I totally agree. From the sounds of it, Apple is providing complete files, not diffs or patch sets, so that the Konq. team can't follow what's going on.
However, it seems entirely feasible, that the Konq. team could take the complete files from Apple, and the complete up-to-date CVS files, and run a diff against them, with options to find a common ancestor.
Sure, might not be as easy, but the Open Source development process may not be what Apple needs to use internally to develop WebCore. So, they can't easily supply patches/diffs back to the Konq. team. I don't want to apologize for Apple, but we in the OSS community need to be happy that Apple is deciding to "reuse" what many believe is a great product, and that they're improving it and abiding by the LGPL.
All-in-all, this is great. Let's do what can be done to get things back into Konq. land. Also, I'm not sure to what extent the Konq. team has tried advocacy w/ Apple to try to get them to be more neighborly. Apple as a company may seem like a behemoth, but internally, they still have developers that are just like any other developers, they want to do good things, by and large. Let's reach out to them, maybe put a little more effort into it than we usually would.
Note that at the moment, there is no such thing as mobile WiMAX, as would be used in a hand held device or laptop. A working group is 'working' on the specs for this, due out later this year ('05). Until that comes along, we won't really have a clue what the benefits/limitations of WiMAX on a portable device will be.
In its current incarnation, WiMAX is meant to replace DSL/cable for "the last mile" - so, to the extent that your house is portable, so is this.
Yep, agreed. Also supposed to handle overload at the base station much better than 802.11, and I think everyone can say 'Amen' to that being an improvement!
Read on... the Wikipedia article also states that what this means is that subscriber stations only compete for initial connection to the base station (versus always, for 802.11) and thereafter, they are alloted a scheduled segment to use, which all subscribers are supposed to obey. The segments are managed by the base station and can be opened up or throttled back, and they can also take into account QoS for services coming from particular subscribers.
Actually, its also used by sites that use an ASP for site-statistics. Such as HBX (formerly Hitbox) by WebSideStory. These systems depend on cookies (and since they're set by the HBX servers, not by your site, they're third party). These ASPs provide accurate "visit" tracking, instead of just hits, page views, etc. Tracking a visit accurately does require some client-side involvement.
I can't say I particularly like it, but, it is a perfectly valid use of third party cookies.
I remember using Enlightenment, straight outta CVS back in '98/'99... as a matter of fact, I had an old Dell laptop (PII 266MHz) that was set to update E out of CVS nightly and recompile so every morning I had a fresh new (rarely broken) E install. Very sweet. And when I recall those days... many of these "neat things" that are being talked of, were available then... I remember a desktop toy that made it look like raindrops were falling... not a screensaver, lest anyone is confused... this was in realtime while the system was in use.
Very cool, and very smooth, even on that underpowered, unaccelerated hardware.
Burning of fossil fuels also emits water. If you ever get an older car with a carb instead of fuel injectors, turn the fuel mixture real rich and watch water just flow out the back... literally, flow, not as steam, as liquid water.
Yes, you're right. However, I think part of the parent post's point is that in Struts (and other frameworks), the framework has made it dead-easy to do this validation. Trivial, really. And every book and tutorial I've seen covers it, so really - there's no reason not to do it, even within the managed VM.
However, per your example, and my experiences, doing the same rigorous validation and manipulations in C is painful, quite.
This would require access to the private key that Verisign is using to sign the information. In all liklihood, this is a very, very guarded secret and the liklihood of reverse-engineering it from the key itself is likely null. My guess is that they're using 2048 bit RSA encryption... unlikely that this will be compromised any time soon.
Note, I'm not saying that this is a good idea, just responding to this on point!
My understanding (from watching a good deal of George Carlin), is that there is not specific legislation being enforced by the FCC concerning using 'indecent' words (and recently, ideas) in broadcast television (or radio, for that matter).
Now, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to Carlin, I was, after all, gripping my sides trying to stop from falling out of my seat - but, that's what I remember, at least.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a billion people are having sex, that's 500 million pairs. That works out to be only about about 17% of the world's population, by my calculation. Considering that around the world people have sex starting around age 13 in many cases, and people have sex well into retirement... that doesn't seem that far off for me.
Aww, c'mon... you honestly believe that they're independent? Next you're going to let us know that they're unbiased, right? And that they aren't beholden to anyone or any interests? Remember that these folks still need jobs when they leave office... much as with any appointed position.
That's pretty naive, I have to say. Don't forget that FCC rulings don't have to be (and haven't been of late) unanimous for the rulings to go into effect.
