We want to help drive further awareness of the products we have available and...the plusses we have to offer,' said Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn. Thus the iPod offer 'is a way to call out what separates us from the understood leader in this particular market.
Typical marketspeak. It just has to contain a lot of "good words" like plusses, drive, offer...it doesn't have to mean anything.
It just makes them look desperate more than anything else. Come out with a superior product, and people will automatically aware of the "plusses" they have to offer.
Please note that it's my submission that shows up in the article ("GillBates0 writes..."). I just posted this because it's probably a bug in Slashcode or an error or part of the editors.
Not that I want to bicker about it, but I thought it was interesting that my submission was rejected and then made it to the front page all within 30 mins or so.
I hope they combine this technology with 3D displays. The main concern with the glass-less Sharp 3D display is that the resolution reduces by half in 3D mode, because only half the total pixels are viewed by each eye.
With 9Mpixels at their disposal, they could develop some very high quality 3D displays. Ofcourse, the total number of pixels is an arbitrary measure without mention of the display size. If they're spread over a large area, resolution will still remain low (and no, I couldn't RTFA though I wanted to).
Canada's highest court ruled, despite the fact that ISPs provide the means for piracy, they are not liable for what people download.
Just like gun manufacturers provide the means for killing but are not liable for what people do.
Can anybody explain though why the courts overturned the request from the music industry to have the ISPs turn over customer's identities? I agree that was a Good (TM) development, but it doesn't seem to fit into my gun analogy.
If the gun was used in a crime, law enforcement could force the company/dealers to turn over gun/owner/buyer information. Maybe it's because it's not law enforcement requesting the information, but deep-pocketed private parties seeking it.
Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered federal agencies in October 2001 to review more closely which documents they release. Ashcroft's policy lets officials withhold information on any "sound legal basis." Under looser policies issued in 1993, agencies could hold back information to prevent "foreseeable harm."
particularly because the policy allows withholding information due to "foreseeable harm" to the Administration, and not necessarily to the country.
Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, @02:18PM
from the or-not dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "We've all seen it. The e-mail forwarded to us from a friend who got it from a coworker whose sister's cousin's roommate's great aunt knows somebody at Microsoft. The one from Bill Gates himself offering you cash to forward the e-mail to others in order to test out their new e-mail tracking system. If you haven't received that one you've undoubtedly gotten other e-mail hoaxes offering anything from gift certificates to free computers to free airline tickets. How do these sorts of hoaxes start and who starts them? Well Jonathon Keats at Wired Magazine decided to track down the origin of the Bill Gates e-mail tracking hoax. After a few dead ends he finally located then-student Bryan Mack, who created the hoax on November 18, 1997 while at the University of Houston. In Mack's own words: 'It was just a joke between a couple friends' that eventually got out of hand. One of his buddies had gotten a make-money-fast spam and Mack said 'I can come up with something better than that.' Three minutes later, Bill Gates' email-tracing program was born. At first he just sent it to a few friends, but those friends sent it to other friends (and so on), and it didn't take long for the e-mail to transform from a joke to a full-fledged hoax."
Even if new buildings are connected to Internet, they usually don't communicate between themselves. And when it comes to water, these buildings are selfish and consume what they want without any coordination. Now, a Windows (TM) based system developed at Microsoft is using Windows services to collectively adjust water usage to variations in price and subscription levels. The system called Microsoft Flush (TM) regulates the volume of water used to flush the toilet. The amount of water used is automatically adjusted according to the subscription level of the user. Subscribers to the Professional service get to access the full power of the flush, while basic subscribers are restricted to 0.25 gallons per poop. Technology Research News reports that the system was successfully tested for two weeks on five commercial buildings. 'Beyond price, systems could be programmed to respond to changes in brand royalty and tap into the septic dump to spray criminal pirates for using illegal copies of Microsoft (TM) products.You'll find more details, pictures and references in this overview.
severely Flash crippled site linked to. Suffocated my Firefox - severe resizing/etc. Even now when I change to the tab containing that site, Firefox resizes window.
Maybe a bug in Firefox, but I hate the jazzy, flashy movie websites anyway.
"We are aware of the current connectivity issues with Trillian and the Yahoo network, brought on as a result of Yahoo's recent protocol upgrade," Scott Werndorfer, co-founder of Cerulean, said in an e-mail statement. "We are working hard on a solution and will update our Web site when more information becomes available."
From the CNET article in the second link. Thanks for digging those up, btw.
Yahoo tried this a few times last year and it looks like they're trying again.
I could dig up the older comments/articles which thoroughly contradict this troll-ish article summary but I don't think it deserves my time.
Yahoo did not, I repeat did *not* try to "block" third party IM clients "several times last year". *All* they did was upgrade their protocol for better reliability/etc (I have personally noticed the increase in reliability/refresh rate etc). It is up to the 3rd party developers to upgrade their protocols if Yahoo decides to do so.
And Yahoo did offer to help them fix their stack to help it work with their servers. I am not affiliated to Yahoo, btw - I just think it receives a lot more undeserved flak then it should.
And what's more...it's the US/European
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With a few plastic baggies filled up with the right stuff, you can make almost *anything* interesting.
at the bottom of the second page. Not sure how many people will RTFA till there, so here it is:
There's one item to highlight this week. Silicon.com and other sources are reporting that Apple's recent patch to fix a major threat in Mac OS X wasn't completely successful, and that a highly dangerous problem still exists in the operating system. The threat is especially noteworthy because it is the first important vulnerability discovered in the Mac OS X operating system that was not due to a flaw in the underlying FreeBSD UNIX on which Apple based OS X. This problem lies in the part of the code created by Apple, and it appears that it is quite difficult to repair. This is the first real challenge to Apple, and it will be interesting to see how the company responds to this critical threat. Previous patches were simply carried over from the Linux/UNIX community. Apple is on its own this time.
