Newspapers should do the same thing. Keep the online edition free, and have no soul-sucking registration to view, but only allow the viewing of articles from non-current newspapers.
Ironically, it's the complete opposite. I work for a newspaper, and the only thing we charge for is archive access.
A newspaper's archive is priceless. Where else are you going to get the obit for a relative who died 15 years ago? Only one place, your local newspaper's library.
For sites that require a valid email address for registration, there's an excellent site called www.dodgeit.com
You don't need to create an account, just invent one.
Then go to the site and you (and anyone) can look at the mail sent to that address. Go try it out, go to the site, and punch in "ihatespam" for example and you can see all email sent to ihatespam@dodgeit.com
The sites average around 100,000 uniques a month all together, 4 of which are business sites and 3 of which are "fun" sites. I can tell you that IE has averaged between 90% and 96% per month for the last 12 months. Let me know if you want more detailed stats.
Yes, but what are the sites? Windows Software sites?
We're a daily newspaper, we get way more than 100k unique visitors a month. We are seeing around 80% IE. Mozilla based browsers make up the second largest (15%), with safari at 2% or so. I think it's a pretty good estimate considering we don't even do tech news, so our visitors really are john q. public.
But you can't even say that all 80% of those users use IE6, it's really only around 30%, with the other 50% using IE5.5 5.0 and 4.0(!). So even just developing for IE is a pain in the ass because you're really developing for 4 different browsers.
It's pretty obvious why he's selling all of that. He must be getting married and the bride-to-be said "you can either play with SEGA, or play with me, your choice"
My remote control never requires a double-click. Nor do the climate controls on my car.
The remote control is an excellent analogy. Why? Because remote controls work great when you want to control just one or two things.. but they totally suck when doing more. I've never met a universal remote that I liked. They all suck.
How this relates to nautilus, I'm not sure. I for one love spacial nautilus. Mainly for the simple reason that most people only use the file manager when they want to move files around.
I've seen a bunch of people complain about how deep their mp3s are nested etc. Who the hell uses nautilus or explorer or any file manager for their mp3s? They have itunes or whatever their mp3 player is manage them.
People use applications to edit files.. be it word, or openoffice or itunes or photoshop. They only use nautilus to copy files, usually to and from a removable device or a server. Spacial nautilus rocks for this purpose.
# How do I quickly go back to the parent folder? Oh, it's in the menu. Three clicks. # What if I want to go three folders up? Three menu clicks!
I swear half the people who complain about spacial nautilus have never even used it. And these two points prove you haven't either.
Want to go to the parent folder or up 3 folders? Look at the bottom left corner of the window. There's a pulldown with all the ancestors of the current directory.
Not only that I can type "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and "install Whatever::Whatnot" and have it in under 5 minutes. Try that with python, ruby, ocaml or java.
Sure that works on Linux, but try doing that on solaris. Installing perl modules on solaris is a chore and a half.. mainly because every perl module you run into assumes you have a GNU environment.
Actually, php has the smallest hello world. Anything not wrapped in php tags is passed right through, so "Hello World" in php is literally the length of the string.
Plus PHP supports everything they checked for.. so why wasn't it included?
Dvorak is the most pro-MS journalist around. He has lunches with Bill Gates. For him to say the xbox is a disaster is pretty suprising.
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Apple is taking an obsolete machine out of the market, that means they're dying!!!!
Apple is taking away the only lifeline for people who use QPS (try every Gannet paper in the world). QPS only runs under OS9 because in classic mode you get sporadic corruption.
Not that Apple should support OS9 forever, but basically they've just end-of-lifed a majority of newspaper's CMSs. This is a very big deal.
I just installed.9, and unfortuanetly it doesn't allow you to use any old themes or extensions (and as far as I know there aren't any new ones).
There's an updated Web Developer extension (the only extension I use). On the extensions page, try clicking on the "home page" link instead of install.. they haven't updated the local copies of any extensions yet.
then mix the dust with concrete and water, let it harden into several small chunks, charter a ship around the world, and drop each chunk in a different spot in the ocean.
Damn. You're the guy responsible for every Adventure game ever.
Now I gotta go collect this guy's harddrive and reassemble it so I can get the Master Sword.
Ray tracers tend to look a bit "eerie", for lack of a better word. They tend to leave shadowed areas very dark -- in real life, light will bounce around in corners and things a bit
That's what radiosity is for. Now a realtime radiosity package would be tres amazing.
Why the hell hasn't anyone else stumbled on the idea of combining media sharing and a wireless access point?
Because it's makes more sense to work the media sharing into actual devices. Streaming your iTunes to your line-in of your stereo is neat, but it not as cool or useful as letting TiVo control your iTunes (already possible), since you can then control what you're listening to from your couch through the TiVo, rather than getting up, going into the other room, and mucking with your playlists (or pausing because the phone rang).
