I love Slashdot. I love that someone approaching their octogenarian years is reading and commenting on what goes on here.
Apologies if that sounds patronising, sir. I mean it sincerely.
The problem here is that as soon as this practise become even remotely widespread, most of us will be getting our favorite podcasts from BitTorrent rather than iTMS or the host sites.
It's all very well to say that you may consider paying $7 for a series of shows you really enjoy, but what happens when your ten faves are all asking for $7 a season?
I think this will only give rise to a greater number of free podcasts made by people who want to be heard rather than make money.
I don't get it.
My gmail address is first.last@gmail.com. I can only assume that someone else has registered firstlast@gmail.com because if I send an email to that account it never gets to me.
I tried logging into Gmail with firstlast@ and my password but it was invalid.
Surely this can only mean that someone else has access to it. I'm now concerned that mistyped emails will find thier way to my period-less doppleganger.
Anyone else got a similar experience?
One of the biggest traps I have ever seen a geeky developer (and I use the term endearingly) fall into is that the whole world is going to love your product as much as you do.
It just doesn't happen that way unfortunately.
Firefox is probably close to market saturation because anyone who actually cares about their computer and likes to tinker with extension and RSS feeds is using it, but everyone else *just isn't concerned* and it totally passes them by.
Flock is just several orders of magnitude higher up the 'niche' market than that. By reading/. and similar boards all day, it may seem that the world is occupied by similarly minded geeks, but the sad truth is that it isn't.
The vast, vast, VAST majority of people are happy to buy a computer, turn it on and then double-click the icon on the desktop that mentions 'internet' and that is all they will ever do.
Saying that, I probably assume that the Flock developers don't realise that. Maybe they do and yet they still wish to develop a niche product. If that's the case then all power to them!
Video is soooo different to audio on a portable device.
With audio you have the same experience as you'd have in the 'full' sense PLUS listening to an album over and over again is entirely normal and expected.
With video, you may watch the content once or possibly twice in a small form factor and that's it.
Why would anybody buy an iPod movie for full bucks when they can rip? I think the movie studios are all too aware of this which is why they will never agree to a licence similar to the one set up for ITMS.
Sure, the same could be said for music but paying 99c or $10 for an album that you can burn easily to a CD (how common are DVD burners?) is an entirely different matter.
I've always thought that FF would have a tough time being a serious contender.
With Safari on the Mac, IE7 just around the corner and now the free Opera, it certainly does seem that FF will remain a niche product.
Am I the only one who doesn't really understand this need to miniturize everything?
The only exception to this may be the cellphone (says me with a Treo 650). The point is that all these things have to be carried on your person.
I now have a (regular) iPod, a PSP and my previously mentioned Treo.
Sure, for a gadget hound who wants phone, music, movies, games and PDA on my person, this is a shrinking but they will not all fit in my pockets, unless it's winter.
I carry a 'man-bag' when I'm going somewhere sans laptop. Given that, I'm not really bothered that the new iPod is 50% smaller (or whatever). It makes no difference.
My favorite site is going to the wall!
Some other/. regulars may be aware of 'Tech news/social bookmarking (or however it's being described this week)' website, digg.com.
It's taken a lot of it's modding ideas from/. but iplemented them rather differently and there is no editorial control - stories make it to the homepage by virtue of their mod rating.
That site featured this 'news' last week where its legitimacy was quickly demolished (it's hardly difficult).
I mention this because I see a number of digg.com stories making their way to/. some days later and I suspect it's because folk are reading digg and then submitting the item here where the editorial intervention creates the few days of lag.
I've always considered Slashdot to be a place for interesting and intelligent news and debate. The more I see of stories like this making their way on here, the more I am (sadly) beginning to doubt that.
I'm all for a bit of 'dumbing down' for light relief every now and then (that's why I dig digg) but can we please try and maintain at least a reasonable level of genuine geek newsworthiness?
This looks cool and was rather fun to play with in the Java demo, but just how useful is it really?
How many people actually move/copy files in this manner anyway? I suppose Jo(e) Average may but surely anyone who uses a computer at all regularly would copy and paste - I've even seen people copy/cut and paste using menus more than I have seen them drag and drop between open windows.
Neat trick, but... next!
Don't such small percentages usually represent different polls, logs etc.?
Much as I want FF to do so, so well, I don't actually see it ever becoming a dominant force.
