Cliq 2 is a vastly different beast from the original Cliq (which I have until I'm upgrade-eligible early next year); I've seen it referred to on Tmonews as "what the Cliq should have been in the first place."
So far as Blur goes, it does what it was promoted as doing: consolidating your SMS / email / Facebook / Twitter, etc. feeds into one stream. If you're primarily interested in using your phone to make calls and keep up with your Facebook wall (which is admittedly what I do with mine 90% of the time), it works fine. The other big original feature, the address book consolidation, was later provided by Android in Eclair, but that wasn't the case in the 1.6 that the Cliq was originally shipped with. Beyond that, the main feature I know if is the remote lockup of the phone in case it's lost or stolen. I'm not sure if current Android does that or not.
IE development didn't stall until after IE 6 was released. IE 1 was essentially just rebadged Spyglass Mosaic, and wasn't even included with the August release of Win 95; you had to buy Microsoft Plus to get it. IE 2 was, I think, only shipped with NT 4 or something, and by the time Y2K patching was in order it was no longer allowed into microsoft.com (it received a hard "upgrade your browser" denial page) so you had to install Netscape if you wanted to download MS's Y2K patches onto a clean install. IE 3 was the first big update that was available, and IE 4 was the one that merged browsing capabilities into Windows Explorer, giving us Active Desktop and the "inextricability" aspect of Win 98. I'm not sure of the timeline for IE 5 and IE 6, but after IE 6 came out and Netscape stalled in 2000 was when IE development stopped.
It's not laziness; they actually recreated the billg-as-borg icon during one of the redesigns. That's certainly not CmdrTaco's old GIMP image from the 90's.
Have they done a retro-Slashdot (i.e., with the original UI) as an April Fools joke yet?
I wondered when I was going to find a comment that mentioned Haven! That show (returning in July) was excellent, particularly if you watched the entire season as it transformed from "freak of the week" to a WTF cliffhanger that hopefully made SK himself proud! That's actually the last thing I still watch on Syfy... I never got into BG (new formula) or SG, and I've finally given up on the Ghost Hunters franchise as they've gotten more farcical, if not corrupt.
During the spanish revolutions the anarchists in Spain formed anarchist communes built of this collectivist ideal, which to this day are the best implemented examples of large scale anarchism
Given that all I know about anarchism I learned from Illuminatus!, how would you compare those communes to the former Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong?
I agree with you and the GP. In school in the '70s, I learned about the metric system / SI. PBS even had an entire series called "The Metric System"... I still remember part of the theme song. As time has passed and wholesale conversion didn't happen, I realized something: for everyday private life, SI has no clear advantages over the US customary system. There is nothing compelling about a kilometer or a meter that makes it a clear and necessary replacement for the mile or foot. The same goes for the kg vs. the pound (I know, that's comparing mass vs. weight, but if we don't need to allow for gravitational fluctuation then the difference is meaningless), or the liter vs.the quart. Yes, it's easier to convert from liquid measure to linear-cubed in SI, but you know what? Do you know why almost no one knows how many gallons are in a cubic foot? Because no one cares. It sounds nice on paper but for everyday life that's not a conversion people need to make. Yes, using the same system as the rest of the world makes commerce easier and I do believe that all Americans should at least have a passable understanding of SI and how its units compare to US customary. But in this instance the expense, disruption, and anti-convenience of a mass conversion at the personal level trumped the benefits to international commerce.
For those of us in the US who watched the show in college, we saw a lot of her. Apparently Lionheart, the BBC marketing arm at the time, had a policy that for every run of a Doctor Who series a PBS station bought -- Pertwee, Davison, Hartnell and Troughton once they started syndicating those, etc. -- they also had to buy a full run of Tom Baker. So we saw lots of Sarah Jane (not to mention every third week was a rerun of Robot).
As the GP said, Elisabeth has left us far too soon. Thank heavens they filmed School Reunion; nuWho would have been far poorer without it.
