That's a very interesting point. My wife spent 3 years in HS marching band (at a school that actually *cared* about the marching band), yet it's blatantly obvious which video has been shot by her because it shakes all over the place. She's improved somewhat over the past 4 years, but it still makes me dizzy to watch her clips. Maybe if I suggest she pretends the camera is her instrument, the old marching instincts will kick in! (will she also start stepping at perfect 22.5 " intervals??)
No, what you're paying for at ITMS is DRM-enabled tracks, the assumption being that you'd have to pay more for fewer distribution restrictions. Using PyMusique to get stuff from the ITMS is like paying for an auto lease, then tricking the dealer into letting you keep the car (for free) at the end of the lease rather than returning it.
For so long, one of the more legit arguments for downloading music via p2p was that music publishers gave customers no other options other than to purchase an entire, overpriced CD when all a person wanted was one or two songs. Now we have a multitude of options for buying music pretty damn inexpensively online with a very reasonable implementation of DRM, and some people still want to jump through hoops to cheat the system? For god's sakes, write your own music if you're that cheap!
A year ago I submitted my own site with my resume on it to Google, as I was looking for a job at the time. I don't recall how long it took, but it wasn't too long before I could type in my name and my site was at the top of the search results. It had been nonexistant in their results prior to that. I seriously doubt that anyone was linking to my site. Perhaps they took pity on me?
Unfortunately, I don't think too many people are terribly impressed with the collection of Star Wars "New Jedi Order" series in our house. Fortunately, my wife is the SW freak, and who else do I need to impress?
True, but it was only ruled unconstitutional due to the way the law was tacked onto an unrelated bill in order to get passed. So it was passed on a technicality, shot down in court due to that technicality, and hasn't had much impact on real life, either way. Why do we talk about it, then? Because it's ever-so-slightly less trivial than the Randy Moss soap opera, so we can pretend we're smart citizens?
Yahoo was actually conceived in 1994, though it wasn't incorporated until March 2, 1995. So I guess the "birthday" metaphor still works if you consider the pre-corporate months as the company's gestational period. So does that mean that private, non-incorporated businesses are the business-world equivalent of fetuses? OK, I'm creeping myself out now.
I remember my first experience with Yahoo, back in Fall, 1994. My Classics professor asked for help in locating a popular Classics mailing list she'd heard about. A friend showed me Yahoo, and I found the Bryn Mawr listserv within minutes. It was kind of disorienting, since I couldn't quite wrap my head around where this information was coming from!
I don't believe so. They came into being when Gopher was pretty much at its peak, and IMHO contributed to its rapid demise (not directly, but simply by demonstrating how much better a web directory *can* be than text-only Gopher).
This report is clearly biased. If you read the fine print, you'll see that it was funded by Vulcan and Sol. Do you honestly expect this research to place the blame on them?
I mean, come on - Sol has published previous studies that claim 100% uptime for 1+ billion years for itself, while most humans can't go for more than a few months without getting attacked by viruses, and every one of them succombs to worms in less than 200 years. Whatever!
Well, that's nifty and all, but why does it have to be part of the web browser? Our.NET app checks at launch for new components to replace old/missing ones. Heck, at a previous employer, my coworkers developed a Delphi app that checked for a newer version of itself at launch time, and installed it if necessary. It was quite simple for them to put this together, actually.
Well, yes, but not a harsh, demeaning sarcasm (unless the original poster really presses his/her point!). More like snarkiness. What's the emoticon that conveys snarkiness?
What we really need is tighter integration with the OS. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to install/upgrade software from a remote site simply by clicking on a link?
It didn't before, for sure. The new version is supposed to be much better, though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Sounds promising!
This is what they say about it:
Write captions that stay with the picture.
Picasa 2 makes captions the way journalists do - using the IPTC standard. That means your captions are saved within their pictures and stay with them, whether you export as a web page, make a CD presentation, or share them using Hello. Picasa captions are fully editable and searchable, and you choose whether to display them or not.
Actually, all your personal photos will start showing up on images.google.com for the whole world to see.
