Exactly, piracy still helps Companies like adobe and autoDesk get market share and build economies around their products. not only that but piracy does actually help create monopolies in this sense, since it makes competitor software even free one obsolete. Then those companies will just use their 90% penetration to put that inflated price tag on their product and even try to justify it.
Not only that but in the country I live in a single license of 3dsmax costs as much as one years salaries of the person who will operate it. And don't even get me started about other countries!
I'm not supporting piracy, I don't like piracy and until now I have usually found an open alternative pretty easily. In fact I'm running my shop on 100% foss, so there you go!
No matter when the story mad news. That is really cool! I always contemplated the problems of the static nature of housing and it seems that finally we are at a point to start exploring more versatile and dynamic spaces as shelter.
And you really think that because it can hover a bit when the sun is out and its doing 400mph it has to be versatile enough to be adopted as a serious form of transport? Yes it was useful in WW2 but hey the sr71 was useful in the cold war and I don't jet around in scramjets, do you?
I've tried out WebGL several times now and I can tell you it's disgusting.
what you mean is: "I don't understand GL"
JavaScript is a terrible language....
what you mean is: "I don't undrestand prototype based OOP and first class functions"
...no way to efficiently debug....
what you mean is: "I don't know how to use firebug, opera firefly or google to find a better debugging tool"
...somehow getting it to pass data efficiently with AJAX....
what you mean is: "I'dont know how XHR works and have never heard of JSON or XML"
I think you did approach web development a but too fast. You should better tak a step or two back and look again at what you have done there, how much you understand of it and focus on developing your skills first before starting developing another web application. Why don't you start with something basic and then go up the ladder?
Well, sandboxing has proven itself to be a very good solution to priviledge encapsulation. As for the driver issue well, I would love to dismiss it as hot air but unfortunately until now the graphics driver wasn't the goto vector so obviously gfx drivers could be riddled with exploitable behavior.
I can't ignore the fact though that running native browser functionality instead of plugins (which in my opinion is content encapsulation and inherently bad) is a much better approach than the other one. IMHO people who defend the plugin now are kind of lying to themselves. After all looking about a decade back the plugin was the newcommer (see flash & shockwave) and those who chose to use it were exposed to a very real security threat that escalated to many hororstories. In fact I remember that at some point I had read in a respectable security blog that best practice was to use the Internet without any plugins (which actually is true even now).
So why are plugins better? Because you, who tells me so, are too invested in them to let go? No buddy sorry, that is not enough. WebGL is a very well thought out implementation, the only thing that has to be done before it acquires critical mass is for gfx driver developers to pull their shit together and secure their work.
I don't want content encapsulation. I don't want to give up my browser's security for fancy (read:easy to make) websites which usually are less usable and ridden with inter-platform bugs I don't want my computer's security to be compromised by the idiocy of each and every one plugin vendor I don't want plugin vendors (corporations) to force my platform decisions because of their critical mass
If you think the above are good things then sorry I wasted your time, please keep on reading lolcats on your iDontHaveMyOwnOpinion-Phone;-)
...works best for flat surfaces like over the water...
Well, if you actually knew about water you would know that, on this planet, it isn't really flat. The only spot you will find flat water surfaces is on lakes (which accounts for about 10% of global water surface). The turbulences of the open seas + turbulences in air pressure created even by the smallest wave movements, when something is moving above them very fast, make using ground effect notoriously difficult since the under-body has to sustain very heavy punishment in case of actual grounding. This is why there is no such thing as small or medium ground effect transport on land or sea since for smaller objects you have to be too close to the ground to generate the effect in the first place leaving no space for surface deviations (or small pebbles for that matter). This is why there are no ground effect super freighters either because the bigger you build them the harder they fall.
ground effect sounds nice but if I'm going to dream about a form of transportation that is purely academical I'd choose ftl or mater through data relay;-)
I think the biggest problem of Visual programing is that of structural overview. Most times Visual programming is implemented it's some sort of black box paradigm that either is too specific or too abstract or even both. There isn't really some good way of doing this because at one point or another you will have to mix factory style classes with custom business logic that wasn't thought of by the creator and has to be custom written and therefore just won't connect in such a model or if it does it will be a mess of wires.
