I've got a rear view mirror that automatically dims relative to the light it sees. That's cool... but I still get burned with those side mirrors.:) Seriously, some people just tailgate on purpose to be jerks. There can be 5 cars each in every lane ahead of them, and they'll pick a lane, not even always the passing lane, and get as close as they can to the trailing car in that lane. These are the same people that will pull around behind you to the left from the lane to your right, pass you on the left, then take the exit 3 lanes to the right cutting off people, not starting to turn right until after the white lines start up closing off the exit. They think they're cool, they think they're driving a racing simulator. They don't understand what a danger they are to others, or maybe that itself encourages them and makes them feel powerful.
Seriously, I feel like getting a camcorder and a friend to drive, taking video of these clowns including their license plates, and putting them on the web. But I know they'd shoot me.
...when I went to work at a brokerage a few years ago. We went through training together, and I knew from the beginning that her accent would be a problem. Bright person, of course, but the accent was strong. When we got out to the floor, almost no customer would talk to her, and apparently some would be abusive to her, because she quit in tears a few days into the real job.
I remember finding my dad's old 50's-era chemistry set at my grandma's when I was little, and seeing a little button cylinder with a viewport on the top, so you could see the lump of uranium or whatever glow. Unfortunately, no matter how close I stuck it up to my eyeballs, I didn't see any glow. When I told my dad, he promptly confiscated the cylinder. Interestingly, he left me the dangerous chemicals, organic solvents, etc.
You want an impetus for HDTV? OK. Cable, satellite, and other vendors are now making money off HDTV channels and HDTV content delivered over the internet or on discs, and their customer bases can only grow. If OTA broadcasters want to stop losing eyeballs, they'd better follow at some point. Now would be a good time.
Ok, then let's flip the question. Why is that that in Europe brick/concrete construction is preferred? I don't think it's because of the profit margin...
How much of what you are looking at, in Europe, is new building, on a scale like in the US?:) Also, how do the building codes compare in most European cities, compared to most American suburbs? Tighter external restrictions mean, of course, fewer options. Also, what are the costs of lumber in the EU, compared to here? In Australia they've been building out in some areas with wood-frame everything, and I think last year was when it really came back to bite them, with hurricane damage.
Why we continue to give away jobs to a big communist cheater and run up a big bubble-risky trade deficit with them, I'll never know.
It's all about the pricing and availability of goods. Go do an inventory of your house, or even just your bedroom, and find how many of your things are imported. And now that lower-skilled jobs are being exported over there, fewer Americans can fit the "union tax" into their budgets, assuming the US goods meet the same quality.
It's a bit like asking why so many computers keep getting sold with such flimsy or poor quality components. It's all about the profit margin, and targeting a certain demographic.
People want certain amenities in their houses, but are only willing to pay a certain amount, so they go with housebuilders that meet their price points. Of course, that means shortcuts behind the scenes, perhaps even the corruption other people here seem to say is endemic, too. Not to mention, a lot of people are just ignorant of what goes into quality building, and some just buy a house thinking they'll move with their job in 5 years or so, anyway, so why bother?
I only know anything about home construction because I watch a lot of home repair shows. Which means I really don't know much. I'd pay $100 or more for a real, regularly updated text that explains what the newest, best housing materials and methods are, and how to manage a builder, so that when I finally go buy a house, I can look for a builder who will build with those things. I'm sure I'll need an architect, too, but I don't even know that process, either.
I should have prefaced my comments by saying, "if you want a T1, here's why," or something. I agree that DSL is probably fine for most people who work at home -- provided they're not doing anything mission critical.:) For mission critical, I'd rather have T1 or even ISDN.
BTW, why would you want T1's at home? They're kinda slow aren't they? Perhaps good for uploading - most DSL (around here) is half the speed upstream. For a fraction of the price, downstream has 3x the throughput. I pay CAD$35/month for a 5Mbs/800Kbs connection with static IP - why would I want a T1?
