I have a problem with Google blaming the algorythm
But the algorithm itself is unbiased. It entirely avoids political/social context -- leaving it to the reader -- in favour of page/article context. It bases articles on word/phrase occurrences, article lengths, and whatnot. Once you start throwing other things into the mix, you're going to introduce more bias than when you started.
The problem is that the way people typically search isn't connecting them with the best set of information. If Google says that the algorithm is fine and people need to change the way they search, someone is going to come along take Google News' traffic by creating a news search that doesn't force them to change. Google got where they are by having the best mousetrap.
Re:It will work, but that isn't good, here is why
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If document X moves and the link is invalid, you should be serving an HTTP 301 Permanent Redirect and well behaved user agents will update their bookmarks, and well behaved content management systems will update their code. If document X is gone, you should be serving an HTTP 410 Gone.
Ideally, 404 is supposed to mean that the web server has never heard of the file in question before, but in the real world...
Mac OS X 10.4 Server will include a Jabber server with what I assume will be a usable configuration tool. And those Xserves are, as Borat would say, niiiiice.
Question: What happens when someone wants to change their vote?
Under current systems, you're allowed to make choices and then once you're ready you submit your vote. If you have a problem with the ballot or, lord help you, the touchscreen, you can get an election worker to help you out. Or you can change your mind and start over.
How would your system accommodate that?
Also, what happens when there's a mechanical failure?
The basic idea is to create islands of IPv6 by having consumer routers tunnel IPv6 over IPv4. This would prime the pump for IPv6 applications, which would create demand for IPv6 ISPs.
Personally I hated the Dreamcast controller (but loved the console). It always felt like you had to rotate your wrists out too far. Still, the LCD memory unit was hella cool, although underused.
Some of my friends in my area had theirs unlocked a year and a half ago, but all my calls to Comcast ended in frustration. I finally just told them to take their digital box back because they couldn't support my setup. Since then, the TiVo has caught more TV than I can watch anyway, so I don't feel the need to add more channels.
While I don't have OnDemand (I'd rather have a TiVo that can change channels accurately than a digital cable box and IR blaster) it looks like you can only pick from a selection of pre-chosen movies. How many movies can you pick from? Netflix currently claims to have over 25,000 to choose from.
The term intellectual capital has been proposed, as it conveys the fact that ideas have value while at the same time don't imply that property rights apply.
Of course, calling people who break into computers "crackers" has also been proposed, and we all know how successful that's been.
iTunes sells lossy AAC files, not Apple Lossless. If they sold the latter then there would be no loss from burning and ripping.
As it stands, you are extracting a lossy codec onto a CD, then removing more information by encoding it with a separate lossy codec when you rip it to MP3.
"It's not stealing, only the big evil RIAA loses money!"... "It's evil to want to get money for your work!"... This guy is providiing a valuable service, and he does it all on his own, but I'm sure there will be 10 posts rationalizing why stealing his work is OK and he is worse than Bush for daring to charge to make the lives of other people easier.
You might want to ask your friend about straw man arguments some time, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
You can put whatever format you prefer on your non-iPod.
OK, so let's say the format I prefer is DRM-protected AAC files purchased from the iTunes Music Store. The reason for preferring this format would be because some music is exclusive to the iTMS, How can I output that to a format that will play on, say, the Rio Karma?
And please don't say burn-rip unless you can explain why I shouldn't care about using two lossy codecs on the same song.
Sheesh, I always thought of slash dotters as a little more technically competent than the average User... I was wrong, oh so very wrong.....
Fortunately, you do already have the freedom to enjoy non-DRM digital music that works on players besides the iPod and can be resold under fair use. In fact, you mentioned it in your post: Buy CDs.
And what about iTunes Music Store exclusives? Admittedly it's a small segment of music... for now... (cue foreboding music)
Users' rights in this case equal fair use rights. I have the right to space shift a CD I bought onto an MP3 player, why can't I put a song I "bought" from the iTMS onto a non-Apple player?
eMusic competes with iTunes by providing non-DRMed MP3 files. Of course they don't have as much major label stuff, but it's the only store I'd "buy" music from, aside from http://www.theymightbegiants.com/ and Magnatune.
How about freedom to do whatever I damn well please within the law with the things I buy? How about the freedom to legally convert songs from the iTunes Music Store into a format that a non-Apple MP3 player can play? How about the freedom to sell music I bought the way I could with a CD (after all, they can limit the distribution through DRM to prevent me from playing the song once I sold it)?
I think a better question is whether Apple would have included DRM if the music labels didn't demand it. The answer is yes.
Apple is using DRM to control the marketplace, at the expense of users' rights and if it were any other company's DRM (say Circuit City with the other DIVX's or even DVDs) there would be a huge outcry.
Of course just because Apple is wrong doesn't make Real a company/adware vendor worth rooting for, but at the same time it's hard to get upset that a company is offering their product for half the price of their competition.
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Ideally, cool URIs don't change, but in the real world they do.
