Most web people I know design for Firefox and then check IE for any weirdness. That seems to be much better than the reverse. The only exception would probably be certain CSS tags that IE has yet to support.
The sound quality of all online music stores that I know of is still questionable. I don't mind purchasing a normal album off of iTunes, but for something like a classical piece with a lot of dynamic range, I prefer the sound quality of a cd.
Beyond that, if I have the cd, I am *free* (as in bird) to use it in a variety of ways.
Personally, I could care less about the album inserts. The only nice thing to have in an online music service would be some standard downloadable way to get lyrics, album information, band information, and other interesting stuff along with the album. I know they have those PDF things, but please, if that were enough, would there be a zillion lyrics sites along with a zillion os x widgets that get lyrics for the current track? I would think it would be very cool to have that information structured with the actual album so you could leaf through it in a nice way in iTunes or whatever instead of the software vomitting some "printable" document onto the screen. I just looked at my U2 album pdf and it's pretty sad - a cd insert scanned in to pdf form. Hooray, I can zoom in to read the lyrics. That's not elegant. Honestly, that's just unlike Apple.
Children do not have all of the rights of adults in this country. It is perfectly within the law to restrict certain things for minors. People can produce anything they want, but there can be restrictions on who can buy those things.
I think that if it is astroturfing, that Microsoft is trying to be more like Apple - mysterious announcements about secret products. They want to build up a marketing frenzy the way Apple does for its products. We'll see if it's actually something to talk about a week from now *and* how it compares to Apple's mysterious announcement of "fun new products" on Tuesday.
Google is currently testing giving email addresses and space to universities and other entities.
I wonder if that could be joined with this pages project only in a more business-like form complete with a shopping cart library and a payment mechanism.
Then they would just need a nice way to register domain names and they would be a new Yahoo Shopping only easier and better.
Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock...
for about 4 hours to get a decent quality full length movie... then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies.
Contrary to the title of the post, this set of speakers does not operate using Bluetooth. I checked out both the review and the product website and they both simply said that the speakers used the 2.4GHz range to transmit, but never mention Bluetooth. It's kind of disappointing because my PowerBook has built-in Bluetooth and there is still a surprising lack of wireless Bluetooth devices out there...
For instance, the Logitech wireless laser mouse is *not* bluetooth *sigh*.
The majority of people in Columbus' day did not think the world was flat. That myth comes from a children's book about the life of Christopher Columbus and his journey to the Americas. It was an idea perpetuated by other more recent stories and even textbooks. (History of the flat earth theory, more facts of Columbus' true story
Besides, why can't the world be round and flat anyways...spherical, now that's another story.
I was a project manager on.net project this last fall. Typically I do Java middle tier programming in eclipse. Let me just say, after having spent more than 2 hours with Visual Studio both on this project as well as others, I would take eclipse any day of the week. Visual Studio does some things for you. It helps with web services - making them simpler to develop from start to finish for example. However, we spent gobs and gobs of time making sure that everyone's Visual Studio environments were synched up correctly so that the code would compile. Often Visual Studio assumed locations of where to put compiled code or dependencies which turned out to be wrong quite a few times.
I'm all for advanced IDEs that save time, but often it seemed like Visual Studio was taking more time to maintain than the time it saved in code completion, coloring, integration with IIS, etc. I think it has been a model for other IDEs to follow, but frankly I think eclipse has solved the major deficiencies of Visual Studio.
Eclipse does have its own problems, but it is much more reliable than Visual Studio in my experience.
For Star Control II, I certainly hope you know about this open source version that runs on windows, linux, and mac. It's the complete game with sound and all the graphics, ship battles, and storyline that game sc2 great. I lost my old copy of the game, but this allows for some game nostalgia.
I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance. None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected.
Just to add my random data point... I'm a well educated person who believes in creationism and ID.
Windows is still by far the dominant desktop software.
Office is still by far the dominant office software.
IE is still hovering at 85-90% of marketshare with its browser. That's more of a hold than iTunes has on the music bought online, which others are very concerned about.
It still abuses its monopolistic powers:
As late as this last Fall, Microsoft tried to strongarm vendors of machines to put Windows Media Player exclusively, though it did retract the terms.
IE still refuses to adopt some standards like a full CSS implementation
I'm sorry, but the notion that Microsoft is no longer a monolopoly and wouldn't use it at the drop of a hat is really giving them too much credit.
