The only thing a torrent site really needs is a user comment section. If the quality is bad you'll read about it before you download like 1.4G of data and waste your time.
I think all these sites are pretty good in their way and to mark them down as 'ugly' doesn't make much sense.
If someone made one using Flash would it be any better? The answer is no (and I develop flash sites too).
I read the Foundation series a long time ago so I may have this wrong but wasn't the whole 'joke' about Hari Seldon that really he couldn't predict the future? The 1000 year plan is found to be wrong at some stage I'm sure. And then there was that 'mule' fella.
It seems they are so badly rattled right now they can't do anything original due to major (intellectual) insecurity. SoapBox is an idea popularised by uTube which they've then presented with Apple-style graphics. The typography of the SoapBox logo/name seems to be exactly what Apple have done on their website for a couple of years now (pretty much the same face I'd say) and the circular loading 'device' appears to be pretty much the standard OSX activity graphic.
As for "loading..." they copied that straight of my Vic20 from 1982 (ha ha)
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The figures I've seen say that the majority of new jobs in the last 5 years have been created in the real estate market driven by enormous inflation of house prices. I'm not American but as similar thing has happened in the UK where I live - about 65% of the UK economy is based on the housing market. If this market stops growing (and it looks like it has now in the US) bad things are in store for the economy. Especially given the 'cash point on everyone's lawn' will stop working.
It's stunning isn't it? I read thru all the comments and really very few can say anything apart from different flavors of denial of the evidence.
Of course it is an extraordinary claim but one that needs to be taken very seriously. I don't see much of that going on.
Instead: it's a dupe, another magazine covered this already, it was always this way, it's not stuff that matters, etc.
Maybe this reaction is to be expected from this site - after all it's not a political board - but all people of voting age (and younger) should really care about this.
There's a guy called Mark Crispin Miller (a prof at NYU) who has spent years researching this topic. He believes that 2000 and 2004 were stolen and has done massive amounts of research to back this postion up. There's a link here to an audio interview:
No, that's not really true. Many apps - and 99% of small apps - install with a drag'n'drop to wherever you want to put it. Some insist on Applications because they've been 'hard-coded' to look for resources there. Most don't however. Only installs that need changes to the system library (added sounds, frameworks, app support, etc) need to go for the full install and security routine.
If developers used packages more things would be better though I must say.
How about my GF who got bad credit for ignoring a final demand. Seems reasonable until you know that they were sending everything to the wrong address and she simply didn't know. Does that mean she shouldn't be allowed to work now? She has suffered from this problem for a couple of years and is finding it very hard to clear her name even though she earns very good money. Once you're into the 'computer says no' scenario it can be very hard to extricate yourself. I find this trend a bit worrying.
10 years ago AOL almost ruined my credit history because of their flakey accounting systems. Took me a while to sort things out there too. Little mistakes like this should not lead to enormous consequences.
No, I do understand how it works. That's why I said 'similar' and not 'identical'. I understand that the software I talked about is not linked into a net etc etc. It's just a bit like it, that's all - similar.
Does a similar thing. Once caveat: you can never touch the mac. So it's useless really but an interesting demo of the motion detectors. They are suprisingly accurate. Footsteps nearby show up for instance.
This story is faintly ridiculous. Like an earlier poster said there's a strand of an "only a weirdo/terrorist/kiddy fiddler would use a non-Windows machine" to it.
C64 uses a nearly standard ASCII and there wouldn't be problems reading the text as ASCII to a modern machine. You may get into trouble if he's using the playing card symbols or something but all the alpha-numerics are the same. If the data was stored on cassette there are many free PC progs that can read the audio tape and convert it to a BASIC or data file. I've done this easily before in the past for the C64 and VIC20. If the data was on floppy then the same applies although the hardware hook-up may be slightly tricky but possible.
If none of that works the info could always be viewed on his system or perhaps printed. I can't see where the problem really is.
10 REM ***MUST KIDNAP YOUNG GIRL*** 20 REM ***AND FIND A CALENDAR PROG FOR C64***
even though we know that there are lots of people willing to die to bring down aircraft, and even though you say that searches are completely ineffective, aircraft aren't falling from the sky daily.
