Count yourself lucky you don't work in a 500+ student high school that gives all their students laptop computers and wireless internet access. I don't have access to traffic statistics (I'm a student/part time IT employee) but between that and p2p traffic I'm not sure which one would win for killing our bandwidth. Don't you worry kiddies, we'll soon be blocking MySpace's IPs at the PIX box. Muhahaha.
Why do I use AJAX at work? Because it works in the browsers I know employees will be running (Firefox and Internet Explorer), isn't really all that hard to write or debug, and makes the user experience considerably better. Best of all, the way I implemented it (and the way it should be implemented) is so you can do the same things in a browser that doesn't support AJAX or even JavaScript. It's just less convenient that way.
The use case is something like this: I'm writing an asset tracking solution for a medium-size organization. In this asset tracking solution I want people to check off things. The non-JavaScript version requires that after they check stuff off on a page they must click save in order to have those checks stick. The AJAX version is so much more intuitive and friendly, they check stuff off and then can just navigate to another page without having to worry about saving their data.
The web is what you make it, not some definition set in stone for time imemorial.
What's interesting is that they used a passage Cringely wrote on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests. A fairly obvious piece about how money is simply a representation of value most people can agree on. I thought it was rather funny, that who most of Slashdot rightly regards as professional troll got on a statewide standardized test.
Quite frequently. Well, not Facebook or MySpace obviously. But Flickr, Digg, and YouTube I end up on a lot. Why? Becuase you don't spend hours looking for gems on those sites. The community filters what the community submits. On Digg that's through digging articles. On YouTube that's through friends passing on links that they in turn got from their friends. On Flickr that's my contact's photos and photos tagged as interesting by their algorithms. It only takes a few people to sort the wheat from the chaff, and everybody else benefits from it.
Because you know your software is usable when it's described as a huge, mysterious old house with lots of long halls, secret bookcases, dark closets and creaky doors that, when you peer behind them, reveal wonderful secrets.
It's obvious from many replies that very few are familiar with what Google.org has already done. Mainly they've worked with non-profits who do very much what you folks suggest. They've been posting about it in the Google Blog and it reads like a book of how to do philanthropy in a sustainable, sensible, and empowering manner.
For instance, one of their partners is the Acumen Fund which invests in local start-ups making goods and services for the developing world (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/acumen-vis its-google.html). Another partner does produces subtitled television from local content as a means to increase literacy in India (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-langu age-subtitling.html). Others are detailed on Google.org itself. One such example is TechnoServe which is promoting business developement in Ghana (http://www.technoserve.org/). And they're not just throwing money at the problem, they're donating Google services (AdSense) and plan on supplying logistical and technical aid as well.
In short, all the whiny comments about what the developing world needs (parent post isn't one of them, but nearing that way) are pretty well misplaced. Google has shown a good degree of competence in their technical endeavours, that seems to be translating wonderfully to their philanthropic wing.
Ah, but the argument was whether or not Windows Media Player can rip, burn, and so forth. The answer is yes. You can't say "partially, because people haven't bothered to upgrade it." Let's go back to your IE analogy. If Microsoft released a version of IE that was superior to Firefox and only 5% of the people installed it then the problem isn't Microsoft's product. The problem is the 95% of the people who haven't bothered to install it. You can't then say that IE isn't better than Firefox, because as of the latest version it clearly would be.
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And you'll note all of those posts contain something like "Apple really understands how to do integrated systems right" or "iTunes is realy what we should be looking at as a shining example of desktop consumer software." I would buy an Apple if only I didn't have to become one of them.
All copies of iTunes currently installed can rip to mp3, while only a fraction of the copies of WMP can, which puts things in a little better context.
That's hardly fair. If the software exists, no matter its install base, it counts. Anybody can install it just fine. And not upgrading to XP is no excuse, you can hardly expect Microsoft (or Apple for that matter) to support 5 year old operating systems. No progress would ever be made that way.
