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Re: Class inheritance, super invocation, and infinite loops in java.

Scott — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:12:28 -0000

hmmm, yeah it makes sense because you aren't calling the method updateSomething() in an instance of the super class, you are calling it on an instance of the subclass.

A little more explanation here http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124/javanotes1/c4/s4.... but it would be interesting to see what the bytecode looks like (I'm assuming this is Java from the syntax).

You've obviously debugged this problem, but is there a reason you are calling a supers method from another subclasses method rather than calling it from the subclasses overriden method?

But you're right, good lesson for the newbies. I'll link to it from my tech site and give it some more Google juice.

Re: Class inheritance, super invocation, and infinite loops in java.

Scott — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:35:17 -0000

Yeah, I think so.

Re: sick at home trying to rest

Scott — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:36:02 -0000

My wife has been using ginger Altoids to control her nausea (she's pregnant). They might help you some too.

Re: i spent my weekend in the hospital, how bout you? ;)

Scott — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:41:05 -0000

Good to see you out of the hospital and in good spirts!

Re: Nicholas Carr says Web 2.0 “amoral”

Scott — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:44:57 -0000

Also remember, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns just help. Guns are amoral.

Only YOU can prevent forest fires. Fire is amoral.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Bushes are amoral. I've met some evil birds though.

Re: Spat asks ‘what about the SmartPhone?’

Scott — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:02:59 -0000

Yeah, the PMC MAY BE better than the video iPod. But Beta is better than VHS. Which won that battle?

MS has had the PMC out for how long and did we ever see NBC shows at msn.com to download for it? Heck, MS never even had MSNBC content available for it. You guys didn't drop the ball by making an inferior product, you dropped the ball by not providing CONTENT for a superior product.

Remember when DAT drives came out for home audio use a few years ago? Superior format. Could I walk into Best Buy and pick up a the latest Bon Jovi DAT? Nope. Heck, consider a more recent example, Sonys minidisc. Superior format, superior device to CD players. But where was the content? If the MS Media center had a way to rip DVD's to WMA and load them on a PMC maybe you'd have a shot. But try getting WMC to rip DVDs and see how far you go.

Apple consistantly kicks your ass because they don't announce or launch until all the pieces are in place. They didn't just launch a video iPod. The launched a video iPod and pointed you to their music store where you could download episodes of two of the hottest shows on TV for less than the price of a latte. MS launched the PMC, to little or no fanfare, and said, "Good luck finding content!".

When you are looking at the PMC, and a few other devices like the Smartphone, for failure. Don't look inside MS, look to your content providers (or lack thereof) and partners.

Re: Beattie not finding startups with any depth

Scott — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:37:12 -0000

Here's a clue. If you see someone write about a new startup and they spend more tme describing the technology the startup is using rather than the product, avoid the startup (and product)l

Re: Wordpress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Scott — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:16:47 -0000

Need anyone point out that if maybe RSS was an actual SPEC, there would be a concrete definition for the way that the feeds should look? That's probably why the ATOM feed worked better.

"you are giving up a LOT by going with Feedburner: control of your destiny. Here’s something to think about: what if Feedburner goes out of business? "

Wait a minute, so why aren't you hosting you blog on your own server at your house or at least at a professional hoster? Before you had a "weblogs.com" url. good thing you were friends with Dave when he shut off that server. (not that he didn't have good reasons, but if you weren' Doc or Scoble you were pretty bad off and had to move quick). Now you have a Wordpress.com url. You can't even follow your own bad advice Robert. :)

Re: Wordpress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Scott — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:19:25 -0000

oh, for the record. Using NetNewsWire, I'm able to read the ATOM feed that Safari picks up by default when I browse to your page. So, ironically given your employer, all of your Mac readers are probably happy as clams with your feed. :)

Re: Wordpress.com’ RSS feeds suck

Scott — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:18:07 -0000

"No one was bad off. Weblogs.Com sites moved to Buzzword.Com after a couple of days. Sheesh."

Way to miss the point RC.

Re: Microsoft talks about its new services strategy

Scott — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:17:10 -0000

Yeah, Safari can pass the ACID 2 test, but it can't render Microsofts live.com apparently.

So once again you can "interoperability" for Microsoft means "interoperability with all of our products".

Re: Microsoft talks about its new services strategy

Scott — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:54:51 -0000

Brandon,

I feel for you man. It's gotta be tough to work so hard and find out people think it's so mediocre.

See, this is why Apple is kicking your ass when it comes to buzz when releasing new products. Imagine how many people would be using this if you had said "And you can start using it NOW!" instead of "We'll have cool stuff for you SOON!". How many people, who didn't even own a video iPod, bought a video from the ITMS the day they were announced? answer: A whole lot. Live.com doesn't even appear to have all the functionalty that start.com ALREADY DOES! I mean, at least start.com works in FIREFOX! Why couldn't the live.com team have walked over and talked to Scott I? Maybe borrowed a little bit of code to make live.com work with Firefox? That's the biggest disappointment. The Start.com people already did some of the heavy lifting for live.com and they DIDN'T EVEN USE IT!.

"GAH! IDIOTS!"

Re: The new Robert Scoble Services agenda

Scott — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:50:10 -0000

I think there is a third problem at Microsoft, and it's a pandemic inside the Redmond walls. I think the reason live.com didn't have Firefox support out of the gates certainly means that Microsoft doesn't "get" influencers. But I think the firefox fruit was hanging pretty low and the reason no one at live.com grabbed it was due to Microsofts systemic "Not invented here" syndrome. NIHS doesn't just mean "not invented at Microsoft" it means "Not invented in my product group" and "not invented by me" at Microsoft. How long has start.com had Firefox support, I think from the 2nd day after start.com/3 launched. Why wasn't that technology and knowledge re-used at live.com?

1) Microsoft doesn't "get" influencers.
2) The live.com team appears to be a different product group or team than the start.com team.

NIHS only hurts Microsoft, none of the users are really affected.

