Let me guess. Everything bad that is happening is made up. All of it. They are all partisan attacks to make George Bush look bad. We are actually living in the freest paradise on the planet and nothing bad happens here.
Because maybe you don't want to have to deal with the podcast emails sitting in your inbox at times when you're not interested in podcasts - maybe you'd prefer to keep the clutter down and use your inbox for what it's meant for - mail.
Maybe if that's what bothers someone so much, they should make a mail filter to filter these emails to a folder/label called RSS? Oh no! Filters are too hard! Let's make another protocol instead, one that's harder to implement than making a filter anyway! do you see where I'm going?
Also -- it would be mail.
If information that I want is sent to me using email, it's mail. (I stopped using pine in 2004 and am enjoying real HTML mail and being able to get to my attachments with ease.)
To achieve a non-cluttered inbox simply takes a few filters. (My gmail account actually has over 700 filters.)
Maybe you want to see a list of the latest podcasts on a sidebar. Maybe you want to use the list from a custom application - for example, a remote-control-based media center application.
Now you're talking. That would be sweet. You sold me on the media player. I don't really buy the sidebar junk -- I could display my email in a sidebar if I wanted, but I pretty much do 100% of everything at fullscreen anyway. (I'm a freak, but that's another matter entirely.)
Yes, it's a pain - and it doesn't have to be that way. Nothing in the RSS spec does anything to require that.
A somewhat tiresome argument, but true nonetheless. But I dislike the notion that criticizing the implementation is radically different than criticizing the standard. RSS is what it is. Criticism directed at it stands even if it isn't against the protocol itself.
The closest thing I use is Gmail's "Web clips".
Which happens to be a very simple web-based RSS client integrated into Gmail - hooray for a good use of RSS!:-)
I agree with you there. Now if only I knew what I would want up there besides slashdot headlines. (FlickR uses????)
-- I'll bet every last fucking cent I own or will ever make that lake was frozen! Christians are such exaggerators! ==A friend of mine
Well, that at least explains my intial attraction to the idea, despite not liking the implementation.
Hmmm... What should my new statement be revised to? Hmm.
How about: RSS wont be useful to many people until it is integrated into existing environments in such a way that novice users can gain all the benefits of RSS without having to deal with the effort of installing (or God forbid writing) another program.
Seriously, I don't get what the rage is about these new-fangled telegraphs. Why would I use one? Why would someone else's boring day suddenly be interesting because they could send some dots and dashes to me and very slowly talk to me about MY day?
Add voice to that. Wow, now I get to HEAR about someone else's boring day. Because you just *know* they'd still send a telegram.
Hmm, you sold me on it a bit more definitely. Too bad the sites I check for new content ALWAYS have new content, so telling me there is new content doesn't do much for me. But I can definitely see how this is useful for other people. And Gmail webclips are nice.
I guess, for me, this "begs" the question of: Why can't I just get links of new podcasts sent to me in a daily email? Why do I need another program to experience information when email+web browser have been enough?
Furthremore, it seems an RSS reader is tied to a specific computer, despite the fact that I roam.......
The closest thing I use is Gmail's "Web clips". Seeing slashdot headlines up there is useful. But I can't imagine running an RSS client...
I either run a.BAT file which opens several webpages, or "open each bookmark in this bookmark folder in a separate tab".
If I want to add "new subscriptions", I add a line to the.BAT file or a bookmark to my folder-that-I-always-open-all-the-bookmarks-in-at- once.
I don't want all my websites washed down and aggregated into a standardized display of headers. I like that each website is structured differently; the visual differences help provide me with site-specific content. I don't want everything to look the same.
As such, I have tried RSS several times and just don't see the point for me.
EvilLyrics is a great program that automatically downloads and displays the lyrics to whatever song you are listening to - in whatever media player you are listening to it in.
