I'd like to see you do this in PDF, or Flash. Yeh, you could probably come up with one of the stylesheet designs there and put it in your PDF, but these days HTML isn't a poor cousin any more... properly used it puts all your tightly encoded plugins and print document formats to shame.
Yeh? Yeh? How do you know there isn't a REALLY REALLY BIG island of stability up in the zillions? How about that, huh? YOu're not so smart NOW, Mister big scientific guy: there could be anything hiding up there... Element Zillion, Charge Black Holes, Amelia Erhart, Weapons of Mass Destruction,...
It runs on wheels, and the "feet" move like they're being dragged about by the wheels, I say it's basically a really jacked up pickup truck with a robot shell.
By default, you get the page as-designed, in that Flashblock is not installed by default. I disagree with your suggestion that Flashblock's functionality should be integrated into the core browser, unless it were included but turned off by default.
Uh, right. Firefox only has something like ten zillion options, most of which are not turned on by default, but somehow this one shouldn't be included in the core browser because it would be different...?
Adblock and Flashblock are designed for this approach: by default, you get the page as-designed.
Uh, Flashblock by default blocks flash from all sites until you click on it. You have to whitelist sites to get the page as designed.
And frankly my experience with 'the page as-designed' over the years is that it's the LAST thing you want in all but a very few cases. I remember back when PDF was new and almost nobody had a computer powerful enough to render PDF in realtime, Adobe ran this page showing how great the PDF future would be, showing HTML and PDF versions of the same page next to each other... and they'd obviously tweaked the HTML version to make it look as bad as possible...
And what I noticed is that you could read the HTML page, but you couldn't read the PDF page even at print resolutions.:)
Flashblock's the right approach because it DOESN'T show you the page as intended, except for the few sites where that might actually be important and you can put THOSE in your whitelist.
People can park a car outside your house, break WEP and sniff your non-SSL traffic, but people at an ISP can do that anyway. Although using wireless does make it easier for them, the most they're gonna be able to do is read your email (if you don't use secure pop or secure imap) or logon your IM.
That's not the worst they can do.
The worst they can do is use your wireless to attack people, send spam, and publish stuff that'll get the RIAA and MPAA including your IP in a John-Doe lawsuit.
FlashBlock requires you to either actively maintain whitelists or take actions to display flash at all
Which is exactly what I want. I wish they'd integrate flashblock's functionality into Firefox and apply it to ALL plugins: flash, java, real, quicktime,... when I want them, I can have them, and in the vast majority of cases where I don't want them they don't bother me.
We're talking about an embedded platform, right. In that case, the applications that will be run will likely not be the same as you would run on a desktop machine. Embedded applications run their own stuff, designed for that particular embedded application. In that case, only finder independence of modifier keys really matters.
Finder still needs modifier keys for extended select.
Besides, if you're going to write your own applications, then you're better off using one of the flash-booted Linux or BSD based "cigar box" computers instead of something running a general purpose desktop OS. Apple doesn't run mac OS X on the iPod, after all.
I have just decided to switch from Firefox to Camino at work, and what decided me was that Camino now has an easily installed version of the Flashblock plugin. I wouldn't use a browser without it, no matter how fast or featureful otherwise. Not only does Flashblock make your browsing experience less distracting, and (it seems) blocks PIE tracking, it also blocks popunders since (I have read) that the new popup/popunder trick the marketroids have devised depends on Flash...
If they have a TV, they need a computer that'll use THAT as the screen. Remember, Amaericans didn't jump straight from desktop calculators to handhelds... and computers you plug into your TV were a big part of how we got here because they could be built *cheaply*.
India needs Amigas.
No, I'm not kidding. Coolest computer ever. Tremendously capable OS, and you could build one out of three chips cheaper than a Palm III today.
That was the only thing I hated about writing software for the Amiga. Having to create ports for Intuition ( or just about any other API-like layer within AmigaOS ) just to get event notifications.
My dear chap, that's exactly the kind of thing the API should make explicit, because that's exactly the kind of thing the higher level object-oriented code at the application level can do such a good job of hiding.
I've been looking for some clear statement that says I can make a copy of a movie I have on VHS or DVD.
If you need to do it to use it in a normal way.
For example, to use it in applications like iTunes, which has definitely become "normal". Also, you're allowed to use clips in works you make with DVD editing applications (under fair use, say for purpose of criticism), therefore you're allowed to make digital copies of the movies as a necessary stage in such legal use.
There's no law that restricts what you can do with such a copy once you have made it.
WIth 160GB hard disks being cheap, I would be surprised if there were not DVD analogs of iTunes now, or that there will not be such tools available in the near future. Again, making a copy is a necessary part of using it in the normal way.
Also, to play a movie in a handheld device you need to make a copy of it. Sony (a large media owner) explicitly condones that given that they sell such a product themselves.