I really don't have anything against visualizing stuff (eg: B00bs) but just step back for a moment and think what programming actually is. Yep, it's creating a set of instructions. now what conveys instructions better a sentence or a drawing? Exactly, Visuals are great at describing things, in other words conveying unstructured and unsorted data. Text is a ruleset of conveying structured data. Somebody pointed out 'the right tools for the right job' welll the why choose imagery, which doesn't do the job you need to do insted of text which was invented to do the job you need to do.
In the matter of fairness I have to concede the fact that, well, yes: you can teach people coding practices visually. You will irrevocably ruin them but please go ahead. Since you can.
Anyway, these are my two cents on this. If there are any cents in this document:-)
This my friends is the dark side of tab grouping... it is very nice though, atm I have 8 tab groups open which means that I can see thumbs and titles of the top pages of each group and witha single click you get the rest of the tabs displayed and ready to work.
I wonder why all the other browsers haven't adopted this already... And to all the proprietary code haters: well yes, but you have to admit that They (opera) thought of it first. so where is the FOSS inovation that we all hype so much about?
It doesn't matter if now more people use it more than they did twelve years ago in this context. The fact is that app has been used to refer to the computer application context for decades now.
Hell, I can remember an 1998 IRC chat on reencoding mp3 on which I replied "there's an app for that" spurring a vigorous discussion on how wrong the term 'computer application' was so obviously there is and has been for some time prior art.
greanpeace produces too much garbage in their campaigns.
So until they find a way to run a absolute zero emission company I will regard them as spamers and civil engineers driven by corporate interests with their sole goal making people believe the lie that there really exists an organization, in this culture, that works for the well beeing of the environment.
You can't tell a newbie "device file" because by the time you have ended saying it he/she will be more confused than when you started and will probably ask you teary eyed if it is a device or a file...
And unfortunately the question will pop up in every single one of the distro installers there are available right now. Either while partitioning or while writing bootloaders.
Anyway, it always confused me too. I mean you are doing a graphical installer anyway these days, why not display storage media visually instead of a simple text list? why ask "do you want to install #distro# in/dev/sda?" instead of "install on xxGB storage drive #Label# connected to sATA port YY?"
For most people it isn't such a big deal but I do happen to know some non-geeks who were tempted into trying out Ubuntu (which should have the least intimidating install) and still were intimidated by it.. at that time it was 8.4 or something in that range and to be honest I don't know if the install has changed much from then (Fedora guy).
but what makes me mad about that fact is this: the people who build Windows and the people who make it work are not the same person.
the people who build Windows are Microsoft the people who make Windows work are H/W manufacturers who invest thousands in developer hours to write functional drivers.
if only H/W manufacturers did half of that work for linux drivers you wouldn't be able tomake this case...
hang on a second. Text to speech has one big point over audio-books: No memory footprint..
let's think about this from a charity standpoint ok?
if you are a charity and your goal is to provide, say, kindles to the developing world what you want is get large quantities of product for minimal cost. sou you will probably be talking about a low memory device in the first place. now forgive me if I'm worng but going with audio-books would mean that a) you could cram less into the device in the first place (having to possibly sacrifice flexibility from a content perspective) b) you don't actually promote literature since what you create is well trained listeners.
as a concept it sure is very interesting, it's not the first time i have heard about the idea of using e-readers as teaching equipment. And if you think about it, the refresh rate might be a bit slow but by using devices with a built in keyboard e-reader applications could not only be tomorrow's casual reading all over the world school children's place to do homework as well.
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Exactly, piracy still helps Companies like adobe and autoDesk get market share and build economies around their products. not only that but piracy does actually help create monopolies in this sense, since it makes competitor software even free one obsolete. Then those companies will just use their 90% penetration to put that inflated price tag on their product and even try to justify it.
Not only that but in the country I live in a single license of 3dsmax costs as much as one years salaries of the person who will operate it. And don't even get me started about other countries!