As someone who used to be an engineer for a Tier 1 backbone provider, I can tell you: it's not about the bandwidth. It's not even about the fact that T1s are symmetrical in throughput, and most DSL is ADSL, and thus asymmetrical. It's about the reliability. When I was telecommuting, a lot of my work consisted of working on restricted infrastructure through SSH2 connections. I could have, and actually often did, do this from a dialup connection, like when I would be on call, in a remote location, and an emergency would come up. However, a T1 gives you rock solid performance, and when it doesn't, you have a lot of information on your router's interface to clue you in to what's wrong with it. Not to mention, the telco will take your* call and test to the smartjack.
Try troubleshooting in detail a DSL line, or getting a telco to test the line at all, not to mention right away. If you're connecting to an ISP at the other end instead of your company, try getting your ISP to handle troubleshooting the DSL properly, and getting telco to test. To really test the full DSL loop, they have to get a truck out to your premises -- there's no smartjack. There are things they can test to, in your subdivision or in the box at the end of the street, without rolling a truck, but they can't test all the way. (The tools some DSL modems may have are not enough)
*assuming you're the company paying the bill for the T1 line itself. If it's your ISP, you often should be calling them.
Right around that time I should be able to stay awake behind the wheel of my flying car powered by a comercially available fusion generator!
But the car's going to have autopilot and land automatically. So why do you want to stay awake?
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I know CNet won't be on it.
Seriously, Paris Hilton??? And Penny, Inspector Gadget's niece, beats Lisa Simpson, if there really are no other real female geeks in the world -- say, a female space tourist, for example.
Yeah, I know the guy who originates the "buy" recomendation is hoping for everyone to buy the stock, but what makes some of the recipients think they'll make out?
There are plenty of idiots out there with access to both internet and credit cards. Really. And a lot of them also think that if someone has your email, they must know you from somewhere.
When I worked at a brokerage firm, people used to call me and ask for advice (which I couldn't give, not being licensed) on how much to invest in whatever stock they got emailed that day.
I just can't imagine that someone who is used to using, say, Amazon.com, is going to blink, much less suddenly switch to another vendor, if they have a 15 or 20 second page load every once in a while. Now, sure, if they did it all the time, I'd start to wonder. But since a site like Amazon trades on the fact that it's a central clearing point for a vast selection of inventory, there's a built-in barrier to trying someone else based on the assumption that they are less likely to have it. There may also be barriers to switching based on unfamiliarity with alternate vendors, etc., but previous experience, if not outright customer loyalty and perception of being able to deliver the goods, really drive retention a lot more than how fast you can always get that page up.
Now, whether Akamai is being disingenuous or something else... I really couldn't imagine:)
Tags are only a part of the interestingness. They want to patent a method for looking at patterns of popularity over time.
Part of their patent has claims on methodology, and part on a computer program designed to make use of that methodology (to cover the implementation requirement, I'm sure). And as I was reading just the initial page, I could imagine a pseudoequation forming in my head using the variables of time, popularity, content, etc.
I'm no patent attorney, but this sure sounds like trying to patent an algorithm. Not tags. Now, whether they should do this is a good topic for debate -- but let's make sure we at least know what they're doing before debating it.
Very soon after the "browncoats" fan site announced it was shutting down, I started getting spam to the site-specific email address at my vanity domain. So I figure someone made money off that.
I hope you countersued. Sounds like they were contaminating evidence and also possibly stealing computer resources if they ran anything themselves. The last is probably a crime, not just a civil matter.
Afterall, no one will make money by selling you a song that eternally has the same ad for Nike's latest running shoes at the beginning of it year after year.
From what I've heard of hip-hop and rap, they sometimes come pretty close, touting brand names as evidence that they're cool or whatever. Oh, and they also promote prostitution and drug dealing as proper things to do to obtain these goodies. (No, I'm not trolling)
No, really? If I want to share code, ask questions, read docs, does having an avatar and going through that environment really add anything at all to these tasks? Come on, Sun, tell us how it does things that can't be more efficiently served with a website and forums?
