It's all in the wording: "More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books", "sold more ebooks on one day than real books".
They aren't saying that people would suddenly rather buy/receive ebooks than regular books for christmas, they are saying that ebooks are an option for last-minute shoppers on christmas day. Basically ebooks are an alternative to buying gift cards, due to their instant delivery.
I would argue that zombies are nothing related to a fear, but rather the geek's hope for a post-apocalyptic world where they can go back to the basics.
No more 9-5 jobs. No more waiting for the release of the next piece of entertainment. No more races for popularity, money, and possessions.
A simple fight for survival where those who are still alive are considered the successful, the happy, and the free.
at a minimum mandated level of $1.5B/year sounds fucking horrible and selfish of them, if you ask me.
It's called investing. Instead of using the pile of money all at once, the organization can continue to help future generations. Who's the selfish one now?
T' me, Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! That time in September when sea dogs remember That grown-ups still know how ta play! When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy And a soft-wear patch covers your eye, Ta hell with our jobs, for one day we're all swabs And buccaneers all till we die!
So hoist up the mainsils and shut down your brain cells, They only would get in the way, Avast there, me hearty, we're havin' a party, It's "Talk... Like... A Pirate" Day!
tendencies to be happy, not to smoke, and not to become obese are passed between nodes in a directed graph
Wouldn't it be more likely that these people that are happy, athletic, and don't smoke tend to make friends with other people like them, as opposed to this suggestion of viral happiness? I mean it seems pretty obvious that people who don't smoke are going to have a higher percentage of friends that don't smoke than those who do smoke.
It's called a "lifestyle."
According to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 931770 the fix is contained in SP1.
Furthermore, the article which you linked to regarding posts on fixing slow file transfer is targeting probably unrelated causes/solutions such as old motherboard drivers, turning off thumbnails (obviously a slowdown will occur if you are trying to load thumbnails of 10000 remote pictures!), and turning off Remote Differential Compression (which probably speeds UP the transfer process by only copying file changes).
January from over two and a half years ago... Note that a fix for this was available on January 24, 2007 and Windows Vista was released to retailers on January 30, 2007. Furthermore, this issue has since been addressed in a service pack. Do people using Linux complain about software problems that have been addressed in updates over two and a half years ago? I sure don't.
What on earth are you talking about? Inability to move files or transfer files via a network? Do you really think that this is true of the operating system and not just some issue with the user or drivers? I have been using vista since the beta about 3 years ago and have never had an issue with anything related to this. It is more likely that your hard drive is failing, you don't know how to set up a home network, or that you have a computer from 10 years ago.
As long as you [...] have gobs of ram
Why not have gobs of ram? Seriously, you can get 4 gigs of ram for as little as around $70 USD. It's like hard drive space. Do you complain this much when a new video game takes up 8 gigs of space and you have a 10gb hard drive? No, you get a bigger hard drive! Keep up with the times.
It's not like I'll be able to start the next YouTube with one of these hosting accounts. Just because they won't charge you per x amount of bandwidth doesn't mean there won't be a direct correlation between your number of visitors and their viewing speeds. An unlimited quota, which is limited to 300 kb/s total for all of your users, is not unlimited.
Am I the only one that finds this a little creepy and salker-like?
From page 70, "Recovery.gov will come to you, even if you do not come to us. We will come to you on Twitter and on Facebook, we will come to you on YouTube and via government websites, we will work with old-media and with new media to get our message out."
Apparently the author also never learned about run-on sentences.
[...] though I'm sure I could use Bing to google around.
yuck. Even if it sounds fine to use google in a generic sense, for the act of searching, isn't that similar to saying "I'm going to grab a Mountain Dew because I need a coke to wash down my burger and fries"? It sounds odd and conflicting.
any "l33t hax0r" in the house brave enought to try this shit on the NSA ?
Like 6ish years ago I sent the NSA an example of a similar cross-site bug like this, when they were using ColdFusion for their web server. I could pretty much display anything on their site to a user, given a long link, which is what others are describing this as.
Unfortunately, now we have things like TinyURL and bit.ly which everyone uses for twitter, which could make them unknowingly spread fake information, or run scripts, which appear to be from trusted domains.
What will this mean for Yahoo!'s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service)? On a related note, if Bing will become Yahoo!'s DEFAULT search engine, will they be continuing to develop their own?
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How do you know this? I thought I'd hate a standing desk until I tried it.
I thought I'd like a standing desk until I tried it.
It's all in the wording: "More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books", "sold more ebooks on one day than real books".
They aren't saying that people would suddenly rather buy/receive ebooks than regular books for christmas, they are saying that ebooks are an option for last-minute shoppers on christmas day. Basically ebooks are an alternative to buying gift cards, due to their instant delivery.
"Vee haf vays of making you tweet."
I believe the correct spelling is "tveet."
