Not that I disagree with you at all, but if I was Google, I'd show the (IMHO bratty) people at LV just how annoying it'd be if they were the only thing that wasn't in the index when you searched for "Louis Vuitton" and then see how much those ads were really detracting from the value of their IP. I respect other political and legal views, I just think this is lame when Google delivers such ungodly amounts of traffic to the largly non-paying Internet.
While this has been said numerous times already, the simple answer is Firefox/Mozilla. To address the Norton issue, in my humble opinion you shouldn't be forced to pay a 3rd party company a subscription fee just because you refuse to use a different browser. When I graduate I May, my school disables updates for the Enterprise Edition of NAV they provide currently enrolled students. Most of the time I have NAV disabled though...have you ever tried to play WoW on a laptop with it running? Or music production...you can nix the almost non-existant delay with multiple midi instruments. While I do turn it on when I don't wholey trust the source of files I'm dealing with, it's just not worth the noticably large decrease in my run-of-the-mill activities. Oh, and since I'm a poor, broke, almost graduate, you better believe I'm not forking over money when -- atleast in this case -- there are free solutions to avoid the vulnerability altogether and, when needed, just makes my T42 Thinkpad a word processing only machine.
I'm not familure with the older vulnerability others have mentioned -- the one Norton blocked for you -- but again, if this is a known vulnerability, why isn't there a fix? Paying another company to cover Microsoft's incompetency isn't my bag.
Uhm, did they miss something back in 1998 -- six years ago?
I'm honestly not posting this because of my secret addiction to living in the past, but this has been going on much longer than the main-stream music sharing. South Park was a natural canidate for digitization (then using one of Real's codecs) due it's incredibly simplistic style.
I use HipTones on my Sidekick to get around T-Mobile's block on non-catalog ringtones. You can find plenty more high quality bundles at the Sidekick Developers Resource.
From my own experience, I'd say the Sidekick is definitely built with geeks in mind. They've even got different monkies to show you the state of your SSH connections;-)
As for IRC, all you need is to hook-up your mini-USB and upload the Cognet bundle -- presto, IRC! If you're super bored, hop on irc.new-wave.net/otherside and/whois NewWave[sk]...that's me on my Sidekick, the same Sidekick I posted this coment with.
I'm really quite sick of everyone that doesn't own a Sidekick (sorry if you do) complaining about the voice quality and its use as a regular phone. Granted it is awkward to use at first, the quality is by no means shiesty. Having moved from the T68i, I'd say the Sidekick offers much better voice quality than AT&T's GSM phones do.
In closing, I'd like to impress upon y'all just how much I love having, using, and showing off my Sidekick. I tried the Palm thing...twice; not for me. In fact, I was notified of this/. post using HipNewsRSS, and posted this comment, all from the comfort of my Sidekick;-)
Yeah, T-Mobile has exclusive distribution here in the states. I use the T-Mobile Desktop software to backup the contents of my Sidekick, which I could then HotSync to my Palm....ahh, how useless that would be:-)
You havn't checked in a long time then. I'm a registered Danger Developer, and trust me...I have/run tons of non-approved software. The reason this isn't "easy" to-do, is because Danger supports all of the software you can purchase through the Catalog.
I just got a Palm Zire71 after living with my Danger Sidekick for the past nine months and I couldn't think of any practicle use for the Palm. While the surface area of the screen may be larger, I can't:
Use the AIM/Y!/ICQ/MSN
Use SSH over a rediculously slow connection
Call people with it
The Palm seems pretty much useless to me. Seeing as Danger did such a nice job with the Sidekick, it has become my lifeline. All the organizational features of a Palm were implemented better in the Sidekick. With its carrier-side syncing, the calendar, todo lists, notes/memos, e-mails, etc are all stored both on my devices "data store" and on Danger's servers...no need to go HotSync it. At one point I had to get a replacement Sidekick (because T-Mobile says that two were produced with the same IMEI) and upon inserting my SIM into the new one, everything down to my preferences for the brightness of the display were moved to the new device without any interaction on my part!
Anyway, my Palm is now being used as a TV remote since Danger is refusing to release any API information for the IR module on the Sidekick. But honestly, why would anyone carry two devices (mobile phone, organizer) when the Sidekick (or another similar device) offers the functionality of both?
I have been using the Call-in-One adapter for two days, and I am still unable to get a good call quality - people are not able to hear me very clearly. The quality so far is worse than the PC to telephone services like 4ecalls. I hope that this will improve.
Just one other question, while I am making a SIP call, the "activity" light is not steady. Is this normal?
