Considering the quality of the output, maby a funky wallpaper and transparent terminals might be enough for all the tin foil hat type persons out there...
A _field_ test of this would probabli yield a even worse picture, methinks...
We invented gunpowder, and did not use it for war. We invented paper and did not use it for ??? (dont remember)
We invented the compass, and did not discover America
Discalimer: I have no clue if this is a real chinese saying, just something _I_ heard.
But since you guys havent really gotten along in the past I guess it is possible =)
I still cant come to terms with this 1-Click crap.
I sure am glad I don't live in the US (not that we donb't have our own problems here, and I am pretty sure the EU is going in the US direction even as we speak...).
patenting a method, not an implementation is just wrong!
If I patent a crappy solution to a problem, and someone finds a better solution they have to pay me!!!
Talk about killing innovation!
Remind me again why we had patents in the first place...
And just what makes you think that the other.xx domains aren't fucked up too?
The.se (Sweden) domain suffers a lot of the same problems as the.us domain. That means anyone that can uses a.com,.org,.net or.nu (Niue) domain instead.
(fyi: "nu" means "now" in Swedish, which explains the odd choice of domain)
My point: This domain nonsens is a global problem!
Well, it would mean that the guy with the most money (Unless you are Bill G, that is the corporation.) won.
But I guess that would be the definition of capitalism most companies like the best.
Most laws are for their protection, not yours.
On the other hand, this law doesn't seem all bad. It would also impact on the real cyber-squatters, and I suppose that is kind of good...
For the record:
I don't feel any sympathy for the people that try to make money from P2P (Napster, Kazaa...).
They are no better than the RIAA in my eyes.
But in the short term we have a common goal.
To spred filesharing to the general public.
I truly believe that a world without all these mindboggling restrictions on information exchange would be a better place.
The amount of money in the music business would be smaller, but by cutting out the now obsolete middle-men the money would go to the only ones in the business that deservs any: The ones that do the actual work! The artists!
You make a good point.
We need decoys to buy time for the concept of P2P filesharing to spread to the general public.
Without legislation they can't possibly kill networks like gnutella, and with (hopefully) 80% of the US and EU population filesharing such a law would be hard to pass. Making everyone a criminal to make a few middle-men rich from others creative work just seems stupid.
But, I guess common sense doesn't go far when law is involved.
This page gives you a few dozens of viewers, editors and converters.
Sheesh... That wasn't very hard was it? You could have googled for that one too...
However, as I stated before, the Flash IDE is a excellent tool, and Macromedia supporting the SVG-format would be great. Because, and I assume this is your point: Their tool kick the other tools collective asses without even breaking a sweat. =)
The issue here is that the www shouldent depend on any proprietory format. period.
But if you were a for-profit company that had a monopoly on a market, would you give it up because it wasn't in the best interest of the user? Or would you try to make make lots of money and if at all possible extend your monopoly?
I have no beef with Macromedia, and I find Flash a great product in many ways. But as a programmer and a internet user I am of the opinion that open standards is the way to go.
The standards of the net shouldn't be in the hands of any one company.
I really hope that Macromedia sees that open standards is a good thing. But I seriously doubt they would give up their position out of the goodness of their hearts.
But if they adopt SVG or give the flash format away to a standardization body I assure you that I will be the first to sing their praise!
Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen, thats all...
I second that motion!
SVG could be the best thing since sliced bread if they only let it.
And with a xml-based format with well documented language bindings, there would be few accessibility issues that couldn't be easily solved.
Well, it already exists, and it's pretty nifty too...
Now if somebody just _used_ the stuff too.
With a good IDE (like Flash) for the designer dudes it would be great!
A pity it won't happen. Macromedia is calling the shots on 2D vector-graphics on the web, and they are happy with their proprietary format. We wouldn't want any competition in the future, now would we?
It's a shame really, the flash IDE is a great product, if they just switched to a open, xml-based format (SVG-DTD) it would be even better. But as I stated above, they won't. =(
Sure you get energy. But if the hydrogen isn't bound in H2O it is probably bound in something else, and the same goes for the oxygen.
You will most likely not find it bottled and ready on the mars surface...
So, before you can light the match you will have to free up the H and O. That will take energy.
Possibly you could use use the energy surplus from making H2O from H & O to free more H & O though(?) That way you might get away with only having to provide the startup energy.
Well... in either case it wouldn't be the first time.
I hope there will be no bombing, but a trade war doesn't feel to fare fetched.
