In the next Metal Gear game, when your character stops (you know how they do the animations when they don't move for a few seconds). Snake will take out a Coke and, drink it and then go "Ahhh... Coca-Cola".
Are you kidding me? I'm donating them to the _families_ so they can keep in touch with their loved ones, not the military.
Really, they volunteered? Wow, thanks for telling me that. I was in the Army for eight years, I must of forgot about that.
I know this will be hard for you to swallow, but you obviously take your freedom for granted. Those men and women are not only serving their country, but also serving both you and me. So everyone should do their small part to help support them, even if it's as simple as saying "thank you" to an individual in uniform.
Josh
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If you have older computers lying around, fix 'em up and donate them to local families who have family in the war.
The military has special sites setup for where the families can get free webmail, inet access, etc..
I took two old P3-450s and gave one to my wife's friend and another to the local Marine Reserve base, that they can pass out to other family members.
On my P3-450 it's very slow (for obvious reasons), but even on my 1.2ghz, it can be sluggish. Is that do to the XUL processing (someone mentioned it uses XUL), or other factors?
I hate it my original post got labled flamebait, I wasn't trying to be troll. Just so ya know.
I love thunderbird, if I was on any other OS other then WinXP, I would use it. Except when it comes down to Thunderbird vs. Outlook Express, I'll take OE for speed.
Thunderbird is written in Java (correct me if I'm wrong), and can be terribly slow. That's the only reason OE wins, otherwise I would go for Thunderbird, it can just be painfully slow for me. But that goes for Java apps in general.
BTW, does Thunderbird use SWT or Swing? I know I'm being lazy, and could check for myself, just asking.
I love the work Mozilla has done so far, Firefox alone is great.
Did anyone see the article in The Wallstreet Journal back in January? Walt Mossberg praised NetCaptor for it's tabbed browsing, wonder if he saw Firefox or not.
Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr. Steve Baba, Ph.D. of Seemly.com.
(PRWEB) April 4, 2004--Top 10 Reasons to Not Buy Google Stock
Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr. Steve Baba, Ph.D. of Seemly.com.
Google's expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans and techies nostalgic about the boom years. For balance, below is a devil's advocate listing of Google's potential business challenges.
1. Microsoft and Yahoo might actually try and compete with Google. Until recently, Yahoo was hampered by an old directory model and Microsoft's (outsourced) search was so bad that it attracted the attention of the FTC for being misleading.
2. The rapidly declining cost of technology, computers, storage, and bandwidth (Moore's Law), will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling dozens or even hundreds of new competitors. In a few years, any two graduate students may be able to start a search engine from their dorm room without venture capital.
3. Any competitor can outsource software deployment to India, Russia or China, which will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling dozens of new competitors. Google can also reduce software costs by outsourcing, but the fact remains that with lower costs of entry, there will be more competitors.
4. Remember AltaVista.com. Like Altavista.com, Google's "customers" are not locked into Google and may quickly abandon Google.
5. Google's revenue source, contextual Pay Per Click advertising (PPC), is causing a race to the bottom as the most expensive/profitable products outbid less expensive products for the limited PPC positions. Consumers may eventually learn that they are paying for the high PPC costs and look elsewhere for more affordable products.
6. Google's revenue source, Pay Per Click advertising, may be blocked by ad blocking software. While Google's ads are not intrusive as pop-up ads, given a choice, people may decide to block Google's ads or replace Google's ads with more useful third party content. Just as Google's toolbar blocks (competitor's) popup ads, other products block Google's ads - especially those that "block ALL ads."
7. Google's reported 50% margin with its AdSence (displaying Google ads on third party sites) is unsustainably high for a middleman. Competitors will offer similar services in the future, taking less of a cut.
8. Being number one, Google is the number one target for search engine spammers and search engine optimizers, which reduces Google's quality. Google recently had to change its page ranking in response to link farms and blog link manipulation, such as having "miserable failure" point to George Bush. Of course, other search engines are also targeted, but not to the extent Google is a target.
9. Much of Google's future profit potential depends on brand extension to other services, such as the shopping comparison site Froogle. Brand extension has always been a risky strategy even for the best managed firm.
10. Everyone online, including Internet entrepreneurs, uses Google or a Google competitor, making search a well-known business opportunity. Half the Internet entrepreneurs that I have known have brainstormed starting a search engine business, most quickly abandoning the thought. But as the costs of technology and software fall (#2 and #3) more Internet entrepreneurs may start search engines leading to a competitive and innovative search industry.
There are many good reasons to buy Google stock, but these are well covered elsewhere. Steve Baba has a Ph.D. in Economics and is the author of Business Domain Names, a free ebook on www.seemly.com.
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How is the speed/performance looking so far? I see it uses Nutch, which is built on Java and Tomcat.
Very interesting project, thanks for the heads up.
Josh
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They will acquire Lycos.com now, of course.
