Another vote for Linode. I have a Linode 512 for my personal sites, and I run an 8GB for my employer. Both have been humming along without issue for close to a year now.
I spent almost a week obsessively researching VPS providers before choosing Linode, and really nobody could come close to them in terms of price and positive word of mouth.
Yes, I'm sure a Doctor of Science at the Harvard School of Medicine, publishing in the Journal of the Nancer Cancer Institute, has never taken a Stats 101 class, let alone attended even the first day of said class...
One of the best parts of my switch to OS X has been the quality of the freeware, and the ease of finding it. Some of my personal favorites: Adium (IM), Colloquy (IRC), Smultron (text editor), Transmission (torrent client), Cyberduck (FTP), Xee (image viewer), backuplist+ (backup), etc, etc. All are nicely featured, well polished products. The counterparts I've managed to find for XP all feel like half assed crap in comparison.
I really couldn't believe that quote about the lack of freeware in the article summary.
Agreed. I just tried Google Maps on my k790a, using the cheapo $5.99/month internet plan, and it's still running great. Same with the built-in NetFront browser, which I'm sure qualifies as a 3rd party app since it's an unlocked phone.
Not sure what the article's going on about, but it's apparently a non-issue for me. Which is a huge relief, as I just bought the phone and plan a few weeks ago.
Hardly anyone would be willing to pay for the ability to carry around a little 3 1/2" shopping buddy
As someone who just got back from a visit to Tokyo, I can't begin to tell you how nice it would've been to have some sort of pervasive English tour guide, as the article summary seems to imply these RFID transmitters would function as.
We went over under the naive assumption that finding your way around, or asking for directions, couldn't possibly be THAT difficult. Oh yes it was.:) We spent more than a few nights randomly wandering around Shibuya, stopping strangers and trying our best to say "Sumimasan... doko desu ka?" (Excuse me... where is it?) while pointing at a club name on a piece of paper. Of course everyone tried their best to help, but most could do little more than blush, shrug and apologize profusely.
I personally enjoyed the adventure of it, but we ran into a few distraught Western tourists who seemed to be having a hard time enjoying themselves due to the total maze of a street system and the fact that few Japanese can speak English (though most can read and write it fairly well). I'd have to think a system such as described here would be a huge help in letting them enjoy the pure awesomeness that is Tokyo.
If you're into electronic music, you really can't do better than Beatport.com:
1) No DRM. 2) Legal (with no grey areas like AllOfMp3.com). 3) Multiple high quality encoding options (192 AAC being my choice). 4) Long, high quality previews. 5) A genius Flash interface that lets you browse, preview a song, continue browsing while it's previewing, add to card, and checkout -- all without a single browser refresh.
It IS usually twice as expensive as iTunes. But it's still a good deal, given most of the tracks are probably around twice as long, plus you get the better encoding and lack of DRM.
In short, can't recommend them enough for fellow eletronic music junkies.
Very good point. I have to say, since making the switch, I've never had to hunt for the Preferences/Options/Settings menu in any application.
I just get annoyed by the inconsistent skins. I know there's no practical gripe to be made, but the nice aesthetics of OS X was part of the reason I made the switch.
1) I'm mainly talking about apps Apple ship with OS X. 2) They at least have a consistent look between them, and I can see the rationalization for having a seperate pro look (ie, smaller widgets). 3) I rather like the style also.:) I could stare at Logic all day. Err, well, I guess I do...
Sorry, you are absolutely correct. That was a reference to the original poster, and I believe we were both referring to the Swing toolkit that used to epitomize ugly Java applications.
Where've you been? Brushed metal was ditched with iTunes 6. And none of the cosmetic changes with iTunes 7 bear any resemblance to Mail.app.
The most noticable difference appears to be the new scollbars. I agree with the original poster -- I don't like them.
Can we please just get everything looking consistent again Apple? Please? Before you stick Java scollbars on iTunes 7, can we please ditch brushed metal in Finder (and a half dozen other Apple apps that ship with OS X)?
