I've been using DSLibris for the NDS and I can't see ever wanting to go back to dead tree, for novels at any rate. It can't show any images - in fact it is limited to xhtml files but the layout is similar to a traditional book (2 pages in view) without the thumb fatigue massive paperback editions can cause, it's lighter, smaller, can carry lots of books and bookmarks your page in each book.
I'm on my 4th book so far and version 1.2 is showing a lot of refinement. I'm surprised a real e-book in a clamshell form hasn't been brought to market yet as it is really much nicer to use.
Caveat: don't let your batteries run out or the fibre nerds will kick sand in your face.
I don't know, I think BB has the potential to create a pretty gadgety set-top-box. Each brick & mortar location could become in effect an ISP and data-centre housing cached (edge network) copies of the movies. I think there is a competitive advantage in there somewhere. Add in Internet and ad-sponsored rentals and maybe this is a picture of what they're thinking - "a data-centre in evey BB dumpster".
It's nice to code for yourself, but when the reality distortion field is not in effect things become much less simple.
<Trimp> Wait, you coded this site so it looked good to you and 10 of your warcraft buddies? <Simp> yep <Trimp> Well, that certainly is an interesting approach, what about the 93 percent of the rest of the world? <Simp> Errrrm.... but it's how it SHOULD be, gah! Open Standards, baaaa, superior layout and perfomance, baaaa <Trimp> You're fired!
Alas, the day of the single-browser coder has faded, welcome to 1998.
In Soviet Russia the interface conventions of Web 2.0 will strain the iPhone's multi-touch UI.
Seriously, who cares, you, as webmaster, want to make an impact on the most prolific online wireless devices.
Customize for DS Browser, no images, text only, layout is up to user - then, _maybe_ you'll be ready for other mobile browsers especially those with per-byte metering. Think iPhone plan is going to be unlimited data? Think different.
The rest are way down the list. 2009 for iPhone, if ever. At least hedge your bets.
this facetious rant brought to you by the makers of Ti(l)de "Wash once Run anywhere".
You could put the collectors over the road like a roof, the built-in maintenance road and savings from reduced car air-conditioning needs could make it a workable solution.
Whatever Blizzards' motivation it likely adds a lot to developer/artist collaboration and morale as the art dept, or some of it at least, is probably Mac oriented.
Could help them get and keep a lot of talented people.
Most of these users that are being sneered at are quite at home with a computer screen and keyboard/mouse that reliably does what they are paid to do with it, i.e.
typewriting calculating messaging filling in forms
that's about it. Our MS Office nemesis hits the sweet spot right between "I don't care about your new menu option" and "Damn I wish there were a better way to do this repetitive work".
The user is not stupid, we just think they should be doing neater stuff with all that cool gear. After 5pm most people only use email.
This will change but P.T. Barnum continues to entertain the American public.
This is good neutral position between ps3 and 360, Nintendo can sell both blueray and hddvd. That way they can stay safely out of the fray of the ridiculous format war while supporting both. They wont incur the cost of returns for drives burnt out from excess use and it'll last longer after warranty.
Wii, though - that's right up there with the "New Coke" debacle.
This bundling is a completely unneccesary and reprehensible cash-grab from Apple.
I shelled out for QuickTime 6 Pro. Bought a shuffle, installed iTunes and presto! no more QuickTime Pro - just the regular crippled QuickTime 7. Never again.
This is happening all over the place and impacts business as employees install iTunes to manage thier pods at work and nuke the Pro 6 licenses.
It is going to cost my company alone several thousand dollars. Now that's a halo effect.
Why wasn't Flash included in the survey?
Because it would be impossible to discern any difference whatsoever betweeen WM/RP/QT - the Flash graph line would be several inches above the rest.
This is a comparison of fringe media players. I guess they've conceded the race is over as any relevant survey would embarrass all three.
Let's hope they've improved their software since the days of SonicStage for the mini-disc player. That app was a steaming pile - I would need to invest 2 to 3 hours loading up 40 songs on a disc.