Google CEO:
"Finally... after all these years Lycos and Hotbot will be mine. Muhahaha"
Middle-Management Grunt:
"Sir, the IPO has went through"
I'm so tired of Slashdot not better proofing it's submissions. My first thought was, are they serious? So much for being taken serious.
I don't read every single submission on Slashdot, but like to at least scan through the different headlines, etc. If CNN had this many errors, they would be a laughing stock.
Don't drop PAX! They play the censored version of Sopranos!
Tony, how in the *beep* did you think I *beep* *beep* *beep* the car *beep* *beep* and take his *beep* head *beep* over to Frankies *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* the end.
I would love it if they changed to that type of plan.
The first channels to go would be the far-out religion abusing channels.
But the Hispanic/Spanish channels, hell I would order more of those if I could. They have the most beautiful women on them, and it's interesting to try and figure out whats being talking about.
But see, bottom line is we all have different tastes, and shouldn't have to pay for some over-priced package. Where your paying $75 a month, and only watch 8-10 of the channels on a regular basis.
Can anyone explain why nuclear reactors are shaped the way they are?
It looks like they were designed to be "futuristic" looking since nuclear power was considered the end all be all for the power of the future.
Obviously though, I'm sure there is a reason for the design.
Right by San Clemente, CA they have a nuclear power station; SONGS (San Onfre Nuclear Generating Station), that has two reactors, but only one of them is active. They're half spheres, with blinking red lights on the top, and when your driving north from San Diego, they look like two big ta-tas.:) My brother jokes with me, and says it's the worlds biggest strip club.
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Chuckwagon for the Atari? Now thats advertising, but at least it was fun.
Josh
In the next Metal Gear game, when your character stops (you know how they do the animations when they don't move for a few seconds). Snake will take out a Coke and, drink it and then go "Ahhh... Coca-Cola".
Josh
Breaking News Stories
Technology:
Creater of Linux Says Linux OS Is Great
Politics
John Kerry Says He Is The Best Canidate
Entertainment
John Williams Says He Is Great
Josh
Are you kidding me? I'm donating them to the _families_ so they can keep in touch with their loved ones, not the military.
Really, they volunteered? Wow, thanks for telling me that. I was in the Army for eight years, I must of forgot about that.
I know this will be hard for you to swallow, but you obviously take your freedom for granted. Those men and women are not only serving their country, but also serving both you and me. So everyone should do their small part to help support them, even if it's as simple as saying "thank you" to an individual in uniform.
Josh
If you have older computers lying around, fix 'em up and donate them to local families who have family in the war.
The military has special sites setup for where the families can get free webmail, inet access, etc..
I took two old P3-450s and gave one to my wife's friend and another to the local Marine Reserve base, that they can pass out to other family members.
Josh
Email them with the subject "Ha ha" :)
http://www.newham.gov.uk
Josh
In case anyone else is interested in bodybuilding, I highly recommend the parents link. ExRx is an exceptional site.
It's ok, live and learn. :) In the future I'll be sure to better word my responses.
Josh
On my P3-450 it's very slow (for obvious reasons), but even on my 1.2ghz, it can be sluggish. Is that do to the XUL processing (someone mentioned it uses XUL), or other factors?
I hate it my original post got labled flamebait, I wasn't trying to be troll. Just so ya know.
Flamebait?? WTF, lemme guess, because I'm using a Mircosoft product?
Sorry for expressing an opinon. I love Thunderbird, just stating why I'm not using it.
Josh
Good luck with the date! :)
Josh
I love thunderbird, if I was on any other OS other then WinXP, I would use it. Except when it comes down to Thunderbird vs. Outlook Express, I'll take OE for speed.
Thunderbird is written in Java (correct me if I'm wrong), and can be terribly slow. That's the only reason OE wins, otherwise I would go for Thunderbird, it can just be painfully slow for me. But that goes for Java apps in general.
BTW, does Thunderbird use SWT or Swing? I know I'm being lazy, and could check for myself, just asking.
I love the work Mozilla has done so far, Firefox alone is great.
Did anyone see the article in The Wallstreet Journal back in January? Walt Mossberg praised NetCaptor for it's tabbed browsing, wonder if he saw Firefox or not.
Josh
At least in America, highschool is more about learning social skills, etc.
:)
Unless of course your a shy kid, that would like to fit in, but gets picked on for being "the quiet kid".
Top 10 Reasons to Not Buy Google Stock
Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr. Steve Baba, Ph.D. of Seemly.com.
(PRWEB) April 4, 2004--Top 10 Reasons to Not Buy Google Stock
Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr. Steve Baba, Ph.D. of Seemly.com.
Google's expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans and techies nostalgic about the boom years. For balance, below is a devil's advocate listing of Google's potential business challenges.
1. Microsoft and Yahoo might actually try and compete with Google. Until recently, Yahoo was hampered by an old directory model and Microsoft's (outsourced) search was so bad that it attracted the attention of the FTC for being misleading.
