I know this is just another "assertion on some random Internet discussion board," but I have seen Google wrap search results links myself before the launch of Google's Search History BETA feature. I'm sorry that I haven't kept my browser cache around for 18 months, but I know I've seen these links at least a year ago.
Google pulls anti-Scientology links, March 21, 2002. "The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology."
True, which is why I called it a "charge" card. The difference is that you can charge not just meals, but snacks, souvenirs, park admissions, paddle boat rides, or just about anything in and around Disney on the card. It's "bill it to the room" on an amazingly grand scale.
Ever been to Disney? Their hotel room keys act as charge cards and even theme park tickets. To do the latter, you just go down to the front desk and have them charge the cost of admission for a given day. You can also set limits per card; for example, you can give your kid just enough money to buy a small souvenir at a gift shop. It's brilliant. Leave it to Disney to make it easy for you to spend money.
Personal Search didn't exist in March 2004, and they tracked clicks back then too. How do I know? I searched for google track clicks on Google, of course.
I've seen the links when I'm not logged in to my Google Account. I've seen the links when I chose to "Pause" Google's Search History. I've even seen the links months before Google Search History was made beta. Google tracks what a cross-section of their users click to know how to improve their search engine's results. (If everyone has to dig 30 records into the search results to find something good, Google's not doing a good job. If everyone has to dig 5 records in, they're still not doing a good enough job.)
Google has been known to keel over at the slightest legal threat: witness the sudden disappearance of anti-Scientology and KaZaA Lite links after legal pressure from the CoS and KaZaA respectively. Who's to say they won't log your Google VPN connections (even at the basic login/pass/IPaddress level), giving them records that could be turned over to anyone with a court order?
Google Earth was acquired from Keyhole. Before then it was Windows-only too. Even if they released the source under the GPL (which may not be feasible, if Keyhole had licensed other code) the app wouldn't be necessarily portable to Linux. Look at the handful of not-easily-portable open source apps (Miranda IM, Adium) for other examples.
They've done this many times without any fanfare: each result URL is a link to a Google wrapper, but they use onMouseOver='' to pretend to show you the real URL in your status bar. Here's one write-up about what was being done recently.
With the exception of the Gmail Notifier, every piece of end-user software that Google's ever released has been for Windows only.
Some people here believe that Google has a duty to release for other OSes (especially Linux, which is so oft-used there) but that's not where the end users are. Perhaps when the software comes out of beta it'll be ported.
I don't let the MPAA dictate what my children watch.
I also like to carry around fewer devices than you do. So do many of the people who bought PSPs. I'm sorry that this offends you. Perhaps people should consult you before purchasing anything.
We're not talking on Usenet here. Reply using sentences, not point-for-point rebuttals.
Casual pirates aren't jailed for violating the DMCA, nor were the 80 million people who cleverly put links to DeCSS on their web sites to play a geeky game of cat and mouse.
When I travel I just need to bring my PSP and my 2 GB Memory Stick Pro DUO. It has plenty of movies that I've ripped to admittedly low quality.
I spent two hours waiting for my car at the body shop today. I didn't bring my portable DVD player with me. I did bring my PSP, and I enjoyed my UMD movies while waiting.
Jeez, is Wal-Mart paying you to shill its crappy portable DVD players? You've posted that same link at least three times in this article so far. Nobody wants to buy those things. That's why they're so cheap. For not much more money you can get the PSP, which plays excellent games, has wi-fi, is hackable with homebrew crap, and supports memory expansion.
Yes, you can buy a portable DVD player for the price of a big honking Memory Stick Pro Duo Card. You can also buy a hundred DVD+-/?W$#-R blanks for that price. I'd rather carry around my PSP and a Memory Stick PRO Duo because I don't have a backpack to cart around all my FREE LIBRE GRATIS OPEN SOURCE FLAC OGG VORBIS DOT ORG media.
Every major* portable game console ever has used a "proprietary" memory card format. The GamePark handhelds have adopted standard formats for memory cards, but even those have short shelf lives -- who uses SmartMedia any more, for example?
* I'm not counting Nokia, Tapwave, or GamePark as a maker of "major" portable game consoles here.
They sell microcomputer software. When they started, the term "computer" implied "mainframe," so "micro" implied that they sold software individual workstations.
It's not true that everything they've sold has been for microcomputers (BZZT WRONG XENIX! BZZT WRONG WINDOWS ADVANCED DATACENTER SERVER!) but software for micros is Microsoft's bread and butter.
I downloaded and unpacked the application onto my laptop (12" PowerBook 1.33 GHz) and double-clicked the JAR file. Went to set up an e-mail account. (I like how the provided example is to set up mail for Bill Gates. Very professional.)
At the dialog whose instructions were
Please specify your incoming mail server properties.
