...bastards forgot to make a link for the "Buy Doom 3" graphic in the left column... if there's one thing I want more than an easy-baked ham[p]ster, it's next-generation giblets.
Yes, the first paragraph on the first page seems like randomly connected buzz words. Yes, it stumped the hell out of me.
So I went to the next page and came across graphic:
...Translate Dot Com URLs to arbitrary local pages...
So... walk into a local Starbucks, wait for people to log onto your SSID, and start serving up bogus Hotmail and bank login screens, collecting passwords and merely printing out stupid error messages ("service down for maintenance", "wrong password, try again").
While no one wants spyware on their computer, the worse case is where the spyware is buggy to the point where there is a remotly-exploitable root bug; i.e. the program that you may have intentionally installed made your computer vulnerable to attack.
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Bill can kiss my hair-encumbered ass before my MTA will do his stupid homework.
A lot of places (New Jersey, Baltimore, NYC,...) have ten digit dialing: even when making a call in your area code, you have to dial the area code, but you don't need the leading '1'! Maybe it's a matter of the switching equipment saying "OK, that was the local area code, discard it & read the next seven digits", but if that's the case I don't see why it couldn't just as easily understand "OK, that's a CA area code, route this call to California and send along the next seven digits".
Unless they never issue a prefix that matches the area code, i.e. "718.718.5512" is not a valid phone number.
My girlfriend just said that she sees a carbon-based nanotube all the time, but for the life of me I've got no idea what she's talking about; she doesn't work in a physics lab or anything.
No worries, it's just a concept... auto industry jargon for "vaporware".
If half the concept cars seen on the show circuit ever made it to production, there'd be a lot more cheers from the gear head crowd than there would be jeers from the tin-foil-beanie crowd. For every one stupid idea there are three beautiful, too-tourqey-to-be-real dream machines that never make it out of a design studio; case in point, the Chrysler Tomahawk, which I would gladly give my left nut and my first born for.
Though, for technical reasons, probably not in that order.
Let's hope AutoZone countersues the living daylights out of SCO.
And now SCO is going after Diamler Chrysler? A German automotive company? Who spends more on lawyers (and legislators) than a company that sells cars in the United States? (Answer: probably the bio-med/health care industry, but that's OT.)
"For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," Hynds added.
I cringed when I read that. Everyday the internet is becoming more of a corperate-controlled broadcast medium.
Aside from meta-tags (which should really be all you need in order to communicate "additional" info to search engines), any change to your website to "optimize" for a specific type of search engine, and not for the general public, has the effect upgrading your page ranking AT THE EXPENSE OF NON-OPTIMIZED SITES.
But like the "SEO v. SEM" argument above, search engine optimization done right will also give better results to the end user.
Think about it: if I'm looking for the specs on Widget A and the best damn website on Widget A makes me sit through a 135 second flash animation before I can get to any usefull content, I'm going to miss all that valuable information because I'm not wasting my time or bandwidth loading that crap.
Now, what if the second best Widget A site is ran by people with a clue: title tags contain the important keywords ("bulk pricing", "failure modes", "Mil/Commercial/Industrial specification compliance"), easy-to-use navigation that tells me by the link text this is what I want? Well, than this is the most useful site, and should be ranked higher than the others.
Search engines are just distiliers of information; super-quick page scanners. If you make your page human-scanable and easy to use, your relevence will rise higher than other pages. By effectivly telling people what your pages are about, you'll be effectivly telling the search engines what your pages are about.
I love using my machine and it has an nVidia card in it. I don't care that their "driver" is closed source, I can play a lot of heavy duty games with it.
Heavy duty games? On Linux? I knew this was a troll... why didn't you throw in a "and who cares about BSD drivers, it's dying anyway?" line?
You should also take into account the local take-up of broadband.
That may be your niche right there... "Download & burn ISO's, $2", "Photo-quality picture printing, FAST DOWNLOADS, 50/image".
But the point made ealier about having a niche really is the key... what do you offer that people can't get at home? Computers are ubiquitous in most parts of the US, as is broadband, so you have to make people want to come out.
I guess what this gets down to is: make sure you have a sound business plan.
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...bastards forgot to make a link for the "Buy Doom 3" graphic in the left column... if there's one thing I want more than an easy-baked ham[p]ster, it's next-generation giblets.
I've been to a couple of colleges along the East Coast & in the Mid-West; by far the best times I've had (besides being home) were hanging out at MIT.
I mean, you have to be of that bend... but if you're a geek and enjoy the company of other geeks, MIT rocks.
Good thing about Massachusetts:
MIT.
Bad thing about Massachusetts:
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon.
