While in my mid-20s I'm not considering myself old, I wonder if the number of food/beverage-related cancer stories I've come across is still in the double digits. If someone had the endurance to sum them all up, I guess the result would be something like that:
Use common sense. Eat and drink whatever you have been eating and drinking all your life and whatever you feel like, but don't be excessive in quantity in either direction. Most important, eat and drink in enjoyable company of family or friends, take your time, and don't stress yourself out. While all of this is still no guarantee for anything, it certainly does not damage your overall health. Humanity has survived and prospered for millennia without reading a single cancer study.
It's no wonder Amazon plays along nicely. In the end, what company would want a piece of this PR disaster that's currrently all Sony's and first4internet's?
there is an obvious incentive to keep the incomplete file, which will be seeded already. Since we are talking about proprietary software, nothing stops the developers to tell the program to stall the download for a day or two longer than necessary. As long as they don't limit the d/l speed too much or if they randomize the limit, they might just get away with it. [/tinfoil hat]
Also, if the target user base for this business model is the same as the target audience of Blind Date and the Jerry Springer Show, then their user base might generally just not care what happens with the file afterwards, including for how long it remains on the HD.
Dear customer. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to supply the National Broadcasting Company (further refered to as "NBC") with money. As always, should you or any of your fellow watchers be made to vomit or turned blind, the NBC will disavow any knowledge of our actions or taste. This file will self-destruct in 86400 seconds. 86399, 86398, 86397...
Coming soon: a/. story about how the next Firefox download milestone of x millions has been passed, with a distinctive spike...today. SURPRISE! Note: I-for-one-have-downloaded-Firefox-3-bazillion-time s-so-this-number-is-without-(+5 Insightful)-posts not included, but inevitable.
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Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
My only gripe was King slowly added more "stuff" to the universe that wasn't there in the first one
The world was moving on, and the Beams grew weaker all the time. Not even the past was for certain, considering time traveling doors and stuff, so adding new stuff is not unexplainable within the plot.
The end to the series, the final solution as to what lies behind the final door, was the probably the best I've ever read (only second to Asimov's The Last Question.
to the guys responsible for the whole mission, from cleaners to engineers to management. Surpassing a mission duration by at least 700% (*knock on wood*) is a nice change from all the missions Mars has claimed so far.
I'm all for a diverse browser ecology, it only makes exploit writers' lifes more difficult. I, for one, am a most pleased Opera customer/user and while I hope that Opera the company will stay in business and refine their browser for a long time to come, I also kind of hope that Opera the browser remains in its 5% niche where it attracts no major attention from mentioned exploit writers.
Recent example: Fate, an excellent single-player Diablo 2 clone out of the blue, with 3D graphics and lots of nifty features that improves the game over its role model in many aspects. Instead of 3 CDs, you have a 27 MB download for the whole game (128 MB for improved graphics). Add to that an extensive modability, innovative features not present in D2 and, according to GameSpy, you get "what is handled as candidate for Game of the Year in some corners of the Internet". Glowing GameSpy review here. Try the game, it's great.
Of course, who wouldn't want e-paper? However, there are several problems with it I could imagine:
1. As others have posted, flashing ads are the least I wanted to see in a physical newspaper.
2. DRM issues. I, for one, wouldn't want to pay for information on a per-minute basis without being able to store it.
3. Archivation. Digital storage standards evolve, and so, without a physical copy, archiving old content will be increasingly more expensive and difficult because of keeping up with the latest storage technology. Also, new storage technology may compete and create uncertainty which will prevail (e.g. HD-DVD vs. blu-ray)
4. Information credibility. Most people don't double-check the information they consume, either online or offline, but at least they are generally as smart as to not pay too much attention to most online content. With e-paper, your newspaper essentially becomes an extension of your computer monitor, with all credibility issues attached.
5. Information quality. If everybody can dump their printing presses or never buy them in the first place, internet journalism standards will come to a reputable newspaper near you. That doesn't have to be bad, but in many cases it will be. The internet is regarded as pearls in an ocean of shit, and when entrance barriers to creating newspapers are lowered to the point where one only needs a computer with internet access, then the relative modest creek of shit that is today's print media just might turn into the same ocean.
The upside to all this is that e-paper probably won't take off as long as it isn't as cheap as and more fragile than carbon paper (for example, can you roll up e-paper to a tight cylinder and swat flies without damaging it?), because if it tries to compete with dead trees, it has to be as expendable and durable as them.
While the Bittorrent protocol is clearly more modern, more fair (more upload usually does equal more download, unlike eMule), eDonkey and eMule clearly have their uses; whenever I was searching for Really Old Stuff like "classic" movies (>20 years), music, or games (both >5 years), OR something off-mainstream which might not be easily available otherwise, eMule has almost never disappointed me. It's like a huge P2P culture archive. I have not yet found a better source for satisfying such desires than eMule, but maybe I didn't look hard enough and someone might point me towards another P2P service that satisfies these needs?
It should be trivial to mobilize ~98% of the slashdot crowd (who would be personally affected by this) to start a DDOS attack against the FBI servers. If only there was a direct link in TFS...
Slashdot Mirror
because game consoles, too, want to be free.
While in my mid-20s I'm not considering myself old, I wonder if the number of food/beverage-related cancer stories I've come across is still in the double digits. If someone had the endurance to sum them all up, I guess the result would be something like that:
Use common sense. Eat and drink whatever you have been eating and drinking all your life and whatever you feel like, but don't be excessive in quantity in either direction. Most important, eat and drink in enjoyable company of family or friends, take your time, and don't stress yourself out. While all of this is still no guarantee for anything, it certainly does not damage your overall health. Humanity has survived and prospered for millennia without reading a single cancer study.
