Doesn't this sound like AJAX too? Maybe their next target is Google. Then again if their patent is so vague as that someone can't try to follow it (patents are usually unreadable at best) to make a working solution, could that invalidate the patent. Think 'process for getting to work', as opposed to 'process for getting to work, by placing one leg in front of the other'.
IMHO, the front end needs to clean, simple and uncluttered. Yet at the same time, it should be possible to customise the front-end to add power-user or more advanced operations to the users who want them. Also it needs to work well with the services of the operating system on which it will be installed.
Don't laugh - some Canadian Tire money is collectible - there re different variants from different "eras". I've got some of the old 3 cent ones kicking around (I keep it rather than spend it - I've got about $70 of the stuff)
Sounds fair enough. After all regular minted money can gain value, especially when a particular note or coin was printed in small quantities or is simply not available anymore. People will collect almost anything, you just have to find the right people.
If you got a couple hundred people to go down to your local Best Buy, they'd probably call the cops. Even if they didn't, the iron-fisted corporate policies of most retailers would probably preclude getting any kind of deal.
If you contacted the retailer and told them you could guarantee that 500 people would be willing to buy their product, then I am sure they would be happy, especially if you tell them you could go somewhere else. After all what is a small discount if you manage to sell 500 copies of the product. In the end it has all to do with the approach you take and the fact that a good business is in the business of making money, preferbly in a legal manner.
Since the SGAE represents *all* copyright holders and collects funds on their behalf, we should expect the FSF (as the copyright holder of vast amounts of GNU software) and Linus (as the primary copyright holder for Linux) to receive a proportion of that income.
I actually believe that if there is a branch of the EFF in Spain, they should argue exactly this. Does the law explicitly state what determins is a copyright holder?
I dont think so especially with the poor design they show on their mockup.
I think the is a symptom of the whole project. While in terms of functionality it may be complete, it doesn't feel like they had a UI expert to clean things up. I must admit I haven't used it in a year, but I was left with a bad impression. I am not sure whether anything has changed.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I still feel that MS Office is the better of the two products, especially the Mac version:)
1. Lightning strikes can occur on any day, even in the absence of clouds.
Hence the phrase "bolt from the blue". A risk in aviation is that it is possible aircraft to trigger lightning strikes.
That makes sense if you imagine the earth as a ball building up charge, and then discharging it into space. As long as the potential difference is low or the area of non-conductivity is high then the charge stays earth side. If you add anything that reduces the area of non-conducivity, such as tall clouds, planes, etc, then you increase the probability of lightning.
I wouldn't be surprised that even water is capable of building up a static charge, if it is in movement and isolated from discharge. This actually makes me wonder whether lightning can move in two directions, depending on the point of highest charge.
Don't forget that while there is lightning (earth -> sky) there are also sprites (sky -> space).
Anyone not having access to an IPv6 network, say because you are behind a NAT, and are wanting to try out IPv6, because it is in your blood to do so, I recommend giving Miredo a go. If I suggest this one over other solutions, is because of the number of platforms supported (including, Linux, Windows, MacOS X, BSD). There is Freenet6, but it won't work from behind my NAT with MacOS X.
Is that the sound of the Devil? I don't know but this sounds like selling your soul to the devil, since they still haven't stopped their legal proceedings, with regards to Linux.
I find it amazing that the man behind Lotus Notes would claim to know something about complexity and simplicity. Lotus is bloated crapware at it's finest. Seems like yet another bad move for Microsoft, but only time will tell.
Maybe Ozzie knows that, and is promising to make right where he made wrong in the past.
If he needs a deparment to take some design lessons from then its their Mac software division. They seem to do a lot of things right.
While the numbers apply to one console at a time, it is always worth seeing what these energy look like when you consider 500 000 people playing a time. The way I like to look at it is if a wind turbine provides 100KW of power, how many wind turbines do we need to satisfy the power demand. Taking the figures from the dashboard usage page. My math is:
turbines = unit usage * 500 000 / 100 000
so at the highest end with xbox 360 (145W) we have 725 turbines and the lowest end the Playstation 1 (4W) we have 20 turbines. That is a huge difference in infrastructure needed to satisfy out gaming needs. I'll let you do the math for others.
I am not sure the amount of energy produced by an average nuclear power station or hydro dam, so if anyone can advise me on them I would appreciate it.
The AAC lock-in is the only thing I hate about my iPod. It's supposedly possible to play AAC's on Linux, but I haven't been able to get it to work, even after downloading gtkpod, faac, faad, xine, amarok1.4, etc. And you're right that AAC lock-in makes 'plays for sure' a joke.
Not that microsoft lock-in'd be any better, but what if Microsoft were to write a utility to seemlessly convert and/or copy your exisiting iTunes library from AAC (including DRM-AAC) to WMA?