I mean seriously, OS X is starting to look more frankensteinish than your typical Linux installation. I can count 5 different application "looks" now:
- iLife (darker, unified toolbar, squared off corners) - iTunes 7 (same as iLife, new scrollbars) - Mail.app (unified toolbar, lighter than iLife, rounder corners) - Safari/Finder/iCal (etc) (brushed metal) - TextEdit/Preview (etc) (older non-unified look)
I love my MacBook Pro, but I'm not sure what happened to that consistency that Macs were supposed to be known for.:(
Now consider, when the Swiffer company was trying to decide whether to sell you disposable cleaning cloths or ones that you could wash, do you think they opted for the option that would be cheaper for you in the long run?
No, they opted for the option that people would be most likely to buy. People are lazy, and they know that. Besides, the Swiffer is a product that's differentiated in the market, as opposed to "just another broom".
However, I see your point (short term expenditure vs. long term). I just think you picked a poor example.:-)
Huh. Guess I don't see what's supposed to be funny. It would've taken you about 5 seconds to change his HTML file to an ASP file (as someone else mentioned), and another 5 minutes to copy the files out to a web server.
And we wonder why everybody hates their IT department?
"He says that the value provided by search engines may be tilting too much in favor of the search engines. The web sites that create content are now simply fodder for the search engines' revenue stream."
Yes, and this is exactly why everyone I know in the e-commerce business spends an exorbitant amount of time trying to figure out how to prevent their site from becoming "fodder" for Google's revenue stream. Because, of course, Google brings absolutely no value what-so-ever and and does nothing to drive traffic.
Perhaps "lock out" would be a better description then. iPod owners are effectively locked out of competing services (Yahoo, Rhapsody, Napster).
I love my iPod, and I've spent way too much money at iTMS. But as I look around at the competing services, I'm becoming increasingly annoyed I can't use them with my iPod. Annoyed with Apple, because you know the competitors would kill to offer their downloads with FairPlay DRM if Apple allowed it.
Any online business that knows what they're doing can easily track their ROI on online ads. The company I work for does, and yet they still keep throwing more money at Google.
Hence, I can only assume that the ads ARE in fact working.
Rationalize it all you want, but $1 or $2 a CD does add up. And I say this as someone that does have music published on a RIAA label (and also as someone who has every song he's written available for free as an mp3).
I have to say, it's funny to see Slashdotters basically saying "it's ok we're ripping you off, you only make $1 a CD anyways!"
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact Google seems to trust their engineers to come up with good business ideas. And I wonder how much of that trust is based on the fact the company was founded by engineers.
Yahoo on the other hand has evolved into a big company, where the upper management probably likes to view each department as having highly defined roles within the company -- management come up with ideas, and engineering implements them. Management (or more specically, in my experience, management in marketing departments) thinks that any idea that comes out of engineering can't possibly be a good business idea.
That's the main reason I drool at the thought of working at a company like Google.
puh-leaze... the "windows constantly crashes" line of attack is just SO 1998. I mean, why didn't you just go all the way and call it M$ Windoze?
I'm constantly amused by supposedly 'leet Linux users who complain about Windows constantly crashing on them. Seriously, that's not the type of thing you should admit in public.
Then send a.txt renamed to.doc. Microsoft Word will handle it correctly.
Or, alternatively, write it in HTML, and save it with a.doc extension. Should open up in Word no problem. I even run Windows, but don't have Word (only thing I'd use it for is resumes). I wrote my resume in HTML, saved it with a.doc extension, and it opened up fine in my wife's trial version of Word 2003. The advantage over plain text, of course, is you can use some fancy formatting.
However, it's not fool proof. A few people have said the document wouldn't open for them. In that case I'll send it as plain.txt, or refer them to my online URL.
