Since Office 2000 Standard runs 300+ (full install) It runs, but it can't hide - Office XP full version for $145 shipped today Whereas with MS Office you're forced to shell out Did you ever consider *not* buying the next version? You might be surprised with the results. It's not like they will send the goons to your house to force ya.
I think a major reason they don't offer free POP now is simply because they can't pull in the same advertising revenue.
Potential for abuse stands out as more probable. It's one thing to have open POP for a closed beta where invites are given to a circle of friends, and another - for an open public service, where anyone can sign up. Imagine script kiddies, who run 10K+ bot networks retaliating against Yahoo! by setting tens of thousands of email clients to pull POP3 boxes every 15 seconds.
My friend couldn't find any job with CIS (Computer Information Systems) degree, so became a plumber. Pulls above $50,000. Gets splashed with shit and fecies every once in a while, but if you ever resurrected a broken database or went to a corporate strategy meeting, feels about the same.
Things like this don't have to fit within grand corporate strategy.
Yahoo! Messenger group probably has certain goals on its list, which include expanding the functionality of the client. What's the next big thing for IM clients? VoIP. Actually, I distinctly remember using voice conferencing on Yahoo! Messenger back in 2001 or so, so they've had it.
But overall, with MSN implementing SIP authentication on MSN Messenger and Skype implementing text messaging and what not on their VOIP client, Yahoo! doesn't do VOIP to get ahead, they do it to stay in the game.
I guess you have a point, but at the same time Russia's low credit card penetration rate combined with low Internet penetration rate doesn't make them large Internet spenders. They won't sign up for Netflix, get a new accessory for their iPod or buy a favorite book at Amazon. Maybe some will, but most won't.
Most of the Russian spam I get is highly industrial, like tractor components and Ukrainian tax law seminars.
Which makes me thing that most of the spammers there make living by charging others to send out spam. The buyer of this "advertising campaign" is just told that this is the most cost-effective way to reach 1 million people for $50 to sell your tires for Belarus tractors.
There's zero chance that there's not a relationship between Russian-based spam and their thriving organized crime culture.
This is ridiculous. Russia's e-commerce volume is so low that anyone peddling penis enlargement pills is likely to retire with a fortune of 10 dollars US after few years of hard work.
I doubt oil tycoons and gas traders with multi-billion dollar government contracts and mob connections would ever see it on their radar. A kiosk selling cigarettes in Russian province is bringing more revenues than the spammer's Internet-based Web shops.
Rentacoder has pretty good environment for negotiating such projects - bidders have a chance to ask you questions, you can specify the ballpark of what you're willing to pay, and then you can exactly outline your requirements.
The only drawback of the site was a whole bunch of bids from places like Romania and India, which did not even bother to read the project description (e.g. project required a specific PHP module, and the letter said "If you're looking for a great ASP/ASP.NET team, you've found one!")
Was created by Brad to help his family keep in touch, and at the same time be as user-friendly as possible. Has a bunch of GUI apps that allow posting without ever touching the Web interface.
"Friends" aggregators allows the users to read the stream of postings of the friends they choose to add, so no need to browse 15 journals at once to see whether they added anything new over the past few days.
I dont know, I submitted the link late Thursday night, when I saw it on Scoble's blog, he didn't have Slashdot-related comments there yet. The story just got approved Saturday morning, so I think it's just the matter of editors going through the queue, no hidden agendas here.
You're talking about the ability to search within one page, the original poster was asking for the ability to search within one site. Such as within the domain.
Could be accomplished by adding site:slashdot.org to the query, or alternatively, Yahoo! toolbar for Firefox (has been there all along) has a search within the site button.
More or less official announcement, coming from MSDN Blog. But they've been doing it all along:
All of the pieces of AJAX - DHTML, JScript, and XMLHTTP - have been available in Internet Explorer for some time, and Outlook Web Access has used these techniques to deliver a great browser experience since 1998. In ASP.NET 2.0, we have also made it easier to write AJAX-style applications for any browser using asynchronous callbacks, and we use them in several of our built-in controls.
And why would an Amazon Marketplace customer not be able to enjoy it, if they bought an item from you?
Amazon requires shipping within 2 business days. And the shiping costs are fixed, so no eBay adverts of $10 laptop with $500 shipping (exaggerating here a bit, but you know what I mean).
And I've seen Amazon IDs (selling mostly books) feature domain names, which makes it pretty clear that the seller exists as an independent site as well.
The way it works is that the company has compiled a database of every wireless access point in a given a city. It did this by having people literally drive the streets "listening" for 802.11 signals. Using the unique identifier of the wireless router, it notes in the database where the access point is located.
Is that unique identifier such as SSID or access point MAC address (is that even accessible to a client)? Since a large number of people would check "Do not broadcast the SSID" following their manufacturer's manual on security, while the other would leave, as people before mentioned, some default setting.
Wasn't the whole point of the democratization of the net that small businesses should be able to do this for themselves (without needing outside help) thereby saving everybody money?
Well, the space rented for the restaurant doesn't usually come with servers for Web hosting. Neither are the restaurant owners experienced in Web design (think of ethnic type Mom-and-Pop establishment), so another company would be required to kick in to do design and hosting sooner or later.
