Perhaps I should also mention that the roadmap is messed up? Here's a thread relating to the problems with the roadmap, started by the guy who makes them. As I said in that thread, there has been a blank FAQ link at the top of the page forever. When is the branch date for 0.9.2?
Because of the hype that a few of the Mozilla developers put on talkback here on Slashdot and on MozillaZine, Mozilla has seen lots of recent improvements (see the bottom of this page). Now that 0.9.1 is out, the Drivers team at Mozilla will take a large bit of control over the management of submisssions for 0.9.2 in an effort to brush up the code in preparation for 1.0. It looks like we'll see 0.9.2 released after
only two to three weeks (see this roadmap sneak-peek); half the current expected milestone lifetime. In addition, Netscape is being encouraged to take the next NS6 from the Mozilla branch this time, meaning that much of the Netscape team's work will be applicable to Mozilla.
Also of note, the Mozilla main page doesn't reflect the new milestone and the roadmap also fails to mention the release or the news about 0.9.2.
At first glance, this seems to reinforce MS as the root of all evil. However, good things can come from bad people. First, let me clarify by my understanding of what this is: Smart Tags do NOT modify web content. They underline it in a way that does not seem to be confuseable with a link (see my last paragraph below), much like the way Word underlines misspelled words or bad grammar.
Before i get modded as a troll, let me state that I do not like this company for its software, practices, expansionist visions, or monopolistic power. I don't like/use IE, and the only MS products I use are mediaplayer6.4 and win2k (when not using Linux). Smart Tags are a direct attempt by MS to take over the web and further establish total control.
However, I see merit in smart tags; they make the web even more cross-referenced/indexed and further promote XML's ability to do these things. An open source variation of this that uses an open database that doesn't collect user info could do wonders, so long as it is controlled by an honest non-corporate organization. Think of integration with everything2.org, a dictionary, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, a biographical dictionary, an atlas.... that would be cool.
The only forseeable problems with this kind of technology are
A corporation/organization's power to manipulate the masses (my solution is use an open database containing the collective opinions of what is good cross-reference material, and have several of these databases competing with each other).
The power taken away from the site's creator. The site may be making a profound statement...and a viewer could click on a Smart Tag only to be directed to a site offering the opposite statement. For example, a site about the holocost could be linked to a neo-nazi site about preparing to create the next holocost. (Although sometimes conflicting views can be nice. Search engines aren't biased in this regard; a search for holocost would not favor one of these over the other.)
Anticypher states in his comment above, "Walter Mossberg points out that changes the editorial content so carefully designed by the website's owners. It gives M$ the power to add or alter any link it feels like, and the end users may never know they are being re-directed to M$ approved content."
Hopefully, words highlighted by Smart Tags will continue to be unique in appearance; according to the linked WSJ article, "On a PC with Windows XP, when you open any Web page, squiggly purple lines instantly appear under certain types of words." I think this would be better with a toggle key or button (so they won't show up unless you're looking for them) - that helps in the editorial bit too.
"The SOS server was taken offline for a temporary period, and is in fact down right now. (The DNS record is revoked.) Random immaturity from some "chicken shit" brought about the threat of a lawsuit. Causing the University of Utah administration to immediately shut down the site without notice. SOS will be back and as strong as ever as soon as major changes are made to safeguard students from abuses, and to increase accountability while preserving free speech. Unfortunately, anonymous posting had to be done away with, along with the adoption of clear and prominant posting guidelines and legal notices. Welcome to the new SOS, hope you like it."
I am rather surprised to find that the site isn't mirrored off campus... perhaps if it is, it's better that it not be announced (for flikx's saftey). A quick search on google found no such mirror.
I can't believe this article. It reminds me a LOT of the bad hype D&D got in the 1980s. Find a small (non-representative) instance of foul play and apply it to the whole. This power the media has makes me sick. Right now, there are no doubt hundreds (probably more) reading that article and drawing the conclusion that the entire mud/online rpg genre is evil, seductive, and too realistic.
