If you want an IDE, use SPE. It is licensed under the GPL, so free and completely cross-platform. It has a lot of features, such as call-tips, auto-completion, uml diagrams (with pdf exports),...
Maybe it's time for 'DVD John', who cracked Google Video player in less than a day, to change his name in 'Print John'...
Sooner or later someone will be able to develop software to hack into the Google database. For sure Google can not guarantee 100% that it won't happen. This reason might be enough for some publishers to not participate.
The advantage of books till now is that they can't be copied digitally easily as opposite to music or video. So book publishers might not want to enter the digital era, as they feel comfortable with this natural protection. But even if books get pirated digitally, a lot of people sit already enough behind a computer to prefer some ink printed on paper.
About the organisitions involved: To kick this off, Internet Archive will host the material and sometimes helps with digitization, Yahoo will index the content and is also funding the digitization of an initial corpus of American literature collection that the University of California system is selecting, Adobe and HP are helping with the processing software, University of Toronto and O'Reilly are adding books, Prelinger Archives and the National Archives of the UK are adding movies, etc. We hope to add more institutions and fine tune the principles of working together.
I also don't understand. Skype is already free and doesn't need ads packages. Rather make paypal free with these ads or ebay itself.
It's getting fun with this free, ad-based world. I don't care about ads, however clicking them is my new hobby. It allows me to donate money to interesting (open source) projects. Moreover I don't choose ads which appeal to me, but which I suspect of having the highest eCPM. It gives me the feeling I'm rich and it is less effort than doing a bank transfer... just a click of the mouse.
If somebody would develop a plugin/extension for a webbrowser which would do one random click every time I visit one of my favourite websites, I would install it immediately. It could even connect to a database and choose the link with the highest ranking keyword.
Imagine how open source software could be boosted by this.
I don't care so much about statistics, but got interested by this quote:
Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising.
Let's look the roadmap...
2.0, "The Ocho", 2006, The Next Big Thing
3.0, ???, Bugs, The Next Next Big Thing
Nice, but what would be the goals for The Next Big Thing? To quote again:
Goals
We are still working on goals for 2.0/3.0 and are drafting a PRD for its development. Some likely goals include:
* Improvements to Bookmarks/History
* Per-Site Options
* Enhancements to the Extensions system, Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search and other areas.
* Accessibility compliance
* More... ?
That doesn't look very promising to me. It would be revolutionary if web browsers in general could break the monopoly of JavaScript and introduce other script languages (python, ruby,...) on the client side. This would boost the web applications much further as they are now. That's just a wish, but probably a security nightmare.
Still my question remains: what's the next big thing for web browsers?
If the US wants to keep their control of the internet, that's fine for me. They are controlling already far more of the world as they should be.
But than the whole world should be able to vote the president of the US.
Let's strip the pc to the mobile phone. Keyboards will be obsolete as well from the moment speech recognition is a mature technology. So away with it. Than we still have the burden of the screen. No problem, my next glasses will strip them away as well.
So, glasses are the hardware of the future! They will replace the pc, phone, camera (just look & shoot), gps navigation, mp3 & video player, etc... Imagine the streets full of people talking to their glasses. Let's hope than the iGlasses are scratch proof.
Mostly it will be a matter of taste. At least I appreciate that there is some kind of competition going on.
What Google did was an attempt to reinvent the web mail, which can be easily perceived as arrogant by some. Yahoo took another turn and pushed its web mail more into a familiar desktop application (not an original idea, btw). Unfortunately it has chose a simplistic way by copying M$ Outlook. That's not my cup of tea, but I can imagine a lot of people will be happy with this. Yahoo could have done it probably more smartly, but at least it is a clear step in the evolution of 'desktop on the web', which everybody is expecting and which M$ fears.
