For most people it would be hard to take SomaFM into their car radio on on their portable music player (doesn't have to be an iPod as the files are typically just MP3 so any player will work).
There's ways to record streaming stations to MP3 files to accomplish the same thing, but many people either don't know how to do that, or just don't consider it in the first place.
"A. Why do we need a new buzzword to describe downloading radio shows as audio files for play later?"
It's the automation. There's been radio shows you could download before (or more likely, stream), but it required the listener to seek it out and begin the playback or download. Which is fine for a single use, like if you want to check the NPR archives to find an All Things Considered story you only heard a fragment from the radio, but it doesn't scale well. If you want a new show each day, there's a bit of work for you to do each day.
A podcast is different in that once the listener finds the content, they can use a program to check automatically for them and download new content when it arrives. Many programs go further, moving the content into iTunes which then automatically syncs with the iPod (or whatever MP3 program/player you use). So the effect is one can wake up, take the iPod off the dock on the way out the door, and listen to new content in the car or on a jog, etc.
Now the podcast is using RSS to accomplish this automation, so if you don't see a difference between using an RSS reader vs. a web browser this probably won't matter to you either. Also one can argue that the term podcast isn't needed and RSS could be used instead. Sure, but many people don't know RSS either.;)
Podcasts work great for those who already have an MP3 player.
If I already have an iPod and is has several days of my music on it, then podcasts make a great addition, giving me things like some talk content like NPR's On The Media podcast or the opportunity to discover new music like with the Insomnia Radio podcast.
Buying an MP3 player just for podcasts might be a bit too much at this point unless you already know there's content you want, but if you already have an MP3 player experimenting with some podcasts can be fun.
Radio can be great for some people if you live in an area with decent stations, but I've lived in areas where there were only one or two stations that appealed to me but they got to the point when they seemed to play commercials 40 minutes of every hour. Luckily, I moved, so now I have a variety of options.
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They are already doing this. In addition to This American Life someone else mentioned, you can also get Car Talk, Fresh Air, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Says You, Studio 360, and Science Friday. I may have missed some others.
The GUI control you are thinking about is called a "drawer" by Apple.
For an example of how Safari might use a drawer, check out Apple's Preview application. If you open up multiple images in Preview at the same time, you get the first image displayed with the other images shown as thumbnails in a drawer.
In Preview's preferences a user can decide whether the thumbnails should show just the image, just the name of the file, or an image/name combination. A theoretical Safari implementation could have similar preferences, i.e. show URL/page name, show preview image of page (like you'd get by minimizing the page to the dock), or both.
Other OS X web browsers such as Chimera and OmniWeb use drawers for bookmark management, but as Safari has a different way of doing that, a drawer could be useful for window management.
iCab has filtering built into the browser. It can filter images baed on size, url, server, etc. It can filter ECMAscript (Javascript) on a site-by-site basis, and for each site can subfilter to disallow things like popups while allowing other things to occur.
iCab is my browser of choice. I'm using it now to post this. It is very stable, the ability to selectively filter images and cookies is brilliant, and it even allows me to check my own html as it has a validation feature. Badly coded html pages show up with "frown faces" and properly written html gets happy faces.
The Sandman was always an interesting series, covering a wide range of genres and styles. A recent book, The Sandman's Companion, states that the major arcs alternated between "boys' tales" such as the first arc and Seasons of Mist and "girls' tales" such as The Doll's House and A Game of You.
Manga also divides among "boys" and "girls" styles (although the respective names escape me at the moment), and The Dream Hunters appears to me more of a girls tale, focusing as it does on relationships.
However, it also resonates with themes found consistently in Sandman -- mythologies, choices that lead to unexpected outcomes, duty and responsibility, and probably more.
I enjoyed The Dream Hunters and look forward to more of Gaiman's work.
A lot of people are waiting to see this, as it will give some idea of how serious things will be for Microsoft. I expect that page will be slashdotted, and impossible to get at.
