There is absolutely no crime on the island (as in zero). It's a very, very, very wealthy strip of island in Sarasota, FL and there's no reason for this.
The police department there has more money than they know what to do with. I guess it shows.
Where I live (big bad city), it's $14.00 for a single adult ticket, plus a $1.00 fee to buy online.
Oh, you want to see "A Scientologist Actor Saves the World 3D?"
That'll be $19.00 for the "3D ZOMG1!1!!!" experience, plus a $1.00 fee to buy online.
I do the math and realize I have a pretty big HD tv and a penchant for Usenet and all of the sudden that cellphone-manners-fight-waiting-to-happen doesn't seem so appealing.
(Disclosure: I'm am old bastard myself but I work in the mobile dev world so it's my job to know when things are making waves in the industry.)
The demographic that they appeal to is very, very young. As in teens and college-aged adults. The app itself is extremely popular in the iTunes store and on Android. So much so, in fact, that Facebook, after not being able to buy it quickly (after explosive... truly explosive growth) decided to rip it off and build a clone called, wait for it, Poke.
People declared the end of Snapchat as big bad Facebook was going to eat their lunch, digest their user base and excrete them out into a paper bag to be lit aflame and left on Snapchat's front step. Poke hit around #14 on iTunes, then slide down fairly rapidly and is now an afterthought.
This was a victory for small dev shops that demonstrated that big companies can clone a product but that user loyalty is a very, very real thing.
This is an Android,iOS and web app that just came out a few weeks ago. I've been playing with it and it's perfect for sending messages you don't want to exist after the person reads them.
Basically, it's a free messaging services where the messages self-destruct. They never get written do disk, just to volatile memory. If there's an outage messages will be lost, which sucks, but it does mean that they kind of mean business about privacy. The messages have a maximum shelf life of 30 days.
I don't know if it's going to get that big but I realized the other day that even in my non-criminal, law-abiding life there are still a lot of things that I send to people via SMS that I probably should not have. Lots. Of. Things.
I love tearing down these people just as much as the next book-readin' heathen but please, my fellow freethinking friends, do not think that for a second this has anything to do with an actual debate on the subject.
It's meant to be a rallying cry for easily-led, mis/uneducated people and nothing more.
It's meant to show the Creation Museum as the stalwart fighter for the cause of Intelligent Design, which, I suppose it is.
By/. posting this it does nothing but drive pageviews and traffic and keep this and other kinds of similar stories in the spotlight.
Even though companies complain about ROI (which is a valid argument) it is still an extremely effective way of connecting to consumers. This is not going away any time soon.
They are at ~450 million mobile users. Mobile commerce is exploding.
It's great to push people to your blog/website from Facebook but if it's mirroring your website's content you can connect with your users (read:customers) via 1 or 2 clicks instead of 12. You choose the 1 or 2-click method, always.
Post this to http://reddit.com/r/atheism and rally the troops. It's a huge, highly-motivated community that delights in challenging these sorts of offenses.
Just a quick 90-100 minute jaunt in traffic from Manhattan into the heart of one of the least exciting places in all of New York. There is literally NOTHING out there unless you're on your way to the vineyards. I can't see this being a big tourist attraction which something like a Tesla museum deserves. Boo.
A better indicator would be weighted for the frequency a respondent has been subjected to TSA procedures:
I have traveled by airline X times since 2009:
0 times = score 1.00
1 time = score 1.25
2 times = score 1.50
3 times = score 2.00
4 times = score 2.50
5 times = score 3.25
...and so on. Mind you, I am no statistician and I'm sure someone could devise a better spread with a better understanding of the demands of this kind of survey.
As someone who travels via airline +/- 10 times per year I can say that I have had the unpleasant experience of having to be patted down because I refuse to be subjected to as-of-yet questionable and unnecessary amounts of radiation. If the jury's still out on the scanner, I'll be opting out.
I do fully understand that this wasn't the intention of the study and wouldn't you know, it's an outcome that reinforces the status quo and besmirches dissent. I can see this being a headline in USA Today or some other brain-dead rag.
