I think you may have been confused, one time when i got the database error response i went back, but in trying to do so, it said it does not want you to re-rank a joke you have already ranked. So, I'm guessing the joke you thought was a repeat was actually a different version or some such.
I must say, after ten jokes, it got me spot on. Longer, story-like jokes with ironic or twist ends! Me likes!
In my case it seemed to hit on all the things i hated first and then after about ten jokes in, just started riffing. I wonder how long till i exhaust the database...
Be assured it was this argument that Sony brought to the studios to get them to kill the (IMO better standard) of HD-DVD since it has already been cracked. Also, be assured that Sony knew their argument was bullshit. Sadly, it was this lie that killed the standard, not a few thousand people skewing consumer purchasing towards BD. Ca va...
Where do you stand on the issue of medical marijuana in your state? For ten years, use of marijuana has and created a legal vacuum for the public interest versus the private use issue. Would you protect growers of medical marijuana in your state from federal prosecution when such situations occur? Do you support the free and open use of a chemical that has no known addictive qualities, no known adverse health effects and broad, diverse public support for its decriminalization?
Just some advice, I highly suggest you change your name, get plastic surgery, start a new field and NEVER POST TO SLASHDOT AGAIN! Sad thing is you will not listen and no one will pay attention to headline: "Geek killed in unexpected vehicle explosion"
I would think a more interesting figure, and perhaps not even able to be inferred from this research, would be to determine how many users don't even click-through at all. If it's greater than half... I would say the adserve business is pretty useless. But hey, dont they pay people to click-through anyway? Maybe, we found the 6%! Oh, the irony if so!!
Last.fm has... so the floodgates may not have been opened, but they are letting the light shine through. Just enough to draw the masses... will they then slowly close back the doors and raise rates, or will they let us bask in the very limited glow? The current Last.fm deal is only a beta, once it's over, the music is only free for download or listen with a subscription. Meh, sadly even I can't complain at this point. I always said I would never pay for downloaded music, and to this day I have not, but perhaps its just too convenient and a good model to pass up. Especially with all the perks Last.fm provides....
would you believe i JUST upgraded to 2.6.23-r3 on Tuesday? I'm a kernel holdout, but hey, at least its better than the people who have been holding out to upgrade from 2.4.xx!!! Yea, the only reason I had to upgrade too was frickin gentoo dependency, I think because of KDE-base, whatever....
Well, I must say I never thought of making a/. article out of this one, but since about 1999 which is when I started working on my own computers for hobby, I would use stupid.com as a network test to see if I was online or not and not just loading a cached page (since I only go there when I am testing my network once in a blue moon...) One thing I have noticed about this site, it still feels like I'm in 1999 when I load it...
I agree, but actually, I was thinking that because I like my Amarok exclusivity. Sure its a bloated interface but it doesn't mean you have to actually use a _totally_ bloated interface. I run Amarok in Fluxbox with the kde-base... tough, but has to be done. Hmmm, maybe I will switch to Exaile now, since I love my SW-DAP bloat and get off KDE completely!
9 to 5 and 5 to 9 Ain't gonna take it It's our time We want the world and we want it know We're gonna take it anyhow
We want the airwaves We want the airwaves We want the airwaves, baby If rock is gonna stay alive
Oh yeah-well all right Let's rock-tonite All night
Where's your guts And will to survive And don't you wanna Keep rock n' roll music alive Mr. Programmer I got my hammer and I'm gonna Smash my Smash my Radio
We want the airwaves We want the airwaves We want the airwaves, baby If rock is gonna stay alive
Actually we do have more than two of these. I used to work for a lab at the University of Florida making components for the cavities; I was also with them the day they went live! Part of me wished I stayed with the research, but it was a complicated racket and I had other interests. Anyway, one of the interferometers is out in Washington State and the other is just up the road from me now outside Baton Rouge in Livingston Parish. I got off I-10 one day helping a friend get to some wreckage yard out in the sticks and low and behold right there off the interstate was a sign pointing south with the words LIGO on it. I thought I should drive out there for those months of work I put into it. Well, anyway, i decided against it, if for no other reason than because just the slightest vibration from road traffic even miles away can throw this thing out of alignment. Perhaps this is why the thing didn't detect any waves a while back. Signal-to-noise on this thing is the most crucial aspect out there!
Actually, this is exactly my rationale for why I *would* play them!
