They normally are fine for static sites as the "unlimited" services are normally limited by the following:
CPU usage
Memory usage
i-node usage
The first two rule out dynamic sites that receive any reasonable amount of traffic. The last one is their way of controlling how much disk space you can use. Basically you have unlimited disk space, but you can only have a certain number of files before you run out of i-nodes so you can't for instance upload a million images to your unlimited web space.
Of course there are a lot of other reasons the packages aren't suitable for serious/business web sites mainly due to the very rigid controls over access and settings, but that is the case with most shared hosting environments whether they are limited or not.
My understanding of the term "less than lethal" is that it is a weapon which when used correctly will not result in serious injury or death if they are not treated. Rather than a bullet which may not be lethal if you rush the person to hospital a less than lethal weapon should not be lethal regardless if they are treated or not.
That said they are described as "less than lethal" because they can kill in some circumstances. Tasers can kill people who have heart problems, plastic bullets can kill if they are aimed at the head and CS gas can cause death by asphyxiation or allergic reaction. Which is why even "less than lethal" weapons are normally tightly controlled and their use is restricted to certain circumstances and to people with specific training.
That is the case in the UK at least where devices like tasers are only used by specially trained police officers. Not available to the general public and carried by untrained security guards and mall cops as in other areas of the world.
I wonder then, why several persons wanted out of their great dream.
While I am not disputing that the incredibly long hours and dubious working standards are not acceptable the number of suicides at Foxconn is more a function of having so many workers than the conditions driving an abnormally high number of people to commit suicide. As you can see below the wikipedia page that you link to states this point in the second paragraph.
Although the number of suicides at the company is large in absolute terms, the suicide rate is still low compared to the rest of China.
Obviously this doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, just that singling out Foxconn as a target for this type of debate is quite counter productive when even the harsh conditions they impose on workers are apparently better than a lot of the rest of China.
Google's search results in this case aren't correct.
What are you basing this on? The spreadingsantorum.com site is being ranked using the same criteria as every other site on Google. It ranks #1 because it is deemed to be the most relevant site for the phrase "santorum". If you search for "Rick Santorum" (with or without quotes) then the #1 site is his wikipedia entry.
Whatever the original motives were santorum is now a noun with a certain definition. The fact that it is also a reasonably common surname is irrelevant. The intentions behind the pages that appear in the listings are also irrelevant. Google returns the search results that are the most relevant for any given search terms. If they start changing the results based on outside influences (especially from politicians) then how can any of the results be trusted?
But for other games they wait until it's available used. I can't afford a new version of everything.
I can't afford to buy all the games I want to play either. Some titles that I really want I will pay full price for on release, all of the others I wait a few months until the price drops and I can pick them up online for £20 or less. Used prices in shops are often the same if not more than buying a new copy of the game online a couple of months after the game is released. When there is either no difference in price between new and used or a difference of £1-2 then I would rather pay that small fraction more and support the developers of the game, rather than the pawn shop mentality of high street game retailers.
There are very few exceptions to this that hold their price for a long time, namely the Call of Duty series due to the amount of replay the multiplayer offers, but the used prices also stay very high so buying used is still barely a better option.
Somebody please enlighten me on how this service works. If you are "injecting" inline frames that have a size of 0 width and 0 height, then how the heck does anybody click on it? I don't get it.
The iframe loads in a line of javascript which initiates a redirect to the target site. The user doesn't need to click on anything as the javascript will run automatically.
What this means in practice is that as soon as a user loads the page they will be redirected to the target site, probably so quickly that they don't realise. This is what makes it so dangerous as the user can be redirected to a page that is almost identical to the genuine one and then convinced to login to the site giving up their login or bank details etc.
Seemed to me that the bans were pretty reasonable. Something on the pavement that weighs a considerable amount and has a top speed of 12.5mph isn't suitable to be ridden on the pavement. At the same time a vehicle with a top speed of 12.5mph is too slow to ride on the road and causes an dangerous obstruction in a dedicated cycle lane of people riding bikes at 10-20mph.
In a lot of places Segways are illegal to ride on the pavement as they travel at 10+ mph and are also illegal to ride on the rode as they are too slow to coexist in cycle lanes or with actual traffic. Wikipedia has a good round up of restrictions in different states/countries.
So essentially they aren't very practical because there are limited places where you can actually ride it. For a device that costs thousands of pounds it is a pretty big deal breaker when you can't actually go anywhere.
Also being slower and massively more expensive than bikes makes them pretty pointless for able bodied people to use for transport and the need to stand up to ride them makes them pretty pointless for non-able bodied people to use for transport.
The parent wasn't criticising making money from patents. The point they are making is that the money they make from patent royalties and selling off assets was nowhere near enough to keep them afloat and that has been clear for some time now.
