I read mashable pretty regularly, but this is the first time i've felt compelled to say something. this "review" is the worst kind of review in that it harps on one "who cares anyways" feature of some random application that is only tenuously related to social networking, and the review itself is useless. after admitting to not liking macs and not even testing the software yourself, why did you not just go on with your day and save me (and countless others i'm sure) the minute and a half of reading your useless banter? was it just to write a self-important blog post?
Jerrod
· 1 year ago
also there actually is a difference between displaying photos as a "screen saver" and as a "desktop", which you fail to recognize. Displaying photos from your own computer or RSS as a screensaver is indeed old hat. doing the same with your desktop, not so much.
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 1 year ago
@Bentram: I do indeed know the initials JWZ. Always been a great admirer of his. One of the inspirations for me to get into coding for the internet when I was knee-high to a web server.
@Jerrod, the reason we're talking about it here, quite honestly, is the same reason everyone else is talking about it. There is simply very little else to talk about.
The truth is that this program is a glorified screen saver, despite the fact that it may execute it on the desktop or not. The function present in Yahoo Go isn't technically a screen saver, but an option from the main menu.
When you're using the platform as an interface for your TV, it effectively becomes a screen saver. As Om, Scoble, and others are pointing out, the yippee! seems to be that it turns the TV into a platform, to which I say: Bah! Humbug. DVR/PVR/Media Center PC makers have been attempting this for 4+ years now to varying degrees of success.
Every pundit in the blogosphere is praising this as if it were sliced bread. I comment on it because someone needs to be the voice of reason.
Eric Rice
· 1 year ago
Would Yahoo/Flickr ever ink a deal with Dish/DirecTV/Tivo, etc to bring this right through the air onto the TV for widespread retail adoption, reducing the need to ever touch software beyond Flickr itself?
When I played the game for the first time ,I liked it deeply until present.In this game ,we can use the shaiya money and the shaiya gold .These shaiya money that if we got a upgrading ,maybe we could get a encourage for these shaiya money .But it is not the only way to get these shaiya money,we can also use the RMB to buy shaiya gold.
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@Jerrod, the reason we're talking about it here, quite honestly, is the same reason everyone else is talking about it. There is simply very little else to talk about.
The truth is that this program is a glorified screen saver, despite the fact that it may execute it on the desktop or not. The function present in Yahoo Go isn't technically a screen saver, but an option from the main menu.
When you're using the platform as an interface for your TV, it effectively becomes a screen saver. As Om, Scoble, and others are pointing out, the yippee! seems to be that it turns the TV into a platform, to which I say: Bah! Humbug. DVR/PVR/Media Center PC makers have been attempting this for 4+ years now to varying degrees of success.
Every pundit in the blogosphere is praising this as if it were sliced bread. I comment on it because someone needs to be the voice of reason.
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/2007/12/28/demo-or-die/