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Comment They Do Serve a Purpose (Score 1) 620

Life any good /.er, I have not RTFA; but I was very surprised to see this on the front page. Tim's reasoning for the double-slash is readily available information in his very own FAQ.

I have to say that now I regret that the syntax is so clumsy. I would like http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz to be just written http:com/example/foo/bar/baz where the client would figure out that www.example.com existed and was the server to contact. But it is too late now. It turned out the shorthand "//www.example.com/foo/bar/baz" is rarely used and so we could dispense with the "//".

I would also like to add that protocol relative URI are useful. I'm sure some of you are familar with the hideous JavaScript Google recommend using for embedding Analytics into your HTML. It would make much more sense to source the file with a protocol-relative URI.

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Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? 280

An anonymous reader writes "Is it just me or is the UK iPhone deal seriously more expensive than the US deal? If you look at what AT&T offers compared to what O2 offers, you get significantly less for your money in the UK than you do in the States. It's also significantly more expensive than other non-iPhone deals in the UK, which offer similar services. Steve Jobs response to the more expensive UK iPhone is that 'it's more expensive to do business in the UK', but what does that mean? As a UK resident I'm disappointed that we didn't get the same plan as the AT&T plan, particularly the free mobile-to-mobile calls. Is there some element of the UK iPhone service that I'm missing here?"

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