True for most slashdotters but not for the general public. If their hard drive dies it means a new computer, getting someone out to replace a hard drive and reinstall windows will probably cost them almost as much as a new entry level desktop and be a lot more hassle.
Saying that, hard drives in home computers don't fail anywhere near as quickly as in office machines as they aren't being used for 8+ hours a day.
infinitely more natural (and quick) than using the mouse to grab the scrollbar then drag to move the window
That is true, but it isn't more natural and quicker than rolling your finger down a scroll wheel on top of a mouse which is how everyone has been scrolling for about the last 10 years. It isn't even more natural and quicker than doing using the edge of the trackpad, or a two finger scroll down gesture or for that matter pressing page down on the keyboard.
All of these currently available, but they sell in really low volumes.
They are a niche product. The tablet/laptop combination is very useful for certain tasks but too expensive for it to be a viable alternative to a standard laptop for most people.
I never could find any use for the Android/iOS/WebOS tablets except the occasional need to browse the net while watching TV or while waiting/commuting
That is exactly what most tablet owners use them for. The convenience of accessing online content (through a browser or apps) without having to use a desktop or laptop is what sells tablets.
Google don't have a freemium business model they have an ad-supported business model.
Freemium means you have a large user base of users who pay nothing and a smaller number of paying users who pay for a premium version of whatever you are offering. Free + Premium = Freemium.
Google don't offer premium version of their services they make their money by showing ads to their free users. The only paid for services they do offer are business versions of some products like Gmail and Google docs but this is a completely different market.
Seriously? Do you also think that teaching children to write is a waste of time? Being able to type quickly and accurately is a huge plus in any office based job.
This is why scientists need to figure out a way to make non-sentient clones that are highly genetically similar and highly physically similar to human
The problem with this is that it is the complexity of the human brain that makes a lot of drug complications difficult ascertain, requiring large medical trials and years of testing. Research can already be done on animals to make sure that a drug almost certainly works but testing for side effects and interactions with other drugs requires human trials. Testing on almost human clones with a radically altered brain wouldn't give any insight into this so actual human testing would still need to be done.
The list of side effects given by the parent were an example of standard side effects that are listed for practically any over the counter or prescription medication. Common over the counter painkillers often list possible side effects as scary as 'difficulty breathing' or 'potential kidney failure'. If someone somewhere in a trial had a side effect then it will probably end up in the list just in case.
Neither of the two links in the summaries list out any side effects of the vaccine. This isn't to say that there won't be any though. Even dead vaccines work by tricking the body's immune system into believing it is being attacked so may prompt a variety of side effects as the body reacts to the 'attack'.
While I understand the point you are trying to make you seem to have missed mine. I was making the distinction between a comment, which is informal speech, and the article summary, which as a news item on a very high profile website should surely be held to a higher standard.
Just as s's is now considered acceptable (I consider it gross and a sign of mental fragility), comma rules aren't considered important any more outside of formal writing.
I am not sure who deems misuse of apostrophes and commas acceptable. I can safely say that if anything went out from the company I work for with sloppy incorrect punctuation then whoever wrote it would be slapped down pretty quick. I am not sure what you define as formal writing but the main job of punctuation is to make written text easier to read. I can't think of many places where ease of reading is more important than on a website, especially one as high profile as Slashdot.
to drink tap water, even after boiling, is inviting a visit to the hospital.
As has been said elsewhere drinking water across Europe (and most other holiday destinations) is perfectly safe to drink. That said because the amount and type of dissolved minerals may be different from those at home it is sometimes wise to drink bottled water as the minerals can cause mild stomach upset. This doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the water it is just a case of becoming acclimatized.
It is a similar situation to people complaining that they got "food poisoning" on holiday, or after eating in a particular restaurant. People eat very differently on holiday, normally eating out more which means richer food and trying new things. The same is true when someone goes to an Indian / Thai / Mexican restaurant and eats hot curry, chilli etc. What is usually the case is that they ate food that they don't usually eat and their stomach wasn't used to it which gives them a mild case of sickness / diarrhoea.
Obviously this is very different from actual food poisoning where you can expect to be severely ill and completely debilitated for several days.
This is the entire business plan of these new TLDs.
While this is true to a certain extent at least the.xxx TLD allowed trademark holders to pay a one-off fee during the sunrise registration period to permanently reserve a domain name. Domains reserved in this way don't resolve they just show a plain white page indicating that the domain is not in the registry. What the article seems to imply is that these schools didn't both to do this and now the sunrise period is over they are having to buy the domains.
Buying up huge ranges of domains just so that others can't use them should be discouraged, not helped.
