Does no-one remember the prior art? Come on people, has no-one used one of those AOL CD-Roms, or even the floppy-diks, as a frisbee? You know you have, admit it already!
This is looking kind of fishy if you ask me and strange. Sure a company has the right to ship whichever chips its wants but it surely does not make business sense right now for Dell.
Price conscience IT departments wont like the price for a SMP Xeon server compared to an SMP Opteron.
What's to say that Dell isn't paying the same for a Xeon as they would for an Opteron? And pocketing the change? That's why it makes business sense.
Explain, in technical terms, just how one processor is "better" than another. I do not accept annecdotal evidence. This explanation must also accompany a long term projection of cost savings over the life of the product. There should also be a justification for switch factor that states, in car terms, if the speed limit for most consumers is 55-65 mph, just why it is important to drive a Ferrari on the standard business highway.
I fully agree. I don't understand why Dell moved away from the 286, those were just as good as any other processor.
I suggest fist to replace fuck. As in fist you, motherfister.. That immediately sounds a lot nicer.
Also, perhaps to replace piss, if it's used as a derogatory term (since there's already a perfectly good word for piss; urine), I'd suggest come, or cum as it's known online.
The phrase, this place smells like two-week old come would surely please the FCC immensly, as it contains not a single dirty word.
Now, for cunt one might describe the actual organ as vagina, or perhaps, on Oprah, as beafcurtain covered meathole, but I understand it's ofted used to refer to a person, as in "he's a cunt". Luckily, dickhead isn't on the list, otherwise what would one call Mr.Cheney's face for example?
"cocksucker" is a bit of a mystery to me. Neither word the composite is made up of is particularly naughty in its own right. While applicant of low pressure to a rooster might be an odd jobdescription, who knows if these people exist, and how much pride they might take in their work? Surely people working at the fudgepacking plant have similar feelings. Perhaps cumbucket would be an alternative with enough street-cred to supplant it some day.
As for tits, that just doesn't make sense. In particular, The Royal Tit-Watching (ornithological) Society (SFW) would take serious issue with not being able to discuss the objects of their fascination. Besides "look at the tits on her" is a term of admiration. I'd suggest we go with funbags on this one, since it would, hopefully, infuriate rabid feminists and/or puritans even more if breasts, which are actually pretty mundane things - almost all women and overweight men have them - are consistently referred to explicitely as sexual objects.
So there you have it, folks. Now leave me the fist alone, you're fudgepacking cumbuckets the lot of you!
The way it works with the Data Protection Act is that the information has to stay within the EU, or certain states with which the EU has a "safe harbor" agreement. Those are countries that promise to be good. So your data gets shipped to the US, and then Faceless Corporation X just breaks their promise and ships all the work and data right back to India.
The easiest way to do it in C is with qsort and comparitive function that returns a random number between -1 and 1 inclusive.
Your method wastes memory.
I'm aware of that, which is why I said easiest, not most efficient. And it's foolproof in that even if the sorting algorithm used for some reason turns out to be bubblesort, it won't go on forever.
This absolutely right. Also, using this method, inevitably some songs will occur multiple times in the playlist, since you're not keeping track of dupes (much like slashdot).
If you need to randomize an array, the easiest way to do it is to assign each item a random number, and then sort the array using the random numbers as a key. That way every item occurs only once in the randomized list.
You still need a decent pseudo random number generator of course, if you're using a pseudo random number generator that only produces 5 discrete values and repeats them over and over it doesn't help much.
On the other hand, for an application like a playlist shuffle, you don't need a cryptographically secure RNG, just a PRNG (such as a Mersenne Twister), that uses the current time in milliseconds as a seed would do nicely.
Isn't it better if it were called Woman-in-the-middle? It would atleast not make us geeks seem so gay.
Well, feminist do-gooders, in an effort to de-genderify the term whilst keeping the acronym MITM beat you to it, by redefining MITM as "Meet-In-The-Middle".