EvilLyrics lets you highlight the lyrics in time to the music by downloading a 'karaoke' file for each song. In tern, these lyrics can be sent -- with proper timing -- to WinAmp's MilkDrop visualizer plugin for quite an awesome visual display.
Need this for a rare song? Listen to it once while manually hilighting the lyrics with the down arrow. Upload to server automatically. Now, any EvilLyrics user who listens to that song will get your hilighting. (Side-effect: Almost all the 1980s pop songs I downloaded already had working karaokes, there are 45,000 now and growing every day.)
Lyrics are, of course, saved on your local harddrive so that in the event of the RIAA actually winning a planetary lockdown on lyrics (ha ha ha ha ha), you would still have a copy of them all on your harddrive.
Sure, it costs $9 a month. But I don't even have to RECEIVE my bills. My mailbox and trash have little to offer a would-be identity thief. And I'm not vulnerable to anthrax attack either. I cancelled my postal mail altogether. (Of course now I do Netflix so... um... if my choice is Netflix+Anthrax or No Netflix, I'll take the anthrax please.).
They receive your bills for you and scan them in. You can view them (or not) and have them automatically paid based on rules. 2 accounts are supported and 2 emails are notified -- set up for couples. At the end of the year you can order ($20 for 1 yr or $36 for past 3 yrs) a cd with all your bills on it. It is password protected and includes a java search engine that runs live off the cd.
Let's hope they don't get to EvilLyrics too, because as a Windows user I'm happy to see them going after the Mac program first.:)
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You are suing wikipedia because someone wrote something you don't like on it?
You are suing wikipedia to get them to change their policy of allowing anybody to write anything?
That's what a wiki is.
If that policy is changed, it would no longer be a wiki encyclopedia.
I'm sorry, but just because you don't like the technology, doesn't mean you can make it go away.
If I ran a bar, and put a whiteboard in the bathroom that anyone would write on, would you then think that you are eligible to sue me just because someone wrote something you don't like on it?
Whoever you are, you are an asshole and a detriment to society and humanity as a whole.
I wish the most painful cancer on you, your children, your parents, and your associates.
Looking at everything in percentages unfortunately doesn't cover every concept.
A billionairre can lose 99% of his assets and still be a multi-millionairre. More importantly, he can still survive and provide anything his family and friends might need.
A middle-class person can lose just 20% of his assets, and that might be enough to send them on a downward spiral resulting in bankruptcy and homelessness. If a middle-class person lost 99% of their assets, they probably would not be able to cover their base expenses for the next month. The rich guy would still be able to afford his health care after losing 99% of his assets.
The rich can afford to invest a higher percentage of their money with a lower risk to their survival. You seem to think a billionairre investing 10% of his money is the same thing as someone with $200K net work investing 10% of their money. It's not the same situation and that is a gross oversimplification. One that makes me think you are a Republican, but I'm just guessing. It is indeed easier to make more money if you have more money. Even if you take percentages into account!
These are PCI cards you can put into your computer. Broadcast on FM. Card costs 170 dollars if you get it at this christmas website, and 170 euros if you buy it from Europe (biiiig price difference,that's like $260).
A GOOD transmission antenna will run you another $90 or so. I haven't gotten mine yet, so I can only make it across my house in mono.
Still, it's more elegant than my 100-ft RCA-cable run, and has better reception quality AND range than my crappy X10 "mp3anywhere" 2.5gHZ transmitter.
>Depriving you of your "good smelling cloud of smoke"
>isn't some shocking injustice
And neither is depriving you of your "good smelling cloud of fresh non-smoke." You don't have a right to decide what the atmosphere around you is to be comprised of.
Smoke smells GOOD. I've always thought so. As a 4 year old, as an adult, as a highschooler making out with a college girl who smokes. A smokey mouth tastes much better than someone who just ate.
Also, look up "tyranny of the majority". If 90% of people said black people stank, would it be right to ban them from public places? What if it was 99.9%? The majority DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER when trumping on someone else's rights.