It would be nice if people who can put up mirrors volunteer now, so that when the results are actually put up, and Slashdot reports it, they can also report a list of volunteer mirrors.
Of course, this assumes that those that volunteer will actually be able to get the material.:)
The revision A and B iMacs had infrared (IRDA) technology, same as what is in several of the Powerbooks. This was located in the front of the machine.
IRDA was removed in the "fruity" iMac line, partly because it didn't market very well. However, the other reason is that Apple was already working toward a synergy with the iBook, which does not have IRDA but does have AirPort.
Wireless tech will be in all Apple products very soon. iBook has it, the new G4 has it, so both consumer and pro lines are heading in that direction. The next revision Powerbook will probably drop infrared and pick up AirPort too.
Apple should use the same naming conventions automobiles do, that is, add the year to the end. So you would have iMac 1998, iMac 1999, and iMac 2000.
The only possible problem is that Microsoft already does that with their OS and software, but for software I always thought it rather stupid, as the shelf life can be significantly longer. For hardware it makes sense, because Apple is doing at least one revision a year.
But don't ask me what to do when there are two versions in the same year....maybe add season? Powerbook G3 Summer 1999?:)
In addition, I added a much requested feature to allow posters to optionally pass on the +1 bonus when they post. Many people who have earned the bonus point occasionally wanted to say something that they didn't feel deserved the bonus.
Great! I admit, since I've found out I had an addition to my postings, I've not wanted to post as much, for fear of my comments wouldn't be 'worthy' of the honor given me. Giving us the option to remove it (like I am here:) ) will give a better overall result I think. After all, the current moderators can decide to pump it up again if it is worthy.
"In no uncertain terms, he proceeded to tell me that ETrade did not do background checks, would not attempt to discover if I lied, and implied that if I thought about it, and was willing to lie, I could fill out the form in such a way that it would accept me," Sparger said.
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. This is the way it works, apparently. *Everyone* lies.:)
"On the Mac platform, GoLive is the preferred product.."
He meant to say "BBEdit" there. As long as GoLive continues to muck with the html, people will need BBEdit (or your favorite text editor) to clean it up.
Haven't heard this phrased quite in this way before - very direct.
Fundamentally, geeks are interested in having an impact.... They care about getting credit for their accomplishments.
This is what is hard to explain to some people. There are so many people that are only worried about how much they make. If you're going to be doing something for a significant amount of time, make it something worthwhile to your beliefs.
The rest of the article has more specific ideas, but it seems to me it all comes down to knowing your people and their abilities, and motivating them to do their best work. I do like the idea of small, fast teams, because communication on projects needs to be clear and with fewer people there is less chance of misunderstandings.
But when you look at large projects coordinated with people at geographically diverse locations, you can see large teams can work.
Open communication. Know what you can do and what your team can do, and talk with them. Too many managers talk at people and that is, IMHO, the biggest problem.
According to the former Canadian agent Mike Frost, it would be ``nave" for Australians to think that the Americans were not exploiting stations like Kojarena for economic intelligence purposes. ``They have been doing it for years," he says. ``Now that the Cold War is over, the focus is towards economic intelligence. Never ever over-exaggerate the power that these organisations have to abuse a system such as Echelon. Don't think it can't happen in Australia. It does.''
Australia sure looks like a bad place to be given the day's news, but this is going to be the game everywhere. Ever read The Invisibles by Grant Morrison?
I'm not sure what is fiction and what is real anymore. This whole article just makes me cynical. And they say that part of the decision to be open about this is to reassure Australians that its domestic spying activity is strictly limited and tightly supervised.
Continuing with questions, I'd like to know if there are any international organizations working to prevent this sort of thing? My instinct is that the people writing the laws have little to no idea what it is they are trying to control.
I do know that there were people trying to prevent this Australian bill from happening, and now I'm wondering if there could have been more done to help before this came to pass. And if we can prevent this from happening elsewhere.
I see this as (necessary?) steps in organizing the community, and I think there will be some growing pains in making it a success:
It will be especially interesting to see how all this goes down with Richard Stallman and the Free Software stalwarts.
