Unison by Panic has live mp3 streaming, directly from your favorite newsgroups. Just click and listen - all the boring jobs of connecting messages together are taken care of, so it's compatible with thousands of songs already published out there.
Well maybe this project is about something entirely else, but does anybody ever read the articles around here? Yeah, I thought so:-)
Dmoz is dead. I myself was rejected about 5 times in the last 4 years. But the really important point is - quality went down, way down - the way dmoz works is against changing stuff quickly - there is no peer review. Once you're an editor, you can pretty much do what you like. There is a master-subordinate system at work though so your category's parent's editor can control you, but this is wrong on so many levels: a) those people are often lazy b) those people can't look after everything c) the system makes people eager to climb the ladder as fast as possible instead of working on things d) leads to building of factions that work for each other.
In short, the basic rules of dmoz automatically lead to the mess we've got now.
But the biggest problem is: there is nothing better at hand, so Google and dozens of other website use its still the best thing around yet really bad.
I'd suggest to build something new along these lines: - wiki-style editing to ensure fast updates - slashdot-style modding to ensure good + fair quality - meta-discussion forums to argue wheter any entry/mod/move/category-creation is correct with polls to decide otherwise - Various anti-spammer/anti-troll methods, like relying on metamod-karma to ensure a safe and fair operation - A final editorial team that gets out of the way in 99,99% of all cases, but tries hard to keep stop spammer from taking over the platform by constantly reworking the platform (like Slashdot, too).
Sounds interesting? Any work in this direction already on track? Somebody interested in starting it?
(old message here, posted earlier today 3 hours after topic went live and nobody commented on it - but we all know that on slashdot 3-hours-old topics old are old news:-/)
I completely agree. dmoz is dead. I myself was rejected about 5 times in the last 4 years. But the really important point is - quality went down, way down - the way dmoz works is against changing stuff quickly - there is no peer review. Once you're an editor, you can pretty much do what you like. There is a master-subordinate system at work though so your category's parent's editor can control you, but this is wrong on so many levels: a) those people are often lazy b) those people can't look after everything c) the system makes people eager to climb the ladder as fast as possible instead of working on things d) leads to building of factions that work for each other.
In short, the basic rules of dmoz automatically lead to the mess we've got now.
But the biggest problem is: there is nothing better at hand, so Google and dozens of other website use its still the best thing around yet really bad.
I'd suggest to build something new along these lines: - wiki-style editing to ensure fast updates - slashdot-style modding to ensure good + fair quality - meta-discussion forums to argue wheter any entry/mod/move/category-creation is correct with polls to decide otherwise - Various anti-spammer/anti-troll methods, like relying on metamod-karma to ensure a safe and fair operation - A final editorial team that gets out of the way in 99,99% of all cases, but tries hard to keep stop spammer from taking over the platform by constantly reworking the platform (like Slashdot, too).
Sounds interesting? Any work in this direction already on track? Somebody interested in starting it?
The "search through the webpages you've seen in the past 3 years" feature is a killer. I'm really looking forward using it. To be useful, for me it had to be: - Extremely low on the cpu - keep the database small (10'000 webpages in 50MB or less) - fast. Let me search in 2seconds tops.
What I like is the new "big page of all services": Everything on one page, this wasn't here before in such a overseeable way, the buttons are big so it's also a quick page.
Another change nobody has remarked yet is that the link to the directory has been removed - which is a good change since a directory search always showed the same search results that a normal websearch would.
In other news, the transition is not over yet: the directory still shows the old layout with tabs (at least it does for me).
Searching the directory still shows web results instead of categories - if I were Google, this would be the next thing to fix (e.g. a search for Java would show the categories
- for the programming language
- for coffee
- for the island
which it currently does not.
You don't even have to travel to the U.S. Just use a forwarding company. They take your package and forward it to you (duh!). Here's a nice overview of 6 Mail Forwarding Services.
USAbox, one of the contenders, even offers a free basic service. Quite nice, and I guess you'll save even more because you don't have to pay your own flight.
