Sweet, cuz there's this guy down at The Wharf that will write my name on a grain of rice. I wonder if we can sponsor the LHC by getting our names on the particle?
Flock built an entire company around freely-available features that were Firefox extensions, now they're going to get smacked for it. I hate to see anyone's dream die but I don't see how anyone there couldn't have seen something like this coming.
I have to hope/pray that Flock has something up its sleeve to launch in the next month or so that will make it compelling, otherwise I expect it will pretty much just fade away.
Sharepoint does this with Check-in/Check-out capability, so if you're not the one to check it out, you can only get a read-only copy of it until the other person has checked it back in, that way merging changes isn't an issue and you're always working with the latest rev. It also has workflow capability so you can route a purchase order around or something like that.
Sharepoint isn't expensive either. 2007 is going to be about $1000/server. It's not free, but it's not breaking anyone's bank either.
What remains to be seen on it is if people will actually adopt it. I think Google doing this kind of stuff is driving Microsoft a lot more than they'd like to admit it.
People like Steve Jobs, Larry, and Sergey have created an environment of pseudo-celebrity that feeds itself here in The Valley. Nerds (like myself) flock to the place in order to gain a social status that was unheard of pre-.com.
It's turned in to a cyclical thing now as the VC's came here to be bigwigs in something else besides entertainment and, of course, they want to be close to their money, so they make sure the companies they're pushing stay local.
Plus, Northern California is a pretty decent place to live in general. Most will complain about the housing prices but (most of) the salaries support that. Where else can people who were anti-social or even beat up in high school gain status and bathe in their sense of an overactive sense of self-entitlement just because they got an MBA? [sic]
- Wouldn't this be the perfect place for a truly offshore, no strings attached, banking system with its own currency? ie Cryptonimicon?
- About 6 years ago or so I remember a Wired article about people that were taking a look at Sealand as a web hosting facility that would be free from local standards and policies. It didn't seem to pan out because of the.com collapse.
- Somehow they would need an Internet connection. Regardless of their nation status, they don't get Internet through osmosis. They'll still need to run cables to the UK, France, or both. Wouldn't be so hard to just shut off those routers.
So true, if it wasn't for the fans blowing out the smell, I would never have a single Cinnabon. I can track a Cinnabon through a mall faster than a white teenager can find an Abercrombie and Fitch sale.
I'm forced to wonder about the people that have seen this. I'd imagine that *most* of the people were already believers in humans causing Global Warming. Another piece are the people who are doing everything they can to refute it. I would have serious doubts if this changed a significant amount of people's minds about what they already believed.
Hey, there were ways of getting MP3's before Napster (Audiogalaxy, FTP's, IRC) but Napster was a big deal because it was so easy.
If they make an easy way to crack iTunes without going through a bunch of steps (Like you have to do sometimes with stuff like Tunebite), then it can change a lot of things.
I was expecting to see 25 websites that were actually crappy, not another rehash of.com business models that blew chunks.
PC Magazine has become the US Weekly of tech. They should be embarrassed of the crappy article.
Thanks for nothing.
I think it's very telling that a community of early adopters and the one's that love it (for the most part) when innovative technologies come out are (for the most part) completely uninterested in the new standards.
The problem with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is that there's no real "Killer App" to drive people in to the stores and replace their current collections. The switch from VHS to DVD was not only about quality, it was about extras, easy chapter location, easier fast forwarding, and longevity.
The only think the new formats really are bringing at this point is better picture quality and that's just not enough of a driver to get people in to the stores buying this stuff.
It's been quite a while since Xerox has come out with something that the rest of the market will do better and cheaper and take over dominance of the innovation.
Nice to know that they're still providing the world with cool stuff that they'll never figure out how to make money on.
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Sweet, cuz there's this guy down at The Wharf that will write my name on a grain of rice. I wonder if we can sponsor the LHC by getting our names on the particle?
Flock built an entire company around freely-available features that were Firefox extensions, now they're going to get smacked for it. I hate to see anyone's dream die but I don't see how anyone there couldn't have seen something like this coming. I have to hope/pray that Flock has something up its sleeve to launch in the next month or so that will make it compelling, otherwise I expect it will pretty much just fade away.
