Right on. Intrusive advertising makes me a lot less likely to a) buy the product or even b) return to the website that had the intrusive ad.
I had been using GAIM and just for kicks I decided to download the new version of AIM the other day to see if they had actually added anything useful to it. Well, to make a short story shorter, they hadn't. Even worse, while chatting with a friend, harry potter flew out of my buddy list on a broomstick. Scared the shit out of me. I quickly closed AIM and reopened GAIM.
"... city and state laws that limit building height to 187.2 feet within one mile of the Capitol."
Searching around the internet you can also find mention that a few buildings are slightly taller, but that is because they were build before the law went into effect.
I'm very interested to see how this plays out and how effective it will be. I've spent a lot of time in madison (my girlfriend lives there), and it's one of the most spread out cities I've seen. They apparently have a law there (or city ordinance?) that no building can be taller than the capitol. It seems like having a city be so spread out would present some problems to deploying wifi on a large scale.
Another thing is the UW campus takes up a large part of the downtown, and a large percentage of the people who hang around downtown are students. So, don't most already have wireless through the university? Is there really a need for city-wide wireless?
Just a few thoughts.
" People who spend $400 plus accessories and bitch about spending $2 on a missed episode can shampoo my crotch.
$.99 for a song, 4-5 minutes. $1.99 for a TV show for 40 minutes."
With the next 'tourist' expected to be Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto, should paying people have a real scientific background or is money simply enough?"
Money is enough.
"So, I guess it would be safer to plan a manned Mars mission to coincide with peak sunspot activity?"
No, the real answer is to have space missions start on Sun-days. har har har har.
"minimal installation requirements, if any"
Wasn't this kind of the 'dream' of many? That someday you could just take a stripped down cheap computer with only a web browser and do everything that you can do on a powerful computer today?
I made the choice long ago that I will never work in a cubicle or end up like those guys in office space. I'm currently in grad school and loving it. It's a lot of work, but you're working for the benefit or yourself and your field. JUST SAY NO TO CUBICLES.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In my experience at a public university in engineering, people constantly complained and it did them absolutely no good. In hard classes, nearly everyone does shitty on a test or assignment. But a student's response to the adversity is, in my opinion, the biggest determining factor in his or her success. It seemed there were two camps of people when it came to dealing with a bad score: Group1 would do the 'woe is me' act and feel sorry for themselves. This would be followed by endless complaining to the professor and TAs, vulgar posts on the class bulletin board, and threats to 'take it to the dean'. Group2 (sadly not as big a group as one would hope) would say 'hey, i just need to do better next time and improve on this and this' and they would go and keep studying hard and do their best on the next text or assignment.
Personal responsibility really needs to find its way back into our universities.
"What do you think that they thought they were doing? They didn't get a message from Stanford saying "here's how you check your admission status"; they got a message from their friends saying "here's how you craft a URL that let's you sneak in to the web site and check your admission status before the official date.""
As someone who just recently went through the online application process, I will say that most of the schools tell you something like "when a decision has been reached on your application, it will be made available to you online through applyweb".
Thus, if a student got a url for applyweb from a friend who also applied and that friend said "hey, our decisions are online now" it would be perfectly reasonable for the student to assume this was what was supposed to happen.
"Just think for a moment here. If they've got massive multi-million dollar budgets, where is all the research money going?"
I think you underestimate the cost of wages. What the change in funding essentially does is force professors and graduate students to research things the government wants instead of what they are interested in. Just at a single major university there are hundreds of grad students who essentially cost tuition+stipend every year (can be ~40,000 or more in many cases). Add to this hundreds of universities, equipment costs, etc, and the money starts to add up pretty quickly.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I've been applying to grad schools and am currently waiting for some decisions still. If I had been told I coul d find out my decision by changing the URL to page=decision or whatever it was, I would have absolutely done it.
It's not this black and white. I don't think anyone would dispute that accuracy is important, but there is a question of whether it is better to have 20 pages of 90% accurate information, or 3 pages of 98% accurate information. In my opinion, it simply depends on what you are looking for.
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Right on. Intrusive advertising makes me a lot less likely to a) buy the product or even b) return to the website that had the intrusive ad. I had been using GAIM and just for kicks I decided to download the new version of AIM the other day to see if they had actually added anything useful to it. Well, to make a short story shorter, they hadn't. Even worse, while chatting with a friend, harry potter flew out of my buddy list on a broomstick. Scared the shit out of me. I quickly closed AIM and reopened GAIM.
