I think micropayments will turn out to be as popular as metered telephone access. When people have to worry about an item costing them for each use, it suppresses the frequency with which they use the resource.
Worse, I doubt that all sites will have the same cost, so the user will have to juggle in his head "OK, this site is $0.05 per page view and that site is $1.00 per page view and this other site...."
And even worse still, the payment rates for sites will be intentionally confusing. For example, the page-per-view rate might be kept low, but the sites will then be arranged to maxamize the number of pages you have to view. Moreover, expect sites to develop differing schemes which make comparing costs and services difficult - sorta like the banking and insurance industries do.
Consumers want flat-rate pricing. If the industry wants to find a model to replace advertising, they're going to have to come up with one where consumers pay a predictable, flat fee which gets distributed to the various sites they visit in a way that they don't have to deal with or think about.
I didn't think it was misleading. If he'd meant median, he would have said median. Was he supposed to write "average (and I really do intend mean average here)"?
The Mulder character's gotten stale, the dialog between Mulder and Scully is so predictable that I suspect it's being generated by a vintage 80's AI program, and the sexual undercurrent between Mulder and Scully gives the program a soap opera feel.
Now the show can move to a rotating co-host format. One week Scully's all teched-up with the Lone Gunmen. The next, she's pursuing Legion with Frank Black. The next, Krycek is let out of slash-hell and gets TV time again. Finally, while playing Quake, she accidently gets sucked into Harsh Realm and is cancelled mid-season....
Personally, my vote for a co-host is a resurrected (or never actually dead) Jose Chung. Or did Charles Nelson Reilly finally die IRL?
Current screen readers convey bold and italics fine (never mind and ). They do frames with varying success. They still can't tell you what's in the picture.
Not exactly plain text, and this should have been obvious to you.
Moreover, the lawsuit (you should have read the article) doesn't have to do with AOL's HTML, but rather with that god-awful, browser-like access-application-thingee of theirs.
I think the total lack of understanding of HCI issues exhibited in the discussion here begins to explain the state of graphical (or other) interfaces under Linux.
Actually, you can go around ripping off other people's designs - they aren't covered by copyright and certainly not by patents. It's why you get knock-offs of designer clothing and furniture.
The alternative would be a complete nightmare of companies suing each other over "your lamp looks too much like my lamp" or "those pants look too much like our pants".
This is a harassment lawsuit on Apple's part. They're probably also hoping that if they get the right judge, he'll overide previous rulings concerning design and copyright or something.
I think Lotus came up with the idea of suing on the basis of "look and feel". After they ceased to be able to make meaningful updates to 1-2-3, they started suing companies which made spreadsheets using similar menu heirarchies.
The US has been pushing the adoption of software patents overseas since, well, at least since Bush was in office on the assumption that the US would generate a disproportionate number of the patents. This would result in licensing fees flowing into US companies, further solidification of the US's domination of the international software market, etc., etc.
Does anyone know what the extent of these benefits to the US are estimated to be?
The focus on Doom is because the meme has already been floating around in the media a lot, so reporters and the audience pick it up and understand it quickly. It's why there are news articles even suggesting that Doom gave these two the military training they needed while (usually) ignoring their target practice and involvment in paintball - both of which would be more useful in developing skills for tracking down and killing people.
Why aren't the winners of the ACM's Turing Award ever announced on the national news? Given that the Nobel winners are always announced and that the news organizations are constantly running articles on computer issues and businesses, it seems like they'd give the Turing Award some coverage....
Slashdot Mirror
I think micropayments will turn out to be as popular as metered telephone access. When people have to worry about an item costing them for each use, it suppresses the frequency with which they use the resource.
Worse, I doubt that all sites will have the same cost, so the user will have to juggle in his head "OK, this site is $0.05 per page view and that site is $1.00 per page view and this other site...."
And even worse still, the payment rates for sites will be intentionally confusing. For example, the page-per-view rate might be kept low, but the sites will then be arranged to maxamize the number of pages you have to view. Moreover, expect sites to develop differing schemes which make comparing costs and services difficult - sorta like the banking and insurance industries do.
Consumers want flat-rate pricing. If the industry wants to find a model to replace advertising, they're going to have to come up with one where consumers pay a predictable, flat fee which gets distributed to the various sites they visit in a way that they don't have to deal with or think about.
I didn't think it was misleading. If he'd meant median, he would have said median. Was he supposed to write "average (and I really do intend mean average here)"?
The Mulder character's gotten stale, the dialog between Mulder and Scully is so predictable that I suspect it's being generated by a vintage 80's AI program, and the sexual undercurrent between Mulder and Scully gives the program a soap opera feel.
Now the show can move to a rotating co-host format. One week Scully's all teched-up with the Lone Gunmen. The next, she's pursuing Legion with Frank Black. The next, Krycek is let out of slash-hell and gets TV time again. Finally, while playing Quake, she accidently gets sucked into Harsh Realm and is cancelled mid-season....
Personally, my vote for a co-host is a resurrected (or never actually dead) Jose Chung. Or did Charles Nelson Reilly finally die IRL?
Current screen readers convey bold and italics fine (never mind and ). They do frames with varying success. They still can't tell you what's in the picture.
Not exactly plain text, and this should have been obvious to you.
Moreover, the lawsuit (you should have read the article) doesn't have to do with AOL's HTML, but rather with that god-awful, browser-like access-application-thingee of theirs.
I think the total lack of understanding of HCI issues exhibited in the discussion here begins to explain the state of graphical (or other) interfaces under Linux.
Slashdot already is accessible.
Actually, you can go around ripping off other people's designs - they aren't covered by copyright and certainly not by patents. It's why you get knock-offs of designer clothing and furniture.
The alternative would be a complete nightmare of companies suing each other over "your lamp looks too much like my lamp" or "those pants look too much like our pants".
This is a harassment lawsuit on Apple's part. They're probably also hoping that if they get the right judge, he'll overide previous rulings concerning design and copyright or something.
I think Lotus came up with the idea of suing on the basis of "look and feel". After they ceased to be able to make meaningful updates to 1-2-3, they started suing companies which made spreadsheets using similar menu heirarchies.
The US has been pushing the adoption of software patents overseas since, well, at least since Bush was in office on the assumption that the US would generate a disproportionate number of the patents. This would result in licensing fees flowing into US companies, further solidification of the US's domination of the international software market, etc., etc.
Does anyone know what the extent of these benefits to the US are estimated to be?
Carmageddon & Postal.
The focus on Doom is because the meme has already been floating around in the media a lot, so reporters and the audience pick it up and understand it quickly. It's why there are news articles even suggesting that Doom gave these two the military training they needed while (usually) ignoring their target practice and involvment in paintball - both of which would be more useful in developing skills for tracking down and killing people.
Why aren't the winners of the ACM's Turing Award ever announced on the national news? Given that the Nobel winners are always announced and that the news organizations are constantly running articles on computer issues and businesses, it seems like they'd give the Turing Award some coverage....