Anti-AOL, I'm superior blah blah blah eliticism aside. Isn't this obvious? It doesn't make sense to keep people on staff when the companies business model has changed from retaining paid customers to offering AOL for free.
Just off the top of my head I can see customer service and marketing employees jobs not being as needed.
First, I'd like to thank Microsoft for forcing this update. I'm not being sarcastic in the least. They acknowledge that IE6 is full of security holes and the best thing for the end-user is IE7. IE7 beta runs better than IE6 (at least for me).
The three biggest generalized statements I've read so far involve functionality, it's an abuse of a monopoly, and get firefox.
[Functionality] IE7 runs better than IE6. The only sites that would be affected would be those sites that resort to explicitly stating that they only run in IE6 and those sites can fix that problem very, very easily. This leads directly into firefox.
["Get Firefox"] How many sites have you used that don't work in firefox? Let's call those number of sites, X. It's a pretty logical assumption that internet explorer's replacement would have a higher probability of working with IE6 sites than firefox. It would be logical to say that ie's X value is less than firefox's X.
[Abuse of a monopoly] Come on! Why is it that when Microsoft tries to fix a problem with an upgrade that they the monopoly arguement comes along? Someone else brought up the example of how tightly integrated Safari is in OSX. But if Microsoft wants to reduce the number of unsecured machines; it's a monopolistic move. Sometimes it seems that if MS ever released a free "Office lite" to compete with a product like iLife that we would have people screaming bloody murder. Wordpad is not acceptable. And for those saying that they went through a lot of trouble of uninstalling IE6 and being forced to upgrade to IE7. IE6 was uninstalled, how would it upgrade an uninstalled component? And then install itself, activate itself, and make it the default? All without any input.
The only thing I see wrong with this is the burden it would put on dial-up users. But this is microsoft so I would expect them to at least offer to purchase a cd containing the update. Or having the CD option with SP3 and making it mandatory then.
Do a google search, KMGH's investigative team have won plenty of awards for investigative reporting. A couple peabody awards, IRE award, Dupont-Columbia award, NHA award, SPJ award, and several emmys. That's not everything, but what i found with a quick google search. the main investigator has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and a few CNN broadcasts.
They broke the Air Force sex scandal story and did reporting on internet pedophiles before Dateline started broadcasting it every week. Try to get a few facts before you go around not believing things just because it's not a "big name". Didn't Blair and Finkel make up things for their articles while working for the NYT?
On one hand, we have Ticketmaster selling tickets tickets for 1k that otherwise would have been scalped for 1k. The difference here is that the band now gets some of that 1k instead of a person with connections in the office.
BUT Ticketmaster is doing this in an auction format. Something that scalpers already do on eBay. Couldn't it be possible that the bands just avoid Ticketmaster's probably 40% (I'd think it would be even more) comission and just put them on eBay themselves for a substantially reduced cost?
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be that difficult for eBay to implement a system just for concerts. I mean, I imagine that most of Ticketmaster's business is online anyways, eBay is a lot more popular and could easily promote and develop something for tickets.
I mean, the only benefit I can see Ticketmaster has over a tickets.ebay.com type setup would be the physical presence at a few locations... but I believe they hire a different company for that (at the venue). How hard would it be for companies that already sell Ticketmaster tickets to create a business account on ebay to purchase set-priced tickets for customers and print them right there?
I don't understand these terrible comparisons. What am I specifically referrring to?
The screen and notebook size. Why is it that when people do a comparison, the feel free to include a comparable system with a larger screen and think that it's just a better deal? People pay a *premium* to own a smaller notebook. Price comparing it with a larger notebook is like comparing the value between a toyota corolla and a ford fusion. the quality in both are good, performance is similar but one is much larger than the other.
dell doesn't make any notebooks similar in size (the 700m, which i own is thicker and has a battery pack sticking out the back). Asus and Sony are 2 companies who make notebooks similar in size to this macbook. if you want to do a fair comparison, compare their offerings to the macbook.
