I've noticed that my website (with low traffic) also gets hits from IP addresses that resolve to microsoft.com from a search on Google. However, if you look at what they searched for, it looks like they are really students looking for the answer to some 2nd year university level homework problems. (OK so you can refrain from the jokes about Microsoft employees searching for these things.) My guess is that somehow the IP addresses are either being reported wrong by accident or are being spoofed (at least to the reporting tool). In other words, I'd be willing to bet that these are not really hits from inside Microsoft (at least not most of them).
Do you really think that they will sell them at 2am? If you go in now to buy a camera, you can't buy it after 9pm. I bet most parts will be locked up after 9pm or so.
No, often times taking notes actually gets in the way. For some people it is much more important to spend the time they would be writing notes by actually paying attention more -- especially when the professor just uses what is in the book. Thus, often times you can just use the book as your notes and worry about comprehension while in class, not in the time afterwards. That is truly efficient use of time.
I agree. It seriously makes me wonder if that whole chat session actually took place or is completely fake. I don't think Dell would keep such a person employed for very long.
Yes, that's possible. And kind of encouraged in the fact that the DVDs are shipped without any case or cover art or inserts. I'd expect people would be more likely to copy and pass it on if they don't have the artwork and such. You also don't even get the bonus discs, just the disc with the movie itself.
I've been using Peerflix through the beta test. Every time I receive a disc, it asks me if it appears to be pirated. I assume they would then take action against the sender if this is the case, but I don't know for sure.
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Frankly, I'd hope that Continuum Analytics open sources their development because it might be useful to the larger community
Open sourcing is a requirement of the XDATA program.
Or rather, it's only extortion if Yelp itself is generating the negative reviews.
If you RTFA, you'll see that Yelp employees do write reviews, including negative reviews.
The correct name is The University of Sheffield, not Sheffield University.
I've noticed that my website (with low traffic) also gets hits from IP addresses that resolve to microsoft.com from a search on Google. However, if you look at what they searched for, it looks like they are really students looking for the answer to some 2nd year university level homework problems. (OK so you can refrain from the jokes about Microsoft employees searching for these things.) My guess is that somehow the IP addresses are either being reported wrong by accident or are being spoofed (at least to the reporting tool). In other words, I'd be willing to bet that these are not really hits from inside Microsoft (at least not most of them).
Do you really think that they will sell them at 2am? If you go in now to buy a camera, you can't buy it after 9pm. I bet most parts will be locked up after 9pm or so.
No, often times taking notes actually gets in the way. For some people it is much more important to spend the time they would be writing notes by actually paying attention more -- especially when the professor just uses what is in the book. Thus, often times you can just use the book as your notes and worry about comprehension while in class, not in the time afterwards. That is truly efficient use of time.
I agree. It seriously makes me wonder if that whole chat session actually took place or is completely fake. I don't think Dell would keep such a person employed for very long.
Why did the phrase in the top left corner change from "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters"?
Why did the phrase in the top left corner change from "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters"?
Yes, that's possible. And kind of encouraged in the fact that the DVDs are shipped without any case or cover art or inserts. I'd expect people would be more likely to copy and pass it on if they don't have the artwork and such. You also don't even get the bonus discs, just the disc with the movie itself.
I've been using Peerflix through the beta test. Every time I receive a disc, it asks me if it appears to be pirated. I assume they would then take action against the sender if this is the case, but I don't know for sure.
LiveCDs all contain the excellent mentest86 program
mentest? I'm sure there's lots of good uses for that one...
Here's some more interesting news about SCO. According to Netcraft, SCO's website is ironically hosted on Linux.