Maybe you missed the text "Built for Facebook and Twitter" under the giant Download button in the middle of the page or the "Watch the video to learn more" link right under that. Or are you still using Lynx?
This. is. Slash-daaaat! C'mon, AC. We're supposed to browse with modern graphical browsers manually tweaked to turn off flash and any images. Videos links where we expect transcripts for TFAs are stringently dismissed.
Joking aside, they have a huge IMG box that repels us because it looks like flash and has PNG-images rather than text covering browser-purpose soundbites. The only text inside is "I agree..." and the popup video link. We skip watching because video reviews and conferences cannot be skimmed. Besides, Noscript has some hurdles if you click it.
I say geeks will kinda hate the site if they don't have a repo in their OS, and only geeks and their kin/locally-supported-sheep will get to flock to Flock. The rest of the world coming into the site from IE is clicking through from Wikipedia and won't care to try it out.
the idea gets implemented as a PC browser plugin perfectly enabling the latest Youtube and flash games. Who needs smartphones to just hate Adobe Flash's slowness?
Suppose some chinese clinic TODAY starts using these pre-trial findings to implement a new cough medicine, and floods the world with cheap prices for what might be poisonus snake oil...
Unlike IT's draft-n business, I am rather willing to hold this extremely long 2-5 year TRIAL + marketting and initial delivery times, but am sure some early implementation will claim to be as good as the finished n product. Matter of fact, if any "draft-n" medicine doesn't kill people, it will be hard to kill even after the trials succeed. Exhibit a: retail stores still have draft-n routers that aren't even bottom-tier prices, a whole year after the real standard was loosed. And we're still waiting for our firmware updates to our draft-N crap. Oh, well.
To complement adblocking extensions, and prevent surprise IE users on my machine, I have a script that
runs attrib -r -s -h on my hostfile (DOS needs full filepath and name) runs "edit" on that file till I make changes (the OS waits till you're done editing interactively) takes over again and runs attrib to protect the hostfile. Finally, it runs ipconfig/flushdns to apply the change without a reboot.
The annoying part is using that on a limited user account, or without elevating a runas dosbox first.
One of the PC's is family friendly, and except for Safari, browsers show the ugly "page cannot be found," so I installed Apache with a single html page responding to such queries with "(Advertisement)". Helps me notice just how much doubleclick and 3 or 4 others throw at us. If you hate a few of them, just replace 127.0.0.1 by 0.0.0.0 and your Windows/Linux will skip even the localhost lookup.
Technet subscriptions are only for "evaluation and testing"... If you are using such software in production then you are breaking the terms of the license.
Plus the GP assumes all geeks just buy in packets of 3 and 10 when adding a single new PC to our living rooms. He's also assuming we'll pay the min $200 USD to save less than that same $200 dollars for the one PC we're building per year. He is also assuming that we all have fat pipes to download the 4GB DVD's, and that we don't prefer shrinkwrapped proof in case MS activation ever acts up. MS only gives you boxes in the 3-times-costlier tier of pro subscriptions.
But we'll bite. Just have our IT boss foot that personal use bill... oh, wait.
There is less and less reason to believe in Google as a company. It doesn't seem like anything was signed.
Google was not an interested party
DOI forgot to s/interested/interesting/ to lessen the blow to Google. The government's fault was in creating rage and adding gas to that fire... I'd be angry too if an prospective employer pulled the same thing off in a job offer, daring to say I wasn't an interested party, though I went to their interview.
But just like my example, in most of the United States, a plaintiff with no signed agreement has little power to demand anything from the alleged agreement.
Yes. It is best for the programmers to escape the sinking Oracle IP ship so they cannot be sued for conflict of interests. Their contributing to LibreOffice and other projects without getting sued for helping Oracle's competitors probably looked grim.
The exodus was an example of "In Soviet Russia the shark jumps [Oracle]."
also, programming languages are something international, and not all keyboards have all keys, even keys like { or } are not on all keyboards, so tryiing to use funny characters like ñ would make programming for some people really hard.
