The creator of SWFObject, along with two other developers, "teamed up to combine our knowledge and skills and to evolve our current libraries into one new and improved solution: the SWFFix library" - an open source library "with the goal to create a next generation JavaScript library for embedding Flash content."
They didn't mention the demo site - check out the About the technology page for a summary of ThingDB their new database framework - "a database that could hold tens of millions of records, that would allow random users to modify its entries and keep a full history of their changes, and that would hold arbitrary semi-structured data as users added it. Each of these problems had been solved on its own, but nobody had yet built a technology that solved all three together."
I would add that MS is also active in the CSS Working Group, as Bert Bos stated on the (recently-started) CSS Working Group Blog under the heading "Myth 3: Microsoft is holding back CSS standards development and/or doesn't care.":
I have no idea what Microsoft Corporation's agenda is, but ever since they rejoined the CSS Working Group, the Internet Explorer team has been actively participating in the working group. Markus Mielke has been consistently pushing us to spell things out explicitly one way or the other rather than leave anything undefined; Paul Nelson, whose expertise is in internationalization and fonts, has volunteered to pick up some of the specs whose editors left the working group years ago; and Arron Eicholz and his QA team are working to contribute Microsoft's CSS tests to the CSS2.1 Test Suite. That's not the behavior of a group that wants to hold back standardization. Markus's team wanted to fix more bugs in IE7, but the release schedule didn't give them the chance to make many of the changes they wanted. I won't say anything about the rest of the company or how they handle such issues in other forums, but the reps Microsoft sends to the CSS Working Group genuinely believe in cooperating through the W3C and moving forward with web standards.
"And yes, spammers 'guess', or more accurately, use trial and error to find addresses that seem to work"
It's important to remember that the time and hardware cost of sending out thousands more messages using dictionary or common mailbox names (e.g. info@ or support@) is minimal for spammers. It's not trial and error, it's just trial, trial, trial!
Your post made me curious about how Google does it via their Search by Number feature. For example, if you search Google for "usps " plus your tracking number (or just the number), the results will be preceded by a link to "Track USPS package..."
I suppose your widget could use Google's custom redirect script, but why is the functionality restricted to Google?
I just installed it today and I like it so far, but why did they remove the bookmark keywords feature (from Firefox)? That is one of the most useful Firefox (Mozilla?) features that I use. Is there a reason it had to be removed?
Back in 2001, Dean Kamen's company DEKA Research developed a wheelchair (marketed through a Johnson & Johnson company called Independence Technology) called the iBOT that raises the user to eye-level. Here's the writeup from Business Week (2001.04.11) with this nice tidbit:
"Kamen built the iBOT with gyroscopes that are programmed to create balancing capabilities based on an individual's center of gravity. The gyroscopes, in effect, emulate the principle by which humans are able to stand, balance themselves, and navigate around and through various environments and terrain by always offering a counterbalance."
(Obl. Simpsons quote: "And here I am using my legs like a sucker!")
One aspect of this service that I'm looking forward to is a single interface for transit info, no matter which system I'm using. Users only need to learn the Google interface, not the subtle nuances of different sites.
This mission will carry the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise), which is "the largest camera ever sent out of Earth's orbit and will deliver the highest resolution images of Mars yet" according to an article that adds "The camera utilizes a series of mirrors and lenses that project the image onto a cluster of CCDs rendering images with a resolution up to 20,000 pixels by 40,000 lines, an image so large that it would take 1,200 typical computer screens to fully display. The camera's high resolution will enable the identification of objects as small as a coffee table while the camera orbits 300 kilometers above the planet's surface."
Back in January 2004, there was an interesting article at Space.com about the high quality of the 1-megapixel camera used by the Spirit rover; I assume this is manufactured to similar quality control standards (although by a different team), but the article doesn't specify and the cameras are not manufactured by the same groups. The Spirit PANCAM has two CCDs whereas this has at least 14 (28?).
