Thing is, I have the DS and it plays both DS games and GBA games. So for me to go to the micro no matter HOW small it is would require two devices, so I'm sticking w/ the DS myself. If I'm going to carry two devices around in my bag (chick gamer) it'll be the DS and the PSP (if/when they get Katamari for the PSP).
That's the problem with flickr, if you have a photo of a stop sign, which tag do you assign to it?
sign signs stopsign stopsigns (tags like "stop sign" are converted to one word)
what about my camera phone images? there are tags of: nokia nokia3650 moblog cameraphone...and more.
I don't have all day to assign multiple tags and to research what tags others are using.
I think "lazy tagging" is stuff like mispelling a tag or starting a new tag that no one used before whena better one is available, like starting stopsigns when stopsign alreay exists.
I do that, but I use spamex.com to do it. U get tons of disposeable email addresses. I have my own domains, but spamex's interface just makes it easier. I also hosted my own domain there so that I could have my own domain name but still use spamex's interface. I've been doing this for years and it's amazing, I have NO spam at home (my main, private email addy that only family has). If I get spam, I turn off the email addy it was sent to. Viola.
I had to turn all my catchalls off (for several domains) because when a spammer decided to spoof my domain, I got several hundred spams A MINUTE that bounced bak and flooded my inbox. This happened several times (i.e. toeach of my domains) and in the end I had to turn off all the catch alls to stop the flood of spam bounces. Hundreds a minute! Those were a few bad days.
I was talking to a lady once who told me that "the owner of the internet is in town". Turns out she meant Stephen Case, CEO? of AOL. It blew my mind that anyone could think that one guy owns the entire internet.
Is there any chance that people who try Linux for the 1st time this way will be scared off because the performance will not be as good as pure linux? I mean, if it's running on TOP of a windows OS, it sure won't be lean and fast. I think alot of people are interested in Linux because of how lean and reliable it can be. But Linux on top of Windows can't be lean, and it can't be any more reliable than the windows install underneath. (?)
A newbie who doesn't know better may say "eh, this ain't no faster" and go back to what he/she knows (windows). ??? Laserone
What I do is I signed up w/ spamex.com and for each email address I have to give out (for anything but personal correspondance) I create a disposeable alias. Then if/when I get spam, a) I know where it came from and, b) I can turn that alias off, thereby stopping the spam. It's low-tech but it works for me.
I like this tactic. (see my post "Why I support the boycott") I would gladly pay a few cents, like you said, per download. Gladly. Any RIAA people in here listening or taking votes? Hello? No, they're probably at the golf course right now. I think this is a great idea.
Yesterday on CNN Headline News they stated that "studies have shown" that Napster users (or was it MP3 users?) tend to buy more music. I can attest to that.
I have been preaching for years how mp3's have facilitated the buying of better music for me. The thing is... and I wish the record companies realized this... I've actually bought cd's that I would -not- have bought otherwise if I had not been exposed to the music via mp3 first. I've downloaded songs out of curiosity then fell in love with the band and then bought multiple cd's by the artist. But just try to convince the record companies that it actually works this way!
I would be willing to pay for single-song downloads so long as they weren't any more money than a cassette single. I'd even pay for an entire cd via mp3 so long as it was a decent price. But so far these processes are not the norm, although it would save the record companies and artists the costs of a middle man and the media (cd or cassette) and they'd make more profit.
But no, the record companies are using "piracy" as an excuse to strip the rights of the individual because they are AFRAID.
Just like the DVD thing: They're not afraid of us copying the DVD's (it's not worth the trouble or the money). They just want to control what device we watch it on (devices produced by people who paid for the rights first). Thus aleinating Linux users, etc.
Did dual cassette decks or blank cassette tapes get outlawed? No. The public was -trusted- to obey copyright laws, and for the most part they did. Obviously! The recoding industry didn't crumble as soon as recordable cassettes came out.
The RIAA and other groups like it have to realize that they will keep customers if they respect them. This is why I support the boycotts, and agree with the statement at http://boycott-riaa.com/ that THE FANS control the music industry.
If the RIAA fights us on this, we will find other ways arond the issue and continue to do things behind their back, FOR FREE and they will lose out. If they give us respect and freedom by giving us the chance to use this new technology to it's fullest while obeying copyright laws at least as well as we did with cassettes, then they could make life easier and more fun for listeners, AND make more than a few bucks here and there by embracing this new technology and offering nice clean mp3 downloads for a small fee... heck, even via Napster!
But so far these stuffed-suits don't seem to be smart enough to see it this way.
What scares me, is these people signing more people up to become lemmings, who are afraid to use the REAL internet. Every day, AOL and similar companies are creating internet users who will never learn how to use the internet to it's full advantage, irc, newsgroups (not DEJA!), etc. It's these lemmings that call me up daily and ask for me to help them with the LAMEest stuff. My point: This kind of thing DOES scare me because it continues the 'dumbing down of America' that's so rampant. "Don't worry, you don't have to think, you don't have to LEARN anything new, we'll spoon-feed you what we think you need." It's a biological fact, if you don't exercise your brain, it functions less.
People, stop name-calling and insulting. It's a common misconception. It's all explained at http://www.millennium321.com/. You don't start counting with zero, you start counting with one. ~Peace
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Thing is, I have the DS and it plays both DS games and GBA games. So for me to go to the micro no matter HOW small it is would require two devices, so I'm sticking w/ the DS myself. If I'm going to carry two devices around in my bag (chick gamer) it'll be the DS and the PSP (if/when they get Katamari for the PSP).