In which case there must be a fault in your logic somewhere. Either
A) there aren't lots of people willing to die to bring down an aircraft, or
Well, I've read the article and I do believe they are working on it. Don't know how long it will take but I reckon it's coming. There's that service (Shazam I think it's called) which can anaylse music heard via a mobile phone and this will be an expansion of that it seems. So, for example, you're listening to the Chilli Peppers all day, the s/w 'knows' that and sends you a spam link to go and buy some Peppers stuff (or related music from another band).
It hears adverts on the TV or programs and spams you there. Your GF moans about a holiday enough and guess what? Travel spam direct to your inbox.
It's scary if you ask me and another small step into the Orwellian future.
because only if the data matches do they record it as a valid label. You get a new partner everytime so little collusion is possible. It's a bit like the double data entry system companies use to enter massive catalogs into systems - any discrepancies in data flag up.
I still miss C+G from the old days. Confict catcher? Brilliant stuff.
I had SoundJam from v1.0 and everyone I knew with a Mac did too. It was the first Mac mp3 player that encoded well and didn't have a CLI. I seem to remember the guy that wrote SJ went to work for Apple and basically wrote iTunes (or lead the development). But, there's a differnence between iTunes and iPod interface so this is a bit OT.
According to "The Truth About Jonestown" by Sheila Yohnk (see external links), on November 18, 1978, a large vat of grape-flavored Flavor Aid was prepared; the brew included potassium cyanide, Valium, Penegram, and chloral hydrate.
I always thought it was the Grateful Dead/LSD thing. Still, if MS drank the fruity potassium cyanide solution a lot of people would be in favor of that too.
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the Optimus keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
It is out there, but people need to catch up.
. . . has been slashdotted. So get off it slashdotters, it's my site and I need it. ;-)
The only thing a torrent site really needs is a user comment section. If the quality is bad you'll read about it before you download like 1.4G of data and waste your time.
I think all these sites are pretty good in their way and to mark them down as 'ugly' doesn't make much sense.
If someone made one using Flash would it be any better? The answer is no (and I develop flash sites too).
I read the Foundation series a long time ago so I may have this wrong but wasn't the whole 'joke' about Hari Seldon that really he couldn't predict the future? The 1000 year plan is found to be wrong at some stage I'm sure. And then there was that 'mule' fella.
Bloody hell! It's back to beleaguered then.
MS 'innovation' - I love it.
It seems they are so badly rattled right now they can't do anything original due to major (intellectual) insecurity. SoapBox is an idea popularised by uTube which they've then presented with Apple-style graphics. The typography of the SoapBox logo/name seems to be exactly what Apple have done on their website for a couple of years now (pretty much the same face I'd say) and the circular loading 'device' appears to be pretty much the standard OSX activity graphic.
As for "loading..." they copied that straight of my Vic20 from 1982 (ha ha)
Can they really be so devoid of ideas?
http://www.time.com/time/cartoons/20060917/3.html
The figures I've seen say that the majority of new jobs in the last 5 years have been created in the real estate market driven by enormous inflation of house prices. I'm not American but as similar thing has happened in the UK where I live - about 65% of the UK economy is based on the housing market. If this market stops growing (and it looks like it has now in the US) bad things are in store for the economy. Especially given the 'cash point on everyone's lawn' will stop working.
It's stunning isn't it? I read thru all the comments and really very few can say anything apart from different flavors of denial of the evidence.
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Of course it is an extraordinary claim but one that needs to be taken very seriously. I don't see much of that going on.
Instead: it's a dupe, another magazine covered this already, it was always this way, it's not stuff that matters, etc.
Maybe this reaction is to be expected from this site - after all it's not a political board - but all people of voting age (and younger) should really care about this.
There's a guy called Mark Crispin Miller (a prof at NYU) who has spent years researching this topic. He believes that 2000 and 2004 were stolen and has done massive amounts of research to back this postion up. There's a link here to an audio interview:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/
He's also written books about this subject that are worth reading.
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No, that's not really true. Many apps - and 99% of small apps - install with a drag'n'drop to wherever you want to put it. Some insist on Applications because they've been 'hard-coded' to look for resources there. Most don't however. Only installs that need changes to the system library (added sounds, frameworks, app support, etc) need to go for the full install and security routine.
