I was/am a huge fan of Squeezeplay and the Squeezebox product lines. If Nest could combine the flexibility of Squeezebox, the simplicity of Sonos or Apple, and the reasonable prices of Google, they would have an amazing hit.
As the creator of the blink tag, I am deeply hurt and offended by your comment. I require a public apology, counseling for everyone involved and restitution for pain and suffering. Didn't you know that everyone in tech, even the blink tag creator, reads Slashdot?
I am the monster who unleashed the cookie beast into the wild. I wrote a short blog about this issue recently. The quick summary is that I think turning off 3rd party cookies for everyone will end up being a bad thing, especially for those of you who care about turning off 3rd party cookies.
http://www.montulli-blog.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party-cookies-could-be.html
As the originator of the blink experiment I am happy to announce that after 19 years the time has finally come. We are officially stopping the blinking and will announce the result of the experiment after fully analyzing all the data. We thank all of you who have participated and especially those of you who have left comments and feedback. I don't want to spoil the final announcement, but early results point to a generally negative reception. (As well as several deaths)
I am happy to announce that the popup window and marquee tag experiment will continue indefinitely.:lou
If you invest smartly and with some aggression you can make 6% annual after tax return.
You must deal with inflation or else you have less money every year. ~3.5% annual inflation rate in the US.
Subtract 3.5% and you have 2.5% that you can spend a year.
With 5 million you can net $125,000 spendable income a year. Sure beats working, but you will not be in the 1%.
If you want to be conservative in your investments, you will earn a lot less.
The original Netscape fishcam http://www.fishcam.com/ has gone through several iterations of cameras. It started on a SGI indy with a camera that came with the computer. It then moved to a portable video camera that was fairly old at the time, but had an analog RCA output and was encoded by the SGI.
Now it runs on a Stardot NetCam SC5IR The Startdot camera is an embedded linux computer with a 5 MP video camera and high quality interchangeable lenses. The fact that it is a linux machine means you can do lots of creative things, like run a small web server, FTP, NFS, CIFS, scripts, etc.
The most important aspect about a camera in my mind is its reliability. I don't want to reset the thing ever if possible. The Stardot has been running for more than a year uninterrupted.
The big problem with Stardot cameras is the price. My SC5IR is over $1000 with all the accessories. A cheaper alternative is to set up a video server and use cheap security cameras with CGA resolution. You can get security cameras for $100 each and a cheap video card for ~$200.
In the pre WWW era, Gopher ruled because there wasn't a better alternative. The big complaint was the lack of layout control and flexibility for expansion. Lynx came about as a fusion of the Gopher network protocol and a hypertext interface. Eventually Lynx adopted HTTP and HTML as additional methods and became an extremely popular Web browser. (More users than any of the individual Mosaic browsers.)
There was a strong demand for better layout and flexibility and regardless of what network administrators wanted, these features would have evolved.
Many companies suggested this for the web in 1994. Merchants and advertisers would love to track unique users to collect data. Part of the comprimise was the design of cookies, which allow for some amount of unique identity but were explicitly not cross site trackable and could be removed by the user or turned off.
I suspect that as long as consumers continue to demand privacy controls, technology providers will keep some amount of control in the users hands. Also, there will continue to be enormous financial pressure to add features to track users. So it will be very important for this issue to remain in the public eye.
The critical Squeezebox feature for me it's ability to handle large collections. Lots of products work well with a few thousand songs, but Squeezebox handles 100,000 and more. It can take quite a while to scan, but it actually works, which is more than I can say for any of the other products I tried with that many songs.
I'm not a huge fan of Marc, having worked with him for four years, but I do know he made attremendous contribution to Mosaic. So much so that I doubt that it would have ever existed had he chosen not to work on it. He and Bina were the only significant contributors at NCSA to Mosaic before it became "popular" and the management at NCSA decided it had been their idea all along.
If you still think that Netscape "walked away with others ideas", just look at who made up the founding team. Virtually every Mosaic contributer, Marc A, Eric Bina, Aleks Totic, Jon Mittlehouser and Mike McCool who wrote the NCSA httpd and invented CGI, Ari Lutonen from CERN and myself who wrote Lynx. We also extended invitations to other significant members of the Web community, including Tim Berners-Lee, to join us when we started. Together the founding team had more programing hours invested in the Web than everyone else combined, by a very large margin.
Fit and finish!
Most open source projects lack the will to finish the small details to make a software product really shine.
