You do realize that "AJAX" (which slashdotters are so fond of nowadays) is really a set of microsoft web technology? XMLHttpRequest was a pure MS invention by the Outlook web access team, ECMAscript was pushed by both Netscape and MS (some would argue it was because of IE's implementation that pushed the standard to come in the first place), and the DOM standard we use now is much more heavily based on the IE version than the original crappy Netscape version.
Not being a MS fanboy or anything... I just find it funny when people make it out like MS is late in the game in terms of the new web-based app craze. MS practically invented most of the technology google use on the client side.
I assume you run firefox on Windows. In my experience (YMMV) firefox crashes so often on my linux box it's not even funny. It's either some conflict with esd, some nasty flash thing that leaves such a nice dump of cores in my $HOME, or just slow degradation of performance (aka leaks).
Who would've thought to make firefox on linux (the platform it actually dominate the market on) stable? At least in my experience IE rarely crashes on a windose box.
UWB has been the latest buzz for a while. Reminded me when I, Cringely was all over it making it out to be the next big thing. That was in 2002 though. Time will tell....
My first thought was Skype actually... dynamic routing + self optimizing + p2p relaying of messages. This seems like skype done at the Datalink level of the OSI model, rather than the Application level. Oh, and it's not just for VoIP I guess.
I am wondering how they will make this work with IP tho. Would each wifi card be associated with a "mobile IP", or would there be some sort of DHCP... Either way this is an interesting sounding addition to the existing protocols.
What would be nice is a standard way of installing something from a tarball which puts something, lets say/var/genericpackagemanagment, which contains a list of all the files installed, where, and directories created.
Slackware has always had this in/var/log/packages.
In there each package has a text file with a list of files installed for this package.
The standard way of installing is called "installpkg" and "removepkg".
Man... I really don't get these XML/W3C people. First they come to us with the wonder of "Text Format! It's the best thing since sliced bread!!!" And completely ignored people who were bitching about how verbose and inefficient XML really is. And now a couple of years later, people are all on board now, bought in with their technology. Oops, it is bloated. XML is slow, everyone admits. Now they come back with the same enthusiasm and tell us "We need a binary format for XML!!! Then all our problems will be solved!!!"
And as for those mentioning of having another protocol to transfer XML files... Isn't that the whole *point* of SOAP, to use standard text and utilizing existing technology that is the HTTP web browser? What is the point of creating even more crud to "process" compressed/binary XML files, even *on top of* the bloat of parsing the damn thing??
It's so hilarious (and sad) to see how the industry goes around in circle like a dog chasing its own tail. If we want thin data and fat clients, we could've stuck with good 'old ASN.1, vanilla RPC and XDR. But the industry didn't, they wanted fat data and all the magic XML promised them. So then let's do it right and build big enough bandwidth to support transferring all these angle brackets.
hmm, interesting you say that. I personally like this little magazine called phrack, it can be quite informative sometimes. But you are right;Login: is a good mag.
Perhaps you are talking about JOS. It was quite a happening project couple years back , and now seems to have splitted into couple of differentprojects.
>I have 4.5gb of legitimate music, which translates to roughly $3,000 of CDs. 10gb then is $6,000 of CDs.
Eh... I always find/. calculation interesting.
Okay so you paid $3,000 worth of CD music?
Assuming you paid 30 bucks for a CD, that's 100 CDs. Assuming each CD averages out to be 300 MB with uncompressed wav. That's still 100 * 300 MB = 30, 000 MB, which is 30 gigs, man. Not 4.5 GB.
Okay, for your sake, let's say you bought some seriously expensive albums with amazing original cover arts. Let's look at the other side of your argument then:
4.5 GB ~= 4600 MB, which if saved onto CD-Rs, will be 4600 / 700 ~= 8 CD-Rs.
A CD-R costs about 30 cents. 0.30 * 8 = 2 dollars and 40 cents.
Add a 30 dollar CD/mp3 player, that's $32.40. Or, if using your argument for $6000 worth of music, it would be $34.80.
