They're giving it away for free. Free is good, right? Or all of the sudden when it's Microsoft, free is bribery, isn't it?
Free as in free beer, yeah.
Giving away free copies of Windows barely harms Microsoft. It actually helps them stabilize their monopoly even more, especially when you're going for schools. "Hook 'em while they're young."
I'd say sue them for their Machiavellian violation of competition laws and put that money into good causes. Best investment (imho) would be to invest it (or a large part of it) in open source software (including awareness campaigns). That's the only way you're really going to break this monoply.
We have unlimited access at home, each of us kids have our own computer (3 of us, me being the oldest "kid" at 21, the youngest is currently 15), plus my dad has a few PCs and a central server for the home network (6 or 7 PCs in total). None of us have been damaged by what we have seen on the internet.
To protect your kids from stuff on the net we all deem "evil", such as unsolicited email containing fraud scams and porn, teach them how to identify it instead of blocking it from them. If you want your kids to walk on their own feet one day, help them see the world as it is. And about porn, I'm sure most of you (male) parents went looking how to get a copy of Playboy when you were the age. The net just makes the access a little easier.
Not sure if this is off topic, I think not.
I've always been impressed with this Sony robot project. Kinda strange it's never been mentioned on/. Have a look.
Now, it may not be the fastest robot you've seen, but it sure isn't the slowest (and they are constantly developing it, so I bet it will become faster over time), and the variety of movements and its capability of balancing is quite stunning. I wonder how hard it would be to implement a comparatively simple seeming feature such as opening doors.
RTFA "The helicopter is unique. No other company in the world has succeeded in operating such a flying machine, capable of independent flying without remote control."
I find it interesting that we first choose to go to the moon, and then discover the oceans of or own planet. I'm sure there is still much in store for us to learn from our own planet, and I feel we've neglected that for too long.
"'It's one of our experiments,' Marissa Mayer, Google's director for consumer products, said. 'We're playing with it to understand what the effects of it would be.'"
So in other words:
1. Add unique user counters
2. ???
3. Profit!
I can see the the marketing section of Google jumping all over this. If they managed to uniquely identify users, they could very well "offer" the most frequent users a subscription based Google, in the terms of "you've been leeching off our free service for so long, how about giving some of that back?" Just assuming, of course.
That's just one of many new possibilities such a user-attributed counter could bring along the road.
Sign up for a Yahoo! Games account using the address. I opened a fully new email account (at hotmail) just to sign up there (I didn't use the address anywhere else) and a week later I was receiving about 20-30 (!) spam mails daily.
How many times have you been in a bar, chatting up some attractive person, and then it hits you - you have no idea what the sixth planet is!
Neptune? Pluto? Goofy?
Needless to say, another night is ruined for you.
Well, no more, my friend. With OmniGraffle you can pin those pesky planets down once and for all. Even give them elliptical orbits, and tell them Kepler sent you. (Note: chart not to scale.)
It didn't. If it really went 12.5mph at that angle, they would have needed less than an hour to complete the 7.6 mile track. They needed 2 1/2 hours, however.
That concludes that they were moving at an average speed of 3.04mph @ 12-18% slope. I don't know in how far the 50mph winds had an affect on this, but a ca. 75% decrease in max. speed seems a little overdrawn.
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They're giving it away for free. Free is good, right? Or all of the sudden when it's Microsoft, free is bribery, isn't it?
Free as in free beer, yeah.
Giving away free copies of Windows barely harms Microsoft. It actually helps them stabilize their monopoly even more, especially when you're going for schools. "Hook 'em while they're young."
I'd say sue them for their Machiavellian violation of competition laws and put that money into good causes. Best investment (imho) would be to invest it (or a large part of it) in open source software (including awareness campaigns). That's the only way you're really going to break this monoply.
...the root jokes flying in from the horizon.
We have unlimited access at home, each of us kids have our own computer (3 of us, me being the oldest "kid" at 21, the youngest is currently 15), plus my dad has a few PCs and a central server for the home network (6 or 7 PCs in total). None of us have been damaged by what we have seen on the internet.
To protect your kids from stuff on the net we all deem "evil", such as unsolicited email containing fraud scams and porn, teach them how to identify it instead of blocking it from them. If you want your kids to walk on their own feet one day, help them see the world as it is. And about porn, I'm sure most of you (male) parents went looking how to get a copy of Playboy when you were the age. The net just makes the access a little easier.
Not sure if this is off topic, I think not. /. Have a look.
I've always been impressed with this Sony robot project. Kinda strange it's never been mentioned on
Now, it may not be the fastest robot you've seen, but it sure isn't the slowest (and they are constantly developing it, so I bet it will become faster over time), and the variety of movements and its capability of balancing is quite stunning. I wonder how hard it would be to implement a comparatively simple seeming feature such as opening doors.
Actually, this is mentioned in the FAQ .
RTFA "The helicopter is unique. No other company in the world has succeeded in operating such a flying machine, capable of independent flying without remote control."
I find it interesting that we first choose to go to the moon, and then discover the oceans of or own planet.
I'm sure there is still much in store for us to learn from our own planet, and I feel we've neglected that for too long.
"'It's one of our experiments,' Marissa Mayer, Google's director for consumer products, said. 'We're playing with it to understand what the effects of it would be.'"
So in other words:
1. Add unique user counters
2. ???
3. Profit!
I can see the the marketing section of Google jumping all over this. If they managed to uniquely identify users, they could very well "offer" the most frequent users a subscription based Google, in the terms of "you've been leeching off our free service for so long, how about giving some of that back?" Just assuming, of course.
That's just one of many new possibilities such a user-attributed counter could bring along the road.
You practically have to hire a geek just to know if you still need to upgrade or not.
At least they'd be working instead of hanging out on websites all day whining about version numbers. ;-)
Sign up for a Yahoo! Games account using the address.
I opened a fully new email account (at hotmail) just to sign up there (I didn't use the address anywhere else) and a week later I was receiving about 20-30 (!) spam mails daily.
Yeah and it would include a pretty blue screen. I can see slashdotters turning to stone in their chairs. :)
Did you bother to click the second link?
This can't be a hoax. You can also reach it by clicking through on their site.
mandrakesoft.com
-> Partners
-> Partner advertising options
-> Tada! "Advertising in Mandrake Linux 9.2 Edition".
From that site:
How many times have you been in a bar, chatting up some attractive person, and then it hits you - you have no idea what the sixth planet is!
Neptune? Pluto? Goofy?
Needless to say, another night is ruined for you.
Well, no more, my friend. With OmniGraffle you can pin those pesky planets down once and for all. Even give them elliptical orbits, and tell them Kepler sent you. (Note: chart not to scale.)
Man, and I thought I was lost.
It didn't. If it really went 12.5mph at that angle, they would have needed less than an hour to complete the 7.6 mile track. They needed 2 1/2 hours, however.
That concludes that they were moving at an average speed of 3.04mph @ 12-18% slope. I don't know in how far the 50mph winds had an affect on this, but a ca. 75% decrease in max. speed seems a little overdrawn.
AFAIK the advertising sites are not actual Kazaa Lite links, they are links to dialers and probably other dubious software.
I doubt Sherman Networks will be disturbed if people looking for a cracked version of their software burn their fingers a little.