"I don't want a facebook/twitter update of what I bought and where, every time I shop."
Strangely enough, I know enough people who do this by themselves. A Cousin of mine can't even stop for gas without posting about it on his facebook page along with a few cell phone pictures of his car, the station and surrounding area. It's ridiculous what kind of information people will willingly give up for the sake of social networking novelty.
I got hit by this bug when the patch went live last week on Windowsupdate. As the article states, the solution in was to disable intelppm.sys from safemode. It's a lot quicker if you do it using autoruns. It's too bad this article wasn't posted last week. It would have saved me a lot of trouble shooting time.
I don't think you could find a million people who have even heard the name Uwe Boll, nevermind know who he really is. The best you'll get out of most people is, "Oh, he's that guy who did that one crappy movie?"
While they can do what they want on their own site, it is more a matter of credibility than anything else right now. The whole revolt isn't even about the HD-DVD key. What has people feeling burnt is the fact that Digg purports to be about free and open user-driven content in a democratic setting, and what we're seeing here is a cabal of admins who are subverting the entire process of the system to suit their own whims.
Now as I said, it's not even about the 128-bit key anymore. And it's not about the DMCA or its merits(or lack thereof). The problem goes much deeper than that, and the encryption key debacle was more of a catalyst for what the more perceptive Diggers knew was going on all along but never really had any proof of. See, it's not just any posts containing the number they're removing. The Digg admins are removing and banning any discussion on the topic, even legitimate discussions on the ramifications of censorship in the user-driven internet era. Quite a few legitimate and thought-provoking discussions got clobbered when the admins got ban-happy today.
They have unwittingly set themselves up as a prime example of what can go wrong when marketing dollars(it is being reported that the HD-DVD guys throw ad dollars at Diggnation) meet the voice of the people. It is now being said that the Digg admins are stepping in and removing "objectionable" content when it conflicts with the will of their advertisers or displays any anti-Digg sentiment. While I'm sure this is good business sense, it's a very ugly way of being outed as a shill and a fraud to your readers. Digg is supposed to be the underdog who fought the status-quo and beat overwhelming odds against "the system". Now people are finding out that Digg has become the system, and they're a bit disillusioned that their hero Mr. Rose is just like any other business man who is out to make a buck.
But like I said, the admins of Digg are obviously free to do with their site as they see fit. But Digg is only as good as the people who contribute to it. Kiss them good-bye and you kiss Digg good-bye.
Since hypothetically you were under the age of legal consent when the pictures were taken, the pictures are still illegal even though you are now of legal age. You would probably be hit with posession or distribution assuming you tried to pass them off to someone.
To use an extreme example, a kiddy diddler's private spank bank does not become legal when his photographed victims reach the age of consent.
Agreed. As much as we love to bash Microsoft, it's actually not a bad program. But it's just missing too many things that I've come to take for granted in Opera. It's the little things that count, like right-click contextual dictionary/translation/search/go-to-url options or the ability to completely change and/or move every element of the UI to my liking. Microsoft is on the right track, though. I just wish they would have integrated some kind of dictionary search into their new toolbar search. Or at least added mouse gestures.
"The 2.0 road isn't going to happen overnight - more like six months if it's going to hit the ground running like the first time I started this up. Another consideration, as I stand at these crossroads and hope that Mr. Willie Brown's deal maker doesn't show up, is that great changes are indeed afoot at Microsoft. And these changes are going to take time to grow and I'm not going to poke them with a sharp stick until they've had their chance to prove themselves."
I think Mini summed up his position very well and made a great point.
Rather than frothing at the mouth and continuing to kick a dead horse(Slashdotters know all about this one), he's going to sit back and watch these new changes take hold and see how it goes rather than risk putting the new system in jeopardy before it has had a chance to mature and grow.
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...to an mpeg/divx/whatever format isn't as difficult as they make it sound. I currently use Smartripper to rip the.vob files and separate my audio and video tracks, and DVDx to encode the audio to mp3 and video to DivX and package it all up in a nice.avi container.
Granted, it is not as easy as ripping a CD, but if anyone can streamline this into a single-step process(to the end-user anyway), it would be Apple.
As a long-time Opera user and a frequent user of Firefox, I can pretty much sum it up as ease of use and customizability. I found that I had to install over 15 or so plugins in Firefox to get it to do the things that come native in Opera. Aside from the obvious similarities in Opera and Firefox, like Tabs and mouse gestures, it's the little things that make browsing more productive, like right-click context menu options which contain translation/dictionary/search/validator options to "paste and go" options for search dialogues. All of the little touches that make things more convenient in an ideal browsing experience are right where you would expect them to be.
