Well, I have also seen built-in filtering mechanisms in LimeWire that aims to prevent sharing of copyrighted content. Not sure how it works in detail, though.
On the contrary, according to TFA's summary of the record companies' complaint, LimeWIre, LLC, is actively facilitating, encouraging and enticing computer users to "steal music by failing to block access to copyright works and building a business model that allows them to profit directly from piracy." The actual instances of p2p piracy occurs with no money being exchanged, so I'm not sure how they will show that LW profits directly from it.
There seems to be several layers where misunderstandings and misinterpretations can be introduced: by the lawsuit's plaintiff, by TFA summary, by Slashdot's summary of TFA's summary of the lawsuit, or by interpretations made in Slashdot posts. So who knows what's actually going on.
Bluetooth mice are not very comon in PC land. I've only seen one Logitech (not easy to find) and one Think Outside BT mouse that seemed suitable for notebook use, but you're unlikely to find either in Best Buy or CompUSA. Why hasn't this caught on?
Most PCs on the market don't support Bluetooth, so why buy a BT mouse when you own one or more PCs that doesn't work with it? Secondly, even if your PC had Bluetooth support, you'll save much more money buying a cordless mouse that didn't use BT technology. The Bluetooth mouse fad has been on the decline, but who knows, maybe this new mouse will help re-energize demand for it, for better or for worse.
This follows Apple's strategy of lowering prices on the Macs, and then raising prices on the accessories. Past over-priced Apple products have included: iSight, iPod leather case, iPod hi-fi, FireWire cable (which BTW easily breaks), etc...
The story bases its claim on one guy, John Reid, who started associating the rise in mugging with the rise in the number of people who carry expensive goods, such as mp3 players. (In a sense, he is equally blaming all MP3 players and mobile phones, etc, btw.) And John Reid just happens to be a member of the ruling Labour Party. The 22% rise in crimes couldn't possibly be the fault of the government now, could it? I mean, the gov't couldn't possibly be at fault for not being successful at hunting down these criminals who are in theory selling these stolen goods. Nor could it be the government's fault for not reducing poverty and unemployment levels in the UK to reduce overall crime. Or anything else the gov't could have done to prevent a 22% increase. No, it's the fault of those people who own expensive electronic gadgetry. Of course (expensive electronic gadgetry) gets replaced with (iPod). Those damned iPod owners for making the world a worse place.
Wasn't ActiveX the cause of IE not being very standards compliant and allowing lots of spyware to enter?
So standards and security do count because users don't want spyware controlling their PCs. IE's kinda funny cause it requires user authentication (username & password) just so that a site can use Direct X for alpha transparency, and there's no getting around using Active X to use alpha transparency in the browser.
Am I the only one who misread it as Segway Pogo? I thought that maybe they went one-stick because two-wheel wasn't going far enough. That would certainly count as one of the worst tech...
Soo.... are you telling me that I should think the site is actually professional looking because it's a free service or because you want me to install another browser!? I don't follow your logic.
Even though there has been an insane amount of press coverage on MacBook discoloration, they all boil down to a report by TSwartz. ALL the discoloration photos come from JUST ONE USER! Ponder that, and someone tell me that the press doesn't over-react to Apple product imperfections.
I know it's technically correct according to business jargon, but they say they're "suffering losses" - as if it's their God given right to have an artificial monopoly.
"Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this time. You can download Firefox here. You can also continue on to your notebooks."
So does XUL offer anything that is cross browser and better than Ajax?
Other browsers, like Mozilla Suite? AFAIK, Google Notebook works only on Firefox and maybe also Mozilla. Google Browser Sync works only on FF 1.5. So in reality there are hardly any useful cross-browser XUL apps, let alone cross version. Not because nobody makes them, but it's impossible most of the time (e.g. Safari et al simply don't support XUL at all.) So much for the performance hit.
Now, they try to simplify the platform (didnt Mac did that when going from OS9 to OSX?, and from PPC to Intel?) and everybody starts whining.
No one is saying that Microsoft is the only one that does this gimmick, we're just calling a spade a spade. By the way, Apple isn't dropping backwards compatibility for their PPC to Intel transition.
Wow, I was marked flamebait when I was just stating what seemed obvious to me, as I work at a small company that doubled in population in the last year...
Well, this isn't unusual for a very new company that can grow very fast. I don't think too much can be said from just these two Initial numbers. E.g. if they do well, their population could double annually. Then the ratio would be something like 100 : 15, as new employees usually don't become executives over night.
Germany invaded other countries and looted them and used slave labor to make up for this problem, wheras our war economy just throws it into the big pile of national debt and sell it off to China, Japan, and other places.
Did you know that Japan has crazy debt right now? If you stack a bunch of $100 bills equivalent to the amount of debt Japan has, that tower of cash would be about the length from Tokyo to Honolulu
I'm not usually interested in everything a site has to offer, but if they're willing to pick out the things I would be interested in, I'm much more likely to want to see it.
