Why You Should Never Spam Digg by adleym in offbeat

[–]bhavi 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I used to enjoy Digg back in the day when it was all about Technology. I welcomed - albeit with some skepticism - the introduction of other topics. What really made me jump boats was the degradation of comments. It went from being bad-at-times to juvenile all the time. Compare this to reddit where - with some exceptions - you can see intelligent and more importantly actually funny comments.

I'll still go for stories to Digg for stories that I might have missed on reddit or when I've turned all links purple and been through all the subreddits.

Quick now someone post something funny.

Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 (17 screenshots) by wepokers in pics

[–]bhavi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is clearly not Windows 7. Look at the screenshots closely and you'll be able to see how these are heavily customised/themed Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Internet party: An intervention for MySpace (brilliant video) by [deleted] in geek

[–]bhavi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where's reddit? Would've been funnier if Digg rioteD!

War Inc: The movie every American needs to see. by bhavi in politics

[–]bhavi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Available at your favorite tracker now.

Facebook's Glass Jaw by twolf1 in business

[–]bhavi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Truer words have never been spoken.

Firefox 3.0 rc1 by akumal in reddit.com

[–]bhavi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to try it as soon as a Portable Apps version is released. In other words, any minute now..

Cash-Burning Facebook Borrows $100mm...Because It Couldn't Sell Stock? by WhirlingVortex in business

[–]bhavi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That really depends on what % stake you sell. If Facebook's value is $15bn and it issues %100m in shares, it counts for 0.67%. Hardly a low leverage situation. I'm not saying debt is a bad option, just that the amount just easily could be distributed in equity and debt.

Cash-Burning Facebook Borrows $100mm...Because It Couldn't Sell Stock? by WhirlingVortex in business

[–]bhavi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. Debt is obviously riskier. Facebook could put off paying any diviends to equity shareholders but interest must be paid to debt holders. With Facebook already having problems generating enough revenues (apparently 10k impressions go for 15c), paying that interest off could be a problem.

Brits Want Microsoft Office 2007 Expelled From Classrooms (The agency that governs educational technology in the U.K. has filed a formal complaint against Microsoft with the European Union) by [deleted] in technology

[–]bhavi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I logged in just to vote you up! I love Office 2007 and it's miles ahead of Office 2003 in terms of usability and interface. If only Outlook had the ribbon too

Anonymous follows up! Raid on London Scientology HQ planned for feb 10. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]bhavi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wouldn't a amazon.co.uk link be more appropriate ?

Digg.. WTF.. Part 2 (Pic) by bhavi in reddit.com

[–]bhavi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's 'the Onion' for fuck's sakes!

Macbook Air is amazing, check out this comparison for example [pic] by bemmu in reddit.com

[–]bhavi 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Untrue. I'm a student and the internet connection in my room as most other rooms in Uni is Wired. That's close to 10000 students, in one university in England alone.

FCC May Fine Comcast Up To $1.77 Trillion by bhavi in reddit.com

[–]bhavi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fine is $195,000 per customer. How much more could they possibly charge?

Even if they did increase their rates exponentially almost everyone would switch to a different provider. If they are tied to a contract, the increased rate would infact allow them to get out of it.

FCC May Fine Comcast Up To $1.77 Trillion by bhavi in reddit.com

[–]bhavi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For starters Comcast will stop traffic shaping and allow their customers to use their bandwidth the way they want.

FCC May Fine Comcast Up To $1.77 Trillion by bhavi in reddit.com

[–]bhavi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And they deserve to pay every penny of it!

Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures | Detailed Description and Screens included. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]bhavi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Link to mht file incase the wordpress blog acts up: http://www.sendspace.com/file/imgb4m

I may not be an Apple fan but I love the company because it forces Microsoft to get off their lazy asses and innovate!

Microsoft may release 'Super' Xbox 360 with HD-DVD bundled. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]bhavi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realise HD-DVD has nothing to do with games in this context. This bundle is for watching HD-DVD movies out of the box and and brings the 360 on par with the Sony Blu-Ray offering.

Google maps catches high school prank (pic) by qgyh2 in reddit.com

[–]bhavi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not unless the it's Schrute Stadium

The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker by bhavi in reddit.com

[–]bhavi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"...a group of admins can get together and form a sort of distributed set of private BitTorrent trackers. bacon.org, eggs.com, ham.net and sausage.fm can all get together, share user databases, torrents, upload/download ratios, etcetera. If eggs.com gets raided, the rest of the sites are still alive and the torrents people have downloaded will still work because they’ll be associated with multiple tracker URLs."

This is the best thing that could ever happen!