It was a quite popular term in academia, until it was discovered that "Meat-In-The-Middle" in the context of a three-party situation sounds a lot more gay even.
And when a company owned and operated by Americans far surpasses anything the "superior" European continent can produce, it must really be gauling... er, galling.
Says the American, whose national Trade Balance is totally pwned by China.;-)
Perhaps it doesn't appeal to the stereotypical geek, but the vibrator. The pocket calculator as well as; The calculator/remote control/radio controlled/FM radio *wristwratch* (surely the pinnacle of minitiaturization!).
Of course, the bonefone: link. The transistor radio. The world receiver radio. The wind-up/clockwork radio/charger. The intimidating maglite flashlight. Glowsticks! Neither electonic, nor moving parts, but who can resist luminecence!
7" 33 1/3rpm vinyl gramophone records; or I can do you even better than that - 7" 33 1/3 rpm plastic gramophone records that were given away as inlays with MSX Magazine, that you'd dub on tape, and you'd "load" programs off of the tape using the regular "data cassette recorder".
The hearing aid. The answering machine remote control/handheld DTMF tone dialer. Also; the blue box! The minox sub-miniature "spy" camera (as seen in james bond). The SLR Single Lens Reflex camera. Automatic tweezers (They don't work particularly well, but they have a gadget-esque movement)
The portable DVD player. Toys robots (remote controlled, especially; the robosapiens is a good stab at the concept). Magnesium firestarters. (I'm the firestarter!)
The random movement printer (If and when it becomes widely available..) Lego mindstorms (programmable bricks..)
The most important hand-helds historically; the Smith&Wesson and the AK47.
Also, though not an autonomous device, nor mechanical, nominated for achievements in disrupting the global economy, I'd like to recognize bubblejet printer ink, for costing more than its weight in gold or oil.
Aerosol spray canisters; specifically, every graffitti artist's friend: spraypaint and every gadget-minded geek's friend: deodorant (especially the miniature cans) and of course; aerosol cheese! Also, perhaps slightly more palatable, mace pepper spray.
The electric toothbrush (with induction-loop-charging-circuit magic!) Not the greatest gadget in history until you consider it's "dual use" nature, and the fact it's marketed so widely.
Sattellite TV. Not the most portable of gadgets, but come on! Windscreenwiper glasses. (Though more of a chindogu) The mac. The iMac for doing it twice. The aibo.
The "orgasmotron" (actually just a head massager, not at all naughty) Stylish pin clock. The keyghost hardware keystroke logger.
The digital camera. The digital photo frame. The credit-card sized Anything, but in particular, the cre
Note that your solar cells would need to track the sun if they were to get decent efficiency. You couldn't just tile your roof with fixed cells and hope to get the numbers that you stated. Making 160m^2 of cells track the sun would be expensive.
On the up side, if your entire home rotates to track the sun, your living room would always face the sun as well! Imagine what that would do for your property value!
What is typicaly advertised is "0% APR" where APR means Annual Percentage Rate. So long as you conform to the terms of the contract and pay your balance within the set time, even though the finance charges are a flat rate calculated into the sales price, your annual percentage rate = 0%. Even if the flat rate would equal the same as.9 or 1.9 or 5.9 over x years, since it's a flat rate the annual percentage rate is still 0%. That's how flat rates work.
That's not how APR works. APR is a measurement specifically designed to reflect the total cost of financing (even if at times it fails). APR is just the costs of borrowing re-calculated to a yearly basis.
This is to prevent people from thiking a creditcard that charges only $10 a year and 0.07% per day on a maximum credit of $1000 is a good deal. Recalculated to APR, the $10 alone is (at a minimum) 1%, and the 0.07% per day works out to an additional 29% on a yearly basis, so 30% APR in total!
Even if you don't pay interest-on-interest, an indicative APR rate would be calculated so as to simulate the percentage you'd pay if you did pay interest-on-interest (so the APR would turn out lower than the flat rate percentage).
