This is a very odd market. People who are aware enough of security to get a key fob, but ignorant enough to think they can fall victim to a phishing scam?
Dude, they can't get you if you just don't click on email links. Hell, all you even have to do is look at the link in the status bar to see there's something wrong with it.
Screw Amazon's DRM-laden MP3 service. I'll be waiting for the servers to come back to life, and then I'll pay $5 to Trent directly. More money in his pocket, and it shows how valuable the download is to me: so valuable I'm willing to give not just $5, I'm willing to give my time as I impatiently wait for it.
FF3 on Hardy has so far broken: 1) All my critical extensions 2) Printing 3) Google Reader
To fix, I installed the FF2 official tarball in/opt until they get it right, and until most extensions (at least FireGPG) get with the program.
That said, it is really fast. It's hard to tell how fast it'll be with all extensions enabled, but an empty profile in FF3 feels faster than an empty profile in FF2. I'm looking forward to FF3! But the ecosystem isn't quite ready yet. I'm especially looking forward to the expanded SVG support in FF3. Mark my words, SVG will be critical in the next generation of browsers.
Moreover, his actions were very likely in Cisco's interests, and directly related to his job duties at Cisco. Cisco is not a patent troll afaik, they are more likely to be the victim of frequent patent trolling by companies wanting to profit from their products.
Cisco probably patents a lot of stuff, but like most big patent holders, they presumably use them defensively.
Feel free to do my research for me, but I say the above with a fair amount of confidence.:-)
Why havn't they been charged with fraud and false advertising.
If I sell you a padlock, claiming that its made of steel, when actually its made of a Silly Putty and rubber bands, then I'm going have my day in court. I know this is nit-picky, and potentially offtopic, but "my day in court" is actually supposed to be a good thing. There was a time when our legal system was held in high regard, and getting to go to court to air your grievances was a triumph of the rule of law. You say the phrase "my day in court" about someone who gets to have a case, to bring down evildoers, heard at last.
Sure, the customers, yeah. But not the costumers. Those people won't settle for shoddy second-rate machines; designing costumes takes some flashy-ass graphics and alpha effects.
Microsoft is gonna have some pretty serious egg on their faces the next time an academy award for best costume design is awarded, and the winner thanks Apple because MS executives didn't have their priorities straight.
People aren't likely to do what you ask, when you call them "common people". Try this: "Fine gentlemen and virtuous ladies, do please I prithee give credit where it's due!"
Bah, except - they weren't. They were enclosed in "loading image" frames. Which just made it confusing. Had they been broken image frames, I would have gotten the joke much faster. So that means I'm a geek, but the person who posted the series is not.
I'd love to see the Gantt chart for this project. "OK guys, we have a new deadline -- it's 2018. Yeah, he said within a decade, so that gives us exactly 10 years from now, and it's 2008, so that means we have to be ready to ship in 2018. Ready? Ok, Bob, you get the automatic steering system. Sal, you are on the traffic failsafes. Tim and Al are going to being responsible for lobbying congress to get our highways revamped.. that is, until Tim retires in 2012. Oh right, and don't forget I'm planning to retire in 2016, so Fred, you'll be promoted then and responsible for training your replacement so we'll just squeeze that in.. heeeeere...."
Don't forget to put in some padding, just in case.
During the 3.x timeframe, you introduced OGL, the Open Gaming License, a reasonably good share-alike compromise for the game system.
Alongside that, you published the System Reference Document (SRD) which contained most of the monsters and equipment from the core books and almost all of the rules. It made an excellent standard for spinning off games and creating publishable material based on a canon.
And yet, at the same that Creative Commons license gaining ground, and YouTube and other crowd-publishing sites (like Gleemax?) are looming massively over the entertainment playground, I hear the rumour that OGL and the SRD are going away!