Absolutely right and proven every time I mess with alternative language settings in a new Ubuntu install for my not-so-English-ready relatives.
The first time I made the mistake, I couldn't write shell commands. Even simple one-liners and editing scripts requires ampersands, tildes, colons, hashes, dollar signs and many other ignored symbols. It's pretty tough that a pipe requires a specific dead key. (blue, in the diagram). It's tougher that when I switch back to the US layout, a simple ñ is no longer as easy as Window's trusty ALT-1,6,4, and neither are the accented vowels.
Can't believe so many of those annoying "under construction" signs are still be out there
Some researcher should do three things with your link 1) build a script removing duplicates. 2) make the script find the last few holdouts on the web. 3) sort by per-domain counts so we can all the 1,000 worst offenders.
I realize that web 2.0 is all about being in perpetual construction because new content is added every few hours.
Very true. Thanks for the added research. It seems too sudden to just be one company changing models, and yourZ.com appears to be dead. Anyway, I took another look and found there are a couple pictures in the tour page, and forgot how much of a Friendster clone it was --its AOLification is what made it win that battle.
Date-hopping on wayback machine tends to be a pain. Just last night I was browsing through some fan forums for a Showtime show ending on 2004. Less than a year later, the domain was parked, apparently without notice, and 2 years ago it was deregistered from DNS, to my surprise. What is interesting is clicking at the end and then back and back.
DNS aside, looking at the/. and Yahoo landing pages morphing throughout 13 years can be eye-opening too.
If we take into account the prices they were charging people for hosting 100K pages with one time setup fees from your 13 year time machine, it's interesting that they took the "free" route at some point. Well, we now know the whole internet did.
As visitors became the product to ad corps and data miners, the value or cost in myspace's business model must have remained pretty similar to those rates, and someone is paying for those. A kinda lowest ballpark of how much our visits are worth to sites like facebook.
I did see take interest to the simplicity and lack of immediate apparent user-driven content back then. That has morphed to the today's pr0n-site-like content layout (first illustration in the article) and the facebook-like social layout (second illustration.) Nothing original here, purge your myspace contact info now if you still haven't
The biggest problem I have is with Google thinking punctuation is white space.
It is a major pain for looking up phone numbers with area codes, long bugcheck numbers like 00000050,00000001 (the 0x prefix helps only because if you're not newbs) and error / compiler messages like PAGE_FAULT or aLibrary::inner_item or function.call syntax. Tons of garbage turn up because without the punctuation, the words are very common. If it wasn't for funky names, we'd get pretty stuck.
Back on the name collision topic, I've been unable to google-solve a recent friend's problem involving keywords Windows Live Messenger where chat history continues to be mysteriously logged only on their one PC, despite disabling that in the GUI. I'm a very good googler, but the words and how liberally they're used in so many other contexts make it so I can run run the gamut from "many unrelated results from noobs misusing your terms" to "no page matches all your specific keywords".
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately;)
We're talking very separate regions. The Bronx was confirmed to be affected by a different tornado that day. It's not just the boring Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere.
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados. Tornado chasers have advance warning and detailed satellite tracking, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. How does Kansas ever manage?!
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately;)
We're talking very separate regions, because the Bronx was affected by a different tornado that day too. It's not just the boring Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados in advance. Kansas tornado chasers have advance warning and detailed satellite tracking, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. How does Kansas ever manage?
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately;)
We're talking very separate regions, because the Bronx was affected by a different tornado that day too.
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados in advance. Kansas tornado chasers have advance warning, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. It's an outrage --how does Kansas ever manage?
It's not just that crummy Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere
challenging? hardly, pick "wpa2 personal AES/TKIP" and type in the password.
WPA2 requires minimum passkey lengths of 8+ depending on implementation. Anyone who's ever helped people satisfying the site requirements for new hotmail/banks knows that PC owners spend a good deal of effort getting around pw complexity. The difference is that at home, no IT admin is going to lock people out of the device and personally assist till they comply with a safe choice, when they can all pick "open."