Unfortunately people/businesses get away with not including "fees" in the APR calculation. If you treated the "cash discount" you DON'T get when you choose "0%" financing, and recalculated the APR to include the discount you're not given, you'd notice it's not such a hot deal.
No, the 0% financing is still a genuine 0% financing. They're not charging you more for it. Instead they're giving cash customers a discount. It's a subtle but very important distiniction. If you can't understand why, try running a business for a few years.
Money has an inherent value. Or more accurately, the USE of money has a value. $100 today has more value than $100 tomorrow. The dealer is going to give you a discount when you pay cash, because $12,000 minus $2,000 discount today is worth more to him then $12,000 in four years. Conversely, that $12,000 in four years might be worth less than the $10,000 today, in which case you would choose the financing.
Yes, that's right, money has a price. The price of money, why, that's called interest. So if you're not getting the "cash discount" you're being charged? What? That's right! Interest! More than 0%.
Also consider that if you sue the company together with its majority shareholder (such as Canopy in this case) and win against them both, any damages won't be paid to the majority shareholder that was sleeping at the wheel, and you get a disproportionate win compared with the overall loss per share.
OpenSSH is great for some things, but it does NOT do remote authentication for services, nor does it authenticate the service to the client. So it does not scale well.
If you store the keys you need to authenticate at other services in the.ssh directory of the server you log into first, then ssh authenticates you to other services..
Kerberos isn't particularly impressive at scaling, what with all those secret keys flying about.
Really, the only thing SSH doesn't do is authenticate the remote service to the extent that Kerberos would, although really the only benefit Kerberos brings is that it prevents some MITM attacks - it's still based on remote systems (working together) "proving" who they are by knowing a shared secret (your password).
Now, if Kerberos got hip to the 1990s way of doing things and started using public key encryption, you'd be on to something! In fact, combine PKI for SSO with something like XML and/or webservices, and hey presto, you've reinvented SAML and WS-Security.
Finally Activesync for nokia! Because with the nokia suite they have now, you can sync with outlook, outlook express, lotus notes, even stuff like defunct netscape calendar, or CSV files. But with activesync, it's outlook-only all the way baby! Way to go!
Hospitals deal with thousands of blood samples on a daily basis. In-vitro research using blood, even HIV infested blood, is no more unsafe than handling all those blood samples - plus, you'd be extra careful about getting it splattered in your eye if you know it's infected.
"The set deliberately omits vowels to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive."
Wow, that is SO "politically correct". Still it does't prevent people from constructing URLs saying fvck 0ff. It would be better if people would simply learn to respect other peoples freedom of speech.
Worsse it's pretty offensive in itself, given that Arabic doesn't use vowels. So, a lot of coordinates would still be rude to our Arabic/Muslim brethren..
Suppose you == info security guy at $Company. When you see a string of seemingly random bits in a file marked crypto.txt leaving $Company, you may not be able to find out exactly what trade secret your local friendly spy was leaking, but you do know there was a leak and who sent it.
There are two problems with this bold assertion
a) usb sticks b) https://webmail or e-banking.
Sure, you can prohibit either, but your users will bitch and moan and set fire to your newborn child. Besides, people can also (*gasp*) walk out of the building with information in their brain...
Now, the armed forces may have these stringent restrictions in place but really, stego is no concern in the civilian world. Though it's fun trying to spot which personals ads in the local paper might be encoded messages from terrorists and kidnappers. (I dearly hope the majority is; given the contents of most personals it would reflect better on humanity).
