I'm lactose intolerant. I'll be sure to drink a glass of milk with my garlic eggs in the morning and make the experience a real unpleasant one for them. "Oops, sorry, when you hit the 'resistance' it caused me to jump and I let some gas out."
Believe me, the TSA employees will revolt against upper management if enough people fart in their face all fucking day long. You want to play fucking games, we'll play them right back.
The distance between my house and the nearest telco connection for DSL is about 500m. There is only one housing development closer and they were built long after my home went up. My speeds were twice the advertised rates due to this close distance as they were ramping up bandwidth so as to hit the minimum by the end of the line. That advertised rate? 2000/256.
Hey, I mean it's great an all that they are doing research to come up with faster DSL usage. Unfortunately while the speeds can be theoretically (or even practically) possible, we're still bottlenecked by price and desire of the telcos to push speeds out that fast.
After inquiring about business class and faster speeds, I wanted 768k upstream at least, and being told they don't offer anything that fast nor did they plan on it at any time in the near future I had to go to business class cable. While the business class cable is rocking fast, the downtimes are more frequent and the latency is unpredictable (well, it's predictably going to be poor during peak use times).
How about we first pass some legislation which forces the telcos and cable companies to give back to the consumers what they took when they built out their infrastructure all those years ago to give us wicked fast speeds we have yet to see--and no, 50mbit "speed boost" for 15 seconds doesn't count.
I attend an online university for my masters program. As part of this program, because it is new, they offered a pilot whereby students enrolled from the outset would receive free e-books. Being that I am poor (single income, one child and a SAHM) I welcomed this offer.
The software used is miserable to operate (slow, buggy, required me to sit on with their tech support for over an hour to resolve an upgrade issue). It takes upwards of 15 minute to print a single chapter because it adds text with your name and e-mail address assigned to the account (for DRM ) to every page.
While I am grateful for the free books, if I had the choice between the two I'd definitely go hardcover. The student should be able to make the choice between the two mediums, not the school regardless of whatever their motivation is.
So, the University of Phoenix, a for profit university, is the model he's using to determine that in the future, professors and researchers will not be doing so for profit. Something seems really, really wrong here.
What does the status of the university itself have to do with the professors they employ?
It's possible to publish without a publisher for sure, but it's also easy to make your own band, doesn't mean you'll be rich and famous.
Yeah that was before the Internet music explosion. Now you can become famous on YouTube and next thing you know be vaulted to levels unseen by many mainstream bands who were on the radio with one song.
Well, there are two possibilities in this scenario:
1. The process takes entirely too long and if the person doesn't wait and walks away or just turns it off, the thief could still get the data. They used rdist when I was in college for campus kiosk computers. It was fucking miserable to wait for one of these bastards to boot or shutdown in the case of there being a problem which required a reboot (at the time a frequent necessity).
2. The computer isn't permitted to store any data and thus becomes pretty useless.
Well that's interesting. My parents and several other family members in Pennsylvania are paid money by companies extracting natural gas from the bubble under their properties. Your acreage owned determines the amount you are paid.
While "minerals" aren't natural gas, I'm guessing it's more or less the same thing.
Just like I did when I was a kid. I didn't give a shit about drugs until high school. Once I got there and observed the effects of marijuana had on people I realized they were lying to me all along. If anything the "War on Drugs" and "Just Say No" campaigns made me distrust government far more than anything else.
So perhaps if marijuana consumption was permitted kids would be less distrustful of government when they came around to being of voting age.
Are we so far gone that we can't even have a torrent app because we *might* pirate things with it?
While we'll probably never know due to the lack of transparency about the whole process, it's likely due to AT&T. Their network can't very well handle the traffic it has now and certainly won't be able to handle pegged upstream and downstream connections from the growing number of iPhones.
As an iPhone user who has been experiencing more and more slow network connectivity, I could care less if someone has a BitTorrent application on their phone installed via Cydia but I certainly don't want the majority userbase accessing it to peg their connections to download *anything* legal or illegal content aside.
