(They may only do this if you've used another Google service, even if you have Search History turned off, but those 2 GB of mail storage were just so tempting weren't they?)
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Google does the same exact thing. Even though I have Search History turned off, I searched for "paranoia." If you right-click on result 1 and click "Copy to clipboard," the raw URL comes out. If you look at the source, Google inserts tracking the second you left-click the link:
As a Perl developer, I feel your pain. Searching for what "$[" means, for example, is hard: depending on where you learned English it could be "dollar-sign open-square-bracket," "dollar-sign open-bracket," or "guy wearing really weird glasses frowning robotically." I really want to be able to search for $[ by itself but Google won't let me. (Nor will Yahoo!, Ask, or MSN.)
I'll clarify. JetBlue caters to the business class set: they sell seats for more than a deep-discount airline would, and this is just another service targeted squarely at their intended audience. Kudos to them for it.
Have you ever flown JetBlue? The whole plane is "business class" with leather seats and in-flight satellite TV/radio, though they don't give you free food.
You want Synergy for the keyboard, mouse, and clipboard sharing. Move your mouse to the right edge of LinuxComputer1 and it moves over to the left edge of WindowsComputer2. For the file sharing stuff you're on your own though.
The high temperature today in New York is 79 F (26 C) and summer temps routinely get even hotter than that. I'd rather not be stuck on the upper level in a glass enclosure when the sun is bearing down.
My elevators run LINUX because when my passengers get stuck, there is a robust online community to help.
Now talking in #elevator <storemgr> help my elevator is stuck and passengers are trapped <@lnxelev8rg0d> did u rtfm <storemgr> there is no manual <@lnxelev8rg0d> yeh rite <@lnxelev8rg0d> did u try the latest nightly <storemgr> omg a woman just passed otu!!! * You have been kicked from #elevator by lnxelev8rg0d (stfu and stop bothering me)
Picasa for Linux is "Labs" (that's Google speak for alpha). Google Earth is beta on the Mac (though an alpha was widely leaked) and is not available for Linux at all. From the article you linked: "When asked if the additions to WINE would bootstrap Google Earth's porting progress, DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google Earth relied on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional WINE support would not help. No timeline for that application's release was revealed at this time." (emphasis added)
I never said that files you rip in iTunes were DRMed. I just said that iTunes defaults to ripping in AAC and that most players don't support it. (Funny how the Sony Network Walkman, which was savaged for its content protection in early reviews, keeps getting brought up as a shining example of openness in a discussion about how much everyone hates Sony's products.)
There are millions of people who have large "MP3" collections that are actually in WMA or AAC format due to their willingness to accept the defaults in their music player of choice. Even if these files aren't encumbered with DRM they are no longer truly "MP3" files and can't play on many players that have chosen not to license WMA or AAC.
I'm sorry you misunderstood my post. I was talking purely about incompatibility (MP3 is supported by everything; MP4 is supported by fewer players) and not about DRM encumbrance.
You mean ATRAC3. AAC is what Apple licensed and rips to by default in iTunes, making song files incompatible with any portable player other than an iPod.
I really don't think they're comparable at all. Vonage wants to be your home phone, but Skype clearly points out (here for example) that "Skype is not a replacement for your ordinary telephone and can't be used for emergency calling."
Also, is Vonage's call quality really "light years better than Skype"? Can you broadcast a live concert over Vonage now? Considering that I'm calling someone's rented bakelite telephone that's so big you could kill an attacking puma with it*, Skype's call quality is Good Enough For Me (TM).
Skype charges you 30 EUR per year for an incoming line and about 0.02 EUR per minute for domestic calls (waived for US/Canada customers through 12/31/06). You also have to use a headset on your computer or buy a box for extra money that lets you use a regular landline phone for Skype.
LaTeX is a great program if you're a programmer, but for an average user who has taken MS Word classes and doesn't need equation typesetting functionality it's completely unnecessary. Microsoft Word handles things well enough and provides instant feedback about appearance -- and it's fast, not to mention smaller than an Emacs+LaTeX installation.
Excel 2007 will support spreadsheets with 16,384 columns and 1,048,576 rows. (Source: official Excel blog)
Incidentally, Excel 2007 also raises the memory usage limit from 1 GB to "maximum available memory," which means 64-bit systems will actually let you work with humongous workbooks. If a 2^14-by-2^20 spreadsheet seems like overkill, you've never seen what finance departments can do with Excel.:)
Yes, I appreciate the game much more when there are no ads separating the game footage of the AOL mascot throwing the ball to the batter standing in front of a Family Guy advertisement trying to hit a ball during the Allstate Triple Play Inning at AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park, formerly Pac Bell Park, which replaced 3Com Park, which was the renaming of Candlestick Park).
Skype's got my dollars. It's easy, it's cheap, and I only use it when I'm in danger of running out of minutes on my cell phone. Vonage can't sell me $10 of phone time to use over six months. Skype can. (Gizmo can, too, but my family already has Skype on their PCs so they got me hooked.)
TiVo's initial investors include media giants like NBC. Ever wondered why the 30-second skip button doesn't ship as standard, or why TiVo has never supported automatic commercial skipping? They serve their investors and their advertisers before their users.
i-mode is a wireless data standard created by NTT DoCoMo originally for the Japanese market but later sold elsewhere. It's not really compatible with any other standards to the point where when I was in Japan in 2002, any company had five or six web site addresses, most of which were for i-mode or other incompatible data services.
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Go to Google. Do a search. View the source. See all those "onmousedown" events on search results? They're tracking clicks in a way only Google users could love: AJAX.
