For all intents and purposes, unless you are playing a game on your PS3 or 360 there is no i and p...there is only p...unless you are still watching HD using an old CRT based system. And technically, 1080i isn't a resolution...it's a broadcast spec. The resolution is 1920x1080.
- Alex Scoble
I'am all about the p rather than the i. However, 1080 is't exactly the resolution.
- Kamath (नमः)
eh, I don't exactly agree alex. TV comes in 1080i the same as your games can, and games are affected by your screen being whatever resolution it is the same as televisions(flat panel? it's p)
- Richard Lawler
Aaaaand Alex wins the Taking It Too Seriously award. Congratulations, Alex!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Then there's miniDV based HD camcorders that shoot at 1440x1080 but call it 1080i/p.
- Rodfather
i & p have nothing to do with the resolution. They are the scanning technique used to draw the image on a CRT. i is for Interlaced scanning and p is for progressive scanning. With i every other line on the screen is traced and then the missing lines are traced on the next next screen refresh. This happens fast enough that your eye sees the whole image. With p every line is scanned every time the screen is refreshed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Yeah nothing over comcast comes in at 1080p. Only on 360, PS3 and DVD/Blu Ray players. Not that it really matters unless you're watching sports or other fast moving content, which in Comcast's case is usually hit by compression artifacts before you'd ever notice anything but pretty.
- Josh
It's a bandwidth issue for cable. For the compression used, it's only fast enough to display 1080i or 720p 60fps/30fps. For fast moving content, I believe 1080i appears smoother than 1080p since it refreshes at 60 fields per second (each field is sort of like half of a frame). For sports broadcasts, 720p @ 60fps is the best.
- Rodfather
I think it's impractical to claim blahblahblah spec is better than blahblahblah spec. It is all a matter of what content you are watching on what display. You probably aren't going to notice the resolution different between 720p and 1080p unless you are watching high bitrate content on a large format screen. And comparing any cable or satellite 'HD' to Blu-Ray is pure insanity. Most cable channels aren't even approaching 1/2 the bitrate of a standard AVC encoded Blu-Ray.
- matthew john ernisse
That was my resolution in 2005 (along with 1080p). I need something new, 4 years later.
- Anika
Let's put it this way: What we paid for our 42" 1080p monitor is still less (4 years later) than what some people are paying for a 32" 720p one. And Costco came and set it up for us. I highly suggest it.
- Anika
You have to like the cheese on their pizzas and, for some reason, I do not.
- Robert Miller
We just bought my Mom's new Monitor there. 23' monitor widescreen. Very happy
- Tyler (Chacha)
from IM
Also bought my new camera via web. Got a free 2GB SD Card
- Tyler (Chacha)
from IM
"I'm James Clark, co-founder of Room 214, www.room214.com and I can honestly say that my business partner, nor I have never even remotely discussed obtaining the Twitter name @room214 It was our approach from the beginning for each of us to use our own personal Twitter accounts. In 2007 when we thought it would a good idea to just to grab the name and found it was already taken we never even thought about it again Colin Davitt beat us to it and that was fine. We would never in any way seek to push any legal angle on this. It's not our style at all. I can assure you with total honesty that my business partner and I have not asked to pursue or threatened any legal action, or even discussed the situation among ourselves, with our employees or with our lawyers. It's never been anything we even remotely considered. It was taken so we moved on. This is an unfortunate situation of an employee acting independently without ever consulting or notifying us of his actions. We wish Colin Davitt..."
- James Clark
Clean, simple, the Google trademarks. (It's also looking a lot like Zoho)
- Gary Burge
I think I prefer the new look, seems cleaner.
- Robert Nelson
Needs a few Greasemonkey tweaks but overall it's better.
- richrecruiter
looks cleaner but less usable to quickly scan things, due to the far lower contrast (no more blue highlight and menu background). Everything blends together on my screen. Will get used to it, i guess. The typography does not look harmonious, they ought to tweak font sizes and spacing a bit.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
too much white! I would have loved to see it go in a different direction.
- vijay
i got confused. i meant to like this one. looks cleaner for sure. i LOVE helvetireader script though. it kills
- Cee Bee
+1 for Helvetireader! Lots of space and clean to the max.
