My point about Google was that GMail and then Google Maps were the products that truly alerted the world, in a big way, to the potential of AJAX. Shortly thereafter, tons of people started using AJAX to build sites, MySpace included.
As for start.com: this is a very new Microsoft effort and it isn't an official product. (Live.com is the official product, but that only happened like a week ago.) The important point is that Microsoft had the technology in its hands long ago but failed to capitalize on it in obvious places (again, let me point my finger at MSN's many products.)
Agreed that the press enjoys jumping on all-things-Google these days, but I think it is fair to say that Google was the first company to fully understand the value of AJAX and captilize on it in a way that the general public was aware of.
Microsoft invented AJAX in, what, 1999? Of course, they didn't call it that, but invent it they did.
Specifically, Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest and pioneered its use in Outlook Web Access. OWA is an important feature for Microsoft. It gives a fantastic client-like email experience over the web.
Oddly enough, none of Microsoft's other teams (MSN, anybody?) decided to use the AJAX approach in their products. This seems like a huge misstep and showcases just how large and disconnected Microsoft, the company, is.
In the intervening years, Google managed to swoop in and take up the AJAX crown -- to the betterment of web users the world over.
MC Chris didn't take up my challenge the last time nerdcore rap came up; perhaps he was paralyzed by my prodigious skill. Nevertheless, I repost here in the hopes that he eventually steps.
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya ima shut your site down with my shell scripts so best insist upon that extra strength firewall lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all watch you back, cause you know i stack racks that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021 just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
Sheesh!
Re:The days of high -end hardware are over
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· Score: 2, Interesting
So a hearty farewell to SGI. I just hope they go down swiftly and silently.
Nothing swift about it, I assure you. I worked at SGI as an intern and then as a full-time employee in 1999. My team was restructured out of existence about six months after I joined the company.
I joined SGI at the same time a good friend did. Since we were both recent college hires, SGI was reluctant to let us go. I decided to leave, but my friend stayed. Since our entire division had been axed, the online org chart showed him reporting directly to the CEO, Rick Belluzo! That apparently lasted for several months.
(And, funny thing, Rick Belluzo ended up having a short and not particularly excellent term as an exec at Microsoft, too. Gates and Ballmer no doubt quickly realized what a fumbler he was.)
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya ima shut your site down with my shell scripts so best insist upon that extra strength firewall lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all watch you back, cause you know i stack racks that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021 just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
damn... you know you can't step! or are you ready to battle for the nerdcore crown?
MC Chris: You Wanna Step?
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My question is: what, you wanna step? Check it.
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya ima shut your site down with my shell scripts so best insist upon that extra strength firewall lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all watch you back, cause you know i stack racks that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021 just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
damn... you know you can't step! or are you ready to battle for the nerdcore crown?
I'm surprised at how many responses I've read that make the relative-value argument: "$750 million is only 1.5% of his net worth. I donate three times that much compared to my net worth of $1000, therefore Gates' donation isn't really that significant."
This notion that relative dollar amounts are somehow important is so broken, it's sad. Go back to econ class, folks. Your $45 donation doesn't make a dent; Gates has the power to target his $750 million just right. He's far more likely to hit the bull's-eye.
It's best to look directly at the real, serious, climate change science. I recommend reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's third assessment report from 2001 (the most recent.) From the Preface to this substantial and authoritative work: A detailed study is made of human influence on climate and whether it can be identified with any more confidence than in 1996, concluding that there is new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities..
But don't forget one thing: the exit polls exactly and perfectly describe the 2% Bush margin.
Actually, this is not true according to raw data I've found in sites like Zogby and MSNBC. The exit polls in Ohio showed a small margin for Kerry. However, the margin of error for exit polls (again, according to Zogby) has historically been between 3% and 5%; this election was no exception. This means that exit polls are great in landslides, but utterly meaningless in a state like Ohio. Conspiracy theorists with even a slight tolerance for mathematics will have to let this one rest.
It would behoove by far-left-leaning friends to move on from conspiracy theories and start thinking about why America soundly rejected the Democratic Party in '04. I'm personally distressed by the outcome of the election, but I accept it as the legitimate result of the process set forth by our founders.
While the other dude who replied to this seems to have a bit of a 'tood, I have to agree with him: These days, "Techno" is used strictly as the umbrella term.
