Try reading the article. CentralNIC owns uk.com and sells third-level domains. It has the right to do whatever it wants to its third-level domains. CentralNIC's main asset is not a TLD; it's a second-level domain (uk.com) that it's wildcarding.
What makes you say that? This is going to be the first version of Office that outputs files in XML format (see the.docx extension on the Word docs?) and I think that's very significant. Microsoft has talked about XML export for a long time and now they're following through.
Sure, OpenOffice.org already uses XML, but now that the most-widely-used office suite supports it by default, XML import will only be hastened in other programs that accept Office file uploads.
Frankly, I think it's the start of the web's focus on content over appearance. There are still a lot of sites out there that pay more attention to their DIVs or TABLEs than their actual content, but wikis and blogs are made to be syndicated, diffed, restyled, etc., to let the content shine through.
The data is still relatively unstructured when compared to a dedicaetd database, but if TV IV can come up with a sound data model internally, they can store the data and manipulate it as much as they want. If they turn out to be just a bunch of HTML documents that any troll can edit, then they will disappear into obscurity.
Skype also offers an IM service that eBay could use to pester bidders. I used to use their MSN Alerts service before eBay shut it off, so when I used MSN Messenger I would get alerts about being outbid.
For auction messages where time is of the essence, IM makes much more sense than e-mail for outbid notices.
Because Firefox has no security vulnerabilities that would allow extensions to be installed without the user's explicit consent. Because Firefox is open source, any security vulnerability will be patched immediately and delivered seamlessly to every Firefox user.
Because Firefox has such a low market share, it is simply not profitable to deploy spyware extensions for it.
My Samsung HL-4663W only weighs about 70 pounds, less than half as much as I do. It doesn't have a giant center speaker. I can lift it but it's virtually impossible to fit safely in my car.
The warranty on my last laptop, a Compaq (long story), cost $100 and saved me $1000 in repairs to a busted LCD in the first month of extended coverage. If you carry your laptop to and from work every day, even if you have a padded case for it, a one-year warranty is simply not enough.
As for TVs, I took some advice from a coworker when buying a projection TV: buy the floor model for $500 less than the new model, then buy a $400 four-year warranty. The extended warranty covers parts like the lamp that might not last four years even for a new product. It also guarantees on-site service which is nice when the TV weighs at least half as much as I do.
It doesn't look like Flip4Mac can stream WMV content, which is what Adult Swim plans to do. For that you still have to use Windows Media Player for Mac, a product which works about as well as its name might suggest.
I think Slashdot needs a more forceful "It's an arrogant jerk. Mock." icon instead. Their current icon is a good start, with the childlike security blanket, but it could be improved.
For the record, Old Country Road is a major road in that area and has a lot of office buildings. If you follow it over to Garden City, you'll find several enormous malls and even more office buildings.
Because of this, just listing an address of "Old Country Road" makes a letter pretty much undeliverable. For all we know, it could be a Mail Boxes Etc / UPS Store somewhere in a strip mall.
Obviously MOTO played a lot of NES RPGS where you had to name your CHRS with four letter NMES due to the JPNS DEVS underestimating the LNGT of most ERPN names.
"Price" is an exact number. For example: an Xbox 360 will cost $399 in the configuration everyone will want.
"Price point" can refer to a rough figure. For example, Apple waited until 2005 to release an MP3 player at the $100 price point. The iPod shuffle compares with MP3 players of $80-$120 or so.
Price = how much money you have in your wallet right now Price point = how much you're willing to spend on a product
Look at the original debate about the iPod: $350 for 5 GB. People snapped it up as fast as they could.
Apple makes a very handsome profit on iPods. You don't have to fill them with iTMS songs (MP3s work just as well) but the pairing of iPod with iTunes now accounts for over a billion dollars annually in sales for Apple.
Look at the screen shot again. It uses both commas as a decimal separator (6,80 GHz) and periods as a decimal separator (1.00 TB). Unless they meant one thousand TB and dropped a 0 off the end, that's not consistent usage.
It's a pretty lousy fake, but I commend the company for making it onto Slashdot. I hear they also have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you...
