I'm still finding those search engine result spammers are still getting to the top of the results list, where going to their website shows absolutely nothing useful. Type in ANY search term, and you get a specific website that has apparently entrenched itself in every google search result. Trying to search for a song by an artist will always bring up that freemp3.com result, and that site has zero use whatsoever.
What's the point of all these increased downstream speeds if the upload speeds for your favorite sites, etc are still the same? Let's make the other end faster!
Great. I agree with you. Also, any state employee dumb enough to have 1000+ social security numbers on a laptop(that naturally gets stolen) should be sent to jail for 100 years + company(er, gov) has to provide restitution for any identity theft that should occur.
Or better yet, have social security numbers,etc be more difficult to transport than weapons grade plutonium.
Facebook to me has never been anything close to "private". Generally the MO is to use your real name & put in your address/phone number/other details a website honestly doesn't need about you,etc. Linkedin makes sense to use your real name for professional contacts(ie jobs, etc), but still I don't see why facebook needs such private data. That site seemed like an identity thief's dream come true.
Hulu has "fake full screen". Not just Flash's full screen mode that turns off when you click away, but you can maximize an individual window for viewing. That means you can put it on your secondary monitor & use the first monitor just fine. I like that. If they stuff some commercials in, that's fine by me. That's more than acceptable for good video quality & being able to catch up on missed shows. And their commercials are funny.
...are websites when you register have the "subscribe me to your stupid newsletter" option checked by default. Get something wrong on the reg form? We'll re-populate all the info, but we'll re-check the subscribe option, despite you unchecking it. Assholes.
And just about every "remix" of every good 80s song I've heard just slaughters it. Let's studder the vocals, make the intro about 3 times longer, and generally make it sound worse than the original. Then let's make it 100 times easier to find than the original track as well.
I know someone who was involved with this. They stored the project's blueprints on a video game cartridge. It could only be accessed if you played all the way through the end of the game. After that, the blueprints showed, wireframe graphics & all.
..a tv with a glaring large "Press ESC to exit full screen mode". Okay, I'm willing to swing this if we make a promise to use less flash content on the web.
Again, failure in the article summary. Direct link: http://bancomicsans.com/ We don't need news sites to tell us around something when we can just directly go to it.
If this ISP is doing what it does with advertising injection, are they now officially liable for any illegal content sent through it? I know it's not in the USA, but it seems to me if you have your hand in the content delivery(web data, and so forth), the ISP could be sued for pirated mp3s, illegal content, etc.
I like this idea. But my question is, why don't ISPs use their own OnDemand-like programming to substitute for that? Example: I missed last week's episode of Chuck, so I can bitorrent it, watch it on Hulu, or watch it OnDemand. I wonder which is the least strain on their network(assuming 3), while the worst is 1. Thing is, OnDemand has a very spotty selection of shows compared to Hulu, and doesn't come close to bittorrent.
I know going gung-ho on OnDemand-like isn't an optimal solution, but NBC, etc can sprinkle advertising in and the ISP has less strain from less BT. Plus, it lets them plug their own cable service.
I'm not surprised. For all computer platforms that used floppy disks, the MS-DOS world seemingly got the shaft. Amigas and Macs had utilities that could read MS-DOS disks and such, but with the way MS-DOS did disks(correct me if I'm wrong), they couldn't read any other format. Putting long filename support aside, eh, it just wasn't that great. A hardware-level detection if a floppy disk is inserted would have been welcome. Autorun? No(but that's software).
1. Buy said Linux-based video game console 2. Do not play it, nor open the box. Wait for product to fail. 3. Sell it on eBay 10 years later for a huge profit
Proof that this works: look how valuable the Halcyon console is. That's the holy grail of classic video game collecting. The more a console is a dud, the higher profits you can sell it later(exception: Atari Jaguar).
Seriously, Gmail's great. It's doing better in beta than most other final-product web-based emails. it seems several web-based email setups can't even synchronize the "inbox" indicator(ie boldface to show you # of emails) with the new emails on the right frame. I'm looking at you Outlook webmail & squirrelmail. Gmail has none of that.
This. The Linux ecosystem has this horrible assumption that EVERYBODY is a developer that knows the ins & outs of whatever project being criticized, and is expected to contribute code. Doesn't matter if there's already too many cooks in the kitchen.
Me? I have very little dev skills, and would take me months to figure out how to fix any one bug in an OSS project. I would be much more valuable doing ad-hoc QA testing(which I do for a living). But I have this snickering feeling that QA people are looked at as the enemy in the Linux world. They don't want to be criticized on horrible GUI design, since it is just a "hobby project". Well, 1000+ hobby projects does not a professional OS make.
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I'm still finding those search engine result spammers are still getting to the top of the results list, where going to their website shows absolutely nothing useful. Type in ANY search term, and you get a specific website that has apparently entrenched itself in every google search result. Trying to search for a song by an artist will always bring up that freemp3.com result, and that site has zero use whatsoever.
What's the point of all these increased downstream speeds if the upload speeds for your favorite sites, etc are still the same? Let's make the other end faster!