He appeared to be giving out about those who run old computers for the sake of keeping up geek appearances.
Those tend to be "run" in the sense of "yes, that one still boots up, let me show you...".
If someone's keeping a computer on just to display a Matrix screensaver and leaves it running much of the time, that's a different kettle of CO2 emissions.
That's kinda irrelevant... you're still allowed to make copies as a necessary part of using your own works in the usual way... which now includes ripping both audio CDs and DVDs.
C is a wonderful system to build the underpinnings of an OS, upon which OO infrastructures can be laid upon, to create an application framework.
Any language at that level would be a good choice, and there were several alternatives. I've worked on systems using PL/M, BLISS, and BCPL as well as C. The problem with BeOS, IMHO, is that they took C++ far to deep into the system. The microkernel (whether VM-based like Mach or message-based like QNX or the Amiga Exec) needs to explicitly do so many things that an OO language hides from the developer.
BeOS 5.1 (November 2001) is usable on 64MB. Windows XP (October 2001) is not.
BeOS 5.1?
The last version of BeOS released was 5.03. Are you using pre-release software, or are you talking about one of the hacked versions?"
When the last real version of BeOS came out, Windows 2000 was the latest version, and it's definitely usable in 64M. That's what I had on the Libretto. And BeOS 5 was pretty much past-the-last-gasp.
64M was a significant amount when BeOS was still vaguely viable, back in the 4.5 days.
Comparing BeOS 4.5 with NT4, which is what I had at the time: NT4 is usable in 16M, though when you add Office it gets a bit swappy if you don't just sit in one application at a time. BeOS was swapping its heart out just with the Tracker.
This may only be one case, however many more people keep old, old computers running for no reason, using up alot of electricity that doesn't need to be used
How much electricity does it take to make a new computer to replace them?
Not to mention that when I switched from a new 1.7 GHz PC to a 400 MHz half-decade-old Mac my room became much cooler in the summer. Older computers may well use less electricity than newer ones.
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Reminds me of how Richard Feynman got the primary patent for the nuclear rocket.
I like PDF too.
I'd like to see you do this in PDF, or Flash. Yeh, you could probably come up with one of the stylesheet designs there and put it in your PDF, but these days HTML isn't a poor cousin any more... properly used it puts all your tightly encoded plugins and print document formats to shame.
OK, I've emailed one of the guys working on this, and he said they're considering it but it would be off by default.
Happy now?
Yeh? Yeh? How do you know there isn't a REALLY REALLY BIG island of stability up in the zillions? How about that, huh? YOu're not so smart NOW, Mister big scientific guy: there could be anything hiding up there... Element Zillion, Charge Black Holes, Amelia Erhart, Weapons of Mass Destruction, ...
It runs on wheels, and the "feet" move like they're being dragged about by the wheels, I say it's basically a really jacked up pickup truck with a robot shell.
By default, you get the page as-designed, in that Flashblock is not installed by default. I disagree with your suggestion that Flashblock's functionality should be integrated into the core browser, unless it were included but turned off by default.
Uh, right. Firefox only has something like ten zillion options, most of which are not turned on by default, but somehow this one shouldn't be included in the core browser because it would be different...?
Adblock and Flashblock are designed for this approach: by default, you get the page as-designed.
:)
Uh, Flashblock by default blocks flash from all sites until you click on it. You have to whitelist sites to get the page as designed.
And frankly my experience with 'the page as-designed' over the years is that it's the LAST thing you want in all but a very few cases. I remember back when PDF was new and almost nobody had a computer powerful enough to render PDF in realtime, Adobe ran this page showing how great the PDF future would be, showing HTML and PDF versions of the same page next to each other... and they'd obviously tweaked the HTML version to make it look as bad as possible...
And what I noticed is that you could read the HTML page, but you couldn't read the PDF page even at print resolutions.
Flashblock's the right approach because it DOESN'T show you the page as intended, except for the few sites where that might actually be important and you can put THOSE in your whitelist.
People can park a car outside your house, break WEP and sniff your non-SSL traffic, but people at an ISP can do that anyway. Although using wireless does make it easier for them, the most they're gonna be able to do is read your email (if you don't use secure pop or secure imap) or logon your IM.
That's not the worst they can do.
The worst they can do is use your wireless to attack people, send spam, and publish stuff that'll get the RIAA and MPAA including your IP in a John-Doe lawsuit.
FlashBlock requires you to either actively maintain whitelists or take actions to display flash at all
... when I want them, I can have them, and in the vast majority of cases where I don't want them they don't bother me.
Which is exactly what I want. I wish they'd integrate flashblock's functionality into Firefox and apply it to ALL plugins: flash, java, real, quicktime,
What would hold this enormous amount of like-charged particles together?
