But on closer inspection, the domain is obviously Google's, chosen with a mathematician's wink at the search giant's famously misspelled name. This mystery domain is 1e100.net. "1e100" would be scientific notation for 10 100, a one followed by 100 zeros, also known as a googol.
Besides, google-analytics.com is way too easy for people to remember to block. Now change it to 1e100.net and they probably get a lot more data.
Taking notes on notepad/netbook is an extremely good idea, and now with WiFi's and 3G's everywhere, you can also chat, email, post insightful posts to slashdot, and go raid in World of Warcraft all at the same time. It also lets you work on your latest coding project or post updates to facebook and twitter. If you're getting hungry towards end of the class, you can just use Google Maps to search for some good pizza joint nearby.
Oh notes.. "what notes? I was a little bit busy online..."
But what does iPad have to do with this? Even if we ignore the fact that iPad doesn't even have a stylus, writing with such is laggy and just messes up the text. You write a lot better on paper. The technology isn't there just yet.
And then theres the thing that with your written notes you're more likely to actually read them again. Write them on computer and you just shove them to some obscure location and never read them again.
You really think the 5% of population that has been alive in the last 100 years counts for that much population in history? Even considering the increase in population we could only go back to like -1000-2000. I'm sure there have been people before that.
I don't think that's his point. The first time I heard how mobile stuff is done in US I was really surprise too, actually I'm still even a bit.
Another thing that the separation of phone devices and service establishes is that in case I have multiple devices, be that either multiple phones or for example phone+3G dongle, I can just go to my phone company's site and click a button to request additional sim card for free. I can use them all at the same time and they're all under same contract (and for example under the same unlimited 3G internet).
That obviously wouldn't work if every contract would had been bundled with a phone. It's actually refreshing to see this upside-down thing is changing in US too.
That is only of course if you're going for the most expensive $99/month plan. Pick any other and it's not so anymore. And in both cases the total costs will be around $2,500 for two years.
So, the real cost of an unlimited everything plan is $99.99/mo for subsidized phone buyers. Compare that to the $79.99/mo plan for unsubsidized buyers and that’s a $20/mo savings. Over two years, that’s a whopping $480 savings.
So, $529 – $480 yields a final purchase price of just $49!
Except that the phone is still $529! You're just buying the most expensive package available and think you're saving money, which makes no sense.
Everything in Europe has been traditionally unlocked and unsubsidized phones. You buy the phone and then you get a subscription from your favorite operator. They have added the subsidized option but almost no one buys his/her phone like that. It's just stupid, which the article writer seems to have "discovered" here.
If anything, HTML5 is actually the cause that might allow pushing Linux and Firefox even further away.
Basically the situation is currently this;
Microsoft: H.264 for IE (and they are already licensing it in Windows 7). Will not support Theora. Apple: H.264 for all OS X, iPhone and iPad. Will not support Theora. Google: H.264 for Chrome (but not for the open source version!). May roll out their own video codec, to mix things even a little bit more. Mozilla: Theora for Firefox. There is no way they can use H.264 because of countless amount of open source forks. Could only possible support it in main binary Firefox, other users left without. Opera: Theora. Could support H.264, but wants Theora more.
Develop a plugin that plays H.264 video inside browser to circumvent that Firefox situation? Flash already does exactly that.
Either HTML5 Video will seriously fail and Flash will continue dominating, or the big players will use it to push Firefox and other open source browsers and Linux off the market.
So basically you are implying that free and open source itself isn't a sustainable model? That to get full use of it, people should lower to piracy? That's not how FOSS model works.
(Ex 5-year professional PHP developer here, who actually managed to write properly designed software in it, and therefore knows extremely well what PHP is and can’t do.)
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LOL. I have an automatic replacer for bullshit words like “file sharing”. Guess what it replaced “consfile sharing theory” with:
I have a funny consfile sharing theory for you::)
Damn. I have to get into consfile sharing business!
I know what they say about most PHP programmers.. but you're making it too easy for them!
It's one of those things politicians will pull out as a card against other politicians so they couldn't say anything against it. "So you do not want to fight against terrorism then?" "So you aren't interested to protect our children?"
Works good against US politicians, but at least we still have EU politicians who see it's a totally irrelevant issue and not a reason to drop all privacy laws.
This is a great thing. US has no fucking business to our banking data or any other thing. The fact that US also did this secretly against a Belgian company is just outstanding and shows the level of hypocrisy going on (just like China secretly accessing Google's data anyone?!)