That's the problem with flickr, if you have a photo of a stop sign, which tag do you assign to it?
...and more.
sign
signs
stopsign
stopsigns
(tags like "stop sign" are converted to one word)
what about my camera phone images?
there are tags of:
nokia
nokia3650
moblog
cameraphone
I don't have all day to assign multiple tags and to research what tags others are using.
I think "lazy tagging" is stuff like mispelling a tag or starting a new tag that no one used before whena better one is available, like starting stopsigns when stopsign alreay exists.
I do that, but I use spamex.com to do it. U get tons of disposeable email addresses. I have my own domains, but spamex's interface just makes it easier. I also hosted my own domain there so that I could have my own domain name but still use spamex's interface. I've been doing this for years and it's amazing, I have NO spam at home (my main, private email addy that only family has). If I get spam, I turn off the email addy it was sent to. Viola.
I had to turn all my catchalls off (for several domains) because when a spammer decided to spoof my domain, I got several hundred spams A MINUTE that bounced bak and flooded my inbox. This happened several times (i.e. toeach of my domains) and in the end I had to turn off all the catch alls to stop the flood of spam bounces. Hundreds a minute! Those were a few bad days.
Sounds exactly like, oh I don't know... Microsoft?
I was talking to a lady once who told me that "the owner of the internet is in town". Turns out she meant Stephen Case, CEO? of AOL. It blew my mind that anyone could think that one guy owns the entire internet.
Is there any chance that people who try Linux for the 1st time this way will be scared off because the performance will not be as good as pure linux? I mean, if it's running on TOP of a windows OS, it sure won't be lean and fast. I think alot of people are interested in Linux because of how lean and reliable it can be. But Linux on top of Windows can't be lean, and it can't be any more reliable than the windows install underneath. (?)
A newbie who doesn't know better may say "eh, this ain't no faster" and go back to what he/she knows (windows).
???
Laserone
If this thing goes on into the night, I'd put money on a baby boom in the area 9 months from now. :P
~Laserone
http://www.LaserBlog.com
What I do is I signed up w/ spamex.com and for each email address I have to give out (for anything but personal correspondance) I create a disposeable alias. Then if/when I get spam, a) I know where it came from and, b) I can turn that alias off, thereby stopping the spam. It's low-tech but it works for me.
I like this tactic. (see my post "Why I support the boycott") I would gladly pay a few cents, like you said, per download. Gladly. Any RIAA people in here listening or taking votes? Hello? No, they're probably at the golf course right now. I think this is a great idea.
Yesterday on CNN Headline News they stated that "studies have shown" that Napster users (or was it MP3 users?) tend to buy more music. I can attest to that.
I have been preaching for years how mp3's have facilitated the buying of better music for me. The thing is... and I wish the record companies realized this... I've actually bought cd's that I would -not- have bought otherwise if I had not been exposed to the music via mp3 first. I've downloaded songs out of curiosity then fell in love with the band and then bought multiple cd's by the artist. But just try to convince the record companies that it actually works this way!
I would be willing to pay for single-song downloads so long as they weren't any more money than a cassette single. I'd even pay for an entire cd via mp3 so long as it was a decent price. But so far these processes are not the norm, although it would save the record companies and artists the costs of a middle man and the media (cd or cassette) and they'd make more profit.
But no, the record companies are using "piracy" as an excuse to strip the rights of the individual because they are AFRAID.
Just like the DVD thing: They're not afraid of us copying the DVD's (it's not worth the trouble or the money). They just want to control what device we watch it on (devices produced by people who paid for the rights first). Thus aleinating Linux users, etc.
Did dual cassette decks or blank cassette tapes get outlawed? No. The public was -trusted- to obey copyright laws, and for the most part they did. Obviously! The recoding industry didn't crumble as soon as recordable cassettes came out.
The RIAA and other groups like it have to realize that they will keep customers if they respect them. This is why I support the boycotts, and agree with the statement at http://boycott-riaa.com/ that THE FANS control the music industry.
If the RIAA fights us on this, we will find other ways arond the issue and continue to do things behind their back, FOR FREE and they will lose out. If they give us respect and freedom by giving us the chance to use this new technology to it's fullest while obeying copyright laws at least as well as we did with cassettes, then they could make life easier and more fun for listeners, AND make more than a few bucks here and there by embracing this new technology and offering nice clean mp3 downloads for a small fee... heck, even via Napster!
But so far these stuffed-suits don't seem to be smart enough to see it this way.
$0.02
What scares me, is these people signing more people up to become lemmings, who are afraid to use the REAL internet. Every day, AOL and similar companies are creating internet users who will never learn how to use the internet to it's full advantage, irc, newsgroups (not DEJA!), etc. It's these lemmings that call me up daily and ask for me to help them with the LAMEest stuff. My point: This kind of thing DOES scare me because it continues the 'dumbing down of America' that's so rampant. "Don't worry, you don't have to think, you don't have to LEARN anything new, we'll spoon-feed you what we think you need." It's a biological fact, if you don't exercise your brain, it functions less.
People, stop name-calling and insulting. It's a common misconception. It's all explained at http://www.millennium321.com/. You don't start counting with zero, you start counting with one. ~Peace