The F1 Olympics: Bernie wants to scrap points, use a medal system in 2009 (1)
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Filed under: MotorsportsThe points system used by Formula 1 has been the subject of debate for years. When the system was expanded after 2002 and began offering points up to eighth position, people thought that would create more suspense since Michael Schumacher was running off with the trophies every year. It didn't work, and now with Schumacher gone, all the points system tends to reward is consistency over winning. Lewis Hamilton won five races this ...
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Zubin said:
Interesting. But it makes it very easy for a driver/team to have a monopoly too. Like Ferrari in 2002.
LA 2008: Top 25 Desktop Wallpapers (1)
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Filed under: LA Auto ShowClick above for a super high-res gallery of the 2008 L.A. Auto Show When the press conferences have died down and most of the cars have made their debuts, we like to roam the halls of the convention center and simply enjoy the cars. This also gives us a chance to take photos of the cars away from the crowds of journalists, and we've put together the 25 best shots of ...
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See? I can be lapdogz i fink ur hoomin iz a bit 2 small. picture: CPUzer0. lol caption: muscula » Recaption This Tagged: big, can, dog, happy face, i, lapdog, loldog, see, what breed, white
Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so (58)
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Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" tomorrow and stop working. Slashdot says that Apple's added "copyright protection" to its video. But copyright law isn't violated when you watch a movie ...
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E.C. Mendenhall said:
Ugh. Thank God for the hackintosh.
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ydant said:
For the same reason Vista, newer DVD players, the xbox, the PS3 all do it...
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Chris Nixon said:
Once again Digital Rights Management takes away rights rather than ensuring them. One of the biggest misnomers of all time. This will naver be a problem for pirated material though, so it seems that is the way to go.
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Jason said:
Dear Apple and Steve 'Hipster With A Lot of Advertising Budget' Jobs: go fuck yourselves.
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Tom said:
thin end of the wedge?
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Zubin said:
...and people still like and admire Apple as a company.
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Vi said:
oh WHY? :(
Gmail Gets Themes (44)
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Gmail's interface was revolutionary when it was first released, but the design was a bit too plain for a lot of users. After a short while, users started to develop Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox plugins that could bring some more excitement to the standard Gmail theme. Today, however, Google itself announced that will be rolling out over 30 different themes for Gmail in the next couple of days. A few lucky Gmail users are already ...
Wait'll they get a load of... the 2009 F1 cars (2)
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Filed under: MotorsportsWhat you see above is a shot of BMW's Formula 1 racer built to 2009 specs. Slicks are back for mechanical grip, but to reduce downforce and speeds -- and supposedly increase passing -- the rear wing has been trimmed down so much that it looks like a shelf from IKEA. The front wing on the car is also larger and wider, and extras like flip-ups and winglets on the front wing, nosecone ...
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? (21)
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An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] ...
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Robby R said:
i really don't understand what they are talking about. Are they talking specifically about IT ppl & servers?
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Zubin said:
LOL!!!!
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Clint said:
much like how coal miners were not paid for the *hour* it woudl take them to crawl through the tunnels and get to what they mined......until they sued.Profit. Easy when you're a big corporation. Just cut corners until a lawsuit tells you not to.
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Lee said:
Interesting.
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WindPower said:
Cay vrai que cay pas négligeable
Social Media Is NOT Media (5)
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We’ve hated the name, but loved the medium, all along. It’s social but it’s not media! Bryan wrote in Understanding and Aligning Social Media: “The biggest problem I have with the term “social media” is that it isn’t media in the traditional sense. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and all the others I don’t have the word count to mention aren’t media; they are platforms for interaction and networking. All the traditional media — print, broadcast, search, ...
7 Signs Your PPC Campaigns Needs Optimization (2)
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Are you getting the most from your pay per click (PPC) campaigns? How would you know? Are you as efficient at getting clicks and converting visitors as you would be carrying water with a leaky bucket? Let me give you 7 signs to tell that you are not optimizing your PPC spend: 1. You use the set it and forget it strategy to PPC. If you setup your PPC campaigns months ago and haven’t adjusted ...
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I had lunch (a big lunch) with a college student last week. An hour later, she got up and announced she was going to get a snack. Apparently, she was hungry. By any traditional definition of the word, she wasn’t actually hungry. She didn’t need more fuel to power her through an afternoon of sitting around. No, she was bored. Or yearning for a feeling of fullness. Or eager for the fun of making something ...
