the difference between Slashdot and MySpace pedophile population is that the percentage of the population that uses Slashdot that is a pedophile is probably fairly close to the percentage of the general population that's a pedophile. MySpace on the other hand is apparently "the place to be" for pedophiles, so probably just about all of them are there and therefore the population is very skewed.
MySpace is where they go to take part in the business of being a pedophile, Slashdot is just another spot on the web that they might visit because they're people too.
hehe, it probably will. On another note, think about how nice it would have been if DRM would have been existant throughout history. Try to imagine archeaology with a past that had used DRM, encrypted scrolls, dutch masters that you can only see with the right kind of glasses, statues that desintegrate after being viewed more than three times on the same day by the same people.
well, it's not really that unprecedented. heiroglyphics were indecipherable until we discovered the Rosetta Stone, and lots and lots of historical information survives only as later transcriptions of oral histories. you think it's different now because even knowing the format of the DRM you need a separate key to read the contents, but hundreds or thousands of years into the future they'll probably be able to brute force keys of a known plaintext and then use that key to open all your copies of things. it could be that the hardest part about reading a Sony DRM'd disc a thousand years from now would be reading the media (because of degredation or just plain antiquated formats, e.g. all my old 5-1/4" floppies), and that's a challenge on non-DRM'd stuff.
And, while not completely invisible, it has a much lower visual signature than anything else of comperable size. I'm just not quite sure what the use is
the use is to sneak close enough to the bad guys to engage your magic lasso and force them to admit to their crime
after a thorough review of myspace i have determined that the people there don't really want attractive graphics, so i agree that this business model is not very sound
there was a really nice site even as far back as 1997 that let you rate lots of movies and get recommendations based on people with other ratings by people with similar taste. it was a property of E! entertainment, but i'll be damned if i can remember the name of it
but it's not just about the work of finding another loss-leader. to make another item a loss-leader means that you're taking away all the profits on that line of items, which presumably is a good amount or else that item is not popular enough to be a good loss-leader that would draw people in. and are we really all assuming that just because Walmart may sell X% of all movies, that an enormous proportion of that X% of sales won't just move to some other store (where people may buy other things that they would have bought at Walmart?). if you ask me, all of this is just a big win for Target and Meijer
your mistake was drawing the building next to your neighborhood. maybe if you had found out where the council members live and draw the building next to their neighborhood your point would have been clearer.
if your machine didn't have a TCP/IP stack by default you'd be limited in how to even acquire one, so on that point i agree. drawing, layout, and publishing tools are a completely different story however.
if my memory serves, Netscape was free at that time too. they were making their money off their webserver, and claimed later to have had plans to start charging for their browser later that IE disrupted but who can say?
wow, i thought a 5 hour charge was bad. that cheap charger you linked says "The Digital Concepts USB AA/AAA jump charger full charges in 16 hours." i'm assuming that's partially because it's charging 2 instead of 1 though. the faster one doesn't say a charging time at all.
If California wants vehicles to emit fewer pollutants, it could change taxation policy to dissuade people from driving large vehicles, or from driving at all. It could improve public transportation so that people don't have to drive.
California is the state that a year ago was discussing putting an odometer in every car so that they could tax cars by mileage and not efficiency. now they're concerned about efficiency?
i have a cherished record collection of older mid to late 80's hardcore and punk that is in the process of being ripped... and well, since the darn things wouldn't fit into the CD player
The problem is that my dad, for example, expects the TV to work, when he turns it on, all the time. If he turns on his TV and gets some "buffering" messages up, he's going to take the thing back to the shop and tell the guy that sold it to him that "it doesn't work properly"...
i don't think this is going to replace TV, your dad will still have that to watch if he doesn't have things queued up on iTV. besides, devices like TiVo are acclimating people to watching previously arranged things at a later date. if this device has things to watch now that you asked for earlier (or that it expected you might like), i think you'd get over the fact that you can't watch something brand new "right now". at the very worst, it will play new things as fast as you'd get them in your web browser without sitting at your desk to do it.
oh, i'm definitely concerned about the Bush Administration. that doesn't mean that someone can roll out a crappy movie that aspires to be about that topic and it becomes "beyond criticism". the movie is just plain bad on its own merits, but the analogy that it makes is irresponsible. the last election was lost by people making over-emotional arguments (hint: especially people in Hollywood), and trying to make an analogy between the Bush Administration and this movie is another one of those.
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the difference between Slashdot and MySpace pedophile population is that the percentage of the population that uses Slashdot that is a pedophile is probably fairly close to the percentage of the general population that's a pedophile. MySpace on the other hand is apparently "the place to be" for pedophiles, so probably just about all of them are there and therefore the population is very skewed.
MySpace is where they go to take part in the business of being a pedophile, Slashdot is just another spot on the web that they might visit because they're people too.
Google just paid $900 million dollars to do their ads, i don't think even Google wants to kill MySpace (at least not immediately)
you misspelled foo (which is half as popular as bar, 1,480,000 to 2,950,000)
it has something to do with the fact that the first customer won't pay millions of dollars for his copy
that all sounds great, but how can Iraqi's surrender to something they can't even see? (cue the French jokes)
look, everybody, yet another example of fusion
after a thorough review of myspace i have determined that the people there don't really want attractive graphics, so i agree that this business model is not very sound
there was a really nice site even as far back as 1997 that let you rate lots of movies and get recommendations based on people with other ratings by people with similar taste. it was a property of E! entertainment, but i'll be damned if i can remember the name of it
the g-force is flowing through all of us, it's just hard to find
but it's not just about the work of finding another loss-leader. to make another item a loss-leader means that you're taking away all the profits on that line of items, which presumably is a good amount or else that item is not popular enough to be a good loss-leader that would draw people in. and are we really all assuming that just because Walmart may sell X% of all movies, that an enormous proportion of that X% of sales won't just move to some other store (where people may buy other things that they would have bought at Walmart?). if you ask me, all of this is just a big win for Target and Meijer
roughly the same number of people would do this as the number of people that could expense it to their business trip cost
your mistake was drawing the building next to your neighborhood. maybe if you had found out where the council members live and draw the building next to their neighborhood your point would have been clearer.
if your machine didn't have a TCP/IP stack by default you'd be limited in how to even acquire one, so on that point i agree. drawing, layout, and publishing tools are a completely different story however.
if my memory serves, Netscape was free at that time too. they were making their money off their webserver, and claimed later to have had plans to start charging for their browser later that IE disrupted but who can say?
wow, i thought a 5 hour charge was bad. that cheap charger you linked says "The Digital Concepts USB AA/AAA jump charger full charges in 16 hours." i'm assuming that's partially because it's charging 2 instead of 1 though. the faster one doesn't say a charging time at all.
noooooo! don't run it, it's the Slashdot Pipeline Virus!
so i guess you won't like the followup idea :)
block the newpaper and court IPs and just leave the links up. they won't know it's not down
oh, i'm definitely concerned about the Bush Administration. that doesn't mean that someone can roll out a crappy movie that aspires to be about that topic and it becomes "beyond criticism". the movie is just plain bad on its own merits, but the analogy that it makes is irresponsible. the last election was lost by people making over-emotional arguments (hint: especially people in Hollywood), and trying to make an analogy between the Bush Administration and this movie is another one of those.