I don't recall hearing anything (yet) from this corner. I imagine there will be some... debate... over this.
Whatever disagreements may persist between RMS and others in the often fractious movement he started, the difference between Free and Open is now clear. The two can no longer be mistaken for synonymous, and companies looking for open source development don't need to stumble over the F word.
Perhaps it is clear for the discerning/. reader, but the mass media doesn't make a distinction. I think it is important to continue to define the differences, so that the communities involved are not confused by the public.
often a great idea would come up and somebody would say, "Oh it would be really nice if somebody worked on this." But because it wasn't really sexy, or because it wasn't an overnight hack, it would just go undone.
This is always going to be a significant problem. Not just for specific projects, but for things like documention and quality control / testing. People may want to code it, but do they want to take the extra steps to make it maintainable? This is an area I didn't really see addressed in the article.
I went over to check out the article when I realized few people here were commenting on it? Could it suck that much or are most people at work and not wanting to kick in the Real Video?
Donald Becker was recognized for implement[ing] the Beowulf Project, a cluster computer connected via Ethernet and running on Linux.
Guido van Rossum was reconized for creating Python.
If you don't have the time (or afraid of getting caught) to watch the Real Video, check out the print link for the summary. Good recogniztion for these folk, perhaps not controversial enough for discussion?
Slashdot Mirror
For most people it would be hard to take SomaFM into their car radio on on their portable music player (doesn't have to be an iPod as the files are typically just MP3 so any player will work).
There's ways to record streaming stations to MP3 files to accomplish the same thing, but many people either don't know how to do that, or just don't consider it in the first place.
"A. Why do we need a new buzzword to describe downloading radio shows as audio files for play later?"
;)
It's the automation. There's been radio shows you could download before (or more likely, stream), but it required the listener to seek it out and begin the playback or download. Which is fine for a single use, like if you want to check the NPR archives to find an All Things Considered story you only heard a fragment from the radio, but it doesn't scale well. If you want a new show each day, there's a bit of work for you to do each day.
A podcast is different in that once the listener finds the content, they can use a program to check automatically for them and download new content when it arrives. Many programs go further, moving the content into iTunes which then automatically syncs with the iPod (or whatever MP3 program/player you use). So the effect is one can wake up, take the iPod off the dock on the way out the door, and listen to new content in the car or on a jog, etc.
Now the podcast is using RSS to accomplish this automation, so if you don't see a difference between using an RSS reader vs. a web browser this probably won't matter to you either. Also one can argue that the term podcast isn't needed and RSS could be used instead. Sure, but many people don't know RSS either.
Podcasts work great for those who already have an MP3 player.
If I already have an iPod and is has several days of my music on it, then podcasts make a great addition, giving me things like some talk content like NPR's On The Media podcast or the opportunity to discover new music like with the Insomnia Radio podcast.
Buying an MP3 player just for podcasts might be a bit too much at this point unless you already know there's content you want, but if you already have an MP3 player experimenting with some podcasts can be fun.
Radio can be great for some people if you live in an area with decent stations, but I've lived in areas where there were only one or two stations that appealed to me but they got to the point when they seemed to play commercials 40 minutes of every hour. Luckily, I moved, so now I have a variety of options.
They are already doing this. In addition to This American Life someone else mentioned, you can also get Car Talk, Fresh Air, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Says You, Studio 360, and Science Friday. I may have missed some others.
The GUI control you are thinking about is called a "drawer" by Apple.
For an example of how Safari might use a drawer, check out Apple's Preview application. If you open up multiple images in Preview at the same time, you get the first image displayed with the other images shown as thumbnails in a drawer.
In Preview's preferences a user can decide whether the thumbnails should show just the image, just the name of the file, or an image/name combination. A theoretical Safari implementation could have similar preferences, i.e. show URL/page name, show preview image of page (like you'd get by minimizing the page to the dock), or both.
