RSS on the menubar. It's just my preference, I can't justify it with any arguments, but I find it odd that with so many RSS readers out there for OSX I can't find one that puts news in a hierarchical menu.
I'd also like to see a decent ticker with a reasonable interface. Something not too intrusive that will roll selected headlines across the menubar or somewhere else once in a while, not constantly. I looked at a screensaver that did RSS but it did way too much work and crashed a bunch. I just want to occasionally know when there is a new headline on certain RSS feeds.
Of course, there are tons of other potential RSS applications out there; reading slashdot headlines using different interfaces is only the tip of the iceberg. Being able to integrate RSS and similarly updated information into other applications could be very useful.
If a very big asteroid hits Earth and civilisation returns to its 19th century state, for example, and after some time the future archaelogists try to discover the pre-asteroid history of civilisation, they will have no idea what these chips and CDs and memories are! they will be unable to even think that these things contain information written by humans.
Would it really be so bad if they can't figure out that these shiny disks littering the earth are free AOL subscriptions?
Not true! Scotty has had an iBook for some time now, and apparently Captain Kirk is saving up for a G5 tower. Mr. Spock, of course, is sticking with his ancient Pentium II running NetBSD....
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since my dog learned to catch the frisbee, and I better start this review by putting my cards on the table: I'm a fan of dogs, I like to groom dogs, especially in my post-Slashdot world where young geeks won't let me express myself fully about Columbine without acting like we're in a high school setting. In fact, I've seen my dogs Orgazmo and Cannibal bark and growl simply beacause of slashdotters bashing me for talking about Columbine. I was skeptical about the movie theater letting me bring my dog, but I went in with realistic expectations.
You have a watch which runs Java, interprets handwriting better than any current PDA, surfs the web on 802.11, runs word processors, spreadsheets, and drawing programs, and has a built-in bookreader which speaks books out loud as well?
Actually, if he did personally kill someone as described he would probably still be reelected, and with even more fanfare.
I underestimated Bush's appeal in 2000, and I won't do it again. One key thing to understand about why so many Americans like him. He's from Texas (or at least people think he is; he was actually born in Connecticut), and he acts like it. Ronald Reagan was three times the man Bush is, but even he couldn't pull off the "I'm swimming in Daddy's oil money, and I couldn't give a fuck" sneer the way the Bush kid does it. Even when Reagan wore the cowboy hat.
The price of bringing people to that web site, however, may be high; given the millions of web pages, one cannot really hope that people merely stumble upon it.
There's this thing called "google," see....
Local bands may be able to attract local audiences and gain some word of mouth from that, but a musician who seeks to rise above the relative obscurity of a limited local audience needs some way to convince others to look at -his- stuff instead of the numerous other local musicians who may be benefiting from or astroturfing word-of-mouth.
Well, then that musician should find a good way to convince people of this that doesn't involve large-scale extortion.
Music was just fine for centuries before the rise of million dollar advertising campaigns, and I won't shed a tear if such campaigns disappear forever.
Sorry, I think you're wrong. I'm no psychologist, but I live in Hollywood and see these people often enough. They have huge egos. They really believe their own propaganda. Of course, there's no question they want the money, but if it was just about the money they would have longer-term strategies that didn't require them to fight a losing battle against technology and their own fans. It's more than just the money.
The price of a website is pretty affordable for anyone who buys guitars or amplifiers regularly. Nobody needs a $20 million advertising campaign to shove their music down people's throats. I think the music world will be just fine if all such marketing fades away. It won't of course; advertising is like a drug and the people who constantly feed it to us will find new ways to assert their relevance. But where is it written that musicians should become millionaires anyway? I don't begrudge them for doing so, but million-dollar marketing is not an essential part of the creative process at all, and I think the world of music will be just fine without it.
The bottom line here is not just money but EGO. These people really believe they deserve $16 every time you get a song from a boy band that they helped find. They really believe they should be able to control when and where you may listen to the music owned by their labels. Sure, they love the money, but that isn't all. These are generally people who don't consider themselves thieves, but the elaborate extortion scheme they have constructed doesn't bother them ethically because they feel they really deserve this kind of control over the way people consume information.
So then, you were wrong above; the "DEMS" did not design it, but rather one official who was a Democrat at one time but had a falling out with the party. In addition, I think it would be stretching it to say that this person was the only person who saw the new design. It was a fatally flawed design, of course; nobody is denying that, but it seems disingenuous to blame it on "the Democrats" (especially when it obviously did not work to their benefit!)
