Because while Rockbox plays well with MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, and a few other audio formats, it doesn't play encrypted AAC files, which iTunes Music Store (iTMS) users have been paying for, nor does it play any version of the Audible format, leaving some audiobook fans out in the cold.
Wow, is anyone else shocked replacing the firmware of a digital audio player renders it unable to use DRMed files the new firmware doesn't support! Like, thanks for the insight that one has to license proprietary technology (generally) to use it.
Since Google has become so popular over the last seven years or so since I first started using it, and advertisers have started abusing PageRank, I'm finding more often I have to go past the first three pages to find the results I'm looking for when it is a search for a popular topic.
Looking for reviews about a product? The first page is always nothing more than sites linking to other sites for reviews (many of which are the same review or marketing materials posted on several differnt places).
Plus, when I first started using Google there were no sponsored results to scroll past. I've been unsucesful in blocking those results 100% of the time with Adblock so far.
In short, Google is actually less usefull to me now than they used to be as a search engine. But Google Earth and some of the other functions are adding value to them, especially when I can tie a google search result into another area (like Google Maps).
Goodmail CEO Richard Gingras surprised Legislators and advocacy groups today when he announced that the CertifiedMail program being implemented by AOL and Yahoo is not meant to reduce spam.
Of course not, that way when it does not reduce spam, they can't say CertaifiedMail was a failure.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves (x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck (x) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (x) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
This comes in the wake of an almost 2 year regulatory delay blocking the introduction of RIM's Blackberries to mainland China. Certainly this delay was convenient to China Unicom, if not deliberately staged to allow for domestic competition.
You forget one more point -- Americans have left the cities for the suburbs (and now the "ex"urbs) over the past 50 years. American's are big on property and personal space.
It's about getting away from the percieved increased crime of urban areas and - unfortunately for some - certain racial/ethnic groups. As those same problems/people move outwards as well (not that they are connected in any way) the people also try to move further out, generally using beuracratic or financial barriers to try and slow folks from following them.
I grew up in China and got very used to always been within a couple of feet of someone. When I came to America in '99 I was chastised regularly for walking or standing too close to someone.
That is a cultural differnce and has little to do with Americans wanting big back yards. It's like people greeting by giving a kiss on each cheek rather than shaking hands. There are some cultures that find the amount of space Amercan's generally allow to be too little.
I also noticed the envy people had with large yards -- something you can only get far away from cities (for affordable prices.) I think some of this is the "keeping up with the jones'" effect -- everyone in america feels they are middle class, and so no one accepts that they can't afford a house with a yard. so they find a place where they can.
This probably has an effect, but I think for some people it is just a matter of preference. A large yard for gardening, entertaining, playing, ect is more important than being close to a residental center. Plus, a large yard is more enjoyable when you're away from the noise and air pollution of a nearby street.
If the owner can afford the extra gas to drive anywhere, buying in the outskits of town where prices from homes are cheaper just makes sense.
The UMD plater is itself the same size as a Minidisc platter. They both come in protective plastic cases. What Sony should have done is used HiMD as the hardware format and used a special video codec to store video playable on PSP. They could have made PSP's able to play audio off the discs just like any Minidisc deck (hey, a way to help bolster the MD format!). Plus they could have released a ripper for converting DVD's to the discs (since MD disks are not read-only).
But that would have stopped any plans for double dipping consumers by making them pay for both a DVD and a UMD copy of each film.
Sounds like a typical female sexual fantasy to me. Guys who masturbate are in need of a good woman to fill their lives yada, yada, yada. It's funny how women can get away with this kind of patronising crap.
The double standard carries over into what is considered a "healthy" relationship as well. A woman who has issues with not getting enough sex in their relationships is seen as being "neglected in her needs by her spouse", or "wanting to explore her sexuality more", ect.
But when a guy is complaining about not getting laid enough, everyone just thinks he's a pig with no appreciation for the other parts of a relationship.
[Jerry Taylor] sent an email to the Register's marketing team asking that people stop emailing him and making fun of him.
If Taylor thinks the Register has any control over the internet's mail systems, there's yet another reason to make fun of him. Why doesn't he write the town newspaper to have people stop giving him dirty looks on the street after a disparaging article about him has been published.
sony has already announced that for the first generation of players, they will not be implementing the flag that signals an output downgrade. each studio has their own liberty whether to implement the flag or not. so far only two of the nine or so studios supporting blu-ray will implement that feature.
I think the reason they are not implementing it is becuase of all the HDTV's that have already been sold that don't support HDCP. Don't what to tick off all the early adopters of HDTV's if they try to early-adopt HD-DVD and it wont work for them.
For two or three years they will leave things open to gain marketshare, then when they close the loop up in HDCP and the customer complains they can just point out how old their HDTV is and say it is not up to current standards - an arguement that would look rediculous if done now (when the TV's aren't nearly so old).
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From TFA:
Because while Rockbox plays well with MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, and a few other audio formats, it doesn't play encrypted AAC files, which iTunes Music Store (iTMS) users have been paying for, nor does it play any version of the Audible format, leaving some audiobook fans out in the cold.
Wow, is anyone else shocked replacing the firmware of a digital audio player renders it unable to use DRMed files the new firmware doesn't support! Like, thanks for the insight that one has to license proprietary technology (generally) to use it.
Nothing for you to see here, please move along
How does a site no one can see make it into the Top 10?
(first post?)