Sluggish interface, frequent crashes and insane wait times while it converted mp3 to aac were what relegated that player to the "shelf of shame." oh yeah that and the 20% of my songs that it refused to convert due to an opaque decision by the drm engine - a nightmare in itself.
Trust that I won't be purchasing this or any "convert-to-our-formats" Sony gear, ever. Do yourself a favor and wait for the knock-offs to come out.
Yeah it does.
I recently rented a car and was asked for my cell phone number, seemed perfectly reasonable, like if I needed roadside assistance.
What if the rental company, or any company, had an infrastructure to deal with government requests for information in a timely fashion - an "emergency access protocol", and what if it was stupid easy to access and audit the "emergency access protocol" usage records, well - after a while - and multiplying by the number of places where I have given out my cell number excluding friends and family...
Lets just say that if there were an emergency, or really just anything, I feel like it is a given that the government, suddenly, could have a really good idea of where I am or would likely be.
I kinda don't mind, as long as they remember to call me when the frog-rains begin.
I just tried to read one of the provided files for securing Windows 2000: win2kworkstation.inf
and the only line that made much sense was:
[Profile Description]
Description=NSA Enhanced Security Settings for Windows 2000 Professional workstation
The rest of them (about 200) look a bit like entries to the obfuscated perl contest, admittedly I am no windows guru but it would be nice if lines like:
Wow what a race, after almost 8 hours of autonomous control, the Carnegie Mellon Red Team has won the Darpa Grand Challenge with a time of 7 hrs 54 minutes, a mere 2 minutes ahead of the Stanford Racing Team.
This is very exciting, I was riveted to my flash player map updates!
A great accomplishment DARPA again proves it's worth the money.
I tried building this for Slackware 10.1 over the weekend and only had to install ant and jdk.
It comes with everything included: mysql, spamassassin, tomcat and postfix.
One issue were the required port mappings:
smtp: 25 mapped to 7075
http: 80 mapped to 7070
pop3: 110 mapped to 7110
imap: 143 mapped to 7143
ldap: 389 mapped to 7389
https: 443 mapped to 7443
imaps: 993 mapped to 7993
pop3s: 995 mapped to 7995
The install/run scripts were very tailored for RH/Fedora.
This page has a good walkthrough of a developer install.
make dev-install got me going on the right path.
It was unfortunate that I ran out of weekend before getting it to work as I really liked the look of the calendaring integration and overall interface.
OSX makes my life a lot harder than it needs to be. I much prefer my OOTB slack 10.1 install. OSX makes me hack makefiles for just about everything, if it wasn't so infuriating it would be comical. At this point I am so fed up with the lack of support for OSS that I may never take it seriously.
Joke OS, worse than Windows2000 for getting done what needs to be done. Yes, that's right, even cygwin requires less work on my part to use the world's best software.
There is much speculation that the producers of Battlestar Galactica conducted a quiet stealtht marketing ploy by allowing their show to be distributed via BitTorrent and other P2P vectors -- and it worked. BG gained an audience, and surely some of it came from those who had downloaded earlier episodes. Now, the same is being said of the new Doctor Who.
As if they have some control over the distribution of their shows on the Internet. I am sure Hollywood would love to know the secret.
I don't use iTunes, AirMiles or CreditCards et al.
Why should I *pay* these companies for the reverse right of consumer information? I should not have to pay for their data collection. Indeed if this information is valuable to them I should receive compensation in a tangible form.
Same holds true for DebitCards, I just use my local bank and get cash. No money trail, no profit for this multi-billion dollar marketing machine.
Be aware of your breadcrumbs and who is picking them up. Your future identity could depend on it.
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I've been using DSLibris for the NDS and I can't see ever wanting to go back to dead tree, for novels at any rate.
It can't show any images - in fact it is limited to xhtml files but the layout is similar to a traditional book (2 pages in view) without the thumb fatigue massive paperback editions can cause, it's lighter, smaller, can carry lots of books and bookmarks your page in each book.
