I can't stand Sarah Silverman. Unbelievably overrated. She is at least as annoying as Dane Cook. Her whole schtick is "I'm a kind of sort of cute girl with big boobs AND A DIRTY MOUTH!". Wow. Exciting. Amazing. Every joke is the "blah blah blah sweet innocent" setup and "dirty raunchy naughty stuff coming out of a cute girl's mouth!" punchline.
The reason she's more popular than a lot of comics is the same reason that some random girl with a random myspace page or pointless blog that rambles on about nothing, but has a few photos on it of her huge rack gets more visitors in a day than your useful, important website with real services and thought will get in its entire life.
Marking a buyer as "non-paying" is not nearly enough.
I've run a large auction site for most of a decade and you need to rate buyers to differentiate the good from the not so good and both of them from the bad. There are buyers who bid on countless items with no intention to pay, just to cause trouble. There are buyers who harass specific sellers by bidding on just their items and not paying. There are buyers who bid on countless items just so they can rush out and leave a slew of negative feedback on a seller. There are buyers who bid on things and then decide "oh, I can't afford these". There are buyers who bid on something and then take weeks or months to finally pay. And when a seller finally leaves negative feedback for lack of payment, the buyer leaves undeserved negative feedback for the seller. Or buyers who are just very difficult to deal with to the point of being harassing, crude, offensive...
Sellers need to be rated. Period. And marking them "non-paying" isn't going to prevent retaliatory feedback. It's just going to make it easier for them to leave negative feedbacks without fear of being held accountable for it.
Stop crying you whiny Canadians! In America, we don't worry about such things, as long as we have sports heroes who make $50m/yr that we can still worship and our favorite sit-coms are still on the air and we can still teach our children that the world is 6,000 years old and we can still own machine guns for hunting elk!
I'm not a professional DBA. I'm just a guy with a non-profit website that handles thousands of auctions a day and I really wanted full-text search, but figuring out the available solutions was kind of a hassle. Having some form of FTS built-in as an out of the box function is fantastic.
That it's a church is irrelevant. It's a pathetic play for sympathy and has been a major part of the gist of every story I've read on this subject this weekend. Just because they're subsidized by tax payers as a non-profit entity and have a cross over their building doesn't mean they have any special copyright exception. If the little blurb at the beginning and middle of the game from the NFL applies to you and me -- it applies to them. That I'm joe blow drinking a six pack and they're joe-blow on their knees is not relevant, so it'd be nice if every writer of every article could stop playing up the "big bad NFL is mean to poor little church". If nothing else, it detracts from the real meat of the story.
They still haven't started hosting amusing videos. This video was stupid. And it's from those idiots at collegehumor who send out massive amounts of spam (I've been getting daily spam from them for years, even though I've never visited their site, signed up for them or even heard of them until I started getting spam from them years ago).
No, I hate taxes because of all the mouth-breathing breeders and their poor choices in life that I have to subsidize with my tax dollars.
Anyway, this does seem like a massive waste. Not because of the idea itself, but because I don't believe signals from earth actually are capable of reaching any other intelligence that might exist out there. Just a couple weeks ago, I was reading an article (I don't recall where) stating that signals from earth begin to fade long before they even reach the next star. So presuming we have intelligent life as close as the very next star (improbable), it wouldn't reach them. And if said life is beyond the next star... not a prayer.
Sadly, more useful than you'd think.
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I don't order pizza that often, but this has been available here in Denver for at least a couple months. It's not as cool as it sounds as it evokes images of a little map with your driver and pizza moving around via GPS (I believe Dominos does that in the UK though). It does show the important information though. Such as when it enters each step of the process, when it should arrive, who is delivering it, etc.
Now, some people might be content to just wait for their pizza. However, I have placed orders both online and over the telephone in several states and cities in the last ten years and I would say that ten to twenty percent of the orders are not a simple matter of "sit and wait for it to show up". In cities like San Francisco, Denver, Portland... I have had to call up and ask about my pizza two, three, four hours later... only to be told "we have no idea what you're talking about.. we don't have any record of an order".
