Using myself as an example, not a good sample size and maybe, or not, representative, but... Before file sharing I had gotten tired of the music bus, I hated buying a whole CD when there were only one or two songs I wanted. I can remember singles seeming overpriced though I can't remember the actual prices back then. So I was buying less and less music, usually only when I liked the entire album and not just a few songs. Radio got boring and repetitive (thanks ClearChannel!) so I listened mostly to just news/talk and audiobooks on CD, and didn't pay much attention anymore to what new and good music was available.
Then along came file sharing and suddenly I had access to music again, could hear new and good songs I might not hear on the radio, and I actually started buying CDs again, b/c for music I wanted to add to my library, I wanted the original, uncompressed recording. Still would stick with just the ones where I liked the entire album, and for singles I would just download them. Always knew that getting music that way wasn't kosher, but did it anyway b/c no choice.
Then iTunes comes to the PC, and now I download singles from iTunes, sample music I wouldn't otherwise hear on the radio (both 30 secs, and by buying one or two songs from an album). I still buy CD's when I want the original recording or a long-term copy/backup. The only time I download music from file-sharing services now is if I want a single I can't find on iTunes, which is almost never.
I always remember one of Steve Jobs' keynotes about iTunes, when he reviewed a list of reasons to use iTunes instead of file-sharing to get music, and one was that it's just "bad karma" to get music through free file sharing. I agreed with him then, and agree with him now. I also think it's bad karma that record companies force artists into contracts that grant the record companies ownership of the artists' music an ip and the lion's share of their profits, and that the record companies resort to suing people who fileshare music instead of innovating new and better distribution methods, but those are all separate problems still in want of solutions. I'm not out to revenge against the record companies by filesharing music.
I didn't realize Forbes was a techie mag, I always thought it was for rich guys who made their money selling sugar water. I'll have to check it out. I assume I'll see articles for quants on derivative pricing side-by-side with Cell VLSI how-to's.
It's difficult to get the monitor comparison exactly fair since Apple doesn't elaborate on their monitor technology and I don't have time to research it, but you can at least get them the exact same size (15.4). Even then, with Intel's best CPU and Apple's best dual core Yonah, Apple offers a better price, ceteris paribus (roughly):
Dell Latitude D810 PERFORMANCE (from Dell Small Business Store): $2,592
Ideal owner: Customers requiring maximum performance and advanced features for demanding applications
15.4 inch UltraSharp Wide Screen WSXGA+ LCD Panel
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 780 (2.26GHz)
ATI RADEON X600 128MB
1.0GB 533MHz, DDRII SDRAM, 2 DIMMS - Dual Channel
100GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM
8X DVD+/-RW w/ Sonic Digital Media and Cyberlink PowerDVD
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g WLAN miniPCI Card
Windows® XP Professional
Starting at 6.49 lbs6 and 1.6" thin; 1.6"(h) x 14.2"(w) x 10.3"(d)
Apple MacBook Pro: $2,399.00
15.4-inch TFT display with 1440x900 resolution
1.83GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache
667MHz frontside bus
1GB 667 DDR2 - 2x512 SO-DIMMs
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
OS X 10.4 Tiger
5.6 pounds
Footprint 14.1 x 9.6 inches
Thickness 1.0 inches (2.59 cm)
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Not sure why you're considering JSF and not Tapestry, but in case you want to add the latter to your shortlist, here's a good, detailed comparison between Tapestry 3.0 and JSF:
Doesn't surprise me, the H2 is just a GM Suburban gussied up to look like the H1. The H1 is the original military spec truck, and probably a bit tougher.
Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would fail and then try.com, and by the time it got around to getting the url right, I could just type it in by hand. I think it would be nice to at least be able to turn this feature on.
Better yet, just search from Opera address bar. Type "g kerneltrap" into the address bar, hit Enter, and voila - Google search results page. Of course this doesn't apply if all you want is the Google home page, but personally I love this feature.
