While the article metnions the awful client software and (easily bypassed, but still annoying) DRM and WMA format, perhaps my greatest issues with it were the metadata and album completion.
Simply trying to download an album from their selection would usually reveal that several tracks were missing. In my brief time using it, I found very few complete albums. I had wondered if this was a copyright issue with certain songs, but I discovered that some of the missing songs from albums were present on compilation albums by the same artist.
Once you had perhaps piecemealed an album together from Ruckus's offerings, the metadata was often horrible. Even without assembling an album from different tracks, I found that songs from an album would have different album titles, incorrect song names, missing or incorrect track numbers, or sometimes even the incorrect artist. I would often have to correct the metadata on a file-by-file basis instead of trying to identify what song it really was in my Winamp music library.
The fact that the organization no longer exists comes as no surprise to me.
That doesn't really address my claim. Just maintain a server list of e-mail addresses confirmed to exist. If a message is sent to an address not on the list, check to see if it is a used address. If not, cancel the message. There isn't any outright canceling of possibly valid mail, as in greylisting.
A user sending e-mail to multiple addresses would just receive a message stating their e-mail bounced - the e-mail wouldn't continue on to the valid addresses, it would be canceled entirely. For a normal user, an error in address would probably be identified and corrected quickly.
For a user with a long address list, or a system sending out a mailing list, the error could still be resolved in fairly low time. The computation time for sending the message to all valid addresses in a list of some valid and some invalid addresses increases for every invalid address, to an extent that should slightly inconvenience mailing lists while incapacitating spam servers.
Why not just cancel the sending of any e-mail that would cause a bounce? If someone is attempting to send an e-mail to addresses A, B, C, and D, check each address to see if a message would bounce, and if even one (say, C) sends a bounce reply, don't send the e-mail.
The only legitimate use I could see being interrupted is mailing lists, if someone's e-mail address is suddenly terminated, without them first leaving the mailing list. But surely, it shouldn't be that much of an issue if each message of the mailing list is opt-in from a link in the previous message, unless complete an unexpected e-mail address termination is far more common than I assume.
Uh, what? I replaced every vowel in my name with umlauted versions, and the B's with ess-sets. I know people named Pterodactyl, Admiral Ackbar, and Slutface.
And this was before they let in the high schoolers, much less people not associated with a school.
Either he has a copyright message, or not. You could accuse him of supporting or refusing copyright either way, if you use that as evidence of either one.
They let all of Blizzard North go several years ago, so I doubt it. Blizzard North has since essentially reformed as Castaway Entertainment, and they're currently working on Hellgate: London, if I'm not mistaken.
While I don't believe Tesla actually said it, I've often seen him credited with the phrase "If only Mr. Edison would a bit smarter, he wouldn't need sweat so much."
Very few people actually thought the world was flat. Posidonius calculated the circumference of the world was 24,000 miles (the world is actually about 24,901 miles in circumference). Eratosthenes was even closer. But even with less precision, most people in times past knew that when a ship was approaching on the horizon, the top was first visible, followed by the rest of the ship, and it could therefore be concluded that the ship was below the plane the observer stood upon, indicating a spherical world.
Not to berate the Evolution developers too much, but I've personally found almost every release of Evolution to be horribly unstable.I say this with sadness because I was once a true believer in Evolution.
Don't we all want an e-mail client that's intelligently designed?
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This is straight-up the best metaphor ever.
From here.
I guess it's not exactly the same, as the previous one didn't use the Drake Equation...but close enough for me to raise an eyebrow.
To be fair, 98-99% of people who voted are probably slashdotters.
I think it's in the title - Nintendo Announces New Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy, Metroid
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While the article metnions the awful client software and (easily bypassed, but still annoying) DRM and WMA format, perhaps my greatest issues with it were the metadata and album completion.
Simply trying to download an album from their selection would usually reveal that several tracks were missing. In my brief time using it, I found very few complete albums. I had wondered if this was a copyright issue with certain songs, but I discovered that some of the missing songs from albums were present on compilation albums by the same artist.
Once you had perhaps piecemealed an album together from Ruckus's offerings, the metadata was often horrible. Even without assembling an album from different tracks, I found that songs from an album would have different album titles, incorrect song names, missing or incorrect track numbers, or sometimes even the incorrect artist. I would often have to correct the metadata on a file-by-file basis instead of trying to identify what song it really was in my Winamp music library.
The fact that the organization no longer exists comes as no surprise to me.
Decrease, apparently, because that's Anselm's ontological argument.
He started going downhill when he announced his support for Mike Huckabee.
Maybe this is just a political move to rewrite "Chuck Norris facts" as actual facts, not comedy.
Only with Zaireeka, but that's usually with speakers, not headphones.
Much of the article was just written a few minutes ago, and it's still being changed right now, by the same IP address.
/.ed?
Isn't that a bit quick for an article to get
That doesn't really address my claim. Just maintain a server list of e-mail addresses confirmed to exist. If a message is sent to an address not on the list, check to see if it is a used address. If not, cancel the message. There isn't any outright canceling of possibly valid mail, as in greylisting. A user sending e-mail to multiple addresses would just receive a message stating their e-mail bounced - the e-mail wouldn't continue on to the valid addresses, it would be canceled entirely. For a normal user, an error in address would probably be identified and corrected quickly. For a user with a long address list, or a system sending out a mailing list, the error could still be resolved in fairly low time. The computation time for sending the message to all valid addresses in a list of some valid and some invalid addresses increases for every invalid address, to an extent that should slightly inconvenience mailing lists while incapacitating spam servers.
Why not just cancel the sending of any e-mail that would cause a bounce? If someone is attempting to send an e-mail to addresses A, B, C, and D, check each address to see if a message would bounce, and if even one (say, C) sends a bounce reply, don't send the e-mail.
The only legitimate use I could see being interrupted is mailing lists, if someone's e-mail address is suddenly terminated, without them first leaving the mailing list. But surely, it shouldn't be that much of an issue if each message of the mailing list is opt-in from a link in the previous message, unless complete an unexpected e-mail address termination is far more common than I assume.
Uh, what? I replaced every vowel in my name with umlauted versions, and the B's with ess-sets. I know people named Pterodactyl, Admiral Ackbar, and Slutface.
And this was before they let in the high schoolers, much less people not associated with a school.
Regular ass-bookmarks? Ew.
Either he has a copyright message, or not. You could accuse him of supporting or refusing copyright either way, if you use that as evidence of either one.
They let all of Blizzard North go several years ago, so I doubt it. Blizzard North has since essentially reformed as Castaway Entertainment, and they're currently working on Hellgate: London, if I'm not mistaken.
While I don't believe Tesla actually said it, I've often seen him credited with the phrase "If only Mr. Edison would a bit smarter, he wouldn't need sweat so much."
You're smart because you belong to a table? I'll take my chances.
Very few people actually thought the world was flat. Posidonius calculated the circumference of the world was 24,000 miles (the world is actually about 24,901 miles in circumference). Eratosthenes was even closer. But even with less precision, most people in times past knew that when a ship was approaching on the horizon, the top was first visible, followed by the rest of the ship, and it could therefore be concluded that the ship was below the plane the observer stood upon, indicating a spherical world.
I don't remember a song called "Come and Get It" - I think "Baby, You're a Rich Man" would work well in that place as well though.
Surely if you just need one website, it would be easier to install and use IE Tab than use Wine to emulate IE7.
Huh. Mine too, but after closing FF and restoring my session, it worked fine. Strange.
Or maybe people with poor immune, cardiovascular, and nervous systems happen to frequent sites that implement these offending designs.
It uses the common prefix "psycho". Not "pyscho".