No, remove Numlock, and eliminate the concept. We have an entire full set of numbers right where they've always been, at the top of the keyboard, as well as the various mathematical signs in their normal locations. Theres no need to duplicate those keys elsewhere.
Amazingly, I was able to type this ENTIRE post (ALL of it. I mean, REALLY), without once using the typewriter-age 'SHIFT LOCK' key. And for the record, in the place where that key probably is on 99.9% of the keyboards of the people reading this, on my keyboard, is the special 'Control' key, which is where God, and Jobs and Wozniak Intended it to be. (The silly capslock key, since I havent found an otherwise suitable keyboard without one, happens to be to the left of the spacebar, similar to where other useless keys such as those known as the 'Windows' keys are on many keyboards made today)
Ah ok, so the problem is 'the use of binary floating point numbers to represent decimal floating point numbers'. But still doesnt explain why.37 isnt.37 - "37" is fairly easily accurately repesented in binary. As is "-2".
'Floating point numbers' as opposed to 'Computer implementation of the storage and manipulation of floating point numbers'
Only the latter might be suspect, depending on the implementation.
Whatever happened to what used to be known as 'scientific notation' for what are also called 'real numbers'? Eg, you store the mantissa (eg "37") and the exponent (eg -2) and there is no approximation involved, although the mantissa might have a set maximum length, so you might have trouble storing, for example 1.000000000000000000000001 if the mantissa had a maximum length of ten.
.. with the YOU-CAN-SPAM act is it concerns itself too much with the content of the message.
That they are only going after porn spammers proves this. Spam is spam, wether it is hawking naked co-eds screwing horses, trying to sell you fake rolex watches, or even trying to get you to 'accept $diety as your personal savior', if *YOU* didnt expect it, and didnt want it, its spam.
Oh really? Do they pay them per-DVD? Or do they pay them a specific one-time amount, for the specific amount of work that they do once? I suspect its the latter. And I guarantee that at retail DVD prices (packaged or kiosk-burned) the studio makes FAR more profit than the techs that actually make the menus, and/or the janitors that clean the offices.
USB? USB, really? Why bother. Anything that has USB has ethernet. With ethernet, you cover a very large array of devices and you dont need special drivers or special support for specific OS's. I am still baffled as to why no one makes a wireless 'client' side device that just has an ethernet port. I can see PCMCIA for laptop folk, due to it being compact and no extra wires. But for anything that hasnt got PCMCIA, I don't see the point of bothering with USB rather than just going with ethernet. Are there really laptops out there that have USB but not an ethernet port? Is there some advantage of using USB over ethernet?
Whatever. My point was just that such a 'repaired' disc isn't going to last long, and is best used as a means of being able to read it to make a backup. If for whatever absurd reason one isnt able to do that, then one should not count on the continued ability to use that disc.
I would hope, that anyone who had to polish, melt, or wax a CD in order to be able to read it, would have the sense to *immediately read the entire disc and make a new copy onto a new, undamaged disc*, but some of the comments seem to suggest people are doing this and then continuing to rely on the repaied CD.
The repair just isnt gonna last - if you had to resort to such measures once becuase you didn't have a backup, surely you've learned your lesson, right?
If you were buying a $100,000 sports card, you'd either be buying it for the prestige (in which case you'd care mainly about the name, be it Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, etc), or for the ability to go fast, in which case you'd care about the performance design (engine tuning, gear ratios, aerodynamics, etc). Since there is no such thing as an 'ugly' sports car (well, comparatively speaking, I suppose some people think they are all ugly), you wouldnt be looking at that so much.
Anyone posting you actually HAS purchased a $100,000 sports car want to weigh in?
Actually, the 'value stored on the card' option has an unpreventable fraud option - simply take a loaded card and copy it verbatim. With no central tracking there would be no way to recognize it as a duplicate. In the 'account number' model copying the card would gain the fraudster nothing, since either the original or the copy would both deduct purchases from the same database record.