Please don't go to sleep and wake up to find another snarling dragon in the form of bad programming invading every desktop.
When trying to develop to each and every one of our users, we kept trying to make it at least non-broken in mac ie. We found it amusing that its default homepage, msn.com, doesn't even work on mac ie.
The javascript rendering is so bad that one of the javascript calendars we tried out would consistently crash the browser.
May it rest in peace alongside Netscape 4.x.
Hmmm... I would think that expression of mood is not just related to age and gender, but to... culture and yes, time period.
Luckily, however, the researchers unearthed several thousand photographs of young Italian women from the early 1500s with notes attached describing their mood.
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Eric Schmidt, the current CEO of Google, worked at Sun where he led the development of Java. He left Sun to be the CEO of Novell and retrained the programming staff on Java. He went from Novell to Google and still has ties with Sun, mostly recently with the joint venture with Sun in distributing the JRE with the Google Toolbar. Google is also purchasing Sun hardware possibly to obtain a better performance per watt. Eric Schmidt has also said that Google has several projects that use Java. Google is also a member of the Java Community Process.
So, it seems that Google has some serious management, business, and code ties with Java. That's to say nothing of IBM, Oracle, and others.
The lds church does a lot of family history and genealogy work. They have family history centers around the world staffed with volunteers that work to help people preserve their genealogies and family history. Locations can be found here and other resources that might be helpful are found at Cyndi's List which compiles a list of family history resources.
And it's the core of Novell's GroupWise suite, so it can be upgraded to a version supported by Novell's global staff.
It's not the core of Groupwise. Novell recently released Hula as an open source app, which open-xchange uses.
Hula is not based on Groupwise though. It was a separate project called NetMail designed separately from the ground up. I'm sure they would be somewhat compatible considering it was Novell that did it, but it is not the core of GroupWise. Novell is still testing the open source waters and wouldn't give away something like GroupWise...yet.
They're trying to sell computers. You can't really sell a $500 computer if you have to pay $400
for MS Standard Office for the Mac. That leaves $100 for the hardware.
If they really want to sell inexpensive computers to home users, they need a current word processor. That's it. No David and Goliath. It's just that Mom needs to write a letter and the iPod doesn't have a keyboard. Enter the xMac.
You may not like or agree with them, but software licenses have been around for a long, long time.
You buy a license to use that product. If you violate those terms, that's your fault. It seems sometimes that people think that they have unlimited "rights" for some reason. I have a cd in my hand, therefore I own this software. It does make intuitive sense, but it really has rarely been that way. The same goes with music.
Think about it. You are writing a song or making software that costs a lot to produce and market and so forth. My confusion with just copying software and music comes with the extreme use of "fair use". Okay, so I can share my music with a couple billion of my closest friends. Where does that put the people who are feeding their families - software developers, musicians, artists, recording engineers, etc?
I know this is a rant and will probably get flamed for this, but I am a software developer who lives in west LA with good friends who are musicians and recording engineers. I really don't like the antiquated use of licenses by the RIAA and others, but I do think that a system of some sort has to be in place.
Sometimes an older generation is more sensitive to newer trends, but I am of the younger generation I don't want this trend to continue. I just read a study that is frightening to me if I think about my own family.
In a study from way back in 1983 (William Marshall, "A Report of the Use of Pornography by Sexual Offenders," 1983, Ottawa, Canada.), it was noted that pornography may have a direct relationship to sex crimes. In the study, 87 percent of convicted molesters of girls and 77 percent of convicted molesters of boys admit to the use of pornography, most often in commission of their crimes.
I don't want to be prudish but if that's my little sister or little brother affected in that way by something that subtle, then I would be cautious too.
For one thing, it's not just the NYT ad. Just look at all the publicity that it's gotten since it announced the mere intention of raising money for a NYT ad. Whew. What marketing genius.
Now if only firefox could stabilize a bit more so all of my extensions would keep working between versions...
I wonder how much Real employees will be astroturfing on this post to make it look like a "movement" for freeing up the drm...
Question: How is Real trying to innovate rather than just piggy back on the efforts of Apple and others?
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Most web people I know design for Firefox and then check IE for any weirdness. That seems to be much better than the reverse. The only exception would probably be certain CSS tags that IE has yet to support.
Good little competition beastie...nice competition. Make for us better products.
