I don't think yo should generalize so much there - I know for me personally, I find it much harder to aclimatise to heat than cold. I live in a cold country too (Canada), and during the winter, if I had it my way the heat in our house would never be above 12 degrees C, since it doesn't bother me to operate at that temp (my fiancee on the other hand...)
But in the summer, once it gets above 22 degrees c, it feels like a sauna to me. I have to run the AC at anything over 24 or else I simply can not sleep.
Call me stupid, but why doesn't Linford just get some 3rd party to register a new domain and point it at the Spamhouse servers? Then send an email to the Spamhaus clients telling them that Spamhaus may 'alternately be accessed with this domain.'
Seriously, whats the big deal about closing a domain anyway? I know if I had a big mail server using Spamhaus, the first I heard rumours of ths shutting down the domain I would have switched to IP addresses anyways. An american judge can't order a foreign ISP to revoke IP addresses after all.
Their revenue last year was 6.1 billion dollars. That makes their market cap only about 20x revenue, which is a very resonable number in any book, and simmilar to MSFT and eBay and most other large companies
As for YouTube - while it was private at the itme of sale, it *was* selling ads, and lots of people close to the inside said it was actually turning a profit. This is a rarety for a web start-up nowadays.
POersonally, I thin kif anyone can monetize YouTube quickley, it';s Google. They already have partnerships with Viacom and MTV to sell content via Google Video, so moving those deals over to their YouTube site should be a walk in the park. Combine pay-for content with Google's ability to place relevant ads by the video, and they have a win-win.
"You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.'"
What is this going to do to the millions of companies that rely on this for a QA methodology? MS is saying that if they are testing their new code and it fucks up the OS, they need to re-install from scratch, because they are not allowed to run Vista Home in a VM?
How utterly retarded.
And no, in a real QA environment, it is not a simple matter of buying a Vista Office license, because that OS is not wwhat the home user will likely be running so it's not where the application should be tested.
Visa IS REQUIRED BY LAW to take your social security number, or a tax ID number if it is a corporation, as part of their financial reporting requirments.
There's a big difference between being required by law to collect your SSN AFTER/b> you have applied for the card and been accepted, and collecting your SSN BEFORE you have accepted in order to do a credsit check.
There is no need for anyone to ever give their SSN to a company to do a credit check. However, most do anyway to save time.
Seriously - I am 26, and I use a pen to write something on paper perhaps once every 3-4 days. I also use the printer at my office or home maybe once every 3 weeks at the most.
Any time I have to do something over the phone or by mail, that I know as a programmer I could be easily be doing online, it pisses me off to no end.
I know I am not in an uncommon age group either. As I see my nieces and nephews go through school, they use less and less books. They hand in their assignments in USB keys.
The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a page because "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
The whole "myth" of the paperless world is not a myth, it was just misconstrued - you can't create a paperless world until all the people who are used to using the paper everyday are gone.
Have you ever tried to do that same type of import/export sequence with a WordPerfect spreadsheet inside Excel? Or even an older Excel version? You will have simmilar issues.
Anyone who watches the Daily Show on any kind of a regular basis knows this is one of Jon's favorite tactics - whenever a politician issues a sound byte or statement not jiving with something they said on record in the past, he drags it out to confront them with it on the show.
I have always wondered why the Daily Show does this on an almost nightly basis but the major news outlets hardly ever do (well - actually I don't wonder. I know why, they're all bought and paid for).
Anyway my point is, this trend is not really new, it's already a few years in the making. You can already pretty much do a Google search on any statement made by a politician and look for partial matches on it based on past speeches, seeeing if they are contradicting themselves.
If anything, I think Eric might be selling Google a bit short here. I see this capability coming in 1-2 years, not 5.
Geez, if these things are that heat senseitive they probbaly are not going to work in a closed-door stereo cabinet.
I currenrly have my DVR, my Xbox, and my reciever all in a stereo cabinet with a closed door. All work fine with no overheating. Is Sony trying to say that if I want to get a PS3 I need to buy a new stereo cabinet too?
Tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM radio -- meaning it should work with any GSM-GPRS SIM card, including pre-paid SIM cards as well as those from traditional GSM service providers
Without the 850 band this phone will have poor to no reception in lots of parts of North America.
To put it simple: Firefox is not Free Software, because its distribution includes the image file for the logo, which is under a non-Free license.
Bollocks. As I said above, the Debian Official Logo itself is distributed under a non-free license, and that comes with Debian.
Debian Official Use Logo License
Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest
1. This logo may only be used if: * the product it is used for is made using a documented procedure as published on www.debian.org (for example official CD-creation) * official approval is given by Debian for its use in this purpose 2. May be used if an official part of debian (decided using the rules in I) is part of the complete product, if it is made clear that only this part is officially approved 3. We reserve the right to revoke a license for a product
I've used Gmail for well over a year, side by side with Yahoo, and with Gmail it's like everything falls into a black hole, and I have to "search" every single time I want to find something. At least with Yahoo, the organization makes a lot more sense, and I have to do "search" a lot less.
This illisurates why you do not like GMail. You sound like an old man clamoring on and on about how "cars were more reliable in his day", totally ignoring the statistical facts.
The whole point of GMail is the exact reason you say you hate it. You shouldn't have to organize your email, it's 2006. Let the computer (aka GMail) do it for you. If you added up all the time wasted in Outlook/Yahoo selecting email and moving it into folders, then later having to hunt through the folder for that email later, I think you'd be surprised at how much time Gmails archive+search saves you over a year.
All other things being equal, I would wager a good sum of money GMail would return a list of search results faster than Yahoo or Outlook would even fully load a decent size folder over the network!
Ok. So, this whole debacle is because Debian will not package Firefox with it's own logo because that logo is copyrighted by the Mozilla Corperation, and they don't allow other people to use it as they see fit (as in, you can't make another Firefox build with your own patches and still call it Firefox).
For some reason Debian doesn't think this is a good plicy. Ok, if that is so, then why does Debian itself state that
Ducklin said: "Let's say that you're shot during a mugging [incident]. As you drift into unconsciousness, would you find yourself saying 'Gosh, I hope the surgeon who operates on me used to be a street criminal because he must really understand gunshot wounds well if he actually shot the people?' You wouldn't think that."
The only thing that holds consumers back on making that sort of purchase is price.
Uhh... I don't know where you live, but around here I don't have a reliable 10Mbps/s stream to download a DVD quality movie and watch it while it downloads. If I have to wait 2+ hours for the damn thing to download it isn't much of an "impule purchase" is it? I could drive to the blockbuster and be back in 1/8 that time.
Before the retail channel will be a success, the national infrastructure has to be in place. And all download caps across ISPs need to be *eliminated* - right now I have a 60 GB cap on my monthly downloads - now you really think I would waste 1 Gb of that on a sub-part movie download when I can just rent it at the corner store? No thanks.
My question is, why are these people afraid of a *single* launch malfunctioning and scattering waste in their area, when the US Air Force still has planes launched 8all the time* from *all over the country* that have strategic nuc lear weapons on them? They are never fired, for sure, but any plane accident could cause just as much damage as an accident with one of these NASA launches. In fact the weapons likely have even more dangerous material in them, for obvious reasons.
This reminds me of somting I noticed while cruizing IMDB the other day. Ever compare the ratings for movies in other countries to America?
Take for example, The Whole Nine Yards. For those who haven't seen this movie, it's a compedy. There is nothing beyond comical violence in it. There *is* some nudity when Amada Peet is topless.
Now, take a look at the ratings. Pretty much every single country except the US has it rated for Young Adults 13-14. The US has it rated "R", which means it is barred from anyone under 17.
He boarded the plane fine. He was just needlessly hassled and made ot change his T-Shirt.
There is no need to over-exaggerate the facts, as how he was treated was already bad enough. Exaggerating them just makes you less credible in the future when others inspect the details of your store and find you exaggewrated the facts.
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I don't think yo should generalize so much there - I know for me personally, I find it much harder to aclimatise to heat than cold. I live in a cold country too (Canada), and during the winter, if I had it my way the heat in our house would never be above 12 degrees C, since it doesn't bother me to operate at that temp (my fiancee on the other hand...)
