One of the things I could see google offer is the ability to search for songs by lyrics and additional meta data. I know a lot of times when I purchase music via itunes and I don't know the actual name of the song the first thing I do is search for "lyrics" followed by the phrase from the song.
Now I have to spend another 99, just to get the videos. Was looking at the Gorillaz website store trying to decide if I should get the DVD video disk. Probably cheaper than whatever £12.99 works out to in US dollars. (that's, $24.47 according to dashboard's conversion widget).
It's doesn't include the video for Feel Good Inc itself. Oh well. Still the videos are pretty funny.
I've noticed the same thing myself. When I don't buy all the tracks of an artist, I will often go back and reevaluate the other tracks. More often then not when I do this I buy the remaining tracks and adding one or two of them to my favorites list instead of the my original favorite.
Only one of the people I know with an XBox uses it for games anymore. I have bought two myself, and both sit collecting dust, while the PS2s gets used every day. (Currently mostly FF XI and Tetramaster) A couple of my friends had it modified one as a media client but now use a dual boot window/linux box instead. I modified mine for something similar but never really used that one much. From what I've seen of the XBox games is that they are more even targeted to a male 18~25 audience than must other system, and to be honest I find stuff like Halo uninteresting.
claiming them to be a way to entice female players;
Not....likely...
I wouldn't be so sure of that. A lot of the other girls I know enjoy such stories/games. Japan has yaoi, America has slash. (IE Kirk / Spock). Actually that gives a whole new meaning to the name of this website...
That seems wrong to me. If somebody were to crash into my car, I see it is responsible to go for enough money to cover car damage, medical, etc. But going for everything you can get, that seems wrong to me... I know I had a couple of opportunities in the past to make such suits (Dr's assistant accidently blew apart one of my eardrums once but it was an honest mistake, and I tore a ligament at work -- triped over a post sticking out of the ground when taking a short cut), but suing in either case would be like ugggh even if I could get away with it.
One of the problem I have with this technique is that the guy had to record the sound of each key 30 times before starting to try to recognize keystroke. This is time consuming and requires physical access to the keyboard.
I imagine if someone wanted to use this in practice, you could probably do it by just having computer partition the sounds into different groups, and then using a histogram and letter pair frequencies to figure out which key is likely to be which. Also I could see this technic used on historical data. Imagine you already had some auto-recordings already, say a phone tap where someone used a computer while talking on a speaker phone. It might be possible to extrapolate what was being typed with enough data using a technic like this one. I could also see keyboard finger printing. Just because you don't know what type of keyboard is being listened, if you have a larger enough sample of different standard keyboards it could probably be figured out.
I actually prefer content able to run to the bottom of the window. With the option to turn on an off a status bar, ala Safari.
OmniWeb 4.5 is still too crash prone for me which is why I still use a version 4.2.1 for stuff that crashes my other browsers (eg keenspot.com). Most of the crashes I've seen also effect Safari and appear to be in webcore's handling of JavaScript background processing. (My main browser is Safari. If OmniWeb 5 is crash free enough, I will switch back, but chances are I'll wait to update my registration to OmniWeb 5.1 or later.)
As to size of the location bar, it's possible to have it as a separate row of it's own. Just remove the address box from the customized toolbar and turn on location bar (Option-Apple-L).
If the server is smart, it will automatically discard all bulk e-mail purporting to be from that address.
This sounds like a risk for a denial of service attack. Spammer's already forge headers... The poor person who happened to have his email address forged might not only get deluded by tons of challenges... but would have to answer a lot of the challenges just to prevent their address from being black listed. Furthermore I imagine a responible time period would have to be selected before blacklisting... else you would block legitimate senders that didn't answer the challenge immediately. (Say they sent the email and then shutoff their computer for the night, etc...)
Have some of us 'g33ky' girls don't want diamonds.
I know I've pretty much decided that I will dump anyone that tries to give me a diamond. If they don't know my opinion on them by that point, then how can they know really know me.
Yea, yea it might hard to explain to the family... but if people want to find fault they will. Now what I think would be really sweat would be a ring with a holographic crystal.
