Oh, if you do something as a hobby, your work is not to be taken seriously? Try to explain that to genealogists, free software authors, and anyone else who puts pride into their hobbies.
You forget that Wikipedia blocks all edits from Tor users (even those logged in). I2P's couple of outproxies are bound to be blocked as well as soon as they are abused.
Here in the UK we have a much harsher rating system which is actually enforced by statue law
Kramer: Anyway, it's been two years. I mean isn't there like statue of limitations on that? Jerry: Statute. Kramer: What? Jerry: Statute of limitations. It's not a statue. Kramer: No, statue. Jerry: Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations.
Apple has nothing to do with this story, so I don't see why it's filed in the Apple category. Apple did not invent podcasting; they were even late adopters of it.
Do we HAVE to invent new contorted words for every variation of everything these days? Podjacking? Webinar? Blogosphere, podosphere? Vlog? Moblogging? I'm in pain here!
Since my early youth back in the stoneages, I've been an eager radio listener. The radio had personalities, and a great mix of the music they loved. But gradually, the DJs stopped playing the music they loved, and was forced into rotating a small set of really annoying "hits" intertwined with an enourmous amount of amazingly annoying advertising. With the recent payola scandals in radio, the spirit is definitely gone.
And this is in Norway. I hear gruesome tales of the situation in the United States of ClearChannel stations.
Podcasting is taking the air back. For the longest time I couldn't be bothered to listen, because it's such a benign concept on the surface (and the term "podcast" is so braindead). But eventually I got myself a $75 mp3 player and started sampling some of the shows, and now I listen every day, to a wide variety of fun and/or interesting shows. With the "Podsafe Music Network", a collection of independent music approved for play on podcasts, growing every day, there's a decent amount of great music in the shows too.
If you want to get started with podcast listening, I recommend setting up Juice and subscribing to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. It's a show about podcasts, playing (amongst other things) promos for other shows that you may want to listen to. Before you know it, your subscription list has grown plenty. Some of the shows are just plain crap, poorly done, almost perfectly uninteresting, but then some are really worth listening to. Check out Podcast Alley for some of the most popular shows.
Shareaza cannot connect to Kazaa's network and does not support Kazaa's protocol (Fasttrack). No open source clients today do; Sharman locked them all out when they switched to a central authentication server.
"Right now it would be possible for us, and I've often thought it would cheer me up to do it, you could dispatch a virus to anybody whose files contain us or Columbia records, and make them listen to four hours of Yanni" (Source) )
By the time Wikipedia is printed, it will already be out of date.
A few entries, yes, but most information does not become outdated that quickly. You can still pick up the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, and find a lot of information that is correct and relevant. If you freeze a part of Wikipedia onto paper, it's the same. Things like the date Germany invaded Poland, or the gravitational constant, don't change overnight.
Microsoft: We won't support OpenDocument. Slashdot: You are bad monopolists trying to kill open standards! Microsoft: Oh. Fine, we will support OpenDocument. Slashdot: You are just embracing it so you can extinguish it, to kill open standards! Microsoft:...
This is no bad thing, however. An article like this, pointing out that feature X of OpenOffice.org is n times slower than on Microsoft Office, will only trigger the OOo hackers to optimize and improve. So, in a sense, Ou's effort against OOo will "backlash".
The UN convention on the rights of children (ratified by every country on Earth except Somalia and USA) ensures children the right to freedom of expression. Children are not objects to be owned by their parents or the State like some precious pet. While experience is certainly needed in order to influence society, we need to give them access to an environment where such experience can be attained. If we deny them the right to express themselves freely, where will the experience come from? Children are kept in a bubble until they reach the age of majority, and then overnight they are expected to behave like responsible, reflecting adults. Many 18-year-old first-time voters are so inexperienced and immature that they hardly dare to think independently. What kind of effect does that have on a democracy?
They may do as they please legally, and the membership that doesn't like it can certainly leave.
Do you really think these children can leave the school by their own decision in persuit of their freedom of speech? Most of them have probably not even chosen to be there. But then, children aren't supposed to have any right that can stir the status quo, and this includes freedom of expression. Within the bubble, they can do whatever they want.
If they go under, well Tier 1's don't ever really die. Chances are one of the other Tier 1's will buy their assets and it'll be business as usual. Usually the buyer is MCI.
And with fewer and fewer tier 1's, is it any wonder things like this happen?
Um, Microsoft hasn't tried to keep MSN IM closed. They even released the specs for the protocol, if I remember correctly.
If by "released" you mean to anyone willing to pay for a Microsoft Communications Protocol Program License, and then use the specs only accordingly, then why, yes. In the same vein, I also heard Microsoft released the Windows source code.
In Europe, few have heard of AIM. MSN Messenger has something like 90% of the market. Like "the blue E" has become synonymous with the internet, MSN has become synonymous with instant messaging.
I used s5 for my Masters thesis presentation. It worked great, but I don't know if I would call it "AJAX". It's just combines XHTML and CSS, very well.
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Oh, if you do something as a hobby, your work is not to be taken seriously? Try to explain that to genealogists, free software authors, and anyone else who puts pride into their hobbies.
You forget that Wikipedia blocks all edits from Tor users (even those logged in). I2P's couple of outproxies are bound to be blocked as well as soon as they are abused.
