Slashdot posted an article and another article intimating that Google and Sun were going to release "an Office Suite based on Sun's OpenOffice and accesible with your browser." Instead of actual facts these articles based on speculation percolated through blogs and vacant beliefs that Google was going to wholly displace Microsoft as a benevolent technology dictator.
What happened was that Sun asked to install the Google Toolbar as part of installing the JRE -- at best a minor convenience, at worst a minor nuisance. This was by a large margin the largest non-story I've seen on Slashdot this year.
The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software.
It wasn't em-dollar-sign that forced the name change; it was "someone else." hope this helps.
My favorite gaffe of 2005 had to be the non-story about Google and Sun "teaming up on OpenOffice." Remember how Slashdot reported that Sun and Google were "planning Web Office" and how hundreds of posts celebrated the "fact" that a buggy office suite would be rewritten in JavaScript? In the end all that came of that deal is that Google would bundle its toolbar with the wholly-unrelated JRE download -- an asinine bundling that if it involved any other two companies (cough) would have led to mass denouncement among the alpha geeks.
My point was that you shouldn't blindly trust software which is reportedly "leaked." User naivete about such things leads to all sorts of nasty software being surreptitiously installed.
That's good to know. Would you like to try an "unofficial beta" of Mozilla Firefox 2.0? That's right -- 2.0! That's what the about box says. It's not on the Firefox web site, but it's "good enough for testing."
Just Google for MozillaFirefox2.0.exe, or if you're on Linux, MozillaFirefox2.0.tar.gz. Make sure you install it while running as root!
Google already owns Blogspot. I think the content you mention would be a nice complement to "What Johnny thinks about the DMCA," "How Billy wants to bring down Disney by boycotting their DVDs," and the ever-popular "Why Mikey will never buy a Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo Revolution."
I was told that Universal Media Discs I bought for the PSP would work on the PlayStation 3. Sony wouldn't be so cruel as to make me buy I, Robot a third time.
Nintendo's a company that has been in business for over 100 years and which has a ton of money and offices around the world. I think I can expect Nintendo to compete with Sony and Microsoft, the former being the company that hoisted Nintendo by its own petard two console-generations ago.
Technically it's not "Michael Moore owns Halliburton stock," but "a foundation Michael Moore started owns Halliburton stock." Non-profit organizations have to reveal their assets and tax returns publicly so that would-be donors can perform due diligence. Moore's own personal holdings are not published though.
It's true that you can attend shareholder meetings and cast proxy votes if you own a share of stock, but any information released to shareholders by a publicly-traded company has to be made available to the public, usually by way of an SEC filing of some sort. You can listen to conference calls, get annual reports, etc., on-line too even if you're not a stockholder.
How do you figure? Take Two didn't receive any money by him buying one share of stock; the effect such a transaction would have on a share price is pretty minimal.
Yes. It works with wireless USB keyboards like these. There is no "lockout" for keyboards or mice. I imagine my el-cheapo USB gamepad I bought 5 years ago wouldn't work with the Xbox 360, though.
Good. I made the mistake of plugging my CC# into the Xbox 360 I borrowed from a friend because I wanted to buy a small amount of points. There is no way to remove a credit card from your profile once one's been added, unless you add another one. I ended up changing the name, expiration date, and address to entries that aren't correct, but my credit card number is stuck in there forever. That'll teach me.
Sorry, you don't have it straight. You can use an Xbox 360 for as long as you like without typing your CC number in. You can even sign up for your one month of free Live gold service without putting a CC number into the system. The only time you need to provide a CC number is if you want to buy points directly through the system so you can d/l little games and frills. You don't have to "pay someone everytime you want to change something," as nothing in the system is locked behind a payment system besides Marketplace items themselves.
I was really impressed with that when I set up the Xbox that the OGS folks bought on day 1 and lent to me for the winter break. I plugged in my wireless keyboard/mouse receiver to the front USB port and was able to type in all the details needed to register for Live. Very slick. Sometimes the arrow keys and ENTER button work as the D-Pad and A button, but sometimes they don't; that was my only beef with the keyboard support. In any case, kudos for supporting existing input devices out of the box.
I've seen plenty of Dennis Miller routines. Dennis Miller does not digress from his Rant(TM) to demonstrate every pop culture reference he makes. Family Guy does. If you strip away the pop-culture reference distractions, a Family Guy episode would be about three minutes long.
