It's official. After nearly 10 years, Slashdot is no longer my homepage. Goodbye Slashdot, hello reddit. The site hasn't been the same for me since the new comment system.
There is no way that the head of an open source project should be taking half a mil in compensation.
It kinda pisses me off that a couple years ago as a starving college student I donated money to the Mozilla Foundation. If I knew their CEO would one day be raking in that kind of cash I would have donated to a more worthy cause. Not that there aren't other non-profit directors raking it in (I'm looking at you, Red Cross).
I can record that game today on my Mac mini I didn't know that was possible until I googled it. Though, it doesn't look a whole lot easier than setting up a MythTV, which is the original point of the grandparent post. It involves third party software, setting up a VPN server, and some extra cables.
Wow, guess I got out just in time. I pulled my money out of there a couple months ago, closed the account, and moved it into EverBank. When I signed up for NetBank in 2004, they had one of the most competitive interest rates for checking accounts available (according to Bankrate.com). However, as time went on I noticed there were more and more online banks that had better deals. I suppose it wouldn't have been too bad, it looks like all of NetBank's customers automatically are getting transferred to ING Direct.
Even though I agree with one of the earlier replies that point out that it is in fact not the same functionality, I would like to use this opportunity to plug my humble website that I believe is simpler and more intuitive to use than gmap pedometer.
http://routebuilder.org/
I've always used Photoshop and photo editing as an example of a class of applications that would never make sence to be replaced with a web equivalent. Then someone showed me Snipshot. Check it out, it is pretty intersting. Although it only does very basic photo editing right now, I could see where, in the future, it could support most (all?) the features of Photoshop.
So now I don't know. Besides the security of having all your data on your own hard drive, I'm not sure I have a compelling technical reason to argue that virtually all applications couldn't eventually be ran through the web browser.
Sorry, but poorly designed caching is a memory leak. I shouldn't have to restart my browser because it is taking 700mb of memory (no lie). Especially when I only have one window open.
Everytime a Firefox article gets posted, I see someone post a hack to fix the memory leak problem. I've tried every one of them and none of them fix it on my end. The only externsion I'm running is Google's Toolbar. Regardless though, no one except the most hardcore Firefox users would ever know to look in about:config to turn off this "feature". And they shouldn't have to either.
I believe I've read the Wired article you are referring to, it is a year or two old. Here is a recent article (10/6/2005) from USA Today about man-made diamonds.
One of the listed dot coms mentioned is MVP.com. John Elway is noted as an investor. He runs a large auto dealership outfit in Colorado. Sort of a an "Unpainted Arizona" in these parts.
John Elway sold his share of John Elway AutoNation. Here is merely paid as their spokeperson.
John does own the Arena football team Colorado Crush. He also has part ownership in Elways, a local steakhouse.
I'm sure he owns a bunch of other stuff too but those are the most notable.
I thought you were correct in that Google Maps was the winner at the ETSU campus, until I tried to look at the satellite/hybrid version of the data from Google:
"We're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom for this region."
From playing with MSN Virtual Earth I've noticed that their satellite imagery is at a much higher resolution, and there appear to be no image breaks in the satellite data where there are in Google Maps.
I think Google Earth has them booth beat right now though.
BTW, there is a ~30 minute informal video interview w/some of the MSN Virtual Earth team on Channel 9.
Not that I hope multitudes don't buy this, because any support of such and effort is good, but why would anyone buy it when you can just look it up and possibly get better updated results online?
a) for when you bring your laptop with you on a safari and want to know the difference between a Bengal Tiger and a Siberian Tiger.
b) you work somewhere without an Internet connection at your desk (like I do), but would value Wikipedia as a handy resource to have available.
I would love to have the usenet archives available to me on DVD, preferrably with the ability to custom order DVDs based on specific groups and timespans. Oh and of course a powerful search engine. Hear that Google??
The innards of Calc - the arithmetic engine - was completely thrown away and rewritten from scratch. The standard IEEE floating point library was replaced with an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library. This was done after people kept writing ha-ha articles about how Calc couldn't do decimal arithmetic correctly, that for example computing 10.21 - 10.2 resulted in 0.0100000000000016.
(These all came from people who didn't understand how computers handle floating point. I have a future entry planned to go into floating point representations in more detail.)
Today, Calc's internal computations are done with infinite precision for basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and 32 digits of precision for advanced operations (square root, transcendental operators).
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jun 08, 2004 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Shares of TiVo Inc. dropped more than 14 percent Tuesday after DirecTV sold its entire stake in the digital video recorder pioneer, heightening concerns that the satellite TV company would end their relationship.