Dell had a deal where you could have bought a e1705 for around 1200$ with 1 gig of ram. For those that lug around their notebooks, like me, I would easily still pass up on the e1705 for a tiny 13.3" (hell, 12" widescreen would have been good) notebook for the same price.
The extra space that Blue-Ray provides will largely go unused. It's a bold statement but let's look at a few facts.
PS3 cheap version won't have HDMI; therefore, what's going to output the 1080p graphics (and subsequent textures needed)? Game companies are not going to release a PS3 super version of a game. It's fair to say that textures will be appropriately sized for a 720p resolution. Also, how much video memory does the PS3 hold? The current specs are slated at 256 system and 256 video. That's hardly enough memory to hold/swap gigs of textures.
In 2001, Xbox games contained an average of 1.81 gigs. In 2005, they contained 3.20 gigs. Xbox 360 average is something like 4.0 gigs. Game developers have to cut costs, especially considering the increased costs of developing for next gen systems and that's why cross-platforming happens. Considering the X360 and PS3 have similar system and video memories, I don't think their will be a huge discrepancy between texture sizes. If current trends continue, a 57% increase in used capacity could be expected at ~6.3 gigs. That's if the trend doesn't start to taper.
On the plus side, it will hold extra media but with games using in screen graphics instead of mpg... this really isn't a big thing.
The PS3 uses a vastly inferior motion detection system than the Wii (Wii's system is much more advanced - works in 3D and toward specific areas on the screen). The angle detection of the PS3 seems to relay angles and translate them into analog pad commands, similar to what other companies sold in controllers 8 years ago. So any game that would use the analog pads, could possibly also use the angle detectors. The people working on that PS3 game that uses the sensors didn't get the hardware or any info on it until a week and a half ago. Whereas developers for Nintendo actually got the controllers before the DEV kits.
Also consider that porting games between the Wii and PS3 will be much hard than porting games between the Wii and X360 (IBM processor to a vastly more difficult cell processor for the PS3 or a similar IBM processor in the X360?).
Languages change and symbols are open to interpretation.
The answer? Show what happens to those who cross into the area. Showing signs of a dead body encircling an area, while morbid, does get a point across. Vlad the impaler impaled his enemies in front of his castle/region and i'm sure people of many languages got the hint without a single written word.
But what if a future intelligent species doesn't look like a current human? Show a skeleton. Any type of semi-intelligent species would know how a body looks after it's been dead for a while. A picture of a skeleton implies death.
Codeine, a powerful pain reliever is a constituent of Opium. Opium has been known to be used by Neanderthals roughly 40,000 years ago and it's effects were well known in Ancient Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Considering that this is Pakistan, I would imagine that they had supplies of Opium nearby.
They weren't exactly grunting fools 8,000-10,000 years ago.
There's a lot of talk about how slow it is, how it doesn't contain that much data especially compared with one of those 500 gigabyte hard drives... etc etc etc
First, this is one "plate" compared with 5 plates of the 500 gig hard drives.
Second, this is a first generation product. The first CD-Rom was incredibly slow. The first DVD-Rom was incredibly slow. The first 3.5" hard drive was incredibly slow. See a pattern? This is probably going to be marketed toward those industries that use DAT tapes. As they incur most of the initial costs, the technology will improve, densities will increase and costs will fall. Is there anyone paying 400$ for a 2X CD-recorder nowadays?
Plus, these aren't being sold to consumers until 2008 which is a good decision because it allows the technology to mature.
Will these replace hard drives? In my opinion, not until 2011, sometime around there. That's when perpendicular hard drives (+ onboard flash) will reach maximum density compared with cost and holographic drives will dip under the HD price point. Considering that the industry is moving toward 2.5" HD drives as a replacement for 3.5" HD drives, holographic storage (let's start a new acronym: HS) will offer even more storage on a technology that should be hitting full stride at that point.
But this depends on HS random access times and how the research is heading toward flash memory. Flash Storage might be a competitor to HS around then.
