I don't really think it makes a big difference though, someone who is searching for geico website is obviously looking for geico and not likely to click on advertisements. Otherwise they'd be searching for "insurace" if they wanted insurance.
Sure, if they were handicapped by your limited thinking skills, they would. (just kidding, it's a joke)
When I'm looking for anyone who competes with a known brand, e.g., Geico, I'll both type in Geico to see who else comes up in their niche, and go to Dmoz or Yahoo and see who shares the same directory. I also think Geico is in the wrong here. If I were competing with them, I should have the right to advertise anything that isn't empirically untrue, libel or slander, such as "We have better service, cheaper rates and bigger payouts than Geico" or "Tired of having Geico suck your every last dollar for insurance? Get better rates at Acme Insurance."
The fact that his site isn't listed in The Wayback Machine has nothing to do with robots.txt. It has everything to do with the fact his site is just a suckhole for the cyberbritain.co.uk domain. Wayback doesn't index such sites when the content is being remotely pulled.
If they can prove that they used the name internally before what's his name then he's screwed.
What a complete, steaming bag of seeping horseshit. Apparently, you believe that if Apple is communicating internally about some future, unnamed project, then no one in the world has the right to register said projectname, because Golly Gee Beaver!, everyone must be privy to internal Apple communications.
Apple waited and lost, so I think they either need to suck it up, or 'think differently' and route everything to itunes.com.
FYI, I respect your desire to just use a browser, but I love having everything under the hood with Mozilla since I don't use Outlook/Outlook Express, Eudora, Opera's mail, or any other mail client besides the occasional Pine session. It's one-stop shopping at its best. I just wish their html editor was as good as HomeSite 2.5 or I'd use *it* too.
iTMS doesn't generally deal with individuals because, well, there are just too many of them. If you're an Indie artist, you can sign up for iTMS via CD Baby (see link here), and if you're an Indie label a la Dischord, you can approach Apple and sign up directly without an intermediary.
As for browsing for non-RIAA music (if that's your thing), besides checking out the RIAA Radar, you can also start here. If anyone besides the Baby is doing those, replies are helpful.
" Because it gives iPod usera a choice other than iTMS?"
You're right since it allows Real's DRM music to compete with Apple's DRM music, but iPod users already have a ton of choice beyond DRM and iTMS since their players support.wav and.mp3.
"You know, I've never found artists not getting a very big cut as a good excuse to not pay them at all.."
Talk about your erroneous, false conclusions. I wasn't referring to iTunes as an alternative to Kazaa, but I was pointing out that it's funny that so many people are excited about the opportunity to buy low-quality DRM'd music on Linux (like their Windows counterparts).
"Why not sell ten times as many shares at a tenth of the price? Is it deliberate to keep out smallish investors?"
Yeah, it's deliberate. Given their long track record of continually f*cking over both the public and their corporate clients, I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to this like you and I have.
Did you also here that once you buy the stock, you're literally chained to it for 12 months before being permitted to sell the stock and briefcase to someone else? Rat Bastards, they are. What a crock.
It depends a lot on what level of post-production you're going to use on the digital film. Most low-end video cameras, digital or not, don't support the three keys of Red, Green and Blue in post-production, where you could otherwise learn to heavily manipulate the RGB values on a frame-by-frame or skein basis in your output.
That said, check out the Canon XL1 or XL1s cameras (they don't support RGB keys), and if you can go higher, check out the Panasonic DVC200, which does support RGB keys and is a terrific camera. I'm not aware of any cameras that come standard with waterproof enclosures - that will probably be extra unless I'm mistaken.
One other tip I **strongly** suggest - if there's a film association near you, go to one of their meetings and talk to the people who do this as serious amateurs or paid professionals. You will learn a lot very quickly. If an association isn't an option, find your closest university, politely request an appointment with any filmmaker on staff, and then soak 'em for info for ~2 hours.
Good luck. FWIW, like HTML, it's easy to do and hard to do well,:-).
Please mod the parent up. I have my own domain that comes with unlimited aliases and I use them for every account that I use online, e.g., if I shop at CDNow, my e-mail is cdnow at fatchuck dot com.
