Actually, content distribution as in...graphics on Apple's page. The biggest use of Akamai that I've seen is for streaming media feeds from sites who actually get lots of visitors. I don't want to say that I've never seen a banner ad being served up on Akamai, but I've at least never noticed it.
Look at graphics on websites that you visit. I haven't found one major site that uses pngs (not that I've looked all that often, but wherever I look, it's a.jpg or.gif). I throw my graphics around as.pngs, but that doesn't make it a standard. As an internet community, we aren't using PNG.
Even though you're offtopic, you really need to be set straight. Yes, this is a popular myth, and somebody as innocent and reliable as your high school English teacher may have told it to you (mine tried to), but you're wrong. Even just thinking for a second about 'fuck' coming from an acronym, you can see that married couples would not 'fornicate,' nor would the King really have any interest in giving out fucking licenses. The other popular myth, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" can be ruled out because it's a poorly-formed acronym, and also the word 'fuck' predates the time of the popular story by a few centuries.
The word most likely comes down from a Germanic tongue, but finding a precise lineage is difficult - there are many possible options. For more information, do a google search for something like "fuck etymology," or go here.
Microsoft *does* have a hardware side that is quite profitable. Sure, it's not tethered so directly to the operating system, but MS peripherals are, I'd guess, probably market leaders, or damn close to it in many aspects.
Indeed...the date on the article is March 26. Although, maybe that just makes it that much better of an April Fools' Joke. Kind of like putting salt in someone's coffee a few weeks from now, and yelling April Fools!
Holy crap! It's John Candy, back from the dead. And he's a "Consultant Facilitator"! I have to say that I don't know for sure why it's John Candy, but it's still pretty funny.
That's actually a very common occurrence. Many left-handed people who are forced to do things with their right hand will develop dyslexia, from a minor case that requires them just to think a little harder, similar to what your wife has, to a more severe case where they show more obvious signs of dyslexia like greatly troubled reading, etc.
The psychology of pricing is interesting. Sun may be better off going with $99 than $49. Many years ago, in Guadalajara, Mexico, my grandmother met a street artist selling paintings for a dollar or two each. My grandmother told him to include nice frames (that he could buy for less than one dollar apiece from fellow half-starved locals) and up his prices to $50 or more. He thought she was nuts, because no one he knew could afford to pay that much for a small painting. Annie (my grandmother) fronted him money for a dozen frames and helped him with the repricing, and sales soon took off -- not to locals, but to American tourists who thought $50 to $100 was a great value for an original painting of a pastoral Mexican scene enclosed in an attractive, hand-carved wooden frame. A year later the artist had his own gallery and a house with indoor plumbing -- and Annie got some of his best work for free and had a friend for life.
That's really a very beautiful story, and perhaps the best part of the article. It almost has strains of JonKatz in there, while remaining just on this side of probable. Even though it's pretty much unrelated to the review/comparison, it's a nice touch. Well done!
I haven't seen Amelie, but for Lola Rennt, there's a lot more foul language in that movie than is generally acceptable for PG-13. The general premise is also something that children really don't need to see. Rating something "R" is not a way of killing a movie; it often makes it even more popular - it's just a way of indicating that the movie is not something you want to bring 10-year old Johnny to see. As a comparison, The Matrix was an American movie, and also rated R, and that's definitely one of the most liked, most popular movies among teenagers and older.
CUPS is here. I'm running Skipjack right now, and using CUPS 1.1.14. I had 1.1.10 installed fine on 7.2 using packages from cups.org, but these packages came with the install. As far as I can tell, CUPS is integrated pretty seamlessly with the KDE print interface and the Foomatic stuff that they're using now. CUPS wasn't enabled by default, but it was just a matter of setting it to start automatically.
This year, in a dusty corner of my physics room, I found a set of masses from Ohaus which were scaled using units of English fluid volume (half-pint, pint, quart, two quarts, gallon). I'm not quite sure what they represented, and haven't actually looked into it until now - I'll try to find them again and see if I can get gram masses of a few. Has anyone seen these before or have any idea of their use? They seem much to small to be referring to water.
