I personally wouldn't mind if they doubled the ads, since you only see the first few of them anyway when you search. There's plenty of space to put another text in ad. And I don't use AdBlock, unless you mean the other parent.
Google is simply pursuing one more avenue of content delivery for their advertisers. Those who wish to find ways to try and block the new ads should take note of one important thing, however: Google's ads are teeny, unintrusive, and even I find myself clicking on them often. Consider the repercussions of trying to block the RSS ads as equivalent to commercial skip on TiVO - advertisers pay for everything, and the deliverer of them makes less.
It's amazing just how powerful Microsoft's marketing side really is in the grand scheme of their company. I always thought User Friendly joked around with that, but man I was wrong. It's obviously the role of the marketing department out there to say "oh the competition's shit" or "ooo Commies use Linux, see?!"
The idea that an online search company of all things could make 400m plus per quarter simply preplexes me, but even if Microsoft happens to be right this one time (Even a broken clock is right twice a day right?), Google has pretty much secured a place in history as a very strong company.
To say nothing of the massive expansion projects paid for through their IPO. They bought a satellite for Pete's sake.
some governments and large organizations have switched to the free Linux system or have threatened to do so to get discounts.
For as rich as that seems, for some reason the thought simply never occurred to me that people actually got away with this:P.
As for Cuba switching OS's, it's a smart move only in terms of the fact that the nation is far from wealthy. With a total national GDP roughly the size of Alaska's (33.2b in Cuba according to the CIA vs 31.4b for Alaska according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis), any cost savings they could get would be obviously welcomed, Communist or otherwise.
I remember one particular scam I heard about when I first started looking for a job (I'm looking in Finance, but saw many CS programming ads as well) - it went a little something like this:
(a) Place job offer in newspaper (b) Interview a bunch of candidates (c) "Test" them all by making them write code to solve your problems for you while not being on the payroll. (d) "Hire" one person, enjoy working code.
I can only imagine how much invaluable code this company got from making this $1m offer. I can guarantee you it was probably worth a helluva lot more than $1m. But, of course, none of the other entrants received a penny. This is just a glorified example of what I described above.
If this is the current state of labor in the programming sector, I worry and feel truly bad for you poor folks out there looking.
I guess I'm the only person here who thinks that the ability to pay a few bucks (or, I hope and pray very loudly that it's only a few bucks...) for old skool NES and SNES games that can run on this system actually makes this a good selling point, the ability to illegally download them notwithstanding. Hearing about another in-house production game (Mario 32,000? Metroid Prime 16? Zelda I can't even think of a number high enough?) makes me sick almost every time I do - seriously does make me hark for the days of the older skool. Combine old skool goodness with new skool technology (the thing would look a helluva lot nicer than any previous Nintendo system with my home entertainment system, and if it's anything like the GameCube, it'll drop in price VERY quickly), and you've got something workable.
Want to know how to make it a lot better though? Simple: allow the purchase of import games that never made it to the US. I was definitely not the only person who didn't realize, for example, that Mario 2 was not really Mario 2, or Final Fantasy 3 was actuallly 6. Let me buy import games on an American system (new or old) and I think I'll just buy this thing.
Maybe I played a little too much Command and Conquer: Generals back in the day, but reading this made me think of nothing but another hundred million Chinese teenage boys living out of Internet Cafes cranking out dollar signs (renminbi? Sounds like something out of Babylon 5).
None of the articles mentioned seems to say, so I'm left to sit here and think "the machine just broke, not worth trying to fix?" That hardly seems right. And why can we not send up a replacement machine? We've got a few months to do it, and I hope we weren't stupid enough to only build one of them.
This kinda deal has been around for quite a while in the US already. Concepts like Time Warner Cable's HBO/Showtime/Porn on Demand systems with their TiVO-esque receivers allow you to do something very similar, albeit over their high-speed cable connections only. The article doesn't seem to mention whether you can download the TV shows to your computer in any kind of HD, (or whether you can send them to others within the 15-day period for that matter), but I imagine you probably could, since, at least stateside, I believe you now can with the On-Demand stuff.
