Ugh, it already loses points....Google Reader doesn't render? The right-side pane with the actual items to read is all compressed and you can't see it. Bah!
Plus, I can't figure out how to block individual elements (ads) on a page. Hmmmm....it *is* fast, though.
I've tried Opera before, used to use it as my main browser before FF took off. But I use a lot of extensions in my day to day browsing. Does Opera have these:
Off the top of my head the ones I get the most use out of are AdBlock of course, the Delicious bookmarks, IETab, Greasemonkey, adn the development ones like Firebug and Web Dev Toolbar. Can I replicate most of this in Opera?
GM should make me a 3-wheeled car, too, because well, I want one. Why won't they do this? I'll buy it, that'd be one extra sale for them. Why aren't they jumping all over it?
Apparently the concept of "progress" is lost on you. We could still be living in caves, tackling animals with spears and knives made of stone, too, but we don't.
Anything specific, or should I just Google "shuttle program failures" and take a crap shoot? Of course, I could probably get just as many results if I Googled "shuttle program successes". So who's right? There's that thing about opinions and assholes and everyone having one...
Just like a cable modem allows you to steal cable Internet access? I can buy my own modem and not have to pay the lease fee from the cable co, but they still have to authorize it and provide access. Why should the TV aspect of it (cablecard) be any different?
Ummmmm...you just pretty much summed up everything that is *wrong* with the world today. If more people told others to fuck off, the world would be a much better place.
How many networks are going to make shows that *everyone* wants to watch? Non-mainstram cable networks are by definition niche markets. If it had mass appeal, it'd be on ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. Subsidies allow *good* content to be made that some people will enjoy, but most probably wouldn't.
Is there a place to download ALL the books (or at least the original 14) in audio format at once? Even the archive.org links break up each book into multiple files....this would be awesome to listen to at work!
I want to host my own "gmail" frontend that uses my own IMAP server. Where is the open source alternative to Flickr that I can install on my own? I'm not seeing these open source alternatives out there.
Oh yeah, on top of beating MS Office, that includes Outlook and Exchange. And solid integration between ALL of the apps. Just making a replacement for Word won't work, even if it's better. You need to replace and improve Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. And Exchange.
Yeah, Adobe has their work cut out for them. My money would be on Apple, especially if they come out with an Exchange alternative. Why aren't they doing this?
And that is to *beat MS Office*. Really, everything else so far has only *imitated* Office, and usually it's been Office 2000 at that. Why would you want an alternative when you could have the real thing? The only solution is to make something better. Take all the complaints about Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), and fix them. Improve on it. Make it lightweight, with a small footprint. Make it compatible with everything, but have it offer more, or do something better or faster. Make the interface better so it's easier to do what you need to do. You're never going to kill Office by imitating it.
Of course not. But if I only watched shows I knew about on demand (presumably without commercials? if there were no "channels" what "shows" would commercials advertise?), I don't see how you would ever stumble across anything new. Word of mouth? Forums? Maybe, but you'd have to depend on others to hopefully stumble upon something new. Maybe the programming guide would work, but that's essentially the same as channel-surfing.
Yes, I've added a few new shows to the list of things I want to check out this fall because of watching one show, and seeing the commercials during it for other shows on that network. I agree that the concept of having to watch *this show* at *this time* every week is becoming outdated. I should be able to watch what I want, when I want. But I just don't see how you could get away from some means of stumbling across new content. Even if you just browse the channel guide, a stupid name and a bad writeup might not do the content justice. You're gonna need some way to group things.
So I go without Internet service (important to my livelihood), and the cable company loses what? One customer? I'm sure they'll be hurting over that one. For any "voting with dollars" to work, mass amounts of people have to do it. And is everyone going to give up their Internet and television? Voting with dollars doesn't work in a monopoly.
Did you hear that whoosh fly over your head? There's no vast conspiracy; people's tastes change over time. There is no right or wrong, it really just *is*. Do you really think there was more creative outlets and more variety of music available to listeners in the days of the traveling minstrel? Elitism in music is the root of all problems with the industry, on par with the antics the RIAA pulls. The whole "if everyone is listening to it and it's popular then it must suck and be crap" cliche is tired and played out. People just need to realize that there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to music. Same with books and art. What works for one person probably doesn't work for another. That really doesn't make it right or wrong!
we'd be fools not to start experimenting with ways to shift the climate back ASAP
Maybe we should try pushing the continents back together, too? Why the fuck would you ever try to *change* nature? Try and minimize your impact, sure, but it's a bit narcissistic to think that if we could only roll things back to the way they were 50 years ago, the World Will Be A Better Place (tm). Humph...
