Google wasn't found guilty. They were openly, admittedly, unabashedly guilty of digitizing and putting up excerpts of books they did not hold ANY copyright to.
They only thing that happened was that the court decided the this law is valid even for a mega corp like Google.
THAT, my friends, is the real shocker.
And all you Googlebots can bitch about the law all you want, that's fine. Get the laws changed (in France, here, wherever). But Google brazenly did shit that was completely illegal. I am glad they got hit for it.
The Angus burger IS decent. As is the Sirloin burger from Jack in the Box. And whatever Carl's Jr. is pimping.
But I find myself just going to Jack in the Box and getting their Big Cheeseburger and a small order of fries.
It's just a big cheeseburger with ketchup and an oniony mayo sauce. No useless vegetables to get in the way and make things messier and crappier tasting. I get it without the ketchup (because ketchup is disgusting) and easy on the oniony mayo stuff (they like to pile it on).
I have soda at home, so no need to pay for it there. Total comes out to $2.49 after tax, and I get to order from the touchscreens they have, so I can tell the MACHINE to not put ketchup on my burger, yes I want fries no I don't want a combo, etc.
I get a burger quickly, for cheap, and I don't have to deal with the high school drop outs who don't speak English, take forever to take my order, etc.
The point is you can find something you'll like at any of the major chains. The larger factors in choice for me are the convenience, the quality (within a chain, quality can be vastly different at two different locations), and the amount I have to deal with the staff. The food itself? Just gimme my burger, or perhaps my various forms of fried chicken.
Free wifi? Most people who would give a shit would be people who already have a data connection via their cell phone. And I'm not gonna die from lack of intertrons in the 5 minutes or less that I hope to be at your restaurant if I don't.
My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.
It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).
Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather. 2 Kevins left.
Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift. I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us. "It's Lemmer. He's in bad shape. Drove right into the fucking ditch." We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.
At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217. Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia. His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights. If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins. Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.
It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance. "She's not due for 2 weeks!", James exclaimed. As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other. This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret. Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept. Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.
The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM. Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.
It was, as they say, a close one. Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up. To this day, we still rib him about it.
But you need internet access (via wifi or cell radio) to get the App. (Or can you sync from PC?)
Most of the apps I've seen are along the lines of tapping into social networking sites, looking up local restaurants, reviews, movie listings, etc. Tagging places you've been / are going.
Very few apps that are useful are net-independent. Nearly all of the apps that are net-dependent (useful or not) could be done via a simple web site - no need for an app.
Whether the developer is making use of the actual tilty / touch / etc stuff that they can't do / do easily through the web, or whether they think the provided browser is too slow, too ugly, etc. is a different matter. I think if a mobile Firefox takes off, what few legitimate concerns there are will melt away.
Nice choice of words trying to spin this as a democratic / freedom / choice thing. It's simply MS being forced to help their competition.
Whether or not you agree with the reasoning behind it is irrelevant - there's no reason to call a simple fucking menu a ballot.
I believe that IE should be the only browser provided by MS, and no menu should be forced upon them. But IE should be completely removable (in Vista and 7 not XP; XP needs it for updates) via the ol' add/remove windows components thing. Leave the files around by default, just uninstall the thing. Hateful users can delete the actual files too, and then pop in the installation disc if they want to re-add it later.
Apps that die because they depend on IE being installed? Well, you simply can't make everyone happy in this scenario. Eventually that problem will go away.
I expect slapchop articles to be stupid, wrong, and shitty. I expect to be able to bitch and moan about them. It's why I come here.
But this article has that distinctive truthiness to it that flies in the face of what the masses love.
99% of the applications on the various mass-market marketplaces (Apple's, Google's, and Microsoft's) are pointless crap that would be better served up via a standard web page.
Of course, the browsers on those phones are crap, and no one bothers to get Opera Mobile even though it blows the shit out of your phone's standard browser (especially if your phone supports the non java version).
