OK, I'm not a subscriber, and this has nothing to do with Palladium, but what is with the giant towering Flash ad for Empire Earth II between the "Meta Moderate" line and the first story??? NOT to mention the enormous whitespace between the edge of the ad and the Slashboxes on the right. I'm running at 1280x1024, and this thing has pushed the first story right off the bottom of the screen! I know Rob & Co. need to make money -- I have no problem with that -- but I think the HTML is messed up somehow.
I agree; SOM (the System Object Model) and the WPS are really the only pieces that would hold any interest. The OS/2 kernel was an advancement over DOS, but IBM never took it further than that (and it was still designed as a single-user PC OS, albeit with hooks for external security apps).
That having been said, I think that regardless of the legal entanglements, open-sourcing any part of their fat client OS would be in direct opposition to their "eCommerce Platform" strategy (i.e., run everything as thin clients off of Websphere), and so I agree with Hemos' prediction that this is not going to be more than a "wouldn't it be nice" for the foreseeable future.
You have particular, personal requirements for which this level of choice is useful. However, for the proverbial Vast Majority of users (i.e., all those people who simply want to get out from in front of the monitor as quickly as possible while devoting the minimal amount of brainpower to the appliance they have to use), all of that gets in the way.
Put it another way: it is not an upgrade to ask users to make choices among things about which they should not have to care at all.
It gets worse... they submitted another paper that was rejected, they asked why, and got this in reply (several paragraphs, complete with random statistics, to say "it's too much work for us to tell you.")
This must be the New England thread. This is the exact issue that has had the State of New Hampshire repeatedly suing Maine over the past few decades: Maine taxes incomes from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (which is in Kittery, Me.), so NH has gone to the Supreme Court at least twice that I know of trying to convince them that King George meant to put the island the shipyard is on in New Hampshire. I believe that estoppel will keep them from going back again, but they still refuse to replace the New Hampshire State Line sign on the I-95 bridge.
I remember those days; I was in college when the AT&T breakup was implemented. The phone bills in my area came with a punch card ("do not fold, spindle, or mutilate") which had to be returned with your bill. Telephones were not available in stores; you got them from the phone company, and you paid extra to have a second one in your home. Telco personnel did all the wiring, not just to the "network interface" (demarc) on the outside of the house... the interface was introduced during the breakup. What I do not remember is whether the first phone in your home was itemized on the bill, or included in the monthly basic service rate.
One point about the Western Electric phones that AT&T used to lease to customers: they were the most incredibly durable phones I have ever seen. Very durable plastic (earlier ones had Bakelite casings), they had decent-gauge steel bases and actual bells. After the breakup, AT&T ran some commercials touting its phones (which it was then selling), punctuated by a woman picking a receiver off the floor and telling the person at the other end "oh, I just dropped the phone."
Thank you. The only thing that was tested here was the SAE's lame ownership attempt, based on a usage policy buried in a disused lavatory on their website that essentially said "all your base....". The GPL is orthogonal to the dispute.
I'm just reading the books for the first time now (currently reading Xenocide), and the introduction to Speaker for the Dead tells the tale the grandparent poster spoke of: OSC discovered that Speaker needed far too much exposition to be workable, then hit upon "What if Ender were the Speaker?" (Ender's Game only existed as a novella at that point.) Hence, the novel-length rewrite of EG, to enable Speaker to be told.
Plan a project to work on during the show. Make it something simple, so the kids can "help" you with it as things go on. Here's a thought: bring a digital camera that you can use to quickly bring photos into your laptop, then let each kid (who doesn't have marshmallow Fluff all over his/her fingers) take a picture, then add a button that brings their photo up in a non-modal window. Use an easy visual environment like Delphi (Kylix, if you're running Linux) or something. All you'll have at the end is a base window with a ton of buttons and a popup window that displays a pic, plus a bunch of pictures of other people's kids which you should probably delete, but it might serve to engage them.
The kids with marshmallow Fluff on their fingers can be project leads; hand them a stopwatch and have them loudly time how long it takes their peers to type the code in.
This points to the largest area that will be difficult, if not impossible, for OSS to fill: software that requires a large amount of non-technical input to function correctly. Tax software needs accountants and tax attorneys to spend a good amount of time analyzing the updated laws to be useful. My other favorite example is educational/edutainment software (Jumpstart 2nd Grade and the like), which really needs to have educational professionals involved in the design and development to really benefit kids (or at least to make the parents believe that their kids will benefit).
I used the Video Toaster back in the day (when it was still on Amiga), and I know they went non-linear with the Flyer some time ago. No one here has mentioned them; do they suck now, or is their product overkill for the user's needs?
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The worst part, perhaps, is that the story says "international domain names", not "internationalized". If you aren't already familiar with the story, it sounds like they'll be dropping support for.uk,.ca, etc.!
Memo to editors: sober up, RTFN, edit accordingly.
Um... what part of the article makes you believe that the API is going to allow anyone to manipulate the Google search results? I read it that it's going to allow advertisers to manipulate the placement, content, etc. of their ads, and I believe that you need to degauss your tinfoil hat.