There is a statistic out there that the average person sees about 300 ads per day. In so doing, I would imagine (or at least I have...) most people have learned to tune the ads out. I can easily play a game and ignore the marketing. I do play online games where this occurs anyway already! So if marketing firms want to subsidize my ability to play full games for free. Sign me up, and don't be surprised if you don't get a bump in revenue because of it!
-----Original Message-----
From: mbravo@spb.ru
Sent: January 22, 2008, 10:39AM
To: Slashdot-all@slashdot.org; phobos13013@corporate-email.com; digg-all@digg.com; bob2074@dobbs.com; bob@aol.com;
Subject: Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive?
"I work in a largish company, heavily into IT, and in a complex and quickly changing market. Employees are predominantly in the 30 or younger age-bracket, and as you might expect we rely on a lot of internal e-mail. Despite that, lately I'm finding myself increasingly frustrated by a complete lack of e-mail etiquette in the company. A typical thread might look like a hundred-message-long chain of one-line replies, with full quoting and hundreds of recipients in the 'To:' field. It feels like it is happening more and more often. I don't seem to be seeing much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here. How do you deal with this at your place of business, and does your company care? Does the company take any policing or educating measures?"
Well, GTalk or Gmail extension what have you, use the OpenAim standard of course not the original AIM protocol. So my point really is that AOL's progression in this realm at least has been going in this direction. This blog seems to argue against the positive nature of AIM moving to Gmail, but I think the comments point out that long-term it should be positive, especially since one of the suggestions of the article are now implemented! I think bottom line is AOL knew that OSCAR was dead and rather develop from the ground up, they open it up and let the world do it. Another win for OSS!
How? Well, I won't reinvent the wheel here, this has been argued and shown to be true many times.
But it is because it encourages regions enslaved to Wal-Mart (especially low-density, low-population regions) to be consumers not entrepreneurs. Great, you force them to only buy from you by offering a low price, but this just encourages lazy, weak-willed individuals who will lose community-minded aspects of goodwill and local bartering modes and instead create a community AROUND the mass consumerism of a international conglomerate that doesn't give a shit about the consumer and only sees them as an object to suck money out of. That monopoly is no where near as scaled, benevolent a monopoly as the local retailer you are suggesting they would be.
FTA (buried in a link) it states there was precedence for this when the European Amazon-like company Alapage received the same fine. So unless Amazon wants to keep subsidizing peoples shipping TWICE, they may want to go ahead and charge a reduced shipping fee, say 1.99EU or a buck off the other guy, wonder if the French government would fine them for that one?
I'm trying hard to understand this. Looking at European governmental action, typically these governments act to protect the consumer. I do not immediately see how forcing a higher price on a commodity can be good for the consumer. But then I remember Wal-Mart; look at Wal-Mart by offering lower prices for so many years has hurt local economies, local goods providers who cannot compete with volume pricing... which is exactly what Amazon does as well. They can take a hit on shipping because they probably have cut rate contracts with delivery companies anyway that local French sellers cannot compete with! So, all I can think is that the French government has bothered to look beyond the obvious, oh we save them 8EU so we are obviously better for the consumer and realized that there is more to a healthy economy and healthy society than saving someone a buck or two...
So what you're saying is if open source gains market share, these types of acquisitions will become obsolete...?
Well, I know where I wouldn't invest
Re:You need a simulation for this?
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Modeling Urban Panic
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· Score: 5, Insightful
It could be, but I believe some parameters of the modeling AI need to be changed. Take a look at the massive crowd evacuating through the small aperture. The crowds on the fringe just stand there and pile up while the late-comers in the middle flow right through since the fringes dont move. In a real crowd (even under regular evacuation measures and not one in a "panic") would never go for this! People would constantly be trying to overcome the person not moving in front of them! The fringe individuals would immediately relocate to the center which is dwindling in length.
I don't think this model takes a lot of human behavior into consideration. One requirement could be that the individuals never stop moving, they will always take the available (open) path towards the exit even if it is not the straight line path which they are lined up in queue for. It also doesn't take into the consideration of a possibility of a trample situation where perhaps a threshold value of energy from a surging crowd overcomes the resistance of the small group of slower moving individuals in front. But of course, this is a great start for a complex computational issue!
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I think you may have been confused, one time when i got the database error response i went back, but in trying to do so, it said it does not want you to re-rank a joke you have already ranked. So, I'm guessing the joke you thought was a repeat was actually a different version or some such.