Re: Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:28:06 -0000

Why do you keep saying that Yahoo doesn't have any ad service? Didn't they buy Overture a while ago? They've also opened a beta advertising program.
http://publisher.yahoo.com/

There are lots of other advertising options other than MSN, Google, and Yahoo as well. Bright ads and Chiquita come to mind. It's not like the web is the vast wasteland you make it out to be. ;)

Re: Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:26:41 -0000

Robert,

"Scott: I haven’t seen a Yahoo ad bar on any blog yet. Have you?"

Yup,and they are apparently in RSS feeds too.

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/09/yahoo_...

Re: Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:28:43 -0000

Robert,

"Scott: I haven’t seen a Yahoo ad bar on any blog yet. Have you?"

Yup, and apparently they are in RSS feeds too.

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/09/yahoo_...

Re: Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:31:17 -0000

Whoops, sorry about the double post.

Now it's ironic that Jeremy Z. at Yahoo is running Google ads on his blog instead of YPN ads. :)

Re: Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:32:16 -0000

OH, my mistake. He's running Yahoo ads too on his front page.

Re: Live.com to get Firefox support “very, very soon”

Scott — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:18:41 -0000

I asked ScottI about it at his Spaces blog.

http://spaces.msn.com/members/siteexperts/Blog/...

"I expect Firefox support will come very quickly (and if not I will go over an beat them up personally :-)"

Re: Live.com to get Firefox support “very, very soon”

Scott — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:20:09 -0000

Webkit has a known bug that prevents the start.com script from working with it.

I'm sure there is a workaround and I'd think they could find it, but they may be waiting for Webkit/Safari to fix the bug first. Save them some work.

Re: Mislead by Google’s map on way to Mind Camp

Scott — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:26:17 -0000

Technically, the address is S. 102nd st. They had the wrong address printed on the tickets.

Google maps still gets it wrong though. Old Yahoo maps does too. Didn't try the new one. I wonder if they get it wrong because the address is on Boeing property. Don't all of the buildings at MS campus map to "1 Microsoft way"?

Re: Mislead by Google’s map on way to Mind Camp

Scott — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:36:13 -0000

Innocent, I was there too. I talked to Robert briefly but had to rush off to sessions. I'm no Softie.

Robert, Ahhhh. But is your Tablet dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu now? Were you surprised by how much easier the linux install is now than it was even a year ago?

Re: Live.com to get Firefox support “very, very soon”

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:31:25 -0000

"So, Google supports everyone at launch and Microsoft can’t? Or, worse, won’t?"

This is a good point and one that Microsoft should take to heart. When your competitors all ship supporting all browsers and you don't. You look stupid and imcompentent. At least to other developers. To customers too once they hear about it. "Is it hard to support other browsers because Microsoft stuff always requires me to use IE". "Well, Google manages to make their stuff work for everyone." If all your competitors are launching, even beta stuff, cross-browser. Can you afford not to? I guess you can if you've got 30billion in the bank and 90% marketshare. But you have to hope that lasts forever then.

Re: Live.com to get Firefox support “very, very soon”

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:22:22 -0000

"Everyone: go read Scott Isaacs’ post on this."

What I saw when I clicked on the link and refreshed 3 times.

"This space is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

(sigh) Scalability is key.

Re: Is tomorrow’s event one of Microsoft’s last “big launches?”

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:51:50 -0000

"To Microsoft’s credit, most of its software offerings are far more complex systems than an automobile."

Oh yeah? Ever kill a child because you made an ugly UI for your application? Comparing a software development company to an automobile company is like comparing your local little league team to the World series champs.

Think about someone you know who doesn't own a computer, or who doesn't own one less than 5 years old. Do they own a car? Multiple cars?

As far as complexity, todays cars are much more sophisticated than todays computers or applications. When you are writing applications to take advantage of the airflow through your computer, you'll be approaching the complexity of a car.

Re: What do you call things like Flickr, Microsoft Gadgets, Google Maps, Amazon Affiliate parts?

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:03:21 -0000

Blogdets?

Re: Virtual Places is a cool map mashup

Scott — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:06:25 -0000

Weird, I got a referral to my site from the app but I can't figure out where it came from?

Re: Gaming Memeorandum, NOT!

Scott — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:47:51 -0000

Exactly Robert, this is what I said over at Shelly P. BurningBird blog when the "testosterone meme" post hit. The system comes pre-biased because it is based on a seed-list of people.

It would be much easier to game if it were pure algortihms (see Google PageRank if you need an example.)

Re: Gaming Memeorandum, NOT!

Scott — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:47:17 -0000

Gabe,

Right but it's still the fruit of the poisoned tree (to borrow a "Law and Order" term). You picked out a single group, each member of which have their own bias and favorite people to link to. :)

I agree with Robert that it's much harder to game people. It's social engineering vs. brute force.

Re: I don’t just “use” the Internet, so why am I a user?

Scott — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:17:14 -0000

I'd much rather have a company making money off of my content by placing ads next to it than by wording a EULA such that they OWN my content as if I were an unpaid employee. GotDotNet used to have that kind of language in it's TOS, not sure if it stil does.

so, off-topic. You have GOT to be kidding.ANOTHER SLIP! Jesus, OS X is going to be not only on Intel machines, but at v. 11 by the time Vista ships.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott...

Re: I just deleted a post…

Scott — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:15:16 -0000

Well, you've implied many times that Yahoo doesn't have any ad service for bloggers. Asked me for an example, I provided two (one of which is Jeremy Zs blog.) but you never replied back. I don't think that really counts as admitting you made a mistake as much as it showed that you didn't have all the information yet.

The Yahoo ad service is still in beta. I applied, but didn't hear ANYTHING from them. Not even a "You successfully clicked our 'submit' button email". So maybe I did something wrong during the submission.

So, as of the time of this comment, the only one of the "big three" that doesn't have a way to place ads on a blog is.....

Micro-"a day late and a dollar short"-soft.

