I'd agree on the.com score were it not for the fact that.co.uk addresses add an extra opportunity for mistyping and are less snappy in advertising... "snap-dot-com" versus "snap-dot-co-dot-u-k"?
I went for.co.uk myself, but only due to the price (free with hosting package)... technically, for my site I should probably be using a.org.uk -- but even fewer people would be able to remember that. It simply isn't ingrained in the public consciousness in the same way other TLDs are.
It's more useful to be able to search by server location than TLD, I find. Sure, I probably miss some UK companies who've gone for cheap overseas hosting, but in a way it's a little extra reward to the company I end up buying from for their supporting out economy.
It isn't as if there are really many more quality advantages to be squeezed out of the technology, not for the average home user. DVD and CD are fine for most people... SACD and other formats are just repackaged material with more DRM.
With TV, the only way to force people to accept unreasonable controls is to legislate... but fucking with something that virtually everyone does on a daily basis (rather than MP3s, still something the voting middle-aged and elderly populations aren't entirely au fait with) is going to score them some serious heat and scrutiny.
We can but hope, anyway...
Why aren't heuristics being concentrated on?
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It seems that identifying virus-like behaviour is of far more general value as far as identifying forthcoming (and current) threats is concerned.
Yet there's presumably little money for anti-virus companies in releasing a few heuristic updates every year, rather than immediate definition sets ever few days.
Not intended as a troll, but how much of anti-vir tech responds to genuine threat and how much is produced for the benefit of marketing the product?
This seems to be a hard concept to grasp, but the worst kids could see online isn't a few people having sex for money. And there's no legitimate reason why we should block everything that doesn't carry the Barney seal of approval.
Young kids need a restricted subset of the net.
Not a troll, and certainly not a defence of domain-name scams, but something a number of people have apparently failed to grasp: a basic censor should be mandatory for young, kids, particularly where unsupervised. There's no way anything with "hot teen sex" in the page should be getting through to their browser in the first place.
If the contents on a website are illegal, then it must be shut down.
This presumes that laws are reasonable. For example, the Chinese government has very different ideas as to what should legally be presented online than our governments (and societies) may.
Likewise, there is a great difference between a fetish roleplay site and one which provides an illustrated guide to sawing the top off a woman's skull in order that you might copulate with the brain matter.
A few hoops are what provide people (and I'm primarily talking academic networks here) with transferable skills.
Just basic things such as what file extensions are, and why it isn't a good idea to trust anything attached to an email, regardless of who it purports to be from.
You still make sure anything genuinely dangerous is automatically taken care of, but you make people gradually aware of how mechanisms work...
Oh, and believe me... if you do have a little experience of car mechanics, you'll get ripped off far less often by unscrupulous garages when your car breaks down. Whatever you're doing for the first time... do a little research. Ask some questions. Make a few mistakes and correct them. It's how we learn. First lesson: computers aren't toasters. They do more things.
Pretty decent reporting for a newspaper. And I love this quote:
Microsoft markets its products to less expert computer users, cultivating the sort of gullible victims who click on disguised virus attachments.
Woefully accurate, if the users I've admin'd for are anything to go by. We need to encourage people to think about what they do when they use computers, not oversimplify.
For instance, my optician thankfully doesn't place much faith in the readings of the equipment he has... otherwise I'd have glasses which caused me pain to read.
Additionally, the first opthalmologist I saw reckoned I was virtually blind in one eye. Offering to disprove this by closing the other one and seeing if I could still connect a punch presumably wouldn't have gone down too well...
There's no substitute for an experienced optician, where available. Of course, this work could help hundreds of thousands of people where there aren't.
However, if a concept is simple to express in a given language (eg, a word or two rather than a sentence) it stands more chance of being expressed regularly in conversation, no?
For example, "I", "we", "you", "and", "the" etc. are all monosyllabic, and not without reason.
