Thank goodness Indiana is going to implement DST statewide next year, though - I work for a Swedish company in Indianapolis, and you wouldn't believe how many teleconferences get screwed up because the rest of the world changed their clocks and Indiana didn't...
Actually, being a "follower" can be a very legitimate business model - let someone else risk the R&D developing products that may or may not succeed, then follow along in those areas that have proven viable....
Quite the contrary, I could see using the hybrid in preference to just the map. If you print it out for someone, I find it more useful than just the raw map...
It all started for me in 2nd grade, when our teacher (good ole Mr. Cunningham) would bring in his TRS-80 and let kids play with the computer, based on their in-class performance. If you did well on a test or quiz, you got a sticker which could be turned in for computer time, which was a real novelty at the time (1979).
One day, he had us type in a BASIC program out of a magazine (BYTE? Softside? can't recall) to display a digital clock on the screen - each kid would do a couple lines, then the next would take his turn as class continued on. When it came to my turn, I just kept on trucking, and the teacher didn't say anything. We broke for recess, and after coming back in, I went straight to the computer and kept chugging away, as the teacher resumed class. Once I finished the program, I tried to RUN it, but there were typo's which then proceeded to fix using the line editor (I had seen Mr. C do this before), until I got the thing working. It was probably one of the best school days I ever had, and it was all thanks to his "letting the line out" and giving me the room to explore.
At the next parent/teacher conference he told my parents about the experience, and that he hadn't seen a kid that age with that level of focus to finish and debug the program for such a long time (boy, has that changed over the years). My grandmother got me a computer for Xmas that year (Atari 400), and things pretty much changed forever from that point forward. It was a pivotal moment for me, and I'll always have to give credit to a great teacher (public school, btw) for providing that opportunity.
They certainly use DST throughout Europe, I know that. I work for a Swedish company, and you'd be amazed how each year around clock-changing time teleconferences will get screwed up because participants from Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Sweden and Denmark all change time, but Indiana doesn't. It's a real problem, and frankly I don't care whether we do DST or not, or whether we go with Central or Eastern time, just that we be consistent with the rest of the world around us...
And I'm in Indiana, where we're finally going back to DST, catching up with the rest of the world. Some people think it's quaint to have different time than most everyone else, but in reality it's a foolish foible...
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO - News) announced today that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has changed the rating of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on all platforms from "Mature 17+" (M) to "Adults Only 18+"
So basically, they've made the decision that 17 year-olds just shouldn't see this two-bit low-res porn hack, and stick with the carjacking, wanton murder, and other wholesome activites within GTA. 18 year-olds are qualified for the whole ball o' wax, though.
jagger writes "a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495. stm">News Corp announced on Monday that it , owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million. This follows an announcement by News Corp on Friday that it is creating an Internet division to hold the company's sports, news and entertainment sites."
How do bad links get posted on the main page like this? Isn't the subscriber preview feature supposed to help weed out these things?
Being a/. editor has got be the easiest gig on the web. Just copy, paste, post, and...
That's completely understandable - what I was picking on in the parent post was the mention of a bunch of "who is this guy" posts. There simply aren't any...
I see a lot of "who the hell is Bruce Campbell?" posts and I'd like to make a few points -
Really? Where? Look through this article, and you'll see just about every post extolling his movies. I understand you wanted to write a post about Campbell, but don't pretend he's unknown around these parts!
For the record, a friend of mine went to high school with Raimi and Campbell, and still has a copy of a movie they made back then - using his mother's car and running around the campus at Cranbrook (a private school in the Detroit burbs). The plot was basically about the President being kidnapped - back then, he didn't have the CGI available to have Spiderman lend a hand...
I don't think I would agree with you that the non-violent means is always better, but do I wish our rulers at least considered the long term damage to America when they...
You don't think they "at least considered" those factors? That's one of the saddest things I've ever read here, and that's saying something.
I've seen both (ain't that something to be proud of!), and I'd have to go with Plan 9, just because it's got the added sadness of first seeing Bela Lugosi in a pathetic performance squeezing one last drop from his Dracula fame, and secondly seeing the stiff who impersonates Lugosi during the second half of the film since Bela died during the filming. The impersonation consists of stalking slowly around the set with a cape drawn across his face.
