On a slightly related note, did anyone notice that Monday or Tuesday morning (EST) the "Gmail" in the logo changed to "Google Mail"?
Apparently this is what Gmail is called in the UK, for one reason or another, but I've never seen it in the US.
Keep in mind, only 4% surveyed knew that they were using it and knew what it was. That doesn't account for possibly many others who may be using it by another name (Web Clips, Live Bookmarks).
I mean, I could be using RSS without knowing it if I was 70 and my son installed Firefox for me and I accidentally clicked the little orange (standard, whoo!) box in the corner. Would I have a clue about 0.92/1.0/2.0/Atom/XML? No. Would I even know it was called RSS? No. (After you add a "Live Bookmark" FF doesn't tell you what kind of feed it is.)
I'm sure it's not a super-high percentage; even the total number of FF users, MyY! users, IG users, del.icio.us users, and others combined would not be much to rival the AOL masses. But it's nice to see new technologies and some of this Web 2.0 stuff taking hold in some capacity.
One of my client's computers had a virus and was sending out a noticable amount of spam.
The ISP called up and informed me.
The connection was not shut off, they just told me to fix it or it would be.
The ISPs do notice these things...
Just thought I should share.
Sorry you encountered problems with that, and I don't doubt that Apple has a few spamlists or does "market research", however, at least the iTunes download can be gotten without an email address by just unchecking the newsletter boxes. Since you don't want any of the newsletters they don't need to send anything to you and the email goes unchecked.
Learned this one night when I needed iTunes and was too lazy to type gibberish.
Oh yeah, pretty lazy.
...but the ONLY thing keeping me from switching to 1.5 from 1.0.7 is a stupid little mouse-wheel-button thing.
In 1.5, if you click the scroll wheel (middle button) and scroll down with the wheel (WITHOUT moving the mouse at all) nothing happens.
In 1.0x, if you click the wheel and scroll, it scrolls normally.
Everything else is just similar/better enough for me to deal with it, but I _love_ playing with my mouse while online and taking that away from me is not cool.
Anyone want to write an extension? It's probably like six lines of code...
Till then I'm sticking with the old version.
I would think that that would be S(treaming)S(IMD)I(nstruction set), but I guess that was taken by "server-side includes"? Argh, the acronym wars never end!
...but I think I heard a story about this on NPR like six months ago.
Nice to see jobs coming back over here, even if they're not in Silicon Valley. Too many times have I spent an hour more than I needed to on the phone with "Dave" from Billing to cancel my hosting account/RMA my printer/troubleshoot a Dell motherboard because of language problems.
I've had experiences in the past with Kontiki, they used to distribute early early Adult Swim clips in a similar fashion. The files were 320x240 RealPlayer videos. I forget the bitrate but the audio was between 24 and 64kbps so that should give you an idea what the video was like.
Of course, that was 2001, and times have changed. We'll have to wait and see what they're using now.
Eh, we've got free Wi-Fi already in New Jersey. Too many stupid rich people with open access points... walk around Fort Lee or Alpine with a PDA and you'll see what I mean.
I would love to see free Wi-Fi in Hudson County (the densest county in the country) though. Not only 'cause I'm from there either... a lot of people can't afford monthly cable or DSL. A one-time $30 charge for a USB adapter is easier to stomach for families in HC than $500 a year for wireline broadband.
I guess your newspaper doesn't carry Pearls Before Swine, then. It's a really really great new comic with a wicked sense of humor and wide age-appeal. Could be the savior of the whole newspaper comic business.
Posts view (with all the files neatly organized, NFO'd and such) is hand-edited... but Files view, to my knowledge, is not. Files view is a bit messy, though, so as far as usability goes Guba may win.
I love newzBin to death anyway.
But I'd still want the option to view a.mobi site on a real computer.
The way WAP is set up, I can't do that without an emulator. I've always been curious about how WAP looked on a non-phone.
It'd be great if we could have one of these for the "real" internet.
Like a.css for all those trendy sites that are XHTML 2.0 and CSS 4 compliant... in 2005... You know the ones. Those kinds of designers would go for forced standards.
WTF? I just bought an Aspire 500W power supply for a buck less than that Seasonic one... it's cool-looking and stable... and provides 170W more power. Oh well, to each his own.
I love being in an industry where we ask questions like "Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?". Really, I do. Like, guys that work at McDonalds or whatever, they have to worry about feeding their families... but us IT guys worry about how small our raises are compared to last year's...
But honestly, I could be doing better. $35/hr as a consultant is... well it's okay... but I want to make more. Dammit, why can't it be 1995 again?
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Nah, needs more Google.
On a slightly related note, did anyone notice that Monday or Tuesday morning (EST) the "Gmail" in the logo changed to "Google Mail"?
