At one time, this was true. There was a time when all sampling was done "by hand". This is no longer true, and has not been true for quite some time, thanks to the advancement of technology. From 2002 to 2006 I worked for a company that was directly funded by ASCAP. We sampled dozens of stations in at least the 110 Media Markets across the US, as well as some international and online stations. Using as many as 5 servers per market we were tracking a minimum of 10 stations per server. Using digital fingerprint technology we reached nearly 100% detection rate of which *version* of which song was being played on a station. That company no longer exists, but the methods(and similar technologies) live on. This should cover something close to 50% of stations residing in the 302 US Media Markets.
This is an unfortunate result of the sandboxing. This is really "the big trade off" between firefox and chrome beside all the little things. Do you want memory usage or sandboxing?
Its pretty rare that I find Chrome with 5+ tabs using less than about 1GB of ram. I have an image somewhere in which when firefox is prompting to close 157 tabs, it is using ~1.5GB.
Its called adblock plus. Familiarize yourself and never go back. All this cry-baby complaining had me wondering why I don't notice "noisy ads" or, well, ads at all. I realized its because I never see them.
Anyone who was on and followed what happened when they "busted" SR, should be skeptical across the board. THe orignal takedown notice was not a real FBI one the SR site. . . it had the SR logo on it. DPR is almost certainly not one person anyway, that is even revealed in the interviews that the guy who was busted gave. I guess, however, we can all make assumptions. . . and assume the mass media has accurately reported this from the beginning.
After all, they were so accurate when the Boston bombing occured. ..right? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-suspects-sunil-tripathi.html
Have you ever watched his show before attempting to flame? He does a lot more than just mod games. Also, Since when does being a hobbyist make you a poseur?
So people shouldn't take Jobs or associate with Japan because there is a politcal dispute over atrocities committed in a war that has been over for 70 years?
Have fun getting PCIE, msata, and gig-e in your raspi buddy. FTFA "with I/O performance being one of the MinnowBoard's standout capabilities. PCIe, SATA disk support, and Gigabit Ethernet make it suitable for file servers and network appliances. .."
Last time I checked the raspi didn't have any of those.
I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see someone post this. I agree completely don't spend quite so much on marketing, and rights to use movies (based on poor ideas in the first place) into games in hopes of making bank when no one really wants to buy the game anyway except the few fans who have to have it because they loved the movie that much. How about don't try to release a brand new EA game every year at $50 a pop, use upgrades or something. I mean it just pisses me off. I haven't bought a new game since. . . vice city? Granted I've pirated some on my xbox since then I still have only 2-4 games I really ever care to play anymore and everytime I try to find a game I would want, there is rarely anything that looks like its 1. appealing 2. doesn't require me to become a video game addict again just to beat the game or get a lot out of it and 3. is easy to just pick up and play. I love serious complicated videogames but I haven't seen a well put together easy to play game that caught my attention since the nintendo 64.
SO they take the product that has had tons of problems and MOVE UP the release date? Wow. . . I hope its perfect. No that a few months will make a difference at this point. . .
If someone else peed in that toilet shortly before you did with a venerial disease it could still be lining the toilet and I'd think your splash back could theoretically infect you. ..although im sure the chances are minute.
Why would you move so quickly to replace something with a buggy release? Test the release until its stable and then replace the current system would be the way to go. I never understood this, my previous company did the same thing it drives people away. You don't have to change things immediately. Why don't you let players who want to try this out and learn it and test it for you and let people who have adapted to the old system continue to play on those servers until all the bugs are worked out?
I agree with you on this. My NAD reciever looks great, and very unique. It also looks like it takes command of its task, and it does it well. The PS2 I think did the most to accomodate size and placement, it has a stand, when its sitting down its flat, the discs are not top loading. However the shape is far too small to make it stackable in any way, unless its at the top of your unit or sitting between two larger anchored units. This has always been an issue with me as I like to have my tv, consoles, record player, reciever, dvd player, and tape player hooked up as one system and the consoles are always harder to situate than even the clunky top loading record player.