There is nothing wrong in deploying the ease of user interfaces of the desktop (like drag & drop) on the web. If Yahoo's approach turns out to be successful, Google will have to react. In a Google job advertisement for UI designers they state: "Focus on the user, and all else will follow". That's one of the key philosophies behind everything that Google does.
How Google could react, might be more interesting.
"certain events that are relevant to their business" suggest that these are external non-Google events. As Google is a company which likes to mystify itself in a fog of rumors, they could use this toy as a market study rather than predictive tool.
Suppose Google in the past included events like Gmail, Google Talk/Wifi/Earth/Print... (I'm sure the whole alphabet will follow), they would easily see for which services there is a higher demand and which at the moment could be the new hottest platform for their content based ads to multiply their income. Something which appears first as a neutral game, might be another clever way to tap the brains of somebody else. It's just loyal to its own principle: "Organize the information, but don't create it yourself."
Times are changing. No longer the selling of products (content, books, music, videos,...) may generate the primary income, but the infrastructure around it (ads, services, support,...). Something the RIAA doesn't realize maybe, but what Google for sure is doing. If they mean organize, they mean in fact organize in such a way that consulting generates money. It's a hidden market with still a lot of land to be conquered. It's time that other companies catch this up, otherwise Google will be granted a monopoly and we all know what that mean$.
Google will probably get a lot of financial revenue from the selling ads on their pages offering book content. The copyright holders of the books (authors, publishers,...) get bigger exposure of their books. This might lead to the financial advantage that book sales will increase. Probably, for a lot of them this potential benefit is not enough and hard to predict on long term.
Maybe Google should treat books in the same way as websites in the adsense program. This would mean that Google shares its financial income from Google Print with the copyright holders as it does with web masters who use Google adsense on their sites. It this would seem as profitable for copyright holders as it is now for certain web masters, there could be a chance that copyright holders of book will even be eager to participate in the Google Print program.
So, Google, share your profits of Google Print with the copyright holders!
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If you want an IDE, use SPE. It is licensed under the GPL, so free and completely cross-platform. It has a lot of features, such as call-tips, auto-completion, uml diagrams (with pdf exports),...
http://pythonide.stani.be/
It greatly helped me when learning python.
No, Apple will ship their iPods soon with bootcamp support for Zune.
Maybe it's time for 'DVD John', who cracked Google Video player in less than a day, to change his name in 'Print John'...
Sooner or later someone will be able to develop software to hack into the Google database. For sure Google can not guarantee 100% that it won't happen. This reason might be enough for some publishers to not participate.
The advantage of books till now is that they can't be copied digitally easily as opposite to music or video. So book publishers might not want to enter the digital era, as they feel comfortable with this natural protection. But even if books get pirated digitally, a lot of people sit already enough behind a computer to prefer some ink printed on paper.
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, introduces the Open Content Alliance on http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000192.html
About the organisitions involved:
To kick this off, Internet Archive will host the material and sometimes helps with digitization, Yahoo will index the content and is also funding the digitization of an initial corpus of American literature collection that the University of California system is selecting, Adobe and HP are helping with the processing software, University of Toronto and O'Reilly are adding books, Prelinger Archives and the National Archives of the UK are adding movies, etc. We hope to add more institutions and fine tune the principles of working together.
I also don't understand. Skype is already free and doesn't need ads packages. Rather make paypal free with these ads or ebay itself.
It's getting fun with this free, ad-based world. I don't care about ads, however clicking them is my new hobby. It allows me to donate money to interesting (open source) projects. Moreover I don't choose ads which appeal to me, but which I suspect of having the highest eCPM. It gives me the feeling I'm rich and it is less effort than doing a bank transfer... just a click of the mouse.
If somebody would develop a plugin/extension for a webbrowser which would do one random click every time I visit one of my favourite websites, I would install it immediately. It could even connect to a database and choose the link with the highest ranking keyword.
Imagine how open source software could be boosted by this.
I don't care so much about statistics, but got interested by this quote:
... ?
Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising.
