I read this article all the way through, and now my head hurts. Did anyone else notice that there was nary a sentence that was gramatically correct. What was especially irksome was this final remark.
Thanks to Ed Boyce for going through the pain of proof reading this article.
Online or not, I think a modest respect for the English language should be maintained. If English is not your first language, well then, that's what copy editors are for.
I was at the (nicely done) Sun Network show last week in SF, and I went to the N1 announcment. What a snooze-fest. They start off claiming that they will virtualize the OS. In the future, if you need more compute resources, you'll just throw another box into the rack, no OS configuration, not even an IP address.
Of course, they'r enot quite there yet. They've been at it for close to two years now, and it seems that all they have is some IT management solution. Yawn. Not only that, the plan goes three years out before they reached the vision mentioned above. And even then it's Sun hardware only.
Business 2.0 quoted someone as saying that if Sun doesn't make N1 work, they will simply fade away. Well, maybe they'll make it work, but will anyone care. I'm not sure Sun has three years left. With Intel eating at its HW revenue and Linux slurping up the software revenue, and no services arm to speak of. Man, I don't see Sun's future. It's not N1, anyway.
Note, to use the docking crade you have to modify the kernel for USB-ethernet support. Something I don't feel like doing. However, I set it up to do a network synch (I have a Netgear MA701 wireless CF card in my Z.), and it works like a champ.
Also note that the various PIM applications use an XML file format, and while it is mostly guessable, the format is not published. And TrollTech recommends not modifying them directly, anyway.
Finally, remember that you can always FTP etc. into the Z. for file management and other tasks.
Now, how do you sync with Mozilla's address book, Outlook's -and- evolution's Calendar, and Outlook's todo list?
Okay, I'm a little late to this discussion, but I've got a question.
A number of +5 posts have stated that the Telcos are not going to roll over for the ??AA, that they are 6,000 pound gorillas, that they can't afford for this precedent to be set, and so on. On the other hand, using my AT&T broadband connection to visit listen4ever, I receive this:
"No web site is configured at this address."
Other posters have confirmed that other carriers are doing something similar.
So what gives? Looks to me like they've already rolled over. Honestly, I don't see how these two things jive.
For all of you New Yorkers who rode the D train from Brooklyn into Manhattan in the late 70's and early 80's, this is old hat. I don't know when they pulled the plug on this, but between Dekalb Ave. and the Manhattan Bridge some artist had done exactly this along the abonded Myrtle Ave. stop. It depicted a 1950's style rocket ship taking off and landing.
I must have watched this a 1,000 times on way in to high school. Of course, this was art and not an ad.
be advised that your use of the GODZILLA mark.. confuses consumers and the public into believing that your "GODZILLA" character originates from Toho
Nonsense, everyone knows that Godzilla originated in the depths of time and crawled out of the Pacific after the U.S. nuked the Bikini Islands.
Moreover, your use of the "ZILLA" formative... is likely to cause the users of your site to believe that the "DAVEZILLA.COM" website is either associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by our client
This is what is known as a portmanteau word. That is a word that conveys meaning by using parts of other words that have definite associations. Words such as smog (smoke and fog), or, more inline with davezilla, monicagate (Monica and Watergate), infomercial (info and commercial), and Linux (Linus and Unix). Whether this can be construed as trademark infringement is somebody else's call, but I rather think that The Almighty (God) and Homer (Trademark holder of the monster named Scylla) might have something to say about this.
... and I've taken a look around for other RDBMSs. Maybe the problem is that it's flying a little under radar.
However, I have had the same question in relation to the open source version of Borland's Interbase, the Interbase fork - Firebird, and the hsql Database Engine.
It seems to me that the community has latched on to MySQL and PostgreSQL as -the- database solutions, and this very acceptance places them higher up the food chain. For instance, hunt around for an open source based Content Managemnet Sysytem (ala SlashCode or PostNuke), and almost invariably it has a MySQL backend.
For all of you who think that Mozilla stops pop-ups go to epicurious.com and watch. Then go to bugzilla and check out bug # 126224.
Apparently the pop-up handling routines are relatively simplistic and stop window.open calls while a page is loading or unloading. But our friends at doubleclick and the NY Times simply moved their pop-up calls onto the *image* on-load event. And when that one's squashed they'll put it on the submit event, and then the mouseover event, and so on. The good folk over at Mozilla are noodling out the solution right now. I'm rooting for 'em.
New Edition? Overdue? I know that/. reviews are not necessarily timely, but I've had the 4th edition of the JavaScript book sitting at elbow for at least six months.
If Bill Joy designed a car it would have no dashboard, just a screen that displayed a question mark whenever something went wrong. "The user would no what it means," said Joy.
