These companies need to make money somehow, even if it is Microsoft. The Xbox and PS2 as well as many other modern game consoles have sold for well under cost and have been trying to make money on the games. This sounds like the next logical step.
Nothing is permanent. However, after so long you're gonna start getting rehashed methods. It's like a big circle everyone is running around in, looking for the absolute best. Yes, there are ones better than others, but there is no perfect one. Need OO for a simple 10 line php script? Hell no, unless you're relying on a lot of 3rd party libraries. Need Ruby on Rails for a statistics generator with no front end what so ever? Nope. It all changes, but there is some good stuff we take along the way. But I don't think we'll ever find something that is just "perfect", more of a never ending quest to find the better one, and to stay on top of all the ones from the past.
I think the fear many people have is not being denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition, but to be denied because of predisposition to a condition, one that may never develop.
I think with overall risk raising costs or administrative costs raising overall costs, you're kinda screwed both ways.
There's a difference between leaving genetic material lying around, and running lab tests on that material. If you leave your bank statement around, people can read it, if you leave an encrypted copy around, they have to actively do something to read it. You would think(hope) there is a bit of a difference, but I'm afraid you may be right.
"Nothing even close to the craziness over in Linux-land with the more than 200 separate distros, no two of which are binary compatible, and few of which are source compatible."
Glad you got the joke in the end.:) I'm a FreeBSD user thru and thru.
For awhile there, we only had 3, and life was good. Now we have DragonFly, Darwin, and now DesktopBSD. Any system that splits up so much must be dead or dying!!
Last year I did a (crappy) Halloween Blog. This year I'm using Wordpress, mobblogging and my phone(and a real digicam) so I can post "live from the field" so to speak. I'm getting search hits from Google already this year so I set the blog up early. I also plan to take comments/reviews from any online users and people I meet, to try and give well rounded reviews. Blogs are great because of the ease and simplicity of doing these kinds of things. Little to no HTML to deal with, and I can send it from my phone to mobblog it without even being near a computer!
And because I have crazy arse phone, I can take out my Digital Camera's memory, stick it into my phone, and email with good mobblog pictures instead of relying soly on the phone's camera.
Nordstrom gives every single item you buy an individual barcode and they scan it and assign it to that, to you(they need your information when you make a purchase there), and to the person who sold it to you(for comission purposes and customer service purposes). I think that's a good idea. But their profit margins are high enough for that. But WalMart and Target's just aren't, but may be something they'll have to do, at least on items over a certain percentage.
"You have to wonder about a crucial part of the equation: why would internet users share their bandwidth to benefit media companies?"
Why? Why? So I can download it at 200k/sec from all over the net instead of 10k/sec from the central server. Because I want my media when I click "Download" and if not then, then as fast as possible.
Besides, I'm not paying per meg, so as long as it's extra bandwidth, they can have it, as long as it benefits me, which is does. Faster downloads.
There are strategies to go with where it doesn't have to be signed, you can have it locally installed as an extension/plugin into Firefox. You can have it only contact the originating server (example: a xul project from xul.blah.com only communicates with xul.blah.com).
There are plenty of solutions out there, sounds like you're not interested in googling for them.
"In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can" if we have time, as we will be integrating IE7 into every aspect of the OS to make it completely inseparable.
Haha! Again, how do you avoid IE and Outlook if you want Internet and Email? Firefox?? Opera?? You're on a crutch, yet again! You need third party software for it to be an internet enabled desktop. And how many of our mothers avoid IE and Outlook? (Since Linux is held against that criteria, Windows should be too).
Of course Linux isn't ready for the desktop! But what they don't tell you is that Windows isn't either!
C'mon, Spyware, Adware, Numerous Bugs(My Soundcard driver crashed the other Day. My Microsoft Certified Driver completely crashed. A reboot and it worked, but that's unacceptable as it never has any trouble in *Nix). Crazy Service Packs, bad to no real support.
Hell, you NEED an Anti-Virus just to browse the net and check your email, even if you don't download and open any attachments. Just to protect you from the wild internet. You have to combine XP + Norton + Ad-Aware/Spybot S&D just to get a near usable PC. That's quite a stone's throw away from a desktop.