2. The rapidly declining cost of technology, computers, storage, and bandwidth (Moore's Law), will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling dozens or even hundreds of new competitors. In a few years, any two graduate students may be able to start a search engine from their dorm room without venture capital.
3. Any competitor can outsource software deployment to India, Russia or China, which will reduce the cost of entry for competitors enabling dozens of new competitors. Google can also reduce software costs by outsourcing, but the fact remains that with lower costs of entry, there will be more competitors.
4. Remember AltaVista.com. Like Altavista.com, Google's "customers" are not locked into Google and may quickly abandon Google.
5. Google's revenue source, contextual Pay Per Click advertising (PPC), is causing a race to the bottom as the most expensive/profitable products outbid less expensive products for the limited PPC positions. Consumers may eventually learn that they are paying for the high PPC costs and look elsewhere for more affordable products.
6. Google's revenue source, Pay Per Click advertising, may be blocked by ad blocking software. While Google's ads are not intrusive as pop-up ads, given a choice, people may decide to block Google's ads or replace Google's ads with more useful third party content. Just as Google's toolbar blocks (competitor's) popup ads, other products block Google's ads - especially those that "block ALL ads."
7. Google's reported 50% margin with its AdSence (displaying Google ads on third party sites) is unsustainably high for a middleman. Competitors will offer similar services in the future, taking less of a cut.
8. Being number one, Google is the number one target for search engine spammers and search engine optimizers, which reduces Google's quality. Google recently had to change its page ranking in response to link farms and blog link manipulation, such as having "miserable failure" point to George Bush. Of course, other search engines are also targeted, but not to the extent Google is a target.
9. Much of Google's future profit potential depends on brand extension to other services, such as the shopping comparison site Froogle. Brand extension has always been a risky strategy even for the best managed firm.
10. Everyone online, including Internet entrepreneurs, uses Google or a Google competitor, making search a well-known business opportunity. Half the Internet entrepreneurs that I have known have brainstormed starting a search engine business, most quickly abandoning the thought. But as the costs of technology and software fall (#2 and #3) more Internet entrepreneurs may start search engines leading to a competitive and innovative search industry.
There are many good reasons to buy Google stock, but these are well covered elsewhere. Steve Baba has a Ph.D. in Economics and is the author of Business Domain Names, a free ebook on www.seemly.com.
How is the speed/performance looking so far? I see it uses Nutch, which is built on Java and Tomcat.
Very interesting project, thanks for the heads up.
Josh
They will acquire Lycos.com now, of course.
Google CEO:
"Finally... after all these years Lycos and Hotbot will be mine. Muhahaha"
Middle-Management Grunt:
"Sir, the IPO has went through"
Google CEO:
"Ex-ce-llent... ready the fleet"
I checked out the service, it's nice and free. But I agree with you, why the need for advertising in the copy??
Josh
Oh come on, this isn't off-topic. I was offering a career suggestion. A funny one, but still.. :)
Josh
I'm sure there is fetish out there for geek porn.
Here are some movie name ideas:
Mount My Drive #7
Let's Play Stain The Mousepad
Sex Starved Geek Sluts #27
And so on... good luck!
Josh
I'm so tired of Slashdot not better proofing it's submissions. My first thought was, are they serious? So much for being taken serious.
I don't read every single submission on Slashdot, but like to at least scan through the different headlines, etc. If CNN had this many errors, they would be a laughing stock.
Why a one letter name? Searching for "D" for help, reference, etc.. will be a major pain.
It's just like when I'm trying to find some good porn, I've overwhelmed!
So many fetishes, so little kleenex.
Josh
Don't drop PAX! They play the censored version of Sopranos!
Tony, how in the *beep* did you think I *beep* *beep* *beep* the car *beep* *beep* and take his *beep* head *beep* over to Frankies *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* the end.
Josh
I would love it if they changed to that type of plan.
The first channels to go would be the far-out religion abusing channels.
But the Hispanic/Spanish channels, hell I would order more of those if I could. They have the most beautiful women on them, and it's interesting to try and figure out whats being talking about.
But see, bottom line is we all have different tastes, and shouldn't have to pay for some over-priced package. Where your paying $75 a month, and only watch 8-10 of the channels on a regular basis.
Josh
Can anyone explain why nuclear reactors are shaped the way they are?
:) My brother jokes with me, and says it's the worlds biggest strip club.
It looks like they were designed to be "futuristic" looking since nuclear power was considered the end all be all for the power of the future.
Obviously though, I'm sure there is a reason for the design.
Right by San Clemente, CA they have a nuclear power station; SONGS (San Onfre Nuclear Generating Station), that has two reactors, but only one of them is active. They're half spheres, with blinking red lights on the top, and when your driving north from San Diego, they look like two big ta-tas.
Here is a pic
Josh