Using proper names, pets, 4 char birthdates fails on WPA routers, and IT environments. Better yet, all AP's I've seen in 5 years enforce 10+. By then, they're are miffed from failing to satisfy the validator. Many nongeeks cut their teeth on WEP routers when broadband bundles with wifi routers first were given out some 5 years ago. Some definitely swore to never again work their way through WEP's potential for 4-passphrases. WPA2 got rid of that later, but how would those people know that WEP is not WPA2 or WPA?
They use "1111111111" and the like to just wave away their "must-use" router wizards that are strongly advertised these days. That doesn't make WPA any easier per se.
I'm more concerned with a recent bug on a dlink and a netgear. Besides locking up; the AP can factory-reset without warning other than connection problems. Good luck if their home has only one PC and it's wired. If they even care or understand how to to rerun their setup CD, recreating a MAC address blacklist, and changing the name of the router again, is more than just taking the defaults. I'm surprised we aren't seeing more than 5% open routers among the 30 I can catch in this building.
Announcers need to sprinkle releases with more "This is new, magic and exciting" wording. It helps spread the news on to the masses. That is the most insightful tongue-in-cheek Apple post I've seen.
To avoid disappointment lawsuits, place industry standard disclaimers in fine prints, and you're talking more success.
Slashdot Mirror
Amazon says it will offer color E Ink when it is ready
AKA, once it can display full-motion videos ^W ADS.
We've heard something similar about today's half-baked HTML5 ^W^W adobe flash replacements from the likes of youtube.
Firefox doesn't sound ridiculous to you?
It only makes sense if you know the history, and 99% of people don't.
To make things worse, "FoxFire" (film) is what old people mis-remember when they want FireFox installed for the first time.
Maybe you missed the text "Built for Facebook and Twitter" under the giant Download button in the middle of the page or the "Watch the video to learn more" link right under that. Or are you still using Lynx?
This. is. Slash-daaaat!
C'mon, AC. We're supposed to browse with modern graphical browsers manually tweaked to turn off flash and any images. Videos links where we expect transcripts for TFAs are stringently dismissed.
Joking aside, they have a huge IMG box that repels us because it looks like flash and has PNG-images rather than text covering browser-purpose soundbites. The only text inside is "I agree..." and the popup video link. We skip watching because video reviews and conferences cannot be skimmed. Besides, Noscript has some hurdles if you click it.
I say geeks will kinda hate the site if they don't have a repo in their OS, and only geeks and their kin/locally-supported-sheep will get to flock to Flock. The rest of the world coming into the site from IE is clicking through from Wikipedia and won't care to try it out.
ASCII goatse can still get around lynx's empowering text restrictions
Cut off a patch of skin. Yeah, that'll stop the bleeding!
This is a wonderful experiment if you add cutty emos to the mix
I meant to get first post, but something more important came up.
Amateur. Real procrastinators always go for the elusive last post!
Thus, NASA is one step closer to creating
Zero
Suit
Samus (!)
Sometimes AC posts provide little anonymity.
How many OTHER camgirls from your *one site* are actually married... and to one *slashdot* geek... and read slashdot too?
She'll know the second your post comes up browsing at -1 or 0. THAT is the only thing keeping you from sleeping on the couch tonite :)
the idea gets implemented as a PC browser plugin perfectly enabling the latest Youtube and flash games.
Who needs smartphones to just hate Adobe Flash's slowness?
Suppose some chinese clinic TODAY starts using these pre-trial findings to implement a new cough medicine, and floods the world with cheap prices for what might be poisonus snake oil...
Unlike IT's draft-n business, I am rather willing to hold this extremely long 2-5 year TRIAL + marketting and initial delivery times, but am sure some early implementation will claim to be as good as the finished n product. Matter of fact, if any "draft-n" medicine doesn't kill people, it will be hard to kill even after the trials succeed. Exhibit a: retail stores still have draft-n routers that aren't even bottom-tier prices, a whole year after the real standard was loosed. And we're still waiting for our firmware updates to our draft-N crap. Oh, well.
