After seeing both stories (Twice the time to think about it! Thanks, slashdot.) it's not obvious why this is the case. Firefox is big now, and has plenty of active development going on, both in the core and in the extensions. Why isn't anyone just writing a SEED extension to support this format? That'd remove the cross-platform problems. (You'd still have the cross-browser problems, but IE+Firefox is infinitely better than just IE, even if Opera/Safari/etc don't work)
Patents, maybe? Or just lack of developer interests? Maybe there's no South Korean Firefox programmers.
Also, the information about the two plugins doesn't make sense. There used to be a Netscape plugin, but then IE won the browser wars, so it stopped being used.... So why doesn't anyone just start using it again? Firefox supports Netscape plugins (I think), I doubt the bits have rotted.
I could use two. So yes, they're needed. Just because you might not need one doesn't mean there isn't any one who needs them. (My multimedia friends would just about sell their souls to get one of those. Imagine all that high quality video you could store on them!)
Except that means that AllOfMp3 would have to have something like 33 terabytes of storage, which I rather doubt they do. They weren't making THAT much money. Anyway, the summary (Not even the article!) calls it downloads.
No, I think you're looking at this wrong. Microsoft doesn't advertise Vista as being better than Linux, OS X, and other OSes. That would be seven kinds of disaster for them.
No, Microsoft is advertising against the biggest competitor against Vista: Windows XP (and 2003, 2003, and maybe even 98)
Operating systems are not pants, they don't wear out. If I have XP, and it works fine, I'm not going to buy Vista and I'm not making Microsoft any money (In fact I'm costing them money, cause they still have to make me patches). Vista has to be sold as better than XP, even if you'll migrate up anyway when you get a new computer.
Sidenode: On one of my sites (Which is not windows-specific in any way, and in fact was broken in IE for a few weeks without anyone noticing), the #1 OS seen is (of course) XP. Next biggest is 2K, and OS X narrowly beats out 98. Linux doesn't. Which one of those is a bigger threat to Vista? Two alternative OSes that are being beaten by software that's already two generations back, or the ones with nearly all the users: their own product?
Note: This shouldn't be read as an advertisement for Microsoft, I'm just trying to explain their marketing. I'm writing this on a linux box, but I've been using OS X over VNC and linux over SSH all day:)
Yeah, that's always annoyed me. Treasury Accountant: Hey! If we use 1$ coins instead of 1$ bills, we'll save X million dollars a day! Treasury President: Brilliant idea, let's get on making some new 1$ coins right away.... time passes... Treasury Accountant: Well, no one is using the 1$ coins. Treasury President: But we spent X billion dollars on marketing them! Damn, I guess 1$ coins just won't work. Repeat every decade or so.
If you want people to stop using 1$ bills, STOP PRINTING THEM.
I can see quite well with glasses, and this very thing has annoyed me plenty of times. Why the hell are all our bills the same size, shape, and color? Make them more distinct, and you'll speed up all cash transactions. If nothing else the fast food industry will thank you:)
I'd argue that while the concept of having long filenames through some sort of extension mechanism for blindingly obvious, Microsoft's weird-ass way of actually implementing them (Which you have to emulate if you want to read or write these names) is not at all obvious. I don't think I could come up with that, I haven't taken nearly enough drugs. (Seriously, volume labels? using random FAT fields as checksums?)
I had the same problem, and it got stuck that way for 5 hours. Try to update,fail,reboot,update,fail,etc. My brother found a mention on the Nintendo.com site that their wireless implementation hates channel 4, and works best on 1 and 11 (?). After switching the AP over to 1, it updates in less than 30 seconds. So try doing that, even if you're not doing updates. It seems the connection is just horribly slow when on channel 4 (which was the default for my WRT54G router).
Seconded on the plain HTML version. I'm on a 2GHZ box with plenty of RAM, and I still use the plain HTML version cause while it make require more network traffic, it doesn't freeze up my browser for several seconds whenever I load it.
Since this thread has turned into "WHO DO YOU WANT IN THE NEXT SMASH BROS GAME?": Alex & Ryan, from River City Ransom. They're already fighting characters with plenty of moves, even!
The universe-is-a-spaceship has been done before. Most memorably as "Orphans of the Sky" by R.A. Heinlein. A generational ship forgets they are a generational ship, so the universe is just the ship. No windows in the habitable areas, so they don't even know the ship is moving ("The universe is moving?")
I seem to remember that the monoliths weren't making it bigger*, but denser. The idea being that Jupiter isn't a star because it doesn't have the neccesary internal pressure to initiate fusion. Instead of making it big enough that its own gravity would bring the pressure to the needed level, they just squished it. (Of course, the question then is what happens when they stop squishing it?)
* That wouldn't be a great idea, since they were trying to help Europa's life. I bet 87 times bigger would be big enough for Europa to be within it.
Space is VERY empty. It's only slightly less non-empty when you're real close to a star or other big mass of stuff. Right now Voyager is the farthest from a star that any man-made object has ever reached, so the chances of it hitting into stuff are nearly zero. But to answer your original question though, no, it doesn't have any kind of stuff-avoidance ability. Even if they had designed it to have that ability, by now it wouldn't have any power left to do that.
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After seeing both stories (Twice the time to think about it! Thanks, slashdot.) it's not obvious why this is the case. Firefox is big now, and has plenty of active development going on, both in the core and in the extensions. Why isn't anyone just writing a SEED extension to support this format?
... So why doesn't anyone just start using it again?
That'd remove the cross-platform problems. (You'd still have the cross-browser problems, but IE+Firefox is infinitely better than just IE, even if Opera/Safari/etc don't work)
Patents, maybe? Or just lack of developer interests? Maybe there's no South Korean Firefox programmers.
