It's hard to say. They'll probably keep their regular shows free (ad revenue) and charge for value added shows, then work in charges for the other shows over time. They'll lose some eyes - but those that remain will still increase their revenue significantly. It may be snarky, but it's an effective business practice. Before long people will forget that it was ever free at all. Wasn't NetZero's initial platform "free internet for all?" While they still offer that it's now extremely limited and they're just another subscriber supported service like all the other ISP's out there.
Get them used to your services by offering freebies and building a platform of freebies, then slip in the charges - make it cheap enough that the market will bear it and minimize a mass exodus, but enough that they generate a significant revenue stream.
I'm not an internet TV person myself since I prefer a 42" TV over squinting at a 15.4" laptop screen - the size really makes a difference with Spongebob Squarepants and Scrubs, donchaknow. Are there any real competitors out there with the programming of Hulu? If so, the Hulu may fall flat on their faces unless the competitors take the hint and also offer subscriber services. If not, they will succeed and people will quickly forget it was ever free and still pay because it's cheaper than cable or satellite.
As much as we may object, currently it's not legal to download movies like Angels and Demons except thru outlets the copyright holders designate. I know - media likes to be free - but are you an activist who can take risks and tolerate the consequences or a student trying to build a future for yourself?
You put this on yourself. And you whine that you don't have time to do your homework and study? What about all that time you spent downloading and watching movies?
I'd have sympathy if you were wrongly accused - but you did this and being an educated person you knew the risks and this gamble didn't pay off in your favor. You played in shark-infested waters and got bit. Suck it up and move on.
..you have a club. A few buddy's who get together and play on whatever project you play with. Emotionalism doesn't have any place in a company, nor does "wanting to do what we want." Get a hobby and do what you want. As with the company, do what's best for the company. First - you need to clear your thoughts and straighten your priorities. You contradict yourself by saying that money doesn't matter then later saying that ya'll agree that you could make more money if your product goes gold. Clear that contradiction - either money matters or it does not. And remember, that's a big IF as far as the gold is concerned. Especially if that corporation is interested in the technology you're working on - if you turn them down they'll find someone else and they'll go gold because they have the resources, while you play with your friends in your playroom. Get real for a moment and think about it from a business perspective. If you have concerns, put them on paper and make that part of the negotiations. Or, turn them down and enjoy your hobby.
Don't forget something that most people don't consider - attaching a mill to a roof turns the house into a resonating chamber - much like a hollow-body guitar. The vibrations of the mill will reverberate thru the house and magnify - which is one reason why mills are unpopular - they're seen as noisy, even tho when mounted on a tower, they're not all that noisy at all.
Oh, I'm sure some bright tech moved the only remaining digital file over to one of their laptops - you know, the one that disappeared from the front seat of their car while they were having coffee at Denny's and that was never reported missing because they were too embarrassed...
In other news, Iran's and N. Korea's nuclear weapon's capabilities have mysteriously made nearly spontaneous progress...
I have never seen anyone claim that the primary cause of death on Everest is avalanche or falling ice - I'm not sure where that fiction came from. It is common knowledge that the primary cause of death up there is directly related with complications from being in the dead zone, combined with the complications of frequent blizzards that hamper the attempts to get out of the dead zone. Climbers run out of oxygen and also get lost. Some have to be left behind by others because all are under distress and unable to help the straggler. It's a very deadly place to go and is foolish in that one in ten end up dying up there.
When we first got our 42" LCD, before we got HD broadcasts, the difference was so much clearer than our CRT screens that it is no less remarkable than the difference between HD and SD. When we finally got HD programming, we got full screen finally, and we could read stuff without trouble that before we had trouble reading - it was noticeably crisper - however on a casual viewing, either one coming from CRT screens will have a remarkable effect. 1 pixel on LCD vs 3 pixels on CRT for the same information makes a big difference in clarity and crispness. HD is just the next logical step. I dare say that we too may have had trouble at first discerning the two coming straight from CRT. Now it's very noticeable to us - we can switch back and forth and it's clear. We can even discern the difference between converted shows vs shows shot in HD. But you have to get over that shock period of seeing TV in a whole new light. And now we only buy Blue-Ray. I can't imagine buying a regular DVD movie anymore.
