When I first started using Feedly it was just a shiny veneer over Google Reader and it kind of still is. Notice that without the extension there's no login on their site. They've assumed your feed information from Google Reader into their extension, but they haven't yet produced a version that they can host. They probably didn't have hardware that could handle their user base offline before Google announced Reader is shutting down. The way the extension currently works, you could probably host feedly.com from a laptop.
As someone who provides satellite internet access to all manner of land- and sea-faring vessels I can offer special insight into how easy it is to rectify your problem.
All you have to do is quickly finish off that degree. But be quick because the US Navy's Officer Candidate School takes 12 weeks and you need to get in and out of that before that new semester starts. While that's going on you need to win over as many people on Congress as you can. Your best bet is to start an internet campaign before joining. Then when you get out you can have Congress rush through your appointment to admiral. Two-star at least.
It's that simple.
Once you've gotten through all that you're pretty much guaranteed a decent internet connection throughout your travels. Unless someone like me accidentally pulls a patch cable or something (which was an unfortunate accident and given the involved general's reaction not one I'm likely to repeat).
Pages that automatically wait several seconds before starting a download work, which seems to be what Microsoft is talking about. On IE at work you'll get a popup asking if you actually want to download. In Safari it just downloads. Sourceforge.net uses this sort of mechanism.
On OSX you get a warning when you run a downloaded application for the first time. Firefox apparently knows how to activate that feature in Windows, but I'm guessing Safari doesn't.
You can play by whatever rules you want here. Sure, you may not be compliant with everyone and you're going to have to play ball and use the same protocols for various things, but there's no law about it.
Put a webserver up and there's no police force you can run to to report a hacking. Self-reliance on the net is extremely important in order to stay safe.
Any departure from that implies governance and policing and a lot of other scary very unlibertarian things on the internet which I get uncomfortable thinking about.
Things like how people respond to virus outbreaks bother me. I blame the vulnerability more than the exploitation of it. I don't expect the internet to be a safe place so I look out for my own safety and if I were to ever get infected with something I'd count it as my own fault or the fault of the software I installed. I hope the internet is always a dangerous but free wilderness and never becomes the safe suburbia so many people seem to want from it.
They've made what appears to be a legally binding promise they aren't going to dick people over this one using their Open Specification Promise. Whereas the OOXML vs. ODF debate has good grounding in one specification being lower quality than the other, HDPhoto really is an improvement over current formats, especially for handling raw images.
Aren't South Koreans in a position where US security export laws prevented anyone from getting the best of SSL encryption so it was implemented as an ActiveX which is now used by all the banks and organizations requiring good encryption thus forcing Koreans to use IE.
I'm not sure how you define "older", but I replaced my 2GHz P4 laptop with this 400MHz G4 because I enjoy the snappier interface (with menu transparency, drop shadows, etc.) and I'd be miserable without Exposé.
In Windows land, the desktop eye-candy isn't hardware accelerated. Turning off a lot of the OSX eye-candy would only serve to idle the graphics hardware rather than making the computer respond any faster.
Hopefully, Microsoft's Aero will prove this point.
Actually, yes. We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything. To me, the need for a continuous search for answers is one of the greatest attributes a person can have.
I think such absolute skepticism is impossible to maintain in the face of how much there is in the world to understand. Very few people are in any position to vouch for the authenticity of much of the scientific experimentation that goes on. Another great attribute of humanity is the ability to pool a mass of knowledge much greater than any one individual could possibly hope to grasp on their own.
I've often wondered, with as much small digital equipment as people have around their houses, why we don't run a general 12VDC and maybe a 5VDC line to every plug in the house besides the 120VAC.
It would certainly cut down on the number of wall-warts hogging outlets, besides fixing issues like these.
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Because there is no website. See here.
When I first started using Feedly it was just a shiny veneer over Google Reader and it kind of still is. Notice that without the extension there's no login on their site. They've assumed your feed information from Google Reader into their extension, but they haven't yet produced a version that they can host. They probably didn't have hardware that could handle their user base offline before Google announced Reader is shutting down. The way the extension currently works, you could probably host feedly.com from a laptop.
As someone who provides satellite internet access to all manner of land- and sea-faring vessels I can offer special insight into how easy it is to rectify your problem.
All you have to do is quickly finish off that degree. But be quick because the US Navy's Officer Candidate School takes 12 weeks and you need to get in and out of that before that new semester starts. While that's going on you need to win over as many people on Congress as you can. Your best bet is to start an internet campaign before joining. Then when you get out you can have Congress rush through your appointment to admiral. Two-star at least.
