Q: What is the difference between MP3.com and Download.com Music?
A: Download.com Music will be a free artist upload and download site that is part of Download.com. We are currently accepting submissions for this forthcoming site, which is launching in mid-April. MP3.com will evolve into a comprehensive information and discovery site for music fans, helping them enjoy the exciting world of digital music to the fullest.
Is it me only or do both the sites sound like the same thing?
Look the company up, if it is public (traded on NASDAQ or whatever) you can find their quarterly reports and get a feel for their cashflow. If they are burning $5M a quarter on income of $1.3M a quarter, they are going to burn out.
Not true. If the company is a startup, they are probably taking time to get things up and running.
Six months is what they will take to test? I find it hard to digest. What are they building a space shuttle? Assuming that they have completed internal testing six months is a very very long period to do beta tests.
The electronic machines were last used in elections to four different state goverments in december of 2003. Taking advantage of the fact that many voters in remote areas were illiterate and were using the electronic machines for the first time, the election volunteers instructed them to vote for a particular party only, explaining that, that is the only button that works on the machine.
Now the interesting fact is that most of these volunteers were government employees and they were pissed off at the outgoing government for withholding their bonuses and they had a score to settle with them.
So they instructed the poor illterate voters to vote for the rival party!
I'm quite sure that there would be many such intances in this election of politicians exploting people's ignorance and getting them to vote for some party for which they might not have wanted to vote.
.. if you bring management skills to the table you will be better off. The biggest challenge today is to manage projects across time-zones and successfully coordinating between the teams in US and India. If you can demonstrate that you can work in such an environment and can actually manage the tasks also you will be in high demand.
.. switch to broadband if they feel they don't need it? I wouldn't switch to a porsche if I'm happy with my Chevy for daily commuting unless I want a jazzy car with high performace.
So why would a user switch to broadband for just checking emails and browsing some websites if this can be done reasonably well using dial-up?
He did. He mentions that it is a generic on-board sound card that comes with the Intel chipset. He also mentions that it is one of the latest chipset. Now just put both these statements together and you can pretty much narrow down the field to a few sound cards.
Wouldn't a Linux or *BSD solution, ultimately, be what they should have gone with?
Err.. What is Mac OSX based on again? IMHO this is a fantastic decision. It helps them transisition easily as everything is still the same sort of GUI as Windows but much better. And if someone wants to goto command line and customize stuff and have a network class OS which is easily admistered from a central place without the bother of security holes, you have BSD on which MacOS X is based.
We are now seeing the fruits of Apple's decision to move to a BSD platform. As already mentioned sometime back, even the developers and power users and moving to the Apple platform. Apple has the best of both worlds, Excellent GUI, great power user functionality.
..The length of your application was shorter than the palm of the examiner. Yes that's right! You are not dreaming
From the article Many examiners are taught the "one palm rule," whereby if the independent claim is shorter than the palm of their hand, they should reject, reject, reject.
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A spatial file manager is a significantly different concept from a browser-based file manager that lets you "browse" between folders on the filesystem in the same window, so it is important to realize that if you are accustomed to a browser-based file manager, there may be a learning curve, requiring an adjustment period before becoming adjusted to the new Nautilus.
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How do expect grandma to use it if it requires a learning curve for a normal user. For grandma the learning curve should be flat.
I'm not so sure of this being easier for grandma to use and work with every day.
The only requirement to implement the SURBL is a plugin on your MTA such as spamassassin that can parse the body of each email.
Anything which requires extra software on the MTA or client side is not a simple requirement as it cannotn be implemented universally. This is doomed to fail.
If popularity breeds vulnerability, Apache should have far more vulnerabilities than IIS. It doesn't
I would disagree on that. Popularity is directly propotional to vulnerability on desktop systems. You don't find "joe users" installing apache or IIS, they are usually sysads who are good at what they do.
...it's popularity. The more popular an OS gets, more script kiddies will target that OS as that is where they can do maximum damage.
The trick to usability is to have a power interface which allows you to change everything and anything in the system and have a newbie interface which allows you to customize to your hearts content but not change the underlying core components. Because what most "joe users" want is modifying the look and feel of their desktop and not going into changing network settings or CPU settings. If they want that and can do that I think they are already ready for the power interface.
Daksh is one of the biggest call center operations company in India. It was an early mover and has built up a significant repository of top clients in US. Infact there is an army of employees working for them and you can see many of their ads in the local newspapers every week for hiring new people. Interesting fact is that Citigroup and General Atlantic Partners and Actis hold 2/3rd of the equity in the company. This deal is going to make the Chief Executive and some employees in Daksh and the equity companies millionaire's overnight. Infact they recently opened a center in Philippines so it gives IBM the foot print in India as well as Philippines. IBM snatched a big one here!
Slashdot Mirror
OK, most /.ers cannot afford the Veyron
I have a Veyron you insensitive clod!
Yup that's true
From music.download.com's FAQ
Q: What is the difference between MP3.com and Download.com Music?
A: Download.com Music will be a free artist upload and download site that is part of Download.com. We are currently accepting submissions for this forthcoming site, which is launching in mid-April. MP3.com will evolve into a comprehensive information and discovery site for music fans, helping them enjoy the exciting world of digital music to the fullest.
Is it me only or do both the sites sound like the same thing?