This "19" laptop" is actually something akin to 19". This may sound dumb, but "17" laptops" always look like they're 6" high by 25" long, and that just disgusts me. Yeah, that's probably what they're supposed to look like, but I personally don't see the point to it. It's bad enough that, according to TFA, the widescreen laptop market is supposed to be nearly 80% of the total laptop market, but if this "19" laptop" winds up being 6" high by 3 feet long or something equally annoying, I'm going to hurl.
If I see a 19" laptop with something akin to a normal 19" flat panel monitor, I may consider it. But otherwise, forget about it.
From TFA: "Start with what it means statistically to perform well in this contest today. News.com didn't tell you that the number of teams competing has grown nearly sevenfold from 1994 through 2005. In other words, for a team to finish at, say, third place, in 1994 would be equivalent to finishing 21st this year. So a hypothetical team that News.com would have lauded in 1994 would now be dismissed as having badly "slipped" in 2005, even though it would be of the same quality.
He lost my interest right about here. Am I the only one who sees some sorta horrible logical fallacy here? So, statistically (I love how he uses that word), the first place team in 1994 would be 7th now, simply because six other teams are now in the competition? Seriously now, that's a horrible argument, the rest of the article notwithstanding.
How much does an external hard drive go for in India? When the producers of the thing said "no frills" they obviously weren't kidding about that.
Also, they provided the ability to play music and videos, but since such things are (I imagine) considered luxury items (presumably with their own seperate costs, piracy aside), maybe the producers just decided that no one would ever need to purchase such extras. The important stuff (homework-related stuff to help educate the many poor children out there) seems to take precendence, as it's already included, and if a wealthier person wanted one of these laptops, he could very easily just buy an external hard drive to go along with it.
I'm not a CS grad, nor do I have any programming knowledge at all, but as a college graduate with no job, seeing this article raises a few questions for me: (I'm in a different field but with a similar predicament)
(1) How do the taxes on these "bounties" work out? Are you considered an independent contractor with your own 1199, or do payroll taxes kick in?
(2) Can CS grads who can't find jobs now use open source projects as a basis of experience, and can they not put the experience on their resume? Before, saying "I helped program XYZ chunk of Firefox" didn't really seem to mean too much on a resume, since there was no one over there you could ask to verify this. But now, if someone over there is willing to pay you cash, is there now a paper trail involved? i.e.: Can you now put down ABC's name on your resume as a reference if his payroll office paid you to build that XYZ chunk of Firefox? If you now could, this option could definitely help a lot of the unemployed CS people gain valuable experience.
Granted, I may not know what I'm talking about, but I'm just wondering. A lot.
If the PSP's screen resolution is 480x272, and the GBA's resolution is 240x160, then why does the image look so incredibly small? Sure, this thing is still in beta (right?) but for this, I might as well just keep carrying around my GBA. Maybe they shoulda finished the thing before showing it off so much.
If this is the riskiest bug coming out of FireFox right now, I think I'm going to consider myself lucky. Microsoft's browser had at least one far greater bug to its IFRAME setup, on top of the countless other horrifying bugs running around.
Like others have said before, however, this is only the beginning for FireFox. As it gets more and more popular, more and more of these nasty bugs are going to appear and (hopefully not) be exploited. Won't stop me from enjoying FireFox, though, and it shouldn't stop anyone else either.
Assuming the software works as well as private PBX systems, (which it doesn't yet seem to, based on the websites linked), it could save major dollars to larger corporations. My own company (Arch Insurance) easily spent thousands on our hardware PBX system, and we're not that big a company. I can imagine what, say, an AIG might spend every year just on this. Definitely worth exploring further.
I may be wrong, but doesn't the Federal government already control Social Security, which in effect applies a serial number to every legal citizen in this country? This seems to me one short step further - the Feds do indeed have a limited amount of authority, but I feel the national ID cause falls under said authority. Sure, I could be wrong - feel free to prove it to me.
