The person who chose the Australian Idol's URL should share in the blame. When registering a.com.au domain, one should realize that a good percentage of visitors will accidentaly type it in with just a.com at the end. The same goes for people registering.net or other non-.com domains. A good webmaster should be aware that since.com is what the majority of people are used to, a portion of their traffic will end up at the matching.com domain. That's why.com domains resell for much higher prices than other domains. They should have realized this and checked out where the.com version of the domains they were considering pointed to, especially for a site targeted torwards children.
This incident got the publicity, but I'll bet that before this, there were a lot of people trying to get to this site and ending up at the porn site.
I've been a longtime Cingular customer using a TDMA plan. I've always been able to get a signal anywhere I go (throughout the cities and backwoods of Oklahoma.) A few months ago, I upgraded to a GSM phone and plan, as they are slowly requiring all customers to do, and my service is now terrible. I can barely get a signal in my house in midtown Tulsa. I never had problems with TDMA, but GSM is a nightmare. I don't think Cingular's GSM network is quite ready for primetime. Oh, how I wish I could re-activate my old phone!
"In the mean time, those of you with DIY proclivities may want to think about wiring one of these up yourself using a PIC chip or other micro-controller."
Or by writing a program to get your PDA with Ir capabilities to do the same thing.
Perhaps the ad should say something like "9 out of 10 computer guys recommend FireFox over Internet Explorer. Ask your local computer guy what he thinks about IE."
The possibility of NETLOD really got my hopes up a year or two ago, but it looks like the project has pretty much gone dormant. If it's ever finished I'll jump right back into my 13 year old LOD-playing persona! Look out Black Widows and Fang Gang!
AFAIK, it was the first door game to offer a downloadable client and graphics pack that allowed you to replace the ANSI graphics with beautiful 16 color EGA graphics. Man, I loved that game.
From the wikipedia entry:
It is often called "the most overturned appeals court in the United States", but this is mostly a product of its high caseload. On a percentage basis...
It looks like the Wikipedia article that you referenced is one of the
most overturned articles in Wikipedia! This is one of those controversial articles that is edited back and forth over and over again by people with opposing viewpoints.
I can't understand why anyone would enter into a 10 year deal for anything software related. Things just change way too fast in this industry. 10 years ago Netscape and Lycos were dominating the net, Windows 3.1 was the latest and greatest os, and open source wasn't even on the radar. Who knows where we'll be 10 years from now.
What gets me is that she spent $800 to "fix" a six year old computer running Windows 98. For that price, she could have bought a brand new, much faster computer with the latest operating system.
I see this mentality all the time. Why is it that people choose to spend 2-3 times what an old PC is worth to fix it? Once it's fixed, you still have a crappy, old PC! Even when you point out to someone that they could buy a brand new PC for what they are spending on the old one, the response is usually something like, "But I don't need a new computer. This one does everything I need." Huh?
If you look at the situation a little more closely, I think you'll see that IBM isn't really giving us much of a net gain in jobs here. IBM has been moving more and more into the services business.
"[IBM's service offerings include] providing support, helping companies migrate from one system to another, running customers' entire computing infrastructure and translating software so it runs on Linux.
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Yeah, SP2 broke my SuperShopper HappySmiley E-Deals toolbar! Luckily, once I uninstalled it everything went back to normal.
The person who chose the Australian Idol's URL should share in the blame. When registering a .com.au domain, one should realize that a good percentage of visitors will accidentaly type it in with just a .com at the end. The same goes for people registering .net or other non-.com domains. A good webmaster should be aware that since .com is what the majority of people are used to, a portion of their traffic will end up at the matching .com domain. That's why .com domains resell for much higher prices than other domains. They should have realized this and checked out where the .com version of the domains they were considering pointed to, especially for a site targeted torwards children.
This incident got the publicity, but I'll bet that before this, there were a lot of people trying to get to this site and ending up at the porn site.
"...under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited."
Does this also apply to websites? Could it soon be illegal to block pop-up ads?
"TUI"
Gazunteit.
