Myspace is just another proof that quality is always what is important.
My impression after seeing Myspace for the first time was it was like the early days of web page design. The users were more atrracted to the cheap "gee whiz" stuff. Inline audio and video took the place of flashing/scrolling text and huge animated gifs.
I have some friends that like to use Myspace so I check it out every once in a while. It is still a horrible site from a snobby tech geek point of view. To others, it is a great thing.
I tend to agree. However, it seems some Firefox users' performance and crash issues are caused by the extensions they installed. Opera can avoid these kinds of issues by watching the FF extension scene, see which FF extensions are popular, and fit into their grand scheme of things for their product.
I think I can live with that and keep Opera my "close second" browser. For Joe Average Opera is probably a great first choice browser.
Your typo (county instead of country) caused me to read the link you provided. I have a theory about spam sources.
I believe in the past a lot of junk email was being traced to Boca Raton, Florida (Palm Beach County). I work for a community college in Florida and we noticed a huge drop in junk email right after Hurricane Wilma. It took at least a month before we started seeing the percentages return to usual (almost 50%). Actually, once things seemed to "return to normal" we experienced a very large increase in junk email for a week or so.
So my theory is that junk email is still being sourced out of Boca Raton, FL. The junk email may be sent from zombie PCs or mail servers acroos the globe but it still looks like those that pull the strings might be in Palm Beach County Florida.
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Oh man can you imagine if they did it like your phone bill, itemizing every "call". That would suck.
Maybe having the info available online would be better.;-)
What good is it to have the xxx TLD if they won't enforce it? There will probably just be a rush to get their existing domain names as ADDITIONAL domain names before the squatters gobble them up.
Try to keep in mind that Tivo is in a very tough spot. They are trying to balance the wishes of their customers while keeping the greedy-money-grabbing content owners happy.
Bash them all you want but it can't be easy. Sadly I think Tivo is going to lose out to the cable and sattelite providers building their own DVRs into their set-top boxes. They will probably be inferior products but you won't have a choice.
For all you Myth fans I paraphrase and old Debian t-shirt.
"MythTV. What your mother would use if it were 20 times easier."
Myth is getting better but it is no Tivo or Replay.
BS already charges for different levels of ISP service. So now they want to charge a fee for the other end. They will use this to finger point the problem to the other end every time.:-)
2005 is also the year we saw popup blocking easily available to the masses. Firefox, Opera, IE, heck even AOL now blocks most popups.
I would guess that many/. readers block inline ads as well using tools like Adblock, Flashblock, Proxomitron, etc. I wonder how long it will take for the masses to easily experience the web annoyance free. hmmmmm....
What happens when *most* of your ISP's customers really start using the bandwidth up to the limitations. I suspect the ISPs are going to have to rething pricing and policies... or both.
I do agree that the content providers on the other end are going to have a rude awakening unless they start embracing some other distribution methods (i.e. torrents).
This move is just yet another step in the line towards TV-over-IP. The big providers are already lining up, and the startups are hoping onboard.
I agree but can the Internet and ISPs handle the bandwidth load? They already cap bandwidth for some customers. Some ISPs offer different levels of DSL.
So when will TV-over-IP be affordable and at an acceptable quality for the average consumer?
Wireless is a tool and can be great when applied appropriately. It is not the answer to everything as some would like to think.
I work for a college and once or twice a year someone brings forward the idea of a mobile cart of laptops for a roaming classroom. All laptops using wireless networking.
It sounds great until you find out they want to 30 students doing graphics or medical imaging at the same time. Of course we mention that it may not perform up to their expectations and that they should do some testing. They never follow through with the testing.
I'll say it again. Wireless is a tool and can be great when applied appropriately.
I only skimmed over the public comments and your survey. My impression was that the sample period you chose was very small. Why so small? It seemed so small that it struck me as deliberate to get a predetermined outcome. I am not saying that was your intention but it does give the appearance that it could have been.
World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems. USA: OK. World: But that will break the internet. USA: OK
I will plead ignorance and ask why would this break the Internet?
