Since this seems to be the astroturfing thread, you might give the ProClarity Analytic Platform 5 (http://www.proclarity.com) a look. I think what you've said is key... being able to establish rules is a powerful aspect of *our* (I guess this isn't really turfing after all:-)) current platform. The rules can be reused by you, and with our server product in play, reused by others. For example, the logic that captures "your top 10 products for the current quarter" can be saved off and shared for use in other queries or visualizations. If the logic behind the this business concept changes, you can change the definition in one place, and existing views still based on that shared logic entity get the updates.
Now, you mentioned SQL... realize that PAP isn't a SQL query tool... it works directly with the multidimensional features of SQL Server. The are ways to work in support for other platforms as well, primarily by doing data transformation into Analysis Services, which is a point at which, if done right, is a good point to escape the "bombastic treatment of data" and create a usable information discovery sytstem.
Put a microphone between the BabelFish and your ear. The analog hole is NEVER going to be closed.
Not if the BabelFish is genetically engineered into your brain. (Except then someone could "listen" in on your brainwaves. Hmm. I think music execs would have other things to worry about at that point.)
Validation is not the issue... what's needed are standardized controls for choosing these items. This provides a better user experience for your sites users, and (mostly) addresses the validation issue as well. For example, a user can pick a date using a standardized popup calendar that shows other appointment dates for context.
Email address inputs and shipping address inputs would also be nice-to-haves.
Okay, specifically then, go to w3.org. Read specs. Implement.
It's pretty obvious why a web standards compliant IE would improve things (google: web standards). Oh, but it wouldn't allow Microsoft to extend the web anymore with stupid proprietry shit. I guess they're right out the window then.
It's not obvious, and I've googled a lot.
IE 6 has become the standard. It's ubiquitously used and it hasn't changed for quite some time. I have more page rendering problems when NOT using IE than when using IE. Should the IE team break the experience of 90+% of web users by "specifically" re-implementing it to w3 specifications, just to save time and effort for a MUCH smaller number of developers who are have been in the game long enough to know that IE is proprietary shit, and won't stand for it?
It's too late for that. Like Dave said, the IE team needs specific list of things that should be fixed with solid, real-world details about how it will make things better for everyone and not break the web at the same time. If that leads towards IE being more compliant with the w3 specs, that's a nice side effect... it won't drive a new IE release, that's for sure.
I have a cousin who went to the college in Coeur d'Alene, and the town is pretty much owned by a group of cultist / supremacist / Aryan / whatever you want to call them run by some guy who I don't recall the name of with a compound up on the hill. He said that the guy shuts down the town once a year for a huge fireworks display - I don't recall if it's for July 4th or not. But he was very clear about the entire (useful) government being run by this guy, and that they're always having rallies.
Well, your cousin is wrong. One, the group no longer owns a "compound" in the area. Two, they don't have a fireworks show, or anything else, that shuts down the town. Three... well, he might be right about them always having rallies, if by "always having rallies" he means "there are always a couple guys hanging out with the 'leader' when he goes to the grocery store to pick up his prescriptions."
Unfortunately the media gives an impressive amount of visibility to this crusty old troublemaker and his buddies. Forgive me, but both they and you look like idiots when this garbage is perpetuated. (At least you have your cousin to blame though...)
Never mind, the one with the Say It game was the Speak & Spell. I could have sworn the Speak & Read was addled with these issues and the Speak & Spell was clean. This whole thing's triggered a huge brain cell cluster devoted to finding these things as a child and unfortunately no one's posted anything about this on the internet, and now it's driving me nuts. Thanks alot dude!:)
I believe that was the Speak & Read, the yellow one, that had the "Say It" game. Mine had flat buttons, and still had the same hack. I believe it was the Enter and 2 "any" keys you had to hold down until the screen changed, then there were a few buttons you could push to kick off different fun sequences of confusion... most of which led to it being completely locked up. (You could tell because the Off button didn't work anymore... you had to unplug it.)
When I was a kid I spent hours documenting ways to get it to freak out. My mother confiscated said documentation because she thought I was going to break it.:)
The Speak & Read had quite a few of these "bugs". The one you mentioned was definitely the most notable. I had a Speak & Math and Speak & Spell, and I believe I found one fairly boring one on the Speak & Math, and none on the Speak & Spell!
