If you really want to track repeat users/readers for purposes other than advertising, look setting up a login. If they really like the site they'll sign up...kinda like the over 700k+ that have signed up on slashdot.
Yeah.. because the same nutjobs who are convinced that doubleclick is trying to steal their precious fluids aren't going to have a conniption fit over site registration... ha!
You make it sound like every banner click goes to exactly the same URL, and that destination only knows where to redirect you based on what the cookie says.
That is the case 99% of the time.
How do you suppose static html pages rotate banner code?
By using cookies. The banner code can literally look like <a href="bannerserver/position1"><img src="bannerserver/position1.gif"></a>
and can be stuck anywhere. Then the banner server dynamically serves up different images and uses cookies to keep track of what image it sent to who.
The only other solution is to put a hunk of javascript there, or to make every page dynamic. Both of which are serious wastes of resources... and even worse for you..
If we're going to overhaul our site to make every page dynamic just for banner purposes, it's not only going to slow things down, but it's also going to allow us to serve up multimedia banners.. like movies and flash!
When you think about how much has been done in the first month, It's exciting to think about what people will develop for it given some time. Kudos to the developers of this.
Except that this isn't developing *on* the PSP. It's an IRC proxy via the web. The hacked web browser for the PSP lets people do pretty much anything a web browser can do.. but it's not really PSP development.
Give the DS a webbrowser and you can run every one of these "psp hacks". Except that you'd have a much better input system.
Funny.. but the OP is correct. Who is the target audience for the PSP? The older crowd. The older crowd doesn't really have time to play games when they're not at home. And when they are at home, a console is much better.
Sure there are your standard plane trips and waiting at the DMV, but really, do you spend so much time at the DMV that you'd spend $350 for the PSP and 2 games?
I can't play at work, and when I'm not at work, I'm at home or out socializing. I'm not going to be playing the PSP in a bar.
Sony's target market has very little need for the PSP.. which is why it isn't selling well.
The reason the Mac OS has a single menu bar isn't to help figure out what application you're in, it's to provide a consistent spot to find commands.
Well then why do it half-assed? Why not put a toolbar right below the top menubar?
Everything you say about how "redundant" the menubar is in Windows and Gnome/GDK can be applied to the toolbar in OSX.
The biggest problem with the menubar at the top is that the following *always* happens:
You have a browser window open. You have Photoshop open behind it. You close your browser window. Now photoshop is taking up 99% of your screen, no other windows are open, and your menubar is for Safari, NOT photoshop.
People claim OSX is intuitive simply because they've been told that is, not because it actually is.
How many users keep apps running because they think, windows-style, that once the last window is gone, they've quit the app?
Even worse is that Apple has started changing this behavior in Panther. So that *some* apps quit when their last window closes (System Preferences and Disk Utility for example) but others don't (Safari).
OSX is getting more and more inconsistent with each generation. Mostly because Apple no longer employs any usability experts.
A good example is the "click-and-hold" which is supposed to pop open the context sensitive menu. Click-and-hold works on the Dock, but it doesn't work in the Finder! It works in Firefox, but not in Safari.
Looking at the patent, it was filed in 1987 and granted in 1988.
Obviously, my patent on "deriving patent age by subtracting current year from patent year" is preventing people from realizing that this patent is expired. Sorry guys.
Is this guy saying I'd rather carry two gizmos than one because, I'd have, like, more stuff?
He's saying that it'd be better to buy two gizmos because when you're ready to buy a new phone (which the average person does every 2 years), you won't have to buy a new mp3 player.
I can see some benefits of tying a phone to an mp3 player (like having the mp3 player mute when a call comes in), but the fact is, the purchasing cycles of a cell phone and an mp3 player do *not* match up. Most people get a new phone every other year. Your ipod should last a lot longer than that.
I just played Metal Gear Acid on a co-worker's PSP (he went to best buy this morning just to look at the PSP, and ended up buying one. No preorder necessary.. aparently there are tons in stock)
I have to say the game totally sucks. I didn't so much as play the game as hit "O" over a hundred times as it went through a slideshow story.
Simplicity. I don't think Apple is in the game of mixing functionalities
But they are. iTunes now does photos for the iPod Photo, and the whole shuffle autofill thing they *wedged* into iTunes.
Apple starts at simple, and then starts adding features. Just look how OSX is cannibalizing more and more F-keys with each new version. Pretty soon Apple is going to have to start adding new keys to their keyboard.
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They entirely lack the current Apple design features of absolute minimalism.
You mean they don't look like boring bars of Ivory soap?
Tell that to blockbuster, I went in there and told them I wanted to rent the movie I had rented 4 years ago and they still charged me for it.
That's because blockbuster has a lease term of 3-5 days. iTMS doesn't have one.
You can rent a movie at blockbuster, and then bring it back within the lease term and say "this is broken" and they have to replace it free of charge.
So Apple would either have to put a lease term on their songs (which would effectively kill iTMS since it would be the same as Napster) or support your songs indefinately.
But the license of the iTunes Music Store prohibits using any application other than iTunes to access it.