Why can't every country run their own Internet type network (and needed services) if the countries follow agreed upon standards (DNS, BGP, etc)? In addition, countries could choose what countries they want to communicate with like peering agreements.
Let countries run their own networks and if they are Internet compatible then they can communicate with other Internet compatible(mistyped that p as a b and seemed pretty funny at first) networks that they have agreements with.
I bet right after I click Submit it will all become obvious that I am wrong.
Without a doubt MS is going to use their monopoly desktop to force people to msn search by embedding it into windows.
If and when that happens I (and most other geeks) will promptly disable it or change it in such a way to use whatever damn search tool I want. This will be implemented on our PCs, our family's PCs, our work PCs, our friend's PCs, and on any PC we have direct influence over.
In the long run, hopefully whatever works best for everyone will be the default. I would like to to think that it will be freedom of choice. I can dream can't I?
* Classes meant for you to present something in front of an audience. (Speech) * Classes meant for the students to learn to work on a group project like they would in the workplace. * Classes designed for face to face interaction of the students.
Otherwise it is mostly up to the student. Some people do fine taking classes online. Some people do not.
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Myspace is just another proof that quality is always what is important.
My impression after seeing Myspace for the first time was it was like the early days of web page design. The users were more atrracted to the cheap "gee whiz" stuff. Inline audio and video took the place of flashing/scrolling text and huge animated gifs.
I have some friends that like to use Myspace so I check it out every once in a while. It is still a horrible site from a snobby tech geek point of view. To others, it is a great thing.
I tend to agree. However, it seems some Firefox users' performance and crash issues are caused by the extensions they installed. Opera can avoid these kinds of issues by watching the FF extension scene, see which FF extensions are popular, and fit into their grand scheme of things for their product.
I think I can live with that and keep Opera my "close second" browser. For Joe Average Opera is probably a great first choice browser.
It does when you are writing MS Office worms and viruses. :-)
Google has spoiled us. I can remember going through pages and pages of search results. Altavista was in improvement and then Google came along.
I have been listening to RP for years and I agree. They seem to have figured out how to get it right.
To play devils advocate here, why isn't VMWare resorting to patents to muscle out the competition?
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Because IBM probably has all the patents via their VM system that has been around for 30 years
When did Google start asking for your age along with your query? How are they going to tie queries to ages?
Your typo (county instead of country) caused me to read the link you provided. I have a theory about spam sources.
I believe in the past a lot of junk email was being traced to Boca Raton, Florida (Palm Beach County). I work for a community college in Florida and we noticed a huge drop in junk email right after Hurricane Wilma. It took at least a month before we started seeing the percentages return to usual (almost 50%). Actually, once things seemed to "return to normal" we experienced a very large increase in junk email for a week or so.
So my theory is that junk email is still being sourced out of Boca Raton, FL. The junk email may be sent from zombie PCs or mail servers acroos the globe but it still looks like those that pull the strings might be in Palm Beach County Florida.
Oh man can you imagine if they did it like your phone bill, itemizing every "call". That would suck.
;-)
Maybe having the info available online would be better.
I have not experienced the SLLLOOOOOOOOW issues that you are.
I won't have to go into the pros and cons of Tivo other DVRs only because there will be plenty of it elsewhere in the topic discussion.
Do tell about the BrightHouse DVR. My parents live in a BrightHouse area.
oh geez
:-)
1. Filtering: It complicates things and puts the onus on someone else. Like spam and spam filtering.
2. Senatorial proposal: The Internet is used internationally and although started in the U.S. is not governed by the U.S.
3. Stupidity: Faulty logic. Not stepping forward is not the same as stepping backwards. Nice try though, maybe you should be in politics.
Yeah but who built it and how long did it take?
What good is it to have the xxx TLD if they won't enforce it? There will probably just be a rush to get their existing domain names as ADDITIONAL domain names before the squatters gobble them up.
