isonews has been degrading in quality for quite sometime now. Other release sites have taken its place partly because of ventures like modchip selling.
I doubt if it will stop them. Wonder how long it will be before a domain/server is running in remote parts of the world for the business.. oh wait
True, however do you not believe that humans everywhere should have certain fundamental rights? Such as the freedom of speech, the freedom to assemble peacefully, or the freedom to elect their own leaders? I think they should.
Agreed, seeing every city in the world with the same ideals that we honour in democratic nations would be nice. But we should also understand that Any change should come from within the country - not forced upon externally. I would be the happiest to see American Culture as a whole being adopted throughout the world through its inherent power and influence (which is happening to a lots of places in the world btw) - not because of its military muscle.
yeah right, talk to people who havnt been there. i lived there all through my childhood (8 years) and no i am neither a muslim nor is middle east my native. i have seen no such kiosk, ever in any mall.
Talk of a lack of freedom to speak, to assemble together peacefully , to practice ones own religion and Burkhas (Veils) for women -I would agree. Then again thats their culture, that is the way they have evolved. One cannot judge a culture qualitatively or through comparisons. More often than not , cultures are there in the first place because they serve the needs of the society in that area - the needs differ from place to place.
i fail to understand why everyone who supports microsoft on this issue takes on the "oh, maybe they want to send security patch information" stance. That would not be an advertisement in the first place. That would be technical information sent upon request. I also fail to see why microsoft would require sweeping rights to do this. If someone doesnt feel like reading emails about their patches, it shouldnt be shoved down his/her throat in their inbox. Not everyone works in the IT field and would be interested in these fixes.
Apart from that argument, i think they seek this freedom to continue spamming their own HOTMAIL. Thats the reason they have "doing business with clause". Currently, they send in regular information that they see fit (full of promotional offers) to all hotmail users and there is NO WAY of unsubscribing from that.
and whats do you base this upon ? Insider information ? News articles on Salon maybe ?
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now now, thats slightly beyond the reach of Salon to correct. Besides, CNN is doing well - you think majority of its customers are intelligent people. Where did you get the idea that advertisers like Intelligent people ? Volume is all thats needed, more dumber the better.
So even if we enforced our own anti-piracy laws "China style", it wouldn't work?!
The problem is "China Style" anti piracy laws means no law or no enforcement of the law.
I am sure that the problem in China is very similar to the one we have in north america. The CDs are just too expensive and not worth it except for a few songs. Going over the situation described in the article, why should the CDs sold by recording association of China (or whatever it is called) be any more expensive than the pirated ones ? They are doing the exact same thing as those pirates - copying and boxing CDs. For quality sake, i am sure that the chinese people would be ready to buy genuine CDs even if they costed slightly more than pirated ones.
Its about time music industry everywhere started competing with piracy. For north america, that translates into high quality CDs/mp3s coming boxed to my home with songs i am able to pick - costing about a dollar a song. People are lazy, they would definitely go for it instead of going through the trouble of burning songs themselves.
My ISP, Rogers allows for home networking in its high speed internet deal. How different would distribution to a neighbour via Wi-Fi be different from Home networking ? In both cases, arent we sharing the same set of resources which have been allocated for us in the package? What happens from my router onwards should be my problem - not the ISPs.
I dont understand how you define blogs as something detrimental to ability to produce perfect search results. What in your opinion should occupy the top positions in any search results ? Let me give you some choices:
a) Webpage from well known websites (CNN.com,bbc.com) or b) Webpages that are talked about under a specific context in a number of smaller websites maintained by individuals ?
I think b) is a far better criterion for a webpage to feature at the top of the weblist and i am sure Google has realized this too - and thus the buy out ! The purchase may also help them weedout miscreants who might try to use the google bomb technique to get their links displayed on the top.
the reason they wouldnt do this is simple. Although the project was a big failure there may be segments of work that could be transferred into other games - 4 years of research work obviously must have taught them something.
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thats a good point, in addition to that i would like to add - dont fret if someone leaves you a negative feedback like "this man is a fraud ! a CON MAN!!!".
People , ok.. Sensible people never pay attention to such a feedback. A proper negative feedback would be the one that describes in entirety as to what exactly transpired in the transaction and what left you disappointed. Otherwise, it sounds like what we are all familiar in slashdot with - "a troll".
Also, ebay is stupid by restricting the number of characters in a feedback to 2 lines. I think it promotes short brief messages with no content at all like the one described in the story.
couldnt have said it better. Staring at RH8.0 made me dizzy for the first few days. I later discovered it was because the screen as a whole
is kinda of blurry. Never got around to finding where i could turn it off, there was no Control Panel.
if they could played back on any PC they would have to be capable of being played back on a virtual sound driver designed for the purpose. And products like totalrecorder will take them in.
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isonews has been degrading in quality for quite sometime now. Other release sites have taken its place partly because of ventures like modchip selling.
I doubt if it will stop them. Wonder how long it will be before a domain/server is running in remote parts of the world for the business.. oh wait
True, however do you not believe that humans everywhere should have certain fundamental rights? Such as the freedom of speech, the freedom to assemble peacefully, or the freedom to elect their own leaders? I think they should.
Agreed, seeing every city in the world with the same ideals that we honour in democratic nations would be nice. But we should also understand that Any change should come from within the country - not forced upon externally.
