NYT is also one of the few organizations left who have an ombudsman, Margaret Sullivan (called their "Public Editor") to keep them honest and hold the editor's feet to the fire (and she does!).
I am one of one million, and a long-time reader of NY Times. Frankly, I think this is a little over blown and I sure hope they don't hurt themselves patting themselves on the back. I read the NYT mobile edition daily, enabled by my subscription to the Sunday paper home delivery. The Business and Technology sections have the same content listed for weeks on end. They suffered greatly when David Pogue left. Much of the "paid" subscription content is just blog postings. Better than most blogs, written by intelligent journalists, but blog postings none-the-less.
And about once a week (at least), you get a nasty full screen popover. Their recent coverage about the cost/benefit of ad blocking shows their pages are heavy, which gets annoying and uses bandwidth if you don't hit reader view really fast or use an ad blocker.
I love the New York Times, but have never been happy with their IT department. Will never, ever, ever use the mobile app they keep trying to get me to download. Burned too many times on that one.
So Google wants a free and open internet, and doesn't want to pay for fast lanes for their data, but has no problem with same kind of payola for their advertising.
It pretty much stinks. I always say that the best camera is the one in your hands, and most of the time that's my iPhone 5s, not my Nikon D810. But the 5s is pretty lousy for any kind of post processing, so I AirDrop images to my iPad Air.
But after all this time, and woo hoo over new versions of the Flickr app, it's still not really an iPad app-it's still an iPhone app on a iPad (oh, yeah, it's got a crappy digital zoom 2X mode, right). Oh, you CAN upload via the IOS photos app, but even that's kinda lame. And it forgets all the metadata (like copyright) that you stored in the files you import from the "big iron."
I've been slowly migrating to OnOne Perfect Suite (although there are some things in Photoshop that I actually still need and use). It's tough, though, when you've spent the last 15-16 years training your hands to fly through Photoshop to learn new tricks... tough on us old dogs, you know.
That's the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. In the event of a catastrophic event that could upset the lives of millions where will my InDesign layouts. When I rise from my bunker I'm going to still have trusty CS6 and those Creative Cloud subscribers are going to starve.
Ever since I had to upgrade from OS/X 10.6, CS6 has become increasingly unstable. Under Lion and Mountain Lion it now crashes daily and Adobe has stopped putting out updates except for ACR, for which it seems like every time they put out a new version to support more cameras, they go and change the UI yet again on me. I have yet to find a good mix of OPENGL and font settings that make it at all behave. Fortunately, I have a rock solid fallback--Photoshop 7 (which ran GREAT under Windoze XP, and hasn't suffered too badly under 7).
Maybe. Started happening though right after a fresh install of 28. Pretty much just a clean AdBlock, Flashblock; no Greasemonkey, etc. No issues flagged with any plugins when upgrading to 29.
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You do google in normal browsing mode? Yes, I use it to avoid cookies, flash cookies and the don't do evil guys.
They've gotten hit by 3 Spamhaus blacklists since last fall and this is the second DDOS in around a month. After the last Spamhaus debacle a few weeks ago, there were so many angry posts on their blogs about it that they took the link to their blogs off their account manager page. Calling their customer service sh!++y is an affront to sh!++y customer service. When I called to find out what was going on in the last DDOS, I got an IVR message, "Sorry, we're too busy to take your call" to which I responded by typing www.godaddy.com into my Firefox browser. It loaded great.
On top of that, they reupped me for 3 years without my request or approval, but I didn't notice until 60 days had past. Already bought a year at GoDaddy and am moving as fast as I can. Hard to download your site when FTP times out all the time. Will file reports with the FTC & BBB once I've gotten off their servers.
This has been and continues to be one of the worst apps in the App Store. It was broken before they started charging, stayed broken and now is broken worse, from what I hear. After wasted complaints to their Customer No-Service, editor, publisher, ombudsman and Apple powers that be, I finally gave up on the app and just read it in Safari on my iPad (I sign on with the id tied to our Sunday paper subscription). Since I can double-tap on the article, I can get rid of much more of the crappy advertising and annoyances than I could in the app. App is useless. Throw it away, like I did.
Actually had a twerp from NYT Tech support tell me this morning that they had a new iPad app. True, 2.0.4 (the only version on the appstore) was new on April 1, 2010.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain.
Read all the reviews on the AppStore about how buggy the NYT iPad app is. It would be fraudulent to put the NYT behind a paywall with an app that crashes all the time. In addition, you are already "paying" for the service by virtue of all the terribly intrusive advertising you have to undure (I had an audio file just start playing on its own while I was reading an article one day...that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I uninstalled the app). Customer service was useless, editor, ombudsman and publisher were even less interested in how their customers were perceiving the NYT as viewed through their app.
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But not convicted, as no judge would be "worthy" to hear the case.
...that they track my face. Now they want to track my ass as well...
NYT is also one of the few organizations left who have an ombudsman, Margaret Sullivan (called their "Public Editor") to keep them honest and hold the editor's feet to the fire (and she does!).
