I thought most of the Seamonkey code was redistributed throughout the lower projects? A fix in the core Seamonkey could translate into a fix for the standalone web browser, email client, etc. I don't much like the stand alone versions, I wish they were more of a plugin thing.
They already have the XPI framework in place, it would seem trivial to either offer network based installers (blah!) or various links to different packages. Just put little checkboxes on the webpage for "Web? Email? IRC? Calender?" and you get the XUL/Gecko base, with XPI's for the web interface, email interface, etc. The reason I dislike FireFox ThunderBird, etc, is you download much of the same stuff twice (XUL being the obvious example). I don't know how many files are duplicated on your hard drive, but I would hope zero to few. Include a link to "Add Email" on the front page or whatnot so people can add components at will. Include a method in the software itself. Office and IE do it. Only load the email components when the email windows are open, etc.
Hard disk space, physical memory, and bandwidth may be cheap, but they aren't always in abundance, nor are they free.
Lord knows mix tapes never took off. I imagine many people think of the iPod mini as merely a really really long mix tape. It has songs they like, and the rest they do with out for a few days. Remember 120 minute tapes? An ENTIRE HOUR on each side!
Also, typical "My needs aren't met!" blinders. They do make obscenely large iPods for those with large collections, they also make small cute iPods for those who need smaller and lighter.
I hate those people who take quick pictures of their friends and family with just any old $20 35mm camera. Don't they know they could lug around a bag full of SLR Lenses and a big Nikon body and get EVEN MORE OF THE SAME PICTURES?!
Two monitors is a godsend which can only be trumped by three! But I must say, even my girlfriend can't live without two monitors now. She doesn't get how she got anything done on the computer before. Video card makers know it, most any new video card will come with both a DVI and a VGA port on them, and a DVI->VGA adapter. nvidia's are very nice, with support for spanning (2048x768) or "dual view" where it tricks your system to thinking there are two seperate video cards (More useful in my opinion).
I must be new here, but how about doing your own research before making statements which assumes fault? I must say that I have never been burned by Sony electronics, it seems everyone else found their linux offerings just fine. A quick "your shit breaks we don't care" disclaimer, and you get a page of categorized downloads. Isn't this what we hate about the RIAA? (Of which Sony Music is a member...but not sony electronics) You are buying CD's you dirty thief! Have some awful copy protection!
Do I like RPM? Not particularly, do I care? Not in the least. The software is there and for the world to use. Maybe if this were, say, Linksys could we preface this release with "wheres the source", but they seem to have cleaned up their act.
Thats hilarious. I mean heck, view a couple pages of slashdot in "nested" view or load any news website. Heck, download windowsupdates. I wouldn't even consider myself as on a network at that point.
Some of the updates are 3 megs in themselves, couple that with a few hundred K of the windows update website and catalog. You sure this "uni" isn't scientology or in need of a 5$/semester rate hike?
Uhh hello? I would have torn up the citation in that jokers face and told him that I have the right to free travel. Get arrested. Do not resist. But tear up any and all citations for going for a jog in the middle of the night. Do not tear up citations for raping people or being a peeping tom;-)
I have seen people do this with their music libraries over HTTP. They have an index script which generates a true index of all the mp3's stored on their drive, and serves it up with a link which looks like you're going to download the song. However, when you click the links it goes to a page on copyright law.
I would love to see a harassment suit come from someone like this who gets an RIAA C&D letter/lawsuit. Go all spendy on a lawyer who sees the benefit in pounding the RIAA.
Video cards have been capable of sending final renders back to the CPU for a really long time.
Just to prove that, see also the "screenshot" button in your game. It pulls the current frame straight out of the vram and writes it to the hard drive as a bitmapped image. As the author says though, PCI-Express should hopefully make it a more DMA like action, so as not to slow to a crawl when you pull data out.