Ah yes, I remember when AT&T prohibited using any device not made by AT&T to access their phone lines as well.
That practice was found to be illegal. But Apple is great and can do no wrong, right? Even if they are dangerously close to abusing their monopoly.
(Of course you apple fanatics are going to claim that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on digital music sales because you like to define the "market" as much larger.. even though you did the exact opposite when defining microsoft's "monopoly")
Wrong. Part of the license agreement is not that you are "buying" the song, you're licensing the right to listen to the song.
This remains to be seen. If you really are just licensing the right to listen to the song then *renters* rights come into play.. and they're even more generous than consumers rights.
For example, Apple would be forced to keep track of what songs you've downloaded and let you download them again for free (because you can't be charged *twice* for the same service).
Thing about everything you rent or lease or license.. think about how heavily regulated those all are. That's because of renters rights.
I love how it seems to be OK for legislators to just completely ignore the Constitution these days, just in order to make a point.
Not just "these days". More like "in the past century".
I was just watching 100 most shocking moments in music on vh1 (yeah yeah, standard vh1 fare). I was suprised how many of those moments involved congress trying to censor, ban, fine, label etc music. Elvis was corrupting our kids with "nigger music". The Beatles were evil. Judas Priest drove its fans to commit suicide. Ozzie wants his fans to commit suicide. Jim Morrison was arrested for using profanity and *threatening* to take off his pants during a concert.
Tipper Gore and Lynne Cheney both attempted to censor or ban types of music. (Beware of Vice Presidential Wives.. aparently they have too much time on their hands)
Why not? Today, the iPod may be your device of choice, but what if, tomorrow, a company comes out with a much, much better device.
That's already happening. *Every* new mp3 player that comes out is immediately trashed because "it can't play music from the most popular online music store in the world!"
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If you really want to track repeat users/readers for purposes other than advertising, look setting up a login. If they really like the site they'll sign up...kinda like the over 700k+ that have signed up on slashdot.
Yeah.. because the same nutjobs who are convinced that doubleclick is trying to steal their precious fluids aren't going to have a conniption fit over site registration... ha!
You make it sound like every banner click goes to exactly the same URL, and that destination only knows where to redirect you based on what the cookie says.
That is the case 99% of the time.
How do you suppose static html pages rotate banner code?
By using cookies. The banner code can literally look like <a href="bannerserver/position1"><img src="bannerserver/position1.gif"></a>
and can be stuck anywhere. Then the banner server dynamically serves up different images and uses cookies to keep track of what image it sent to who.
The only other solution is to put a hunk of javascript there, or to make every page dynamic. Both of which are serious wastes of resources... and even worse for you..
If we're going to overhaul our site to make every page dynamic just for banner purposes, it's not only going to slow things down, but it's also going to allow us to serve up multimedia banners.. like movies and flash!
You can write shell scripts in PHP.
Yup! I can't emphasis that enough. We have started moving away from perl to php for shell scripting.
I have a PHP script that converts a Quark XPressTags document into XML. I have PHP scripts that convert EPS images into jpegs (via ImageMagick).
PHP runs our content management system. Taking things directly from quark and putting them into databases.
When you think about how much has been done in the first month, It's exciting to think about what people will develop for it given some time. Kudos to the developers of this.
Except that this isn't developing *on* the PSP. It's an IRC proxy via the web. The hacked web browser for the PSP lets people do pretty much anything a web browser can do.. but it's not really PSP development.
Give the DS a webbrowser and you can run every one of these "psp hacks". Except that you'd have a much better input system.
Funny.. but the OP is correct. Who is the target audience for the PSP? The older crowd. The older crowd doesn't really have time to play games when they're not at home. And when they are at home, a console is much better.
Sure there are your standard plane trips and waiting at the DMV, but really, do you spend so much time at the DMV that you'd spend $350 for the PSP and 2 games?
I can't play at work, and when I'm not at work, I'm at home or out socializing. I'm not going to be playing the PSP in a bar.
Sony's target market has very little need for the PSP.. which is why it isn't selling well.
Do you have a record of your thoughts somehwere so I can read more and devote my life to the Church of Icarus?
He had them, but they got burned up by the sun.
Our grandfathers took apart their houses.
My grandfather helped take apart the german war machine. If that isn't a DMCA violation, I don't know what is.
The reason the Mac OS has a single menu bar isn't to help figure out what application you're in, it's to provide a consistent spot to find commands.
Well then why do it half-assed? Why not put a toolbar right below the top menubar?
Everything you say about how "redundant" the menubar is in Windows and Gnome/GDK can be applied to the toolbar in OSX.
The biggest problem with the menubar at the top is that the following *always* happens:
You have a browser window open. You have Photoshop open behind it. You close your browser window. Now photoshop is taking up 99% of your screen, no other windows are open, and your menubar is for Safari, NOT photoshop.
People claim OSX is intuitive simply because they've been told that is, not because it actually is.
How many users keep apps running because they think, windows-style, that once the last window is gone, they've quit the app?
Even worse is that Apple has started changing this behavior in Panther. So that *some* apps quit when their last window closes (System Preferences and Disk Utility for example) but others don't (Safari).
