When I had an ipod, I used EphPod to deal with my music (because iTunes doesn't run on Win ME). EphPod is pretty good on its own, and it has the "feature" that allows you to download from the ipod to your computer. You click and drag. Pretty simple..
1. Popup blocking.
2. Block images by server (waiting for block Flash by server...)
3. Tabbed browsing.
4. Bookmark groups of tabs.
With Firebird, there's a nice extension for blocking Flash, though not by server. Flash click to view is an extension that replaces Flash objects with a button that you click to view them. So it effectively allows you to block annoying Flash ads, but still watch Strongbad.
It will be interesting to see how the public reacts to this show that is based (in part) around ads for products. I think these genius advertisers are finally getting the hint that people are phasing out traditional commercials (just like how we rarely notice banner ads anymore) and they're scrambling for something else.
There are already plenty of TV shows with ads in them - look at sports, for instance, with ads all over the various stadiums, and even with soccer which goes commercial-free and has an ad of the sponsor under the clock. I figure it's just a matter of time before regular TV programming adopts this form of advertising, with a little logo in the corner, or maybe shrinking the screen down ala MTV to give you some ad along the side and bottom of the screen.
And we'll probably get used to it, just as we've gotten used to the logos for the channel that are always on now..
Tons of sites get 'filtered' by Slashdot every day.. for instance, thanks to the slashdotting (after 10 whole comments!), the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is also inaccessible to me..
Have you Meta Moderated recently? You have 30 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em! This page was generated by a Cadre of Stealth Squirrels for cshor (111947).
I thought the normal amount of moderator points was 5.. interesting.
Thanks to this being slashdotted after almost 10 minutes, I'm left wondering what this means for my domain. I'm not officially a non-profit, but I sure as hell don't make any money off of my crappy domain, so what does this mean for me? What sort of power do these folks have?
Shouldn't slashdot be a little nicer to them then killing their server?:)
junkbusters.com has a bunch of info on what to do about telemarketing and other annoyances (spam, junk faxes, junk mail, etc). It's pretty well done and worth a read.
He wrote a function called the "zeta function." Any number, when fed into this equation, will yield a result somewhere on a plane. For some reason, primes always plot along one of the axes. No one can figure out why.
How is this a Score:5 Informative when it is wrong? The reply, however, is correct. Too bad I can't moderate today..
"It's good news for a number of Internet webcasters who will now likely be able to stay on the air," said P.J. McNealy, research director with the tech research firm GartnerG2.
Good news would've been based on a percentage of revenue rather than this..
However..
Opponents to Thursday's ruling can appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit within 30 days. The court could modify or set aside the decision if it finds the ruling was highly unreasonable.
Perhaps we'll get someone in the Court of Appeals with either half a brain or the sack to stand up to the RIAA..
I've listened to the occasional Net music stream, but never served one. But I wonder -- how are they going to know if you've run a Net music service on your personal connection? Business DSL? etc.? It seems like this is a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.
Probably the same way they know if you're running a warez FTP server or doing anything else they don't like. If you keep it small, they probably won't notice, but as it grows, more and more people will hear about it, and then they'll hear about it. And then you'll get a letter in the mail from them..
We're going to be paying for emails soon - didn't you all get that email forward about the USPS claiming a 5 cent tax on every email we send??? Sounds like sharing to me..
Ok I read in my discrete math book that integers x, y and z have been found such that x^n + y^n = z^n for n=4. However the article states that fermats last theorem said there is no solution for n > 2.
You can have integers x, y, and z such that that is true.. only problem is that for n > 2, one of x, y, or z will have to be 0. (For example, 0^4 + 3^4 = 3^4).
Fermat's last theorem, which has been proved, says that for n > 2, there are no triples of integers (x,y,z) such that both x*y*z is non-zero and x^n + y^n = z^n.
He bought an Intelli-Check system, which costs about $2,500 and can scan both bar codes and magnetic strips. Now, three years and 1.3 million scanned customers later, he has grown to understand how the data reflects the bar's business.
On Tuesdays, for example, the number of customers born between 1955 and 1960 spikes when the 40-something crowd comes for the jazz.
Man, this technology is amazing! I mean, it only cost this guy $2500 and took 3 years for him to figure out that there are a lot of 40-somethings coming in for jazz night.. how else could he have figured that out?
On a side note - why the hell are people who are 40 getting carded at a bar? For instance, I know that most places in Boston are really anal about carding people in their 20s, but this is absurd.. they're only carding older people to harvest their personal info.
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Also at the Register this week.. "Is Microsoft preparing a flying car?