See? The recording industry is right. Steve Jobs and co. are very active participants in trying to inflict as much damage to media companies as possible. They even include AppleScript capabilities, so that this anti-capitalism could be completely automated. Just one click, and you can watch the entertainment industry crumble - just think (different) of the possibilities!
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So, Descartes was walking down the street, and somebody asked him a stupid question to which he replied "I think not." *poof*
Hahaha! I get it! "Be" is the infinitive form, minus "to" of the verb "to be," (In addition to being the name of the company about which this story was written) so the parent posted the singular first- and third-person past tense of the same verb (I guess some sort of past infinitive, although it would have been more appropriate, wouldn't have worked since it's not a very common English tense if it exists at all - maybe something like "to have been"). Anyway, when all is said in done, it just looks like a lame "joke" that you didn't get.
It's not the money that bothers us, it's the inconvenience. If I'm going to buy a small, chic, sleek, suave, rocking TiBook, then I don't want to have to carry a USB Mouse around in my pocket just to use the damn thing. For desktop systems, I have no problem buying another mouse, but for a laptop, it's just not a solution.
Speaking of that, is there an easy way to get rid of the automatic copy on highlight (KDE)? This is one "feature" that's bugged the heck out of me, but I haven't figured out how to disable it by hunting through some docs and through the control center. Maybe this isn't really the right place to ask, but if someone knows and is willing to help, I'd be grateful.
* RealOne (the successor to RealPlayer) is native to Linux
Wow, that'd be nice. Unfortunately, I can't find it - seems to be Windows only (not even Mac) at least right now. Any links, or dates when it should be available?
Can you essentially/actually/theoretically run different OSes on each of those "virtual computers"? This is, of course, assuming the OS was written and compiled to work on the architecture. That could be pretty neat, having one machine that masquerades as a bunch of different types of computers.
No, the parent really had a good point. You usually can trust a large registered corporation, because they generally have good contact information and an image to keep up. Sometimes, however, large registered corporations *cough*Enron*cough* go bad. Perhaps a larger corporation is slightly easier to track down if it tries to pull a fast one, but it's not necessarily more trustworthy by nature. Say some employee at the escrow company is handling a $100,000 transaction for some rare artwork. There's not really that much stopping him from taking both, or sending the artwork and keeping the money - certainly no more than some guy with 6000 positive feedback points.
People trust their banks because of FDIC insurance. Before/During/Right after the Great Depression, this type of security did not exist, and (especially during/after) people did not trust their banks. There were many people who had their life savings in banks only to show up one day to be told that there was no way in hell they were ever getting any of that money ever again.
If a video store buys one copy of a movie, then makes 15 copies, and rents out 16, you can bet that the MPAA would probably find out, and be righteously pissed. But as long as the movie stores buy all of the movies they rent out, there's usually no need for royalties. For the early releases that they get for rentals, and going through the proper channels, movie stores can probably easily pay $100 for one copy of one movie. (I saw >$90 movies in a catalog a few years ago). This means that the royalties are already built into the movie price.
The article doesn't mention how long it took from when the hidden page was put up to when it was hit; it only looks at the time after that. For all we know after reading the article, that link could have been up for a year before it got a hit. However, since it was presumably linked from a reasonably major site (DSLReports), that probably increases the chances that it would be found quickly. All it takes is for one guy sitting at home to type dslreports.com in to his harvester (or some site that links to dslreports.com) and they find the link. The probability of that happening at a major website, given enough time, is quite large, I'd fathom.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see them making a profit.
Damn. I hate it when these evil corporations try to make money! Don't they realize that they should just incur huge losses for the benefit of every consumer?
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Actually, content distribution as in...graphics on Apple's page. The biggest use of Akamai that I've seen is for streaming media feeds from sites who actually get lots of visitors. I don't want to say that I've never seen a banner ad being served up on Akamai, but I've at least never noticed it.
