If you had read the article, you would know that the paint doesn't become saturated, it just slowly breaks down (5 years) and then stops being effective at removing pollution
I use the official AOL version of AIM in Linux (for reasons I won't get into.) They haven't released an update for the linux client in nearly 2 years. When can we expect to see a new client for linux?
And did you know that to accomodate the Russians, the space station is in an orbit that makes it almost useless as a jumping off point to anywhere?
While this may be true, the ISS was already to be in a horribly useless orbit to begin with, Russians or not.
Because of a weakness in the shuttle and the immense weight of the station, the station is in a perpetually decaying orbit. That is, to say that the shuttle, each time it docks with the station, has to fire its boosters while docked in order to push it back to a higher orbit. If the shuttle doesn't go back to the statio within the next few years, the ISS will go the way of SkyLab. (The Progress and Soyez ships do not have enough power to push the ISS high enough.)
Why put the station in such a poor, low orbit? Because the shuttle can't fly that high.
A recipe for disaster if I ever heard one.
"We made nothing," Richter recalls. "I thought all you had to do was put up a Web site and you'd be a millionaire. I didn't understand the Internet."
Richter, on his first attempt at online marketing.
Because changing the desktop means very little, when Joe Average's day still involves dealing with 10 different programs, using 6 fundamentally different widget sets, 8 fundamentally different keyboard shortcut sets, and 4 different ways of even persisting his preferences.
I dual boot XP, and I fail to see the validity of this argument. While applications by microsoft tend to have the same keyboard shortcups, very few others do.
Widget sets? Oh man. First of all, you're forgetting back in the 95 days when many people still ran 16 bit applications from 3.1 alongside 32 bit ones. While windows could change the titlebar, the properties and particularly the save dialog box still looked straight out of 3.1. (Who doesn't remember getting used to longer file names and then having to use that 1 old application which would force you to change it back to an 8 character name?)
More currently there are dozens of popular windows applications which do not use standard windows widget sets. MusicMatch, Winamp, and iTunes all come to mind. Each of those all also have fundamentally different ways of preference settings.
I will agree with you that Windows may have more programs that you would like to run, but for many people, Linux is a viable alternative.
It will be decided once and for all that Gentoo offers no discernable advantage over more conventional distros. At which point, Gentoo-zealots will only have portage to pull in converts.
For the tin-foil hat impaired, here is a de-register-it-ized link:
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While I disagree with that ad, it is a PSA. Networks air PSA's for free. It has to do with FCC rules about doing things in the public interest yada yada yada. Some networks air them during daylight and primetime hours, but most just air them at 1 in the morning (at least thats how my local stations seem to do most of theirs.)
I'm constantly amazed by the number of students in my classes who have purchased the textbooks before the first day of class.
I've had more than one professor say, "This is the textbook.... not the other book they sell at the bookstore." And then there is this colossal sigh in the class.
Morons.
It depends on your DVD player if you can skip them or not. You aren't supposed to be able to, but certain players ignore parts of the DVD Standard.
Software players are the best at skipping non-skippable content. In Windows I use PowerDVD and it will skip over the FBI warnings, Previews, and damn near anything except menus.
In Linux I use Xine, and it will skip over EVERYTHING. I can fastforward through animated menus if I want to.
The Disney name is important, but I think you've seen a marked decline in the quality of Disney films the past several years, and it has hurt their bottom line. Disney is in a position that IBM found itself in years ago, and Coca-Cola found itself in when Pepsi came on the market.
How to respond to competition. Disney used ot be the only game in town when it came to animated features, and that just isn't the case anymore. They're definitely hurting.
It's gotta be bad there for Roy Disney to just pack up his bags and leave.
I understand that many slashdotters think that the New York times (and other newspapers... I believe the Washington Times does this as well) is an evil evil newspaper because it forces you to register to view articles online.
There is no dark evil purpose in this. The reason is circulation. Newspapers include online views in their circulation numbers so that they can charge more per ad. However, advertisers got keen to this and realized that online statistics were almost always inflated (does it count refreshes? does it count each graphic as a separate hit? does it count the same ip viewing different articles as seperate hits? the list goes on.) As a result, the NY Times has instituted this so that they can better gauge the number of readers of their online paper.
There is no secret Orwellian doctrine at the NY Times. You can take off your tin foil hats now.
I live in one of those markets. Raleigh Durham clear channel radio station G105 has a morning show hosted by Bob and Cheri.