Now if they just would get UK out of EU it would actually be quite an intelligent organization.
Windows Live is completely different thing than Live on xbox and 360. It does all the multiplayer aspect of games, provides matchmaking, demo downloads, updates and so on..
Spread what word? You mean like "No, you cannot buy this fun Modern Warfare 2 game because its multiplayer could stop working in the future! No, no matter how much you would like it now and say its fun and exciting and rocking! No! Nooooo!"
No he isn't really. MMO's and multiplayer games are a lot alike. Only thing separating is that servers are usually ran by the company, and that the world generally has a lot more players in single environment. Hence the name massively multiplayer online game.
I loved the original Day of Defeat mod, I had many great moments with it and fun favorite servers. Then at some point the patches balanced things I didn't like and new features that I didn't like were added. Then came DoD:Source and players moved. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new games. I had my fun times already.
I loved my old girlfriend, I had many great moments with her and good favorite restaurants. Then at some point things changed and new features that I didn't like were added. Then came new persons and we moved on. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new girls. I had my fun times already.
I loved the pizza I ate on Wednesday, I had many delicious moments with it and great tastes. Then at some point the pizza was eaten and new features (stomach being damn full) that I didn't like were added. Then came even better pizza and it replaced the old one. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new tastes. I had my fun times already.
Exactly! The old model was great. We need to make these companies be punished and we must raise awareness! We must aware people about the danger of letting our lives get into other company's hands! What if this continues like this in the future? What if they'll be able to track our every move? What if they RULE THE WORLD? A bit too cataclysmic, but we really need to put them in their place.
Not when the server list or auth servers go down. You might be able to still connect to ip address directly, but that means you need to find lots of friends to come play with you (especially in team based games where you need something like 16+ players for it to be fun).
It's time to fun to newer better games. Or just stay on single player games. Everyone playing multiplayer games has to know that at some point the player base will die because people move to new games.
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It's right in the article..
But on closer inspection, the domain is obviously Google's, chosen with a mathematician's wink at the search giant's famously misspelled name. This mystery domain is 1e100.net. "1e100" would be scientific notation for 10 100, a one followed by 100 zeros, also known as a googol.
Besides, google-analytics.com is way too easy for people to remember to block. Now change it to 1e100.net and they probably get a lot more data.
You hear that whooshing sound over your head? It's not a package delivery through the sewers!
Because it's trollish to change "piracy" to "file sharing".
Taking notes on notepad/netbook is an extremely good idea, and now with WiFi's and 3G's everywhere, you can also chat, email, post insightful posts to slashdot, and go raid in World of Warcraft all at the same time. It also lets you work on your latest coding project or post updates to facebook and twitter. If you're getting hungry towards end of the class, you can just use Google Maps to search for some good pizza joint nearby.
Oh notes.. "what notes? I was a little bit busy online..."
But what does iPad have to do with this? Even if we ignore the fact that iPad doesn't even have a stylus, writing with such is laggy and just messes up the text. You write a lot better on paper. The technology isn't there just yet.
And then theres the thing that with your written notes you're more likely to actually read them again. Write them on computer and you just shove them to some obscure location and never read them again.
You really think the 5% of population that has been alive in the last 100 years counts for that much population in history? Even considering the increase in population we could only go back to like -1000-2000. I'm sure there have been people before that.
Speaking of juice, there's nothing better than a cold glass of Fanta !
I don't think that's his point. The first time I heard how mobile stuff is done in US I was really surprise too, actually I'm still even a bit.
Another thing that the separation of phone devices and service establishes is that in case I have multiple devices, be that either multiple phones or for example phone+3G dongle, I can just go to my phone company's site and click a button to request additional sim card for free. I can use them all at the same time and they're all under same contract (and for example under the same unlimited 3G internet).
That obviously wouldn't work if every contract would had been bundled with a phone. It's actually refreshing to see this upside-down thing is changing in US too.
That is only of course if you're going for the most expensive $99/month plan. Pick any other and it's not so anymore. And in both cases the total costs will be around $2,500 for two years.
So, the real cost of an unlimited everything plan is $99.99/mo for subsidized phone buyers. Compare that to the $79.99/mo plan for unsubsidized buyers and that’s a $20/mo savings. Over two years, that’s a whopping $480 savings.
So, $529 – $480 yields a final purchase price of just $49!
