Dynamic animations and images in Flash require no expensive server thing, as the client is very scriptable on it's own. The Flash player has a complete scriptable object model and is able to load data by itself.
For instance, if you wanted to build a widget to display stock quotes, you can produce a simple Flash movie and the XML to load into it. Your server requirements are any Web server and that's it.
I work in DC, just between the White House and the Capitol. Parking here is about $18 a day.
My original comment is for the uninitiated who aren't used to having their wallets emptied while looking for a humble place to park their car.
Speaking of wireless, however, I have seen a good bit of warchalking in other parts of the city - Canton, Highlandtown, I even saw some marks up on Bunker Hill. These are mostly residental areas, which is what surprised me. You can park free in any of those places, just look out for the stray Orioles fan jonesin' for a title.
Just in case you're thinking of going out to try this, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is notoriously expensive and you will be paying for access, just not to an ISP.
At most garages, it costs more than $10 to park, the restaurants in that area serve tasty but expensive food, moderately overpriced shopping stores surround consumers, and random Orioles fans, despondent over the team's performance, may accost you at any time in that area.
You would be better served going to Fells Point and playing video poker at any one of the dozens of bars.
The great thing about this software is that it could ultimately cut down on the cost of campaigns, lessening the need for big political donors and their influence on politics.
A former employer of mine was involved in developing Web communities for conservative clients, and the bill for his services is huge even by 1999 standards.
I could tell you the other side of the story, but then I would have to kill you, trace your IP address, physically destroy your computer, wipe out all your friends and relatives, and use a Titan-I-60 Orbital Optical Defense Platform to wipe out the county you live in.
The assumption that these bodies make terrible decisions regarding IT projects is just plain wrong. Decisions are simply not made in the government.
If there were decisions, as you claim, wouldn't that imply some responsible party was behind a decision, and thus could be held accountable for the outcome of a project? For that matter, wouldn't the absence of a responsible party precluse the existance of a decision in all positive expressions of the word?
The success or failure of a software project for the government can never be assigned to a single party, agency, institution or operating unit. While there may be documents which may have signatures and while financial transactions may be taking place, no one working for the federal government in any capacity ever made a choice between two or more courses of action in any meaningful way.
As a federal contractor with over 18 years experience designing systems for the federal government and the miliary, I understand how important it is to combat this notion there are people making decisions in federal IT work.
...if this proves to be the thing that lets us keep plugins in the public domain.
As a Flash developer, the idea that users would have to take some convoluted route to access a movie I made just so some fat jerk can get rich really ticks me off.
The U.S. Patent Office needs to get up to speed and stop issuing patents on trivial systems features. I mean, using sub-programs in programs is something I have done in C++ since the late 80s. WTF Why is a Web browser supposed to be so special a thing that someone can issue a patent on a standard engineering process?
The answer is simple: the cost will go up, and people will pay more for games. $50 a game may seem expensive now, but people will pay as much as the market will bear.
My 7 year old daughter loves to play PPG, Scooby Doo, and other games on the PS2. She has about 20 Game Boy games. In the last year, I have spent almost $1000 just on her on game addiction.
I never thought I would be buying video games again, but kids have a way of getting their parents to buy them things. Young adults have a way of buying things themselves. And older deviants cannot help their compulsive behavior. Thus, the market will sustain itself.
Of course, you are assuming this code was stolen and not put into the Linux kernel either a) mistakenly or b) as some sort of an IP trap. There have been a number of similar IP infringement cases where companies get to trial only to discover the claimant actually stole the code themselves.
Well, it stands to reason the richest, most prestigious individuals would be the ones to achieve immortality and then seek a monopoly over the technologies used to maintain it, functioning as a natural obstacle to those who do not enjoy similar privledges in life. The main thing I would expect to see, were immortality to become possible:
Windows 40,0000, the 64-googleflop operating operating system.
Oh yeah, we've got this going on in the federal government. We are standardized on Windows 98, but several prominent users are getting sick of BSOD / lost work and doing something about it.
Several directors at the agency I work for (not saying which) have taken an interest in Linux purely out of curiousity. I spend a lot of time answering questions from folks I usually never speak to, mostly about features of Gnome, and some of the people who work for them are starting to notice and do the same. About 10% of our laptops right now are linux or dual boot linux / Win98 machines.
