Comment Re:I wouldn't trust non-professional reviewers (Score 1) 248
Too. Fuck.
Comment Re:I wouldn't trust non-professional reviewers (Score 2) 248
The problem isn't "non professional" reviewers, it's the fact that anyone with an account can review, regardless if they've purchased or not.
I've had this argument a lot where I work. Our customers can only review a product if they've purchased the product. Moreover, they have to wait several weeks until they're invited to review. This cuts out A LOT of the noise.
Unfortunately, it also severely limits the feedback you get (which is why Amazon allows anyone to "review" something).
It's not a perfect solution, but professional reviewers are far to costly and far to slow.
Comment Text wrapping (Score 1) 2254
I like the clean up a lot. Most of the site is a lot easier on the eyes.
That said, as a UX designer, my one nit is the text wrapping.
The huge center columns are, and have been, a little hard to read. Eyes have a hard time tracking across really long sentences. It would be nice they wrapped sooner for users with large browser windows. Really long lines of text are kind of typography / page layout no-no.
Aside from that, nice work!
Congrats!
Comment Re:Lies. (Score 1) 353
I'm a flash developer, and from what I remember, the Mac version of flash doesn't auto update. But maybe I'm wrong.
That said, others need to start doing this if we're going to migrate to HTML 5. Flash 9+ has something like 99% penitration. It's just too damn easy to develop with flash. It's a POS, but you know your products will get to your end users.
Comment Re:LINUX rounds numbers fine (Score 0, Troll) 764
I'm sorry, but you're just plain wrong. Find something with comparable specs, and it's going to cost you about the same amount of money. Moreover, Apple sweetens the pot for student with a 15% discount a lot of very nice free software and, as I recall, a free $100 - $200 dollar printer and or iPod Touch. Ohh, and two stickers.
Moreover, in my experience, Macs tend to depreciate slower and last a bit longer then my Dells.
Comment Re:Bars are a business and a meeting place (Score 1) 393
Ehh, I don't know. If I have 1 beer with lunch, spend the following hour trying to fight the urge to take nap. I might as well eat a Tylenol PM sandwich.
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 1) 693
I'll be happy once Apple allows me to strip the DRM off of my 128kps files locally. I'm a music junkie, and I really don't feel like paying $200 to "upgrade" and re-download hundreds of songs. It would be nice if I could (legally) do it locally for free.
I guess someone is trying to make a quick buck.
Comment Re:5 years... nah, not going to happen. (Score 1) 625
Yes, but many people will be looking down at their hands all day long, which is not the wisest position if you care about ergonomics. (Hence my comment about neck strain.) You generally want people to be looking at something eye level. There is a LOT of ergonomic research to back this up.
Submission + - Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Album (wired.com)
mytrip writes: "Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses based on what little information is available.
The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead)."
The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead)."
Submission + - Standard Web Fonts No Longer Supported In Vista (hunlock.com)
BladesP9 writes: "Beginning with Vista, Microsoft is no longer packaging the standard Web Core Fonts that it has since the late 1990s. "With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has unleashed something quite new on the Web — the "C" fonts; Cambria, Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel." The article goes on to state that "If you're a web designer and not using Vista then this download is mandatory since it will let you see your page as your Vista users see it." This means all of the web sites I have been developing with Arial, Helvetica and Verdana for the last ten years are now going to have display issues because of the new fonts. Lovely."
Zune DRM Cracked 232
An anonymous reader noted that Zune Scene is reporting that the Zune DRM has been cracked with software now available that strips the DRM from Zune Marketplace tracks and those shared with WiFi.
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