What is Wizards really going to do to promote community publishing? Those of us creating content for the game, content that promotes the game, are waiting to hear that we'll have a green light, that we can publish our material freely for all to use without fear of The Lawyers, and that we can incorporate Wizards' canon material in those publications in a non-competitive way. Will we be given that license? Or will there be, as the rumor told it, licensing fees to keep out content creators?
I got a new video iPod for christmas. I also have a fairly stressful job dealing with constant communication 8+ hours a day. So at lunch I want to get away from people. My routine has been to listen to fiction podcasts (short stories.. escape pod, pseudopod, drabblecast, etc.) while I walk to lunch, and then when I actually get my food, sit down and continue to tune out with a show of some kind.
I'm partial to Heroes, but I'll be caught up with that pretty soon (I'm up to episode 9 of season 2.)
There is a real niche here. I REALLY WOULD like media companies to market ipod-format media to me.. I would watch it. There's a space in my day for it, exactly the thing to use to tune out the world for that half hour when I really need it tuned out. I will say this though: my standards for quality of content stay just as high at lunch as they do the rest of the day.:-) If you want to market to me, it had better be watchable.
Those numbers are as made-up as the numbers you find anywhere else. My company, which hosts surveys and therefore sees a very broad cross-section of the market, collects web statistics. I just analyzed our logs and got these numbers, which I trust far more than thecounter, whatever the fuck that is:
IE6 (all operating systems) 35.22% FF (all operating systems and versions) 18.35% IE7 (all OS) 18.15% Other.. the rest
Should I also remind anyone that IE8 is under progress, including new UI and engine that passes ACID.
You could, if you wanted to hear someone remind you that Firefox 3 is about to come out (far sooner than IE8) and also passes ACID, as if that were relevant.
Note, these are not the opinions of my employer, but they are the data of my employer.:-)
I was probably off by 2 years. However, when I thought back about it, I realized what I said was true: I *did* have a faster-than-200MHz computer I was adminning in 1996. Of course, it was a 4-way server machine.:-) ISTR it was 4x133MHz.
Are there ANY companies left for which that isn't already the case? OK, actual manufacturing maybe. They can go off and manufacture stuff, or whatever.
But anyone with a desk job requires the Internet. Your customers use email; your coworkers use email; everyone uses Google search. Our company grinds to a halt and starts pounding on the IT lady's door every time the Internet goes down in the office. (Not often, fortunately.)
Look, no offense, but these apps aren't designed for you. For pete's sake, two HUNDRED MHz? I had a faster computer than that in 1996. You're not the typical user, or even in the ballpark.
Course, I wouldn't use the Doc or Spreadsheet apps myself, for the same reason.. not fast enough yet. (Also: not featurefull-enough, yet.)
Gmail on the other hand is plenty fast for my needs.
Our company is in the middle of switching to the Email/Calendar apps for domains. We anticipate it's going to be an order of magnitude cheaper than the labor costs of maintaining our own exim-based system, with much better quality of service to boot. It's also a fraction the cost of equivalent hosted solutions. So far we haven't found any missing features in the front or the backend; our company relies heavily on email, both internal and outgoing; if it can meet our needs, it can meet almost anyone's. Plus, the user interface of Gmail is just brilliant, and I anticipate the conversations feature, alone, will be a huge boost to productivity for our company. (This company sends about 10x as much email as any place I've ever worked.)
The online Doc/Spreadsheet/Presentation apps, though, I have absolutely no interest in. The features simply aren't there; neither is the responsiveness. OpenOffice will work just fine for us; I plan to push for a switch to that over the next year.
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I search the body for treasure. Anything good in his pockets? Was he wearing any armor?
If you connect a Linux box to a Windows box via firewire, who is pwning whom?
This is a very odd market. People who are aware enough of security to get a key fob, but ignorant enough to think they can fall victim to a phishing scam?
Dude, they can't get you if you just don't click on email links. Hell, all you even have to do is look at the link in the status bar to see there's something wrong with it.
