Whatever KaZaA Gold is, it's nothing compared to KaZaA Platinum.
Seriously though, both services are just rebadges of KaZaA or KaZaA Lite, for which they charge unsuspecting users $1-$2 a month (billed annually in advance, of course). There's nothing legitimate about them, but I'm really curious as to how many people have paid for them.
If you read KaZaA's "No Spyware" Policy, you would know that KaZaA contains no spyware. It only contains the following.
Content - payment for distribution of Rights Managed content (marked with Gold Icons).
Regular banner and pop advertising - within KMD and Kazaa.com (DoubleClick and Cydoor).
SaveNow - presents coupons and offers that are related to the websites that you are visiting. SaveNow operates and is managed separately to Kazaa Media Desktop.
Sales of products and services - eg. BullGuard, MatchNet.
Imagine if all the major computer makers had come up with different kinds of floppy disk in the early 90's, all incompatible with each other?
They did that. Now there are just two formats left to support in the world: PC (DOS) and Mac. Since Apple stopped shipping floppy drives five years ago, and Mac OS can read and write DOS-formatted disks just fine, DOS won.
IE 6.0 supports a great deal more DOM manipulation than even IE 5.5. At work, I have had to scale down pages that we generate for certain customers because they use IE 5.5. Of course, since e-commerce sites for the general public have to guarantee compatibility with a larger volume of customers, you don't see changes in IE versions.
The umpteenth milestone of Mozilloenixbirdron Browser.org works as well as IE 6 for most DOM stuff, but a properly patched IE is still nice for integration purposes in Windows.
I use Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, and IE for various purposes. It's all about using the best tool for the job.
It's not surprising that this article has attracted a torrent of comments like "I wish it were a dumb terminal" or "Why can't it access Jabber?" As always, these foolish questions can be dismissed by reading the article.
"Motorola is marketing IMfree to young teens, and to young teenage girls in particular, because they found this group was a heavy user of instant messaging services."
Now I know that many of you Junior Slashbots out there are very proud of the fact that you've been using Linux and Jabber since before they were cool. However, the market for AIM is enormous among young teens. In homes with broadband, many AIM users have started leaving themselves signed in 24/7. This leads to some contention, as it's impractical to run more than one instance of AIM on a home PC. In a home with, say, one PC and three kids, mom can type a letter while her kids use the AIM devices wirelessly. Total cost for the kids' hardware: $300.
Now, I'd like to see a $100 handheld terminal device that would sell well among the Slashdot crowd. Remember, it has to include wireless Ethernet, a color screen, Bluetooth, compatibility with all bands of GSM, at least 128 MB of RAM, an MP3 and Ogg Vorbis player, a Gecko-based web browser, a terminal which can run any shell imaginable, Perl, a C compiler, an 80 GB hard drive, a usable keyboard, FireWire, USB 2.0, and Infrared. And it has to run Linux.
Motorola exec 1: We're projecting sales revenues of $10,000,000 for the next quarter on -- Motorola exec 2: (looking at laptop) Stop! Hang on! Motorola exec 1: What is it? Motorola exec 2: Derg doesn't like our product. Motorola exec 1: Derg? You mean thetruederg@yahoo.com? Motorola exec 2: That's right. I'm afraid he only gave it... (gulp) a 2.5 out of 10. Motorola exec 1: Great Scott! (into intercom) Sally, cancel all my other appointments for today. Fly this "Derg" in as soon as possible. His insights will save this company.
The Tungsten T was just dropped to $350, plus you can return your Palm Vx for a $50 rebate. Some places like Best Buy and Amazon are offering the unit for less than retail.
But the data is encrypted with your 128-bit key. If GoToMyPC wants to "steal everything" by logging all the data you send to its servers, they'll have to crack the encryption.
And before you say "it's closed source; I can't see under the hood," fire up a logger of your own to see what GoToMyPC is receiving.
GoToMyPC.com is not a bad program solely since it is "in thousands of popup and banner ads." It's a web-based app that includes a file-transfer component (TightVNC does not) and encrypts sessions.
For more information, CNet has a review. Please read it.
Unlike the Imax DMR releases last year of "Apollo 13" and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "The Matrix" films won't have to be shortened, as Imax reel units can now support film lengths of 150 minutes.
