512MB of RDRAM costs ~$1300 Cdn. Maybe more, maybe less. The point is, it's way, way more expensive.
The price/performance ratio does not justify the cost. Now, if rdram was sold at loss-leader prices in order to gain marketshare, then maybe I would've considered using it, but that's not in the best itnerests of the RAM makers, so it won't happen.
Therefore, RDRAM is dead. It's window of opportunity is closed. Hence their last gasp stream of litigations. IMHO, which will likely end in criminal investigations against Rambus over their lack of full disclosure when participating in the JEDEC conference... or something to that effect.
Whatever... so long as they go down in a flaming heap.
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This kid sits down one day and discovers something simply by thinking outside the box. The established mathematicians couldn't be bothered, or it never occured to them to look for it because they're entrenched in their methods and their own problems.
And who knows about it's utility. I'm not a mathematician... but it does deal with triangles. The first thing that popped into my head was: "I wonder if this could somehow be used for 3d rendering"
I really have no clue as to it's utility, but that's not important here. It's the mere fact that it was accomplished.
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Which is where the free software alternative can really make headway. Ownership of the software, not rental models. No, this doesn't appeal to every CIO, but I bet it appeals to the CIOs of most fortune 500 companies, and they're the ones that ultimately count at MS.
The advantages:
lowest entry cost
probably an overall TCO on par with remote subscription systems
better responsiveness to change as they own the software
far lower bandwidth requirements so infrastructure costs remain lower
ETC..!
Moving Windows to.NET services is suicide for MS if the buying public figures out the benefits of Free software. Free-as-in-freedom software promotes ownership and independence, while providing a very responsive support network. Copy schemes, obfuscation, and decision waffling are knocks against MS.
Furthermore, MS is ultimately going to disenfranchise itself from it's consumer base once it tries implementing massive copy controls. Windows would not be so popular today if it wasn't for pirating amongst casual users. Without the ever-ignored underground Windows distribution mechanism, which really is the root of Windows dominance on the desktop, Windows will eventualy die.
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I'm only speaking about shopping carts here, as the article in question is about shopping cart hacks. And no, you never store anything but what and how many in a shopping cart.
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It's such utter bullshit that it gives real developers a bad name. I mean of course I'm not going to accept data from the client, unless it's What and How many. It's so utterly obvious.
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Sure, 90% of their sales might come from GameBoy, but that only goes to further show that the only company that has a true, long term lock on the Video Game market, was, is, and shall be Nintendo.
Sony was a late comer that never dethroned anyone. They never revolutionized a thing, except perhaps by bringing a bit more mature content to console video games, and quality pre-rendered CG (via CDROM capacity).
Then in their own self-delusion, they unleased that monstrosity known as the PS2. They bought their own hubris and are doomed to choke on it.
Funny how the american media seems to believe that the platform war is between Sony and Microsoft and never give The N any airtime. Utterly delusional.
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"But I think this in the end will bring down the cost of books so much that it will make it possible for more people to have their own personal libraries." Without the costs of printing and distributing, book prices could fall without loss of income to writers and editors. Because an entire book reduces to a scatter of iron oxide particles on a computer hard drive, no text need ever go out of print--it can always sit there, whirling on the hard drive, until needed by the reader.
LOL! How utterly naive.
I'm sorry, but that was just so funny. Obviously not a business man. Deffinately not part of any media distribution business.
Are DVDs cheaper than videos? Are CDs cheaper than cassettes? Do you think for an instant that pure digitally distributed songs (using Format X) will be significantly cheaper than the same songs distributed on physical media through physical distribution channels?
The price of books is going up, while the costs of production are falling. See the trend?
The e-media of the future will not revolutionize anything, except the business models of the future and will only accomplish the further stratification of the social hierarchy.
Call me a technophobe or a luddite or whatever, but believe me when I say that I can't wait for these technological marvels to appear. I love technology for technologies sake, however, I have no illusions regarding what will happen: the battle for control over information.
IMHO, there will always be a need for paper (and all other physical media) versions: people will want to have permanent access to what they purchased.
