And I don't think they'll have users install a bar that shows ads at the top of their screens at all times. Remember services like NetZero? They didn't work, so how would Google manage working this?
It worked fine for Opera (before they went completely free). The free version of the browser had a text box that showed relavent Google text ads based on the page you were browsing. Say, wasn't there a rumor a while ago about Google buying Opera? Combine that with wifi's ability to determine your location and Google Maps/Google Local and I'd say you have a pretty potent advertising platform. While browsing a Slashdot story on digital cameras, you see "Joe's Photo Shop, around the corner at 123 Main St."
You obviously don't have children
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We no longer live in the age of VCRs eating tapes though, and on the rediculously rare (relative to tape eating) chance that your device does damage your disc, the player manufacturer should be responsible for procuring you a replacement.
You obviously don't have children. After buffing the scratches out of the Finding Nemo DVD for the fifth time, I was ready to go back to VHS. Then I discovered DVD Shrink. The original stays in the case and when the kids scratch the copy too badly to be played, I throw it away and make a new copy. Consumers need the rights to protect their property.
At the risk of sounding like a anal-retentive nerd; Star Wars has had promotional tie-ins with Burger Chef, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut but there has never been a McDonalds Happy Meal(TM) based on Star Wars.
What will happen is that my tax dollars will be used for that and that my friend is just wrong.
Your tax dollars already paid for the internet. They paid for its developement and continue to pay for the high-level infrastructure. Unfortunately, a bunch of monopolies (and duopolies) control the last few miles from the backbone to your house. How would you like it if there was a 'free' 12-lane interstate highway out there that your tax dollars paid for, but some local cartel charges you $50 per month to drive on their dirt road from your driveway to the interstate on-ramp? I know I'd be pissed.
Oh yeah, and that cartel is now considering limiting what kind of cars can drive on their road, probably only the cars that they sell at a huge markup. And dispite the fact that you give them $50 per month for 2-way access on their road, they want to charge extra to FedEx and UPS for using their road to deliver stuff to you. And they also want two speed limits; 10mph for people who pay $50 per month and 100mph for people who pay $100 per month. And they're not doing any maintainance on the road so if you hit potholes and can only drive 5mph, don't expect a rebate on your $100.
This particular story didn't say so but I read elsewhere that the students laid out the shredded documents on the floor of gymnasiums and pieced the documents back together.
The technology now exists to scan fragments of documents en-mass and piece them together semi-automatically in electronic format. Some human interaction is still required, but it is much faster and easier than the Iranian effort. This is being done to restore ancient manuscripts but I'm sure it's being done in the covert and criminal fields as well with shreded documents.
He advocates "an immediate international moratorium, if not outright ban, on all artificial life experiments
Does this mean my copy of the Sims will be banned?
In this context, 'artificial life' is defined as autonomous foraging replicators... excluding software simulations which are essential preparatory work and should continue.
Yes, but in the United States we can vote him out because a U.S. President is limited to two four-year terms.
What do term limits have to do with voting someone out? I agree, term limits are a good thing and unfortunately the only thing that will get rid of Bush (since he has been able to fix the last two elections), but they have nothing to do with voting. That's why they work so well; they require no effort on the part of the lazy, uninformed electorate.
By not providing such information, Google is leaving folks uncertain - now, honestly, if your data was good you'd release it because it would do good to your stock price. If you aren't, I'd be worried about what else is going on, and that is most definitely not a good sign.
Yeah but any information Google released would be Beta anyway.:-)
Define people. If you mean the population of planet Earth- Christianity is dwarfed by Hinduism and Buddhism. Even when you throw Judaism and Islam in with Christianity I don't think it has a majority of the world's population.
What you think and the facts are two different things. You seem to be assuming that everyone in India is a Hindu and everyone in China is a Buddhist (neither is the case). Islam only recently surpassed Christianity in the number one spot and Hinduism is a distant third. Numbers are as follows:
Islam 1.2 billion
Christianity 1.1 billion (combined total of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant).
I don't know if you were joking, but I think the "GBP" he was referring to in this context was 'Great Britain Pounds'
Ahh that makes more sense. Lets see, DVDs weigh about 2.5 ounces (including case) so 200 pounds worth would be about 1280 DVDs (assuming pounds weigh the same in Great Britain as they do here).