(Just kidding! Yours was a good question, though.)
I have grown quite spoiled by Picasa's export-to-web feature over the past couple of years. It's not perfect, but I can download pics from the camera, organize them, export them in a web-friendly format (thumbnails, navigation, etc.), and ftp the batch to my site for the grandparents to see, all in about 5 minutes. Sure beats the heck out of building the html myself.
My main gripe has been the disconnect between the album organization and actual filesystem structure, as it makes backups tricky. Sounds like the new export features should have this covered.
Did you RTFA, or just make assumptions based on the headline?
"Economic losses will be in the tens of billions of dollars, if not more, and the scale of human suffering is enormous," the Insurance Information Institute said in a report. "However... relatively little insurance is sold in the affected countries, meaning that insured losses are likely to be modest relative to the scale of the disaster."
"Acts of God" are generally what insurance is FOR. The term covers most weather-related incidents (as opposed to acts of war, or other human-caused events), so their label is quite correct, and not an effort to evade paying claims.
I take some pride in our country because I help to at least maintain it as a wonderful place to live. Even if the Constitution were written in stone, it is meaningless if each subsequent generation does not understand it, appreciate it, and (continue to) put it into action. Do others do more? Of course, and they often play more obvious roles, but I do what I can, as do most other people I know.
FWIW, there have been a few discussions about similar topics in the past which I happened to bookmark because I was considering going that route myself last year. Grant Barrett wrote a couple of interesting articles about starting up your own tech consulting business. They have been re-published at http://www.koozie.org/2004/10/freelance_tech_.html.
I don't have the link to that Slashdot discussion, but it basically fell along the lines of "good advice!" and "no way it'll work."
A discussion about how to set up your consultancy was at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/19/205022 0&mode=thread
That one's a little more informative.
There, now I feel somewhat justified for actually bookmarking that stuff. Good luck!
Sounds like a good experiment, though I'd probably be waiting out there a long time here in MN at this time of year. In the spring it would be nice to see that there are other bugs flying around besides mosquitoes.
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That's a very interesting point. My wife spent 3 years in HS marching band (at a school that actually *cared* about the marching band), yet it's blatantly obvious which video has been shot by her because it shakes all over the place. She's improved somewhat over the past 4 years, but it still makes me dizzy to watch her clips. Maybe if I suggest she pretends the camera is her instrument, the old marching instincts will kick in! (will she also start stepping at perfect 22.5 " intervals??)
No, what you're paying for at ITMS is DRM-enabled tracks, the assumption being that you'd have to pay more for fewer distribution restrictions. Using PyMusique to get stuff from the ITMS is like paying for an auto lease, then tricking the dealer into letting you keep the car (for free) at the end of the lease rather than returning it.
For so long, one of the more legit arguments for downloading music via p2p was that music publishers gave customers no other options other than to purchase an entire, overpriced CD when all a person wanted was one or two songs. Now we have a multitude of options for buying music pretty damn inexpensively online with a very reasonable implementation of DRM, and some people still want to jump through hoops to cheat the system? For god's sakes, write your own music if you're that cheap!
A year ago I submitted my own site with my resume on it to Google, as I was looking for a job at the time. I don't recall how long it took, but it wasn't too long before I could type in my name and my site was at the top of the search results. It had been nonexistant in their results prior to that. I seriously doubt that anyone was linking to my site. Perhaps they took pity on me?
Unfortunately, I don't think too many people are terribly impressed with the collection of Star Wars "New Jedi Order" series in our house. Fortunately, my wife is the SW freak, and who else do I need to impress?
True, but it was only ruled unconstitutional due to the way the law was tacked onto an unrelated bill in order to get passed. So it was passed on a technicality, shot down in court due to that technicality, and hasn't had much impact on real life, either way. Why do we talk about it, then? Because it's ever-so-slightly less trivial than the Randy Moss soap opera, so we can pretend we're smart citizens?
Nor has it been shown to prevent any crimes from being committed, as was touted by its proponents.