I'm on my 4th book so far and version 1.2 is showing a lot of refinement.
I'm surprised a real e-book in a clamshell form hasn't been brought to market yet as it is really much nicer to use.
Caveat: don't let your batteries run out or the fibre nerds will kick sand in your face.
I don't know, I think BB has the potential to create a pretty gadgety set-top-box. Each brick & mortar location could become in effect an ISP and data-centre housing cached (edge network) copies of the movies. I think there is a competitive advantage in there somewhere.
Add in Internet and ad-sponsored rentals and maybe this is a picture of what they're thinking -
"a data-centre in evey BB dumpster".
I don't know what is up with them but it sure makes thumb-surfing on my n800 easier.
Toboggan Hill has a great feel and user created levels:
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/games/tobogganhill/
Scoops makes you wish you could walk and chew gum at the same time:
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/games/scoops/
It's nice to code for yourself, but when the reality distortion field is not in effect things become much less simple.
<Trimp> Wait, you coded this site so it looked good to you and 10 of your warcraft buddies?
<Simp> yep
<Trimp> Well, that certainly is an interesting approach, what about the 93 percent of the rest of the world?
<Simp> Errrrm.... but it's how it SHOULD be, gah! Open Standards, baaaa, superior layout and perfomance, baaaa
<Trimp> You're fired!
Alas, the day of the single-browser coder has faded, welcome to 1998.
In Soviet Russia the interface conventions of Web 2.0 will strain the iPhone's multi-touch UI.
Seriously, who cares, you, as webmaster, want to make an impact on the most prolific online wireless devices.
Customize for DS Browser, no images, text only, layout is up to user - then, _maybe_ you'll be ready for other mobile browsers especially those with per-byte metering.
Think iPhone plan is going to be unlimited data? Think different.
The rest are way down the list.
2009 for iPhone, if ever. At least hedge your bets.
this facetious rant brought to you by the makers of Ti(l)de "Wash once Run anywhere".
You could put the collectors over the road like a roof, the built-in maintenance road and savings from reduced car air-conditioning needs could make it a workable solution.
Whatever Blizzards' motivation it likely adds a lot to developer/artist collaboration and morale as the art dept, or some of it at least, is probably Mac oriented.
Could help them get and keep a lot of talented people.
rgr,
"That had to hurt!",
"Try a bigger gun"
Pirates!
You'll need a C64 on that island though...
Your AppleII island is doomed to be pwnd by my C64 island, welcome to the empire!
Total yes to #2 (ut99), and I'd add the bunny tracks mod,
damn I could play those forever.
Live to a hundred years? start making your own maps.
Most of these users that are being sneered at are quite at home with a computer screen and keyboard/mouse that reliably does what they are paid to do with it, i.e.
typewriting
calculating
messaging
filling in forms
that's about it.
Our MS Office nemesis hits the sweet spot right between "I don't care about your new menu option" and "Damn I wish there were a better way to do this repetitive work".
The user is not stupid, we just think they should be doing neater stuff with all that cool gear.
After 5pm most people only use email.
This will change but P.T. Barnum continues to entertain the American public.
Everyone already has a DVD player.
This is good neutral position between ps3 and 360, Nintendo can sell both blueray and hddvd. That way they can stay safely out of the fray of the ridiculous format war while supporting both.
They wont incur the cost of returns for drives burnt out from excess use and it'll last longer after warranty.
Wii, though - that's right up there with the "New Coke" debacle.
that said I'd still get one.
This bundling is a completely unneccesary and reprehensible cash-grab from Apple.
I shelled out for QuickTime 6 Pro. Bought a shuffle, installed iTunes and presto! no more QuickTime Pro - just the regular crippled QuickTime 7. Never again.
This is happening all over the place and impacts business as employees install iTunes to manage thier pods at work and nuke the Pro 6 licenses. It is going to cost my company alone several thousand dollars. Now that's a halo effect.