I have been a long time Opera users at the point I made my switch from Windows and Linux to Mac. I was a registered user of Opera and used to tell tell all my friends about it. My intent when getting my Mac was to buy the cross-platform upgrade and run Opera as my main browser. However before I spent the money, I tried out several of the other browsers and ended up buy an OmniWeb license. While OmniWeb has pretty bad standard support (especially CSS), it worked with most of the pages I used and I liked a lot of the options and settings it provided. For some reason, I could never place my finger on, Opera didn't feel at home on my Mac. I guess I'd gotten used to the MDI interface under windows... and Opera 5 beta or so just didn't feel polished/user friendly enough when I tried it.
Having mostly used OmniWeb for a while, when Safari came out I decided to try a bunch of different browsers again. Opera 6 looks a lot better than it did the last time I tried it, and I'm actually thinking seriously about switching back to Opera. I've also thought about switching over to Safari once it's not a beta and converting back to OmniWeb after it switches over to WebCore.
Personally I think that Apple's switch to Safari will help non-IE, non-gecko browsers and websites might adjust just a little to handle different browsers. One thing I can't help but wonder is... is this a tactic by Opera to get people to look at/buy there browser. After any media attention is good.
I just tried a test in the standard Terminal in Jaguar and it works. (In case the characters don't display in the post... I tried typing a i u e o in hiragana.)
The top mount in the G4 is adjustable.... you just have to screw the right side in place first, and then the left edges will bend as necessary. (To be honest it took me a few minutes to figure this out, and then I saw it was in the manual lol) The other two plates are single drive mounts and attach to the bottoms of drives. I've never thought of mounting drives by their bottom side before even if I 'knew' they had mount points there. In general I've found Mac's very convenient once I unlearned some of my PC based assumptions.
At the local flee market, there is a little shop that sells old computers (mostly school computers that were replaced during upgrades) including older PowerMac's for like $25 a pop. (I got my first Mac there to play with before I committed to getting my G4). If this was offered in the states, it might well be worth buying a used Mac and trading it in.
I actually did something similar when I brought my Commodore 64. The had this $100 discount if you traded in an old electronic pong game, so I found one cheap and got the trade in.
I've currently donated money or payed for reading several online comics. I pay several hundred dollars a month for real world comics & manga, but enjoy many online comics more. So why shouldn't I pay for them, especially if I can afford it. I haven't paid as much yet as I want/plan to, so far just over a hundred dollars. (There are still several webcomics artists I plan to give money too, I'm thinking for setting up a cycle or the like.) The biggest problem I see with web content today is that so much of it is advert-sponsered that people, get used to thinking web == free (as in money). I'd rather pay for what I wanted/got.
BTW, My favorites are probably: Alice!, Ozy and Millie, Clan of the Cats, Free Fall, CRFH, Lean on Me, and Okashina Okashi to name just a few. I don't see playing for webcomics any different they paying to support other online communities. I might even subscribe to Slashdot if they started charging.:)
If Microsoft does release this technology, even with-out microsoft controlling the database, I can also see a way that content/advertisers providers could abuse this to make it appear that the tag provides endorse their view.
All they would have to do is cause obscured words to trigger the smart links. These words could be chosen to get the desired smart tag links, the same way web pages used to fool search engines by including lots of hidden text matching valuable search terms.
I have to admit if they do release this technology, I wonder how easy such tricks could be done.
True.... Just think of the copy protection techinques.... combine it in a book with some of those paper batteries that were mentioned awhile ago, some photo sensors, etc. Imagine how easy it would be to implement photo-copier/scanner protection.
I could also see companies using this for protected and trade secret documents. If you could add a small gps, you could even make it erase itself if it was ever removed from the building.
Definately some interesting and scary potentionals.
If the big concern is wanting to talk with all your friends using AIM, why not create an new AIM away message in AIM that says something like
"I am switching from AIM to Jabber. See http://jabber.org/. My jabber id is ####."
I switched to the Dvorak keyboard a few years ago when I started noticing that my hands were beginning to ache from typing. One thing I learned when I switched to Dvorak is while typing English is much easier, you have to be careful about shortcuts. Shortly after I switched my left pinky started to hurt alot, though my hands felt better otherwise. It turned out that the control-X combination in Emacs was the problem. I was used to typing control-X with one hand, but under Dvorak it is quite a stretch. I've since been careful to train myself not to press modifiers like shift and control with the same hand that is typing letters.
