And, before someone whines that the get all the news they need for free from Google, please remember that Google is, effectively, a parasite that feeds on others.
Worst analogy ever. A parasite causes some harm to its host. How is Google harming news sites by providing links to them? In reality, these news sites benefit by Google bringing them new readers. Of course, any site that feels that Google shouldn't bring traffic their way is free to add the appropriate lines to/robots.txt.
Google creates no content, no news, of its own. Part of the reason papers like the NYT need to consider charging for access is that operations like Google distribute their product without paying them.
If by "distribute their product" you mean "direct readers (and, by extension, eyeballs for their advertising) to their site", you are correct.
Anyway, it's true that the NYT is free to charge for their content. Just like I'm free to find another source of news if I don't feel like paying them for it. Other news sources might be other sites that don't charge for their archives, or my local public library.
For a good example of this, just look at cars. Someone looking for a quality car would do well to only look at imports and ignore the crap coming out of the US manufacturers.
Speak for yourself. Belkin's building adware into their routers' firmware is far worse than the technical shortcomings Iomega has had in the past.
I have a 1GB Iomega flash drive (not the micro) and am pretty satisfied with it. It's got a lifetime warranty and any data that exists on it also exists on my laptop, so hardware failure isn't that big a problem for me. It's pretty unlikely anyway, as these things don't have any moving parts, so there's no chance of "click of death"-type problems.
I considered replacing my USB flash drive with an iPod shuffle when they first came out. A couple months before I bought a Iomega 1GB drive that I chose based on the flash drive roundup Ars Technica did last year. The 1GB Shuffle is just about the same physical size, has the same storage capacity, and is only about $20 more than the resale value of my drive (which I got a good rebate on originally, so I wouldn't even be losing money by selling it again). The deal breaker for me was the need to charge the Shuffle. I need a USB drive that will always be available, not one that will go dead if I don't remember to take it out of my bag and charge it every so often.
for the odd occasion that a site has a domain name that isn't what you want on your bookmark, you could hand edit.
That only works for sites that have their own domain name. What happens when I want to bookmark some useful information at www.example.edu/~joe/blah/something.html?
Most sites don't have an entire domain name dedicated to them.
That's exactly how. OS X's capabilities are comparable to XP Pro, not XP Home, so the upgrade price for Pro has be used when talking about stuff like this.
I tried to buy alcohol one year about 15 minutes after the fall time change. In CA you can't buy after 2:00am, but since the time goes back an hour at 2:00, it's actually only 1:00, right? Needless to say, the guy behind the counter wasn't impressed. Jerk.
If you're referring to the Yagoohoogle logo, it's the very definition of parody and, as such, protected under the fair use doctrine. I don't think they have anything to worry about.
Useless. Professional spammers use stolen/phished credit cards. In my former Abuse work, I billed $200 per account termination and had to credit the vast majority of them once the card's rightful owner noticed the charge.
Did you even RTFA? The Wordpress site was engaging in behavior that is very clearly disallowed by Google in their terms of service. "Search engine optimizers" doing these same things are removed from the Google index all the time, why should WP be treated any differently? People like this who manipulate search results for financial gain are doing all Google's legitimate users a disservice. Damn right their ranking should suffer.
Why would Google penalize the users of the software for something the developer did? It's wordpress.org that's going to suffer for it (and rightly so), not Joe User's personal, WP-powered site.
what if your electricity company decided they don't like the way your electricity is being used and cut you off? and they were the ONLY ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER and you didn't have a contract with them?
That's a great analogy because, of course, Google is the only search engine around.
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And, before someone whines that the get all the news they need for free from Google, please remember that Google is, effectively, a parasite that feeds on others.
/robots.txt.
Worst analogy ever. A parasite causes some harm to its host. How is Google harming news sites by providing links to them? In reality, these news sites benefit by Google bringing them new readers. Of course, any site that feels that Google shouldn't bring traffic their way is free to add the appropriate lines to
Google creates no content, no news, of its own. Part of the reason papers like the NYT need to consider charging for access is that operations like Google distribute their product without paying them.
If by "distribute their product" you mean "direct readers (and, by extension, eyeballs for their advertising) to their site", you are correct.
