Ugh. I used them for a year or two. Sure, it was easy signing up...but when I had multiple domains to renew every year I had to uncheck a dozen "option packages" on 4 different pages just to renew a domain. Transferring out to another registrar is even more of a pain. Despite following the exact steps required Godaddy still denied the transfer saying I had not responded.
I made sure to tell them the sole reason for my transferring my business to another registrar was solely based on their annoying website. I'd gladly pay their outrageous fees for things such as WHOIS privacy if only their website offered a basic, functional, non ad-ridden UI for managing my domains.
I sincerely hope one of two things happens: Either nobody buys them and they go out of business; or another decent company buys their assets and flushes the brand down the toilet. I know--I can dream.
The ink cartrides that come with the printeres are never 100% full, they are only about 25% full. It's just starter ink, to get you to buy more in.
What's worse is I have an inkjet printer sitting around that is about a year and a half old. I didn't use it much and the estimated ink levels were still at 3/4. One by one as the 1 year mark hit my printer began telling me the cartridges were expired. I ignored the warnings until finally the printer simply refused to print until I replaced them. I was so angry over this that I ended up buying a cheap laser printer on sale; and an extra high yield toner cartridge for less than the cost of replacement ink.
I still use the inkjet once in a while; I replaced the OEM ink with aftermarket ones which as you can imagine were less than half full.
The article starts out saying Blu-Ray will be superseded within 5 years and then goes on to talk about OLED technology with absolutely no mention of what might supersede blu-ray?
That's what I get for actually RTFA though; a few paragraphs loosely related with no actual technical information.
I'm not a user of most google apps so I probably don't fall into the "beyond what they're doing now" category unless they care about my search engine queries.
One thing that does make me a bit uneasy is the fact that the address bar autocomplete feature queries google for every possible url you type in in an attempt to recommend the url you're looking for.
Please let this mean that blogs are now excluded from the main google search?? Why can't they add an extra tab (sites, images, news, blogs)?
From a webmaster perspective it's not as easy as you would think to keep sites (such as blogs) out of google's index. A long time ago I set up my robots.txt properly; included all the special noindex/nocache meta tags and even used Google's automated-removal system.
This worked fine for a few months...and suddenly hundreds of indexed pages of mine showed up in the index again as 'Supplemental Results'
"Within months of XP's release, Win2k started falling apart completely. Now if I do a fresh installation of it and update it past SP2, it's screwed. I will get crashes with nothing else installed."
Considering the fact that Win2k was primarly a server platform and not a desktop OS I'd agree that it's a paranoid conspiracy theory that Microsoft would try to force users to upgrade from 2k to XP.
"...and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly..."
I'm just going to take a wild guess here and say that maybe they should install Media Player to get those clips to run properly?
And for those who actually take this seriously....
I'm sure someone will try to point out that Word won't play embedded media clips even if alternative media players are installed. Seems logical to me, when embedding a media file in a proprietary document format it likely requires Media Player to play it.
It's like "suggesting" Microsoft purposely "sabotaged" the Help system after a person removes the IE Core from the system. (Doing so effectively breaks the help system among other things)
" Kinda OT but wouldn't the people who are paying millions of dollars to save the show Enterprise be better spent for the HST?"
What kind of trolling is this? Fans are having a hard time coming up with $32 million to continue the production of Enterprise and you expect them to be able to cough up $2 billion to save Hubble? Good luck.
"I'll admit that there were classes that I hated because I was not interested in the topic and I objected to surrendering my time and energy to some idiot professor who could demand work from a captive audience. However, some of my fondest memories are of general education classes in literature, philosophy, and history."
I also agree here, I'm not necessarily against irrelevant courses...the problem here was that more often than not even those teaching the classes took the mentality that what they were teaching didn't matter if it wasn't a primary skill.
I often enjoyed a literature or history class when the course was actually about learning something. I suppose this opens another door...are the teachers just there to collect a paycheck or are they actually interested in teaching something?
I've encountered both types, the ones who actually enjoyed teaching usually had highly interesting classes. Sadly, the majority seems to be situations where the person is just there to collect a paycheck and has no real interest in keeping the attention of the students.
I suppose it would be nice if the life of a student included a slashdot-type tool for moderating the faculty--get rid of the trolls and promote the insightful/interesting.
Why, my typing class of course allowed me to type that fast!
Actually I was preparing my reply while it was still in the mysterious future. It's a subject I feel extremely passionate about--some kind of education reform is needed, unfortunately I can't say I have many better ideas.
Hey for once Bill Gates and I actually agree. HS was fun and I did enjoy a select few classes but for the most part everything else was a waste of time generally designed to prepare students for the years ahead. Not a bad idea in theory, but for those who are already prepared and are actually interested in learning...HS life can be somewhat lacking.
