In the UK they banned all hand luggage for flights, meaning that items like iPods, laptops, etc., must be checked. (There are certain items that are allowed, but they're mostly for health reasons like medicine, baby formula, etc.)
The US still allows you to bring a laptop on board, but there's a very real possibility that that could change.
Apple bought SoundJam, decimated it, tacked on a DRM-filled media store, and all you have to say is "Glad all you iTunes for Windows users are enjoying it"? What kind of Mac fan are you?
(Didn't know about the 256 char limit on pathnames, though. Good call.)
OS X 10.5 is supposed to come out in "Spring 2007." It's probable that Vista will already be available, at least in corporate and OEM versions, before OS X 10.5.
Apple playing off its fans' disdain for Microsoft is nothing new. I saw a bumper sticker mocking Windows 95's backward-compatible long file name support reading "CNGRTLNS.W95" with an Apple logo.
In the end, the joke ended up being on Mac OS: 31 characters for a file name was fine for a while, but many common MP3 file names went way beyond that, causing problems as late as Mac OS 9.
Easier? Maybe. Cheaper? No. All the big fast food chains have learned to deal with exceptionally high turnover (200% is not unusual) so training is reduced to a series of hip, timely videos and employees are paid minimum wage with virtually no benefits. By contrast, a machine to cook burgers would have to be cleaned, maintained, upgraded, etc., by a company with a very tight SLA. According to a friend who's worked in fast food before, the parent companies just don't save that much money by automating everything.
I was under the impression that CalDAV provided two-way synchronization of calendars, something the present version of iCal does not support: you can publish a calendar and subscribe to another calendar, but you cannot push and subscribe to the same calendar. iSync doesn't integrate with any of the popular JavaScript calendar applications and I haven't found any that support CalDAV (yet).
Two-way sync with a web calendar would be an ideal situation, much like IMAP allows synchronization with webmail and local mail clients. I can't wait.
XMLHTTPRequest, a feature created by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 5 and now the cornerstone of AJAX development, is pretty well documented.
Most of what IE does is a mystery, but Microsoft deserves some credit for starting the trend of "let's rewrite an otherwise stable, reliable application in JavaScript" that has generated untold millions in venture capital for Web 2.0 bubble companies.
Video games won't be highbrow until someone does for a game console what Vertu (flash, sound) did for mobile phones. Just think: a $40,000 PlayStation 3 with a special jewel-encrusted controller, including a sapphire "concierge" button that brings a world of service to your fine imported Italian leather sofa.
I mean, MSN Search does a better job of meeting the W3C's "standards" than Google does.
* When I clicked that link I got a validation check for google.co.jp, but google.com has the same "Optimized so it downloads better on my 2400 baud modem" approach to its source.
I don't like that. It includes a non-neutral point of view. Under NPOV I move that Mr. Kasem's comments be stricken from the record and that Mr. Kasem be barred from any further opinionation. Please reply with either Support or Oppose.
What would he have disproven? One of the facts that Anderson cites in his book is the "99.8% rule" -- that 99.8% of books sell at least one copy per quarter, 99.8% of DVDs rent at least once per quarter from NetFlix, and so on. Print on Demand would have an effect on the sample size, but if the 99.8% rule holds, there would probably be someone somewhere who bought a copy of Anderson's book at least once per quarter.
I was going to blogback your blurblet, but I noticed that it does not bear a suitable Creative Commons License. A CC-2.5-la-foIp-Jm-DZZ-7 license is the minimum required for the blogosphere to autovalidate your emessage dot int.
For Yahoo Messenger and other IM programs, there are JavaScript clients like Meebo that have garnered a good reputation for being trustworthy. (How do you know it's secure? You don't, of course, but you don't do anything secure over IM anyway)
Similarly, it's only a matter of time before the MySpace cottage industry cranks out a few JavaScript programs to read and reply to MySpace messages, post to blogs, and whatever other services MySpace offers.
Didn't you hear? Google's making a Web OS! You click an invite in Gmail, the meeting goes on your Gcalendar, you can view and collaborate on the spreadsheets with Google Spreadsheets, and you can hold the meeting via a teleconference using Google Talk!