The problem with it, is Windows IS used as the desktop, even though it isn't ready for it yet. That means it is the standard, however, how often has your mother had to call you over to fix it? Linux wouldn't require the same thing, especially if all they want is browsing and email. They're quite matched at that point. But no, Linux isn't ready. Neither is Windows.
Firefox, Greasemonkey, Platypus, BetterSearch to name a few are pretty fun and interesting. RSS Feeds as well can encourage some people(As well as save them time while reading the news during work hours!).
All I can think of, other than PenguinRacer that is. =)
I do mostly PHP now, because of whom I'm working for. But I've used Perl in the past and still do(when it's easier/faster to do it than PHP and no one will notice). Nothing really web wise for it, but it still fits nicely where other things don't.
That's what I've always liked about Perl, it fills the void. Before PHP it was the CGI king, now PHP and ASP share that. But it's still there when you need it.
I've been meaning to check out mod_perl2 which I've heard is finally stable. Anyone try it out yet? Comparisons to mod_perl1? That's the thing I miss in PHP, a lot of that functionality(mod_perl) is missing. But PHP works just fine. (Let's not start a flame thread under me, I'm sure there are plenty of other threads that are gonna erupt into flames).
I'm using Platypus and Greasemonkey to eliminate Google's site down to a search box and the two buttons, "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky". Nothing else on the screen, nada. Of course, I'm using Better Search so the searches come with screenshots and other links, as well as notification of an RSS feed or not on the site. Very cool feature, btw. Google's homepage looks cool, but I'm happy with my shrunk down version already. =)
Haha, I always said the same thing about Japan and China, as you can trace most any anime back to some Chinese legend. Of course there are exceptions, but without China's old legends, Japan's anime industry would be about 15% the size it is now.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdotting a US Gov't website? Some pent up anger people?
What would be the point of having a portable asterisk at the point anyways? Leave it on the primary server and take a softphone with you.
Because when you unplug it no one can leave you voicemail.
These companies need to make money somehow, even if it is Microsoft. The Xbox and PS2 as well as many other modern game consoles have sold for well under cost and have been trying to make money on the games. This sounds like the next logical step.
Nothing is permanent. However, after so long you're gonna start getting rehashed methods. It's like a big circle everyone is running around in, looking for the absolute best. Yes, there are ones better than others, but there is no perfect one. Need OO for a simple 10 line php script? Hell no, unless you're relying on a lot of 3rd party libraries. Need Ruby on Rails for a statistics generator with no front end what so ever? Nope. It all changes, but there is some good stuff we take along the way. But I don't think we'll ever find something that is just "perfect", more of a never ending quest to find the better one, and to stay on top of all the ones from the past.
I think the fear many people have is not being denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition, but to be denied because of predisposition to a condition, one that may never develop.
I think with overall risk raising costs or administrative costs raising overall costs, you're kinda screwed both ways.
There's a difference between leaving genetic material lying around, and running lab tests on that material. If you leave your bank statement around, people can read it, if you leave an encrypted copy around, they have to actively do something to read it. You would think(hope) there is a bit of a difference, but I'm afraid you may be right.
"Nothing even close to the craziness over in Linux-land with the more than 200 separate distros, no two of which are binary compatible, and few of which are source compatible."
:) I'm a FreeBSD user thru and thru.
Glad you got the joke in the end.
When is starts to fracture.
For awhile there, we only had 3, and life was good. Now we have DragonFly, Darwin, and now DesktopBSD. Any system that splits up so much must be dead or dying!!
Last year I did a (crappy) Halloween Blog. This year I'm using Wordpress, mobblogging and my phone(and a real digicam) so I can post "live from the field" so to speak. I'm getting search hits from Google already this year so I set the blog up early. I also plan to take comments/reviews from any online users and people I meet, to try and give well rounded reviews. Blogs are great because of the ease and simplicity of doing these kinds of things. Little to no HTML to deal with, and I can send it from my phone to mobblog it without even being near a computer!
And because I have crazy arse phone, I can take out my Digital Camera's memory, stick it into my phone, and email with good mobblog pictures instead of relying soly on the phone's camera.
