Let's read carefully - some 105,000 have coughed up online, and another 100,000 print subscribers have access.
So, we can probably assume that 5 thousand people have actually signed up, since they may be counting the 100k print subscribers in the 105k who are "paid for online", since paying for the paper = online access, correct?
This isn't magic. If you think 3d is going to stay, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell ya.
It's the same as the 80s because so is the technology. All we've done instead of red/blue is done split frames. We haven't truly achieved 3D anymore than we've achieved 4g phones, and people defend 3d as illogically as they do iphones as well (note: iphone isn't 4g).
while swype is nice, I think this (8pen) reflects on the fact that the original qwerty keyboard isn't necessarily the best layout in town or the worst, and that maybe it's time people start looking into full on alternatives.
I'm not saying Dvorak, but since we can rearrange keys by choice, maybe it's time people look for something that might work better.
Actually, I kinda feel for the second statement, since all we have is fake 3d. It's not true holographic 3d aka the stuff portrayed in the star wars movies and other films (random example but I think you know what I mean). When we have that, reliably, then I feel people will accept 3d because it will be 3d (holographic). We're probably 10+ years off from that, though.
hahaha you're the only one defending it here and there.
The reality is, sound and color and not like 3d. Sound and color are huge jumps in technology, and they're also big changes to how it works.
3d is both old, and not a substantial change. Also, the versions we have of it, mean pretty much nothing. Current 3d as it exists isn't much more advanced than the 3d of the 50s, the 3d of the 80s, and has the same issues: doesn't work for everyone, eyestrain, it affects the image, requires special hardware in some form or another, all of these cause their own problems.
Real 3D, in the way people think of 3D, would be substantially different and would garner more interest. Why do we not do that? Because it's a lot harder to do that.
I don't know why you magically think 3d is here to stay, but it's already on the way out. enjoy your supposed 3d (when it's really 2d with stereoscopic dithering).
There's still cross site cookies, and no setting in facebook or outside of will fix the fact that you're tracked via facebook off of facebook. So while you've done "what you can", it doesn't do quite as much as you'd hope it does.
I welcome a facebook replacement as long as it's something that doesn't make as much a mock of privacy as facebook.
there isn't a lot of money in it. They think there might be a lot of money in it. There's an enormous difference between those statements.
The difference between speculation and reality is in the execution, something which 3D doesn't do well because it's gimmick.
There's infinite money to be made in selling air! Our profit margins are infinite! etc. This is what people tell themselves. And then comes the reality.
going after google with software patent claims will give them ammunition to head straight to supreme court to invalidate them, as it is in google's interest.
Uh, this lawsuit is exactly like SCO/IBM, and everything shows the same way so far in how Oracle is playing it. Oracle wants money for licensing and to claim they own the entirety of Java, and that was, well, the SCO scenario but for linux.
Also, is oracle really trying to state that they have never heard of clean room design? Oracle is pretty screwed on this case, and with google's intent to fight hard, all Oracle is going to do is kill their own business off.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
nah, it shows the power of psychologically manipulative games that are on an exploitative website (facebook), and how the two together can exploit users' own money.
I was going to say, that speed is horrid. People enjoy faster with fiber and DSL. I'd hesitate to call anything below 50mb down and 10mb up (minimum!) awesome at this point.
low power but better manufactured leaves to see if they can be overclocked better than the 5x series. TBD until people get some hands on time, of course.
I don't suppose it'd hurt for an actual example, not just saying that magically API's aren't capable? It's not like these people are programmers who can create their own functions or anything.
I think the change is people have been more critical/vocal of issues lately. It's as the other poster said - it's not like they declined, they simply haven't improved. Things are ridiculously slow, and the coverage goes with that. So it's more like "Everyone else has been doing a better job". However the value to slashdot has never been in the articles, it's been in the comments.
uh, office word has language specific grammar checking and spell checking.
interactive spreadsheets are not new either. Ever heard of google docs? ever heard of open office? One might wonder. In fact, in google docs (with google applications) you can do exactly the same with OLAP and AD authentication while never leaving the corporate intranet. Also you're talking about sharepoint, and not office, which is not the same product at all.
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wait, so you assume google is the only folks with a flaw?
wow.
I'm not saying google is infallible, but neither is, well, every company that exists. I dont' even need to mention names on that.
Let's read carefully - some 105,000 have coughed up online, and another 100,000 print subscribers have access.
So, we can probably assume that 5 thousand people have actually signed up, since they may be counting the 100k print subscribers in the 105k who are "paid for online", since paying for the paper = online access, correct?
what, you've never heard of trends before?
This isn't magic. If you think 3d is going to stay, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell ya.
