Pandora doesn't have advertising now, but they are investigating it, as they have determined that advertising supported is more likely to succeed than subscription.
This is based on comments from founder Tim Westergren, who recently toured the country having little "town hall" sessions with Pandora users. I attended in Chicago, where about 50-75 folks turned up to hear the story of Pandora, ask questions, and offer suggestions.
In addition, you may use any linkshare network only for a business purpose and not for a personal, household or family purpose; the business that you conduct through any linkshare network must be your primary business or an integral part of your primary business; and your use of any linkshare network must be integrally related to such business.
(except the agreement has it in all caps, and Slashdot won't let me post that...)
That seems like it would legally block out a lot of us.
Odd, though, that Apple's signup form refers to "individuals" as well as "sole proprietorships" in the tax information section of the affiliate signup form. I would think that the only difference between a sole proprietorship and an individual is whether one is acting in a business context or a personal context?
Yes, it's kind of annoying, and it doesn't sort on OS X either. And despite afish40's harping, I totally understand why you'd perhaps want to delete from the file system instead of using iTunes.
On OS X, the "scripts" menu includes a script for removing missing files from the library. Once when I used this, it obliterated my library, so be warned. Oh, yeah, and of course Windows doesn't have applescript -- but maybe Windows iTunes is scriptable some other way?
OK, ellem, how do you substantiate your "not true"?
I just googled for "class size value" which seems like a relatively neutral term, I found that in the first three pages of results every reference to academic class size came in agreeing that smaller classes are better, except for one page citing the general opinion of citizens unrelated to any research.
"He is currently working on a variety of research topics in telecommunications and regulation stimulated by having spent the 1998-99 academic year in Washington serving as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission.
Chief Economist is pretty different from "former FCC chair."
This is just one school and less than 300 machines, but a few days ago the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Beachwood Middle School has equipped all of its students and faculty with iBooks.
Administrators tend not to like Apple because they look at dollars, and Apples appear to be expensive. I know that when I worked at Northwestern University, we had to continually fight for Apple against that attitude. However, I also know that in NU's public computing labs, one Mac administrator could manage at least three times as many machines as one PC administrator.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest that Safari was incapable of bugginess.
In your case, do you have the security preference "accept cookies" set to "only from sites you navigate to"? I've found that that setting doesn't play well with single-sign-on type systems where you (sometimes invisibly) bounce around from the initial server you visit to an auth server and back.
Then again, I have also found that Safari has some problem with regular cookies set by the SnipSnap blog/wiki application (ultimately set by the Jetty servlet container).
I still think it's pretty cool that WebCore itself can do all those basic browser functions, including (i forgot to mention) consulting the OS X Keychain for my saved password for the basic auth site I tested.
Safari uses webcore, and has tremendous difficulty (even yet) with e-commerce and online banking sites.
I use Safari all day every day, including for online banking and plenty of ecommerce, and I don't have any consistent problems.
Furthermore, using the CocoaDev One Line Browser, I was able to login to my bank site and view my pending bill payments (https) as well as login to a site which uses HTTP basic auth without writing a single line of extra code.
What are these problems you report with Safari and authentication?
Another form of "crowd control" is to not answer the telephone, but it's not an appropriate response from elected officials towards their electorate.
I frequently email my senators and representative, and it is actually quite useful to me. I get a printed 1-2 page response from them within a few weeks elaborating their position on my issue. This is very helpful to me. I know the President must get much more contact, but he also has a lot more resources available to process it.
Given how effective junk email filters are, and the access to advanced intelligence technology that the White House would have, I find it hard to believe that they couldn't route incoming emails through a system that did a more effective job of categorizing messages by issue and stance-relative-to-the-President's then this web site can be, given the weakness of its categorization scheme.
Also, email servers are generally much better able to deal with high loads than this new systems apparently is.
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I don't think there are "new support features"; this page just says "Unix-lover Heaven: Panther will include a final X11 client for Unix-based applications, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms."
To me, "final" just means bugs fixed. I could be wrong -- I haven't read a "roadmap for X11" document from Apple.
Struts and Java Server Faces are not "competitive". See the Struts FAQ They do different things. Struts is mostly a controller (with some nifty view components). Java Server Faces is supposed to develop a GUI for creating view components (JSPs).
At least a few major Apache contributors (Craig McClanahan, James Strachan) are involved with Java Server Faces...
There's a very local organization here in Chicago called "i.c. stars" Their goal is to develop technology skills in minority youth. They take about 10 interns, aged 18-25, and give them a three-month intensive (full-time) introduction to technology development and general business-world skills. I've been to volunteer orientations, but haven't found time to actually help out yet. Still, it seems like a pretty good organization. Their second group of interns is nearly done with the program.
Folks may be interested in "Philosophy In The Flesh," a recent book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. (Lakoff and Johnson made a big splash in the study of Metaphor with their 1983 book "Metaphors We Live By.")
In the new book, they take the stand that classical philosophy is based on assumptions that cognitive science finds are simply wrong. Their three main premises, backed up with tons of science:
1) Thought is inherently embodied (i.e. "Take that, Descartes")
2) Thinking is mostly unconscious
3) Abstract thought is largely metaphorical
It's dense reading, but fascinating. Here's an interview with Lakoff about the book:
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Pandora doesn't have advertising now, but they are investigating it, as they have determined that advertising supported is more likely to succeed than subscription.
