Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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I also forgot to mention, Lyn, that in answer to your other question on the Matrox forum regarding TinyURL.com posts, you can use TinyURLs. They just need to be approved as pron sites and spammers use them to hide things that they want to drive people to, so we check each and every TinyURL before it goes live.
It adds an extra step, but you can use them.
It’s been that way for years by the way.
Ron
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Yes, it died of disinterest.
I will turn off the Medea link, also. I forgot about that one.
Ron
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It happens because you are not posting the entire URL, Lyn.
Use the complete URL or Linux takes over and “appends” an incomplete URL with the host’s appendage, making the assumption that you are calling a local link.
Best,
Ron
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[Bret Williams] “How about taking it to a different level. Allow people (and the poster) to categorize via a pull down menu. And instead of having a bunch of different FCP forums about basics, hardware, etc we just have the same big ol FCP forum with filterable views.”
Now you are reading our minds, Bret. This is exactly what we have been working on and we plan to introduce the prototype of what the new interface can do, in Q1 2010. (It is one of the reasons why we have been so dead-set against breaking out the forums into the kind of “a forum for this, and a forum for that” idea, such as you see at Adobe.com, etc.) One of the reasons why the COW has been so successful is because it’s simple. But we plan to enhance/augment the simplicity with AI features and things that help expand the functionality and usefulness while being very simple to use — not to mention, helping newer users easily and quickly find answers to their “it’s already been asked 12 times today” questions.
I have been working with the team on this — which also incorporates many other über-cool things, as well — off and on for the last few months. With the recent threads, I have moved the project higher up the priority pile.
This recent announcement is just a stop-gap move to stop the bitching in the meantime. Our goals are much bigger and the interface design we are working on is far more than a mere bandage fix.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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And…???
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[Mark Raudonis] “After the caveman tasted “flame broiled wolly mammoth” how could he ever go back to raw meat?”
Mark,
Bessie says to mention that she STILL encourages everyone here to enjoy more flame broiled wooly mammoth — “Yum!” she says. “And much better than beef.”
Ron
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Chris:
If situations caused by incompetents were to rule the outcome of what was acceptable in the market, then we’d be nowhere today.
I could name you a TON of piss-poor choices made, situations botched, opportunities squandered, and hardware fried based on idiocy — and if those choices were the ones pointed to that ruled the day and determined the adoption and outcome of technology’s forward march — we’d all be hosed today.
Thankfully, idiots lose their jobs, they lose their customers, school districts learn that sometimes the lowest bidder is NOT the guy to use after all, and technology marches forward.
Nearly ALL of the experts laughed at Google when it came out — though they heaped huge praise on Netscape when it went public — and they were wrong in both cases.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Another great article, Mister Wilson. Thanks for the link.
Here is one of the great points made in the article…
“Google has designed Chrome OS as a platform for people who use computers primarily online, and the company is betting that many folks will happily trade their desktop apps for alternatives in the cloud. Naturally, this won’t appeal to all users. I’d even say it won’t appeal to most users, at least initially.
But multiple lines of evidence suggest that cloud services are the computing model for the future–a fact that even desktop-dominant Microsoft has embraced, as it prepares to roll out its Office Live services as a companion to its longstanding desktop suite (a companion that many savvy users will undoubtedly use in lieu of the desktop suite). What lines of evidence am I talking about? Enterprise adoption, device-agnostic work habits, and nearly constant wireless connectivity.
Cloud computing is now a standard business practice worldwide. For a start, two million companies (ranging from small mom-and-pop operations to large enterprises like Genentech and Motorola–use Google Apps for e-mail, document editing, collaboration, scheduling, and intranet hosting. CRM tools like Salesforce.com are rapidly replacing desktop and client-server application suites for sales teams of all sizes. Hosting providers like Rackspace are attracting major companies such as Sears, Volvo, and KFC with the promise of cheap, rock-solid server management and storage in the cloud. Perusing the list of companies that rely on just these few examples pokes a gaping hole in the ill-considered argument that cloud computing is either too flaky or too unsecured for serious business.”
Even with a little business like Creative COW, the cloud model is already being felt. We have had our people begin to standardize their workflows across the cloud and in doing so, save themselves a lot of work.
With every crash and license issue, The Cloud just begins to look prettier and prettier.
One day, we will all work for Google. But not yet.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Yes, but the whole idea of The Cloud is far beyond what traditional dumb terminals have been up to this point.
Cloud computing is dumb terminals on steroids — hence, really dumb terminals.
Maybe like Ah-nold, the Governator, or somethin’.
Ron Lindeboom
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Dumb terminals are … well, dumb.
Cloud computing and the whole concept of “truly networked computing” is far and away quite beyond what dumb terminals have been.
One of the key points Tim made helps illustrate it best: “Apple is more than happy to rule your world through devices. Netbook, thy name is iPhone, and iPod, and whatever the tablet thing is going to be called. They want to sell computers for as long as anyone is buying computers, but the real money’s in the cloud.”
Best,
Ron Lindeboom