Geesh... All I want is a freaking phone that allows me to play music and videos (podcasts), install 3rd party apps, has 3G connectivity & wifi, has gmail and push-email support, syncs with an ical feed, has an IM client that works with all the major networks, allows me to teather my laptop via bluetooth to the phone, has A2DP, and a web browser that renders like a web browser should (WITH FLASH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.) Make your own MP3/AAC ringtones. Oh, and it needs to be on more than one carrier.
And it needs to be, most importantly, a GOOD PHONE. With GOOD RECEPTION, SOUND QUALITY, AND DIALING SHOULD BE SUPER-SIMPLE!!
Photo and video opportunities so that you could upload to Youtube/Flickr/Facebook would be cool too, but I'm OK without having that.
How fucking hard is it to roll that out???? Seriously, how fucking hard?
But it is even more controlled than that. It is more to advertise to your friends saying "Hey, your friend Nick just did xyz and said abc about it" rather than "Here is this random guy named Nick and he just did xyz and said abc about it"
Which makes a lot of sense to me as both a consumer and as a possible advertiser. ESPECIALLY if I am advertising my local company or service. (Nick just used Moe's Dry Cleaning, where you can get your clothes dry cleaned for a low price.")
Keynote templates are crap for putting a lot of data on them. It forces you to be creative and spend time on your slides. If you want a super-fast 10 minute slideshow, use Powerpoint. If you want a slideshow that is more effective in assisting your audience's understanding of your presentation, use Keynote.
When you read a textbook you see a good majority of the page in standard paragraphs then some visual aids next to them. That means graphs, charts, etc. They aren't there to give you ALL of the content, just to help you understand what the text is saying. When giving a presentation with keynote you require the audience member to actually listen to you and reflect the slideshow when there is something they do not understand or there is a topic that is simply too difficult to express in words.
By the way, avoid, avoid, AVOID, using crazy templates on both PPT and Keynote. You don't want your presentation distracting your audience, and nothing does that better than creative push-pin graphics and wipes that involve stars going across the screen.
I was applying it to google's word/excel/powerpoint competitors I do like Google Calendar, although I only use it for my own personal calendars and I have Outlook 2007 and iCal subscribed to it.
I have to say, and this is after using Powerpoint many times over, Keynote blows PP out of the water. It has to be one of the best applications for the Mac when it comes to real-world usefulness.
Google's online apps are crap (except Gmail.) I don't want to have to be tethered to an internet-enabled computer all the time, much less use everything inside of a web browser. Word & Excel are great applications (well, the 'ribbon' thing kinda pisses me off) and have really set the bar for office applications. I've tried OpenOffice, NeoOffice, Pages, Omni, etc, etc, etc and I keep going back to Word and Excel. And I don't want to consider myself a Microsoft (or Apple) fanboy at all.
One thing that doesn't bother me is that ISPS should do some traffic shaping if the line is saturated. That is OK by me. Hell, if there was really that big of a problem I would support having cache-technology on the ISP side that websites could enable. Why should I have to pull 'panda sneezing' from California when my neighbor just looked at it? Why am I not pulling it from my ISP's servers in downtown Chicago? Of course this would need to be approved by the site that has the data coming down from it, but is Youtube really going to say no if your ISP is offering to serve the data to their customers and tell youtube about it in a HTTP request? I don't think they would.
I would also prefer that VOIP, DNS and HTTP traffic have preferential treatment over file-sharing.
But in this case it just sounds like they can't figure out how to do it right.
Well, defense department would love these. Store a lot of data in places where there is constant vibrations and heat issues (Iraq) without worrying about damaging the disks.
I know very few people who actually paid for Photoshop, but I know quite a few design shops that rely on talent that grew up with pirated copies of PS to do all their work. Stopping individual piracy would be about the worst business decision Adobe could do. Stopping design shops from stealing PS, however, is very much in their interest.
It would be nice if you could sign your own stuff (with a free signature from apple, like google) to run in a sandbox-style mode on the iPhone with just Wifi & Bluetooth, and then with Apple's signature the app could use the EDGE network (if that is approved for the app.) Perhaps allow, with the user's permission, the app to use xyz amount of space.
Before that I wouldn't mind a freaking flash player for Safari. That would be a GREAT start.
Somehow I don't feel like this allows you to say 'This place is filled with fucking idiots' every 5 seconds
But at least I can think it
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It isn't made to have it constantly running.
Best example is if I need to convert 300 video files to.flv files for display on a website. I just load up an image on my EC2 nodes that has FFMPEG on it (with the flv addon) and press go and it will make say 30 nodes to handle 100 each, or 100 nodes to handle 3 each, depending on how fast you want it done (in theory you could have 300 nodes each doing one.) Once your workload is done, everything is written back to your amazon storage account and the node shuts down. You are only billed for the time the node is up, and that is measured in very small increments of time.
One thing that is worth highlighting is that the display looks absolutely fantastic. The new reader supposedly has a much faster refresh rate (I'm sure this will speed up even more over time) and it is very easy to read off of. It is somewhat nice not having to look at a bright backlit display to read books and such.