This is just a bunch of kids who got too caught up in a game of play-pretend (that is all rpg's are after all; elaborate versions of the games every grade school child plays).
The media LOVES this shit. They eat it up and spit it out at their audience. The media blew Columbine out of the water and should be held to blame for at least thre quarters of the copycat school shootings that followed, and now this.
from a marketing perspective; when you buy the DVD, wouldn't you want everything?...if they rerender the mouths for each dubbed language, that would take too much space on the DVD. Only the zoned Japanese version would have the Japanese lip-synch. that doesn't seem to make sense from a marketing point of view, since they'd have to spend gobs of $$ in order to do that and most customers wouldn't even see it.
Think of what the Barney-generation will be like! Blame parental over-protection.
I figured this is the best place for this, despite my timing (hopefully you're watching for such a reply):
the roadmap page has two problems that I can see. first, there is no FAQ, so take away the link at the top. second, you changed the ideal release date of 0.9.1 to june 6, 2000? if you mean 2001, it isn't on the table as that... so you either mean 6/1/01 (and table is wrong) or 6/6/01.
This is just what I've been waiting for. Now I can take my PDA out of my pocket and tell people that I pay money by the minute to host a website from my pants....oh, wait. Perhaps Apache is a bad example of what a PDA can run?
My local station somehow cut off the end of the show. what happened after the last commercial break? I didn't even see the credits. was there a captain's log supplemental or something?
ICQ has (or used to have?) a server you can download for a corporate or personal environment. I haven't done much investigation on that subject, but I would guess that it can do must of what you are talking about regarding internal/external corporate instant messaging. I have a friend who (when he was in high school) got ICQ msg's from his mother in the kitchen telling him dinner was ready. this was done on an internal ICQ network that had some special connection outside as well.
...was this the 'groupware' that you were talking about? the ICQ (webpage) search engine is not working.
whoa. i gasped (loud) when i saw this article. doing a bit of research, i found this page, containing the x86 installation notes. Take a look! it appears that you need a specific intel board.
"emulators such as vmware do not have VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video cards." ...you can't try this out with VMware!! that's how almost all of us were going to play...
Most likely, this will be a charge-by-bandwidth deal. not what i'm looking for. I want my wireless connection to be dedicated, meaning my PDA is always connected to my home computer, even using my home computer's hard drives for storage. I want to be able to stream my mp3s without loss and talk into my PDA (as if it were a cellphone) to a friend (on another PDA or some other internet phone) at the same time....and this wouldn't financially be possible without an unlimited plan. I hope Sprint makes one available at a reasonable rate (I'd pay up to $85 to connect my PDA and my home computer at that speed 24-7).
I really hope this is the subtle-stlye advertisement used in movies. Recent movies (last few years) haven't got the right idea any more; like in Thomas Crown Affair when the Pepsi One gets chugged.
I've thought about this time to time (in planning for how to govern the world once i take it over)... Such cameras present a huge problem for privacy, yet they offer such an aura of security and such a promise of saftey and lower crime rates.
I concluded that my utopia would contain such cameras. My judicial system would use it to make sure it didn't mess up. After a trial (which does NOT use the camera evidence...except as obtained via warrant, see below), the jury can decide to look at the cameras of the area before making a final decision. A certain type of crime (with no suspect, such as vehicular homicide via hit-and-run) can allow viewing of these recordings by warrant. In no other way can these recordings be viewed - this will ensure privacy.
A more real-life solution would be to just restrict access to publicly placed cameras and not allow them to be hidden. Require a warrant to view non-live camera footage of any sort.
if you're going to mention Hackers, why not mention Hackers 2: Takedown ("The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw"). This movie isn't really recognized but you can find it on many divx channels. Very fun movie; as long as you can get over everybody using win 3.1.
at about 2:30, i noticed my computer was an hour ahead of my watch and clock. freaked out, i reset my computer clock to the "correct" time and told myself i'd do a thorough virus check when i went to sleep. at about 5:00, (slee-what?) i noticed my VCR was now an hour ahead.... I was really freaked out. I looked at my watch, which read about 1:24a. oh, boy. I then figured out that it was no joke, but rather daylight savings time. oh, and my watch battery crapped out and reset at about 3:36.
