Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature? Ms.K: I'm sorry, that would be playing God. Bart: God shmod! I want my monkey-man!
Gee, this is terrible! People are using their (post-income-tax) money to purchase things, and the government isn't being inserted into the transaction at all. Anarchy is soon to follow.
It all comes down to this: People always do what they think will make them happy.
Considering how quantum processes might effect mental decisions is a rather intriguing notion, but it isn't likely to have practical value in understanding human nature.
Time is on Google's side. Look ten years down the road. Hosting costs and bandwidth costs will be greatly reduced, as is the trend. (Think how far web technology has come since 1999.) Advertising models will have matured, and YouTube will have profitable deals with specific content providers.
The most important thing to have is users. People use Google for searches because it is familiar and it is a habit. The same is now true for videos and YouTube. Despite the fact that other video sites exist, most people think of YouTube by default. Google is willing to lose money now in order to encourage this habit, so that when it does become profitable they will be in prime position.
The low price of indie games has caused the developers to focus more on creating unique experiences rather than trying to push the graphics/technology envelope. It's better this way.
Furthermore, these downloadable console games are basically only available for rent, since there is no way to sell them when you are done. The prices need to be cheap since buyers don't have all the rights of someone who buys a game on disc.
A new studio game might cost $60 these days. However, not everyone buys new and keeps the game forever. I'm more likely to buy used, play for a few months, and then resell. The whole transaction costs me about the same as the full price of these "cheap" indie games.
I'd like to watch this show, but I don't have cable. It's very nice that they have full episodes available on Colbert Nation. However, is there any way to watch the show online Tuesday night? Does anyone know how long they wait before putting that night's show onto the web?
"Our report on the terrorist group is complete." "What did you find?" "Well, for one thing, we think they have been using the web to visit popular websites." "Okay... what else?" "Our findings indicate they have been eating food, possibly sourced from restaurants. Also, we think they've been engaging in verbal communication." "That doesn't exactly narrow it down, does it? Based on that, almost anyone could be a susp... oh! I get it. Nice work!"
Jason Perlow wrote quite a rant without about fair use without understanding how it works. Simply lowering the sound quality of copyrighted recordings doesn't give him the right to redistribute those songs in their entirety. Using a short clip of one or two songs might have been okay.
I agree that what he did was reasonable from a common sense perspective, and that it was silly and pointless of Warner to issue a takedown request for the video in question. Unfortunately, common sense has NOTHING to do with copyright law and the DMCA.
It's too bad that MLB charges money for this service. Considering the number of ads that naturally fit into a baseball game broadcast, it should still be profitable to broadcast it for free. This works well for TV stations which broadcast baseball games, and it's also been very successful for the web broadcasts of the NCAA basketball tournament in recent years.
Of course, it's not free because the MLB won't pass up this (or any) chance to make money. Never mind the fact that the game broadcasts themselves are also ads, since the fans often buy merchandise and tickets.
I would love to see the day come when virtually any sporting event is broadcast online for free. The economics seem to add up. Because of the importance of a live broadcast, and the frequency of breaks in the action, ads actually make sense as a way to pay for sports broadcasts. I don't often tolerate ads for any other sort of video.
Yes, but the big sites they're going after like Google and Yahoo will respect robots.txt. (If they don't, now that would be a story.)
Google isn't stealing their articles. They are linking to their articles, with maybe a snippet quoted which falls under fair use.
The trouble is that the AP wants it both ways. They don't want to exclude themselves from Google's traditional search results. And yet, they want to block Google from compiling search results about recent news into a single, useful page.
Wait, wait, I have a similar epiphany in another field!
"The value of a pizza equals the net value added by each topping, multiplied by the cheese, rated by the taste experience of each user, and minus 100 if it came from Domino's."
There you go - please send accolades and research grants this way.
How long until someone has a power source embedded in their arm? A person could plug in their laptop and run it indefinitely, while losing weight at the same time.
Sometimes, I won't read/. for a couple of days. Then I'll bring up the site and start reading through stories. After I've read (or scanned over) several stories, I might need to go do something else, and so I close the page.
Now a few hours later, I come back. There are a few new stories I haven't seen, followed by a big chunk I have seen, followed by another chunk I haven't seen, going back to whatever story I read last two days ago. Trying to figure out my place is a pain.
I'd love to see a personalized index in which I check off stories as read, and they disappear. If I close the page and come back later, only those stories not marked as read would be listed.
I know you can do something like this with an RSS reader, such as Google Reader. But I really prefer to read stories directly on Slashdot.
I agree that streaming and/or downloading of movies is the future, though it will take a long time to be phased in. What I don't understand is what role Netflix/Blockbuster can hope to play in this area.
Netflix/Blockbuster : Movie Streaming:: AOL : Web Portal
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Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?
Ms.K: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.
Bart: God shmod! I want my monkey-man!
Gee, this is terrible! People are using their (post-income-tax) money to purchase things, and the government isn't being inserted into the transaction at all. Anarchy is soon to follow.
It all comes down to this: People always do what they think will make them happy.
Considering how quantum processes might effect mental decisions is a rather intriguing notion, but it isn't likely to have practical value in understanding human nature.
It turns out that coal lobbyists were his worst nightmare.