FWIW, I've never received a single spam to any aliases outside of my slashdot alias and I've got about 20-30 of them. Now, I bought my domain after it had previously lapsed, so when I first got it, I got a ton of spam to webmaster@, master@ and sales@. After going into CPanel and routing all e-mail for those addresses to the trash, spam has ended.
As the parent said, use wildcards and don't share your personal address with anyone besides very good friends and family, OR, make sure your personal address is one you don't mind changing.
You know, I can believe that some dumbass modded this comment "Insightful."
"You also forgot the balance that has always been given to the people - the right to remove the government when it no longer represents them (Thank god for the second amendment)."
OK, I'm game, please point to too all the succesful rebellions where non-military Americans with guns stopped the federal government from abusing the population. That's right, YOU CAN'T, because it's NEVER frigging happened. Saying the 2nd Amendment protects you from government oppression is retarded.
"The patriot act is nothing more than a collection of unconstitutional provisions that those with the power have wanted to pass for a long time."
Or to be precise, law enforcement. I doubt your state senators give a crap about what you're reading.
"9/11 just happened to be a catalyst to make dumb Americans give up their rights
The word isn't dumb, it's apathetic, like the vast majority f people who post to message boards instead of consistently pressuring their representatives or mounting their own citizen initiatives. Yeah, including me.
"I'd rather die than give the government more control over my life."
If we put that to a bet, I'd bet you're either full of sheet or hyperbole.
Based on that Microsoftie's blog entry about Money earlier this week, I wonder if the problem isn't innovation per se (especially if they're spending $4B/year), but letting marketing screw around with innovations that might otherwise be left to seed and grow without marketing's black grip around everything they newly develop (i.e., too much control).
Of course, maybe $4B in cheese puffs doesn't go as far as it used to.;-)
"The I recently bought a 512MB flash player that doubles as a usb drive."
Too late now, but FWIW, you might check out the Muvo2 next time - 4GB, $199 flash-based player that also runs forever and doubles as a portable USB 2.0 hard drive. I used to own a NexII with 256mb until I gave it to Mom after ordering the Muvo2.
"Tiger is due out in the first half of 2005, so there's still quite a while to wait."
You may be right, but for what it's worth, this analysis (I won't vouch for its quality) at MyMac speculates that Jobs announced Tiger now so that developers can get on board with 64-bit apps by this time next year:
FWIW, I'm just glad that Apple is finally beginning to take advantage of the G5 architecture. Hopefully ubiquitous 64 computing is only ~3 years away now that the move's been made.
YMMV, but besides tabbed browsing, built-in address-line search, and pop-up blockers, the reason I've used Mozilla since 1.1 is because it does have soul and *isn't* wielded as a weapon by a repeated federal felon.
For all you cynics, yes, MS was completely justified in doing anything they wanted to compete, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
"Now compare redhat 8 or mandrake 7.2 to windows xp and im sure it will seem on par with windows for the time."
Really? When did Redhat 8 or Mandrake 7.2 begin running 90% of the games on the market (besides solitaire)? When did either of those support flawless print, sound and video peripherals for 90% of the hardware market?
"Its not anyone's fault that Linux is where MS will be in a few years."
If MS came out with a completely proprietary version of RH 10 or Mandrake 10, their market share would plummet. The only way they can increase their market share is if they adopt more Apple innovations.
That's interesting. When I tried to copy & paste a bunch of raw text from Quanta HTML Editor into KWord for KDE 3.2, it wouldn't do it at all. I ended up having to manually open all the source HTML docs from inside KWord and then copy/paste the text I needed into a second KWord window.
"What about when you die, if you have a sizeable music library (such could be considered an asset) how will your family be given access to it?"
Honestly, neither the record, movie or print industries give a cow over whether one's heirs can access the deceased's intellectual property. While this whole fingerprint-tie-in with a given CD is a one-way ticket to bad sales, seeing the RIAA try to implement it even across the threshold of death wouldn't surprise me. They seem to be a never ending source of dumb ideas...
"Right now, the chioce is between flash-based players like the Muvo (at 64-512 MB) and the iPod (more than 2 gigs but expensive). Something in the 2 GB range would close the gap. Make it 802.11 capable, and you could shop for online music right from the player."
