Google's targeted advertisements seems reasonable; When you decide to use their free services, you should know that advertising is a part of the deal.
Broadband providers using DPI, on the other hand, is like the USPS opening your private mail and then profiting off of what they learn about you. It's all about the expectation of privacy. Broadband providers need to transfer bits and stay out of the content business. If they start doing this, there will be no way to use the internet with any modicum of privacy.
The ceremony was an entertainment program; NBC's coverage of the Olympics, including coverage of the ceremony, was presented as journalism.
A news report on entertainment doesn't have to explain how the entertainment was created. But if a news program is covering a mediocre fireworks display, and they add in some CGI fireworks and report that it was the greatest display ever created, that is a serious breach of integrity.
The issue is that an event is being presented as real when it contains pretend content. In the worst case this leads to a slippery slope, in which NBC goes on to release a "real" video of John McCain performing a satanic ritual with dead kittens and babies while he drills for oil in the Grand Canyon.
The important point is that NBC needs to be clear when they are using computer generated content. Since many people have since reported that NBC did explain what they were doing, it really is a non-issue.
The article states that 23% of people were interested in upgrading to BluRay by 2009. Consider that the players are still over $300, the discs still cost twice the price of DVD, and many people don't have HDTVs yet. That sounds like a high degree of interest to me.
What will the market look like in 2012? I imagine there will be $100 BluRay players that are better than today's $300 models. Hopefully the BluRay movies will be priced closer to DVDs. Most or all TVs being sold will be HDTVs. If 23% are interested now, a majority should be interested by then.
The real question is not DVD vs. BluRay, it is internet downloads vs. BluRay. By 2050, most likely everything will be downloaded. However, by 2050 many of us will be dead. In the meantime, especially in the next 10-20 years, I suspect there is a window for BluRay to succeed until the internet catches up.
Yes, but plenty of countries have highly skilled workers with sane working hours. If there's not enough work to go around, the government should force companies to pay overtime when employees work over 40 hours, and then there will be incentive to spread the work around.
I get the impression that the Chinese government is more interested in advancing their global power and economy, and are willing to let their citizens pay the price to get there.
The emphasis is on the word dumb. I have no problem at all with a compelling, insightful, or genuinely funny article written to draw traffic. However, this article is none of those things. When junk like this gets published on slashdot, it will only inspire thousands more shoddy imitators. It's becoming rather tiresome.
Craigslist can provide cheap computers? Great! We'd like to order 400,000 units for Africa, and they have to be dependable since there is a shortage of support techs. If they work out well, we'll start ordering large quantities.
The ultimate CSS reference is Google. Just follow their search results and not their example.
CSS isn't all that difficult, but it's the edge cases and browser incompatibilities that are likely to cause you headaches. There are many excellent sites out there tracking these topics, and collectively they do a better job than any book could hope to do.
The Joker's dilemma didn't make as much sense to me. The problem is that if neither party pushes the button, then both boats will explode. In order to save the most lives, a button should be pushed. If you find yourself on a boat full of families and you know the other boat is full of prisoners, it is only logical that the greatest good would be served by pushing your button first. The prisoners don't deserve to die, but it is a question of choosing the lesser evil. Not pushing the button would therefore be the result of either cowardice or unclear thinking.
(This is assuming the Joker is telling the truth, and the people on the boats would have no reason to think he was not.)
Furthermore, throwing an electronic remote bomb trigger into water is a superbly bad idea.
Their methods seem to have succeeded in convincing people like yourself that they're not here. So maybe it makes perfect sense. Deceit is much easier to implement than perfect cloaking technology.
Overriding the back button would lead to evil behavior on some websites. I think what would be better is to have a way to register "the page has advanced" events with the browser when dynamic content is loaded. In other words, the back/forward buttons could be tied to application states that aren't necessarily a result of a complete page load. This would be like the YUI Browser History Manager, but with a simpler set up and no libraries to include.
The only problem is that sites could load up the application history with 500 fake events, and thus render the back button useless. Still, they can probably already do this using the same methods as the Browser History Manager uses, so the point may already be moot.
I also find it surprising that advanced manufacturing technology hasn't driven down the price of Legos. However, this article gives some insight into the business side of Lego and shows that the prices aren't simply inflated out of greed.
According to the article, the LHC will be switched on at 5 TeV, then shut down for the winter to prepare it to run at 7 TeV. So we won't see the full potential until next year, but the initial run is still a major jump from the Tevatron's 1 TeV.
When hiring your own rackspace, there are several things you must manage. How do you provide redundancy if a server goes down? Or a switch goes down, or the power supply to the whole building? There are answers, but they are expensive and complex. Furthermore, how much storage and bandwidth do you buy? Can you predict spikes and sudden growth?
We've not yet arrived with cloud computing, but the potential seems obvious to me. Simply tell the system "host this domain, run this database, serve up these pages, handle these email addresses", and you're done. You don't have to know or care what hardware you are on. You don't have to worry about redundancy or usage spikes, because a quality provider will have that supported by the cloud. If your usage is low your hosting will be very cheap, and as you grow you simply pay more in hosting charges, without any of the pain and outages of trying to scale up.
