It is official; Slashdot now confirms: Ziff Davis is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Ziff Davis community when/. confirmed that Ziff Davis will be cutting market share to less than a fraction of 1 percent.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Ziff Davis' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Ziff Davis faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Ziff Davis because Ziff Davis is dying. Things are looking very bad for Ziff Davis. As many of us are already aware, Ziff Davis continues to sell market share. Contractual ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Ziff Davis is dying.
Why is it so hard to make a good Trek game? Why do developers keep trying and failing?
What's odd is that it is possible to make a good, licensed game. Take KOTOR for xbox, as an example.
However, most studios seem to see a content license as a "get out of work free" card, and expect that the game will sell on name recognition alone, regardless of whether or not it's any good.
what kind of survival book is that?
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SQL is pitted against the most difficult analysis tasks just as survival scenario books pit humans against pavement and lions.
This "survival scenario book" you're referring to sounds like it takes place at the zoo.
The centerpiece was the AMD LIVE! Home Cinema, an all-in-one device that combines a set-top cable box, stereo receiver, DVD player, digital video recorder, and a PC.
This device is to computing what the spork is to silverware.
It is official; Slashdot now confirms: *Pegasus is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Pegasus community when/. confirmed that *Pegasus market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all clients. Coming close on the heels of a recent/. survey which plainly states that *Pegasus has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Pegasus is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Pegasus' future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Pegasus faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Pegasus because *Pegasus is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Pegasus. As many of us are already aware, *Pegasus continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Pegasus is dying.
According to one researcher, the findings provide "beautiful confirmation" of standard theories to explain how structures in the Universe evolved over billions of years.'
For instance, the front of spam fighting is a tough one and it looks as though researchers are now turning towards an ontology or taxonomy based solution to fight spammers.
I think it would be much more effective if we used a taxidermy-based solution to fight spammers.
While much needs to be developed to apply such an algorithm to real photographic images, he offers a simple, yet obvious solution: cover up the sensitive information, don't blur it."
And please, when you cover the information with black bars, use Adobe Acrobat. (this solution brought to you by the CIA)
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has been working on OS-level integration of an geographical mapping technology as an integral part of Leopard, its next-generation OS.
Why is it that when apple does this kind of thing it's somehow "cool", but when Microsoft does it, it's somehow "evil"?
This is a very simple test with a bucket of water and a single water block. The water in the bucket reaches equilibrium at about 96 F and thus evaporates quite quickly.
If it works fine with a bucket, why do you have to use an entire swimming pool?
It came as no surprise to Tim O'Reilly that Nielsen BuzzMetrics found 'Web 2.0' the most cited Wikipedia article of the year (as measured by blog mentions).
As a matter of fact, its popularity has tripled in the last six months.
The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new.
I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that they replaced the entire user interface with a giant version of Clippy.
bluetooth is an IP minefield anyway
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The whole spec that is bluetooth is basically an IP disaster as it is anyway. Even proper hardware isn't immune from the dreaded "license error of death".
The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window (yes, this is a video), NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet.
Just so we're clear, their logic is that the internet is a catalyst for youth vandalism?
Man, kids these days. When I was their age, we had to vandalize stuff the old fashioned way.
But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations.
That's a great idea. Because according to wikipedia, the number of free knowledge and free software projects has tripled in the last six months.
They may decrease the actual number of murders though, which would be a better result than just increasing the number of convictions.
Well, if you look at the cited circumstances for homicide, a full third of homicides in the U.S. are due to argument. I don't see that cameras would decrease that. Then you have homicides "committed during a rape, robbery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, and violations of prostitution and commercial vice laws, other sex offenses, narcotic drug laws, and gambling laws." Again, I don't see that cameras would decrease homicides in those circumstances. Gang killings? Same thing.
The only category that cameras *may* have an effect are "unknown", which is about a third of the homicides, or about 5,000 people.
Compare that with the fact that in 2003, 13,700 people (at least) died from falling.
Why doesn't everyone make such a big stink about preventing the number of falls in the United States? Why does this country let itself be run by fear?
"the U.S. murder rate is nearly six times the English murder rate (figure 5). Correspondingly, the U.S. murder conviction rate per 1,000 population is nearly six times England's (.059 versus.010) (figure 19)."
...Which means the U.S. police are keeping up just fine. More cameras don't prevent more murders, and the police seem to be doing fine catching the murderers without them.
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It is official; Slashdot now confirms: Ziff Davis is dying
/. confirmed that Ziff Davis will be cutting market share to less than a fraction of 1 percent.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Ziff Davis community when
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Ziff Davis' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Ziff Davis faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Ziff Davis because Ziff Davis is dying. Things are looking very bad for Ziff Davis. As many of us are already aware, Ziff Davis continues to sell market share. Contractual ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Ziff Davis is dying.
Why is it so hard to make a good Trek game? Why do developers keep trying and failing?
What's odd is that it is possible to make a good, licensed game. Take KOTOR for xbox, as an example.