Now, at least, you will know within a couple minutes whether or not they want your business.
Too bad Pizza is really the only food you can get delivered outside of a place like New York.
The godaddy ads are terrible. The whole idea is "look -- hot chick!" but then they stick a chick who is only mildly attractive but has enormous tits in the ad. Yes, I'm such a stupid red blooded male that the only thing I care about is breast size. Whatever, GoDaddy... lame. At least be unique and pick hot geek girls to sling your ads during the superbowl.
Apparently Slashdot now has a section specifically for nonsensible and pointless articles. And they even made it look like digg! Nonsensible?!
It looks like Slashdot is trying to pull for the Digg audience. Instead of having fewer articles that have a little more thought (though still not much) put into their selection, they want to grab the addicted eyeballs that will stay around reading, clicking, voting, watching as long as there is still content to read, click, vote on and watch. Even if it's crap.
I can't say if I think this is good or bad. I don't care to spend my time at Digg and would not mind having a little more besides the general articles on Slashdot for my consumption... but it all depends on how it is executed. I'll give it some time before flying my hate flag.
This whole thing is ridiculous. Yes, the NFL is overzealous in protecting their content and possibly to the point of going over the line. However, I'm tired of all these bullshit excuses to get the population behind an individual or individual group's causes by saying such and such a company did XYZ to me... AND I'M A MOTHER WITH SIX CHILDREN! or such and such a company had the audacity to do this to us... AND WE WORSHIP BABY JESUS!.
Who cares? Squirting out kids or belonging to a church doesn't earn you special rights, special treatment, special sympathy or special consideration.
I've now written 36 very popular stories on a certain site and now 20,000 people read each one and I'm stuck Oh, so YOU'RE the guy who does all that Snork fetish fan-fic!
I have no idea how much the make from banners. For one thing, I use adblock. For another, I would be surprised if they make anywhere enough money to recover the costs of maintaining all the servers and bandwidth. Especially when you consider all the additional projects they offer to host for services like demonoid.
There may be other revenue streams, but I suspect that at best these guys are perhaps able to pay themselves a salary (just as an FOSS coder or project manager might receive funding/salary to free up more of their time to work on their own related proejcts).
I could be wrong and I haven't seen any real numbers, so this is just my gut feeling.
Pirating is something organized criminals selling copyrighted content for money on the streets in Malaysia do. I don't believe there are any pirates on the pirate bay. Aaargh.
The idea that perl isn't a great choice for web sites / web scripting is rather ridiculous. Unless you're looking to use JSP stuff, what is your other option? Ruby? PHP? Come on.
Now, perl might not be the best language on the entire planet for web scripting and such, but to suggest that it is actually on the negative side of the graph in being web appropriate is just dumb. And I don't need to be a CIO to understand that.
What are you talking about? There aren't labor unions in the tech industry. That's reserves for bus drivers, teachers, iron workers, public servants, writers, actors, musicians, auto workers, manufacturers, professional sports players, etc. Not piddly tech industry people like us!
Also, they will take the 15% cut and like it. How can you fight it when the option is seeing your position go bye-bye to another country ro a 50% cut?
And you'll go back to cable TV and give up internet just as soon as they start enforcing a 1gb monthly limit on bandwidth (because they don't intend it to be used for media pigs, but rather for grandma's emailing their grandchildren across the country and reading the church bulletins).
I tried Dragon years ago and after a couple hours or so of training, it still completely sucked. Same with IBM Via Voice. Perhaps Google will help improve things with their GOOG411 service that they're using to build up a massive bank of phonetics. Otherwise, it seems like real speech recognition is never seriously going to get off the ground.
Yes, but the fact is that you are still investing a lot of money into the initial stock of cloned cows. Though spread out over however many births, that may not be a significant amount.
Also, it's not actually $5,000. The figure I saw quoted on several reports today was more along the line of $20,000 per cloned animal.
Why do you have to be home to receive deliveries for stuff?
I telecommute, so I'm home when my groceries arrive. But since I can decide what time i want it to arrive anyway, I could schedule it for such a time to begin with. And for everything else... well, I don't know what you expect to happen to things you have delivered to you, but whenever I get home it's always sitting there safely and securely delivered.
