Does anyone else have this problem? A site tries to load a popup, and IE simply locks up until the popup loads? It can take a minute or longer sometimes... The lockup is far more annoying then the advert itself. It happens to me on both my desktop and my laptop, although I don't remember it always being this way.
Has anyone else had this problem, or is my machine just having histrionics?
That said, the ads salon uses are, IMO, way more effective, because you actually get to control the viewing experience. I don't mind spending 10 seconds or so looking at one of their 'ultramercials' because you get to decide when you view it. It's really much nicer then this popup bullshit.
And his un-researched bullshit caused me tons of pain during my modem days. He said that people should 'split up' long stories on the web because people were to stupid to scroll. But that meant a 5-10 second pause in reading for me, on my modem. And it also made it impossible for me to download a whole story before getting offline. My online experience was severely degraded because of his advice. In fact, people still do this despite the fact that he renounced the practice. (people have learned how to scroll, apparently)
I mean, for gods sakes this is was the 'usability expert' behind CDE! the ugliest, impossibleist to use window manager ever!
I guess anyone can make themselves an expert putting out some press releases and sounding condescending.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You're probably confusing 'chopsticks' with 'fortune cookies'. But even then you'd be wrong, since they were invented by a Japanese American in this century.
How could an entirely new form of eating utensil take off like wildfire throughout all of east Asia in just 200 years? If they really had that kind of traction, they certainly would have become popular in the US, Europe, and the rest of the world too. You think some uneducated peasant in rural china is going to stop eating with their hands (or whatever) and adopt hard to use chopsticks in order to be 'cool'?
Do you think that the Japanese, while trying to modernize and westernize would replace all their eating utensils with something used only in Chinese restaurants on the west cost of the US?
The danger is in step 3 because it's hard to know what URL is the spammers' they often hide the url by by various means and include other sites in the email.
If your browser can get to the URL, it obviously isn't hidden enough.
I just didn't think the 'and/or' had any merit. Anyone can be accused of being 'un-American' or whatever, even you (by the vary virtue of your comment).
Well, if this achieves deep penetration, then obviously it'll be the end of movie rental. But for people who still want to own the films, rather then paying every time they want to see it, DVDs and their successors will be around for a while.
If he is not a U.S. citizen and/or is committing acts that demomonstrate a lack of allegiance to the U.S., I don't see why he should be treated as such.
see subject. You could take a bunch of FFTs over a few milliseconds and stick them together to retrieve a song (but you would lose low frequency stuff), but you couldn't feed an FFT of a whole song into a converter and hear anything worth listening too.
Japan has the second highest military budget in the world. Not close to ours, but way more then anyone else. Germany spends quite a bit too, and gets involved in some regional stuff as well (such as the NATO action in Serbia)
The first link dosn't even mention "for profit" or parody at all. Neither link talks about parody. parody is diffrent from fair use. the PA strip didn't use any copyrighted images or text, other then the name.
Usenet's just a niche community these days, like a website but on some other protocol. The number of people on Usenet compared to the 'net' in general is tiny.
And, not only that but usenet is actualy very usable these days, since spammers don't hardly bother with it anymore.
I realize that Iraq is not an islamist nation in the sense that the laws of the land closely follow the teachings of the Koran as in Iran or Saudi Arabia, but Isn't intellectual property contrary to the teachings of Islam? this is what came up after a bit of google searching. Even though Iraq is largely secular, sending IP fanatics there to write their laws seems pretty culturally insensitive.
Iraqi water was shut off during the war, enabling that stuff shouldn't be all that much work. Many Iraqi's have computers, conceivably, many with CD-Burners. This isn't Afghanistan we're talking about. This comment never should have been given a 5.
I don't know how much it's worth to pay for headphones, but there are definetly some that sound better then others. Some also have better gemoetry for fitting in your ear.
Slashdot has about the ugliest layout of any major site out there. And this hideous 'games' theme is the worst. Why don't you guys hire a real graphics designer? Other OSDN sites aren't even as bad.
Totally friggn' lame, IMO.
Spectral analysis != psychoacoustic model...
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Modern compressions schemes are supposed to make sound that sounds as much like the original as possible, not looks like the original on an FFT.
The only way to test this is to use double-blind listening tests. The spectral analysis stuff is absolutely useless for finding out how good the music actually sounds.
Another oddity recently showed up in news reports: a Catholic church leader urging tax increases for funding of "social programs". Well, a non-profit agency doing lobbying is not allowed. Also, if a church wants to have the State take money from people then that church should stop accepting donations and use only that money from the State which is considered to be so important that it must be taken from people by force rather than being donated. But the U.S. government can not show preference -- so all churches would get such funds. I haven't heard that church leader considering the effects of forcing people give money.
You could have replaced that whole paragraph with "Std_brainless_slashdot_anti-tax_rant". I have no idea why you think a church shouldn't accept donations and ask that the government tax people to pay for things like welfare/social security/healthcare/etc. I certainly don't see why anyone should have restrictions placed on what they do based on what they ask the government to do.
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I mean, what good is one gig of data if a tiny scrach kills the surface?
I'm assuming that these work by getting rid of a lot of the error correction stuff.
This will be very helpful for people who do medical and scientific imaging.
That's why the crazy concept of "plays" never caught on. What were those Greeks thinking, trying to tell a story without camera angles?
Does anyone else have this problem? A site tries to load a popup, and IE simply locks up until the popup loads? It can take a minute or longer sometimes... The lockup is far more annoying then the advert itself. It happens to me on both my desktop and my laptop, although I don't remember it always being this way. Has anyone else had this problem, or is my machine just having histrionics?