Quite frankly, having to haul around the change, and make change, for vending machines, is a royal PIA, for both the customer and the vendor. There is a solution, which doesnt require identification of each customer (and thereby avoiding the profiling and privacy problems)
Establish a 'preloaded, prepaid card' sort of deal. It could use magstripe cards similar to those used on some mass transit systems - the ones made out of paper.
Each vending machine gets a reader. A 'change machine' that accepts cash, including bills up to,say $20 at least, and issues cards (and maybe also can recharge a card you already have). The machine could also accept ATM and/or Visa/Master cards (for customers who arent concerned with privacy, and dont want to have to carry any cash)
The only decision is to wether to use the card to store only an 'account' number, which would require networking of the machines and central tracking of the amounts credited to each card, or wether to store the amount directly on the card. The former obviously requires a lot of infrastructure, the latter requires that the vending machines be able to rewrite the card as well as read it. Both would require some suitable public-key encryption/signing of the data on the cards to avoid fraud by forgery.
The account number method, for cards purchased using a trackable means (CC/ATM card) could allow the vendor to also offer the ability for a refund if the card is lost - the database knows how much was on it, and can block its use for further purchases upon a refund issue (most likely in the form of a new card)
Quite frankly the whole concept of using some specific portal or search engine page as ones 'homepage' is completely moronic, IMNSHO. My browser opens to a blank screen, and then I either type in or select from bookmarks what site I need to see. Why does everyone think the Internet needs some sort of 'main menu'? There isnt one, and there never will be - get over it.
As far as dialup, it isnt going anywhere soon (Telco and Cableco have very little interest to serve rural areas), but there are *far* better options than AOL. (And neither Earthlink or PeoplePC count)
Actually AOL is trying to shift who their customers are. Instead of trying to charge fools to look at regurgitated information that is available for free on the Internet, they want to charge advertisers for the opportunity to regurgitate their advertising directly at the fools.
Basically, they want to try to emulate Google, but without the respect or 'do no evil' motto.
Instead of 'only morons use AOL', now it will be 'only cheap morons use AOL':P
Really, how many times have you seem some business' comercial on tv, or businesscard on a bullten board (the old fashion kind with cork and pins), and it had an @AOL.COM email address, and thought 'how tacky and unprofessional?'
Drunk driving is one of the single most stupid and dangerous things a driver can do. I personally would support a zero-tolerance - you drink, you drive, you dont drive any more for a very long time. And if you drive again while you arent supposed to be driving, you go to jail. Yes, this may make it hard to go to work, or to the store, or the doctor, or to life your life in general - which is why you should think very hard before picking up that glass or bottle unless your keys are safely secured with someone responsible that will be remaining sober until after you have slept off your drunk. Consider that it will be even harder for the innocent driver or pedestrian you plow into while drunk to live their life - assuming you dont take it from them completely.
People who support any leniency for absolute morons that drive drunk are absolute morons themselves, irrespective of their level of respect (or lack thereof) for police.
Driving is NOT a right, it is a privilege. And one that should be in dire jeopardy if one is stupid enough to abuse it by driving drunk. Period.
Yes, there is no requirement to use it, unless documents you have to be able to read require it in order to be accessed. If MS starts using it, and automatically incorporating into every Word file encryption that only Windows has access to, and only if your PC has the TPC module, its instantly everyehere. Then every publisher of anything on a PC starts tying their stuff to it to. Perhaps websites produced with MS software start to silently lock themselves to IE on Windows (without the page owner even being aware).
A formula for the possible end of user rights and Free Software.
Yes, why limit anything to cell-phones only? Any web-like service that might make sense on phones surely could be made available on a normal browser (and not incur per-minute cell-data fees either, even if you just want to try it out).
In fact, if they made it available to try out on normal browsers first, that might get more people interested in it on their cell phones.
Anyway, in the meantime, anyone aware of a cell-phone-browser-emulator for firefox?
The article is written in such a way as to suggest that the 'comitte for the evolution of primates' got together and decided what to evolve. While the researchers probably understand that isn't what happened, the journalist very obviously doesn't.
