The point is that when you click on a tab, stuff _below_ it changes. A tab is not an element "click me and all around the screen stuff changes". A tab is an element that tells you "if you switch to a different tab, stuff below me changes".
Now look what happens when you currently click on a different tab in Firefox, Safari or IE: stuff changes below it (the page) and above it (the URL in the address bar). This is illogical! It dillutes the meaning of a tab. And it makes it difficult for normal computer users to understand the concept of a tab. Placing it the way Google does does now fix this.
This is first and foremost an issue of correctness and preserving the concept of a UI element, not a question of taste.
In my humble opinion, the Vitra HeadLine. It's probably the chair Steve Jobs would buy if he was picky about these things. I compared every model I could find for 2 months, sat in every chair (including the Aeron, of course), and this is the once that I ended up with. What's so special? 4 words: Engineering to the max. Every detail has been re-invented: new kind of fabric created, new way of doing the headrest, which lets you lean back and automatically look forward instead of to the ceiling, lots of tests, fabulous design... did I mention I really like it?:-) They are quite pricey, go for the comfy bigger leather armrests.
Unfortunately, the song seems to not getting stored anywhere on the local hard disk. And when one tries to start downloading the url a second time, a "not found" message is given. Anybody interested of analyzing it some more?:-D
Well, we're talking about something else here. Think VisiCalc, arguably the first "Killer App", which singlehandedly made the Apple II the huge success it was. A web app, like YouTube (which is what you are suggesting) can automatically be run on any platform. So it can't be a killer app for something specific.
What we are talking about here are apps like - Skype - AIM - games that use the acceleration sensor for great fun - collaborative multitouch painting app etc.
None of these things will be possible on the iPhone, therefore unnessessarily limiting its potential. That is, until msft comes along, copies the iPhone, opens it up and overtakes Apple once again, repeating its Windows monopoly again. That's what we are talking about.
Well I'm not gonna buy one. Just promised us the future that looked like having a single device being used for all kinds of neat purposes, but since the iPhone won't run third-party apps, it will actually do far less than most of todays smartphones. If you look at it objectively, this is just a combo of phone/browser/ipod with a really nice interface. The iPhone is kind of the Pamela Anderson of mobile phones: Damn nice to look at, but after a few hours it becomes really boring.
Steve, open up the iPhone! There would be so many great things we could do with it! And then I would buy one, too!
Jon Rentzsch is suggesting that you fill a bug in the offial apple database if you're interested in this feature. I would like to ask everybody to fill one so that the list of "duplicates" show a clear sign of interest. Read more here.
Additionally, you might want to email steve, or spread the word in other means.
- Running ads makes you dependent. Once wikipedia writes something bad against an advertiser, this company might threaten to pull its ads, therefore putting editors in a dilemma: support the project or support the truth? - Ads ad new privacy-problems (somebody else tracks what you have visited) - Ads fight for your eyeballs. Beeing a distraction-free zone is a big plus for wikipedia, because it made it so enjoyable for the authors. - Some ads try to dupe people into thinking they are seeing error-messages etc. Others blink and distract. Many many ads try to manipulate you. We should not give in to this. - Hosting costs have come down a lot. The project can very much sustain itself by just relying on fund drives.
Sainul says a CD or DVD consumes 16 grams of polycarbonate, a petroleum by-product. While a CD costs Rs.15 (SR1.25), his paper or plastic-made RVD will cost just about Rs.1.50 and has 131 times more storage capacity.
So, the paper is cheap - but how exactly do you print on it? Using dyes? Which costs how much? And are created from what?
Since the data on the Google platform is mirrored around the globe for performance reasons, I'm not so sure Google is telling the truth here. I'm pretty sure the regular Google web index is mirrored in some Brazil data centre, and with Orkut having its major market share there too, I would assume that this data that is requested is already there, too.
That linked page shows a pic of the guy who wrote the story, several ads for magazines etc, an illustration with some distant link to the story, but what we all want are some pics of those huge disks. What's up with all those newspaper guys, haven't they learned yet that the web loves pictures? They (and by that I mean nearly every website of a newspaper all over the world) as if they just moved all their text-only content to the web without understanding those amazing new possibilities in the first place - and with the web now over 10 years old, I'm really starting to doubt if they will ever learn.
