Most content [books both fiction and non-], movies, music, blog posts, online tutorials, photographs, games - basically anything with a copyright are still highly relevant, have real value, and in fairly good circulation 5 or 10 years out. Too short, even for 'corporate copyright' and you create other problems of 3rd parties using the works to their advantage [think clear channel wit h access to free 5 year old content,]
something like 40-50 years to me would be a much more reasonable cut back - either in retaliation or just a more general sanity check. on the system. sure 40 years out money can still be made on works, but there's a much more significant drop off then there is in the shorter timeframe and if they are more valuable the creator is generally seeing that value in their own reputation, franchise or other ways besides just on individual works alone.
I say the above with a few caveats in mind, not the least of which being my views are based on the current 'culture' and trends and I think we've been running on "everything before the 60s is irrelevant' and valuable in many ways for 10 or 20 years now - so ask me in 20 years if I think 40 years is right, or not long enough
A few things I personally couldn't live without that are missing from this list
* VoodooPad - for general note taking, todo lists, etc * TextMate - self explanatory * Camino - for web surfing * Paparazzi! - for taking quick screenshots or thumbnails of web pages * Colloquy - irc client * twitterific - interface for twitter * NetNewsWire - Feed reader
yeah, that line in the story read funny to me too. the built in tools for setting geo coords in flickr are indeed yahoo maps, as are the tools to view pphotos
however, if you don't like yahoo maps there are 3rd party tools already out there (like http://loc.alize.us/ ) that allows for geotagging via gmaps and/or google earth + flickr API
Its all about defaults and disclosure, not about hardware itself
Flickr for one, already has separate privacy controls for who can see your geo info.., just like it has for who can comment, note or tag photos. So even if if I post a public photo and geotag it for the location of my house I can easily keep that info private if i choose to.
So the mechanics are there, and I quickly found them, but I don't recall what the default settings are to know how valid the issue of unknowingly posting geo data is.
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score another one for rabid fans.. oh.. and slashdot moderators who picked up on the story about a week too late
Then how would you define my 'subscriptions' to podcasts for such things as ITConversations or a number of public radio shows?
Would audio recordings of this years Gnomedex qualify as the audio equivalent of a blog? Hardy.
(please though, save the discussion of how Steve Wozniack fits the description of some whiny kid who thinks he's an authority on something and has a delusional idea that people care what he has to say for someplace else)
Basically what they are saying is half their time is spent resolving issues from failed transactions so there are support cost savings in putting in an effective forsale/trade system. They won't be selling items themselves, only help facilitate the trade.
They have explicitly stated that (for now) new servers will be brought on line where this service will be available. That they will be leaving all of their existing servers - where players have a good deal of items and wealth and are where the 'illegal' transactions are currently happening - with no change at all.
So how exactly will this cut down on support costs related to out of game transactions on these servers? Are they hoping that everyone who wants to buy & sell for RL cash are going to just uproot themselves and start fresh on the new servers? That no one will every try and cash out from the old servers when they quit or continue to see value it items not on these new Exchange servers?
Delta 4 Heavy launch comes up short Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004, 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT) The first Delta 4 Heavy launch vehicle lifted off Tuesday afternoon but a problem with the vehicle's first stage has apparently kept the vehicle from deploying its payload in the proper orbit. The vehicle lifted off from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral at 4:50 pm EST (2150 GMT), more than two hours into a three-hour launch window because of minor problems during pre-launch preparations, and initially the launch appeared to be normal. However, the Delta 4's first stage -- three identical core boosters -- shut down eight seconds earlier than expected. To compensate, the upper stage fired longer than planned during the second of three burns needed to place the primary payload, a demonstration satellite, into geosynchronous orbit, and as a result ran out of propellant during the final burn. Contact has also not been established with two nanosatellites that were deployed from the booster 16 minutes after launch. Despite the underperformance of the first stage, Boeing officials said they, as well as the Air Force, who paid for the flight, were pleased with the launch.
Podcasting doesn't have anything to do with macs, ipods or apple directly. Its multiplatform in both nature and implementation [software here for mac, win, linux, more] and is simply a way of automating content transfers based on RSS enclosures.
Running a camino nightly build from sometime last week I cannot recreate the focus vulnerability...