It is entirely chilling that the FCC is essentially deciding on issues of free-speech, and not the Supreme Court. Having such an agency to begin with is somewhat disturbing. Its one thing if they are essentially around to distribute broadcast spectrum and the like... another think entirely for them to be deciding on abstract principles such as decency.
All that you're really pointing out is that the current administration is quite competent in practicing "plausible deniability".
Saying things like "You're either with us or against us" implies the notion of being 'un-American' or 'un-Patriotic'. However, you could be right, the current administration may never have actually uttered those words... plausible deniability.
This seemed suspicious to me, too. Might wanna run that past H&R Block before the IRS figures it out for you.
No business expenses are tax-deductible, to my knowledge, if you are a W-2 employee for a company. That includes broadband, cell phone, mileage, etc.
At least, that's my understanding - and while I'm not a CPA, I'd think that being able to write-off broadband from your taxes would be a well-known fact on Slashdot, of all places... and I've never seen it come up in the past 6 yrs.
Honda or Toyota has a parking aid that they sell as an option on some of their vehicles in Japan (only) that does much the same. I don't think you can get out of the car first, but in practice, you probably wouldn't anyway.
I would have liked to see this park in a more difficult spot, too.. like a crowded Chicago side street:)
How much is this tied to the speed of the storage medium? I'm talking the secure digital, smartmedia, compact flash, memory stick, etc. I ask because I've recently been looking into getting another digital camera and Sandisk (probably others, too) now sell an "Ultra II" compactflash card that has sustained read/write speeds somewhere in the vicinity of 10MB/s - which is phenomenally faster than standard compactflash. At this point, is the Belkin reader the bottleneck or would it support the max speed of the media its reading?
Its sweet, seriously sweet. I have it installed and it is absolutely identical to the Mac version - down to every last detail that I've been able to find. Playlists, last played, ratings, Music Store - I can sign in with my.Mac account - everything's there. I just ripped Sting's newest CD, Sacred Love, to AAC at 224Kbps, absolutely excellent. I was getting ~14x ripping off a virtual CD driver - not sure what my speed will be off the built-in drive on my Thinkpad.
Well, it rips CDs to MP3/AAC/AIFF/WAV from CD, burns CDs, compiles smart playlists, accesses the iTunes Music Store, displays visual graphics as music is playing, etc.
So, I'd say it does a bit more than a "simple network file retrieving application" - never mind that a Win2K/XP machine with less than 256MB RAM is going to be awfully painful (my Thinkpad had only 384MB and it was painful if I tried to actually use multiple apps simultaneously).
A similarly eqipped G4 is $1299. The low-end G5 is only running $1999. I admire the company for reviving what I've always considered to be a sweet CPU enclosure, but c'mon... that's a bit pricey!
Especially in regards to pop-up blocking, remember that AOL/TW depends on advertising in many areas of its corporate structure. Pop-up blocking is NOT an area that AOL/TW wants to tout, for this reason. Good for the consumer, yes... but the consumer isn't the primary source of income for them.
So, I guess what really should happen is Apple should take a new G5, load it up with Darwin (not the full OSX) - then take Intel boxes and load them up with Darwin as well (since it runs on x86, if I recall correctly). Compile KDE/GNOME/etc. for both, then compare performance of the two side-by-side.
Problem with this is that it would satisfy the geeks, not the designers and home users that Apple would like to market to as well (despite this being announced at WWDC). For them, something that compares Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, etc. and then maybe the performance of Safari v. IE 6, Office X v. Office XP, etc. - this is what other folks want to see. Never mind the gamers that'll want to see comparisons of Unreal Tournament play at insane resolutions;)
Just my $0.02... take it or leave it. This is from a guy who builds his servers by hand, with an AMD system, a dual P3 system, and a P75 firewall - but does all his work on a 400MHz G3 iMac. Its all about what you get for what you pay - and how much that's worth to YOU.
Just an FYI, practically every OS I've been on (including Win2K/XP and Linux) - and I've been a Linux zealot for over 7 years - has issues with mounts disappearing. Same goes for Solaris, now that I think about it. So, not to rag on your post, just to say - it happens everywhere. I think its a HUGE issue and it definitely requires some attention!
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You must've been looking at *really* inexpensive bulbs!! Wow. The ones I've looked at often cost 1/2 the price of the original projector!
I totally agree. From the sounds of it, Apple is providing complete files, not diffs or patch sets, so that the Konq. team can't follow what's going on.