I would be the happiest to see American Culture as a whole being adopted throughout the world through its inherent power and influence (which is happening to a lots of places in the world btw) - not because of its military muscle.
yeah right, talk to people who havnt been there.
i lived there all through my childhood (8 years) and no i am neither a muslim nor is middle east my native. i have seen no such kiosk, ever in any mall.
Talk of a lack of freedom to speak, to assemble together peacefully , to practice ones own religion and Burkhas (Veils) for women -I would agree. Then again thats their culture, that is the way they have evolved. One cannot judge a culture qualitatively or through comparisons. More often than not , cultures are there in the first place because they serve the needs of the society in that area - the needs differ from place to place.
Duke takinem forever !
the mouse you mean ? He told me he checked it.
i fail to understand why everyone who supports microsoft on this issue takes on the "oh, maybe they want to send security patch information" stance. That would not be an advertisement in the first place. That would be technical information sent upon request. I also fail to see why microsoft would require sweeping rights to do this. If someone doesnt feel like reading emails about their patches, it shouldnt be shoved down his/her throat in their inbox. Not everyone works in the IT field and would be interested in these fixes.
Apart from that argument, i think they seek this freedom to continue spamming their own HOTMAIL.
Thats the reason they have "doing business with clause". Currently, they send in regular information that they see fit (full of promotional offers) to all hotmail users and there is NO WAY of unsubscribing from that.
and whats do you base this upon ? Insider information ? News articles on Salon maybe ?
"In that case, Salon deserves to die because when your readers are idiots, you're not going to get a lot of advertising from companies that like intelligent customers."
now now, thats slightly beyond the reach of Salon to correct. Besides, CNN is doing well - you think majority of its customers are intelligent people. Where did you get the idea that advertisers like Intelligent people ?
Volume is all thats needed, more dumber the better.
So even if we enforced our own anti-piracy laws "China style", it wouldn't work?!
The problem is "China Style" anti piracy laws means no law or no enforcement of the law.
I am sure that the problem in China is very similar to the one we have in north america. The CDs are just too expensive and not worth it except for a few songs. Going over the situation described in the article, why should the CDs sold by recording association of China (or whatever it is called) be any more expensive than the pirated ones ? They are doing the exact same thing as those pirates - copying and boxing CDs. For quality sake, i am sure that the chinese people would be ready to buy genuine CDs even if they costed slightly more than pirated ones.
Its about time music industry everywhere started competing with piracy. For north america, that translates into high quality CDs/mp3s coming boxed to my home with songs i am able to pick - costing about a dollar a song. People are lazy, they would definitely go for it instead of going through the trouble of burning songs themselves.
" There are things in the world that you just don't want to see." That included the previous comment , please mod it down.
how much of an information about you can be gleaned from Slashdot comments ?
All you goatse terrorists , you better stop.
technically, it is reverse engineering.
Is it as complicated as using a hexadecimal dumper ? He never said so.
Its a good hack given that it works on any platform.
My ISP, Rogers allows for home networking in its high speed internet deal. How different would distribution to a neighbour via Wi-Fi be different from Home networking ? In both cases, arent we sharing the same set of resources which have been allocated for us in the package?
What happens from my router onwards should be my problem - not the ISPs.
a collection of all my slashdot drivel ! *shocked*
I dont understand how you define blogs as something detrimental to ability to produce perfect search results. What in your opinion should occupy the top positions in any search results ? Let me give you some choices :
a) Webpage from well known websites (CNN.com,bbc.com) or
b) Webpages that are talked about under a specific context in a number of smaller websites maintained by individuals ?
I think b) is a far better criterion for a webpage to feature at the top of the weblist and i am sure Google has realized this too - and thus the buy out ! The purchase may also help them weedout miscreants who might try to use the google bomb technique to get their links displayed on the top.
wtf , i hope google buys over goatse.cx and includes all those pictures on the image search
be happy it doesnt take comments like this one in the search.
the reason they wouldnt do this is simple. Although the project was a big failure there may be segments of work that could be transferred into other games - 4 years of research work obviously must have taught them something.
Opera users would surely find this annoying:
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How did this get moderated up to 5?
..dint RTFB either.
Because...we...hehe
thats a good point, in addition to that i would like to add - dont fret if someone leaves you a negative feedback like "this man is a fraud ! a CON MAN!!!".
.. Sensible people never pay attention to such a feedback. A proper negative feedback would be the one that describes in entirety as to what exactly transpired in the transaction and what left you disappointed. Otherwise, it sounds like what we are all familiar in slashdot with - "a troll".
People , ok
Also, ebay is stupid by restricting the number of characters in a feedback to 2 lines. I think it promotes short brief messages with no content at all like the one described in the story.
couldnt have said it better. Staring at RH8.0 made me dizzy for the first few days. I later discovered it was because the screen as a whole is kinda of blurry. Never got around to finding where i could turn it off, there was no Control Panel.
doubt if it will work , what stops the troll from logging on as someone else (create new account) and seeing if their posts are visible ?
if they could played back on any PC they would have to be capable of being played back on a virtual sound driver designed for the purpose.
.. impossible - NO
And products like totalrecorder will take them in.
Harder to copy ? yes