Finding those messages is far easier and faster than with any other e-mail program or service we've ever experienced.
Well, no shit. You've got exclusive use of a system probably designed for 50 million users. If it's not fast...
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Gmail's approach is to use labels,
Holy shit! They've invented meta-data. Expect this to be like the way Microsoft's meta-world should be in Longhorn. Now to manage your inbox you have to type the same word (or letter with AutoFill) 100 times to organize shit. I don't care if they're really not, but make labels invisibly similar to folders somehow!! For the love of gods...
Even MORE of theFUCKINGArticle:
The first night we started using Gmail, late April 9, we saw the text ads, which were nearly identical to the text ads you're used to seeing in on the right side of the screen after a Web search at Google.com. As of this morning, we noticed no text ads at all.
Buggy already??
TfuckingA:
nd the ability to change the "reply-to address" that appears in mail you send, are missing from Gmail.
Well, yeah. That'd be a spammers DREAM.
tFUCKINGa:
Users of Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) much better
A glowing review followed by Yahoo! is better. Holy shit batman, make up your fucking mind.
What's funny is that I wasn't going to download the player until I saw this cross-post. Thanks Danathar!
Without the tricksy gameses, Real is pretty cool now. I'm convinced. The only annoyances are now identical (nearly) to WinAmp and no spywarezez. I'm even going to use it as the default for Windows Media (The enemy of my enemy, right?). Microsoft's MP is far more intrusive now, plays way more games with extentions and the like, is slower than shit because of all the pretty colors and dancing things of bright light, is way less user-friendly, gigantic on my screen until I disable everything, looks like a Fisher Price reject, eats more memory than a fat girl at a pizza place, and gnerally supports a DRM-inclined monopoly. Fuck Microsft, go Real 10!
This post in memory of Kurdt Corbain, April 5, 1994 RIP Nirvana "Don't tell me want to hear. Araid of never knowing fear. Experience everything you need. I keep writing jealousy, until it's fucking gone."
(I wanted a DAP, not a PDA), the Karma has audio-related features like gapless playback and being able to create/edit several playlists on-the-go. Plus, the sound quality is great, and not as flat as several reviewers have mentioned the iPod as being
The iPod has all of the audio-related features you listed, including the ability to create/edit playlists on-the-go. Gapless playback is an option on iTMS, and it is definitely a stupid design decision by Apple (one of the only I can notice) not not also include it on the iPod proper. Creating On-The-Go Playlists (They're even called that for crying out loud!) is as simple as selecting a song and holding the center button down. As for sound quality, it seems great for me, but I've also really gone into the EQ settings manually in the iTMS program (score two for me on locating stupid design decisions). The SoundCheck feature seems to be a parametric expander gate that I would KILL to be able to refine manually because it makes vocals too crispy at times or otherwise impacts the mix negatively. I'd suggest turning it off to save battery and improve sound quality. I'm not sure, but the SoundEnhancer seems to be a stereo enhancer/chorus plug-in. I completely understand Apple's decision to prevent non-studio techs mess with the settings, because you can really fuck up songs with poor compression/chorus.
I guess IHBT, but whatever.
I'm glad you asked that question UID 741404... As a relative newbie to/., your question is important to us. So, just stay on the line and a representative will be with you momentarily...
This article isn't about the news itself. I view it as a semi-trollish way of getting very smart (and sum n0tz s0 7331) comments about reasons to use OSS. 103 words can be said in 30-60 seconds, depending on how fast you speak.
I must beg to differ and cite THREE examples in the forms of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Isaac Asimov himself. The Ringworld saga is incredible and has already been mentioned several times in this thread. The physics, math, and detail that they worked out then are still being considered today in the forms of Dyson spheres, space elevators, and our searches for extra-terrestials a la SETI. (I think he was off by a few powers of ten on the size of Ringworld & its tensile strength. Additionally, I think some sort of helix would have made a better shape for it) Hell, I'm 22 and I've read the books! Larry Niven's Known Universe tales are still the best mystery/sci-fi tales ever written in my opinion!
But, I digress. Isaac Asimov's Elijah Bailey/Daneel stories and books are still notable for their consideration of odd scientific details. The physics are completely false, yes, but they are consistent. He lays out groundrules (such as the slidewalks in Elijah's Earth), introduces potential problems (conflicts in the Three Laws), and resolves them in complex fashions that satisfy. Without any of those elements, I, Robot is not even worth seeing. I will boycott this so-called adaptation and wait for the real thing.