Also, the UI can be customized very easily right down to the bare essentials without having to wade through and edit any scripts. Everything is drag and drop. And I've also never had the speed and reliability issues I have with Firefox.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is a great browser. The Adblock plugins are great, and I wish the devs would expend more effort in this area of Opera's development. But I think both browsers should be held in a class above and beyond Internet Explorer rather than being seen as competition to one another. As long as standards are adhered to, we're all on the same side.:)
As for why some people would pay $40 for a browser, most new users I introduce the browser to sum it up as "It installs easily, and it just plain works". For people who are sick of IE and don't have the patience or technical know-how to fart around with Firefox, Opera is a great midway between customizability and ease of use. Most people just want to browse and go.
...but most of the Joe Six-packs I know who've seen Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away thought they were either (a) boring as all hell, (b) pointless, or (c) impossible to understand."
I agree with your assessment completely. But I'm not sure Anime's lack of acceptance here is a bad thing necessarily.
I don't know about the average Joes, but I know I loved Spirited Away moreso for its subtleties. The problem is that popular movie culture on this side of the ocean is, as you said, so much more physical/action-oriented than cerebral, and that is what sells over here. North American producers don't dub/sub and release Anime over here for the sake of the artform. They do it to make money. And while they understand that they are selling to a niche market over here, they still want to appeal to the widest possible audience.
Take the recent release of Ghost in the shell: Innocence. Aside from the fact that Dreamworks screwed it up and put the closed caption track[breeze blows] into the subtitles track, they also tried marketting it as an action-oriented flick(Compare the American DVD cover to the Japanese DVD cover) when it most certainly was not. But they understand that this is what sells over here.
It is also why I think traditional Anime will never be accepted in mainstream North America. Then again, I prefer it this way, Personally.:)
All of your custom function buttons can be reconfigured. I have my E-mail button set to launch Opera, personally. Works like a charm.
By default, your E-mail switch isn't configured to run any default app as specified by system file type associations. The E-mail option has a drop down box with a few choices in it and you can select whichever one you want or select a custom path to any program of your choice.
Great points about tuning. But I would like to specifically highlight your remark about the old school tremolos. A lot of people don't seem to understand that the way you wrap your strings can make all the difference in the way a guitar holds its tune. I've seen some pretty bad wrapping techniques in my day, and it seems people are either lazy or they just don't realize how important it is.
I know more modern guitarists are into locking nuts and whatnot. I believe Ibanez even designed and manufactured locking tuning pegs at one point. What most of the people who use these implements don't realize is that they don't need them. A properly strung guitar can hold its tune just as good as a guitar with a locking nut(and is a hell of a lot more convenient for that matter). Look at Malmsteen as an example. His guitars are a testament to that(those familiar with his music know how much he over-uses his bar, yet he never slips out of tune).
Technology is nice, but it is no substitute for learning how to restring and tune a guitar yourself(Hell, I know a few guitarists who don't know how to set intonation properly either). This auto-tuning technology will become as much of a crutch as the locking nut was for poor guitar craftsmanship(as you were saying, the nut) and people who cannot be bothered to learn how to string their instrument properly.
I recently used Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro to recover data from a hard disk in which the file system inforation was completely destroyed by corruption. Booting the disk as a slave in Windows gave me nothing more than a hardware ID in device manager. The disk wouldn't populate or even assign a drive letter. I had to do a raw bit-by-bit recovery which took over 12 hours, but I got every last piece of data off that disk(of course, I couldn't get directory info or original file names, but the data itself was intact).
Tablet PCs seem to be going in this direction. Part Laptop, part Tablet. Since prices are dropping and screens are getting bigger, there's no sense NOT putting a laptop keyboard underneath one of these things.
"What's more dangerous to your bandwidth - top link on a google doodle or a slashdotting?"
Slashdotting by far. Google visitors may come at various times of the day and links are ranked high because they are generally worth visiting. The chances of 10,000 people visiting the same page at the same time because of Google are slim(pr0n sites excluded). Slashdotters on the other hand are like a digital blitzkrieg. They come out of nowhere and BAM! Your server is on fire and your datacenter out of commission..
It was just my luck that the MX900 was announced shortly after I got the 700. Their new keyboard still looks too bulky. Major waste of plastic around the keys. This Gyration keyboard is only 12x6 inches. It's funny, in an age where everything is getting more compact, hardware manufacturers are making their keyboards bigger.
I would have to say that the Logitech MX700 is the best mouse I've ever used hands down. I know a lot of people don't like heavier mice, but I like one that doesn't feel like it is going to fly away. The response time is excellent, and I can let it sit on the desk for a few weeks without having to charge it(thanks to NiMH batteries).
The only problem I had was with the accompanying keyboard. Talk about wasted plastic. They could have gotten away with making smaller media keys.
I eventually ditched the keyboard in favour of the smaller, laptop-style keyboard by Gyration.
" I'm just saying that it can hold MORE than 400 songs."
