Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well, and there are many, many technologies out there being developed that are solely for the purposes of piracy, spam & exploitation. These technophobes should do a little more homework before selecting their targets, in my humble opinion.
AOL's policies are sometimes amazingly stupid and shortsighted, at least from a business point of view. I do tech support for a very widely used internet product, and whenever we get a call saying "I'm sending email but it's not being recieved," the first question we ask is "Are you sending it to an AOL user?"
This is another step in their outdated, customer-alienating practices. It is further proof of their over-inflated ego; they may have a large userbase, but more and more of their subscribers are realizing how poorly the entire organization is being run. Sooner or later it's all going to come crashing down around them.
I'm all for supporting open source and free software, but without MP3 support nobody is going to use this. As far as being multi-platform, how hard would it be to make a service like this web-based?
While I agree that many games (GTA in particular) have intros that are way too long, you really need to give credit to the devs for doing all the cutscenes in-engine. It really adds to the immersion of the game, and although the pre-rendered cutscenes in starcraft were really cool, for any FPS game I'd much rather have the development time spent on developing good scripting for the engine.
Not a troll, just a question from a curious biochem enthusiast. I was under the impression that heroin is diacetyl-morphine, meaning 2 acetyl groups. Also, how does morphine work if it can't get into your brain?
It is true that a nuclear bomb can detonate without a computer. This does not mean, however, that a bomb is as unstable as a regular high explosive bomb, which can be set off by impact. It would be much more difficult to trigger a nuclear explosion by impact alone, because the impact would have to be localized to the trigger charge, and the rest of the nuclear mechanism would need to be intact. It makes much more sense in my mind to EMP the missile out of the air.
To be honest, however, it makes even more sense in my mind for the USA to stop making enemies with people who have bombs of any sort.
This just in: Both OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox are now available for Linux In other news, I'm not a troll but parent's point is 2/3rds incorrect.
All the digital watermarking and flagging in the world will simply disappear when you push your microphone up to your speakers to re-record it. Ditto for camcorder and tv/monitor.
This test was not as scientific as it could have been. The natives were presented with 43 sets of 6 images, and asked to choose the 'odd' one, such as 5 equilateral triangles and 1 isosceles. You could use the same type of test by showing 5 photos of happy people, and one photo of somebody badly injured and say humans are hard-wired for medicine. The results of this test are interesting, but not ground-breaking.
Requiring Mozilla is not always a good plan, because although it works on the most platforms, there is a large amount of users who are required to use IE at work, and by not checking your code against IE's non-standards-compliant rendering engine, you potentially lock out a large portion of customers.
I'm honestly not trying to troll here, but wouldn't it be easier to rewrite IE from the ground up? Have you guys considered this and ruled it out, or have you just not contemplated it. Not to vaguely bash microsoft, but a large percentage of PC and/or Windows power users would probably consider Internet Explorer 6 a write-off. Any thoughts?
While I agree that iPods and other personal media players are becoming the norm, I'm 18 and I strongly disagree with the opinion that radio is becoming a dead medium. While I listen to my MiniDisc player at the gym, on the bus, etc, I still listen primarily to the radio while driving to and from work every day. Apart from the music my favorite station plays, I also find invaluable the traffic and weather reports, news, concert info and also the contests they offer. Car radios are basically the only ones I use, but when in a car (especially alone,) the radio is still an excellent broadcast medium. Many radio stations are now allowing listeners online through their websites in real time, and I believe this only enhances their listener base. Google must have some faith in this, or they wouldn't be investing with that amount of money.
No offense to author, submitter or anyone else, but who is Jeffrey Zeldman and why should I take this 'article' with any more than a grain of salt? Other than pointing out a few useful pieces of software, what is this article really about?
Not to be a troll or anything, but I've been a Firefox advocate for over a year and just recently switched to Opera. I use my browser extensively, ie. 3 open windows with 10+ tabs each, and Opera just handles power-use much more gracefully. That being said, this is a damn good turnaround time for an entirely new platform.
Making this service 'invite-only,' the same way Gmail was introduced, in an excellent strategy in my opinion. It creates buzz around the service because demand will exceed supply initially. it also keeps spam accounts to a minimum because after they go through and identify legitimate users and allow them access, it is generally assumed that those legitimate users will prefer to only invite their friends with legitimate purposes, due to the scarcity of invites at this stage of the program. Even though it is their plan to make it publicly open eventually, doing it by this method keeps the system much 'cleaner' and also generates some hype around their new product. Brilliant move on their part.
Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/) does EXACTLY this, and when it was discussed on Slashdot a few months ago, it was praised as being a huge innovation in music technology. What's the difference, and more importantly, whats the big deal?
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Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well, and there are many, many technologies out there being developed that are solely for the purposes of piracy, spam & exploitation. These technophobes should do a little more homework before selecting their targets, in my humble opinion.
AOL's policies are sometimes amazingly stupid and shortsighted, at least from a business point of view. I do tech support for a very widely used internet product, and whenever we get a call saying "I'm sending email but it's not being recieved," the first question we ask is "Are you sending it to an AOL user?"