Besides, if you're interested in volume, which way would you rather go - your own site with perhaps couple of users a day, or heavily advertised "restaurant aggregator", like this outfit seems to be, where you might get a larger volume just by being listed with them.
For an introductory title Designing Embedded Hardware is pretty good. It doesn't go into specifics, just introduces terminology and explains the things you need to know.
Last year Fox started airing "My big fat obnoxious boss" - a reality show, a blatant rip-off of NBC's The Apprentice, but with a bunch of humorous twists, and parts of it were pretty funny.
Well, they unexpectedly pulled the show after Episode 5, apparently could not compete with Desperate Housewives during the same time slot, so they figured some show about UFOs was worth it, while Obnoxious boss was not.
They posted the remaining episodes on www.fox.com/bigfat (the link doesn't work anymore) later, with a new episode published every Friday. I am not sure what their traffic numbers were, but a lot of fans of the Boss downloaded the complete episodes.
I'd assume Fox would be pretty open to the scheme where they charge $1 or so per download (the obnoxious boss ones were not-DRMed, just regular WMV files, as far as I can remember). Makes sense with the amount of shows they keep cancelling and each show having a "long tail" following of maybe tens of thousands fans, but not millions, to make it justifiable to air on primetime TV.
The interface is nice and clean, but it's still not My Yahoo!
- No outside RSS feeds, so can't add anything beyond pre-selected sources - No user-selected color coding, so semantically the boxes are barely distinguishable - Small things, like inability to select a subset of Google news, not just top stories
All fixable, and it's obviously a beta, but it's surprisingly a really raw beta.
Walmart's wages are not low, they are at state-mandated minimums. Plenty of other places pay the same - your local gas station, McDonald's, or other shops that do not require skilled labor.
A good way to avoid a low-wage Walmart job is not to apply for it, and yet if some people still do, that means they cannot apply their skills anywhere else for better money.
There's hardly a comparison between Indian and Russian outsourcing companies.
Call center, support and app development by stringent technical requirements (all UML schemas included) you outsource to India, since they (a) speak better English than most Russians, (b) work the cheapest.
R&D, radio tech, math, wireless, concept development and high-level application development is outsourced to Russian firms, since they (a) usually have more technically advanced people, (b) more likely to work effectively on complete solution, than a subset of the problem.
In India people unqualified to look after cattle will go into software and IT, since there's such a huge discrepancy in lifestyles once you get a foot in the door. So resume stuffing and exam cheating is blatant. In Russia those destined to dig ditches usually dig ditches, not design your next generation software architecture.
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Since Office 2000 Standard runs 300+ (full install)
It runs, but it can't hide - Office XP full version for $145 shipped today
Whereas with MS Office you're forced to shell out
Did you ever consider *not* buying the next version? You might be surprised with the results. It's not like they will send the goons to your house to force ya.
I think a major reason they don't offer free POP now is simply because they can't pull in the same advertising revenue.
Potential for abuse stands out as more probable. It's one thing to have open POP for a closed beta where invites are given to a circle of friends, and another - for an open public service, where anyone can sign up. Imagine script kiddies, who run 10K+ bot networks retaliating against Yahoo! by setting tens of thousands of email clients to pull POP3 boxes every 15 seconds.
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My friend couldn't find any job with CIS (Computer Information Systems) degree, so became a plumber. Pulls above $50,000. Gets splashed with shit and fecies every once in a while, but if you ever resurrected a broken database or went to a corporate strategy meeting, feels about the same.
Things like this don't have to fit within grand corporate strategy.
Yahoo! Messenger group probably has certain goals on its list, which include expanding the functionality of the client. What's the next big thing for IM clients? VoIP. Actually, I distinctly remember using voice conferencing on Yahoo! Messenger back in 2001 or so, so they've had it.
But overall, with MSN implementing SIP authentication on MSN Messenger and Skype implementing text messaging and what not on their VOIP client, Yahoo! doesn't do VOIP to get ahead, they do it to stay in the game.
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I guess you have a point, but at the same time Russia's low credit card penetration rate combined with low Internet penetration rate doesn't make them large Internet spenders. They won't sign up for Netflix, get a new accessory for their iPod or buy a favorite book at Amazon. Maybe some will, but most won't.
Most of the Russian spam I get is highly industrial, like tractor components and Ukrainian tax law seminars.
Which makes me thing that most of the spammers there make living by charging others to send out spam. The buyer of this "advertising campaign" is just told that this is the most cost-effective way to reach 1 million people for $50 to sell your tires for Belarus tractors.
There's zero chance that there's not a relationship between Russian-based spam and their thriving organized crime culture.
This is ridiculous. Russia's e-commerce volume is so low that anyone peddling penis enlargement pills is likely to retire with a fortune of 10 dollars US after few years of hard work.
I doubt oil tycoons and gas traders with multi-billion dollar government contracts and mob connections would ever see it on their radar. A kiosk selling cigarettes in Russian province is bringing more revenues than the spammer's Internet-based Web shops.
They mean baseball bats.
