I believe the engineer in question is Cal Henderson. Last I heard, he'd just built this to help him get from his new SF home to his desk at Yahoo! HQ.
He spends a fair chunk of time talking about how flickr was built, the notes of which are really interesting for anyone concerned about scaling out a web app.
One of my pet projects is a social networking/dating site www.thingbox.com - which is for gay guys. The back end of that is about to be spun off in to a straight site which should be interesting... It'll be free and I suspect it's buzzword compliant feature list puts it up near the top in terms of functionality on dating sites. We'll see how it goes...
Release your new computers the same time as some iPod bumps, and they'll get coverage in normal daily papers. The iPod is mainstream and highly desired, and so mainstream media does/will cover any keynote containing iPod goodness.
Australia's been banning books for years. Some friends got some nastygrams from Customs or similar when they tried to get some drug related book shipped in to the country. The timing fits in with this:
greylisting is a beautifully simple concept that works insanely well. I only picked up on it thanks to the recent/. posting about mail filtering at acme.com. Installed postgrey, and my end users have been much happier ever since....j
Their current internal ports of OS X to the x86 (the Marklar project) almost certainly runs on standard clones (albeit a limit range, perhaps). Now Apple needs to lock it down to only run on Apple built x86's.
The temptation to release a version of Tiger for beige Wintel boxes must be gnawing at the back at Jobs' head like a crackwhore monkey, umm, you know, leaping on a fresh donut or something. That is to say: quite a lot.
Ignoring the difficulties of supporting a wide range of random hardware, they're so close to snapping up a huge chunk of the desktop user market who'd switch in a second if their crappy box could run Tiger. Jobs must be salivating at the possibility of doubling their user base overnight.
I even saw the suggestion of releasing Tiger x86 for free, and then charging for upgrades. Can you image how many people would switch? Can you imagine how pissed Microsoft would be? And how pleased that would make Jobs?
OK, so the user experience would suck because random-video-card-from-5-years-ago wouldn't work, etc., etc., but i'll bet this tarnished 2p coin I have here that Apple will release OS X for beige boxes within 5 years.
As someone else pointed out, their CPU sales went up ~40% last year, which is a nice number. Probably best to maintain similar growth for a few years, rather than a going for a one-off surge by subsidising the CPUs with iPod profits...
Assuming, ofcourse, that they could ramp up production sufficiently in the first place.
Not that i've really used either, but this seems to fill the same need at meetup and is being actively and aggressively developed at the moment. An API was just released for it, for example.
It's developed by Andy Baio of waxy.org who has a track record of doing neat things.
the station pretty much has to be a straight section of track anyway
You haven't been to lower Manhattan where there's a subway stop on a sharp curve (Google tells me I might be thinking of South Ferry station). When the train stops at the station, the platform extends to close the gap. I thought that was kind of neat...
Or there's Bank station on the London Underground with a similar curve. They haven't bothered with extending platforms - they just have the (in)famous "Mind the Gap" annoucements to remind you not to fall to your death. The gap must be around 9 inches in some places...
The curvature of the track at Bank also caused a high-pitched squealing from the wheels/track that reached 107db, apparently. It was painful... It's not as bad as it was, so maybe they managed to grind the track back or something. Or maybe i'm going deaf from passing through there twice a day.
The article doesn't say all previous services will be made compliant before launching new services (they just announced Yahoo! Assassins, remember? Do you think they're going to put that on hold until every obscure service they offer in every obscure market is up to scratch?).
It says "[...]the company will not launch any new products or services in the future without ensuring that they work on both IE and Firefox" which is quite a different kettle of fish entirely. Indeed, it goes on to say that "[...] Yahoo would not commit to a date when all its current services--including avatar customization--will be available to Firefox users."
I read a story saying the head people at Sony liked to put early prototypes of Walkmen in buckets of water to see if any bubbles came out. Bubbles == air == wasted space inside the product.
Here's some linky goodness relating that story to a Sony Handycam.
[...]disco or drum and bass, could not have been predicted[...]
Right, but it will be harder than ever to produce something out of the mainstream when a record exec will look only at the score on HSS and potential effect on the bottom line.
But both disco and, to a greater extent, d'n'b grew out of obscure/underground scenes and then attacked the mainstream. That is, they grew without the "assistance" of any major record companies, and in all likelyhood would continue to happily live in their underground scene without any interference from the majors. Indeed, disco was probably ruined by the majors.
There are plenty of indie labels still out there releasing music based on something other than the ability for an album to produce three top 10 hits across multiple markets.
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Which definition of 'most' are you using?
It'll be like the market for portable mp3 players all over again!
Erm...
I remember when all of this was green pastures.
I believe the engineer in question is Cal Henderson. Last I heard, he'd just built this to help him get from his new SF home to his desk at Yahoo! HQ.
He spends a fair chunk of time talking about how flickr was built, the notes of which are really interesting for anyone concerned about scaling out a web app.
Have you considered getting a colostomy bag fitted? It'll save you those pesky and time consuming trips to the bathroom.
One of my pet projects is a social networking/dating site www.thingbox.com - which is for gay guys. The back end of that is about to be spun off in to a straight site which should be interesting... It'll be free and I suspect it's buzzword compliant feature list puts it up near the top in terms of functionality on dating sites. We'll see how it goes...
speak up, sonny! i can't hear you.
how do you tell the difference between one of these systems and an overclocked system?
