I've learned to just sigh and say "the general public is so confused" when I hear mainstream media talk like the iPod is the only portable music player.
I hate it too, I mean sometimes they just act like the iPod nano and iPod shuffle don't exist:(
In the UK we're phasing out analogue radio and TV (including FM). Radio will be replaced by DAB. Therefore as far as I know there's no new permanent FM licenses granted, altough the occaisional short term licence may be granted for special events.
This means that in the UK you're unlikely to be in a place where the FM range is full. Even in London you can find a few gaps. Although I didn't know of any drive in cinemas in the UK. Because of the law mentioned in this article, gyms tended to not transmit on FM either, I've seen two solutions to the problem, some gyms have headphone sockets on the pieces of equipment and others have special receivers that transmit on a different band, they give you a receiver when you enter the gym so you don't need your own. This is why FM radio is not exactly a big selling feature on MP3 players over here (well it's not in the US either considering the popularity of the iPod, but in the UK if someone launches a device with built in FM the first response is 'what no DAB?')
It will be a while before FM disappears entirely, their first priority is getting analogue TV off the air. Why is it the government is forcing this? I don't know, it should be up to the market to decide.
Yeah, it is pretty much stating the obvious. No one would want to be countersued, but I see it's positive that some people are starting to countersue them. I treat their actions as very immoral as they always seem to sue the weak (do they deliberately look for the weak to sue such as victims of multiple sclerosis or do these people just happen to be brought to our attention as its more newsworthy?) Also the more that articles about the RIAA/MPAA litigation happy actions get published the more the public will start to know. Eventually they may start caring, and hopefully they'll start to care before it's too late.
That's interesting because a 4 way stop sign is an example of a junction which in Europe would have traffic lights or a roundabout. There's no equivalent and in Europe and anytime I drive in the US it always strikes me how disciplined and courteous drivers are at 4 way stop signs
Actually, I've seen a 4 way give way crossroads junction in Nottingham on a rather minor road, seemed very, very odd that none of the roads had right of way. The road was quiet enough that lights or a roundabout would be an overkill but I thought it'd make sense to have one way having the right of way.
Cultural difference: Politely sounding a horn rather than just attempting to drive through you and leaving it up to you to get the fuck out of the way IS being courteous in Italy (Or France, Spain, Ireland...).
Actually, you're probably right, that probably is the courtesy over there. But it just doesn't seem like that to a visitor. The only time I noticed any rage (or any near misses) was when I was in a taxi and he had a go at someone going the wrong way down the one way street. It was signed as a one way street but not very clearly, so there's some people there who still know the rules.
Sounds like a joke article, but would it work? On a recent visit to Napoli in Italy I decided to hire a car, I booked this before arriving so never seen what the roads were like there.
OK there were road signs, traffic lights and the occaisional road marking, but most of the signs seemed to be twisted around so if you followed them you'd be going in the wrong direction, the traffic lights were largely ignored and road markings came and gone. However, despite it being a scary process for me it did seem to work, I never seen an accident there (although I was in constant fear that I'd cause one at first), traffic seemed to move well enough and the locals crossed the road with confidence (if you walked across the road confidently traffic would stop for you, but if you looked hesitant and waiting for traffic to slow down they'd just go right past you).
However, the article states that removing the rules creates an atmosphere or courtesy, certainly not in Napoli, they'd sound their horn if they thought you were being too hesitant at junctions or even if you were going a bit too slow.
I know someone who works in the Yahoo London office and there they've already been cutting back on some major departments. Fortunately he managed to find another job in his notice period, but it looks like a large portion of people there were getting the push.
These things unfortunately happen in any big company eventually if they have got involved in too many different areas.
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I agree, Roughly Drafted is the Fox News of Mac sites. The bias is so obvious. I agree that the integration of Mac OS X and the hardware has produced some excellent systems. But it's also possible to get good quality PC's too just because all the Dell offers of the week are rather shoddy more high end stuff can be decent quality.
The only thing I don't like about OEM PC's is basically having to pay for Windows even if you don't want it (yes, I know they offer some with linux and maybe you can get a refund) but to take advantage of the full catalogue you'll probably end up with Windows.
