When I was a student and a sound tech I was a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) which had a technical journal. There was an article around '97 that had a study of cd failure rates. 5% of cd's developed errors over a test that was suppose to simulate 10 years.
Vacume smacume, what about radiation and extreme temperature shift? I think this is a cool idea but they better be using something other than standard cd's.
And who is the WaSP to make demands on/their/ timeline? I mean, for me, sure...I think it's all fine and dandy to say to the
Who is WaSP to make demands? WaSP is an organization that is about to see it's self made irrelevant by IE and would like to avoid an unpleasant future for the web and its self. You hint at the beginnings of this, the way webmasters code against IE but if Mozilla fails IE will be the de facto standard in an even more pervasive manner. The painful fallout of that situation should be clear to anyone. MS will have an upper (and lazy) hand if it achieves this position and what could Mozilla do then? Then there will be no demand for a spec compliant browser, all pages will be IE compliant, why would anyone want to use Mozilla? It would be up to spec but unable to display 98% of the pages out there. Also No one would write tools to generate interesting, useful, cool, complicated, sophisticated Standard compliant HTML if they can write simpler tools to generate IE compliant html, with the help of some kind of MS HTML ActiveX toolkit which would just compound the problem.
Also HTML 4, CSS, DHTML are serious layout, ms would never attempt to include it in IE if there wasn't competition. It's a lot of work and if they could avoid that work by just adding a couple of new buttons and rearranging the menus for IE x+1.0 then they would. Innovation might disappear.
Your comment is thoughtful and informed but WaSP is under the gun here, try to understand their position. Posting that letter, even if it was disrespectful may have been a good idea, it may get some of geek to work on Mozilla or some layman to try Mozilla. Whatever helps.
Hello? Digital signatures are broken, the tech works fine, there's that other problem, people.
ex. I buy a stock with a pgp or what ever signed electronic doc.
That stock dives.
My broker calls, I say "Oh my private key and passphrase got stolen because my system was compromised"
Time for a visit to court.
I haven't read the legislation for digital signatures and I don't know what sort of system they are proposing. I don't think that it was a good idea for this law to be passed especial by people who know little about technology. Ok I looked at the bill now and it seems that each agency that uses signatures will have to come decide what they want to use independently. That's quite nice. I guess also today's system doesn't work all that well either, there's nothing stopping me from filling out 1040's for random people in the phone book.
If modern music was not in complete and utter stagnation Santana would not have pick up half of the Grammies
bs.
Who ever came up with the idea of having Santana play with a bunch of kids is probably as deserving of an award(but in marking) as Santana. Also the industry looked around and said "We all love Santana and he's never won a Grammy, we should fix that." Ok that's just ranting.
but...
A reason for your perceived stagnation of modern pop music could be the fragmentation of genres. The suff that the industry is pushing is obviously geared, like that new Santana album, to attract as many listeners as possible. These are the titles that are most likely to show up on charts and award lists. With Chicago/thrill Jockey, DC emo, post punk this and that, lo fi, indy pop, Brit pop, electronica and its sub genres listeners are split into smaller purchasing blocks, the metric your idea of stagnation is based on (you may have other facts to back that up with though). If late 90's music is crap to you, then you may be just looking at the crap. I'm rather excited about the possibilities of music right now and am looking forward to releases with anticipation that I haven't felt for years.
Maybe what you are talking about is a time when the biggest sellers where also the greatest innovators. That is clearly gone and the largest market share is in the hands of throwback copycats. So the problem is not that there haven't been albums produced in the last 10 years that are worthy of you attention but that because of the industry those albums have not attracted you attention as you are not tripping over them at HMV records.
I'm not sure why MS would sell j++ but there seems to be another bit of info here that is relevant; The MS crew have spun off a company called Transvirtual Tech. that will be introducing a product called "Kaffe" which is some kind of MS crippled java clone(let's give them the benefit of the doubt about the similarity to Transmeta)
Slashdot Mirror
Vacume smacume, what about radiation and extreme temperature shift? I think this is a cool idea but they better be using something other than standard cd's.
Who is WaSP to make demands? WaSP is an organization that is about to see it's self made irrelevant by IE and would like to avoid an unpleasant future for the web and its self. You hint at the beginnings of this, the way webmasters code against IE but if Mozilla fails IE will be the de facto standard in an even more pervasive manner. The painful fallout of that situation should be clear to anyone. MS will have an upper (and lazy) hand if it achieves this position and what could Mozilla do then? Then there will be no demand for a spec compliant browser, all pages will be IE compliant, why would anyone want to use Mozilla? It would be up to spec but unable to display 98% of the pages out there. Also No one would write tools to generate interesting, useful, cool, complicated, sophisticated Standard compliant HTML if they can write simpler tools to generate IE compliant html, with the help of some kind of MS HTML ActiveX toolkit which would just compound the problem.
Also HTML 4, CSS, DHTML are serious layout, ms would never attempt to include it in IE if there wasn't competition. It's a lot of work and if they could avoid that work by just adding a couple of new buttons and rearranging the menus for IE x+1.0 then they would. Innovation might disappear.
Your comment is thoughtful and informed but WaSP is under the gun here, try to understand their position. Posting that letter, even if it was disrespectful may have been a good idea, it may get some of geek to work on Mozilla or some layman to try Mozilla. Whatever helps.
ex. I buy a stock with a pgp or what ever signed electronic doc.
That stock dives.
My broker calls, I say "Oh my private key and passphrase got stolen because my system was compromised"
Time for a visit to court.
I haven't read the legislation for digital signatures and I don't know what sort of system they are proposing. I don't think that it was a good idea for this law to be passed especial by people who know little about technology. Ok I looked at the bill now and it seems that each agency that uses signatures will have to come decide what they want to use independently. That's quite nice. I guess also today's system doesn't work all that well either, there's nothing stopping me from filling out 1040's for random people in the phone book.
www-eshoo.house.gov,office of bill's proposer
bill text
Whatever, hope it works out.
bs.
Who ever came up with the idea of having Santana play with a bunch of kids is probably as deserving of an award(but in marking) as Santana. Also the industry looked around and said "We all love Santana and he's never won a Grammy, we should fix that." Ok that's just ranting.
but...
A reason for your perceived stagnation of modern pop music could be the fragmentation of genres. The suff that the industry is pushing is obviously geared, like that new Santana album, to attract as many listeners as possible. These are the titles that are most likely to show up on charts and award lists. With Chicago/thrill Jockey, DC emo, post punk this and that, lo fi, indy pop, Brit pop, electronica and its sub genres listeners are split into smaller purchasing blocks, the metric your idea of stagnation is based on (you may have other facts to back that up with though). If late 90's music is crap to you, then you may be just looking at the crap. I'm rather excited about the possibilities of music right now and am looking forward to releases with anticipation that I haven't felt for years.
Maybe what you are talking about is a time when the biggest sellers where also the greatest innovators. That is clearly gone and the largest market share is in the hands of throwback copycats. So the problem is not that there haven't been albums produced in the last 10 years that are worthy of you attention but that because of the industry those albums have not attracted you attention as you are not tripping over them at HMV records.
I'm not sure why MS would sell j++ but there seems to be another bit of info here that is relevant; The MS crew have spun off a company called Transvirtual Tech. that will be introducing a product called "Kaffe" which is some kind of MS crippled java clone(let's give them the benefit of the doubt about the similarity to Transmeta)
Check his story at zdnet: the story
Is MS selling j++ so they can get the cash before they dash to this new kaffe? It's an interesting twist.