I held off on selecting a custom user name as I knew this day would come. That said, is this active for all accounts? The post didn't say it was being rolled out over the coming days/weeks. When you go to Profit - About - Get URL you cannot select any name. Am I missing something here?
FAQ still has old details: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2676340?hl=en&topic=2400106
We in our tech circles know about the T&C of Instagram but to think that 25% of Instagram users know anything about this--much less care enough to stop using the service simply does not pass the sniff test.
NY Post, a questionably new source to begin with citing AppData, a company that has to use conjecture to create insight means there is NO NEWS HERE PEOPLE.
I've largely lurked for the past 15 years but/. is the first site I've visited each day for my entire adult life. This is a sad day for me and for all slashdotters. If they try any unified login bullshit or site enhancements I will die.
I have a Lenovo T400 and the placement of the DEL key always annoyed me. I use a program called KeyTweak (http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/) to remap my lenovo keyboard as follows:
Right CTRL key is DEL Those silly keys to the right and left of the up arrow are HOME and END
And finally, drum roll please... the CAPS key is mapped to the TAB key so I have a gigantic space to mash my chubby fingers when looking for a tab stop!
So what is it? It is the steam of updates that I make on a number of social website including Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, Digg and SmugMug. The site puts everything in chronological order and allows for filtering and searching by keyword. It is all powered by FriendFeed and doesn't require any backend what so ever.
Let me know what you think and if you are interested in using it ask me first david9@modea.com (remove the 9)
I'm not being facetious in asking why the growth RATE of the games industry being higher than the growth rate of the economy is a big deal? Don't all new technology industries have higher growth rates than the economy as a whole?
I am writing this in Firefox in Vista on my MacBook Pro. One year ago (almost to this day) I made the switch because I had bought into the hype. I told myself I'd give it three months to make my decision. When the time came I was struggling to be as productive as when I was in Windows. However, I realized that I had not yet learned everything I needed in the Mac to give it a fair shake. So I extended the test. Finally after 10 months I made the Switch-back.
What about all of us that gave it a try and end up switching back? We just get modded down because of the anti-M$ sentiment. I'm no M$ lover -- I run all Linux servers and refuse to deploy Active Directory in my organization because I believe it is a gateway to "everything M$". However, many people like me may find that they are actually more productive in Windows.
A few weeks ago I got on to buy one for a linux server at the office. The final price AFTER SHIPPING was about fifty dollars more than the price with MS Windows Home Edition. The disparity comes from the fact that the version w/ MS windows had free shipping. Also, the Windows version had a larger hard drive and didn't let me choose an 80 GB drive like the 'n' series did. So in the end I of course bought the Windows one with bigger hard drive for $50 less.
Windows never even saw the light of day on that box.
But that assumes that PS3 owners are buying (in part) for its Blueray playing capabilities. You must have been speaking to the same people that Sony has, because you all seem to think people are going to buy PS3 not to play games on it.
I'm not an ubergeek (just a geek) so I don't know technical details of all of this, but what are the implications of this on Blueray?
Can the Blueray camp just create the same thing? I know that the discs are more complicated and harder to produce. Will that hinder a similar approach?
A lot of people have been saying that the format war doesn't offer enough for consumers. It seems to me that if I could buy a DVD now that also had HD version on it then I'd start stock piling my HD library now and wait for the players to become more reasonable. If studios are willing to put out these discs for $20 then this could be the difference maker and push HD-DVD to the finish line to beat out Blueray. This assumes that Blueray can't do the same thing (dunno) and that the movie studios would be willing to put the consumers interests at the forefront (ok, stop laughing).
I'm glad you asked. My comments aren't meant to be flaimbait either. But I'm just a guy. Owen Thomas is a journalist for a fairly-respectable magazine.
I made the 'switch' to Apple a few months back. Half of it was because of the hardware and the other half was the advanced GUI of OS X. I have been a Windows(TM) desktop user prior to that (I use Linux for all servers). For me, productivity is important. And clicking around w/ a mouse is not the way to do it. I'm still learning shortcut keys on OS X but what I have found is that it is incredibly inconsistent. Simple 'highlight current position to the end of the line' shortcuts vary from application to application.
So while I love the UI of OS X, the consistency of it is not there yet. I want the latest AND the greatest. And whether people like it or not, when Vista comes out, it will be both.