I know what I'm mapping my three keys to: CTRL, ALT, and DEL
I got to the site a day before it was Slashdotted (thank you, Digg) and that will be one of the possible combinations. There was also a "Any" key configuration where all of the keys literally switched to the word any. There was one where you could control iTunes and another one where you could control picture or PowerPoint slideshows (the keys actually showed mini previews of the next and previous pictures/slides). Really cool, but at $100 for 3 keys I'm not biting.
You know I similiarly made fun of LiveJournal to my girlfriend the other day (she uses it). Her response?
"Slashdot? 'ooooh, look at my pseudo-intellectual supposedly clever but really quite lame reply to this completely irrelevant and totally geeky news story. I will mention something lame about bill Gates or bombs or a jab at Apple or Linux just because i think that's what everyone wants to read, but really, no one cares. w00tage!'"
Nope. No such luck. I did exactly as you said and only was given the option to deauthorize that computer. This is no good for me as some of the computers no longer have iTunes, aren't around.
That was my main complaint about Ubuntu too. Until I realized if you put the entries you wanted to keep above the comment line that said "automagic configuration" it wouldn't be overwritten. I'm back on Windows now. I like to be able to install right after it comes out, not wait on the repositories to get to it to me 6 months later or run through command line installation hell.
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Count yourself lucky you don't work in a 500+ student high school that gives all their students laptop computers and wireless internet access. I don't have access to traffic statistics (I'm a student/part time IT employee) but between that and p2p traffic I'm not sure which one would win for killing our bandwidth. Don't you worry kiddies, we'll soon be blocking MySpace's IPs at the PIX box. Muhahaha.
Why do I use AJAX at work? Because it works in the browsers I know employees will be running (Firefox and Internet Explorer), isn't really all that hard to write or debug, and makes the user experience considerably better. Best of all, the way I implemented it (and the way it should be implemented) is so you can do the same things in a browser that doesn't support AJAX or even JavaScript. It's just less convenient that way. The use case is something like this: I'm writing an asset tracking solution for a medium-size organization. In this asset tracking solution I want people to check off things. The non-JavaScript version requires that after they check stuff off on a page they must click save in order to have those checks stick. The AJAX version is so much more intuitive and friendly, they check stuff off and then can just navigate to another page without having to worry about saving their data. The web is what you make it, not some definition set in stone for time imemorial.
What's interesting is that they used a passage Cringely wrote on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests. A fairly obvious piece about how money is simply a representation of value most people can agree on. I thought it was rather funny, that who most of Slashdot rightly regards as professional troll got on a statewide standardized test.
Quite frequently. Well, not Facebook or MySpace obviously. But Flickr, Digg, and YouTube I end up on a lot. Why? Becuase you don't spend hours looking for gems on those sites. The community filters what the community submits. On Digg that's through digging articles. On YouTube that's through friends passing on links that they in turn got from their friends. On Flickr that's my contact's photos and photos tagged as interesting by their algorithms. It only takes a few people to sort the wheat from the chaff, and everybody else benefits from it.
I swear these articles are like the Slashdot version of Two Minutes Hate.
Don't people know the phone number of the local fire, ambulance and police departments anymore?
Generally not, because we were always taught 911 was reliable. It's shorter, it's one number, and it's supposed to get results.
Because you know your software is usable when it's described as a huge, mysterious old house with lots of long halls, secret bookcases, dark closets and creaky doors that, when you peer behind them, reveal wonderful secrets.
So you're saying you can tell users what they really want? And that currently they're wrong? Oh that will go over real well.
It's obvious from many replies that very few are familiar with what Google.org has already done. Mainly they've worked with non-profits who do very much what you folks suggest. They've been posting about it in the Google Blog and it reads like a book of how to do philanthropy in a sustainable, sensible, and empowering manner.
s its-google.html). Another partner does produces subtitled television from local content as a means to increase literacy in India (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-langu age-subtitling.html). Others are detailed on Google.org itself. One such example is TechnoServe which is promoting business developement in Ghana (http://www.technoserve.org/). And they're not just throwing money at the problem, they're donating Google services (AdSense) and plan on supplying logistical and technical aid as well.
