The way I prefer to do online shopping is with a checking account that has a Visa/MC debit card linked to it. That way, I can use online banking to transfer the precise amount I want to spend into my designated "e-commerce-only" account before I do it. It adds an extra step to each transaction, but it's worth it to me since even if someone had the complete CC info for that card, chances are the charge would be denied. And, if you set it up at the right bank, it's all totally free.
Sounds like a logical assumption, but it's a bit like claiming a driver went from Point A to Point B, 100 miles apart, in one hour must have been speeding, though there was no witness to the driver actually speeding.
It's more like claiming a driver who went from point A to point B must have stolen your car to do so, despite the fact that your car is still in your garage.
For all those airline passengers who are sick of being shoulder-surfed on the plane, a little goatse on either side of you will make sure nobody reads the document you're trying to type ever again. In fact, you may just get the big sweaty guy next to you to move to another seat, giving you room to stretch out a bit.
Every time I hear about so-called "junk DNA" that doesn't seem to do anything important, it reminds me of the ancient Egyptians when they would mummify a deceased nobleman. They hollowed out the corpse and delicately preserved what they thought of as the departed's most precious organs - heart, stomach, etc. - in sealed jars next to the mummy. When they got to the brain, it didn't appear to be doing anything important that they could see, so they just threw it away.
No. Nintendo will probably never support homebrew (or open-source software) for the Wii. Besides, this would require documentation of the Wii API, which is probably very closely guarded; who knows if it will even support downloads of anything?
How closely guarded can the Wii API possibly be, if they port Opera to it? We know web browsers, and people have been poking around Opera's binaries since day one. I'm no programmer so I may be off base here, but wouldn't having something so basic as a port of a popular web browser running on the thing make the API that much easier to unofficially document?
Who wants to bet the next foreign court to investigate Microsoft gets inundated with letters from thousands of American Slashdotters, all demanding then to be nice to our dear friend Microsoft?
Nevertheless it is stupid to have 4 characters, since mobile input is very slow and painful. IMHO ".m" or ".mb" might have been better choices
I think they want to save the two-letter TLDs for country codes. As for.m, could you imagine the total insane gold rush there would be on a one-letter TLD? Think of everyone with a name or word ending in "m" fighting it out for the right to throw buckets of money at the registrars. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they haven't tried it already.
Personally, I love my site readers, but I really don't feel the need to enrich registrars more than I already am just so they can push four fewer buttons to get to me. I'd like to think my content is interesting enough to be worth pushing those four buttons. (Disclaimer: it isn't.)
Besides, wasn't it supposed to be a part of the whole XHTML/CSS revolution that a weak handheld could easily extract and adapt bog-standard site content?
I'd really love to have seen their pitch to any VC firms
Heh, it seems to me that's the opposite of what they're trying to do. I'd guess they don't want to sell at all, they're willing to stick to their own guns and find a way to make it work. The sponsored contests and recent deal with Warner are steps in that right direction. This whole $1.5B thing seems to be just a way to shut up all the megacorps who have doubtless been peppering them with offers like the rest of us get junk mail.
If someone is insane enough to offer that much, well hot damn! Take the cash and run! Otherwise, they get to go about their business, with a bit more buzz-implied value than before.
I seem to remember Brooks saying that he made the movie version just to have a permanent record of the Broadway show. However much the show earns him, it's enough where he could afford to do that.
Yeah, that whole multiple-award-winning, multi-bazillion-dollar-earning "The Producers" musical must have really ruined the guy. He must be crying himself to sleep in his money bin.
No kidding! Just as people were trading around digital music for years and years before the labels had the bright idea to try and sell it that way, the powers that be are finally catching up to all the P2P traders of TV episodes.
Personally, I only follow a couple of shows, and all my TV content for the past several years has been either DVDs (watched on a computer,) downloads (P2P-style,) or authorized streams (bless you, Adult Swim!) I haven't owned an actual television for years.
Name recognition isn't everything. It's a huge chunk of something, but it isn't everything, as evidenced by the hundreds of companies selling their own versions of what average consumers know as Scotch Tape, Band-Aids, Jell-O, Coke, Play Doh, Xerox machines, Dumpsters, and so on.
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The way I prefer to do online shopping is with a checking account that has a Visa/MC debit card linked to it. That way, I can use online banking to transfer the precise amount I want to spend into my designated "e-commerce-only" account before I do it. It adds an extra step to each transaction, but it's worth it to me since even if someone had the complete CC info for that card, chances are the charge would be denied. And, if you set it up at the right bank, it's all totally free.
"Hope you're insured, Mike..."
Electric Boogaloo.
For all those airline passengers who are sick of being shoulder-surfed on the plane, a little goatse on either side of you will make sure nobody reads the document you're trying to type ever again. In fact, you may just get the big sweaty guy next to you to move to another seat, giving you room to stretch out a bit.
Every time I hear about so-called "junk DNA" that doesn't seem to do anything important, it reminds me of the ancient Egyptians when they would mummify a deceased nobleman. They hollowed out the corpse and delicately preserved what they thought of as the departed's most precious organs - heart, stomach, etc. - in sealed jars next to the mummy. When they got to the brain, it didn't appear to be doing anything important that they could see, so they just threw it away.
Who wants to bet the next foreign court to investigate Microsoft gets inundated with letters from thousands of American Slashdotters, all demanding then to be nice to our dear friend Microsoft?
Because .mob was already set aside for organized-crime-related domains.
Personally, I love my site readers, but I really don't feel the need to enrich registrars more than I already am just so they can push four fewer buttons to get to me. I'd like to think my content is interesting enough to be worth pushing those four buttons. (Disclaimer: it isn't.)
Besides, wasn't it supposed to be a part of the whole XHTML/CSS revolution that a weak handheld could easily extract and adapt bog-standard site content?
So they can make a metric pantload of money selling everyone's trademarked and otherwise in-demand names back to them again.
...I'm kidding! It'd be funny, though.
Warning: Do not operate this vehicle if you are under the influence of alcohol, or unprepared to deal with improper advances from your own mother.
Damn! Someone's stolen the federal stockpiles of spray-painted PowerBooks with P6 chips from the "Hackers" movie!
If someone is insane enough to offer that much, well hot damn! Take the cash and run! Otherwise, they get to go about their business, with a bit more buzz-implied value than before.
The Iccccce Warriorssssss will not be pleassssssed.....
(Oh bite me, everyone else got in their scifi refs.)
I seem to remember Brooks saying that he made the movie version just to have a permanent record of the Broadway show. However much the show earns him, it's enough where he could afford to do that.
*comined up yours/hello gesture*
Yeah, that whole multiple-award-winning, multi-bazillion-dollar-earning "The Producers" musical must have really ruined the guy. He must be crying himself to sleep in his money bin.
This version does specify Yogurt and Skroob.
No kidding! Just as people were trading around digital music for years and years before the labels had the bright idea to try and sell it that way, the powers that be are finally catching up to all the P2P traders of TV episodes.
Personally, I only follow a couple of shows, and all my TV content for the past several years has been either DVDs (watched on a computer,) downloads (P2P-style,) or authorized streams (bless you, Adult Swim!) I haven't owned an actual television for years.
Name recognition isn't everything. It's a huge chunk of something, but it isn't everything, as evidenced by the hundreds of companies selling their own versions of what average consumers know as Scotch Tape, Band-Aids, Jell-O, Coke, Play Doh, Xerox machines, Dumpsters, and so on.