in many countries buying up tickets to resell them is actually illegal now. There is a lot wrong with it morally as well, it is pure profiteering that does nothing more than fleece people of additional money, they are not providing a service, they are taking advantage of holes in the system by effecting preventing legitimate buyers buying from source and artificially inflating prices..
There's nothing wrong with domain name parking. If you have no current use for a domain you've paid, you park it. Also, you could use the domain for other purposes than just for web - like email, game servers etc. There's internet out of the web too, you know.
He is not that sort of domain parker. He is someone that buys up domain names for generic terms and mistyped domain names and parks the domain with advertising to get ad traffic from searches and mispellings.
Maybe, but I don't think that's what the person who's the subject of the story does, so if that's what he thought was meant, he misunderstood. The subject of the article appears to offer domain registration services to third parties, along with a system for managing adverts placed on the domains prior to web sites going live.
Actually that is EXACTLY what the subject of the story "Michael Gilmour" does. What he does may be legal but I would rank him slightly above sewer scum. He buys up domains and parks advertising on them to milk money from unsuspecting search results and mistyped domain names.
Huh? So now domain name parkers are considered innocent victims rather than the scumbucket profiteers that polute the web and search engines with advertisings and misleading links?
Do you honestly expect a foreign government to be so stupid as to reveal their plans of misuse to an American corporation? Any government that incompetant is no threat to anyone but themselves.
Where are you getting the 2 to 4 times pricing scenario from? yes the intel stuff comes at a "slight" premium, usually around 20% premium, but it also kicks the crap out of the AMD stuff on performance. I wish AMD would get their act together as I used to love using their stuff, but right now it just doesn't make sense from a price or performance perspective, the only area they are competitive is the low end and even their the squeeze is on.
that actually is a fallacy. When it comes to worms and virus's security through obscurity does help, malware attacks the common denominator, if 1 million people run a service on port 1234 and 10 run it on some other random port you can bet your last dollar that the vast majority of attacks will focus port 1234, No you aren't blocking a targetted attacks, just making going half a rung higher on the ladder so that someone actually has to put some basic thought into an attack against you.
Firstly your confusing Windows Phone 7 with Windows 8. Secondly even Windows Phone 7 now has multitasking as of the RTM this month of there mango update.thirdly tiles do everything a notification icon does plus a lot more.
Apple is barely even on the table let alone a significant piece of the pie. The Desktop/laptop business is jam packed with competition, especially in the enterprise desktop market. Margins are small and competition is fierce, apple rules supreme on the tablet front, but that part of HP's business is even tinier, hence why would the link bother to mention apple?
people want a challenge, players need to feel they are accomplishing something, being handed everything on a platter pleases some people in the short term but if you want people to stay and continue to play there needs to be a challenge. Blizz have been progressively been removing all the challenges from the game, they have catered to the "bring the player not the class" which is nice idea but to achieve it they have progressively dulled down class differences and removed the challenge and variety, for instance all tanks now are just slight variations of each other with the same abilities with different names.
I don't think so, the problem with wow is you can't play the game from 6 years ago or even from 12 months ago, The game has changed and for many it has changed for the worst, dumbing it down to the point where they have sucked the life out of the game. Characters all look the same, the talents and specs are so horrendeously simplified even a moron could created a successful spec blindfolded and the PVP is broken worse than ever, blizz seem to be clueless to the problems and throw more and more weak content and grindfests at the players while ignoring what many wanted. (I finally ditched wow permanently not long after the latest disasterous expansion and so have many of my friends. if nothing else, how horrible the game has become made it easy to finally give it up. )
That is simply not true, it is has been a long long time since production issues have been bad enough that QA is the main reason for downclocking a chip, the vast majority of chips sold for some time have their speeds artifically crippled as people are simply not willing to pay the premium prices and it is far cheaper to production a limited number of identical chips rather than different chips for each speed. Not to mention this isn't even a new practise, Mainframes have worked this way for decades, you buy a box and an upgrade is simply a key (sometimes litterally a key that they insert and turn to increase number of Cores/Memory).
