"Yahoo continues to be the overall Web audience leader with the largest number of unique users and most time spent online. The page view change in November is related to the use of Ajax and other Web 2.0 technologies across the Yahoo network," Yahoo spokeswoman Nissa Anklesaria said Tuesday.
So forget about Ajax if metrics mean anything to your bottom line. BTW, Ajax is making Yahoo a pain in the ass. All those little "helpful" popup balloon are just killing me and there's no way to turn it off.
I know they drop silently if your server has no spf, I had to open a Hotmail account to contact Hotmail customers. They have gotten pretty xenophobic in the last couple of months.
SImilarly, back in the day I had to open an AOL account to contact AOL customers, but that was because AOL had a junkmail setting to block all non-AOL email "sent from the internet."
Earthlink is turning rapidly into a turd, in addition to dropping valid emails, they now browser jack you.
I tried to sign up thru their front page & firefox can't follow the links, at least my install won't.
I'm sure the non-DRM tracks will load on an ipod, but the rest of the catalog won't. But I suppose it is a step in the right direction, it had to be if I actually had my credit card out.
I had the same thought, but the Yahoo Music Unlimited site makes Firefox blow up. Looking thru their Faq they mention Firefox for Windows is not supported (obviously), furthermore the tunes won't play on Ipods. Even though I use something else (Rio if you have to know) there is no way in hell a music service that doesn't support ipods is going to make it.
Good catch, while we're on the topic, defeating any server side checking is a little tougher. Though when it's there they mainly use it to limit repeated attempts (form-bombing) & you can proxy to deliver more responses & anyway the ip ban usually times out in one hour or less.
I've seen some spammer's forms (mortgage, mostly) so thick with javascript it's amazing they get any responses at all. Sometimes you have to save the form locally to replace a javascript submit button with a normal one in order to do the trick.
The unfortunate fact is that many website registration systems simply won't accept emails like "myemail+anythingelse@gmail.com".
Turn off yer javascript to defeat server-side checking.
You can also do this to stuff 500kb-long 'valid' email addresses and responses into spammer's forms - don't go over 1mb total in case their Hotmail rejects it.
I couldn't imagine LSI ever intends to protect the patent (since it obviously would never stand up in court). Most likely, they are just seeking bragging rights "Hey look, we had 30 patents approved this year".
Since LSI actually produces something (unlike SCO) hopefully we won't be seeing the "all your database are belong to us" letters anytime soon. But that doesn't change the fact that they can do it.
But I thought the idea was to get a critical share of the gaming market, so that the money lost in the consoles would be made up by game sales.
Seems to me Wii games will be outselling PS3 games by a 10:1 ratio right now -- even more if all the PS3 games are being resold anyway, while the Wii's are actually being used.
In any event $600 x 400,000 $250 x 4,000,000, either way Nintendo won this one by a mile.
There just was a news spot on Channel 10 News in San Diego. In the back of the store they had a PS3 and a Wii set up They brought in a bunch of self-confessed gamer kids as testers.
The kids were impressed by the PS3 graphics and detail (they had it on a 100 inch HDTV) but 3 out of 4 chose the Wii on the basis of the controller.
That was Submitter's point. The "features" that MS gets so excited about (i.e. stock will rise) are the same that make vomit rise in the throats of Slashdotters.
The Tribune Company tried this in the late 1990s. Auctions.com, apartments.com, cars.com etc
After a huge expenditure apartments and cars.com do OK but the rest were a huge waste of money. I think in the current business environment asking someone for seven figures on top of launch expenses is inviable.
Webshots also did a 2.0 facelift that renders the site almost unusable. It views all jumbled unless you come in with IE and all the safety turned off. But it does look cool if you do.
Be careful of what you wish for. For instance, let's replace players with OS'es.
I'm not sure what the 'average' consumer is thinking about when purchasing an OS, but to know that there are a gazillion after-market apps I can get for Microsoft Windows is somewhat comforting. Plus, the ubiquitity of Windows XP means millions of websites devoted to tips, info, hacks, etc. for XP. And don't forget the 'cool' factor (which is hard to put into words). OK, you got me on the last sentence, at least for high school students.
The thing is, this logic can be used to lock out, for instance, Apple, from the OS market.
The number has spiked due to the new requirement that all people crossing the border hold passports. Next time you're in the post office, take note of all the people applying for passports.
There are a lot of people who cross the border every day on business. Previously, only a drivers license was required for readmittance from Canada and Mexico.
MS was built on piracy. Their 90% install base was derived from people passing copies of windows around back in the DOS and 3.1 days. Having achieved that it's now time to start charging, because the company is not making enough money (from the Wall Street standpoint, which requires logarithmic sales projections to achieve linear stock price changes). WGA was implemented because MS has no need to increase the install base % further, and they figure WGA can at once produce income and increase perceived product value.
