The other UK alternative (and heavily promoted recently) is www.bol.com
I just check it out, as I intend to do a lot of book shopping for Xmas.
However, my first search ('lobotomy' - don't ask) caused a nice little db error page to pop up.
And so, it's very tempting not to boycott Amazon this Xmas & stick with what I know works, 'cause although I applaud Stallman, I won't be giving my credit card num to chancers who can't get the technology sorted out.
It would be a fun job to act as technical consultant to a production using computers in the narative.
Personally I would make sure that my advice was very bad - specifically to annoy CompSci students.
I'd have voice operated Apple II's hacking into peoples brains, ZX81s that play full motion video & Commodore Pets indexing police databases. With extra bleeps, & zooms too.
BTW My favourite computer use in the movies, was Robocop displaying 'command.com' in his visor screen.
As much as I enjoyed the interview, Paxman didn't have the technical knowledge to ask the questions I wanted answering. However, another approach may have yielded more interesting results. The BBC run a great program called 'In the Psychiatrist's Chair' using an interviewer called Professor Anthony Clare. He could have taken a more personal approach, and instead of asking 'Do you really earn this much money' - could have been asking 'why he feels the need to be some awesomely sucessful' etc. Next time I hope the BBC producers are more imaginative.
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Actually the answer to how Goggle makes money is more interesting than ads.
It's good old business2business relationships.
They are currently in the process of stealing Inktomi's business - the people who supply the data for the searches on most of the major portals.
Firstly they won Netscape's portal, and now they have Yahoo.
Google have turned from plucky underdog to the rulers of the scene in a matter of a year.
... the BBC would bring back Dr. Who with Tom Baker playing the 9th re-generation of the doctor. With DNA scripting it.
That would be worth seeing.
Quoting from his own website: "If your design demands a specific height, set it in points (not pixels)"
Word Pictures of Niriah Davis - among others....
live-audio.com ?
I think they do. They make me press the back button.
I just check it out, as I intend to do a lot of book shopping for Xmas.
However, my first search ('lobotomy' - don't ask) caused a nice little db error page to pop up.
And so, it's very tempting not to boycott Amazon this Xmas & stick with what I know works, 'cause although I applaud Stallman, I won't be giving my credit card num to chancers who can't get the technology sorted out.
and we need shrinks to adjust us to it.
Out of bordem - whilst eating my lunch - I put Wolfenstein into register.com
Wolfenstein3d.com & Wolfenstein2000.com are still available.
Ho-hum.
So Amazon can't make money by selling stuff - they'll just have to sue the competition until they turn a profit.
As business plans go - many IPOs have worse.
It would be a fun job to act as technical consultant to a production using computers in the narative.
Personally I would make sure that my advice was very bad - specifically to annoy CompSci students.
I'd have voice operated Apple II's hacking into peoples brains, ZX81s that play full motion video & Commodore Pets indexing police databases. With extra bleeps, & zooms too.
BTW My favourite computer use in the movies, was Robocop displaying 'command.com' in his visor screen.
As much as I enjoyed the interview, Paxman didn't have the technical knowledge to ask the questions I wanted answering. However, another approach may have yielded more interesting results. The BBC run a great program called 'In the Psychiatrist's Chair' using an interviewer called Professor Anthony Clare. He could have taken a more personal approach, and instead of asking 'Do you really earn this much money' - could have been asking 'why he feels the need to be some awesomely sucessful' etc. Next time I hope the BBC producers are more imaginative.