I'd say Slashdot is worth somewhere between $12m and $16m.
So in roughly 3 years, Dice/DHI slashed Slashdot's value by $4M to $8M (or 20% to 40%) from when it was purchased at $20M (Dice buys... Slashdot... in $20M deal).
The statement about the Obama administration objecting are not in the article; only in the summary. A quick google search did not pull anything up substantiating the claim that there was an objection.
The VERY small text regarding the ending of Firefly:
1:33: A fan asks how Firefly would have ended if Joss had known it was going to be canceled: “I don’t think I would have killed anybody,” Joss says and Tudyk raises his hands in victory. “A film is a different animal and has different needs,” Whedon continues. “We would have learned about the Blue Sun conspiracy, Inara and Shepherd Book.”
Original poster here. I am looking to implement a customized card game (think Magic or Yu-Gi-Oh). This is my step-son's first foray into development, and my first UI requiring any custom controls. (I have done a fair bit of ASP.NET, PHP, and Windows Forms, but most of that is not applicable given what I am planning here). The idea is to be able to create the card images from a combination of stored bitmaps, text, and some general backgrounds. As such, much of the GUI will be vectored, but some must be raster (ie the bitmaps). Note that given the general structure, framerate is not a high consideration.
Note that I have not ruled out a HTML 5 UI and if I went with Java AWT, I may wrap it as an applet. I would certainly like to stay away from Flash (& am leaning against Java for similar reasons), but have not ruled that out either.
Depends on your definition of crap food. Using a standard value meal as a guide, original chicken sandwich, fries, and a soft-drink, you are looking at about 1,000 calories: 430 for the sandwich, 430 for the fries, and in excess of 100 for the drink. While I will admit that their fare is better than the competition, it is by no means good food*. Following are the nutritional pages for reference:
While I have only had one experience posting anything to Wikipedia, the experience was positive. Specifically, I posted a very small edit to the Radio Button page that added called out the usage of "Radial button" as improper. While this was moved and later removed, it was added back in and remains today. All in all, this gives me great confidence that Wikipedia does hold onto additions, no matter how small.
As an aside, a google search for "radial button" now lists Wikipedia as the first link and the unofficial citation as the second. (& no, I am not the author of the page cited nor do I know who is).
This Great Men vs. Zeitgeist theory was played out in Philosophy of Science in the 70's (see Karl Popper's "Science: Conjectures and Refutations" and Thomas Kuhn's "Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research").
I personally believe the famous quote by Sir Issac Newton, "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." I interpret this to mean that there is a requirement for both - the air of discovery and a certain talent for combining data.
Interestingly enough, the same issue was played out in the invention of Calculus. There was a requirement and two very talented individuals came up with exceedingly similar solutions. In this case, there is enough evidence to discount collusion, but it is still an interesting case study.
The first Windows XP was something that was avoided by most for over a year. Win2k was stable, rock solid, why upgrade for the eye candy?
And now everyone believes XP is the second coming or something. Just hurts your head sometimes...
The change is that WinXP is now as stable and rock solid as Win2k was when WinXP first launched. You are correct that XP is mostly an eye candy upgrade, but it has effectively taken what was great about Win2k and cleaned it up. Also, by making XP somewhat more compatible with apps designed for the Win9x series, it had a few additional advantages over Win2k. All-in-all, WinXP is just a cleaned over version of Win2k, but that is why "everyone", myself included, are using WinXP as the standard that Microsoft has to live up to. (It also doesn't hurt that distribution of Win2k has ceased.)
Hmm... That is a cool idea. One could sport a 17" form factor with 2 displays that fold into each-other (to protect the face) then down. If the faces fold opposite, this could be extended to the tablet PCs - ie 2 screens when in laptop mode and 1 screen when in tablet mode.
I guess the obvious issues would be that the movable connections along with a much thicker (& heavier) case. Similarly, the screens would be much larger making closure of the "lid" more difficult. Keeping the display at an angle would be similarly tricky. Finally, there would be the extra power issues (stronger video card needed). The other issues have largely been solved with multi-displays in general. I wonder if anyone has tried this before?
... I prefer not to get my science from MSNBC and other mainstream media sources.
Just to be pedantic, the source is actually Newsweek rather than MSNBC. But I guess this is still covered in the second half of your objection.
However, what is your objection to an overview of the science in mainstream media? I hear the values of wikipedia touted as a quick way to get a lay level understanding of a term with references to other material for further information. Is that not what mainstream media is supposed to be, just on "new" topics? While I will admit that some of the science reporting from mainstream media is less than stellar, it doesn't change the fact that much of it serves as a primer for the non-specialized scientist.
The article is light on details on how to find the book (it just calls the author "Fant" with no first name and there is no title). This book it titled "Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression" by Karl M Fant ISBN 9780471798149.
