Why not improve the JPG format itself rather than use the lossy JPG compression and then introduce a separate (lossless) compression on top of that?
That'd be nice for future products, but then old products wouldn't do the new standard. So it's a good idea for the first release to be a standalone step, done after you have your jpeg file.
Still, it's essentially a laptop without a screen or a battery. I'd rather invest in a laptop, which I could use at home with an external monitor OR as a portable laptop. It is cheap, though:-)
Still the use of the Windows-standard profile directory would solve that problem, because the user's temp dir is inside the profile and only accessible to the user. That Unix has a globally-shared temp dir is a Unix problem, not a Mozilla problem. Windows does not have that problem.
If you really need 100% uptime then you need 2 servers running in tandem. Update one while the other takes over, then update the other while the original takes over.
Third problem (users can see other users profile info, history, etc.) should be easy enough to fix, or at least easy enough to leave it to the OS to determine user access. Just place the files in user-owned private folders, like the documents and settings folder in windows or the user/home folders in linux. Mozilla shouldn't be responsible for user-level file access info.
Note that you can't take an idea away from someone, so this is an example of something that is a working communal system by its very nature.
Not really...
You can't steal an intangible idea, but you can leech on the benefits that come from their original idea. And assuming there's not an infinite market, you leeching the benefits means the author loses out on those benefits. So that's why we have patents and copyrights, to encourage people to develop original ideas by assigning legal ownership and exclusive usage rights.
I guess I meant the music store... you can always manage your non-drm'd music files using iTunes, then sync it through any other program. But the iTunes Store bought music only syncs with iPods.
Well I know I'm not going to change the market, but it doesn't mean I have to "accept" them, if by accept you mean rush out and buy an Ashlee Simpson album:-)
As a musician (not trying to be professional), it does sadden me to see america prop up talentless people when there are some really talented musicians out there. But that's just my musical choice - some people really do prefer to buy CD's of people who are famous rather than people who are good musicians.
If you feel that there is truly a market for this music, maybe you should try tapping into it and making some money for yourself.
I believe that the marketing industry is SO good at what it does these days, that it doesn't matter what I believe there is a market for - a marketer could create one. In pop culture there's no "there is a market". There's only "I have created a market". In pop culture, we don't tap markets these days, we create them. The iPod tapped a market with a good product and average marketing. Ashlee Simpson's dad and record company created a market for her with an incredible marketing investment for a lousy product.
BS. Don't like iTunes/iPod, buy a Nomad or Dell Jukebox or something. Apple has no responsibility to make iTunes and iPod work wih anything else. In fact, they would have more of a monopoly if iTunes worked with other players, because then even if you couldn't afford an iPod you could still use iTunes for music purchasing and syncing.
Communal societies work if they're voluntary. But you can't force someone to participate. It's the difference bewteen someone giving something away and someone forcefully taking something away.
I wonder if the fathers of capitalism ever imagined the levels of marketing we would have today. I believe it really skews the whole idea of competition...
It didn't hurt Windows 98 sales after Gates got a blue screen during a demo, Ashlee Simpson is still selling albums even though we found out that she really, really, can't sing (SNL + Orange Bowl), and G. W. Bush got the presidency despite being a below average public speaker.
The american public really doesn't hold public figures to a very high standard anymore.
There are music geeks who hate Ashlee for taking away a spot at a record company that some talented band might have had, political geeks who know every single word GW has said wrong, and normular computer geeks who know the design flaws in Windows.
Still, the public doesn't seem to care, and prefer to be sheep following celebrity shepards rather than thinking humans supporting the most qualified public figures.
You have to be a really dedicated researcher if you want to get beyond the multi-million dollar marketing hype surrounding most products and people these days.
First things first: teach functions / subroutines.
Start off with basics of a computer language. Pick anything. C++, Javascript or PHP (epecially if the kid already knows html), whatever.
Then help them create a procedure that takes a number of pennies (1534) and formats it correctly ($15.34), and prints it. Don't bother explaining how alert() or printf works, just use it for now.
With that task, you'll teach how to do math (1534/100), how to keep accuracy (using the right kind of variable), how to parse strings, and how to print stuff on the screen. You could even teach him about the concept of separating tasks into functions, as a way of organizing your code.
Congratulations, the kid now know 50% of what he needs to know to be a programmer.
The rest is getting good at learning languages, breaking down requirements into logical procedures for accomplishing things, specifics of each task such as how media encoding works or how you interface with devices on various operating systems, data storage, etc.