That said, the ads salon uses are, IMO, way more effective, because you actually get to control the viewing experience. I don't mind spending 10 seconds or so looking at one of their 'ultramercials' because you get to decide when you view it. It's really much nicer then this popup bullshit.
Unless you live in canada, or buy special 'music' CDs rather then regular Data CDs, you do not get taxed.
And his un-researched bullshit caused me tons of pain during my modem days. He said that people should 'split up' long stories on the web because people were to stupid to scroll. But that meant a 5-10 second pause in reading for me, on my modem. And it also made it impossible for me to download a whole story before getting offline. My online experience was severely degraded because of his advice. In fact, people still do this despite the fact that he renounced the practice. (people have learned how to scroll, apparently)
I mean, for gods sakes this is was the 'usability expert' behind CDE! the ugliest, impossibleist to use window manager ever!
I guess anyone can make themselves an expert putting out some press releases and sounding condescending.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You're probably confusing 'chopsticks' with 'fortune cookies'. But even then you'd be wrong, since they were invented by a Japanese American in this century.
How could an entirely new form of eating utensil take off like wildfire throughout all of east Asia in just 200 years? If they really had that kind of traction, they certainly would have become popular in the US, Europe, and the rest of the world too. You think some uneducated peasant in rural china is going to stop eating with their hands (or whatever) and adopt hard to use chopsticks in order to be 'cool'?
Do you think that the Japanese, while trying to modernize and westernize would replace all their eating utensils with something used only in Chinese restaurants on the west cost of the US?
In conclusion, you're an idiot.
Oh, and Chopsticks were developed about 5,000 years ago in China. It is likely that people cooked their food in large pots which held heat for a long time, and hasty eaters then broke twigs off trees to retrieve the food....By A.D. 500, chopstick use had spread from China to present day Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. The chopsticks to the left, while Japanese, are rectangular in the style of Chinese chopsticks.
The danger is in step 3 because it's hard to know what URL is the spammers' they often hide the url by by various means and include other sites in the email.
If your browser can get to the URL, it obviously isn't hidden enough.
I just didn't think the 'and/or' had any merit. Anyone can be accused of being 'un-American' or whatever, even you (by the vary virtue of your comment).
Well, if this achieves deep penetration, then obviously it'll be the end of movie rental. But for people who still want to own the films, rather then paying every time they want to see it, DVDs and their successors will be around for a while.
If he is not a U.S. citizen and/or is committing acts that demomonstrate a lack of allegiance to the U.S., I don't see why he should be treated as such.
He is a U.S. Citizen, idiot.
see subject. You could take a bunch of FFTs over a few milliseconds and stick them together to retrieve a song (but you would lose low frequency stuff), but you couldn't feed an FFT of a whole song into a converter and hear anything worth listening too.
The RIAA have had a site like this for months. 99/track with preview and DRM.
Try this:
Download song
burn to CD
Rip to MP3
Play MP3 on Mac with iTunes you haven't registered in your own name.
Theoretically, apple could prevent this from happening, I'd be curious to see if it's the case. They could also find out who leaked the file...
Japan has the second highest military budget in the world. Not close to ours, but way more then anyone else. Germany spends quite a bit too, and gets involved in some regional stuff as well (such as the NATO action in Serbia)
The first link dosn't even mention "for profit" or parody at all. Neither link talks about parody. parody is diffrent from fair use. the PA strip didn't use any copyrighted images or text, other then the name.
Usenet's just a niche community these days, like a website but on some other protocol. The number of people on Usenet compared to the 'net' in general is tiny.
And, not only that but usenet is actualy very usable these days, since spammers don't hardly bother with it anymore.
Are you actualy claming that abortion was legal in iraq, and no longer is? Do you have any citation for this claim?
I realize that Iraq is not an islamist nation in the sense that the laws of the land closely follow the teachings of the Koran as in Iran or Saudi Arabia, but Isn't intellectual property contrary to the teachings of Islam? this is what came up after a bit of google searching. Even though Iraq is largely secular, sending IP fanatics there to write their laws seems pretty culturally insensitive.
Iraqi water was shut off during the war, enabling that stuff shouldn't be all that much work. Many Iraqi's have computers, conceivably, many with CD-Burners. This isn't Afghanistan we're talking about. This comment never should have been given a 5.
We're planning on leaving once they're up and running. It's the least colonial activity we could possibly do that wasn't irresponsibly abrupt.
Yet, we still have troups in Japan and Germany...
I don't know how much it's worth to pay for headphones, but there are definetly some that sound better then others. Some also have better gemoetry for fitting in your ear.
Slashdot has about the ugliest layout of any major site out there. And this hideous 'games' theme is the worst. Why don't you guys hire a real graphics designer? Other OSDN sites aren't even as bad.
Totally friggn' lame, IMO.
Modern compressions schemes are supposed to make sound that sounds as much like the original as possible, not looks like the original on an FFT.
The only way to test this is to use double-blind listening tests. The spectral analysis stuff is absolutely useless for finding out how good the music actually sounds.
Another oddity recently showed up in news reports: a Catholic church leader urging tax increases for funding of "social programs". Well, a non-profit agency doing lobbying is not allowed. Also, if a church wants to have the State take money from people then that church should stop accepting donations and use only that money from the State which is considered to be so important that it must be taken from people by force rather than being donated. But the U.S. government can not show preference -- so all churches would get such funds. I haven't heard that church leader considering the effects of forcing people give money.
You could have replaced that whole paragraph with "Std_brainless_slashdot_anti-tax_rant". I have no idea why you think a church shouldn't accept donations and ask that the government tax people to pay for things like welfare/social security/healthcare/etc. I certainly don't see why anyone should have restrictions placed on what they do based on what they ask the government to do.