While I agree with some of the sentiment.. I would be happy to pay a few dollars a month for iGoogle/Reader... I don't think most people are. Beyond this, I don't think that most people on Slashdot hate ads as a premise... I personally don't mind them... What I don't like is when the ads on a page outnumber, or intrude on content. I work for a company where this is a constant struggle... Personally, I would love to get rid of all but 2-3 ads per page.
Yes, but Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space and then giving 100GB or 1TB of cloud storage(free only for a few years mind you) to placate that. Google is pretty much the only one that's heavily pushing users towards being slaves of their cloud. And yet the Linux crowd seem to cheer them on.
For example see:
You've seen the Surface, right?
I've not considered the smaller storage chromebooks to be a windows killer... I do see them as what the netbook market could/should have been. I think today's tablets serve that market better, however. I also think that for most people, it is enough, provided you have an internet connection, and the backend services are working. Most people's computer use altogether relies on those two things.
Even internally in companies, most new application development for the past decade have been intranet/extranet web based applications. Web based applications offer a lot of advantages over desktop applications, portability, limited install/upgrade surface, fewer versions to support, streamlined infrastructure. Even if that weren't the case, eventually anything interconnecting multiple people has some singular point of failure for the bulk of someone's workflow. Sh*t happens.
I don't think Joyent has had a major outage yet... But then again, their infrastructure is a little less "engineered" so that it can handle things like that with minimal impact.
Well, You'll also have to disable Flash and Silverlight, since both offer offline data storage which can be used to re-establish cookies.. Also, your browsing habits can be tracked (with less granularity) by correlating your IP address with the sites you visit and the useragent over the course of a day.
That was my thought as well.. sometimes it comes down to personal awareness of the tools you are using. If you only read books from the library... surprise, they can track your reading habits. Personally, my rule of thumb is don't do anything online you wouldn't want people to know about... Yes, I'm a geek, and I also like sex, and porn... If drugs were legal, I'd be inclined to partake on occasion. I do have a couple drinks about a dozen times a year.
I think what it comes down to is how private do you want to be.. there are ways to accomplish this. Most browsers allow for a "clean" or "incognito" session that doesn't carry forward cookies/data... you can even set your browser to clear private data on close. Disable flash and silverlight, and you've closed the gap to outside storage/tracking. The problem is that cookies and JavaScript have good purposes, and a handful of organizations abuse them... That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed.
They never gave an option to pay for Reader... now migrated to NewsBlur (paid account, and since they stopped the free account signup (temporarily), it's actually usable... I'm really afraid that Google Voice will be next, without a paid option there.. I'd pay $25-50/year for google voice. I'm paying $24/year for newsblur.
Without iGoogle, and Reader, I have very little reason to use google at all... My homepage is google for iGoogle... I was considering changing my homepage to Reader, since that is about 1/4 of what I use on iGoogle... now that that is gone.. well.. may as well move on for search too.
I was getting 8-10 recruiter calls a day at my old cell number about 2 years ago, I dropped it, and got a new number... feel sorry for the guy that got my old #
Some IE6 bugs specifically only presented themselves on windows versions prior to XP. It was a horrible time... usually it could be done nesting table/div/table with N level of complexity, and the render could be broken pretty easily (white page of death).
Having used IE Tester in the past and had bugs that did/didn't present themselves the same as the actual browser, I have to agree. I have VMWare Workstation, and honestly only need to spin up some of my VMs when there's a specific browser bug (Usually IE7/8, and IE7's getting support dropped with new development)
Yeah.. and sometimes to figure out a WTF moment with IE, you need an actual copy of IE to work with. A screenshot doesn't tell you why X doesn't render right.. no console, no looking into it... If you're relying on a screenshot service to figure out why/how things work, then you're doing it wrong.
Chrome also supports NaCl (Native Client; C/C++) based applications, which are well sandboxed, and can have more comprehensive UI interactions. It doesn't *have* to be HTML based... I wouldn't be surprised to see Go as a supported language for NaCl SDK in the near future.
There's a difference between a dozen or so in 8 years (Clinton), and over 4000 in 4 years time (Obama)... Obama's count exceeds Reagan + Bush Sr + Clinton + GWB combined... in 1 term.
Honestly, been thinking of a basic platform for web-apps... the idea really rooted out when iGoogle's closing was announced.. and with Reader, that would pretty much make it worthwhile to do... I just don't think I could even break even at $5/month/user... was thinking $10/month for platform, including something like reader, igoogle, and a multi-email imap client. Then having the platform open so people can build/add their own widgets... thinking of NodeJS as the backend service, so widget workers would be.js scripts... limited access to (declared hosts only), with some platform bridges to say misc. providers (not sure about twitter/fb or for that matter g+ etc) that widgets can request access to.
Just a lot of work.. then again, thought about just building the tool, so you can self-host on appfog + mongolab (on their free tier). Mainly to scratch my own itch.. just so bogged down with work, and the side-job that I don't have much free time (with a desire) to code.
I can say that for me, when running several server processes in the background for development, I get more for the dollar out of AMD... If I were building a gaming rig, I would probably lean towards a newer Core i5.
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Netvibes looks interesting.. just wishing they had an option between the free and the $499/month option... would feel a lot more comfortable with it.
While I agree with some of the sentiment.. I would be happy to pay a few dollars a month for iGoogle/Reader ... I don't think most people are. Beyond this, I don't think that most people on Slashdot hate ads as a premise... I personally don't mind them... What I don't like is when the ads on a page outnumber, or intrude on content. I work for a company where this is a constant struggle... Personally, I would love to get rid of all but 2-3 ads per page.