Very nice. There are already shortcuts to "clavier visuel", "Invite de commandes" and "Regedit" in the visible part of the screen, so everything's ready to start hacking:-)
Can anybody tell me how this "caching technology" works? It looks like they cache video while a user visits several pages on a given site, and when everything is loaded, the video is played back. How do they make sure the caching operation keeps storing stuff while a user jumps from page to page? As far I know, when you switch to a new page, any javascript/java/activeX code on the old page is stopped and its data is deleted.
Frames could be an option (have a invisible subframe keeping on storing stuff), but this would mess with the URLs, which I think is not the case here.
That's great and all, but using this streaming soft with OSX is painfully difficult. I just wrote this to the authors:
oh boy, using your app is incredibly difficult in OSX. Where do I begin...
Installation: A clickable app woud be prefered, because people really don't like the terminal. If you don't wanna go the whole way, a ".command" file would be clickable by the masses and still be able to install things.
During installation: Your installation obviously depends on having the current directory set to the directory containing all these files, but the readme doesn't talk about this. Bad.
End of installation: Some talk about a linux plugin is echoed to the user even though this is OSX we're talking about.
Result of installation: The helper app is installed at ~/bin, where it definitely doesn't belong in OS X./Applications/Utils would be much better.
Viewing a broadcast: After all these steps, I would expect that viewing is now click+done. But noh noh, the file won't open automatically, and the terminal command to enter is really confusing, because: - nobody know where "the path of the ESM binary you installed in step 1" is, because the installation didn't tell the user (one has to look for himself) - most people don't know how to enter the full path to their downloaded file. On the mac, one just drag the file into the terminal have it write the full path automatically, but you don't write that either, so everybody who managed to follow until here is now out of luck.
And after all these problems, the "piece de resistance": the log file tells me that I would have to manually make sure that alls "sdp" files are automatically opened in Quicktime Player. Well how do I do that? Solution was to find a file without Type/Creator codes (OS9 stuff), rename it to end with sdp, go into get info, change "always open with..." to quicktime player (even though OSX tells me that qt player will most likely not be able to play it back), then the the button "change all" below to make this setting global.
And you, dear programmers, tell me that you expect every OSX guy using your software to go through all the hoops? Are you serious?
Hope to make life a bit easier with the hints embedded in this letter for other OS X users...
People had to leave everything, from photos of their grandparents to cars. Their clothes, cash and passports has been changed by state authorities. This is incredible, people lived, had homes, country houses, garages, motorcyles, cars, money, friends and relatives, people had their life, each in own niche and then in a matter of hours this world fall in pieces and everything goes to dogs and after few hours trip with some army vehicle one stands under some shower, washing away radiation and then step in a new life, naked with no home, no friends, no money, no past and with very doubtful future.
Makes you think how safe those reactors near you are and what will happen with your stuff... in the ussr, people had basically nothing because everything belonged to the state, but in other countries, loss could even be bigger...
Well if somebody is publicly buying at too high prices, just sell them your stock at that price and make a nice profit.
Artificially inflating a stock does only work until you run out of money. A stock market might not calculate the number of shares sold into the market value, but then it's just a bad stock market and you might consider trading at a different place.
Yep, it looks like it's still around. A quick googling reveals this at the Safe House site:
One favorite attraction is the alibi phone booth, where for an extra quarter, you can have the sound of your choice in the background. The 99 choices include college cheers, crickets, fire sirens and gun shots.
Well, it contains "X", like in "X-rated", "XXX" and so on, plus it contains the word "free", which is very common among sex sites (or so I heard, not that I have ever visited them, mind you), so I guess that if your search engine algorithm is not all too good, it might very well be possible that adult results come up, don't you think?
the important URLs/title and/name are not on the exclude list for Google in the robots.txt
To inhibit google from going through your page, you would need to address it by its name, which is "googlebot". This "Mediapartners-Google" is something different
The important point is that imdb links still appear in Google, but often not among the first 5 hits. So this entirely up to Google's and its ranking algorithm.
So, I don't think this will explain why Google values imdb links as low as it does.
What I already found out with this tool: For movie queries, I always feel that the imdb is a very good resource. Google always neglected the imdb a bit, but now Yahoo is much better.