Screw Amazon's DRM-laden MP3 service. I'll be waiting for the servers to come back to life, and then I'll pay $5 to Trent directly. More money in his pocket, and it shows how valuable the download is to me: so valuable I'm willing to give not just $5, I'm willing to give my time as I impatiently wait for it.
Is that a good reason? What limited resource are they using to make these sheets?
FF3 on Hardy has so far broken: 1) All my critical extensions 2) Printing 3) Google Reader
/opt until they get it right, and until most extensions (at least FireGPG) get with the program.
To fix, I installed the FF2 official tarball in
That said, it is really fast. It's hard to tell how fast it'll be with all extensions enabled, but an empty profile in FF3 feels faster than an empty profile in FF2. I'm looking forward to FF3! But the ecosystem isn't quite ready yet. I'm especially looking forward to the expanded SVG support in FF3. Mark my words, SVG will be critical in the next generation of browsers.
Moreover, his actions were very likely in Cisco's interests, and directly related to his job duties at Cisco. Cisco is not a patent troll afaik, they are more likely to be the victim of frequent patent trolling by companies wanting to profit from their products.
:-)
Cisco probably patents a lot of stuff, but like most big patent holders, they presumably use them defensively.
Feel free to do my research for me, but I say the above with a fair amount of confidence.
You bet. The minute he makes up his damn mind to run, I'm on the phone with my debit card out for a donation.
You had me up until you advocated the death penalty for perjury. WTF?
If I sell you a padlock, claiming that its made of steel, when actually its made of a Silly Putty and rubber bands, then I'm going have my day in court. I know this is nit-picky, and potentially offtopic, but "my day in court" is actually supposed to be a good thing. There was a time when our legal system was held in high regard, and getting to go to court to air your grievances was a triumph of the rule of law. You say the phrase "my day in court" about someone who gets to have a case, to bring down evildoers, heard at last.
Sure, the customers, yeah. But not the costumers. Those people won't settle for shoddy second-rate machines; designing costumes takes some flashy-ass graphics and alpha effects.
Microsoft is gonna have some pretty serious egg on their faces the next time an academy award for best costume design is awarded, and the winner thanks Apple because MS executives didn't have their priorities straight.
People aren't likely to do what you ask, when you call them "common people". Try this:
"Fine gentlemen and virtuous ladies, do please I prithee give credit where it's due!"
Most over-30's are also a worthless demographic that doesn't vote.
An election year in which 30% of the population turns up at the polls is considered historic, ffs.
Bah, except - they weren't. They were enclosed in "loading image" frames. Which just made it confusing. Had they been broken image frames, I would have gotten the joke much faster. So that means I'm a geek, but the person who posted the series is not.
Spoiler...
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My favorite line was Hud's right before the Helicopter crash. "They hit it! Yeah! That's the shit! Yeah that's the shit!" *OHNOTEETH*
I'd love to see the Gantt chart for this project. "OK guys, we have a new deadline -- it's 2018. Yeah, he said within a decade, so that gives us exactly 10 years from now, and it's 2008, so that means we have to be ready to ship in 2018. Ready? Ok, Bob, you get the automatic steering system. Sal, you are on the traffic failsafes. Tim and Al are going to being responsible for lobbying congress to get our highways revamped.. that is, until Tim retires in 2012. Oh right, and don't forget I'm planning to retire in 2016, so Fred, you'll be promoted then and responsible for training your replacement so we'll just squeeze that in.. heeeeere...."
Don't forget to put in some padding, just in case.
Rptools' maptool really is awesome. I wish there were a decent chargen to go with it. (PCGen is crap.)
During the 3.x timeframe, you introduced OGL, the Open Gaming License, a reasonably good share-alike compromise for the game system.
Alongside that, you published the System Reference Document (SRD) which contained most of the monsters and equipment from the core books and almost all of the rules. It made an excellent standard for spinning off games and creating publishable material based on a canon.
