Still looks like portable "Word w/ Track Changes"
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Every time I look at Wave and its threaded conversations I think of Word documents when you track changes. (shudder) I think the most popular option on Wave will be a "ignore everyone's inane comments and just let me look at the original content" option.
I drive a VW Golf TDI ("turbo diesel...") for both the gas mileage and the torque. (That's good for acceleration.) To broaden your mind, stop at a VW dealership and try one out.
I love my car, but I'd replace it with a commercially available diesel electric hybrid in a heartbeat. Beyond the incredible mileage, there would be something cool about driving a diesel+electric arrangement similar to that in train locomotives.
Call me a cynic, but the Wave format reminds me of a Word doc with "Track Changes" turned on. My first thoughts were that the most used features of Wave might be "ignore contributions" and "de-contextualize contributions and list as a change history instead". Otherwise, they could be as hard to read as a coherent thread as...Slashdot.
...they impressed reviewers...gained a lot of community respect...What is really going to set (this product) apart though, both from (last year's model) and their competition, are the much lower prices allowed... (Magazine that we paid) has posted a full review and breakdown of the new product line that should be available next week.
Nice now and again to see that it isn't just geeks who tune in to Slashdot.
They've got a nice slant though on what this big bang experiment is going to mean for the IT Industry.
Here's the short, short version: NOTHING.
Yes, there are lots of computers in use, but is there anything particularly unusual going on here or an brand new way of organizing IT? No? OK, then.
this still doesn't answer the "Why is Lego so expensive?" question
C'mon - seriously? Why does Starbucks coffee or Coke cost the consumer 25x the cost of the ingredients? Why do baseball cards cost 50x the cost of the paper and print?
It's all BRAND. You're not paying for the plastic - you're paying for the TV commericals, the packaging, the crappy Star Wars licensing fees and even the salary of the PR flunky who gets this crap posted on SlashDot.
"Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Michael Aâ(TM)Hearn
Huh? Did he just say that habitable planets must have large moons? (I've heard a similar argument before - something about two widely spaced bodies keeping the big one from wobbling too much.)
"Potential" for full-length TV shows? Isn't the fact that full-length TV shows are already available on YouTube with the commercials edited out already the reason YouTube exists?
Are you sure this protects anyone other than Red Hat, Inc.?
"The settlement is said to protect upstream developers and derivative works of the upstream software, thus protecting the overall Open Source community. Full terms of the settlement and patent licenses are not available at this time."
In other words..."trust us, you little people wouldn't understand the details?"
Dear Sir:
Who's using SlashDot more effectively as a recruiting tool? The U.S. Army (with posts such as this) or the U.S. Airforce (with its posts relating to its Saturday-morning "CyberSquad" or whatever).
Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices...
Sure, maybe if you're a patient sadist when it comes to admin interfaces.
If I charge $10, I get to keep $7. If 14 people in the world buy it, I've broken even.
Yikes - yes, let's keep you away from the business side of the house.
You forgot to include the value of your time to develop the application, any time it might take to market it (e.g., even if it's just posting to Slashdot), any support costs, taxes, etc. Also, if 10K people might buy your app for their iPhone, there might be 100K people who might buy it if had a wider cell phone base, or 1000K people who might buy it if it was available for PCs, etc., so you might be chasing a tiny "profit pool" anyway if you only target the iPhone.
Microsoft has a similar model going with MSDN and lesser licenses and so do thousands of other vendors with a proprietary platform and a paid SDK/API/dev environment.
The $99 is there basically to protect Apple from the total time-wasters; Apple would otherwise give this away free so they can get developers, developers, developers.
Apple's grand strategy is the same as any highly successful tech company: lock-in based on a solid platform. e.g., Microsoft: proprietary OS platform with integrated business apps; Apple: proprietary hardware and music store with integrated components; Cisco, proprietary hardware overlaid with integrated interface, etc.
The real strength is the iPhone 2.0 software
Nah...as a developer I really don't give two hoots about this unless it's something I can use cross-platform. The iPhone is such a small player in the cell phone market that I'd rather just handle it through optimized web sites and web services than building some localized app that will break with iPhone 3.0 software.
According to the researchers, such robots 'could cooperatively track moving targets underwater, such as groups of whales...
Anyone else miss the cold war? In the eighties the press release about such gizmos would have mentioned "commie subs poised to vaporize Dick, Jane and their good ol' American homestead on a few minutes notice." Instead, we're left with following "groups of whales" around - sheesh.
Wow - leave it to a slow news day on Slashdot to give us TWO blasts from the past.