But in the summer, once it gets above 22 degrees c, it feels like a sauna to me. I have to run the AC at anything over 24 or else I simply can not sleep.
... I already have all of the above with my Xbox and MythTV. And it cost me $400 less.
Only downside is it doesn't have enough juice to play true HD video. But the upscaled DVD is amazing.
Call me stupid, but why doesn't Linford just get some 3rd party to register a new domain and point it at the Spamhouse servers? Then send an email to the Spamhaus clients telling them that Spamhaus may 'alternately be accessed with this domain.'
Seriously, whats the big deal about closing a domain anyway? I know if I had a big mail server using Spamhaus, the first I heard rumours of ths shutting down the domain I would have switched to IP addresses anyways. An american judge can't order a foreign ISP to revoke IP addresses after all.
Their revenue last year was 6.1 billion dollars. That makes their market cap only about 20x revenue, which is a very resonable number in any book, and simmilar to MSFT and eBay and most other large companies
As for YouTube - while it was private at the itme of sale, it *was* selling ads, and lots of people close to the inside said it was actually turning a profit. This is a rarety for a web start-up nowadays.
POersonally, I thin kif anyone can monetize YouTube quickley, it';s Google. They already have partnerships with Viacom and MTV to sell content via Google Video, so moving those deals over to their YouTube site should be a walk in the park. Combine pay-for content with Google's ability to place relevant ads by the video, and they have a win-win.
"You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," the legal language reads. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, however, can be installed within a VM.'"
What is this going to do to the millions of companies that rely on this for a QA methodology? MS is saying that if they are testing their new code and it fucks up the OS, they need to re-install from scratch, because they are not allowed to run Vista Home in a VM?
How utterly retarded.
And no, in a real QA environment, it is not a simple matter of buying a Vista Office license, because that OS is not wwhat the home user will likely be running so it's not where the application should be tested.
Visa IS REQUIRED BY LAW to take your social security number, or a tax ID number if it is a corporation, as part of their financial reporting requirments.
There's a big difference between being required by law to collect your SSN AFTER/b> you have applied for the card and been accepted, and collecting your SSN BEFORE you have accepted in order to do a credsit check.
There is no need for anyone to ever give their SSN to a company to do a credit check. However, most do anyway to save time.
Seriously - I am 26, and I use a pen to write something on paper perhaps once every 3-4 days. I also use the printer at my office or home maybe once every 3 weeks at the most.
Any time I have to do something over the phone or by mail, that I know as a programmer I could be easily be doing online, it pisses me off to no end.
I know I am not in an uncommon age group either. As I see my nieces and nephews go through school, they use less and less books. They hand in their assignments in USB keys.
The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a page because "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
The whole "myth" of the paperless world is not a myth, it was just misconstrued - you can't create a paperless world until all the people who are used to using the paper everyday are gone.
Have you ever tried to do that same type of import/export sequence with a WordPerfect spreadsheet inside Excel? Or even an older Excel version? You will have simmilar issues.
This is incredibly stupid. First, the proper terminology is cryogenics. Hypothermia is a condition, not a method of suspended animation.
Actually, it is called cryonics
Anyone who watches the Daily Show on any kind of a regular basis knows this is one of Jon's favorite tactics - whenever a politician issues a sound byte or statement not jiving with something they said on record in the past, he drags it out to confront them with it on the show.
I have always wondered why the Daily Show does this on an almost nightly basis but the major news outlets hardly ever do (well - actually I don't wonder. I know why, they're all bought and paid for).
Anyway my point is, this trend is not really new, it's already a few years in the making. You can already pretty much do a Google search on any statement made by a politician and look for partial matches on it based on past speeches, seeeing if they are contradicting themselves.
If anything, I think Eric might be selling Google a bit short here. I see this capability coming in 1-2 years, not 5.
Geez, if these things are that heat senseitive they probbaly are not going to work in a closed-door stereo cabinet.
