Microsoft never switched to NYSE, it's still on Nasdaq. Maybe you're confused because it's the only Dow component listed on Nasdaq.
You're right though, Microsoft has transformed from a growth company to a value company. If it was a growth company they wouldn't have done Software Assurance, and instead focused on gaining new customers and creating new products. As a value company, it may be smart to switch to NYSE. The NYSE is a haven for value companies, which enjoy the lowered volatility and greater depth of market.
I doubt Mozilla team members are adding NTLM in foresight of corporate usage. Rather, NTLM support has been one of the most requested features in Mozilla since 1.0 was released. It's one of the top-10 bugs in their Bugzilla database. Hundreds of people (including me) list it as one of their 10 requested bug fixes. I don't think NTLM support would have ever been added if it wasn't for its visibility on Bugzilla and the many repeated feature requests for it.
It was a lot of work to add NTLM, though. It required a redesign of a lot of core ideas, and the adding of trusted domains in the preferences panel. I'm not suprised it took until 1.4 to add all the necessary related features, without which NTLM would be insecure.
I guess it all comes down to the definition of "placing any Customer Material on our... Systems." If they cache the data you're uploading to a third-party site, have you placed that data on their systems? I'm pretty sure their real intent is explained in the first line of the section, as I quoted in my first post.
Xtra does not claim ownership of any content or material you provide or make available through the Services.
XTRA isn't claiming any property right on what you put on the Internet, such as Slashdot postings, email or files you upload to third-party web hosts. It's just claiming a right to redistribute content that you put on your XTRA-hosted website. I don't see anything wrong with that... if they don't declare their right to do so, you could sue them for redistributing your copyrighted material after you put it on their servers.
It's careless how they phrased it though. Basically they claim they can use, copy, and redistribute your materials for whatever purposes they want, not just serving to web site visitors. In my opinion, they will probably clean this part up after they realize their mistake.
But i wasnt looking for a list of baseball sites, i was looking for the yankees scores, yet yahoo cluttered up my search results with *extras*.
The article made me believe Yahoo would show me current score *immediately* when I typed in "yankees scores" in their search. It would be "I'm Feeling Lucky" taken to the next level... you get to see the scores on the next page without the bloat of mlb.com or msn.espn.go.com.
But your interpretation is right. You do just get a whole bunch of advertisements for baseball sites with some scoreboard sites half a page later. Yahoo hasn't learned anything yet.
Clearly having clocks that are off by a few minutes isn't acceptible anymore. This is why many clock towers in England, including Big Ben in London, are converting to digital read-outs. The thinking behind these renovations is that instead of retrofitting the current clock systems with reliable electric motors, the entire system should be modernised. And why not?
It's actually Rock Creek Parkway in the District of Columbia. I-95 follows the eastern part of the beltway from Springfield, VA up to College Park, MD. I think you confused I-395 with I-95, because if you continue northward from Springfield you get on 395 seemlessly, which goes into the district. From there you have to go half a mile on ground streets westward to get to the Parkway.
I personally think the Rock Creek Parkway is scary when it's one-way. The two sides are always splitting apart and coming back together. It's painted with a yellow line down the center and there are no gates preventing people from going the wrong way... it's just signed like an HOV lane. At 7pm people start driving both ways again, so if you're not thinking you can get in a serious accident.
It uses HTTPS. Search for "https" in the source code, and you'll see they dynamically create a URL for the submit action. It takes a parameter called "secure", so technically non-secure URLs could be created, but the function (FixFormAction()) always receives secure=true.
Also, I sniffed the login traffic doing the same sign-in process you did, and the form was submitted with HTTPS. I don't know why you couldn't detect this.
I agree with you. The same thing is true regarding the protests yesterday in San Francisco. Most people who live in San Francisco are against the war already. So the protesters come and block intersections and prevent exit off of the interchanges?? The purpose of protests should be to convert people, not piss off people who already believe the same way you do. Unfortunately, this stuff makes national news... so they continue their behavior today.
I use 411 about once every month or two. I've never used it to get phone numbers, but it's great when you're away from home and you need to know where something is.
