AT&T doesn't touch my bandwidth. They don't cap it, they don't filter it - they aren't keeping a database of my URL lookups.
While I doubt that's true even today, it's only a matter of time before they implement bandwidth caps. I don't think any major ISP is not at least trying them out. AT&T started trials last November.
http://gizmodo.com/5075831/att-monthly-bandwidth-caps-are-here
True, you get Google's top result and you can also use Firefox's keywords feature to create search shortcuts of your own. But Ubiquity is more powerful. You can highlight a page of Craigslist results and use the map command and it will actually extract addresses from the detail pages of each result and map all of them. It can do translation of a webpage while you're on it, do syntax highlighting on code snippets, etc.
That said I still don't think it needs to be integrated in the browser and I don't see the problem with keeping it as an extension.
On a related note, the article isn't quite explicit, but the lightweight theming is provided by another Mozilla Labs extension that's available today called Personas.
The fact that you're using a headset doesn't make a major difference in the effect on your driving...it's how involved you are in the conversation and how much priority you give it that causes you to have a slower response time. Not having a second hand on the wheel isn't anywhere near as important as being able to focus on the road when you need to, and some conversations require too much thought to provide enough focus.
For Windows Mobile devices, an application called Sprite Terminator has been around for a long time which allows you to track your phone via GPS, send an SMS message to wipe or lock the phone contents, get the recent call log remotely, etc. It's $15, but if you lost your phone and you use it for lots of personal info, it would be well worth it.
I was just surprised myself to learn that a blurred image is not the same as a lower resolution image, and so I thought I'd share. Since I don't have mod points, I figured I'd reply and say that was actually pretty interesting, and I'm surprised as well.
If Amazon gives in by banning NY retailers, they will lose the battle as other states pass similar provisions. Just to clarify, it's the affiliates that are the issue, not the retailers. Banning NY affiliates would not be nearly as difficult/contested as trying to ban NY retailers.
...one day looking up and really noticing that the available amounts of sunlight has been diminishing due to the rampant expansion of tracking and communications satellites being pushed into orbit by all the nations of the earth. Finally, a solution to global warming!
Amazon doesn't have all the titles that iTunes has.
That's unlikely, they have way more titles:
Apple now has 2 million songs from EMI and independent labels available without DRM, out of its 6 million-song catalog. Amazon offers 4.5 million DRM-free songs.
I think this illustrates the GP's point perfectly. I too have a WinMo device on Sprint (a Moto Q9c), but with pretty much the exact opposite experience. It has all the features I could want, battery lasts 1.5 days under normal (for me) data/video/talk usage, etc. The size of the phone and layout of the screen and keyboard allow me to easily use it with one hand if I want. The only problem I've had is Windows can be a little sluggish at times, but it's a pretty infrequent occurrence for me.
The best part is the volume of 3rd party apps to tweak pretty much whatever you want.
Thousands of other students will have broken this rule in the past sitting around a library table or a kitchen counter - why did the university let them get away with it?
Because they're not making that public and/or publicized information. Advertising the fact and essentially "recruiting" more people via a public website that can keep track of everyone is quite different and much easier to catch.
Frankly I think YouTube is dropping the ball a bit by not providing a more useful method of finding the best content. An Amazon-like "people who subscribe/rate like you also like..." would help alot. Just as Slashdot uses various tricks (moderation, friends/foes, etc.) to bring attention to the quality material, YouTube should work harder to bring the good material to the top. The current star-ratings, comment-ratings, and ranking-by-viewing are not working very well. Frankly I don't care about the ratings of YouTube at large; I care about the ratings of a finite subset of like-minded users. They're testing exactly that right now. (Here's their blog post about it.)
Many will think enough is enough with paying $3 for some crappy midi file for a ring tone and want to run their phone like their pcs.
I for one refuse to buy high end phones for this reason. I want to run my own apps and not pay through the nose for their drm infested crappy software. Actually, often it's only in high end phones that you get the options you mentioned. As long as you're careful about choosing a carrier, you can do the things you mentioned. For instance, I have a Win Mobile device on Sprint and I can easily put my MP3s on it and use them as ringtones, can create my own apps for the phone, can mess with the registry, and can install apps like Opera Mobile, an NES emulator, etc.
If you though that was interesting, you'll find Google's TOS very interesting, as it's similarly worded but also seemingly broader in scope of what they can do with your content:
11. Content licence from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this licence shall permit Google to take these actions.
11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.
It's worth both talking about and comparing to Wikipedia because of the deeper implications they laid out in their post - namely that these knols will appear in search results on Google, and that they may tweak where they appear. Basically they can call the knols more authoritative and knock the Wikipedia entries a couple of results down the page. The results are significant for both the authors of the knols, and even moreso for Wikipedia.
