Just for novelty value, perhaps you could try reading the article before commenting. Then you wouldn't look quite so foolish when you respond to someone quoting the entire article.
Of course, the original poster could have pointed out that he was reproducing the article (the "karma whore" remark notwithstanding); that might at least have made the ensuing discussion slightly more useful.
Choice 2 is exactly how the original Navigator / Communicator line was done: Bill Law has some info on this at his NSCP homepage.
IIRC, the discussions regarding creation of XUL went something like this:
No one wants to work on the Communicator 5.0 codebase; it's all crufty spaghetti.
NGLayout is really cool; let's work on that instead!
There are very few people who want to work on the front-end stuff for {platform X where X not in ('Windows','Linux')}
You know, we have to code all these widgets anyway for use in the browser window; the APIs are all too different to try to use native ones in the renderer.....
Why don't we use the renderer widgets to build the chrome!
Let's go with that, and rebrand Mozilla as an Application Development Platform instead of a browser!
IMHO, it was that change from native front ends to XUL, and all the tangents that that gave birth to (ChatZilla, anyone?), that caused the Mozilla project to take 4 years. Switching to NGLayout didn't hurt the timeline nearly as much as the XUL implementation.
The Bahamas... when you're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore!
NB: the above comment refers to the English interpretation of the ccTLD, and has nothing to do with the country itself. Unfortunately, it's $500 to set up a 2nd-level domain.
How exactly is a *VACUUM* supposed to conduct heat??
You've clearly never seen a vacuum tube device in operation.
Not to mention, lived on a planet heated by a star which is c. 92 million miles of near-vacuum away.
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A few years ago, I signed up for AOL for a few months so I could chat with a then-SO who was half the country away. When the relationship ended, I called the customer service number and, when asked for a reason, told the guy that I had "joined so I could chat with someone who is now an ex-girlfriend."
This wasn't actual Big Iron-- it was a rack from IBM (something like this one), but the first one we ordered came with a big dent and a hole punched in the front doorframe. So did the replacement. It turned out that they were air-freighting them from Austin and, since they were too tall for an airplane cargo compartment, they were laying them down and using a forklift to load them.
We finally made them ground-ship the third one... it arrived intact so I could get the $15000 Netfinity 7000 plugged in and running.
At my former company, we used ILux. It started as a simple log analyzer with a Java front end, and then evolved into a campaign-analysis/trip-through-the-site-tracking/c ustomize-email-marketing-according-to-their-path-t hrough-the-site behemoth. It costs, and (when I used it) it was cookie-based to enable the site tracking. We also didn't have much luck with it as it evolved, probably because we were using underpowered hardware (we really only wanted the log analyzer it started as) and it was a first release of the expanded product, but you may want to check into an eval.
Nothing, but in that case (which I hope never happens) I'd hope that SmarterChild would become Ignorable. AFIAK, there's no real way to tell until that time comes.
Note that the "lawyer" in the case has the same last name as the inventor, and also that the patent references "the inventor and his sister." My guess is that the dad is a patent attorney, and the inventor and sister are his kids.
At least he's willing to license the patent (see the end of the abstract), and also that the patent specifically references a "tree branch". The real "money" goes to whoever patents an extension of this one to cover those cases where the swing is suspended from a metal bar supported by supports arranged in an isoceles triangle:)
Editorial control from my ISP? I think not. Your view, and that at the moronic Federal and State levels, only make sense if your ISP is really an entertianment company pushing crap down your throat. That's not what the internet is for, and it is outrageous that the public right of way is being given to people who think differently.
I didn't say that it was the way I thought things ought to be, I stated it as my view of the way things are. There's a difference.
There is no "public right-of-way" in the sense you're using it, at least not in the USA. NSFNet shut down April 30, 1995, when the backbone was privatized. Since then, the US Internet has been a collection of leased lines and custom-laid cables, each of which is leased or owned by some very large corporation, connected by a series of NAPs run either privately or as co-ops. The only reason your traffic gets to use these is that disrupting your stuff entirely would kill their business model (they don't want people to think they would do that).
Get this! I'm not paying an ISP for yet another way to get Hollywood garbage. I'm paying my ISP for communications services. That my ISP would exercise "editorial" control by keeping me from serving, and that my ISP is a monopoly carrier is OBVIOULY against the public interest. My internet connection is worth more to me than my phone, my tv and all my magazine subscriptions as it has taken their place. My desire to contribute to the public domain is shared by countless others, who get it. Blocking our contributions will destroy the web as a forum of information creation and make it worthless, much like the poorly regulated Cable TV, and broadcast media.