I was oddly confused when I read that un-sourced term in the quickie part of the story...so, from this page:
Contracts are a breakthrough technique to reduce the programming effort for large projects. Contracts are the concept of preconditions, postconditions, errors, and invariants. Digital Mars introduces the first C and C++ compiler to support contracts.
Building contract support into the language makes for:
1. A consistent look and feel for the contracts
2. Tool support
3. It's possible the compiler can generate better code using information gathered from the contracts
4. Easier management and enforcement of contracts
5. Handling of contract inheritance
The idea of a contract is simple - it's just an expression that must evaluate to true. If it does not, the contract is broken, and by definition, the program has a bug in it. Contracts form part of the specification for a program, moving it from the documentation to the code itself. And as every programmer knows, documentation tends to be incomplete, out of date, wrong, or non-existent. Moving the contracts into the code makes them verifiable against the program.
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That's interesting because it's only insecure as you make it. If one loads any base package up with a dirty mix of extensions which are never utilized and put no real thought into the PHP installation...well, that leaves tons of room for problems. Any extensible language is at the whim of the packages beyond the host.
I quite like Vivisimo (after I figured out how to make it include Google in it's query by adding 'google' to the 'sources=' part of the query URL).
When I first read that, it made sense. Then I went to Vivisimo's site and realized that was...stupid.
Why would Vivisimo happen to have a Google API ready to be loaded up when 'google' is appended to the query string? Why would they trust the client's query string and go digging through whatever loadable modules they may have for ones specified in by the query string? Why would they use 'google' and not 'Google' since all of the other sources are correctly capitzlized (yes, capitalization doesmatter; see [L|l]ycos in sources get field)? Who the hell mod'd this parent up?
Well, you still have to "open" the bottle to win. Pepsi/Apple is still ahead on this one.
They're not ahead because they whole point of this promotion is to get people to sometimes become an expense when they generate revenue for the company in hopes of that customer repeating thier decision in lack of a possible iTunes reward. When people simply abuse the game by only selecting bottles with an iTunes code, the purpose has been defeated. Also, if this were to get large mainstream press, the public will loose the, "hey...maybe I can win," attitude which, once again, defeats the purpose.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't Apple host the actual content with Akamai? I know their website did.
And the video for the application in question...
I hope you know God hates people that post at AC. ;)
Are there already legit complaints or are they just looking for people to tell on Apple?
Not that I disagree with you at all, but if I was Google, I'd show the (IMHO bratty) people at LV just how annoying it'd be if they were the only thing that wasn't in the index when you searched for "Louis Vuitton" and then see how much those ads were really detracting from the value of their IP. I respect other political and legal views, I just think this is lame when Google delivers such ungodly amounts of traffic to the largly non-paying Internet.
Uh oh, Yahoo is doing the same thing!
While this has been said numerous times already, the simple answer is Firefox/Mozilla. To address the Norton issue, in my humble opinion you shouldn't be forced to pay a 3rd party company a subscription fee just because you refuse to use a different browser. When I graduate I May, my school disables updates for the Enterprise Edition of NAV they provide currently enrolled students. Most of the time I have NAV disabled though...have you ever tried to play WoW on a laptop with it running? Or music production...you can nix the almost non-existant delay with multiple midi instruments. While I do turn it on when I don't wholey trust the source of files I'm dealing with, it's just not worth the noticably large decrease in my run-of-the-mill activities. Oh, and since I'm a poor, broke, almost graduate, you better believe I'm not forking over money when -- atleast in this case -- there are free solutions to avoid the vulnerability altogether and, when needed, just makes my T42 Thinkpad a word processing only machine. I'm not familure with the older vulnerability others have mentioned -- the one Norton blocked for you -- but again, if this is a known vulnerability, why isn't there a fix? Paying another company to cover Microsoft's incompetency isn't my bag.
Luckily this is just a redirect to a free host that most likely has loads of bandwidth to spare :)
Uhm, did they miss something back in 1998 -- six years ago?
I'm honestly not posting this because of my secret addiction to living in the past, but this has been going on much longer than the main-stream music sharing. South Park was a natural canidate for digitization (then using one of Real's codecs) due it's incredibly simplistic style.
Why BitTorrent it when you can get just as blazing fast speeds from Microsoft's official download? And they don't make you upload to download ;)
I use HipTones on my Sidekick to get around T-Mobile's block on non-catalog ringtones. You can find plenty more high quality bundles at the Sidekick Developers Resource.
Cheers-
Austin
From my own experience, I'd say the Sidekick is definitely built with geeks in mind. They've even got different monkies to show you the state of your SSH connections ;-)
/whois NewWave[sk]...that's me on my Sidekick, the same Sidekick I posted this coment with.