So using your argument, A $34.40 setup that makes available all your music, especially if it's $6,000 worth of music, is so totally worth it ; )
But then again, iPod looks so cool, it's hard to do math when you are staring at it.
What I am scared of is if they will use gconf to store the bookmark shortcuts, rather than a simple flat text file.
Seriously, moving some gnome icons and such up to gtk+ is fine, but once they start using gconf and bonobo for basic gtk+ components, us people who use gtk+ apps sans gnome will be screwed.
Perhaps then a fork of gtk+ will be inevitable? (YAWT, oh the horror)
Once GRE comes out, this problem will hopefully be solved because any application based on Gecko/XUL/XPCOM will be sharing a single instance of GRE installed on the machine.
Regarding the UN, know that the government of Taiwan, i.e. the original government of China before the communist revolution, was once a veto holding member of the UN after the second world war. It was only until the UN accepted "People's Republic of China" to join the UN as well, the arrogant taiwanese government decided to leave the UN as an act of protest. However, since then the US has always stayed more on Taiwan's side because of its "leader of the free world/communist fighter" status.
I was born in Taiwan, half brought up there and half in Canada. All my childhood I've learned that the big piece of land across the Taiwan Strait BELONGS to the government of Taiwan. And the People's Republic of China is nothing but a bogus government, that will go down any day. What a surprise it's been for all of us.
I was fortunate enough to be taught in high school by the great man Bill Ironside, Michael Ironside's brother. Mr. Ironside! Now there's a lot of glaring and gruff commands in the wood shop class! "Quit fooling around! You're gonna lose a toe!"
Actually there is an effort being made to create a native java os called JOS. I don't know how mature it is right now since I am not part of the project, but it sounded promising the last time I checked their website. They also use a very liberal/open source/"free" method of development and online collaboration known as Wiki.
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Not being a MS fanboy or anything... I just find it funny when people make it out like MS is late in the game in terms of the new web-based app craze. MS practically invented most of the technology google use on the client side.
haha - "...Sorry, no Homers!"
I assume you run firefox on Windows. In my experience (YMMV) firefox crashes so often on my linux box it's not even funny. It's either some conflict with esd, some nasty flash thing that leaves such a nice dump of cores in my $HOME, or just slow degradation of performance (aka leaks).
Who would've thought to make firefox on linux (the platform it actually dominate the market on) stable? At least in my experience IE rarely crashes on a windose box.
I guess it's a pretty safe prediction to make, when all the major OSes in the market (windoze/OSX/Linux/*BSD) are POSIX compatible.
I am still waiting for L4 to take off any day now.
the best (or IMHO the only remaining good) part of the Onion, is the column by one Lloyd Schumner Sr., Retired Machinist and A.A.P.B.-Certified Astrologer.
UWB has been the latest buzz for a while. Reminded me when I, Cringely was all over it making it out to be the next big thing. That was in 2002 though. Time will tell....
My first thought was Skype actually... dynamic routing + self optimizing + p2p relaying of messages. This seems like skype done at the Datalink level of the OSI model, rather than the Application level. Oh, and it's not just for VoIP I guess.
I am wondering how they will make this work with IP tho. Would each wifi card be associated with a "mobile IP", or would there be some sort of DHCP... Either way this is an interesting sounding addition to the existing protocols.
Mainframes and vt100. Servers and X terminals.
The world goes in circles.
Slackware has always had this in /var/log/packages.
In there each package has a text file with a list of files installed for this package.
The standard way of installing is called "installpkg" and "removepkg".
Man... I really don't get these XML/W3C people. First they come to us with the wonder of "Text Format! It's the best thing since sliced bread!!!" And completely ignored people who were bitching about how verbose and inefficient XML really is. And now a couple of years later, people are all on board now, bought in with their technology. Oops, it is bloated. XML is slow, everyone admits. Now they come back with the same enthusiasm and tell us "We need a binary format for XML!!! Then all our problems will be solved!!!"
