a fantastic way for billion dollar multi-national software corporations to prevent startup companies from gaining any traction in the marketplace by preventing them from protecting their IP.
The military likes acronyms and abbreviations more than IT.
Excuse me sir. Seeing how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Cause if it leaks to the VC, he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
I'm on/. several times a day, but don't always read the commentary (actually, I read it rarely). So, yeah, it totally slipped by me. Again, I'm admitting that I'm not as plugged in as some, but sorta surprised that I didn't catch at least a tiny hint of the "viral" attempts for SoaP like I did for BWP. At the same time, I'm not the only person who missed this one... most folks I talk to hadn't heard of it until the week or two prior to the release.
I'm fully admitting how out of the loop I am here, but I had no idea that there was any Internet buzz about SoaP until the press started complaining that "all the Internet buzz leading up to the film had little effect on ticket sales".
What Internet buzz? There may have been a ton of buzz out there from a handful of people, but whatever marketing/advertising agency that was in charge of making the rest of the world aware of this buzz did a terrible job of getting that message out there.
This is taken in stark contrast to the internet buzz leading up to Blair Witch, where most people in the target demographic received emails or water cooler mentions from friends and colleagues. Somehow, the group in charge of promoting that film did a tremendous job building the viral marketing machine to get interest drummed up on the film.
There may have been people blogging about SoaP, but unless you're/searching/ for a blog, you won't find it. Blogs generally/aren't/ viral, which is part of the problem here - there was a central set of people blogging and reading those blogs, but the SoaP message never left that core group. It never became "viral" - i.e., a topic that was surreptitiously mentioned in non-formal venues, such as conversations, emails, etc.
Friendster is great, but, though I personally traffic it more than MySpace, I'll never pay to use it (or allow myself to be nickel-and-dimed for using features within it), nor will I click on any ads featured within it. Frankly, I don't see how monetization of Friendster is possible; even those of my colleagues who are "hard core" Friendster users (i.e., visiting the site daily, frequent message/picture posting, etc) have no intention of paying for the service. Too many free options exist outside of Friendster for this approach to be successful; users will simply flock to the next "free" (as in beer) social networking service should Friendster become too heavily monetized.
Thass fuggin brilliant it is mate. After all that, on the way home we found a leprechaun that happened to be a physicist, and instead of a pot of gold, he had this amazin' energy generator that he gave us.
requires drinking approx 6 pints of Guinness, at which point the core concepts of thermodynamics begin to blur a bit with the game of darts you're playing at the pub.
What wacky stuff have you done that makes no obvious sense, but just works?
I use Microsoft Windows. I'm not sure why - certainly its usage doesn't make any sense. But, for some reason, it occassionally allows me to use the computer in a semi-useful way, albeit for short periods of time at best. I know, wacky, huh?
Yahoo recently migrated all of their online games, which are immensely popular, over from Java to Flash. More and more websites are standardizing on Ajax for adding windowing-like functionality to web apps, rather than using Java (or even Flash) for interactivity - control widgets, info updating, form submissions, etc.
It seems as though for more complex applications, Flash is leveraged; for less complex apps, or where graphics aren't critical, Ajax is the paradigm of choice. If Ajax continues to grow, watch for it to eventually overtake Flash entirely. Otherwise, it makes a handy replacement for browser-based Java Applets, which have always been error prone, leaked memory, etc (and, I consider myself pro-Java in most situations...).
One of the primary reasons I don't use Opera is that Ctrl+T doesn't open a new Tab. Ctrl+D doesn't open the Bookmark dialogue. Basically, I'm either too lazy or too old to relearn an entirely new keymap for Opera's impressive functionality.
What I'd like to see is an optional setting that allows you to configure Opera's keymap to be identical to Firefox's. That way, I could toggle between the two browsers without having to memorize how to open a new tab in Opera.
FWIW, I think that Ctrl+T should open a tab in EVERY browser, much like Ctrl+P Prints, and Ctrl+O Opens a file. IIRC, MSIE7 uses Ctrl+T to open a tab; Opera needs to get onboard with the coming 'lingua franca' of tab opening et al. So, though I think Ctrl+T should be by default the way all browsers should open new tabs, I'd be willing to settle for an optional setting that allows this keymap to work properly in Opera.
I've always maintained that Carly's overall strategy was sound. HP since the merger, in my opinion, produces better, more forward-thinking PC's than Dell or IBM/Lenovo. The HP laptop I'm currently using is running an AMD/64 processor, 2GB ram, w/ britescreen; the AMD chips and brite screen are features that you still can't get from Dell. The merger was a good idea; it upped the ante for HP's PC manufacturing, bringing them neck and neck w/ Dell, allowing penetration into more storefronts, etc. It was a great way to diversify their business away from just printers. Hurd is obviously reaping the rewards of Fiorina's successful management of HP.
