I truly feel that people only believe in life after death because they cannot concieve of their own non-existance.
It amazes me when people say "How can there be no life after death?" What they fail to realize is that when a person dies, their life is just as it was before they were even born. It's not very difficult to think that before you were born, you didn't exist. Why's that so hard to consider that the same thing happens afterwards?
Archaelogy continuously affirms it and when it seems to contradict it it is usually only a few years before better studies (better meaning better documentation, archaelogical evidence, scholarship, acceptance in scholarly circles etc) show the Bible correct again.
Please tell me how archaeology affirms that miracles were performed. In other words, I could take the same people, locations, and general description of events as it appears in the bible and make up any bullshit story I want so long as it fits the archaeological evidence. And because the archaeology matches up with what I write, you would believe everything including all the non-archaeological crud?
How would/. get shortchanged? If every/. reader that check/. out at least once a day would give just $5 USD (about.001 Euro or 1,000,000 yen ; ) ) each year,/. would not have to worry ads.
This is true if the average value of each daily user to slashdot is only $5 a year or less. If slashdot averages more than $5/year from each daily user through advertising, then it gets less money. I'm going under the perhaps incorrect assumption that the price slashdot sets for its own ad blocking is the average amount of revenue it would otherwise get if you viewed those ads.
Web site owners have the right to display whatever they want on their pages whether I want to see it or not. Nobody's stopping them from doing that. And I can choose not to see it. Nobody should be stopping me from doing that either.
It's entirely possible for websites to not serve up content unless you've viewed ads. The webserver serves up a page along with ads. If your ad blocker isn't loading the ads, the next page will say "Hey, here's some in-your-face ads since you won't view the ones we show you." Then, of course, your ad blocker will download the ads in the background but just not display them. Eventually, the advertising arms race gets to the point where the site has done all it can do technically and it doesn't know if you actually are seeing the ads or if they're invisible. When it gets there, I don't think the site cares one way or the other. It still counts as an impression, only their click-through rates suffer. Maybe, after time, the ad blocker will simulate click-throughs as well and then everybody but the advertisers will be happy. So it'll get to the point where you drink a refreshing Sprite because the advertisements have to be embedded directly in the content you're viewing on Amazon.com, the world's greatest bookstore, thereby ruining the notion of free websites.
I block ads on/. and every site I use with adblock and flashblock. If I want to support a site I like, then I will donate a couple bucks to them. For example, if you look at my/. UID I have an asterisks next to it, that means I am a subscriber. I just donated $5 USD to/. and do this about two times a year. To me/. is worth $10 a year. Now imagine if the 100,000+/. readers all donated $5 - $10 a year./. wouldn't need stupid ads.
To play devil's advocate here, why do you need to block ads on slashdot? You pay the $5 and you get so many credits which will block ads on your behalf. Slashdot has set a price saying that each ad is worth so much money, so your $5 gets you the ability to block X ads. In effect, you're gaming the system by using slashdot's paid ad-blocking system as well as using your own. If everybody did what you did, slashdot would still need ads because they'd get shortchanged on revenue.
One thing I think Google should do is allow searching by region and date. So if you are viewing the map at a certain zoom level, Google Maps could highlight the regions that were taken on a certain day. So you could zoom out to a certain area of interest, select your historical date of interest (eg: September 11, 2001), and see what shows up. How about night images? Ever wonder what's going on for a new year's party at a certain place?
My federal and state returns cost me 60 cents postage each. I'm wasting another 28 cents because I threw on two 37 cent stamps instead of waiting in line for exact postage.
I hope you calculated the math for your return better than you did for your postage.
Look at it this way. Cars used to be really slow, and you had to hand-crank them. They got faster and faster and more practical with each decade. Now you could build a car that could go 500mph, but nobody needs it except race car drivers. The only thing that's really changed with cars is more efficient fuel consumption and various niceties like stereo systems and computer navigation. And yet, I'm still getting along with my car made in 1993. Before that, a car made in 1984. A friend of mine still drives a 1960s pickup truck. He simply doesn't need more than that.
I think computers have hit that plateau.
