Seems like it need to be tweaked so that it "drops" it's own pieces closer to the "board", as you can see at the end that one of the pieces misses it's spot.
Pretty neat, would have liked to see if the robot can actually win, if he can start (and the human's first move is not the center spot)
The APIs and languages that you mentioned are perfectly fine if you are familiar enough with them, and if they provide the functionality needed for your application. Let's not get carried away, not every usage fits the web browser "model" (for lack of a better term).
Not only that, but I see a lot of "dynamic language" (a bad term for scripting) advocates who simply dismiss compiled languages for all kinds of situations. I think this just speaks to the capabilities of the person speaking, not a general nor recommended guideline.
Privacy has always been an issue with computers, specially since the first inception of a network protocol. There's really nothing new about website and webapps tracking usage, it's been done forever. Why do marketroids and "journalists" have to keep coming back to this overloaded "web 2.0" term?
The internet doesn't have a version number, get over it people.
I think he also lost the audience in some places because some of the jokes were not really that funny in the first place.
Sometimes it doesn't mean people don't laugh because they don't agree, I laugh at stuff I find disagreable, sometimes it just means the joke is not funny or the delivery stinks.
The Panama Canal joke, about the president ignoring reality, was really flat "Let history decide what did or did not happen." He fumbled the 32% support 1/3 glass full joke (which actually wasn't really a bad joke, he just tripped over it). The audition video with Hellen Thomas was not really funny either, it had lots of potential at the beginning but then just got boring.
I like Colbert, I just don't think it was a stellar performance of his. A lot of people are just reacting that he got to make these jokes right there next to the president.
you imply you are providing a Vistar perspective from a "non-programmer" yet you talk about programming aspects of the OS (mainly the UI features) and refer yourself as a software developer. Please make up your mind.
... if I created a piece of malicious code that just installs itself silently when inserting a CD via the auto run mechanism, you don't think there's an inherent design flaw in this scheme cause by the OS?
First of all, you could make an argument that MS is at fault with the rootkit issue because of their own design decisions in the OS, and the complete failure to prevent these things from being so easily installed.
But, how can people complain so much about this horrible idea by Sony, when it the end it probably caused no damage as opposed to the mess that we have out there of virus and spyware riddled computers infected because Windows is not robust enough? At the end of the day, this rootkit is nothing compared to what Microsoft has allowed to happen to all the infected PCs out there in the world.
You're right, I don't know if there's really demand or market for something like this. However, when you think about other tools google has like gmail and even creating pages, at least this type of web based editor might enrich those products.
It would also be great to be able to edit a document even when you're in a remote terminal, and prevent that remote document from being stored in an untrusted computer.
At the end of the day, I think the ideal is a local editor, but Office / Word is so expensive, you can see were a common online tool (free) would be great for sharing these documents in a more open way.
... and managed to come off as a self righteous and immature jerk.
Look, the minimum google requires is your NPO registration, you fail to meet that requirement. It seems like google is helping a lot of orgs that meet this requirement, but you just don't qualify.
You can't prove they do this only for tax benefits, but even if they do, what's your objection. Obviously they can't help every organization in our world, if they have to pick some, they might as well pick those who also benefit them for tax purposes. This is perfectly understandable to any normal human being.
In addition, it's already being mentioned that the registration at least provides some accountability to separate scammers from real charitable orgs. Even if google is only giving free ads and not money, that is giving something of value, and it would be irresponsible to give this to any quack with a website out there.
First of all, it looks like a scrollbar, second of all, it's nothing new as you seem to imply. This UI component is similar to the one used in Picasa and it's just as bad if not worse. You don't want to represent a virtual list of thousands if not MILLIONS of results as a single scrollable list, plus you don't want to use a component that is going to confuse users thinking it's a scrollbar to clumsly navigate using it.
What if I'm skipping around pages? I'm at the end of the list and I want to go back to page 1? I have to hit the "HOME" key, but there's no affordance to remind me of that (I almost never use this key). Does the end key take me to the last result? Let's try it... nope it doesn't. Not consistent.
The page results on webpages at the bottom are not very attractive, and are not useful in my view for other applications, but for an app where you get this amount of results (searches) you need intuitive visual indication of where you are at. This doesn't provide it.
This scrollbar is horrible, it violates the fundamental usability of a regular scrollbar which is to easily let you scroll through a list while giving the user feedback as to where her or she is on the dataset.
It's a nice UI metaphor for navigation that gives you easy feedback on how much data you are seeing and where you are at. With this scrollbar, it's confusing to determine your position and easily snap it to the bottom or top of the results, this is what happens when you put a 1 million results in one list.
>... one would think that a lesson you always teach your kid (and more often than once) is never to point a toy gun at anyone,
That's the whole point of a "toy gun", to pretend you're shooting at each other while making "bang" sounds. That's one of the main points, and that's why toy guns are painted with those horrid colors, to prevent any confusion.
I thought the goal was to get more companies to open source products?