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I've got a rear view mirror that automatically dims relative to the light it sees. :)
That's cool... but I still get burned with those side mirrors.
Seriously, some people just tailgate on purpose to be jerks. There can be 5 cars each in every lane ahead of them, and they'll pick a lane, not even always the passing lane, and get as close as they can to the trailing car in that lane. These are the same people that will pull around behind you to the left from the lane to your right, pass you on the left, then take the exit 3 lanes to the right cutting off people, not starting to turn right until after the white lines start up closing off the exit. They think they're cool, they think they're driving a racing simulator. They don't understand what a danger they are to others, or maybe that itself encourages them and makes them feel powerful.
Seriously, I feel like getting a camcorder and a friend to drive, taking video of these clowns including their license plates, and putting them on the web. But I know they'd shoot me.
Geez, I mean, after CDDB, IMDB went commercial, too.
It's all really old news, now.
Wikipedia has commercial arrangements, too.
...when I went to work at a brokerage a few years ago. We went through training together, and I knew from the beginning that her accent would be a problem. Bright person, of course, but the accent was strong. When we got out to the floor, almost no customer would talk to her, and apparently some would be abusive to her, because she quit in tears a few days into the real job.
It's not always funny.
Good point. If I still had it, I would try that. Thanks.
I remember finding my dad's old 50's-era chemistry set at my grandma's when I was little, and seeing a little button cylinder with a viewport on the top, so you could see the lump of uranium or whatever glow. Unfortunately, no matter how close I stuck it up to my eyeballs, I didn't see any glow. When I told my dad, he promptly confiscated the cylinder. Interestingly, he left me the dangerous chemicals, organic solvents, etc.
You want an impetus for HDTV? OK. Cable, satellite, and other vendors are now making money off HDTV channels and HDTV content delivered over the internet or on discs, and their customer bases can only grow.
If OTA broadcasters want to stop losing eyeballs, they'd better follow at some point. Now would be a good time.
It's pretty hard to break into an industry with such stiff competition. And if you make it, everyone wants a piece of you.
How much of what you are looking at, in Europe, is new building, on a scale like in the US?
Also, how do the building codes compare in most European cities, compared to most American suburbs? Tighter external restrictions mean, of course, fewer options.
Also, what are the costs of lumber in the EU, compared to here?
In Australia they've been building out in some areas with wood-frame everything, and I think last year was when it really came back to bite them, with hurricane damage.
It's all about the pricing and availability of goods. Go do an inventory of your house, or even just your bedroom, and find how many of your things are imported.
And now that lower-skilled jobs are being exported over there, fewer Americans can fit the "union tax" into their budgets, assuming the US goods meet the same quality.
It's a bit like asking why so many computers keep getting sold with such flimsy or poor quality components. It's all about the profit margin, and targeting a certain demographic.
People want certain amenities in their houses, but are only willing to pay a certain amount, so they go with housebuilders that meet their price points.
Of course, that means shortcuts behind the scenes, perhaps even the corruption other people here seem to say is endemic, too.
Not to mention, a lot of people are just ignorant of what goes into quality building, and some just buy a house thinking they'll move with their job in 5 years or so, anyway, so why bother?
I only know anything about home construction because I watch a lot of home repair shows. Which means I really don't know much.
I'd pay $100 or more for a real, regularly updated text that explains what the newest, best housing materials and methods are, and how to manage a builder, so that when I finally go buy a house, I can look for a builder who will build with those things. I'm sure I'll need an architect, too, but I don't even know that process, either.
I should have prefaced my comments by saying, "if you want a T1, here's why," or something. :)
I agree that DSL is probably fine for most people who work at home -- provided they're not doing anything mission critical.
For mission critical, I'd rather have T1 or even ISDN.
As someone who used to be an engineer for a Tier 1 backbone provider, I can tell you: it's not about the bandwidth. It's not even about the fact that T1s are symmetrical in throughput, and most DSL is ADSL, and thus asymmetrical. It's about the reliability.