Now, as for the technology itself: Very very nice. I remember when the JC Penny ad. was a big deal and it's nice to hear that progress is being made along these lines. I can't wait to see the v1.0 results. No more ridiculous "palm-style" style "eBooks" (rocket, etc...).
I wonder if the pages will stand up to dog-earing though? (I somehow doubt it)
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It's also extremely similar to the Thick Film Transistor technology used by iFire displays.
They're both extremely thin, low power consumption, EL material based displays.
The thing about iFire is that it's more likely to be cheaper to produce than OLED techs (and a lot cheaper than LCD) because of it's simple, fault tolerant construction. It's also advanced a lot further, faster than OLED in the last two years and seems capable of scaling to television sized screens with little difficulty. -- kwashiorkor --
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If those numbers are correct, then I think I speak for the rest of us when I say:
Holy Shit!
That's just obscene.
That's pretty much a big kick in the nuts to anyone thinking that Nintendo is marked for death.
What's really bizarre is how they're managing to generate those numbers without being on the map anymore. Has anyone paid any serious attention to Nintendo in the last 2 years? You don't even hear about them in serious gamer conversations and yet they're raking in the bucks.
Is this something akin to the "Deer Hunter" phenomenon?
ie. Hardcore gamers make up a truly minscule percent of actual game sales?
Could pirating be hurting the competition? I mean it's quite a bit more difficult to pirate cartridges whereas PC and PS software is all on easy to burn CDs.
I suspect it's really combination of things, but it's still an amazing set of numbers.
Can anyone verify them?
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...I got nice and angry at some of the comments posted on this article. It's funny to me that people I consider my peers (meaning geeks) always tend to assume there is no prejudice in our field, because they honestly think that they're too smart to be predjudiced.
First, let me be frank: I don't agree with suing for $5billion. Nor do I agree with using the small percentage of dumb MSFT workers as leverage. What I DO agree with is the basis behind their argument, which is the EXACT same attitude being reinforced on this board.
Everywhere I've worked (Web application programming) I've been seen as a remarkably compentent, skilled worker....until I meet the customer face-to-face. Then, suddenly, my decisions are questioned more, people go over my head to ask about things that are my responsibility, I get blank stares and muffled, off-topic responses. Even back to college (University of Alberta), I was faced every day with fellow students less intelligent than me, and professors who were obviously intimidated that I was there, assuming that I was only there only to point out their obvious faults(I've got that in the workplace as well).
It seems the general consensus among stupid tech workers is that they somehow belong in the industry. If they are up for a promotion against a far more skilled minority, of COURSE they get the promotion, because they toe the company line. Because the majority of tech managers are ALSO stupid, this attitude is perpetuated.
Let's set the record straight: My elite group does not choose to be smarter...we simply don't always have access to the same resources, growing up as geniuses and all. That can't possibly be understood by someone who's never attended accelerated education classes in a major city (I'm from Edmonton). I took freshman EECS with 3 hundred stupid guys that had been taking C classes since the 9th grade, and hadn't learned a thing, and the only exposure I'd had to any form of idiot-level programming was self-inflicted. Great K-12 education == Great SAT/ACT = high quality higher education. This uneven playing field is the reason for the small numbers of us in the tech industry.
I'm sick of typing at this point, and I've got Apache modules to code. To sum up, stop with the "Idiots are always complaining...why don't they just get jobs...they have as much access to higher education as we do" crap. Find an idiot on your job site, and ask him where he's from, and what high school he attended (if they can even remember). I guarantee he's either got parents as stupid as most of yours, or he sucked his boss off to get to where he is now.
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Like most other dotcoms they were populated by incompetent black turtleneck wearing mocha-java-frappchino swilling artsy fartsy band wagon jumping marketroid foosball playing leeches that wouldn't have known their ass from a hole in the ground but somehow managed to get out of their respective colleges with a degree in snake oil sales.
"Look man, we're gonna IPO! Give yourself a raise."
"$250k?"
"Whatever!!! We're gonna be so rich!"
"Do we have a product?"
"Damned if I know. Let's get on the concorde and fly to Europe to celebrate."