- vijay
I haven't seen the new gReader.. but you know what still looks gorgeous? Feedly. ;)
- Phil G
I don't like it yet. It feels sharp and poorly spaced. But I'll get used to it.
- Glen Turpin
I like it. If you were new to reader this would be an easier interface to use, IMO.
- Clay Newton
pretty much the only reason i use google reader instead of another web service is that it used to be fast (not anymore) and the social feed websites integrate with it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
It's too early to tell, Sarah. It does look -- *brighter*
- Jorge Escobar
I like it, just hope a redesign means that they bring in themes.
- Zach Chisholm
Any idea how to decollapse the navigation pane back again? I don't say a way to undo the evil that I did.
- Todd Hoff
I was expecting something drastic so I'm a little disappointed. Seems like more of the same with a little cleanup. Nothing offensive and certainly no major changes that make it bad.
- Kenton
I'm inclined to say that the new Google Reader is much superior to the old GR.
- Jamelle
Love the feature upgrades, style is a little stark for me.
- Kamath (नमः)
Disagree. I was so used to the previous version. But that's because I live there.
- Louis Gray
I actually didn't like it when I signed in after getting home. Perhaps I was far too used to the previous look? It's practically always open in another tab. But I'm getting used to it, and it's not too bad..
- deepikaur
I like it, but I want to hide the "Friends shared items" from the sidebar. That's the one feature I don't use.
- Larry Hudson
Like, but I also want to see which blogs you put in the B, C, and D-list, Sarah. :)
- Matt Cutts
Looks sweet, but appears to show less articles on the screen at once.
- Mike Reynolds
like the new google reader and i like sarah too
- Zee.
Haven't seen it yet, as I use Feedly.
- Grant Bierman
I like that I can now find the "Add Subscription" button without scouring the left-hand pane for 5 minutes
- Craig Eddy
Some things are better. Two things I don't like is that the font size in the feed panel on the left seems to have doubled, and sometimes keyboard shortcuts don't work.
- Tanath
liek it, but it looks weird with Helvetireader now - and that was soooo nice... well, hope for a Helvetireader and Better GReader greasemonkey updates now.
- Peter Efland
The script helps, but it has a downside too. When you mark an item as read with 'm' the highlighting goes away. Why can't anything be perfect? :P
- Tanath
loving most of it - especially the collapsing of stuff, but hoping for themes soon. having occasional problems with the keyboard shortcuts though :(
- siggimus
On the radio, I heard two possible theories to explain this: (1) behavior (i.e. women tend to do dirtier stuff than men), and (2) biological (mens' skin is more acidic).
- Ontario Emperor
The simple difference of body chemistry betwixt men and women could contribute. Personally, I think it is that nurturing, mother instinct ;)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
saw it as an excerpt on today's paper, apparently it's the difference in acidity of the skin
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
You forgot 3) women are more likely to have to clean up germy crap around the house =/
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Or (on average) come in contact with more germy kids =\
- LogEx
Yeah, well, I'll bet you nasty BOYS carry more viruses! :-P
- Ladybug Heather
The study found a greater *variety* of bacterial species on the hands of women, not a greater *number* of bacteria. In fact, the penultimate sentence in the article says, "While the tests could determine how many different *types* of bacteria were present, THEY COULD NOT COUNT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BACTERIA ON EACH HAND." Headline FAIL.
- Karim
next up: scientists have discovered other childhood truths to be actual truths - the one who smelt it, indeed dealt it.
- Pete Delucchi
Heather, your viruses are grosser than my viruses! And, for the record, snails and puppy dogs tails are very clean. Spice is not; I don't subscribe to it on my satellite because it's dirty. :)
- Ontario Emperor
Ooooo! Well, OE, I'll have you know I have some CHEMICAL X around here, so don't get my Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice all ticked off, or there might be some consequences!
- Ladybug Heather
"The big question is: do any cloud computing vendors have an offering that provides a complete solution for enabling people to build scalable web businesses?"
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
I usually don't see stuff in clouds, but wow, that sure is an elephant!
- Sarah Perez
My two-year old, who just got up to pee a few minutes ago, looked over at my screen and said "hey, an elephant!". Word, Junge. He spots stuff in clouds during drives -all- the time... he's amazing. :)
- abacab
Um you guys... this is an article about cloud computing LOL
- Mona Nomura
I think Em is crazy talented and gets a lot of attention for being a white guy in what's seen as a black field of play. With that, this song shows why he should be seen as more than that.