If you are unsure please ask your system administrator or internet service (cut off)
, I entereed my login and host name. I have an IMAP server, so I clicked the drop-down box where "POP3" was currently selected. No response. Clicked again. Nothing happened or changed. Clicked again and again.
Tried to set up a new mail account after the fact. POP3 is the only choice. As an IMAP user, Columba to me is nothing more than a broken Evolution clone.
And doesn't cost me anything beyond the cost of the shows I want (e.g. no additional subscription fee, no requirement to subscribe to cable or satellite TV)?
Of course not. However, your home broadband connection (which requires a subscription fee, of course) cannot stream or process nearly as much video as a cable TV or satellite receiver can send. Perhaps when we all have 100 mibobit per second internet you'll be able to get good-quality video on your computer, but for now it takes more than a half-hour to download a 22-minute episode on an average DSL connection (accounting for time to connect, etc).
And it allows me to watch shows on my laptop, or on my projector?
Tivo to Go will work on your laptop, as long as it runs Windows. Your mobile Linux boxen won't work, though. You could always burn DVDs with a TiVo DVD Recorder, though, and play them on all your boxen using libdvdcssnonus, though.
Your projector will also work, as TiVo supports "video outputs" that allows it to be connected to all manner of "video inputs" on your projector. (If your projector only has a VGA or DVI input, you'll need a converter of some kind.)
Interesting, I will have to look into it.
Please do. You should also read up on this "sarcasm" of which you speak. It's something I don't often find on Slashdot, especially from techie Britons.
Podcasting is, at its heart, RSS. You can deliver any type of binary data over RSS. I've even seen Podcasts deliver PDFs which iTunes can store (it even has a little icon for PDFs) though the PDFs open in Preview.app.
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Dear Asm,
I can assure that the Dutch Country Music Association is not involved with this acquisition.
(Perhaps you mean DMCA)
Sincerely,
Kimo von Oelhoffen
President, Dutch Country Music Association
They sell black turtlenecks? Sweet -- I hope they coordinate with my socks.
*space* BOOM! HEADSHOT!
... then later ...
Dachannien is on a killing spree!
Dachannien was looking good until he died of cholera!
I know this is just another "assertion on some random Internet discussion board," but I have seen Google wrap search results links myself before the launch of Google's Search History BETA feature. I'm sorry that I haven't kept my browser cache around for 18 months, but I know I've seen these links at least a year ago.
Google pulls anti-Scientology links, March 21, 2002. "The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology."
Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint, August 31, 2003. They did so in response to a DMCA notice from Sharman Networks, Ltd.
They keeled over very fast. What's worse is that "the U.S. Patriot Act [sic] . . . specifically forbids companies from making disclosures about government requests for information." You don't even have to know when your records get seized -- assuming you're important enough to get inquired about, of course.
Disney's corporate motto is "Don't be evil," so I trust them.
Oh wait...
True, which is why I called it a "charge" card. The difference is that you can charge not just meals, but snacks, souvenirs, park admissions, paddle boat rides, or just about anything in and around Disney on the card. It's "bill it to the room" on an amazingly grand scale.
Ever been to Disney? Their hotel room keys act as charge cards and even theme park tickets. To do the latter, you just go down to the front desk and have them charge the cost of admission for a given day. You can also set limits per card; for example, you can give your kid just enough money to buy a small souvenir at a gift shop. It's brilliant. Leave it to Disney to make it easy for you to spend money.
Personal Search didn't exist in March 2004, and they tracked clicks back then too. How do I know? I searched for google track clicks on Google, of course.
I've seen the links when I'm not logged in to my Google Account. I've seen the links when I chose to "Pause" Google's Search History. I've even seen the links months before Google Search History was made beta. Google tracks what a cross-section of their users click to know how to improve their search engine's results. (If everyone has to dig 30 records into the search results to find something good, Google's not doing a good job. If everyone has to dig 5 records in, they're still not doing a good enough job.)
Google has been known to keel over at the slightest legal threat: witness the sudden disappearance of anti-Scientology and KaZaA Lite links after legal pressure from the CoS and KaZaA respectively. Who's to say they won't log your Google VPN connections (even at the basic login/pass/IPaddress level), giving them records that could be turned over to anyone with a court order?
Google Earth was acquired from Keyhole. Before then it was Windows-only too. Even if they released the source under the GPL (which may not be feasible, if Keyhole had licensed other code) the app wouldn't be necessarily portable to Linux. Look at the handful of not-easily-portable open source apps (Miranda IM, Adium) for other examples.
They've done this many times without any fanfare: each result URL is a link to a Google wrapper, but they use onMouseOver='' to pretend to show you the real URL in your status bar. Here's one write-up about what was being done recently.
With the exception of the Gmail Notifier, every piece of end-user software that Google's ever released has been for Windows only.
