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Yeah, except that the copyright holder, (Canonical LTD) is freely distributing their copyrighted works via torrents because it saves them money on bandwidth.
The software they're releasing is being released as free and open source. The license strictly affords anyone the right to redistribute the software in any means. This includes torrents. And if I'm not mistaken I believe you also have the right to burn the ISO to a CDROM and charge money for that CDROM.
... is the service of providing a network with which to do what the parent is suggesting. Additionally they provide geo-location-specific servers that enable faster connections to said content.
If you have static content that infrequently changes this is the best way to distribute that type of content. However, usually it tends to be really large, or frequently requested static content. Although, this can actually decrease perceived performance and speed from the users' perspective because their web browser now needs to request objects from another server. And depending on Akamai's system possibly multiple geographically close servers. This type of situation tends to take longer to download things like images because the client machine needs to query the IP address for yet another server. And then of course actually initalize a connection to that machine, which it has already completed with the initial server to download the HTML document.
Yahoo! has been offering this type of service for a long time. (since Geocities) yimg.com is the top-level domain for all of their image hosting servers. Which are spread out across the world. Images are given a unique id and then requested, IPs being resolved in a similar manner to what Akamai does. It is my opinion that they may hold the oldest prior art in this situation.
erm... looks like the parent was stripped of the code. Behold!
<script type='text/javascript'>
if(document.all){
document.getElementById('playerDiv').innerHTML = document.getElementById('playerDiv');
} /* the above line re-writes the div's html contents (in IE) and causes the browser to think its being dynamically written, thus circumventing the 'click to activate' annoyance. */
</script>
This could easily be fixed by doing something like this:
YouTube, I'm talking to you! Don't dynamically write the flash HTML to the page, have it there, then re-add it using the hack I show above. This way even those without Javascript can view the flash content.
The above code assumes that you use the good 'ole style of flash markup within a div with the id of 'playerDiv'.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is going to try to hold onto this one for a while.
Its not really 3D either. Photosynth takes a large number of photos from a common location and attempts to assemble them in the correct 'position' it then interpolates what it thinks is 3D. That is, if you have enough photos of one area and from enough angles for it to properly do so. Otherwise, you're just looking at a bunch of pictures that are shown in a way that gives you the illusion of being there.
People who buy PCs from local 'box builders' as you called them do so for reasons other than price. They do it because they don't trust Dell/HP/Lenovo etc. They don't like the service they've received from the major OEMs. So they eat the price by going to local people they know they can call tomorrow or visit tomorrow if something goes wrong. Local 'box builders' don't get custom motherboards made on the cheap. They don't buy processors in bulk from the manufacturer. They order from E-tailers or if they're lucky they've found wholesalers that beat out the E-tailers. I've known a few that sell Dell re-furbs. But that isn't as lucrative. Local guys can't beat the price that Dell offers in its specials. $200-$300 NEW computers are unheard of locally. They may claim its new, but its probably a used box that has been refurbished. Which means nothing more than re-formatted and air-dusted on the inside.
The point is that people who shop at local builders aren't doing so for price.
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Yeah, except that the copyright holder, (Canonical LTD) is freely distributing their copyrighted works via torrents because it saves them money on bandwidth.
The software they're releasing is being released as free and open source. The license strictly affords anyone the right to redistribute the software in any means. This includes torrents. And if I'm not mistaken I believe you also have the right to burn the ISO to a CDROM and charge money for that CDROM.
... is the service of providing a network with which to do what the parent is suggesting. Additionally they provide geo-location-specific servers that enable faster connections to said content.
If you have static content that infrequently changes this is the best way to distribute that type of content. However, usually it tends to be really large, or frequently requested static content. Although, this can actually decrease perceived performance and speed from the users' perspective because their web browser now needs to request objects from another server. And depending on Akamai's system possibly multiple geographically close servers. This type of situation tends to take longer to download things like images because the client machine needs to query the IP address for yet another server. And then of course actually initalize a connection to that machine, which it has already completed with the initial server to download the HTML document.
Yahoo! has been offering this type of service for a long time. (since Geocities) yimg.com is the top-level domain for all of their image hosting servers. Which are spread out across the world. Images are given a unique id and then requested, IPs being resolved in a similar manner to what Akamai does. It is my opinion that they may hold the oldest prior art in this situation.
Ouch! Be careful when attempting parent's suggestion.
erm... looks like the parent was stripped of the code. Behold!
/* the above line re-writes the div's html contents (in IE) and causes the browser to think its being dynamically written, thus circumventing the 'click to activate' annoyance. */
<script type='text/javascript'>
if(document.all){
document.getElementById('playerDiv').innerHTML = document.getElementById('playerDiv');
}
</script>
This could easily be fixed by doing something like this:
YouTube, I'm talking to you! Don't dynamically write the flash HTML to the page, have it there, then re-add it using the hack I show above. This way even those without Javascript can view the flash content.
The above code assumes that you use the good 'ole style of flash markup within a div with the id of 'playerDiv'.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is going to try to hold onto this one for a while. Its not really 3D either. Photosynth takes a large number of photos from a common location and attempts to assemble them in the correct 'position' it then interpolates what it thinks is 3D. That is, if you have enough photos of one area and from enough angles for it to properly do so. Otherwise, you're just looking at a bunch of pictures that are shown in a way that gives you the illusion of being there.
People who buy PCs from local 'box builders' as you called them do so for reasons other than price. They do it because they don't trust Dell/HP/Lenovo etc. They don't like the service they've received from the major OEMs. So they eat the price by going to local people they know they can call tomorrow or visit tomorrow if something goes wrong. Local 'box builders' don't get custom motherboards made on the cheap. They don't buy processors in bulk from the manufacturer. They order from E-tailers or if they're lucky they've found wholesalers that beat out the E-tailers. I've known a few that sell Dell re-furbs. But that isn't as lucrative. Local guys can't beat the price that Dell offers in its specials. $200-$300 NEW computers are unheard of locally. They may claim its new, but its probably a used box that has been refurbished. Which means nothing more than re-formatted and air-dusted on the inside.
The point is that people who shop at local builders aren't doing so for price.
No doubt that the moniker '7' comes from NT 7.0.
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000: NT 5.0
Windows XP: NT 5.1
Windows Vista: NT 6.0
Windows Vienna: NT 7.0
NT being "New Technology"