I agree... Slim Devices has done a good job of communicating and working with its customers over the years to make things work better and in adding new features.
This is a sad day for Squeezebox owners and fans of Slim Devices.
As said by someone elsewhere in this thread, I just hate it when big companys buy little companies out.
I actually enjoyed the latest Dvorak article, if for nothing else than it points out the obvious. Vista is going to be a late disappointment. MSN search, as someone said, could be powerful if they are allowed to integrate with IE 7, but Google is too popular for people to not simply change their homepage to google or type it in every time they launch IE. And lets face it, Apple has the marketing buzz that Microsoft can never get back. Whether it is Apple or another company rising up, I think that Microsoft is a slowly sinking life raft in the consumer market (that will never capsize, but will not be the battleship they once were).
1.) Find and purchase the proper 'near mint' used CD 2.) Rip the CD 3.) Make sure there aren't any errors in the newly ripped music 4.) Add the album art via a 3rd party program
$2 per song, or $20 per CD is just fine for the value added features I described (namely, not having to waste my time doing all of this).
This video thing is great, but I just wish they would sell higher quality/lossless audio files first. Bandwidth wouldn't be much greater than these video files they will be selling. I won't even mind paying $2 a song if they were in FLAC or Apple Lossless format.
(1) Subscription Model - Make submissions for website links only accepted after review by human beings. You could then charge the 'searcher' a monthly or yearly subscription fee to access this service. I would definitely pay $5 a month to get a 'filtered' search engine.
(2) Community Ranked and Moderated Model - An open-source, community driven and moderated search engine that relied on the massive amount of visitors to comment and rank pages they have received via the search engine result page. A simple plug-in for IE or Netscape, etc., could allow the user to simply click on a scale of 1-5 how useful the site was. Obviously this would be biased against brand-new data, but this is a problem with a subscription service as well. With such a large number of users, this free, community moderation model would be hard to defeat, especially with IP tracking and the ability to constantly change the code in the moderation code.
Is there a search engine that can filter out all of those annoying placeholder sites that grab unsuspecting visitors by simply putting every word about a certain subject on a page and then having links to other useless websites? This is 'webspam' as far as I am concerned and the next step in search engine design should be 'placeholder' site aware.
A search engine that ignores specifically commercial sites would also be helpful.
Any ideas on either of these type features in current or upcoming search engines?
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Does anyone have opinions on the best way to filter spam from a standard pop3 account?
I use *cough* Microsoft Outlook 2002 and I need to find a way to get rid of spam even before it hits my Outlook 2002 rule based filter (which usually leaves about 30-60% spam undeleted).
My domain is hosted by Earthlink, so I don't think I have any ability to filter or install software on their side.
I have a T68i and use Cingular. Some days the phone works great. Other days I can't dial out (the phone never gets to the 'connecting to' stage, or simply drops the attempt in under 2 secs).
It is very frustrating and I would love to know if other people have the same problem with the phone jumping into this 'I am not going to connect to any number even though I have full signal and even though you have tried turning me on and off over and over again' mode.
Is Nokia the way to go? Should I return my T68i for a newer Sony-Ericsson?
I honestly would rather have a simplier phone that could connect to most of the calls I make. Is that too much to ask?
"The reactor design was not really faulty, the safety procedures/equipment were."
With all due respect... What the hell are you talking about? The reactor was clearly faulty.
Chernobyl, a Soviet RMBK reactor, is a pressurized water reactor with a serious design flaw (positive void coefficient) that led to its instability at low power. Yes, negligent operators also contributed to the accident, but the accident would not have been possible without the design flaw.
"There's only one truth and that is that anyone who says they know the absolute truth is either ignorant or lying or both."
Oh, and BTW, by your own skeptical standards, the absolute truth you posited concerning truth makes you "either ignorant or lying or both." Please, don't waste our time making truth claims that consist of telling people that truth isn't knowable.
"But the new rebel is a Skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it." G.K. Chesterton
Read about the accident: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07. htm
"The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety."
Why try to actively censor the views of those who are promoting something objectionable? Why not use the money to set up a website that promotes the opposite viewpoint from a more objective and rational perspective? People don't want to be forced into believing something; they wanted to be persuaded. Spending money on persuading people, rather than silencing the opinions of some, and putting ones trust in Truth rather than in fear, is simply much more effective than any reactionary authoritative mandate.
I found a great article with a bit of history on the Gutenberg Bible and a recent attempt to make a copy of the Cardinal Mazarin edition. It is amazing that out of an estimated 180 originals there are only 20 copies left in existence!
"The whole world admits unhesitatingly, and there can be no doubt about
this that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history
of the world." -Mark Twain
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I agree... Slim Devices has done a good job of communicating and working with its customers over the years to make things work better and in adding new features.
