He's pretty much full of it. I've built small databases (100,000 recs, 100-400 peak users) in Access for internal use and after 50 or so concurrent connections you get extreme sluggishness. Moving the backend from Access to SQL Server brought the search engine's speed from 5-20 secs to 0.02 secs, without any other changes.
That might make it even more likely for the one with the most money to win. If there's a case that could go either way, and would be won by the one with the best lawyer, then there would be great incentive to just buy the most insanely expensive lawyer team possible. After all, once you win, it all becomes free anyway.
Great way to accelerate the arms race for legal teams, and accelerate the bankruptcy rate due to gambling on the legal system.
Right now the sky is the limit-- why are they allowed to sue a teenager for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a song that costs $1 on itunes, or a movie that costs $7 at Best Buy? Even taking the fact that they are uploading it back to others into consideration, that still is not more that (in all practicality) a dozen to a hundred people.
Exactly. The typical filesharer is only uploading to 5-30 people. For a song, that should be $5-30. For a movie, it should be $75-450. The individual should not be responsible for what the next person does with it (sharing it again), nor should they be responsible for the assumption/allegation that they continued sharing it before or after the time they were observed actually doing it.
I'm sure a standard that allows users to download an advert template for a given broadcast of a show would very quickly turn up and allow automatic skipping.
There's already a mod for SageTV that automatically skips commercials without downloading anything.
When the show is done recording, a CLI app called ComSkip runs, finds the commercials, and outputs an XML file of all of their locations. Then when you go to watch the show again, it automatically skips them. The XML file can also be read by some other programs (for editing and saving recordings I think).
If you want free exposure and viral marketing, post a clip on YouTube. If you want exclusive rights to your content, post it on your own site. If you really think you can make money from your content, you can afford a webmaster and hosting.
I think the reason for all this elitism towards places like myspace, livejournal, etc from/.ers is because we once believed that the "democratization" of this medium would lead to a renessaince, would be a life-changing event and would open the floodgates on good content.
What else could have gotten girls all over the world to flash their boobies and dance around in their undies?
The key quote from the article states, " Just over a third of the bloggers said they often conduct journalistically appropriate tasks such as verifying facts and linking to source material."
Given such low journalistic integrity, we should view the typical blog as merely an opinion piece.
The "typical blog", yes. The typical blog is a bunch of pictures of vacations and friends. The typical magazine is a bunch of gossip and advertisements.
You shouldn't treat all blogs the same. Just like you don't treat all magazines the same. As Newsweek and other magazines have earned their reputation for journalistic integrity, so can individual blogs.
The whole idea that you're suggesting is just ludicrous. Imagine saying that about magazines, or newspapers, or any other medium. It wouldn't make any sense, just like it doesn't now.
The Singularity sounds like Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, an idea that was crafted in 1970. And Vinge's The Technological Singularity was published in 1993?
Linux users are only a few percent of the market. But you've got to admit, nVidia lets you know they'll support any hardware you buy from them, any way you wish to use it. They have (good) drivers for all major operating systems, and their drivers work on their entire line of cards.
Even an old GF4 Ti works with the latest drivers, on all 3 operating systems, with full 3-D acceleration. When a new card comes out, within a couple of months, it has support for all OSes. When new Linux kernel config options break the nVidia driver, within a couple of months they fix it. Games like Wolf: ET that I play in both Linux and Windows run very close to equally in both, with even a slight advantage for Linux. Those are some good drivers.
No matter what you do with their cards, and how long you own them, they'll keep supporting them with good drivers for all 3 OSes.
One of the most mystifying UAC behaviors in Vista Beta 2 caused a prompt to appear when you tried to delete some desktop program shortcuts. If the program was installed for use by all accounts in Vista, then UAC blocked the deletion of the icon in Beta 2 with a permission prompt. If the program was only installed for the current account, then deletion of the same program shortcut would occur normally. Since there's no way for Windows users to know which way the program was installed, even experienced beta testers were confused. For Build 5472, so long as the running account has administrator privileges, then icons installed "on the public desktop" will be deleted without issue when you drop them into the Recycle Bin.
That's an odd criticism of UAC. With XP, if you run as a limited-access user, it simply prevents you from deleting the All Users shortcuts at all. Of course Vista's UAC would require a password for that. You don't have permission to modify that folder.