The other change I made was switching from a mouse to a tablet. Being left handed I had found most mice to be a pain and clumsy. It got so that I spent alot of time either fighting with the mouse or cleaning it. I found the speed and easy of tablets let me relax more at using the computer.
One word of caution with tablets though, they are addicting. I've found that once I got used to tablets, I found mice much more annoying to use.
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One of the things I could see google offer is the ability to search for songs by lyrics and additional meta data. I know a lot of times when I purchase music via itunes and I don't know the actual name of the song the first thing I do is search for "lyrics" followed by the phrase from the song.
Now I have to spend another 99, just to get the videos. Was looking at the Gorillaz website store trying to decide if I should get the DVD video disk. Probably cheaper than whatever £12.99 works out to in US dollars. (that's, $24.47 according to dashboard's conversion widget).
It's doesn't include the video for Feel Good Inc itself. Oh well. Still the videos are pretty funny.
I've noticed the same thing myself. When I don't buy all the tracks of an artist, I will often go back and reevaluate the other tracks. More often then not when I do this I buy the remaining tracks and adding one or two of them to my favorites list instead of the my original favorite.
Only one of the people I know with an XBox uses it for games anymore. I have bought two myself, and both sit collecting dust, while the PS2s gets used every day. (Currently mostly FF XI and Tetramaster) A couple of my friends had it modified one as a media client but now use a dual boot window/linux box instead. I modified mine for something similar but never really used that one much. From what I've seen of the XBox games is that they are more even targeted to a male 18~25 audience than must other system, and to be honest I find stuff like Halo uninteresting.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. A lot of the other girls I know enjoy such stories/games. Japan has yaoi, America has slash. (IE Kirk / Spock). Actually that gives a whole new meaning to the name of this website...
That seems wrong to me. If somebody were to crash into my car, I see it is responsible to go for enough money to cover car damage, medical, etc. But going for everything you can get, that seems wrong to me... I know I had a couple of opportunities in the past to make such suits (Dr's assistant accidently blew apart one of my eardrums once but it was an honest mistake, and I tore a ligament at work -- triped over a post sticking out of the ground when taking a short cut), but suing in either case would be like ugggh even if I could get away with it.
I imagine if someone wanted to use this in practice, you could probably do it by just having computer partition the sounds into different groups, and then using a histogram and letter pair frequencies to figure out which key is likely to be which. Also I could see this technic used on historical data. Imagine you already had some auto-recordings already, say a phone tap where someone used a computer while talking on a speaker phone. It might be possible to extrapolate what was being typed with enough data using a technic like this one. I could also see keyboard finger printing. Just because you don't know what type of keyboard is being listened, if you have a larger enough sample of different standard keyboards it could probably be figured out.
I actually prefer content able to run to the bottom of the window. With the option to turn on an off a status bar, ala Safari.
OmniWeb 4.5 is still too crash prone for me which is why I still use a version 4.2.1 for stuff that crashes my other browsers (eg keenspot.com). Most of the crashes I've seen also effect Safari and appear to be in webcore's handling of JavaScript background processing. (My main browser is Safari. If OmniWeb 5 is crash free enough, I will switch back, but chances are I'll wait to update my registration to OmniWeb 5.1 or later.)
As to size of the location bar, it's possible to have it as a separate row of it's own. Just remove the address box from the customized toolbar and turn on location bar (Option-Apple-L).
- If the server is smart, it will automatically discard all bulk e-mail purporting to be from that address.
This sounds like a risk for a denial of service attack. Spammer's already forge headers... The poor person who happened to have his email address forged might not only get deluded by tons of challenges... but would have to answer a lot of the challenges just to prevent their address from being black listed. Furthermore I imagine a responible time period would have to be selected before blacklisting... else you would block legitimate senders that didn't answer the challenge immediately. (Say they sent the email and then shutoff their computer for the night, etc...)Have some of us 'g33ky' girls don't want diamonds.
I know I've pretty much decided that I will dump anyone that tries to give me a diamond. If they don't know my opinion on them by that point, then how can they know really know me.
Yea, yea it might hard to explain to the family... but if people want to find fault they will. Now what I think would be really sweat would be a ring with a holographic crystal.