I enjoy helping people understand the features of Linux (and don't take this next comment out of context), but it is really annoying when someone comes to you wanting to know all about this amazing new feature in Linux that is also present in Windows. For instance, someone recently told me Windows would be a lot more fabulous if someone would just put a calculator in it like there is in RedHat...
This is just hype. Privacy concerns over genetic predelictions only hold back the adoption of newer technologies that could actually improve our relationships with the world and others.
For instance, imagine being able to go on a dating board and place an accurate, quantative score on your tendencies towards violence. Others would be able to sort the bad boys out of the rest that much easier, probably encouraging better dates and lasting involement - after all, you would be picking people you are genetically geared towards.
Imagine spam geared specifically towards your depression score. The pharmaceutical industry would love it - lists of people who need Zoloft. Or, if you are negative in this category, you would be getting mass mailings about ways of curbing that mania.
I see only good things coming out of a world where we are all numbered according to our genes.
This anniversary of Spam is really not important. If someone wanted to be clever, they would go out and find the anniversary of the first Nigerian Bank Scam.
This is great news. I personally use Grokster to distribute programming and chess tips, and could not understand why legitimate uses for P2P programs seem to be unimportant when considering what these programs are all about. It looks like the courts have finally come to their senses...
Waitaminute, this hasn't gone through appeal yet...
You know, Ballmer is right about innovation. He is miscasting Linux as ancient and wrong to criticize it because it is old. But he may be technically right about innovation, as M$ has really done a lot to make machines accessible to the common user.
When the anti-trust suit was getting going, I was forced to think about what Microsoft has done for the technical community. I was taken back to that time, about 10 - 15 years ago, when harware was hard to install and software was even tougher.
The fact that software developers have been able to standardize around a common OS and hardware architecture is a good thing. There is a lot less praying involved that the thing you are spending your money on has been tested in an environment similar to your own and will work.
Think about it: would there be a NVidia or an ATI if average users out there had no demand for their product? Would there be demand for their cards if people thought they would have to pay someone $100 an hour to install them? Would there be games written for them if no one had them? I know this is bordering on the absurd, but that works to my point: without Windows, there would be a lot of things we would not have these days. Someone else probably would have stepped up to fill in the void, but if we had a huge number of OSes and platforms out there all with large consumer bases, it is hard to imagine most companies building out the kinds of products we see today.
I give M$ credit for providing a product to accomplish this standardization.
I, for one, this this is a bunch of BS. Sony should just focus on the PS3 and make that a better system.
This is not an upgrade. I would need to buy a new PS2 in order to take advantage of these features. I want to leave my next console purchase off for a few years, so that means I am not buying one.
At the same time, I really a better DVD player on my PS2. The one in there now is real high-maintenance, needing to be cleaned before and in the middle of movies.
I would be curious to know your thoughts / feelings about your prosecution, now that you are back online. Was the government's case against you fair, and did society benefit from your prosecution?
In the event there is a payout, I think the expectation is that consumers will receive a check for something a little less than $20, think to themselves 'what shoudl I do with that money? Hey, I know! This is enough to buy that new [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST] CD.'
Perhaps the payout checks will be distributed at a Tower Records store.
Depends on what you mean. With a single, unified DOM, there is no need to script for several browsers. Therefore, one would be writing code for the DOM, not a browser.
On the other hand, you really end up with an extra browser for a while, since DOM 2 is not backwards compatible.
As a Web developer, time is on the line and almost everything I do is in a rapid development environment. That being said, debugging information is extremely important.
On the ASP.NET and Cold Fusion MX application servers, the debugging information provided by each is excellent and thorough. On CFMX, each error is specified by line on the template on which it occurs and provides a 'stack trace' (meaning a list of all the pages involved in generating that particular Web page), execution times for each template, and a complete list of all variables in all scopes. Complex variables, such as structures and arrays, are output along with all the rest in an easy-to-understand format.
The one thing that could be done better by every application system, IMHO, is a self-documetation feature. I would like to be able to look at the source code and see a breakdown of all variables on the page right away. This may sound a little simple and not really a debugging tool, but I look at it as preventive maintenence.