Amen. Nothing stops them either. Timing belt slips? Oh well replace it. New oil? 10k miles, if you remember. Mine ate water pumps every 3 years for some odd reason, but we think the prior owner warped something. Nothing $60 and 2 hours labor couldn't fix though (including cleaning up the coolant you just dumped all over the garage, oops...). The oil stopper in the bottom used a size "1" metric wrench to get off, which amused me to no end. No friggen fractions to remember.
The thing which finally killed that volvo was someone who ran a stop sign and warped the frame.
When the battery in my 2000 Jetta came up with a dead cell the other day, I went to replace it. (This was the stock dealership battery, surprised it lasted this long) The thing is encased in plastic, with a power distribution and spare fuse box on top of it, and the plastic houses some insulation. The bolt/metal bit which holds the battery on though, was way at the bottom of all this and extremely hard to see with this plastic housing, but so is the way to get the housing off. A few screws, pops, clicks, and snaps later, we found the metal bit which holds the battery in and swapped it out. Of course, AutoZone didn't have the battery in stock, but we got one "close enough" for $25 less than the right one would be.
My car is no worse for wear, and has a couple of those spare parts removed. Always remember, most any plastic housing is no more than just spare parts designed to shy you away from the engine.
So like, where is the cache slot and how much for a Sonnos G3 card to stick in it?:) Hope the extensions aren't that big though, I don't have much long term memory as is.
I know, really, what is with those "graphics cards" people? They sell this fancy hardware when OpenGL could just software emulate the whole thing! Get a clue. Hook someone on the idea and then make it blazing fast via offloading the work onto a specialized chip.
This is why winmodems and realtek network cards are $5 a peice, and hardware ones cost a few (hundred) pennies more. My cpu has many more things it should be doing than bothering to calculate some prime number or raytrace graphics. Remember the Good Old Days when Apple ]['s and 286 intels had a zillion slots for addon cards? Nothing was done in software, you simply offloaded it onto a hardware controller.
Why can't Apple see this as 5 cents a song kick back for iPod compatability? In exchange, iPods bought via Real's website get Real a $10 kickback from Apple?
Real would be contractually bound to only offer songs or whatever which meet this and that criteria for sound quality, customer support, etc. The one major problem I see is that Real offers a song that iTunes has, and someone buys it from Real instead of itms, turning 30 cents into 5. Maybe all they make is 5 cents a song anyways, but you would see brand dilution.
Every two years in Califonia we are required to take our cars in to be checked up on by Big Brothers's designated mechanic (Smog Check). It would be trivially easy to calibrate the black box then, as the car is put on rollers and accelerated to various speeds. Check the read out of the onboard computer to the speedometer to the rollers. All within 1%? Fine. Black box out of sync? Recalibrate it.
However, there would need to be a law requiring that black boxes be software calibrated, and that it is done automatically when the computer finishes the tests. No $75 program the computer fee.
This would never work, you're right. I sit my ipod in my ash tray/lighter section. I run the cords onto the floor of the passenger side, out of the tangle comes the tape adapter (easily a line-out adapater), and the other side is the iPod remote. I set the volume on the ipod, and use it to play, pause, and switch songs. I reach one whole foot up and use the stereo knob to adjust the volume. This works really really well, as I can hold the remote in my hand and change songs, the ipod is angled so (in daylight) I can see the LCD, and the volume is easily spun down if a song is too loud.
Complicated? Have you seen what people put up with in the case of mounted cellphones and CD changers? I mean, this is a walk in the park. The radio turns itself on when I start the car, all I have to do it push the play button at the same time I release the hand brake.