Aiming at 10 pc is great but imagine one in ten people using FF. Doesn't sound much, eh?
Before we know it we'll have IE7 and people will be even less inclined to switch. We may even see the some going back to a pop-up blocking, ActiveX disabled, tab-enabled IE.
I think FF's place in history will be remembered as the OS browser that bought the change. Nothing more - and I say that with sadness
OK - I admit to being ignorant of this despite the fact that I have used Adblock for a long while now.
If I block an ad on, say,/., how does that effect the advertiser's page impression stats?
Where on the client does Adblock actually kick in? Does it register the impression and then simply not display it, or does it physically not register an impression at all?
I've gotta say that I'm a little skeptical about the need for some of the 'fixes' in this build.
The attraction of FF is that it's sleek and lightweight. I don't want it to start making all kinds of allowances for bad formatting and adding 'features' like the Sanitize option. This is what optional extensions are for.
Let's focus on keeping FF slender. I don't like to think of a senario in, say, a couple of year's time when FF3.0 has become bloated.
Am I alone?
Certainly given the building blocks currently on offer, I don't really see a need for it.
I have the Gmail Reminder to prompt me to new mail and give me a single click into it. What's the point in having just a few of your emails on a search engine homepage anyway? I don't ever even go to the Google homepage to perform a search as I do it directly from my address bar.
I can sign up for BBC news alerts or read them in RSS format via an aggregator if I want to. In this day and age of information gathering, with so many options available to us to group together the things we want quick and easy access to (even if it's just half a dozen, easily accessible bookmarks!), I don't really understand the point in displaying them all on a page that many people don't habitually visit.
This just goes to show that the more popular an application, the more people will try and find exploits for it.
As FF's marketshare grows, so will the number of exploits found.
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IE7 was released last week. It may be that the automatic update is starting to be rolled out today.
From my contact in the year 2030, here's the latest Google map from that year.d _map_01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Piri_reis_worl
I love Slashdot. I love that someone approaching their octogenarian years is reading and commenting on what goes on here.
Apologies if that sounds patronising, sir. I mean it sincerely.
I read that as Project Onion.
Either way - something to cry over, I'm sure
Was there ever a greater incentive to overtake the vehicle in front of you?
Erm, how could Samsung make a recall on these players? They can't force people to give them back.
Recalls are only for products that are faulty, when the purchaser gladly and willingly returns them.
The problem here is that as soon as this practise become even remotely widespread, most of us will be getting our favorite podcasts from BitTorrent rather than iTMS or the host sites.
It's all very well to say that you may consider paying $7 for a series of shows you really enjoy, but what happens when your ten faves are all asking for $7 a season?
I think this will only give rise to a greater number of free podcasts made by people who want to be heard rather than make money.
I don't get it.
My gmail address is first.last@gmail.com. I can only assume that someone else has registered firstlast@gmail.com because if I send an email to that account it never gets to me.
I tried logging into Gmail with firstlast@ and my password but it was invalid.
Surely this can only mean that someone else has access to it. I'm now concerned that mistyped emails will find thier way to my period-less doppleganger.
Anyone else got a similar experience?
But...
One of the biggest traps I have ever seen a geeky developer (and I use the term endearingly) fall into is that the whole world is going to love your product as much as you do.
It just doesn't happen that way unfortunately.
Firefox is probably close to market saturation because anyone who actually cares about their computer and likes to tinker with extension and RSS feeds is using it, but everyone else *just isn't concerned* and it totally passes them by.
Flock is just several orders of magnitude higher up the 'niche' market than that. By reading /. and similar boards all day, it may seem that the world is occupied by similarly minded geeks, but the sad truth is that it isn't.
The vast, vast, VAST majority of people are happy to buy a computer, turn it on and then double-click the icon on the desktop that mentions 'internet' and that is all they will ever do.
Saying that, I probably assume that the Flock developers don't realise that. Maybe they do and yet they still wish to develop a niche product. If that's the case then all power to them!
Video is soooo different to audio on a portable device.
With audio you have the same experience as you'd have in the 'full' sense PLUS listening to an album over and over again is entirely normal and expected. With video, you may watch the content once or possibly twice in a small form factor and that's it. Why would anybody buy an iPod movie for full bucks when they can rip? I think the movie studios are all too aware of this which is why they will never agree to a licence similar to the one set up for ITMS. Sure, the same could be said for music but paying 99c or $10 for an album that you can burn easily to a CD (how common are DVD burners?) is an entirely different matter.