I'm not supporting piracy, I don't like piracy and until now I have usually found an open alternative pretty easily. In fact I'm running my shop on 100% foss, so there you go!
Here's to InkScape!
For what I care you can assume anything you like darling ;-)
sorry `made` not `mad`....
No matter when the story mad news. That is really cool! I always contemplated the problems of the static nature of housing and it seems that finally we are at a point to start exploring more versatile and dynamic spaces as shelter.
And you really think that because it can hover a bit when the sun is out and its doing 400mph it has to be versatile enough to be adopted as a serious form of transport? Yes it was useful in WW2 but hey the sr71 was useful in the cold war and I don't jet around in scramjets, do you?
-I think you are right
Actually its cross platform ie: pcs (whatever os), mobile devices (whatever os), other specific use appliances (game consoles, fridges, etc.)
Adobe Molehill...
really?
I've tried out WebGL several times now and I can tell you it's disgusting.
what you mean is: "I don't understand GL"
JavaScript is a terrible language....
what you mean is: "I don't undrestand prototype based OOP and first class functions"
what you mean is: "I don't know how to use firebug, opera firefly or google to find a better debugging tool"
what you mean is: "I'dont know how XHR works and have never heard of JSON or XML"
I think you did approach web development a but too fast. You should better tak a step or two back and look again at what you have done there, how much you understand of it and focus on developing your skills first before starting developing another web application. Why don't you start with something basic and then go up the ladder?
well, my ps3 runs firefox4 so I don't know what you are talkin about ;-)
Well, sandboxing has proven itself to be a very good solution to priviledge encapsulation. As for the driver issue well, I would love to dismiss it as hot air but unfortunately until now the graphics driver wasn't the goto vector so obviously gfx drivers could be riddled with exploitable behavior.
I can't ignore the fact though that running native browser functionality instead of plugins (which in my opinion is content encapsulation and inherently bad) is a much better approach than the other one. IMHO people who defend the plugin now are kind of lying to themselves. After all looking about a decade back the plugin was the newcommer (see flash & shockwave) and those who chose to use it were exposed to a very real security threat that escalated to many hororstories. In fact I remember that at some point I had read in a respectable security blog that best practice was to use the Internet without any plugins (which actually is true even now).
So why are plugins better? Because you, who tells me so, are too invested in them to let go? No buddy sorry, that is not enough. WebGL is a very well thought out implementation, the only thing that has to be done before it acquires critical mass is for gfx driver developers to pull their shit together and secure their work.
I don't want content encapsulation.
I don't want to give up my browser's security for fancy (read:easy to make) websites which usually are less usable and ridden with inter-platform bugs
I don't want my computer's security to be compromised by the idiocy of each and every one plugin vendor
I don't want plugin vendors (corporations) to force my platform decisions because of their critical mass
If you think the above are good things then sorry I wasted your time, please keep on reading lolcats on your iDontHaveMyOwnOpinion-Phone ;-)
On another note I should have read the whole post!
...works best for flat surfaces like over the water...
Well, if you actually knew about water you would know that, on this planet, it isn't really flat. The only spot you will find flat water surfaces is on lakes (which accounts for about 10% of global water surface). The turbulences of the open seas + turbulences in air pressure created even by the smallest wave movements, when something is moving above them very fast, make using ground effect notoriously difficult since the under-body has to sustain very heavy punishment in case of actual grounding.
This is why there is no such thing as small or medium ground effect transport on land or sea since for smaller objects you have to be too close to the ground to generate the effect in the first place leaving no space for surface deviations (or small pebbles for that matter).
This is why there are no ground effect super freighters either because the bigger you build them the harder they fall.
ground effect sounds nice but if I'm going to dream about a form of transportation that is purely academical I'd choose ftl or mater through data relay ;-)
somebody sed too much here...
I think the biggest problem of Visual programing is that of structural overview. Most times Visual programming is implemented it's some sort of black box paradigm that either is too specific or too abstract or even both. There isn't really some good way of doing this because at one point or another you will have to mix factory style classes with custom business logic that wasn't thought of by the creator and has to be custom written and therefore just won't connect in such a model or if it does it will be a mess of wires.