Hydro may be cleaner in the sense that we wouldn't have to store waste and have pollutants in the air, but hydro can wreak hell on a local environment. It's not a good thing to create artifical reservoirs since it destroys everything that once was in the reservoir but also what is downstream of the dam.
I remember that we were talking in my microbiology course about tooth decay and that it really didn't appear in people up until the ~16th century i believe. Some people did get tooth decay, but it was generally the older people. They didn't use toothbrushes or floss.
Do you happen to know what was the change in the 16th century.
Processed Sugars from the "New" World. So what do we do now? Stick that stuff in as many things as we possibly can.
What I mean is this: There was an experiment where they stuck a cat and mouse in a cage. The cat ignored the mouse. Absolutely showed no interest in it. But pain was then inflicted on the cat and the cat attacked the mouse until it was dead.
Did the researchers test to see if it's not only pain that the subject feels? Maybe the subject will feel more agitated, stressed, angered, emotional, or a combination?
there hasn't been *any* speculation by the industry that nintendo would release a version with an analog stick. the only speculation being done about that is by people who want an analog stick.
and an analog stick is counter to what nintendo wants to provide. nintendo wants to provide a system that *anyone* can pick up and start playing games. an analog stick is not easier than a dpad for just anyone to pick up and play. if a gamer wants an analog stick with umpteen buttons, they can get a psp (and we all know how great of a *gaming* system that's turned out to be).
if nintendo ever releases one with an analog stick, i wouldn't expect it to be like the analog stick found in todays systems.
I don't remember if it was my last USB Jump Drive or SD card that I bought, but the packaging on it said that I would need to format it in order to use it. Since the cards don't come formatted and the user needs to format it, doesn't the company avoid paying the licensing fee?
I guess this would suck for those USB memory companies that are adding software to their sticks.
yeah, but the japanese tend to leave the high end stuff on their home turf because the chinese have a tendency to "borrow" (as in copy exactly and sell under a chinese brand name) whatever is being made on their turf at the time. In automotive manufacturing, the chinese have "developed" a honda passport clone. There are also mercedes C class clones.
Your LCD panel may be stamped "Made in China" but the electronics running that panel are stamped "Made in Japan".
I see what you're getting at, and you're totally correct. I should have been more specific, in regards to diet/genetics or a combination of both, I meant that if that: Maybe a lack of a nutrient during development would result in the nondevelopment of that section of the brain which in turn leads to how the mind judges it. Or maybe there's a gene that leads to the creation of a specific protein receptor on cell walls of that area in the brain that would lead to an increased (or possibly decreased) ability to judge different shapes.
There is the possibility that it could lead into understanding just how our brains judge 3D comparisons and eventually advance techniques to improve it.
I don't remember where I heard this from; textbook, professor, teacher.
But a neat thing you can do is have two equal volumes of water in two different types of glasses and present it to a pre-preschool, preschool, or kindergarten aged child (memory is a little hazy on the age). Fill one short wide glass and one tall narrow glass with equal volumes of water in front of the child and the child will tell you that the taller, narrower glass has more water than the short, fat glass. Yes, they will tell you that it is fuller even though they see the same amount of water go into each glass.
I can't exactly recall which part of the brain develops during this age (24-40 months) at the moment, but it's a neat thing to see (if you're a science geek).
As how this might relate to the topic... maybe this doesn't fully develop (or develop as much) in some people because of diet, genetics, or a combination of both?
Just shows that Fox doesn't have a clue in marketing and keeping good shows.
I remember that I could never find Futurama on the air because they kept shuffling the time slot and then when I did find its timeslot, it would appear in its timeslot sometimes. Not to mention that they quit advertising the show on their station. Fox kept on showing advertisements for Oliver Beene and John Doe (I think, it's been a few years).