If someone has no frame of reference on a particular matter, why should their opinion be validated? For instance, would my opinion about legislation involved in animal husbandry regulations be considered worth anything? As someone who's never been involved in the insemination of livestock I can say, without hesitation, the answer is a resounding "No."
I hate to say it, I really, really hate to say it(and most of the time when someone says that it's meant to disguise the fact that they really are enjoying saying it, but honestly, I actually DO hate to say it)but this is just another symptom of the middle and lower class people of the United States getting hosed by large corporations.
Is there any problem, let's say real or overly hyped (global warming, I'm looking your way) that isn't a direct result of the greed of our country?
We're losing ground to China and the EU everyday.
I love capitalism but this cannibalization has got to stop. Only it won't. Our government is designed to pork us just like the corporations do. They are part and parcel.
We have a duopoly that serves none of its electorate save the upper 1%.
China owns our debt. This isn't a recession or a depression it's the end.
First comes the relative financial security of the middle class diminishing.
Union jobs? Not anymore. Pensions? Nope. Health/Dental benefits? Not today my friend.
Credit crisis, sub-prime mortgage explosion, inflation, sky-high fuel costs... wonderful. Got an astronomically expensive war in Iraq? Not a problem, we'll just borrow to cover that.
Face it, we're on a sinking ship. There are no life vests, no life boats. We have to accept the fact that we've been suckered by powerful interests in the name of greed and that what we thought was America is gone forever. I just hope the next super power is a democracy.
Obviously they're passing the savings from their borrowed VHS camcorder craptastic demo video to their customers. Wait, do they have customers?
I just want one so I'm bitter.
I'm a former Windows user (3.1/98/2000/XP) who tried Redhat, Gentoo and finally settled with Ubuntu about a year and a half ago. It's been a lot of learning and reading man files (When will "reading man files" not sound gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that.) I know on the fundamentals the Linux desktop is pretty tight and the stability is something I wasn't used to on my many Windows boxes.
There's a bunch of children's software available for Linux and I think it's pretty easy to lock down which makes it, IMO, pretty good as a platform for children. For teenagers, however, you need two things and you need to do them well: Games and Media. I'm two years into using Linux and I still don't have a good, reliable flash plugin. That should work out of the box. The games situation is even worse. There are legions of Windows users out there that would switch over if it meant they didn't have to wait two years for a port of a game they can get immediately on XP/Vista.
Make your distro work out of the box like Windows users are expecting it should (insert Windows flamebait joke here) and you've got them. It's not about switching at that point, it's about Windows making a case for you to stay or come back.
... was all the rage the last time I heard any grumblings about the OLGA. As I recall, Cherry Lane Publishing sued to have it shut down and this was about three or four years (decades in teh interweb-time) before the rise of file-sharring and Mp3s. Looking back at this time period you can't help but see what a huge waste of time it was to go through all the trouble of launching a legal campaign against something you 'perceive' as dangerous to your revenue stream, just to have another technology come down the pipe a couple of years later that makes your crys of malfeasance seem about as legititmate as people complaining that the deck chairs on the Titanic don't have sufficient lumbar support. The whole thing is going down, my friend.
I picked up my first guitar at 15 (which was in 1995). It was a Sunburst Fender Mexi-Strat and it's about two feet away from me right as I type this. The OLGA, as well as programs like Tabit (ah, DOS, remember DOS?), played more than an integral part in helping me to learn to play and I'm grateful to all of those random soandso@soandso.coms that tabbed out the music that I consumed and callused my fingers to. If Cherry Lane or others want to go after people that are scanning sheet music and posting PDFs, more power to them. That's a copyright issue, go get 'em boys. But if I'm sitting with a copy of StringWalker open for three bleary-eyed hours, trying to make "I Just Want Some Skank" by the Circle Jerks sound right, don't tell me what I'm doing is illegal or in any way detrimental to the music industry.
It's not.
It's cultivating interest via a medium that the publishing community obviously, obviously either fears or is woefully ignorant of.
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I've seen the movies. They come back. It gets ugly.
The only way to determine which has an advantage is to conduct UX research from a completely unbiased standpoint.
This is beyond ridiculous.
There is absolutely no crime on the island (as in zero). It's a very, very, very wealthy strip of island in Sarasota, FL and there's no reason for this.