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Typical marketspeak. It just has to contain a lot of "good words" like plusses, drive, offer...it doesn't have to mean anything.
It just makes them look desperate more than anything else. Come out with a superior product, and people will automatically aware of the "plusses" they have to offer.
my keyboard, in it's current condition, should be classified as a WMD.
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Only magazine I buy periodically is the Reader's Digest - usually at airports.
And yes, ACM CrossRoads too, though I find it has very little useful content nowadays - they need volunteers btw.
I'll be brushing up on my bullet dodging and slo-mo skills and suggest all of you do too.
Not that I want to bicker about it, but I thought it was interesting that my submission was rejected and then made it to the front page all within 30 mins or so.
Lawsuit: Google stole Orkut code Wednesday June 30, @01:39PM Rejected
With 9Mpixels at their disposal, they could develop some very high quality 3D displays. Ofcourse, the total number of pixels is an arbitrary measure without mention of the display size. If they're spread over a large area, resolution will still remain low (and no, I couldn't RTFA though I wanted to).
Just like gun manufacturers provide the means for killing but are not liable for what people do.
Can anybody explain though why the courts overturned the request from the music industry to have the ISPs turn over customer's identities? I agree that was a Good (TM) development, but it doesn't seem to fit into my gun analogy.
If the gun was used in a crime, law enforcement could force the company/dealers to turn over gun/owner/buyer information. Maybe it's because it's not law enforcement requesting the information, but deep-pocketed private parties seeking it.
but it looks more like a followup to this earlier story.
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Violators will be towed courtesy McBride Breakdown Services.
particularly because the policy allows withholding information due to "foreseeable harm" to the Administration, and not necessarily to the country.
Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, @02:18PM from the or-not dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "We've all seen it. The e-mail forwarded to us from a friend who got it from a coworker whose sister's cousin's roommate's great aunt knows somebody at Microsoft. The one from Bill Gates himself offering you cash to forward the e-mail to others in order to test out their new e-mail tracking system. If you haven't received that one you've undoubtedly gotten other e-mail hoaxes offering anything from gift certificates to free computers to free airline tickets. How do these sorts of hoaxes start and who starts them? Well Jonathon Keats at Wired Magazine decided to track down the origin of the Bill Gates e-mail tracking hoax. After a few dead ends he finally located then-student Bryan Mack, who created the hoax on November 18, 1997 while at the University of Houston. In Mack's own words: 'It was just a joke between a couple friends' that eventually got out of hand. One of his buddies had gotten a make-money-fast spam and Mack said 'I can come up with something better than that.' Three minutes later, Bill Gates' email-tracing program was born. At first he just sent it to a few friends, but those friends sent it to other friends (and so on), and it didn't take long for the e-mail to transform from a joke to a full-fledged hoax."
Even if new buildings are connected to Internet, they usually don't communicate between themselves. And when it comes to water, these buildings are selfish and consume what they want without any coordination. Now, a Windows (TM) based system developed at Microsoft is using Windows services to collectively adjust water usage to variations in price and subscription levels. The system called Microsoft Flush (TM) regulates the volume of water used to flush the toilet. The amount of water used is automatically adjusted according to the subscription level of the user. Subscribers to the Professional service get to access the full power of the flush, while basic subscribers are restricted to 0.25 gallons per poop. Technology Research News reports that the system was successfully tested for two weeks on five commercial buildings. 'Beyond price, systems could be programmed to respond to changes in brand royalty and tap into the septic dump to spray criminal pirates for using illegal copies of Microsoft (TM) products.You'll find more details, pictures and references in this overview.
Yes, they do have the fart smell. It's listed as "Flatulence #9668" in their catalog.
To most Slashdotters...RealDoll is already a partner and best friend.
Maybe a bug in Firefox, but I hate the jazzy, flashy movie websites anyway.
From the CNET article in the second link. Thanks for digging those up, btw.
they's us.
I could dig up the older comments/articles which thoroughly contradict this troll-ish article summary but I don't think it deserves my time.
Yahoo did not, I repeat did *not* try to "block" third party IM clients "several times last year". *All* they did was upgrade their protocol for better reliability/etc (I have personally noticed the increase in reliability/refresh rate etc). It is up to the 3rd party developers to upgrade their protocols if Yahoo decides to do so.
And Yahoo did offer to help them fix their stack to help it work with their servers. I am not affiliated to Yahoo, btw - I just think it receives a lot more undeserved flak then it should.
corporations which're indulging in despicable patent activities, often at the cost of developing nations and in atleast one case farmers who've been using the so called "innovation" since thousands of years. Case in point: India Fights U.S. Basmati Rice Patent .
With a few plastic baggies filled up with the right stuff, you can make almost *anything* interesting.
There's one item to highlight this week. Silicon.com and other sources are reporting that Apple's recent patch to fix a major threat in Mac OS X wasn't completely successful, and that a highly dangerous problem still exists in the operating system. The threat is especially noteworthy because it is the first important vulnerability discovered in the Mac OS X operating system that was not due to a flaw in the underlying FreeBSD UNIX on which Apple based OS X. This problem lies in the part of the code created by Apple, and it appears that it is quite difficult to repair. This is the first real challenge to Apple, and it will be interesting to see how the company responds to this critical threat. Previous patches were simply carried over from the Linux/UNIX community. Apple is on its own this time.
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