This is the whole point of Open Source is it not? Shouldn't we be focusing on web standards? Who wants to limit ourselves to two or three browsers? I thought we were supposed to be freeing ourselves of vendor lock in. What good is Open Source if we can't deviate from it?
I'm always surprised at the "we don't need another browser" argument, especially in open source leaning communities. I thought that was the whole point of Open Source? Free as in Freedom? Not to be locked into a since (or two or three) instances of a software application. To take it and modify it, make something better, something that works for you.
I say we should have as many browsers as people want. They should all work on Open Standards.
Disclaimer, I like Opera, and I'm much more an Open Standards advocate than an Open Source advocate.
This is a great idea. It's already pretty well successfully implemented with pinger.com. It works similarly, you dial pinger and immedately get prompted for a name from your contact list, and then talk and hang up. The recipient gets a text/SMS message with a number to dial that *immediately* lets them hear the message (they don't have to have pinger accounts) I've been using this for quite some time.
People here are posting about interacting with people, but come on, really how about respecting their time? When my wife is home with the baby, I'd rather send a text or VM without ringing the phone...who knows if she remembered to turn the ringer off. But the real point is "near time communication" as opposed to real-time. I don't like getting phone calls while I'm driving or at work. It's much easier to look at my phone and see a SMS/VM and respond to it when I'm comfortable, and able to give the caller my full attention.
That's fine. (and well, you do get URLs, but I get your point)...But what if it's not a "URL" bar anymore. What if the majority of users want an "awesome bar" -or a universal bar. I like it because it's the same keyboard shortcut to pull up *anything* I browsed before. I execute the same action, and no matter what's rolling around in my head (URL, history, page title..) I can just start typing and find it.
It may not match your expectations, and I don't blame you for wanting a URL only bar, but I'm done thinking about URLs. I rarely think about web content as only a URL, so this matches my expectations.
right- I never get caught up in the "they stole X from Opera..." or "they stole Y from Firefox." But I've finally managed to get my feathers ruffled about this whole "awesome bar" nonsense. Opera does it a step better than Firefox. Plus, the address bar star icon to bookmark *used* to be in Opera before the community thought it shouldn't be (I advocated it however).. it feels like "sloppy seconds" when I see it in Firefox.
Anyway, maybe it's just the term "awesome" being used that irks me. I'll leave the slashdot crew with the following: "use whatever browser works best for you, and go in peace to love and surf the web."
lol... classic.
I'm re-reading Clarke's stuff these days... I've been through Childhood's end, Times Eye (with Baxter) and the 20XX series. It's interesting, I was traveling in Turkey and found Time's Eye in a hotel room and started at it.. a Turkish gentleman on the plane saw me reading it and mentioned the Odyssey series and I picked them up and re-read them again, I'm right in the middle of 2061 when this news finds me.
RIP
Military Madness was my favorite as well and still the first game I seek out when i download the TG emulator on occasions
Also, they had the handheld that was color *and* played the same games as the console. Very nice.
I remember looking down into the rooms from a floor above or somehow getting up above the rooms in the LS nursery- I TK'd (I think) a first aid kit from the room in question.
I missed the room in Fontaine's place though- I'll have to double check that.
I also missed on the second encounter with Sander Cohen in his apartment - so I'll have to check that out too.
Now that I search my soul- I remember being pretty upset I didn't register to comment. I rarely do now and even less so back in the day. I know I was reading slashdot at my first programming job in college back in 98-99. I wish I would have registered.
The article admits that user creations have made YouTube popular, why would you want to get away from that?
Seems pretty clear to me... to get get away from user creations that made YouTube popular and focus on something else that might make them popular. A different niche... like television length content. I wouldn't mind something like that. YouTube is fine for a quick clip of something funny, but I'd like to go to a place that had (legally) all the Saturday Night Live skits, or other TV content, something of that nature which (without having to go to each station/show/corporate website to see them)
Just because "user creations" are popular doesn't mean that's the only forumula for online video.
This still doesn't make any sense to me anymore than I suppose what I'm saying doesn't make any sense to you.
If you look at the picture in the post, that is exactly how I feel it most comfortable to hold the phone and my thumb is closer to the top of the phone then the bottom.
My palm doesn't cover the screen, I don't have to bend or contort my my hands, I don't violate the design of the human body.. it's just more comfortable. I suppose we'll agree to disagree.
This doesn't make any sense at all. Do you *really* need to curve your thumbs outward to prevent the screen from being conceled?
Let's see... according to human anatomy, when my palms are facing in, my thumbs are higher up than the rest of my fingers... ie, they're at the "top" of the hand, It would be nice to hold a device where the top of it was easily in reach of my thumbs while comfortably holding the device.
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This is the whole point of Open Source is it not? Shouldn't we be focusing on web standards? Who wants to limit ourselves to two or three browsers? I thought we were supposed to be freeing ourselves of vendor lock in. What good is Open Source if we can't deviate from it?
I'm always surprised at the "we don't need another browser" argument, especially in open source leaning communities. I thought that was the whole point of Open Source? Free as in Freedom? Not to be locked into a since (or two or three) instances of a software application. To take it and modify it, make something better, something that works for you.
