What's new is that there are now true "stores" for apps... it's no longer just installer programs that let you download and install apps. CydiaStore launched just two days ago, and has a grand total of one app for sale (Cyntact, selling at $1.00, modifies the contacts app to display the contact's profile picture next to their name, when you're in the view where you scroll through contacts). The point is that there are private enterprises now hoping to make money off of this. At the moment Cydia is fairly limited -- only working with Amazon Payments -- but promises PayPal support soon, and you can bet there will be a number of new paid apps on the way.
Tried out Sumatra. I see it doesn't display text I've added with a PDF editor, or highlights I've done, or call-out boxes. Are those features not part of the general PDF spec? Either way, it kind of sucks that someone could open one of these PDFs in Sumatra and not see all sorts of commentary someone else intended, which can be seen if opening the file in Foxit or Adobe Reader for example...
Are you kidding? Medicine isn't perfect and never will be but modern medicine has doubled life expectancies in the last 100 years, cured/prevented countless diseases, improved quality of life, and saved many millions of lives. It's one of the greatest triumphs of humanity and you are saying the record isn't there? I say you are a grade-A fool if you think that.
I'm a huge fan of / big believer in modern medicine, but there is good reason to believe that much of the increase in lifespan is due to improved sanitation of our living environments and foodsources.
Would be interesting to see them maufacturing this stuff. I wonder if they go through the trouble of actually getting some duck liver, extracting its 'essence' or whatever, and diluting 200 times... of if they just put some sugar into pill form and call it good enough.
The difference is that no one is going to forgo some other important service because they buy the book. While people DO forgo proven and effective medical treatments because a homeopath tells them to...
FTFR: "If one looks at the content of oscillococcinum, a homeopathic alternative marketed to relieve influenza-like symptoms, the packaging states that each gram of medication contains 0.85 grams of sucrose and 0.15 grams of lactose. Sucrose and lactose are simply forms of sugar, of which oscillococcinum is nothing more than am expensive sugar pill."
Um, it does contain both.85 grams of sucrose and.15 grams of lactose, but those are only the "inactive" ingredients. The supposedly active ingredients are "200CK Anas barbariae hepatis," or heart and liver of the Muscovy duck. Whatever that is. I'm not saying I think it works (though they do have clinical data showing some benefit over placebo), but that the reviewer is wrong that it's ONLY a sugar pill.
Hey guy... you're in mighty fine shape. You wouldn't want to participate in some "arts" that involve shirtless men touching each other for "sport" would you? And maybe some gay sex afterward?
It doesn't have the graphics power to run Aero. Intel instructed Microsoft to remove that as a requirement for the "Vista Capable" sticker. Microsoft agreed, despite previously telling ATI, Nvidia, and HP that they would not remove that requirement, even for Intel.
I think you can bet on the fact that if this was a betting exchange, the odds would be NOWHERE NEAR what they are now. It would be way less than 1% on god existing, and the trading fees would eat up all of your profits.
...They make serving their customers their business, the crazy loons.
And yet keywords are auctioned off to the highest bidders, which goes againt delivering the most relevant search result. Add that Google is an effective monopoly - i.e., wields predominant market power.
Saying that "keywords are auctioned off to the highest bidder" is so incomplete that it's basically wrong. The auction process does include a monetary bid, but auction is massively affected by something called "Quality Score."
If Site A bids $5.00 for the keyword "dog house", but its landing page has nothing to do with "dog houses," its ad will either not be displayed, or will be displayed well below Site B who bids $0.05 but has a landing page that is all about doghouses. Landing page/keyword relevance, responsiveness of the advertiser's web server, and previous click-through rates for that advertiser ALL are factored in when Google decides in what order to place the ads. In fact, if Site A has a history of very low CTR ads that aren't relevant to the keywords on which it bids, it will have to overcome a low quality score for ALL of its ads--it'll be "guilty until proven innocent."
Yes, except you've forgotten a critical point... Companies who advertise and pay them money are their customers, not the masses who use their services for free.
Hmm, so Honda, Toyota, Ford, etc. should care what their dealers want, and not what the people who buy their cars from the dealers want?
Actually I could see a driving game working if it takes advantage of the accelerometer... tilt left / right to steer, forward/back to accelerate / brake.
What's interesting about the set up (where the merchants are responsible for the fraud, not the credit card companies) is that the card companies have very little incentive to prevent fraud. In fact, they frequently have a disincentive: They collect a $25+ per charge "chargeback fee" from the merchants, for fraudulent charges. It would be in credit card companies' interests if fraud increased! (Of course, not past the level where merchants are hurt too badly to stop accepting cards).
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What's new is that there are now true "stores" for apps... it's no longer just installer programs that let you download and install apps. CydiaStore launched just two days ago, and has a grand total of one app for sale (Cyntact, selling at $1.00, modifies the contacts app to display the contact's profile picture next to their name, when you're in the view where you scroll through contacts). The point is that there are private enterprises now hoping to make money off of this. At the moment Cydia is fairly limited -- only working with Amazon Payments -- but promises PayPal support soon, and you can bet there will be a number of new paid apps on the way.