But the core concept is just manipulating single pieces of data, and formatting an amount of pennies into dollars and cents is a great way to get started.
Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20".
I used to be a spy and to launder the money I got paid in golden toilets. I'm running low on cash, so check e-bay in a few days if you want one at a good price.
They offered to pay me in golden showers but I refused. No way I was gonna fall for that again.
"I'll still probably buy Guild Wars when it's released, but I think I'll skip the next Beta Weekend. I don't think I can split my interest between two RPGs just yet"
Same here... massive online games really work better when you have friends online to share the experience with, and it's hard to cultivate two online families at once.
Ever since movies started costing $9-$10 (so $20 for two tickets), I've found I just stopped going. I'd rather order a pizza and rent two movies than waste all that money at the theater. I saw the LOTR movies in the theater because they have cinematics worth seeing on the big screen. But there are very few movies these days that actually take advantage of what the theatrical format has to offer, and they don't lose anything when you watch them on DVD.
So many of us use slashdot at work where we most likely use Windows NT or Windows 2000 all day. Plus we probably read slashdot more at work than at home (more articles posted, bored, etc). So even if half of us used exclusively linux at home, and half used exclusively windows at home, total linux hits would still be below 25%.
Instead of having a hawkwardly swinging background, why wouldn't they use a set of rotating mirrors to sequentially distribute the light to the different sensors from a single entry point ?
Duh! Because obviously it'd take some kind of super-genius to reconfigurize the franglehum reflectus so as to porta-pride the whoozimotron without disrupting the stratus field generator.
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Why not improve the JPG format itself rather than use the lossy JPG compression and then introduce a separate (lossless) compression on top of that?
That'd be nice for future products, but then old products wouldn't do the new standard. So it's a good idea for the first release to be a standalone step, done after you have your jpeg file.
Maybe it has a single sodimm slot
:-)
Oops, I stand corrected. (from this page)
Still, it's essentially a laptop without a screen or a battery. I'd rather invest in a laptop, which I could use at home with an external monitor OR as a portable laptop. It is cheap, though
If you upgrade the Mac mini to 1GB of memory through the Apple store, the additional cost is $425!
Maybe it has a single sodimm slot, so you have to use laptop memory and only one stick of it? That would explain the ridiculous upgrade price.
Still the use of the Windows-standard profile directory would solve that problem, because the user's temp dir is inside the profile and only accessible to the user.
That Unix has a globally-shared temp dir is a Unix problem, not a Mozilla problem. Windows does not have that problem.
Thank you.
If you really need 100% uptime then you need 2 servers running in tandem. Update one while the other takes over, then update the other while the original takes over.
Third problem (users can see other users profile info, history, etc.) should be easy enough to fix, or at least easy enough to leave it to the OS to determine user access. Just place the files in user-owned private folders, like the documents and settings folder in windows or the user/home folders in linux. Mozilla shouldn't be responsible for user-level file access info.
Note that you can't take an idea away from someone, so this is an example of something that is a working communal system by its very nature.
Not really...
You can't steal an intangible idea, but you can leech on the benefits that come from their original idea. And assuming there's not an infinite market, you leeching the benefits means the author loses out on those benefits. So that's why we have patents and copyrights, to encourage people to develop original ideas by assigning legal ownership and exclusive usage rights.
That's the theory, anyway.
come on, you could get good results by just checking if the links are the same...
Wouldn't be a true slashdot script if it actually RTFA.
I guess I meant the music store... you can always manage your non-drm'd music files using iTunes, then sync it through any other program. But the iTunes Store bought music only syncs with iPods.
While I don't know about Simpson's Orange Bowl appearance
:-)
Oh my god it was awful
There are videos available on some web sites... it reminded me of Courtney Love's muic, minus the catchiness and in-tune-ness.
you have to learn to accept its decisions
:-)
Well I know I'm not going to change the market, but it doesn't mean I have to "accept" them, if by accept you mean rush out and buy an Ashlee Simpson album
As a musician (not trying to be professional), it does sadden me to see america prop up talentless people when there are some really talented musicians out there. But that's just my musical choice - some people really do prefer to buy CD's of people who are famous rather than people who are good musicians.
If you feel that there is truly a market for this music, maybe you should try tapping into it and making some money for yourself.
I believe that the marketing industry is SO good at what it does these days, that it doesn't matter what I believe there is a market for - a marketer could create one. In pop culture there's no "there is a market". There's only "I have created a market". In pop culture, we don't tap markets these days, we create them. The iPod tapped a market with a good product and average marketing. Ashlee Simpson's dad and record company created a market for her with an incredible marketing investment for a lousy product.