However, it seems entirely feasible, that the Konq. team could take the complete files from Apple, and the complete up-to-date CVS files, and run a diff against them, with options to find a common ancestor.
Sure, might not be as easy, but the Open Source development process may not be what Apple needs to use internally to develop WebCore. So, they can't easily supply patches/diffs back to the Konq. team. I don't want to apologize for Apple, but we in the OSS community need to be happy that Apple is deciding to "reuse" what many believe is a great product, and that they're improving it and abiding by the LGPL.
All-in-all, this is great. Let's do what can be done to get things back into Konq. land. Also, I'm not sure to what extent the Konq. team has tried advocacy w/ Apple to try to get them to be more neighborly. Apple as a company may seem like a behemoth, but internally, they still have developers that are just like any other developers, they want to do good things, by and large. Let's reach out to them, maybe put a little more effort into it than we usually would.
Its just a suggestion, flame away!
Note that at the moment, there is no such thing as mobile WiMAX, as would be used in a hand held device or laptop. A working group is 'working' on the specs for this, due out later this year ('05). Until that comes along, we won't really have a clue what the benefits/limitations of WiMAX on a portable device will be.
In its current incarnation, WiMAX is meant to replace DSL/cable for "the last mile" - so, to the extent that your house is portable, so is this.
Yep, agreed. Also supposed to handle overload at the base station much better than 802.11, and I think everyone can say 'Amen' to that being an improvement!
Read on ... the Wikipedia article also states that what this means is that subscriber stations only compete for initial connection to the base station (versus always, for 802.11) and thereafter, they are alloted a scheduled segment to use, which all subscribers are supposed to obey. The segments are managed by the base station and can be opened up or throttled back, and they can also take into account QoS for services coming from particular subscribers.
Actually, its also used by sites that use an ASP for site-statistics. Such as HBX (formerly Hitbox) by WebSideStory. These systems depend on cookies (and since they're set by the HBX servers, not by your site, they're third party). These ASPs provide accurate "visit" tracking, instead of just hits, page views, etc. Tracking a visit accurately does require some client-side involvement.
I can't say I particularly like it, but, it is a perfectly valid use of third party cookies.
I remember using Enlightenment, straight outta CVS back in '98/'99 ... as a matter of fact, I had an old Dell laptop (PII 266MHz) that was set to update E out of CVS nightly and recompile so every morning I had a fresh new (rarely broken) E install. Very sweet. And when I recall those days ... many of these "neat things" that are being talked of, were available then ... I remember a desktop toy that made it look like raindrops were falling ... not a screensaver, lest anyone is confused ... this was in realtime while the system was in use.
Very cool, and very smooth, even on that underpowered, unaccelerated hardware.
Cheers!
Burning of fossil fuels also emits water. If you ever get an older car with a carb instead of fuel injectors, turn the fuel mixture real rich and watch water just flow out the back ... literally, flow, not as steam, as liquid water.
Yes, you're right. However, I think part of the parent post's point is that in Struts (and other frameworks), the framework has made it dead-easy to do this validation. Trivial, really. And every book and tutorial I've seen covers it, so really - there's no reason not to do it, even within the managed VM.
However, per your example, and my experiences, doing the same rigorous validation and manipulations in C is painful, quite.
This would require access to the private key that Verisign is using to sign the information. In all liklihood, this is a very, very guarded secret and the liklihood of reverse-engineering it from the key itself is likely null. My guess is that they're using 2048 bit RSA encryption ... unlikely that this will be compromised any time soon.
Note, I'm not saying that this is a good idea, just responding to this on point!
Agreed
Bureaucracy is nasty, and most people don't have the slightest clue how it works.
And what many people don't understand, or don't want to believe, is that bureaucracy is specifically designed not to work.
My understanding (from watching a good deal of George Carlin), is that there is not specific legislation being enforced by the FCC concerning using 'indecent' words (and recently, ideas) in broadcast television (or radio, for that matter).
Now, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to Carlin, I was, after all, gripping my sides trying to stop from falling out of my seat - but, that's what I remember, at least.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a billion people are having sex, that's 500 million pairs. That works out to be only about about 17% of the world's population, by my calculation. Considering that around the world people have sex starting around age 13 in many cases, and people have sex well into retirement ... that doesn't seem that far off for me.
Aww, c'mon ... you honestly believe that they're independent? Next you're going to let us know that they're unbiased, right? And that they aren't beholden to anyone or any interests? Remember that these folks still need jobs when they leave office ... much as with any appointed position.