I expect that RIAA will soon sue FUTURE offsprings. Worse, congress will pass laws that will allow it, and the supremes will back it.
I know this is about the artists and all, but I really don't see a time when The Supremes will get involved.
Are they even still going?
I've always thought that FF would have a tough time being a serious contender.
With Safari on the Mac, IE7 just around the corner and now the free Opera, it certainly does seem that FF will remain a niche product.
Am I the only one who doesn't really understand this need to miniturize everything?
The only exception to this may be the cellphone (says me with a Treo 650). The point is that all these things have to be carried on your person.
I now have a (regular) iPod, a PSP and my previously mentioned Treo.
Sure, for a gadget hound who wants phone, music, movies, games and PDA on my person, this is a shrinking but they will not all fit in my pockets, unless it's winter.
I carry a 'man-bag' when I'm going somewhere sans laptop. Given that, I'm not really bothered that the new iPod is 50% smaller (or whatever). It makes no difference.
My favorite site is going to the wall! /. regulars may be aware of 'Tech news/social bookmarking (or however it's being described this week)' website, digg.com. /. but iplemented them rather differently and there is no editorial control - stories make it to the homepage by virtue of their mod rating. /. some days later and I suspect it's because folk are reading digg and then submitting the item here where the editorial intervention creates the few days of lag.
Some other
It's taken a lot of it's modding ideas from
That site featured this 'news' last week where its legitimacy was quickly demolished (it's hardly difficult).
I mention this because I see a number of digg.com stories making their way to
I've always considered Slashdot to be a place for interesting and intelligent news and debate. The more I see of stories like this making their way on here, the more I am (sadly) beginning to doubt that.
I'm all for a bit of 'dumbing down' for light relief every now and then (that's why I dig digg) but can we please try and maintain at least a reasonable level of genuine geek newsworthiness?
I mean, come on. Pedestrian crossings on such a major road? I think not!
This looks cool and was rather fun to play with in the Java demo, but just how useful is it really?
How many people actually move/copy files in this manner anyway? I suppose Jo(e) Average may but surely anyone who uses a computer at all regularly would copy and paste - I've even seen people copy/cut and paste using menus more than I have seen them drag and drop between open windows.
Neat trick, but... next!
Don't such small percentages usually represent different polls, logs etc.?
Much as I want FF to do so, so well, I don't actually see it ever becoming a dominant force.
Aiming at 10 pc is great but imagine one in ten people using FF. Doesn't sound much, eh?
Before we know it we'll have IE7 and people will be even less inclined to switch. We may even see the some going back to a pop-up blocking, ActiveX disabled, tab-enabled IE.
I think FF's place in history will be remembered as the OS browser that bought the change. Nothing more - and I say that with sadness
OK - I admit to being ignorant of this despite the fact that I have used Adblock for a long while now. /., how does that effect the advertiser's page impression stats?
If I block an ad on, say,
Where on the client does Adblock actually kick in? Does it register the impression and then simply not display it, or does it physically not register an impression at all?
Actually, that's 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.'
A broken clock could, theoretically, be always incorrect.
I've gotta say that I'm a little skeptical about the need for some of the 'fixes' in this build.
The attraction of FF is that it's sleek and lightweight. I don't want it to start making all kinds of allowances for bad formatting and adding 'features' like the Sanitize option. This is what optional extensions are for.
Let's focus on keeping FF slender. I don't like to think of a senario in, say, a couple of year's time when FF3.0 has become bloated.
Am I alone?
Certainly given the building blocks currently on offer, I don't really see a need for it.
I have the Gmail Reminder to prompt me to new mail and give me a single click into it. What's the point in having just a few of your emails on a search engine homepage anyway? I don't ever even go to the Google homepage to perform a search as I do it directly from my address bar.
I can sign up for BBC news alerts or read them in RSS format via an aggregator if I want to. In this day and age of information gathering, with so many options available to us to group together the things we want quick and easy access to (even if it's just half a dozen, easily accessible bookmarks!), I don't really understand the point in displaying them all on a page that many people don't habitually visit.
This just goes to show that the more popular an application, the more people will try and find exploits for it.
As FF's marketshare grows, so will the number of exploits found.