I've made some spare money writing and marketing ebooks, but I moved onto greener pastures long ago. Some of the business strategies or ideas I have had monetizing ebooks:

• 1. Embed affiliate links to other books within the ebook
• 2. Offer additional content that supplements the ebook for a small donation
• 3. Require an email address/newsletter subscription before sending the free ebook, and then try and monetize through the newsletters
• 4. Offer physical copies of the book for a fee
• 5. Break the ebook up into smaller parts for an email newsletter series, and monetize in the newsletter
• 6. Pledge to write additional material as certain fundraising goals are met
• 7 .Turn the ebook into a mutipage website and populate with Google Ads
• 8. Sell resale rights, PLR, etc.
• 9. Initially sell the ebook only, and then unlock it for free for all people after $xxxx has been raised
• 10. Write additional non-free books/ebooks and then use your free ebooks to advertise the pay books

Now I know many of these are not applicable to OP, but it's what worked for me before I moved onto writing GPL software instead of ebooks.

He was promoted to Captain in, I think, season 5.

At IDF, Intel also talked about upcoming 5W Atom chips that will be out at the same as Haswell

Just put steam into Offline mode. Problem solved.

MemSQL is definitely good news, and hopefully it will encourage the MySQL team to play catch up with it's performance. Maybe it will provide an improved web experience if it gets wide adoption and deployment. As a long time SysAd/webmaster/developer, I'm certainly interested, but for obvious reasons I'm not putting any business critical servers onto something this fresh and new, regardless of performance benefits. I think I'll download a copy and use it locally for testing, but like any software, there are going to be bugs, maybe even data loss or security issues that may emerge on certain server setups. I'll see how the changelog looks in 6 months or a year before considering it for my mission critical servers. Regardless, kudos to the developers. Grabbing my download before/if it gets /.'ed

Maybe Slashdot should. Still, it is an attention grabbing headline, and /. users will do the fact checking for them anyway, so why bother? Plus, fact checking takes time and effort. Hitting the "approve" button is far easier.

Call me a cynic, but your second sentence is hilarious when contrasted with your first sentence.

While I'm sure that most of the growth is largely due to actual Chinese sites, it should be noted that anyone can buy .cn names, and some places offer them for as little as $1.99 for the first year. I should know because I purchased 350 of them this year to try and target various competitive terms in the search engines. In short, a lot of the money that webmasters spent on shitty .info names is now being spent on .cn names instead, and that shouldn't be overlooked.

Opterons can be used in a single socket configuration just fine.

I've got a 52" RCA 1080i TV and use the XBox 360 to upscale DVDs to 1080i. I also have a DVD player that does the same thing.

From experience I disagree with you. I've got plenty of widescreen, native 16:9 aspect ratio DVDs, and the XBox 360 upscales it so well that I almost pissed my pants the first time I saw the picture. It was difficult to distinguish a widescreen DVD from the 720p versions of many movies. Specifically "There Will Be Blood" as I had downloaded a 720p version and had the DVD arrive from Netflix around the same time. I took some time and tested my girlfriend to identify the HD version against the DVD. She refused to guess for awhile. Finally she picked the upscaled DVD.