I didn't realise the USA was that far behind in mobile phone tech! Newsflash: SMS is unreliable, as the rest of the world has known for 5 or 6 years, which is how long we've been using SMS. To save you the trouble in another five years:
Google is innovating its socks off, with google news, image search, Google groups, and all the new stuff coming out of Google labs, like their catalogue shopping engine. I'm all for competition, but you'll have to be pretty amazing to make me give up my googling habit.
I habitually browse the web in one window while playing snood in the other. I was playing Snood when I saw this article. I play Snood while watching TV, and when I'm chatting, and whenever I should be working. I play Snood a *LOT*.
Further confession: I use the aimer, 'cause I prefer the puzzles to the actual dexterity skills. Or so I rationalize it to myself, anyway.
I applied for There's beta testing program, and have been accepted. Apparently they invite new players "on a weekly basis" -- I'm still waiting impatiently for my invite!:-)
This won't make Yahoo stop using Google
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Yahoo Buying Inktomi
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· Score: 5, Informative
Google's pagerank algorithm suite is unmatched for searches "in the wild". It uses links between pages to work out search relevance. However, that algorithm is totally inappropriate for providing search within Yahoo's own categorised database; Inktomi's engine is precisely suited for such a task. Yahoo has been using Google and Inktomi's search tech for external and internal searches, respectively, for a while now. I see no reason for Yahoo's buyout to change this. I imagine Yahoo would buy Google too, if it could.
The worldwide owner of DRM technology patents capable of stopping the XBox being sold will be Sony, the people who make the PlayStation? That's hilarious.
Remember back in the day when Sony fought like hell to make VCRs legal, saying consumers had a right to copy? At Sony Music, do they look back on those court cases and laugh?
I find it very amusing the way Hollywood tries to sneak around Rowling's very tight control of the characters. Neither Harry nor Ron (or any of the staff) are particularly good-looking, and so they're cast as such. But for any character where there's room to maneuver -- the quidditch captain Oliver Wood in the first film, and Tom Riddle in this one -- the actors cast are really good-looking. And to judge by the number of fansites for these actors (Sean Biggerstaff and Christian Coulson, respectively) this sneaky approach to hooking in the adolescent female market is paying off.
Not that I'm complaining, of course. Coulson is well worth the £4.50 admission.
Every year, my contract expires, and it's the same story: I decide I want a new phone, and decide to try anything other than a nokia. I've tried Motorola, Samsung and the new Sony-Ericsson models, and I always come back to the nokia user interface. It has a few idiosyncrasies to be sure, but compared to every other phone I've used, Nokia is the easiest to use right off the bat. The one exception was the Mitsubishi Trium phones -- their interface was better, but unfortunately the hardware was awful.
Seriously. The time to stop a bad organization like ICANN is before they become too big to be feasibly replaced. The longer you leave ICANN in its unelected position of power, the more power it will consolidate and the more responsibility it will assume, until it becomes impossible to replace ICANN -- because nobody but ICANN will understand how to do all the things they do. Apathy towards a bad organization simply because it is not yet being malicious is exactly the attitude that has brought some of history's worst tyrants to power.
Oh well. I'll bookmark it and come back in a few days. When is Slashdot going to get a clue and develop an automatic cache of pages it links to before posting the story? That way we could actually see the sites, instead of having to grub around for ad-hoc mirror sites.
It amuses me that everyone on Slashdot will read this report on LinuxToday and say "oh, wow, now there's proof that Linux TCO is low!" Tomorrow, if Windows magazine released a study showing the opposite, everyone would be rushing to say that the source is obviously biased. This is nice to hear, but no decision-maker worth his salt is going to take it seriously until it's reported by a respected and at least nominally impartial source.
This article is just excerpts from a much more substantial video interview on BBC world. Ironically, the video interview is only available in Windows media, and the page doesn't display properly in Mozilla:-)
Otherwise, as soon as you have two or more of these monitors, all the people with glasses that are authorized to see screen A will also be able to see everything on screen B. Which makes it kind of pointless, right?
If I want to cause panic on a commercial aircraft, I no longer need to bring a bomb?
"Stand back! I have a bluetooth device!"
A cool idea for a certain type of user
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Cappuccino PC, Round 3
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· Score: 3, Informative
I've been looking at these for a while, and I always think "What use is this? If you want a desktop, get a desktop, if you want portability, get a laptop". But on balance I think this could be cool for a certain type of user who doesn't want a laptop, with its fragility, high cost and tiny screen (I can't stand even 15" monitors...), but does need to carry a computer around to other locations where the requisite peripherals (keyboard, mouse, monitor) will be easily available -- a telecommuter, maybe, or a college student who travels home a lot (like me!).
It's undeniably a cool bit of tech, but it's definitely for a niche market.
It takes a lot of guts to turn your back on a money-making venture just because you're no longer interested. Too many creative people -- writers, musicians, whatever -- keep going too long, for the money, and damage their careers and their reputations as a result. He's going out at the top, because he's noticed (as have most regular readers) that he's not as funny as he used to be. He'd stalled, but he has enough sense to bail out before he starts descending.
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Newsflash! Picture phones are low-quality!