Let me ammend that. Microsoft DOES put ads on blogs, MSN Spaces blogs.

But the bloggers don't see a dime of that.

I'm looking forward to the click through rate price wars of 2006. :)

Re: #21: EE Times survey reports engineers believe America's tech leadership in decline

Scott — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:59 -0000

Get him Jake. Every now that then Robert will talk about how great Microsoft is and I'll poke him with the "citizen microsoft" article that the Seattle Weekly ran last year. I have YET to hear a respone from MS HQ, or anyone, about that article or the fact that their chief architect/founder is decrying the public school system, but not paying their due taxes, which goes towards funding the schools their employees children attend in WA. They actually bend Seattle/King Co. over more than Boeing. Can you believe that?

Robert, you would feel this more if Patrick went to school up here instead of in CA.

Re: #29: I gave Douglas Engelbart a mouse and a book

Scott — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:05:45 -0000

"He invented the mouse and many of the concepts that you are now using to read my words. "

Doug Englebart invented the English language?

As far as not being able to describe things without pictures. I imagine Shakespeare and Robert Frost would disagree with you.

Re: #34: Hi Walt!

Scott — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:39:51 -0000

You should buy him lunch for all the public whining you do. ;)

Re: #40: A higher definition Web with Laszlo

Scott — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:59:05 -0000

VS is free now, for one year. Actually only the Express versions are free. Big difference.

When I see the VS Express editions shipping on the Vista DVD I'll be impressed.

Re: #71: RSS Bandit author considers OPML reading lists

Scott — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:33:45 -0000

Bing bing bing.

The abilty of the user to define how the feed author is an authority is something I brought up at MindCamp, but no one seemed too interested except Alex Barnett. Everyone there seemed more interested in search engines defining the context and the tags. Like everyone would just agree on what the tags mean and how people fit into them. That's wrong thinking.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/archi...

Re: Non-GYM posts go out window with Really Simple Sharing

Scott — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:04:46 -0000

Brandon,

Sony announced the PS3 price today. Same range as Xbox. $300-$400.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/21/technology/play...

Personally, I think the PS3 will come out on top, with Xbox 360 second. But my guess is people, except for the hardcore gamers, will either buy a PS3 or an Xb0x 360 but not both. I'll bet that EVERYONE will own a Revolution IF they buy a second console. I can't see a large number of people buying both a PS3 and Xbox 360. But I can see them owning one or the other and a Revolution.

I'll also bet that Sony drops the PS2 price to $99. When is Microsoft going to drop the Xbox price? Any plans for that?

Re: Are we shipping something tonight? Heheh.

Scott — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:08:48 -0000

“I never thought I’d say this, but by the standards in
this industry Microsoft is actually looking relatively innovative.”

Compared to whom? Sony or Nintendo? I think Nintendo has them both beat hands down on the innovation front. Whether that helps them or hurts them, we'll have to see. The new controller will either be the next Power Glove fiasco or the new Gameboy for Nintendo.

Re: Are we shipping something tonight? Heheh.

Scott — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:48:17 -0000

I'll also bet that no one will beat Nintendo in terms of backwards compatibility.

Re: Pictures of BillG getting his Xbox

Scott — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:49:11 -0000

he gave it to the first guy in line, the guy who camped out at the Bellevue Best Buy since FRIDAY. 79 hours. Who shall forever be known as "The Biggest Loser".

Re: Why open up?

Scott — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:52:23 -0000

Well, I was on that single OS that Groove talked to. You know why I never adopted it? It was too freakin' hard to figure out. Had to sign up, had to figure out where my document fit. Had to wait around until someone else was online so we could "collaborate". Not to mention the thing was S L O W.

I was not impressed with Groove at all. So far, I haven't been impressed with anything Ozzie has done. He has good ideas, but poor implimentation.

Hmmmmmm, maybe he fits right in at Microsoft? ;)

Re: Pictures of BillG getting his Xbox

Scott — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:26:41 -0000

Y'know. I'm starting to think that a lot of those people were plants at the Bellevue Best Buy. I know MS PR tipped the press that Bill Gates would be there. Weird, there were no press at the Best Buy in Seattle and only about 20 people outside waiting. Only 6 at Target. Looks like a pretty lame PR stunt. Manufactured enthusiasm sucks.

Re: The non-GYM plan

Scott — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:40:59 -0000

Richard,

I don't think any "tech geeks" are using the term "mashup", just the non-tech folks that want to be cool.

P.S. I can't WAIT to see the spin on this.

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEFkZkk...

Re: Microsoft “on purpose” holding Xbox supplies back?

Scott — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:33:36 -0000

"ever study the world’s airline cargo capacity? We have"

Well, not the worlds. But a company I worked for did study the cargo capacity of a major airline (NDA, can't tell who). We figured out what they were doing wrong, sent them a 50 word memo on $0.02 worth of paper that saved them over $10 million the next year. There's lots of ways to opimize shipping. That's a lame excuse for a shortage. "You guys" don't have enough to fill the planes. THAT'S the real problem.

So are you, Robert Scoble, Placing the blame for the shortage to your suppliers? In a public forum? You use the word "we". Is this Microsofts official position as well? "It's our suppliers fault we didn't make enough Xbox 360's to meet our pre-orders"? Is Microsoft blaming IBM, ATI, or NEC for the shortage?

"You guys" are heading for the worst product launch in the history of game consoles. If the 360 problems keep up, you'll make Sonys bad launch of the PS2 look like a small fluke. All that's left is for a 360 to overheat and burn someones house down on Christmas eve.

Re: Microsoft “on purpose” holding Xbox supplies back?

Scott — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:52:35 -0000

I agree Richard. But which makes for a better headline?
"1 million Xbox 360 units sold out"
or
"Xbox 360 crashes more than Burnout:Revenge"

PJ: Don't worry about me. I don't want a 360 right now. Maybe at some point in the future. I'm a Nintendo fanboy waiting for the Revolution (will it be televised?). :) I own an Xbox:Classic and enjoy it well enough. Don't get to play it nearly enough. I haven't bought into the "next-gen console" hype yet. The Revolution has me with the backwards compatibility.