Other OS X web browsers such as Chimera and OmniWeb use drawers for bookmark management, but as Safari has a different way of doing that, a drawer could be useful for window management.
If you like OmniWeb, also check out iCab for OS X
:)
It allows you to filter InScript/JavaScript on a site by site basis. For each site, you can allow/disallow the following:
-access 'Referer'
-access history
-write in status line
-create cookies
-ask for cookies
-open windows
-change window size/location
-hide toolbars
It also has excellent cookie filtering. Between OmniWeb and iCab I can deny anything.
iCab has filtering built into the browser. It can filter images baed on size, url, server, etc. It can filter ECMAscript (Javascript) on a site-by-site basis, and for each site can subfilter to disallow things like popups while allowing other things to occur.
Are you familiar with Slashdot? If so, what is your impression of Slashdot?
If not, then why did you agree to this interview?
iCab is my browser of choice. I'm using it now to post this. It is very stable, the ability to selectively filter images and cookies is brilliant, and it even allows me to check my own html as it has a validation feature. Badly coded html pages show up with "frown faces" and properly written html gets happy faces.
If you have a Mac, check it out.
The Sandman was always an interesting series, covering a wide range of genres and styles. A recent book, The Sandman's Companion, states that the major arcs alternated between "boys' tales" such as the first arc and Seasons of Mist and "girls' tales" such as The Doll's House and A Game of You.
Manga also divides among "boys" and "girls" styles (although the respective names escape me at the moment), and The Dream Hunters appears to me more of a girls tale, focusing as it does on relationships.
However, it also resonates with themes found consistently in Sandman -- mythologies, choices that lead to unexpected outcomes, duty and responsibility, and probably more.
I enjoyed The Dream Hunters and look forward to more of Gaiman's work.
A lot of people are waiting to see this, as it will give some idea of how serious things will be for Microsoft. I expect that page will be slashdotted, and impossible to get at.
:)
It would be nice if people who can put up mirrors volunteer now, so that when the results are actually put up, and Slashdot reports it, they can also report a list of volunteer mirrors.
Of course, this assumes that those that volunteer will actually be able to get the material.
I'm worried.
Note that the article states low cost, Internet machines. I'm thinking a strange AOl OS, so you have machines that are all-AOL, all the time.
Is it possible for this to happen?
Frankly, I have no idea, but Gateway will certainly include AOL. Is AOL avaliable for Linux or BE or any of the non-Windows, non-Mac OSes?
Forum 2000 and Bill have destroyed Linux, apparently: http://www.forum2000.org/matrix/forum_reply?cookie =people&lm=940641941
Amusing.
There is. Check out your User Info.
The revision A and B iMacs had infrared (IRDA) technology, same as what is in several of the Powerbooks. This was located in the front of the machine.
IRDA was removed in the "fruity" iMac line, partly because it didn't market very well. However, the other reason is that Apple was already working toward a synergy with the iBook, which does not have IRDA but does have AirPort.
Wireless tech will be in all Apple products very soon. iBook has it, the new G4 has it, so both consumer and pro lines are heading in that direction. The next revision Powerbook will probably drop infrared and pick up AirPort too.
Apple should use the same naming conventions automobiles do, that is, add the year to the end. So you would have iMac 1998, iMac 1999, and iMac 2000.
:)
The only possible problem is that Microsoft already does that with their OS and software, but for software I always thought it rather stupid, as the shelf life can be significantly longer. For hardware it makes sense, because Apple is doing at least one revision a year.
But don't ask me what to do when there are two versions in the same year....maybe add season? Powerbook G3 Summer 1999?
In addition, I added a much requested feature to allow posters to optionally pass on the +1 bonus when they post. Many people who have earned the bonus point occasionally wanted to say something that they didn't feel deserved the bonus.
:) ) will give a better overall result I think. After all, the current moderators can decide to pump it up again if it is worthy.