If developers used packages more things would be better though I must say.
It was worse in England. 6 was also illegal.
Or is it 12? (Have I got it round the right way?)
Whatever, it was illegal and thousands of cameras would watching for it - after all it was England
3 siblings die
seriously? That's awful.
Heh heh - good point. And don't forget to reset the PRAM hold down ++P+R and wait for the double bong.
(personally I'd be happy with one bong but some people are greedy that way)
Well, what does anyone expect about a product coming from the beleaguered Apple?
File this under FUD.
How about my GF who got bad credit for ignoring a final demand. Seems reasonable until you know that they were sending everything to the wrong address and she simply didn't know. Does that mean she shouldn't be allowed to work now? She has suffered from this problem for a couple of years and is finding it very hard to clear her name even though she earns very good money. Once you're into the 'computer says no' scenario it can be very hard to extricate yourself. I find this trend a bit worrying.
10 years ago AOL almost ruined my credit history because of their flakey accounting systems. Took me a while to sort things out there too. Little mistakes like this should not lead to enormous consequences.
No, I do understand how it works. That's why I said 'similar' and not 'identical'. I understand that the software I talked about is not linked into a net etc etc. It's just a bit like it, that's all - similar.
I tried this out on my Macbook.
http://www.suitable.com/tools/seismac.html
Does a similar thing. Once caveat: you can never touch the mac. So it's useless really but an interesting demo of the motion detectors. They are suprisingly accurate. Footsteps nearby show up for instance.
This story is faintly ridiculous. Like an earlier poster said there's a strand of an "only a weirdo/terrorist/kiddy fiddler would use a non-Windows machine" to it.
C64 uses a nearly standard ASCII and there wouldn't be problems reading the text as ASCII to a modern machine. You may get into trouble if he's using the playing card symbols or something but all the alpha-numerics are the same. If the data was stored on cassette there are many free PC progs that can read the audio tape and convert it to a BASIC or data file. I've done this easily before in the past for the C64 and VIC20. If the data was on floppy then the same applies although the hardware hook-up may be slightly tricky but possible.
If none of that works the info could always be viewed on his system or perhaps printed. I can't see where the problem really is.
10 REM ***MUST KIDNAP YOUNG GIRL***
20 REM ***AND FIND A CALENDAR PROG FOR C64***
even though we know that there are lots of people willing to die to bring down aircraft, and even though you say that searches are completely ineffective, aircraft aren't falling from the sky daily.
In which case there must be a fault in your logic somewhere. Either
A) there aren't lots of people willing to die to bring down an aircraft, or
B) Searches are effective.
Well, I've read the article and I do believe they are working on it. Don't know how long it will take but I reckon it's coming. There's that service (Shazam I think it's called) which can anaylse music heard via a mobile phone and this will be an expansion of that it seems. So, for example, you're listening to the Chilli Peppers all day, the s/w 'knows' that and sends you a spam link to go and buy some Peppers stuff (or related music from another band).
It hears adverts on the TV or programs and spams you there. Your GF moans about a holiday enough and guess what? Travel spam direct to your inbox.
It's scary if you ask me and another small step into the Orwellian future.
because only if the data matches do they record it as a valid label. You get a new partner everytime so little collusion is possible. It's a bit like the double data entry system companies use to enter massive catalogs into systems - any discrepancies in data flag up.
I still miss C+G from the old days. Confict catcher? Brilliant stuff.
I had SoundJam from v1.0 and everyone I knew with a Mac did too. It was the first Mac mp3 player that encoded well and didn't have a CLI. I seem to remember the guy that wrote SJ went to work for Apple and basically wrote iTunes (or lead the development). But, there's a differnence between iTunes and iPod interface so this is a bit OT.
Oooh, oooh, tabbed browsing. Can't wait to get my hands on that little feature. Sounds really useful.
Jeez - I didn't know that.
According to "The Truth About Jonestown" by Sheila Yohnk (see external links), on November 18, 1978, a large vat of grape-flavored Flavor Aid was prepared; the brew included potassium cyanide, Valium, Penegram, and chloral hydrate.
I always thought it was the Grateful Dead/LSD thing. Still, if MS drank the fruity potassium cyanide solution a lot of people would be in favor of that too.