Instead of messing around with all this e-mail stuff, how about you concentrate on actually making your search engine useful again? It has become completely overrun with results like sony.dscp10.reviews.digital.cameras.hot.sex.now.fr eesexsite.com that it's becoming incredibly hard to actually get any information out of it. It used to be that when I searched for a product, you gave me user/site reviews on that product. Now, all I get is a bunch of people trying to make me buy it from them.
Please remedy this before trying to do other things.
It all depends on how big of a selection you want to have. I currently carry around 7GB with me on my 10GB Archos player, and I still don't think it's enough sometimes.
If you frequently change moods and want to listen to different types of music, 1.5GB probably won't cut it.
I just hope for good drivers period. I can't tell you how many times I've had problems with onboard audio even in Windows. I've seen computers where the audio will work flawlessly in Win2k but not in XP, where it'll work fine in XP, but not in 2k, where it'll work fine until you reformat and reinstall the exact same OS, then be broken, etc. etc.
I finally got fed up with it and just got a cheapo PCI card and haven't had any problems since. Incidentally, you get better gaming performance when you don't use onboard audio, too.
I want to see someone hack this and connect it to the web. People could then visit the site and upload their own voice tracks.
I think that could turn out to be really really amusing, although I fear what would happen if it ever got slashdotted. I'd probably end up with a dream about hanging Gates while doing naughty things with Natalie Portman on top of a beowulf cluster of hot grits while the goatse man and penis bird watch.
Remember when slashdot was about the wierd and wacky stuff on the internet? Like the lego porn page, or the telephone sex page (the one where telephones are having sex), the unix admin porn page
So bsaically you're looking for a site that only links to odd sex-related things?
Also, if anyone goes into a casino expecting privacy, there's something very, very wrong in their head. Casinos are probably the LEAST private places on earth.
The absolute worst would be Darkened Skye, where you use Skittles to create spells. In fact, the whole game is based around Skittles. I'm not just talking a web game, this game was released for PC and Gamecube.
Wasn't that the whole point, though? They specifically developed it to be a skittles-based game. That's like saying that the 7-up spot game shouldn't be marketing 7-up.
Going to see a movie in a nice theater for $9 is acceptable to nearly anyone, and I don't know anyone who has complained about rental prices (especially now that there are great services like Netflix). DVDs are actually priced quite reasonably as well, especially ones that have been out for a while going for $10-$15.
And unlike with the music industry, for most people it's just not worth saving the few bucks and downloading the movie.
It is unfortunate that advertisers believe (and possibly rightfully so) that consumers are more likely to purchase a product if they are repeatedly exposed to an ad that does not actually provide information about the product, but instead annoys the heck out of them due to content or frequency of occurrence.
They are.
The point of ads isn't to make people say, "Hey! I need a Big Mac right now!", it's to bash the product in the minds of people so that when someone thinks to themself, "I'm hungry, I need to grab something to eat really quick" the first thing that comes to their mind is "McDonald's".
Here's a great example: If I asked a bunch of people who use the internet a lot what to get if I wanted a small, remotely viewable camera for spying on my (hypothetical) wife when I'm not home, the first thing that will come to their minds is "X10!". Not because it's a superior product, not because they've used it before and like it, but because it's been bashed into our minds so much that the X10 is immediately what we think of.
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Instead of messing around with all this e-mail stuff, how about you concentrate on actually making your search engine useful again? It has become completely overrun with results like sony.dscp10.reviews.digital.cameras.hot.sex.now.f
Please remedy this before trying to do other things.
Thank you.
Now that I think about it, you're right, I don't want my taxes to go towards keeping them locked up.
Execute them firing squad style.
Lock them away for life in a federal "Pound-Me-In-The-Ass" prison.
It all depends on how big of a selection you want to have. I currently carry around 7GB with me on my 10GB Archos player, and I still don't think it's enough sometimes.