The desire to express concepts without providing explanation constantly is what leads us to, for example, use the word "schadenfreude" -- it only has to be explained once as a concept, then we can use the shorthand word with a given group of people.
The writer of the article may never recant, but he can be highlighted as being an ignorant fool by a calm, intelligent rebuttal.
It's worth supporting things you believe in when the alternative is to let lies and FUD spread uncontested. It's particularly worthwhile for the benefit of those in the slightly wider audience who aren't generally informed about tech matters, and who might otherwise be swayed by rhetoric.
Unfortunately, this is a key requirement where I work. Thousands of documents are stored in single-file *.mht format... is there anything which can persuade Mozilla/Firefox to read/write them?
The most noticeable difference I've noticed in the US is the number of chocolate bars which contain peanuts. With products containing nut oils being given to more and younger children, instances of anaphylactic shock have risen sharply over the last decade or so.
"Am I to assume from the tone of your post that if you were to be able to have a girlfriend/boyfriend you would completely ignore looks?"
This would depend on whether, as in your example, I was purchasing one... a better comparison with computer hardware might be a vibrator. In which sales area I'd suggest function wins out over neat colour schemes...
...I uploaded some tunes for friends whilst I had a nice, fat university pipe to play with. I do so hope "Muppet" makes the cut!
Miss Piggy! Miss Piggy!
Will you tell me? Do you love me?
Oh Kermie! Oh Kermie!
I love you! Always will do!
You never loved me, you only loved Fozzie bear!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
You never loved me, 'cause I am a frog (again)!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
Oh Fozzie! Oh Fozzie!
We used to be friends! It used to be so cool!
Miss Piggy! Miss Piggy!
You humiliate me! In front of my best friends!
You never loved me, you only loved Fozzie bear!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
You never loved me, 'cause I am a frog (again)!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
to establish a baseline wage for a full time worker to live in this country.
...and people can't live in the US if US companies aren't forced to provide a share of the job they create to a domestic workforce. I'm not seeing the contradiction in interest here.
There's the wider problem that US minimum wage in a developing country would destroy some economies.
Possibly, it would be better to force companies to employ domestic workers wherever possible... the only problem with that is that administrations are controlled by industry lobbyists.
If there were enough transparency that consumers could easily choose an alternative to goods produced by American companies through sweatshop labour, it would help put pressure on those companies. Unfortunately, I don't know of many large companies whose hands are truly clean in this respect... there's a lot of diversification of parent companies and hiding behind different branch labels.
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I went for .co.uk myself, but only due to the price (free with hosting package)... technically, for my site I should probably be using a .org.uk -- but even fewer people would be able to remember that. It simply isn't ingrained in the public consciousness in the same way other TLDs are.
It's more useful to be able to search by server location than TLD, I find. Sure, I probably miss some UK companies who've gone for cheap overseas hosting, but in a way it's a little extra reward to the company I end up buying from for their supporting out economy.
With TV, the only way to force people to accept unreasonable controls is to legislate... but fucking with something that virtually everyone does on a daily basis (rather than MP3s, still something the voting middle-aged and elderly populations aren't entirely au fait with) is going to score them some serious heat and scrutiny.
We can but hope, anyway...
Yet there's presumably little money for anti-virus companies in releasing a few heuristic updates every year, rather than immediate definition sets ever few days.
Not intended as a troll, but how much of anti-vir tech responds to genuine threat and how much is produced for the benefit of marketing the product?
It's like Ctrl-Alt-Delete for the general public! ;)
Young kids need a restricted subset of the net.
Not a troll, and certainly not a defence of domain-name scams, but something a number of people have apparently failed to grasp: a basic censor should be mandatory for young, kids, particularly where unsupervised. There's no way anything with "hot teen sex" in the page should be getting through to their browser in the first place.
Nice to know that creative writing module and those perusals of Lovecraftian fiction in my teenage years weren't wasted... ;-)
This presumes that laws are reasonable. For example, the Chinese government has very different ideas as to what should legally be presented online than our governments (and societies) may.
