I disagree. In fact, when I go to Amazon and am confronted with dozens of reviews, I tend to re-sort the list from lowest rated to highest. I want to know why people don't like something. Take the case of deep fryers I was recently looking at for a Christmas gift. The highly rated reviews gushed about this and that but the negative reviews were about things like hot oil spilling onto the counter and other fire hazards. That is helpful stuff. Of course you get negative reviews that aren't helpful, just like positive reviews, but I find well-written negative reviews to be very valuable.
These guys are doing speech to animation. It is being used in phones. No, I don't work there, though I used to work with one of the people there (a long time ago).
You raise an interesting point. Where's the/.-like community at Salon? Slate has feedback but it's about as useful as Yahoo's boards for commenting on stories (no moderation == too many idiots). Then again, all those posts would probably mean more hardware/support costs. I don't know about a left vs. right slant in Salon (I just became a Green so I'm above it all now:-) but it is interesting reading, IMHO.
It's all probably moot, though. While their revenue is increasing I don't see how they're going to erase all that debt.
The email client which ships with Mac OS X 10.2.2 routinely flags all sorts of legitimate emails as junk.
Keep training it. It does learn after a while. Funny thing is that here at work, the Mail app keeps flagging mail from slashdot (replies to posts, post moderations) as spam. Now it only marks half of them as spam. Weird.
I can't think of a single reason that you'd *WANT* to be able to support filenames that differ only by case.
Just because you have a limited imagination, that is no reason to shackle the rest of us. I've had case-sensitivity for over 20 years. I'm the customer. I want it. "System compatibility issues" is a red herring. At some point you have to move off the punch cards and join the 1970's. If that means being incompatible with punch cards, so be it.
I don't see a lack of sites for independent artists to post their songs or CDs. Heck, if you're an indy band you can sell your CD at Amazon.com if you want to. As others have mentioned, there is IUMA, MP3.com and others. Finding indie bands is easier than ever.
The problem, as I see it, is how do you wade through it all? I don't have an infinite amount of time and, frankly, some indy bands are that way because they suck. I'd say most indy bands fall into that category, actually. I have found a lot of indy bands at MP3.com (and even signed, bigger-in-Europe-than-they-are-here (Blind Guardian, Lacuna Coil)) but it took a lot of time and effort to separate the wheat from the chaff and it's not something I can do often.
What I'd like is a good music recommendation engines at these sites. The one at Amazon.com is pretty good. The one at MP3.com sucks ass. It used to be that we had radio to help with this (yes, I'm old enough to have listened to radio when it didn't suck). Other than Amazon.com, are there any good recommendation engines out there?
Open source is not a single thing. The question isn't whether open source is more expensive than closed, it's whether a particular tool is more expensive than another. In your case you found that an open source tool wasn't the way to go. In other cases you are bound to find that it is the way to go. Credit to you for approaching it in an objective manner.
That's why they're called TESTS. This is like complaining to the Wright Brothers, "That's nice but it's not as hard as carrying 50 people across the Atlantic non-stop." It's all hard, of course, so one has to expect little steps like these.
As I understand it (see my disclaimer above), all bets are off in bankruptcy court. IOW, just because you have a piece of paper saying that an asset in non-transferrable, the bankruptcy court can do what they want with it. Does anybody know for sure?
When my former employer went belly-up they sold licenses as they were assets of the company. What Microsoft is, in act, doing is making their software a non-asset, consumed immediately and utterly worthless beyond that.
Exactly. Software licenses are assets, though (just ask the IRS) and, as such, it's the court that gets to decide what to do with them, not Microsoft (disclaimer: IANAL but I watch 'Law & Order' often:-).
Who said Microsoft is interested in using open formats? They're interested in using XML--not necessarily the same thing. What business reason is there for Microsoft to join the OpenOffice Source Project? They're the market leader, everybody else has to worry about working with them, not the other way around.
I'd like to suggest that they move to one of the Gulf states. Without them gub'mint satellites invadin' their privacy, the rest of us can just wait until the next big-ass hurricaine shows up and catches them clueless (more than usual, that is).
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Where/when I went to high school, no body did anything except get drunk on the weekends.
I think it is possible that you were out of the sex loop at your school.References?
They already have this. It's called "Friends and Favorites."
Then they should have a "Dorks and Doofuses". I want to mark reviewers as such and not see their doofy reviews anymore. I better patent that...
I disagree. In fact, when I go to Amazon and am confronted with dozens of reviews, I tend to re-sort the list from lowest rated to highest. I want to know why people don't like something. Take the case of deep fryers I was recently looking at for a Christmas gift. The highly rated reviews gushed about this and that but the negative reviews were about things like hot oil spilling onto the counter and other fire hazards. That is helpful stuff. Of course you get negative reviews that aren't helpful, just like positive reviews, but I find well-written negative reviews to be very valuable.