You know, between every two sets of beliefs is the truth.
This response about the day-to-day duties of a Guide do nothing to address the complaints of the original poster. Customer service 101 says that the customer is always right; if you had been waiting days or weeks for someone to come along and fix a problem only to find out your problem may not get fixed right away, you might be combatitive too.
The problem, more than being one of bugs or features, seems to be one of popularity. The game is designed to scale to accomodate a certain number of users, but there is no process in place to ensure all these people will find the game enjoyable.
Most application developers have seen the diagram of the evolution of a bug, where it starts off as a tiny little thing and grows to be the size of Godzilla. The same thing, IMHO, is happening here with Everquest, and the problems are going to continue to grow until someone does the hard thing and fixes the prevalent issues that exist amongst high level gamers.
As with software, there is a limit to how long a problem can remain unfixed before a user will cease using the program. This is a universal, and Sony will have to address the kinds of problems brought up in this thread if EQ is going to be around for the long run. You better bet that the competition is going to get going, and other companies are working on these issues...
and will be getting them right!
M
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For my clients, I always suggest the use of stone and / or clay tablets for all mission critical data archive projects, regardless of size or scope. Bablyonian and Greek models of data retention from as far back as 4,500 years ago are (in many cases) superior to the models we commonly use today, with much of the physical meadia having survived electrical storms, tornadoes, floods, fires, and wars on every scale imaginable with a data corruption rate of zero and without the benefit of a climate controlled room, dedicated security staff, or even a closet for media storage. Imagine the elegance of a 84'3/4 STROM (Stone Tablet Read Only Memory) machine hooked up to your Slackware Archive server for performing restorations, and the ST Binary Writer you have networked to your backup systems and kept physically over by the quarry... nice! The TCO for slab is far less than that of tape archives, considering you can store the media in a pile of mud and hose it down when you are ready for a restoration.
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Dynamic animations and images in Flash require no expensive server thing, as the client is very scriptable on it's own. The Flash player has a complete scriptable object model and is able to load data by itself.
For instance, if you wanted to build a widget to display stock quotes, you can produce a simple Flash movie and the XML to load into it. Your server requirements are any Web server and that's it.
I work in DC, just between the White House and the Capitol. Parking here is about $18 a day.
My original comment is for the uninitiated who aren't used to having their wallets emptied while looking for a humble place to park their car.
Speaking of wireless, however, I have seen a good bit of warchalking in other parts of the city - Canton, Highlandtown, I even saw some marks up on Bunker Hill. These are mostly residental areas, which is what surprised me. You can park free in any of those places, just look out for the stray Orioles fan jonesin' for a title.
Just in case you're thinking of going out to try this, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is notoriously expensive and you will be paying for access, just not to an ISP.
At most garages, it costs more than $10 to park, the restaurants in that area serve tasty but expensive food, moderately overpriced shopping stores surround consumers, and random Orioles fans, despondent over the team's performance, may accost you at any time in that area.
You would be better served going to Fells Point and playing video poker at any one of the dozens of bars.
The great thing about this software is that it could ultimately cut down on the cost of campaigns, lessening the need for big political donors and their influence on politics.
A former employer of mine was involved in developing Web communities for conservative clients, and the bill for his services is huge even by 1999 standards.
I could tell you the other side of the story, but then I would have to kill you, trace your IP address, physically destroy your computer, wipe out all your friends and relatives, and use a Titan-I-60 Orbital Optical Defense Platform to wipe out the county you live in.
The assumption that these bodies make terrible decisions regarding IT projects is just plain wrong. Decisions are simply not made in the government.
If there were decisions, as you claim, wouldn't that imply some responsible party was behind a decision, and thus could be held accountable for the outcome of a project? For that matter, wouldn't the absence of a responsible party precluse the existance of a decision in all positive expressions of the word?
The success or failure of a software project for the government can never be assigned to a single party, agency, institution or operating unit. While there may be documents which may have signatures and while financial transactions may be taking place, no one working for the federal government in any capacity ever made a choice between two or more courses of action in any meaningful way.
