Write them a letter saying so or GameTap will continue to exist among the legions of companies-which-are-not-Blizzard who believe that Mac gamers don't exist.
I found the choice pretty obvious for Windows: I want to use a computer at home and I don't intend to use it as a media center.
Speaking of which, why does Apple only bundle FrontRow with new machines when it works on existing ones just the same? Isn't that creating a specialized distribution of Mac OS X with crude media center functionality?
Why bother with the breaking-and-entering analogy? He was on your property already, after all. As another example, when the neighbors are playing bases-ball and the ball lands on my lawn, I keep it! It's my ball now! Not theirs!
Who says you'll need to port or recompile your Windows app to run on each Vista edition? Virtually every Windows app today is released for Windows 2000/XP/2003 with no separately-compiled version for each platform. You might see a separate binary for x86-64 platforms, but I've been assured by all the Apple fans here that different architectures don't count.
In terms of end-user-oriented application development, what makes a program run on Windows XP Home but not Professional, or on Professional but not Media Center, and so on? The underlying APIs are the same across all the versions. Yes, you can't log on to a domain using XP Home and you don't get the remote-control media interface with XP Professional, but if you're writing (for example) a game, who cares?
I count 3, maybe 4: Mac OS X PowerPC, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X Server PowerPC, and probably Mac OS X Server Intel once they release new Xserves. Under the hood they're quite similar, but you can say the same about Windows Vista too. If you want to deliver a solid, fast application it's got to be a universal binary; if you're going after the Mac OS X data center market you need to make sure your product works on the server versions as well.
Get a firewall. Windows even includes one nowadays. When an application requests permission to send stuff out to the Internet, deny it. Problem solved. It works much better than your system of "anything traveling through my pipes becomes my property," which is roughly equivalent to kidnapping the mailman and reading through his entire bag of mail just because he stepped up to your front door.
Google has built one segment of their business, the cache, with the mentality of "opt out unless you want this feature." As a result businesses that would normally charge to access back content (magazines, newspapers, etc) have to actively get themselves taken out of these archives. The Wayback Machine is another example. These tools are both extremely useful, but I don't believe that there is a right to duplicate anything ad infinitum just because it was once available for no charge. That's the difference between public domain and copyright, a difference precious few people around here* seem to understand or respect.
* This thread being a pretty significant exception, but otherwise I tend to avoid the YRO section for reasons such as this
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Yahoo! Auctions and MSN Auctions popped up during the sudden rise of eBay. They don't seem to have made any dents; MSN Auctions now redirects to "MSN Shopping" instead and Yahoo! Auctions is a tiny shadow of eBay. Aside from the initial euphoria ("Google lets you set up an auction in JavaScript! Wheeee!") I don't see any reason to go with Google for selling things.
If I want to buy something, Google web search is useless ("Find prices and read reviews for WHATEVER YOU SEARCHED FOR" 1,000 times over, each page exactly the same as the last) and Froogle is sometimes helpful. Google claims not to make any money off Froogle though. If Google started handling payments they'd have a piece of the action. Yahoo! has had storefronts for years, eBay has a huge customer base already, and PayPal (since acquired by eBay) handles money for any sort of person-to-person purchase -- auction or otherwise.
I bet this commercial would work pretty well on an analog video recorder like my Sony Betamax recorder. Saying "Utilizes Tivo Features" is wrong not only because "TiVo" is miscapitalized but also because the term is used far too broadly in an attempt to be trendy.
The headline as of this writing is "Interactive Commercial Utilizes Tivo Features."
The commercial is not "Interactive" because you must watch it repeatedly. You don't interact with the commercial; you interact with the company by doing something indicated subliminably* in the commercial.
The commercial does not "utilize Tivo features" -- the summary actually states that it is meant to prevent users from fast-forwarding through it by implying that intellligent users might find something of value if they analyze it diligently enough. There are commercials which "utilize Tivo features" by employing a "PRESS THUMBS UP TO RECEIVE MORE ADS" button; this is not one of them.
Therefore, this article should be retitled "Commercial."
I predict that Google will release a repository system for storing all your half-finished ideas that sounded great but were never really made scalable or complete. They can call it Sourceforge.
