when you buy software that's dependent on a for-profit company to keep working, what do you expect?
Considering there are no (that I know of) open source or not for profit alternatives that allow you to pay your bills online like Quicken does what alternative do users have?
Isn't it possible that Google might want a high-capacity global network for a different reason?
I can think of at least one other option. Think about their current back end, and those nice servers that serve up cached pages. Now think about how freeking expensive Akamai is...
a useless click is a click that hits the adwords landing page and little (or nothing else) and does not mean a sale
You're assuming everyone who advertises wants to sell from that click through, that's not necessarily true. I've clicked through, thought interesting, bookmarked and revisited later when I've had more time. To your mind that's a useless click, even though it may well garner a sale later. I've also seen sites advertising that are doing it to build traffic and (presumably) increase their own advertising fees, so there's no selling involved to me, the person who clicked through.
Any system that relies on the honesty of strangers or business rivals is doomed to failure.
You mean in the same way the PGP has changed formats with each version, yet the open source versions have kept.
I'm not saying they won't change it, I'm saying that publishing the format does make it somewhat open. Not everyone things you have to give everything away in order to call it open.
Except it's not, is it? You can read the format, you can write file conforming to the format, you can edit the format, you just can't extend it yourself.
You may well only consider something to be open if you can get source, or mess around with it yourself, or software is only free if you get source, but the every day user will consider being able to get the format and use it open enough. The presumption that your definition of open is the one "normal folks" use is simply arrogant.
Yea, but adaware and spybot both complain that cookies are spyware, and they complain about MRU lists as well depending on setup. That's somewhat debatable. How many of the 37 files were cookies?
Of course it's all dependant on the other blog pinging you anyway. If someone links to a LiveJournal from a blogger site does blogger search the post and send ping backs? msn spaces? das blog? Nope.
Ping/track back is nice, but unless it's automatic on the backend and does not require the blog user to do anything it's as useful as a chocolate teapot.
No time? Wow, is this due to the "faster than light" processor Apple were advertising a couple of years back?
Please, I realise people swallow marketing speak but saying a search will take no time at all has gone past marketing speak and into blatent lying. At a minimum there's the time to index your disk, then when you search the time to look through that index and the time to display results.
This is the problem with computer based PVRs in the UK, the simply don't cope with the most common system Sky, and Sky won't play nice with them. Generally the sky dish/box has one tuner in it, so if you want to record, you have to record the active channel. Which is, of course, useless. Also you'd better hope that there is an IR out on your box to enable you to control the sky box to automatically change to the right channel, otherwise you're going to have to set two timers, one on the PVR, on the Sky box.
With NTL it's the same.
There are Windows Media Centres for sale in the UK, but even with dual tuners you can only hook them up to airborne, old style, non-digital, no DV8 channels. So that's, err, 5 channels. Of course you could get two "free-to-air" decoders, just remember to set those timers.
If you must have a PVR you're going to have to go with the Sky Plus box which adds dual tuners into the mix. But it's very closed, and you're not able to pull saved shows off it.
Steve Jobs begged and pleaded with the record executives to sell their music on-line. All they wanted to do was *shutdown* all web-based music distributors like Napster.
The industry was selling on-line before iTunes, heck even msn UK had a store Apple started selling.
Painting his Jobs-ness as some sort of saviour who forced the evil music industry on-line is frankly a lie.
And of course to do a proper comparision they would need to actually have access to the XP source code to analyse in the same way they analysed the linux source. Then, if they're doing a like for like compare you can't, for example, analyse IE if Firefox wasn't in the linux analysis. If X wasn't analysed, well there goes the Windows GUI.
Hardly a fair comparison (just like certain TCO studies) but that's not going to stop Linux vendors using it and slipping down to MS marketing levels.
However it's not clear if the comment
Windows XP, by comparison, contains about 40 million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis.
Slashdot Mirror
I would guess that many bank Web sites include some sort of bill-paying option
My bank does this (and it's free), but of course that's only part of the facilities that MS Money or Quicken provide.
Because it doesn't run on the same OS as Quicken? Because it supports a standard that banks are only starting to open up to?
If software doesn't run on your OS and doesn't talk to your bank then the fact that it's open doesn't help much.
(And no, it doesn't talks to my bank)
Considering there are no (that I know of) open source or not for profit alternatives that allow you to pay your bills online like Quicken does what alternative do users have?
I'd suggest that he was referring to Active Directory or NTLM and not as you think, Passport. No windows network uses passport for sign-on.
I can think of at least one other option. Think about their current back end, and those nice servers that serve up cached pages. Now think about how freeking expensive Akamai is ...
You're assuming everyone who advertises wants to sell from that click through, that's not necessarily true. I've clicked through, thought interesting, bookmarked and revisited later when I've had more time. To your mind that's a useless click, even though it may well garner a sale later. I've also seen sites advertising that are doing it to build traffic and (presumably) increase their own advertising fees, so there's no selling involved to me, the person who clicked through.
Any system that relies on the honesty of strangers or business rivals is doomed to failure.
I'm not saying they won't change it, I'm saying that publishing the format does make it somewhat open. Not everyone things you have to give everything away in order to call it open.
You may well only consider something to be open if you can get source, or mess around with it yourself, or software is only free if you get source, but the every day user will consider being able to get the format and use it open enough. The presumption that your definition of open is the one "normal folks" use is simply arrogant.
when it's a Netgear with WPA running then I don't want to be right.
Well the server it's on was configured not to leak any information.
Yea, but adaware and spybot both complain that cookies are spyware, and they complain about MRU lists as well depending on setup. That's somewhat debatable. How many of the 37 files were cookies?
Ping/track back is nice, but unless it's automatic on the backend and does not require the blog user to do anything it's as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Dillo for porn surfing? They just missed the naming by one letter?
No time? Wow, is this due to the "faster than light" processor Apple were advertising a couple of years back?
Please, I realise people swallow marketing speak but saying a search will take no time at all has gone past marketing speak and into blatent lying. At a minimum there's the time to index your disk, then when you search the time to look through that index and the time to display results.
Hurrah for consumer choice!
This is the problem with computer based PVRs in the UK, the simply don't cope with the most common system Sky, and Sky won't play nice with them. Generally the sky dish/box has one tuner in it, so if you want to record, you have to record the active channel. Which is, of course, useless. Also you'd better hope that there is an IR out on your box to enable you to control the sky box to automatically change to the right channel, otherwise you're going to have to set two timers, one on the PVR, on the Sky box.
With NTL it's the same.
There are Windows Media Centres for sale in the UK, but even with dual tuners you can only hook them up to airborne, old style, non-digital, no DV8 channels. So that's, err, 5 channels. Of course you could get two "free-to-air" decoders, just remember to set those timers.
If you must have a PVR you're going to have to go with the Sky Plus box which adds dual tuners into the mix. But it's very closed, and you're not able to pull saved shows off it.
It's windows software, of course it's BSDed
But hey, lets not worry about pesky little facts.
This was especially evil timing, as less that 24 hours ago Rick Brewster had blogged about needing a mirror
Nor is it Microsoft software, it's just software for a Microsoft platform.
Ease of use is going to win every time.
The industry was selling on-line before iTunes, heck even msn UK had a store Apple started selling.
Painting his Jobs-ness as some sort of saviour who forced the evil music industry on-line is frankly a lie.
Hardly a fair comparison (just like certain TCO studies) but that's not going to stop Linux vendors using it and slipping down to MS marketing levels.
However it's not clear if the comment
comes from Wired, or from the Stanford report.
KEWL DUDE
If it lists GPL as a word I'd be very concerned about the accuracy of the dictionary.