There just seem to be more and more sites using javascript when plain HTML would work just fine.
Is using HREF="javascript:openWindow('target.html')" someone's idea of a joke? Not quite the same as excluding a browser, but similar needless exclusion of audience.
Is this the fault of the authoring tools or the web page authors, (or both?) (Hint to all you "drag-n-drop" web authors: HREF="target.html" would work fine.)
(I browse with Javascript and Java off because of security concerns, in case you are wondering.)
First point: You can "invite" anyone to license a patent, regardless of whether you have grounds to sue them under the patent.
Second, to me it doesn't sound like the patent describes hyperlinking. How many navigate the WWW by using a keypad to select numbered menu items?
Claim 5(d) (d) keypad means coupled to at least one of said modem means and said local memory means for manual entry of keyed digital data, ... (f) means coupled to said further memory means and to said keypad means for addressing such second portion stored in said further memory means using keypad digital data of less extent than any one of said complete addresses for another block of information to address a portion of the further memory means and cause a read-out portion of the further memory means to supply the complete address of the next block of information which is to be retrieved and utilized for display purposes, the thus obtained complete address being transmissible via the modem means to said central computer.
In this short paper (from 1997), extending CatB, I observe that
The size of the bazaar (number of participants) affects the "health" and success of the bazaar, even if not a pre-condition to successful bazaar startup.
Not simply "size" but "effective working size" has important implications for the continued progress of the product and strength of the bazaar.
Debugging by testing includes factors which give the bazaar a very much smaller "effective working size"
There are alternative debugging methods which might be used to counter a small "effective working size."
There are activities and natural progression which tend to erode the "effective working size" of the bazaar over time.
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Every time I read stories of the hassle people have trying to get pages to be readable in spite of the CSS of some stuck up designer, I am reminded to be thankful I never upgraded from Netscape 3.01, which totally ignores CSS.
In fact, the only gripe I have is NN 3.01 predates PNG. (Any sane person keeps Javascript disabled, so I don't mind that it chokes on later Javascript statements.)
WWW designers who try pixel-level control of fonts and borders are in the wrong medium. They should be using dead trees.
I don't have any personal knowledge of the events or the forum on Yahoo. But if you read the complaint, you have to wonder about the plaintiff Aquacool_2000....
I mean, read between the lines.... Here's what is in the complaint....Aquacool_2000 makes derogatory statements about his OWN employer and its officers.
(Read between the lines) Next, someone at the employer notices that just a little too much information is in these postings and gets suspicious that a Aquacool_2000 is an employee.
(In the complaint) Yahoo releases the information upon court order. AnswerThink finds out it _IS_ an employee, and then does something reasonable....
"Aquacool_2000, you are fired." (Face it, that is pretty reasonable. Does a company have to employ someone who is trash talking in public?)
What do you think happens next? Aquacool_2000 accepts responsibility for being stupid? (Nah. This is America.) Lawsuit? Sure.
We can't sue the employer, they probably were within their rights. If we can't sue the employer, it _must_ be Yahoo then that is liable. "Yeah, that's right. I'll sue Yahoo. If Yahoo hadn't obeyed a court order, then I'd still have my job, no matter how stupid I am. And I could continue to make my company look foolish."
Duh. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, even if you are wearing an AC mask. Simple common sense.
Only 25 million lines? Only 3,149 open source projects? Where's comp.sources.unix? UNC metalab? Phhpth. Next they promise to include CPAN? Whoopee.
Hate to say it, but they made their mistake in thinking freshmeat.net was comprehensive. freshmeat.net is a very small part of the open source out there.
RocketAware already lists much more than freshmeat (and is way easier to use, if you are a programmer looking to reuse code, eh?)
Measure over just 7 years!? Why not go back 15, 30, 50, 100.
There are going to be peaks and valleys in any measurement. It just happens that there was a horrific increase 1986-1994. Sure is convenient to measure over the last 7 years and not the last 15....
This is obvious. [But I can imagine the whole range of denials from/. quake-rs: No, not me. Can't happen! Ridiculous. Just look at me, I'm not affected...yada yada yada.]
Hello? Anybody home? Our brains are neural networks, which learn by patterning and repetition.
Do the "violent behavior is normal/acceptable/etc" neural pathways get reinforced by playing violent games or by watching cinema/TV violence? Of course they do.
The survival of civilization relies on the OTHER neural pathways overriding the violent ones when its time to make a real life decision. Thankfully this happens most often. Unfortunately, it is happening less often that it used to (road rage is an example.)
Argue all you want that playing violent games is not criminal. (I don't think it is either.) The problem is, the "violent is beneficial" pathways (by nature and evolution) respond FASTER than the "peace" pathways.
