Yes, that thought had occured to me. But how would they know that you didn't have any money without looking into your financial records. If they've already gone that far, I'm doomed anyway since they have the worlds fastest computer:)
If you have to defend yourself against some entity that owns the world's fastest supercomputer and doesn't want you to know it, I don't know what you'r e hiding and I don't want to know.
Seriously, I'm not about to change all my passwords and strengthen my keys because whatever money I have in my bank account is just a drop in the ocean for those guys.
Exactly what I was thinking. Limit the screening to severly bad dieases and only things that would limit the lifespan or quality of life for the unborn person. What was that movie that just took DNA from the fetus and then they knew how old you would be and what you would die of, etc. ?
Wasn't Java supposed to solve this problem? I was under the impression that you could run Java apps on any platform (albeit slowly) without worrying about compatability?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/ [primidi.com]. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
All of the above are cold, hard, verifiable facts, except where stated otherwise. Now I will give
Want something done in the current Bush administration? Just say the magic word, "Terrorists".
I don't want to come off as a troll but Michael Moore made a very good point when he showed how Americans were afraid of everyone (the cartoon bit) in Bowling for Columbine. Now, instead of african-americans it's the muslims. They are using these scare tactics to get away with all the things they want to do to control and (possibly) spy on everyone (a.k.a. the Patriot Act).
I don't get it... If you were travelling at the speed of light wouldn't you pass through an entire city in milliseconds? or nanoseconds even? How can you see the buildings?
What I would suggest in these cases would be simply a slow migration.
Take small steps at a time, kinda like ripping off a bandade, it's pretty bad when you do it and before you do it, because you know it's gonna hurt... but after it's gone everything is much better:)
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Apparently it goes by the name "The Professional" in the states... you yanks, with your special needs
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Yes, that thought had occured to me. But how would they know that you didn't have any money without looking into your financial records. If they've already gone that far, I'm doomed anyway since they have the worlds fastest computer :)
If you have to defend yourself against some entity that owns the world's fastest supercomputer and doesn't want you to know it, I don't know what you'r e hiding and I don't want to know.
Seriously, I'm not about to change all my passwords and strengthen my keys because whatever money I have in my bank account is just a drop in the ocean for those guys.
What do you mean "in case" ? ;)
Wow, and you guys said that Microsoft weren't innovators! Who's laughing now, huh? :)
Exactly what I was thinking. Limit the screening to severly bad dieases and only things that would limit the lifespan or quality of life for the unborn person. What was that movie that just took DNA from the fetus and then they knew how old you would be and what you would die of, etc. ?
Yeah, excellent karma I got. "Score: -1, Offtopic". Boy, did that boost my karma or what!
Wasn't Java supposed to solve this problem? I was under the impression that you could run Java apps on any platform (albeit slowly) without worrying about compatability?
It's not me who wrote this. It is the first time I have posted this. I'm just *REALLY* annoyed with Roland and his stupid money making scheme.
GET A JOB ROLAND!
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/ [primidi.com]. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
All of the above are cold, hard, verifiable facts, except where stated otherwise. Now I will give
I predict that the server will go down like the boosters. First, heating up, then, burning up, and finally, nothing but scrap metal.
Want something done in the current Bush administration? Just say the magic word, "Terrorists".
I don't want to come off as a troll but Michael Moore made a very good point when he showed how Americans were afraid of everyone (the cartoon bit) in Bowling for Columbine. Now, instead of african-americans it's the muslims. They are using these scare tactics to get away with all the things they want to do to control and (possibly) spy on everyone (a.k.a. the Patriot Act).
It's frightening.
That's an excellent question. I have always been a bit frustrated in my math classes because they never teach you to think outside the box.
It's always "Do this if that comes out but do that if this comes out".
They never, ever, want you to do anything on your own, it's always:
Teacher: Do this
Me: But what if we...
Teacher: Just do it like this, you don't know what your talking about!
Who knows... maybe my school just sucks.
Or "Another Known Alias". Depends on who you talk to...
But then you would see the buildings as standing still. Which you don't in those videos.
I don't get it... If you were travelling at the speed of light wouldn't you pass through an entire city in milliseconds? or nanoseconds even? How can you see the buildings?
Who?
A peIce? What kind of ice is pe?
For real? I knew my mother never really liked me!
THANKS MOM!
What I would suggest in these cases would be simply a slow migration.
:)
Take small steps at a time, kinda like ripping off a bandade, it's pretty bad when you do it and before you do it, because you know it's gonna hurt... but after it's gone everything is much better