XMLHttprequest is the name of a JavaScript function that first appeared in Mozilla, there were other names for that function in other browsers, and similar functionality was available *LONG* before Microsoft made theirs using specially formatted image urls, open connections and other trickery.
The first 'ajax' (long before that term was coined) implementation microsoft made was called 'XMLHTTP'.
No, I did not say we had no audio, you seem to be confusing the issue deliberately, just that it needed a Java applet, which is not a plug in any more than a jpeg is a plug in.
A plug in is a piece of code you have to download that becomes part of the browser in order to implement some functionality, the most used method is a dynamically linked piece of object code (dll on windows) that you can download and install, either manually or through some kind of browser assisted process. Java applets do not qualify as such.
Much as I would have liked to do without even that java applet there simply was no combination of elements other than that that would let us do audio at the time.
And lousy audio it was (gsm quality) but for the time it was pretty impressive:)
We did a couple of very well published events with it, most notably two nasa shuttle launches and a very big fashion show from Paris.
That's before the 'big guns' jumped into the market (Xing, later Realnetworks, and an Israeli startup called vdolive).
As for the XMLHttprequest stuff, the current working set is a subset of the functionality supported across several platforms because Microsoft decided to try to establish a de-facto incompatible standard before the standards bodies had made up their mind in order to allow Outlook web access ('owa').
While I agree with Microsoft that the feature was needed (the need for it was apparent to quite a few developers using javascript for all kinds of advanced uses) it would have been nice of them to wait for a standard to implement (or to help accelerate that process instead of stalling it so they could upstage Netscape).
The first real XMLHttprequest implementation was done by Mozilla, Explorer has only had it since IE 7, before then you had to switch your code depending on which browser you were seeing on the client side.
No blatant lies here, just facts, easy to verify because this information is literally all over the web.
I don't think it will be long before we'll see one-shot full genome tests that cost just a couple of bucks, as soon as they reach the fraction of a penny we'll see them incorporated into checkout machinery.
Another neat application would be a mechanical (as in non-poisonous and environmentally friendly) weed control system, take a sample of a plant, test against db, if it's classified as a weed trace it down as far as you can to the ground and rip it out.
That was actually for two reasons: the first was that everybody was obliged to work, so many jobs that were not strictly necessary were created, the second to make it harder for employees to steal from the store.
I think your attempt to rewrite history failed miserably, oh 'man of mystery' (is that the same as AC but then logged in ?).
Those 'proprietized' versions by Netscape (and to a larger extent) Microsoft really did not make HTML popular, it was the popularity of HTML that allowed them to join in and expend the effort to gain a foothold in a market that was simply exploding. Netscape's sole reason for existance was to cater to the browser market, for the longest time Microsoft denied the existance of the web (anybody remember the 'MSN' of old, Microsofts proprietary answer to the internet).
The one corporate addition that I can think of that enabled the internet was Trumpet Winsocks TCP/IP stack for windows. Gates et-al have those people to thank for the solution that enabled Microsoft to bridge the gap between their ill-conceived MSN (basically AOL but then owned by Microsoft) and the internet while they were working flat out to get windows 98 shipped with it's own IP stack on board.
For a good part of those 15 years Microsoft was trying to reclaim supremacy over Netscape the tactics employed resulted in some convictions as a monopolist due to unfair competition. The time they lost denying the existence of a viable worldwide networking architecture that was not built in Redmond has cost them dearly, in some ways they are even today still catching up from that mistake.
HTML took off like a rocket, Netscape and Microsoft followed the curve. And HTML was open all the time, at no single point in time was there ever a 'proprietary' HTML, there were however some proprietary extensions to HTML (such as the infamous 'blink' tag), but none of those were crucial to the functioning of the web.
You seem to be rather insistent on painting the internet/the web as having been developed in corporate quarters whereas the exact opposite is the truth.
It makes me wonder about your motivations to so blatantly express things that even you must know are false.
I won't hold my breath for that! But hoping for change on that side of the pond won't hurt. I know quite a few people that would literally throw a party if the US came to its senses.
Btw, they're not 'mine' by any stretch of the imagination, I'm dutch:)
Your point is that in the absence of TV advertising the lobbyists would continue in much the same way they do today, simply by buying 'favours'.