For instance, one of their partners is the Acumen Fund which invests in local start-ups making goods and services for the developing world (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/acumen-vi
In short, all the whiny comments about what the developing world needs (parent post isn't one of them, but nearing that way) are pretty well misplaced. Google has shown a good degree of competence in their technical endeavours, that seems to be translating wonderfully to their philanthropic wing.
Ah, but the argument was whether or not Windows Media Player can rip, burn, and so forth. The answer is yes. You can't say "partially, because people haven't bothered to upgrade it." Let's go back to your IE analogy. If Microsoft released a version of IE that was superior to Firefox and only 5% of the people installed it then the problem isn't Microsoft's product. The problem is the 95% of the people who haven't bothered to install it. You can't then say that IE isn't better than Firefox, because as of the latest version it clearly would be.
And you'll note all of those posts contain something like "Apple really understands how to do integrated systems right" or "iTunes is realy what we should be looking at as a shining example of desktop consumer software." I would buy an Apple if only I didn't have to become one of them.
I run NAV 8 and the MS Anti-Spyware beta. No problems and I just updated and ran a scan. Maybe it doesn't affect NAV 8?
All copies of iTunes currently installed can rip to mp3, while only a fraction of the copies of WMP can, which puts things in a little better context.
That's hardly fair. If the software exists, no matter its install base, it counts. Anybody can install it just fine. And not upgrading to XP is no excuse, you can hardly expect Microsoft (or Apple for that matter) to support 5 year old operating systems. No progress would ever be made that way.
Hope you were kidding. None of that stuff is a real problem in America.
I know what I'm mapping my three keys to: CTRL, ALT, and DEL
I got to the site a day before it was Slashdotted (thank you, Digg) and that will be one of the possible combinations. There was also a "Any" key configuration where all of the keys literally switched to the word any. There was one where you could control iTunes and another one where you could control picture or PowerPoint slideshows (the keys actually showed mini previews of the next and previous pictures/slides). Really cool, but at $100 for 3 keys I'm not biting.
That's a very partial list. Some work on ARIN.net gives me this slightly less partial version:
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Central Intelligence Agency CIA2 (NET-162-46-0-0-1) 162.46.0.0 - 162.46.255.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA3 (NET-192-189-141-0-1) 192.189.141.0 - 192.189.141.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA4 (NET-192-189-142-0-1) 192.189.142.0 - 192.189.142.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA5 (NET-192-189-143-0-1) 192.189.143.0 - 192.189.143.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA6 (NET-192-189-144-0-1) 192.189.144.0 - 192.189.144.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA7 (NET-192-189-145-0-1) 192.189.145.0 - 192.189.145.255
Central Intelligence Agency CIA8 (NET-192-189-146-0-1) 192.189.146.0 - 192.189.146.255
Central Intelligence Agency NETBLK-CIA9 (NET-198-21-32-0-1) 198.21.32.0 - 198.21.81.255
Central Intelligence Agency OIT-BLK1 (NET-198-81-128-0-1) 198.81.128.0 - 198.81.191.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN1 (NET-198-136-64-0-1) 198.136.64.0 - 198.136.127.255
Central Intelligence Agency NETBLK-NISEN (NET-198-136-64-0-2) 198.136.64.0 - 198.136.113.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN2 (NET-198-136-65-0-1) 198.136.65.0 - 198.136.65.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN3 (NET-198-136-66-0-1) 198.136.66.0 - 198.136.66.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN4 (NET-198-136-67-0-1) 198.136.67.0 - 198.136.67.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN5 (NET-198-136-68-0-1) 198.136.68.0 - 198.136.68.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN6 (NET-198-136-69-0-1) 198.136.69.0 - 198.136.69.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN7 (NET-198-136-70-0-1) 198.136.70.0 - 198.136.70.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN8 (NET-198-136-71-0-1) 198.136.71.0 - 198.136.71.