Some people here believe that Google has a duty to release for other OSes (especially Linux, which is so oft-used there) but that's not where the end users are. Perhaps when the software comes out of beta it'll be ported.
I don't let the MPAA dictate what my children watch.
I also like to carry around fewer devices than you do. So do many of the people who bought PSPs. I'm sorry that this offends you. Perhaps people should consult you before purchasing anything.
We're not talking on Usenet here. Reply using sentences, not point-for-point rebuttals.
Casual pirates aren't jailed for violating the DMCA, nor were the 80 million people who cleverly put links to DeCSS on their web sites to play a geeky game of cat and mouse.
When I travel I just need to bring my PSP and my 2 GB Memory Stick Pro DUO. It has plenty of movies that I've ripped to admittedly low quality.
No.
I spent two hours waiting for my car at the body shop today. I didn't bring my portable DVD player with me. I did bring my PSP, and I enjoyed my UMD movies while waiting.
Jeez, is Wal-Mart paying you to shill its crappy portable DVD players? You've posted that same link at least three times in this article so far. Nobody wants to buy those things. That's why they're so cheap. For not much more money you can get the PSP, which plays excellent games, has wi-fi, is hackable with homebrew crap, and supports memory expansion.
Nobody ever got jailed for violating the DMCA.
Yes, you can buy a portable DVD player for the price of a big honking Memory Stick Pro Duo Card. You can also buy a hundred DVD+-/?W$#-R blanks for that price. I'd rather carry around my PSP and a Memory Stick PRO Duo because I don't have a backpack to cart around all my FREE LIBRE GRATIS OPEN SOURCE FLAC OGG VORBIS DOT ORG media.
Do you go up to people at the Apple store saying "You can buy a Discman for $20! Stop buying that iPod!"? No? Then let me spend my money the way I want.
Wal-Mart's $30 DVD player doesn't play UMDs. fistfullast won't buy a single UMD until he has a set-top UMD player!
Every major* portable game console ever has used a "proprietary" memory card format. The GamePark handhelds have adopted standard formats for memory cards, but even those have short shelf lives -- who uses SmartMedia any more, for example?
* I'm not counting Nokia, Tapwave, or GamePark as a maker of "major" portable game consoles here.
They sell microcomputer software. When they started, the term "computer" implied "mainframe," so "micro" implied that they sold software individual workstations.
It's not true that everything they've sold has been for microcomputers (BZZT WRONG XENIX! BZZT WRONG WINDOWS ADVANCED DATACENTER SERVER!) but software for micros is Microsoft's bread and butter.
I downloaded and unpacked the application onto my laptop (12" PowerBook 1.33 GHz) and double-clicked the JAR file. Went to set up an e-mail account. (I like how the provided example is to set up mail for Bill Gates. Very professional.)
At the dialog whose instructions were
, I entereed my login and host name. I have an IMAP server, so I clicked the drop-down box where "POP3" was currently selected. No response. Clicked again. Nothing happened or changed. Clicked again and again.
Tried to set up a new mail account after the fact. POP3 is the only choice. As an IMAP user, Columba to me is nothing more than a broken Evolution clone.
This `TiVo' of which you speak; it is fully supported in the UK, I presume?
http://www.uk.tivo.com/
And doesn't cost me anything beyond the cost of the shows I want (e.g. no additional subscription fee, no requirement to subscribe to cable or satellite TV)?
Of course not. However, your home broadband connection (which requires a subscription fee, of course) cannot stream or process nearly as much video as a cable TV or satellite receiver can send. Perhaps when we all have 100 mibobit per second internet you'll be able to get good-quality video on your computer, but for now it takes more than a half-hour to download a 22-minute episode on an average DSL connection (accounting for time to connect, etc).
And it allows me to watch shows on my laptop, or on my projector?
Tivo to Go will work on your laptop, as long as it runs Windows. Your mobile Linux boxen won't work, though. You could always burn DVDs with a TiVo DVD Recorder, though, and play them on all your boxen using libdvdcssnonus, though.
Your projector will also work, as TiVo supports "video outputs" that allows it to be connected to all manner of "video inputs" on your projector. (If your projector only has a VGA or DVI input, you'll need a converter of some kind.)
Interesting, I will have to look into it.
Please do. You should also read up on this "sarcasm" of which you speak. It's something I don't often find on Slashdot, especially from techie Britons.
Podcasting is, at its heart, RSS. You can deliver any type of binary data over RSS. I've even seen Podcasts deliver PDFs which iTunes can store (it even has a little icon for PDFs) though the PDFs open in Preview.app.
Wow. That's awful. Bad Slashdot. The general case should be:
URL1|URL2|URL3|...|URLN
Change your home page to a pipe-delimited list.
c om/|http://www.drudgereport.com/|http://finance.ya hoo.com/|http://blogorrhea.blog.blog/|etc.
http://slashdot.org/|http://fark.com/|http://cnn.