When I read the headline my first thought was that Britain had run out of room in their cemetaries and was solving the problem with large buildings in which to store occupied coffins. Obviously a bit misleading. The Japanese have a better, less morbid name: capsule hotels.
"I hope that you browsed through these pages before making your assertion."
I'm sure he did, and those are all terrible too. But then what do you expect from a program named after a deviant from Pulp Fiction? I use GIMP myself and certainly appreciate the work of the people who make this excellent, FOSS software. But the fact is GIMP has an image problem preventing it from making inroads among people who can't see past its name and bad logos.
When the executives returned, they reported back to Time Warner's top deal negotiator, Olaf Olafsson, with some less-than-satisfactory findings. They had found some of Microsoft's technology to be clunky,
Pot. Kettle. Black... Heh. Should have been a match made in heaven. Or, erm, in that other place...
If her lawyer is so sure she's going to win, why doesn't he take the case on a No Recovery, No Fee basis, in which she only pays him a percentage of the winnings (compensatory and punitive damages)?
From an outsider's point of view, it seems the reason for this deal is that AOL will keep Google search engine and Ad programs, the latter of which make up about 12% of Google's revenues. Google did this to protect their revenue and by extension, stock price. AOL gets a lot of money, and perhaps the cachet of a closer partnership with Google. As a side benefit, Google also gets to tie Google Talk in with AIM. It was an unfortunate necessity for Google, but that's business. Maybe they'll eventually persuade AOL to dump IE and go back to a Gecko-based browser...
Hey, this is really good news, I didn't think we made anything anymore. But hey, wow, we're actually in second place! I'm gonna go celebrate this with a tasty Tsingtao beer.
used to think that Medicine and Law would be the last things to go, but it seems I was wrong about that. As I scramble to find a safer profession than Engineering, I'm not even sure where to go. I thought of teaching, and then realized that there are movements afoot to move this overseas, too, with a cheap security guard in the classroom to maintain order and a cheap teacher overseas in front of a camera.
So, while it's not so untrue that America is becoming a services based economy, I think it would be more accurate to say that it is becoming an UNSKILLED or lesser-skilled services economy.
Perhaps the only answer is for skilled Americans who want to remain skilled to move abroad as well. The jobs are going there, why shouldn't we? Let the rose-tinted, short-sighted American politicians and business leaders reap the consequences of their policies.
Be in kindergarten, perhaps, but not teaching it. In all seriousness, his email sounds more like a console phanboi flamefest than that of a college professor. You would have hoped that by his age and station in life, the angst would have subsided. Now Kansas has one more thing to be ashamed of...
I think I can be confident in saying that the new mission statement has been looked over and discussed by many General officers, public affairs officers and lawyers both civilian and blue-suiters. They don't often post public statements like that without knowing exactly what ramifications might pop up.
With all due respect, these are some of the same people who brought us the highly tactful "shock and awe", applied to a civilian city interspersed with military and Baath party apparatus. A wiser choice would have been to stick with "surgical strikes" and "precision munitions". Old and boring as those may be, at least they make it clear that the target is the opposing military and that pains are being taken to avoid civilians. "Shock and awe" made us sound more like an indiscriminate bully high on his own power. Just because some verbiage has been looked over and discussed by lots of people with the same training and social norms doesn't guarantee a judicious decision on it.
Highly obnoxious, yes. Hopefully designers would learn to only make use of it when absolutely necessary.
Rather, hopefully designers would never use that. Canned warnings, no matter how they're worded, always lose their meaning after you see them the first few times. A better solution is the online bill-pay model where you are presented with a clear summary screen of your proposed actions, with Confirm/Cancel buttons. Seeing the specifics of what you are about to do, again, would be much more meaningful and effective.
What I find interesting is the fact that something like this (an attitude) actually has an article in Wikipedia.