However, in the end I choose a Mac, it offers something the others don't (a decent OS pre-installed) and then I can add Linux as a dual boot if I want to.
Well people are arguing better functionality will come via firmware updates, however, people saying that are generally just Microsoft shills trying to defend the undefendable.
No one knows what (if any) firmware updates will happen, so it's best to judge hardware by what it can d now, rather than it's potential
Some good points there. I do agree that having Ballmer associated with the device is a negative. But also the marketing tactics used would not work in the UK (e.g. 'The Social' is another word for our welfare benefits office in the UK) - not that they really worked in the US anyway!
Remember Universal are getting money off Microsoft for every Zune sold. Perhaps this deal was done in order to give them a bit more money to go after Google. Just like MS did with their SCO Linux licences.
I don't know why so many people are lenient on MS, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and all that... MS have fooled many people, many times but some people associate anything bad said against them as coming from a zealot.
Personally I think their track record means they deserve to be thought of badly, they have to prove us wrong not the other way round.
It's not like if he recorded what he's playing and then sell it on it would risk losing sales to the original artists.
His actions had zero impact on sales for those artists/labels in the unlikely event it had any impact at all it would have been slightly positive (e.g. someone gets tune stuck in their head and seeks out the original).
The real deadline was to beat Duke Nukem Forever, as they achieved that all the Vista team get huge bonuses. Now Microsoft really does have an OS fit for 2004 that needs 2007 standard hardware.
The "evil" is in Google's hypocrisy. Read the grandparent post again, slowly.
There is nothing evil about Google's actions here, they've just made a commercial decision, if they did allow adsense ads on porn sites they'd make more money. For whatever reason they chose not to. It's not exactly evil.
The best thing to do when using adwords if you're worried about click fraud is to specify that the ads appear only on Google's site and not the 'content network' (basically anyones adsense sites) or partner search pages. That means no one except Google will make anything out of the site therefore reducing the incentive of click fraud
Actually come to think of it the ads that display on a Google search vary from country to country, so what they allow and don't allow may be more strictly enforced in some countries than others.
Another thing that's strictly forbidden in adwords (I actually read the TOS when I was signing up for it) is advertising any form of prostitution. However, people have got around it if you search for pay sex you get loads of ads, some fairly innocent like dating sites and others advertising escort services. You're also not meant to use trademarks but there's loads who use the Firefox name for ads. The reason so many do that is because with Google adsense you get $1 if an IE user downloads Firefox with the Google toolbar, it costs less than $1 for the keyword 'Firefox' and so they make a profit when people go to thier site and click the banner (but only if the person clicking it is an IE user, otherwise they get nothing).
Cleaner air would be better for everyone who lives in London so why not give incentives for people to drive cleaner vehicles?
I was all against banning smoking in pubs as that limits people's freedom of choice, however, as a non-smoker after visiting Ireland and all the pubs have clean air I'm now looking forward to the england smoking ban. However, if I had to vote in a referendum on the smoking ban I'd probably vote against as it should be upto the owner of the bar to decide on the rules - but as the law is forced on us I might as well look forward to it:)
Driving is different, the effects of pollution and congestion can affect anyone who wants to leave the house, anything to make London more pleasant should be welcome.
Some ways taxation may help as long as they reward the responsible as well as punish the irresponsible. e.g. now some councils in London are putting up proposals to double the residents parking permit fees for inefficient 4x4's (nicknamed Chelsea tractors in London) and those with energy efficient cars will have their fees halved. Users with normal cars will pay about the same.
What's the point of the UK political parties talking about all these green taxes when our prime ministers boss, George Bush (well at least he thinks he is), is out destroying bits of the world and the US culture in general is about wasting energy.
We need to encourage our allies to act sensibly, the UK is small and insignificant compared to the US.
Believe it or not the editor probably did check this. If you notice the bit "I get this behavior under IE7, Win XP Pro, SP2, Parallels, Mac OS X." is outside of the quote of the submitter this implies the editor did check and seen the same results.
As for why it doesn't work now, that's obvious, as soon as the mistake was spotted Microsoft would have fixed it. They'd have got sued by Google if they were incorrectly labelled as a phishing site and it turned out MS weren't going to rectify this.
I'm sure we'll see the occaisional embarassing moment in both IE7 and Firefox with these new features.
