Let's say you're a cable company, telephone company, or electric company. To operate, you need certain right of ways, you need poles, underground cable, etc. Stuff that's expensive and disruptive to set up and repair. So local governments grant these companies a monopoly and throw in some regulation to counter the lack of free market competition. I've lived with deregulated free market electricity, regulated free market electricity, and unregulated government-owned electricity and the first two were more or less similar (California/Enron were not involved) while government electricity has meant higher rates, poorer service, and outlandish spending on buildings.
I don't know about German shooters, but "gaming caves" (or "man caves" for adults) are not uncommon. It's not actually a cave, it's just a decorated room or basement.
In the meantime, Google is putting together a Facebook killer. And the killer feature will be that your Mafia Wars and Farmville accounts will transfer over to this new social network, Google Me.
Don't you remember that microsoft kin (wonder what their satisfaction is) ad about the creepy stalker girl that tries to hook up with someone only to find out he's twice as old as she thought?
The point isn't that people post less than accurate pictures (though they do), the point is that crazy stalkers will track you down for a "surprise hookup". Fortunately, you can make the slashdot idle section if you update your facebook status to "is being raped by a crazy stalker".
My city police set up a number for SMS messaging emergencies. They cancelled it after three weeks: too many dick-pics, goatses, and not a single legitimate emergency.
In 1880~1900, black/white photographs could be sent to Germany (the China of the time) to be hand colorized. Of course, they didn't always get the colors right due to cultural differences.
A buddy of mine lost his cock and balls (motorcycle accident) but had a pretty fat settlement check. He turned into a fan of pegging/rimming/anal play.
I'm aware that Opera has an ad-revenue deal with Google (as do Apple/Safari). However, Opera's market share hovers around 2% vs 50% for firefox. As of a couple years ago (I didn't search too hard for more recent numbers), Mozilla had $75 million in annual revenue with ~90% coming from google. That puts Opera's annual google revenue at 2-3 million. Enough to keep up with IE, Firefox, WebKit, V8? ehh.
Opera used to cost money. Then they switched to an ad-supported shareware model (no ads if you paid). Then they went free (as on $0) on the desktop and brought in the revenue by licensing to mobile phones, consoles, etc. That worked when smartphones were neglected and the only other option was IE mobile. But these days, WebKit is used by (or will be used by) pretty much everyone except Microsoft (who are on the verge of irrelevance). And Mozilla might, someday, gain traction with their mobile browser.
Who is going to pay for Opera when they can use WebKit or Fennec for free? They don't have the google ad revenue that Mozilla has. They don't have a sugar daddy like IE or WebKit.
It doesn't matter how good their browser is, their business model is dead and their days are numbered.
Reminds me of the slashdot <a onhover=".."> bug. It was a while back (2000-2002 era?) but inline javascript wasn't filtered from a tags. The first exploit (that I saw, anyhow) simply used DHTML (as it was then known) to add (paraphrasing) "I can't believe this hasn't been fixed" to the post. (which took about 5 minutes given the speed of computers, javascript, and dom manipulation). About 30 seconds later, redirects to porn, last measure, etc appeared. Slashdot's initial response was to mod them down to -5 and then deleting them.
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I know the book review section is useless (unfortunately), but another plone (whatever the fuck that is) book? Call it a night, cowboy.
Let's say you're a cable company, telephone company, or electric company. To operate, you need certain right of ways, you need poles, underground cable, etc. Stuff that's expensive and disruptive to set up and repair. So local governments grant these companies a monopoly and throw in some regulation to counter the lack of free market competition. I've lived with deregulated free market electricity, regulated free market electricity, and unregulated government-owned electricity and the first two were more or less similar (California/Enron were not involved) while government electricity has meant higher rates, poorer service, and outlandish spending on buildings.
where is slashdot's delete account button?
Your ignorance of the Microsoft Kin is forgiven, but only because it was a miserable failure.
I don't know about German shooters, but "gaming caves" (or "man caves" for adults) are not uncommon. It's not actually a cave, it's just a decorated room or basement.
Apple controls the hardware and software. They don't let the AT&T make decisions. Using android is a race to the bottom.
slashdot really needs a "me to1!!!" moderation option.
Or ad supported. I'm sure ActiveAd (requiring silverlight) will be here soon.
To be pedantic, it varies by state. In California, there are doctors who do nothing but sell weed prescriptions. In most states, it's still illegal.
In the meantime, Google is putting together a Facebook killer. And the killer feature will be that your Mafia Wars and Farmville accounts will transfer over to this new social network, Google Me.
Orkut much?
GNASH lags behind for the same reason HURD lags behind.
The point isn't that people post less than accurate pictures (though they do), the point is that crazy stalkers will track you down for a "surprise hookup". Fortunately, you can make the slashdot idle section if you update your facebook status to "is being raped by a crazy stalker".
Tip: they've been working on it since 2003 or so. You need to get a new calendar.
If you're accusing him of being a homo, he's not. A little bi-curious maybe, but he definitely likes tha vag.
My city police set up a number for SMS messaging emergencies. They cancelled it after three weeks: too many dick-pics, goatses, and not a single legitimate emergency.
Sounds like the Catholic church a few hundred years ago. "You can't read the bible, we must tell you what's in it."
How is that better than perl, python, javascript, ruby, php, (ok not php), or any other interpreted language with an eval() function?
In 1880~1900, black/white photographs could be sent to Germany (the China of the time) to be hand colorized. Of course, they didn't always get the colors right due to cultural differences.
write a letter of resignation.
A buddy of mine lost his cock and balls (motorcycle accident) but had a pretty fat settlement check. He turned into a fan of pegging/rimming/anal play.
The same reason "turkey club" won the battle vs "paying a hobo to shit on a piece of bread".
I'm aware that Opera has an ad-revenue deal with Google (as do Apple/Safari). However, Opera's market share hovers around 2% vs 50% for firefox. As of a couple years ago (I didn't search too hard for more recent numbers), Mozilla had $75 million in annual revenue with ~90% coming from google. That puts Opera's annual google revenue at 2-3 million. Enough to keep up with IE, Firefox, WebKit, V8? ehh.
Opera used to cost money. Then they switched to an ad-supported shareware model (no ads if you paid). Then they went free (as on $0) on the desktop and brought in the revenue by licensing to mobile phones, consoles, etc. That worked when smartphones were neglected and the only other option was IE mobile. But these days, WebKit is used by (or will be used by) pretty much everyone except Microsoft (who are on the verge of irrelevance). And Mozilla might, someday, gain traction with their mobile browser.
Who is going to pay for Opera when they can use WebKit or Fennec for free? They don't have the google ad revenue that Mozilla has. They don't have a sugar daddy like IE or WebKit.
It doesn't matter how good their browser is, their business model is dead and their days are numbered.
use your mad php/css/html/js skillz to make a website where people can find projects that need help.
Reminds me of the slashdot <a onhover=".."> bug. It was a while back (2000-2002 era?) but inline javascript wasn't filtered from a tags. The first exploit (that I saw, anyhow) simply used DHTML (as it was then known) to add (paraphrasing) "I can't believe this hasn't been fixed" to the post. (which took about 5 minutes given the speed of computers, javascript, and dom manipulation). About 30 seconds later, redirects to porn, last measure, etc appeared. Slashdot's initial response was to mod them down to -5 and then deleting them.