I wonder if they'll ban military recruiters from using it ;-)
From http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/03/worrying-abou t-skyline.html, the author also mentions the restriction:
"... city and state laws that limit building height to 187.2 feet within one mile of the Capitol."
Searching around the internet you can also find mention that a few buildings are slightly taller, but that is because they were build before the law went into effect.
I'm very interested to see how this plays out and how effective it will be. I've spent a lot of time in madison (my girlfriend lives there), and it's one of the most spread out cities I've seen. They apparently have a law there (or city ordinance?) that no building can be taller than the capitol. It seems like having a city be so spread out would present some problems to deploying wifi on a large scale. Another thing is the UW campus takes up a large part of the downtown, and a large percentage of the people who hang around downtown are students. So, don't most already have wireless through the university? Is there really a need for city-wide wireless? Just a few thoughts.
" People who spend $400 plus accessories and bitch about spending $2 on a missed episode can shampoo my crotch. $.99 for a song, 4-5 minutes. $1.99 for a TV show for 40 minutes."
Just shows how overpriced the songs are.
that's what I was going to say; you beat me to it! Good job.
Those are almost as old as the ones served to me at Panda Express today.
With the next 'tourist' expected to be Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto, should paying people have a real scientific background or is money simply enough?"
Money is enough.
My thoughts can be summed up here: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1396.
Seriously, I've never heard of anyone who dated someone they met online and had it end up well.
A story about boats that shoot rays and no one has yet mentioned sharks with frickin laser beams?
"So, I guess it would be safer to plan a manned Mars mission to coincide with peak sunspot activity?"
No, the real answer is to have space missions start on Sun-days. har har har har.
"minimal installation requirements, if any" Wasn't this kind of the 'dream' of many? That someday you could just take a stripped down cheap computer with only a web browser and do everything that you can do on a powerful computer today?
The real question is, are they still high in Omega-3?
I made the choice long ago that I will never work in a cubicle or end up like those guys in office space. I'm currently in grad school and loving it. It's a lot of work, but you're working for the benefit or yourself and your field. JUST SAY NO TO CUBICLES.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In my experience at a public university in engineering, people constantly complained and it did them absolutely no good. In hard classes, nearly everyone does shitty on a test or assignment. But a student's response to the adversity is, in my opinion, the biggest determining factor in his or her success. It seemed there were two camps of people when it came to dealing with a bad score: Group1 would do the 'woe is me' act and feel sorry for themselves. This would be followed by endless complaining to the professor and TAs, vulgar posts on the class bulletin board, and threats to 'take it to the dean'. Group2 (sadly not as big a group as one would hope) would say 'hey, i just need to do better next time and improve on this and this' and they would go and keep studying hard and do their best on the next text or assignment.
Personal responsibility really needs to find its way back into our universities.
"What do you think that they thought they were doing? They didn't get a message from Stanford saying "here's how you check your admission status"; they got a message from their friends saying "here's how you craft a URL that let's you sneak in to the web site and check your admission status before the official date."" As someone who just recently went through the online application process, I will say that most of the schools tell you something like "when a decision has been reached on your application, it will be made available to you online through applyweb". Thus, if a student got a url for applyweb from a friend who also applied and that friend said "hey, our decisions are online now" it would be perfectly reasonable for the student to assume this was what was supposed to happen.
Your connection is bad. You starting playing online. You wake up in a coma.
The Robosapien Dance Machine is a free open source software program that unleashes your Robosapien's funky inner soul!
Robots used to be referred to as "clunky", or "junky", but now..... funky!!
"Just think for a moment here. If they've got massive multi-million dollar budgets, where is all the research money going?" I think you underestimate the cost of wages. What the change in funding essentially does is force professors and graduate students to research things the government wants instead of what they are interested in. Just at a single major university there are hundreds of grad students who essentially cost tuition+stipend every year (can be ~40,000 or more in many cases). Add to this hundreds of universities, equipment costs, etc, and the money starts to add up pretty quickly.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I've been applying to grad schools and am currently waiting for some decisions still. If I had been told I coul d find out my decision by changing the URL to page=decision or whatever it was, I would have absolutely done it.
I agree completely. If they want me to start watching the current season and see their ads, they should give me the earlier ones for free.
It's not this black and white. I don't think anyone would dispute that accuracy is important, but there is a question of whether it is better to have 20 pages of 90% accurate information, or 3 pages of 98% accurate information. In my opinion, it simply depends on what you are looking for.