Yes, I was joking (still am), but it's just not as funny if you have to explain it.
I think you're confusing 'Government Regulation' with 'Government Funding'.
Public libraries are funded by municipal governments through tax dolars, university libraries are funded by the universities (and their corporate sponsors), religious schools have libraries that they fund. Each type of library is free to buy or not buy whatever books they want. Governments may not want books critical of their policies, religious schools may not want books with sexual content, univerisities may keep out books that their corporate sponsors don't like.
If the government regulated libraries, then all libraries, regardless of their funding, would have to comply with the same government regulations.
Similar to the George Lucas strategy: Make the highly-anticipated Episodes I and II so bad that people have no expectations for Episode III and it seems brillant in comparison.
Again, nice and confusing, especially when you consider that these statistics don't add up to 100%.
It adds up to more than 100% since most people (44+41+69-100=54%) want more than one of the three options taught in schools. What I'm curious to know is: who is more open-minded. Do more evolutionists or IDers support the teaching of theories other than their own?
1. Spin off the digital animation section of ILM into Pixar.
2. Sell it to Steve Jobs for $10 Million.
3. Waste time making bad Star Wars prequels.
4. Cry when Jobs sells Pixar to Disney for $7 Billion.
Poor George.:-(
It's just a part of a string used to address a worldwide table of IP associations, and the rest of the string is free-form and totally unrestrictable (except as to character set and length).
And how about removing some of the character restrictions? I can see why you can't have a colon, period or slash in a URL but why no ampersand? It's not very intuitive for M & M candies to have the URL www.mms.com or the A & E television network to have www.aande.com.
13 - Anything that uses lime-green text on a black background. You think you're cool and retro for making a web page look like a VAX terminal but you're making my eyes bleed. That color scheme was abandoned for a reason.
Who do we believe? The physician or the author? I don't think either are adequately qualified to make the call.
Which one are you calling the physician and which one the author? Michael Crichton has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and James Lovelock has a Ph.D. in medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Both have writen books which makes them both authors, though Crichton's stuff is ever-so-slightly more believable (I'll buy resurrected dinosaurs over living planets, but both belong in the science-fiction section).
If the 586 got called the Pentium, then the Sexium should have been the P2 (Septium for P3 and Octium for P4). Therefore, the next Intel processor line should be called the Nonium. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue (though Decium is OK, perhaps they can skip a generation).
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"If you've ever used a penny, the government has your DNA. Why do you think they keep them in circulation?"
It worked fine for Opera (before they went completely free). The free version of the browser had a text box that showed relavent Google text ads based on the page you were browsing. Say, wasn't there a rumor a while ago about Google buying Opera? Combine that with wifi's ability to determine your location and Google Maps/Google Local and I'd say you have a pretty potent advertising platform. While browsing a Slashdot story on digital cameras, you see "Joe's Photo Shop, around the corner at 123 Main St."
You obviously don't have children. After buffing the scratches out of the Finding Nemo DVD for the fifth time, I was ready to go back to VHS. Then I discovered DVD Shrink. The original stays in the case and when the kids scratch the copy too badly to be played, I throw it away and make a new copy. Consumers need the rights to protect their property.
At the risk of sounding like a anal-retentive nerd; Star Wars has had promotional tie-ins with Burger Chef, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut but there has never been a McDonalds Happy Meal(TM) based on Star Wars.
How do we know it can only be explained in terms of human experience? Please state some facts to back up your assumption.
Your tax dollars already paid for the internet. They paid for its developement and continue to pay for the high-level infrastructure. Unfortunately, a bunch of monopolies (and duopolies) control the last few miles from the backbone to your house. How would you like it if there was a 'free' 12-lane interstate highway out there that your tax dollars paid for, but some local cartel charges you $50 per month to drive on their dirt road from your driveway to the interstate on-ramp? I know I'd be pissed.
