If anyone out there persists in believing that Linux isn’t ready for serious prime time, NYSE Euronext’s dependence on Red Hat should finally lay that silly notion to rest. As announced, the New York Stock Exchange Euronext dumped its proprietary UNIX heritage (AIX, HP UX, Solaris) for the …
Archive for May 13th, 2008Filed under: Multimedia, World wide web Tools
I haven’t give this enough of a test obviously, to be able to say decisively one way or another — especially since I don’t regularly use Hulu — but the news is promising enough that I thought I’d share. Let us know in the comments if this solution works for you. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Software, World wide web Tools  I live in Philadelphia, but I’m a native New Yorker, and for my money there is no superior newspaper on the planet than the New York Times. The Times has really embraced the new realities that the digital age has foisted upon the newspaper business by trying a number of new things (running a great website included). Sadly, it seemed that the Gray Lady was ignoring Mac users when it first released the Times Reader. The Times Reader, for those who don’t know, is a dedicated application which displays the last seven days of the New York Times. It has many of the benefits that one gets from reading nytimes.com (changeable fonts, searchable content, ease of printing) with the added benefit of not requiring an internet connection. The Times Reader syncs content on your computer, and lets you take it anywhere. Luckily for me (and I am betting there are some other New York Times fans out there) the Times will be launching the Times Reader Beta for Mac at some point this month. The Times Reader for the Mac is a native Cocoa application powered by Webkit and Silverlight (yes, you’ll have to install Microsoft’s Silverlight to use this app). This is not the same as the RSS reader called Times which Mat posted about last week. This is a beta, and so there are some features that the Personal computer version has that aren’t in the Mac version:
It isn’t all bad though, the Mac version supports search across all seven days of content while the Computer version only searches the current day’s edition. During the beta the Times Reader for Mac will be free to use, but once the beta is over it’ll revert back to being free only for New York Times subscribers (though you can subscribe just to the Reader service for $14.95 a month). Check out the blog post for more images of the app. As soon as I get a opportunity to look at the Times Reader for Mac beta I’ll post an in depth review. VCS - Finance Department Finance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Finance Leadership Exchange FINANCE - Comcast.net Finance Mortgage of America, Inc. Welcome to Fisher Department Of Finance DeVry Student Finance Gateway Finance & Grants (CA Dept of Education) Department of Economics and Finance:: College of Business New England College of Finance - Programs Dealers Finance, the used automobile dealer’s friend in the floorplan finance The BBC is spot on in suggesting that Mozilla’s Firefox is a gold mine waiting to happen, though it’s unclear how Mozilla gets there from here. Could Firefox be one of the web’s biggest beneficiaries as a platform? Absolutely. Does it want to be? That’s not … I read a few posts today that made me think that some people have put their brains on idle while their mouths (or, rather, fingers) did the thinking for them. I understand: I do the same thing. Regular readers of this blog will know that I do it…regularly. One post criticized this blog for having a partial feed. How can a blog devoted to openness have a partial feed??? This conveniently overlooks that CNET relies on page views/advertisements to pay the bills, and so needs people to click through. Were CNET to give everything away for free (as in no advertisements/no money attached to its content), there would be no more CNET. While TechCrunch might like this, millions of others who log billions of pageviews on CNET each year wouldn’t be as happy. In another turn, Kris Buytaert didn’t like my post suggesting that open-source vendors should anticipate loyalty and a mutually advantageous relationship from their system integration partners, and institute policies to help foster this. I wish I could understand Kris’ argument, but I can’t. The “pay me if you love me but don’t really need me” model doesn’t work (i.e., Support only). Period. Sometimes we don’t really want the consequences of what we want. We want open source to be all about peace, love, and freedom. It’s not. At least, not to the extent that some of us (myself included) would like.
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The market’s irrational expectations of open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsI’ve commented on Oliver Alexy’s research on open source’s effects on stock prices before, but was gratified to see it featured in today’s Wall Street Journal. It turns out, as per Mr. Alexy’s research, that open source can have a salubrious effect on one’s … |
TUAW reader Eric F sent in a note letting us know that “Safari Adblock grants you to watch Hulu programming totally commercial free!” I gave it a try. I downloaded a copy of Adblock from its 
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