The PS3 and iPhone both contain more parts in cost than their retail price reflects. So, when something is sold at a loss you can expect there to be some form of vendor lock-in in order for the add-on products to make back the money lost.
If you want an open computer, buy the parts and build it yourself. You'll pay a whole lot more than $300 for it.
The thing about the one-SKU iPhone vs. all the Android implementations is that Apple can maintain tight standards for the iPhone, while Google's control over what hardware is used is not possible... some lame products have come out and that soils the reputation of the good ones. Cheapest parts are often inferior to the most desirable parts.
Apple has always been about tight control, meanwhile Google was built on and seems to love open source. I think there's room for both types in this world.
Playbook reader software can be shared through the app store, each team would want the security around the "book" which would be a data file. Think Kindle App, and how that is useless unless you have a Kindle-formatted book.
WiFi is mostly able to be secured anyway. Just use WPA2 encryption, and only let the plays be loaded at the already authorized-personnel-only areas so a WiFi hacker would have to cross over a "What are you doing here anyway?" problem.
To break WiFi you have to capture a lot of packets, which means the hacker has to have some sort of radio of their own in the WiFi range for a good amount of time. It's not as easy as TV makes it look.
Yep, it's all about the ad dollars. The "Motorola" microphone you see the coaches wear is actually not made by the company, and made to be bigger than it has to be so the logo would fit, you see much smaller microphones being used by other people. Motorola makes radio systems, but to leave the logo only on the transmitter wouldn't make it seen.
Yeah, either the younger Google execs are going to take over, or they're going to need to find some exec talent among the younger MS staff... BillG is just a figurehead spending his wealth rather than earning more. Looks like the end of an era.
There seems to be a lot of AJAX-y special effects going on where what used to be a new page is now a pop-out form for replies and such. Yep, requires a heavier web browser and such. Client-sever computing is now relying heavier on the client.
Yep, and that's the reason why we have ISP DNS, Google's 8.8.8.8 offering and OpenDNS all offering lower-tier servers so if you want to know where Google.com went, you can ask Google.
Most of the DNS fouls such as taking all NXDOMAINs and returning a "search portal" are done by the low-level guys, not ICANN.
The ROOT domain system is just that, it's trusted because well, if we didn't trust somebody at #1 this whole thing wouldn't work. You can't have a competing.com,.net,.org registry... sure, you could declare your own TLD and be root of that but, well, we don't trust you as much as we trust ICANN because, well, they've been root for a while now and haven't blown it that badly.
The "duet with Eminem" was actually a illegal use of parts of her song "Thank You" by the rapper. Then when it was explained how much cash she could make and how good it'd be for her, she agreed to sanction it and perform with him.
A NASA astronaut you've never heard of is suing a signer you've never heard of. We've launched investigations into both of these people and will try to explain who they are. Your Late Local News is next.
Google has been clear they've never sold search position, PageRank is their secret sauce for making search as good as it is, and they don't corrupt it with ads. They do, however, allow content-targeted ads to appear next to the search results but have always been clear to label what's an ad and what's content on the page.
Twitter's the same way. Every type of paid ad they've allowed gets marked as "promoted" which is their word for "sponsored" or "They paid to be next to the free content we just gave you."
Okay, this is a trend that Slashdot has been a little slow to adopt so it's understandable the editors don't understand it fully.
Application Programmer Interfaces or APIs for short is a concept on the web that means sites with large databases make most of their data available to programmers in machine-friendly requests and answers. Facebook and Myspace do this, so does Google and Yahoo!. There's several huge directories of all the APIs that are out there, and even companies such as The Mashery that help companies make their data available via APIs.
There's presently no Slashdot API but there really should be. Slashdot supports OpenID logins, but not the outbound usage of Slashdot user accounts on other sites. Really not keeping up with the times.
So, now that I've explained that concept, here's the question: How is Twitter going to sell follower info when it's easy enough to create free API requests that will return any recent tweet that mentioned whatever the programmer is interested in finding out about, complete with the username so the program can DM, @reply or retweet right away or forward the tweet to a human for review.
Companies that actively use Twitter the right way don't have to pay a cent to Twitter, the API is free. Only if you're clueless or not interesting enough do you have to pay for your promoted topic... just like those who do the web right get free search traffic from Google without needing AdWords. More or less, this new service translates to "We'll write your API app to find users likely to be interested in hearing from you so you don't have to." Uhm, isn't that also a fancy way of saying "your followers list"?
No, it's more logical to ban market orders and go limit orders only.
The root cause wasn't stop losses being triggered, it was a crazy player willing to sell something tied to the S&P 500 at near-zero prices. Had these market orders been timed further apart, this would have had the desired effect. Had these had been limit orders, a sensible limit would have stopped the order until reasonable buyers showed up.
And this is why we give the SEC the power to bust trades. Nobody was hurt, we just have an incident on the record to discuss how to keep from happening again.
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The PS3 and iPhone both contain more parts in cost than their retail price reflects. So, when something is sold at a loss you can expect there to be some form of vendor lock-in in order for the add-on products to make back the money lost.
If you want an open computer, buy the parts and build it yourself. You'll pay a whole lot more than $300 for it.
The thing about the one-SKU iPhone vs. all the Android implementations is that Apple can maintain tight standards for the iPhone, while Google's control over what hardware is used is not possible... some lame products have come out and that soils the reputation of the good ones. Cheapest parts are often inferior to the most desirable parts.