P.S. My name on Armageddon MUSH was once Daneel... Anyone remember me? =0)
I have an idea. Let's make a domain for something that's known for being the most difficult device to input data into. Let's make it something sadistically long & difficult to type in, especially on phones without that automagic word guess thingy... I know... 6 666 22 444 555 33 (mobile) or 662453 ought to be hard enough to input! Perfect idea...
You don't have to. Blow into a straw and watch the liquid come up. Now imagine what would happen with the real vacuum of space vs. the atmosphere of any planet...
Let's feed the trolls... Mos Def is one of the most intelligent hip hop artists I can name. His lyrics express a deep feeling of inequality & injustice; they paint a picture of all of the problems he perceives in race relations in the world. He was a BROADWAY actor recently in New York City (Yeah, the ORIGNAL BROADWAY) major musical I forget the name of. Yeah, of course everyone remembers the Italian Job. I'm a fan as a performer of all kinds and appreciate his versatility. The only horrendous thing I can imagine happening is the script casting him as a Shaft-like character. Any hint of that, and there is no fucking way I will EVER watch that movie lest I kill myself in shame.
That made me laugh so hard that I literally cried... Holy shit that was outstanding! I can't decide if that was terrific or terrible. Was that a quote? Was that an original?
Call him paranoid if you want... I'm putting on a tin foil hat (& giving up mod points, like I care today) to show you THIS FASCINATING ARTICLE about EMP stuff being developed in... Ta-da! Las Vegas. This was unturned by a quick Google check.
Quoteth:But almost none of the technology to protect against EMP that was developed through Defense Department nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site as late as 1992 was put to use in the private sector
Just like many Yamaha firsts, this one may have been overhyped a bit. This sounds like a real person singing in the way that a synth brass pad sounds like a trumpet. There is no way in hell you would ever even consider that these noises were made by a human being. Yes, I understand that most of the samples are in Japanese and might not sound normal to me anyway. But, even if you listen to the ONE in English alone, it sounds like the Bell Labs female voice, but screechy and obnoxious instead of like a drugged out cigarette smoker after a trachyotemy (sp?).
Are the mods on crack today? How much simpler would you like Microsoft to make it? They put a picture of the program with the name of the program right in front of you on the desktop by default for most programs. Click it twice. Anything else is just window dressing & can be set up by someone else or you can poke around in the brilliantly named Control Panel. Stuff about the desktop is under the section labeled desktop, stuff about sounds is under Sounds, etc. As many others have said in many other threads, most users just need to know the basics about their computer & how to do whatever it is they want to do with it. Whatever else you want to say about Microsoft, their OS is the essence of simplicity in terms of its design. However, it's execution, stability, & security that are my main issues with Microsoft. The concept is perfect. If you can imagine a simpler UI, leave a message in my journal and lets get rich together.
Most non-iPod users aren't even aware of the ultimate feature of the iPod. You can use it for something besides music! You can use it for anything! I have a personally monogrammed 10 GB firewire harddrive that fits into my jacket pocket! I never e-mail family members movies (avis, thank you very much) or completely legal music ; I just bring over the iPod & transfer some stuff in about 2 minutes. Hell, I might finally be able to get all of my old files out of my older computer!
Quoteth the raven:
Just my opinions, but sometimes things do well in the market not only because of marketing, but also due to actual quality and resultant word of mouth.
Just a minor nitpick... Marketing is the most frequently misunderstood word in business. It has a technical definition just like HTTP & CD ROM (DRM sucks... First to work that in!) do. Marketing includes both advertising & sales; nothing can do well in the market without sales.:-)
Of course a search for "Google News" turns up articles about MSNBot right now! There are hundreds of news articles about MSBot because of its more recent release! All of the recent articles about Google News compare it to MSNBot because it's obvious that since MS couldn't buy Google that Bill is going to try to compete with Google. Personally I think that rumor was a really distorted version of MS trying to either buy Google's news algorythm or buy Google NEWS outright since the price to gert instant access to all that information is probably pretty high. Pound for pound, nothing is more expensive than information.
A much better comparison is "Google News" on Google to "Google News" on MSNBot. MSNB actually returns more results, but the second page is completely useless. Accuracy counts too; I'll stick with Google News. [The link is for Cowboy Neil]
"When someone plops down 99 cents to buy a single, that shows a higher level of interest than just getting it for free," Welt said.
