Come on, you've got to give Microsoft some credit. They used most of their resources to get Windows ME up and running flawlessly a few years back. They're only now shifting their man-power from the ME development squadron to the XP one.
Unfortunately, this is very true. Because of the lack of songs on both DDR MAX and DDR MAX 2 I am leaning more towards the open source Step Mania to suit my DDR needs.
You just make an electronic machine to store all your passwords. You write a program that runs on the machine, and every day you are required to type a secret password into it. If for some reason you don't type in the password one day, the machine assumes you've died and it emails your passwords to relatives whom you've previously organized in its databank.
Simple as that!
It's not silly at all. It costs MONEY to run a website, not to mention hours and hours of time on the webmaster's part. When you visit the site, YOU are using bandwidth. If you block the one way the site can make back even the server fees, it's just like stealing. If you don't agree with viewing banners, then you shouldn't be wasting the bandwidth of the site. Go to some site (good luck finding one) without banners, that doesn't mind paying for YOU to surf.
The great thing about the internet is that it is controlled by the people. Of course, big corporations can manipulate it, but when it comes down to it, no big companies can change little Johnny Webmaster's free stuff site. That is of course if the corporations start making their software maniuplate the site.
The idea of ad blocking will be extremely controversial to any webmaster you ask. Webmasters work hard to keep websites up to date, and for a lot of people, the goal is to not only provide content, but to also earn some money on the side. Which would you prefer, websites with pure content, and ad banners, or websites with no ad banners, but content that is littered with ads?
Also, I ask this: What is your opinion on Gator, and how it replaces ad banners on some sites, with it's own banners usually unbeknownst to it's users? Sure the concept on the user end is different, but in either instace, the webmaster is getting screwed.
Software that blocks banner ads is the equivalent of a TV that plays it's own commercials during shows, instead of the commercials being broadcast to it. Aside from manipulating site content to include "hidden" ads, banner ads are the only way most sites make money. Widespread ad blocking will just pave the way for much more annoying ways of advertising.
NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site, it completely destroys what the purpose of the internet is.
"Speed is equivilent to downloading a DVD in 7 seconds, or a full length music CD in under a second." I could download every CD on the billboard top 100 list quicker than the RIAA settled with that 12 year old girl.
Remind me to put the latest anti-piracy methods when I release a CD. Not only do you get free publicity, but you get people buying the CD just to try to crack it, regardless of the music.
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I kid you not. Windows ME is not something to joke about. In fact, it is managing the entire Athens power grid!
Come on, you've got to give Microsoft some credit. They used most of their resources to get Windows ME up and running flawlessly a few years back. They're only now shifting their man-power from the ME development squadron to the XP one.
Unfortunately, this is very true. Because of the lack of songs on both DDR MAX and DDR MAX 2 I am leaning more towards the open source Step Mania to suit my DDR needs.
Wow, those discs could hold thousands of DDR songs!
I use Dragon Natural Speaking to do all of my web coding.
I'm on a diet so I don't get FAT32.
My Linux popcorn maker maximizes the popped to unpopped kernel ratio. Far superior to my older Windows model.
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,391215 01,00.htm
Easy solution. Change the wallpaper.
Time 'till NASA Slashdottining: T-Minus 10... 9....
Neither the University, nor the students are paying for the service, it was donated by an anonymous someone.
It's probably just left over from the filming of Total Recall.
My ears are itching. [ /Jessica Simpson Voice]
To spy on them it'd take a lot of anytime minutes. Better have it set to spy on Nights and Weekends only.
My Cellular Thong is already on pre-order.
When your phone lines start burning through the walls, don't say you weren't warned.
You just make an electronic machine to store all your passwords. You write a program that runs on the machine, and every day you are required to type a secret password into it. If for some reason you don't type in the password one day, the machine assumes you've died and it emails your passwords to relatives whom you've previously organized in its databank. Simple as that!
Hmm. 100 or so photos of an attractive man in a Tron costume. Time to be slashdotted: T minus 10 and counting...
Am I the only one who is more interested in that guy's wife than the ipod mini stuff?
It's not silly at all. It costs MONEY to run a website, not to mention hours and hours of time on the webmaster's part. When you visit the site, YOU are using bandwidth. If you block the one way the site can make back even the server fees, it's just like stealing. If you don't agree with viewing banners, then you shouldn't be wasting the bandwidth of the site. Go to some site (good luck finding one) without banners, that doesn't mind paying for YOU to surf.
The great thing about the internet is that it is controlled by the people. Of course, big corporations can manipulate it, but when it comes down to it, no big companies can change little Johnny Webmaster's free stuff site. That is of course if the corporations start making their software maniuplate the site. The idea of ad blocking will be extremely controversial to any webmaster you ask. Webmasters work hard to keep websites up to date, and for a lot of people, the goal is to not only provide content, but to also earn some money on the side. Which would you prefer, websites with pure content, and ad banners, or websites with no ad banners, but content that is littered with ads? Also, I ask this: What is your opinion on Gator, and how it replaces ad banners on some sites, with it's own banners usually unbeknownst to it's users? Sure the concept on the user end is different, but in either instace, the webmaster is getting screwed.
Software that blocks banner ads is the equivalent of a TV that plays it's own commercials during shows, instead of the commercials being broadcast to it. Aside from manipulating site content to include "hidden" ads, banner ads are the only way most sites make money. Widespread ad blocking will just pave the way for much more annoying ways of advertising. NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site, it completely destroys what the purpose of the internet is.
"Speed is equivilent to downloading a DVD in 7 seconds, or a full length music CD in under a second." I could download every CD on the billboard top 100 list quicker than the RIAA settled with that 12 year old girl.
Remind me to put the latest anti-piracy methods when I release a CD. Not only do you get free publicity, but you get people buying the CD just to try to crack it, regardless of the music.
Hey, that headline was terribly misleading :(