Yes, the first paragraph on the first page seems like randomly connected buzz words. Yes, it stumped the hell out of me.
So I went to the next page and came across graphic:
So... walk into a local Starbucks, wait for people to log onto your SSID, and start serving up bogus Hotmail and bank login screens, collecting passwords and merely printing out stupid error messages ("service down for maintenance", "wrong password, try again").
Now, that is a little bit subversive...
Same here... althought my idea of "significant traffic" is new pr0n sites that the comptroller hasn't told be about yet..
They have screen shots in BITMAP format... I don't expect them to last very long in the midst of a good /.'ing...
Thought it was cool to see shots of MS BOB, which I first read about almost a decade ago...
Yeah, Palm always wanted as big of a following as Macs get. Biters.
I want to know why someone named Dameon feels compelled to get a nick name...
And when will this new Internet Protocol be rolled out...
shortly after IPv6 adoption?
I don't see Satan reaching for his winter parka just yet...
... it is actually Slackware running in a VM.
Eeeeeh, maybe.
While no one wants spyware on their computer, the worse case is where the spyware is buggy to the point where there is a remotly-exploitable root bug; i.e. the program that you may have intentionally installed made your computer vulnerable to attack.
Bill can kiss my hair-encumbered ass before my MTA will do his stupid homework.
That's not exactly right...
A lot of places (New Jersey, Baltimore, NYC, ...) have ten digit dialing: even when making a call in your area code, you have to dial the area code, but you don't need the leading '1'! Maybe it's a matter of the switching equipment saying "OK, that was the local area code, discard it & read the next seven digits", but if that's the case I don't see why it couldn't just as easily understand "OK, that's a CA area code, route this call to California and send along the next seven digits".
Unless they never issue a prefix that matches the area code, i.e. "718.718.5512" is not a valid phone number.
My girlfriend just said that she sees a carbon-based nanotube all the time, but for the life of me I've got no idea what she's talking about; she doesn't work in a physics lab or anything.
Oh, wait...
No worries, it's just a concept... auto industry jargon for "vaporware".
If half the concept cars seen on the show circuit ever made it to production, there'd be a lot more cheers from the gear head crowd than there would be jeers from the tin-foil-beanie crowd. For every one stupid idea there are three beautiful, too-tourqey-to-be-real dream machines that never make it out of a design studio; case in point, the Chrysler Tomahawk, which I would gladly give my left nut and my first born for.
Though, for technical reasons, probably not in that order.
"Everthing is blue in this world." (C)
(C) Trent Reznor (The Downward Spiral)
... as if being a Gamer Geek wasn't enough of a form of birth control...
And now SCO is going after Diamler Chrysler? A German automotive company? Who spends more on lawyers (and legislators) than a company that sells cars in the United States? (Answer: probably the bio-med/health care industry, but that's OT.)
I cringed when I read that. Everyday the internet is becoming more of a corperate-controlled broadcast medium.
But like the "SEO v. SEM" argument above, search engine optimization done right will also give better results to the end user.
Think about it: if I'm looking for the specs on Widget A and the best damn website on Widget A makes me sit through a 135 second flash animation before I can get to any usefull content, I'm going to miss all that valuable information because I'm not wasting my time or bandwidth loading that crap.
Now, what if the second best Widget A site is ran by people with a clue: title tags contain the important keywords ("bulk pricing", "failure modes", "Mil/Commercial/Industrial specification compliance"), easy-to-use navigation that tells me by the link text this is what I want? Well, than this is the most useful site, and should be ranked higher than the others.
Search engines are just distiliers of information; super-quick page scanners. If you make your page human-scanable and easy to use, your relevence will rise higher than other pages. By effectivly telling people what your pages are about, you'll be effectivly telling the search engines what your pages are about.
Heavy duty games? On Linux? I knew this was a troll... why didn't you throw in a "and who cares about BSD drivers, it's dying anyway?" line?
That may be your niche right there... "Download & burn ISO's, $2", "Photo-quality picture printing, FAST DOWNLOADS, 50/image".
But the point made ealier about having a niche really is the key... what do you offer that people can't get at home? Computers are ubiquitous in most parts of the US, as is broadband, so you have to make people want to come out.
I guess what this gets down to is: make sure you have a sound business plan.
Well, they can always rebrand the mail client as "thunderfox"; the only software I can find that goes that by name is for old 8-bit Ataris.
Oh, and this classic movies.
A klaxon? Imagine a siren TYPING IN ALL CAPS.
``A lot of traffic'', you say? Care to put them up to a good slashdotting? C'mon, post a URL, you know you want to...