The bottom line is that this is a good thing. I see far too much time, money, and energy wasted on "apps" (both by developers and by users) when a competent mobile web page would be a much better choice for the consumer.
But of course, if you can mask your web page as an "app" and SELL it on a virtual store that advertises for you, well shit yes the developers are going to focus on "apps" and ignore their mobile sites.
I seriously hope Firefox runs well on all the major mobile platforms (Windows Mobile 6.5 and up, iPhone OS, Droid, and the other one that a I always forget the name of, no not Blackberry). I'd love to have a competent browser SUCCEED in the mobile space. We already have Opera, but as I stated before, no one uses it. People will use Firefox.
(If you want to complain about my use of "truthiness", I'll just tell you it's as cromulent a word as "distinctive".)
I see you've fixed the 404 error. After bringing my Firefox process to its knees, (I can either blame you, quicktime, or Firefox - I choose all three), your site states:
"Have you ever stared up at the clouds and been transfixed by the shapes you saw? Faces, cars, furniture - a seemingly endless parade of wispy representations of everyday objects. inPictures captures this same spirit of visual perception, shape recognition, and imagination."
Yet your application is the reverse of that. You're showing people a known object (up close) and then asking them to find out what it is.
I'm not shitting on your application, mind you. In fact, I like the concept. I've liked it ever since I was a wee tot and saw a better version of it on Mr. Wizard.
Now if your application included scoring, support for multiple players (pass the iPhone, or a web-based lobby system), and a zoom out feature, it would be awesome.
What would make me PAY money for the thing (if I had an iPhone) would be the ability to submit my own images. Of course, you'd only ever get images of genitalia and poop, and you'd never get the damn thing approved for the app store.
When the tower goes down (and they do) the tower is down - that's the end of it.
Have you used AT&T? Has your phone shown full reception only to drop it to 0 when you attempt to do anything? This is what happens.
Voice and data are supposed to be separate anyway - the issue of emergency calls getting priority shouldn't come up. But IF a successful DDoS attack is launched, the tower will be spazzing out and shit WILL go wrong.
Your phone will see the tower, try to make a call, then realize the tower is convulsing on the floor and your call won't go through. Your phone will continue to use the AT&T tower, because it's retarded.
It isn't supposed to be that way, but that's the way it is.
In the infaliable United States Democracy (in which I do not reside) - those people have their democratic rights MEMORIZED, printed off, laminated, and FRAMED above their mantlepiece.
The United States Democracy certainly is infaliable, by which I mean it is not infallible and is in fact a total failure.
The United States Republic was much better. Though I have no idea where it went.
Even within GSM / CDMA, frequency disparity will simply replace locking. Oh, that's a GSM 2275 phone, you can't take that to Carrier X - they're on GSM 1500/1800/2100/2250 !
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Google profits off of each search made on their site.
People would find those listings by searching for them, or for similar things.
Google profited off of the listings.
That's not fair use.
Google wasn't found guilty. They were openly, admittedly, unabashedly guilty of digitizing and putting up excerpts of books they did not hold ANY copyright to.
They only thing that happened was that the court decided the this law is valid even for a mega corp like Google.
THAT, my friends, is the real shocker.
And all you Googlebots can bitch about the law all you want, that's fine. Get the laws changed (in France, here, wherever). But Google brazenly did shit that was completely illegal. I am glad they got hit for it.
Corporations should NOT be above the law.
I had Opera Mobile on my phone, bought an Android phone and the browser that came with that was significantly better.
Because of the hardware differences most likely.
Late 2004.
Which is 2004.
Which is not 2005.
I don't know where you got 2005.
I clearly typed 2004.
You must have made a reado.
(Damn lack of edit buttons!)
The Angus burger IS decent.
As is the Sirloin burger from Jack in the Box.
And whatever Carl's Jr. is pimping.
But I find myself just going to Jack in the Box and getting their Big Cheeseburger and a small order of fries.
