I tried it on my Windows PC (Firefox 1.5). All of a sudden the menus and URL bar would not work properly. I type in a URL and it takes me to my homepage... I wanted to synch with my Mac mini, and now that machine is locked up where I can't hardly use the mouse, and I can't even close down Firefox! Very weird stuff.
Finally it would not synch anything for me. It kept giving me different errors related to how I have too much data, or to "try again later". Maybe their servers are being hit hard now.
I am uninstalling this stuff, maybe some time in the future I will reinstall when they have fixed the problems...
For example, do you think Google will ever use Freenet in some manner?
I wish there was a way that I could view websites without giving any IP or client information. However, that kind of information is important to webmasters and business.
This has been done before, as a previous post links. NOT an original idea. Also, I'd be more impressed if this thing was electric. Driving around with a 2-cycle lawnmower engine doesn't sound very... high tech or comfortable. Whatever... hope they enjoy their geeky short-term fame which is not deserved.
This has to be one of the dumbest Ask Slashdots ever posted.
Why release a version of your software's code that is useless to everyone outside of your organization? Just to confuse people who end up downloading your code? Just post the newest code without the dependencies. Duh!
BTW, thanks for making your code open source. I hope the code is a lot better than this question.
Good post, and I know what you mean. That is why it would probably take someone like Google to pull it off correctly. I sure can't do it:-P Nor can Fox.
Oh, I forgot about the insane music band part of the site. Most band profiles are just fans postings and then a link to the band's website. I am always getting spammed by unknown bands want to be my 'friend'. Decline, decline, decline.
I use MySpace regularly, mostly to meet chicks in my area (and it doesn't work all that well, but it's free), but I don't trust the site to hold a lot of formal personal information about me; just informal stuff.
Fox purchased MySpace, and I wish it was someone else like Google. The site is a mess with all sorts of useability and performance problems. It would be nice if someone just setup a good new framework for it, and then "imported" everyone's crap into it. The current MySpace framework is like some student's school project grown out-of-control. Maybe it is.
So anyways, it's really 'Not My Space' for a lot of people. Just a place to waste time. I wouldn't expect it to become somemore more than that.
AJaX (Asychronous JavaScript for XML) is a Microsoft-originated hack to basically hang open a HTTP connection that receives events containing XML. It is a hack MS invented for web-based Outlook. Unfortunately it is now the hot new thing.
It takes very smart people at MS, Yahoo, Google, etc to make complex AJaX applications actually work well. It takes only a kiddie to get simple AJaX to work. The middle ground where there are mediocre programmers/web developers building medium-sized AJaX applications is where this will all fail in the end. The only saving grace would be some very smart and solid libraries built into web-apps, but I still have my doubts over the long term.
Mozilla and Apple worked together to create a element for doing bitmap drawing into web pages. I would suggest that they work together again to create something far beyond what AJaX can do. I am talking about something on the scale of melding Jabber IM, HTTP server (Apache of course), and the web browser together into a smart, extendable, standardized (Jabber is IETF), and revolutionary framework. Apple even supports Jabber already in their OS X Server and clients so they believe in half of the technology that I am proposing already.
For example, imagine if you logged into Slashdot and the account behind it all was Jabber. The resource would be the web session. You can go across pages and it doesn't matter on what "page" an open socket is created because it's existing at a lower level. Events are sent back to the browser and the browser determines from the XML on what to do with the data. It could update a section of the page to post a new story, a new comment could be added dynamically, a sidebar could be updated, etc. Your account could also integrate with Jabber clients so Slashdot users can IM each other via the same account, just a different resource. That is only a small, simple example of what would be possible.
Yet, 90% of browsers are still IE. However, don't killer apps fix problems such as this? I believe the web browser + Jabber could be a killer app.
P.S. It's time for HTML to be upgraded or replaced to make rich web interfaces easier and accessible. How about XUL? About about WhatWG? These things would make our life much easier as developers and users. JavaScript too, needs a kick in the butt. It's time to make some awesome web sites that say "This website requires something other than IE. Here are your options..." Make the tide turn.
P.P.S. To accomplish the above goals, we may need to think beyond what we know as a website with web pages. Maybe something better thought of as a "web experience".
Here (sorry no direct link) is the product website. It can play compressed MPEG4. What I have to do is rip a DVD to MPEG4. Then I use Cowan's software to properly compress and resize the movie (160 x 128) for the X5. The movies get down to about 100 MB in size, so many movies can fit on its 20 GB mini hard drive. On my Athlon 64 notebook, the entire process takes 4 HOURS:-(
The screen is small, so it's better to NOT have the widescreen version of a movie. It just makes the movie even smaller. However, the small screen is still good enough to watch a movie when you are desperate for something to do on a plane or something.
In the future I am sure there will be players with higher quality video playback and video out. That way you can plug in into your hotel room TV or something.
This thing zooms by way too fast! It was done before I had a chance to resize my window! Play at half or even quarter speed to get a better experience.
I have been doing web development since 1995. 10 years already! Every day that goes by, the more frustrated I get that HTML/JavaScript has not evolved into something better. Microsoft has been hold things this back with their marketshare and lack of interest in making web development better.
