I recently started putting together a web app for someone and I wanted it to design it primarily for mobile. Looking at google analytics of several web sites I see the majority of web traffic is mobile. So if JQuery is bloat, unnecessary, outdated and "features are present in [modern] browsers" what should I be using instead of: http://jquerymobile.com/ This seems like the perfect solution to me?
From the forum poster: "The NameCheap terms and conditions state they will pass the domain on to a third party at their discretion from 12 days prior to expiry."
12 days prior, doesn't sound like any of the registrars I've used. Sure go ahead and use NameCheap but read their T&C's very carefully first.
Email notifications aren't reliable, I keep a reminder alert in my calendar for my domain renewals. Having said that I get bombarded by renewal reminders from freeparking, networksolutions and godaddy when I have a domain a few months from expiry. You know, the "renew now and save 10% off" types?
Glad this wasn't one of my domains that got the chop 12 days prior to expiry and then held to ransom to get it back...
I recently came across this on a forum about NameCheap which would make me steer well clear of them http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=86&topicid=165962
If Apple had released a gold version of their original, and now iconic iPod, in gold with a price tag of 4 figures or more - how much would it be worth today? Take a guess at a) still in it's original packaging b) used and worn by someone famous
Remind me. How much did that original Apple I sell for recently?
The value of anything isn't dictated by a formula e.g. (cost to build) + (reasonable margin) + (shipping/sales/etc) Value, or price, is what someone is prepared to pay for it. Apple obviously believes, guided by the likes of Angela Ahrendts, that $10k is a good starting price for a limited "edition" watch.
This is Slashdot -"News for nerds" right? They aren't selling that watch to us, so quit the sniping and moaning. You could probably make your own 24ct gold watch out of the guts of a $349 entry level for less than an extra $1000. I'm certain there's foundries firing up right now rubbing heir hands at the prospect of scalping.
As for the laptop. It's not for us either who are probably more advance IT users than the fashion followers who will love that gold 12" in their handbag or execs wanting the latest desktop bling. Horses for courses.
I think I was a bit shocked at the optic drive being dropped from the original air but to be fair it was the right move in hindsight. This is history repeating itself so it shouldn't be as much of a shock.
My only concern with that laptop is the loss of the mag-safe. Who remembers the broken MB's before mag-safe from folks tripping over them? We're more or less at the convergence point of laptop & tablet as of yesterday. Same number of ports and not much in screen size difference. How fast technology does change...
I installed an IP Webcam in my mothers family home which is in the remote Scottish Hebrides. A local "entrepreneur" with "links" had been damaging boundary walls to try and get a through road to land he wanted to develop on. I set the camera up, inside the house looking out over our property, for security and as a deterrent. We had the police come round and demand that it be removed. We refused and luckily their timing was unfortunate for them as my uncle was present in the house when they turned up. He happened to be a court judge who, after identifying his profession, ended their demands with "Officer, I don't think so...". Some time later someone, in the night, painted the window in front of the camera. We also had a council notice served on us for re-errecting our wall. Apparently we needed planning to repair it even though the wall had been there for a few hundred years. That too got chucked out of court. I've seen and experienced too much of corruption at government level to trust a single thing that comes out that claims to be in our interests. Orwell was right and, sadly, will be proven so. "I've got nothing to hide" is sticking your head in the sand. "Security" is only being used to subvert us for the benefit of the hierarchy.
Re-occuring and repeating patterns in nature. Fractal geometry. There's even a spiritual/religious element to it in "the wheel of life"
I get the whole red-shift thing, even the need for "dark matter" to fill in the gaps. Yet I can't help feel that we are back to the point at which we thought the earth was flat because of the limitation of our field of view. Back then it was thought that you just fell off the end of the world, that made sense. Just like dark matter and all the other fillers in our current theory.
A thought that occurred to me recently was could the Universe, instead of being expanding from a single point of origin, be much like the repeating pattern of concentric rings we see at the atomic level, the solar system and galaxies? So large that the speed of light problem masks it's true structure.
Just asking, I'm not read up on astrophysics/physics enough to see any obvious problems with this idea...