Wash up, good manners, be confident, be clean, listen (but dont pretend to listen), be responsive, be athletic, bathe, respect the opposite gender, and... did I mention wash up?
The Lessiss-Moore algorithm was invented by Werner von Lessiss and R.T. Moore in the middle of the last Century. I'm sorry; I meant to say the middle of last week.
It utilizes a two-pass bit-sieve to first remove all unimportant data from the data set. Lzip implements this quiet effectively by eliminating all of the 0's. It then sorts the remaining bits into increasing order, and begins searching for patterns. The number of passes in this search is set to (10-N) in lzip, where N is the numeric command-line argument we've been telling you about.
For every pattern of length (10/N) found in the data set, the algorithm makes a mark in its hash table. By keeping the hash table small, we can reduce memory overhead. Lzip uses a two-entry hash table. Then data in this table is then plotted in three dimensions, and a discrete cosine transform transforms it into frequency and amplitude data. This data is filtered for sounds that are beyond the range of the human ear, and the result is transformed back (via an indiscrete cosine) into the hash table, in random order.
Take each pattern in the original data set, XOR it with the log of it's entry in the new hash table, then shuffle each byte two positions to the left and you're done!
And you can see, there is some very advanced thinking going on here. It is no wonder this algorithm took so long to develop!"
"Excuse me sir, may we come in?"
"Who are you?"
"We're from the CPUC"
"The who?"
"The California Public Utilities Commision."
"Come again?"
"Sir, we have a court order - you have to reboot your computer."
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps I should also mention that the roadmap is messed up? Here's a thread relating to the problems with the roadmap, started by the guy who makes them. As I said in that thread, there has been a blank FAQ link at the top of the page forever. When is the branch date for 0.9.2?
friggin' A. First a typo on the Mozilla main page and then the Mozilla team actually updates the page while I'm posting!
Because of the hype that a few of the Mozilla developers put on talkback here on Slashdot and on MozillaZine, Mozilla has seen lots of recent improvements (see the bottom of this page). Now that 0.9.1 is out, the Drivers team at Mozilla will take a large bit of control over the management of submisssions for 0.9.2 in an effort to brush up the code in preparation for 1.0. It looks like we'll see 0.9.2 released after only two to three weeks (see this roadmap sneak-peek); half the current expected milestone lifetime. In addition, Netscape is being encouraged to take the next NS6 from the Mozilla branch this time, meaning that much of the Netscape team's work will be applicable to Mozilla.
Also of note, the Mozilla main page doesn't reflect the new milestone and the roadmap also fails to mention the release or the news about 0.9.2.
Before i get modded as a troll, let me state that I do not like this company for its software, practices, expansionist visions, or monopolistic power. I don't like/use IE, and the only MS products I use are mediaplayer6.4 and win2k (when not using Linux). Smart Tags are a direct attempt by MS to take over the web and further establish total control.
However, I see merit in smart tags; they make the web even more cross-referenced/indexed and further promote XML's ability to do these things. An open source variation of this that uses an open database that doesn't collect user info could do wonders, so long as it is controlled by an honest non-corporate organization. Think of integration with everything2.org, a dictionary, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, a biographical dictionary, an atlas.... that would be cool.
The only forseeable problems with this kind of technology are
- A corporation/organization's power to manipulate the masses (my solution is use an open database containing the collective opinions of what is good cross-reference material, and have several of these databases competing with each other).
- The power taken away from the site's creator. The site may be making a profound statement
...and a viewer could click on a Smart Tag only to be directed to a site offering the opposite statement. For example, a site about the holocost could be linked to a neo-nazi site about preparing to create the next holocost. (Although sometimes conflicting views can be nice. Search engines aren't biased in this regard; a search for holocost would not favor one of these over the other.)