Here in the UK we have a much harsher rating system which is actually enforced by statue law
Kramer: Anyway, it's been two years. I mean isn't there like statue of limitations on that?
Jerry: Statute.
Kramer: What?
Jerry: Statute of limitations. It's not a statue.
Kramer: No, statue.
Jerry: Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations.
Apple has nothing to do with this story, so I don't see why it's filed in the Apple category. Apple did not invent podcasting; they were even late adopters of it.
Do we HAVE to invent new contorted words for every variation of everything these days? Podjacking? Webinar? Blogosphere, podosphere? Vlog? Moblogging? I'm in pain here!
Since my early youth back in the stoneages, I've been an eager radio listener. The radio had personalities, and a great mix of the music they loved. But gradually, the DJs stopped playing the music they loved, and was forced into rotating a small set of really annoying "hits" intertwined with an enourmous amount of amazingly annoying advertising. With the recent payola scandals in radio, the spirit is definitely gone.
And this is in Norway. I hear gruesome tales of the situation in the United States of ClearChannel stations.
Podcasting is taking the air back. For the longest time I couldn't be bothered to listen, because it's such a benign concept on the surface (and the term "podcast" is so braindead). But eventually I got myself a $75 mp3 player and started sampling some of the shows, and now I listen every day, to a wide variety of fun and/or interesting shows. With the "Podsafe Music Network", a collection of independent music approved for play on podcasts, growing every day, there's a decent amount of great music in the shows too.
If you want to get started with podcast listening, I recommend setting up Juice and subscribing to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. It's a show about podcasts, playing (amongst other things) promos for other shows that you may want to listen to. Before you know it, your subscription list has grown plenty. Some of the shows are just plain crap, poorly done, almost perfectly uninteresting, but then some are really worth listening to. Check out Podcast Alley for some of the most popular shows.
Shareaza cannot connect to Kazaa's network and does not support Kazaa's protocol (Fasttrack). No open source clients today do; Sharman locked them all out when they switched to a central authentication server.
Care to share the adblock rule please?
... and that their CD's contained copyrighted music.
I'm seeing this more and more, also on slashdot. "The reason is because ..." is strange and redundant. Please use "The reason is that ..." (more info)
Or as Sony's CEO Howard Stringer put it in 2001:
"Right now it would be possible for us, and I've often thought it would cheer me up to do it, you could dispatch a virus to anybody whose files contain us or Columbia records, and make them listen to four hours of Yanni" (Source) )
By the time Wikipedia is printed, it will already be out of date.
A few entries, yes, but most information does not become outdated that quickly. You can still pick up the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, and find a lot of information that is correct and relevant. If you freeze a part of Wikipedia onto paper, it's the same. Things like the date Germany invaded Poland, or the gravitational constant, don't change overnight.
How is this vigilantism? I thought we called it honeypots. Except, perhaps, when Microsoft does it?
Microsoft: We won't support OpenDocument. ...
Slashdot: You are bad monopolists trying to kill open standards!
Microsoft: Oh. Fine, we will support OpenDocument.
Slashdot: You are just embracing it so you can extinguish it, to kill open standards!
Microsoft:
Is it natural variance ... or global warming?? This, and Andy Rooney, tonight on 60 minutes.
This is no bad thing, however. An article like this, pointing out that feature X of OpenOffice.org is n times slower than on Microsoft Office, will only trigger the OOo hackers to optimize and improve. So, in a sense, Ou's effort against OOo will "backlash".
The UN convention on the rights of children (ratified by every country on Earth except Somalia and USA) ensures children the right to freedom of expression. Children are not objects to be owned by their parents or the State like some precious pet. While experience is certainly needed in order to influence society, we need to give them access to an environment where such experience can be attained. If we deny them the right to express themselves freely, where will the experience come from? Children are kept in a bubble until they reach the age of majority, and then overnight they are expected to behave like responsible, reflecting adults. Many 18-year-old first-time voters are so inexperienced and immature that they hardly dare to think independently. What kind of effect does that have on a democracy?
They may do as they please legally, and the membership that doesn't like it can certainly leave.
Do you really think these children can leave the school by their own decision in persuit of their freedom of speech? Most of them have probably not even chosen to be there. But then, children aren't supposed to have any right that can stir the status quo, and this includes freedom of expression. Within the bubble, they can do whatever they want.
If they go under, well Tier 1's don't ever really die. Chances are one of the other Tier 1's will buy their assets and it'll be business as usual. Usually the buyer is MCI.
And with fewer and fewer tier 1's, is it any wonder things like this happen?
As in "Yes, sir, the Internet IS down."
Um, Microsoft hasn't tried to keep MSN IM closed. They even released the specs for the protocol, if I remember correctly.
If by "released" you mean to anyone willing to pay for a Microsoft Communications Protocol Program License, and then use the specs only accordingly, then why, yes. In the same vein, I also heard Microsoft released the Windows source code.
In Europe, few have heard of AIM. MSN Messenger has something like 90% of the market. Like "the blue E" has become synonymous with the internet, MSN has become synonymous with instant messaging.
I guess it's hard to make good sarcastic remarks when the world has gone bonkers.
I used s5 for my Masters thesis presentation. It worked great, but I don't know if I would call it "AJAX". It's just combines XHTML and CSS, very well.
Brain changes or not, tobacco smoking kills. Few people seem to regard this when they argue for pot.