"the ability to set up shortcuts for the url input line ("google something" starts a Google search for something..."
command-L, tab puts the cursor into Safari's built-in Google search. and you know how Google always echos "Searched the web for _foo_." on your search results page? That underlined word is a link to the word at dictionary.reference.com. It all depends on the user. If you need to look up words, use regexp, etc., use Omni or whatever. Me, I can't live without tabs. Anyway, not posting to say you're wrong, just pointing out a couple lessser-known features.
I am under no obligation to buy all of the advertised products. I am under no obligation to give due consideration to the advertised products. I am under no obligation to pay attention to the advertised products. I am under no obligation to watch the products be advertised.
Amen. Well said. Time for me to print that out, tape it to a 2x4, and go beat some sense into some execs.:-)
Average != peak. I won't reach for the remote to turn down a show due to a gunshot, explosion, scream, or argument, but God created the Mute button for those "Sunday, SUNDAY, Sunday!" ads.
If you go to a restaurant and sit near two families, one with a continually crying kid and one with a father who sneezes once, will you go home complaining about those two noisy families you sat near? Come on.
IANAL, but... "Deleting the commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work..." Not quite sure about that. How does it "create" a work if I'm just, effectively looking at it differently? If I close one eye while watching a show is that a derivative work? How 'bout if I leave the room? Tip my head to the side? FF with a regular VCR?
Besides, if I'm not reselling it or passing it off as my own work, how can it possibly matter? If I buy the Mona Lisa, I can a) draw a Groucho Marx moustache and sunglasses on it and/or b) sketch a copy on the back of an envelope and stick it on the front of my fridge.
Also, any PVR that does this will likely have the feature off by default. It is up to the user to activate it. TiVo isn't responsible for me skipping commercials any more than Bic is responsible for me forging checks. In short, TiVo is not *creating* anything, it is *presenting* it to the user, *as the user chooses.*
Besides, I don't think a "TV broadcast" can be copyrighted as a whole. The show is copyrighted, as are the ads, and there are existing laws that don't allow me to rebroadcast NBC, but I don't think Friends+ads is a single copyrighted (or even copyrightable) entity. Your first example of how popups!=ads can quickly br proven false: ever notice how the nationwide ads get cut out a show and you see ads for your local Ford dealer and steakhouse? Just like you said for popups, content changes by user--or, properly, by groups of user as determined by region. And, come to think of it, popups *are* integrated into a site as much as ads are integrated into a show--just as a broadcaster broadcasts show and ads, a server serves site content and ads. No difference at all.
And if you want to hear Esperanto, there's a short.ra clip on the site. In all seriousness, it was a decent movie. Looked good, too--cinematography by Oscar-winner (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) Conrad Hall. And yes, they all learned their dialog phoenetically.
Couldn't agree more. Seeing the trailer, with bits from all 3 movies, reminded me how good the first was and how crappy the second two were. True, the first was also new & exciting, but Die Hard 2 was a better sequel than Reloaded. Only T3 kept Revolutions from being the biggest letdown of the year.
another trend, thanks to CG, is the (almost) infinitely-large-in-every-direction room. The only two I can think of off the top of my head were in Monsters Inc (the "closet doors on dry cleaning racks" scene near the end) and SW:AOTC (the droid factory where r2 pushed 3PO and then flew, *%$#@%). Granted Monsters was a fantasy (more so than SW) but I'm seeing this a lot and getting sick of it. Wish I could think of more examples. The pod scene in the first Matrix was almost one, except that that was outside so it was kinda OK. Anyone else want to add to the list?
You know what would be even better? Imagine if, instead of bringing media to a physical location and writing data to that media, if there were a way to make data available to everyone *at their homes*, possibly utilizing an existing infrastructure like the phone or cable TV system...
Just kidding. Seriously, I'm just being an ass. That's actually a very good idea. It's hard for slashdot readers to comprehend, but there are people who *learn* about the Internet, software, etc., in ways other than being online 22 hrs/day.:-)
I've only lived in large cities, but honestly, no, I've never known life without "the sunday paper." Not trolling or making fun of you, but where do you live where they don't make a big thick paper on Sundays?
In any case, check the friday or saturday paper for ads, or go to the stores themselves--they usually have stacks of the week's sales flyers (if they made on that week) right by the front door.
First of all, I dont order the newspaper to my house, however even if I did, its sunday.