Flock already does it, but they do have an extension converter from Firefox to Flock which, usually, works.
Wait, G4 is a video gamer's network? When did this happen?
I know that Kirby is directly responsible for an overweight America, so this really rings true for me.
Sharepoint does this with Check-in/Check-out capability, so if you're not the one to check it out, you can only get a read-only copy of it until the other person has checked it back in, that way merging changes isn't an issue and you're always working with the latest rev. It also has workflow capability so you can route a purchase order around or something like that. Sharepoint isn't expensive either. 2007 is going to be about $1000/server. It's not free, but it's not breaking anyone's bank either. What remains to be seen on it is if people will actually adopt it. I think Google doing this kind of stuff is driving Microsoft a lot more than they'd like to admit it.
People like Steve Jobs, Larry, and Sergey have created an environment of pseudo-celebrity that feeds itself here in The Valley. Nerds (like myself) flock to the place in order to gain a social status that was unheard of pre-.com.
It's turned in to a cyclical thing now as the VC's came here to be bigwigs in something else besides entertainment and, of course, they want to be close to their money, so they make sure the companies they're pushing stay local.
Plus, Northern California is a pretty decent place to live in general. Most will complain about the housing prices but (most of) the salaries support that. Where else can people who were anti-social or even beat up in high school gain status and bathe in their sense of an overactive sense of self-entitlement just because they got an MBA? [sic]
Ignorance of 4 days is evil, Evil educators teach 1 day. 1 day will destroy humans.
- Wouldn't this be the perfect place for a truly offshore, no strings attached, banking system with its own currency? ie Cryptonimicon? - About 6 years ago or so I remember a Wired article about people that were taking a look at Sealand as a web hosting facility that would be free from local standards and policies. It didn't seem to pan out because of the .com collapse.
- Somehow they would need an Internet connection. Regardless of their nation status, they don't get Internet through osmosis. They'll still need to run cables to the UK, France, or both. Wouldn't be so hard to just shut off those routers.
So true, if it wasn't for the fans blowing out the smell, I would never have a single Cinnabon. I can track a Cinnabon through a mall faster than a white teenager can find an Abercrombie and Fitch sale.
ummm....probably because if they spoke a different language, you might not understand what they're saying, which doesn't make for good television.
I have yet to get tired of it. Maybe later.
I'm forced to wonder about the people that have seen this. I'd imagine that *most* of the people were already believers in humans causing Global Warming. Another piece are the people who are doing everything they can to refute it. I would have serious doubts if this changed a significant amount of people's minds about what they already believed.
I, for one, welcome our peanut butter overlords.
Freeze-dried Indian Food? Oh man...hopefully those $80,000 toilets work well...
Hey, there were ways of getting MP3's before Napster (Audiogalaxy, FTP's, IRC) but Napster was a big deal because it was so easy. If they make an easy way to crack iTunes without going through a bunch of steps (Like you have to do sometimes with stuff like Tunebite), then it can change a lot of things.
1) Spain 2) In-N-Out Burger
Man, I haven't had a date in like 4 years, and even *I'm* not nerdy enough to know why this matters...
I guess no one told him that his movies already ARE freely downloadable...
How about someone sue the RIAA for having kiddy porn on the RIAA web server? No, I can't prove it. But I just said it was there didn't I?
I didn't read anywhere that he's Jewish...
Yar! Sail the seven ISP's!
I was expecting to see 25 websites that were actually crappy, not another rehash of .com business models that blew chunks.
PC Magazine has become the US Weekly of tech. They should be embarrassed of the crappy article.
Thanks for nothing.
I think it's very telling that a community of early adopters and the one's that love it (for the most part) when innovative technologies come out are (for the most part) completely uninterested in the new standards. The problem with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is that there's no real "Killer App" to drive people in to the stores and replace their current collections. The switch from VHS to DVD was not only about quality, it was about extras, easy chapter location, easier fast forwarding, and longevity. The only think the new formats really are bringing at this point is better picture quality and that's just not enough of a driver to get people in to the stores buying this stuff.
It's been quite a while since Xerox has come out with something that the rest of the market will do better and cheaper and take over dominance of the innovation. Nice to know that they're still providing the world with cool stuff that they'll never figure out how to make money on.