Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. [snip] Plugins are like offering 'plugin upgrades' for cars. When your car gets slow, plug in a 'turbo' upgrade.. sure, it makes the car fast again, but your engine was busted up anyway, and you should just get a new one.
Plug-ins are much more like software patches. When a plug-in software system identifies a plug-in, it loads it into memory and installs a hook that forces code to follow one path instead of another. Very similar to how you might tell your print manager to print to a Postscript printer instead of a document on your hard disk.
Plug-ins have absolutely nothing to do with open standards versus closed standards. You are simply making that association yourself. Adobe Photoshop might use a plug-in to support SVG. Mozilla might use a plug-in to support the display of Excel spreadsheets. The software I wrote might talk to UPS via XML when using one plug-in, or FedEx via HTTP GET using another.
No, they would be built directly into the browser (DOM and CSS2 already are). That's the advantage of open standards.
There is no real difference between built-in and plug-in. A plug-in is essentially a patch for a piece of software. So that instead of some code going down one path, it sort of takes a detour and goes down another path. Open standards have nothing to do with it.
For you who hate Microsoft and hate the abuse of patents, do you know which side to take?
Hate leads to the dark side. I know which side I'm on.
License for 3-year-olds? What does online mean?
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One thing which I haven't seen mentioned is how you would license a 3-year-old child. Anyone with small children and a computer is likely to understand that children at this age are already capable of using the computer to learn. Educational software is an existing market.
"Grown-up" software has moved into the online realm because of the opportunities it offers in improving the user experience and program functionality. I would not be surprised to start seeing children's software do the same, although we're not there yet. Plus, children are learning more advanced topics at younger ages (well, at least some children are, Apple IIe anyone?) and it only makes sense for this to continue. I learned about modems, BBSes, and online research when I was maybe 8? Whenever 386s were top-of-the-line.
Also, what exactly does going online mean? If I pop in a DVD, it might take me to a web site. If I install some game software, it might register over my Internet connection. If I type www.dizney.com instead of www.disney.com, am I in trouble? Does using a computer now require a parental lock-out password to prevent unlicensed children from sending any packets over the wire? How does that work if my child's home directories are stored on a file server that is also my DNS server? Does the password and its behavior live on the file server?
I'm planning on purchasing a 2004 Toyota Prius this fall, when I move to California. The 2004 series has an AT-PZEV (advanced technology partial zero emissions vehicle) rating in California, and also qualifies me to park at meters for free and use the carpool lane with only me in it.
The 2004 model is very different from the 2003 model, and I would not have purchased the 2003 model (instead opting for a Honda Insight or Honda Civic GX). But the 2004 model has that much lower emissions rating and gets around 55mpg average, which is on par with the Honda Insight. The old Prius averaged 46mph according to EV World. It also has a larger size, moving it out of the compact and into the mid-size category. It also performs as well as a non-hybrid/electric car, according to people who have test drove it. It has a range of ~550 miles on a full tank.
The feature set is also very impressive--much better than that of the Insight or Civic GX, for the same $20k price range. I plan on getting bluetooth and the JBL six-speaker setup, at least. There's also the automatic parking feature, although I'm not sure if that will be available in the U.S.
The nice thing about the Civic GX is that it runs on natural gas. If you buy the Phill, partly financed by Honda, you can refuel in your own garage. But you don't have as much range as a Civic Hybrid. The Civic GX is also AT-PZEV, along with the Civic Hybrid. Unfortunately the automatic Insight is only SULEV, and the manual Insight, which gets better mileage, is only ULEV.
If you're only going to commute, then I might suggest the Twike. You'll have to custom order it, but if I only needed to commute then that's what I'd get. Unfortunately it is also $20k. The Tango is not yet available.
Open Mash was funded for a while by the NSF, a common source of academic funding. I'm not sure if you and your colleagues are in an academic setting, but the Open Mash web site does have the proposals and reviews of those proposals available on the site. Check out the Papers and Publications area.
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking when you talk about measuring the results of an open source project for publication. But any proposal would have to talk about why the project you are proposing has value in-line with the goals of the committee or group you are submitting the proposal to. Knowing exactly what those goals are can be difficult. This is one of those situations where you really have to tailor your writing to the specific reader(s).
Seems as though Nokia has an entire line of Mediamaster products. Also notable is the inclusion of RS-232 ports on the products. That means you can control them off a computer or other devices. Anyone know if Nokia makes such control devices?