The police department there has more money than they know what to do with. I guess it shows.
And somehow the banksters get away with economic murder...
I'm unconvinced.
$8.00 for a movie ticket? My god.
Where I live (big bad city), it's $14.00 for a single adult ticket, plus a $1.00 fee to buy online.
Oh, you want to see "A Scientologist Actor Saves the World 3D?"
That'll be $19.00 for the "3D ZOMG1!1!!!" experience, plus a $1.00 fee to buy online.
I do the math and realize I have a pretty big HD tv and a penchant for Usenet and all of the sudden that cellphone-manners-fight-waiting-to-happen doesn't seem so appealing.
...have become the 'Stranger Danger' adults and these adults are so weak-minded that things like this happen all the time.
All. The. Time.
you don't fuck with the sysadmin.
(Disclosure: I'm am old bastard myself but I work in the mobile dev world so it's my job to know when things are making waves in the industry.)
The demographic that they appeal to is very, very young. As in teens and college-aged adults. The app itself is extremely popular in the iTunes store and on Android. So much so, in fact, that Facebook, after not being able to buy it quickly (after explosive... truly explosive growth) decided to rip it off and build a clone called, wait for it, Poke.
People declared the end of Snapchat as big bad Facebook was going to eat their lunch, digest their user base and excrete them out into a paper bag to be lit aflame and left on Snapchat's front step. Poke hit around #14 on iTunes, then slide down fairly rapidly and is now an afterthought.
This was a victory for small dev shops that demonstrated that big companies can clone a product but that user loyalty is a very, very real thing.
Basically, it's a free messaging services where the messages self-destruct. They never get written do disk, just to volatile memory. If there's an outage messages will be lost, which sucks, but it does mean that they kind of mean business about privacy. The messages have a maximum shelf life of 30 days.
Here's a writeup in Techcrunch.
I don't know if it's going to get that big but I realized the other day that even in my non-criminal, law-abiding life there are still a lot of things that I send to people via SMS that I probably should not have. Lots. Of. Things.
They have a tech FAQ which goes into detail about encryption, privacy, etc.
I love tearing down these people just as much as the next book-readin' heathen but please, my fellow freethinking friends, do not think that for a second this has anything to do with an actual debate on the subject.
/. posting this it does nothing but drive pageviews and traffic and keep this and other kinds of similar stories in the spotlight.
It's meant to be a rallying cry for easily-led, mis/uneducated people and nothing more.
It's meant to show the Creation Museum as the stalwart fighter for the cause of Intelligent Design, which, I suppose it is.
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We have more important things to be debating.
If it came within 200ft of a Boeing jumbojet I think we can assume it found itself a watery grave in Jamaica Bay.
Eyeballs my friend. Eyeballs.
Even though companies complain about ROI (which is a valid argument) it is still an extremely effective way of connecting to consumers. This is not going away any time soon. They are at ~450 million mobile users. Mobile commerce is exploding.
It's great to push people to your blog/website from Facebook but if it's mirroring your website's content you can connect with your users (read:customers) via 1 or 2 clicks instead of 12. You choose the 1 or 2-click method, always.
Amen.
Post this to http://reddit.com/r/atheism and rally the troops. It's a huge, highly-motivated community that delights in challenging these sorts of offenses.
Completely agree sir or madame but I just wanted to correct you. The word you're looking for is RIFE, not RIPE.
until your cat dies of exhaustion.
Just a quick 90-100 minute jaunt in traffic from Manhattan into the heart of one of the least exciting places in all of New York. There is literally NOTHING out there unless you're on your way to the vineyards. I can't see this being a big tourist attraction which something like a Tesla museum deserves. Boo.
A better indicator would be weighted for the frequency a respondent has been subjected to TSA procedures:
...and so on. Mind you, I am no statistician and I'm sure someone could devise a better spread with a better understanding of the demands of this kind of survey.
I have traveled by airline X times since 2009:
0 times = score 1.00
1 time = score 1.25
2 times = score 1.50
3 times = score 2.00
4 times = score 2.50
5 times = score 3.25
As someone who travels via airline +/- 10 times per year I can say that I have had the unpleasant experience of having to be patted down because I refuse to be subjected to as-of-yet questionable and unnecessary amounts of radiation. If the jury's still out on the scanner, I'll be opting out.