Allowing consumers to self medicate with marijuana for depression, pain, MS, cancer, etc, etc isn't in the interests of the Pharmaceutical Industry. With it's deep pockets and lobbying power common sense just doesn't stand a chance against it's power and money.
They are lucky enough to have a President who has stood up for the people who elected him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ólafur_Ragnar_Gr%C3%ADmsson ( Read the paragraph below "Crisis of 2008 statements". This is the mouse that roared!:) )
Lots of good, irrelevant, points here which I do agree with. However Dotcom was lured to NZ, entrapped, in exchange for "The Hobbit" being filmed here - or at least that was the threat from the US if they'd didn't agree to help rope him up and hand him over. The Kiwi's hate Dotcom for 2 reasons. 1) "Tall poppy syndrome". Kiwi's hate those who brag on success and Dotcom sticks out above everyone in NZ like a soar thumb. 2) The NZ media have savaged him and he has totally underestimated the population's belief in their media. His attempt at politics here in the recent elections was eye wateringly awful. This recent event is just another fanning of the flames of the pyre on which they intend to burn him. More bad PR to justify to Kiwi's why a "citizen", as Dotcom likes to remind them he is, should be handed over to the USA. I'm not a Kiwi but I do live in NZ. Not a comforting thought.... PS Kinda sad that professional sportsmen stand a better chance of getting away with murder in the USA than online "entrepreneur's" do of avoiding extradition there and a life time in a cell for running a business that offers much of the same as competing US business do.
Right, so finally someone understands the difference between the "innocent citizens" and the "evil leaders". "little more than torture" is a good way of describing what's happening to the many Greeks hit by austerity.
Sorry but I don't see how Germany can take a higher moral ground here within a historical context. Real debt? Please enlighten us on what you think "real debt" is within the context of WWII & Greek governments and banking?
The ordinary citizens of the western world had nothing to do with the economic melt down at the end of the last decade. It was the banks to blame but they've walked away and been left to repeat the same scam again unhindered. " Give them money or excuse debt and then in 5 years time they will be back to the exact same position. " Yep, the banks will do it again. The innocent will pay.
No, that's not extortion that's Karma. Germans had spent 6 years doing more than just putting guns to heads across Europe... "...their own unwise choices" would be one way of describing electing into power Hitler and his Nazis and following their lead.
Free electricity probably has most of us thinking "weed farms". Given the huge sales and startup investment (Snoop Dog et al) are pouring into the US States that have legalised Cannabis Greece could be sitting on a potential gold mine. A large part of the Greek economy is tourism, its long been a big favourite summer destination for many northern Europeans. Legalise it, tax it moderately and coin it in. Greece has the perfect climate for growing it outdoors too, so no need for the free electricity. You can just see the other EU member states being utterly appalled at that action. They NEED something to differentiate and kick start their economy.
I don't believe that [keyword].com gives you the guaranteed 1st page Google results position it used to.
Google did a shake down a few years ago in one of their updates. If they thought you could pay them for the traffic they gave you for free organically they'd drop your ranking to make you pay for it. ("Don't be Evil"... yeah, right..)
Web users will type in the noun of what they are looking for appending.com instead of going via search. That's the value in arguably the most valuable.com there is sex.com
The greatest value I see in having [keyword].com is in the mindset of potential customers. It's a leg up in branding right at the beginning which is what this guy knows and wants to cash in on.
People are more likely to trust medical advice and products from website called www.doctor.com That's the power of a brand and a.com is a brand Ace card.
You want that beach front property but can't afford the section with the view to build on. The land owner says "I'll lease you the land if I get to use the property on the weekends you aren't using it". What's not to like?
What this guy is offering seems like a fairly good idea and not a bad deal to me, so why all the hate? It's just a new spin on raising VC or Angel money. So taking money is ok but not renting a domain name? That doesn't make sense.
The new TLD's aren't yet bestowing the branding power that the good old.com does. However, since the advent of Apps, domain names have lost a lot of ground to App Store ranking and App marketing. Google stopped first page ranking of the domain name for the keyword a few years ago so it does not convey automatic organic search dominance either.
I hope anyone getting involved with these guys realises these points when they are negotiating away a stake in their startup.