Most religions are quite happy to extort the poor as well....
This reminds me of a TV evangelist thing I saw once. They did a profile on this one woman who started giving like 50% of her monthly income to the Church and how she was so much better for that. She was living close to the poverty line with something like three kids, of which at least one was going to be college age soon. She was in despair because she was so poor and she would really like to retire in the next 10 years or so with a cabin on the side of a lake.
So, her answer is to give money to the Church! As she gives more and more of her monthly salary, the "happier" she gets. She starts going on volunteer missionary trips, and saving less and less of her money. She's so happy now. And at the end, they say something like, "So what about that cabin on the lake? She's still looking forward to getting it, someday."
Please. Her kids aren't going to have money for college. She won't be able to retire on the lake anytime soon. And she's probably living paycheck to paycheck without any savings to speak of. Let's see just how happy she is when one of her kids gets a broken leg or can't even afford community college. Statistically speaking, U.S. society might actually benefit a great deal if all those evangelists were dragged into the street and shot.
You've completely missed the point (as the two British responses to your post already explain). Paper ballots are more than adequate to have fast results, in a matter of hours, as many other countries have shown.
You're right. I didn't catch that point. I thought your mention of the President not getting into office for months implied that the ballot counting could take that long.
Speed in counting? Who needs it? It's not like the offcials take office the day after the election anyway -- hell, the President has to wait two and a half frickin' months. Why the rush to have an instantly-countable system?
Talk to a stock broker or investment advisor. Ask a biotech company, or the aerospace industry. Military contractors. International companies. International trading partners.
Maybe you don't plan more than 24 hours ahead, but the majority of who make our current society run the way it does do plan months and years in advance. Knowing who is going to be the next President as soon as possible makes a big difference. Take a look at how the stock market performed on the days when the Florida fiasco took place. There is a real reason the market reacted that way.
What about the hardware? Your software needs to be run in a secure physical environment as well. Does your project home page address this issue? Are there specific communication requirements necessary for your authentication and data integrity checks? Are you also using hardware to double-check these checks, as software can be tampered with?
Your statement is like saying "Why should I ever bother having sex when I have porn instead? Then I can have an orgasm whenever it is convenient."
How about, "Why should I ever bother having sex with a prostitute when I can have sex with someone I love instead? Then the experience will be much more enjoyable and meaningful." Concerts are loud, crowded, hot, sweaty, and smelly.
Okay, I'm taking the analogy in wrong places. But oh well.
Wow, 2.8224 MHz. After all, what would a concert recording be like if it couldn't accurately reproduce the entire AM radio band, at least one HAM radio band, the WWV time signal, the WWVB time signal, and half the maritime and aviation bands along with the musical performance?
He needs it that fast because he thinks his auditory sensitivity is that way now, after all the speed, LSD, heroin, and crack he's taken. Must be somehow related to his hallucination's pixel size and image resolution.
How do you prevent one of your friends from bringing along one of the artist's CDs and playing it over and over again in the car?
If you fit the stereotypical/.er profile, all you have to do is threaten to take off your clothes for the duration of the drive. That should work, especially if you're a coder who doesn't shower often.
Would be an interesting situation where one could get an artist's release from two different labels, so there would be real competition between them.
So, which label would be the one in charge of footing the bill for production, studio time, payment advances, marketing, etc.?
I think you've really got the wrong business model in your head. A better comparison is going toward the deadtree book model (which, I think, is ultimately where this will have to end up--the Hollywood model is also dying, first they lost control over the actors, now they are losing control over the audience).
And I've never once been contacted about being paid directly for MP3 or other downloadable copies of my songs. No one has ever offered some fair price for a non-CD version of my music. But plenty of people have told me that they downloaded my music off Kazaa or WinMX and thought it was pretty cool, thanks for writing it, but no I won't buy a CD, hey, why are you getting mad at me?
Not everyone is like this, BTW. I got exposure to some of my favorite artists at MP3.com (before it sucked and now the top stream plays back the Top 40). I downloaded their songs. I later on bought their CDs. Might not have been anytime soon after downloading the songs in MP3 format, but I eventually bought them.
Some examples: PPK, Fisher. Others I intend to buy: Red Delicious (last I checked their site, they were still working on their "real" CD; I don't want so much an MP3 CD), Heather Nova (she was on there at one time, I'm pretty sure), Natasha's Ghost.
What's so good about concerts? I like to own music, so that I can play it whenever it is convenient.