Rubbish. Those who are diagnosed only represents a fraction of the total infected, and new infections are occurring daily - it is logistically impossible and 100% foolhardy to depend on this - scanning for a chip and finding none means nothing except that the person has not been diagnosed. Gravity existed well before it was "discovered" - HIV doesn't need a doctor and a chip to be in a host. Don't want HIV? Enter into a monogamous and long-lasting and committed relationship like marriage with proper testing. Oh, wait - I'm writing to the/* crowd - er, hook up in WoW and keep your real zipper zipped.
It's still not news even with the rest of the title. After all, given that it takes a @#*@&$ super-computer just to run Windows, they should know what they're doing.
I hope they've finally found the hardware that'll now allow them to actually appear to be fast so there's no reading War and Peace while waiting for Outlook to open.
There's nothing quite like Windows when it comes to making fast hardware work slow. Kinda like putting an anchor on a Ferrari. I imagine that the hardware now running their Top 10 machine would probably be a Top 1 machine if it were not running Windows...
I have a feeling if they didn't patent it, someone else would have and then trolled for license fees. IBM ain't no saint, but while our patent system is still hopelessly broken, sometimes the only way to ensure freedom is to get the patent application in before the next person does.
is to ditch the abysmal Micro$oft Exchange, and while they're at it, ditch Micro$oft altogether. I can't believe they think they have the expertise to host a security seminar and they still run on that rubbish. But they are pretty deeply in bed with Microshaft - you have to wonder what other sensitive data they've allowed to leak out - or rather, that they've sent out to any Tom, Dick and Hacker in the world thanks to their insistence of using Gate's solitare-playing software as if it's got enterprise capabilities.
How long before someone with a spare $25k gets one and puts Linux on it? And suddenly it's running circles around the resource hog Micro$oft. Could prove embarrassing for Microsoft - tho they're used to embarrassment, and for Cray for letting Microsoft taint their hardware with Windows.
Old news - saw this on a Discovery Channel special along with all sorts of other wacko ideas. And that's where it will remain - as a wacko idea. And as such, very much worthy of notice from/.
Hmmm, Flettner also has horrible tacking performance and downwind performance - it will very quickly be ruled out as an option for certain. You know, if it was a serious project, they'd use something that was tried and true rather than some short-lived gimmick from the middle part of last century.
Meanwhile, legitimate solutions continue to be ignored as more wacko and out-on-a-limb ideas are thrown into the pot to dilute it and render it completely ineffective. Me? I eagerly await being able to don a grass skirt and dancing under a coconut palm in the middle of December in Northern Texas, thoroughly scaring my nosy neighbors. So ya'll just keep up with the crack-pot ideas that will never go anywhere.
Even so, there is a fairly universal look a child has when compared to a young adult, regardless of the race. Musculature changes slightly, bones change ever so slightly, girls mature a bit and soforth. If it wasn't for the of-age Chinese girls, one could blow this off as "Asians look younger", however, the of-age girls make the under-age girls look even more obvious - to the point that I find offensive that the IOC is turning a blind eye and not researching deeper but rather trusting a government that has routinely lied to it's own people and to the world since its inception. Can't cry "bad loser" since our own girls have their golds and silvers - has nothing to do with that - but has to do with an even playing field - our girls should be allowed to lose fair and square. This level playing field is the purpose of the rules, and with a government forcing a child to lie and making her think it's okay to do.
Shame on you China Government! You harm your people and look the fool to the rest of the world!
Is anyone surprised? Microsoft paid for that ISO fair and square. Bribed the right people, paid for the right votes. They got their money's worth. This proves that the world's way works. Corruption to some is just business to others.