"One format being discussed is a box, which may include a photograph and a logo, that would appear on the main search results pages toward the bottom of the advertisements in the right-hand column. Traditional banner ads may appear on Google Image Search and the Froogle shopping site, which already include many photographs, an executive involved said. No advertising is contemplated for the Google home page."
The Adsense graphical-ads rollout was first, but it looks like google.com and its other sites (.*\.google\.[^\.]*) are going to follow suit.
My point is that IE/Mac is more secure than Safari. IE/MacOSX was a lousy Carbon job so it's not tied into any framework besides Carbon. In much the same way as any malware app on Windows can embed an IE control to download files, ads, rootkits, etc., any Mac app can embed Safari to do the same thing. I agree that a WebKit app can do much less damage than an IE/Windows app assuming everyone's system is patched up, since most Windows users run as Administrator all the time, but both Safari and IE/Windows have had flaws that opened up users' systems in unexpected ways.
IE/Mac by contrast has just sat there for years, untouched by even long-time Mac users, never used by even IE-only web developers, because of its lousy quality as a browser.
When this story was in The Mysterious Future!, I clicked the Internet Explorer topic icon link just to the right of the story text. The old Mac IE story popped up at #1. I even e-mailed CmdrTaco about it, as I did with the RSS story, but my complaints fell on deaf ears. At least Taco got his snarky and irrelevant "security" jab in.
(Safari has had FAR more security problems than IE/Mac ever has, because Safari is tied into Mac OS X and can be used by any application just like Internet Explorer is in Windows.)
I remember seeing that on Spike TV and Oxygen (the Oprah network) shortly after they launched. I don't think they kept the ad ticker for long. Sports networks love to sell sponsorship on the ticker during, say, "NFL Countdown Delivered By UPS Live From FedEx Field"* though.
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You're missing the point.
Slashdot posted an article and another article intimating that Google and Sun were going to release "an Office Suite based on Sun's OpenOffice and accesible with your browser." Instead of actual facts these articles based on speculation percolated through blogs and vacant beliefs that Google was going to wholly displace Microsoft as a benevolent technology dictator.
What happened was that Sun asked to install the Google Toolbar as part of installing the JRE -- at best a minor convenience, at worst a minor nuisance. This was by a large margin the largest non-story I've seen on Slashdot this year.
You're right that I had underestimated Slashdot's collective wisdom about the situation. The 5-rated posts from one of the aforementioned articles skew towards skepticism about the utility of a thin client office suite.
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4
The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software.
It wasn't em-dollar-sign that forced the name change; it was "someone else." hope this helps.
Yes.
My favorite gaffe of 2005 had to be the non-story about Google and Sun "teaming up on OpenOffice." Remember how Slashdot reported that Sun and Google were "planning Web Office" and how hundreds of posts celebrated the "fact" that a buggy office suite would be rewritten in JavaScript? In the end all that came of that deal is that Google would bundle its toolbar with the wholly-unrelated JRE download -- an asinine bundling that if it involved any other two companies (cough) would have led to mass denouncement among the alpha geeks.
My point was that you shouldn't blindly trust software which is reportedly "leaked." User naivete about such things leads to all sorts of nasty software being surreptitiously installed.
That's good to know. Would you like to try an "unofficial beta" of Mozilla Firefox 2.0? That's right -- 2.0! That's what the about box says. It's not on the Firefox web site, but it's "good enough for testing."
Just Google for MozillaFirefox2.0.exe, or if you're on Linux, MozillaFirefox2.0.tar.gz. Make sure you install it while running as root!
"..it's still in beta. No, not Google Beta(TM) , but real, still-experimental, not-yet-stable, we'll-release-it-when-we're-done-with-it beta."
That's called alpha. My PowerBook is slow enough as it is running production software; I don't think it's wise to try running alpha software.
The Mac ceases to be a secure platform when people start downloading and running any application they downloaded that has "Google" in the name.
If Google hasn't released Google Earth for Mac OS X, then there is no Google Earth for Mac OS X.
Google already owns Blogspot. I think the content you mention would be a nice complement to "What Johnny thinks about the DMCA," "How Billy wants to bring down Disney by boycotting their DVDs," and the ever-popular "Why Mikey will never buy a Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo Revolution."
I was told that Universal Media Discs I bought for the PSP would work on the PlayStation 3. Sony wouldn't be so cruel as to make me buy I, Robot a third time.
Nintendo's a company that has been in business for over 100 years and which has a ton of money and offices around the world. I think I can expect Nintendo to compete with Sony and Microsoft, the former being the company that hoisted Nintendo by its own petard two console-generations ago.
