Well isn't doing something like this, which causes so much angst from the energy sector and Republicans, at least a step in the right direction? Using a US football analogy, we can't always make a touchdown with every effort isn't a heroic 9-yard run a good start? Being any more ambitious with the President's plan would risk all-out resistance from every billion-dollar lobby and politician.
As someone who paid some shiny euros for v1 many many years ago and wondered if 2.0 was vaporware I'm kinda hopeful. At least now there's a chance this project will move forward. You'd think that after getting paid some BIG bucks for this text editor —for years —Allan would have the resources and the motivation to keep this thing going. As open source, I can see this as a solid competitor to the GPL'd jEdit.
To be fair, as a supplement to the President's memorandum, the U.S. CTO and CIO are leading programs to stop the proliferation of.gov sites and focus on converting all the PDF and static website content into machine-readable data so public/private services can communicate create content via APIs. Your sites won't need updating if the data coming from the government is being streamed into an embedded visualization app. You'd be able to consume whatever report or graph you need in whatever form you need it in, using the scope you want.
To dumb it down it's basically world of warcraft but in space. What I mean by that is you're constantly button mashing while you watch your model ship circle around your target shooting at something. When eve players talk about "skill" they're talking about it in the same sense as WoW players do...
Hardly. In Eve you'll notice a lot of combat involves ships circling around each other in orbits whereas in WOW tournaments the arenas are close combat and involve line-of-sight tactics. Example SK Gaming vs TSG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFo2yObhOS0 (HD video)
Actually, fast is a relative term. Our local LAN workstations work fine with a Drobo as a shared active storage system for 1080p high-definition raw video projects which we all can edit from _simultaneously_. That's the key... there's enough throughput for multiple users to push heavy live data without hiccups, even in a bandwidth-hogging setup like workgroup video editing.
Yep. We have a Drobo connected to one of our workstations via Firewire 800 and share the drive between our local users in this department using a simple gigabit ethernet switch. It's practically a no-brainer expandable, protected data solution that requires no IT assistance. We have ours formatted HFS+ (between macs) using a 16 TB volume size to maximize capacity. In the future if 16 TB isn't enough (LOL?) then we'll just chain another 16 TB Drobo to that from the other Firewire 800 port.
Twitter also notifies via SMS (phone, pager) and RSS... that frees you from ever going to their website at all (I never even go to their site) and you can embed updated content to any number of websites if you want. SMS is probably the most-used method since you can send and receive twitter updates from cell phone. So instead of sending a text message to 500 recipients, you send one single SMS and Twitter will SMS anyone who is following you: be it 500 or 50,000.
Your assumption that the service provides garbage may be true for the majority of the stuff that gets cranks out but a tiny majority is vastly useful. I've seen Twitter being used for liveblogged news headlines, traffic updates via SMS, emergency evacuation information, and event coordination... just to name a few examples.
Email is targetted. However if you really need to distribute a high volume of information immediately without dooming your own infrastructure, Twitter is great. It's not targetted because the demand for the informaion comes from the followers to the source, instead of the other way around. See how KPBS.org used this information to spread evacuation and relief updates during the California wildfires: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9802911-7.html
Twitter has been immensely useful... as a microblogging system some companies have successfully used it as an emergency broadcast system of sorts. KPBS.org used it as a way to communicate major brushfire conditions and emergency shelter updates over SMS and RSS. Barack Obama's campaign sends out daily Twitter updates that alert campaign supporters and organizers of upcoming events, locations, and meeting times. That gets disseminated over the web, SMS, and RSS feeds via Twitter's extensible API.
holy f*cking sh*t... thank goodness I clicked that on my Mac and not on my Windows box.