Apple will know, based on the serial number of your box.
why do they need to know my rl address?
why do they need to give you 1tb of space?
Release your new computers the same time as some iPod bumps, and they'll get coverage in normal daily papers. The iPod is mainstream and highly desired, and so mainstream media does/will cover any keynote containing iPod goodness.
While the overwhelming majority of their revenue comes from advertising, don't forget that they'll also quite happily sell you a Google Applicance:
http://www.google.co.uk/enterprise/
And, I pressume, professional services to go along with that.
They'll also sell you some other completely random crap:
http://www.google-store.com/
Australia's been banning books for years. Some friends got some nastygrams from Customs or similar when they tried to get some drug related book shipped in to the country. The timing fits in with this:
l ia
http://www.ecstasy.org/books/australia.html
I think the book in question in the case of my friends was TiHKAL, as noted here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/censorship-in-austra
It was pretty random as to whether your copy would slip through customs.
Me too!!!!!!oneone
/. posting about mail filtering at acme.com. Installed postgrey, and my end users have been much happier ever since. ...j
greylisting is a beautifully simple concept that works insanely well. I only picked up on it thanks to the recent
Oh, i'll also bet 5p that Apple will take OpenOffice or KOffice and sprinkle some Apple UI magic pixie dust on it, ala KHTML, and release that...
Their current internal ports of OS X to the x86 (the Marklar project) almost certainly runs on standard clones (albeit a limit range, perhaps). Now Apple needs to lock it down to only run on Apple built x86's.
The temptation to release a version of Tiger for beige Wintel boxes must be gnawing at the back at Jobs' head like a crackwhore monkey, umm, you know, leaping on a fresh donut or something. That is to say: quite a lot.
Ignoring the difficulties of supporting a wide range of random hardware, they're so close to snapping up a huge chunk of the desktop user market who'd switch in a second if their crappy box could run Tiger. Jobs must be salivating at the possibility of doubling their user base overnight.
I even saw the suggestion of releasing Tiger x86 for free, and then charging for upgrades. Can you image how many people would switch? Can you imagine how pissed Microsoft would be? And how pleased that would make Jobs?
OK, so the user experience would suck because random-video-card-from-5-years-ago wouldn't work, etc., etc., but i'll bet this tarnished 2p coin I have here that Apple will release OS X for beige boxes within 5 years.
I like how they try to sell you a $60 extended warranty on a device that only costs $15.
Now that's value!
As someone else pointed out, their CPU sales went up ~40% last year, which is a nice number. Probably best to maintain similar growth for a few years, rather than a going for a one-off surge by subsidising the CPUs with iPod profits...
Assuming, ofcourse, that they could ramp up production sufficiently in the first place.
Not that i've really used either, but this seems to fill the same need at meetup and is being actively and aggressively developed at the moment. An API was just released for it, for example.
It's developed by Andy Baio of waxy.org who has a track record of doing neat things.
the station pretty much has to be a straight section of track anyway
You haven't been to lower Manhattan where there's a subway stop on a sharp curve (Google tells me I might be thinking of South Ferry station). When the train stops at the station, the platform extends to close the gap. I thought that was kind of neat...
Or there's Bank station on the London Underground with a similar curve. They haven't bothered with extending platforms - they just have the (in)famous "Mind the Gap" annoucements to remind you not to fall to your death. The gap must be around 9 inches in some places...
The curvature of the track at Bank also caused a high-pitched squealing from the wheels/track that reached 107db, apparently. It was painful... It's not as bad as it was, so maybe they managed to grind the track back or something. Or maybe i'm going deaf from passing through there twice a day.
The article doesn't say all previous services will be made compliant before launching new services (they just announced Yahoo! Assassins, remember? Do you think they're going to put that on hold until every obscure service they offer in every obscure market is up to scratch?).
It says "[...]the company will not launch any new products or services in the future without ensuring that they work on both IE and Firefox" which is quite a different kettle of fish entirely. Indeed, it goes on to say that "[...] Yahoo would not commit to a date when all its current services--including avatar customization--will be available to Firefox users."
I read a story saying the head people at Sony liked to put early prototypes of Walkmen in buckets of water to see if any bubbles came out. Bubbles == air == wasted space inside the product.
Here's some linky goodness relating that story to a Sony Handycam.
Censorship? Are you saying that's a bad thing.
How's that old saying go? Your right to free speech ends at my rights to kick you in the nuts when you spam me.
Something like that, anyway...
dang what freak...
:)
And yet i'd bet a fiver he wouldn't want to swap places with you.
[...]disco or drum and bass, could not have been predicted[...]
Right, but it will be harder than ever to produce something out of the mainstream when a record exec will look only at the score on HSS and potential effect on the bottom line.
But both disco and, to a greater extent, d'n'b grew out of obscure/underground scenes and then attacked the mainstream. That is, they grew without the "assistance" of any major record companies, and in all likelyhood would continue to happily live in their underground scene without any interference from the majors. Indeed, disco was probably ruined by the majors.
There are plenty of indie labels still out there releasing music based on something other than the ability for an album to produce three top 10 hits across multiple markets.
"You wanna know what happened to your dog, Lil' Jimmy? He, uh, went to sleep. Yeah, that's it. He's gone to sleep for a really really long time."
That kind of dog?