Aha, good question! In-browser bookmark managers suck. Try Simpy (see my sig), and all your bookmark, folder, hierarchies and other troubles will be history!
And talking about screen shots, note Screenshot #1 - http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/screenshots/ shot-1.png
The release date there is 2004-01-XX, while the current home page of the project has 2004-06-28 as the release date. Did they mis-estimate their progress by 5-6 months? Good thing it's not a commercial project!:)
Are people really buying this?? I am usually optimistic, but I find this hard to believe. Google is in the pre-IPO mode, #1 search company with Microsoft on its heals, and so on. Who in the right mind would provide information about their business, let alone anything concrete? If you read interviews with Google's C*O people, you will not that they always avoid answering questions like "How many servers does Google really have? 10K, 100K, or more?". Nobody has ever answered that simple and seemingly benign question, so why would they now reveal what makes them number one? My guess would be that this is another elegant marketing trick playing the good guy (e.g. no ad banner, no sponsored links (I'm talking early Google), no evil software campaign, then the generous 1GB mail, etc.) in every possible geek (read: early adopters/thought leaders) facet.
I've received several Gmail invitations, and can confirm that they do not automatically end up in Yahoo's Bulk folder. Of course, this may not be true for everyone.
As a side note - Gmail invitations are being offered in bulk now, and Alexa shows it.
It works well for me. What is more, and this may be good to point out to other Thunderbird users, this release finally fixed a bug with accessing IMAP over SSL. Before, Thunderbird would start to hang after a few (e.g. 10-ish) minutes of inactivity, and the only solution would be to quit and re-start. This version fixed that issued.
Another issue (with all previous releases - I used them all) was with saving outgoing mail to the 'Sent' folder. It worked only half the time or less. This version sends email faster and always saves to Sent folder successfully.
To those using 0.6 or older, suggestion - upgrade.
Heh, that's funny. But all joking aside, I think Mozilla really is starting to get the market share back. Here are some numbers from the site in my signature:
Different browsers listed 9 Unknown 59552 (48.4%) Explorer 30143 (24.5%) Mozilla 24622 (20.0%) Safari 4330 (3.5%) GoogleBot 2941 (2.4%) Opera 1351 (1.1%)
The 'Unknown' number corresponds to web crawlers, and especially the crazy MSN bot. Admitedly, the site whose stats these are is for power Internet users, so it doesn't represent an average web site well, but I think that is where trend setting comes from...
"Only in such a sick culture could the terms of a contract take precedence over common courtesy. It would've cost him so much to give people a couple of days to get their shit in order?"
You can also look at TOS vs. common courtesy the other way around: No matter what the TOS said, if you are/were getting free service, and this service is provided by an individual whose circumstances have changed and are outside his control, use your common courtesy and accept that your blog is now gone.
Like other have said: 1. if your blog is so important, why didn't you back it up? 2. why trust an individual (or a company) with your precious data and trust them with the only copy of your data
I would argue that the most valuable resources that SourceForge offers are projects' CVS repositories. Those repositories are, by their very nature, typically distributed around the globe by virtue of people having their copies on their local computers.
So, SF can disappear tomorrow, without any notice, and its core value would be preserved, ready to re-incarnate on the next SF-like service.
I sure hope Aubrey de Grey took the time to also engineer a new planet, or some other place for me to move to when I'm in my Yoda-years. I hate crowded planets.
And I'm wondering how sticking electronic devices inside the iceberg affects their immediate surrounding, and how that affects their reports. All electronic devices that I know of, even LEDs, emit heat...
I kind of agree with this. Examples given are all web applications. Web applications tend to be easier to deploy (hm...do they?) than desktop apps, so new releases are pushed to live sites more frequently. Even if changes are small, there is always a change some forgotten bit got changed, and the whole service suffers. Hence, the beta is permanent, since releases are continous.
I see plugins as somewhat similar to programming languages with late bindings, which tends to allow more flexibility. Everything you build into th core a priori ends up making the final output less flexible.
Give people bricks and let them build their own house exactly how they want it.
And since this is about plugins for Firefox, here is one for Simpy (social bookmark manager and personal search engine tool): <plugin> Simpy search plugin </plugin>
No, seriously, I think the granddaughter is correct. I, for example, started using Google only because it spelled similar to Googol - my favourite number ever! Better than #7, even!
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Something like CIA and CIB in the U.S.?;)
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Yeah, new Blogger users are not getting GMail invitations, but check Blogger traffic numbers, which show the Google / GMail / Invitation effect, a la Orkut.
Is there no search functionality?? I didn't see any in the screenshots:(
Where is that email about X? I think Y sent it around Z days ago....but I'm not sure, so I can't look at any of those filter by thread (X), sender (Y), nor time (Z)..... where is that search field?
This is simple. The cutting edge is in the academia. With time, that cutting edge moves to the industry realm. In parallel, the academia moves and stays ahead.
Consider Google. What is one of the things they take pride in, and one of the things that makes Google so good? Its people. Who are its people? A large percentage of Doctors (PhDs). That's academia that moving to industry.
Hm, and I thought kilometers per hour should be written as 'kmh'.... or at least that is what I was tought in my 'metric school'. Did things change in the past 1-2 decades?
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I've had it with Firefox! I'm switching to IE 7!
Yeah, that is why we love IE. Oh, and I'm a big nature and insect lover, so I also love IE for its bugs.
Aha, good question! In-browser bookmark managers suck. Try Simpy (see my sig), and all your bookmark, folder, hierarchies and other troubles will be history!
