Re:A (Path) Finder with a "Refresh" button.
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Dear God, not like that. I have a 1024x768 display and I don't want to devote all of it to a file browser. The last time I used an environment like that it was called DOSSHELL.EXE.
I just want to hit CMD+R and see a Finder window refresh. Windows has supported a "refresh" shortcut in Windows Explorer (F5) for many years. I don't expect to install a gigantic piece of $35 shareware to get such a simple feature, but that seems to be the norm on Mac OS X these days.
And if you live in Kansas (or several other states) don't forget to affix your drug tax stamps to that stash.
You don't have a drug tax stamp? Well, just hop on down to the local government office and pick some up! They take cash, money orders, and cashier's checks. (No personal checks -- darn!)
News flash: When you make money, you owe income tax on it. Doesn't matter if the money comes from real-world work, virtual-world work, services, corporate gifts, or even illegal activity. The second you get U.S. dollars for your work, the IRS gets to claim a chunk of them.
I sure do... I was on it a few times over. SixDegrees made two fatal mistakes: (1) assuming that a person has exactly one e-mail address (so I'd have several different friends with the same name) and (2) having absolutely no business plan for turning relationship knowledge into cash. Most social networking sites also fail at (2) as well.
You are assuming that I have to buy either the Wii, the Xbox 360, or the PlayStation 3. I don't plan to buy any new game system until one is priced reasonably and all the early-release bugs get worked out. They all have their benefits. The Wii has its wi-fi and gimmicky controller; the Xbox 360 has its excellent on-line play, existing game library, and HD-DVD player accessory; and the PS3 has a Blu-Ray player. (I own an HDTV so I care about that.)
So you don't like the PS3 and Xbox 360 because they're the "same thing in a shinier package," but you do like the Virtual Console? That's the same games that you used to play, now available for DRMed download for $5-$10 each. Tack on $250 for the system to play these old games, plus $X per controller (not sure how much the retro-style controller costs).
For me, the Wii looks cool but it's simply not worth over $300 (system, games, controller, tax) right now. It offers very little new for the price.
Google Web Accelerator, Google Video (what, you think they'll keep it running after they own YouTube?), Checkout (Yahoo! storefront competitor, not a PayPal killer), and Froogle.
Google makes money on ads and ads alone. Everything else is meant to improve the public's perception of Google so that Google can sell more ads without pissing people off as much as DoubleClick did.
Thompson won't stop until he stops getting media attention.
Slashdot is but one of many media outlets who have made Thompson a very wealthy man. Penny Arcade is another. Thompson has all of us to thank for his financial success.
The answer is CableCARD. I want a media box that can replace the piece-of-shit Comcast DVR that reboots several times a week, littering my screen with dozens of "recorded for 0 hours 0 minutes" listings. HDTV compatibility is a must and I don't have the wherwithal to put up a giant antenna. So far the only box that comes close is the TiVo Series3, but that makes even the PlayStation 3 look cheap. ($800, plus rentals for two CableCARDs, plus $17 a month for TiVo service, adds up to over $1,000 in the first year alone.)
One alternative is just downloading all my TV shows from the iTunes Store (or BitTorrent, if I only want to watch popular stuff the day it comes out). To do that quickly you'll need a cable modem, and to get a cable modem for a decent price you might as well subscribe to some sort of cable, and that brings us around to square one again.
Google's not exactly staking the company's future on all its JavaScript toys. They still make something like 98% of their revenue on text, banner, Flash, and video ads. Their beta JavaScript apps just get Google lots of fluffy praise and attention from sites like Slashdot and Kuro5hin. It's fantastic marketing, but it's not like Google expects people to actually confide in Gmail and Docs for any productive purpose.
When Firefox crashes it takes down all tabs and windows. Furthermore web apps don't subscribe to any of the UI conventions that regular applications do. You can flip around between them with Expose if they're in different windows, but they don't accept any sort of automation, they have 0 accessibility options visible to the OS, and they don't work with any services native to Mac OS X.
The really sad part is that this is one of very few full-featured competitors to MS Office on the Mac. NeoOffice/J is a huge hulking ugly Java app that leaks even more memory than Firefox does, and iWork doesn't have a spreadsheet app.
"Vertical" in this context means a vertical market. Telephony of the sort Asterisk provides has a pretty fixed market and isn't going to expand outward (horizontally).
True. GMail's still in beta after 2+ years; it could crash tomorrow and half the Slashdot comments would be apologizing sarcastically for the loss of a free beta service.