Now Fox is doing the same thing with my favorite show, Arrested Development. I heard they had changed it to Monday, so I waited to watch it on Monday. Oh wait, not *that* Monday. The monday it did appear, I missed it because I didn't know. You would think that then on the following monday it would be shown... nope, something else was on. I think it's been on Monday for the last two weeks but it's hard to plan to watch it on a regular basis (on TV) when they keep on changing the timeslot. I don't think any of the other networks do this, they'll show a rerun if they don't have a new episode in that timeslot. We'll, hopefully Showtime will pick it up. If that happens then I just might get cable.
It just shows that Fox isn't looking for good shows but for instant hits.
Is there a list of who voted for and who voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act? It doesn't have to be only the Patriot Act but other things they've voted on.
I would like to support my senators who did the right thing but how am I if I have no idea how they voted?
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Anti-AOL, I'm superior blah blah blah eliticism aside. Isn't this obvious? It doesn't make sense to keep people on staff when the companies business model has changed from retaining paid customers to offering AOL for free.
Just off the top of my head I can see customer service and marketing employees jobs not being as needed.
First, I'd like to thank Microsoft for forcing this update. I'm not being sarcastic in the least. They acknowledge that IE6 is full of security holes and the best thing for the end-user is IE7. IE7 beta runs better than IE6 (at least for me).
The three biggest generalized statements I've read so far involve functionality, it's an abuse of a monopoly, and get firefox.
[Functionality]
IE7 runs better than IE6. The only sites that would be affected would be those sites that resort to explicitly stating that they only run in IE6 and those sites can fix that problem very, very easily. This leads directly into firefox.
["Get Firefox"]
How many sites have you used that don't work in firefox? Let's call those number of sites, X. It's a pretty logical assumption that internet explorer's replacement would have a higher probability of working with IE6 sites than firefox. It would be logical to say that ie's X value is less than firefox's X.
[Abuse of a monopoly]
Come on! Why is it that when Microsoft tries to fix a problem with an upgrade that they the monopoly arguement comes along? Someone else brought up the example of how tightly integrated Safari is in OSX. But if Microsoft wants to reduce the number of unsecured machines; it's a monopolistic move. Sometimes it seems that if MS ever released a free "Office lite" to compete with a product like iLife that we would have people screaming bloody murder. Wordpad is not acceptable. And for those saying that they went through a lot of trouble of uninstalling IE6 and being forced to upgrade to IE7. IE6 was uninstalled, how would it upgrade an uninstalled component? And then install itself, activate itself, and make it the default? All without any input.
The only thing I see wrong with this is the burden it would put on dial-up users. But this is microsoft so I would expect them to at least offer to purchase a cd containing the update. Or having the CD option with SP3 and making it mandatory then.
Do a google search, KMGH's investigative team have won plenty of awards for investigative reporting. A couple peabody awards, IRE award, Dupont-Columbia award, NHA award, SPJ award, and several emmys. That's not everything, but what i found with a quick google search. the main investigator has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and a few CNN broadcasts.
They broke the Air Force sex scandal story and did reporting on internet pedophiles before Dateline started broadcasting it every week. Try to get a few facts before you go around not believing things just because it's not a "big name". Didn't Blair and Finkel make up things for their articles while working for the NYT?
On one hand, we have Ticketmaster selling tickets tickets for 1k that otherwise would have been scalped for 1k. The difference here is that the band now gets some of that 1k instead of a person with connections in the office.
BUT Ticketmaster is doing this in an auction format. Something that scalpers already do on eBay. Couldn't it be possible that the bands just avoid Ticketmaster's probably 40% (I'd think it would be even more) comission and just put them on eBay themselves for a substantially reduced cost?
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be that difficult for eBay to implement a system just for concerts. I mean, I imagine that most of Ticketmaster's business is online anyways, eBay is a lot more popular and could easily promote and develop something for tickets.
I mean, the only benefit I can see Ticketmaster has over a tickets.ebay.com type setup would be the physical presence at a few locations... but I believe they hire a different company for that (at the venue). How hard would it be for companies that already sell Ticketmaster tickets to create a business account on ebay to purchase set-priced tickets for customers and print them right there?
I don't understand these terrible comparisons. What am I specifically referrring to?