While it appeared clear that the form field in the test page was stealing focus from the citibank site in the active tab there were no keystrokes recorded in the test page... as if my keystrokes were going into nowhere instead of getting stolen by the "attackers" form / background tab.
(also, the prompt vulnerability took a few tries to recreate as I load tabs in the background of the current one and needed to be fast enough to not get the prompt before I had time to switch to the citibank tab)
Three computers were taken sometime between 11 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Tuesday, apparently by an intruder who broke a side window.
One of the computers belonged to office manager Barbara Koonce, who was responsible for names and addresses of hundreds of party members, volunteers, and candidates, a master schedule for all candidates' events, and financial information.
It also included a list of registered Democrats - information that had been analyzed as part of the Democrats' campaign strategy, Ms. Koonce said.
yes, *but* with the pretty lackluster separators distinguishing between the 3 sections *and* featured sites getting numbered in the same sequence as the "real" results how many people will notice?
And I can tell you with no uncertainty that your complain is already one of the 200k+ bugs that have been filed. Just do some searching if you wanna find it and track it:)
Re:Mozilla/Netscape usage & anti-Netscape sent
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In the cases where this is skewing reports it is the reporting tool that is at fault in almost all cases. For example, Opera often reports itself as:
Opera/6.01 (Windows 98; U) [en] or, when masking like: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.18-lomo i686) Opera 6.0 [en]
The latter case is just as easy to detect properly as Opera, however i have seen some tools out there that consider the latter as IE instead.
As for "quite a bit" I would hardly call 2% total even a small dent, considering the unscientific way these numbers are gathered in the first place.
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It very much depends on the site and its target (or found) audience. I run a few smaller sites geared towards Web Tech/Design types and in those arenas I see Gecko based browsers anywhere from 3-10%. On much less targeted stuff, that has a more general audience, I see between 1-2%. Some of these #s are up for your perusal:
Want precident? The Netscape 4.x branch is/still/ getting security & stability patches. And Netscape still does work on a 0.9.4 branch for their N6.2.x product.
Slashdot Mirror
Most content [books both fiction and non-], movies, music, blog posts, online tutorials, photographs, games - basically anything with a copyright are still highly relevant, have real value, and in fairly good circulation 5 or 10 years out. Too short, even for 'corporate copyright' and you create other problems of 3rd parties using the works to their advantage [think clear channel wit h access to free 5 year old content,]
something like 40-50 years to me would be a much more reasonable cut back - either in retaliation or just a more general sanity check. on the system. sure 40 years out money can still be made on works, but there's a much more significant drop off then there is in the shorter timeframe and if they are more valuable the creator is generally seeing that value in their own reputation, franchise or other ways besides just on individual works alone.
I say the above with a few caveats in mind, not the least of which being my views are based on the current 'culture' and trends and I think we've been running on "everything before the 60s is irrelevant' and valuable in many ways for 10 or 20 years now - so ask me in 20 years if I think 40 years is right, or not long enough
because terrorism and bombs didn't exist before Google and Yahoo!
A few things I personally couldn't live without that are missing from this list
* VoodooPad - for general note taking, todo lists, etc
* TextMate - self explanatory
* Camino - for web surfing
* Paparazzi! - for taking quick screenshots or thumbnails of web pages
* Colloquy - irc client
* twitterific - interface for twitter
* NetNewsWire - Feed reader
yeah, that line in the story read funny to me too. the built in tools for setting geo coords in flickr are indeed yahoo maps, as are the tools to view pphotos
however, if you don't like yahoo maps there are 3rd party tools already out there (like http://loc.alize.us/ ) that allows for geotagging via gmaps and/or google earth + flickr API
Its all about defaults and disclosure, not about hardware itself
Flickr for one, already has separate privacy controls for who can see your geo info.., just like it has for who can comment, note or tag photos. So even if if I post a public photo and geotag it for the location of my house I can easily keep that info private if i choose to.
So the mechanics are there, and I quickly found them, but I don't recall what the default settings are to know how valid the issue of unknowingly posting geo data is.
spent some of that time analyzing the strength of his hosting plan
then they accuse me of having high blood pressure?
there's no way out of this one, is there?
north korea
Needs more DHTML
"...it brings the first real subscription music service to Mac"
If you ignore EMusic.. which has had an OS X download client for some time now
Then how would you define my 'subscriptions' to podcasts for such things as ITConversations or a number of public radio shows?