O. Thomas is trying to pull a John Dvorak and Flaimbait himself to popularity. At least we know what to expect with Dvorak. Is Owen Thomas a journalist or a columnist? If he's a journalist then Business 2.0 just lost a few notches of credibility as far as I'm concerned.
Sure, Vista is delayed - and the number of people who are going to go out and buy it are limited. But I for one am looking forward to Vista coming out so I can upgrade my new Mac Book Pro from OS X to Vista.
While the gamer in me rejoices when reading this, the practicality of things are such that copy protection is needed. I agree all attempts to thwart the pirating of games never succeed 100%. But what about the vast majority of people that don't know the intricacies of bitsettings and book types and after toasting a few CDs they give up. Sure, they can get a torrent of the packaged release that circumvents these measures.
But in the end stopping/some/ piracy will result in more money in their pockets.
How many more roubles would they get if just 1% of people intending to pirate the game bought it instead?
---- This writing may not necessarily reflect my thoughts and beliefs -- but it probably does.
The largest LBO ever completed was RJR Nabisco in 1989 for $31.3 billion. Microsoft's market cap is $260 billion. Slap on that a 20% premium and you're looking at $312 Billion.
Do you think that an LBO of 10X the previous record is going to happen? I think not.
I like the comparison of Best Picture Oscar and Snakes on a Plane. Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if that film actually wins best film.
So basically that means that China is spending over one billion USD -- $1,306,313,812 according to Google. Whereas Australia is spending $4,018,087,400 (assuming 20,090,437 people again, according to Google). And this means that New Zealand, with 4,035,461 people is spending $807,092,800. Lastly, India with 1,080,264,388 people (thanks Jeeves... um, I mean ASK.com) is spending just over one billion as well.
To summarize:
China: $1,306,313,812
India: $1,080,264,388
Australia: $4,018,087,400
New Zealand: $807,092,800
The actual numbers are more helpful.
Sure, it looks like Australia is outspending China nearly 4:1. My guess is that looking at per capita is irrelevant.
I think the addition of labels is the most significant upgrade to Blogger. Now, if only I could tag my Slashdot Journal entries.
I do have a question. Many blogs support both Categories and Tags. I understand Google's desire to simplify things, so I think if I could have only one or the other, I'd choose tags. Now that Moveable Type 3.3 has come out and natively supports both tags and categories, I'm at a loss as to when to use which. Do I stick w/ my Categories and leave tagging for a tag cloud and for hooks for Technorati?
While there are many "techie" people like greatcelerystalk who know what they want, we have to keep in mind that Amazon is selling to the entire spectrum. My mom, new to computers this year, finds comfort in the Amazon experience. It's an entire shopping mall--just what women love (yes, I am generalizing). So shoppers who know what they are looking for, or are simply buying on price, may not use the recommendations, I would suspect that a significant, if not majority of the population may be enticed to buy something. I admit to having purchased several books that were recommended to me.
Now, the more significant issue revolves around the depth of the information Amazon is amassing on you and me. Sure, you can learn just as much about me from my blog or slashdot journal, but that's my choice. I recognize that Amazon has stated "opt-in" information. But when was the last time you read a EULA or the Privacy Policy page for NewEgg? You can be opted-in to just about anything. Then, personal private data is stored, waiting to be hacked into or. Or better yet, publishedinthenameofresearch!
Ultimately, this trend will not stop. Twenty years ago, had people known the level of personal information that we would be storing today, they would have had the same reactionary quivering that we feel today. It's simply the unstoppable progression of technology integration into human life.
Not to say I'm sticking up for the 360, but... to be fair, it launched in such short supply for the holiday season that it might have well just launched in January. I wouldn't look too closely at the sales for the last 8 months. I would instead focus on sales from Black Friday through Christmas.
Slashdot Mirror
^ dah, wasn't logged in
I held off on selecting a custom user name as I knew this day would come. That said, is this active for all accounts? The post didn't say it was being rolled out over the coming days/weeks. When you go to Profit - About - Get URL you cannot select any name. Am I missing something here?
FAQ still has old details: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2676340?hl=en&topic=2400106
Agreed! Thanks for posting the response. So quick to dog the NSA (for good reason) but this is a bulshite headline.