Two words - Creative Labs Muvo 2. 4GB compact flash mp3 player, $199, drag-and-drop support without "music management software," and very high ratings from the people who've bought it.
As for shopping online, everything sold online except for eMusic comes with DRM, and only the iPod supports AAC. If you're not happy with the prospect of buying iTunes music, *then* transcoding it to MP3 so that any non-iPod player can play it, you should just buy an Ipod. Just don't forget to buy that $59 Apple Care for three years of coverage, or else when your iPod battery dies after twelve months, you'll need to shell out $99 to have it replaced.
Call me silly, but outside of its possible use for video storage due to its high-speed transfer, this 2GB MMC card is completely frigging DUMB when compact flash cards are already available at 4GB and soon 12GB.
Research and development into Compact Flash cards is already kicking any other flash format's butt, with low-cost, under-$200 4GB cards on the shelves today via the Muvo 2, and the recently announced 12GB compact-flash card that's finished testing and will move into the market by late 2004. That's 4GB you can already stick into any Type II compact-flash compatible PDA, and you'll have a "PDA (that) will make a fully featured music player"today.
As far as manufacturers who will market PDAs for portable audio, maybe, but every PDA dealer I've spoken with (over 5 of them) in the last year+ hasn't made that connection between their PDAs and multi-GB CF storage at all. Methinks they know the PDA field well, but have issues thinking outside the PDA field.
Like Zamfir said in his/her reply, the Axim X5 models come with a compact flash slot. I have no idea why Dell is not continuing this forward into the X30s, especially since CF is easily the most widely used flash-based memory chip in the market, and delivers the most memory for the buck.
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I don't really think it makes a big difference though, someone who is searching for geico website is obviously looking for geico and not likely to click on advertisements. Otherwise they'd be searching for "insurace" if they wanted insurance.
Sure, if they were handicapped by your limited thinking skills, they would. (just kidding, it's a joke)
When I'm looking for anyone who competes with a known brand, e.g., Geico, I'll both type in Geico to see who else comes up in their niche, and go to Dmoz or Yahoo and see who shares the same directory. I also think Geico is in the wrong here. If I were competing with them, I should have the right to advertise anything that isn't empirically untrue, libel or slander, such as "We have better service, cheaper rates and bigger payouts than Geico" or "Tired of having Geico suck your every last dollar for insurance? Get better rates at Acme Insurance."
Peace out.
The fact that his site isn't listed in The Wayback Machine has nothing to do with robots.txt. It has everything to do with the fact his site is just a suckhole for the cyberbritain.co.uk domain. Wayback doesn't index such sites when the content is being remotely pulled.
If they can prove that they used the name internally before what's his name then he's screwed.
What a complete, steaming bag of seeping horseshit. Apparently, you believe that if Apple is communicating internally about some future, unnamed project, then no one in the world has the right to register said projectname, because Golly Gee Beaver!, everyone must be privy to internal Apple communications.
Apple waited and lost, so I think they either need to suck it up, or 'think differently' and route everything to itunes.com.
Chuck
M4ths 4r n0t s0 imp0rt4nt wh3n y0u c0pens4te with my l33t sk1llz in l4nguage 4nd cultur3!!!!
Idiot! You misspelled c0pens4te. It's actually c0mpen54te.
FYI, I respect your desire to just use a browser, but I love having everything under the hood with Mozilla since I don't use Outlook/Outlook Express, Eudora, Opera's mail, or any other mail client besides the occasional Pine session. It's one-stop shopping at its best. I just wish their html editor was as good as HomeSite 2.5 or I'd use *it* too.
YMMV.
iTMS doesn't generally deal with individuals because, well, there are just too many of them. If you're an Indie artist, you can sign up for iTMS via CD Baby (see link here), and if you're an Indie label a la Dischord, you can approach Apple and sign up directly without an intermediary.
As for browsing for non-RIAA music (if that's your thing), besides checking out the RIAA Radar, you can also start here. If anyone besides the Baby is doing those, replies are helpful.
" Because it gives iPod usera a choice other than iTMS?"
.wav and .mp3.
