I've used almost every IM network and a lot of the clients that exist out there (except Yahoo since I don't know anyone with that). I have found that most of it comes down to what others have. I use universal clients like GAIM on Linux, Trillian on Windows, and Fire on my Mac because that way I can connect to all of them at once. To be honest there are subtle differences between most. Thinks like setting your name differently is so insignificant it doesn't bother me.
The one thing worth mentioning is what Google did. G Talk is an attempt to compete and only that. They used Jabber so they didn't even implement anything of their own really. They just tied in people's google accounts that already had and setup some servers and called it another IM network.
The reality is the IM market is a joke because of a lack of standards. Its been overlooked for quite awhile cause people seem to preoccupied but think about it this way. We have a standard for viewing static messages (email) and we have a standard for view pages of information meant for everyone. So why is there not a standard for sending real time messages? Why do we have so many companies implementing their own way of doing things? Wouldn't it make sense to have an agreed upon protocol that could be implement by everyone like a P2P network does?
This kind of stuff is always an oversimplification. We are going to see these things forever. For instance the very nature of this discussion is already ignoring FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc. and thats before they even get into their arguments about why linux is better then windows.
How do you compare Linux to Windows when there are hundreds of different linux distros that do things differently as well. It seems that the authors of these comparisons don't truly understand that this question can't be answered. Yet we will continiously see articles pop up that says one is better then the other and of course it will sway one way or the other depending on which OS the person who did the study is partial towards.
Slackware was my first linux and I must say that I had only a tiny bit of linux experience prior to slackware. I am a programmer but Slackware is useful for teaching people linux command line so that they don't become reliant on GUIs in Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. and get completely lost when they have to figure out how to use a command line tool.
Its nice that the author assumes we know what tags are. It creates an article that only people who know whats going on already understand. Otherwise you go tag? What kind of tag?
The open source developers they do get are QUALIFIED and don't just clone the iPod or creative interfaces. So more brains are required then that of a project like KDE. My personal opinion is that open source people are better at OS programming then GUIs but I may be wrong. Prove me wrong infact.
The other thing worth mentioning is about PR. Even with a good interface it would take a lot of press to have it become anything more then a device just for geeks. Remember Apple's biggest market isn't the video iPod but rather the nano/mini one that is for smaller devices that don't need to play video.
You guys are stupid. You should of never bought a tivo. There are DVR units that work for a mac and export to formats that mac uses. So its your own fault for not doing research before buying a product meant for PCs.
EyeTV works with macs and exports to MPEG4 and Quicktime H264 so you can use the video on your Mac, burn to DVD, or copy it to the iPod. If you don't know how to take the mpeg that the device spits out and drag it into iTunes to be copied to the iPod then you might not want to be using a computer. Keep in mind this is slashdot so I'm assuming certain things.
In other words IF YOU OWN MAC OS X AND A MACINTOSH DONT BUY TIVO BUY EYETV! The website is www.elgato.com and they sell them at the Apple Store in your area.
If you read the news and other comments ON THIS POST you wouldn't be asking this question. Microsoft has very good reasons to not use Blue-Ray. The format is stuffed full of copy-protection preventing legal fair-use. Its a DMCA nightmare with Blue-Ray and if Sony's format is adopted there might have to be a DMCA committee to overrule Sony and create a way to make one personal copy. Of course they don't do that shit with DVDs. They just had to rely on someone cracking the format and then allowing application vendors to distribute tools that crack it. Of course there are cases like DVDDecrypter where the tool gets shutdown because of the DMCA which is irony at the core.
Basically what it comes down to is I know why microsoft backed HD-DVD and it make sense to me but either way someone will hopefully crack the format and screw over the movie studios from their twisted viewpoints of profiteering.
It would be awesome if someone actually could sell a game with nudity in it these days. I remember back when Duke Nukem 3D was out and there wasn't any coverage but recently with the video game industry becoming increasingly mainstream we have a ban on all nudity.
