That's a new one to me. Are you an AOL user? If you are, that could be one reason you got it. If not, then my theory is shot.
Interestingly enough, if you happen to change one of the dll's in AIM with a copy of another dll, it tends to lower the amount of SPIM you get and there will be no ads showing up in your AIM client. Unfortunately, I don't remember which dll's you do this with (as I never done it, it's just word of mouth from a friend, and he has no reason to lie to me about these things).
until I switched what client I was using. When I switched to Trillian, my SPIM went down to virtually non-existant. Some of my friends have found ways to stop the SPIM from coming in the original clients, but for computer users, it's not exactly an easy method, but for Slashdotters, it's nothing short of a cake walk.
Ah, but as someone pointed out earlier, wouldn't someone from Gamespy have had to seen stuff like this to make a statement like that? Surely they just wouldn't go by word of mouth. Then again, they just might. Either way, it makes them look worse for still knowing about the problems, but never doing anything about them.
I was going to make a joke about the adult industry and vibrators as well, but you stole my thunder. Damn you and your adult industry, vibrator joke stealing tactics! You'll forever be doomed with insufficient batteries!
This seems to be a common occurance around here. I particularly think it's disrespectful to the users to give them some sort of credit if they're going to pick and choose the submissions from users.
"Hmm, User A and User B submitted the same story, but User A came first, his also seems to have a better summary. Though, I don't like User A, so I think I'll give the credit to User B (User B could even Slashdot staff) and use the same summary. I'll try to make it not noticeable by posting it hours, or perhaps days later!"
The scenario above has happened to me a couple times before. If you're going to give people credit, don't snub certain people for arbitrary reasons.
Sorry, I just felt like I had to jump in on the bandwagon and say something similar. It's my fault for not making my lack of being serious that obvious.
If iTunes has been around for years, then it could hardly be the 'coolest invetion of 2003', since it was supposedly invented years ago and being used.
Yes, right now, the iPods are selling well. There will come a time when their allure fades out and people no longer buy iPods, but still buy songs from iTunes. Short term, great investment. Long term, probably not that great of an investment.
Furthermore, think who pays the RIAA's salary. Gee, isn't it those record labels you speak of? Doesn't ASCAP and the RIAA collect royalties anyway? Aren't ASCAP and the RIAA notorious for not handing the royalties down to the artist?
I wouldn't necessarily say that they've done it right. After all, iTunes isn't completely consumer friendly, or artist friendly. Also, Apple makes no money from it (using this to sell iPods isn't exactly the greatest idea, IMO). The majority of your 99 cents goes to the RIAA. I highly doubt that the RIAA trickles any of that money down to the labels who will spread it out amongst their artists.
Is that I submitted this story hours ago, and it was rejected. The title of the subject was the exact same title. The summary was very similar to the one you see for this article. Fuck you slashdot. You have just lost a long time reader.
Could this someday replace the hard drive? I realize that hard drives rely on magnetic data storage, but it's done in a different way than MRAM. Perhaps when MRAM technology can hold more, we could possibly do away with the hard drive and have even faster loading times to your programs.
I wonder how MRAM would handle memory errors though.
Another obvious attempt at flamebait that I will respond to anyway.
I did not link because they agreed that the term was racist. If you would have RTFA more carefully, you would have seen that. The article also mentions NEWS search. Why should I have to mention it?
Their excuse to the hate speech is not that others do it, their excuse was they couldn't figure out how it got posted. Oddly enough, they haven't changed it or taken it down. What should irk people is that Google is playing selective racism here. Apparently certain racist words are acceptable.
Even though I realize your post is nothing more than flame bait and perhaps a horrible joke, I will respond to it anyway.
It doesn't matter what kind of news indymedia has. If they're going to stop indexing one site for racial slurs, it should ban the others. There's plenty of stuff that was out there before indymedia that they could have got. Essentially, it makes it seem like that Google thinks that some racial slurs is 'news worthy' or 'journalistic'.
Lawsuits like this are assinine and done out of anger. You should be suing the parents of the boys, not Take2Interactive. Obviously these boys were not mature enough to handle playing a game like this. Both boys weren't even 17, so where was the parential supervision? Suing Take2Interactive takes some of the blame off of the boys and their parents.
Video Games do not kill people. People kill people. What you see and play on GTA is just as bad as what you can see on cable TV, or you local news station every night.
The problem here, as I stated earlier is the maturity level of these boys, and their parents not supervising them. When I was 12 years old, I could have told you that this stuff was not safe to do, nor did I even remotely take any video game seriously. You can not blame makers of a game for something they clearly did not do. Well, you can, but you just look like a fool when doing so.
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Any search engine I feel like using at the moment, and this is why.
The only time I ever use google is if I absolutely can not find what I want on other search engines.
Maybe it's due to ignorance on my part, but what exactly has google done wrong in this case that they deserve the wrath of the DMCA? I really can't figure it out. WIll someone be kind enough to explain it to me?
