It may be a convenience for you. But now think about how convenient it will be for publishers to have data on what speed their content is being read or what combinations of books or other content readers absorb together or at what points people stopped reading. It's a data goldmine.
You have to pay for access to/., though. ($2.00/month.) And you have to pay for the news sites(e.g. $13/month for NYT) They also charge $0.10 for every transferred file.(e.g. e-mailing a picture or text file to the device) Plus the book prices are more than physical books which is absurd since they have almost zero costs. It's just not worth it at the current price points when you add up the nickle and diming to death for otherwise free content and the like.
The purpose of posting the link to Slashdot isn't advertising; it's to raise awareness.
Main Entry:
advertising
Function:
noun
Date:
1751
1 : the action of calling something to the attention of the public
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising This reminds me of those solicitors walking by "no soliciting" signs pretending they don't know what soliciting means.
Welcome to my "foe" list. Now we just need a feature to block article submissions by money-grubbing, dishonest scum like you abusing our system.
What's with the fake signature block you have put into your comment? Trying to trick search engines into promoting your blog? Please stop abusing the system and only put your actual comment in the comment field.
I always wondered about how when Gonzales, Bush, Hayden, Cheney were defending warrantless wiretaps on americans by saying "this program only eavesdrops on americans domestically if they are one end of a conversation with someone outside the U.S linked to Al Qaeda/terror" whether the "this program" implied that there were other programs that did not have that restriction.
The interesting part is not the headcount, but the count of people looking at the sign. Apparently this company is doing it via facial recognition to see if a face is directed towards the camera. But I saw another demonstration from a company that detects "ad views" via the red-eye effect. By emitting a low intensity infra-red(?) light and catching reflections from people's retinas they can deduce they are looking towards the camera/billboard.
Yeah, I'm quite thankful for endoscopic surgery. I had a tumor in my sinus cavity that if I had lived even just 20 years earlier they would have had to slice open half my face to remove it which would have required reconstructive surgery just to look somewhat normal again. Since they were able to remove it all endoscopically through my nose, my only permanent effect is some nerve damage which isn't visible to anyone.
I also had what they call a "hot" gall bladder which had to be removed, and they were able to do that with a small hole in my abdomen and belly button and send me home the next day - rather than the huge scar-creating openings they used to have to cut into you for organ removals like that.
These "neat tricks" that make surgeries easier to recover from and more efficient can make a big difference to people.:)
The other neat trick they did before the tumor removal was entering through my thigh and running a probe up my artery through my neck into my head and releasing little pellets to block the blood flow to the tumor which caused it to shrink and make the removal process easier.
I played a MUD called MUME in the early 90s. Swedes were also the largest chunk of non-americans playing way back then.:) That's how I learned the phrase, "tala engelska eller do!"
That's an interesting comparison of the economic impact. It's not surprising that people coming and paying money every day adds up to more money than a few dozen games a year bring in. Companies with recurring service fees also tend to do better at milking their clients than those with one-time charges.:)
Coincidentally, I am planning a trip to Boston right now. The MFA is indeed spectacular and enough to entice a Miami boy to venture north into the freezing cold.:)
[Once, when we were at a Chinese restaurant, Bill Gosper wanted to know whether someone would like to share with him a two-person-sized bowl of soup. His inquiry was: "Split-p soup?" -- GLS]
After 9/11, we don't think of hijacking as a crime where the victims are likely to survive anymore? So the seriousness of the crime approaches the level of murder?
I'm the same age and what most annoys me most is the constant use of the wrong words. So many people seem to think they just have to avoid the spell-checking software underlining anything in red to indicate their words are correct. "I think your wrong", "to efficiency grow our data center", etc. Using "your" instead of "you are" - or its contraction "you're" - is especially annoying because it's such a common mistake that it confuses some people into thinking it is actually the correct word.