Um, you never heard of the Sunday Paper? As it happens, that's the *only* one I get delivered to my house--because it has all the ads. As it happens, this *is* where I first heard about the arrest--my wife went through the paper and brought me all the good ads (circuit city, best buy, compusa, etc.) so I didn't even see the paper itself. Don't know if this happened this morning or last night, but for all I know he's on the front page. My wife just gets my ads and hers (target, pier 1, etc.) and gives the rest to the neighbors.
TiVo is not heading down the drain. Yes, word of mouth is important, but TiVo hackers are less than 1% of the TiVo owning population, and disgruntled TiVo hackers are 1% of that group. Word of mouth works fine, when most users are non-techie moms & pops who no longer have a blinking-12:00 device and can record shows with the push of a button and can skip over ads. This is the same lame thinking as all the uuber-hackers who say "I think Linux r0x0rz and will will therefore dethrown Window$ since it's vaguely technically superior!!1"
Luckily, the TiVo engineers are godlike. I forgot to plug my fan back in when I put my first 120 GB drive into my Hughes DirecTiVo. Worked fine, I went to bed. Woke up to a grey screen informing me that the unit shut itself off due to high heat. Thank you, TiVo engineers, for saving me from myself.:-)
Are you expecting that to happen before or after PNG becomes de facto? I recommend you not hold your breath--I remember reading about PNG first in David Siegel's Killersites in 1997. Flash is also scriptable; as in, enter your name one a page, press 'submit', and see your name *in* a flash file on the next page. Or, pull COMPANY_NAME from a database.
As much as I would like to use my mod points on the score:0 answer also replying to you, I would like to point out that not all of us have the strength and time to fight the good fight against spam. Besides, since the opponents are a) well financed, b) already doing illegal stuff, and c) often foreign, the question is, what can we really do? I'd rather try to drag Bill Gates into court than a Romanian spammer. I have no problem at all with any individual who declares that he will ignore the world's spam problem and will instead focus his energy on feeding his family, going to school, saving the whales, shooting pool, or however else he wants to spend his time. We can't all be activists, and even if we could, we can't all be activists for the same cause. Besides, why *should* he devote his energy to figting spam when the ones in control of the Internet--ISPs--sell bandwidth to spammers? No reason to stick your fingers in the dike when an ISP is using a firehose to blow water over the top of it. Fighting SPAM would be 1000% easier if we had buy-in from ISPs.
So, I'd drop the "stupid" back to "selfish." Speaking of which, what exactly are you doing for water quality in your area? And the homeless? Are you a crossing guard at your local elementary school? Pick up litter from the roadways? Adopt a couple foster kids, maybe? Ring a bell for the Salvation Army this holiday season? Donate blood? Have you gone to the Red Cross and been CPR certified? I'm not ragging on you, I'm just pointing out that there's lots that could be done (many things, I'd say, more important than fighting SPAM) and I'd never berate someone for choosing not to help any particular cause.
If you don't have an office nearby that's throwing away old Compaq Deskpros, Computer Surplus Outlet is a good place for older machines that are perfect for smoothwall & IP Cop. The slowest & cheapest thing I can see there are 233 PIIs for $29. Actually, that's *all* they have--they used to have a lot more, but if they're selling PIIs for $30 (I remember when the first PII/400 came out , the CPU itself was over $1,000) I guess they can't go much lower on that. Who wants to pay $0.50 for a 486 & $22 shipping?
"But what about millions of millions of people ignoring their rights as Americans to vote? Imagine what history would be like if those people voted? I bet, historically, the world would be a different place all together."
Probably not at all. Because those 62% that didn't vote are very similar to the 38% that did vote. Say, nationwide, 1/3 will vote for A and 2/3 will vote for B. What's the difference between 12-26 and 33-67? Nothing. Even if we had Bizarro Day and all non-voters voted and all regular voters didn't, you'd still have the same ratio. That's how Nielsen ratings work for TV, and that's why we have representative democracy in the first place. Voters represent non-voters, and if non-voters don't like the voters' choices, they can become voters themselves.:-)
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I tried your idea but my bank says "FP!" is not long a enough password.:-(;-)
As an aside, I wonder if anyone's using 'g04t5e.cx'?
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"the ability to set up shortcuts for the url input line ("google something" starts a Google search for something..."
command-L, tab puts the cursor into Safari's built-in Google search. and you know how Google always echos "Searched the web for _foo_." on your search results page? That underlined word is a link to the word at dictionary.reference.com. It all depends on the user. If you need to look up words, use regexp, etc., use Omni or whatever. Me, I can't live without tabs. Anyway, not posting to say you're wrong, just pointing out a couple lessser-known features.