Tried out Sumatra. I see it doesn't display text I've added with a PDF editor, or highlights I've done, or call-out boxes. Are those features not part of the general PDF spec? Either way, it kind of sucks that someone could open one of these PDFs in Sumatra and not see all sorts of commentary someone else intended, which can be seen if opening the file in Foxit or Adobe Reader for example...
Are you kidding? Medicine isn't perfect and never will be but modern medicine has doubled life expectancies in the last 100 years, cured/prevented countless diseases, improved quality of life, and saved many millions of lives. It's one of the greatest triumphs of humanity and you are saying the record isn't there? I say you are a grade-A fool if you think that.
I'm a huge fan of / big believer in modern medicine, but there is good reason to believe that much of the increase in lifespan is due to improved sanitation of our living environments and foodsources.
Would be interesting to see them maufacturing this stuff. I wonder if they go through the trouble of actually getting some duck liver, extracting its 'essence' or whatever, and diluting 200 times... of if they just put some sugar into pill form and call it good enough.
The difference is that no one is going to forgo some other important service because they buy the book. While people DO forgo proven and effective medical treatments because a homeopath tells them to...
Um, it does contain both .85 grams of sucrose and .15 grams of lactose, but those are only the "inactive" ingredients. The supposedly active ingredients are "200CK Anas barbariae hepatis," or heart and liver of the Muscovy duck. Whatever that is. I'm not saying I think it works (though they do have clinical data showing some benefit over placebo), but that the reviewer is wrong that it's ONLY a sugar pill.
Why the heck are you buying a wireless mouse for gaming? Terrible idea. And "backup to the hard drive" ?? What? $75 headphones? Um...
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It doesn't have the graphics power to run Aero. Intel instructed Microsoft to remove that as a requirement for the "Vista Capable" sticker. Microsoft agreed, despite previously telling ATI, Nvidia, and HP that they would not remove that requirement, even for Intel.
And why did this suck for HP, exactly?
I think you can bet on the fact that if this was a betting exchange, the odds would be NOWHERE NEAR what they are now. It would be way less than 1% on god existing, and the trading fees would eat up all of your profits.
There are markets for betting on the Boson alone. Right now the betting is at 48% that it will be confirmed by 2011. See: http://www.intrade.com/index.jsp?request_operation=trade&request_type=action&selConID=622297 [intrade.com]
FYI plenty of retailers will repackage these as "new" if there are no external signs of use.
He wanted to know where to get a refub netbook, not bluetooth headset.
Um, I don't think this thread is about what you think it's about.
How is it we have 4 engies and only 1 sentry?
What?
For quite some time, Yahoo! Mail required a credit card to sign up for an account. They dropped it eventually when it hindered sign-ups.
Um, to me at least, $170 for a graphics card is not "cheap"...
And yet keywords are auctioned off to the highest bidders, which goes againt delivering the most relevant search result. Add that Google is an effective monopoly - i.e., wields predominant market power.
Saying that "keywords are auctioned off to the highest bidder" is so incomplete that it's basically wrong. The auction process does include a monetary bid, but auction is massively affected by something called "Quality Score."
If Site A bids $5.00 for the keyword "dog house", but its landing page has nothing to do with "dog houses," its ad will either not be displayed, or will be displayed well below Site B who bids $0.05 but has a landing page that is all about doghouses. Landing page/keyword relevance, responsiveness of the advertiser's web server, and previous click-through rates for that advertiser ALL are factored in when Google decides in what order to place the ads. In fact, if Site A has a history of very low CTR ads that aren't relevant to the keywords on which it bids, it will have to overcome a low quality score for ALL of its ads--it'll be "guilty until proven innocent."
Yes, except you've forgotten a critical point... Companies who advertise and pay them money are their customers, not the masses who use their services for free.
Hmm, so Honda, Toyota, Ford, etc. should care what their dealers want, and not what the people who buy their cars from the dealers want?
Wow, you posted this just to point out that it should have said "almost"? LOL.
Actually I could see a driving game working if it takes advantage of the accelerometer... tilt left / right to steer, forward/back to accelerate / brake.
What's interesting about the set up (where the merchants are responsible for the fraud, not the credit card companies) is that the card companies have very little incentive to prevent fraud. In fact, they frequently have a disincentive: They collect a $25+ per charge "chargeback fee" from the merchants, for fraudulent charges. It would be in credit card companies' interests if fraud increased! (Of course, not past the level where merchants are hurt too badly to stop accepting cards).
Hmm, glare? I think you'd want a gaze and not a glare before going in for a kiss.
Hmm, just a hypothesis, but I'm guessing some of your buds over at the CIA would disagree about their not needing training in critical thinking.