The Whitney is running a biennial which is showcasing some of today's most notable artists. I was really excited to see a lot of internet installations. There are several computer terminals in the exhibition space pointed towards websites, and there are some more complicated ones with projection installations and other gizmos. I think the/. crowd would really appreciate seeing them treated as high art. I always believed it was (more in terms of literary theory though, but that's another story).
The rest of the exhibit is really nice. There is a comic book influence in several installations, and there's a whole gallery for Chris Ware of Acme Novelty Library Fame. There are some performance artists and I suggest scheduling your visit to catch them. When I went, Karin Campbell was performing "When I Close My Eyes" and it was a really surreal experience.
If you have never seen contemporary art before, this is one of the best examples of what's out there and I highly urge you to go. If you're not near Manhattan, I also suggest MOCA in Los Angeles and SFMOMA in San Francisco.
The close-sourced technology and the patent system are stifling innovation. Energizer keeps its Bunny and e2 technology to itself, while Duracell has not released the APIs to its M3 technology. It's obvious the patent system needs a complete overhaul, and these companies should open-source their technology. It will help open-source developers immensely. For example, they won't have to find out the hard way that those chemicals can eat right through a table.
I'm not sure if it was the same company, but I did get a memory upgrade for the RL... I think it came stock with 768k (odd number, eh?) and the upgrade brought it to 1mb. The particular model I got was a mix between the two "real" models - 20mb HD + 640k RAM or 40mb HD + 768k RAM; I had 768k RAM with the 20mb HD.
Come to think of it, coming only with a 3.5" floppy at the time seems pretty revolutionary. It's a long time ago but I remember the Radio Shack salesman trying to explain to my dad how they were better than the 5.25" we were used to (we were upgrading from an Apple IIc).
Finding programs that explicitly supported TGA was a pain. Usually would get knocked down to CGA... ugh. I think some of the early-1990's Sierra adventure games supported TGA, as well as their subsidiary Dynamix. Unfortunately, I wouldn't get anything better than that until I upgraded to a homebuilt 486sx/33 with the glory of 320x200x256c VGA.
What happened to your HX?
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Nowhere near as old as the one in the article, but I had a 1000RL (8086 8mhz I think) and when I upgraded to a better machine, sent the Tandy to my cousins in the Phillipines. Their house had no air conditioning, and the machine was situated in a room that often reached well over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the midday sun. The house is in a fishing village and is often plagued with floods and monsoons.
I visited the summer the year after and the machine worked flawlessly. I managed to play a Tandy BASIC minigolf game but had to stop because it was way too hot in the room. This continued for a few more years, and about 8 years after my initial purchase of the machine, it stopped working during a visit. I opened the case to discover it had become home to some large native flying insects... which got fried inside. In a weird sort of way, the heat didn't but also did manage to kill it eventually. Those conditions were definitely out of the bounds of a "normal operating environmeny" and I was amazed it lasted so long.
Buying a Tandy again is pretty much out of the question, but during my ownership they certainly grew on me. The RL's 3-voice PCM sound capability allowed me to exercise my interest in sound programming. Had a subscription to a Tandy magazine (can't remember which one) and specifically looked for programs that supported the special Tandy graphics. As my first (IBM-compatible) PC, it served its purpose well, letting my preteen self learn about programming, proprietariness, and patience. It was a great machine for a hobbyist.
Justice has asked the federal judge handling the case to allow it to publish them online and on CD-ROM.
I'm glad to see this has a good chance of happening. It would definitely be nice to have easy access to the comments. I'm kind of interested in the 90% that were not "substantive," including the "pornography."
The figures don't exactly add up though. The article states it received 30,000 comments and breaks it down into 15k, and 2 7.5k chunks. However, the first part of the article says only 10% was "substantive."
If the numbers are true, I must say I'm actually quite pleased at the turnout. I'm curious as to whether or not the uh... less constructive comments will have any bearing on the decision. The article seems to paint the picture that most of those opposed the settlement. It does make you wonder if Microsoft's "grassroots" efforts are responsible for those comments.