Also, the information about the two plugins doesn't make sense. There used to be a Netscape plugin, but then IE won the browser wars, so it stopped being used.
Firefox supports Netscape plugins (I think), I doubt the bits have rotted.
"This third-party plugin can really lock up my browser while it does stuff! Why haven't you fixed this yet, browser developers?"
For those who don't know what this is a reference to: (Yes, all both of you)
Ceiling Cat
Tell that to Mr. Zeppelin.
Rode in a airship recently?
I could use two.
So yes, they're needed. Just because you might not need one doesn't mean there isn't any one who needs them.
(My multimedia friends would just about sell their souls to get one of those. Imagine all that high quality video you could store on them!)
Except that means that AllOfMp3 would have to have something like 33 terabytes of storage, which I rather doubt they do. They weren't making THAT much money.
Anyway, the summary (Not even the article!) calls it downloads.
No, I think you're looking at this wrong. Microsoft doesn't advertise Vista as being better than Linux, OS X, and other OSes. That would be seven kinds of disaster for them.
:)
No, Microsoft is advertising against the biggest competitor against Vista:
Windows XP (and 2003, 2003, and maybe even 98)
Operating systems are not pants, they don't wear out. If I have XP, and it works fine, I'm not going to buy Vista and I'm not making Microsoft any money (In fact I'm costing them money, cause they still have to make me patches).
Vista has to be sold as better than XP, even if you'll migrate up anyway when you get a new computer.
Sidenode: On one of my sites (Which is not windows-specific in any way, and in fact was broken in IE for a few weeks without anyone noticing), the #1 OS seen is (of course) XP.
Next biggest is 2K, and OS X narrowly beats out 98. Linux doesn't.
Which one of those is a bigger threat to Vista? Two alternative OSes that are being beaten by software that's already two generations back, or the ones with nearly all the users: their own product?
Note: This shouldn't be read as an advertisement for Microsoft, I'm just trying to explain their marketing. I'm writing this on a linux box, but I've been using OS X over VNC and linux over SSH all day
You write your own damn search engine :)
Back to VHS? Did you ever try to copy a VHS tape?
VHS had (well, has) very effective DRM. (Although technically it was ARM)
I, for one, don't allow my machines to make outgoing UDP connections. Never have, never will.
:)
UDP IS CONNECTIONLESS!
It's not truly creepy until you see the 4chan photoshops of it :).
(Especially this one
Yeah, that's always annoyed me. ... time passes...
Treasury Accountant: Hey! If we use 1$ coins instead of 1$ bills, we'll save X million dollars a day!
Treasury President: Brilliant idea, let's get on making some new 1$ coins right away.
Treasury Accountant: Well, no one is using the 1$ coins.
Treasury President: But we spent X billion dollars on marketing them! Damn, I guess 1$ coins just won't work.
Repeat every decade or so.
If you want people to stop using 1$ bills, STOP PRINTING THEM.
I can see quite well with glasses, and this very thing has annoyed me plenty of times. Why the hell are all our bills the same size, shape, and color? :)
Make them more distinct, and you'll speed up all cash transactions.
If nothing else the fast food industry will thank you
I'd argue that while the concept of having long filenames through some sort of extension mechanism for blindingly obvious, Microsoft's weird-ass way of actually implementing them (Which you have to emulate if you want to read or write these names) is not at all obvious.
I don't think I could come up with that, I haven't taken nearly enough drugs. (Seriously, volume labels? using random FAT fields as checksums?)
crabs and retina scanners? I think I've played this game!
"They're waiting for you Gordon... in the test chamber"
(What is it with people in that series and emphasizing random words? "Wake UP! Wake up and smell the ASHESEHESSS....")
I had the same problem, and it got stuck that way for 5 hours. Try to update,fail,reboot,update,fail,etc.
My brother found a mention on the Nintendo.com site that their wireless implementation hates channel 4, and works best on 1 and 11 (?).
After switching the AP over to 1, it updates in less than 30 seconds.
So try doing that, even if you're not doing updates. It seems the connection is just horribly slow when on channel 4 (which was the default for my WRT54G router).
Seconded on the plain HTML version. I'm on a 2GHZ box with plenty of RAM, and I still use the plain HTML version cause while it make require more network traffic, it doesn't freeze up my browser for several seconds whenever I load it.
It's just a downloadable level, designed after a terrorist target in Iran.
You can't wheat?
Inflation's a bitch, aint it?
Since this thread has turned into "WHO DO YOU WANT IN THE NEXT SMASH BROS GAME?":
Alex & Ryan, from River City Ransom. They're already fighting characters with plenty of moves, even!
The universe-is-a-spaceship has been done before. Most memorably as "Orphans of the Sky" by R.A. Heinlein. A generational ship forgets they are a generational ship, so the universe is just the ship. No windows in the habitable areas, so they don't even know the ship is moving ("The universe is moving?")
I seem to remember that the monoliths weren't making it bigger*, but denser. The idea being that Jupiter isn't a star because it doesn't have the neccesary internal pressure to initiate fusion. Instead of making it big enough that its own gravity would bring the pressure to the needed level, they just squished it. (Of course, the question then is what happens when they stop squishing it?)
* That wouldn't be a great idea, since they were trying to help Europa's life. I bet 87 times bigger would be big enough for Europa to be within it.
Forget 21st century. Welcome to 1996, Debian.
Space is VERY empty.
It's only slightly less non-empty when you're real close to a star or other big mass of stuff. Right now Voyager is the farthest from a star that any man-made object has ever reached, so the chances of it hitting into stuff are nearly zero.
But to answer your original question though, no, it doesn't have any kind of stuff-avoidance ability. Even if they had designed it to have that ability, by now it wouldn't have any power left to do that.