Also, another reason I try to buy EVERYTHING I possibly can online is that I don't have to pay for taxes. Being originally from a state without sales tax, I have a special hatred every time I buy something and get dinged another nine percent on top of the purchase price. And no, shipping isn't an issue because almost everything I buy is delivered for free.
As for the "advantages" mentioned to shopping for crap in person... They are almost entirely *perceived* advantages.
Well, our grocery bill is rather small per month and I value my time at aroudn $60/hr, so unless I could make a return of at least $60/hr I invest in doing something, it wouldn't be worth it for me. Unless we're including personal enjoyment or enrichment in the valuation. So for me, there is almost no circumstance in which I could see my investment of time being reasonably returned.
I don't know what the stores you mentioned are (though I've been to a walmart once and found that it was just a disgusting giant version of a convenience store - I think everything in the grocery section was either pre-processed or made of mostly sugar). I'm not sure what to compare Kingsoopers to. I've never heard of it before I moved out here from Portland. Back in Portland, you pretty much have Safeway, Albertsons or Fred Meyer to shop at. And, if you want to travel quite a bit further, you could always go to something like a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes. Of course, nothing cheap about those two places. Better quality, but... not cheaper.
Since the store I have delivery my groceries is the same store I would go shopping at in person and the food comes from the same local place, from the store, it's pretty much the exact same experience I'd have anyway... but with less time and effort invested. And while people are just fine... I find people in grocery stores to be inherently unappealing. And any kids they bring along to be positively fantastic examples for promotion of obsessive use of contraceptives.
People are lazy and don't read the article (hey, this is Slashdot - that's how it has always been).
People are not too lazy to post "what the fuck is this about?" even though they don't read it.
Other people complain about people not reading the article.
Those same people then copy and paste or explain what it is, while complaining that people are too lazy to read the article.
Then, OTHER people mod-up the people who are complaining about and enabling the lazy people to continue being more lazy by posting the info directly in a post for them.
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I can't stand Sarah Silverman. Unbelievably overrated. She is at least as annoying as Dane Cook. Her whole schtick is "I'm a kind of sort of cute girl with big boobs AND A DIRTY MOUTH!". Wow. Exciting. Amazing. Every joke is the "blah blah blah sweet innocent" setup and "dirty raunchy naughty stuff coming out of a cute girl's mouth!" punchline.
The reason she's more popular than a lot of comics is the same reason that some random girl with a random myspace page or pointless blog that rambles on about nothing, but has a few photos on it of her huge rack gets more visitors in a day than your useful, important website with real services and thought will get in its entire life.
Marking a buyer as "non-paying" is not nearly enough.
I've run a large auction site for most of a decade and you need to rate buyers to differentiate the good from the not so good and both of them from the bad. There are buyers who bid on countless items with no intention to pay, just to cause trouble. There are buyers who harass specific sellers by bidding on just their items and not paying. There are buyers who bid on countless items just so they can rush out and leave a slew of negative feedback on a seller. There are buyers who bid on things and then decide "oh, I can't afford these". There are buyers who bid on something and then take weeks or months to finally pay. And when a seller finally leaves negative feedback for lack of payment, the buyer leaves undeserved negative feedback for the seller. Or buyers who are just very difficult to deal with to the point of being harassing, crude, offensive...
Sellers need to be rated. Period. And marking them "non-paying" isn't going to prevent retaliatory feedback. It's just going to make it easier for them to leave negative feedbacks without fear of being held accountable for it.
Stop crying you whiny Canadians! In America, we don't worry about such things, as long as we have sports heroes who make $50m/yr that we can still worship and our favorite sit-coms are still on the air and we can still teach our children that the world is 6,000 years old and we can still own machine guns for hunting elk!
I'm not a professional DBA. I'm just a guy with a non-profit website that handles thousands of auctions a day and I really wanted full-text search, but figuring out the available solutions was kind of a hassle. Having some form of FTS built-in as an out of the box function is fantastic.
8.3 had me at "full-text search".
