Sun to expand unusual pricing model

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Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model

Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model 06/01/2004 07:19 AM
ZDNet Jun 1 2004 11:45AM GMT

Sun tries new pricing model

Sun tries new pricing model 06/01/2004 06:40 PM

"fixed the pricing model"

"fixed the pricing model" 05/16/2004 02:58 PM

Trustix Unveils New Pricing Model

Trustix Unveils New Pricing Model 05/19/2004 11:48 PM
theWHIR May 20 2004 4:10AM GMT

Sun offers new pricing model for
enterprises

Sun offers new pricing model for
enterprises 06/01/2004 11:58 AM
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday plans to kick off its quarterly SunNetwork user conference in Shanghai with new products designed to advance the company's strategy of offering new pricing models to its enterprise customers, including new versions of its Java Desktop and Java Enterprise System software.

Microsoft's monopoly pricing model may
be cracking

Microsoft's monopoly pricing model may
be cracking 03/06/2004 02:01 AM
The combination of continuing security breaches and competition from open source alternatives appears to be putting enormous pressure on Microsoft's monopoly-like, take-it-or-leave-it corporate pricing. Consider the following report from ITBusiness.ca about a speech Steve Ballmer gave in Toronto yesterday: "When...

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on) 12/23/2003 11:30 PM
Mark Bourne says: So my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a page about the town of Bourton.

You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle with sci-fi gee-wizardry:

You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property self-similarity.

Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a 1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a 1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th. scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.

And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of electrons.

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Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model 09/10/2002 09:44 AM
"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."

Not Unusual

Not Unusual 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Should I be scared that this is not an unusual message?

Well, okay, let's give the circumstances: I'm load-testing a server by taking several machines and command-clicking the URL of a dynamic page as fast as possible. When the link is fully-dynamic, the server cries in pain, fights back a little, and then falls to the floor screaming for its mommy. When I cache a very little bit, it looks at me and laughs.

Minimal caching == good.

An Unusual Use for Panorama

An Unusual Use for Panorama 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Adam C. Engst (~580 words)

I'm in the process of cleaning up some LetterRip Pro-based mailing lists in preparation for moving them to Web Crossing, and in doing so, I was faced with the age-old problem of determining which bouncing addresses to remove. After all, if an address bounces a few times, it's probably bad, but if it bounces only a single time, the problem is probably temporary. LetterRip Pro automatically generates lists of addresses that bounced after the last list message went out; the trick is figuring out which addresses appeared more than once. I pondered the problem briefly before realizing that ProVUE's Panorama database was just the ticket. (See "When You Need a Panoramic View" in TidBITS-770.) After all, what were these email addresses but records in a very simple database?

Cruel and unusual?

Cruel and unusual? 04/15/2005 09:30 AM
The Lancet publishes a research letter that finds inadequate anaesthesia is used in executions by< /a> lethal in jection

Cruel and Unusual!

Cruel and Unusual! 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
This week I'm getting off my nocturnal state of being and coming back to regular adult like behavior. I was...

An Unusual Week For Apple

An Unusual Week For Apple 03/20/2003 08:34 AM
If Apple sends teams of salespeople to firms referred by the former vice president, maybe we'll begin to see lots of Xserves and Macs penetrating the business market. (Mac Night Owl via MyAppleMenu)

Library of unusual materials

Library of unusual materials 03/31/2005 11:46 PM
David Pescovitz: Inside the basement of King's College London's engineering department, Mark Miodownik curates a "cabinet of curiosities" for materials scientists. He started the collection in 2003 after noticing that his colleagues trashed all kinds of unusual materials at the end of their research projects. From News@Nature:

His collection now includes more than 300 samples, including artificial skin made of rubber composites, and a material known as a superslurper that absorbs 400 times its own weight in water....

Miodownik trawls the globe in search of additions to his collection. On a recent trip to Australia, he found himself in the remote uranium-mining town of Broken Hill in New South Wales. He started hunting through antique shops there to find a special type of glass.

Miodownik explains that in the early twentieth century people thought that radioactive materials had beneficial health properties. For this reason, they manufactured glassware containing uranium, especially in places such as Broken Hill that had an abundance of the element.

In the Australian antique shops, Miodownik flashed an ultraviolet light on various glass pieces to find one that glowed, a sign that it contained uranium. When he found a bowl that did just that (pictured here), he brought it back to London and added it to the library.

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Unusual paintball equipment

Unusual paintball equipment 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Speci al Ops Paintball's Razorback Mechanized Tank, made from an Israeli reconnaissance vehicle, can fire 30 .68-caliber paintballs per second, launches Nerf rockets, and has space for a driver and three gunners, all for just $42,000. Julius Tank looks more like a truck than a tank. I've never met these two tank crews, but after taking on similar vehicles, I know how humbling it is to watch 30 of your teammates get eliminated in mere seconds after one of these bad boys arrives. Luckily, they can be defeated by any medium-sized Nerf weaponry.

Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons

Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons 01/06/2005 03:08 PM
You might think of Gentoo as a bleeding-edge distribution for development workstations, but the simple packaging system can make it a good choice for any production system that needs to stay up to date.