To complement adblocking extensions, and prevent surprise IE users on my machine, I have a script that
runs attrib -r -s -h on my hostfile (DOS needs full filepath and name)
runs "edit" on that file till I make changes (the OS waits till you're done editing interactively)
takes over again and runs attrib to protect the hostfile.
Finally, it runs ipconfig/flushdns to apply the change without a reboot.
The annoying part is using that on a limited user account, or without elevating a runas dosbox first.
One of the PC's is family friendly, and except for Safari, browsers show the ugly "page cannot be found," so I installed Apache with a single html page responding to such queries with "(Advertisement)". Helps me notice just how much doubleclick and 3 or 4 others throw at us. If you hate a few of them, just replace 127.0.0.1 by 0.0.0.0 and your Windows/Linux will skip even the localhost lookup.
Technet subscriptions are only for "evaluation and testing"... If you are using such software in production then you are breaking the terms of the license.
Plus the GP assumes all geeks just buy in packets of 3 and 10 when adding a single new PC to our living rooms. He's also assuming we'll pay the min $200 USD to save less than that same $200 dollars for the one PC we're building per year. He is also assuming that we all have fat pipes to download the 4GB DVD's, and that we don't prefer shrinkwrapped proof in case MS activation ever acts up. MS only gives you boxes in the 3-times-costlier tier of pro subscriptions.
But we'll bite. Just have our IT boss foot that personal use bill... oh, wait.
There is less and less reason to believe in Google as a company. It doesn't seem like anything was signed.
Google was not an interested party
DOI forgot to s/interested/interesting/ to lessen the blow to Google. The government's fault was in creating rage and adding gas to that fire... I'd be angry too if an prospective employer pulled the same thing off in a job offer, daring to say I wasn't an interested party, though I went to their interview.
But just like my example, in most of the United States, a plaintiff with no signed agreement has little power to demand anything from the alleged agreement.
Anybody got any observations?
Yes.
It is best for the programmers to escape the sinking Oracle IP ship so they cannot be sued for conflict of interests. Their contributing to LibreOffice and other projects without getting sued for helping Oracle's competitors probably looked grim.
The exodus was an example of "In Soviet Russia the shark jumps [Oracle]."
also, programming languages are something international, and not all keyboards have all keys, even keys like { or } are not on all keyboards, so tryiing to use funny characters like ñ would make programming for some people really hard.
Absolutely right and proven every time I mess with alternative language settings in a new Ubuntu install for my not-so-English-ready relatives.
The first time I made the mistake, I couldn't write shell commands. Even simple one-liners and editing scripts requires ampersands, tildes, colons, hashes, dollar signs and many other ignored symbols. It's pretty tough that a pipe requires a specific dead key. (blue, in the diagram). It's tougher that when I switch back to the US layout, a simple ñ is no longer as easy as Window's trusty ALT-1,6,4, and neither are the accented vowels.
Can't believe so many of those annoying "under construction" signs are still be out there
Some researcher should do three things with your link
1) build a script removing duplicates.
2) make the script find the last few holdouts on the web.
3) sort by per-domain counts so we can all the 1,000 worst offenders.
I realize that web 2.0 is all about being in perpetual construction because new content is added every few hours.
Very true. Thanks for the added research. It seems too sudden to just be one company changing models, and yourZ.com appears to be dead. Anyway, I took another look and found there are a couple pictures in the tour page, and forgot how much of a Friendster clone it was --its AOLification is what made it win that battle.
Date-hopping on wayback machine tends to be a pain. Just last night I was browsing through some fan forums for a Showtime show ending on 2004. Less than a year later, the domain was parked, apparently without notice, and 2 years ago it was deregistered from DNS, to my surprise. What is interesting is clicking at the end and then back and back.
DNS aside, looking at the /. and Yahoo landing pages morphing throughout 13 years can be eye-opening too.
If we take into account the prices they were charging people for hosting 100K pages with one time setup fees from your 13 year time machine, it's interesting that they took the "free" route at some point. Well, we now know the whole internet did.