We in our tech circles know about the T&C of Instagram but to think that 25% of Instagram users know anything about this--much less care enough to stop using the service simply does not pass the sniff test.
NY Post, a questionably new source to begin with citing AppData, a company that has to use conjecture to create insight means there is NO NEWS HERE PEOPLE.
I've largely lurked for the past 15 years but /. is the first site I've visited each day for my entire adult life. This is a sad day for me and for all slashdotters. If they try any unified login bullshit or site enhancements I will die.
This is built for people who are right handed. That vast majority of people that matter to me are left-handed.
Any chance there will be a version sold at the Leftorium?
I have a Lenovo T400 and the placement of the DEL key always annoyed me. I use a program called KeyTweak (http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/) to remap my lenovo keyboard as follows:
Right CTRL key is DEL
Those silly keys to the right and left of the up arrow are HOME and END
And finally, drum roll please... the CAPS key is mapped to the TAB key so I have a gigantic space to mash my chubby fingers when looking for a tab stop!
I found myself in a similar situation. I do blog but so infrequently that going to my personal domain makes it look like I don't do anything.
Here's what I'm working on... It's not designed yet but the functionality is there...
I created this page: http://www.davidcatalano.com/digital/
I'm going to move it to the root but need to move my Wordpress install first...
So what is it? It is the steam of updates that I make on a number of social website including Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, Digg and SmugMug. The site puts everything in chronological order and allows for filtering and searching by keyword. It is all powered by FriendFeed and doesn't require any backend what so ever.
Let me know what you think and if you are interested in using it ask me first david9@modea.com (remove the 9)
I hate posts that link to articles with no pictures!
http://www.sri.com/rd/electroadhesion.html
I'm not being facetious in asking why the growth RATE of the games industry being higher than the growth rate of the economy is a big deal? Don't all new technology industries have higher growth rates than the economy as a whole?
Not quite, the 360 isn't made or assembled in the US so that is not an issue. Even the parts such as CPU / GPU are made in Malaysia
I am writing this in Firefox in Vista on my MacBook Pro. One year ago (almost to this day) I made the switch because I had bought into the hype. I told myself I'd give it three months to make my decision. When the time came I was struggling to be as productive as when I was in Windows. However, I realized that I had not yet learned everything I needed in the Mac to give it a fair shake. So I extended the test. Finally after 10 months I made the Switch-back.
What about all of us that gave it a try and end up switching back? We just get modded down because of the anti-M$ sentiment. I'm no M$ lover -- I run all Linux servers and refuse to deploy Active Directory in my organization because I believe it is a gateway to "everything M$". However, many people like me may find that they are actually more productive in Windows.
You are correct!
A few weeks ago I got on to buy one for a linux server at the office. The final price AFTER SHIPPING was about fifty dollars more than the price with MS Windows Home Edition. The disparity comes from the fact that the version w/ MS windows had free shipping. Also, the Windows version had a larger hard drive and didn't let me choose an 80 GB drive like the 'n' series did. So in the end I of course bought the Windows one with bigger hard drive for $50 less.
Windows never even saw the light of day on that box.
Good catch, and, if they do announce, then by definition, they will 'let folks know'.
But that assumes that PS3 owners are buying (in part) for its Blueray playing capabilities. You must have been speaking to the same people that Sony has, because you all seem to think people are going to buy PS3 not to play games on it.
I'm not an ubergeek (just a geek) so I don't know technical details of all of this, but what are the implications of this on Blueray?
Can the Blueray camp just create the same thing? I know that the discs are more complicated and harder to produce. Will that hinder a similar approach?
A lot of people have been saying that the format war doesn't offer enough for consumers. It seems to me that if I could buy a DVD now that also had HD version on it then I'd start stock piling my HD library now and wait for the players to become more reasonable. If studios are willing to put out these discs for $20 then this could be the difference maker and push HD-DVD to the finish line to beat out Blueray. This assumes that Blueray can't do the same thing (dunno) and that the movie studios would be willing to put the consumers interests at the forefront (ok, stop laughing).
I'm glad you asked. My comments aren't meant to be flaimbait either. But I'm just a guy. Owen Thomas is a journalist for a fairly-respectable magazine.