Your analogy is flawed. Computer speeds have to keep up with the increasing requirements of software. As software gets larger and does more, processors need to become faster in order to present the same speed of interface to the user. Cars, on the other hand, don't have changing requirements. The roads they run on today are the same roads as fifty years ago. The only reason we'd *need* faster and more powerful cars would be if the roads kept getting steeper and steeper. Since that's not the case, cars don't change much and you can get by with an older car because it runs on the same road as a modern one.
So if you're happy running the software you did a decade ago then you don't need a faster computer. But if you want your software to do more and more, you're going to need a faster processor unless you enjoy waiting around longer and longer.
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I'd love to know what those numbers communicated to them.
Likely not much. It's probably the same as showing colors to people or letting them smell scents. Some people agree that certain things smell nice to them, and others can't stand the smell -- peoples' choice of perfumes, for example. I become really sad when I smell the perfume that some women wear.:)
Now if they were able to distinguish prime numbers from a random list of very lengthy primes and non-primes, then that would be something.
The patch couldn't exist without the original, much in the same way that commentary on a movie or book couldn't exist without the original. Anyway, I think you are correct in that it is a derivative, I was just curious if someone's tried exploiting any loopholes.
I'm sure there's probably some creative ways that people have found to get around GPL licensing. How about someone takes the source, modifies it, compiles it into an executable, and then distributes the unmodified application with a proprietary program to apply a patch?
I wonder if something like that would stand up to a court challenge. It's similar to taking a Harry Potter book and telling people to go get the original book, then providing instructions on how to modify the original book such as "Page 3, paragraph 2, line 4 insert the word 'voraciously' at the end of the line". It'd certainly be interesting to see how it would pan out.
Not the pronoun, but rather a doctor with the unlikely name of "Who"
Were it the former, we'd have a bunch of grammar nazis claiming that the title should read "BBC Apologizes To Whom Star". Not to mention the ensuing thread of replies pointing out how it still isn't correct.
Well, here's some free advice. As with all free advice, consider what you paid for it.:)
First off, what kinds of keywords are you looking at? The web hosting market is one of the most saturated markets out there. If your keywords are all generic, then you're not likely to differentiate your service from any other service. So, try and find something that you're insanely great at. Maybe it's hands-on Perl/PHP scripting advice, maybe something else.
Once you've found that, target those keywords but don't just send them to your home page. Create separate pages for each of your keyword combinations. Whatever paragraph you supplied in Google Adwords, for example, should entice the person to click through for some specific benefit to them. So they get to this custom page which catches their interest with a great title and opening sentence or two. You have to make it look like it's something they want to keep reading. Then, for the rest of the page, go into detail about whatever benefit you outlined in your ad. At various points throughout, you should offer a reason for them to want to keep receiving information from you. Maybe you have a weekly article on making the most out of PHP/MySQL, available only through your newsletter. Maybe you have a draw for a free iPod shuffle. Find something that inspires your viewers to provide you with their email address.
Then, if they sign up for more information with their email address, you've achieved your goal. It'd be great to sell them on the first visit, but you're likely going to have to build a relationship. I've heard the statistic (lies or damned lies?) that it takes someone viewing your product/service an average of six times before they make a purchase decision. So that's why getting their permission for continued information is critical. If your content really is valuable and they see that you know your stuff, maybe they'll trust you enough to give hosting a try especially if there's a compelling reason to go with your hosting -- again, you should have something which differentiates your service.
In the end, sadly, it's a numbers game. But that doesn't mean that you can't still be ethical and above board in playing the game.
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I truly feel that people only believe in life after death because they cannot concieve of their own non-existance.
It amazes me when people say "How can there be no life after death?" What they fail to realize is that when a person dies, their life is just as it was before they were even born. It's not very difficult to think that before you were born, you didn't exist. Why's that so hard to consider that the same thing happens afterwards?
Archaelogy continuously affirms it and when it seems to contradict it it is usually only a few years before better studies (better meaning better documentation, archaelogical evidence, scholarship, acceptance in scholarly circles etc) show the Bible correct again.
Please tell me how archaeology affirms that miracles were performed. In other words, I could take the same people, locations, and general description of events as it appears in the bible and make up any bullshit story I want so long as it fits the archaeological evidence. And because the archaeology matches up with what I write, you would believe everything including all the non-archaeological crud?