If document X moves and the link is invalid, you should be serving an HTTP 301 Permanent Redirect and well behaved user agents will update their bookmarks, and well behaved content management systems will update their code. If document X is gone, you should be serving an HTTP 410 Gone.
Ideally, 404 is supposed to mean that the web server has never heard of the file in question before, but in the real world...
Google is not quite anonymous.
It says it right here. "It came down to two things: I wanted the domain to go to Mozilla, and I didn't expect them to pay for it."
If you don't want Amazon tracking your searches, use http://generic.a9.com/, which doesn't look like it even sets any cookies.
Mac OS X 10.4 Server will include a Jabber server with what I assume will be a usable configuration tool. And those Xserves are, as Borat would say, niiiiice.
Question: What happens when someone wants to change their vote?
Under current systems, you're allowed to make choices and then once you're ready you submit your vote. If you have a problem with the ballot or, lord help you, the touchscreen, you can get an election worker to help you out. Or you can change your mind and start over.
How would your system accommodate that?
Also, what happens when there's a mechanical failure?
Go rent both seasons of The Office and watch them. That series says more on this subject than I ever could.
IANAMCSE, can you disable USB memory sticks while allowing USB keyboards and mice?
I thought about how to jump start IPv6 a while ago and wrote How the Internet is broken, how to fix it, and why that's not going to happen. I figured I'd link to it again because it got a lot of good feedback last time I posted it.
:)
The basic idea is to create islands of IPv6 by having consumer routers tunnel IPv6 over IPv4. This would prime the pump for IPv6 applications, which would create demand for IPv6 ISPs.
It turns out Microsoft came up with something similar, so now I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my approach
This is totally a spoiler and Slashdot shouldn't have included the number of games he won.
Personally I hated the Dreamcast controller (but loved the console). It always felt like you had to rotate your wrists out too far. Still, the LCD memory unit was hella cool, although underused.
Some of my friends in my area had theirs unlocked a year and a half ago, but all my calls to Comcast ended in frustration. I finally just told them to take their digital box back because they couldn't support my setup. Since then, the TiVo has caught more TV than I can watch anyway, so I don't feel the need to add more channels.
While I don't have OnDemand (I'd rather have a TiVo that can change channels accurately than a digital cable box and IR blaster) it looks like you can only pick from a selection of pre-chosen movies. How many movies can you pick from? Netflix currently claims to have over 25,000 to choose from.
The term intellectual capital has been proposed, as it conveys the fact that ideas have value while at the same time don't imply that property rights apply.
Of course, calling people who break into computers "crackers" has also been proposed, and we all know how successful that's been.
iTunes sells lossy AAC files, not Apple Lossless. If they sold the latter then there would be no loss from burning and ripping.
As it stands, you are extracting a lossy codec onto a CD, then removing more information by encoding it with a separate lossy codec when you rip it to MP3.
"It's not stealing, only the big evil RIAA loses money!" ... ...
"It's evil to want to get money for your work!"
This guy is providiing a valuable service, and he does it all on his own, but I'm sure there will be 10 posts rationalizing why stealing his work is OK and he is worse than Bush for daring to charge to make the lives of other people easier.
You might want to ask your friend about straw man arguments some time, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
You can put whatever format you prefer on your non-iPod.
OK, so let's say the format I prefer is DRM-protected AAC files purchased from the iTunes Music Store. The reason for preferring this format would be because some music is exclusive to the iTMS, How can I output that to a format that will play on, say, the Rio Karma?
And please don't say burn-rip unless you can explain why I shouldn't care about using two lossy codecs on the same song.
Sheesh, I always thought of slash dotters as a little more technically competent than the average User... I was wrong, oh so very wrong.....
#include <you_must_be_new_here.h>
Thanks for the tip, I actually heard one or two things about that :)
Fortunately, you do already have the freedom to enjoy non-DRM digital music that works on players besides the iPod and can be resold under fair use. In fact, you mentioned it in your post: Buy CDs.
And what about iTunes Music Store exclusives? Admittedly it's a small segment of music... for now... (cue foreboding music)
Users' rights in this case equal fair use rights. I have the right to space shift a CD I bought onto an MP3 player, why can't I put a song I "bought" from the iTMS onto a non-Apple player?
eMusic competes with iTunes by providing non-DRMed MP3 files. Of course they don't have as much major label stuff, but it's the only store I'd "buy" music from, aside from http://www.theymightbegiants.com/ and Magnatune.
How about freedom to do whatever I damn well please within the law with the things I buy? How about the freedom to legally convert songs from the iTunes Music Store into a format that a non-Apple MP3 player can play? How about the freedom to sell music I bought the way I could with a CD (after all, they can limit the distribution through DRM to prevent me from playing the song once I sold it)?
I think a better question is whether Apple would have included DRM if the music labels didn't demand it. The answer is yes.
Apple is using DRM to control the marketplace, at the expense of users' rights and if it were any other company's DRM (say Circuit City with the other DIVX's or even DVDs) there would be a huge outcry.
Of course just because Apple is wrong doesn't make Real a company/adware vendor worth rooting for, but at the same time it's hard to get upset that a company is offering their product for half the price of their competition.