Oh, I wasn't debating your point. I agree completely. My collection is in 192k all ripped from CD and I couldn't fill a four gig partition with what little I have(although it is still over 1000 songs). I'm just saying that this would be a great idea for those who don't want to spend $500+ on an mp3 player and don't really need that much space anyway.
Considering that I'm still carrying around my mp3/wma Rio Volt CD player, even 2 gigs in a portable can be a godsend.
This may be a great reason to finally pick one up. My collection is small enough to fit on a four gig player, so I won't have to break the bank picking up a 20-gig model which I will never fill up anyway.
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"I don't want a facebook/twitter update of what I bought and where, every time I shop."
Strangely enough, I know enough people who do this by themselves. A Cousin of mine can't even stop for gas without posting about it on his facebook page along with a few cell phone pictures of his car, the station and surrounding area. It's ridiculous what kind of information people will willingly give up for the sake of social networking novelty.
I'll take it a step farther and call it Malware.
Spam, is there anything it can't do?
I got hit by this bug when the patch went live last week on Windowsupdate. As the article states, the solution in was to disable intelppm.sys from safemode. It's a lot quicker if you do it using autoruns. It's too bad this article wasn't posted last week. It would have saved me a lot of trouble shooting time.
I don't think you could find a million people who have even heard the name Uwe Boll, nevermind know who he really is. The best you'll get out of most people is, "Oh, he's that guy who did that one crappy movie?"
While they can do what they want on their own site, it is more a matter of credibility than anything else right now. The whole revolt isn't even about the HD-DVD key. What has people feeling burnt is the fact that Digg purports to be about free and open user-driven content in a democratic setting, and what we're seeing here is a cabal of admins who are subverting the entire process of the system to suit their own whims.
Now as I said, it's not even about the 128-bit key anymore. And it's not about the DMCA or its merits(or lack thereof). The problem goes much deeper than that, and the encryption key debacle was more of a catalyst for what the more perceptive Diggers knew was going on all along but never really had any proof of. See, it's not just any posts containing the number they're removing. The Digg admins are removing and banning any discussion on the topic, even legitimate discussions on the ramifications of censorship in the user-driven internet era. Quite a few legitimate and thought-provoking discussions got clobbered when the admins got ban-happy today.
They have unwittingly set themselves up as a prime example of what can go wrong when marketing dollars(it is being reported that the HD-DVD guys throw ad dollars at Diggnation) meet the voice of the people. It is now being said that the Digg admins are stepping in and removing "objectionable" content when it conflicts with the will of their advertisers or displays any anti-Digg sentiment. While I'm sure this is good business sense, it's a very ugly way of being outed as a shill and a fraud to your readers. Digg is supposed to be the underdog who fought the status-quo and beat overwhelming odds against "the system". Now people are finding out that Digg has become the system, and they're a bit disillusioned that their hero Mr. Rose is just like any other business man who is out to make a buck. But like I said, the admins of Digg are obviously free to do with their site as they see fit. But Digg is only as good as the people who contribute to it. Kiss them good-bye and you kiss Digg good-bye.
Since hypothetically you were under the age of legal consent when the pictures were taken, the pictures are still illegal even though you are now of legal age. You would probably be hit with posession or distribution assuming you tried to pass them off to someone. To use an extreme example, a kiddy diddler's private spank bank does not become legal when his photographed victims reach the age of consent.
That's almost as bad as people who begin a sentence with "To be honest..." as if they would otherwise be less than honest. It's a big red flag.
Agreed. As much as we love to bash Microsoft, it's actually not a bad program. But it's just missing too many things that I've come to take for granted in Opera. It's the little things that count, like right-click contextual dictionary/translation/search/go-to-url options or the ability to completely change and/or move every element of the UI to my liking. Microsoft is on the right track, though. I just wish they would have integrated some kind of dictionary search into their new toolbar search. Or at least added mouse gestures.
"Do you know what "The son of a duck is a floater" means? Neither will U.S. troops or this device."
Okay, it was either a mod point or a reply, but I'm dying to know. What exactly does it mean?Back in my day, we remained competitive by building a superior product at an affordable price, up-hill both ways!
/get off my lawn
From Mini's blog:
"The 2.0 road isn't going to happen overnight - more like six months if it's going to hit the ground running like the first time I started this up. Another consideration, as I stand at these crossroads and hope that Mr. Willie Brown's deal maker doesn't show up, is that great changes are indeed afoot at Microsoft. And these changes are going to take time to grow and I'm not going to poke them with a sharp stick until they've had their chance to prove themselves."
I think Mini summed up his position very well and made a great point. Rather than frothing at the mouth and continuing to kick a dead horse(Slashdotters know all about this one), he's going to sit back and watch these new changes take hold and see how it goes rather than risk putting the new system in jeopardy before it has had a chance to mature and grow.