Slashdot Mirror
In this case I think the real moral difference comes when you represent someone else's work as your own, not whether you make money from it.
AppleEvents?
Thank god I have a Mac. I wouldn't know what to do with all those extra buttons.
I'd also like to see a decent ticker with a reasonable interface. Something not too intrusive that will roll selected headlines across the menubar or somewhere else once in a while, not constantly. I looked at a screensaver that did RSS but it did way too much work and crashed a bunch. I just want to occasionally know when there is a new headline on certain RSS feeds.
Of course, there are tons of other potential RSS applications out there; reading slashdot headlines using different interfaces is only the tip of the iceberg. Being able to integrate RSS and similarly updated information into other applications could be very useful.
Would it really be so bad if they can't figure out that these shiny disks littering the earth are free AOL subscriptions?
Finally, I can be the one with frickin' lasers attached to my head!
So his kid wants an iMac, he decides to build an overpriced piece of crap, sell it, and then use the profits to buy his kid an iMac!
installing Infiniband on a single unit G5....
Not true! Scotty has had an iBook for some time now, and apparently Captain Kirk is saving up for a G5 tower. Mr. Spock, of course, is sticking with his ancient Pentium II running NetBSD....
Is that what you call an x86 machine running MacOSX?
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since my dog learned to catch the frisbee, and I better start this review by putting my cards on the table: I'm a fan of dogs, I like to groom dogs, especially in my post-Slashdot world where young geeks won't let me express myself fully about Columbine without acting like we're in a high school setting. In fact, I've seen my dogs Orgazmo and Cannibal bark and growl simply beacause of slashdotters bashing me for talking about Columbine. I was skeptical about the movie theater letting me bring my dog, but I went in with realistic expectations.
Is there anything like this that runs on OS X?
So all we know is that it's a rectangle?
Yeah, but it can't tell time worth a shit.
I, for one, welcome our memetic overlords!
Well, of course I prefer to do so! Apple is, like, beleaguered and stuff...
I underestimated Bush's appeal in 2000, and I won't do it again. One key thing to understand about why so many Americans like him. He's from Texas (or at least people think he is; he was actually born in Connecticut), and he acts like it. Ronald Reagan was three times the man Bush is, but even he couldn't pull off the "I'm swimming in Daddy's oil money, and I couldn't give a fuck" sneer the way the Bush kid does it. Even when Reagan wore the cowboy hat.
There's this thing called "google," see....
Local bands may be able to attract local audiences and gain some word of mouth from that, but a musician who seeks to rise above the relative obscurity of a limited local audience needs some way to convince others to look at -his- stuff instead of the numerous other local musicians who may be benefiting from or astroturfing word-of-mouth.
Well, then that musician should find a good way to convince people of this that doesn't involve large-scale extortion.
Music was just fine for centuries before the rise of million dollar advertising campaigns, and I won't shed a tear if such campaigns disappear forever.
Sorry, I think you're wrong. I'm no psychologist, but I live in Hollywood and see these people often enough. They have huge egos. They really believe their own propaganda. Of course, there's no question they want the money, but if it was just about the money they would have longer-term strategies that didn't require them to fight a losing battle against technology and their own fans. It's more than just the money.
The price of a website is pretty affordable for anyone who buys guitars or amplifiers regularly. Nobody needs a $20 million advertising campaign to shove their music down people's throats. I think the music world will be just fine if all such marketing fades away. It won't of course; advertising is like a drug and the people who constantly feed it to us will find new ways to assert their relevance. But where is it written that musicians should become millionaires anyway? I don't begrudge them for doing so, but million-dollar marketing is not an essential part of the creative process at all, and I think the world of music will be just fine without it.
The bottom line here is not just money but EGO. These people really believe they deserve $16 every time you get a song from a boy band that they helped find. They really believe they should be able to control when and where you may listen to the music owned by their labels. Sure, they love the money, but that isn't all. These are generally people who don't consider themselves thieves, but the elaborate extortion scheme they have constructed doesn't bother them ethically because they feel they really deserve this kind of control over the way people consume information.
The pets section was necessary because they're bringing back the columns of JonKatz.
So then, you were wrong above; the "DEMS" did not design it, but rather one official who was a Democrat at one time but had a falling out with the party. In addition, I think it would be stretching it to say that this person was the only person who saw the new design. It was a fatally flawed design, of course; nobody is denying that, but it seems disingenuous to blame it on "the Democrats" (especially when it obviously did not work to their benefit!)
The following is from the document they found:
Bush's 72 hour plan
Karl Rove also denies any involvement.