And if you dare vote Republican while spouting that bullshit, you're even more of a hypocrite.
Tiles were better, yes. But even better: Falcon's Eye fully 3-d version. Of course, you can't quite see as well as the tiled versions, but it makes it more fun and challenging! Google it...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.studentsfororwell.org/
of course, the secret service actually comes to the door of many kids...
here are 3 diff examples:r 28.html
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http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100405
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/170992_prosse
http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000379.php
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=New
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=New
Let me guess. Everything bad that is happening is made up. All of it. They are all partisan attacks to make George Bush look bad. We are actually living in the freest paradise on the planet and nothing bad happens here.
Maybe if that's what bothers someone so much, they should make a mail filter to filter these emails to a folder/label called RSS? Oh no! Filters are too hard! Let's make another protocol instead, one that's harder to implement than making a filter anyway! do you see where I'm going? Also -- it would be mail.
If information that I want is sent to me using email, it's mail. (I stopped using pine in 2004 and am enjoying real HTML mail and being able to get to my attachments with ease.)
To achieve a non-cluttered inbox simply takes a few filters. (My gmail account actually has over 700 filters.)
Now you're talking. That would be sweet. You sold me on the media player.I don't really buy the sidebar junk -- I could display my email in a sidebar if I wanted, but I pretty much do 100% of everything at fullscreen anyway. (I'm a freak, but that's another matter entirely.)
A somewhat tiresome argument, but true nonetheless. But I dislike the notion that criticizing the implementation is radically different than criticizing the standard. RSS is what it is. Criticism directed at it stands even if it isn't against the protocol itself.
I agree with you there. Now if only I knew what I would want up there besides slashdot headlines. (FlickR uses????)--
I'll bet every last fucking cent I own or will ever make that lake was frozen! Christians are such exaggerators! ==A friend of mine
No, actually, it's the right answer; it just doesn't feel as good. Your response is emotional.
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New technologies mirror old ones. Telegraphs had hackers AND spammers.
Anyway, that was my first attempt at a parody-response like some of the others I've seen on slashdot. I only give myself a 5/10 for it.
Hmmm... What should my new statement be revised to? Hmm.
How about: RSS wont be useful to many people until it is integrated into existing environments in such a way that novice users can gain all the benefits of RSS without having to deal with the effort of installing (or God forbid writing) another program.
Meh.. I give up.
Not that I use a web client anymore. I ssh'ed to a unix box and used Pine from 1991-2004, and have used Gmail ever since.....
Add voice to that. Wow, now I get to HEAR about someone else's boring day. Because you just *know* they'd still send a telegram.
+1 Informative :)
Hmm, you sold me on it a bit more definitely. Too bad the sites I check for new content ALWAYS have new content, so telling me there is new content doesn't do much for me. But I can definitely see how this is useful for other people. And Gmail webclips are nice.
Furthremore, it seems an RSS reader is tied to a specific computer, despite the fact that I roam.......
The closest thing I use is Gmail's "Web clips". Seeing slashdot headlines up there is useful. But I can't imagine running an RSS client...
I either run a .BAT file which opens several webpages, or "open each bookmark in this bookmark folder in a separate tab".
If I want to add "new subscriptions", I add a line to the .BAT file or a bookmark to my folder-that-I-always-open-all-the-bookmarks-in-at- once.
I don't want all my websites washed down and aggregated into a standardized display of headers. I like that each website is structured differently; the visual differences help provide me with site-specific content. I don't want everything to look the same.
As such, I have tried RSS several times and just don't see the point for me.
I'd rather be right.
EvilLyrics lets you highlight the lyrics in time to the music by downloading a 'karaoke' file for each song. In tern, these lyrics can be sent -- with proper timing -- to WinAmp's MilkDrop visualizer plugin for quite an awesome visual display.
