I just wish they would use standard WebCAL which anyone can use
Just to be pedantic, the protocol specification is caldav, and yes I wish this too. I actually looked into what it would take to do this in Java, though the biggest hurdle is trying to understand the basic WebDAV architecture, and the lack of time to be able to truly commit. If there is anyone out the who has started such a project, or has a good understanding of webDAV, I would certainly consider getting back into this.
Or if you mean Apple has their own language, Cocoa, which isn't ported to XP or Linux. Funny thing is, you're not forced to use it.
I believe you meant Objective-C, and that is cross platform. In fact Apple uses gcc to compile all their Objective-C applications. The only thing that is platform specific is Cocoa. Apple originally had a cross-platform library for the system called "Yellow Box", though for one reason or another it was dropped. More information can be found here:
Other than the ethical issues, that these guys have no issue with (money before ethics), there is the potential issues of having advertisement for a competing product. Imagine going to Mercedes.com and having an advert for BMW. Also, isn't this likely to deprive content providers of advertising revenue?
Under OSX I have regular problems with firefox consuming all available memory (I only have 12 gig in this machine) by lunchtime. I also have times when it will suddenly stop allowing you to input any text and have to crash firefox to get it back.
Its at times like this that makes me wonder why more programs don't take advantage of garbage collectors. Sure a well written program should be releasing object when they are no longer needed, but as complexity increases there will always be a missed case. This where the garbage collectors helps out.
While I didn't expect Toshiba to be the company to announce the next-next generation format (especially this soon), there are certainly other formats in the wings. The future formats are based on 'holographic memory', with the 'Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) being one of them. The HVD promises 3.9 TB of storage, but with a price tag of around $15000 for a drive and $180 for a disk, this puts it clearly in range of companies with the needs and the money.
Myself I am just sitting waiting for affordable rewritable versions (this include Blu-Ray) to become available for PCs.
I am working for a large Canadian company and we are still using IE6. For whatever reason they are holding off on general deployment of IE7. Some of our imports customers also still have IE6 as the target platform. Given this, once IE8 is deployed I can still imagine another year before everyone is using it.
As to standards compliance, I will be interested to see where they are with CSS2, CSS3 and SVG support.
Depending on where you are there are alternatives, such a cable internet. There are issues there too, such as the maximum amount of data you are allowed to download. Videotron, for example limits to 20GB download and 10GB upload on most packages - you have to look at the small print to find this out.
One thing is worth noting is that nowhere in the conditions applied by Bell is there anything indicating throttling. If it is there I can't find it.
I do wonder what all Windows 7 will not have; I would rather make a list of that.
It will have nothing of anything that was promised, and have everything that wasn't promised. Then if it is anything like Vista they will try to sweep it all under the rug and try to make the rug look pretty, even if the rug takes so much room it starts covering the walls. I jest of course, it could be worse;)
U.S. Patent 7,065,520 (issued in June 2006) would seem to be the US equivalent.
When you look at the claims, all the independent claims contain some key limitations:
Not only that, but the filing issuing date puts it around 12 years after any original public prior art (Netscape Navigator was released in 1994). Additionally if a patent is only good for 20 years, then the patent listed on their legal page, couldn't have been granted until 2001.
BTW there is a rather length thread on the subject at Singapore Hardware Zone.
For me non-webmail is a thing of the past, I love being able to easily access my mail from any computer anywhere (and I'm on quite a lot of different ones on different places). And GMail is the best of all webmails, so they sure made a good choice!
For those who want a bit more than simply webmail, there is also the SMTP and IMAP interfaces offered by GMail.
Sorry to break this to you, but ALL computer programming languages are "made up". First you make up a language, then you implement it, then you use it. It's not like they just dig programming languages out of the ground like coal.
Is for them to finally document the extensions that are using to IPSEC. If you don't have Windows and the Cisco router is using firewall requirements, then only MS-Windows is capable of connecting. This is not implemented for other platforms - at least this what I found with Linux and MacOS X. The guys working on vpnc are almost doing a better job with their client, but they still need more information to add the firewall compatibility.
Oh right, another of one of these 'upgrades' where we don't get any flashy improvements. Its backend you say? How do I as an average user know for sure?
Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they want to use your services. All you can do is when your co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have them request it for you.
Certainly. Something else worth doing is actually trying to enquire what was the motivation for the action. At least if it doesn't resolve the issue, at least it gives you a starting point to know how to handle the situation. Politics sucks and sometimes something happens with a jerk nobody agrees with, but sometimes that jerk wields the power - knowing how to approach and manage the situation counts for a lot in a company.
The first problem is... naming an act the "Public Order Act."