Unlike the Imax DMR releases last year of "Apollo 13" and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "The Matrix" films won't have to be shortened, as Imax reel units can now support film lengths of 150 minutes.
You should use a better proxy. A better proxy, such as Proximotron, can take the Yahoo! search result URLs and strip out everything before the destination URL.
It's true that not all search engines use such redirection, but there are proxy solutions for all of your tinfoil-hat needs.
Yahoo's news page can be customized. In My Yahoo! I have certain categories selected so that I see news about things I care about.
To me, news about where I live and where my family lives. Yahoo! News displays stories about New York and Pittsburgh, along with many other cities, in line with the rest of the news. Google News offers links to local papers' home pages.
Personally, I don't care about F1 racing, soccer, or cricket. I would rather see news about baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. Google's Sports section is a hodgepodge of popular sports stories from around the world. Yahoo! News lets me customize the view so that I see only the sports I want to see.
Sometimes it's nice to see all of one's news stories on a single screen, without having to do keyword searches. In this area, Yahoo! News is much better than Google News.
I prefer news.yahoo.com, which has been around far longer than Google News and has a large array of sources all in one consistent interface. Google News is great when you want to read the same story from 100 sources (nice for movie reviews) but Yahoo! News has the same content from a smaller but still broad number of sources.
Also, Froogle is horrible compared to Yahoo! Shopping. Froogle indexes many pages that are not stores, while Yahoo! Shopping searches Yahoo's own list of stores. Again, Yahoo has tighter control over the content but the experience is better for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Whatever KaZaA Gold is, it's nothing compared to KaZaA Platinum.
Seriously though, both services are just rebadges of KaZaA or KaZaA Lite, for which they charge unsuspecting users $1-$2 a month (billed annually in advance, of course). There's nothing legitimate about them, but I'm really curious as to how many people have paid for them.
If you read KaZaA's "No Spyware" Policy, you would know that KaZaA contains no spyware. It only contains the following.
See? No spyware.
Imagine if all the major computer makers had come up with different kinds of floppy disk in the early 90's, all incompatible with each other?
They did that. Now there are just two formats left to support in the world: PC (DOS) and Mac. Since Apple stopped shipping floppy drives five years ago, and Mac OS can read and write DOS-formatted disks just fine, DOS won.
And don't get me started on all the ways you can format a hard drive...
Netscape 4.x had Java (sort of), and Java IRC clients are about as user-friendly and feature-filled as Chatzilla.
Bolting an IRC client onto a browser isn't "innovative." If it is, then you owe Microsoft credit for a lot of equally useless "innovations."
IE 6.0 supports a great deal more DOM manipulation than even IE 5.5. At work, I have had to scale down pages that we generate for certain customers because they use IE 5.5. Of course, since e-commerce sites for the general public have to guarantee compatibility with a larger volume of customers, you don't see changes in IE versions.
.org works as well as IE 6 for most DOM stuff, but a properly patched IE is still nice for integration purposes in Windows.
The umpteenth milestone of Mozilloenixbirdron Browser
I use Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, and IE for various purposes. It's all about using the best tool for the job.
That link points to their last earnings call, on February 26. As of this posting, no archive is available for today's call.
Yeah, although I stopped posting on misc.market back in December when I graduated.
It's not surprising that this article has attracted a torrent of comments like "I wish it were a dumb terminal" or "Why can't it access Jabber?" As always, these foolish questions can be dismissed by reading the article.
"Motorola is marketing IMfree to young teens, and to young teenage girls in particular, because they found this group was a heavy user of instant messaging services."
Now I know that many of you Junior Slashbots out there are very proud of the fact that you've been using Linux and Jabber since before they were cool. However, the market for AIM is enormous among young teens. In homes with broadband, many AIM users have started leaving themselves signed in 24/7. This leads to some contention, as it's impractical to run more than one instance of AIM on a home PC. In a home with, say, one PC and three kids, mom can type a letter while her kids use the AIM devices wirelessly. Total cost for the kids' hardware: $300.