They aren't buying them up, or at least they shouldn't be. The process of the.xxx tld being brought in allows for companies to pay a one-off fee for domains they hold the trademark for. These domains are then removed from sale and never offered again. The reasoning behind this is specifically to prevent the need for companies to buy up the.xxx version of their domain names and shell out money year on year to renew them just to make sure that www.disney.xxx isn't hosting a porn site.
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix is also available in the UK, launched a few months ago. We also have LoveFilm which is pretty much the same as Netflix.
They normally are fine for static sites as the "unlimited" services are normally limited by the following:
The first two rule out dynamic sites that receive any reasonable amount of traffic. The last one is their way of controlling how much disk space you can use. Basically you have unlimited disk space, but you can only have a certain number of files before you run out of i-nodes so you can't for instance upload a million images to your unlimited web space.
Of course there are a lot of other reasons the packages aren't suitable for serious/business web sites mainly due to the very rigid controls over access and settings, but that is the case with most shared hosting environments whether they are limited or not.
I assume you are being deliberately glib to try and prompt a reaction.
Checking various factors such as corneal reflex or gag reflex to establish brain involvement is hardly the same as giving someone a poke.
Your implication that doctors don't bother checking if someone is brain dead before pronouncing them is both insulting and ridiculous.
My understanding of the term "less than lethal" is that it is a weapon which when used correctly will not result in serious injury or death if they are not treated. Rather than a bullet which may not be lethal if you rush the person to hospital a less than lethal weapon should not be lethal regardless if they are treated or not.
That said they are described as "less than lethal" because they can kill in some circumstances. Tasers can kill people who have heart problems, plastic bullets can kill if they are aimed at the head and CS gas can cause death by asphyxiation or allergic reaction. Which is why even "less than lethal" weapons are normally tightly controlled and their use is restricted to certain circumstances and to people with specific training.
That is the case in the UK at least where devices like tasers are only used by specially trained police officers. Not available to the general public and carried by untrained security guards and mall cops as in other areas of the world.
Of course they won't, the contracts would just become more expensive.
While I am not disputing that the incredibly long hours and dubious working standards are not acceptable the number of suicides at Foxconn is more a function of having so many workers than the conditions driving an abnormally high number of people to commit suicide. As you can see below the wikipedia page that you link to states this point in the second paragraph.
Obviously this doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, just that singling out Foxconn as a target for this type of debate is quite counter productive when even the harsh conditions they impose on workers are apparently better than a lot of the rest of China.
What are you basing this on? The spreadingsantorum.com site is being ranked using the same criteria as every other site on Google. It ranks #1 because it is deemed to be the most relevant site for the phrase "santorum". If you search for "Rick Santorum" (with or without quotes) then the #1 site is his wikipedia entry.
Whatever the original motives were santorum is now a noun with a certain definition. The fact that it is also a reasonably common surname is irrelevant. The intentions behind the pages that appear in the listings are also irrelevant. Google returns the search results that are the most relevant for any given search terms. If they start changing the results based on outside influences (especially from politicians) then how can any of the results be trusted?
I can't afford to buy all the games I want to play either. Some titles that I really want I will pay full price for on release, all of the others I wait a few months until the price drops and I can pick them up online for £20 or less. Used prices in shops are often the same if not more than buying a new copy of the game online a couple of months after the game is released. When there is either no difference in price between new and used or a difference of £1-2 then I would rather pay that small fraction more and support the developers of the game, rather than the pawn shop mentality of high street game retailers.
There are very few exceptions to this that hold their price for a long time, namely the Call of Duty series due to the amount of replay the multiplayer offers, but the used prices also stay very high so buying used is still barely a better option.
Not sure where you got that idea from.
You can rent multiplayer games in just the same way as single player games.
You can also rent games that take longer than 16 hours to complete.
The iframe loads in a line of javascript which initiates a redirect to the target site. The user doesn't need to click on anything as the javascript will run automatically.
What this means in practice is that as soon as a user loads the page they will be redirected to the target site, probably so quickly that they don't realise. This is what makes it so dangerous as the user can be redirected to a page that is almost identical to the genuine one and then convinced to login to the site giving up their login or bank details etc.
Seemed to me that the bans were pretty reasonable. Something on the pavement that weighs a considerable amount and has a top speed of 12.5mph isn't suitable to be ridden on the pavement. At the same time a vehicle with a top speed of 12.5mph is too slow to ride on the road and causes an dangerous obstruction in a dedicated cycle lane of people riding bikes at 10-20mph.
In a lot of places Segways are illegal to ride on the pavement as they travel at 10+ mph and are also illegal to ride on the rode as they are too slow to coexist in cycle lanes or with actual traffic. Wikipedia has a good round up of restrictions in different states/countries.
