The problem is hosting. If Ruby compiled to the JVM, there wouldn't be a problem, but getting a secure sandboxed Ruby web server with clustering is an unsolved problem right now.
There's also the issue of who can maintain the application after I'm gone. There's something to be said for having a solution that runs on a RAIJP array (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Interchangeable Java Programmers).
Actually, there are numerous manufacturers who produce equipment comparable to Plextor. I have an LG CD-RW which does a better job of ripping copy protected audio, for example.
I've bought quite a few Plextor drives over the years, both for myself and for machines built for other people. At least five in the last couple of years, off the top of my head. I think that makes me a long time Plextor customer. And I'm absolutely serious when I say that if Plextor doesn't drop this case, I'll never buy another Plextor drive.
what I want is a physical address I can mail a paper letter to...
The other day I turned a corner in San Andreas and found an intact police car buried at a 45 degree angle in the road. It was like it had been teleported and ended up half in solid ground.
Of course, that assumes that the systems even meet the more fundamental requirements of voting mechanisms, which most of the current electronic vote counters don't.
For instance, it must be possible for the voter to audit that his vote was recorded correctly. That is, the voter has to be able to verify that the information recorded on the recording medium was the same information as was displayed to him. With paper, this is trivial; with computers, it's practically impossible, unless the computer prints out a piece of paper as the auditable record.
Another requirement is that it be impossible for a third party to determine what a voter's vote was, *even with the collusion of the voter*. This is so that votes cannot be bought and sold.
Having recently tried out Rails, starting from zero knowledge of Rails and some knowledge of Ruby, it's the closest thing I've found to a productive web framework.
I'd be interested in recommendations for Java frameworks which can provide similar productivity, however. (Much as I like Ruby, it's still a tough sell in the corporate world.)
When I read the article blurb, I immediately thought that I wanted the opposite.
I'd like to know what features I can put on a web page that will cause IE to leak memory as quickly as possible, but not cause any harm to Firefox.
That way I can sneak the appropriate code onto every web site I build, until people get so sick of IE running slow and swapping like mad that they switch to Firefox.
Personally, I think the disappointing PSP sales have more to do with the fact that Sony seems to expect you to buy the thing without getting a chance to see it first.
Nintendo has made sure there are DS systems in every major store, showing the latest games. I've yet to see a PSP at all; all the stores have tons of boxes sitting in locked display cases, but apparently Sony thinks people will drop $250 on a toy without seeing it first.
You want websites to be rated, add a/rating.txt file that works like the robots.txt that indicates level of content, and have web browsers and proxies respect it.
Or even better, use the PICS standard, which already exists and has for years.
Of course, the fact that not everyone supports PICS on their existing domains, even though it's free to do so, suggests how far.xxx domains are going to get.
Sony hasn't dented the GBA, the DS is outselling the PSP, DS games are outselling PSP games, and Nintendo isn't taking a huge loss for each DS unit sold.
I can't help wondering if it doesn't have something to do with the fact that you can't actually see a PSP anywhere.
When I go into stores, they all have a display model Nintendo DS you can play with. I haven't seen a PSP anywhere, and I don't know anyone who owns one. The stores won't open them up for demo either. What are Sony thinking--that we're all going to rush out and drop $250 on a handheld gaming system without even seeing it first?
I'm a big Wipeout fan, so I'm looking forward to seeing a PSP. But I'm not gonna buy one until I do.
The first example I heard about was David Braben and Ian Bell, who patented the 3D scanner on the game "Elite", back in 1984.
The problem is, it was really the only good way to do a 3D scanner that I've seen. As a result, every other 3D game that came out had a really crappy scanner.
Wireless, on the other hand, lends itself well to competition. New technologies, such as WiMAX, lend themselves well to low cost competitve wireless market.
Try that argument once there's a low cost competitive POTS market and a low cost competitive cable TV market, and I might be convinced.