As any 1st year marketing major could tell you, this data will not be as useful as one might imagine. Knowing who wants a product (in this case, a CD) in no way relates to knowing who is willing to pay for a product. Some consumers want Ferraris; not all of them will buy one (for reasons of Price). Without a clear way of associating user names with demographic or psychographic data, this will not even help to more clearly define the target audience for an artist. All this data represents is the number of computer literate people who are actively sharing a song; this may or may not be related to whether they actually enjoy the song; this may or may not be related to whether they would/could pay for the song; this may or may not be related to the fake files that are being posted on KaZaa (that song's popular? Shove a couple thousand fakes online; discourage lots of people). Move along people, nothing to see here...
He did that to maximize the number of moves that computer would have to compute to capture his king. Think about it, the possibilities are endless. Moving any piece opens up an escape hole for the King while maximizing the number of possible moves for the situation. The queen's capabilities in that position are enormous; she has a clear line of fire towards most of the squares that any piece can move to. The same is true for every piece on that formation. Again, further maximization of possibility. It's brilliant.
M-Audio does not support Linux. I have one of those. Both of those programs are BETA versions. Yeah, I wanna trust my $10,000 studio to BETA software. We're running Macs with ProTools, good luck getting us to convert. Why did I spend $2,000 on proven, reliable, proprietary software & hardware to find out I can give it all up and get the same thing for free with non-proprietary hardware? Because it's NOT a beta version. They barely support the de facto though not de "jure" (Latin, not French please) VST standards, refusing to bow to anyone else's extentions, preventing any optimization and further fragmenting the standard. Forget it and stick to Macs.
How is it possible to compare reasonably the "public test release" of Audacity to ProTools, an established industry standard? I was curious enough about open-source music to follow your badly typed link, and read that and immediately patted our studio Mac OS 9.3.3 running ProTools quietly, quickly, smoothly, and efficiently. ProTools can be $2000+ if you buy all the bells and whistles for the digital hardware. There is NO corresponding "open-source" hardware, almost by definition of capitalism no one will create one out of the goodness of their heart. Software costs almost nothing to create except time; hardware requires factories of some kind. Come back to me when you have some USB interfaces or support some standard ones so that I don't have to throw out my $2000+ equipment.
Yeah, we care about Linux. We care that it doesn't run Pro Tools well (or at all?), (as far as I know) does not support USB output of audio, does not run any quality professional software, and will not be supported by most major soundcard manufacturers.
I really want an intangible interface for computers! Holographics everywhere responding to my voice and movements. A virutal symphony of light, color, and sound as I dance gracefully throughout the room twirling in a ballet of control. Fucking MS Office 2012 sucks now. And that was just to make the text bold...
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Well, no shit. You've got exclusive use of a system probably designed for 50 million users. If it's not fast...
More of TFUCKINGA:
Holy shit! They've invented meta-data. Expect this to be like the way Microsoft's meta-world should be in Longhorn. Now to manage your inbox you have to type the same word (or letter with AutoFill) 100 times to organize shit. I don't care if they're really not, but make labels invisibly similar to folders somehow!! For the love of gods...
Even MORE of theFUCKINGArticle: Buggy already??
TfuckingA:
Well, yeah. That'd be a spammers DREAM.
tFUCKINGa:
A glowing review followed by Yahoo! is better. Holy shit batman, make up your fucking mind.
What's funny is that I wasn't going to download the player until I saw this cross-post. Thanks Danathar!
Without the tricksy gameses, Real is pretty cool now. I'm convinced. The only annoyances are now identical (nearly) to WinAmp and no spywarezez. I'm even going to use it as the default for Windows Media (The enemy of my enemy, right?). Microsoft's MP is far more intrusive now, plays way more games with extentions and the like, is slower than shit because of all the pretty colors and dancing things of bright light, is way less user-friendly, gigantic on my screen until I disable everything, looks like a Fisher Price reject, eats more memory than a fat girl at a pizza place, and gnerally supports a DRM-inclined monopoly. Fuck Microsft, go Real 10!
This post in memory of Kurdt Corbain, April 5, 1994 RIP Nirvana "Don't tell me want to hear. Araid of never knowing fear. Experience everything you need. I keep writing jealousy, until it's fucking gone."