I have the most recently patched Safari 3.1.x build and it spawned a couple of blank windows (adblocked?) but I was unable to close anything so I forced-quit it. It also populated a Mail.app message window but did not send. It tried to launch Skype but since I had recently updated it the launch did not succeed (the OS stopped me with a dialog of "Skype is an application downloaded from the Internet. Do you..." so I clicked no)
I think I noticed a java applet launching initially in the browser before the madness started. I thought the applet was supposed to ask to be sandboxed and trusted before running?
Can't imagine the sort of insanity that this would have wrought on a Windows system!
Reliability Scores are based on a comparison of RESCUECOM's call center data with the average U.S. 2Q markets share data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, 2005-2007.
Other notable findings from the data include:
- Apple surged to the number one spot in the reliability survey, beating its closest competitor by more than 100 points.
- Lenovo/IBM, last year's top performer, dropped to second place, but is still considered among the most reliable vendors topping the next closest rival by 110 points.
- Driven by strong market share gains, HP significantly improved its overall rating compared to last year, but remained in third place.
- Dell slipped in the ratings to fifth place, replaced in the number four spot by Gateway. While a solid manufacturer, Dell continues to deal with issues ranging from customer service and product availability problems, to lawsuits about its warranties and last year's battery recall (which affected other manufacturers as well).
- Several manufacturers in the "Other" category including Sony and Toshiba showed improved year-over-year reliability scores....
Related articles: Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - September 18, 2007 Apple again tops the field in LAPTOP Magazine's 'Tech Support Showdown 2007' - June 19, 2007 Apple again leads Consumer Reports' survey for notebook, desktop computer tech support, value, more - October 16, 2006 Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - August 22, 2006 Apple far outscores all other PC makers in Consumer Reports Computer Tech Support Survey - May 05, 2006 Apple Mac desktops, portables top PC Magazine's 2005 Reader Satisfaction survey - August 24, 2005 Apple Computer products top PC Magazine's annual 'Best of the Year' survey - December 16, 2004 Apple Macs top PC Magazine's '17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey' - August 10, 2004 Apple leads PC Magazine's 16th annual Service and Reliability Survey - July 10, 2003
This is true. HOWEVER, you only get the high-quality version when the iPhone is connected via WiFi... otherwise on EDGE you get the standard pixely web-quality video that everyone else sees.
Apple's market share gains in December for the Mac and iPhone are impressive. However, for the last days of December, the numbers are nothing short of spectacular.
First, the month-to-month numbers:
Product November Share December Share Mac (all lines) 6.80% 7.31% iPhone.09%.12%
(Please note these numbers are a percentage of visitors accessing sites across our network. Please go to our home page to see our methodology.)
Great numbers. Apple's market share rose 7.5% for the Mac and 33% for the iPhone in a single month.
However, the really good news for Apple came at the end of the month. For the last two days of December, Apple had the following numbers:
Product December 30-31 Share Mac (all lines) 8.01% iPhone.17%
This represents a phenomenal increase of 18% from November for the Mac and 89% for the iPhone. In addition, the iPhone has been taking off in France and the other countries it has been launched in, including an amazing.27% share of web browsing in the United States.
Country iPhone Browsing Share December 30-31 United States.27% United Kingdom.11% France.10%
Another interesting aspect of this data is that these numbers do not include visitors using Windows on Mac hardware via Boot Camp or other program. Therefore, these numbers actually understate the market share for the Mac. We have no way of telling by how much, however.
You're quite mistaken about software. There are thousands of quality free software for the Mac. Thousands of quality shareware too. And thousands of commercial apps with high price tags.
CPAN? cpan is in/usr/bin...use it like any other perl module install. Perl is built-in, as well as Apache, PHP, Ruby on Rails for gawd's sake. It didn't take long at all to setup an environment for developing apps. Everything is where it should be, and if you're really confused maybe you should install Webmin and upgrade your Perl modules that way if you're uncomfortable at the command-line.
Not sure if the new iMacs come with the aluminum keyboards... but if so, they ship with USB 2.0 ports on the side, for easy plugging of things like flashdrives and digital cameras. I believe almost all Apple keyboards ever made have had USB ports built-in, and these were meant for hot-swappable devices and storage that are added/removed frequently. The USB ports found on the back of Macs were meant for permanent, hardly-interchanged devices AFAIK.