It's always been possible to make incriminating images with photographic techniques. I wouldn't call any photograph "good" evidence, unless the creation process of the photo has evidence of its own. I'd say that evidence is what's changed.
(Ideally that evidence would not be photos or you'll start to get dizzy.)
The iPod does exactly this. The only thing you might not like is that iTunes manages the directory structure for you by/Artist/Albumname/Track. You have no control over how it does this. Genre is a an indexing of that structure that is navigable as/Genre/Artist/Albumname/Track. If you had another file convention you'll have to ditch it, because iTunes won't deal with it. If you have playlists those get synced too.
Oh yeah... and by the way... the Archos Studio contains NiMH AA's. When they go dead, replace them for about $8. Can you do that with an iPod?
If the battery dies before the warranty ends I believe they'll replace it for you. That gives you a year. If it dies after that you can get replacements online from about $40-60. So no, you can't replace it for $8. Yes, you can do it.
Yes, the DCOM bug was present in NT. But Blaster's code doesn't replicate to NT4 or 2003, only 2000 and XP. See http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html.
If you're going to try to make an argument, don't reference pages from www.microsoft.com/security.
P.S. -- VERY OT, has anyone else been getting lots of Server 500 errors when browsing Slashdot over the past week? I used to never get any and now I'm getting them in roughly one out every five page views... weird.
Yes, I have. Also I noticed that http://www.slashdot.org started redirecting to http://slashdot.org:80, instead of just http://slashdot.org, at about the same time I started seeing the 500 errors occasionally. It must mean they've changed something (in the Matrix.)
Nope. As far as I know VMWare isn't an emulator in the sense that Virtual PC for Mac is... it relies on the fact that you're still running on X86 hardware.
"We have the largest market share in the widget market! Too bad no one BUYS this particular type of widget."
The MS client is installed with Windows XP, and is arguably one of its most sellable features. Before you say "but you don't need to buy Windows to use IM", remember that AOL's been suckering people for years with email and chat, which are readily available without having to buy thier service.
I have the same, and FWIW haven't seen this issue. I've had it on without me around for 4 hours without touching it. When I came back the screens were blank, which is my setting, but the fans were still loud-as-usual so it wasn't sleeping, and it snapped out of it fine. I've been though several successful sleep/wake cycles as well.)
That's fine, they'll never catch them. The OSS pirates sail on the fastest ship in the world, the Black Perl. (Or is it the most obfuscatable ship, I can't remember.)
... it's not just for him, it's so his neighbors can connect to his network too. Whether he knows this or not, I don't know.
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AKA is an abbreviation of "also known as", and I don't see a problem with the usage you're describing. AKA is often used in a humorous context for phrase subsitution... the first phrase with some suggestive punctuation:
There are some "OSes out there that really suck" (AKA "Windows 95.")
I don't even know what the last example is trying to say. I might help it out with a little rewording, if I even understand what you are saying at all.
Man, I'm tired from all of that "work" (AKA "partying.") (AKA used for phrase subsitution again.)
I find it ironic that you post this ironic subject (and ironically you will probably be modded down again to -1, Ironic, and so will I.)
I'm sure someone will mod this down as flamebait but, seriously, would it kill the editors to do their jobs and actually edit the articles that get posted?
The editors should left the ",00" off of "$350" also. I swear, half of the comments are about that. It's been educational and all, and that's how the poster posted it because he/she's probably from a country where that's the decimal separator, but the fact that the suit was an exact dollar amount is irrelevant to the story, and should have been left out. A more meaningful set of conversation threads probably would have resulted./Watches self as he adds to the meaningless series of posts about this.
All that does is makes all the people in line think you're an ass for knowing that discs exist that won't play in your computer, yet waiting until you get to the cashier to check. It doesn't make anyone eschew copy protection, or teach anyone to do the same thing... it makes them eschew you, and teaches them to write you down an ass. It makes some minimum wage cashier who has nothing to do with copy protection have to restock the disc which if, was not something you wanted to buy, should have been left in place.
A less socially repugnant thing to do would be to not go to the store in the first place.
I take it you haven't played a modern MMORPG for a while. If you want your wookie to actually look like a wookie in Star Wars Galaxies you some of the newer hardware. I pay $15 a month so my wookies look like wookies. *Laments the fact his laptop can't play SWG.
