is the bad guys and prostitutes will start being animals. I can't wait to start bludgening whore cows to death and running over drug dealing manatees while I shoot and blow up the top 10 endangered species list.
- remove from box - plug power, monitor, mouse, keyboard in - plug tv cable thingy in - turn on - click next 4 or 5 times for the media center program to configure itself -... that's it
Originally Google was great. Since floating, their focus has changed to pumping out half-arsed "is it innovation if we add our logo?" products that are fun for a minute and then fairly irrelevant.
Diversifying so much.. to the point where there's a new "BIG THANG" every other week it seems.. only opens the door to their competitors.
The best thing about 2.0 is all the little kiddies will get over it once puberty finishes, allowing "web 3.0" to return back to being "web pages" instead of social experimental data mining ajaxified phenomenons and crap.
Do I care if - requests are made in the background (aka ajax) - the page posts back and re-renders (non ajax)
No, no I don't. I'm yet to see a single ajax feature I couldn't live without.
Instead of 1000 users with limited accounts you've suddenly got 1000 administrators doing god knows what to their machines in their spare time, so I would be locking down as much as possible to ensure a user can do very little.
It's more dangerous than a workplace because students are (in my opinion) more likely to mess around with their computers and casually browse sites employees would avoid while at work.
You should make sure your firewall is blocking every non-required port, because you'll have x0% of students running around with torrents and other p2p software.
I would expect some users would establish their own p2p network on campus, specifically to share music and whatever else they download, so I'd look at throttling their bandwidth on the network.
gamers and people who need real power. I don't know if that's an accurate interpretation of MS's versioning. Usually the versioning has some reflection to common activities.
XP Home Vs. XP Pro for instance, the average user does not need Remote Desktop or IIS. While Home is limited by comparison, it's no different when it comes down to performance and/or compatibility with games.
Office Home vs. Office Professional is also just a stripped down version removing the features a home user (probably) does not need, and adjusting the price accordingly.
If Vista follows MS's previous patterns, the alternate versions will offer less or more functionality based on common usage. Joe Blow at home doesn't need the same features, and SMB/SME doesn't have the same needs as a large corporation or business.
Umm, all you did was drop tinymce into a page and make it save using ajax instead of a traditional post. Want a medal or something? What was the hardest part - unzipping tinymce or ftping it?
You're entirely correct, but streaming or downloadable mp3's stop being a hobby the moment you require a few terrabytes of bandwidth a month because x0,000 people want to hear what you say.
In my opinion only, that is why we'll see more subscriptions introduced. Not many people can afford a hobby that costs $xxx - $xxxx a month.
I don't think $7/month is a reasonable amount. I wouldn't pay that personally.
Having said that, I do think it is inevitable that this happens. The cost to provide the podcasts, and the exhaustive work creating them, had to be reimbursed from somewhere.
Donations simply don't work - I removed all advertising from a popular site of mine for 6 weeks, and instead put a donations page. 6 weeks and 3,000,000 files served later, the donations totalled $0.
If the Red Cross, World Vision, Salvation Army etc struggle to get donations, having to resort to tv/radio campaigns begging for money, then I don't like any websites chance of succeeding.
Because the medium is an mp3, the advertising is limited to injecting ads like on a radio. The value of those ads (in my opinion) is less because someone might well be commuting or otherwise occupied when listening. It's not like 'traditional' web advertising where the ad is in front of you and can be clicked for an immediate response and/or roi.
Google didn't invent wireless, or voip, or communication methods. Neither did MS, but Google doesn't deserve any credit for it.
FYI: Ajax isn't something you can copy it's a feature/function of JavaScript. You can copy a script that uses Ajax, but unless you want to write your own JS parser you can't copy Ajax itself.
Good on Microsoft for showing some initiative. Skype's great, and I pay to use it, but it does not have the impact (read marketing) MS can throw behind a product.
Considering what an absolute rip-off cell calls are and have always been, I'm all for free wireless + voip.
PS. I wonder if any telco ceo's are throwing chairs around:)
Wasn't that to stop "chroming"? Kids getting high on the fumes? I seem to recall Extra did a nice big story on it, and then a short while later they put the restrictions in place.
Infocards really do sound quite good. If it was by someone other than Microsoft, I'm sure a lot of people would agree.
Yes, there's a chance they may result in some sort of identity theft if your laptop's stolen - but no less a chance then "Remember me" and your browsing history.
I think overall they're going to be very convenient for using a lot of sites and not having to remember passwords. You could bash keys till you've got a 30 digit password you'll never need to remember, and not have to do 'forgot password' forms every time you delete cookies.
Well I'll be damned. That's the first time I've ever clicked that. I don't think that's enough to qualify this as an "ajax site", though it obviously answers "where's the ajax" heh.