"An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a light-emitting diode (LED) made of semiconducting organic polymers. These devices promise to be much cheaper to fabricate than inorganic LEDs. Varying amounts of OLEDs can be deposited in arrays on a screen using simple "printing" methods to create a graphical colour display, for use as television screens, computer displays, portable system screens, and in advertising and information board applications. OLED panels may also be used as lighting devices. OLEDs are available as distributed sources while the inorganic LEDs are point sources of light. Prior to standardization, OLED technology was also referred to as OEL or Organic Electro-Luminescence.
One of the great benefits of an OLED display over the traditional LCD displays found in computer displays is that OLED displays don't require a backlight to function. This means that they draw far less power and they can be used with small portable devices which have mostly been using monochrome low-resolution displays to conserve power. This will also mean that they will be able to last for long periods of time with the same amount of battery charge."
"The major improvement in my eyes is that some models have an FM tuner."
My eyes don't care about an FM tuner, they care about the nice "backlit LCD screen" but according to Engadget these will have OLED screens, which (from the pictures) look sweet!
I also use Flickr, mainly because it easily allows me to restrict access to certain photos and I can post images directly via email (such as from my phone). And in all honesty, I don't mind someone else managing it. There are other features that I'm only starting to play with, too, like their APIs.
"Named after the patterns that stars form in the night sky, Constellation Systems is responsible for developing the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and related exploration architecture systems.
Constellation Systems is the combination of large and small systems that will provide humans the capabilities necessary to travel and explore the solar system. Constellation Systems will be made up of Earth-to-orbit, in-space and surface transportation systems, surface and space-based infrastructures, power generation, communications systems, maintenance and science instrumentation, and robotic investigators and assistants." (source)
Don't forget that we all have institutional racism that is part of our societies. "This form of racism reflects the cultural assumptions of the dominant group, so that the practices of that group are seen as the norm to which other cultural practices should conform. It regularly and systematically advantages some ethnic and cultural groups and disadvantages and marginalises others." (source)
The ignorance you speak of could be the failure to recognize this ingrained racism by even those who wish no inequality, or just pure, cognizant racism. The sheer nature of ingrained racism makes it even more difficult to eradicate since the first step is to identify it.
I spent 13 months in a third-world country and I was quite surprised to find attitudes toward population control that differed from what you stated.
One such attitude is that if you have more kids, there are more people to work in agriculture or the local economy to earn income. Now, this might work on a small scale, but there must be available, viable opportunities, both agricultural and economical.
This is just one example of one issue; there are many other issues that affect people around the globe. To change their situations requires much effort and commitment, not just shock and awe. The Internet is a great way to provide information about population control, agricultural practices, and television is of course a strong medium, especially for illiterate masses.
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You can go to "about:config" and clear the value of "general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet" to remove the "(.NET [...])" part of the UA string.
It would've been your most productive to date.
Data storage is not a new concept; it's part of the HTML5 specification (a.k.a. Web Apps 1.0) [Note: that URL seems to have some script issues...] and it is already implemented in the recent WebKit nightly builds.
The creator of SWFObject, along with two other developers, "teamed up to combine our knowledge and skills and to evolve our current libraries into one new and improved solution: the SWFFix library" - an open source library "with the goal to create a next generation JavaScript library for embedding Flash content."
http://www.swffix.org/
It's in development right now (with an alpha available).
Wait a minute... I ordered Soft Serve vanilla but the server (Ice cream soft Serve Provider) added the sea salt and olive oil in transit.
They didn't mention the demo site - check out the About the technology page for a summary of ThingDB their new database framework - "a database that could hold tens of millions of records, that would allow random users to modify its entries and keep a full history of their changes, and that would hold arbitrary semi-structured data as users added it. Each of these problems had been solved on its own, but nobody had yet built a technology that solved all three together."
"And yes, spammers 'guess', or more accurately, use trial and error to find addresses that seem to work"
It's important to remember that the time and hardware cost of sending out thousands more messages using dictionary or common mailbox names (e.g. info@ or support@) is minimal for spammers. It's not trial and error, it's just trial, trial, trial!
Your post made me curious about how Google does it via their Search by Number feature. For example, if you search Google for "usps " plus your tracking number (or just the number), the results will be preceded by a link to "Track USPS package..." I suppose your widget could use Google's custom redirect script, but why is the functionality restricted to Google?