Let's look the roadmap...
2.0, "The Ocho", 2006, The Next Big Thing
3.0, ???, Bugs, The Next Next Big Thing
Nice, but what would be the goals for The Next Big Thing? To quote again:
Goals
We are still working on goals for 2.0/3.0 and are drafting a PRD for its development. Some likely goals include:
* Improvements to Bookmarks/History
* Per-Site Options
* Enhancements to the Extensions system, Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search and other areas.
* Accessibility compliance
* More
That doesn't look very promising to me. It would be revolutionary if web browsers in general could break the monopoly of JavaScript and introduce other script languages (python, ruby,...) on the client side. This would boost the web applications much further as they are now. That's just a wish, but probably a security nightmare.
Still my question remains: what's the next big thing for web browsers?
If the US wants to keep their control of the internet, that's fine for me. They are controlling already far more of the world as they should be. But than the whole world should be able to vote the president of the US.
Let's strip the pc to the mobile phone. Keyboards will be obsolete as well from the moment speech recognition is a mature technology. So away with it. Than we still have the burden of the screen. No problem, my next glasses will strip them away as well.
So, glasses are the hardware of the future! They will replace the pc, phone, camera (just look & shoot), gps navigation, mp3 & video player, etc... Imagine the streets full of people talking to their glasses. Let's hope than the iGlasses are scratch proof.
Mostly it will be a matter of taste. At least I appreciate that there is some kind of competition going on.
What Google did was an attempt to reinvent the web mail, which can be easily perceived as arrogant by some. Yahoo took another turn and pushed its web mail more into a familiar desktop application (not an original idea, btw). Unfortunately it has chose a simplistic way by copying M$ Outlook. That's not my cup of tea, but I can imagine a lot of people will be happy with this. Yahoo could have done it probably more smartly, but at least it is a clear step in the evolution of 'desktop on the web', which everybody is expecting and which M$ fears.
There is nothing wrong in deploying the ease of user interfaces of the desktop (like drag & drop) on the web. If Yahoo's approach turns out to be successful, Google will have to react. In a Google job advertisement for UI designers they state: "Focus on the user, and all else will follow". That's one of the key philosophies behind everything that Google does.
How Google could react, might be more interesting.
"certain events that are relevant to their business" suggest that these are external non-Google events. As Google is a company which likes to mystify itself in a fog of rumors, they could use this toy as a market study rather than predictive tool.
... (I'm sure the whole alphabet will follow), they would easily see for which services there is a higher demand and which at the moment could be the new hottest platform for their content based ads to multiply their income. Something which appears first as a neutral game, might be another clever way to tap the brains of somebody else. It's just loyal to its own principle: "Organize the information, but don't create it yourself."
...) may generate the primary income, but the infrastructure around it (ads, services, support, ...). Something the RIAA doesn't realize maybe, but what Google for sure is doing. If they mean organize, they mean in fact organize in such a way that consulting generates money. It's a hidden market with still a lot of land to be conquered. It's time that other companies catch this up, otherwise Google will be granted a monopoly and we all know what that mean$.
Suppose Google in the past included events like Gmail, Google Talk/Wifi/Earth/Print
Times are changing. No longer the selling of products (content, books, music, videos,
What's the root of this conflict? Money!
...) get bigger exposure of their books. This might lead to the financial advantage that book sales will increase. Probably, for a lot of them this potential benefit is not enough and hard to predict on long term.
Google will probably get a lot of financial revenue from the selling ads on their pages offering book content. The copyright holders of the books (authors, publishers,
Maybe Google should treat books in the same way as websites in the adsense program. This would mean that Google shares its financial income from Google Print with the copyright holders as it does with web masters who use Google adsense on their sites. It this would seem as profitable for copyright holders as it is now for certain web masters, there could be a chance that copyright holders of book will even be eager to participate in the Google Print program.
So, Google, share your profits of Google Print with the copyright holders!