I have AdBlock running. It doesn't get rid of all the other shit like "we suggest you like this commercial entity's page". It's a fucking ad plain and simple.
I used the Facebook client for the iPhone when I had an iPhone. It was buggy as hell and left something to be desired. It improved towards the end of my using an iphone, but I must say it still wasn't that great, still had caching and sync issues.
I guess we all have different opinions on the topic but the Facebook application for the iPhone, for me, is 1000x better than the web interface. In fact, I'd rather visit Facebook via my phone than the website any day. Less clutter, no ads, no bullshit, and I can get shit done quickly--in and out--like websites were meant to be.
The only thing I still find "buggy" on the Facebook app for the iPhone is the chat feature but being that I don't chat with anyone for more than 1 or 2 quick lines, it's really a non-issue for me.
For me it's about a ready supply for music which is dirt fucking cheap. I can buy entire boxes of vinyl for.25 at most flea markets and garage sales which generally include some pretty decent stuff. The rest I can sell back to used stores for store credit which nets me a few more records.
No, I don't have a record player anymore but have thought about buying one.
I'm going for my masters. The program I'm enrolled in is a new one for the University I attend and as an incentive to enroll they are offering free e-books to those who are in it. As a tech geek I thought this was going to be awesome. "Look tech!"
Well, I fucking hate the e-books aside from their price. I really thought I'd love to search functionality but I don't. It's no better than me printing the chapters out and scanning the pages manually. While this has a lot to do w/the software used for the e-book, I still just can't imagine that I'd be doing it "the new way" even if I had a hand held reader.
My limited use of a hand held reader has been met with mixed emotion. I think they're slick devices but I don't like the cost of them, the cost of the e-books, and I certainly don't like the lack of a second sale+. When my e-books can be browsed for and purchased at a local bookstore for less than $1 then I'll be more interested.
You not so burdened, of course, because by admitting that you require advertising revenue to produce your site you are also admitting that you tailor your website to the kind of people who will (not block, take notice of, and) click on adverts.
Being that I have a responsibility first to those who read my site daily, and not to those who come from Google searches much later, I don't show ads on my main page or on subpages which are less than 4 days old. So for you to say that I cater to those who click on ads is quite wrong. Those who do click ads, who 96% of which come from Google searches, are generally fly-bys who visit the site either once or so infrequently that I don't track them in Analytics.
But you can continue to make incorrect assumptions left and right as it suits you.
and there is no useful (i.e. non-light-entertainment) content created primarily through advertising revenue.
I guess it depends on what you're reading. If you're looking for a small time blog which really gets into the meat of something, like I try to do, you have to realize that it couldn't be done without some sort of money coming in. This isn't my full-time job but it would not be possible without the hosting costs covered, my gas costs covered, and my food costs covered when I'm researching stuff to write about.
Let's not jump to conclusions just because you think the world revolves around The Big Guys. There are people out there providing niche services which The Big Guys cannot and people are happy that those places exist.
It's not a surprise no but this is Slashdot where we understand these sorts of topics. The Wall Street Journal is not geared towards only those that have a clue about these things.
Now install Ghostery (to begin with) and make sure you are clearing all cookies and cache after every session. Yeah it's annoying but what does my kid need a login for any website for?
This isn't a [citation needed] snark, I'm just curious because recently someone claimed the exact opposite - that they see traffic from twitter as having a much higher conversion rate than any other network, which surprised me.
It depends on their definition of "conversion" and from what I've read on the topic their definition is much different than what I use. I have a feeling their standard is clicking the link and doing something stupid like heading through their lame pagination setup.
When these "conversions" actually become repeat customers due to a Twitter click-through then I'll be impressed.
Oh and yeah I have analytics behind it and no I'm not going to even be vague. You'll just have to take it cum grano salis.
