recently i was tasked with upgrading a bit of inhouse web 2.0 data entry software, and i had to add spellcheck, which of course is extremely easy: just use firefox. which floored longtime msie users
but then, upon further research, i found out about dynamic textarea resizing, a useful little feature for lots of data entry, while using chrome. you just click and drag the corner of the textarea to make it bigger (or smaller). very nifty
and upon even more research, i found out safari supports both dynamic resizing and spellchecking, AND a grammar checking feature (underlines green, as well as red for misspelt words like in firefox)
all of the mac users in my office were all smiles when i proposed we switch to safari company wide
so, for data entry with lots of textareas on the webpage, i summarize the following for you:
as apple gains market share, more virus authors will target it, until its penetration rate is equal to windows, which only has the penetration rate it has because of its popularity
if windows were an obscure os, its marketers would trumpet its low virus rate as a feature
likewise, if linux gains more popularity, it will be targetted, and exploited, at the same rate as windows is now
cue the linux and apple zealots who think their os is somehow more inherently secure than windows
exploits are just as much about social engineering, and the security of the programs that run on top of the os, as they are about the os. in such a way, advertising better security in one os versus another is a misnomer
but when these economists start retroactively applying the recession to previous time periods, thats just cruel and unusual punishment
why do we tolerate these economists? why don't we just lock them in a dungeon somewhere? what did we ever do to them to make them hurt our economy so bad?
maybe if some of us form a posse and tar and feather some economists these jerks will relent and make the economy good again
that is, its complete bullshit, but as a dream forever out of reach, it drives a lot of important and accidental discoveries, like databases or optical character recognition
so we need lots of bright minds working in AI. none of them will ever actually achieve the goal. but along the way, they will spin off fantastic new technology
so i applaud your focus, but you should be aware that anything you do of any import will be orthogonal to your goals
ignorance of law leads to the interpretation that the lori drew case has far reaching implications. hysteria leads to the rest
and frankly, slashhordes, if this case is your waterloo, then you don't deserve any online rights, because this case, in its proper context that anyone with the faintest understanding of law understands, has absolutely nothing to do with your online rights
you defend your rights from genuine threats to it. only ignorance, stupidity, and hysteria considers the lori drew case a threat to their rights
slashhordes are constantly tut tutting society overreacing with hysteria. now you are doing it
it was a nice idea when it was limited and a gentleman's agreement amongst a handful of publishers
however, with every teenager with a cable modem having more reach than time warner in 1988, intellectual property is unenforceable and, more importantly, perverted to serve publishers, rather than content creators
as such, it is antiquated nonsense that must be ignored
for content creators, the internet is an adevertising outlet in which to distrubte their works. cash flow is from ancillary business. and distributors are defunct, along with the legal framework that propped them up before the internet
i have identified a potentially universal mechanism of aging: time
what scientists have discovered is the opposite: a dna repair mechanism which is overwhelmed over time, and perhaps a way to bolster the repair mechanism so it is overwhelmed a little later
any freshman computer science major can recognize this problem. its just that no one amongst us has the power to do anything about it. its the network effect, we are already entrenched in a bad model no one has the power to extricate us from. or, more accurately, we are entrenched in a perfectly good model, circa 1993
how we move away from messy ajax, which is nothing more than stretching the limits of a world of static html pages to the furthest extreme, is again something any computer science freshman can describe. but the only better models that matter are those that are backed by a large influential force in the marketplace
i give you google chrome
google chrome will serve as the bridge from the old static html world to the mvc model talked about here. and its probably been discussed at google hq for the last 3 years
is that the same anatomies keep getting reinvented for various reasons: environment, food source, etc.
so you have dolphins mimicking the body plans of fish
you have bats mimicking the body plans of birds
you have the herds of grazers during the dinosaur age and the predators who track them, and you have the herds of grazers in our age and the predators who track them
the same bodyplans and anatomical features and feeding strategies keep getting reinvented
and here, you have a squid, who has evolved to live like a jellyfish
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recently i was tasked with upgrading a bit of inhouse web 2.0 data entry software, and i had to add spellcheck, which of course is extremely easy: just use firefox. which floored longtime msie users
but then, upon further research, i found out about dynamic textarea resizing, a useful little feature for lots of data entry, while using chrome. you just click and drag the corner of the textarea to make it bigger (or smaller). very nifty
and upon even more research, i found out safari supports both dynamic resizing and spellchecking, AND a grammar checking feature (underlines green, as well as red for misspelt words like in firefox)
all of the mac users in my office were all smiles when i proposed we switch to safari company wide
so, for data entry with lots of textareas on the webpage, i summarize the following for you:
firefox: spellchecking
chrome: dynamic resize
safari: spellchecking, dynamic resize AND grammar checking
you want people to be more PC about using the term PC
opera
ie
mozilla (firefox/ netscape)
webkit (safarit/ chrome)
am i missing any (competitive, comprehensive) engines?
aren't all of the browsers here variations on these engines?
maxthon, for example, is ie based i believe
as apple gains market share, more virus authors will target it, until its penetration rate is equal to windows, which only has the penetration rate it has because of its popularity
if windows were an obscure os, its marketers would trumpet its low virus rate as a feature
likewise, if linux gains more popularity, it will be targetted, and exploited, at the same rate as windows is now
cue the linux and apple zealots who think their os is somehow more inherently secure than windows
exploits are just as much about social engineering, and the security of the programs that run on top of the os, as they are about the os. in such a way, advertising better security in one os versus another is a misnomer
but when these economists start retroactively applying the recession to previous time periods, thats just cruel and unusual punishment
why do we tolerate these economists? why don't we just lock them in a dungeon somewhere? what did we ever do to them to make them hurt our economy so bad?