Sun has spent a lot of money on this product, and now people are demanding that they give this up too? I don't get it. Wouldn't this discourage people from opening up their projects to OS?
You can already fork this and do your own thing right? There's no incentive for Sun to "give up" more control over this, unless they want to fire a bunch of developers Sun pays for to lower their costs.
I can't make much sense out of your "reply", I know English is your second (3rd,4th?) language, but wow you need practice. It's my 2nd language too, so I have high tolerance for gibberish, but damn, I don't get what you are saying. Sorry.
> Stop worrying about someone else issue where someone else never worry about it at all.
It is out issue, and human rights violations are EVERYONE's issue on the planet.
How US based corporations based in this country doing business in your country is my business too, so I don't get your point at all.
> Third, cultural and philosophy are entirely different from America in China. Personal short term interests have to oblige mass and long term interests. We can sacrifice personal rights if that can save others instead of cultural here to respect personal rights absolutely.
That fine, there are cultural differences, and very often they must be respected. But there's nothing to respect about a government totally trying to restrict this type of information and political movements. Just because that's the norm there doesn't mean we all have to agree, just the same as not all of us agree with what our government does. There is such a thing as fundamental human rights, no matter were you live.
You do know that most of the world is not composed of the territory known as the United States of America, right?
> the USA has been totally lost toward secrecy, corruption and breaking our own laws.
He was talking about abolition of the death penalty, in "most of the world". Please pay attention.
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Considering that last year google hired some of the main Java language guys (which still do talks about Java) last year; Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter). Their background is mainly language/compiler design, my impression was and still is that I wouldn't be surprised if google was just working on their own (new) language. This just confirms this a little bit more...
So the one time cost to produce these is going to be higher? And I should care because?
Unless you own stock in a company that has to invest in new equipment for this, this is a non argument for consumers. And yes, I doubt that at the end the price for consumers is going to be that much different between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD movies.
Yes, as a consumer what I care about is higher capacity, and Blu-Ray has it and it will scale better than HD-DVD. If we're going to go through the pain of moving from the DVD format, the only logical thing is to chose the format that has the most capacity at a reasonable or comparable price.
If you don't care about storage capacity why should we bother to move on from DVD in the first place?
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Seems like it need to be tweaked so that it "drops" it's own pieces closer to the "board", as you can see at the end that one of the pieces misses it's spot.
Pretty neat, would have liked to see if the robot can actually win, if he can start (and the human's first move is not the center spot)
... you think the "push" stuff in AJAX is new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointcast
Nor should they be.
The APIs and languages that you mentioned are perfectly fine if you are familiar enough with them, and if they provide the functionality needed for your application. Let's not get carried away, not every usage fits the web browser "model" (for lack of a better term).
Not only that, but I see a lot of "dynamic language" (a bad term for scripting) advocates who simply dismiss compiled languages for all kinds of situations. I think this just speaks to the capabilities of the person speaking, not a general nor recommended guideline.
Remember Pointcast?
Privacy has always been an issue with computers, specially since the first inception of a network protocol. There's really nothing new about website and webapps tracking usage, it's been done forever. Why do marketroids and "journalists" have to keep coming back to this overloaded "web 2.0" term?
The internet doesn't have a version number, get over it people.
I think he also lost the audience in some places because some of the jokes were not really that funny in the first place.
Sometimes it doesn't mean people don't laugh because they don't agree, I laugh at stuff I find disagreable, sometimes it just means the joke is not funny or the delivery stinks.
The Panama Canal joke, about the president ignoring reality, was really flat "Let history decide what did or did not happen." He fumbled the 32% support 1/3 glass full joke (which actually wasn't really a bad joke, he just tripped over it). The audition video with Hellen Thomas was not really funny either, it had lots of potential at the beginning but then just got boring.
I like Colbert, I just don't think it was a stellar performance of his. A lot of people are just reacting that he got to make these jokes right there next to the president.
you imply you are providing a Vistar perspective from a "non-programmer" yet you talk about programming aspects of the OS (mainly the UI features) and refer yourself as a software developer. Please make up your mind.
It's also in Blue-Ray players, we'll see if those become common place.
... if I created a piece of malicious code that just installs itself silently when inserting a CD via the auto run mechanism, you don't think there's an inherent design flaw in this scheme cause by the OS?
First of all, you could make an argument that MS is at fault with the rootkit issue because of their own design decisions in the OS, and the complete failure to prevent these things from being so easily installed.
But, how can people complain so much about this horrible idea by Sony, when it the end it probably caused no damage as opposed to the mess that we have out there of virus and spyware riddled computers infected because Windows is not robust enough? At the end of the day, this rootkit is nothing compared to what Microsoft has allowed to happen to all the infected PCs out there in the world.
You're right, I don't know if there's really demand or market for something like this. However, when you think about other tools google has like gmail and even creating pages, at least this type of web based editor might enrich those products.
It would also be great to be able to edit a document even when you're in a remote terminal, and prevent that remote document from being stored in an untrusted computer.
