It's based on selecting text, not copying and pasting it. So when you select the text in your browser, as soon as you finish making the selection, it sends the info on what you selected back to Tynt. It also adds in the attribution link to the selected text (although you won't see it in the web page). Then when you CTRL-C or right-click and copy as usual after making the selection, you get your selected text and the attribution link.
That's how it avoids needing to use Javascript to do anything to directly touch the clipboard (which is disabled by default in your browser for security reasons).
An AOL.com email address screams "I don't have any idea how to use the interwebs" to a good chunk of people. If you're in business, any of the free email accounts has bad connotations to a large chunk of folks (too cheap to buy a domain? moonlighting on your real job and not serious about it?).
It's only $99.99 on contract now. And it's buy one get one free. Or get one free with the DROID.
I'd wager people are liking this when comparing it to the iPhone 3GS ($199.99 for 16gb, $299 for 32GB) and older iPhone 3G ($99.99 for 8GB). Especially since 16GB microSD cards can be had for $50 and some 3sGB ones are trickling in at $80.
The number that changed a lot was people who were planning to buy a new smartphone in the next 90 days. Of these, 21% said they prefer a phone running Android. (That's up from 6% in September.) 28% said they prefer an iPhone, down from 32% in September. Windows Mobile and Palm's percentages also shrank over the last 3 months.
Are you gonna pay for the upkeep on a system that is no longer economically viable? Sure POTS was built up over 100 years, but most of that buildup was when it was new technology (or the only technology) and there were lots of willing customers. That age is LONG gone. Come on, 25% of US households have no landline at all. And that number is growing every year. So as the critical mass of people using it goes away, who is gonna be left to foot that bill? When all your neighbors ditch landlines, are you gonna pay for the phone lines for your whole street that reach your house?
POTS will die. It isn't an if... it's a when. So, we mandate the newer tech (VOIP and cell) and bring them up to the same level of service as POTS (which will be painful for some companies) and switch the universal service fund so that those of us with IP will have to kick in a buck every month to pay to wire IP to all the folks who live in places without IP... the same way we did with the fund and POTS.
Microsoft distributed.NET updates over Windows Update when you already have it installed, but doesn't automatically install it, so most users don't have it since most users only do automatic (aka critical) updates. If you have manually installed.NET 2.0, it won't auto-install.NET 3.0 either... just security updates for.NET 2.0.
So we get: C# +.NET (no ASP.NET): 1,046 C# + ASP.NET (no.NET): 324.NET + ASP.NET (no C#): 261
So, your total is actually more like: Your total: 8266 Subtract out the 2x the 859 listings that you counted 3 times: 6548 Subtract out 1x the 3 double listings referenced above that you counted twice: 4917
So even if you add them all together, you get 4,917. Which is still less than the 5,000+ Java listings... and we don't know how many over 5,000 that number is.
If we're comparing platforms, it's Java vs.NET, which is 5000+ vs 3,623. If we're comparing languages, it's C# vs Java, which is 5,000+ to 2,920.
I thought the article may be overstating.NET's popularity, so let's take a quick look at listings on monster.com. Here are the results of a US-wide search for each of the terms (at 9am on 2009-12-18):
C# is probably the first choice for.NET development. But I doubt C# is the first choice for all Windows development. Especially considering that no major commercially-available software is.NET-based,.NET isn't even used for Microsoft Office or Microsoft's other software packages, and using.NET requires you to install the rather large.NET framework on a PC before you can even install your app unless you're using Windows 7 (because XP, the world's most popular OS has no.NET framework pre-installed).
You ARE asking people to throw away your own email
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The thing is that due to forwarding and vanity servers, you ARE asking people down the wire (which you can't predict and have NO control over) to throw away mail you sent. When you send to a buddy's vanity domain (that you don't know is a vanity domain) and it forwards your email to their ISP or work account that does check SPF records, your mail gets ditched. And you usually won't get any notice, so your email just disappears.
Using SPF increases the likelihood of your email getting sent into the ether to not return.
The SPF folks themselves acknowledge this as an issue and recommend using SRS to combat it. Of course, since no one uses SRS, it's still an issue.