Time is on Google's side. Look ten years down the road. Hosting costs and bandwidth costs will be greatly reduced, as is the trend. (Think how far web technology has come since 1999.) Advertising models will have matured, and YouTube will have profitable deals with specific content providers.
The most important thing to have is users. People use Google for searches because it is familiar and it is a habit. The same is now true for videos and YouTube. Despite the fact that other video sites exist, most people think of YouTube by default. Google is willing to lose money now in order to encourage this habit, so that when it does become profitable they will be in prime position.
The low price of indie games has caused the developers to focus more on creating unique experiences rather than trying to push the graphics/technology envelope. It's better this way.
Furthermore, these downloadable console games are basically only available for rent, since there is no way to sell them when you are done. The prices need to be cheap since buyers don't have all the rights of someone who buys a game on disc.
A new studio game might cost $60 these days. However, not everyone buys new and keeps the game forever. I'm more likely to buy used, play for a few months, and then resell. The whole transaction costs me about the same as the full price of these "cheap" indie games.
I'd like to watch this show, but I don't have cable. It's very nice that they have full episodes available on Colbert Nation. However, is there any way to watch the show online Tuesday night? Does anyone know how long they wait before putting that night's show onto the web?
I'll bet it did.
Relax. Humor is a useful tool for highlighting absurdities, and a healthy way to deal with things that make us uncomfortable.
"Our report on the terrorist group is complete."
"What did you find?"
"Well, for one thing, we think they have been using the web to visit popular websites."
"Okay... what else?"
"Our findings indicate they have been eating food, possibly sourced from restaurants. Also, we think they've been engaging in verbal communication."
"That doesn't exactly narrow it down, does it? Based on that, almost anyone could be a susp... oh! I get it. Nice work!"
Jason Perlow wrote quite a rant without about fair use without understanding how it works. Simply lowering the sound quality of copyrighted recordings doesn't give him the right to redistribute those songs in their entirety. Using a short clip of one or two songs might have been okay.
I agree that what he did was reasonable from a common sense perspective, and that it was silly and pointless of Warner to issue a takedown request for the video in question. Unfortunately, common sense has NOTHING to do with copyright law and the DMCA.
It's too bad that MLB charges money for this service. Considering the number of ads that naturally fit into a baseball game broadcast, it should still be profitable to broadcast it for free. This works well for TV stations which broadcast baseball games, and it's also been very successful for the web broadcasts of the NCAA basketball tournament in recent years.
Of course, it's not free because the MLB won't pass up this (or any) chance to make money. Never mind the fact that the game broadcasts themselves are also ads, since the fans often buy merchandise and tickets.
I would love to see the day come when virtually any sporting event is broadcast online for free. The economics seem to add up. Because of the importance of a live broadcast, and the frequency of breaks in the action, ads actually make sense as a way to pay for sports broadcasts. I don't often tolerate ads for any other sort of video.
Yes, but the big sites they're going after like Google and Yahoo will respect robots.txt. (If they don't, now that would be a story.)
Google isn't stealing their articles. They are linking to their articles, with maybe a snippet quoted which falls under fair use.
The trouble is that the AP wants it both ways. They don't want to exclude themselves from Google's traditional search results. And yet, they want to block Google from compiling search results about recent news into a single, useful page.
Wait, wait, I have a similar epiphany in another field!
"The value of a pizza equals the net value added by each topping, multiplied by the cheese, rated by the taste experience of each user, and minus 100 if it came from Domino's."
There you go - please send accolades and research grants this way.
And who could forget the famous "pawn rush" strategy that beat Deep Blue?
Megahertz per milli-watt doesn't make sense either. Some chips can accomplish more per clock cycle than others.
(And in this case, the statistic is going to make ARM look good.)
If it can do all that and do it well, I'd love to have it in my living room, even if they don't release any games for it.
My own experience bears this out. I have been using P2P for many years, and have always found it exceedingly fair.
That's nothing, I can insert malicious code into the space between those smileys.
How long until someone has a power source embedded in their arm? A person could plug in their laptop and run it indefinitely, while losing weight at the same time.
Considering the /. (ahem) "editorial process", it's anyone's guess if they realized they were posting an April Fool's story or not.
I'm glad that they will be charging for this. I don't want to see base ticket prices go any higher.
Wi-Fi would help to pass the time during a flight. However, since domestic flights are typically short, all I need is an mp3 player and a book.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://free.avg.com/
Sometimes, I won't read /. for a couple of days. Then I'll bring up the site and start reading through stories. After I've read (or scanned over) several stories, I might need to go do something else, and so I close the page.
Now a few hours later, I come back. There are a few new stories I haven't seen, followed by a big chunk I have seen, followed by another chunk I haven't seen, going back to whatever story I read last two days ago. Trying to figure out my place is a pain.
I'd love to see a personalized index in which I check off stories as read, and they disappear. If I close the page and come back later, only those stories not marked as read would be listed.
I know you can do something like this with an RSS reader, such as Google Reader. But I really prefer to read stories directly on Slashdot.
I agree that streaming and/or downloading of movies is the future, though it will take a long time to be phased in. What I don't understand is what role Netflix/Blockbuster can hope to play in this area.
Netflix/Blockbuster : Movie Streaming :: AOL : Web Portal