Looked like his judgment was clouded by arrogance. He did not refuse to sell he just refused the price claiming it was too loo and claiming that Microsoft gravely overestimated Yahoo's problem hmmm...
Guess what Yang, seems you were the one overestimating your value.
John C Dvorak made an interesting argument about this deal "Yahoo! is not worth $44 billion. Period. You could buy General Motors lock, stock, and barrel for $14 billion, name all the cars "Google Sucks," and get more bang for the buck."
Yeah isn't it so?? I mean Google was kindda of a good guy in tech. They recently attacked a researcher for exposing a vulnerability in their android platform and now this !!!
Hmmm can we say that companies inevitably turn nasty when they reach a certain size?
A few months ago it became illegal to offer free access wifi in cafes, users had to obtain scratch cards and verify them the first time through the mobile phone. This way supposedly the government could link traffic to identities. Then the scratch card became for money instead of free, only one company is offering this service which makes one wonder if security was the only motive. What these fuckers don't get is that a person with ill intentions can still bypass all these stupid systems.
Lets face it guys, it is highly unlikely that our dependence on fossil fuels will be reduced anytime soon.
What we can do instead is build a big ass exhaust system that will pump the CO2 outside the earths atmosphere and to another planet's orbit. The money invested in such system will be recouped from the factories that will connect to it. Of course all this piping in the atmosphere might interfere with flight navigation but there are a number of proposed solutions to this obstacle.
Because the US had the most developed infrastructure countries and corporation obtained their connections from there, the biggest web hosts were there so traffic had to go through the US, now internet traffic outside the US has grown to an extent that justifies creating exchanges and dedicated lines between European and Asian isp's. There is no need to route traffic through the US as there was 10 years ago.
I think the definition would be more accurate to say "expectation of return" in this sense the advertising should not be false.
The same way one says I am paying for a gym to play sports and invest in my health. It does not mean that the gym membership value would increase over time.
In the case of gaming the return would arguably be a better gaming experience.
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It's fair compensation because it's what Apple charges.
Yes this is what Apple charges under certain conditions (using it on their hardware)
If your supermarket sells you the peaches for 50 cent on the condition that you eat it on its 6 $ plates then maybe they have a point if they object to you eating the peaches on 10 cents paper plates !!
Yes it makes sense to buy the phone because you will get it unlocked and shipped to other countries that do not have an IPhone provider. Whether it makes sense for an enduser consumer is a different story.
I think all the ideas of placing a deposit or putting an extra charge per message are against the EC2 model. The whole idea is to offer a high capability solution at a low entry price that scales easily. Spammers and abusers tend to have distinctive patterns and this what Amazon should be paying attention to. Ie. some guy using a US credit card, logging to his instance from eastern Europe and sending a zillion emails messages the second day after sign up should raise some doubts. Manual inspection of suspicious traffic can be very costly but they can easily build a growing list of trusted customers who use the service for legitimate reasons and monitor suspicious traffic from new registrations.
NX works great supports ssh and rsa keys for login as well, it was a bit of a hassle to get it working (somehow the latest client for windows does not work with the latest server for linux) so be careful with the version numbers. Definitely worth a trial !!
I used GoDaddy to register two domains and the whole process was spread on too many steps because at each step they bombard the buyer with advertisements for extra paid services in a very persistent way.
This approach along with the site design look so chabby that it's not surprising the least that they would engage in such practice.
Whether it's legal/ethical or not is a different story after all an auction is a process designed to reach a fair price that the buyer agrees to pay. It does not make a lot of difference who bid against the buyer because no one forced to him to pay this price.
The big problem is that in this case GD have big advantage because if they bid too high and the real buyer does not increase the price then they do not lose a lot but in a real auction if you bit on your items and no one overbids then you would have to buy the item and pay the auction house commission out of your own pocket which might be a substantial percentage of the sale price.
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Looked like his judgment was clouded by arrogance. He did not refuse to sell he just refused the price claiming it was too loo and claiming that Microsoft gravely overestimated Yahoo's problem hmmm... Guess what Yang, seems you were the one overestimating your value. John C Dvorak made an interesting argument about this deal "Yahoo! is not worth $44 billion. Period. You could buy General Motors lock, stock, and barrel for $14 billion, name all the cars "Google Sucks," and get more bang for the buck."