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Assuming they don't seed the list with their own addresses to insure validity (damn gave them the idea), whats to stop you from just, you know, setting up your {freebsd|openbsd|linux} gateway from re-routing port 25 traffic to your own custom sendmail hack? "Accept" all the mail it sends and pipe it to/dev/null. Check to see if it's the daily report or whatever just in case they use email to send themselves the data. I see this as a great way to STOP spam;-)
It's not "stupid" to run sites they can't afford to because they rely on ads, TV Stations do just that. The idea is though that the ads pay off in advance for eyeball time on TV. Companies (advertisers and webmasters) need to learn that a click isn't the most imporant thing (unless all you do is sell on the web) but that brand recognition is best. "Hit up amanzon and find the book" or whatnot. If you are not willing to pay out for brand recognition then get out. If everyone blocks or skips your ads, figure out a way to make a buck. Product placement works on TV, for everything. You don't have to show someone using a tampon to advertise it, just make sure the brand name is prominent and in focus when they pan across the bathroom counter or look in the cabinet for something.
Charge admission to your website. Salon does it, slashdot offers you improved features, userfriendly offers you todays comic w/o ads. If ads are getting blocked then eventually something will be forced to replace it. Selling branded t-shirts helps for some, but minor websites that you only hit up for single quick info can't make money on that, something like micropayments will come into play.
Saying a company is stupid for relying on income that worked yesterday is, well, stupid. The company failing to realize that web ads are decreasing in value, and not trying to improve the value, or find another source of revenue is stupid, though.
Having a friend who worked in those gateway stores (and thus hanging around shooting the shit with him) I saw first hand exactly what you are saying. Customers would walk in, point at a model that is setup on the desk, complete with digital camera, scanner, etc, and say "that one", the sales guy would say "1-2 weeks unless you pay for expediated shipping" and the customer would walk out.
The internet has changed retail stores into places people go who either don't want to pay shipping, don't have the time to wait, or simply want to touch the computer first. I have some small businesses I consult for, and on the weekend I will get a call "hdd dead on so and so's computer" or "buy linksys router", I can't wait for some store to ship it to me, so I go to my local guy or best buy.
I must say though, gateway did wow me once when I brought in a keyboard that was dead from black beans-rice-lemonade combination (it actually worked for months after that, save - and ESC, another batch of lemonade is what killed it), they swapped it out with me on the spot and said the "real" replacement would be in the mail. Next morning I wake up to a UPS guy handing me a keyboard with a pre-paid return shipping label for the one they gave me. They then shot themselves int he foot for an entire week while I tried to order some overpriced ram from them.
Real also contends that buffering enough data that the hard drive isn't behind on READ's is a waste ofBUFFERING...spBUFFERING...aceCONNECTION UNEXPECTADLY TERMINATBUFFERING.
Possibly one email saying "we blocked 100 spams today, here are the highlights:" and put some of the "lower scoring" email on the list. I don't know if AOL just uses black and white filtering with no scoring mechanism, but if something got a low score (Go Ask Alice gets flagged once every so often as 5.1 points in Spam Assassin) but still flagged as spam, put the from and subject headers in that email, with a link to get it back.
On a side note, I e-mailed the Go Ask Alice people with a copy of the spam assassin score card and pointed out a few things they could do to lower their score. I told them I happen to get all my SA'd email, but other users might not, and I would hate to see you get a false report of spam. The next week all of those changes had been implemented and their score dropped 3 points. For those wondering, it is a mailing list run out of columbia.edu which answers questions on health and sex related matters. Lots of penis vagina breast orgasm too little too long in the email, with plenty of links to go around.
I believe most states do not allow people to pay the police right then and there. Why not? Fraud. Turn the lights on, and issue a warning instead of a ticket, but still collect the cash. I would take that bribe if I were a speeder. Insurance hikes alone would be worth it after your first ticket or two.
My girlfriend of many years? Yes. Maybe I'm courting a new girlfriend, sitting with a business client, etc. Learn? She knew that skirt was too short to sit in when she bought it. There are skirts of all lengths, from just-past-the-panties to flows on the floor, this is on purpose, my friend.
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I thought most of the Seamonkey code was redistributed throughout the lower projects? A fix in the core Seamonkey could translate into a fix for the standalone web browser, email client, etc. I don't much like the stand alone versions, I wish they were more of a plugin thing.
