There is a balance between development and production, when you go live and your web-app is well-designed it should be easy to add additional hardware to compensate for performance issues (server is about US$ 2000,- , or the equivalent of 10-20 hours of developer time.)
While I agree with you that hardware is cheap, I don't think many developers are quite lucky enough to be earning $100-$200/hour:)
I doubt this will cause a 'dramatic' increase. The kind of people not running XP aren't the kind of people who care about upgrading their browser either. They will probably stick with IE5/6 whatever they are currently using and continue to be oblivious to the options available to them.
Those people who are even following IE7 or even care, are the kind of people who are already using Firefox/Opera/etc anyway.
Most pretty screenshots I've seen like this are just that. Pretty screenshots. They are mostly awkward and horrible to actually use to get anything done with. OSX manages to look pretty while still being amazingly useful, consistent and intuitive to use.
By default, Opera sends it's user agent as IE6. I doubt very many people change this, the real market share of Opera is likely to be a lot higher, but it is not really possible to know what it is for sure.
I know more people who use Opera than use Firefox. Having said that, these people are mostly technical types..
I for one have no intention if even trying this piece of rubbish, but I welcome it simply for the fact that it will attract attention away from the more traditional torrent sites that seem to be getting so much unwanted legal attention at present.
The scary ones are the ones who know enough to make serious changes to their configuration, but still don't have the sense to change their passwords.
You think that's scary? I recently had my laptop on around my parents house and picked up an open wireless point in the area. No key and the SSID was 'Wireless'. I connected and had a snoop around to try and figure out who it was (my parents have a good relationship with their neighbours).
I discovered that the access point was a linux server with a wireless card in, setup as an AP, obviously not your average joe. There were also 2 other servers on the network and some windows machines with printers and directories shared. From those I discovered the workgroup name, which was the surname of the family that lived there, so I was able to go over the road and inform him. Apparently "he hadn't got round to putting a key on the wireless", I informed him of all the implications and things I could have done and he seemed quite shocked:)
The next day he'd changed the SSID and set a key:)
You must not be involved in business or dealing with the public. That's nice. Here on planet "not living in our parents' basement," we need to let people know what our email address is and have that email address be there for a while.
The company I work for has sales@, info@ addresses available to the public, you can't get employees addresses from the website. My personal work email address is only known internally and by individual clients/people in other companies who we're working with. So no, I'm not receiving spam on that either.
"Seems that LOTS of geeks actually cross their fingers and click those remove links"
I really don't agree. Any respectable geek shouldn't be getting spam in the first place, let alone be stupid enough to click the unsubscribe links.
Personally I haven't had more than 30-50 spams in the last 3 years or so.
I have my main address, which only 'real people' know, friends and family. It never gets any spam because it's totally secret.
Then for everything else I assign a throw away address on one of my domains, the mail on these gets checked only when I'm expecting something (like a signup confirmation/verification etc).
I also have a semi-secret address to give slightly less trustworthy people and to date that hasn't had any spam either.
Obviously I make sure none of my addresses get posted in plain text on the internet either.
It is simply a matter of keeping your address clean. The only way spammers can send me mail right now is if they brute force my email address, and that doesn't happen very often.
The reason movies caught on before TV is because generally the two work differently. A movie you have to make a conscious choice that you want to watch it, you have to take steps to watch a specific film. TV is something you might flick on to see if there is anything interesting on.
Also 90% of TV is very low quality crap, so why would anyone waste their bandwidth downloading it. Films caught on before TV because they are much more 'worthy' of the bandwidth. Most of TV, with the exclusion of the occasional good documentary or high quality series (think 24, Friends, Simpsons, etc) is 'throw away' stuff that you watch mindlessly and forget about, and none of that stuff is something you'd ever download voluntarily (or randomly).
Anyone with the modern hardware required to run games like HL2/Farcry is almost certainly going to have at least a DVDROM drive, the cost of which is nothing compared to the rest of the system. (£10-£15?).
Yes, after watching my brother get completely confused with basic stuff such as the concept of multiple types of pasting in PSP I really don't think you could describe it as something a computer-illiterate person could pick up and use.
While this seems pretty cool, I'd find it pretty tiresome having to keep rebooting to use it then rebooting again to get back to whatever else I was doing. Besides, Chess is better >:)
What if you were to encrypt some data on a video tape and copy it with a couple of vcr's? OH NOES!! look what's happened! Just because the primary use of DVD's atm is encypted video content doesn't mean all DVD's are encrypted.
You overlooked the fact that although Microsoft was rather naughty here, Netscape was (at that time, and probably still is - not that I've tried it for a few years) complete pants.
How will the RIAA react to this, seeing as this is legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music pirating?
Excuse me? Bands have always sold CD's and merchendise at concerts without involvment from the record company - and many bands explicitly allow fan recordings of the concert. Is this just some shameless attempt to bring the word "RIAA" into the post to increase it's chances of getting posted?
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There is a balance between development and production, when you go live and your web-app is well-designed it should be easy to add additional hardware to compensate for performance issues (server is about US$ 2000,- , or the equivalent of 10-20 hours of developer time.)