The iPod has all of the audio-related features you listed, including the ability to create/edit playlists on-the-go. Gapless playback is an option on iTMS, and it is definitely a stupid design decision by Apple (one of the only I can notice) not not also include it on the iPod proper. Creating On-The-Go Playlists (They're even called that for crying out loud!) is as simple as selecting a song and holding the center button down. As for sound quality, it seems great for me, but I've also really gone into the EQ settings manually in the iTMS program (score two for me on locating stupid design decisions). The SoundCheck feature seems to be a parametric expander gate that I would KILL to be able to refine manually because it makes vocals too crispy at times or otherwise impacts the mix negatively. I'd suggest turning it off to save battery and improve sound quality. I'm not sure, but the SoundEnhancer seems to be a stereo enhancer/chorus plug-in. I completely understand Apple's decision to prevent non-studio techs mess with the settings, because you can really fuck up songs with poor compression/chorus.
I guess IHBT, but whatever.
I'm glad you asked that question UID 741404... As a relative newbie to /., your question is important to us. So, just stay on the line and a representative will be with you momentarily...
This article isn't about the news itself. I view it as a semi-trollish way of getting very smart (and sum n0tz s0 7331) comments about reasons to use OSS. 103 words can be said in 30-60 seconds, depending on how fast you speak.
But, I digress. Isaac Asimov's Elijah Bailey/Daneel stories and books are still notable for their consideration of odd scientific details. The physics are completely false, yes, but they are consistent. He lays out groundrules (such as the slidewalks in Elijah's Earth), introduces potential problems (conflicts in the Three Laws), and resolves them in complex fashions that satisfy. Without any of those elements, I, Robot is not even worth seeing. I will boycott this so-called adaptation and wait for the real thing.
P.S. My name on Armageddon MUSH was once Daneel... Anyone remember me? =0)
I have an idea. Let's make a domain for something that's known for being the most difficult device to input data into. Let's make it something sadistically long & difficult to type in, especially on phones without that automagic word guess thingy... I know... 6 666 22 444 555 33 (mobile) or 662453 ought to be hard enough to input! Perfect idea...
The Department of Homeland Security would like to remind you that you love Big Brother.
You don't have to. Blow into a straw and watch the liquid come up. Now imagine what would happen with the real vacuum of space vs. the atmosphere of any planet...
Let's feed the trolls... Mos Def is one of the most intelligent hip hop artists I can name. His lyrics express a deep feeling of inequality & injustice; they paint a picture of all of the problems he perceives in race relations in the world. He was a BROADWAY actor recently in New York City (Yeah, the ORIGNAL BROADWAY) major musical I forget the name of. Yeah, of course everyone remembers the Italian Job. I'm a fan as a performer of all kinds and appreciate his versatility. The only horrendous thing I can imagine happening is the script casting him as a Shaft-like character. Any hint of that, and there is no fucking way I will EVER watch that movie lest I kill myself in shame.
That made me laugh so hard that I literally cried... Holy shit that was outstanding! I can't decide if that was terrific or terrible. Was that a quote? Was that an original?
Call him paranoid if you want... I'm putting on a tin foil hat (& giving up mod points, like I care today) to show you THIS FASCINATING ARTICLE about EMP stuff being developed in... Ta-da! Las Vegas. This was unturned by a quick Google check.
Quoteth:But almost none of the technology to protect against EMP that was developed through Defense Department nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site as late as 1992 was put to use in the private sector
Just like many Yamaha firsts, this one may have been overhyped a bit. This sounds like a real person singing in the way that a synth brass pad sounds like a trumpet. There is no way in hell you would ever even consider that these noises were made by a human being. Yes, I understand that most of the samples are in Japanese and might not sound normal to me anyway. But, even if you listen to the ONE in English alone, it sounds like the Bell Labs female voice, but screechy and obnoxious instead of like a drugged out cigarette smoker after a trachyotemy (sp?).
So, um, how did you post this, exactly?
Posts like this are why there needs to be a mod for Asshole, -2
Are the mods on crack today? How much simpler would you like Microsoft to make it? They put a picture of the program with the name of the program right in front of you on the desktop by default for most programs. Click it twice. Anything else is just window dressing & can be set up by someone else or you can poke around in the brilliantly named Control Panel. Stuff about the desktop is under the section labeled desktop, stuff about sounds is under Sounds, etc. As many others have said in many other threads, most users just need to know the basics about their computer & how to do whatever it is they want to do with it. Whatever else you want to say about Microsoft, their OS is the essence of simplicity in terms of its design. However, it's execution, stability, & security that are my main issues with Microsoft. The concept is perfect. If you can imagine a simpler UI, leave a message in my journal and lets get rich together.
