Got four books in the backburner, looking for a publisher. If you keep telling them Sci-Fi is dead, you think they're gonna wanna publish my damn books?
I tried to do the opposite, actually. Way back in 2006, my friend's site used CuteNews, which is now all but abandonware, though there's a community developed fork. Well, I wanted to throw up a quick page for personal reasons, and scouring the internet for ages, I finally came across something that almost exclusively did what I wanted, which was replace CuteNews completely. I found SuperSimpleNews. The problem? No built in support for avatars (eh, not too bad), no support for commenting, no support for any user accounts (Just one Admin account, which... as we all know, is a bad idea for anything with more than one user). But the key features I wanted were still there: It simply delivered news posts without requiring anything but PHP5. No mysql, no postgre, etc.
But the good news is... I know a bit about PHP. I've already looked at the source and said, "Ok, I can implement a lot of these things myself". But this is a simple application. I know a bit of Java, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to jump into something like, say, OpenOffice.Org and start coding in support for, I dunno... how about collaborative writing in the style of Etherpad? I wouldn't know where to start. It's not a project one man could hop into and start working on features he wanted (or maybe she, whatever the case may be). I would have to learn their coding styles, learn their naming schemes, learn where the lines of code that provide the functionality I'd need to use or change are. In SuperSimpleNews, this was a five minute process where I just looked at it and went, "OK, this is about as simple as it claims to be," even with it's minimal commenting.
But, yeah, it's easy for me to see why I'd go pick CuteNews UTF-8 over SuperSimpleNews. If I wasn't enthusiastic about adding functionality to SuperSimpleNews, I wouldn't mind the stupid, "Powered By Cutenews" after every post if it meant I had my comments, avatars, and usernames.
...don't even remind me. I'll save the rant for another day, but it pretty much goes down that there's no common party for the average man in the US. Hell, there's not even a party for the average consumer. If you can't afford to line your pockets with platinum, there's no party for you at all.
Yeah, it sounds like a conflict of interest to want your competitor's cards on YOUR chipset that supports YOUR cards already. On the other side of the coin, though, I'd rather have my competitor's cards on MY chipset than lose a sale to my competitor's chipset because they support my competitor's cards.
Being as Bing is the first search engine to even laughably compare to Google in any way, shape, or form, more to the point I was trying to be thankful for the competition Bing brought that started the clockwork of getting Google's search algorithm fixed. It's nice to see Microsoft in a market where they actually have to compete as opposed to flex their monopoly muscle is what I was trying to say.
It's obvious that the business model of the record companies are failing. Albums are going the route of a strictly enthusiast-only format while digital distribution of single songs becomes the standard. The radio is dead, MTV is dead -- people don't want to listen to songs they don't want to hear anymore to wait for the songs they do to pop up
So what should they do? Not what they are doing obviously. What needs to be done is they need to put the digital distribution model in the car, in the walkman, in the cellphones of the consumers. Yes, yes, two dollars to download a song is great, right? Well, that's fine and dandy, but when I'm thinking of a song I want to hear, it's an impulse, I want to hear it and I want to hear it NOW. How do you earn money from that? How does McDonalds earn money on hamburgers? Last I heard, about two cents at a time. You don't sell the user the rights to a hamburger, you sell them a hamburger they can eat once and it is done.
So how do you apply that to what's in your pocket? Charge two cents for a single listen. Buy a playlist for a buck, fifty songs, one listen each. Don't wanna pay? Package each song with a small advert. Customization options, shuffle, ability to sacrifice a listen to one song to hear another again. Work it like nearlyfreespeech.net, you pay for what you use. Tie it in with the satellites, lets see how it goes, baby.
None of this speed thing matters to anyone but this small enthusiast crowd who actually care about a few nanoseconds of difference. I mean, seriously, have you ever switched to a browser because of it's javascript performance before... y'know, Chrome?
But, in my opinion, if you switched to Chrome, your reasons probably included that Google was backing it, and therefore it stood a chance in a "market" (I use this term as loosely as possible) dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox? Oh, and Safari if you just HAPPEN to use a Mac.
The women already look sufficiently attractive in 3D High Definition. What we are waiting for now is for the porno studios to be able to afford said 3D technology. No visual media goes anywhere until porn can be easily made with said technology. With HD Video, the megapixel race had already made that cheap enough. Once the displays were out there and the format wars had begun, that's when the porno studios jumped in.
Which is why Open Source is a problem for Microsoft. Everything is innately portable by anyone who wants to sit there and take the time to make it work. A lot of the time, that's as easy as a recompile, and since the source code is just right there....
In my own opinion, my own cursive is some of the most terrible looking I've seen, but the few times during my school years that I used it for anything, I was always complimented for it for being far more legible than my normal writing. Some of my teachers had written comments calling it "beautiful" and placed comments asking why I didn't use it as my main font.
Truthfully, I feel I am slow at cursive. I shake too much to write quickly with it and find my normal chicken-scratch handwriting to be better for getting things done. It's not *as* legible, I guess, but it doesn't cause my writing to be completely cryptic.
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Why, simple, my good Watson! By... OOOOOOO PEANUTS!!!!!!!!
You must be new here!
Got four books in the backburner, looking for a publisher. If you keep telling them Sci-Fi is dead, you think they're gonna wanna publish my damn books?
I know nothing about these two subjects. Dark Energy? Planet searching? Bahhh, it is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I do not like this, Sam I Am. I do not like green eggs and ham.
Have you even actually compiled Firefox before?
So... we couldn't be the most physically fit, so we evolved a superiour trait? HAX
Free will is the source of all crime! OMG, GUYS! We could all be safer by just giving up our free will!!