Nordstrom gives every single item you buy an individual barcode and they scan it and assign it to that, to you(they need your information when you make a purchase there), and to the person who sold it to you(for comission purposes and customer service purposes). I think that's a good idea. But their profit margins are high enough for that. But WalMart and Target's just aren't, but may be something they'll have to do, at least on items over a certain percentage.
"You have to wonder about a crucial part of the equation: why would internet users share their bandwidth to benefit media companies?"
Why? Why? So I can download it at 200k/sec from all over the net instead of 10k/sec from the central server. Because I want my media when I click "Download" and if not then, then as fast as possible.
Besides, I'm not paying per meg, so as long as it's extra bandwidth, they can have it, as long as it benefits me, which is does. Faster downloads.
There are strategies to go with where it doesn't have to be signed, you can have it locally installed as an extension/plugin into Firefox. You can have it only contact the originating server (example: a xul project from xul.blah.com only communicates with xul.blah.com).
There are plenty of solutions out there, sounds like you're not interested in googling for them.
Don't put your secrets on the web. Even if it's encrypted/secure/firewalled. If it's not connected to the net, it's not at as much risk.
"In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can" if we have time, as we will be integrating IE7 into every aspect of the OS to make it completely inseparable.
Haha! Again, how do you avoid IE and Outlook if you want Internet and Email? Firefox?? Opera?? You're on a crutch, yet again! You need third party software for it to be an internet enabled desktop. And how many of our mothers avoid IE and Outlook? (Since Linux is held against that criteria, Windows should be too).
Of course Linux isn't ready for the desktop! But what they don't tell you is that Windows isn't either!
C'mon, Spyware, Adware, Numerous Bugs(My Soundcard driver crashed the other Day. My Microsoft Certified Driver completely crashed. A reboot and it worked, but that's unacceptable as it never has any trouble in *Nix). Crazy Service Packs, bad to no real support.
Hell, you NEED an Anti-Virus just to browse the net and check your email, even if you don't download and open any attachments. Just to protect you from the wild internet. You have to combine XP + Norton + Ad-Aware/Spybot S&D just to get a near usable PC. That's quite a stone's throw away from a desktop.
The problem with it, is Windows IS used as the desktop, even though it isn't ready for it yet. That means it is the standard, however, how often has your mother had to call you over to fix it? Linux wouldn't require the same thing, especially if all they want is browsing and email. They're quite matched at that point. But no, Linux isn't ready. Neither is Windows.
(I can't speak of OSX, I don't actively use it)
Sign your XUL App and put your cert on the Browser side.
Or you can use XUL and make it Mozilla/FireFox only.
Until XulRunner comes out that is, then you can almost detatch it from the web.
Firefox, Greasemonkey, Platypus, BetterSearch to name a few are pretty fun and interesting. RSS Feeds as well can encourage some people(As well as save them time while reading the news during work hours!).
All I can think of, other than PenguinRacer that is. =)
I do mostly PHP now, because of whom I'm working for. But I've used Perl in the past and still do(when it's easier/faster to do it than PHP and no one will notice). Nothing really web wise for it, but it still fits nicely where other things don't.
That's what I've always liked about Perl, it fills the void. Before PHP it was the CGI king, now PHP and ASP share that. But it's still there when you need it.
I've been meaning to check out mod_perl2 which I've heard is finally stable. Anyone try it out yet? Comparisons to mod_perl1? That's the thing I miss in PHP, a lot of that functionality(mod_perl) is missing. But PHP works just fine. (Let's not start a flame thread under me, I'm sure there are plenty of other threads that are gonna erupt into flames).
I'm using Platypus and Greasemonkey to eliminate Google's site down to a search box and the two buttons, "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky". Nothing else on the screen, nada. Of course, I'm using Better Search so the searches come with screenshots and other links, as well as notification of an RSS feed or not on the site. Very cool feature, btw. Google's homepage looks cool, but I'm happy with my shrunk down version already. =)
Not mine, not sure whose, but good pics I found via technorati.
Shuttle Takeoff
We've got Google Maps for Wifi Spots, but when are we gonna get one to map out the nearest Strip Joints?
Haha, I always said the same thing about Japan and China, as you can trace most any anime back to some Chinese legend. Of course there are exceptions, but without China's old legends, Japan's anime industry would be about 15% the size it is now.