Lately with Google, I've been getting a ton of irrelevant search results. I can still find what I'm looking for, but it takes some time to click on all the graphic "O"s and sift through the results.
It seems many of the sites I get directed to are pages loaded with keywords to bump them up higher in search engines' results. Those pages also show a large number of ads.
Google's ads are another story. It seems no matter what I search, the first thing to show up is "Find on Ebay" and has a link to eBay. A few weeks ago when the Airbus A380 article was posted, some slashdotter pointed out how one of the google ads for a search on "Airbus A380" says "Airbus A380 for sale. Check out the deals now! www.eBay.com"
Is it possible for someone to write a script or screensaver that repeatedly clicks on all of eBay's google ads so they get a big fat bill from Google? Cost Per click: $0.30 X 1,000,000 hits per day? I really dislike eBay, even more so than Microsoft.
"With the dawn of television in the 1950s, many movie studios feared that no one would come to the theater anymore unless they gave audiences a new reason."
Ah... the evil movie industry worrying about losing money. Wasn't the movie industry afraid of home video sales at one point, and now it makes up the majority of their profits?
Toyota warranties that my vehicle will work for the length of the warranty at a minimum. If I change my own oil, it is possible to introduce elements into the system that may have unintended consequences. If my engine breaks down, Toyota will still honor their warranty provided the damage wasn't directly caused by something I did when I changed the oil. There are several laws concerning aftermarket parts as well - as long as your aftermarket part didn't cause the failure, the manufacturer must still honor their warranty.
Are things much different for Apple? If I open my case to install new ram and in the process manage to break a few pins on the connector or pinch a few wires when I'm putting the case back on, then Apple shouldn't have to honor their warranty in this case. On the other hand, if I install new ram and my superdrive fails to work a few weeks later, as long as the failing superdrive wasn't caused by my opening of the case then Apple should repair it.
I'm no expert on Apple warranties, I'm just trying to compare some possible situations.
For 700 bucks I get a DVD burner, 80 Gig HD and the best OS on the planet.
Is it really the best OS on the planet? I'm familiar with all it's benefits, however I was recently using a PowerMac G5 and was somewhat disappointed. The time it took to open a new application was longer than I'm used to (on my 700MHz Pentium III). When I tried to open a contextual menu, there was a significant delay that I wouldn't expect from such a fast machine.
Don't get me wrong, I like OS X a lot. I used to be a mac-only person for the longest time, however if the performance wasn't what I expected on a G5 tower, I can't imagine what it would be like on the less-than-stellar MacMini. I'll still consider it, but I need to see it in person first.
(by that I mean Dvorak, not the monstrosity cited in this article)
What is the advantage of an alphabetical layout? At least DVORAK took efficiency into consideration placing letters commonly used in english within easy reach.
That ridiculous product pitch also fails to mention that a standard 101-key keyboard has many practically useless keys (or at least keys we can get by without - F1-F12, number pad, window key, contextual menu key, insert, delete, home, end, pgup, pgdn, printscreen, scrolllock, pause/break).
Winamp 5.x Lite works just fine for me. I recall a very bad Winamp prior to 5.0 that was loaded with unnecessary garbage, but the latest version seems fairly decent.
Bottom line, this technology would cut down on sharp breaks.
It could also reduce freeway congestions if its use becomes widespread. I know there's a physical limit of how many cars can actually fit on a freeway, however in my experience, most of the congestion on the freeways is usually waves of braking at places where freeways merge or at popular exits (one car brakes hard because someone cuts over, then the car behind brakes, then this propagates back for a long distance).
Then again, a more practical solution to traffic congestion would be for LA to develop a real rail system.
When I read the story, the first thing that game to mind was Direct Connect. This was fairly evident by the statement "Trowbridge and Chicoine operated hubs in a file-sharing network that required members to share between 1GB (gigabyte) and 100GB of material"
If any of you haven't used DirectConnect, it's structured similarly to Napster. DirectConnect clients connect to a dedicated DC Server or Hub that keeps track of all the files users are sharing. Almost all the servers I've seen require a minimum amount of files to share, otherwise their bots will kick you out
If they were running the hubs, I don't see how they could have been sharing any actual files. Their hubs were certainly facilitating the download of copyrighted material, but the material had to have come from another DirectConnect client connected to their particular server.
Great looking damage is applied to the (non-licensed) vehicle models
I always had the impression that nonlicensed vehicles would be very dull and make the game unrealistic, however the GTA series has proven me wrong. Even cars in the original 2D Top-Down Grand Theft Auto were exciting. Their names are so creative, and it's relatively easy to determine which 'real' car they're imitating.
My favorite vehicle in Vice City is the "Faggio" scooter. This closely resembles the Piaggio scooter http://www.piaggiousa.com/
Are there any particularly good world news websites that are regularly updated? I've only seen US-based news all my life, and I'm curious to see things from the outside in.
Tokyo, Newark, and Houston all have dual jet bridges on the same level... sort of.
All of these airports (At least Tokyo-narita's Terminal 2, Newark's gates C120-130, and Houston's E terminal) have a single wide entry door and a single aisleway, then as you get closer to the plane it splits into two narrower jetways, one leading to the first class cabin and the other leading to the main cabin. They're still on the same level and they both lead to the same hallway, it's still better than one.
I fly to and from Tokyo about four or five times a year, and all the flights I've taken on 777s are boarded by class and not by row. It sounds like it would be extremely inefficient however in reality it's much faster than you'd expect. I don't know if this has to do with the dual jetways or perhaps it could be the size of the Japanese people compared to typical American passengers.
Just last night on a flight I encountered a woman who was twice as wide as me. I'm not just exaggerating - she was literally twice as wide as I am (I'm 5'10" 195lbs). Fortunately it was a 767 and was extremely underbooked. She had the middle three seats all to herself.
I like the blue UV-reactive case with dragon etched sidepanels. Instead of dumping $500 for 1GB of RAM on the MacMini, why not get a liquid cooling system and put UV-reactive dye in the coolant so your tubing lines glow?
The Mac Mini will be a perfect X-Terminal to use with a Linux box in another room. You'll have a silent and small box on your desk and the fat and loud server is down in the basement. Great.
I guess Slashdot really isn't the place to be asking this, but can this be done with OS X by itself or is an additional application necessary (similar to some of the Windows applications such as Xwin32)? I'm not familiar with OS X too much, but can you simply telnet from the mini into your linux box then do a setenv DISPLAY macmini?
There are twelve states that require permission from both sides of a phone call for it to be recorded.
Doesn't the word "may" grant permission? "This call may be recorded" grants you permission to record it.
So have fun and record it if you want to be anal like that. If it's a serious matter you're discussing, then perhaps it's not a bad idea to record it however it would be pointless and boring to record most of my calls.
The gameplay is pretty boring and gets old very fast, however it is fun to play once in a while.
When I read all the comments about video games giving people bad thoughts in real life, the first thing that came to my mind were the molotov cocktails and the marching band in Postal!
I haven't ever beaten any of the GTA games. I get to a point where I have some cool cars and weapons, then I just go around and see how much damage I can actually do. At one point in Vice City, it got so bad the army was sent after me. I don't know how I managed to do this, but I jacked one of the soldiers and took his tank. I drove the tank all the way to my garage then ran inside to save the game. I quit and reloaded that game (to reset the police stars) and my tank was still in my garage, but it was so big I couldn't figure out how to get inside of it!!!
After playing it, you start thinking that even though the road has two lanes of traffic, you could squeeze between those cars and go much faster
It's legal in California if you're driving a Motorcycle. It's easiest done when there's near-standstill traffic, however I've done it in 55MPH+ traffic just for the rush.
When I was visiting my brother in Pennsylvania I found myself doing the same thing and almost got into trouble. Out of habit, I'd squeeze between cars to get to the front of the traffic light, but people in PA aren't used to that and it really pisses them off.
There must be at least fifty nearly-identical comments all along the lines of "Wow, that thing must be hot enough to cook something after being slashdotted!"
