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Comment · 3 years ago
Owning a given .com seems to instill a sense of authority on the matter for branding purposes. I don't think it has the same effect like back in the 90's where people may have just guessed at domain names to find something in lieu of a search engine, or like AOL Keywords, but they still do have a bit of prestige and seem to signal some kind of trust on the matter to most.

That being said, nowadays it just doesn't end at a generic TLD, and just by way of owning ai.com they are not going (or expecting) to suddenly see huge influxes of users and traffic... but used in conjunction with ad spots that call out ai.com it's a lot easier to start positioning that authority.

Comment · 3 years ago
When I think karaoke, I think microphone. It appears this makes no use of a microphone or captures the singer's vocals in any way, it just isolates the instrumental tracks and eliminates or reduces the vocal track.

A microphone (and ideally having your own vocals mixed with the audio output) is the core feature of karaoke, not playing an instrumental version of the song.

Comment · 3 years ago
Doesn't appear to be karaoke because I'm assuming it doesn't take your voice and throw it into the mix.
Comment · 4 years ago
I would be shocked if the new Outlook was Electron and not WebView2. Is there any confirmation on that or is Electron the new "Rollerblade" and "Band-aid" for wrappers?
Comment · 4 years ago
Teams is already very close to switching off of Electron to WebView2.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think after about a week, the Windows Search Index goes to work. I only noticed it because it caused my mouse cursor to go from pointer to hourglass every 2 seconds. Went on for about 3 or 4 days.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's not much you can confirm over the phone, except the account PIN and sometimes security hint. But an attacker can pretend to have forgotten it and press that the matter is urgent. If the attacker knows enough about the person, they might be able to convince an agent to make the swap so the agent can:

1) Get on with their day to maybe hit a support request quota 2) Make sure this person doesn't give them a bad customer satisfaction score

Comment · 6 years ago
It appears that RealityKit is going to be that replacement to SceneKit. In the Apple forums, Apple engineers/employees are pushing RealityKit in nonAR camera mode as a multithreaded SceneKit replacement.
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't know about ICANN, but I have had domains suspended for not confirming email addresses on file in the WHOIS on a yearly basis.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
There is no state sales tax that is 10%. If you combine city, county, and state sales tax, you get 10% in just two cities in the entire United States (both in Alabama).
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
As a consumer, RetailMeNot is great. As another website that sells products for commission, it's terrible. If RetailMeNot can find a coupon that I fail to mention, that's fine.

But RetailMeNot also steals that last click cookie with coupons that simply do not work or are not really coupons (Check out the Amazon Free shipping "coupon" for example). That's nothing but cookie stuffing, and if it were any other smaller company doing something similar they'd probably get banned from the Amazon affiliate program.

Basically, imagine you as a website owner buying a product on Amazon and writing a review about it, reading the review out while piecing together a video montage that shows it off, taking some pictures of it, and compiling it all just to get a little bit of commission if someone reads and watches your review. Then the customer searches for an Amazon coupon before checking out, goes to RetailMeNot, and then gets the "Free Shipping on 35+ deal" that is not even a deal or coupon, or even a coupon that does not even work or exist. This million dollar company has stolen your effort and will get commission on that sale. It's just rotten from that viewpoint.

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