maybe if some of us form a posse and tar and feather some economists these jerks will relent and make the economy good again
that is, its complete bullshit, but as a dream forever out of reach, it drives a lot of important and accidental discoveries, like databases or optical character recognition
so we need lots of bright minds working in AI. none of them will ever actually achieve the goal. but along the way, they will spin off fantastic new technology
so i applaud your focus, but you should be aware that anything you do of any import will be orthogonal to your goals
what is posed as a philosophical breakthrough is simply nothing more than not understandning the goddamn meaning of the word "censorship"
a high noise to signal ratio is not the same thing as censorship
that's some pretty fruitless philosophical gymnastics there son
leading to completely spurious hypotheses
let me throw my hat in the ring with an equally valid conclusion by saying COULD IT BE BATMAN?!
"all the judges aren't sane, all the presidents aren't sane, noboody in government knows how a computer runs!"
oooo noooes!
all you need is the pantyhose twisted around your ankles and your lipstick smudged
you have ZERO faith in the institutions of your government
and people get the governments they deserve
therefore, if the government sucks, it is because of hysterical overreactive twits with such little faith as yourself as the government's base
meanwhile, i have a little more faith than you in our government, and through me and people like me, it will be held accountable to higher standards
you, meanwhile, go run around outside and yell histrionic and fear-addled slogans
you're such a benefit to us all, really
fucking faithless twit
contribute something more positive than "everything sucks! waaah!" or shut the fuck up
ignorance of law leads to the interpretation that the lori drew case has far reaching implications. hysteria leads to the rest
and frankly, slashhordes, if this case is your waterloo, then you don't deserve any online rights, because this case, in its proper context that anyone with the faintest understanding of law understands, has absolutely nothing to do with your online rights
you defend your rights from genuine threats to it. only ignorance, stupidity, and hysteria considers the lori drew case a threat to their rights
slashhordes are constantly tut tutting society overreacing with hysteria. now you are doing it
calm the fuck down and grow some fucking brains
you have a dodgy supply chain to your location. bother the supply chain
it was a nice idea when it was limited and a gentleman's agreement amongst a handful of publishers
however, with every teenager with a cable modem having more reach than time warner in 1988, intellectual property is unenforceable and, more importantly, perverted to serve publishers, rather than content creators
as such, it is antiquated nonsense that must be ignored
for content creators, the internet is an adevertising outlet in which to distrubte their works. cash flow is from ancillary business. and distributors are defunct, along with the legal framework that propped them up before the internet
you could go to a sports convention and say football is insipid
you could go to a chess club and call chess stupid
but you will go to slashdot, and call lotr boring
so whether you are a troll or a retard, you are most certainly a masochist
religious bigotry is akin to a bad film adaptation of a good book
you win the allegory of the month award
or a fucking retard
can't decide which
one would think watchmen was unfilmable, but apparently early previews say it is fantastic
one would have thought lord of the rings was unfilmable, and yet jackson made some of the best films ever made
as long as they do it right... for values of "doing it right" that are largely unquantifiable
support nuclear power, make an actual difference on the environment
of course, attacking a minor environmental issue to scare rich people and make them feel guilty about their overpriced toys is better pr i guess
you understand my point
thanks for the nitpicking, its added a lot
like they are going to stop there
why do you think google wants to build anothr browser? what's the point?
if you magically removed all preprogrammed senescence, our brains, arteries, kidneys... it would al still fall apart over time
we will extend lives, certainly, but there is an upper limit of the processes you are talking about, across which normal entropy rots us out
thereis no magical biological process which protects us forever from entropy. because that process itself is subject to entropy
we will extend human life to 200, 300, 500 years. but in the end, it all falls apart, and you die
i have identified a potentially universal mechanism of aging: time
what scientists have discovered is the opposite: a dna repair mechanism which is overwhelmed over time, and perhaps a way to bolster the repair mechanism so it is overwhelmed a little later
any freshman computer science major can recognize this problem. its just that no one amongst us has the power to do anything about it. its the network effect, we are already entrenched in a bad model no one has the power to extricate us from. or, more accurately, we are entrenched in a perfectly good model, circa 1993
how we move away from messy ajax, which is nothing more than stretching the limits of a world of static html pages to the furthest extreme, is again something any computer science freshman can describe. but the only better models that matter are those that are backed by a large influential force in the marketplace
i give you google chrome
google chrome will serve as the bridge from the old static html world to the mvc model talked about here. and its probably been discussed at google hq for the last 3 years
you aren't supposed to like it
i believe everything you wrote above, i believe just as you believe
but the difference between you and i is that i accept these observations of truth with shame and grief, i don't trumpet it as wonderful
that god/ evolution/ the fsm has a sense of humor
is that the same anatomies keep getting reinvented for various reasons: environment, food source, etc.
so you have dolphins mimicking the body plans of fish
you have bats mimicking the body plans of birds
you have the herds of grazers during the dinosaur age and the predators who track them, and you have the herds of grazers in our age and the predators who track them
the same bodyplans and anatomical features and feeding strategies keep getting reinvented
and here, you have a squid, who has evolved to live like a jellyfish