The other interesting thing is that, before the DC run finished, Alan Moore had said he would do no more work for DC. If my memory serves me correctly (and it always does...:), Moore, Frank Miller, and a few other creators protested DC's firing of Marv Wolfman as one of their editors, after Marv had made some comments that upset Jenette Kahn and the other PTB. Miller was later mollified; Moore said he would stick by his refusal to work for them again. The only reason Moore finished V for Vendetta for them was that he had signed a contract to do so.
Oh, and if you REALLY to have some reading to do, go buy all the Cerebus phonebooks.
Trust me, if someone like EA Sports were to take this on, at least the US leagues (and probably the players' unions as well) would be lining up to issue licenses and collect $$$$ (and I doubt that FIFA and the other European leagues would be far behind).
AND, if the players' unions got in on it, then the game players could pretend to be the actual players, and get to use their stats and names ("I get to be David Beckham!" "I get to be Ted Washington, and you're unconscious now!")
I just looked at the page source code... they actually did something very similar to this. They create a table cell, set the background image to the book page (it's fed out of their search engine as opposed to being a static image link, so I imagine the backend screens based on http_referer or something), and then stretch a 1x1 transparent gif over the table cell. "Show Image" then shows the transparent gif, and there is no "show background image" since we are over a foreground image.
They also use the standard context-menu disabling Javascript, which IE respects (and Mozilla does as well if you tell it to). Other than this (standard-issue) trick, they aren't doing anything sneaky to the user's browser at all. They could even disable the DRM for non-copyright pages if they wanted to (don't use the transparent cover image, and don't disable the context menu). All in all, it seems like a pretty slick implementation!
I'm a season ticket holder for the local minor league baseball team. They have no RFID bracelets, yet the park swarms with unattended kids and foul balls hurtling through the air at dangerous speeds.
I go to the local mall on a Friday evening. I see swarms of unattended kids (most older than the 4-11 target age of Wannado City, but still not adults).
Stupidity and bad parenting are bleeding obvious consequences of the human condition. Given that they are unavoidable, I don't see any other problems with this system, especially as we're talking "on their property, in their theme park."
The college has every right over you that you granted them in the fine print of the lease and the letter of intent paperwork. Besides, considering that the cable company didn't even serve campus housing when I went to college (which was back in the ARPANet days), these guys are worthless and weak!
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OK, I'm not a subscriber, and this has nothing to do with Palladium, but what is with the giant towering Flash ad for Empire Earth II between the "Meta Moderate" line and the first story??? NOT to mention the enormous whitespace between the edge of the ad and the Slashboxes on the right. I'm running at 1280x1024, and this thing has pushed the first story right off the bottom of the screen! I know Rob & Co. need to make money -- I have no problem with that -- but I think the HTML is messed up somehow.
I agree; SOM (the System Object Model) and the WPS are really the only pieces that would hold any interest. The OS/2 kernel was an advancement over DOS, but IBM never took it further than that (and it was still designed as a single-user PC OS, albeit with hooks for external security apps).
That having been said, I think that regardless of the legal entanglements, open-sourcing any part of their fat client OS would be in direct opposition to their "eCommerce Platform" strategy (i.e., run everything as thin clients off of Websphere), and so I agree with Hemos' prediction that this is not going to be more than a "wouldn't it be nice" for the foreseeable future.
You have particular, personal requirements for which this level of choice is useful. However, for the proverbial Vast Majority of users (i.e., all those people who simply want to get out from in front of the monitor as quickly as possible while devoting the minimal amount of brainpower to the appliance they have to use), all of that gets in the way.
Put it another way: it is not an upgrade to ask users to make choices among things about which they should not have to care at all.
It gets worse... they submitted another paper that was rejected, they asked why, and got this in reply (several paragraphs, complete with random statistics, to say "it's too much work for us to tell you.")
They used to do things like that (mfrs. dictate the retail price). I believe that, in the USA at least, it has been ruled to be illegal.
This must be the New England thread. This is the exact issue that has had the State of New Hampshire repeatedly suing Maine over the past few decades: Maine taxes incomes from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (which is in Kittery, Me.), so NH has gone to the Supreme Court at least twice that I know of trying to convince them that King George meant to put the island the shipyard is on in New Hampshire. I believe that estoppel will keep them from going back again, but they still refuse to replace the New Hampshire State Line sign on the I-95 bridge.
I remember those days; I was in college when the AT&T breakup was implemented. The phone bills in my area came with a punch card ("do not fold, spindle, or mutilate") which had to be returned with your bill. Telephones were not available in stores; you got them from the phone company, and you paid extra to have a second one in your home. Telco personnel did all the wiring, not just to the "network interface" (demarc) on the outside of the house... the interface was introduced during the breakup. What I do not remember is whether the first phone in your home was itemized on the bill, or included in the monthly basic service rate.
One point about the Western Electric phones that AT&T used to lease to customers: they were the most incredibly durable phones I have ever seen. Very durable plastic (earlier ones had Bakelite casings), they had decent-gauge steel bases and actual bells. After the breakup, AT&T ran some commercials touting its phones (which it was then selling), punctuated by a woman picking a receiver off the floor and telling the person at the other end "oh, I just dropped the phone."