I have to second this, although for a slightly different reason than the convenience of playback on-demand, although that is something I do like.
When I listen to music, and I really want to appreciate it, I close my eyes and do not do anything else. I listen to the different sounds, samples, voices, etc. I can listen to the same song several times and each time hear something different depending on how I listen (because your brain can only really focus on one audio input at a time, including mixed audio).
Put in Blue Man Group's DVD-Audio disc "Audio". Play some music from Gatecrasher. Chemical Brothers. The same thing can be said for a Suzanne Vega song. Tatu.
I've seen The Crystal Method live. It was great, but it would have been even better if I those 10,000 other people weren't there. And I did close my eyes while dancing and listening to their performance (much to the consternation of those within a few feet of me).
It can be very hard to appreciate music at a concert, just as it can be hard to appreciate a movie in the theater because of all those other people around you and other distractions. Home theater is much better in my opinion.
In Canada CD prices range from ~$14.99[Cdn.] - $21.99[Cdn.] ($21.99[Cdn.] being those rare expensive collectors or double CD's).
So...who's up for a CD-run? Sounds like a good opportunity for Canadian retailers to make a buck off U.S. "tourists" the same way the pharmacies and drug stores are. I could save a bunch of money that way, with all the CDs and multi-disc sets I have on my wish list.
What the clerk says and what the law says are usually two different things. Go and read your local Sale of Goods Act.
Um, I would think that if the clerk tells you that Betamax won't play in your VHS VCR, and you buy it anyway, then you don't have any legal right to return it for a refund just because you bought it anyway and tried to jam the tape into your VCR.
That's like complaining that you can't play a DVD because you only have a CD player. And the clerk told you that before you bought it.
I'm sure he's busy running a big frickin magnet over his hard drive(s) right about now...
Oh, you are so a script kiddie. Any serious cracker knows you gotta cook your drive, preferably in a fireplace. Don't have one? Boil it (you don't want to just cook it over the stove coils or on a sauce pan because that will just start a fire).
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Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. [snip] Plugins are like offering 'plugin upgrades' for cars. When your car gets slow, plug in a 'turbo' upgrade.. sure, it makes the car fast again, but your engine was busted up anyway, and you should just get a new one.
Plug-ins are much more like software patches. When a plug-in software system identifies a plug-in, it loads it into memory and installs a hook that forces code to follow one path instead of another. Very similar to how you might tell your print manager to print to a Postscript printer instead of a document on your hard disk.
Plug-ins have absolutely nothing to do with open standards versus closed standards. You are simply making that association yourself. Adobe Photoshop might use a plug-in to support SVG. Mozilla might use a plug-in to support the display of Excel spreadsheets. The software I wrote might talk to UPS via XML when using one plug-in, or FedEx via HTTP GET using another.
No, they would be built directly into the browser (DOM and CSS2 already are). That's the advantage of open standards.
There is no real difference between built-in and plug-in. A plug-in is essentially a patch for a piece of software. So that instead of some code going down one path, it sort of takes a detour and goes down another path. Open standards have nothing to do with it.
For you who hate Microsoft and hate the abuse of patents, do you know which side to take?
Hate leads to the dark side. I know which side I'm on.
One thing which I haven't seen mentioned is how you would license a 3-year-old child. Anyone with small children and a computer is likely to understand that children at this age are already capable of using the computer to learn. Educational software is an existing market.
"Grown-up" software has moved into the online realm because of the opportunities it offers in improving the user experience and program functionality. I would not be surprised to start seeing children's software do the same, although we're not there yet. Plus, children are learning more advanced topics at younger ages (well, at least some children are, Apple IIe anyone?) and it only makes sense for this to continue. I learned about modems, BBSes, and online research when I was maybe 8? Whenever 386s were top-of-the-line.
Also, what exactly does going online mean? If I pop in a DVD, it might take me to a web site. If I install some game software, it might register over my Internet connection. If I type www.dizney.com instead of www.disney.com, am I in trouble? Does using a computer now require a parental lock-out password to prevent unlicensed children from sending any packets over the wire? How does that work if my child's home directories are stored on a file server that is also my DNS server? Does the password and its behavior live on the file server?
I'm planning on purchasing a 2004 Toyota Prius this fall, when I move to California. The 2004 series has an AT-PZEV (advanced technology partial zero emissions vehicle) rating in California, and also qualifies me to park at meters for free and use the carpool lane with only me in it.
