It might be worth checking to see if global warming has slowed, because all these salty-seadog pirates may be having a positive effect:
Talk of a resurgence in piracy - check Pastafarians dress like pirates
A mysterious black cloud - check The Flying Spaghetti Monster would appear like a mysterious black cloud to a short sighted (or week minded) movie mogul.
Someone had better check whether movie piracy is worse on Fridays (a religious holiday for Church of the FSM followers).
A couple of years ago I had an AOL dialup account that I no longer needed because I was switching to ADSL. I called the helpdesk and explained that I had ADSL arriving in 21 days so I'd like to cancel my contract effective from that date, or as soon as possible after, but not before.
The helpdesk guy told me I'd need to email the request, and if memory serves me correctly I was told to send the message to cancel@aol.com.
I asked why I couldn't cancel over the phone, but helpdesk-guy was adamant that nobody on the helpdesk could assist me and that I had to use the email.
So I emailed them, detailing when I'd like the account to be terminated.
The next time I tried dialing up I couldn't login, so I called the helpdesk.
"Well sir, you sent a mail to the cancellation address so your account has been terminated."
They were, of course, happy to set up a new contract with new terms and conditions and a new minimum period before cancellation. I declined their generous offer.
Having spent a while this morning instlling it, and generally buggering about with it, I was left with the distinct impression that this is the thin end of another GoogleWedge (TM).
In summary:
It doesnt innovate: in either the IM or the VOIP world,
It has fewer features than competing clients/networks
but
It has millions of ready made users with gmail accounts.
It has a surprisingly respectful user interface that is a joy to use.
It has potential to be extended from day one (unlike AIM or YIM where the owners have fought to keep the protocols closed and proprietary.
If I were to be really speculative I'd say that the most significant effect of todays beta launch is that it positions Google as a credible competitor to Skype, which may lower Skype's valuation, and thus make it a more attractive aquisition.
There really is no reason for the sidebar to exist within Google Desktop Search, it's a separate tool and it's bundling says more for Google's rivalry with Yahoo! than MS.
Primarily GDS is an RSS reader and a plugin recepticle. Google are an Ad company that have a system for putting ads in RSS feeds. The "free and benevolent" sidebar is therefore another way for Google to get adverts onto desktops around the world.
That said, Google are playing a percentage game in fighting for the MS Desktop so their waiting game where Linux, Apple (etc) are concerned is a necessary blind-spot.
I think its sad that its come to the point where we have to assume everything is untrustworthy and to have to keep a guard up 24/7.
I agree with your sentiment entirely, but I think the reality is the opposite, specifically: it's sad that we have not yet reached a point where we can assume everything is trustworthy.
Whilst some may aspire to a utopian dream where we no longer need money, and every human can strive for personal fulfilment, the truth is there's a long way to go before every human joins in.
We just have to start living that dream in isolated pockets (and the open source movement is one such pocket IMO) and hope that the influence spreads.
High Street retailer Dixons, which started by selling 35mm cameras...
I think that's a quote from the Dixons marketing manager, who's at odds with their website which says Dixons started as a photographic studio in 1937 and only diversified into selling assorted camera equipment 11 years later.
Methinks they've ramped up the press release for a little rose-tinted, nostaglia induced, free publicity.
I've always wondered why rendering of scalable icons isn't relegated to the font server. Seems to me that all the needed code is already there.
That is a very good idea.
I think the main reson for not doing it is that, by shifting rendering up to a server from the client, the ability to scale dynamically (without a round trip to the server for each component) is lost. I find myself using the firefox scroll-wheel scaling more and more as my eyes get old and lazy, so personally I'd generate a lot of extra traffic.
The real potential for the concept is in easing the transition to SVG for users of older browsers. Content negotiation could easily handle the decision of whether to send the SVG original or a dynamically generated version... but this is all too obvious, it must exist already, right? Please someone tell me there's an apache plugin.
Vista and IE7 betas seem to be only available for "real" developers and haven't been published to the MDSNAA (Academic Alliance) distribution channels... yet.
The important pages, the ones most worth seeing, are likely to be the most linked-to...
In the days before comment and referral spam, that might have been true. It remains to be seen if rel="nofollow" (a semantic annotation of sorts) proves successful in re-invigorating the importance of the simple link.
The slashdot story mis-sells the content of the speech. For me it was just AB talking about how it would be useful to have a simple system of aggregation that goes beyond subscribing to an RSS feed.
It's not a new data model & the semantic has not failed, in fact, it's more important when considering how to work with the diverse resulting data.
This concept and its use in software is probably 20 years old...
I recall that whilst working for my local city council in 15 years ago I was asked to write a program that could transcribe the altitude information in topographical maps so it could be used in the analysis and design of traffic systems. This was a replacement for the previous version that was a few years old, so I'd say the estimate of 20 years is fair, possibly even a little low.
