You use a telephone line? Pfff... I use black and white pidgeons (black for ones, white for zeros) and have them fly back and forth between my home and Slashdot's headquarters. It took me six months to send this message.
Alternatively, make a bookmark for http://a9.com/%s , right-click on the bookmark to edit its properties, and give a keyword like "a" or "a9". Then just type "a searchterm" in the address bar to search.
On their "what's cool" page, they say you can just hover your cursor over the 'site info' button below search results to see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox).
So I searched for Windows and hovered over the site info for the Internet Explorer Home Page (the second result), and the bubble that pops up says:
People who visit this page also visit:
mozilla.org
The Gnome DOM Engine
Adobe's SVG Viewer
So people are looking for IE but turn to Mozilla instead? Are people searching for "web browser" and clicking on Mozilla out of interest?
Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.
Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.
I think a lot of people talk loud because they think they need to to be heard. When you first get a cell phone, you think you need to talk louder because the phone seems weak -- how can something so small transmit a signal miles away? It's especially hard to talk soft when you make your first nationwide call, especially if it's between two cell phones.
After a short while I learned I could mumble under my breath and people could hear me fine. My girlfriend and family are not at all like the pompous assholes described in this thread, but they all talked loud until I kept telling them to quiet down. You can pretty much whisper into a phone and the other person can hear you.
I can just as easily send a "sneaky" link to friends or post it elsewhere. If the NY Times is unsatisfied with their current reg system, they should retool it and not allow partner links.
I prefer to load them and then hide them. That way it's just the same as if I'd stuck bits of paper on my screen in the right places. Never actually loading them in the first place feels immoral somehow...
What's immoral is using up the server's bandwidth but not giving anything back (i.e., viewing the ad) in return. If you're not gonna look at the ad, don't make the server send it. If a server notices that nobody loads ads, they can find a new business plan. If they server ads just fine but nobody sees them, they're being cheated.
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As I said, Netflix has been featured on Slashdot before. I wasn't talking about 4-5 billion people, I was talking about non-American Slashdot readers. I know plenty about non-American businesses that are reported here.
Netflix has been on Slashdot a couple times before, and it's been a popular online business for years. And, as someone else pointed out, Slashdot is a predominantly American site. iTunes is U.S.-only, but you know what that is, right?
It's an online DVD rental system -- you pick out DVDs to rent, they mail them to you. You can keep them as long as you want, no late fees -- but you can only have three checked out at a time. $20/month, they pay for shipping both ways (USPS first class). Huge selection, lots of hard to find movies, in ~20 warehouses around the U.S.
A new version of Knoppix with the 2.6 kernel will be out soon. It's a live CD based on Debian so you can use that to poke around for a bit and see if you like the kernel.
We'll have guys writing p2p applications on top of this which let you automatically find the warez you need, then automatically trigger a forward from the mail account where the file is located.
This was done on AOL in '95/'96. Someone would run a bot in a chatroom, you'd type " getlist" or something and it would email you list of files they had, then you'd type " file007" (or whatever) in the chat room and an email with the file attached would be immediately sent to you. The pirate didn't have any of the files on his PC necessarily, just attached to emails, which were constantly forwarded around. It was excellent for people on dialup modems (only upload the file once and send it to hundreds of people).
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Went to see LotR, and thats the last movie I see myself paying for in theatres for a long time.
No kidding. I've got a few free movie passes laying around, but I can't find a movie that's worth driving through the mall's traffic, getting there early, waiting in line, dealing with obnoxious people, and sitting through 20 minutes of ads.
How sad is it that even with free admission I don't want to go to the movie theatre?
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You use a telephone line? Pfff... I use black and white pidgeons (black for ones, white for zeros) and have them fly back and forth between my home and Slashdot's headquarters. It took me six months to send this message.
Alternatively, make a bookmark for http://a9.com/%s , right-click on the bookmark to edit its properties, and give a keyword like "a" or "a9". Then just type "a searchterm" in the address bar to search.
So I searched for Windows and hovered over the site info for the Internet Explorer Home Page (the second result), and the bubble that pops up says:
So people are looking for IE but turn to Mozilla instead? Are people searching for "web browser" and clicking on Mozilla out of interest?Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.
Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.
After a short while I learned I could mumble under my breath and people could hear me fine. My girlfriend and family are not at all like the pompous assholes described in this thread, but they all talked loud until I kept telling them to quiet down. You can pretty much whisper into a phone and the other person can hear you.
I can just as easily send a "sneaky" link to friends or post it elsewhere. If the NY Times is unsatisfied with their current reg system, they should retool it and not allow partner links.
Hey no problem, glad I could be of service.
Doh! That should read: Bit prefixes go by 1000, or 10^3.
That's gigabyte. Bit prefixes go by 1000 (10^2), byte prefixes go by 2^10.
Wow, I've been reading Slashdot for years and always thought it was the server hiccuping as it generated the page... That explains so much
I'm pretty sure that's the wors-- No, I'm positive that's the worst SCO joke to date.
I'm sorry for those who've already seen it, and even more sorry for those partaking for the first time.
It plays Real files, and if you download the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, everything else too (Quicktime, Divx, Ogg, etc.).
It also includes Media Player Classic, which is a very nice player that picks up where Windows Media Player 6 left off.
As I said, Netflix has been featured on Slashdot before. I wasn't talking about 4-5 billion people, I was talking about non-American Slashdot readers. I know plenty about non-American businesses that are reported here.
Netflix has been on Slashdot a couple times before, and it's been a popular online business for years. And, as someone else pointed out, Slashdot is a predominantly American site. iTunes is U.S.-only, but you know what that is, right?
It's an online DVD rental system -- you pick out DVDs to rent, they mail them to you. You can keep them as long as you want, no late fees -- but you can only have three checked out at a time. $20/month, they pay for shipping both ways (USPS first class). Huge selection, lots of hard to find movies, in ~20 warehouses around the U.S.
http://www.oldversion.com/
"Look how nice and neat the Jones' yard is! [shuffles in front of the TV to block your view of the big game] Why doesn't ours look like that?!"
A new version of Knoppix with the 2.6 kernel will be out soon. It's a live CD based on Debian so you can use that to poke around for a bit and see if you like the kernel.
How sad is it that even with free admission I don't want to go to the movie theatre?