Google also is successful because it doesn't have pay-for-placement results.
Um, actually we spend thousands per month with Google's pay per click sponsored placement. Not as much as we spend on Overture's, but still a lot. They have had this program for about 6 months now. It is different than Overture's in that it combines your 'top bid' along with what it says is relevence, but believe me, its all in what you pay.
That said, it is a great system, cost effective, and generates high quality leads that 3 times more likely to covert than AOL or Lycos. MSN comes second, then Yahoo. Aol has always sucked for conversion (buys during the same browsing session that they clicked on the ad) in the 3 years that I have tracked it. They do generate a lot of traffic, its just traffic that doesn't buy anything.
So yea, Google wants to make money, too. Good for them.
All software developer's should instantly stop using any copy protection software and instead just begin a hiring frenzy for their IT staff using the money they save from not developing copy protection, plus the money will be getting from all those pirates now buying their products. Obviously, if we can hire enough people, piracy will disappear. Then we can all just use software on the honor system, with no serial numbers required.
belive "Nazi-ism" like opineon is as legal as in the US put ther cant be any "NAZI" partie.
I think the article was covering the potential pitfalls that most of use would fall into, including where warns to read the directions, because he didn't and cost him time. It was ok. I even read it and I don't give a damn about the game.
The fact that someone had done one what I had counted as 4 times (maybe 5) is not beyond/.
If it was on purpose, it wasn't funny really, just lame. Not even amusing. So what does April Fools have to do with it? I can see him duping it on purpose, yea, but $10 says he didn't see it was already duped several other times. You know how I know this? Because he and others dupe all the fucking time. Its pitiful.
Its APRIL FOOLS day, not BE A LLAMA day. The key is to deceive, in a comical way. I don't see how this applies on either point. Its just lame.
Besides, I'm tired. I get to overreact once a month for free. I am pretty sure thats in the FAQ somewhere....
Read your own fucking site every now and then. This piece of shit story wasn't very funny the first time it was posted. Or the second. Or the third......
Mod me down, I got it to burn. Fact is, I'm right. Rude, but right. This is fucking rediculous.
I belive "Nazi-ism" like opineon is as legal as in the US put ther cant be any "NAZI" partie.
Not true. there is no limitation to any group as long as the group does not seek to overthrow the government by force. Even then, the organization is NOT illegal, only the actions.
If you do a little research, you will find that many of the so called war "protests" here in the states are actually funded by communist parties. Ask most of the protestors, they don't even know whats going on with the war.
I think it was Patrick Henry who said (roughly) that if you BELIEVE in free speech, you must be willing to fight to protect the speech of someone you strongly disagree with. That is still alive in America, in spite of a few pinheads claims.
So yes: KKK, Nazis, Communists. I want you to be able to form organizations. It makes it easier to know who you are.
This year has been worse than most, so many of the stories are soooooo....obviously fake.....
you would think they might mix only a few fake ones in with the real stories, try to be sneaky. But then again, what they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
On another note: The quality of posting hasn't changed. If anything, there is LESS trolling and flamebaiting, which makes you think that if they did this every day, the overall quality of posts would go up;-)
Its like Onion meets/. Oh, except Onion is actually funny sometimes.
Vic-4? What the hell's that. I had the Vic-20 which I could use to amaze myself by drawing simple block colors on the screen or playing hangman.
The same thing as the Vic20. except it had 80% less ram. 4k. I couldn't afford the vic 20k and my parents wouldnt help me buy it. My mom told me that those computers were a waste of time. they were just a fad and nothing would ever come of them.
So, clearly people *do* trust Windows, in that they are using the software for "sensitive applications".
Actually, its doesn't prove that at all. Its partially a matter of who makes the decisions about applications (often clueless managers) and some may only run on windows. The other part is left over infrastructure from years past, like our office, where we still have programs we use left over from windows 3.0 days. yea, i know...
As part of the treat, each site will receive packets of flavored drink mix for a special toast at the end of the teleconference. MSCEs will give instructions on the preparation of the mix and will assist the sales staff in dispensing to executive staff.