It's just a big cheeseburger with ketchup and an oniony mayo sauce. No useless vegetables to get in the way and make things messier and crappier tasting. I get it without the ketchup (because ketchup is disgusting) and easy on the oniony mayo stuff (they like to pile it on).
I have soda at home, so no need to pay for it there. Total comes out to $2.49 after tax, and I get to order from the touchscreens they have, so I can tell the MACHINE to not put ketchup on my burger, yes I want fries no I don't want a combo, etc.
I get a burger quickly, for cheap, and I don't have to deal with the high school drop outs who don't speak English, take forever to take my order, etc.
The point is you can find something you'll like at any of the major chains. The larger factors in choice for me are the convenience, the quality (within a chain, quality can be vastly different at two different locations), and the amount I have to deal with the staff. The food itself? Just gimme my burger, or perhaps my various forms of fried chicken.
Free wifi? Most people who would give a shit would be people who already have a data connection via their cell phone. And I'm not gonna die from lack of intertrons in the 5 minutes or less that I hope to be at your restaurant if I don't.
McDonald's WiFi has been free since late 2005.
All you needed was a Nintendo DS.
It's MY copypasta.
I wrote it.
I'll copypasta it whenever I see "Kelvin" used.
That's dangerously low!
My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.
It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).
Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather. 2 Kevins left.
Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift. I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us. "It's Lemmer. He's in bad shape. Drove right into the fucking ditch." We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.
At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217. Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia. His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights. If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins. Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.
It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance. "She's not due for 2 weeks!", James exclaimed. As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other. This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret. Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept. Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.
The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM. Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.
It was, as they say, a close one. Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up. To this day, we still rib him about it.
Cedar Falls is currently at 5 Kevins.
But you need internet access (via wifi or cell radio) to get the App. (Or can you sync from PC?)
Most of the apps I've seen are along the lines of tapping into social networking sites, looking up local restaurants, reviews, movie listings, etc.
Tagging places you've been / are going.
Very few apps that are useful are net-independent.
Nearly all of the apps that are net-dependent (useful or not) could be done via a simple web site - no need for an app.
Whether the developer is making use of the actual tilty / touch / etc stuff that they can't do / do easily through the web, or whether they think the provided browser is too slow, too ugly, etc. is a different matter. I think if a mobile Firefox takes off, what few legitimate concerns there are will melt away.
Ballot? It's a menu.
Nice choice of words trying to spin this as a democratic / freedom / choice thing.
It's simply MS being forced to help their competition.
Whether or not you agree with the reasoning behind it is irrelevant - there's no reason to call a simple fucking menu a ballot.
I believe that IE should be the only browser provided by MS, and no menu should be forced upon them. But IE should be completely removable (in Vista and 7 not XP; XP needs it for updates) via the ol' add/remove windows components thing. Leave the files around by default, just uninstall the thing. Hateful users can delete the actual files too, and then pop in the installation disc if they want to re-add it later.
Apps that die because they depend on IE being installed? Well, you simply can't make everyone happy in this scenario. Eventually that problem will go away.
But this is a menu.
Not a ballot.
I expect slapchop articles to be stupid, wrong, and shitty. I expect to be able to bitch and moan about them. It's why I come here.
But this article has that distinctive truthiness to it that flies in the face of what the masses love.
99% of the applications on the various mass-market marketplaces (Apple's, Google's, and Microsoft's) are pointless crap that would be better served up via a standard web page.
Of course, the browsers on those phones are crap, and no one bothers to get Opera Mobile even though it blows the shit out of your phone's standard browser (especially if your phone supports the non java version).
The bottom line is that this is a good thing.
I see far too much time, money, and energy wasted on "apps" (both by developers and by users) when a competent mobile web page would be a much better choice for the consumer.
But of course, if you can mask your web page as an "app" and SELL it on a virtual store that advertises for you, well shit yes the developers are going to focus on "apps" and ignore their mobile sites.
