There are far too many sites that just don't function in Safari for me to use it. Whether it is Safari's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Firefox, not in Safari.
For day-to-day usage, I can understand your point. However, this all seems strangely familiar.
"There are far too many sites that just don't function in Firefox for me to use it. Whether it is Firefox's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Internet Explorer, not in Firefox."
Just as the popularity of Firefox has encouraged (at least some) web developers to produce web pages that conform to recognised standards rather than merely rendering correctly in IE, hopefully the availability of Safari on Windows will encourage developers to focus on standards rather than one (or two) specific implementations.
'Phones are outselling dedicated MP3 players by six to one. Apple had the market for MP3, but they lost it.'
Before anyone takes this article too seriously, it's worth examining the credentials of the "expert" quoted in the article. Tomi Ahonen is a self-declared "technology strategy consultant", whose primary field of consultancy is wireless and mobile telecoms. Last year he predicted that mobile games consoles would also be crushed by mobile phone usage. The weak PSP represented an easy target, I'm not so sure that the iPod is as passé as he would have us believe.
If anyone has any doubt regarding Tomi's views, look no further than his blog. Clearly he has a vested interest in seeing the iPod fail, so take his opinions with large doses of salt.
I was an early adopter of DVD (got mine in '99 as I recall)
Beware, you should now expect a flurry of posts from Slashdot'ers who feel it necessary to inform you that they owned a DVD player several centuries before you.
c) The title of this submission is inaccurate, as data mining tools are both useful and financially lucative in a wide variety of domains today, particularly bioinformatics, image analysis and text mining.
Of course, the title of this article is quite ambiguous and misleading: the article itself is concerned with RDBMS, rather than the statistical analysis of data.
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This dispute has nothing to do with Beatles music being on iTunes. The Beatles music is not available via any digital store
The Beatles seem almost intent on relegating their incredible legacy to irrelevancy. Unlike the move to CDs, which The Beatles deftly milked for all it was worth, what The Beatles are doing now is ensuring that the only way to get their music online is through piracy. The band is driving its perceived value to zero with the next generation of music buyers.
If a British Driving license is a "designated document", I might just have to shenanigan enough to be able to get an Irish Driving license too, come renewal time.
There's a slightly less alarming article on New Scientist, where the manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program suggests that this risk posed by this asteroid is likely to be significantly less than 1/1000: "The most likely situation, by far, is that additional observations will bring it back down to a zero."
Slightly more disturbing is his second comment: "We're more likely to be hit between now and then by an object that we don't know about."
As it is backed up by statistics not an earge to defend ones nations intellectual superiority over the United States. Why is this modded +5 Informative, its not true and its not informative?
I think the grandparent poster does have an interesting point and does know what he's talking about. Perhaps his real point is that the Catholic church (in Ireland anyway, and based on the current pope's statements, elsewhere too) has not taught literal creationism to any degree in recent memory. If these ideas have not been taught in religious schools, have not been expounded from the altar and not supported by the church itself, is it so unreasonable to say that people here do not believe in creationism? The dramatic secularisation of the state in the last two decades (which is supported by census statistics) makes it seem even more unlikely.
The main reason why so many people in the thread are skpetical of this poll is that such ideas are not part of the religious "tradition" in the UK or Ireland. While the "I don't know anyone" argument is inherently flawed, neither country is as populous or culuturally diverse as the US, so there is less scope for a large body of support for ID to exist "under the radar" regardless of differing social circles.
Google news is rather dubious. There's no real insight into how it selects headlines.
How exactly is it dubious? It makes use of well-known document clustering and information retrieval methods to identify coherent groups of articles (i.e. stories) and rank articles by how well they represent their "cluster".
I have no interest in reading BNP propoganda either. But what is the alternative? Are you suggesting that a human editor a la Yahoo News is less biased? Sometimes Google produces search results with which we disagree. But should they be expected to manually re-rank the results to conform to some moral standard? And which moral standard should they use?
Of course they could use a feedback/reputation-based system to weight contributions from various sources. But if every top story is NYT/BBC/CNN, it would probably be easier to visit those sites directly. Part of the reason why I find Google News interesting is that it does seem to give equal prominance to each news source and gives me the opportunity to read articles from sites that I might not regularly visit.
The reason it won't work on iPods is because Apple won't let it work on iPods.
Nonsense. If Microsoft wish to sell music that will play on iPods, they're free to provide music in unencumbered MP3 format, as online stores such as eMusic and Magnatune currently do. What you're suggesting is that Apple should specifically support a proprietary format designed solely to be used by competing stores on a competing operating system.
Surely the onus here should be on Microsoft, not Apple? What you're asking is about as realistic as expecting Microsoft to provide a fully-featured Windows Media Player for Linux.
Or, heaven forbid, there might be some people buying multiple iPods..
To use statistics again, you are an outlier.
