Alternatively, let's say you have a company that wants to read a white paper on Knowledge Management. People at the company read the white paper again and again, downloading it. It's a popular paper. Consider if this were a white paper each person must pay for, by the download, as their only realistic means of proving that someone read the paper.
That to me sounds like what Google's policies for charging per click are, and it sounds to me like that's what we're dealing with here.
An AOL ip address would indicate that thousands of clickthroughs are happening, and given that AOL re-distributes the same IP addresses over and over again thousands of times in a week, I doubt this case will have much merit.
....and it'll only be a matter of days before John McCain is standing at the door of major league baseball banging his shoe on the door to demand entry so he can investigate personally the stench of corruption these mighty-mice drugs have caused in our holy sport of baseball...
Pay to see them live?? What, are you kidding? For the kind of money U2, Madonna, and other big groups/solos charge for tickets, I'd have to take out a loan to pay for two seats let alone four.
I only go to concerts now for small time acts. The days of goign to arenas for concerts are gone for every dollar these bastards charge for over $50 a seat.
It's a shame when Sarah McLachlan comes to town, plans to give a concern to benefit a women's shelter, twenty thousand people show up and the women's shelter only gets $30,000 out of the deal after everyone else involved gets paid.
There is just as much of a racket on the concert side as there is on the album side. I'm not even all that sure this benefits the artist all that much either.
1. Make a domain private by default for individuals. Make it the responsiblity of the registrar to be the contact between the domain, complaints regarding it and facilitiation of disputes. If someone wants to buy my domain from me, let them contact the registrar and then the registrar can copy me about a possible sale to the interested individual.
2. Make all public companies, candidates for office and public service and religious organizations list their information in the Whois for all domains they register, because they're public. 3. Make all
Some enterprising United States biotech company or University biotech/science deparment will hire the guy and he won't even have to remotely pressure women to donate. They'll do it for money.
Don't freak out about Polls like this until you've actually:
A) Read the Poll Questions so you know if the questions were leading or biased B) Identified the Source of the Poll so you know if the results were likely to be skewed.
and
C) Find out where the poll was taken. 100 people in Ohio don't make up the US, nor do 100 or even 1000 people randomly called throughout the US.
The bottom line is that while a media outlet may report the fact, the fact is still from a report furnished by someone else. There are Religious-Right funded think-tanks funding the Intelligent Design movement and don't presume for a second their influence isn't felt when they plunk down money to advance their cause with a few well-placed polls.
Add that up to specialized marketing and promotion of their ideals before a poll is enacted and it only gets worse.
All of this said, the fact that ID is being taught in your church is a positive thing. I say this because that is legitimate proof that fanciful concepts like ID which are based on faith and not science belong - in a sunday school class, not public schools.
I think it depends on how you look at it. If you don't stand up against bad business practices and bad business ideals -- attempting to get the law to protect you against it, you'll be left with raising your voice after they get the law to back the bad business practice. It's much harder to get the law turned around than one that's already passed, or already deep in congress (or through the president's cabinent) because you weren't paying attention and thought you'd speak later.
I think the consumers in regards to the media have always been behind the eight-ball on this one. If you do not stand up and say something before the next crisis, you can lose. Consumers must begin voting with thier pockets now and forming associations to lobby for their rights.
If that means something like the EFF needs to push for huge campaigns t lobby for our interests then so be it. This is a battleground and it seems we have few soldiers on the field, much to my dismay.
Apple should toss the etched image of Steve Jobs on the cover for an additional $50, maybe a few others of interest. I predict at least 100,000 additional sales of Etched custom orders from the Apple store in the first three months.
Okay, that still confirms what I'm saying. It STILL doesn't say Apple OS, regardless of what that guy's cache is telling him, and here it is essentially, Sunday the 20th at 12am, almost two days later.
"Operating Systems Affected: All Microsoft Operatins Systems"
Fantastic, now there will be no excuse for several state vehicles to travel side by side at well below the speed limit, obstructing faster traffic as they move up and down 95. Someone watching the cell-info screens in relation to traffic will have no problem contacting the five drivers driving side by side to move the f*** out of the way so decent citizens can get to work on time, and they can stop preventing proper traffic flow!
One thing the article said that was very interesting was the ability to get cell phone users information about traffic. Are they considering calling a driver's cell phone because they're driving too slow? Wow, wouldn't that be great. If you know who they are Balitmore, you should have no trouble providing the proper encouragement to get someone to follow the law, whatever that may be, just call their phone.
Oh wait...one more thing... I know this system will track people when they're not even trying to use their phones, but...if a law passes that restricts drivers from using their phones without a hands-free, can we take this a step farther than force phones to identify drivers not using hands-free technology? That would be great!
Not really. Any good marketer knows not to put all their eggs into one basket. Anyone trying to put eyeballs on their ads won't dare put all of their ads into a Microsoft ad scheme, because the market is limited. It's the same reason why not all ads are on TV, and not all ads are in magazines, etc.