The original, circular arrangement of the iPod buttons makes for one of the most gorgeous, pure-Ive creations ever, but the outermost circle of buttons (top: menu; left: skip back; right: skip forward; bottom: play/pause) are just that, the outermost, which makes them inefficient for one-handed operation -- say, in your jacket pocket. You've got to slide your thumb (or other finger, if you like RSI) all the way across the middle of the circle to reach the other side, which (1) is too much of a stretch and (2) risks messing with the scroll wheel.
Hmm, I wouldn't say there's any more efficiency with the new model.
(1) The stretch between the |>| buttons is the same on both models (nearly the full width of the device). The average distance between any two buttons (from center to center) on the new model is approximately half the width of the device... same on the old model. I'd say the > and >>| buttons are probably the most used buttons... on both models they are touching each other.
I never "slide my hand" over the older iPod to control it in my pocket... I just grab one of the non-headphone 3 edges and squeeze it between thumb and forefingers, invariably hitting the right button. (menu's not something one uses in the pocket.) I would like to think that's what Ive was thinking when he made the buttons as wide as they are, and placed them near the edge of the device.
When used in the palm of the hand menu, |>| are readily accessible with the thumb. Try moving your thumb across the palm of your hand... it moves in a semi circle, like a windshield wiper, does it not? Why would something that moves in a circle be best suited to push buttons that are in a straight line?:-) I agree, the play button is difficult to use when the device is held this way, but the center button acts as a play button when navigating the menu... then back into the pocket it goes, where the other use pattern comes into play.
(2) With the new model you risk accidentally hitting the menu and play/pause buttons when moving from |>| just as much as you risk messing with the wheel on the old model... not to mention on the new model there's still the wheel to contend with, now in a position where it's exposed to the middle joint in the thumb when pressing the buttons.
I'll reserve final judgement until I use one of the new ones. I'm saying what I think here based on my own usage patterns with the 2nd rev. touch wheel. For now I'm perfectly happy with the old one for my purposes. (And I still don't think they knew what they had.)
And I do recommend that you get one... any model, really.:-)
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Since this seems to be the astroturfing thread, you might give the ProClarity Analytic Platform 5 (http://www.proclarity.com) a look. I think what you've said is key... being able to establish rules is a powerful aspect of *our* (I guess this isn't really turfing after all :-)) current platform. The rules can be reused by you, and with our server product in play, reused by others. For example, the logic that captures "your top 10 products for the current quarter" can be saved off and shared for use in other queries or visualizations. If the logic behind the this business concept changes, you can change the definition in one place, and existing views still based on that shared logic entity get the updates.
Now, you mentioned SQL... realize that PAP isn't a SQL query tool... it works directly with the multidimensional features of SQL Server. The are ways to work in support for other platforms as well, primarily by doing data transformation into Analysis Services, which is a point at which, if done right, is a good point to escape the "bombastic treatment of data" and create a usable information discovery sytstem.
Put a microphone between the BabelFish and your ear. The analog hole is NEVER going to be closed.
Not if the BabelFish is genetically engineered into your brain. (Except then someone could "listen" in on your brainwaves. Hmm. I think music execs would have other things to worry about at that point.)
Validation is not the issue... what's needed are standardized controls for choosing these items. This provides a better user experience for your sites users, and (mostly) addresses the validation issue as well. For example, a user can pick a date using a standardized popup calendar that shows other appointment dates for context.
Email address inputs and shipping address inputs would also be nice-to-haves.
Okay, specifically then, go to w3.org. Read specs. Implement.
It's pretty obvious why a web standards compliant IE would improve things (google: web standards). Oh, but it wouldn't allow Microsoft to extend the web anymore with stupid proprietry shit. I guess they're right out the window then.
It's not obvious, and I've googled a lot.
IE 6 has become the standard. It's ubiquitously used and it hasn't changed for quite some time. I have more page rendering problems when NOT using IE than when using IE. Should the IE team break the experience of 90+% of web users by "specifically" re-implementing it to w3 specifications, just to save time and effort for a MUCH smaller number of developers who are have been in the game long enough to know that IE is proprietary shit, and won't stand for it?
It's too late for that. Like Dave said, the IE team needs specific list of things that should be fixed with solid, real-world details about how it will make things better for everyone and not break the web at the same time. If that leads towards IE being more compliant with the w3 specs, that's a nice side effect... it won't drive a new IE release, that's for sure.
Then along came XAML...