AT&T Wireless's 411 service is really nice. Ask them where some place is, tell them where you are, and then they forward you to an automated direction-giving system that you can rewind and fast forward through to get where you need to go. One time I wasn't sure what a place was even called, and the guy stayed on the line with me for 5-10 minutes while he tried to find it. For $1.95, it's not overly priced for when you're in a rush.
A friend of mine once called 411 while we were driving home from partying to ask about current world events. I don't think that's what 411 is for, but they seemed to have fun chit-chatting back and forth for 10 minutes.
So I guess the TV stations could counter-argue that because of TiVo, the same program will be watched multiple times by different people in a household or people enjoying them over again. Hence advertising rates should go up due to this "pass-along" viewership.
I find a big reason I listen to MP3s is because I hear new things all the time with them. On an average week I probably download 20 songs that I've never heard of, and put them into my random rotation. Often times when I'm listening to my collection I hear something I've never heard before... which is cool.
I find myself doing a similar thing in my car. I always listen to radio in my car, not because I love the music the radio plays, but because it's random. I don't know what's going to happen next (even though it'll prolly suck).
I dislike CDs cause they're a fixed format. Every time I listen to one, it's the same thing. I don't think I'm alone in liking the randomness of formats like radio and MP3s. It would be nice if record companies could offer me something legal to listen to my genres without having to worry about downloading stuff or hearing a song more than a few times. (Maybe I should try XM Radio.)
I think an MM online deer hunting game would be awesome! Think about it... your goal is to hunt. But there are other hunters, whom you can shoot too. But if you shoot them, you're immediately become "evil", and police start coming after you and other hunters can shoot you with abandon. Being evil is not permanent: If you manage to get a distance away from any other hunters, you become "normal" again. If you get shot when you're normal, you only get injured, but if you're shot when you're evil, your character dies.
As you kill more deer, elk, and evil hunters, you get better weapons. As you gain knowledge of the terrain, you can figure out better ways to hunt both game and people and get away with it. Or if you're a good person, you'll find out better ways to catch evil people.
This scenario will encourage people to hunt in groups. That way, if potential evil people approach and maim someone in your hunting party, you can easily catch the evil person and gain considerable skill. Lone hunters wouldn't be able to defend themselves for a period after being shot.
Potentially you can also have cabins to keep your weapons, which can get robbed, and bullet-proof vests, and hunting stores. The terrain would be variable, with rivers and mountains creating natural barriers for would-be escapers.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to develop games, feel free to take my idea...
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How do you know they're not having more fun? I'm a software developer, so my hours are kinda screwy... somedays I wish I had a 9-to-5 where I hung out with people my own age all day (early 20s) and didn't have to think.
I think about the lifestyle cost of being a software developer a lot... Time/Stress versus Money. I think Kevin Spacey made a brilliant choice in American Beauty when he quit his day job and changed to serving fast food at a drive-thru. His wife was pissed cause he stopped bringing home the money, but he LOVED it! I want to do something similar someday, but I kinda like the money for now.
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If this continues, maybe radio will become just like telemarketing!
Back when telemarketing began, telemarketers would call people up by hand using a phone book or a list they had collected. It worked, but they wasted a lot of time dialing and waiting for people to answer. So today telemarketers use systems that auto-dial numbers, predict when telemarketers will finish their current call, and connect telemarketers to households with no down time.
These days, disk jockeys spend a lot of time waiting for records to play out before they say the song that just played or yell about some radio promotion. That's wasted time! With networked studios, we could have one DJ run ten radio stations. Computers could model out the songs to be played, record the DJ introducing songs and promoting, and sequence it all together. There would be a few minute delay between what you hear and what the DJ is saying, but the recorded telephone conversations DJs put on the air now are already delayed.
I really hope this doesn't happen to radio, but considering the financial rewards I doubt companies like Clear Channel aren't considering it.
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Microsoft never switched to NYSE, it's still on Nasdaq. Maybe you're confused because it's the only Dow component listed on Nasdaq.
You're right though, Microsoft has transformed from a growth company to a value company. If it was a growth company they wouldn't have done Software Assurance, and instead focused on gaining new customers and creating new products. As a value company, it may be smart to switch to NYSE. The NYSE is a haven for value companies, which enjoy the lowered volatility and greater depth of market.