And besides, "Incredibly Strange Creatures blah blah blah" at least has a stripper in it. For a teenager watching Grade Z horror flicks, that's worth some points all on its own...
Google isn't just valued on uncertainty and expectation, but I suspect a number of people own Google stock because of the Cool factor. The Google brand has is all about innovation and openness (think "Do no Evil"), and that brings in a certain amount of investors no matter how the numbers shake out.
I don't doubt that the financial results will continue to be positive in the short term, and we might see the stock climb to further ridiculous heights. But that will just make the fall that much more painful...
If you take a deep breath and think about it, it's really a slam-dunk case. If he knowingly set up his site with links to copyrighted material, then he obviously facilitated the copyright infringement. Depending on the specifics of Australian law, he may or may not be as culpible as the people downloading material.
I mean come on, it's obvious what the site was intended for. The legal challenge would seem to be in proving that he knew the linked sites had infringing material, yet he posted the links anyway.
Honestly, I think the word "editor" got recast into the Web world, where it now means "poster". I had the same frustration about 10 years ago when I wrote for an online hockey magazine. I wrote weekly columns and submitted them to the "editor", who never adjusted a single word or sentence, or offered any feedback whatsoever. They just posted the stories to the right section and that was about it...
Back in the good old days of early Javascript online games (~1996 or 97), Uproar.com used to run an hourly trivia contest that paid off $5 per game. Sure, my work productivity plummeted, but I was clearing an extra $100-200 a month whiling away the day...
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Thank goodness Indiana is going to implement DST statewide next year, though - I work for a Swedish company in Indianapolis, and you wouldn't believe how many teleconferences get screwed up because the rest of the world changed their clocks and Indiana didn't...
Actually, being a "follower" can be a very legitimate business model - let someone else risk the R&D developing products that may or may not succeed, then follow along in those areas that have proven viable....
Quite the contrary, I could see using the hybrid in preference to just the map. If you print it out for someone, I find it more useful than just the raw map...
Wow, I didn't know that Senators posted on /.!
And besides, in the Hot Coffee clip, there's an onscreen message saying "nice guys finish last". See, the developers care about the women, too!
It all started for me in 2nd grade, when our teacher (good ole Mr. Cunningham) would bring in his TRS-80 and let kids play with the computer, based on their in-class performance. If you did well on a test or quiz, you got a sticker which could be turned in for computer time, which was a real novelty at the time (1979).
One day, he had us type in a BASIC program out of a magazine (BYTE? Softside? can't recall) to display a digital clock on the screen - each kid would do a couple lines, then the next would take his turn as class continued on. When it came to my turn, I just kept on trucking, and the teacher didn't say anything. We broke for recess, and after coming back in, I went straight to the computer and kept chugging away, as the teacher resumed class. Once I finished the program, I tried to RUN it, but there were typo's which then proceeded to fix using the line editor (I had seen Mr. C do this before), until I got the thing working. It was probably one of the best school days I ever had, and it was all thanks to his "letting the line out" and giving me the room to explore.
At the next parent/teacher conference he told my parents about the experience, and that he hadn't seen a kid that age with that level of focus to finish and debug the program for such a long time (boy, has that changed over the years). My grandmother got me a computer for Xmas that year (Atari 400), and things pretty much changed forever from that point forward. It was a pivotal moment for me, and I'll always have to give credit to a great teacher (public school, btw) for providing that opportunity.
They certainly use DST throughout Europe, I know that. I work for a Swedish company, and you'd be amazed how each year around clock-changing time teleconferences will get screwed up because participants from Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Sweden and Denmark all change time, but Indiana doesn't. It's a real problem, and frankly I don't care whether we do DST or not, or whether we go with Central or Eastern time, just that we be consistent with the rest of the world around us...
And I'm in Indiana, where we're finally going back to DST, catching up with the rest of the world. Some people think it's quaint to have different time than most everyone else, but in reality it's a foolish foible...
