So long as there are no proprietary additions to XML from Microsoft and as long as the "open" XML format MS will use is truly open for all of us to see, and not an XML tag with binary data in the middle at every possible point, as some other have suggested before.
I will give props to MS if they will work with other companies in a fair way to do this.
Sounds to me like they still need to work out issues before making it a service that the average Joe and Jane can use.
What kills it for me (but then again I'm probably not in the majority they are targetting) is the requirement of Windows 2k/XP and Windows media player...
Well its not like I'm downloading MP3s left and right anyways. Most of my music is bought at a store or via one of them music clubs...(Where you can get like 11 CD for 1 cent, so long as you buy 4 more at regular price in 2 years time...which if you play smart you can gets tons of CDs cheap, assuming you dont need the latest release)
Maybe by the time I get a broadband connection, these services will use a more open standard format, and the service will be a lot more flexible.
A price reduction would be nice, would encourage people to buy the songs the like from a website instead of leeching off gnutella or [insert favorite file sharing client/server here].
50 cents a song sounds good to me:) Maybe for a certain quality, and raise the price up from there for better quality encoding and/or more flexibility. (i.e. pay 99 cents and you can choose your format of choice to download...etc, pay $1.49 and get dvd quality audio...you get the picture:)
Maybe they can come up with better pricing though.
Hey I can get 4x6 photo prints of my digital photos for 50 cents from Kodak online services! (Well yeah shipping is like $2.99 though hehe)
"Oh we are so poor all we have is a nuclear weapons program ready to strike out our neighbors."
Seriously, how do you have money to build up a nuclear weapons program and not have money to support GNU/Linux?
I don't know about India but If I have a nuclear weapons program, the last thing I want is to have some foreign company's software running my computer system. With GNU/Linux I can be sure there's no backdoors, and get a homebrew operating system I can use and trust.
Of course the situation is more complex than that. With MS bringing in jobs to India and all (as stated in a previous comment.)
So I haven't quite read the article but it occured to me.
Is it possible to demolish such a structure with radio waves? Or do the laws that lets you do things one way, prevent you form doing things the other way?
if you can't demolish the structures with radio waves, then what changes once you have built the structure that prevents you from doing so?
I don't know if this is widely known yet but at work we have the google toolbar installed on our windows 2k workstations.
The MIS guy at least approved their use.
Last week, I saw that the Google Toolbar had self updated, and one of the new features was the ability to opt in for participation in the Folding@Home project through the use of the Google Toolbar.
It appears that at the time this feature is limited to only a select clients. Nevertheless I sent a request to the MIS guy about it, and if I could enable it. He had no issues with it. (Aka run it if you want)
Perhaps if the MIS/IT person already lets you use the Google Toolbar on the Windows machine, then they would probably be more trusting of running Folding@Home through the Google Toolbar.
I haven't noticed any significant slow downs using regular mode, and in any case you can switch between regular and conservative modes. Conservative mode running when you're not using the computer.
Also although I dont have the link at the moment handy (at home on my Mac:-) There is also mention of being able to participate in other such distributed computing projects in the future.
No actually we actually surf the net, and some of us actually use unix based OSes like Linux and Mac OS X:)
What's more likely to happen at the Southern California Linux Convention is UCLA linux users shaking their keys at the USC linux users.
Maybe some USC / UCLA rivalry will show up.
Maybe UCLA students use vi and USC students use emacs? I know I took a class at USC and the professor taught us using emacs. Though the Lab Assistant wanted us using vi.
Quicktime VR also incorporates some mouse gestures. Note the ability to click and drag left or right, up or down to move in a Quicktime VR movie.
There are other example on the Mac that I can think of.
Holding down option(?) + click drag to scroll through a finder's window (havent tested in Mac OS X, and this is using a one button mouse of course, probably just a simple button click + drag in a multi-button mouse)
Also Adobe Acrobat Reader has a similar scroll mode when you select the hand tool.
