Slashdot is a poor example a site worth keeping tabs on with RSS. It changes so fast that your feed reader would have to be aggregating 24-7 to get all of the stories.
Actually, as long as an aggregator updates once every 8 - 12 hours, it picks up everything (the feed only contains 10 items). The feeds only contain the headlines and text you see on the homepage. You still have to visit the site to see the comments.
Slashdot's RSS feed is useful to me because it allows me to keep up on all of the stories that get posted. I don't have time to check the site every day, but with the feed I get every story and can read it when I have a chance.
Of course, I could do the same thing by navigating through the site, but this way seems easier to me. There's a little less overhead involved and I'm dealing with a cleaner interface this way.
Another thing that RSS is useful for is keeping a searchable history of everything that I've read. I could be half remembering something I read about solar powered night vision goggles months ago and just search through all the feeds I've picked up (I'm using Onfolio) and find the story I was looking for. If I were only reading slashdot, this would of course be redundant. Where this searchability really shines though is that it will also be searching through any other news sites and blogs that I happen to read at the same time.
Now, some sites get past that by including some (or all) of the text of an article in the RSS feed...... Well I would hope and pray that anyone who has ever tried to make $1 on the internet would see how stupid that is. Giving away content went out in 99 I think.
Actually, most sites that have RSS include the full text. I can't remember the last time I saw one that only included the titles. (Though I admittedly don't get around much...) I believe that some sites only include partial text on some of their feeds (RSS.9, 1.0), whereas full text is available on others (RSS 2.0, Atom).
As far as advertising goes, feeds can and do contain ads.
You're right though in that RSS feeds for sites like slashdot aren't terribly more useful than just going to the site. They're definitely at their best when you're dealing with blogs that update infrequently and also when you're dealing with a lot of sites at once.
You can still buy them if you want, just be sure to pick them up used. You'll still get to play, but Blizzard won't see any of your money (obviously if there's a monthly fee this doesn't work though..)
But under a system that increases exponentially like that, only the big corporations would have the money to keep their copyrights alive for a long enough to maximize their profitability. Furthermore, in order to keep works from going into the PD and being "lost" (to the publisher anyways) forever, they would need to keep on paying to renew, even if the work had not became popular yet. Those with lots of money could do this with no problem, but smaller organizations could have a hard time with it.
Do you even need a local phone line? A while back, I got tired of shelling out cash for a nearly pointless phone line and just cancled it alltogether. I use cable for internet access and my cell phone works fine if I need to use an actual phone. I don't talk on the phone that much, so I don't need to spend a ton on getting a billion and a half minutes for the cell, but if I did then VoiP is always an option nowadays anyways. The only thing I had that actually needed a landline was my TiVo, and that was fixed easy enough by getting a usb network adapter and hooking it up to my router so it could get programing updates online. The cell doesn't cost me any more than what I was paying for the landline in the first place, and now I'm not stuck either paying for two lines or having one line that can't leave my home.
I haven't seen the actual ruling yet....I'm not sure anyone has at this point. All we seem to know is that it was unanamous. Although it looks bad, it's hard to do too much speculating until we have some more details.
Actually that was the first time it was mentioned in this thread...
Also I can't say as though the original headline had been updated....it made mention of the download when I first saw it. At the time it was still on the homepage so it couldn't have been too old...
And you'll be registering all your guns once a year so the government can keep track of where they are
And while we're at it, we'll do our dogs too..
Oh.....I never really got the whole dog license thing. I mean, I get the reasoning behind it, but isn't it really along the same lines as everything else here?..
How is it they let people become the network administrator for an entire technical college, a college that hands out degrees in technical fields, that are just that ignorant. How can any competent network admin possibly think Firefox and Winamp are causing a computer to not boot?
Maybe he was just assuming that you were dumb and he was trying to scare you into not installing anything. There're a lot of good reasons for restricting users from installing software, but the easiest way to explain to someone who doesn't know any better is to just say that it trashes the whole computer.
...the abundance of cheaper labor in countries such as India and China has resulted in pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource.
No way? Cheap labor is why companies outsource? I always thought it was the highly skilled workers, the high level of quality, or maybe even their great location relative to their customers. Good thing this analysis found this or else we'd have been left in the dark here!
If I'm not mistaken, vast quantities of tv archive, much of it from the "golden age" when people expected their educational programs to be presided over by professors, is in the public domain. I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
Not in the US it isn't. Copyright protection still extends into the 1920's 'round here. We gotta keep Mickey safe!
Lycos state that this is not a DDOS as Lycos monitors the site's responsiveness and throttles back when the site starts to falter.
They might not be running the servers into the ground but it's still stooping to the same level of the spammers. I mean, come on, if my site had a constant 50% load or somesuch, my bandwidth for the month would be gone fairly quickly. There's something very not right about doing this.
The man is an idiot and he can't speak to save his life, don't get me wrong. But couldn't that just be a contraction "internet is"?
The statement: "I hear there's rumors on the Internet is that we're going to have a draft." It's still really bad grammar, but it makes sense in Bush's particular dialect..
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And that's an excellent example of why you should always cut the tails off of zip ties.
Slashdot is a poor example a site worth keeping tabs on with RSS. It changes so fast that your feed reader would have to be aggregating 24-7 to get all of the stories. Actually, as long as an aggregator updates once every 8 - 12 hours, it picks up everything (the feed only contains 10 items). The feeds only contain the headlines and text you see on the homepage. You still have to visit the site to see the comments.
