Also, they didn't mention one very important thing. Google's Cache. Extremely important in many of my searches where ANY reference to something is needed, even an old link...text only.
"she's not sure it is going to be the big hit the IM services want it to be. 'I think it's kind of short-lived....it's one of those faddish things that people are going to want to have for a while"
*GROAN*
I know I'm getting old, but come on. This crap has been tried before, and it wasn't a success then, it's not going to succeed now. To be truly revolutionary, you need to either get more immersed in an online world (covered by Everquest, etc), or more graphical with your own face (Covered by web cams, etc).
Personally I think the 'next big thing in chatting' is next to impossible to reach because the very things that make it the next big thing, go against what makes chatting work right now.
Text. Why not voice. Or vid phone. Or the telephone? Text is great because it allows you to ignore people, allows you time to think about your thoughts before replying. Allows you to be away for a while. Text is also small. Can you imagine trying to run 4 other apps while chatting with someone with those big goofy graphics? Not only that, but how do you manage multiple people? I'm sure some guys are really into 1-on-1 cyber chatting with fake girls, but text allows managing of multiple/random/sporadic/temporary chatters.
"So AIM is charging $2 for each SuperBuddy a user buys. The company sees SuperBuddies a little bit like ring tones -- one-off customizations for a communications tool. And AIM hopes its customers won't stop at one SuperBuddy, but that they'll want different ones for different moods."
Yea.
The dot.com crap just keeps going...
Ok, Ok, I see your point. I was commenting on the comment often set forth: my vote doesn't count. And I look at it as the non-voters make up the biggest consituent! Think of how it could swing ANY election.
But your point is: why vote when both sides suck ass. I have admit that I did not vote in 2000 for exactly this reason. I certainly didn't like the idea of George Bush being in office, but I found no redeaming qualities in Gore, and cringe at the thought of Tipper pushing her so called Christian Morals on me. It was enough to freeze me into apathy.
That's a bunch of crap. If the non-voting populance went out and voted... just by themselves they could vote in a 3rd party. That's a lot of numbers. Yorikke is correct.
I may be wrong, because I have only used it on other people's machines, but I think the reason why it has such great internet tagging features is becaues Music Match licenses AllMusic.com's database. You get album art, titles, genre, the whole thing.
Personally, due to the *ahem* huge amount of mp3's I deal with, I personally tag and rename all my mine manually with Tag & Rename.
It connects to CDDB or FreeDB or Allmusic. It takes a little longer than the close-your-eyes and hope MusicMatch is correct, but then I know it's tagged correctly.
While I agree his answers were quite in-depth, and that he beats any politician in answering (and not avoiding) tough questions....
He's an executive. That's why he makes the big bucks. He should definately be able to answer those questions satisfactory.
Also, I have absolutely no desire to try out any Real products. Saying that super duper version 10 is no longer as crappy as 9.09c doesn't make me feel any safer.
Also, what products does Real have that I *need* ? Watch videos? VLC. Music? My CD's + LAME = non DRM mp3.
I agree.
I stil remember my disappointment in that one.
Instead of the/. editors transcribing his answers, they should have just faxed the toilet paper they were obviously written on as he wrote them out while taking a 5 minute shit.
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The only thing insightful in this post is the sad state of the pre-graduated CS students these days.
Also, they didn't mention one very important thing. Google's Cache. Extremely important in many of my searches where ANY reference to something is needed, even an old link...text only.
CACHE!!
I agree completely. Since this was an article about the next big thing in CHATTING, I didn't really see the relevance.
Here is what the conversations were like in the chat areas:
"Hello? Does this work"
"Testing. 1.2.3. Ha ha".
And a bunch of others too embarressed to talk. I think talking reveals too much of yourself, and people prefer to be AnonymousChick443.
Holy crap. This article does have a market?? I stand corrected.
"she's not sure it is going to be the big hit the IM services want it to be. 'I think it's kind of short-lived....it's one of those faddish things that people are going to want to have for a while" *GROAN*
I know I'm getting old, but come on. This crap has been tried before, and it wasn't a success then, it's not going to succeed now. To be truly revolutionary, you need to either get more immersed in an online world (covered by Everquest, etc), or more graphical with your own face (Covered by web cams, etc). Personally I think the 'next big thing in chatting' is next to impossible to reach because the very things that make it the next big thing, go against what makes chatting work right now. Text. Why not voice. Or vid phone. Or the telephone? Text is great because it allows you to ignore people, allows you time to think about your thoughts before replying. Allows you to be away for a while. Text is also small. Can you imagine trying to run 4 other apps while chatting with someone with those big goofy graphics? Not only that, but how do you manage multiple people? I'm sure some guys are really into 1-on-1 cyber chatting with fake girls, but text allows managing of multiple/random/sporadic/temporary chatters. "So AIM is charging $2 for each SuperBuddy a user buys. The company sees SuperBuddies a little bit like ring tones -- one-off customizations for a communications tool. And AIM hopes its customers won't stop at one SuperBuddy, but that they'll want different ones for different moods." Yea. The dot.com crap just keeps going...
P.S. Don't sue me for copyright infringement.
Heheh, that's mostly right. Good point.
I'm sure -all- ISP's care about what people are doing with THEIR bandwidth they're leasing to you.
But your point is: why vote when both sides suck ass. I have admit that I did not vote in 2000 for exactly this reason. I certainly didn't like the idea of George Bush being in office, but I found no redeaming qualities in Gore, and cringe at the thought of Tipper pushing her so called Christian Morals on me. It was enough to freeze me into apathy.
It's better than having the BSA knock down your door.
How in the hell are my closest 2,000 friends going to leach files off my Kazaa connection when I'm down at night?
That's a bunch of crap. If the non-voting populance went out and voted... just by themselves they could vote in a 3rd party. That's a lot of numbers. Yorikke is correct.
A shame this posted at a negative 1...
Very nice.
Yea, I've had a hard time installing Linux on XP too! I had hoped SP2 would have fixed it, but that actually just caused more problems.
I wish they'd test their releases first! .tar file.
I'm having trouble installing it. XP keeps telling me it doesn't know what to do with a
If only he had gotten a real lawyer.
If OJ can get away with murder, then it just shows the broad range of legal counsel, based mostly on $$$.
Personally, due to the *ahem* huge amount of mp3's I deal with, I personally tag and rename all my mine manually with Tag & Rename.
It connects to CDDB or FreeDB or Allmusic. It takes a little longer than the close-your-eyes and hope MusicMatch is correct, but then I know it's tagged correctly.
It only sucked because we were trying to download 50k jpegs of porn. They were just fine for most other things of the time.
While I agree his answers were quite in-depth, and that he beats any politician in answering (and not avoiding) tough questions....
He's an executive. That's why he makes the big bucks. He should definately be able to answer those questions satisfactory.
Also, I have absolutely no desire to try out any Real products. Saying that super duper version 10 is no longer as crappy as 9.09c doesn't make me feel any safer.
Also, what products does Real have that I *need* ? Watch videos? VLC. Music? My CD's + LAME = non DRM mp3.
I stil remember my disappointment in that one.
Instead of the /. editors transcribing his answers, they should have just faxed the toilet paper they were obviously written on as he wrote them out while taking a 5 minute shit.
Except that I didn't buy Revolutions or Reloaded because they sucked, and won't be buying the trilogy when it comes out.
I'm sure the random tab vs. new window for popups is an oversight. You should post that bug/feature request on their web site
Considering that IE doesn't have tabs AT ALL, I find this an odd requirement of yours. Maybe it's just the way you worded it.
Oh come on...
Friends don't let friends use IE.