The issue isn't DRM, but the fact that Facebook has an unfair advantage, in terms of it having Flash greenlighted to them. While someone else, if they chose to use flash will get warnings, and wouldn't have the resources to get MS to green-light it for them.
It would seem to me, that we need to solve the problem where these conditions where people cannot get a bank account needs to be solved. The problem isn't the plastic card, but the fact the banks will not offer them.
Except for a fast lane, big companies are bypassing necessary security blocks to "trusted" (aka paying) sites. These free passes are really an issue on the open web. As it means Facebook can have features enabled that other sites may not (at least without a warning).
As doing web development, when I see something interesting, I will dig into the code to figure it out. Like how Google gave the search suggestions while typing, and Google Maps a while back, that is where I learned Ajax. But if all the major browser makers, just made a <GoogleSearchAhead> tag If I were to try to make something based on the technology, it would be blocked to me.
This would be a combination of a sales and value add tax. For government who focus on a progressive tax structure, this has the problem as everyone is paying the same percentage of money.
Even if a person cannot get a Credit Card (which they probably could find one, because they will give them out to anyone), They often can get a Debit card from their local bank, which works just as well.
The question is how much of your time is used in dealing with paper? Counting it, recording it, having to drive over to the bank to deposit it, then what is your plan if you don't have the correct bills to make change. How many potential customers go to your competition because they just don't have cash on hand, what about if the cash is lost, or stolen.
Not knowing what type of business you are actually in, but dealing with cash only could be costing you more then that 2%, but it is hard to see because it is the difficult to see Opportunity cost.
Ah Nostalgia. I see a lot of posts and videos of people showing their nostalgia of the old things. However the equipment they may have gotten for a few hundred dollars today, were wicked expensive devices that you were considered a lucky individual to even see, let alone use.
Browsing the Web was nice with Netscape on an SGI Octane. If I had a $10,000 PC build computer, and try to do things in 30 years, the difference wouldn't be that bad, compared to the actual device I am using.
If you are going to be Nostalgic I want to see you being Nostalgic using Netscape on an e-Machine Pentium 100mhz with 16 megs of Ram. Or a Gateway 2000 486SX 25mhz with 2 megs of Ram, with windows 3.1. All those BSOD isn't because your computer is broken, that is the way it use to be.
The sleek easy to use menu system, often meant your most used commands are dug in some menu item. Borders or useless white space, especially back in the 1990's where your display is 640x400 resolution and on a 14" CRT monitor, we just needed more space. I don't get your point about interference by the browser when trying to type.
Telnet was less of an interface and more just a direct access to a port. You can still use telnet today
telnet slashdot.org 80 get /
read your data. and do an other telnet session to send your response.
Telnet itself wasn't that exciting, you were probably better off with most of your Local BBS's then what Telnet (BBS's) had to offer. However Public FTP sites were da'bom! I stink at spelling... however I can always spell anonymous (then use my email address as the password)
"Those 1990's pages load in a few milliseconds or so and do not need progress balls" Not in the 1990's. A big Institution like a college with a thousand users would be using a T1 connection that is rated at about 1.2mbs, A really big one would dish out the Big Bucks for a T3 at around 45mbs.
Now you had to share that line, so your average speed during the 1990's was around 100kbs on these networks (unless you were online off hours) Now this was much better then a modem for during the 1990's they ranged from 2400bps - 56.6kbs.
However even in Text with no graphics it would take a few seconds to get a small text document, for a larger one and with small pictures, you can wait minutes. The have put in the progress balls, before Javascript, because the bandwith was so slow. Some of them I remember went in revser when trying to resolve the address, then forward when downloading data.
In a world of cheap hardware components, often devices have components that are not used, so they are not advertised. They may be a software update away from being used, but the software may just not use it, until later updates.
I have a System76 Laptop. There is an integrated fingerprint reader on it, however System76 never advertised it. Because it was a Linux Laptop and Linux doesn't support that type of fingerprint reader, however after installing windows on it as well, it did find and I can use the fingerprint reader. System76 while moving to making their own devices, had been rebranding other makers laptops, that supported Linux. Now I am not pissed because the Fingerprint reader didn't work, because they never advertised that feature. But it was there and it actually works (in windows)
I expect the Nest probably had a speaker built in, and it wasn't used until later.
But you stated you did this competitively. For most of gamers out there, there is less skill from the user, and such a pro-tool isn't going to help them one bit. It is like a beginning or amature violinist buying a million dollar violin, because they think it will make them play better... However they really don't the violin will still sound like crap, or mediocre because it is the hands playing it that are bad.
Yes as I stated Dogs make better companions. However they are more work. Sure you cat is plotting against you, but most never have the means to complete the tasks. So they fall back and become warm fuzzy vibrating blankets.