Look the company up, if it is public (traded on NASDAQ or whatever) you can find their quarterly reports and get a feel for their cashflow. If they are burning $5M a quarter on income of $1.3M a quarter, they are going to burn out.
Not true. If the company is a startup, they are probably taking time to get things up and running.
Get a camera which supports adding additional lenses.
Then get a convertor and a better zoom lens
My Canon A80 supports that.
Check out lensmateonline.com for a choice of lenses and addons.
and how do you get an account? :p
Six months is what they will take to test? I find it hard to digest. What are they building a space shuttle? Assuming that they have completed internal testing six months is a very very long period to do beta tests.
:(
I have to wait six months to get an account
exactly what is IBM trying to accomplish by sending subpoenas to all these companies. How will this help their case against SCO?
The electronic machines were last used in elections to four different state goverments in december of 2003. Taking advantage of the fact that many voters in remote areas were illiterate and were using the electronic machines for the first time, the election volunteers instructed them to vote for a particular party only, explaining that, that is the only button that works on the machine.
Now the interesting fact is that most of these volunteers were government employees and they were pissed off at the outgoing government for withholding their bonuses and they had a score to settle with them.
So they instructed the poor illterate voters to vote for the rival party!
I'm quite sure that there would be many such intances in this election of politicians exploting people's ignorance and getting them to vote for some party for which they might not have wanted to vote.
.. if you bring management skills to the table you will be better off. The biggest challenge today is to manage projects across time-zones and successfully coordinating between the teams in US and India. If you can demonstrate that you can work in such an environment and can actually manage the tasks also you will be in high demand.
.. switch to broadband if they feel they don't need it? I wouldn't switch to a porsche if I'm happy with my Chevy for daily commuting unless I want a jazzy car with high performace.
So why would a user switch to broadband for just checking emails and browsing some websites if this can be done reasonably well using dial-up?
Linux is doomend anyway if we have to run Symantec AV on it someday.
He did. He mentions that it is a generic on-board sound card that comes with the Intel chipset. He also mentions that it is one of the latest chipset. Now just put both these statements together and you can pretty much narrow down the field to a few sound cards.
Wouldn't a Linux or *BSD solution, ultimately, be what they should have gone with?
Err.. What is Mac OSX based on again? IMHO this is a fantastic decision. It helps them transisition easily as everything is still the same sort of GUI as Windows but much better. And if someone wants to goto command line and customize stuff and have a network class OS which is easily admistered from a central place without the bother of security holes, you have BSD on which MacOS X is based.
We are now seeing the fruits of Apple's decision to move to a BSD platform. As already mentioned sometime back, even the developers and power users and moving to the Apple platform. Apple has the best of both worlds, Excellent GUI, great power user functionality.
..The length of your application was shorter than the palm of the examiner. Yes that's right! You are not dreaming
From the article
Many examiners are taught the "one palm rule," whereby if the independent claim is shorter than the palm of their hand, they should reject, reject, reject.
Quote
A spatial file manager is a significantly different concept from a browser-based file manager that lets you "browse" between folders on the filesystem in the same window, so it is important to realize that if you are accustomed to a browser-based file manager, there may be a learning curve, requiring an adjustment period before becoming adjusted to the new Nautilus.
Unqoute
How do expect grandma to use it if it requires a learning curve for a normal user. For grandma the learning curve should be flat.
I'm not so sure of this being easier for grandma to use and work with every day.
From the article...
the companies have earned at least $23 million by facilitating scams
That speaks for itself
The deaf people with computers
..that's easy for you to say. What about the thousands of deaf people without computers? No. Outright suspension isn't going to solve this problem.
..two posts and it's slasdotted. Here is the Google Cache.
On second thought, it is coming from the government. So it must be for the best..
Yeah right. Which planet are you from again?
The only requirement to implement the SURBL is a plugin on your MTA such as spamassassin that can parse the body of each email.
Anything which requires extra software on the MTA or client side is not a simple requirement as it cannotn be implemented universally. This is doomed to fail.
If popularity breeds vulnerability, Apache should have far more vulnerabilities than IIS. It doesn't
I would disagree on that. Popularity is directly propotional to vulnerability on desktop systems. You don't find "joe users" installing apache or IIS, they are usually sysads who are good at what they do.
...it's popularity. The more popular an OS gets, more script kiddies will target that OS as that is where they can do maximum damage.
The trick to usability is to have a power interface which allows you to change everything and anything in the system and have a newbie interface which allows you to customize to your hearts content but not change the underlying core components. Because what most "joe users" want is modifying the look and feel of their desktop and not going into changing network settings or CPU settings. If they want that and can do that I think they are already ready for the power interface.
...allowed to post in this thread? Yeah mod me down, I'm a troll!
talk like this chimp? I don't think so.
Daksh is one of the biggest call center operations company in India. It was an early mover and has built up a significant repository of top clients in US. Infact there is an army of employees working for them and you can see many of their ads in the local newspapers every week for hiring new people. Interesting fact is that Citigroup and General Atlantic Partners and Actis hold 2/3rd of the equity in the company. This deal is going to make the Chief Executive and some employees in Daksh and the equity companies millionaire's overnight. Infact they recently opened a center in Philippines so it gives IBM the foot print in India as well as Philippines. IBM snatched a big one here!