These guys are doing speech to animation. It is being used in phones. No, I don't work there, though I used to work with one of the people there (a long time ago).
When I was in mainframes in the early 80's...
(good grief: I'm 34 and talking about the "good old days")
Good grief, you're referring to working on mainframes (when you were 14!) as the good ol' days :-).
You raise an interesting point. Where's the /.-like community at Salon? Slate has feedback but it's about as useful as Yahoo's boards for commenting on stories (no moderation == too many idiots). Then again, all those posts would probably mean more hardware/support costs. I don't know about a left vs. right slant in Salon (I just became a Green so I'm above it all now :-) but it is interesting reading, IMHO.
It's all probably moot, though. While their revenue is increasing I don't see how they're going to erase all that debt.
The email client which ships with Mac OS X 10.2.2 routinely flags all sorts of legitimate emails as junk.
Keep training it. It does learn after a while. Funny thing is that here at work, the Mail app keeps flagging mail from slashdot (replies to posts, post moderations) as spam. Now it only marks half of them as spam. Weird.
And the hardware?
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you are using open source hardware...
And the no-Aqua like themes allowed lawsuits?
And this has what to do with anything?
And all the closed source software that come with?
I like using the best tool for the job (i.e. I'm not a fanatic).
Is iMovie Open Source? QuickTime?
No. Are the games that the many ./-ers who just have to play on their Windoze boxes open sourced?
Right now I'm using open source software that came with my Mac, troll.
I can't think of a single reason that you'd *WANT* to be able to support filenames that differ only by case.
Just because you have a limited imagination, that is no reason to shackle the rest of us. I've had case-sensitivity for over 20 years. I'm the customer. I want it. "System compatibility issues" is a red herring. At some point you have to move off the punch cards and join the 1970's. If that means being incompatible with punch cards, so be it.
I don't see a lack of sites for independent artists to post their songs or CDs. Heck, if you're an indy band you can sell your CD at Amazon.com if you want to. As others have mentioned, there is IUMA, MP3.com and others. Finding indie bands is easier than ever.
The problem, as I see it, is how do you wade through it all? I don't have an infinite amount of time and, frankly, some indy bands are that way because they suck. I'd say most indy bands fall into that category, actually. I have found a lot of indy bands at MP3.com (and even signed, bigger-in-Europe-than-they-are-here (Blind Guardian, Lacuna Coil)) but it took a lot of time and effort to separate the wheat from the chaff and it's not something I can do often.
What I'd like is a good music recommendation engines at these sites. The one at Amazon.com is pretty good. The one at MP3.com sucks ass. It used to be that we had radio to help with this (yes, I'm old enough to have listened to radio when it didn't suck). Other than Amazon.com, are there any good recommendation engines out there?
Open source is not a single thing. The question isn't whether open source is more expensive than closed, it's whether a particular tool is more expensive than another. In your case you found that an open source tool wasn't the way to go. In other cases you are bound to find that it is the way to go. Credit to you for approaching it in an objective manner.
That's why they're called TESTS. This is like complaining to the Wright Brothers, "That's nice but it's not as hard as carrying 50 people across the Atlantic non-stop." It's all hard, of course, so one has to expect little steps like these.
It's called "constructive criticism". No need to take such a "love it or leave it" attitude. You can like something and still find fault with it.
I click twice on that white button in the top right of the window (whatever it is). This is in Aqua, BTW.
Spoken like a courageous Anonymous Coward. Wait a second...
As I understand it (see my disclaimer above), all bets are off in bankruptcy court. IOW, just because you have a piece of paper saying that an asset in non-transferrable, the bankruptcy court can do what they want with it. Does anybody know for sure?
When my former employer went belly-up they sold licenses as they were assets of the company. What Microsoft is, in act, doing is making their software a non-asset, consumed immediately and utterly worthless beyond that.
Exactly. Software licenses are assets, though (just ask the IRS) and, as such, it's the court that gets to decide what to do with them, not Microsoft (disclaimer: IANAL but I watch 'Law & Order' often :-).
Who said Microsoft is interested in using open formats? They're interested in using XML--not necessarily the same thing. What business reason is there for Microsoft to join the OpenOffice Source Project? They're the market leader, everybody else has to worry about working with them, not the other way around.
Touche' :-)
Give that one a funny, moderators.
In my case, I wanted to use a third-party's binary-only C API from Perl. Gotta use XS.
I do have a half dozen Perl books and I barely survived my first foray into XS. Maybe this book can help me go back and get it right.
I'd like to suggest that they move to one of the Gulf states. Without them gub'mint satellites invadin' their privacy, the rest of us can just wait until the next big-ass hurricaine shows up and catches them clueless (more than usual, that is).
I submitted this story last Friday afternoon, you know, back when it was news, and it was rejected. WTF?