Granted, it is not as easy as ripping a CD, but if anyone can streamline this into a single-step process(to the end-user anyway), it would be Apple.
Also, the UI can be customized very easily right down to the bare essentials without having to wade through and edit any scripts. Everything is drag and drop. And I've also never had the speed and reliability issues I have with Firefox.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is a great browser. The Adblock plugins are great, and I wish the devs would expend more effort in this area of Opera's development. But I think both browsers should be held in a class above and beyond Internet Explorer rather than being seen as competition to one another. As long as standards are adhered to, we're all on the same side. :)
As for why some people would pay $40 for a browser, most new users I introduce the browser to sum it up as "It installs easily, and it just plain works". For people who are sick of IE and don't have the patience or technical know-how to fart around with Firefox, Opera is a great midway between customizability and ease of use. Most people just want to browse and go.
I agree with your assessment completely. But I'm not sure Anime's lack of acceptance here is a bad thing necessarily.
I don't know about the average Joes, but I know I loved Spirited Away moreso for its subtleties. The problem is that popular movie culture on this side of the ocean is, as you said, so much more physical/action-oriented than cerebral, and that is what sells over here. North American producers don't dub/sub and release Anime over here for the sake of the artform. They do it to make money. And while they understand that they are selling to a niche market over here, they still want to appeal to the widest possible audience.
Take the recent release of Ghost in the shell: Innocence. Aside from the fact that Dreamworks screwed it up and put the closed caption track[breeze blows] into the subtitles track, they also tried marketting it as an action-oriented flick(Compare the American DVD cover to the Japanese DVD cover) when it most certainly was not. But they understand that this is what sells over here.
It is also why I think traditional Anime will never be accepted in mainstream North America. Then again, I prefer it this way, Personally. :)
By default, your E-mail switch isn't configured to run any default app as specified by system file type associations. The E-mail option has a drop down box with a few choices in it and you can select whichever one you want or select a custom path to any program of your choice.
I know more modern guitarists are into locking nuts and whatnot. I believe Ibanez even designed and manufactured locking tuning pegs at one point. What most of the people who use these implements don't realize is that they don't need them. A properly strung guitar can hold its tune just as good as a guitar with a locking nut(and is a hell of a lot more convenient for that matter). Look at Malmsteen as an example. His guitars are a testament to that(those familiar with his music know how much he over-uses his bar, yet he never slips out of tune).
Technology is nice, but it is no substitute for learning how to restring and tune a guitar yourself(Hell, I know a few guitarists who don't know how to set intonation properly either). This auto-tuning technology will become as much of a crutch as the locking nut was for poor guitar craftsmanship(as you were saying, the nut) and people who cannot be bothered to learn how to string their instrument properly.
I recently used Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro to recover data from a hard disk in which the file system inforation was completely destroyed by corruption. Booting the disk as a slave in Windows gave me nothing more than a hardware ID in device manager. The disk wouldn't populate or even assign a drive letter. I had to do a raw bit-by-bit recovery which took over 12 hours, but I got every last piece of data off that disk(of course, I couldn't get directory info or original file names, but the data itself was intact).
Tablet PCs seem to be going in this direction. Part Laptop, part Tablet. Since prices are dropping and screens are getting bigger, there's no sense NOT putting a laptop keyboard underneath one of these things.
Slashdotting by far.
Google visitors may come at various times of the day and links are ranked high because they are generally worth visiting. The chances of 10,000 people visiting the same page at the same time because of Google are slim(pr0n sites excluded).
Slashdotters on the other hand are like a digital blitzkrieg. They come out of nowhere and BAM! Your server is on fire and your datacenter out of commission..
It was just my luck that the MX900 was announced shortly after I got the 700. Their new keyboard still looks too bulky. Major waste of plastic around the keys. This Gyration keyboard is only 12x6 inches. It's funny, in an age where everything is getting more compact, hardware manufacturers are making their keyboards bigger.
I would have to say that the Logitech MX700 is the best mouse I've ever used hands down. I know a lot of people don't like heavier mice, but I like one that doesn't feel like it is going to fly away. The response time is excellent, and I can let it sit on the desk for a few weeks without having to charge it(thanks to NiMH batteries).
The only problem I had was with the accompanying keyboard. Talk about wasted plastic. They could have gotten away with making smaller media keys.
I eventually ditched the keyboard in favour of the smaller, laptop-style keyboard by Gyration.
Oh, I wasn't debating your point. I agree completely. My collection is in 192k all ripped from CD and I couldn't fill a four gig partition with what little I have(although it is still over 1000 songs). I'm just saying that this would be a great idea for those who don't want to spend $500+ on an mp3 player and don't really need that much space anyway.
This may be a great reason to finally pick one up. My collection is small enough to fit on a four gig player, so I won't have to break the bank picking up a 20-gig model which I will never fill up anyway.