Now go forth and devour remaining anti-consumer monopolies.
The sound quality of all online music stores that I know of is still questionable. I don't mind purchasing a normal album off of iTunes, but for something like a classical piece with a lot of dynamic range, I prefer the sound quality of a cd.
Beyond that, if I have the cd, I am *free* (as in bird) to use it in a variety of ways.
Personally, I could care less about the album inserts. The only nice thing to have in an online music service would be some standard downloadable way to get lyrics, album information, band information, and other interesting stuff along with the album. I know they have those PDF things, but please, if that were enough, would there be a zillion lyrics sites along with a zillion os x widgets that get lyrics for the current track? I would think it would be very cool to have that information structured with the actual album so you could leaf through it in a nice way in iTunes or whatever instead of the software vomitting some "printable" document onto the screen. I just looked at my U2 album pdf and it's pretty sad - a cd insert scanned in to pdf form. Hooray, I can zoom in to read the lyrics. That's not elegant. Honestly, that's just unlike Apple.
Children do not have all of the rights of adults in this country. It is perfectly within the law to restrict certain things for minors. People can produce anything they want, but there can be restrictions on who can buy those things.
I think that if it is astroturfing, that Microsoft is trying to be more like Apple - mysterious announcements about secret products. They want to build up a marketing frenzy the way Apple does for its products. We'll see if it's actually something to talk about a week from now *and* how it compares to Apple's mysterious announcement of "fun new products" on Tuesday.
Google is currently testing giving email addresses and space to universities and other entities.
I wonder if that could be joined with this pages project only in a more business-like form complete with a shopping cart library and a payment mechanism.
Then they would just need a nice way to register domain names and they would be a new Yahoo Shopping only easier and better.
Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock... for about 4 hours to get a decent quality full length movie ... then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies.
Contrary to the title of the post, this set of speakers does not operate using Bluetooth. I checked out both the review and the product website and they both simply said that the speakers used the 2.4GHz range to transmit, but never mention Bluetooth. It's kind of disappointing because my PowerBook has built-in Bluetooth and there is still a surprising lack of wireless Bluetooth devices out there...
For instance, the Logitech wireless laser mouse is *not* bluetooth *sigh*.
The majority of people in Columbus' day did not think the world was flat. That myth comes from a children's book about the life of Christopher Columbus and his journey to the Americas. It was an idea perpetuated by other more recent stories and even textbooks. (History of the flat earth theory, more facts of Columbus' true story
Besides, why can't the world be round and flat anyways...spherical, now that's another story.
I was a project manager on .net project this last fall. Typically I do Java middle tier programming in eclipse. Let me just say, after having spent more than 2 hours with Visual Studio both on this project as well as others, I would take eclipse any day of the week. Visual Studio does some things for you. It helps with web services - making them simpler to develop from start to finish for example. However, we spent gobs and gobs of time making sure that everyone's Visual Studio environments were synched up correctly so that the code would compile. Often Visual Studio assumed locations of where to put compiled code or dependencies which turned out to be wrong quite a few times.
I'm all for advanced IDEs that save time, but often it seemed like Visual Studio was taking more time to maintain than the time it saved in code completion, coloring, integration with IIS, etc. I think it has been a model for other IDEs to follow, but frankly I think eclipse has solved the major deficiencies of Visual Studio.
Eclipse does have its own problems, but it is much more reliable than Visual Studio in my experience.
For Star Control II, I certainly hope you know about this open source version that runs on windows, linux, and mac. It's the complete game with sound and all the graphics, ship battles, and storyline that game sc2 great. I lost my old copy of the game, but this allows for some game nostalgia.
I thought most people over here thought these views were outdated and lacked substance. None of my close friends give any credit to creationism or ID, but we're all well educated athiests so I guess that's to be expected.
Just to add my random data point... I'm a well educated person who believes in creationism and ID.
- Windows is still by far the dominant desktop software.
- Office is still by far the dominant office software.
- IE is still hovering at 85-90% of marketshare with its browser. That's more of a hold than iTunes has on the music bought online, which others are very concerned about.
It still abuses its monopolistic powers:- As late as this last Fall, Microsoft tried to strongarm vendors of machines to put Windows Media Player exclusively, though it did retract the terms.