You're right since it allows Real's DRM music to compete with Apple's DRM music, but iPod users already have a ton of choice beyond DRM and iTMS since their players support
Chuck
"You know, I've never found artists not getting a very big cut as a good excuse to not pay them at all.."
Talk about your erroneous, false conclusions. I wasn't referring to iTunes as an alternative to Kazaa, but I was pointing out that it's funny that so many people are excited about the opportunity to buy low-quality DRM'd music on Linux (like their Windows counterparts).
Wow, cool, now the Linux community can easily, painlessly join the choice of a new generation. Fan-f*cking-tastic, where do I sign up? *drool*
"Why not sell ten times as many shares at a tenth of the price? Is it deliberate to keep out smallish investors?"
Yeah, it's deliberate. Given their long track record of continually f*cking over both the public and their corporate clients, I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to this like you and I have.
Did you also here that once you buy the stock, you're literally chained to it for 12 months before being permitted to sell the stock and briefcase to someone else? Rat Bastards, they are. What a crock.
Chuck
It depends a lot on what level of post-production you're going to use on the digital film. Most low-end video cameras, digital or not, don't support the three keys of Red, Green and Blue in post-production, where you could otherwise learn to heavily manipulate the RGB values on a frame-by-frame or skein basis in your output.
:-).
That said, check out the Canon XL1 or XL1s cameras (they don't support RGB keys), and if you can go higher, check out the Panasonic DVC200, which does support RGB keys and is a terrific camera. I'm not aware of any cameras that come standard with waterproof enclosures - that will probably be extra unless I'm mistaken.
One other tip I **strongly** suggest - if there's a film association near you, go to one of their meetings and talk to the people who do this as serious amateurs or paid professionals. You will learn a lot very quickly. If an association isn't an option, find your closest university, politely request an appointment with any filmmaker on staff, and then soak 'em for info for ~2 hours.
Good luck. FWIW, like HTML, it's easy to do and hard to do well,
Please mod the parent up. I have my own domain that comes with unlimited aliases and I use them for every account that I use online, e.g., if I shop at CDNow, my e-mail is cdnow at fatchuck dot com.
FWIW, I've never received a single spam to any aliases outside of my slashdot alias and I've got about 20-30 of them. Now, I bought my domain after it had previously lapsed, so when I first got it, I got a ton of spam to webmaster@, master@ and sales@. After going into CPanel and routing all e-mail for those addresses to the trash, spam has ended.
As the parent said, use wildcards and don't share your personal address with anyone besides very good friends and family, OR, make sure your personal address is one you don't mind changing.
Peace,
Chuck
You know, I can believe that some dumbass modded this comment "Insightful."
"You also forgot the balance that has always been given to the people - the right to remove the government when it no longer represents them (Thank god for the second amendment)."
OK, I'm game, please point to too all the succesful rebellions where non-military Americans with guns stopped the federal government from abusing the population. That's right, YOU CAN'T, because it's NEVER frigging happened. Saying the 2nd Amendment protects you from government oppression is retarded.
"The patriot act is nothing more than a collection of unconstitutional provisions that those with the power have wanted to pass for a long time."
Or to be precise, law enforcement. I doubt your state senators give a crap about what you're reading.
"9/11 just happened to be a catalyst to make dumb Americans give up their rights
The word isn't dumb, it's apathetic, like the vast majority f people who post to message boards instead of consistently pressuring their representatives or mounting their own citizen initiatives. Yeah, including me.
"I'd rather die than give the government more control over my life."
If we put that to a bet, I'd bet you're either full of sheet or hyperbole.
Peace,
Chuck
Based on that Microsoftie's blog entry about Money earlier this week, I wonder if the problem isn't innovation per se (especially if they're spending $4B/year), but letting marketing screw around with innovations that might otherwise be left to seed and grow without marketing's black grip around everything they newly develop (i.e., too much control).
;-)
Of course, maybe $4B in cheese puffs doesn't go as far as it used to.
"The I recently bought a 512MB flash player that doubles as a usb drive."
Too late now, but FWIW, you might check out the Muvo2 next time - 4GB, $199 flash-based player that also runs forever and doubles as a portable USB 2.0 hard drive. I used to own a NexII with 256mb until I gave it to Mom after ordering the Muvo2.
