Errr, the version of Urchin he's referring to postprocesses Apache/IIS/Websphere/etc log files. You don't have to use cookies to track users (though it helps).... so, disregarding cookies, why is Urchin evil?
Google/Urchin provided support for a short while, and all was good. Then, Google/Urchin decided to outsource ALL support requests except major bugs. They "trained" authorized support personel from various companies, which are now listed under their resellers page. But, a good percentage of those people know jack about the inner working of Urchin. I feel sorry for them, honestly, because I doubt they were trained properly and there's very little solid documentation.
Urchin is EXTREMELY poorly documented. Want to know how to create your own report inside a profile? It's easy! Now, do you want to analyze some metric in a different way than Urchin does by default? Wow. Good luck. datamap.dm, I hardly knew thee. I still don't know it well, because there's very little documentation and zilch for examples about how the integral parts of the program work. Want to change how some.tpl (report templates) look or present information? Good luck, there is exactly zero documentation about it. Hell, the "support" personel I worked with didn't even know those files existed, or what they did.
So yeah, Google is certainly at fault somewhat, but a lot of the issues people have could have been resolved even prior to the acquirement of Urchin! Documentation will save us, or in it's absence damn us.
Another topic is that Urchin currently has two outstanding LARGE vulnerabilities, as published by US CERT. Google/Urchin was notified back in June or July about these security holes. They claimed a fix was in the works. It's now OCTOBER and they're totally silent on the issue. My support requests (directed directly at google, not at one of their support contractors) go unanswered. There hasn't been an update to the program in years. Google/Urchin is COMPLETELY silent about the Urchin standalone product.
I'm extremely happy that this is getting some public attention, because it bugs the bejeezus out of serious Urchin users.
Amazon: Interface is a bit awkward Can't sort search results by column.89/song, $~8-11 per album Seemingly large selection of mainstream artists, along with some good Indie action. 256kbps VBR MP3 (Some report higher bitrates)
eMusic: Interface is great. Searches are helpful, recommend artists who are in the same category or are "like" the one you searched for. ~.25c/song (Not sure what current rates are, but that's what I pay). You pay for every song in the album the same as if you purchased separate, amazon has a lead here. GIGANTIC selection of Indie arists. Some mainstream, but not very much at all. 192kbps VBR MP3
My personal opinion of Amazon's setup is, it's really nice. A lot more expensive than I'm used to, but nice. I'll buy a track here or there on Amazon, whereas I'll buy entire albums on eMusic. The increase in bitrate is nice, but not 3-4x as expensive nice.
I think Amazon could have a big winner here. The prices are competitive, the selection seems quite vast, and it's only the beta. I'd worry about eMusic's future if it takes off.
They used quantum theory/application to transmit the state of the photons. So, if this could be applied to real matter, you would know what stuff goes where and then have to assemble it on the receiving end. Note, no disassembly of the transmitting end.
Electrically conductive polymer leads to muscle-type plastic strads, which OBVIOUSLY in turn leads to the development of Battlemechs. So, when can I place my order for a Jenner, or maybe a nice big Battlemaster?
That would be a decent idea, if the water was liquid. Additionally, if there were aquifers, the water contained therein would either be ice, or under enough pressure to prevent the water from turning to ice. There would be no easy to to penetrate an aquifer and create a habitat in one.... of course, that's just my impression from reading Red Mars, an awesome hard sci-fi book on this subject.
HD TV's are just _starting_ to come out? Try buying a tv larger than 32" that isn't HD. There aren't many left in retail, I bet you. HD has a smaller foothold in sub32" tv's, because it's still economical to manufacture those types of TV's with standard definition tubes/display components.
I work for a contractor that maintains/develops/hosts a govn't site. I'm working right now to transition our Webstats Analysis tool off of an old copy of Webtrends (crappy product), to Urchin (decent product). Measuring Unique visitors is IMMENSELY difficult on a government site because you aren't allowed to leave cookies that exist beyond the user session!
I _have_ to go by IP+User Agent. Cookies would make everything 10000x easier, but because of privacy laws, it's not usable.
Except for that they're violating federal and international copyright law by distributing (key part) a work without the express consent of it's copyright owner.
Being an alchemist on horde Cenarion Circle, I paid about 10-12g per crystal, and transmute it into arcanite. Arcanite sells for about 17-20g, depending on how many are available that day. I actually gave up arcanite transmutes to do my own Water --> Air transmutes, which give me a net 10g profit.
I've been waiting for this to come out for over a year and a half now. Via did a soft-launch, and never produced any number of these units. They might start being available soon... but who knows.
A friend of mine clued me in on this gem. It plays like metroid, looks like old platform amiga games, and has a fun involved deep storyline! See here:
http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
I somehow doubt this will affect the current WSUS/SUS patch system microsoft has provided. Unless they release patched versions of WSUS/SUS, then the only check that will happen (and maybe not even then) will be of the WSUS/SUS server. The clients could be pirated and it wouldn't care.
Doubtful. Current ipod's are still B&W. I guess it would work for the ipod photo, but I doubt the LCD is good enough. I also doubt that Apple would just release a firmware update, when they can sell a bigger better newer product.
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Errr, the version of Urchin he's referring to postprocesses Apache/IIS/Websphere/etc log files. You don't have to use cookies to track users (though it helps). ... so, disregarding cookies, why is Urchin evil?
Google purchased Urchin outright.
.tpl (report templates) look or present information? Good luck, there is exactly zero documentation about it. Hell, the "support" personel I worked with didn't even know those files existed, or what they did.