As other's have posted Orwell was indeed railing against totalitarianism. However, that's where this article gets it wrong. The cornerstone of 1984 is not technology, per se, but information. Confusing the two is like trying to equate "Animal Farm" to "Babe". And while information may want to be free (and for the most part currently is), there are many; like the current U.S. Executive and legislative branches, the various media associations, and others who are doing their best to limit those freedoms.
For no good reason I viewed the source of the permission form. Ironically, the form's action tag is: http://iris.npr.org/cgi-bin/watchingyou.pl
Not only that, but the high-tech folks at NPR use this form to generate an email. The recipients are listed in a hidden field on the form. So if you want to give the ombudsman a break, you can send your thoughts directly to the people who evaluate the link requests: jrichards@npr.org, bmelzer@npr.org, nprhelp@npr.org, tholzman@npr.org.
Assuming that Walmart is going to do an unadulterated Mnadrake install, then I really think that it's going to confuse the heck out of their customers - despite Mandrake's rep as a desktop OS.
I don't understand why they did not go for something along the lines of Lycoris or OEone. A streamlined, consistent Linux OS designed to be used by non-techies.
Despite the fact that Mozilla has all the features I want and I'd love to use it if only to avoid the whack-a-mole pop-up-ad game, I'm too used to hitting Alt+D to go to the address bar. So sue me. One tiny difference and you lose your commodity status.
One big problem with usage pricing is all the traffic getting past my cable modem that I didn't ask for. What for instance are they going to do about this:
And how 'bout teh endless barage of packets that keep probing ports 137 and 138.
And those flash animations I didn't ask for, and those pop-under ads, and all ads for that matter. I suppose I'll have to figure a way to add all this noise up, and attach it along with my corrected invoice to the cable company.
If I grok this right, this is a wonderful thing. What we have here is the ability to author a GUI (or character) application with separation of the UI from the code. Much like in a browser, you can have the UI described by HTML and events managed by JavaScript -- without a browser. Not only that, Sash is built on top of the Gecko rendering engine and XPCom among other things.
Even as we speak I am writing an application for a customer. The app is a cross-platform, GUI/Character installer for their application. No existing installers could do what was necessary, so I'm writing a dedicated one from scratch. What to write it in? Perl/TK, was the only realistic choice.
Now lets look at some Perl/Tk code as compared to SashXB (formatted poorly to avoid lameness filter).
### Create a new frame to line up the directory Entry widget with the file ### Browse button my $BrowseFrame = $UI{entryFrame}-> Frame()->pack(-side => 'left', -anchor => 'w',);
And have this run from the OS, not in a browser. It looks like Sash will let me do this, and what could be wrong about that?
Since important parts of SashXB (needs a new name) are Gecko, XPCom, and the Mozilla JavaScript interpreter. It seems that rich, complicated UI's are in reach via XUL. I sincerely hope that a richer version of SashXB will soon be mentioned in the same breath as Perl, Python, and Ruby.
I belive that argument was made by a U.S. judge when trying to decide whether Creationism was a science. It isn't.
It should be noted that the author is also not a scientist, he's a statistician. And we all know what you can do with statistics. Further, one must remember that 90% of scientist (working without incentive from industry or government) have concluded that human activities are changing Earth's climate and that this climate change will be rapid and destructive. In fact, the only scientists that hold opposing views have been found to be on the payroll of Big Oil or other vested interest groups. Claiming that all of these scientist have reached the wrong conclusion is little different than saying that evolution may be wrong as it's still a 'theory'.
It seems that someone needs to explain not that the Earth is not at risk, but how carbon emissions could possibly have a benign effect on the environment. Or more simply, why, sitting here in Massachusetts in the middle of February, I have the heat off and my window open.
And as an aside it should be pointed out that even as the Economist praises Mr. Lomborg's work it rails against President Bush and his deceptive and ineffectual emissions reduction plan. Which is it?
The instructions have been posted on the web, but it looks like they have not been e-mailed to current AT&T Broadband subscribers.
Just yesterday (the 14th) I received a letter from AT&T discussing the whole changeover. What was changing, why, and what to expect. It was clear, concise, and accurate. Thankfully, they didn't email this to me as I don't use my AT&T email account. Then again, maybe they did.
The instructions on how to change your various settings for your email/web/whatever clients may or may not be accurate - I didn't read them.
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My brother once had an idea for a short science fiction story. Imagine aliens are parked out on the edge of the solar system monitoring us? When they notice our reverence for gold they attempt to get on our good side by mining a huge chunk of it from, say, Charon. Then they come prancing towards Earth saying, "We come in peace. We bring you gold." Well, what do you think the Earth governments would do? They'd point every nuke on the planet at the BEMs and reduce them (and the gold) to their constituent components -- can't have him fscking up the whole world economy, now can we?
