I've actually started using Yahoo's search again, something I never thought I'd do. The reason? Google's sandbox.
Many new sites are indexed by Google straight away, but don't appear in search results for up to 6 months. It seems to be an attempt by Google to counter spam sites, but it's catching a lot of legitimate sites as well. When I search I like to know that I'm getting up to date results, not just from sites that have been around for more than a few months,
There's a lot of things we know terrorists can do - blowing up trains, flying planes into buildings, releasing nerve gas on the underground - because they've already done it. And look how often that happens. The chances of dying in a terrorist attack are about 10,000 times smaller than dying in a car accident.
You don't say what software you're currently using, but I can highly recommend JAlbum, a free java-based gallery creator. It has an integrated ftp client so could do what you're after.
Nice link. I uninstalled GDS because it wasn't indexing my.flac files, and searching through my music was one of the main reasons I installed it. With GDSPlus I can now do it.
Coupled with the cost, that 2nd point will be the reason there was such a low take-up by 3rd party sites. Companies use your registration details for far more than just letting you in to the site - giving demographics to advertisers for example. If they're going to allow logins from clients with no details, they may as well do away with the registration all together.
I'd forgotten all about those. If I remember, they had one big advantage over Star Wars figures - they had legs that bent. Oh, how we laughed at the older boys with their inferior Star Wars toys. Before having our bikes stolen.
There's a lot of posts here saying that if we don't like it, stop buying DRM'd CDs and DVDs and they will drop it. No they won't. If we stop buying DVDs and CDs the RIAA and MPAA will turn around and blame it on file sharing and tighten up DRM further. We can't win.
Has anyone actually fought the RIAA cases, or have they all been settled out of court? If I understand it correctly, they are suing people who are sharing files, not those downloading, and they are asking for $x per file shared. Wouldn't it be valid to ask them to prove how long you spent connected to the p2p network and then multiply this by your available bandwidth. That way you may be able to argue that you could only possibly have uploaded a certain number of songs, regardless of how many you were sharing. Sure, you may still end up paying a couple of hundred bucks, but that's far better than the few thousand I've read about.
I started out doing that and blocked virtually all ads, until I realised that I do find targeted ads useful. If I'm on a site that compares ISPs, for example, I want to know about an ISP's latest offers. I still block the general ad providers, such as Doubleclick and Mediaplex, but if a site serves up it's own banner ads I let them through.
This Google search (filetype:xml site:.gov) turns up a whole bunch of files, so there's definitely a lot out there, same with a.edu search. It just needs someone to check what it all is. This isn't meant as a 'Google is your friend' post by the way, I was just interested to see.
Better to deliberately spoil the ballot paper (assuming it's not electronic) than to not vote. If you spoil the paper, you're making the statement that you took the time to vote but didn't approve of the choices. If you just don't vote they put low turnout down to apathy.
Google is partly much to blame for this problem through their AdSense program. Buyers of Adwords for hardware tend to pay a lot for the keywords as the purchase price of the item is high, so sites displaying AdSesnse ads on their site get a high $/click on these ads. If you're searching for a review of a product you're interested in buying it and so more likely to click on an ad.
Given the price of hard drives now, I considered ripping my CDs to.wav, but in the end I couldn't see any benefit of wav over FLAC. You can tag FLACs so they're easily converted to tagged MP3s or Vorbis for portable players, you save on space and if you really need a.wav you can always convert them.
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I've actually started using Yahoo's search again, something I never thought I'd do. The reason? Google's sandbox.
Many new sites are indexed by Google straight away, but don't appear in search results for up to 6 months. It seems to be an attempt by Google to counter spam sites, but it's catching a lot of legitimate sites as well. When I search I like to know that I'm getting up to date results, not just from sites that have been around for more than a few months,
I wonder how many people fall for it?
Surely it would have been flutter, not bang?
For one armed monkeys.