I tried to do the opposite, actually. Way back in 2006, my friend's site used CuteNews, which is now all but abandonware, though there's a community developed fork. Well, I wanted to throw up a quick page for personal reasons, and scouring the internet for ages, I finally came across something that almost exclusively did what I wanted, which was replace CuteNews completely. I found SuperSimpleNews. The problem? No built in support for avatars (eh, not too bad), no support for commenting, no support for any user accounts (Just one Admin account, which... as we all know, is a bad idea for anything with more than one user). But the key features I wanted were still there: It simply delivered news posts without requiring anything but PHP5. No mysql, no postgre, etc.
But the good news is... I know a bit about PHP. I've already looked at the source and said, "Ok, I can implement a lot of these things myself". But this is a simple application. I know a bit of Java, too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to jump into something like, say, OpenOffice.Org and start coding in support for, I dunno... how about collaborative writing in the style of Etherpad? I wouldn't know where to start. It's not a project one man could hop into and start working on features he wanted (or maybe she, whatever the case may be). I would have to learn their coding styles, learn their naming schemes, learn where the lines of code that provide the functionality I'd need to use or change are. In SuperSimpleNews, this was a five minute process where I just looked at it and went, "OK, this is about as simple as it claims to be," even with it's minimal commenting.
But, yeah, it's easy for me to see why I'd go pick CuteNews UTF-8 over SuperSimpleNews. If I wasn't enthusiastic about adding functionality to SuperSimpleNews, I wouldn't mind the stupid, "Powered By Cutenews" after every post if it meant I had my comments, avatars, and usernames.
So, any news about Slashdot's CSS getting better?
...don't even remind me. I'll save the rant for another day, but it pretty much goes down that there's no common party for the average man in the US. Hell, there's not even a party for the average consumer. If you can't afford to line your pockets with platinum, there's no party for you at all.
Yeah, it sounds like a conflict of interest to want your competitor's cards on YOUR chipset that supports YOUR cards already. On the other side of the coin, though, I'd rather have my competitor's cards on MY chipset than lose a sale to my competitor's chipset because they support my competitor's cards.
Being as Bing is the first search engine to even laughably compare to Google in any way, shape, or form, more to the point I was trying to be thankful for the competition Bing brought that started the clockwork of getting Google's search algorithm fixed. It's nice to see Microsoft in a market where they actually have to compete as opposed to flex their monopoly muscle is what I was trying to say.
Thank you, Bing!
It's obvious that the business model of the record companies are failing. Albums are going the route of a strictly enthusiast-only format while digital distribution of single songs becomes the standard. The radio is dead, MTV is dead -- people don't want to listen to songs they don't want to hear anymore to wait for the songs they do to pop up
So what should they do? Not what they are doing obviously. What needs to be done is they need to put the digital distribution model in the car, in the walkman, in the cellphones of the consumers. Yes, yes, two dollars to download a song is great, right? Well, that's fine and dandy, but when I'm thinking of a song I want to hear, it's an impulse, I want to hear it and I want to hear it NOW. How do you earn money from that? How does McDonalds earn money on hamburgers? Last I heard, about two cents at a time. You don't sell the user the rights to a hamburger, you sell them a hamburger they can eat once and it is done.
So how do you apply that to what's in your pocket? Charge two cents for a single listen. Buy a playlist for a buck, fifty songs, one listen each. Don't wanna pay? Package each song with a small advert. Customization options, shuffle, ability to sacrifice a listen to one song to hear another again. Work it like nearlyfreespeech.net, you pay for what you use. Tie it in with the satellites, lets see how it goes, baby.
Wait... I'm not reading The Onion....
And all the players are extras...
Which means they're like viewers...
Because, y'know... their roles don't matter by the end of the day.
None of this speed thing matters to anyone but this small enthusiast crowd who actually care about a few nanoseconds of difference. I mean, seriously, have you ever switched to a browser because of it's javascript performance before... y'know, Chrome?
But, in my opinion, if you switched to Chrome, your reasons probably included that Google was backing it, and therefore it stood a chance in a "market" (I use this term as loosely as possible) dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox? Oh, and Safari if you just HAPPEN to use a Mac.
Que the purists versus the Pragmatics...
For the sake of argument, yes, I made it sound easier than it is... But compared to porting a closed source application?
HDTV doesn't free it bandwidth, it takes up several times more space than a normal channel. What the fuck are you talking about?
Remember all those Reading Comprehension **tests** they used to give you in school that you always scored college level in?
Actually, I wouldn't mind a pop-up book version of animation.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
The women already look sufficiently attractive in 3D High Definition. What we are waiting for now is for the porno studios to be able to afford said 3D technology. No visual media goes anywhere until porn can be easily made with said technology. With HD Video, the megapixel race had already made that cheap enough. Once the displays were out there and the format wars had begun, that's when the porno studios jumped in.
Which is why Open Source is a problem for Microsoft. Everything is innately portable by anyone who wants to sit there and take the time to make it work. A lot of the time, that's as easy as a recompile, and since the source code is just right there....
In my own opinion, my own cursive is some of the most terrible looking I've seen, but the few times during my school years that I used it for anything, I was always complimented for it for being far more legible than my normal writing. Some of my teachers had written comments calling it "beautiful" and placed comments asking why I didn't use it as my main font.
Truthfully, I feel I am slow at cursive. I shake too much to write quickly with it and find my normal chicken-scratch handwriting to be better for getting things done. It's not *as* legible, I guess, but it doesn't cause my writing to be completely cryptic.