The terminal and 3D interfaces are complementary, not antagonistic. We should welcome 3D interfaces. Indeed, we should welcome almost anything that increases the level of communication between the user and the computer.
Think about surfing Google Earth using a CLI. Not good, is it?
Like most geeks, I track this topic and hear many more success stories about adult stem cells (mostly derived from the patient himself, or 'autologous') than using embryonic stem cells (actually I don't recall any signal success using ESCs).
This including news from Europe (where there are no restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.)
To the original question poster: search for "automation" in this Slashdot story, and pay serious attention to what's being said there. Programming testcases is still programming... something that you do in your area to give yourself the skills and reputation that software teams like to see.
You're a private pilot and you think that modern autopilots use GPS as their primary control input!?!?!?! So a sudden change in satellite-transmitted GPS data forces the autopilot to take instantaneous action?
In section 1.1, first they define their browser as a "Service": 1.1 Your use of Google's products, software, [...] (referred to collectively as the "Services" [...])
Next in section 11.1, they claim a license on anything you post through it: 11.1 By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
So it reasonable to say this car can increase from 45 to 62 in 2.6 seconds. It could probably come back down to 45 a whole lot quicker (say if the teenager spotted the police car and slammed on the brakes). So yes up and down 17 mph in 4 seconds is possible, and I'm more inclined to believe the police provided they have evidence their instrument was properly calibrated.
He got you at "I work with recovering addicts and believe me, some gullible young kids ARE swayed by this sort of stupid publicity by those self-appointed arbiters of coolness."
This is a good idea... i was thinking about this as well.
however, your list of things to overcome is too long.:)
M$ desktop monopoly - not a problem - free compilers work on Windows too. ISPs block ports - can be worked around (eg, if email, with microformats embedded in HTML, were used for reliable store-and-forward sychronization) Clueless US government - why would the govt. want to get involved?
Yes, tell them to vote for Jane... that someone sensible is in power.
Why didn't you quote the ACLU response -- its very telling:
Tim Sparapani, the ACLU's top legislative lawyer in D.C., bristled at Harman's remakrs. "Our prognosticating track record in identifying programs ripe for abuse of privacy and civil liberties is pretty solid," Sparapani wrote in an e-mail that listed several other programs...
> describe is basically just offloading static images to an unsuspecting third party.
What if the 'unsuspecting third party' was a geographically distributed server setup like CPAN or sourceforge.net?
Nefarious intent does not invalidate prior art.
I have no hassles with Akamai protecting something innovative, say their precise server-determination algorithms, but geographically distributed HTTP load balancing itself is not worth protecting.
> You're saying that rewriting urls in a web page to fetch objects > from geographically different servers was obvious in late 1998?
Technically, yes. Remember Image bandwidth-stealing? A guy hosting images would find others not only presenting those images in a different website, but to add insult to injury, would load those images from _his_ servers? (i.e. they had modified their IMG tags to load images from the unwitting originator.) Now, if the originating servers were clustered and/or geographically distributed, you've got a setup just like Akamai.
This problem is almost as old as graphical browsers themselves.
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> > Legalizing them condemns to death and abyss, many people that need protection.
> Exactly. Which is why I usually advocate legalizing it all,
??? so you agree with condemning people to death and the abyss.
> note: you can make meth safe. It's called Desoxyn.
Safe? Warning from your link on Desoxyn:
MISUSE OF METHAMPHETAMINE MAY CAUSE SUDDEN DEATH AND SERIOUS CARDIOVASCULAR ADVERSE EVENTS.
> I've never felt so alive.
Take the serum and we can solve that for you.
The terminal and 3D interfaces are complementary, not antagonistic. We should welcome 3D interfaces. Indeed, we should welcome almost anything that increases the level of communication between the user and the computer.
Think about surfing Google Earth using a CLI. Not good, is it?
Now imagine you surfing Google Earth with a multi-touch 3D interface (eg: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/super_touch_screen_f.html ). Then, once you're where you want to be, being able to call up a CLI window with commands contextualized by the location you are at.
And most other applications!
Like most geeks, I track this topic and hear many more success stories about adult stem cells (mostly derived from the patient himself, or 'autologous') than using embryonic stem cells (actually I don't recall any signal success using ESCs).
This including news from Europe (where there are no restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.)
Mod parent up!
To the original question poster:
search for "automation" in this Slashdot story, and pay serious attention to what's being said there.
Programming testcases is still programming... something that you do in your area to give yourself the skills and reputation that software teams like to see.
You're a private pilot and you think that modern autopilots use GPS as their primary control input!?!?!?! So a sudden change in satellite-transmitted GPS data forces the autopilot to take instantaneous action?
Good for DIY multitouch setups
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=multitouch
Maybe he was talking about 'skype supernodes'
In section 1.1, first they define their browser as a "Service":
1.1
Your use of Google's products, software, [...] (referred to collectively as the "Services" [...])
Next in section 11.1, they claim a license on anything you post through it:
11.1
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
Scary!
As far as CAs are concerned, it's a list, not a chain!
A user can always choose to *remove* 'Hong Kong Post Office' from his list of trusted CAs.
> geo-solidification freezing molten magma under the crust and reducing the ***gravity*** of the earth.
???
A 1987 Cadillac Allante can do 0-60 in 9.3 seconds. (Other models can be much faster).
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Year Make & Model (0-60) (1/4 Mile)
1987 Cadillac Allante 9.3 17.1
http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60_Quarter_Mile_Times/C_0-60times.html
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So it reasonable to say this car can increase from 45 to 62 in 2.6 seconds. It could probably come back down to 45 a whole lot quicker (say if the teenager spotted the police car and slammed on the brakes). So yes up and down 17 mph in 4 seconds is possible, and I'm more inclined to believe the police provided they have evidence their instrument was properly calibrated.
Do you have some examples of a library based on a server-side 'heavy' language that autogenerates Javascript or a DHTML 'face' to the web?
(Not a troll... genuinely curious)
So you can't go up and down 7 mph in 4 seconds?
"which I love :)"
Unfortunate choice of words. :-D
You probably meant "whom I love".
A really smart person does the work, then frames an efficient process around what he did
Hey Bullet-Dodger!
He got you at "I work with recovering addicts and believe me, some gullible young kids ARE swayed by this sort of stupid publicity by those self-appointed arbiters of coolness."
This is a good idea... i was thinking about this as well.
:)
however, your list of things to overcome is too long.
M$ desktop monopoly - not a problem - free compilers work on Windows too.
ISPs block ports - can be worked around (eg, if email, with microformats embedded in HTML, were used for reliable store-and-forward sychronization)
Clueless US government - why would the govt. want to get involved?
> too much static out there, mostly caused by Oprah.
http://www.google.com/search?q=book+club+-oprah
This is the UK we are talking about after all...
UK 'unsafe, dirty and anti-family'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2980028.stm
I don't even live there and I think the same
> The fact that you know their salaries should tell you something about the quality of your friends.
...
What's wrong? Uncomfortable with the free market are we? Remember it cuts both ways.
> In hiring,
'Nuff said. While you state a few trusims, you come across as a Dilbert-eque PHB whose job consists in making people feel unworthy to keep theirs.
Yes, tell them to vote for Jane... that someone sensible is in power.
...
Why didn't you quote the ACLU response -- its very telling:
Tim Sparapani, the ACLU's top legislative lawyer in D.C., bristled at Harman's remakrs. "Our prognosticating track record in identifying programs ripe for abuse of privacy and civil liberties is pretty solid," Sparapani wrote in an e-mail that listed several other programs
> describe is basically just offloading static images to an unsuspecting third party.
What if the 'unsuspecting third party' was a geographically distributed server setup like CPAN or sourceforge.net?
Nefarious intent does not invalidate prior art.
I have no hassles with Akamai protecting something innovative, say their precise server-determination algorithms, but geographically distributed HTTP load balancing itself is not worth protecting.
> You're saying that rewriting urls in a web page to fetch objects
> from geographically different servers was obvious in late 1998?
Technically, yes. Remember Image bandwidth-stealing? A guy hosting images would find others not only presenting those images in a different website, but to add insult to injury, would load those images from _his_ servers? (i.e. they had modified their IMG tags to load images from the unwitting originator.) Now, if the originating servers were clustered and/or geographically distributed, you've got a setup just like Akamai.
This problem is almost as old as graphical browsers themselves.
> You'll note that their target machine for X11 2d desktop ...
...
> performance is a
Nope, the link merely notes that their reference machine for _testing_ an enhancement to X is a