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I'd say Slashdot is worth somewhere between $12m and $16m.
So in roughly 3 years, Dice/DHI slashed Slashdot's value by $4M to $8M (or 20% to 40%) from when it was purchased at $20M (Dice buys ... Slashdot ... in $20M deal).
The statement about the Obama administration objecting are not in the article; only in the summary. A quick google search did not pull anything up substantiating the claim that there was an objection.
1:33: A fan asks how Firefly would have ended if Joss had known it was going to be canceled: “I don’t think I would have killed anybody,” Joss says and Tudyk raises his hands in victory. “A film is a different animal and has different needs,” Whedon continues. “We would have learned about the Blue Sun conspiracy, Inara and Shepherd Book.”
Original poster here. I am looking to implement a customized card game (think Magic or Yu-Gi-Oh). This is my step-son's first foray into development, and my first UI requiring any custom controls. (I have done a fair bit of ASP.NET, PHP, and Windows Forms, but most of that is not applicable given what I am planning here). The idea is to be able to create the card images from a combination of stored bitmaps, text, and some general backgrounds. As such, much of the GUI will be vectored, but some must be raster (ie the bitmaps). Note that given the general structure, framerate is not a high consideration.
Note that I have not ruled out a HTML 5 UI and if I went with Java AWT, I may wrap it as an applet. I would certainly like to stay away from Flash (& am leaning against Java for similar reasons), but have not ruled that out either.
Depends on your definition of crap food. Using a standard value meal as a guide, original chicken sandwich, fries, and a soft-drink, you are looking at about 1,000 calories: 430 for the sandwich, 430 for the fries, and in excess of 100 for the drink. While I will admit that their fare is better than the competition, it is by no means good food*. Following are the nutritional pages for reference:
* Michael Pollan and others may even disagree that it is even food.
While I have only had one experience posting anything to Wikipedia, the experience was positive. Specifically, I posted a very small edit to the Radio Button page that added called out the usage of "Radial button" as improper. While this was moved and later removed, it was added back in and remains today. All in all, this gives me great confidence that Wikipedia does hold onto additions, no matter how small.
As an aside, a google search for "radial button" now lists Wikipedia as the first link and the unofficial citation as the second. (& no, I am not the author of the page cited nor do I know who is).
This Great Men vs. Zeitgeist theory was played out in Philosophy of Science in the 70's (see Karl Popper's "Science: Conjectures and Refutations" and Thomas Kuhn's "Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research").
I personally believe the famous quote by Sir Issac Newton, "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." I interpret this to mean that there is a requirement for both - the air of discovery and a certain talent for combining data.
Interestingly enough, the same issue was played out in the invention of Calculus. There was a requirement and two very talented individuals came up with exceedingly similar solutions. In this case, there is enough evidence to discount collusion, but it is still an interesting case study.
The change is that WinXP is now as stable and rock solid as Win2k was when WinXP first launched. You are correct that XP is mostly an eye candy upgrade, but it has effectively taken what was great about Win2k and cleaned it up. Also, by making XP somewhat more compatible with apps designed for the Win9x series, it had a few additional advantages over Win2k. All-in-all, WinXP is just a cleaned over version of Win2k, but that is why "everyone", myself included, are using WinXP as the standard that Microsoft has to live up to. (It also doesn't hurt that distribution of Win2k has ceased.)
Hmm... That is a cool idea. One could sport a 17" form factor with 2 displays that fold into each-other (to protect the face) then down. If the faces fold opposite, this could be extended to the tablet PCs - ie 2 screens when in laptop mode and 1 screen when in tablet mode.
I guess the obvious issues would be that the movable connections along with a much thicker (& heavier) case. Similarly, the screens would be much larger making closure of the "lid" more difficult. Keeping the display at an angle would be similarly tricky. Finally, there would be the extra power issues (stronger video card needed). The other issues have largely been solved with multi-displays in general. I wonder if anyone has tried this before?
... I prefer not to get my science from MSNBC and other mainstream media sources.Just to be pedantic, the source is actually Newsweek rather than MSNBC. But I guess this is still covered in the second half of your objection.
However, what is your objection to an overview of the science in mainstream media? I hear the values of wikipedia touted as a quick way to get a lay level understanding of a term with references to other material for further information. Is that not what mainstream media is supposed to be, just on "new" topics? While I will admit that some of the science reporting from mainstream media is less than stellar, it doesn't change the fact that much of it serves as a primer for the non-specialized scientist.
The article is light on details on how to find the book (it just calls the author "Fant" with no first name and there is no title). This book it titled "Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression" by Karl M Fant ISBN 9780471798149.
You can't be a geek without the double E!