I like your tollbooth idea, but would support it only if fuel efficiency tolls were in turn leveraged to subsidize the cost of fuel at the pump for those who were obey the person per car weight rule. There'd have to be some way of proving to the pump that you'd been a good citizen - perhaps a magnetic stripe card that recorded your toll booth visits, and the percentage that you had obeyed the law. The higher percentage, the lower the cost of gas at the pump.
Otherwise, it's just another tax going to fund things that citizens don't care about, which I wouldn't support. It's a good idea, though.
Of course it does. This research, however, won't. That's why I have a problem with it. It's almost entirely useless, save for being an interesting and perhaps thought-provoking experiment for the students and readers of the experiment. There aren't any larger take-aways for fuel efficiency in real, everyday use cars out of this.
While an interesting study for academia, how does this help an automobile industry where the average car is a four door sedan? What technologies used in this exercise translate to real cars? Building the body out of light weight materials definitely cuts down on fuel usage, but is it impact resistant in a crash? If contests are going to be sponsored for improving fuel efficiency, they should be targeted towards the cars that most of us drive, not theoretical, completely impractical academic-mobiles that will have absolutely no use on the road.
The Google Killer will not arise from the current stable of search engine competitors. Like Google's arise from seemingly nowhere in the late 90's amidst then formidable competitors like NorthernLights, Altavista, Goto, Hotbot, Yahoo!, etc., to its position of dominance today, the "next big thing" in search will arise either from a currently unknown startup or from academic research.
One other point - IIRC, Nintendo's OS is UNIX-based (someone correct me on this if this isn't right).
If correct, not to say that it would be academic to port Nintendo games to Apple, but the path would be a little more straightforward than if Nintendo were Windows CE based, for example.
Also, their portables products could eventually merge into a reasonable competitor for the PSP - GameBoy/DS+iPod, anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
It's called "Google"
SuperProject is gone, but CA recently acquired Niku, which has possibly the single best project/portfolio management tool available - Clarity.
a fantastic way for billion dollar multi-national software corporations to prevent startup companies from gaining any traction in the marketplace by preventing them from protecting their IP.
It all started with a corpse.
:)
The sound waves still permeate us.
Sweat-stung eyes envision green landscapes.
The hair samples were conclusive: Sasquatch.
Unfortunately, the meds had undesirable side-effects. (is the hyphenated word cheating?)
It wasn't a gateway to Andromeda.
(this one should ring a bell, though not my line, obviously!)
My God... it's full of stars.
The military likes acronyms and abbreviations more than IT.
Excuse me sir. Seeing how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Cause if it leaks to the VC, he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
I'm on /. several times a day, but don't always read the commentary (actually, I read it rarely). So, yeah, it totally slipped by me. Again, I'm admitting that I'm not as plugged in as some, but sorta surprised that I didn't catch at least a tiny hint of the "viral" attempts for SoaP like I did for BWP. At the same time, I'm not the only person who missed this one... most folks I talk to hadn't heard of it until the week or two prior to the release.
I'm fully admitting how out of the loop I am here, but I had no idea that there was any Internet buzz about SoaP until the press started complaining that "all the Internet buzz leading up to the film had little effect on ticket sales".
/searching/ for a blog, you won't find it. Blogs generally /aren't/ viral, which is part of the problem here - there was a central set of people blogging and reading those blogs, but the SoaP message never left that core group. It never became "viral" - i.e., a topic that was surreptitiously mentioned in non-formal venues, such as conversations, emails, etc.
What Internet buzz? There may have been a ton of buzz out there from a handful of people, but whatever marketing/advertising agency that was in charge of making the rest of the world aware of this buzz did a terrible job of getting that message out there.
This is taken in stark contrast to the internet buzz leading up to Blair Witch, where most people in the target demographic received emails or water cooler mentions from friends and colleagues. Somehow, the group in charge of promoting that film did a tremendous job building the viral marketing machine to get interest drummed up on the film.
There may have been people blogging about SoaP, but unless you're
Friendster is great, but, though I personally traffic it more than MySpace, I'll never pay to use it (or allow myself to be nickel-and-dimed for using features within it), nor will I click on any ads featured within it. Frankly, I don't see how monetization of Friendster is possible; even those of my colleagues who are "hard core" Friendster users (i.e., visiting the site daily, frequent message/picture posting, etc) have no intention of paying for the service. Too many free options exist outside of Friendster for this approach to be successful; users will simply flock to the next "free" (as in beer) social networking service should Friendster become too heavily monetized.
I think they're doomed.
Thass fuggin brilliant it is mate. After all that, on the way home we found a leprechaun that happened to be a physicist, and instead of a pot of gold, he had this amazin' energy generator that he gave us.
requires drinking approx 6 pints of Guinness, at which point the core concepts of thermodynamics begin to blur a bit with the game of darts you're playing at the pub.
I use Microsoft Windows. I'm not sure why - certainly its usage doesn't make any sense. But, for some reason, it occassionally allows me to use the computer in a semi-useful way, albeit for short periods of time at best. I know, wacky, huh?
Yahoo recently migrated all of their online games, which are immensely popular, over from Java to Flash. More and more websites are standardizing on Ajax for adding windowing-like functionality to web apps, rather than using Java (or even Flash) for interactivity - control widgets, info updating, form submissions, etc. It seems as though for more complex applications, Flash is leveraged; for less complex apps, or where graphics aren't critical, Ajax is the paradigm of choice. If Ajax continues to grow, watch for it to eventually overtake Flash entirely. Otherwise, it makes a handy replacement for browser-based Java Applets, which have always been error prone, leaked memory, etc (and, I consider myself pro-Java in most situations...).
All Hail - the Discovery of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has finally occurred! Pirates and Pastafarians, rejoyce!
they've got it all wrong - deja vu occurs when the Matrix changes something...
I'm already running ubuntu on amd64; i wonder if this is an example of code crossing over from ubuntu to debian?
Oh - I love the Free Parking Jackpot rule! Does every family play it that way? Seems like it should just be an optional official rule...
One of the primary reasons I don't use Opera is that Ctrl+T doesn't open a new Tab. Ctrl+D doesn't open the Bookmark dialogue. Basically, I'm either too lazy or too old to relearn an entirely new keymap for Opera's impressive functionality.
What I'd like to see is an optional setting that allows you to configure Opera's keymap to be identical to Firefox's. That way, I could toggle between the two browsers without having to memorize how to open a new tab in Opera.
FWIW, I think that Ctrl+T should open a tab in EVERY browser, much like Ctrl+P Prints, and Ctrl+O Opens a file. IIRC, MSIE7 uses Ctrl+T to open a tab; Opera needs to get onboard with the coming 'lingua franca' of tab opening et al. So, though I think Ctrl+T should be by default the way all browsers should open new tabs, I'd be willing to settle for an optional setting that allows this keymap to work properly in Opera.
I've always maintained that Carly's overall strategy was sound. HP since the merger, in my opinion, produces better, more forward-thinking PC's than Dell or IBM/Lenovo. The HP laptop I'm currently using is running an AMD/64 processor, 2GB ram, w/ britescreen; the AMD chips and brite screen are features that you still can't get from Dell. The merger was a good idea; it upped the ante for HP's PC manufacturing, bringing them neck and neck w/ Dell, allowing penetration into more storefronts, etc. It was a great way to diversify their business away from just printers. Hurd is obviously reaping the rewards of Fiorina's successful management of HP.
I like your tollbooth idea, but would support it only if fuel efficiency tolls were in turn leveraged to subsidize the cost of fuel at the pump for those who were obey the person per car weight rule. There'd have to be some way of proving to the pump that you'd been a good citizen - perhaps a magnetic stripe card that recorded your toll booth visits, and the percentage that you had obeyed the law. The higher percentage, the lower the cost of gas at the pump. Otherwise, it's just another tax going to fund things that citizens don't care about, which I wouldn't support. It's a good idea, though.
Of course it does. This research, however, won't. That's why I have a problem with it. It's almost entirely useless, save for being an interesting and perhaps thought-provoking experiment for the students and readers of the experiment. There aren't any larger take-aways for fuel efficiency in real, everyday use cars out of this.
While an interesting study for academia, how does this help an automobile industry where the average car is a four door sedan? What technologies used in this exercise translate to real cars? Building the body out of light weight materials definitely cuts down on fuel usage, but is it impact resistant in a crash? If contests are going to be sponsored for improving fuel efficiency, they should be targeted towards the cars that most of us drive, not theoretical, completely impractical academic-mobiles that will have absolutely no use on the road.
The Google Killer will not arise from the current stable of search engine competitors. Like Google's arise from seemingly nowhere in the late 90's amidst then formidable competitors like NorthernLights, Altavista, Goto, Hotbot, Yahoo!, etc., to its position of dominance today, the "next big thing" in search will arise either from a currently unknown startup or from academic research.
...is that it will take a little longer to properly fit Ozzie with his Borg implants.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187341&cid=154 57865
Take that, C|NET.
One other point - IIRC, Nintendo's OS is UNIX-based (someone correct me on this if this isn't right).
If correct, not to say that it would be academic to port Nintendo games to Apple, but the path would be a little more straightforward than if Nintendo were Windows CE based, for example.
Also, their portables products could eventually merge into a reasonable competitor for the PSP - GameBoy/DS+iPod, anyone?