Atom isn't forked off of RSS, it's another implementation of the concept of syndicated content. RSS itself isn't a concept, it's a specification for a data transfer format.
The parent post really doesn't make any sense at all.
I finshed Price of Persia: Sands of Time precisely because it told me how far through I was. When you hit 77% it seems silly to not plough through to the end.
Giving me a score to constantly improve is a _great_ way to push me onwards.
And, of course, because we're all trustworthy, it'll work fantastically well!
Neither I, nor my friends, would ever just copy music without paying for it. Ever. It would be morally indefensible!
Oh, and the cost of the album is more likely to be about £4. and would go to the record label, not the artist. It's them that own the rights to it, after all.
The current default is for patches to be downloaded automatically, applied instantly (if they can be) or at next reboot (if they can't). As the majority (un-sysadmined) Windows boxes are shut down at night by their home users, this works pretty well.
All the PCs set up _before_ this was standard practice (XP SP1, I think) default the other way, and there are still an awful lot of those about.
What I wonder though, is how secure this could really be without centralization.
The protocol has been gone over by a few cypher experts, who seem happy enough with it.
Whether you trust any particular site to be a reasonable validator of accounts is another matter. You might (for instance) allow IBM.com as an authenticator, but not AOL.com, if you thought that getting an aol.com account was too easy.
It's more meant to be so that I can identify myself in various places as being me - you can't trust anyone with an ID to be anything more than _actually_ that ID - it doesn't make them more trustworthy.
Now, if only it had all that _plus_ the ability to let me PDA access the internet via 3G and bluetooth, I'd be happy.
Yes, I'm serious - i want my phone to be a phone, and my PDA to do everything else.
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Stephen King charged you twice if you lost the file and wanted to download it again. He charged you twice if you wanted it in two formats. He stacked the deck against himself and complained when it didn't work.
I have a PC. I'd be _very_ tempted to buy a copy of OSX and dual-boot it so I could try out this fabled Mac user experience, but I'm not buying a Mac in order to do so.
Check out http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml Where you will see that LJ has 1.5 million people posting in the last 30 days, and another million who are active in some way (commenting on others, etc.)
The problem is that you need to divide the refresh rate between the different watchers. So if your refresh at 100Hz and have 4 players, that's a 25Hz effective rate.
If you don't test the error, how do you know that (a) there really is an error and (b) where/what the error actually is?
Sure, the process should be streamlined so that you don't take months to do that, but then the process described in the article _doesn't_ take months if it's handled properly.
"Oh, it's ok, we'll release a patch instantly and the users can review/compile it themselves."
I don't know about you, but I have things I actually want to _use_ my computer for - I don't want to have to review any code changes for patches/upgrades/new versions and check them before I do an install.
Not that I even have the technical know-how to do that for the vast numbers of programs out there.
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FLAC->MP3 isn't hard. And I don't think there _is_ an MP3 download service, is there? Other than emusic, which has gone steadily downhill for years...
Since Google are throwing their weight behind Atom, it's pretty obvious who will be the winner.
Atom isn't forked off of RSS, it's another implementation of the concept of syndicated content. RSS itself isn't a concept, it's a specification for a data transfer format.
The parent post really doesn't make any sense at all.
Biometric recognition systems have generally been designed to only work if the part is still attached.
Retina scans depend on blood vessels in the eye - which change radically if said eye is detached (or the owner is dead).
Fingerprint scans are usually designed to check for electrical conductivity, which is different for an attached finger and a detached one.
This has been the first thing I've turned to in Edge magazine for the last few months. Fascinating stuff.
I finshed Price of Persia: Sands of Time precisely because it told me how far through I was. When you hit 77% it seems silly to not plough through to the end.
Giving me a score to constantly improve is a _great_ way to push me onwards.
And, of course, because we're all trustworthy, it'll work fantastically well!
Neither I, nor my friends, would ever just copy music without paying for it. Ever. It would be morally indefensible!
Oh, and the cost of the album is more likely to be about £4. and would go to the record label, not the artist. It's them that own the rights to it, after all.
"Hardware vendor sells file cache" is hardly a big deal.
Honestly guys, I don't know why these knee-jerk 'answers' are so 'informative'.
Actually, I was going for 'funny'. I don't think I was informative at all.
Take.
It.
With.
You.
The current default is for patches to be downloaded automatically, applied instantly (if they can be) or at next reboot (if they can't). As the majority (un-sysadmined) Windows boxes are shut down at night by their home users, this works pretty well.
All the PCs set up _before_ this was standard practice (XP SP1, I think) default the other way, and there are still an awful lot of those about.
What I wonder though, is how secure this could really be without centralization.
The protocol has been gone over by a few cypher experts, who seem happy enough with it.
Whether you trust any particular site to be a reasonable validator of accounts is another matter. You might (for instance) allow IBM.com as an authenticator, but not AOL.com, if you thought that getting an aol.com account was too easy.
It's more meant to be so that I can identify myself in various places as being me - you can't trust anyone with an ID to be anything more than _actually_ that ID - it doesn't make them more trustworthy.
Most eyeball scans include veins and suchlike, which change when you aren't alive any more.
Now, if only it had all that _plus_ the ability to let me PDA access the internet via 3G and bluetooth, I'd be happy.
Yes, I'm serious - i want my phone to be a phone, and my PDA to do everything else.
Stephen King charged you twice if you lost the file and wanted to download it again. He charged you twice if you wanted it in two formats. He stacked the deck against himself and complained when it didn't work.
I have a PC. I'd be _very_ tempted to buy a copy of OSX and dual-boot it so I could try out this fabled Mac user experience, but I'm not buying a Mac in order to do so.
Whereas I work for a multinational financial company with around 600 coders who spend most of their time focussed on coding/testing.
:->
Depends where you are, I guess.
And how much you fancy working in COBOL
Best argument for euthanasia/compulsory birth control on the planet.
/. you're thinking of...
That's
My blog is there to keep my friends up to date with what I'm up to, organise outings and exchange gossip.
I don't see that as a bad thing.
Check out
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml
Where you will see that LJ has 1.5 million people posting in the last 30 days, and another million who are active in some way (commenting on others, etc.)
Sorry - will attempt to RTFA next time.
:->
However, this way round with 4 of you you'd all have to sit in specific places and not bob/weave your head as you play. Which is pretty unlikely
The problem is that you need to divide the refresh rate between the different watchers. So if your refresh at 100Hz and have 4 players, that's a 25Hz effective rate.
If you don't test the error, how do you know that (a) there really is an error and (b) where/what the error actually is?
Sure, the process should be streamlined so that you don't take months to do that, but then the process described in the article _doesn't_ take months if it's handled properly.
"Oh, it's ok, we'll release a patch instantly and the users can review/compile it themselves."
I don't know about you, but I have things I actually want to _use_ my computer for - I don't want to have to review any code changes for patches/upgrades/new versions and check them before I do an install.
Not that I even have the technical know-how to do that for the vast numbers of programs out there.
For 90% of people, the web is the internet.
For 88% of them, the internet is IE.
Which means that 79.2% of people think that the internet is IE.