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Well that's what we get for coming up with this nonsense that the Sun doesn't rotate around the Earth!
I'm lactose intolerant. I'll be sure to drink a glass of milk with my garlic eggs in the morning and make the experience a real unpleasant one for them. "Oops, sorry, when you hit the 'resistance' it caused me to jump and I let some gas out."
Believe me, the TSA employees will revolt against upper management if enough people fart in their face all fucking day long. You want to play fucking games, we'll play them right back.
They'd prefer that the weight continues to degrade.
The distance between my house and the nearest telco connection for DSL is about 500m. There is only one housing development closer and they were built long after my home went up. My speeds were twice the advertised rates due to this close distance as they were ramping up bandwidth so as to hit the minimum by the end of the line. That advertised rate? 2000/256.
Hey, I mean it's great an all that they are doing research to come up with faster DSL usage. Unfortunately while the speeds can be theoretically (or even practically) possible, we're still bottlenecked by price and desire of the telcos to push speeds out that fast.
After inquiring about business class and faster speeds, I wanted 768k upstream at least, and being told they don't offer anything that fast nor did they plan on it at any time in the near future I had to go to business class cable. While the business class cable is rocking fast, the downtimes are more frequent and the latency is unpredictable (well, it's predictably going to be poor during peak use times).
How about we first pass some legislation which forces the telcos and cable companies to give back to the consumers what they took when they built out their infrastructure all those years ago to give us wicked fast speeds we have yet to see--and no, 50mbit "speed boost" for 15 seconds doesn't count.
I attend an online university for my masters program. As part of this program, because it is new, they offered a pilot whereby students enrolled from the outset would receive free e-books. Being that I am poor (single income, one child and a SAHM) I welcomed this offer.
The software used is miserable to operate (slow, buggy, required me to sit on with their tech support for over an hour to resolve an upgrade issue). It takes upwards of 15 minute to print a single chapter because it adds text with your name and e-mail address assigned to the account (for DRM ) to every page.
While I am grateful for the free books, if I had the choice between the two I'd definitely go hardcover. The student should be able to make the choice between the two mediums, not the school regardless of whatever their motivation is.
So, the University of Phoenix, a for profit university, is the model he's using to determine that in the future, professors and researchers will not be doing so for profit. Something seems really, really wrong here.
What does the status of the university itself have to do with the professors they employ?
It's possible to publish without a publisher for sure, but it's also easy to make your own band, doesn't mean you'll be rich and famous.
Yeah that was before the Internet music explosion. Now you can become famous on YouTube and next thing you know be vaulted to levels unseen by many mainstream bands who were on the radio with one song.
Well, there are two possibilities in this scenario:
1. The process takes entirely too long and if the person doesn't wait and walks away or just turns it off, the thief could still get the data. They used rdist when I was in college for campus kiosk computers. It was fucking miserable to wait for one of these bastards to boot or shutdown in the case of there being a problem which required a reboot (at the time a frequent necessity).
2. The computer isn't permitted to store any data and thus becomes pretty useless.
I think they're talking more about finding infringing content such as what is easily found via http://g2p.org./
I got one for less than $200 last year--when they were new. Keep looking.
Odd my iPhone 3G is the longest lasting phone I have ever owned. I'm over two years now without a single replacement--the first time ever.
YMMV.
10v works fine too http://twitpic.com/tywtq
Well that's interesting. My parents and several other family members in Pennsylvania are paid money by companies extracting natural gas from the bubble under their properties. Your acreage owned determines the amount you are paid.
While "minerals" aren't natural gas, I'm guessing it's more or less the same thing.
How do you think kids feel now.
Just like I did when I was a kid. I didn't give a shit about drugs until high school. Once I got there and observed the effects of marijuana had on people I realized they were lying to me all along. If anything the "War on Drugs" and "Just Say No" campaigns made me distrust government far more than anything else.
So perhaps if marijuana consumption was permitted kids would be less distrustful of government when they came around to being of voting age.
