Just FYI, he mentioned in the +what_happened.txt file in the directory you linked to that he's having bandwidth issues an would like everyone to use the cached link at http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/ especially when linking from high bandwidth sites.
the big ActiveX offenders (Yahoo) would fix themselves up
Any site attempting to use "AJAX" is now a big offender because XMLHttpRequest is implemented as an ActiveX control in IE. For example, turn off ActiveX and try using Google Maps in IE and you get.. "ActiveX is not enabled in your browser. If your browser is Internet Explorer, you must have ActiveX enabled to use Google Maps."
That's like having a Christian missionary meeting in a city that only allows Christians to live there.
Do you really think that missionaries only proselyte amongst heathens?
nobody important will ever see this article
So no one amongst the powers that be reads Business Week, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX News, Forbes, or any of the other 208 news sources that this has already hit?
Boing Boing linked to an article the other day describing how to create a fingerprint prosthetic made from wood glue starting only with a print on a bottle. Also, as I've posted recently, there's the Gummi Bear method and here's the article mentioned by pilgrim23 about the guy in Malaysia that had his finger cut off by carjackers.
The most simple method is to open each page you want opened by default and then go to Tools, Options..., General and click the 'Use Current Pages' button. You can also just enter them in the Location(s) box as a pipe delimited list.
Tabbrowser extensions also comes with a session manager (like Opera's) that lets you save and reopen your current set of pages, but it currently isn't as simple or reliable as Maxthon's 'groups' feature which lets you graphically manage contents of page groups and allows adding a tab to an existing group with a simple right-click.
True marketing genius would be if the BetaNews and Slashdot post were both results of successful astroturfing. Now thousands of developers are actively discussing MS' next OS which sounds like a bang up marketing job to me. Is 'astroturfing blogger admits promoting astroturfing amongst other bloggers' really even barely newsworthy?
Plus, now if they steal your car which requires a finger to start do you think they're just going to give up? Not in the recent carjacking in Malaysia where they cut off the owner's finger.
If you go all the way to the bottom left runway you can see a plane on the tarmac and if you pan left you can see the same plane in the air about to land.
Maybe the screenshots will give you a better idea.. I never seem to know what the heck these marketing briefs are talking about either, but as soon as I see some proper screenshots I can wrap my head around it. Like in this case where you see the screenshots and quicky see that it's just an app that help them write news stories to publish on the Web.
Actually, it would have been great if they would have made Elijah Wood more like the extremely frightening, nightmare inducing, badass that he played in Sin City instead of a pathetic little sobbing ninny.
Also, in my experience trying to help a modem-encumbered family member make use of their Christmas present, Steam just stays in offline mode until it detects that the computer is online again and magically switches back to online mode.
These days it may not save any oil, in fact it may deplete more oil. From the Widipedia article, There is also a question whether the savings in lighting costs (people just home from work don't turn on the electric lights because there is enough sunlight through the windows) justifies the increase in summertime air conditioning costs (people home from work do turn up the air conditioning during the late-afternoon peak load times, because it's still warm outside). When air conditioning was not widely available, the change did save energy; however, air conditioning is much more widespread now than it was several decades ago.
5) High fidelity sound - iTunes only has songs encoded with lossy codecs 6) No DRM - can rip a CD to a format that is sure to work 10 computers later 7) Selection - iTunes doesn't have 95% of the bands I'm interested in 8) Still the same old RIAA model - why not let indie bands post their own music and get a 50-70% cut instead of having to go through a major label (maybe they already do this and I haven't heard about it?) 9) Liner notes, lyrics - offer full resolution liner notes and lyrics - and how about even setting the lyrics up to scroll by karaoke style as the music plays on an ipod
Take a 10 Mb text file and zip it. You'll get a much smaller file. Unzip it and you get exactly the same file. Now zip a.wav file and you'll get a file about 20-40% smaller. Unzip and you get the same.wav file. Now heavily optimize zipping specifically for audio data you'll get a file 30-70% of the originial size. Now optimize that zipping routine to allow unpacking on the fly for convenience. Now unzip the FLAC audio on the fly giving you the original.wav data and then send that audio stream to the hardware exactly as you would have if you had just sent the.wav file. (This is very simplified just to get the gist of it. For a more comprehensive overview try this.)
I agree with the gist of your point, but in your example all of the listings except the TV Special say, "Playable on standard US DVD Players: NO", and not a single link to buy the video actually goes to a page that has the video.
Apple developers have posted a useful IE/Mozilla/Safari demo for parsing iTunes RSS feeds with explanation . I used their demo code to very easily add a much more seamless 'add to cart' function to a site I'm working on.
Slashdot Mirror
Just FYI, he mentioned in the +what_happened.txt file in the directory you linked to that he's having bandwidth issues an would like everyone to use the cached link at http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/ especially when linking from high bandwidth sites.
the big ActiveX offenders (Yahoo) would fix themselves up
Any site attempting to use "AJAX" is now a big offender because XMLHttpRequest is implemented as an ActiveX control in IE. For example, turn off ActiveX and try using Google Maps in IE and you get.. "ActiveX is not enabled in your browser. If your browser is Internet Explorer, you must have ActiveX enabled to use Google Maps."
