True. I think the author was more concerned with associating a highly popular buzzword like "blog" with the word "virus". When you put these two together in an article it draws lots of attention and it looks like he got the intended effect.
I'm not sure that this is enough. A lot can happen in a year. It would be great to see an secure online service that offered your credit report in real-time just like logging into your online bank account. This would be a great service and help consumers identify new risks early so that they can be dealt with.
I always liked the "Gallery" products from ForMac even though they cost a little more ($599) than the economy monitors. I've had one for several years now with my PowerMac and the quality remains great. I wonder how it would stack up against these economy monitors.
The traffic flow of air is critical. It only makes sense to cool a room if you are properly allowing the heat to leave the room. Racks should be designed to take the hot air coming from the backs of the units and sending it to the cooler intake. From there, it is cooled and recirculated back to the fronts of the units. This way you make effective use of the cold and hot air masses without using extra energy to cool hot air in a bigger room.
Unfortunately, most of the server rooms that I've been in are small with poor air circulation and it always seems very warm.
She might also consider changing several random students grades at the same time so as to create a larger array of suspects. This would make it difficult for police to track down which student altered the grades, although it might also create a greater chance of being detected overall because more grades are affected now.
It would actually be great for the consumers to have many providers for social networking technology all connected by a standard. Each technology provider could add their "value-added" services and still communicate with the other social networks via a standard protocol as part of bigger federation of social networks.
I imagine that Google and other AdSense-like programs are going to have to eventually combat fraud by adopting schemes similiar to what credit card companies do. There is too much money being made from offering these AdSense-like programs and I'm sure Google would like to continue making money. Ultimately, there is always going to be an element of fraud and credit card companies recognize this now and just see it as a normal part of doing business. They have to absorb these losses to make the big money off the 98% part of the legitimate business.
I think Google and others will have to do the same. They can employ various fraud detection and enforcement programs to combat the big problems and just absorb the rest by crediting the advertisers for what may be considered a "fraudulent" click. Ultimately, the advertisers need to get a good return on their investment and as long as they do, AdSense and other programs will be marketing dollars well spent.
For Google, it comes down to an issue of costs. If it costs them 50 cents or so to mail out a check (paper, ink, envelope, electricity, postage, etc.) and the check amount is only $5.00 of which they probably only made a buck or two, the cost is too high. I'm sure this is why they wait until checks get to $100.00 because now they are making $20 to $40 for every check they send out. Often times the checks for most sites are in excess of $100 so their costs are very low in relation.
Even with a $15.00 CPM that will still equate to a 1.866% ROI which is still pretty bad. It just seems like they overpaid for this Internet "property" unless they come up with some other angle to use the traffic to sell higher margin products or advertisements.
Internet domain names are a lot like commercial real estate. The value is based on traffic count much like the number of cars that pass by a retail shopping center. Real estate investors also use solid investment analysis when considering the purchase of properties which makes the sale of these domains interesting.
It was noted on NetCraft that these domains get about 17 million unique visitors a month and at a $5.00 CPM (which is quite generous) that would be $85,000 a month ($1.02 million a year) in revenue. Consequently, the ROI (Return on Investment) would be 0.622% which is a very poor rate to receive.
In order to get a decent ROI, the new owners are going to have to increase traffic, create better content for higher paying ads, or provide some upsell item with a high profit margin and conversion rate. If this were a real estate property, this rate of return would definately make this property a "don't wanter".
In fact, the www.whatismup.com domain just sold for $386,100 yesterday. That's a lot of money for such a simple website, but it gets millions of hits a month. Not sure how long it will take to get a decent return on investment even with millions of hits a month at that price.
The monthly fees and lifetime subscription fee seem like a lot of money to spend for a service that might not be there. I purchased the Toshiba SDH-400 several years ago for just over $300 and it includes the TIVO basic service for free. It doesn't have all the extra frills of the paid service, but it's enough to get the guide and record the programs you want. This was and still is one of the best products I have bought in a while. For a couple hundred more than the TIVO ($99 plus subscription fees), I got a nice PVR that has already paid for itself in terms of subscription fees.
Unfortunately the reason this is happening is because the lawyers need to get paid. Lawyers always look to cast the widest net with the deepest pockets. The issue of whether or not the video game caused this or the lack of parenting becomes a blurred issue and it's all focused on getting paid from companies with deep pockets.
Agreed. It also gives a lot more credibility to using other distribution channels besides record stores and the record industries. It shows that you can distribute your music without huge overhead costs and still be recognized. Hopefully, we will see more of this in the future. Other artists are asking about how to do this now that it appears to be a working model for distribution.
True. If it goes beyond the borders of a single company it becomes a competitive and political issue. Microsoft tried to offer their Passport as a single sign-on and identity solution, but obviously it doesn't work for several reasons including Microsoft's reputation for security and the fact that all that identity information resides with one company.
Sun and several other companies came up with the Liberty Alliance to provide a federation of companies that could collectively provide a single sign-on network, but it is taking a while to get it going. Although, it seems to be gaining new ground slowly but surely with IBM as one of the lastest additions to the alliance.
It would be nice, to one day, be able to use a widely recognized single sign-on source that is not controlled by a single company.
Slashdot Mirror
This sounds like that "Locusts" movie they are airing on television this week.
the satellite imagery? How are we going to see what things look like down there?
Maybe they are waiting for the release of "Duke Nukem Forever" so that they can be sure it works with the new software.
They would have to have built some very big spaceships.
Hopefully they'll offer an option to put in a LCD monitor so I can play "Duke Nukem Forever" in there too.