There was a shitload of trouble that Bob got into as a result of this. The station was forced to issue a formal apology and has run several pro-cylcing awareness type PSA's. The Bob and Cheri show was also suspended (sadly, for only 2 days.)
I don't listen to G105 (the market we are in, thankfully, has alternatives to clear channel, both small and corporate), but I know that they've done quite a few stunts to pull in listeners that backfired royally over the past few years. Their FCC renewal comes up soon, and though I feel that the FCC has slacked off in their responsibilites (the whole 'public interest thing'... since when is advocating cyclist violence acting in the public interest?), I do hope that their liscense is revoked, or that they are at least fined.
Aside from the fact that consumers want a physical, tangible medium and don't want their games to stop working 5 years from now because John Madden wants more money, this articles writer is missing a major point, one completely beyond the control of the gaming industry.
ISP's.
I don't mean people on dialup either (although they are still the vast majority of American internet users.) I mean bandwidth caps. So I'm Bob Comcast user, and oh look, its January 17, since I play Half-real Tournament 2016 a few hours a day, I've used up tons of bandwidth, since the server caches most of the games information.
End of the month rolls around, and I get a letter from Comcast saying to stop using so much bandwidth, so I cancel my game subscription. Half-Real Tournament 2016 developers don't get paid. Developers attack marketing guy who claimed subscriptions was a great idea. Marketing guy gets a clue.
You have made an excellent point. These paper checking companies, by storing, and profiting off of my works, are no different than a professor taking my work and including it in a book that he is to profit off of.
This puts this into perspective and gives me something very easy to present to students if and when one of my professors starts harping about anti-cheating websites.
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I personally do not know how any crimes were solved before the advent of security cameras.
If you had read the article, you would know that the paint doesn't become saturated, it just slowly breaks down (5 years) and then stops being effective at removing pollution
I'm not trolling, I'm asking a serious question.
I use the official AOL version of AIM in Linux (for reasons I won't get into.) They haven't released an update for the linux client in nearly 2 years. When can we expect to see a new client for linux?
And did you know that to accomodate the Russians, the space station is in an orbit that makes it almost useless as a jumping off point to anywhere?
While this may be true, the ISS was already to be in a horribly useless orbit to begin with, Russians or not.
Because of a weakness in the shuttle and the immense weight of the station, the station is in a perpetually decaying orbit. That is, to say that the shuttle, each time it docks with the station, has to fire its boosters while docked in order to push it back to a higher orbit. If the shuttle doesn't go back to the statio within the next few years, the ISS will go the way of SkyLab. (The Progress and Soyez ships do not have enough power to push the ISS high enough.)
Why put the station in such a poor, low orbit? Because the shuttle can't fly that high.
A recipe for disaster if I ever heard one.
My favorite quote from the article:
"We made nothing," Richter recalls. "I thought all you had to do was put up a Web site and you'd be a millionaire. I didn't understand the Internet."
Richter, on his first attempt at online marketing.
He just summed up the entire tech bubble.
Because changing the desktop means very little, when Joe Average's day still involves dealing with 10 different programs, using 6 fundamentally different widget sets, 8 fundamentally different keyboard shortcut sets, and 4 different ways of even persisting his preferences.
I dual boot XP, and I fail to see the validity of this argument. While applications by microsoft tend to have the same keyboard shortcups, very few others do.
Widget sets? Oh man. First of all, you're forgetting back in the 95 days when many people still ran 16 bit applications from 3.1 alongside 32 bit ones. While windows could change the titlebar, the properties and particularly the save dialog box still looked straight out of 3.1. (Who doesn't remember getting used to longer file names and then having to use that 1 old application which would force you to change it back to an 8 character name?)
More currently there are dozens of popular windows applications which do not use standard windows widget sets. MusicMatch, Winamp, and iTunes all come to mind. Each of those all also have fundamentally different ways of preference settings.
I will agree with you that Windows may have more programs that you would like to run, but for many people, Linux is a viable alternative.
It will be decided once and for all that Gentoo offers no discernable advantage over more conventional distros. At which point, Gentoo-zealots will only have portage to pull in converts.
And portage is being... ported to Slackware
MSN search is set as the default, but most people come into occasional contact with a geek or watch the news.
Somehow my mother, who is rather tech inept, found google.
For the tin-foil hat impaired, here is a de-register-it-ized link: The Story
While I disagree with that ad, it is a PSA. Networks air PSA's for free. It has to do with FCC rules about doing things in the public interest yada yada yada. Some networks air them during daylight and primetime hours, but most just air them at 1 in the morning (at least thats how my local stations seem to do most of theirs.)