From the ZDnet article: Yahoo plans to charge consumers between $1 and $4 to retrieve files from a specialized database of some 25 million research documents culled from 7,100 publications, including academic periodicals.
The way this is worded, it seems you can freely search for documents, and if you find a document you'd like to view, then you pay to see it. The article specifically cites academic journals, so this is probably more like LexisNexis in that the documents are electronic versions of print journal articles.
Are people willing to pay for this? Compared to the alternatives of subscribing to LexisNexis (if their journal databases overlap), or obtaining the print copy, the convenience of being able to download the article is probably worth it to many people. As someone who does academic research, I know I would. Fortunately, my alma matter (which I have access to as an alumnus) has a subscription to NexisLexis. If Yahoo's offering complements or surpasses that, then they have a probable customer in me.
I think this is a good thing, not just for Yahoo, but for the Internet as a whole. This lays down the beginnings of some infrastructure for a possible future involving micropayments. We're getting a step closer to Ted Nelson's docuverse.
Featured ports include Optical and MIDI In/Out, SPDIF-In, Line-In and Mic-In.
... and it doesn't have a USB pass-through port. I already have 6 USB devices attached to my box, none of which have pass-through. Do I have to buy yet another hub to add another USB device that doesn't have pass-through? argh!
I am willing to pay extra for pass-through since most of my USB devices aren't bandwidth-heavy, it would help with clutter, and it would not force me to get another hub. Why don't manufacturers include this in their products?
Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV, sometimes known as AVP) added badtrans.b/badtransII to its database today. Even more, KAV updates are free; no subscriptions are required.
Mobile phones are already usable by blind people, and while it's certainly nice to have this added functionality in for them, I would like to see something for the deaf and hard of hearing first. As it stands, most mobile phones are completely useless to the deaf. Attaching a teletype machine is only possible on very few models, and lugging a teletype machine defeats the purpose of having a small phone. Considering that many modern digital phones have texting capability through SMS or other technologies, and some mobile networks support 711/relay service, it doesn't seem like too much trouble to add teletype support directly into a mobile phone. A chip that could demodulate the tty codes would be almost all it takes.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was the evil one. Reese Witherspoon was the good one. Selma Blair played the ingenue who actually came off as borderline retarded.
Strange. I'm a web developer and do some heavy Javascript and DOM work on IE5.5 sp1 inside VMWare loaded with Win2k. Since it's in VMWare I leave IE open practically forever since I can suspend the VMWare virtual machine. The only problem I encounter with IE is a memory leak when doing certain things to the DOM (like nesting elements).
As for which is the better browser, the only thing IE has over Mozilla is speed, and that's because IE is hooked into the OS. Consider that IE runs on one OS only (okay, there's a Mac version but it's technically a different browser) and Mozilla is portable, and it evens up.
As for DOM support, they're about even. Mozilla doesn't do ranges correctly, but IE doesn't have set/getNodeAttribute. Mozilla supports DOM-Events Level 2 and IE still uses the proprietary attachEvent.
Of course, the Netscape 6 fiasco left a bad taste in many a consumer's mouth. AOL could just stick the Gecko and Spidermonkey engines into its own branded browser to disassociate itself with Netscape 6. Preloading AOL onto XP doesn't seem like that big a deal to me considering how ubiquitous the AOL CD is. What I think the real concern is how much cooperation AOL can get from Microsoft in making sure the AOL software runs correctly on the new OS.
it was named after Aimee Deep. So the question is, will she change her name?
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The JavaScript support is actually some of the best I've seen. Mozilla since 0.8 has conformed to the JavaScript 1.5 spec, which encompasses ECMAScript 3rd Edition (ECMA 262). The only other browser with comparable support is Internet Explorer 5.5.
Or maybe you're thinking of the W3C DOM ECMAScript bindings? Mozilla is actually ahead of Internet Explorer in that respect, with support for DOM Level 1 and some of DOM Level 2. It supports the document.implementation and Node.get/setNodeAttribute() methods, which IE doesn't. In terms of standards, it's pure pleasure working with Mozilla.