Ultimately, this is about spending time on the things that are unique to your business (such as your custom software) and letting someone else worry about the details. Your business probably doesn't operate its own bank or manufacture its own electricity, and soon computing and hosting could fit into this same category.
There are two forces in this world keeping the pirates in check: ninjas and scurvy. If the seas were suddenly full of lime, scurvy would be vanquished. The balance of power would be horribly altered, and no one's booty would be safe.
Please, everybody, write your congressman about this!
Isn't that because they keep all the super-villians locked up, and then release one at a time randomly for Batman to fight? That's how it seems to work. The real trouble in Gotham is that doctor at the psych ward who keeps saying things like, "Yeah, I think the Joker is rehabilitated now." Batman should just fight that guy.
My post should be +5 insightful, not funny, because it really isn't intended to be funny.
You used heavy sarcasm and a colorful, ridiculous exaggeration. Of course you meant to be funny. Besides, insightful and funny are often the same thing.
I love the idea of seeing giant airships make a comeback, but what is the practical angle? The article says that this ship can only lift twice the capacity of the most powerful helicopter (40 tons vs. 20 tons). Why not just split the load and take two choppers? Loads that can't be split to under 20 tons are probably rare, and they'd be non-existent in the drilling and mining operations this is designed to support.
Ultimately the factors that will matter are speed, safety, weather tolerance, and the cost per ton of transfers. Can this really beat the helicopter on any of those counts?
As I read the announcement, running Yahoo ads is not a requirement. Running Yahoo ads will be a future option to those who want to use the ads as a profit stream, but it's up to the site owner to decide.
If you like, you could take your Yahoo search results ad-free and run Google ads next to them. That's why this announcement is so bold - there are basically no requirements or limits on using BOSS.
Any data you truly care about needs to be on at least three devices, which are in at least two different buildings. Increasing the reliability of current drives won't be as helpful as bringing down prices so that multiple copies are more affordable. No amount of reliability will account for theft, fire, and human error.
I use a set of three hard drives. One internal drive is in primary use. I back that up to an external drive frequently. Every couple weeks or so, I take that external drive to my remote location and swap it with another external drive, which then becomes my local backup.
All copying is done with rsync to minimize drive wear and copy times. I just plug in the drive and run a batch file.
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Google's targeted advertisements seems reasonable; When you decide to use their free services, you should know that advertising is a part of the deal.
Broadband providers using DPI, on the other hand, is like the USPS opening your private mail and then profiting off of what they learn about you. It's all about the expectation of privacy. Broadband providers need to transfer bits and stay out of the content business. If they start doing this, there will be no way to use the internet with any modicum of privacy.
The ceremony was an entertainment program; NBC's coverage of the Olympics, including coverage of the ceremony, was presented as journalism.
A news report on entertainment doesn't have to explain how the entertainment was created. But if a news program is covering a mediocre fireworks display, and they add in some CGI fireworks and report that it was the greatest display ever created, that is a serious breach of integrity.
The issue is that an event is being presented as real when it contains pretend content. In the worst case this leads to a slippery slope, in which NBC goes on to release a "real" video of John McCain performing a satanic ritual with dead kittens and babies while he drills for oil in the Grand Canyon.
The important point is that NBC needs to be clear when they are using computer generated content. Since many people have since reported that NBC did explain what they were doing, it really is a non-issue.
The article states that 23% of people were interested in upgrading to BluRay by 2009. Consider that the players are still over $300, the discs still cost twice the price of DVD, and many people don't have HDTVs yet. That sounds like a high degree of interest to me.
What will the market look like in 2012? I imagine there will be $100 BluRay players that are better than today's $300 models. Hopefully the BluRay movies will be priced closer to DVDs. Most or all TVs being sold will be HDTVs. If 23% are interested now, a majority should be interested by then.
The real question is not DVD vs. BluRay, it is internet downloads vs. BluRay. By 2050, most likely everything will be downloaded. However, by 2050 many of us will be dead. In the meantime, especially in the next 10-20 years, I suspect there is a window for BluRay to succeed until the internet catches up.
Yes, but plenty of countries have highly skilled workers with sane working hours. If there's not enough work to go around, the government should force companies to pay overtime when employees work over 40 hours, and then there will be incentive to spread the work around.
I get the impression that the Chinese government is more interested in advancing their global power and economy, and are willing to let their citizens pay the price to get there.
The emphasis is on the word dumb. I have no problem at all with a compelling, insightful, or genuinely funny article written to draw traffic. However, this article is none of those things. When junk like this gets published on slashdot, it will only inspire thousands more shoddy imitators. It's becoming rather tiresome.
Gee, great, because you know most geeks only love computers and don't have diverse interests.
This is a dumb article written solely for the purpose of generating traffic, and by getting on /. they've succeeded in spades.
News for mysogynists. Stuff that matters if you're not some dumb chick.
Craigslist can provide cheap computers? Great! We'd like to order 400,000 units for Africa, and they have to be dependable since there is a shortage of support techs. If they work out well, we'll start ordering large quantities.
