We have more than IE. Recently I'm glad that Firefox is getting spread to the world to some people. So, while this is just an optimistic speculation, when IE is still so dumb when it comes out with Longhorn, people might start recognizing the obvious alternatives and we'll be more free to be with the standards. I hate half f***ed up working browser like current IE, where people can sort of see it okay to use for everyday, but f***ed up...
Put that browser being aside,
XHTML and CSS are quite satisfactory at this point
You must be joking, but I understand people who design web for human visitors, yes they MAY be adequate, but I'll just point to my another post I just posted earlier about how current HTML/XHTML is not satisfactory at ALL to stay alive in near future. To sum it up, machines can't just read the current HTML tags properly in any meaningful manner. We right now rely on word processing (as in literature) to look at what kind of information the web has got. But can't gather any real information out of it, unless the reader is a human.
CSSzengarden sure looks polished and CSS is used to manage the look very well. But we're talking about not human eyes for these standards. CSS are very good tool, JavaScript is also good(as long as browsers are consistent with one standard of it), flash is ugly(I hope you know why by now), so there is SVG(I'm addicted to this =) ), server side scripting is okay, but HTML is the evil now.
The web being young and all and rushed, but I understand the current situation not wrong driven as it grew too fast, but it can get better.
Your explanation looks just came out of a colledge class, so I'll add a bit more to what exactly semantic web is like.
Right now HTML means quite almost nothing to computers. Yes 'title' and 'h1' may mean something important about the site, but who uses 'h1' properly? I guess there are 'p' and 'div' all over the place with some CSS put on it or the obsolete 'font' attributes...
Now, human looks at HTML not by code, but by visual browsers and being the human on readers' side as well, we can guess what the page is trying to say, even it looks dumb ugly or all the content is tagged with only 'p'.
If a machine tries to read, such as through php or whatever crawling web pages, how are they supposed to know which word is important in that page? or what it wants to tell? The only thing right now that is viable probably is to get how many times a word had come out, or something like that, all guess work. In semantic web, we tag stuff in a more understandable way. From above example, we tag price in a probably '<price></price>' tag and the name of the stuff in '<item></item>' tag. That's a custom XML but, far better than '<p>We have jeans<br/>Cheapest : $5</p>' with bunch of other text with meaning less tags.
If all web sites become like that(won't happen for many years), according to the rules of those web pages, you can gather the actual data stored on web pages. Right now, even google can only get text information, not like price etc the real data.
Making it easier to read by machines, will save search engines and whatever wants to go through your web information.
Currently HTML really is a bunch of tags that can sort of do anything in terms of text handling, but NOTHING professionally. This has to change soon.
When we say "no flash!" doesn't always mean, "we don't want eye candy but get the contents right!", at least from my point of view. Flash is evil, because only HUMAN can read the content.
It'd be fun for you to learn about semantic web. It's about machines reading other machines content and fiddle with that.
I understand flash came out earlier and it's spread around the world, but there's a great alternative that just does the same thing in xml in text format, SVG.
Of course svg is only a standard and there's no one universal plugin, so the content may not look as completely the same on everyone's machine, but I can tell you it's so much better than HTML in terms of consistency across the few plugins out there.
Besides it's much more fun than flash after you made the content =)
You must look at some of the points the author has mentioned to the police, which I read from the many Japanese news articles online.
He actually said, there are no companies that make good use of P2P technology at the moment, and he thought in order to enforce changes to the copyright law and make new business models, more and more pirated and copyrighted materials must be made available to the public in a chaos...
And he was sort of being ready to be arrested as that was his intention.
Would you still be on his side?
I never knew he was thinking in that way while he was develpoing Winny anonymously.
But being a hero or a bad guy is a matter of result and not procedure, if someone comes up with a great copyright law that handles current P2P well or some excellent business model as he did this, he'll just be a hero though, which is unlikely.
But all the people owning guns don't start firing in public, in fact as for Winny, people do start firing up the application and do the bad part in everyday life and they need no license to do that as well.
The problem is the dark side of the element is taking place, we aren't talking about the potential risk, the actual results.
1. Sleipnir - Greatest tab browser, made by a Japanese guy, there's an English translation, if you haven't tried it and been using other IE based tab browser, you should give it a try. It's IE engine only. (For those who'll have trouble navigating Japanese web page, here's the download link to English version)
4. Adobe Reader - Though getting like a bloated software with Printme ad, I encounter PDF just about everyday...
5. GIMP - I thank GIMP team for such a great freeware tool.
6. VideoLAN (VLC) - Great media player + rich network functions, can play DVD (with libdvdcss, check your own law) without any commercial licensed softwares.
7. EmEditor - This is the best text editor I've found to date (tried, textpad, editplus, ultraedit what have you...but I'm not a emacs/vim guy). For what's better, it's free for academic use! It's got regular expression search/find, keyboard mapping, document tabs and all the feature you'd expect on a good text editor. I used to use EditPlus(registered) before this, but I switched.
8. ffdshow - Codecs for DivX, Xvid. No more need for official ad-full DivX codec installation.
From here, I don't have them installed, but these are worth mentioning.
