I don't remember the exact details, but yes, part of the problem was that the regexp in Filterset.G was a slowdown, and that that slowdown was greater in Adblock Plus than it had been in original Adblock. Also, I think there were said to be (by the Adblock Plus guys) contradictions and redundancies in Filterset.G, and besides, since it was made for original Adblock, it couldn't take advantage of the whitelisting available in Adblock Plus.
I've been using Easylist/Easyelement for a few months now and am quite pleased with their effectiveness.
Not sure if you just mistyped or something, but in case you don't realize it, Filterset.G is for the original Adblock. Adblock Plus highly recommends not using Filterset.G
The free content predates the advertising, and can easily go on without it.
I guess we may lose sites like Computerworld.com, and informative articles like the one we're discussing, but I think we could find other things to mock if we really needed to.
I used to follow a similar plan to yours, for similar reasons. These days I've upgraded to Adblock Plus and Noscript. These two do all that Adblock and Flashblock do and more. Check them out, I think you'll like them.
Yes, that was the way with most of my HPs. It's one of the things that always sorta bugged me about my 48G. 1 enter + gives you 1 + [whatever was in X before you started] oh yeah, and it calls the bottom line "1:" instead of X, if you've already hit enter. If you haven't hit enter, it's some sort of in-between that isn't named AFAICT.
I got my 48G used without manuals, so there may be some reason for it working that way, but to me it's always just seemed inconsistent with the old way for no known reason.
I don't "steal" music. I just don't buy the major label stuff anymore. I'm not alone either. Like many others, I find the music offered by the major labels these days to be pretty crappy, and find their business practices (DRM, lawsuits, lobbying for anti-consumer legislation, etc) abhorrent.
I do buy music from independent musicians, mostly local ones at this point, but I am considering signing up with Magnatune or eMusic at some point in the near future in order to add to the variety.
Wrong again. That's just a line used to sell DRM. Artists have been getting paid for ages before DRM existed. This FUD against copying and sharing is the same drivel that was pushed against people sharing cassettes, copying videotapes, or taping television/radio broadcasts.
There is no justification for DRM and your hypothetical well implemented DRM is not possible and therefore will never be created.
I ran into an very insightful discussion on this very subject earlier tonight (while googling around based on stuff I ran into here in this discussion). The second post down I especially thought made a lot of sense.
I've also had no problems. I use 2700 & 2900mAH AAs in my Canon digital camera, which has what looks to me to be a fairly tight compartment (individual slots for each battery - and yes, it looks tight with standard non-rechargables, not just with my high mAH batteries).
I'd mention the problem to whichever place you bought your batteries from. You may get a refund or exchange, and I'm sure they'd be interested in knowing that the product doesn't conform to its spec.
Sooner or later, I would have to find some source of funding. One choice is to charge for it. For people who value the principles of open source software and the like, this is not a disireable option. So I have to find another way to support it.
Ads are an easy way to do this.
If I'm understanding you correctly, I disagree with your idea of "the principles of open source". I think that charging for a service is much more in line with open source principles than supporting it with the use of ads.
Why Flashblock? NoScript handles flash these days. And besides, last time I tried it (awhile ago, I'll admit, since it was back when Noscript didn't handle flash on its own) Flashblock required scripting to be enabled on a page in order to work.
The alternatives I've switched to are the EasyList and EasyElements subscriptions for Adblock Plus. They can be found at http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions .
I am a former Adblock/filterset.G user and was just trying out these as a basic starting point, expecting to need to upgrade to one of the more advanced subscriptions after awhile but have been quite pleased with how they worked.
To help you understand perhaps a bit more of the ad-blocking mindset, another reason for blocking ads that you didn't mention so might not be aware of is that the major web advertising companies set themselves up to track users movements across the internet. I personally have no desire to give Doubleclick any information about what sites I surf. Even Google, whose ads are less intrusive, gets their ads/scripts blocked since I don't really care to give them that much insight into my browsing patterns.
That said, I don't block all ads. If a site has ads that don't flash at me (and since I use noscript and I turn off gif animations, pretty much none of them do flash at me) and that seem to be hosted on the same site that I'm surfing, I just leave them be.
Not sure about the language itself, but there are interpreters with various licenses available including one on Sourceforge with unknown license: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openapl (feeling too lazy to make a link, sorry)
BTW, J is the descendant of APL which doesn't require some kind of wacky keyboard to use. It's probably the one to look into if you are looking to pick up APL on a standard PC.
Are you mad? The PS3 is a hot seller this holiday. *Every* gamer I know, except one, bought a PS3. Funny, only one gamer I know bought a PS3, and he did it planning to make some cash by eBaying it so he could buy himself a Wii with the profit. To top it off, this hot seller he bought wouldn't sell!
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The standard installer doesn't, but if you get to "alternate" iso and install in text mode you can.
