I'm all sypathetic for cancer sufferers of course, but I have to say I'm personally much more interested in non-cancerous mammaries. I vote we have a National Breast Awareness month (without the cancer) next month. Dunno what color we should turn our websites for that though, I would've said pink, but apparently it's been taken:).
Naked News has naked presenters telling about daily human existence, so this is old;). If they just broadcast NN instead, I bet that'll get ET over here in a hurry though.
On the other, you've got examples like paypal.com - they've basically been enronning their ways around banking laws for years and no one has sued them to oblivion for not having a license, stealing money, etc.
Ah, but that's just messing with the banks and the government. With YouTube it's much more serious, they're messing with the MPAA & RIAA.
pr0n, and flaming people as an Anonymous Coward - chief guilty pleasures of most slashdotters (of course I'd never do the latter). In all seriousness though, I'm not sure what the point of that article is. As the author hints at, the "social" aspects of sites like last.fm actually make it harder to keep your musical tastes secret, and we regularly discuss here how all these "social networking" sites in general make information about people more public.
So actually it seems to me that the opposite is true, the internet makes it harder to keep your guilty pleasures secret. Reductio ad absurdum, before the net, sure the guy in the shop might know you bought a Britney album, but the rest of the world would have no chance of finding out. With the net, however, you have to try to hide it.
OK, I can picture the gas microturbine, and I can picture how a fuel/combustion energy source can outpower an electochemical energy source. However, do we have the capacity to make a generator that small.
As usual, the answer is in TFA, and it is "Yes":
Turbine blades, made of low-defect, high-strength microfabricated materials, spin at 20,000 revolutions per second -- 100 times faster than those in jet engines. A mini-generator produces 10 watts of power. A little compressor raises the pressure of air in preparation for combustion. And cooling (always a challenge in hot microdevices) appears manageable by sending the compression air around the outside of the combustor.
If a YouTube is anything like a "u bend", then you pretty much know it will be transmitting large amounts of crap sooner or later, ads or not. Based on the last time I checked, sooner.
While I think you're right in general, Google Spreadsheet didn't do charts last time I checked. If people only use 10% of excel, I can bleeding well guarantee that charts is in that 10%. For mainstream business use, that is pretty much essential.
I have to agree, I had also quit watching it around season 6, and started up again in season 9, which I thought had a different tone to earlier stuff, but was possibly the most entertaining season yet. Haven't seen season 10 yet. It hasn't broadcast in the UK yet, and I've resisted downloading it... so far;), but I hear good things.
I don't think this kind of thing is likely in western countries. The likes of South Korea have teched up really quickly, and I think they haven't had time to develop a healthy sense of skepticism about what they read on the net. Sure, there are sections of society that will believe anything they read here in Britain (and presumably most western countries), but in general we seem to be pretty good at differentiating between reliable and unreliable sources of information, and acting accordingly. In countries like South Korea, that doesn't yet seem to be the case. Either that, or there's some social dynamic that causes people to act on this kind of thing even though they actually know the information is unreliable - no evidence for that, but you can't discount it.
Because when I want somebody's ideas on what comprises a democracy, I ask somebody with a peerage.
That's fair comment, but it's worth pointing out the first elected parliament was instigated by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, in England in 1265. So arguably modern parliamentary democracy was invented by someone with a peerage;).
You may recall this article, about guy turning his optical mouse into an imaging device. Now here we have another guy who wants to turn his imaging device into an optical mouse. Pity they didn't just think of doing a swap, eh?;)
How often exactly do you boot your machine? A lot of people, me included, leave theirs on 24-7, and reboot only when absolutely necessary, so boot time is pretty high on the "do not care" list.
"Will radar stratigraphy change the multi-millennial tradition of destructive excavation and open new opportunities in the search for buried treasure?"
Let's hope it will open up new opportunities to learn about history, which contributes to the wealth of everyone.
Maybe, but "Lara Croft, Radar Stratigrapher" just doesn't have that ring to it.
That depends on whether they "cache" movies. It would seem a bit pointless to actually re-rip each copy of say Pirates of the Carribean that someone brings in, when you can store it the first time, and just give a copy to subsequent customers. So long as the customer actually brings in a genuine DVD disc, that should be just as legal, but cut down the time, and thus the cost, drastically. Then it should be pretty profitable.
I know little about India, but what I've read recently indicates that not much has changed in that regard. The current tech boom in India, unlike the industrial booms that fuelled the growth of most of the "tiger economies", apparently does not have much "trickle down" effect to the (particularly rural) poor, and is pretty much only benefitting a small segment of society. Shame really, but maybe the tech boom will eventually lead to the kind of growth needed to really benefit the poor, even if it doesn't benefit them much directly.