Right now, I have a choice of 1 telephone company and 1 cable TV company. And I'm in Austin, TX. Why should we wait for private enterprise to build wireless TCP/IP networks, when they haven't even managed to build competitive cable and phone networks yet?
Try MEPIS. It's an advanced distribution with all the nice stuff like Ubuntu, but it runs on the Debian testing repositories without compatibility problems.
One problem with GTA: San Andreas is that because the world is so much larger, proportionately more of it is window dressing--3D wallpaper that you can't really interact with.
In Vice City, you could drive around looking for interesting buildings, get out and walk over to them, and go inside and wander around. Often there would be something interesting.
In San Andreas, driving around with no particular aim in mind is boring, because almost all the buildings can't even be entered.
It's actually quite possible to get a laptop for an independent vendor and not have a Windows license included in the purchase price. For example, sub300.com have a few laptops available, there are at least a couple more places.
What's more, VIA Antaur laptops have open source drivers available for all the hardware. So if you really want to support Linux and don't need a laptop you can play the latest games on, they're a good choice.
The point of larry is that decent software can't be created by a student in a couple of weekends. It takes some programmers working full-time to create a "perfect" product - just look at the state of the "documentation" of most of software projects.
That's why some rich.com billionaire needs to drop me a couple million. Once I'm independently wealthy, I'll spend my time on documentation for OSS projects and related activities. I don't want to be rich, I just need enough to pay the mortgage, utilities and grocery bills. Currently I have to work to do that, which limits my time for contributions to OSS.
(I'm serious, though I know the chances of it happening are zero. What mystifies me is why people who make a few million feel the need to go make more...)
My Palm device already syncs via Bluetooth and USB, and connects via open protocols including IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP. I can import and export data using the industry-standard vCard and vCal formats. I'm not sure what exactly you're waiting for.
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The problem is hosting. If Ruby compiled to the JVM, there wouldn't be a problem, but getting a secure sandboxed Ruby web server with clustering is an unsolved problem right now.
There's also the issue of who can maintain the application after I'm gone. There's something to be said for having a solution that runs on a RAIJP array (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Interchangeable Java Programmers).
Actually, there are numerous manufacturers who produce equipment comparable to Plextor. I have an LG CD-RW which does a better job of ripping copy protected audio, for example.
I've bought quite a few Plextor drives over the years, both for myself and for machines built for other people. At least five in the last couple of years, off the top of my head. I think that makes me a long time Plextor customer. And I'm absolutely serious when I say that if Plextor doesn't drop this case, I'll never buy another Plextor drive.
what I want is a physical address I can mail a paper letter to...
The other day I turned a corner in San Andreas and found an intact police car buried at a 45 degree angle in the road. It was like it had been teleported and ended up half in solid ground.
Of course, that assumes that the systems even meet the more fundamental requirements of voting mechanisms, which most of the current electronic vote counters don't.
For instance, it must be possible for the voter to audit that his vote was recorded correctly. That is, the voter has to be able to verify that the information recorded on the recording medium was the same information as was displayed to him. With paper, this is trivial; with computers, it's practically impossible, unless the computer prints out a piece of paper as the auditable record.
Another requirement is that it be impossible for a third party to determine what a voter's vote was, *even with the collusion of the voter*. This is so that votes cannot be bought and sold.
Having recently tried out Rails, starting from zero knowledge of Rails and some knowledge of Ruby, it's the closest thing I've found to a productive web framework.
I'd be interested in recommendations for Java frameworks which can provide similar productivity, however. (Much as I like Ruby, it's still a tough sell in the corporate world.)
Well, I do have something against the x86 platform: Intel couldn't design a clean, simple processor if their life depended on it.
However, it's kind of a non-issue, because I wouldn't be writing assembler for the thing anyway.
The .biz TLD has given me an excellent spam heuristic. That alone makes it worthwhile, surely?
Ubuntu is only successful because it uses Debian. Get rid of Debian and you'd soon see how successful Ubuntu's approach was.
