At my work they run Outlook Web Client. DHTML driven.
Features include: cut'n'paste OLE style stuff, full RTF editor, collapsable folders, alerts, the lot.
And all the Web designers running Mac Os X can access it 95%. They give the web client a big thumbs up.
It runs fine over my VPN to home.
So there is "rich" as in functionality. "Thin" vs. "Fat" came from having to do a local install. To access the Outlook web client, all you need is a browser, and not even IE. Really it's pretty sensational, go check it out for yourself, I'm not quite sure why M$ don't promote it more.
I've seen a lot of people ranting against Adobe. I deal with Adobe tech all day, postscript, pdf, fonts. They had a big hand in the SVG spec.
In my opinion, working with the bare bones of their technology, ALL of it is well thought out, comprehensive and well explained.
They consider all of the difficulties of the problem domain. For instance, see how easy it is in PDF to create changes to an existing document, great for low powered CPUs. Just append the changed object and add on a new footer to the file. 95% of the file retained, which is a lot less expensive than re-generation of the whole file.
I think Adobe will do a good job here and post the specifications ala PDF and Postscript.
Not mentioned in the other comments is the run time hardware cost of saving this Digital Negative. I think Adobe will put effort into making this as friendly to integrated hardware capture as possible. A large portion of this has to be very little re-ordering of data as it comes from the CCD, as these usually require an in memory buffer. This fundamentally changes the nature of the format.
I wanted a C64 emulator for the Palm m505. However, the screen resolution was not enough to match that of the C64 [320*200 in MCI mode].
So there was no point in anyone trying, as to hack the screen drawing code is not viable, as so much depended on the syncing and timing in the C64 days.
So conceivably, that old DOS mode 'pokes and peeks the VGA buffer itself' type code could now hope to be ported to this sort of screen.
I'm struggling and struggling to think of one app that would not have been superceded by something superior. But should one exist, it could not without it's hardcoded minimum resolution.
Keep this going, I could run Lionheart under UAE on an NGage VII.
One client I work with is one of the big Car companies.
We're deploying a J2EE app to be hosted on their infrastructure. To get permission from their IT we had to go through an ARB [Architecture Review Board in their language].
There was about 300 question and sections on all sorts of stuff like Information Layers and Anonymising of credit card/personal information.
But in the middle was a section on whether our application would survive an Ethical Hack.
They had a team who would Hack into the app, or die trying etc. Now having met some of their IT staff, I can't tell whether they have a Phone Phreaking department hidden away in the Competent Section, or whether it was some overworked Exchange Admin who had some spare time after patching all his servers.
So some Fortune 100 Car company CTO already rubber stamped this Ethical Hack business. The rest cannot be too far behind
If you look at The Antarctic Treaty 1959, you can see that International ownership of certain places/resources/areas is still in flux, even in our parents' generation.
Look at Mineral Rights. They differ from country to country. If you had a piece of land in the US and you decided to drill a hole through the centre of the Earth, would you own the other side? It's the same two principles, amazing technical feat, undefined legal boundaries. Just zero gravity with immense gravity.
Tell that to Sigur Rós. They just purchased an entire analog recording studio.
Sigur Rós use the entire dynamic range in their music. This large range is subject to quantisation errors in digital [e.g. the least significant bits tend to get overriden by the higher amplitudes]. CDs use Pulse Code Modulation that is prone to this. Normal pop music occupies most of the higher amplitudes these days [louder].
I'm not saying that this has oh so much to do with the amplification stage, but analog amps are part of the ecosystem. As sure as a Mac owner buys an iPod over an iRiver, analog recorders [lots] will want analog amps.
1) One big monopoly is easier to legislate on, and liaise with.
Take Australia, where Telstra is the monopoly supplier. They were charter bound to provide Telecommunications to outback [rural and remote] farming communities. Now that Telstra is being privatised, part of the legal restraints is a continuation of the same services. The government and the opinion forming people [voters at large] find it easier to think of this long standing monopoly as being reponsible for this service provision.