Likewise, there is a great difference between a fetish roleplay site and one which provides an illustrated guide to sawing the top off a woman's skull in order that you might copulate with the brain matter.
Just basic things such as what file extensions are, and why it isn't a good idea to trust anything attached to an email, regardless of who it purports to be from.
You still make sure anything genuinely dangerous is automatically taken care of, but you make people gradually aware of how mechanisms work...
Oh, and believe me... if you do have a little experience of car mechanics, you'll get ripped off far less often by unscrupulous garages when your car breaks down. Whatever you're doing for the first time... do a little research. Ask some questions. Make a few mistakes and correct them. It's how we learn. First lesson: computers aren't toasters. They do more things.
Microsoft markets its products to less expert computer users, cultivating the sort of gullible victims who click on disguised virus attachments.
Woefully accurate, if the users I've admin'd for are anything to go by. We need to encourage people to think about what they do when they use computers, not oversimplify.
Smells? No chance!
Additionally, the first opthalmologist I saw reckoned I was virtually blind in one eye. Offering to disprove this by closing the other one and seeing if I could still connect a punch presumably wouldn't have gone down too well...
There's no substitute for an experienced optician, where available. Of course, this work could help hundreds of thousands of people where there aren't.
True... to an extent. The 'best' solution involves holding the patent, and letting people use it for humanitarian work for free.
For example, "I", "we", "you", "and", "the" etc. are all monosyllabic, and not without reason.
The desire to express concepts without providing explanation constantly is what leads us to, for example, use the word "schadenfreude" -- it only has to be explained once as a concept, then we can use the shorthand word with a given group of people.
It's worth supporting things you believe in when the alternative is to let lies and FUD spread uncontested. It's particularly worthwhile for the benefit of those in the slightly wider audience who aren't generally informed about tech matters, and who might otherwise be swayed by rhetoric.
Nice article!
After all, it's just a wrapper format.
I'm sure that isn't what he meant to write, but the suggest that anonymity conveys truth is a poor one.
It may enable it in some cases, but the best solution is to rate by positive reviews you can trust. Silence speaks louder than anything.
There are no modchips.
That was such a "there is no spoon" moment... =D
Spare compact-flash is also a cheap way to get an MP3 player to exercise with; something which will make use of the card costs very little.
The most noticeable difference I've noticed in the US is the number of chocolate bars which contain peanuts. With products containing nut oils being given to more and younger children, instances of anaphylactic shock have risen sharply over the last decade or so.
This would depend on whether, as in your example, I was purchasing one... a better comparison with computer hardware might be a vibrator. In which sales area I'd suggest function wins out over neat colour schemes...
Miss Piggy! Miss Piggy!
Will you tell me? Do you love me?
Oh Kermie! Oh Kermie!
I love you! Always will do!
You never loved me, you only loved Fozzie bear!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I
shouldn't care!
You never loved me, 'cause I am a frog (again)!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
Oh Fozzie! Oh Fozzie!
We used to be friends! It used to be so cool!
Miss Piggy! Miss Piggy!
You humiliate me! In front of my best friends!
You never loved me, you only loved Fozzie bear!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
You never loved me, 'cause I am a frog (again)!
You never loved me, tho' I'm a puppet and I shouldn't care!
*snigger*
Just what every elevator needs...
There's the wider problem that US minimum wage in a developing country would destroy some economies.
Possibly, it would be better to force companies to employ domestic workers wherever possible... the only problem with that is that administrations are controlled by industry lobbyists.
If there were enough transparency that consumers could easily choose an alternative to goods produced by American companies through sweatshop labour, it would help put pressure on those companies. Unfortunately, I don't know of many large companies whose hands are truly clean in this respect... there's a lot of diversification of parent companies and hiding behind different branch labels.
I suspect this'll compete well with the mini-iPods.
I'm downloading it now... apparently it's roughly equivalent. I'm sure someone will correct if I've got the wrong end of the stick.