There's a lot of things we know terrorists can do - blowing up trains, flying planes into buildings, releasing nerve gas on the underground - because they've already done it. And look how often that happens. The chances of dying in a terrorist attack are about 10,000 times smaller than dying in a car accident.
meaning I would have to be at a specific location, namely in front of my television, at that time each week in order to follow the series
Did video recorders somehow pass you by?
£55? A colour TV license is £121/year, a black and white £40.50 - details here.
It's not a troll - a Harvard professor has had to apologise after apparently saying women lack the ability to excel at math and science
You don't say what software you're currently using, but I can highly recommend JAlbum, a free java-based gallery creator. It has an integrated ftp client so could do what you're after.
I've owned about 20 WD drives over the past few years and now they sit in my drawer, trashed
20!? If I had any more than 3 from the same manufacturer fail I'd have looked elsewhere
CowboyNeal does, but cron doesn't.
Nice link. I uninstalled GDS because it wasn't indexing my .flac files, and searching through my music was one of the main reasons I installed it. With GDSPlus I can now do it.
Coupled with the cost, that 2nd point will be the reason there was such a low take-up by 3rd party sites. Companies use your registration details for far more than just letting you in to the site - giving demographics to advertisers for example. If they're going to allow logins from clients with no details, they may as well do away with the registration all together.
Probably just enough to cover his hosting bills I should think.
I'd forgotten all about those. If I remember, they had one big advantage over Star Wars figures - they had legs that bent. Oh, how we laughed at the older boys with their inferior Star Wars toys. Before having our bikes stolen.
There's a lot of posts here saying that if we don't like it, stop buying DRM'd CDs and DVDs and they will drop it. No they won't. If we stop buying DVDs and CDs the RIAA and MPAA will turn around and blame it on file sharing and tighten up DRM further. We can't win.
Has anyone actually fought the RIAA cases, or have they all been settled out of court? If I understand it correctly, they are suing people who are sharing files, not those downloading, and they are asking for $x per file shared. Wouldn't it be valid to ask them to prove how long you spent connected to the p2p network and then multiply this by your available bandwidth. That way you may be able to argue that you could only possibly have uploaded a certain number of songs, regardless of how many you were sharing. Sure, you may still end up paying a couple of hundred bucks, but that's far better than the few thousand I've read about.
It looks like BitTorrent may be next on the list. MPAA spokesman declines to say whether the trade group intends to sue Cohen. They'd have a harder time proving that BitTorrent is primarily used for copyright infringement though, due to the many legitimate uses.
As the site is currently down, does anyone know any of the mirror sites, as this looks very interesting?
I started out doing that and blocked virtually all ads, until I realised that I do find targeted ads useful. If I'm on a site that compares ISPs, for example, I want to know about an ISP's latest offers. I still block the general ad providers, such as Doubleclick and Mediaplex, but if a site serves up it's own banner ads I let them through.
This Google search (filetype:xml site:.gov) turns up a whole bunch of files, so there's definitely a lot out there, same with a .edu search. It just needs someone to check what it all is. This isn't meant as a 'Google is your friend' post by the way, I was just interested to see.
Better to deliberately spoil the ballot paper (assuming it's not electronic) than to not vote. If you spoil the paper, you're making the statement that you took the time to vote but didn't approve of the choices. If you just don't vote they put low turnout down to apathy.
Google is partly much to blame for this problem through their AdSense program. Buyers of Adwords for hardware tend to pay a lot for the keywords as the purchase price of the item is high, so sites displaying AdSesnse ads on their site get a high $/click on these ads. If you're searching for a review of a product you're interested in buying it and so more likely to click on an ad.
Yes, but how many times have you looked at the laser in your cd or dvd players? It's not like they'll be open.
Given the price of hard drives now, I considered ripping my CDs to .wav, but in the end I couldn't see any benefit of wav over FLAC. You can tag FLACs so they're easily converted to tagged MP3s or Vorbis for portable players, you save on space and if you really need a .wav you can always convert them.