You know, I don't actually disagree with you (except for the part where you equate me with a moron). If I did, I wouldn't have spent several years as a public-access station's representative to the state association, much less served on that Association's board. But right now, what you're advocating ain't the way it is. If your Internet connection means as much to you as you say it does, I strongly suggest you harness your rhetorical energies and direct them someplace they might do some good, like your state PUC (see if they have an ombudsman that might listen), or your state Representative or your Congressman. Because right now, there is no actual free Internet, and there hasn't been one for years. And bitching at me won't do one bit of good to change that, 'cause I'm just some shithead on Slashdot.
I think that the key difference between Cablecos and telcos is that Telcos, as far as POTS is concerned, are treated as common carriers: they have no editorial control over what goes over their lines, and have to file tariffs (rate cards) with the FCC and the state PUC which in turn need regulatory approval. Cablecos are not Common Carriers, so they get editorial control over what goes over their wires (ie, you don't get channels they don't supply, but in turn they have some liability for their content). The general feeling at the Federal and most state levels, from what I've seen, is that cable TV and internet services are not seen as sufficently vital to everyday life (as opposed to basic telephone service, which is considered to be such) for the providers to be granted Common Carrier status.
OK, I'll bite. How did "Blue Peter" lose an early Dr. Who episode? (I know about the tape reuse thing... are you saying that one of the old tapes was reused for a Blue Peter?)
There is a dorm which is slightly off-core-campus called the Burdett Avenue Residence Hall, or BAR-H. It was given that name when they realized that the original, the Burdett Avenue Residence Facility, was doubly inappropriate for the only dorm which had its own cafeteria.
Actually, they appear to be opposed to the settlement... they would prefer to see the case dropped entirely:
Accordingly, we reject the notion that this settlement serves the public interest, or that any punishment of Microsoft for its business practices will be of benefit to any consumer. Eroding Microsoft's property rights serves no one. We hold that no antitrust case, including the Microsoft case can withstand rational scrutiny, and we ask that no sanction be placed on Microsoft as a result of its antitrust conviction.
How did Newtek kill Amiga? By porting the VT/Flyer to a platform that was in active production? (I'm not trolling, I'm really curious as to what you were referring to).
On the first of those pages, I found a link to their progress report on e-filing. Their stated intermediate goal by next year is for 100% of returns prepared electronically to be submitted electronically; overriding goal is that by 2007 80% of all returns (taken as 80% each of individual, commercial, and informational returns) to be filed electronically. Personally, I don't see how they can get to the 80% for individual returns without getting to "If you didn't pay to prepare the return, you don't need to pay to E-file."
The details on the patent are available at Delphion, although they no longer allow you to see all the claims for free. IIRC, though, the key to the patent was that it used a laser pointer, not just any old flashlight! You're missing the true innovation!!
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Why do you doubt? Allay your concerns.
IIRC, the discussions regarding creation of XUL went something like this:
- No one wants to work on the Communicator 5.0 codebase; it's all crufty spaghetti.
- NGLayout is really cool; let's work on that instead!
- There are very few people who want to work on the front-end stuff for {platform X where X not in ('Windows','Linux')}
- You know, we have to code all these widgets anyway for use in the browser window; the APIs are all too different to try to use native ones in the renderer.....
- Why don't we use the renderer widgets to build the chrome!
- Let's go with that, and rebrand Mozilla as an Application Development Platform instead of a browser!
IMHO, it was that change from native front ends to XUL, and all the tangents that that gave birth to (ChatZilla, anyone?), that caused the Mozilla project to take 4 years. Switching to NGLayout didn't hurt the timeline nearly as much as the XUL implementation.The Bahamas... when you're mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore!
NB: the above comment refers to the English interpretation of the ccTLD, and has nothing to do with the country itself. Unfortunately, it's $500 to set up a 2nd-level domain.
Not to mention, lived on a planet heated by a star which is c. 92 million miles of near-vacuum away.
A few years ago, I signed up for AOL for a few months so I could chat with a then-SO who was half the country away. When the relationship ended, I called the customer service number and, when asked for a reason, told the guy that I had "joined so I could chat with someone who is now an ex-girlfriend."
It took him 10 seconds to cancel my membership.
Gee, adding Linux compatibility to a proprietary Unix. Isn't that exactly what Big Blue has done with AIX 5L?
It's dead, Jim. I've never witnessed the moment of death of a website before.
This wasn't actual Big Iron-- it was a rack from IBM (something like this one), but the first one we ordered came with a big dent and a hole punched in the front doorframe. So did the replacement. It turned out that they were air-freighting them from Austin and, since they were too tall for an airplane cargo compartment, they were laying them down and using a forklift to load them.
We finally made them ground-ship the third one... it arrived intact so I could get the $15000 Netfinity 7000 plugged in and running.
At my former company, we used ILux. It started as a simple log analyzer with a Java front end, and then evolved into a campaign-analysis/trip-through-the-site-tracking/c ustomize-email-marketing-according-to-their-path-t hrough-the-site behemoth. It costs, and (when I used it) it was cookie-based to enable the site tracking. We also didn't have much luck with it as it evolved, probably because we were using underpowered hardware (we really only wanted the log analyzer it started as) and it was a first release of the expanded product, but you may want to check into an eval.
Nothing, but in that case (which I hope never happens) I'd hope that SmarterChild would become Ignorable. AFIAK, there's no real way to tell until that time comes.
As far as I know, it doesn't initiate conversations either, so "Ignore" is meaningless. It only talks to you when you talk to it.
(*** Really scary idea for this bot technology self-censored to keep anyone on Madison Ave. from actually implementing it **)
Note that the "lawyer" in the case has the same last name as the inventor, and also that the patent references "the inventor and his sister." My guess is that the dad is a patent attorney, and the inventor and sister are his kids.
:)
At least he's willing to license the patent (see the end of the abstract), and also that the patent specifically references a "tree branch". The real "money" goes to whoever patents an extension of this one to cover those cases where the swing is suspended from a metal bar supported by supports arranged in an isoceles triangle
I try not to give Yahoo any more hits after they messed up their privacy poolicy, so here's the same exact story on Slashdot:1 0&mode=nested.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/12/11282
Is there an archive of the CJAN joke page? I never got online at all yesterday.
Thanks,
Mark
You know, I don't actually disagree with you (except for the part where you equate me with a moron). If I did, I wouldn't have spent several years as a public-access station's representative to the state association, much less served on that Association's board. But right now, what you're advocating ain't the way it is. If your Internet connection means as much to you as you say it does, I strongly suggest you harness your rhetorical energies and direct them someplace they might do some good, like your state PUC (see if they have an ombudsman that might listen), or your state Representative or your Congressman. Because right now, there is no actual free Internet, and there hasn't been one for years. And bitching at me won't do one bit of good to change that, 'cause I'm just some shithead on Slashdot.
I think that the key difference between Cablecos and telcos is that Telcos, as far as POTS is concerned, are treated as common carriers: they have no editorial control over what goes over their lines, and have to file tariffs (rate cards) with the FCC and the state PUC which in turn need regulatory approval. Cablecos are not Common Carriers, so they get editorial control over what goes over their wires (ie, you don't get channels they don't supply, but in turn they have some liability for their content). The general feeling at the Federal and most state levels, from what I've seen, is that cable TV and internet services are not seen as sufficently vital to everyday life (as opposed to basic telephone service, which is considered to be such) for the providers to be granted Common Carrier status.
OK, I'll bite. How did "Blue Peter" lose an early Dr. Who episode? (I know about the tape reuse thing... are you saying that one of the old tapes was reused for a Blue Peter?)
I don't vote, but I voted for the other party that time around.
Is this the new version of "I don't watch TV" or "I only watch PBS"?
83-85; the 'Tute took all my money and threw me away. I got to be there for the hockey championship, though (although I didn't go to Detroit).
There is a dorm which is slightly off-core-campus called the Burdett Avenue Residence Hall, or BAR-H. It was given that name when they realized that the original, the Burdett Avenue Residence Facility, was doubly inappropriate for the only dorm which had its own cafeteria.
How did Newtek kill Amiga? By porting the VT/Flyer to a platform that was in active production? (I'm not trolling, I'm really curious as to what you were referring to).
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On the first of those pages, I found a link to their progress report on e-filing. Their stated intermediate goal by next year is for 100% of returns prepared electronically to be submitted electronically; overriding goal is that by 2007 80% of all returns (taken as 80% each of individual, commercial, and informational returns) to be filed electronically. Personally, I don't see how they can get to the 80% for individual returns without getting to "If you didn't pay to prepare the return, you don't need to pay to E-file."
The details on the patent are available at Delphion, although they no longer allow you to see all the claims for free. IIRC, though, the key to the patent was that it used a laser pointer , not just any old flashlight! You're missing the true innovation!!