If it's a new medium people will buy, sure. But if eyeballs are on google AND MS, this won't cut much into the ad dollars either side currently gets. You expand your marketing effort to any new avenue open to you, but not everything can shift to the desktop. Won't happen.
Walks his way through the smackdown, rates each one and basically says WordpPress wins on points. For some reason he decides to mention "MultiUser" is somehow important when if you're talking about running an individual Blog, Multiuser wasn't what you wanted in the first place.
Whatever. His personal recommendation is with "TextPattern" and he says he likes it because he really just wants it to publish content. In the words of TextPattern's Author:
"A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs."
Sounds to me like the intent here for TextPattern is a CMS not a Blog, so given that -- was this an article about Blog software? Or an article about his new favorite CMS? My favorite CMS is Expressionengine by PMachine.org, but I'm not going to write an article about Blog software to get folks to pay attention to me so I can make a point about something else I really wanted to talk about.
They can do it cheaper? Maybe now they'll explain why it costs so exponentially much more when we go up in speed on the network once we're there. Given the capacity for Fiber to support so much more, and given the reality of a basic rule on the net... You're really only as fast as your "slowest" connection.
From their site on Fios: >Up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps $34.95 - $39.95 >Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps $44.95 - $49.95 >Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps $179.95 - $199.95
Why? This costs just as much as DSL when the real world interferes. Doesn't it? I could be wrong about this, but frankly I'm wondering if it's really worth the price per megabyte.
>Those boxes will read Bounty Hunter, >Commando, Entertainer, Jedi, Medic, >Officer, Smuggler, Spy and Trader.
What if my daughter wanted to be a diplomat? Something tells me that's not the same as Officer. You mentioned each class would show up as a familiar Icon, and I wouldn't call Princess Leia any of the things above. Only three out of the nine are even remotely "non-agressive" in nature. That doesn't speak well for a game that was once geared to be more of a world to explore than just a massive wargame.
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>I hope we all learned something.
I got to the end of the article and the tech in me read
"I hope we all killed something today."
Next thing you know they'll be running for public office and trying to make a run for the presidency.
I personally welcome our Mice-of-Men overlords.
Alternatively, let's say you have a company that wants to read a white paper on Knowledge Management. People at the company read the white paper again and again, downloading it. It's a popular paper. Consider if this were a white paper each person must pay for, by the download, as their only realistic means of proving that someone read the paper.
That to me sounds like what Google's policies for charging per click are, and it sounds to me like that's what we're dealing with here.
An AOL ip address would indicate that thousands of clickthroughs are happening, and given that AOL re-distributes the same IP addresses over and over again thousands of times in a week, I doubt this case will have much merit.
....and it'll only be a matter of days before John McCain is standing at the door of major league baseball banging his shoe on the door to demand entry so he can investigate personally the stench of corruption these mighty-mice drugs have caused in our holy sport of baseball...
Pay to see them live?? What, are you kidding? For the kind of money U2, Madonna, and other big groups/solos charge for tickets, I'd have to take out a loan to pay for two seats let alone four.
I only go to concerts now for small time acts. The days of goign to arenas for concerts are gone for every dollar these bastards charge for over $50 a seat.
It's a shame when Sarah McLachlan comes to town, plans to give a concern to benefit a women's shelter, twenty thousand people show up and the women's shelter only gets $30,000 out of the deal after everyone else involved gets paid.
There is just as much of a racket on the concert side as there is on the album side. I'm not even all that sure this benefits the artist all that much either.
I completely agree with you.
What I'd like to see is:
1. Make a domain private by default for individuals. Make it the responsiblity of the registrar to be the contact between the domain, complaints regarding it and facilitiation of disputes. If someone wants to buy my domain from me, let them contact the registrar and then the registrar can copy me about a possible sale to the interested individual.
2. Make all public companies, candidates for office and public service and religious organizations list their information in the Whois for all domains they register, because they're public.
3. Make all
This brings new meaning to the concept of sticking an RFID tag inside someone's body.
Some enterprising United States biotech company or University biotech/science deparment will hire the guy and he won't even have to remotely pressure women to donate. They'll do it for money.
Don't freak out about Polls like this until you've actually:
A) Read the Poll Questions so you know if the questions were leading or biased
B) Identified the Source of the Poll so you know if the results were likely to be skewed.
and
C) Find out where the poll was taken. 100 people in Ohio don't make up the US, nor do 100 or even 1000 people randomly called throughout the US.
The bottom line is that while a media outlet may report the fact, the fact is still from a report furnished by someone else. There are Religious-Right funded think-tanks funding the Intelligent Design movement and don't presume for a second their influence isn't felt when they plunk down money to advance their cause with a few well-placed polls.
Add that up to specialized marketing and promotion of their ideals before a poll is enacted and it only gets worse.
All of this said, the fact that ID is being taught in your church is a positive thing. I say this because that is legitimate proof that fanciful concepts like ID which are based on faith and not science belong - in a sunday school class, not public schools.