[frame sequence with blue bars, top and bottom]
[cue that catchy IBM 'ebiz' tune]
[duhn duhnduhnduhn duhn duh...]
To much BS not enough reality.
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Edmonton Alberta Canada... stills has a fairly large fleet of trolley buses. Only their range is limited to the older areas and the higher density downtown core. It's unfortunate that they're quite dated and cost a lot to maintain (if I remember correctly).
Besides environmentally friendly, they're also great for reducing noise pollution. They run nice and quite.
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Hehehe... I think you're on the right track about the elimination of certain kinds of advertising, but there are other far more subtler ways to get the message across.
Program branding. Where every N item in the content comes from an advertiser. Where everyone on a certain show wears clothes only from the GAP, etc...
Paid "product reviews". Buy a "journalist", depend on their still unfathomable credibility. Better yet, buy an entire news reporting/creating house, such as AOL/Time-Warner/CNN.
False word of mouth. With the anonymity of cyber space, hire a staff of typing monkeys and 'Bots to go out and post good comments at all available community message boards that target a certain demographic.
And that's just some examples right off the top of my head, and I'm not even an advertising monkey.
Maybe we can now start controlling the overt stuff, but the much more subtle crap is going to get harder and harder to filter out.
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.NET is not a GUI. It's not a user interface. It might affect how future Window's UIs are built, but at the moment it has nothing to do with them.
The article has it completely wrong.
First of all ".NET" is simply a replacement phrase for "Windows DNA". It's basically a theory/method for architecting apps that are based on network distributed services. Such as a centrally located "pay as you need to" MS Word.NET subscription application.
Second, most people are currently confusing.NET with NGWS (Next Generation Windows Services). They're related, but they are not one and the same thing.
NGWS is what ADO+, ASP+, C#, etc... are all part of. This is the new application framework that MS is pushing developers into using. In fact, it's really freaking nice to use (finally) so I don't think they're going to have a problem coaxing their hoard of VB 'bots to get on board.
I've been porting parts of a current ASP 3.0 app, on Win2k, to the ASP+ beta version and I'm very impressed. It operates much like the JSP/ColdFusion architecture (custom tag extensions and servlets) now which makes clean, maintainable code extremely easy to develop. So far so good.
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It leaves them developing for Linux et al. and/or web based applications that are 90% server side. What's the big deal? IMHO, this could eventually turn out to be a good thing.
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1) Linux is free. Most users of Windows are pirates. A friend or family member has bootlegged a copy for them. Besides most you bought your distributions (That's not free). So Linux being free is not a good reason.
Bingo! Exactly how many users out there are actually using a legitimate licensed copy of Win9X on their home machines? I'd say about 60%.
Reason: The other 40% know someone who knows someone who has a brother that works in an office that has access to the MS Select or MSDN software subscription and took it home and burnt multiple copies for his family and friends. Copies from Select and MSDN don't require a CD KEY making it even easier to distribute and worry free when using the auto-update feature.
The same thing goes for MS Office.
I really don't think that the big software companies are concerned at all about making money at the retail level. They get all they need via business/OEM licensing. They simply stock the store shelves because it keeps them in the public eye... pure marketing.
What I can't figure out is why they just don't give the O/S away for home use anyways (or even $10) because there's no way they're making money on it. Though I guess that if they give it away in the store, then they have to give it away to the OEMs, which would really cut into their profits.
BTW, This is the reason why they are so intent on getting a subscription service up and running.
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even if they are generated by server side code, the server still outputs HTML. The HTML can be saved to disk.
In the case of sites that use the URL Query String to fetch pages out of the database. As long as the 'bot can physically cache the resultant file to disk and maintain a table of hard-coded URL Query Strings that point to the saved file, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
eg.
An original file can be obtained thusly:
http://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=14520,25234
the resultant HTML that is fetched when the 'bot makes that request would be saved in it's caching system. The actual URL string would be stored in a seperate table and accessed in some method by clients coming to the caching site, maybe like this:
http://www.chachingsite.com/fetch_page.php?page=ht tp://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=145 20,25234
(of course, the above string would be properly URL encoded, but I'm to lazy to do that for illustration purposes)
The request at the caching site would simply trigger a process that would fetch the physical file pointed to by the record with the id "http://www.somesite.com/index.php..."