Nevertheless great to see this being extended and embraced in web browsing:)
Can't wait to try it out:)
Mr. David Every had a previous article on MacKido.com regarding mouse gestures (specifically wheel mouse scrolling vs. click drag type scrolling)
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/CounterPoints.h tm l
There are some other nice articles about interface you can find on his website.
When I was in middle school, the "Intro to computer programming" teacher usually opened the lab after school so we could go play games. This was like in 1993 and we were playing games on Apple IIs. Eventually i got tired of playing just games and started inquiring about how to program stuff.
Some of the most notable games I used to play on there every day after school were Taipan and Montezuma's Revenge.
Taipain is the one where you were a trader in China(?) and you got to sell opium if you wanted, but beware of the Patrol Fleet, and on the other side you had to give "donations" to the "Temple of the Sea Goddess" or pirates would come after you.
Montezuma's Revenge was one where you had to get this guy to unlock all these doors to the dungeons in a temple while avoiding being destroyed by weird creatures.
Anyways, once I got into High School, I didn't really have a chance to play any games on the computer's there. I know that one of the teachers that ran a lab let kids go there during lunch and after school.
Also in the computer lab where i had my high school programming class they had Duke Nukem installed on the computers, but you had to know the password, or have a handy Mac OS CD to start up from, so you could bypass At Ease. Our Computer Programming teacher said it was ok for us to do that so long as we didnt mess anything on the computers.
The only bad experiences I've had was in that particular lab where kids could play during lunch. I had a very bad time once because I needed to print out something and there were all these kids swamping the computers playing games. And they were rude so they wouldnt even let me on there for a second to print something out.
So I think its good to expose kids to computers by gaming, but also lay out some basic rules on when the computers are available for gaming and when they're not.
Also the selection of games is important. You also want to choose games that are not biased towards one gender if possible. One interesting thing about Starcraft is that its never really clear whether you are playing as male or female. (Well other than Jim Raynor saying "Hey man", and maybe some comments Kerrigan makes when you select her.) My sister who is in her teens actually likes playing Starcraft. She thinks its cool. Cro-Mag rally is another good one. But that's Mac only. You also want to choose games that are challenging and require strategy. Also games that require competition are good, so long as you watch out for kids taking the game too seriously. And games that are about blowing people to frags, well I don't think those are proper in a school. (yes i know i played Duke Nukem in computer prog lab, but i was younger then.)
I dont buy games like Quake mostly because if i have it lying around I know sooner or later my brother or sister will pick it up when i'm not around and start blasting characters to frags. That can't be good.
-codeonezero
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That's the right link to the Enigma move site. Not http://www.enigmathemovie.com
I guess this would be offtopic, but consider that March 15 is the Ides of March, if my memory blocks are not faulty.
I never got a decent change to try out BeOS, but I always heard good things. Sad to see them go.
Well I've found Chimera to be innovative as far as interface goes. It uses a tabs within a window to allow you to look at different pages between tabs.
Certainly is very useful at eliminating screen clutter that an active web user can end up with while visiting 10 sites at the same time. It also seems way faster than netscape on OS X.
I think Chimera breathes some air into mozilla on OS X.
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So long as there are no proprietary additions to XML from Microsoft and as long as the "open" XML format MS will use is truly open for all of us to see, and not an XML tag with binary data in the middle at every possible point, as some other have suggested before.
I will give props to MS if they will work with other companies in a fair way to do this.
All these Britney and NSync, and [your list of crap boy bands here] kids going under the knife just to look like their favorite pop stars.
I wouldn't be surprised. Be prepared for the next American Idol to have 1,000 singers look like any of the before mentioned people.
People are that insane.
Heh, maybe it'll be like tatoos and people will say "it seemed like a good idea when i was 17, but now i think WTF was i thinking!"
Like Homer (after eating some cyberfudge) said once "What a horrible future we live in!"
Lisa replied: "Don't you mean present?"