In my opinion college was even worse. Here I am paying thousands of dollars per semester for the same "I'm a kid, beat on me until I can handle Real Life." stuff. I loaded up 18 credits every semester like an eager naive person only to discover 3 (1 class) of those 18 had any relevance whatsoever to my area of specialization. Once in a while another class would act as a supporting class, but more often than not the rest was just filler designed to keep me busy for a few hours every day. The result? After about 3 years of this I was sick of it...I could barely stomach a fourth. I was tired of seeing my money--earned by working--being spent on some idiot teaching an Economics class who readily admit his sole purpose at that university was to make our lives as difficult as possible and possibly actually teach something relevant to the course.
Looking back, I still feel it was a total waste of money. It made my life so miserable I didn't even have time to stop and enjoy the "college life" that many say makes it all worthwhile. It's my money, I should be able to spend it as I please...not to have someone tell me that I have to waste it on filler courses rather than something of actual use and interest to me.
In the end? I discovered I enjoyed the life of employment much more. All those years of having some teacher/professor telling me how hard life is and how clueless and naive all us students were. Truth be told, I learned most of what I use in the workplace either on the job or on my own. Not to mention I was no longer paying my boss to allow me the privilege to work--I was finally being paid to be there!
I'd also like to add that I do think something if fishy with the Lokitorrent case--especially the fact that the site is still hosted on the original server rather than actually being taken over by the MPAA.
I also find it strange that the site up and closed about the same time that donation bar stopped moving.
In the days leading up to the closure of Lokitorrent, I noticed you had to click through some odd copyright infringement agreement. Not to mention searches for popular movies started resulting in generic messages like "At the request of MAJOR_STUDIO_HERE the search for SEARCH_TERM has been blocked"
Regardless, rather than spreading rampant rumors people should check their facts and stop relying on anonymous sources and he-said-she-said conjecture.
"The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrent?one of the largest BitTorrent host servers. The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities."
The premise of the article is based entirely on the fact that there is no documentation from the MPAA--but indeed there is such documentation. I know we'd all love to believe the MPAA created that release to capitalize on this so-called hoax but no doubt that would be subject to legal action for such blatant lies.
The article also states "If LokiTorrent.com had been sued in Dallas Federal Courts, then some type of public record would appear. NO ONLINE RECORD APPEARS WHATSOEVER!"
So...if it's not on the internet, it must not exist right....right!?
Did anyone bother contacting the MPAA for a comment on the Lokitorrent case rather than providing more fire to the rumor mill?
I thought it was also funny that there are stars and such within said circle...
Yep, let's talk about a dark-matter galaxy where no stars can be seen and then post a picture of what looks like a normal starfield and circle a part of it that looks no different from the rest.
" I know you were joking, but IMHO downloading movies is not that far off.
I have been downloading episodes of "Lost" because the quality is quite a bit better than my (analog) cable TV. Yet the files are only about 350 MB in size. That translates to a little over 1 megabit per second. In practice, my internet connection (Comcast) doesn't seem to have any problem exceeding 1 megabit per second. (It is 3 or 4 mbps claimed)."
Actually I was very serious. Who wants to watch a 750mb xvid movie on a 52" HDTV? I would expect to be downloading a near 1:1 DVD quality movie--which is typically 4.6-8.7GB.
Now, I could probably easily download a full dvd within a matter of hours on my connection--but not everyone has the luxury of bandwidth and not restricted by transfer caps.
How would these be distributed? I'd suspect a direct system such as FTP would be expensive considering most bandwidth at the minimum is $30/mbit when purchased in mass quantities (read: 100mbit->GigE) Bittorrent? Right...I love bittorrent as much as the next person but truthfully I rarely max out my line downloading something from bittorrent and I still find FTP faster when downloading linux iso's (some in DVD format...) Not to mention the fact that your average user will not be happy having to pay for a service and then sacrifice upstream bandwidth to feed a service like bittorrent.
I would like to have a movie at the click of a button too...but it's not going to happen until the network infrastructure can handle the bandwidth requires, when the costs are affordable to users. And, I'll say it again--compressed video isn't going to fly.
Slashdot Mirror
Ugh. I used them for a year or two. Sure, it was easy signing up...but when I had multiple domains to renew every year I had to uncheck a dozen "option packages" on 4 different pages just to renew a domain. Transferring out to another registrar is even more of a pain. Despite following the exact steps required Godaddy still denied the transfer saying I had not responded.
I made sure to tell them the sole reason for my transferring my business to another registrar was solely based on their annoying website. I'd gladly pay their outrageous fees for things such as WHOIS privacy if only their website offered a basic, functional, non ad-ridden UI for managing my domains.
I sincerely hope one of two things happens: Either nobody buys them and they go out of business; or another decent company buys their assets and flushes the brand down the toilet. I know--I can dream.
The ink cartrides that come with the printeres are never 100% full, they are only about 25% full. It's just starter ink, to get you to buy more in.