However, most studios seem to see a content license as a "get out of work free" card, and expect that the game will sell on name recognition alone, regardless of whether or not it's any good.
SQL is pitted against the most difficult analysis tasks just as survival scenario books pit humans against pavement and lions.
This "survival scenario book" you're referring to sounds like it takes place at the zoo.
So is there even any proof that requiring ID makes us "safe" from terrorism?
It stands to reason that anyone doing anything like that would just get a fake ID.
Ok, so now in addition to Creative's Live! line of sound products, XBOX Live!, and MS' Live.com search, we have AMD's Live! home media PC.
Yeah, sounds like the boys over in marketing really worked hard on that one.
The centerpiece was the AMD LIVE! Home Cinema, an all-in-one device that combines a set-top cable box, stereo receiver, DVD player, digital video recorder, and a PC.
This device is to computing what the spork is to silverware.
Drakewolf writes to tell us that despite the many failed attempts to bridge the gap between the PC and home entertainment systems
You mean like the xbox360? or the macmini running frontrow?
It is official; Slashdot now confirms: *Pegasus is dying
/. confirmed that *Pegasus market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all clients. Coming close on the heels of a recent /. survey which plainly states that *Pegasus has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Pegasus is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Pegasus community when
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Pegasus' future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Pegasus faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Pegasus because *Pegasus is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Pegasus. As many of us are already aware, *Pegasus continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Pegasus is dying.
At the moment, development on the Gentoo/FreeBSD is on hold and the downloads have been removed from the Gentoo mirrors.
It's almost as if... BSD were dying, or something.
Using a non-Windows-based PC may be one defense against these programs, known as malware
The old "security through obscurity" solution rears its head yet again...
According to one researcher, the findings provide "beautiful confirmation" of standard theories to explain how structures in the Universe evolved over billions of years.'
... thereby proving god exists.
For instance, the front of spam fighting is a tough one and it looks as though researchers are now turning towards an ontology or taxonomy based solution to fight spammers.
I think it would be much more effective if we used a taxidermy-based solution to fight spammers.
While much needs to be developed to apply such an algorithm to real photographic images, he offers a simple, yet obvious solution: cover up the sensitive information, don't blur it."
And please, when you cover the information with black bars, use Adobe Acrobat. (this solution brought to you by the CIA)
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has been working on OS-level integration of an geographical mapping technology as an integral part of Leopard, its next-generation OS.
Why is it that when apple does this kind of thing it's somehow "cool", but when Microsoft does it, it's somehow "evil"?
The Wall Street Journal is carrying a report on immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs.
You mean like Albert Einstein?
This finding indicates there may be an intermediate size range of holes
Much like the modern workplace.
This is a very simple test with a bucket of water and a single water block. The water in the bucket reaches equilibrium at about 96 F and thus evaporates quite quickly.
If it works fine with a bucket, why do you have to use an entire swimming pool?
It came as no surprise to Tim O'Reilly that Nielsen BuzzMetrics found 'Web 2.0' the most cited Wikipedia article of the year (as measured by blog mentions).
As a matter of fact, its popularity has tripled in the last six months.
IE6 Was Unsafe 284 Days In 2006
Of course the flip side of this story is that IE6 was safe for 81 days in 2006.
Obviously, the solution is to shorten the year to 81 days.
The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new.
I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that they replaced the entire user interface with a giant version of Clippy.
The whole spec that is bluetooth is basically an IP disaster as it is anyway. Even proper hardware isn't immune from the dreaded "license error of death".
The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window (yes, this is a video), NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet.
Just so we're clear, their logic is that the internet is a catalyst for youth vandalism?
Man, kids these days. When I was their age, we had to vandalize stuff the old fashioned way.
But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations.
That's a great idea. Because according to wikipedia, the number of free knowledge and free software projects has tripled in the last six months.
They may decrease the actual number of murders though, which would be a better result than just increasing the number of convictions.
Well, if you look at the cited circumstances for homicide, a full third of homicides in the U.S. are due to argument. I don't see that cameras would decrease that. Then you have homicides "committed during a rape, robbery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, and violations of prostitution and commercial vice laws, other sex offenses, narcotic drug laws, and gambling laws." Again, I don't see that cameras would decrease homicides in those circumstances. Gang killings? Same thing.
The only category that cameras *may* have an effect are "unknown", which is about a third of the homicides, or about 5,000 people.
Compare that with the fact that in 2003, 13,700 people (at least) died from falling.
Why doesn't everyone make such a big stink about preventing the number of falls in the United States? Why does this country let itself be run by fear?
Did you read the entire thread?
.010) (figure 19)."
...Which means the U.S. police are keeping up just fine. More cameras don't prevent more murders, and the police seem to be doing fine catching the murderers without them.
"the U.S. murder rate is nearly six times the English murder rate (figure 5). Correspondingly, the U.S. murder conviction rate per 1,000 population is nearly six times England's (.059 versus