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yunus said:
Burdaki herkesin bildiği kavramları, ne kadar da yeni şeyler gibi ve ne kadar da akıcı anlatmış. Kendisinin dediği gibi "Great minds think alike"
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Margus said:
"Marketers taught us this. Marketers taught well-fed consumers to want to eat more than we needed, and consumer responded by spending more and getting fat in the process.Marketers taught to us amplify our wants, since needs aren’t a particularly profitable niche for them."As pretty much always, Seth has got it right again...
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Novica said:
Thirsty? Well, Coke doesn’t satisfy thirst nearly as well as water does. What Coke does do is satisfy our need for connection or sugar or brand fun or consumption or Americana or remembering summer days by the creek...
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JMO said:
"People don't need Twitter or an SUV or a purse from Coach."
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Vinodh said:
"Creating wants that become needs" - I think this is the cruz any marketer needs to know!
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UTCB said:
creating wants that become needs.要时刻反省，wants or needs？
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vanlandw said:
Love it...
Intel and Abarth hook up on Powerplay Extreme gaming desktop (2)
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Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Tech, FIAT, Toys, Lifestyle Click above for more shots of the Abarth Intel Powerplay Extreme gaming rig As Fiat's in-house tuning arm, Abarth stands for high performance and unique design. The firm hopes to have hit on both of these qualities with its latest adventure in the art of co-branding, the new Powerplay Extreme gaming desktop. The crew definitely got the unique design part down, with a soaring, bridge-like truss holding ...
Rendered Imagination: The Ferrari Zobin Concept (4)
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Supercars, Ferrari Click above for high-res gallery of the Ferrari Zobin Concept It can be argued that Ferrari is known for living out on the styling edge and for staying too true to its own designs. Witness the wild Enzo supercar and compare that to the new California. The former is an F1 car with an enclosed body and the latter has been called a sell-out Ferrari for the masses. As ...
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File (36)
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secmartin writes "The popular virus scanner AVG released an update yesterday that caused their software to mark user32.dll as a virus. Since this is a rather critical file, AVG's suggestion to remove it caused problems for users around the world who are now advised to restore the file through the Windows Recovery Console. AVG just posted an update about this (FAQ item 1574) in the support section of their site. Their forums are full of ...
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Ruben Schade said:
I use Clamshell AV on my Windows virtual machines. It's free AND open source. Fantastic little app.
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huixing said:
The popular virus scanner AVG released an update yesterday that caused their software to mark user32.dll as a virus. Since this is a rather critical file, AVG's suggestion to remove it caused problems for users around the world who are now advised to restore the file through the Windows Recovery Console.
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Zubin said:
LOL! talk about a colossal screwup!
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Aram Zucker-Scharff said:
The popular virus scanner AVG released an update yesterday that caused their software to mark user32.dll as a virus. Since this is a rather critical file, AVG's suggestion to remove it caused problems for users around the world who are now advised to restore the file through the Windows Recovery Console. AVG just posted an update about this (FAQ item 1574) in the support section of their site. Their forums are full of complaints
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Darko said:
This is a bad one. Really really bad one :(
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WindPower said:
Cafouille cafouille
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Chris Johnston said:
Problems like this are why I stopped using AVG and switched to a paid program like McAfee or Norton
Free Webinar: Google Quality Score - Exposing the Secret Factor to PPC Success (3)
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Who: Bryan Eisenberg, Co-Founder & EVP at FutureNow, and Craig Danuloff, Founder and President of Commerce360 Inc, a full service paid search management firm and developed the ClickEquations paid search software platform. What: “Always Be Testing” Webinar: Google Quality Score - Exposing the Secret Factor to PPC Success Quality Score is the PageRank of PPC. It’s a number Google assigns to your keywords which determines how much you have to bid, the position in which ...
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True Story: A friend of mine, call her “Jane”, is a really good corporate blogger. Really good. She’s won awards. Her work has been featured in the mainstream media. She’s a pioneer. She’s a rockstar. Anyway, last week one of her company’s major competitors started their own blog, basically trying to emulate Jane‘s work, or perhaps more importantly, Jane‘s success. What did Jane do? She was cool about it. On her blog she wrote them ...
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