Anticypher states in his comment above, "Walter Mossberg points out that changes the editorial content so carefully designed by the website's owners. It gives M$ the power to add or alter any link it feels like, and the end users may never know they are being re-directed to M$ approved content."Hopefully, words highlighted by Smart Tags will continue to be unique in appearance; according to the linked WSJ article, "On a PC with Windows XP, when you open any Web page, squiggly purple lines instantly appear under certain types of words." I think this would be better with a toggle key or button (so they won't show up unless you're looking for them) - that helps in the editorial bit too.
- "The SOS server was taken offline for a temporary period, and is in fact down right now. (The DNS record is revoked.) Random immaturity from some "chicken shit" brought about the threat of a lawsuit. Causing the University of Utah administration to immediately shut down the site without notice. SOS will be back and as strong as ever as soon as major changes are made to safeguard students from abuses, and to increase accountability while preserving free speech. Unfortunately, anonymous posting had to be done away with, along with the adoption of clear and prominant posting guidelines and legal notices. Welcome to the new SOS, hope you like it."
I am rather surprised to find that the site isn't mirrored off campusI can't believe this article. It reminds me a LOT of the bad hype D&D got in the 1980s. Find a small (non-representative) instance of foul play and apply it to the whole. This power the media has makes me sick. Right now, there are no doubt hundreds (probably more) reading that article and drawing the conclusion that the entire mud/online rpg genre is evil, seductive, and too realistic.
This is just a bunch of kids who got too caught up in a game of play-pretend (that is all rpg's are after all; elaborate versions of the games every grade school child plays).
The media LOVES this shit. They eat it up and spit it out at their audience. The media blew Columbine out of the water and should be held to blame for at least thre quarters of the copycat school shootings that followed, and now this.
Hey, I see the BSD Daemon right alongside the Linux Penguin! ok, next release a story on either Unix, Apple, Amiga, or MS...
from a marketing perspective; when you buy the DVD, wouldn't you want everything? ...if they rerender the mouths for each dubbed language, that would take too much space on the DVD. Only the zoned Japanese version would have the Japanese lip-synch. that doesn't seem to make sense from a marketing point of view, since they'd have to spend gobs of $$ in order to do that and most customers wouldn't even see it.
Think of what the Barney-generation will be like! Blame parental over-protection.
I figured this is the best place for this, despite my timing (hopefully you're watching for such a reply):
the roadmap page has two problems that I can see. first, there is no FAQ, so take away the link at the top. second, you changed the ideal release date of 0.9.1 to june 6, 2000? if you mean 2001, it isn't on the table as that... so you either mean 6/1/01 (and table is wrong) or 6/6/01.
i knew i missed something! even if it was just two seconds and the credits. thanks a bunch guys!
This is just what I've been waiting for. Now I can take my PDA out of my pocket and tell people that I pay money by the minute to host a website from my pants. ...oh, wait. Perhaps Apache is a bad example of what a PDA can run?
My local station somehow cut off the end of the show. what happened after the last commercial break? I didn't even see the credits. was there a captain's log supplemental or something?
ICQ has (or used to have?) a server you can download for a corporate or personal environment. I haven't done much investigation on that subject, but I would guess that it can do must of what you are talking about regarding internal/external corporate instant messaging. I have a friend who (when he was in high school) got ICQ msg's from his mother in the kitchen telling him dinner was ready. this was done on an internal ICQ network that had some special connection outside as well.
...was this the 'groupware' that you were talking about? the ICQ (webpage) search engine is not working.
Amtrak gets 10% of anything the DEA seizes off the trains.
anything? isn't this grossly illegal? are they taking applications?
whoa. i gasped (loud) when i saw this article. doing a bit of research, i found this page, containing the x86 installation notes. Take a look! it appears that you need a specific intel board.
