An eBay executive was sitting around thinking, how can I get $5,000,000 of bad, sink-the-company publicity for almost free?
YES, that's it!!!! Do something against Google, which is, today, the equivalent of doing something against cute kittens.
But imagine the amount of publicity they would get if they oined forces with Google. That would be like joining forces with cute kittens! Err.. You know what I mean.
Recent insider testimony has determined that from the RIAA website, users are able to access a search engine with only a few clicks. RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol subsequently imploded. More horrifying details tongiht at 11.
<Warning the above post may or may not be fiction>
Hmm.. Both good points, but getting rid of traffic lights would really help me nap better (it's very hard to nap in a car that is constantly stopping and starting). Therefore, we need to implement this right now.
To make it easier to implement, the autodriving cars could go slower (because as you mentioned we don't need to make good time).
As a computer science student, I'm a fan of efficiency. There is the time savings of a few seconds * every traffic light * every car * the number of people in each car. Also, there will be less wear on the brakes. Finally, it would waste less energy (starting + stopping = wasteful). With the increasing popularity of hybrid cars, the mild braking action in the simulation would significantly increase milage.
Funny, I noticed that the first thing people do in the day is socialize to and get coffee. Maybe the self-driving cars could have a built in conference room and coffee machine. Then everyone could get that over with before they ever arrive at work.
2) an autodrive car would obey speed limits and stop at red lights.
Or it would eventually eliminate red lights forever. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but one day I would like to have my car drive me to work while I'm napping (assuming I can't telecommute that day).
I'll tell that to the forune 500 company who gives me $3.5 million to build an interactive portal or app when it doesn't workm for 90% of their clients.
Tell that it will only cost an extra $1 million in development and testing to make it compatible with IE.
90% more userbase for less than 30% more cost! What a bargin!! </joke disclaimer="IANAIPD (Interactive portal devoloper)">
I second this. Whenever the company email server starts deleting all emails with attachments (and it doesn't even tell me that his has happened..), I tell people to send files to my gmail account (after exhausing the sftp option). It hasn't failed me yet.
I sometimes profit from reselling old video games which are advertised badly
Wow! That's really cool. Just one question, how often do you find these types of auctions. I mean, they would have to be really badly advertised that you could offset the shipping tax, no?
One cheap honeypot + one cheap logging system running decent software + trivially broken WEP + living on a street corner across from the only Baptist Church/and/ the only high school = teh win.
.. who goes out and explains the joke. But it pains me to see that people don't get it. (Or maybe they're being so subtle that I don't get them, whatever.)
But parent post is a JOKE! linvir is saying that the MS patches break the "extensions" (malware) built by the dev teams (black hats/script kiddies) on a rigid monthly cycle, so that the dev teams have time to prepare the next version of their malware to release unto unsuspecting IEusers.
(BTW if you're serious, then it's still a great joke. Good job.)
Well it would be nice of Microsoft to publish exactly how their browser renders CSS and HTML so that the webdevelopers of the world can use this standard without having to manually reverse engineer it.
Alternately if they have already done so, I would be most appreciative if you could post a link.
Do you really type in entire addresses from memory most of the time? Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it seems odd to then be concerned about one additional keystroke on top of the 10-20 you're making already.
I use autocomplete. I mostly have to enter one or two letters before the site I want Well IE sorts web addresses in some useless order. It's alphabetical, which would be useful if I was a computer and could binary search it or something.
Firefox (and opera I believe) sorts the autocomplete addresses by frequency of use, I type g 'tab' 'enter' and google pops up. Not gameSiteThatIVisitedOnce.com. I type s 'tab' 'enter' and slashdot appears. Not samsreallycoolhomepage.com I type p 'tab' 'enter' and penny arcade loads.
Guess what happens when I type ap? I get apple.ca!
I believe there is one of those chain blog (like chain email) games where you list the first site that appears in firefox for every letter of the alphabet.
I always seem to get +5 Funny and never anything else so my karma is only good.
Well, GGP is now modded 20% redundant and 50% overrated. Mostly because of what GP posted. Incidentally, GP posted the same thing as GGP. Lets see if this creates some sort of self-fulfilling karmic prophecy. heh
Took me a bit of time to figure out how to get the link to the user's profile from just the link to the static picture. I found the flickr API. The rest I leave as an excercise to the reader.
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I'm not in R&D, but I think the way it works is that the stuff you find in academic publications is produced by research institutions like university labs. The researchers there are funded by government grants, corporate sponsorship, and student tuition(?). The kind of patents coming out of Intel and other big corps have a different purpose (mostly to develop the mass production processes).