Quoteth the raven:
:-)
Just my opinions, but sometimes things do well in the market not only because of marketing, but also due to actual quality and resultant word of mouth.
Just a minor nitpick... Marketing is the most frequently misunderstood word in business. It has a technical definition just like HTTP & CD ROM (DRM sucks... First to work that in!) do. Marketing includes both advertising & sales; nothing can do well in the market without sales.
"GTA: San Andreas" - It's our fault.
Or combine your $30 shredder with a $0.75 lighter...
Yeah, I've got a paper due in 3 hours man! Get with the searching and the links and the speeling check oi Kind lady!...
Of course a search for "Google News" turns up articles about MSNBot right now! There are hundreds of news articles about MSBot because of its more recent release! All of the recent articles about Google News compare it to MSNBot because it's obvious that since MS couldn't buy Google that Bill is going to try to compete with Google. Personally I think that rumor was a really distorted version of MS trying to either buy Google's news algorythm or buy Google NEWS outright since the price to gert instant access to all that information is probably pretty high. Pound for pound, nothing is more expensive than information.
A much better comparison is "Google News" on Google to "Google News" on MSNBot. MSNB actually returns more results, but the second page is completely useless. Accuracy counts too; I'll stick with Google News. [The link is for Cowboy Neil]
"When someone plops down 99 cents to buy a single, that shows a higher level of interest than just getting it for free," Welt said.
As any 1st year marketing major could tell you, this data will not be as useful as one might imagine. Knowing who wants a product (in this case, a CD) in no way relates to knowing who is willing to pay for a product. Some consumers want Ferraris; not all of them will buy one (for reasons of Price). Without a clear way of associating user names with demographic or psychographic data, this will not even help to more clearly define the target audience for an artist. All this data represents is the number of computer literate people who are actively sharing a song; this may or may not be related to whether they actually enjoy the song; this may or may not be related to whether they would/could pay for the song; this may or may not be related to the fake files that are being posted on KaZaa (that song's popular? Shove a couple thousand fakes online; discourage lots of people). Move along people, nothing to see here...
He did that to maximize the number of moves that computer would have to compute to capture his king. Think about it, the possibilities are endless. Moving any piece opens up an escape hole for the King while maximizing the number of possible moves for the situation. The queen's capabilities in that position are enormous; she has a clear line of fire towards most of the squares that any piece can move to. The same is true for every piece on that formation. Again, further maximization of possibility. It's brilliant.
M-Audio does not support Linux. I have one of those. Both of those programs are BETA versions. Yeah, I wanna trust my $10,000 studio to BETA software. We're running Macs with ProTools, good luck getting us to convert. Why did I spend $2,000 on proven, reliable, proprietary software & hardware to find out I can give it all up and get the same thing for free with non-proprietary hardware? Because it's NOT a beta version. They barely support the de facto though not de "jure" (Latin, not French please) VST standards, refusing to bow to anyone else's extentions, preventing any optimization and further fragmenting the standard. Forget it and stick to Macs.
How is it possible to compare reasonably the "public test release" of Audacity to ProTools, an established industry standard? I was curious enough about open-source music to follow your badly typed link, and read that and immediately patted our studio Mac OS 9.3.3 running ProTools quietly, quickly, smoothly, and efficiently. ProTools can be $2000+ if you buy all the bells and whistles for the digital hardware. There is NO corresponding "open-source" hardware, almost by definition of capitalism no one will create one out of the goodness of their heart. Software costs almost nothing to create except time; hardware requires factories of some kind. Come back to me when you have some USB interfaces or support some standard ones so that I don't have to throw out my $2000+ equipment.
Yeah, we care about Linux. We care that it doesn't run Pro Tools well (or at all?), (as far as I know) does not support USB output of audio, does not run any quality professional software, and will not be supported by most major soundcard manufacturers.
I really want an intangible interface for computers! Holographics everywhere responding to my voice and movements. A virutal symphony of light, color, and sound as I dance gracefully throughout the room twirling in a ballet of control. Fucking MS Office 2012 sucks now. And that was just to make the text bold...