Great. I agree with you. Also, any state employee dumb enough to have 1000+ social security numbers on a laptop(that naturally gets stolen) should be sent to jail for 100 years + company(er, gov) has to provide restitution for any identity theft that should occur.
Or better yet, have social security numbers,etc be more difficult to transport than weapons grade plutonium.
Facebook to me has never been anything close to "private". Generally the MO is to use your real name & put in your address/phone number/other details a website honestly doesn't need about you,etc. Linkedin makes sense to use your real name for professional contacts(ie jobs, etc), but still I don't see why facebook needs such private data. That site seemed like an identity thief's dream come true.
Hulu has "fake full screen". Not just Flash's full screen mode that turns off when you click away, but you can maximize an individual window for viewing. That means you can put it on your secondary monitor & use the first monitor just fine. I like that. If they stuff some commercials in, that's fine by me. That's more than acceptable for good video quality & being able to catch up on missed shows. And their commercials are funny.
Angelfire was fun to snoop around on, since the image subdirectories were open for the browsing. Sometimes you found images not meant for the public.
By that same logic, any archived porn from the 80s will tell historians nobody ever shaved their pubic hair.
Dang it, I was going to do that MH reference. That was the very first thing I thought of. That show once again paves the way for reality.
Is Denon owned by Monster? Does it make digital audio streaming sound better?
...are websites when you register have the "subscribe me to your stupid newsletter" option checked by default. Get something wrong on the reg form? We'll re-populate all the info, but we'll re-check the subscribe option, despite you unchecking it. Assholes.
And just about every "remix" of every good 80s song I've heard just slaughters it. Let's studder the vocals, make the intro about 3 times longer, and generally make it sound worse than the original. Then let's make it 100 times easier to find than the original track as well.
PS. I'm still bitter about SVG not being in Internet Explorer.
SVG simply never caught on, sadly.
I know someone who was involved with this. They stored the project's blueprints on a video game cartridge. It could only be accessed if you played all the way through the end of the game. After that, the blueprints showed, wireframe graphics & all.
..a tv with a glaring large "Press ESC to exit full screen mode". Okay, I'm willing to swing this if we make a promise to use less flash content on the web.
...plays Famicom games.
Well, if they outsource it to China they will already have experience.
Again, failure in the article summary. Direct link: http://bancomicsans.com/ We don't need news sites to tell us around something when we can just directly go to it.
If this ISP is doing what it does with advertising injection, are they now officially liable for any illegal content sent through it? I know it's not in the USA, but it seems to me if you have your hand in the content delivery(web data, and so forth), the ISP could be sued for pirated mp3s, illegal content, etc.
Private pipes to YouTube, Hulu an
I like this idea. But my question is, why don't ISPs use their own OnDemand-like programming to substitute for that? Example: I missed last week's episode of Chuck, so I can bitorrent it, watch it on Hulu, or watch it OnDemand. I wonder which is the least strain on their network(assuming 3), while the worst is 1. Thing is, OnDemand has a very spotty selection of shows compared to Hulu, and doesn't come close to bittorrent.
I know going gung-ho on OnDemand-like isn't an optimal solution, but NBC, etc can sprinkle advertising in and the ISP has less strain from less BT. Plus, it lets them plug their own cable service.
I'm not surprised. For all computer platforms that used floppy disks, the MS-DOS world seemingly got the shaft. Amigas and Macs had utilities that could read MS-DOS disks and such, but with the way MS-DOS did disks(correct me if I'm wrong), they couldn't read any other format. Putting long filename support aside, eh, it just wasn't that great. A hardware-level detection if a floppy disk is inserted would have been welcome. Autorun? No(but that's software).
1. Buy said Linux-based video game console
2. Do not play it, nor open the box. Wait for product to fail.
3. Sell it on eBay 10 years later for a huge profit
Proof that this works: look how valuable the Halcyon console is. That's the holy grail of classic video game collecting. The more a console is a dud, the higher profits you can sell it later(exception: Atari Jaguar).
Hey dawg, we heard you like unix, so we put a unix in your unix, so you can unix while you unix!
Website "still under construction" after 5 years.
Seriously, Gmail's great. It's doing better in beta than most other final-product web-based emails. it seems several web-based email setups can't even synchronize the "inbox" indicator(ie boldface to show you # of emails) with the new emails on the right frame. I'm looking at you Outlook webmail & squirrelmail. Gmail has none of that.
I feel the same way about women's flat track roller derby. :)
This. The Linux ecosystem has this horrible assumption that EVERYBODY is a developer that knows the ins & outs of whatever project being criticized, and is expected to contribute code. Doesn't matter if there's already too many cooks in the kitchen.
Me? I have very little dev skills, and would take me months to figure out how to fix any one bug in an OSS project. I would be much more valuable doing ad-hoc QA testing(which I do for a living). But I have this snickering feeling that QA people are looked at as the enemy in the Linux world. They don't want to be criticized on horrible GUI design, since it is just a "hobby project". Well, 1000+ hobby projects does not a professional OS make.