Dear Friend , Your email address has been submitted to us indicating your interest in our newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive our publications simply reply with a Subject: of "REMOVE" and you will immediately be removed from our mailing list . This mail is being sent in compliance with Senate bill 2116 , Title 3 ; Section 304 ! This is different than anything else you've seen . Why work for somebody else when you can become rich within 56 MONTHS . Have you ever noticed more people than ever are surfing the web and how long the line-ups are at bank machines ! Well, now is your chance to capitalize on this . We will help you decrease perceived waiting time by 110% and SELL MORE . You can begin at absolutely no cost to you . But don't believe us ! Ms Simpson of Massachusetts tried us and says "My only problem now is where to park all my cars" ! We are licensed to operate in all states ! We beseech you - act now . Sign up a friend and your friend will be rich too ! Thank-you for your serious consideration of our offer !
Do you honestly think that the issue of standards compliance regarding their main web portal has gone unnoticed except by a few developers?
Quite the opposite. It's more likely than not encouraged. Think about it. Who visits msn.com of their own accord? You start up internet explorer and it's there. You click on an ad in MSN Messenger and you get on msn.com. And finally, people using hotmail.com are shuttled onto the msn.com website.
Hotmail's inoperability is legendary; they were even sabotaging the Opera browser quite on purpose.
The idea being that you can use the popularity of MSN Messenger and Hotmail to make people think internet explorer is the better browser because websites like msn.com render correctly in it.
Only works if your portal is a destination people actually care about rendering correctly, though. If people just shrug and go to another site that DOES work, it makes you lose customers. And since msn.com sucks llama's ass, they're now realizing they made a mistake, and they might as well support Opera (and Firefox, and Safari) since every eyeball they can scrounge is another nickle.
Scientists report that riding a steam-train may be detrimental to your health as the unnatural speeds at which it moves might cut off the natural air supply to one's lungs.
No such damage has been reported, but it's too early to tell, so best be careful out there, folks!
Slashdot Mirror
Does no-one remember the prior art? Come on people, has no-one used one of those AOL CD-Roms, or even the floppy-diks, as a frisbee? You know you have, admit it already!
This is looking kind of fishy if you ask me and strange. Sure a company has the right to ship whichever chips its wants but it surely does not make business sense right now for Dell.
Price conscience IT departments wont like the price for a SMP Xeon server compared to an SMP Opteron.
What's to say that Dell isn't paying the same for a Xeon as they would for an Opteron? And pocketing the change? That's why it makes business sense.
Explain, in technical terms, just how one processor is "better" than another. I do not accept annecdotal evidence. This explanation must also accompany a long term projection of cost savings over the life of the product. There should also be a justification for switch factor that states, in car terms, if the speed limit for most consumers is 55-65 mph, just why it is important to drive a Ferrari on the standard business highway.
I fully agree. I don't understand why Dell moved away from the 286, those were just as good as any other processor.
Didn't this guy notice the "edit" button? He looked at wikipedia, decided it was broken, and didn't fix it? Lazy bastard.
Let's work on some alternatives here..
I suggest fist to replace fuck. As in fist you, motherfister.. That immediately sounds a lot nicer.
Also, perhaps to replace piss, if it's used as a derogatory term (since there's already a perfectly good word for piss; urine), I'd suggest come, or cum as it's known online.
The phrase, this place smells like two-week old come would surely please the FCC immensly, as it contains not a single dirty word.
Now, for cunt one might describe the actual organ as vagina, or perhaps, on Oprah, as beafcurtain covered meathole, but I understand it's ofted used to refer to a person, as in "he's a cunt". Luckily, dickhead isn't on the list, otherwise what would one call Mr.Cheney's face for example?
"cocksucker" is a bit of a mystery to me. Neither word the composite is made up of is particularly naughty in its own right. While applicant of low pressure to a rooster might be an odd jobdescription, who knows if these people exist, and how much pride they might take in their work? Surely people working at the fudgepacking plant have similar feelings. Perhaps cumbucket would be an alternative with enough street-cred to supplant it some day.
As for tits, that just doesn't make sense. In particular, The Royal Tit-Watching (ornithological) Society (SFW) would take serious issue with not being able to discuss the objects of their fascination. Besides "look at the tits on her" is a term of admiration. I'd suggest we go with funbags on this one, since it would, hopefully, infuriate rabid feminists and/or puritans even more if breasts, which are actually pretty mundane things - almost all women and overweight men have them - are consistently referred to explicitely as sexual objects.