I'm pointing out that between the shortages and the very vocal reports of crashing, that this is not a good launch for Microsoft. Probably not the launch they intended. A lot of the launch games are getting a resounding "meh" from the press. Maybe Halo3 will save their bacon next year? PDZ was heavily hyped at E3, and then pretty much forgotten about come launch time.

IMO, MS rushed the launch. Both from a shipping POV and, it appears, from a stability POV.

Re: Microsoft “on purpose” holding Xbox supplies back?

Scott — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:53:29 -0000

And no, I don't know why I care so much when I don't want one. LOL

Re: Microsoft “on purpose” holding Xbox supplies back?

Scott — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:05:46 -0000

When has Microsoft ever under promised and over delivered? This could be a first if Brandon is right. hehehe

Re: Cray co-founder coming to Microsoft

Scott — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:16:40 -0000

I first read that as "Burrell Smith" and thought, "Wow, he created the first Mac and founded Cray?"

Re: My OPML file uploaded

Scott — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:23:13 -0000

What, most OPML tools can't handle unzipping after downloading? Isn't that what compression is all about? Lame!

Re: Clone the Memeorandum API, Paul says

Scott — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:22:15 -0000

Contrary to what Paul, and the other people who took "business math" think, an algorithm doesn't have to implement complex, "high-level" mathematics to be complicated. Most genetic algorithms don't use much math at all. Maybe multiplication or division to weight the probability of some mutations. It's only when you try to cram a complex, non-linear problem, like PageRank, into a linear solution that you end up with lots and lots of square roots, summations, and many members of the greek alphabet.

The biggest question to be answered is "What would a Memeorandum API do?" What would it look like? What would the inputs and outputs be? And, most importantly, what would you DO with a Memeorandum API? Just create your own personal Memeorandum? Is that all?

Re: Digi says Xbox 360s are €609

Scott — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:10:17 -0000

Brandon,

Do YOU have the numbers to back up your "1 or 2 defective units"? ;)

I've seen at least 3 different videos posted that show PGR crashing on a 360.

"Yeah but my PC won’t crash every 30 minutes"

Jesse? Are you an Apple owner? :)
(disclaimer, the last time I had to reboot my XP box was 4 days ago and that was because the update to DivX creator told me to. Otherwise it's run fine for a while)

Re: Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World

Scott — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:43:18 -0000

Examples of disconnect:

In the Blogosphere, everyone knows who you and Steve Gilmore are and listens to what you two say. You both have a large audience.

In real life, your total online audience accounts for such a small percentage of the population of any major city in the U.S. that it's completely insignificant. Plus, no one knows who the heck you two are. ;)

I mean, you have what 300,000 unique vists to your page per day? Maybe more, maybe less. That's not even the population of my hometown of Wichita, KS. You guys are big fish in tiny, miniscule little ponds online. :)

Re: Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World

Scott — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:45:10 -0000

Whoops, that should be Gilmour.

Even if each unique visitor your two have tells 10 friends what you've said you're still not close to the population of the greater New Jersey area, let alone the U.S. or the world.

Re: Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World

Scott — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:44:22 -0000

No, it means your average porn site has a larger audience than Scoble does.

Maybe if he did a "men and women of Microsoft" Playboy feature each day?

Re: Can I shoot someone?

Scott — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:18:03 -0000

"Why aren’t you willing to actually talk about this, instead of shoving what you want as gospel?"

Well his title isn't "Microsoft Debater", it's "Microsoft Evangelist". How many evangelists do you know that are willing to debate the existance of God? ;)

Black and White is defined by him, it's in his title.

Larry: Ever heard of web bugs? They have them in RSS feeds too. It's one way you can measure eyeballs on ads in RSS feeds.

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html

Re: Can I shoot someone?

Scott — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:20:40 -0000

Oh, on topic:

Full text feeds are nice, but you can't comment through them. You could write a blog post and trackback to the post, but not everyone respects/uses/allows trackbacks. So if you want to discuss the post with the author, you have to go to the site and post a comment anyway. (assuming they allow comment, most egotistical folk enjoy a one-way conversation. You to them).

Partial text feeds are ok, provided they give me an informative slug not just the first 200 or so characters. That's useless.

Re: Goowy’s desktop rocks

Scott — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:22:26 -0000

"Unbelievable the feds continue to allow this kind of behavior from a convicted monopolist."

Settling, sadly, isn't the same as a conviction.

Re: Goowy’s desktop rocks

Scott — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:23:08 -0000

Goowy is nice, but doesn't have a widget API. Most of the widget systems that have APIs make them overly complicated.

Re: Making the world better through your browser

Scott — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:24:47 -0000

I'm not running over stupid bicyclists that run red lights in Seattle for one thing. I also don't open my car door on them when they whizz in between cars that are stopped at a stoplight.

Re: Corporate and political blogging — get rid of the fear, be yourself!

Scott — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:00:15 -0000

Wow, all those pages and NOTHING about what her plans are. Just a bunch of attack posts. Big deal. I HATE candidates who don't tell me what they are GOING to do if the are elected. Don't just tell me you're going to do the opposite of whatever the incumbent is doing.

http://www.darcyburner.com/blog.php?p=15

So her entire platform is "I'm not Dave Reichert"? Yeah, that worked REALLY well for Kerry in 2004 didn't it?

Maybe if the Democrats would solve their rectal-cranial insertion syndrome and start putting up viable candidates, we independants would have a better choice on election day.

Glad I live in Seattle instead of Redmond.

What a waste of time. Plus, the only reason she is talking to you is because she's an ex-Softie.

That being said, given who frenzied the political bloggers are, I'd have to agree that blogging is a great way to get your message out. The problem with political blogging is that it's not very honest. It's all honed and polished for effect. I have the same problem with corporate "blogging", most of it isn't really blogging in my mind. Just press releases. (See the majority of blogs.msdn.com for examples).