So essentially they aren't very practical because there are limited places where you can actually ride it. For a device that costs thousands of pounds it is a pretty big deal breaker when you can't actually go anywhere.
Also being slower and massively more expensive than bikes makes them pretty pointless for able bodied people to use for transport and the need to stand up to ride them makes them pretty pointless for non-able bodied people to use for transport.
The parent wasn't criticising making money from patents. The point they are making is that the money they make from patent royalties and selling off assets was nowhere near enough to keep them afloat and that has been clear for some time now.
True for most slashdotters but not for the general public. If their hard drive dies it means a new computer, getting someone out to replace a hard drive and reinstall windows will probably cost them almost as much as a new entry level desktop and be a lot more hassle.
Saying that, hard drives in home computers don't fail anywhere near as quickly as in office machines as they aren't being used for 8+ hours a day.
That is true, but it isn't more natural and quicker than rolling your finger down a scroll wheel on top of a mouse which is how everyone has been scrolling for about the last 10 years. It isn't even more natural and quicker than doing using the edge of the trackpad, or a two finger scroll down gesture or for that matter pressing page down on the keyboard.
They are a niche product. The tablet/laptop combination is very useful for certain tasks but too expensive for it to be a viable alternative to a standard laptop for most people.
That is exactly what most tablet owners use them for. The convenience of accessing online content (through a browser or apps) without having to use a desktop or laptop is what sells tablets.
Google don't have a freemium business model they have an ad-supported business model.
Freemium means you have a large user base of users who pay nothing and a smaller number of paying users who pay for a premium version of whatever you are offering. Free + Premium = Freemium.
Google don't offer premium version of their services they make their money by showing ads to their free users. The only paid for services they do offer are business versions of some products like Gmail and Google docs but this is a completely different market.
Seriously? Do you also think that teaching children to write is a waste of time? Being able to type quickly and accurately is a huge plus in any office based job.
The problem with this is that it is the complexity of the human brain that makes a lot of drug complications difficult ascertain, requiring large medical trials and years of testing. Research can already be done on animals to make sure that a drug almost certainly works but testing for side effects and interactions with other drugs requires human trials. Testing on almost human clones with a radically altered brain wouldn't give any insight into this so actual human testing would still need to be done.
The list of side effects given by the parent were an example of standard side effects that are listed for practically any over the counter or prescription medication. Common over the counter painkillers often list possible side effects as scary as 'difficulty breathing' or 'potential kidney failure'. If someone somewhere in a trial had a side effect then it will probably end up in the list just in case. Neither of the two links in the summaries list out any side effects of the vaccine. This isn't to say that there won't be any though. Even dead vaccines work by tricking the body's immune system into believing it is being attacked so may prompt a variety of side effects as the body reacts to the 'attack'.
While I understand the point you are trying to make you seem to have missed mine. I was making the distinction between a comment, which is informal speech, and the article summary, which as a news item on a very high profile website should surely be held to a higher standard.
I am not sure who deems misuse of apostrophes and commas acceptable. I can safely say that if anything went out from the company I work for with sloppy incorrect punctuation then whoever wrote it would be slapped down pretty quick. I am not sure what you define as formal writing but the main job of punctuation is to make written text easier to read. I can't think of many places where ease of reading is more important than on a website, especially one as high profile as Slashdot.
As has been said elsewhere drinking water across Europe (and most other holiday destinations) is perfectly safe to drink. That said because the amount and type of dissolved minerals may be different from those at home it is sometimes wise to drink bottled water as the minerals can cause mild stomach upset. This doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the water it is just a case of becoming acclimatized.
It is a similar situation to people complaining that they got "food poisoning" on holiday, or after eating in a particular restaurant. People eat very differently on holiday, normally eating out more which means richer food and trying new things. The same is true when someone goes to an Indian / Thai / Mexican restaurant and eats hot curry, chilli etc. What is usually the case is that they ate food that they don't usually eat and their stomach wasn't used to it which gives them a mild case of sickness / diarrhoea.
Obviously this is very different from actual food poisoning where you can expect to be severely ill and completely debilitated for several days.
While this is true to a certain extent at least the .xxx TLD allowed trademark holders to pay a one-off fee during the sunrise registration period to permanently reserve a domain name. Domains reserved in this way don't resolve they just show a plain white page indicating that the domain is not in the registry. What the article seems to imply is that these schools didn't both to do this and now the sunrise period is over they are having to buy the domains.
They aren't buying them up, or at least they shouldn't be. The process of the .xxx tld being brought in allows for companies to pay a one-off fee for domains they hold the trademark for. These domains are then removed from sale and never offered again. The reasoning behind this is specifically to prevent the need for companies to buy up the .xxx version of their domain names and shell out money year on year to renew them just to make sure that www.disney.xxx isn't hosting a porn site.