But then, Slashdot is now a pro-Microsoft camp - so why all the belly-aching? I see so much praise heaped up on Microsoft here nowadays that I wonder if they'd forgotten OSS and *nix which was their original focus and forgotten the damage Microsoft has perpetuated on the computing industry as a whole. After all, it's not FAT32.com - it's Slashdot.com - but then who here even knows what that stands for anymore?
Everyone has a preference. I prefer New King James, even tho it's based on the Textus Receptus and isn't completely up-to-date with current and more complete textual witnesses (tho it does include notes referring to the differences if you get a study bible version of this translation). NASB is also another good choice that I like to read. I've been looking at the Holman bible too. If you get one, get a bona fide study bible. The extra cross-references and notes on other texts are very helpful.
As to the best recommendation for the absolute best "version"? I like the UBS Greek as well as Robinson's compilation of the Byzantine Greek texts. Greek isn't hard to learn and there's nothing that will expand your understanding more than getting closer to the original writers. Mounce has a lot of good texts to help you learn Greek too. Nowadays, light reading is the English translations I have - study is the Greek itself.
You wrote: "...which would mean the Resurrection would have to be in there"
And indeed it is. The statement "no reference to the resurrection" in the originating post indicates a severe ignorance of the ancient pages and fragments that makes up the Codex Sinaiticus. The CS omits some accounts of what Jesus did AFTER the resurrection - as does many of the Alexandrian texts, but it is very clear on the resurrection itself. Empty tomb, angel saying He has risen, all that is intact in this text and the Resurrection is fine and dandy and very much documented in the Codex Sinaiticus.
However, since when does anyone take any post on Slashdot as... scripture? Read it for yourself. It is already available in facsimile form via pdf from http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Sinaiticus.pdf - very good reading, tho getting used to the capitalized Greek takes a bit of work.
The documentation of Jesus's activities post-resurrection are omitted in Mark - NOT the resurrection itself!!!
Mark 16:8-20 are omitted. But... read Mark 16:5-7 and you tell me that the resurrection was omitted. Tthe resurrection has been under attack by the world since the first day when the Roman guards were instructed to lie, having misinformation like that statement pandered by Slashdot should come as no surprise.
And even then, earlier writers predating the Codex Sinaiticus referred to the expunged text authoritatively, such as Irenaeus - so the texts in question were removed rather than added later. The Alexandrian texts suffered from too-vigorous a cleaning, the same can be said of the Sinaiticus - and yet the cleaning or omissions have done nothing to discredit the resurrection.
There are enough other references to the resurrection too that has not been expunged from the scriptures - even the Sinaiticus - that you simply cannot say that the "Codex Sinaiticus makes no mention of the resurrection." Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.
Cheap hardware? Subscription based services? If they make this work, I predict that Microsoft will own them in very short order. Which, of course, could be the point of this entire project. Invent something along the lines of what Microsoft is looking to do, implement it successfully and wait for the big fat offer. After all, Microsoft isn't known for stepping into the void - they wait for someone else to do the hard work then they buy them or mimic them out of existence.
If you're implying that the web is an entity by which you can go to point B from point A, in your very post, you've answered your question of "is the web the same or entirely (not partially) different."
Okay, for those who missed the answer in the very post or are too lazy to scroll up and read it again - there are two links in it. Yep - going from point A to point B.
In fact, I have thousands of bookmarks directly to articles, products and whatnot - yep, they still work. I have found only a few - relative to the amount of sites I visit - a few sites that don't have this linkability.
So - the answer to the last question would be no - it's not "something entirely different." The web is still the web.
Flash and Silverdark may intrude, but they're certainly not going to remake the face of the web. And especially since Google will soon be able to crawl Flash - linkability could be applied to Flash. Perhaps Silverfart will follow.