Well said, I was going to post a similar response. From what I understand of how paying for bandwidth works is that as far as the ISP is concerned it doesn't matter if Im transfer voice, video, text or whatever I want over my line its done legally. To me, this is akin to saying AOL must pay us for usage of our pipes because the extreme rise in AIM usage is causing people to use the phone less. or PEOPLE ARE PLAYING WOW OVER OUR LINES, BLIZZARD MUST PAY US FOR THIS. Unless there is some sort of competition law saying you cant use their pipes for free because you directly compete with the large phone companies (which would make some sense to me as they would be profiting because they are using a competitors lines for free) I don't see the merit in this statement.
Linux intrigued me for many different reasons, I had played with it and was very interested by it. Linux can do a lot of things natively that windows can't do, or things for which you have to download third party software on windows. For someone who is very interested in the inner workings of a computer linux adds tons to the experience, it often times can force you to think harder. The fact that I got involved back before the big "Linux Desktop" push meant I was forced to use the command line very often, this was wonderful for someone like me who used to play with the dos prompt just for fun. I thrive in linux, I have been known to hole myself up infront a linux PC for weeks configuring freevo, or customizing enlightenment. Linux lends its sellf well to people who like to tinker, Linux does what it does well, and it does many things.
In this country there are now better alternatives. FIOS(fiber optic) for the SAME cost as comcast cable internet gets me 15mb down and 2 mb up, that trumps comcast hands down. They even installed the new terminal at my home for free and gave me a free month. I also just saw that DSL prices from verizon are now $15 a month for 768 down. Why you would pay $10 a month for dialup to save $5 when the speed difference is a factor of at least 10x from 56k to 768k at this point is lost on me. As these types of services and prices become more mainstream (apparently people are signing up for fios faster than they can install it in my area and other test areas) broadband will be more prevalent. There is truth to the fact that it is harder to get broadband to all the rural areas of the US this is logistical. But its also market. A lot of people in the US just don't see a need to pay for more than dialup, but when the cost difference is a couple dollars and you notice your email download way faster and your couple websites you look at load way faster people will abandon dialup. Or so I believe.
Now adays the community is WAY different, I had simialar expiriences, but now on forum sites like linuxquestions.org or fedoraforum.org, i find that people are quite helpful sometimes and I love helping them.
This guy gives everyone a bad name. He slams both linux and mac OS with nothing but WAY out of date facts showing he hasn't use either since the turn of the century. I am not a windows fanboy but this definitely does hurt your cause. On the flip side when linux enthusiasts and mac enthusiasts do the same it sucks. I am just shocked at the ignorance of the article. Literally. SHOCKED Seriously, I think if I gave my 11 year old cousin one day on each machine he could write a better "article", actually not even he is already familiar with BOTH mac and windows. He just needs a day on linux. . . I should do this
I will never go back to cable now. I just signed up for verizon FIOS. 15mb down/2mb up. 15mb down/2mb up. 15mb down/2mb up. ..soorry that phrase just excites me so much since I'll be shedding my $120 a month cable bill for $20 a month and paying the same amount for internet, $50. And now I will have 3 times the speed. (my cable i sonly at 5mb right now) This service should be available everywhere
How are you supposed to find him and how is he supposed to answer pages when he is 1) underpaid 2) overworked 3) rarely given all the proper tools for the job 4) constantly ignored when his input could greatly influence (and possibly save) a decision 5) probably fixing one of the other coworkers spyware/virus/adware infected computers from playing fantasy games and going to crappy sites using ie all day long?
I think the real problem people have with ad supported sites is the popups. Most people don't mind advertisements. . . I mean no one really likes a banner, but at least it doesn't pop over your text or start playing music (usually). If you aren't using pop ups then there shouoldn't be a real issue to defend. Google doesn't use pop ups. . . and almost everything that comes in there is advertising money. Pop up ads make me not want to surf the web. . . and I do less surfing as a result of the multitude of cookies (there is NO reason I should have to set 5 cookies when I visit 1 page at least not on these page 1 is from the originator 4 from ads), pop ups, annoying flash animations, sudden playing of music or loud quotes, and im sure I could pull out a couple more reason. . . and most of these stem from advertising,
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At one time, this was true. There was a time when all sampling was done "by hand". This is no longer true, and has not been true for quite some time, thanks to the advancement of technology. From 2002 to 2006 I worked for a company that was directly funded by ASCAP. We sampled dozens of stations in at least the 110 Media Markets across the US, as well as some international and online stations. Using as many as 5 servers per market we were tracking a minimum of 10 stations per server. Using digital fingerprint technology we reached nearly 100% detection rate of which *version* of which song was being played on a station. That company no longer exists, but the methods(and similar technologies) live on. This should cover something close to 50% of stations residing in the 302 US Media Markets.