So if I put up a sign calling the "public order act" a public order, would I get cited as well? If Scientology is not a cult what the heck is it? If I check in the Merriam Webster for the definition of cult, then for definition '2' I get "a system of religious beliefs and ritual". Should I be calling it "an organised group designed to oppress anyone who has anything bad to say about it"?
One of the biggest advantages of a games console is a specification and implementation once released. A PC (whatever the OS) is a moving target and because of the complexities of configurations and different hardware proves to be harder to get right, especially when you are pushing the edge. Taking this into account and the existence of virtual machine technologies, such as Virtual PC, I wonder how successful a Virtual Games Machine environment would be. The idea is that you provide a virtual machine environment that runs transparently to the user on whatever OS they happen to have (MS-Windows, Linux, MacOS X) and provides the right hooks to run on the underlying hardware. This is probably wishful thinking, but maybe it is the only way PC gaming has a way to survive beyond the speciality games that are suited for a PC - think World of Warcraft and other strategy games.
After installing FF3/RC1 I ran the Acid 3 test [acidtests.org] and the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark [webkit.org]. RC1 scored a 71, the same as Beta 5. The SunSpider test came up 4698.6ms for RC1. On Beta 5 it was 4757.2ms. Not really much of a difference as far as tests go. I was hoping for some better results, but overall RC1 seems responsive and stable.
I am using RC1 on MacOS X 10.5 and find it beach balling a fair amount. I never had this issue with beta 5. It has gotten so bad that I am tempted to go back to the beta until this is sorted.
So is firefox 3 going to crash as much on Linux as Firefox 2 has been
I have been using Firefox 3beta 5 for a while and haven't had the crashes when visiting Gmail, that I had experienced in Firefox 2.x. I had experienced one or two crashes when running certain Javascript. It should be noted that I do have the "Web Developer" and "Firebug" extensions installed. In general its stable enough for my needs.
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I just wish they would use standard WebCAL which anyone can use
Just to be pedantic, the protocol specification is caldav, and yes I wish this too. I actually looked into what it would take to do this in Java, though the biggest hurdle is trying to understand the basic WebDAV architecture, and the lack of time to be able to truly commit. If there is anyone out the who has started such a project, or has a good understanding of webDAV, I would certainly consider getting back into this.
Or if you mean Apple has their own language, Cocoa, which isn't ported to XP or Linux. Funny thing is, you're not forced to use it.
I believe you meant Objective-C, and that is cross platform. In fact Apple uses gcc to compile all their Objective-C applications. The only thing that is platform specific is Cocoa. Apple originally had a cross-platform library for the system called "Yellow Box", though for one reason or another it was dropped. More information can be found here:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/4B800F78-0F75-455A-9681-F186A4365805.html
I think YOU meant "I".
:)
We could go on forever, couldn't we?
If you really wish to:
GOTO 23694689
Other than the ethical issues, that these guys have no issue with (money before ethics), there is the potential issues of having advertisement for a competing product. Imagine going to Mercedes.com and having an advert for BMW. Also, isn't this likely to deprive content providers of advertising revenue?
Under OSX I have regular problems with firefox consuming all available memory (I only have 12 gig in this machine) by lunchtime. I also have times when it will suddenly stop allowing you to input any text and have to crash firefox to get it back.
Its at times like this that makes me wonder why more programs don't take advantage of garbage collectors. Sure a well written program should be releasing object when they are no longer needed, but as complexity increases there will always be a missed case. This where the garbage collectors helps out.
Well to appeal to the business community we need a seriously imaginative name such as 'webkit 7' ;)
While I didn't expect Toshiba to be the company to announce the next-next generation format (especially this soon), there are certainly other formats in the wings. The future formats are based on 'holographic memory', with the 'Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) being one of them. The HVD promises 3.9 TB of storage, but with a price tag of around $15000 for a drive and $180 for a disk, this puts it clearly in range of companies with the needs and the money.
Myself I am just sitting waiting for affordable rewritable versions (this include Blu-Ray) to become available for PCs.
Could we please get ISO to fast-track one of these High Def standards so we will all know what to buy? Please?? (Hint:joke)
;)
In that can I vote, and then complain about the way I voted?
Do you know how many times I've died in WoW because of his porn downloading?
;)
As long as you haven't signed a contract with your roommate, then you could throttle him
I am working for a large Canadian company and we are still using IE6. For whatever reason they are holding off on general deployment of IE7. Some of our imports customers also still have IE6 as the target platform. Given this, once IE8 is deployed I can still imagine another year before everyone is using it.
As to standards compliance, I will be interested to see where they are with CSS2, CSS3 and SVG support.
Depending on where you are there are alternatives, such a cable internet. There are issues there too, such as the maximum amount of data you are allowed to download. Videotron, for example limits to 20GB download and 10GB upload on most packages - you have to look at the small print to find this out.