Train (a neural network term) those peace pathways as much as you train the ones for immediate attack/flame, and you'll be a fine member of a civilization.
Covenant House has been working with marginalized young adults and teens for many, many years. A Roman Catholic sister is president, but religion is not in the forefront or a condition of their service: "...serve suffering children of the street and to protect and safeguard all children..."
They have over 20 locations in North and Central America and run the "9" line (800-999-9999) where suicidal/depressed teens can start to get help when "life is in their face."
It looked like a pretty interesting endgame when I last looked.
It's a shame that in order to get MSN to admit to problems, an interesting experiment had to be ruined by forcing selection of second-best and irrational moves
Neither Kasparov nor the World can claim true victory. And MSN isn't a winner either. Rematch? I'm sure the world wants it.
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I had a conversation with a University English prof friend about cheating this past summer. Even if you provide a really obscure assignment which has NO chance of being online, you still can have a cheating problem: someone can get their friend to write for them.
He includes in-class writing assignments as well as outside assignments and reads every word from every student. If you care about your students, it would be pretty easy to spot a major difference in quality and style between inside and outside assignments.
In the end though, some students are determined to NOT get an education, no matter how much mommy and daddy are paying. And they will find a way, which may be the only thing they really learn.
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Eric's site links to items that may be seen as critical of his writings and OSS in general.
In fact, his site links to an essay describing OSS project size vs "effective size" especially with respect to debugging.
There is a difference between critique and flame. Instead of just taking potshots at OSS, a good essay identifies pitfalls and then goes on to offer some ways that such problems can be mitigated.
Others have covered much of what the First Monday author says already, but it is good to read it all in one place.
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Reliable systems from unreliable components...
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I think M2 is pretty expensive in terms of time and complexity needed vs value provided.
Engineers have used redundant subsystems to create reliable systems from less reliable systems. The idea is to create a system which fails only when multiple components all fail.
84% good moderators? Then design a system that changes the rating of posts only on the recommendation of multiple moderators. Institute fractional moderation, and the appearance of a fractional score will be an indicator for other moderators to look at the posts "in transition."
Because more than one moderator will be required to affect a full one step score change, this change will require distributing more moderator points, but that can be seen as a good thing.
I don't like the idea of giving everyone moderator points because if they appear rarely, the good moderators tend to see them as a responsibility, and want to help out. I don't spend moderator points just because I have them, but when I do have points I feel obligated to browse at 0 and look for good comments in the discussions I would have read at level 2.
With a redundancy method, you can still detect and downgrade moderators who vote in conflict to other moderators, but instead of the work to M2 moderate, readers are doing the more valuable (and easily understood task) of rating comments.
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Yeah, I hate the lack of traceable statistics....It's just another "dumbed down" article for the masses that makes it hard for us geeks to figure out what really is going on.
One Q: Is that 35% of the same size pie from year to year? Probably not....
There are ways of doing the data collection, though. Check out http://www.hot100.com/.
If you want to know how/. is doing try http://www.hot100.com/dev/
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G is the continued growth and development of a single complex organism that cannot account for individuals, only averages.
I'll grant the point on sf: the service sf is providing is invaluable, (even though there are a lot of software collaboration systems out there.)
As for freshmeat, there are other large open source software indexes, some larger than freshmeat.
Anyone know the impact?
http://www.rocketaware.com/ has over 30,000 links to
source, libraries, functions, applications, and documentation.
There just seem to be more and more sites using javascript when plain HTML would work just fine.
Is using HREF="javascript:openWindow('target.html')" someone's idea of a joke? Not quite the same as excluding a browser, but similar needless exclusion of audience.
Is this the fault of the authoring tools or the web page authors, (or both?) (Hint to all you "drag-n-drop" web authors: HREF="target.html" would work fine.)
(I browse with Javascript and Java off because of security concerns, in case you are wondering.)
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Check out the category tree of AskSlashdot!
Hello people! Palm Beach had more buchanan votes cast simply BECAUSE THEY HAD MORE VOTES CAST.
Is this some Democratic spin or just hopeful whining?
Here are the Buchanan votes as a percentage
by county.
Any questions? Thought not.
