I just wish they would revisit the core elements of the site for a change and give us a system that works...
Maybe you just don't get the core elements of the site, but it has always been a social network site based on similar music tastes. The Pandora project is an interesting idea in that it algorithmically determines music similarity (not hand coded like a poster above mentioned(?)) based on attributes such as tempo, etc. Last.fm, on the other hand, rates similarity based on what people are listening to. Meaning, Kelly Clarkson and The Killers (for example) do not have any musical attributes in common, but sure as shit the same people that listen to one, listen to the other. It breaks down with popular media because lots of different listener types will listen to the new rap/dance song, but again as someone said above, it works for things not so much in the popular culture (Ska, Screamo, Reggae, House, Funk, etc.).
The social network has been, and always will be, thier core element. Thier recommendation system is as good as the people listening to the music.
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body.
but that is not what Michael Dell uses on his home laptop: Michael Dell's Computers... he runs Ubuntu 7.04 on his home laptop and Vista Ultimate on everything else.
I'm pretty sure that everyone that used "Magic" has a Ring of Power or other magical 'artifact'. Gandalf (the Ring of Fire) and Elrond (the Elven Ring of Water) both have rings of power. Galadriel (this is unconfirmed) might have a ring (the Elven Ring of Air?), but she definetly has that Mirror thing.
Saurumon does not have a Ring of Power, but he does have those other things (what is the thing/orb that he throws out of the Tower in the second book?) which empowers him to use "Magic". When they see him at the end, he has nothing and no power.
The Ring-Wraiths = bearers of the human rings; it is unclear/undocumented which Sauron has, but you know he has something.
I gave a paper in college to a friend of a friend in 1998. I had taken the same class as her 1.5 years prior with the same exact professor. I assumed that the girl was going to use my paper as a reference, but instead that crazy bitch just re-typed the thing in and submitted it. That could be why I didn't want to turn her plagarism in, I assumed the grey area of 'reference', but when she submitted it that way I felt that I could not turn her in without one of two things happening 1) ruining my own repuation or (more important at the time) 2) having all of her _hot_ friends hate me as well. It was an impasse, so I just let her go even though I felt that I violated some principles.
The most fucked up thing: I got a 95 on the paper and she received a 97.
I'm pretty sure that with the Professional version of the Google Applications, they install a server on your premises and it is managed by your IT staff.
Same with thier GMail service at your domain.... they supply the server and software, you just pay them somehow.
Its called the internets. Places like newegg and tigerdirect sell unlocked GSM phones (as well as a host of other non-recommended sites). I bought an L7 SLVR from newegg a few months ago and it has been awesome. I had to look online how to configure my picture message server to send/receive picture messages and get online, which I would assume that you have to do anytime you get an unlocked/unconfigured phone. Other than the initial configuration, it's been flawless.
DRM may be on the way out, but watermarking will be on the way in.
I.e. you can do whatever you want with the file, but there is a digitial hash somewhere in the file that uniquely identifies you, so don't share it, else we will sue.
Uhh, he obviously doesn't know XHTML/JavaScript/CSS enough to be making those decisions. The X in front of the HTML is pretty important, as you just have a well formed document (text/image/audio/video) and want to display that a certain way.
S5 (Simple Standards-based Slide Show System) does what you are describing, and it does it for any XHTML and is fully customizable. See the example linked from the page if you don't believe me.
Hrrm, you're right. I just sent out a few emails and noticed the same thing.
I think that the behavior that I was describing (but never empirically recorded**) originated around the time when the 'dot' in account names/emails were being ignored and there were then multiple destinations for the same email. What I mean is that x.yz@gmail was unique to xyz@gmail; yet they instituted the change that x.y.z+${description} would all be routed to the xyz@gmail address. So, what it looked liked they were doing was figuring out where best to send the mail and deliver it there. I don't know exactly though, but obviously they discontinued this.
**My gmail is my last name which starts with a pretty typical women's name 'martha'. I was getting messages sent to addresses like martha@gmail.com and marthax12314. it was awhile though since I have verified all of my spam and random mail being delivered is correctly addressed.
Just something you may want to check about "I get loads of spam in my GMail even though I've never given it to anyone, which I think speaks for itself." is that gmail automatically delivers mail that does not match a gmail recipient to the closest one. How it decides what the closest one is a google secret, but you should check those spam messages that are being sent to you.
For instance nimloth at gmail might receive messages addressed to (nimlo nimolotha etc.).
Its a crazy feature of gmail, and one not very talked about!
As I understand it, there definetly is a tiered library system. There is definetly a distinction between a city library and a county library.
Also, have you considered that there actuallly are Federal libraries like, hrrm, say the Library of Congress? Why couldn't we get a digital subscription to thier collected works?:)
Also of note, is that most state funded University libraries are public places. While I am sure that most state citizens can't checkout books without being a student, I think that there are places that allow you to. I'm sure that every library deals with this differently, but I remember that I checked books out of ASU West's library when I was in high school and taking a course at a community college, i.e. not an ASU student.
