Most sane businesses should have realized by now that they really only need the standard set (.com/.net/.org),
plus the country TLDs for the countries where they're actually doing business.
What about expansion, though?
What if there's a company that is currently US-only but may want to expand to other countries such as France, Japan, Germany, etc.?
If they buy the TLDs for those countries, okay, maybe they waste a few bucks a year per domain if they don't use them anytime soon.
Imagine if there was no yourbusiness.co.jp because they never operated in Japan before. Get popular enough, and that domain goes from $10 to $1,000 or more. That $1,000 could buy at least 100 domains for a year.
This generation is the generation of electronic communication. It's very easy for ideals to spread.
Now you have millions of gamers (many in their teens) who are seeing people say games cause violence and other ridiculous arguments. They throw around the term "parental responsibility" a lot.
Most of those same people will grow up to be parents and hopefully most of them will remember all of this and actually be responsible parents.
I have a Compaq optical mouse I bought in Radioshack. I think it's 8 years old. Two buttons and a scroll wheel.
Occasionally when I boot my computer I have to unplug and plug in my mouse to get it to work, but other than that it's survived 8 years of heavy use. I can't think of anything I've owned that's survived 8 years of heavy use and worked this well.
A philosophy professor walks in to give his class their final. Placing his chair on his desk the professor instructs the class, "Using every applicable thing you've learned in this course, prove to me that this chair DOES NOT EXIST."
So, pencils are writing and erasers are erasing, students are preparing to embark on novels proving that this chair doesn't exist, except for one student. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then turns his final in to the astonishment of his peers.
Time goes by, and the day comes when all the students get their final grades...and to the amazment of the class, the student who wrote for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class.
A family of four people with jobs. I did not factor in people under the age of 15, and made the assumption that everyone over 15 was working. So it's really be more like $5,600 or so.
I'm familiar with most of the memes and coding references in Slashdot (like s/one/two, NO CARRIER, etc.), but I never could figure out what "^H^H^H^H" means. Anyone care to explain?
According to the CIA World Factbook entry on the United States, the total population of people 15+ in the states is 242,677,893. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that each and every one of these people had a job and was eligible for an even cut of the $700bn dollars. That would work out to only $2,884.48, give or take a few cents for postmarking the checks. What's that, one or two mortgage payments? Maybe 2-3 months rent?
A lot of vendors don't write drivers for Linux, either. Someone writes them. Who's to say that wouldn't happen for XP if it's still very popular and MS stops supporting it?
Ditto on updates and security patches. It happens with abandoned games all the time (see: Starsiege TRIBES).
The Steam UI's efficiency leaves much to be desired - especially since the store software is based largely off of Internet Explorer - but it's still the best option for getting games digitally that's fair to publishers and gamers alike.
"You have chosen STUPID. Please enter your social security number and bank account number in the provided fields so we can, uh... register your software. Yeah."
Everyone would take advantage of it, and I'm sure they make a hell of a lot of money on the companies too stupid to think of asking for a lower price (or go lower than they already requested).
Even though it's 72%, we have those great laws of probability to thank for that.
Let's say I shoot a basketball from the free throw line for 100 shots and I get in 43 of them. From that small set of data, one could say I have a 43% shot accuracy at the free throw line.
Now if I were to make another 100 shots, I wouldn't get exactly 43. I may get more or less, but 43 would be a good representation of an average.
In the case of the dark matter, just because the estimate is that it comprises 72% of the universe doesn't mean that we could take a *very* small portion (i.e., our solar system) and expect it to be comprised of 72% dark matter.
I personally think dark matter probably has anti-gravity and/or anti-light and/or anti-radiation properties. Something that either puts it out of the places we'd be looking (after all, who would look in the large empty spaces between celestial objects?) or something that makes it damn near impossible to detect.
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Most sane businesses should have realized by now that they really only need the standard set (.com/.net/.org),
plus the country TLDs for the countries where they're actually doing business.
What about expansion, though?
What if there's a company that is currently US-only but may want to expand to other countries such as France, Japan, Germany, etc.?
If they buy the TLDs for those countries, okay, maybe they waste a few bucks a year per domain if they don't use them anytime soon.
Imagine if there was no yourbusiness.co.jp because they never operated in Japan before. Get popular enough, and that domain goes from $10 to $1,000 or more. That $1,000 could buy at least 100 domains for a year.
Many people would debate whether or not insurance should be required in the first place.