I am one of one million, and a long-time reader of NY Times. Frankly, I think this is a little over blown and I sure hope they don't hurt themselves patting themselves on the back. I read the NYT mobile edition daily, enabled by my subscription to the Sunday paper home delivery. The Business and Technology sections have the same content listed for weeks on end. They suffered greatly when David Pogue left. Much of the "paid" subscription content is just blog postings. Better than most blogs, written by intelligent journalists, but blog postings none-the-less.
And about once a week (at least), you get a nasty full screen popover. Their recent coverage about the cost/benefit of ad blocking shows their pages are heavy, which gets annoying and uses bandwidth if you don't hit reader view really fast or use an ad blocker.
I love the New York Times, but have never been happy with their IT department. Will never, ever, ever use the mobile app they keep trying to get me to download. Burned too many times on that one.
So Google wants a free and open internet, and doesn't want to pay for fast lanes for their data, but has no problem with same kind of payola for their advertising.
Heckuva business model.
It pretty much stinks. I always say that the best camera is the one in your hands, and most of the time that's my iPhone 5s, not my Nikon D810. But the 5s is pretty lousy for any kind of post processing, so I AirDrop images to my iPad Air.
But after all this time, and woo hoo over new versions of the Flickr app, it's still not really an iPad app-it's still an iPhone app on a iPad (oh, yeah, it's got a crappy digital zoom 2X mode, right). Oh, you CAN upload via the IOS photos app, but even that's kinda lame. And it forgets all the metadata (like copyright) that you stored in the files you import from the "big iron."
It's nice, but very much Yahoo!
Can I get a fiber node installed in a mud hut?
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
I've been slowly migrating to OnOne Perfect Suite (although there are some things in Photoshop that I actually still need and use). It's tough, though, when you've spent the last 15-16 years training your hands to fly through Photoshop to learn new tricks... tough on us old dogs, you know.
That's the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. In the event of a catastrophic event that could upset the lives of millions where will my InDesign layouts. When I rise from my bunker I'm going to still have trusty CS6 and those Creative Cloud subscribers are going to starve.
Ever since I had to upgrade from OS/X 10.6, CS6 has become increasingly unstable. Under Lion and Mountain Lion it now crashes daily and Adobe has stopped putting out updates except for ACR, for which it seems like every time they put out a new version to support more cameras, they go and change the UI yet again on me. I have yet to find a good mix of OPENGL and font settings that make it at all behave. Fortunately, I have a rock solid fallback--Photoshop 7 (which ran GREAT under Windoze XP, and hasn't suffered too badly under 7).
Nope, even with everything turned off, still happens. I put a feedback in on the Mozilla page.
Maybe. Started happening though right after a fresh install of 28. Pretty much just a clean AdBlock, Flashblock; no Greasemonkey, etc. No issues flagged with any plugins when upgrading to 29.
You do google in normal browsing mode? Yes, I use it to avoid cookies, flash cookies and the don't do evil guys.
Since 28, if you open a Private Browsing window, no problem, but go to a bookmark and it switches screens back to the normal browsing mode!
I suspect it will be called the Matrix.
In the time it took the commercial to play, I shot and edited three images on my iPhone...lost interest after that...
They've gotten hit by 3 Spamhaus blacklists since last fall and this is the second DDOS in around a month. After the last Spamhaus debacle a few weeks ago, there were so many angry posts on their blogs about it that they took the link to their blogs off their account manager page. Calling their customer service sh!++y is an affront to sh!++y customer service. When I called to find out what was going on in the last DDOS, I got an IVR message, "Sorry, we're too busy to take your call" to which I responded by typing www.godaddy.com into my Firefox browser. It loaded great.
On top of that, they reupped me for 3 years without my request or approval, but I didn't notice until 60 days had past. Already bought a year at GoDaddy and am moving as fast as I can. Hard to download your site when FTP times out all the time. Will file reports with the FTC & BBB once I've gotten off their servers.
Or so he might say...
That's from the 3D capabilities of CS6 Extended.
Was it by chance, October 16th?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Year_Old_Man
Wow! IBM finally figured out how to make money out of pig painting!
We've all lost our Jobs.
Hole in Infinity's Loop;
The seed at the Apple's core.
This has been and continues to be one of the worst apps in the App Store. It was broken before they started charging, stayed broken and now is broken worse, from what I hear. After wasted complaints to their Customer No-Service, editor, publisher, ombudsman and Apple powers that be, I finally gave up on the app and just read it in Safari on my iPad (I sign on with the id tied to our Sunday paper subscription). Since I can double-tap on the article, I can get rid of much more of the crappy advertising and annoyances than I could in the app. App is useless. Throw it away, like I did.
Only not as transparent as GE.
Actually had a twerp from NYT Tech support tell me this morning that they had a new iPad app. True, 2.0.4 (the only version on the appstore) was new on April 1, 2010.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain.
Read all the reviews on the AppStore about how buggy the NYT iPad app is. It would be fraudulent to put the NYT behind a paywall with an app that crashes all the time. In addition, you are already "paying" for the service by virtue of all the terribly intrusive advertising you have to undure (I had an audio file just start playing on its own while I was reading an article one day...that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I uninstalled the app). Customer service was useless, editor, ombudsman and publisher were even less interested in how their customers were perceiving the NYT as viewed through their app.