US$50k for the first prime over ten million digits. Big deal - what will the person grabbing slashdot UID 1,000,000 receive? We're up to about 940400 or so now. Shouldn't be long.
According to shop.org, Scott Silverman, the Executive Director of the company, coined the term during a meeting in August or September 2005 to describe an emerging trend first noticed on the Monday after Thanksgiving, 2004.
Does essentially one day worth of data (monday after thanksgiving online shopping numbers from 2004) qualify as an emerging trend? Sounds like Scotty just wanted some free advertising this year.
Peter Cushing died in 1994. Wonder who they found as a semi-lookalike? The profile and hollow face are unmistakable but you get the feeling Lucas purposely had him walking away to the left so they could avoid having to actually give him dialog (so we wouldn't notice it wasn't Cushing). Or something like that.
A.net is very stringent on the photos they accept. You can submit hundreds of photos, and get rejected for such things as 'badmotive' (a runway sign blocking a single tire), very mildly soft focus, and lots of other pretty anal things (IMHO). So while the image count they are dealing with is high, the obvious resulting similarity among images will result in a high number of matches.
Now, do this for something like Google Images or PBase or collections spanning infinite numbers of subjects and image sizes, then I'll get excited.
No, I've never had a rejection from A.net, I've never submitted there. Two minutes in their forum will tell you how anal their 'screeners' are, for whatever reason. It's just freakin' pictures of airplanes, for chrissakes.
You know, I tried Zinio delivered magazines and I hated it. The onscreen page 'flipping'; the page zoom never seemed to be just right (either couldn't read the text or had to navigate around the screen too much because of columnization, etc).
These digitally delivered magazines are obviously trying too hard to replicate a dead tree version - and the internet and page reading/linking habits are not dead trees. I don't want to replicate the flow of page by page reading of the print version because there's no reason to do that online. If an article is 'continued on page xx', I shouldn't have to click or flip to keep reading - too much navigation. All article content should be on one page, top to bottom, that I can read at once, all accessed from a single menu page. If I want to read a print version of a magazine in that exact format, I'll go sit at Borders or B&N for an hour and have some coffee while I 'borrow' their newsstand copies.
But then there's the problem of replicating their advertising model or having to completely re-do the ad formatting to retain that advertising revenue stream. With Zinio or the like, full page ads are intact just as they are in print, can't block them with adblock etc. If they did have to reformat into typical HTML or whatever for the 'online' edition (which costs time and money), then they will end up having a completely different ad presentation mechanism to work out. Full/half etc. page ads are no longer deliverable as paid for in the print model, you have all the effort of creating typical discrete online ad units which will then likely be blocked with whatever tool. So in the end, it's just cheaper and easier to just dump the print version into PDF or Flash or whatever and just be done with it.
But ultimately it's still a kludge, and hard to read on a screen, so I don't think Zinio-like delivery is the right approach. Yeah, you could always just print the pages of interest and take 'em with you on the subway, but at that point I'd just access the existing print one anyway.
Mod down an AC into oblivion? How much fun is that? It's not like it takes too many mods to accomplish it since AC's start at 0 to begin with (default settings and all).
Now, if you had balls and wanted to take credit for your craft by signing in, then a couple of mods woulda had something to work with. Hell, they mighta even liked it, adding to your karmic genius.
To quote John Belushi, But Noooooooooo!
Although I have to say, it's a bit too ee cummings and all, was expecting some poetry, then you kinda fell apart by, umm, the second line or so.
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...It's been a while since I signed in, got some karma burning a hole in the drive, so why not I guess... let 'er rip...
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WTF??? They don't "sell" merchandise? If you "order" something, you are really saying you agree to accept "offers" on the item you want? Presumably from "affiliates" or whatever the scumbag term is for that these days?
I really miss my Sprint analog phone. I used it about 50 hours a month in 1993,
Didn't Sprint PCS start from the ground up with a fully digital network (ie, no native analog service in their system)? And dualband phones were just for compatibility with AMPS systems still in wide use at the time? (unless you didn't mean Sprint PCS).
Anyways, with analog, if your signal was poor, you could sometimes at least hear something through the static. With poor coverage on digital phones, al_ y__ _et __ w__ds clipped so i_'s h__d to und____an_ __meone.
So who would someone sue if they needed to make a 911 call on a cell phone, in an area where there was not enough signal strength because the ruling municipality decided they didn't want an "ugly" cell tower that would otherwise have improved service to that area?
The US Supreme Court recently sided with cities that want to be able to disallow new cell towers.
From the LA Times:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for cities to say "no" to new cell-phone towers in their neighborhoods.
In a 9-0 ruling, the justices said the federal law that was designed to encourage the growth of the telecommunications industry does not allow cities to be sued for damages for refusing to permit a cell-phone tower.