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN9 (NET-198-136-72-0-1) 198.136.72.0 - 198.136.72.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN10 (NET-198-136-73-0-1) 198.136.73.0 - 198.136.73.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN11 (NET-198-136-74-0-1) 198.136.74.0 - 198.136.74.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN12 (NET-198-136-75-0-1) 198.136.75.0 - 198.136.75.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN13 (NET-198-136-76-0-1) 198.136.76.0 - 198.136.76.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN14 (NET-198-136-77-0-1) 198.136.77.0 - 198.136.77.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN15 (NET-198-136-78-0-1) 198.136.78.0 - 198.136.78.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN16 (NET-198-136-79-0-1) 198.136.79.0 - 198.136.79.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN17 (NET-198-136-80-0-1) 198.136.80.0 - 198.136.80.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN18 (NET-198-136-81-0-1) 198.136.81.0 - 198.136.81.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN19 (NET-198-136-82-0-1) 198.136.82.0 - 198.136.82.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN20 (NET-198-136-83-0-1) 198.136.83.0 - 198.136.83.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN21 (NET-198-136-84-0-1) 198.136.84.0 - 198.136.84.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN22 (NET-198-136-85-0-1) 198.136.85.0 - 198.136.85.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN23 (NET-198-136-86-0-1) 198.136.86.0 - 198.136.86.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN24 (NET-198-136-87-0-1) 198.136.87.0 - 198.136.87.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN25 (NET-198-136-88-0-1) 198.136.88.0 - 198.136.88.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN26 (NET-198-136-89-0-1) 198.136.89.0 - 198.136.89.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN27 (NET-198-136-90-0-1) 198.136.90.0 - 198.136.90.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN28 (NET-198-136-91-0-1) 198.136.91.0 - 198.136.91.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN29 (NET-198-136-92-0-1) 198.136.92.0 - 198.136.92.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN30 (NET-198-136-93-0-1) 198.136.93.0 - 198.136.93.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN31 (NET-198-136-94-0-1) 198.136.94.0 - 198.136.94.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN32 (NET-198-136-95-0-1) 198.136.95.0 - 198.136.95.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN33 (NET-198-136-96-0-1) 198.136.96.0 - 198.136.96.255
Central Intelligence Agency NISEN34 (NET-198-136-
Don't worry, we do.
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Pity you, that is.
You know I similiarly made fun of LiveJournal to my girlfriend the other day (she uses it). Her response?
"Slashdot? 'ooooh, look at my pseudo-intellectual supposedly clever but really quite lame reply to this completely irrelevant and totally geeky news story. I will mention something lame about bill Gates or bombs or a jab at Apple or Linux just because i think that's what everyone wants to read, but really, no one cares. w00tage!'"
Ouuuch!
Ah, didn't know you had to have 5. I only have 4. That's annoying.
Nope. No such luck. I did exactly as you said and only was given the option to deauthorize that computer. This is no good for me as some of the computers no longer have iTunes, aren't around.
Off-topic, but where exactly would one find that? I've been looking but it isn't anywhere in Account Information that I can find.
how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh ... :)
I'm envious of my girlfriend's 17" PowerBook, but at least I get to use it when she comes over.
That was my main complaint about Ubuntu too. Until I realized if you put the entries you wanted to keep above the comment line that said "automagic configuration" it wouldn't be overwritten. I'm back on Windows now. I like to be able to install right after it comes out, not wait on the repositories to get to it to me 6 months later or run through command line installation hell.
Err. Oops. That's this.
At $800, I could just buy a laptop. Why would I want this?
Because it sells direct from Nokia for $359.99. Link, you have to click continue to view the price. For some reason a direct link wouldn't work.