I say we should have as many browsers as people want. They should all work on Open Standards.
Disclaimer, I like Opera, and I'm much more an Open Standards advocate than an Open Source advocate.
This is a great idea. It's already pretty well successfully implemented with pinger.com. It works similarly, you dial pinger and immedately get prompted for a name from your contact list, and then talk and hang up. The recipient gets a text/SMS message with a number to dial that *immediately* lets them hear the message (they don't have to have pinger accounts) I've been using this for quite some time.
People here are posting about interacting with people, but come on, really how about respecting their time? When my wife is home with the baby, I'd rather send a text or VM without ringing the phone...who knows if she remembered to turn the ringer off. But the real point is "near time communication" as opposed to real-time. I don't like getting phone calls while I'm driving or at work. It's much easier to look at my phone and see a SMS/VM and respond to it when I'm comfortable, and able to give the caller my full attention.
That's fine. (and well, you do get URLs, but I get your point) ...But what if it's not a "URL" bar anymore. What if the majority of users want an "awesome bar" -or a universal bar. I like it because it's the same keyboard shortcut to pull up *anything* I browsed before. I execute the same action, and no matter what's rolling around in my head (URL, history, page title..) I can just start typing and find it.
It may not match your expectations, and I don't blame you for wanting a URL only bar, but I'm done thinking about URLs. I rarely think about web content as only a URL, so this matches my expectations.
right- I never get caught up in the "they stole X from Opera..." or "they stole Y from Firefox." But I've finally managed to get my feathers ruffled about this whole "awesome bar" nonsense. Opera does it a step better than Firefox. Plus, the address bar star icon to bookmark *used* to be in Opera before the community thought it shouldn't be (I advocated it however).. it feels like "sloppy seconds" when I see it in Firefox.
Anyway, maybe it's just the term "awesome" being used that irks me. I'll leave the slashdot crew with the following: "use whatever browser works best for you, and go in peace to love and surf the web."
I'm buying you a pizza.
lol... classic. I'm re-reading Clarke's stuff these days... I've been through Childhood's end, Times Eye (with Baxter) and the 20XX series. It's interesting, I was traveling in Turkey and found Time's Eye in a hotel room and started at it.. a Turkish gentleman on the plane saw me reading it and mentioned the Odyssey series and I picked them up and re-read them again, I'm right in the middle of 2061 when this news finds me. RIP
Unable to outlive Heywood Floyd.
Beautiful. I'm going through Clarke's books again and that's the first thing I thought of as well.
Military Madness was my favorite as well and still the first game I seek out when i download the TG emulator on occasions Also, they had the handheld that was color *and* played the same games as the console. Very nice.
Nope. all the reasonable ones are baked right in.
I remember looking down into the rooms from a floor above or somehow getting up above the rooms in the LS nursery- I TK'd (I think) a first aid kit from the room in question.
I missed the room in Fontaine's place though- I'll have to double check that.
I also missed on the second encounter with Sander Cohen in his apartment - so I'll have to check that out too.
Now that I search my soul- I remember being pretty upset I didn't register to comment. I rarely do now and even less so back in the day. I know I was reading slashdot at my first programming job in college back in 98-99. I wish I would have registered.
Is there anyway to tell when you registered? Can one decipher it from my number?
Also important to note that the MAC is now known as the AMC (Air Mobility Command)
My first thought as well.
I read that summary and thought... "So.. if I throw a medieval sword into a whale, then he'd be *really* old."
I too wish I had some points to mod this up.
Well obviously... where else would you put the space cantina?
Seems pretty clear to me... to get get away from user creations that made YouTube popular and focus on something else that might make them popular. A different niche... like television length content. I wouldn't mind something like that. YouTube is fine for a quick clip of something funny, but I'd like to go to a place that had (legally) all the Saturday Night Live skits, or other TV content, something of that nature which (without having to go to each station/show/corporate website to see them)
Just because "user creations" are popular doesn't mean that's the only forumula for online video.
I'm actually the other way around for most software:
I want:
1) To conform to open standards
2) To have the source code to the application
If it interoperates, that is best, If I can tweak it, that's something I can do if I get really bored.
This still doesn't make any sense to me anymore than I suppose what I'm saying doesn't make any sense to you.
If you look at the picture in the post, that is exactly how I feel it most comfortable to hold the phone and my thumb is closer to the top of the phone then the bottom.
My palm doesn't cover the screen, I don't have to bend or contort my my hands, I don't violate the design of the human body.. it's just more comfortable. I suppose we'll agree to disagree.
This doesn't make any sense at all. Do you *really* need to curve your thumbs outward to prevent the screen from being conceled?
Let's see... according to human anatomy, when my palms are facing in, my thumbs are higher up than the rest of my fingers... ie, they're at the "top" of the hand, It would be nice to hold a device where the top of it was easily in reach of my thumbs while comfortably holding the device.
which was a nice perk I mentioned when I wrote about this
I already added my DAP to the list
There's still plenty of room to innovate in browsers.
I doubt netscape can do it, but I for one welcome more choice and I'm surprised by the slashdot "why bother" response.