I doubt Mozilla team members are adding NTLM in foresight of corporate usage. Rather, NTLM support has been one of the most requested features in Mozilla since 1.0 was released. It's one of the top-10 bugs in their Bugzilla database. Hundreds of people (including me) list it as one of their 10 requested bug fixes. I don't think NTLM support would have ever been added if it wasn't for its visibility on Bugzilla and the many repeated feature requests for it.
It was a lot of work to add NTLM, though. It required a redesign of a lot of core ideas, and the adding of trusted domains in the preferences panel. I'm not suprised it took until 1.4 to add all the necessary related features, without which NTLM would be insecure.
It's not ironic, it's hypocritical.
No, we should constantly redefine 'a second' so there's always 24*60*60 of them a day. This would benefit hardware manufacturers greatly.
You know your 25 MHz computer from 10 years ago? Guess what, now that days are longer, it's 25.001 MHz!!!
Maybe the two sports can be combined!
We should merge both into one project called "The Internet".
Example
"The Internet isn't working."
That's what everyone calls their computers anyway...
My guess is 24. It's the first denominator capable of .25 and .71. :)
I guess it all comes down to the definition of "placing any Customer Material on our ... Systems." If they cache the data you're uploading to a third-party site, have you placed that data on their systems? I'm pretty sure their real intent is explained in the first line of the section, as I quoted in my first post.
Xtra does not claim ownership of any content or material you provide or make available through the Services.
XTRA isn't claiming any property right on what you put on the Internet, such as Slashdot postings, email or files you upload to third-party web hosts. It's just claiming a right to redistribute content that you put on your XTRA-hosted website. I don't see anything wrong with that... if they don't declare their right to do so, you could sue them for redistributing your copyrighted material after you put it on their servers.
It's careless how they phrased it though. Basically they claim they can use, copy, and redistribute your materials for whatever purposes they want, not just serving to web site visitors. In my opinion, they will probably clean this part up after they realize their mistake.
Now I don't need a sun-oven trailer to cook dinner while driving home! (Unfortunately now I have no excuse for leaving work at 3pm either.)
But i wasnt looking for a list of baseball sites, i was looking for the yankees scores, yet yahoo cluttered up my search results with *extras*.
The article made me believe Yahoo would show me current score *immediately* when I typed in "yankees scores" in their search. It would be "I'm Feeling Lucky" taken to the next level... you get to see the scores on the next page without the bloat of mlb.com or msn.espn.go.com.
But your interpretation is right. You do just get a whole bunch of advertisements for baseball sites with some scoreboard sites half a page later. Yahoo hasn't learned anything yet.
Clearly having clocks that are off by a few minutes isn't acceptible anymore. This is why many clock towers in England, including Big Ben in London, are converting to digital read-outs. The thinking behind these renovations is that instead of retrofitting the current clock systems with reliable electric motors, the entire system should be modernised. And why not?
Wow! This will sure come in handy when I start writing checks in hex.
It's actually Rock Creek Parkway in the District of Columbia. I-95 follows the eastern part of the beltway from Springfield, VA up to College Park, MD. I think you confused I-395 with I-95, because if you continue northward from Springfield you get on 395 seemlessly, which goes into the district. From there you have to go half a mile on ground streets westward to get to the Parkway.
I personally think the Rock Creek Parkway is scary when it's one-way. The two sides are always splitting apart and coming back together. It's painted with a yellow line down the center and there are no gates preventing people from going the wrong way... it's just signed like an HOV lane. At 7pm people start driving both ways again, so if you're not thinking you can get in a serious accident.
something that ends with "ix"
I guess all the Linux users out there will have to sync their cvs clients back to Minix.
Seriously, I don't think you need to worry about C|Net/ZDNet getting Slashdotted. I hope you have wonderful dreams about your increased karma tonight.
It uses HTTPS. Search for "https" in the source code, and you'll see they dynamically create a URL for the submit action. It takes a parameter called "secure", so technically non-secure URLs could be created, but the function (FixFormAction()) always receives secure=true.
Also, I sniffed the login traffic doing the same sign-in process you did, and the form was submitted with HTTPS. I don't know why you couldn't detect this.
