Its an Idea which has been mentioned in the past and its time it got serious consideration.
But does it pass the ACID2 Test?
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Opera 8 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
After all the bluster from the leader at Opera about making the next generation of IE do the last standards correctly. I would think that his next product would pass the test? Yes/NO...anyone who owns Opera 8 please report if ACID2 passes on Opera8.
He...not my choice, and I am just the poor web guy who ends up supporting the thing...I have no choice or voice in the vendor. They were picked on the strengths of the client product the web interface is an add on that management decided they wanted to impliment later. My job was to make that happen. Unfortunately the web product is clearly inferior. The API for the WEB product inferfacing with the products server is a secert locked up inside of a bunch of complied encrypted java.class files. I have neither the time nor the work orders to reverse engineer it, so we are stuck with it.
...our contacts at MS have informed us that the final version of "longhorn" will dump the windows "classic" interface intoduced in win95. The XP style will be the default from this point forward.
The application we use to allow our technicians work trouble tickets through a web interface got completely hosed by SP2. They were fairly apathetic about the whole thing sending a link to a MS KB article that didn't solve the problem. There attitude was pretty much it was our fault for using SP2. I finally found a solution that involved basically hacking the registry to tun off one the SP2 security features which was breaking the products javascript.
...the idea would be better served in the pre/post TNG/DS9 time frame and with new characters....perhaps with camio here or there from the established charaters.
The point is that DRM will not stop the bad apples EVER...its worthless, because not matter what it will always be bypassed within hours of its creation....
I have found 4 in the immediate vicinity of my house, and I don't even have to leave the chair in my office to find them.
In fact I have on machine in my house that perfers to connect to my neighbors access point instead of any of mine. I had to lock its AP association to one of mine so it would stop doing that. Most of my neighbors haven't even changed the default access I could take over their access points if I felt like it.
...I can't stand flashy websites that require plugins and bandwidth eating graphics to function. I have always made the effort to code only standards compliant, low bandwidth eating fast loading sites.
The company I work for has a large field contingent with often low bandwidth connections back to corporate so such design behavior is a must. If it can't be done with XHTML1.0/1.1, CSS1/2, and a little javascript (note a LITTLE javascript) than the design needs to be rethought.
Everyone just loves to hate DRM cause it's so controlling and limiting and 1984 and blah blah. What about the fact that DRM allows Napster to offer an excellent service like Napster-to-Go?
Unacceptable they can offer the same service without DRM...DRM is NOT a requirement for doing business. If the companies like Napster refused to give in to the record companies we would not be in this situation. It comes down to this...you can either sell the music through this service without DRM and trust the consumers. Or you can not sell it, make no money and the consumers will still obtain the music, but you will not get a dime for it. Or how about DRM allows video producers to have a video be playable only from their web site and for a certain amount of time before it expires? Again I call shenanigans...you offer it up I should be able to save it to my machine to then play it back in whatever way I deem comfortable. If I want to play it back in a format like the video out to my TV because I want a larger picture I shouldn't be restricted to the medai player window in a web page. Or perhaps even to watching it using only a particular OS. Does anyone care about the valid and useful DRM applications before screaming human rights violations? There are no valid and useful applications DRM just gets in the way...there is no reason for it... END OF STORY...if you believe in DRM your a dumb "cow", who doesn't understand just how your being screwed...
...Digital media should be treated the same as physical if I go to the store and purchase a DVD/CD/ETC its mine. I have access to it I can do what I want with it, I can copy it, listen to it,etc (though sometimes I need a little help from DVD jon to accomplish these things admittedly)....
DRM has to go...its sad that iTunes is so successful in peddeling DRM'ed media...a failure of something like that due to the DRM would have shown the world that its not desired. The problem is that the average "cow" people who have not idea what rights are being stolen from them are what drive that business.
I have the opposite problem a beautiful (still) sony trinitron monitor that can only do 60 with most modern cards and resolutions. I use it in my home office where there is no floresent so it rarely ever is a problem. Although I do sometimes see the flicker at night in the dark...ususally just tell windows to ignore what it thinks the monitor can do and push the refresh higher.
I see Flicker at other refresh rates....
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Flickering Curiosity?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...it seems to depend on the day and the lighting, my level of awakeness...and seemingly even mood...