I think its uses in business will be limited without a way to connect it to a laptop for a slide presentation
Yeah isn't it so?? I mean Google was kindda of a good guy in tech. They recently attacked a researcher for exposing a vulnerability in their android platform and now this !!! Hmmm can we say that companies inevitably turn nasty when they reach a certain size?
Apparently this news brought so much traffic to jquery.com the site has been inaccessible for me for more than two hours. !!
www.gawab.net is a stable email provider since 2000. Affordable prices as well.
A few months ago it became illegal to offer free access wifi in cafes, users had to obtain scratch cards and verify them the first time through the mobile phone. This way supposedly the government could link traffic to identities. Then the scratch card became for money instead of free, only one company is offering this service which makes one wonder if security was the only motive. What these fuckers don't get is that a person with ill intentions can still bypass all these stupid systems.
Lets face it guys, it is highly unlikely that our dependence on fossil fuels will be reduced anytime soon. What we can do instead is build a big ass exhaust system that will pump the CO2 outside the earths atmosphere and to another planet's orbit. The money invested in such system will be recouped from the factories that will connect to it. Of course all this piping in the atmosphere might interfere with flight navigation but there are a number of proposed solutions to this obstacle.
Because the US had the most developed infrastructure countries and corporation obtained their connections from there, the biggest web hosts were there so traffic had to go through the US, now internet traffic outside the US has grown to an extent that justifies creating exchanges and dedicated lines between European and Asian isp's. There is no need to route traffic through the US as there was 10 years ago.
I think the definition would be more accurate to say "expectation of return" in this sense the advertising should not be false. The same way one says I am paying for a gym to play sports and invest in my health. It does not mean that the gym membership value would increase over time. In the case of gaming the return would arguably be a better gaming experience. -- I wish I could think of a smart ass thing to put as a signature
For speed I guess. Bluetooth is painfully slow to make any serious transfers.
It's fair compensation because it's what Apple charges.
Yes this is what Apple charges under certain conditions (using it on their hardware) If your supermarket sells you the peaches for 50 cent on the condition that you eat it on its 6 $ plates then maybe they have a point if they object to you eating the peaches on 10 cents paper plates !!
Aren't you breaking the law by doing so?
Yes it makes sense to buy the phone because you will get it unlocked and shipped to other countries that do not have an IPhone provider. Whether it makes sense for an enduser consumer is a different story.
Or browse anonymously !
I think all the ideas of placing a deposit or putting an extra charge per message are against the EC2 model. The whole idea is to offer a high capability solution at a low entry price that scales easily.
Spammers and abusers tend to have distinctive patterns and this what Amazon should be paying attention to. Ie. some guy using a US credit card, logging to his instance from eastern Europe and sending a zillion emails messages the second day after sign up should raise some doubts. Manual inspection of suspicious traffic can be very costly but they can easily build a growing list of trusted customers who use the service for legitimate reasons and monitor suspicious traffic from new registrations.
NX works great supports ssh and rsa keys for login as well, it was a bit of a hassle to get it working (somehow the latest client for windows does not work with the latest server for linux) so be careful with the version numbers. Definitely worth a trial !!
I used GoDaddy to register two domains and the whole process was spread on too many steps because at each step they bombard the buyer with advertisements for extra paid services in a very persistent way. This approach along with the site design look so chabby that it's not surprising the least that they would engage in such practice. Whether it's legal/ethical or not is a different story after all an auction is a process designed to reach a fair price that the buyer agrees to pay. It does not make a lot of difference who bid against the buyer because no one forced to him to pay this price. The big problem is that in this case GD have big advantage because if they bid too high and the real buyer does not increase the price then they do not lose a lot but in a real auction if you bit on your items and no one overbids then you would have to buy the item and pay the auction house commission out of your own pocket which might be a substantial percentage of the sale price.
WOW!! I didn't know that so many people on slashdot live in Egypt I am also on 192.168 !!!