Need this for a rare song? Listen to it once while manually hilighting the lyrics with the down arrow. Upload to server automatically. Now, any EvilLyrics user who listens to that song will get your hilighting. (Side-effect: Almost all the 1980s pop songs I downloaded already had working karaokes, there are 45,000 now and growing every day.)
Lyrics are, of course, saved on your local harddrive so that in the event of the RIAA actually winning a planetary lockdown on lyrics (ha ha ha ha ha), you would still have a copy of them all on your harddrive.
Get it. It's good. Right here.
"Having never done drugs, I can conclusively say they have nothing to offer." -South Park, Mmm-kay?
Sure, it costs $9 a month. But I don't even have to RECEIVE my bills. My mailbox and trash have little to offer a would-be identity thief. And I'm not vulnerable to anthrax attack either. I cancelled my postal mail altogether. (Of course now I do Netflix so... um... if my choice is Netflix+Anthrax or No Netflix, I'll take the anthrax please.).
They receive your bills for you and scan them in. You can view them (or not) and have them automatically paid based on rules. 2 accounts are supported and 2 emails are notified -- set up for couples. At the end of the year you can order ($20 for 1 yr or $36 for past 3 yrs) a cd with all your bills on it. It is password protected and includes a java search engine that runs live off the cd.
Let's hope they don't get to EvilLyrics too, because as a Windows user I'm happy to see them going after the Mac program first. :)
aitch tee tee pee ://www.evillabs.sk
You are suing wikipedia because someone wrote something you don't like on it?
You are suing wikipedia to get them to change their policy of allowing anybody to write anything?
That's what a wiki is.
If that policy is changed, it would no longer be a wiki encyclopedia.
I'm sorry, but just because you don't like the technology, doesn't mean you can make it go away.
If I ran a bar, and put a whiteboard in the bathroom that anyone would write on, would you then think that you are eligible to sue me just because someone wrote something you don't like on it?
Whoever you are, you are an asshole and a detriment to society and humanity as a whole.
I wish the most painful cancer on you, your children, your parents, and your associates.
A billionairre can lose 99% of his assets and still be a multi-millionairre. More importantly, he can still survive and provide anything his family and friends might need.
A middle-class person can lose just 20% of his assets, and that might be enough to send them on a downward spiral resulting in bankruptcy and homelessness. If a middle-class person lost 99% of their assets, they probably would not be able to cover their base expenses for the next month. The rich guy would still be able to afford his health care after losing 99% of his assets.
The rich can afford to invest a higher percentage of their money with a lower risk to their survival. You seem to think a billionairre investing 10% of his money is the same thing as someone with $200K net work investing 10% of their money. It's not the same situation and that is a gross oversimplification. One that makes me think you are a Republican, but I'm just guessing. It is indeed easier to make more money if you have more money. Even if you take percentages into account!
A GOOD transmission antenna will run you another $90 or so. I haven't gotten mine yet, so I can only make it across my house in mono.
Still, it's more elegant than my 100-ft RCA-cable run, and has better reception quality AND range than my crappy X10 "mp3anywhere" 2.5gHZ transmitter.
So perfect societies don't have factories??
>Depriving you of your "good smelling cloud of smoke" >isn't some shocking injustice And neither is depriving you of your "good smelling cloud of fresh non-smoke." You don't have a right to decide what the atmosphere around you is to be comprised of.
Smoke smells GOOD. I've always thought so. As a 4 year old, as an adult, as a highschooler making out with a college girl who smokes. A smokey mouth tastes much better than someone who just ate.
Also, look up "tyranny of the majority". If 90% of people said black people stank, would it be right to ban them from public places? What if it was 99.9%? The majority DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER when trumping on someone else's rights.
And if you dare vote Republican while spouting that bullshit, you're even more of a hypocrite.
Tiles were better, yes. But even better: Falcon's Eye fully 3-d version. Of course, you can't quite see as well as the tiled versions, but it makes it more fun and challenging! Google it...
That was hot.