Since when is XPCOM a "standard" for anyone but the Mozilla foundation?
You might as well call Firefox 'standards-challenged' because it doesn't support ActiveX*.
* BZZT WRONG THERE IS AN EXTENSION JUST DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL IT AND MAKE SURE NEVER TO UPGRADE FIREFOX WITHOUT CHECKING FOR EXTENSION COMPATIBILITY FIRST
NBC is the only broadcast network I've seen that allows ads for spirits, though cable channels have plenty of ads for them. The concern is that conservative "family" groups will get upset about network X allowing hard liquor ads and then use boycotts to pressure other advertisers on network X to pull their ads. Unlike all the boycotts normally discussed on Slashdot, these actually work and get the networks' attention.
So, yes, Google's ban on alcohol ads represents a legacy of US puritan/prohibition-era thinking -- but on the part of citizens, not necessarily government.
Google makes a great advertising service, but Google is not wholly libertarian in what it allows. I'm surprised that on Slashdot, a site I'd consider pretty libertarian in its own right, Google is so rarely criticized for its policies.
You're exactly right. Google makes billions on advertising. They're an advertising company. They compete with DoubleClick and Yahoo!. Everything they do on the customer side is about making users see and click on Google ads.
Most of their other products are in beta anyway, so they don't count.
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You're right. I'm stupid. I should sell my domain name and buy a sense of humor then. :)
Try reading the article. CentralNIC owns uk.com and sells third-level domains. It has the right to do whatever it wants to its third-level domains. CentralNIC's main asset is not a TLD; it's a second-level domain (uk.com) that it's wildcarding.
Plenty of companies do wildcarding to redirect users to a main page if they mistype a subdomain. Try http://nos.slashdot.org/ http://generic-man.slashdot.org/ http://p0rn.slashdot.org/ etc.
What makes you say that? This is going to be the first version of Office that outputs files in XML format (see the .docx extension on the Word docs?) and I think that's very significant. Microsoft has talked about XML export for a long time and now they're following through.
Sure, OpenOffice.org already uses XML, but now that the most-widely-used office suite supports it by default, XML import will only be hastened in other programs that accept Office file uploads.
Frankly, I think it's the start of the web's focus on content over appearance. There are still a lot of sites out there that pay more attention to their DIVs or TABLEs than their actual content, but wikis and blogs are made to be syndicated, diffed, restyled, etc., to let the content shine through.
The data is still relatively unstructured when compared to a dedicaetd database, but if TV IV can come up with a sound data model internally, they can store the data and manipulate it as much as they want. If they turn out to be just a bunch of HTML documents that any troll can edit, then they will disappear into obscurity.
Skype also offers an IM service that eBay could use to pester bidders. I used to use their MSN Alerts service before eBay shut it off, so when I used MSN Messenger I would get alerts about being outbid.
For auction messages where time is of the essence, IM makes much more sense than e-mail for outbid notices.
And why can't I just buy Word and Excel and none of the other ass programs?
Microsoft Office Word 2003 (the upgrade version is about half the price)
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (the upgrade version is about half the price)
If "too many options confuse people and make them pissed off," then Linux is absolutely fucked.
Because Firefox has no security vulnerabilities that would allow extensions to be installed without the user's explicit consent. Because Firefox is open source, any security vulnerability will be patched immediately and delivered seamlessly to every Firefox user.
Because Firefox has such a low market share, it is simply not profitable to deploy spyware extensions for it.
My Samsung HL-4663W only weighs about 70 pounds, less than half as much as I do. It doesn't have a giant center speaker. I can lift it but it's virtually impossible to fit safely in my car.
The warranty on my last laptop, a Compaq (long story), cost $100 and saved me $1000 in repairs to a busted LCD in the first month of extended coverage. If you carry your laptop to and from work every day, even if you have a padded case for it, a one-year warranty is simply not enough.
As for TVs, I took some advice from a coworker when buying a projection TV: buy the floor model for $500 less than the new model, then buy a $400 four-year warranty. The extended warranty covers parts like the lamp that might not last four years even for a new product. It also guarantees on-site service which is nice when the TV weighs at least half as much as I do.
