Have you played with FOAF or XFN? It lets you define who your friends are on your own web page using a syntax based on RDF (FOAF) or by using the rel attribute of the a tag (XFN). LiveJournal provides FOAF data based on your LJ friends; some readers like Safari can use this data to generate more links on a displayed feed.
Also, MySpace does support RSS for blogs: this blog has an RSS feed listed at the top of its page.
Can it sew 20 pages together into one readable article?
(I find it pretty sad that a magazine-like site doesn't have a print-friendly version, the usual antidote to such silly high-concept design. Even Wired looks better on the web.)
Sometimes, YouTube, like any Internet tube, gets filled. That's when I take out my Video iPod and watch video files. Is there a way to take content from YouTube and turn it into iPod Video format, without a further loss of fidelity on top of the incredibly ugly Flash video codec they use now?
Seeing as though the #1 clip on YouTube is of a 79-year-old man who posts "just to bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who's been there and done that," you're on to something. Have some venture capital!
What you're asking for is an RSS reader. LiveJournal supports RSS as does Blogger. I use Safari to read all my friends' journals in one "friends page" regardless of whether they use LJ, Blogger, or their own blog site. There are a number of sites that offer RSS reading capabilities; even Google has one, albeit in an alpha stage.
Right. I wish I could have a web service that everyone fawned over, yet when it went down those same people would immediately understand with "It's okay, it's beta."
Call me back when it's been released. I've used Blogger for years and frankly I don't like being jerked around with features I didn't ask for at the cost of reliability. Remember when only beta testers got to use beta software, leaving the rest of us with a presumably stable release?
If by "the first PDA virus" you mean LibertyCrack, then I think you mean "the first PDA trojan." LibertyCrack was a phony program distributed by Aaron Ardiri, author of a shareware Game Boy emulator called Liberty, due to Ardiri's frustration with people cracking his shareware program. LibertyCrack wiped out the user's memory completely, but unlike a virus it did not replicate at all or spread to other devices. The software didn't even cause any ill effects to the computer used to transfer it to the Palm device.
I haven't seen a true virus affecting PDAs... there were a few mobile phone exploits, but none have been "viral" in the traditional sense.
"Homeland security analyst Brian Ruttenbur of Morgan Keegan also points out that the technology still produces a relatively high number of false alarms."
and
"A key question, though, is whether this kind of detection system can realistically block terrorists from bringing seemingly innocuous liquids past security and combining them later to deadly effect.
"Certainly, some common ingredients in liquid explosives can be programmed into the detector. But Kant, at Rapiscan, said he would not discuss the vulnerabilities of that approach. 'Whether it detects the components of explosives and which ones, there's no way I'm putting that in print,' he said."
We still allowed fertilizer to be transported by truck after the Oklahoma City bombing. I really don't know how we can expect people to transport any substance by airplane if there's even a slight chance that it could be used in a clever bomb-making scheme.
Do you really? Apple's $2,000 computers have been just as unreliable as Dell's $1,000 ones. The best excuse I've heard is that every Apple product is somehow "first generation," and that I should always wait to buy the next version.
Example: Did Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction? Iraq had WMD returns about 1.3 million results. Iraq did not have WMD returns only about 11,000 results. Therefore, Iraq had WMD!
3) The Mac fanboys come up with some way to classify the faulty product as "first generation."
Example: "Well of course you're going to have problems! This is the first PowerBook power adapter that Gerhardius has owned. Subsequent generations will be much better."
Frequent-flying coworkers of mine recommend the iGo. It costs more than any one power adapter, but the idea is that you can replace all your power adapters with it. They sell it online and at Radio Shack.
I want a desktop with drive bays and expansion slots, and I don't want to spend $2,500 plus monitor and warranty. Please show me an Intel Mac that meets these specifications. I can show you hundreds of Windows machines that do.
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Have you played with FOAF or XFN? It lets you define who your friends are on your own web page using a syntax based on RDF (FOAF) or by using the rel attribute of the a tag (XFN). LiveJournal provides FOAF data based on your LJ friends; some readers like Safari can use this data to generate more links on a displayed feed.
Also, MySpace does support RSS for blogs: this blog has an RSS feed listed at the top of its page.
Can it sew 20 pages together into one readable article?
(I find it pretty sad that a magazine-like site doesn't have a print-friendly version, the usual antidote to such silly high-concept design. Even Wired looks better on the web.)