What I find interesting is the fact that somebody thinks my comments were worthy of a troll and flamebait mod. Neither my comments nor the Wikipedia article are either. I used "attitude" tongue-in-cheek, but EE is actually a business practice. If you read the Wikipedia article, you'll see that the author was careful to distinguish that "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is a claim made by Microsoft critics, rather than presenting it as an actual fact, and that furthermore, though the strategy is attributed by said critics to Microsoft, it has actually been used by dominant players in other industries prior to Microsoft. The Wikipedia article also supplies evidence of Microsoft's EEE tactics that anyone (Microsoft included) can attempt to refute if they so desire. Therefore, the Wikipedia article does not present this as fact, but rather as a claim made by critics, and it points out that as a business strategy EEE does indeed exist, and did before Microsoft ever purportedly used it, and it lists some of Microsoft's business tactics that could qualify as EEE. EEE is not just some random Wikipedia flame by a Linux fanboy, it's widely-known and discussed topic, with multiple pages of references even on Microsoft's own search engine. Finally, this Wikipedia entry is a far cry from baselessly insinuating that someone was involved in the Kennedy assassinations. I'm all for healthy skepticism when referencing Wiki articles, but this one has enough corroboration and recent historical significance that modding me (and the other poster who referenced it in this thread) troll and flamebait is overkill. I hope the metamods read and consider this when evaluating this thread.
It's called the "embrace, extend, extinguish" attitude, Microsoft's standard operating procedure since day 1. No less annoying nowadays, but certainly not surprising. I doubt it will work with RSS, though, since RSS is already in wide use outside the "MS blogosphere", and popular tools like Google Desktop Search and most FOSS RSS aggregators won't incorporate MS's extensions.
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Using myself as an example, not a good sample size and maybe, or not, representative, but... Before file sharing I had gotten tired of the music bus, I hated buying a whole CD when there were only one or two songs I wanted. I can remember singles seeming overpriced though I can't remember the actual prices back then. So I was buying less and less music, usually only when I liked the entire album and not just a few songs. Radio got boring and repetitive (thanks ClearChannel!) so I listened mostly to just news/talk and audiobooks on CD, and didn't pay much attention anymore to what new and good music was available. Then along came file sharing and suddenly I had access to music again, could hear new and good songs I might not hear on the radio, and I actually started buying CDs again, b/c for music I wanted to add to my library, I wanted the original, uncompressed recording. Still would stick with just the ones where I liked the entire album, and for singles I would just download them. Always knew that getting music that way wasn't kosher, but did it anyway b/c no choice. Then iTunes comes to the PC, and now I download singles from iTunes, sample music I wouldn't otherwise hear on the radio (both 30 secs, and by buying one or two songs from an album). I still buy CD's when I want the original recording or a long-term copy/backup. The only time I download music from file-sharing services now is if I want a single I can't find on iTunes, which is almost never. I always remember one of Steve Jobs' keynotes about iTunes, when he reviewed a list of reasons to use iTunes instead of file-sharing to get music, and one was that it's just "bad karma" to get music through free file sharing. I agreed with him then, and agree with him now. I also think it's bad karma that record companies force artists into contracts that grant the record companies ownership of the artists' music an ip and the lion's share of their profits, and that the record companies resort to suing people who fileshare music instead of innovating new and better distribution methods, but those are all separate problems still in want of solutions. I'm not out to revenge against the record companies by filesharing music.
I didn't realize Forbes was a techie mag, I always thought it was for rich guys who made their money selling sugar water. I'll have to check it out. I assume I'll see articles for quants on derivative pricing side-by-side with Cell VLSI how-to's.