List of unusual words

List of unusual words 05/06/2004 09:50 PM
Gary sez: "This guy has an amazing collection of word lists: included are word lists for various topics: manias & obsessions, philosophical 'isms'--you name it. Also feathers The International House of Logorrhea, a 14000-word dictionary of obscure and rare words. The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs!"

cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs

gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods

pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost

Link

Slow Q2 nothing unusual for most
hardware firms

Slow Q2 nothing unusual for most
hardware firms 07/08/2004 05:13 PM
BOSTON - As the weather heats up in the Northern Hemisphere, revenue from IT hardware tends to cool off. Despite a slew of recent earnings warnings from their software counterparts, the IT hardware industry should improve upon last year's second quarter amid the usual seasonal slowdown, according to analysts.

How Lance Armstrong Gets His Unusual
Energy

How Lance Armstrong Gets His Unusual
Energy 06/17/2005 03:54 PM
According to a scientist, Armstrong's prowess can be explained by a set of physiological changes that took place in his body.

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP)

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP) 09/20/2004 11:03 PM
AP - North Carolina law metes out heavy costs for a drunk driving conviction, so it's little wonder many drivers choose to head to court to fight the charge. Among the thousands of cases heard in the state's courts each year, defense lawyers sometimes offer novel arguments to challenge the evidence.

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement 05/05/2004 03:31 PM
BrightHand May 5 2004 7:16PM GMT

Google unleashes unusual IPO plans

Google unleashes unusual IPO plans 04/30/2004 03:25 AM
USA Today Apr 30 2004 7:44AM GMT

unusual approach to open source

unusual approach to open source 06/24/2004 07:57 PM
Peerio has an unusual approach to open source: "The source codes for the Peerio444 core will be kept proprietary so that we can avoid spawning hundreds of proprietary commercial systems (see Linux) that could jeopardize our ability to maintain a Forever Free platform. To be Forever Free we must protect the system from profiteers." It's probably not a coincidence that their site suffers from Trademarkitis™.

Google Closes Unusual Auction to Set IPO

Google Closes Unusual Auction to Set IPO 08/18/2004 06:49 PM
The company closed its unusual auction to set its initial stock price after dramatically lowering its estimates for the offering, but the Internet search giant did not immediately disclose how much it will cost winning investors to purchase shares of the company.

Prosecutors Seek Unusual Appeal

Prosecutors Seek Unusual Appeal 11/15/2003 02:15 AM
New York Times Nov 15 2003 0:45AM ET

Google files for unusual $2.7 billion
IPO

Google files for unusual $2.7 billion
IPO 04/29/2004 04:09 PM

Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal,
Build 6.181

Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6 Personal,
Build 6.181 06/22/2004 01:20 AM
fedhead (Jun 20 2004)

SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not

SETI@home spots unusual signal... or not 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz: SETI@home has turned up an unexplained radio signal from 1000 light years away that's, well, unexplained. From New Scientist:

“It’s the most interesting signal from SETI@home,” says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home. “We’re not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it.”

Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.

Some astronomers have argued that extraterrestrials trying to advertise their presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers conventionally scan this part of the radio spectrum.

Li nk

Update: The BBC followed up with a report quoting researchers who say that the news above was blown out of proportion and there is no signal. Nothing to hear here. Move along. (cue X-Files theme) Link

Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6
Personal, Build 6.181

Re: Unusual Activity in Ad-aware 6
Personal, Build 6.181 06/22/2004 05:11 PM
Steve Ryan (Jun 22 2004)

Bored With EBay? Try Google's Unusual
Auction

Bored With EBay? Try Google's Unusual
Auction 08/04/2004 09:56 PM
If you want to take part in Google's novel approach to going public - an online auction of its shares - here's how to proceed.

Re: [security] Unusual Activity in
Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181

Re: [security] Unusual Activity in
Ad-aware 6 Personal, Build 6.181 06/22/2004 11:56 PM
Shawn McMahon (Jun 22 2004)

The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows
- Software for Computers

The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows
- Software for Computers 11/11/2003 02:25 AM
The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows - Software for Computers .. windows was announced 20 years ago today

inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa080499.htm
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Houston Welcomes a Trio of Unusual
Computer Geeks

Houston Welcomes a Trio of Unusual
Computer Geeks 06/12/2004 03:14 AM
Putting their savvy to good use, a trio of business professionals has just opened two new franchises with Geeks On Call® -- the nation’s premier provider of on-site computer services. Crisscrossing the suburbs of Houston in their special “Geeks Cruisers,” these computer pros deliver on-demand computer support directly to homes and business alike. [PRWEB Jun 12, 2004]

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters)

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit Friday.

Kerry's Wife Teresa: an Unusual
Political Spouse

Kerry's Wife Teresa: an Unusual
Political Spouse 07/25/2004 12:54 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 25 2004 4:41PM GMT

NASA's Spirit Rover Examines Unusual
Rock (AP)

NASA's Spirit Rover Examines Unusual
Rock (AP) 02/15/2004 05:01 PM
AP - NASA's Spirit rover stopped to examine an unusual, flaky rock on the surface of Mars Sunday as scientists prepared to send it on a trek that would more than double its one-day distance record.

German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters)

German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 have displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery to prepare for a one-day exhibit on Friday.

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Differential Pricing

Differential Pricing 02/01/2005 09:33 PM
Sometime last year we bought some games in a GameStop store and got a free subscription to GameInformer. It's running out now and with the magazine came a card (actually, the "card" was wrapped all around it) telling "just $10 for 10 issues!". Not so bad. Except that's "in store only". If I renew by mail it's $20. I don't want to go to the store and I don't want to pay more than the "best price", so to the...
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