I typed several of the leading search terms (you know what they are, and you know they're all pr0n related) and they all return 0 hits.
However, the "I am feeling lucky" button changes. Sometimes it says "I am feeling lucky", sometimes it says "I am feeling playful", and sometimes it says "I am feeling nostalgic". Each of these buttons takes you to a different adult site.
So, booble is more of a portal than a search engine.
Now, we know that we can have software called "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" without the car industry dropping engine blocks on us. However, I think "portal" and "search engine" are close enough, in the eyes of the courts and lawyers, for this to be trademark infringement (after all, they thought the Phoenix browser infringed on Phoenix BIOS!)
Oh I have no problem with tipping. But in the US, you're going to tip 15-18% anyway, so making the diner compute the tip is a formality. It would be more efficient to just roll it in.
This is quite odd, as I remember several months ago when Red Hat Linux became Fedora the site http://fedora.redhat.com had a note saying "We thank Cornell University and the University of Virginia for their cooperation in letting us use the Fedora name"
I cannot find that page now. Does anyone have an archive.org link?
"Linux is not ready for the home user. If we push Linux for the home user right now, people are going to buy it, install it, not be able to get something to work, have a bad experience, and all that will do is generate lots of bad PR which will take forever to overcome"
And before you flood me with "I (or someone within degree one separation of me) use USB/Digital Camera/Scanner/Email/Office apps/Flashplayer just fine under Linux", remember that you are reading Slashdot, and therefore you are not the average home user.
I heard someone say that with this Red Hat is trying to be more like Debian. What does this mean? What advantage(s) of Debian is Red Hat hoping to replicate by doing this? I do not run Debian and have very little knowledge of that distro
This is not new. ENIAC was built to compute artillery tables. Radar, synthetic rubber, and penicillin were all invented (or developed to their modern forms) during World War II. One of the earliest uses for transistors was for on-board guidance on the Minuteman missiles. The Internet came out of a research project to build a communication network which can withstand a nuclear attack.
The military can afford to spend large amounts of money on R&D without any immediate ROI, this lets them fund research corporations would never touch.
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs, and swear off CD purchases for life.
So, wait, your answer is to watch more movies? How does that have anything to do with music?
His solution is to use an Imperfect Substitute for CDs. Music and movies are both entertainment. Granted, they are not the same since you can't watch a DVD while driving/working, hence the term "Imperfect Substitute"
You would think that since intellectual property protection is so important to Microsoft, they would be more cautious about insuring that nothing they shipped infringed any patents instead of continuing to get caught in these embarassing lawsuits.
I have no mod points today, so +1 funny, intentional or not
However, many call centers are software support. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to put linux on a machine when you are supporting Windows or a Windows application.
You're confusing "customer support" with debugging. The first round of customer support only records the symptoms of the problem into a database and offers some known solutions (make sure X is installed, reboot your computer, powercycle your cable modem, etc). Only when all else fails do they try to reproduce your problem on an in-house system, and only for those computers would the OS matter.
It is still ironic to have a call center for a Windows app be running Linux...
Um, Pac Bell Park has actually been a pitchers park. Giants only hit 72 out of their 198 HRs there last year. (see here: play with the multiselect box
That being said, the rulebook does not say that the strike zone shall be whatever the umpires say so long as it is consistent, the rulebook defines the strike zone, and there is nothing wrong with bringing a machine in to enforce the rules.
First, Microsoft should dump all money losing divisions.
I can make a great argument that Microsoft should plow MORE money into these divisions, move their business into areas where Open Source has not had a foothold.
Last I checked, Open Source "Content" (songs, articles, videos) are not as threatening as Open Source Software, and in the areas of TabletPC and Xbox, Microsoft has control of hardware and can use that to lock people out (apologies to Xbox hackers here).
They are losing money for now, but it is okay to lose money in the beginning if you can make it up later, especially if you have 40 billion dollars to sit on.
The real purpose of product activation is to stop friends and family from sharing copies. If Microsoft's software was lower in price, (see my first point) people would simply buy their own copy.