As a federal contractor with over 18 years experience designing systems for the federal government and the miliary, I understand how important it is to combat this notion there are people making decisions in federal IT work.
...if this proves to be the thing that lets us keep plugins in the public domain.
As a Flash developer, the idea that users would have to take some convoluted route to access a movie I made just so some fat jerk can get rich really ticks me off.
The U.S. Patent Office needs to get up to speed and stop issuing patents on trivial systems features. I mean, using sub-programs in programs is something I have done in C++ since the late 80s. WTF Why is a Web browser supposed to be so special a thing that someone can issue a patent on a standard engineering process?
M
... and just when I was saying to myself, "Gosh, finally a day without another SCO story."
The answer is simple: the cost will go up, and people will pay more for games. $50 a game may seem expensive now, but people will pay as much as the market will bear.
My 7 year old daughter loves to play PPG, Scooby Doo, and other games on the PS2. She has about 20 Game Boy games. In the last year, I have spent almost $1000 just on her on game addiction.
I never thought I would be buying video games again, but kids have a way of getting their parents to buy them things. Young adults have a way of buying things themselves. And older deviants cannot help their compulsive behavior. Thus, the market will sustain itself.
M
Of course, you are assuming this code was stolen and not put into the Linux kernel either a) mistakenly or b) as some sort of an IP trap. There have been a number of similar IP infringement cases where companies get to trial only to discover the claimant actually stole the code themselves.
M
Imagine what would happen if this was a direct result of the MSBlast virus...
Well, it stands to reason the richest, most prestigious individuals would be the ones to achieve immortality and then seek a monopoly over the technologies used to maintain it, functioning as a natural obstacle to those who do not enjoy similar privledges in life. The main thing I would expect to see, were immortality to become possible:
Windows 40,0000, the 64-googleflop operating operating system.
Oh yeah, we've got this going on in the federal government. We are standardized on Windows 98, but several prominent users are getting sick of BSOD / lost work and doing something about it.
Several directors at the agency I work for (not saying which) have taken an interest in Linux purely out of curiousity. I spend a lot of time answering questions from folks I usually never speak to, mostly about features of Gnome, and some of the people who work for them are starting to notice and do the same. About 10% of our laptops right now are linux or dual boot linux / Win98 machines.
I enjoy helping people understand the features of Linux (and don't take this next comment out of context), but it is really annoying when someone comes to you wanting to know all about this amazing new feature in Linux that is also present in Windows. For instance, someone recently told me Windows would be a lot more fabulous if someone would just put a calculator in it like there is in RedHat...
M
Mmmm.... HAMvention. Ahwghkkk. *sound of drool*
M
This is just hype. Privacy concerns over genetic predelictions only hold back the adoption of newer technologies that could actually improve our relationships with the world and others.
For instance, imagine being able to go on a dating board and place an accurate, quantative score on your tendencies towards violence. Others would be able to sort the bad boys out of the rest that much easier, probably encouraging better dates and lasting involement - after all, you would be picking people you are genetically geared towards.
Imagine spam geared specifically towards your depression score. The pharmaceutical industry would love it - lists of people who need Zoloft. Or, if you are negative in this category, you would be getting mass mailings about ways of curbing that mania.
I see only good things coming out of a world where we are all numbered according to our genes.
This anniversary of Spam is really not important. If someone wanted to be clever, they would go out and find the anniversary of the first Nigerian Bank Scam.
M
This is great news. I personally use Grokster to distribute programming and chess tips, and could not understand why legitimate uses for P2P programs seem to be unimportant when considering what these programs are all about. It looks like the courts have finally come to their senses...
Waitaminute, this hasn't gone through appeal yet...
oh dear.
M
You know, Ballmer is right about innovation. He is miscasting Linux as ancient and wrong to criticize it because it is old. But he may be technically right about innovation, as M$ has really done a lot to make machines accessible to the common user.
When the anti-trust suit was getting going, I was forced to think about what Microsoft has done for the technical community. I was taken back to that time, about 10 - 15 years ago, when harware was hard to install and software was even tougher.
The fact that software developers have been able to standardize around a common OS and hardware architecture is a good thing. There is a lot less praying involved that the thing you are spending your money on has been tested in an environment similar to your own and will work.