- Derrick
I'm glad to see him fading into well-deserved obscurity.
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
His performance with Elton John at the Grammies in 2001 proved that he took it all back, Chuck. :)
- Helen Sventitsky
I *heart* Eminem. He's the only "bad" boy I love. I wanna marry him.
- ♥patricia♥
"we got an uzi for all you fags": those are his words. Elton John's excuses don't hold water. Hate crimes against LGBT folk continue to go up as hate crimes overall go down, and people like Eminem create the environment in which bigots think they have a license to kill.
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
George, I think he has a new album to come out before the end of the year, but he's been in seclusion. I also heard he gained a ton of weight, so maybe he's also trying to get his skinny on.
- Derrick
I do not like the man, but I can't help but like this song...as recorded. The recording of his live performance left me underwhelmed. Hearing this has reminded me that I need to get out of my funk before I lose my opportunities.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I don't like the man either, but I'm not a rap fan either. There are a very very few rap tracks I like but this isn't one of them.
- Ian May
Do you actually take advantage of FriendFeed's search feature to find Items you may have lost? Do you know that you can do stuff like "service:internal dark crystal" and "who:rahsheen service:flickr"?
I'm sure there is a blog post about this somewhere, but service:internal is Friendfeed direct, everything else is pretty self-explanatory. The one thing I know you _can't_ do is exclude stuff. I use search all the time when I want to follow up on an item.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
i try, but even when i look for stuff from 8 hrs ago, it never shows up. NEVER. :(
- Anika
Use it often. Almost always when I lose my place :)
- Charlie Anzman
I use search a lot to get items back that have scrolled off to older pages.
- Morton Fox
Brain explodes... slurks away to kitchen to nibble on more food!
- Susan Beebe
Anika, it doesn't work unless you have good search terms. That's hard to do on FF because it's so dynamic. Harder for me cuz my memory sucks...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
i guess, but like earlier today someone posted something to twitter i needed to find. when to their twitter feed, put in the term and nothing. i had to scroll through their actual twitter pages to find it.
- Anika
Yes, sir, but I almost always just go to my tabs for that. It would have to be pretty old for me to have to search for it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I search the main feed for stuff I am interested in
- B. Hatin
I always search for the things I want to use bookmarklet for, before posting it myself. I hate being the person who posted something that's already been liked and commented on. If it's already there, I'll like their post instead.
- David Cook
Are you using the FF Real-Time in a sidebar? FF is just killer in that layout.
- Rolf Schewe
I'm using it in a separate fluid mac app, it just rocks
- George Tziralis
"Seamus McCauley calls Boutin’s post “flagrant flamebait,” which I think is probably true. And I fell for it." Wired as an entity is nothing but hype and flamebait. They're consistently 5 years ahead on a course that the world never actually takes. Wired is about as reliable as a WMD brief.
- Christopher Galtenberg
...and yes, Scoble is meaningfully interacting with all 20,000 of us.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I don't see why we can't do both social networking stuff (facebook, twitter, friend feed) AND blog. That's liek saying, "we have cars, so we really don't need anything else with wheels anymore like shopping carts or bycycles."
- Aaron L. M. Goodwin
from twhirl
Honestly, if no one is blogging, what would we all talk about, and comment on? How would we convey our messages? Yeah, we would put snippets in our social networking, but the real articles need a place of their own... I doubt blogging is dead, I think it's actually still growing...
- Danielle Closs
Since about 2000 there has been a least one major article annually about the death of blogging. Blogging is dead, long live blogging!
- Jason Shellen
I am still blogging away at my own little efforts. It pays for my hosting and domain renewals at least. I have to make more effort to blog (as I'm spending time in here too). I use FF more than I use Twitter, but I've always thought of them as two different services in any case.
- Ian May
A magazine says blogging is dead. Irony FTW. We're still cutting down trees for daily syndicated content....
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Blogs will always be around the same way that newspapers are still around. Yes, FF and twitter are really nice for that instant information on a subject, but blogs are much more sustainable for the long term. I am still finding good information on blogs that were posted three years ago, and will continue to post to my blog the information that I feel is valid enough to keep around for more than a month.
- Wizetux