This makes me wonder, could a system really heat up after a significant increase in traffic? In my experience, things crash or hang up before they heat up. With a functional heatsink, it doesn't seem like there would be any problems with heat. I recall seeing a video of what happens to various processors when the heatsink is removed. Most of the processors were toasted rapidly, however the Pentium (4 I think, but it might have been the 3) slowed tremendously, then resumed normally once the heatsink was put back.
I haven't used VoIP yet, and no one I know has it. How good can it be? I used to play around with Dialpad.com, a web-based telephone service, and though the audio quality was pretty good the calls would frequently drop or get very choppy. I imagine things have gotten better since then, but is it as reliable as an old-fashioned copper line?
I was never a fan of digital cable, and some info that was recently brought to my attention makes me dislike it even more. Even if you have digital cable, the first 125 channels are still analog!
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I equate this spokesperson to people who think AOL is the internet.
It seems many of the sites I get directed to are pages loaded with keywords to bump them up higher in search engines' results. Those pages also show a large number of ads.
Google's ads are another story. It seems no matter what I search, the first thing to show up is "Find on Ebay" and has a link to eBay. A few weeks ago when the Airbus A380 article was posted, some slashdotter pointed out how one of the google ads for a search on "Airbus A380" says "Airbus A380 for sale. Check out the deals now! www.eBay.com"
Is it possible for someone to write a script or screensaver that repeatedly clicks on all of eBay's google ads so they get a big fat bill from Google? Cost Per click: $0.30 X 1,000,000 hits per day? I really dislike eBay, even more so than Microsoft.
So why doesn't PLATINUM have TWO I's? If Aluminum is Aluminium, Why don't you call Platinum Platinium????? WHY!?!?!?
"With the dawn of television in the 1950s, many movie studios feared that no one would come to the theater anymore unless they gave audiences a new reason." Ah... the evil movie industry worrying about losing money. Wasn't the movie industry afraid of home video sales at one point, and now it makes up the majority of their profits?
Are things much different for Apple? If I open my case to install new ram and in the process manage to break a few pins on the connector or pinch a few wires when I'm putting the case back on, then Apple shouldn't have to honor their warranty in this case. On the other hand, if I install new ram and my superdrive fails to work a few weeks later, as long as the failing superdrive wasn't caused by my opening of the case then Apple should repair it.
I'm no expert on Apple warranties, I'm just trying to compare some possible situations.
Doesn't the Mac Mini only have a single slot?
Is it really the best OS on the planet? I'm familiar with all it's benefits, however I was recently using a PowerMac G5 and was somewhat disappointed. The time it took to open a new application was longer than I'm used to (on my 700MHz Pentium III). When I tried to open a contextual menu, there was a significant delay that I wouldn't expect from such a fast machine.
Don't get me wrong, I like OS X a lot. I used to be a mac-only person for the longest time, however if the performance wasn't what I expected on a G5 tower, I can't imagine what it would be like on the less-than-stellar MacMini. I'll still consider it, but I need to see it in person first.
What is the advantage of an alphabetical layout? At least DVORAK took efficiency into consideration placing letters commonly used in english within easy reach.
That ridiculous product pitch also fails to mention that a standard 101-key keyboard has many practically useless keys (or at least keys we can get by without - F1-F12, number pad, window key, contextual menu key, insert, delete, home, end, pgup, pgdn, printscreen, scrolllock, pause/break).
Winamp 5.x Lite works just fine for me. I recall a very bad Winamp prior to 5.0 that was loaded with unnecessary garbage, but the latest version seems fairly decent.
It could also reduce freeway congestions if its use becomes widespread. I know there's a physical limit of how many cars can actually fit on a freeway, however in my experience, most of the congestion on the freeways is usually waves of braking at places where freeways merge or at popular exits (one car brakes hard because someone cuts over, then the car behind brakes, then this propagates back for a long distance).
Then again, a more practical solution to traffic congestion would be for LA to develop a real rail system.
If any of you haven't used DirectConnect, it's structured similarly to Napster. DirectConnect clients connect to a dedicated DC Server or Hub that keeps track of all the files users are sharing. Almost all the servers I've seen require a minimum amount of files to share, otherwise their bots will kick you out
If they were running the hubs, I don't see how they could have been sharing any actual files. Their hubs were certainly facilitating the download of copyrighted material, but the material had to have come from another DirectConnect client connected to their particular server.