Since they cut my comments off of the article summary:-)
Personally, I don't use either Facebook or MySpace, though I have friends that do. I host my own blog, and communicate with friends via email, IM, and forums. I run my own blog and pic hosting. I've just never really jumped on the social networking bandwagon. Yeah, I'm old school.
As for this article, I can see both sides. Part of the point of the Facebooks and MySpaces is so that *not just anyone* can view what you put online. Nevermind that I don't really get why you'd post something *private* online in the first place if you didn't expect the world to see it. But the private social networks foster and clique or group mentality where if you're not in the know, you don't know.
What the point of the article is, though, and which I tend to agree with, is there needs to be a better way to round up your online "identity". Why should I have to sign up for Facebook to keep in touch with some friends, and MySpace for others? Why should I have to be a member of multiple IM services to keep in touch with different people? I have multiple email addresses for different purposes. I have signed up for probably dozens of mailing lists and discussion forums, and have been an active member in more than a handful. Heck, I even signed registered on Slashdot so I can make posts and comments non-anonymously. Why should my online "identity" be fragmented so?
Of course, the flip side of that is is that due to the fragmentation of my online identity, I still maintain that air of anonymity. I think that actually may be at the root of a lot of the issues going on. By having different email addresses and aliases, I can appear to some audiences as one person, and to others as someone totally different. Even on Facebook and MySpace, would most of those users publish in a real life semi-public place the photos, musings, and thoughts that they write on those sites? Perhaps we would ideally like the convenience of having a central identity, but don't want the accountability of being tied to that central identity?/blockquote
Heh, I was just gonna post the same thing! The "off" button is already a super V-chip...of course, it's not as easy as having the govt actually flip it for you. Maybe they should have a national "no tv week", but actually kill the power to all broadcasts?
Yes, why shouldn't some loser-ish bum get to have sex and make children, so I can abstain and take their progeny off their hands. If I'm raising kids in my own image, they're for damn sure going to be my own bloodline as long as it's physically possible...
As an example, see every hippie "I'm going to change the world" college student, then fast forward 20 years when he/she has a house, family, and kids to take care of...where's the graph of political leanings vs age?
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Ugh, it already loses points....Google Reader doesn't render? The right-side pane with the actual items to read is all compressed and you can't see it. Bah!
Plus, I can't figure out how to block individual elements (ads) on a page. Hmmmm....it *is* fast, though.
I've tried Opera before, used to use it as my main browser before FF took off. But I use a lot of extensions in my day to day browsing. Does Opera have these:
Extensions (enabled: 25, disabled: 2):
* Adblock 0.5.3.043
* Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.0
* Add Bookmark Here 2 1.0.20070528
* ChatZilla 0.9.78.1
* del.icio.us 1.2 [disabled]
* del.icio.us Bookmarks 1.5.43
* DOM Inspector 1.8.1.6
* Download Statusbar 0.9.5.1
* Firebug 1.05
* Fission 0.8.8
* Google Images Re-Linker 0.4
* Google Notebook 1.0.0.18
* Greasemonkey 0.7.20070607.0
* IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528
* InfoLister 0.9f
* Inline Autocomplete 1.0
* Java Console 6.0.02
* Java Console 6.0.01 [disabled]
* Java Console 6.0
* LastTab 2.0.5
* Long Titles 1.3
* Restart Firefox 0.3
* Slashdotter 1.8.9
* Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2.2
* Stylish 0.5.2
* User Agent Switcher 0.6.10
* Web Developer 1.1.4
Off the top of my head the ones I get the most use out of are AdBlock of course, the Delicious bookmarks, IETab, Greasemonkey, adn the development ones like Firebug and Web Dev Toolbar. Can I replicate most of this in Opera?
GM should make me a 3-wheeled car, too, because well, I want one. Why won't they do this? I'll buy it, that'd be one extra sale for them. Why aren't they jumping all over it?
Apparently the concept of "progress" is lost on you. We could still be living in caves, tackling animals with spears and knives made of stone, too, but we don't.
