Actually, some right click support wouldn't be a bad addition to g-mail. They already use a dro-down for their actions list.
The main thing I think needs a change are the check boxes. They may be tried and true but I think its time to retire them. There needs to be a simple click to select, shift+click to multiple select.
And for god sake, let me organize my contacts into lists!
As far as which is better, any comparison that misses the "conversation view" analogy in Gmail is not getting the whole picture. That's definetely the most important and useful feature in Gmail, and its still found nowhere else. Continued re-hashes of the 3-column Outlook shit are not what we need.
The internet is now a key part of the infrastructure of many countries and no matter if you like it or not, nations don't like it when a critical part of their infrastructure is controlled by a foreign government.
Critical part of its infrastructure huh? You mean like, oh I dunno, OIL?!
Well, iTunes did add video support so I don't think its a stretch to say they'll roll out an iTunes video store along with the music store.
I don't think thats whats going to happen now though. Thinksecret's info rings much truer to me. Deffinetely powermac/powerbook updates. Why would you release two new iPods right before christmas? They'll let the Take this christmas and the video early next year or next christmas.
I currently use Microstation (I work in a big office and mine is the only project that uses it) and I can tell you that AutoCAD is far superior. AutoCAD is sprightly and responsive in comparison, if not much easier to use.
Other than Microstation and AutoCAD though I don't have any experience with other drafting software. What would you suggest? What do the aforementioned big corporations use? In the Architecture world (i.e. my world) its all AutoCAD for the sake of compatibility with contractors' drawings.
I'd be interested to try out alternatives, even if I'll never be able to use them at work.
I keep hearing people say this business or that business moving off would be a huge loss to them. Autodesk's AutoCAD is a MAMMOTH business. It has literally no competitor in the U.S. Every architect, architectural engineer, mechanical/electrical/plumbing contractor, mechanical engineer (the list goes on...) in the United States uses AutoCAD. I really don't see this as much more than a move to protect Max. After all, some of those lost Maya users will switch to Max, others will not, but either way its less competition.
I'll give it two years till an open source solution fills the Maya gap.
Why does everything Johnathen Franzen says ring so much truer than anything I've ever heard from a CEO. This guy actually seems intellectually invested in what he's saying. In fact, it doesn't look like the Sun marketing department looked at this at all! GASP!
can you imagine what the market for devices like this will look like once municipal wifi comes of age? Hello voip cell phone/pda/computer. Everyone will have one of these things on their hip. Something else to diddle with on the subway besides their iPods and Blackberries.
Not true. Nautulis's have been brought up from some of the deepest parts of the ocean and have remained alive in captivity. Pressure is only an issue in a compressible medium, i.e. air. The water in the squids body takes up the same space at 3000 feet as it does at sea level, so there's no harm in bringing one up. If you can figure a way to capture one that is.
"But for $3,000, who's buying this first-gen technology devkit with unknown technological future and unknown (but probably high given the devkit cost) pricing?"
I'm sure there are many corporate R&D types looking at this technology. Three grand is peanuts to even a small business, and if they want to start playing around with the technology before it becomes a requisite part of mobile computers this is the ideal way to do it. I can see many product designers and engineers grabbing one of these and throwing all kinds of shit at them to see how e-paper performs first hand.
Is it not possible to have an HD/Blu-ray capable drive in much the same way we have CD/DVD drives? I suspect that this will be that way that drive manufacturers will go, although CD and DVD are not exactly competing media formats. Will MS/Sony try to muscle drive makers into offering only one or the other?
"It's tempting, because profiling based upon race, gender, age, religion, and political affiliation are effective measures for combatting crime from specific and known types of person."
This is actually incorrect. In iraq and especially some of the former soviet republics, many suicide bombers are actually young women. A number of famous terrorists in the united states (the shoe bomber, unibomber, others) were white or west indian.
In order to avoid such cases slipping under the radar the CIA uses Psycholical Personality Profiling which compiles much more than the one dimensional evaluations you describe. Officers in the field are trained to use only behavioral clues in order to identify who to detain. The article, though frightening, does not show any type of racial or gender profiling occuring.
What's scarry is not the method used by the aprehending officers, but the data trail left by the investigation. This is why the patriot act and its ilk are dangerous. The fact that this man now has an imprint in some national database will certainly serve as a false positive if some future cop decides he looks suspicious enough to check.
"the best way to decide if the book is for you or not is to review the table of contents and reviews. If you find only one or two interesting possibilities, search for them online instead."
Uh, thanks. This is my first time here in the scary world of b00ks (as opposed to books).
if the ice is from water condensed out of the air like the ice that builds up on outdoor tanks of liquid hydrogen, then you're making clean ice without using up clean (liquid) water.
Simple. You'll never upgrade your hardware again. Or at least you'll only be upgrading cheap thin clients. But then again you'll be paying the annual equivalent of a new compy per user. If you subtract the associated costs of maintaining all that complex equipment vs. thin clients it might be well worth it.
My question is how do you deal with the latency? Is display over IP really that sprightly? And what happens when I want to put my 300meg photoshop document on a CD?
what I really worry about is not google using this information after saying that they won't (I believe them, perhaps naively) but rather that the government will make monitoring such communication mandatory for "the war on terror." Something akin to the backdoor that ISPs are now required to have for intelligence gathering.
IMHO his post was a classic "nothing new, move along" with the execption of "next killer app: desktop web servers."
the rest has been chewed over so many times in other venues that it was hard to read. The guy really doesn't have that much to offer.
