Forget the "Catch All" e-mail address. Use Mailinator.
FYI -- mailinator is a non-passworded public catch-all system. Perfect for temporary site registrations. I use it frequently and its an unbelievably good service...
Reading between the lines here is an implication that music will be sold on a "single user license" basis. Note that this differs from a "single seat license" since the right to enjoy content will be granted to the individual, not the stereo, the household, office, or other potentially multi-user location.
Would couples need to scan both sets of fingerprints? Families?
Oh, and never mind your right to privacy...
"Imagine if wagon-wheel manufacturers had criminalized the tire."
That's true. BBC puts Fox News, Al Jazeera and NTV to shame. You'll get no argument from me. I didn't say *all* western press was good press. I said we have the free-est press in the world. And we have the most publications (per capita) in the world.
Name another source of TV news in Great Britain. Sadly the entire country was taken for a ride in the BBC scandal and the sole reason was that Britain has very little alternative press. Per capita Britain has very little news variety.
This would be ok if the BBC was balanced journalism. But its not. It panders to government pressures (hence the recent scandal) and takes a consistently pro-corporate line in its economic reporting, a consistenly pro-palestinian line in its middle east reporting, and is consistently *extremely* conservative on domestic (UK)reporting.
Centuries of antisemitism haven't vanished overnight. European governments (and their largely state-funded newspapers) pursue antisemitic policies at almost every turn: from financial support to terrorist organizations, to wildly biased and inconsistent U.N. policies that single out Israel.
Or do you mean the press in Arab countries where there is no freedom of the press, government-critical journalists are publicly executed, where there are no civil rights and where deviation from religious law can result in the imprisonment of one's whole family?
No country in the world has close to the level of personal civil rights protections. No other country has per-capita the number of publications that the U.S. has. And *every* country in the world (particularly European countries) have a greater degree of government control over their media.
Now what were you saying about non-western media you BBC watching zealot?
"Within minutes of breaking the Internet speed record the elated researchers moved their entire DivX collection into a mysterious folder titled 'My Shared Folder', and began slapping high fives."
"When asked to explain their actions, the researchers only comment was 'Free pr0n!! Free pr0n!!' The exact meaning of this phrase is not yet known. -AP"
I just bought a DVD which cost $100 million to produce for $18. Now how much is that CD which cost $30k to produce? What's that? It was produced on a home studio with $3k worth of equipment?
Well relative to the $100M production cost of the DVD, the CD should be selling at $.0006
They're smoking the crackpipe of their own search technology, and attempting to apply it to shopping.
As an online merchant I supply a data feed to *all* the shopping agents except Froogle. Why would I want to be buried 17 pages deep when I'm willing to spend $1 or more per click from a well-targeted user?
In contrast to Froogle most other shopping agents (like MySimon, BizRate, Shopping.com, etc.) use a CPC (cost per click) model combined with a "bid" system which allows merchants to "bid up" their listings.
In other words if you're willing to pay a higher CPC (as big, well known brands typically are), you'll rank higher in the listings.
Froogle however, attempts to use its page ranking algorithms to determine *product* rank and positioning. The result is that users get a jumble of half-assed no-name generic products, garbage, and infrequently searched-for (albeit "well connected") results.
Try searching for "Sneakers" and you'll see the problem firsthand...
Froogle attempts to undo the Darwinian laws of brand recognition in favor of its own laws of page-ranking. Newsflash: we consumers don't care. When we search for "Sneakers", we want results like Nike, Adidas, Puma and whatever else to come up first. Not some no-name $7 rubber soled shoe which happens to sell in 3119 discount stores all over the world.
Google should smell the coffee and adopt a bid system for Froogle. It would also help them generate some much needed pre-IPO revenue.
They're smoking the crackpipe of their own search technology, and attempting to apply it to shopping.
In contrast to Froogle most other shopping agents (like MySimon, BizRate, Shopping.com, etc.) use a CPC (cost per click) model combined with a "bid" system which allows merchants to "bid up" their listings.
In other words if you're willing to pay a higher CPC (as big, well known brands typically are), you'll rank higher in the listings.
Froogle however, attempts to use its page ranking algorithms to determine *product* rank and positioning. The result is that users get a jumble of half-assed no-name generic products, garbage, and infrequently searched-for (albeit "well connected") results.
Try searching for "Sneakers" and you'll see the problem firsthand...
The problem is that Froogle attempts to undo the Darwinian laws of brand recognition in favor of its own laws of page-ranking. Newsflash: we consumers don't care. When we search for "Sneakers", we want Nike, Adidas, Puma and whatever else to come up first. Not some no-name $7 rubber soled shoe which happens to sell in 3119 discount stores all over the world.
Google should smell the coffee and adopt a bid system for Froogle. It would also help them generate some much needed pre-IPO revenue.