Traditional Fencing is an expensive sport to learn. There is a lot of safety equipment that needs to be tailored to you, and a well balanced and crafted saber or foil isn't cheap too. Especially compared to a $20 football (choose your brand of foot ball) and an other $100 worth of safety equipment
Light Saber with these toy Sabers, are actually much safer, and you don't need such a high barrier to entry to the sport.
With all the thing in the world, Sports with a well regulated and organized way to beating the crap out of other people is probably what we need anyways.
There isn't much reason why it cannot run on the web. The Modern Web Browser is a thin client solution. Even traditional CPU intensive programs, can run on the web now. Because the the heavy CPU stuff is happening in the Cloud, shared with others All the browser and you normally just need a way to input the data into the system, and get the output back.
They have a high companion rating with a low maintenance needs. They are the balanced pets. The Dog is a much better companion, however they need a lot of maintenance. You have to be there every day, take them out for walks, give them attention. Cats on the other hand, will provide less companionship, but also if you fill their food and water dishes, and keep their litter box clean. You can be gone for Days, and have them sit next to you, and make sure there are no extra pets.
Other pets (which are less domesticated) will offer less companionship and some will require a lot of maintenance.
Pro Tip, keep the Cat(s) out of the gaming room. Cables last longer without Cats. Also for Mice cables, make sure they have enough slack for free movement. One of Apples biggest mistake in mice design, isn't the one button, but the tiny little cable, that didn't allow for a wide range of movement.
Ever sense the move to the laser sensor from the roller ball. The default mouse that comes with the PC, or the one you get for $10 really seems to be good enough for most activities, including gaming. I am sure the MX518 may be good for the real competitive gamers, but for most of us our general skills at the game, will not be enhanced with a better mouse technology.
The reason why it tends to be frowned upon is that a lot of people would sell parts without understanding the long term consequences. I donate blood regularly. Most of the time it is a non issue, sometimes I am worn out for a day or two. I understand that and plan for it. However for others doing it for money may give too much, and if they are doing to pay for drugs the lack of blood makes it worse. And the blood may not be donatible.
The problem isn't streaming media, despite how much we may like or hate the idea. Server Farms and networking hubs can probably operate greener, with more renewable energy sources. Being that these Server Farms could be nearly anywhere, that fixes a lot of problems that hour homes and other businesses may have. You can have your Data Center next to a river or even a creak, in an open area that you can cover it with solar panels, or in a windy location. I don't fall for Zero Emissions nonsense, but we can always strive for better.
What part? Are you a Fan of IE or Edge? Are you afraid of Google, and what it would do with your privacy? Are you a developer who will need to redo all your "Web Apps" because the platform changed, despite your protests years ago that we should not focus on MS technology but focus on Open Standards, just in case the Microsoft Browser may not be in use the next decade. Only for your execs to tell you to use Active-X or Silverlight because the rest of the Dev team doesn't know how to code outside of a GUI screen. Now everything needs to be recoded, those devs who can only code in a GUI screen will now be retrained, all this will cost your institution a lot of money, and none of your bosses are in a mood for a "I Told you so". Type of shiver?
I could see some use from this. Especially if it accepts and gives the proper response to different types of connections. You can use it as redirect on your Honey Pot, so after monitoring who and where, the rest of the IO can be handled by null.dev (And you don't need to (less) worry if your Honey Pot itself is the security hole) While creating Client/Server Applications you can insure your connection are working correctly. without having to get your Server Side up an running. A general pingable location to make sure your DNS and network connection is working.
I have found it useful to give them questions that they may not know. I had a test that seemed to be rather good at judging ones ability. And it took people an average of 4 hours to complete.
Question 1. I have an HTML file with a Picture of two boxes overlapping each other, and a box with two empty Div's asking them to make the other box look like the picture. (Non Web people will need to google to learn how to use style sheets, and position properitys)
Question 2. A simple Application form, that asks for the address, validates that the format is correct, and just pops up a text box giving the errors or showing the address in a proper US mailing address format. (The zip code with leading 0's gets them every time. )
Question 3. A SQL Stored procedure, that returns a table where the rows become the column. The code works correctly, however there is a null in the data, preventing it form working correctly. (So they either will need to do something with the null, or exclude it, extra bonus points if they state how insecure that code was.)
This seemed to have allowed the company to get some good employees, but still it isn't fool proof, a few people slipped threw the cracks, mostly because they actually had experienced those particular issues before, so they knew how to handle them, but turned out they would struggle on new problems.
The Religious Majority didn't Dictate it, DC wouldn't be put in jail for their comic book. However... as you state it is the Majority, so I expect declining profits would be the reason to stop it. It is a redefined version of progress just because someone can do a thing, it doesn't mean they must do that thing.