What actually happened, is that as primates mutated, some had better sight, some had worse, some had other traits. The ones with better sight survived (being eaten by snakes, and/or any other number of possible fatal destinies) at a better rate than those with worse sight, and passed the better sight on to their descendants, enabling them to also survive at a higher rate. As those lines with worse sight survived less often, less of them were able to reproduce, slowly removing those traits from the overall distribution.
I've never even glanced at MySpace, I'm sure its horridly cliche teenagers and wannabees posting drivel on the net, and a complete and utter waste of time.
However, I would suggest rather than 'another reason to boycott Myspace', that this is 'another reason' (in a list that surely numbers in the millions for anyone rational) to boycott SOFTWARE THAT IS VULNERABLE TO STUPID CRAP LIKE THIS (eg, anything with Microsofts brand name on it).
I say that anyone who is STILL stupid enough to be running MSIE and Windows deserves all the adware, spyware, trojans, and whatever else can ram its way onto their system. And the world would be a better place if the next virulent outbreak in that sewer actually destroyed the systems, but that is unlikely, becuase only the amateurs are out to wreak havoc - the pros do it for the money that the spammers pay them to get fresh hijacked boxes to relay their crap through.
I guess it appeared as though you were originally suggesting that the site was an actual site that offered tv/movie content, as opposed to just a technology that someone else could use to set up such a site. Are there any sites using your technology? What are they? That is much more interesting to most than a technology to do it.
You can't actually download the movies directly - you have to download some proprietary program for a specific, proprietary OS/platform and presumable *it* downloads the movies.
Even if I would remotely consider using Windows for anything, I wouldnt download executable.
Hint to people - 'downloading' something that would be considered data (which includes movies and music) should consist of downloading (gasp!) *data* (eg http://yoursite/whatever/something.mpg or something.iso or something.mp3) - NOT downloading exectuable code locked to one platform (eg something.exe)
Hrm. I went to the site and couldnt find anything downloadable, via HTTP or anything else. It looks like you are selling some technology that I dont entirely see the point of. The ability to serve standard AVI files over standard HTTP already exists, and costs nothing. What exactly is the point of this WideSAN, anyway?
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No, remove Numlock, and eliminate the concept. We have an entire full set of numbers right where they've always been, at the top of the keyboard, as well as the various mathematical signs in their normal locations. Theres no need to duplicate those keys elsewhere.
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Amazingly, I was able to type this ENTIRE post (ALL of it. I mean, REALLY), without once using the typewriter-age 'SHIFT LOCK' key. And for the record, in the place where that key probably is on 99.9% of the keyboards of the people reading this, on my keyboard, is the special 'Control' key, which is where God, and Jobs and Wozniak Intended it to be. (The silly capslock key, since I havent found an otherwise suitable keyboard without one, happens to be to the left of the spacebar, similar to where other useless keys such as those known as the 'Windows' keys are on many keyboards made today)
Ah ok, so the problem is 'the use of binary floating point numbers to represent decimal floating point numbers'. But still doesnt explain why .37 isnt .37 - "37" is fairly easily accurately repesented in binary. As is "-2".
'Floating point numbers'
as opposed to
'Computer implementation of the storage and manipulation of floating point numbers'
Only the latter might be suspect, depending on the implementation.
Whatever happened to what used to be known as 'scientific notation' for what are also called 'real numbers'? Eg, you store the mantissa (eg "37") and the exponent (eg -2) and there is no approximation involved, although the mantissa might have a set maximum length, so you might have trouble storing, for example 1.000000000000000000000001 if the mantissa had a maximum length of ten.
.. with the YOU-CAN-SPAM act is it concerns itself too much with the content of the message.
That they are only going after porn spammers proves this. Spam is spam, wether it is hawking naked co-eds screwing horses, trying to sell you fake rolex watches, or even trying to get you to 'accept $diety as your personal savior', if *YOU* didnt expect it, and didnt want it, its spam.
Oh really? Do they pay them per-DVD? Or do they pay them a specific one-time amount, for the specific amount of work that they do once? I suspect its the latter. And I guarantee that at retail DVD prices (packaged or kiosk-burned) the studio makes FAR more profit than the techs that actually make the menus, and/or the janitors that clean the offices.