Anything specific, or should I just Google "shuttle program failures" and take a crap shoot? Of course, I could probably get just as many results if I Googled "shuttle program successes". So who's right? There's that thing about opinions and assholes and everyone having one...
Just like a cable modem allows you to steal cable Internet access? I can buy my own modem and not have to pay the lease fee from the cable co, but they still have to authorize it and provide access. Why should the TV aspect of it (cablecard) be any different?
Ummmmm...you just pretty much summed up everything that is *wrong* with the world today. If more people told others to fuck off, the world would be a much better place.
How many networks are going to make shows that *everyone* wants to watch? Non-mainstram cable networks are by definition niche markets. If it had mass appeal, it'd be on ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. Subsidies allow *good* content to be made that some people will enjoy, but most probably wouldn't.
Is there a place to download ALL the books (or at least the original 14) in audio format at once? Even the archive.org links break up each book into multiple files....this would be awesome to listen to at work!
Really? What are the open source alternatives to Google's offerings?
I want to host my own "gmail" frontend that uses my own IMAP server. Where is the open source alternative to Flickr that I can install on my own? I'm not seeing these open source alternatives out there.
Oh yeah, on top of beating MS Office, that includes Outlook and Exchange. And solid integration between ALL of the apps. Just making a replacement for Word won't work, even if it's better. You need to replace and improve Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. And Exchange.
Yeah, Adobe has their work cut out for them. My money would be on Apple, especially if they come out with an Exchange alternative. Why aren't they doing this?
And that is to *beat MS Office*. Really, everything else so far has only *imitated* Office, and usually it's been Office 2000 at that. Why would you want an alternative when you could have the real thing? The only solution is to make something better. Take all the complaints about Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), and fix them. Improve on it. Make it lightweight, with a small footprint. Make it compatible with everything, but have it offer more, or do something better or faster. Make the interface better so it's easier to do what you need to do. You're never going to kill Office by imitating it.
So there ya go. Now where's my venture capital?
Of course not. But if I only watched shows I knew about on demand (presumably without commercials? if there were no "channels" what "shows" would commercials advertise?), I don't see how you would ever stumble across anything new. Word of mouth? Forums? Maybe, but you'd have to depend on others to hopefully stumble upon something new. Maybe the programming guide would work, but that's essentially the same as channel-surfing.
Yes, I've added a few new shows to the list of things I want to check out this fall because of watching one show, and seeing the commercials during it for other shows on that network. I agree that the concept of having to watch *this show* at *this time* every week is becoming outdated. I should be able to watch what I want, when I want. But I just don't see how you could get away from some means of stumbling across new content. Even if you just browse the channel guide, a stupid name and a bad writeup might not do the content justice. You're gonna need some way to group things.
If you only ever watched what you knew you wanted to watch, how would you ever find anything new?
So I go without Internet service (important to my livelihood), and the cable company loses what? One customer? I'm sure they'll be hurting over that one. For any "voting with dollars" to work, mass amounts of people have to do it. And is everyone going to give up their Internet and television? Voting with dollars doesn't work in a monopoly.
Did you hear that whoosh fly over your head? There's no vast conspiracy; people's tastes change over time. There is no right or wrong, it really just *is*. Do you really think there was more creative outlets and more variety of music available to listeners in the days of the traveling minstrel? Elitism in music is the root of all problems with the industry, on par with the antics the RIAA pulls. The whole "if everyone is listening to it and it's popular then it must suck and be crap" cliche is tired and played out. People just need to realize that there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to music. Same with books and art. What works for one person probably doesn't work for another. That really doesn't make it right or wrong!
Actually, the content makers say it, too.
Since they cut my comments off of the article summary :-)
Heh, I was just gonna post the same thing! The "off" button is already a super V-chip...of course, it's not as easy as having the govt actually flip it for you. Maybe they should have a national "no tv week", but actually kill the power to all broadcasts?
Yes, why shouldn't some loser-ish bum get to have sex and make children, so I can abstain and take their progeny off their hands. If I'm raising kids in my own image, they're for damn sure going to be my own bloodline as long as it's physically possible...
As an example, see every hippie "I'm going to change the world" college student, then fast forward 20 years when he/she has a house, family, and kids to take care of...where's the graph of political leanings vs age?