Oh yeah, and that cartel is now considering limiting what kind of cars can drive on their road, probably only the cars that they sell at a huge markup. And dispite the fact that you give them $50 per month for 2-way access on their road, they want to charge extra to FedEx and UPS for using their road to deliver stuff to you. And they also want two speed limits; 10mph for people who pay $50 per month and 100mph for people who pay $100 per month. And they're not doing any maintainance on the road so if you hit potholes and can only drive 5mph, don't expect a rebate on your $100.
The technology now exists to scan fragments of documents en-mass and piece them together semi-automatically in electronic format. Some human interaction is still required, but it is much faster and easier than the Iranian effort. This is being done to restore ancient manuscripts but I'm sure it's being done in the covert and criminal fields as well with shreded documents.
Does this mean my copy of the Sims will be banned?
In this context, 'artificial life' is defined as autonomous foraging replicators ... excluding software simulations which are essential preparatory work and should continue.
Oh, nevermind.
What do term limits have to do with voting someone out? I agree, term limits are a good thing and unfortunately the only thing that will get rid of Bush (since he has been able to fix the last two elections), but they have nothing to do with voting. That's why they work so well; they require no effort on the part of the lazy, uninformed electorate.
Yeah but any information Google released would be Beta anyway. :-)
I believe that was Skynet not Botnet.
"No fate but what we make."
What you think and the facts are two different things. You seem to be assuming that everyone in India is a Hindu and everyone in China is a Buddhist (neither is the case). Islam only recently surpassed Christianity in the number one spot and Hinduism is a distant third. Numbers are as follows:
Islam 1.2 billion
Christianity 1.1 billion (combined total of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant).
Hinduism has 780 million
Buddhism 323 million
Judaism 14 million
Confuciansim 6 million
Baha'i 6 million
Shintoism 2.8 million
Ahh that makes more sense. Lets see, DVDs weigh about 2.5 ounces (including case) so 200 pounds worth would be about 1280 DVDs (assuming pounds weigh the same in Great Britain as they do here).
Yes, I was joking (still am), but it's just not as funny if you have to explain it.
Lets see, at 8.5GB per double-layer DVD that means you bought 23.529 DVDs this year (unless some of them were single-layer). ;-)
...just like Mac OS.
Public libraries are funded by municipal governments through tax dolars, university libraries are funded by the universities (and their corporate sponsors), religious schools have libraries that they fund. Each type of library is free to buy or not buy whatever books they want. Governments may not want books critical of their policies, religious schools may not want books with sexual content, univerisities may keep out books that their corporate sponsors don't like.
If the government regulated libraries, then all libraries, regardless of their funding, would have to comply with the same government regulations.
Similar to the George Lucas strategy: Make the highly-anticipated Episodes I and II so bad that people have no expectations for Episode III and it seems brillant in comparison.
Adonnamay and etalicamay were also popular as I recall. I wonder if there's a Chinese equivalent of pig latin.
It adds up to more than 100% since most people (44+41+69-100=54%) want more than one of the three options taught in schools. What I'm curious to know is: who is more open-minded. Do more evolutionists or IDers support the teaching of theories other than their own?
1. Spin off the digital animation section of ILM into Pixar. 2. Sell it to Steve Jobs for $10 Million. 3. Waste time making bad Star Wars prequels. 4. Cry when Jobs sells Pixar to Disney for $7 Billion. Poor George. :-(
And how about removing some of the character restrictions? I can see why you can't have a colon, period or slash in a URL but why no ampersand? It's not very intuitive for M & M candies to have the URL www.mms.com or the A & E television network to have www.aande.com.
13 - Anything that uses lime-green text on a black background. You think you're cool and retro for making a web page look like a VAX terminal but you're making my eyes bleed. That color scheme was abandoned for a reason.
It think you mean 786. In old Intel numbering, 787 would be the (unnecessary) math coprocessor for the 786 (either that or a new Boeing jet).
Which one are you calling the physician and which one the author? Michael Crichton has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and James Lovelock has a Ph.D. in medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Both have writen books which makes them both authors, though Crichton's stuff is ever-so-slightly more believable (I'll buy resurrected dinosaurs over living planets, but both belong in the science-fiction section).
If the 586 got called the Pentium, then the Sexium should have been the P2 (Septium for P3 and Octium for P4). Therefore, the next Intel processor line should be called the Nonium. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue (though Decium is OK, perhaps they can skip a generation).