But it will fail, because a country that is to big to mess with will seize this golden opportunity to become a leading hardware producer...
Hint 1: Population > 1 000 000 000
Hint 2: Nothing to loose from crashing some "IP" industries. It is sometimes refered to by the RIAA as "a one disc country"
It's a good thing this proposal will never fly, because if it does, it will royally mess up the US economy. And you guys tend to take the rest of us with you... =)
...call me a facist but why dont we just skip the "into space" part.
Nah, just kidding.
But I cant wait to see these record-company-made freaks fade from the eter...
If illegal coppying is what it takes to get rid of the likes of him, I'm ready to be an outlaw...
What you are saying makes sense...
I am currently working building PDF-documents and XHTML from our SQL server on the fly using FOP. (The "on the fly" demand may have to go though, considering the amount of numbercrunching going on when FOP processes a 150 page report. I'll put it on a dedicated server, but...)
I had a quick glance at Cocoon2 a week ago, but wasn't sure it would do anything for me.
Maybe I should give it a more indepth look. Guess there is no harm in that...
A friend of mine is currently working at CERN (no, she is not involved in this project).
Since she doesn't understand french one bit better than me (that is, not at all) I would presume that they speak english a lot of the time.
CERN happens to attract bright young things from all over Europe you know...
I suppose you are trolling, but just in case you are serious...
I live in sweden, I could get an assault rifle in about 2 months, legally.
All I have to do is to join the "hemvärnet" (read militia).
Since I spent a year in the military (if they pick you and you refuse, you could go to jail) I am already trained in it's use, and have a security clearance.
I just don't think getting guns would solve anything.
And that goes for the US too... The problem in this case is clueless lawmakers and self serving corps. ...and no amount of guns could change that.
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Considering the quality of the output, maby a funky wallpaper and transparent terminals might be enough for all the tin foil hat type persons out there...
A _field_ test of this would probabli yield a even worse picture, methinks...
I better get my tin foil hat out, or get a TFT...
This may shatter the old chinese saying:
We invented gunpowder, and did not use it for war.
We invented paper and did not use it for ??? (dont remember)
We invented the compass, and did not discover America
Discalimer: I have no clue if this is a real chinese saying, just something _I_ heard.
But since you guys havent really gotten along in the past I guess it is possible =)
I still cant come to terms with this 1-Click crap.
I sure am glad I don't live in the US (not that we donb't have our own problems here, and I am pretty sure the EU is going in the US direction even as we speak...).
patenting a method, not an implementation is just wrong!
If I patent a crappy solution to a problem, and someone finds a better solution they have to pay me!!!
Talk about killing innovation!
Remind me again why we had patents in the first place...
If Ogg Tarkin has reached 1.0 by then ,they could post the FMV... =)
And just what makes you think that the other .xx domains aren't fucked up too? .se (Sweden) domain suffers a lot of the same problems as the .us domain. That means anyone that can uses a .com, .org, .net or .nu (Niue) domain instead.
The
(fyi: "nu" means "now" in Swedish, which explains the odd choice of domain)
My point: This domain nonsens is a global problem!
Well, it would mean that the guy with the most money (Unless you are Bill G, that is the corporation.) won.
But I guess that would be the definition of capitalism most companies like the best.
Most laws are for their protection, not yours.
On the other hand, this law doesn't seem all bad. It would also impact on the real cyber-squatters, and I suppose that is kind of good...
I am split about this.
For the record:
I don't feel any sympathy for the people that try to make money from P2P (Napster, Kazaa...).
They are no better than the RIAA in my eyes.
But in the short term we have a common goal.
To spred filesharing to the general public.
I truly believe that a world without all these mindboggling restrictions on information exchange would be a better place.
The amount of money in the music business would be smaller, but by cutting out the now obsolete middle-men the money would go to the only ones in the business that deservs any: The ones that do the actual work! The artists!
You make a good point.
We need decoys to buy time for the concept of P2P filesharing to spread to the general public.
Without legislation they can't possibly kill networks like gnutella, and with (hopefully) 80% of the US and EU population filesharing such a law would be hard to pass.
Making everyone a criminal to make a few middle-men rich from others creative work just seems stupid.
But, I guess common sense doesn't go far when law is involved.
This page gives you a few dozens of viewers, editors and converters.
Sheesh... That wasn't very hard was it? You could have googled for that one too...
However, as I stated before, the Flash IDE is a excellent tool, and Macromedia supporting the SVG-format would be great.