This is just an illustration. It's not meant to be the ultimate solution, just prove that there are work arounds for handling dynamic sites.
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does my perception of what UDDI offers != what it actually is?
Here's my perception, using a hypothetical situation:
I create some sort of business processing system, let's say a car parts inventory/sales system.
I want my customers to be able to purchase my products electronically, to improve speed and reduce overhead.
I create a web application that connects people, through our interface, to the underlying system. Thus allowing them to purchase our products.
But let's say that I also want them to have the ability to integrate a module, by their own means, into their own established interface that allows them to connect to our service and purchase products. No involvement at all on our part except to provide the necessary communication/transaction protocols so that their system can talk to our system.
Now what if I want to tell the whole world about this protocol so that anyone who wants to purchase our products can do so without ever having to go through our proprietary human-machine interface. I'd also have to tell everyone what sort of company provides this service and what sort of things you can do with it.
THAT is what UDDI and things like it are for. Central repositories of machine-machine interfaces and meta data about what the interfaces are for, where you can find them, and what you have to do in order to use them.
Am I wrong about that?
I deffinately do not think that they are talking about running MSWord over the net or some other silly story.
As an aside, can you imagine writing a machine driven search service that polls this "UDDI" (or whatever it will be) database for the required services and then sends the information back to the requestor, then the requesting system simply opens a connection to the returned service AUTOMATICALLY and performs the desired transaction.
And this does NOT have to be cash transactions, this could also be a way to create distributed computing networks with open protocols. Think about it.
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In typical Katzian fashion, a simple matter is overstated. It started out well, then got caught up in it's own snowball-of-hubris effect.
Here's the short version:
Videogames have proven to be a viable form of entertainment. Bigger than the movie industry and poised to grow larger yet. Mainstream culture is lagging behind in it's acceptance of this "fact" therefore mainstream culture is clueless and geeks are far superior, because we,of course, have been the driving force behind this dynamic paradigm shift, like we always are.
Well, you know what? Big deal. Video games are relevant. Whoopee. The mainstream hasn't clued into this. Big surprise.
Large population masses do not suffer from early adopter syndrome. Get over it.
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Deals with the whole theme of ultra wealthy individuals in a society where there is enough computing power to accomplish the downloading of their barin into a computer. Really decent series. I recommend it highly.
No Bill Joy vs. Linus Torvalds virtual deathmatch, but good nonetheless:-)
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No, I've never been disappointed with the plots in the FF "games". I simply can't call them games anymore because they "game" portion has all but been eliminated.
I'm sure that the movie will be good, and I'm really happy that they are simply making a movie and letting me get to the good parts without having to sit on my butt for 60 hours in front of the tube performing advanced calculations on ever increasing hordes of hitpoints.
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It's about time that they decide to just make a movie. It's practically what their "games" are anyways, except their games have endless waves of non-sensical button mashing "fight" sequences. Fun for the whole family!
Their tech for the movie looks really nice.
Except in the typical wacky fashion of Square's marketing campaigns, they talk about how well they render the clothing on the models in the "character" section, and don't mention a thing about the characters. I mean, who cares what the movie is about when there's redering deformations to talk about.
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I have 512MB of PC133. It cost me $216 Cdn.
512MB of RDRAM costs ~$1300 Cdn. Maybe more, maybe less. The point is, it's way, way more expensive.
The price/performance ratio does not justify the cost. Now, if rdram was sold at loss-leader prices in order to gain marketshare, then maybe I would've considered using it, but that's not in the best itnerests of the RAM makers, so it won't happen.
Therefore, RDRAM is dead. It's window of opportunity is closed. Hence their last gasp stream of litigations. IMHO, which will likely end in criminal investigations against Rambus over their lack of full disclosure when participating in the JEDEC conference... or something to that effect.
Whatever... so long as they go down in a flaming heap.
