I could be mistaken on the little details, but I believe that "Expunge" is used with IMAP accounts. With IMAP, you can mark messages as deleted, but they won't actually be deleted from the folder until they are expunged.
The interviewer definitely didn't know what he was talking about...
But if you give Andreesen the benefit of the doubt, you can read Andreesen's response as a rhetorical question. That is, I think he was ignoring the (mistaken) open source aspect of the question, and simply dismissing the interviewer's question as irrelevant because no browser has a share of the market that can touch Microsoft's share. He seemed pretty focused on that point.
Or, yes, maybe he really isn't paying attention to the browser alternatives out there and is no longer in a position to say anything authoritative. That's certainly a valid reading of his remarks. I don't know. I was rather disappointed in the interview's brevity and lack of depth.
That's what folks always say when comparing PCs to consoles, and it's certainly not untrue. The beauty of any current console, though, is that in one year, I'll still be able to enjoy brand new games made for that console, with the knowledge that the games are running exactly as intended. This is unfortunately not always the case with a PC.
I agree with you absolutely. Origin was definitely pushing hardware to the limits with its games of the early 90s, annoyingly so if you ask me. Whereas Wing Commander ran comfortably on my 386-33, just a couple years later I'd end up needing a 486-66 to play Strike Commander, Privateer, and System Shock. A couple years after that, Ultima Online was about to be released, and my PC was again useless.
The constant need to upgrade to enjoy the latest games just seems like a fact of geek life now. Thank you for reminding me of whom to blame for all this.
I agree that the sound quality difference is either imaginary or negligible. However, I still prefer vinyl. I talked about this at great and tedious length in another post, so I won't rehash that, but suffice it to say that there are purely aesthetic reasons that make listening to vinyl records a more pleasurable experience. Some people, however, are more practical and prefer CDs. That's fine, but remember that you're paying a premium for CDs, which are extremely overpriced. All in all, I'm pretty happy in a world where I can buy either vinyl or CD, depending on my particular needs.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a network security expert, but I gave LeakTest a go, and as far as I can tell, all it does is make an outbound connection to grc.com on port 80. What exactly would that prove?
I'm too much of a SW fan to watch the movies objectively, but I know plenty of people who hated Episode II, and it seems perfectly reasonable for them to have an opinion that differs from mine. I certainly don't feel threatened or defensive about it.
I don't think I'd let other movies get away with treacle like this: "I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Everything here is smooth."
Meanwhile, Katz reviewed a movie today that you might actually like if you can drop your cynicism for an hour or two.
You're correct, of course, about the available content being a function of the users and not the service. I just hope I know where to find all the Audiogalaxy users when the service goes away!
This has been a long time coming, I suppose; it made no sense to watch Napster fail, when Audiogalaxy was doing the same thing, only better.
I have to say that I'm sad about it. Even with the spyware (easily removed with certain utilities, though odious in principle), Audiogalaxy was my favorite file sharing service. The widest and deepest variety of songs could be found on Audiogalaxy -- both new bands and old bands that I had always wanted to hear. I could never find non-mainstream bands like Tear It Up, Scarlet's Well, Jellyroll Rockheads, and the Eastside Suicides (if you've never heard of these bands, that's my point) on services like Kazaa and Morpheus, but Audiogalaxy had nearly everything. And maybe this sounds like a cliche at this point, but, speaking as a music fan, when I find an MP3 that I like, my next step is almost always to purchase the record.
If Audiogalaxy is shut down, the net result will probably be that I and many other music fans will buy less, not more. Not that the major record labels will mind, because I stopped buying their dreck a long time ago.
To be honest, I don't think the Drafthouse has ever billed itself as a "cyber-theater," and if they (rather than local geek groups) have promoted their wireless access point, I haven't noticed. The linked article contains statements by an Austin wireless networking user group, not by the theater. And I really don't understand why people would even want to use a computer in a theater. The reasons listed in the article were far from compelling. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply watch the movie?
As a sometime patron of the Alamo Drafthouse, I can assure you that cellphones and the like are noticed over the commotion of the eating, drinking, and laughing. The impulse to murder moveigoers with ringing cellphones does not vanish just because the theater has waiters. If anything, the impulse only becomes stronger, because small, independent theaters like the Drafthouse create the expectation that the moviegoers are there to have fun and watch the film in a pleasant social atmosphere, and won't have to put up with the same rude shit they face at the anonymous suburban 5-screen megaplexes.
God, for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would want to diddle around with a PC or a PDA while watching a movie.
I don't understand why the parent post was modded down as flamebait -- the gripes seem perfectly legitimate, if perhaps premature. The previous themes.org design was clunky but pretty, and the one before that was nice. I have nothing against the freshmeat interface and I'm not saying that I dislike it, but I agree that it's a bit dull in comparison.