I don't think their % is going to decline much, but I also don't think WGA is going to increase income at all. The common users have stuck with MS through all the bugs, virii, spyware and licensing hassles due to inertia and that's not changing. MS won't be gone until the next user interface is invented, and we all know MS won't invent it because they have no R&D. WGA is about the only thing they invented, and it didn't come out of R&D, it came from Marketing.
I have to agree, Furthermore, you can mix it up with false positives. For example, using pop culture Captchas, display an American Idol contestant, whom 99.8 percent of Americans over the age of 12 can instantly identify on a moonlit night, whereas 0.12% of Indians can identify (as well as a similar percentage of Slashdotters I'm afraid.)
At the same time, mix in pictures of bigtime Bollywood stars. When properly identified, disqualify the user and Ban the IP.
Early in the 20th Century the state of transportation was suddenly improved with something called the "automobile."
Similarly, early in the 21st Century the state of information exchange was suddenly improved with something called the "internet."
The article title will be as laughable in the future, as something from 1906 titled "A Working Economy Without Buggy Manufacturers?" is now. Because if the buggy manufacturers had their way, instead of properly evolving or dying as conditions changes, by causing Federal law to lock in their obsolete business models, the progress of the country would have been retarded to the extent that world history would have been changed.
Just wondering what percent of the HP $4bn profit in ink sales come from you and your family.
Meanwhile, we buy aftermarket cartridges for the Canon - which are simple ink tanks with no head - at $12 a set online. The print quality blows away HP. I beta test HP printers but own Canon. However, just the fact that they chip ink tanks is enough to break the deal for me. The chip does nothing except block unauthorized cartridges - it is physical patent DRM. I do admit to favoring the HP photo paper over Canon.
I thought AOL 2 ran on DOS. They had something called PC-GEOS GUI that looked a little like Next computer windowing, but it wasn't running on MS-Windows. I probably still have the 5 1/4" install diskette somewhere. I remember AOL had no www access, it was like a lame bulletin board with Usenet access. I remember having to set up a separate SLIP account just for the web. By 1996 they had AOL 3.0 out which ran on Windows 3.1, people ate that up and the Internet was opened up to the rabble of the world.
AOL has never really been good. A few months ago PC World named AOL the "Worst Tech Product of All Time."
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And the reason is, to quote from the article:
"Yahoo continues to be the overall Web audience leader with the largest number of unique users and most time spent online. The page view change in November is related to the use of Ajax and other Web 2.0 technologies across the Yahoo network," Yahoo spokeswoman Nissa Anklesaria said Tuesday.
So forget about Ajax if metrics mean anything to your bottom line. BTW, Ajax is making Yahoo a pain in the ass. All those little "helpful" popup balloon are just killing me and there's no way to turn it off.
I know they drop silently if your server has no spf, I had to open a Hotmail account to contact Hotmail customers. They have gotten pretty xenophobic in the last couple of months.
SImilarly, back in the day I had to open an AOL account to contact AOL customers, but that was because AOL had a junkmail setting to block all non-AOL email "sent from the internet."
Earthlink is turning rapidly into a turd, in addition to dropping valid emails, they now browser jack you.
I tried to sign up thru their front page & firefox can't follow the links, at least my install won't.
I'm sure the non-DRM tracks will load on an ipod, but the rest of the catalog won't. But I suppose it is a step in the right direction, it had to be if I actually had my credit card out.
I had the same thought, but the Yahoo Music Unlimited site makes Firefox blow up. Looking thru their Faq they mention Firefox for Windows is not supported (obviously), furthermore the tunes won't play on Ipods. Even though I use something else (Rio if you have to know) there is no way in hell a music service that doesn't support ipods is going to make it.
>>300 MB commit charge after boot
That's insane, even the most spyware-riddled XP machine I've examined never reached 300mb on boot
Good catch, while we're on the topic, defeating any server side checking is a little tougher. Though when it's there they mainly use it to limit repeated attempts (form-bombing) & you can proxy to deliver more responses & anyway the ip ban usually times out in one hour or less.
I've seen some spammer's forms (mortgage, mostly) so thick with javascript it's amazing they get any responses at all. Sometimes you have to save the form locally to replace a javascript submit button with a normal one in order to do the trick.
The unfortunate fact is that many website registration systems simply won't accept emails like "myemail+anythingelse@gmail.com".
Turn off yer javascript to defeat server-side checking.
You can also do this to stuff 500kb-long 'valid' email addresses and responses into spammer's forms - don't go over 1mb total in case their Hotmail rejects it.
I couldn't imagine LSI ever intends to protect the patent (since it obviously would never stand up in court). Most likely, they are just seeking bragging rights "Hey look, we had 30 patents approved this year".
Since LSI actually produces something (unlike SCO) hopefully we won't be seeing the "all your database are belong to us" letters anytime soon. But that doesn't change the fact that they can do it.
But I thought the idea was to get a critical share of the gaming market, so that the money lost in the consoles would be made up by game sales.
Seems to me Wii games will be outselling PS3 games by a 10:1 ratio right now -- even more if all the PS3 games are being resold anyway, while the Wii's are actually being used.