While that's all fine and dandy, you're making it sound like more livejournal users care about each other, which as I've stated before, am willing to bet that the majority doesn't care about the majority. I'm willing to take that further and say that most people really don't care about, I dunno, anymore than 20 people who use livejournal maximum. In a community, people usually care about the rest. Look at action networks. Those communities are huge, guess what? Those people care about each other. In fact, they're even willing to help each other out.
It's not that hard to create your own community of sorts by creating your own website. You can have your profiles, your calendars, your reply to this message deal, and more, and still have that community. If you like somoene else, link to them. Sure, livejournal puts it in a convenient package, but it's not necessary.
If your ramblings are that interesting to read, it will get around eventually by word of mouth. It might take some time, but it will get around.
Community my ass. If it was about the community, these people would be in a more tight knit group. It's a very scattered community at best. I've looked through numerous of those journals before. At best, they only care about their friends who use livejournal. Close friends are going to know what's posted on there anyway. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that most of the livejournal users don't care about the majority of the other users.
I'll probably get some negative karma for this one but...
Why don't those live journal users learn some simple HTML and get some free space. Yahoo's (geocities) service is somewhat decent. It's not like HTML is hard to learn. Geeze. I learned it in an hour.
Hell, places like Yahoo even have a page builder for you *shudders*, though I really don't like them. If you build your own place for a journal, it's more customizable. Live Journal users aren't really going to need to post anything else besides some images and htm(l) files, which is about all you can do with yahoo's free service. So what, they'd have to spend some extra time writing in the code, but what they can do with the code will beat what they can do with livejournal.
Why is that I keep on seeing 250k per each song? I thought it was 150k. I thought the 250k figure came from the ACCOPS bill which, to my knowledge, hasn't been passed yet.
Nope. It would be a deriative work. All the person would really need to do is give credit to the author.
The deriative works thing brings up an important point. MP3's could be easily considered a deriative work. Why? Because not all of the information is in them. You don't actually get the full song, just bits and pieces of it. Perhaps someone should clue the bastards at the RIAA in on this. An MP3 is NOT a perfect copy. At best, one could consider it a deriative work.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go butcher the word 'deriative' some more (as I have no clue how it's actually spelled).
Though, the same article shows that that AOL's 'sister company' Time Warner, who offers cable Internet access has recieved 135 subpeona's. Interesting, no?
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That's a new one to me. Are you an AOL user? If you are, that could be one reason you got it. If not, then my theory is shot.
Interestingly enough, if you happen to change one of the dll's in AIM with a copy of another dll, it tends to lower the amount of SPIM you get and there will be no ads showing up in your AIM client. Unfortunately, I don't remember which dll's you do this with (as I never done it, it's just word of mouth from a friend, and he has no reason to lie to me about these things).
until I switched what client I was using. When I switched to Trillian, my SPIM went down to virtually non-existant. Some of my friends have found ways to stop the SPIM from coming in the original clients, but for computer users, it's not exactly an easy method, but for Slashdotters, it's nothing short of a cake walk.
Ah, but as someone pointed out earlier, wouldn't someone from Gamespy have had to seen stuff like this to make a statement like that? Surely they just wouldn't go by word of mouth. Then again, they just might. Either way, it makes them look worse for still knowing about the problems, but never doing anything about them.
I was going to make a joke about the adult industry and vibrators as well, but you stole my thunder. Damn you and your adult industry, vibrator joke stealing tactics! You'll forever be doomed with insufficient batteries!
Couldn't that be due to the time zone they're in? Then again, I could be wrong.
This seems to be a common occurance around here. I particularly think it's disrespectful to the users to give them some sort of credit if they're going to pick and choose the submissions from users.
"Hmm, User A and User B submitted the same story, but User A came first, his also seems to have a better summary. Though, I don't like User A, so I think I'll give the credit to User B (User B could even Slashdot staff) and use the same summary. I'll try to make it not noticeable by posting it hours, or perhaps days later!"
The scenario above has happened to me a couple times before. If you're going to give people credit, don't snub certain people for arbitrary reasons.
Sorry, I just felt like I had to jump in on the bandwagon and say something similar. It's my fault for not making my lack of being serious that obvious.
If iTunes has been around for years, then it could hardly be the 'coolest invetion of 2003', since it was supposedly invented years ago and being used.
Yes, right now, the iPods are selling well. There will come a time when their allure fades out and people no longer buy iPods, but still buy songs from iTunes. Short term, great investment. Long term, probably not that great of an investment.
Furthermore, think who pays the RIAA's salary. Gee, isn't it those record labels you speak of? Doesn't ASCAP and the RIAA collect royalties anyway? Aren't ASCAP and the RIAA notorious for not handing the royalties down to the artist?
I wouldn't necessarily say that they've done it right. After all, iTunes isn't completely consumer friendly, or artist friendly. Also, Apple makes no money from it (using this to sell iPods isn't exactly the greatest idea, IMO). The majority of your 99 cents goes to the RIAA. I highly doubt that the RIAA trickles any of that money down to the labels who will spread it out amongst their artists.
