I don't think very many regular web users know about Google, and Yahoo is trying to be proactive and doing something before they start losing eyeballs. This way anyone defecting to Google would still be getting search results pointing to Yahoo... some may click on them even.
Who cares about IM dominance? There are bigger fish to fry... music, movies, news, oil...
AOL sigle-handedly created the IM market, ICQ jumped in much later. Yahoo and MS weren't on the scene until everyone and their dog had an IM client, of course they can't break into the market.
Along the same lines (I haven't seen this one posted yet)...
Notice how even if you disable all the auto-search nonsense in IE 5 and make a typo in your domain so the browser tries to connect to a non-existant domain, there is a brief flash of a microsofty-looking page before the error page shows up? I see it on my machine at home, but my work machine doesn't seem to do this (maybe because it's faster).
Before this uninformed/misinformed post and ensuing discussion get moderated too far (oops! too late!) lets inject some reason into the thread.
Unless your shopping cart was coded by a total moron, the price will never be stored in the cookie. Even more to the point, the products you have in your shopping cart will never be stored in the cookie.
Your cookie is merely a ticket, an anonymous id if you will. A magic number. A security token. Get it yet?
The cookie has an id value (key into a db or a hash of one, usually a 32 char guid) and the db on the server saves the actual shopping cart data and is pointed to by the cookie. See, if you have db laying around handily, it is actually much easier and more intuitive to save the shopping cart on the database. You can query it, run reports, etc... you just get more flexibility. Not to mention security.
Only 2-bit amateur shopping carts would be susceptible to such a lame and trivial attack.
So how do you get a porsche for the price of a yugo? By this analogy you get someone to bring in thousands of porsches in, and with the sudden influx of supply (and fairly steady demand) the price will drop like a rock.
These days... most can. Comfortably? Well, you probably won't be getting any use out of 90fps. But you can do it. Today it's almost totally dependant on amount of memory on the video card, most newer monitors will handle pretty much anything.
Not true: no-one (yet) doubts that BSD code can be linked against GPL code.
Doesn't the BSD license basically say you can take the code and do whatever you want with it? That's why a large number of people feel BSD is actually free-er than the GPL, with all its viral aspects and restrictions.
Exactly the point! That's what happens with credit cards. You pay for something with a credit card and it doesn't work, you call up your credit card company and they put the money back on your card and charge the vendor for their trouble. You don't get that with PayPal, it's not about stirring up any confusion.
This issue has already been covered and replied to in great detail elsewhere above. Moderators, heads up! Not insightful, redundant!
There's a big difference here. Nobody expects (or claims) people using skateboards to deliver anything. OTOH, at every turn you hear MS saying NT and Win2K should be used throughout the enterprise. From secretary's desktop to your biggest, meanest db servers. That's the beauty, right? Common desktop?
So when you hear about MS running high profile web properties on non-MS OSes and software you have to at least chuckle at the image.
Don't you +2 guys have an option to post at the regular +1 level to keep your whining and other personal crap below most people's threshold?
There's a reason you got to +2 and you should watch what you post and not waste people's mod points with this nonsense. It seems like there are _way_ too many +2 people running around Slashdot these days...
What bothers me about most of these pro-God arguments is that they are for the most part anti-Darwin. They're saying Darwin was wrong, the whole species thing and missing link don't make any sense, therefore God must exist.
Well, that's pretty shoddy. I say Darwin was wrong therefore there must be another explanation, and not necessarily divinely inspired.
Would you say God is pulling all the strings behind atoms and subparticles because we certainly have no clue what's going on?
Every time a new faster cpu comes out we have to put up with the inevitable (and inevitably moderated up) comments to the effect 'why? who needs this?'
Well, let me answer that for you: 'why not?' and 'you do.'
Progress and innovation (remember that word everyone?) is not made by producing more of the same crap but by always pushing boundaries. A chip of that speed almost certainly means new tech, and those, while initially expensive, will filter down to the common masses to we can all enjoy it.
Why does the article mention DivX as this tool for copying movies created by hackers? Am I missing something here? DivX... that's the proprietary DVD format from Circuit City, right? Or is my memory failing? Why does the author liken DivX and DeCSS? Or is there actually something else that's called DivX now?
You actually can say pretty much anything you want on tv, but it probably won't get aired. TV networks don't want to loose their advertisers because of any questionable content. It has nothing to do with law.
You meant on the same ether segment not subnet, right? Unless you have a really crappy and unreliable network everything is switched anyways, changes are you can't even sniff the machine next to you.