It doesn't look like Flip4Mac can stream WMV content, which is what Adult Swim plans to do. For that you still have to use Windows Media Player for Mac, a product which works about as well as its name might suggest.
I think Slashdot needs a more forceful "It's an arrogant jerk. Mock." icon instead. Their current icon is a good start, with the childlike security blanket, but it could be improved.
1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000
1 TiB = 2^40
Please don't confuse a terabyte with a tebibyte. Nobody called this a half-tebibyte drive.
Also, a GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. Don't confuse it with a gubibyte which is 2^30 bytes.
Kibibyte, mebobyte, gubibyte, tebibyte, boobybyte... what could be so hard about that?
I get my Perl modules from them too. They're amazingly geek-friendly lately. :)
For the record, Old Country Road is a major road in that area and has a lot of office buildings. If you follow it over to Garden City, you'll find several enormous malls and even more office buildings.
Because of this, just listing an address of "Old Country Road" makes a letter pretty much undeliverable. For all we know, it could be a Mail Boxes Etc / UPS Store somewhere in a strip mall.
Obviously MOTO played a lot of NES RPGS where you had to name your CHRS with four letter NMES due to the JPNS DEVS underestimating the LNGT of most ERPN names.
"Price" is an exact number. For example: an Xbox 360 will cost $399 in the configuration everyone will want.
"Price point" can refer to a rough figure. For example, Apple waited until 2005 to release an MP3 player at the $100 price point. The iPod shuffle compares with MP3 players of $80-$120 or so.
Price = how much money you have in your wallet right now
Price point = how much you're willing to spend on a product
That was in iTunes 4.8 as well. iTunes' duplicate detection is worthless for anyone who has at least one live album from an artist.
So allow me to summarize:
1. Profit!
2. ???
3. Sell iPods for less money
Apple could make a device with more features, like the Archos, but that would cost too much money for them. Why toy with a winning formula?
Look at the original debate about the iPod: $350 for 5 GB. People snapped it up as fast as they could.
Apple makes a very handsome profit on iPods. You don't have to fill them with iTMS songs (MP3s work just as well) but the pairing of iPod with iTunes now accounts for over a billion dollars annually in sales for Apple.
Look at the screen shot again. It uses both commas as a decimal separator (6,80 GHz) and periods as a decimal separator (1.00 TB). Unless they meant one thousand TB and dropped a 0 off the end, that's not consistent usage.
It's a pretty lousy fake, but I commend the company for making it onto Slashdot. I hear they also have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you...
Since when is XPCOM a "standard" for anyone but the Mozilla foundation?
You might as well call Firefox 'standards-challenged' because it doesn't support ActiveX*.
* BZZT WRONG THERE IS AN EXTENSION JUST DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL IT AND MAKE SURE NEVER TO UPGRADE FIREFOX WITHOUT CHECKING FOR EXTENSION COMPATIBILITY FIRST
NBC is the only broadcast network I've seen that allows ads for spirits, though cable channels have plenty of ads for them. The concern is that conservative "family" groups will get upset about network X allowing hard liquor ads and then use boycotts to pressure other advertisers on network X to pull their ads. Unlike all the boycotts normally discussed on Slashdot, these actually work and get the networks' attention.
So, yes, Google's ban on alcohol ads represents a legacy of US puritan/prohibition-era thinking -- but on the part of citizens, not necessarily government.
Google has the authority to ban any ad with which it disagrees, and some of their decisions (like "no gun ads") can be construed to have political overtones. Other stuff you can't advertise using Google includes: beer or hard alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and other weapons.
Google makes a great advertising service, but Google is not wholly libertarian in what it allows. I'm surprised that on Slashdot, a site I'd consider pretty libertarian in its own right, Google is so rarely criticized for its policies.
"Look at Walter Koenig. After Star Trek, he became an actor!" -- Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
You're exactly right. Google makes billions on advertising. They're an advertising company. They compete with DoubleClick and Yahoo!. Everything they do on the customer side is about making users see and click on Google ads.
Most of their other products are in beta anyway, so they don't count.