And it's defaulted to off. And it's used to show popularity in the add/remove so it's designed to help the user.
I've been on 8.04 since it came out and all that time I can't think of anything resembling a commercial pitch. Except for buying a DVD or t-shirt on the website.
Hell, I enjoy being Windows-free so much that I'd be willing to help them out financially. Maybe by watching a couple ads or something. No joke.
Having purchased a refrigerator and washer/dryer within the last few months, I found the Energystar stickers to be highly useful. Not necessarily in absolute terms but certainly in comparing models. It was a real eye-opener to see the energy consumption of front-load washers compared to top-load. Point is, I wouldn't have realized the difference was that much without the stickers.
All in all, I'd humbly argue that it's been one of the more successful programs by the EPA since its introduction almost 20 years ago. And it looks like computers and game consoles are next: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=revisions.computer_spec
Correct, the quotes I placed around the word "free" were intended to show doubt in how the term was used, not as a quotation stating fact. (I think something recursive just happened in that sentence)
Public broadcasting is funded by foundations, member contributions and tax dollars. The tax dollar component is small (15% IIRC) but the one that I'd attack if I were them. Especially since it dovetails nightly with the heavily Republican stance on issues espoused nightly on their news outlets. In this case, removing tax dollars from public broadcasting.
In their universe I could see a talking point similar to this "Our tax dollars are going to fund their operations and they're giving it away for free. Either abolish it or force them to charge all viewers for their content so the taxpayers aren't getting ripped off".
With regard to competition, it appears they've committed to a scorched earth policy against all "free" news sources to make their proposed model palatable. It'll be interesting to see the message crafted against PBS+NPR. Even though it is a subscription model at the core, the attack vector will most likely still revolve around the concept of "freeloaders".
Very interesting. Given the tight tolerances required, seems like humidity, temperature and just general handling could potentially affect the media, no? What media was used, just heavy bond or some type of stable sepia, etc.?
To be clear, a large portion of tasting involved picking up bulk names from the pending delete list. Money was made from domains that might have residual traffic after the delete. Park the domain for a few days then see if the adsense/affiliate revenue outweighed the annual fee. If not, drop it and get the refund.
So typos would be a subset; not every tasted domain would be a typo.
Those queries should yield a higher result for Windows since the market share of Windows is so much higher than anything else (i.e. desktop). In other words, after the 20th result page the content will dissolve into any content that discusses Windows with the keyword "hosting" mixed in. Not necessarily "Windows hosting", same applies for the "linux hosting" results. Quoting "windows hosting" and "linux hosting" yields around 1.3m results each.
Regardless, imo the hypothesis of using Google to measure "windows hosting" vs. "linux hosting" is flawed to begin with. Netcraft have been the better tool since its purpose is to measure exactly what you're looking for:
Note that the possibility exists that there are more *sites* (domains) sitting on top of the Windows servers even though IIS has a lower market share among web servers than Linux. For example, when Godaddy changed their parking servers to IIS a few years ago.
But these days most Wordpress sites sit on top of a Centos-based VPS, or via Blogspot, etc. which are all running Apache. Lastly, as an empirical check, most hosting companies (Hostgator, advertisers on Webhostingtalk, etc.) have a Linux based package as their default. Windows is available but tends to be more of an option. Perhaps this is more due to cost/licensing issues, I don't know the economics involved.
When I want to buy a Widget and I'm simply looking for the best deals, I don't want a bunch of pages where people are reviewing or discussing the product
A catalyst for this may be the growing trend toward research on Google, buy on Bing (for the cashback). Bing is being relegated to a "purchase engine", for better or worse.
If a tipping point is reached where people go to Bing first and avoid G altogether, then it seems logical that G would bring Froogle front and center to meet your needs.
Launcher doesn't work since the nocd crack is required. This kills any type of item upload/download and the community aspect of the game. Otherwise it does run very well even with accelerated animations under Jaunty, Wine 1.26, Nvidia 8800 series.
Disclaimer: I don't play it, it's for my 11-year old. I highly value my geek card and don't want it to be revoked. TIA.
I thought the same after stumbling onto it in 2007. Now it seems surprising that that there is surprise, especially after the mainstream coverage of ireport.com, toys.com and property.com sales.
So if you're interested, check out http://www.dnjournal.com/ and look at the "Domain Sales" and "YTD Sales Charts".
There's plenty of other sites to surf and and never ceases to be interesting. There's even a book ("The Domain Game") that's a good read from a historical perspective.
It's a tough, relatively unknown and tight-knit business. But a burgeoning business nonetheless.
Quick note regarding "hundreds or thousands" of registrars:
For those that don't know, quite a few of those "registrars" listed at http://www.internic.net/alpha.html are used for drop catching (referring to pending deletes, not partner auctions). They're created by the parent companies of Snapnames, Pool and Namejet (obvious ones look like enomxxx). An accurate count of "valid" registrars would include those with standard registar pages and public facing whois. These are arguably on the up-and-up; others are used for seedy purposes as you point out. In fairness, cleaning up the whois mess is tricky and fraught with slippery-slope issues.
