You don't even get searchservice.com with this domain. Simarly .org and .net are not even registered meaning after buying this you could be facing competition from similar names.
I find squatters are the bane of the internet. My little brother had a small gaming message board where he and his friends would prepare for games. No seo value.. long domain name. Parents credit card expired and we didn't notice. Domain name expired briefly. Tried to register it again as soon as we noticed. Someone else pinched it. Offered to sell it back to us for $1000. It has been for sale for the past 2 years with no interest..
The squatter has got nothing from it. My kid brother lost his domain name.. I think the majority of squatters are scum tbh.
The only reason I haven't brought a Windows Phone is because I am stuck in a contract at the moment. Once that expires I WAS going to get one.
I am not sure any more. I have an iPad and I am used to free system updates. I expect to get IOS updates until it becomes impractical for the specifications of my device to run the next IOS version. Basically, I expect IOS updates for 3-4 years.
I expected the same with my Android phone. Alas.. that didn't happen. I got one update after a year and am still on some outdated version of Android. This is why I won't be getting another Android device.
I figured Windows Phone would be more like the iPad where you get updates for a couple of years. I thought that the cash cow was the app store, not the OS so keeping everyone that can be on the same version of the OS would be very beneficial.
In short.. if WP7 users get left behind it would really put me off getting a Windows Phone 8 phone. What is the point when I will almost certainly be abandoned by the next update.
I don't believe the app store on any platform is a "cash cow". Apple makes the vast majority of their profit selling the device itself, Microsoft charges OEMs a per unit license fee. I suspect the app store, like iTunes, is break even or even perhaps a net negative as far as financials go.
Both Google and Apple are equally interested in keeping their devices up to date as long as reasonable. Both release one new device each year. I don't see how ios has an advantage here.
update support does not depend on the operating system, but on the service provider that provides the software on your phone. And it looks more like 2:1 right now, as ASUS has been very dedicated so far to update its tablets as soon as possible.
I got constant updates for almost 2 years on my Android phones. Had a Nexus S, now I have a Galaxy Nexus. It is just a matter of choice, you can choose to buy a device that you know to have bad support or to buy the supported by Google line.
My company is going to ignore the law until someone pull's us up on it. This law will severely restrict our ability to analyse how users are interacting with our product. This law will compromise our ability to further improve our product and disadvantage us against foreign competitors.
Our company doesn't track users off the site, we anonymise data so it cannot be tracked back to an individual... as far as we are concerned the law shouldn't apply to how we make use of cookies.
The fine is up to £500k. Realistically.. the fine for a small company is more likely to a few thousand. It would be better to pay a few k a month in fines than lose 90% of our user data. If we implement this we might as well stop developing our product.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but you might want to reword this post. The internet doesn't forget, and you never know when some old post might be used against you.
There's still a risk. Assuming you have done a good job of keeping your personal information away from "JohnnyFlash", no one will find your company through your posts here.
However, what about the other direction? Suppose your company comes to their attention through some other means, and they start investigating. At some point, you could find yourself answering questions under oath. It's conceivable the questioner might go on a fishing expedition, and ask "Have you ever posted on HN under the alias Johnny Flash?" (he might ask that at every company he investigates).
Then you've got the annoying choice between telling the truth and making your company's case for accidental violation much worse, or lying under oath which, if that is discovered, could bring serious penalties.
They are paying attention, one of the companies I deal with used to manage a lot of other companies, and their main website was listed for all these other companies.
Google already have my emails, my search history, a chunk of my documents, a chunk of my appointments. Now they can access the files on my computer? I think not!
The trouble is that the guidelines aren't black and white. They are somewhat grey. This means that 2 reviews will rarely result in the same action.
I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all. Perhaps a celebration of human bodies even, I don't know.
It seems though that Apple particularly feel that its customers require a squeaky clean filter to assess everything they access.
For cloned and low quality app's this is great! Restricting porn... I guess it is a good thing. Kid's can browse the app store. However this grey area between what is clean and what isn't is something they have never mastered.
It is really sad to see Google following this path of over-censorship..
I think a guide to sex positions is as sexually explicit as it can get, it's just not necessarily pornographic.
I also think that the argument that it keeps the store clean so kids can browse it does not really work. Other online stores like Amazon don't have this, you can search for and buy porn there and nobody is outraged. A much better idea would be to give apps a suggested user age, so you could filter the store.
I've always thought the keyword is "explicit" for which the most relevant definition is probably: "described or shown in realistic detail"
I had the iKarmasutra app and it was great; slightly coy and fun, but detailed enough to understand how each position worked. The images were tastefully drawn with the same emphasis. But the detail couldn't be described as "realistic"
I don't think you even need to argue the historical/educational angle.
I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all. Perhaps a celebration of human bodies even, I don't know.
The problem is that there is no one objective definition of seuxality explicit. "I'll know it when I see it" is almost as good as you can get.
I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all.