"emulators such as vmware do not have VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video cards."
...you can't try this out with VMware!! that's how almost all of us were going to play...
heh. i'm rather anti-corporate (note the .sig), but this spawned an idea: get work to pay for it...
Most likely, this will be a charge-by-bandwidth deal. not what i'm looking for. I want my wireless connection to be dedicated, meaning my PDA is always connected to my home computer, even using my home computer's hard drives for storage. I want to be able to stream my mp3s without loss and talk into my PDA (as if it were a cellphone) to a friend (on another PDA or some other internet phone) at the same time. ...and this wouldn't financially be possible without an unlimited plan. I hope Sprint makes one available at a reasonable rate (I'd pay up to $85 to connect my PDA and my home computer at that speed 24-7).
I really hope this is the subtle-stlye advertisement used in movies. Recent movies (last few years) haven't got the right idea any more; like in Thomas Crown Affair when the Pepsi One gets chugged.
ah, now i have a use for all that extra soy-sauce they give me when i get take-out.
I've thought about this time to time (in planning for how to govern the world once i take it over)... Such cameras present a huge problem for privacy, yet they offer such an aura of security and such a promise of saftey and lower crime rates.
...except as obtained via warrant, see below), the jury can decide to look at the cameras of the area before making a final decision. A certain type of crime (with no suspect, such as vehicular homicide via hit-and-run) can allow viewing of these recordings by warrant. In no other way can these recordings be viewed - this will ensure privacy.
I concluded that my utopia would contain such cameras. My judicial system would use it to make sure it didn't mess up. After a trial (which does NOT use the camera evidence
A more real-life solution would be to just restrict access to publicly placed cameras and not allow them to be hidden. Require a warrant to view non-live camera footage of any sort.
if you're going to mention Hackers, why not mention Hackers 2: Takedown ("The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw"). This movie isn't really recognized but you can find it on many divx channels. Very fun movie; as long as you can get over everybody using win 3.1.
at about 2:30, i noticed my computer was an hour ahead of my watch and clock. freaked out, i reset my computer clock to the "correct" time and told myself i'd do a thorough virus check when i went to sleep. at about 5:00, (slee-what?) i noticed my VCR was now an hour ahead. ... I was really freaked out. I looked at my watch, which read about 1:24a. oh, boy. I then figured out that it was no joke, but rather daylight savings time. oh, and my watch battery crapped out and reset at about 3:36.
Wash up, good manners, be confident, be clean, listen (but dont pretend to listen), be responsive, be athletic, bathe, respect the opposite gender, and ... did I mention wash up?
(from the faq)
The Lessiss-Moore algorithm was invented by Werner von Lessiss and R.T. Moore in the middle of the last Century. I'm sorry; I meant to say the middle of last week.
It utilizes a two-pass bit-sieve to first remove all unimportant data from the data set. Lzip implements this quiet effectively by eliminating all of the 0's. It then sorts the remaining bits into increasing order, and begins searching for patterns. The number of passes in this search is set to (10-N) in lzip, where N is the numeric command-line argument we've been telling you about.
For every pattern of length (10/N) found in the data set, the algorithm makes a mark in its hash table. By keeping the hash table small, we can reduce memory overhead. Lzip uses a two-entry hash table. Then data in this table is then plotted in three dimensions, and a discrete cosine transform transforms it into frequency and amplitude data. This data is filtered for sounds that are beyond the range of the human ear, and the result is transformed back (via an indiscrete cosine) into the hash table, in random order.
Take each pattern in the original data set, XOR it with the log of it's entry in the new hash table, then shuffle each byte two positions to the left and you're done!
And you can see, there is some very advanced thinking going on here. It is no wonder this algorithm took so long to develop!"
"Excuse me sir, may we come in?"
"Who are you?"
"We're from the CPUC"
"The who?"
"The California Public Utilities Commision."
"Come again?"
"Sir, we have a court order - you have to reboot your computer."