The insistence on.doc (yes, it's been almost universal in my recent job hunt) pisses me off to no end as well, even though I'm a Windows user. I'm not sure what need the average home user has for Word, or why employers would assume everyone has it. Of course, we all have it at the office. But if you're working on your resume, chances are you're not in the office.
It's human nature. Everyone needs a "cause", or a sense of higher purpose. For a great many people, that's usually a religion. For others, like many Slashdotters such as yourself, the search for higher purpose might manifest itself in a zeal for open source software.
Nothing wrong with that at all, really. Having a cause in life can certainly make you feel more purposeful and driven.
It's only a problem for me when people heavily into their "cause" try to force it on others -- whether they're a right wing Christian telling me what I'm allowed to do in the bedroom, or an open source advocate telling me what software I'm allowed to run on my computer.
which is hilarious, since I'm a completely aspiritual atheist
Not surprising at all really. I've found athiests are typically more apt to going overboard with their (non-religious) cause than someone who is religious. Perhaps their cause is on some unconscious level a surrogate for religion. I truely believe it's hard-wired into our brains to look for a higher purpose in life.
In other words, your brain has adopted open source as its religion.
Having worked extensively in the UIUC library system while I was a student there, I have to say, chances are just as likely this copy is filed next to "Dr. Hibbert's Guide to Good Horse Nutrition" in the veterinary library on the other side of campus.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Especially when a state beaurocracy is involved.
I actually admire their single-mindedness and stunning success at it.
Me too. I highly recommend Gibsom's "Pattern Recognition" for a a good nerds-eye view of the advertising industry. Ever since reading that book, whenever I see an attractive woman in a bar, I stop and wonder who they're working for. Is Absolute paying her to order an Absolute and tonic, and tell everyone how much she loves it?
Kinda a surreal world we're in anymore. Gibson's book captured that surreality perfectly.
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Another vote for Linode. I have a Linode 512 for my personal sites, and I run an 8GB for my employer. Both have been humming along without issue for close to a year now.
I spent almost a week obsessively researching VPS providers before choosing Linode, and really nobody could come close to them in terms of price and positive word of mouth.
Yes, I'm sure a Doctor of Science at the Harvard School of Medicine, publishing in the Journal of the Nancer Cancer Institute, has never taken a Stats 101 class, let alone attended even the first day of said class...
Couldn't agree more.
One of the best parts of my switch to OS X has been the quality of the freeware, and the ease of finding it. Some of my personal favorites: Adium (IM), Colloquy (IRC), Smultron (text editor), Transmission (torrent client), Cyberduck (FTP), Xee (image viewer), backuplist+ (backup), etc, etc. All are nicely featured, well polished products. The counterparts I've managed to find for XP all feel like half assed crap in comparison.
I really couldn't believe that quote about the lack of freeware in the article summary.
Agreed. I just tried Google Maps on my k790a, using the cheapo $5.99/month internet plan, and it's still running great. Same with the built-in NetFront browser, which I'm sure qualifies as a 3rd party app since it's an unlocked phone.
Not sure what the article's going on about, but it's apparently a non-issue for me. Which is a huge relief, as I just bought the phone and plan a few weeks ago.
Hardly anyone would be willing to pay for the ability to carry around a little 3 1/2" shopping buddy
:) We spent more than a few nights randomly wandering around Shibuya, stopping strangers and trying our best to say "Sumimasan... doko desu ka?" (Excuse me... where is it?) while pointing at a club name on a piece of paper. Of course everyone tried their best to help, but most could do little more than blush, shrug and apologize profusely.
As someone who just got back from a visit to Tokyo, I can't begin to tell you how nice it would've been to have some sort of pervasive English tour guide, as the article summary seems to imply these RFID transmitters would function as.
We went over under the naive assumption that finding your way around, or asking for directions, couldn't possibly be THAT difficult. Oh yes it was.