Not necessarily true. I'm not sure the grandparent poster is as rare as you might think. Don't discount marketing's beloved affluent teen market. I've frequently heard of cases where people buy a new iPod 4G/mini/shuffle/nano as soon as it is released. My friend's own daughter asked her father not to buy her a "big white iPod" since she would be teased about it at school - all her friends want to get a Nano this year. I'm certainly not suggesting that this is a good state of affairs, but Apple have managed to make the iPod a fashion accessory, so people will regularly upgrade to "stay in fashion". So it's no surprise that increased iPod sales do not necessarily lead to massive increases in online sales.
In addition, I'm sure there will be some people who receive one this Christmas who have no idea how to go about buying music online. Their technically-minded friends, who probably bought the device, will help them rip their favourite CDs and they'll be happy. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's only the music industry that sees a problem here and want us to keep buying more music than most of us really want or need.
And yes, women can be intelligent, geeky, powerful, and have large breasts.
Believe me, having a girlfriend who fits that description, I certainly agree with you. But I'm also aware that she finds the female gaming stereotypes a little tired too. A little variety is not a bad thing.
Likewise, thanks for providing a hysterical overwrought screed as an example of feminist stereotyping. Isn't irony fun? Here's a hint buddy, I'm not female or a feminist.
I know that you're trolling, but you didn't manage to address my point. The vast majority of the world's population have not and will never develop software, so choosing between two such frameworks is irrelvant. Secondly, those of us who do develop commercial applications would hope to work for a company that is will to provide us with adequate tools for the job.
I may not use KDE on a daily basis, but I do know that Qt is an excellent framework with superb documentation and support. After all, if we expect people to pay for our software, surely it's not too much to expect us to give some recompense to those who produce the tools that allow us to do our work? The GPL merely ensures that, when we stand on the shoulders of others (e.g. benefit financially from other people's work), we also give something back to the community.
The parent makes an interesting about the importance of how well a desktop is maintained on a given distribution. While one may say that either Gnome or KDE is a better, the end-user experience for many users is largely dependent on the integration and packaging done by a particular distribution. As an extreme example, consider the largely unusable KDE packages that Redhat shipped two years ago. Personally I've found that a "polished" and well-integrated version of a given desktop (e.g. Ubuntu on Gnome, KDE on SuSE) is always superior to a poorly maintained desktop, no matter how HCI-compliant or feature-packed that desktop may be.
For many people, the choice of whether to use KDE or Gnome will be automatically dictated by the distribution that they happen to choose. After all, most people aren't particularly concerned with pseudo-religious debates concerning Gtk v Qt or C v C++, especially since we seem to have so many zealots in the real world these days.
Because the women ranting about sexism in video games don't have them.
Who the hell modded the parent insightful? It was obvious from the moment that this article was posted that we'd see the nearderthal Slashdot element emerge from their basements. In this case, we have the tired cliche that feminists are only unattractive bitter women. Do you really think that any woman who expresses an opinion about the way women are portrayed in games is doing so because she's not sufficiently endowed according the your standard? Congratulations on single-handly personifying the Slashdot stereotype of the nerd who's never interacted with a real live female of the species.
The crux of articles on this topic post doesn't seem to have anything to do with talking about feelings or an over-emphasis on "intelligent, strong, and powerful" women. It just would be nice to have a little variation in the female figures presented in games (which is true from the perspective of many of us guys too).
Perish the day when we can't even register domain names like "naziscansuckmyballs.com" because Europe is too afraid to deal with the realities of its own history.
Europe is not merely France and Germany, but I wouldn't want to spoil this opportunity for you to generalise.
That's fine until your spam filter results in a false positive.
Re:Why should you.. or anyone care?: Slave Mentali
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Why use France or Germany as an example? France has taken socialism to an extreme, while Germany is still reeling from the effects of incorporating the East.
Why not take the UK, Ireland, Belgium or any of the Scandanavian countries? Finding employment in these countries is no more difficult than it is in the US. On the other hand, if you are unemployed/poor/sick, you won't be left in the gutter by your government.
Your arguements (sic) are the ones that are dishonest.
This guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about.
I'm sure Gmail will get better and better, and will eventually adopt the new programming techniques that allow desktop-like ease of use.
Yes, damn you Google. Why won't you listen to your users, learn about these "new programming techniques" and provide us with an AJAX-based webmail service? Oh wait...
Why not try delicious? It allows you to keep your bookmarks online so that they're accessible from multiple locations, while also allowing you to search your bookmarks and those belonging to other people.
Slashdot Mirror
Conclusive proof, as if it were needed, that Monty Python were ahead of their time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IysnS5wO60g
There are far too many sites that just don't function in Safari for me to use it. Whether it is Safari's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Firefox, not in Safari.
For day-to-day usage, I can understand your point. However, this all seems strangely familiar.