Qui Custodes Custodiat? is probably better translated as "who guards the guardians" than "who watches the watchers"?
I was thinking more along the lines of "Who cleans the janitors?"
We all know people who argue that the large number of Firefox security fixes is bad -- but in fact, it is the mark of healthy and vibrant software.
So with Windows and IE having numerous bug fixes, does this mean that Microsoft software is healthy and vibrant?
Just think of the cool booby traps you could design
So, uh... a girl walks out into the sunlight and you somehow trap her boobies?
How would /. get shortchanged? If every /. reader that check /. out at least once a day would give just $5 USD (about .001 Euro or 1,000,000 yen ; ) ) each year, /. would not have to worry ads.
This is true if the average value of each daily user to slashdot is only $5 a year or less. If slashdot averages more than $5/year from each daily user through advertising, then it gets less money. I'm going under the perhaps incorrect assumption that the price slashdot sets for its own ad blocking is the average amount of revenue it would otherwise get if you viewed those ads.
Web site owners have the right to display whatever they want on their pages whether I want to see it or not. Nobody's stopping them from doing that. And I can choose not to see it. Nobody should be stopping me from doing that either.
It's entirely possible for websites to not serve up content unless you've viewed ads. The webserver serves up a page along with ads. If your ad blocker isn't loading the ads, the next page will say "Hey, here's some in-your-face ads since you won't view the ones we show you." Then, of course, your ad blocker will download the ads in the background but just not display them. Eventually, the advertising arms race gets to the point where the site has done all it can do technically and it doesn't know if you actually are seeing the ads or if they're invisible. When it gets there, I don't think the site cares one way or the other. It still counts as an impression, only their click-through rates suffer. Maybe, after time, the ad blocker will simulate click-throughs as well and then everybody but the advertisers will be happy. So it'll get to the point where you drink a refreshing Sprite because the advertisements have to be embedded directly in the content you're viewing on Amazon.com, the world's greatest bookstore, thereby ruining the notion of free websites.
I block ads on /. and every site I use with adblock and flashblock. If I want to support a site I like, then I will donate a couple bucks to them. For example, if you look at my /. UID I have an asterisks next to it, that means I am a subscriber. I just donated $5 USD to /. and do this about two times a year. To me /. is worth $10 a year. Now imagine if the 100,000+ /. readers all donated $5 - $10 a year. /. wouldn't need stupid ads.
To play devil's advocate here, why do you need to block ads on slashdot? You pay the $5 and you get so many credits which will block ads on your behalf. Slashdot has set a price saying that each ad is worth so much money, so your $5 gets you the ability to block X ads. In effect, you're gaming the system by using slashdot's paid ad-blocking system as well as using your own. If everybody did what you did, slashdot would still need ads because they'd get shortchanged on revenue.
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One thing I think Google should do is allow searching by region and date. So if you are viewing the map at a certain zoom level, Google Maps could highlight the regions that were taken on a certain day. So you could zoom out to a certain area of interest, select your historical date of interest (eg: September 11, 2001), and see what shows up. How about night images? Ever wonder what's going on for a new year's party at a certain place?
They call it 'resurrection ecology', I call it RePet. This goes along well with the last story about SimPal Cindy.
Finding someone good isn't going to be cheap, but then again, if you're concerned about price, fire up Nessus or ISS and run it yourself.
;-)
Whoah... I'm all for good security, but don't you think using the International Space Station is a bit overkill?
My federal and state returns cost me 60 cents postage each. I'm wasting another 28 cents because I threw on two 37 cent stamps instead of waiting in line for exact postage.
I hope you calculated the math for your return better than you did for your postage.
Look at it this way. Cars used to be really slow, and you had to hand-crank them. They got faster and faster and more practical with each decade. Now you could build a car that could go 500mph, but nobody needs it except race car drivers. The only thing that's really changed with cars is more efficient fuel consumption and various niceties like stereo systems and computer navigation. And yet, I'm still getting along with my car made in 1993. Before that, a car made in 1984. A friend of mine still drives a 1960s pickup truck. He simply doesn't need more than that.
I think computers have hit that plateau.