I personally enjoyed the adventure of it, but we ran into a few distraught Western tourists who seemed to be having a hard time enjoying themselves due to the total maze of a street system and the fact that few Japanese can speak English (though most can read and write it fairly well). I'd have to think a system such as described here would be a huge help in letting them enjoy the pure awesomeness that is Tokyo.
If you're into electronic music, you really can't do better than Beatport.com:
1) No DRM.
2) Legal (with no grey areas like AllOfMp3.com).
3) Multiple high quality encoding options (192 AAC being my choice).
4) Long, high quality previews.
5) A genius Flash interface that lets you browse, preview a song, continue browsing while it's previewing, add to card, and checkout -- all without a single browser refresh.
It IS usually twice as expensive as iTunes. But it's still a good deal, given most of the tracks are probably around twice as long, plus you get the better encoding and lack of DRM.
In short, can't recommend them enough for fellow eletronic music junkies.
Very good point. I have to say, since making the switch, I've never had to hunt for the Preferences/Options/Settings menu in any application.
I just get annoyed by the inconsistent skins. I know there's no practical gripe to be made, but the nice aesthetics of OS X was part of the reason I made the switch.
Almost mentioned that too. Except:
:) I could stare at Logic all day. Err, well, I guess I do...
1) I'm mainly talking about apps Apple ship with OS X.
2) They at least have a consistent look between them, and I can see the rationalization for having a seperate pro look (ie, smaller widgets).
3) I rather like the style also.
Sorry, you are absolutely correct. That was a reference to the original poster, and I believe we were both referring to the Swing toolkit that used to epitomize ugly Java applications.
Where've you been? Brushed metal was ditched with iTunes 6. And none of the cosmetic changes with iTunes 7 bear any resemblance to Mail.app.
:(
The most noticable difference appears to be the new scollbars. I agree with the original poster -- I don't like them.
Can we please just get everything looking consistent again Apple? Please? Before you stick Java scollbars on iTunes 7, can we please ditch brushed metal in Finder (and a half dozen other Apple apps that ship with OS X)?
I mean seriously, OS X is starting to look more frankensteinish than your typical Linux installation. I can count 5 different application "looks" now:
- iLife (darker, unified toolbar, squared off corners)
- iTunes 7 (same as iLife, new scrollbars)
- Mail.app (unified toolbar, lighter than iLife, rounder corners)
- Safari/Finder/iCal (etc) (brushed metal)
- TextEdit/Preview (etc) (older non-unified look)
I love my MacBook Pro, but I'm not sure what happened to that consistency that Macs were supposed to be known for.
However, I see your point (short term expenditure vs. long term). I just think you picked a poor example.
Ah, that is a funny story then.
:)
My apologies, but my point still stands... for the other guy.
Huh. Guess I don't see what's supposed to be funny. It would've taken you about 5 seconds to change his HTML file to an ASP file (as someone else mentioned), and another 5 minutes to copy the files out to a web server.
And we wonder why everybody hates their IT department?
"He says that the value provided by search engines may be tilting too much in favor of the search engines. The web sites that create content are now simply fodder for the search engines' revenue stream."
Yes, and this is exactly why everyone I know in the e-commerce business spends an exorbitant amount of time trying to figure out how to prevent their site from becoming "fodder" for Google's revenue stream. Because, of course, Google brings absolutely no value what-so-ever and and does nothing to drive traffic.
Riiiiiight....
Well, to be fair, both MySpace and file sharing networks make it easy to catch a virus by "networking" with your "peers".
So it's easy to see how someone could confuse the two.
Perhaps "lock out" would be a better description then. iPod owners are effectively locked out of competing services (Yahoo, Rhapsody, Napster).
I love my iPod, and I've spent way too much money at iTMS. But as I look around at the competing services, I'm becoming increasingly annoyed I can't use them with my iPod. Annoyed with Apple, because you know the competitors would kill to offer their downloads with FairPlay DRM if Apple allowed it.