So, this article was pointless, but it does appear the editor did check!
getfirefox.co.uk is not an official page, only getfirefox.com is
The.co.uk site is just what some enterprising individual set up in order to make money off Google referral fees.
Google offers $1 per Firefox download for users signed up to adsense. Just Google for Firefox you'll see that all the sponsored links take you to pages with "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar" buttons on them.
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I hate it too, I mean sometimes they just act like the iPod nano and iPod shuffle don't exist
Therefore as far as I know there's no new permanent FM licenses granted, altough the occaisional short term licence may be granted for special events.
This means that in the UK you're unlikely to be in a place where the FM range is full. Even in London you can find a few gaps. Although I didn't know of any drive in cinemas in the UK. Because of the law mentioned in this article, gyms tended to not transmit on FM either, I've seen two solutions to the problem, some gyms have headphone sockets on the pieces of equipment and others have special receivers that transmit on a different band, they give you a receiver when you enter the gym so you don't need your own. This is why FM radio is not exactly a big selling feature on MP3 players over here (well it's not in the US either considering the popularity of the iPod, but in the UK if someone launches a device with built in FM the first response is 'what no DAB?')
It will be a while before FM disappears entirely, their first priority is getting analogue TV off the air. Why is it the government is forcing this? I don't know, it should be up to the market to decide.
Yeah, it is pretty much stating the obvious. No one would want to be countersued, but I see it's positive that some people are starting to countersue them. I treat their actions as very immoral as they always seem to sue the weak (do they deliberately look for the weak to sue such as victims of multiple sclerosis or do these people just happen to be brought to our attention as its more newsworthy?) Also the more that articles about the RIAA/MPAA litigation happy actions get published the more the public will start to know. Eventually they may start caring, and hopefully they'll start to care before it's too late.
Actually, I've seen a 4 way give way crossroads junction in Nottingham on a rather minor road, seemed very, very odd that none of the roads had right of way. The road was quiet enough that lights or a roundabout would be an overkill but I thought it'd make sense to have one way having the right of way.
Actually, you're probably right, that probably is the courtesy over there. But it just doesn't seem like that to a visitor. The only time I noticed any rage (or any near misses) was when I was in a taxi and he had a go at someone going the wrong way down the one way street. It was signed as a one way street but not very clearly, so there's some people there who still know the rules.
OK there were road signs, traffic lights and the occaisional road marking, but most of the signs seemed to be twisted around so if you followed them you'd be going in the wrong direction, the traffic lights were largely ignored and road markings came and gone. However, despite it being a scary process for me it did seem to work, I never seen an accident there (although I was in constant fear that I'd cause one at first), traffic seemed to move well enough and the locals crossed the road with confidence (if you walked across the road confidently traffic would stop for you, but if you looked hesitant and waiting for traffic to slow down they'd just go right past you).
However, the article states that removing the rules creates an atmosphere or courtesy, certainly not in Napoli, they'd sound their horn if they thought you were being too hesitant at junctions or even if you were going a bit too slow.
I know someone who works in the Yahoo London office and there they've already been cutting back on some major departments. Fortunately he managed to find another job in his notice period, but it looks like a large portion of people there were getting the push.
These things unfortunately happen in any big company eventually if they have got involved in too many different areas.
I agree, Roughly Drafted is the Fox News of Mac sites. The bias is so obvious. I agree that the integration of Mac OS X and the hardware has produced some excellent systems. But it's also possible to get good quality PC's too just because all the Dell offers of the week are rather shoddy more high end stuff can be decent quality.
The only thing I don't like about OEM PC's is basically having to pay for Windows even if you don't want it (yes, I know they offer some with linux and maybe you can get a refund) but to take advantage of the full catalogue you'll probably end up with Windows.
However, in the end I choose a Mac, it offers something the others don't (a decent OS pre-installed) and then I can add Linux as a dual boot if I want to.
Well people are arguing better functionality will come via firmware updates, however, people saying that are generally just Microsoft shills trying to defend the undefendable.
No one knows what (if any) firmware updates will happen, so it's best to judge hardware by what it can d now, rather than it's potential
Some good points there. I do agree that having Ballmer associated with the device is a negative. But also the marketing tactics used would not work in the UK (e.g. 'The Social' is another word for our welfare benefits office in the UK) - not that they really worked in the US anyway!