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It's hard to say. They'll probably keep their regular shows free (ad revenue) and charge for value added shows, then work in charges for the other shows over time. They'll lose some eyes - but those that remain will still increase their revenue significantly. It may be snarky, but it's an effective business practice. Before long people will forget that it was ever free at all. Wasn't NetZero's initial platform "free internet for all?" While they still offer that it's now extremely limited and they're just another subscriber supported service like all the other ISP's out there.
Get them used to your services by offering freebies and building a platform of freebies, then slip in the charges - make it cheap enough that the market will bear it and minimize a mass exodus, but enough that they generate a significant revenue stream.
I'm not an internet TV person myself since I prefer a 42" TV over squinting at a 15.4" laptop screen - the size really makes a difference with Spongebob Squarepants and Scrubs, donchaknow. Are there any real competitors out there with the programming of Hulu? If so, the Hulu may fall flat on their faces unless the competitors take the hint and also offer subscriber services. If not, they will succeed and people will quickly forget it was ever free and still pay because it's cheaper than cable or satellite.
Get them hooked with freebies - then hit them in the wallet.
As much as we may object, currently it's not legal to download movies like Angels and Demons except thru outlets the copyright holders designate. I know - media likes to be free - but are you an activist who can take risks and tolerate the consequences or a student trying to build a future for yourself?
You put this on yourself. And you whine that you don't have time to do your homework and study? What about all that time you spent downloading and watching movies?
I'd have sympathy if you were wrongly accused - but you did this and being an educated person you knew the risks and this gamble didn't pay off in your favor. You played in shark-infested waters and got bit. Suck it up and move on.
..you have a club. A few buddy's who get together and play on whatever project you play with. Emotionalism doesn't have any place in a company, nor does "wanting to do what we want." Get a hobby and do what you want. As with the company, do what's best for the company. First - you need to clear your thoughts and straighten your priorities. You contradict yourself by saying that money doesn't matter then later saying that ya'll agree that you could make more money if your product goes gold. Clear that contradiction - either money matters or it does not. And remember, that's a big IF as far as the gold is concerned. Especially if that corporation is interested in the technology you're working on - if you turn them down they'll find someone else and they'll go gold because they have the resources, while you play with your friends in your playroom. Get real for a moment and think about it from a business perspective. If you have concerns, put them on paper and make that part of the negotiations. Or, turn them down and enjoy your hobby.
Don't forget something that most people don't consider - attaching a mill to a roof turns the house into a resonating chamber - much like a hollow-body guitar. The vibrations of the mill will reverberate thru the house and magnify - which is one reason why mills are unpopular - they're seen as noisy, even tho when mounted on a tower, they're not all that noisy at all.
Oh, I'm sure some bright tech moved the only remaining digital file over to one of their laptops - you know, the one that disappeared from the front seat of their car while they were having coffee at Denny's and that was never reported missing because they were too embarrassed...
In other news, Iran's and N. Korea's nuclear weapon's capabilities have mysteriously made nearly spontaneous progress...
I have never seen anyone claim that the primary cause of death on Everest is avalanche or falling ice - I'm not sure where that fiction came from. It is common knowledge that the primary cause of death up there is directly related with complications from being in the dead zone, combined with the complications of frequent blizzards that hamper the attempts to get out of the dead zone. Climbers run out of oxygen and also get lost. Some have to be left behind by others because all are under distress and unable to help the straggler. It's a very deadly place to go and is foolish in that one in ten end up dying up there.
When we first got our 42" LCD, before we got HD broadcasts, the difference was so much clearer than our CRT screens that it is no less remarkable than the difference between HD and SD. When we finally got HD programming, we got full screen finally, and we could read stuff without trouble that before we had trouble reading - it was noticeably crisper - however on a casual viewing, either one coming from CRT screens will have a remarkable effect. 1 pixel on LCD vs 3 pixels on CRT for the same information makes a big difference in clarity and crispness. HD is just the next logical step. I dare say that we too may have had trouble at first discerning the two coming straight from CRT. Now it's very noticeable to us - we can switch back and forth and it's clear. We can even discern the difference between converted shows vs shows shot in HD. But you have to get over that shock period of seeing TV in a whole new light. And now we only buy Blue-Ray. I can't imagine buying a regular DVD movie anymore.