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This kid sits down one day and discovers something simply by thinking outside the box. The established mathematicians couldn't be bothered, or it never occured to them to look for it because they're entrenched in their methods and their own problems.
And who knows about it's utility. I'm not a mathematician... but it does deal with triangles. The first thing that popped into my head was: "I wonder if this could somehow be used for 3d rendering"
I really have no clue as to it's utility, but that's not important here. It's the mere fact that it was accomplished.
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The advantages:
ETC..!
Moving Windows to .NET services is suicide for MS if the buying public figures out the benefits of Free software. Free-as-in-freedom software promotes ownership and independence, while providing a very responsive support network. Copy schemes, obfuscation, and decision waffling are knocks against MS.
Furthermore, MS is ultimately going to disenfranchise itself from it's consumer base once it tries implementing massive copy controls. Windows would not be so popular today if it wasn't for pirating amongst casual users. Without the ever-ignored underground Windows distribution mechanism, which really is the root of Windows dominance on the desktop, Windows will eventualy die.
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God forbid putting a credit card number in a shopping cart. Though I bet there's some idiot out there...
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Uh... yeah: What Item and How Many of that Item.
NEVER EVER EVER does anything else goes into a shopping cart. Period.
That is, besides a unique shopping cart identifier that is placed in a cookie, or via the url, on the client.
All other data comes from the database. All calculations are done from the database.
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It's such utter bullshit that it gives real developers a bad name. I mean of course I'm not going to accept data from the client, unless it's What and How many. It's so utterly obvious.
First, it was stupid business models. Now it's idiotic software. No wonder there was a DotCom implosion. (Not that we didn't see it coming or anything... it's just so frustrating)
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Judging by sales figures, Nintendo is the king.
Sure, 90% of their sales might come from GameBoy, but that only goes to further show that the only company that has a true, long term lock on the Video Game market, was, is, and shall be Nintendo.
Sony was a late comer that never dethroned anyone. They never revolutionized a thing, except perhaps by bringing a bit more mature content to console video games, and quality pre-rendered CG (via CDROM capacity).
Then in their own self-delusion, they unleased that monstrosity known as the PS2. They bought their own hubris and are doomed to choke on it.
Funny how the american media seems to believe that the platform war is between Sony and Microsoft and never give The N any airtime. Utterly delusional.
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I'm sorry, but that was just so funny. Obviously not a business man. Deffinately not part of any media distribution business.
Are DVDs cheaper than videos? Are CDs cheaper than cassettes? Do you think for an instant that pure digitally distributed songs (using Format X) will be significantly cheaper than the same songs distributed on physical media through physical distribution channels?
The price of books is going up, while the costs of production are falling. See the trend?
The e-media of the future will not revolutionize anything, except the business models of the future and will only accomplish the further stratification of the social hierarchy.
Call me a technophobe or a luddite or whatever, but believe me when I say that I can't wait for these technological marvels to appear. I love technology for technologies sake, however, I have no illusions regarding what will happen: the battle for control over information.
IMHO, there will always be a need for paper (and all other physical media) versions: people will want to have permanent access to what they purchased.
Now, as for the technology itself: Very very nice. I remember when the JC Penny ad. was a big deal and it's nice to hear that progress is being made along these lines. I can't wait to see the v1.0 results. No more ridiculous "palm-style" style "eBooks" (rocket, etc...).
I wonder if the pages will stand up to dog-earing though? (I somehow doubt it)
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They're both extremely thin, low power consumption, EL material based displays.
The thing about iFire is that it's more likely to be cheaper to produce than OLED techs (and a lot cheaper than LCD) because of it's simple, fault tolerant construction. It's also advanced a lot further, faster than OLED in the last two years and seems capable of scaling to television sized screens with little difficulty.
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Holy Shit! That's just obscene.
That's pretty much a big kick in the nuts to anyone thinking that Nintendo is marked for death.
What's really bizarre is how they're managing to generate those numbers without being on the map anymore. Has anyone paid any serious attention to Nintendo in the last 2 years? You don't even hear about them in serious gamer conversations and yet they're raking in the bucks.
