Why wouldn't you pay for a service you enjoy so much? Besides that, I would not pay for last.fm, since I think their service and range of music is still way to limited to justify paying for it. Lucky we still have good old FM radio.
That's right. Usability is the standard. Everyone can say whatever they want, but Apple is making huge profits with no real competition, because all the other hardware/software makers are still competing with eachother for more and more "features" hidden behind countless amounts of sub-menu's.
There is no relation to Linux, the same can happen with Windows servers. Actually, they are supposed to be easier to manage, right? Your argument is completely flawed. Or you are just ranting, in which case your post is WAY overrated by its readers.
Those Windows guys will quickly learn Linux, they are without a job anyway, and when the economy recovers they can start administrating Linux servers. Its like evolution, but in the digital world. Those who adapt survive.
Too bad they don't tell more details. Their software can withstand lots of problems: network partitions, data center outages, failing routers, etc. This time, a new piece of of algorithm apparently did not do a very good job at redistributing data at the time of the data center failure. I'd like to know what it tried to do? Did it try to push too much data to one single location, causing that location to become unresponsive, in turn causing it to start redistributing data as well? I'm glad they didn't loose my email. But I think now is a good time to start making backups using IMAP.
But who will do this cracking? Not the average Joe. And more important, will future hardware be more restrictive and a requirement to consume DRMed media? Of course there will always be crackers, but not everyone is willing to go through all the trouble. The popularity of the iTunes store proves that statement. And with that, DRM is at least for a large part effective.
Why is DRM a flawed concept? Why can't it work in the long run? Why would any breach be irreparable? What is the fundamental problem with the concept? All important questions that you don't answer. Didn't Jobs just say it would be beter if the music companies would accept to sell their music without DRM. He never talked about fundamental flaws, breaches, or anything like that.
DRM for music might disappear because people will object to it, but DRM can be very useful for all kinds of applications think about the corporate world, about digital documents, protection of software applications, etc. Interoperable DRM will survive. People are already working on open standards for DRM and DRM interoperability, it's only a matter of time for these standards to become mainstream.
This is the perfect time to switch to OSX. I'm waiting a bit more until Adobe has ported it's products to the Intel based macs, but then I'm saying farewell to Windows. XP will be the last version of windows I will use and only because of the few games I like to play. Once my pc is getting obsolete Windows will be something of the past, like DOS. Something I will laugh about when drinking beer with my fellow geek friends.
Regulation is not better. Here in the Netherlands we have a small country with a lot of research facilities and GREAT networks. I think the smaller size of countries in Europa helps. It's easier and cheaper to connect everybody. There are less companies that offer access, but they are competing very hard with each other. Cable vs ADSL has been a big and constant fight here.
Where's all the microsoft bashing now that the EU is actually doing something about their monopoly. All that the slashdot crowd has been crying about for all those years, all gone now? Suddenly linux is crap? Linux is growing bigger than ever before.
This is just some classic anti-EU sentiment if you ask me, that goes for 90% of the replies on this page. I gues you deserve to bitch about 'us Europeans' because we bitch just as much about the US.
So.. do we all have to adapt to Google now? Think about how crazy this is! Let someone who contributes post his link, it's the least slashdot can do back.
I think because multicasting with IPv6 will be better. You can multicast one stream to, for example, a single server on the other side of the world. From there 1000s of ip's can read your single stream.
I'll quote it for you, as it appears most people here only read the title of the post and nothing more;-)
...article up about Yahoo's pending entrance into the AdSense advertising market, and outlines some things Yahoo (and MSN for that matter) can do to compete [against adsense!]
You and most other posters below are way off topic. This article is talking about competing with google adsense. It's not about mail, not about the main page,etcetera. It's a pay per click contextual advertising program which Yahoo is trying to compete with.
Just because you are a computer guy doesn't mean other people are stupid. I bet the person who fixes your car is saying the same kind of stuff about you
I don't think they would be so stupid to spend their time this way. I as a webmaster would simply check if there are multiple people loggin in on the same account regulary (or even at the same time) and ban those accounts automatically. If you don't want to register, then don't read it. With all those ad blockers websites have to use these tactics to earn a bit of money.
As far as I can see, the search engine works very well. But it doesn't have any added value at this moment (compared to google). At least Yahoo has some extra's like personal search, but those are minor features which are not enough to make google users switch.
The strenght of Microsoft is it dominition on the desktop. If they want to integrate their searchengine into windows, many people will use it.
I wonder if microsoft will support that format too. It would be childish not to, but I wouldn't be suprised if they would totally ignore it and continue using there own format in M$ Word
They just combine a few searches, like image searches and web searches. The movie search function just searches IMDB, which I can do perfectly well without a9 by just going to imdb.com. I don't need a search history either, my google toolbar takes care of that. (or the saved form info on any other browser).
In my eyes, this is just an attempt to increase amazon sales, by getting some free advertising from the launch of this search service and hopefully (for them) getting some people who will actually keep using A9 though is not that great.
Most of the people I tell about firefox either don't see the benefits of tabbed browsing because they only view one page at a time, or they don't want to use it because they like to have multiple windows open instead. tabbed browsing was THE feature that made me switch to mozilla and now firefox months ago.
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Why wouldn't you pay for a service you enjoy so much? Besides that, I would not pay for last.fm, since I think their service and range of music is still way to limited to justify paying for it. Lucky we still have good old FM radio.
