It's illegal to make automated calls to people. So if you actually did pick up when it rang, the machine wouldn't start talking to you. Sometimes it just hangs up, which is quite disconcerting.
Did anyone really think users would actually delete their accounts because of this? Since the link to opt-out was so publicized, including here on Slashdot, I think most users just opted-out. The article even says that:
Slightly more people, 1.1 million, visited the page Yahoo had set up where users could "opt out" by telling the site not to send e-mail or other messages.
1.1 million people went to the opt-out page, and somehow that supports this part of the article:
Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo's editor in chief, confirmed that Yahoo's marketing changes had led to action by
a very small portion of its users.
This whole article is just utter crap. Did someone from Yahoo! write it?
Really, it's only the people using ISO's that even care. And they don't even need it. It's easy enough to install a base minimum system using the current release, then change one line in your sources file, run apt-get dist-upgrade, and magically you're using Woody. I'd venture to say that most people currently running Debian did this exact thing. And those very people won't gain much, if anything, from an official release.
So who exactly are the great hordes who are out there demanding that this new, wonderful product be released? Do they even exist?
The price is $10-$15 a month, depending on whether you want a 3 or 12 months commitment.
And I don't think 128 kbps is "high bitrate".
But if you like punk, they have the whole Epitaph catalog which is quite a lot of good stuff. I've probably downloaded 35 albums in my 2 months. Sure, some of it is crap, but it costs nothing extra to try new stuff.
Relevancy: To ensure user interest and advertising success, all of your keywords must be relevant to your site or products. Furthermore, if you advertise a product or offer, you must link directly to the page on your site with that product or offer.
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If they want to install crap and spyware, they will. The fact that installation on OS X is just drag-and-drop is quite nice, but it doesn't change the uncaring attitude of these developers.
Why not just store the original PCM wave? If you don't care about the size, what good does the 50% you gain from a lossless compression scheme do you anyway?
Or you could just make the people create accounts and ask them the geographic stuff instead of using geolocation. That would give you the UUID as well. Not anonymous, but no worse than slashdot.
The film used in that review is slow expensive slide film. It's perfect for the kind of picture he uses for the example. But the average person uses something like Kodak Max 800, which is nowhere near this good in terms of grain.
Also, note that the digital camera tests are done off of a print, not off of reality: "The digital camera images were done by imaging a 30 x 39 inch print (from the large format)."
Look at the screenshot under "Organize with Ease". The song is "Blade of Grass" by the group "Spanker Madness". Which is a real song by a real group.
But if you click on the screenshot, the page it takes you to has "Spanker Madness" replaced by "Mad Man". Which doesn't exist. Guess some PHB saw the screenshot and demanded they change it.:)
Tell that to university sys admins
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Go figure, all those students have local accounts on those big very important boxen. But that's no big deal, right?
It has a digital camera on board to take pictures, just as a freebie add-on.
The interesting thing is the specs on that camera, the Logitech Fotoman Plus. A resolution of 496 x 360, with 256 levels of gray. Stores 32 pictures in RAM. A serial interface. A cost of $520.
See... they had to pick the camera back in 1994. So they're using 7 year old technology. Amazing how far things hav come, isn't it?
"My connection didn't go down, therefore no one else's did."
We had this stuff in college 4 years ago
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And it sucked then too. One of our professors decided to use a service like this for his trial year of using his textbook, before it went out as an official priting. We despised the book.
* The pages were too big. 8 1/2 by 11 is just too big for a book.
* The covers suck. It's usually just a thicker card, rather than a nice cover like a real book has.
* Pages fall out at random, especially after you mistreat the binding, like everyone does.
* No resale value -- maybe only an issue for a textbook.
In summary, it was just as expensive as a real book, but was no better than a bunch of photocopies in a binder or with a binder clip on them. What's the point?
The argument was never that the phones didn't produce radiation. It was that the radiation wasn't harmful, and didn't cause brain tumors.
Does that mean you can't create something that will block the radiation? Of course not. Will it prevent brain tumors? Of course not. Will it sell more phones to people who are afraid of tumors? Yes. Is it better to have a patent on it so your competitors can't sell phones with the same feature? Of course.
It would be very hard to prove that there was actual intent to do harm. Also, the computer is explicitly not protected from Tivo. They automatically have access to it if you hook up your phone cord.
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It's illegal to make automated calls to people. So if you actually did pick up when it rang, the machine wouldn't start talking to you. Sometimes it just hangs up, which is quite disconcerting.