I see a lot of talk here on slashdot on the burden of providing 911 [000 in Oz, 999 in UK] access on VOIP. How would these startups feel about having to provide physical remote farm access 10000 KM away from the nearest city?
Part of the sweetener for carrying this loss making enterprise is a bit of fat on the other more lucrative sections.
2) When we put in fibre at a previous work, part of the road had to be torn up to lay it.
This inconvenienced motorists and the public. Sub-letting/dividing existing monopoly resource makes sense in this context. Fair access to this resource is a separate battlefield, along the same lines as this argument
For all thos saying man command as an answer, this can cause more confusion. try man tar. There are a bewildering array of options, some create, some mentioning/dev/td0 [but not/dev/tdr0 that rewinds the device after completion]. Untarring and ungzipping is a fundamental operation, but it takes something like 30 steps to understand.
Further some man pages say 'this has moved to info', this has a bastardised Emacs commandset with pagination and hyperlinking, and the novice friendly Emacs keybindings.
Don't get me wrong, I use linux/cygwin/solaris every day of my whole life, but Geez, it took a long time to learn.
They don't need RFid, they've got trilocation of your mobile phone.
Then all they have to do is hook up with the handset/telcos and you'll be getting subsidised mobile phones if you agree to the company knowing your location. I can see the Terms and Conditions now....
1. Vodafone and Specially Selected affliliates promise never to share your locational data with any other companies
5472(a)(iii). Terms and Conditions subject to ammendment at the Companies complete discression at any time without notice.
Putting on the 'future goggles' I would think that the Government in Europe, where privacy and data protection are 'enshrined' [their words not mine] a lot more would be different. if companies were to do this I think the government would require a guarantee from the companies that they not disclose to anyone as to when the participant is 'at home' [where home could be a finite number of frequent locations such as Your's/Mother's/Mistresses' House]. Or they could flip it around and have the telcos verifiably throw away the data until your phone comes within range of Bluewater.
This'll be a side topic I know, but that murder [caught] dumping body parts was dumping parts of a friend of mine, Andreas.
I was at an ordination ceremony of another friend, and the police got up on the podium [well Bimah actually] and asked the crowd if anybody had seen Andreas for the last two days. He was due to be ordained as a Rabbi that same day. A few days later he was discovered chopped into pieces in that bin. He had been followed from a nightclub by The Camden Ripper.
This is why I was walking the girls home when I got stabbed. Because Camden is rough and dangerous, and it would seem, a little out of control. After talking to all the police who dealt with my case, they agree.
I was walking with two friends [girls] from Primrose Hill. Midnight. He walked the other way and out of nowhere hit my friend Katie in the chest. She fell against a railing.
I turned around and faced him and asked 'What the fuck are you doing??, you just hit my friend. Apologise.'
He just shrugged.
I said again 'Apologise' and took a step towards him. He had the knife in his hand and slashed me across the face. When I put my hand up to my face there was blood on it and i knew he'd just cut me.
I said 'You just fucking stabbed me you cunt'
I went to beat the shit out of him/die trying but he ran. I chased.
So that's the story. Doesn't fit any of your scenarios.
It required 15 stitches and took out my Saliva gland on the left side of my face. It missed my facial artery by millimeters. It was so deep the Triage Nurse asked me whether I could poke my tongue through it from inside my mouth. Apparently, that's pretty deep.
So net result is, there's still some looney out there who carries a knife, hits women out of nowhere and then stabs anyone who protests. If the CCTV was working to record the street, then maybe the police would be able to see if this loser was responsible for this or this.
Six weeks ago I got slashed in the face by a guy with a knife on Chalk Farm Road, in Camden.
I chased him about 600 meters but he ran into a dark council estate and was not that stupid, the guy still had a knife/friends and I had neither.
The police came. Lots of them. Ordinary bobbies and 5 pairs of CID. I retraced the route. There were 10 CCTV camera along the route that I chased him, and NONE of them were pointing the right way to capture this guy, over 600m. The only footage was from a Sainsburies private CCTV that he ran in front of. The police say Camden is one of the most surveilled areas in London.
Cause they keep sending them;) No, I should get off my arse and wrap the Aussie business up, I know.