What does "sexual explicit" mean? It is quite explicit about sex -- it is wholly concerned with sex.
However the app in question is not the historic Kama Sutra. It is a list of sexual positions, and by their own admission, with some subtle between the lines commentary, they seemed to be pushing boundaries on what graphically was allowed.
I work till 5pm. Have done for about 2 years now. Whats happened?
1) I haven't burned out
2) I have retained good relationships with my family and friends
3) I enjoy evenings out
Previously I worked all hours. If my partner had let me I would have brought the computer to bed and typed into the night. I burned out and jeopardised my relationship.
I get that there are times when you need to work longer. When you have a deadline or something really needs to be done. However.. if this is every day for a long period of time then you are probably doing something wrong.
I can see the problem with people claiming to be or acting like sponsors of the event. If you pony up the money to sponsor the event you should see the benefit.
However, clamping down on someone saying. "London 2012 Parking".. what is wrong with that? Its fact. Person is providing parking for people attending the 2012 event..
That's exactly the same problem, isn't it? If someone were to pay to be the Official Provider of Carparks to the games, they don't want everyone else to be able to write something which makes it look like they are too. For a slightly more realistic example, lots of places are providing food to people attending the event, but McDonalds pays a lot of money so that they're the only ones that can advertise as "London 2012 Restaurant" or whatever.
You can get away with a lot in specific cases of trademarks. For example, Cadbury have been able to exert some protection of their usage of purple, but only for chocolate wrappers - not for everything. Similarly here, I can see how the IOC or LOCOG or whoever can exert control over "London 2012" which has a huge association with their brand. Generally it comes down to a fuzzy test of "would it be misleading", and for most people "London 2012 Hotel" probably would be if the hotel wasn't really associated with the event.
I don't think anybody questions if this is legal in the UK. Just if this is sane. And it clearly is not. Of course, I can see why there should be a trademark for "London Olympics 2012", but why for just the city name and the year?
Also, I think it really clashes with the supposed spirit of the games. If it is not a friendly, peaceful and international battle of athletes, but just another event where McDonald's and Samsung can advertise without any distractions, why do we need it? And why should a city finance it?
> Cadbury have been able to exert some protection of their usage of purple
To be fair, Cadbury has trademarked a specific tint of paint that they created (which is the important bit). It just looks surprisingly like purple to the rest of us. ;)
Either short tags would be disabled and cause an error. Or nothing would happen.
<?php echo date('Y-m-d')?> -- Would be most preferable.
<?=date('Y-m-d')?> -- Won't work on half of webservers.
PHP is simple but most PHP servers are terrible. Part of my job is to ensure the smooth installation of proprietary software on around 1000 servers a year. This is the painful part of PHP development. If the client is paying less than $5/mo for hosting then I often run into problems with misconfigured servers, common features being disabled.. hell.. shit not working! Why isn't it working? I don't know. There are no errors. There is nothing logged... yet for some reason the session only lasts 7 seconds before disappearing.. yay!
I love PHP because it is simple and just works... I really dislike 80% of shared hosting providers who cause all sorts of problems with what should be a simple cross platform application.
"<?=date('Y-m-d')?> -- Won't work on half of webservers."
You're referring to shorttags, and how evil they are. Firstly, PHP 5.4 enshrines this echo shortcut usage, and they'll always be on from now on. <?=$something;?> will always work from 5.4 on.
Secondly, "half"? Where the hell are these mythical 50% of web servers that actively disable short tags? I've been working with PHP since 1996, have worked on hundreds of projects on dozens of hosts - shared and dedicated - over those years, and have come across this once, on a server managed by someone who compiled everything by hand (not just PHP, but everything) and felt turning short tags off was "optimal" because he'd read it somewhere. He wasn't a PHP dev, just had read 'short tags are bad'.
I don't doubt that some admins and hosts do turn off short tags. It is no where close to 50% of servers out in the wild though. 5% perhaps? Even that, in my view, would be a huge stretch.
Surely you realize that PHP is alone in having vast swaths of its common functionalitity disabled by hosts because of massive security problems arising in actual use?
This means PHP being crippled on many servers is PHP’s own fault.
Not necessarily. Popularity makes something more likely to be exploited. Compare PCs to Macs re: viruses. Also, many security issues were due to conventions in early versions of the language, e.g. register globals.
thesearchservice.com - 2 million!
You don't even get searchservice.com with this domain. Simarly .org and .net are not even registered meaning after buying this you could be facing competition from similar names.
I find squatters are the bane of the internet. My little brother had a small gaming message board where he and his friends would prepare for games. No seo value.. long domain name. Parents credit card expired and we didn't notice. Domain name expired briefly. Tried to register it again as soon as we noticed. Someone else pinched it. Offered to sell it back to us for $1000. It has been for sale for the past 2 years with no interest..
The squatter has got nothing from it. My kid brother lost his domain name.. I think the majority of squatters are scum tbh.