So there you have it, folks. Now leave me the fist alone, you're fudgepacking cumbuckets the lot of you!
The way it works with the Data Protection Act is that the information has to stay within the EU, or certain states with which the EU has a "safe harbor" agreement. Those are countries that promise to be good. So your data gets shipped to the US, and then Faceless Corporation X just breaks their promise and ships all the work and data right back to India.
Sad but true.
The easiest way to do it in C is with qsort and comparitive function that returns a random number between -1 and 1 inclusive.
Your method wastes memory.
I'm aware of that, which is why I said easiest, not most efficient. And it's foolproof in that even if the sorting algorithm used for some reason turns out to be bubblesort, it won't go on forever.
This absolutely right. Also, using this method, inevitably some songs will occur multiple times in the playlist, since you're not keeping track of dupes (much like slashdot).
If you need to randomize an array, the easiest way to do it is to assign each item a random number, and then sort the array using the random numbers as a key. That way every item occurs only once in the randomized list.
You still need a decent pseudo random number generator of course, if you're using a pseudo random number generator that only produces 5 discrete values and repeats them over and over it doesn't help much.
On the other hand, for an application like a playlist shuffle, you don't need a cryptographically secure RNG, just a PRNG (such as a Mersenne Twister), that uses the current time in milliseconds as a seed would do nicely.
Why is it called Man-in-the-middle?
Isn't it better if it were called Woman-in-the-middle? It would atleast not make us geeks seem so gay.
Well, feminist do-gooders, in an effort to de-genderify the term whilst keeping the acronym MITM beat you to it, by redefining MITM as "Meet-In-The-Middle".
It was a quite popular term in academia, until it was discovered that "Meat-In-The-Middle" in the context of a three-party situation sounds a lot more gay even.
And when a company owned and operated by Americans far surpasses anything the "superior" European continent can produce, it must really be gauling... er, galling.
;-)
Says the American, whose national Trade Balance is totally pwned by China.
Oops.
Also some horrible typos on there; I meant to say "toy robots" and "luminescence".
Oh well.
In no particular order..
Perhaps it doesn't appeal to the stereotypical geek, but the vibrator. The pocket calculator as well as; The calculator/remote control/radio controlled/FM radio *wristwratch* (surely the pinnacle of minitiaturization!).
Of course, the bonefone: link. The transistor radio. The world receiver radio. The wind-up/clockwork radio/charger. The intimidating maglite flashlight. Glowsticks! Neither electonic, nor moving parts, but who can resist luminecence!
7" 33 1/3rpm vinyl gramophone records; or I can do you even better than that - 7" 33 1/3 rpm plastic gramophone records that were given away as inlays with MSX Magazine, that you'd dub on tape, and you'd "load" programs off of the tape using the regular "data cassette recorder".
CB (Citizen's Band, 27 "megacycle") radio. ZX80. C64. Nuff said. The lava lamp! Duh! The strap-on (wait for it) keyboard (keyboard guitar).
The hearing aid. The answering machine remote control/handheld DTMF tone dialer. Also; the blue box! The minox sub-miniature "spy" camera (as seen in james bond). The SLR Single Lens Reflex camera. Automatic tweezers (They don't work particularly well, but they have a gadget-esque movement)
The portable DVD player. Toys robots (remote controlled, especially; the robosapiens is a good stab at the concept). Magnesium firestarters. (I'm the firestarter!)
Personal Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (P-EPIRBs) RC cars, helicopters. E.g. The translator pen (scans text when you move across it, translates) The penman robotic plotter and of course the closely related concept of the Logo turtle..
The random movement printer (If and when it becomes widely available..) Lego mindstorms (programmable bricks..)
The most important hand-helds historically; the Smith&Wesson and the AK47.