The 2004 model is very different from the 2003 model, and I would not have purchased the 2003 model (instead opting for a Honda Insight or Honda Civic GX). But the 2004 model has that much lower emissions rating and gets around 55mpg average, which is on par with the Honda Insight. The old Prius averaged 46mph according to EV World. It also has a larger size, moving it out of the compact and into the mid-size category. It also performs as well as a non-hybrid/electric car, according to people who have test drove it. It has a range of ~550 miles on a full tank.
The feature set is also very impressive--much better than that of the Insight or Civic GX, for the same $20k price range. I plan on getting bluetooth and the JBL six-speaker setup, at least. There's also the automatic parking feature, although I'm not sure if that will be available in the U.S.
The nice thing about the Civic GX is that it runs on natural gas. If you buy the Phill, partly financed by Honda, you can refuel in your own garage. But you don't have as much range as a Civic Hybrid. The Civic GX is also AT-PZEV, along with the Civic Hybrid. Unfortunately the automatic Insight is only SULEV, and the manual Insight, which gets better mileage, is only ULEV.
If you're only going to commute, then I might suggest the Twike. You'll have to custom order it, but if I only needed to commute then that's what I'd get. Unfortunately it is also $20k. The Tango is not yet available.
Open Mash was funded for a while by the NSF, a common source of academic funding. I'm not sure if you and your colleagues are in an academic setting, but the Open Mash web site does have the proposals and reviews of those proposals available on the site. Check out the Papers and Publications area.
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking when you talk about measuring the results of an open source project for publication. But any proposal would have to talk about why the project you are proposing has value in-line with the goals of the committee or group you are submitting the proposal to. Knowing exactly what those goals are can be difficult. This is one of those situations where you really have to tailor your writing to the specific reader(s).
Seems as though Nokia has an entire line of Mediamaster products. Also notable is the inclusion of RS-232 ports on the products. That means you can control them off a computer or other devices. Anyone know if Nokia makes such control devices?
Most religions are quite happy to extort the poor as well....
This reminds me of a TV evangelist thing I saw once. They did a profile on this one woman who started giving like 50% of her monthly income to the Church and how she was so much better for that. She was living close to the poverty line with something like three kids, of which at least one was going to be college age soon. She was in despair because she was so poor and she would really like to retire in the next 10 years or so with a cabin on the side of a lake.
So, her answer is to give money to the Church! As she gives more and more of her monthly salary, the "happier" she gets. She starts going on volunteer missionary trips, and saving less and less of her money. She's so happy now. And at the end, they say something like, "So what about that cabin on the lake? She's still looking forward to getting it, someday."
Please. Her kids aren't going to have money for college. She won't be able to retire on the lake anytime soon. And she's probably living paycheck to paycheck without any savings to speak of. Let's see just how happy she is when one of her kids gets a broken leg or can't even afford community college. Statistically speaking, U.S. society might actually benefit a great deal if all those evangelists were dragged into the street and shot.
I've got ~3200 songs using up ~16GB of the 18GB formatted disk space on my 20GB iPod. All songs are legal.
You've completely missed the point (as the two British responses to your post already explain). Paper ballots are more than adequate to have fast results, in a matter of hours, as many other countries have shown.
You're right. I didn't catch that point. I thought your mention of the President not getting into office for months implied that the ballot counting could take that long.
Speed in counting? Who needs it? It's not like the offcials take office the day after the election anyway -- hell, the President has to wait two and a half frickin' months. Why the rush to have an instantly-countable system?
Talk to a stock broker or investment advisor. Ask a biotech company, or the aerospace industry. Military contractors. International companies. International trading partners.
Maybe you don't plan more than 24 hours ahead, but the majority of who make our current society run the way it does do plan months and years in advance. Knowing who is going to be the next President as soon as possible makes a big difference. Take a look at how the stock market performed on the days when the Florida fiasco took place. There is a real reason the market reacted that way.
What about the hardware? Your software needs to be run in a secure physical environment as well. Does your project home page address this issue? Are there specific communication requirements necessary for your authentication and data integrity checks? Are you also using hardware to double-check these checks, as software can be tampered with?
Your statement is like saying "Why should I ever bother having sex when I have porn instead? Then I can have an orgasm whenever it is convenient."
How about, "Why should I ever bother having sex with a prostitute when I can have sex with someone I love instead? Then the experience will be much more enjoyable and meaningful." Concerts are loud, crowded, hot, sweaty, and smelly.