"First try"? It's certainly a great accomplishment, but it was more like the 32nd try.:)
Of 38 launches from Earth in an attempt to reach the planet, only 19 succeeded, a success rate of 50%. Twelve of the missions included attempts to land on the surface, but only seven transmitted data after landing.
Check out the list of missions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Timeline_of_Mars_exploration
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder." -- "Calvin" by Bill Watterson
ifconfig accepts non-decimal numbers. So you can technically use ip addresses with 0x and 0 prefixes to indicate hex and octal numbers. e.g. 0x10.010.10.1 = 16.8.10.1. I got caught once with allowing people to enter addresses more freely like that and much confusion ensued when someone entered 010 as an octet not expecting it to mean 8 instead of 10.:)
This can crash perl if the string being checked is too big.:D So it's usually better to just let perl attempt to decode anything non-ascii as utf8 and see if it fails or not. (And hope all the utf8 parsing exploits have been fixed:) eval { $param = decode( 'utf8', $param, Encode::FB_CROAK) if $param =~/[^\x00-\x7E]/ }; $param = decode( 'iso-8859-1', $param, Encode::FB_CROAK) if $@; # utf8 decode of non-ascii text failed so treat as latin1
Here they are. He has some pretty cool videos showing the different types of locomotion that resulted. I love the one that grows really tall and falls over; it certainly achieved some fast movement over a short distance - but a bit of an evolutionary dead end.:) http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html
You obviously replied to the wrong post since I haven't been moderated +5 insightful. Perhaps you are attempting to refute the same guy I was refuting? Possibly it's just a matter of semantics whether "designed to use peanut/vegetable oil" means his original, sold to the public engines (obviously not true) or whether it means that at some point he made engines to run on peanut and vegetable oil (evidence seems to exist for and against).
The current Wikipedia article phrases it that he was simply "testing" the use of those fuels - which seems a fair assumption based on the evidence.
At the request of the French Government the Otto company demonstrated a diesel engine at the 1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) which used peanut oil (see biodiesel). The French government were at the time exploring the possibility of using peanut oil as a locally produced fuel in their African colonies. Diesel himself later tested extensively the use of plant oils in his engine and began to actively promote the use of these fuels.
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Remember how ctl-alt-f in netscape brought you to the fishcam? I discovered it accidentally one day which was a fun surprise. :)
hrm, wikipedia says that this was the 2nd live webcam broadcast after the trojan coffee pot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam#Netscape
It may be a convenience for you. But now think about how convenient it will be for publishers to have data on what speed their content is being read or what combinations of books or other content readers absorb together or at what points people stopped reading. It's a data goldmine.
You have to pay for access to /., though. ($2.00/month.) And you have to pay for the news sites(e.g. $13/month for NYT) They also charge $0.10 for every transferred file.(e.g. e-mailing a picture or text file to the device) Plus the book prices are more than physical books which is absurd since they have almost zero costs. It's just not worth it at the current price points when you add up the nickle and diming to death for otherwise free content and the like.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising
This reminds me of those solicitors walking by "no soliciting" signs pretending they don't know what soliciting means.
Welcome to my "foe" list. Now we just need a feature to block article submissions by money-grubbing, dishonest scum like you abusing our system.
What's with the fake signature block you have put into your comment? Trying to trick search engines into promoting your blog? Please stop abusing the system and only put your actual comment in the comment field.
I always wondered about how when Gonzales, Bush, Hayden, Cheney were defending warrantless wiretaps on americans by saying "this program only eavesdrops on americans domestically if they are one end of a conversation with someone outside the U.S linked to Al Qaeda/terror" whether the "this program" implied that there were other programs that did not have that restriction.
The interesting part is not the headcount, but the count of people looking at the sign. Apparently this company is doing it via facial recognition to see if a face is directed towards the camera. But I saw another demonstration from a company that detects "ad views" via the red-eye effect. By emitting a low intensity infra-red(?) light and catching reflections from people's retinas they can deduce they are looking towards the camera/billboard.
"37 degrees Celsius = 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit" :)
Sound more familiar now?
