.
That is how I am rewarded.
Excellent obscure refrence.
7 out of 10 stars!
Nothing will make more of a difference. Make sure your child is challenged by what (s)he is reading. Engaging topics with far-reaching concepts.
To make it stick, compare it with modern events (where applicable). Compare 1984 or Paradise Lost with current goverment activities (patriot act).
Keep it fun too. Or they will quickly bore.
You are right. I was just thinking of it as a computer display.
Here's a great site of information on Head Mounted Displays: http://www.stereo3d.com/hmd.htm#chart
All I want is some small single screen device that I could use bluetooth to connect my cell & PDA and let me SSH into my boxes. 640x480 should be good enough.
(hehe I'd even pay more if it had borg-green glowing things on it! )
Image mirror: http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/3162/microoptic al2gj.jpg
France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.
Orange SA, one of the world's leading wireless companies with 52 million customers in 16 countries, will bundle a MicroOptical binocular video eyewear with Samsung's SGH-D600 cell phone as part of its new "Orange World" wireless multimedia service. The bundled package, unveiled in June 2005 at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, is scheduled to be available to Orange subscribers in October 2005.
MicroOptical's video eyewear contains two of Kopin's full-color, QVGA-resolution (320 x 240) CyberDisplay 230K microdisplays. The sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, yet simultaneously view their surroundings thanks to the small size of the frame and MicroOptical's patented optics which allow the user to see around the screen. Europe's AFP news wire service called the bundled technology "a sure fire hit," saying that the eyewear's "big screen effect" is stunning, especially when combined with built-in stereo earpieces.
"Kopin CyberDisplays are becoming the standard microdisplays of choice for mobile video applications thanks to their ability to provide the highest video quality in the smallest footprint and with very low power consumption," said Dr. Mark Spitzer, MicroOptical's founder and CEO. "We are very happy with our partnership with Kopin and really excited about being a part of Orange's multimedia wireless service. We are ramping up the production to meet the initial customer demand."
"The mobile video revolution is unfolding in the cellular phone market as we speak," said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin's president and CEO. "Consumers want to be able to watch movies, music videos and TV, browse the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones on the go. But the phone's small screen has inhibited widespread consumer adoption. MicroOptical's innovative video eyewear is enabling the big screen capabilities that consumers demand, and yet is very lightweight and similar to eyeglasses."
The Kopin CyberDisplay 230K's tiny size (0.24-inch diagonal) enabled MicroOptical to design a featherweight (2.5 oz.), comfortable and stylish video eyewear solution for Orange SA. MicroOptical's binocular video eyewear delivers crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. The eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players.
Built with nanotechnology, the CyberDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal is the highest resolution transmissive display of its size. In addition to displaying standard text and graphics, the display operates at traditional video speeds and consumes only five milliwatts of power. Kopin's power-efficient CyberDisplay 230K is ideal for a range of portable consumer and industrial applications such as video eyewear and viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders.
They should market those things to the Star Trek crowd. Lots of geeks will pay top $ to have a 'functional' visor so they too can look like Geordy. ... All kidding aside, I would rather have a single eye-piece then this wrap-around your head design.
I wish companies and .gov would stop pushing biometrics as the end-all solution to password & user security.
If the server where the passwords are stored is insecure, then the passwords are insecure!
The only benefit that fingerprint scanners offer is the instant ability to have 10 different passwords "at your fingertips"!
Downside: I have to label each of my fingers so I know which password belongs to which site. Well, there's one finger that i don't need to label, that special middle finger is reserved for just one site.
har, yeah I feel the same way.
Damn that was depressing wasn't it?
I wonder if the chief engineer was a MOO2 fan?
the article could be seen as a summary of the last 100 years of American culture. (or 1000 years of Western culture).
Art is the only true form of originality that exists in the world. It takes a creative mind to 'create' something from nothing.
- an image of beauty from a plain piece of canvass
- a new tool that saves a person the work of 3
- a way of thinking about ones place in the world that is of harmony with nature.
Modern society is more about consuming then it is about co-existing. The 'American' trend of sit-back and be entertained has led us to this cut&paste culture where things are just re-hashed for later use.
I believe that we are approaching the decedant state that Rome was in just before the fall.
The new renaissance should be quite entertaining.
...decision to bake RSS into Longhorn... ...on the back burner.
No wonder MS says they can't remove things like IE from the operating system; They cook it all together!!!
Oh my...
I now have spewed Coke all over my monitor and keyboard. Everybody in the office is looking at me, and I almost fell out of my chair!!!
Fuck that was funny.
Good job. You just made my week!
This thread got me searching;
you can find the cow one (and others) here: http://www.thx.com/trailers/