Yes but Dell has sales pretty often (versus never for Apple) and comparing the rest of their line (i.e. Macbooks. iMac, etc.) yields more apparent price differences when configured similarly. That gap may be closing more now, but it's taken quite a while to get there, and it's still not there yet.
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Agreed! See also: A9 and Mechanical Turk. Amazon's been doing a lot of interesting projects.
AT&T doesn't touch my bandwidth. They don't cap it, they don't filter it - they aren't keeping a database of my URL lookups.
While I doubt that's true even today, it's only a matter of time before they implement bandwidth caps. I don't think any major ISP is not at least trying them out. AT&T started trials last November. http://gizmodo.com/5075831/att-monthly-bandwidth-caps-are-here
If you find it that useful, you can still get it by using a registered login. It's on by default for registered users.
This post must be an April Fools joke.
True, you get Google's top result and you can also use Firefox's keywords feature to create search shortcuts of your own. But Ubiquity is more powerful. You can highlight a page of Craigslist results and use the map command and it will actually extract addresses from the detail pages of each result and map all of them. It can do translation of a webpage while you're on it, do syntax highlighting on code snippets, etc.
That said I still don't think it needs to be integrated in the browser and I don't see the problem with keeping it as an extension.
On a related note, the article isn't quite explicit, but the lightweight theming is provided by another Mozilla Labs extension that's available today called Personas.
Those responsible for moderating the moderators have been moderated.
Angled spikes?
The fact that you're using a headset doesn't make a major difference in the effect on your driving...it's how involved you are in the conversation and how much priority you give it that causes you to have a slower response time. Not having a second hand on the wheel isn't anywhere near as important as being able to focus on the road when you need to, and some conversations require too much thought to provide enough focus.
For Windows Mobile devices, an application called Sprite Terminator has been around for a long time which allows you to track your phone via GPS, send an SMS message to wipe or lock the phone contents, get the recent call log remotely, etc. It's $15, but if you lost your phone and you use it for lots of personal info, it would be well worth it.
...one day looking up and really noticing that the available amounts of sunlight has been diminishing due to the rampant expansion of tracking and communications satellites being pushed into orbit by all the nations of the earth. Finally, a solution to global warming!Regarding email, the completely free POP/IMAP support in Gmail removes most of the restrictions you mentioned.
...of computing power. Couldn't he do something more productive?
I would like to opt out.
That's unlikely, they have way more titles: Apple now has 2 million songs from EMI and independent labels available without DRM, out of its 6 million-song catalog. Amazon offers 4.5 million DRM-free songs.
I think this illustrates the GP's point perfectly. I too have a WinMo device on Sprint (a Moto Q9c), but with pretty much the exact opposite experience. It has all the features I could want, battery lasts 1.5 days under normal (for me) data/video/talk usage, etc. The size of the phone and layout of the screen and keyboard allow me to easily use it with one hand if I want. The only problem I've had is Windows can be a little sluggish at times, but it's a pretty infrequent occurrence for me.
The best part is the volume of 3rd party apps to tweak pretty much whatever you want.
Because they're not making that public and/or publicized information. Advertising the fact and essentially "recruiting" more people via a public website that can keep track of everyone is quite different and much easier to catch.
Also, this form of distribution isn't a first for Trent either...he released an album he produced for Saul Williams back in November of last year, with the option to get it free as 192kbps MP3s, or for $5 in lossless formats or those same MP3s.
I for one refuse to buy high end phones for this reason. I want to run my own apps and not pay through the nose for their drm infested crappy software.
Actually, often it's only in high end phones that you get the options you mentioned. As long as you're careful about choosing a carrier, you can do the things you mentioned. For instance, I have a Win Mobile device on Sprint and I can easily put my MP3s on it and use them as ringtones, can create my own apps for the phone, can mess with the registry, and can install apps like Opera Mobile, an NES emulator, etc.
It's worth both talking about and comparing to Wikipedia because of the deeper implications they laid out in their post - namely that these knols will appear in search results on Google, and that they may tweak where they appear. Basically they can call the knols more authoritative and knock the Wikipedia entries a couple of results down the page. The results are significant for both the authors of the knols, and even moreso for Wikipedia.
Yes but Dell has sales pretty often (versus never for Apple) and comparing the rest of their line (i.e. Macbooks. iMac, etc.) yields more apparent price differences when configured similarly. That gap may be closing more now, but it's taken quite a while to get there, and it's still not there yet.
Nice try, MPAA!