Moderators, please do not mod something down just because you disagree with it.
As another poster mentioned, SOAP, XML-RPC, et al are not much different than using HTTP POST to pass messages to a CGI program. In fact, as far as I can tell, that is what they are. The only difference is that with web services, the messages are formatted as XML. So don't we already have a problem?
Maybe there's something crucial that I'm missing; I have not worked extensively with any of this shiny new web services stuff myself.
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Yeah, but how timing-dependent is any of the information in the article? Also consider that the editors may have been saving this article for a slow day. In any case, I don't find the relative datedness of the article to be terribly troubling.
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SOAP isn't any different from CGI. I'm posting this message in a web browser, and it is going to port 80. The horror!
somebody either mod this up, or tell me why it's wrong, because it makes sense to me.
I completely agree. I have a weekend subscription to the New York Times, and I can't tell you how many times they've double posted articles on the same tired topics: the Mideast conflict, the bad economy, boring art, police brutality, etc. I've already read about each of these issues at least once! Man, it's almost as if news, or history even, has a way of repeating itself!
I don't know for sure, but is it really accurate to say that the Sun usability team that is working on GNOME created CDE? Sun created CDE, but I don't know if I would say more than that.
Platonism vs. postmodernism, eh? I am inclined to agree with you (though I see both sides of the issue). Mac OS X and Windows XP discourage UI customization, but that doesn' mean that people don't go to great lengths to skin and modify their UIs anyway. I understand the desire for a perfect UI, and I certainly agree with the desire for a near-perfect default UI. However, I find the idea of a non-customizable interface insulting and alarming. This presumes that users are stupid and don't know what they want. Sometimes this is true. Sometimes this isn't. Why punish the entire class just because one kid was acting up?
Regarding the issue of too many preferences, I will say that the problem of complexity and testing rings true for me. On the other hand, raise your hand if you love tweaking application preferences, and the sometimes-false but reassuring feeling of control that doing so gives you? If you know what I'm talking about, you must be a geek. I really don't see the problem with dumping geek prefs into an "Advanced" bucket that the ordinary user will perhaps never see. Microsoft was probably on to something with the Windows XP control panel, where it is now a royal pain in the ass to get to certain settings. The average user never has to see advanced settings, but they're in there somewhere if you are determined to tweak the OS.
Actually this does not sound at all like an issue that should've been caught in user testing. There is no magic to software testing, and it's a thoughtless misconception to think that "good" software testers will catch every conceivable issue. Software testing catches what the software testers are looking for. Any other issues have to be fairly obvious to be caught, in most cases.
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I could be mistaken on the little details, but I believe that "Expunge" is used with IMAP accounts. With IMAP, you can mark messages as deleted, but they won't actually be deleted from the folder until they are expunged.
The interviewer definitely didn't know what he was talking about...
But if you give Andreesen the benefit of the doubt, you can read Andreesen's response as a rhetorical question. That is, I think he was ignoring the (mistaken) open source aspect of the question, and simply dismissing the interviewer's question as irrelevant because no browser has a share of the market that can touch Microsoft's share. He seemed pretty focused on that point.
Or, yes, maybe he really isn't paying attention to the browser alternatives out there and is no longer in a position to say anything authoritative. That's certainly a valid reading of his remarks. I don't know. I was rather disappointed in the interview's brevity and lack of depth.
That's what folks always say when comparing PCs to consoles, and it's certainly not untrue. The beauty of any current console, though, is that in one year, I'll still be able to enjoy brand new games made for that console, with the knowledge that the games are running exactly as intended. This is unfortunately not always the case with a PC.
I agree with you absolutely. Origin was definitely pushing hardware to the limits with its games of the early 90s, annoyingly so if you ask me. Whereas Wing Commander ran comfortably on my 386-33, just a couple years later I'd end up needing a 486-66 to play Strike Commander, Privateer, and System Shock. A couple years after that, Ultima Online was about to be released, and my PC was again useless.
The constant need to upgrade to enjoy the latest games just seems like a fact of geek life now. Thank you for reminding me of whom to blame for all this.
I agree that the sound quality difference is either imaginary or negligible. However, I still prefer vinyl. I talked about this at great and tedious length in another post, so I won't rehash that, but suffice it to say that there are purely aesthetic reasons that make listening to vinyl records a more pleasurable experience. Some people, however, are more practical and prefer CDs. That's fine, but remember that you're paying a premium for CDs, which are extremely overpriced. All in all, I'm pretty happy in a world where I can buy either vinyl or CD, depending on my particular needs.