I remember my first experience with Yahoo, back in Fall, 1994. My Classics professor asked for help in locating a popular Classics mailing list she'd heard about. A friend showed me Yahoo, and I found the Bryn Mawr listserv within minutes. It was kind of disorienting, since I couldn't quite wrap my head around where this information was coming from!
I don't believe so. They came into being when Gopher was pretty much at its peak, and IMHO contributed to its rapid demise (not directly, but simply by demonstrating how much better a web directory *can* be than text-only Gopher).
When eBay turns 10, I predict they'll offer a scoop of off-brand ice cream for $0.01, but charge $8.95 for shipping and handling via sugarcone.
No, what's really sad is that I've now read both threads on the subject! I guess I've got ID envy.
I mean, come on - Sol has published previous studies that claim 100% uptime for 1+ billion years for itself, while most humans can't go for more than a few months without getting attacked by viruses, and every one of them succombs to worms in less than 200 years. Whatever!
Is there some significance to February 16 that I'm not aware of, or did they throw a dart at a calendar?
Well, that's nifty and all, but why does it have to be part of the web browser? Our .NET app checks at launch for new components to replace old/missing ones. Heck, at a previous employer, my coworkers developed a Delphi app that checked for a newer version of itself at launch time, and installed it if necessary. It was quite simple for them to put this together, actually.
Well, yes, but not a harsh, demeaning sarcasm (unless the original poster really presses his/her point!). More like snarkiness. What's the emoticon that conveys snarkiness?
What we really need is tighter integration with the OS. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to install/upgrade software from a remote site simply by clicking on a link?
It didn't before, for sure. The new version is supposed to be much better, though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Sounds promising! This is what they say about it: Write captions that stay with the picture. Picasa 2 makes captions the way journalists do - using the IPTC standard. That means your captions are saved within their pictures and stay with them, whether you export as a web page, make a CD presentation, or share them using Hello. Picasa captions are fully editable and searchable, and you choose whether to display them or not.
Actually, all your personal photos will start showing up on images.google.com for the whole world to see. (Just kidding! Yours was a good question, though.)
I have grown quite spoiled by Picasa's export-to-web feature over the past couple of years. It's not perfect, but I can download pics from the camera, organize them, export them in a web-friendly format (thumbnails, navigation, etc.), and ftp the batch to my site for the grandparents to see, all in about 5 minutes. Sure beats the heck out of building the html myself.
My main gripe has been the disconnect between the album organization and actual filesystem structure, as it makes backups tricky. Sounds like the new export features should have this covered.
Thanks, Google!
"Economic losses will be in the tens of billions of dollars, if not more, and the scale of human suffering is enormous," the Insurance Information Institute said in a report. ... relatively little insurance is sold in the affected countries, meaning that insured losses are likely to be modest relative to the scale of the disaster."
"However
"Acts of God" are generally what insurance is FOR. The term covers most weather-related incidents (as opposed to acts of war, or other human-caused events), so their label is quite correct, and not an effort to evade paying claims.
I take some pride in our country because I help to at least maintain it as a wonderful place to live. Even if the Constitution were written in stone, it is meaningless if each subsequent generation does not understand it, appreciate it, and (continue to) put it into action. Do others do more? Of course, and they often play more obvious roles, but I do what I can, as do most other people I know.
FWIW, there have been a few discussions about similar topics in the past which I happened to bookmark because I was considering going that route myself last year. Grant Barrett wrote a couple of interesting articles about starting up your own tech consulting business. They have been re-published at http://www.koozie.org/2004/10/freelance_tech_.html .
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I don't have the link to that Slashdot discussion, but it basically fell along the lines of "good advice!" and "no way it'll work."
A discussion about how to set up your consultancy was at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/19/20502
That one's a little more informative.
There, now I feel somewhat justified for actually bookmarking that stuff. Good luck!
And you're probably getting charged up the ying-yang for both!
Sounds like a good experiment, though I'd probably be waiting out there a long time here in MN at this time of year. In the spring it would be nice to see that there are other bugs flying around besides mosquitoes.
Please explain - I'm trying to reduce my grocery bills!