After reading this article and the "What if what once was scarce is now abundant?" quote, it made me wonder how the world's governments are really going to treat the open source community.
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Thanks to Ed Boyce for going through the pain of proof reading this article.
Online or not, I think a modest respect for the English language should be maintained. If English is not your first language, well then, that's what copy editors are for.
No need to mod this post, just venting.
I was at the (nicely done) Sun Network show last week in SF, and I went to the N1 announcment. What a snooze-fest. They start off claiming that they will virtualize the OS. In the future, if you need more compute resources, you'll just throw another box into the rack, no OS configuration, not even an IP address.
Of course, they'r enot quite there yet. They've been at it for close to two years now, and it seems that all they have is some IT management solution. Yawn. Not only that, the plan goes three years out before they reached the vision mentioned above. And even then it's Sun hardware only.
Business 2.0 quoted someone as saying that if Sun doesn't make N1 work, they will simply fade away. Well, maybe they'll make it work, but will anyone care. I'm not sure Sun has three years left. With Intel eating at its HW revenue and Linux slurping up the software revenue, and no services arm to speak of. Man, I don't see Sun's future. It's not N1, anyway.
Note, to use the docking crade you have to modify the kernel for USB-ethernet support. Something I don't feel like doing. However, I set it up to do a network synch (I have a Netgear MA701 wireless CF card in my Z.), and it works like a champ.
Also note that the various PIM applications use an XML file format, and while it is mostly guessable, the format is not published. And TrollTech recommends not modifying them directly, anyway.
Finally, remember that you can always FTP etc. into the Z. for file management and other tasks.
Now, how do you sync with Mozilla's address book, Outlook's -and- evolution's Calendar, and Outlook's todo list?
Okay, I'm a little late to this discussion, but I've got a question.
A number of +5 posts have stated that the Telcos are not going to roll over for the ??AA, that they are 6,000 pound gorillas, that they can't afford for this precedent to be set, and so on. On the other hand, using my AT&T broadband connection to visit listen4ever, I receive this:
"No web site is configured at this address."
Other posters have confirmed that other carriers are doing something similar.
So what gives? Looks to me like they've already rolled over. Honestly, I don't see how these two things jive.
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I wish I noticed this story earlier.
For all of you New Yorkers who rode the D train from Brooklyn into Manhattan in the late 70's and early 80's, this is old hat. I don't know when they pulled the plug on this, but between Dekalb Ave. and the Manhattan Bridge some artist had done exactly this along the abonded Myrtle Ave. stop. It depicted a 1950's style rocket ship taking off and landing.
I must have watched this a 1,000 times on way in to high school. Of course, this was art and not an ad.
Nonsense, everyone knows that Godzilla originated in the depths of time and crawled out of the Pacific after the U.S. nuked the Bikini Islands.
Moreover, your use of the "ZILLA" formative ... is likely to cause the users of your site to believe that the "DAVEZILLA.COM" website is either associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by our client
This is what is known as a portmanteau word. That is a word that conveys meaning by using parts of other words that have definite associations. Words such as smog (smoke and fog), or, more inline with davezilla, monicagate (Monica and Watergate), infomercial (info and commercial), and Linux (Linus and Unix). Whether this can be construed as trademark infringement is somebody else's call, but I rather think that The Almighty (God) and Homer (Trademark holder of the monster named Scylla) might have something to say about this.
... and I've taken a look around for other RDBMSs. Maybe the problem is that it's flying a little under radar.
However, I have had the same question in relation to the open source version of Borland's Interbase, the Interbase fork - Firebird, and the hsql Database Engine.
It seems to me that the community has latched on to MySQL and PostgreSQL as -the- database solutions, and this very acceptance places them higher up the food chain. For instance, hunt around for an open source based Content Managemnet Sysytem (ala SlashCode or PostNuke), and almost invariably it has a MySQL backend.
For all of you who think that Mozilla stops pop-ups go to epicurious.com and watch. Then go to bugzilla and check out bug # 126224.
Apparently the pop-up handling routines are relatively simplistic and stop window.open calls while a page is loading or unloading. But our friends at doubleclick and the NY Times simply moved their pop-up calls onto the *image* on-load event. And when that one's squashed they'll put it on the submit event, and then the mouseover event, and so on. The good folk over at Mozilla are noodling out the solution right now. I'm rooting for 'em.
New Edition? Overdue? I know that /. reviews are not necessarily timely, but I've had the 4th edition of the JavaScript book sitting at elbow for at least six months.