Well, you young kids with your fancy hard drives... When I was kid, all we had were VIC-4s....no fancy, schmancy hard drives or tape drive, and no monitor, so we had to use the tv. We didnt even have floppy drives. If we wanted to run a program, we typed in all the code in basic each time we turned on the computer, AND WE LIKED IT!
was thinking about getting a subscription to their service, but i'm not really interested in up2date. i setup my own apt repository and i'm happily using apt4rpm. my question is do you have rsync access to redhat's servers to their eratta? if not do you know if they offer this in a different service?
their system is really setup to use up2date, which is what i use. it would be hard to be easier than up2date. you can cron it if you are not worried about breaking anything, such as a webserver, dns server, simple server.
I'm not being a spoilsport, but after a few years April Fools Day jokes start to seem a little formulaic and predictable.
Well, ya they are predictable, they come every April 1....:)
Perhaps if they just did a few random hoaxes a year, at different times, it would be a little more fun. As it is, its kind of like acting suprised when you get socks for christmas. And just as gratifying.
Technically, you are wrong. It IS uscentric. Quoting directly from the FAQ...
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
sooo, according the guys that own the place, it IS slashdot.org.us and if you are not in the US, well, your welcome to join too.
So it SHOULD have been posted later.
Feel free to mod me up, i had to search awhile to find that quote, reducing the time I can spend downloading pr0n now.
would a moderator PLEASE READ THE DAMN RFC!!! I think they'd then get the joke the poor guy tryin' to make!
The people who POST don't read the article. What the HELL makes you think a moderator is going to?
What we need is 24 hours notice: "You are going to get Moderator points in 24 hours" so they can get over the giddyness before they get to use them. Maybe even read the FAQ....naw.
jumping the gun on April Fools Day a bit, aren't we?
Thanks for the reminder.
I am sitting here, reading the article before the replys here (yes, some of us really do before we post;) and thinking "wtf is an evil bit?"
I mean, the whole protocol thing is over my head, but I read anyway to maybe learn something. It took about 3 minutes of head scratching before I really looked at the url, return here suspicious and decide that I had been had.
I am betting 1% of the readers come back and think the new protocol is a good thing before realizing its a hoax;)
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Not an EE, but I have a feeling all those high frequency signal lines would have to be shielded with more than duct tape and baling wire...
supposed to use more than paired up floppy cable ribbons for scsi cables, and not supposed to Y the cables (hey, I didn't know better at the time, was my first experience with scsi:)
but it worked. They are not very shielded in the laptop now. I have worked on many laptops. Not a whole lot connecting them. Really, if i had the time, i would try it simply because i have many old laptops, and could either do it (given enough time) or fuck it up so bad, no one could fix it.
Keep in mind that in spite of what people want you to think, most people who use Linux don't use a soundcard anyway. I have well over a half dozen boxes with Linux on them. One has a sound card. Most people STILL use Linux commercially, in a server environment. Mixing audio hasn't been as high on the list of things to do as say, iptables, journal file system, etc.
The question is whether this should be done in the kernel (Linus), in X, or in hardware (emu10k like SB, etc). It appears they finally decided 'the kernel'. Its Linus' decision.
While windows IS more advanced on the desktop (mainly what i use) it is not as secure as Linux CAN be on the server. (linux is now all i use on servers) In my opinion and experience, that is.
That said, Linux appears to be more popular on laptops than desktop, as a percentage of each market. (if its 2% of desktops, its 3%+ of laptops) Lots of people running it on laptops because it takes less resources than windows. An old p200 with 64mb of ram is fine. Most people dont use that feature so much on laptop. Hense, the need for this feature hasn't been on the top of the list of things to do.
The beauty of Linux is that it is work in progress. And it always will be.
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Buy a laptop and take off the base. ta-dah, problem solved!. You have a flat-panel monitor AND a small headless server.
Of course, you do then need to make the interface to connect the flat panel to something useful, but thats where the fun comes into it:)
At first I thought "silly comment" but then I realized that the so called L337 here (me, Im only L337 2 days a month top now;) should consider this an option. Buy a used laptop cheap and do it instead of talking about it. This is a bit over my head for the hours I could put in it, personally. I could get the laptop tho, I get lots of those.
I used to make homemade scsi cables (yea, really 25 pin scsi1) and every other kind of crosswire adapter, etc. But I didn't do it cause it was cool or because I was L337, I did it because I was broke as hell running a 3 line BBS. We used to do stuff like because buying it wasn't an option. Remember, this is pre.com boom, when businesses had to have a plan to make money, so nerds weren't rich yet. Maybe thats the prob.....