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I don't think very many regular web users know about Google, and Yahoo is trying to be proactive and doing something before they start losing eyeballs. This way anyone defecting to Google would still be getting search results pointing to Yahoo... some may click on them even.
Oh, not this nonsense again... uptime means nothing to security, and these challanges are just silly publicity stunts.
I think the author meant if your product is based out of the US...
AOL sigle-handedly created the IM market, ICQ jumped in much later. Yahoo and MS weren't on the scene until everyone and their dog had an IM client, of course they can't break into the market.
Notice how even if you disable all the auto-search nonsense in IE 5 and make a typo in your domain so the browser tries to connect to a non-existant domain, there is a brief flash of a microsofty-looking page before the error page shows up? I see it on my machine at home, but my work machine doesn't seem to do this (maybe because it's faster).
Anyhow, just weird and a little bit spooky.
Unless your shopping cart was coded by a total moron, the price will never be stored in the cookie. Even more to the point, the products you have in your shopping cart will never be stored in the cookie.
Your cookie is merely a ticket, an anonymous id if you will. A magic number. A security token. Get it yet?
The cookie has an id value (key into a db or a hash of one, usually a 32 char guid) and the db on the server saves the actual shopping cart data and is pointed to by the cookie. See, if you have db laying around handily, it is actually much easier and more intuitive to save the shopping cart on the database. You can query it, run reports, etc... you just get more flexibility. Not to mention security.
Only 2-bit amateur shopping carts would be susceptible to such a lame and trivial attack.
Most kids don't know enough to not like ads... they have no reason to not like them.
Didn't you forget to include a few more paragraphs in your hurry to be post #5?
Excuse me, I have some calls to make now...
These days... most can. Comfortably? Well, you probably won't be getting any use out of 90fps. But you can do it. Today it's almost totally dependant on amount of memory on the video card, most newer monitors will handle pretty much anything.
Doesn't the BSD license basically say you can take the code and do whatever you want with it? That's why a large number of people feel BSD is actually free-er than the GPL, with all its viral aspects and restrictions.
Oh, come on now... where there's easy money to be made you can be sure to find brown nosing PhDs..
Exactly the point! That's what happens with credit cards. You pay for something with a credit card and it doesn't work, you call up your credit card company and they put the money back on your card and charge the vendor for their trouble. You don't get that with PayPal, it's not about stirring up any confusion.
Here as well, for a limited time only and with rather limited bandwidth, but at least it's not /.ed yet.
There's a big difference here. Nobody expects (or claims) people using skateboards to deliver anything. OTOH, at every turn you hear MS saying NT and Win2K should be used throughout the enterprise. From secretary's desktop to your biggest, meanest db servers. That's the beauty, right? Common desktop?
So when you hear about MS running high profile web properties on non-MS OSes and software you have to at least chuckle at the image.
Don't you +2 guys have an option to post at the regular +1 level to keep your whining and other personal crap below most people's threshold?
There's a reason you got to +2 and you should watch what you post and not waste people's mod points with this nonsense. It seems like there are _way_ too many +2 people running around Slashdot these days...
Considering there's a link to it on their main page...
Well, that's pretty shoddy. I say Darwin was wrong therefore there must be another explanation, and not necessarily divinely inspired.
Would you say God is pulling all the strings behind atoms and subparticles because we certainly have no clue what's going on?
What is he supposed to say? I did the whole thing? Even if he did it just wouldn't be very cool, a lot of people worked on the design of NT.
Besides, he probably knew it would come back to haunt him ;)
Well, let me answer that for you: 'why not?' and 'you do.'
Progress and innovation (remember that word everyone?) is not made by producing more of the same crap but by always pushing boundaries. A chip of that speed almost certainly means new tech, and those, while initially expensive, will filter down to the common masses to we can all enjoy it.
So stop whining already!
Why does the article mention DivX as this tool for copying movies created by hackers? Am I missing something here? DivX... that's the proprietary DVD format from Circuit City, right? Or is my memory failing? Why does the author liken DivX and DeCSS? Or is there actually something else that's called DivX now?
Interesting that IE5 About box still pays homage to Spyglass ;) One would think IE would have been rewritten a dozen times from scratch by now.
Can you make my eyes hurt any more??
You actually can say pretty much anything you want on tv, but it probably won't get aired. TV networks don't want to loose their advertisers because of any questionable content. It has nothing to do with law.
You meant on the same ether segment not subnet, right? Unless you have a really crappy and unreliable network everything is switched anyways, changes are you can't even sniff the machine next to you.