As for IRC, all you need is to hook-up your mini-USB and upload the Cognet bundle -- presto, IRC! If you're super bored, hop on irc.new-wave.net/otherside and
Cheers-
Austin
I'm really quite sick of everyone that doesn't own a Sidekick (sorry if you do) complaining about the voice quality and its use as a regular phone. Granted it is awkward to use at first, the quality is by no means shiesty. Having moved from the T68i, I'd say the Sidekick offers much better voice quality than AT&T's GSM phones do.
/. post using HipNewsRSS, and posted this comment, all from the comfort of my Sidekick ;-)
In closing, I'd like to impress upon y'all just how much I love having, using, and showing off my Sidekick. I tried the Palm thing...twice; not for me. In fact, I was notified of this
Cheers-
Austin
Yeah, T-Mobile has exclusive distribution here in the states. I use the T-Mobile Desktop software to backup the contents of my Sidekick, which I could then HotSync to my Palm....ahh, how useless that would be :-)
You havn't checked in a long time then. I'm a registered Danger Developer, and trust me...I have/run tons of non-approved software. The reason this isn't "easy" to-do, is because Danger supports all of the software you can purchase through the Catalog.
Sidekick Developer Resource
Danger Developer Center
I just got a Palm Zire71 after living with my Danger Sidekick for the past nine months and I couldn't think of any practicle use for the Palm. While the surface area of the screen may be larger, I can't:
- Use the AIM/Y!/ICQ/MSN
- Use SSH over a rediculously slow connection
- Call people with it
The Palm seems pretty much useless to me. Seeing as Danger did such a nice job with the Sidekick, it has become my lifeline. All the organizational features of a Palm were implemented better in the Sidekick. With its carrier-side syncing, the calendar, todo lists, notes/memos, e-mails, etc are all stored both on my devices "data store" and on Danger's servers...no need to go HotSync it. At one point I had to get a replacement Sidekick (because T-Mobile says that two were produced with the same IMEI) and upon inserting my SIM into the new one, everything down to my preferences for the brightness of the display were moved to the new device without any interaction on my part!Anyway, my Palm is now being used as a TV remote since Danger is refusing to release any API information for the IR module on the Sidekick. But honestly, why would anyone carry two devices (mobile phone, organizer) when the Sidekick (or another similar device) offers the functionality of both?
SiPPhone's forums: packet loss and connection problems
I have been using the Call-in-One adapter for two days, and I am still unable to get a good call quality - people are not able to hear me very clearly. The quality so far is worse than the PC to telephone services like 4ecalls. I hope that this will improve.
Just one other question, while I am making a SIP call, the "activity" light is not steady. Is this normal?
I was oddly confused when I read that un-sourced term in the quickie part of the story...so, from this page:
Contracts are a breakthrough technique to reduce the programming effort for large projects. Contracts are the concept of preconditions, postconditions, errors, and invariants. Digital Mars introduces the first C and C++ compiler to support contracts. Building contract support into the language makes for:
1. A consistent look and feel for the contracts
2. Tool support
3. It's possible the compiler can generate better code using information gathered from the contracts
4. Easier management and enforcement of contracts
5. Handling of contract inheritance
The idea of a contract is simple - it's just an expression that must evaluate to true. If it does not, the contract is broken, and by definition, the program has a bug in it. Contracts form part of the specification for a program, moving it from the documentation to the code itself. And as every programmer knows, documentation tends to be incomplete, out of date, wrong, or non-existent. Moving the contracts into the code makes them verifiable against the program.
That's interesting because it's only insecure as you make it. If one loads any base package up with a dirty mix of extensions which are never utilized and put no real thought into the PHP installation...well, that leaves tons of room for problems. Any extensible language is at the whim of the packages beyond the host.
;)
Oh, and someone better let Yahoo in on this
If you add google to the source list, it doesn't work. I don't see one result with Google as a source. Have a working demo link on Vivisimo?
Why would Vivisimo happen to have a Google API ready to be loaded up when 'google' is appended to the query string? Why would they trust the client's query string and go digging through whatever loadable modules they may have for ones specified in by the query string? Why would they use 'google' and not 'Google' since all of the other sources are correctly capitzlized (yes, capitalization does matter; see [L|l]ycos in sources get field)? Who the hell mod'd this parent up?
Oops, there went that debt free memo! ;)
Or more specifically, here.
I clicked on the OSDN ad from Microsoft with the "FREE .NET STARTER KIT" so that I too can be a CS wiz4rd.
Seriously, when did OSDN start lapping up Microsoft ads?!