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For an example of the best example of providing info, look at Yamaha. They have scanned every manual for every music synthesizer model and variation that they have made and have put these scans (in PDF format) on their web site for free download
I went to the Yamaha website and could not find such a thing. Could you please provide a link? Thanks!
doesn't the fact that the big businesses protecting Linux now means that when Linus decided against a traditional GNU licence and allowed businesses to make money with his work he has done the right thing and *that the GNU licence as it stands right now will always have some legal existence problems*?
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Unison by Panic has live mp3 streaming, directly from your favorite newsgroups. Just click and listen - all the boring jobs of connecting messages together are taken care of, so it's compatible with thousands of songs already published out there.
:-)
Well maybe this project is about something entirely else, but does anybody ever read the articles around here? Yeah, I thought so
LOL :-)
The $500'000 question is: Are the modders having fun with these mods, or are they just brainless zombies?
You know what? Let's ask the moderators!
For zombies, please mod me redundant
For having fun, please mod me insighfull
I'm reposting this here because it's important:
:-/)
Dmoz is dead. I myself was rejected about 5 times in the last 4 years. But the really important point is
- quality went down, way down
- the way dmoz works is against changing stuff quickly
- there is no peer review. Once you're an editor, you can pretty much do what you like. There is a master-subordinate system at work though so your category's parent's editor can control you, but this is wrong on so many levels:
a) those people are often lazy
b) those people can't look after everything
c) the system makes people eager to climb the ladder as fast as possible instead of working on things
d) leads to building of factions that work for each other.
In short, the basic rules of dmoz automatically lead to the mess we've got now.
But the biggest problem is: there is nothing better at hand, so Google and dozens of other website use its still the best thing around yet really bad.
I'd suggest to build something new along these lines:
- wiki-style editing to ensure fast updates
- slashdot-style modding to ensure good + fair quality
- meta-discussion forums to argue wheter any entry/mod/move/category-creation is correct with polls to decide otherwise
- Various anti-spammer/anti-troll methods, like relying on metamod-karma to ensure a safe and fair operation
- A final editorial team that gets out of the way in 99,99% of all cases, but tries hard to keep stop spammer from taking over the platform by constantly reworking the platform (like Slashdot, too).
Sounds interesting? Any work in this direction already on track? Somebody interested in starting it?
(old message here, posted earlier today 3 hours after topic went live and nobody commented on it - but we all know that on slashdot 3-hours-old topics old are old news
I completely agree. dmoz is dead. I myself was rejected about 5 times in the last 4 years. But the really important point is
- quality went down, way down
- the way dmoz works is against changing stuff quickly
- there is no peer review. Once you're an editor, you can pretty much do what you like. There is a master-subordinate system at work though so your category's parent's editor can control you, but this is wrong on so many levels:
a) those people are often lazy
b) those people can't look after everything
c) the system makes people eager to climb the ladder as fast as possible instead of working on things
d) leads to building of factions that work for each other.
In short, the basic rules of dmoz automatically lead to the mess we've got now.
But the biggest problem is: there is nothing better at hand, so Google and dozens of other website use its still the best thing around yet really bad.
I'd suggest to build something new along these lines:
- wiki-style editing to ensure fast updates
- slashdot-style modding to ensure good + fair quality
- meta-discussion forums to argue wheter any entry/mod/move/category-creation is correct with polls to decide otherwise
- Various anti-spammer/anti-troll methods, like relying on metamod-karma to ensure a safe and fair operation
- A final editorial team that gets out of the way in 99,99% of all cases, but tries hard to keep stop spammer from taking over the platform by constantly reworking the platform (like Slashdot, too).
Sounds interesting? Any work in this direction already on track? Somebody interested in starting it?
The "search through the webpages you've seen in the past 3 years" feature is a killer. I'm really looking forward using it.
To be useful, for me it had to be:
- Extremely low on the cpu
- keep the database small (10'000 webpages in 50MB or less)
- fast. Let me search in 2seconds tops.
Anyobdy already working on this?