Bah

Re: Corporate and political blogging — get rid of the fear, be yourself!

Scott — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:02:23 -0000

And I've got a shiny nickel for the first candidate who actually writes their own blog posts and doesn't run it through a manager/PR person. Political blogging is so manufactured and fake.

Re: Corporate and political blogging — get rid of the fear, be yourself!

Scott — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:58:36 -0000

Robert,

There's a big difference between saying you are going to do something and explaining HOW you are going to do something. Politicians are always telling us what they are going to do, but not how they are going to do it.

Lets take one point. This is one of my favorite topics because there is no way a lay person could understand what stem cell research actually means.

He voted AGAINST Stem Cell Research. (HR 810)
Darcy SUPPORTS Stem Cell Research.

How is she going to support stem cell research? Is she going to try and overturn the ban on federal funding? Is she going to have a sill born baby and donate it's stem cells? Does she plan on buying lunch for every researcher that does stem cell research? What KIND of stem cell research? What does it mean to vote against stem cell research? What does it mean to support it?

Let's see what the P.I. says.
"The ad says that Reichert opposes stem cell research. Although he opposes the expansion of embryonic stem-cell research, Reichert does not oppose stem cell research in general, Mathis said. "

Hmmmmm, so he doesn't oppose stem cell research in general. That seems very different from what she's implying. She makes it sound like Reichert opposes ALL stem cell research, when really he's just as vague about what he supports as she is.

She, and most politicos, post meaningless words. Hell, it's easy to say you support something. Watch.

I support the withdrawl of troops from Iraq.

Now, what's my timeline? When do I think the troops should be withdrawn? How? Do I mean all of the troops or just some? See, politicians rely on our lack of follow-up for their power. They know they can get away with meaningless statements like that and no one will call them on it.

Not to mention, she implies connections without providing any facts. Look at this simple statement.

Reichert voted WITH Tom DeLay 91.3% of the time. (Congressional Record)

Darcy OPPOSES Tom Delay and SUPPORTS investigating his Ethics violations.

She's trying to say that Reichert is as bad as Delay, and may be unethical JUST BECAUSE HE VOTED THE SAME WAY AS DELAY. Maybe Reichert supports the Delay investigations as well. How do we know that she wouldn't have voted with Delay on a good majority of those bills? See, again she's just playing the "Democrats good, Republicans bad" card which is absolute pandering bullshit. Tom Delay and Dave Reichert both voted yes on this bill "Urging the President to issue a proclamation for the observance of an American Jewish History Month". Does this mean that Darcy would have voted no just because Delay did?

Heck, I'm tearing apart her platform and I don't even CARE about politics and I've been LOOKING for reasons to vote Democrat more often. Imagine what would happen is someone who paid close attention to such things really took an interest in her campaign. Hope she didn't burn any bridges at MS when she left.

She may have written the posts, but they were posted by "Zach"? Who's Zach?

Re: Riya not recognized by Google

Scott — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:57:59 -0000

Why on earth would you acquire a company who's primary product still needs work?

What I mean is, if their face recognition software was really THAT good, wouldn't the government be talking to them?

Re: Riya not recognized by Google

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:12:25 -0000

Chris,

GMail NEVER crashes on me. Not under Safari on my iBook nor IE or Firefox on my XP boxes. So I guess we cancel each other out.

Still not getting why you think MS should be interested in Riya given that MSR, along with several gov. Agencies, is working on face recognition. Do you think that the areas that Riya is better than MSR's solution are unsolvable by MSR? Do you think it'll be easier for them to combine Riyas peanut butter with MSRs chocolatte?

Re: I made Phil Ripperger stand in line for an Xbox 360

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:32:39 -0000

As someone who has built a career off of using MS tools to deliver solutions to customers I can tell you what's made me look at Rails and what's making me use Rails instead of ASP.NET for my little home applications.

Rails is FAR easier than ASP.NET.

(note the period)

ASP.NET 2.0 is getting worse. Now you've got generics thrown into the mix, which is supposed to make some things easier. But most people I know don't understand them, heck I'm not even sure I can correctly explain the benefits of generics.

Not to mention all of the Rails docs and tutorials go about building web sites the same way. If you look at the MS tutorials you're told one way to build a web site, if you look at the blogs they all tell you that the MS way is wrong and you should build big tiered applications, even if all you want is a bookmark storage application like delicious.

I could care less about the platform, all the OS is to me is a way to load and display data.

Rails makes the simple things even easier, but the complicated things harder. ASP.NET makes the simple things harder than they need to be, and the complicated things possible.

Re: I made Phil Ripperger stand in line for an Xbox 360

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:36:01 -0000

"Rob, my point was that you get a full development tool with intellisense/debugging support, WYSIWYG page designer and html editor, built-in web-server, sql express database (w/ database development support in the IDE), and more for free with the express editions of VS."

Dammit, I wish people would quit spreading this un-truth. VS Express is not FREE FOREVER. It's FREE until Nov of next year. After that, it's reasonably priced. But right now it's only free for a limited time.

Re: I made Phil Ripperger stand in line for an Xbox 360

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:38:44 -0000

Sheesh, I need to make fewer comments. ;)

"If the geniuses at Microsoft were allowed to develop what they want, instead of being driven by “not invented here” madness, we probably would see things like Ruby and standard Java running on the CLR. Instead, driven by competiveness, they continue to support fracturing the language landscape. I think Microsoft could develop a faster Java Virtual Machine for Windows than Sun can, but they just won’t."

Exactly, Scoble how about a C9 interview with the IronPython creator? What's happening with dynamic languages in the CLR?

Re: How can you identify an Xbox 360 owner?

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:43:29 -0000

"Anon: do you believe everything you read on the Internet? Ever think that maybe a competitor of ours is wanting you to believe no one is buying them in Japan? Hmmm?"