Look at graphics on websites that you visit. I haven't found one major site that uses pngs (not that I've looked all that often, but wherever I look, it's a .jpg or .gif). I throw my graphics around as .pngs, but that doesn't make it a standard. As an internet community, we aren't using PNG.
Even though you're offtopic, you really need to be set straight. Yes, this is a popular myth, and somebody as innocent and reliable as your high school English teacher may have told it to you (mine tried to), but you're wrong. Even just thinking for a second about 'fuck' coming from an acronym, you can see that married couples would not 'fornicate,' nor would the King really have any interest in giving out fucking licenses. The other popular myth, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" can be ruled out because it's a poorly-formed acronym, and also the word 'fuck' predates the time of the popular story by a few centuries.
The word most likely comes down from a Germanic tongue, but finding a precise lineage is difficult - there are many possible options. For more information, do a google search for something like "fuck etymology," or go here.
Microsoft *does* have a hardware side that is quite profitable. Sure, it's not tethered so directly to the operating system, but MS peripherals are, I'd guess, probably market leaders, or damn close to it in many aspects.
Indeed...the date on the article is March 26. Although, maybe that just makes it that much better of an April Fools' Joke. Kind of like putting salt in someone's coffee a few weeks from now, and yelling April Fools!
Holy crap! It's John Candy, back from the dead. And he's a "Consultant Facilitator"! I have to say that I don't know for sure why it's John Candy, but it's still pretty funny.
That's actually a very common occurrence. Many left-handed people who are forced to do things with their right hand will develop dyslexia, from a minor case that requires them just to think a little harder, similar to what your wife has, to a more severe case where they show more obvious signs of dyslexia like greatly troubled reading, etc.
The psychology of pricing is interesting. Sun may be better off going with $99 than $49. Many years ago, in Guadalajara, Mexico, my grandmother met a street artist selling paintings for a dollar or two each. My grandmother told him to include nice frames (that he could buy for less than one dollar apiece from fellow half-starved locals) and up his prices to $50 or more. He thought she was nuts, because no one he knew could afford to pay that much for a small painting. Annie (my grandmother) fronted him money for a dozen frames and helped him with the repricing, and sales soon took off -- not to locals, but to American tourists who thought $50 to $100 was a great value for an original painting of a pastoral Mexican scene enclosed in an attractive, hand-carved wooden frame. A year later the artist had his own gallery and a house with indoor plumbing -- and Annie got some of his best work for free and had a friend for life.
That's really a very beautiful story, and perhaps the best part of the article. It almost has strains of JonKatz in there, while remaining just on this side of probable. Even though it's pretty much unrelated to the review/comparison, it's a nice touch. Well done!
I haven't seen Amelie, but for Lola Rennt, there's a lot more foul language in that movie than is generally acceptable for PG-13. The general premise is also something that children really don't need to see. Rating something "R" is not a way of killing a movie; it often makes it even more popular - it's just a way of indicating that the movie is not something you want to bring 10-year old Johnny to see. As a comparison, The Matrix was an American movie, and also rated R, and that's definitely one of the most liked, most popular movies among teenagers and older.
CUPS is here. I'm running Skipjack right now, and using CUPS 1.1.14. I had 1.1.10 installed fine on 7.2 using packages from cups.org, but these packages came with the install. As far as I can tell, CUPS is integrated pretty seamlessly with the KDE print interface and the Foomatic stuff that they're using now. CUPS wasn't enabled by default, but it was just a matter of setting it to start automatically.
This year, in a dusty corner of my physics room, I found a set of masses from Ohaus which were scaled using units of English fluid volume (half-pint, pint, quart, two quarts, gallon). I'm not quite sure what they represented, and haven't actually looked into it until now - I'll try to find them again and see if I can get gram masses of a few. Has anyone seen these before or have any idea of their use? They seem much to small to be referring to water.