One part of the forms I do appreciate is the box which asks you how long it took you to complete the form itself. You are able to claim this time as a tax deduction too!
Oddly_Drac, I was wrong on the British sites, sorry.
you may have missed the paperwork that drops through any business owners door on a semi-frequent basis.
I would wager that there is lower bound [mathematical-ish here] to the amount of paperwork that has to be done in any first world business. Where systems of trade and governance differ in that quantity is the measure of how good that government is. It is my opinion that this has been drastically reduced by the Liberals. To justify my point, I needed to import some parts for my clothing [clubbing ware]. To get it through customs, I had to consult several Biblical Tomes of Goods' Classifications. There were codes, addendas, exceptions, exclusions and more. The tax ranged from 0% through archaic tables up to 22% with some articles being partly in one category and partly in the other. Often you would have to apply for a ruling to get your articles through customs.
Labor supports the FTA. In fact, it was so much more worried about white label drugs imports than anything else. Your concern is ignored by the Opposition as well. I guess you'd want to Vote Democrat.
Pity they're awful at all the 'leading the nation' type issues.
Come on. All I hear is people screaming blue murder.
How exactly is this f**ing up everyone elses life here? The occasional email around election time. Please on election day you spend more time fending off the pamphlet-handing-out people. Put it in perspective and take a few deep breaths
We can all pack up and go home now. Australian mateship is dead.
Well I haven't read such a ridiculous piece of melodrama since Kylie and Jason had a tiff in Neighbours in the 80's. Where exactly are you going to pack up and go home to?
Before I moved to the UK, at 21 I started a clothing company selling clubbing fashion. It existed under the Wholesale Sales tax and then the GST.
Can I just say how much, much, much easier it was under the GST and the simplifications than under the previous system.
I still get the GST forms sent to me in London. All I have to do is write NIL in four boxes and post it back. Please tell me where I'm struggling under the weight of that?? If I resumed trading, there would still only be 4 boxes to fill out, which Quicken does automatically.
crushed by the weight ??
Come on. That's just plain wrong.
Also all the Australian tax sites are clear, and you can lodge returns all electronically. I don't see any British equivalent. All these were brought in under Howard too.
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You may have to stick one of those yellow Class I Laser Product stickers on your forehead when you use them.
But lots of businesses still have Websphere 4, and so to get the largest market for your app, you need to restrict yourself to 1.3.1.
Continuing the theme, only the oldest JSP and servlet specs too.
I look longingly at typed collections to save yet another ClassCastException on anonymous iterators. *sigh* oh well, maybe 6 years from now...
Features include: cut'n'paste OLE style stuff, full RTF editor, collapsable folders, alerts, the lot.
And all the Web designers running Mac Os X can access it 95%. They give the web client a big thumbs up.
It runs fine over my VPN to home.
So there is "rich" as in functionality. "Thin" vs. "Fat" came from having to do a local install. To access the Outlook web client, all you need is a browser, and not even IE.
Really it's pretty sensational, go check it out for yourself, I'm not quite sure why M$ don't promote it more.
It allows the server to communicate back to the remote app.
Nice lemmings post BTW.
In my opinion, working with the bare bones of their technology, ALL of it is well thought out, comprehensive and well explained.
They consider all of the difficulties of the problem domain. For instance, see how easy it is in PDF to create changes to an existing document, great for low powered CPUs. Just append the changed object and add on a new footer to the file. 95% of the file retained, which is a lot less expensive than re-generation of the whole file.
I think Adobe will do a good job here and post the specifications ala PDF and Postscript.
Not mentioned in the other comments is the run time hardware cost of saving this Digital Negative. I think Adobe will put effort into making this as friendly to integrated hardware capture as possible. A large portion of this has to be very little re-ordering of data as it comes from the CCD, as these usually require an in memory buffer. This fundamentally changes the nature of the format.
So there was no point in anyone trying, as to hack the screen drawing code is not viable, as so much depended on the syncing and timing in the C64 days.
So conceivably, that old DOS mode 'pokes and peeks the VGA buffer itself' type code could now hope to be ported to this sort of screen.