Think about it: would there be a NVidia or an ATI if average users out there had no demand for their product? Would there be demand for their cards if people thought they would have to pay someone $100 an hour to install them? Would there be games written for them if no one had them? I know this is bordering on the absurd, but that works to my point: without Windows, there would be a lot of things we would not have these days. Someone else probably would have stepped up to fill in the void, but if we had a huge number of OSes and platforms out there all with large consumer bases, it is hard to imagine most companies building out the kinds of products we see today.
I give M$ credit for providing a product to accomplish this standardization.
And I prepare to be flamed.
M
I, for one, this this is a bunch of BS. Sony should just focus on the PS3 and make that a better system.
This is not an upgrade. I would need to buy a new PS2 in order to take advantage of these features. I want to leave my next console purchase off for a few years, so that means I am not buying one.
At the same time, I really a better DVD player on my PS2. The one in there now is real high-maintenance, needing to be cleaned before and in the middle of movies.
Bah.
I would be curious to know your thoughts / feelings about your prosecution, now that you are back online. Was the government's case against you fair, and did society benefit from your prosecution?
In the event there is a payout, I think the expectation is that consumers will receive a check for something a little less than $20, think to themselves 'what shoudl I do with that money? Hey, I know! This is enough to buy that new [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST] CD.'
Perhaps the payout checks will be distributed at a Tower Records store.
M
Depends on what you mean. With a single, unified DOM, there is no need to script for several browsers. Therefore, one would be writing code for the DOM, not a browser.
On the other hand, you really end up with an extra browser for a while, since DOM 2 is not backwards compatible.
M
As a Web developer, time is on the line and almost everything I do is in a rapid development environment. That being said, debugging information is extremely important.
On the ASP.NET and Cold Fusion MX application servers, the debugging information provided by each is excellent and thorough. On CFMX, each error is specified by line on the template on which it occurs and provides a 'stack trace' (meaning a list of all the pages involved in generating that particular Web page), execution times for each template, and a complete list of all variables in all scopes. Complex variables, such as structures and arrays, are output along with all the rest in an easy-to-understand format.
The one thing that could be done better by every application system, IMHO, is a self-documetation feature. I would like to be able to look at the source code and see a breakdown of all variables on the page right away. This may sound a little simple and not really a debugging tool, but I look at it as preventive maintenence.
You know, between every two sets of beliefs is the truth.
This response about the day-to-day duties of a Guide do nothing to address the complaints of the original poster. Customer service 101 says that the customer is always right; if you had been waiting days or weeks for someone to come along and fix a problem only to find out your problem may not get fixed right away, you might be combatitive too.
The problem, more than being one of bugs or features, seems to be one of popularity. The game is designed to scale to accomodate a certain number of users, but there is no process in place to ensure all these people will find the game enjoyable.
Most application developers have seen the diagram of the evolution of a bug, where it starts off as a tiny little thing and grows to be the size of Godzilla. The same thing, IMHO, is happening here with Everquest, and the problems are going to continue to grow until someone does the hard thing and fixes the prevalent issues that exist amongst high level gamers.
As with software, there is a limit to how long a problem can remain unfixed before a user will cease using the program. This is a universal, and Sony will have to address the kinds of problems brought up in this thread if EQ is going to be around for the long run. You better bet that the competition is going to get going, and other companies are working on these issues...
and will be getting them right!
M
Kevin Frees You!
For my clients, I always suggest the use of stone and / or clay tablets for all mission critical data archive projects, regardless of size or scope. Bablyonian and Greek models of data retention from as far back as 4,500 years ago are (in many cases) superior to the models we commonly use today, with much of the physical meadia having survived electrical storms, tornadoes, floods, fires, and wars on every scale imaginable with a data corruption rate of zero and without the benefit of a climate controlled room, dedicated security staff, or even a closet for media storage. Imagine the elegance of a 84'3/4 STROM (Stone Tablet Read Only Memory) machine hooked up to your Slackware Archive server for performing restorations, and the ST Binary Writer you have networked to your backup systems and kept physically over by the quarry... nice! The TCO for slab is far less than that of tape archives, considering you can store the media in a pile of mud and hose it down when you are ready for a restoration.
M