Comment Re:Serves Google right... (Score 1) 99
no it didnt generate ANY revenue. thats the whole point, that they wont pay for fake clicks. why do you think that it FINALLY happened when in reality nothing really had changed?
Comment Re:You cannot use viruses/bugs as an example of co (Score 1) 691
And then, do you know what the "T" in "TCO" means? Exactly: that even idiocy must enter the equation.
This is actually incredibly insightful, I never really thought of it this way.
Comment Re:You cannot use viruses/bugs as an example of co (Score 1, Offtopic) 691
since it's universally agreed upon that users / admins had plenty of time to patch the systems before conflicker hit, does this mean I should include the cost of water damage to my possessions when I leave my windows open during a hurricane that I knew was coming?
Comment Re:Mod Parent Up. (Score 1) 538
I was the best in my group of contractors and my boss was shocked and dismayed when word came down to lay me off, too.
A lot of delusional people think that they are the best at what they do too, and are absolutely shocked when they get laid off. (As well as their sympathetic boss!)
Comment Re:Eh sonny? (Score 1) 541
I think science has just passed the point where laymen can be expected to absorb all of it.
Being unable to understand the underlying science is what makes him a layman in the first place.
Comment I honestly don't see why this is such a big deal (Score 1) 369
MS realizes that to continue to succeed it will have to charge a different OEM price for "netbooks" and "laptops" otherwise they will be eaten alive based on price.
Because of this, a standard must be set, otherwise you will have a hardware manufacturer attempting to pay the "netbook" price for windows in order to undercut everyone else even though the computer has a 2ghz dual core, etc.
Because of this, a standard must be set, otherwise you will have a hardware manufacturer attempting to pay the "netbook" price for windows in order to undercut everyone else even though the computer has a 2ghz dual core, etc.
Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 615
I seem to remember an online game doing exactly this, you could skip the video ad if you had seen it before but in order to earn the "credits" which were essential to playing the game, you had to correctly answer a question about the video, typically involving to simply answer what the specific product was. (I do believe the site in question is now dead FWIW)
Comment Re:Works for some (Score 1) 177
Can anyone back this up? That they somehow dont meter bandwith with this kind of setup?
Comment Re:jkhsad ass7e bcadjh (Score 1) 302
Or how about a GPS system mounted in the back, where you could input the address you wanted to go to?
It would have the added benefit of showing you the trip you were taking and your expected arrival time; it'd also give visitors a way to make sure that the cab driver isn't taking a longer way for a higher fare.
Because nobody except NYC locals (who would already know if its a ripoff route) would be able to actually use the device quickly enough to make sense. Do you have any clue how much in profits would be lost every year if this added even 10 seconds worth of wasted time per user?
Comment Re:it is available in Japan already... (Score 1) 150
Um, the wireless data infrastructure in Japan is FAR superior to what we have in the USA anyway, talk about an apples to oranges comparison.....
Reliability of Computer Memory? 724
olddoc writes "In the days of 512MB systems, I remember reading about cosmic rays causing memory errors and how errors become more frequent with more RAM. Now, home PCs are stuffed with 6GB or 8GB and no one uses ECC memory in them. Recently I had consistent BSODs with Vista64 on a PC with 4GB; I tried memtest86 and it always failed within hours. Yet when I ran 64-bit Ubuntu at 100% load and using all memory, it ran fine for days. I have two questions: 1) Do people trust a memtest86 error to mean a bad memory module or motherboard or CPU? 2) When I check my email on my desktop 16GB PC next year, should I be running ECC memory?"
The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook 359
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to 'Share on Facebook.' Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member's friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed. I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook's data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it."
Comment Re:Kills Twilight Hack, Temporarially (Score 2, Interesting) 94
Also, you don't really need the Twilight Hack once you've installed the Homebrew Channel
Is this true? Because its the only reason I even own zelda, and would love to be able to give it to a friend to have if this is the case.
Comment Re:Sigh (Score 4, Informative) 94
This has nothing to do with ability of the system as there has been homebrew for a while that enables this feature, but rather that royalties would have to be paid in order to legally enable it. If consumers would be willing to eat the price of the upgrade without bitching, I am sure they would be willing to sell it to you. (Remember how the original xbox required a seperate remote in order to use DVD playback?)
Comment Re:Sounds expensive... (Score 1) 263
There are people who have HIV and didnt contract it through sex or drugs.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus
Does not compute.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus, there are people in the medical field that contract it because some drug addict freaks out while they tend to them. Hell, even though we test blood now many people contracted it through blood transfusions before they tested it.
Care to back this up with anything? Although I agree with you 100% in spirit and i don't doubt that it HAS happened more than once, how about sticking to facts instead of what comes off as even more alarmist than a Fox News story on people sticking razor blades in Halloween candy? Or is "getting needle stabbed by a crazed junkie" now the most likely way one will contract the disease?
