I think the winning design has more going for it than that meets the eye. We have to wait until we see it in action. Here are some more (i am assuming not final) previews of logged in, articles, comments thread and such in Alex's design.
http://slashdot.macbert.com/
Congratulations Alex and Peter!
The submitter's summary appears skewed and 'flamebaity' quoting CNN's monikers (really, did anyone think linus would agree with that?) especially in comparison to the summary (quote) on digg which was more interesting and correct:
"A lot of the core people just feel excited about the technology. And that's why a lot of people just start... At least from the developers' standpoint, nobody does it because they hate Microsoft. None of the people I work with do it for that reason. They do it because they love doing what they do."
i like the way linus handles the microsoft question too, saying the whole anti microsoft thing is played for more than it really is. Amen to that.
oh how did they miss The Core, internationally popular as the worst sci-fi movie ever? not content with violating several laws of physics, geology and thermodynamics and pure commonsense, this movie had to take a stab at the internet/computers as well. US govt hires master hacker 'Rat' (who nonchalantly unlocks the hero's cellphone for lifetime free minutes by blowing thru a chewing gum foil) to 'control the internet' by 'hacking the planet' and regulating the flow of information! and how can we forget the ending where he connects to the internet and sends (spams) ALL users of internet with an email glorifying the deeds of Virgil's unsung heroes?!
The clear difference between 30boxes and most other calendars - including google calendar, kiko, calendarhub etc is Minimal Clutter. for once, there's an application that's more spartan in UI than google - and functionality is not sacrificed for brevity here - 30boxes has enough options to make it a very easy-and-intuitive-to-use calendar. it may not be as easily integrable as others (yet) but for a calendar that's supposed to be a calendar, it's a very good fit.
Kiko is the only other app that's pretty good from this perspective - it has options to turn off the sidebars and such making it configurable to avoid clutter.
Yahoo's answers service is very neat - large community, quick replies and decent indexing. it's, AFAIK, the model solution for social search where you can ask arbitrary questions with no efficient formatting and still get results (if not a definitive answer) - because, let's face it, software (search engines) hasn't evolved to the level of understanding that a human has.
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dammit i wasted 2 mod points down the drain yesterday - i wish i had them now!! 30boxes is really useful - its neat to read, simple to edit, and most important - resembles our paper desktop calendars making it very intuitive to use. if you are looking for a direct, no-strings-attached solution to a calendar, 30boxes is the way to go.
i wish they had an offline version for desktop. install it on the local machine, probably running in the background but can be pulled up in a click to quickly add/check/edit an event. no browsers, internet connectivity, logging in etc. takes care of the security issues as well. and oh, maybe put in a single button that will sync your calendar with your online account with one click so you can access your calendar from anywhere else if you have to.
It appears that the submission, as well as many of the comments here, consider NPR as the victim of free podcasting. NPR is not a direct victim of podcasts - it is the affiliate stations that suffer because of the lack of listeners. these stations pay (buy) programs from NPR and air them in their areas and thus need revenue to run - unlike NPR, which receives money from sponsors and the same affiliates to produce their shows. podcasting robs the local stations of their listeners (and thus, donors), which would affect NPR ultimately - but the direct effect is on the affiliates.
and for people who suggest putting an ad in the podcast and consider themselves smart, think! the fundraising marathons are not for NPR - it's the local stations!! while there's only one given episode of 'wait wait don't tell me' podcast for any one in the US, there are 292 affiliates airing it all over the country with their own advertising. it isn't an easy task to personalize/localize the episode for each podcast listener.
even if they did come up with a fee/subscription scheme for podcast, to whom should the money go? if it is NPR then the affiliates are still losing.
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heh, i had the same idea and am almost done turning in my copyright application for 'OS XI'. (and i am also grabbing 'OS 11', in case you are starting to get any funky ideas now...)
What is the difference to other web hosters? Google Pages lets you create your site online, but it has neither MySQL, PHP, nor FTP support. You see its NO replacement for a common web hosting service, but it is almost PERFECT for users who want to publish their last holiday photos or theirselves. They need no knowledge about web hosting and HTML developing.
Of course FTP is important for professional webmasters, but private users dont need FTP or MySQL. They need an good but easy web hosting solution.
umm...not to sound like an orkut evangelist, but the site has improved quite considerably since then (I stopped using it for an year when it was really bad but now i see it's got better). it still throws up the "bad, bad server, no donut for you" error, but less frequently now - and there's some amount of spam control now, although it's almost impossible to emulsify 14 million users content (and that's just the ppl i'm connected to, don't know the actual strength).
this site's the hobby of a google employee (orkut buyokkoten) that google encourages, and not exactly the product of google labs so maybe that's why its not google quality - it's not a great site, just shows that google has something running in this direction as well!