True. I think the author was more concerned with associating a highly popular buzzword like "blog" with the word "virus". When you put these two together in an article it draws lots of attention and it looks like he got the intended effect.
It looks like the standard price for land on the moon is $18.95/acre. Maybe they could buy you out.
I'm not sure that this is enough. A lot can happen in a year. It would be great to see an secure online service that offered your credit report in real-time just like logging into your online bank account. This would be a great service and help consumers identify new risks early so that they can be dealt with.
I always liked the "Gallery" products from ForMac even though they cost a little more ($599) than the economy monitors. I've had one for several years now with my PowerMac and the quality remains great. I wonder how it would stack up against these economy monitors.
The traffic flow of air is critical. It only makes sense to cool a room if you are properly allowing the heat to leave the room. Racks should be designed to take the hot air coming from the backs of the units and sending it to the cooler intake. From there, it is cooled and recirculated back to the fronts of the units. This way you make effective use of the cold and hot air masses without using extra energy to cool hot air in a bigger room.
Unfortunately, most of the server rooms that I've been in are small with poor air circulation and it always seems very warm.
It appears that Wordpress still has about 434,000 pages still indexed by Google.
She might also consider changing several random students grades at the same time so as to create a larger array of suspects. This would make it difficult for police to track down which student altered the grades, although it might also create a greater chance of being detected overall because more grades are affected now.
It would actually be great for the consumers to have many providers for social networking technology all connected by a standard. Each technology provider could add their "value-added" services and still communicate with the other social networks via a standard protocol as part of bigger federation of social networks.
Or who doesn't already have a dozen gmail accounts by now?
I imagine that Google and other AdSense-like programs are going to have to eventually combat fraud by adopting schemes similiar to what credit card companies do. There is too much money being made from offering these AdSense-like programs and I'm sure Google would like to continue making money. Ultimately, there is always going to be an element of fraud and credit card companies recognize this now and just see it as a normal part of doing business. They have to absorb these losses to make the big money off the 98% part of the legitimate business.
I think Google and others will have to do the same. They can employ various fraud detection and enforcement programs to combat the big problems and just absorb the rest by crediting the advertisers for what may be considered a "fraudulent" click. Ultimately, the advertisers need to get a good return on their investment and as long as they do, AdSense and other programs will be marketing dollars well spent.
For Google, it comes down to an issue of costs. If it costs them 50 cents or so to mail out a check (paper, ink, envelope, electricity, postage, etc.) and the check amount is only $5.00 of which they probably only made a buck or two, the cost is too high. I'm sure this is why they wait until checks get to $100.00 because now they are making $20 to $40 for every check they send out. Often times the checks for most sites are in excess of $100 so their costs are very low in relation.
If they find any hobbits with nine fingers they might have a pretty good start.
I'd like to see a mirror that could handle 275,000 images.
Even with a $15.00 CPM that will still equate to a 1.866% ROI which is still pretty bad. It just seems like they overpaid for this Internet "property" unless they come up with some other angle to use the traffic to sell higher margin products or advertisements.
Internet domain names are a lot like commercial real estate. The value is based on traffic count much like the number of cars that pass by a retail shopping center. Real estate investors also use solid investment analysis when considering the purchase of properties which makes the sale of these domains interesting.
It was noted on NetCraft that these domains get about 17 million unique visitors a month and at a $5.00 CPM (which is quite generous) that would be $85,000 a month ($1.02 million a year) in revenue. Consequently, the ROI (Return on Investment) would be 0.622% which is a very poor rate to receive.
In order to get a decent ROI, the new owners are going to have to increase traffic, create better content for higher paying ads, or provide some upsell item with a high profit margin and conversion rate. If this were a real estate property, this rate of return would definately make this property a "don't wanter".
In fact, the www.whatismup.com domain just sold for $386,100 yesterday. That's a lot of money for such a simple website, but it gets millions of hits a month. Not sure how long it will take to get a decent return on investment even with millions of hits a month at that price.
The monthly fees and lifetime subscription fee seem like a lot of money to spend for a service that might not be there. I purchased the Toshiba SDH-400 several years ago for just over $300 and it includes the TIVO basic service for free. It doesn't have all the extra frills of the paid service, but it's enough to get the guide and record the programs you want. This was and still is one of the best products I have bought in a while. For a couple hundred more than the TIVO ($99 plus subscription fees), I got a nice PVR that has already paid for itself in terms of subscription fees.
Unfortunately the reason this is happening is because the lawyers need to get paid. Lawyers always look to cast the widest net with the deepest pockets. The issue of whether or not the video game caused this or the lack of parenting becomes a blurred issue and it's all focused on getting paid from companies with deep pockets.
Agreed. It also gives a lot more credibility to using other distribution channels besides record stores and the record industries. It shows that you can distribute your music without huge overhead costs and still be recognized. Hopefully, we will see more of this in the future. Other artists are asking about how to do this now that it appears to be a working model for distribution.
True. If it goes beyond the borders of a single company it becomes a competitive and political issue. Microsoft tried to offer their Passport as a single sign-on and identity solution, but obviously it doesn't work for several reasons including Microsoft's reputation for security and the fact that all that identity information resides with one company.
Sun and several other companies came up with the Liberty Alliance to provide a federation of companies that could collectively provide a single sign-on network, but it is taking a while to get it going. Although, it seems to be gaining new ground slowly but surely with IBM as one of the lastest additions to the alliance.
It would be nice, to one day, be able to use a widely recognized single sign-on source that is not controlled by a single company.