:)
While I agree with you that hardware is cheap, I don't think many developers are quite lucky enough to be earning $100-$200/hour
I doubt this will cause a 'dramatic' increase. The kind of people not running XP aren't the kind of people who care about upgrading their browser either. They will probably stick with IE5/6 whatever they are currently using and continue to be oblivious to the options available to them. Those people who are even following IE7 or even care, are the kind of people who are already using Firefox/Opera/etc anyway.
Most pretty screenshots I've seen like this are just that. Pretty screenshots. They are mostly awkward and horrible to actually use to get anything done with. OSX manages to look pretty while still being amazingly useful, consistent and intuitive to use.
By default, Opera sends it's user agent as IE6. I doubt very many people change this, the real market share of Opera is likely to be a lot higher, but it is not really possible to know what it is for sure.
I know more people who use Opera than use Firefox. Having said that, these people are mostly technical types..
#21) Completing HL2 :(
I for one have no intention if even trying this piece of rubbish, but I welcome it simply for the fact that it will attract attention away from the more traditional torrent sites that seem to be getting so much unwanted legal attention at present.
The scary ones are the ones who know enough to make serious changes to their configuration, but still don't have the sense to change their passwords.
:)
:)
You think that's scary? I recently had my laptop on around my parents house and picked up an open wireless point in the area. No key and the SSID was 'Wireless'. I connected and had a snoop around to try and figure out who it was (my parents have a good relationship with their neighbours).
I discovered that the access point was a linux server with a wireless card in, setup as an AP, obviously not your average joe. There were also 2 other servers on the network and some windows machines with printers and directories shared. From those I discovered the workgroup name, which was the surname of the family that lived there, so I was able to go over the road and inform him. Apparently "he hadn't got round to putting a key on the wireless", I informed him of all the implications and things I could have done and he seemed quite shocked
The next day he'd changed the SSID and set a key
You must not be involved in business or dealing with the public. That's nice. Here on planet "not living in our parents' basement," we need to let people know what our email address is and have that email address be there for a while.
The company I work for has sales@, info@ addresses available to the public, you can't get employees addresses from the website. My personal work email address is only known internally and by individual clients/people in other companies who we're working with. So no, I'm not receiving spam on that either.
"Seems that LOTS of geeks actually cross their fingers and click those remove links"
I really don't agree. Any respectable geek shouldn't be getting spam in the first place, let alone be stupid enough to click the unsubscribe links.
Personally I haven't had more than 30-50 spams in the last 3 years or so.
I have my main address, which only 'real people' know, friends and family. It never gets any spam because it's totally secret.
Then for everything else I assign a throw away address on one of my domains, the mail on these gets checked only when I'm expecting something (like a signup confirmation/verification etc).
I also have a semi-secret address to give slightly less trustworthy people and to date that hasn't had any spam either.
Obviously I make sure none of my addresses get posted in plain text on the internet either.
It is simply a matter of keeping your address clean. The only way spammers can send me mail right now is if they brute force my email address, and that doesn't happen very often.
The reason movies caught on before TV is because generally the two work differently. A movie you have to make a conscious choice that you want to watch it, you have to take steps to watch a specific film. TV is something you might flick on to see if there is anything interesting on.
Also 90% of TV is very low quality crap, so why would anyone waste their bandwidth downloading it. Films caught on before TV because they are much more 'worthy' of the bandwidth. Most of TV, with the exclusion of the occasional good documentary or high quality series (think 24, Friends, Simpsons, etc) is 'throw away' stuff that you watch mindlessly and forget about, and none of that stuff is something you'd ever download voluntarily (or randomly).
Anyone with the modern hardware required to run games like HL2/Farcry is almost certainly going to have at least a DVDROM drive, the cost of which is nothing compared to the rest of the system. (£10-£15?).
Most modern games don't read data from the CD/DVD these days anyway. They all copy 99% to the hard disk at install time for faster access times.
Yes, after watching my brother get completely confused with basic stuff such as the concept of multiple types of pasting in PSP I really don't think you could describe it as something a computer-illiterate person could pick up and use.
While this seems pretty cool, I'd find it pretty tiresome having to keep rebooting to use it then rebooting again to get back to whatever else I was doing. Besides, Chess is better >:)
Damn, did anyone else read that title think for a brief second that they were going to be treated to some counterstrike source code oogle at?
This thing is eating 7mb of ram on my system, I am not impressed.
Certainly sir, now if you'll just give me all your bank details so I can send you the money...
90 Minutes? I live ~25minutes outside of Bristol and there is no adsl or cable anywhere in my area.
What if you were to encrypt some data on a video tape and copy it with a couple of vcr's? OH NOES!! look what's happened! Just because the primary use of DVD's atm is encypted video content doesn't mean all DVD's are encrypted.
You obviously chose to hang out on the wrong IRC servers.
You overlooked the fact that although Microsoft was rather naughty here, Netscape was (at that time, and probably still is - not that I've tried it for a few years) complete pants.
*Exclusively* hosting a large movie trailer? With a link on Slashdot you say? Uh uh.
So how much spam am I likely to get if I give in and register with NYTimes so I can read the article?
How will the RIAA react to this, seeing as this is legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music pirating?
Excuse me? Bands have always sold CD's and merchendise at concerts without involvment from the record company - and many bands explicitly allow fan recordings of the concert. Is this just some shameless attempt to bring the word "RIAA" into the post to increase it's chances of getting posted?
Don't you just love google.