Godfather always wins
security
Godfather always wins
uh...
Step 1: Download free MP3s. Step 2: ??? Step 3: PROFIT!
It's no wonder Amazon plays along nicely. In the end, what company would want a piece of this PR disaster that's currrently all Sony's and first4internet's?
there is an obvious incentive to keep the incomplete file, which will be seeded already. Since we are talking about proprietary software, nothing stops the developers to tell the program to stall the download for a day or two longer than necessary. As long as they don't limit the d/l speed too much or if they randomize the limit, they might just get away with it. [/tinfoil hat]
Also, if the target user base for this business model is the same as the target audience of Blind Date and the Jerry Springer Show, then their user base might generally just not care what happens with the file afterwards, including for how long it remains on the HD.
Users will be able to view the material for 24 hours once they begin playback on their computers
It's right there in TFA for all to read. Oh wait, this is slashdot.
Seems to me, though, that this is the only part they got right about this inherently flawed business model.
Dear customer. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to supply the National Broadcasting Company (further refered to as "NBC") with money. As always, should you or any of your fellow watchers be made to vomit or turned blind, the NBC will disavow any knowledge of our actions or taste. This file will self-destruct in 86400 seconds. 86399, 86398, 86397...
I can't help but think of midgets in a running wheel. Is that an improvement over a "hamster-powered" book project?
Coming soon: a /. story about how the next Firefox download milestone of x millions has been passed, with a distinctive spike...today. SURPRISE! e s-so-this-number-is-without-(+5 Insightful)-posts not included, but inevitable.
Note: I-for-one-have-downloaded-Firefox-3-bazillion-tim
imdb
Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
...when I misread your comment for "Immigration to UK soon to be slashdotted".
My only gripe was King slowly added more "stuff" to the universe that wasn't there in the first one The world was moving on, and the Beams grew weaker all the time. Not even the past was for certain, considering time traveling doors and stuff, so adding new stuff is not unexplainable within the plot.
The end to the series, the final solution as to what lies behind the final door, was the probably the best I've ever read (only second to Asimov's The Last Question .
As long as they don't conceive them...
to the guys responsible for the whole mission, from cleaners to engineers to management. Surpassing a mission duration by at least 700% (*knock on wood*) is a nice change from all the missions Mars has claimed so far.
I'm all for a diverse browser ecology, it only makes exploit writers' lifes more difficult. I, for one, am a most pleased Opera customer/user and while I hope that Opera the company will stay in business and refine their browser for a long time to come, I also kind of hope that Opera the browser remains in its 5% niche where it attracts no major attention from mentioned exploit writers.
"If you can read this, you are about to be busted"
Nothing for you to see here. Move along.
...respond immediately
Recent example: Fate, an excellent single-player Diablo 2 clone out of the blue, with 3D graphics and lots of nifty features that improves the game over its role model in many aspects. Instead of 3 CDs, you have a 27 MB download for the whole game (128 MB for improved graphics). Add to that an extensive modability, innovative features not present in D2 and, according to GameSpy, you get "what is handled as candidate for Game of the Year in some corners of the Internet". Glowing GameSpy review here. Try the game, it's great.
Of course, who wouldn't want e-paper? However, there are several problems with it I could imagine:
1. As others have posted, flashing ads are the least I wanted to see in a physical newspaper.
2. DRM issues. I, for one, wouldn't want to pay for information on a per-minute basis without being able to store it.
3. Archivation. Digital storage standards evolve, and so, without a physical copy, archiving old content will be increasingly more expensive and difficult because of keeping up with the latest storage technology. Also, new storage technology may compete and create uncertainty which will prevail (e.g. HD-DVD vs. blu-ray)
4. Information credibility. Most people don't double-check the information they consume, either online or offline, but at least they are generally as smart as to not pay too much attention to most online content. With e-paper, your newspaper essentially becomes an extension of your computer monitor, with all credibility issues attached.
5. Information quality. If everybody can dump their printing presses or never buy them in the first place, internet journalism standards will come to a reputable newspaper near you. That doesn't have to be bad, but in many cases it will be. The internet is regarded as pearls in an ocean of shit, and when entrance barriers to creating newspapers are lowered to the point where one only needs a computer with internet access, then the relative modest creek of shit that is today's print media just might turn into the same ocean.
The upside to all this is that e-paper probably won't take off as long as it isn't as cheap as and more fragile than carbon paper (for example, can you roll up e-paper to a tight cylinder and swat flies without damaging it?), because if it tries to compete with dead trees, it has to be as expendable and durable as them.
While the Bittorrent protocol is clearly more modern, more fair (more upload usually does equal more download, unlike eMule), eDonkey and eMule clearly have their uses; whenever I was searching for Really Old Stuff like "classic" movies (>20 years), music, or games (both >5 years), OR something off-mainstream which might not be easily available otherwise, eMule has almost never disappointed me. It's like a huge P2P culture archive. I have not yet found a better source for satisfying such desires than eMule, but maybe I didn't look hard enough and someone might point me towards another P2P service that satisfies these needs?
It should be trivial to mobilize ~98% of the slashdot crowd (who would be personally affected by this) to start a DDOS attack against the FBI servers. If only there was a direct link in TFS...