Notable things which there are sources to cite are dwindling. 2 million articles is getting a bit excessive IMO. Wikipedia needs to focus on quality and not quantity (which is what Mr. Whales has been saying for a few years) and people aren't as excited about editing existing articles compared to making new ones.
Except a vast, vast, vast majority of the population doesn't buy vinyl anymore (namely because they don't have anything to play it on, and you would need a Hummer to get the dash space to play it in your car)
By the way, anyone notice that the #1 song on AmazonMP3 is 1234 by Feist. You will never guess who uses that song to promote the new version of their rarely heard of product;-)
Word is horrible, and my last experience with Word was on a Mac, where it was worse than horrible. In my opinion, Word has destroyed word processing. It is a complete drain of productivity, buggy beyond anything I could imagine for a product that has been around for something like 20 years. On the Mac, it managed to crash _and_ lose my document. Yes, it corrupted the file on disk and couldn't restore it. I hadn't seen anything that ludicrous in something like 20 years, and this was in 2006, fer cryin' out loud.
Word for Mac is a POS in my opinion. But notebook view kicks ass...
If they are anything like the adsense ones they won't be too intrusive at all...
Google isn't filled with idiots who think that they can just put an ad box on the side of their results and not loose respect (and market share)
Personally, I like the sponsored results... I find that a lot of the time the sponsored results are more what I am looking for than the search results. I probably cost those advertisers a fortune by checking out every single one of the ads until I find one I like, but still...
I found my latest printer cartridge via adsense... the store I bought it from had a listing on the top and they were also the most competitive in the way of price... so they got my money thanks to an adsense ad. Of course, now I get emails every week from the store about printer cartridges... bah... stupid "opt-in-by-default" system
If you read it it does say that reverting vandalism will improve your reliability.
Only problem is, if I continually revert vandalism, am I not also inflating my own rep when I decide to go make an edit that turns out to be incorrect?
It is not only a really good idea, it is a GREAT idea, but as a Wikipedia editor who has introduced some incorrect facts (and changed them back later or had them changed for me, thankfully) into the site I am a little worried on how much trust it gives each user. I have a lot of edits, most of which are still on the site, but that does not mean that my information is correct.
Not to mention Wikipedia already has a server-crunch, this would take an insane amount of CPU to do in real-time, which the Wikimedia Foundation just cannot afford.
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Great start, but after reading a lot of the reviews it just doesn't hit that sweet spot just yet.
We will see what happens at Macworld SF in January.
Geesh... All I want is a freaking phone that allows me to play music and videos (podcasts), install 3rd party apps, has 3G connectivity & wifi, has gmail and push-email support, syncs with an ical feed, has an IM client that works with all the major networks, allows me to teather my laptop via bluetooth to the phone, has A2DP, and a web browser that renders like a web browser should (WITH FLASH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.) Make your own MP3/AAC ringtones. Oh, and it needs to be on more than one carrier.
And it needs to be, most importantly, a GOOD PHONE. With GOOD RECEPTION, SOUND QUALITY, AND DIALING SHOULD BE SUPER-SIMPLE!!
Photo and video opportunities so that you could upload to Youtube/Flickr/Facebook would be cool too, but I'm OK without having that.
How fucking hard is it to roll that out???? Seriously, how fucking hard?
But it is even more controlled than that. It is more to advertise to your friends saying "Hey, your friend Nick just did xyz and said abc about it" rather than "Here is this random guy named Nick and he just did xyz and said abc about it"
Which makes a lot of sense to me as both a consumer and as a possible advertiser. ESPECIALLY if I am advertising my local company or service. (Nick just used Moe's Dry Cleaning, where you can get your clothes dry cleaned for a low price.")
The most interesting thing is, you may be the closest this thread is going to get to a sane answer.
This computational experiment is using a TON of power that would otherwise not be used. Not CPU power but rather power from the socket in the wall.
That power comes from somewhere, and for a lot of the world it is from non-renewable resources.
Is the search for ET worth wasting all the power that is being spent to do it?
Keynote templates are crap for putting a lot of data on them. It forces you to be creative and spend time on your slides. If you want a super-fast 10 minute slideshow, use Powerpoint. If you want a slideshow that is more effective in assisting your audience's understanding of your presentation, use Keynote.
When you read a textbook you see a good majority of the page in standard paragraphs then some visual aids next to them. That means graphs, charts, etc. They aren't there to give you ALL of the content, just to help you understand what the text is saying. When giving a presentation with keynote you require the audience member to actually listen to you and reflect the slideshow when there is something they do not understand or there is a topic that is simply too difficult to express in words.
By the way, avoid, avoid, AVOID, using crazy templates on both PPT and Keynote. You don't want your presentation distracting your audience, and nothing does that better than creative push-pin graphics and wipes that involve stars going across the screen.
I stand corrected
I was applying it to google's word/excel/powerpoint competitors
I do like Google Calendar, although I only use it for my own personal calendars and I have Outlook 2007 and iCal subscribed to it.
I have to say, and this is after using Powerpoint many times over, Keynote blows PP out of the water. It has to be one of the best applications for the Mac when it comes to real-world usefulness.