It's the same as the 80s because so is the technology. All we've done instead of red/blue is done split frames. We haven't truly achieved 3D anymore than we've achieved 4g phones, and people defend 3d as illogically as they do iphones as well (note: iphone isn't 4g).
while swype is nice, I think this (8pen) reflects on the fact that the original qwerty keyboard isn't necessarily the best layout in town or the worst, and that maybe it's time people start looking into full on alternatives.
I'm not saying Dvorak, but since we can rearrange keys by choice, maybe it's time people look for something that might work better.
Actually, I kinda feel for the second statement, since all we have is fake 3d. It's not true holographic 3d aka the stuff portrayed in the star wars movies and other films (random example but I think you know what I mean). When we have that, reliably, then I feel people will accept 3d because it will be 3d (holographic). We're probably 10+ years off from that, though.
hahaha you're the only one defending it here and there.
The reality is, sound and color and not like 3d. Sound and color are huge jumps in technology, and they're also big changes to how it works.
3d is both old, and not a substantial change. Also, the versions we have of it, mean pretty much nothing. Current 3d as it exists isn't much more advanced than the 3d of the 50s, the 3d of the 80s, and has the same issues: doesn't work for everyone, eyestrain, it affects the image, requires special hardware in some form or another, all of these cause their own problems.
Real 3D, in the way people think of 3D, would be substantially different and would garner more interest. Why do we not do that? Because it's a lot harder to do that.
I don't know why you magically think 3d is here to stay, but it's already on the way out. enjoy your supposed 3d (when it's really 2d with stereoscopic dithering).
uh, what? People are totally up for moving forward in technology. It's just nobody gives a shit about 3d. It's neither significant nor a huge change.
There's still cross site cookies, and no setting in facebook or outside of will fix the fact that you're tracked via facebook off of facebook. So while you've done "what you can", it doesn't do quite as much as you'd hope it does.
I welcome a facebook replacement as long as it's something that doesn't make as much a mock of privacy as facebook.
there isn't a lot of money in it. They think there might be a lot of money in it. There's an enormous difference between those statements.
The difference between speculation and reality is in the execution, something which 3D doesn't do well because it's gimmick.
There's infinite money to be made in selling air! Our profit margins are infinite! etc. This is what people tell themselves. And then comes the reality.
this is probably the most potentially damaging scenario possible short of giving a virus user direct physical access to your pc.
I noticed someone mentioned this on groklaw as well, that it's been open sourced by sun - but I thought google wasn't using openJDK, anyway?
What is the significance if it's being used in testsuite?
going after google with software patent claims will give them ammunition to head straight to supreme court to invalidate them, as it is in google's interest.
Google didn't recreate the JVM, they went around it via Dalvik. Please please please don't make me dig up the articles explaining this.
Java is huge, but this will put people off of oracle and java in many different ways.
Uh, this lawsuit is exactly like SCO/IBM, and everything shows the same way so far in how Oracle is playing it. Oracle wants money for licensing and to claim they own the entirety of Java, and that was, well, the SCO scenario but for linux.
Also, is oracle really trying to state that they have never heard of clean room design? Oracle is pretty screwed on this case, and with google's intent to fight hard, all Oracle is going to do is kill their own business off.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
nah, it shows the power of psychologically manipulative games that are on an exploitative website (facebook), and how the two together can exploit users' own money.
That's not success, it's more unethical success.
actually 61% of all biased studies on internet kill switches support internet kill switches. /what a load of crap.
heh, old redundant argument is old and redundant.
The proper answer is "3600 baud is good enough for everyone".
I was going to say, that speed is horrid. People enjoy faster with fiber and DSL. I'd hesitate to call anything below 50mb down and 10mb up (minimum!) awesome at this point.
low power but better manufactured leaves to see if they can be overclocked better than the 5x series. TBD until people get some hands on time, of course.
I don't suppose it'd hurt for an actual example, not just saying that magically API's aren't capable? It's not like these people are programmers who can create their own functions or anything.
*facepalm*
really? ever seen touchwiz? ADW? What slick effects magically exist on iphone that aren't on android?
I really hope you have actual examples in your next post, not just "wah iphone is better than android"
what part of "supply and demand has nothing to do with sustainability" did you selectively misread? Oh right, all of it.
I think the change is people have been more critical/vocal of issues lately. It's as the other poster said - it's not like they declined, they simply haven't improved. Things are ridiculously slow, and the coverage goes with that. So it's more like "Everyone else has been doing a better job". However the value to slashdot has never been in the articles, it's been in the comments.
uh, office word has language specific grammar checking and spell checking.
interactive spreadsheets are not new either. Ever heard of google docs? ever heard of open office? One might wonder. In fact, in google docs (with google applications) you can do exactly the same with OLAP and AD authentication while never leaving the corporate intranet. Also you're talking about sharepoint, and not office, which is not the same product at all.
So Trivial? yes. Open your eyes? I hope so.