I want to see a damn article where someone does this, that shows how to do it for real. Really. Surely some m45+3r h4x0r here can whip that up in a week. Or by saturday if you're really leet.
The fact that it uses a software decoder shouldn't make a big difference. Among the HTPC world, software decoders are generally preferred, for some reason. I have no problems playing DVDs using PowerDVD and a software decoder on a 1GHz Athlon.
Once again, RTFA. Its not a Duron, its a 933 VIA CPU with built in shared ram Trident video (using pc133 ram) thus can not be compared to your setup.
Quoting:
The folks at iDOTpc.com were on the ball though, and answered all my questions in just a single 5 minute call to their location. I found it funny that they knew all along that the system had performance issues and yet the parent company denied it....
iDOTpc.com was well aware of the problem and told me it was because the system lacked a hardware DVD decoder. The new ?M series? would be coming out soon that did include the decoder and took care of the poor playback....
The article clearly presents the problems and solutions if you bother to read it. I think 2 different people have posted the article here already.
I get tired of saying this. It clearly states that the DVD player does decode in software, not hardware. the next generation will have hardware decoding.
I can see why you post as AC, since you didnt read the fucking article and thus have no clue.
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Google also is successful because it doesn't have pay-for-placement results.
Um, actually we spend thousands per month with Google's pay per click sponsored placement. Not as much as we spend on Overture's, but still a lot. They have had this program for about 6 months now. It is different than Overture's in that it combines your 'top bid' along with what it says is relevence, but believe me, its all in what you pay.
That said, it is a great system, cost effective, and generates high quality leads that 3 times more likely to covert than AOL or Lycos. MSN comes second, then Yahoo. Aol has always sucked for conversion (buys during the same browsing session that they clicked on the ad) in the 3 years that I have tracked it. They do generate a lot of traffic, its just traffic that doesn't buy anything.
So yea, Google wants to make money, too. Good for them.
OMG. That article was rich. Here is my solution:
All software developer's should instantly stop using any copy protection software and instead just begin a hiring frenzy for their IT staff using the money they save from not developing copy protection, plus the money will be getting from all those pirates now buying their products. Obviously, if we can hire enough people, piracy will disappear. Then we can all just use software on the honor system, with no serial numbers required.
belive "Nazi-ism" like opineon is as legal as in the US put ther cant be any "NAZI" partie.
I think the article was covering the potential pitfalls that most of use would fall into, including where warns to read the directions, because he didn't and cost him time. It was ok. I even read it and I don't give a damn about the game.
Can't remember the source of this one:
Take my advice.....I'm not using it.
This IS /.
/.
So many posts are dupes.
Several have been multiple dupes.
The fact that someone had done one what I had counted as 4 times (maybe 5) is not beyond
If it was on purpose, it wasn't funny really, just lame. Not even amusing. So what does April Fools have to do with it? I can see him duping it on purpose, yea, but $10 says he didn't see it was already duped several other times. You know how I know this? Because he and others dupe all the fucking time. Its pitiful.
Its APRIL FOOLS day, not BE A LLAMA day. The key is to deceive, in a comical way. I don't see how this applies on either point. Its just lame.
Besides, I'm tired. I get to overreact once a month for free. I am pretty sure thats in the FAQ somewhere....
Read your own fucking site every now and then. This piece of shit story wasn't very funny the first time it was posted. Or the second. Or the third......
Mod me down, I got it to burn. Fact is, I'm right. Rude, but right. This is fucking rediculous.
I belive "Nazi-ism" like opineon is as legal as in the US put ther cant be any "NAZI" partie.
Not true. there is no limitation to any group as long as the group does not seek to overthrow the government by force. Even then, the organization is NOT illegal, only the actions.
If you do a little research, you will find that many of the so called war "protests" here in the states are actually funded by communist parties. Ask most of the protestors, they don't even know whats going on with the war.
I think it was Patrick Henry who said (roughly) that if you BELIEVE in free speech, you must be willing to fight to protect the speech of someone you strongly disagree with. That is still alive in America, in spite of a few pinheads claims.