I do fully understand that this wasn't the intention of the study and wouldn't you know, it's an outcome that reinforces the status quo and besmirches dissent. I can see this being a headline in USA Today or some other brain-dead rag.
If someone has no frame of reference on a particular matter, why should their opinion be validated? For instance, would my opinion about legislation involved in animal husbandry regulations be considered worth anything? As someone who's never been involved in the insemination of livestock I can say, without hesitation, the answer is a resounding "No."
a night without stars. -Punjab (Annie - 1982)
I hate to say it, I really, really hate to say it(and most of the time when someone says that it's meant to disguise the fact that they really are enjoying saying it, but honestly, I actually DO hate to say it)but this is just another symptom of the middle and lower class people of the United States getting hosed by large corporations.
Is there any problem, let's say real or overly hyped (global warming, I'm looking your way) that isn't a direct result of the greed of our country?
We're losing ground to China and the EU everyday.
I love capitalism but this cannibalization has got to stop. Only it won't. Our government is designed to pork us just like the corporations do. They are part and parcel.
We have a duopoly that serves none of its electorate save the upper 1%.
China owns our debt. This isn't a recession or a depression it's the end.
First comes the relative financial security of the middle class diminishing. Union jobs? Not anymore. Pensions? Nope. Health/Dental benefits? Not today my friend.
Credit crisis, sub-prime mortgage explosion, inflation, sky-high fuel costs... wonderful. Got an astronomically expensive war in Iraq? Not a problem, we'll just borrow to cover that.
Face it, we're on a sinking ship. There are no life vests, no life boats. We have to accept the fact that we've been suckered by powerful interests in the name of greed and that what we thought was America is gone forever. I just hope the next super power is a democracy.
Bravo upper 1%, bravo.
Obviously they're passing the savings from their borrowed VHS camcorder craptastic demo video to their customers. Wait, do they have customers? I just want one so I'm bitter.
So, it goes over your body and protects you from harmful things but "Trojan?" Was the name "Ultimate Mega Body Condom" already taken?
There's a bunch of children's software available for Linux and I think it's pretty easy to lock down which makes it, IMO, pretty good as a platform for children. For teenagers, however, you need two things and you need to do them well: Games and Media. I'm two years into using Linux and I still don't have a good, reliable flash plugin. That should work out of the box. The games situation is even worse. There are legions of Windows users out there that would switch over if it meant they didn't have to wait two years for a port of a game they can get immediately on XP/Vista.
Make your distro work out of the box like Windows users are expecting it should (insert Windows flamebait joke here) and you've got them. It's not about switching at that point, it's about Windows making a case for you to stay or come back.
... was all the rage the last time I heard any grumblings about the OLGA. As I recall, Cherry Lane Publishing sued to have it shut down and this was about three or four years (decades in teh interweb-time) before the rise of file-sharring and Mp3s. Looking back at this time period you can't help but see what a huge waste of time it was to go through all the trouble of launching a legal campaign against something you 'perceive' as dangerous to your revenue stream, just to have another technology come down the pipe a couple of years later that makes your crys of malfeasance seem about as legititmate as people complaining that the deck chairs on the Titanic don't have sufficient lumbar support. The whole thing is going down, my friend.
I picked up my first guitar at 15 (which was in 1995). It was a Sunburst Fender Mexi-Strat and it's about two feet away from me right as I type this. The OLGA, as well as programs like Tabit (ah, DOS, remember DOS?), played more than an integral part in helping me to learn to play and I'm grateful to all of those random soandso@soandso.coms that tabbed out the music that I consumed and callused my fingers to. If Cherry Lane or others want to go after people that are scanning sheet music and posting PDFs, more power to them. That's a copyright issue, go get 'em boys. But if I'm sitting with a copy of StringWalker open for three bleary-eyed hours, trying to make "I Just Want Some Skank" by the Circle Jerks sound right, don't tell me what I'm doing is illegal or in any way detrimental to the music industry.
It's not.
It's cultivating interest via a medium that the publishing community obviously, obviously either fears or is woefully ignorant of.