Is this something akin to the "Deer Hunter" phenomenon?
ie. Hardcore gamers make up a truly minscule percent of actual game sales?
Could pirating be hurting the competition? I mean it's quite a bit more difficult to pirate cartridges whereas PC and PS software is all on easy to burn CDs.
I suspect it's really combination of things, but it's still an amazing set of numbers.
Can anyone verify them?
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http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
Fixes 90% of the stupid errors.
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First, let me be frank: I don't agree with suing for $5billion. Nor do I agree with using the small percentage of dumb MSFT workers as leverage. What I DO agree with is the basis behind their argument, which is the EXACT same attitude being reinforced on this board.
Everywhere I've worked (Web application programming) I've been seen as a remarkably compentent, skilled worker....until I meet the customer face-to-face. Then, suddenly, my decisions are questioned more, people go over my head to ask about things that are my responsibility, I get blank stares and muffled, off-topic responses. Even back to college (University of Alberta), I was faced every day with fellow students less intelligent than me, and professors who were obviously intimidated that I was there, assuming that I was only there only to point out their obvious faults(I've got that in the workplace as well).
It seems the general consensus among stupid tech workers is that they somehow belong in the industry. If they are up for a promotion against a far more skilled minority, of COURSE they get the promotion, because they toe the company line. Because the majority of tech managers are ALSO stupid, this attitude is perpetuated.
Let's set the record straight: My elite group does not choose to be smarter...we simply don't always have access to the same resources, growing up as geniuses and all. That can't possibly be understood by someone who's never attended accelerated education classes in a major city (I'm from Edmonton). I took freshman EECS with 3 hundred stupid guys that had been taking C classes since the 9th grade, and hadn't learned a thing, and the only exposure I'd had to any form of idiot-level programming was self-inflicted. Great K-12 education == Great SAT/ACT = high quality higher education. This uneven playing field is the reason for the small numbers of us in the tech industry.
I'm sick of typing at this point, and I've got Apache modules to code. To sum up, stop with the "Idiots are always complaining...why don't they just get jobs...they have as much access to higher education as we do" crap. Find an idiot on your job site, and ask him where he's from, and what high school he attended (if they can even remember). I guarantee he's either got parents as stupid as most of yours, or he sucked his boss off to get to where he is now.
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Edmonton Alberta Canada... stills has a fairly large fleet of trolley buses. Only their range is limited to the older areas and the higher density downtown core. It's unfortunate that they're quite dated and cost a lot to maintain (if I remember correctly).
Besides environmentally friendly, they're also great for reducing noise pollution. They run nice and quite.
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Hehehe... I think you're on the right track about the elimination of certain kinds of advertising, but there are other far more subtler ways to get the message across.
And that's just some examples right off the top of my head, and I'm not even an advertising monkey.
Maybe we can now start controlling the overt stuff, but the much more subtle crap is going to get harder and harder to filter out.
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.NET is not a GUI. It's not a user interface. It might affect how future Window's UIs are built, but at the moment it has nothing to do with them.
The article has it completely wrong.
First of all ".NET" is simply a replacement phrase for "Windows DNA". It's basically a theory/method for architecting apps that are based on network distributed services. Such as a centrally located "pay as you need to" MS Word.NET subscription application.
Second, most people are currently confusing .NET with NGWS (Next Generation Windows Services). They're related, but they are not one and the same thing.
NGWS is what ADO+, ASP+, C#, etc... are all part of. This is the new application framework that MS is pushing developers into using. In fact, it's really freaking nice to use (finally) so I don't think they're going to have a problem coaxing their hoard of VB 'bots to get on board.
I've been porting parts of a current ASP 3.0 app, on Win2k, to the ASP+ beta version and I'm very impressed. It operates much like the JSP/ColdFusion architecture (custom tag extensions and servlets) now which makes clean, maintainable code extremely easy to develop. So far so good.
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Reason: The other 40% know someone who knows someone who has a brother that works in an office that has access to the MS Select or MSDN software subscription and took it home and burnt multiple copies for his family and friends. Copies from Select and MSDN don't require a CD KEY making it even easier to distribute and worry free when using the auto-update feature.