USB? USB, really? Why bother. Anything that has USB has ethernet. With ethernet, you cover a very large array of devices and you dont need special drivers or special support for specific OS's. I am still baffled as to why no one makes a wireless 'client' side device that just has an ethernet port. I can see PCMCIA for laptop folk, due to it being compact and no extra wires. But for anything that hasnt got PCMCIA, I don't see the point of bothering with USB rather than just going with ethernet. Are there really laptops out there that have USB but not an ethernet port? Is there some advantage of using USB over ethernet?
Whatever. My point was just that such a 'repaired' disc isn't going to last long, and is best used as a means of being able to read it to make a backup. If for whatever absurd reason one isnt able to do that, then one should not count on the continued ability to use that disc.
I would hope, that anyone who had to polish, melt, or wax a CD in order to be able to read it, would have the sense to *immediately read the entire disc and make a new copy onto a new, undamaged disc*, but some of the comments seem to suggest people are doing this and then continuing to rely on the repaied CD.
The repair just isnt gonna last - if you had to resort to such measures once becuase you didn't have a backup, surely you've learned your lesson, right?
If you were buying a $100,000 sports card, you'd either be buying it for the prestige (in which case you'd care mainly about the name, be it Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, etc), or for the ability to go fast, in which case you'd care about the performance design (engine tuning, gear ratios, aerodynamics, etc). Since there is no such thing as an 'ugly' sports car (well, comparatively speaking, I suppose some people think they are all ugly), you wouldnt be looking at that so much.
Anyone posting you actually HAS purchased a $100,000 sports car want to weigh in?
(Replying to my own post, how lame :)
Actually, the 'value stored on the card' option has an unpreventable fraud option - simply take a loaded card and copy it verbatim. With no central tracking there would be no way to recognize it as a duplicate. In the 'account number' model copying the card would gain the fraudster nothing, since either the original or the copy would both deduct purchases from the same database record.
Quite frankly, having to haul around the change, and make change, for vending machines, is a royal PIA, for both the customer and the vendor. There is a solution, which doesnt require identification of each customer (and thereby avoiding the profiling and privacy problems)
,say $20 at least, and issues cards (and maybe also can recharge a card you already have). The machine could also accept ATM and/or Visa/Master cards (for customers who arent concerned with privacy, and dont want to have to carry any cash)
Establish a 'preloaded, prepaid card' sort of deal. It could use magstripe cards similar to those used on some mass transit systems - the ones made out of paper.
Each vending machine gets a reader. A 'change machine' that accepts cash, including bills up to
The only decision is to wether to use the card to store only an 'account' number, which would require networking of the machines and central tracking of the amounts credited to each card, or wether to store the amount directly on the card. The former obviously requires a lot of infrastructure, the latter requires that the vending machines be able to rewrite the card as well as read it. Both would require some suitable public-key encryption/signing of the data on the cards to avoid fraud by forgery.
The account number method, for cards purchased using a trackable means (CC/ATM card) could allow the vendor to also offer the ability for a refund if the card is lost - the database knows how much was on it, and can block its use for further purchases upon a refund issue (most likely in the form of a new card)
Quite frankly the whole concept of using some specific portal or search engine page as ones 'homepage' is completely moronic, IMNSHO. My browser opens to a blank screen, and then I either type in or select from bookmarks what site I need to see. Why does everyone think the Internet needs some sort of 'main menu'? There isnt one, and there never will be - get over it.
As far as dialup, it isnt going anywhere soon (Telco and Cableco have very little interest to serve rural areas), but there are *far* better options than AOL. (And neither Earthlink or PeoplePC count)
Actually AOL is trying to shift who their customers are. Instead of trying to charge fools to look at regurgitated information that is available for free on the Internet, they want to charge advertisers for the opportunity to regurgitate their advertising directly at the fools.
Basically, they want to try to emulate Google, but without the respect or 'do no evil' motto.
Instead of 'only morons use AOL', now it will be 'only cheap morons use AOL' :P
Really, how many times have you seem some business' comercial on tv, or businesscard on a bullten board (the old fashion kind with cork and pins), and it had an @AOL.COM email address, and thought 'how tacky and unprofessional?'