If you use SPF, you only succeed in getting your own email deleted.
When you send email to your buddy, let's call him Jim, with his own vanity domain, it gets forwarded to his ISP email account. Since his ISP is checking SPF records, it'll check your domain's, see that your email isn't coming from your own server (it's coming from Jim's vanity domain host) and block it. Like most vanity domain hosts, no message will be sent back to you to let you know your mail was blocked.
Congratulations, you just got your own legitimate email blocked and disappeared with no way for you or your friend Jim to know.
SPF makes incorrect assumptions about the way everyone uses email. It then attempts to make up for these incorrect assumptions by suggesting that everyone use SRS... which, of course, no one uses.
If you use SPF, you get your own email deleted. Don't use SPF.
You can just click Manual as you go through it. I found the automatic mode worked well in the different servers I set it up with. And it checks IMAP before POP for them (as most folks should be using IMAP these days anyway).
Lightning isn't ready yet, it's 1.0 release is lagging behind TB 3.0. You can use the current nightly builds and they should work with Thunderbird 3. They're marked as Lightning 1.0B1pre. You can grab a nightly here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html#nightly
They said they're basically at 1.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate status and hope to have the official 1.0 Beta 1 release out within a couple weeks, at least according to the Mozilla Calendar blog. Details are in the Mozilla Calendar Blog (currently offline): http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/
We're going to stick with recommending Thunderbird 2.0 for a little bit on PortableApps.com because Lightning isn't ready, and it is (arguably) the most important Thunderbird extension. And recommending nightlies to regular users is a bad idea.
Well, ChatterEmail would be on that list. It's the only fully-featured mail client I've ever used on a phone. iPhone's mail client doesn't match it. Nor does Android's (even the K-9 Mail branch that I use). ChatterEmail had better IMAP and IMAP IDLE support *years* before anyone else.
Palm had tens of thousands of apps available for it long before the iPhone was even designed. Many of those apps are still more powerful and useful than most iPhone apps because iPhone apps don't have access to the whole operating system and Apple won't let folks create apps that don't sit well with their business plan (which is why there's no real Google Voice on iPhone).
According to Apple: "The Standard and Enterprise Programs allow you to share your application with up to 100 other iPhone or iPod touch users with Ad Hoc distribution. Share your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server."
So your app can only go to 100 people. If you attempt to use the program to sell or give away apps in an adhoc manner, Apple disables your developer key and then it can't install on more phones.
On Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, S60... basically every single mobile OS... you can develop and distribute applications as you see fit. With the iPhone, you're locked into only what Apple approves through the AppStore.
One thing they left out in the app comparison is that Newton users can add in any apps they wanted. They're not limited to the ones approved by Apple in the gated community known as the App Store.
Well, I certainly remember it well and fire it up from time to time. It was what I used before Firefox and Thunderbird came along. Now that 2.0 has gone gold, hopefully some new users will find it and be intrigued.
As we (at PortableApps.com) do with Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird, we've packaged it as a portable app so you can use it on your flash drive/portable hard drive or try it out without installing it locally. 10 languages are available.
No, Halo 3: ODST won't be a better game with a Coca-Cola ad in the superintendent weapon caches.
No, Fallout 3 won't be a better game with Nuclear Coke instead of Nuka Cola collected for the mission that rewards you with Nuka grenades.
No, Half-Life 2 won't be better if my crobar has a Craftsmen logo on it.
No, Gears of War 2 won't be better if the grubs are wearing Calvin Klein T-Shirts.
And no, Bioshock will not be better if you have to buy your ammo from a Walmart vending machine.
I bought the game to take a nice little break from the world and enjoy an alternate one for a while. I don't want to be reminded of some brand new widget from some company I couldn't care less about in the real world. I already paid $60 for the game. And then more for one of the add-ons that used to be free when I played PC games. You don't need to try and squeeze more money out of me just because you think you can. In-game ads suck! Stop deluding yourself.
