Pandora moved to an hour cap per month right around the time I was at the Blackberry developer conference and met one of the Slacker devs. I checked it out and loved it.
Since then I've tried other services but continue to use Slacker. They seem to get what people want..
The only downside is I can't find Trailer Park Troubadours or Sisters Morales (two bands I played with) on Slacker while I could on Pandora... but in due time I'm sure.
You've just learned a valuable lesson. Democrat or Republican, they're *Politicians*. They will tell you what they think you want to hear in order to get elected.
JAKE 671 at 5:25 AM February 07, 2011
AOL absorbs AH, forming AHOL. PERFECT!
If this is real, it was really social engineering.
Whether or not the results were tainted by google or by SEO folks, they were tainted. Google having done it means to me they can change results any time they want in any fashion they want.
Not that I believe their company should be democratic by any means, but the next time I consider buying adwords I'll be thinking twice.
In fact it is different. The article makes it seem as Microsoft is actively screen scraping results from google.com and pushing the results into their own indexes.
Instead, they are grabbing (purposefully or otherwise) results from users who opted-in to try to make their results better. If any of the other search engines had poisoned their results they could be making the same accusation.
Sadly, Google seems to have admitted that it's possible to poison their own results which is something they've been denying for some time now.
Either way, I still get better results from google than bing, albeit lately with a flood of useless/repeated blog bosts to weed through a bit.
I use Bing when I want a smaller more concise resultset, and Google when I want a boatload of results.
I actually do use other engines as well, but not as often as the big 2.
If your friends haven't heard of Bing it's because they don't watch TV. Microsoft has spend a vomit inducing amount of money in advertising on network TV.
True, but I didn't see any Michael Vick, Brett Farve (though there is a 33 cent Green Bay stamp), or LeBron James stamps for that matter.
However, there is a Feynman stamp, a von Neumann stamp, a Josiah Willard Gibbs stamp, a Barbara McClintock stamp, John James Audubon, Dr. Crawford W. Long, Luther Burbank, Dr. Walter Reed, Jane Addams, and educators such as Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins, Charles Elliot, Frances E. Willard, Booker T. Washington, inventors such as Eli Whitney, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Elias Howe, Alexander Graham Bell, and crossover scientist/inventor/educator George Washington Carver.
Athletes found in this list are limited to Ray Ewry, Jesse Owens (definitely worth IMHO), Wilma Rudolph, and Babe Zaharias.
It seems US postage stamps are the last bastion of honoring the merits of scientists and educators here in the US. I do agree that as a society we have our priorities all wrong though.
Now you've seen lots. There were at least two in the US.
Technosapien?
Ah ok, yeah.. you're right.
Except I don't run it all day. I have a digital thermostat that changes the temperature when we're not home.
That's not as easy to do with sub-freezing temperatures unless you want to risk a burst pipe.
Does the average user know to turn off NTP, or even know what NTP is?
It seems nobody has bothered to talk to Apple as to whether or not this is their problem.
Same configuration here... same result as you.
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