What I like is the new "big page of all services": Everything on one page, this wasn't here before in such a overseeable way, the buttons are big so it's also a quick page. Another change nobody has remarked yet is that the link to the directory has been removed - which is a good change since a directory search always showed the same search results that a normal websearch would. In other news, the transition is not over yet: the directory still shows the old layout with tabs (at least it does for me). Searching the directory still shows web results instead of categories - if I were Google, this would be the next thing to fix (e.g. a search for Java would show the categories - for the programming language - for coffee - for the island which it currently does not.
You don't even have to travel to the U.S. Just use a forwarding company. They take your package and forward it to you (duh!). Here's a nice overview of 6 Mail Forwarding Services.
USAbox, one of the contenders, even offers a free basic service. Quite nice, and I guess you'll save even more because you don't have to pay your own flight.
Cheers!
Coool! Now that you stopped your experiment, show us some links to the messages that it posted! I'd be interested in reading them! :-)
Very nice. There are already shortcuts to "clavier visuel", "Invite de commandes" and "Regedit" in the visible part of the screen, so everything's ready to start hacking :-)
Can anybody tell me how this "caching technology" works? It looks like they cache video while a user visits several pages on a given site, and when everything is loaded, the video is played back. How do they make sure the caching operation keeps storing stuff while a user jumps from page to page? As far I know, when you switch to a new page, any javascript/java/activeX code on the old page is stopped and its data is deleted.
:-)
Frames could be an option (have a invisible subframe keeping on storing stuff), but this would mess with the URLs, which I think is not the case here.
Any insights? Thanks!
Hope to make life a bit easier with the hints embedded in this letter for other OS X users...
Cheers!
Well if somebody is publicly buying at too high prices, just sell them your stock at that price and make a nice profit.
Artificially inflating a stock does only work until you run out of money. A stock market might not calculate the number of shares sold into the market value, but then it's just a bad stock market and you might consider trading at a different place.
Well, it contains "X", like in "X-rated", "XXX" and so on, plus it contains the word "free", which is very common among sex sites (or so I heard, not that I have ever visited them, mind you), so I guess that if your search engine algorithm is not all too good, it might very well be possible that adult results come up, don't you think?
- the important URLs
/title and /name are not on the exclude list for Google in the robots.txt
- To inhibit google from going through your page, you would need to address it by its name, which is "googlebot". This "Mediapartners-Google" is something different
- The important point is that imdb links still appear in Google, but often not among the first 5 hits. So this entirely up to Google's and its ranking algorithm.
So, I don't think this will explain why Google values imdb links as low as it does.Very cool toy, thanks!
What I already found out with this tool: For movie queries, I always feel that the imdb is a very good resource. Google always neglected the imdb a bit, but now Yahoo is much better.
Yep, it was a vocoder. A Digitech Talker. Carrier signal was a Nord Rack and modulator input was her voice.
If you need some explanation how a vocoder works, I highly suggest this great vocoder article.
And for all the details on Cher's song, read this Making-of "Believe" with all the gritty details.
Since Google browses Slashdot at "1, threaded, oldest first", you don't need many high rated post, you need many early root posts not modded below 1.
Well, this will work until some funny man changes the password :-)
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For an example of the best example of providing info, look at Yamaha. They have scanned every manual for every music synthesizer model and variation that they have made and have put these scans (in PDF format) on their web site for free download
I went to the Yamaha website and could not find such a thing. Could you please provide a link? Thanks!
It's not a plain old LP record, it's a different system with finer tracks and faster speed (I think about 20x finer tracks and 450 RPMs). The page linked by the grandparent is cool (yet a bit difficult to navigate to the technical specs), but I found a very cool 20 minute video explaining both disc and player manufacturing made in 1981 here (beware, it's 101 MB)!
Just checking the validity of your claims:
Do you also use the iTunes music store?
If yes, what's it like to download a song from Kazella, then downloading it again from iTunes?
doesn't the fact that the big businesses protecting Linux now means that when Linus decided against a traditional GNU licence and allowed businesses to make money with his work he has done the right thing and *that the GNU licence as it stands right now will always have some legal existence problems*?