9. burnatonce - A great tool for writing CD/DVD media. It's actually a Windows frontend for cdrecord and ProDVD, small and efficient.
10. DVD Shrink - To extract DVD data and back it up, no writing function, but good for storing it on HDD.
I live in Japan and I tell you how fast the FTTH can be.
For your reference, using NTT, you pay about 5000 yen/month for FTTH service, and pay extra for ISP, of which mine is a cheap one (500 yen/month). I get the 100Mbps service, but that value is just a logical assumption and no way close to that of the actual speed, so you have to make it about 60 to 50 % of it in the first place, and you get not only yourself using the same ISP line, so you get even less but not like 8-10Mbps.
I have FTTH to my place, and another house and I can transfer files at a speed of 32Mbps or more. And if I use my university bigger line, of which is geographically closer, it can go up to 40Mbps download and upload.
Of course you usually don't get this speed to any servers, but it's not like it's totally capped under 10Mbps if your connection has the bandwidth.
I was using ADSL(1.5Mbps), which was costing me somewhat similar to now, before this and could only push it up to 0.5Mbps, and it was a huge increase in speed without much increase in the monthly fee. It's not like a crappy service that you think. =)
From what I understand, SVG is superior to flash because,
1. Not only human, but machines(web robots etc) can read information on graphical content of a web page if SVG is used, because the file is presented in a human readable file as xml text file, opposed to flash delivered in binary format which you can only know what it is by loading it on specific applications.
2. File size is notably smaller compared to images presented as a binary format, because the rules of the graphic/animation is written as a text file. Although if you embed an existing image file, that will make the entire SVG bigger than just lines of xml code, of course.
3. SVG is an open and standardized format, so many applications may adopt the format(Editor, viewer, converter etc).
4. After all, it's XML:) Interoperability, it has.
I get that as technology improves and dvd-r will be out on the market cheaper with the mediums, movies gets burnt just like the music cd and hurt the industry.
But there is 1 point (nothing good for us) may save the movie industry from taking the same course as the music industry to some extent.
The lack of compatibility between all dvd-r, dvd-ram and all the other dvd writing standard makes the consumers hard to copy a dvd movie, and that may supress some of the loss to movie industry, thanks to those who messed up the dvd standard.
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Put that browser being aside,
You must be joking, but I understand people who design web for human visitors, yes they MAY be adequate, but I'll just point to my another post I just posted earlier about how current HTML/XHTML is not satisfactory at ALL to stay alive in near future. To sum it up, machines can't just read the current HTML tags properly in any meaningful manner. We right now rely on word processing (as in literature) to look at what kind of information the web has got. But can't gather any real information out of it, unless the reader is a human.
CSSzengarden sure looks polished and CSS is used to manage the look very well. But we're talking about not human eyes for these standards. CSS are very good tool, JavaScript is also good(as long as browsers are consistent with one standard of it), flash is ugly(I hope you know why by now), so there is SVG(I'm addicted to this =) ), server side scripting is okay, but HTML is the evil now.
The web being young and all and rushed, but I understand the current situation not wrong driven as it grew too fast, but it can get better.
Your explanation looks just came out of a colledge class, so I'll add a bit more to what exactly semantic web is like.
/>Cheapest : $5</p>' with bunch of other text with meaning less tags.
Right now HTML means quite almost nothing to computers. Yes 'title' and 'h1' may mean something important about the site, but who uses 'h1' properly? I guess there are 'p' and 'div' all over the place with some CSS put on it or the obsolete 'font' attributes...
Now, human looks at HTML not by code, but by visual browsers and being the human on readers' side as well, we can guess what the page is trying to say, even it looks dumb ugly or all the content is tagged with only 'p'.
If a machine tries to read, such as through php or whatever crawling web pages, how are they supposed to know which word is important in that page? or what it wants to tell? The only thing right now that is viable probably is to get how many times a word had come out, or something like that, all guess work. In semantic web, we tag stuff in a more understandable way. From above example, we tag price in a probably '<price></price>' tag and the name of the stuff in '<item></item>' tag. That's a custom XML but, far better than '<p>We have jeans<br
If all web sites become like that(won't happen for many years), according to the rules of those web pages, you can gather the actual data stored on web pages. Right now, even google can only get text information, not like price etc the real data.
Making it easier to read by machines, will save search engines and whatever wants to go through your web information.
Currently HTML really is a bunch of tags that can sort of do anything in terms of text handling, but NOTHING professionally. This has to change soon.
Let's not start splitting the word and make it confusing to public.
DL - Dual Layer
It's like saying Digital Video Disc.
Also, what is update cycle of burners? It only makes sense to you or people with lots of disposal money.
Make the sentence that works on most people.
Slightly OT here.
When we say "no flash!" doesn't always mean, "we don't want eye candy but get the contents right!", at least from my point of view. Flash is evil, because only HUMAN can read the content.
It'd be fun for you to learn about semantic web. It's about machines reading other machines content and fiddle with that.
I understand flash came out earlier and it's spread around the world, but there's a great alternative that just does the same thing in xml in text format, SVG.