I read on a blog that blogs are displacing the MSM (which apparently stands for "men who have sex with men") and that I should get all my news from blogs. As a result, I only blog blog blog blog blog blog, blog blog blog, blog.
If C repeatedly clicks the ad, the ad serving provider might be asked to investigate the nature of these questionable clicks. If the clicks are found to be programmatically generated with no useful business-related purpose, the ad serving provider might be asked to strike those "fraudulent" clicks from the billing.
If C is just being a jerk then he'll probably be ignored (perhaps his clicks will just go unbilled by anyone). If C is trying to harm A's or B's business, then a lawsuit could result. If C doesn't realize he's doing the clicks... that's a different matter entirely.
Once again Burger King's ad agency has drummed up publicity by getting the media (including the non-mainstream independent therefore more trustworthy blogomedianetsphere dot org) talking about Burger King. The number of people who will boycott BK forever is vastly outnumbered by the number of people who are more aware of BK. Kudos to them.
A is paying B with the expectation that people genuinely interested in A's ad will click that ad. If C simulates clicks without even looking at the ad, A isn't getting his money's worth when he pays for his ads. Where the line between "users clicking ads without a genuine interest" and "programmatic click fraud" is drawn is still subjective, though.
That guy got banned because he used a programmable keyboard, not (primarily) because he used WINE. "So, if anything, let this be a warning: even if Blizzard states that programmable keyboards are OK, you will get banned if you use them, depending on the situation."
From what I've gleaned, Blizzard hasn't issued a formal statement in favor of or opposed to WINE. In this case, however, it looks like the programmable input device did him in.
I was surprised when I recently saw that Microsoft is doing the same thing with the Games for Windows branding for PC games. Meet a certain set of requirements and you can put a special stripe across the top of your game's box. Seems like a bolder revision of the "MPC" and "MPC2" standards back when CD-ROM drives were in their infancy.
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Dear God, not like that. I have a 1024x768 display and I don't want to devote all of it to a file browser. The last time I used an environment like that it was called DOSSHELL.EXE.
I just want to hit CMD+R and see a Finder window refresh. Windows has supported a "refresh" shortcut in Windows Explorer (F5) for many years. I don't expect to install a gigantic piece of $35 shareware to get such a simple feature, but that seems to be the norm on Mac OS X these days.
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Microsoft already has solar power on its campus.
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Something seems odd about installing solar panels in a city famous for grey overcast skies, but the panels work nonetheless.
And if you live in Kansas (or several other states) don't forget to affix your drug tax stamps to that stash.
You don't have a drug tax stamp? Well, just hop on down to the local government office and pick some up! They take cash, money orders, and cashier's checks. (No personal checks -- darn!)
News flash: When you make money, you owe income tax on it. Doesn't matter if the money comes from real-world work, virtual-world work, services, corporate gifts, or even illegal activity. The second you get U.S. dollars for your work, the IRS gets to claim a chunk of them.
I sure do... I was on it a few times over. SixDegrees made two fatal mistakes: (1) assuming that a person has exactly one e-mail address (so I'd have several different friends with the same name) and (2) having absolutely no business plan for turning relationship knowledge into cash. Most social networking sites also fail at (2) as well.
Oddly, the Sixdegrees name and logo are still in use by some new site.
You are assuming that I have to buy either the Wii, the Xbox 360, or the PlayStation 3. I don't plan to buy any new game system until one is priced reasonably and all the early-release bugs get worked out. They all have their benefits. The Wii has its wi-fi and gimmicky controller; the Xbox 360 has its excellent on-line play, existing game library, and HD-DVD player accessory; and the PS3 has a Blu-Ray player. (I own an HDTV so I care about that.)
$300 for a GameCube with a Power Glove? Pass.
(Oh, you thought Nintendo invented motion sensing controllers?)
So you don't like the PS3 and Xbox 360 because they're the "same thing in a shinier package," but you do like the Virtual Console? That's the same games that you used to play, now available for DRMed download for $5-$10 each. Tack on $250 for the system to play these old games, plus $X per controller (not sure how much the retro-style controller costs).
For me, the Wii looks cool but it's simply not worth over $300 (system, games, controller, tax) right now. It offers very little new for the price.
50 people see it happen in SL
999,950 people read about it on web sites
Total 1,000,000!
Google Web Accelerator, Google Video (what, you think they'll keep it running after they own YouTube?), Checkout (Yahoo! storefront competitor, not a PayPal killer), and Froogle.