.org but should be on a .com! :-)
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DISCLAIMER: I own a Tivo .. ok I own a few Tivos.
Here come the Tivo flames.
Try to keep in mind that Tivo is in a very tough spot. They are trying to balance the wishes of their customers while keeping the greedy-money-grabbing content owners happy.
Bash them all you want but it can't be easy. Sadly I think Tivo is going to lose out to the cable and sattelite providers building their own DVRs into their set-top boxes. They will probably be inferior products but you won't have a choice.
For all you Myth fans I paraphrase and old Debian t-shirt.
"MythTV. What your mother would use if it were 20 times easier."
Myth is getting better but it is no Tivo or Replay.
BS already charges for different levels of ISP service. So now they want to charge a fee for the other end. They will use this to finger point the problem to the other end every time. :-)
2005 is also the year we saw popup blocking easily available to the masses. Firefox, Opera, IE, heck even AOL now blocks most popups.
/. readers block inline ads as well using tools like Adblock, Flashblock, Proxomitron, etc. I wonder how long it will take for the masses to easily experience the web annoyance free. hmmmmm....
I would guess that many
What happens when *most* of your ISP's customers really start using the bandwidth up to the limitations. I suspect the ISPs are going to have to rething pricing and policies ... or both.
I do agree that the content providers on the other end are going to have a rude awakening unless they start embracing some other distribution methods (i.e. torrents).
This move is just yet another step in the line towards TV-over-IP. The big providers are already lining up, and the startups are hoping onboard.
I agree but can the Internet and ISPs handle the bandwidth load? They already cap bandwidth for some customers. Some ISPs offer different levels of DSL.
So when will TV-over-IP be affordable and at an acceptable quality for the average consumer?
Install the Flashblock extension/plugin for FF. Flash popups won't run unless you click on them and why would you want to do that :-)
Problem solved as far as you are concerned.
While you are at it, install Adblock Plus and the Filterset.G updater.
Wireless is a tool and can be great when applied appropriately. It is not the answer to everything as some would like to think.
I work for a college and once or twice a year someone brings forward the idea of a mobile cart of laptops for a roaming classroom. All laptops using wireless networking.
It sounds great until you find out they want to 30 students doing graphics or medical imaging at the same time. Of course we mention that it may not perform up to their expectations and that they should do some testing. They never follow through with the testing.
I'll say it again. Wireless is a tool and can be great when applied appropriately.
I only skimmed over the public comments and your survey. My impression was that the sample period you chose was very small. Why so small? It seemed so small that it struck me as deliberate to get a predetermined outcome. I am not saying that was your intention but it does give the appearance that it could have been.
Have you considered increasing the sample period?
I follow you but what is stopping China from doing that now if they REALLY wanted to isolate themselves?
World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems.
USA: OK.
World: But that will break the internet.
USA: OK
I will plead ignorance and ask why would this break the Internet?
Why can't every country run their own Internet type network (and needed services) if the countries follow agreed upon standards (DNS, BGP, etc)? In addition, countries could choose what countries they want to communicate with like peering agreements.
Let countries run their own networks and if they are Internet compatible then they can communicate with other Internet compatible(mistyped that p as a b and seemed pretty funny at first) networks that they have agreements with.
I bet right after I click Submit it will all become obvious that I am wrong.
Without a doubt MS is going to use their monopoly desktop to force people to msn search by embedding it into windows.
If and when that happens I (and most other geeks) will promptly disable it or change it in such a way to use whatever damn search tool I want. This will be implemented on our PCs, our family's PCs, our work PCs, our friend's PCs, and on any PC we have direct influence over.
In the long run, hopefully whatever works best for everyone will be the default. I would like to to think that it will be freedom of choice. I can dream can't I?
Some classes just do not do well online.
* Classes meant for you to present something in front of an audience. (Speech)
* Classes meant for the students to learn to work on a group project like they would in the workplace.
* Classes designed for face to face interaction of the students.
Otherwise it is mostly up to the student. Some people do fine taking classes online. Some people do not.