Actually, I think the whole point is to keep the chain going with ever-lower UID's posting until CmdrTaco or Hemos shows up and laughs in our collective faces.
I've never understood the hatred for MemoryStick, unless it's that no one but Sony uses it. We've actually had several Sony cameras over the years that used it, and they've all been fine. All the PC's we've bought that had an all-in-one reader handled it (albeit with the converter to convert the PRO size to the original stick of gum). We have one camera (a Minolta) that uses Sandisk, but we rarely use it since the most-recent Sony we bought is smaller and has a higher pixel count.
So far as BluRay goes, though, I've yet to see either a BluRay recorder or a BluRay player / DVD recorder (or the Holy Grail to replace what I have in my stereo rack: BluRay recorder (or player) / DVD recorder / VHS combo) in any of my local stores.
Wasn't "Aurora" the name of the prototype sidebar-like-thing (or maybe it was a sidebar on steroids, or the original RDF reader?) that was intended to go into Netscape Communicator 5? How is it that the name comes back two app-series later (with Mozilla/Seamonkey in between) just in time for Firefox version 5?
(The original version was in the original Netscape open-source codedrop and was abandoned with the switch to nglayout and XUL, which became Mozilla/Seamonkey and Netscape 6).
I have an original-recipe Cliq, and it took Moto until October of last year to finally go public with the 2.1 upgrade. Really, the Cliq hardware is stressed trying to run 2.1; I'm surprised (if only slightly) that it apparently was worse on the XT since you would think that the next-gen would be Bigger! Stronger! Faster! Glad Magenta hooked up the XT users that actually complained, though.
(Note: this note has a USA context; YMMV if you live elsewhere). I used to be on a local Cable TV committee, and I've read some franchise agreements. I suggest that you obtain a copy of your town's from either the town office or cable company, and see if it's actually exclusive. Odds are, it will say "non-exclusive" in the initial grant-of-franchise language. Odds also are, you don't have more than one non-broadcast TV provider to choose from unless you're in a last-mile-fiber area (e.g., FiOS) or on Manhattan island. The truth is that regardless of whether there is a de jure monopoly due to an exclusive franchise agreement, population densities are, in the vast majority of cases in this country, not great enough to support duplicate cable TV systems. This creates a de facto monopoly, but the other choice is conscripting a business to make a large and unprofitable investment (cf. Verizon in Northern New England), or else convincing the citizens of your town that it's important for them to pay for an overbuild as a public service. Good luck with that if the dominant providers aren't completely derelict.
I got hit with something nasty a few years ago, and the first thing it did was disable my CA Antivirus (provided by my ISP) from updating. Lo and behold, there was no way that I could find to manually update CA AV at all. I finally was able to clean the machine using Kaspersky's online virus scanner, and I was sufficently happy with it that I bought the product; I'd be perfectly happy with the occasional manual database download if the alternative was having no way to update the signatures, ever.
I don't think Slashdot has ever had serifs, anywhere. Having said that, while I miss the original L&F and I don't spend enough time here these days to have figured out what the story colors are (were?) supposed to mean, from an admin POV it's probably a lot better that the site use as little of CmdrTaco's code as possible.
I do find the comments box to be snappier than it was yesterday.
"Don't be evil!" became a farce, if not a smokescreen, the moment they bought Doubleclick. I'm not one to join in the "corporations are psychopaths" discussion, but I don't see how you can reconcile any meaningful* definition of "Don't be evil" with "Let's buy the company that invented the freaking tracking cookie!"
* - One hopes and presumes that Larry and Sergey aren't running around committing felonies, whether white-collar or actual physical crimes against persons, but that doesn't strike me as a particularly useful measure of "evil" for an Internet application provider, especially one that implies that they're going to be something new, shiny and better.