Mozilla doesn't support much of proprietary DOMs such as Microsoft's document.all, although it does support innerHTML as a "convenience feature." Personally, I intend to code to W3C spec as it seems it really is being adopted. Mozilla is forcing Microsoft to adhere to the standards.
If you notice the name of the server, it utilises the TOC protocol, which is not the same protocol official AIM clients use. TOC is limited in its ability and does not have the Talk or IM Image capabilities. TOC is what AOL gave out in efforts to stop giving 3rd party clients a reason to reverse-engineer the real protocol. However, with TOC being this crippled, there is still plenty of reason for libfaim to exist.
MSN Messenger has supposedly surpassed AIM in number of users, so this is possibly a reaction to that. This really isn't all that surprising to me, though. AOL wants to retain their stranglehold on Instant Messaging, Microsoft poses a threat, and the open source clients happen to get trampled between them. Personally, I think it's a good thing. If AIM and MS keep fracturing the IM population, that gives protocols like Jabber a better chance of exposure.
At the two universities I went to (I transferred in my junior year), the freshman and sophomore years were centered around basic algorithms implemented in certain langauges. I had the fortune of being there when it was still being taught in Pascal and C then switched to Java. From my experience, it makes no difference at all when you're learning how to implement a linked list (except for the inevitable seqfaults in C). If you know how to implement a linked list in one language, you can implement it in practically any other.
But that's programming. That's praxis. Computer Science is more than that.
Junior and senior year, I hardly had to do any programming. The focus was on theory, and if there was a programming project, we could choose any language to implement it. All that mattered was if you understood and knew how to use the theory.
I'm currently on my last semester, and no, university didn't teach me everything I will ever need to know. I'm continuously reading trade magazines and books. How could a university ever catch up with that? They simply can't; the responsibility is yours. University gave me enough to understand and learn on my own.
While I am sure there really are problems out there, I think much to blame is on the students. They are expecting the wrong things from the program. I believe that a programming language is a tool. Tools can get outdated or superceded by something better. Students should not be focusing on how to use a particular tool, but on how to use any tool. To draw an analogy, what if your doctor still used the same equipment since he or she graduated medical school?
Now, to be fair to your question, I think research opportunities are an excellent idea. My school implemented a pilot program this semester, which I am participating in. It offers students a wonderful chance to research something primarily on their own (with the help of a faculty member). It's done outside of classes and not for a grade, but we answer to the people who are funding our projects. That seems like good prepartion for the business world or academia.
I truly hope you are as motivated as you say, then you shouldn't have any problems using your education to make it out there.
In the ID3 tag, add a haiku or some other original content of your own, then argue that breaking pig latin is a way of circumventing the haiku copyright protection mechanism.
I tossed some money onto the perlmonks table yesterday afternoon. To tell you the truth, the appearance of the two people at the table was the most encouraging factor. I guess by the time the second day rolled around, they were pretty tired. I felt so bad I didn't even pick up a sticker. Anyway, those guys do a great job; glad to hear they're doing well.
You're not buying the phone solely for the gaming capabilities. These games are supposed to be time-wasters when you're standing in line at the bank. You're already carrying a phone, and those marketing droids know that adding this ability would make a particular model a lot more attractive. If Nokia can sell a weak phone just because you can change the faceplate color, imagine what games will do for it.
As for WAP, I think its biggest problem is that is was hyped so much before anything got implemented. WAP is most definitely going to take off, in one form or another... the only problems is with i-mode/cHTML and if WAP 2.0 can catch up (I think it can). WAP is not the primary reason for getting a wireless phone; it is a bonus. You don't want to carry an extra device.