You know, there are some instances where the general population is right and the professional is wrong, and this is one of them. The normal people know that something that helps organizing a democratic medium needs to be democratic too - it needs to be understood by the masses, or it won't take off.
As long as you stay in an ivory tower and target the semantic web only to you and your peers, you don't grasp what it is really all about. And it will just stay on the ground.
So far, the ISS has always only be filled up to the number of people that can be immediately evacuated with the always-attached escape vehicle. Now, we're filling it up more? I understand this is an emergency, but imagine the ISS gets hit by space junk and 3 people can go back to earth while the other have to wave goodbye on the ISS and die?
Additionally, I think the Space Shuttle needs to load a connector to dock to the ISS - will this now be always loaded into the cargo bay or what?
A supersmall step sensor for your shoe with wireless transmitter, a wireless receiver, iPod integration, timer, text-to-speach interface, "booster song with 1 keypress", recording all your trips and comparing them over the internet, and Apple and Nike behind it - I was expecting that gear to cost at least $50 to $80, and I'm pretty sure the people that are interested would have paid that amount without thinking about it - but only $29? That is one seriously low price. Wow, what happened, are they subsidizing this one or something?
And if they do, how do they make sure we are buying nike shoes? That step counter can be taped to any shoe, can't it?
They tried to remove having a cable between the cockpit and the rudder. They replaced it with "wireless", which means that that both ends need some sort of a sending/receiving device, which uses power, which is provided by a cable, which connects from the power source to both the cockpit and the rudder. So, no wires between the cockpit and the rudder, right?
Huh? What about personality rights, which require every tv producer to have you sign a release form before they can transmit your image over the airwaves? Are those rights now suddenly waived? Strange...
The last time he was interviewed, he said he didn't find any real proof for UFOs, just a file for "non-earth-based marines" (or something of that sort, it's been a year since I heard it). And now he suddenly has more info? This sounds to me like he's running out of money and tries to sell a story.
Yeah, Mobility rocks! Prices are way lower than zipcar, too: about US$2 per hour and 50 cents per km. $150 yearly subscription, or become a member of the co-operative for $800 and have the yearly fee waived (and lower prices overall). Their website sucks, though. Frames? What's with this obsession with frames in Switzerland. Every second website uses them - didn't they learn that they suck, something, like, 5 years ago?
It's good start, but I think it needs one change. They say about the img-element: "the only tradeoff being that the higher resolution artwork would be slower to load on low DPI displays that couldn't render all the detail anyway". To gain widespread adoption, this has to be solved first. A possible solution would be to add an additional "device-pixel-ratio" element to the http request header itself, so a server serves different size of images (jpgs, gifs, pngs) based on the resolution of a requesting device.
Dear Pirates, OS X is just as shiny as Vista, has no hard protection, and might work on your machine just as well as windows does. Welcome, come on in, we're actually in serious need of more bad boys: While you're trying out os x, you might try to port some windows games or crack some apps that haven't been cracked in 5 years, like Logic Pro (requires dongle) and ProTools (requires hardware) and give something back to the community:-D
you still have to buy and install Windows, so there will always be Mac-only users--In OS/2, Windows support was built-in
I think this is the centerpiece of the discussion, and a very good point: Windows support is not built-in, it depends on the user shelling out another $300 for a windows licence. This will significantly stop those PHB with their thinking "let's ship Win apps for Mac boxes". Good thinking there, Node3! Now all that is left to do is Apple clearly telling and retelling that line of thougth, and all will be pretty well.
Unless, of course, Microsoft offers a Win licence for $50 for Mac users. Then, again, we've got a big problem. But that won't happen. At least I hope so...:-)
Yes, but people running Windows exlusively on Apple hardware are not "sticky" users. They strengthen the Windows monopoly and let Apple compete in the tough PC manufacturers business directly with Dell and HP - hard to stay profitable there, and hardly what Apple wants.
Well, if a third party releases some virtualization solution, Apple is not in trouble, as software houses cannot rely on the fact that they are installed in most machines. Now with Apple itself releasing such a solution, things are different. Devs will go "my app already runs on those boxes" and stop porting. That's the difference. Well actually I hope not, but I see it very likely.
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What's stopping you from creating a special "amazon edition" version of your app and giving it to Amazon with a 5 times higher MSRP?
