I was a regular/. reader until a year or so ago when the sexy young Digg came along. I converted for a bit but eventually I returned home. Digg has several flaws.
1-No editors. It is supposed to be a feature but have you seen the quality of half the stories that make the front page. Say what you like about Zonk, etc but their stories are normally relevant/interesting.
2-The comment system. A comment with one level of reply. That doesn't work on just soooo many levels.
3-The quality of comment is no where near as interesting as here on/. I think not having AC has a lot to do with it.
4-When has democracy ever really worked? Lets face it, CmdrTaco is a benign dictator and I can live with that.
I don't want 256K recordings. I would probably pay the extra for a 128K mp3 file over a 256K AAC file. Talk about halving the size of your iPod in one foul swoop.
Most programs on telly that mention Web 2.0 think it means "Social Networking". I think that's because the main sites that jumped on the AJAX bandwaggon were the social ones.
Security wise, I would think that the more you shift the application to the browser the more you make it open to hacking. Talk about public APIs.
The standard FF like the standard OO both look like something running on a Windows 3.1 machine. Whats the point of a nice sleek MacBook if your main app is so clunky and out of place. They should branch the FF code like NeoOffice have done and stick a decent OSX UI round it.
I suppose while CPUs are becoming faster the things that we want to zip are becoming larger. I thik the average time spent zipping things up has stayed the same over the years and its just the.zip files that have grown bigger.
With CPUs these days is there any reason not to default to max compression?
I think you'll find most ISPs are in it for the money rather than some some urge to promote freedom of expression. How do you make a website stop doing something illegal? I think Pirate Bay have shown that asking them nicely doesn't work. Even busting their ass'es hasn't had much effect.
Lets face it, there are good ISPs and bad ISPs. By that i mean that some will host anything (legal or not) as long as the money is right. How do you put the bad ones out of business? Lets see, self regulation? Hmm.. that always works. Once ISP X has been busted a couple of times all their legitimate users will go to someone a bit mor reputable/reliable.
I suspect though it will just drive the dodgy providers to some other country where no one can touch them.
Record players are ok but you only usually hear them through a hi fi. Since I stuck most of my music on my iPod I am more likely to listen to it through headphones. Listening through phones (not the standard buds) will bring out more detail than any amp will. The amount of detail that I have noticed on albums I have lived with for 15 years is amazing.
I don't know about you but I certainly work in a paperless office. All communication is done by e-mail or phone. All documentation is on the intranet which I can access at the office or at home. I might occasionally print out a cryptic bit of code I can't get my head round but otherwise my printer is switched off.
I haven't RTFA but isn't this getting into Planet of the Apes/I Robot territory? Next you will be saying that the clone of myself that I'm growing in a test tube for spare parts should have some sort of rights.
Its all very subjective. I got a Intel MacBook when they came out and I don't find it anywhere near as stable as XP. Hardly ever had a BSOD while iTunes can't import a dozen CDs without the CD drive freezing. Thats just my experience though.
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with a $3,000,000 diamond business? He deserves to be in Google hell for that alone.
/goes to sit in the corner wondering what he did with his life/
1-No editors. It is supposed to be a feature but have you seen the quality of half the stories that make the front page. Say what you like about Zonk, etc but their stories are normally relevant/interesting.
2-The comment system. A comment with one level of reply. That doesn't work on just soooo many levels.
3-The quality of comment is no where near as interesting as here on /. I think not having AC has a lot to do with it.
4-When has democracy ever really worked? Lets face it, CmdrTaco is a benign dictator and I can live with that.
I don't want 256K recordings. I would probably pay the extra for a 128K mp3 file over a 256K AAC file. Talk about halving the size of your iPod in one foul swoop.
Most programs on telly that mention Web 2.0 think it means "Social Networking". I think that's because the main sites that jumped on the AJAX bandwaggon were the social ones. Security wise, I would think that the more you shift the application to the browser the more you make it open to hacking. Talk about public APIs.
the internet grind to a halt as the entire output archive of the BBC crashes onto the P2P networks. Old episodes of East Enders anyone?
But why can't Camino use FF plug-ins? Without the plug-ins its just another browser. They should at least share that much of a code base.
The standard FF like the standard OO both look like something running on a Windows 3.1 machine. Whats the point of a nice sleek MacBook if your main app is so clunky and out of place. They should branch the FF code like NeoOffice have done and stick a decent OSX UI round it.
So that why they haven't implemented this yet. I knew there must be a reason.
I suppose while CPUs are becoming faster the things that we want to zip are becoming larger. I thik the average time spent zipping things up has stayed the same over the years and its just the .zip files that have grown bigger.
With CPUs these days is there any reason not to default to max compression?
I think you will find that Travis Bickle showed similar tendencies in the film Taxi Driver. And that came out how many years before the game Doom?
I think you'll find most ISPs are in it for the money rather than some some urge to promote freedom of expression. How do you make a website stop doing something illegal? I think Pirate Bay have shown that asking them nicely doesn't work. Even busting their ass'es hasn't had much effect.
Lets face it, there are good ISPs and bad ISPs. By that i mean that some will host anything (legal or not) as long as the money is right. How do you put the bad ones out of business? Lets see, self regulation? Hmm .. that always works. Once ISP X has been busted a couple of times all their legitimate users will go to someone a bit mor reputable/reliable.
I suspect though it will just drive the dodgy providers to some other country where no one can touch them.
Amen. I gave up buying sony gear years ago. Its expensive and the extra money hasn't necessarily gone on quality control.
Record players are ok but you only usually hear them through a hi fi. Since I stuck most of my music on my iPod I am more likely to listen to it through headphones. Listening through phones (not the standard buds) will bring out more detail than any amp will. The amount of detail that I have noticed on albums I have lived with for 15 years is amazing.
Good idea, if it wasn't for the fact that the legitimate uses for all these things far outweigh the trouble they cause.
I don't know about you but I certainly work in a paperless office. All communication is done by e-mail or phone. All documentation is on the intranet which I can access at the office or at home. I might occasionally print out a cryptic bit of code I can't get my head round but otherwise my printer is switched off.
that would be some sort of freak of nature. I wouldn't eat it.
I haven't RTFA but isn't this getting into Planet of the Apes/I Robot territory? Next you will be saying that the clone of myself that I'm growing in a test tube for spare parts should have some sort of rights.
Only the Bonobo chimps are into that sort of thing.
Then surely Alien and Terminator are just genre thrillers and Back to the Future is a teen comedy.
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I am personally looking forward to being able to use PhotoShop on my iPhone when it eventually comes out and has been hacked to death.
There would be some lame "Kevin Rose is Steve Jobs bitch" comment about now. But it isn't and there isn't.
Whoops, wrong site.
Its all very subjective. I got a Intel MacBook when they came out and I don't find it anywhere near as stable as XP. Hardly ever had a BSOD while iTunes can't import a dozen CDs without the CD drive freezing. Thats just my experience though.