Quote 1: "enticed by a free offer for Boston's brand-spanking new convention center"
Quote 2: "free rent at its new convention center, expected to be completed in 2004"
Really, it's only the people using ISO's that even care. And they don't even need it. It's easy enough to install a base minimum system using the current release, then change one line in your sources file, run apt-get dist-upgrade, and magically you're using Woody. I'd venture to say that most people currently running Debian did this exact thing. And those very people won't gain much, if anything, from an official release.
So who exactly are the great hordes who are out there demanding that this new, wonderful product be released? Do they even exist?
The price is $10-$15 a month, depending on whether you want a 3 or 12 months commitment.
And I don't think 128 kbps is "high bitrate".
But if you like punk, they have the whole Epitaph catalog which is quite a lot of good stuff. I've probably downloaded 35 albums in my 2 months. Sure, some of it is crap, but it costs nothing extra to try new stuff.
From the adwords page:
Relevancy: To ensure user interest and advertising success, all of your keywords must be relevant to your site or products. Furthermore, if you advertise a product or offer, you must link directly to the page on your site with that product or offer.
Cool book. Thanks for the tip.
Some programmers still do write closed source software, remember?
If they want to install crap and spyware, they will. The fact that installation on OS X is just drag-and-drop is quite nice, but it doesn't change the uncaring attitude of these developers.
Just move around, keep the same database, publish the new URL before you turn off the old one...
Hyperbolic much?
Why not just store the original PCM wave? If you don't care about the size, what good does the 50% you gain from a lossless compression scheme do you anyway?
Or you could just make the people create accounts and ask them the geographic stuff instead of using geolocation. That would give you the UUID as well. Not anonymous, but no worse than slashdot.
The film used in that review is slow expensive slide film. It's perfect for the kind of picture he uses for the example. But the average person uses something like Kodak Max 800, which is nowhere near this good in terms of grain.
Also, note that the digital camera tests are done off of a print, not off of reality: "The digital camera images were done by imaging a 30 x 39 inch print (from the large format)."
No, really.
:)
Look at the screenshot under "Organize with Ease". The song is "Blade of Grass" by the group "Spanker Madness". Which is a real song by a real group.
But if you click on the screenshot, the page it takes you to has "Spanker Madness" replaced by "Mad Man". Which doesn't exist. Guess some PHB saw the screenshot and demanded they change it.
Go figure, all those students have local accounts on those big very important boxen. But that's no big deal, right?
One of the payloads is the SAPPHIRE satellite.
It has a digital camera on board to take pictures, just as a freebie add-on.
The interesting thing is the specs on that camera, the Logitech Fotoman Plus. A resolution of 496 x 360, with 256 levels of gray. Stores 32 pictures in RAM. A serial interface. A cost of $520.
See... they had to pick the camera back in 1994. So they're using 7 year old technology. Amazing how far things hav come, isn't it?
An article from today's NY Times has disturbing topographic images of the site generated using lidar.
"My connection didn't go down, therefore no one else's did."
And it sucked then too. One of our professors decided to use a service like this for his trial year of using his textbook, before it went out as an official priting. We despised the book.
* The pages were too big. 8 1/2 by 11 is just too big for a book.
* The covers suck. It's usually just a thicker card, rather than a nice cover like a real book has.
* Pages fall out at random, especially after you mistreat the binding, like everyone does.
* No resale value -- maybe only an issue for a textbook.
In summary, it was just as expensive as a real book, but was no better than a bunch of photocopies in a binder or with a binder clip on them. What's the point?
From the link:
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"This would permit feature-length movies to be stored as high-resolution digital video on a single compact disk."
The argument was never that the phones didn't produce radiation. It was that the radiation wasn't harmful, and didn't cause brain tumors.
Does that mean you can't create something that will block the radiation? Of course not. Will it prevent brain tumors? Of course not. Will it sell more phones to people who are afraid of tumors? Yes. Is it better to have a patent on it so your competitors can't sell phones with the same feature? Of course.
It's all about the benjamins, baby.
It would be very hard to prove that there was actual intent to do harm. Also, the computer is explicitly not protected from Tivo. They automatically have access to it if you hook up your phone cord.
Which is followed by "en%2Dus", which is the standard locale for US English. Just a standard part of internationalization.
The by-line for the MSNBC one says:
By PJ Mark
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