Why wasn't Flash included in the survey?
Because it would be impossible to discern any difference whatsoever betweeen WM/RP/QT - the Flash graph line would be several inches above the rest.
This is a comparison of fringe media players. I guess they've conceded the race is over as any relevant survey would embarrass all three.
I downloaded this, ... and no volume control!
installed it,
imported the mp3 directory,
started playing a song,
tried to change the volume...
scanned the preferences to no avail.
uninstalled.
greatest mp3 player in existence?
no sir.
Let's hope they've improved their software since the days of SonicStage for the mini-disc player. That app was a steaming pile - I would need to invest 2 to 3 hours loading up 40 songs on a disc.
Sluggish interface, frequent crashes and insane wait times while it converted mp3 to aac were what relegated that player to the "shelf of shame." oh yeah that and the 20% of my songs that it refused to convert due to an opaque decision by the drm engine - a nightmare in itself.
Trust that I won't be purchasing this or any "convert-to-our-formats" Sony gear, ever. Do yourself a favor and wait for the knock-offs to come out.
It just begs the question, doesn't it?
Yeah it does.
I recently rented a car and was asked for my cell phone number, seemed perfectly reasonable, like if I needed roadside assistance.
What if the rental company, or any company, had an infrastructure to deal with government requests for information in a timely fashion - an "emergency access protocol", and what if it was stupid easy to access and audit the "emergency access protocol" usage records, well - after a while - and multiplying by the number of places where I have given out my cell number excluding friends and family...
Lets just say that if there were an emergency, or really just anything, I feel like it is a given that the government, suddenly, could have a really good idea of where I am or would likely be.
I kinda don't mind, as long as they remember to call me when the frog-rains begin.
win2kworkstation.inf
and the only line that made much sense was: The rest of them (about 200) look a bit like entries to the obfuscated perl contest, admittedly I am no windows guru but it would be nice if lines like: were commented. For all I know this is what went wrong at the Union Aerospace Corp. Mars Research Facility.
Wow what a race, after almost 8 hours of autonomous control, the Carnegie Mellon Red Team has won the Darpa Grand Challenge with a time of 7 hrs 54 minutes, a mere 2 minutes ahead of the Stanford Racing Team. This is very exciting, I was riveted to my flash player map updates! A great accomplishment DARPA again proves it's worth the money.
Hey hey, Team Stanford has completed the course! well done!
I tried building this for Slackware 10.1 over the weekend and only had to install ant and jdk.
It comes with everything included: mysql, spamassassin, tomcat and postfix.
One issue were the required port mappings:
smtp: 25 mapped to 7075
http: 80 mapped to 7070
pop3: 110 mapped to 7110
imap: 143 mapped to 7143
ldap: 389 mapped to 7389
https: 443 mapped to 7443
imaps: 993 mapped to 7993
pop3s: 995 mapped to 7995
The install/run scripts were very tailored for RH/Fedora.
This page has a good walkthrough of a developer install.
make dev-install got me going on the right path.
It was unfortunate that I ran out of weekend before getting it to work as I really liked the look of the calendaring integration and overall interface.
OSX makes my life a lot harder than it needs to be.
I much prefer my OOTB slack 10.1 install. OSX makes me hack makefiles for just about everything, if it wasn't so infuriating it would be comical.
At this point I am so fed up with the lack of support for OSS that I may never take it seriously.
Joke OS, worse than Windows2000 for getting done what needs to be done.
Yes, that's right, even cygwin requires less work on my part to use the world's best software.
Live free.
just another brick in the wall.
I don't use iTunes, AirMiles or CreditCards et al.
Why should I *pay* these companies for the reverse right of consumer information? I should not have to pay for their data collection. Indeed if this information is valuable to them I should receive compensation in a tangible form.
Same holds true for DebitCards, I just use my local bank and get cash. No money trail, no profit for this multi-billion dollar marketing machine.
Be aware of your breadcrumbs and who is picking them up. Your future identity could depend on it.