Don't you think it is wiser to wait 24 hours longer (or maybe a week or so) and then release a quality product rather than issue patches. Imagine if civil engineers started doing the same with buildings and bridges.
No... you dont quiet get it. At the surface it might look as if I'm having a free ride on somebody else's feeds. But I suggest you look deeper.
I'm offering a service and trying (hard) to make money from the service. The service is "a random news story every 15 minutes". In the future the algorithm will be improved to post the "best" story every 15 minutes. For this service I aggregate news from a number of sources. Orignal news providers publish the feed so that the aggregators can link back to their orignal FULL story and they can make money from the ads on the FULL story page. I publish my feeds too for the same reason.
But if you still look deeper you will realize that Newster.net converts RSS to Atom. Newster.net Atom feed
Now I'm not the only person who offers such service./. itself uses a similar model. The editors surf the net for interesting (gulp.. i dont believe i said that;) ) stories and publish a summary linking back to the orignal article. (Now you might say that they promote discussion... so does Newster... but I get sooo few visitors and nobody want to comment on 2 lines of news)
This is what i really didnt want. As a content provider its great.. but unfortunately this time I'm both the content aggregator and content publisher. My site Newster.net aggregates news from RSS feeds and displays one news every 15 minutes. I'm sure in the coming weeks the news providers will have Ads in their RSS feeds (some already have and I had to remove them from my list to aggregate). So imagine if I use the Google Ads too. The end user will end up seeing the news headlines, the orignal news provider's ads, and my ads. Then to read the whole story they will visit the orignal site and again see tons of Ads.
My point is to just read a news story Joe Sixpack will have to find his way through tons of Ads.
What will it come bundled with?
I hope it comes bundled with atleast IE so that as soon as people install it they can get on the web and download FireFox;)
The "Internet Spam Gang," as investigators called the group, is considered to be one of the world's largest spam operations and has sent millions of unsolicited e-mail messages for items like pirated software and counterfeit drugs. The gang is comprised of seven individuals and allegedly headed by Leo Kuvayev, who lives in Newton, a Boston suburb.
Outsourcing will definately bring down the average wages. The only way for local graduates to be hired will be to offer their services for lesser pay. This will also translate to lower standard of living. Think about it...
Did you try Real Player? It works alright in Real for me. In fact it also shows exclusive footages and interviews of various worms that were invloved in the production.
"Protecting Your Security and Privacy"
What has firefox and thunderbird got to do with it? In the wonderful world of Phishing there is no discrimination based on browsers. An idiot is an idiot no matter what browser he/she is using.
I come from a country (in south Asia) where they have anti-piracy laws but nobody abides by them because of the slack law enforcement. Piracy is so prevalent that if anybody buys digital content by paying money they would be considered fools. So the few sites that sell digital content target fellow countrymen settled in Europe or America. Now a handful of websites sell subscription which allows me to access latest movies. I pay about $15 for access to the latest movies which are streamed to me. Please note that these websites are illegal and have uploaded pirated versions of the movies. Now if these guys can do it, why not Netflix or Blockbuster? Why cant I pay a monthly subscription fee for online streaming movies? Its high time that they embrace the available technology.
It would be so convenient for me to just go click, click and watch a good movie. I don't have to drive all the way to blockbuster to get a copy at 1:00 AM.
Because of Apple's adoption: "KHTML's penetration on Web designer's workstations will increate by some 5000 % (in words: over five thousand percent!). In the future, almost every serious web designer will have a KHTML-based browser on (or under) his/her desk. " - dot.kde.org
Dont you think Apple has already done enough for KHTML?
Dont you think this joke is kinda old and redundant? Enough of windows bashing. There is more to life than posting on/. with some windows bashing and hoping to please some OSS-fanatic-moderator.
*dial tone* "Hi honey, when are you coming home for..." *buzzzzz* "Automated voice: This service comes with bundled adware. Please listen to this ad and say 'click' at the end of it. Thank you"
"I will be home in a couple of hour. Please make sure...." *buzzzzz* "Automated voice: This service comes bundled with spyware. All your conversations will be recorded and used for targeted advertisement"
I'm just waiting for the day when the services become totally free. They could have a advertisement based model where you have to listen to an advertisement before you can dial. And yeah.. they should have unlimited free minutes with an advertisement of 10 seconds for every hour of talk. Even better.. they should have mobile handsets.
After the party and the hangover please realize that you are BIG and RESPONSIBLE now. So please get back to work and make sure that there are no security issues.
The real problem comes when Genuine users of a service are blocked. I'm used to hearing woes of web masters who have been blocked by Google Adsense without any explaination. I'm sure Google has its reasons (and they have openly admitted that the reason is that they dont want to provide a road map to trick the service).
Now coming to/.
whenever i try posting from home I get a message announcing "bad postings from your subnet.. hence you have been blocked" Now I have tried connecting to various wireless networks. Still the same message. My karma is 'good'. It implies that most of my postings get modded up. Still I'm BANNED from/. (before you pounce on me, I have emailed to the id that comes up in the message, got a response that i'm in timeout zone. Forever???)
Now coming back to the real problem. AOL is a profit driven corporate. Imagine if they insert the names/ids of small time rivals in their list. The poor souls would have no clue what hit them.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't you think it is wiser to wait 24 hours longer (or maybe a week or so) and then release a quality product rather than issue patches. Imagine if civil engineers started doing the same with buildings and bridges.