Okay, I'm taking the analogy in wrong places. But oh well.
Wow, 2.8224 MHz. After all, what would a concert recording be like if it couldn't accurately reproduce the entire AM radio band, at least one HAM radio band, the WWV time signal, the WWVB time signal, and half the maritime and aviation bands along with the musical performance?
He needs it that fast because he thinks his auditory sensitivity is that way now, after all the speed, LSD, heroin, and crack he's taken. Must be somehow related to his hallucination's pixel size and image resolution.
How do you prevent one of your friends from bringing along one of the artist's CDs and playing it over and over again in the car?
/.er profile, all you have to do is threaten to take off your clothes for the duration of the drive. That should work, especially if you're a coder who doesn't shower often.
If you fit the stereotypical
Would be an interesting situation where one could get an artist's release from two different labels, so there would be real competition between them.
So, which label would be the one in charge of footing the bill for production, studio time, payment advances, marketing, etc.?
I think you've really got the wrong business model in your head. A better comparison is going toward the deadtree book model (which, I think, is ultimately where this will have to end up--the Hollywood model is also dying, first they lost control over the actors, now they are losing control over the audience).
And I've never once been contacted about being paid directly for MP3 or other downloadable copies of my songs. No one has ever offered some fair price for a non-CD version of my music. But plenty of people have told me that they downloaded my music off Kazaa or WinMX and thought it was pretty cool, thanks for writing it, but no I won't buy a CD, hey, why are you getting mad at me?
Not everyone is like this, BTW. I got exposure to some of my favorite artists at MP3.com (before it sucked and now the top stream plays back the Top 40). I downloaded their songs. I later on bought their CDs. Might not have been anytime soon after downloading the songs in MP3 format, but I eventually bought them.
Some examples: PPK, Fisher. Others I intend to buy: Red Delicious (last I checked their site, they were still working on their "real" CD; I don't want so much an MP3 CD), Heather Nova (she was on there at one time, I'm pretty sure), Natasha's Ghost.
What's so good about concerts? I like to own music, so that I can play it whenever it is convenient.
I have to second this, although for a slightly different reason than the convenience of playback on-demand, although that is something I do like.
When I listen to music, and I really want to appreciate it, I close my eyes and do not do anything else. I listen to the different sounds, samples, voices, etc. I can listen to the same song several times and each time hear something different depending on how I listen (because your brain can only really focus on one audio input at a time, including mixed audio).
Put in Blue Man Group's DVD-Audio disc "Audio". Play some music from Gatecrasher. Chemical Brothers. The same thing can be said for a Suzanne Vega song. Tatu.
I've seen The Crystal Method live. It was great, but it would have been even better if I those 10,000 other people weren't there. And I did close my eyes while dancing and listening to their performance (much to the consternation of those within a few feet of me).
It can be very hard to appreciate music at a concert, just as it can be hard to appreciate a movie in the theater because of all those other people around you and other distractions. Home theater is much better in my opinion.
In Canada CD prices range from ~$14.99[Cdn.] - $21.99[Cdn.] ($21.99[Cdn.] being those rare expensive collectors or double CD's).
So...who's up for a CD-run? Sounds like a good opportunity for Canadian retailers to make a buck off U.S. "tourists" the same way the pharmacies and drug stores are. I could save a bunch of money that way, with all the CDs and multi-disc sets I have on my wish list.
What the clerk says and what the law says are usually two different things. Go and read your local Sale of Goods Act.
Um, I would think that if the clerk tells you that Betamax won't play in your VHS VCR, and you buy it anyway, then you don't have any legal right to return it for a refund just because you bought it anyway and tried to jam the tape into your VCR.
That's like complaining that you can't play a DVD because you only have a CD player. And the clerk told you that before you bought it.
Power outages. Your RAM disk would get hosed. :P Assuming you didn't invest in a UPS, that is.
I'd think you would just do your evil from a RAM disk, then no worries.
Unless you live in the U.S. (or now the U.K.).
I'm sure he's busy running a big frickin magnet over his hard drive(s) right about now...
Oh, you are so a script kiddie. Any serious cracker knows you gotta cook your drive, preferably in a fireplace. Don't have one? Boil it (you don't want to just cook it over the stove coils or on a sauce pan because that will just start a fire).
So, does the person who guesses closest receive a free copy of the 2.6 kernel?
e is an irrational number. How do you get e possible choices for a single digit?