A video game containing but not allowing access to nudity (GTA) is switched to adult cause of some boobs and therefore EVERYONE BANS ITS SALE until there is a new version. So apparently the british can see tits on TV but we can't allow a 17+ mature only game from including it. Let alone we can't even sell it if its adult only (18+)!
Of course its all in our imagination that video games are being targetted. California banning violent video games for minors is so normal. Cause you know I never noticed that bond movies were rated PG-13 and contained violence.
Its all in the heads of the video game industry! They are being treated fairly;-)
Which is exactly why OTHER DEVICES will not work. You can't rip DVDs and you can't just PVR stuff and take it wherever you want to go. Most the people here have only heard and never used a PVR or DVR. They record but they usually only give you 1 time copying ability to your computer. You won't be able to copy it to your iPod in unless its ILLEGAL.
So in other words these other devices are ALSO ILLEGAL if they provide no way of using a computer or the internet unless there is a way to hook them directly into a DVR but then its restricted to only TV and can't do music, movies, music videos, etc.
So how is anyone going to out do the video iPod? There is barely a market for anything video right now. Things like the PSP use expensive as shit flash memory and I'm selling mine.
The whole situation is quite simple. Nobody has any market and Apple isn't agressively pursuing it either. So its not going to flop cause the prices for this iPod are exactly the same as the photo and they have all that functionality as well.
Does anyone have a screenshot of the yahoo interface or a link to one? I'm willing to look into it because my gmail account is getting a fair amount of spam that the filters aren't catching. I just don't want to sign up for something unless its worth my time.
The reality is that people obviously care and want to donate. Now I doubt that corporate america believes in screwing over the victims but I think this shows how corporate stupidity can risk legitimate causes simply because when groups of people get to together they do stupid things like enact theft prevention that DOES NOT WORK. I'm sure this wasn't their intention but it goes to show what morons who run a crappy website can do. I hope that they release a public apology for this one but too bad it won't matter. The fact is that its possible people are going to starve because of their actions or they are at least going to be homeless a little longer because some dick couldn't do his job and monitor things correctly.
Dude your a complete moron. You can't just use someone else's creation however you want without their permission. In this day and age bandwidth is an issue to any webmaster. Anyone who actually runs sites understand why you don't want other people hotlinking. There is a reason why so many people create scripts to stop it and why even, "cPanel", on of the most popular control panels around has built in protection against hotlinking if one chooses.
So now he doesn't have the right to change his content because another site linked him without letting him know? Thats like saying humans can't create tanks because baby aliens from other planets might see it! What a crock of shit. I will always have the right to change content to what I want and so will this guy. It will never change the fact that a corporation was stupid enough to hotlink in the first place to allow this so called "ass" to do what he did.
I've been using FC4 and was using FC3 before that. I've had no problems with the 2.6.12 kernel that I'm currently using. No stability issues. I was having a few issues before this specific revision but sometimes its also hard to figure out if its KDE, GNOME, a specific application, or the kernel. I honestly think that at this point in time its just as stable as 2.4.x but keep in mind that any operating system can freeze at any time for something that nobody has seen before so switching to 2.6.x at this point in time just seems to make sense.
This comes at a time when I just removed my blog. I was planning to put it back up again but its still interesting that this study came out.
I tend to agree with the idea that its not really geeks are blogging less but there are more nongeeks blogging. That is a logical thing that is happening.
For instance 10 years ago only geeks knew what mp3s were and used them but now everyone knows the term and everyone can easily download them. This is just another example of an internet service/idea that has gone mainstream.
I love it when a corporation from the US goes overseas and funds a project to help the technological infastructure of another nation. Australia could pay for it themselves but why not just have the Americans pay for it!
Of course Intel when asked would tell people they are patriotic just like Comcast, Verizon, Rogers, etc.
What a great country we live in.
Ok so you are stuck with a microsoft product but you can still use Mac entirely. Its completely cross compatible (Office for Mac). Keep in mind your pornos can be played on WMP for Mac. You can use Mac for everything although you have to use some microsoft software to do a couple things.