I have been a long time Opera users at the point I made my switch from Windows and Linux to Mac. I was a registered user of Opera and used to tell tell all my friends about it. My intent when getting my Mac was to buy the cross-platform upgrade and run Opera as my main browser. However before I spent the money, I tried out several of the other browsers and ended up buy an OmniWeb license. While OmniWeb has pretty bad standard support (especially CSS), it worked with most of the pages I used and I liked a lot of the options and settings it provided. For some reason, I could never place my finger on, Opera didn't feel at home on my Mac. I guess I'd gotten used to the MDI interface under windows... and Opera 5 beta or so just didn't feel polished/user friendly enough when I tried it.
Having mostly used OmniWeb for a while, when Safari came out I decided to try a bunch of different browsers again. Opera 6 looks a lot better than it did the last time I tried it, and I'm actually thinking seriously about switching back to Opera. I've also thought about switching over to Safari once it's not a beta and converting back to OmniWeb after it switches over to WebCore.
Personally I think that Apple's switch to Safari will help non-IE, non-gecko browsers and websites might adjust just a little to handle different browsers. One thing I can't help but wonder is... is this a tactic by Opera to get people to look at/buy there browser. After any media attention is good.
The top mount in the G4 is adjustable.... you just have to screw the right side in place first, and then the left edges will bend as necessary. (To be honest it took me a few minutes to figure this out, and then I saw it was in the manual lol) The other two plates are single drive mounts and attach to the bottoms of drives. I've never thought of mounting drives by their bottom side before even if I 'knew' they had mount points there. In general I've found Mac's very convenient once I unlearned some of my PC based assumptions.
At the local flee market, there is a little shop that sells old computers (mostly school computers that were replaced during upgrades) including older PowerMac's for like $25 a pop. (I got my first Mac there to play with before I committed to getting my G4). If this was offered in the states, it might well be worth buying a used Mac and trading it in.
I actually did something similar when I brought my Commodore 64. The had this $100 discount if you traded in an old electronic pong game, so I found one cheap and got the trade in.
Sorry about this, but there is an earlier article that talks about nearly the same thing.3 5&mode=nested
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/15/15492
(Aside, I noticed search in Slashdot seems to be running very slow since the switch to banjo.)
BTW, My favorites are probably: Alice!, Ozy and Millie, Clan of the Cats, Free Fall, CRFH, Lean on Me, and Okashina Okashi to name just a few. I don't see playing for webcomics any different they paying to support other online communities. I might even subscribe to Slashdot if they started charging. :)
If Microsoft does release this technology, even with-out microsoft controlling the database, I can also see a way that content/advertisers providers could abuse this to make it appear that the tag provides endorse their view.
All they would have to do is cause obscured words to trigger the smart links. These words could be chosen to get the desired smart tag links, the same way web pages used to fool search engines by including lots of hidden text matching valuable search terms.
I have to admit if they do release this technology, I wonder how easy such tricks could be done.
True.... Just think of the copy protection techinques.... combine it in a book with some of those paper batteries that were mentioned awhile ago, some photo sensors, etc. Imagine how easy it would be to implement photo-copier/scanner protection.
I could also see companies using this for protected and trade secret documents. If you could add a small gps, you could even make it erase itself if it was ever removed from the building.
Definately some interesting and scary potentionals.
If the big concern is wanting to talk with all your friends using AIM, why not create an new AIM away message in AIM that says something like
"I am switching from AIM to Jabber. See http://jabber.org/. My jabber id is ####."
I switched to the Dvorak keyboard a few years ago when I started noticing that my hands were beginning to ache from typing. One thing I learned when I switched to Dvorak is while typing English is much easier, you have to be careful about shortcuts. Shortly after I switched my left pinky started to hurt alot, though my hands felt better otherwise. It turned out that the control-X combination in Emacs was the problem. I was used to typing control-X with one hand, but under Dvorak it is quite a stretch. I've since been careful to train myself not to press modifiers like shift and control with the same hand that is typing letters.
The other change I made was switching from a mouse to a tablet. Being left handed I had found most mice to be a pain and clumsy. It got so that I spent alot of time either fighting with the mouse or cleaning it. I found the speed and easy of tablets let me relax more at using the computer.
One word of caution with tablets though, they are addicting. I've found that once I got used to tablets, I found mice much more annoying to use.