I'm tired, everytime I read MySpace I was thinking of YouTube. Both sites that I don't frequent very regularly.
Remember Universal are getting money off Microsoft for every Zune sold. Perhaps this deal was done in order to give them a bit more money to go after Google. Just like MS did with their SCO Linux licences.
I don't know why so many people are lenient on MS, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and all that... MS have fooled many people, many times but some people associate anything bad said against them as coming from a zealot.
Personally I think their track record means they deserve to be thought of badly, they have to prove us wrong not the other way round.
What exactly was he 'stealing' here? An idea?
It's not like if he recorded what he's playing and then sell it on it would risk losing sales to the original artists.
His actions had zero impact on sales for those artists/labels in the unlikely event it had any impact at all it would have been slightly positive (e.g. someone gets tune stuck in their head and seeks out the original).
The real deadline was to beat Duke Nukem Forever, as they achieved that all the Vista team get huge bonuses. Now Microsoft really does have an OS fit for 2004 that needs 2007 standard hardware.
There is nothing evil about Google's actions here, they've just made a commercial decision, if they did allow adsense ads on porn sites they'd make more money. For whatever reason they chose not to. It's not exactly evil.
What is evil about adult content if it's all done with consent?
It's just one way for people to make money.
The best thing to do when using adwords if you're worried about click fraud is to specify that the ads appear only on Google's site and not the 'content network' (basically anyones adsense sites) or partner search pages. That means no one except Google will make anything out of the site therefore reducing the incentive of click fraud
Actually come to think of it the ads that display on a Google search vary from country to country, so what they allow and don't allow may be more strictly enforced in some countries than others.
Another thing that's strictly forbidden in adwords (I actually read the TOS when I was signing up for it) is advertising any form of prostitution. However, people have got around it if you search for pay sex you get loads of ads, some fairly innocent like dating sites and others advertising escort services. You're also not meant to use trademarks but there's loads who use the Firefox name for ads. The reason so many do that is because with Google adsense you get $1 if an IE user downloads Firefox with the Google toolbar, it costs less than $1 for the keyword 'Firefox' and so they make a profit when people go to thier site and click the banner (but only if the person clicking it is an IE user, otherwise they get nothing).
Cleaner air would be better for everyone who lives in London so why not give incentives for people to drive cleaner vehicles?
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I was all against banning smoking in pubs as that limits people's freedom of choice, however, as a non-smoker after visiting Ireland and all the pubs have clean air I'm now looking forward to the england smoking ban. However, if I had to vote in a referendum on the smoking ban I'd probably vote against as it should be upto the owner of the bar to decide on the rules - but as the law is forced on us I might as well look forward to it
Driving is different, the effects of pollution and congestion can affect anyone who wants to leave the house, anything to make London more pleasant should be welcome.
Some ways taxation may help as long as they reward the responsible as well as punish the irresponsible. e.g. now some councils in London are putting up proposals to double the residents parking permit fees for inefficient 4x4's (nicknamed Chelsea tractors in London) and those with energy efficient cars will have their fees halved. Users with normal cars will pay about the same.
What's the point of the UK political parties talking about all these green taxes when our prime ministers boss, George Bush (well at least he thinks he is), is out destroying bits of the world and the US culture in general is about wasting energy.
We need to encourage our allies to act sensibly, the UK is small and insignificant compared to the US.
As for why it doesn't work now, that's obvious, as soon as the mistake was spotted Microsoft would have fixed it. They'd have got sued by Google if they were incorrectly labelled as a phishing site and it turned out MS weren't going to rectify this.
I'm sure we'll see the occaisional embarassing moment in both IE7 and Firefox with these new features.
So, this article was pointless, but it does appear the editor did check!
getfirefox.co.uk is not an official page, only getfirefox.com is
.co.uk site is just what some enterprising individual set up in order to make money off Google referral fees.
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Google offers $1 per Firefox download for users signed up to adsense. Just Google for Firefox you'll see that all the sponsored links take you to pages with "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar" buttons on them.
FUD or you're mistaken. There's no quicktime bundled with Firefox, in fact no plugins at all are bundled.