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It's difficult to get the monitor comparison exactly fair since Apple doesn't elaborate on their monitor technology and I don't have time to research it, but you can at least get them the exact same size (15.4). Even then, with Intel's best CPU and Apple's best dual core Yonah, Apple offers a better price, ceteris paribus (roughly):
Dell Latitude D810 PERFORMANCE (from Dell Small Business Store): $2,592
Ideal owner: Customers requiring maximum performance and advanced features for demanding applications
15.4 inch UltraSharp Wide Screen WSXGA+ LCD Panel
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 780 (2.26GHz)
ATI RADEON X600 128MB
1.0GB 533MHz, DDRII SDRAM, 2 DIMMS - Dual Channel
100GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM
8X DVD+/-RW w/ Sonic Digital Media and Cyberlink PowerDVD
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g WLAN miniPCI Card
Windows® XP Professional
Starting at 6.49 lbs6 and 1.6" thin; 1.6"(h) x 14.2"(w) x 10.3"(d)
Apple MacBook Pro: $2,399.00
15.4-inch TFT display with 1440x900 resolution
1.83GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache
667MHz frontside bus
1GB 667 DDR2 - 2x512 SO-DIMMs
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
OS X 10.4 Tiger
5.6 pounds
Footprint 14.1 x 9.6 inches
Thickness 1.0 inches (2.59 cm)
Not sure why you're considering JSF and not Tapestry, but in case you want to add the latter to your shortlist, here's a good, detailed comparison between Tapestry 3.0 and JSF:
t ry.php
http://www.realsolve.co.uk/site/tech/jsf-vs-tapes
Tapestry 4.0 was just released, so that comparison a little dated now, but still worth a read.
Doesn't surprise me, the H2 is just a GM Suburban gussied up to look like the H1. The H1 is the original military spec truck, and probably a bit tougher.
Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would fail and then try .com, and by the time it got around to getting the url right, I could just type it in by hand. I think it would be nice to at least be able to turn this feature on.
Better yet, just search from Opera address bar. Type "g kerneltrap" into the address bar, hit Enter, and voila - Google search results page. Of course this doesn't apply if all you want is the Google home page, but personally I love this feature.
When I read the headline my first thought was that Britain had run out of room in their cemetaries and was solving the problem with large buildings in which to store occupied coffins. Obviously a bit misleading. The Japanese have a better, less morbid name: capsule hotels.
"I hope that you browsed through these pages before making your assertion."
I'm sure he did, and those are all terrible too. But then what do you expect from a program named after a deviant from Pulp Fiction? I use GIMP myself and certainly appreciate the work of the people who make this excellent, FOSS software. But the fact is GIMP has an image problem preventing it from making inroads among people who can't see past its name and bad logos.
When the executives returned, they reported back to Time Warner's top deal negotiator, Olaf Olafsson, with some less-than-satisfactory findings. They had found some of Microsoft's technology to be clunky,
Pot. Kettle. Black... Heh. Should have been a match made in heaven. Or, erm, in that other place...
If her lawyer is so sure she's going to win, why doesn't he take the case on a No Recovery, No Fee basis, in which she only pays him a percentage of the winnings (compensatory and punitive damages)?
Nicely put, and exactly right. I hope somebody with influence in the Linux community reads your comment...
Then after the "MS Opera" release, firefox would have even less competition.
In fact, it would have no competition.
From an outsider's point of view, it seems the reason for this deal is that AOL will keep Google search engine and Ad programs, the latter of which make up about 12% of Google's revenues. Google did this to protect their revenue and by extension, stock price. AOL gets a lot of money, and perhaps the cachet of a closer partnership with Google. As a side benefit, Google also gets to tie Google Talk in with AIM. It was an unfortunate necessity for Google, but that's business. Maybe they'll eventually persuade AOL to dump IE and go back to a Gecko-based browser...
Hey, this is really good news, I didn't think we made anything anymore. But hey, wow, we're actually in second place! I'm gonna go celebrate this with a tasty Tsingtao beer.
used to think that Medicine and Law would be the last things to go, but it seems I was wrong about that. As I scramble to find a safer profession than Engineering, I'm not even sure where to go. I thought of teaching, and then realized that there are movements afoot to move this overseas, too, with a cheap security guard in the classroom to maintain order and a cheap teacher overseas in front of a camera.