Now, please excuse me while Postgres 8.3 and I go take a little alone-time in a dark closet.
That it's a church is irrelevant. It's a pathetic play for sympathy and has been a major part of the gist of every story I've read on this subject this weekend. Just because they're subsidized by tax payers as a non-profit entity and have a cross over their building doesn't mean they have any special copyright exception. If the little blurb at the beginning and middle of the game from the NFL applies to you and me -- it applies to them. That I'm joe blow drinking a six pack and they're joe-blow on their knees is not relevant, so it'd be nice if every writer of every article could stop playing up the "big bad NFL is mean to poor little church". If nothing else, it detracts from the real meat of the story.
They still haven't started hosting amusing videos. This video was stupid. And it's from those idiots at collegehumor who send out massive amounts of spam (I've been getting daily spam from them for years, even though I've never visited their site, signed up for them or even heard of them until I started getting spam from them years ago).
No, I hate taxes because of all the mouth-breathing breeders and their poor choices in life that I have to subsidize with my tax dollars.
Anyway, this does seem like a massive waste. Not because of the idea itself, but because I don't believe signals from earth actually are capable of reaching any other intelligence that might exist out there. Just a couple weeks ago, I was reading an article (I don't recall where) stating that signals from earth begin to fade long before they even reach the next star. So presuming we have intelligent life as close as the very next star (improbable), it wouldn't reach them. And if said life is beyond the next star... not a prayer.
I don't order pizza that often, but this has been available here in Denver for at least a couple months. It's not as cool as it sounds as it evokes images of a little map with your driver and pizza moving around via GPS (I believe Dominos does that in the UK though). It does show the important information though. Such as when it enters each step of the process, when it should arrive, who is delivering it, etc.
Now, some people might be content to just wait for their pizza. However, I have placed orders both online and over the telephone in several states and cities in the last ten years and I would say that ten to twenty percent of the orders are not a simple matter of "sit and wait for it to show up". In cities like San Francisco, Denver, Portland... I have had to call up and ask about my pizza two, three, four hours later... only to be told "we have no idea what you're talking about.. we don't have any record of an order".
Now, at least, you will know within a couple minutes whether or not they want your business.
Too bad Pizza is really the only food you can get delivered outside of a place like New York.
The godaddy ads are terrible. The whole idea is "look -- hot chick!" but then they stick a chick who is only mildly attractive but has enormous tits in the ad. Yes, I'm such a stupid red blooded male that the only thing I care about is breast size. Whatever, GoDaddy... lame. At least be unique and pick hot geek girls to sling your ads during the superbowl.
It looks like Slashdot is trying to pull for the Digg audience. Instead of having fewer articles that have a little more thought (though still not much) put into their selection, they want to grab the addicted eyeballs that will stay around reading, clicking, voting, watching as long as there is still content to read, click, vote on and watch. Even if it's crap.
I can't say if I think this is good or bad. I don't care to spend my time at Digg and would not mind having a little more besides the general articles on Slashdot for my consumption... but it all depends on how it is executed. I'll give it some time before flying my hate flag.
This whole thing is ridiculous. Yes, the NFL is overzealous in protecting their content and possibly to the point of going over the line. However, I'm tired of all these bullshit excuses to get the population behind an individual or individual group's causes by saying such and such a company did XYZ to me... AND I'M A MOTHER WITH SIX CHILDREN! or such and such a company had the audacity to do this to us... AND WE WORSHIP BABY JESUS!.
Who cares? Squirting out kids or belonging to a church doesn't earn you special rights, special treatment, special sympathy or special consideration.
I have no idea how much the make from banners. For one thing, I use adblock. For another, I would be surprised if they make anywhere enough money to recover the costs of maintaining all the servers and bandwidth. Especially when you consider all the additional projects they offer to host for services like demonoid.
There may be other revenue streams, but I suspect that at best these guys are perhaps able to pay themselves a salary (just as an FOSS coder or project manager might receive funding/salary to free up more of their time to work on their own related proejcts).
I could be wrong and I haven't seen any real numbers, so this is just my gut feeling.