The court's decision will take some pressure off local governments to approve new tower permits, although it does not mean they can refuse all of them.
The ruling was one of three Tuesday in which the court overturned decisions of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Slashdot Mirror
sorry, wandering. couldn't read my post because my dominant eye was busy.
Thereby worsening the wondering eye syndrome in the other one.
US$50k for the first prime over ten million digits. Big deal - what will the person grabbing slashdot UID 1,000,000 receive? We're up to about 940400 or so now. Shouldn't be long.
Blahgers.
Or at least another IM abbrev.
TMBACTWAATP
Does essentially one day worth of data (monday after thanksgiving online shopping numbers from 2004) qualify as an emerging trend? Sounds like Scotty just wanted some free advertising this year.
One word: Ilford.
There are geeks that still shop at Tiger Direct?
Peter Cushing died in 1994. Wonder who they found as a semi-lookalike? The profile and hollow face are unmistakable but you get the feeling Lucas purposely had him walking away to the left so they could avoid having to actually give him dialog (so we wouldn't notice it wasn't Cushing). Or something like that.
Oops. Make that Hilaryious. A for efffort regardless.
Shouldn't that be "Hillaryious"?
It's not a dupe, it's an update! OK, it's a Dupe.
http://www.spilth.org/pictures/girls/ceren/jkh-and -babe.jpg
Impossible!
Now, do this for something like Google Images or PBase or collections spanning infinite numbers of subjects and image sizes, then I'll get excited.
No, I've never had a rejection from A.net, I've never submitted there. Two minutes in their forum will tell you how anal their 'screeners' are, for whatever reason. It's just freakin' pictures of airplanes, for chrissakes.
You may live in NC, but I would prefer to live in NC-17.
These digitally delivered magazines are obviously trying too hard to replicate a dead tree version - and the internet and page reading/linking habits are not dead trees. I don't want to replicate the flow of page by page reading of the print version because there's no reason to do that online. If an article is 'continued on page xx', I shouldn't have to click or flip to keep reading - too much navigation. All article content should be on one page, top to bottom, that I can read at once, all accessed from a single menu page. If I want to read a print version of a magazine in that exact format, I'll go sit at Borders or B&N for an hour and have some coffee while I 'borrow' their newsstand copies.
But then there's the problem of replicating their advertising model or having to completely re-do the ad formatting to retain that advertising revenue stream. With Zinio or the like, full page ads are intact just as they are in print, can't block them with adblock etc. If they did have to reformat into typical HTML or whatever for the 'online' edition (which costs time and money), then they will end up having a completely different ad presentation mechanism to work out. Full/half etc. page ads are no longer deliverable as paid for in the print model, you have all the effort of creating typical discrete online ad units which will then likely be blocked with whatever tool. So in the end, it's just cheaper and easier to just dump the print version into PDF or Flash or whatever and just be done with it.
But ultimately it's still a kludge, and hard to read on a screen, so I don't think Zinio-like delivery is the right approach. Yeah, you could always just print the pages of interest and take 'em with you on the subway, but at that point I'd just access the existing print one anyway.
Mod down an AC into oblivion? How much fun is that? It's not like it takes too many mods to accomplish it since AC's start at 0 to begin with (default settings and all).
Now, if you had balls and wanted to take credit for your craft by signing in, then a couple of mods woulda had something to work with. Hell, they mighta even liked it, adding to your karmic genius.
To quote John Belushi, But Noooooooooo!
Although I have to say, it's a bit too ee cummings and all, was expecting some poetry, then you kinda fell apart by, umm, the second line or so.
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I think the people driving VW Golf/TDI's are running Biodiesel.
Didn't Sprint PCS start from the ground up with a fully digital network (ie, no native analog service in their system)? And dualband phones were just for compatibility with AMPS systems still in wide use at the time? (unless you didn't mean Sprint PCS).
Anyways, with analog, if your signal was poor, you could sometimes at least hear something through the static. With poor coverage on digital phones, al_ y__ _et __ w__ds clipped so i_'s h__d to und____an_ __meone.
What, like the ones that buy two seats on Southwest?
...and it seems that some of those live in Dayton, given that you have a stadium named "Fifth Third"
I believe the correct acronym is Mean Time Between Failure.
Joke-e-oke no more makes me a comedian, than having an MCSE will make me a system admin.
The US Supreme Court recently sided with cities that want to be able to disallow new cell towers.
From the LA Times:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for cities to say "no" to new cell-phone towers in their neighborhoods.
In a 9-0 ruling, the justices said the federal law that was designed to encourage the growth of the telecommunications industry does not allow cities to be sued for damages for refusing to permit a cell-phone tower.
The court's decision will take some pressure off local governments to approve new tower permits, although it does not mean they can refuse all of them.
The ruling was one of three Tuesday in which the court overturned decisions of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.