A couple of years ago, a major ISP in Finland had a somewhat similar system. They wouldn't allow infected computers to take any other network access than HTTP and they redirected all HTTP traffic to a page saying "you're infected" and providing short instructions on how to fix it. It seems that they're not doing it anymore, but I don't know the reason.
Well, Microsoft certainly may surprise us all and make a search engine better than Google. But how popular would it be anyway? Most people find more than enough results with Google now. And of course, Google is evolving all the time, too, so the results are probably getting better and better. Not too many people are anti-Google, yet there are many anti-Microsoft people in the world.
Then there's the fact that Google has become the de facto search engine. This is quite apparent, since "googling" has become a common word for "searching from the Internet". This is quite a challenge for Microsoft.
The only thing new to me was that the smaller the headphones are, the louder the output with one volume setting. I've always been careful with my own headphones. Currently, I use Koss SparkPlugs and I've never measured it, but the volume I listen to music probably is round 40 dB. I hear nothing else when listening to music, though, but I think that's mostly just a positive thing... Also, I never listen to music if I'm in a place where the noise level is high enough to force me to listen to the music too loud and I also warn others about this.
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A couple of years ago, a major ISP in Finland had a somewhat similar system. They wouldn't allow infected computers to take any other network access than HTTP and they redirected all HTTP traffic to a page saying "you're infected" and providing short instructions on how to fix it. It seems that they're not doing it anymore, but I don't know the reason.
Well, Microsoft certainly may surprise us all and make a search engine better than Google. But how popular would it be anyway? Most people find more than enough results with Google now. And of course, Google is evolving all the time, too, so the results are probably getting better and better. Not too many people are anti-Google, yet there are many anti-Microsoft people in the world. Then there's the fact that Google has become the de facto search engine. This is quite apparent, since "googling" has become a common word for "searching from the Internet". This is quite a challenge for Microsoft.
Must they be trying to change the rules all the time? Soon we'll be able to outrun light...
They're probably just out of new series, so they're going to air old series as much as possible before anyone notices the lack of anything new...
EasyPay, EasyGo?
The only thing new to me was that the smaller the headphones are, the louder the output with one volume setting. I've always been careful with my own headphones. Currently, I use Koss SparkPlugs and I've never measured it, but the volume I listen to music probably is round 40 dB. I hear nothing else when listening to music, though, but I think that's mostly just a positive thing...
Also, I never listen to music if I'm in a place where the noise level is high enough to force me to listen to the music too loud and I also warn others about this.
...it's good that I don't get fish that big, they wouldn't fit on my frying pan ^^
I use foobar2000+Masstagger for that. It does the job just great with my structure being: Artist\Album\## - Song.mp3 I recommend that one :o)