I just installed it today and I like it so far, but why did they remove the bookmark keywords feature (from Firefox)? That is one of the most useful Firefox (Mozilla?) features that I use. Is there a reason it had to be removed?
One aspect of this service that I'm looking forward to is a single interface for transit info, no matter which system I'm using. Users only need to learn the Google interface, not the subtle nuances of different sites.
NASA website for HiRISE: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/
This mission will carry the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise), which is "the largest camera ever sent out of Earth's orbit and will deliver the highest resolution images of Mars yet" according to an article that adds "The camera utilizes a series of mirrors and lenses that project the image onto a cluster of CCDs rendering images with a resolution up to 20,000 pixels by 40,000 lines, an image so large that it would take 1,200 typical computer screens to fully display. The camera's high resolution will enable the identification of objects as small as a coffee table while the camera orbits 300 kilometers above the planet's surface."
Back in January 2004, there was an interesting article at Space.com about the high quality of the 1-megapixel camera used by the Spirit rover; I assume this is manufactured to similar quality control standards (although by a different team), but the article doesn't specify and the cameras are not manufactured by the same groups. The Spirit PANCAM has two CCDs whereas this has at least 14 (28?).
Wikipedia OLED:
"An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a light-emitting diode (LED) made of semiconducting organic polymers. These devices promise to be much cheaper to fabricate than inorganic LEDs. Varying amounts of OLEDs can be deposited in arrays on a screen using simple "printing" methods to create a graphical colour display, for use as television screens, computer displays, portable system screens, and in advertising and information board applications. OLED panels may also be used as lighting devices. OLEDs are available as distributed sources while the inorganic LEDs are point sources of light. Prior to standardization, OLED technology was also referred to as OEL or Organic Electro-Luminescence.
One of the great benefits of an OLED display over the traditional LCD displays found in computer displays is that OLED displays don't require a backlight to function. This means that they draw far less power and they can be used with small portable devices which have mostly been using monochrome low-resolution displays to conserve power. This will also mean that they will be able to last for long periods of time with the same amount of battery charge."
(but wait, there's more!)"The major improvement in my eyes is that some models have an FM tuner."
My eyes don't care about an FM tuner, they care about the nice "backlit LCD screen" but according to Engadget these will have OLED screens, which (from the pictures) look sweet!
Oops... you're correct; my server is running in safe mode and thus no Gallery for me. Sorry about that!
I tried to implement Gallery on my site but couldn't because it requires PHP to be run in Safe Mode. As an alternative, I set-up Coppermine.
I also use Flickr, mainly because it easily allows me to restrict access to certain photos and I can post images directly via email (such as from my phone). And in all honesty, I don't mind someone else managing it. There are other features that I'm only starting to play with, too, like their APIs.
Is there a reason that the Mozilla-based Netscape releases don't support extensions? The customization they offer is my favorite feature of Firefox.
"Named after the patterns that stars form in the night sky, Constellation Systems is responsible for developing the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and related exploration architecture systems. Constellation Systems is the combination of large and small systems that will provide humans the capabilities necessary to travel and explore the solar system. Constellation Systems will be made up of Earth-to-orbit, in-space and surface transportation systems, surface and space-based infrastructures, power generation, communications systems, maintenance and science instrumentation, and robotic investigators and assistants." (source)
The ignorance you speak of could be the failure to recognize this ingrained racism by even those who wish no inequality, or just pure, cognizant racism. The sheer nature of ingrained racism makes it even more difficult to eradicate since the first step is to identify it.
Don't forget about C# !
You're referring to: Irvin Kershner
One such attitude is that if you have more kids, there are more people to work in agriculture or the local economy to earn income. Now, this might work on a small scale, but there must be available, viable opportunities, both agricultural and economical.
This is just one example of one issue; there are many other issues that affect people around the globe. To change their situations requires much effort and commitment, not just shock and awe. The Internet is a great way to provide information about population control, agricultural practices, and television is of course a strong medium, especially for illiterate masses.