When I read the article blurb, I immediately thought that I wanted the opposite.
I'd like to know what features I can put on a web page that will cause IE to leak memory as quickly as possible, but not cause any harm to Firefox.
That way I can sneak the appropriate code onto every web site I build, until people get so sick of IE running slow and swapping like mad that they switch to Firefox.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Personally, I think the disappointing PSP sales have more to do with the fact that Sony seems to expect you to buy the thing without getting a chance to see it first.
Nintendo has made sure there are DS systems in every major store, showing the latest games. I've yet to see a PSP at all; all the stores have tons of boxes sitting in locked display cases, but apparently Sony thinks people will drop $250 on a toy without seeing it first.
The original PlayStation supported a mouse, in fact.
The only game I know of that used it was X-Com.
Or even better, use the PICS standard, which already exists and has for years.
Of course, the fact that not everyone supports PICS on their existing domains, even though it's free to do so, suggests how far .xxx domains are going to get.
I can't help wondering if it doesn't have something to do with the fact that you can't actually see a PSP anywhere.
When I go into stores, they all have a display model Nintendo DS you can play with. I haven't seen a PSP anywhere, and I don't know anyone who owns one. The stores won't open them up for demo either. What are Sony thinking--that we're all going to rush out and drop $250 on a handheld gaming system without even seeing it first?
I'm a big Wipeout fan, so I'm looking forward to seeing a PSP. But I'm not gonna buy one until I do.
The first example I heard about was David Braben and Ian Bell, who patented the 3D scanner on the game "Elite", back in 1984.
The problem is, it was really the only good way to do a 3D scanner that I've seen. As a result, every other 3D game that came out had a really crappy scanner.
Indeed, $15 billion is less than a tenth of the money wasted so far on the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Try that argument once there's a low cost competitive POTS market and a low cost competitive cable TV market, and I might be convinced.
Right now, I have a choice of 1 telephone company and 1 cable TV company. And I'm in Austin, TX. Why should we wait for private enterprise to build wireless TCP/IP networks, when they haven't even managed to build competitive cable and phone networks yet?
Try MEPIS. It's an advanced distribution with all the nice stuff like Ubuntu, but it runs on the Debian testing repositories without compatibility problems.
Not true. There were hotels you could go into and wander up and find a pool on the roof, for one example.
One problem with GTA: San Andreas is that because the world is so much larger, proportionately more of it is window dressing--3D wallpaper that you can't really interact with.
In Vice City, you could drive around looking for interesting buildings, get out and walk over to them, and go inside and wander around. Often there would be something interesting.
In San Andreas, driving around with no particular aim in mind is boring, because almost all the buildings can't even be entered.
I use Linux as my primary desktop, and I've never used a middle mouse button.
I think you're a bit pessimistic.
It's actually quite possible to get a laptop for an independent vendor and not have a Windows license included in the purchase price. For example, sub300.com have a few laptops available, there are at least a couple more places.
What's more, VIA Antaur laptops have open source drivers available for all the hardware. So if you really want to support Linux and don't need a laptop you can play the latest games on, they're a good choice.
That's why some rich .com billionaire needs to drop me a couple million. Once I'm independently wealthy, I'll spend my time on documentation for OSS projects and related activities. I don't want to be rich, I just need enough to pay the mortgage, utilities and grocery bills. Currently I have to work to do that, which limits my time for contributions to OSS.
(I'm serious, though I know the chances of it happening are zero. What mystifies me is why people who make a few million feel the need to go make more...)
iCal already has a good subscription method. You subscribe to the iCal calendar over HTTP.
TFA is about how we need to reinvent iCal because it's not in XML. Uh, right.
My Palm device already syncs via Bluetooth and USB, and connects via open protocols including IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP. I can import and export data using the industry-standard vCard and vCal formats. I'm not sure what exactly you're waiting for.
It could be worse. Game Boy is slang for a gay prostitute.