Also, though not an autonomous device, nor mechanical, nominated for achievements in disrupting the global economy, I'd like to recognize bubblejet printer ink, for costing more than its weight in gold or oil.
Aerosol spray canisters; specifically,
every graffitti artist's friend: spraypaint and every gadget-minded geek's friend: deodorant (especially the miniature cans) and of course; aerosol cheese! Also, perhaps slightly more
palatable, mace pepper spray.
The electric toothbrush (with induction-loop-charging-circuit magic!)
Not the greatest gadget in history until you consider it's "dual use" nature, and the fact it's marketed so widely.
Sattellite TV. Not the most portable of gadgets, but come on! Windscreenwiper glasses. (Though more of a chindogu) The mac. The iMac for doing it twice. The aibo.
The "orgasmotron" (actually just a head massager, not at all naughty) Stylish pin clock. The keyghost hardware keystroke logger.
The digital camera. The digital photo frame.
The credit-card sized Anything, but in particular, the cre
Note that your solar cells would need to track the sun if they were to get decent efficiency. You couldn't just tile your roof with fixed cells and hope to get the numbers that you stated. Making 160m^2 of cells track the sun would be expensive.
On the up side, if your entire home rotates to track the sun, your living room would always face the sun as well! Imagine what that would do for your property value!
What is typicaly advertised is "0% APR" where APR means Annual Percentage Rate. So long as you conform to the terms of the contract and pay your balance within the set time, even though the finance charges are a flat rate calculated into the sales price, your annual percentage rate = 0%. Even if the flat rate would equal the same as
That's not how APR works. APR is a measurement specifically designed to reflect the total cost of financing (even if at times it fails). APR is just the costs of borrowing re-calculated to a yearly basis.
This is to prevent people from thiking a creditcard that charges only $10 a year and 0.07% per day on a maximum credit of $1000 is a good deal. Recalculated to APR, the $10 alone is (at a minimum) 1%, and the 0.07% per day works out to an additional 29% on a yearly basis, so 30% APR in total!
Even if you don't pay interest-on-interest, an indicative APR rate would be calculated so as to simulate the percentage you'd pay if you did pay interest-on-interest (so the APR would turn out lower than the flat rate percentage).
Unfortunately people/businesses get away with not including "fees" in the APR calculation. If you treated the "cash discount" you DON'T get when you choose "0%" financing, and recalculated the APR to include the discount you're not given, you'd notice it's not such a hot deal.
Here's a Wikipedia entry
No, the 0% financing is still a genuine 0% financing. They're not charging you more for it. Instead they're giving cash customers a discount. It's a subtle but very important distiniction. If you can't understand why, try running a business for a few years.
Money has an inherent value. Or more accurately, the USE of money has a value. $100 today has more value than $100 tomorrow. The dealer is going to give you a discount when you pay cash, because $12,000 minus $2,000 discount today is worth more to him then $12,000 in four years. Conversely, that $12,000 in four years might be worth less than the $10,000 today, in which case you would choose the financing.
Yes, that's right, money has a price. The price of money, why, that's called interest. So if you're not getting the "cash discount" you're being charged? What? That's right! Interest! More than 0%.
Also consider that if you sue the company together with its majority shareholder (such as Canopy in this case) and win against them both, any damages won't be paid to the majority shareholder that was sleeping at the wheel, and you get a disproportionate win compared with the overall loss per share.
OpenSSH is great for some things, but it does NOT do remote authentication for services, nor does it authenticate the service to the client. So it does not scale well.
If you store the keys you need to authenticate at other services in the
Kerberos isn't particularly impressive at scaling, what with all those secret keys flying about.
Really, the only thing SSH doesn't do is authenticate the remote service to the extent that Kerberos would, although really the only benefit Kerberos brings is that it prevents some MITM attacks - it's still based on remote systems (working together) "proving" who they are by knowing a shared secret (your password).