DRM laden AAC is no different form DRM laden WMA, except for the base file format. Each can exist in a form which has no DRM, but the people selling you the music, such as iTMS add it there. If you can remove the DRM appended onto the AAC file then it should play anywhere. Don't forget AAC ( Advanced Audo Coding) is the audio encoding format that is part of MP4, and the licensor is Dolby.
For a given bit rate AAC is actually superior to MP3. I have AACs encoded with iTunes (not iTMS) that play quite happily with Winamp. I won't tell you how to remove the DRM from AACs because I don't know how to, and should testify having as much issue with WMA in this form.
By having women participate, there is a possibility that they will bring in ideas that male centric project would not have had.
To acknowledge that possibility would be to say that men are incapable of thinking of some things that women can.
What I was trying to get at is that men and women have certain things that separate us in subtle ways that effect our perspective in life, and that maybe it could affect the way a problem is approached. For example, while a bunch of guys could design a good bra, they wouldn't get what it feels like to wear one, so having at least one woman on board would make a difference.
Sure I am generalising, but maybe a better argument could be that a project needs a wide range of personalities and people having a wide range of epxeriences. For example Apple seems to have a good mix of artsy and engineering types, which leads to a certain creativity in both engineering and design that seems lacking in some other technology companies.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support discrimination either, but if there is evidence that making room for a certain category of person can make a difference to the success of a project, I would be ready to consider it. Sometimes putting aside one's insecurities is more important than one's pride.
"Any disparity of gender, of any kind, that works against women, is enough evidence of sexism to get sued onto the street." So, in short, neither. They're just covering their asses."
This may be true, but sometimes a project can benefit from another angle. Gnome really seems like its trying to be the desktop top that is accessible to everyone. By having women participate, there is a possibility that they will bring in ideas that male centric project would not have had. The truth is though, many of the female developers I know about tend to be just as shy as your average male coder.
You got there before me. Well, Hawking once believed that time would reverse when the universe started contracting towards the big crunch, so this would have been news on the way back down the timeline;).
Reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode, where the crew undrunk beer and unpissed.
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Doesn't this sound like AJAX too? Maybe their next target is Google. Then again if their patent is so vague as that someone can't try to follow it (patents are usually unreadable at best) to make a working solution, could that invalidate the patent. Think 'process for getting to work', as opposed to 'process for getting to work, by placing one leg in front of the other'.
IMHO, the front end needs to clean, simple and uncluttered. Yet at the same time, it should be possible to customise the front-end to add power-user or more advanced operations to the users who want them. Also it needs to work well with the services of the operating system on which it will be installed.
Don't laugh - some Canadian Tire money is collectible - there re different variants from different "eras". I've got some of the old 3 cent ones kicking around (I keep it rather than spend it - I've got about $70 of the stuff)
Sounds fair enough. After all regular minted money can gain value, especially when a particular note or coin was printed in small quantities or is simply not available anymore. People will collect almost anything, you just have to find the right people.
Yup, even the Oxford dictionary agrees there: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/mosquito?view =uk
If you got a couple hundred people to go down to your local Best Buy, they'd probably call the cops. Even if they didn't, the iron-fisted corporate policies of most retailers would probably preclude getting any kind of deal.
If you contacted the retailer and told them you could guarantee that 500 people would be willing to buy their product, then I am sure they would be happy, especially if you tell them you could go somewhere else. After all what is a small discount if you manage to sell 500 copies of the product. In the end it has all to do with the approach you take and the fact that a good business is in the business of making money, preferbly in a legal manner.
Virtual Earth has much better resolution here
Looks like Google needs to do some catching up.
Since the SGAE represents *all* copyright holders and collects funds on their behalf, we should expect the FSF (as the copyright holder of vast amounts of GNU software) and Linus (as the primary copyright holder for Linux) to receive a proportion of that income.
I actually believe that if there is a branch of the EFF in Spain, they should argue exactly this. Does the law explicitly state what determins is a copyright holder?
I dont think so especially with the poor design they show on their mockup.
:)
I think the is a symptom of the whole project. While in terms of functionality it may be complete, it doesn't feel like they had a UI expert to clean things up. I must admit I haven't used it in a year, but I was left with a bad impression. I am not sure whether anything has changed.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I still feel that MS Office is the better of the two products, especially the Mac version
1. Lightning strikes can occur on any day, even in the absence of clouds.
Hence the phrase "bolt from the blue".
A risk in aviation is that it is possible aircraft to trigger lightning strikes.
That makes sense if you imagine the earth as a ball building up charge, and then discharging it into space. As long as the potential difference is low or the area of non-conductivity is high then the charge stays earth side. If you add anything that reduces the area of non-conducivity, such as tall clouds, planes, etc, then you increase the probability of lightning.
I wouldn't be surprised that even water is capable of building up a static charge, if it is in movement and isolated from discharge. This actually makes me wonder whether lightning can move in two directions, depending on the point of highest charge.
Don't forget that while there is lightning (earth -> sky) there are also sprites (sky -> space).