0.003061105 Alachua
0.008952661 Baker
0.004217328 Bay
0.007497981 Bradford
0.00260995 Brevard
0.001376228 Broward
0.017394666 Calhoun
0.002721088 Charlotte
0.004724079 Citrus
0.003242678 Clay
0.001324043 Collier
0.004808731 Columbia
0.004611246 Desoto
0.006215174 Dixie
0.002458117 Duval
0.004319506 Escambia
0.003062731 Flagler
0.007105943 Franklin
0.002682256 Gadsden
0.005375348 Gilchrist
0.002676978 Glades
0.011578604 Gulf
0.00580222 Hamilton
0.00481232 Hardee
0.002705029 Hendry
0.003710575 Hernando
0.00361319 Highlands
0.002345841 Hillsborough
0.010349993 Holmes
0.002115997 Indian River
0.006257669 Jackson
0.005140021 Jefferson
0.00399361 Lafayette
0.003263877 Lake
0.001654219 Lee
0.002734864 Leon
0.00526564 Levy
0.016229713 Liberty
0.004708557 Madison
0.002468038 Manatee
0.005484336 Marion
0.001809195 Martin
0.000897214 Miami-Dade
0.001387331 Monroe
0.003784375 Nassau
0.003781602 Okaloosa
0.00436371 Okeechobee
0.001592965 Orange
0.002605196 Osceola
0.007881356 Palm Beach
0.003993526 Pasco
0.002541998 Pinellas
0.003163108 Polk
0.005609616 Putnam
0.006180568 Santa Rosa
0.001895116 Sarasota
0.001416472 Seminole
0.003769175 St. Johns
0.001589968 St. Lucie
0.005121064 Sumter
0.008667041 Suwannee
0.003970588 Taylor
0.009670674 Union
0.000000000 Volusia
0.005359431 Wakulla
0.00655487 Walton
0.010989011 Washington
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has over 30,000 links to
source, libraries, functions, applications, and documentation.
Second, to me it doesn't sound like the patent describes hyperlinking. How many navigate the WWW by using a keypad to select numbered menu items?
Claim 5(d)
...
(d) keypad means coupled to at least one of said modem means and said local memory means for manual entry of keyed digital data,
(f) means coupled to said further memory means and to said keypad means for addressing such second portion stored in said further memory means using keypad digital data of less extent than any one of said complete addresses for another block of information to address a portion of the further memory means and cause a read-out portion of the further memory means to supply the complete address of the next block of information which is to be retrieved and utilized for display purposes, the thus obtained complete address being transmissible via the modem means to said central computer.
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- The size of the bazaar (number of participants) affects the "health" and success of the bazaar, even if not a pre-condition to successful bazaar startup.
- Not simply "size" but "effective working size" has important implications for the continued progress of the product and strength of the bazaar.
- Debugging by testing includes factors which give the bazaar a very much smaller "effective working size"
- There are alternative debugging methods which might be used to counter a small "effective working size."
- There are activities and natural progression which tend to erode the "effective working size" of the bazaar over time.
Visit RocketAware - hundreds of categories, tens of thousands of links.Open source software and the FAQs, info, and Q&A needed to use it. (For software developers.)
In fact, the only gripe I have is NN 3.01 predates PNG. (Any sane person keeps Javascript disabled, so I don't mind that it chokes on later Javascript statements.)
WWW designers who try pixel-level control of fonts and borders are in the wrong medium. They should be using dead trees.
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I mean, read between the lines.... Here's what is in the complaint....Aquacool_2000 makes derogatory statements about his OWN employer and its officers.
(Read between the lines) Next, someone at the employer notices that just a little too much information is in these postings and gets suspicious that a Aquacool_2000 is an employee.
(In the complaint) Yahoo releases the information upon court order. AnswerThink finds out it _IS_ an employee, and then does something reasonable....
"Aquacool_2000, you are fired." (Face it, that is pretty reasonable. Does a company have to employ someone who is trash talking in public?)
What do you think happens next? Aquacool_2000 accepts responsibility for being stupid? (Nah. This is America.) Lawsuit? Sure.
We can't sue the employer, they probably were within their rights. If we can't sue the employer, it _must_ be Yahoo then that is liable. "Yeah, that's right. I'll sue Yahoo. If Yahoo hadn't obeyed a court order, then I'd still have my job, no matter how stupid I am. And I could continue to make my company look foolish."
Duh. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, even if you are wearing an AC mask. Simple common sense.
But, this is america.
Hate to say it, but they made their mistake in thinking freshmeat.net was comprehensive. freshmeat.net is a very small part of the open source out there.
RocketAware already lists much more than freshmeat (and is way easier to use, if you are a programmer looking to reuse code, eh?)
What do you call the large amount of creative work that was/is done for the sake of income? (Or is, say, the Sistine chapel not "art"?)
Metallica's incentive to create is obviously $$, which is not evil. (But you'd think 9 out of 10 slashdotters are communists when you read the posts!)
Is anyone else tired of all the "I'm poor, so I will only get a no-cost copy" whiners?
