Is anyone working to get:CueCat coding cross-referencing with FreeDB? I want a MyCDCollection.com account so that I can scan in my UPCs and get the song listings and other info that's currently in CDDB/FreeDB (savable and searchable).
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"Although it is a challenge to keep up with hackers who attempt to undermine filtering software, the result in the long run is a better product," SurfControl vice president Kelly Haggerty said in a statement.
Which is to say "Hackers help us improve our product." -----
These rumors aren't new at all. In fact, they surfaced repeatedly a long, long time ago. (reported on The Force.net May 6, 1999 here and August 8, 1999 here...) -----
The labels are saying their Minimum Advertised Price helps mom-and-pop stores compete against Best Buy and Wal-mart.
The big-time stores were selling their CDs at a loss in order to get people in the store to buy their other more profitable products. The small-time record stores often don't have other products. -----
As recognized combined colors work for all (most) people (blue and yellow form green universally), the only possibility is that color wheels could be rotated. You call orange what I see as green, but my yellow and blue would then have to translate as your red and yellow, respectively. -----
As is Microsoft. Unfortunately, developers already know how to do Flash and have to learn SVG. Adobe LiveMotion plans on exporting to either SWF or SVG in the future. Macromedia might even do the same someday, what with them being involved in the writing of SVG. If both those things happen, and quickly, SVG might have a chance.
Microsoft (Hewlett-Packard, Autodesk, and surprisingly Macromedia) submitted VML earlier to the W3C.
Meanwhile, Adobe (and a few other companies) submitted their version, SVG (an earlier implementation).
The W3C then put together a group to combine the best of both proposals (along with other entries like DrawML and PGML) that is, apparently, supported by all of the companies mentioned (as well as Mozilla).
And that's the *only* advantage with Flash. Navigation disables browser controls, text within it isn't indexed by search engines or searchable with Find, you can't view the source, etc. SVG is cooler in every way except it's not out and supported by browsers yet. Which, unfortunately, may be enough to kill it. -----
Dynamism.com sells Japanese-only systems, loads 'em with English language versions of the software, swaps out the keyboards, ups the price quite a bit, and then sells 'em over here (complete with tech support).
It's fun to look over the stuff, anyway. Someday I'll have one of these NEC Simplem machines...Mmm, they've got interchangable "skins" (including a beer one!). -----
I'm sure they would reply that the problem isn't *just* the people sitting at the computer terminals, but the people walking by that might get a glance at something horrific.
The place I used to work explained that they had to strictly monitor every site you went to, not because you might look at something inappropriate, but because some passerby might and could then sue for sexual harrassment. -----
Check out byofl.org. That's Book Your Own Fscking Life, a site that originally started as a book/zine affiliated with (previously mentioned) MaximumRockNRoll. Search by labels (and by state if you'd like) and find all sorts of truly indie organizations - bands, venues, distributors, book stores, zines, and yes, labels. -----
Substitute ink for light. Good design/type in print relies on using small amounts of ink on a largely uninked page.
Good design/type on screen should (IMO, obviously) rely on using small amounts of light on a largely unlit screen.
Perhaps more important on tech sites where people are more likely to have high resolutions with larger areas of white. -----
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Hmm, weird that I didn't check this first, but GeekIife.com is also available for any enterprising scammer hoping to grab some Geeklife.com email logins and passwords. -----
I could work in a room with 200 other GUI users, but I don't think I'd want to work in one with 3 other VUI users. Not to mention I wouldn't want some of the loudmouths around here accidentally issuing orders to *my* computer. -----
I wonder how many people submitted that. I put mine in about an hour after this TechWeb article came out.
It'd be cool to see some cut-away of the slashdot experience. Like, are the posters the ones who hit reject or accept? Is there an early team that does some filtering? Is one nay enough to reject an article, or do a few people look it over? -----
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Is anyone working to get :CueCat coding cross-referencing with FreeDB? I want a MyCDCollection.com account so that I can scan in my UPCs and get the song listings and other info that's currently in CDDB/FreeDB (savable and searchable).
