the post doesn't mention a few important (nerdy) features of the toolbar that i think some would find important:
yahoo bookmarks integration -- never need to sync your bookmarks between home and work again, because they're on yahoo's server. this alone is worthy of a toolbar.
"Search only the current site" -- a quick way to restrict a search to the host you're currently looking at
completely customizable buttons -- only put the buttons you _want_ on the toolbar. there are even two 'personal' buttons that you can set to whatever icon/url you please.
the y! toolbar occupies the space that the bookmarks toolbar once took -- and does a better job at it.
oh, and i use it on Mac OSX and FreeBSD firefox without a problem. i think the windows guidance is just a question of what platform the group could QA on before it was released.
Supports almost every music format (except for DRM-protected media)
Additionally, it offers:
Digital audio out
Server software that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X
If you run it on a Mac, you can use your ITunes music catalog
Open source software
A plugin architecture to the software, so you can use the squeezebox to notify you of new email, weather, news, play defender or tetris, etc...
An infrared remote control
I have three of these babies. One in the living room, one in my office, and one in the garage. They are worth every penny, and designed by nice folks in Mountain View, CA.
I waited in line for an hour Saturday morning to be one of the first to get the Mini.
Why was I so excited about it? - unix kernel and shell - all the apps I use come run natively in OSX (Ableton Live, Propellerheads Reason, PhaseOne CaptureOne, Adobe Photoshop, etc...) - i could replace the WinXP machine hooked up to my 37" LCD TV _and_ the FreeBSD server (apache, mysql, php, slimserver) in my office with this slick little box for $600.
So far, I'm VERY impressed. Never before have I set up a machine that worked so well out of the box, and continued to work well after installing all the apps. The developer tools that come with OS 10.3 are FANTASTIC -- you get gcc3 and a bunch of example programs to get started building apps.
This _IS_ the best of both worlds -- a good desktop environment that runs all my apps, and a solid UNIX foundation that lets me geek out on the command line.
This $600 machine (1.42GHz/80GB) has given me a taste of what my uber-nerd friends have been talking about for years, and now I want more!
To all you folks who think you can pass judgement on OSX without owning a mac, you're blowing hot air. You have to own one to really know what it's all about.
If you do some searching on Yahoo! or Google for "nobot mini", you may find some photos and a writeup of my Mini experience. No way I'm putting the URL here;-) If you find it, the site you land on is served from the Mini.
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ps... I upgraded the RAM in the Mini an hour after powering it up. Putty knife operation is not scary. Interestingly, I had a more difficult time _closing_ the case than opening it. But all in all an easy job and I didn't damage a thing.
Also, as far as upgrading the system, I pulled an 80GB drive from my FreeBSD machine to serve as a nightly backup. Need more storage, get another firewire enclosure and a big drive. Done and done. OSX will see the new drive immediately and "do the right thing".
not a cynnical criticism but a certified curiousity... without hyperlinks between pages and other metadata that comes with the web domain, how will Google add value to finding materials above and beyond what a fancy multi-indexed grep could provide?
put another way, aside from "full text search" and "online page image retrieval", what other operations could be put into place to make this a valuable service?
many advertisers are moving to a model where the validity of an ad click is verified by a transparent.gif "beacon" on the destination page.
only if the beacon corroberates the ad click does the advertiser pay for the click.
beacons can be designed to make their request after a specific amount of time the user spends on the destination page, making "click spam" a few levels more difficult.
no, i meant canon RAW files (.crw). this is the data as the camera's sensor recorded it.
each type of digital camera requires different processing on the raw data to form a TIFF or JPEG image. not just between different brands, but even between model's in a manufacturer's lineup.
is there software available on the linux platform that has the capabilities of something like Phase One's Capture One?
without a good RAW converter, pros who have made the jump to digital and who have seen the light of shooting in RAW mode will not use Linux for their workflow.
When I was watching the thing via the long-range camera on NASA TV, it looked to me that, even when the capsule was just a bright dot with changing luminosity, it was spinning at much higher than 15 rpm. More like 60 - 80 rpm.
you would have a hard time seeing even 15rpm watching tv (30 fields/sec), let alone "60-80".
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the website is now UP! Those guys at Dipity must be some kind of magical wizards of scaling...
Google 2005 == Yahoo 1998
april fools joke, ok?
- yahoo bookmarks integration -- never need to sync your bookmarks between home and work again, because they're on yahoo's server. this alone is worthy of a toolbar.
- "Search only the current site" -- a quick way to restrict a search to the host you're currently looking at
- completely customizable buttons -- only put the buttons you _want_ on the toolbar. there are even two 'personal' buttons that you can set to whatever icon/url you please.
the y! toolbar occupies the space that the bookmarks toolbar once took -- and does a better job at it.oh, and i use it on Mac OSX and FreeBSD firefox without a problem. i think the windows guidance is just a question of what platform the group could QA on before it was released.