Oh, but then Firefox crashes under the burden of all that JavaScript. It's okay. Most of that stuff is still in alpha or beta, so it's not Google's fault.
I always thought their "main business focus" was selling advertising. But it turns out that they actually have three main areas of interest. From their quarterly report:
Overview
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Our innovations in web search and advertising have made our web site a top Internet destination and our brand one of the most recognized in the world. Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We serve three primary constituencies:
Users. We provide users with products and services that enable people to more quickly and easily find, create and organize information that is useful to them.
Advertisers. We provide advertisers our Google AdWords program, an auction-based advertising program that enables them to deliver relevant ads targeted to search results or web content. Our AdWords program provides advertisers with a cost-effective way to deliver ads to customers across Google sites and through the Google Network under our AdSense program.
Web sites. We provide members of our Google Network our Google AdSense program, which allows these members to deliver AdWords ads that are relevant to the search results or content on their web sites. We share most of the fees these ads generate with our Google Network members-creating an important revenue stream for them.
Thank you for an entertaining thread. I will not read any further USENET-quoted replies. (Why is it that letter-writers never have to insert large chunks of the letter to which they are replying, implying that they're carrying on a conversation in real time? Seems a little crazy to me.)
I was taught in fake law school that all telemarketers must honor requests to remove me from their lists. I don't care if there's a man or a mecanotron on the other end of the line; if they do not honor my request to remove me, I will take them to fake court.
Wrong direction. Payola means the record companies pay radio stations for preferential treatment to play the record companies' music. Licensing means the radio stations pay ASCAP/BMI for the right to broadcast ASCAP/BMI members' music. Payola is illegal; licensing is legal.
Good, that's almost believable. Now do the same thing for the rest of the Google services, and don't forget to speculate on all the alpha products like you've already done for Spreadsheets.
By the way, Google News is out of beta. How did they find a way to make money off it? Last I heard they were paying money to keep News running, earning nothing.
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In the UK they banned all hand luggage for flights, meaning that items like iPods, laptops, etc., must be checked. (There are certain items that are allowed, but they're mostly for health reasons like medicine, baby formula, etc.)
The US still allows you to bring a laptop on board, but there's a very real possibility that that could change.
Apple bought SoundJam, decimated it, tacked on a DRM-filled media store, and all you have to say is "Glad all you iTunes for Windows users are enjoying it"? What kind of Mac fan are you?
(Didn't know about the 256 char limit on pathnames, though. Good call.)
OS X 10.5 is supposed to come out in "Spring 2007." It's probable that Vista will already be available, at least in corporate and OEM versions, before OS X 10.5.
Apple playing off its fans' disdain for Microsoft is nothing new. I saw a bumper sticker mocking Windows 95's backward-compatible long file name support reading "CNGRTLNS.W95" with an Apple logo.
In the end, the joke ended up being on Mac OS: 31 characters for a file name was fine for a while, but many common MP3 file names went way beyond that, causing problems as late as Mac OS 9.
Easier? Maybe. Cheaper? No. All the big fast food chains have learned to deal with exceptionally high turnover (200% is not unusual) so training is reduced to a series of hip, timely videos and employees are paid minimum wage with virtually no benefits. By contrast, a machine to cook burgers would have to be cleaned, maintained, upgraded, etc., by a company with a very tight SLA. According to a friend who's worked in fast food before, the parent companies just don't save that much money by automating everything.
This just in: synchronizing a beta web service and an alpha calendaring program causes problems.
I was under the impression that CalDAV provided two-way synchronization of calendars, something the present version of iCal does not support: you can publish a calendar and subscribe to another calendar, but you cannot push and subscribe to the same calendar. iSync doesn't integrate with any of the popular JavaScript calendar applications and I haven't found any that support CalDAV (yet).
Two-way sync with a web calendar would be an ideal situation, much like IMAP allows synchronization with webmail and local mail clients. I can't wait.
XMLHTTPRequest, a feature created by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 5 and now the cornerstone of AJAX development, is pretty well documented.
Most of what IE does is a mystery, but Microsoft deserves some credit for starting the trend of "let's rewrite an otherwise stable, reliable application in JavaScript" that has generated untold millions in venture capital for Web 2.0 bubble companies.