Yes, but Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space and then giving 100GB or 1TB of cloud storage(free only for a few years mind you) to placate that. Google is pretty much the only one that's heavily pushing users towards being slaves of their cloud. And yet the Linux crowd seem to cheer them on. For example see:
You've seen the Surface, right?
I've not considered the smaller storage chromebooks to be a windows killer... I do see them as what the netbook market could/should have been. I think today's tablets serve that market better, however. I also think that for most people, it is enough, provided you have an internet connection, and the backend services are working. Most people's computer use altogether relies on those two things.
Even internally in companies, most new application development for the past decade have been intranet/extranet web based applications. Web based applications offer a lot of advantages over desktop applications, portability, limited install/upgrade surface, fewer versions to support, streamlined infrastructure. Even if that weren't the case, eventually anything interconnecting multiple people has some singular point of failure for the bulk of someone's workflow. Sh*t happens.
I don't think Joyent has had a major outage yet... But then again, their infrastructure is a little less "engineered" so that it can handle things like that with minimal impact.
How about the one that hasn't put a woman up on a presidential ticket? (VP or Pres)...?
It's great for all your ground-water related woes...
And people who think the environment stops at the border are idiots... Pollution in China/Africa/etc, and the related problems will spread....
Well, we already have a system for that.. it's called tariffs.
Well, You'll also have to disable Flash and Silverlight, since both offer offline data storage which can be used to re-establish cookies.. Also, your browsing habits can be tracked (with less granularity) by correlating your IP address with the sites you visit and the useragent over the course of a day.
That was my thought as well.. sometimes it comes down to personal awareness of the tools you are using. If you only read books from the library... surprise, they can track your reading habits. Personally, my rule of thumb is don't do anything online you wouldn't want people to know about... Yes, I'm a geek, and I also like sex, and porn... If drugs were legal, I'd be inclined to partake on occasion. I do have a couple drinks about a dozen times a year.
... you can even set your browser to clear private data on close. Disable flash and silverlight, and you've closed the gap to outside storage/tracking. The problem is that cookies and JavaScript have good purposes, and a handful of organizations abuse them... That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed.
I think what it comes down to is how private do you want to be.. there are ways to accomplish this. Most browsers allow for a "clean" or "incognito" session that doesn't carry forward cookies/data
They never gave an option to pay for Reader... now migrated to NewsBlur (paid account, and since they stopped the free account signup (temporarily), it's actually usable... I'm really afraid that Google Voice will be next, without a paid option there.. I'd pay $25-50/year for google voice. I'm paying $24/year for newsblur. Without iGoogle, and Reader, I have very little reason to use google at all... My homepage is google for iGoogle... I was considering changing my homepage to Reader, since that is about 1/4 of what I use on iGoogle... now that that is gone.. well.. may as well move on for search too.
I was getting 8-10 recruiter calls a day at my old cell number about 2 years ago, I dropped it, and got a new number... feel sorry for the guy that got my old #
But... But... Terrorist Children!
Some IE6 bugs specifically only presented themselves on windows versions prior to XP. It was a horrible time... usually it could be done nesting table/div/table with N level of complexity, and the render could be broken pretty easily (white page of death).
Having used IE Tester in the past and had bugs that did/didn't present themselves the same as the actual browser, I have to agree. I have VMWare Workstation, and honestly only need to spin up some of my VMs when there's a specific browser bug (Usually IE7/8, and IE7's getting support dropped with new development)
Yeah.. and sometimes to figure out a WTF moment with IE, you need an actual copy of IE to work with. A screenshot doesn't tell you why X doesn't render right.. no console, no looking into it... If you're relying on a screenshot service to figure out why/how things work, then you're doing it wrong.
Your first clue was when it asked for "Manage Contacts" permission for google...
So a replacement for Reader isn't worth $12-36/year? I'm sorry, but free options out there are going to be limited.
Chrome also supports NaCl (Native Client; C/C++) based applications, which are well sandboxed, and can have more comprehensive UI interactions. It doesn't *have* to be HTML based... I wouldn't be surprised to see Go as a supported language for NaCl SDK in the near future.
There's a difference between a dozen or so in 8 years (Clinton), and over 4000 in 4 years time (Obama)... Obama's count exceeds Reagan + Bush Sr + Clinton + GWB combined... in 1 term.
Honestly, been thinking of a basic platform for web-apps... the idea really rooted out when iGoogle's closing was announced.. and with Reader, that would pretty much make it worthwhile to do... I just don't think I could even break even at $5/month/user ... was thinking $10/month for platform, including something like reader, igoogle, and a multi-email imap client. Then having the platform open so people can build/add their own widgets... thinking of NodeJS as the backend service, so widget workers would be .js scripts... limited access to (declared hosts only), with some platform bridges to say misc. providers (not sure about twitter/fb or for that matter g+ etc) that widgets can request access to.
Just a lot of work.. then again, thought about just building the tool, so you can self-host on appfog + mongolab (on their free tier). Mainly to scratch my own itch.. just so bogged down with work, and the side-job that I don't have much free time (with a desire) to code.
I have pdf, doc and opendoc... so have it covered.. switched to using opendoc as the base, and saving/exporting to .doc and .pdf.
If someone came up with something similar to iGoogle + Reader for say $10/month would it be worth it to you?
Ditto, just upped to an FX 8350 w/ 32GB ram... runs plenty fast with some services, and Virtual Machines running...
I can say that for me, when running several server processes in the background for development, I get more for the dollar out of AMD... If I were building a gaming rig, I would probably lean towards a newer Core i5.