Paypal is now cheaper for transactions of more than 50 cents, but bitpass still provides a working solution (and they are cheaper for transactions of less than 50 cents). Bitpass also offers additional functionality for securing content, but it sounds like you wouldn't need any of that.
This isn't even the first HP iPaq with this processor. The 4700 series has been out for a few months and uses the same processor. I actually find HP's strategy with these two high-end models to be somewhat perplexing (it would make more sense if the 4700 series came with more RAM, though I guess that would make them even more expensive).
The "fastest" claim is based on their benchmark results. If you want to see them just click through to the article and you'll find them in a nice little table.
What I don't understand is why Billboard would count a paid advertisement as a spin for the purposes of producing their charts.
It's one thing to pay for advertising so that people will hear a new song, it's another thing altogether if those "ads" can influence the numbers in the Billboard charts.
I'm not into RPGs, but I came to the same conclusion about the PS2. The XBox and Gamecube are great systems, but when I make a list of the games that I want to play on each platform the list for the PS2 is the longest.
The XBox may be more powerful than the PS2, but who cares about the hardware if the game you want to play doesn't run on it?
Yes, it's a dupe. The article appears to be the same as the one that the New York Times Magazine ran several weeks ago. That one was posted to Slashdot on February 9th:
Friendster is "up" but I haven't been able to browse my gallery in a few weeks (either it isn't available when I try or I give up in frustration after waiting 5 minutes for a single page to load).
The price has come down a lot, but I'm not willing to spend more than a few bucks a month. If I had a site that generated enough interest to require even $500/month in hosting services and I was unable to generate revenue with it I would shut it down.
I agree that if you're paying people to generate the content then their pay will probably dwarf the hosting bills, but even if you're developing the content on your own as a hobby the hosting costs can sink you (unless you don't mind paying for a $5,000/year hobby out of pocket). Hosting is way cheaper than it used to be but it still costs some money.
I think that the vast majority of providers of interesting and worthwhile -- yes, worthwhile is a personal judgement -- content are willing to pay that minimal (generally less than $75 per year) cost. What will be lost if all advertisement ceases are the hordes of Geocities sites that have long since been abandoned by their authors. Like the parent said, this is not a bad thing.
The problem is that if more than a few people think your content is worthwhile then your costs are going to skyrocket. Sure, my personal site costs me a few bucks a month to maintain. If 50,000 people per day suddenly decided that they wanted to look at every picture I have on there then I'd find some way to monetize the site by selling ads or I'd take it down.
Very few individuals are willing to pay the bills to host a site that generates a lot of traffic.
Except that most students weren't around in July. You can't make students apply patches while they are off for the summer.
Of course you can try to educate them so that they will understand the need for these patches and apply them on their own, but actually achieving that goal is not a trivial task (and perhaps drastic actions like kicking machines off university networks are the first step in a tough love approach that might just work).
Re:What's with their dialpads these days?
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If you pick most of their phones up and try dialing a number you'll find that the keypads aren't so bad. Models like the 3595 look a little funky but the keys are all in the right place.
I will admit that the 3650 has a keypad that really is too weird to use.
Well I dont know if that picture is the product you are talking about, but I can't help but notice an 'ATI Graphics' branded card on the top right hand side. Last time I checked, that ususally got stamped on graphics cards!:)
Look at that page again. It's the general Xserve page. The picture is just a normal Xserve. The table below the picture lists the specs on the various models. That table indicates that there is indeed a cluster node model and that it does not have a graphics card (or it uses a new card called "None";)
I saw it at the time because an AC who was modded down as a troll linked to it in the comments of some random story. I didn't like the idea when I read about it then and I still don't. My objections are more to the idea of allowing some people to see a site before it get slashdotted than to the idea of letting paying subscribers see the stories a bit early. If the story is in the system waiting to be published it would be nice to try to work with the webmasters of some smaller sites to get mirrors up.
I wish it worked that way in eastern Mass. Almost every phone call I make is to my own ara code and I'm still stuck dialing 10 digits.
I got used to it pretty quickly but I find myself forgetting to dial 1 before making a long-distance call.
