When I ran Mozilla browser and opened another one... it started babbling about profiles... I think it did the same thing with a mail client. Now... that was years ago... Recently when SeaMonkey installed with my linux distro... I started the browser... clicked on the icon in my menu to open another one and... that crap was still there ! If you can't by default open 2 browsers in the same 'profile' without having to hack it in some way... the application suite is totally useless.
"I always looked at mod points as being like Jury duty."
Well.. mod point are quite harmless, when used in a wrong way, or used without actual knowledge about the subject at hand. Jury duty though... that concept is just plain stupid.
"Open iTunes, Safari and Mail. All three of these programs are Apple's own, and they're among the ones most likely to be used by Mac OS X users. So why do all three of them look different? "
Maybe because you don't want to click 'reply' when you want to buy a song?;-)
It is not the 'problem' that it's not possible to interact. As you've said... significant progress has been made by the OSS community. The problem is that NOVELL cannot guarantee anything about the interoperability between Linux and Microsoft. By having this agreement they can make a promise their customers they could not make before. Corporations want this promise. Home users don't.
So "Why do I have the feeling that somebody is going to turn out like Dmitry Sklyarov?" actually means that in a couple of years he will be married and have 2 kids...
What always cracks me up when I order hardware with Dell (others probably have the same thing), is the agreement that you will not use the hardware for doing stuff with weapons of mass destruction, or something like that. Like someone who is up to no good with it will sit behind his pc... ordering a Dell server... arrives at the page with the agreement.. and goes 'DAMN' and goes buy his hardware somewhere else... It's all fake security, like most anti-terrorism measures. However... maybe Saddam always ordered Dell and therefor they never found any WOMD !!
"We'll keep plugging away on application compatibility"
Read: We're constructing dirty hacks into our newly written clean code so we don't upset our partners. This of course will cause the same side effects as with our previous versions, but hey... it looks better !!!!
"It appears that humans have multiple carbon copies of a recently discovered gene that other primates lack. In particular, one sequence not so romantically or emotionally termed 'DUF1220' was mentioned . Humans carry 212 copies of DUF1220, whereas chimps have 37 copies, and monkeys have only 30 copies."
So chimps have 37 copies, monkeys have 30. Apparently... these animals are not primates. Because the claim is that other primates lack this gene. If they ARE primates AND have copies of this gene... then... maybe it just makes us superprimates at best ?????
"will we see AdSense disclose more about its payouts to publishers? Will other networks like Advertising.com and ValueClick participate, or will they continue to force publishers to make hard choices?"
Or will even more information about the visitors be required by the advertisers?
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When you use use this : http://shopping.sify.com/shopping/product_detail.p hp?pid=13175533&prodid=14195964
That is peanuts for so much publicity !
When I ran Mozilla browser and opened another one... it started babbling about profiles... I think it did the same thing with a mail client.
Now... that was years ago... Recently when SeaMonkey installed with my linux distro... I started the browser... clicked on the icon in my menu to open another one and... that crap was still there ! If you can't by default open 2 browsers in the same 'profile' without having to hack it in some way... the application suite is totally useless.
"When my credit card number changed (twice), they only attempted to contact me via my NetZero email account - which of course I never looked at."
;-)
So... how do you know they contacted you via that account then? Did you have someone else check it for you ?
I thought that the problem with AJAX was that it consists of readable code on the client side, period.
"6. Apple will reveal it has been recording phone calls made on the iPhone and that they're available for sale on iTunes for 99 cents."
;-)
That's just silly ! It wouldn't be a top 5 anymore, now would it ?
I'm thinking... MacChicken
"I always looked at mod points as being like Jury duty."
Well.. mod point are quite harmless, when used in a wrong way, or used without actual knowledge about the subject at hand.
Jury duty though... that concept is just plain stupid.
"Open iTunes, Safari and Mail. All three of these programs are Apple's own, and they're among the ones most likely to be used by Mac OS X users. So why do all three of them look different? "
;-)
Maybe because you don't want to click 'reply' when you want to buy a song?
Not the best example of stability I've seen.
Of what? Windows that let's an app crash the whole OS? You MUST have seen THAT before !
I thought that just more americans became to fat to fit in a car :-P
Granny Smiths :-)
It's sad that the US army thinks of war as a game.
Time to upgrade ourselves.
(only a solution if you think the increase should continue)
Don't try to resolve the result of the problem... try to resolve the problem itself !
It is not the 'problem' that it's not possible to interact. As you've said... significant progress has been made by the OSS community. The problem is that NOVELL cannot guarantee anything about the interoperability between Linux and Microsoft.
By having this agreement they can make a promise their customers they could not make before. Corporations want this promise. Home users don't.
They'll be signing the contract on april 1st next year.
So "Why do I have the feeling that somebody is going to turn out like Dmitry Sklyarov?" actually means that in a couple of years he will be married and have 2 kids...
Isn't that (at most) 0.05% the most interesting part?
You mean... like most people don't need a car as big as an SUV ? Besides for compensating some physical shortcomings...
What always cracks me up when I order hardware with Dell (others probably have the same thing), is the agreement that you will not use the hardware for doing stuff with weapons of mass destruction, or something like that. Like someone who is up to no good with it will sit behind his pc... ordering a Dell server... arrives at the page with the agreement.. and goes 'DAMN' and goes buy his hardware somewhere else... It's all fake security, like most anti-terrorism measures.
However... maybe Saddam always ordered Dell and therefor they never found any WOMD !!
"We'll keep plugging away on application compatibility"
Read: We're constructing dirty hacks into our newly written clean code so we don't upset our partners. This of course will cause the same side effects as with our previous versions, but hey... it looks better !!!!
"It appears that humans have multiple carbon copies of a recently discovered gene that other primates lack. In particular, one sequence not so romantically or emotionally termed 'DUF1220' was mentioned . Humans carry 212 copies of DUF1220, whereas chimps have 37 copies, and monkeys have only 30 copies."
So chimps have 37 copies, monkeys have 30. Apparently... these animals are not primates. Because the claim is that other primates lack this gene.
If they ARE primates AND have copies of this gene... then... maybe it just makes us superprimates at best ?????
Pay By Touch
Great name !
the biometric identification service,
Yeah... it sounded to kinky to be true....
"will we see AdSense disclose more about its payouts to publishers? Will other networks like Advertising.com and ValueClick participate, or will they continue to force publishers to make hard choices?"
Or will even more information about the visitors be required by the advertisers?