It's that simple.
Once you've gotten through all that you're pretty much guaranteed a decent internet connection throughout your travels. Unless someone like me accidentally pulls a patch cable or something (which was an unfortunate accident and given the involved general's reaction not one I'm likely to repeat).
Pages that automatically wait several seconds before starting a download work, which seems to be what Microsoft is talking about. On IE at work you'll get a popup asking if you actually want to download. In Safari it just downloads. Sourceforge.net uses this sort of mechanism.
On OSX you get a warning when you run a downloaded application for the first time. Firefox apparently knows how to activate that feature in Windows, but I'm guessing Safari doesn't.
I am more hopeful for a PS3 release.
I'm a Mac user who owns a PS3.
Pretty much fucked, aren't I?
You can play by whatever rules you want here. Sure, you may not be compliant with everyone and you're going to have to play ball and use the same protocols for various things, but there's no law about it.
Put a webserver up and there's no police force you can run to to report a hacking. Self-reliance on the net is extremely important in order to stay safe.
Any departure from that implies governance and policing and a lot of other scary very unlibertarian things on the internet which I get uncomfortable thinking about.
Things like how people respond to virus outbreaks bother me. I blame the vulnerability more than the exploitation of it. I don't expect the internet to be a safe place so I look out for my own safety and if I were to ever get infected with something I'd count it as my own fault or the fault of the software I installed. I hope the internet is always a dangerous but free wilderness and never becomes the safe suburbia so many people seem to want from it.
They've made what appears to be a legally binding promise they aren't going to dick people over this one using their Open Specification Promise. Whereas the OOXML vs. ODF debate has good grounding in one specification being lower quality than the other, HDPhoto really is an improvement over current formats, especially for handling raw images.
Besides the stupidity of try to gather information from confiscated RAM, how in the world could this be a privacy concern?
Every morning I pull coffee out of my fridge, grind it, dump it in my insulated French press, and pour in boiling water.
It sits for a few minutes and then I plunge it and head off to work with my morning coffee.
Excellent coffee.
and we're just looking for interesting ways to make the competition fairer.
Make them play go.
Aren't South Koreans in a position where US security export laws prevented anyone from getting the best of SSL encryption so it was implemented as an ActiveX which is now used by all the banks and organizations requiring good encryption thus forcing Koreans to use IE.
Go max out a Mac Pro on Apple's site... it's $20k.
I could use that.
It's not.
but I'm not sure what this article is talking about. :-(
I wonder what percentage of some anti-virus software company's profits are a direct result of this article.
I'm in denial about invisible pink unicorns too. Put up or shut-up.
Yep.
Can't play Quake 3 on it, compiles are slower, but the GUI is fast and windowed programs work without any slowdown.
Civilization 3 runs fast on 400MHz G4 than a 2.0GHz P4. I can't explain it, but it takes half as long to play through a game against 16 AI's.
Wow.
Where else does someone being helpful offer to sell you an unused something they paid $1.2 million for?
I'm not sure how you define "older", but I replaced my 2GHz P4 laptop with this 400MHz G4 because I enjoy the snappier interface (with menu transparency, drop shadows, etc.) and I'd be miserable without Exposé.
In Windows land, the desktop eye-candy isn't hardware accelerated. Turning off a lot of the OSX eye-candy would only serve to idle the graphics hardware rather than making the computer respond any faster.
Hopefully, Microsoft's Aero will prove this point.
It's too damn ugly.
/Mac and iPod owner
these guys are breaking into thousands of home and work PCs and taking them for a virtual joyride
:-)
You don't usually call it a break-in when you let the person in through an open front door.
Then again, these guys are going in through open windows, which is usually frowned upon.
They say Intel has been outright pissed with Microsoft for their years of ignoring what their chips could do.
An appropo response, I think.
Actually, yes. We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything. To me, the need for a continuous search for answers is one of the greatest attributes a person can have.
I think such absolute skepticism is impossible to maintain in the face of how much there is in the world to understand. Very few people are in any position to vouch for the authenticity of much of the scientific experimentation that goes on. Another great attribute of humanity is the ability to pool a mass of knowledge much greater than any one individual could possibly hope to grasp on their own.
I've often wondered, with as much small digital equipment as people have around their houses, why we don't run a general 12VDC and maybe a 5VDC line to every plug in the house besides the 120VAC.
It would certainly cut down on the number of wall-warts hogging outlets, besides fixing issues like these.
What's wrong with keeping Sun and running Linux on that hardware?
Another question: What's wrong with Solaris?