be sure to call your power company and explain you want to hook in 50 old useless computers in your room and have them permanently plugged in and turned on. They will shortly have a team of very efficient workers there at your beck and call! (it's true and you know it)
I think it just means, 10% of the 1/3rd that have clicked on the spam... too tired to work out that percentage.. 3.3% of people who get spam, that means?
Embed the commercial into the show and you have removed any possiblity of the consumer missing the product.
You think people wouldn't take extra time to edit the commercials out before seeding? Have you taken any consideration to embedded commercials would do to DVD sales? No one would stand for it, and there would be twice as much retaliation! Sure, they could edit out the commercials for DVD releases, which is exactly what the bittorrent community will be doing anyway. Or else, they would just wait and rip those DVDs instead. duhhhhhhhhhh
The way things are looking, it seems bittorrent sites won't be around forever... I'm still mourning over suprnova, lokitorrents myself:( What are you gonna do when johnny corporation finally manages a shutdown of bittorrent sites? There will still be IRC, but we all know that people on IRC are there for leeching and not seeding:)
Can you at least tell me how to kill the paperclip? No matter what I try, the next link I click will be an open invitation for more paper-clip goodness!!! yayyyyy!!!
I'm a very frequent user of VZones, a virtual place, and you're right. That's all there is to it.. Freedom of Speech is one thing in an American court room, but that's fighting for your freedom.. in a virtual place, you pay _after_ you read their rules. Freedom of speech is one thing, and most of the admin people (where i'm at) are cool about it, but they will ask you to stop or tone it down if you cross a line, and if you are smart about it or try to talk back, you're really asking for them to punish you in some form. In the end, Internet usability comes down to what the TOS and AUP says, right?:)
Well put, Michael:) If you just accept what is there as the way things should be, we wouldn't have a lot of things.
When I first got into the calculators, I wanted to learn so much, but I never really had the time or smarts:P I did end up learning a bunch about the calculators though, and I still have people that have seen me on tinews and in #tcpa asking me for advice. The Calculator programming isn't about having a point, it's about having fun, which is the point!
Whoever that anonymous coward is that posted the 'fuck you' to MV, well heh.. Come into #tcpa and you'll get unbanned, k?
Most girls I know downloading music off the internet download the teeny bopper songs that encourage this level of airheadness. They just want the songs, they aren't interested in 'covering their tracks'. Now a GUY, they know to turn the sharing off. GO GO GADGET TESTESTERONE. I think sharing the songs is a stupid idea anyway, why let someone else take some of our bandwidth?:( Then again, I do whore the 56k flex. FLEX!
If this got patented, I imagine it would put a lot of companies (google) out of business or something. I mean, patenting a search of a specific word or phrase in a document? You've got to be kidding me?
I'm not even sure they could patent the part about "searching through it before you make a purchase". I think some newspaper websites let you search through an article for a specific word and then shows you that part of the article, but if you want to read the whole thing you have to make an account or buy the paper.
I guess I don't understand patents. How can you patent something that every program that deals with text uses, and has used since the beginning, and will keep using?;/
I hope more big companies and more individuals will start to realize that Microsoft isn't the ONLY way to go! Espicially when open-source out there. Hell, it's almost easy enough to dive in the code yourself to learn how to tweak it...
I'm getting tired of seeing Billy Gates on the top of the money list anyway..
I forgot to mention, do you think the new devices will have batteries, or be a USB style where the power comes from the device it's attached to?
I'd also like to see an attachable battery pack, because we all have gone through that one time where we forgot to charge the phone the night before, and in the time we really need it, the phone just dies on you and you're screwed! Being able to carry around a cheap battery source (those regular phone batteries are too expensive to just carry around a second one for the heck of it) would be excellent to a lot of people!
This idea is good in theory. I've always wanted to get a cell phone and have the availability of nice features without having to spend outrageous prices. Now (in theory) I can buy a cell phone, basic model, and then buy an external device for whatever extra features I want, and have them work on the next phone I buy in 2 or 3 years if I want.
There are a ton of possibilities for external things, they just need to design the OS for the Nokia phones, which also shouldn't be too much of a hassle.
But you know this is going to be expensive as hell.
"Um, why is the goal to only find 90 percent of the asteroids that can kill us? Shouldn't they be trying to find all of them?"
It is probably possible that the smaller ones will break down upon entering the atmosphere. Also, if you can predict orbit patterns for 90% of asteroids, you can probably conclude any type of pattern for asteroids with the same properties (size).
Besides, when the heck was the last time an asteroid hurt the planet anyway? really?
Wow. I can totally see something like the Slammer virus coming along and either wiping out Phoenix's computers and screwing them up badly, or just attacking all computers and forcing the ones with this BIOS to do some pretty nasty stuff. Of course, this will only teach more people to back up their data more often.
Kind of reminds me of Hackers. "Hackers of the world unite!" woot.
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be sure to call your power company and explain you want to hook in 50 old useless computers in your room and have them permanently plugged in and turned on. They will shortly have a team of very efficient workers there at your beck and call! (it's true and you know it)
I think it just means, 10% of the 1/3rd that have clicked on the spam... too tired to work out that percentage.. 3.3% of people who get spam, that means?
oh, heh, i thought they have already been doing this for a long time now
Embed the commercial into the show and you have removed any possiblity of the consumer missing the product.