Of course. It comes with my Mac. It works well. I have the Perian, Divx, and Flip4Mac plugins so I can handle pretty much any codec, including FLV so I'm quite happy. It will also export pretty much anything. FAQ about QuickTime
I was almost concerned that this was a big deal; then I realized this is just a problem for players using MS Windows... though I think it would be trivial for Blizzard to write a simple thread into WOW that could periodically scan the processlist on a Mac.
A lot of organizations are taking advantage of "Web 2.0" technologies, especially since the city/county-run emergency service websites are completely broken or abandoned. The local public radio station KPBS is using Twitter to update listeners with text/SMS emergency information every few minutes. The Port of San Diego is mirroring this information using a javascript-based RSS scraper of the same Twitter feed and is mirroring KPBS's amazing interactive Google map.
It's a software update. The Bluetooth systems in nearly all Mac models that have them should already support A2DP (but are missing the software driver)...again once Leopard arrives. This is according to the latest developer builds of 10.5.
Slashdot Mirror
Friends of the Earth's climate and energy program director Damon Moglen said the President's climate plan is "not enough" and needs to be more ambitious.
http://www.foe.org/news/archives/2013-06-statement-on-president-obamas-climate-plan
Well isn't doing something like this, which causes so much angst from the energy sector and Republicans, at least a step in the right direction? Using a US football analogy, we can't always make a touchdown with every effort isn't a heroic 9-yard run a good start? Being any more ambitious with the President's plan would risk all-out resistance from every billion-dollar lobby and politician.
Some of the magic can be found in the screencasts of the software: http://macromates.com/screencasts
Notice though that these were shot in 2008 and earlier...
Integration with the OS has been a big feature of TextMate and Coda (which is why the users are such zealots)... oh yeah and editable snippet bundles per programming language. http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/editorials/are-textmate-and-coda-yesterdays-editors/
As someone who paid some shiny euros for v1 many many years ago and wondered if 2.0 was vaporware I'm kinda hopeful. At least now there's a chance this project will move forward. You'd think that after getting paid some BIG bucks for this text editor —for years —Allan would have the resources and the motivation to keep this thing going. As open source, I can see this as a solid competitor to the GPL'd jEdit.
To be fair, as a supplement to the President's memorandum, the U.S. CTO and CIO are leading programs to stop the proliferation of .gov sites and focus on converting all the PDF and static website content into machine-readable data so public/private services can communicate create content via APIs. Your sites won't need updating if the data coming from the government is being streamed into an embedded visualization app. You'd be able to consume whatever report or graph you need in whatever form you need it in, using the scope you want.
The video for the the CTO/CIO announcement (more for the Slashdot crowd): http://fedscoop.com/video-vanroekel-park-announce-new-government-digital-strategy/
Obligatory Rice Boy Page.
LOL awesome shout-out to my old co-worker Bryan Hong would started that website. Good to see that it's a classic thread for riceboy absurdity!
To dumb it down it's basically world of warcraft but in space. What I mean by that is you're constantly button mashing while you watch your model ship circle around your target shooting at something. When eve players talk about "skill" they're talking about it in the same sense as WoW players do...
Hardly. In Eve you'll notice a lot of combat involves ships circling around each other in orbits whereas in WOW tournaments the arenas are close combat and involve line-of-sight tactics. Example
SK Gaming vs TSG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFo2yObhOS0 (HD video)
Actually, fast is a relative term. Our local LAN workstations work fine with a Drobo as a shared active storage system for 1080p high-definition raw video projects which we all can edit from _simultaneously_. That's the key... there's enough throughput for multiple users to push heavy live data without hiccups, even in a bandwidth-hogging setup like workgroup video editing.