Apparently the criticism must be coming from people who never ran XP securely. That said, it's probably more convenient now. No right-clicking Windows Explorer and having to hit Run As like you do in XP to delete All Users shortcuts.
CSS is a horrible standard not suitable for defining moderately complicated layouts (or even certain trivial ones).
CSS+XHTML can be fairly elegant, until you add the hacks to work with older browsers and IE. What do you consider to be a better markup language for the web?
The successors in the form of XHTML 1.x and 2.x drop the layout stuff (which sucked anyway) and tried to preserve most of the flawed semantics whilst adding new constructs and increasing complexity so much nobody really understands it.
What new constructs are so complex that people don't understand them?
All the graphics designers seem to have standardized on non standard flash.
Flash is used for some menus, splash screens, videos, and marketing for games and bands, but is far from something "graphic designers...have standardized on." Most major sites use it sparingly. Therefore, most of the graphic designers for the web at the top of their field also use it sparingly.
We're not there yet. But it sure is one hell of a lot easier and more intuitive than it was with HTML 3.2 or earlier. The only major problem is IE.
Firefox actually does the same. The default is "google Something", but I like to change it to "g Something". You can do it with any search engine easily.
I posted about this thread and GigsVT's post in the Slashback.
P.S. I wonder where the best place to post replies is with all these Slashback dupe stories...
Personally, I hate returning to the first page (usually an index/home page) when I close each-and-every page that I opened from that page. It's annoying as hell in Opera.
It's nice to have all of your "always open pages" open on startup also. (Yahoo Mail & Google Mail, calendar, slashdot, google news, etc) I've always hated opening each tab everytime I start the browser.
You can do that in Firefox by either clicking "Use Current Pages" for your homepage (built-in feature) or installing Session Saver or Tab Mix Plus (extensions).
Reader GigsVT explained the appeal that a separate search bar has for him, though: "If I have a host named "porn" on my network, and I type "porn" into the address bar, I better damn well get the host I want and not some search.
I disagree that you need a seperate search bar.
Just right click on any search field (for example, Google's).
Click "Add a Keyword for this Search".
Name it, then add a keyword "g".
(optional) put it in the Quick Searches bookmarks folder
Now all you need to type is "g Jessica Alba" to search google for Ms. Alba. You can then safely get rid of your extraneous search bar. And as a bonus, you can move the address bar and navigation buttons up on the same line as the menu bar, and free up some extra screen real estate.
Tom (the site's...er, spokesperson) left this message in everyone's Inbox on the 17th:
Latest Update: 05:15PM PST, Monday, July 17th. hey folks - we are moving myspace music players and video players to flash 9.0. flash 9 has security fixes so that people can't mess with you on myspace. if your 'about me' got screwed up this weekend, you could have been safe if you had flash 9 installed. here's an easy way to install it, go watch this dashboard video i posted last week. if you don't like dashboard, just watch any video in our video section, and you'll be prompted to install flash 9.
His solution to the hack that destroys a section of your profile is not that he will fix the site, but that you should install Flash 9.
Hahaha, well, sorry about that then. I like it because if I download a few images to different folders I can quickly go find each of them. I think they left out right click->"open target folder" though. That would make it even better.
Hopefully Firefox (core) never completely "catches up" to all the other browsers. Then it will have every one of their features, and will be much more bloated than it needs to be. That's what the extension system is for: to keep the core somewhat minimal.
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He's pretty much full of it. I've built small databases (100,000 recs, 100-400 peak users) in Access for internal use and after 50 or so concurrent connections you get extreme sluggishness. Moving the backend from Access to SQL Server brought the search engine's speed from 5-20 secs to 0.02 secs, without any other changes.
That might make it even more likely for the one with the most money to win. If there's a case that could go either way, and would be won by the one with the best lawyer, then there would be great incentive to just buy the most insanely expensive lawyer team possible. After all, once you win, it all becomes free anyway.
Great way to accelerate the arms race for legal teams, and accelerate the bankruptcy rate due to gambling on the legal system.
Exactly. The typical filesharer is only uploading to 5-30 people. For a song, that should be $5-30. For a movie, it should be $75-450. The individual should not be responsible for what the next person does with it (sharing it again), nor should they be responsible for the assumption/allegation that they continued sharing it before or after the time they were observed actually doing it.
