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June 2009
Forbes: Pacquiao world’s 6th highest-paid athlete
May 2009
Introducing Software as a Network (SaaN)
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April 2009
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Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - US: Who Benefits from Circuit City Closure Online
March 2009
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Would you travel to save money on surgery?
January 2009
Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive
Curiously, freeloaders consume paid content in the same amounts as nondownloaders—for games, freeloaders even buy more than non-downloaders.
ODP - Open Directory Project
November 2008
Rands In Repose: Dumbing Down the Cloud
It’s those marketing nerds getting paid too much money to rename ideas we’ve already had.
The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming
This venture is doomed to fail! WMV? Silverlight? Are you kidding? Isn't it about time for Netflix to grow up?
NBC was paid by Microsoft to use this technology for the '08 Olympics - NBC abandoned the technology as soon as Olympics were over. MLB used Silverlight for the same reason - Microsoft subsidized the project. Did you read the news last week? MLB is abandoning Silverlight for 2009 season in favor of Flash.
Netflix is marrying itself to yet another also-ran technology from Microsoft. This should be a fun train wreck to watch!
C'est le film qu'on attend tous sur Netflix : "Le Silverlight infernal". Si ça pouvait nous emporter un Icaza au passage, ce ne serait pas plus mal.
September 2008
Great American Writers and Their Cocktails : NPR
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OTA Search Share: Expedia Leading the Way
PHP Bugs: #17079: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats
The system uses Oracle for persistence, where the decimal separator is a comma, as is a custom in that country. So numbers came in from Oracle, and then PHP was unable to process them correctly. For example, if a client had a debt of 25,12€, and the client paid 5€, then the comparison ($paid_amount > $debt) said incorrectly that the paid amount was more than the debt. Result: hundreds of wasted man-hours. In the end we recompiled PHP without that "fix".
Oui, chez Zend aussi on aime faire de la grosse daube.
August 2008
Yahoo! Search Marketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » this is what the mozilla community looks like
sic.Mozilla paid the way for everyone who attended
July 2008
Results and comments - matousec.com
June 2008
Law bends over backward to allow 'fuzoku' | The Japan Times Online
aaah donc mariage (persone spécifique) n'est pas prostitution. J'aurais pensé le contraire… Les lois sont mal faites !What law bans prostitution in Japan?
The Prostitution Prevention Law, enacted in 1957, forbids the act of having "intercourse with an unspecified person in exchange for payment." It also punishes acts including soliciting by prostitutes and organized prostitution, such as operating brothels.
Legal experts say it is hard for police to crack down on prostitution because it is tricky to verify if a couple had consensual or compensated sex.
The law meanwhile does not ban paid sex with a "specified person," or someone who has become an acquaintance. It also defines sex exclusively as vaginal intercourse. Thus other paid sexual acts are not illegal.
May 2008
Solar System & Rest Rooms - The MIT Press
Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a young artist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turned in, whether they published it or not; a month of review-writing paid his rent--$28.00 a month.
More Than Half Of Yahoo's Paid Search Clicks Come From Partners