I read Slashdot not for the "journalism", but because you always get the real story from folks commenting on here. So, yeah, another sensationalistic article (aka "click bait") all over the internet today. I come to Slashdot to hear the truths behind silly rumours...
I was just waiting for some dick head in the establishment to show the same sort of insecurity that led those self righteous arseholes in Paris to murder cartoonists. In they step over the bodies and blood looking for the best spin, angle and outcome for their own agendas. They didn't stop these deluded morons this time and their laws won't stop the next ones. There, sadly, will always be a next time. What pisses me off is that they patronise us with their "we'll do something about preventing it happening again in exchange for you giving up some of your rights and freedoms". The truth is they (the establishment) are as afraid and insecure about all of us as the few violent extremists that are out there. What happened in Paris in 1793 at the Place de la Révolution is probably of more concern to Andrew Parker than what happened to Charlie.
The good old BBC, that British establishment of impartiality, politically neutral editorial and protector of the innocent.
Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, the list goes on. Operation "YewTree" came too late, too little. Yet the BBC has the gal to point fingers at others for abuse given it did nothing to protect kids from it's stars over the last 3 or 4 decades. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree Quote: "The NSPCC described Savile as "one of the most prolific sex offenders in its 129-year history". The BBC restated a "sincere apology to the victims"." Oh yeah BBC, you really do have kids best interests at heart don't you?
Not to mention their disgraceful one side coverage of the Scottish referendum on Independence this year have left many like myself really not giving much of a shit as to what they have to "report" these days.
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I recently started putting together a web app for someone and I wanted it to design it primarily for mobile.
Looking at google analytics of several web sites I see the majority of web traffic is mobile.
So if JQuery is bloat, unnecessary, outdated and "features are present in [modern] browsers" what should I be using instead of:
http://jquerymobile.com/
This seems like the perfect solution to me?
You mean ignore the customers with spare cash to burn in favour of those with no (spare) cash?
Utter nonsense. I drive a French car which is a 2Litre diesel and it's cleaner than either its 1.6 or 2Litre petrol engined models.
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car/49545/citroen-c4-grand-picasso-2.0-bluehdi-exclusive+-150-eat6-auto-diesel-automatic-6-speed
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car/53981/citroen-c4-grand-picasso-1.6i-thp-exclusive-165hp-s&s-eat6-auto-petrol-automatic-6-speed
From the forum poster: "The NameCheap terms and conditions state they will pass the domain on to a third party at their discretion from 12 days prior to expiry."
12 days prior, doesn't sound like any of the registrars I've used.
Sure go ahead and use NameCheap but read their T&C's very carefully first.
Email notifications aren't reliable, I keep a reminder alert in my calendar for my domain renewals.
Having said that I get bombarded by renewal reminders from freeparking, networksolutions and godaddy when I have a domain a few months from expiry.
You know, the "renew now and save 10% off" types?
Glad this wasn't one of my domains that got the chop 12 days prior to expiry and then held to ransom to get it back...
I recently came across this on a forum about NameCheap which would make me steer well clear of them
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=86&topicid=165962
If Apple had released a gold version of their original, and now iconic iPod, in gold with a price tag of 4 figures or more - how much would it be worth today?
Take a guess at a) still in it's original packaging b) used and worn by someone famous
Remind me. How much did that original Apple I sell for recently?
The value of anything isn't dictated by a formula e.g. (cost to build) + (reasonable margin) + (shipping/sales/etc)
Value, or price, is what someone is prepared to pay for it.
Apple obviously believes, guided by the likes of Angela Ahrendts, that $10k is a good starting price for a limited "edition" watch.
This is Slashdot -"News for nerds" right?
They aren't selling that watch to us, so quit the sniping and moaning.
You could probably make your own 24ct gold watch out of the guts of a $349 entry level for less than an extra $1000.
I'm certain there's foundries firing up right now rubbing heir hands at the prospect of scalping.
As for the laptop.
It's not for us either who are probably more advance IT users than the fashion followers who will love that gold 12" in their handbag or execs wanting the latest desktop bling.
Horses for courses.
I think I was a bit shocked at the optic drive being dropped from the original air but to be fair it was the right move in hindsight.