"Guy runs company in the ground. Seen spending money at the supermarket enraging people."
This is an unfortunate result of the sandboxing. This is really "the big trade off" between firefox and chrome beside all the little things. Do you want memory usage or sandboxing?
Its pretty rare that I find Chrome with 5+ tabs using less than about 1GB of ram. I have an image somewhere in which when firefox is prompting to close 157 tabs, it is using ~1.5GB.
Please see: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4668171&cid=45959933
(Hint. . its called adblock plus)
Its called adblock plus. Familiarize yourself and never go back.
All this cry-baby complaining had me wondering why I don't notice "noisy ads" or, well, ads at all. I realized its because I never see them.
https://adblockplus.org/
Anyone who was on and followed what happened when they "busted" SR, should be skeptical across the board. THe orignal takedown notice was not a real FBI one the SR site. . . it had the SR logo on it. DPR is almost certainly not one person anyway, that is even revealed in the interviews that the guy who was busted gave. I guess, however, we can all make assumptions. . . and assume the mass media has accurately reported this from the beginning.
After all, they were so accurate when the Boston bombing occured. . .right? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/wrongly-accused-boston-bombing-suspects-sunil-tripathi.html
Have you ever watched his show before attempting to flame? He does a lot more than just mod games. Also, Since when does being a hobbyist make you a poseur?
So people shouldn't take Jobs or associate with Japan because there is a politcal dispute over atrocities committed in a war that has been over for 70 years?
. . . WAIT? Am I feeding the troll?
Have fun getting PCIE, msata, and gig-e in your raspi buddy. FTFA "with I/O performance being one of the MinnowBoard's standout capabilities. PCIe, SATA disk support, and Gigabit Ethernet make it suitable for file servers and network appliances. . ."
Last time I checked the raspi didn't have any of those.
I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see someone post this. I agree completely don't spend quite so much on marketing, and rights to use movies (based on poor ideas in the first place) into games in hopes of making bank when no one really wants to buy the game anyway except the few fans who have to have it because they loved the movie that much. How about don't try to release a brand new EA game every year at $50 a pop, use upgrades or something. I mean it just pisses me off. I haven't bought a new game since. . . vice city? Granted I've pirated some on my xbox since then I still have only 2-4 games I really ever care to play anymore and everytime I try to find a game I would want, there is rarely anything that looks like its 1. appealing 2. doesn't require me to become a video game addict again just to beat the game or get a lot out of it and 3. is easy to just pick up and play. I love serious complicated videogames but I haven't seen a well put together easy to play game that caught my attention since the nintendo 64.
SO they take the product that has had tons of problems and MOVE UP the release date? Wow. . . I hope its perfect. No that a few months will make a difference at this point. . .
If someone else peed in that toilet shortly before you did with a venerial disease it could still be lining the toilet and I'd think your splash back could theoretically infect you. . .although im sure the chances are minute.
Why would you move so quickly to replace something with a buggy release? Test the release until its stable and then replace the current system would be the way to go. I never understood this, my previous company did the same thing it drives people away. You don't have to change things immediately. Why don't you let players who want to try this out and learn it and test it for you and let people who have adapted to the old system continue to play on those servers until all the bugs are worked out?
I agree with you on this. My NAD reciever looks great, and very unique. It also looks like it takes command of its task, and it does it well.
The PS2 I think did the most to accomodate size and placement, it has a stand, when its sitting down its flat, the discs are not top loading. However the shape is far too small to make it stackable in any way, unless its at the top of your unit or sitting between two larger anchored units. This has always been an issue with me as I like to have my tv, consoles, record player, reciever, dvd player, and tape player hooked up as one system and the consoles are always harder to situate than even the clunky top loading record player.