Slashdot's RSS feed is useful to me because it allows me to keep up on all of the stories that get posted. I don't have time to check the site every day, but with the feed I get every story and can read it when I have a chance.
... ... Well I would hope and pray that anyone who has ever tried to make $1 on the internet would see how stupid that is. Giving away content went out in 99 I think.
.9, 1.0), whereas full text is available on others (RSS 2.0, Atom).
Of course, I could do the same thing by navigating through the site, but this way seems easier to me. There's a little less overhead involved and I'm dealing with a cleaner interface this way.
Another thing that RSS is useful for is keeping a searchable history of everything that I've read. I could be half remembering something I read about solar powered night vision goggles months ago and just search through all the feeds I've picked up (I'm using Onfolio) and find the story I was looking for. If I were only reading slashdot, this would of course be redundant. Where this searchability really shines though is that it will also be searching through any other news sites and blogs that I happen to read at the same time.
Now, some sites get past that by including some (or all) of the text of an article in the RSS feed
Actually, most sites that have RSS include the full text. I can't remember the last time I saw one that only included the titles. (Though I admittedly don't get around much...) I believe that some sites only include partial text on some of their feeds (RSS
As far as advertising goes, feeds can and do contain ads.
You're right though in that RSS feeds for sites like slashdot aren't terribly more useful than just going to the site. They're definitely at their best when you're dealing with blogs that update infrequently and also when you're dealing with a lot of sites at once.
You can still buy them if you want, just be sure to pick them up used. You'll still get to play, but Blizzard won't see any of your money (obviously if there's a monthly fee this doesn't work though..)
But under a system that increases exponentially like that, only the big corporations would have the money to keep their copyrights alive for a long enough to maximize their profitability. Furthermore, in order to keep works from going into the PD and being "lost" (to the publisher anyways) forever, they would need to keep on paying to renew, even if the work had not became popular yet. Those with lots of money could do this with no problem, but smaller organizations could have a hard time with it.
Word verification works great. I've been using it for comments on my blog for some time now and I get virtually no comment spam.
Wow, sounds like a great system.... Fortunately it's not an issue in MI.
Do you even need a local phone line? A while back, I got tired of shelling out cash for a nearly pointless phone line and just cancled it alltogether. I use cable for internet access and my cell phone works fine if I need to use an actual phone. I don't talk on the phone that much, so I don't need to spend a ton on getting a billion and a half minutes for the cell, but if I did then VoiP is always an option nowadays anyways. The only thing I had that actually needed a landline was my TiVo, and that was fixed easy enough by getting a usb network adapter and hooking it up to my router so it could get programing updates online. The cell doesn't cost me any more than what I was paying for the landline in the first place, and now I'm not stuck either paying for two lines or having one line that can't leave my home.
Or pdf actually
I haven't seen the actual ruling yet....I'm not sure anyone has at this point. All we seem to know is that it was unanamous. Although it looks bad, it's hard to do too much speculating until we have some more details.
Don't forget that half their extensions will need to be reinstalled as well.
Actually, according to the population clock, we're up to about 296 million people now.
Actually that was the first time it was mentioned in this thread...
Also I can't say as though the original headline had been updated....it made mention of the download when I first saw it. At the time it was still on the homepage so it couldn't have been too old...
This was mentioned the other day already....
Not that anyone really reads the headlines anyways apparently
I hate it when that happens.. You can at least post the links here though.
The MPAA can't really bring criminal charges.. that's up to the government.
And you'll be registering all your guns once a year so the government can keep track of where they are
And while we're at it, we'll do our dogs too..
Oh.....I never really got the whole dog license thing. I mean, I get the reasoning behind it, but isn't it really along the same lines as everything else here?..
You make a RAID array out of them...
:)
Why would you want a whole array of RAID's? Isn't one enough?
This reminds me of those ECM countermeasure things.
It seems pretty bad when you need a countermeasure for the countermeasures...
How is it they let people become the network administrator for an entire technical college, a college that hands out degrees in technical fields, that are just that ignorant. How can any competent network admin possibly think Firefox and Winamp are causing a computer to not boot?
Maybe he was just assuming that you were dumb and he was trying to scare you into not installing anything. There're a lot of good reasons for restricting users from installing software, but the easiest way to explain to someone who doesn't know any better is to just say that it trashes the whole computer.
...the abundance of cheaper labor in countries such as India and China has resulted in pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource.
No way? Cheap labor is why companies outsource? I always thought it was the highly skilled workers, the high level of quality, or maybe even their great location relative to their customers. Good thing this analysis found this or else we'd have been left in the dark here!
If I'm not mistaken, vast quantities of tv archive, much of it from the "golden age" when people expected their educational programs to be presided over by professors, is in the public domain. I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
Not in the US it isn't. Copyright protection still extends into the 1920's 'round here. We gotta keep Mickey safe!
Lycos state that this is not a DDOS as Lycos monitors the site's responsiveness and throttles back when the site starts to falter. They might not be running the servers into the ground but it's still stooping to the same level of the spammers. I mean, come on, if my site had a constant 50% load or somesuch, my bandwidth for the month would be gone fairly quickly. There's something very not right about doing this.
And the wacky thing is I recognize many of the names from the nintendo game with the same name from years ago..
The man is an idiot and he can't speak to save his life, don't get me wrong. But couldn't that just be a contraction "internet is"?
The statement: "I hear there's rumors on the Internet is that we're going to have a draft." It's still really bad grammar, but it makes sense in Bush's particular dialect..
I wish people would stop with the weird statistical correlations
:)
Wierd? You can't deny the truth . Everyone's just going with the facts here!