I'd agree that ICANN is like a deer stuck in the headlights but would disagree that the consumer lost big. Godaddy's rise to dominance has been through marketing and sub-$10 regs. Without the competition we'd probably still be paying $35-$70 to Netsol. Note how Netsol's recent rebranding effort isn't about lowering price, just adding value add stuff like sites, etc. A majority of folks are still clueless about this interweb stuff and don't realize that domain registration is a commodity business.
Having said that, Godaddy sucks and their market share of 30%+ of total regs (33m+ domains) is worrisome in a gut-feeling sort of way. IMHO.
I think I understand your intent conceptually, but would like more clarification. Are you referring to "penises" or "penis' ", as in collectively owned?
In other words, are we talking about a collection of individual penises all grouped together, then referring to them? Or as a metaphorical single penis that is owned by the slashdot bastards as a single unit?
My concern is that it would certainly be easier on the bees if it was a collection of physical penises, rather than an imaginary metaphorical one. The latter would just be cruel to the bees.
Not that the GP was especially funny, but is there some new super secret/. code embedded in the AC checkbox that telepathically removes any sense of humor from the submitter?
Maybe/. switched to that new version of CIA Linux without telling Netcraft.
Read the actual license terms for them and you'll see there's actually NOTHING that they prevent you to do, that you'll likely to have any interest in doing.
Maybe not but I'd argue it's a tad naive. Out here in the real world, there's nothing stopping a for-profit company from changing terms on their proprietary format license. After all, it's theirs. If they can make a profit by altering the terms in the future then why shouldn't they?
And proprietary formats work surprisingly well. Witness.doc as well as AutoDesk's venerable.dwg format. A truly obfuscated mess and they're still number one because of it.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's defaulted to off. And it's used to show popularity in the add/remove so it's designed to help the user.
I've been on 8.04 since it came out and all that time I can't think of anything resembling a commercial pitch. Except for buying a DVD or t-shirt on the website.
Hell, I enjoy being Windows-free so much that I'd be willing to help them out financially. Maybe by watching a couple ads or something. No joke.
Having purchased a refrigerator and washer/dryer within the last few months, I found the Energystar stickers to be highly useful. Not necessarily in absolute terms but certainly in comparing models. It was a real eye-opener to see the energy consumption of front-load washers compared to top-load. Point is, I wouldn't have realized the difference was that much without the stickers.
All in all, I'd humbly argue that it's been one of the more successful programs by the EPA since its introduction almost 20 years ago. And it looks like computers and game consoles are next:
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=revisions.computer_spec
Shockerer, a Slashdot commenter familiar with screwing.
"Fill Down" works for me, perhaps you meant "Fill Right"? If so, you're correct and it drives me nuts too...forced to use Alt-E-I-R instead of Ctrl-R.
But in my case annoyances like that are not enough to give up Calc. YMMV, of course.
Monsanto is a beast of an IP company, and they raise their sword far more than most big tech companies.
s/ who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs/ out of a 700lb cannon/g
FTFY.
Correct, the quotes I placed around the word "free" were intended to show doubt in how the term was used, not as a quotation stating fact. (I think something recursive just happened in that sentence)
Public broadcasting is funded by foundations, member contributions and tax dollars. The tax dollar component is small (15% IIRC) but the one that I'd attack if I were them. Especially since it dovetails nightly with the heavily Republican stance on issues espoused nightly on their news outlets. In this case, removing tax dollars from public broadcasting.
In their universe I could see a talking point similar to this "Our tax dollars are going to fund their operations and they're giving it away for free. Either abolish it or force them to charge all viewers for their content so the taxpayers aren't getting ripped off".
Or something equally inane and biased (imho).
With regard to competition, it appears they've committed to a scorched earth policy against all "free" news sources to make their proposed model palatable. It'll be interesting to see the message crafted against PBS+NPR. Even though it is a subscription model at the core, the attack vector will most likely still revolve around the concept of "freeloaders".
Very interesting. Given the tight tolerances required, seems like humidity, temperature and just general handling could potentially affect the media, no? What media was used, just heavy bond or some type of stable sepia, etc.?
To be clear, a large portion of tasting involved picking up bulk names from the pending delete list. Money was made from domains that might have residual traffic after the delete. Park the domain for a few days then see if the adsense/affiliate revenue outweighed the annual fee. If not, drop it and get the refund.
So typos would be a subset; not every tasted domain would be a typo.
Those queries should yield a higher result for Windows since the market share of Windows is so much higher than anything else (i.e. desktop). In other words, after the 20th result page the content will dissolve into any content that discusses Windows with the keyword "hosting" mixed in. Not necessarily "Windows hosting", same applies for the "linux hosting" results. Quoting "windows hosting" and "linux hosting" yields around 1.3m results each.
Regardless, imo the hypothesis of using Google to measure "windows hosting" vs. "linux hosting" is flawed to begin with. Netcraft have been the better tool since its purpose is to measure exactly what you're looking for:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Note that the possibility exists that there are more *sites* (domains) sitting on top of the Windows servers even though IIS has a lower market share among web servers than Linux. For example, when Godaddy changed their parking servers to IIS a few years ago.