Well said, I was going to post a similar response. From what I understand of how paying for bandwidth works is that as far as the ISP is concerned it doesn't matter if Im transfer voice, video, text or whatever I want over my line its done legally. To me, this is akin to saying AOL must pay us for usage of our pipes because the extreme rise in AIM usage is causing people to use the phone less. or PEOPLE ARE PLAYING WOW OVER OUR LINES, BLIZZARD MUST PAY US FOR THIS. Unless there is some sort of competition law saying you cant use their pipes for free because you directly compete with the large phone companies (which would make some sense to me as they would be profiting because they are using a competitors lines for free) I don't see the merit in this statement.
Linux intrigued me for many different reasons, I had played with it and was very interested by it. Linux can do a lot of things natively that windows can't do, or things for which you have to download third party software on windows. For someone who is very interested in the inner workings of a computer linux adds tons to the experience, it often times can force you to think harder. The fact that I got involved back before the big "Linux Desktop" push meant I was forced to use the command line very often, this was wonderful for someone like me who used to play with the dos prompt just for fun. I thrive in linux, I have been known to hole myself up infront a linux PC for weeks configuring freevo, or customizing enlightenment. Linux lends its sellf well to people who like to tinker, Linux does what it does well, and it does many things.
In this country there are now better alternatives. FIOS(fiber optic) for the SAME cost as comcast cable internet gets me 15mb down and 2 mb up, that trumps comcast hands down. They even installed the new terminal at my home for free and gave me a free month. I also just saw that DSL prices from verizon are now $15 a month for 768 down. Why you would pay $10 a month for dialup to save $5 when the speed difference is a factor of at least 10x from 56k to 768k at this point is lost on me. As these types of services and prices become more mainstream (apparently people are signing up for fios faster than they can install it in my area and other test areas) broadband will be more prevalent. There is truth to the fact that it is harder to get broadband to all the rural areas of the US this is logistical. But its also market. A lot of people in the US just don't see a need to pay for more than dialup, but when the cost difference is a couple dollars and you notice your email download way faster and your couple websites you look at load way faster people will abandon dialup. Or so I believe.
Now adays the community is WAY different, I had simialar expiriences, but now on forum sites like linuxquestions.org or fedoraforum.org, i find that people are quite helpful sometimes and I love helping them.
This guy gives everyone a bad name. He slams both linux and mac OS with nothing but WAY out of date facts showing he hasn't use either since the turn of the century. I am not a windows fanboy but this definitely does hurt your cause.
On the flip side when linux enthusiasts and mac enthusiasts do the same it sucks. I am just shocked at the ignorance of the article. Literally. SHOCKED
Seriously, I think if I gave my 11 year old cousin one day on each machine he could write a better "article", actually not even he is already familiar with BOTH mac and windows. He just needs a day on linux. . . I should do this
I will never go back to cable now. I just signed up for verizon FIOS. 15mb down/2mb up. 15mb down/2mb up. 15mb down/2mb up. . .soorry that phrase just excites me so much since I'll be shedding my $120 a month cable bill for $20 a month and paying the same amount for internet, $50. And now I will have 3 times the speed. (my cable i sonly at 5mb right now) This service should be available everywhere
How are you supposed to find him and how is he supposed to answer pages when he is 1) underpaid 2) overworked 3) rarely given all the proper tools for the job 4) constantly ignored when his input could greatly influence (and possibly save) a decision 5) probably fixing one of the other coworkers spyware/virus/adware infected computers from playing fantasy games and going to crappy sites using ie all day long?
are there first posters on the network?
I believe it was x.org 6.8.2(on my mac so I can't check) that was a big release, after installing it I had noticeable performance improvements.
I think the real problem people have with ad supported sites is the popups. Most people don't mind advertisements. . . I mean no one really likes a banner, but at least it doesn't pop over your text or start playing music (usually). If you aren't using pop ups then there shouoldn't be a real issue to defend. Google doesn't use pop ups. . . and almost everything that comes in there is advertising money.
Pop up ads make me not want to surf the web. . . and I do less surfing as a result of the multitude of cookies (there is NO reason I should have to set 5 cookies when I visit 1 page at least not on these page 1 is from the originator 4 from ads), pop ups, annoying flash animations, sudden playing of music or loud quotes, and im sure I could pull out a couple more reason. . . and most of these stem from advertising,
Troll? I thought this was somewhat amusing. . . .slam the War on Drugs and Microsoft. . .
Wheres your sense of humor moderators? Its a double whammy. .