I currenrly have my DVR, my Xbox, and my reciever all in a stereo cabinet with a closed door. All work fine with no overheating. Is Sony trying to say that if I want to get a PS3 I need to buy a new stereo cabinet too?
Tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM radio -- meaning it should work with any GSM-GPRS SIM card, including pre-paid SIM cards as well as those from traditional GSM service providers
Without the 850 band this phone will have poor to no reception in lots of parts of North America.
Orbit? Who said anything about orbit?
If you can fling stuff into high orbit with this thing you can likey achieve escape velocity as well. Just fling it towards the sun.
That watch is butt ugly.
You'd think Fossil could come up with better looking packaging than that, especially given the launch of this new technology.
To put it simple: Firefox is not Free Software, because its distribution includes the image file for the logo, which is under a non-Free license.
Bollocks. As I said above, the Debian Official Logo itself is distributed under a non-free license, and that comes with Debian.
Why the exception for their official logo?
It's just Debian being pedantic.
I've used Gmail for well over a year, side by side with Yahoo, and with Gmail it's like everything falls into a black hole, and I have to "search" every single time I want to find something. At least with Yahoo, the organization makes a lot more sense, and I have to do "search" a lot less.
This illisurates why you do not like GMail. You sound like an old man clamoring on and on about how "cars were more reliable in his day", totally ignoring the statistical facts.
The whole point of GMail is the exact reason you say you hate it. You shouldn't have to organize your email, it's 2006. Let the computer (aka GMail) do it for you. If you added up all the time wasted in Outlook/Yahoo selecting email and moving it into folders, then later having to hunt through the folder for that email later, I think you'd be surprised at how much time Gmails archive+search saves you over a year.
All other things being equal, I would wager a good sum of money GMail would return a list of search results faster than Yahoo or Outlook would even fully load a decent size folder over the network!
For some reason Debian doesn't think this is a good plicy. Ok, if that is so, then why does Debian itself state that
"Debian" and the Debian Logo are trademarks of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
I doubt Debian would like it if I came along, changed a bunch of apt source code, and re-relased it using their name and logo.
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Ducklin said: "Let's say that you're shot during a mugging [incident]. As you drift into unconsciousness, would you find yourself saying 'Gosh, I hope the surgeon who operates on me used to be a street criminal because he must really understand gunshot wounds well if he actually shot the people?' You wouldn't think that."
Agree 100%.
Those words still run a chill down my spine.
Serioursly though, this is AWESOME!
The only thing that holds consumers back on making that sort of purchase is price.
Uhh... I don't know where you live, but around here I don't have a reliable 10Mbps/s stream to download a DVD quality movie and watch it while it downloads. If I have to wait 2+ hours for the damn thing to download it isn't much of an "impule purchase" is it? I could drive to the blockbuster and be back in 1/8 that time.
Before the retail channel will be a success, the national infrastructure has to be in place. And all download caps across ISPs need to be *eliminated* - right now I have a 60 GB cap on my monthly downloads - now you really think I would waste 1 Gb of that on a sub-part movie download when I can just rent it at the corner store? No thanks.
My question is, why are these people afraid of a *single* launch malfunctioning and scattering waste in their area, when the US Air Force still has planes launched 8all the time* from *all over the country* that have strategic nuc lear weapons on them? They are never fired, for sure, but any plane accident could cause just as much damage as an accident with one of these NASA launches. In fact the weapons likely have even more dangerous material in them, for obvious reasons.
Take for example, The Whole Nine Yards. For those who haven't seen this movie, it's a compedy. There is nothing beyond comical violence in it. There *is* some nudity when Amada Peet is topless.
Now, take a look at the ratings. Pretty much every single country except the US has it rated for Young Adults 13-14. The US has it rated "R", which means it is barred from anyone under 17.
I will let you draw your own conclusions.
Explain to me how the TSA regulates that commerce.
It *DOESNT*. It enforces security. That's something the airline or state is supposed to do.
He boarded the plane fine. He was just needlessly hassled and made ot change his T-Shirt.
There is no need to over-exaggerate the facts, as how he was treated was already bad enough. Exaggerating them just makes you less credible in the future when others inspect the details of your store and find you exaggewrated the facts.