Often if I change from using my laptop on LCD, or Projector back to monitor, I will be bothered by flicker no matter what refresh I set for a while.
...before you write me off, give me a serious listen.
Spilt off the development of drivers out of the main kernel tree. I great deal of instability arises from the drivers and how they interact with the kernel systems. Virtualize the drivers interface (further tahn it already is), such that the kernel talks through virtual hardware, doing something network related talk to the Vnic. The Vnic would then be interfaced with the actual network driver which is built in a seperate build process. Its coded to talk to the actual hardware, and send back only the things that the kernel actually needs. This is really just an extention of the existing module system...
For those who guessed the company its actually RadioShack...
They are thier own worst enemy, or at least used to be because thier biggest competition is/was the RadioShack in the next town over, or sometimes just down the street.
I worked in a store, and after I had assisted a customer in chooing a product, I had an internal dialouge with myself...I said "self, you just lied to outright to that customer, to get that product sold, to bring up your totals, are you comfortable with that" myself said "NO, I'm not" I replied "Ok, then we can't work here anymore, because the culture here is that you will have to keep doing that..." The same day I put in an application to be the asst manager of another store and had an interview 2 days later, and a week alter I no longer worked for the company I had to lie for...
Bonus credits if you can name the store I had to leave...
..just do me a favor, put it on on a night when it might actually do well. Friday isn't it...SCI-Fi channel's current line up ensures death on any other sci-fi show put on up against it.
Currently I watch the Sci-fi channel line up and tape enterprise.
I would hazard to say that Monday or Tuesday would be a much better night for Star Trek.
It got the boot from the 8pm wenesday slot because it would not have survived against "LOST"...however I don't think UPN fully apprecited the SCI-Fi channels Friday night line up...or perhaps they just didn't care! I think they intentionally tried to ditch the show this season. It started nearly a month and half late. Showed 6-7 eps and then immediately began rerunning them...not the way to biuld or maintain loyalty.
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Its an Idea which has been mentioned in the past and its time it got serious consideration.
After all the bluster from the leader at Opera about making the next generation of IE do the last standards correctly. I would think that his next product would pass the test? Yes/NO...anyone who owns Opera 8 please report if ACID2 passes on Opera8.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/
He...not my choice, and I am just the poor web guy who ends up supporting the thing...I have no choice or voice in the vendor. They were picked on the strengths of the client product the web interface is an add on that management decided they wanted to impliment later. My job was to make that happen. Unfortunately the web product is clearly inferior. The API for the WEB product inferfacing with the products server is a secert locked up inside of a bunch of complied encrypted java.class files. I have neither the time nor the work orders to reverse engineer it, so we are stuck with it.
...our contacts at MS have informed us that the final version of "longhorn" will dump the windows "classic" interface intoduced in win95. The XP style will be the default from this point forward.
The application we use to allow our technicians work trouble tickets through a web interface got completely hosed by SP2. They were fairly apathetic about the whole thing sending a link to a MS KB article that didn't solve the problem. There attitude was pretty much it was our fault for using SP2. I finally found a solution that involved basically hacking the registry to tun off one the SP2 security features which was breaking the products javascript.
...I hate April 1st...you actually had me for a second there...thats slight tinge of plausability.
...the idea would be better served in the pre/post TNG/DS9 time frame and with new characters....perhaps with camio here or there from the established charaters.
From a random page on one of the my sites...This is actually an older one...switched to xhtml1.1 about 6 weeks ago...
The point is that DRM will not stop the bad apples EVER...its worthless, because not matter what it will always be bypassed within hours of its creation....
I have found 4 in the immediate vicinity of my house, and I don't even have to leave the chair in my office to find them.
In fact I have on machine in my house that perfers to connect to my neighbors access point instead of any of mine. I had to lock its AP association to one of mine so it would stop doing that. Most of my neighbors haven't even changed the default access I could take over their access points if I felt like it.
If the hinderence is basically useless to begin with why bother with it in the first place?
...I can't stand flashy websites that require plugins and bandwidth eating graphics to function. I have always made the effort to code only standards compliant, low bandwidth eating fast loading sites.
The company I work for has a large field contingent with often low bandwidth connections back to corporate so such design behavior is a must. If it can't be done with XHTML1.0/1.1, CSS1/2, and a little javascript (note a LITTLE javascript) than the design needs to be rethought.