Apple has always been about tight control, meanwhile Google was built on and seems to love open source. I think there's room for both types in this world.
Kindle can't show animation or videos of the play being run... which would be useful in this case.
Playbook reader software can be shared through the app store, each team would want the security around the "book" which would be a data file. Think Kindle App, and how that is useless unless you have a Kindle-formatted book.
It's also a copy for every player on the roster, not just the coaches. That puts the average size closer to 100 pages a reader.
WiFi is mostly able to be secured anyway. Just use WPA2 encryption, and only let the plays be loaded at the already authorized-personnel-only areas so a WiFi hacker would have to cross over a "What are you doing here anyway?" problem.
To break WiFi you have to capture a lot of packets, which means the hacker has to have some sort of radio of their own in the WiFi range for a good amount of time. It's not as easy as TV makes it look.
Yep, it's all about the ad dollars. The "Motorola" microphone you see the coaches wear is actually not made by the company, and made to be bigger than it has to be so the logo would fit, you see much smaller microphones being used by other people. Motorola makes radio systems, but to leave the logo only on the transmitter wouldn't make it seen.
Yeah, either the younger Google execs are going to take over, or they're going to need to find some exec talent among the younger MS staff... BillG is just a figurehead spending his wealth rather than earning more. Looks like the end of an era.
Try filling them in yourself. They may have changed field variable names and Firefox will pick up soon enough.
There seems to be a lot of AJAX-y special effects going on where what used to be a new page is now a pop-out form for replies and such. Yep, requires a heavier web browser and such. Client-sever computing is now relying heavier on the client.
This is isn't just the Slashdot redesign as it's also the growth in pixel density over time. We're not looking at many 800x600 monitors these days.
I'm not gay, and you wouldn't believe the list of beautiful women who offered me sexual access that I turned down.
How Boring...
Then the discovery of the scam would be delayed by the hour and the "golden hour" would just be delayed.
Are the bits named Win, Place, and Show?
ICANN is a government-funded project... you have to ask where all competitors get their funding from.
Yep, and that's the reason why we have ISP DNS, Google's 8.8.8.8 offering and OpenDNS all offering lower-tier servers so if you want to know where Google.com went, you can ask Google. Most of the DNS fouls such as taking all NXDOMAINs and returning a "search portal" are done by the low-level guys, not ICANN.
ICANN declares man loser, loser vows to replace ICANN. Details at 11, or at 10 on that UHF station we co-own.
The ROOT domain system is just that, it's trusted because well, if we didn't trust somebody at #1 this whole thing wouldn't work. You can't have a competing .com, .net, .org registry... sure, you could declare your own TLD and be root of that but, well, we don't trust you as much as we trust ICANN because, well, they've been root for a while now and haven't blown it that badly.
The "duet with Eminem" was actually a illegal use of parts of her song "Thank You" by the rapper. Then when it was explained how much cash she could make and how good it'd be for her, she agreed to sanction it and perform with him.
Oh, I'm actually a fan of Dido ever since I saw her perform on Kilborn's Late Late Show in the early 2000s... just being so interfered with the joke.
A NASA astronaut you've never heard of is suing a signer you've never heard of. We've launched investigations into both of these people and will try to explain who they are. Your Late Local News is next.
Google has been clear they've never sold search position, PageRank is their secret sauce for making search as good as it is, and they don't corrupt it with ads. They do, however, allow content-targeted ads to appear next to the search results but have always been clear to label what's an ad and what's content on the page.
Twitter's the same way. Every type of paid ad they've allowed gets marked as "promoted" which is their word for "sponsored" or "They paid to be next to the free content we just gave you."
Okay, this is a trend that Slashdot has been a little slow to adopt so it's understandable the editors don't understand it fully.
Application Programmer Interfaces or APIs for short is a concept on the web that means sites with large databases make most of their data available to programmers in machine-friendly requests and answers. Facebook and Myspace do this, so does Google and Yahoo!. There's several huge directories of all the APIs that are out there, and even companies such as The Mashery that help companies make their data available via APIs.
There's presently no Slashdot API but there really should be. Slashdot supports OpenID logins, but not the outbound usage of Slashdot user accounts on other sites. Really not keeping up with the times.
So, now that I've explained that concept, here's the question: How is Twitter going to sell follower info when it's easy enough to create free API requests that will return any recent tweet that mentioned whatever the programmer is interested in finding out about, complete with the username so the program can DM, @reply or retweet right away or forward the tweet to a human for review.
Companies that actively use Twitter the right way don't have to pay a cent to Twitter, the API is free. Only if you're clueless or not interesting enough do you have to pay for your promoted topic... just like those who do the web right get free search traffic from Google without needing AdWords. More or less, this new service translates to "We'll write your API app to find users likely to be interested in hearing from you so you don't have to." Uhm, isn't that also a fancy way of saying "your followers list"?
No, it's more logical to ban market orders and go limit orders only.
The root cause wasn't stop losses being triggered, it was a crazy player willing to sell something tied to the S&P 500 at near-zero prices. Had these market orders been timed further apart, this would have had the desired effect. Had these had been limit orders, a sensible limit would have stopped the order until reasonable buyers showed up.
And this is why we give the SEC the power to bust trades. Nobody was hurt, we just have an incident on the record to discuss how to keep from happening again.