The screen and notebook size. Why is it that when people do a comparison, the feel free to include a comparable system with a larger screen and think that it's just a better deal? People pay a *premium* to own a smaller notebook. Price comparing it with a larger notebook is like comparing the value between a toyota corolla and a ford fusion. the quality in both are good, performance is similar but one is much larger than the other.
dell doesn't make any notebooks similar in size (the 700m, which i own is thicker and has a battery pack sticking out the back). Asus and Sony are 2 companies who make notebooks similar in size to this macbook. if you want to do a fair comparison, compare their offerings to the macbook.
Dell had a deal where you could have bought a e1705 for around 1200$ with 1 gig of ram. For those that lug around their notebooks, like me, I would easily still pass up on the e1705 for a tiny 13.3" (hell, 12" widescreen would have been good) notebook for the same price.
The extra space that Blue-Ray provides will largely go unused. It's a bold statement but let's look at a few facts.
PS3 cheap version won't have HDMI; therefore, what's going to output the 1080p graphics (and subsequent textures needed)? Game companies are not going to release a PS3 super version of a game. It's fair to say that textures will be appropriately sized for a 720p resolution. Also, how much video memory does the PS3 hold? The current specs are slated at 256 system and 256 video. That's hardly enough memory to hold/swap gigs of textures.
In 2001, Xbox games contained an average of 1.81 gigs. In 2005, they contained 3.20 gigs. Xbox 360 average is something like 4.0 gigs. Game developers have to cut costs, especially considering the increased costs of developing for next gen systems and that's why cross-platforming happens. Considering the X360 and PS3 have similar system and video memories, I don't think their will be a huge discrepancy between texture sizes. If current trends continue, a 57% increase in used capacity could be expected at ~6.3 gigs. That's if the trend doesn't start to taper.
On the plus side, it will hold extra media but with games using in screen graphics instead of mpg... this really isn't a big thing.
The PS3 uses a vastly inferior motion detection system than the Wii (Wii's system is much more advanced - works in 3D and toward specific areas on the screen). The angle detection of the PS3 seems to relay angles and translate them into analog pad commands, similar to what other companies sold in controllers 8 years ago. So any game that would use the analog pads, could possibly also use the angle detectors. The people working on that PS3 game that uses the sensors didn't get the hardware or any info on it until a week and a half ago. Whereas developers for Nintendo actually got the controllers before the DEV kits.
Also consider that porting games between the Wii and PS3 will be much hard than porting games between the Wii and X360 (IBM processor to a vastly more difficult cell processor for the PS3 or a similar IBM processor in the X360?).
Languages change and symbols are open to interpretation.
The answer? Show what happens to those who cross into the area. Showing signs of a dead body encircling an area, while morbid, does get a point across. Vlad the impaler impaled his enemies in front of his castle/region and i'm sure people of many languages got the hint without a single written word.
But what if a future intelligent species doesn't look like a current human? Show a skeleton. Any type of semi-intelligent species would know how a body looks after it's been dead for a while. A picture of a skeleton implies death.
Codeine, a powerful pain reliever is a constituent of Opium. Opium has been known to be used by Neanderthals roughly 40,000 years ago and it's effects were well known in Ancient Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Considering that this is Pakistan, I would imagine that they had supplies of Opium nearby.
They weren't exactly grunting fools 8,000-10,000 years ago.
They've done small. Enough of that. Now they're gonna go BIG. Everyone will want one of these. ;)
There's a lot of talk about how slow it is, how it doesn't contain that much data especially compared with one of those 500 gigabyte hard drives... etc etc etc
First, this is one "plate" compared with 5 plates of the 500 gig hard drives.
Second, this is a first generation product. The first CD-Rom was incredibly slow. The first DVD-Rom was incredibly slow. The first 3.5" hard drive was incredibly slow. See a pattern? This is probably going to be marketed toward those industries that use DAT tapes. As they incur most of the initial costs, the technology will improve, densities will increase and costs will fall. Is there anyone paying 400$ for a 2X CD-recorder nowadays?