Overture sold to Yahoo! for $1.6 Billion. In my opinion Yahoo! got a good deal.
I used to have T-Mobile GPRS with bluetooth, but it never lived up to its promise.
T-Mobile advertises its service as "broadband", but their salesforce tells you (even to this day) that in fact its about as fast as a 56k modem.
Unfortunately, neither claim is anywhere close to the truth:
I spent months on the phone with T-Mobile tech support, and heard again and again that the "3k per second transfer rate you're getting is part of a known issue and our engineers are working on it."
Bottom line: T-Mobile GPRS does not exist yet. You'll have max 5kbps with latency and timeout problems galore. Its busted.
By the way, they finally refunded me retroactively for the 4 months that I "had" the service. So they're liars... not thieves.
As someone who learned BASIC on a Commodore PET, (and later on the PC and C-64), PASCAL on a Macintosh, Visual Studio on Windows and finally Javascript -- I have to say, Javascript makes a horrible first language to learn.
First off, its quirky -- filled with bugs, platform checks, version differences, etc.
Secondly, its primary output (document.write)occurs on a pageload which makes it a very odd language indeed. Sure, you can write realtime to layers, position elements on the screen and dynamically hide and reveal data to simulate the most basic terminal functionality, but this is an enormous pain -- and hardly the place to learn basic loops, objects, functions, sorts, etc.
Javascript will always be a very strange marriage between straightforward programming, and the very weird and non-straightforward world of browsers and markup.
Just because someone is able to convince the USPTO of originality doesn't mean the idea was original. (Still confused? See "Pop-Under Advertising Technology")
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Reading between the lines here is an implication that music will be sold on a "single user license" basis. Note that this differs from a "single seat license" since the right to enjoy content will be granted to the individual, not the stereo, the household, office, or other potentially multi-user location.
Would couples need to scan both sets of fingerprints? Families?
Oh, and never mind your right to privacy...
"Imagine if wagon-wheel manufacturers had
criminalized the tire."
A star destroyer for ants?
For people to fit inside it needs to be at least... 3 times as big.
That's true. BBC puts Fox News, Al Jazeera and NTV to shame. You'll get no argument from me. I didn't say *all* western press was good press. I said we have the free-est press in the world. And we have the most publications (per capita) in the world.
Name another source of TV news in Great Britain. Sadly the entire country was taken for a ride in the BBC scandal and the sole reason was that Britain has very little alternative press. Per capita Britain has very little news variety.
This would be ok if the BBC was balanced journalism. But its not. It panders to government pressures (hence the recent scandal) and takes a consistently pro-corporate line in its economic reporting, a consistenly pro-palestinian line in its middle east reporting, and is consistently *extremely* conservative on domestic (UK)reporting.
Non-Western Media?
Like whose? Certainly not the Europeans!
Centuries of antisemitism haven't vanished overnight. European governments (and their largely state-funded newspapers) pursue antisemitic policies at almost every turn: from financial support to terrorist organizations, to wildly biased and inconsistent U.N. policies that single out Israel.
Or do you mean the press in Arab countries where there is no freedom of the press, government-critical journalists are publicly executed, where there are no civil rights and where deviation from religious law can result in the imprisonment of one's whole family?
No country in the world has close to the level of personal civil rights protections. No other country has per-capita the number of publications that the U.S. has. And *every* country in the world (particularly European countries) have a greater degree of government control over their media.
Now what were you saying about non-western media you BBC watching zealot?
"Within minutes of breaking the Internet speed record the elated researchers moved their entire DivX collection into a mysterious folder titled 'My Shared Folder', and began slapping high fives."
"When asked to explain their actions, the researchers only comment was 'Free pr0n!! Free pr0n!!' The exact meaning of this phrase is not yet known. -AP"
What's to stop someone writing a client for GMail that encrypts and decrypts email, thereby bypassing privacy concerns (and Google's revenue model) ?
(Sure, you could always PGP and then paste but that's a pain. A better system would be a web client that uses the Gmail backend).
Rip. Mix. Burn.
We need enormous orbiting magnets to suck up all the random orbiting debris...
What's hurting CD sales?
How about the insane $20 price tag?
I just bought a DVD which cost $100 million to produce for $18. Now how much is that CD which cost $30k to produce? What's that? It was produced on a home studio with $3k worth of equipment?
Well relative to the $100M production cost of the DVD, the CD should be selling at $.0006
Nuff said.
The headline shouln't be that he's the "third space tourist", it should be that he's "the first space tourist to travel tax-free".
I don't know why, or how... but it must be Microsoft's fault.
Doh!
Poor Google.
They're smoking the crackpipe of their own search technology, and attempting to apply it to shopping.
As an online merchant I supply a data feed to *all* the shopping agents except Froogle. Why would I want to be buried 17 pages deep when I'm willing to spend $1 or more per click from a well-targeted user?