In other words, Product Activation forces all your friends and family to give money to MSFT at MSFT prices. The end result is that your family gives more money to them, making this effectively a price increase in disguise. In other words, they're using the monopoly status to charge any price they feel like, now that they no longer have the same monopoly, they should respond by lowering prices.
Fourth, stop with those outrageous deals to stop Linux. You know the ones, when India, China, or Germany wants to switch to open source, Microsoft bends over backwards to give practically free software. This totally pisses off customers paying way too much via software the draconian deals imposed in my third point. Secondly, it gives them an incentive to look into switching to Linux.
Once again, squashing competition is to their advantage. Corporations exist to make money, not to play nicely. However, people are catching on to the fact that if you want discounts and lots of free MSFT software, all you have to do is suggest that you're thinking about possibly switching.
I am not an accountant, but lets cook some books:
- Ideal situation: 1 million/week@99 cents/day = 52 million
- lets say between discounts for buying as album (does such a thing exist in this service? I inferred its existence from comments read here) and drop-offs you lose 75% --> 13 million
- Studios get 2/3 of rest --> 4.5 million
- 1/3 of rest goes to development, bandwidth, and other "Apple Costs" -> 3 million
Thats still 15% of last years income, and I think I was erring on the side of pessimism.
Isn't the classic scheduling algorithm in Unix similiar to this, where processes which use the CPU a lot will be slowly penalized so that other processes will not be starved?
Maybe a solution will be to have a dutch auction for movies: the highest bidder for a given title-instance gets it.
How is this different from IBM supplying OS/390, AIX, and Linux? They are just taking a page from IBM's playbook.
The customers who want HPUX will buy HPUX. The customers who want Linux would buy Linux. For the time being, customers use these OSes for different things.
Slashdot Mirror
Question:
Is Firefox 0.8 based on Mozilla 1.6 or 1.4?
Thanks!
I typed several of the leading search terms (you know what they are, and you know they're all pr0n related) and they all return 0 hits.
However, the "I am feeling lucky" button changes. Sometimes it says "I am feeling lucky", sometimes it says "I am feeling playful", and sometimes it says "I am feeling nostalgic". Each of these buttons takes you to a different adult site.
So, booble is more of a portal than a search engine.
Now, we know that we can have software called "Firebird" and "Thunderbird" without the car industry dropping engine blocks on us. However, I think "portal" and "search engine" are close enough, in the eyes of the courts and lawyers, for this to be trademark infringement (after all, they thought the Phoenix browser infringed on Phoenix BIOS!)
Last I checked, the RIAA was a group, not a law passed by the gubmint
Maybe this would help?
The Spammer's Compendium
Oh I have no problem with tipping. But in the US, you're going to tip 15-18% anyway, so making the diner compute the tip is a formality. It would be more efficient to just roll it in.
Ever go out for dinner, order an entree, and come up a few bucks short because of tax, tip, charges for water, blah blah blah?
Its ridiculous. Most other countries (such as Japan) have a "What You See is What You Pay" system, tax and tip rolled in.
This is quite odd, as I remember several months ago when Red Hat Linux became Fedora the site http://fedora.redhat.com had a note saying "We thank Cornell University and the University of Virginia for their cooperation in letting us use the Fedora name"
I cannot find that page now. Does anyone have an archive.org link?
has anyone actually clicked on the link saying mortgage spam is $50?
/. posting which was modded as 50% troll.
The link goes to a
A: you want to hit a "dotcom" site-- one where the site actively generates money for the company, since thats where it hits them the hardest
B: Gambling sites, as well as pr0n, makes money
C: I imagine eBay/Amazon are too big to knuckle under these people, or have the bandwidth to deal with them
Its called KPatience, and its better than Solitaire (more game variants, hints, and autoplay)
The way I read his statement was this:
"Linux is not ready for the home user. If we push Linux for the home user right now, people are going to buy it, install it, not be able to get something to work, have a bad experience, and all that will do is generate lots of bad PR which will take forever to overcome"
And before you flood me with "I (or someone within degree one separation of me) use USB/Digital Camera/Scanner/Email/Office apps/Flashplayer just fine under Linux", remember that you are reading Slashdot, and therefore you are not the average home user.