Plus, these aren't being sold to consumers until 2008 which is a good decision because it allows the technology to mature.
Will these replace hard drives? In my opinion, not until 2011, sometime around there. That's when perpendicular hard drives (+ onboard flash) will reach maximum density compared with cost and holographic drives will dip under the HD price point. Considering that the industry is moving toward 2.5" HD drives as a replacement for 3.5" HD drives, holographic storage (let's start a new acronym: HS) will offer even more storage on a technology that should be hitting full stride at that point.
But this depends on HS random access times and how the research is heading toward flash memory. Flash Storage might be a competitor to HS around then.
Hallowed are the Microsoft
Hydro may be cleaner in the sense that we wouldn't have to store waste and have pollutants in the air, but hydro can wreak hell on a local environment. It's not a good thing to create artifical reservoirs since it destroys everything that once was in the reservoir but also what is downstream of the dam.
I remember that we were talking in my microbiology course about tooth decay and that it really didn't appear in people up until the ~16th century i believe. Some people did get tooth decay, but it was generally the older people. They didn't use toothbrushes or floss.
Do you happen to know what was the change in the 16th century.
Processed Sugars from the "New" World. So what do we do now? Stick that stuff in as many things as we possibly can.
What I mean is this:
There was an experiment where they stuck a cat and mouse in a cage. The cat ignored the mouse. Absolutely showed no interest in it. But pain was then inflicted on the cat and the cat attacked the mouse until it was dead.
Did the researchers test to see if it's not only pain that the subject feels? Maybe the subject will feel more agitated, stressed, angered, emotional, or a combination?
ok, so according to that, it should be ok for my neighborhood drug dealer to deal out heroin.
i mean, the dealer is providing relief to those addicted to heroin. He's actually doing some good for society!
there hasn't been *any* speculation by the industry that nintendo would release a version with an analog stick. the only speculation being done about that is by people who want an analog stick.
and an analog stick is counter to what nintendo wants to provide. nintendo wants to provide a system that *anyone* can pick up and start playing games. an analog stick is not easier than a dpad for just anyone to pick up and play. if a gamer wants an analog stick with umpteen buttons, they can get a psp (and we all know how great of a *gaming* system that's turned out to be).
if nintendo ever releases one with an analog stick, i wouldn't expect it to be like the analog stick found in todays systems.
I don't remember if it was my last USB Jump Drive or SD card that I bought, but the packaging on it said that I would need to format it in order to use it. Since the cards don't come formatted and the user needs to format it, doesn't the company avoid paying the licensing fee?
I guess this would suck for those USB memory companies that are adding software to their sticks.
yeah, but the japanese tend to leave the high end stuff on their home turf because the chinese have a tendency to "borrow" (as in copy exactly and sell under a chinese brand name) whatever is being made on their turf at the time. In automotive manufacturing, the chinese have "developed" a honda passport clone. There are also mercedes C class clones.
Your LCD panel may be stamped "Made in China" but the electronics running that panel are stamped "Made in Japan".
I see what you're getting at, and you're totally correct. I should have been more specific, in regards to diet/genetics or a combination of both, I meant that if that:
Maybe a lack of a nutrient during development would result in the nondevelopment of that section of the brain which in turn leads to how the mind judges it. Or maybe there's a gene that leads to the creation of a specific protein receptor on cell walls of that area in the brain that would lead to an increased (or possibly decreased) ability to judge different shapes.
There is the possibility that it could lead into understanding just how our brains judge 3D comparisons and eventually advance techniques to improve it.
-Nick C.
I don't remember where I heard this from; textbook, professor, teacher.
But a neat thing you can do is have two equal volumes of water in two different types of glasses and present it to a pre-preschool, preschool, or kindergarten aged child (memory is a little hazy on the age). Fill one short wide glass and one tall narrow glass with equal volumes of water in front of the child and the child will tell you that the taller, narrower glass has more water than the short, fat glass. Yes, they will tell you that it is fuller even though they see the same amount of water go into each glass.