I hope my mod points are good for tomorrow! Its a no-brainer! Everything is +5 Offtopic!!!!
I must say, after ten jokes, it got me spot on. Longer, story-like jokes with ironic or twist ends! Me likes!
In my case it seemed to hit on all the things i hated first and then after about ten jokes in, just started riffing. I wonder how long till i exhaust the database...
Be assured it was this argument that Sony brought to the studios to get them to kill the (IMO better standard) of HD-DVD since it has already been cracked. Also, be assured that Sony knew their argument was bullshit. Sadly, it was this lie that killed the standard, not a few thousand people skewing consumer purchasing towards BD. Ca va...
Where do you stand on the issue of medical marijuana in your state? For ten years, use of marijuana has and created a legal vacuum for the public interest versus the private use issue. Would you protect growers of medical marijuana in your state from federal prosecution when such situations occur? Do you support the free and open use of a chemical that has no known addictive qualities, no known adverse health effects and broad, diverse public support for its decriminalization?
Just some advice, I highly suggest you change your name, get plastic surgery, start a new field and NEVER POST TO SLASHDOT AGAIN! Sad thing is you will not listen and no one will pay attention to headline: "Geek killed in unexpected vehicle explosion"
We are talking about the joystick, not the boomstick, buddy!
Regarding that part of it: I smell a rat, and it's not Mickey! http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0213/p02s04-usmi.html
I would think a more interesting figure, and perhaps not even able to be inferred from this research, would be to determine how many users don't even click-through at all. If it's greater than half... I would say the adserve business is pretty useless. But hey, dont they pay people to click-through anyway? Maybe, we found the 6%! Oh, the irony if so!!
Last.fm has... so the floodgates may not have been opened, but they are letting the light shine through. Just enough to draw the masses... will they then slowly close back the doors and raise rates, or will they let us bask in the very limited glow? The current Last.fm deal is only a beta, once it's over, the music is only free for download or listen with a subscription. Meh, sadly even I can't complain at this point. I always said I would never pay for downloaded music, and to this day I have not, but perhaps its just too convenient and a good model to pass up. Especially with all the perks Last.fm provides....
would you believe i JUST upgraded to 2.6.23-r3 on Tuesday? I'm a kernel holdout, but hey, at least its better than the people who have been holding out to upgrade from 2.4.xx!!! Yea, the only reason I had to upgrade too was frickin gentoo dependency, I think because of KDE-base, whatever....
Well, I must say I never thought of making a /. article out of this one, but since about 1999 which is when I started working on my own computers for hobby, I would use stupid.com as a network test to see if I was online or not and not just loading a cached page (since I only go there when I am testing my network once in a blue moon...) One thing I have noticed about this site, it still feels like I'm in 1999 when I load it...
I agree, but actually, I was thinking that because I like my Amarok exclusivity. Sure its a bloated interface but it doesn't mean you have to actually use a _totally_ bloated interface. I run Amarok in Fluxbox with the kde-base... tough, but has to be done. Hmmm, maybe I will switch to Exaile now, since I love my SW-DAP bloat and get off KDE completely!
Ask the Ramones
"We Want The Airwaves"
9 to 5 and 5 to 9
Ain't gonna take it
It's our time
We want the world
and we want it know
We're gonna take it anyhow
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
Oh yeah-well all right
Let's rock-tonite
All night
Where's your guts
And will to survive
And don't you wanna
Keep rock n' roll music alive
Mr. Programmer
I got my hammer
and I'm gonna
Smash my
Smash my
Radio
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
Actually we do have more than two of these. I used to work for a lab at the University of Florida making components for the cavities; I was also with them the day they went live! Part of me wished I stayed with the research, but it was a complicated racket and I had other interests. Anyway, one of the interferometers is out in Washington State and the other is just up the road from me now outside Baton Rouge in Livingston Parish. I got off I-10 one day helping a friend get to some wreckage yard out in the sticks and low and behold right there off the interstate was a sign pointing south with the words LIGO on it. I thought I should drive out there for those months of work I put into it. Well, anyway, i decided against it, if for no other reason than because just the slightest vibration from road traffic even miles away can throw this thing out of alignment. Perhaps this is why the thing didn't detect any waves a while back. Signal-to-noise on this thing is the most crucial aspect out there!
Actually, this is exactly my rationale for why I *would* play them!