Your analogy is flawed. Computer speeds have to keep up with the increasing requirements of software. As software gets larger and does more, processors need to become faster in order to present the same speed of interface to the user. Cars, on the other hand, don't have changing requirements. The roads they run on today are the same roads as fifty years ago. The only reason we'd *need* faster and more powerful cars would be if the roads kept getting steeper and steeper. Since that's not the case, cars don't change much and you can get by with an older car because it runs on the same road as a modern one.
So if you're happy running the software you did a decade ago then you don't need a faster computer. But if you want your software to do more and more, you're going to need a faster processor unless you enjoy waiting around longer and longer.
I'd love to know what those numbers communicated to them.
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Likely not much. It's probably the same as showing colors to people or letting them smell scents. Some people agree that certain things smell nice to them, and others can't stand the smell -- peoples' choice of perfumes, for example. I become really sad when I smell the perfume that some women wear.
Now if they were able to distinguish prime numbers from a random list of very lengthy primes and non-primes, then that would be something.
Gee thanks I couldn't possibly have "gotten" that oh-so-confusing joke without someone explaining it in every minute detail.
Oh sure... you may have gotten the reference, but not all of us are gay enough to have studied philosophy.
And, in other news, the 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) Corporation announces that it doesn't really do much mining these days either.
The patch couldn't exist without the original, much in the same way that commentary on a movie or book couldn't exist without the original. Anyway, I think you are correct in that it is a derivative, I was just curious if someone's tried exploiting any loopholes.
So, Mr. Follow-your-nose... before I hire you for these Fruit Loops commercials, would you say you're a Toucan or a Toucan't?
I'm sure there's probably some creative ways that people have found to get around GPL licensing. How about someone takes the source, modifies it, compiles it into an executable, and then distributes the unmodified application with a proprietary program to apply a patch?
I wonder if something like that would stand up to a court challenge. It's similar to taking a Harry Potter book and telling people to go get the original book, then providing instructions on how to modify the original book such as "Page 3, paragraph 2, line 4 insert the word 'voraciously' at the end of the line". It'd certainly be interesting to see how it would pan out.
Best theoretical college in physics and engineering. Best. In the world. Period.
So has anyone done any experiments to determine whether or not this theoretical college exists?
Now imagine if the Slashdot editors would apologize for all their mistakes... would there be any room left for actual news?
Not the pronoun, but rather a doctor with the unlikely name of "Who"
Were it the former, we'd have a bunch of grammar nazis claiming that the title should read "BBC Apologizes To Whom Star". Not to mention the ensuing thread of replies pointing out how it still isn't correct.
Well, here's some free advice. As with all free advice, consider what you paid for it. :)
First off, what kinds of keywords are you looking at? The web hosting market is one of the most saturated markets out there. If your keywords are all generic, then you're not likely to differentiate your service from any other service. So, try and find something that you're insanely great at. Maybe it's hands-on Perl/PHP scripting advice, maybe something else.
Once you've found that, target those keywords but don't just send them to your home page. Create separate pages for each of your keyword combinations. Whatever paragraph you supplied in Google Adwords, for example, should entice the person to click through for some specific benefit to them. So they get to this custom page which catches their interest with a great title and opening sentence or two. You have to make it look like it's something they want to keep reading. Then, for the rest of the page, go into detail about whatever benefit you outlined in your ad. At various points throughout, you should offer a reason for them to want to keep receiving information from you. Maybe you have a weekly article on making the most out of PHP/MySQL, available only through your newsletter. Maybe you have a draw for a free iPod shuffle. Find something that inspires your viewers to provide you with their email address.
Then, if they sign up for more information with their email address, you've achieved your goal. It'd be great to sell them on the first visit, but you're likely going to have to build a relationship. I've heard the statistic (lies or damned lies?) that it takes someone viewing your product/service an average of six times before they make a purchase decision. So that's why getting their permission for continued information is critical. If your content really is valuable and they see that you know your stuff, maybe they'll trust you enough to give hosting a try especially if there's a compelling reason to go with your hosting -- again, you should have something which differentiates your service.
In the end, sadly, it's a numbers game. But that doesn't mean that you can't still be ethical and above board in playing the game.
That's GNU/Beer to you, pal.
try this one out