This is a sad day for Squeezebox owners and fans of Slim Devices.
As said by someone elsewhere in this thread, I just hate it when big companys buy little companies out.
http://www.slimdevices.com/
Oh great. A new exciting website... slashdotted already!
Good homework with those articles...
I actually enjoyed the latest Dvorak article, if for nothing else than it points out the obvious. Vista is going to be a late disappointment. MSN search, as someone said, could be powerful if they are allowed to integrate with IE 7, but Google is too popular for people to not simply change their homepage to google or type it in every time they launch IE. And lets face it, Apple has the marketing buzz that Microsoft can never get back. Whether it is Apple or another company rising up, I think that Microsoft is a slowly sinking life raft in the consumer market (that will never capsize, but will not be the battleship they once were).
It is worth my time to not have to:
1.) Find and purchase the proper 'near mint' used CD
2.) Rip the CD
3.) Make sure there aren't any errors in the newly ripped music
4.) Add the album art via a 3rd party program
$2 per song, or $20 per CD is just fine for the value added features I described (namely, not having to waste my time doing all of this).
SP
This video thing is great, but I just wish they would sell higher quality/lossless audio files first. Bandwidth wouldn't be much greater than these video files they will be selling. I won't even mind paying $2 a song if they were in FLAC or Apple Lossless format.
SP
(1) Subscription Model - Make submissions for website links only accepted after review by human beings. You could then charge the 'searcher' a monthly or yearly subscription fee to access this service. I would definitely pay $5 a month to get a 'filtered' search engine.
(2) Community Ranked and Moderated Model - An open-source, community driven and moderated search engine that relied on the massive amount of visitors to comment and rank pages they have received via the search engine result page. A simple plug-in for IE or Netscape, etc., could allow the user to simply click on a scale of 1-5 how useful the site was. Obviously this would be biased against brand-new data, but this is a problem with a subscription service as well. With such a large number of users, this free, community moderation model would be hard to defeat, especially with IP tracking and the ability to constantly change the code in the moderation code.
Is there a search engine that can filter out all of those annoying placeholder sites that grab unsuspecting visitors by simply putting every word about a certain subject on a page and then having links to other useless websites? This is 'webspam' as far as I am concerned and the next step in search engine design should be 'placeholder' site aware.
A search engine that ignores specifically commercial sites would also be helpful.
Any ideas on either of these type features in current or upcoming search engines?
http://boeingmedia.com/images/search.cfm?product_i d=805
Does anyone have opinions on the best way to filter spam from a standard pop3 account?
I use *cough* Microsoft Outlook 2002 and I need to find a way to get rid of spam even before it hits my Outlook 2002 rule based filter (which usually leaves about 30-60% spam undeleted).
My domain is hosted by Earthlink, so I don't think I have any ability to filter or install software on their side.
I have a T68i and use Cingular. Some days the phone works great. Other days I can't dial out (the phone never gets to the 'connecting to' stage, or simply drops the attempt in under 2 secs).
It is very frustrating and I would love to know if other people have the same problem with the phone jumping into this 'I am not going to connect to any number even though I have full signal and even though you have tried turning me on and off over and over again' mode.
Is Nokia the way to go? Should I return my T68i for a newer Sony-Ericsson?
I honestly would rather have a simplier phone that could connect to most of the calls I make. Is that too much to ask?
"The reactor design was not really faulty, the safety procedures/equipment were." With all due respect... What the hell are you talking about? The reactor was clearly faulty. Chernobyl, a Soviet RMBK reactor, is a pressurized water reactor with a serious design flaw (positive void coefficient) that led to its instability at low power. Yes, negligent operators also contributed to the accident, but the accident would not have been possible without the design flaw. "There's only one truth and that is that anyone who says they know the absolute truth is either ignorant or lying or both." Oh, and BTW, by your own skeptical standards, the absolute truth you posited concerning truth makes you "either ignorant or lying or both." Please, don't waste our time making truth claims that consist of telling people that truth isn't knowable. "But the new rebel is a Skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it." G.K. Chesterton Read about the accident: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07. htm
"The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety."
Why try to actively censor the views of those who are promoting something objectionable? Why not use the money to set up a website that promotes the opposite viewpoint from a more objective and rational perspective? People don't want to be forced into believing something; they wanted to be persuaded. Spending money on persuading people, rather than silencing the opinions of some, and putting ones trust in Truth rather than in fear, is simply much more effective than any reactionary authoritative mandate.
Hello fellow slashdot users,
I found a great article with a bit of history on the Gutenberg Bible and a recent attempt to make a copy of the Cardinal Mazarin edition. It is amazing that out of an estimated 180 originals there are only 20 copies left in existence!
Enjoy...
-Shawn
"The whole world admits unhesitatingly, and there can be no doubt about this that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world." -Mark Twain