I'm constantly amazed by the number of students in my classes who have purchased the textbooks before the first day of class.
I've had more than one professor say, "This is the textbook.... not the other book they sell at the bookstore." And then there is this colossal sigh in the class. Morons.
It depends on your DVD player if you can skip them or not. You aren't supposed to be able to, but certain players ignore parts of the DVD Standard.
Software players are the best at skipping non-skippable content. In Windows I use PowerDVD and it will skip over the FBI warnings, Previews, and damn near anything except menus.
In Linux I use Xine, and it will skip over EVERYTHING. I can fastforward through animated menus if I want to.
The Disney name is important, but I think you've seen a marked decline in the quality of Disney films the past several years, and it has hurt their bottom line. Disney is in a position that IBM found itself in years ago, and Coca-Cola found itself in when Pepsi came on the market.
How to respond to competition. Disney used ot be the only game in town when it came to animated features, and that just isn't the case anymore. They're definitely hurting.
It's gotta be bad there for Roy Disney to just pack up his bags and leave.
Well.. 0dB would be ideal, but most people cannot hear sounds that low... especially geeks with big stereo systems.
This page has an excellent table of information on various dB listings.
According to it, human breathing at 3 feet is 10dB... can you hear people breating from 3 feet away? (I can't.)
Apparently the web server is running the same Macintosh introduced to the world back in 1984 as well.
I understand that many slashdotters think that the New York times (and other newspapers... I believe the Washington Times does this as well) is an evil evil newspaper because it forces you to register to view articles online.
There is no dark evil purpose in this. The reason is circulation. Newspapers include online views in their circulation numbers so that they can charge more per ad. However, advertisers got keen to this and realized that online statistics were almost always inflated (does it count refreshes? does it count each graphic as a separate hit? does it count the same ip viewing different articles as seperate hits? the list goes on.) As a result, the NY Times has instituted this so that they can better gauge the number of readers of their online paper.
There is no secret Orwellian doctrine at the NY Times. You can take off your tin foil hats now.
I have the same problem in my classes (as well as at the movie theater.) What can be done to these people to get them to get the message?
If you can remember to keep it off, why can't other people?
Wonderfully put... Thankyou. Posted from SuSE 9.
In fact, they could possibly host a minimal web page for those kind of advertisers who just want to show some simple text and services.
You mean like the yellowpages?
And the government, and the people within it, have never misused their powers or information that has been provided to them.
Nixon jumps out at me, for some reason here.
MOD PARENT UP!!!!! He makes an excellent point that the article fails to make
I live in one of those markets. Raleigh Durham clear channel radio station G105 has a morning show hosted by Bob and Cheri.
There was a shitload of trouble that Bob got into as a result of this. The station was forced to issue a formal apology and has run several pro-cylcing awareness type PSA's. The Bob and Cheri show was also suspended (sadly, for only 2 days.)
I don't listen to G105 (the market we are in, thankfully, has alternatives to clear channel, both small and corporate), but I know that they've done quite a few stunts to pull in listeners that backfired royally over the past few years. Their FCC renewal comes up soon, and though I feel that the FCC has slacked off in their responsibilites (the whole 'public interest thing'... since when is advocating cyclist violence acting in the public interest?), I do hope that their liscense is revoked, or that they are at least fined.
The difference is the drug testing companies don't later profit off the sale of your urine.
Aside from the fact that consumers want a physical, tangible medium and don't want their games to stop working 5 years from now because John Madden wants more money, this articles writer is missing a major point, one completely beyond the control of the gaming industry.
ISP's.
I don't mean people on dialup either (although they are still the vast majority of American internet users.) I mean bandwidth caps. So I'm Bob Comcast user, and oh look, its January 17, since I play Half-real Tournament 2016 a few hours a day, I've used up tons of bandwidth, since the server caches most of the games information.
End of the month rolls around, and I get a letter from Comcast saying to stop using so much bandwidth, so I cancel my game subscription. Half-Real Tournament 2016 developers don't get paid. Developers attack marketing guy who claimed subscriptions was a great idea. Marketing guy gets a clue.
You have made an excellent point. These paper checking companies, by storing, and profiting off of my works, are no different than a professor taking my work and including it in a book that he is to profit off of.
This puts this into perspective and gives me something very easy to present to students if and when one of my professors starts harping about anti-cheating websites.