- IE still refuses to adopt some standards like a full CSS implementation
I'm sorry, but the notion that Microsoft is no longer a monolopoly and wouldn't use it at the drop of a hat is really giving them too much credit.Please don't go to sleep and wake up to find another snarling dragon in the form of bad programming invading every desktop.
When trying to develop to each and every one of our users, we kept trying to make it at least non-broken in mac ie. We found it amusing that its default homepage, msn.com, doesn't even work on mac ie.
The javascript rendering is so bad that one of the javascript calendars we tried out would consistently crash the browser.
May it rest in peace alongside Netscape 4.x.
Hmmm... I would think that expression of mood is not just related to age and gender, but to ... culture and yes, time period.
Luckily, however, the researchers unearthed several thousand photographs of young Italian women from the early 1500s with notes attached describing their mood.
Eric Schmidt, the current CEO of Google, worked at Sun where he led the development of Java. He left Sun to be the CEO of Novell and retrained the programming staff on Java. He went from Novell to Google and still has ties with Sun, mostly recently with the joint venture with Sun in distributing the JRE with the Google Toolbar. Google is also purchasing Sun hardware possibly to obtain a better performance per watt. Eric Schmidt has also said that Google has several projects that use Java. Google is also a member of the Java Community Process.
So, it seems that Google has some serious management, business, and code ties with Java. That's to say nothing of IBM, Oracle, and others.
From what I recall of the original Pepsi bottlecap promotion, Apple does *not* include freebies in its iTunes download totals.
The lds church does a lot of family history and genealogy work. They have family history centers around the world staffed with volunteers that work to help people preserve their genealogies and family history. Locations can be found here and other resources that might be helpful are found at Cyndi's List which compiles a list of family history resources.
And it's the core of Novell's GroupWise suite, so it can be upgraded to a version supported by Novell's global staff.
It's not the core of Groupwise. Novell recently released Hula as an open source app, which open-xchange uses.
Hula is not based on Groupwise though. It was a separate project called NetMail designed separately from the ground up. I'm sure they would be somewhat compatible considering it was Novell that did it, but it is not the core of GroupWise. Novell is still testing the open source waters and wouldn't give away something like GroupWise...yet.
They're trying to sell computers. You can't really sell a $500 computer if you have to pay $400 for MS Standard Office for the Mac. That leaves $100 for the hardware.
If they really want to sell inexpensive computers to home users, they need a current word processor. That's it. No David and Goliath. It's just that Mom needs to write a letter and the iPod doesn't have a keyboard. Enter the xMac.
You may not like or agree with them, but software licenses have been around for a long, long time.
You buy a license to use that product. If you violate those terms, that's your fault. It seems sometimes that people think that they have unlimited "rights" for some reason. I have a cd in my hand, therefore I own this software. It does make intuitive sense, but it really has rarely been that way. The same goes with music.
Think about it. You are writing a song or making software that costs a lot to produce and market and so forth. My confusion with just copying software and music comes with the extreme use of "fair use". Okay, so I can share my music with a couple billion of my closest friends. Where does that put the people who are feeding their families - software developers, musicians, artists, recording engineers, etc?
I know this is a rant and will probably get flamed for this, but I am a software developer who lives in west LA with good friends who are musicians and recording engineers. I really don't like the antiquated use of licenses by the RIAA and others, but I do think that a system of some sort has to be in place.
Sometimes an older generation is more sensitive to newer trends, but I am of the younger generation I don't want this trend to continue. I just read a study that is frightening to me if I think about my own family.
In a study from way back in 1983 (William Marshall, "A Report of the Use of Pornography by Sexual Offenders," 1983, Ottawa, Canada.), it was noted that pornography may have a direct relationship to sex crimes. In the study, 87 percent of convicted molesters of girls and 77 percent of convicted molesters of boys admit to the use of pornography, most often in commission of their crimes.
I don't want to be prudish but if that's my little sister or little brother affected in that way by something that subtle, then I would be cautious too.
Dutch-land, like a Christmas tree Tonight this city belongs to me Angel... Angel of Haarlem
For one thing, it's not just the NYT ad. Just look at all the publicity that it's gotten since it announced the mere intention of raising money for a NYT ad. Whew. What marketing genius. Now if only firefox could stabilize a bit more so all of my extensions would keep working between versions ...
I wonder how much Real employees will be astroturfing on this post to make it look like a "movement" for freeing up the drm... Question: How is Real trying to innovate rather than just piggy back on the efforts of Apple and others?