This is another step in their outdated, customer-alienating practices. It is further proof of their over-inflated ego; they may have a large userbase, but more and more of their subscribers are realizing how poorly the entire organization is being run. Sooner or later it's all going to come crashing down around them.
I have no mod points currently but never have I seen such an insightful post written with such poor spelling/grammar. Kudos.
I'm all for supporting open source and free software, but without MP3 support nobody is going to use this.
As far as being multi-platform, how hard would it be to make a service like this web-based?
While I agree that many games (GTA in particular) have intros that are way too long, you really need to give credit to the devs for doing all the cutscenes in-engine. It really adds to the immersion of the game, and although the pre-rendered cutscenes in starcraft were really cool, for any FPS game I'd much rather have the development time spent on developing good scripting for the engine.
Not a troll, just a question from a curious biochem enthusiast. I was under the impression that heroin is diacetyl-morphine, meaning 2 acetyl groups. Also, how does morphine work if it can't get into your brain?
Would someone care to explain this article? Looks like complete nonsense to me, something about a space suit?
No new words, per se, but he added extra syllables to quite a few.
Terrerrorism indeed.
9.10.3 Under no circumstances should full customer credit card information be published.
Oops.
It is true that a nuclear bomb can detonate without a computer. This does not mean, however, that a bomb is as unstable as a regular high explosive bomb, which can be set off by impact.
It would be much more difficult to trigger a nuclear explosion by impact alone, because the impact would have to be localized to the trigger charge, and the rest of the nuclear mechanism would need to be intact. It makes much more sense in my mind to EMP the missile out of the air.
To be honest, however, it makes even more sense in my mind for the USA to stop making enemies with people who have bombs of any sort.
okay, okay, mod me flamebait i haven't had my coffee yet my apologies to the comedian
This just in: Both OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox are now available for Linux
In other news, I'm not a troll but parent's point is 2/3rds incorrect.
When you're dealing with Microsoft?
All the digital watermarking and flagging in the world will simply disappear when you push your microphone up to your speakers to re-record it. Ditto for camcorder and tv/monitor.
This test was not as scientific as it could have been. The natives were presented with 43 sets of 6 images, and asked to choose the 'odd' one, such as 5 equilateral triangles and 1 isosceles. You could use the same type of test by showing 5 photos of happy people, and one photo of somebody badly injured and say humans are hard-wired for medicine. The results of this test are interesting, but not ground-breaking.
Requiring Mozilla is not always a good plan, because although it works on the most platforms, there is a large amount of users who are required to use IE at work, and by not checking your code against IE's non-standards-compliant rendering engine, you potentially lock out a large portion of customers.
I'm honestly not trying to troll here, but wouldn't it be easier to rewrite IE from the ground up? Have you guys considered this and ruled it out, or have you just not contemplated it. Not to vaguely bash microsoft, but a large percentage of PC and/or Windows power users would probably consider Internet Explorer 6 a write-off. Any thoughts?
While I agree that iPods and other personal media players are becoming the norm, I'm 18 and I strongly disagree with the opinion that radio is becoming a dead medium. While I listen to my MiniDisc player at the gym, on the bus, etc, I still listen primarily to the radio while driving to and from work every day. Apart from the music my favorite station plays, I also find invaluable the traffic and weather reports, news, concert info and also the contests they offer. Car radios are basically the only ones I use, but when in a car (especially alone,) the radio is still an excellent broadcast medium. Many radio stations are now allowing listeners online through their websites in real time, and I believe this only enhances their listener base. Google must have some faith in this, or they wouldn't be investing with that amount of money.
I can see the headline now:
Chronically Depressed Elevator Commits Murder-Suicide
Fifteen CEO's In Critical Condition
No offense to author, submitter or anyone else, but who is Jeffrey Zeldman and why should I take this 'article' with any more than a grain of salt? Other than pointing out a few useful pieces of software, what is this article really about?
Not to be a troll or anything, but I've been a Firefox advocate for over a year and just recently switched to Opera. I use my browser extensively, ie. 3 open windows with 10+ tabs each, and Opera just handles power-use much more gracefully. That being said, this is a damn good turnaround time for an entirely new platform.
Making this service 'invite-only,' the same way Gmail was introduced, in an excellent strategy in my opinion. It creates buzz around the service because demand will exceed supply initially. it also keeps spam accounts to a minimum because after they go through and identify legitimate users and allow them access, it is generally assumed that those legitimate users will prefer to only invite their friends with legitimate purposes, due to the scarcity of invites at this stage of the program. Even though it is their plan to make it publicly open eventually, doing it by this method keeps the system much 'cleaner' and also generates some hype around their new product. Brilliant move on their part.
That sounds delicious, apart from the Kalamaris. I'm allergic to C food.
Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/) does EXACTLY this, and when it was discussed on Slashdot a few months ago, it was praised as being a huge innovation in music technology. What's the difference, and more importantly, whats the big deal?
You forgot Duct Tape's counterpart, WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, add duct tape - If it doesn't move and it should, add WD-40.