That's like having a Christian missionary meeting in a city that only allows Christians to live there.
Do you really think that missionaries only proselyte amongst heathens?
nobody important will ever see this article
So no one amongst the powers that be reads Business Week, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX News, Forbes, or any of the other 208 news sources that this has already hit?
a smart crook....would sell you a fix-it kit for $50
;)
Isn't that Symantec's business model?
Boing Boing linked to an article the other day describing how to create a fingerprint prosthetic made from wood glue starting only with a print on a bottle. Also, as I've posted recently, there's the Gummi Bear method and here's the article mentioned by pilgrim23 about the guy in Malaysia that had his finger cut off by carjackers.
How is that done? (posted by AC)
The most simple method is to open each page you want opened by default and then go to Tools, Options..., General and click the 'Use Current Pages' button. You can also just enter them in the Location(s) box as a pipe delimited list.
Tabbrowser extensions also comes with a session manager (like Opera's) that lets you save and reopen your current set of pages, but it currently isn't as simple or reliable as Maxthon's 'groups' feature which lets you graphically manage contents of page groups and allows adding a tab to an existing group with a simple right-click.
Seems like a new Firefox extension (and something for other browsers too) is required to kill that stone cold.
Might jumplink do the trick?
True marketing genius would be if the BetaNews and Slashdot post were both results of successful astroturfing. Now thousands of developers are actively discussing MS' next OS which sounds like a bang up marketing job to me. Is 'astroturfing blogger admits promoting astroturfing amongst other bloggers' really even barely newsworthy?
Look at the js source, it increments each second, but it uses XMLHttpRequest to look up and correct to the actual value once per minute.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ffcounter.js
how trivial is that
Extremely trivial if you have a Gummi Bear.
Plus, now if they steal your car which requires a finger to start do you think they're just going to give up? Not in the recent carjacking in Malaysia where they cut off the owner's finger.
But shouldn't it be 50 mil / 4 = 12.5 mil because almost all users automatically updated from 1.0.0.0 to .1, .2 and then .3?
If you go all the way to the bottom left runway you can see a plane on the tarmac and if you pan left you can see the same plane in the air about to land.
Maybe the screenshots will give you a better idea.. I never seem to know what the heck these marketing briefs are talking about either, but as soon as I see some proper screenshots I can wrap my head around it. Like in this case where you see the screenshots and quicky see that it's just an app that help them write news stories to publish on the Web.
You forgot a step.
Fly to the UK, walk into the bookstore, grab a copy of UK PC Gamer, look at the screenshots, put it back on the shelf, and walk out.
"What if we get Samuel Jackson to play Frodo?"
Actually, it would have been great if they would have made Elijah Wood more like the extremely frightening, nightmare inducing, badass that he played in Sin City instead of a pathetic little sobbing ninny.
Also, in my experience trying to help a modem-encumbered family member make use of their Christmas present, Steam just stays in offline mode until it detects that the computer is online again and magically switches back to online mode.
CPAU would let you create a shortcut to launch PowerDVD as admin or power user while logged in locally as a guest.
These days it may not save any oil, in fact it may deplete more oil. From the Widipedia article, There is also a question whether the savings in lighting costs (people just home from work don't turn on the electric lights because there is enough sunlight through the windows) justifies the increase in summertime air conditioning costs (people home from work do turn up the air conditioning during the late-afternoon peak load times, because it's still warm outside). When air conditioning was not widely available, the change did save energy; however, air conditioning is much more widespread now than it was several decades ago.
These types of issues are discussed ad infinitum at SEW.. particularly in the forums.
The HD trailer is available here.
No, mr. glass is half empty guy, your right eye sees things 1/15th of a second in the future.. Amazing!
5) High fidelity sound - iTunes only has songs encoded with lossy codecs
6) No DRM - can rip a CD to a format that is sure to work 10 computers later
7) Selection - iTunes doesn't have 95% of the bands I'm interested in
8) Still the same old RIAA model - why not let indie bands post their own music and get a 50-70% cut instead of having to go through a major label (maybe they already do this and I haven't heard about it?)
9) Liner notes, lyrics - offer full resolution liner notes and lyrics - and how about even setting the lyrics up to scroll by karaoke style as the music plays on an ipod
Take a 10 Mb text file and zip it. You'll get a much smaller file. Unzip it and you get exactly the same file. Now zip a .wav file and you'll get a file about 20-40% smaller. Unzip and you get the same .wav file. Now heavily optimize zipping specifically for audio data you'll get a file 30-70% of the originial size. Now optimize that zipping routine to allow unpacking on the fly for convenience. Now unzip the FLAC audio on the fly giving you the original .wav data and then send that audio stream to the hardware exactly as you would have if you had just sent the .wav file. (This is very simplified just to get the gist of it. For a more comprehensive overview try this.)
I agree with the gist of your point, but in your example all of the listings except the TV Special say, "Playable on standard US DVD Players: NO", and not a single link to buy the video actually goes to a page that has the video.
Apple developers have posted a useful IE/Mozilla/Safari demo for parsing iTunes RSS feeds with explanation . I used their demo code to very easily add a much more seamless 'add to cart' function to a site I'm working on.