Technically it's not "Michael Moore owns Halliburton stock," but "a foundation Michael Moore started owns Halliburton stock." Non-profit organizations have to reveal their assets and tax returns publicly so that would-be donors can perform due diligence. Moore's own personal holdings are not published though.
It's true that you can attend shareholder meetings and cast proxy votes if you own a share of stock, but any information released to shareholders by a publicly-traded company has to be made available to the public, usually by way of an SEC filing of some sort. You can listen to conference calls, get annual reports, etc., on-line too even if you're not a stockholder.
How do you figure? Take Two didn't receive any money by him buying one share of stock; the effect such a transaction would have on a share price is pretty minimal.
If Michael Moore can own stock in Halliburton, why can't Jack Thompson own shares of Take Two?
Yes. It works with wireless USB keyboards like these. There is no "lockout" for keyboards or mice. I imagine my el-cheapo USB gamepad I bought 5 years ago wouldn't work with the Xbox 360, though.
Good. I made the mistake of plugging my CC# into the Xbox 360 I borrowed from a friend because I wanted to buy a small amount of points. There is no way to remove a credit card from your profile once one's been added, unless you add another one. I ended up changing the name, expiration date, and address to entries that aren't correct, but my credit card number is stuck in there forever. That'll teach me.
Sorry, you don't have it straight. You can use an Xbox 360 for as long as you like without typing your CC number in. You can even sign up for your one month of free Live gold service without putting a CC number into the system. The only time you need to provide a CC number is if you want to buy points directly through the system so you can d/l little games and frills. You don't have to "pay someone everytime you want to change something," as nothing in the system is locked behind a payment system besides Marketplace items themselves.
I was really impressed with that when I set up the Xbox that the OGS folks bought on day 1 and lent to me for the winter break. I plugged in my wireless keyboard/mouse receiver to the front USB port and was able to type in all the details needed to register for Live. Very slick. Sometimes the arrow keys and ENTER button work as the D-Pad and A button, but sometimes they don't; that was my only beef with the keyboard support. In any case, kudos for supporting existing input devices out of the box.
I've seen plenty of Dennis Miller routines. Dennis Miller does not digress from his Rant(TM) to demonstrate every pop culture reference he makes. Family Guy does. If you strip away the pop-culture reference distractions, a Family Guy episode would be about three minutes long.
That reminds me of the time you $RANDOM_80S_REFERENCE.
That will never work. Remember the time you tried something Seth Macfarlane saw on a TV show in the '70s?
Hey, Brian. Obscure TV reference that nobody will know in 5 years?
If that's what Futurama season N+1 will be like, count me out.
From the article linked in the summary:
"One format being discussed is a box, which may include a photograph and a logo, that would appear on the main search results pages toward the bottom of the advertisements in the right-hand column. Traditional banner ads may appear on Google Image Search and the Froogle shopping site, which already include many photographs, an executive involved said. No advertising is contemplated for the Google home page."
The Adsense graphical-ads rollout was first, but it looks like google.com and its other sites (.*\.google\.[^\.]*) are going to follow suit.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
My point is that IE/Mac is more secure than Safari. IE/MacOSX was a lousy Carbon job so it's not tied into any framework besides Carbon. In much the same way as any malware app on Windows can embed an IE control to download files, ads, rootkits, etc., any Mac app can embed Safari to do the same thing. I agree that a WebKit app can do much less damage than an IE/Windows app assuming everyone's system is patched up, since most Windows users run as Administrator all the time, but both Safari and IE/Windows have had flaws that opened up users' systems in unexpected ways.
IE/Mac by contrast has just sat there for years, untouched by even long-time Mac users, never used by even IE-only web developers, because of its lousy quality as a browser.
When this story was in The Mysterious Future!, I clicked the Internet Explorer topic icon link just to the right of the story text. The old Mac IE story popped up at #1. I even e-mailed CmdrTaco about it, as I did with the RSS story, but my complaints fell on deaf ears. At least Taco got his snarky and irrelevant "security" jab in.
(Safari has had FAR more security problems than IE/Mac ever has, because Safari is tied into Mac OS X and can be used by any application just like Internet Explorer is in Windows.)
I remember seeing that on Spike TV and Oxygen (the Oprah network) shortly after they launched. I don't think they kept the ad ticker for long. Sports networks love to sell sponsorship on the ticker during, say, "NFL Countdown Delivered By UPS Live From FedEx Field"* though.
* Actual show title on ESPN