I have a cousin who went to the college in Coeur d'Alene, and the town is pretty much owned by a group of cultist / supremacist / Aryan / whatever you want to call them run by some guy who I don't recall the name of with a compound up on the hill. He said that the guy shuts down the town once a year for a huge fireworks display - I don't recall if it's for July 4th or not. But he was very clear about the entire (useful) government being run by this guy, and that they're always having rallies.
Well, your cousin is wrong. One, the group no longer owns a "compound" in the area. Two, they don't have a fireworks show, or anything else, that shuts down the town. Three... well, he might be right about them always having rallies, if by "always having rallies" he means "there are always a couple guys hanging out with the 'leader' when he goes to the grocery store to pick up his prescriptions."
Unfortunately the media gives an impressive amount of visibility to this crusty old troublemaker and his buddies. Forgive me, but both they and you look like idiots when this garbage is perpetuated. (At least you have your cousin to blame though...)
Never mind, the one with the Say It game was the Speak & Spell. I could have sworn the Speak & Read was addled with these issues and the Speak & Spell was clean. This whole thing's triggered a huge brain cell cluster devoted to finding these things as a child and unfortunately no one's posted anything about this on the internet, and now it's driving me nuts. Thanks alot dude! :)
I believe that was the Speak & Read, the yellow one, that had the "Say It" game. Mine had flat buttons, and still had the same hack. I believe it was the Enter and 2 "any" keys you had to hold down until the screen changed, then there were a few buttons you could push to kick off different fun sequences of confusion... most of which led to it being completely locked up. (You could tell because the Off button didn't work anymore... you had to unplug it.)
:)
When I was a kid I spent hours documenting ways to get it to freak out. My mother confiscated said documentation because she thought I was going to break it.
The Speak & Read had quite a few of these "bugs". The one you mentioned was definitely the most notable. I had a Speak & Math and Speak & Spell, and I believe I found one fairly boring one on the Speak & Math, and none on the Speak & Spell!
It's always been possible to make incriminating images with photographic techniques. I wouldn't call any photograph "good" evidence, unless the creation process of the photo has evidence of its own. I'd say that evidence is what's changed.
(Ideally that evidence would not be photos or you'll start to get dizzy.)
Are you kidding me?
/Artist/Albumname/Track. You have no control over how it does this. Genre is a an indexing of that structure that is navigable as /Genre/Artist/Albumname/Track. If you had another file convention you'll have to ditch it, because iTunes won't deal with it. If you have playlists those get synced too.
The iPod does exactly this. The only thing you might not like is that iTunes manages the directory structure for you by
Oh yeah... and by the way... the Archos Studio contains NiMH AA's. When they go dead, replace them for about $8. Can you do that with an iPod?
If the battery dies before the warranty ends I believe they'll replace it for you. That gives you a year. If it dies after that you can get replacements online from about $40-60. So no, you can't replace it for $8. Yes, you can do it.
Yes, the DCOM bug was present in NT. But Blaster's code doesn't replicate to NT4 or 2003, only 2000 and XP. See http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/w32.blaster.worm.html.
If you're going to try to make an argument, don't reference pages from www.microsoft.com/security.
P.S. -- VERY OT, has anyone else been getting lots of Server 500 errors when browsing Slashdot over the past week? I used to never get any and now I'm getting them in roughly one out every five page views... weird.
Yes, I have. Also I noticed that http://www.slashdot.org started redirecting to http://slashdot.org:80, instead of just http://slashdot.org, at about the same time I started seeing the 500 errors occasionally. It must mean they've changed something (in the Matrix.)
Windows NT4 isn't vulnerable to the Blaster virus dude. You'd better check your facts before posting.
Nope. As far as I know VMWare isn't an emulator in the sense that Virtual PC for Mac is... it relies on the fact that you're still running on X86 hardware.
Next week on Slashdot: Is That Rubber Hose Watching Me?
Forget the rubber hoses and cel phone towers, I've also found it to be easier just to watch someone if you want to watch them.
"We have the largest market share in the widget market! Too bad no one BUYS this particular type of widget."
The MS client is installed with Windows XP, and is arguably one of its most sellable features. Before you say "but you don't need to buy Windows to use IM", remember that AOL's been suckering people for years with email and chat, which are readily available without having to buy thier service.
