I'm totally fed up with absolute positioning. That was a terrible idea. It was a bad idea in TeX, it was a bad idea in PostScript, and it is a bad idea in CSS. Now font width assumptions are built into the layout. We have text that runs off the page boundaries, buttons that move when clicked, and browser-specific dreck in the page markup. Giant step backwards. Tables were a good feature and they need to come back.
I suspect this concept will hit the "excessively annoying" level before it hits the "profitable" level. There tried this; you could pay real money to buy branded clothing for your avatar. It was a flop.
Next bad advertising idea: discount widescreen TV displays which, when running 4:3 format content, fill the blank screen area with ads.
(On an unrelated note, there's supposed to be a blank line between the paragraphs above, but the new, extra-complicated CSS based Web 2.0 Slashdot implementation is broken. Bulleted lists are even more broken.)
This is the price of AJAX. If users are constantly going back to the server in the middle of a page, you need more server capacity. Really, the AJAX approach is a hideously inefficient way to update a form. We're now seeing the price of that.
That was the first thing I looked at, too. Even the CVS on SourceForge is empty. Is this for real?
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Virtualization is neat, but now you get to have multiple levels of system administration. It's not clear that this will improve security, but it's definitely going to mean more files to misconfigure.
The Linux/Xen/UML world seems to be trying to get to a secure microkernel operating system, with user-mode drivers and limited-authority operating system components. The way they're getting there is wierd, but it might work. Or it might turn into the biggest configuration nightmare since Sendmail.
There is a growing trend in U.S. Federal Law that grants people rights, but does not allow them a remedy if there is a violation of these rights. This is a direct outgrowth of 20 years of conservative Supreme Court rulings that have gutted the power of the Judiciary to provide remedies for violations of the law.
Actually, it's an import from the law of the former Soviet Union, which had many unenforceable rights in the Soviet constitution.
This could be happening. As a horse owner at a big stable that offers lessons, I see dozens of kids in the age 9-15 range. They all have cell phones. Some bring game machines like a DS. But I just realized that I've never seen an iPod or any other music player in that crowd. If this is a trend, the music industry is in trouble.
There's last year's "Escape from Fire Island":
"If you ask the lifeguard to bring you to the sheriff's office, turn to page 108. If you ask the lifeguard to warn everyone at the night club, turn to page 32. If you ask the lifeguard if he'd like to work out sometime, turn to page 140."
CMP's trademark (#78322306) is only for two categories, and they're both related to conferences. So CMP has the exclusive right to have conferences called "Web 2.0". But if you want to release software that's "Web 2.0 ready", for example, you should be OK. CMP tried to make broader claims, got shot down by the USPTO, and had to settle for a relatively narrow trademark. You can get all this from the USPTO web site, although it's hard to link to their search engine results.
So Apple switches from PowerPC to Intel just as the game consoles switch from Intel and MIPS to PowerPC. The XBox 360 is a 3-CPU PowerPC machine, after all. That chip would have made a nice Mac core.
The real problem is zombies, Windows PCs taken over by malware and used to host spammers. As long as armies of zombies exist, and can impersonate the owner of the computer, nothing will work. Charging for mail won't work because the zombies will spend their host's money. Source authentication won't help because the zombies will use their host's identity. Until the armies of zombies can be slain, we cannot win.
But the zombies are vulnerable. The lamest Windows OSs, the DOS/Win95/98/ME family, are slowly dying off. XP is at least potentially fixable, and Vista is much tighter.
We've made real progress. It's tough to send spam today without committing a felony. Spammers are routinely going to jail. Spam as a means of even vaguely legitimate marketing is dead. Spam-friendly hosting is getting harder to find. Ironport gave up selling its "spam cannon" rackmount spam sender. Spam filtering is better than ever.
Spammers have been reduced to using zombies because anything more direct gets them hammered.
Gonzales is in no position right now to get anything through Congress. This sounds like something to distract attention from Gonzales own political problems, from his history as "Mr. Torture Memo" to the current Congressional investigation of the FBI raid on an office in the Capitol itself.
If it's a real anti-terrorism issue, Homeland Security should be taking the lead, but they look like such bozos since Katrina they'd be laughed at.
So the thing to do, if you have some connection with an ISP, is to get your trade association's lobbyist on the job. Some ongoing lobbyist attention should be able to keep this from being slipped into some unrelated bill, and no way would this win on a standalone floor vote.
Meanwhile, the ISP industry should refuse to discuss the issue with the Justice Department on the grounds that the Justice Department lacks legislative authority to address the matter.
. I'm pretty sure there were probably some major engineering disasters in building early pyramids and ziggarauts too.
Some pyramids actually collapsed due to structural failure. It's not obvious, but a pyramid is not a stable structure. It's not all vertical load; there's a spreading component as the forces are transmitted down the structure. With no tensile strength between blocks, at some size and angle, a pyramid will push itself apart.
The Pyramid of Maidun collapsed for that reason, and the mess is still there.
Update: that store is now closed. And the SF Sony Metreon is now run, badly, by American Multi-Cinema (AMC), operators of low-rent multiplexes in malls across the US.
The "closed to the press" thing just meant you had to actually buy a registration to attend. No freebies for journalists. The $1,395 registration fee was apparently too much for Wired. (Only $395 if you register in advance and are in "telecommunications", and a Wired Ventures LLC business card probably would have been good enough to qualify for that.)
There were important talks he should have attended and covered. Here's the agenda.. But no, all we get is comments from people in the lobby.
In its heyday, Wired sent reporters on assignment for months to get good stories. Then they laid off most of the real reporters. Now, the articles are filler for their Sharper Image catalog content.
There's a vending machine with some iPods in it at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco. It's in the store on the second floor that sells laptop cases, jelly beans, and video projectors.
I've been looking at some UDRP decisions. First, registration on the supplemental register is not considered to confer rights meaningful in a UDRP proceeding. You have to get on to the principal register.
Second, priority is an issue. You need to have some rights in the name predating the acquisition of the domain by the current owner. Registering a trademark helps, but the history of its use may matter.
One of the more useful things to do in domain disputes is to get a trademark. If you do business or have a product named "Zowie", get a trademark on "Zowie". It's not that hard, it costs a few hundred dollars, and the process is entirely on line. Doesn't matter what category of product the trademark is under, or even if it's on the principal register. You can almost always get registration on the supplemental register, which means you can't keep others from using the name, but they can't keep you from using it either.
Once you have a trademark on the domain that describes your stuff, you can make a cybersquatting complaint. If the domain owner is just parking the domain, under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy that's considered "use in bad faith". Then you send a letter to the domain owner, threatening a UDRP proceeding.
(If it's a "private registration", the registrar will now "uncloak" the domain so fast your head will spin, because they don't want to be the party to a UDRP proceeding or lawsuit.)
At this point, either the other side will offer to sell you the domain for less than a UDRP costs ($1000), or you go forward to a mandatory UDRP proceeding, which is an instant win when you have the trademark.
Is this like a "Wow, it plays my favorite game really fast" book, or a "Synchronizing the second level cache between the 3 CPUs uses roughly 28% of the interconnect bandwidth" book, or a "Shaumus Blackley was forced off the project after a meeting where he..." book?
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I'm totally fed up with absolute positioning. That was a terrible idea. It was a bad idea in TeX, it was a bad idea in PostScript, and it is a bad idea in CSS. Now font width assumptions are built into the layout. We have text that runs off the page boundaries, buttons that move when clicked, and browser-specific dreck in the page markup. Giant step backwards. Tables were a good feature and they need to come back.
Next bad advertising idea: discount widescreen TV displays which, when running 4:3 format content, fill the blank screen area with ads.
(On an unrelated note, there's supposed to be a blank line between the paragraphs above, but the new, extra-complicated CSS based Web 2.0 Slashdot implementation is broken. Bulleted lists are even more broken.)
True. Two of the members of the '60s band "The Grateful Dead" are already dead.
He's an old hippie, and he don't know what to do. Should he hang on to the old? Should he grab on to the new?
This is the price of AJAX. If users are constantly going back to the server in the middle of a page, you need more server capacity. Really, the AJAX approach is a hideously inefficient way to update a form. We're now seeing the price of that.
That was the first thing I looked at, too. Even the CVS on SourceForge is empty. Is this for real?
The Linux/Xen/UML world seems to be trying to get to a secure microkernel operating system, with user-mode drivers and limited-authority operating system components. The way they're getting there is wierd, but it might work. Or it might turn into the biggest configuration nightmare since Sendmail.
Actually, it's an import from the law of the former Soviet Union, which had many unenforceable rights in the Soviet constitution.
This could be happening. As a horse owner at a big stable that offers lessons, I see dozens of kids in the age 9-15 range. They all have cell phones. Some bring game machines like a DS. But I just realized that I've never seen an iPod or any other music player in that crowd. If this is a trend, the music industry is in trouble.
There's last year's "Escape from Fire Island": "If you ask the lifeguard to bring you to the sheriff's office, turn to page 108. If you ask the lifeguard to warn everyone at the night club, turn to page 32. If you ask the lifeguard if he'd like to work out sometime, turn to page 140."
I'm waiting to see articles with quotes like "I used to listen to music, but it cut into my gaming time", or "Hip hop is so for losers".
CMP's trademark (#78322306) is only for two categories, and they're both related to conferences. So CMP has the exclusive right to have conferences called "Web 2.0". But if you want to release software that's "Web 2.0 ready", for example, you should be OK. CMP tried to make broader claims, got shot down by the USPTO, and had to settle for a relatively narrow trademark. You can get all this from the USPTO web site, although it's hard to link to their search engine results.
So Apple switches from PowerPC to Intel just as the game consoles switch from Intel and MIPS to PowerPC. The XBox 360 is a 3-CPU PowerPC machine, after all. That chip would have made a nice Mac core.
This could become Live Shot 2.0.
But the zombies are vulnerable. The lamest Windows OSs, the DOS/Win95/98/ME family, are slowly dying off. XP is at least potentially fixable, and Vista is much tighter.
We've made real progress. It's tough to send spam today without committing a felony. Spammers are routinely going to jail. Spam as a means of even vaguely legitimate marketing is dead. Spam-friendly hosting is getting harder to find. Ironport gave up selling its "spam cannon" rackmount spam sender. Spam filtering is better than ever. Spammers have been reduced to using zombies because anything more direct gets them hammered.
Yeah, that meant they couldn't get a freebie, not that they couldn't just register like anyone else.
If it's a real anti-terrorism issue, Homeland Security should be taking the lead, but they look like such bozos since Katrina they'd be laughed at.
So the thing to do, if you have some connection with an ISP, is to get your trade association's lobbyist on the job. Some ongoing lobbyist attention should be able to keep this from being slipped into some unrelated bill, and no way would this win on a standalone floor vote.
Meanwhile, the ISP industry should refuse to discuss the issue with the Justice Department on the grounds that the Justice Department lacks legislative authority to address the matter.
Some pyramids actually collapsed due to structural failure. It's not obvious, but a pyramid is not a stable structure. It's not all vertical load; there's a spreading component as the forces are transmitted down the structure. With no tensile strength between blocks, at some size and angle, a pyramid will push itself apart.
The Pyramid of Maidun collapsed for that reason, and the mess is still there.
Update: that store is now closed. And the SF Sony Metreon is now run, badly, by American Multi-Cinema (AMC), operators of low-rent multiplexes in malls across the US.
There were important talks he should have attended and covered. Here's the agenda.. But no, all we get is comments from people in the lobby.
In its heyday, Wired sent reporters on assignment for months to get good stories. Then they laid off most of the real reporters. Now, the articles are filler for their Sharper Image catalog content.
There's a vending machine with some iPods in it at the Sony Metreon in San Francisco. It's in the store on the second floor that sells laptop cases, jelly beans, and video projectors.
Second, priority is an issue. You need to have some rights in the name predating the acquisition of the domain by the current owner. Registering a trademark helps, but the history of its use may matter.
Sorry about that.
Once you have a trademark on the domain that describes your stuff, you can make a cybersquatting complaint. If the domain owner is just parking the domain, under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy that's considered "use in bad faith". Then you send a letter to the domain owner, threatening a UDRP proceeding.
(If it's a "private registration", the registrar will now "uncloak" the domain so fast your head will spin, because they don't want to be the party to a UDRP proceeding or lawsuit.)
At this point, either the other side will offer to sell you the domain for less than a UDRP costs ($1000), or you go forward to a mandatory UDRP proceeding, which is an instant win when you have the trademark.
Is this like a "Wow, it plays my favorite game really fast" book, or a "Synchronizing the second level cache between the 3 CPUs uses roughly 28% of the interconnect bandwidth" book, or a "Shaumus Blackley was forced off the project after a meeting where he..." book?
You know that Tom Clancy used to be in the insurance business, right? Yeah. He's not from the military or the intelligence community.
Yuck. The main body text is in a sans-serif font. Hard to read.