So, while it's not so untrue that America is becoming a services based economy, I think it would be more accurate to say that it is becoming an UNSKILLED or lesser-skilled services economy.
Perhaps the only answer is for skilled Americans who want to remain skilled to move abroad as well. The jobs are going there, why shouldn't we? Let the rose-tinted, short-sighted American politicians and business leaders reap the consequences of their policies.
Yeah, b/c we all know appeasement of oppressive regimes worked so well in the past century.
Kindergarten? Maybe.
Be in kindergarten, perhaps, but not teaching it. In all seriousness, his email sounds more like a console phanboi flamefest than that of a college professor. You would have hoped that by his age and station in life, the angst would have subsided. Now Kansas has one more thing to be ashamed of...
I think I can be confident in saying that the new mission statement has been looked over and discussed by many General officers, public affairs officers and lawyers both civilian and blue-suiters. They don't often post public statements like that without knowing exactly what ramifications might pop up.
With all due respect, these are some of the same people who brought us the highly tactful "shock and awe", applied to a civilian city interspersed with military and Baath party apparatus. A wiser choice would have been to stick with "surgical strikes" and "precision munitions". Old and boring as those may be, at least they make it clear that the target is the opposing military and that pains are being taken to avoid civilians. "Shock and awe" made us sound more like an indiscriminate bully high on his own power. Just because some verbiage has been looked over and discussed by lots of people with the same training and social norms doesn't guarantee a judicious decision on it.
Highly obnoxious, yes. Hopefully designers would learn to only make use of it when absolutely necessary.
Rather, hopefully designers would never use that. Canned warnings, no matter how they're worded, always lose their meaning after you see them the first few times. A better solution is the online bill-pay model where you are presented with a clear summary screen of your proposed actions, with Confirm/Cancel buttons. Seeing the specifics of what you are about to do, again, would be much more meaningful and effective.
Or seppuku surveillance, or whatever they call it over there...
What I find interesting is the fact that something like this (an attitude) actually has an article in Wikipedia.
What I find interesting is the fact that somebody thinks my comments were worthy of a troll and flamebait mod. Neither my comments nor the Wikipedia article are either. I used "attitude" tongue-in-cheek, but EE is actually a business practice. If you read the Wikipedia article, you'll see that the author was careful to distinguish that "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is a claim made by Microsoft critics, rather than presenting it as an actual fact, and that furthermore, though the strategy is attributed by said critics to Microsoft, it has actually been used by dominant players in other industries prior to Microsoft. The Wikipedia article also supplies evidence of Microsoft's EEE tactics that anyone (Microsoft included) can attempt to refute if they so desire. Therefore, the Wikipedia article does not present this as fact, but rather as a claim made by critics, and it points out that as a business strategy EEE does indeed exist, and did before Microsoft ever purportedly used it, and it lists some of Microsoft's business tactics that could qualify as EEE. EEE is not just some random Wikipedia flame by a Linux fanboy, it's widely-known and discussed topic, with multiple pages of references even on Microsoft's own search engine. Finally, this Wikipedia entry is a far cry from baselessly insinuating that someone was involved in the Kennedy assassinations. I'm all for healthy skepticism when referencing Wiki articles, but this one has enough corroboration and recent historical significance that modding me (and the other poster who referenced it in this thread) troll and flamebait is overkill. I hope the metamods read and consider this when evaluating this thread.
Well I for one welcome our new stealthy, F-22 Raptor-flying, disembodied rat-brain overlords!
Sure, but how about we wait till those satellites actually launch before abandoning Hubble?
Correction, I doubt these will succeed outside the MS blogosphere unless they are officially adapted by some standards body perceived as impartial.
It's called the "embrace, extend, extinguish" attitude, Microsoft's standard operating procedure since day 1. No less annoying nowadays, but certainly not surprising. I doubt it will work with RSS, though, since RSS is already in wide use outside the "MS blogosphere", and popular tools like Google Desktop Search and most FOSS RSS aggregators won't incorporate MS's extensions.