You think people wouldn't take extra time to edit the commercials out before seeding? Have you taken any consideration to embedded commercials would do to DVD sales? No one would stand for it, and there would be twice as much retaliation! Sure, they could edit out the commercials for DVD releases, which is exactly what the bittorrent community will be doing anyway. Or else, they would just wait and rip those DVDs instead. duhhhhhhhhhh
The way things are looking, it seems bittorrent sites won't be around forever... I'm still mourning over suprnova, lokitorrents myself :( What are you gonna do when johnny corporation finally manages a shutdown of bittorrent sites? There will still be IRC, but we all know that people on IRC are there for leeching and not seeding :)
sweet thanks >:D
your reply was pretty pointless... so here's a more pointless one!
yes i admit to being the worlds largest MPAA lackey.
*rolls eyes like an emo kid*
yeah but where are some good places to get torrent downloads these days, suprnova and lokitorrent are the shutdownohnoes
hotspots ! go live in your local mickey d's ;)
:(
jack a neighbor's wireless!
i have no ideas
I think I see Pop-eye using their laptops in incredibly effective infomercials now! Will Bluto be using the regular crummy "battery-powered" laptops?
Can you at least tell me how to kill the paperclip? No matter what I try, the next link I click will be an open invitation for more paper-clip goodness!!! yayyyyy!!!
haha, right on dwedit
who the hell is your webmail provider? lol
I'm a very frequent user of VZones, a virtual place, and you're right. That's all there is to it.. Freedom of Speech is one thing in an American court room, but that's fighting for your freedom.. in a virtual place, you pay _after_ you read their rules. Freedom of speech is one thing, and most of the admin people (where i'm at) are cool about it, but they will ask you to stop or tone it down if you cross a line, and if you are smart about it or try to talk back, you're really asking for them to punish you in some form. In the end, Internet usability comes down to what the TOS and AUP says, right? :)
Well put, Michael :) If you just accept what is there as the way things should be, we wouldn't have a lot of things.
:P I did end up learning a bunch about the calculators though, and I still have people that have seen me on tinews and in #tcpa asking me for advice. The Calculator programming isn't about having a point, it's about having fun, which is the point!
When I first got into the calculators, I wanted to learn so much, but I never really had the time or smarts
Whoever that anonymous coward is that posted the 'fuck you' to MV, well heh.. Come into #tcpa and you'll get unbanned, k?
-Catcher
Most girls I know downloading music off the internet download the teeny bopper songs that encourage this level of airheadness. They just want the songs, they aren't interested in 'covering their tracks'. Now a GUY, they know to turn the sharing off. GO GO GADGET TESTESTERONE. I think sharing the songs is a stupid idea anyway, why let someone else take some of our bandwidth? :( Then again, I do whore the 56k flex. FLEX!
Propz to metawire.org
believe it or not!
...
1.) go to walmart
2.) thumb in the book
3.) look over your shoulder every 30 seconds, we don't want to get caught!
4.)
5.) YOU GENIUS!
If this got patented, I imagine it would put a lot of companies (google) out of business or something. I mean, patenting a search of a specific word or phrase in a document? You've got to be kidding me?
;/
I'm not even sure they could patent the part about "searching through it before you make a purchase". I think some newspaper websites let you search through an article for a specific word and then shows you that part of the article, but if you want to read the whole thing you have to make an account or buy the paper.
I guess I don't understand patents. How can you patent something that every program that deals with text uses, and has used since the beginning, and will keep using?
I hope more big companies and more individuals will start to realize that Microsoft isn't the ONLY way to go! Espicially when open-source out there. Hell, it's almost easy enough to dive in the code yourself to learn how to tweak it...
I'm getting tired of seeing Billy Gates on the top of the money list anyway..
I forgot to mention, do you think the new devices will have batteries, or be a USB style where the power comes from the device it's attached to?
I'd also like to see an attachable battery pack, because we all have gone through that one time where we forgot to charge the phone the night before, and in the time we really need it, the phone just dies on you and you're screwed! Being able to carry around a cheap battery source (those regular phone batteries are too expensive to just carry around a second one for the heck of it) would be excellent to a lot of people!
This idea is good in theory. I've always wanted to get a cell phone and have the availability of nice features without having to spend outrageous prices. Now (in theory) I can buy a cell phone, basic model, and then buy an external device for whatever extra features I want, and have them work on the next phone I buy in 2 or 3 years if I want.
There are a ton of possibilities for external things, they just need to design the OS for the Nokia phones, which also shouldn't be too much of a hassle.
But you know this is going to be expensive as hell.
"Um, why is the goal to only find 90 percent of the asteroids that can kill us? Shouldn't they be trying to find all of them?"
It is probably possible that the smaller ones will break down upon entering the atmosphere. Also, if you can predict orbit patterns for 90% of asteroids, you can probably conclude any type of pattern for asteroids with the same properties (size).
Besides, when the heck was the last time an asteroid hurt the planet anyway? really?
LOL
"...create 400 foot waves along the east coast."
Guess we better start in on building 401 foot sea-walls! Made out of Adamantium..
Wow. I can totally see something like the Slammer virus coming along and either wiping out Phoenix's computers and screwing them up badly, or just attacking all computers and forcing the ones with this BIOS to do some pretty nasty stuff. Of course, this will only teach more people to back up their data more often.
Kind of reminds me of Hackers. "Hackers of the world unite!"
woot.