Of course svg is only a standard and there's no one universal plugin, so the content may not look as completely the same on everyone's machine, but I can tell you it's so much better than HTML in terms of consistency across the few plugins out there.
Besides it's much more fun than flash after you made the content =)
http://www.crew.sfc.keio.ac.jp/projects/kotodama/n anaeditor/dama-manual/
Something called "kotodama". Written in Japanese.
I also heard of another from my uncle also written in Japanese years before, but didn't know about computer enough to know what it was about.
You must look at some of the points the author has mentioned to the police, which I read from the many Japanese news articles online.
He actually said, there are no companies that make good use of P2P technology at the moment, and he thought in order to enforce changes to the copyright law and make new business models, more and more pirated and copyrighted materials must be made available to the public in a chaos...
And he was sort of being ready to be arrested as that was his intention.
Would you still be on his side?
I never knew he was thinking in that way while he was develpoing Winny anonymously.
But being a hero or a bad guy is a matter of result and not procedure, if someone comes up with a great copyright law that handles current P2P well or some excellent business model as he did this, he'll just be a hero though, which is unlikely.
But all the people owning guns don't start firing in public, in fact as for Winny, people do start firing up the application and do the bad part in everyday life and they need no license to do that as well.
The problem is the dark side of the element is taking place, we aren't talking about the potential risk, the actual results.
Here's my top 10 list.
1. Sleipnir - Greatest tab browser, made by a Japanese guy, there's an English translation, if you haven't tried it and been using other IE based tab browser, you should give it a try. It's IE engine only. (For those who'll have trouble navigating Japanese web page, here's the download link to English version)
2. PuTTY - Just like others
3. Exact Audio Copy - Very good audio ripper for CCCD.
4. Adobe Reader - Though getting like a bloated software with Printme ad, I encounter PDF just about everyday...
5. GIMP - I thank GIMP team for such a great freeware tool.
6. VideoLAN (VLC) - Great media player + rich network functions, can play DVD (with libdvdcss, check your own law) without any commercial licensed softwares.
7. EmEditor - This is the best text editor I've found to date (tried, textpad, editplus, ultraedit what have you...but I'm not a emacs/vim guy). For what's better, it's free for academic use! It's got regular expression search/find, keyboard mapping, document tabs and all the feature you'd expect on a good text editor. I used to use EditPlus(registered) before this, but I switched.
8. ffdshow - Codecs for DivX, Xvid. No more need for official ad-full DivX codec installation.
From here, I don't have them installed, but these are worth mentioning.
9. burnatonce - A great tool for writing CD/DVD media. It's actually a Windows frontend for cdrecord and ProDVD, small and efficient.
10. DVD Shrink - To extract DVD data and back it up, no writing function, but good for storing it on HDD.
I could go on...but I've reached ten =)
I live in Japan and I tell you how fast the FTTH can be.
For your reference, using NTT, you pay about 5000 yen/month for FTTH service, and pay extra for ISP, of which mine is a cheap one (500 yen/month). I get the 100Mbps service, but that value is just a logical assumption and no way close to that of the actual speed, so you have to make it about 60 to 50 % of it in the first place, and you get not only yourself using the same ISP line, so you get even less but not like 8-10Mbps.
I have FTTH to my place, and another house and I can transfer files at a speed of 32Mbps or more. And if I use my university bigger line, of which is geographically closer, it can go up to 40Mbps download and upload.
Of course you usually don't get this speed to any servers, but it's not like it's totally capped under 10Mbps if your connection has the bandwidth.
I was using ADSL(1.5Mbps), which was costing me somewhat similar to now, before this and could only push it up to 0.5Mbps, and it was a huge increase in speed without much increase in the monthly fee. It's not like a crappy service that you think. =)
I'm not sure if it can be a browser plugin, but there is also a SVG viewer from Corel.
From what I understand, SVG is superior to flash because,
1. Not only human, but machines(web robots etc) can read information on graphical content of a web page if SVG is used, because the file is presented in a human readable file as xml text file, opposed to flash delivered in binary format which you can only know what it is by loading it on specific applications.
2. File size is notably smaller compared to images presented as a binary format, because the rules of the graphic/animation is written as a text file. Although if you embed an existing image file, that will make the entire SVG bigger than just lines of xml code, of course.
3. SVG is an open and standardized format, so many applications may adopt the format(Editor, viewer, converter etc).
4. After all, it's XML :) Interoperability, it has.
Now that viruses will make people unlucky to get caught with them pay alot =(
Also, that this tax thing may trigger to make more viruses to flood out mails from innocent computers.
I was once for the idea, but after a thought, no.
I've known this site since at least half a year ago.
The link to Jedi Outcast is misleading to a wrong page.
It should be http://www.lucasarts.com/products/outcast/html/
I get that as technology improves and dvd-r will be out on the market cheaper with the mediums, movies gets burnt just like the music cd and hurt the industry.
But there is 1 point (nothing good for us) may save the movie industry from taking the same course as the music industry to some extent.
The lack of compatibility between all dvd-r, dvd-ram and all the other dvd writing standard makes the consumers hard to copy a dvd movie, and that may supress some of the loss to movie industry, thanks to those who messed up the dvd standard.