As visitors became the product to ad corps and data miners, the value or cost in myspace's business model must have remained pretty similar to those rates, and someone is paying for those. A kinda lowest ballpark of how much our visits are worth to sites like facebook.
I did see take interest to the simplicity and lack of immediate apparent user-driven content back then. That has morphed to the today's pr0n-site-like content layout (first illustration in the article) and the facebook-like social layout (second illustration.) Nothing original here, purge your myspace contact info now if you still haven't
The biggest problem I have is with Google thinking punctuation is white space.
It is a major pain for looking up phone numbers with area codes, long bugcheck numbers like 00000050,00000001 (the 0x prefix helps only because if you're not newbs) and error / compiler messages like PAGE_FAULT or aLibrary::inner_item or function.call syntax. Tons of garbage turn up because without the punctuation, the words are very common. If it wasn't for funky names, we'd get pretty stuck.
Back on the name collision topic, I've been unable to google-solve a recent friend's problem involving keywords Windows Live Messenger where chat history continues to be mysteriously logged only on their one PC, despite disabling that in the GUI. I'm a very good googler, but the words and how liberally they're used in so many other contexts make it so I can run run the gamut from "many unrelated results from noobs misusing your terms" to "no page matches all your specific keywords".
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately ;)
We're talking very separate regions. The Bronx was confirmed to be affected by a different tornado that day. It's not just the boring Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere.
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados. Tornado chasers have advance warning and detailed satellite tracking, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. How does Kansas ever manage?!
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately ;)
We're talking very separate regions, because the Bronx was affected by a different tornado that day too. It's not just the boring Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados in advance. Kansas tornado chasers have advance warning and detailed satellite tracking, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. How does Kansas ever manage?
Here we go again. We locals seem to have this argument a lot lately ;)
We're talking very separate regions, because the Bronx was affected by a different tornado that day too.
I'm just surprised there's no technology in New York to accurately detect tornados in advance. Kansas tornado chasers have advance warning, while NYC had to wait days after this storm before authorities even confirmed a tornado really hit. It's an outrage --how does Kansas ever manage?
It's not just that crummy Statue of Liberty 20 miles south that'll get blown up like in the movies. We aint safe anywhere
challenging? hardly, pick "wpa2 personal AES/TKIP" and type in the password.
WPA2 requires minimum passkey lengths of 8+ depending on implementation. Anyone who's ever helped people satisfying the site requirements for new hotmail/banks knows that PC owners spend a good deal of effort getting around pw complexity. The difference is that at home, no IT admin is going to lock people out of the device and personally assist till they comply with a safe choice, when they can all pick "open."
Using proper names, pets, 4 char birthdates fails on WPA routers, and IT environments. Better yet, all AP's I've seen in 5 years enforce 10+. By then, they're are miffed from failing to satisfy the validator. Many nongeeks cut their teeth on WEP routers when broadband bundles with wifi routers first were given out some 5 years ago. Some definitely swore to never again work their way through WEP's potential for 4-passphrases. WPA2 got rid of that later, but how would those people know that WEP is not WPA2 or WPA?
They use "1111111111" and the like to just wave away their "must-use" router wizards that are strongly advertised these days. That doesn't make WPA any easier per se.
I'm more concerned with a recent bug on a dlink and a netgear. Besides locking up; the AP can factory-reset without warning other than connection problems. Good luck if their home has only one PC and it's wired. If they even care or understand how to to rerun their setup CD, recreating a MAC address blacklist, and changing the name of the router again, is more than just taking the defaults. I'm surprised we aren't seeing more than 5% open routers among the 30 I can catch in this building.
The most portable is running services.msc and disabling the Google Updater.
However, when reverting from such setup yesterday, forums hinted at having to reboot prior to seeing the update.
Announcers need to sprinkle releases with more "This is new, magic and exciting" wording. It helps spread the news on to the masses. That is the most insightful tongue-in-cheek Apple post I've seen.
To avoid disappointment lawsuits, place industry standard disclaimers in fine prints, and you're talking more success.