The simple answer is that it's an anti-competitive move (semi-monopolistic) in regards to text messaging fees. AT&T makes a killing on text-messaging fees, charging 20 cents for 1120 bytes or less of data. Google Voice lets you make an end-run around that and send text messages from your Google Voice number using your phone's data plan (which, if you have unlimited data = free text messaging). AT&T wants to preserve that huge revenue stream, so they had Apple lock Google Voice out of it.
This is nothing new and nothing we didn't already know. It still says nothing about ASP.NET, Windows Forms and all the other parts of.NET that are not part of the ECMA standard. Mono implements many, many things outside the ECMA standard, so anybody but Novell who distributes or otherwise uses Mono is at risk of patent shenanigans.
The difference between the PS3's Blu-ray capability and the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive is that the PS3 is a game machine that has a built-in Blu-ray capability, like the PS2 had built in DVD capability. The 360 only has DVD built in. If you wanted HD-DVD, you had to buy an HD-DVD drive. So, everyone who bought the 360's HD-DVD drive bought it to play movies. Not every who bought a PS3 bought it to play movies. My few friends that own a PS3 don't really use it for movies (honestly, they don't use the PS3 much, they all also have an Xbox 360 and a Wii and mainly use the 360 for games, streaming movies, connecting to their media on the PC, etc).
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It's based on selecting text, not copying and pasting it. So when you select the text in your browser, as soon as you finish making the selection, it sends the info on what you selected back to Tynt. It also adds in the attribution link to the selected text (although you won't see it in the web page). Then when you CTRL-C or right-click and copy as usual after making the selection, you get your selected text and the attribution link.
That's how it avoids needing to use Javascript to do anything to directly touch the clipboard (which is disabled by default in your browser for security reasons).
Just add a filter to to Adblock Plus in Firefox. Go to Adblock Plus's preferences page, click Add Filter and enter:
http://tcr.tynt.com/*
Then just click OK or Apply.
An AOL.com email address screams "I don't have any idea how to use the interwebs" to a good chunk of people. If you're in business, any of the free email accounts has bad connotations to a large chunk of folks (too cheap to buy a domain? moonlighting on your real job and not serious about it?).
It's only $99.99 on contract now. And it's buy one get one free. Or get one free with the DROID.
I'd wager people are liking this when comparing it to the iPhone 3GS ($199.99 for 16gb, $299 for 32GB) and older iPhone 3G ($99.99 for 8GB). Especially since 16GB microSD cards can be had for $50 and some 3sGB ones are trickling in at $80.
The number that changed a lot was people who were planning to buy a new smartphone in the next 90 days. Of these, 21% said they prefer a phone running Android. (That's up from 6% in September.) 28% said they prefer an iPhone, down from 32% in September. Windows Mobile and Palm's percentages also shrank over the last 3 months.
Are you gonna pay for the upkeep on a system that is no longer economically viable? Sure POTS was built up over 100 years, but most of that buildup was when it was new technology (or the only technology) and there were lots of willing customers. That age is LONG gone. Come on, 25% of US households have no landline at all. And that number is growing every year. So as the critical mass of people using it goes away, who is gonna be left to foot that bill? When all your neighbors ditch landlines, are you gonna pay for the phone lines for your whole street that reach your house?
POTS will die. It isn't an if... it's a when. So, we mandate the newer tech (VOIP and cell) and bring them up to the same level of service as POTS (which will be painful for some companies) and switch the universal service fund so that those of us with IP will have to kick in a buck every month to pay to wire IP to all the folks who live in places without IP... the same way we did with the fund and POTS.
Microsoft distributed .NET updates over Windows Update when you already have it installed, but doesn't automatically install it, so most users don't have it since most users only do automatic (aka critical) updates. If you have manually installed .NET 2.0, it won't auto-install .NET 3.0 either... just security updates for .NET 2.0.
I have a breakdown of what .NET versions are pre-installed and available for download for each version of Windows here:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/dotnet_portable_apps/
Neither Visual Studio 2003 nor Visual Studio 2008 are written on .NET.
You're duplicating results in your calculations because most .NET job listings include 2 and often 3 of those terms.