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Maybe you just don't get the core elements of the site, but it has always been a social network site based on similar music tastes. The Pandora project is an interesting idea in that it algorithmically determines music similarity (not hand coded like a poster above mentioned(?)) based on attributes such as tempo, etc. Last.fm, on the other hand, rates similarity based on what people are listening to. Meaning, Kelly Clarkson and The Killers (for example) do not have any musical attributes in common, but sure as shit the same people that listen to one, listen to the other. It breaks down with popular media because lots of different listener types will listen to the new rap/dance song, but again as someone said above, it works for things not so much in the popular culture (Ska, Screamo, Reggae, House, Funk, etc.).
The social network has been, and always will be, thier core element. Thier recommendation system is as good as the people listening to the music.
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body.
He also doesn't seem to get that sometimes people DoS sites out of spite or out of malice.
You can't put a pricetag on being an asshole to the internet community.
but that is not what Michael Dell uses on his home laptop: Michael Dell's Computers... he runs Ubuntu 7.04 on his home laptop and Vista Ultimate on everything else.
Maybe he is starting to see the light...
I'm pretty sure that everyone that used "Magic" has a Ring of Power or other magical 'artifact'. Gandalf (the Ring of Fire) and Elrond (the Elven Ring of Water) both have rings of power. Galadriel (this is unconfirmed) might have a ring (the Elven Ring of Air?), but she definetly has that Mirror thing.
Saurumon does not have a Ring of Power, but he does have those other things (what is the thing/orb that he throws out of the Tower in the second book?) which empowers him to use "Magic". When they see him at the end, he has nothing and no power.
The Ring-Wraiths = bearers of the human rings; it is unclear/undocumented which Sauron has, but you know he has something.
I gave a paper in college to a friend of a friend in 1998. I had taken the same class as her 1.5 years prior with the same exact professor. I assumed that the girl was going to use my paper as a reference, but instead that crazy bitch just re-typed the thing in and submitted it. That could be why I didn't want to turn her plagarism in, I assumed the grey area of 'reference', but when she submitted it that way I felt that I could not turn her in without one of two things happening 1) ruining my own repuation or (more important at the time) 2) having all of her _hot_ friends hate me as well. It was an impasse, so I just let her go even though I felt that I violated some principles.
The most fucked up thing: I got a 95 on the paper and she received a 97.
I'm pretty sure that with the Professional version of the Google Applications, they install a server on your premises and it is managed by your IT staff.
Same with thier GMail service at your domain.... they supply the server and software, you just pay them somehow.
Its called the internets. Places like newegg and tigerdirect sell unlocked GSM phones (as well as a host of other non-recommended sites). I bought an L7 SLVR from newegg a few months ago and it has been awesome. I had to look online how to configure my picture message server to send/receive picture messages and get online, which I would assume that you have to do anytime you get an unlocked/unconfigured phone. Other than the initial configuration, it's been flawless.
DRM may be on the way out, but watermarking will be on the way in.
I.e. you can do whatever you want with the file, but there is a digitial hash somewhere in the file that uniquely identifies you, so don't share it, else we will sue.
Uhh, he obviously doesn't know XHTML/JavaScript/CSS enough to be making those decisions. The X in front of the HTML is pretty important, as you just have a well formed document (text/image/audio/video) and want to display that a certain way.
S5 (Simple Standards-based Slide Show System) does what you are describing, and it does it for any XHTML and is fully customizable. See the example linked from the page if you don't believe me.
Hrrm, you're right. I just sent out a few emails and noticed the same thing.
I think that the behavior that I was describing (but never empirically recorded**) originated around the time when the 'dot' in account names/emails were being ignored and there were then multiple destinations for the same email. What I mean is that x.yz@gmail was unique to xyz@gmail; yet they instituted the change that x.y.z+${description} would all be routed to the xyz@gmail address. So, what it looked liked they were doing was figuring out where best to send the mail and deliver it there. I don't know exactly though, but obviously they discontinued this.
**My gmail is my last name which starts with a pretty typical women's name 'martha'. I was getting messages sent to addresses like martha@gmail.com and marthax12314. it was awhile though since I have verified all of my spam and random mail being delivered is correctly addressed.
Just something you may want to check about "I get loads of spam in my GMail even though I've never given it to anyone, which I think speaks for itself." is that gmail automatically delivers mail that does not match a gmail recipient to the closest one. How it decides what the closest one is a google secret, but you should check those spam messages that are being sent to you.
For instance nimloth at gmail might receive messages addressed to (nimlo nimolotha etc.).
Its a crazy feature of gmail, and one not very talked about!
As I understand it, there definetly is a tiered library system. There is definetly a distinction between a city library and a county library.
:)
Also, have you considered that there actuallly are Federal libraries like, hrrm, say the Library of Congress? Why couldn't we get a digital subscription to thier collected works?
Also of note, is that most state funded University libraries are public places. While I am sure that most state citizens can't checkout books without being a student, I think that there are places that allow you to. I'm sure that every library deals with this differently, but I remember that I checked books out of ASU West's library when I was in high school and taking a course at a community college, i.e. not an ASU student.