Are you saying that CNN is making up stories about the 360 sales in Japan Robert? When you say things like that, why do you then ask anon why he/she thinks you are taking punches at the competitors?

As far as the failure rate being under the industry standard. I think Sony and Microsoft helped raise that standard with the original Xbox and PS2 releases. hehehe

Re: I made Phil Ripperger stand in line for an Xbox 360

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:34:25 -0000

"That is simply not true. If you download it over the next 12 months it *is* FREE FOREVER."

That is absolutely true, I just checked up on the MSDN page and I was wrong. If you download it between now at Nov 2006 it is free for you to use forever. I sit corrected.

Re: I made Phil Ripperger stand in line for an Xbox 360

Scott — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:59:06 -0000

Mixins are pretty easy to use. IMO. They aren't about multiple-inheritance. The extension methods in C# 3.0 are analogous to Ruby's mixins. Python has a similar functionality, but I'm not aware of what it is called. But C# 3.0 won't be out for some time. There's a good summary here.
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/anoras/archive/...

I can honestly defend 1/2 of that statement. ;) ASP.NET 2.0 is making web development using .NET worse. Whether or not generics are the boon to development that people make them out to be depends on your POV. To me, generics look like an attempt to shove duck typing into a statically typed system. Now, we've spent 5 years teaching people how to develop ASP.NET applications one way and along comes ASP.NET 2.0 and turns it all on it's head. I tried converting two of our web projects to 2.0 and failed completely. Now I'll have to re-factor or re-write them to get them to work with 2.0. Then they'll just be functional, they won't be using any 2.0 features. Bleh, left a bad taste in my mouth.

I've found with Rails, I spend less time thinking about my back-end support code and more about my application logic and features. It's almost like I was coding in VB 6 Forms again. :)

Re: Scoble’s a tool, blogger cries

Scott — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:34:35 -0000

Yeah, Major Nelson did seem like a tool going to the Nintendo event.

Re: New “teamX” development methodology

Scott — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:01:54 -0000

J. Welch,

I disagree about gadgets running outside of the browser being more useful. I'm running OS X at home and the only time I ever go into the Dashboard is when I hit the function key for it accidentally. It takes so long to start up, it's not worth it. You also say "When they can run outside of a browser on multiple platforms, then you’re taking the lead.". I recently re-installed Yahoos Widget engine at work to see what has changed. Nothing, it's still a big memory hog. 6MB PER WIDGET?! And I'm supposed to run a lot of widgets?! WTF? Heck, devenv.exe on my machine only takes up 34MB. To paraphrase Bill Gates, "Are you telling me this devenv.exe is 4 WIDGETS!"

Nah, I spend the majority of my time in either an IDE or in a web browser. For me, and most people I think, being able to run widgets on a home page is much better. Less start up time, takes up less system memory, less is more.

Re: New “teamX” development methodology

Scott — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:02:44 -0000

Oh, and it's just as easy to switch to a browser window to view my widgets as it is to switch to Dashboard or Konfabulizeator (or whatever they call it)

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

Scott — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:18:39 -0000

A lot of the people at weblogs.asp.net are complaining that the latest CTP doesn't work with their drivers. Even Sam Gentile had problems and said he's waiting for beta 2. How did Paul get his to work?

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

Scott — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:53:30 -0000

Sam is having problems with his Nvidia card.

http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2005/12/21/3...

I don't have a non-work machine that gets anywhere close to the minimum requirements for Vista so I can't play with it. I might try putting it in a VM at work, but I'm not sure there would be any point to that.

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

Scott — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:10:44 -0000

"so one person is having an issue with an Nvidia driver (probably trying to use an old one instead of the up-to-date one that’s included with the OS), and thus the CTP is a failure?"

I never said it was a failure, Sam is the one who said he was recommending waiting for beta 2. I'm recommending people wait until SP2. ;) Did you even RTFA I pointed to? Don't know who Sam Gentile is? Robert does. Try reading his blog and doing some research on him. He's a smart guy, really, really smart. he pointed to another person having problems with the drivers, who's weblog is on LONGHORN-FRICKIN'-BLOGS.com, in the CTP. Then he pointed to two other people who said the CTP was fine. But one of them, Robert Mclaws, reported lots of tablet driver issues. The driver issues don't surprise me, especially the people reporting sound and video driver issues since those two areas have been re-worked a lot in Vista.

The biggest complaint I've read so far has to do witht he UAP/UAC stuff. Apparently MS didn't copy that correctly from OS X. The P2P-Bonjour stuff looks nice though.

Re: Paul reviews latest Windows Vista build

Scott — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:14:59 -0000

Sam did get build 5270 working on a thinkpad with an ATI video card though.
http://www.longhornblogs.com/sgentile/archive/2...

Re: Google announces feed API

Scott — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:45:40 -0000

Yeah, you buy Newsgator and the NetNewsWire users either stay frozen at version 2.0.1 or switch to Safari RSS or one of the other Mac RSS readers.

It's not synchronized with the Mac, at least not publicically. But hell, I can't even FIND NNW at NewsGator.com. I can find a news story that about the acquisition, but I can't find a link for all of the other spiffy products you talk about in your post. If I go to NetNewsWire.com I end up at some domain squatters site. If I go to http://www.newsgator.com/netnewswire, guess what I get? A 404. I have to go to Ranchero.com to find NNW. Heck, I can't even find Feeddemon there. At least it's at feeddemon.com. What a mess.

Re: Om talks about Apple 2006

Scott — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:52:25 -0000

Ok, here's a prediction that won't be as big of a deal as what actually gets announced. I'm predicting that iTunes will be upgraded with support for producing podcasts. You'll be able to plug in a mic (or use the built in one depending on your model), record a podcast, mix it a bit, include short song samples from your iTunes library (it's legal!), and promote it at the ITMS all through iTunes.

I think the expansion of video content through ITMS is a given. Although I'm not sure if CBS will be bringing anything to the table since they seem to have teamed up with Yahoo. Maybe more Pixar stuff?