Quick question.
I heard someone say that with this Red Hat is trying to be more like Debian. What does this mean? What advantage(s) of Debian is Red Hat hoping to replicate by doing this? I do not run Debian and have very little knowledge of that distro
This is not new. ENIAC was built to compute artillery tables. Radar, synthetic rubber, and penicillin were all invented (or developed to their modern forms) during World War II. One of the earliest uses for transistors was for on-board guidance on the Minuteman missiles. The Internet came out of a research project to build a communication network which can withstand a nuclear attack.
The military can afford to spend large amounts of money on R&D without any immediate ROI, this lets them fund research corporations would never touch.
His solution is to use an Imperfect Substitute for CDs. Music and movies are both entertainment. Granted, they are not the same since you can't watch a DVD while driving/working, hence the term "Imperfect Substitute"
I have no mod points today, so +1 funny, intentional or not
Red Hat has 90 million in cash and short terms, hardly "poor".
http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/r/rhat_qb.html
You're confusing "customer support" with debugging. The first round of customer support only records the symptoms of the problem into a database and offers some known solutions (make sure X is installed, reboot your computer, powercycle your cable modem, etc). Only when all else fails do they try to reproduce your problem on an in-house system, and only for those computers would the OS matter.
It is still ironic to have a call center for a Windows app be running Linux...
Um, Pac Bell Park has actually been a pitchers park. Giants only hit 72 out of their 198 HRs there last year.
(see here: play with the multiselect box
That being said, the rulebook does not say that the strike zone shall be whatever the umpires say so long as it is consistent, the rulebook defines the strike zone, and there is nothing wrong with bringing a machine in to enforce the rules.
I can make a great argument that Microsoft should plow MORE money into these divisions, move their business into areas where Open Source has not had a foothold.
Last I checked, Open Source "Content" (songs, articles, videos) are not as threatening as Open Source Software, and in the areas of TabletPC and Xbox, Microsoft has control of hardware and can use that to lock people out (apologies to Xbox hackers here).
They are losing money for now, but it is okay to lose money in the beginning if you can make it up later, especially if you have 40 billion dollars to sit on.
In other words, Product Activation forces all your friends and family to give money to MSFT at MSFT prices. The end result is that your family gives more money to them, making this effectively a price increase in disguise. In other words, they're using the monopoly status to charge any price they feel like, now that they no longer have the same monopoly, they should respond by lowering prices.
Once again, squashing competition is to their advantage. Corporations exist to make money, not to play nicely. However, people are catching on to the fact that if you want discounts and lots of free MSFT software, all you have to do is suggest that you're thinking about possibly switching.
Type "eject". I was even able to make a KDE desktop icon for it.
The above works in Red Hat 8.0.94 and 9.0, but I believe the eject utility is fairly common, still, YMMV
This is probably comparing apples to oranges, but Apple's bottom line profit was ~19 million last year
I am not an accountant, but lets cook some books:
- Ideal situation: 1 million/week@99 cents/day = 52 million
- lets say between discounts for buying as album (does such a thing exist in this service? I inferred its existence from comments read here) and drop-offs you lose 75% --> 13 million
- Studios get 2/3 of rest --> 4.5 million
- 1/3 of rest goes to development, bandwidth, and other "Apple Costs" -> 3 million
Thats still 15% of last years income, and I think I was erring on the side of pessimism.
Its all a moot point, you can look it up and see that IBM's stock was around 108 3 years ago.
:)
And 1999 was four years ago
"Hilarity ensues" is a cliche/meme, much like "First!" and "3) Profit!" here. I believe it originated on fark.com but cannot be certain.
Isn't the classic scheduling algorithm in Unix similiar to this, where processes which use the CPU a lot will be slowly penalized so that other processes will not be starved?
Maybe a solution will be to have a dutch auction for movies: the highest bidder for a given title-instance gets it.
How is this different from IBM supplying OS/390,
AIX, and Linux? They are just taking a page from IBM's playbook.
The customers who want HPUX will buy HPUX. The customers who want Linux would buy Linux. For the time being, customers use these OSes for different things.