Bad installers, incomplete preferences UI, lack of visual style, and little to no documentation. All the little details take about as long to do as the major portion of the application and most projects lack the will or funding to go the final mile.
It's also not very sexy to work on the final finish details. Most people would much rather fix bugs or implement new cool features than work on tiny UI details or *gasp* write some documentation.
We were the company that coined the term Internet Time. How did we do it, by sleeping at the office and working close to 120 hours a week.
Was it healthy? No. Was it smart? Probably not. Did we produce a good product? You tell me. We wrote Netscape Navigator 1.0 in less than 6 months time. (Please don't confuse it with Navigator 3 & 4, which was a very different team)
But there was a catch. We had all written a browser before. We were not trying to dream up a new product completely from scratch. We had a good idea from the start of what we wanted to build. Those set of circumstances don't happen very often.
If I was tasked with building a new product that had never been attempted before, I would never try and work that many hours. Good design does not coexist well with exhaustion.
There are plenty of other reasons not to work crazy hours as well, one of them is "having a life"...:lou
I would give SlimServer a try. It is web based but would probably suit your needs. You may also like their hardware since you won't need a direct cable connection between the stereo and the computer.
I had 20/800 vision prior and I have 20/25 now. Find a doctor or group with the very latest machine technology and with a lot of experience. The machine is 90% so make sure it has the latest upgrades. Some individual doctors can not afford to upgrade their machines, so make sure the one you pick has. Also, I would not do it if your corneal thickness is borderline. There are a lot of horror stories on the Internet, but the percentage of problems is still very low and the ones who had problems are the most vocal. Also, be very sure to attend you follow up exams and to use the eye drops correctly. Many problems are related to post surgery related issues.
You seem suprised that you are interviewing your management candidates. This should be standard practice at any company that cares about its employees. Every employee that will be directly reporting to this person should interview him and give there opinion.
Lynx is older by more than a year. Originally Lynx did not use HTML over HTTP, it used the hyperez markup language over gopher. It was functionally the same, but it wasn't technically a web browser.
It did do things that the web didn't do at the time, such as forms.
Slashdot Mirror
Lynx is still available. ;)
I was/am a huge fan of Squeezeplay and the Squeezebox product lines. If Nest could combine the flexibility of Squeezebox, the simplicity of Sonos or Apple, and the reasonable prices of Google, they would have an amazing hit.
As the creator of the blink tag, I am deeply hurt and offended by your comment. I require a public apology, counseling for everyone involved and restitution for pain and suffering. Didn't you know that everyone in tech, even the blink tag creator, reads Slashdot?
Even easier with the current Firefox. There is a preference under "privacy" that will automatically delete all cookies when you exit.
I am the monster who unleashed the cookie beast into the wild. I wrote a short blog about this issue recently. The quick summary is that I think turning off 3rd party cookies for everyone will end up being a bad thing, especially for those of you who care about turning off 3rd party cookies. http://www.montulli-blog.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party-cookies-could-be.html
As the originator of the blink experiment I am happy to announce that after 19 years the time has finally come. We are officially stopping the blinking and will announce the result of the experiment after fully analyzing all the data. We thank all of you who have participated and especially those of you who have left comments and feedback. I don't want to spoil the final announcement, but early results point to a generally negative reception. (As well as several deaths) I am happy to announce that the popup window and marquee tag experiment will continue indefinitely. :lou
If you invest smartly and with some aggression you can make 6% annual after tax return. You must deal with inflation or else you have less money every year. ~3.5% annual inflation rate in the US. Subtract 3.5% and you have 2.5% that you can spend a year. With 5 million you can net $125,000 spendable income a year. Sure beats working, but you will not be in the 1%. If you want to be conservative in your investments, you will earn a lot less.
Seamonkey still supports one of the original Netscape Easter eggs "Ctrl-Alt-F" which takes you to the Fishcam. Reason enough to use it? :)
Shutterfly keeps photos in full res forever with no recurring charges. You can get a CD/DVD in the mail with all your photos if they are ever lost.
The original Netscape fishcam http://www.fishcam.com/ has gone through several iterations of cameras. It started on a SGI indy with a camera that came with the computer. It then moved to a portable video camera that was fairly old at the time, but had an analog RCA output and was encoded by the SGI. Now it runs on a Stardot NetCam SC5IR The Startdot camera is an embedded linux computer with a 5 MP video camera and high quality interchangeable lenses. The fact that it is a linux machine means you can do lots of creative things, like run a small web server, FTP, NFS, CIFS, scripts, etc. The most important aspect about a camera in my mind is its reliability. I don't want to reset the thing ever if possible. The Stardot has been running for more than a year uninterrupted. The big problem with Stardot cameras is the price. My SC5IR is over $1000 with all the accessories. A cheaper alternative is to set up a video server and use cheap security cameras with CGA resolution. You can get security cameras for $100 each and a cheap video card for ~$200.
