Just to see what the fuzz is all about I created a small AJAX "app" using SAJAX, a small AJAX toolkit for an assortment of languages. Here it is: SAJAX + Google Define-test. Kinda fun and very simple to write. I don't see any obvious use for it though except for larger applications such as Google Maps. Most "interactive" contents over HTTP is message boards and such and they don't really benefit from AJAX directly.
This reminds me of a news broadcast in Sweden a year ago or so about - you guessed it - child pornography. They interviewed a guy at a children's rights organization and he particularly mentioned Freenet, he called it "an open door for pedophiles" and continued with some inane ramblings about how ISP's must monitor all traffic for greater good (tm).
This also reminds me of http://news.com.com/Congress+threatens+P2P+network s+on+porn/2100-1028_3-5809223.html?tag=nefd.top
When will these people realize guns don't kill people, you can actually use a road for speeding, a scissor is a pontetial murder weapon and (gasp) in real life, in cities, people kill, murder and rape. Lets ban outdoors - think of the children!
bool isexciting() { /* If the game is exciting you can hear it from the screaming fans. 80% of max volume is probably a good threeshold */ return (soundvolume() > 80); }
Shooting someone in the head several times without the person dying (as in the movies) creates a fake image of violence for children. Not to mention telling kids santa DOES exist. This is not about the children, it has never been, it's about adults twisted view about "innocence" or something like that.
What the hell is premium content? I hear marketroids use it all the time now. According to dictionar.com premium means, among other things " Something offered free or at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.". What's the problem if someone gets "premium" content for free then?
Maps. Wow, that was exciting 5 years ago. Search? Nice, they are fighting a battle Google already won years ago. E-mail? I have one, thank you. Portals? People actually use those, when every major site offer a RSS feed? Honestly, why do we care? What's so impressing with all this? Sure, Google Maps is cool in a sense, but is it totally cool? No. G-mail is better than previous email services. Is it totally exciting, as in all other email services look pale in comparision? No. Is it just me, or are these 20 year old concepts?
Wikipedia. Now there's something fresh, new and exciting. Conquer that market, MS and Google, and I'll care.
You've just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you've managed to actually let people know about it. Maybe you have a popular blog or something. Maybe Walt Mossberg wrote a rave review in the Wall Street Journal.
One of the biggest questions you're going to be asking now is, "How much should I charge for my software?" When you ask the experts they don't seem to know. Pricing is a deep, dark mystery, they tell you. The biggest mistake software companies make is charging too little, so they don't get enough income, and they have to go out of business. An even bigger mistake, yes, even bigger than the biggest mistake, is...
This is rediciulous. What if I release a patch that will just replace the textures of any game (say Windows Solitair, or some Harry Potter game) with hardcore porn? Assume the patch becomes widespread after the game has been released.
Will this... organization... advise stores to stop sell this game too?
"Top-level release groups like those targeted in the operation are primary suppliers to the for-profit criminal distribution networks that cost the copyright industry billions of dollars each year."
Interesting. The gun manufacturers are the primary suppliers of guns used in murder.
By the way, is it just me, or isn't it incredibly annoying that these press releases uses "illegal" or "theft" (or "stolen") in every freaking paragraph?
Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down without limitations or caps for around 45 USD ( www.bredband2.se ) in an assortment of locations, not only universities. It's even better in Japan and Korea I think.
... I think this is a good article. It describes what everyone here think is "painfully obvious" in an interesting way (everone loves a conspiracy!) regular computer users will understand, the crowd that reads CNET, IDG etc.
Why is this important? This article will now be referenced on all the major news sites, and will work as counter-FUD. That's the good thing with sensationalist guys like Dvorak. He writes interesting and scandalous things (from a journalist point of view) and sometimes he actually get it right.
Find a job you think sounds interesting. If they don't want you there, tell them you can work for free for a while. That way you can show you can handle it and if they like your skills you might aswell get a job with a real salary. It also shows you really want the job, and that's a motivator for them to hire you.
Who is eligible?
Students. Since the point of the program is to create new developers, we're looking to find developers around the world who have considered creating free and open source software but who have not yet taken the plunge. We felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus these efforts.
How do you define a student?
Someone currently enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including but not necessarily limited to colleges, universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs.
I am 20 years old, not a student yet though because I recently finished senior high school and don't know what to study yet. Why the hell am I not eligible? It's people like me who actually have the time to participate in open source projects. It's the same thing with programming contents. I want to participate but I'm not allowed because they are also mostly "students only". So freaking annoying!
First I was going to write a reply about how it's irrelevant because The People already associate piercings and tattoos with Great Evil, but then I realized, perhaps the reason they wear these things is because they want to hang out with people open-minded about appearance? I have a no-cubicle rule. Regardless of benefits, hours, payment etc I will NOT take a job if I have to work in a cubicle. Perhaps it's the same thing with piercings, but for them acceptance is more important than environment. I don't mind that.
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Just to see what the fuzz is all about I created a small AJAX "app" using SAJAX, a small AJAX toolkit for an assortment of languages. Here it is: SAJAX + Google Define-test. Kinda fun and very simple to write. I don't see any obvious use for it though except for larger applications such as Google Maps. Most "interactive" contents over HTTP is message boards and such and they don't really benefit from AJAX directly.