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Recent insider testimony has determined that from the RIAA website, users are able to access a search engine with only a few clicks. RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol subsequently imploded. More horrifying details tongiht at 11.
<Warning the above post may or may not be fiction>
Hmm.. Both good points, but getting rid of traffic lights would really help me nap better (it's very hard to nap in a car that is constantly stopping and starting). Therefore, we need to implement this right now.
To make it easier to implement, the autodriving cars could go slower (because as you mentioned we don't need to make good time).
As a computer science student, I'm a fan of efficiency. There is the time savings of a few seconds * every traffic light * every car * the number of people in each car. Also, there will be less wear on the brakes. Finally, it would waste less energy (starting + stopping = wasteful). With the increasing popularity of hybrid cars, the mild braking action in the simulation would significantly increase milage.
Funny, I noticed that the first thing people do in the day is socialize to and get coffee. Maybe the self-driving cars could have a built in conference room and coffee machine. Then everyone could get that over with before they ever arrive at work.
90% more userbase for less than 30% more cost! What a bargin!! </joke disclaimer="IANAIPD (Interactive portal devoloper)">
Funny, I actually read about this in a(n economics) text book a while back. They called it the Winner's Curse
So how many myspace accounts do you have now?
.. who goes out and explains the joke. But it pains me to see that people don't get it. (Or maybe they're being so subtle that I don't get them, whatever.)
But parent post is a JOKE! linvir is saying that the MS patches break the "extensions" (malware) built by the dev teams (black hats/script kiddies) on a rigid monthly cycle, so that the dev teams have time to prepare the next version of their malware to release unto unsuspecting IEusers.
(BTW if you're serious, then it's still a great joke. Good job.)
What do you mean bad analogy?? Everyone knows the soldiers in Iraq went for entertainment purposes. I mean look at all the media coverage they get?
Oh citizens, <quote src="Gladiator">Are you not entertained?<quote>
Am I the only one that heard the jump sound when reading that line?
Well it would be nice of Microsoft to publish exactly how their browser renders CSS and HTML so that the webdevelopers of the world can use this standard without having to manually reverse engineer it.
Alternately if they have already done so, I would be most appreciative if you could post a link.
I use autocomplete. I mostly have to enter one or two letters before the site I want
Well IE sorts web addresses in some useless order. It's alphabetical, which would be useful if I was a computer and could binary search it or something.
Firefox (and opera I believe) sorts the autocomplete addresses by frequency of use, I type g 'tab' 'enter' and google pops up. Not gameSiteThatIVisitedOnce.com.
I type s 'tab' 'enter' and slashdot appears. Not samsreallycoolhomepage.com
I type p 'tab' 'enter' and penny arcade loads.
Guess what happens when I type ap? I get apple.ca!
I believe there is one of those chain blog (like chain email) games where you list the first site that appears in firefox for every letter of the alphabet.
But didn't find it. I learnd about Defensive vomiting though. Thanks Wikipedia!
(Some of the claims in the article seem a bit dubious, perhaps some of our male USian friends can enlighten me)
Well, GGP is now modded 20% redundant and 50% overrated. Mostly because of what GP posted. Incidentally, GP posted the same thing as GGP. Lets see if this creates some sort of self-fulfilling karmic prophecy. heh
Mind Boggles
Topless women on the Internet are not exactly rare. Topless women reading Unix books?
Ditto for topless women at nude beaches.
I would think that would make it worth pointing out.
Oh wow, I'm slow. Just took a look at the photo that comes before the linked one... same girls, NSFW
I think the photographer deserves some credit for taking this.
;))
Two girls in the beach reading a UNIX book!!! Summer 2005 in Crete, Greece
Took me a bit of time to figure out how to get the link to the user's profile from just the link to the static picture. I found the flickr API. The rest I leave as an excercise to the reader.
Trivia:
* Taken with a Sony DSC-P73.
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* Taken on August 11, 2005
* See different sizes
* 4 people call this photo a favorite.
* Viewed 4,810 times.
There is one comment.
(I'm just curious to see how these numbers change after a slashdotting
Oh wait, they said mechanics...
I'm not in R&D, but I think the way it works is that the stuff you find in academic publications is produced by research institutions like university labs. The researchers there are funded by government grants, corporate sponsorship, and student tuition(?). The kind of patents coming out of Intel and other big corps have a different purpose (mostly to develop the mass production processes).