Yep. We have a Drobo connected to one of our workstations via Firewire 800 and share the drive between our local users in this department using a simple gigabit ethernet switch. It's practically a no-brainer expandable, protected data solution that requires no IT assistance. We have ours formatted HFS+ (between macs) using a 16 TB volume size to maximize capacity. In the future if 16 TB isn't enough (LOL?) then we'll just chain another 16 TB Drobo to that from the other Firewire 800 port.
No kidding. This trailer has been up on Apple's site for quite a while (at least a week). Where has everyone on Slashdot been?
Twitter also notifies via SMS (phone, pager) and RSS... that frees you from ever going to their website at all (I never even go to their site) and you can embed updated content to any number of websites if you want. SMS is probably the most-used method since you can send and receive twitter updates from cell phone. So instead of sending a text message to 500 recipients, you send one single SMS and Twitter will SMS anyone who is following you: be it 500 or 50,000.
Your assumption that the service provides garbage may be true for the majority of the stuff that gets cranks out but a tiny majority is vastly useful. I've seen Twitter being used for liveblogged news headlines, traffic updates via SMS, emergency evacuation information, and event coordination... just to name a few examples.
Email is targetted. However if you really need to distribute a high volume of information immediately without dooming your own infrastructure, Twitter is great. It's not targetted because the demand for the informaion comes from the followers to the source, instead of the other way around. See how KPBS.org used this information to spread evacuation and relief updates during the California wildfires:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9802911-7.html
Twitter has been immensely useful... as a microblogging system some companies have successfully used it as an emergency broadcast system of sorts. KPBS.org used it as a way to communicate major brushfire conditions and emergency shelter updates over SMS and RSS. Barack Obama's campaign sends out daily Twitter updates that alert campaign supporters and organizers of upcoming events, locations, and meeting times. That gets disseminated over the web, SMS, and RSS feeds via Twitter's extensible API.
holy f*cking sh*t ... thank goodness I clicked that on my Mac and not on my Windows box.
I have the most recently patched Safari 3.1.x build and it spawned a couple of blank windows (adblocked?) but I was unable to close anything so I forced-quit it. It also populated a Mail.app message window but did not send. It tried to launch Skype but since I had recently updated it the launch did not succeed (the OS stopped me with a dialog of "Skype is an application downloaded from the Internet. Do you..." so I clicked no)
I think I noticed a java applet launching initially in the browser before the madness started. I thought the applet was supposed to ask to be sandboxed and trusted before running?
Can't imagine the sort of insanity that this would have wrought on a Windows system!
Apple computers fail at roughly the same rate as any Intel-based PC (e.g. Dell, HP etc.)
...
From the article Apple Mac tops comprehensive computer reliability report by wide margin (with graph):
Reliability Scores are based on a comparison of RESCUECOM's call center data with the average U.S. 2Q markets share data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, 2005-2007.
Other notable findings from the data include:
- Apple surged to the number one spot in the reliability survey, beating its closest competitor by more than 100 points.
- Lenovo/IBM, last year's top performer, dropped to second place, but is still considered among the most reliable vendors topping the next closest rival by 110 points.
- Driven by strong market share gains, HP significantly improved its overall rating compared to last year, but remained in third place.
- Dell slipped in the ratings to fifth place, replaced in the number four spot by Gateway. While a solid manufacturer, Dell continues to deal with issues ranging from customer service and product availability problems, to lawsuits about its warranties and last year's battery recall (which affected other manufacturers as well).
- Several manufacturers in the "Other" category including Sony and Toshiba showed improved year-over-year reliability scores.