Yes, Clinton may have presided over something that looked like an operating surplus. However, as we here on/. should be well aware, he also happened to be in office during one of the great economically expansive events of the 20th Century: the build-out of the Internet industry. While the stock bubble got all the press, under the covers there was tremendous investment as new fiber was laid, companies everywhere had to develop an Internet presence, etc., which translated into all kinds of taxable income. What were Cisco's earnings in FY 1991? Bush, OTOH, had to deal with 9/11 and its aftermath, a massively negative societal change that is at least partly responsible for the delta in government revenues.
There was at least one married couple that flew together on the Shuttle (I forget their names). However, my understanding is that they are both fairly shy and reserved persons, and cited the utter lack of privacy onboard when asked if they were going to go for it. NASA has apparently since changed the rules to forbid married couples from going into space together.
Part of the issue in "scientifically investigating" ghosts is the nature of the question itself. If we assume that a "ghost" is something that conforms to the popular definition of the word, i.e. the disembodied consciousness of a particular human who is by conventional understanding "dead," and if we further assume that the ability or propensity of a ghost to make any observable change in the environment of the living is constrained by both external (e.g., availability of energy in some form) and internal (the desires of the ghostly consciousness) factors, then trying to make a scientific prediction about a ghost amounts to trying to predict the actions of an unknown individual human when you have little or no contextual information about that person to apply to the question. It's like if I told you I was going to go out on a busy sidewalk in an unnamed world city and ask some person to name a book, and asked you to predict what they would say.
Altavista WAS the definition of what Google would become: clean interface, blazingly fast (relative to Yahoo!, Excite and Hotbot), good results. That was when they were a project at DEC. Then the portal craze hit and the clean interface vanished, DEC sold them off (I think CMGi owned them towards the end) and then Google came along and blew everyone's doors off. By the time Altavista came up with Raging.com the game was over.
The big difference this time is that Facebook will actually embed the thing into their existing platform, so the "I don't know anyone to Wave with" hurdle that plagued Wave will be curled right over.
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Cliq 2 is a vastly different beast from the original Cliq (which I have until I'm upgrade-eligible early next year); I've seen it referred to on Tmonews as "what the Cliq should have been in the first place."
So far as Blur goes, it does what it was promoted as doing: consolidating your SMS / email / Facebook / Twitter, etc. feeds into one stream. If you're primarily interested in using your phone to make calls and keep up with your Facebook wall (which is admittedly what I do with mine 90% of the time), it works fine. The other big original feature, the address book consolidation, was later provided by Android in Eclair, but that wasn't the case in the 1.6 that the Cliq was originally shipped with. Beyond that, the main feature I know if is the remote lockup of the phone in case it's lost or stolen. I'm not sure if current Android does that or not.
IE development didn't stall until after IE 6 was released. IE 1 was essentially just rebadged Spyglass Mosaic, and wasn't even included with the August release of Win 95; you had to buy Microsoft Plus to get it. IE 2 was, I think, only shipped with NT 4 or something, and by the time Y2K patching was in order it was no longer allowed into microsoft.com (it received a hard "upgrade your browser" denial page) so you had to install Netscape if you wanted to download MS's Y2K patches onto a clean install. IE 3 was the first big update that was available, and IE 4 was the one that merged browsing capabilities into Windows Explorer, giving us Active Desktop and the "inextricability" aspect of Win 98. I'm not sure of the timeline for IE 5 and IE 6, but after IE 6 came out and Netscape stalled in 2000 was when IE development stopped.
Yeah, because all the email and SMS capabilities work real well when most of the time you're communicating with someone on a landline.
I wish I had mod points right now; I'd bump you down just for the flamebait phrasing.
It's not laziness; they actually recreated the billg-as-borg icon during one of the redesigns. That's certainly not CmdrTaco's old GIMP image from the 90's.
Have they done a retro-Slashdot (i.e., with the original UI) as an April Fools joke yet?