Video games won't be highbrow until someone does for a game console what Vertu (flash, sound) did for mobile phones. Just think: a $40,000 PlayStation 3 with a special jewel-encrusted controller, including a sapphire "concierge" button that brings a world of service to your fine imported Italian leather sofa.
Popular doesn't mean best.
I own a Windows machine because I chose to buy one. I also had a Linux machine, but I didn't have anything to do with it, so I got rid of it.
But in deference to your singular view of the word "popular," I'll rephrase:
"Yes. Aren't you happy that the most commonly-used end user operating system in the world has chosen the same route?"
Yes. Aren't you happy that the most popular operating system in the world has chosen the same route?
But Windows came free with my $300 Dell! If you don't already own Mac OS X, a copy of the most recent version will cost you at least $600.
(I also have a PowerBook; iCal 3 with CalDAV support is my killer app for OS X 10.5)
A copy of Outlook costs $100, less than the $130 Apple's charging for their Mail upgrade. Sure, you get other features with both products.
Which* standards does Google support?
I mean, MSN Search does a better job of meeting the W3C's "standards" than Google does.
* When I clicked that link I got a validation check for google.co.jp, but google.com has the same "Optimized so it downloads better on my 2400 baud modem" approach to its source.
I don't like that. It includes a non-neutral point of view. Under NPOV I move that Mr. Kasem's comments be stricken from the record and that Mr. Kasem be barred from any further opinionation. Please reply with either Support or Oppose.
What would he have disproven? One of the facts that Anderson cites in his book is the "99.8% rule" -- that 99.8% of books sell at least one copy per quarter, 99.8% of DVDs rent at least once per quarter from NetFlix, and so on. Print on Demand would have an effect on the sample size, but if the 99.8% rule holds, there would probably be someone somewhere who bought a copy of Anderson's book at least once per quarter.
According to The Long Tail, Wikipedia will inevitably end up reliable. There will always be enough people to correct an article.
I have corrected the article to match your comments. The U2s are one of my favorite American rock bands.
I was going to blogback your blurblet, but I noticed that it does not bear a suitable Creative Commons License. A CC-2.5-la-foIp-Jm-DZZ-7 license is the minimum required for the blogosphere to autovalidate your emessage dot int.
For Yahoo Messenger and other IM programs, there are JavaScript clients like Meebo that have garnered a good reputation for being trustworthy. (How do you know it's secure? You don't, of course, but you don't do anything secure over IM anyway)
Similarly, it's only a matter of time before the MySpace cottage industry cranks out a few JavaScript programs to read and reply to MySpace messages, post to blogs, and whatever other services MySpace offers.
Google IS a proxy.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
Enter URL of English language site, translate from Chinese to English, enjoy.
I remember doing this with Babelfish years ago. Works fantastically well!
Didn't you hear? Google's making a Web OS! You click an invite in Gmail, the meeting goes on your Gcalendar, you can view and collaborate on the spreadsheets with Google Spreadsheets, and you can hold the meeting via a teleconference using Google Talk!
Oh, but then Firefox crashes under the burden of all that JavaScript. It's okay. Most of that stuff is still in alpha or beta, so it's not Google's fault.
Thank you for an entertaining thread. I will not read any further USENET-quoted replies. (Why is it that letter-writers never have to insert large chunks of the letter to which they are replying, implying that they're carrying on a conversation in real time? Seems a little crazy to me.)
I was taught in fake law school that all telemarketers must honor requests to remove me from their lists. I don't care if there's a man or a mecanotron on the other end of the line; if they do not honor my request to remove me, I will take them to fake court.
Wrong direction. Payola means the record companies pay radio stations for preferential treatment to play the record companies' music. Licensing means the radio stations pay ASCAP/BMI for the right to broadcast ASCAP/BMI members' music. Payola is illegal; licensing is legal.
Good, that's almost believable. Now do the same thing for the rest of the Google services, and don't forget to speculate on all the alpha products like you've already done for Spreadsheets.
By the way, Google News is out of beta. How did they find a way to make money off it? Last I heard they were paying money to keep News running, earning nothing.