And talking about screen shots, note Screenshot #1 - http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/screenshots/ shot-1.png
:)
The release date there is 2004-01-XX, while the current home page of the project has 2004-06-28 as the release date. Did they mis-estimate their progress by 5-6 months? Good thing it's not a commercial project!
Are people really buying this??
I am usually optimistic, but I find this hard to believe. Google is in the pre-IPO mode, #1 search company with Microsoft on its heals, and so on. Who in the right mind would provide information about their business, let alone anything concrete? If you read interviews with Google's C*O people, you will not that they always avoid answering questions like "How many servers does Google really have? 10K, 100K, or more?". Nobody has ever answered that simple and seemingly benign question, so why would they now reveal what makes them number one?
My guess would be that this is another elegant marketing trick playing the good guy (e.g. no ad banner, no sponsored links (I'm talking early Google), no evil software campaign, then the generous 1GB mail, etc.) in every possible geek (read: early adopters/thought leaders) facet.
I've received several Gmail invitations, and can confirm that they do not automatically end up in Yahoo's Bulk folder. Of course, this may not be true for everyone.
As a side note - Gmail invitations are being offered in bulk now, and Alexa shows it.
It works well for me.
What is more, and this may be good to point out to other Thunderbird users, this release finally fixed a bug with accessing IMAP over SSL. Before, Thunderbird would start to hang after a few (e.g. 10-ish) minutes of inactivity, and the only solution would be to quit and re-start. This version fixed that issued.
Another issue (with all previous releases - I used them all) was with saving outgoing mail to the 'Sent' folder. It worked only half the time or less. This version sends email faster and always saves to Sent folder successfully.
To those using 0.6 or older, suggestion - upgrade.
Heh, that's funny. But all joking aside, I think
Mozilla really is starting to get the market share back. Here are some numbers from the site in my signature:
Different browsers listed 9
Unknown 59552 (48.4%)
Explorer 30143 (24.5%)
Mozilla 24622 (20.0%)
Safari 4330 (3.5%)
GoogleBot 2941 (2.4%)
Opera 1351 (1.1%)
The 'Unknown' number corresponds to web crawlers, and especially the crazy MSN bot. Admitedly, the site whose stats these are is for power Internet users, so it doesn't represent an average web site well, but I think that is where trend setting comes from...
"Only in such a sick culture could the terms of a contract take precedence over common courtesy. It would've cost him so much to give people a couple of days to get their shit in order?"
You can also look at TOS vs. common courtesy the other way around:
No matter what the TOS said, if you are/were getting free service, and this service is provided by an individual whose circumstances have changed and are outside his control, use your common courtesy and accept that your blog is now gone.
Like other have said:
1. if your blog is so important, why didn't you back it up?
2. why trust an individual (or a company) with your precious data and trust them with the only copy of your data
I would argue that the most valuable resources that SourceForge offers are projects' CVS repositories. Those repositories are, by their very nature, typically distributed around the globe by virtue of people having their copies on their local computers.
So, SF can disappear tomorrow, without any notice, and its core value would be preserved, ready to re-incarnate on the next SF-like service.
I sure hope Aubrey de Grey took the time to also engineer a new planet, or some other place for me to move to when I'm in my Yoda-years. I hate crowded planets.
And I'm wondering how sticking electronic devices inside the iceberg affects their immediate surrounding, and how that affects their reports. All electronic devices that I know of, even LEDs, emit heat...
I kind of agree with this. Examples given are all web applications. Web applications tend to be easier to deploy (hm...do they?) than desktop apps, so new releases are pushed to live sites more frequently. Even if changes are small, there is always a change some forgotten bit got changed, and the whole service suffers. Hence, the beta is permanent, since releases are continous.
:)
heh, my Simpy (sig) is in..... BETA, too
It seems like nowadays everyone is trying so hard to be the next Jules Verne in their domain. How annoying. Why do people do this?
I see plugins as somewhat similar to programming languages with late bindings, which tends to allow more flexibility. Everything you build into th core a priori ends up making the final output less flexible.
Give people bricks and let them build their own house exactly how they want it.
And since this is about plugins for Firefox, here is one for Simpy (social bookmark manager and personal search engine tool):
<plugin>
Simpy search plugin
</plugin>
No he isn't - he's not having an IPO, so there is no point in milking him.
No, seriously, I think the granddaughter is correct. I, for example, started using Google only because it spelled similar to Googol - my favourite number ever! Better than #7, even!
Something like CIA and CIB in the U.S.? ;)
Q is alive! Q is alive!
Regards,
Moneypenny
This guy must be kidding. Who in the right mind would make such a generalization?
Personally, I'd be happy if the voice quality from cell phones first matched that of wired phones.
What good is Wi-fi-able cell phone, when even with a regular cell phone I sometimes cannot understand the person on the other side?
Yeah, new Blogger users are not getting GMail invitations, but check Blogger traffic numbers, which show the Google / GMail / Invitation effect, a la Orkut.
Is there no search functionality?? :(
I didn't see any in the screenshots
Where is that email about X? I think Y sent it around Z days ago....but I'm not sure, so I can't look at any of those filter by thread (X), sender (Y), nor time (Z)..... where is that search field?
This is simple.
The cutting edge is in the academia. With time, that cutting edge moves to the industry realm. In parallel, the academia moves and stays ahead.
Consider Google. What is one of the things they take pride in, and one of the things that makes Google so good? Its people. Who are its people? A large percentage of Doctors (PhDs). That's academia that moving to industry.
Hm, and I thought kilometers per hour should be written as 'kmh'.... or at least that is what I was tought in my 'metric school'. Did things change in the past 1-2 decades?