Apparently this is what Gmail is called in the UK, for one reason or another, but I've never seen it in the US.
1. Get fired.
2. Delete colleague's account.
3. Go to jail.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Keep in mind, only 4% surveyed knew that they were using it and knew what it was. That doesn't account for possibly many others who may be using it by another name (Web Clips, Live Bookmarks). I mean, I could be using RSS without knowing it if I was 70 and my son installed Firefox for me and I accidentally clicked the little orange (standard, whoo!) box in the corner. Would I have a clue about 0.92/1.0/2.0/Atom/XML? No. Would I even know it was called RSS? No. (After you add a "Live Bookmark" FF doesn't tell you what kind of feed it is.) I'm sure it's not a super-high percentage; even the total number of FF users, MyY! users, IG users, del.icio.us users, and others combined would not be much to rival the AOL masses. But it's nice to see new technologies and some of this Web 2.0 stuff taking hold in some capacity.
One of my client's computers had a virus and was sending out a noticable amount of spam. The ISP called up and informed me. The connection was not shut off, they just told me to fix it or it would be. The ISPs do notice these things... Just thought I should share.
Sorry you encountered problems with that, and I don't doubt that Apple has a few spamlists or does "market research", however, at least the iTunes download can be gotten without an email address by just unchecking the newsletter boxes. Since you don't want any of the newsletters they don't need to send anything to you and the email goes unchecked. Learned this one night when I needed iTunes and was too lazy to type gibberish. Oh yeah, pretty lazy.
Adium makes a good IM client.
In other news, Mac OS X makes a good operating system.
...but the ONLY thing keeping me from switching to 1.5 from 1.0.7 is a stupid little mouse-wheel-button thing.
In 1.5, if you click the scroll wheel (middle button) and scroll down with the wheel (WITHOUT moving the mouse at all) nothing happens. In 1.0x, if you click the wheel and scroll, it scrolls normally.
Everything else is just similar/better enough for me to deal with it, but I _love_ playing with my mouse while online and taking that away from me is not cool. Anyone want to write an extension? It's probably like six lines of code... Till then I'm sticking with the old version.
Anyone actually _find_ one of these buttons yet? If so, what did you search for? I'd kinda like to try this.
I would think that that would be S(treaming)S(IMD)I(nstruction set), but I guess that was taken by "server-side includes"? Argh, the acronym wars never end!
...but I think I heard a story about this on NPR like six months ago. Nice to see jobs coming back over here, even if they're not in Silicon Valley. Too many times have I spent an hour more than I needed to on the phone with "Dave" from Billing to cancel my hosting account/RMA my printer/troubleshoot a Dell motherboard because of language problems.
I've had experiences in the past with Kontiki, they used to distribute early early Adult Swim clips in a similar fashion. The files were 320x240 RealPlayer videos. I forget the bitrate but the audio was between 24 and 64kbps so that should give you an idea what the video was like.
Of course, that was 2001, and times have changed. We'll have to wait and see what they're using now.
Eh, we've got free Wi-Fi already in New Jersey. Too many stupid rich people with open access points... walk around Fort Lee or Alpine with a PDA and you'll see what I mean. I would love to see free Wi-Fi in Hudson County (the densest county in the country) though. Not only 'cause I'm from there either... a lot of people can't afford monthly cable or DSL. A one-time $30 charge for a USB adapter is easier to stomach for families in HC than $500 a year for wireline broadband.
I guess your newspaper doesn't carry Pearls Before Swine, then.
It's a really really great new comic with a wicked sense of humor and wide age-appeal. Could be the savior of the whole newspaper comic business.
Posts view (with all the files neatly organized, NFO'd and such) is hand-edited... but Files view, to my knowledge, is not. Files view is a bit messy, though, so as far as usability goes Guba may win. I love newzBin to death anyway.
But I'd still want the option to view a .mobi site on a real computer.
The way WAP is set up, I can't do that without an emulator. I've always been curious about how WAP looked on a non-phone.
It'd be great if we could have one of these for the "real" internet.
Like a .css for all those trendy sites that are XHTML 2.0 and CSS 4 compliant... in 2005... You know the ones. Those kinds of designers would go for forced standards.
WTF? I just bought an Aspire 500W power supply for a buck less than that Seasonic one... it's cool-looking and stable... and provides 170W more power. Oh well, to each his own.
I love being in an industry where we ask questions like "Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?". Really, I do. Like, guys that work at McDonalds or whatever, they have to worry about feeding their families... but us IT guys worry about how small our raises are compared to last year's...
But honestly, I could be doing better. $35/hr as a consultant is... well it's okay... but I want to make more. Dammit, why can't it be 1995 again?
...you read that as "Microsoft May Become Major Opponent of Pants". Finally, I can side with them on something.