There's already a mod for SageTV that automatically skips commercials without downloading anything.
When the show is done recording, a CLI app called ComSkip runs, finds the commercials, and outputs an XML file of all of their locations. Then when you go to watch the show again, it automatically skips them. The XML file can also be read by some other programs (for editing and saving recordings I think).
Veggie burgers come in 4-packs too ;-)
Come on. If you're already using linux, is "grub-install hd0" really that hard?
If you want free exposure and viral marketing, post a clip on YouTube. If you want exclusive rights to your content, post it on your own site. If you really think you can make money from your content, you can afford a webmaster and hosting.
What else could have gotten girls all over the world to flash their boobies and dance around in their undies?
Good enough of a renaissance for me.
The "typical blog", yes. The typical blog is a bunch of pictures of vacations and friends. The typical magazine is a bunch of gossip and advertisements.
You shouldn't treat all blogs the same. Just like you don't treat all magazines the same. As Newsweek and other magazines have earned their reputation for journalistic integrity, so can individual blogs.
The whole idea that you're suggesting is just ludicrous. Imagine saying that about magazines, or newspapers, or any other medium. It wouldn't make any sense, just like it doesn't now.
The Singularity sounds like Alvin Toffler's Future Shock , an idea that was crafted in 1970. And Vinge's The Technological Singularity was published in 1993?
Linux users are only a few percent of the market. But you've got to admit, nVidia lets you know they'll support any hardware you buy from them, any way you wish to use it. They have (good) drivers for all major operating systems, and their drivers work on their entire line of cards.
Even an old GF4 Ti works with the latest drivers, on all 3 operating systems, with full 3-D acceleration. When a new card comes out, within a couple of months, it has support for all OSes. When new Linux kernel config options break the nVidia driver, within a couple of months they fix it. Games like Wolf: ET that I play in both Linux and Windows run very close to equally in both, with even a slight advantage for Linux. Those are some good drivers.
No matter what you do with their cards, and how long you own them, they'll keep supporting them with good drivers for all 3 OSes.
True, but they should. It's incredibly amusing and gratifying having spyware/rootkits ask you for permission to install themselves.
It works with CD/DVD autoplay too. You can just hit cancel when the CD asks you for your password to install their crap. Sorry Sony. Try again.
That's an odd criticism of UAC. With XP, if you run as a limited-access user, it simply prevents you from deleting the All Users shortcuts at all. Of course Vista's UAC would require a password for that. You don't have permission to modify that folder.
Apparently the criticism must be coming from people who never ran XP securely. That said, it's probably more convenient now. No right-clicking Windows Explorer and having to hit Run As like you do in XP to delete All Users shortcuts.
Firefox actually does the same. The default is "google Something", but I like to change it to "g Something". You can do it with any search engine easily.
I posted about this thread and GigsVT's post in the Slashback.
P.S. I wonder where the best place to post replies is with all these Slashback dupe stories...
You can do that in Firefox by either clicking "Use Current Pages" for your homepage (built-in feature) or installing Session Saver or Tab Mix Plus (extensions).
Solution: always test new browser versions on a new profile.
Then you don't destroy your bookmarks, extensions, settings, etc.
Sorry for replying to myself. Google's already comes built in as "google TERM", but it is a bit too long for my tastes.
I disagree that you need a seperate search bar.
Now all you need to type is "g Jessica Alba" to search google for Ms. Alba. You can then safely get rid of your extraneous search bar. And as a bonus, you can move the address bar and navigation buttons up on the same line as the menu bar, and free up some extra screen real estate.
His solution to the hack that destroys a section of your profile is not that he will fix the site, but that you should install Flash 9.
Everything's more attractive when you're 23...
especially when you're drunk.
Hahaha, well, sorry about that then. I like it because if I download a few images to different folders I can quickly go find each of them. I think they left out right click->"open target folder" though. That would make it even better.
Paste and Go Firefox ;-)
Well they do have a table of memory usage and startup time.
Hopefully Firefox (core) never completely "catches up" to all the other browsers. Then it will have every one of their features, and will be much more bloated than it needs to be. That's what the extension system is for: to keep the core somewhat minimal.