If you frequently change moods and want to listen to different types of music, 1.5GB probably won't cut it.
I just hope for good drivers period. I can't tell you how many times I've had problems with onboard audio even in Windows. I've seen computers where the audio will work flawlessly in Win2k but not in XP, where it'll work fine in XP, but not in 2k, where it'll work fine until you reformat and reinstall the exact same OS, then be broken, etc. etc.
I finally got fed up with it and just got a cheapo PCI card and haven't had any problems since. Incidentally, you get better gaming performance when you don't use onboard audio, too.
They have special alien technology which allows them to be completely accurate in asessing passenger risk.
I want to see someone hack this and connect it to the web. People could then visit the site and upload their own voice tracks.
I think that could turn out to be really really amusing, although I fear what would happen if it ever got slashdotted. I'd probably end up with a dream about hanging Gates while doing naughty things with Natalie Portman on top of a beowulf cluster of hot grits while the goatse man and penis bird watch.
Remember when slashdot was about the wierd and wacky stuff on the internet? Like the lego porn page, or the telephone sex page (the one where telephones are having sex), the unix admin porn page
So bsaically you're looking for a site that only links to odd sex-related things?
Also, if anyone goes into a casino expecting privacy, there's something very, very wrong in their head. Casinos are probably the LEAST private places on earth.
The absolute worst would be Darkened Skye, where you use Skittles to create spells. In fact, the whole game is based around Skittles. I'm not just talking a web game, this game was released for PC and Gamecube.
Wasn't that the whole point, though? They specifically developed it to be a skittles-based game. That's like saying that the 7-up spot game shouldn't be marketing 7-up.
Massively popular, maybe?
Nah, copying the bill isn't the problem. It's actually printing a realistic one that's that hard part.
The AARP is spamming you? So that's where those viagra ads are coming from...
The first.
I despise people that hate things just because they're popular.
By looking at the list of results, I can tell you right away that by "best album" they don't necessarily mean "best music".
The current incarnation of the movie business
Wha? The current incarnation of the movie business seems to be doing pretty damn well.
Going to see a movie in a nice theater for $9 is acceptable to nearly anyone, and I don't know anyone who has complained about rental prices (especially now that there are great services like Netflix). DVDs are actually priced quite reasonably as well, especially ones that have been out for a while going for $10-$15.
And unlike with the music industry, for most people it's just not worth saving the few bucks and downloading the movie.
It is unfortunate that advertisers believe (and possibly rightfully so) that consumers are more likely to purchase a product if they are repeatedly exposed to an ad that does not actually provide information about the product, but instead annoys the heck out of them due to content or frequency of occurrence.
They are.
The point of ads isn't to make people say, "Hey! I need a Big Mac right now!", it's to bash the product in the minds of people so that when someone thinks to themself, "I'm hungry, I need to grab something to eat really quick" the first thing that comes to their mind is "McDonald's".
Here's a great example: If I asked a bunch of people who use the internet a lot what to get if I wanted a small, remotely viewable camera for spying on my (hypothetical) wife when I'm not home, the first thing that will come to their minds is "X10!". Not because it's a superior product, not because they've used it before and like it, but because it's been bashed into our minds so much that the X10 is immediately what we think of.
THIS is what advertisers want.
Nothing, since people always have the option of using AMD and Linux.
If by "make tons of money" you mean "list a hundred copies and be lucky if one or two get a bid", then sure.
... but wait until Linus gets sued when some 13-year-old Linux user shoots up his school.
Microsoft? Poor marketing? Does... not... compute...
Three French Hens
I wonder if we can skimp and settle for cornish hens.
How's that make it any different from 50% of the comments on slashdot?
This one isn't bashing Windows or referencing 1984.
We can't just open this up to the public. The minute we open it up we have in fact opened it up to the public
Thank you for your brilliant insight!
Isn't it the publisher that usually insists on putting in all that ridiculous copy protection as well? I hope all that gets thrown out the window...