I'm struggling and struggling to think of one app that would not have been superceded by something superior. But should one exist, it could not without it's hardcoded minimum resolution.
Keep this going, I could run Lionheart under UAE on an NGage VII.
We're deploying a J2EE app to be hosted on their infrastructure. To get permission from their IT we had to go through an ARB [Architecture Review Board in their language].
There was about 300 question and sections on all sorts of stuff like Information Layers and Anonymising of credit card/personal information.
But in the middle was a section on whether our application would survive an Ethical Hack.
They had a team who would Hack into the app, or die trying etc. Now having met some of their IT staff, I can't tell whether they have a Phone Phreaking department hidden away in the Competent Section, or whether it was some overworked Exchange Admin who had some spare time after patching all his servers.
So some Fortune 100 Car company CTO already rubber stamped this Ethical Hack business. The rest cannot be too far behind
If you look at The Antarctic Treaty 1959, you can see that International ownership of certain places/resources/areas is still in flux, even in our parents' generation.
Look at Mineral Rights. They differ from country to country. If you had a piece of land in the US and you decided to drill a hole through the centre of the Earth, would you own the other side? It's the same two principles, amazing technical feat, undefined legal boundaries. Just zero gravity with immense gravity.
I have a mate doing his PhD in Comp. Sci up there, and he says a lot of the staff in there are militant Linux advocates. They relish the irony.
Sigur Rós use the entire dynamic range in their music. This large range is subject to quantisation errors in digital [e.g. the least significant bits tend to get overriden by the higher amplitudes]. CDs use Pulse Code Modulation that is prone to this. Normal pop music occupies most of the higher amplitudes these days [louder].
I'm not saying that this has oh so much to do with the amplification stage, but analog amps are part of the ecosystem. As sure as a Mac owner buys an iPod over an iRiver, analog recorders [lots] will want analog amps.
Take Australia, where Telstra is the monopoly supplier. They were charter bound to provide Telecommunications to outback [rural and remote] farming communities. Now that Telstra is being privatised, part of the legal restraints is a continuation of the same services. The government and the opinion forming people [voters at large] find it easier to think of this long standing monopoly as being reponsible for this service provision.
I see a lot of talk here on slashdot on the burden of providing 911 [000 in Oz, 999 in UK] access on VOIP. How would these startups feel about having to provide physical remote farm access 10000 KM away from the nearest city?
Part of the sweetener for carrying this loss making enterprise is a bit of fat on the other more lucrative sections.
2) When we put in fibre at a previous work, part of the road had to be torn up to lay it.
This inconvenienced motorists and the public. Sub-letting/dividing existing monopoly resource makes sense in this context. Fair access to this resource is a separate battlefield, along the same lines as this argument
Further some man pages say 'this has moved to info', this has a bastardised Emacs commandset with pagination and hyperlinking, and the novice friendly Emacs keybindings.
Don't get me wrong, I use linux/cygwin/solaris every day of my whole life, but Geez, it took a long time to learn.
Then all they have to do is hook up with the handset/telcos and you'll be getting subsidised mobile phones if you agree to the company knowing your location. I can see the Terms and Conditions now....
1. Vodafone and Specially Selected affliliates promise never to share your locational data with any other companies
5472(a)(iii). Terms and Conditions subject to ammendment at the Companies complete discression at any time without notice.
Putting on the 'future goggles' I would think that the Government in Europe, where privacy and data protection are 'enshrined' [their words not mine] a lot more would be different. if companies were to do this I think the government would require a guarantee from the companies that they not disclose to anyone as to when the participant is 'at home' [where home could be a finite number of frequent locations such as Your's/Mother's/Mistresses' House]. Or they could flip it around and have the telcos verifiably throw away the data until your phone comes within range of Bluewater.
So variable advertising would most likely be akin to DOOM style variable texturing. Coarser textures from far, finer detail up front.
So FREE CREDIT, when you're a bit away and
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CITI BANK FREE CREDIT GUARANTEED*
*your house may be at risk if you don't keep up repayements.