It's somewhat amusing to hear all the hype, then the backlash, against WAP. It's very similar to what happened to the Web and HTML in 1994-5. If you missed the first chance, this is possibly another.
and even your examples would not stand up in court. There are many trademarked terms that are in common use. Try "Good Thing", owned by Martha Stewart. Look up other "everyday" phrases at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. You'd be surprised.
just because you do not profit from using someone else's trademark does not make you immune to the laws. there is the issue of "blurring," which is weakining the connection between the trademark and the trademark owner's goods and/or services. there's also the issue of "tarnishment," where the use of the trademark puts the trademark owner's goods and/or services in a bad light.
while asking a friend for a "kleenex" or a "coke" (when you mean any soft drink) probably won't get you into any trouble, it doesn't mean it can't. if you were running a restaurant and put a heading of "coke" instead of,"soft drinks" or "sodas," you would be very open to a lawsuit from coca-cola.
trademark owners would prefer if you didn't use their trademarks as the generic name. ads campaigns are actually run to prevent dilution. vaseline, coca-cola, and kleenex have had massive efforts in this respect.
the problem with trademarks is that once you allow some people to use it, you pretty much lose your right to it. as i haven't seen the actual letters, i don't know if they are merely notifications that pillsbury owns the trademark or if they are actual intent-to-sue letters. i'm guessing they're only the former, which would be akin to the ads coca-cola ran in several magazines in the 70's and 80's for their "coke" trademark.
whether or not their case would stand up in court, if it ever got that far, is another question.
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The Whitney is running a biennial which is showcasing some of today's most notable artists. I was really excited to see a lot of internet installations. There are several computer terminals in the exhibition space pointed towards websites, and there are some more complicated ones with projection installations and other gizmos. I think the /. crowd would really appreciate seeing them treated as high art. I always believed it was (more in terms of literary theory though, but that's another story).
The rest of the exhibit is really nice. There is a comic book influence in several installations, and there's a whole gallery for Chris Ware of Acme Novelty Library Fame. There are some performance artists and I suggest scheduling your visit to catch them. When I went, Karin Campbell was performing "When I Close My Eyes" and it was a really surreal experience.
If you have never seen contemporary art before, this is one of the best examples of what's out there and I highly urge you to go. If you're not near Manhattan, I also suggest MOCA in Los Angeles and SFMOMA in San Francisco.
The close-sourced technology and the patent system are stifling innovation. Energizer keeps its Bunny and e2 technology to itself, while Duracell has not released the APIs to its M3 technology. It's obvious the patent system needs a complete overhaul, and these companies should open-source their technology. It will help open-source developers immensely. For example, they won't have to find out the hard way that those chemicals can eat right through a table.
Of course, doing this would only further extend the Clear Channel monopoly.
I'm not sure if it was the same company, but I did get a memory upgrade for the RL... I think it came stock with 768k (odd number, eh?) and the upgrade brought it to 1mb. The particular model I got was a mix between the two "real" models - 20mb HD + 640k RAM or 40mb HD + 768k RAM; I had 768k RAM with the 20mb HD.
Come to think of it, coming only with a 3.5" floppy at the time seems pretty revolutionary. It's a long time ago but I remember the Radio Shack salesman trying to explain to my dad how they were better than the 5.25" we were used to (we were upgrading from an Apple IIc).
Finding programs that explicitly supported TGA was a pain. Usually would get knocked down to CGA... ugh. I think some of the early-1990's Sierra adventure games supported TGA, as well as their subsidiary Dynamix. Unfortunately, I wouldn't get anything better than that until I upgraded to a homebuilt 486sx/33 with the glory of 320x200x256c VGA.
What happened to your HX?
Nowhere near as old as the one in the article, but I had a 1000RL (8086 8mhz I think) and when I upgraded to a better machine, sent the Tandy to my cousins in the Phillipines. Their house had no air conditioning, and the machine was situated in a room that often reached well over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the midday sun. The house is in a fishing village and is often plagued with floods and monsoons.
I visited the summer the year after and the machine worked flawlessly. I managed to play a Tandy BASIC minigolf game but had to stop because it was way too hot in the room. This continued for a few more years, and about 8 years after my initial purchase of the machine, it stopped working during a visit. I opened the case to discover it had become home to some large native flying insects... which got fried inside. In a weird sort of way, the heat didn't but also did manage to kill it eventually. Those conditions were definitely out of the bounds of a "normal operating environmeny" and I was amazed it lasted so long.
