Not to mention that it won't be turned off or degraded in times of war, or on the whim of one country's military - quite a necessity for a technology that people and corporations will come to rely on more and more.
I've been with 1&1 for over two years now and, while I don't doubt people may have had problems with them, I've found them to be nothing less than superb. I started out with a pretty basic account and they kept upgrading my storage space, bandwidth and email address allocations etc. spontanously and for free. The only problem I've found is that there's no apparent way to stop paying for a domain name once you've registered it.
Well that's kind of the point, isn't it. Regardless of whether sales dropped because people chose not to buy the CDs or because Sony removed them, the "root" (haha) cause was the DRM in the first place.
Not wanting to sound like a Slashdot elitist, but a lot of people love Reality TV and lap up every banal invocation of it. I believe most of us here despise Reality TV, but we're not the majority of the General Public.
There must be something about watching the mundanities of someone else's life that appeals to a lot of people, but I don't know what it is.
"It's like people who bitch about windows, and yet how much money did MS make from Windows last year? Someone's buying it."
Yeah, the OEMs are forced to install it and their customers are forced to buy it with their new PCs. There is no choice, as everyone here knows.
So I don't know whether that's a bad analogy or not - radio stations are forced by the Recording Industry to play a tightly controlled selection of tracks to maximise exposure of a handful of mega-artistes.
Perhaps the fact that people are buying the stupid fucking records is not as simple a choice as we think.
What else are the BBC going to be interested in? What flavour rice the bloggers prefer?
Seriously though, the BBC is a major news site. Censorship in China is a major issue. What other issue measures equal in magnitude to prompt the BBC to interview a Chinese blogger?
Like any industry, particularly entertainment, there's excellence and there's shit.
Some video games contain the most innovative and brilliant code - think AI and shader routines. Not to mention some of the fantastic artwork, both 2D textures and 3D sculptures.
If people can study film-making at uni, why not game-creation? I'd argue some of the techniques needed for the latter are far more academic.
Let's just hope it's not crippled with over-regulation before it, or any other VoIP service, becomes mainstream. Telephone calls need to do some serious catch-up with free email & IM.
Not really. I just cobbled together two different css templates, which causes my news items to render very badly in IE. If I knew anything about css I'd probably try to fix it, but it's a personal website and I don't really care if strangers can't read my boring news.
My website doesn't render properly with IE, and I get quite a few visits from various tech sites. Firefox's market share for my site is therefore around the 20-25% mark.
I'd be interested to see how the content and target audience affects the browser distribution at various websites.
P.S. Please don't visit my site. It's rather dull, and I'd prefer not to break it.
I studied at Southampton Uni a few years ago. Two years into my course the whole campus basically turned into a building site. By the time I'd left it looked completely different - dozens of magnificent and expensive new building had popped up all over the place.
I heard at the time that they'd got the money to do all this by virtue of having developed the most advanced optical fibre in the world.
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Excuse me? How was the above modded Troll?? That was EXACTLY the reasoning given by the original proponents of Galileo in the first place!
Not to mention that it won't be turned off or degraded in times of war, or on the whim of one country's military - quite a necessity for a technology that people and corporations will come to rely on more and more.
So will anyone make any droll jokes about Newton and Apples?
Not that alert - 5th post by my count.
That would be "people's".
Oh shit.... did I just...? Damn.
I've been with 1&1 for over two years now and, while I don't doubt people may have had problems with them, I've found them to be nothing less than superb. I started out with a pretty basic account and they kept upgrading my storage space, bandwidth and email address allocations etc. spontanously and for free. The only problem I've found is that there's no apparent way to stop paying for a domain name once you've registered it.
They've probably just made a risk assessment: The EU & US are far less likely to punish MS in any real way, no matter what laws they break.
China, on the other hand, could ban all MS products or, hell, probably even round up their employees and shoot them.
Well that's kind of the point, isn't it. Regardless of whether sales dropped because people chose not to buy the CDs or because Sony removed them, the "root" (haha) cause was the DRM in the first place.
Not wanting to sound like a Slashdot elitist, but a lot of people love Reality TV and lap up every banal invocation of it. I believe most of us here despise Reality TV, but we're not the majority of the General Public.
There must be something about watching the mundanities of someone else's life that appeals to a lot of people, but I don't know what it is.
Elf-porn is somewhat of a niche market, though.
"It's like people who bitch about windows, and yet how much money did MS make from Windows last year? Someone's buying it."
Yeah, the OEMs are forced to install it and their customers are forced to buy it with their new PCs. There is no choice, as everyone here knows.
So I don't know whether that's a bad analogy or not - radio stations are forced by the Recording Industry to play a tightly controlled selection of tracks to maximise exposure of a handful of mega-artistes.
Perhaps the fact that people are buying the stupid fucking records is not as simple a choice as we think.
I read this as "Crazy co-founder joins MS"
I was thinking "How crazy do you have to be? Crazy enough to throw a chair?"
But why would they choose to interview a Chinese blogger about those issues - unless they were the specific subject of their blog?
What else are the BBC going to be interested in? What flavour rice the bloggers prefer?
Seriously though, the BBC is a major news site. Censorship in China is a major issue. What other issue measures equal in magnitude to prompt the BBC to interview a Chinese blogger?
Like any industry, particularly entertainment, there's excellence and there's shit.
Some video games contain the most innovative and brilliant code - think AI and shader routines. Not to mention some of the fantastic artwork, both 2D textures and 3D sculptures.
If people can study film-making at uni, why not game-creation? I'd argue some of the techniques needed for the latter are far more academic.
Let's just hope it's not crippled with over-regulation before it, or any other VoIP service, becomes mainstream. Telephone calls need to do some serious catch-up with free email & IM.
I'm not holding my breath though.
Sometimes the quote at the bottom of the page seems uncannily relevant :
"If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence."
Or perhaps even filling some potholes. You know, like our road tax is supposed to pay for.
So now kiddies will get to experience the magic of Christmas through violent games once again! Yay!
Seriously, stupid law.
Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!
Not really. I just cobbled together two different css templates, which causes my news items to render very badly in IE. If I knew anything about css I'd probably try to fix it, but it's a personal website and I don't really care if strangers can't read my boring news.
My website doesn't render properly with IE, and I get quite a few visits from various tech sites. Firefox's market share for my site is therefore around the 20-25% mark.
I'd be interested to see how the content and target audience affects the browser distribution at various websites.
P.S. Please don't visit my site. It's rather dull, and I'd prefer not to break it.
Earplugs? Buttplugs, surely!
Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!
I studied at Southampton Uni a few years ago. Two years into my course the whole campus basically turned into a building site. By the time I'd left it looked completely different - dozens of magnificent and expensive new building had popped up all over the place.
I heard at the time that they'd got the money to do all this by virtue of having developed the most advanced optical fibre in the world.