Everyone just loves to hate DRM cause it's so controlling and limiting and 1984 and blah blah. What about the fact that DRM allows Napster to offer an excellent service like Napster-to-Go?
Unacceptable they can offer the same service without DRM...DRM is NOT a requirement for doing business. If the companies like Napster refused to give in to the record companies we would not be in this situation. It comes down to this...you can either sell the music through this service without DRM and trust the consumers. Or you can not sell it, make no money and the consumers will still obtain the music, but you will not get a dime for it.
Or how about DRM allows video producers to have a video be playable only from their web site and for a certain amount of time before it expires?
Again I call shenanigans...you offer it up I should be able to save it to my machine to then play it back in whatever way I deem comfortable. If I want to play it back in a format like the video out to my TV because I want a larger picture I shouldn't be restricted to the medai player window in a web page. Or perhaps even to watching it using only a particular OS.
Does anyone care about the valid and useful DRM applications before screaming human rights violations?
There are no valid and useful applications DRM just gets in the way...there is no reason for it...
END OF STORY...if you believe in DRM your a dumb "cow", who doesn't understand just how your being screwed...
...Digital media should be treated the same as physical if I go to the store and purchase a DVD/CD/ETC its mine. I have access to it I can do what I want with it, I can copy it, listen to it,etc (though sometimes I need a little help from DVD jon to accomplish these things admittedly)....
DRM has to go...its sad that iTunes is so successful in peddeling DRM'ed media...a failure of something like that due to the DRM would have shown the world that its not desired. The problem is that the average "cow" people who have not idea what rights are being stolen from them are what drive that business.
...that way at least if they find you they know you have a flame thrower.
I have the opposite problem a beautiful (still) sony trinitron monitor that can only do 60 with most modern cards and resolutions. I use it in my home office where there is no floresent so it rarely ever is a problem. Although I do sometimes see the flicker at night in the dark...ususally just tell windows to ignore what it thinks the monitor can do and push the refresh higher.
...it seems to depend on the day and the lighting, my level of awakeness...and seemingly even mood...
Often if I change from using my laptop on LCD, or Projector back to monitor, I will be bothered by flicker no matter what refresh I set for a while.
...before you write me off, give me a serious listen.
Spilt off the development of drivers out of the main kernel tree. I great deal of instability arises from the drivers and how they interact with the kernel systems. Virtualize the drivers interface (further tahn it already is), such that the kernel talks through virtual hardware, doing something network related talk to the Vnic. The Vnic would then be interfaced with the actual network driver which is built in a seperate build process. Its coded to talk to the actual hardware, and send back only the things that the kernel actually needs. This is really just an extention of the existing module system...
good I wish...I had mod points right now...not only is this NOT insightful its stupid.
Yeah I have been having nothing but problems with 2.6.11...several things are just not functioning right currently....
I am converting to a VMWARE infrastructure, makeing as many machines as I can virtual.
For those who guessed the company its actually RadioShack...
They are thier own worst enemy, or at least used to be because thier biggest competition is/was the RadioShack in the next town over, or sometimes just down the street.
he he...no...but humm....how can I make this an interesting hint, without giving it away....
The company is their own worst enemy...since there biggest competitor traditionally is themselves.
I worked in a store, and after I had assisted a customer in chooing a product, I had an internal dialouge with myself...I said "self, you just lied to outright to that customer, to get that product sold, to bring up your totals, are you comfortable with that" myself said "NO, I'm not" I replied "Ok, then we can't work here anymore, because the culture here is that you will have to keep doing that..."
The same day I put in an application to be the asst manager of another store and had an interview 2 days later, and a week alter I no longer worked for the company I had to lie for...
Bonus credits if you can name the store I had to leave...
..just do me a favor, put it on on a night when it might actually do well. Friday isn't it...SCI-Fi channel's current line up ensures death on any other sci-fi show put on up against it.
Currently I watch the Sci-fi channel line up and tape enterprise.
I would hazard to say that Monday or Tuesday would be a much better night for Star Trek.
It got the boot from the 8pm wenesday slot because it would not have survived against "LOST"...however I don't think UPN fully apprecited the SCI-Fi channels Friday night line up...or perhaps they just didn't care! I think they intentionally tried to ditch the show this season. It started nearly a month and half late. Showed 6-7 eps and then immediately began rerunning them...not the way to biuld or maintain loyalty.