I just can't see providing full text searching capability for information products based on paper as any kind of special innovative step. It is a capability that very many companies have provided for decades, and a natural evolution of information storage and retrieval. From microfilm storage through searchable indexes and TOC's, finally to fully OCR'ed text. Decades old...
The client-server technologies are also being forced out by their vendors, who are tiring of the plethora of client support issues. Oracle is heavily phasing out the client-server version Oracle Forms. They've provided an upgrade path that pipes Forms over http using the 9iAS app server, but in the long run they don't want to have to support anything other than a browser using Java. It makes sense to me - unless a client needs to serious heavy lifting work on the client side, it should run through a browser.
Clinton did a decent job of minding the deficit/debt as a whole. Gore didn't share the same concern. As far as I can see none of the current crop of Dems does either.
There's been substantial research on what sorts of materials and textures people find comforting and enjoyable. Generally we like 'natural' things like brushed metal, wood, leather and ceramic, with plastics, neon lights, excessive html, and overblown skins rating far far further down the aesthetic scale.
I like furniture of black metal and glass as something modern but not overstated. Still looking for the right desk, saw one I liked in Australia on vacation but haven't really found it again.
I might start buying some CDs again at $5 or less per. No way that a $18 CD compares to, say, an $18 2-DVD Scarface set.
The MPAA guys really need to pay close attention to everything happening with music right now, as the exact same thing is going to happen with movies once the average consumer can get transfer rates sufficient to download decent-quality full-screen video in real-time. Once you can download video a few times faster than it can be watched, P2P sharing of video will explode in volume. If they don't plan better than they have in the situation for music, it's just another industry that is likely to lose more profits than they need to.
Yeah, it seems a bit of a dumbass move in retrospect, the effort failed in terms of eliminating browser competition. Now they have a can of worms embedded intentionally as deeply as possible into their OS. Making it a modern and secure browser requires a level of change that isn't acceptable in terms of the risk of blowing up their OS or requiring a lot of work on the OS. So they leave it unmaintained to dry up and blow away... IE on Win32 seems to wending its way to a practical end-of-life. Opportunities for progress are clearly elsewhere...
Am I the only one who seems to have more difficulty using commercial sites with IE than with Mozilla? Especially jsp-based e-commerce sites. There are too many damn sites that return an IE error page after a login attempt but work just fine in Mozilla. No amount of tweaking seems to get them to come up in IE. My own browsing experience shows Mozilla handling a noticably greater fraction of commercial sites.
Though what you're burning is a lossy reproduction of the track's original representation. Good as the original for some listeners and material, not nearly as good as the original for other listeners and material...
I hear you. For me, access to a non-DRM'ed 128K mp3 is worth maybe 10% of what I would be willing to pay for a non-DRM'ed lossless version of the music, especially on a reasonably permanent media.
I've been a fan of PFE (Programmer's File Editor) as a simple windows text editor. It's no longer under active development, but sheesh, it's a text editor.:)
Good points. Things ought to eventually change with enough noise made about enough absurd situations supported by current law. There's enough money on the line in the status quo that changes will be painful. Needs fixing before it gets much worse...
Does this mean that I can patent matchsticks if nobody ever bothered and then run the existing producers out of business? Seems an indication that the system is broken...
Good points. I really enjoyed Larman's book on UP/UML and his take on a reasonable approach to balancing "thinking about it" versus "doing it" on a timeline. Reasonable, flexible, and diligent project management is perhaps the scarcest commodity needed for good development in a complex arena.
Fully agreed. I think that the concepts of regulated monopoly here have fallen behind the times. I think originally the concept with the cable companies was to allow the companies to repay their infrastructure investment with profits from content. Perception was that cheap content could only be achieved through concentrating the diffuse distribution interests in the cable company, a huge client/server config. The fact of the matter presently is that the infrastructure really serves to provide a connection between the actual content generators/providers and the ultimate end-users of the content. The cable companies don't own or generate any of the content that they're providing. Modern billing technologies and end-to-end digital connection eliminate any usefulness of the cable company as an entity to reduce the cost of content - they're probably adding more inefficiency as a management layer than they're saving consumers by buying content "in bulk". Their modern business model should reflect their physical presence. They should be able to charge each end of the connection they provide (content provider and consumer) for the service of transmitting bytes. That's it. They shouldn't have any further control over the billing for the content. And such an outdated business model should not be allowed for a semi-regulated monoopoly.
It is still there. Buried somewhat and a bit obscure now. Commercially they're starting to act a bit "real"ish. It's OK to want to make something off your encoders I guess, but it's amusing if any closed video format considers itself enough of a defacto standard to start strong-arming those who would consider using it. A media format itself is just not special enough to make much money from. They can all be replaced.
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Google for "Sponge" and spyware - he (at least used to) keeps a pretty comprehensive blacklist, might even have it as a rule set for Kerio.
I think eMule is open source.
Yeah, it's called Verisign DNS... ;)
Yeah! What you said...