One thing is worth noting is that nowhere in the conditions applied by Bell is there anything indicating throttling. If it is there I can't find it.
I do wonder what all Windows 7 will not have; I would rather make a list of that.
;)
It will have nothing of anything that was promised, and have everything that wasn't promised. Then if it is anything like Vista they will try to sweep it all under the rug and try to make the rug look pretty, even if the rug takes so much room it starts covering the walls. I jest of course, it could be worse
U.S. Patent 7,065,520 (issued in June 2006) would seem to be the US equivalent.
When you look at the claims, all the independent claims contain some key limitations:
Not only that, but the filing issuing date puts it around 12 years after any original public prior art (Netscape Navigator was released in 1994). Additionally if a patent is only good for 20 years, then the patent listed on their legal page, couldn't have been granted until 2001.
BTW there is a rather length thread on the subject at Singapore Hardware Zone.
Does anyone have a reference to information as to when the patent was filed and to the text of the patent?
The only thing these trolls are achieving are making a lot of enemies.
For me non-webmail is a thing of the past, I love being able to easily access my mail from any computer anywhere (and I'm on quite a lot of different ones on different places). And GMail is the best of all webmails, so they sure made a good choice!
For those who want a bit more than simply webmail, there is also the SMTP and IMAP interfaces offered by GMail.
will they be competitive with mid range priced hard drives? You can get 500GB for $100 these days.
The other thing I am curious to know is when we are likely to get SSDs with similar read/write performance to current mechanical HDs.
Sorry to break this to you, but ALL computer programming languages are "made up". First you make up a language, then you implement it, then you use it. It's not like they just dig programming languages out of the ground like coal.
And to think I thought they grew on trees - sigh.
Is for them to finally document the extensions that are using to IPSEC. If you don't have Windows and the Cisco router is using firewall requirements, then only MS-Windows is capable of connecting. This is not implemented for other platforms - at least this what I found with Linux and MacOS X. The guys working on vpnc are almost doing a better job with their client, but they still need more information to add the firewall compatibility.
Oh right, another of one of these 'upgrades' where we don't get any flashy improvements. Its backend you say? How do I as an average user know for sure?
Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they want to use your services. All you can do is when your co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have them request it for you.
Certainly. Something else worth doing is actually trying to enquire what was the motivation for the action. At least if it doesn't resolve the issue, at least it gives you a starting point to know how to handle the situation. Politics sucks and sometimes something happens with a jerk nobody agrees with, but sometimes that jerk wields the power - knowing how to approach and manage the situation counts for a lot in a company.
The first problem is ... naming an act the "Public Order Act."
So if I put up a sign calling the "public order act" a public order, would I get cited as well? If Scientology is not a cult what the heck is it? If I check in the Merriam Webster for the definition of cult, then for definition '2' I get "a system of religious beliefs and ritual". Should I be calling it "an organised group designed to oppress anyone who has anything bad to say about it"?
One of the biggest advantages of a games console is a specification and implementation once released. A PC (whatever the OS) is a moving target and because of the complexities of configurations and different hardware proves to be harder to get right, especially when you are pushing the edge. Taking this into account and the existence of virtual machine technologies, such as Virtual PC, I wonder how successful a Virtual Games Machine environment would be. The idea is that you provide a virtual machine environment that runs transparently to the user on whatever OS they happen to have (MS-Windows, Linux, MacOS X) and provides the right hooks to run on the underlying hardware. This is probably wishful thinking, but maybe it is the only way PC gaming has a way to survive beyond the speciality games that are suited for a PC - think World of Warcraft and other strategy games.
They aren't using your hardware, they are observing the public signal that your hardware is sending to the towers outside the mall.
Sounds like the story about unlocked Wi-Fi spots, except that slashdotters don't mind in this case.
After installing FF3/RC1 I ran the Acid 3 test [acidtests.org] and the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark [webkit.org]. RC1 scored a 71, the same as Beta 5. The SunSpider test came up 4698.6ms for RC1. On Beta 5 it was 4757.2ms. Not really much of a difference as far as tests go. I was hoping for some better results, but overall RC1 seems responsive and stable.
I am using RC1 on MacOS X 10.5 and find it beach balling a fair amount. I never had this issue with beta 5. It has gotten so bad that I am tempted to go back to the beta until this is sorted.
So is firefox 3 going to crash as much on Linux as Firefox 2 has been
I have been using Firefox 3beta 5 for a while and haven't had the crashes when visiting Gmail, that I had experienced in Firefox 2.x. I had experienced one or two crashes when running certain Javascript. It should be noted that I do have the "Web Developer" and "Firebug" extensions installed. In general its stable enough for my needs.