Now, if Kerberos got hip to the 1990s way of doing things and started using public key encryption, you'd be on to something! In fact, combine PKI for SSO with something like XML and/or webservices, and hey presto, you've reinvented SAML and WS-Security.
Finally Activesync for nokia! Because with the nokia suite they have now, you can sync with outlook, outlook express, lotus notes, even stuff like defunct netscape calendar, or CSV files. But with activesync, it's outlook-only all the way baby! Way to go!
Hospitals deal with thousands of blood samples on a daily basis. In-vitro research using blood, even HIV infested blood, is no more unsafe than handling all those blood samples - plus, you'd be extra careful about getting it splattered in your eye if you know it's infected.
"The set deliberately omits vowels to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive."
Wow, that is SO "politically correct". Still it does't prevent people from constructing URLs saying fvck 0ff. It would be better if people would simply learn to respect other peoples freedom of speech.
Worsse it's pretty offensive in itself, given that Arabic doesn't use vowels. So, a lot of coordinates would still be rude to our Arabic/Muslim brethren..
Suppose you == info security guy at $Company. When you see a string of seemingly random bits in a file marked crypto.txt leaving $Company, you may not be able to find out exactly what trade secret your local friendly spy was leaking, but you do know there was a leak and who sent it.
There are two problems with this bold assertion
a) usb sticks
b) https://webmail or e-banking.
Sure, you can prohibit either, but your users will bitch and moan and set fire to your newborn child.
Besides, people can also (*gasp*) walk out of the building with information in their brain...
Now, the armed forces may have these stringent restrictions in place but really, stego is no concern in the civilian world. Though it's fun trying to spot which personals ads in the local paper might be encoded messages from terrorists and kidnappers. (I dearly hope the majority is; given the contents of most personals it would reflect better on humanity).
Dear Friend , Your email address has been submitted .
to us indicating your interest in our newsletter
If you no longer wish to receive our publications simply
reply with a Subject: of "REMOVE" and you will immediately
be removed from our mailing list . This mail is being
sent in compliance with Senate bill 2116 , Title 3
; Section 304 ! This is different than anything else
you've seen . Why work for somebody else when you can
become rich within 56 MONTHS . Have you ever noticed
more people than ever are surfing the web and how long
the line-ups are at bank machines ! Well, now is your
chance to capitalize on this . We will help you decrease
perceived waiting time by 110% and SELL MORE . You
can begin at absolutely no cost to you . But don't
believe us ! Ms Simpson of Massachusetts tried us and
says "My only problem now is where to park all my cars"
! We are licensed to operate in all states ! We beseech
you - act now . Sign up a friend and your friend will
be rich too ! Thank-you for your serious consideration
of our offer !
Do you honestly think that the issue of standards compliance regarding their main web portal has gone unnoticed except by a few developers?
Quite the opposite. It's more likely than not encouraged. Think about it. Who visits msn.com of their own accord? You start up internet explorer and it's there. You click on an ad in MSN Messenger and you get on msn.com. And finally, people using hotmail.com are shuttled onto the msn.com website.
Hotmail's inoperability is legendary; they were even sabotaging the Opera browser quite on purpose.
The idea being that you can use the popularity of MSN Messenger and Hotmail to make people think internet explorer is the better browser because websites like msn.com render correctly in it.
Only works if your portal is a destination people actually care about rendering correctly, though. If people just shrug and go to another site that DOES work, it makes you lose customers. And since msn.com sucks llama's ass, they're now realizing they made a mistake, and they might as well support Opera (and Firefox, and Safari) since every eyeball they can scrounge is another nickle.
>Few Americans could even tell you that it takes the earth 365.25 days to revolve around the sun
Actually, Mr Know-it-all it's closer to 365.242.
Or, rather, 365.2524 (and a few leap seconds every once in a while).
Scientists report that riding a steam-train may be detrimental to your health as the unnatural speeds at which it moves might cut off the natural air supply to one's lungs.
No such damage has been reported, but it's too early to tell, so best be careful out there, folks!