I seriously doubt that you got the point. The whole point of this library is not the Widgets. The library itself offers you ways to write your own widgets.
* A standard way to do Ajax. * A way to have your own events. * A way to do positioning. (moving objects) * A way to do animation. * All that in one - three lines of code.
Include the library and call the methods. Simple. How difficult would it be to implement a graphical color picker be wheh you have the slider already implemented for you? And if its well written and you make it avaliable as BSD licence why will yahoo/others not use that rather then writing their own?
That is the point of releasing the libraries. So that the best solutions become the standard. Its not nessesiraly a one way (Yahoo -> us) process.
Google Ads are an eye sore. Its the most ugly thing to ever hit the web. They dont put any ads on their website but put those ugly text adv's on almost all of the websites in the world.
whats so cool about it? how is it cool? it's not cool. it's google. The fact remains, there's something attractive about anything google does... in time, it'll lose the charm and something new will come to replace it. Google has that *thing*... like coke and pepsi because google has managed to retain that 'underdog' feel.
I have never seen anthing intresting in their *contextual* ads.
I dont know whats the big deal. its weak looking interface... the voice feature is avaliable only on windows. even skype is better than this. Yahoo has all these features and more.. avtars for example.
Its just a case of one company making people go gaga about its products. its a same crappy IM with a protocol that has been around for 4 years. when jabber came out no one was excited because it was an intiative on the parts of some open source developers.
now google does it and somehow its cool. I really dont get it. its stupid to the point of being painful.
here is a conversation with a non-techi friend.
(11:39:45) dqasddw: http://www.google.com/talk/ (11:39:54) dqasddw: its there (11:52:31) parvati: wow.. (11:53:18) dqasddw: what is the wow paro? (11:53:23) dqasddw: please tell me. (11:53:59) parvati: heh.. it's *google* (11:54:08) dqasddw: skype is better than this. (11:55:58) parvati: well yeah.. but it's *google*.. and there's this guy on the slashdot list who said basically because it's google EVERYone will have it in a week.. first the techies, then their friens.. then anyone who wants to be cool.. (11:56:15) dqasddw: yes. so? (11:56:48) dqasddw: how is it cool? (11:59:00) parvati: it's not cool.. it's google.. (12:06:02) parvati: accha ok.. am not google PR.. but the fact remains, there's something attractive about anything google... in time, it'll lose the charm.. (12:06:11) parvati: and something new will come to replace it.. (12:07:29) dqasddw: im not a yahoo PR but the fact is... yahoo has had this service before. jabber came 4 years ago which was essentially the same thing. (12:07:55) parvati: yes baba.. i still love yahoo:-) (12:08:28) dqasddw: no no thats not the point. i was talking to this guy who said "you know google has RSS news feeds feature" (12:08:42) dqasddw: i said yahoo has had that feature for a year. (12:08:51) dqasddw: he said i dont like yahoo. (12:08:58) dqasddw: i said why? (12:09:00) parvati: why? (12:09:02) dqasddw: he said i dont know (12:09:36) parvati: no, you're right.. i mean, i tried yahoo search after you told me about it, and it IS better.. (12:09:53) parvati: but google has that *thing*.. like coke and pepsi.. (12:11:29) parvati: because google has managed to retain that 'underdog' feel.. (12:12:26) dqasddw: yes. clean interface. (12:12:54) dqasddw: they dont put any adv on their website but put those ugly text adv's on almost all of the websited in the world. (12:13:25) parvati: lol.. yeah! that's true.. clean interface = deep psychological impact
How ironic! the Internet is designed to circumvent problems and survive anything that any kind of catestrophy throws at it. I guess the problem is not if the "Internet" is reliable for 911 services but, if the last mile service provider and the software you work with is reliable. If your phone gets stolen or your kid bangs it on the ground its not atnt's problem similarly if you got hit by a worm is a problem you should handle.
I think the Internet is perfectly suited for emergency contact services... we are just haven't gotten our act together on the "last mile" part. The figuering out where the call originated is not that tough nut to crack.
Just why is/. still following this? I havent bought one for 1 of the 240 node cluster i run. who cares? let them give for a million bucks of for free.
Aren't we just giving them free publicity? let them do whatever they want to do with their lie-sense.
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I seriously doubt that you got the point. The whole point of this library is not the Widgets. The library itself offers you ways to write your own widgets.
* A standard way to do Ajax.
* A way to have your own events.