In any event $600 x 400,000 $250 x 4,000,000, either way Nintendo won this one by a mile.
There just was a news spot on Channel 10 News in San Diego. In the back of the store they had a PS3 and a Wii set up They brought in a bunch of self-confessed gamer kids as testers.
The kids were impressed by the PS3 graphics and detail (they had it on a 100 inch HDTV) but 3 out of 4 chose the Wii on the basis of the controller.
That was Submitter's point. The "features" that MS gets so excited about (i.e. stock will rise) are the same that make vomit rise in the throats of Slashdotters.
As for me WMP9 is more than enough.
The Tribune Company tried this in the late 1990s. Auctions.com, apartments.com, cars.com etc
After a huge expenditure apartments and cars.com do OK but the rest were a huge waste of money. I think in the current business environment asking someone for seven figures on top of launch expenses is inviable.
Webshots also did a 2.0 facelift that renders the site almost unusable. It views all jumbled unless you come in with IE and all the safety turned off. But it does look cool if you do.
Be careful of what you wish for. For instance, let's replace players with OS'es.
I'm not sure what the 'average' consumer is thinking about when purchasing an OS, but to know that there are a gazillion after-market apps I can get for Microsoft Windows is somewhat comforting. Plus, the ubiquitity of Windows XP means millions of websites devoted to tips, info, hacks, etc. for XP. And don't forget the 'cool' factor (which is hard to put into words). OK, you got me on the last sentence, at least for high school students.
The thing is, this logic can be used to lock out, for instance, Apple, from the OS market.
The number has spiked due to the new requirement that all people crossing the border hold passports. Next time you're in the post office, take note of all the people applying for passports.
There are a lot of people who cross the border every day on business. Previously, only a drivers license was required for readmittance from Canada and Mexico.
I agree, but not for the reason you might think.
MS was built on piracy. Their 90% install base was derived from people passing copies of windows around back in the DOS and 3.1 days. Having achieved that it's now time to start charging, because the company is not making enough money (from the Wall Street standpoint, which requires logarithmic sales projections to achieve linear stock price changes). WGA was implemented because MS has no need to increase the install base % further, and they figure WGA can at once produce income and increase perceived product value.
I don't think their % is going to decline much, but I also don't think WGA is going to increase income at all. The common users have stuck with MS through all the bugs, virii, spyware and licensing hassles due to inertia and that's not changing. MS won't be gone until the next user interface is invented, and we all know MS won't invent it because they have no R&D. WGA is about the only thing they invented, and it didn't come out of R&D, it came from Marketing.
It would have been better if the lawyer was trying to milk a bull.
Probably not - I think it's being served up by their adserver
When it happens I get blank ads
Probably just bad code
No the router password is not the default
Browsing with Windows / Mozilla 1.7 / NoScript
Here's the page if you want to haev a look (NSFW): http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Gym/1661/
I don't know if this is related, but I hit a webpage today that tried to access my router at 192.168.1.1.
My router's password dialog appears when hitting the page.
I don't think I've seen that one before.
br0wse for pr0n in I3 or clicky on linkies in yuor 0utlook emailz, you wil be 0wned. You probably already are & don't know it.
I have to agree, Furthermore, you can mix it up with false positives. For example, using pop culture Captchas, display an American Idol contestant, whom 99.8 percent of Americans over the age of 12 can instantly identify on a moonlit night, whereas 0.12% of Indians can identify (as well as a similar percentage of Slashdotters I'm afraid.)
At the same time, mix in pictures of bigtime Bollywood stars. When properly identified, disqualify the user and Ban the IP.
Early in the 20th Century the state of transportation was suddenly improved with something called the "automobile."
Similarly, early in the 21st Century the state of information exchange was suddenly improved with something called the "internet."
The article title will be as laughable in the future, as something from 1906 titled "A Working Economy Without Buggy Manufacturers?" is now. Because if the buggy manufacturers had their way, instead of properly evolving or dying as conditions changes, by causing Federal law to lock in their obsolete business models, the progress of the country would have been retarded to the extent that world history would have been changed.
Just wondering what percent of the HP $4bn profit in ink sales come from you and your family.
Meanwhile, we buy aftermarket cartridges for the Canon - which are simple ink tanks with no head - at $12 a set online. The print quality blows away HP. I beta test HP printers but own Canon. However, just the fact that they chip ink tanks is enough to break the deal for me. The chip does nothing except block unauthorized cartridges - it is physical patent DRM. I do admit to favoring the HP photo paper over Canon.
I thought AOL 2 ran on DOS. They had something called PC-GEOS GUI that looked a little like Next computer windowing, but it wasn't running on MS-Windows. I probably still have the 5 1/4" install diskette somewhere. I remember AOL had no www access, it was like a lame bulletin board with Usenet access. I remember having to set up a separate SLIP account just for the web. By 1996 they had AOL 3.0 out which ran on Windows 3.1, people ate that up and the Internet was opened up to the rabble of the world.
AOL has never really been good. A few months ago PC World named AOL the "Worst Tech Product of All Time."