Would audio recordings of this years Gnomedex qualify as the audio equivalent of a blog? Hardy.
(please though, save the discussion of how Steve Wozniack fits the description of some whiny kid who thinks he's an authority on something and has a delusional idea that people care what he has to say for someplace else)
Basically what they are saying is half their time is spent resolving issues from failed transactions so there are support cost savings in putting in an effective forsale/trade system. They won't be selling items themselves, only help facilitate the trade.
They have explicitly stated that (for now) new servers will be brought on line where this service will be available. That they will be leaving all of their existing servers - where players have a good deal of items and wealth and are where the 'illegal' transactions are currently happening - with no change at all.
So how exactly will this cut down on support costs related to out of game transactions on these servers? Are they hoping that everyone who wants to buy & sell for RL cash are going to just uproot themselves and start fresh on the new servers? That no one will every try and cash out from the old servers when they quit or continue to see value it items not on these new Exchange servers?
The bit I read this morning wasn't as positive as the story posted above...
http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2713
Delta 4 Heavy launch comes up short
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004, 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
The first Delta 4 Heavy launch vehicle lifted off Tuesday afternoon but a problem with the vehicle's first stage has apparently kept the vehicle from deploying its payload in the proper orbit. The vehicle lifted off from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral at 4:50 pm EST (2150 GMT), more than two hours into a three-hour launch window because of minor problems during pre-launch preparations, and initially the launch appeared to be normal. However, the Delta 4's first stage -- three identical core boosters -- shut down eight seconds earlier than expected. To compensate, the upper stage fired longer than planned during the second of three burns needed to place the primary payload, a demonstration satellite, into geosynchronous orbit, and as a result ran out of propellant during the final burn. Contact has also not been established with two nanosatellites that were deployed from the booster 16 minutes after launch. Despite the underperformance of the first stage, Boeing officials said they, as well as the Air Force, who paid for the flight, were pleased with the launch.
Why is this an apple story?
Podcasting doesn't have anything to do with macs, ipods or apple directly. Its multiplatform in both nature and implementation [software here for mac, win, linux, more] and is simply a way of automating content transfers based on RSS enclosures.
CPSAN's 2004 Vote site
Also have live feeds of CSPAN 1-4 in real or windows media linked from the homepage
Running a camino nightly build from sometime last week I cannot recreate the focus vulnerability...
While it appeared clear that the form field in the test page was stealing focus from the citibank site in the active tab there were no keystrokes recorded in the test page... as if my keystrokes were going into nowhere instead of getting stolen by the "attackers" form / background tab.
(also, the prompt vulnerability took a few tries to recreate as I load tabs in the background of the current one and needed to be fast enough to not get the prompt before I had time to switch to the citibank tab)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041008-1146
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
How do you seem to write faster then I can read?
yes, *but* with the pretty lackluster separators distinguishing between the 3 sections *and* featured sites getting numbered in the same sequence as the "real" results how many people will notice?
And I can tell you with no uncertainty that your complain is already one of the 200k+ bugs that have been filed. Just do some searching if you wanna find it and track it :)
Preferences > Privacy & Security > Popup Windows
In the cases where this is skewing reports it is the reporting tool that is at fault in almost all cases. For example, Opera often reports itself as:
Opera/6.01 (Windows 98; U) [en]
or, when masking like:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.18-lomo i686) Opera 6.0 [en]
The latter case is just as easy to detect properly as Opera, however i have seen some tools out there that consider the latter as IE instead.
As for "quite a bit" I would hardly call 2% total even a small dent, considering the unscientific way these numbers are gathered in the first place.
It very much depends on the site and its target (or found) audience. I run a few smaller sites geared towards Web Tech/Design types and in those arenas I see Gecko based browsers anywhere from 3-10%. On much less targeted stuff, that has a more general audience, I see between 1-2%. Some of these #s are up for your perusal:
placenamehere.com info
chunkysoup.net info
Want precident? The Netscape 4.x branch is /still/ getting security & stability patches. And Netscape still does work on a 0.9.4 branch for their N6.2.x product.