Now this WMV and Word document problems wouldn't exist if people used STANDARDS. Its quite simple. So you can do everything without microsoft but you will piss off 90% of the world in the process. Of course being a college student I'm already a professional at doing this;-)
Seriously I never wanted to the see the day when Slashdot would be home to WMV files. An Open Source sponsored website is posting propietary file formats that play like crap on Linux and Macs. I for one will not support this.
I would go with java. Its easier then C/C++ for beginners in high school yet its powerful. It teaches a lot better skills then PHP in how to properly structure code. Its incredibly portable too so if they have a Mac or a PC they can use it. Of course you can do pretty much anything in Java that you can with Visual Basic or C.
I checked the W3C statistics on browsers again in the past few days and I believe its changing back in IEs favor. The figures for Firefox shifted down and the numbers for IE went up. Now because growth in Opera and others went up, it tells me that Firefox's popularity at least amongst webmasters (the people who browse W3C) declined slightly while IE went up. Not a good sign for Firefox but still the growth in Opera tells me that still people aren't too fond of IE or Firefox in the webmaster community. I myself dropped Firefox because of performance issues. I'm currently using Safari and Konquerer because I don't own Windows anyways.
What you said is most likely the case and unfortunate but still a benefit of trackerless BitTorrent is still there. People still will be uploading what they have completed while downloading so the overall banwidth will still be higher then other P2P networks and the main advantage is not lost.
I'm sure others have noticed but over the past few years there has been a complete lack of innovation in the game industry as far as plot lines and new styles of games. Maybe this new market will actually make enough competition and developers to see some new stuff.
They aren't the first to pursue mapping the internet. If I remember correctly there was a story on slashdot about a month ago that talked about Denial of Service attacks which mentioned that a young guy who is a consultant for thwarting such attacks also has a project that is mapping the internet. So it would seem that its up for debate and research to figure out who started first and is doing a better job.
Slashdot Mirror
I've used almost every IM network and a lot of the clients that exist out there (except Yahoo since I don't know anyone with that). I have found that most of it comes down to what others have. I use universal clients like GAIM on Linux, Trillian on Windows, and Fire on my Mac because that way I can connect to all of them at once. To be honest there are subtle differences between most. Thinks like setting your name differently is so insignificant it doesn't bother me.
The one thing worth mentioning is what Google did. G Talk is an attempt to compete and only that. They used Jabber so they didn't even implement anything of their own really. They just tied in people's google accounts that already had and setup some servers and called it another IM network.
The reality is the IM market is a joke because of a lack of standards. Its been overlooked for quite awhile cause people seem to preoccupied but think about it this way. We have a standard for viewing static messages (email) and we have a standard for view pages of information meant for everyone. So why is there not a standard for sending real time messages? Why do we have so many companies implementing their own way of doing things? Wouldn't it make sense to have an agreed upon protocol that could be implement by everyone like a P2P network does?
IM is an area in computers where humans failed.
This kind of stuff is always an oversimplification. We are going to see these things forever. For instance the very nature of this discussion is already ignoring FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc. and thats before they even get into their arguments about why linux is better then windows.
How do you compare Linux to Windows when there are hundreds of different linux distros that do things differently as well. It seems that the authors of these comparisons don't truly understand that this question can't be answered. Yet we will continiously see articles pop up that says one is better then the other and of course it will sway one way or the other depending on which OS the person who did the study is partial towards.
Slackware was my first linux and I must say that I had only a tiny bit of linux experience prior to slackware. I am a programmer but Slackware is useful for teaching people linux command line so that they don't become reliant on GUIs in Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. and get completely lost when they have to figure out how to use a command line tool.
Its nice that the author assumes we know what tags are. It creates an article that only people who know whats going on already understand. Otherwise you go tag? What kind of tag?
The open source developers they do get are QUALIFIED and don't just clone the iPod or creative interfaces. So more brains are required then that of a project like KDE. My personal opinion is that open source people are better at OS programming then GUIs but I may be wrong. Prove me wrong infact.