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The issue isn't DRM, but the fact that Facebook has an unfair advantage, in terms of it having Flash greenlighted to them. While someone else, if they chose to use flash will get warnings, and wouldn't have the resources to get MS to green-light it for them.
It would seem to me, that we need to solve the problem where these conditions where people cannot get a bank account needs to be solved. The problem isn't the plastic card, but the fact the banks will not offer them.
Except for a fast lane, big companies are bypassing necessary security blocks to "trusted" (aka paying) sites.
These free passes are really an issue on the open web. As it means Facebook can have features enabled that other sites may not (at least without a warning).
As doing web development, when I see something interesting, I will dig into the code to figure it out. Like how Google gave the search suggestions while typing, and Google Maps a while back, that is where I learned Ajax. But if all the major browser makers, just made a <GoogleSearchAhead> tag If I were to try to make something based on the technology, it would be blocked to me.
This would be a combination of a sales and value add tax. For government who focus on a progressive tax structure, this has the problem as everyone is paying the same percentage of money.
Even if a person cannot get a Credit Card (which they probably could find one, because they will give them out to anyone), They often can get a Debit card from their local bank, which works just as well.
The question is how much of your time is used in dealing with paper?
Counting it, recording it, having to drive over to the bank to deposit it, then what is your plan if you don't have the correct bills to make change. How many potential customers go to your competition because they just don't have cash on hand, what about if the cash is lost, or stolen.
Not knowing what type of business you are actually in, but dealing with cash only could be costing you more then that 2%, but it is hard to see because it is the difficult to see Opportunity cost.
Ah Nostalgia. I see a lot of posts and videos of people showing their nostalgia of the old things. However the equipment they may have gotten for a few hundred dollars today, were wicked expensive devices that you were considered a lucky individual to even see, let alone use.
Browsing the Web was nice with Netscape on an SGI Octane. If I had a $10,000 PC build computer, and try to do things in 30 years, the difference wouldn't be that bad, compared to the actual device I am using.
If you are going to be Nostalgic I want to see you being Nostalgic using Netscape on an e-Machine Pentium 100mhz with 16 megs of Ram. Or a Gateway 2000 486SX 25mhz with 2 megs of Ram, with windows 3.1. All those BSOD isn't because your computer is broken, that is the way it use to be.
The sleek easy to use menu system, often meant your most used commands are dug in some menu item.
Borders or useless white space, especially back in the 1990's where your display is 640x400 resolution and on a 14" CRT monitor, we just needed more space.
I don't get your point about interference by the browser when trying to type.
Thanks to jQuery and Angular, even the simplest website, are now nearly a Megabyte Big.
Telnet was less of an interface and more just a direct access to a port. You can still use telnet today
telnet slashdot.org 80
get /
read your data. and do an other telnet session to send your response.
Telnet itself wasn't that exciting, you were probably better off with most of your Local BBS's then what Telnet (BBS's) had to offer. However Public FTP sites were da'bom! I stink at spelling... however I can always spell anonymous (then use my email address as the password)
"Those 1990's pages load in a few milliseconds or so and do not need progress balls"
Not in the 1990's. A big Institution like a college with a thousand users would be using a T1 connection that is rated at about 1.2mbs, A really big one would dish out the Big Bucks for a T3 at around 45mbs.
Now you had to share that line, so your average speed during the 1990's was around 100kbs on these networks (unless you were online off hours) Now this was much better then a modem for during the 1990's they ranged from 2400bps - 56.6kbs.
However even in Text with no graphics it would take a few seconds to get a small text document, for a larger one and with small pictures, you can wait minutes.
The have put in the progress balls, before Javascript, because the bandwith was so slow. Some of them I remember went in revser when trying to resolve the address, then forward when downloading data.
In a world of cheap hardware components, often devices have components that are not used, so they are not advertised. They may be a software update away from being used, but the software may just not use it, until later updates.
I have a System76 Laptop. There is an integrated fingerprint reader on it, however System76 never advertised it. Because it was a Linux Laptop and Linux doesn't support that type of fingerprint reader, however after installing windows on it as well, it did find and I can use the fingerprint reader.
System76 while moving to making their own devices, had been rebranding other makers laptops, that supported Linux. Now I am not pissed because the Fingerprint reader didn't work, because they never advertised that feature. But it was there and it actually works (in windows)
I expect the Nest probably had a speaker built in, and it wasn't used until later.
But you stated you did this competitively. For most of gamers out there, there is less skill from the user, and such a pro-tool isn't going to help them one bit.
It is like a beginning or amature violinist buying a million dollar violin, because they think it will make them play better... However they really don't the violin will still sound like crap, or mediocre because it is the hands playing it that are bad.
Yes as I stated Dogs make better companions. However they are more work. Sure you cat is plotting against you, but most never have the means to complete the tasks. So they fall back and become warm fuzzy vibrating blankets.