This is history repeating itself so it shouldn't be as much of a shock.
My only concern with that laptop is the loss of the mag-safe.
Who remembers the broken MB's before mag-safe from folks tripping over them?
We're more or less at the convergence point of laptop & tablet as of yesterday.
Same number of ports and not much in screen size difference.
How fast technology does change...
I installed an IP Webcam in my mothers family home which is in the remote Scottish Hebrides.
A local "entrepreneur" with "links" had been damaging boundary walls to try and get a through road to land he wanted to develop on.
I set the camera up, inside the house looking out over our property, for security and as a deterrent.
We had the police come round and demand that it be removed.
We refused and luckily their timing was unfortunate for them as my uncle was present in the house when they turned up.
He happened to be a court judge who, after identifying his profession, ended their demands with "Officer, I don't think so...".
Some time later someone, in the night, painted the window in front of the camera.
We also had a council notice served on us for re-errecting our wall.
Apparently we needed planning to repair it even though the wall had been there for a few hundred years.
That too got chucked out of court.
I've seen and experienced too much of corruption at government level to trust a single thing that comes out that claims to be in our interests.
Orwell was right and, sadly, will be proven so.
"I've got nothing to hide" is sticking your head in the sand.
"Security" is only being used to subvert us for the benefit of the hierarchy.
Re-occuring and repeating patterns in nature. Fractal geometry.
There's even a spiritual/religious element to it in "the wheel of life"
I get the whole red-shift thing, even the need for "dark matter" to fill in the gaps.
Yet I can't help feel that we are back to the point at which we thought the earth was flat because of the limitation of our field of view.
Back then it was thought that you just fell off the end of the world, that made sense.
Just like dark matter and all the other fillers in our current theory.
A thought that occurred to me recently was could the Universe, instead of being expanding from a single point of origin, be much like the repeating pattern of concentric rings we see at the atomic level, the solar system and galaxies?
So large that the speed of light problem masks it's true structure.
Just asking, I'm not read up on astrophysics/physics enough to see any obvious problems with this idea...
Allowing consumers to self medicate with marijuana for depression, pain, MS, cancer, etc, etc isn't in the interests of the Pharmaceutical Industry.
With it's deep pockets and lobbying power common sense just doesn't stand a chance against it's power and money.
Meanwhile in Iceland...
This is a country that jails bankers for economic fraud and protects activists like Wikileaks.
http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/02/12/icelandic-bankers-sentenced-prison
They are lucky enough to have a President who has stood up for the people who elected him. :) )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ólafur_Ragnar_Gr%C3%ADmsson
( Read the paragraph below "Crisis of 2008 statements". This is the mouse that roared!
Lots of good, irrelevant, points here which I do agree with. However Dotcom was lured to NZ, entrapped, in exchange for "The Hobbit" being filmed here - or at least that was the threat from the US if they'd didn't agree to help rope him up and hand him over.
The Kiwi's hate Dotcom for 2 reasons.
1) "Tall poppy syndrome". Kiwi's hate those who brag on success and Dotcom sticks out above everyone in NZ like a soar thumb.
2) The NZ media have savaged him and he has totally underestimated the population's belief in their media. His attempt at politics here in the recent elections was eye wateringly awful.
This recent event is just another fanning of the flames of the pyre on which they intend to burn him.
More bad PR to justify to Kiwi's why a "citizen", as Dotcom likes to remind them he is, should be handed over to the USA.
I'm not a Kiwi but I do live in NZ. Not a comforting thought....
PS
Kinda sad that professional sportsmen stand a better chance of getting away with murder in the USA than online "entrepreneur's" do of avoiding extradition there and a life time in a cell for running a business that offers much of the same as competing US business do.
Right, so finally someone understands the difference between the "innocent citizens" and the "evil leaders".
"little more than torture" is a good way of describing what's happening to the many Greeks hit by austerity.
Sorry but I don't see how Germany can take a higher moral ground here within a historical context.
Real debt? Please enlighten us on what you think "real debt" is within the context of WWII & Greek governments and banking?
The ordinary citizens of the western world had nothing to do with the economic melt down at the end of the last decade.