I made the 'switch' to Apple a few months back. Half of it was because of the hardware and the other half was the advanced GUI of OS X. I have been a Windows(TM) desktop user prior to that (I use Linux for all servers). For me, productivity is important. And clicking around w/ a mouse is not the way to do it. I'm still learning shortcut keys on OS X but what I have found is that it is incredibly inconsistent. Simple 'highlight current position to the end of the line' shortcuts vary from application to application.
So while I love the UI of OS X, the consistency of it is not there yet. I want the latest AND the greatest. And whether people like it or not, when Vista comes out, it will be both.
O. Thomas is trying to pull a John Dvorak and Flaimbait himself to popularity. At least we know what to expect with Dvorak. Is Owen Thomas a journalist or a columnist? If he's a journalist then Business 2.0 just lost a few notches of credibility as far as I'm concerned.
Sure, Vista is delayed - and the number of people who are going to go out and buy it are limited. But I for one am looking forward to Vista coming out so I can upgrade my new Mac Book Pro from OS X to Vista.
While the gamer in me rejoices when reading this, the practicality of things are such that copy protection is needed. I agree all attempts to thwart the pirating of games never succeed 100%. But what about the vast majority of people that don't know the intricacies of bitsettings and book types and after toasting a few CDs they give up. Sure, they can get a torrent of the packaged release that circumvents these measures.
/some/ piracy will result in more money in their pockets.
But in the end stopping
How many more roubles would they get if just 1% of people intending to pirate the game bought it instead?
----
This writing may not necessarily reflect my thoughts and beliefs -- but it probably does.
The largest LBO ever completed was RJR Nabisco in 1989 for $31.3 billion. Microsoft's market cap is $260 billion. Slap on that a 20% premium and you're looking at $312 Billion.
Do you think that an LBO of 10X the previous record is going to happen? I think not.
I like the comparison of Best Picture Oscar and Snakes on a Plane. Seriously though, I wouldn't be surprised if that film actually wins best film.
So basically that means that China is spending over one billion USD -- $1,306,313,812 according to Google. Whereas Australia is spending $4,018,087,400 (assuming 20,090,437 people again, according to Google). And this means that New Zealand, with 4,035,461 people is spending $807,092,800. Lastly, India with 1,080,264,388 people (thanks Jeeves... um, I mean ASK.com) is spending just over one billion as well.
To summarize:
China: $1,306,313,812
India: $1,080,264,388
Australia: $4,018,087,400
New Zealand: $807,092,800
The actual numbers are more helpful.
Sure, it looks like Australia is outspending China nearly 4:1. My guess is that looking at per capita is irrelevant.
I think the addition of labels is the most significant upgrade to Blogger. Now, if only I could tag my Slashdot Journal entries.
I do have a question. Many blogs support both Categories and Tags. I understand Google's desire to simplify things, so I think if I could have only one or the other, I'd choose tags. Now that Moveable Type 3.3 has come out and natively supports both tags and categories, I'm at a loss as to when to use which. Do I stick w/ my Categories and leave tagging for a tag cloud and for hooks for Technorati?
While there are many "techie" people like greatcelerystalk who know what they want, we have to keep in mind that Amazon is selling to the entire spectrum. My mom, new to computers this year, finds comfort in the Amazon experience. It's an entire shopping mall--just what women love (yes, I am generalizing). So shoppers who know what they are looking for, or are simply buying on price, may not use the recommendations, I would suspect that a significant, if not majority of the population may be enticed to buy something. I admit to having purchased several books that were recommended to me.
Now, the more significant issue revolves around the depth of the information Amazon is amassing on you and me. Sure, you can learn just as much about me from my blog or slashdot journal, but that's my choice. I recognize that Amazon has stated "opt-in" information. But when was the last time you read a EULA or the Privacy Policy page for NewEgg? You can be opted-in to just about anything. Then, personal private data is stored, waiting to be hacked into or. Or better yet, published in the name of research!
Ultimately, this trend will not stop. Twenty years ago, had people known the level of personal information that we would be storing today, they would have had the same reactionary quivering that we feel today. It's simply the unstoppable progression of technology integration into human life.
Saying Packman is "64% violet" is like saying the meaning of life is "42".
Not to say I'm sticking up for the 360, but... to be fair, it launched in such short supply for the holiday season that it might have well just launched in January. I wouldn't look too closely at the sales for the last 8 months. I would instead focus on sales from Black Friday through Christmas.