I really don't have anything against visualizing stuff (eg: B00bs) but just step back for a moment and think what programming actually is. Yep, it's creating a set of instructions. now what conveys instructions better a sentence or a drawing? Exactly, Visuals are great at describing things, in other words conveying unstructured and unsorted data. Text is a ruleset of conveying structured data. Somebody pointed out 'the right tools for the right job' welll the why choose imagery, which doesn't do the job you need to do insted of text which was invented to do the job you need to do.
In the matter of fairness I have to concede the fact that, well, yes: you can teach people coding practices visually. You will irrevocably ruin them but please go ahead. Since you can.
Anyway, these are my two cents on this. If there are any cents in this document :-)
actually that might prove some point.
Idk which one but it would proove one. Definately not mine though
currently have around 140 tabs open in opera
This my friends is the dark side of tab grouping... it is very nice though, atm I have 8 tab groups open which means that I can see thumbs and titles of the top pages of each group and witha single click you get the rest of the tabs displayed and ready to work.
I wonder why all the other browsers haven't adopted this already...
And to all the proprietary code haters: well yes, but you have to admit that They (opera) thought of it first. so where is the FOSS inovation that we all hype so much about?
which btw is a really nice car. especially if you know girls ;-)
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It doesn't matter if now more people use it more than they did twelve years ago in this context. The fact is that app has been used to refer to the computer application context for decades now.
Hell, I can remember an 1998 IRC chat on reencoding mp3 on which I replied "there's an app for that" spurring a vigorous discussion on how wrong the term 'computer application' was so obviously there is and has been for some time prior art.
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save all your youTubes
greanpeace produces too much garbage in their campaigns.
So until they find a way to run a absolute zero emission company I will regard them as spamers and civil engineers driven by corporate interests with their sole goal making people believe the lie that there really exists an organization, in this culture, that works for the well beeing of the environment.
Now spamers will have one more vector for scareware distribution!!!
Oh, I so love this world!!!!
You can't tell a newbie "device file" because by the time you have ended saying it he/she will be more confused than when you started and will probably ask you teary eyed if it is a device or a file...
And unfortunately the question will pop up in every single one of the distro installers there are available right now. Either while partitioning or while writing bootloaders.
Anyway, it always confused me too. I mean you are doing a graphical installer anyway these days, why not display storage media visually instead of a simple text list? why ask "do you want to install #distro# in /dev/sda?" instead of "install on xxGB storage drive #Label# connected to sATA port YY?"
For most people it isn't such a big deal but I do happen to know some non-geeks who were tempted into trying out Ubuntu (which should have the least intimidating install) and still were intimidated by it.. at that time it was 8.4 or something in that range and to be honest I don't know if the install has changed much from then (Fedora guy).
true..
but what makes me mad about that fact is this:
the people who build Windows and the people who make it work are not the same person.
the people who build Windows are Microsoft
the people who make Windows work are H/W manufacturers who invest thousands in developer hours to write functional drivers.
if only H/W manufacturers did half of that work for linux drivers you wouldn't be able tomake this case...
I don't want to come around all bitter and miserable but I think this is proof that some people just can't handle abundance... :-P
hang on a second.
Text to speech has one big point over audio-books: No memory footprint..
let's think about this from a charity standpoint ok?
if you are a charity and your goal is to provide, say, kindles to the developing world what you want is get large quantities of product for minimal cost. sou you will probably be talking about a low memory device in the first place. now forgive me if I'm worng but going with audio-books would mean that a) you could cram less into the device in the first place (having to possibly sacrifice flexibility from a content perspective) b) you don't actually promote literature since what you create is well trained listeners.
as a concept it sure is very interesting, it's not the first time i have heard about the idea of using e-readers as teaching equipment. And if you think about it, the refresh rate might be a bit slow but by using devices with a built in keyboard e-reader applications could not only be tomorrow's casual reading all over the world school children's place to do homework as well.
just my 2 cents on this.
Fisrt opst? :P