So yes: KKK, Nazis, Communists. I want you to be able to form organizations. It makes it easier to know who you are.
You know, it IS TRUE. all you have to do is flame Microsoft and you get modded up.....from people using windows no less.
;-)
I mean I wrote the damn post, and I don't even think its that funny.
Ok, so mod the parent DOWN as overrated, and mod this one UP as "insightful"
Thank you for your cooperation.
ps: i actually like windows.
This year has been worse than most, so many of the stories are soooooo....obviously fake.....
;-)
/. Oh, except Onion is actually funny sometimes.
you would think they might mix only a few fake ones in with the real stories, try to be sneaky. But then again, what they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
On another note: The quality of posting hasn't changed. If anything, there is LESS trolling and flamebaiting, which makes you think that if they did this every day, the overall quality of posts would go up
Its like Onion meets
Vic-4? What the hell's that. I had the Vic-20 which I could use to amaze myself by drawing simple block colors on the screen or playing hangman.
The same thing as the Vic20. except it had 80% less ram. 4k. I couldn't afford the vic 20k and my parents wouldnt help me buy it. My mom told me that those computers were a waste of time. they were just a fad and nothing would ever come of them.
(really, its not a joke)
So, clearly people *do* trust Windows, in that they are using the software for "sensitive applications".
Actually, its doesn't prove that at all. Its partially a matter of who makes the decisions about applications (often clueless managers) and some may only run on windows. The other part is left over infrastructure from years past, like our office, where we still have programs we use left over from windows 3.0 days. yea, i know...
As part of the treat, each site will receive packets of flavored drink mix for a special toast at the end of the teleconference. MSCEs will give instructions on the preparation of the mix and will assist the sales staff in dispensing to executive staff.
Sadly, many will miss this Jonestown reference.
More sad is how accurate you are.
I don't think that the Yahoo! story is a Joke... it was posted 03/31 not 04/01... If it is, please correct me. I'd like to be wrong here.
;-)
Hey, april fools or not, trusting Microsoft with your security IS A JOKE
(and no, for once, I didn't bother reading the article. whats the use of having excellent Karma if you can't burn some every now and then?)
Well, you young kids with your fancy hard drives... When I was kid, all we had were VIC-4s....no fancy, schmancy hard drives or tape drive, and no monitor, so we had to use the tv. We didnt even have floppy drives. If we wanted to run a program, we typed in all the code in basic each time we turned on the computer, AND WE LIKED IT!
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I'm confused, doesn't slashdot post random hoaxes now ?
No, those are just repeats and articles where the editor doesn't corroborate the facts. We just laugh about them to keep from crying.
Hense the confusion.
was thinking about getting a subscription to their service, but i'm not really interested in up2date. i setup my own apt repository and i'm happily using apt4rpm. my question is do you have rsync access to redhat's servers to their eratta? if not do you know if they offer this in a different service?
their system is really setup to use up2date, which is what i use. it would be hard to be easier than up2date. you can cron it if you are not worried about breaking anything, such as a webserver, dns server, simple server.
goto rhn.redhat.com and check tho to be sure.
I'm not being a spoilsport, but after a few years April Fools Day jokes start to seem a little formulaic and predictable.
Well, ya they are predictable, they come every April 1....:)
Perhaps if they just did a few random hoaxes a year, at different times, it would be a little more fun. As it is, its kind of like acting suprised when you get socks for christmas. And just as gratifying.
This is slashdot.org, not slashdot.org.us
Technically, you are wrong. It IS uscentric. Quoting directly from the FAQ...
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
sooo, according the guys that own the place, it IS slashdot.org.us and if you are not in the US, well, your welcome to join too.
So it SHOULD have been posted later.
Feel free to mod me up, i had to search awhile to find that quote, reducing the time I can spend downloading pr0n now.
Note to self: Remember to set "evil" bit to 1 when launching world domination attempt.
Which makes me think: Will the cable company terminate my account if I forget to set the evil bit when I am DDoSing someone, as a TOS violation?
would a moderator PLEASE READ THE DAMN RFC!!! I think they'd then get the joke the poor guy tryin' to make!
The people who POST don't read the article. What the HELL makes you think a moderator is going to?
