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Living Room / Re: Buzz Out Loud podcasts at CNET.com - Love it
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2006, 11:37 AM »daily tech podcast? sounds great!
going to check it out.
going to check it out.
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eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.
A spokesperson for Google said it has no restrictions regarding marketplace use. "We want to work with everybody," she said on Wednesday.
Only them annoying little things that used to live on it weren't. It's like a planet-pest-control thing.
Doesn't seem to be available yet
What Will Replace Pay-Per-Click Advertising?
I predicted months ago that click fraud would cause advertisers to lose faith in pay-per-click advertising, and so it is coming to pass, according to a new study by Outsell that estimates click fraud at $800 million (not so far from the middle of my back-of-the-envelope estimates):
The perception of pervasive fraud has prompted many advertisers to change their spending. Many are asking why they should fork over money - significant amounts, in some cases — for phantom shoppers.
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The Kama Connect is another one of those USB 2.0 devices that allows you to connect directly to a hard drive or CD/DVD drive without the need for an external case. What sets the Kama Connect apart from the rest is that it has multiple connections for 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch IDE drives and 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch SATA drives.
And since the Kama Connect is available from Scythe for only $29.90 it seems like a must-have tool to keep on hand for any emergencies.
Interesting, as long as it doesn't interrupt my internet connection.
Canaries in the Mac OS X and Red Hat Coal Mines?
O'Reilly editor Brian Sawyer pointed to an interesting observation over at kottke.org: "If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux
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In light of these results, a former director of the testing program, Francis Flaherty, says he has concluded that expiration dates put on by manufacturers typically have no bearing on whether a drug is usable for longer. Mr. Flaherty notes that a drug maker is required to prove only that a drug is still good on whatever expiration date the company chooses to set. The expiration date doesn’t mean, or even suggest, that the drug will stop being effective after that, nor that it will become harmful.
MARKETING ISSUE
“Manufacturers put expiration dates on for marketing, rather than scientific, reasons,” says Mr. Flaherty, a pharmacist at the FDA until his retirement last year. “It’s not profitable for them to have products on a shelf for 10 years. They want turnover.”
It seems unfair to call these languages a "failure."