Sounds to me like they still need to work out issues before making it a service that the average Joe and Jane can use.
:) Maybe for a certain quality, and raise the price up from there for better quality encoding and/or more flexibility. (i.e. pay 99 cents and you can choose your format of choice to download...etc, pay $1.49 and get dvd quality audio...you get the picture :)
What kills it for me (but then again I'm probably not in the majority they are targetting) is the requirement of Windows 2k/XP and Windows media player...
Well its not like I'm downloading MP3s left and right anyways. Most of my music is bought at a store or via one of them music clubs...(Where you can get like 11 CD for 1 cent, so long as you buy 4 more at regular price in 2 years time...which if you play smart you can gets tons of CDs cheap, assuming you dont need the latest release)
Maybe by the time I get a broadband connection, these services will use a more open standard format, and the service will be a lot more flexible.
A price reduction would be nice, would encourage people to buy the songs the like from a website instead of leeching off gnutella or [insert favorite file sharing client/server here].
50 cents a song sounds good to me
Maybe they can come up with better pricing though.
Hey I can get 4x6 photo prints of my digital photos for 50 cents from Kodak online services!
(Well yeah shipping is like $2.99 though hehe)
Going a bit offtopic. You know what would be neat at least for someone like me?
:)
:)
;-)
Have the Sim Online game have a SimApple SimStore. Then people could hang around in line just waiting for the store to open
I wonder how long the line would be, and if it would compare with the actual Real Apple Store openings
Maybe you could get extra credit in the game for visiting an Apple Store or leading a "Switcher" life.
Anyone have any idea when us Mac users will get to try the play test? I haven't seen a version for mac users...
Can't wait to try this though...
"Oh we are so poor all we have is a nuclear weapons program ready to strike out our neighbors."
Seriously, how do you have money to build up a nuclear weapons program and not have money to support GNU/Linux?
I don't know about India but If I have a nuclear weapons program, the last thing I want is to have some foreign company's software running my computer system. With GNU/Linux I can be sure there's no backdoors, and get a homebrew operating system I can use and trust.
Of course the situation is more complex than that. With MS bringing in jobs to India and all (as stated in a previous comment.)
Just my thoughts.
Ok,
So I haven't quite read the article but it occured to me.
Is it possible to demolish such a structure with radio waves? Or do the laws that lets you do things one way, prevent you form doing things the other way?
if you can't demolish the structures with radio waves, then what changes once you have built the structure that prevents you from doing so?
Hehe,
:-)
Lets just hope the engineers aren't big Star Trek fans or they'll try building these structures with sound in outer space.
Why not call it a Jaguar cluster ;)
"Its so fast!!"
In the infamous words of Fry from Futurama
(On being scanned by some radiation emiting device)
"Ouch, my sperm"
heheh
I don't know if this is widely known yet but at work we have the google toolbar installed on our windows 2k workstations.
:-) There is also mention of being able to participate in other such distributed computing projects in the future.
The MIS guy at least approved their use.
Last week, I saw that the Google Toolbar had self updated, and one of the new features was the ability to opt in for participation in the Folding@Home project through the use of the Google Toolbar.
It appears that at the time this feature is limited to only a select clients. Nevertheless I sent a request to the MIS guy about it, and if I could enable it. He had no issues with it. (Aka run it if you want)
Perhaps if the MIS/IT person already lets you use the Google Toolbar on the Windows machine, then they would probably be more trusting of running Folding@Home through the Google Toolbar.
I haven't noticed any significant slow downs using regular mode, and in any case you can switch between regular and conservative modes. Conservative mode running when you're not using the computer.
Also although I dont have the link at the moment handy (at home on my Mac
I prefer Objective Holy See ;)
Hmm...I guess that might have a double entendre
No actually we actually surf the net, and some of us actually use unix based OSes like Linux and Mac OS X :)
What's more likely to happen at the Southern California Linux Convention is UCLA linux users shaking their keys at the USC linux users.