I don't believe a policeman asking to see my ID card qualifies as harrassment. And as someone who has been on the receiving end of police harrassment, lemme tell ya that getting my ID checked out is paltry compared to what they CAN do to you.
It's funny...other democratic nations have laws in place where cops can ask anyone for their ID whenever they like, and no one even so much as sez anything. Take, for example, Japan; granted, Japan has all kinds of problems, but I personally don't believe this to be one of them.
And, as debatable as it might be (read: flame away ), suspicion of being a terrorist could one day become just cause. It pretty much already is here in New York.
Sure, I'm probably going to be flamed a whole bunch for this, but ever since the national ID card issue developed in the U.S., I've been left wondering what the big deal about this is. States can pretty much get the same info off of you from a basic driver's license, the project is under development in the UK (apparently the project will create lots of IT jobs over there - I know jobs vs. limited freedom isn't much of an argument, but it's not a bad thing is it?), and until I see some solid evidence to the contrary, I see no reason not to believe it will help reduce, at the very least, illegal immigration. I can see a cop walking down the street asking people for their national ID card (which, on an aside, I prey will at least be difficult to counterfeit), and at least I wouldn't complain too much.
The ACLU provides five reasons why the system would be a bad idea here, of which only reason #1 seems to make sense. I would love to hear opposing views on this, since, even though the idea doesn't seem too bad to me, I'm still on the fence.
Flame away.
On the plus side, this device hardly seems like something that could be mass-produced profitably. On the minus side, the dangers of dry ice, the border-line exorbitant cost of maintenance, and what appears to be a customized fit to the PC at hand (i.e.: it doesn't look like they could take that monster out and put it into another PC) makes me wonder what the point of this is. And I think I know exactly;)
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I personally wouldn't mind if they doubled the ads, since you only see the first few of them anyway when you search. There's plenty of space to put another text in ad. And I don't use AdBlock, unless you mean the other parent.
Google is simply pursuing one more avenue of content delivery for their advertisers. Those who wish to find ways to try and block the new ads should take note of one important thing, however: Google's ads are teeny, unintrusive, and even I find myself clicking on them often. Consider the repercussions of trying to block the RSS ads as equivalent to commercial skip on TiVO - advertisers pay for everything, and the deliverer of them makes less.
I, for one, like to see Google make money.
It's amazing just how powerful Microsoft's marketing side really is in the grand scheme of their company. I always thought User Friendly joked around with that, but man I was wrong. It's obviously the role of the marketing department out there to say "oh the competition's shit" or "ooo Commies use Linux, see?!"
The idea that an online search company of all things could make 400m plus per quarter simply preplexes me, but even if Microsoft happens to be right this one time (Even a broken clock is right twice a day right?), Google has pretty much secured a place in history as a very strong company.
To say nothing of the massive expansion projects paid for through their IPO. They bought a satellite for Pete's sake.
some governments and large organizations have switched to the free Linux system or have threatened to do so to get discounts.
:P.
For as rich as that seems, for some reason the thought simply never occurred to me that people actually got away with this
As for Cuba switching OS's, it's a smart move only in terms of the fact that the nation is far from wealthy. With a total national GDP roughly the size of Alaska's (33.2b in Cuba according to the CIA vs 31.4b for Alaska according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis), any cost savings they could get would be obviously welcomed, Communist or otherwise.
I remember one particular scam I heard about when I first started looking for a job (I'm looking in Finance, but saw many CS programming ads as well) - it went a little something like this:
(a) Place job offer in newspaper
(b) Interview a bunch of candidates
(c) "Test" them all by making them write code to solve your problems for you while not being on the payroll.
(d) "Hire" one person, enjoy working code.
I can only imagine how much invaluable code this company got from making this $1m offer. I can guarantee you it was probably worth a helluva lot more than $1m. But, of course, none of the other entrants received a penny. This is just a glorified example of what I described above.