Google/Urchin provided support for a short while, and all was good. Then, Google/Urchin decided to outsource ALL support requests except major bugs. They "trained" authorized support personel from various companies, which are now listed under their resellers page. But, a good percentage of those people know jack about the inner working of Urchin. I feel sorry for them, honestly, because I doubt they were trained properly and there's very little solid documentation.
Urchin is EXTREMELY poorly documented. Want to know how to create your own report inside a profile? It's easy! Now, do you want to analyze some metric in a different way than Urchin does by default? Wow. Good luck. datamap.dm, I hardly knew thee. I still don't know it well, because there's very little documentation and zilch for examples about how the integral parts of the program work. Want to change how some
So yeah, Google is certainly at fault somewhat, but a lot of the issues people have could have been resolved even prior to the acquirement of Urchin! Documentation will save us, or in it's absence damn us.
Another topic is that Urchin currently has two outstanding LARGE vulnerabilities, as published by US CERT. Google/Urchin was notified back in June or July about these security holes. They claimed a fix was in the works. It's now OCTOBER and they're totally silent on the issue. My support requests (directed directly at google, not at one of their support contractors) go unanswered. There hasn't been an update to the program in years. Google/Urchin is COMPLETELY silent about the Urchin standalone product.
I'm extremely happy that this is getting some public attention, because it bugs the bejeezus out of serious Urchin users.
Amazon: .89/song, $~8-11 per album
Interface is a bit awkward
Can't sort search results by column
Seemingly large selection of mainstream artists, along with some good Indie action.
256kbps VBR MP3 (Some report higher bitrates)
eMusic:
Interface is great.
Searches are helpful, recommend artists who are in the same category or are "like" the one you searched for.
~.25c/song (Not sure what current rates are, but that's what I pay). You pay for every song in the album the same as if you purchased separate, amazon has a lead here.
GIGANTIC selection of Indie arists. Some mainstream, but not very much at all.
192kbps VBR MP3
My personal opinion of Amazon's setup is, it's really nice. A lot more expensive than I'm used to, but nice. I'll buy a track here or there on Amazon, whereas I'll buy entire albums on eMusic. The increase in bitrate is nice, but not 3-4x as expensive nice.
I think Amazon could have a big winner here. The prices are competitive, the selection seems quite vast, and it's only the beta. I'd worry about eMusic's future if it takes off.
Windows. I got so fed up with the constant WGA workarounds, I took the cheap way out and bought a legit OEM copy.
They used quantum theory/application to transmit the state of the photons. So, if this could be applied to real matter, you would know what stuff goes where and then have to assemble it on the receiving end. Note, no disassembly of the transmitting end.
(I think)
(Maybe)
Electrically conductive polymer leads to muscle-type plastic strads, which OBVIOUSLY in turn leads to the development of Battlemechs. So, when can I place my order for a Jenner, or maybe a nice big Battlemaster?
That would be a decent idea, if the water was liquid. Additionally, if there were aquifers, the water contained therein would either be ice, or under enough pressure to prevent the water from turning to ice. There would be no easy to to penetrate an aquifer and create a habitat in one. ... of course, that's just my impression from reading Red Mars, an awesome hard sci-fi book on this subject.
HD TV's are just _starting_ to come out? Try buying a tv larger than 32" that isn't HD. There aren't many left in retail, I bet you. HD has a smaller foothold in sub32" tv's, because it's still economical to manufacture those types of TV's with standard definition tubes/display components.
Actually, you have that backwards. The Dub was $19.99, the Sub was $29.99
I work for a contractor that maintains/develops/hosts a govn't site. I'm working right now to transition our Webstats Analysis tool off of an old copy of Webtrends (crappy product), to Urchin (decent product). Measuring Unique visitors is IMMENSELY difficult on a government site because you aren't allowed to leave cookies that exist beyond the user session!
I _have_ to go by IP+User Agent. Cookies would make everything 10000x easier, but because of privacy laws, it's not usable.
Except for that they're violating federal and international copyright law by distributing (key part) a work without the express consent of it's copyright owner.
Being an alchemist on horde Cenarion Circle, I paid about 10-12g per crystal, and transmute it into arcanite. Arcanite sells for about 17-20g, depending on how many are available that day. I actually gave up arcanite transmutes to do my own Water --> Air transmutes, which give me a net 10g profit.
I've been waiting for this to come out for over a year and a half now. Via did a soft-launch, and never produced any number of these units. They might start being available soon... but who knows.
Welcome to variable resolutions, myriads of colors, quick response time, and incredible flexibility. Yes, I like my CRT's.
It's widely accepted that lipflap just isn't as important in Japan as it is here.
A friend of mine clued me in on this gem. It plays like metroid, looks like old platform amiga games, and has a fun involved deep storyline! See here: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
I somehow doubt this will affect the current WSUS/SUS patch system microsoft has provided. Unless they release patched versions of WSUS/SUS, then the only check that will happen (and maybe not even then) will be of the WSUS/SUS server. The clients could be pirated and it wouldn't care.
Doubtful. Current ipod's are still B&W. I guess it would work for the ipod photo, but I doubt the LCD is good enough. I also doubt that Apple would just release a firmware update, when they can sell a bigger better newer product.
I'm sorry... did someone say my name? No? My mistake :(
Get a used Compaq P91 or Dell Trinitron screen. My P90(91?) at home does 1920x1440@~70hz, 1600x1200@85hz (75 is the most usable however). 19" of love
Then you have a poorly calibrated CRT...
Great idea, but I don't know if our american PSU's would appreciate the 240v 50hz power they have over there.
Not copyprotection, but region/market protection :P
That was their desktop computers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/08/ibm_sells_ pc_biz/
Oh hey, that explains why when I look for Gundam cels, babelfish/excite/nifty always translate it as Cancer Dam, thanks!