Yeah, I'm quite thankful for endoscopic surgery. I had a tumor in my sinus cavity that if I had lived even just 20 years earlier they would have had to slice open half my face to remove it which would have required reconstructive surgery just to look somewhat normal again. Since they were able to remove it all endoscopically through my nose, my only permanent effect is some nerve damage which isn't visible to anyone.
:)
I also had what they call a "hot" gall bladder which had to be removed, and they were able to do that with a small hole in my abdomen and belly button and send me home the next day - rather than the huge scar-creating openings they used to have to cut into you for organ removals like that.
These "neat tricks" that make surgeries easier to recover from and more efficient can make a big difference to people.
The other neat trick they did before the tumor removal was entering through my thigh and running a probe up my artery through my neck into my head and releasing little pellets to block the blood flow to the tumor which caused it to shrink and make the removal process easier.
I played a MUD called MUME in the early 90s. Swedes were also the largest chunk of non-americans playing way back then. :) That's how I learned the phrase, "tala engelska eller do!"
That's an interesting comparison of the economic impact. It's not surprising that people coming and paying money every day adds up to more money than a few dozen games a year bring in. Companies with recurring service fees also tend to do better at milking their clients than those with one-time charges. :)
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Coincidentally, I am planning a trip to Boston right now. The MFA is indeed spectacular and enough to entice a Miami boy to venture north into the freezing cold.
The New England Aquarium also has my favorite animal; the Sea Dragon.
http://www.neaq.org/animals_and_exhibits/animals/sea_dragons/index.php
And The Harvard Museum of Natural History has some quite amazing exhibits, as well. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/p-convention.html
"My Brother and I against My Cousin; My Cousin and I against the Stranger."
After 9/11, we don't think of hijacking as a crime where the victims are likely to survive anymore? So the seriousness of the crime approaches the level of murder?
I used a normal hole punch. Cheap and easy. :)
Rule #47 of the internet: When making any complaint about spelling, grammar, or word usage, you must make at least one mistake yourself.
I'm the same age and what most annoys me most is the constant use of the wrong words. So many people seem to think they just have to avoid the spell-checking software underlining anything in red to indicate their words are correct.
"I think your wrong", "to efficiency grow our data center", etc.
Using "your" instead of "you are" - or its contraction "you're" - is especially annoying because it's such a common mistake that it confuses some people into thinking it is actually the correct word.
Check out the list of missions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Timeline_of_Mars_exploration
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
-- "Calvin" by Bill Watterson
Chemical piss analysis in public toilets?
:) At least not for individuals yet, though.
We've already done that.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/09/2121249
ifconfig accepts non-decimal numbers. So you can technically use ip addresses with 0x and 0 prefixes to indicate hex and octal numbers. e.g. 0x10.010.10.1 = 16.8.10.1. I got caught once with allowing people to enter addresses more freely like that and much confusion ensued when someone entered 010 as an octet not expecting it to mean 8 instead of 10. :)
Here is the crazy regex to detect a valid UTF-8 string. :)
:D :) /[^\x00-\x7E]/ };
/^(
[\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII
| [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
| \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs
| [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte
| \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates
| \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3
| [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16
)*$/x
This can crash perl if the string being checked is too big.
So it's usually better to just let perl attempt to decode anything non-ascii as utf8 and see if it fails or not. (And hope all the utf8 parsing exploits have been fixed
eval { $param = decode( 'utf8', $param, Encode::FB_CROAK) if $param =~
$param = decode( 'iso-8859-1', $param, Encode::FB_CROAK) if $@; # utf8 decode of non-ascii text failed so treat as latin1
Obama is not the first. :)
The Official Blog of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/
Here they are. He has some pretty cool videos showing the different types of locomotion that resulted. I love the one that grows really tall and falls over; it certainly achieved some fast movement over a short distance - but a bit of an evolutionary dead end. :)
http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine#Quality_and_variety_of_fuels