For a country where baseball virtually doesn't exist as a sport, they sure import lots of those fine American sports products.
Paradoxically, baseball gloves are poor sellers.
Rentacoder has pretty good environment for negotiating such projects - bidders have a chance to ask you questions, you can specify the ballpark of what you're willing to pay, and then you can exactly outline your requirements.
The only drawback of the site was a whole bunch of bids from places like Romania and India, which did not even bother to read the project description (e.g. project required a specific PHP module, and the letter said "If you're looking for a great ASP/ASP.NET team, you've found one!")
But those are easy to ignore.
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Was created by Brad to help his family keep in touch, and at the same time be as user-friendly as possible. Has a bunch of GUI apps that allow posting without ever touching the Web interface.
"Friends" aggregators allows the users to read the stream of postings of the friends they choose to add, so no need to browse 15 journals at once to see whether they added anything new over the past few days.
E-mail notifications, commenting, pictures, etc.
And it's open source.
I dont know, I submitted the link late Thursday night, when I saw it on Scoble's blog, he didn't have Slashdot-related comments there yet. The story just got approved Saturday morning, so I think it's just the matter of editors going through the queue, no hidden agendas here.
Ah. I stand corrected.
You're talking about the ability to search within one page, the original poster was asking for the ability to search within one site. Such as within the domain.
Could be accomplished by adding site:slashdot.org to the query, or alternatively, Yahoo! toolbar for Firefox (has been there all along) has a search within the site button.
You're right, my experience is books only.
or the fact that we ship everything the same day.
And why would an Amazon Marketplace customer not be able to enjoy it, if they bought an item from you?
Amazon requires shipping within 2 business days. And the shiping costs are fixed, so no eBay adverts of $10 laptop with $500 shipping (exaggerating here a bit, but you know what I mean).
And I've seen Amazon IDs (selling mostly books) feature domain names, which makes it pretty clear that the seller exists as an independent site as well.
Is that unique identifier such as SSID or access point MAC address (is that even accessible to a client)? Since a large number of people would check "Do not broadcast the SSID" following their manufacturer's manual on security, while the other would leave, as people before mentioned, some default setting.
Wasn't the whole point of the democratization of the net that small businesses should be able to do this for themselves (without needing outside help) thereby saving everybody money?
Well, the space rented for the restaurant doesn't usually come with servers for Web hosting. Neither are the restaurant owners experienced in Web design (think of ethnic type Mom-and-Pop establishment), so another company would be required to kick in to do design and hosting sooner or later.
Besides, if you're interested in volume, which way would you rather go - your own site with perhaps couple of users a day, or heavily advertised "restaurant aggregator", like this outfit seems to be, where you might get a larger volume just by being listed with them.
For an introductory title Designing Embedded Hardware is pretty good. It doesn't go into specifics, just introduces terminology and explains the things you need to know.
Last year Fox started airing "My big fat obnoxious boss" - a reality show, a blatant rip-off of NBC's The Apprentice, but with a bunch of humorous twists, and parts of it were pretty funny.
Well, they unexpectedly pulled the show after Episode 5, apparently could not compete with Desperate Housewives during the same time slot, so they figured some show about UFOs was worth it, while Obnoxious boss was not.
They posted the remaining episodes on www.fox.com/bigfat (the link doesn't work anymore) later, with a new episode published every Friday. I am not sure what their traffic numbers were, but a lot of fans of the Boss downloaded the complete episodes.
I'd assume Fox would be pretty open to the scheme where they charge $1 or so per download (the obnoxious boss ones were not-DRMed, just regular WMV files, as far as I can remember). Makes sense with the amount of shows they keep cancelling and each show having a "long tail" following of maybe tens of thousands fans, but not millions, to make it justifiable to air on primetime TV.
The interface is nice and clean, but it's still not My Yahoo!
- No outside RSS feeds, so can't add anything beyond pre-selected sources
- No user-selected color coding, so semantically the boxes are barely distinguishable
- Small things, like inability to select a subset of Google news, not just top stories
All fixable, and it's obviously a beta, but it's surprisingly a really raw beta.
Walmart's wages are not low, they are at state-mandated minimums. Plenty of other places pay the same - your local gas station, McDonald's, or other shops that do not require skilled labor.
A good way to avoid a low-wage Walmart job is not to apply for it, and yet if some people still do, that means they cannot apply their skills anywhere else for better money.
which of course probably makes our friend prostoalex a bunch of money.
No, it doesn't, NYT articles linked from iWon don't require registration and login.
There's hardly a comparison between Indian and Russian outsourcing companies.
Call center, support and app development by stringent technical requirements (all UML schemas included) you outsource to India, since they (a) speak better English than most Russians, (b) work the cheapest.
R&D, radio tech, math, wireless, concept development and high-level application development is outsourced to Russian firms, since they (a) usually have more technically advanced people, (b) more likely to work effectively on complete solution, than a subset of the problem.
In India people unqualified to look after cattle will go into software and IT, since there's such a huge discrepancy in lifestyles once you get a foot in the door. So resume stuffing and exam cheating is blatant. In Russia those destined to dig ditches usually dig ditches, not design your next generation software architecture.