Just a matter of chance - I guess it's a random rotation :)
See? The recording industry is right. Steve Jobs and co. are very active participants in trying to inflict as much damage to media companies as possible. They even include AppleScript capabilities, so that this anti-capitalism could be completely automated. Just one click, and you can watch the entertainment industry crumble - just think (different) of the possibilities!
So, Descartes was walking down the street, and somebody asked him a stupid question to which he replied "I think not." *poof*
Hahaha! I get it! "Be" is the infinitive form, minus "to" of the verb "to be," (In addition to being the name of the company about which this story was written) so the parent posted the singular first- and third-person past tense of the same verb (I guess some sort of past infinitive, although it would have been more appropriate, wouldn't have worked since it's not a very common English tense if it exists at all - maybe something like "to have been"). Anyway, when all is said in done, it just looks like a lame "joke" that you didn't get.
Any chance someone could post a link to the RealOne beta (linux)? I looked for 10 mins. or so and must just be looking past the crucial link.
But it guest-stars Spiderman, so we could just link the Transformers to the Marvel Universe.
It's not the money that bothers us, it's the inconvenience. If I'm going to buy a small, chic, sleek, suave, rocking TiBook, then I don't want to have to carry a USB Mouse around in my pocket just to use the damn thing. For desktop systems, I have no problem buying another mouse, but for a laptop, it's just not a solution.
Speaking of that, is there an easy way to get rid of the automatic copy on highlight (KDE)? This is one "feature" that's bugged the heck out of me, but I haven't figured out how to disable it by hunting through some docs and through the control center. Maybe this isn't really the right place to ask, but if someone knows and is willing to help, I'd be grateful.
* RealOne (the successor to RealPlayer) is native to Linux
Wow, that'd be nice. Unfortunately, I can't find it - seems to be Windows only (not even Mac) at least right now. Any links, or dates when it should be available?
Can you essentially/actually/theoretically run different OSes on each of those "virtual computers"? This is, of course, assuming the OS was written and compiled to work on the architecture. That could be pretty neat, having one machine that masquerades as a bunch of different types of computers.
No, the parent really had a good point. You usually can trust a large registered corporation, because they generally have good contact information and an image to keep up. Sometimes, however, large registered corporations *cough*Enron*cough* go bad. Perhaps a larger corporation is slightly easier to track down if it tries to pull a fast one, but it's not necessarily more trustworthy by nature. Say some employee at the escrow company is handling a $100,000 transaction for some rare artwork. There's not really that much stopping him from taking both, or sending the artwork and keeping the money - certainly no more than some guy with 6000 positive feedback points.
People trust their banks because of FDIC insurance. Before/During/Right after the Great Depression, this type of security did not exist, and (especially during/after) people did not trust their banks. There were many people who had their life savings in banks only to show up one day to be told that there was no way in hell they were ever getting any of that money ever again.
If a video store buys one copy of a movie, then makes 15 copies, and rents out 16, you can bet that the MPAA would probably find out, and be righteously pissed. But as long as the movie stores buy all of the movies they rent out, there's usually no need for royalties. For the early releases that they get for rentals, and going through the proper channels, movie stores can probably easily pay $100 for one copy of one movie. (I saw >$90 movies in a catalog a few years ago). This means that the royalties are already built into the movie price.
The article doesn't mention how long it took from when the hidden page was put up to when it was hit; it only looks at the time after that. For all we know after reading the article, that link could have been up for a year before it got a hit. However, since it was presumably linked from a reasonably major site (DSLReports), that probably increases the chances that it would be found quickly. All it takes is for one guy sitting at home to type dslreports.com in to his harvester (or some site that links to dslreports.com) and they find the link. The probability of that happening at a major website, given enough time, is quite large, I'd fathom.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see them making a profit.
Damn. I hate it when these evil corporations try to make money! Don't they realize that they should just incur huge losses for the benefit of every consumer?