Plus, without any external antenna (and judging from how shitty the iBook's internal antenna is) this thing isn't going to have the range to get across the room, let alone throughout my house.
If you go from the Wired Mac -> Wireless Router -> Airport Express -> Stereo, as well as Cable Modem -> Wireless Router -> Airport Express -> Xbox, it's one heck of a device. And I don't see why you couldn't.)
I do.. how are you going to hook up the XBox to the Airport Express? I didn't think the XBox had 802.11b/g support.
i'll never understand why people drive jaguars. my 70's chevy impala station wagon was way faster.
The sad thing is, you totally missed the irony of using a jaguar in your analogy. Jaguars were forced to cut back to 8 cylinders and then most recently to 6 because people wanted something that got better that 15 mpg.
Jaguar is so not Apple.. Apple would never make significant changes to their product in the name of "economy".
The G5 case has you beat pretty soundly. It's higher quality if heavier material. It's extremely quiet (to people with a normal hearing range, it's a bit leaky in the 19k area). It's trivial to install drives: open the case door, slide the drive in, fold in the connectors (no cables to mess with).
Sorry, take off your rose colored glasses (and earplugs), the G5 is very loud. Plus, the design isn't that great. We replaced the cd burner that came with one of our dual G5s with a dvd burner from a dual g4, and it doesn't open the little slider door correctly. (Plus it was a bitch to install because the cabling is all tight and tucked under a divider)
So you have this "pretty" G5 that you have to manually pull the cd door down in order to eject it because the door was so poorly designed.
But mac fans don't care, they go "look at how clever, the door slides down rather than flips out."
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Newspapers should do the same thing. Keep the online edition free, and have no soul-sucking registration to view, but only allow the viewing of articles from non-current newspapers.
Ironically, it's the complete opposite. I work for a newspaper, and the only thing we charge for is archive access.
A newspaper's archive is priceless. Where else are you going to get the obit for a relative who died 15 years ago? Only one place, your local newspaper's library.
Streaming software tools, ZeroConf changes, and more are open to the public.
Which zeroconf changes were those? Or did you mean where they intentionally violated the standard on TXT record formatting in iChat?
Apple has benefitted far more from opensource than opensource has benefitted from Apple.
For sites that require a valid email address for registration, there's an excellent site called www.dodgeit.com
You don't need to create an account, just invent one.
Then go to the site and you (and anyone) can look at the mail sent to that address. Go try it out, go to the site, and punch in "ihatespam" for example and you can see all email sent to ihatespam@dodgeit.com
The sites average around 100,000 uniques a month all together, 4 of which are business sites and 3 of which are "fun" sites. I can tell you that IE has averaged between 90% and 96% per month for the last 12 months. Let me know if you want more detailed stats.
Yes, but what are the sites? Windows Software sites?
We're a daily newspaper, we get way more than 100k unique visitors a month. We are seeing around 80% IE. Mozilla based browsers make up the second largest (15%), with safari at 2% or so. I think it's a pretty good estimate considering we don't even do tech news, so our visitors really are john q. public.
But you can't even say that all 80% of those users use IE6, it's really only around 30%, with the other 50% using IE5.5 5.0 and 4.0(!). So even just developing for IE is a pain in the ass because you're really developing for 4 different browsers.
It's pretty obvious why he's selling all of that. He must be getting married and the bride-to-be said "you can either play with SEGA, or play with me, your choice"
My remote control never requires a double-click. Nor do the climate controls on my car.
The remote control is an excellent analogy. Why? Because remote controls work great when you want to control just one or two things.. but they totally suck when doing more. I've never met a universal remote that I liked. They all suck.
How this relates to nautilus, I'm not sure. I for one love spacial nautilus. Mainly for the simple reason that most people only use the file manager when they want to move files around.
I've seen a bunch of people complain about how deep their mp3s are nested etc. Who the hell uses nautilus or explorer or any file manager for their mp3s? They have itunes or whatever their mp3 player is manage them.
People use applications to edit files.. be it word, or openoffice or itunes or photoshop. They only use nautilus to copy files, usually to and from a removable device or a server. Spacial nautilus rocks for this purpose.
# How do I quickly go back to the parent folder? Oh, it's in the menu. Three clicks.
# What if I want to go three folders up? Three menu clicks!
I swear half the people who complain about spacial nautilus have never even used it. And these two points prove you haven't either.
Want to go to the parent folder or up 3 folders? Look at the bottom left corner of the window. There's a pulldown with all the ancestors of the current directory.
One click.
Not only that I can type "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and "install Whatever::Whatnot" and have it in under 5 minutes. Try that with python, ruby, ocaml or java.
Sure that works on Linux, but try doing that on solaris. Installing perl modules on solaris is a chore and a half.. mainly because every perl module you run into assumes you have a GNU environment.