There are still rumblings about Netflix offering a download service too... Hmmmmmm, a Netflix/ITMS collaboration would be nice.

Re: Joel says teaching Java is bad for CS students

Scott — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:34:37 -0000

Jeff Atwood and I had a back and forth about this topic a while back.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/archi...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00027...

I agree with Joel a little bit, but I think that the concepts are more important than the languages. I think that using Java is an excellent way to get the students to focus on good design and architecture, but that eventually it's good for a programmer to understand what's going on under the hood.

Re: ZapTXT sends RSS to your phone via SMS

Scott — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:01:34 -0000

Those of us with plain ole cell phones appreciate it. :)

Re: One wish for 2006…

Scott — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:17:57 -0000

You've said many, many times that you hardly ever visit a web site, you'd rather just read their feed. Why worry about whether or not you can view a site on your Pocket PC? Are you still reading sites without a feed?

Re: Apple stores powered by Windows?

Scott — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:28:38 -0000

"She said she used a Mac"
"She also did a lot of the UI on Windows 95."

Maybe if she had stuck to using Windows for her graphics work, the lawsuit wouldn't have happened. ;) She was influenced by the superior interface. heh heh

Re: The anti-RSS hype

Scott — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:21:40 -0000

"These guys remind me of the Unix system administrators who, back in 1991 when I was in school made fun of me "

uhmmm, since it's Slashdot they probably ARE the same Unix sysadmins who made fun of you in 1991.

Wait a second, I thought you wanted all web sites to be viewable on your smartphone? Who cares about RSS if you can view the content on any device no matter how big or small? ;)

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

Scott — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:27:28 -0000

"You know, if Russell was a woman, and could actually handle multiple operating systems, he could use both Windows and Mac machines, like I do (one Windows/Ubuntu dual-boot and two Powerbooks).

But he’s just a man, and therefore has limited capabilities. Tsk."

If Shelly were a man she would have all three of those OS's running on a single laptop. Tsk. ;)

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

Scott — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:39:03 -0000

Shelly,

I'm hardly one to help. I've got 4 different machines running 4 separate OS's. hehe. When I run out of old computers lying around, I'll start dual-booting. :)

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

Scott — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:28:10 -0000

Brandon,

I'm using a Dell laptop at work and my iBook at home. I notice a lot of performance differences between the iBook and the Dell in favor of the iBook. I've only got 512mb RAM on my iBook and 1GB of RAM on the Dell, but the dell (running Windows XP Pro SP2) takes a lot longer to start up programs. I don't have any benchmarks, it's all anecdotal. I'm looking at my dock on my iBook right now and almost every icon on it has a black arrow underneath it showing that it's running. I've got 4 desktops active. Including 12 tabs in Safari, 2 projects in Xcode, NetNewsWire, Mail, TextMate, 2 PDF's, and Locomotive. I find that if I have 2 or more solutions open in Visual Studio that my system bogs down.

For kicks and giggles I just decided to open up iTunes, iPhoto, and one of my old presentations in Keynote. I only have 755 photos in iPhoto right now, but when I use the app I only notice a tiny bit of slowdown when I zoom in on a picture.

Right now, the only arguments for Wintel (or should that be WAMD laptops?)laptops are "Apple hardware is expensive", "Everyone runs Windows", and "PPC isn't as fast as x86". Two out of three of those arguments are going to go away this year (I think). You'll start to see more Softies walking around campus carrying dual-boot Powerbooks to go with their iPods. ;)

Re: Have I outlived my usefulness?

Scott — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:12:48 -0000

Do two posts constitue an argument?

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

Scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:24:10 -0000

Wait, since when does MTV play music?

Re: Staying with Doc and Buzz

Scott — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:44:29 -0000

re: Vongo Pongo site

Apparently I have an "OS Failure". Really? A "Failure"? Or is the real "Failure" their inability to provide me with a web site for my OS? Vongo is telling a potential customer that I have failed right out of the bat. With a promise that Mac support is coming, "really".

What a horrible message to send to potential customers.

Re: CES, Day One

Scott — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:20:01 -0000

Is that the same OQO that ships with USB 1.0 and 802.11b?

Re: CES, Day One

Scott — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:35:43 -0000

re: OQO, nope they upped the USB to 2.0, but the built in wireless is still 802.11b. Nifty, so you have to take up the only USB port to get the gain in bandwidth. Or plug in a hub.

I'm not convinced that thing will ever ship. They've been hyping it forever.

Re: CES, Day One

Scott — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:37:20 -0000

Adam:

LOL, guess their marketing dept. needs a little more work.

Whatever happened to Paul Allens little Vulcan computer?

Re: Nine Guy gets lucky in Vegas

Scott — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:48:50 -0000

"morphed into the fantastic G4 Video Game TV, (which actually is quite good, esp. Icons, Adam and Morgan)."

WTF are you smoking?! I can't believe anyone would utter the words "fantastic" with "G4 TV". G4 killed whatever soul TechTV had and replaced it with contrived "wackyExtreme" hosts and content that maybe 12 14-year old boys care about. Once you are syndicating "The Man Show" for cryin' out loud, you've pretty much hit rock bottom. Icons is occasionally entertaining. But they CONSTANTLY re-use footage within each show. So they only have about 4 shots that just get repeated ad nauseum. ("Oh look, there's Mario jumping over the barrel at the bottom of the screen AGAIN. What's that? 40 times so far since the commercial?"

re:Rocketboom. It reminds me of Saturday Night LIve. And not from the 70's or 80's. The current wasteland that is SNL. On occasion a funny bit will emerge, but is it worth sitting through all the Jimmy Fallon skits to get to it?

Re: Nine Guy gets lucky in Vegas

Scott — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:51:43 -0000

re: X-play. Morgan Webb is on there for the 12-15 year old boy hard-on demographic and Adam Sessler is annoying. But I'll say this, he hasn't changed any throughout all of the mergers. So he may really be that wacky-in-a-contrived-and-phony-way all the time.