(They may only do this if you've used another Google service, even if you have Search History turned off, but those 2 GB of mail storage were just so tempting weren't they?)
As a Perl developer, I feel your pain. Searching for what "$[" means, for example, is hard: depending on where you learned English it could be "dollar-sign open-square-bracket," "dollar-sign open-bracket," or "guy wearing really weird glasses frowning robotically." I really want to be able to search for $[ by itself but Google won't let me. (Nor will Yahoo!, Ask, or MSN.)
I'll clarify. JetBlue caters to the business class set: they sell seats for more than a deep-discount airline would, and this is just another service targeted squarely at their intended audience. Kudos to them for it.
Have you ever flown JetBlue? The whole plane is "business class" with leather seats and in-flight satellite TV/radio, though they don't give you free food.
You want Synergy for the keyboard, mouse, and clipboard sharing. Move your mouse to the right edge of LinuxComputer1 and it moves over to the left edge of WindowsComputer2. For the file sharing stuff you're on your own though.
The high temperature today in New York is 79 F (26 C) and summer temps routinely get even hotter than that. I'd rather not be stuck on the upper level in a glass enclosure when the sun is bearing down.
Picasa for Linux is "Labs" (that's Google speak for alpha). Google Earth is beta on the Mac (though an alpha was widely leaked) and is not available for Linux at all. From the article you linked: "When asked if the additions to WINE would bootstrap Google Earth's porting progress, DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google Earth relied on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional WINE support would not help. No timeline for that application's release was revealed at this time." (emphasis added)
I never said that files you rip in iTunes were DRMed. I just said that iTunes defaults to ripping in AAC and that most players don't support it. (Funny how the Sony Network Walkman, which was savaged for its content protection in early reviews, keeps getting brought up as a shining example of openness in a discussion about how much everyone hates Sony's products.)
There are millions of people who have large "MP3" collections that are actually in WMA or AAC format due to their willingness to accept the defaults in their music player of choice. Even if these files aren't encumbered with DRM they are no longer truly "MP3" files and can't play on many players that have chosen not to license WMA or AAC.
I'm sorry you misunderstood my post. I was talking purely about incompatibility (MP3 is supported by everything; MP4 is supported by fewer players) and not about DRM encumbrance.
Google will keep Google.com clean so people will continue to like the search engine.
Google's been serving image and Flash ads to Adsense sites for months now if the webmaster wants them. Video ads are but another option.
"Lycos was born from a research project by Dr. Michael Mauldin of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in 1994."
... originated in 1995"
"AltaVista
I believe WebCrawler (April 1994) has them both beat in terms of age, though.
You mean ATRAC3. AAC is what Apple licensed and rips to by default in iTunes, making song files incompatible with any portable player other than an iPod.
I'm sure AMD would beg to differ.
I really don't think they're comparable at all. Vonage wants to be your home phone, but Skype clearly points out (here for example) that "Skype is not a replacement for your ordinary telephone and can't be used for emergency calling."
Also, is Vonage's call quality really "light years better than Skype"? Can you broadcast a live concert over Vonage now? Considering that I'm calling someone's rented bakelite telephone that's so big you could kill an attacking puma with it*, Skype's call quality is Good Enough For Me (TM).
* Thank you Lewis Black
Skype charges you 30 EUR per year for an incoming line and about 0.02 EUR per minute for domestic calls (waived for US/Canada customers through 12/31/06). You also have to use a headset on your computer or buy a box for extra money that lets you use a regular landline phone for Skype.
Bug: OpenOffice doesn't work well in Portuguese
Resolution: Learn Bulgarian
and you wonder why OpenOffice hasn't attained the 10% userbase required for Slashdot to consider it a roaring success.
LaTeX is a great program if you're a programmer, but for an average user who has taken MS Word classes and doesn't need equation typesetting functionality it's completely unnecessary. Microsoft Word handles things well enough and provides instant feedback about appearance -- and it's fast, not to mention smaller than an Emacs+LaTeX installation.
Excel 2007 will support spreadsheets with 16,384 columns and 1,048,576 rows. (Source: official Excel blog)
:)
Incidentally, Excel 2007 also raises the memory usage limit from 1 GB to "maximum available memory," which means 64-bit systems will actually let you work with humongous workbooks. If a 2^14-by-2^20 spreadsheet seems like overkill, you've never seen what finance departments can do with Excel.
Yes, I appreciate the game much more when there are no ads separating the game footage of the AOL mascot throwing the ball to the batter standing in front of a Family Guy advertisement trying to hit a ball during the Allstate Triple Play Inning at AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park, formerly Pac Bell Park, which replaced 3Com Park, which was the renaming of Candlestick Park).
(Damn you Fox)
Skype's got my dollars. It's easy, it's cheap, and I only use it when I'm in danger of running out of minutes on my cell phone. Vonage can't sell me $10 of phone time to use over six months. Skype can. (Gizmo can, too, but my family already has Skype on their PCs so they got me hooked.)
TiVo's initial investors include media giants like NBC. Ever wondered why the 30-second skip button doesn't ship as standard, or why TiVo has never supported automatic commercial skipping? They serve their investors and their advertisers before their users.
i-mode is a wireless data standard created by NTT DoCoMo originally for the Japanese market but later sold elsewhere. It's not really compatible with any other standards to the point where when I was in Japan in 2002, any company had five or six web site addresses, most of which were for i-mode or other incompatible data services.
Nope. $19 each. Build a MacBook and you'll see each one listed as an option.
Black hardware is faster, of course. For $50 more they'll put some decals and a racing stripe on your MacBook, too. :)