... another think entirely for them to be deciding on abstract principles such as decency.
That's pretty naive, I have to say. Don't forget that FCC rulings don't have to be (and haven't been of late) unanimous for the rulings to go into effect.
It is entirely chilling that the FCC is essentially deciding on issues of free-speech, and not the Supreme Court. Having such an agency to begin with is somewhat disturbing. Its one thing if they are essentially around to distribute broadcast spectrum and the like
All that you're really pointing out is that the current administration is quite competent in practicing "plausible deniability". Saying things like "You're either with us or against us" implies the notion of being 'un-American' or 'un-Patriotic'. However, you could be right, the current administration may never have actually uttered those words ... plausible deniability.
Millions?! I'd say that at least a billion people have sex every day, and that's probably a bad day. Don't you think?
This seemed suspicious to me, too. Might wanna run that past H&R Block before the IRS figures it out for you.
... and I've never seen it come up in the past 6 yrs.
No business expenses are tax-deductible, to my knowledge, if you are a W-2 employee for a company. That includes broadband, cell phone, mileage, etc.
At least, that's my understanding - and while I'm not a CPA, I'd think that being able to write-off broadband from your taxes would be a well-known fact on Slashdot, of all places
Honda or Toyota has a parking aid that they sell as an option on some of their vehicles in Japan (only) that does much the same. I don't think you can get out of the car first, but in practice, you probably wouldn't anyway.
.. like a crowded Chicago side street :)
I would have liked to see this park in a more difficult spot, too
How much is this tied to the speed of the storage medium? I'm talking the secure digital, smartmedia, compact flash, memory stick, etc. I ask because I've recently been looking into getting another digital camera and Sandisk (probably others, too) now sell an "Ultra II" compactflash card that has sustained read/write speeds somewhere in the vicinity of 10MB/s - which is phenomenally faster than standard compactflash. At this point, is the Belkin reader the bottleneck or would it support the max speed of the media its reading?
Its sweet, seriously sweet. I have it installed and it is absolutely identical to the Mac version - down to every last detail that I've been able to find. Playlists, last played, ratings, Music Store - I can sign in with my .Mac account - everything's there. I just ripped Sting's newest CD, Sacred Love, to AAC at 224Kbps, absolutely excellent. I was getting ~14x ripping off a virtual CD driver - not sure what my speed will be off the built-in drive on my Thinkpad.
Sweet, absolutely. Thank you!!
Well, it rips CDs to MP3/AAC/AIFF/WAV from CD, burns CDs, compiles smart playlists, accesses the iTunes Music Store, displays visual graphics as music is playing, etc.
So, I'd say it does a bit more than a "simple network file retrieving application" - never mind that a Win2K/XP machine with less than 256MB RAM is going to be awfully painful (my Thinkpad had only 384MB and it was painful if I tried to actually use multiple apps simultaneously).
A similarly eqipped G4 is $1299. The low-end G5 is only running $1999. I admire the company for reviving what I've always considered to be a sweet CPU enclosure, but c'mon ... that's a bit pricey!
Especially in regards to pop-up blocking, remember that AOL/TW depends on advertising in many areas of its corporate structure. Pop-up blocking is NOT an area that AOL/TW wants to tout, for this reason. Good for the consumer, yes ... but the consumer isn't the primary source of income for them.
So, I guess what really should happen is Apple should take a new G5, load it up with Darwin (not the full OSX) - then take Intel boxes and load them up with Darwin as well (since it runs on x86, if I recall correctly). Compile KDE/GNOME/etc. for both, then compare performance of the two side-by-side.
;)
... take it or leave it. This is from a guy who builds his servers by hand, with an AMD system, a dual P3 system, and a P75 firewall - but does all his work on a 400MHz G3 iMac. Its all about what you get for what you pay - and how much that's worth to YOU.
Problem with this is that it would satisfy the geeks, not the designers and home users that Apple would like to market to as well (despite this being announced at WWDC). For them, something that compares Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, etc. and then maybe the performance of Safari v. IE 6, Office X v. Office XP, etc. - this is what other folks want to see. Never mind the gamers that'll want to see comparisons of Unreal Tournament play at insane resolutions
Just my $0.02
Just an FYI, practically every OS I've been on (including Win2K/XP and Linux) - and I've been a Linux zealot for over 7 years - has issues with mounts disappearing. Same goes for Solaris, now that I think about it. So, not to rag on your post, just to say - it happens everywhere. I think its a HUGE issue and it definitely requires some attention!