Canadian Lanny Barbie springs to mind (official site). Although "Barby" seems to be the primary spelling of her name, she's often credited as Lanny Barbie, and that spelling is prominently displayed in the keywords on her site.
You imply that the GP posters spelling is substandard, however I would contend that it is perfectly acceptable. From the dictionary definitions quoted below, clearly by "evet terrists" he was talking about extremist newt activists.
Evet (n.)[See Eft, n.] (Zoöl.) The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]
Terrist (n.) A neologism referring to environmentalists who engage in actions considered by some to be terrorism, (eco-terrorism) including destruction of property as well as various types of nonviolent direct action. It is also a moniker used by individuals who concern themselves with the world (Terra) that is the home of the human species (Homo sapiens).
AV is a good line of defense only IN ADDITION to proper training and use.
So what you're saying is that when you said "Most people don't need AV software", you actually meant "Most people do need AV software".
My parents AV auto-updates without their intervention (and why on earth didn't you configure your parents AV software to auto-update, WTF were you thinking?), and thanks to their belief that I want a running commentary on their computing activities, I know that it has succesfully protected them from numerous viruses. While I've done my best to explain to them what to look out for, I very much doubt they would have the zero infection rate they currently have without AV protection.
WTF? Most nerds may not need AV software on their PCs. Most other people do. They do not know how to recognize and avoid malware, manually remove it and repair damage done by it, or follow good practice to avoid it in the first place. If you're arguing that they should learn, that's pie in the sky. Believe me, they need AV software.
Thanks for the Econ 101 lecture;). Obviously my contention is that there won't be enough demand at the prices they will end up charging as the economics of the business work through. And yes, no one can say such things for sure. However my point is that the "product" here is fundamentally not a particularly attractive one, once you take out the "one of the first to do it" and "uniqueness of experience" factors. It's a fundamentally high altitude flight with a few minutes only technically in space, where even the most wildly optimistic pricing I've heard, $20,000 per head, would buy weeks in luxury on a tropical island. I'm a huge space fan, I'd sell significant limbs to do any kind of significant space travel, but I wouldn't pay $20,000 for a few minutes of suborbital flight, even if it was a minor sum to me.
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I'm all sypathetic for cancer sufferers of course, but I have to say I'm personally much more interested in non-cancerous mammaries. I vote we have a National Breast Awareness month (without the cancer) next month. Dunno what color we should turn our websites for that though, I would've said pink, but apparently it's been taken :).
Oops, missed a , sorry. Was meant to be be like
;). If they just broadcast NN instead, I bet that'll get ET over here in a hurry though.
Naked News has naked presenters telling about daily human existence, so this is old
The two naked hosts will present their own unclothed bodies as examples of our physical embodiments, and will tell about daily human existence.
;). If they just broadcast NN instead, I bet that'll get ET over here in a hurry though.
Naked News has naked presenters telling about daily human existence, so this is old
On the other, you've got examples like paypal.com - they've basically been enronning their ways around banking laws for years and no one has sued them to oblivion for not having a license, stealing money, etc.
Ah, but that's just messing with the banks and the government. With YouTube it's much more serious, they're messing with the MPAA & RIAA.
pr0n, and flaming people as an Anonymous Coward - chief guilty pleasures of most slashdotters (of course I'd never do the latter). In all seriousness though, I'm not sure what the point of that article is. As the author hints at, the "social" aspects of sites like last.fm actually make it harder to keep your musical tastes secret, and we regularly discuss here how all these "social networking" sites in general make information about people more public.
So actually it seems to me that the opposite is true, the internet makes it harder to keep your guilty pleasures secret. Reductio ad absurdum, before the net, sure the guy in the shop might know you bought a Britney album, but the rest of the world would have no chance of finding out. With the net, however, you have to try to hide it.
As usual, the answer is in TFA, and it is "Yes":
Never mind being disabled by a targetted infestation - I've dealt with several systems that have been crippled by Norton software itself.
If a YouTube is anything like a "u bend", then you pretty much know it will be transmitting large amounts of crap sooner or later, ads or not. Based on the last time I checked, sooner.
While I think you're right in general, Google Spreadsheet didn't do charts last time I checked. If people only use 10% of excel, I can bleeding well guarantee that charts is in that 10%. For mainstream business use, that is pretty much essential.
I have to agree, I had also quit watching it around season 6, and started up again in season 9, which I thought had a different tone to earlier stuff, but was possibly the most entertaining season yet. Haven't seen season 10 yet. It hasn't broadcast in the UK yet, and I've resisted downloading it ... so far ;), but I hear good things.