Drunk driving is one of the single most stupid and dangerous things a driver can do. I personally would support a zero-tolerance - you drink, you drive, you dont drive any more for a very long time. And if you drive again while you arent supposed to be driving, you go to jail. Yes, this may make it hard to go to work, or to the store, or the doctor, or to life your life in general - which is why you should think very hard before picking up that glass or bottle unless your keys are safely secured with someone responsible that will be remaining sober until after you have slept off your drunk. Consider that it will be even harder for the innocent driver or pedestrian you plow into while drunk to live their life - assuming you dont take it from them completely.
People who support any leniency for absolute morons that drive drunk are absolute morons themselves, irrespective of their level of respect (or lack thereof) for police.
Driving is NOT a right, it is a privilege. And one that should be in dire jeopardy if one is stupid enough to abuse it by driving drunk. Period.
Yes, there is no requirement to use it, unless documents you have to be able to read require it in order to be accessed. If MS starts using it, and automatically incorporating into every Word file encryption that only Windows has access to, and only if your PC has the TPC module, its instantly everyehere. Then every publisher of anything on a PC starts tying their stuff to it to. Perhaps websites produced with MS software start to silently lock themselves to IE on Windows (without the page owner even being aware).
A formula for the possible end of user rights and Free Software.
I'm not interested in it knowing my position. I'd only be interested in the 'live traffic information' part.
Yes, why limit anything to cell-phones only? Any web-like service that might make sense on phones surely could be made available on a normal browser (and not incur per-minute cell-data fees either, even if you just want to try it out).
In fact, if they made it available to try out on normal browsers first, that might get more people interested in it on their cell phones.
Anyway, in the meantime, anyone aware of a cell-phone-browser-emulator for firefox?
The article is written in such a way as to suggest that the 'comitte for the evolution of primates' got together and decided what to evolve. While the researchers probably understand that isn't what happened, the journalist very obviously doesn't.
What actually happened, is that as primates mutated, some had better sight, some had worse, some had other traits. The ones with better sight survived (being eaten by snakes, and/or any other number of possible fatal destinies) at a better rate than those with worse sight, and passed the better sight on to their descendants, enabling them to also survive at a higher rate. As those lines with worse sight survived less often, less of them were able to reproduce, slowly removing those traits from the overall distribution.
I've never even glanced at MySpace, I'm sure its horridly cliche teenagers and wannabees posting drivel on the net, and a complete and utter waste of time.
However, I would suggest rather than 'another reason to boycott Myspace', that this is 'another reason' (in a list that surely numbers in the millions for anyone rational) to boycott SOFTWARE THAT IS VULNERABLE TO STUPID CRAP LIKE THIS (eg, anything with Microsofts brand name on it).
I say that anyone who is STILL stupid enough to be running MSIE and Windows deserves all the adware, spyware, trojans, and whatever else can ram its way onto their system. And the world would be a better place if the next virulent outbreak in that sewer actually destroyed the systems, but that is unlikely, becuase only the amateurs are out to wreak havoc - the pros do it for the money that the spammers pay them to get fresh hijacked boxes to relay their crap through.
I guess it appeared as though you were originally suggesting that the site was an actual site that offered tv/movie content, as opposed to just a technology that someone else could use to set up such a site. Are there any sites using your technology? What are they? That is much more interesting to most than a technology to do it.
You can't actually download the movies directly - you have to download some proprietary program for a specific, proprietary OS/platform and presumable *it* downloads the movies.
Even if I would remotely consider using Windows for anything, I wouldnt download executable.
Hint to people - 'downloading' something that would be considered data (which includes movies and music) should consist of downloading (gasp!) *data* (eg http://yoursite/whatever/something.mpg or something.iso or something.mp3) - NOT downloading exectuable code locked to one platform (eg something.exe)
Hrm. I went to the site and couldnt find anything downloadable, via HTTP or anything else. It looks like you are selling some technology that I dont entirely see the point of. The ability to serve standard AVI files over standard HTTP already exists, and costs nothing. What exactly is the point of this WideSAN, anyway?