“Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn’t”
Proof positive that greed doesn’t pay. We may be nothing but “self-loading cargo” to the airlines, but we’re not completely stupid.
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Topics on businesses, good and bad.
“The Chipmunks: From Rags to Riches”
Ever wondered where that horribly-overplayed Christmas song came from? Here you go, now you’ll have something to bellow over it (and maybe drown it out, if you’re lucky) when it’s playing for the umpteenth time this year.
“US court says software is owned, not licensed”
This is certainly going to shake up the software industry.
“Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9”
Let me get this straight… 32-bit computers have lasted nearly twenty years, if memory serves me (I got my first 80386 motherboard in late 1991). In the last year or so, Microsoft has managed to get 64-bit Windows adopted, giving us access to 16 exabytes of RAM (“approximately 17.2 billion gigabytes,” according to this Wikipedia …
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“Microsoft offers stickers to boost Windows 7 64-bit take-up”
This should help boost the mainstream take-up of 64-bit computers. With multi-gigabyte memory sizes starting to feel a bit cramped, it’s rather important… 32-bit systems can’t address more than 4GB of memory, or even use all of that — my dearly-departed Dell was limited to 3.3GB of the 4GB I had installed in it, and …
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“Aussie power grid threatened by virus”
Despite the title, the power grid itself is apparently not at risk — because its computers don’t run on Windows. Despite the (deservedly) bad reputation it has in security circles, there is something to be said for “security through obscurity.” 🙂
“Bank of America Sued for 1.784 Sextillion Dollars”
“[A] new record for stupidly large lawsuit demands.”
Developing For Windows Mobile OS
Hm… Go tinker with windows mobile. As someone who has written serious, production-quality code for WM5 and WM6, I say this from many months of hard experience: I WOULD RATHER STICK A FONDUE FORK THROUGH MY [censored]. Never the [censored] again will I develop for that platform. My god, I thought X11 was bad… Do …
“Lottery”
I’ve always called lottery tickets “a tax on people who are bad at math,” but Cracked.com takes the opportunity of the recession, and the accompanying surge of “financial idiocy,” to take it one step several steps further. (The truth’d-up lottery tickets are hilarious.)
“Post-Medium Publishing”
Interesting article. It makes a good point, and one that I (and apparently most other people too) hadn’t consciously considered before: [C]onsumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended …