While Schneider wasn't specific, he did say that there was interest in the Mac. 'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider. '
I don't find this surprising. Lately, it seems that Yahoo has been getting some of the positive internet buzz that used to be reserved solely for Google. I imagine that releasing products specifically for Mac users is aimed at garnering similar buzz.
While Macs have a relatively small share of the market, they are, however, well represented among popular bloggers, technorati (ugh) and the mavens of the web: inform or impress these folks, and you will begin to inform and impress the rest of the web. This is a move to grab mindshare.
I know this isn't completely ridiculous, given that it came from the FCC, and therefore is connected to the communications industry, but doesn't this strike anyone else as being a bit like "Let them have broadband!"
I don't want to be the inevitable Slashdot guy who posts this, but I guess I will be: Don't we have some more important problems to which to attend?
Heh, apparently you missed the days of those cardboard layouts that went over keyboards. I distinctly remember one back when we had a PS/2, that showed Wordperfect 3.x's (I think) may keyboard commands. Granted, this isn't as important now, but it'd still be interesting, if for no other reason than it'll lead to more than a few "Oh! I didn't know you could do that by pressing that, in Photoshop."
Hmm...like another poster mentioned, it's kind of like Cafepress, with the important difference that the item is customized by the person buying it. So, rather than me being able to choose from various items that the vendor has created, using his or her artwork, I get to place the artwork of one or more people on any number of items.
Zazzle draws on the creative works of community members and more than 10,000 contributing artists, along with images from partners like Walt Disney, the Library of Congress and others. People can search for and choose an image and then augment it with online design tools before ordering it as a T-shirt, framed canvas, or other item. In turn, Zazzle pays a royalty fee to the artist or content partner.
I like this: in the past, I've seen shirts for sale through Cafepress that I mostly like, but wish I could tweak to a degree.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Reading the two blog entries, there's nothing inconsistent about them: he rails against Sony's crappy implementation of DRM in the first, and against Microsoft's crappy implementation of DRM in the second. He praises Apple's DRM in the first, and that praise still stands: Apple's DRM gets out of your way (at least, I haven't butted up against it, and I use the iTunes Music Store frequently, and own an iPod.)
No kidding. When did appending "-gate" to everything signify it was a scandal. Watergate was so named because the hotel involved was named Watergate.
It's almost as bad as appending "-oholic" onto anything that one is addicted to. "I'm a choco-holic. I'm a rage-aholic". Ugh. Yeah. Right. You're addicted to rageahol, then?" (With apologies to the Simpsons).
Maybe I lack imagination, but I'm not sure that I understand the purpose of IPTV. Television can be viewed on a computer using a simple video card, and any time shifting and program recording can easily be handled by the myriad PVRs available.
Can someone enlighten me why IPTV matters? Is it the possibility of creating your own content, and delivering it What's the deal?
Perhaps this is Microsoft attempting to leverage (yes, I used it correctly!) what they perceive to be as their market dominance to hold users' feet to the fire. Basically, "We've got a lot of users. If you want to communicate with any of them, you're going to need to play by our rules."
Note: I'm not commenting on Sender ID, whether its technically sound, etc... I haven't really been following this. I just think its interesting that Microsoft tries its old tricks in industries where it doesn't necessarily have the clout to do so, at least with as much success.
Well, he was involved with batteries not included, which, for whatever I reason, I have fond memories of (although it's probably because I was 7 at the time.)
No shit. I don't usually bitch about grammar or writing style on Slashdot (I mean, come on, this is Slashdot, after all), but I can't help. From the first sentence of the article:
The first Katamari Damashii game featured a song sung by a girl whose name I didn't know at the time, whose name I learned a little later by way of something inconsequential and later forgot completely.
Whan Noble NVIDIA hath newer cards to showe
Thanne Prices risen higher thann the lowe
And smale cryes comme from Slashdot kin
That Linnux driveres wolde be no sin
I agree. When iTunes first started doing its thing, a lot of people griped that they didn't think there was a large enough difference between the cost of a CD and the cost of a downloaded album. They argued that you're not getting a physical product, and you're getting a lossy copy, so why does it still cost $9.99 (never mind that this is, in some cases, nearly a 50% reduction.)
I never saw it that way. I always thought that the convenience and the speed with which I could acquire the album more than made up for not getting the CD, and not having a perfect, pristine copy. I had a Paypal balance a number of months back, and debated using it on Ebay, to acquire several albums, or on iTunes to do the same. I chose iTunes - even though I might have been able to get more albums, plus liner notes & the original CDs, through eBay. Why did I choose iTunes? Because I wanted the songs on my iPod that day.
We have made experiments with Safari on Mac OSX Tiger (thanks to the generous contributors of our Mac Mini). We have found that the implementation of the Midas Specification is incomplete and this some features is simple not possible to get working with Safari as it is now. We are in contact with Apple Developers and they seem to devote some attention to the issues, we will see in future versions.
If you still wish to donate the page is still up, and you can always donate directly through sourceforge.
Might have been prudent, especially for your donators, to have known that beforehand (although the difficulty with that is obvious).
That's the thing that sickens me the most about every Mac user I know who isn't me - they all seem to keep their entire goddamned filesystem on the desktop. Stick something in its Proper Place in the filesystem and they can't find it!
As hair pulling as this is, applications that tell me where I can put my data piss me off even more.
Heh, yeah - that's almost as bad as random slashdotters who tell me where I can put my files.
For the people who are mourning the loss described in the link, is their grief less meaningful than that of those who knew the person directly, face-to-face? Perhaps, but perhaps not: I know a bunch of people, some of whom I see regularly, but with whom I haven't had as meaningful a relationship as some people I've spoken to online, but have never met in person. Is there a qualitative difference between the two types of social interaction? Probably - but I think it's too easy to say "the way we always used to do things is right" and "This is new, and less personal, and hence, wrong."
I'm just curious - exactly _what_ would include, if not for blogs? Certainly, I can understand not including those parked domain search sites: they're gaming the system, completely unhelpful, and filled with bogus content.
But blogs? Sure, much of the content is poorly written, or not applicable to what most people - or, well, rather, 90% of a given population - are interested in. But in searches especially, doesn't it make sense to list results that include those normal people so interested in a particular topic that they blog about them?
For example, blogs can be very helpful when facing computer troubles, provided you're dealing with bloggers who know how to write for Google. This is a good example. I mean, this surely has to be more worthy of inclusion in Google than the lion's share of those web-based bulletin boards that get indexed - you know the ones, with the "Next in thread" and the replies that are typically out of date, or altogether unrelated to your original query.
Everyone's quick to dismiss things lately. Don't dismiss blogs, just because sometimes their content seems insular and not applicable to what you've searched for. That's a problem with the search engines, not the sites they index.
Only on Slashdot would Yahoo's donation be compared unfavorably to Google, when Yahoo has actually provided something, and Google has merely mentioned it.
One might assume that, if your network's name contains the word "News," you'd hold all your broadcasts accountable to the same level of accuracy and minimization of bias.
The funny part of this is that if this was some conservative trade rag, and the same thing happened I wonder what the headline of the article would have been....
"Washington Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Gays, Clinton"
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I never thought I'd post one of these "Mod Parent Up" posts...but goddamn!@#!
While Schneider wasn't specific, he did say that there was interest in the Mac. 'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider. '
I don't find this surprising. Lately, it seems that Yahoo has been getting some of the positive internet buzz that used to be reserved solely for Google. I imagine that releasing products specifically for Mac users is aimed at garnering similar buzz.
While Macs have a relatively small share of the market, they are, however, well represented among popular bloggers, technorati (ugh) and the mavens of the web: inform or impress these folks, and you will begin to inform and impress the rest of the web. This is a move to grab mindshare.
I know this isn't completely ridiculous, given that it came from the FCC, and therefore is connected to the communications industry, but doesn't this strike anyone else as being a bit like "Let them have broadband!"
I don't want to be the inevitable Slashdot guy who posts this, but I guess I will be: Don't we have some more important problems to which to attend?
Heh, does that mean we get to assume things about your technical aptitude, now?
Heh, apparently you missed the days of those cardboard layouts that went over keyboards. I distinctly remember one back when we had a PS/2, that showed Wordperfect 3.x's (I think) may keyboard commands. Granted, this isn't as important now, but it'd still be interesting, if for no other reason than it'll lead to more than a few "Oh! I didn't know you could do that by pressing that, in Photoshop."
You took the words right out of my mouth. Reading the two blog entries, there's nothing inconsistent about them: he rails against Sony's crappy implementation of DRM in the first, and against Microsoft's crappy implementation of DRM in the second. He praises Apple's DRM in the first, and that praise still stands: Apple's DRM gets out of your way (at least, I haven't butted up against it, and I use the iTunes Music Store frequently, and own an iPod.)
No kidding. When did appending "-gate" to everything signify it was a scandal. Watergate was so named because the hotel involved was named Watergate.
It's almost as bad as appending "-oholic" onto anything that one is addicted to. "I'm a choco-holic. I'm a rage-aholic". Ugh. Yeah. Right. You're addicted to rageahol, then?" (With apologies to the Simpsons).
Maybe I lack imagination, but I'm not sure that I understand the purpose of IPTV. Television can be viewed on a computer using a simple video card, and any time shifting and program recording can easily be handled by the myriad PVRs available.
Can someone enlighten me why IPTV matters? Is it the possibility of creating your own content, and delivering it What's the deal?
Perhaps this is Microsoft attempting to leverage (yes, I used it correctly!) what they perceive to be as their market dominance to hold users' feet to the fire. Basically, "We've got a lot of users. If you want to communicate with any of them, you're going to need to play by our rules."
Note: I'm not commenting on Sender ID, whether its technically sound, etc... I haven't really been following this. I just think its interesting that Microsoft tries its old tricks in industries where it doesn't necessarily have the clout to do so, at least with as much success.
Well, he was involved with batteries not included, which, for whatever I reason, I have fond memories of (although it's probably because I was 7 at the time.)
That would be more like:
Whan Noble NVIDIA hath newer cards to showe Thanne Prices risen higher thann the lowe And smale cryes comme from Slashdot kin That Linnux driveres wolde be no sin
I agree. When iTunes first started doing its thing, a lot of people griped that they didn't think there was a large enough difference between the cost of a CD and the cost of a downloaded album. They argued that you're not getting a physical product, and you're getting a lossy copy, so why does it still cost $9.99 (never mind that this is, in some cases, nearly a 50% reduction.)
I never saw it that way. I always thought that the convenience and the speed with which I could acquire the album more than made up for not getting the CD, and not having a perfect, pristine copy. I had a Paypal balance a number of months back, and debated using it on Ebay, to acquire several albums, or on iTunes to do the same. I chose iTunes - even though I might have been able to get more albums, plus liner notes & the original CDs, through eBay. Why did I choose iTunes? Because I wanted the songs on my iPod that day.
Did he write this book before or after his seminal work on "In Living Color": When Television Was Funny.
"It looks like you're viewing helpful, targeted popup advertisements - at least, you will be soon!"
Ahem, third largest.
I'm just curious - exactly _what_ would include, if not for blogs? Certainly, I can understand not including those parked domain search sites: they're gaming the system, completely unhelpful, and filled with bogus content.
But blogs? Sure, much of the content is poorly written, or not applicable to what most people - or, well, rather, 90% of a given population - are interested in. But in searches especially, doesn't it make sense to list results that include those normal people so interested in a particular topic that they blog about them?
For example, blogs can be very helpful when facing computer troubles, provided you're dealing with bloggers who know how to write for Google. This is a good example. I mean, this surely has to be more worthy of inclusion in Google than the lion's share of those web-based bulletin boards that get indexed - you know the ones, with the "Next in thread" and the replies that are typically out of date, or altogether unrelated to your original query.
Everyone's quick to dismiss things lately. Don't dismiss blogs, just because sometimes their content seems insular and not applicable to what you've searched for. That's a problem with the search engines, not the sites they index.
No shooting? I think you may remembering incorrectly. What about all this non-stop action?
Only on Slashdot would Yahoo's donation be compared unfavorably to Google, when Yahoo has actually provided something, and Google has merely mentioned it.
One might assume that, if your network's name contains the word "News," you'd hold all your broadcasts accountable to the same level of accuracy and minimization of bias.
The funny part of this is that if this was some conservative trade rag, and the same thing happened I wonder what the headline of the article would have been....
"Washington Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Gays, Clinton"