Google's online apps are crap (except Gmail.) I don't want to have to be tethered to an internet-enabled computer all the time, much less use everything inside of a web browser. Word & Excel are great applications (well, the 'ribbon' thing kinda pisses me off) and have really set the bar for office applications. I've tried OpenOffice, NeoOffice, Pages, Omni, etc, etc, etc and I keep going back to Word and Excel. And I don't want to consider myself a Microsoft (or Apple) fanboy at all.
I'm not having any problems either.
One thing that doesn't bother me is that ISPS should do some traffic shaping if the line is saturated. That is OK by me. Hell, if there was really that big of a problem I would support having cache-technology on the ISP side that websites could enable. Why should I have to pull 'panda sneezing' from California when my neighbor just looked at it? Why am I not pulling it from my ISP's servers in downtown Chicago? Of course this would need to be approved by the site that has the data coming down from it, but is Youtube really going to say no if your ISP is offering to serve the data to their customers and tell youtube about it in a HTTP request? I don't think they would.
I would also prefer that VOIP, DNS and HTTP traffic have preferential treatment over file-sharing.
But in this case it just sounds like they can't figure out how to do it right.
I was thinking more mirrored-copies of high-def satellite images
having a super-high-def view of Baghdad would be very useful I would think
Well, defense department would love these. Store a lot of data in places where there is constant vibrations and heat issues (Iraq) without worrying about damaging the disks.
I know very few people who actually paid for Photoshop, but I know quite a few design shops that rely on talent that grew up with pirated copies of PS to do all their work. Stopping individual piracy would be about the worst business decision Adobe could do. Stopping design shops from stealing PS, however, is very much in their interest.
It would be nice if you could sign your own stuff (with a free signature from apple, like google) to run in a sandbox-style mode on the iPhone with just Wifi & Bluetooth, and then with Apple's signature the app could use the EDGE network (if that is approved for the app.) Perhaps allow, with the user's permission, the app to use xyz amount of space.
Before that I wouldn't mind a freaking flash player for Safari. That would be a GREAT start.
Somehow I don't feel like this allows you to say 'This place is filled with fucking idiots' every 5 seconds
But at least I can think it
It isn't made to have it constantly running. Best example is if I need to convert 300 video files to .flv files for display on a website. I just load up an image on my EC2 nodes that has FFMPEG on it (with the flv addon) and press go and it will make say 30 nodes to handle 100 each, or 100 nodes to handle 3 each, depending on how fast you want it done (in theory you could have 300 nodes each doing one.) Once your workload is done, everything is written back to your amazon storage account and the node shuts down. You are only billed for the time the node is up, and that is measured in very small increments of time.
One thing that is worth highlighting is that the display looks absolutely fantastic. The new reader supposedly has a much faster refresh rate (I'm sure this will speed up even more over time) and it is very easy to read off of. It is somewhat nice not having to look at a bright backlit display to read books and such.
Notable things which there are sources to cite are dwindling. 2 million articles is getting a bit excessive IMO. Wikipedia needs to focus on quality and not quantity (which is what Mr. Whales has been saying for a few years) and people aren't as excited about editing existing articles compared to making new ones.
Or at least that is what I believe.
Except a vast, vast, vast majority of the population doesn't buy vinyl anymore (namely because they don't have anything to play it on, and you would need a Hummer to get the dash space to play it in your car)
;-)
By the way, anyone notice that the #1 song on AmazonMP3 is 1234 by Feist. You will never guess who uses that song to promote the new version of their rarely heard of product
Wikipedia reports it as "MIKE IS GAY", what does that make it worth?
Word for Mac is a POS in my opinion. But notebook view kicks ass...
I didn't say that... there are a lot of companies who know what they are doing..
Then again, I thought Facebook had their "Apps" system locked down. Now it is making a lot of profiles really ugly.
And the award to the quickest troll in the world goes to......
If they are anything like the adsense ones they won't be too intrusive at all...
Google isn't filled with idiots who think that they can just put an ad box on the side of their results and not loose respect (and market share)
Personally, I like the sponsored results... I find that a lot of the time the sponsored results are more what I am looking for than the search results. I probably cost those advertisers a fortune by checking out every single one of the ads until I find one I like, but still...
I found my latest printer cartridge via adsense... the store I bought it from had a listing on the top and they were also the most competitive in the way of price... so they got my money thanks to an adsense ad. Of course, now I get emails every week from the store about printer cartridges... bah... stupid "opt-in-by-default" system
Bringing a new meaning to "pumping him full of lead"
If you read it it does say that reverting vandalism will improve your reliability.
Only problem is, if I continually revert vandalism, am I not also inflating my own rep when I decide to go make an edit that turns out to be incorrect?
It is not only a really good idea, it is a GREAT idea, but as a Wikipedia editor who has introduced some incorrect facts (and changed them back later or had them changed for me, thankfully) into the site I am a little worried on how much trust it gives each user. I have a lot of edits, most of which are still on the site, but that does not mean that my information is correct.
Not to mention Wikipedia already has a server-crunch, this would take an insane amount of CPU to do in real-time, which the Wikimedia Foundation just cannot afford.
This brings up a good point: ONE, Standard, Package, Distribution, System ..