"partner", hmmm?
Married people are bad enough about staying faithful.
The unmarried fare far worse, and pairs of men even
worse than that.
Have you thought that maybe there is a possibility the poster was a woman?
Anyone not having access to an IPv6 network, say because you are behind a NAT, and are wanting to try out IPv6, because it is in your blood to do so, I recommend giving Miredo a go. If I suggest this one over other solutions, is because of the number of platforms supported (including, Linux, Windows, MacOS X, BSD). There is Freenet6, but it won't work from behind my NAT with MacOS X.
There's no place like ::1
:(
Just when I was getting to used to my old 127.0.0.1
BWA HA HAHA
Is that the sound of the Devil? I don't know but this sounds like selling your soul to the devil, since they still haven't stopped their legal proceedings, with regards to Linux.
That's huge, but now I need a computer that can actually handle opening the file. It takes long enough opening a 8MP RAW file on my computer as is.
frequently beaten up by gorillas at the airports.
;)
that's one thing that hasn't changed, but the excuse has
Sounds like 'War of the Worlds' had one thing to teach us in this regards.
I find it amazing that the man behind Lotus Notes would claim to know something about complexity and simplicity. Lotus is bloated crapware at it's finest. Seems like yet another bad move for Microsoft, but only time will tell.
Maybe Ozzie knows that, and is promising to make right where he made wrong in the past.
If he needs a deparment to take some design lessons from then its their Mac software division. They seem to do a lot of things right.
While the numbers apply to one console at a time, it is always worth seeing what these energy look like when you consider 500 000 people playing a time. The way I like to look at it is if a wind turbine provides 100KW of power, how many wind turbines do we need to satisfy the power demand. Taking the figures from the dashboard usage page. My math is:
turbines = unit usage * 500 000 / 100 000
so at the highest end with xbox 360 (145W) we have 725 turbines and the lowest end the Playstation 1 (4W) we have 20 turbines. That is a huge difference in infrastructure needed to satisfy out gaming needs. I'll let you do the math for others.
I am not sure the amount of energy produced by an average nuclear power station or hydro dam, so if anyone can advise me on them I would appreciate it.
The AAC lock-in is the only thing I hate about my iPod. It's supposedly possible to play AAC's on Linux, but I haven't been able to get it to work, even after downloading gtkpod, faac, faad, xine, amarok1.4, etc. And you're right that AAC lock-in makes 'plays for sure' a joke.
Not that microsoft lock-in'd be any better, but what if Microsoft were to write a utility to seemlessly convert and/or copy your exisiting iTunes library from AAC (including DRM-AAC) to WMA?
DRM laden AAC is no different form DRM laden WMA, except for the base file format. Each can exist in a form which has no DRM, but the people selling you the music, such as iTMS add it there. If you can remove the DRM appended onto the AAC file then it should play anywhere. Don't forget AAC ( Advanced Audo Coding) is the audio encoding format that is part of MP4, and the licensor is Dolby.
For a given bit rate AAC is actually superior to MP3. I have AACs encoded with iTunes (not iTMS) that play quite happily with Winamp. I won't tell you how to remove the DRM from AACs because I don't know how to, and should testify having as much issue with WMA in this form.
What I was trying to get at is that men and women have certain things that separate us in subtle ways that effect our perspective in life, and that maybe it could affect the way a problem is approached. For example, while a bunch of guys could design a good bra, they wouldn't get what it feels like to wear one, so having at least one woman on board would make a difference.
Sure I am generalising, but maybe a better argument could be that a project needs a wide range of personalities and people having a wide range of epxeriences. For example Apple seems to have a good mix of artsy and engineering types, which leads to a certain creativity in both engineering and design that seems lacking in some other technology companies.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support discrimination either, but if there is evidence that making room for a certain category of person can make a difference to the success of a project, I would be ready to consider it. Sometimes putting aside one's insecurities is more important than one's pride.
"Any disparity of gender, of any kind, that works against women, is enough evidence of sexism to get sued onto the street." So, in short, neither. They're just covering their asses."
This may be true, but sometimes a project can benefit from another angle. Gnome really seems like its trying to be the desktop top that is accessible to everyone. By having women participate, there is a possibility that they will bring in ideas that male centric project would not have had. The truth is though, many of the female developers I know about tend to be just as shy as your average male coder.
What are we supposed to do with our "assimilation jokes"?!
Maybe time to come up with a new topic icon. Maybe Balmer with a chair?
You got there before me. Well, Hawking once believed that time would reverse when the universe started contracting towards the big crunch, so this would have been news on the way back down the timeline ;).
Reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode, where the crew undrunk beer and unpissed.
Here is a better link for anyone who did not know about the game: http://ghost.planets.gamespy.com/.
While it could be interesting to see World of Starcraft, there is still one version of Starcraft that is reaching Duke Nukem status: Starcraft: Ghost.