Filtering is certainly available for web feeds. There's no particular need for a website to only have one feed. BBC News has a separate feed for each news section. At other websites, one can structure a query in a URL to get filtration, etc. Once received, the contents can be further organized by the client's aggregator.
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I don't think the retarded and/or blind would appreciate being compared with the TSA.
Well, I have also seen built-in filtering mechanisms in LimeWire that aims to prevent sharing of copyrighted content. Not sure how it works in detail, though.
On the contrary, according to TFA's summary of the record companies' complaint, LimeWIre, LLC, is actively facilitating, encouraging and enticing computer users to "steal music by failing to block access to copyright works and building a business model that allows them to profit directly from piracy." The actual instances of p2p piracy occurs with no money being exchanged, so I'm not sure how they will show that LW profits directly from it.
There seems to be several layers where misunderstandings and misinterpretations can be introduced: by the lawsuit's plaintiff, by TFA summary, by Slashdot's summary of TFA's summary of the lawsuit, or by interpretations made in Slashdot posts. So who knows what's actually going on.
This follows Apple's strategy of lowering prices on the Macs, and then raising prices on the accessories. Past over-priced Apple products have included: iSight, iPod leather case, iPod hi-fi, FireWire cable (which BTW easily breaks), etc...
Seems like the non-upgrade versions of Windows XP costs more than many of the supposedly "expensive" iPods as well.
The story bases its claim on one guy, John Reid, who started associating the rise in mugging with the rise in the number of people who carry expensive goods, such as mp3 players. (In a sense, he is equally blaming all MP3 players and mobile phones, etc, btw.) And John Reid just happens to be a member of the ruling Labour Party. The 22% rise in crimes couldn't possibly be the fault of the government now, could it? I mean, the gov't couldn't possibly be at fault for not being successful at hunting down these criminals who are in theory selling these stolen goods. Nor could it be the government's fault for not reducing poverty and unemployment levels in the UK to reduce overall crime. Or anything else the gov't could have done to prevent a 22% increase. No, it's the fault of those people who own expensive electronic gadgetry. Of course (expensive electronic gadgetry) gets replaced with (iPod). Those damned iPod owners for making the world a worse place.
we decided that placing a monopoly on armaments in the hands of government was a very dangerous idea.
Yes, because otherwise without guns the slaves will revolt and lynch you to death.
I would rather have someone attack me with a blunt object rather than with a gun. Maybe that's just me.
Wasn't ActiveX the cause of IE not being very standards compliant and allowing lots of spyware to enter?
So standards and security do count because users don't want spyware controlling their PCs. IE's kinda funny cause it requires user authentication (username & password) just so that a site can use Direct X for alpha transparency, and there's no getting around using Active X to use alpha transparency in the browser.
Am I the only one who misread it as Segway Pogo? I thought that maybe they went one-stick because two-wheel wasn't going far enough. That would certainly count as one of the worst tech...
Soo.... are you telling me that I should think the site is actually professional looking because it's a free service or because you want me to install another browser!? I don't follow your logic.
The Javascript doesn't work properly at all on Safari - looks like a teen made it. Really unprofessional.
I thought that US law requires the defendant to provide reasonable amount of evidence in order to get a court case started in the first place.
Even though there has been an insane amount of press coverage on MacBook discoloration, they all boil down to a report by TSwartz. ALL the discoloration photos come from JUST ONE USER! Ponder that, and someone tell me that the press doesn't over-react to Apple product imperfections.
I know it's technically correct according to business jargon, but they say they're "suffering losses" - as if it's their God given right to have an artificial monopoly.
Supplementary note:
"Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this time. You can download Firefox here. You can also continue on to your notebooks."
So does XUL offer anything that is cross browser and better than Ajax?
You know what I meant to say, as the link supplied was pretty self explanatory.
Other browsers, like Mozilla Suite? AFAIK, Google Notebook works only on Firefox and maybe also Mozilla. Google Browser Sync works only on FF 1.5. So in reality there are hardly any useful cross-browser XUL apps, let alone cross version. Not because nobody makes them, but it's impossible most of the time (e.g. Safari et al simply don't support XUL at all.) So much for the performance hit.
Wow, I was marked flamebait when I was just stating what seemed obvious to me, as I work at a small company that doubled in population in the last year...
Well, this isn't unusual for a very new company that can grow very fast. I don't think too much can be said from just these two Initial numbers. E.g. if they do well, their population could double annually. Then the ratio would be something like 100 : 15, as new employees usually don't become executives over night.
Germany invaded other countries and looted them and used slave labor to make up for this problem, wheras our war economy just throws it into the big pile of national debt and sell it off to China, Japan, and other places.
Did you know that Japan has crazy debt right now? If you stack a bunch of $100 bills equivalent to the amount of debt Japan has, that tower of cash would be about the length from Tokyo to Honolulu
Yup, their messenger sucks on all supported platforms, but who needs it on a Mac when there's iChat?