The bulk of TiVo's new subscribers last quarter came through its partnership with DirecTV, which offers TiVo service built into some of its television set-top boxes so that users can pause live TV, easily set up recordings and skip past commercials...
I have the new Outkast CD which pops on the exact same MediaMax software. I never agreed to the EULA, but all the tracks are coming out garbled exactly like the sample in the report.
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The Viking 1 didn't launch until 1976. There must be a tear in the spacetime continuum!
It's official. After nearly 10 years, Slashdot is no longer my homepage. Goodbye Slashdot, hello reddit. The site hasn't been the same for me since the new comment system.
It kinda pisses me off that a couple years ago as a starving college student I donated money to the Mozilla Foundation. If I knew their CEO would one day be raking in that kind of cash I would have donated to a more worthy cause. Not that there aren't other non-profit directors raking it in (I'm looking at you, Red Cross).
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Wait, the article is about the Japanese goofing off at work, and you find a way to point the finger at lazy Americans?
Oh, I see what you did there...
Wow, guess I got out just in time. I pulled my money out of there a couple months ago, closed the account, and moved it into EverBank. When I signed up for NetBank in 2004, they had one of the most competitive interest rates for checking accounts available (according to Bankrate.com). However, as time went on I noticed there were more and more online banks that had better deals. I suppose it wouldn't have been too bad, it looks like all of NetBank's customers automatically are getting transferred to ING Direct.
Even though I agree with one of the earlier replies that point out that it is in fact not the same functionality, I would like to use this opportunity to plug my humble website that I believe is simpler and more intuitive to use than gmap pedometer. http://routebuilder.org/
So now I don't know. Besides the security of having all your data on your own hard drive, I'm not sure I have a compelling technical reason to argue that virtually all applications couldn't eventually be ran through the web browser.
there already is.
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Everytime a Firefox article gets posted, I see someone post a hack to fix the memory leak problem. I've tried every one of them and none of them fix it on my end. The only externsion I'm running is Google's Toolbar. Regardless though, no one except the most hardcore Firefox users would ever know to look in about:config to turn off this "feature". And they shouldn't have to either.
C# is an official ECMA standard, Java is not. So tell me again who can more easily take their toys and go home?
I believe I've read the Wired article you are referring to, it is a year or two old. Here is a recent article (10/6/2005) from USA Today about man-made diamonds.
John Elway sold his share of John Elway AutoNation. Here is merely paid as their spokeperson.
John does own the Arena football team Colorado Crush. He also has part ownership in Elways, a local steakhouse.
I'm sure he owns a bunch of other stuff too but those are the most notable.
"We're sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom for this region."
From playing with MSN Virtual Earth I've noticed that their satellite imagery is at a much higher resolution, and there appear to be no image breaks in the satellite data where there are in Google Maps.
I think Google Earth has them booth beat right now though.
BTW, there is a ~30 minute informal video interview w/some of the MSN Virtual Earth team on Channel 9.
a) for when you bring your laptop with you on a safari and want to know the difference between a Bengal Tiger and a Siberian Tiger.
b) you work somewhere without an Internet connection at your desk (like I do), but would value Wikipedia as a handy resource to have available.
I would love to have the usenet archives available to me on DVD, preferrably with the ability to custom order DVDs based on specific groups and timespans. Oh and of course a powerful search engine. Hear that Google??
The innards of Calc - the arithmetic engine - was completely thrown away and rewritten from scratch. The standard IEEE floating point library was replaced with an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library. This was done after people kept writing ha-ha articles about how Calc couldn't do decimal arithmetic correctly, that for example computing 10.21 - 10.2 resulted in 0.0100000000000016.
(These all came from people who didn't understand how computers handle floating point. I have a future entry planned to go into floating point representations in more detail.)
Today, Calc's internal computations are done with infinite precision for basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and 32 digits of precision for advanced operations (square root, transcendental operators).
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/
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The bulk of TiVo's new subscribers last quarter came through its partnership with DirecTV, which offers TiVo service built into some of its television set-top boxes so that users can pause live TV, easily set up recordings and skip past commercials...
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ditto. 6 windows, 38mb.
I have the new Outkast CD which pops on the exact same MediaMax software. I never agreed to the EULA, but all the tracks are coming out garbled exactly like the sample in the report.
Because few users will switchfrom Excel to Gnumeric if their old files don't work on the new software.
It's like asking why Abiword or Openoffice is spending resources to be able to open .doc files.
If you install the google toolbar you can vote for or against pages on an individual basis.
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