Because, and I assume this is your point: Their tool kick the other tools collective asses without even breaking a sweat. =)
The issue here is that the www shouldent depend on any proprietory format. period.
I would actually like to be wrong on this.
But if you were a for-profit company that had a monopoly on a market, would you give it up because it wasn't in the best interest of the user?
Or would you try to make make lots of money and if at all possible extend your monopoly?
I have no beef with Macromedia, and I find Flash a great product in many ways. But as a programmer and a internet user I am of the opinion that open standards is the way to go.
The standards of the net shouldn't be in the hands of any one company.
I really hope that Macromedia sees that open standards is a good thing.
But I seriously doubt they would give up their position out of the goodness of their hearts.
But if they adopt SVG or give the flash format away to a standardization body I assure you that I will be the first to sing their praise!
Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen, thats all...
I second that motion!
SVG could be the best thing since sliced bread if they only let it.
And with a xml-based format with well documented language bindings, there would be few accessibility issues that couldn't be easily solved.
You mean something like the combination SVG and ECMAScript (JavaScript).
Well, it already exists, and it's pretty nifty too...
Now if somebody just _used_ the stuff too.
With a good IDE (like Flash) for the designer dudes it would be great!
A pity it won't happen. Macromedia is calling the shots on 2D vector-graphics on the web, and they are happy with their proprietary format.
We wouldn't want any competition in the future, now would we?
It's a shame really, the flash IDE is a great product, if they just switched to a open, xml-based format (SVG-DTD) it would be even better.
But as I stated above, they won't. =(
Sure you get energy. But if the hydrogen isn't bound in H2O it is probably bound in something else, and the same goes for the oxygen.
You will most likely not find it bottled and ready on the mars surface...
So, before you can light the match you will have to free up the H and O. That will take energy.
Possibly you could use use the energy surplus from making H2O from H & O to free more H & O though(?) That way you might get away with only having to provide the startup energy.
Only because you don't have the wetware for 4D or higher =)
GargamelSoft
I like that one, I might use it myself sometime.
There is no slander like creative slander =)
I have proof! Just click this link for some hard evidence!
"...destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform,"
Someone a little more zealous and a little less polite than me might have pointed out that MS themselves succeded admirably in that pursuit.
Actually, it is a lot harder making bytes uncopyable, than making water not wet... =)
I take confort in that knowledge.
Well... in either case it wouldn't be the first time.
I hope there will be no bombing, but a trade war doesn't feel to fare fetched.
But it will fail, because a country that is to big to mess with will seize this golden opportunity to become a leading hardware producer...
Hint 1: Population > 1 000 000 000
Hint 2: Nothing to loose from crashing some "IP" industries. It is sometimes refered to by the RIAA as "a one disc country"
It's a good thing this proposal will never fly, because if it does, it will royally mess up the US economy.
And you guys tend to take the rest of us with you... =)
Shoot into space?
...call me a facist but why dont we just skip the "into space" part.
Nah, just kidding.
But I cant wait to see these record-company-made freaks fade from the eter...
If illegal coppying is what it takes to get rid of the likes of him, I'm ready to be an outlaw...
Now, who is with me...
What you are saying makes sense...
I am currently working building PDF-documents and XHTML from our SQL server on the fly using FOP.
(The "on the fly" demand may have to go though, considering the amount of numbercrunching going on when FOP processes a 150 page report. I'll put it on a dedicated server, but...)
I had a quick glance at Cocoon2 a week ago, but wasn't sure it would do anything for me.
Maybe I should give it a more indepth look.
Guess there is no harm in that...
A friend of mine is currently working at CERN (no, she is not involved in this project).
Since she doesn't understand french one bit better than me (that is, not at all) I would presume that they speak english a lot of the time.
CERN happens to attract bright young things from all over Europe you know...
So, as a Tomcat user, I ask my self:
/. communitys thoughts about this.
What will this mean for my favorite oss servlet-container?
How will this impact Tomcat development?
I would like to hear the
Especially from any Jakarta developers out there.
I suppose you are trolling, but just in case you are serious...
I live in sweden, I could get an assault rifle in about 2 months, legally.
All I have to do is to join the "hemvärnet" (read militia).
Since I spent a year in the military (if they pick you and you refuse, you could go to jail) I am already trained in it's use, and have a security clearance.
I just don't think getting guns would solve anything.
And that goes for the US too...
The problem in this case is clueless lawmakers and self serving corps.
...and no amount of guns could change that.