This reminds me of a news broadcast in Sweden a year ago or so about - you guessed it - child pornography. They interviewed a guy at a children's rights organization and he particularly mentioned Freenet, he called it "an open door for pedophiles" and continued with some inane ramblings about how ISP's must monitor all traffic for greater good (tm). This also reminds me of http://news.com.com/Congress+threatens+P2P+network s+on+porn/2100-1028_3-5809223.html?tag=nefd.top
When will these people realize guns don't kill people, you can actually use a road for speeding, a scissor is a pontetial murder weapon and (gasp) in real life, in cities, people kill, murder and rape. Lets ban outdoors - think of the children!
More likely, they got a patent on this.
/* If the game is exciting you can hear it from the screaming fans. 80% of max volume is probably a good threeshold */
bool isexciting()
{
return (soundvolume() > 80);
}
Or who am I kidding, it's Microsoft
char* IsBaseballExciting()
{
char temp[3];
if((double)SoundVolume() / (double)100.0 > 0.8)
sprintf(temp, "YES");
else
sprintf(temp, "NO!");
return (char *)temp;
}
;-)
Shooting someone in the head several times without the person dying (as in the movies) creates a fake image of violence for children. Not to mention telling kids santa DOES exist. This is not about the children, it has never been, it's about adults twisted view about "innocence" or something like that.
What the hell is premium content? I hear marketroids use it all the time now. According to dictionar.com premium means, among other things " Something offered free or at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.". What's the problem if someone gets "premium" content for free then?
Remember when someone thought it'd be a good idea to change Pi to equal exactly 3? http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
Maps. Wow, that was exciting 5 years ago. Search? Nice, they are fighting a battle Google already won years ago. E-mail? I have one, thank you. Portals? People actually use those, when every major site offer a RSS feed? Honestly, why do we care? What's so impressing with all this? Sure, Google Maps is cool in a sense, but is it totally cool? No. G-mail is better than previous email services. Is it totally exciting, as in all other email services look pale in comparision? No. Is it just me, or are these 20 year old concepts?
Wikipedia. Now there's something fresh, new and exciting. Conquer that market, MS and Google, and I'll care.
The mp3-player is also known as JNC SSF-8100: http://www.jnc-digital.com.au/products_details.php ?id=66#
So, as the mobiblu site's down, who _actually_ created this?
The damn thing only supported DVD-R discs, not DVD+R, that's why it didn't work.
How much should I charge for my software? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRu bberDuckies.html
...
You've just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you've managed to actually let people know about it. Maybe you have a popular blog or something. Maybe Walt Mossberg wrote a rave review in the Wall Street Journal.
One of the biggest questions you're going to be asking now is, "How much should I charge for my software?" When you ask the experts they don't seem to know. Pricing is a deep, dark mystery, they tell you. The biggest mistake software companies make is charging too little, so they don't get enough income, and they have to go out of business. An even bigger mistake, yes, even bigger than the biggest mistake, is
This is rediciulous. What if I release a patch that will just replace the textures of any game (say Windows Solitair, or some Harry Potter game) with hardcore porn? Assume the patch becomes widespread after the game has been released.
Will this... organization... advise stores to stop sell this game too?
Yeah, mod the parents DOWN!
In Europe free means as in freedom, and nothing else. We have a separate word for gratis, gratis.
;-).
In US free has something to do with money. Oh well, at least you are not commies.
"Top-level release groups like those targeted in the operation are primary suppliers to the for-profit criminal distribution networks that cost the copyright industry billions of dollars each year."
Interesting. The gun manufacturers are the primary suppliers of guns used in murder.
By the way, is it just me, or isn't it incredibly annoying that these press releases uses "illegal" or "theft" (or "stolen") in every freaking paragraph?
Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down without limitations or caps for around 45 USD ( www.bredband2.se ) in an assortment of locations, not only universities. It's even better in Japan and Korea I think.
On the bright side, when DVD Jon figures out how to to, ehh, "tamper", with this service, we have something new to laugh at!
If you create your own test page and not use the genuine one Lexmark may sue you under the DMCA!
... I think this is a good article. It describes what everyone here think is "painfully obvious" in an interesting way (everone loves a conspiracy!) regular computer users will understand, the crowd that reads CNET, IDG etc.
Why is this important? This article will now be referenced on all the major news sites, and will work as counter-FUD. That's the good thing with sensationalist guys like Dvorak. He writes interesting and scandalous things (from a journalist point of view) and sometimes he actually get it right.
Anyone here actually trust Yankee Group anymore? Remember this? http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/05/ 007214&tid=163&tid=187&tid=109&tid=98&tid=106
Well, it turned out that the study was funded by a windows house: http://filtered.typepad.com/markjones/2004/04/abou t_face_on_y.html "The survey was funded and carried out by Sunbelt Software, a vendor of Windows utilities, which publicised the survey through a mailing list called W2Knews, which bills itself as "The world's first and largest e-zine designed for NT/2000 System Admins and Power Users"."
So who funded this report?
Then my friend, you do it like the Soviet Russians.
Find a job you think sounds interesting. If they don't want you there, tell them you can work for free for a while. That way you can show you can handle it and if they like your skills you might aswell get a job with a real salary. It also shows you really want the job, and that's a motivator for them to hire you.
More information: http://psionicist.online.fr/article.html
First I was going to write a reply about how it's irrelevant because The People already associate piercings and tattoos with Great Evil, but then I realized, perhaps the reason they wear these things is because they want to hang out with people open-minded about appearance? I have a no-cubicle rule. Regardless of benefits, hours, payment etc I will NOT take a job if I have to work in a cubicle. Perhaps it's the same thing with piercings, but for them acceptance is more important than environment. I don't mind that.