That's right. Usability is the standard. Everyone can say whatever they want, but Apple is making huge profits with no real competition, because all the other hardware/software makers are still competing with eachother for more and more "features" hidden behind countless amounts of sub-menu's.
There is no relation to Linux, the same can happen with Windows servers. Actually, they are supposed to be easier to manage, right? Your argument is completely flawed. Or you are just ranting, in which case your post is WAY overrated by its readers.
Those Windows guys will quickly learn Linux, they are without a job anyway, and when the economy recovers they can start administrating Linux servers. Its like evolution, but in the digital world. Those who adapt survive.
Too bad they don't tell more details. Their software can withstand lots of problems: network partitions, data center outages, failing routers, etc. This time, a new piece of of algorithm apparently did not do a very good job at redistributing data at the time of the data center failure. I'd like to know what it tried to do? Did it try to push too much data to one single location, causing that location to become unresponsive, in turn causing it to start redistributing data as well? I'm glad they didn't loose my email. But I think now is a good time to start making backups using IMAP.
But who will do this cracking? Not the average Joe. And more important, will future hardware be more restrictive and a requirement to consume DRMed media? Of course there will always be crackers, but not everyone is willing to go through all the trouble. The popularity of the iTunes store proves that statement. And with that, DRM is at least for a large part effective.
Why is DRM a flawed concept? Why can't it work in the long run? Why would any breach be irreparable? What is the fundamental problem with the concept? All important questions that you don't answer. Didn't Jobs just say it would be beter if the music companies would accept to sell their music without DRM. He never talked about fundamental flaws, breaches, or anything like that.
DRM for music might disappear because people will object to it, but DRM can be very useful for all kinds of applications think about the corporate world, about digital documents, protection of software applications, etc. Interoperable DRM will survive. People are already working on open standards for DRM and DRM interoperability, it's only a matter of time for these standards to become mainstream.
This is the perfect time to switch to OSX. I'm waiting a bit more until Adobe has ported it's products to the Intel based macs, but then I'm saying farewell to Windows. XP will be the last version of windows I will use and only because of the few games I like to play. Once my pc is getting obsolete Windows will be something of the past, like DOS. Something I will laugh about when drinking beer with my fellow geek friends.
Regulation is not better. Here in the Netherlands we have a small country with a lot of research facilities and GREAT networks. I think the smaller size of countries in Europa helps. It's easier and cheaper to connect everybody. There are less companies that offer access, but they are competing very hard with each other. Cable vs ADSL has been a big and constant fight here.
Where's all the microsoft bashing now that the EU is actually doing something about their monopoly. All that the slashdot crowd has been crying about for all those years, all gone now? Suddenly linux is crap? Linux is growing bigger than ever before.
This is just some classic anti-EU sentiment if you ask me, that goes for 90% of the replies on this page. I gues you deserve to bitch about 'us Europeans' because we bitch just as much about the US.
So.. do we all have to adapt to Google now? Think about how crazy this is! Let someone who contributes post his link, it's the least slashdot can do back.
I think because multicasting with IPv6 will be better. You can multicast one stream to, for example, a single server on the other side of the world. From there 1000s of ip's can read your single stream.
I think Paint.NET is starting to become real competition. MS is embracing it too. The GIMP competition for adobe? I'm not sure but I don't think so.
I'll quote it for you, as it appears most people here only read the title of the post and nothing more ;-)
...article up about Yahoo's pending entrance into the AdSense advertising market, and outlines some things Yahoo (and MSN for that matter) can do to compete [against adsense!]
You and most other posters below are way off topic. This article is talking about competing with google adsense. It's not about mail, not about the main page,etcetera. It's a pay per click contextual advertising program which Yahoo is trying to compete with.
Just because you are a computer guy doesn't mean other people are stupid. I bet the person who fixes your car is saying the same kind of stuff about you
Would it be interesting to write a decent Office suite based on XUL and mozilla? Maybe code can be reused from NVU
That could ultimately lead to a whole range of Mozilla based products. Sounds cool to me!
I don't think they would be so stupid to spend their time this way. I as a webmaster would simply check if there are multiple people loggin in on the same account regulary (or even at the same time) and ban those accounts automatically. If you don't want to register, then don't read it. With all those ad blockers websites have to use these tactics to earn a bit of money.
As far as I can see, the search engine works very well. But it doesn't have any added value at this moment (compared to google). At least Yahoo has some extra's like personal search, but those are minor features which are not enough to make google users switch. The strenght of Microsoft is it dominition on the desktop. If they want to integrate their searchengine into windows, many people will use it.
Yes but is that the same format or structure as the OpenOffice XML format mentioned?
I wonder if microsoft will support that format too. It would be childish not to, but I wouldn't be suprised if they would totally ignore it and continue using there own format in M$ Word
This reminds me of someone who once said something like.. 'who needs more than 640K of memory?'
See Google APIs for details
They just combine a few searches, like image searches and web searches. The movie search function just searches IMDB, which I can do perfectly well without a9 by just going to imdb.com. I don't need a search history either, my google toolbar takes care of that. (or the saved form info on any other browser). In my eyes, this is just an attempt to increase amazon sales, by getting some free advertising from the launch of this search service and hopefully (for them) getting some people who will actually keep using A9 though is not that great.
Most of the people I tell about firefox either don't see the benefits of tabbed browsing because they only view one page at a time, or they don't want to use it because they like to have multiple windows open instead. tabbed browsing was THE feature that made me switch to mozilla and now firefox months ago.