"There are far too many sites that just don't function in Firefox for me to use it. Whether it is Firefox's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Internet Explorer, not in Firefox."
Just as the popularity of Firefox has encouraged (at least some) web developers to produce web pages that conform to recognised standards rather than merely rendering correctly in IE, hopefully the availability of Safari on Windows will encourage developers to focus on standards rather than one (or two) specific implementations.
'Phones are outselling dedicated MP3 players by six to one. Apple had the market for MP3, but they lost it.'
Before anyone takes this article too seriously, it's worth examining the credentials of the "expert" quoted in the article. Tomi Ahonen is a self-declared "technology strategy consultant", whose primary field of consultancy is wireless and mobile telecoms. Last year he predicted that mobile games consoles would also be crushed by mobile phone usage. The weak PSP represented an easy target, I'm not so sure that the iPod is as passé as he would have us believe.
If anyone has any doubt regarding Tomi's views, look no further than his blog. Clearly he has a vested interest in seeing the iPod fail, so take his opinions with large doses of salt.
Beware, you should now expect a flurry of posts from Slashdot'ers who feel it necessary to inform you that they owned a DVD player several centuries before you.
Or
c) The title of this submission is inaccurate, as data mining tools are both useful and financially lucative in a wide variety of domains today, particularly bioinformatics, image analysis and text mining.
Of course, the title of this article is quite ambiguous and misleading: the article itself is concerned with RDBMS, rather than the statistical analysis of data.
This dispute has nothing to do with Beatles music being on iTunes. The Beatles music is not available via any digital store
In 2003, Apple Corps indicated they had no plans to make Beatles available online. The foolishness of this anti-digital stance was summarised quite succintly here:
The Beatles seem almost intent on relegating their incredible legacy to irrelevancy. Unlike the move to CDs, which The Beatles deftly milked for all it was worth, what The Beatles are doing now is ensuring that the only way to get their music online is through piracy. The band is driving its perceived value to zero with the next generation of music buyers.
If a British Driving license is a "designated document", I might just have to shenanigan enough to be able to get an Irish Driving license too, come renewal time.
Sooner or later there won't be any distinction between British and Irish driving licenses.
There's a slightly less alarming article on New Scientist, where the manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program suggests that this risk posed by this asteroid is likely to be significantly less than 1/1000:
"The most likely situation, by far, is that additional observations will bring it back down to a zero."
Slightly more disturbing is his second comment:
"We're more likely to be hit between now and then by an object that we don't know about."
As it is backed up by statistics not an earge to defend ones nations intellectual superiority over the United States. Why is this modded +5 Informative, its not true and its not informative?
I think the grandparent poster does have an interesting point and does know what he's talking about. Perhaps his real point is that the Catholic church (in Ireland anyway, and based on the current pope's statements, elsewhere too) has not taught literal creationism to any degree in recent memory. If these ideas have not been taught in religious schools, have not been expounded from the altar and not supported by the church itself, is it so unreasonable to say that people here do not believe in creationism? The dramatic secularisation of the state in the last two decades (which is supported by census statistics) makes it seem even more unlikely.
The main reason why so many people in the thread are skpetical of this poll is that such ideas are not part of the religious "tradition" in the UK or Ireland. While the "I don't know anyone" argument is inherently flawed, neither country is as populous or culuturally diverse as the US, so there is less scope for a large body of support for ID to exist "under the radar" regardless of differing social circles.
Google news is rather dubious. There's no real insight into how it selects headlines.
How exactly is it dubious? It makes use of well-known document clustering and information retrieval methods to identify coherent groups of articles (i.e. stories) and rank articles by how well they represent their "cluster".
I have no interest in reading BNP propoganda either. But what is the alternative? Are you suggesting that a human editor a la Yahoo News is less biased? Sometimes Google produces search results with which we disagree. But should they be expected to manually re-rank the results to conform to some moral standard? And which moral standard should they use?
Of course they could use a feedback/reputation-based system to weight contributions from various sources. But if every top story is NYT/BBC/CNN, it would probably be easier to visit those sites directly. Part of the reason why I find Google News interesting is that it does seem to give equal prominance to each news source and gives me the opportunity to read articles from sites that I might not regularly visit.
The reason it won't work on iPods is because Apple won't let it work on iPods.
Nonsense. If Microsoft wish to sell music that will play on iPods, they're free to provide music in unencumbered MP3 format, as online stores such as eMusic and Magnatune currently do. What you're suggesting is that Apple should specifically support a proprietary format designed solely to be used by competing stores on a competing operating system.
Surely the onus here should be on Microsoft, not Apple? What you're asking is about as realistic as expecting Microsoft to provide a fully-featured Windows Media Player for Linux.
I hate the term employees. I love the term future competition.
Priceless. Your name isn't David Brent by any chance, is it?