This is based on comments from founder Tim Westergren, who recently toured the country having little "town hall" sessions with Pandora users. I attended in Chicago, where about 50-75 folks turned up to hear the story of Pandora, ask questions, and offer suggestions.
That seems like it would legally block out a lot of us. Odd, though, that Apple's signup form refers to "individuals" as well as "sole proprietorships" in the tax information section of the affiliate signup form. I would think that the only difference between a sole proprietorship and an individual is whether one is acting in a business context or a personal context?
Yes, it's kind of annoying, and it doesn't sort on OS X either. And despite afish40's harping, I totally understand why you'd perhaps want to delete from the file system instead of using iTunes.
On OS X, the "scripts" menu includes a script for removing missing files from the library. Once when I used this, it obliterated my library, so be warned. Oh, yeah, and of course Windows doesn't have applescript -- but maybe Windows iTunes is scriptable some other way?
OK, ellem, how do you substantiate your "not true"?
I just googled for "class size value" which seems like a relatively neutral term, I found that in the first three pages of results every reference to academic class size came in agreeing that smaller classes are better, except for one page citing the general opinion of citizens unrelated to any research.
ETS Study Supports Value of Smaller Classes
Princeton study confirms value of smaller classes
New study [Wisconsin] confirms value of small class size
If you're going to dispute, at least provide some actual information.
Chief Economist is pretty different from "former FCC chair."
Just thought it was worth pointing out.
This is just one school and less than 300 machines, but a few days ago the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Beachwood Middle School has equipped all of its students and faculty with iBooks.
MacCentral: Beachwood, Ohio school getting iBooks
Cleveland Plain Dealer: New Beachwood school virtually equipped
Administrators tend not to like Apple because they look at dollars, and Apples appear to be expensive. I know that when I worked at Northwestern University, we had to continually fight for Apple against that attitude. However, I also know that in NU's public computing labs, one Mac administrator could manage at least three times as many machines as one PC administrator.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest that Safari was incapable of bugginess.
In your case, do you have the security preference "accept cookies" set to "only from sites you navigate to"? I've found that that setting doesn't play well with single-sign-on type systems where you (sometimes invisibly) bounce around from the initial server you visit to an auth server and back.
Then again, I have also found that Safari has some problem with regular cookies set by the SnipSnap blog/wiki application (ultimately set by the Jetty servlet container).
I still think it's pretty cool that WebCore itself can do all those basic browser functions, including (i forgot to mention) consulting the OS X Keychain for my saved password for the basic auth site I tested.
I use Safari all day every day, including for online banking and plenty of ecommerce, and I don't have any consistent problems.
Furthermore, using the CocoaDev One Line Browser, I was able to login to my bank site and view my pending bill payments (https) as well as login to a site which uses HTTP basic auth without writing a single line of extra code.
What are these problems you report with Safari and authentication?
Another form of "crowd control" is to not answer the telephone, but it's not an appropriate response from elected officials towards their electorate.
I frequently email my senators and representative, and it is actually quite useful to me. I get a printed 1-2 page response from them within a few weeks elaborating their position on my issue. This is very helpful to me. I know the President must get much more contact, but he also has a lot more resources available to process it.
Given how effective junk email filters are, and the access to advanced intelligence technology that the White House would have, I find it hard to believe that they couldn't route incoming emails through a system that did a more effective job of categorizing messages by issue and stance-relative-to-the-President's then this web site can be, given the weakness of its categorization scheme.
Also, email servers are generally much better able to deal with high loads than this new systems apparently is.
X11 for Mac OS X
I don't think there are "new support features"; this page just says "Unix-lover Heaven: Panther will include a final X11 client for Unix-based applications, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms."
To me, "final" just means bugs fixed. I could be wrong -- I haven't read a "roadmap for X11" document from Apple.
I think Redking secretly works for Epinions.
Struts and Java Server Faces are not "competitive". See the Struts FAQ They do different things. Struts is mostly a controller (with some nifty view components). Java Server Faces is supposed to develop a GUI for creating view components (JSPs).
At least a few major Apache contributors (Craig McClanahan, James Strachan) are involved with Java Server Faces...
There's a very local organization here in Chicago called "i.c. stars" Their goal is to develop technology skills in minority youth. They take about 10 interns, aged 18-25, and give them a three-month intensive (full-time) introduction to technology development and general business-world skills. I've been to volunteer orientations, but haven't found time to actually help out yet. Still, it seems like a pretty good organization. Their second group of interns is nearly done with the program.
Folks may be interested in "Philosophy In The Flesh," a recent book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. (Lakoff and Johnson made a big splash in the study of Metaphor with their 1983 book "Metaphors We Live By.")
In the new book, they take the stand that classical philosophy is based on assumptions that cognitive science finds are simply wrong. Their three main premises, backed up with tons of science:
1) Thought is inherently embodied (i.e. "Take that, Descartes")
2) Thinking is mostly unconscious
3) Abstract thought is largely metaphorical
It's dense reading, but fascinating. Here's an interview with Lakoff about the book:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_cultu re/lakoff/lakoff_p1.html