Google is innovating its socks off, with google news, image search, Google groups, and all the new stuff coming out of Google labs, like their catalogue shopping engine. I'm all for competition, but you'll have to be pretty amazing to make me give up my googling habit.
(Hey, it is a verb. I just noticed...)
I habitually browse the web in one window while playing snood in the other. I was playing Snood when I saw this article. I play Snood while watching TV, and when I'm chatting, and whenever I should be working. I play Snood a *LOT*.
Further confession: I use the aimer, 'cause I prefer the puzzles to the actual dexterity skills. Or so I rationalize it to myself, anyway.
Oh, the irony. Or something.
I applied for There's beta testing program, and have been accepted. Apparently they invite new players "on a weekly basis" -- I'm still waiting impatiently for my invite! :-)
I've already signed up for the beta :-)
Google's pagerank algorithm suite is unmatched for searches "in the wild". It uses links between pages to work out search relevance. However, that algorithm is totally inappropriate for providing search within Yahoo's own categorised database; Inktomi's engine is precisely suited for such a task. Yahoo has been using Google and Inktomi's search tech for external and internal searches, respectively, for a while now. I see no reason for Yahoo's buyout to change this. I imagine Yahoo would buy Google too, if it could.
The worldwide owner of DRM technology patents capable of stopping the XBox being sold will be Sony, the people who make the PlayStation? That's hilarious.
Remember back in the day when Sony fought like hell to make VCRs legal, saying consumers had a right to copy? At Sony Music, do they look back on those court cases and laugh?
Do they have to pay a royalty?
"Congratulations, it's a boy! That'll be $1.50."
As a massive Asimov fan, that's all I have to say. Bring on more Asimov movies!!!
While new, MS is trying to make people used to older versions of Windows feel at home: the new look and feel is a big blue screen.
I find it very amusing the way Hollywood tries to sneak around Rowling's very tight control of the characters. Neither Harry nor Ron (or any of the staff) are particularly good-looking, and so they're cast as such. But for any character where there's room to maneuver -- the quidditch captain Oliver Wood in the first film, and Tom Riddle in this one -- the actors cast are really good-looking. And to judge by the number of fan sites for these actors (Sean Biggerstaff and Christian Coulson, respectively) this sneaky approach to hooking in the adolescent female market is paying off.
Not that I'm complaining, of course. Coulson is well worth the £4.50 admission.
Every year, my contract expires, and it's the same story: I decide I want a new phone, and decide to try anything other than a nokia. I've tried Motorola, Samsung and the new Sony-Ericsson models, and I always come back to the nokia user interface. It has a few idiosyncrasies to be sure, but compared to every other phone I've used, Nokia is the easiest to use right off the bat. The one exception was the Mitsubishi Trium phones -- their interface was better, but unfortunately the hardware was awful.
"Pixar makes an underwater filter!"
(and flogs it to death)
I bow down to the greater pedant :-)
You mean they used to arrive all lumped together? No wonder people got upset!
Learn to spell, guys...
Seriously. The time to stop a bad organization like ICANN is before they become too big to be feasibly replaced. The longer you leave ICANN in its unelected position of power, the more power it will consolidate and the more responsibility it will assume, until it becomes impossible to replace ICANN -- because nobody but ICANN will understand how to do all the things they do. Apathy towards a bad organization simply because it is not yet being malicious is exactly the attitude that has brought some of history's worst tyrants to power.
What's the legal status of the Google cache, then? Surely if they can do it, Slashdot can?
Oh well. I'll bookmark it and come back in a few days. When is Slashdot going to get a clue and develop an automatic cache of pages it links to before posting the story? That way we could actually see the sites, instead of having to grub around for ad-hoc mirror sites.
It amuses me that everyone on Slashdot will read this report on LinuxToday and say "oh, wow, now there's proof that Linux TCO is low!" Tomorrow, if Windows magazine released a study showing the opposite, everyone would be rushing to say that the source is obviously biased. This is nice to hear, but no decision-maker worth his salt is going to take it seriously until it's reported by a respected and at least nominally impartial source.
This article is just excerpts from a much more substantial video interview on BBC world. Ironically, the video interview is only available in Windows media, and the page doesn't display properly in Mozilla :-)
Otherwise, as soon as you have two or more of these monitors, all the people with glasses that are authorized to see screen A will also be able to see everything on screen B. Which makes it kind of pointless, right?
If I want to cause panic on a commercial aircraft, I no longer need to bring a bomb?
"Stand back! I have a bluetooth device!"
I've been looking at these for a while, and I always think "What use is this? If you want a desktop, get a desktop, if you want portability, get a laptop". But on balance I think this could be cool for a certain type of user who doesn't want a laptop, with its fragility, high cost and tiny screen (I can't stand even 15" monitors...), but does need to carry a computer around to other locations where the requisite peripherals (keyboard, mouse, monitor) will be easily available -- a telecommuter, maybe, or a college student who travels home a lot (like me!).
It's undeniably a cool bit of tech, but it's definitely for a niche market.
It takes a lot of guts to turn your back on a money-making venture just because you're no longer interested. Too many creative people -- writers, musicians, whatever -- keep going too long, for the money, and damage their careers and their reputations as a result. He's going out at the top, because he's noticed (as have most regular readers) that he's not as funny as he used to be. He'd stalled, but he has enough sense to bail out before he starts descending.