What's worse is I have an inkjet printer sitting around that is about a year and a half old. I didn't use it much and the estimated ink levels were still at 3/4. One by one as the 1 year mark hit my printer began telling me the cartridges were expired. I ignored the warnings until finally the printer simply refused to print until I replaced them. I was so angry over this that I ended up buying a cheap laser printer on sale; and an extra high yield toner cartridge for less than the cost of replacement ink. I still use the inkjet once in a while; I replaced the OEM ink with aftermarket ones which as you can imagine were less than half full.
The article starts out saying Blu-Ray will be superseded within 5 years and then goes on to talk about OLED technology with absolutely no mention of what might supersede blu-ray?
That's what I get for actually RTFA though; a few paragraphs loosely related with no actual technical information.
I stand corrected. This behavior can be disabled via:
Options -> Deafult Search -> Manage-> Uncheck 'Use a suggestion service..'
I'm not a user of most google apps so I probably don't fall into the "beyond what they're doing now" category unless they care about my search engine queries.
One thing that does make me a bit uneasy is the fact that the address bar autocomplete feature queries google for every possible url you type in in an attempt to recommend the url you're looking for.
Go ahead and type http://www.google.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz slowly while capturing http traffic; it will query google for every letter of the alphabet you type in.
I won't be putting on a tinfoil hat just yet but I'm not thrilled about this 'feature' since I've yet to find any option that turns it off.
Please let this mean that blogs are now excluded from the main google search?? Why can't they add an extra tab (sites, images, news, blogs)?
From a webmaster perspective it's not as easy as you would think to keep sites (such as blogs) out of google's index. A long time ago I set up my robots.txt properly; included all the special noindex/nocache meta tags and even used Google's automated-removal system. This worked fine for a few months...and suddenly hundreds of indexed pages of mine showed up in the index again as 'Supplemental Results'
"Within months of XP's release, Win2k started falling apart completely. Now if I do a fresh installation of it and update it past SP2, it's screwed. I will get crashes with nothing else installed."
Considering the fact that Win2k was primarly a server platform and not a desktop OS I'd agree that it's a paranoid conspiracy theory that Microsoft would try to force users to upgrade from 2k to XP.
"...and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly..."
I'm just going to take a wild guess here and say that maybe they should install Media Player to get those clips to run properly?
And for those who actually take this seriously....
I'm sure someone will try to point out that Word won't play embedded media clips even if alternative media players are installed. Seems logical to me, when embedding a media file in a proprietary document format it likely requires Media Player to play it.
It's like "suggesting" Microsoft purposely "sabotaged" the Help system after a person removes the IE Core from the system. (Doing so effectively breaks the help system among other things)
Since this is /. shouldn't the title be something closer to:
date +%s Turning 1111111111!!!!lllloneoneonebbq?
"ECDH and ECDSA appear to be generally unencumbered."
Except for their names, of course...
" Kinda OT but wouldn't the people who are paying millions of dollars to save the show Enterprise be better spent for the HST?"
What kind of trolling is this? Fans are having a hard time coming up with $32 million to continue the production of Enterprise and you expect them to be able to cough up $2 billion to save Hubble? Good luck.
The music labels are really having fun raising prices this week!
"I'll admit that there were classes that I hated because I was not interested in the topic and I objected to surrendering my time and energy to some idiot professor who could demand work from a captive audience. However, some of my fondest memories are of general education classes in literature, philosophy, and history."
I also agree here, I'm not necessarily against irrelevant courses...the problem here was that more often than not even those teaching the classes took the mentality that what they were teaching didn't matter if it wasn't a primary skill.
I often enjoyed a literature or history class when the course was actually about learning something. I suppose this opens another door...are the teachers just there to collect a paycheck or are they actually interested in teaching something?
I've encountered both types, the ones who actually enjoyed teaching usually had highly interesting classes. Sadly, the majority seems to be situations where the person is just there to collect a paycheck and has no real interest in keeping the attention of the students.
I suppose it would be nice if the life of a student included a slashdot-type tool for moderating the faculty--get rid of the trolls and promote the insightful/interesting.
Why, my typing class of course allowed me to type that fast!
Actually I was preparing my reply while it was still in the mysterious future. It's a subject I feel extremely passionate about--some kind of education reform is needed, unfortunately I can't say I have many better ideas.
Hey for once Bill Gates and I actually agree. HS was fun and I did enjoy a select few classes but for the most part everything else was a waste of time generally designed to prepare students for the years ahead. Not a bad idea in theory, but for those who are already prepared and are actually interested in learning...HS life can be somewhat lacking.