(Slashdot story combining...Off-topic or insightful?)
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Can we get a Macintosh Apple Law?
"Computers found to be Apples within two years of purchase must be repaired, replaced or refunded"
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Unless of course this whole thing's a hoax. But Scripting News doesn't seem to be the type of site that would bother with a hoax like this.
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Which is to say "Hackers help us improve our product."
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These rumors aren't new at all. In fact, they surfaced repeatedly a long, long time ago. (reported on The Force.net May 6, 1999 here and August 8, 1999 here...)
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6 double-quotes
8 single-quotes
I think we have a "winner"!
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You got modded up because...you suggested that someone else get modded up?
I guess I'll get modded down for suggesting that you get modded down.
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Is it really anything more than a really inconvenient laptop made out of non-miniaturized parts?
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The big-time stores were selling their CDs at a loss in order to get people in the store to buy their other more profitable products. The small-time record stores often don't have other products.
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Get a Beowulf cluster of these and we can be as cool as Ricky Schroeder with his arm full of swatches.
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As recognized combined colors work for all (most) people (blue and yellow form green universally), the only possibility is that color wheels could be rotated. You call orange what I see as green, but my yellow and blue would then have to translate as your red and yellow, respectively.
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As is Microsoft. Unfortunately, developers already know how to do Flash and have to learn SVG. Adobe LiveMotion plans on exporting to either SWF or SVG in the future. Macromedia might even do the same someday, what with them being involved in the writing of SVG. If both those things happen, and quickly, SVG might have a chance.
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/overview.
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Meanwhile, Adobe (and a few other companies) submitted their version, SVG (an earlier implementation).
The W3C then put together a group to combine the best of both proposals (along with other entries like DrawML and PGML) that is, apparently, supported by all of the companies mentioned (as well as Mozilla).
Read Microsoft's take on it here.
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And that's the *only* advantage with Flash. Navigation disables browser controls, text within it isn't indexed by search engines or searchable with Find, you can't view the source, etc. SVG is cooler in every way except it's not out and supported by browsers yet. Which, unfortunately, may be enough to kill it.
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It'd fit in real well with the whole "extreme" thing we've got going on these days.
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It's fun to look over the stuff, anyway. Someday I'll have one of these NEC Simplem machines...Mmm, they've got interchangable "skins" (including a beer one!).
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1.556 or so. (See, there's a reason I'm called GeekLife)
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I'm sure they would reply that the problem isn't *just* the people sitting at the computer terminals, but the people walking by that might get a glance at something horrific.
The place I used to work explained that they had to strictly monitor every site you went to, not because you might look at something inappropriate, but because some passerby might and could then sue for sexual harrassment.
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Check out byofl.org. That's Book Your Own Fscking Life, a site that originally started as a book/zine affiliated with (previously mentioned) MaximumRockNRoll. Search by labels (and by state if you'd like) and find all sorts of truly indie organizations - bands, venues, distributors, book stores, zines, and yes, labels.
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Substitute ink for light. Good design/type in print relies on using small amounts of ink on a largely uninked page.
Good design/type on screen should (IMO, obviously) rely on using small amounts of light on a largely unlit screen.
Perhaps more important on tech sites where people are more likely to have high resolutions with larger areas of white.
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Hmm, weird that I didn't check this first, but GeekIife.com is also available for any enterprising scammer hoping to grab some Geeklife.com email logins and passwords.
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Hey, SIashdot.org and .com are still available for any one trying to grab some slashdot passwords out there. Boy, that'd be useful.
NetworksoIutions.com on the other hand is taken, though not by anything useful.
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I could work in a room with 200 other GUI users, but I don't think I'd want to work in one with 3 other VUI users. Not to mention I wouldn't want some of the loudmouths around here accidentally issuing orders to *my* computer.
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I wonder how many people submitted that. I put mine in about an hour after this TechWeb article came out.
It'd be cool to see some cut-away of the slashdot experience. Like, are the posters the ones who hit reject or accept? Is there an early team that does some filtering? Is one nay enough to reject an article, or do a few people look it over?
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