HTML is too basic for complex web apps. There needs to be more widgets to work with, such as menus and tabs. Something like Mozilla's XUL.
JavaScript was not designed for complex, large applications. We need a JavaScript 2 or something better to move forward.
Until HTML/JavaScript are upgraded, don't expect normal web developers to build great web apps. It takes some brains (like the ones at Google) to hack together a complex AJAX application.
The development builds supports SVG already. There has been basically a broken implementation around for a while, but they rewrote the SVG back-end for Mozilla 1.5. Link here.
SVG in Mozilla should really rock when they get Cairo implemented! Its Mozilla's bridge to OpenGL 2D acceleration.
Do you like to write code? Do you like to do analysis and design of systems? Which one do you like better?
I think that I would find Systems Engineering boring. Of course, I am a Software Engineer.
If you are in defense contracting, get the highest clearance level that you can, preferably T.S. That will give you more job security and demand on the contracting market if you do need a new job. That is way more important that Software or Systems engineer.
IMHO, you all should be worrying about your computer jobs over the next 10 years, EXCEPT in defense because they can't outsource classified projects to India.
Not the physical size, but the storage capacity. Leave it to PSP and let's come up with something better. How about a 3 inch double-density DVD product? Would be about 2.8 Gig. And it's already standardized.
My prediction is the Dean will surprise all his critics over the next 4 years as a calm, rational, focused, and successful leader. Why? Because he is a calm, rational, focused, and successful person.
The reason why Dean exploded the way he did is because the media turned against him because he was "unelectable". It was a bunch of bullshit because he was not your typical "say only what you want to hear" politician. I think people in this country would have been smart enough to see that, and it would not have been a landslide win for Bush like the media said it would be. Unfortuntly the media has a lot of effect on the primary elections.
I gave $100 to the Dean campaign, and I do not regret it. That money indirectly helped him become the chair of the DNC, and I am very happy to see it.
BTW, at the Iowa Caucus (I was there) Dean had at least 3x as many people there as Kerry. To be honest, I am still a little amazed how quickly things fell apart.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried it on my Windows PC (Firefox 1.5). All of a sudden the menus and URL bar would not work properly. I type in a URL and it takes me to my homepage... I wanted to synch with my Mac mini, and now that machine is locked up where I can't hardly use the mouse, and I can't even close down Firefox! Very weird stuff.
Finally it would not synch anything for me. It kept giving me different errors related to how I have too much data, or to "try again later". Maybe their servers are being hit hard now.
I am uninstalling this stuff, maybe some time in the future I will reinstall when they have fixed the problems...
Porn! It would fit well into the BBC website main page. Please no British chicks...
So are they able to program their code with their application now?
For example, do you think Google will ever use Freenet in some manner?
I wish there was a way that I could view websites without giving any IP or client information. However, that kind of information is important to webmasters and business.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we could somehow genetically reengineer Home Erectus and revive the species? Imagine how much we would learn.
This has been done before, as a previous post links. NOT an original idea. Also, I'd be more impressed if this thing was electric. Driving around with a 2-cycle lawnmower engine doesn't sound very... high tech or comfortable. Whatever... hope they enjoy their geeky short-term fame which is not deserved.
This has to be one of the dumbest Ask Slashdots ever posted.
Why release a version of your software's code that is useless to everyone outside of your organization? Just to confuse people who end up downloading your code? Just post the newest code without the dependencies. Duh!
BTW, thanks for making your code open source. I hope the code is a lot better than this question.
Good post, and I know what you mean. That is why it would probably take someone like Google to pull it off correctly. I sure can't do it :-P Nor can Fox.
Oh, I forgot about the insane music band part of the site. Most band profiles are just fans postings and then a link to the band's website. I am always getting spammed by unknown bands want to be my 'friend'. Decline, decline, decline.
I use MySpace regularly, mostly to meet chicks in my area (and it doesn't work all that well, but it's free), but I don't trust the site to hold a lot of formal personal information about me; just informal stuff.
Fox purchased MySpace, and I wish it was someone else like Google. The site is a mess with all sorts of useability and performance problems. It would be nice if someone just setup a good new framework for it, and then "imported" everyone's crap into it. The current MySpace framework is like some student's school project grown out-of-control. Maybe it is.
So anyways, it's really 'Not My Space' for a lot of people. Just a place to waste time. I wouldn't expect it to become somemore more than that.
AJaX (Asychronous JavaScript for XML) is a Microsoft-originated hack to basically hang open a HTTP connection that receives events containing XML. It is a hack MS invented for web-based Outlook. Unfortunately it is now the hot new thing.
It takes very smart people at MS, Yahoo, Google, etc to make complex AJaX applications actually work well. It takes only a kiddie to get simple AJaX to work. The middle ground where there are mediocre programmers/web developers building medium-sized AJaX applications is where this will all fail in the end. The only saving grace would be some very smart and solid libraries built into web-apps, but I still have my doubts over the long term.