In my opinion college was even worse. Here I am paying thousands of dollars per semester for the same "I'm a kid, beat on me until I can handle Real Life." stuff. I loaded up 18 credits every semester like an eager naive person only to discover 3 (1 class) of those 18 had any relevance whatsoever to my area of specialization. Once in a while another class would act as a supporting class, but more often than not the rest was just filler designed to keep me busy for a few hours every day. The result? After about 3 years of this I was sick of it...I could barely stomach a fourth. I was tired of seeing my money--earned by working--being spent on some idiot teaching an Economics class who readily admit his sole purpose at that university was to make our lives as difficult as possible and possibly actually teach something relevant to the course.
Looking back, I still feel it was a total waste of money. It made my life so miserable I didn't even have time to stop and enjoy the "college life" that many say makes it all worthwhile. It's my money, I should be able to spend it as I please...not to have someone tell me that I have to waste it on filler courses rather than something of actual use and interest to me.
In the end? I discovered I enjoyed the life of employment much more. All those years of having some teacher/professor telling me how hard life is and how clueless and naive all us students were. Truth be told, I learned most of what I use in the workplace either on the job or on my own. Not to mention I was no longer paying my boss to allow me the privilege to work--I was finally being paid to be there!
" I just ran a "Deep Scan" with MS Anti-Spyware on a machine with Firefox 1.0 installed. I got 0 results for spyware."
Agreed. I just ran a deep scan with the latest definitions and all I got were 3 false positives.
Screenshot
I'd also like to add that I do think something if fishy with the Lokitorrent case--especially the fact that the site is still hosted on the original server rather than actually being taken over by the MPAA.
I also find it strange that the site up and closed about the same time that donation bar stopped moving.
In the days leading up to the closure of Lokitorrent, I noticed you had to click through some odd copyright infringement agreement. Not to mention searches for popular movies started resulting in generic messages like "At the request of MAJOR_STUDIO_HERE the search for SEARCH_TERM has been blocked"
Regardless, rather than spreading rampant rumors people should check their facts and stop relying on anonymous sources and he-said-she-said conjecture.
If it's such a hoax what exactly do you call this? (Google's HTML Version)
"The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrent?one of the largest BitTorrent host servers. The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities."
The premise of the article is based entirely on the fact that there is no documentation from the MPAA--but indeed there is such documentation. I know we'd all love to believe the MPAA created that release to capitalize on this so-called hoax but no doubt that would be subject to legal action for such blatant lies.
The article also states "If LokiTorrent.com had been sued in Dallas Federal Courts, then some type of public record would appear. NO ONLINE RECORD APPEARS WHATSOEVER!"
So...if it's not on the internet, it must not exist right....right!?
Did anyone bother contacting the MPAA for a comment on the Lokitorrent case rather than providing more fire to the rumor mill?
Since the story didn't even bother linking to the online episode and there are no obvious links anywhere that I could find...
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/33_full_episode/
Now you've done it, you've combined two of the most hated things to geeks worldwide, Spyware and Jar Jar...
"Since when have spyware companies followed ethical practices?"
Their lack of ethics allows them to do whatever makes a profit--including using ethical practices! I know, it's a mind bender...
I thought it was also funny that there are stars and such within said circle...
Yep, let's talk about a dark-matter galaxy where no stars can be seen and then post a picture of what looks like a normal starfield and circle a part of it that looks no different from the rest.
Except this story has nothing to do with linux...I know it's hard to accept, but nice try!
" I know you were joking, but IMHO downloading movies is not that far off.
I have been downloading episodes of "Lost" because the quality is quite a bit better than my (analog) cable TV. Yet the files are only about 350 MB in size. That translates to a little over 1 megabit per second. In practice, my internet connection (Comcast) doesn't seem to have any problem exceeding 1 megabit per second. (It is 3 or 4 mbps claimed)."
Actually I was very serious. Who wants to watch a 750mb xvid movie on a 52" HDTV? I would expect to be downloading a near 1:1 DVD quality movie--which is typically 4.6-8.7GB.
Now, I could probably easily download a full dvd within a matter of hours on my connection--but not everyone has the luxury of bandwidth and not restricted by transfer caps.
How would these be distributed? I'd suspect a direct system such as FTP would be expensive considering most bandwidth at the minimum is $30/mbit when purchased in mass quantities (read: 100mbit->GigE) Bittorrent? Right...I love bittorrent as much as the next person but truthfully I rarely max out my line downloading something from bittorrent and I still find FTP faster when downloading linux iso's (some in DVD format...) Not to mention the fact that your average user will not be happy having to pay for a service and then sacrifice upstream bandwidth to feed a service like bittorrent.
I would like to have a movie at the click of a button too...but it's not going to happen until the network infrastructure can handle the bandwidth requires, when the costs are affordable to users. And, I'll say it again--compressed video isn't going to fly.
"but they do consider on-demand Internet-download services to be a threat to their business model."
In the US? Please. With current broadband conditions I'd probably have to wait longer than snailmail to get a DVD.