The ultimate CSS reference is Google. Just follow their search results and not their example.
CSS isn't all that difficult, but it's the edge cases and browser incompatibilities that are likely to cause you headaches. There are many excellent sites out there tracking these topics, and collectively they do a better job than any book could hope to do.
Oh yeah? Well, how about if it downloaded your OS at every bootup... twice?
The Joker's dilemma didn't make as much sense to me. The problem is that if neither party pushes the button, then both boats will explode. In order to save the most lives, a button should be pushed. If you find yourself on a boat full of families and you know the other boat is full of prisoners, it is only logical that the greatest good would be served by pushing your button first. The prisoners don't deserve to die, but it is a question of choosing the lesser evil. Not pushing the button would therefore be the result of either cowardice or unclear thinking.
(This is assuming the Joker is telling the truth, and the people on the boats would have no reason to think he was not.)
Furthermore, throwing an electronic remote bomb trigger into water is a superbly bad idea.
If you use a Bluetooth headset, just remember not to put the cell phone in your pocket!
Their methods seem to have succeeded in convincing people like yourself that they're not here. So maybe it makes perfect sense. Deceit is much easier to implement than perfect cloaking technology.
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I can't be the only one who read the title and expected a story about Uwe Boll...
Overriding the back button would lead to evil behavior on some websites. I think what would be better is to have a way to register "the page has advanced" events with the browser when dynamic content is loaded. In other words, the back/forward buttons could be tied to application states that aren't necessarily a result of a complete page load. This would be like the YUI Browser History Manager, but with a simpler set up and no libraries to include.
The only problem is that sites could load up the application history with 500 fake events, and thus render the back button useless. Still, they can probably already do this using the same methods as the Browser History Manager uses, so the point may already be moot.
I also find it surprising that advanced manufacturing technology hasn't driven down the price of Legos. However, this article gives some insight into the business side of Lego and shows that the prices aren't simply inflated out of greed.
According to the article, the LHC will be switched on at 5 TeV, then shut down for the winter to prepare it to run at 7 TeV. So we won't see the full potential until next year, but the initial run is still a major jump from the Tevatron's 1 TeV.
When hiring your own rackspace, there are several things you must manage. How do you provide redundancy if a server goes down? Or a switch goes down, or the power supply to the whole building? There are answers, but they are expensive and complex. Furthermore, how much storage and bandwidth do you buy? Can you predict spikes and sudden growth?
We've not yet arrived with cloud computing, but the potential seems obvious to me. Simply tell the system "host this domain, run this database, serve up these pages, handle these email addresses", and you're done. You don't have to know or care what hardware you are on. You don't have to worry about redundancy or usage spikes, because a quality provider will have that supported by the cloud. If your usage is low your hosting will be very cheap, and as you grow you simply pay more in hosting charges, without any of the pain and outages of trying to scale up.
Ultimately, this is about spending time on the things that are unique to your business (such as your custom software) and letting someone else worry about the details. Your business probably doesn't operate its own bank or manufacture its own electricity, and soon computing and hosting could fit into this same category.
There are two forces in this world keeping the pirates in check: ninjas and scurvy. If the seas were suddenly full of lime, scurvy would be vanquished. The balance of power would be horribly altered, and no one's booty would be safe.
Please, everybody, write your congressman about this!
Isn't that because they keep all the super-villians locked up, and then release one at a time randomly for Batman to fight? That's how it seems to work. The real trouble in Gotham is that doctor at the psych ward who keeps saying things like, "Yeah, I think the Joker is rehabilitated now." Batman should just fight that guy.
You used heavy sarcasm and a colorful, ridiculous exaggeration. Of course you meant to be funny. Besides, insightful and funny are often the same thing.
I love the idea of seeing giant airships make a comeback, but what is the practical angle? The article says that this ship can only lift twice the capacity of the most powerful helicopter (40 tons vs. 20 tons). Why not just split the load and take two choppers? Loads that can't be split to under 20 tons are probably rare, and they'd be non-existent in the drilling and mining operations this is designed to support.
Ultimately the factors that will matter are speed, safety, weather tolerance, and the cost per ton of transfers. Can this really beat the helicopter on any of those counts?
As I read the announcement, running Yahoo ads is not a requirement. Running Yahoo ads will be a future option to those who want to use the ads as a profit stream, but it's up to the site owner to decide.
If you like, you could take your Yahoo search results ad-free and run Google ads next to them. That's why this announcement is so bold - there are basically no requirements or limits on using BOSS.
Any data you truly care about needs to be on at least three devices, which are in at least two different buildings. Increasing the reliability of current drives won't be as helpful as bringing down prices so that multiple copies are more affordable. No amount of reliability will account for theft, fire, and human error.
I use a set of three hard drives. One internal drive is in primary use. I back that up to an external drive frequently. Every couple weeks or so, I take that external drive to my remote location and swap it with another external drive, which then becomes my local backup.
All copying is done with rsync to minimize drive wear and copy times. I just plug in the drive and run a batch file.