Put some buttons on the bottom of the remote that allow users to tag each ad they see (Funny, Stupid, Dishonest, Relevant to me, Intriguing, Insightful? Nah). Then tailor the commercials each user gets based both on their own votes and the aggregate data from the entire user base, er, COMMUNITY!!. I know someone already said nobody wants their TV-viewing experience to be interactive, but I think being able to angrily squeeze a button and feel like I'm being heard would give me a greater sense of satisfaction than screaming at the TV (though I'd probably keep right on doing that).
As an added bonus, this could put the Nielsen ratings out of business.
Oh, and there needs to somehow be a WEB portion, which is the PLATFORM, which uses AJAX COLLABORATIVE MASHUP (any buzzwords I missed?)
As fascinating as all this Yahoo vs Google bickering is, it might be nice to have a discussion about the framework itself. For instance, how reliable is the Java-to-JS compiler? What are the odds that something breaks and then I can't debug it because I either don't know JavaScript or the JavaScript the compiler spit out is illegible? How do I know the Google team has anticipated all the things that I can do with AWT that I might want to do in the browser? Admittedly, I should read the documentation more thoroughly, but I still think these are good questions.
On a related note, since I've recently started programming in ASP.NET and C# (not by my own choice), does anyone care to compare GWT to Atlas?
Browsing the Atlas tutorials, I find that the examples work in Firefox, but not IE (syntax errors, mostly), which raises an interesting question: Do developers at microsoft not use IE? Seems like it's time for them to eat their own dog food
The article states that samsung missed the mark by using a touchpad instead of a wheel. Does apple have a patent on this? Regardless, I personally don't care for the thumb-wheel, as it's hard (for me, at least) to make circles with my thumb while holding the iPod with one hand. and would prefer some sort of thumb lever on the side with variable speed depending on how hard/far you push it up or down. This seems so obvious it's amazing no one has tried it yet (with music players, I've heard some smart phones/PDAs have this).
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Put some buttons on the bottom of the remote that allow users to tag each ad they see (Funny, Stupid, Dishonest, Relevant to me, Intriguing, Insightful? Nah). Then tailor the commercials each user gets based both on their own votes and the aggregate data from the entire user base, er, COMMUNITY!!. I know someone already said nobody wants their TV-viewing experience to be interactive, but I think being able to angrily squeeze a button and feel like I'm being heard would give me a greater sense of satisfaction than screaming at the TV (though I'd probably keep right on doing that). As an added bonus, this could put the Nielsen ratings out of business. Oh, and there needs to somehow be a WEB portion, which is the PLATFORM, which uses AJAX COLLABORATIVE MASHUP (any buzzwords I missed?)
As fascinating as all this Yahoo vs Google bickering is, it might be nice to have a discussion about the framework itself. For instance, how reliable is the Java-to-JS compiler? What are the odds that something breaks and then I can't debug it because I either don't know JavaScript or the JavaScript the compiler spit out is illegible? How do I know the Google team has anticipated all the things that I can do with AWT that I might want to do in the browser? Admittedly, I should read the documentation more thoroughly, but I still think these are good questions.
On a related note, since I've recently started programming in ASP.NET and C# (not by my own choice), does anyone care to compare GWT to Atlas?
Browsing the Atlas tutorials, I find that the examples work in Firefox, but not IE (syntax errors, mostly), which raises an interesting question: Do developers at microsoft not use IE? Seems like it's time for them to eat their own dog food
The article states that samsung missed the mark by using a touchpad instead of a wheel. Does apple have a patent on this? Regardless, I personally don't care for the thumb-wheel, as it's hard (for me, at least) to make circles with my thumb while holding the iPod with one hand. and would prefer some sort of thumb lever on the side with variable speed depending on how hard/far you push it up or down. This seems so obvious it's amazing no one has tried it yet (with music players, I've heard some smart phones/PDAs have this).
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This Annie person ought to be fired, IMO.
Your male co-workers might just be more polite because of sexual-harassment laws; they may still be just as immature as ever.
To get google's attention and interest?