I live fairly near there, and have several close friends in the area. Never heard of such.
I *have* seen some interesting things in north central AR - but I've always chalked that up to being a Cold War-era storage facility being in the area. Lots of covered 2.5 ton trucks driving by at 2:00 am, and coming back unloaded an hour later.
I disagree. "Terrorist" implies that non-combatants are targeted, using terror as a tool against the general populace to meet a political goal. "Insurgent" would be the non-friendly version of "freedom fighter".
I find it funny that you guys hear that a guy in the US with an Arabic-sounding last name discovers a keylogger on his new PC, and you assume it was the OEM that did it.
I thought of this - I also thought that the guy might have been under scrutiny by said criminal/intelligence outfit, and the "tech support" call might have been routed to a nice guy in an unmarked van.
That said, based on my experience in the corporate world, I'm blaming Marketing. It's almost always Marketing when something embarrassing and stupid happens.
I've never had someone convince me to sign my name to a lie. Did Countrywide use a gun, or did they just threaten to disappear his family unless he complied?
So because of "investment" the government has made beyond their control, you believe society now has the moral authority to decide for them what they should do with their lives?
The default look of Firefox 4 looks nearly identical to the default look of Opera 11.
They're also pulling features from Opera - "App Tabs" in Firefox are "pinned tabs" in Opera. Mozilla seems to be short of innovation lately, and is instead playing catchup.
THANK YOU. A citation. None of the news stories I've found provided one - they preferred to just make the allegation and trust that I will believe them.
Sheesh, I said "town", not "metropolis". For perspective, the county seat where I live is 12,000 people. If they had one of these and recorded 120 rounds going off, I *guarantee* you every single one of them would either be at the scene or at a diner.
I'm just saying - as an American, I can order just about any caliber imaginable - and 9x39mm is rare as hen's teeth.
For what it's worth, 12.7x108mm is the Combloc equivalent of 50BMG. Of course it would be common. 9x39mm is roughly equivalent to something like 6.8SPC today - it is designed and used solely by Spetsnaz, to my knowledge, and was never issue to the military at large. The only weapons off the top of my head that fire it are the VSS Vintorez, an experimental AK derivative, and an underwater rifle used by Russian frogmen that fires a special, sealed-piston design.
It's not uncommon because it's Russian, it's uncommon because it was never a frontline caliber.
He made between $2.25 and $4.50 per copy, depending on where it was sold, and he gave away over 500,000 ebooks direct from his site. It's in teh article, which is of course why no one on/. knows this:)
And yet he provided no basis for his belief that the ebook drove sales of the printed copy. An assertion like that should be backed up with data - money is, after all, Serious Business.
I'm assuming a nonzero number of those people would have been willing to pay $.99.
His loss depends entirely upon opportunity cost. It wouldn't have been 446 - the article (I know, it's/.) says he saw at least 500,000 downloads. If 1% of those had paid a buck, that's $5,000... over half of the realized profit for the book. For what it's worth, it is reasonable to estimate that 4% of hits would have converted at $.99.
Actually, if one person bought the $.99 ebook, he'd be ahead. I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article.
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Any citation on that reference to Mena?
I live fairly near there, and have several close friends in the area. Never heard of such.
I *have* seen some interesting things in north central AR - but I've always chalked that up to being a Cold War-era storage facility being in the area. Lots of covered 2.5 ton trucks driving by at 2:00 am, and coming back unloaded an hour later.
I disagree. "Terrorist" implies that non-combatants are targeted, using terror as a tool against the general populace to meet a political goal. "Insurgent" would be the non-friendly version of "freedom fighter".
I find it funny that you guys hear that a guy in the US with an Arabic-sounding last name discovers a keylogger on his new PC, and you assume it was the OEM that did it.
I thought of this - I also thought that the guy might have been under scrutiny by said criminal/intelligence outfit, and the "tech support" call might have been routed to a nice guy in an unmarked van.
That said, based on my experience in the corporate world, I'm blaming Marketing. It's almost always Marketing when something embarrassing and stupid happens.
Yeah, but at least with a pirated copy, you're not paying someone to fuck you.
Who is this "they" you speak of for Linux?
I *am* a greedy bastard, though. I'll do everything in my power to keep my tax payments as low as possible, thank you very much.
What article?
I've never had someone convince me to sign my name to a lie. Did Countrywide use a gun, or did they just threaten to disappear his family unless he complied?
Google does nothing free - you pay with your eyes on ads, and you data in their databases.
That's not a bad thing, but it isn't "free".
So because of "investment" the government has made beyond their control, you believe society now has the moral authority to decide for them what they should do with their lives?
The default look of Firefox 4 looks nearly identical to the default look of Opera 11.
They're also pulling features from Opera - "App Tabs" in Firefox are "pinned tabs" in Opera. Mozilla seems to be short of innovation lately, and is instead playing catchup.
No, that's why I was looking for a citation.
Just because an outlet supports your preconceptions doesn't make it true.
They're obviously not lazy enough. Just point the firehose spoofing script at the page.
THANK YOU. A citation. None of the news stories I've found provided one - they preferred to just make the allegation and trust that I will believe them.
Except the governing body here doesn't own the other TLDs.
Sheesh, I said "town", not "metropolis". For perspective, the county seat where I live is 12,000 people. If they had one of these and recorded 120 rounds going off, I *guarantee* you every single one of them would either be at the scene or at a diner.
I'm just saying - as an American, I can order just about any caliber imaginable - and 9x39mm is rare as hen's teeth.
For what it's worth, 12.7x108mm is the Combloc equivalent of 50BMG. Of course it would be common. 9x39mm is roughly equivalent to something like 6.8SPC today - it is designed and used solely by Spetsnaz, to my knowledge, and was never issue to the military at large. The only weapons off the top of my head that fire it are the VSS Vintorez, an experimental AK derivative, and an underwater rifle used by Russian frogmen that fires a special, sealed-piston design.
It's not uncommon because it's Russian, it's uncommon because it was never a frontline caliber.
He made between $2.25 and $4.50 per copy, depending on where it was sold, and he gave away over 500,000 ebooks direct from his site. It's in teh article, which is of course why no one on /. knows this :)
And yet he provided no basis for his belief that the ebook drove sales of the printed copy. An assertion like that should be backed up with data - money is, after all, Serious Business.
That's 446 *for every print copy sold*. Over a half million downloads.
I'm assuming a nonzero number of those people would have been willing to pay $.99.
His loss depends entirely upon opportunity cost. It wouldn't have been 446 - the article (I know, it's /.) says he saw at least 500,000 downloads. If 1% of those had paid a buck, that's $5,000... over half of the realized profit for the book. For what it's worth, it is reasonable to estimate that 4% of hits would have converted at $.99.
Actually, if one person bought the $.99 ebook, he'd be ahead. I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article.
So... your idea is to sell at a loss, and make it up with the increased volume?
I obviously don't mean *all* of the police force - but a large portion, surely, if it was enough gunfire.