Grow up! Civilized people respect artists' wishes, and legal enforcement would be unnecessary when you do that.
Here's another pearl:
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There are going to be peaks and valleys in any measurement. It just happens that there was a horrific increase 1986-1994. Sure is convenient to measure over the last 7 years and not the last 15....
Want to see teen involvement in homicide: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide /teens.htm
Hello? Anybody home? Our brains are neural networks, which learn by patterning and repetition.
Do the "violent behavior is normal/acceptable/etc" neural pathways get reinforced by playing violent games or by watching cinema/TV violence? Of course they do.
The survival of civilization relies on the OTHER neural pathways overriding the violent ones when its time to make a real life decision. Thankfully this happens most often. Unfortunately, it is happening less often that it used to (road rage is an example.)
Argue all you want that playing violent games is not criminal. (I don't think it is either.) The problem is, the "violent is beneficial" pathways (by nature and evolution) respond FASTER than the "peace" pathways.
Train (a neural network term) those peace pathways as much as you train the ones for immediate attack/flame, and you'll be a fine member of a civilization.
Obvious to any thinking person.
They have over 20 locations in North and Central America and run the "9" line (800-999-9999) where suicidal/depressed teens can start to get help when "life is in their face."
Here are the RocketAware.co m links to early versions of PERL (like versions 1 and 2) in the comp.sources.unix archives.
http://www.rocketaware.com/comp.sources.unix/spec/ softdev/lang/perl/
Here are the RocketAware.com links to early versions of PERL (like versions 1 and 2) in the comp.sources.unix archives.
http://www.rocketaware.com/
Includes special sections for GNU software, BSD man pages, FAQs, AskSlashdot (back to the beginning), Programming related books. Even has links to cosource.com, dmoz, yahoo, fatbrain, amazon.
Over 15,000 off-site programming related links. You must check it out. A single idea just like the one that started this thread was discussed about 18 months ago. This is the result.
On tap: (coming up) on site discussion, all of the unc metalab linux archives, and anything else we think of or get suggestions, or gets submitted.
It's a shame that in order to get MSN to admit to problems, an interesting experiment had to be ruined by forcing selection of second-best and irrational moves
Neither Kasparov nor the World can claim true victory. And MSN isn't a winner either. Rematch? I'm sure the world wants it.
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
The Reuse RocKeT: Efficient awareness for software reuse
Free WWW site lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
They used to read every comment. Is it too much to read at least every headline? Sorry to see this happen...have they lost the passion?
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He includes in-class writing assignments as well as outside assignments and reads every word from every student. If you care about your students, it would be pretty easy to spot a major difference in quality and style between inside and outside assignments.
In the end though, some students are determined to NOT get an education, no matter how much mommy and daddy are paying. And they will find a way, which may be the only thing they really learn.
Forrest Cavalier
The Reuse Rocket more than 6000 open source apps, functions and libraries, PLUS the FAQs, info, and references you need to use them.
In fact, his site links to an essay describing OSS project size vs "effective size" especially with respect to debugging.
There is a difference between critique and flame. Instead of just taking potshots at OSS, a good essay identifies pitfalls and then goes on to offer some ways that such problems can be mitigated.
Others have covered much of what the First Monday author says already, but it is good to read it all in one place.
Forrest
The Reuse Rocket: More than 5000 links to open source software apps, libraries, books, FAQs to boost your development.
Engineers have used redundant subsystems to create reliable systems from less reliable systems. The idea is to create a system which fails only when multiple components all fail.
84% good moderators? Then design a system that changes the rating of posts only on the recommendation of multiple moderators. Institute fractional moderation, and the appearance of a fractional score will be an indicator for other moderators to look at the posts "in transition."
Because more than one moderator will be required to affect a full one step score change, this change will require distributing more moderator points, but that can be seen as a good thing.
I don't like the idea of giving everyone moderator points because if they appear rarely, the good moderators tend to see them as a responsibility, and want to help out. I don't spend moderator points just because I have them, but when I do have points I feel obligated to browse at 0 and look for good comments in the discussions I would have read at level 2.
With a redundancy method, you can still detect and downgrade moderators who vote in conflict to other moderators, but instead of the work to M2 moderate, readers are doing the more valuable (and easily understood task) of rating comments.
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
The Reuse RocKeT: Efficient awareness for software reuse.
Free WWW site lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.
One Q: Is that 35% of the same size pie from year to year? Probably not....
There are ways of doing the data collection, though. Check out
http://www.hot100.com/.
If you want to know how /. is doing try
http://www.hot100.com/dev/
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
The Reuse RocKeT: Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site
lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications.