RSS is by no means a perfect format, but it is very popular and widely supported. Having a settled spec is something RSS has needed for a long time. The purpose of this work is to help it become a unchanging thing, to foster growth in the market that is developing around it, and to clear the path for innovation in new syndication formats. Therefore, the RSS spec is, for all practical purposes, frozen at version 2.0.1. We anticipate possible 2.0.2 or 2.0.3 versions, etc. only for the purpose of clarifying the specification, not for adding new features to the format. Subsequent work should happen in modules, using namespaces, and in completely new syndication formats, with new names.
This is one of the reasons the Atom people chose a new name. If it's just clarification of RSS 2, it shouldn't have been called RSS 3.0. If something else is needed: just use Atom already!
The site says that Atom is "similar in purpose", so amounts to this: they're trying to do the same thing as Atom, but in a way that will make the current situation even more confusing (and that will probably drive Dave Winer crazy)
Not just that, it's supposed to be a slideshow, not a website. So if you want to complain, you should ask yourself whether you'd rather have had a PowerPoint presentation...
They are using mozpoint, which tries to be "a presentation library (of CSS and JS) that can be used to make simple but elegant presentations using the browser as a platform for rendering presentation content". (while on the website it is claimed that the presentations should "work in that other browser too", it might still have some problems, according to the comments here) I hadn't heard about it yet, but it doesn't seem such a bad idea. Might lead to another nice Mozilla application to complement Firefox, Thunderbird, Calendar etc...
So: they wanted to do a slideshow presentation on a Mozilla Developer Day, and they chose to use/support mozpoint. Nice, no?
We started out with "bio armor," remember? It was called wood and leather. We then moved to steel because it was better.
Yes, but only because dragon scale mail was too expensive;-)
I was wondering about that, too. Ok, it's true that a publisher can ensure that there is a seed, but what if that publisher is me, on my home pc? Good luck with your download speed!
Now, maybe this sounds ridiculous, I don't know if it would be possible, but what about a combined bittorrent/ftp client? You'd point to an ftp location as the 'original' source file. When no seeds are available, download starts via ftp (or even http), and you yourself are ready to act like a seed to others. When the last seed dies, switch to ftp again...
If possible, it would allow for using bittorrent with normal ftp resources... With the difference that you get the advantages of bittorrent when multiple users are downloading at the same time.
I'm beginning to think RedHat would have gotten much less negative reactions if they'd called it "RedHat Fedora" or something, instead of just "Fedora".
You know: "Our desktop version is now called "RedHat Fedora". It is only available for free, but it doesn't come with commercial support." Sounds different, but it's basically the same thing as they are doing now.
(I know the blurb: RedHat-sponsored... comunity-supported... not a supported RedHat product... but a little more attention for Fedora in their communication, and keeping the RedHat brand name might have been wiser)
This could be used to DoS innocent victims.
That's the point of the blacklist. A site doesn't get pounded simply by being mentioned in a spam. It has to be mentioned in a spam and be on the blacklist.
Well, not sure I'm in favour of the whole DoS'ing idea, but:
If the plan is to DoS blacklisted sites, why not just DoS them anyway, and forget about the spidering? Sounds easier (plus you help defeating other spammers than the ones that bother you)
At least, the majority of them are.
They can be both customer and thief. If they also buy music legally, they are customers. In this case, the RIAA are suing their customers.
The importance of this: their customers might be thieves, but by suing them, they risk losing them as customers...
They already use cookies containing a user id. So why the sudden privacy concerns in the article?
They could already log your searches if they wanted to.
The only difference now is a counter is shown to the user.
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
You might also want to have a look at Noegnud ("an alternate ascii/2D/3D UI for nethack and slash'em using SDL and OpenGL"). It seems to be more actively developed, and more playable than Falcon's Eye.
For example: I have broadband internet access. For the same price, I could buy subscriptions to a couple of magazines. It's irrelevant for me that technically, I just pay for bandwidth etc. It's the content that interests me and makes it worth the price... I think that's one of the reasons it is difficult to get readers to pay for content. It's like saying: "if you pay this price, you get access to a lot of information" and then charging them again for it...
Well IE is sort of better at this, in that favorites are individual files, so you can use the filesystem's find function to search (nice when you have 1000+ bookmarks).
Apart from other issues with bookmarks as files vs. one bookmark file, why is IE better at this? Mozilla/Netscape has built-in search in the bookmark manager. Do you mean it doesn't work with a 1000+ bookmarks? (I wouldn't know, I have never used that many). Combined with bookmark keywords and descriptions, I'd have thought finding things in a lot of bookmarks would be easier than in IE. (and even opening the bookmarks page and searching in that file seems easier than relying on the filesystem's find function).
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Yet no one has posted the obligatory Pratchett Pratchett reference joke yet:
Anthill Inside!
Mozilla.org distributes "RPMS for Red Hat Linux 8.x with Xft support", so you don't even have to worry about building yourself or setting hidden preferences. (see the releases page)
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Now he will have to come up with RSS 4.0...
The site says that Atom is "similar in purpose", so amounts to this: they're trying to do the same thing as Atom, but in a way that will make the current situation even more confusing (and that will probably drive Dave Winer crazy)
you forgot Red Carpet ;-)
Not just that, it's supposed to be a slideshow, not a website. So if you want to complain, you should ask yourself whether you'd rather have had a PowerPoint presentation...
They are using mozpoint, which tries to be "a presentation library (of CSS and JS) that can be used to make simple but elegant presentations using the browser as a platform for rendering presentation content". (while on the website it is claimed that the presentations should "work in that other browser too", it might still have some problems, according to the comments here) I hadn't heard about it yet, but it doesn't seem such a bad idea. Might lead to another nice Mozilla application to complement Firefox, Thunderbird, Calendar etc...
So: they wanted to do a slideshow presentation on a Mozilla Developer Day, and they chose to use/support mozpoint. Nice, no?
Well, I don't know about other plants, but it seems apples do.
We started out with "bio armor," remember? It was called wood and leather. We then moved to steel because it was better. ;-)
Yes, but only because dragon scale mail was too expensive
I was wondering about that, too. Ok, it's true that a publisher can ensure that there is a seed, but what if that publisher is me, on my home pc? Good luck with your download speed!
Now, maybe this sounds ridiculous, I don't know if it would be possible, but what about a combined bittorrent/ftp client? You'd point to an ftp location as the 'original' source file. When no seeds are available, download starts via ftp (or even http), and you yourself are ready to act like a seed to others. When the last seed dies, switch to ftp again...
If possible, it would allow for using bittorrent with normal ftp resources... With the difference that you get the advantages of bittorrent when multiple users are downloading at the same time.
I'm beginning to think RedHat would have gotten much less negative reactions if they'd called it "RedHat Fedora" or something, instead of just "Fedora".
You know: "Our desktop version is now called "RedHat Fedora". It is only available for free, but it doesn't come with commercial support."
Sounds different, but it's basically the same thing as they are doing now.
(I know the blurb: RedHat-sponsored... comunity-supported... not a supported RedHat product... but a little more attention for Fedora in their communication, and keeping the RedHat brand name might have been wiser)
Er, wait a minute... does that mean you think he was funny?
If the plan is to DoS blacklisted sites, why not just DoS them anyway, and forget about the spidering? Sounds easier (plus you help defeating other spammers than the ones that bother you)
At least, the majority of them are.
They can be both customer and thief. If they also buy music legally, they are customers. In this case, the RIAA are suing their customers.
The importance of this: their customers might be thieves, but by suing them, they risk losing them as customers...
So: should they rewrite the book completely?
I already had this mental image of people riding around, delivering paper printouts of http-requests and...
eh, nevermind...
They already use cookies containing a user id. So why the sudden privacy concerns in the article?
They could already log your searches if they wanted to. The only difference now is a counter is shown to the user.
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
er... it's "GNU/Linux", dammit!
or in this case: "The fish was father of the thought"?
It's GNUinnes, dammit!
You might also want to have a look at Noegnud ("an alternate ascii/2D/3D UI for nethack and slash'em using SDL and OpenGL"). It seems to be more actively developed, and more playable than Falcon's Eye.
For example: I have broadband internet access. For the same price, I could buy subscriptions to a couple of magazines. It's irrelevant for me that technically, I just pay for bandwidth etc. It's the content that interests me and makes it worth the price...
I think that's one of the reasons it is difficult to get readers to pay for content. It's like saying: "if you pay this price, you get access to a lot of information" and then charging them again for it...
Well IE is sort of better at this, in that favorites are individual files, so you can use the filesystem's find function to search (nice when you have 1000+ bookmarks). Apart from other issues with bookmarks as files vs. one bookmark file, why is IE better at this? Mozilla/Netscape has built-in search in the bookmark manager. Do you mean it doesn't work with a 1000+ bookmarks? (I wouldn't know, I have never used that many). Combined with bookmark keywords and descriptions, I'd have thought finding things in a lot of bookmarks would be easier than in IE. (and even opening the bookmarks page and searching in that file seems easier than relying on the filesystem's find function).
Yet no one has posted the obligatory Pratchett Pratchett reference joke yet: Anthill Inside!
Even scarier: what if all the previous dupes last year were posted just to make this April Fools joke possible...
Mozilla.org distributes "RPMS for Red Hat Linux 8.x with Xft support", so you don't even have to worry about building yourself or setting hidden preferences. (see the releases page)
I think you mean After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien
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