Great! I admit, since I've found out I had an addition to my postings, I've not wanted to post as much, for fear of my comments wouldn't be 'worthy' of the honor given me. Giving us the option to remove it (like I am here
"In no uncertain terms, he proceeded to tell me that ETrade did not do background checks, would not attempt to discover if I lied, and implied that if I thought about it, and was willing to lie, I could fill out the form in such a way that it would accept me," Sparger said.
:)
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. This is the way it works, apparently. *Everyone* lies.
Ok, it's popular, but...
"On the Mac platform, GoLive is the preferred product.."
He meant to say "BBEdit" there. As long as GoLive continues to muck with the html, people will need BBEdit (or your favorite text editor) to clean it up.
The geeks control the limits of your business.
... They care about getting credit for their accomplishments.
Haven't heard this phrased quite in this way before - very direct.
Fundamentally, geeks are interested in having an impact.
This is what is hard to explain to some people. There are so many people that are only worried about how much they make. If you're going to be doing something for a significant amount of time, make it something worthwhile to your beliefs.
The rest of the article has more specific ideas, but it seems to me it all comes down to knowing your people and their abilities, and motivating them to do their best work. I do like the idea of small, fast teams, because communication on projects needs to be clear and with fewer people there is less chance of misunderstandings.
But when you look at large projects coordinated with people at geographically diverse locations, you can see large teams can work.
Open communication. Know what you can do and what your team can do, and talk with them. Too many managers talk at people and that is, IMHO, the biggest problem.
I found the Telsa journal to be rather amusing and well written. Wonder if she could be talked into writing opinion columns for /.
According to the former Canadian agent Mike Frost, it would be ``nave" for Australians to think that the Americans were not exploiting stations like Kojarena for economic intelligence purposes. ``They have been doing it for years," he says. ``Now that the Cold War is over, the focus is towards economic intelligence. Never ever over-exaggerate the power that these organisations have to abuse a system such as Echelon. Don't think it can't happen in Australia. It does.''
Australia sure looks like a bad place to be given the day's news, but this is going to be the game everywhere. Ever read The Invisibles by Grant Morrison?
I'm not sure what is fiction and what is real anymore. This whole article just makes me cynical. And they say that part of the decision to be open about this is to reassure Australians that its domestic spying activity is strictly limited and tightly supervised.
Anyone feel reassured?
Continuing with questions, I'd like to know if there are any international organizations working to prevent this sort of thing? My instinct is that the people writing the laws have little to no idea what it is they are trying to control.
I do know that there were people trying to prevent this Australian bill from happening, and now I'm wondering if there could have been more done to help before this came to pass. And if we can prevent this from happening elsewhere.
I see this as (necessary?) steps in organizing the community, and I think there will be some growing pains in making it a success:
... debate ... over this.
/. reader, but the mass media doesn't make a distinction. I think it is important to continue to define the differences, so that the communities involved are not confused by the public.
It will be especially interesting to see how all this goes down with Richard Stallman and the Free Software stalwarts.
I don't recall hearing anything (yet) from this corner. I imagine there will be some
Whatever disagreements may persist between RMS and others in the often fractious movement he
started, the difference between Free and Open is now clear. The two can no longer be mistaken for
synonymous, and companies looking for open source development don't need to stumble over the F
word.
Perhaps it is clear for the discerning
often a great idea would come up and somebody would say, "Oh it would be really nice if somebody
worked on this." But because it wasn't really sexy, or because it wasn't an overnight hack, it would just go undone.
This is always going to be a significant problem. Not just for specific projects, but for
things like documention and quality control / testing. People may want to code it, but do
they want to take the extra steps to make it maintainable? This is an area I didn't really see addressed in the article.
I went over to check out the article when I realized few people here were commenting on it? Could it suck that much or are most people at work and not wanting to kick in the Real Video?
There is a print article as well.
Donald Becker was recognized for implement[ing] the Beowulf Project, a cluster computer connected via Ethernet and running on Linux.
Guido van Rossum was reconized for creating Python.
If you don't have the time (or afraid of getting caught) to watch the Real Video, check out the print link for the summary. Good recogniztion for these folk, perhaps not controversial enough for discussion?