It was the banks to blame but they've walked away and been left to repeat the same scam again unhindered.
" Give them money or excuse debt and then in 5 years time they will be back to the exact same position. "
Yep, the banks will do it again. The innocent will pay.
No, that's not extortion that's Karma. Germans had spent 6 years doing more than just putting guns to heads across Europe...
"...their own unwise choices" would be one way of describing electing into power Hitler and his Nazis and following their lead.
I don't think anyone would care.... ;)
Free electricity probably has most of us thinking "weed farms".
Given the huge sales and startup investment (Snoop Dog et al) are pouring into the US States that have legalised Cannabis Greece could be sitting on a potential gold mine.
A large part of the Greek economy is tourism, its long been a big favourite summer destination for many northern Europeans.
Legalise it, tax it moderately and coin it in.
Greece has the perfect climate for growing it outdoors too, so no need for the free electricity.
You can just see the other EU member states being utterly appalled at that action.
They NEED something to differentiate and kick start their economy.
I don't believe that [keyword].com gives you the guaranteed 1st page Google results position it used to.
Google did a shake down a few years ago in one of their updates.
If they thought you could pay them for the traffic they gave you for free organically they'd drop your ranking to make you pay for it.
("Don't be Evil"... yeah, right..)
Web users will type in the noun of what they are looking for appending .com instead of going via search. .com there is sex.com
That's the value in arguably the most valuable
The greatest value I see in having [keyword].com is in the mindset of potential customers.
It's a leg up in branding right at the beginning which is what this guy knows and wants to cash in on.
People are more likely to trust medical advice and products from website called www.doctor.com .com is a brand Ace card.
That's the power of a brand and a
You want that beach front property but can't afford the section with the view to build on.
The land owner says "I'll lease you the land if I get to use the property on the weekends you aren't using it".
What's not to like?
What this guy is offering seems like a fairly good idea and not a bad deal to me, so why all the hate?
It's just a new spin on raising VC or Angel money.
So taking money is ok but not renting a domain name? That doesn't make sense.
The new TLD's aren't yet bestowing the branding power that the good old .com does.
However, since the advent of Apps, domain names have lost a lot of ground to App Store ranking and App marketing.
Google stopped first page ranking of the domain name for the keyword a few years ago so it does not convey automatic organic search dominance either.
I hope anyone getting involved with these guys realises these points when they are negotiating away a stake in their startup.
I read Slashdot not for the "journalism", but because you always get the real story from folks commenting on here.
So, yeah, another sensationalistic article (aka "click bait") all over the internet today.
I come to Slashdot to hear the truths behind silly rumours...
I was just waiting for some dick head in the establishment to show the same sort of insecurity that led those self righteous arseholes in Paris to murder cartoonists.
In they step over the bodies and blood looking for the best spin, angle and outcome for their own agendas.
They didn't stop these deluded morons this time and their laws won't stop the next ones. There, sadly, will always be a next time.
What pisses me off is that they patronise us with their "we'll do something about preventing it happening again in exchange for you giving up some of your rights and freedoms".
The truth is they (the establishment) are as afraid and insecure about all of us as the few violent extremists that are out there.
What happened in Paris in 1793 at the Place de la Révolution is probably of more concern to Andrew Parker than what happened to Charlie.
I'm waiting for the next episode of The Big Bang Theory to hear what Dr.Copper thinks of this paper before I take sides. He's the man...
The good old BBC, that British establishment of impartiality, politically neutral editorial and protector of the innocent.
Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, the list goes on. Operation "YewTree" came too late, too little.
Yet the BBC has the gal to point fingers at others for abuse given it did nothing to protect kids from it's stars over the last 3 or 4 decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree
Quote: "The NSPCC described Savile as "one of the most prolific sex offenders in its 129-year history". The BBC restated a "sincere apology to the victims"."
Oh yeah BBC, you really do have kids best interests at heart don't you?
Not to mention their disgraceful one side coverage of the Scottish referendum on Independence this year have left many like myself really not giving much of a shit as to what they have to "report" these days.
So do us all a favour and crawl up your own hole.
...and Disney
Who's the largest Disney shareholder and who declared thermo nuclear war on Google?
Grindr for Execs?