Related articles:
Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - September 18, 2007
Apple again tops the field in LAPTOP Magazine's 'Tech Support Showdown 2007' - June 19, 2007
Apple again leads Consumer Reports' survey for notebook, desktop computer tech support, value, more - October 16, 2006
Apple Mac desktops, notebooks top PC Magazine's Annual Reader Satisfaction survey - again - August 22, 2006
Apple far outscores all other PC makers in Consumer Reports Computer Tech Support Survey - May 05, 2006
Apple Mac desktops, portables top PC Magazine's 2005 Reader Satisfaction survey - August 24, 2005
Apple Computer products top PC Magazine's annual 'Best of the Year' survey - December 16, 2004
Apple Macs top PC Magazine's '17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey' - August 10, 2004
Apple leads PC Magazine's 16th annual Service and Reliability Survey - July 10, 2003
This is true. HOWEVER, you only get the high-quality version when the iPhone is connected via WiFi... otherwise on EDGE you get the standard pixely web-quality video that everyone else sees.
January, 2008 - Apple's Awesome Market Share Gains
Apple's market share gains in December for the Mac and iPhone are impressive. However, for the last days of December, the numbers are nothing short of spectacular.
First, the month-to-month numbers:
Product November Share December Share
Mac (all lines) 6.80% 7.31%
iPhone
(Please note these numbers are a percentage of visitors accessing sites across our network. Please go to our home page to see our methodology.)
Great numbers. Apple's market share rose 7.5% for the Mac and 33% for the iPhone in a single month.
However, the really good news for Apple came at the end of the month. For the last two days of December, Apple had the following numbers:
Product December 30-31 Share
Mac (all lines) 8.01%
iPhone
This represents a phenomenal increase of 18% from November for the Mac and 89% for the iPhone. In addition, the iPhone has been taking off in France and the other countries it has been launched in, including an amazing
Country iPhone Browsing Share December 30-31
United States
United Kingdom
France
Another interesting aspect of this data is that these numbers do not include visitors using Windows on Mac hardware via Boot Camp or other program. Therefore, these numbers actually understate the market share for the Mac. We have no way of telling by how much, however.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Mac
You're quite mistaken about software. There are thousands of quality free software for the Mac. Thousands of quality shareware too. And thousands of commercial apps with high price tags.
Try http://www.macupdate.com/ or http://www.tuaw.com/ or http://www.versiontracker.com/ to start. You can also install thousands of free apps from sourceforge or freshmeat that were originally meant for linux or the command line... you even have access to X11 apps!
CPAN? cpan is in /usr/bin ...use it like any other perl module install. Perl is built-in, as well as Apache, PHP, Ruby on Rails for gawd's sake. It didn't take long at all to setup an environment for developing apps. Everything is where it should be, and if you're really confused maybe you should install Webmin and upgrade your Perl modules that way if you're uncomfortable at the command-line.
Not sure if the new iMacs come with the aluminum keyboards... but if so, they ship with USB 2.0 ports on the side, for easy plugging of things like flashdrives and digital cameras. I believe almost all Apple keyboards ever made have had USB ports built-in, and these were meant for hot-swappable devices and storage that are added/removed frequently. The USB ports found on the back of Macs were meant for permanent, hardly-interchanged devices AFAIK.
Of course. It comes with my Mac. It works well. I have the Perian, Divx, and Flip4Mac plugins so I can handle pretty much any codec, including FLV so I'm quite happy. It will also export pretty much anything. FAQ about QuickTime
I was almost concerned that this was a big deal; then I realized this is just a problem for players using MS Windows... though I think it would be trivial for Blizzard to write a simple thread into WOW that could periodically scan the processlist on a Mac.
A lot of organizations are taking advantage of "Web 2.0" technologies, especially since the city/county-run emergency service websites are completely broken or abandoned. The local public radio station KPBS is using Twitter to update listeners with text/SMS emergency information every few minutes. The Port of San Diego is mirroring this information using a javascript-based RSS scraper of the same Twitter feed and is mirroring KPBS's amazing interactive Google map.
It's a software update. The Bluetooth systems in nearly all Mac models that have them should already support A2DP (but are missing the software driver) ...again once Leopard arrives. This is according to the latest developer builds of 10.5.
A2DP will be supported in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which will debut in October.