Umm, Why didn't you just install Xubuntu in the first place?
I don't remember the exact details, but yes, part of the problem was that the regexp in Filterset.G was a slowdown, and that that slowdown was greater in Adblock Plus than it had been in original Adblock. Also, I think there were said to be (by the Adblock Plus guys) contradictions and redundancies in Filterset.G, and besides, since it was made for original Adblock, it couldn't take advantage of the whitelisting available in Adblock Plus.
I've been using Easylist/Easyelement for a few months now and am quite pleased with their effectiveness.
Not sure if you just mistyped or something, but in case you don't realize it, Filterset.G is for the original Adblock. Adblock Plus highly recommends not using Filterset.G
The free content predates the advertising, and can easily go on without it.
I guess we may lose sites like Computerworld.com, and informative articles like the one we're discussing, but I think we could find other things to mock if we really needed to.
Right. These days Tab Mix Plus is the way to go for that functionality.
I used to follow a similar plan to yours, for similar reasons. These days I've upgraded to Adblock Plus and Noscript. These two do all that Adblock and Flashblock do and more. Check them out, I think you'll like them.
Yes, that was the way with most of my HPs. It's one of the things that always sorta bugged me about my 48G. 1 enter + gives you 1 + [whatever was in X before you started] oh yeah, and it calls the bottom line "1:" instead of X, if you've already hit enter. If you haven't hit enter, it's some sort of in-between that isn't named AFAICT.
I got my 48G used without manuals, so there may be some reason for it working that way, but to me it's always just seemed inconsistent with the old way for no known reason.
Wrong.
I don't "steal" music. I just don't buy the major label stuff anymore. I'm not alone either. Like many others, I find the music offered by the major labels these days to be pretty crappy, and find their business practices (DRM, lawsuits, lobbying for anti-consumer legislation, etc) abhorrent.
I do buy music from independent musicians, mostly local ones at this point, but I am considering signing up with Magnatune or eMusic at some point in the near future in order to add to the variety.
Ow, that made my brain hurt!
I don't.
OK, I know we're just being silly here, but his patent would stop your patent if it were in place beforehand.
Not anymore he's not - the mods say he's interesting now (so it must be true!).
Wrong. Many here are.
Wrong again. That's just a line used to sell DRM. Artists have been getting paid for ages before DRM existed. This FUD against copying and sharing is the same drivel that was pushed against people sharing cassettes, copying videotapes, or taping television/radio broadcasts.
There is no justification for DRM and your hypothetical well implemented DRM is not possible and therefore will never be created.
I ran into an very insightful discussion on this very subject earlier tonight (while googling around based on stuff I ran into here in this discussion). The second post down I especially thought made a lot of sense.
I've also had no problems. I use 2700 & 2900mAH AAs in my Canon digital camera, which has what looks to me to be a fairly tight compartment (individual slots for each battery - and yes, it looks tight with standard non-rechargables, not just with my high mAH batteries).
I'd mention the problem to whichever place you bought your batteries from. You may get a refund or exchange, and I'm sure they'd be interested in knowing that the product doesn't conform to its spec.
Haven't tried these, but I do use the MAHA AAs and have found them to be excellent.
http://www.thomas-distributing.com/dbatteries.php
If I'm understanding you correctly, I disagree with your idea of "the principles of open source". I think that charging for a service is much more in line with open source principles than supporting it with the use of ads.
Why Flashblock? NoScript handles flash these days. And besides, last time I tried it (awhile ago, I'll admit, since it was back when Noscript didn't handle flash on its own) Flashblock required scripting to be enabled on a page in order to work.
The alternatives I've switched to are the EasyList and EasyElements subscriptions for Adblock Plus. They can be found at
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http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions .
I am a former Adblock/filterset.G user and was just trying out these as a basic starting point, expecting to need to upgrade to one of the more advanced subscriptions after awhile but have been quite pleased with how they worked.
BTWhttp://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#filterse
To help you understand perhaps a bit more of the ad-blocking mindset, another reason for blocking ads that you didn't mention so might not be aware of is that the major web advertising companies set themselves up to track users movements across the internet. I personally have no desire to give Doubleclick any information about what sites I surf. Even Google, whose ads are less intrusive, gets their ads/scripts blocked since I don't really care to give them that much insight into my browsing patterns.
That said, I don't block all ads. If a site has ads that don't flash at me (and since I use noscript and I turn off gif animations, pretty much none of them do flash at me) and that seem to be hosted on the same site that I'm surfing, I just leave them be.
Not sure about the language itself, but there are interpreters with various licenses available including one on Sourceforge with unknown license: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openapl (feeling too lazy to make a link, sorry)
BTW, J is the descendant of APL which doesn't require some kind of wacky keyboard to use. It's probably the one to look into if you are looking to pick up APL on a standard PC.
Actually, APL stands for A Programming Language, which is possible to parse that way...