Are we so far gone that we can't even have a torrent app because we *might* pirate things with it?
While we'll probably never know due to the lack of transparency about the whole process, it's likely due to AT&T. Their network can't very well handle the traffic it has now and certainly won't be able to handle pegged upstream and downstream connections from the growing number of iPhones.
As an iPhone user who has been experiencing more and more slow network connectivity, I could care less if someone has a BitTorrent application on their phone installed via Cydia but I certainly don't want the majority userbase accessing it to peg their connections to download *anything* legal or illegal content aside.
I have AdBlock running. It doesn't get rid of all the other shit like "we suggest you like this commercial entity's page". It's a fucking ad plain and simple.
I guess we all have different opinions on the topic but the Facebook application for the iPhone, for me, is 1000x better than the web interface. In fact, I'd rather visit Facebook via my phone than the website any day. Less clutter, no ads, no bullshit, and I can get shit done quickly--in and out--like websites were meant to be.
The only thing I still find "buggy" on the Facebook app for the iPhone is the chat feature but being that I don't chat with anyone for more than 1 or 2 quick lines, it's really a non-issue for me.
YMMV.
For me it's about a ready supply for music which is dirt fucking cheap. I can buy entire boxes of vinyl for .25 at most flea markets and garage sales which generally include some pretty decent stuff. The rest I can sell back to used stores for store credit which nets me a few more records.
No, I don't have a record player anymore but have thought about buying one.
Wow, you're a worthless asshole.
I'm going for my masters. The program I'm enrolled in is a new one for the University I attend and as an incentive to enroll they are offering free e-books to those who are in it. As a tech geek I thought this was going to be awesome. "Look tech!"
Well, I fucking hate the e-books aside from their price. I really thought I'd love to search functionality but I don't. It's no better than me printing the chapters out and scanning the pages manually. While this has a lot to do w/the software used for the e-book, I still just can't imagine that I'd be doing it "the new way" even if I had a hand held reader.
My limited use of a hand held reader has been met with mixed emotion. I think they're slick devices but I don't like the cost of them, the cost of the e-books, and I certainly don't like the lack of a second sale+. When my e-books can be browsed for and purchased at a local bookstore for less than $1 then I'll be more interested.
YMMV.
Being that I have a responsibility first to those who read my site daily, and not to those who come from Google searches much later, I don't show ads on my main page or on subpages which are less than 4 days old. So for you to say that I cater to those who click on ads is quite wrong. Those who do click ads, who 96% of which come from Google searches, are generally fly-bys who visit the site either once or so infrequently that I don't track them in Analytics.
But you can continue to make incorrect assumptions left and right as it suits you.
I guess it depends on what you're reading. If you're looking for a small time blog which really gets into the meat of something, like I try to do, you have to realize that it couldn't be done without some sort of money coming in. This isn't my full-time job but it would not be possible without the hosting costs covered, my gas costs covered, and my food costs covered when I'm researching stuff to write about.
Let's not jump to conclusions just because you think the world revolves around The Big Guys. There are people out there providing niche services which The Big Guys cannot and people are happy that those places exist.
It's not a surprise no but this is Slashdot where we understand these sorts of topics. The Wall Street Journal is not geared towards only those that have a clue about these things.
Now install Ghostery (to begin with) and make sure you are clearing all cookies and cache after every session. Yeah it's annoying but what does my kid need a login for any website for?
It depends on their definition of "conversion" and from what I've read on the topic their definition is much different than what I use. I have a feeling their standard is clicking the link and doing something stupid like heading through their lame pagination setup.
When these "conversions" actually become repeat customers due to a Twitter click-through then I'll be impressed.
Oh and yeah I have analytics behind it and no I'm not going to even be vague. You'll just have to take it cum grano salis.
use Brizzly for Twitter. It automatically expands most shortened links for you. No more goatse--or worse (tubgirl?)