Why wear a tie when you can have an eyepatch!
Since Google has become so popular over the last seven years or so since I first started using it, and advertisers have started abusing PageRank, I'm finding more often I have to go past the first three pages to find the results I'm looking for when it is a search for a popular topic.
Looking for reviews about a product? The first page is always nothing more than sites linking to other sites for reviews (many of which are the same review or marketing materials posted on several differnt places).
Plus, when I first started using Google there were no sponsored results to scroll past. I've been unsucesful in blocking those results 100% of the time with Adblock so far.
In short, Google is actually less usefull to me now than they used to be as a search engine. But Google Earth and some of the other functions are adding value to them, especially when I can tie a google search result into another area (like Google Maps).
Something to keep the chairs planted firmly on the floor at Micorsoft!
Of course not, that way when it does not reduce spam, they can't say CertaifiedMail was a failure.
This comes in the wake of an almost 2 year regulatory delay blocking the introduction of RIM's Blackberries to mainland China. Certainly this delay was convenient to China Unicom, if not deliberately staged to allow for domestic competition.
You mispelled 'surveillance'.
Older kids get interested in girls. Making friends. Socializing.
I'm confused. Please explain this "Making 'Friends'" you speak of? Will the standard gcc complier work? Where can I get the source?
You forget one more point -- Americans have left the cities for the suburbs (and now the "ex"urbs) over the past 50 years. American's are big on property and personal space.
It's about getting away from the percieved increased crime of urban areas and - unfortunately for some - certain racial/ethnic groups. As those same problems/people move outwards as well (not that they are connected in any way) the people also try to move further out, generally using beuracratic or financial barriers to try and slow folks from following them.
I grew up in China and got very used to always been within a couple of feet of someone. When I came to America in '99 I was chastised regularly for walking or standing too close to someone.
That is a cultural differnce and has little to do with Americans wanting big back yards. It's like people greeting by giving a kiss on each cheek rather than shaking hands. There are some cultures that find the amount of space Amercan's generally allow to be too little.
I also noticed the envy people had with large yards -- something you can only get far away from cities (for affordable prices.) I think some of this is the "keeping up with the jones'" effect -- everyone in america feels they are middle class, and so no one accepts that they can't afford a house with a yard. so they find a place where they can.
This probably has an effect, but I think for some people it is just a matter of preference. A large yard for gardening, entertaining, playing, ect is more important than being close to a residental center. Plus, a large yard is more enjoyable when you're away from the noise and air pollution of a nearby street.
If the owner can afford the extra gas to drive anywhere, buying in the outskits of town where prices from homes are cheaper just makes sense.
I missed that eBay auction deadline again! I'd better start using FedEx for the new versions.
Intel would have no clue how to market it.
The UMD plater is itself the same size as a Minidisc platter. They both come in protective plastic cases. What Sony should have done is used HiMD as the hardware format and used a special video codec to store video playable on PSP. They could have made PSP's able to play audio off the discs just like any Minidisc deck (hey, a way to help bolster the MD format!). Plus they could have released a ripper for converting DVD's to the discs (since MD disks are not read-only).
But that would have stopped any plans for double dipping consumers by making them pay for both a DVD and a UMD copy of each film.
See where the greed got them?
Of course I got the memo.
But I coudn't read it since the printers heard that Pink is the new Black before I did.
Oh, I have a link to a cat in sink shot for you here.
The double standard carries over into what is considered a "healthy" relationship as well. A woman who has issues with not getting enough sex in their relationships is seen as being "neglected in her needs by her spouse", or "wanting to explore her sexuality more", ect.
But when a guy is complaining about not getting laid enough, everyone just thinks he's a pig with no appreciation for the other parts of a relationship.
[Jerry Taylor] sent an email to the Register's marketing team asking that people stop emailing him and making fun of him.
If Taylor thinks the Register has any control over the internet's mail systems, there's yet another reason to make fun of him. Why doesn't he write the town newspaper to have people stop giving him dirty looks on the street after a disparaging article about him has been published.
Hey, that sounds like the title of a spam message I recieved recently.
sony has already announced that for the first generation of players, they will not be implementing the flag that signals an output downgrade. each studio has their own liberty whether to implement the flag or not. so far only two of the nine or so studios supporting blu-ray will implement that feature.
I think the reason they are not implementing it is becuase of all the HDTV's that have already been sold that don't support HDCP. Don't what to tick off all the early adopters of HDTV's if they try to early-adopt HD-DVD and it wont work for them.
For two or three years they will leave things open to gain marketshare, then when they close the loop up in HDCP and the customer complains they can just point out how old their HDTV is and say it is not up to current standards - an arguement that would look rediculous if done now (when the TV's aren't nearly so old).
A pattern of light is projected on your face...
And you are recognised within 40 miliseconds.
So I guess this pattern of light would appear like nothing more then a brief flash to a person.
Really, someone's been watching Minority Report too many times.
No, but I do remember all the bandwidth Google purchased and their backbone operator traded to get Google's services online.
How many racks of servers did AT&T buy Google?
I imagine your future phone number will be something like this:
FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210
We'll have to add a few more keys to the keypad. But your phone will no longer be georpahic-location based.
Vista is a hole. A black hole. It swallows up endless amounts of time, money, and media attention. And nothing ever comes out!
Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trap!"
I do my own taxes.
Dude, nobody wins with AOL. Heck they have to give away the software!