The point is that when you click on a tab, stuff _below_ it changes. A tab is not an element "click me and all around the screen stuff changes". A tab is an element that tells you "if you switch to a different tab, stuff below me changes".
Now look what happens when you currently click on a different tab in Firefox, Safari or IE: stuff changes below it (the page) and above it (the URL in the address bar). This is illogical! It dillutes the meaning of a tab. And it makes it difficult for normal computer users to understand the concept of a tab. Placing it the way Google does does now fix this.
This is first and foremost an issue of correctness and preserving the concept of a UI element, not a question of taste.
In my humble opinion, the Vitra HeadLine. It's probably the chair Steve Jobs would buy if he was picky about these things. I compared every model I could find for 2 months, sat in every chair (including the Aeron, of course), and this is the once that I ended up with. What's so special? 4 words: Engineering to the max. Every detail has been re-invented: new kind of fabric created, new way of doing the headrest, which lets you lean back and automatically look forward instead of to the ceiling, lots of tests, fabulous design... did I mention I really like it? :-) They are quite pricey, go for the comfy bigger leather armrests.
Anybody interested in finding out how to get those tracks for free? Turns out these are mp3s, downloaded normally over http. The url something like
:-D
http://cfs-listen-80.lala.com/contentfs/content?t=long-list-of-random-chars
Unfortunately, the song seems to not getting stored anywhere on the local hard disk. And when one tries to start downloading the url a second time, a "not found" message is given. Anybody interested of analyzing it some more?
Well, we're talking about something else here. Think VisiCalc, arguably the first "Killer App", which singlehandedly made the Apple II the huge success it was. A web app, like YouTube (which is what you are suggesting) can automatically be run on any platform. So it can't be a killer app for something specific.
What we are talking about here are apps like
- Skype
- AIM
- games that use the acceleration sensor for great fun
- collaborative multitouch painting app
etc.
None of these things will be possible on the iPhone, therefore unnessessarily limiting its potential. That is, until msft comes along, copies the iPhone, opens it up and overtakes Apple once again, repeating its Windows monopoly again. That's what we are talking about.
Best. Post. Ever. Wow, thank you, you made my week.
Well I'm not gonna buy one. Just promised us the future that looked like having a single device being used for all kinds of neat purposes, but since the iPhone won't run third-party apps, it will actually do far less than most of todays smartphones. If you look at it objectively, this is just a combo of phone/browser/ipod with a really nice interface. The iPhone is kind of the Pamela Anderson of mobile phones: Damn nice to look at, but after a few hours it becomes really boring.
Steve, open up the iPhone! There would be so many great things we could do with it! And then I would buy one, too!
Jon Rentzsch is suggesting that you fill a bug in the offial apple database if you're interested in this feature. I would like to ask everybody to fill one so that the list of "duplicates" show a clear sign of interest. Read more here.
Additionally, you might want to email steve, or spread the word in other means.
- Running ads makes you dependent. Once wikipedia writes something bad against an advertiser, this company might threaten to pull its ads, therefore putting editors in a dilemma: support the project or support the truth?
- Ads ad new privacy-problems (somebody else tracks what you have visited)
- Ads fight for your eyeballs. Beeing a distraction-free zone is a big plus for wikipedia, because it made it so enjoyable for the authors.
- Some ads try to dupe people into thinking they are seeing error-messages etc. Others blink and distract. Many many ads try to manipulate you. We should not give in to this.
- Hosting costs have come down a lot. The project can very much sustain itself by just relying on fund drives.
Just my opinion on it.
So, the paper is cheap - but how exactly do you print on it? Using dyes? Which costs how much? And are created from what?
Exactly.
Since the data on the Google platform is mirrored around the globe for performance reasons, I'm not so sure Google is telling the truth here. I'm pretty sure the regular Google web index is mirrored in some Brazil data centre, and with Orkut having its major market share there too, I would assume that this data that is requested is already there, too.
That linked page shows a pic of the guy who wrote the story, several ads for magazines etc, an illustration with some distant link to the story, but what we all want are some pics of those huge disks. What's up with all those newspaper guys, haven't they learned yet that the web loves pictures? They (and by that I mean nearly every website of a newspaper all over the world) as if they just moved all their text-only content to the web without understanding those amazing new possibilities in the first place - and with the web now over 10 years old, I'm really starting to doubt if they will ever learn.