Kudos to the genius moderator who modded the parent post as "Informative." ;)
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a network security expert, but I gave LeakTest a go, and as far as I can tell, all it does is make an outbound connection to grc.com on port 80. What exactly would that prove?
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Hmm, maybe it uses SOAP...
Good lord. Maybe he just didn't like Star Wars.
I'm too much of a SW fan to watch the movies objectively, but I know plenty of people who hated Episode II, and it seems perfectly reasonable for them to have an opinion that differs from mine. I certainly don't feel threatened or defensive about it.
I don't think I'd let other movies get away with treacle like this: "I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Everything here is smooth."
Meanwhile, Katz reviewed a movie today that you might actually like if you can drop your cynicism for an hour or two.
Katz says Dogtown and Z-Boys is a worthwhile movie, and he's correct. Give him a break.
You're correct, of course, about the available content being a function of the users and not the service. I just hope I know where to find all the Audiogalaxy users when the service goes away!
I have to say that I'm sad about it. Even with the spyware (easily removed with certain utilities, though odious in principle), Audiogalaxy was my favorite file sharing service. The widest and deepest variety of songs could be found on Audiogalaxy -- both new bands and old bands that I had always wanted to hear. I could never find non-mainstream bands like Tear It Up, Scarlet's Well, Jellyroll Rockheads, and the Eastside Suicides (if you've never heard of these bands, that's my point) on services like Kazaa and Morpheus, but Audiogalaxy had nearly everything. And maybe this sounds like a cliche at this point, but, speaking as a music fan, when I find an MP3 that I like, my next step is almost always to purchase the record.
If Audiogalaxy is shut down, the net result will probably be that I and many other music fans will buy less, not more. Not that the major record labels will mind, because I stopped buying their dreck a long time ago.
To be honest, I don't think the Drafthouse has ever billed itself as a "cyber-theater," and if they (rather than local geek groups) have promoted their wireless access point, I haven't noticed. The linked article contains statements by an Austin wireless networking user group, not by the theater. And I really don't understand why people would even want to use a computer in a theater. The reasons listed in the article were far from compelling. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply watch the movie?
As a sometime patron of the Alamo Drafthouse, I can assure you that cellphones and the like are noticed over the commotion of the eating, drinking, and laughing. The impulse to murder moveigoers with ringing cellphones does not vanish just because the theater has waiters. If anything, the impulse only becomes stronger, because small, independent theaters like the Drafthouse create the expectation that the moviegoers are there to have fun and watch the film in a pleasant social atmosphere, and won't have to put up with the same rude shit they face at the anonymous suburban 5-screen megaplexes.
God, for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would want to diddle around with a PC or a PDA while watching a movie.
case in point. notice how i took pains to present my own on-topic views. oh well.
I don't understand why the parent post was modded down as flamebait -- the gripes seem perfectly legitimate, if perhaps premature. The previous themes.org design was clunky but pretty, and the one before that was nice. I have nothing against the freshmeat interface and I'm not saying that I dislike it, but I agree that it's a bit dull in comparison.
Moderators, please do not mod something down just because you disagree with it.
Maybe there's something crucial that I'm missing; I have not worked extensively with any of this shiny new web services stuff myself.
Yeah, but how timing-dependent is any of the information in the article? Also consider that the editors may have been saving this article for a slow day. In any case, I don't find the relative datedness of the article to be terribly troubling.
I completely agree. I have a weekend subscription to the New York Times, and I can't tell you how many times they've double posted articles on the same tired topics: the Mideast conflict, the bad economy, boring art, police brutality, etc. I've already read about each of these issues at least once! Man, it's almost as if news, or history even, has a way of repeating itself!
I don't know for sure, but is it really accurate to say that the Sun usability team that is working on GNOME created CDE? Sun created CDE, but I don't know if I would say more than that.
Regarding the issue of too many preferences, I will say that the problem of complexity and testing rings true for me. On the other hand, raise your hand if you love tweaking application preferences, and the sometimes-false but reassuring feeling of control that doing so gives you? If you know what I'm talking about, you must be a geek. I really don't see the problem with dumping geek prefs into an "Advanced" bucket that the ordinary user will perhaps never see. Microsoft was probably on to something with the Windows XP control panel, where it is now a royal pain in the ass to get to certain settings. The average user never has to see advanced settings, but they're in there somewhere if you are determined to tweak the OS.
Actually this does not sound at all like an issue that should've been caught in user testing. There is no magic to software testing, and it's a thoughtless misconception to think that "good" software testers will catch every conceivable issue. Software testing catches what the software testers are looking for. Any other issues have to be fairly obvious to be caught, in most cases.
Speaking as someone who doesn't know what you are talking about, what are you talking about?
I think there's a difference between going on a tangent and posting completely off-topic. Or do you just not like what he's saying?