According to Nielsen//NetRatings' Winter 2003 @Plan data, OSDN is the No. 1 network for delivering people who look for technology news online and the No. 1 network for delivering visitors who have shopped for or purchased software online in the past 6 months, based on composition. OSDN is the home of several popular web sites, including the award winning news discussion site, Slashdot.org, and the world's largest collaborative software development site, SourceForge.net
I don't want to say anything else too specific, but there's more going on between Apple and these artists than just this. Expect to see more interesting things in the coming months.
Like this? Then why preannounce the platform without any content on it? Couldn't this have waited until MWSF? Or will there be a nice Christmas present coming to all buyers of the signed units?
This could be cool (rather, worth the money) if Apple and the artists' labels got together and offered unique and compelling content only available for the signature-series iPods. Instead of pushing this as a logo gimmick, maybe selling "a year-long subscription to content only available to these iPods" would make the offer appealing.
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Wrong, it was only the U.S. citizens who got to decide that the $1B was spent on Landsat, but all tax-paying U.S. residents (including non-citizens) coughed up the dough. Non-citizens just don't have any representation regarding how their tax dollars are spent.
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Ironically, this was submitted (and rejected) earlier today; faulting myself for not having checked for this thread before submitting (or acting before.)
The "Earth As Art" images are also available for Mac OS X v10.2 users as a.Mac (dot-mac) module for Screen Effects. Type in "EarthAsArt" as the.Mac Membership Name in the preferences to get the show going.
The imagery is a pick of about ten random images from the about fourty images available, randomized daily by a Perl script and pushed to the site with HTTP::DAV.
Prior art disclaimer:
[hypsis:~] uucee% HEAD http://homepage.mac.com/EarthAsArt/.Pictures/Slide %20Shows/Public/aleutian-1.jpg Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 22:23:36 GMT Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:25:50 GMT
The "EarthAsArt".Mac account is a trial account expiring 1/15/2003, and in no way affiliated with the oganizations the imagery originates from.
The SDK could be better, but reading the SDK together with the sources for Apple's own channels pretty much gives a developer most of what one could want. Granted, the sources for Apple's channels are not available, but using curl or HTTP GET shouldn't be too hard to get at the sources, especially on a Mac OS X box.
Not having developed a channel for Watson, I cannot compare the two but it's hard to argue against Apple's choice of standards-based tools in Sherlock: XPath, XQuery and JavaScript (ECMAScript). Being part of the OS is a big win, too. Simply give a Mac OS X 10.2 user a sherlock: URI and they'll be able to access the channel without having to install a commercial third-party utility.
Here's a multilingual channel into a bibliographic database "Plussa" (the actual libraries are in the Helsinki area.): Libplussa
/. doesn't parse the URI so here it is again: sherlock://homepage.mac.com/uucee/sherlock3/libplu ssa.xml
The 24-year-old student with a 20-year perspective on UI design wrote up "The top ten usability problems in Mozilla" a while back. Consider Item 9: "Validation". That is so a usability problem for Mozilla it's amazing how nothing's being done about it.
Especially since mpt acted as the UI module owner for Mozilla.
A good example of open source design gone bad; where every voice is counted, regardless of whether that voice has any merit to it or not. Like a mirage, lack of ownership makes any ownership look a solution to the problem. Enthusiasm and verbosity belie the lack of expertise.
What if a company has a work-in-progress version of its q/annual report, with inaccurate numbers, basically a boilerplate with numbers to be fixed later. Then someone mistakenly publishes that on the company's site before the actual results are announced.
Say this "accident" happens a few hours before the real deal.
Now, a news agency picks up this WIP report, then goes on to report the numbers on it.
Stock swings, profits are made, eventually the real thing comes out. Pop goes the news agency's credibility.
The WIP numbers could be just a tad off the whisper figures, but still enough to cause a market move, hence the news agency doesn't doubt the numbers which cannot be confirmed or denied by the company itself.
A news agency's worth is its credibility and accuracy, especially concerning financial info. Which will be the first casualty of a faulty leak?
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OSDN probably wouldn't mind. Imagine the ratings spike!
About OSDN:No, just proof that they've got an audience that'll watch these shows.
You only win if you don't play: stop going to the movies, watching TV, listening to the radio, going to the theater, reading books, posting on /., ...
Images of Tom Hanks and a volleyball come to mind. D'oh!
This could be cool (rather, worth the money) if Apple and the artists' labels got together and offered unique and compelling content only available for the signature-series iPods. Instead of pushing this as a logo gimmick, maybe selling "a year-long subscription to content only available to these iPods" would make the offer appealing.
Wrong, it was only the U.S. citizens who got to decide that the $1B was spent on Landsat, but all tax-paying U.S. residents (including non-citizens) coughed up the dough. Non-citizens just don't have any representation regarding how their tax dollars are spent.
Ironically, this was submitted (and rejected) earlier today; faulting myself for not having checked for this thread before submitting (or acting before.)
The "Earth As Art" images are also available for Mac OS X v10.2 users as a .Mac (dot-mac) module for Screen Effects. Type in "EarthAsArt" as the .Mac Membership Name in the preferences to get the show going.
The images were mangled with .Mac Slides Publisher and the resulting slide show tweaked to include PDF intertitles.
The imagery is a pick of about ten random images from the about fourty images available, randomized daily by a Perl script and pushed to the site with HTTP::DAV.
Prior art disclaimer:
The "EarthAsArt" .Mac account is a trial account expiring 1/15/2003, and in no way affiliated with the oganizations the imagery originates from.
Enjoy.
CPAN tells no XQuery Perl modules exist: No matches.
The SDK could be better, but reading the SDK together with the sources for Apple's own channels pretty much gives a developer most of what one could want. Granted, the sources for Apple's channels are not available, but using curl or HTTP GET shouldn't be too hard to get at the sources, especially on a Mac OS X box.
Not having developed a channel for Watson, I cannot compare the two but it's hard to argue against Apple's choice of standards-based tools in Sherlock: XPath, XQuery and JavaScript (ECMAScript). Being part of the OS is a big win, too. Simply give a Mac OS X 10.2 user a sherlock: URI and they'll be able to access the channel without having to install a commercial third-party utility.
Here's a multilingual channel into a bibliographic database "Plussa" (the actual libraries are in the Helsinki area.): Libplussa
/. doesn't parse the URI so here it is again: sherlock://homepage.mac.com/uucee/sherlock3/libplu ssa.xml
Especially since mpt acted as the UI module owner for Mozilla.
A good example of open source design gone bad; where every voice is counted, regardless of whether that voice has any merit to it or not. Like a mirage, lack of ownership makes any ownership look a solution to the problem. Enthusiasm and verbosity belie the lack of expertise.
How can you claim a device not able to play Red Book compliant disks is a CD player?
Where's the support for a DVB-C card for HTV? ;-)
What if a company has a work-in-progress version of its q/annual report, with inaccurate numbers, basically a boilerplate with numbers to be fixed later. Then someone mistakenly publishes that on the company's site before the actual results are announced.
Say this "accident" happens a few hours before the real deal.
Now, a news agency picks up this WIP report, then goes on to report the numbers on it.
Stock swings, profits are made, eventually the real thing comes out. Pop goes the news agency's credibility.
The WIP numbers could be just a tad off the whisper figures, but still enough to cause a market move, hence the news agency doesn't doubt the numbers which cannot be confirmed or denied by the company itself.
A news agency's worth is its credibility and accuracy, especially concerning financial info. Which will be the first casualty of a faulty leak?