That is more to do with the stock previously being massively overpriced rather than MS themselves being stagnate, while there stock has remained approximately the same price for 10 years they have in that time doubled profit and more than tripled sales. The stock is now at a level where if they maintain the current status quo of steady increasing profits and sales the price really must rise (currently trading at a PE of 9.3 as apposed to apples 14.9, Exon trades as 9.5)
None of the original readers for Hieroglyphics are around either. As long as the message and medium are intact then the data can be recovered, a working reader simply makes the task easier.
Why would they want to convert back to C++, With.NET getting massive investment and becoming an even better target in Windows 8 there is less and less reason to go the C++ route. sure C++ is better for writing the OS etc, but.NET or Java remains the platforms of choice for fast application development. The article is basically some clueless idiot that doesn't understand what.NET and Java are for and mistakes Microsoft's lack of use for writing there OS with it as some sort of move away from.NET, nothing could be further from the truth.
Or: Suppose that you have legal reasons to be paranoid, and physical access to the device by armed thugs with jackboots is only a warrant away.
What then?
I find it hard to believe there would be someone that paranoid and then not take basic precautions of not broadcasting wireless network details.
Isn't the whole appeal of games and virtual worlds that you are NOT yourself when you use them?
If you want to do standup comedy while looking and acting exactly like yourself there's this other system for that. IIRC it's called "the real world".
Wow I have heard of not reading the article, but you didn't even bother to read the crappy slashdot summary. The whole point is the avatar DOESN'T have to look exactly like you, it mimics your expressions and actions not your looks and features. It adds to the experience while still allowing people to hide themselves.
3 or 4 years ago that was the case, nowadays TV's and stand alone blu ray players can do all that at a fraction of the cost, if you don't play the games it is an expensive device.
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in many countries buying up tickets to resell them is actually illegal now. There is a lot wrong with it morally as well, it is pure profiteering that does nothing more than fleece people of additional money, they are not providing a service, they are taking advantage of holes in the system by effecting preventing legitimate buyers buying from source and artificially inflating prices..
There's nothing wrong with domain name parking. If you have no current use for a domain you've paid, you park it. Also, you could use the domain for other purposes than just for web - like email, game servers etc. There's internet out of the web too, you know.
He is not that sort of domain parker. He is someone that buys up domain names for generic terms and mistyped domain names and parks the domain with advertising to get ad traffic from searches and mispellings.
Maybe, but I don't think that's what the person who's the subject of the story does, so if that's what he thought was meant, he misunderstood. The subject of the article appears to offer domain registration services to third parties, along with a system for managing adverts placed on the domains prior to web sites going live.
Actually that is EXACTLY what the subject of the story "Michael Gilmour" does. What he does may be legal but I would rank him slightly above sewer scum. He buys up domains and parks advertising on them to milk money from unsuspecting search results and mistyped domain names.
Huh? So now domain name parkers are considered innocent victims rather than the scumbucket profiteers that polute the web and search engines with advertisings and misleading links?
Do you honestly expect a foreign government to be so stupid as to reveal their plans of misuse to an American corporation? Any government that incompetant is no threat to anyone but themselves.
Where are you getting the 2 to 4 times pricing scenario from? yes the intel stuff comes at a "slight" premium, usually around 20% premium, but it also kicks the crap out of the AMD stuff on performance. I wish AMD would get their act together as I used to love using their stuff, but right now it just doesn't make sense from a price or performance perspective, the only area they are competitive is the low end and even their the squeeze is on.
People still use dialup too, I certainly wouldn't be putting a dialup modem in a modern computer by default either though.
I have not put an optical drive in any of the computers I have built for myself or family for a couple of years now.
Security through obscurity does not work.
that actually is a fallacy. When it comes to worms and virus's security through obscurity does help, malware attacks the common denominator, if 1 million people run a service on port 1234 and 10 run it on some other random port you can bet your last dollar that the vast majority of attacks will focus port 1234, No you aren't blocking a targetted attacks, just making going half a rung higher on the ladder so that someone actually has to put some basic thought into an attack against you.