The NBA: Remember when Jordan was still in the league (and there was a reason to at least tune in to a couple of playoff games)?
"NetworkWorld" Magazine: I thought all the old timers who still read on this rag had early-retiremented their way out of the industry. Nice to see they have a website now - I wonder if they'll make a play for relevance in this decade.
If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft...
A knockout punch? As we all saw in the "anonymous PDF" thing the other day, even Google can't get off Microsoft Office for basic business documents. I think a lot of people would be happy if Google even started to edge up toward 10% market share in the next couple of years.
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Every time I look at Wave and its threaded conversations I think of Word documents when you track changes. (shudder) I think the most popular option on Wave will be a "ignore everyone's inane comments and just let me look at the original content" option.
I drive a VW Golf TDI ("turbo diesel...") for both the gas mileage and the torque. (That's good for acceleration.) To broaden your mind, stop at a VW dealership and try one out.
I love my car, but I'd replace it with a commercially available diesel electric hybrid in a heartbeat. Beyond the incredible mileage, there would be something cool about driving a diesel+electric arrangement similar to that in train locomotives.
Call me a cynic, but the Wave format reminds me of a Word doc with "Track Changes" turned on. My first thoughts were that the most used features of Wave might be "ignore contributions" and "de-contextualize contributions and list as a change history instead". Otherwise, they could be as hard to read as a coherent thread as...Slashdot.
(person) complains about (whatever) on (new media), gets sued by (vendor)
I, for one, look forward to the first formulaic article about telepathy...
Released/posted after close of business on a Friday? I'd say this is part of a coordinated effort to say as little as possible about this.
BTW, a better/original story link is here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
Wow - Vigile put on a marketing CLINIC just now.
...they impressed reviewers...gained a lot of community respect...What is really going to set (this product) apart though, both from (last year's model) and their competition, are the much lower prices allowed... (Magazine that we paid) has posted a full review and breakdown of the new product line that should be available next week.
Nice now and again to see that it isn't just geeks who tune in to Slashdot.
Is there a transcript? (Don't have time to watch a video...zzz.)
Now if only we could launch a satellite to keep an eye on carbon...we did? What happened?
Fitting name for an invisible planet: Named after a fertility goddess...yet geeks will only ever know her through pictures on the web.
As a US taxpayer, I'd say my money has been well spent. ;)
Here's the short, short version: NOTHING.
Yes, there are lots of computers in use, but is there anything particularly unusual going on here or an brand new way of organizing IT? No? OK, then.
Three game press releases in a row? C'mon editors - got anything for the dozen or so real geeks still reading this site every other day?
C'mon - seriously? Why does Starbucks coffee or Coke cost the consumer 25x the cost of the ingredients? Why do baseball cards cost 50x the cost of the paper and print?
It's all BRAND. You're not paying for the plastic - you're paying for the TV commericals, the packaging, the crappy Star Wars licensing fees and even the salary of the PR flunky who gets this crap posted on SlashDot.
Huh? Did he just say that habitable planets must have large moons? (I've heard a similar argument before - something about two widely spaced bodies keeping the big one from wobbling too much.)
Is this the second coming of VRML?
"Potential" for full-length TV shows? Isn't the fact that full-length TV shows are already available on YouTube with the commercials edited out already the reason YouTube exists?
Dear Sir: Who's using SlashDot more effectively as a recruiting tool? The U.S. Army (with posts such as this) or the U.S. Airforce (with its posts relating to its Saturday-morning "CyberSquad" or whatever).
You forgot to include the value of your time to develop the application, any time it might take to market it (e.g., even if it's just posting to Slashdot), any support costs, taxes, etc. Also, if 10K people might buy your app for their iPhone, there might be 100K people who might buy it if had a wider cell phone base, or 1000K people who might buy it if it was available for PCs, etc., so you might be chasing a tiny "profit pool" anyway if you only target the iPhone.
Microsoft has a similar model going with MSDN and lesser licenses and so do thousands of other vendors with a proprietary platform and a paid SDK/API/dev environment.
The $99 is there basically to protect Apple from the total time-wasters; Apple would otherwise give this away free so they can get developers, developers, developers.
Wow - leave it to a slow news day on Slashdot to give us TWO blasts from the past. The NBA: Remember when Jordan was still in the league (and there was a reason to at least tune in to a couple of playoff games)? "NetworkWorld" Magazine: I thought all the old timers who still read on this rag had early-retiremented their way out of the industry. Nice to see they have a website now - I wonder if they'll make a play for relevance in this decade.