But these days most Wordpress sites sit on top of a Centos-based VPS, or via Blogspot, etc. which are all running Apache. Lastly, as an empirical check, most hosting companies (Hostgator, advertisers on Webhostingtalk, etc.) have a Linux based package as their default. Windows is available but tends to be more of an option. Perhaps this is more due to cost/licensing issues, I don't know the economics involved.
When I want to buy a Widget and I'm simply looking for the best deals, I don't want a bunch of pages where people are reviewing or discussing the product
A catalyst for this may be the growing trend toward research on Google, buy on Bing (for the cashback). Bing is being relegated to a "purchase engine", for better or worse.
If a tipping point is reached where people go to Bing first and avoid G altogether, then it seems logical that G would bring Froogle front and center to meet your needs.
Launcher doesn't work since the nocd crack is required. This kills any type of item upload/download and the community aspect of the game. Otherwise it does run very well even with accelerated animations under Jaunty, Wine 1.26, Nvidia 8800 series.
Disclaimer: I don't play it, it's for my 11-year old. I highly value my geek card and don't want it to be revoked. TIA.
I thought the same after stumbling onto it in 2007. Now it seems surprising that that there is surprise, especially after the mainstream coverage of ireport.com, toys.com and property.com sales.
So if you're interested, check out http://www.dnjournal.com/ and look at the "Domain Sales" and "YTD Sales Charts".
http://www.dnforum.com/ is the largest forum for domaining.
http://www.domainnamewire.com/ is an insightful news source.
http://www.namebio.com/ is fun to peruse for past sales.
Auctions for drops and end-user sales are at http://www.snapnames.com/ http://www.namejet.com/ and Godaddy's TDNAM service. http://www.sedo.com/ and http://afternic.com/ are mostly end user sales/auctions.
Then continue onto http://www.ricksblog.com/ and finally http://www.domaining.com./
There's plenty of other sites to surf and and never ceases to be interesting. There's even a book ("The Domain Game") that's a good read from a historical perspective.
It's a tough, relatively unknown and tight-knit business. But a burgeoning business nonetheless.
If grub is not in the root partition you need to ins
Argh, don't keep us in suspense...that's like the slashdot equivalent of blue balls.
My favorite is "Keeps pigeons off the balcony" from the approved uses list submitted to http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/wd-40.asp
Kind of like how Skin-so-Soft works better than most standard mosquito repellents.
OT but what the hell, it's Friday.
WD-40 works very well for removing sticker glue.
Quick note regarding "hundreds or thousands" of registrars:
For those that don't know, quite a few of those "registrars" listed at http://www.internic.net/alpha.html are used for drop catching (referring to pending deletes, not partner auctions). They're created by the parent companies of Snapnames, Pool and Namejet (obvious ones look like enomxxx). An accurate count of "valid" registrars would include those with standard registar pages and public facing whois. These are arguably on the up-and-up; others are used for seedy purposes as you point out. In fairness, cleaning up the whois mess is tricky and fraught with slippery-slope issues.
I'd agree that ICANN is like a deer stuck in the headlights but would disagree that the consumer lost big. Godaddy's rise to dominance has been through marketing and sub-$10 regs. Without the competition we'd probably still be paying $35-$70 to Netsol. Note how Netsol's recent rebranding effort isn't about lowering price, just adding value add stuff like sites, etc. A majority of folks are still clueless about this interweb stuff and don't realize that domain registration is a commodity business.
Having said that, Godaddy sucks and their market share of 30%+ of total regs (33m+ domains) is worrisome in a gut-feeling sort of way. IMHO.
I respectfully disagree...have you read any Microsoft TCO papers?
Reading them is like watching David Copperfield make a pyramid disappear.
What a coincidence, you were thinking of Uncle Ralph too?
I think I understand your intent conceptually, but would like more clarification. Are you referring to "penises" or "penis' ", as in collectively owned?
In other words, are we talking about a collection of individual penises all grouped together, then referring to them? Or as a metaphorical single penis that is owned by the slashdot bastards as a single unit?
My concern is that it would certainly be easier on the bees if it was a collection of physical penises, rather than an imaginary metaphorical one. The latter would just be cruel to the bees.
Not that the GP was especially funny, but is there some new super secret /. code embedded in the AC checkbox that telepathically removes any sense of humor from the submitter?
Maybe /. switched to that new version of CIA Linux without telling Netcraft.
The white person method, of course.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165712
Read the actual license terms for them and you'll see there's actually NOTHING that they prevent you to do, that you'll likely to have any interest in doing.
Maybe not but I'd argue it's a tad naive. Out here in the real world, there's nothing stopping a for-profit company from changing terms on their proprietary format license. After all, it's theirs. If they can make a profit by altering the terms in the future then why shouldn't they?
And proprietary formats work surprisingly well. Witness .doc as well as AutoDesk's venerable .dwg format. A truly obfuscated mess and they're still number one because of it.
Hardware RAID is one possibility (e.g. 3Ware's PCIe cards). The point's valid though, can't think of many others.