To really ajax this site web two point oh style you'd have to have it automatically checking for new comments, new posts, alerts or notifications that someone's replied to you, modded a comment etc.
Where's the ajax on slashdot? Are we supposed to be rebelling because it uses the traditional get/post methods instead of the (new name, old technology) "ajax" version?
Where's the ajax on msn & yahoo.com's? Or on mainstream news sites?
Ajax is a "web two point oh" buzzword, and 99% of "web two point oh" services/systems aren't going to be a success just because they utilize it.
I'm not disputing it can be useful and add something to an application, but the hype outweighs the benefit.
One thing I fear about ajax is the poor standards many developers work to - how long before we see phpbb/phpnuke/et al tearing servers apart because each visitor is suddenly making an extra 10 database queries a minute while previously they'd alt-tab back and hit refresh every few minutes?
If Google want to provide better stats how about they finish sorting out analytics first so that: - people can register - current users can add sites
I'm sure that while they mean well, they'll turn measuremap into a 'first in first served' system that gets overwhelmed, then locked down, then just sits there for months. Just like analytics.
Why they needed to buy measuremaps instead of write an additional module for analytics is confusing too. At a glance it looks like most of measuremaps is geotracking - which analytics already has. The blog specific features could probably have been added a lot cheaper, and the analytics service could have been fixed while they were at it.
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One big difference - the world's not holding their breath waiting for the next Ubuntu.
is the bad guys and prostitutes will start being animals. I can't wait to start bludgening whore cows to death and running over drug dealing manatees while I shoot and blow up the top 10 endangered species list.
I bought a Media Center pc about 2 months ago.
... that's it
Setting it up involved these steps:
- remove from box
- plug power, monitor, mouse, keyboard in
- plug tv cable thingy in
- turn on
- click next 4 or 5 times for the media center program to configure itself
-
Originally Google was great. Since floating, their focus has changed to pumping out half-arsed "is it innovation if we add our logo?" products that are fun for a minute and then fairly irrelevant.
.. to the point where there's a new "BIG THANG" every other week it seems .. only opens the door to their competitors.
Diversifying so much
Win2003 requires,
- 133mhz processor
- 128mb of ram
- 1.25gb+ of hard drive space
From memory, that's a computer in the early 90's with some extra memory and a bigger hard drive, neither of which are anywhere near expensive.
It's no surprise that other server operating systems run on old hardware as well.
It's no surprise that Linux will run on older hardware,
I haven't made the move to 2.0 yet, still want to read a little more about it and of course wrap up all the pre 2.0 work I've got on heh.
you'd care if you were a webmaster for a large database-driven site.
I am, for multiple sites, and ASP.NET allows you to only process things in the initial page load, with different (or no) behaviour for posting back.
Caching prevents even more processing time, and browser caching saves a lot of bandwidth.
I'm not "against" Ajax, I even use it, but it doesn't magically make a page better.
The best thing about 2.0 is all the little kiddies will get over it once puberty finishes, allowing "web 3.0" to return back to being "web pages" instead of social experimental data mining ajaxified phenomenons and crap.
Do I care if
- requests are made in the background (aka ajax)
- the page posts back and re-renders (non ajax)
No, no I don't. I'm yet to see a single ajax feature I couldn't live without.
but now M$ is simply making Halo games because they know that people loved the previous one
There's only 2 halo games, and one in development. If you want to see games beaten to death look for the EA label.
Mod this guy up. DVD Decryptor + Shrink makes retarded dvd's most convenient.
Instead of 1000 users with limited accounts you've suddenly got 1000 administrators doing god knows what to their machines in their spare time, so I would be locking down as much as possible to ensure a user can do very little.
It's more dangerous than a workplace because students are (in my opinion) more likely to mess around with their computers and casually browse sites employees would avoid while at work.
You should make sure your firewall is blocking every non-required port, because you'll have x0% of students running around with torrents and other p2p software.
I would expect some users would establish their own p2p network on campus, specifically to share music and whatever else they download, so I'd look at throttling their bandwidth on the network.
gamers and people who need real power.
I don't know if that's an accurate interpretation of MS's versioning. Usually the versioning has some reflection to common activities.
XP Home Vs. XP Pro for instance, the average user does not need Remote Desktop or IIS. While Home is limited by comparison, it's no different when it comes down to performance and/or compatibility with games.
Office Home vs. Office Professional is also just a stripped down version removing the features a home user (probably) does not need, and adjusting the price accordingly.
If Vista follows MS's previous patterns, the alternate versions will offer less or more functionality based on common usage. Joe Blow at home doesn't need the same features, and SMB/SME doesn't have the same needs as a large corporation or business.