I have the same, and FWIW haven't seen this issue. I've had it on without me around for 4 hours without touching it. When I came back the screens were blank, which is my setting, but the fans were still loud-as-usual so it wasn't sleeping, and it snapped out of it fine. I've been though several successful sleep/wake cycles as well.)
That's fine, they'll never catch them. The OSS pirates sail on the fastest ship in the world, the Black Perl. (Or is it the most obfuscatable ship, I can't remember.)
... it's not just for him, it's so his neighbors can connect to his network too. Whether he knows this or not, I don't know.
AKA is an abbreviation of "also known as", and I don't see a problem with the usage you're describing. AKA is often used in a humorous context for phrase subsitution... the first phrase with some suggestive punctuation:
There are some "OSes out there that really suck" (AKA "Windows 95.")
I don't even know what the last example is trying to say. I might help it out with a little rewording, if I even understand what you are saying at all.
Man, I'm tired from all of that "work" (AKA "partying.") (AKA used for phrase subsitution again.)
I find it ironic that you post this ironic subject (and ironically you will probably be modded down again to -1, Ironic, and so will I.)
I'm sure someone will mod this down as flamebait but, seriously, would it kill the editors to do their jobs and actually edit the articles that get posted?
/Watches self as he adds to the meaningless series of posts about this.
The editors should left the ",00" off of "$350" also. I swear, half of the comments are about that. It's been educational and all, and that's how the poster posted it because he/she's probably from a country where that's the decimal separator, but the fact that the suit was an exact dollar amount is irrelevant to the story, and should have been left out. A more meaningful set of conversation threads probably would have resulted.
All that does is makes all the people in line think you're an ass for knowing that discs exist that won't play in your computer, yet waiting until you get to the cashier to check. It doesn't make anyone eschew copy protection, or teach anyone to do the same thing... it makes them eschew you, and teaches them to write you down an ass. It makes some minimum wage cashier who has nothing to do with copy protection have to restock the disc which if, was not something you wanted to buy, should have been left in place.
A less socially repugnant thing to do would be to not go to the store in the first place.
I take it you haven't played a modern MMORPG for a while. If you want your wookie to actually look like a wookie in Star Wars Galaxies you some of the newer hardware. I pay $15 a month so my wookies look like wookies. *Laments the fact his laptop can't play SWG.
I believe they were once selling some Taco Bell-brand taco shells made of that corn at the local supermarket. And yes, it is.
The original, circular arrangement of the iPod buttons makes for one of the most gorgeous, pure-Ive creations ever, but the outermost circle of buttons (top: menu; left: skip back; right: skip forward; bottom: play/pause) are just that, the outermost, which makes them inefficient for one-handed operation -- say, in your jacket pocket. You've got to slide your thumb (or other finger, if you like RSI) all the way across the middle of the circle to reach the other side, which (1) is too much of a stretch and (2) risks messing with the scroll wheel.
:-) I agree, the play button is difficult to use when the device is held this way, but the center button acts as a play button when navigating the menu... then back into the pocket it goes, where the other use pattern comes into play.
:-)
Hmm, I wouldn't say there's any more efficiency with the new model.
(1) The stretch between the |>| buttons is the same on both models (nearly the full width of the device). The average distance between any two buttons (from center to center) on the new model is approximately half the width of the device... same on the old model. I'd say the > and >>| buttons are probably the most used buttons... on both models they are touching each other.
I never "slide my hand" over the older iPod to control it in my pocket... I just grab one of the non-headphone 3 edges and squeeze it between thumb and forefingers, invariably hitting the right button. (menu's not something one uses in the pocket.) I would like to think that's what Ive was thinking when he made the buttons as wide as they are, and placed them near the edge of the device.
When used in the palm of the hand menu, |>| are readily accessible with the thumb. Try moving your thumb across the palm of your hand... it moves in a semi circle, like a windshield wiper, does it not? Why would something that moves in a circle be best suited to push buttons that are in a straight line?
(2) With the new model you risk accidentally hitting the menu and play/pause buttons when moving from |>| just as much as you risk messing with the wheel on the old model... not to mention on the new model there's still the wheel to contend with, now in a position where it's exposed to the middle joint in the thumb when pressing the buttons.
I'll reserve final judgement until I use one of the new ones. I'm saying what I think here based on my own usage patterns with the 2nd rev. touch wheel. For now I'm perfectly happy with the old one for my purposes. (And I still don't think they knew what they had.)
And I do recommend that you get one... any model, really.