I can't exactly recall which part of the brain develops during this age (24-40 months) at the moment, but it's a neat thing to see (if you're a science geek).
As how this might relate to the topic... maybe this doesn't fully develop (or develop as much) in some people because of diet, genetics, or a combination of both?
Just shows that Fox doesn't have a clue in marketing and keeping good shows.
I remember that I could never find Futurama on the air because they kept shuffling the time slot and then when I did find its timeslot, it would appear in its timeslot sometimes. Not to mention that they quit advertising the show on their station. Fox kept on showing advertisements for Oliver Beene and John Doe (I think, it's been a few years).
Now Fox is doing the same thing with my favorite show, Arrested Development. I heard they had changed it to Monday, so I waited to watch it on Monday. Oh wait, not *that* Monday. The monday it did appear, I missed it because I didn't know. You would think that then on the following monday it would be shown... nope, something else was on. I think it's been on Monday for the last two weeks but it's hard to plan to watch it on a regular basis (on TV) when they keep on changing the timeslot. I don't think any of the other networks do this, they'll show a rerun if they don't have a new episode in that timeslot. We'll, hopefully Showtime will pick it up. If that happens then I just might get cable.
It just shows that Fox isn't looking for good shows but for instant hits.
thank you very much, that's very helpful.
Is there a list of who voted for and who voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act? It doesn't have to be only the Patriot Act but other things they've voted on.
I would like to support my senators who did the right thing but how am I if I have no idea how they voted?
Did you read the post that was posted 23 minutes before your post and modded up for 5, Informative?
// or in XML: // Later, in Javascript: // will be the object you attached this function to. // If you're fancy, // you can set it to an anonymous function:
Here's the changelog: http://widgets.yahoo.com/versionhistory/
and just in case...
Version 3.0
Widget Changes
Day Planner (formerly known as PIM Overview)
* Added the ability to access and edit your Yahoo! Calendar data.
* Addresses lingering daylight saving time issues in both Widget and Engine COM interface to Outlook.
Yahoo! Weather (formerly known as The Weather)
* Added new extended forcast link so you can get the forcast for more than five days out.
* Put adding a city directly into the context menu for easy access, and streamlined the interaction of a search.
* Reintroduced additional feed data into main context menu.
Yahoo! Stock Ticker (formerly known as Stock Ticker)
* Streamlined the interaction of adding a new symbol.
Picture Frame
* Added the ability to edit more of your picture's attributes directly from the Widget while in Flickr mode.
* Added support for new merged account mode when using Flickr.
* Added supposed for uploading images to Flickr directly from the Widget.
* Added Yahoo! Photos support which supports editing picture data and uplodaing as well.
New Widgets
* Yahoo! Search Widget allows you to search Yahoo!'s Web, Local, Images, Shopping, News and Video and see the results inside the Widget.
* Yahoo! Contacts Widget lets you search, view, add delete and edit contacts stored in your Yahoo! Address Book.
* Yahoo! Notepad Widget allows you to manage your notes in yur Yahoo! Notepad. It also lets you blog them to your Yahoo! 360 acount, as well as post a "blast" to your Yahoo! 360 account.
* Yahoo! Maps Widget lets you find any US location using Yahoo! Maps, and display that map inside the Widget. You can pan and zoom the map real-time.
* Yahoo! Mail Checker Widget puts a small badge on your desktop that will show you how many unseen messages are in your Yahoo! Mail inbox.
General Engine Changes
* We now allow functions to be passed into onFoo handlers. You can also specify them in the XML for a handler by specifying the "function" attribute. When a function attribute is specified, the contents of the onFoo handler are ignored.
object.onMouseUp = _myMouseUpFunction;
function _myMouseUpFunction()
{
print( this );
}
myObject.onMouseUp = function()
{
print( this );
}
* Added ability to specify colorize attribute like so: "r:128; g:55; b:255" Values must be in decimal from 0 to 255.
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