This reminds me of a -very- old joke:
If Bill Joy designed a car it would have no dashboard, just a screen that displayed a question mark whenever something went wrong. "The user would no what it means," said Joy.
As other's have posted Orwell was indeed railing against totalitarianism. However, that's where this article gets it wrong. The cornerstone of 1984 is not technology, per se, but information. Confusing the two is like trying to equate "Animal Farm" to "Babe". And while information may want to be free (and for the most part currently is), there are many; like the current U.S. Executive and legislative branches, the various media associations, and others who are doing their best to limit those freedoms.
For no good reason I viewed the source of the permission form. Ironically, the form's action tag is: http://iris.npr.org/cgi-bin/watchingyou.pl
Not only that, but the high-tech folks at NPR use this form to generate an email. The recipients are listed in a hidden field on the form. So if you want to give the ombudsman a break, you can send your thoughts directly to the people who evaluate the link requests: jrichards@npr.org, bmelzer@npr.org, nprhelp@npr.org, tholzman@npr.org.
Assuming that Walmart is going to do an unadulterated Mnadrake install, then I really think that it's going to confuse the heck out of their customers - despite Mandrake's rep as a desktop OS.
I don't understand why they did not go for something along the lines of Lycoris or OEone. A streamlined, consistent Linux OS designed to be used by non-techies.
Perhaps Joel should read the Mozilla page on how to modify the default key bindings.
66.30.208.96- [12/Jun/2002:06:11:55 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+ dir HTTP/1.0" 400 294
66.30.208.96- [12/Jun/2002:06:11:55 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe ?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 311
66.30.208.96- - [12/Jun/2002:06:11:55 -0400] "GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+ dir HTTP/1.0" 404 311
195.55.126.121- - [12/Jun/2002:12:13:29 -0400] "GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u 6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u68 58%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00 %u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 331
And what are they going to do about this:
"Make money in your $pare time with...."
And how 'bout teh endless barage of packets that keep probing ports 137 and 138.
And those flash animations I didn't ask for, and those pop-under ads, and all ads for that matter. I suppose I'll have to figure a way to add all this noise up, and attach it along with my corrected invoice to the cable company.
I would love to download Moz 1.0 (as I have every build since .09). However, every single Linux link (tar.gz, RPM, etc.) immediately responds with:
/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/mozilla-i686- pc-linux-gnu-1.0-sea.tar.gz was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Nor can I connect to the ftp site.
Hmmm, the Windows and Mac links are the same.
What gives?
Even as we speak I am writing an application for a customer. The app is a cross-platform, GUI/Character installer for their application. No existing installers could do what was necessary, so I'm writing a dedicated one from scratch. What to write it in? Perl/TK, was the only realistic choice.
Now lets look at some Perl/Tk code as compared to SashXB (formatted poorly to avoid lameness filter).Now what I'd much rather do is something like this: And have this run from the OS, not in a browser. It looks like Sash will let me do this, and what could be wrong about that?
Since important parts of SashXB (needs a new name) are Gecko, XPCom, and the Mozilla JavaScript interpreter. It seems that rich, complicated UI's are in reach via XUL. I sincerely hope that a richer version of SashXB will soon be mentioned in the same breath as Perl, Python, and Ruby.
I belive that argument was made by a U.S. judge when trying to decide whether Creationism was a science. It isn't.
It should be noted that the author is also not a scientist, he's a statistician. And we all know what you can do with statistics. Further, one must remember that 90% of scientist (working without incentive from industry or government) have concluded that human activities are changing Earth's climate and that this climate change will be rapid and destructive. In fact, the only scientists that hold opposing views have been found to be on the payroll of Big Oil or other vested interest groups. Claiming that all of these scientist have reached the wrong conclusion is little different than saying that evolution may be wrong as it's still a 'theory'.
It seems that someone needs to explain not that the Earth is not at risk, but how carbon emissions could possibly have a benign effect on the environment. Or more simply, why, sitting here in Massachusetts in the middle of February, I have the heat off and my window open.
And as an aside it should be pointed out that even as the Economist praises Mr. Lomborg's work it rails against President Bush and his deceptive and ineffectual emissions reduction plan. Which is it?
The instructions have been posted on the web, but it looks like they have not been e-mailed to current AT&T Broadband subscribers.
Just yesterday (the 14th) I received a letter from AT&T discussing the whole changeover. What was changing, why, and what to expect. It was clear, concise, and accurate. Thankfully, they didn't email this to me as I don't use my AT&T email account. Then again, maybe they did.
The instructions on how to change your various settings for your email/web/whatever clients may or may not be accurate - I didn't read them.
After reading this article and the "What if what once was scarce is now abundant?" quote, it made me wonder how the world's governments are really going to treat the open source community.