Traditional Fencing is an expensive sport to learn. There is a lot of safety equipment that needs to be tailored to you, and a well balanced and crafted saber or foil isn't cheap too. Especially compared to a $20 football (choose your brand of foot ball) and an other $100 worth of safety equipment
Light Saber with these toy Sabers, are actually much safer, and you don't need such a high barrier to entry to the sport.
With all the thing in the world, Sports with a well regulated and organized way to beating the crap out of other people is probably what we need anyways.
There isn't much reason why it cannot run on the web.
The Modern Web Browser is a thin client solution. Even traditional CPU intensive programs, can run on the web now. Because the the heavy CPU stuff is happening in the Cloud, shared with others All the browser and you normally just need a way to input the data into the system, and get the output back.
They have a high companion rating with a low maintenance needs. They are the balanced pets.
The Dog is a much better companion, however they need a lot of maintenance. You have to be there every day, take them out for walks, give them attention.
Cats on the other hand, will provide less companionship, but also if you fill their food and water dishes, and keep their litter box clean. You can be gone for Days, and have them sit next to you, and make sure there are no extra pets.
Other pets (which are less domesticated) will offer less companionship and some will require a lot of maintenance.
Pro Tip, keep the Cat(s) out of the gaming room. Cables last longer without Cats. Also for Mice cables, make sure they have enough slack for free movement.
One of Apples biggest mistake in mice design, isn't the one button, but the tiny little cable, that didn't allow for a wide range of movement.
Ever sense the move to the laser sensor from the roller ball. The default mouse that comes with the PC, or the one you get for $10 really seems to be good enough for most activities, including gaming. I am sure the MX518 may be good for the real competitive gamers, but for most of us our general skills at the game, will not be enhanced with a better mouse technology.
The reason why it tends to be frowned upon is that a lot of people would sell parts without understanding the long term consequences. I donate blood regularly. Most of the time it is a non issue, sometimes I am worn out for a day or two. I understand that and plan for it. However for others doing it for money may give too much, and if they are doing to pay for drugs the lack of blood makes it worse. And the blood may not be donatible.
The problem isn't streaming media, despite how much we may like or hate the idea.
Server Farms and networking hubs can probably operate greener, with more renewable energy sources. Being that these Server Farms could be nearly anywhere, that fixes a lot of problems that hour homes and other businesses may have. You can have your Data Center next to a river or even a creak, in an open area that you can cover it with solar panels, or in a windy location.
I don't fall for Zero Emissions nonsense, but we can always strive for better.
What part?
Are you a Fan of IE or Edge?
Are you afraid of Google, and what it would do with your privacy?
Are you a developer who will need to redo all your "Web Apps" because the platform changed, despite your protests years ago that we should not focus on MS technology but focus on Open Standards, just in case the Microsoft Browser may not be in use the next decade. Only for your execs to tell you to use Active-X or Silverlight because the rest of the Dev team doesn't know how to code outside of a GUI screen. Now everything needs to be recoded, those devs who can only code in a GUI screen will now be retrained, all this will cost your institution a lot of money, and none of your bosses are in a mood for a "I Told you so". Type of shiver?
I could see some use from this. Especially if it accepts and gives the proper response to different types of connections.
You can use it as redirect on your Honey Pot, so after monitoring who and where, the rest of the IO can be handled by null.dev (And you don't need to (less) worry if your Honey Pot itself is the security hole)
While creating Client/Server Applications you can insure your connection are working correctly. without having to get your Server Side up an running.
A general pingable location to make sure your DNS and network connection is working.
I have found it useful to give them questions that they may not know.
I had a test that seemed to be rather good at judging ones ability. And it took people an average of 4 hours to complete.
Question 1. I have an HTML file with a Picture of two boxes overlapping each other, and a box with two empty Div's asking them to make the other box look like the picture. (Non Web people will need to google to learn how to use style sheets, and position properitys)
Question 2. A simple Application form, that asks for the address, validates that the format is correct, and just pops up a text box giving the errors or showing the address in a proper US mailing address format. (The zip code with leading 0's gets them every time. )
Question 3. A SQL Stored procedure, that returns a table where the rows become the column. The code works correctly, however there is a null in the data, preventing it form working correctly. (So they either will need to do something with the null, or exclude it, extra bonus points if they state how insecure that code was.)
This seemed to have allowed the company to get some good employees, but still it isn't fool proof, a few people slipped threw the cracks, mostly because they actually had experienced those particular issues before, so they knew how to handle them, but turned out they would struggle on new problems.
The Religious Majority didn't Dictate it, DC wouldn't be put in jail for their comic book. However... as you state it is the Majority, so I expect declining profits would be the reason to stop it.
It is a redefined version of progress just because someone can do a thing, it doesn't mean they must do that thing.