Free and free upgrades - You don't have to worry about paying for this or keeping it up to date especially if you use multiple different computers.
What prevents these services from cutting you off from your data and requiring you to start paying monthly charges to use it plus an $400 "sign up fee", effectively holding all of your data for ransom?
Chloe: "Jack, give me the IP Address of the workstation and I'll send you a decrypter."
Jack: "Okay one sec........... Alright, got it! F as in food, E as in earth, D as in death, C as in card, colon, B as in bad, A as in apple, six, eight, colon, three, six, four, four, colon, one, two, zero, seven, colon, A as in apple..."
FBI Agent breaks in: What's this? Jack? You're supposed to be dead! [shoots Jack]
[Season Ends]
Man oh man oh man. That's gotta be the reason why IPv6 isn't implemented yet. (Seriously, tech support nightmares)
IPv6 isn't going to work because of television.
Chloe: "Jack, give me the IP Address of the workstation and I'll send you a decrypter."
Jack: "Okay one sec........... Alright, got it! F as in food, E as in earth, D as in death, C as in card, colon, B as in bad, A as in apple, six, eight, colon, three, six, four, four, colon, one, two, zero, seven, colon, A as in apple..."
FBI Agent breaks in: What's this? Jack? You're supposed to be dead! [shoots Jack]
[Season Ends]
Man oh man oh man. That's gotta be the reason why IPv6 isn't implemented yet. (Seriously, tech support nightmares)
Okay, so I've read most of the comments (at least, at +3 and above), especially the comments about moderating articles. Here's my idea, for what it's worth...
Why not let the general public view the bin? Throw nofollow on EVERY link (that way REAL spammers (ie. just linking to viagra, though I'm not sure how much of that Slashdot gets) don't get free links), and then have that moderatable by people with mod points. I'm sure within 30 minutes of the article going into the bin it'd easily get make it to -1 spam, -1 dupe, or +5 useful. Maybe even modify the system so that there's no limit (though that's probably going too far). Once an article hits -10, it gets automatically deleted. Once an article hits +10, it's added to a "priority" bin for editors to look at first. Editors can, of course, override the moderations at any time and post the submission (ie. it's breaking news, get it out fast, don't wait).
Go one step farther, and only show the bin to people with mod points.
In fact, even better -- let those people with mod points add comments to the articles in the bin. These comments would not be moderated, and would not enter the real comments upon editor approval. That way if I see the article is at +5 but I know it's a dupe, I can post a comment saying "This is duped back to " so that other moderators know not to waste their points, and editors can see the feedback. This would also eliminate the need (well, eliminate a lot of, not eliminate the need) for people e-mailing the editors over dupes etc.. The editors would be required to look at the comments before approving.
Trademarks are different from patents. You have to persue trademarks in order to keep them valid (I'm not sure about patents, but I don't think it's the same). Apple is another MAJOR corporation that is a number 1 rival right now. Sure, it was uncalled for, but they have to do what they can. Going and suing individuals over it would be stupid.
Yeah, it must be related to Google's announcement regarding Open Office. I mean, Microsoft can develop and release Windows Live and Office Live in the matter of 48 hours. Yeah, they're amazing alright.
And that's about the point in time when we all decide to RTFA:
Code-named Burlington, it was never used and as the timescale for a perceived Soviet nuclear onslaught shrank to the notorious four-minute warning of armageddon, the whole concept of evacuating the Queen and her government became obsolete.
Slight work around -- hold enter while clicking madly on the X (either window X or tab X, or middle clicking the tab). This'll, at least on Firefox, let you click the X before it spawns the next one (since alert boxes are also blocking in JS itself).
Likewise, providing software that lacks features and uses the scapegoat that you get what you paid for and anyone can contribute isn't going to get you far.
I was always under the impression that the market (even Opera users) acknowleged that Opera had a tab-hacked MDI, and others (like Firefox) had tabs added as a seperate feature.
Charging would do nothing but start a price war. Being free allows them to continue their advertising model and build their advertising network into an even larger empire than it is today.
I don't think the alternatives are quite up to snuff yet. That's a problem. I mean, I have a laptop, so Linux won't even install, but asside from that...
The GIMP vs Photoshop? Photoshop wins.
Open Office vs Office 2003? Office 2003 wins.
About a year ago I was still on Office 97. The UI was pretty annoying, so I figured I needed to upgrade. Trying to save money, I gave OO a try instead of buying Office 2003. After a week, I was ready to go back to Office 97 over OO. I ended up going and getting Office 2003 after all, though.
Sure, things could've changed since then. Still, I don't think Open Office can compare to Office 2003. Yeah, you can adapt with annoying quirks, but I prefer to not have those quirks.
If there's one thing Microsoft has, it's R&D. Their engineers know how to create a functional UI.
It would make a lot more sense to have a protocol where you check one file that has a list of links to another XML file, and then the aggregator figures out which of those URLs has NOT been aggregated, then it downloads the other XML file which has the post-specific info, which it proceeds to display. That would save a lot of bandwidth, I'm sure.
What makes everyone believe that Google will use Linux if they make their own operating system? Linux has a long way to go in terms of hardware and software support -- the UI isn't the only current issue.
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While I don't disagree with your point, I'd like to point out that Canada's literacy rate is 99%, not 97.
Oops, forgot linebreaks...
IPv6 isn't going to work because of television.
Chloe: "Jack, give me the IP Address of the workstation and I'll send you a decrypter."