Now, I'd like to see a $100 handheld terminal device that would sell well among the Slashdot crowd. Remember, it has to include wireless Ethernet, a color screen, Bluetooth, compatibility with all bands of GSM, at least 128 MB of RAM, an MP3 and Ogg Vorbis player, a Gecko-based web browser, a terminal which can run any shell imaginable, Perl, a C compiler, an 80 GB hard drive, a usable keyboard, FireWire, USB 2.0, and Infrared. And it has to run Linux.
Motorola exec 1: We're projecting sales revenues of $10,000,000 for the next quarter on --
Motorola exec 2: (looking at laptop) Stop! Hang on!
Motorola exec 1: What is it?
Motorola exec 2: Derg doesn't like our product.
Motorola exec 1: Derg? You mean thetruederg@yahoo.com?
Motorola exec 2: That's right. I'm afraid he only gave it... (gulp) a 2.5 out of 10.
Motorola exec 1: Great Scott! (into intercom) Sally, cancel all my other appointments for today. Fly this "Derg" in as soon as possible. His insights will save this company.
In WinXP, you just plug it in. 1 step
Typical Windows. Totally inflexible.
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The Tungsten T was just dropped to $350, plus you can return your Palm Vx for a $50 rebate. Some places like Best Buy and Amazon are offering the unit for less than retail.
More info at Palm Infocenter.
It's incredibly easy to set up a USB drive in Linux.
Linux is the easiest, most intuitive operating system out there. No other OS comes close.
But the data is encrypted with your 128-bit key. If GoToMyPC wants to "steal everything" by logging all the data you send to its servers, they'll have to crack the encryption.
And before you say "it's closed source; I can't see under the hood," fire up a logger of your own to see what GoToMyPC is receiving.
Why pay $19.95 a month when there is VNC ?
GoToMyPC works from behind a firewall. VNC does not. Either forward a port or pay $20/month.
GoToMyPC.com is not a bad program solely since it is "in thousands of popup and banner ads." It's a web-based app that includes a file-transfer component (TightVNC does not) and encrypts sessions.
For more information, CNet has a review. Please read it.
Last October at Kennywood, I rode the "Phantom's Revenge." I hadn't ridden the original, but Revenge was pretty damn cool.
Kennywood also has a homepage about the Phantom's Revenge.
Yesterdayland is no more. This Usenet post explains why.
No.
Unlike the Imax DMR releases last year of "Apollo 13" and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "The Matrix" films won't have to be shortened, as Imax reel units can now support film lengths of 150 minutes.
I read it in the press release.
Wrong.
Unlike the Imax DMR releases last year of "Apollo 13" and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," "The Matrix" films won't have to be shortened, as Imax reel units can now support film lengths of 150 minutes.
I read the press release. Did you?
Why install a whole Java VM to get an address book, calendar, etc.? There's already a cartridge that does it for $10.
You should use a better proxy. A better proxy, such as Proximotron, can take the Yahoo! search result URLs and strip out everything before the destination URL.
It's true that not all search engines use such redirection, but there are proxy solutions for all of your tinfoil-hat needs.
Yahoo's news page can be customized. In My Yahoo! I have certain categories selected so that I see news about things I care about.
To me, news about where I live and where my family lives. Yahoo! News displays stories about New York and Pittsburgh, along with many other cities, in line with the rest of the news. Google News offers links to local papers' home pages.
Personally, I don't care about F1 racing, soccer, or cricket. I would rather see news about baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. Google's Sports section is a hodgepodge of popular sports stories from around the world. Yahoo! News lets me customize the view so that I see only the sports I want to see.
Sometimes it's nice to see all of one's news stories on a single screen, without having to do keyword searches. In this area, Yahoo! News is much better than Google News.
Sign up at google.com if you want to bitch and moan about "having your privacy invaded."
Makes sense. That press release is from today, not Friday. After the press release was issued, Yahoo!'s stock was up 85 cents in morning trade.
I prefer news.yahoo.com, which has been around far longer than Google News and has a large array of sources all in one consistent interface. Google News is great when you want to read the same story from 100 sources (nice for movie reviews) but Yahoo! News has the same content from a smaller but still broad number of sources.
Also, Froogle is horrible compared to Yahoo! Shopping. Froogle indexes many pages that are not stores, while Yahoo! Shopping searches Yahoo's own list of stores. Again, Yahoo has tighter control over the content but the experience is better for it.