It's pretty clear MS wrote NBC a fat check given the prominent Silverlight logo on the player. But so what? I wasn't on/. when Flash first came around, but I'll bet a bunch of naysaying Java loyalists said the same thing you guys are saying about Silverlight. If you don't want to build stuff using Silverlight, fine. If some sites do, it's no skin off your back. You can either install the plugin, which from my experience works fine, or you just don't use the site if it bothers you so much.
If they lost their box rental monopoly, they'd simply boost service rates to make up the difference. It would seem the cable companies want to eliminate boxes, anyway. Last week Cablevision won their long battle with the networks over the right to offer DVR functionality from centralized servers. Their motivation: cutting their biggest capital expense...those boxes might work terribly sometimes, but they're not cheap, and charging $7 a month to rent one means they don't recoup the cost of one for over a year.
Perhaps just coincidence that they shut it down the day after this look inside Cyber Commandwas published online:
"The black boxes are ClearCube computer terminals, and the fact that there are two of them at each station points to perhaps the most important defensive strategy of the Pentagon's Global Information Gridâ"known to its operators as the GIG. The box on top is plugged into the Nonclassified Internet Protocol Router Network, or NIPRNet, which is linked to the public Internet. The other black box connects to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, which contains the military's classified information. There are no physical connections between the two anywhere in the Defense Department's 5 millionâ"computer network, yet in the AFNOC, the Ethernet jacks are only 1 1/2 in. apart. That proximity got me wondering. 'What if someone connected them?' I asked information officer 2nd Lt. Mike Forostoski. He laughed in disbelief, as though I had asked him what would happen if a flaming nuclear blimp headed for the building. Then he answered with cautious understatement: 'That would be bad.'
That would be nice. Except most RIAA targets don't have the same resources as a company that pulls in $40 billion in annual profits...and even then, it took Exxon's scores of lawyers 14 YEARS to win this appeal
Apple already requires third party accessory vendors to buy special authentication chips for things like iPod docks to work with iPods/iPhones. It's only a matter of time until they add similar chips to laptop and desktop hardware and some code in their OS's that must authenticate the chip for the machine to operate, thereby ending the Hackintosh business.
If people want to ask questions, a good place to start is finding out why this guy was sent to China in the first place, and what he was supposed to be doing.
From TFA, he was in China with the Prime Minister on an official visit.
The New York City Dept of Health monitors sales records of certain medications gathered from drugstore chains to detect disease outbreaks and biological attacks.
Let me get this straight: an embargo that was begun by a Democratic White House and continued through several more Democrats presidents, and even expanded by yet another Democrat less than a decade ago (Clinton closed some loopholes in 1999) is a Republican conspiracy?
They charge $25 for help wanted ads in a few markets and $10 for broker-marketed apartments in New York City. Revenue estimates from a few years ago when they started charging for job ads were around $10 million a year, now that most help wanted is done online, plus the hundreds of NYC broker ads that go up every day, and you're easily north of $20 million, probably more.
eBay's stake in Craigslist does not allow for any management input on eBay's part, and based on Craig's previous behavior I don't think he'd have any qualms about competing with them.
Larry and Sergey don't seem like the chair throwing type...I'd be surprised if they could even lift one of the gold-plated Aerons they probably have in their office.
The masses don't care enough to want answers. The masses are willing to overlook certain indiscretions if they believe it was done to further their safety. So what if some rules were bent to let the Feds listen to terrorists talk on the phone?
Even if they did care, at this point people are too worried about being able to afford gas to get to work to pay any attention to this.
Two arguments...
First that including an excerpt with a link reduces clicks: As anyone who has ever been linked on the front page of Slashdot or Digg or Google News can tell you, this is the diametric opposite of the truth. Unless they begin using 30 word headlines, which is impractical for a number of reasons, including the first paragraph or a summary is the best way to get readers interested in a story.
Second...
For the sake of argument, let's say the first point is in fact true. The links in question on Drudge Retort point to Yahoo and Fox News pages containing syndicated AP content. While AP still owns the content on these pages, the bottom line is they were already paid for that content...in other words Yahoo and Fox News are the ones suffering directly from this alleged click reduction since they paid for the content but don't get the ad impressions.
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I believe it.
Get a programming job at Diebold.
But I live in Nebraska, you insensitive clod!
It's pretty clear MS wrote NBC a fat check given the prominent Silverlight logo on the player. But so what? I wasn't on /. when Flash first came around, but I'll bet a bunch of naysaying Java loyalists said the same thing you guys are saying about Silverlight. If you don't want to build stuff using Silverlight, fine. If some sites do, it's no skin off your back. You can either install the plugin, which from my experience works fine, or you just don't use the site if it bothers you so much.