They already have the XPI framework in place, it would seem trivial to either offer network based installers (blah!) or various links to different packages. Just put little checkboxes on the webpage for "Web? Email? IRC? Calender?" and you get the XUL/Gecko base, with XPI's for the web interface, email interface, etc. The reason I dislike FireFox ThunderBird, etc, is you download much of the same stuff twice (XUL being the obvious example). I don't know how many files are duplicated on your hard drive, but I would hope zero to few. Include a link to "Add Email" on the front page or whatnot so people can add components at will. Include a method in the software itself. Office and IE do it. Only load the email components when the email windows are open, etc.
Hard disk space, physical memory, and bandwidth may be cheap, but they aren't always in abundance, nor are they free.
so I *could* add a forth to it I guess...
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I would pay good money to see you add a low-level programming language to your monitors...
Lord knows mix tapes never took off. I imagine many people think of the iPod mini as merely a really really long mix tape. It has songs they like, and the rest they do with out for a few days. Remember 120 minute tapes? An ENTIRE HOUR on each side!
Also, typical "My needs aren't met!" blinders. They do make obscenely large iPods for those with large collections, they also make small cute iPods for those who need smaller and lighter.
I hate those people who take quick pictures of their friends and family with just any old $20 35mm camera. Don't they know they could lug around a bag full of SLR Lenses and a big Nikon body and get EVEN MORE OF THE SAME PICTURES?!
Two monitors is a godsend which can only be trumped by three! But I must say, even my girlfriend can't live without two monitors now. She doesn't get how she got anything done on the computer before. Video card makers know it, most any new video card will come with both a DVI and a VGA port on them, and a DVI->VGA adapter. nvidia's are very nice, with support for spanning (2048x768) or "dual view" where it tricks your system to thinking there are two seperate video cards (More useful in my opinion).
I must be new here, but how about doing your own research before making statements which assumes fault? I must say that I have never been burned by Sony electronics, it seems everyone else found their linux offerings just fine. A quick "your shit breaks we don't care" disclaimer, and you get a page of categorized downloads. Isn't this what we hate about the RIAA? (Of which Sony Music is a member...but not sony electronics) You are buying CD's you dirty thief! Have some awful copy protection!
Do I like RPM? Not particularly, do I care? Not in the least. The software is there and for the world to use. Maybe if this were, say, Linksys could we preface this release with "wheres the source", but they seem to have cleaned up their act.
Thats hilarious. I mean heck, view a couple pages of slashdot in "nested" view or load any news website. Heck, download windowsupdates. I wouldn't even consider myself as on a network at that point.
Some of the updates are 3 megs in themselves, couple that with a few hundred K of the windows update website and catalog. You sure this "uni" isn't scientology or in need of a 5$/semester rate hike?
Uhh hello? I would have torn up the citation in that jokers face and told him that I have the right to free travel. Get arrested. Do not resist. But tear up any and all citations for going for a jog in the middle of the night. Do not tear up citations for raping people or being a peeping tom ;-)
I have seen people do this with their music libraries over HTTP. They have an index script which generates a true index of all the mp3's stored on their drive, and serves it up with a link which looks like you're going to download the song. However, when you click the links it goes to a page on copyright law.
I would love to see a harassment suit come from someone like this who gets an RIAA C&D letter/lawsuit. Go all spendy on a lawyer who sees the benefit in pounding the RIAA.
Video cards have been capable of sending final renders back to the CPU for a really long time.
Just to prove that, see also the "screenshot" button in your game. It pulls the current frame straight out of the vram and writes it to the hard drive as a bitmapped image. As the author says though, PCI-Express should hopefully make it a more DMA like action, so as not to slow to a crawl when you pull data out.