From TFA:
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO - News) announced today that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has changed the rating of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on all platforms from "Mature 17+" (M) to "Adults Only 18+"
So basically, they've made the decision that 17 year-olds just shouldn't see this two-bit low-res porn hack, and stick with the carjacking, wanton murder, and other wholesome activites within GTA. 18 year-olds are qualified for the whole ball o' wax, though.
Amazing...
And I thought the moon was made of green cheese, anyway...
It's like watching the Roman Empire of tech/OSS sites crash and burn...
/. had a more professional standard of editing. Trust me, that isn't the case.
You presume that there was some past in which
jagger writes "a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495. stm">News Corp announced on Monday that it , owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million. This follows an announcement by News Corp on Friday that it is creating an Internet division to hold the company's sports, news and entertainment sites."
/. editor has got be the easiest gig on the web. Just copy, paste, post, and...
How do bad links get posted on the main page like this? Isn't the subscriber preview feature supposed to help weed out these things?
Being a
wait for it...
PROFIT!
Maybe he outsourced his Cut & Paste to a 3rd World sweatshop operation...
Make sure when you do this that you're watching a recorded show, instead of live TV. Otherwise it won't take...
That's completely understandable - what I was picking on in the parent post was the mention of a bunch of "who is this guy" posts. There simply aren't any...
I see a lot of "who the hell is Bruce Campbell?" posts and I'd like to make a few points -
Really? Where? Look through this article, and you'll see just about every post extolling his movies. I understand you wanted to write a post about Campbell, but don't pretend he's unknown around these parts!
For the record, a friend of mine went to high school with Raimi and Campbell, and still has a copy of a movie they made back then - using his mother's car and running around the campus at Cranbrook (a private school in the Detroit burbs). The plot was basically about the President being kidnapped - back then, he didn't have the CGI available to have Spiderman lend a hand...
I don't think I would agree with you that the non-violent means is always better, but do I wish our rulers at least considered the long term damage to America when they...
You don't think they "at least considered" those factors? That's one of the saddest things I've ever read here, and that's saying something.
I've seen both (ain't that something to be proud of!), and I'd have to go with Plan 9, just because it's got the added sadness of first seeing Bela Lugosi in a pathetic performance squeezing one last drop from his Dracula fame, and secondly seeing the stiff who impersonates Lugosi during the second half of the film since Bela died during the filming. The impersonation consists of stalking slowly around the set with a cape drawn across his face.
And besides, "Incredibly Strange Creatures blah blah blah" at least has a stripper in it. For a teenager watching Grade Z horror flicks, that's worth some points all on its own...
Look, Boss! The speeder, the speeder!
Google isn't just valued on uncertainty and expectation, but I suspect a number of people own Google stock because of the Cool factor. The Google brand has is all about innovation and openness (think "Do no Evil"), and that brings in a certain amount of investors no matter how the numbers shake out.
I don't doubt that the financial results will continue to be positive in the short term, and we might see the stock climb to further ridiculous heights. But that will just make the fall that much more painful...
If you take a deep breath and think about it, it's really a slam-dunk case. If he knowingly set up his site with links to copyrighted material, then he obviously facilitated the copyright infringement. Depending on the specifics of Australian law, he may or may not be as culpible as the people downloading material.
I mean come on, it's obvious what the site was intended for. The legal challenge would seem to be in proving that he knew the linked sites had infringing material, yet he posted the links anyway.
I thought the idea was that they give each copy away free, but make that up on volume...
Honestly, I think the word "editor" got recast into the Web world, where it now means "poster". I had the same frustration about 10 years ago when I wrote for an online hockey magazine. I wrote weekly columns and submitted them to the "editor", who never adjusted a single word or sentence, or offered any feedback whatsoever. They just posted the stories to the right section and that was about it...
This is Slashdot - what do you expect???
Back in the good old days of early Javascript online games (~1996 or 97), Uproar.com used to run an hourly trivia contest that paid off $5 per game. Sure, my work productivity plummeted, but I was clearing an extra $100-200 a month whiling away the day...