The fact that there are only two parties and that they both have pretty much the same political views and the same contacts with lobbyists means that there is no support to change the situation because whoever is in power will have their hands dirty.
So, while we're on the reform train, what would you propose be changed besides financing in order to clean up the mess we're in ?
I realize/. is US centric and I'm in Europe, but I think the world is interconnected in so many ways today that change in one part of the world can profoundly influence the rest of it.
A cleaned up political system in any large or influential country would benefit the world greatly, it's not as if we do not have the tools or the awareness to achieve it, there just doesn't seem to be a need felt to make it happen. In my surroundings the few people that are politically active are pretty extreme, the rest simply doesn't care. They're so sick and tired of politics that it borders on apathy and I really don't see what you could do to re-engage them.
no, but it may be better to spend that money into getting the other half of the world access to clean water, food and education. Of course we'd never get away with stealing their natural resources any more...
I think the OP has a bit of an issue with job security, if spam keeps dropping at this rate he/she may be forced to generate some in order to stay employed.
Alternatively, we could help out by forwarding all our spam.
Those are definitely factors, but the reason I see TV advertising as one of the major problems is that it gives money a huge say in determining the outcome of elections.
If that were not the case then other interests (such as, 'the people') would be higher on the agenda. Now the most important thing is to raise funds.
In quite a few other countries corporate donations to political parties are strictly forbidden, in fact they are considered a crime.
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XMLHttprequest is the name of a JavaScript function that first appeared in Mozilla, there were other names for that function in other browsers, and similar functionality was available *LONG* before Microsoft made theirs using specially formatted image urls, open connections and other trickery.
The first 'ajax' (long before that term was coined) implementation microsoft made was called 'XMLHTTP'.
I see where you got your nick :)
No, I did not say we had no audio, you seem to be confusing the issue deliberately, just that it needed a Java applet, which is not a plug in any more than a jpeg is a plug in.
A plug in is a piece of code you have to download that becomes part of the browser in order to implement some functionality, the most used method is a dynamically linked piece of object code (dll on windows) that you can download and install, either manually or through some kind of browser assisted process. Java applets do not qualify as such.
Much as I would have liked to do without even that java applet there simply was no combination of elements other than that that would let us do audio at the time.
And lousy audio it was (gsm quality) but for the time it was pretty impressive :)
We did a couple of very well published events with it, most notably two nasa shuttle launches and a very big fashion show from Paris.
That's before the 'big guns' jumped into the market (Xing, later Realnetworks, and an Israeli startup called vdolive).
As for the XMLHttprequest stuff, the current working set is a subset of the functionality supported across several platforms because Microsoft decided to try to establish a de-facto incompatible standard before the standards bodies had made up their mind in order to allow Outlook web access ('owa').
While I agree with Microsoft that the feature was needed (the need for it was apparent to quite a few developers using javascript for all kinds of advanced uses) it would have been nice of them to wait for a standard to implement (or to help accelerate that process instead of stalling it so they could upstage Netscape).
The first real XMLHttprequest implementation was done by Mozilla, Explorer has only had it since IE 7, before then you had to switch your code depending on which browser you were seeing on the client side.
No blatant lies here, just facts, easy to verify because this information is literally all over the web.
yes, something like that :)
I don't think it will be long before we'll see one-shot full genome tests that cost just a couple of bucks, as soon as they reach the fraction of a penny we'll see them incorporated into checkout machinery.
Another neat application would be a mechanical (as in non-poisonous and environmentally friendly) weed control system, take a sample of a plant, test against db, if it's classified as a weed trace it down as far as you can to the ground and rip it out.
Oh wow, an anonymous coward threatening and admitting to abusing the moderation system... I'm so scared :)
Well, I guess you'll have to wait until you have mod points again then so you can abuse the moderation system some more and 'pay me back'.
have a really nice day now...
I suggest that if you're not going read TFA and can't be bothered to do any further searching of the site you are slamming that you read this page:
http://tineye.com/terms
which specifically states the opposite of what you claim might be there.
The letters aren't that small.
That was actually for two reasons: the first was that everybody was obliged to work, so many jobs that were not strictly necessary were created, the second to make it harder for employees to steal from the store.
injecting mercury into oranges has been tried before but it does not have the desired effect.
that's definitely not 'redundant'.