Amen. Nothing stops them either. Timing belt slips? Oh well replace it. New oil? 10k miles, if you remember. Mine ate water pumps every 3 years for some odd reason, but we think the prior owner warped something. Nothing $60 and 2 hours labor couldn't fix though (including cleaning up the coolant you just dumped all over the garage, oops...). The oil stopper in the bottom used a size "1" metric wrench to get off, which amused me to no end. No friggen fractions to remember.
The thing which finally killed that volvo was someone who ran a stop sign and warped the frame.
When the battery in my 2000 Jetta came up with a dead cell the other day, I went to replace it. (This was the stock dealership battery, surprised it lasted this long) The thing is encased in plastic, with a power distribution and spare fuse box on top of it, and the plastic houses some insulation. The bolt/metal bit which holds the battery on though, was way at the bottom of all this and extremely hard to see with this plastic housing, but so is the way to get the housing off. A few screws, pops, clicks, and snaps later, we found the metal bit which holds the battery in and swapped it out. Of course, AutoZone didn't have the battery in stock, but we got one "close enough" for $25 less than the right one would be.
My car is no worse for wear, and has a couple of those spare parts removed. Always remember, most any plastic housing is no more than just spare parts designed to shy you away from the engine.
So like, where is the cache slot and how much for a Sonnos G3 card to stick in it? :) Hope the extensions aren't that big though, I don't have much long term memory as is.
I know, really, what is with those "graphics cards" people? They sell this fancy hardware when OpenGL could just software emulate the whole thing! Get a clue. Hook someone on the idea and then make it blazing fast via offloading the work onto a specialized chip.
This is why winmodems and realtek network cards are $5 a peice, and hardware ones cost a few (hundred) pennies more. My cpu has many more things it should be doing than bothering to calculate some prime number or raytrace graphics. Remember the Good Old Days when Apple ]['s and 286 intels had a zillion slots for addon cards? Nothing was done in software, you simply offloaded it onto a hardware controller.
A carefully selected reed is mighty tasty to suck on. I used to suck on them while I read books at night.
No one has mentioned a flute yet though. It is considered a wood wind while not containing any vibrating thinly shaven wood.
Or just get your girl friend addicted to EQ like I did...
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She now has more chars higher level than I do
Why can't Apple see this as 5 cents a song kick back for iPod compatability? In exchange, iPods bought via Real's website get Real a $10 kickback from Apple?
Real would be contractually bound to only offer songs or whatever which meet this and that criteria for sound quality, customer support, etc. The one major problem I see is that Real offers a song that iTunes has, and someone buys it from Real instead of itms, turning 30 cents into 5. Maybe all they make is 5 cents a song anyways, but you would see brand dilution.
Every two years in Califonia we are required to take our cars in to be checked up on by Big Brothers's designated mechanic (Smog Check). It would be trivially easy to calibrate the black box then, as the car is put on rollers and accelerated to various speeds. Check the read out of the onboard computer to the speedometer to the rollers. All within 1%? Fine. Black box out of sync? Recalibrate it.
However, there would need to be a law requiring that black boxes be software calibrated, and that it is done automatically when the computer finishes the tests. No $75 program the computer fee.
This would never work, you're right. I sit my ipod in my ash tray/lighter section. I run the cords onto the floor of the passenger side, out of the tangle comes the tape adapter (easily a line-out adapater), and the other side is the iPod remote. I set the volume on the ipod, and use it to play, pause, and switch songs. I reach one whole foot up and use the stereo knob to adjust the volume. This works really really well, as I can hold the remote in my hand and change songs, the ipod is angled so (in daylight) I can see the LCD, and the volume is easily spun down if a song is too loud.
Complicated? Have you seen what people put up with in the case of mounted cellphones and CD changers? I mean, this is a walk in the park. The radio turns itself on when I start the car, all I have to do it push the play button at the same time I release the hand brake.