Maybe some USC / UCLA rivalry will show up.
Maybe UCLA students use vi and USC students use emacs? I know I took a class at USC and the professor taught us using emacs. Though the Lab Assistant wanted us using vi.
Anyways maybe I'll drop by should be fun.
Quicktime VR also incorporates some mouse gestures.
:)
:)
h tm l
Note the ability to click and drag left or right, up or down to move in a Quicktime VR movie.
There are other example on the Mac that I can think of.
Holding down option(?) + click drag to scroll through a finder's window (havent tested in Mac OS X, and this is using a one button mouse of course, probably just a simple button click + drag in a multi-button mouse)
Also Adobe Acrobat Reader has a similar scroll mode when you select the hand tool.
Nevertheless great to see this being extended and embraced in web browsing
Can't wait to try it out
Mr. David Every had a previous article on MacKido.com regarding mouse gestures (specifically wheel mouse scrolling vs. click drag type scrolling)
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/CounterPoints.
There are some other nice articles about interface you can find on his website.
-codeonezero
When I was in middle school, the "Intro to computer programming" teacher usually opened the lab after school so we could go play games. This was like in 1993 and we were playing games on Apple IIs. Eventually i got tired of playing just games and started inquiring about how to program stuff.
Some of the most notable games I used to play on there every day after school were Taipan and Montezuma's Revenge.
Taipain is the one where you were a trader in China(?) and you got to sell opium if you wanted, but beware of the Patrol Fleet, and on the other side you had to give "donations" to the "Temple of the Sea Goddess" or pirates would come after you.
Montezuma's Revenge was one where you had to get this guy to unlock all these doors to the dungeons in a temple while avoiding being destroyed by weird creatures.
Anyways, once I got into High School, I didn't really have a chance to play any games on the computer's there. I know that one of the teachers that ran a lab let kids go there during lunch and after school.
Also in the computer lab where i had my high school programming class they had Duke Nukem installed on the computers, but you had to know the password, or have a handy Mac OS CD to start up from, so you could bypass At Ease. Our Computer Programming teacher said it was ok for us to do that so long as we didnt mess anything on the computers.
The only bad experiences I've had was in that particular lab where kids could play during lunch. I had a very bad time once because I needed to print out something and there were all these kids swamping the computers playing games. And they were rude so they wouldnt even let me on there for a second to print something out.
So I think its good to expose kids to computers by gaming, but also lay out some basic rules on when the computers are available for gaming and when they're not.
Also the selection of games is important. You also want to choose games that are not biased towards one gender if possible. One interesting thing about Starcraft is that its never really clear whether you are playing as male or female. (Well other than Jim Raynor saying "Hey man", and maybe some comments Kerrigan makes when you select her.) My sister who is in her teens actually likes playing Starcraft. She thinks its cool. Cro-Mag rally is another good one. But that's Mac only. You also want to choose games that are challenging and require strategy. Also games that require competition are good, so long as you watch out for kids taking the game too seriously. And games that are about blowing people to frags, well I don't think those are proper in a school. (yes i know i played Duke Nukem in computer prog lab, but i was younger then.)
I dont buy games like Quake mostly because if i have it lying around I know sooner or later my brother or sister will pick it up when i'm not around and start blasting characters to frags. That can't be good.
-codeonezero
That's the right link to the Enigma move site. Not http://www.enigmathemovie.com
I guess this would be offtopic, but consider that March 15 is the Ides of March, if my memory blocks are not faulty. I never got a decent change to try out BeOS, but I always heard good things. Sad to see them go.
Sorry, had not kept up with mozilla, so I missed those tabs that windows thing :)
Well I've found Chimera to be innovative as far as interface goes. It uses a tabs within a window to allow you to look at different pages between tabs. Certainly is very useful at eliminating screen clutter that an active web user can end up with while visiting 10 sites at the same time. It also seems way faster than netscape on OS X. I think Chimera breathes some air into mozilla on OS X.