Buying a Tandy again is pretty much out of the question, but during my ownership they certainly grew on me. The RL's 3-voice PCM sound capability allowed me to exercise my interest in sound programming. Had a subscription to a Tandy magazine (can't remember which one) and specifically looked for programs that supported the special Tandy graphics. As my first (IBM-compatible) PC, it served its purpose well, letting my preteen self learn about programming, proprietariness, and patience. It was a great machine for a hobbyist.
Justice has asked the federal judge handling the case to allow it to publish them online and on CD-ROM.
I'm glad to see this has a good chance of happening. It would definitely be nice to have easy access to the comments. I'm kind of interested in the 90% that were not "substantive," including the "pornography."
The figures don't exactly add up though. The article states it received 30,000 comments and breaks it down into 15k, and 2 7.5k chunks. However, the first part of the article says only 10% was "substantive."
If the numbers are true, I must say I'm actually quite pleased at the turnout. I'm curious as to whether or not the uh... less constructive comments will have any bearing on the decision. The article seems to paint the picture that most of those opposed the settlement. It does make you wonder if Microsoft's "grassroots" efforts are responsible for those comments.
People in concrete houses should not throw stones?
The way this is worded, it seems you can freely search for documents, and if you find a document you'd like to view, then you pay to see it. The article specifically cites academic journals, so this is probably more like LexisNexis in that the documents are electronic versions of print journal articles.
Are people willing to pay for this? Compared to the alternatives of subscribing to LexisNexis (if their journal databases overlap), or obtaining the print copy, the convenience of being able to download the article is probably worth it to many people. As someone who does academic research, I know I would. Fortunately, my alma matter (which I have access to as an alumnus) has a subscription to NexisLexis. If Yahoo's offering complements or surpasses that, then they have a probable customer in me.
I think this is a good thing, not just for Yahoo, but for the Internet as a whole. This lays down the beginnings of some infrastructure for a possible future involving micropayments. We're getting a step closer to Ted Nelson's docuverse.
... and it doesn't have a USB pass-through port. I already have 6 USB devices attached to my box, none of which have pass-through. Do I have to buy yet another hub to add another USB device that doesn't have pass-through? argh!
I am willing to pay extra for pass-through since most of my USB devices aren't bandwidth-heavy, it would help with clutter, and it would not force me to get another hub. Why don't manufacturers include this in their products?
It's just like their "If you haven't seen it before, it's new to you" ad campaign during rerun season.
Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV, sometimes known as AVP) added badtrans.b/badtransII to its database today. Even more, KAV updates are free; no subscriptions are required.
http://www.avp.ch to anyone who's interested.
Mobile phones are already usable by blind people, and while it's certainly nice to have this added functionality in for them, I would like to see something for the deaf and hard of hearing first. As it stands, most mobile phones are completely useless to the deaf. Attaching a teletype machine is only possible on very few models, and lugging a teletype machine defeats the purpose of having a small phone. Considering that many modern digital phones have texting capability through SMS or other technologies, and some mobile networks support 711/relay service, it doesn't seem like too much trouble to add teletype support directly into a mobile phone. A chip that could demodulate the tty codes would be almost all it takes.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was the evil one. Reese Witherspoon was the good one. Selma Blair played the ingenue who actually came off as borderline retarded.
Those are gifts. Under USian contract law, you own a gift if you receive it; no consideration is required.
As for which is the better browser, the only thing IE has over Mozilla is speed, and that's because IE is hooked into the OS. Consider that IE runs on one OS only (okay, there's a Mac version but it's technically a different browser) and Mozilla is portable, and it evens up.
As for DOM support, they're about even. Mozilla doesn't do ranges correctly, but IE doesn't have set/getNodeAttribute. Mozilla supports DOM-Events Level 2 and IE still uses the proprietary attachEvent.