Go Fishcam!
Cookies? Never heard of them. They are nothing, really. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....
In the pre WWW era, Gopher ruled because there wasn't a better alternative. The big complaint was the lack of layout control and flexibility for expansion. Lynx came about as a fusion of the Gopher network protocol and a hypertext interface. Eventually Lynx adopted HTTP and HTML as additional methods and became an extremely popular Web browser. (More users than any of the individual Mosaic browsers.) There was a strong demand for better layout and flexibility and regardless of what network administrators wanted, these features would have evolved.
$.10 rents you the song forever. It is NOT per use. It may not be for everyone, but at least we have a choice besides $.99. :lou
I guess it's a little unfair that I answer this question, since I was there when it was created.
:)
The tag played a sound clip of Marca saying "What is Global Hypermedia?"
I'll stay mum about the why.
Many companies suggested this for the web in 1994. Merchants and advertisers would love to track unique users to collect data. Part of the comprimise was the design of cookies, which allow for some amount of unique identity but were explicitly not cross site trackable and could be removed by the user or turned off. I suspect that as long as consumers continue to demand privacy controls, technology providers will keep some amount of control in the users hands. Also, there will continue to be enormous financial pressure to add features to track users. So it will be very important for this issue to remain in the public eye.
The critical Squeezebox feature for me it's ability to handle large collections. Lots of products work well with a few thousand songs, but Squeezebox handles 100,000 and more. It can take quite a while to scan, but it actually works, which is more than I can say for any of the other products I tried with that many songs.
If you still think that Netscape "walked away with others ideas", just look at who made up the founding team. Virtually every Mosaic contributer, Marc A, Eric Bina, Aleks Totic, Jon Mittlehouser and Mike McCool who wrote the NCSA httpd and invented CGI, Ari Lutonen from CERN and myself who wrote Lynx. We also extended invitations to other significant members of the Web community, including Tim Berners-Lee, to join us when we started. Together the founding team had more programing hours invested in the Web than everyone else combined, by a very large margin.
Fit and finish! Most open source projects lack the will to finish the small details to make a software product really shine. Bad installers, incomplete preferences UI, lack of visual style, and little to no documentation. All the little details take about as long to do as the major portion of the application and most projects lack the will or funding to go the final mile. It's also not very sexy to work on the final finish details. Most people would much rather fix bugs or implement new cool features than work on tiny UI details or *gasp* write some documentation.
We were the company that coined the term Internet Time. How did we do it, by sleeping at the office and working close to 120 hours a week. Was it healthy? No. Was it smart? Probably not. Did we produce a good product? You tell me. We wrote Netscape Navigator 1.0 in less than 6 months time. (Please don't confuse it with Navigator 3 & 4, which was a very different team) But there was a catch. We had all written a browser before. We were not trying to dream up a new product completely from scratch. We had a good idea from the start of what we wanted to build. Those set of circumstances don't happen very often. If I was tasked with building a new product that had never been attempted before, I would never try and work that many hours. Good design does not coexist well with exhaustion. There are plenty of other reasons not to work crazy hours as well, one of them is "having a life"... :lou
I would give SlimServer a try. It is web based but would probably suit your needs. You may also like their hardware since you won't need a direct cable connection between the stereo and the computer.
I had 20/800 vision prior and I have 20/25 now. Find a doctor or group with the very latest machine technology and with a lot of experience. The machine is 90% so make sure it has the latest upgrades. Some individual doctors can not afford to upgrade their machines, so make sure the one you pick has. Also, I would not do it if your corneal thickness is borderline. There are a lot of horror stories on the Internet, but the percentage of problems is still very low and the ones who had problems are the most vocal. Also, be very sure to attend you follow up exams and to use the eye drops correctly. Many problems are related to post surgery related issues.
You seem suprised that you are interviewing your management candidates. This should be standard practice at any company that cares about its employees. Every employee that will be directly reporting to this person should interview him and give there opinion.
Lynx is older by more than a year. Originally Lynx did not use HTML over HTTP, it used the hyperez markup language over gopher. It was functionally the same, but it wasn't technically a web browser. It did do things that the web didn't do at the time, such as forms.