Actually, php has the smallest hello world. Anything not wrapped in php tags is passed right through, so "Hello World" in php is literally the length of the string.
Plus PHP supports everything they checked for.. so why wasn't it included?
I first recall seing it more than a year ago, so it's not exactly still state of the art, but I don't think I did that well on the quiz.
My problem is that I thought two of the real pics were fake (and I knew all the fake ones were).
I think they cheated though, that one with the little globe in the grass has a backdrop.. which influenced my decision.
I do a little work in the 'industry'.
Suuuure you do.
Dvorak is the most pro-MS journalist around. He has lunches with Bill Gates. For him to say the xbox is a disaster is pretty suprising.
Apple is taking an obsolete machine out of the market, that means they're dying!!!!
Apple is taking away the only lifeline for people who use QPS (try every Gannet paper in the world). QPS only runs under OS9 because in classic mode you get sporadic corruption.
Not that Apple should support OS9 forever, but basically they've just end-of-lifed a majority of newspaper's CMSs. This is a very big deal.
I just installed .9, and unfortuanetly it doesn't allow you to use any old themes or extensions (and as far as I know there aren't any new ones).
There's an updated Web Developer extension (the only extension I use). On the extensions page, try clicking on the "home page" link instead of install.. they haven't updated the local copies of any extensions yet.
I'd be reeeeeal curious as to how they define "AI".
They don't.. the actual site does't even mention AI. I hate when a poster takes the article submission headline and blasts a site for it.
And who modded up all these quasi art critics anyway? It's art because they say it's art.
Art isn't about being pretty. Art is about emotional, spiritual communication between an artist, his culture, work of art, and public.
And you're saying this isn't? The artist is the programmer. His communication is the flash and how you interact with it.
then mix the dust with concrete and water, let it harden into several small chunks, charter a ship around the world, and drop each chunk in a different spot in the ocean.
Damn. You're the guy responsible for every Adventure game ever.
Now I gotta go collect this guy's harddrive and reassemble it so I can get the Master Sword.
Maybe I'll just start using my kitchen sink as a bathtub just because I can.
Wait till you have kids.
Ray tracers tend to look a bit "eerie", for lack of a better word. They tend to leave shadowed areas very dark -- in real life, light will bounce around in corners and things a bit
That's what radiosity is for. Now a realtime radiosity package would be tres amazing.
Did anyone elses machine totally lock up while installing this security update?
Software Update now claims I'm all up to date, but now I'm not so sure.
Why the hell hasn't anyone else stumbled on the idea of combining media sharing and a wireless access point?
Because it's makes more sense to work the media sharing into actual devices. Streaming your iTunes to your line-in of your stereo is neat, but it not as cool or useful as letting TiVo control your iTunes (already possible), since you can then control what you're listening to from your couch through the TiVo, rather than getting up, going into the other room, and mucking with your playlists (or pausing because the phone rang).
Plus, without any external antenna (and judging from how shitty the iBook's internal antenna is) this thing isn't going to have the range to get across the room, let alone throughout my house.
If you go from the Wired Mac -> Wireless Router -> Airport Express -> Stereo, as well as Cable Modem -> Wireless Router -> Airport Express -> Xbox, it's one heck of a device. And I don't see why you couldn't.)
I do.. how are you going to hook up the XBox to the Airport Express? I didn't think the XBox had 802.11b/g support.
That supports both standard analog miniplug headphones and the digital optical miniplug.
No, that's a line out, it won't support headphones.
i'll never understand why people drive jaguars. my 70's chevy impala station wagon was way faster.
The sad thing is, you totally missed the irony of using a jaguar in your analogy. Jaguars were forced to cut back to 8 cylinders and then most recently to 6 because people wanted something that got better that 15 mpg.
Jaguar is so not Apple.. Apple would never make significant changes to their product in the name of "economy".
The G5 case has you beat pretty soundly. It's higher quality if heavier material. It's extremely quiet (to people with a normal hearing range, it's a bit leaky in the 19k area). It's trivial to install drives: open the case door, slide the drive in, fold in the connectors (no cables to mess with).
Sorry, take off your rose colored glasses (and earplugs), the G5 is very loud. Plus, the design isn't that great. We replaced the cd burner that came with one of our dual G5s with a dvd burner from a dual g4, and it doesn't open the little slider door correctly. (Plus it was a bitch to install because the cabling is all tight and tucked under a divider)
So you have this "pretty" G5 that you have to manually pull the cd door down in order to eject it because the door was so poorly designed.
But mac fans don't care, they go "look at how clever, the door slides down rather than flips out."
Now imagine that users of pirated XP installations can't get the patch. Imagine the chaos.
and why can't they get the patch? SP1 didn't have any security patches rolled into it that weren't available seperately, why would SP2?
MS denying SP2 to people will NOT, repeat, NOT, prevent people from patching their systems.