The SF handwavy answer is "the same ones that hold the charged particles in the nucleus together". Or "they don't call it the STRONG force for yucks."
We're talking about an embedded platform, right. In that case, the applications that will be run will likely not be the same as you would run on a desktop machine. Embedded applications run their own stuff, designed for that particular embedded application. In that case, only finder independence of modifier keys really matters.
Finder still needs modifier keys for extended select.
Besides, if you're going to write your own applications, then you're better off using one of the flash-booted Linux or BSD based "cigar box" computers instead of something running a general purpose desktop OS. Apple doesn't run mac OS X on the iPod, after all.
And to close the loop, the Flashblock adapter for Camino is Camiflash at http://www.nada.de/mac/
I have just decided to switch from Firefox to Camino at work, and what decided me was that Camino now has an easily installed version of the Flashblock plugin. I wouldn't use a browser without it, no matter how fast or featureful otherwise. Not only does Flashblock make your browsing experience less distracting, and (it seems) blocks PIE tracking, it also blocks popunders since (I have read) that the new popup/popunder trick the marketroids have devised depends on Flash...
If they have a TV, they need a computer that'll use THAT as the screen. Remember, Amaericans didn't jump straight from desktop calculators to handhelds... and computers you plug into your TV were a big part of how we got here because they could be built *cheaply*.
India needs Amigas.
No, I'm not kidding. Coolest computer ever. Tremendously capable OS, and you could build one out of three chips cheaper than a Palm III today.
I'm sorry, I don't get your point. You were acting like the simple and well defined API was a bad thing.
and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.
:)
Sounds like a tax deduction to me.
That was the only thing I hated about writing software for the Amiga. Having to create ports for Intuition ( or just about any other API-like layer within AmigaOS ) just to get event notifications.
My dear chap, that's exactly the kind of thing the API should make explicit, because that's exactly the kind of thing the higher level object-oriented code at the application level can do such a good job of hiding.
Layering. It's not just a good idea.
I've been looking for some clear statement that says I can make a copy of a movie I have on VHS or DVD.
If you need to do it to use it in a normal way.
For example, to use it in applications like iTunes, which has definitely become "normal". Also, you're allowed to use clips in works you make with DVD editing applications (under fair use, say for purpose of criticism), therefore you're allowed to make digital copies of the movies as a necessary stage in such legal use.
There's no law that restricts what you can do with such a copy once you have made it.
WIth 160GB hard disks being cheap, I would be surprised if there were not DVD analogs of iTunes now, or that there will not be such tools available in the near future. Again, making a copy is a necessary part of using it in the normal way.
Also, to play a movie in a handheld device you need to make a copy of it. Sony (a large media owner) explicitly condones that given that they sell such a product themselves.
He appeared to be giving out about those who run old computers for the sake of keeping up geek appearances.
Those tend to be "run" in the sense of "yes, that one still boots up, let me show you...".
If someone's keeping a computer on just to display a Matrix screensaver and leaves it running much of the time, that's a different kettle of CO2 emissions.
That's kinda irrelevant... you're still allowed to make copies as a necessary part of using your own works in the usual way... which now includes ripping both audio CDs and DVDs.
C is a wonderful system to build the underpinnings of an OS, upon which OO infrastructures can be laid upon, to create an application framework.
Any language at that level would be a good choice, and there were several alternatives. I've worked on systems using PL/M, BLISS, and BCPL as well as C. The problem with BeOS, IMHO, is that they took C++ far to deep into the system. The microkernel (whether VM-based like Mach or message-based like QNX or the Amiga Exec) needs to explicitly do so many things that an OO language hides from the developer.
BeOS 5.1 (November 2001) is usable on 64MB. Windows XP (October 2001) is not.
BeOS 5.1?
The last version of BeOS released was 5.03. Are you using pre-release software, or are you talking about one of the hacked versions?"
When the last real version of BeOS came out, Windows 2000 was the latest version, and it's definitely usable in 64M. That's what I had on the Libretto. And BeOS 5 was pretty much past-the-last-gasp.
64M was a significant amount when BeOS was still vaguely viable, back in the 4.5 days.
Comparing BeOS 4.5 with NT4, which is what I had at the time: NT4 is usable in 16M, though when you add Office it gets a bit swappy if you don't just sit in one application at a time. BeOS was swapping its heart out just with the Tracker.
As an owner of a NeXT turbo slab
Oooh, posh, I don't have the turbo.
This may only be one case, however many more people keep old, old computers running for no reason, using up alot of electricity that doesn't need to be used
How much electricity does it take to make a new computer to replace them?
Not to mention that when I switched from a new 1.7 GHz PC to a 400 MHz half-decade-old Mac my room became much cooler in the summer. Older computers may well use less electricity than newer ones.
how about if all screens got BSOD?
Since most are Macs it's not likely... the "unhappy mac" is much more soothing.