For the record, the system was written in GWBasic and used a large conductive board on which we'd hang the Ordnance Survey map, then use a puck to trace out the shape of each contour line. IIRC it all fitted into 640K too.
Watching the shuttle seperate from the fuel tank was amazing...
Absolutely. For sheer excitement and beauty I'd put it on a par with watching the launch of the first Shuttle launch in '81. I was 9 then, and watching today I didn't feel a day older. One of the most magical moments of television ever.
This is retribution and murder, not justice: it has no place in the society that most spam recipients want to enjoy and has fuck all to do with Karma.
This is one less person that can have his day in court, so there will be no legal precidents formed by judgements on any of his actions. The slow legal process against spammers was just hindered, not helped.
This paper reviews the current status of the anomaly and describes how the Pioneer data could help. It may be a bit math-intensive for some, but the words surrounding the sums do pull them all into focus.
They're back... those pesky telemarketing calls, after nearly two years of peaceful, interruption-free dinners.
They never went away; during that time, they were calling Europe.
Residents in the UK, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Spain and several other countries are being targetted by telemarketers with the old "You've won a holiday" story; and their national Do Not Call registers, appear powerless to stop the calls. e.g. The UK TPS).
To make matters worse the victims often don't have a clue about the American legal system and therefore have great difficulty in getting any money back when they realise they've not won a sausage.
I know all this becuase
they called me in the UK, and I happened to blog it and consequently...
I've grown very weary of hearing from Europeans telling me they've been conned, asking me what to do and basically begging for advice that I'm not qualified to give.
So, rather than decreasing the restrictions, if the Slashdot readership has suggestions on how we can increase them so they have international effect, then many thousands of Europeans will probably want to have your babies, or at the very least promise not to phone you at dinner time to say thanks.
This application isn't exactly novel, and not really "new technology" - the story is just pandering to Linux fanboys. Please, put the iconic evanelism aside, get over the my OS is better than yours tedium and concentrate on the usefulness and usability of the service that's delivered.
Companies such as Lapavalley have been successfully delivering portable multimedia guides for many years already. I've used them in Marwell Zoo where they'd used Palm Tungsten's to great effect, with kids, grannies, teachers and geeks all having an equally enriching experience.
"Node" may have a novel application that delivers knowledge in a new way, but fundamentally nothing is new, apart from using linux, and that doesn't matter to the overwhelming majority of device users.
For a long time people have talked about self promotion on Slashdot. Self promotion its like a press release and usually involves some pet project that would most likely dwindle quietly into obscurity, but instead, has a fleeting shimmering moment in which to be globally lambasted.
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Call cost may vary according to avaiable combustible materials and wind direction. One vote per cave.
It might be worth checking to see if global warming has slowed, because all these salty-seadog pirates may be having a positive effect:
Pastafarians dress like pirates
The Flying Spaghetti Monster would appear like a mysterious black cloud to a short sighted (or week minded) movie mogul.
Someone had better check whether movie piracy is worse on Fridays (a religious holiday for Church of the FSM followers).
A couple of years ago I had an AOL dialup account that I no longer needed because I was switching to ADSL. I called the helpdesk and explained that I had ADSL arriving in 21 days so I'd like to cancel my contract effective from that date, or as soon as possible after, but not before.
The helpdesk guy told me I'd need to email the request, and if memory serves me correctly I was told to send the message to cancel@aol.com. I asked why I couldn't cancel over the phone, but helpdesk-guy was adamant that nobody on the helpdesk could assist me and that I had to use the email.
So I emailed them, detailing when I'd like the account to be terminated.
The next time I tried dialing up I couldn't login, so I called the helpdesk.
"Well sir, you sent a mail to the cancellation address so your account has been terminated."
They were, of course, happy to set up a new contract with new terms and conditions and a new minimum period before cancellation. I declined their generous offer.
Well said.
Having spent a while this morning instlling it, and generally buggering about with it, I was left with the distinct impression that this is the thin end of another GoogleWedge (TM).
In summary:
but
- It has millions of ready made users with gmail accounts.
- It has a surprisingly respectful user interface that is a joy to use.
- It has potential to be extended from day one (unlike AIM or YIM where the owners have fought to keep the protocols closed and proprietary.
If I were to be really speculative I'd say that the most significant effect of todays beta launch is that it positions Google as a credible competitor to Skype, which may lower Skype's valuation, and thus make it a more attractive aquisition.There really is no reason for the sidebar to exist within Google Desktop Search, it's a separate tool and it's bundling says more for Google's rivalry with Yahoo! than MS.
Primarily GDS is an RSS reader and a plugin recepticle. Google are an Ad company that have a system for putting ads in RSS feeds. The "free and benevolent" sidebar is therefore another way for Google to get adverts onto desktops around the world.