If this is the current state of labor in the programming sector, I worry and feel truly bad for you poor folks out there looking.
I guess I'm the only person here who thinks that the ability to pay a few bucks (or, I hope and pray very loudly that it's only a few bucks...) for old skool NES and SNES games that can run on this system actually makes this a good selling point, the ability to illegally download them notwithstanding. Hearing about another in-house production game (Mario 32,000? Metroid Prime 16? Zelda I can't even think of a number high enough?) makes me sick almost every time I do - seriously does make me hark for the days of the older skool. Combine old skool goodness with new skool technology (the thing would look a helluva lot nicer than any previous Nintendo system with my home entertainment system, and if it's anything like the GameCube, it'll drop in price VERY quickly), and you've got something workable.
Want to know how to make it a lot better though? Simple: allow the purchase of import games that never made it to the US. I was definitely not the only person who didn't realize, for example, that Mario 2 was not really Mario 2, or Final Fantasy 3 was actuallly 6. Let me buy import games on an American system (new or old) and I think I'll just buy this thing.
Maybe I played a little too much Command and Conquer: Generals back in the day, but reading this made me think of nothing but another hundred million Chinese teenage boys living out of Internet Cafes cranking out dollar signs (renminbi? Sounds like something out of Babylon 5).
Let them hack away.
None of the articles mentioned seems to say, so I'm left to sit here and think "the machine just broke, not worth trying to fix?" That hardly seems right. And why can we not send up a replacement machine? We've got a few months to do it, and I hope we weren't stupid enough to only build one of them.
This kinda deal has been around for quite a while in the US already. Concepts like Time Warner Cable's HBO/Showtime/Porn on Demand systems with their TiVO-esque receivers allow you to do something very similar, albeit over their high-speed cable connections only. The article doesn't seem to mention whether you can download the TV shows to your computer in any kind of HD, (or whether you can send them to others within the 15-day period for that matter), but I imagine you probably could, since, at least stateside, I believe you now can with the On-Demand stuff.
Of course, as usual, I could be totally wrong.
This "19" laptop" is actually something akin to 19". This may sound dumb, but "17" laptops" always look like they're 6" high by 25" long, and that just disgusts me. Yeah, that's probably what they're supposed to look like, but I personally don't see the point to it. It's bad enough that, according to TFA, the widescreen laptop market is supposed to be nearly 80% of the total laptop market, but if this "19" laptop" winds up being 6" high by 3 feet long or something equally annoying, I'm going to hurl.
If I see a 19" laptop with something akin to a normal 19" flat panel monitor, I may consider it. But otherwise, forget about it.
From TFA:
"Start with what it means statistically to perform well in this contest today. News.com didn't tell you that the number of teams competing has grown nearly sevenfold from 1994 through 2005. In other words, for a team to finish at, say, third place, in 1994 would be equivalent to finishing 21st this year. So a hypothetical team that News.com would have lauded in 1994 would now be dismissed as having badly "slipped" in 2005, even though it would be of the same quality.
He lost my interest right about here. Am I the only one who sees some sorta horrible logical fallacy here? So, statistically (I love how he uses that word), the first place team in 1994 would be 7th now, simply because six other teams are now in the competition? Seriously now, that's a horrible argument, the rest of the article notwithstanding.
How much does an external hard drive go for in India? When the producers of the thing said "no frills" they obviously weren't kidding about that.
Also, they provided the ability to play music and videos, but since such things are (I imagine) considered luxury items (presumably with their own seperate costs, piracy aside), maybe the producers just decided that no one would ever need to purchase such extras. The important stuff (homework-related stuff to help educate the many poor children out there) seems to take precendence, as it's already included, and if a wealthier person wanted one of these laptops, he could very easily just buy an external hard drive to go along with it.
Of course, I could be horribly wrong.
(n/t)
I'm not a CS grad, nor do I have any programming knowledge at all, but as a college graduate with no job, seeing this article raises a few questions for me: (I'm in a different field but with a similar predicament)
(1) How do the taxes on these "bounties" work out? Are you considered an independent contractor with your own 1199, or do payroll taxes kick in?