For US-wise listings: .NET: 3,632
C#: 2,920
(Just)
ASP.NET: 1,714
Java: 5,000+
You'll find that: .NET: 1,905 .NET + ASP.NET: 1,120 .NET + ASP.NET: 859
C# +
C# + ASP.NET: 1,183
C# +
So we get: .NET (no ASP.NET): 1,046 .NET): 324 .NET + ASP.NET (no C#): 261
C# +
C# + ASP.NET (no
So, your total is actually more like:
Your total: 8266
Subtract out the 2x the 859 listings that you counted 3 times: 6548
Subtract out 1x the 3 double listings referenced above that you counted twice: 4917
So even if you add them all together, you get 4,917. Which is still less than the 5,000+ Java listings... and we don't know how many over 5,000 that number is.
If we're comparing platforms, it's Java vs .NET, which is 5000+ vs 3,623. If we're comparing languages, it's C# vs Java, which is 5,000+ to 2,920.
Any way you slice it, Java is more popular.
I thought the article may be overstating .NET's popularity, so let's take a quick look at listings on monster.com. Here are the results of a US-wide search for each of the terms (at 9am on 2009-12-18):
C#: 2,920 .NET: 3,632
(Just)
ASP.NET: 1,714
Java: 5,000+
If we narrow it to posts in the last 7 days:
C#: 971 .NET: 1,095
(Just)
ASP.NET: 524
Java: 1,608
Or if I select my location, New York City, over the last 60 days:
C#: 223 .NET: 239
(Just)
ASP.NET: 91
Java: 591
As expected, there is a lot more demand for Java developers than C#, ASP.NET or even .NET framework itself.
(Note: I added the prefix (Just) to the .NET line as otherwise SourceForge won't let it be separated onto a new line)
C# is probably the first choice for .NET development. But I doubt C# is the first choice for all Windows development. Especially considering that no major commercially-available software is .NET-based, .NET isn't even used for Microsoft Office or Microsoft's other software packages, and using .NET requires you to install the rather large .NET framework on a PC before you can even install your app unless you're using Windows 7 (because XP, the world's most popular OS has no .NET framework pre-installed).
The thing is that due to forwarding and vanity servers, you ARE asking people down the wire (which you can't predict and have NO control over) to throw away mail you sent. When you send to a buddy's vanity domain (that you don't know is a vanity domain) and it forwards your email to their ISP or work account that does check SPF records, your mail gets ditched. And you usually won't get any notice, so your email just disappears.
Using SPF increases the likelihood of your email getting sent into the ether to not return.
The SPF folks themselves acknowledge this as an issue and recommend using SRS to combat it. Of course, since no one uses SRS, it's still an issue.
If you use SPF, you only succeed in getting your own email deleted.
When you send email to your buddy, let's call him Jim, with his own vanity domain, it gets forwarded to his ISP email account. Since his ISP is checking SPF records, it'll check your domain's, see that your email isn't coming from your own server (it's coming from Jim's vanity domain host) and block it. Like most vanity domain hosts, no message will be sent back to you to let you know your mail was blocked.
Congratulations, you just got your own legitimate email blocked and disappeared with no way for you or your friend Jim to know.
SPF makes incorrect assumptions about the way everyone uses email. It then attempts to make up for these incorrect assumptions by suggesting that everyone use SRS... which, of course, no one uses.
If you use SPF, you get your own email deleted. Don't use SPF.
You can just click Manual as you go through it. I found the automatic mode worked well in the different servers I set it up with. And it checks IMAP before POP for them (as most folks should be using IMAP these days anyway).
Lightning isn't ready yet, it's 1.0 release is lagging behind TB 3.0. You can use the current nightly builds and they should work with Thunderbird 3. They're marked as Lightning 1.0B1pre. You can grab a nightly here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html#nightly
They said they're basically at 1.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate status and hope to have the official 1.0 Beta 1 release out within a couple weeks, at least according to the Mozilla Calendar blog. Details are in the Mozilla Calendar Blog (currently offline):
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/
We're going to stick with recommending Thunderbird 2.0 for a little bit on PortableApps.com because Lightning isn't ready, and it is (arguably) the most important Thunderbird extension. And recommending nightlies to regular users is a bad idea.