Mozilla and Apple worked together to create a element for doing bitmap drawing into web pages. I would suggest that they work together again to create something far beyond what AJaX can do. I am talking about something on the scale of melding Jabber IM, HTTP server (Apache of course), and the web browser together into a smart, extendable, standardized (Jabber is IETF), and revolutionary framework. Apple even supports Jabber already in their OS X Server and clients so they believe in half of the technology that I am proposing already.
For example, imagine if you logged into Slashdot and the account behind it all was Jabber. The resource would be the web session. You can go across pages and it doesn't matter on what "page" an open socket is created because it's existing at a lower level. Events are sent back to the browser and the browser determines from the XML on what to do with the data. It could update a section of the page to post a new story, a new comment could be added dynamically, a sidebar could be updated, etc. Your account could also integrate with Jabber clients so Slashdot users can IM each other via the same account, just a different resource. That is only a small, simple example of what would be possible.
Yet, 90% of browsers are still IE. However, don't killer apps fix problems such as this? I believe the web browser + Jabber could be a killer app.
P.S. It's time for HTML to be upgraded or replaced to make rich web interfaces easier and accessible. How about XUL? About about WhatWG? These things would make our life much easier as developers and users. JavaScript too, needs a kick in the butt. It's time to make some awesome web sites that say "This website requires something other than IE. Here are your options..." Make the tide turn.
P.P.S. To accomplish the above goals, we may need to think beyond what we know as a website with web pages. Maybe something better thought of as a "web experience".
Eric
Here (sorry no direct link) is the product website. It can play compressed MPEG4. What I have to do is rip a DVD to MPEG4. Then I use Cowan's software to properly compress and resize the movie (160 x 128) for the X5. The movies get down to about 100 MB in size, so many movies can fit on its 20 GB mini hard drive. On my Athlon 64 notebook, the entire process takes 4 HOURS :-(
The screen is small, so it's better to NOT have the widescreen version of a movie. It just makes the movie even smaller. However, the small screen is still good enough to watch a movie when you are desperate for something to do on a plane or something.
In the future I am sure there will be players with higher quality video playback and video out. That way you can plug in into your hotel room TV or something.
This thing zooms by way too fast! It was done before I had a chance to resize my window! Play at half or even quarter speed to get a better experience.
This one looks pretty sweet! I didn't even know these existed...
This reminds me of JavaScript 2.0 that Mozilla was working on a while back. I think it's dead in the water right now.
Well, all we can do right now is dream, or use Flash... lol.
I have been doing web development since 1995. 10 years already! Every day that goes by, the more frustrated I get that HTML/JavaScript has not evolved into something better. Microsoft has been hold things this back with their marketshare and lack of interest in making web development better.
HTML is too basic for complex web apps. There needs to be more widgets to work with, such as menus and tabs. Something like Mozilla's XUL.
JavaScript was not designed for complex, large applications. We need a JavaScript 2 or something better to move forward.
Until HTML/JavaScript are upgraded, don't expect normal web developers to build great web apps. It takes some brains (like the ones at Google) to hack together a complex AJAX application.
The development builds supports SVG already. There has been basically a broken implementation around for a while, but they rewrote the SVG back-end for Mozilla 1.5. Link here.
SVG in Mozilla should really rock when they get Cairo implemented! Its Mozilla's bridge to OpenGL 2D acceleration.
Do you like to write code? Do you like to do analysis and design of systems? Which one do you like better?
I think that I would find Systems Engineering boring. Of course, I am a Software Engineer.
If you are in defense contracting, get the highest clearance level that you can, preferably T.S. That will give you more job security and demand on the contracting market if you do need a new job. That is way more important that Software or Systems engineer.
IMHO, you all should be worrying about your computer jobs over the next 10 years, EXCEPT in defense because they can't outsource classified projects to India.
bla.com: u/xyz p/abc
yada.com: u/abc p/def
bbb.com: u/def p/ghi
K.I.S.S. Why do anything more complex?
By double-density, I meant dual-layer. Oops, these are not floppies :-)
Not the physical size, but the storage capacity. Leave it to PSP and let's come up with something better. How about a 3 inch double-density DVD product? Would be about 2.8 Gig. And it's already standardized.
LOL. Good one. I work on Ada code for gov't systems.
My prediction is the Dean will surprise all his critics over the next 4 years as a calm, rational, focused, and successful leader. Why? Because he is a calm, rational, focused, and successful person.
The reason why Dean exploded the way he did is because the media turned against him because he was "unelectable". It was a bunch of bullshit because he was not your typical "say only what you want to hear" politician. I think people in this country would have been smart enough to see that, and it would not have been a landslide win for Bush like the media said it would be. Unfortuntly the media has a lot of effect on the primary elections.
I gave $100 to the Dean campaign, and I do not regret it. That money indirectly helped him become the chair of the DNC, and I am very happy to see it.
BTW, at the Iowa Caucus (I was there) Dean had at least 3x as many people there as Kerry. To be honest, I am still a little amazed how quickly things fell apart.
Thanks for the MacWeek mug from several years ago. I still have it.
Why rent a car? I would love to take my own car on the train with me. That would be awesome.
:-(
Unfortunatly passenger trains of any type have a bad reputation here in the US. Mag-lev trains will probably never "take off"