Trance (which has many subdivisions like HiNRG and Goa) and House (again, many subdivisions, like tech house, glitch house, cheezy circuit house) meet your definition of repetitive looped music better. (Cox, Mills, Beyer fit firmly in those buckets.)
Microsoft's upcoming.NET rev has support for generics. Will MONO have this support soon?
I've found that generics, carefully applied, can save huge amounts of development time. It'd be great to see MONO support this soon.
(Oh, and for those wondering: Microsoft's rev gets generics right. This ain't the "we can't quite handle value types" variety of generics that plagues JDK1.5.)
Ask a good jazz pianist to play a solo. During the solo, try and engage her in conversation. Either she will continue soloing, or she'll talk to you -- but she won't be able to do both.
I've tried this several times while sitting at the keys. The same part of my brain that strings together sentences is busy creating musical phrases -- it stubbornly refuses to multitask.
That this relation exists has been known to jazzists for some time: pianist Bill Evans is revered for his 'conversational' improv style. A master of tone color, Bill could say something humorous or profound with each cluster of notes.
Re:cds are just single with a bunch of crappy song
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Seriously, what CDs are we listening to here? Sure, the top-40 CDs are single + filler... and it's our buying habits that have justified these economics.
Step a tiny bit off the beaten path and you'll find all sorts of well-known-but-not-huge-commercial-success artists with great albums, not tracks.
Interesting. I think the problem is that my latch is very loose and sometimes when the lid is in fact closed the PB thinks it is "open." I've always had a PB12 with a slightly warped screen but it seems to have gotten worse in the past few months. Wonder what to do about it.
And yeah, the bright blue light drove me insane at night. I've taken to putting a towel over the machine while it is charging. Any Mac Haxors out there know how to modify this behavior?
This is strange. Ever since I installed 10.3.1, my powerbook's sleep light (y'know, the one on the button to open the screen) has been much, much dimmer. Either my PBG4 is about to explode or Apple decided to chill it out a bit.
I've been looking for a web site that states simply: "Aurora will be good tonight in the high-mid latitudes. Go outside at midnight PDT." Alas, most of the "space weather" reports I've seen are difficult to grok.
Could someone please explain how to parse reports such as the NOAA solar forecast? Thanks!
Robert Park is best known as the wit behind the APSWhat's New newsletter, a fantastic weekly mailing of science and policy-related blurbs. Park is also responsible for Voodoo Science, a book that debunks science myths and demonstrates how to identify science scams.
While Bob Park's name still appears in the credits, I think his involvement with the newsletter has lessed somewhat since his run-in with an oak tree a few years back. The witty remark per sentence ratio just hasn't been the same.
You hate Microsoft? Well, you've got friends here at Slashdot.
But why do Slashdot's editors have to broadcast pointless invective such as this? The post is of a contentless article prefaced with mean-spirited and libelous accusations.
You hate Microsoft? Defend your hatred intelligently.
I happen to like Microsoft today. My mom just got broadband and upgraded to WinXP. Herself! And she got on the Internet and sent me an e-mail via Outlook Express. This is the same mom who, a few years ago, was still inserting floppy disks upside down. Microsoft enabled my Mom to be a part of this great Internet thing. That's way frickin' cool!
Why do I need to carry around this box? Why do I want to carry around data? That's what the Internet is for.
Wrong.
I have far more data than last-mile Internet bandwidth can handle. Economic and technological barriers make it likely that I'll be limited by last-mile bandwidth for the duration of my natural life. Perhaps my children or their grandchildren will fare differently.
As it is, compact hard drives with enormous capacities are becoming very cheap. I've got five hundred CDs at home, a bunch of DVDs, and tons of software and photos. Why not bring it with me in my pocket? Let the Internet back it up: if I lose my drive or it becomes corrupted, I'll "recharge" it from the Internet. (But I'll pay a cost in lost time.)
Can't fit every bit I have rights to onto my pocket HD? I'll use it as a cache and fetch from Internet "main memory" only when absolutely necessary, again with a perf hit of time. But even a pocket 40GB is enough to cache the data I use daily; chances are, I'll rarely use the Internet to access my own data, regardless of where I'm trying to access it from.
