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Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 3, Interesting) 332

by sacherjj (#29579671) Attached to: The Kafka-esque Nightmare of Palm App Submission

Stuff like this?

I opened a free bank account and pointed a free PayPal account to it. Total time, 1 hour at bank and on computer.

Done.

Apps submitted for sale from Palm.

Yes, there are issues with Palm creating the infrastructure to handle all developers apps being submitted. However, the poster is constantly deciding that he won't do the simple things Palm asks, to help them manage the volume. Fine, those "problem" developers can wait until everything is figured out.

Why in the world should Palm spend hours and hours appeasing a developer of two mediocre apps (yes, I've used both) when the same time could get a dozen more developers setup for submitting apps. Obviously, it is some sort of conspiracy, rather than just good business sense.
Movies

MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading 215

Posted by kdawson from the math-is-hard dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that in a 2005 study the MPAA conducted through an outfit called LEK, the movie trade association vastly overestimated how much college students engage in illegal movie downloading. Instead of '44 percent of the industry's domestic losses' owing to their piracy, it's 15 percent — and one expert is quoted as saying even that number is way too high. Dan 'Sammy' Glickman's gang admitted to the mishap, blaming 'human error,' and promised 'immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report.'"
Internet Explorer

Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes 525

Posted by kdawson from the no-i'm-an-expert-really-i-am dept.
Dak RIT writes "In a blog post this week, Microsoft's IE Platform Architect, Chris Wilson, confirmed that IE8 will use three distinct modes to render web pages. The first two modes will render pages the same as IE7, depending on whether or not a DOCTYPE is provided ('Quirks Mode' and 'Standards Mode'). However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, Web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test, as was discussed here."
Supercomputing

Submission + - The History of NTP (Network Time Protocol) (galsys.co.uk)

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UKDave
UKDave writes: "Without NTP, time would not be consistent over any two computers, let alone a network of hundreds, or thousands. Seconds would be lost here and more seconds would be gained there. It would cause major confusion. This article takes a look at the history of NTP, right from the beginning at Delaware University."

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