I"m sure there is enough DNA in there for a sample to be taken without decreasing the weight by too much :)
That should give just about enough information to label the species.
I would even expand that in to: "It's thriving despite repeated and well funded attempts to close off protocols and file formats".
I think your attempt to rewrite history failed miserably, oh 'man of mystery' (is that the same as AC but then logged in ?).
Those 'proprietized' versions by Netscape (and to a larger extent) Microsoft really did not make HTML popular, it was the popularity of HTML that allowed them to join in and expend the effort to gain a foothold in a market that was simply exploding. Netscape's sole reason for existance was to cater to the browser market, for the longest time Microsoft denied the existance of the web (anybody remember the 'MSN' of old, Microsofts proprietary answer to the internet).
The one corporate addition that I can think of that enabled the internet was Trumpet Winsocks TCP/IP stack for windows. Gates et-al have those people to thank for the solution that enabled Microsoft to bridge the gap between their ill-conceived MSN (basically AOL but then owned by Microsoft) and the internet while they were working flat out to get windows 98 shipped with it's own IP stack on board.
For a good part of those 15 years Microsoft was trying to reclaim supremacy over Netscape the tactics employed resulted in some convictions as a monopolist due to unfair competition. The time they lost denying the existence of a viable worldwide networking architecture that was not built in Redmond has cost them dearly, in some ways they are even today still catching up from that mistake.
HTML took off like a rocket, Netscape and Microsoft followed the curve. And HTML was open all the time, at no single point in time was there ever a 'proprietary' HTML, there were however some proprietary extensions to HTML (such as the infamous 'blink' tag), but none of those were crucial to the functioning of the web.
You seem to be rather insistent on painting the internet/the web as having been developed in corporate quarters whereas the exact opposite is the truth.
It makes me wonder about your motivations to so blatantly express things that even you must know are false.
I can smell a PHD in there somewhere :)
The title would run along the lines of 'optimum a-symmetry in the species of homo-sapiens to maximize chances during sexual selection'
That's absolutely true, but if you're going to have such a rule anyway it might as well be set up right :)
I won't hold my breath for that! But hoping for change on that side of the pond won't hurt. I know quite a few people that would literally throw a party if the US came to its senses.
Btw, they're not 'mine' by any stretch of the imagination, I'm dutch :)
j.
Ok, I see what you mean now.
Your point is that in the absence of TV advertising the lobbyists would continue in much the same way they do today, simply by buying 'favours'.
The fact that there are only two parties and that they both have pretty much the same political views and the same contacts with lobbyists means that there is no support to change the situation because whoever is in power will have their hands dirty.
So, while we're on the reform train, what would you propose be changed besides financing in order to clean up the mess we're in ?
I realize /. is US centric and I'm in Europe, but I think the world is interconnected in so many ways today that change in one part of the world can profoundly influence the rest of it.
A cleaned up political system in any large or influential country would benefit the world greatly, it's not as if we do not have the tools or the awareness to achieve it, there just doesn't seem to be a need felt to make it happen. In my surroundings the few people that are politically active are pretty extreme, the rest simply doesn't care. They're so sick and tired of politics that it borders on apathy and I really don't see what you could do to re-engage them.
no, but it may be better to spend that money into getting the other half of the world access to clean water, food and education. Of course we'd never get away with stealing their natural resources any more...
it simply means that you have gotten married recently or that some chick has been bragging about your performance in bed.
You are making a grave error in assuming the olympics is about sports. It's politics disguised as sports.
The same goes for the Eurovision Song Festival.
hilarious!
The answer to that is really easy though, it means that you have gotten married, or some chick has spread the rumour that you were good in bed.
I think the OP has a bit of an issue with job security, if spam keeps dropping at this rate he/she may be forced to generate some in order to stay employed.
Alternatively, we could help out by forwarding all our spam.
5 days is about optimum for that kind of rule.
insightful, for sure!
Those are definitely factors, but the reason I see TV advertising as one of the major problems is that it gives money a huge say in determining the outcome of elections.
If that were not the case then other interests (such as, 'the people') would be higher on the agenda. Now the most important thing is to raise funds.
In quite a few other countries corporate donations to political parties are strictly forbidden, in fact they are considered a crime.