When I was telecommuting, a lot of my work consisted of working on restricted infrastructure through SSH2 connections.
I could have, and actually often did, do this from a dialup connection, like when I would be on call, in a remote location, and an emergency would come up.
However, a T1 gives you rock solid performance, and when it doesn't, you have a lot of information on your router's interface to clue you in to what's wrong with it.
Not to mention, the telco will take your* call and test to the smartjack.
Try troubleshooting in detail a DSL line, or getting a telco to test the line at all, not to mention right away. If you're connecting to an ISP at the other end instead of your company, try getting your ISP to handle troubleshooting the DSL properly, and getting telco to test. To really test the full DSL loop, they have to get a truck out to your premises -- there's no smartjack. There are things they can test to, in your subdivision or in the box at the end of the street, without rolling a truck, but they can't test all the way. (The tools some DSL modems may have are not enough)
*assuming you're the company paying the bill for the T1 line itself. If it's your ISP, you often should be calling them.
But the car's going to have autopilot and land automatically. So why do you want to stay awake?
I know CNet won't be on it.
Seriously, Paris Hilton??? And Penny, Inspector Gadget's niece, beats Lisa Simpson, if there really are no other real female geeks in the world -- say, a female space tourist, for example.
There are plenty of idiots out there with access to both internet and credit cards. Really.
And a lot of them also think that if someone has your email, they must know you from somewhere.
When I worked at a brokerage firm, people used to call me and ask for advice (which I couldn't give, not being licensed) on how much to invest in whatever stock they got emailed that day.
My submission yesterday had video, too. And a disturbing link with a horror movie... :)
I just can't imagine that someone who is used to using, say, Amazon.com, is going to blink, much less suddenly switch to another vendor, if they have a 15 or 20 second page load every once in a while. Now, sure, if they did it all the time, I'd start to wonder. But since a site like Amazon trades on the fact that it's a central clearing point for a vast selection of inventory, there's a built-in barrier to trying someone else based on the assumption that they are less likely to have it. There may also be barriers to switching based on unfamiliarity with alternate vendors, etc., but previous experience, if not outright customer loyalty and perception of being able to deliver the goods, really drive retention a lot more than how fast you can always get that page up.
:)
Now, whether Akamai is being disingenuous or something else... I really couldn't imagine
Tags are only a part of the interestingness. They want to patent a method for looking at patterns of popularity over time.
Part of their patent has claims on methodology, and part on a computer program designed to make use of that methodology (to cover the implementation requirement, I'm sure). And as I was reading just the initial page, I could imagine a pseudoequation forming in my head using the variables of time, popularity, content, etc.
I'm no patent attorney, but this sure sounds like trying to patent an algorithm. Not tags.
Now, whether they should do this is a good topic for debate -- but let's make sure we at least know what they're doing before debating it.
For some reason I thought Engadget or at least Gizmodo would be listed as examples of advertorial blogging.
Very soon after the "browncoats" fan site announced it was shutting down, I started getting spam to the site-specific email address at my vanity domain. So I figure someone made money off that.
I hope you countersued. Sounds like they were contaminating evidence and also possibly stealing computer resources if they ran anything themselves. The last is probably a crime, not just a civil matter.
Are Fortune's subscriber lists open to any buyer?
How did Unisys know these people even had Fortune subscriptions?
Sure, it starts small. But I don't like where it might be going...
From what I've heard of hip-hop and rap, they sometimes come pretty close, touting brand names as evidence that they're cool or whatever. Oh, and they also promote prostitution and drug dealing as proper things to do to obtain these goodies. (No, I'm not trolling)
Have you seen how movies are rated here in the US? Sex is more restricted than gory violence.
No, really? If I want to share code, ask questions, read docs, does having an avatar and going through that environment really add anything at all to these tasks?
Come on, Sun, tell us how it does things that can't be more efficiently served with a website and forums?