OSX is getting more and more inconsistent with each generation. Mostly because Apple no longer employs any usability experts.
A good example is the "click-and-hold" which is supposed to pop open the context sensitive menu. Click-and-hold works on the Dock, but it doesn't work in the Finder! It works in Firefox, but not in Safari.
They would also be able to have other viewers join them or they could pay professional actors to fill in the spot.
Great, so in the future, Dinner Murder Mysteries will become popular again?
I was a bit disappointed to see the article, actually -- when a "cool" new print mag recycles the Internet, you know the end of paper is nigh.
Yeah, but in 15 years, my kids can flip through my old issues of Make and find fun projects.. while that dude's site is going to be long gone.
The internet is great, but far too many sites are gone forever.
Looking at the patent, it was filed in 1987 and granted in 1988.
Obviously, my patent on "deriving patent age by subtracting current year from patent year" is preventing people from realizing that this patent is expired. Sorry guys.
Is this guy saying I'd rather carry two gizmos than one because, I'd have, like, more stuff?
He's saying that it'd be better to buy two gizmos because when you're ready to buy a new phone (which the average person does every 2 years), you won't have to buy a new mp3 player.
I can see some benefits of tying a phone to an mp3 player (like having the mp3 player mute when a call comes in), but the fact is, the purchasing cycles of a cell phone and an mp3 player do *not* match up. Most people get a new phone every other year. Your ipod should last a lot longer than that.
Ah well, at least they didnt use the blink tag.
I prefer the bling tag, which causes words to become jewel encrusted.
Metal Gear Acid are lots of fun
I just played Metal Gear Acid on a co-worker's PSP (he went to best buy this morning just to look at the PSP, and ended up buying one. No preorder necessary.. aparently there are tons in stock)
I have to say the game totally sucks. I didn't so much as play the game as hit "O" over a hundred times as it went through a slideshow story.
Simplicity. I don't think Apple is in the game of mixing functionalities
But they are. iTunes now does photos for the iPod Photo, and the whole shuffle autofill thing they *wedged* into iTunes.
Apple starts at simple, and then starts adding features. Just look how OSX is cannibalizing more and more F-keys with each new version. Pretty soon Apple is going to have to start adding new keys to their keyboard.
They entirely lack the current Apple design features of absolute minimalism.
You mean they don't look like boring bars of Ivory soap?
We've all signed NDA's in some fashion
Speak for yourself. I've never signed an NDA. *Most* developers don't sign an NDA.
I don't get why everyone assumes that NDAs are rampant. They're actually quite rare.
Good move Google but what happens if every news organization sues or threatens to sue? Where shall we get our news from?
You'll get it from the newspaper I work for, which *loves* the traffic we get from google news.
Tell that to blockbuster, I went in there and told them I wanted to rent the movie I had rented 4 years ago and they still charged me for it.
That's because blockbuster has a lease term of 3-5 days. iTMS doesn't have one.
You can rent a movie at blockbuster, and then bring it back within the lease term and say "this is broken" and they have to replace it free of charge.
So Apple would either have to put a lease term on their songs (which would effectively kill iTMS since it would be the same as Napster) or support your songs indefinately.
But the license of the iTunes Music Store prohibits using any application other than iTunes to access it.
Ah yes, I remember when AT&T prohibited using any device not made by AT&T to access their phone lines as well.
That practice was found to be illegal. But Apple is great and can do no wrong, right? Even if they are dangerously close to abusing their monopoly.
(Of course you apple fanatics are going to claim that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on digital music sales because you like to define the "market" as much larger.. even though you did the exact opposite when defining microsoft's "monopoly")
Wrong. Part of the license agreement is not that you are "buying" the song, you're licensing the right to listen to the song.
This remains to be seen. If you really are just licensing the right to listen to the song then *renters* rights come into play.. and they're even more generous than consumers rights.
For example, Apple would be forced to keep track of what songs you've downloaded and let you download them again for free (because you can't be charged *twice* for the same service).
Thing about everything you rent or lease or license.. think about how heavily regulated those all are. That's because of renters rights.
I love how it seems to be OK for legislators to just completely ignore the Constitution these days, just in order to make a point.
Not just "these days". More like "in the past century".
I was just watching 100 most shocking moments in music on vh1 (yeah yeah, standard vh1 fare). I was suprised how many of those moments involved congress trying to censor, ban, fine, label etc music. Elvis was corrupting our kids with "nigger music". The Beatles were evil. Judas Priest drove its fans to commit suicide. Ozzie wants his fans to commit suicide. Jim Morrison was arrested for using profanity and *threatening* to take off his pants during a concert.
Tipper Gore and Lynne Cheney both attempted to censor or ban types of music. (Beware of Vice Presidential Wives.. aparently they have too much time on their hands)
Why not? Today, the iPod may be your device of choice, but what if, tomorrow, a company comes out with a much, much better device.
That's already happening. *Every* new mp3 player that comes out is immediately trashed because "it can't play music from the most popular online music store in the world!"
(damn, I should really preview sometimes)
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The examples I gave are: