This "story on yahoo" (a press release, really) makes be just a little bit suspicious indeed.
I admit that Thermodynamics weren't my favorite, plus they are long behind, but the repeating use of "microns" instead of "microamperes" plus the fact that this company stops just short of selling kitchen sinks... Well, call me paranoid;-)
You're perfectly right: VRML is not HTML. And a fish is not a bicycle. And apples are not, despite what you'd hope, oranges. HTML describes a textual document. VRML describes a 3D scene with objects and their interaction. Mixing the two paradigms will result in... something completely different.
I've just spotted a "Crack crack win crack" at the bottom. Is it some kind of bait, or is it that someone did it but was too lazy to put up a nice web page?
I find it pathetic that such crap has made it through/. filtering. Things like this wouldn't even be funny at Segfault.
My feeling is that/. has been becoming less and less reliable those last three months. When I first came here 10 months ago, it seems that articles and reactions were much less childish and much more dependable. What's happening?
Could someone explain to me why I feel like I'm reading some kind of "Hot Rods" sports cars magazine when I'm browsing this topic?
Sorry, folks, but somehow all this sounds a bit silly to me. We all know there are lots of safety margins when chips are tested, as well as some (many?) marketing considerations when they are sold as a xxxMHz chip. I'd prefer reading about code optimization, memory footprint reduction, and generally making software much leaner than it is today...
...telling him I was pretty dismayed by his implications that Marc alone invented the WWW and wrote Mosaic. Should we consider lucky that he didn't write about Marc creating Windows, MacOS and Linux?
Regarding the WWW idea, a (probably reliable) account can be found at http://www.w3.org/WWW/. I also found out some design documents dated 1989 (how old was Marc our hero then? 14?).
Don't get me wrong: Marc is a VIP. It's just that what I've read sounded plain wrong.
Many, many bright people contributed to build the computers and tools we use today. Some of them are remembered of, some of them are not, that's life. But I would feel more comfortable reading an history that doesn't look like it has been somehow rewritten...
I consider myself a techie, a coder, and I used to be a real geek. And YES, look is very important to me.
Unfortunately, marketing has made a pretty good job of teaching people that The Look resides entirely between 700 and 500 nanometers. This is bad.
To me, look isn't having many colors, many flashy icons, many twisty-based configuration trees. Look is in simplicity, elegance, previsibility, too. This is why I feel good using Unix, even when it is shell-based.
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This "story on yahoo" (a press release, really) makes be just a little bit suspicious indeed.
;-)
I admit that Thermodynamics weren't my favorite, plus they are long behind, but the repeating use of "microns" instead of "microamperes" plus the fact that this company stops just short of selling kitchen sinks... Well, call me paranoid
Would that be my first troll?
You're perfectly right: VRML is not HTML. And a fish is not a bicycle. And apples are not, despite what you'd hope, oranges. HTML describes a textual document. VRML describes a 3D scene with objects and their interaction. Mixing the two paradigms will result in... something completely different.
Isn't this getting a little silly?
Slashdot is really getting low on standards... It seems to me that whoever accepted this submission didn't even read the page. Uncool, I say.
I've just spotted a "Crack crack win crack" at the bottom. Is it some kind of bait, or is it that someone did it but was too lazy to put up a nice web page?
I find it pathetic that such crap has made it through /. filtering. Things like this wouldn't even be funny at Segfault.
My feeling is that /. has been becoming less and less reliable those last three months. When I first came here 10 months ago, it seems that articles and reactions were much less childish and much more dependable. What's happening?
In the same vein, wouldn't Code Magician do?
Jimmy
Then again if it's 2TeraBauds, its becoming interesting... How many bits per moment?
Just kidding.
Jimmy
If I remember well, an Ethernet above a 10% usage level is considered very close to being quite dead.
Could someone explain to me why I feel like I'm reading some kind of "Hot Rods" sports cars magazine when I'm browsing this topic?
Sorry, folks, but somehow all this sounds a bit silly to me. We all know there are lots of safety margins when chips are tested, as well as some (many?) marketing considerations when they are sold as a xxxMHz chip. I'd prefer reading about code optimization, memory footprint reduction, and generally making software much leaner than it is today...
OK, folks, this was just my opinion, cheers!
...telling him I was pretty dismayed by his implications that Marc alone invented the WWW and wrote Mosaic. Should we consider lucky that he didn't write about Marc creating Windows, MacOS and Linux?
Regarding the WWW idea, a (probably reliable) account can be found at http://www.w3.org/WWW/. I also found out some design documents dated 1989 (how old was Marc our hero then? 14?).
Don't get me wrong: Marc is a VIP. It's just that what I've read sounded plain wrong.
Many, many bright people contributed to build the computers and tools we use today. Some of them are remembered of, some of them are not, that's life. But I would feel more comfortable reading an history that doesn't look like it has been somehow rewritten...
I consider myself a techie, a coder, and I used to be a real geek. And YES, look is very important to me.
Unfortunately, marketing has made a pretty good job of teaching people that The Look resides entirely between 700 and 500 nanometers. This is bad.
To me, look isn't having many colors, many flashy icons, many twisty-based configuration trees. Look is in simplicity, elegance, previsibility, too. This is why I feel good using Unix, even when it is shell-based.
...that the HHGTTG runs on IIS/NT. Alright, Netcraft told me so. Damn. Poor souls.
Ooops. They DO have an Ethernet version planned.
Oh well, at least My Yahoo remembered it was my birthday.