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I'm a bit surprised that 29,021 is the record. One would think there would be patent holding firms out there with more than that.
The main thing I think needs a change are the check boxes. They may be tried and true but I think its time to retire them. There needs to be a simple click to select, shift+click to multiple select.
And for god sake, let me organize my contacts into lists!
As far as which is better, any comparison that misses the "conversation view" analogy in Gmail is not getting the whole picture. That's definetely the most important and useful feature in Gmail, and its still found nowhere else. Continued re-hashes of the 3-column Outlook shit are not what we need.
Critical part of its infrastructure huh? You mean like, oh I dunno, OIL?!
I don't think thats whats going to happen now though. Thinksecret's info rings much truer to me. Deffinetely powermac/powerbook updates. Why would you release two new iPods right before christmas? They'll let the Take this christmas and the video early next year or next christmas.
Other than Microstation and AutoCAD though I don't have any experience with other drafting software. What would you suggest? What do the aforementioned big corporations use? In the Architecture world (i.e. my world) its all AutoCAD for the sake of compatibility with contractors' drawings.
I'd be interested to try out alternatives, even if I'll never be able to use them at work.
I keep hearing people say this business or that business moving off would be a huge loss to them. Autodesk's AutoCAD is a MAMMOTH business. It has literally no competitor in the U.S. Every architect, architectural engineer, mechanical/electrical/plumbing contractor, mechanical engineer (the list goes on...) in the United States uses AutoCAD. I really don't see this as much more than a move to protect Max. After all, some of those lost Maya users will switch to Max, others will not, but either way its less competition.
I'll give it two years till an open source solution fills the Maya gap.
if you search taiwan the island appears and on the sidebar it says "Taiwan, Province of China"
Why does everything Johnathen Franzen says ring so much truer than anything I've ever heard from a CEO. This guy actually seems intellectually invested in what he's saying. In fact, it doesn't look like the Sun marketing department looked at this at all! GASP!
can you imagine what the market for devices like this will look like once municipal wifi comes of age? Hello voip cell phone/pda/computer. Everyone will have one of these things on their hip. Something else to diddle with on the subway besides their iPods and Blackberries.
Science. But that doesn't mean it can't be beautiful.
Not true. Nautulis's have been brought up from some of the deepest parts of the ocean and have remained alive in captivity. Pressure is only an issue in a compressible medium, i.e. air. The water in the squids body takes up the same space at 3000 feet as it does at sea level, so there's no harm in bringing one up. If you can figure a way to capture one that is.
I'm sure there are many corporate R&D types looking at this technology. Three grand is peanuts to even a small business, and if they want to start playing around with the technology before it becomes a requisite part of mobile computers this is the ideal way to do it. I can see many product designers and engineers grabbing one of these and throwing all kinds of shit at them to see how e-paper performs first hand.
you mean they are fickle.
Is it not possible to have an HD/Blu-ray capable drive in much the same way we have CD/DVD drives? I suspect that this will be that way that drive manufacturers will go, although CD and DVD are not exactly competing media formats. Will MS/Sony try to muscle drive makers into offering only one or the other?
This is actually incorrect. In iraq and especially some of the former soviet republics, many suicide bombers are actually young women. A number of famous terrorists in the united states (the shoe bomber, unibomber, others) were white or west indian.
In order to avoid such cases slipping under the radar the CIA uses Psycholical Personality Profiling which compiles much more than the one dimensional evaluations you describe. Officers in the field are trained to use only behavioral clues in order to identify who to detain. The article, though frightening, does not show any type of racial or gender profiling occuring.
What's scarry is not the method used by the aprehending officers, but the data trail left by the investigation. This is why the patriot act and its ilk are dangerous. The fact that this man now has an imprint in some national database will certainly serve as a false positive if some future cop decides he looks suspicious enough to check.
Also the "advertise in our Top Spot!" link. There's nothing here to make me think this is anything more than a particularly base hoax.
There are far too many "shrill political bloggers" out there IMHO.
I'm pretty sure that the only thing adding any heat to the equation is the sun. Its just a question of how much we're causing the Earth to retain.
Uh, thanks. This is my first time here in the scary world of b00ks (as opposed to books).
no pun existed.
More Bad Science journalism. Scientists aren't superhuman tinkerers, or (as in this case) starry-eyed dreamers.
if the ice is from water condensed out of the air like the ice that builds up on outdoor tanks of liquid hydrogen, then you're making clean ice without using up clean (liquid) water.
looks like saying you're going to get smacked down isn't always enough to avoid being smacked down.
Simple. You'll never upgrade your hardware again. Or at least you'll only be upgrading cheap thin clients. But then again you'll be paying the annual equivalent of a new compy per user. If you subtract the associated costs of maintaining all that complex equipment vs. thin clients it might be well worth it.
My question is how do you deal with the latency? Is display over IP really that sprightly? And what happens when I want to put my 300meg photoshop document on a CD?
what I really worry about is not google using this information after saying that they won't (I believe them, perhaps naively) but rather that the government will make monitoring such communication mandatory for "the war on terror." Something akin to the backdoor that ISPs are now required to have for intelligence gathering.
IMHO his post was a classic "nothing new, move along" with the execption of "next killer app: desktop web servers."
the rest has been chewed over so many times in other venues that it was hard to read. The guy really doesn't have that much to offer.