Or the necrophile's hope for having ample subjects for his particular love, and no law enforcement around to stop him.
Yeah, but in this case they bite back...
I would argue that zombies are nothing related to a fear, but rather the geek's hope for a post-apocalyptic world where they can go back to the basics.
No more 9-5 jobs.
No more waiting for the release of the next piece of entertainment.
No more races for popularity, money, and possessions.
A simple fight for survival where those who are still alive are considered the successful, the happy, and the free.
Good thing there's nothing like UAC on linux.... oh wait: http://twitpic.com/laaj6
at a minimum mandated level of $1.5B/year sounds fucking horrible and selfish of them, if you ask me.
It's called investing. Instead of using the pile of money all at once, the organization can continue to help future generations. Who's the selfish one now?
Alert, alert. OK, so this gets flagged as OK a few times. The system decides it's OK.
Doesn't this contradict what the summary says? "without the need for human training"
T' me,
Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho,
It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day!
That time in September when sea dogs remember
That grown-ups still know how ta play!
When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy
And a soft-wear patch covers your eye,
Ta hell with our jobs, for one day we're all swabs
And buccaneers all till we die!
So hoist up the mainsils and shut down your brain cells,
They only would get in the way,
Avast there, me hearty, we're havin' a party,
It's "Talk... Like... A Pirate" Day!
and yet the hospital is being compensated for damages and not the patients
Does this remind anyone of the RIAA?
tendencies to be happy, not to smoke, and not to become obese are passed between nodes in a directed graph
Wouldn't it be more likely that these people that are happy, athletic, and don't smoke tend to make friends with other people like them, as opposed to this suggestion of viral happiness? I mean it seems pretty obvious that people who don't smoke are going to have a higher percentage of friends that don't smoke than those who do smoke. It's called a "lifestyle."
According to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 931770 the fix is contained in SP1. Furthermore, the article which you linked to regarding posts on fixing slow file transfer is targeting probably unrelated causes/solutions such as old motherboard drivers, turning off thumbnails (obviously a slowdown will occur if you are trying to load thumbnails of 10000 remote pictures!), and turning off Remote Differential Compression (which probably speeds UP the transfer process by only copying file changes).
[...] was slower than molasses in January.
January from over two and a half years ago... Note that a fix for this was available on January 24, 2007 and Windows Vista was released to retailers on January 30, 2007. Furthermore, this issue has since been addressed in a service pack. Do people using Linux complain about software problems that have been addressed in updates over two and a half years ago? I sure don't.
As long as you [...] have gobs of ram
Why not have gobs of ram? Seriously, you can get 4 gigs of ram for as little as around $70 USD. It's like hard drive space. Do you complain this much when a new video game takes up 8 gigs of space and you have a 10gb hard drive? No, you get a bigger hard drive! Keep up with the times.
It's not like I'll be able to start the next YouTube with one of these hosting accounts. Just because they won't charge you per x amount of bandwidth doesn't mean there won't be a direct correlation between your number of visitors and their viewing speeds. An unlimited quota, which is limited to 300 kb/s total for all of your users, is not unlimited.
I fully agree.
Am I the only one that finds this a little creepy and salker-like? From page 70, "Recovery.gov will come to you, even if you do not come to us. We will come to you on Twitter and on Facebook, we will come to you on YouTube and via government websites, we will work with old-media and with new media to get our message out." Apparently the author also never learned about run-on sentences.
[...] though I'm sure I could use Bing to google around.
yuck. Even if it sounds fine to use google in a generic sense, for the act of searching, isn't that similar to saying "I'm going to grab a Mountain Dew because I need a coke to wash down my burger and fries"? It sounds odd and conflicting.
any "l33t hax0r" in the house brave enought to try this shit on the NSA ?
Like 6ish years ago I sent the NSA an example of a similar cross-site bug like this, when they were using ColdFusion for their web server. I could pretty much display anything on their site to a user, given a long link, which is what others are describing this as.
Unfortunately, now we have things like TinyURL and bit.ly which everyone uses for twitter, which could make them unknowingly spread fake information, or run scripts, which appear to be from trusted domains.
What will this mean for Yahoo!'s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service)? On a related note, if Bing will become Yahoo!'s DEFAULT search engine, will they be continuing to develop their own?
I think starvation would be the best choice; otherwise, being a couch potato becomes the most popular career path among college students everywhere.
1. Sit down.
2. Place your head between your knees.
3. Kiss your ass "good-bye".
4. ??? ...PROFIT!!!
5.
We should just attach batteries to everything, duh! :)
Charge batteries during off-peak hours; use whenever.
Instead of delaying usage times, just delay the recharge times.
Of course, this may be horribly inefficient from a technical standpoint - I have no idea... :)
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Speaking of HTML/CSS... can I be the first person to suggest that we rename "Anonymous Cowardon" back to "Anonymous Coward"?