I just can't see providing full text searching capability for information products based on paper as any kind of special innovative step. It is a capability that very many companies have provided for decades, and a natural evolution of information storage and retrieval. From microfilm storage through searchable indexes and TOC's, finally to fully OCR'ed text. Decades old...
Kali was pretty cool when almost no games supported TCP/IP... :)
Isn't 2K about when they replaced most BSOD's with an immediate reboot? Hides some of them... :)
Honestly have had very few stabilitiy issues with XP.
The client-server technologies are also being forced out by their vendors, who are tiring of the plethora of client support issues. Oracle is heavily phasing out the client-server version Oracle Forms. They've provided an upgrade path that pipes Forms over http using the 9iAS app server, but in the long run they don't want to have to support anything other than a browser using Java. It makes sense to me - unless a client needs to serious heavy lifting work on the client side, it should run through a browser.
Clinton did a decent job of minding the deficit/debt as a whole. Gore didn't share the same concern. As far as I can see none of the current crop of Dems does either.
I like furniture of black metal and glass as something modern but not overstated. Still looking for the right desk, saw one I liked in Australia on vacation but haven't really found it again.
"Nearly" lossless? Not worth nearly as much to me. YMMV.
Paperback books sell in this range...
I might start buying some CDs again at $5 or less per. No way that a $18 CD compares to, say, an $18 2-DVD Scarface set.
The MPAA guys really need to pay close attention to everything happening with music right now, as the exact same thing is going to happen with movies once the average consumer can get transfer rates sufficient to download decent-quality full-screen video in real-time. Once you can download video a few times faster than it can be watched, P2P sharing of video will explode in volume. If they don't plan better than they have in the situation for music, it's just another industry that is likely to lose more profits than they need to.
Yeah, it seems a bit of a dumbass move in retrospect, the effort failed in terms of eliminating browser competition. Now they have a can of worms embedded intentionally as deeply as possible into their OS. Making it a modern and secure browser requires a level of change that isn't acceptable in terms of the risk of blowing up their OS or requiring a lot of work on the OS. So they leave it unmaintained to dry up and blow away... IE on Win32 seems to wending its way to a practical end-of-life. Opportunities for progress are clearly elsewhere...
Am I the only one who seems to have more difficulty using commercial sites with IE than with Mozilla? Especially jsp-based e-commerce sites. There are too many damn sites that return an IE error page after a login attempt but work just fine in Mozilla. No amount of tweaking seems to get them to come up in IE. My own browsing experience shows Mozilla handling a noticably greater fraction of commercial sites.
Though what you're burning is a lossy reproduction of the track's original representation. Good as the original for some listeners and material, not nearly as good as the original for other listeners and material...
I hear you. For me, access to a non-DRM'ed 128K mp3 is worth maybe 10% of what I would be willing to pay for a non-DRM'ed lossless version of the music, especially on a reasonably permanent media.
On NT 4.0 it's Maximize/DeMaximize
I've been a fan of PFE (Programmer's File Editor) as a simple windows text editor. It's no longer under active development, but sheesh, it's a text editor. :)
Good points. Things ought to eventually change with enough noise made about enough absurd situations supported by current law. There's enough money on the line in the status quo that changes will be painful. Needs fixing before it gets much worse...
Does this mean that I can patent matchsticks if nobody ever bothered and then run the existing producers out of business? Seems an indication that the system is broken...
Damn - Colorado driver's license has a bloody 2-D bar-code on it also. Never noticed that was on there...
Good points. I really enjoyed Larman's book on UP/UML and his take on a reasonable approach to balancing "thinking about it" versus "doing it" on a timeline. Reasonable, flexible, and diligent project management is perhaps the scarcest commodity needed for good development in a complex arena.
Fully agreed. I think that the concepts of regulated monopoly here have fallen behind the times. I think originally the concept with the cable companies was to allow the companies to repay their infrastructure investment with profits from content. Perception was that cheap content could only be achieved through concentrating the diffuse distribution interests in the cable company, a huge client/server config. The fact of the matter presently is that the infrastructure really serves to provide a connection between the actual content generators/providers and the ultimate end-users of the content. The cable companies don't own or generate any of the content that they're providing. Modern billing technologies and end-to-end digital connection eliminate any usefulness of the cable company as an entity to reduce the cost of content - they're probably adding more inefficiency as a management layer than they're saving consumers by buying content "in bulk". Their modern business model should reflect their physical presence. They should be able to charge each end of the connection they provide (content provider and consumer) for the service of transmitting bytes. That's it. They shouldn't have any further control over the billing for the content. And such an outdated business model should not be allowed for a semi-regulated monoopoly.
It is still there. Buried somewhat and a bit obscure now. Commercially they're starting to act a bit "real"ish. It's OK to want to make something off your encoders I guess, but it's amusing if any closed video format considers itself enough of a defacto standard to start strong-arming those who would consider using it. A media format itself is just not special enough to make much money from. They can all be replaced.