I wondered when I was going to find a comment that mentioned Haven! That show (returning in July) was excellent, particularly if you watched the entire season as it transformed from "freak of the week" to a WTF cliffhanger that hopefully made SK himself proud! That's actually the last thing I still watch on Syfy... I never got into BG (new formula) or SG, and I've finally given up on the Ghost Hunters franchise as they've gotten more farcical, if not corrupt.
Given that all I know about anarchism I learned from Illuminatus!, how would you compare those communes to the former Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong?
Well done, sailor!
I agree with you and the GP. In school in the '70s, I learned about the metric system / SI. PBS even had an entire series called "The Metric System"... I still remember part of the theme song. As time has passed and wholesale conversion didn't happen, I realized something: for everyday private life, SI has no clear advantages over the US customary system. There is nothing compelling about a kilometer or a meter that makes it a clear and necessary replacement for the mile or foot. The same goes for the kg vs. the pound (I know, that's comparing mass vs. weight, but if we don't need to allow for gravitational fluctuation then the difference is meaningless), or the liter vs.the quart. Yes, it's easier to convert from liquid measure to linear-cubed in SI, but you know what? Do you know why almost no one knows how many gallons are in a cubic foot? Because no one cares. It sounds nice on paper but for everyday life that's not a conversion people need to make. Yes, using the same system as the rest of the world makes commerce easier and I do believe that all Americans should at least have a passable understanding of SI and how its units compare to US customary. But in this instance the expense, disruption, and anti-convenience of a mass conversion at the personal level trumped the benefits to international commerce.
For those of us in the US who watched the show in college, we saw a lot of her. Apparently Lionheart, the BBC marketing arm at the time, had a policy that for every run of a Doctor Who series a PBS station bought -- Pertwee, Davison, Hartnell and Troughton once they started syndicating those, etc. -- they also had to buy a full run of Tom Baker. So we saw lots of Sarah Jane (not to mention every third week was a rerun of Robot).
As the GP said, Elisabeth has left us far too soon. Thank heavens they filmed School Reunion; nuWho would have been far poorer without it.
Actually, I think the whole point is to keep the chain going with ever-lower UID's posting until CmdrTaco or Hemos shows up and laughs in our collective faces.
I've never understood the hatred for MemoryStick, unless it's that no one but Sony uses it. We've actually had several Sony cameras over the years that used it, and they've all been fine. All the PC's we've bought that had an all-in-one reader handled it (albeit with the converter to convert the PRO size to the original stick of gum). We have one camera (a Minolta) that uses Sandisk, but we rarely use it since the most-recent Sony we bought is smaller and has a higher pixel count.
So far as BluRay goes, though, I've yet to see either a BluRay recorder or a BluRay player / DVD recorder (or the Holy Grail to replace what I have in my stereo rack: BluRay recorder (or player) / DVD recorder / VHS combo) in any of my local stores.
Wasn't "Aurora" the name of the prototype sidebar-like-thing (or maybe it was a sidebar on steroids, or the original RDF reader?) that was intended to go into Netscape Communicator 5? How is it that the name comes back two app-series later (with Mozilla/Seamonkey in between) just in time for Firefox version 5?
(The original version was in the original Netscape open-source codedrop and was abandoned with the switch to nglayout and XUL, which became Mozilla/Seamonkey and Netscape 6).
I have an original-recipe Cliq, and it took Moto until October of last year to finally go public with the 2.1 upgrade. Really, the Cliq hardware is stressed trying to run 2.1; I'm surprised (if only slightly) that it apparently was worse on the XT since you would think that the next-gen would be Bigger! Stronger! Faster! Glad Magenta hooked up the XT users that actually complained, though.