The other thing worth mentioning is about PR. Even with a good interface it would take a lot of press to have it become anything more then a device just for geeks. Remember Apple's biggest market isn't the video iPod but rather the nano/mini one that is for smaller devices that don't need to play video.
You guys are stupid. You should of never bought a tivo. There are DVR units that work for a mac and export to formats that mac uses. So its your own fault for not doing research before buying a product meant for PCs. EyeTV works with macs and exports to MPEG4 and Quicktime H264 so you can use the video on your Mac, burn to DVD, or copy it to the iPod. If you don't know how to take the mpeg that the device spits out and drag it into iTunes to be copied to the iPod then you might not want to be using a computer. Keep in mind this is slashdot so I'm assuming certain things. In other words IF YOU OWN MAC OS X AND A MACINTOSH DONT BUY TIVO BUY EYETV! The website is www.elgato.com and they sell them at the Apple Store in your area.
When I saw the title I thought it was about zombie machines. Just goes to prove how geeky I truly am! I guess I need more Halloween spirit.
If you read the news and other comments ON THIS POST you wouldn't be asking this question. Microsoft has very good reasons to not use Blue-Ray. The format is stuffed full of copy-protection preventing legal fair-use. Its a DMCA nightmare with Blue-Ray and if Sony's format is adopted there might have to be a DMCA committee to overrule Sony and create a way to make one personal copy. Of course they don't do that shit with DVDs. They just had to rely on someone cracking the format and then allowing application vendors to distribute tools that crack it. Of course there are cases like DVDDecrypter where the tool gets shutdown because of the DMCA which is irony at the core.
Basically what it comes down to is I know why microsoft backed HD-DVD and it make sense to me but either way someone will hopefully crack the format and screw over the movie studios from their twisted viewpoints of profiteering.
It would be awesome if someone actually could sell a game with nudity in it these days. I remember back when Duke Nukem 3D was out and there wasn't any coverage but recently with the video game industry becoming increasingly mainstream we have a ban on all nudity.
;-)
A video game containing but not allowing access to nudity (GTA) is switched to adult cause of some boobs and therefore EVERYONE BANS ITS SALE until there is a new version. So apparently the british can see tits on TV but we can't allow a 17+ mature only game from including it. Let alone we can't even sell it if its adult only (18+)!
Of course its all in our imagination that video games are being targetted. California banning violent video games for minors is so normal. Cause you know I never noticed that bond movies were rated PG-13 and contained violence.
Its all in the heads of the video game industry! They are being treated fairly
Which is exactly why OTHER DEVICES will not work. You can't rip DVDs and you can't just PVR stuff and take it wherever you want to go. Most the people here have only heard and never used a PVR or DVR. They record but they usually only give you 1 time copying ability to your computer. You won't be able to copy it to your iPod in unless its ILLEGAL. So in other words these other devices are ALSO ILLEGAL if they provide no way of using a computer or the internet unless there is a way to hook them directly into a DVR but then its restricted to only TV and can't do music, movies, music videos, etc. So how is anyone going to out do the video iPod? There is barely a market for anything video right now. Things like the PSP use expensive as shit flash memory and I'm selling mine. The whole situation is quite simple. Nobody has any market and Apple isn't agressively pursuing it either. So its not going to flop cause the prices for this iPod are exactly the same as the photo and they have all that functionality as well.
Does anyone have a screenshot of the yahoo interface or a link to one? I'm willing to look into it because my gmail account is getting a fair amount of spam that the filters aren't catching. I just don't want to sign up for something unless its worth my time.
The reality is that people obviously care and want to donate. Now I doubt that corporate america believes in screwing over the victims but I think this shows how corporate stupidity can risk legitimate causes simply because when groups of people get to together they do stupid things like enact theft prevention that DOES NOT WORK. I'm sure this wasn't their intention but it goes to show what morons who run a crappy website can do. I hope that they release a public apology for this one but too bad it won't matter. The fact is that its possible people are going to starve because of their actions or they are at least going to be homeless a little longer because some dick couldn't do his job and monitor things correctly.