Rubbish. Those who are diagnosed only represents a fraction of the total infected, and new infections are occurring daily - it is logistically impossible and 100% foolhardy to depend on this - scanning for a chip and finding none means nothing except that the person has not been diagnosed. Gravity existed well before it was "discovered" - HIV doesn't need a doctor and a chip to be in a host. Don't want HIV? Enter into a monogamous and long-lasting and committed relationship like marriage with proper testing. Oh, wait - I'm writing to the /* crowd - er, hook up in WoW and keep your real zipper zipped.
C'mon folks, if you're gonna pretend to be geeks, at least get it right - it's Stirling technology, not Sterling.
It's still not news even with the rest of the title. After all, given that it takes a @#*@&$ super-computer just to run Windows, they should know what they're doing.
I hope they've finally found the hardware that'll now allow them to actually appear to be fast so there's no reading War and Peace while waiting for Outlook to open.
There's nothing quite like Windows when it comes to making fast hardware work slow. Kinda like putting an anchor on a Ferrari. I imagine that the hardware now running their Top 10 machine would probably be a Top 1 machine if it were not running Windows...
...but then I'd have to kill you. You know, confidentiality agreements and whatnot...
I have a feeling if they didn't patent it, someone else would have and then trolled for license fees. IBM ain't no saint, but while our patent system is still hopelessly broken, sometimes the only way to ensure freedom is to get the patent application in before the next person does.
is to ditch the abysmal Micro$oft Exchange, and while they're at it, ditch Micro$oft altogether. I can't believe they think they have the expertise to host a security seminar and they still run on that rubbish. But they are pretty deeply in bed with Microshaft - you have to wonder what other sensitive data they've allowed to leak out - or rather, that they've sent out to any Tom, Dick and Hacker in the world thanks to their insistence of using Gate's solitare-playing software as if it's got enterprise capabilities.
How long before someone with a spare $25k gets one and puts Linux on it? And suddenly it's running circles around the resource hog Micro$oft. Could prove embarrassing for Microsoft - tho they're used to embarrassment, and for Cray for letting Microsoft taint their hardware with Windows.
Old news - saw this on a Discovery Channel special along with all sorts of other wacko ideas. And that's where it will remain - as a wacko idea. And as such, very much worthy of notice from /.
Hmmm, Flettner also has horrible tacking performance and downwind performance - it will very quickly be ruled out as an option for certain. You know, if it was a serious project, they'd use something that was tried and true rather than some short-lived gimmick from the middle part of last century.
Meanwhile, legitimate solutions continue to be ignored as more wacko and out-on-a-limb ideas are thrown into the pot to dilute it and render it completely ineffective. Me? I eagerly await being able to don a grass skirt and dancing under a coconut palm in the middle of December in Northern Texas, thoroughly scaring my nosy neighbors. So ya'll just keep up with the crack-pot ideas that will never go anywhere.
I just watched that durned movie recently, and now this? :)
Even so, there is a fairly universal look a child has when compared to a young adult, regardless of the race. Musculature changes slightly, bones change ever so slightly, girls mature a bit and soforth. If it wasn't for the of-age Chinese girls, one could blow this off as "Asians look younger", however, the of-age girls make the under-age girls look even more obvious - to the point that I find offensive that the IOC is turning a blind eye and not researching deeper but rather trusting a government that has routinely lied to it's own people and to the world since its inception. Can't cry "bad loser" since our own girls have their golds and silvers - has nothing to do with that - but has to do with an even playing field - our girls should be allowed to lose fair and square. This level playing field is the purpose of the rules, and with a government forcing a child to lie and making her think it's okay to do.
Shame on you China Government! You harm your people and look the fool to the rest of the world!
