I agree with you, but there are other uses that don't scream "antisocial behavior." The most obvious example -- if the professor wants to get a quick survey of the class, it's quicker to use a clicker than to count raised hands.
Meh. Sure it's extensible, but you have to manually edit the search.ini file and play with stuff like this:
Name=&Google
Verbtext=17063
URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=ope ra&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Query=
Key=g
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Position=-1
Nameid=0
Firefox can search from the address bar, it just doesn't come with a default set of searches. Try going to some site -- IMDB, say -- and then right click in a search box and go to "Add a Keyword for this search..." Voila. Easier and more extensible.
The Wikipedia article says that the casinos blacklisted the entire MIT yearbook, so I would assume the team is defunct for all intents and purposes. However, they've published and given talks about their methods, so it's likely that the legacy lives on.:)
All of those innovations are just building on other technology.
Email is mail, but using the Internet.
MP3 is digital music, but with compression.
RSS is HTML content, but in a subscription format.
On topic, YouTube is Flickr, but for video.
And yes, podcasting is RSS, but with MP3s.
You can tell that the Onion's editors agree, since they have all those "News in Brief" stories and loose headlines.
That's why sites like the Ironic Timesjust post headlines.
I'd say it's somewhere in the middle. They're realizing now that they can bring in a younger demographic with the right shows -- hell, the last two best musicals were Spamalot an Avenue Q -- but there's still a lot of stuffy traditional, like Light in the Piazza. Eventually there won't be enough "traditional" fans to support those plays, and everything will cater to the culturally defective mouth-breathers.:)
I was launching it from the Applications folder, and I've never moved it. I can open Safari from Terminal, and there are no errors -- as with the other methods of launching, the program starts to open and then unexpectedly quits. (That is, the Safari icon pops up on the dock, bounces for a couple of seconds, and then withers away, leaving an error message behind.) After several tries, I managed to get into the preferences menu and set Firefox as my default browser before the program locked up, so I can live without Safari working. Still kind of annoying though...
I love Tiger, but I have one small problem: Safari does not work. At all. As in, it won't launch, no matter what.
Anyone else experiencing this? I mean, I can get around it to a certain extent, since I use Firefox as my default browser anyway, but Tiger set Safari as the system's default browser so all links will first try to open there. Kind of annoying to have to copy all links to the clipboard first, rather than just clicking on them...
Be careful with the TOS, though. Most of the stuff is the standard Draconian crap (i.e., "we can do whatever we want with your stuff"), but most notable is this bit: "If You have not designated a price for Your Authorized Content and We incur extraordinary costs and expenses in hosting, indexing and displaying Your Authorized Content, we may charge a fee in order to defray these costs."
So if you release a popular free video, Google may charge you for the bandwidth? I'll stick with Ourmedia for the free media distribution, thanks.
Using a theremin doesn't involve rotating anything or even touching anything -- you wave your hands near two metal poles, one of which controls volume and the other pitch.
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Yeah, damn those non-smokers, draining the health system with their non-lung cancer and non-emphysema.
I got the rootkit IM and it said "OHMG! [link to .com file]"
Lazy. The least they could do is make the link text look like a jpg...
According to Wikipedia, New York is #1 and San Francisco is #2. #3, of course, is...Central Falls, Rhode Island.
I agree with you, but there are other uses that don't scream "antisocial behavior." The most obvious example -- if the professor wants to get a quick survey of the class, it's quicker to use a clicker than to count raised hands.
Meh. Sure it's extensible, but you have to manually edit the search.ini file and play with stuff like this:
e ra&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Name=&Google
Verbtext=17063
URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=op
Query=
Key=g
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Position=-1
Nameid=0
Firefox can search from the address bar, it just doesn't come with a default set of searches. Try going to some site -- IMDB, say -- and then right click in a search box and go to "Add a Keyword for this search..." Voila. Easier and more extensible.
No, as in "Saturn? Mars? I have an announcement to make."
The Wikipedia article says that the casinos blacklisted the entire MIT yearbook, so I would assume the team is defunct for all intents and purposes. However, they've published and given talks about their methods, so it's likely that the legacy lives on. :)
All of those innovations are just building on other technology. Email is mail, but using the Internet. MP3 is digital music, but with compression. RSS is HTML content, but in a subscription format. On topic, YouTube is Flickr, but for video. And yes, podcasting is RSS, but with MP3s.
But you don't get a karma bonus fo
You get +1 in imaginary karma in my book.
1) Track/field 2) Football 3) Baseball 4) HuntingOne of these things is not like the other...
Oh, if only Vader was being sarcastic.
Exactly. I hereby give you +5 Correct in imaginary karma.
You can tell that the Onion's editors agree, since they have all those "News in Brief" stories and loose headlines. That's why sites like the Ironic Times just post headlines.
I've taken control of each and every one of your bases."
Somehow, I don't think this wording would have caused an Internet phenomenon.
I'd say it's somewhere in the middle. They're realizing now that they can bring in a younger demographic with the right shows -- hell, the last two best musicals were Spamalot an Avenue Q -- but there's still a lot of stuffy traditional, like Light in the Piazza. Eventually there won't be enough "traditional" fans to support those plays, and everything will cater to the culturally defective mouth-breathers. :)
No, it won't. Napster (the old Napster) did the same thing. Also, Boing Boing is reporting that Elite Torrents was just shut down by the FBI. I can't see this search engine going anywhere, unfortunately.
Okay, so I suck at HTML. New Yorker review, NY Times review.
The New Yorker has a . They don't seem to be quite as excited as Ebert, though. Also, the : "This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right (and my inner 11-year-old shudders as I type this): it's better than 'Star Wars.'"
I was launching it from the Applications folder, and I've never moved it. I can open Safari from Terminal, and there are no errors -- as with the other methods of launching, the program starts to open and then unexpectedly quits. (That is, the Safari icon pops up on the dock, bounces for a couple of seconds, and then withers away, leaving an error message behind.) After several tries, I managed to get into the preferences menu and set Firefox as my default browser before the program locked up, so I can live without Safari working. Still kind of annoying though...
I love Tiger, but I have one small problem: Safari does not work. At all. As in, it won't launch, no matter what. Anyone else experiencing this? I mean, I can get around it to a certain extent, since I use Firefox as my default browser anyway, but Tiger set Safari as the system's default browser so all links will first try to open there. Kind of annoying to have to copy all links to the clipboard first, rather than just clicking on them...
The uploader.
Be careful with the TOS, though. Most of the stuff is the standard Draconian crap (i.e., "we can do whatever we want with your stuff"), but most notable is this bit: "If You have not designated a price for Your Authorized Content and We incur extraordinary costs and expenses in hosting, indexing and displaying Your Authorized Content, we may charge a fee in order to defray these costs." So if you release a popular free video, Google may charge you for the bandwidth? I'll stick with Ourmedia for the free media distribution, thanks.
I'm a diehard Apple fan, but I have to admit that the screenshot does look pretty nice.
Using a theremin doesn't involve rotating anything or even touching anything -- you wave your hands near two metal poles, one of which controls volume and the other pitch.