I'm offering a service and trying (hard) to make money from the service. The service is "a random news story every 15 minutes". In the future the algorithm will be improved to post the "best" story every 15 minutes. For this service I aggregate news from a number of sources. Orignal news providers publish the feed so that the aggregators can link back to their orignal FULL story and they can make money from the ads on the FULL story page. I publish my feeds too for the same reason.
But if you still look deeper you will realize that Newster.net converts RSS to Atom. Newster.net Atom feed
Now I'm not the only person who offers such service. /. itself uses a similar model. The editors surf the net for interesting (gulp.. i dont believe i said that ;) ) stories and publish a summary linking back to the orignal article. (Now you might say that they promote discussion... so does Newster... but I get sooo few visitors and nobody want to comment on 2 lines of news)
My point is to just read a news story Joe Sixpack will have to find his way through tons of Ads.
What will it come bundled with? I hope it comes bundled with atleast IE so that as soon as people install it they can get on the web and download FireFox ;)
Look at your:
coffee mug - made in China
shoes - made in China
clothes - made in China
wall clocks - made in China
crockery - made in China
and now -- click that about box
MADE IN CHINA
That sure does compute..
You cant fine a person $1000,000 for stealing a shirt from WalMart
wait.. am I missing something here? Are all other issues in video conferencing resolved that we are bothering our selves with HD?
The "Internet Spam Gang," as investigators called the group, is considered to be one of the world's largest spam operations and has sent millions of unsolicited e-mail messages for items like pirated software and counterfeit drugs. The gang is comprised of seven individuals and allegedly headed by Leo Kuvayev, who lives in Newton, a Boston suburb.
As reported by www.cio-today.com
Outsourcing will definately bring down the average wages. The only way for local graduates to be hired will be to offer their services for lesser pay. This will also translate to lower standard of living. Think about it...
Did you try Real Player? It works alright in Real for me. In fact it also shows exclusive footages and interviews of various worms that were invloved in the production.
"Protecting Your Security and Privacy"
What has firefox and thunderbird got to do with it? In the wonderful world of Phishing there is no discrimination based on browsers. An idiot is an idiot no matter what browser he/she is using.
The new word for them is Pharmers. Read about it here
What if someone does and they sue them for the act? Whos going to take the risk?
I thought, being a free medium anything can be on internet....uh.. wait... where is lokitorrent??
I come from a country (in south Asia) where they have anti-piracy laws but nobody abides by them because of the slack law enforcement. Piracy is so prevalent that if anybody buys digital content by paying money they would be considered fools. So the few sites that sell digital content target fellow countrymen settled in Europe or America. Now a handful of websites sell subscription which allows me to access latest movies. I pay about $15 for access to the latest movies which are streamed to me. Please note that these websites are illegal and have uploaded pirated versions of the movies. Now if these guys can do it, why not Netflix or Blockbuster? Why cant I pay a monthly subscription fee for online streaming movies? Its high time that they embrace the available technology.
It would be so convenient for me to just go click, click and watch a good movie. I don't have to drive all the way to blockbuster to get a copy at 1:00 AM.
I have heard that this time they are using chickens instead of pegions for the ranking system. Is it true?
Because of Apple's adoption: "KHTML's penetration on Web designer's workstations will increate by some 5000 % (in words: over five thousand percent!). In the future, almost every serious web designer will have a KHTML-based browser on (or under) his/her desk.
" - dot.kde.org
Dont you think Apple has already done enough for KHTML?
WTF??
/. with some windows bashing and hoping to please some OSS-fanatic-moderator.
Dont you think this joke is kinda old and redundant? Enough of windows bashing. There is more to life than posting on
My advice: GET A LIFE!
Hey... whatever happened to TigerDirect's requested stay order on the release? Did Apple stuff then with enough money? ;)
One piece of hardware can run a zillion software. Think about it.
*dial tone*
"Hi honey, when are you coming home for..."
*buzzzzz*
"Automated voice: This service comes with bundled adware. Please listen to this ad and say 'click' at the end of it. Thank you"
"I will be home in a couple of hour. Please make sure...."
*buzzzzz*
"Automated voice: This service comes bundled with spyware. All your conversations will be recorded and used for targeted advertisement"
"byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....."
I'm just waiting for the day when the services become totally free. They could have a advertisement based model where you have to listen to an advertisement before you can dial. And yeah.. they should have unlimited free minutes with an advertisement of 10 seconds for every hour of talk. Even better.. they should have mobile handsets.
Nuclear powered iPods... Mr. Jobs, are you listening?
After the party and the hangover please realize that you are BIG and RESPONSIBLE now. So please get back to work and make sure that there are no security issues.
Now coming to /. /. (before you pounce on me, I have emailed to the id that comes up in the message, got a response that i'm in timeout zone. Forever???)
whenever i try posting from home I get a message announcing "bad postings from your subnet.. hence you have been blocked" Now I have tried connecting to various wireless networks. Still the same message. My karma is 'good'. It implies that most of my postings get modded up. Still I'm BANNED from
Now coming back to the real problem. AOL is a profit driven corporate. Imagine if they insert the names/ids of small time rivals in their list. The poor souls would have no clue what hit them.