I think it depends on how you look at it. If you don't stand up against bad business practices and bad business ideals -- attempting to get the law to protect you against it, you'll be left with raising your voice after they get the law to back the bad business practice. It's much harder to get the law turned around than one that's already passed, or already deep in congress (or through the president's cabinent) because you weren't paying attention and thought you'd speak later.
I think the consumers in regards to the media have always been behind the eight-ball on this one. If you do not stand up and say something before the next crisis, you can lose. Consumers must begin voting with thier pockets now and forming associations to lobby for their rights.
If that means something like the EFF needs to push for huge campaigns t lobby for our interests then so be it. This is a battleground and it seems we have few soldiers on the field, much to my dismay.
This article is exactly like "How to Talk to a Liberal", but in code!
Apple should toss the etched image of Steve Jobs on the cover for an additional $50, maybe a few others of interest. I predict at least 100,000 additional sales of Etched custom orders from the Apple store in the first three months.
> That's $300 million to essentially co-opt the Internet.
>And you know whose strategy this is? Wal-Mart's.
Google's trying to divert all of the USA's cash money to China? WOW.
Okay, that still confirms what I'm saying. It STILL doesn't say Apple OS, regardless of what that guy's cache is telling him, and here it is essentially, Sunday the 20th at 12am, almost two days later.
"Operating Systems Affected:
All Microsoft Operatins Systems"
Fantastic, now there will be no excuse for several state vehicles to travel side by side at well below the speed limit, obstructing faster traffic as they move up and down 95. Someone watching the cell-info screens in relation to traffic will have no problem contacting the five drivers driving side by side to move the f*** out of the way so decent citizens can get to work on time, and they can stop preventing proper traffic flow!
One thing the article said that was very interesting was the ability to get cell phone users information about traffic. Are they considering calling a driver's cell phone because they're driving too slow? Wow, wouldn't that be great. If you know who they are Balitmore, you should have no trouble providing the proper encouragement to get someone to follow the law, whatever that may be, just call their phone.
Oh wait...one more thing... I know this system will track people when they're not even trying to use their phones, but...if a law passes that restricts drivers from using their phones without a hands-free, can we take this a step farther than force phones to identify drivers not using hands-free technology? That would be great!
Finally there will be no excuse.
"Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple"
It's over for me. I'm spent.
The article says it effects Mac OS X as well as windows, and says the security warning says that too, but:
"Operating Systems Affected:
All Microsoft Operatins Systems"
No mention of anything other than Microsoft OS'es in the provided link to the advisory.
Not really. Any good marketer knows not to put all their eggs into one basket. Anyone trying to put eyeballs on their ads won't dare put all of their ads into a Microsoft ad scheme, because the market is limited. It's the same reason why not all ads are on TV, and not all ads are in magazines, etc.
If it's a new medium people will buy, sure. But if eyeballs are on google AND MS, this won't cut much into the ad dollars either side currently gets. You expand your marketing effort to any new avenue open to you, but not everything can shift to the desktop. Won't happen.
He goes through all three, calls them blogs.
Walks his way through the smackdown, rates each one and basically says WordpPress wins on points.
For some reason he decides to mention "MultiUser" is somehow important when if you're talking about running an individual Blog, Multiuser wasn't what you wanted in the first place.
Whatever. His personal recommendation is with "TextPattern" and he says he likes it because he really just wants it to publish content. In the words of TextPattern's Author:
"A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs."
Sounds to me like the intent here for TextPattern is a CMS not a Blog, so given that -- was this an article about Blog software? Or an article about his new favorite CMS? My favorite CMS is Expressionengine by PMachine.org, but I'm not going to write an article about Blog software to get folks to pay attention to me so I can make a point about something else I really wanted to talk about.
They can do it cheaper? Maybe now they'll explain why it costs so exponentially much more when we go up in speed on the network once we're there. Given the capacity for Fiber to support so much more, and given the reality of a basic rule on the net... You're really only as fast as your "slowest" connection.
From their site on Fios:
>Up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps $34.95 - $39.95
>Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps $44.95 - $49.95
>Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps $179.95 - $199.95
Why? This costs just as much as DSL when the real world interferes. Doesn't it? I could be wrong about this, but frankly I'm wondering if it's really worth the price per megabyte.
Well I could understand Admiral Ackbar in that icon. He's the most recognizable I think.
Sometimes they even give you a hanger.
>Those boxes will read Bounty Hunter,
>Commando, Entertainer, Jedi, Medic,
>Officer, Smuggler, Spy and Trader.
What if my daughter wanted to be a diplomat? Something tells me that's not the same as Officer. You mentioned each class would show up as a familiar Icon, and I wouldn't call Princess Leia any of the things above. Only three out of the nine are even remotely "non-agressive" in nature. That doesn't speak well for a game that was once geared to be more of a world to explore than just a massive wargame.
Well it's never going to die if you keep CHECKING ON IT...15 days in space...shesh.
Awwww man! Now I got that Beatles song stuck in my head. Thanks ever so much.