The same thing goes for MS Office.
I really don't think that the big software companies are concerned at all about making money at the retail level. They get all they need via business/OEM licensing. They simply stock the store shelves because it keeps them in the public eye... pure marketing.
What I can't figure out is why they just don't give the O/S away for home use anyways (or even $10) because there's no way they're making money on it. Though I guess that if they give it away in the store, then they have to give it away to the OEMs, which would really cut into their profits.
BTW, This is the reason why they are so intent on getting a subscription service up and running.
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In the case of sites that use the URL Query String to fetch pages out of the database. As long as the 'bot can physically cache the resultant file to disk and maintain a table of hard-coded URL Query Strings that point to the saved file, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
eg.4 t tp://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=145 20,25234
An original file can be obtained thusly:
http://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=14520,2523
the resultant HTML that is fetched when the 'bot makes that request would be saved in it's caching system. The actual URL string would be stored in a seperate table and accessed in some method by clients coming to the caching site, maybe like this:
http://www.chachingsite.com/fetch_page.php?page=h
(of course, the above string would be properly URL encoded, but I'm to lazy to do that for illustration purposes)
The request at the caching site would simply trigger a process that would fetch the physical file pointed to by the record with the id "http://www.somesite.com/index.php..."
This is just an illustration. It's not meant to be the ultimate solution, just prove that there are work arounds for handling dynamic sites.
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Here's my perception, using a hypothetical situation:
I create some sort of business processing system, let's say a car parts inventory/sales system.
I want my customers to be able to purchase my products electronically, to improve speed and reduce overhead.
I create a web application that connects people, through our interface, to the underlying system. Thus allowing them to purchase our products.
But let's say that I also want them to have the ability to integrate a module, by their own means, into their own established interface that allows them to connect to our service and purchase products. No involvement at all on our part except to provide the necessary communication/transaction protocols so that their system can talk to our system.
Now what if I want to tell the whole world about this protocol so that anyone who wants to purchase our products can do so without ever having to go through our proprietary human-machine interface. I'd also have to tell everyone what sort of company provides this service and what sort of things you can do with it.
THAT is what UDDI and things like it are for. Central repositories of machine-machine interfaces and meta data about what the interfaces are for, where you can find them, and what you have to do in order to use them.
Am I wrong about that?
I deffinately do not think that they are talking about running MSWord over the net or some other silly story.
As an aside, can you imagine writing a machine driven search service that polls this "UDDI" (or whatever it will be) database for the required services and then sends the information back to the requestor, then the requesting system simply opens a connection to the returned service AUTOMATICALLY and performs the desired transaction.
And this does NOT have to be cash transactions, this could also be a way to create distributed computing networks with open protocols. Think about it.
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what if they're doing both, in one swoop?
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Here's the short version: ,of course, have been the driving force behind this dynamic paradigm shift, like we always are.
Videogames have proven to be a viable form of entertainment. Bigger than the movie industry and poised to grow larger yet. Mainstream culture is lagging behind in it's acceptance of this "fact" therefore mainstream culture is clueless and geeks are far superior, because we
Well, you know what? Big deal. Video games are relevant. Whoopee. The mainstream hasn't clued into this. Big surprise.
Large population masses do not suffer from early adopter syndrome. Get over it.
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Deals with the whole theme of ultra wealthy individuals in a society where there is enough computing power to accomplish the downloading of their barin into a computer. Really decent series. I recommend it highly.
No Bill Joy vs. Linus Torvalds virtual deathmatch, but good nonetheless :-)
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I'm sure that the movie will be good, and I'm really happy that they are simply making a movie and letting me get to the good parts without having to sit on my butt for 60 hours in front of the tube performing advanced calculations on ever increasing hordes of hitpoints.
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Their tech for the movie looks really nice.
Except in the typical wacky fashion of Square's marketing campaigns, they talk about how well they render the clothing on the models in the "character" section, and don't mention a thing about the characters. I mean, who cares what the movie is about when there's redering deformations to talk about.
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