I don't think this kind of thing is likely in western countries. The likes of South Korea have teched up really quickly, and I think they haven't had time to develop a healthy sense of skepticism about what they read on the net. Sure, there are sections of society that will believe anything they read here in Britain (and presumably most western countries), but in general we seem to be pretty good at differentiating between reliable and unreliable sources of information, and acting accordingly. In countries like South Korea, that doesn't yet seem to be the case. Either that, or there's some social dynamic that causes people to act on this kind of thing even though they actually know the information is unreliable - no evidence for that, but you can't discount it.
Check this worth1000 contest, a few entries are oustanding. Mid-to-high level Photoshoppery, but not outstandingly hard stuff.
That's fair comment, but it's worth pointing out the first elected parliament was instigated by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, in England in 1265. So arguably modern parliamentary democracy was invented by someone with a peerage
'Coz CleverNickName misses out, but that's easily fixed, here's a Wesley Crusher inspirational poster I made. No offence, CleverNickName ;).
Nah, we don' need no steenkin' website to show us how to play "Stairway to Heaven" really badly, we can figure it out all by ourselves.
You may recall this article, about guy turning his optical mouse into an imaging device. Now here we have another guy who wants to turn his imaging device into an optical mouse. Pity they didn't just think of doing a swap, eh? ;)
How often exactly do you boot your machine? A lot of people, me included, leave theirs on 24-7, and reboot only when absolutely necessary, so boot time is pretty high on the "do not care" list.
Maybe, but "Lara Croft, Radar Stratigrapher" just doesn't have that ring to it.
That depends on whether they "cache" movies. It would seem a bit pointless to actually re-rip each copy of say Pirates of the Carribean that someone brings in, when you can store it the first time, and just give a copy to subsequent customers. So long as the customer actually brings in a genuine DVD disc, that should be just as legal, but cut down the time, and thus the cost, drastically. Then it should be pretty profitable.
I know little about India, but what I've read recently indicates that not much has changed in that regard. The current tech boom in India, unlike the industrial booms that fuelled the growth of most of the "tiger economies", apparently does not have much "trickle down" effect to the (particularly rural) poor, and is pretty much only benefitting a small segment of society. Shame really, but maybe the tech boom will eventually lead to the kind of growth needed to really benefit the poor, even if it doesn't benefit them much directly.
Canadian Lanny Barbie springs to mind (official site). Although "Barby" seems to be the primary spelling of her name, she's often credited as Lanny Barbie, and that spelling is prominently displayed in the keywords on her site.
You imply that the GP posters spelling is substandard, however I would contend that it is perfectly acceptable. From the dictionary definitions quoted below, clearly by "evet terrists" he was talking about extremist newt activists.
Evet (n.)[See Eft, n.]
(Zoöl.) The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]
Terrist (n.)
A neologism referring to environmentalists who engage in actions considered by some to be terrorism, (eco-terrorism) including destruction of property as well as various types of nonviolent direct action. It is also a moniker used by individuals who concern themselves with the world (Terra) that is the home of the human species (Homo sapiens).
AV is a good line of defense only IN ADDITION to proper training and use.
So what you're saying is that when you said "Most people don't need AV software", you actually meant "Most people do need AV software".
My parents AV auto-updates without their intervention (and why on earth didn't you configure your parents AV software to auto-update, WTF were you thinking?), and thanks to their belief that I want a running commentary on their computing activities, I know that it has succesfully protected them from numerous viruses. While I've done my best to explain to them what to look out for, I very much doubt they would have the zero infection rate they currently have without AV protection.
Most people don't need AV software
WTF? Most nerds may not need AV software on their PCs. Most other people do. They do not know how to recognize and avoid malware, manually remove it and repair damage done by it, or follow good practice to avoid it in the first place. If you're arguing that they should learn, that's pie in the sky. Believe me, they need AV software.
Thanks for the Econ 101 lecture ;). Obviously my contention is that there won't be enough demand at the prices they will end up charging as the economics of the business work through. And yes, no one can say such things for sure. However my point is that the "product" here is fundamentally not a particularly attractive one, once you take out the "one of the first to do it" and "uniqueness of experience" factors. It's a fundamentally high altitude flight with a few minutes only technically in space, where even the most wildly optimistic pricing I've heard, $20,000 per head, would buy weeks in luxury on a tropical island. I'm a huge space fan, I'd sell significant limbs to do any kind of significant space travel, but I wouldn't pay $20,000 for a few minutes of suborbital flight, even if it was a minor sum to me.