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What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.
Going to the sauna with a woman?
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I used to play Snood on my mac several years ago. I even registered my copy. I agree that the current version (at least the Windows installer) is so loaded with useless software that I don't want that I would tell anyone not to install it.
What I don't understand is why on earth the author started bundling that garbage with his game. I would have thought that with the popularity of the game that he would have sold plenty of licenses. I understand that only a small percentage of users will ever pay for a piece of shareware, but I would have thought that with the kind of volume that he has that there would be enough money in it without the spyware. Between the popups on their web site and the spyware in the installer I'm amazed that anyone would think highly enough of the author to actually pay for a registration code.
This is totally off-topic but American Airlines also uses standard headphone jacks these days. Now I wouldn't really recommend American (I had one bad and one terrible trip on American last month), but they do use standard headpone jacks.
I don't see what's wrong with this. I'd rather have them attempt a technological solution than buy some congressmen and have them make popup blocking illegal.
Has anyone out there tried both home networking over power lines and home networking over existing phone lines? I am trying to decide between the two technologies. My parents would like to share an Internet connection in their house. Performance is not a major issue. A reliable 1 megabit LAN would be good enough. Minor side-note: one computer is a mac so anything that I can't get working with a mac is out.
In some states you are still subject to the use tax and when you import something there is generally some official declaration of its value.
My parents recently got a use tax bill from the State of New York for taxes on the dollar amount of goods that they declared on their customs form when they returned from a trip to Europe. The amount involved wasn't even enough for the Feds to assess any import duties, but apparently New York has access to those records and is using them to facilitate collecting their use tax.
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Another option is bitpass.
Paypal is now cheaper for transactions of more than 50 cents, but bitpass still provides a working solution (and they are cheaper for transactions of less than 50 cents). Bitpass also offers additional functionality for securing content, but it sounds like you wouldn't need any of that.
If you really care check out seatguru for maps of the seating on a number of major airlines, including the locations of power ports.
Note that they are generally DC ports like the ones in a car so you'll most likely need a car adapter or a seperate inverter to use them.
This isn't even the first HP iPaq with this processor. The 4700 series has been out for a few months and uses the same processor. I actually find HP's strategy with these two high-end models to be somewhat perplexing (it would make more sense if the 4700 series came with more RAM, though I guess that would make them even more expensive).
The "fastest" claim is based on their benchmark results. If you want to see them just click through to the article and you'll find them in a nice little table.
Segway golf would be a more acceptable option.
Someone already though of using the thing for golf.
I anticipate the day when someone gets this great idea to put RFID chips under the skin.
Like this?
What I don't understand is why Billboard would count a paid advertisement as a spin for the purposes of producing their charts.
It's one thing to pay for advertising so that people will hear a new song, it's another thing altogether if those "ads" can influence the numbers in the Billboard charts.
I'm not into RPGs, but I came to the same conclusion about the PS2. The XBox and Gamecube are great systems, but when I make a list of the games that I want to play on each platform the list for the PS2 is the longest.
The XBox may be more powerful than the PS2, but who cares about the hardware if the game you want to play doesn't run on it?
You can always wait until May 10 and get your free shrimp:
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http://www.longjohnsilvers.com/press/freeshrimp.h
Yes, it's a dupe. The article appears to be the same as the one that the New York Times Magazine ran several weeks ago. That one was posted to Slashdot on February 9th:
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http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/09/0245248.sht
How is that worse than Friendster?
Friendster is "up" but I haven't been able to browse my gallery in a few weeks (either it isn't available when I try or I give up in frustration after waiting 5 minutes for a single page to load).
The price has come down a lot, but I'm not willing to spend more than a few bucks a month. If I had a site that generated enough interest to require even $500/month in hosting services and I was unable to generate revenue with it I would shut it down.
I agree that if you're paying people to generate the content then their pay will probably dwarf the hosting bills, but even if you're developing the content on your own as a hobby the hosting costs can sink you (unless you don't mind paying for a $5,000/year hobby out of pocket). Hosting is way cheaper than it used to be but it still costs some money.