And as for those mentioning of having another protocol to transfer XML files... Isn't that the whole *point* of SOAP, to use standard text and utilizing existing technology that is the HTTP web browser? What is the point of creating even more crud to "process" compressed/binary XML files, even *on top of* the bloat of parsing the damn thing??
It's so hilarious (and sad) to see how the industry goes around in circle like a dog chasing its own tail. If we want thin data and fat clients, we could've stuck with good 'old ASN.1, vanilla RPC and XDR. But the industry didn't, they wanted fat data and all the magic XML promised them. So then let's do it right and build big enough bandwidth to support transferring all these angle brackets.
hmm, interesting you say that. I personally like this little magazine called phrack, it can be quite informative sometimes. But you are right ;Login: is a good mag.
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Perhaps you are talking about JOS. It was quite a happening project couple years back , and now seems to have splitted into couple of different projects.
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It was also featured in 2600 almost a year ago. Everyone was playing with one back then.
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uh... does Katherine Taco know about this?
Eh... I always find /. calculation interesting.
Okay so you paid $3,000 worth of CD music?
Assuming you paid 30 bucks for a CD, that's 100 CDs. Assuming each CD averages out to be 300 MB with uncompressed wav. That's still 100 * 300 MB = 30, 000 MB, which is 30 gigs, man. Not 4.5 GB.
Okay, for your sake, let's say you bought some seriously expensive albums with amazing original cover arts. Let's look at the other side of your argument then:
4.5 GB ~= 4600 MB, which if saved onto CD-Rs, will be 4600 / 700 ~= 8 CD-Rs.
A CD-R costs about 30 cents. 0.30 * 8 = 2 dollars and 40 cents.
Add a 30 dollar CD/mp3 player, that's $32.40. Or, if using your argument for $6000 worth of music, it would be $34.80.
So using your argument, A $34.40 setup that makes available all your music, especially if it's $6,000 worth of music, is so totally worth it ; )
But then again, iPod looks so cool, it's hard to do math when you are staring at it.
Seriously, moving some gnome icons and such up to gtk+ is fine, but once they start using gconf and bonobo for basic gtk+ components, us people who use gtk+ apps sans gnome will be screwed.
Perhaps then a fork of gtk+ will be inevitable? (YAWT, oh the horror)
It's too bad that the godfather of internet is no longer with us. RFC was such a better system for internet governance.
Once GRE comes out, this problem will hopefully be solved because any application based on Gecko/XUL/XPCOM will be sharing a single instance of GRE installed on the machine.
I don't trust Eugenia either. She seems much more obsessed with screenshots and themes than anything else(such as usability).
Since the article doesn't really have to do with grid computing. Here are some real Grid Computing links.
Globus Toolkit
LSF
openPBS
gridengine
OSCAR
ROCK MPP
maui
and last but not least: beowulf cluster
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Regarding the UN, know that the government of Taiwan, i.e. the original government of China before the communist revolution, was once a veto holding member of the UN after the second world war. It was only until the UN accepted "People's Republic of China" to join the UN as well, the arrogant taiwanese government decided to leave the UN as an act of protest. However, since then the US has always stayed more on Taiwan's side because of its "leader of the free world/communist fighter" status.
I was born in Taiwan, half brought up there and half in Canada. All my childhood I've learned that the big piece of land across the Taiwan Strait BELONGS to the government of Taiwan. And the People's Republic of China is nothing but a bogus government, that will go down any day. What a surprise it's been for all of us.
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I was fortunate enough to be taught in high school by the great man Bill Ironside, Michael Ironside's brother. Mr. Ironside! Now there's a lot of glaring and gruff commands in the wood shop class! "Quit fooling around! You're gonna lose a toe!"
Exactly. It's also a play on the name of the car, "accord", as things to come together in harmony and unity.
Actually there is an effort being made to create a native java os called JOS. I don't know how mature it is right now since I am not part of the project, but it sounded promising the last time I checked their website. They also use a very liberal/open source/"free" method of development and online collaboration known as Wiki.
read it.