Well, ChatterEmail would be on that list. It's the only fully-featured mail client I've ever used on a phone. iPhone's mail client doesn't match it. Nor does Android's (even the K-9 Mail branch that I use). ChatterEmail had better IMAP and IMAP IDLE support *years* before anyone else.
Palm had tens of thousands of apps available for it long before the iPhone was even designed. Many of those apps are still more powerful and useful than most iPhone apps because iPhone apps don't have access to the whole operating system and Apple won't let folks create apps that don't sit well with their business plan (which is why there's no real Google Voice on iPhone).
According to Apple: "The Standard and Enterprise Programs allow you to share your application with up to 100 other iPhone or iPod touch users with Ad Hoc distribution. Share your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server."
So your app can only go to 100 people. If you attempt to use the program to sell or give away apps in an adhoc manner, Apple disables your developer key and then it can't install on more phones.
On Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, S60... basically every single mobile OS... you can develop and distribute applications as you see fit. With the iPhone, you're locked into only what Apple approves through the AppStore.
One thing they left out in the app comparison is that Newton users can add in any apps they wanted. They're not limited to the ones approved by Apple in the gated community known as the App Store.
Well, water is legal, but getting water in a PC or a cell phone voids the warranty.
So, it would then come down to whether or not smoking is hazardous to electronic equipment.
Well, I certainly remember it well and fire it up from time to time. It was what I used before Firefox and Thunderbird came along. Now that 2.0 has gone gold, hopefully some new users will find it and be intrigued.
As we (at PortableApps.com) do with Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird, we've packaged it as a portable app so you can use it on your flash drive/portable hard drive or try it out without installing it locally. 10 languages are available.
SeaMonkey, Portable Edition 2.0 at PortableApps.com
Enough already.
No, Halo 3: ODST won't be a better game with a Coca-Cola ad in the superintendent weapon caches.
No, Fallout 3 won't be a better game with Nuclear Coke instead of Nuka Cola collected for the mission that rewards you with Nuka grenades.
No, Half-Life 2 won't be better if my crobar has a Craftsmen logo on it.
No, Gears of War 2 won't be better if the grubs are wearing Calvin Klein T-Shirts.
And no, Bioshock will not be better if you have to buy your ammo from a Walmart vending machine.
I bought the game to take a nice little break from the world and enjoy an alternate one for a while. I don't want to be reminded of some brand new widget from some company I couldn't care less about in the real world. I already paid $60 for the game. And then more for one of the add-ons that used to be free when I played PC games. You don't need to try and squeeze more money out of me just because you think you can. In-game ads suck! Stop deluding yourself.
The simple answer is that it's an anti-competitive move (semi-monopolistic) in regards to text messaging fees. AT&T makes a killing on text-messaging fees, charging 20 cents for 1120 bytes or less of data. Google Voice lets you make an end-run around that and send text messages from your Google Voice number using your phone's data plan (which, if you have unlimited data = free text messaging). AT&T wants to preserve that huge revenue stream, so they had Apple lock Google Voice out of it.
This is nothing new and nothing we didn't already know. It still says nothing about ASP.NET, Windows Forms and all the other parts of .NET that are not part of the ECMA standard. Mono implements many, many things outside the ECMA standard, so anybody but Novell who distributes or otherwise uses Mono is at risk of patent shenanigans.
The difference between the PS3's Blu-ray capability and the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive is that the PS3 is a game machine that has a built-in Blu-ray capability, like the PS2 had built in DVD capability. The 360 only has DVD built in. If you wanted HD-DVD, you had to buy an HD-DVD drive. So, everyone who bought the 360's HD-DVD drive bought it to play movies. Not every who bought a PS3 bought it to play movies. My few friends that own a PS3 don't really use it for movies (honestly, they don't use the PS3 much, they all also have an Xbox 360 and a Wii and mainly use the 360 for games, streaming movies, connecting to their media on the PC, etc).