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My point about Google was that GMail and then Google Maps were the products that truly alerted the world, in a big way, to the potential of AJAX. Shortly thereafter, tons of people started using AJAX to build sites, MySpace included.
As for start.com: this is a very new Microsoft effort and it isn't an official product. (Live.com is the official product, but that only happened like a week ago.) The important point is that Microsoft had the technology in its hands long ago but failed to capitalize on it in obvious places (again, let me point my finger at MSN's many products.)
Agreed that the press enjoys jumping on all-things-Google these days, but I think it is fair to say that Google was the first company to fully understand the value of AJAX and captilize on it in a way that the general public was aware of.
Microsoft invented AJAX in, what, 1999? Of course, they didn't call it that, but invent it they did.
Specifically, Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest and pioneered its use in Outlook Web Access. OWA is an important feature for Microsoft. It gives a fantastic client-like email experience over the web.
Oddly enough, none of Microsoft's other teams (MSN, anybody?) decided to use the AJAX approach in their products. This seems like a huge misstep and showcases just how large and disconnected Microsoft, the company, is.
In the intervening years, Google managed to swoop in and take up the AJAX crown -- to the betterment of web users the world over.
MC Chris didn't take up my challenge the last time nerdcore rap came up; perhaps he was paralyzed by my prodigious skill. Nevertheless, I repost here in the hopes that he eventually steps.
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya
ima shut your site down with my shell scripts
so best insist upon that extra strength firewall
lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all
watch you back, cause you know i stack racks
that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black
so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late
check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done
with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021
just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing
tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing
your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin
cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action
but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start
guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
Sheesh!
So a hearty farewell to SGI. I just hope they go down swiftly and silently.
Nothing swift about it, I assure you. I worked at SGI as an intern and then as a full-time employee in 1999. My team was restructured out of existence about six months after I joined the company.
I joined SGI at the same time a good friend did. Since we were both recent college hires, SGI was reluctant to let us go. I decided to leave, but my friend stayed. Since our entire division had been axed, the online org chart showed him reporting directly to the CEO, Rick Belluzo! That apparently lasted for several months.
(And, funny thing, Rick Belluzo ended up having a short and not particularly excellent term as an exec at Microsoft, too. Gates and Ballmer no doubt quickly realized what a fumbler he was.)
My question is: what, you wanna step? Check it.
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya
ima shut your site down with my shell scripts
so best insist upon that extra strength firewall
lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all
watch you back, cause you know i stack racks
that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black
so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late
check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done
with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021
just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing
tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing
your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin
cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action
but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start
guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
damn... you know you can't step!
or are you ready to battle for the nerdcore crown?
My question is: what, you wanna step? Check it.
MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya
ima shut your site down with my shell scripts
so best insist upon that extra strength firewall
lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all
watch you back, cause you know i stack racks
that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black
so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late
check - your system went dark like it's 2038
it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done
with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021
just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing
tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing
your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin
cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action
but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start
guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts
damn... you know you can't step!
or are you ready to battle for the nerdcore crown?
I'm surprised at how many responses I've read that make the relative-value argument: "$750 million is only 1.5% of his net worth. I donate three times that much compared to my net worth of $1000, therefore Gates' donation isn't really that significant."
This notion that relative dollar amounts are somehow important is so broken, it's sad. Go back to econ class, folks. Your $45 donation doesn't make a dent; Gates has the power to target his $750 million just right. He's far more likely to hit the bull's-eye.
It's best to look directly at the real, serious, climate change science. I recommend reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's third assessment report from 2001 (the most recent.) From the Preface to this substantial and authoritative work: A detailed study is made of human influence on climate and whether it can be identified with any more confidence than in 1996, concluding that there is new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities..
But don't forget one thing: the exit polls exactly and perfectly describe the 2% Bush margin.
Actually, this is not true according to raw data I've found in sites like Zogby and MSNBC. The exit polls in Ohio showed a small margin for Kerry. However, the margin of error for exit polls (again, according to Zogby) has historically been between 3% and 5%; this election was no exception. This means that exit polls are great in landslides, but utterly meaningless in a state like Ohio. Conspiracy theorists with even a slight tolerance for mathematics will have to let this one rest.