That said, Google are playing a percentage game in fighting for the MS Desktop so their waiting game where Linux, Apple (etc) are concerned is a necessary blind-spot.
Extended thoughts on the subject here.I agree with your sentiment entirely, but I think the reality is the opposite, specifically: it's sad that we have not yet reached a point where we can assume everything is trustworthy .
Whilst some may aspire to a utopian dream where we no longer need money, and every human can strive for personal fulfilment, the truth is there's a long way to go before every human joins in.
We just have to start living that dream in isolated pockets (and the open source movement is one such pocket IMO) and hope that the influence spreads.
I think that's a quote from the Dixons marketing manager, who's at odds with their website which says Dixons started as a photographic studio in 1937 and only diversified into selling assorted camera equipment 11 years later.
Methinks they've ramped up the press release for a little rose-tinted, nostaglia induced, free publicity.
That is a very good idea.
I think the main reson for not doing it is that, by shifting rendering up to a server from the client, the ability to scale dynamically (without a round trip to the server for each component) is lost. I find myself using the firefox scroll-wheel scaling more and more as my eyes get old and lazy, so personally I'd generate a lot of extra traffic.
The real potential for the concept is in easing the transition to SVG for users of older browsers. Content negotiation could easily handle the decision of whether to send the SVG original or a dynamically generated version... but this is all too obvious, it must exist already, right? Please someone tell me there's an apache plugin.
Vista and IE7 betas seem to be only available for "real" developers and haven't been published to the MDSNAA (Academic Alliance) distribution channels... yet.
The slashdot story mis-sells the content of the speech. For me it was just AB talking about how it would be useful to have a simple system of aggregation that goes beyond subscribing to an RSS feed.
It's not a new data model & the semantic has not failed, in fact, it's more important when considering how to work with the diverse resulting data.
I recall that whilst working for my local city council in 15 years ago I was asked to write a program that could transcribe the altitude information in topographical maps so it could be used in the analysis and design of traffic systems. This was a replacement for the previous version that was a few years old, so I'd say the estimate of 20 years is fair, possibly even a little low.
For the record, the system was written in GWBasic and used a large conductive board on which we'd hang the Ordnance Survey map, then use a puck to trace out the shape of each contour line. IIRC it all fitted into 640K too.
Absolutely. For sheer excitement and beauty I'd put it on a par with watching the launch of the first Shuttle launch in '81. I was 9 then, and watching today I didn't feel a day older. One of the most magical moments of television ever.
This is retribution and murder, not justice: it has no place in the society that most spam recipients want to enjoy and has fuck all to do with Karma.
This is one less person that can have his day in court, so there will be no legal precidents formed by judgements on any of his actions. The slow legal process against spammers was just hindered, not helped.
This paper reviews the current status of the anomaly and describes how the Pioneer data could help. It may be a bit math-intensive for some, but the words surrounding the sums do pull them all into focus.
They never went away; during that time, they were calling Europe.
Residents in the UK, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Spain and several other countries are being targetted by telemarketers with the old "You've won a holiday" story; and their national Do Not Call registers, appear powerless to stop the calls. e.g. The UK TPS).
To make matters worse the victims often don't have a clue about the American legal system and therefore have great difficulty in getting any money back when they realise they've not won a sausage.
I know all this becuase
So, rather than decreasing the restrictions, if the Slashdot readership has suggestions on how we can increase them so they have international effect, then many thousands of Europeans will probably want to have your babies, or at the very least promise not to phone you at dinner time to say thanks.
Your suggestion about only giving your name has some merit, but why did you not give it when posting this advice?
No, honestly, relax; put the kettle on.
Firefox 1.0.5 was the first release since 1.0.4.
This is release 1.0.6
1.0.5 was released on July 14th, six days ago.
...it's worth clarifying that this release fixes one, and only one bug.
There's no (known) security vulnerability here, so if you're extension free, or see no effects, you can shrug this one off.
This application isn't exactly novel, and not really "new technology" - the story is just pandering to Linux fanboys. Please, put the iconic evanelism aside, get over the my OS is better than yours tedium and concentrate on the usefulness and usability of the service that's delivered.
Companies such as Lapavalley have been successfully delivering portable multimedia guides for many years already. I've used them in Marwell Zoo where they'd used Palm Tungsten's to great effect, with kids, grannies, teachers and geeks all having an equally enriching experience.
"Node" may have a novel application that delivers knowledge in a new way, but fundamentally nothing is new, apart from using linux, and that doesn't matter to the overwhelming majority of device users.
Well, if the Ed's can dupe stories, we can dupe dupe comments too.
How timely, I have mod points: can someone please invent (and then shamelessly self-promote) a plugin that lets me mod the parent story down?
For a long time people have talked about self promotion on Slashdot. Self promotion its like a press release and usually involves some pet project that would most likely dwindle quietly into obscurity, but instead, has a fleeting shimmering moment in which to be globally lambasted.