I am under no obligation to buy all of the advertised products. I am under no obligation to give due consideration to the advertised products. I am under no obligation to pay attention to the advertised products. I am under no obligation to watch the products be advertised.
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Amen. Well said. Time for me to print that out, tape it to a 2x4, and go beat some sense into some execs.
Average != peak. I won't reach for the remote to turn down a show due to a gunshot, explosion, scream, or argument, but God created the Mute button for those "Sunday, SUNDAY, Sunday!" ads.
If you go to a restaurant and sit near two families, one with a continually crying kid and one with a father who sneezes once, will you go home complaining about those two noisy families you sat near? Come on.
IANAL, but...
"Deleting the commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work..."
Not quite sure about that. How does it "create" a work if I'm just, effectively looking at it differently? If I close one eye while watching a show is that a derivative work? How 'bout if I leave the room? Tip my head to the side? FF with a regular VCR?
Besides, if I'm not reselling it or passing it off as my own work, how can it possibly matter? If I buy the Mona Lisa, I can a) draw a Groucho Marx moustache and sunglasses on it and/or b) sketch a copy on the back of an envelope and stick it on the front of my fridge.
Also, any PVR that does this will likely have the feature off by default. It is up to the user to activate it. TiVo isn't responsible for me skipping commercials any more than Bic is responsible for me forging checks. In short, TiVo is not *creating* anything, it is *presenting* it to the user, *as the user chooses.*
Besides, I don't think a "TV broadcast" can be copyrighted as a whole. The show is copyrighted, as are the ads, and there are existing laws that don't allow me to rebroadcast NBC, but I don't think Friends+ads is a single copyrighted (or even copyrightable) entity. Your first example of how popups!=ads can quickly br proven false: ever notice how the nationwide ads get cut out a show and you see ads for your local Ford dealer and steakhouse? Just like you said for popups, content changes by user--or, properly, by groups of user as determined by region. And, come to think of it, popups *are* integrated into a site as much as ads are integrated into a show--just as a broadcaster broadcasts show and ads, a server serves site content and ads. No difference at all.
Buy it!</plug>
.ra clip on the site. In all seriousness, it was a decent movie. Looked good, too--cinematography by Oscar-winner (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) Conrad Hall. And yes, they all learned their dialog phoenetically.
And if you want to hear Esperanto, there's a short
"...keep an eye out for out-of-hours connections..."
Or, better yet, unplug* the WAP at night--100% hackproof!
* even easier to maintain: put it in an outlet that's connected to a wall-mounted lightswitch-style switch. At night, turn it off with the lights.
Where I'm from, we just turn our cubes into pumpkins.
Couldn't agree more. Seeing the trailer, with bits from all 3 movies, reminded me how good the first was and how crappy the second two were. True, the first was also new & exciting, but Die Hard 2 was a better sequel than Reloaded. Only T3 kept Revolutions from being the biggest letdown of the year.
another trend, thanks to CG, is the (almost) infinitely-large-in-every-direction room. The only two I can think of off the top of my head were in Monsters Inc (the "closet doors on dry cleaning racks" scene near the end) and SW:AOTC (the droid factory where r2 pushed 3PO and then flew, *%$#@%). Granted Monsters was a fantasy (more so than SW) but I'm seeing this a lot and getting sick of it. Wish I could think of more examples. The pod scene in the first Matrix was almost one, except that that was outside so it was kinda OK. Anyone else want to add to the list?
You know what would be even better? Imagine if, instead of bringing media to a physical location and writing data to that media, if there were a way to make data available to everyone *at their homes*, possibly utilizing an existing infrastructure like the phone or cable TV system...
:-)
Just kidding. Seriously, I'm just being an ass. That's actually a very good idea. It's hard for slashdot readers to comprehend, but there are people who *learn* about the Internet, software, etc., in ways other than being online 22 hrs/day.
I've only lived in large cities, but honestly, no, I've never known life without "the sunday paper." Not trolling or making fun of you, but where do you live where they don't make a big thick paper on Sundays?
In any case, check the friday or saturday paper for ads, or go to the stores themselves--they usually have stacks of the week's sales flyers (if they made on that week) right by the front door.
Let me know if you still don't get it. The pic only shows one redeeming feature well, but if you watch the scene, you'll see both.
And then someone replies to you re: bandwidth vs. latency, and the thread mercifully ends. right? :-)
"It had zero redeeming features."
Did you step out for a Coke when Kirsten Dunst was getting rained on? That's two redeeming features right there.