Of course, the Netscape 6 fiasco left a bad taste in many a consumer's mouth. AOL could just stick the Gecko and Spidermonkey engines into its own branded browser to disassociate itself with Netscape 6. Preloading AOL onto XP doesn't seem like that big a deal to me considering how ubiquitous the AOL CD is. What I think the real concern is how much cooperation AOL can get from Microsoft in making sure the AOL software runs correctly on the new OS.
it was named after Aimee Deep. So the question is, will she change her name?
Or maybe you're thinking of the W3C DOM ECMAScript bindings? Mozilla is actually ahead of Internet Explorer in that respect, with support for DOM Level 1 and some of DOM Level 2. It supports the document.implementation and Node.get/setNodeAttribute() methods, which IE doesn't. In terms of standards, it's pure pleasure working with Mozilla.
Mozilla doesn't support much of proprietary DOMs such as Microsoft's document.all, although it does support innerHTML as a "convenience feature." Personally, I intend to code to W3C spec as it seems it really is being adopted. Mozilla is forcing Microsoft to adhere to the standards.
MSN Messenger has supposedly surpassed AIM in number of users, so this is possibly a reaction to that. This really isn't all that surprising to me, though. AOL wants to retain their stranglehold on Instant Messaging, Microsoft poses a threat, and the open source clients happen to get trampled between them. Personally, I think it's a good thing. If AIM and MS keep fracturing the IM population, that gives protocols like Jabber a better chance of exposure.
But that's programming. That's praxis. Computer Science is more than that.
Junior and senior year, I hardly had to do any programming. The focus was on theory, and if there was a programming project, we could choose any language to implement it. All that mattered was if you understood and knew how to use the theory.
I'm currently on my last semester, and no, university didn't teach me everything I will ever need to know. I'm continuously reading trade magazines and books. How could a university ever catch up with that? They simply can't; the responsibility is yours. University gave me enough to understand and learn on my own.
While I am sure there really are problems out there, I think much to blame is on the students. They are expecting the wrong things from the program. I believe that a programming language is a tool. Tools can get outdated or superceded by something better. Students should not be focusing on how to use a particular tool, but on how to use any tool. To draw an analogy, what if your doctor still used the same equipment since he or she graduated medical school?
Now, to be fair to your question, I think research opportunities are an excellent idea. My school implemented a pilot program this semester, which I am participating in. It offers students a wonderful chance to research something primarily on their own (with the help of a faculty member). It's done outside of classes and not for a grade, but we answer to the people who are funding our projects. That seems like good prepartion for the business world or academia.
I truly hope you are as motivated as you say, then you shouldn't have any problems using your education to make it out there.
In the ID3 tag, add a haiku or some other original content of your own, then argue that breaking pig latin is a way of circumventing the haiku copyright protection mechanism.
I tossed some money onto the perlmonks table yesterday afternoon. To tell you the truth, the appearance of the two people at the table was the most encouraging factor. I guess by the time the second day rolled around, they were pretty tired. I felt so bad I didn't even pick up a sticker. Anyway, those guys do a great job; glad to hear they're doing well.
As for WAP, I think its biggest problem is that is was hyped so much before anything got implemented. WAP is most definitely going to take off, in one form or another... the only problems is with i-mode/cHTML and if WAP 2.0 can catch up (I think it can). WAP is not the primary reason for getting a wireless phone; it is a bonus. You don't want to carry an extra device.
It's somewhat amusing to hear all the hype, then the backlash, against WAP. It's very similar to what happened to the Web and HTML in 1994-5. If you missed the first chance, this is possibly another.
and even your examples would not stand up in court. There are many trademarked terms that are in common use. Try "Good Thing", owned by Martha Stewart. Look up other "everyday" phrases at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. You'd be surprised.
while asking a friend for a "kleenex" or a "coke" (when you mean any soft drink) probably won't get you into any trouble, it doesn't mean it can't. if you were running a restaurant and put a heading of "coke" instead of ,"soft drinks" or "sodas," you would be very open to a lawsuit from coca-cola.
trademark owners would prefer if you didn't use their trademarks as the generic name. ads campaigns are actually run to prevent dilution. vaseline, coca-cola, and kleenex have had massive efforts in this respect.
whether or not their case would stand up in court, if it ever got that far, is another question.