Except that the phone is still $529! You're just buying the most expensive package available and think you're saving money, which makes no sense.
Everything in Europe has been traditionally unlocked and unsubsidized phones. You buy the phone and then you get a subscription from your favorite operator. They have added the subsidized option but almost no one buys his/her phone like that. It's just stupid, which the article writer seems to have "discovered" here.
If anything, HTML5 is actually the cause that might allow pushing Linux and Firefox even further away.
Basically the situation is currently this;
Microsoft: H.264 for IE (and they are already licensing it in Windows 7). Will not support Theora.
Apple: H.264 for all OS X, iPhone and iPad. Will not support Theora.
Google: H.264 for Chrome (but not for the open source version!). May roll out their own video codec, to mix things even a little bit more.
Mozilla: Theora for Firefox. There is no way they can use H.264 because of countless amount of open source forks. Could only possible support it in main binary Firefox, other users left without.
Opera: Theora. Could support H.264, but wants Theora more.
Develop a plugin that plays H.264 video inside browser to circumvent that Firefox situation? Flash already does exactly that.
Either HTML5 Video will seriously fail and Flash will continue dominating, or the big players will use it to push Firefox and other open source browsers and Linux off the market.
Yes, HTML5 is, but it's up to browsers on what codec they will support.
So basically you are implying that free and open source itself isn't a sustainable model? That to get full use of it, people should lower to piracy? That's not how FOSS model works.
@ http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1535624&cid=31011546
(Ex 5-year professional PHP developer here, who actually managed to write properly designed software in it, and therefore knows extremely well what PHP is and can’t do.)
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I know what they say about most PHP programmers.. but you're making it too easy for them!
It's one of those things politicians will pull out as a card against other politicians so they couldn't say anything against it. "So you do not want to fight against terrorism then?" "So you aren't interested to protect our children?"
Works good against US politicians, but at least we still have EU politicians who see it's a totally irrelevant issue and not a reason to drop all privacy laws.
This is a great thing. US has no fucking business to our banking data or any other thing. The fact that US also did this secretly against a Belgian company is just outstanding and shows the level of hypocrisy going on (just like China secretly accessing Google's data anyone?!)
Now if they just would get UK out of EU it would actually be quite an intelligent organization.
Even better when people start using a program that for example does random searches on Google and does a request to every search result.
And what about https? Or would it be mandatory for ISP's to do man-in-the-middle attack so they can store the data?
Windows Live is completely different thing than Live on xbox and 360. It does all the multiplayer aspect of games, provides matchmaking, demo downloads, updates and so on..
Spread what word? You mean like "No, you cannot buy this fun Modern Warfare 2 game because its multiplayer could stop working in the future! No, no matter how much you would like it now and say its fun and exciting and rocking! No! Nooooo!"
No he isn't really. MMO's and multiplayer games are a lot alike. Only thing separating is that servers are usually ran by the company, and that the world generally has a lot more players in single environment. Hence the name massively multiplayer online game.
I loved the original Day of Defeat mod, I had many great moments with it and fun favorite servers. Then at some point the patches balanced things I didn't like and new features that I didn't like were added. Then came DoD:Source and players moved. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new games. I had my fun times already.
I loved my old girlfriend, I had many great moments with her and good favorite restaurants. Then at some point things changed and new features that I didn't like were added. Then came new persons and we moved on. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new girls. I had my fun times already.
I loved the pizza I ate on Wednesday, I had many delicious moments with it and great tastes. Then at some point the pizza was eaten and new features (stomach being damn full) that I didn't like were added. Then came even better pizza and it replaced the old one. Does it really bother me that much? No, I just moved to new tastes. I had my fun times already.
Exactly! The old model was great. We need to make these companies be punished and we must raise awareness! We must aware people about the danger of letting our lives get into other company's hands! What if this continues like this in the future? What if they'll be able to track our every move? What if they RULE THE WORLD? A bit too cataclysmic, but we really need to put them in their place.
Or you know, you just stop buying their games.
It's time to move to newer better games, I mean. Wonder where that fun came from.
Not when the server list or auth servers go down. You might be able to still connect to ip address directly, but that means you need to find lots of friends to come play with you (especially in team based games where you need something like 16+ players for it to be fun).
It's time to fun to newer better games. Or just stay on single player games. Everyone playing multiplayer games has to know that at some point the player base will die because people move to new games.
Not if you keep it to yourself, and only accept pleasuring women with it yourself.