Now if they would just build a full GUI for all of the settings and lose the about:config crap maybe even more people would make the switch.
FF Default Home page?
Die, MSN, die!
I've been a longtime Cingular customer using a TDMA plan. I've always been able to get a signal anywhere I go (throughout the cities and backwoods of Oklahoma.) A few months ago, I upgraded to a GSM phone and plan, as they are slowly requiring all customers to do, and my service is now terrible. I can barely get a signal in my house in midtown Tulsa. I never had problems with TDMA, but GSM is a nightmare. I don't think Cingular's GSM network is quite ready for primetime. Oh, how I wish I could re-activate my old phone!
"In the mean time, those of you with DIY proclivities may want to think about wiring one of these up yourself using a PIC chip or other micro-controller."
Or by writing a program to get your PDA with Ir capabilities to do the same thing.
Perhaps the ad should say something like "9 out of 10 computer guys recommend FireFox over Internet Explorer. Ask your local computer guy what he thinks about IE."
Have you seen this?
http://www.landofdev.com/
The possibility of NETLOD really got my hopes up a year or two ago, but it looks like the project has pretty much gone dormant. If it's ever finished I'll jump right back into my 13 year old LOD-playing persona! Look out Black Widows and Fang Gang!
Anyone remember LOD? (Land of Devistation)
AFAIK, it was the first door game to offer a downloadable client and graphics pack that allowed you to replace the ANSI graphics with beautiful 16 color EGA graphics. Man, I loved that game.
"a lot of 32 year old husbands might not have wives who are as tolerant..."
No, we don't... Hold on, honey, I just have to finish this last post on SlashdNO CARRIER
Productivity tomorrow is expected to rise to levels not seen since the 1980's.
How long will it be before you have to have a signed agreement with Microsoft to send an email?
Not long. Especially if this standard takes off and anyone not using it has all of the email they send rejected as spam.
"What happened to the other 2 hours?"
Oh, well. It's close enough for gummint work.
From the wikipedia entry: It is often called "the most overturned appeals court in the United States", but this is mostly a product of its high caseload. On a percentage basis...
It looks like the Wikipedia article that you referenced is one of the most overturned articles in Wikipedia! This is one of those controversial articles that is edited back and forth over and over again by people with opposing viewpoints.
How many appliances does your average household have compared to PCs?
That depends on whether you mean average household or average slashdot reader household.
I can't understand why anyone would enter into a 10 year deal for anything software related. Things just change way too fast in this industry. 10 years ago Netscape and Lycos were dominating the net, Windows 3.1 was the latest and greatest os, and open source wasn't even on the radar. Who knows where we'll be 10 years from now.
It shouldn't take too much traffic to do the job.
If I pay for a /. subscription will I still see stories like these?
"AAAAAHHHHHH!!! Why was I programmed to feel pain? WHY???"
What gets me is that she spent $800 to "fix" a six year old computer running Windows 98. For that price, she could have bought a brand new, much faster computer with the latest operating system.
I see this mentality all the time. Why is it that people choose to spend 2-3 times what an old PC is worth to fix it? Once it's fixed, you still have a crappy, old PC! Even when you point out to someone that they could buy a brand new PC for what they are spending on the old one, the response is usually something like, "But I don't need a new computer. This one does everything I need." Huh?
Or maybe Madden 2005 will be in first person.
"Epic Megagames"
Yes!!!
Jill of the Jungle 3D!
If you look at the situation a little more closely, I think you'll see that IBM isn't really giving us much of a net gain in jobs here. IBM has been moving more and more into the services business.
From a previous news.com article:
"[IBM's service offerings include] providing support, helping companies migrate from one system to another, running customers' entire computing infrastructure and translating software so it runs on Linux.
In other words, all of the things that most companies hired IT workers to do in-house can now be outsourced to IBM. IBM is also offering companies the opportunity to outsource other types of busniess services. By way of example, Williams, one of the largest companies in my city (Tulsa, OK) recently outsourced many of their accounting, finance, human resources, and IT functions to IBM.
I think that many of these "new jobs" that IBM has created are actually old jobs that have been moved from one company to another.