Scott Guthrie has done that for years -- I've seen him give a demo at a conference where he asked at the start of his demo whether the audience wanted him to show it in IE or Firefox (the crowd chose Firefox). He is one of the most clueful Microsoft executives when it comes to understanding what web developers need.
Nonsense. Death of the aged is not the only remedy for bigotry (or any other bogus belief system). Your thinking betrays a pretty low opinion of humanity in general. The notion that older people are necessarily more conservative is by no means a human universal, and anyway, it would be easy to make the case that people get more conservative as they get older because they fear death.
But what a lot of people here don't understand is that this isn't intended to be a cure for death, it's a cure for aging. People would still die.
The Italian hasn't "fallen ill," he just tested positive for radiation. From the article:
"Tests have detected polonium 210 in Mr Scaramella's body but at a considerably lower level than Mr Litvinenko. He is currently well and shows no symptoms of radiation poisoning. He is receiving further tests over the weekend."
I am a Yahoo! Music Engine user and I have way more than 100 CDs worth of subscription music. But even if I didn't, being able to download it is much more convenient than having to futz with CDs. To make it even more convenient, YME automatically replicates subscription music between my work laptop and my home desktop machine.
If you'd actually RTF-Design-Pattern-Library, you'd see that the recommendation is to use drag/drop in addition to accessible methods of interaction, not as the sole method.
This isn't just a "publicity stunt" as some have asserted, far from it. Some of these libraries and patterns have been around in one form or another literally for years within Yahoo!. The people who drove their release as open source were not PR or marketing people but the engineers themselves. The hope, as with any release of open source code, is that by engaging with the community we will get a better outcome for users -- that's ultimately how the business succeeds. Simple as that.
You missed the part in step one of the installer where it let you pick whatever you want to install? You're not just a fanboy, you're rather thick as well!
In the interview Bram made an oblique reference to some future deal his company is going to do with them, the theory is that they're going to be involved in content distribution. But I think he's being naive (if there's going to be a deal, why not announce it now? What's to keep the MPAA to get bored and wander off now that they've got what they want?).
To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "the most important lesson I learned dealing with the entertainment industry is...don't trust the entertainment industry."
You're just getting out of college and you have strong opinions about how someone should "properly conduct an interview?" It's probably better that Yahoo! didn't hire you.
I have to say, All kinds of amazing facts get invented on a daily basis here on slashdot! The Oddpost team is now part of the Yahoo Mail team. And the people who were part of the old Yahoo Mail team actually did a tremendous amount of work on the new Y! mail release. There is much more to this than a whizzy ajax interface.
It gives them next to no control since they aren't getting a seat on their board and they aren't getting 51% of the stock.
Any investment in any company helps that company reach a wider market, that's why companies accept investments.
It's weird that/. readers would evaluate the contents of press releases so uncritically considering how much scorn they regularly heap upon marketing and PR.
So, this isn't Intel entering the anti-virus market. It's Intel Capital (the company's capital investment arm) making an investment in an software company. They're not buying the company, they're just picking up a chunk of it -- it's just like you or me buying stock.
No, I understood you completely. We are powerless before nature. It's so powerful, we shouldn't even try to control it. All hail mighty nature. I am going back into my cave to die now.
Those increases are actually squarely in line with the rate of inflation for those years, so in budget terms, those aren't what one would call 'increases'.
To be fair, it's not like Bush made a choice between war and letting New Orleans drown. (And remember that Congress doles out the dough.) The 2006 budget does devote a lot of (borrowed) money to national infrastructure (mostly highways) for the first time in many years. But in this case it was a case of too little, far too late.
That may be. But it seems like a fairly expensive way to drive users to Gmail, particularly when you assume that 1) you don't actually need to use Gmail to use Talk, you just need to sign up for it, and 2) lots (maybe most?) people who use G-Talk will already have a GMail account already.
Dear Slashdot,
For the thousandth time: www.yahoo.com is NOT INTENDED FOR YOU.
Please instead use search.yahoo.com. You will find it more soothing.
Smooches,
Your friends at Yahoo.
Slashdot Mirror
Scott Guthrie has done that for years -- I've seen him give a demo at a conference where he asked at the start of his demo whether the audience wanted him to show it in IE or Firefox (the crowd chose Firefox). He is one of the most clueful Microsoft executives when it comes to understanding what web developers need.