I always had the impression that nonlicensed vehicles would be very dull and make the game unrealistic, however the GTA series has proven me wrong. Even cars in the original 2D Top-Down Grand Theft Auto were exciting. Their names are so creative, and it's relatively easy to determine which 'real' car they're imitating.
My favorite vehicle in Vice City is the "Faggio" scooter. This closely resembles the Piaggio scooter http://www.piaggiousa.com/
Are there any particularly good world news websites that are regularly updated? I've only seen US-based news all my life, and I'm curious to see things from the outside in.
I fly to and from Tokyo about four or five times a year, and all the flights I've taken on 777s are boarded by class and not by row. It sounds like it would be extremely inefficient however in reality it's much faster than you'd expect. I don't know if this has to do with the dual jetways or perhaps it could be the size of the Japanese people compared to typical American passengers.
Just last night on a flight I encountered a woman who was twice as wide as me. I'm not just exaggerating - she was literally twice as wide as I am (I'm 5'10" 195lbs). Fortunately it was a 767 and was extremely underbooked. She had the middle three seats all to herself.
You mean those acrylic cases with blue/purple neon tubes and blue/purple LED infested components aren't the forefront of fashion and bling?
http://www.xoxide.com/acryliccases.html
I like the blue UV-reactive case with dragon etched sidepanels. Instead of dumping $500 for 1GB of RAM on the MacMini, why not get a liquid cooling system and put UV-reactive dye in the coolant so your tubing lines glow?
I guess Slashdot really isn't the place to be asking this, but can this be done with OS X by itself or is an additional application necessary (similar to some of the Windows applications such as Xwin32)? I'm not familiar with OS X too much, but can you simply telnet from the mini into your linux box then do a setenv DISPLAY macmini?
Doesn't the word "may" grant permission? "This call may be recorded" grants you permission to record it. So have fun and record it if you want to be anal like that. If it's a serious matter you're discussing, then perhaps it's not a bad idea to record it however it would be pointless and boring to record most of my calls.
The 0.113398 Kiloburger?
When I read all the comments about video games giving people bad thoughts in real life, the first thing that came to my mind were the molotov cocktails and the marching band in Postal!
I haven't ever beaten any of the GTA games. I get to a point where I have some cool cars and weapons, then I just go around and see how much damage I can actually do. At one point in Vice City, it got so bad the army was sent after me. I don't know how I managed to do this, but I jacked one of the soldiers and took his tank. I drove the tank all the way to my garage then ran inside to save the game. I quit and reloaded that game (to reset the police stars) and my tank was still in my garage, but it was so big I couldn't figure out how to get inside of it!!!
It's legal in California if you're driving a Motorcycle. It's easiest done when there's near-standstill traffic, however I've done it in 55MPH+ traffic just for the rush.
When I was visiting my brother in Pennsylvania I found myself doing the same thing and almost got into trouble. Out of habit, I'd squeeze between cars to get to the front of the traffic light, but people in PA aren't used to that and it really pisses them off.
This makes me wonder, could a system really heat up after a significant increase in traffic? In my experience, things crash or hang up before they heat up. With a functional heatsink, it doesn't seem like there would be any problems with heat. I recall seeing a video of what happens to various processors when the heatsink is removed. Most of the processors were toasted rapidly, however the Pentium (4 I think, but it might have been the 3) slowed tremendously, then resumed normally once the heatsink was put back.
http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/graphics/nascar/earnhar dt_junior.jpg
Ahh.. this makes me think of CNN's TOP STORIES from last week.
CNN... BREAKING NEWS!!!
Aniston, Pitt separating after 4 years of marriage
Julia Roberts buys land from Secretary Rumsfeld
I couldn't believe that BOTH of these stores appeared together on CNN's Top Stories list.
Now one of today's headlines is Principal cracks down on 'freak dancing'.
I was never a fan of digital cable, and some info that was recently brought to my attention makes me dislike it even more. Even if you have digital cable, the first 125 channels are still analog!