Assuming they don't seed the list with their own addresses to insure validity (damn gave them the idea), whats to stop you from just, you know, setting up your {freebsd|openbsd|linux} gateway from re-routing port 25 traffic to your own custom sendmail hack? "Accept" all the mail it sends and pipe it to /dev/null. Check to see if it's the daily report or whatever just in case they use email to send themselves the data. I see this as a great way to STOP spam ;-)
It's not "stupid" to run sites they can't afford to because they rely on ads, TV Stations do just that. The idea is though that the ads pay off in advance for eyeball time on TV. Companies (advertisers and webmasters) need to learn that a click isn't the most imporant thing (unless all you do is sell on the web) but that brand recognition is best. "Hit up amanzon and find the book" or whatnot. If you are not willing to pay out for brand recognition then get out. If everyone blocks or skips your ads, figure out a way to make a buck. Product placement works on TV, for everything. You don't have to show someone using a tampon to advertise it, just make sure the brand name is prominent and in focus when they pan across the bathroom counter or look in the cabinet for something.
Charge admission to your website. Salon does it, slashdot offers you improved features, userfriendly offers you todays comic w/o ads. If ads are getting blocked then eventually something will be forced to replace it. Selling branded t-shirts helps for some, but minor websites that you only hit up for single quick info can't make money on that, something like micropayments will come into play.
Saying a company is stupid for relying on income that worked yesterday is, well, stupid. The company failing to realize that web ads are decreasing in value, and not trying to improve the value, or find another source of revenue is stupid, though.
Having a friend who worked in those gateway stores (and thus hanging around shooting the shit with him) I saw first hand exactly what you are saying. Customers would walk in, point at a model that is setup on the desk, complete with digital camera, scanner, etc, and say "that one", the sales guy would say "1-2 weeks unless you pay for expediated shipping" and the customer would walk out.
The internet has changed retail stores into places people go who either don't want to pay shipping, don't have the time to wait, or simply want to touch the computer first. I have some small businesses I consult for, and on the weekend I will get a call "hdd dead on so and so's computer" or "buy linksys router", I can't wait for some store to ship it to me, so I go to my local guy or best buy.
I must say though, gateway did wow me once when I brought in a keyboard that was dead from black beans-rice-lemonade combination (it actually worked for months after that, save - and ESC, another batch of lemonade is what killed it), they swapped it out with me on the spot and said the "real" replacement would be in the mail. Next morning I wake up to a UPS guy handing me a keyboard with a pre-paid return shipping label for the one they gave me. They then shot themselves int he foot for an entire week while I tried to order some overpriced ram from them.
Real also contends that buffering enough data that the hard drive isn't behind on READ's is a waste ofBUFFERING...spBUFFERING...aceCONNECTION UNEXPECTADLY TERMINATBUFFERING.
Possibly one email saying "we blocked 100 spams today, here are the highlights:" and put some of the "lower scoring" email on the list. I don't know if AOL just uses black and white filtering with no scoring mechanism, but if something got a low score (Go Ask Alice gets flagged once every so often as 5.1 points in Spam Assassin) but still flagged as spam, put the from and subject headers in that email, with a link to get it back.
On a side note, I e-mailed the Go Ask Alice people with a copy of the spam assassin score card and pointed out a few things they could do to lower their score. I told them I happen to get all my SA'd email, but other users might not, and I would hate to see you get a false report of spam. The next week all of those changes had been implemented and their score dropped 3 points. For those wondering, it is a mailing list run out of columbia.edu which answers questions on health and sex related matters. Lots of penis vagina breast orgasm too little too long in the email, with plenty of links to go around.
I believe most states do not allow people to pay the police right then and there. Why not? Fraud. Turn the lights on, and issue a warning instead of a ticket, but still collect the cash. I would take that bribe if I were a speeder. Insurance hikes alone would be worth it after your first ticket or two.
My girlfriend of many years? Yes. Maybe I'm courting a new girlfriend, sitting with a business client, etc. Learn? She knew that skirt was too short to sit in when she bought it. There are skirts of all lengths, from just-past-the-panties to flows on the floor, this is on purpose, my friend.