Nonsense. Death of the aged is not the only remedy for bigotry (or any other bogus belief system). Your thinking betrays a pretty low opinion of humanity in general. The notion that older people are necessarily more conservative is by no means a human universal, and anyway, it would be easy to make the case that people get more conservative as they get older because they fear death. But what a lot of people here don't understand is that this isn't intended to be a cure for death, it's a cure for aging. People would still die.
The Italian hasn't "fallen ill," he just tested positive for radiation. From the article:
I am a Yahoo! Music Engine user and I have way more than 100 CDs worth of subscription music. But even if I didn't, being able to download it is much more convenient than having to futz with CDs. To make it even more convenient, YME automatically replicates subscription music between my work laptop and my home desktop machine.
If you'd actually RTF-Design-Pattern-Library, you'd see that the recommendation is to use drag/drop in addition to accessible methods of interaction, not as the sole method.
Two separate things were released: a Javascript library under BSD, and a design pattern guide under Creative Commons.
This isn't just a "publicity stunt" as some have asserted, far from it. Some of these libraries and patterns have been around in one form or another literally for years within Yahoo!. The people who drove their release as open source were not PR or marketing people but the engineers themselves. The hope, as with any release of open source code, is that by engaging with the community we will get a better outcome for users -- that's ultimately how the business succeeds. Simple as that.
Yahoo's support of Wikipedia is significant, see http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000100.html.
That's accurate except for the part where Yahoo! said "me too".
And Desk (sic) Accessories have about as much do with widgets as bananas do with roast bison, but thank you for playing, Macintosh fanboy.
You missed the part in step one of the installer where it let you pick whatever you want to install? You're not just a fanboy, you're rather thick as well!
Your prediction started coming true like five years ago. Bravo!
In the interview Bram made an oblique reference to some future deal his company is going to do with them, the theory is that they're going to be involved in content distribution. But I think he's being naive (if there's going to be a deal, why not announce it now? What's to keep the MPAA to get bored and wander off now that they've got what they want?). To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "the most important lesson I learned dealing with the entertainment industry is...don't trust the entertainment industry."
You're just getting out of college and you have strong opinions about how someone should "properly conduct an interview?" It's probably better that Yahoo! didn't hire you.
I have to say, All kinds of amazing facts get invented on a daily basis here on slashdot! The Oddpost team is now part of the Yahoo Mail team. And the people who were part of the old Yahoo Mail team actually did a tremendous amount of work on the new Y! mail release. There is much more to this than a whizzy ajax interface.
It gives them next to no control since they aren't getting a seat on their board and they aren't getting 51% of the stock.
/. readers would evaluate the contents of press releases so uncritically considering how much scorn they regularly heap upon marketing and PR.
Any investment in any company helps that company reach a wider market, that's why companies accept investments.
It's weird that
So, this isn't Intel entering the anti-virus market. It's Intel Capital (the company's capital investment arm) making an investment in an software company. They're not buying the company, they're just picking up a chunk of it -- it's just like you or me buying stock.
No, I understood you completely. We are powerless before nature. It's so powerful, we shouldn't even try to control it. All hail mighty nature. I am going back into my cave to die now.
And that is precisely why we should go back to living in caves, light torches, and await the re-emergence of smallpox.
Those increases are actually squarely in line with the rate of inflation for those years, so in budget terms, those aren't what one would call 'increases'. To be fair, it's not like Bush made a choice between war and letting New Orleans drown. (And remember that Congress doles out the dough.) The 2006 budget does devote a lot of (borrowed) money to national infrastructure (mostly highways) for the first time in many years. But in this case it was a case of too little, far too late.
That may be. But it seems like a fairly expensive way to drive users to Gmail, particularly when you assume that 1) you don't actually need to use Gmail to use Talk, you just need to sign up for it, and 2) lots (maybe most?) people who use G-Talk will already have a GMail account already.
Novell supplies it for those platforms already. Given that, why would you want to deal with Microsoft?
Let's see, what more could I possibly need. How about: address book, travel listings, an online notepad, an online briefcase, a music client, games, personals, a free auction site, a way to share tagged bookmarks with my friends and FOAFs, and a platform to build cross-platform desktop apps easily.
Oh, wait. Yahoo already provides all these things today.
Dear Slashdot, For the thousandth time: www.yahoo.com is NOT INTENDED FOR YOU. Please instead use search.yahoo.com. You will find it more soothing. Smooches, Your friends at Yahoo.
None of the above! Instead, I demand a pony!