Anyway, it's true that the NYT is free to charge for their content. Just like I'm free to find another source of news if I don't feel like paying them for it. Other news sources might be other sites that don't charge for their archives, or my local public library.
For a good example of this, just look at cars. Someone looking for a quality car would do well to only look at imports and ignore the crap coming out of the US manufacturers.
I don't have a problem with that claim. Care to back yourself up with some numbers demonstrating how that isn't true?
The important thing to remember is "equivilent products". Building an x86 box yourself doesn't count.
You misspelled Tim Berners-Lee.
Speak for yourself. Belkin's building adware into their routers' firmware is far worse than the technical shortcomings Iomega has had in the past.
I have a 1GB Iomega flash drive (not the micro) and am pretty satisfied with it. It's got a lifetime warranty and any data that exists on it also exists on my laptop, so hardware failure isn't that big a problem for me. It's pretty unlikely anyway, as these things don't have any moving parts, so there's no chance of "click of death"-type problems.
I considered replacing my USB flash drive with an iPod shuffle when they first came out. A couple months before I bought a Iomega 1GB drive that I chose based on the flash drive roundup Ars Technica did last year. The 1GB Shuffle is just about the same physical size, has the same storage capacity, and is only about $20 more than the resale value of my drive (which I got a good rebate on originally, so I wouldn't even be losing money by selling it again). The deal breaker for me was the need to charge the Shuffle. I need a USB drive that will always be available, not one that will go dead if I don't remember to take it out of my bag and charge it every so often.
Before long, he became a VP of marketing.
So he was punished for it? Seems like the opposite of the desired effect...
Could it have anything to do with the old Apple logo?
for the odd occasion that a site has a domain name that isn't what you want on your bookmark, you could hand edit.
That only works for sites that have their own domain name. What happens when I want to bookmark some useful information at www.example.edu/~joe/blah/something.html?
Most sites don't have an entire domain name dedicated to them.
That's exactly how. OS X's capabilities are comparable to XP Pro, not XP Home, so the upgrade price for Pro has be used when talking about stuff like this.
Except that OS X is comparable to WinXP Pro, not the crippled WinXP Home. That brings even the upgrade price to $200.
Prediction: "Beware of the Leopard" is this year's Tom Bombadil. Just wait.
Hey, it worked in the late '90s!
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I tried to buy alcohol one year about 15 minutes after the fall time change. In CA you can't buy after 2:00am, but since the time goes back an hour at 2:00, it's actually only 1:00, right? Needless to say, the guy behind the counter wasn't impressed. Jerk.
If you're referring to the Yagoohoogle logo, it's the very definition of parody and, as such, protected under the fair use doctrine. I don't think they have anything to worry about.
Useless. Professional spammers use stolen/phished credit cards. In my former Abuse work, I billed $200 per account termination and had to credit the vast majority of them once the card's rightful owner noticed the charge.
If you had 40Bn in the bank, you are not going to suffer even if you gave 99% of it away, so don't pretend he is doing the world a favour.
Please explain again how giving away billions of dollars to charity is not doing the world a favor.
You turn off display of these domain tags in your /. preferences.
Maybe he doesn't have a /. account? Believe it or not, lots of people read this site but don't normally comment, and therefore do not have accounts.
Did you even RTFA? The Wordpress site was engaging in behavior that is very clearly disallowed by Google in their terms of service. "Search engine optimizers" doing these same things are removed from the Google index all the time, why should WP be treated any differently? People like this who manipulate search results for financial gain are doing all Google's legitimate users a disservice. Damn right their ranking should suffer.
And I'm speaking as someone who likes Wordpress.
Why would Google penalize the users of the software for something the developer did? It's wordpress.org that's going to suffer for it (and rightly so), not Joe User's personal, WP-powered site.
what if your electricity company decided they don't like the way your electricity is being used and cut you off? and they were the ONLY ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER and you didn't have a contract with them?
That's a great analogy because, of course, Google is the only search engine around.
By that logic, the e-mail spammer is innocent, it's the company that pays him who's responsible.
Bullshit, they're both responsible. The Wordpress guy is receiving a financial benefit for it from the company who hired him, so he's hardly innocent.
And I'm speaking as someone who likes Wordpress.
Interestingly, Wordpress also evolved out of the original b2 codebase.