The real story is that, like with many MS products, there are different versions for different levels (and budgets) of users.
There's really only five versions, the other three are stripped down to comply with EU rulings or to (try to) thwart piracy.
I don't think those three versions should be thought of in the sense of the traditional home/pro/enterprise/whatever.
Umm, all you did was drop tinymce into a page and make it save using ajax instead of a traditional post. Want a medal or something? What was the hardest part - unzipping tinymce or ftping it?
podcasts started out as people's hobbies
You're entirely correct, but streaming or downloadable mp3's stop being a hobby the moment you require a few terrabytes of bandwidth a month because x0,000 people want to hear what you say.
In my opinion only, that is why we'll see more subscriptions introduced. Not many people can afford a hobby that costs $xxx - $xxxx a month.
I don't think $7/month is a reasonable amount. I wouldn't pay that personally.
Having said that, I do think it is inevitable that this happens. The cost to provide the podcasts, and the exhaustive work creating them, had to be reimbursed from somewhere.
Donations simply don't work - I removed all advertising from a popular site of mine for 6 weeks, and instead put a donations page. 6 weeks and 3,000,000 files served later, the donations totalled $0.
If the Red Cross, World Vision, Salvation Army etc struggle to get donations, having to resort to tv/radio campaigns begging for money, then I don't like any websites chance of succeeding.
Because the medium is an mp3, the advertising is limited to injecting ads like on a radio. The value of those ads (in my opinion) is less because someone might well be commuting or otherwise occupied when listening. It's not like 'traditional' web advertising where the ad is in front of you and can be clicked for an immediate response and/or roi.
Google didn't invent wireless, or voip, or communication methods. Neither did MS, but Google doesn't deserve any credit for it.
FYI: Ajax isn't something you can copy it's a feature/function of JavaScript. You can copy a script that uses Ajax, but unless you want to write your own JS parser you can't copy Ajax itself.
Good on Microsoft for showing some initiative. Skype's great, and I pay to use it, but it does not have the impact (read marketing) MS can throw behind a product.
:)
Considering what an absolute rip-off cell calls are and have always been, I'm all for free wireless + voip.
PS. I wonder if any telco ceo's are throwing chairs around
Wasn't that to stop "chroming"? Kids getting high on the fumes? I seem to recall Extra did a nice big story on it, and then a short while later they put the restrictions in place.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/23/1034
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/qld/content/2005/
I think the actual reason is the restrictive cost of using Passport, and the effort to implement it:
1 0517.aspx .NET Passport: a periodic compliance testing fee of US$1,500 per URL and a yearly provisioning fee of US$10,000 per company."
http://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/07/25/
"There are two fees for licensing
Infocards really do sound quite good. If it was by someone other than Microsoft, I'm sure a lot of people would agree.
Yes, there's a chance they may result in some sort of identity theft if your laptop's stolen - but no less a chance then "Remember me" and your browsing history.
I think overall they're going to be very convenient for using a lot of sites and not having to remember passwords. You could bash keys till you've got a 30 digit password you'll never need to remember, and not have to do 'forgot password' forms every time you delete cookies.
Well I'll be damned. That's the first time I've ever clicked that. I don't think that's enough to qualify this as an "ajax site", though it obviously answers "where's the ajax" heh.
To really ajax this site web two point oh style you'd have to have it automatically checking for new comments, new posts, alerts or notifications that someone's replied to you, modded a comment etc.
Where's the ajax on slashdot? Are we supposed to be rebelling because it uses the traditional get/post methods instead of the (new name, old technology) "ajax" version?
.com's? Or on mainstream news sites?
Where's the ajax on msn & yahoo
Ajax is a "web two point oh" buzzword, and 99% of "web two point oh" services/systems aren't going to be a success just because they utilize it.
I'm not disputing it can be useful and add something to an application, but the hype outweighs the benefit.
One thing I fear about ajax is the poor standards many developers work to - how long before we see phpbb/phpnuke/et al tearing servers apart because each visitor is suddenly making an extra 10 database queries a minute while previously they'd alt-tab back and hit refresh every few minutes?
If Google want to provide better stats how about they finish sorting out analytics first so that:
- people can register
- current users can add sites
I'm sure that while they mean well, they'll turn measuremap into a 'first in first served' system that gets overwhelmed, then locked down, then just sits there for months. Just like analytics.
Why they needed to buy measuremaps instead of write an additional module for analytics is confusing too. At a glance it looks like most of measuremaps is geotracking - which analytics already has. The blog specific features could probably have been added a lot cheaper, and the analytics service could have been fixed while they were at it.
It's no crime not to have taken LSD. Don't put that peer pressure crap on me and imply I'm missing out on something I need ;)