(2) Can CS grads who can't find jobs now use open source projects as a basis of experience, and can they not put the experience on their resume? Before, saying "I helped program XYZ chunk of Firefox" didn't really seem to mean too much on a resume, since there was no one over there you could ask to verify this. But now, if someone over there is willing to pay you cash, is there now a paper trail involved? i.e.: Can you now put down ABC's name on your resume as a reference if his payroll office paid you to build that XYZ chunk of Firefox? If you now could, this option could definitely help a lot of the unemployed CS people gain valuable experience.
Granted, I may not know what I'm talking about, but I'm just wondering. A lot.
The original post involving this didn't belong on /. and neither does this.
wow...in all the website I read, not once was I able to notice that it wasn't a GBA being emulated. I was wrong, and thanks for pointing it out :)
If the PSP's screen resolution is 480x272, and the GBA's resolution is 240x160, then why does the image look so incredibly small? Sure, this thing is still in beta (right?) but for this, I might as well just keep carrying around my GBA. Maybe they shoulda finished the thing before showing it off so much.
n/t
If this is the riskiest bug coming out of FireFox right now, I think I'm going to consider myself lucky. Microsoft's browser had at least one far greater bug to its IFRAME setup, on top of the countless other horrifying bugs running around.
Like others have said before, however, this is only the beginning for FireFox. As it gets more and more popular, more and more of these nasty bugs are going to appear and (hopefully not) be exploited. Won't stop me from enjoying FireFox, though, and it shouldn't stop anyone else either.
Assuming the software works as well as private PBX systems, (which it doesn't yet seem to, based on the websites linked), it could save major dollars to larger corporations. My own company (Arch Insurance) easily spent thousands on our hardware PBX system, and we're not that big a company. I can imagine what, say, an AIG might spend every year just on this. Definitely worth exploring further.
I may be wrong, but doesn't the Federal government already control Social Security, which in effect applies a serial number to every legal citizen in this country? This seems to me one short step further - the Feds do indeed have a limited amount of authority, but I feel the national ID cause falls under said authority. Sure, I could be wrong - feel free to prove it to me.
I don't believe a policeman asking to see my ID card qualifies as harrassment. And as someone who has been on the receiving end of police harrassment, lemme tell ya that getting my ID checked out is paltry compared to what they CAN do to you.
It's funny...other democratic nations have laws in place where cops can ask anyone for their ID whenever they like, and no one even so much as sez anything. Take, for example, Japan; granted, Japan has all kinds of problems, but I personally don't believe this to be one of them.
And, as debatable as it might be (read: flame away ), suspicion of being a terrorist could one day become just cause. It pretty much already is here in New York.
Sure, I'm probably going to be flamed a whole bunch for this, but ever since the national ID card issue developed in the U.S., I've been left wondering what the big deal about this is. States can pretty much get the same info off of you from a basic driver's license, the project is under development in the UK (apparently the project will create lots of IT jobs over there - I know jobs vs. limited freedom isn't much of an argument, but it's not a bad thing is it?), and until I see some solid evidence to the contrary, I see no reason not to believe it will help reduce, at the very least, illegal immigration. I can see a cop walking down the street asking people for their national ID card (which, on an aside, I prey will at least be difficult to counterfeit), and at least I wouldn't complain too much. The ACLU provides five reasons why the system would be a bad idea here, of which only reason #1 seems to make sense. I would love to hear opposing views on this, since, even though the idea doesn't seem too bad to me, I'm still on the fence. Flame away.
On the plus side, this device hardly seems like something that could be mass-produced profitably. On the minus side, the dangers of dry ice, the border-line exorbitant cost of maintenance, and what appears to be a customized fit to the PC at hand (i.e.: it doesn't look like they could take that monster out and put it into another PC) makes me wonder what the point of this is. And I think I know exactly ;)
Unplugging...it's Friday, and I sure do feel like unplagging something...