MP3's. Cherry-flavored MP3's. No question about it.
Thank you. The only thing that was tested here was the SAE's lame ownership attempt, based on a usage policy buried in a disused lavatory on their website that essentially said "all your base....". The GPL is orthogonal to the dispute.
I'm just reading the books for the first time now (currently reading Xenocide), and the introduction to Speaker for the Dead tells the tale the grandparent poster spoke of: OSC discovered that Speaker needed far too much exposition to be workable, then hit upon "What if Ender were the Speaker?" (Ender's Game only existed as a novella at that point.) Hence, the novel-length rewrite of EG, to enable Speaker to be told.
Plan a project to work on during the show. Make it something simple, so the kids can "help" you with it as things go on. Here's a thought: bring a digital camera that you can use to quickly bring photos into your laptop, then let each kid (who doesn't have marshmallow Fluff all over his/her fingers) take a picture, then add a button that brings their photo up in a non-modal window. Use an easy visual environment like Delphi (Kylix, if you're running Linux) or something. All you'll have at the end is a base window with a ton of buttons and a popup window that displays a pic, plus a bunch of pictures of other people's kids which you should probably delete, but it might serve to engage them.
The kids with marshmallow Fluff on their fingers can be project leads; hand them a stopwatch and have them loudly time how long it takes their peers to type the code in.
This points to the largest area that will be difficult, if not impossible, for OSS to fill: software that requires a large amount of non-technical input to function correctly. Tax software needs accountants and tax attorneys to spend a good amount of time analyzing the updated laws to be useful. My other favorite example is educational/edutainment software (Jumpstart 2nd Grade and the like), which really needs to have educational professionals involved in the design and development to really benefit kids (or at least to make the parents believe that their kids will benefit).
I used the Video Toaster back in the day (when it was still on Amiga), and I know they went non-linear with the Flyer some time ago. No one here has mentioned them; do they suck now, or is their product overkill for the user's needs?
(X) I gave up listening to music years ago in favor of all-news stations and Imus.
Memo to self: drink coffee, type RTFA instead of the unintelligible "RTFN", make lame follow-up to self
The worst part, perhaps, is that the story says "international domain names", not "internationalized". If you aren't already familiar with the story, it sounds like they'll be dropping support for .uk, .ca, etc.!
Memo to editors: sober up, RTFN, edit accordingly.
Um... what part of the article makes you believe that the API is going to allow anyone to manipulate the Google search results? I read it that it's going to allow advertisers to manipulate the placement, content, etc. of their ads, and I believe that you need to degauss your tinfoil hat.
The other interesting thing is that, before the DC run finished, Alan Moore had said he would do no more work for DC. If my memory serves me correctly (and it always does... :), Moore, Frank Miller, and a few other creators protested DC's firing of Marv Wolfman as one of their editors, after Marv had made some comments that upset Jenette Kahn and the other PTB. Miller was later mollified; Moore said he would stick by his refusal to work for them again. The only reason Moore finished V for Vendetta for them was that he had signed a contract to do so.
Oh, and if you REALLY to have some reading to do, go buy all the Cerebus phonebooks.
If you opt out, you can't (or at least aren't supposed to be able to) play media that have DRM enabled until you change your mind and opt in.
I wonder if he's related to this Genovese family?
Trust me, if someone like EA Sports were to take this on, at least the US leagues (and probably the players' unions as well) would be lining up to issue licenses and collect $$$$ (and I doubt that FIFA and the other European leagues would be far behind).
AND, if the players' unions got in on it, then the game players could pretend to be the actual players, and get to use their stats and names ("I get to be David Beckham!" "I get to be Ted Washington, and you're unconscious now!")
I just looked at the page source code... they actually did something very similar to this. They create a table cell, set the background image to the book page (it's fed out of their search engine as opposed to being a static image link, so I imagine the backend screens based on http_referer or something), and then stretch a 1x1 transparent gif over the table cell. "Show Image" then shows the transparent gif, and there is no "show background image" since we are over a foreground image.
They also use the standard context-menu disabling Javascript, which IE respects (and Mozilla does as well if you tell it to). Other than this (standard-issue) trick, they aren't doing anything sneaky to the user's browser at all. They could even disable the DRM for non-copyright pages if they wanted to (don't use the transparent cover image, and don't disable the context menu). All in all, it seems like a pretty slick implementation!
I call RTFA! It's not a Disney park!
I'm a season ticket holder for the local minor league baseball team. They have no RFID bracelets, yet the park swarms with unattended kids and foul balls hurtling through the air at dangerous speeds.
I go to the local mall on a Friday evening. I see swarms of unattended kids (most older than the 4-11 target age of Wannado City, but still not adults).
Stupidity and bad parenting are bleeding obvious consequences of the human condition. Given that they are unavoidable, I don't see any other problems with this system, especially as we're talking "on their property, in their theme park."
The college has every right over you that you granted them in the fine print of the lease and the letter of intent paperwork. Besides, considering that the cable company didn't even serve campus housing when I went to college (which was back in the ARPANet days), these guys are worthless and weak!