Pirating is something organized criminals selling copyrighted content for money on the streets in Malaysia do. I don't believe there are any pirates on the pirate bay. Aaargh.
The idea that perl isn't a great choice for web sites / web scripting is rather ridiculous. Unless you're looking to use JSP stuff, what is your other option? Ruby? PHP? Come on.
Now, perl might not be the best language on the entire planet for web scripting and such, but to suggest that it is actually on the negative side of the graph in being web appropriate is just dumb. And I don't need to be a CIO to understand that.
What are you talking about? There aren't labor unions in the tech industry. That's reserves for bus drivers, teachers, iron workers, public servants, writers, actors, musicians, auto workers, manufacturers, professional sports players, etc. Not piddly tech industry people like us!
Also, they will take the 15% cut and like it. How can you fight it when the option is seeing your position go bye-bye to another country ro a 50% cut?
And you'll go back to cable TV and give up internet just as soon as they start enforcing a 1gb monthly limit on bandwidth (because they don't intend it to be used for media pigs, but rather for grandma's emailing their grandchildren across the country and reading the church bulletins).
I thought BSD was dying? I've been on Slashdot for a decade and I precisely recall hearing that BSD was dying a few hundred thousand times.
I tried Dragon years ago and after a couple hours or so of training, it still completely sucked. Same with IBM Via Voice. Perhaps Google will help improve things with their GOOG411 service that they're using to build up a massive bank of phonetics. Otherwise, it seems like real speech recognition is never seriously going to get off the ground.
Yes, but the fact is that you are still investing a lot of money into the initial stock of cloned cows. Though spread out over however many births, that may not be a significant amount.
Also, it's not actually $5,000. The figure I saw quoted on several reports today was more along the line of $20,000 per cloned animal.
The sperm mutations aren't only in *mice*.
And no, I don't want to talk about it.
Why do you have to be home to receive deliveries for stuff?
I telecommute, so I'm home when my groceries arrive. But since I can decide what time i want it to arrive anyway, I could schedule it for such a time to begin with. And for everything else... well, I don't know what you expect to happen to things you have delivered to you, but whenever I get home it's always sitting there safely and securely delivered.
Also, another reason I try to buy EVERYTHING I possibly can online is that I don't have to pay for taxes. Being originally from a state without sales tax, I have a special hatred every time I buy something and get dinged another nine percent on top of the purchase price. And no, shipping isn't an issue because almost everything I buy is delivered for free.
As for the "advantages" mentioned to shopping for crap in person... They are almost entirely *perceived* advantages.
Well, our grocery bill is rather small per month and I value my time at aroudn $60/hr, so unless I could make a return of at least $60/hr I invest in doing something, it wouldn't be worth it for me. Unless we're including personal enjoyment or enrichment in the valuation. So for me, there is almost no circumstance in which I could see my investment of time being reasonably returned.
I don't know what the stores you mentioned are (though I've been to a walmart once and found that it was just a disgusting giant version of a convenience store - I think everything in the grocery section was either pre-processed or made of mostly sugar). I'm not sure what to compare Kingsoopers to. I've never heard of it before I moved out here from Portland. Back in Portland, you pretty much have Safeway, Albertsons or Fred Meyer to shop at. And, if you want to travel quite a bit further, you could always go to something like a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes. Of course, nothing cheap about those two places. Better quality, but... not cheaper.
Since the store I have delivery my groceries is the same store I would go shopping at in person and the food comes from the same local place, from the store, it's pretty much the exact same experience I'd have anyway... but with less time and effort invested. And while people are just fine... I find people in grocery stores to be inherently unappealing. And any kids they bring along to be positively fantastic examples for promotion of obsessive use of contraceptives.
This is what I love about Slashdot.
:)
People are lazy and don't read the article (hey, this is Slashdot - that's how it has always been).
People are not too lazy to post "what the fuck is this about?" even though they don't read it.
Other people complain about people not reading the article.
Those same people then copy and paste or explain what it is, while complaining that people are too lazy to read the article.
Then, OTHER people mod-up the people who are complaining about and enabling the lazy people to continue being more lazy by posting the info directly in a post for them.
That's why this is home.