What we need is 24 hours notice: "You are going to get Moderator points in 24 hours" so they can get over the giddyness before they get to use them. Maybe even read the FAQ....naw.
jumping the gun on April Fools Day a bit, aren't we?
;) and thinking "wtf is an evil bit?"
;)
Thanks for the reminder.
I am sitting here, reading the article before the replys here (yes, some of us really do before we post
I mean, the whole protocol thing is over my head, but I read anyway to maybe learn something. It took about 3 minutes of head scratching before I really looked at the url, return here suspicious and decide that I had been had.
I am betting 1% of the readers come back and think the new protocol is a good thing before realizing its a hoax
Not an EE, but I have a feeling all those high frequency signal lines would have to be shielded with more than duct tape and baling wire...
:)
supposed to use more than paired up floppy cable ribbons for scsi cables, and not supposed to Y the cables (hey, I didn't know better at the time, was my first experience with scsi
but it worked. They are not very shielded in the laptop now. I have worked on many laptops. Not a whole lot connecting them. Really, if i had the time, i would try it simply because i have many old laptops, and could either do it (given enough time) or fuck it up so bad, no one could fix it.
Windows has been doing it for over 4 years.
Keep in mind that in spite of what people want you to think, most people who use Linux don't use a soundcard anyway. I have well over a half dozen boxes with Linux on them. One has a sound card. Most people STILL use Linux commercially, in a server environment. Mixing audio hasn't been as high on the list of things to do as say, iptables, journal file system, etc.
The question is whether this should be done in the kernel (Linus), in X, or in hardware (emu10k like SB, etc). It appears they finally decided 'the kernel'. Its Linus' decision.
While windows IS more advanced on the desktop (mainly what i use) it is not as secure as Linux CAN be on the server. (linux is now all i use on servers) In my opinion and experience, that is.
That said, Linux appears to be more popular on laptops than desktop, as a percentage of each market. (if its 2% of desktops, its 3%+ of laptops) Lots of people running it on laptops because it takes less resources than windows. An old p200 with 64mb of ram is fine. Most people dont use that feature so much on laptop. Hense, the need for this feature hasn't been on the top of the list of things to do.
The beauty of Linux is that it is work in progress. And it always will be.
Buy a laptop and take off the base. ta-dah, problem solved!. You have a flat-panel monitor AND a small headless server.
:)
;) should consider this an option. Buy a used laptop cheap and do it instead of talking about it. This is a bit over my head for the hours I could put in it, personally. I could get the laptop tho, I get lots of those.
.com boom, when businesses had to have a plan to make money, so nerds weren't rich yet. Maybe thats the prob.....
Of course, you do then need to make the interface to connect the flat panel to something useful, but thats where the fun comes into it
At first I thought "silly comment" but then I realized that the so called L337 here (me, Im only L337 2 days a month top now
I used to make homemade scsi cables (yea, really 25 pin scsi1) and every other kind of crosswire adapter, etc. But I didn't do it cause it was cool or because I was L337, I did it because I was broke as hell running a 3 line BBS. We used to do stuff like because buying it wasn't an option. Remember, this is pre
I want to see a damn article where someone does this, that shows how to do it for real. Really. Surely some m45+3r h4x0r here can whip that up in a week. Or by saturday if you're really leet.
The fact that it uses a software decoder shouldn't make a big difference. Among the HTPC world, software decoders are generally preferred, for some reason. I have no problems playing DVDs using PowerDVD and a software decoder on a 1GHz Athlon.
Once again, RTFA. Its not a Duron, its a 933 VIA CPU with built in shared ram Trident video (using pc133 ram) thus can not be compared to your setup.
Quoting:
The folks at iDOTpc.com were on the ball though, and answered all my questions in just a single 5 minute call to their location. I found it funny that they knew all along that the system had performance issues and yet the parent company denied it....
iDOTpc.com was well aware of the problem and told me it was because the system lacked a hardware DVD decoder. The new ?M series? would be coming out soon that did include the decoder and took care of the poor playback....
The article clearly presents the problems and solutions if you bother to read it. I think 2 different people have posted the article here already.
RTFA
I get tired of saying this. It clearly states that the DVD player does decode in software, not hardware. the next generation will have hardware decoding.
I can see why you post as AC, since you didnt read the fucking article and thus have no clue.