Google has its own pet project - the social networking site orkut, which has at least 14 million users which has been in beta for almost 3 years now...this appears to be in line with Eric's comments about the user-generated content web idea.
...taking it one step further, let every episode be half about luke and half about leia.
let the story of luke and his lackadaisical days on tatooine be along the lines of umm..seinfeld, with him and a few of his buddies sitting and moping around, while that of leia and her skirmishes with the empire be of a more 'Xena - warrior princess' nature.
Han and Vader will have guest episodes to spike up the ratings once in a while...
...and as the series comes to an end we see the two parallel tracks converging on EP4. ah...if only i had lucas's email ID...
should they delay ubuntu 6.04 (dapper) a couple of weeks more and try to squeeze in the 2.6.16? last i know dapper rides on 2.6.15.8 so it would probably be worth it if they stretched the release date a little bit more to bring out an Ubuntu on par with the coming SuSe and Red Hat releases (which are going to have 2.6.16).
Phil Harrison, President of SONY computer entertainment is going to deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Game Developers' Conference on March 22, titled "PS3: beyond the box"...let's hope this will probably end the silence on the console, apart from the rumored announcement on the 15th.
hmm...i thought spirit and opportunity landed on (diametrically) opposite faces of mars...looks like longitudinally they just landed 10 degrees apart (something like new york-boston on mars scale)...
So, as long as Apple has included a Compatibility Support Module, Intel-based Macs should be able to boot XP. It seems unlikely that Apple would have left this out. It has already said it isn't doing anything to prevent Windows from booting on a Mac.
hmm...so how much would (or did?) Microsoft pay Apple secretly to include CSM? i can see either party initialising an off-record deal, because it's mutually beneficial (it's much easier to imagine the business-driven dispassionate Gates proffering, and a little hard to imagine Jobs trying to use CSM as a leverage with MS, but that's me). or is it sheer philanthropy on Jobs' part to not cash in on such an excellent opportunity?
hmm...considering that Page made a weird (officially recorded as 'bizarre') plea during his keynote about the lack of standards today, about plugs and cables and whatnot - it seems interesting that they are setting their own DRM standard now, with their own player. so now we are going to have iTunes, WMP and Gplayer on our systems and have to use each accordingly?
honestly a steve jobs' show is as exciting as an episode of Desperate Housewives (though no cleavage is involved) - it's not the dull drone of a corporate talk. it's quite fun to watch and i regularly watch all of his addresses - can't wait for his MacExpo keynote! no wonder a lot of work goes into it - who can forget the priceless moment where he pulled out the ipod nano out of his coin pocket in his jeans!that's good stuff...
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I think the winning design has more going for it than that meets the eye. We have to wait until we see it in action. Here are some more (i am assuming not final) previews of logged in, articles, comments thread and such in Alex's design. http://slashdot.macbert.com/ Congratulations Alex and Peter!
i like the way linus handles the microsoft question too, saying the whole anti microsoft thing is played for more than it really is. Amen to that.
well they could start with providing the mozilla-firefox java plugin for amd64 systems on linux...libjavaplugin.so, anyone?
oh how did they miss The Core, internationally popular as the worst sci-fi movie ever? not content with violating several laws of physics, geology and thermodynamics and pure commonsense, this movie had to take a stab at the internet/computers as well. US govt hires master hacker 'Rat' (who nonchalantly unlocks the hero's cellphone for lifetime free minutes by blowing thru a chewing gum foil) to 'control the internet' by 'hacking the planet' and regulating the flow of information! and how can we forget the ending where he connects to the internet and sends (spams) ALL users of internet with an email glorifying the deeds of Virgil's unsung heroes?!
Kiko is the only other app that's pretty good from this perspective - it has options to turn off the sidebars and such making it configurable to avoid clutter.