Whenever I read a headline and stop to wonder if it's a dupe, I just check to if the author is Zonk. That'll answer your question every time.
Hey, at least he's consistent. You can just think of Zonk as being the Slashdot "dupe flag".
Any online business that knows what they're doing can easily track their ROI on online ads. The company I work for does, and yet they still keep throwing more money at Google.
Hence, I can only assume that the ads ARE in fact working.
Rationalize it all you want, but $1 or $2 a CD does add up. And I say this as someone that does have music published on a RIAA label (and also as someone who has every song he's written available for free as an mp3).
:)
I have to say, it's funny to see Slashdotters basically saying "it's ok we're ripping you off, you only make $1 a CD anyways!"
Gee, thanks.
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact Google seems to trust their engineers to come up with good business ideas. And I wonder how much of that trust is based on the fact the company was founded by engineers.
Yahoo on the other hand has evolved into a big company, where the upper management probably likes to view each department as having highly defined roles within the company -- management come up with ideas, and engineering implements them. Management (or more specically, in my experience, management in marketing departments) thinks that any idea that comes out of engineering can't possibly be a good business idea.
That's the main reason I drool at the thought of working at a company like Google.
And then it doesn't constantly crash
puh-leaze... the "windows constantly crashes" line of attack is just SO 1998. I mean, why didn't you just go all the way and call it M$ Windoze?
I'm constantly amused by supposedly 'leet Linux users who complain about Windows constantly crashing on them. Seriously, that's not the type of thing you should admit in public.
Then send a .txt renamed to .doc. Microsoft Word will handle it correctly.
.doc extension. Should open up in Word no problem. I even run Windows, but don't have Word (only thing I'd use it for is resumes). I wrote my resume in HTML, saved it with a .doc extension, and it opened up fine in my wife's trial version of Word 2003. The advantage over plain text, of course, is you can use some fancy formatting.
.txt, or refer them to my online URL.
.doc (yes, it's been almost universal in my recent job hunt) pisses me off to no end as well, even though I'm a Windows user. I'm not sure what need the average home user has for Word, or why employers would assume everyone has it. Of course, we all have it at the office. But if you're working on your resume, chances are you're not in the office.
Or, alternatively, write it in HTML, and save it with a
However, it's not fool proof. A few people have said the document wouldn't open for them. In that case I'll send it as plain
The insistence on
It's like I've got religion
It's human nature. Everyone needs a "cause", or a sense of higher purpose. For a great many people, that's usually a religion. For others, like many Slashdotters such as yourself, the search for higher purpose might manifest itself in a zeal for open source software.
Nothing wrong with that at all, really. Having a cause in life can certainly make you feel more purposeful and driven.
It's only a problem for me when people heavily into their "cause" try to force it on others -- whether they're a right wing Christian telling me what I'm allowed to do in the bedroom, or an open source advocate telling me what software I'm allowed to run on my computer.
which is hilarious, since I'm a completely aspiritual atheist
Not surprising at all really. I've found athiests are typically more apt to going overboard with their (non-religious) cause than someone who is religious. Perhaps their cause is on some unconscious level a surrogate for religion. I truely believe it's hard-wired into our brains to look for a higher purpose in life.
In other words, your brain has adopted open source as its religion.
Having worked extensively in the UIUC library system while I was a student there, I have to say, chances are just as likely this copy is filed next to "Dr. Hibbert's Guide to Good Horse Nutrition" in the veterinary library on the other side of campus.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Especially when a state beaurocracy is involved.
I actually admire their single-mindedness and stunning success at it.
Me too. I highly recommend Gibsom's "Pattern Recognition" for a a good nerds-eye view of the advertising industry. Ever since reading that book, whenever I see an attractive woman in a bar, I stop and wonder who they're working for. Is Absolute paying her to order an Absolute and tonic, and tell everyone how much she loves it?
Kinda a surreal world we're in anymore. Gibson's book captured that surreality perfectly.