I don't know about that.
This generation is the generation of electronic communication. It's very easy for ideals to spread.
Now you have millions of gamers (many in their teens) who are seeing people say games cause violence and other ridiculous arguments. They throw around the term "parental responsibility" a lot.
Most of those same people will grow up to be parents and hopefully most of them will remember all of this and actually be responsible parents.
Trojan
Durex
I have a Compaq optical mouse I bought in Radioshack. I think it's 8 years old. Two buttons and a scroll wheel.
Occasionally when I boot my computer I have to unplug and plug in my mouse to get it to work, but other than that it's survived 8 years of heavy use. I can't think of anything I've owned that's survived 8 years of heavy use and worked this well.
I could go for some three-bodies interaction.
We need to reverse the polarity on Earth's deflector shields!
Does the Akamai you refer to relate to Akamai Technologies, or is this some obscure networking term that I am unaware of.
Only one I know offhand - oldie but a goodie:
A philosophy professor walks in to give his class their final. Placing his chair on his desk the professor instructs the class, "Using every applicable thing you've learned in this course, prove to me that this chair DOES NOT EXIST."
So, pencils are writing and erasers are erasing, students are preparing to embark on novels proving that this chair doesn't exist, except for one student. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then turns his final in to the astonishment of his peers.
Time goes by, and the day comes when all the students get their final grades...and to the amazment of the class, the student who wrote for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class.
His answer to the question: "What chair?"
I found something with a G on it, but it's a black wire hooked up to the power unit.
Screw Surface. I'll be interested in hooking up touch screen utilities in my house when they come with LCARS pre-installed.
Ah, I see. Thank you.
A family of four people with jobs. I did not factor in people under the age of 15, and made the assumption that everyone over 15 was working. So it's really be more like $5,600 or so.
I'm familiar with most of the memes and coding references in Slashdot (like s/one/two, NO CARRIER, etc.), but I never could figure out what "^H^H^H^H" means. Anyone care to explain?
According to the CIA World Factbook entry on the United States, the total population of people 15+ in the states is 242,677,893. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that each and every one of these people had a job and was eligible for an even cut of the $700bn dollars. That would work out to only $2,884.48, give or take a few cents for postmarking the checks. What's that, one or two mortgage payments? Maybe 2-3 months rent?
There once was a man named Trabonomy,
Who had the world's tiniest...
It's B A Start at the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
Oh great. First we have to upgrade to Blue Ray, and now we'll have to upgrade to three quantum holo discs.
A lot of vendors don't write drivers for Linux, either. Someone writes them. Who's to say that wouldn't happen for XP if it's still very popular and MS stops supporting it?
Ditto on updates and security patches. It happens with abandoned games all the time (see: Starsiege TRIBES).
The Steam UI's efficiency leaves much to be desired - especially since the store software is based largely off of Internet Explorer - but it's still the best option for getting games digitally that's fair to publishers and gamers alike.
It's not perfect, but it's the best we've got.
"You have chosen STUPID. Please enter your social security number and bank account number in the provided fields so we can, uh... register your software. Yeah."
Couldn't they just set their list price at a significant markup to compensate for it?
If the real value of their software is $5,000, but they start the negotiations at $10,000, then they should list it somewhere between $10,000-$12,000.
Everyone would take advantage of it, and I'm sure they make a hell of a lot of money on the companies too stupid to think of asking for a lower price (or go lower than they already requested).
Even though it's 72%, we have those great laws of probability to thank for that.
Let's say I shoot a basketball from the free throw line for 100 shots and I get in 43 of them. From that small set of data, one could say I have a 43% shot accuracy at the free throw line.
Now if I were to make another 100 shots, I wouldn't get exactly 43. I may get more or less, but 43 would be a good representation of an average.
In the case of the dark matter, just because the estimate is that it comprises 72% of the universe doesn't mean that we could take a *very* small portion (i.e., our solar system) and expect it to be comprised of 72% dark matter.
I personally think dark matter probably has anti-gravity and/or anti-light and/or anti-radiation properties. Something that either puts it out of the places we'd be looking (after all, who would look in the large empty spaces between celestial objects?) or something that makes it damn near impossible to detect.
When I first read this, I really thought Slashdot's value had gone into the toilet. "So Hawking is taking a trip to Canada and that's newsworthy?"
Next up: Ballmer stays in America, rest of world celebrates.
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