Yahoo's answers service is very neat - large community, quick replies and decent indexing. it's, AFAIK, the model solution for social search where you can ask arbitrary questions with no efficient formatting and still get results (if not a definitive answer) - because, let's face it, software (search engines) hasn't evolved to the level of understanding that a human has.
dammit i wasted 2 mod points down the drain yesterday - i wish i had them now!! 30boxes is really useful - its neat to read, simple to edit, and most important - resembles our paper desktop calendars making it very intuitive to use. if you are looking for a direct, no-strings-attached solution to a calendar, 30boxes is the way to go.
i wish they had an offline version for desktop. install it on the local machine, probably running in the background but can be pulled up in a click to quickly add/check/edit an event. no browsers, internet connectivity, logging in etc. takes care of the security issues as well. and oh, maybe put in a single button that will sync your calendar with your online account with one click so you can access your calendar from anywhere else if you have to.
"Brian, there's a message in my cereal! it says OOO..."
and for people who suggest putting an ad in the podcast and consider themselves smart, think! the fundraising marathons are not for NPR - it's the local stations!! while there's only one given episode of 'wait wait don't tell me' podcast for any one in the US, there are 292 affiliates airing it all over the country with their own advertising. it isn't an easy task to personalize/localize the episode for each podcast listener.
even if they did come up with a fee/subscription scheme for podcast, to whom should the money go? if it is NPR then the affiliates are still losing.
heh, i had the same idea and am almost done turning in my copyright application for 'OS XI'. (and i am also grabbing 'OS 11', in case you are starting to get any funky ideas now...)
er...maybe that's his own April Fool's joke....
What is the difference to other web hosters? Google Pages lets you create your site online, but it has neither MySQL, PHP, nor FTP support. You see its NO replacement for a common web hosting service, but it is almost PERFECT for users who want to publish their last holiday photos or theirselves. They need no knowledge about web hosting and HTML developing. Of course FTP is important for professional webmasters, but private users dont need FTP or MySQL. They need an good but easy web hosting solution.
yea but why did he think of 42, hmm? because we carry the answer in us, just as we carry the yin in us. we seek the question, that is the yang.
my head spins.
this site's the hobby of a google employee (orkut buyokkoten) that google encourages, and not exactly the product of google labs so maybe that's why its not google quality - it's not a great site, just shows that google has something running in this direction as well!
Google has its own pet project - the social networking site orkut, which has at least 14 million users which has been in beta for almost 3 years now...this appears to be in line with Eric's comments about the user-generated content web idea.
let the story of luke and his lackadaisical days on tatooine be along the lines of umm..seinfeld, with him and a few of his buddies sitting and moping around, while that of leia and her skirmishes with the empire be of a more 'Xena - warrior princess' nature.
Han and Vader will have guest episodes to spike up the ratings once in a while...
...and as the series comes to an end we see the two parallel tracks converging on EP4. ah...if only i had lucas's email ID...
er...behind closed doors - 'showing it off' to whom, exactly?
should they delay ubuntu 6.04 (dapper) a couple of weeks more and try to squeeze in the 2.6.16? last i know dapper rides on 2.6.15.8 so it would probably be worth it if they stretched the release date a little bit more to bring out an Ubuntu on par with the coming SuSe and Red Hat releases (which are going to have 2.6.16).
yea...don't you mean 'comprehensive'?
Phil Harrison, President of SONY computer entertainment is going to deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Game Developers' Conference on March 22, titled "PS3: beyond the box"...let's hope this will probably end the silence on the console, apart from the rumored announcement on the 15th.
hmm...i thought spirit and opportunity landed on (diametrically) opposite faces of mars...looks like longitudinally they just landed 10 degrees apart (something like new york-boston on mars scale)...
hmm...so how much would (or did?) Microsoft pay Apple secretly to include CSM? i can see either party initialising an off-record deal, because it's mutually beneficial (it's much easier to imagine the business-driven dispassionate Gates proffering, and a little hard to imagine Jobs trying to use CSM as a leverage with MS, but that's me). or is it sheer philanthropy on Jobs' part to not cash in on such an excellent opportunity?
hmm...considering that Page made a weird (officially recorded as 'bizarre') plea during his keynote about the lack of standards today, about plugs and cables and whatnot - it seems interesting that they are setting their own DRM standard now, with their own player. so now we are going to have iTunes, WMP and Gplayer on our systems and have to use each accordingly?
honestly a steve jobs' show is as exciting as an episode of Desperate Housewives (though no cleavage is involved) - it's not the dull drone of a corporate talk. it's quite fun to watch and i regularly watch all of his addresses - can't wait for his MacExpo keynote! no wonder a lot of work goes into it - who can forget the priceless moment where he pulled out the ipod nano out of his coin pocket in his jeans!that's good stuff...