Jack: "Okay one sec........... Alright, got it! F as in food, E as in earth, D as in death, C as in card, colon, B as in bad, A as in apple, six, eight, colon, three, six, four, four, colon, one, two, zero, seven, colon, A as in apple..."
FBI Agent breaks in: What's this? Jack? You're supposed to be dead! [shoots Jack]
[Season Ends]
Man oh man oh man. That's gotta be the reason why IPv6 isn't implemented yet. (Seriously, tech support nightmares)
IPv6 isn't going to work because of television. Chloe: "Jack, give me the IP Address of the workstation and I'll send you a decrypter." Jack: "Okay one sec........... Alright, got it! F as in food, E as in earth, D as in death, C as in card, colon, B as in bad, A as in apple, six, eight, colon, three, six, four, four, colon, one, two, zero, seven, colon, A as in apple..." FBI Agent breaks in: What's this? Jack? You're supposed to be dead! [shoots Jack] [Season Ends] Man oh man oh man. That's gotta be the reason why IPv6 isn't implemented yet. (Seriously, tech support nightmares)
Nobody? Come on, you know you miss him...
What about those who had it October 24th? Good 'ol BitTorrent. ;)
"Your IP address has scored: 39. This is ranked #7 of the 3507 IP's spotted so far."
;)
I guess the slashdot crowd hasn't hit it yet? I have two "241"s in my IP address today (strange) which lead to 28 points in and of itself.
Anyone know how the bitmap or poker hand was calculated?
Okay, so I've read most of the comments (at least, at +3 and above), especially the comments about moderating articles. Here's my idea, for what it's worth...
Why not let the general public view the bin? Throw nofollow on EVERY link (that way REAL spammers (ie. just linking to viagra, though I'm not sure how much of that Slashdot gets) don't get free links), and then have that moderatable by people with mod points. I'm sure within 30 minutes of the article going into the bin it'd easily get make it to -1 spam, -1 dupe, or +5 useful. Maybe even modify the system so that there's no limit (though that's probably going too far). Once an article hits -10, it gets automatically deleted. Once an article hits +10, it's added to a "priority" bin for editors to look at first. Editors can, of course, override the moderations at any time and post the submission (ie. it's breaking news, get it out fast, don't wait).
Go one step farther, and only show the bin to people with mod points.
In fact, even better -- let those people with mod points add comments to the articles in the bin. These comments would not be moderated, and would not enter the real comments upon editor approval. That way if I see the article is at +5 but I know it's a dupe, I can post a comment saying "This is duped back to " so that other moderators know not to waste their points, and editors can see the feedback. This would also eliminate the need (well, eliminate a lot of, not eliminate the need) for people e-mailing the editors over dupes etc.. The editors would be required to look at the comments before approving.
Carry on...
Wow.
Pffsh there are probably hundreds of thousands of people with "myspace sucks" as their profile title. ;)
Trademarks are different from patents. You have to persue trademarks in order to keep them valid (I'm not sure about patents, but I don't think it's the same). Apple is another MAJOR corporation that is a number 1 rival right now. Sure, it was uncalled for, but they have to do what they can. Going and suing individuals over it would be stupid.
Yeah, it must be related to Google's announcement regarding Open Office. I mean, Microsoft can develop and release Windows Live and Office Live in the matter of 48 hours. Yeah, they're amazing alright.
Slight work around -- hold enter while clicking madly on the X (either window X or tab X, or middle clicking the tab). This'll, at least on Firefox, let you click the X before it spawns the next one (since alert boxes are also blocking in JS itself).
And quotes are used in all queries, but nobody strips those. :p
Just a general FYI -- Google Suggest doesn't use AJAX. It uses remote scripting. People just call it AJAX because they enjoy saying buzzwords.
Likewise, providing software that lacks features and uses the scapegoat that you get what you paid for and anyone can contribute isn't going to get you far.
That doesn't mean /. shouldn't kill their server one more time!
I was always under the impression that the market (even Opera users) acknowleged that Opera had a tab-hacked MDI, and others (like Firefox) had tabs added as a seperate feature.
Charging would do nothing but start a price war. Being free allows them to continue their advertising model and build their advertising network into an even larger empire than it is today.
I would accept an instant messenger protocol from them, except I think they're still missing a grammar checker.
I don't think the alternatives are quite up to snuff yet. That's a problem. I mean, I have a laptop, so Linux won't even install, but asside from that...
The GIMP vs Photoshop? Photoshop wins. Open Office vs Office 2003? Office 2003 wins.
About a year ago I was still on Office 97. The UI was pretty annoying, so I figured I needed to upgrade. Trying to save money, I gave OO a try instead of buying Office 2003. After a week, I was ready to go back to Office 97 over OO. I ended up going and getting Office 2003 after all, though.
Sure, things could've changed since then. Still, I don't think Open Office can compare to Office 2003. Yeah, you can adapt with annoying quirks, but I prefer to not have those quirks.
If there's one thing Microsoft has, it's R&D. Their engineers know how to create a functional UI.
It would make a lot more sense to have a protocol where you check one file that has a list of links to another XML file, and then the aggregator figures out which of those URLs has NOT been aggregated, then it downloads the other XML file which has the post-specific info, which it proceeds to display. That would save a lot of bandwidth, I'm sure.
What's your definition of evil? Trying to make money (the same thing every corporation in the world should be doing)?
What makes everyone believe that Google will use Linux if they make their own operating system? Linux has a long way to go in terms of hardware and software support -- the UI isn't the only current issue.