(Note: this note has a USA context; YMMV if you live elsewhere). I used to be on a local Cable TV committee, and I've read some franchise agreements. I suggest that you obtain a copy of your town's from either the town office or cable company, and see if it's actually exclusive. Odds are, it will say "non-exclusive" in the initial grant-of-franchise language. Odds also are, you don't have more than one non-broadcast TV provider to choose from unless you're in a last-mile-fiber area (e.g., FiOS) or on Manhattan island. The truth is that regardless of whether there is a de jure monopoly due to an exclusive franchise agreement, population densities are, in the vast majority of cases in this country, not great enough to support duplicate cable TV systems. This creates a de facto monopoly, but the other choice is conscripting a business to make a large and unprofitable investment (cf. Verizon in Northern New England), or else convincing the citizens of your town that it's important for them to pay for an overbuild as a public service. Good luck with that if the dominant providers aren't completely derelict.
I got hit with something nasty a few years ago, and the first thing it did was disable my CA Antivirus (provided by my ISP) from updating. Lo and behold, there was no way that I could find to manually update CA AV at all. I finally was able to clean the machine using Kaspersky's online virus scanner, and I was sufficently happy with it that I bought the product; I'd be perfectly happy with the occasional manual database download if the alternative was having no way to update the signatures, ever.
I don't think Slashdot has ever had serifs, anywhere. Having said that, while I miss the original L&F and I don't spend enough time here these days to have figured out what the story colors are (were?) supposed to mean, from an admin POV it's probably a lot better that the site use as little of CmdrTaco's code as possible.
I do find the comments box to be snappier than it was yesterday.
"Don't be evil!" became a farce, if not a smokescreen, the moment they bought Doubleclick. I'm not one to join in the "corporations are psychopaths" discussion, but I don't see how you can reconcile any meaningful* definition of "Don't be evil" with "Let's buy the company that invented the freaking tracking cookie!"
* - One hopes and presumes that Larry and Sergey aren't running around committing felonies, whether white-collar or actual physical crimes against persons, but that doesn't strike me as a particularly useful measure of "evil" for an Internet application provider, especially one that implies that they're going to be something new, shiny and better.
Yes, Clinton may have presided over something that looked like an operating surplus. However, as we here on /. should be well aware, he also happened to be in office during one of the great economically expansive events of the 20th Century: the build-out of the Internet industry. While the stock bubble got all the press, under the covers there was tremendous investment as new fiber was laid, companies everywhere had to develop an Internet presence, etc., which translated into all kinds of taxable income. What were Cisco's earnings in FY 1991? Bush, OTOH, had to deal with 9/11 and its aftermath, a massively negative societal change that is at least partly responsible for the delta in government revenues.
There was at least one married couple that flew together on the Shuttle (I forget their names). However, my understanding is that they are both fairly shy and reserved persons, and cited the utter lack of privacy onboard when asked if they were going to go for it. NASA has apparently since changed the rules to forbid married couples from going into space together.
True. What GP should have said was
Part of the issue in "scientifically investigating" ghosts is the nature of the question itself. If we assume that a "ghost" is something that conforms to the popular definition of the word, i.e. the disembodied consciousness of a particular human who is by conventional understanding "dead," and if we further assume that the ability or propensity of a ghost to make any observable change in the environment of the living is constrained by both external (e.g., availability of energy in some form) and internal (the desires of the ghostly consciousness) factors, then trying to make a scientific prediction about a ghost amounts to trying to predict the actions of an unknown individual human when you have little or no contextual information about that person to apply to the question. It's like if I told you I was going to go out on a busy sidewalk in an unnamed world city and ask some person to name a book, and asked you to predict what they would say.
Altavista WAS the definition of what Google would become: clean interface, blazingly fast (relative to Yahoo!, Excite and Hotbot), good results. That was when they were a project at DEC. Then the portal craze hit and the clean interface vanished, DEC sold them off (I think CMGi owned them towards the end) and then Google came along and blew everyone's doors off. By the time Altavista came up with Raging.com the game was over.
I'll add one more: ColdFusion.
Stay classy /.
+infinity Funny.
The big difference this time is that Facebook will actually embed the thing into their existing platform, so the "I don't know anyone to Wave with" hurdle that plagued Wave will be curled right over.