I agree with you. The same thing is true regarding the protests yesterday in San Francisco. Most people who live in San Francisco are against the war already. So the protesters come and block intersections and prevent exit off of the interchanges?? The purpose of protests should be to convert people, not piss off people who already believe the same way you do. Unfortunately, this stuff makes national news... so they continue their behavior today.
I use 411 about once every month or two. I've never used it to get phone numbers, but it's great when you're away from home and you need to know where something is.
AT&T Wireless's 411 service is really nice. Ask them where some place is, tell them where you are, and then they forward you to an automated direction-giving system that you can rewind and fast forward through to get where you need to go. One time I wasn't sure what a place was even called, and the guy stayed on the line with me for 5-10 minutes while he tried to find it. For $1.95, it's not overly priced for when you're in a rush.
A friend of mine once called 411 while we were driving home from partying to ask about current world events. I don't think that's what 411 is for, but they seemed to have fun chit-chatting back and forth for 10 minutes.
So I guess the TV stations could counter-argue that because of TiVo, the same program will be watched multiple times by different people in a household or people enjoying them over again. Hence advertising rates should go up due to this "pass-along" viewership.
I find a big reason I listen to MP3s is because I hear new things all the time with them. On an average week I probably download 20 songs that I've never heard of, and put them into my random rotation. Often times when I'm listening to my collection I hear something I've never heard before... which is cool.
I find myself doing a similar thing in my car. I always listen to radio in my car, not because I love the music the radio plays, but because it's random. I don't know what's going to happen next (even though it'll prolly suck).
I dislike CDs cause they're a fixed format. Every time I listen to one, it's the same thing. I don't think I'm alone in liking the randomness of formats like radio and MP3s. It would be nice if record companies could offer me something legal to listen to my genres without having to worry about downloading stuff or hearing a song more than a few times. (Maybe I should try XM Radio.)
I have two rolls of duct tape in my San Jose-located closet, and I still have a job. Coincidence?
I think an MM online deer hunting game would be awesome! Think about it... your goal is to hunt. But there are other hunters, whom you can shoot too. But if you shoot them, you're immediately become "evil", and police start coming after you and other hunters can shoot you with abandon. Being evil is not permanent: If you manage to get a distance away from any other hunters, you become "normal" again. If you get shot when you're normal, you only get injured, but if you're shot when you're evil, your character dies.
As you kill more deer, elk, and evil hunters, you get better weapons. As you gain knowledge of the terrain, you can figure out better ways to hunt both game and people and get away with it. Or if you're a good person, you'll find out better ways to catch evil people.
This scenario will encourage people to hunt in groups. That way, if potential evil people approach and maim someone in your hunting party, you can easily catch the evil person and gain considerable skill. Lone hunters wouldn't be able to defend themselves for a period after being shot.
Potentially you can also have cabins to keep your weapons, which can get robbed, and bullet-proof vests, and hunting stores. The terrain would be variable, with rivers and mountains creating natural barriers for would-be escapers.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to develop games, feel free to take my idea...
How do you know they're not having more fun? I'm a software developer, so my hours are kinda screwy... somedays I wish I had a 9-to-5 where I hung out with people my own age all day (early 20s) and didn't have to think.
I think about the lifestyle cost of being a software developer a lot... Time/Stress versus Money. I think Kevin Spacey made a brilliant choice in American Beauty when he quit his day job and changed to serving fast food at a drive-thru. His wife was pissed cause he stopped bringing home the money, but he LOVED it! I want to do something similar someday, but I kinda like the money for now.
If this continues, maybe radio will become just like telemarketing!
Back when telemarketing began, telemarketers would call people up by hand using a phone book or a list they had collected. It worked, but they wasted a lot of time dialing and waiting for people to answer. So today telemarketers use systems that auto-dial numbers, predict when telemarketers will finish their current call, and connect telemarketers to households with no down time.
These days, disk jockeys spend a lot of time waiting for records to play out before they say the song that just played or yell about some radio promotion. That's wasted time! With networked studios, we could have one DJ run ten radio stations. Computers could model out the songs to be played, record the DJ introducing songs and promoting, and sequence it all together. There would be a few minute delay between what you hear and what the DJ is saying, but the recorded telephone conversations DJs put on the air now are already delayed.
I really hope this doesn't happen to radio, but considering the financial rewards I doubt companies like Clear Channel aren't considering it.