Is that I submitted this story hours ago, and it was rejected. The title of the subject was the exact same title. The summary was very similar to the one you see for this article. Fuck you slashdot. You have just lost a long time reader.
Could this someday replace the hard drive? I realize that hard drives rely on magnetic data storage, but it's done in a different way than MRAM. Perhaps when MRAM technology can hold more, we could possibly do away with the hard drive and have even faster loading times to your programs.
I wonder how MRAM would handle memory errors though.
Another obvious attempt at flamebait that I will respond to anyway.
I did not link because they agreed that the term was racist. If you would have RTFA more carefully, you would have seen that. The article also mentions NEWS search. Why should I have to mention it?
Their excuse to the hate speech is not that others do it, their excuse was they couldn't figure out how it got posted. Oddly enough, they haven't changed it or taken it down. What should irk people is that Google is playing selective racism here. Apparently certain racist words are acceptable.
Even though I realize your post is nothing more than flame bait and perhaps a horrible joke, I will respond to it anyway.
It doesn't matter what kind of news indymedia has. If they're going to stop indexing one site for racial slurs, it should ban the others. There's plenty of stuff that was out there before indymedia that they could have got. Essentially, it makes it seem like that Google thinks that some racial slurs is 'news worthy' or 'journalistic'.
Lawsuits like this are assinine and done out of anger. You should be suing the parents of the boys, not Take2Interactive. Obviously these boys were not mature enough to handle playing a game like this. Both boys weren't even 17, so where was the parential supervision? Suing Take2Interactive takes some of the blame off of the boys and their parents.
Video Games do not kill people. People kill people. What you see and play on GTA is just as bad as what you can see on cable TV, or you local news station every night.
The problem here, as I stated earlier is the maturity level of these boys, and their parents not supervising them. When I was 12 years old, I could have told you that this stuff was not safe to do, nor did I even remotely take any video game seriously. You can not blame makers of a game for something they clearly did not do. Well, you can, but you just look like a fool when doing so.
Any search engine I feel like using at the moment, and this is why.
The only time I ever use google is if I absolutely can not find what I want on other search engines.
Next thing you know, Sharman Networks will cite the DMCA to Slashdot in order to get the links that slashdotters have posted, removed.
Maybe it's due to ignorance on my part, but what exactly has google done wrong in this case that they deserve the wrath of the DMCA? I really can't figure it out. WIll someone be kind enough to explain it to me?
While that's all fine and dandy, you're making it sound like more livejournal users care about each other, which as I've stated before, am willing to bet that the majority doesn't care about the majority. I'm willing to take that further and say that most people really don't care about, I dunno, anymore than 20 people who use livejournal maximum. In a community, people usually care about the rest. Look at action networks. Those communities are huge, guess what? Those people care about each other. In fact, they're even willing to help each other out.
It's not that hard to create your own community of sorts by creating your own website. You can have your profiles, your calendars, your reply to this message deal, and more, and still have that community. If you like somoene else, link to them. Sure, livejournal puts it in a convenient package, but it's not necessary.
If your ramblings are that interesting to read, it will get around eventually by word of mouth. It might take some time, but it will get around.
I also don't buy the community spiel.
Community my ass. If it was about the community, these people would be in a more tight knit group. It's a very scattered community at best. I've looked through numerous of those journals before. At best, they only care about their friends who use livejournal. Close friends are going to know what's posted on there anyway. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that most of the livejournal users don't care about the majority of the other users.
There's many other free services out there than can provide this stuff. A person just needs to do a little work and look.
I'll probably get some negative karma for this one but...
Why don't those live journal users learn some simple HTML and get some free space. Yahoo's (geocities) service is somewhat decent. It's not like HTML is hard to learn. Geeze. I learned it in an hour.
Hell, places like Yahoo even have a page builder for you *shudders*, though I really don't like them. If you build your own place for a journal, it's more customizable. Live Journal users aren't really going to need to post anything else besides some images and htm(l) files, which is about all you can do with yahoo's free service. So what, they'd have to spend some extra time writing in the code, but what they can do with the code will beat what they can do with livejournal.
Why is that I keep on seeing 250k per each song? I thought it was 150k. I thought the 250k figure came from the ACCOPS bill which, to my knowledge, hasn't been passed yet.
Nope. It would be a deriative work. All the person would really need to do is give credit to the author.
The deriative works thing brings up an important point. MP3's could be easily considered a deriative work. Why? Because not all of the information is in them. You don't actually get the full song, just bits and pieces of it. Perhaps someone should clue the bastards at the RIAA in on this. An MP3 is NOT a perfect copy. At best, one could consider it a deriative work.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go butcher the word 'deriative' some more (as I have no clue how it's actually spelled).
Actually, AOL has received ONE subpeona. Big fucking deal, right?
Though, the same article shows that that AOL's 'sister company' Time Warner, who offers cable Internet access has recieved 135 subpeona's. Interesting, no?