I can make a "standards compliant" page out of IMG tags that the W3C validator would absolutely love. What you mean is "Google has a vested interest in keeping lots of text flowing through the Internet," and that's certainly true. They've got an e-mail service, an IM service, a not-necessarily-usenet groups service, a blogging service, and many other services that ensure that Google has plenty of text to index and to seed their contextual ad generator.
I've used and enjoyed Backpack for months and have never heard of DHH or "egogasms." Would you care to explain without using words only the blogosphere* would collectively understand?
That isYahoo!'s style of advertising. Yahoo! bought Overture, the company which invented text advertising on web pages. Google merely took Overture's model and applied it to market areas where Overture wouldn't go.
Of course, to those who think Yahoo! is nothing more than a hideous portal site, that's a normal reaction.
IM on a web page? Oh please god no. I'd rather read someone's page without having windows pop up saying "hey dude I saw you were on my page, what's up?"
(Cue Googlebot response: "You can turn it off if you don't like it")
I think you're thinking of "abbr" and that tag annoys the crap out of me. Some people have a plugin for their blog software which replaces EVERY occurrence of an abbreviation/acronym with an abbr tag. It's so pretentious and unhelpful: Internet Explorer doesn't style the abbr tag any differently out of the box, and even if you force a style on it you'll have to hover the mouse over everything in the hopes that you'll get something half-useful like "XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language."
Learn from the Associated Press: expand the acronym/abbreviation the first time you use it, then use the short form thereafter.
Yeah, and when Geocities started all you had to do was place a link to geocities.com in your HTML. They've since tried every advertising style in the book: pop-ups, pop-unders, layers of ads, banners, and so on. I fully expect Google to do the same.
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Write them a letter saying so or GameTap will continue to exist among the legions of companies-which-are-not-Blizzard who believe that Mac gamers don't exist.
I found the choice pretty obvious for Windows: I want to use a computer at home and I don't intend to use it as a media center.
Speaking of which, why does Apple only bundle FrontRow with new machines when it works on existing ones just the same? Isn't that creating a specialized distribution of Mac OS X with crude media center functionality?
Why bother with the breaking-and-entering analogy? He was on your property already, after all. As another example, when the neighbors are playing bases-ball and the ball lands on my lawn, I keep it! It's my ball now! Not theirs!
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Who says you'll need to port or recompile your Windows app to run on each Vista edition? Virtually every Windows app today is released for Windows 2000/XP/2003 with no separately-compiled version for each platform. You might see a separate binary for x86-64 platforms, but I've been assured by all the Apple fans here that different architectures don't count.
In terms of end-user-oriented application development, what makes a program run on Windows XP Home but not Professional, or on Professional but not Media Center, and so on? The underlying APIs are the same across all the versions. Yes, you can't log on to a domain using XP Home and you don't get the remote-control media interface with XP Professional, but if you're writing (for example) a game, who cares?
I count 3, maybe 4: Mac OS X PowerPC, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X Server PowerPC, and probably Mac OS X Server Intel once they release new Xserves. Under the hood they're quite similar, but you can say the same about Windows Vista too. If you want to deliver a solid, fast application it's got to be a universal binary; if you're going after the Mac OS X data center market you need to make sure your product works on the server versions as well.
Get a firewall. Windows even includes one nowadays. When an application requests permission to send stuff out to the Internet, deny it. Problem solved. It works much better than your system of "anything traveling through my pipes becomes my property," which is roughly equivalent to kidnapping the mailman and reading through his entire bag of mail just because he stepped up to your front door.
Google has built one segment of their business, the cache, with the mentality of "opt out unless you want this feature." As a result businesses that would normally charge to access back content (magazines, newspapers, etc) have to actively get themselves taken out of these archives. The Wayback Machine is another example. These tools are both extremely useful, but I don't believe that there is a right to duplicate anything ad infinitum just because it was once available for no charge. That's the difference between public domain and copyright, a difference precious few people around here* seem to understand or respect.
* This thread being a pretty significant exception, but otherwise I tend to avoid the YRO section for reasons such as this
Congratulations, Mr. Johnstone! I'm about to start sending thousands of exclusive, exciting offers to you by e-mail. If you do not wish to receive these offers, use our exclusive pre-opt-out function. Failure to respond in the next 7 days constitutes your consent to receive these exclusive offers!