When I had an ipod, I used EphPod to deal with my music (because iTunes doesn't run on Win ME). EphPod is pretty good on its own, and it has the "feature" that allows you to download from the ipod to your computer. You click and drag. Pretty simple..
Mozilla; yes of course.
...)
1. Popup blocking.
2. Block images by server (waiting for block Flash by server
3. Tabbed browsing.
4. Bookmark groups of tabs.
With Firebird, there's a nice extension for blocking Flash, though not by server. Flash click to view is an extension that replaces Flash objects with a button that you click to view them. So it effectively allows you to block annoying Flash ads, but still watch Strongbad.
It will be interesting to see how the public reacts to this show that is based (in part) around ads for products. I think these genius advertisers are finally getting the hint that people are phasing out traditional commercials (just like how we rarely notice banner ads anymore) and they're scrambling for something else.
There are already plenty of TV shows with ads in them - look at sports, for instance, with ads all over the various stadiums, and even with soccer which goes commercial-free and has an ad of the sponsor under the clock. I figure it's just a matter of time before regular TV programming adopts this form of advertising, with a little logo in the corner, or maybe shrinking the screen down ala MTV to give you some ad along the side and bottom of the screen.
And we'll probably get used to it, just as we've gotten used to the logos for the channel that are always on now..
Tons of sites get 'filtered' by Slashdot every day.. for instance, thanks to the slashdotting (after 10 whole comments!), the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is also inaccessible to me..
As seen on brak.slashdot.org:
Have you Meta Moderated recently?
You have 30 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!
This page was generated by a Cadre of Stealth Squirrels for cshor (111947).
I thought the normal amount of moderator points was 5.. interesting.
(and no, I'm not kidding)
Regulators! Mount up.
Thanks to this being slashdotted after almost 10 minutes, I'm left wondering what this means for my domain. I'm not officially a non-profit, but I sure as hell don't make any money off of my crappy domain, so what does this mean for me? What sort of power do these folks have?
:)
Shouldn't slashdot be a little nicer to them then killing their server?
junkbusters.com has a bunch of info on what to do about telemarketing and other annoyances (spam, junk faxes, junk mail, etc). It's pretty well done and worth a read.
--
regulators
concluding that Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL...
/. crowd!
So that's how they got so popular with the
Nice banner to go with the story..
He wrote a function called the "zeta function." Any number, when fed into this equation, will yield a result somewhere on a plane. For some reason, primes always plot along one of the axes. No one can figure out why.
How is this a Score:5 Informative when it is wrong? The reply, however, is correct. Too bad I can't moderate today..
Excerpts from this story on cnn.com:
"It's good news for a number of Internet webcasters who will now likely be able to stay on the air," said P.J. McNealy, research director with the tech research firm GartnerG2.
Good news would've been based on a percentage of revenue rather than this..
However..
Opponents to Thursday's ruling can appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit within 30 days. The court could modify or set aside the decision if it finds the ruling was highly unreasonable.
Perhaps we'll get someone in the Court of Appeals with either half a brain or the sack to stand up to the RIAA..
I've listened to the occasional Net music stream, but never served one. But I wonder -- how are they going to know if you've run a Net music service on your personal connection? Business DSL? etc.? It seems like this is a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.
Probably the same way they know if you're running a warez FTP server or doing anything else they don't like. If you keep it small, they probably won't notice, but as it grows, more and more people will hear about it, and then they'll hear about it. And then you'll get a letter in the mail from them..
Over at Kuro5hin, the site is pretty much paid for by user placed ads.
They do that at fark.com, too.
We're going to be paying for emails soon - didn't you all get that email forward about the USPS claiming a 5 cent tax on every email we send??? Sounds like sharing to me..
Exactly.. it all comes back to having to exchange a new polynomial or what have you for each transaction.. which is no better than a one time pad.
Ok I read in my discrete math book that integers x, y and z have been found such that x^n + y^n = z^n for n=4. However the article states that fermats last theorem said there is no solution for n > 2.
You can have integers x, y, and z such that that is true.. only problem is that for n > 2, one of x, y, or z will have to be 0. (For example, 0^4 + 3^4 = 3^4).
Fermat's last theorem, which has been proved, says that for n > 2, there are no triples of integers (x,y,z) such that both x*y*z is non-zero and x^n + y^n = z^n.
Man, this technology is amazing! I mean, it only cost this guy $2500 and took 3 years for him to figure out that there are a lot of 40-somethings coming in for jazz night.. how else could he have figured that out?
On a side note - why the hell are people who are 40 getting carded at a bar? For instance, I know that most places in Boston are really anal about carding people in their 20s, but this is absurd.. they're only carding older people to harvest their personal info.