I seriously hope Firefox runs well on all the major mobile platforms (Windows Mobile 6.5 and up, iPhone OS, Droid, and the other one that a I always forget the name of, no not Blackberry). I'd love to have a competent browser SUCCEED in the mobile space. We already have Opera, but as I stated before, no one uses it. People will use Firefox.
(If you want to complain about my use of "truthiness", I'll just tell you it's as cromulent a word as "distinctive".)
Legacy Project [legacyphotoproject.com], they converted an old hanger into a pinhole camera.
I clicked expecting some crazy setup involving coat hangers.
I got a crazy setup involving an old airplane hangar.
Any idiot that thinks that anything on the internet is "safe" from penetration is an idiot that shouldn't have their information on the 'tubes.
Any idiot that thinks that anything on the internet is "safe" from penetration is an idiot that hasn't heard of rule 34.
Fixed that for you.
Institutional discrimination has not only been eliminated
No, it's just been flipped the other way.
I see you've fixed the 404 error.
After bringing my Firefox process to its knees, (I can either blame you, quicktime, or Firefox - I choose all three), your site states:
"Have you ever stared up at the clouds and been transfixed by the shapes you saw? Faces, cars, furniture - a seemingly endless parade of wispy representations of everyday objects. inPictures captures this same spirit of visual perception, shape recognition, and imagination."
Yet your application is the reverse of that.
You're showing people a known object (up close) and then asking them to find out what it is.
I'm not shitting on your application, mind you.
In fact, I like the concept. I've liked it ever since I was a wee tot and saw a better version of it on Mr. Wizard.
Now if your application included scoring, support for multiple players (pass the iPhone, or a web-based lobby system), and a zoom out feature, it would be awesome.
What would make me PAY money for the thing (if I had an iPhone) would be the ability to submit my own images. Of course, you'd only ever get images of genitalia and poop, and you'd never get the damn thing approved for the app store.
16 -> 9.7?
Try almost almost 40%.
But yes, still a terrible thing to do.
The current encoders they use are trash.
Dark scene? ENJOY YOUR MAGENTA!
Fast scene? I HOPE YOU LIKE GREEN.
You ban her student from campus?
If it's a public university, then lol u gonna get sued.
The only thing that should have happened was a temporary restraining order against her (from the ex).
I didn't RTFA so I don't know whether or not it happened, but I'm going to assume it didn't.
My question wasn't answered.
Dear Samwise Gamgee: Why didn't you ever come out to Frodo?
I can't say I have had any issues with my BB that weren't related to problems with the actual email servers it was connecting to.
So have you peeled the protective film off of the screen yet?
When the tower goes down (and they do) the tower is down - that's the end of it.
Have you used AT&T? Has your phone shown full reception only to drop it to 0 when you attempt to do anything? This is what happens.
Voice and data are supposed to be separate anyway - the issue of emergency calls getting priority shouldn't come up. But IF a successful DDoS attack is launched, the tower will be spazzing out and shit WILL go wrong.
Your phone will see the tower, try to make a call, then realize the tower is convulsing on the floor and your call won't go through. Your phone will continue to use the AT&T tower, because it's retarded.
It isn't supposed to be that way, but that's the way it is.
I don't give a shit what people mod me as - I'm right, this guy is wrong, and he's no more than a common thief.
In the infaliable United States Democracy (in which I do not reside) - those people have their democratic rights MEMORIZED, printed off, laminated, and FRAMED above their mantlepiece.
The United States Democracy certainly is infaliable, by which I mean it is not infallible and is in fact a total failure.
The United States Republic was much better. Though I have no idea where it went.
Americans fled from Europe in general, not just England.
Also, UK != England != Great Britain != British Isles.
I'd like a Droid, but I can't use it on AT&T.
Even within GSM / CDMA, frequency disparity will simply replace locking. Oh, that's a GSM 2275 phone, you can't take that to Carrier X - they're on GSM 1500/1800/2100/2250 !
How is allowing root privileges to random users an indication of wisdom in random users?
It's not.
It's an indication that you believe your users are wiser than the average users, or at least that you expect them to become so.