Oh ok sorry
Sometimes, YouTube, like any Internet tube, gets filled. That's when I take out my Video iPod and watch video files. Is there a way to take content from YouTube and turn it into iPod Video format, without a further loss of fidelity on top of the incredibly ugly Flash video codec they use now?
Oh. That sucks. I haven't even seen it; I just bought into the media hype. I apologize.
Thanks!
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by Anonymous Coward on 08:17 AM August 15th, 2006 (#15910369)
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Google
Seeing as though the #1 clip on YouTube is of a 79-year-old man who posts "just to bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who's been there and done that," you're on to something. Have some venture capital!
What you're asking for is an RSS reader. LiveJournal supports RSS as does Blogger. I use Safari to read all my friends' journals in one "friends page" regardless of whether they use LJ, Blogger, or their own blog site. There are a number of sites that offer RSS reading capabilities; even Google has one, albeit in an alpha stage.
Right. I wish I could have a web service that everyone fawned over, yet when it went down those same people would immediately understand with "It's okay, it's beta."
Call me back when it's been released. I've used Blogger for years and frankly I don't like being jerked around with features I didn't ask for at the cost of reliability. Remember when only beta testers got to use beta software, leaving the rest of us with a presumably stable release?
A future in which all the video you download is of mediocre quality and only works on two OSes and one portable player, apparently.
If by "the first PDA virus" you mean LibertyCrack, then I think you mean "the first PDA trojan." LibertyCrack was a phony program distributed by Aaron Ardiri, author of a shareware Game Boy emulator called Liberty, due to Ardiri's frustration with people cracking his shareware program. LibertyCrack wiped out the user's memory completely, but unlike a virus it did not replicate at all or spread to other devices. The software didn't even cause any ill effects to the computer used to transfer it to the Palm device.
I haven't seen a true virus affecting PDAs... there were a few mobile phone exploits, but none have been "viral" in the traditional sense.
That's good, because our Commander in Chief can't get out through the side door :)
Internet?
From the article:
"Homeland security analyst Brian Ruttenbur of Morgan Keegan also points out that the technology still produces a relatively high number of false alarms."
and
"A key question, though, is whether this kind of detection system can realistically block terrorists from bringing seemingly innocuous liquids past security and combining them later to deadly effect.
"Certainly, some common ingredients in liquid explosives can be programmed into the detector. But Kant, at Rapiscan, said he would not discuss the vulnerabilities of that approach. 'Whether it detects the components of explosives and which ones, there's no way I'm putting that in print,' he said."
We still allowed fertilizer to be transported by truck after the Oklahoma City bombing. I really don't know how we can expect people to transport any substance by airplane if there's even a slight chance that it could be used in a clever bomb-making scheme.
Do you really? Apple's $2,000 computers have been just as unreliable as Dell's $1,000 ones. The best excuse I've heard is that every Apple product is somehow "first generation," and that I should always wait to buy the next version.
Nope. The GameCube didn't have a Mario game ready until the following year.
It had a Luigi game, but who plays Luigi games?
Nah, for that you use Google.
Example: Did Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction? Iraq had WMD returns about 1.3 million results. Iraq did not have WMD returns only about 11,000 results. Therefore, Iraq had WMD!
3) The Mac fanboys come up with some way to classify the faulty product as "first generation."
Example: "Well of course you're going to have problems! This is the first PowerBook power adapter that Gerhardius has owned. Subsequent generations will be much better."
Frequent-flying coworkers of mine recommend the iGo. It costs more than any one power adapter, but the idea is that you can replace all your power adapters with it. They sell it online and at Radio Shack.
Just look at his profile and wish list on Amazon. He apparently likes Darth Vader a lot and has dressed up as Austin Powers for Halloween.
(Yes, that's really him)
Make it $1,000. And I'd like a way to add whichever optical drive becomes popular next.
(Waits for the inevitable Mac mini + external enclosure post as littlefish disregards how utterly shitty the Mac mini is compared with a $1,000-x PC)
Blah blah IBM blah blah Germany blah blah Godwin's Law.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
I want a desktop with drive bays and expansion slots, and I don't want to spend $2,500 plus monitor and warranty. Please show me an Intel Mac that meets these specifications. I can show you hundreds of Windows machines that do.
3. Collect list of stupid people's e-mail addresses, which you now know are good
3 1/2. Sell list of e-mail addresses to other spammers
4. Profit!
Just a theory.
Record labels pay the bills better than PayPal tip jars do.
Eventually the sum of all the independent artists' sales will surpass the sales of artists you'll find at Wal-Mart, but that still doesn't guarantee that the indies will make any amount of money or gain any significant exposure.