There is a statistic out there that the average person sees about 300 ads per day. In so doing, I would imagine (or at least I have...) most people have learned to tune the ads out. I can easily play a game and ignore the marketing. I do play online games where this occurs anyway already! So if marketing firms want to subsidize my ability to play full games for free. Sign me up, and don't be surprised if you don't get a bump in revenue because of it!
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-----Original Message-----
From: mbravo@spb.ru
Sent: January 22, 2008, 10:39AM
To: Slashdot-all@slashdot.org; phobos13013@corporate-email.com; digg-all@digg.com; bob2074@dobbs.com; bob@aol.com;
Subject: Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive?
"I work in a largish company, heavily into IT, and in a complex and quickly changing market. Employees are predominantly in the 30 or younger age-bracket, and as you might expect we rely on a lot of internal e-mail. Despite that, lately I'm finding myself increasingly frustrated by a complete lack of e-mail etiquette in the company. A typical thread might look like a hundred-message-long chain of one-line replies, with full quoting and hundreds of recipients in the 'To:' field. It feels like it is happening more and more often. I don't seem to be seeing much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here. How do you deal with this at your place of business, and does your company care? Does the company take any policing or educating measures?"
Maybe so, but *I* hold the patent on misdirected links, soooo, as my team of lawyers race after you for my millions... we will just call it even!
Well, GTalk or Gmail extension what have you, use the OpenAim standard of course not the original AIM protocol. So my point really is that AOL's progression in this realm at least has been going in this direction. This blog seems to argue against the positive nature of AIM moving to Gmail, but I think the comments point out that long-term it should be positive, especially since one of the suggestions of the article are now implemented! I think bottom line is AOL knew that OSCAR was dead and rather develop from the ground up, they open it up and let the world do it. Another win for OSS!
Well considering AIM has been available through GTalk for at least a month or so, this announcement is really just for advertising right?!
How? Well, I won't reinvent the wheel here, this has been argued and shown to be true many times.
But it is because it encourages regions enslaved to Wal-Mart (especially low-density, low-population regions) to be consumers not entrepreneurs. Great, you force them to only buy from you by offering a low price, but this just encourages lazy, weak-willed individuals who will lose community-minded aspects of goodwill and local bartering modes and instead create a community AROUND the mass consumerism of a international conglomerate that doesn't give a shit about the consumer and only sees them as an object to suck money out of. That monopoly is no where near as scaled, benevolent a monopoly as the local retailer you are suggesting they would be.
FTA (buried in a link) it states there was precedence for this when the European Amazon-like company Alapage received the same fine. So unless Amazon wants to keep subsidizing peoples shipping TWICE, they may want to go ahead and charge a reduced shipping fee, say 1.99EU or a buck off the other guy, wonder if the French government would fine them for that one?
I'm trying hard to understand this. Looking at European governmental action, typically these governments act to protect the consumer. I do not immediately see how forcing a higher price on a commodity can be good for the consumer. But then I remember Wal-Mart; look at Wal-Mart by offering lower prices for so many years has hurt local economies, local goods providers who cannot compete with volume pricing... which is exactly what Amazon does as well. They can take a hit on shipping because they probably have cut rate contracts with delivery companies anyway that local French sellers cannot compete with! So, all I can think is that the French government has bothered to look beyond the obvious, oh we save them 8EU so we are obviously better for the consumer and realized that there is more to a healthy economy and healthy society than saving someone a buck or two...
So what you're saying is if open source gains market share, these types of acquisitions will become obsolete...?
Well, I know where I wouldn't invest
It could be, but I believe some parameters of the modeling AI need to be changed. Take a look at the massive crowd evacuating through the small aperture. The crowds on the fringe just stand there and pile up while the late-comers in the middle flow right through since the fringes dont move. In a real crowd (even under regular evacuation measures and not one in a "panic") would never go for this! People would constantly be trying to overcome the person not moving in front of them! The fringe individuals would immediately relocate to the center which is dwindling in length.
I don't think this model takes a lot of human behavior into consideration. One requirement could be that the individuals never stop moving, they will always take the available (open) path towards the exit even if it is not the straight line path which they are lined up in queue for. It also doesn't take into the consideration of a possibility of a trample situation where perhaps a threshold value of energy from a surging crowd overcomes the resistance of the small group of slower moving individuals in front. But of course, this is a great start for a complex computational issue!