I think that the vast majority of providers of interesting and worthwhile -- yes, worthwhile is a personal judgement -- content are willing to pay that minimal (generally less than $75 per year) cost. What will be lost if all advertisement ceases are the hordes of Geocities sites that have long since been abandoned by their authors. Like the parent said, this is not a bad thing.
The problem is that if more than a few people think your content is worthwhile then your costs are going to skyrocket. Sure, my personal site costs me a few bucks a month to maintain. If 50,000 people per day suddenly decided that they wanted to look at every picture I have on there then I'd find some way to monetize the site by selling ads or I'd take it down.
Very few individuals are willing to pay the bills to host a site that generates a lot of traffic.
Except that most students weren't around in July. You can't make students apply patches while they are off for the summer.
Of course you can try to educate them so that they will understand the need for these patches and apply them on their own, but actually achieving that goal is not a trivial task (and perhaps drastic actions like kicking machines off university networks are the first step in a tough love approach that might just work).
If you pick most of their phones up and try dialing a number you'll find that the keypads aren't so bad. Models like the 3595 look a little funky but the keys are all in the right place.
I will admit that the 3650 has a keypad that really is too weird to use.
How are they going to stop you? Throw you in jail and not let you see a lawyer?
Oh wait...
Well I dont know if that picture is the product you are talking about, but I can't help but notice an 'ATI Graphics' branded card on the top right hand side. Last time I checked, that ususally got stamped on graphics cards! :)
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Look at that page again. It's the general Xserve page. The picture is just a normal Xserve. The table below the picture lists the specs on the various models. That table indicates that there is indeed a cluster node model and that it does not have a graphics card (or it uses a new card called "None"
Taco actually mentioned this idea is his journal a couple of weeks ago (see the Feb 18th entry): http://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal
I saw it at the time because an AC who was modded down as a troll linked to it in the comments of some random story. I didn't like the idea when I read about it then and I still don't. My objections are more to the idea of allowing some people to see a site before it get slashdotted than to the idea of letting paying subscribers see the stories a bit early. If the story is in the system waiting to be published it would be nice to try to work with the webmasters of some smaller sites to get mirrors up.
I wish it worked that way in eastern Mass. Almost every phone call I make is to my own ara code and I'm still stuck dialing 10 digits.
I got used to it pretty quickly but I find myself forgetting to dial 1 before making a long-distance call.
What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.
Going to the sauna with a woman?
I used to play Snood on my mac several years ago. I even registered my copy. I agree that the current version (at least the Windows installer) is so loaded with useless software that I don't want that I would tell anyone not to install it.
What I don't understand is why on earth the author started bundling that garbage with his game. I would have thought that with the popularity of the game that he would have sold plenty of licenses. I understand that only a small percentage of users will ever pay for a piece of shareware, but I would have thought that with the kind of volume that he has that there would be enough money in it without the spyware. Between the popups on their web site and the spyware in the installer I'm amazed that anyone would think highly enough of the author to actually pay for a registration code.
This is totally off-topic but American Airlines also uses standard headphone jacks these days. Now I wouldn't really recommend American (I had one bad and one terrible trip on American last month), but they do use standard headpone jacks.
No, it's clearly illustrated recipes. Everyone knows that that's what God intended the Internet for. And the illustrations are very large.
Recipes for making babies...
I don't see what's wrong with this. I'd rather have them attempt a technological solution than buy some congressmen and have them make popup blocking illegal.
Has anyone out there tried both home networking over power lines and home networking over existing phone lines? I am trying to decide between the two technologies. My parents would like to share an Internet connection in their house. Performance is not a major issue. A reliable 1 megabit LAN would be good enough. Minor side-note: one computer is a mac so anything that I can't get working with a mac is out.
In some states you are still subject to the use tax and when you import something there is generally some official declaration of its value.
My parents recently got a use tax bill from the State of New York for taxes on the dollar amount of goods that they declared on their customs form when they returned from a trip to Europe. The amount involved wasn't even enough for the Feds to assess any import duties, but apparently New York has access to those records and is using them to facilitate collecting their use tax.