When you're close enough to be legally required to be told how you're going to be screwed.
Yup, that it is. Although a lot that are privately owned these days, as they have great locations if somewhat austere looks.
I was at an ordination ceremony of another friend, and the police got up on the podium [well Bimah actually] and asked the crowd if anybody had seen Andreas for the last two days. He was due to be ordained as a Rabbi that same day. A few days later he was discovered chopped into pieces in that bin. He had been followed from a nightclub by The Camden Ripper.
This is why I was walking the girls home when I got stabbed. Because Camden is rough and dangerous, and it would seem, a little out of control. After talking to all the police who dealt with my case, they agree.
In Memory of Andreas.
I turned around and faced him and asked 'What the fuck are you doing??, you just hit my friend. Apologise.'
He just shrugged.
I said again 'Apologise' and took a step towards him. He had the knife in his hand and slashed me across the face. When I put my hand up to my face there was blood on it and i knew he'd just cut me.
I said 'You just fucking stabbed me you cunt'
I went to beat the shit out of him/die trying but he ran. I chased.
So that's the story. Doesn't fit any of your scenarios.
It required 15 stitches and took out my Saliva gland on the left side of my face. It missed my facial artery by millimeters. It was so deep the Triage Nurse asked me whether I could poke my tongue through it from inside my mouth. Apparently, that's pretty deep.
So net result is, there's still some looney out there who carries a knife, hits women out of nowhere and then stabs anyone who protests. If the CCTV was working to record the street, then maybe the police would be able to see if this loser was responsible for this or this.
I chased him about 600 meters but he ran into a dark council estate and was not that stupid, the guy still had a knife/friends and I had neither.
The police came. Lots of them. Ordinary bobbies and 5 pairs of CID. I retraced the route. There were 10 CCTV camera along the route that I chased him, and NONE of them were pointing the right way to capture this guy, over 600m. The only footage was from a Sainsburies private CCTV that he ran in front of. The police say Camden is one of the most surveilled areas in London.
Just not that bit.
winamp, ogg vorbis and Creative have all helped, along with whoever coded the synths that Deep Dish use.
Cause they keep sending them ;) No, I should get off my arse and wrap the Aussie business up, I know.
One part of the forms I do appreciate is the box which asks you how long it took you to complete the form itself. You are able to claim this time as a tax deduction too!
Oddly_Drac, I was wrong on the British sites, sorry.
you may have missed the paperwork that drops through any business owners door on a semi-frequent basis.
I would wager that there is lower bound [mathematical-ish here] to the amount of paperwork that has to be done in any first world business. Where systems of trade and governance differ in that quantity is the measure of how good that government is. It is my opinion that this has been drastically reduced by the Liberals.
To justify my point, I needed to import some parts for my clothing [clubbing ware]. To get it through customs, I had to consult several Biblical Tomes of Goods' Classifications. There were codes, addendas, exceptions, exclusions and more. The tax ranged from 0% through archaic tables up to 22% with some articles being partly in one category and partly in the other. Often you would have to apply for a ruling to get your articles through customs.
Under GST there was one flat rate.
Pity they're awful at all the 'leading the nation' type issues.
How exactly is this f**ing up everyone elses life here? The occasional email around election time. Please on election day you spend more time fending off the pamphlet-handing-out people. Put it in perspective and take a few deep breaths
We can all pack up and go home now. Australian mateship is dead.
Well I haven't read such a ridiculous piece of melodrama since Kylie and Jason had a tiff in Neighbours in the 80's. Where exactly are you going to pack up and go home to?
Can I just say how much, much, much easier it was under the GST and the simplifications than under the previous system.
I still get the GST forms sent to me in London. All I have to do is write NIL in four boxes and post it back. Please tell me where I'm struggling under the weight of that?? If I resumed trading, there would still only be 4 boxes to fill out, which Quicken does automatically.
crushed by the weight ??
Come on. That's just plain wrong.
Also all the Australian tax sites are clear, and you can lodge returns all electronically. I don't see any British equivalent. All these were brought in under Howard too.
These guys are going to give Hackers a bad name...