* A way to do positioning. (moving objects)
* A way to do animation.
* All that in one - three lines of code.
Include the library and call the methods. Simple. How difficult would it be to implement a graphical color picker be wheh you have the slider already implemented for you? And if its well written and you make it avaliable as BSD licence why will yahoo/others not use that rather then writing their own?
That is the point of releasing the libraries. So that the best solutions become the standard. Its not nessesiraly a one way (Yahoo -> us) process.
All animals are equal ... Some are more equal.
Since google started bribing slashdot with advts.
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stuff about google. who cares if it matters.
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Google Ads are an eye sore. Its the most ugly thing to ever hit the web. They dont put any ads on their website but put those ugly text adv's on almost all of the websites in the world.
... in time, it'll lose the charm and something new will come to replace it. Google has that *thing* ... like coke and pepsi because google has managed to retain that 'underdog' feel.
whats so cool about it? how is it cool? it's not cool. it's google. The fact remains, there's something attractive about anything google does
I have never seen anthing intresting in their *contextual* ads.
I dont know whats the big deal. its weak looking interface ... the voice feature is avaliable only on windows. even skype is better than this. Yahoo has all these features and more.. avtars for example.
... yahoo has had this service before. jabber came 4 years ago which was essentially the same thing. :-)
Its just a case of one company making people go gaga about its products. its a same crappy IM with a protocol that has been around for 4 years. when jabber came out no one was excited because it was an intiative on the parts of some open source developers.
now google does it and somehow its cool. I really dont get it. its stupid to the point of being painful.
here is a conversation with a non-techi friend.
(11:39:45) dqasddw: http://www.google.com/talk/
(11:39:54) dqasddw: its there
(11:52:31) parvati: wow..
(11:53:18) dqasddw: what is the wow paro?
(11:53:23) dqasddw: please tell me.
(11:53:59) parvati: heh.. it's *google*
(11:54:08) dqasddw: skype is better than this.
(11:55:58) parvati: well yeah.. but it's *google*.. and there's this guy on the slashdot list who said basically because it's google EVERYone will have it in a week.. first the techies, then their friens.. then anyone who wants to be cool..
(11:56:15) dqasddw: yes. so?
(11:56:48) dqasddw: how is it cool?
(11:59:00) parvati: it's not cool.. it's google..
(12:06:02) parvati: accha ok.. am not google PR.. but the fact remains, there's something attractive about anything google... in time, it'll lose the charm..
(12:06:11) parvati: and something new will come to replace it..
(12:07:29) dqasddw: im not a yahoo PR but the fact is
(12:07:55) parvati: yes baba.. i still love yahoo
(12:08:28) dqasddw: no no thats not the point. i was talking to this guy who said "you know google has RSS news feeds feature"
(12:08:42) dqasddw: i said yahoo has had that feature for a year.
(12:08:51) dqasddw: he said i dont like yahoo.
(12:08:58) dqasddw: i said why?
(12:09:00) parvati: why?
(12:09:02) dqasddw: he said i dont know
(12:09:36) parvati: no, you're right.. i mean, i tried yahoo search after you told me about it, and it IS better..
(12:09:53) parvati: but google has that *thing*.. like coke and pepsi..
(12:11:29) parvati: because google has managed to retain that 'underdog' feel..
(12:12:26) dqasddw: yes. clean interface.
(12:12:54) dqasddw: they dont put any adv on their website but put those ugly text adv's on almost all of the websited in the world.
(12:13:25) parvati: lol.. yeah! that's true.. clean interface = deep psychological impact
they cant infringe their own patent
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yeah! right and spam my news sources?
How ironic! the Internet is designed to circumvent problems and survive anything that any kind of catestrophy throws at it. I guess the problem is not if the "Internet" is reliable for 911 services but, if the last mile service provider and the software you work with is reliable. If your phone gets stolen or your kid bangs it on the ground its not atnt's problem similarly if you got hit by a worm is a problem you should handle.
... we are just haven't gotten our act together on the "last mile" part. The figuering out where the call originated is not that tough nut to crack.
I think the Internet is perfectly suited for emergency contact services
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You dumbasss! Is this spam me if you can or what?
What crap breaking down the page into a million pages. here is the printable link
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http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=
Just why is /. still following this? I havent bought one for 1 of the 240 node cluster i run. who cares? let them give for a million bucks of for free.
Aren't we just giving them free publicity? let them do whatever they want to do with their lie-sense.