Is anyone surprised? Microsoft paid for that ISO fair and square. Bribed the right people, paid for the right votes. They got their money's worth. This proves that the world's way works. Corruption to some is just business to others.
But then, Slashdot is now a pro-Microsoft camp - so why all the belly-aching? I see so much praise heaped up on Microsoft here nowadays that I wonder if they'd forgotten OSS and *nix which was their original focus and forgotten the damage Microsoft has perpetuated on the computing industry as a whole. After all, it's not FAT32.com - it's Slashdot.com - but then who here even knows what that stands for anymore?
Actually, it's not the first time it's been made available online:
http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Sinaiticus.pdf
Everyone has a preference. I prefer New King James, even tho it's based on the Textus Receptus and isn't completely up-to-date with current and more complete textual witnesses (tho it does include notes referring to the differences if you get a study bible version of this translation). NASB is also another good choice that I like to read. I've been looking at the Holman bible too. If you get one, get a bona fide study bible. The extra cross-references and notes on other texts are very helpful.
As to the best recommendation for the absolute best "version"? I like the UBS Greek as well as Robinson's compilation of the Byzantine Greek texts. Greek isn't hard to learn and there's nothing that will expand your understanding more than getting closer to the original writers. Mounce has a lot of good texts to help you learn Greek too. Nowadays, light reading is the English translations I have - study is the Greek itself.
You wrote: "...which would mean the Resurrection would have to be in there"
And indeed it is. The statement "no reference to the resurrection" in the originating post indicates a severe ignorance of the ancient pages and fragments that makes up the Codex Sinaiticus. The CS omits some accounts of what Jesus did AFTER the resurrection - as does many of the Alexandrian texts, but it is very clear on the resurrection itself. Empty tomb, angel saying He has risen, all that is intact in this text and the Resurrection is fine and dandy and very much documented in the Codex Sinaiticus.
However, since when does anyone take any post on Slashdot as... scripture? Read it for yourself. It is already available in facsimile form via pdf from http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Sinaiticus.pdf - very good reading, tho getting used to the capitalized Greek takes a bit of work.
The documentation of Jesus's activities post-resurrection are omitted in Mark - NOT the resurrection itself!!!
Mark 16:8-20 are omitted. But... read Mark 16:5-7 and you tell me that the resurrection was omitted. Tthe resurrection has been under attack by the world since the first day when the Roman guards were instructed to lie, having misinformation like that statement pandered by Slashdot should come as no surprise.
And even then, earlier writers predating the Codex Sinaiticus referred to the expunged text authoritatively, such as Irenaeus - so the texts in question were removed rather than added later. The Alexandrian texts suffered from too-vigorous a cleaning, the same can be said of the Sinaiticus - and yet the cleaning or omissions have done nothing to discredit the resurrection.
There are enough other references to the resurrection too that has not been expunged from the scriptures - even the Sinaiticus - that you simply cannot say that the "Codex Sinaiticus makes no mention of the resurrection." Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.
Cheap hardware? Subscription based services? If they make this work, I predict that Microsoft will own them in very short order. Which, of course, could be the point of this entire project. Invent something along the lines of what Microsoft is looking to do, implement it successfully and wait for the big fat offer. After all, Microsoft isn't known for stepping into the void - they wait for someone else to do the hard work then they buy them or mimic them out of existence.
If you're implying that the web is an entity by which you can go to point B from point A, in your very post, you've answered your question of "is the web the same or entirely (not partially) different."
Okay, for those who missed the answer in the very post or are too lazy to scroll up and read it again - there are two links in it. Yep - going from point A to point B.
In fact, I have thousands of bookmarks directly to articles, products and whatnot - yep, they still work. I have found only a few - relative to the amount of sites I visit - a few sites that don't have this linkability.
So - the answer to the last question would be no - it's not "something entirely different." The web is still the web.
Flash and Silverdark may intrude, but they're certainly not going to remake the face of the web. And especially since Google will soon be able to crawl Flash - linkability could be applied to Flash. Perhaps Silverfart will follow.