- Wireless
- Can synchronize between any number of players
- Supports almost every music format (except for DRM-protected media)
Additionally, it offers:- Digital audio out
- Server software that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X
- If you run it on a Mac, you can use your ITunes music catalog
- Open source software
- A plugin architecture to the software, so you can use the squeezebox to notify you of new email, weather, news, play defender or tetris, etc...
- An infrared remote control
I have three of these babies. One in the living room, one in my office, and one in the garage. They are worth every penny, and designed by nice folks in Mountain View, CA.possibly -- but the only problem with those search engines is that unlike Google and Yahoo, their names just sound like gibberish.
I waited in line for an hour Saturday morning to be one of the first to get the Mini.
;-) If you find it, the site you land on is served from the Mini.
... I upgraded the RAM in the Mini an hour after powering it up. Putty knife operation is not scary. Interestingly, I had a more difficult time _closing_ the case than opening it. But all in all an easy job and I didn't damage a thing.
Why was I so excited about it?
- unix kernel and shell
- all the apps I use come run natively in OSX (Ableton Live, Propellerheads Reason, PhaseOne CaptureOne, Adobe Photoshop, etc...)
- i could replace the WinXP machine hooked up to my 37" LCD TV _and_ the FreeBSD server (apache, mysql, php, slimserver) in my office with this slick little box for $600.
So far, I'm VERY impressed. Never before have I set up a machine that worked so well out of the box, and continued to work well after installing all the apps. The developer tools that come with OS 10.3 are FANTASTIC -- you get gcc3 and a bunch of example programs to get started building apps.
This _IS_ the best of both worlds -- a good desktop environment that runs all my apps, and a solid UNIX foundation that lets me geek out on the command line.
This $600 machine (1.42GHz/80GB) has given me a taste of what my uber-nerd friends have been talking about for years, and now I want more!
To all you folks who think you can pass judgement on OSX without owning a mac, you're blowing hot air. You have to own one to really know what it's all about.
If you do some searching on Yahoo! or Google for "nobot mini", you may find some photos and a writeup of my Mini experience. No way I'm putting the URL here
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Also, as far as upgrading the system, I pulled an 80GB drive from my FreeBSD machine to serve as a nightly backup. Need more storage, get another firewire enclosure and a big drive. Done and done. OSX will see the new drive immediately and "do the right thing".
the feature to restrict the search to specific mail headers in in the Yahoo! product...
http://desktop.yahoo.com/faq#advanced
sounds just like high school.
bookmars that follow you in firefox:p anion.mozdev.org/
http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/
http://com
too bad there isn't a search feature in y!bookmarks (yet).
not a cynnical criticism but a certified curiousity ... without hyperlinks between pages and other metadata that comes with the web domain, how will Google add value to finding materials above and beyond what a fancy multi-indexed grep could provide?
put another way, aside from "full text search" and "online page image retrieval", what other operations could be put into place to make this a valuable service?
many advertisers are moving to a model where the validity of an ad click is verified by a transparent .gif "beacon" on the destination page.
only if the beacon corroberates the ad click does the advertiser pay for the click.
beacons can be designed to make their request after a specific amount of time the user spends on the destination page, making "click spam" a few levels more difficult.
There is no evidence to indicate Ken Jennings was a moron with a great memory.
however, there is a lot of evidence that indicates he is a Mormon with a great memory.
i said they wouldn't use linux "without a good RAW converter". thanks for the pointer ;-).
no, i meant canon RAW files (.crw). this is the data as the camera's sensor recorded it.
each type of digital camera requires different processing on the raw data to form a TIFF or JPEG image. not just between different brands, but even between model's in a manufacturer's lineup.
is there software available on the linux platform that has the capabilities of something like Phase One's Capture One?
without a good RAW converter, pros who have made the jump to digital and who have seen the light of shooting in RAW mode will not use Linux for their workflow.
what do you use to do RAW conversion under Linux?
or you just hack the voting machines or counting systems. RTFA, it's easier than you think.
'...unreasonably, unconscionably, unusually and unexpectedly short amounts of time,'
is he being represented by Jackie Childs?
doh!
you would have a hard time seeing even 15rpm watching tv (30 fields/sec), let alone "60-80".
why do i even read the comments on slashdot?
it's not an honest mistake -- it's just a sign that the legal department hasn't released the final approved version yet.
i'm sure someone decided that it was more important to release the product than wait for the PP to be finished.
welcome to the prroduct release process in a large company.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-01 .html
* Airport Information
* Airline Registration Information
* Area Codes
* Calculator
* Dictionary Definitions
* Encyclopedia Lookup
* Exchange Rates
* Flight Tracker
* Gas Prices
* Hotel Finder
* ISBN Numbers
* Local Search[new]
* Maps
* Movie Showtimes
* News
* Packages
* Patents
* Sports Scores
* Stock Quotes
* Synonym Finder
* Time Zones
* Traffic
* UPC Codes
* VIN Number
* Weights, Measures and Temperatures
* Weather
* Zip Codes
makes good sense. wheel is for dumb people. jeopardy is for smart people.
this accurately describes the living situation of far too many slashdotters....
I've got SpeedTribe -- it's great!
but the racing is from the 24 Hours of LeMans, not Formula 1.