"Tiger is due out in the first half of 2005, so there's still quite a while to wait."
You may be right, but for what it's worth, this analysis (I won't vouch for its quality) at MyMac speculates that Jobs announced Tiger now so that developers can get on board with 64-bit apps by this time next year:
MyMac analysis
FWIW, I'm just glad that Apple is finally beginning to take advantage of the G5 architecture. Hopefully ubiquitous 64 computing is only ~3 years away now that the move's been made.
"just making a joke at the expense of fox news. what's your point?"
I think his point was that your joke sucked. Wasn't it obvious?
Chuck
"So what role does that leave for Microsoft? The executioner?"
:-)
Aaah, now that would be a fine role for them, sonny. Certainly nothing spells r-e-p-r-i-e-v-e like an innopportune blue screen of death.
YMMV, but besides tabbed browsing, built-in address-line search, and pop-up blockers, the reason I've used Mozilla since 1.1 is because it does have soul and *isn't* wielded as a weapon by a repeated federal felon.
For all you cynics, yes, MS was completely justified in doing anything they wanted to compete, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
"Now compare redhat 8 or mandrake 7.2 to windows xp and im sure it will seem on par with windows for the time."
Really? When did Redhat 8 or Mandrake 7.2 begin running 90% of the games on the market (besides solitaire)? When did either of those support flawless print, sound and video peripherals for 90% of the hardware market?
"Its not anyone's fault that Linux is where MS will be in a few years."
If MS came out with a completely proprietary version of RH 10 or Mandrake 10, their market share would plummet. The only way they can increase their market share is if they adopt more Apple innovations.
That's interesting. When I tried to copy & paste a bunch of raw text from Quanta HTML Editor into KWord for KDE 3.2, it wouldn't do it at all. I ended up having to manually open all the source HTML docs from inside KWord and then copy/paste the text I needed into a second KWord window.
"What about when you die, if you have a sizeable music library (such could be considered an asset) how will your family be given access to it?"
Honestly, neither the record, movie or print industries give a cow over whether one's heirs can access the deceased's intellectual property. While this whole fingerprint-tie-in with a given CD is a one-way ticket to bad sales, seeing the RIAA try to implement it even across the threshold of death wouldn't surprise me. They seem to be a never ending source of dumb ideas...
"Right now, the chioce is between flash-based players like the Muvo (at 64-512 MB) and the iPod (more than 2 gigs but expensive). Something in the 2 GB range would close the gap. Make it 802.11 capable, and you could shop for online music right from the player."
Two words - Creative Labs Muvo 2. 4GB compact flash mp3 player, $199, drag-and-drop support without "music management software," and very high ratings from the people who've bought it.
As for shopping online, everything sold online except for eMusic comes with DRM, and only the iPod supports AAC. If you're not happy with the prospect of buying iTunes music, *then* transcoding it to MP3 so that any non-iPod player can play it, you should just buy an Ipod. Just don't forget to buy that $59 Apple Care for three years of coverage, or else when your iPod battery dies after twelve months, you'll need to shell out $99 to have it replaced.
Call me silly, but outside of its possible use for video storage due to its high-speed transfer, this 2GB MMC card is completely frigging DUMB when compact flash cards are already available at 4GB and soon 12GB.
Research and development into Compact Flash cards is already kicking any other flash format's butt, with low-cost, under-$200 4GB cards on the shelves today via the Muvo 2, and the recently announced 12GB compact-flash card that's finished testing and will move into the market by late 2004. That's 4GB you can already stick into any Type II compact-flash compatible PDA, and you'll have a "PDA (that) will make a fully featured music player" today.
As far as manufacturers who will market PDAs for portable audio, maybe, but every PDA dealer I've spoken with (over 5 of them) in the last year+ hasn't made that connection between their PDAs and multi-GB CF storage at all. Methinks they know the PDA field well, but have issues thinking outside the PDA field.
Like Zamfir said in his/her reply, the Axim X5 models come with a compact flash slot. I have no idea why Dell is not continuing this forward into the X30s, especially since CF is easily the most widely used flash-based memory chip in the market, and delivers the most memory for the buck.