It would behoove by far-left-leaning friends to move on from conspiracy theories and start thinking about why America soundly rejected the Democratic Party in '04. I'm personally distressed by the outcome of the election, but I accept it as the legitimate result of the process set forth by our founders.
In the fiction category, I recommend Paul Aster's City Of Glass for some not-so-uplifting reading related to the critical period theory.
Some of my favorite cuts from the past years:
Big names:
Lesser known:
Anyway, I don't think any of these fit other people's apparently narrow conceptions of the term "techno."
While the other dude who replied to this seems to have a bit of a 'tood, I have to agree with him: These days, "Techno" is used strictly as the umbrella term.
Trance (which has many subdivisions like HiNRG and Goa) and House (again, many subdivisions, like tech house, glitch house, cheezy circuit house) meet your definition of repetitive looped music better. (Cox, Mills, Beyer fit firmly in those buckets.)
Really? That's surprising considering that (as I understand it) Microsoft is still finializing details for Whidbey generics.
Microsoft's upcoming .NET rev has support for generics. Will MONO have this support soon?
I've found that generics, carefully applied, can save huge amounts of development time. It'd be great to see MONO support this soon.
(Oh, and for those wondering: Microsoft's rev gets generics right. This ain't the "we can't quite handle value types" variety of generics that plagues JDK1.5.)
Ask a good jazz pianist to play a solo. During the solo, try and engage her in conversation. Either she will continue soloing, or she'll talk to you -- but she won't be able to do both.
I've tried this several times while sitting at the keys. The same part of my brain that strings together sentences is busy creating musical phrases -- it stubbornly refuses to multitask.
That this relation exists has been known to jazzists for some time: pianist Bill Evans is revered for his 'conversational' improv style. A master of tone color, Bill could say something humorous or profound with each cluster of notes.
Seriously, what CDs are we listening to here? Sure, the top-40 CDs are single + filler... and it's our buying habits that have justified these economics.
Step a tiny bit off the beaten path and you'll find all sorts of well-known-but-not-huge-commercial-success artists with great albums, not tracks.
Agreed. As for publications originating on the left side of the pond, we've got Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker...
And yeah, the bright blue light drove me insane at night. I've taken to putting a towel over the machine while it is charging. Any Mac Haxors out there know how to modify this behavior?
Anyone else seen this?
Could someone please explain how to parse reports such as the NOAA solar forecast? Thanks!
Robert Park is best known as the wit behind the APS What's New newsletter, a fantastic weekly mailing of science and policy-related blurbs. Park is also responsible for Voodoo Science, a book that debunks science myths and demonstrates how to identify science scams.
While Bob Park's name still appears in the credits, I think his involvement with the newsletter has lessed somewhat since his run-in with an oak tree a few years back. The witty remark per sentence ratio just hasn't been the same.
You hate Microsoft? Well, you've got friends here at Slashdot.
But why do Slashdot's editors have to broadcast pointless invective such as this? The post is of a contentless article prefaced with mean-spirited and libelous accusations.
You hate Microsoft? Defend your hatred intelligently.
I happen to like Microsoft today. My mom just got broadband and upgraded to WinXP. Herself! And she got on the Internet and sent me an e-mail via Outlook Express. This is the same mom who, a few years ago, was still inserting floppy disks upside down. Microsoft enabled my Mom to be a part of this great Internet thing. That's way frickin' cool!
Wrong.
I have far more data than last-mile Internet bandwidth can handle. Economic and technological barriers make it likely that I'll be limited by last-mile bandwidth for the duration of my natural life. Perhaps my children or their grandchildren will fare differently.
As it is, compact hard drives with enormous capacities are becoming very cheap. I've got five hundred CDs at home, a bunch of DVDs, and tons of software and photos. Why not bring it with me in my pocket? Let the Internet back it up: if I lose my drive or it becomes corrupted, I'll "recharge" it from the Internet. (But I'll pay a cost in lost time.)
Can't fit every bit I have rights to onto my pocket HD? I'll use it as a cache and fetch from Internet "main memory" only when absolutely necessary, again with a perf hit of time. But even a pocket 40GB is enough to cache the data I use daily; chances are, I'll rarely use the Internet to access my own data, regardless of where I'm trying to access it from.
What economic incentives are there to improve last-mile bandwidth to WANs? Will such bandwidth always be woefully lacking?