In contrast to Froogle most other shopping agents (like MySimon, BizRate, Shopping.com, etc.) use a CPC (cost per click) model combined with a "bid" system which allows merchants to "bid up" their listings.
In other words if you're willing to pay a higher CPC (as big, well known brands typically are), you'll rank higher in the listings.
Froogle however, attempts to use its page ranking algorithms to determine *product* rank and positioning. The result is that users get a jumble of half-assed no-name generic products, garbage, and infrequently searched-for (albeit "well connected") results.
Try searching for "Sneakers" and you'll see the problem firsthand...
Froogle attempts to undo the Darwinian laws of brand recognition in favor of its own laws of page-ranking. Newsflash: we consumers don't care. When we search for "Sneakers", we want results like Nike, Adidas, Puma and whatever else to come up first. Not some no-name $7 rubber soled shoe which happens to sell in 3119 discount stores all over the world.
Google should smell the coffee and adopt a bid system for Froogle. It would also help them generate some much needed pre-IPO revenue.
Poor Google.
They're smoking the crackpipe of their own search technology, and attempting to apply it to shopping.
In contrast to Froogle most other shopping agents (like MySimon, BizRate, Shopping.com, etc.) use a CPC (cost per click) model combined with a "bid" system which allows merchants to "bid up" their listings.
In other words if you're willing to pay a higher CPC (as big, well known brands typically are), you'll rank higher in the listings.
Froogle however, attempts to use its page ranking algorithms to determine *product* rank and positioning. The result is that users get a jumble of half-assed no-name generic products, garbage, and infrequently searched-for (albeit "well connected") results.
Try searching for "Sneakers" and you'll see the problem firsthand...
The problem is that Froogle attempts to undo the Darwinian laws of brand recognition in favor of its own laws of page-ranking. Newsflash: we consumers don't care. When we search for "Sneakers", we want Nike, Adidas, Puma and whatever else to come up first. Not some no-name $7 rubber soled shoe which happens to sell in 3119 discount stores all over the world.
Google should smell the coffee and adopt a bid system for Froogle. It would also help them generate some much needed pre-IPO revenue.
Overture sold to Yahoo! for $1.6 Billion. In my opinion Yahoo! got a good deal.
Imagine a time of chaos...
OMFG we're in a bad sci-fi movie!
(shit, we don't even need the robotic chainsaw sharks to make it scary... its scary enough already).
Flashback, Anyone?
I hear that the IBM "PC" is going to be the end of Apple.
...is also the wood from which Absinthe is derived.
So more likely than being an asteroid, its a poetic reference to substance abuse.
"and the waters became wormwood (absinthe); and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter".
(Absinthe addiction causes profound psychological depression, "bitterness".)
I used to have T-Mobile GPRS with bluetooth, but it never lived up to its promise.
T-Mobile advertises its service as "broadband", but their salesforce tells you (even to this day) that in fact its about as fast as a 56k modem.
Unfortunately, neither claim is anywhere close to the truth:
I spent months on the phone with T-Mobile tech support, and heard again and again that the "3k per second transfer rate you're getting is part of a known issue and our engineers are working on it."
Bottom line: T-Mobile GPRS does not exist yet. You'll have max 5kbps with latency and timeout problems galore. Its busted.
By the way, they finally refunded me retroactively for the 4 months that I "had" the service. So they're liars... not thieves.
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"I can't turn left. I'm not an ambi-turner"
No really... does anyone care about Jaron Lanier?
I'd put his contributions to technology right up there with Esther Dyson's.
He's another person who calls himself a "visionary" because the specifics of technological development are far beyond his capacity.
He is, always was, and always will be, a non-player.
"Javascript" is what we're talking about here... not "java".
As someone who learned BASIC on a Commodore PET, (and later on the PC and C-64), PASCAL on a Macintosh, Visual Studio on Windows and finally Javascript -- I have to say, Javascript makes a horrible first language to learn.
First off, its quirky -- filled with bugs, platform checks, version differences, etc.
Secondly, its primary output (document.write)occurs on a pageload which makes it a very odd language indeed. Sure, you can write realtime to layers, position elements on the screen and dynamically hide and reveal data to simulate the most basic terminal functionality, but this is an enormous pain -- and hardly the place to learn basic loops, objects, functions, sorts, etc.
Javascript will always be a very strange marriage between straightforward programming, and the very weird and non-straightforward world of browsers and markup.
This is a horrible place to start.
great idea but there's too much prior art
Source please?
I'd like to patent "the practice of patenting utterly obvious ideas".
That way, anyone else attempting to patent something this utterly obvious, has violated MY GODDAMN PATENT.
What about this is non-trivial?
Variable speed clocks?
These were not a "new idea" in 1998.
Just because someone is able to convince the
USPTO of originality doesn't mean the idea was original.
(Still confused? See "Pop-Under Advertising Technology")