Interesting, thanks for the links.
Or, heaven forbid, there might be some people buying multiple iPods..
To use statistics again, you are an outlier.
Not necessarily true. I'm not sure the grandparent poster is as rare as you might think. Don't discount marketing's beloved affluent teen market. I've frequently heard of cases where people buy a new iPod 4G/mini/shuffle/nano as soon as it is released. My friend's own daughter asked her father not to buy her a "big white iPod" since she would be teased about it at school - all her friends want to get a Nano this year. I'm certainly not suggesting that this is a good state of affairs, but Apple have managed to make the iPod a fashion accessory, so people will regularly upgrade to "stay in fashion". So it's no surprise that increased iPod sales do not necessarily lead to massive increases in online sales.
In addition, I'm sure there will be some people who receive one this Christmas who have no idea how to go about buying music online. Their technically-minded friends, who probably bought the device, will help them rip their favourite CDs and they'll be happy. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's only the music industry that sees a problem here and want us to keep buying more music than most of us really want or need.
And yes, women can be intelligent, geeky, powerful, and have large breasts.
Believe me, having a girlfriend who fits that description, I certainly agree with you. But I'm also aware that she finds the female gaming stereotypes a little tired too. A little variety is not a bad thing.
Likewise, thanks for providing a hysterical overwrought screed as an example of feminist stereotyping. Isn't irony fun?
Here's a hint buddy, I'm not female or a feminist.
I know that you're trolling, but you didn't manage to address my point. The vast majority of the world's population have not and will never develop software, so choosing between two such frameworks is irrelvant. Secondly, those of us who do develop commercial applications would hope to work for a company that is will to provide us with adequate tools for the job.
I may not use KDE on a daily basis, but I do know that Qt is an excellent framework with superb documentation and support. After all, if we expect people to pay for our software, surely it's not too much to expect us to give some recompense to those who produce the tools that allow us to do our work? The GPL merely ensures that, when we stand on the shoulders of others (e.g. benefit financially from other people's work), we also give something back to the community.
The parent makes an interesting about the importance of how well a desktop is maintained on a given distribution. While one may say that either Gnome or KDE is a better, the end-user experience for many users is largely dependent on the integration and packaging done by a particular distribution. As an extreme example, consider the largely unusable KDE packages that Redhat shipped two years ago. Personally I've found that a "polished" and well-integrated version of a given desktop (e.g. Ubuntu on Gnome, KDE on SuSE) is always superior to a poorly maintained desktop, no matter how HCI-compliant or feature-packed that desktop may be.
For many people, the choice of whether to use KDE or Gnome will be automatically dictated by the distribution that they happen to choose. After all, most people aren't particularly concerned with pseudo-religious debates concerning Gtk v Qt or C v C++, especially since we seem to have so many zealots in the real world these days.
Because the women ranting about sexism in video games don't have them.
Who the hell modded the parent insightful? It was obvious from the moment that this article was posted that we'd see the nearderthal Slashdot element emerge from their basements. In this case, we have the tired cliche that feminists are only unattractive bitter women. Do you really think that any woman who expresses an opinion about the way women are portrayed in games is doing so because she's not sufficiently endowed according the your standard? Congratulations on single-handly personifying the Slashdot stereotype of the nerd who's never interacted with a real live female of the species.
The crux of articles on this topic post doesn't seem to have anything to do with talking about feelings or an over-emphasis on "intelligent, strong, and powerful" women. It just would be nice to have a little variation in the female figures presented in games (which is true from the perspective of many of us guys too).
We have tested a car with three tires instead of four. Does it work? Well, yes, when it's not crashing.
Hey, leave my car alone!
Perish the day when we can't even register domain names like "naziscansuckmyballs.com" because Europe is too afraid to deal with the realities of its own history.
Europe is not merely France and Germany, but I wouldn't want to spoil this opportunity for you to generalise.
That's fine until your spam filter results in a false positive.
Why use France or Germany as an example? France has taken socialism to an extreme, while Germany is still reeling from the effects of incorporating the East.
Why not take the UK, Ireland, Belgium or any of the Scandanavian countries? Finding employment in these countries is no more difficult than it is in the US. On the other hand, if you are unemployed/poor/sick, you won't be left in the gutter by your government.
Your arguements (sic) are the ones that are dishonest.
This guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about.
I'm sure Gmail will get better and better, and will eventually adopt the new programming techniques that allow desktop-like ease of use.
Yes, damn you Google. Why won't you listen to your users, learn about these "new programming techniques" and provide us with an AJAX-based webmail service? Oh wait...
Why not try delicious? It allows you to keep your bookmarks online so that they're accessible from multiple locations, while also allowing you to search your bookmarks and those belonging to other people.
If you use Firefox, there are extensions that allow you to view your bookmarks in a sidebar and sync your online bookmarks with your browser bookmarks.