BS. Don't like iTunes/iPod, buy a Nomad or Dell Jukebox or something. Apple has no responsibility to make iTunes and iPod work wih anything else. In fact, they would have more of a monopoly if iTunes worked with other players, because then even if you couldn't afford an iPod you could still use iTunes for music purchasing and syncing.
Communal societies work if they're voluntary. But you can't force someone to participate. It's the difference bewteen someone giving something away and someone forcefully taking something away.
I wonder if the fathers of capitalism ever imagined the levels of marketing we would have today. I believe it really skews the whole idea of competition...
It didn't hurt Windows 98 sales after Gates got a blue screen during a demo, Ashlee Simpson is still selling albums even though we found out that she really, really, can't sing (SNL + Orange Bowl), and G. W. Bush got the presidency despite being a below average public speaker.
The american public really doesn't hold public figures to a very high standard anymore.
There are music geeks who hate Ashlee for taking away a spot at a record company that some talented band might have had, political geeks who know every single word GW has said wrong, and normular computer geeks who know the design flaws in Windows.
Still, the public doesn't seem to care, and prefer to be sheep following celebrity shepards rather than thinking humans supporting the most qualified public figures.
You have to be a really dedicated researcher if you want to get beyond the multi-million dollar marketing hype surrounding most products and people these days.
The lines should be owned by the state, and ANYONE that wants to offer a service over them can pay a monthly fee to do so.
:-)
Just like the highway system. But how will the gov't maintain the lines? Contract it out to a private company?
First things first: teach functions / subroutines.
Start off with basics of a computer language. Pick anything. C++, Javascript or PHP (epecially if the kid already knows html), whatever.
Then help them create a procedure that takes a number of pennies (1534) and formats it correctly ($15.34), and prints it. Don't bother explaining how alert() or printf works, just use it for now.
With that task, you'll teach how to do math (1534/100), how to keep accuracy (using the right kind of variable), how to parse strings, and how to print stuff on the screen. You could even teach him about the concept of separating tasks into functions, as a way of organizing your code.
Congratulations, the kid now know 50% of what he needs to know to be a programmer.
The rest is getting good at learning languages, breaking down requirements into logical procedures for accomplishing things, specifics of each task such as how media encoding works or how you interface with devices on various operating systems, data storage, etc.
But the core concept is just manipulating single pieces of data, and formatting an amount of pennies into dollars and cents is a great way to get started.
Everything is accounted for. But when it comes to National Security you have to look in different places or under vague terms like "General Defense Expenses" or "Golden toilets x 20".
I used to be a spy and to launder the money I got paid in golden toilets. I'm running low on cash, so check e-bay in a few days if you want one at a good price.
They offered to pay me in golden showers but I refused. No way I was gonna fall for that again.
"I'll still probably buy Guild Wars when it's released, but I think I'll skip the next Beta Weekend. I don't think I can split my interest between two RPGs just yet"
Same here... massive online games really work better when you have friends online to share the experience with, and it's hard to cultivate two online families at once.
Maybe it's just my area or areas around big cities.
What's the nearest / biggest city to you and about how far is it?
Ever since movies started costing $9-$10 (so $20 for two tickets), I've found I just stopped going. I'd rather order a pizza and rent two movies than waste all that money at the theater. I saw the LOTR movies in the theater because they have cinematics worth seeing on the big screen. But there are very few movies these days that actually take advantage of what the theatrical format has to offer, and they don't lose anything when you watch them on DVD.
I don' think this can be applied significantly faster than regular paint, but it can be removed much faster.
It'd be better to paint your getaway car with this and then peel it off once the heist is over.
So many of us use slashdot at work where we most likely use Windows NT or Windows 2000 all day. Plus we probably read slashdot more at work than at home (more articles posted, bored, etc). So even if half of us used exclusively linux at home, and half used exclusively windows at home, total linux hits would still be below 25%.
I'm trying to eat here and a picture of a naked fat man is putting me off my breakfast.
Haven't you heard? The "picture a naked fat man" technique is the latest diet craze!
The young techno-elite grew (and are growing) up immersed in this sea of information, and are adapting to it.
If by adapting you mean using more and more ritalin, then you're right.
Instead of having a hawkwardly swinging background, why wouldn't they use a set of rotating mirrors to sequentially distribute the light to the different sensors from a single entry point ?
Duh! Because obviously it'd take some kind of super-genius to reconfigurize the franglehum reflectus so as to porta-pride the whoozimotron without disrupting the stratus field generator.