At the end of the day, I think the ideal is a local editor, but Office / Word is so expensive, you can see were a common online tool (free) would be great for sharing these documents in a more open way.
... and managed to come off as a self righteous and immature jerk.
Look, the minimum google requires is your NPO registration, you fail to meet that requirement. It seems like google is helping a lot of orgs that meet this requirement, but you just don't qualify.
You can't prove they do this only for tax benefits, but even if they do, what's your objection. Obviously they can't help every organization in our world, if they have to pick some, they might as well pick those who also benefit them for tax purposes. This is perfectly understandable to any normal human being.
In addition, it's already being mentioned that the registration at least provides some accountability to separate scammers from real charitable orgs. Even if google is only giving free ads and not money, that is giving something of value, and it would be irresponsible to give this to any quack with a website out there.
This "drag bar" is a usability nightmare.
... nope it doesn't. Not consistent.
First of all, it looks like a scrollbar, second of all, it's nothing new as you seem to imply. This UI component is similar to the one used in Picasa and it's just as bad if not worse. You don't want to represent a virtual list of thousands if not MILLIONS of results as a single scrollable list, plus you don't want to use a component that is going to confuse users thinking it's a scrollbar to clumsly navigate using it.
What if I'm skipping around pages? I'm at the end of the list and I want to go back to page 1? I have to hit the "HOME" key, but there's no affordance to remind me of that (I almost never use this key). Does the end key take me to the last result? Let's try it
The page results on webpages at the bottom are not very attractive, and are not useful in my view for other applications, but for an app where you get this amount of results (searches) you need intuitive visual indication of where you are at. This doesn't provide it.
This scrollbar is horrible, it violates the fundamental usability of a regular scrollbar which is to easily let you scroll through a list while giving the user feedback as to where her or she is on the dataset.
It's a nice UI metaphor for navigation that gives you easy feedback on how much data you are seeing and where you are at. With this scrollbar, it's confusing to determine your position and easily snap it to the bottom or top of the results, this is what happens when you put a 1 million results in one list.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
It's a function, so you can't override with with an environment variable.
> ... one would think that a lesson you always teach your kid (and more often than once) is never to point a toy gun at anyone,
That's the whole point of a "toy gun", to pretend you're shooting at each other while making "bang" sounds. That's one of the main points, and that's why toy guns are painted with those horrid colors, to prevent any confusion.
I thought the goal was to get more companies to open source products?
Sun has spent a lot of money on this product, and now people are demanding that they give this up too? I don't get it. Wouldn't this discourage people from opening up their projects to OS?
You can already fork this and do your own thing right? There's no incentive for Sun to "give up" more control over this, unless they want to fire a bunch of developers Sun pays for to lower their costs.
I can't make much sense out of your "reply", I know English is your second (3rd,4th?) language, but wow you need practice. It's my 2nd language too, so I have high tolerance for gibberish, but damn, I don't get what you are saying. Sorry.
> Stop worrying about someone else issue where someone else never worry about it at all.
It is out issue, and human rights violations are EVERYONE's issue on the planet.
How US based corporations based in this country doing business in your country is my business too, so I don't get your point at all.
> Third, cultural and philosophy are entirely different from America in China. Personal short term interests have to oblige mass and long term interests. We can sacrifice personal rights if that can save others instead of cultural here to respect personal rights absolutely.
That fine, there are cultural differences, and very often they must be respected. But there's nothing to respect about a government totally trying to restrict this type of information and political movements. Just because that's the norm there doesn't mean we all have to agree, just the same as not all of us agree with what our government does. There is such a thing as fundamental human rights, no matter were you live.
You do know that most of the world is not composed of the territory known as the United States of America, right?
> the USA has been totally lost toward secrecy, corruption and breaking our own laws.
He was talking about abolition of the death penalty, in "most of the world". Please pay attention.
Considering that last year google hired some of the main Java language guys (which still do talks about Java) last year; Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter). Their background is mainly language/compiler design, my impression was and still is that I wouldn't be surprised if google was just working on their own (new) language. This just confirms this a little bit more ...
> I will grant that dynamic languages propobally give less skilled programmers more ways to screw something up but that's there problem not mine ;)
So you think software maintenance is not relevant or important at all? You're not making a convincing case for "dynamic languages".
At least if I go in with firefox it renders incorrectly but doesn't crash my browser.
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This guy claims he originally wrote it (as far back as 2002
http://www.pusateri.org/cruft/docs/hdtvhistory.ht
So the one time cost to produce these is going to be higher? And I should care because?
Unless you own stock in a company that has to invest in new equipment for this, this is a non argument for consumers. And yes, I doubt that at the end the price for consumers is going to be that much different between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD movies.
Yes, as a consumer what I care about is higher capacity, and Blu-Ray has it and it will scale better than HD-DVD. If we're going to go through the pain of moving from the DVD format, the only logical thing is to chose the format that has the most capacity at a reasonable or comparable price.
If you don't care about storage capacity why should we bother to move on from DVD in the first place?