You know, there are some instances where the general population is right and the professional is wrong, and this is one of them. The normal people know that something that helps organizing a democratic medium needs to be democratic too - it needs to be understood by the masses, or it won't take off.
As long as you stay in an ivory tower and target the semantic web only to you and your peers, you don't grasp what it is really all about. And it will just stay on the ground.
So far, the ISS has always only be filled up to the number of people that can be immediately evacuated with the always-attached escape vehicle. Now, we're filling it up more? I understand this is an emergency, but imagine the ISS gets hit by space junk and 3 people can go back to earth while the other have to wave goodbye on the ISS and die?
Additionally, I think the Space Shuttle needs to load a connector to dock to the ISS - will this now be always loaded into the cargo bay or what?
A supersmall step sensor for your shoe with wireless transmitter, a wireless receiver, iPod integration, timer, text-to-speach interface, "booster song with 1 keypress", recording all your trips and comparing them over the internet, and Apple and Nike behind it - I was expecting that gear to cost at least $50 to $80, and I'm pretty sure the people that are interested would have paid that amount without thinking about it - but only $29? That is one seriously low price. Wow, what happened, are they subsidizing this one or something?
And if they do, how do they make sure we are buying nike shoes? That step counter can be taped to any shoe, can't it?
They tried to remove having a cable between the cockpit and the rudder. They replaced it with "wireless", which means that that both ends need some sort of a sending/receiving device, which uses power, which is provided by a cable, which connects from the power source to both the cockpit and the rudder. So, no wires between the cockpit and the rudder, right?
Huh? What about personality rights, which require every tv producer to have you sign a release form before they can transmit your image over the airwaves? Are those rights now suddenly waived? Strange...
11. Natalie Portman naked and petrified in hot grits
The last time he was interviewed, he said he didn't find any real proof for UFOs, just a file for "non-earth-based marines" (or something of that sort, it's been a year since I heard it). And now he suddenly has more info? This sounds to me like he's running out of money and tries to sell a story.
Yeah, Mobility rocks! Prices are way lower than zipcar, too: about US$2 per hour and 50 cents per km. $150 yearly subscription, or become a member of the co-operative for $800 and have the yearly fee waived (and lower prices overall). Their website sucks, though. Frames? What's with this obsession with frames in Switzerland. Every second website uses them - didn't they learn that they suck, something, like, 5 years ago?
It's good start, but I think it needs one change. They say about the img-element: "the only tradeoff being that the higher resolution artwork would be slower to load on low DPI displays that couldn't render all the detail anyway". To gain widespread adoption, this has to be solved first. A possible solution would be to add an additional "device-pixel-ratio" element to the http request header itself, so a server serves different size of images (jpgs, gifs, pngs) based on the resolution of a requesting device.
Dear Pirates, OS X is just as shiny as Vista, has no hard protection, and might work on your machine just as well as windows does. Welcome, come on in, we're actually in serious need of more bad boys: While you're trying out os x, you might try to port some windows games or crack some apps that haven't been cracked in 5 years, like Logic Pro (requires dongle) and ProTools (requires hardware) and give something back to the community :-D
you still have to buy and install Windows, so there will always be Mac-only users--In OS/2, Windows support was built-in
:-)
I think this is the centerpiece of the discussion, and a very good point: Windows support is not built-in, it depends on the user shelling out another $300 for a windows licence. This will significantly stop those PHB with their thinking "let's ship Win apps for Mac boxes". Good thinking there, Node3! Now all that is left to do is Apple clearly telling and retelling that line of thougth, and all will be pretty well.
Unless, of course, Microsoft offers a Win licence for $50 for Mac users. Then, again, we've got a big problem. But that won't happen. At least I hope so...
Yes, but people running Windows exlusively on Apple hardware are not "sticky" users. They strengthen the Windows monopoly and let Apple compete in the tough PC manufacturers business directly with Dell and HP - hard to stay profitable there, and hardly what Apple wants.
Well, if a third party releases some virtualization solution, Apple is not in trouble, as software houses cannot rely on the fact that they are installed in most machines. Now with Apple itself releasing such a solution, things are different. Devs will go "my app already runs on those boxes" and stop porting. That's the difference. Well actually I hope not, but I see it very likely.