Dude your a complete moron. You can't just use someone else's creation however you want without their permission. In this day and age bandwidth is an issue to any webmaster. Anyone who actually runs sites understand why you don't want other people hotlinking. There is a reason why so many people create scripts to stop it and why even, "cPanel", on of the most popular control panels around has built in protection against hotlinking if one chooses. So now he doesn't have the right to change his content because another site linked him without letting him know? Thats like saying humans can't create tanks because baby aliens from other planets might see it! What a crock of shit. I will always have the right to change content to what I want and so will this guy. It will never change the fact that a corporation was stupid enough to hotlink in the first place to allow this so called "ass" to do what he did.
I've been using FC4 and was using FC3 before that. I've had no problems with the 2.6.12 kernel that I'm currently using. No stability issues. I was having a few issues before this specific revision but sometimes its also hard to figure out if its KDE, GNOME, a specific application, or the kernel. I honestly think that at this point in time its just as stable as 2.4.x but keep in mind that any operating system can freeze at any time for something that nobody has seen before so switching to 2.6.x at this point in time just seems to make sense.
This comes at a time when I just removed my blog. I was planning to put it back up again but its still interesting that this study came out.
I tend to agree with the idea that its not really geeks are blogging less but there are more nongeeks blogging. That is a logical thing that is happening.
For instance 10 years ago only geeks knew what mp3s were and used them but now everyone knows the term and everyone can easily download them. This is just another example of an internet service/idea that has gone mainstream.
I love it when a corporation from the US goes overseas and funds a project to help the technological infastructure of another nation. Australia could pay for it themselves but why not just have the Americans pay for it! Of course Intel when asked would tell people they are patriotic just like Comcast, Verizon, Rogers, etc. What a great country we live in.
Mac OS X with Safari and Office:MAC
;-)
Ok so you are stuck with a microsoft product but you can still use Mac entirely. Its completely cross compatible (Office for Mac). Keep in mind your pornos can be played on WMP for Mac. You can use Mac for everything although you have to use some microsoft software to do a couple things.
Now this WMV and Word document problems wouldn't exist if people used STANDARDS. Its quite simple. So you can do everything without microsoft but you will piss off 90% of the world in the process. Of course being a college student I'm already a professional at doing this
Seriously I never wanted to the see the day when Slashdot would be home to WMV files. An Open Source sponsored website is posting propietary file formats that play like crap on Linux and Macs. I for one will not support this.
I would go with java. Its easier then C/C++ for beginners in high school yet its powerful. It teaches a lot better skills then PHP in how to properly structure code. Its incredibly portable too so if they have a Mac or a PC they can use it. Of course you can do pretty much anything in Java that you can with Visual Basic or C.
Could someone explain to me how quoting historical figures is being a troll? I can vouch that they aren't made up cause I have read them before.
I checked the W3C statistics on browsers again in the past few days and I believe its changing back in IEs favor. The figures for Firefox shifted down and the numbers for IE went up. Now because growth in Opera and others went up, it tells me that Firefox's popularity at least amongst webmasters (the people who browse W3C) declined slightly while IE went up. Not a good sign for Firefox but still the growth in Opera tells me that still people aren't too fond of IE or Firefox in the webmaster community. I myself dropped Firefox because of performance issues. I'm currently using Safari and Konquerer because I don't own Windows anyways.
Taking irrelevant stabs at Apple is invitation for a flame war.
What you said is most likely the case and unfortunate but still a benefit of trackerless BitTorrent is still there. People still will be uploading what they have completed while downloading so the overall banwidth will still be higher then other P2P networks and the main advantage is not lost.
I'm sure others have noticed but over the past few years there has been a complete lack of innovation in the game industry as far as plot lines and new styles of games. Maybe this new market will actually make enough competition and developers to see some new stuff.
They aren't the first to pursue mapping the internet. If I remember correctly there was a story on slashdot about a month ago that talked about Denial of Service attacks which mentioned that a young guy who is a consultant for thwarting such attacks also has a project that is mapping the internet. So it would seem that its up for debate and research to figure out who started first and is doing a better job.