Yahoo! Auctions and MSN Auctions popped up during the sudden rise of eBay. They don't seem to have made any dents; MSN Auctions now redirects to "MSN Shopping" instead and Yahoo! Auctions is a tiny shadow of eBay. Aside from the initial euphoria ("Google lets you set up an auction in JavaScript! Wheeee!") I don't see any reason to go with Google for selling things.
If I want to buy something, Google web search is useless ("Find prices and read reviews for WHATEVER YOU SEARCHED FOR" 1,000 times over, each page exactly the same as the last) and Froogle is sometimes helpful. Google claims not to make any money off Froogle though. If Google started handling payments they'd have a piece of the action. Yahoo! has had storefronts for years, eBay has a huge customer base already, and PayPal (since acquired by eBay) handles money for any sort of person-to-person purchase -- auction or otherwise.
I bet this commercial would work pretty well on an analog video recorder like my Sony Betamax recorder. Saying "Utilizes Tivo Features" is wrong not only because "TiVo" is miscapitalized but also because the term is used far too broadly in an attempt to be trendy.
The headline as of this writing is "Interactive Commercial Utilizes Tivo Features."
The commercial is not "Interactive" because you must watch it repeatedly. You don't interact with the commercial; you interact with the company by doing something indicated subliminably* in the commercial.
The commercial does not "utilize Tivo features" -- the summary actually states that it is meant to prevent users from fast-forwarding through it by implying that intellligent users might find something of value if they analyze it diligently enough. There are commercials which "utilize Tivo features" by employing a "PRESS THUMBS UP TO RECEIVE MORE ADS" button; this is not one of them.
Therefore, this article should be retitled "Commercial."
* Real word
I predict that Google will release a repository system for storing all your half-finished ideas that sounded great but were never really made scalable or complete. They can call it Sourceforge.
I can make a "standards compliant" page out of IMG tags that the W3C validator would absolutely love. What you mean is "Google has a vested interest in keeping lots of text flowing through the Internet," and that's certainly true. They've got an e-mail service, an IM service, a not-necessarily-usenet groups service, a blogging service, and many other services that ensure that Google has plenty of text to index and to seed their contextual ad generator.
Incidentally, Google does index text it finds in Flash files and has for nearly two years.
From: Google
To: babbling
Subj: RE: Accessibility
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
(tons of HTML headers)
lol no. blind people no how to use a search box.
(really fancy signature with graphics)
(giant faux-legal disclaimer)
--- Original Message ---
Maybe they should. Some sites have been sued because their websites were not easily accessible (didn't validate) for seeing-impaired users.
(repeat of above message in plain text with very mangled formatting)
I've used and enjoyed Backpack for months and have never heard of DHH or "egogasms." Would you care to explain without using words only the blogosphere* would collectively understand?
* "Blogosphere" is one of those words
That is Yahoo!'s style of advertising. Yahoo! bought Overture, the company which invented text advertising on web pages. Google merely took Overture's model and applied it to market areas where Overture wouldn't go.
Of course, to those who think Yahoo! is nothing more than a hideous portal site, that's a normal reaction.
IM on a web page? Oh please god no. I'd rather read someone's page without having windows pop up saying "hey dude I saw you were on my page, what's up?"
(Cue Googlebot response: "You can turn it off if you don't like it")
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I think you're thinking of "abbr" and that tag annoys the crap out of me. Some people have a plugin for their blog software which replaces EVERY occurrence of an abbreviation/acronym with an abbr tag. It's so pretentious and unhelpful: Internet Explorer doesn't style the abbr tag any differently out of the box, and even if you force a style on it you'll have to hover the mouse over everything in the hopes that you'll get something half-useful like "XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language."
Learn from the Associated Press: expand the acronym/abbreviation the first time you use it, then use the short form thereafter.
Your students must work at MSN, the only valid-XHTML-Strict search engine, then :)
Since when has Google ever cared about W3C validation? Google.com has 51 errors, an amazingly high number considering how small the page is visually.
Yeah, and when Geocities started all you had to do was place a link to geocities.com in your HTML. They've since tried every advertising style in the book: pop-ups, pop-unders, layers of ads, banners, and so on. I fully expect Google to do the same.
No.
I recommend Nvu (formerly Mozilla Composer) as a decent free HTML editor if you're a stickler for standards.