Why would any competent admin be allowing port scans to hit their servers? They invented this cool thing a little while ago called a firewall.
Firstly your confusing Windows Phone 7 with Windows 8. Secondly even Windows Phone 7 now has multitasking as of the RTM this month of there mango update.thirdly tiles do everything a notification icon does plus a lot more.
Apple is barely even on the table let alone a significant piece of the pie. The Desktop/laptop business is jam packed with competition, especially in the enterprise desktop market. Margins are small and competition is fierce, apple rules supreme on the tablet front, but that part of HP's business is even tinier, hence why would the link bother to mention apple?
people want a challenge, players need to feel they are accomplishing something, being handed everything on a platter pleases some people in the short term but if you want people to stay and continue to play there needs to be a challenge. Blizz have been progressively been removing all the challenges from the game, they have catered to the "bring the player not the class" which is nice idea but to achieve it they have progressively dulled down class differences and removed the challenge and variety, for instance all tanks now are just slight variations of each other with the same abilities with different names.
I don't think so, the problem with wow is you can't play the game from 6 years ago or even from 12 months ago, The game has changed and for many it has changed for the worst, dumbing it down to the point where they have sucked the life out of the game. Characters all look the same, the talents and specs are so horrendeously simplified even a moron could created a successful spec blindfolded and the PVP is broken worse than ever, blizz seem to be clueless to the problems and throw more and more weak content and grindfests at the players while ignoring what many wanted. (I finally ditched wow permanently not long after the latest disasterous expansion and so have many of my friends. if nothing else, how horrible the game has become made it easy to finally give it up. )
That is simply not true, it is has been a long long time since production issues have been bad enough that QA is the main reason for downclocking a chip, the vast majority of chips sold for some time have their speeds artifically crippled as people are simply not willing to pay the premium prices and it is far cheaper to production a limited number of identical chips rather than different chips for each speed. Not to mention this isn't even a new practise, Mainframes have worked this way for decades, you buy a box and an upgrade is simply a key (sometimes litterally a key that they insert and turn to increase number of Cores/Memory).
That is more to do with the stock previously being massively overpriced rather than MS themselves being stagnate, while there stock has remained approximately the same price for 10 years they have in that time doubled profit and more than tripled sales. The stock is now at a level where if they maintain the current status quo of steady increasing profits and sales the price really must rise (currently trading at a PE of 9.3 as apposed to apples 14.9, Exon trades as 9.5)
CRT's are vacuum tubes. also you can still get some high end tube based amps
None of the original readers for Hieroglyphics are around either. As long as the message and medium are intact then the data can be recovered, a working reader simply makes the task easier.
Why would they want to convert back to C++, With .NET getting massive investment and becoming an even better target in Windows 8 there is less and less reason to go the C++ route. sure C++ is better for writing the OS etc, but .NET or Java remains the platforms of choice for fast application development. The article is basically some clueless idiot that doesn't understand what .NET and Java are for and mistakes Microsoft's lack of use for writing there OS with it as some sort of move away from .NET, nothing could be further from the truth.
Have you read some of the comments on stories lately? I fear it may not be simplified enough.
Or: Suppose that you have legal reasons to be paranoid, and physical access to the device by armed thugs with jackboots is only a warrant away. What then?
I find it hard to believe there would be someone that paranoid and then not take basic precautions of not broadcasting wireless network details.
Isn't the whole appeal of games and virtual worlds that you are NOT yourself when you use them?
If you want to do standup comedy while looking and acting exactly like yourself there's this other system for that. IIRC it's called "the real world".
Wow I have heard of not reading the article, but you didn't even bother to read the crappy slashdot summary. The whole point is the avatar DOESN'T have to look exactly like you, it mimics your expressions and actions not your looks and features. It adds to the experience while still allowing people to hide themselves.
3 or 4 years ago that was the case, nowadays TV's and stand alone blu ray players can do all that at a fraction of the cost, if you don't play the games it is an expensive device.
Not to the 3rd party game devs that DIDN'T win on profit on the WII
That's one incredibly expensive blu-ray player.