And yet, at the same that Creative Commons license gaining ground, and YouTube and other crowd-publishing sites (like Gleemax?) are looming massively over the entertainment playground, I hear the rumour that OGL and the SRD are going away!
What is Wizards really going to do to promote community publishing? Those of us creating content for the game, content that promotes the game, are waiting to hear that we'll have a green light, that we can publish our material freely for all to use without fear of The Lawyers, and that we can incorporate Wizards' canon material in those publications in a non-competitive way. Will we be given that license? Or will there be, as the rumor told it, licensing fees to keep out content creators?
I got a new video iPod for christmas. I also have a fairly stressful job dealing with constant communication 8+ hours a day. So at lunch I want to get away from people. My routine has been to listen to fiction podcasts (short stories.. escape pod, pseudopod, drabblecast, etc.) while I walk to lunch, and then when I actually get my food, sit down and continue to tune out with a show of some kind.
:-) If you want to market to me, it had better be watchable.
I'm partial to Heroes, but I'll be caught up with that pretty soon (I'm up to episode 9 of season 2.)
There is a real niche here. I REALLY WOULD like media companies to market ipod-format media to me.. I would watch it. There's a space in my day for it, exactly the thing to use to tune out the world for that half hour when I really need it tuned out. I will say this though: my standards for quality of content stay just as high at lunch as they do the rest of the day.
Nah, it's actually Gabe himself, posting as Misfit.
Those numbers are as made-up as the numbers you find anywhere else. My company, which hosts surveys and therefore sees a very broad cross-section of the market, collects web statistics. I just analyzed our logs and got these numbers, which I trust far more than thecounter, whatever the fuck that is:
:-)
IE6 (all operating systems) 35.22%
FF (all operating systems and versions) 18.35%
IE7 (all OS) 18.15%
Other.. the rest
Should I also remind anyone that IE8 is under progress, including new UI and engine that passes ACID.
You could, if you wanted to hear someone remind you that Firefox 3 is about to come out (far sooner than IE8) and also passes ACID, as if that were relevant.
Note, these are not the opinions of my employer, but they are the data of my employer.
I was probably off by 2 years. However, when I thought back about it, I realized what I said was true: I *did* have a faster-than-200MHz computer I was adminning in 1996. Of course, it was a 4-way server machine. :-) ISTR it was 4x133MHz.
> if your internet crashes, you can't do anything
Are there ANY companies left for which that isn't already the case? OK, actual manufacturing maybe. They can go off and manufacture stuff, or whatever.
But anyone with a desk job requires the Internet. Your customers use email; your coworkers use email; everyone uses Google search. Our company grinds to a halt and starts pounding on the IT lady's door every time the Internet goes down in the office. (Not often, fortunately.)
Look, no offense, but these apps aren't designed for you. For pete's sake, two HUNDRED MHz? I had a faster computer than that in 1996. You're not the typical user, or even in the ballpark.
Course, I wouldn't use the Doc or Spreadsheet apps myself, for the same reason.. not fast enough yet. (Also: not featurefull-enough, yet.)
Gmail on the other hand is plenty fast for my needs.
Our company is in the middle of switching to the Email/Calendar apps for domains. We anticipate it's going to be an order of magnitude cheaper than the labor costs of maintaining our own exim-based system, with much better quality of service to boot. It's also a fraction the cost of equivalent hosted solutions. So far we haven't found any missing features in the front or the backend; our company relies heavily on email, both internal and outgoing; if it can meet our needs, it can meet almost anyone's. Plus, the user interface of Gmail is just brilliant, and I anticipate the conversations feature, alone, will be a huge boost to productivity for our company. (This company sends about 10x as much email as any place I've ever worked.)
The online Doc/Spreadsheet/Presentation apps, though, I have absolutely no interest in. The features simply aren't there; neither is the responsiveness. OpenOffice will work just fine for us; I plan to push for a switch to that over the next year.