It would suck if they accidentally knocked down the flag Buzz Lightyear planted up there.
If they lost their box rental monopoly, they'd simply boost service rates to make up the difference. It would seem the cable companies want to eliminate boxes, anyway. Last week Cablevision won their long battle with the networks over the right to offer DVR functionality from centralized servers. Their motivation: cutting their biggest capital expense...those boxes might work terribly sometimes, but they're not cheap, and charging $7 a month to rent one means they don't recoup the cost of one for over a year.
Perhaps just coincidence that they shut it down the day after this look inside Cyber Commandwas published online:
"The black boxes are ClearCube computer terminals, and the fact that there are two of them at each station points to perhaps the most important defensive strategy of the Pentagon's Global Information Gridâ"known to its operators as the GIG. The box on top is plugged into the Nonclassified Internet Protocol Router Network, or NIPRNet, which is linked to the public Internet. The other black box connects to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, which contains the military's classified information. There are no physical connections between the two anywhere in the Defense Department's 5 millionâ"computer network, yet in the AFNOC, the Ethernet jacks are only 1 1/2 in. apart. That proximity got me wondering. 'What if someone connected them?' I asked information officer 2nd Lt. Mike Forostoski. He laughed in disbelief, as though I had asked him what would happen if a flaming nuclear blimp headed for the building. Then he answered with cautious understatement: 'That would be bad.'
...that someone who has worked at the White House over the age of 30 actually knows who Vint Cerf is?
That would be nice. Except most RIAA targets don't have the same resources as a company that pulls in $40 billion in annual profits...and even then, it took Exxon's scores of lawyers 14 YEARS to win this appeal
Apple already requires third party accessory vendors to buy special authentication chips for things like iPod docks to work with iPods/iPhones. It's only a matter of time until they add similar chips to laptop and desktop hardware and some code in their OS's that must authenticate the chip for the machine to operate, thereby ending the Hackintosh business.
Because all goods and services should be free?
Thank goodness icanhascheezburger runs on WordPress.
From TFA, he was in China with the Prime Minister on an official visit.
The New York City Dept of Health monitors sales records of certain medications gathered from drugstore chains to detect disease outbreaks and biological attacks.
Let me get this straight: an embargo that was begun by a Democratic White House and continued through several more Democrats presidents, and even expanded by yet another Democrat less than a decade ago (Clinton closed some loopholes in 1999) is a Republican conspiracy?
They charge $25 for help wanted ads in a few markets and $10 for broker-marketed apartments in New York City. Revenue estimates from a few years ago when they started charging for job ads were around $10 million a year, now that most help wanted is done online, plus the hundreds of NYC broker ads that go up every day, and you're easily north of $20 million, probably more.
I would think a firearms auction site would be the last place scammers would want to fuck around.
Today the Air Force released the first photos of the B-2 that crashed in Guam a couple months back. B-2 Stealth Bomber Crash Scene Photos: Exclusive First Look
eBay's stake in Craigslist does not allow for any management input on eBay's part, and based on Craig's previous behavior I don't think he'd have any qualms about competing with them.
I was just going to post this. I wasn't that surprised to see a dumb list like this made the front page of Digg, but I am disappointed that it made /.
Larry and Sergey don't seem like the chair throwing type...I'd be surprised if they could even lift one of the gold-plated Aerons they probably have in their office.
Was he ever the systems analyst interviewed weekly in The Onion's American Voices feature?
The masses don't care enough to want answers. The masses are willing to overlook certain indiscretions if they believe it was done to further their safety. So what if some rules were bent to let the Feds listen to terrorists talk on the phone?
Even if they did care, at this point people are too worried about being able to afford gas to get to work to pay any attention to this.
Two arguments... First that including an excerpt with a link reduces clicks: As anyone who has ever been linked on the front page of Slashdot or Digg or Google News can tell you, this is the diametric opposite of the truth. Unless they begin using 30 word headlines, which is impractical for a number of reasons, including the first paragraph or a summary is the best way to get readers interested in a story.
Second... For the sake of argument, let's say the first point is in fact true. The links in question on Drudge Retort point to Yahoo and Fox News pages containing syndicated AP content. While AP still owns the content on these pages, the bottom line is they were already paid for that content...in other words Yahoo and Fox News are the ones suffering directly from this alleged click reduction since they paid for the content but don't get the ad impressions.