Today most browsers that can expose location prompt the user before doing so. It sounds like this bill would require the websites to also obtain explicit permission, meaning to share your location you would always have to click "ok" twice in a row. Seems like a pain; why not continue to rely on the core browser/OS to manage these permissions?
Oh. He said "as an image", which is not the case and threw me off. Yes, it does scale the whole page, seemingly as if the developer had been a good person and specified their layout in ems instead of pixels. Seems like a really good feature to me.
Here's an interesting fact for you: factoiddoes not mean what you think it does. Though I realize that asking/. editors to pick up on something like that is a pipe dream.
Traditional Google Voice allows free texting. With this new Sprint-GV thing, Sprint charges you the normal rate for all your GV texts. It may just be defending that revenue stream. Also international calls used to be cheaper on GV I think.
Does anyone else find "33% Thinner" a bit hard to parse? "Thinness" is not something I measure, "Thickness" is. "66% as thick" would be the clearer way to state that figure.
I don't know whether Apple opted for the more ambiguous phrasing just in order to use the word "thin" and not the word "thick", or because they're hoping to confuse people into thinking the iPad 2 is 33% the thickness of the iPad 1.
PS google is willing to invade my privacy and yours with street view; can you do streetview for the personal residences of Page and Brin and the directors and senior executives of Google ?
Yes, you can. I did a quick Google search for [larry page's home address], the first result listed his address, and then Google Maps was happy to provide me with both aerial photos and street view.
Concerned about eggs being treated as commodities... the American Society for Reproductive Medicine discourages compensation based on donors' personal characteristics.
Basing compensation on characteristics of the egg causes differentiation in the market, and prevents eggs from becoming a commodity. The ASRM is making no sense.
I'm pretty sure Buzz is just using the html5 location API (it's about the only way to get at location from a webapp), so if it gets your location wrong that's a bug in your iPhone, not Buzz.
My day job is developing sites for the mobile web, so believe me when I tell you that the Pearl's web browser is a piece of shit. Have you made sure to go into settings and enable css and tables, which are disabled by default?
I don't blame any website that doesn't render well on 2+-year-old BlackBerries. They have the worst browsers out there (yes, worse than much cheaper/simpler phones). If you want to browse the web, get a phone with a browser that shows some modicum of standards-compliance.
More important, they can show different ads to different people watching the same show, which is an incredible boon to ad targeting. I actually recommend signing up for a Hulu account and giving them some of your demographics; I went from shampoo ads (which were totally dull) to birth control ads (which are at least amusing).
It would be more interesting to study the fastest of the blog posts, say 5%, and see whether they beat the media.
Fortunately, the researchers agree with you and did just that. And it turns out that some blogs do usually break stories before the MSM. I wonder why the NYTimes didn't lead with that finding...
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Today most browsers that can expose location prompt the user before doing so. It sounds like this bill would require the websites to also obtain explicit permission, meaning to share your location you would always have to click "ok" twice in a row. Seems like a pain; why not continue to rely on the core browser/OS to manage these permissions?
Oh. He said "as an image", which is not the case and threw me off. Yes, it does scale the whole page, seemingly as if the developer had been a good person and specified their layout in ems instead of pixels. Seems like a really good feature to me.
And you still can't zoom the font size, only the whole damn page as an image.
Really? ctrl-+ is working fine for me.
Here's an interesting fact for you: factoid does not mean what you think it does. Though I realize that asking /. editors to pick up on something like that is a pipe dream.
Is it just me, or is "don't say you're minting" an "" without a "href"? I know the editors here aren't great, but I thought if they could do anything right it would be html.
Easier way to do good as a business:
In other words, maybe it's because of Google's founders' altruism that you now don't have to trust Google's altruism.
Traditional Google Voice allows free texting. With this new Sprint-GV thing, Sprint charges you the normal rate for all your GV texts. It may just be defending that revenue stream. Also international calls used to be cheaper on GV I think.
Or maybe "sitting and staring at a blank screen for 3 minutes because your professor told you to" decreases self-esteem.
I don't know whether Apple opted for the more ambiguous phrasing just in order to use the word "thin" and not the word "thick", or because they're hoping to confuse people into thinking the iPad 2 is 33% the thickness of the iPad 1.
Well said. I know that "expert" personally; he's an undergrad.
... when phrased as "equal to the CEO's salary".
Speaking as someone who went to Google out of college, they paid me easily enough to live very nearby.
Maybe the misspelling of her name cancels out the error in her title?
PS google is willing to invade my privacy and yours with street view; can you do streetview for the personal residences of Page and Brin and the directors and senior executives of Google ?
Yes, you can. I did a quick Google search for [larry page's home address], the first result listed his address, and then Google Maps was happy to provide me with both aerial photos and street view.
This is part of voice actions, available for Froyo phones.
Actually on Android the current flow is
1. Hold down search button.
2. Say "Call Company X, Anytown USA"
So, they halved the number of steps required and removed the listening requirement.
Concerned about eggs being treated as commodities ... the American Society for Reproductive Medicine discourages compensation based on donors' personal characteristics.
Basing compensation on characteristics of the egg causes differentiation in the market, and prevents eggs from becoming a commodity. The ASRM is making no sense.
they are mining your data for useful stuff to sell to advertisers
Find me any example of a time Google sold information to advertisers.
I'm pretty sure Buzz is just using the html5 location API (it's about the only way to get at location from a webapp), so if it gets your location wrong that's a bug in your iPhone, not Buzz.
I went to buzz.google.com and signed up, but my Gmail account didn't change at all.
The button on that page just launches gmail. It does not opt you in.
I, for one, welcome myself as one of our new overlords.
Now they hate me, because now they *notice* it, but can't do anything about it :P
[...] the real problem is at the mastering stage, not the consumer output stage.
It sounds like the real problem is you, actually.
My day job is developing sites for the mobile web, so believe me when I tell you that the Pearl's web browser is a piece of shit. Have you made sure to go into settings and enable css and tables, which are disabled by default? I don't blame any website that doesn't render well on 2+-year-old BlackBerries. They have the worst browsers out there (yes, worse than much cheaper/simpler phones). If you want to browse the web, get a phone with a browser that shows some modicum of standards-compliance.
Plus, they can sell ads based on an exact number.
More important, they can show different ads to different people watching the same show, which is an incredible boon to ad targeting. I actually recommend signing up for a Hulu account and giving them some of your demographics; I went from shampoo ads (which were totally dull) to birth control ads (which are at least amusing).
It would be more interesting to study the fastest of the blog posts, say 5%, and see whether they beat the media.
Fortunately, the researchers agree with you and did just that. And it turns out that some blogs do usually break stories before the MSM. I wonder why the NYTimes didn't lead with that finding...