But the reviews seem honest.

Re: Scoble’s boring, Tom says, but Phillip ruins it with 3D RSS reader

Scott — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:32:26 -0000

So it's 3-D right? If he points it up who's feed does he get? ;)

Re: Engadget all over MacWorld too

Scott — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:11:21 -0000

Dude, you're presenting RSS to Microsoft employees and Steve Jobs is SHIPPING UPDATES to his product lines that "get" RSS.

Re: Engadget all over MacWorld too

Scott — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:15:25 -0000

hey, I think I called the podcasting upgrades in an earlier comment thread here. I thought they would be included in iTunes instead of Garageband though. Close counts doesn it?

Re: Patrick sad at the price…

Scott — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:27:03 -0000

"Oh, and did I mention that Patrick really doesn’t like the name?"

Why would you ask if you had mentioned it? Does your blogging tool use white on white for the colors in the posting area? Can't you just look back and SEE if you mentioned it. It's like typing. "Hang on, phone. Ok I'm back.". ;)

I shudder to think what they'll call the Ibooktels.

Re: Engadget all over MacWorld too

Scott — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:29:13 -0000

"30% marketshare with a $2,000 PC?"

What's the marketshare for Tablet PCs?

Re: Patrick sad at the price…

Scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:53:12 -0000

"Does it run windows?"

LOL, that takes the wind right out of the sails of one of Roberts first questions whenever someone mentions a platform other than Windows. "Does it run application X?"

Well, yes. If you dual-boot. ;)
I guess he'll have to modify his question to be, "Does it have a digitizer pen?" hehehe ;)

Re: Patrick sad at the price…

Scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:35:53 -0000

"Does anybody else see the irony in the son of the most well-known Microsoft Evangelist being so pro-Apple?"

Well what else can the kid rebel against?

Re: Patrick sad at the price…

Scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:17:01 -0000

It can't run Windows, at least not until Vista comes out. It uses Intels EFI.

Re: Things I don’t do

Scott — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:39:17 -0000

I don't ask other people to link to me.

I don't email links to posts that I've written to people telling them. "I thought you might be interested in this."

Re: Microsoft to abandon Mac player?

Scott — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:51:27 -0000

"“So, instead of giving mac users access to the paid content at the Windows based music store, they stop the access to the free content! And they call the iTunes Music store closed!”"

And then they wonder why Apple customers don't complain when Apple comes out with all these proprietary lock-in solutions like ITMS.

BECAUSE IF APPLE DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS NO ONE ELSE WILL!. All the big media companies are contractually obligated to suck at the teat of Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care

I've purchased about 15 Windows based DRM music files from WalMart and Napster. Can't play them natively on my Mac so I have to burn them to CD and import them. Tell me Microsoft, how is that supporting your customers?
I can't go to Movielink and download any movies or shows because WMP on OS X doesn't support the DRM.

Once again, Apple "Gets it" and Microsoft doesn't. I can buy any content at ITMS and play it on either my Windows or OS X box. Heck, I don't even have to copy the file to my OS X box. I can just connect to my shared music and play it. Can't do that with WMP on Windows can I?

That's why ITMS gets my money and Walmart/Napster/Yahoo don't.

Re: Microsoft to abandon Mac player?

Scott — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:14:08 -0000

PS. Did you ever think you'd see people clamoring for DRM on their computer?

Re: Trade shows are boring

Scott — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:53:50 -0000

Macworld only costs $45?!? I may go next year. Heck, I paid $50 to get into that crappy DevDays thing last year and it was worthless. At least at Macworld I'd get to go to San Francisco and get some schwag!

Re: Travel day

Scott — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:10:50 -0000

Hey, look on the bright side.

For once Microisoft sucks just as much as Yahoo. Not more!

Yay!

Re: Scoble: I’m not an edge case

Scott — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:01:15 -0000

"Carol Grojean VAVA VOOOM!!!! Ya, lucky guy Scoble."

Way to reduce her years of hard work down to her tits buddy. I'm sure your appreciation of her looks far outweighs anything she is accomplishing at Microsoft.

re: Todays edge case is also tomorrows mainstream user.

Todays edge case is also tomorrows nutjob who bet on a bad idea. Just because you are all alone on the ski trail doesn't mean you are a trailblazer, you could just be lost.

Re: Allchin blogger dinner heats up with DRM and Vista conversation

Scott — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:56:52 -0000

So bascially another "friends of Scoble" dinner, just like the "randomly selected" search champs that includes a lot of the same people from last year.

So apparently, Microsoft *is* listening to *a* community. It just so happens that everyone in the community is friends with Scoble.

Plus "A flock developer" and "Tara Hunt". Not really a big stretch to get those two together it seems. And Beth Goza, you mean formerlly of Microsofts Beth Goza? Isn't she dating or married to PT? (Why in the hell do I remember these things, but I keep forgetting to call my broker?) Hmmmmmmm, did Thomas get to invite his SO at least? hehe

Hey, I've got an idea. For the next dinner with Alchin, how about if you just walk around downtown Seattle or San Francisico and ask people if they are interested in Windows and would like a free dinner.

Re: Allchin blogger dinner heats up with DRM and Vista conversation

Scott — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:01:49 -0000

"So that invalidates your whole point"

Curses, foiled again!

Which facts did I miss? I'll correct my database of useless knowledge, which seems to be larger than my database of important stuff.

Re: Mini, comments, and let the venom flow

Scott — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:52:30 -0000

I didn't flame, I just spoke the truth from my context. I don't get any useful information from your blog. Your blog has become uninteresting to me. I think a lot of people would be better off not reading you. I don't think you contribute a lot to the areas of the internet and world I'm interested in. All these people buy into the "cult of Scoble" and link to you, hanging on your every word. That's not me.

I'm a lot smarter reading people like Alex Russel, Brent Simmons, Scott Hanselman, and Wolf Rentzsch than I am reading you. It's the difference between a Petzold book and People magazine.