Google makes money on ads and ads alone. Everything else is meant to improve the public's perception of Google so that Google can sell more ads without pissing people off as much as DoubleClick did.
Thompson won't stop until he stops getting media attention.
Slashdot is but one of many media outlets who have made Thompson a very wealthy man. Penny Arcade is another. Thompson has all of us to thank for his financial success.
The answer is CableCARD. I want a media box that can replace the piece-of-shit Comcast DVR that reboots several times a week, littering my screen with dozens of "recorded for 0 hours 0 minutes" listings. HDTV compatibility is a must and I don't have the wherwithal to put up a giant antenna. So far the only box that comes close is the TiVo Series3, but that makes even the PlayStation 3 look cheap. ($800, plus rentals for two CableCARDs, plus $17 a month for TiVo service, adds up to over $1,000 in the first year alone.)
One alternative is just downloading all my TV shows from the iTunes Store (or BitTorrent, if I only want to watch popular stuff the day it comes out). To do that quickly you'll need a cable modem, and to get a cable modem for a decent price you might as well subscribe to some sort of cable, and that brings us around to square one again.
Google's not exactly staking the company's future on all its JavaScript toys. They still make something like 98% of their revenue on text, banner, Flash, and video ads. Their beta JavaScript apps just get Google lots of fluffy praise and attention from sites like Slashdot and Kuro5hin. It's fantastic marketing, but it's not like Google expects people to actually confide in Gmail and Docs for any productive purpose.
When Firefox crashes it takes down all tabs and windows. Furthermore web apps don't subscribe to any of the UI conventions that regular applications do. You can flip around between them with Expose if they're in different windows, but they don't accept any sort of automation, they have 0 accessibility options visible to the OS, and they don't work with any services native to Mac OS X.
The really sad part is that this is one of very few full-featured competitors to MS Office on the Mac. NeoOffice/J is a huge hulking ugly Java app that leaks even more memory than Firefox does, and iWork doesn't have a spreadsheet app.
"Vertical" in this context means a vertical market. Telephony of the sort Asterisk provides has a pretty fixed market and isn't going to expand outward (horizontally).
Look at the videos. I just tried to play one, and I was asked to install Zango software. Scary.
(I use Firefox but the videos play in Windows Media Player.)
Results 1 - 8 of about 24 from slashdot.org for "gmail is still in beta". (0.09 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 209 from slashdot.org for "is still in beta". (0.09 seconds)
True. GMail's still in beta after 2+ years; it could crash tomorrow and half the Slashdot comments would be apologizing sarcastically for the loss of a free beta service.
I read on a blog that blogs are displacing the MSM (which apparently stands for "men who have sex with men") and that I should get all my news from blogs. As a result, I only blog blog blog blog blog blog, blog blog blog, blog.
If C repeatedly clicks the ad, the ad serving provider might be asked to investigate the nature of these questionable clicks. If the clicks are found to be programmatically generated with no useful business-related purpose, the ad serving provider might be asked to strike those "fraudulent" clicks from the billing.
If C is just being a jerk then he'll probably be ignored (perhaps his clicks will just go unbilled by anyone). If C is trying to harm A's or B's business, then a lawsuit could result. If C doesn't realize he's doing the clicks... that's a different matter entirely.
Once again Burger King's ad agency has drummed up publicity by getting the media (including the non-mainstream independent therefore more trustworthy blogomedianetsphere dot org) talking about Burger King. The number of people who will boycott BK forever is vastly outnumbered by the number of people who are more aware of BK. Kudos to them.
A is paying B with the expectation that people genuinely interested in A's ad will click that ad. If C simulates clicks without even looking at the ad, A isn't getting his money's worth when he pays for his ads. Where the line between "users clicking ads without a genuine interest" and "programmatic click fraud" is drawn is still subjective, though.
That guy got banned because he used a programmable keyboard, not (primarily) because he used WINE. "So, if anything, let this be a warning: even if Blizzard states that programmable keyboards are OK, you will get banned if you use them, depending on the situation."
From what I've gleaned, Blizzard hasn't issued a formal statement in favor of or opposed to WINE. In this case, however, it looks like the programmable input device did him in.
I was surprised when I recently saw that Microsoft is doing the same thing with the Games for Windows branding for PC games. Meet a certain set of requirements and you can put a special stripe across the top of your game's box. Seems like a bolder revision of the "MPC" and "MPC2" standards back when CD-ROM drives were in their infancy.