First of all, I dont order the newspaper to my house, however even if I did, its sunday.
Um, you never heard of the Sunday Paper? As it happens, that's the *only* one I get delivered to my house--because it has all the ads. As it happens, this *is* where I first heard about the arrest--my wife went through the paper and brought me all the good ads (circuit city, best buy, compusa, etc.) so I didn't even see the paper itself. Don't know if this happened this morning or last night, but for all I know he's on the front page. My wife just gets my ads and hers (target, pier 1, etc.) and gives the rest to the neighbors.
here's another. ;-)
Just kidding. Thanks! Now I can see the pictures.
TiVo is not heading down the drain. Yes, word of mouth is important, but TiVo hackers are less than 1% of the TiVo owning population, and disgruntled TiVo hackers are 1% of that group. Word of mouth works fine, when most users are non-techie moms & pops who no longer have a blinking-12:00 device and can record shows with the push of a button and can skip over ads. This is the same lame thinking as all the uuber-hackers who say "I think Linux r0x0rz and will will therefore dethrown Window$ since it's vaguely technically superior!!1"
Hughes fans are notorious for failing...
:-)
Luckily, the TiVo engineers are godlike. I forgot to plug my fan back in when I put my first 120 GB drive into my Hughes DirecTiVo. Worked fine, I went to bed. Woke up to a grey screen informing me that the unit shut itself off due to high heat. Thank you, TiVo engineers, for saving me from myself.
When SVG becomes de facto...
Are you expecting that to happen before or after PNG becomes de facto? I recommend you not hold your breath--I remember reading about PNG first in David Siegel's Killersites in 1997. Flash is also scriptable; as in, enter your name one a page, press 'submit', and see your name *in* a flash file on the next page. Or, pull COMPANY_NAME from a database.
As much as I would like to use my mod points on the score:0 answer also replying to you, I would like to point out that not all of us have the strength and time to fight the good fight against spam. Besides, since the opponents are a) well financed, b) already doing illegal stuff, and c) often foreign, the question is, what can we really do? I'd rather try to drag Bill Gates into court than a Romanian spammer. I have no problem at all with any individual who declares that he will ignore the world's spam problem and will instead focus his energy on feeding his family, going to school, saving the whales, shooting pool, or however else he wants to spend his time. We can't all be activists, and even if we could, we can't all be activists for the same cause. Besides, why *should* he devote his energy to figting spam when the ones in control of the Internet--ISPs--sell bandwidth to spammers? No reason to stick your fingers in the dike when an ISP is using a firehose to blow water over the top of it. Fighting SPAM would be 1000% easier if we had buy-in from ISPs.
So, I'd drop the "stupid" back to "selfish." Speaking of which, what exactly are you doing for water quality in your area? And the homeless? Are you a crossing guard at your local elementary school? Pick up litter from the roadways? Adopt a couple foster kids, maybe? Ring a bell for the Salvation Army this holiday season? Donate blood? Have you gone to the Red Cross and been CPR certified? I'm not ragging on you, I'm just pointing out that there's lots that could be done (many things, I'd say, more important than fighting SPAM) and I'd never berate someone for choosing not to help any particular cause.
As a user, *I* hate always being told "read the forking manual!"
If you don't have an office nearby that's throwing away old Compaq Deskpros, Computer Surplus Outlet is a good place for older machines that are perfect for smoothwall & IP Cop. The slowest & cheapest thing I can see there are 233 PIIs for $29. Actually, that's *all* they have--they used to have a lot more, but if they're selling PIIs for $30 (I remember when the first PII/400 came out , the CPU itself was over $1,000) I guess they can't go much lower on that. Who wants to pay $0.50 for a 486 & $22 shipping?
...my current DSL ISP keeps its prices where they are and can therefore stay in business.
"But what about millions of millions of people ignoring their rights as Americans to vote? Imagine what history would be like if those people voted? I bet, historically, the world would be a different place all together."
:-)
Probably not at all. Because those 62% that didn't vote are very similar to the 38% that did vote. Say, nationwide, 1/3 will vote for A and 2/3 will vote for B. What's the difference between 12-26 and 33-67? Nothing. Even if we had Bizarro Day and all non-voters voted and all regular voters didn't, you'd still have the same ratio. That's how Nielsen ratings work for TV, and that's why we have representative democracy in the first place. Voters represent non-voters, and if non-voters don't like the voters' choices, they can become voters themselves.
I tried your idea but my bank says "FP!" is not long a enough password. :-( ;-)
As an aside, I wonder if anyone's using 'g04t5e.cx'?