The Ajax apps all look extremely impressive, but I do believe inconsistent UI will eventually plateau the adoption. Developers love to play the artist when there's a clean slate, and everyone will have their own set of icons and widgets.
HTML and CSS can use stupid widgets and mouse-over image swaps, but most sites do not.
AJAX just dynamically writes and updates HTML and CSS, so why do you think it'll be any different?
From that article: "Does the company own the ideas in this guy's head before he commits them to paper?"
The ruling seemed to say it does own them.
So... if the guy thought of murdering everyone in town as a form of PR for his company, and planned out a way for company employees to do it, then is his employer responsible and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder?
"Copyright infringement seems like such a antiquated law now that information is so freely available."
It was clearly first created so that an author and a book publisher wouldn't have to worry that a rival would buy the first copy off the press, make copies of his own, and sell them in the same bookstore for half the price.
There are people like that today: massive CD and DVD copying groups who sell their goods on city strets, ebay, and to foreign countries. These people are the ones who may be eating into the RIAA's bottom line. Not 13-year-old girls with $10-per-week allowances.
People keep saying that in order to maintain their copyrights, the RIAA must actively pursue violators. Well they can sue as many 13-year-old girls as they like; but if I were a judge, I'd consider their lackluster (non-existent?) pursuit of illegal CD/DVD copying cartels to mean they really DON'T wish to maintain their copyrights.
> For a second I misread that as "used to fling diseased horses".
Those too, actually. Ancient siege warfare was a nasty business.
You could siege castles/towns in Darklands . Poison the water supply, attack merchants supplying the castle. Eventually the leader and his crew would come out and you had to fight them to take over the town:)
This wasn't meant as flamebait or anything... Apple has never shown any desire to be the fastest performers on the block. They're more about the all-around experience.
If you take out the desire for top-end performance, AMD has nothing over Intel.
"Why do that? Isn't the point of open source the spread of technology ideas? So what if the evil empire uses Apache's server fu? It's their right, just as it's your right."
You mean APACHE uses MICROSOFT's server fu. MS has the patent.
This was a half joke but a half truth. Whenever I hear of a big commercial entity getting the same features as a not-so-commercial entity, I expect they went back in time and filed a patent to steal it.
The major threat for a trademark if you do not defend it properly is that it might become a generic word, thus appear in a dictionary and your exclusive rights may not be enforced anymore.... Once a trademark becomes a common word it is genericized and forever lost.
No, once a trademark is genericized, your marketing managers rejoice - they've succeeded in propelling their own random brand name as the default in consumers minds! Just like "bubba-gump shrimp" - it's a household name.
In the southern states, you don't order a Soda, a Pop, Soft Drink, or a Cola; you order a Coke. Super! Coke is the default word for Sweetened Carbonated Beverage in many southerners minds, and I'm sure the Coca-Cola company loves it. Their brand is so well known and used that people will forget there are other brands offering competing products. But it doesn't mean that a competitor can start selling a product called "Pepsi-brand Coke". Even though the trademark name is genericized and well-known, only the trademark owner may license products to use it, and thus the trademark owner retains all the benefit of the brand's popularity.
"I haven't seen CSS do anything that straight html can't."
Layout and styling is much easier with CSS than HTML, and more straightforward, provided you know CSS. For average documents, HTML is decent, but for more complex desktop publishing type of documents, it gets tedious trying to put everything into TABLE and FONT tags.
"the web was fine before CSS was introduced"
You're not one of those old fogies who surfs with Lynx, are you?:)
Anandtech said "The mini allows for 100,000 documents/URLs to be stored in a collection, and AnandTech contains approximately 40,000 articles, news and blog entries."
But if each article is 3 pages long on average, that's 120,000 documents/url's right there.
How about running over it with a grain truck when the ambient temperature is -40 (celsius or fahrenheit, your pick)? I can do that with my keys right now and they still work.
At -40 I'd be more worried about that little car even working than about crushing your keys.
Plus he forgot to add an OS that can play those games (probably Windows XP Home for ~$100).
Then again you can do much more with a computer than with an xbox. And everyone has/needs a computer anyway for other tasks, while an xBox is purely for gaming.
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"(the box costs for a PC title are generally $1-2 per box, for a console game they are generally $10-15 per box)"
I don't believe console packaging costs $10-$15 per box. DVD packaging is basically the same, and new DVDs cost as little as $15-20.
Where'd you get those numbers from?
I agree that X Windows is a pain due to the cut-and-paste issues, and other things.
:)
But I fail to see why you think HTML and CSS will be ruined by AJAX, or how it's related to X Windows' problems
The Ajax apps all look extremely impressive, but I do believe inconsistent UI will eventually plateau the adoption. Developers love to play the artist when there's a clean slate, and everyone will have their own set of icons and widgets.
HTML and CSS can use stupid widgets and mouse-over image swaps, but most sites do not.
AJAX just dynamically writes and updates HTML and CSS, so why do you think it'll be any different?
Some of us can't wait to see a giant squid, some of us can't wait to see Everybody Loves Raymond.
But the majority of us would rather see Smackdown: Raymond vs. The Giant Squid.
From that article: "Does the company own the ideas in this guy's head before he commits them to paper?"
The ruling seemed to say it does own them.
So... if the guy thought of murdering everyone in town as a form of PR for his company, and planned out a way for company employees to do it, then is his employer responsible and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder?
"Copyright infringement seems like such a antiquated law now that information is so freely available."
It was clearly first created so that an author and a book publisher wouldn't have to worry that a rival would buy the first copy off the press, make copies of his own, and sell them in the same bookstore for half the price.
There are people like that today: massive CD and DVD copying groups who sell their goods on city strets, ebay, and to foreign countries. These people are the ones who may be eating into the RIAA's bottom line. Not 13-year-old girls with $10-per-week allowances.
People keep saying that in order to maintain their copyrights, the RIAA must actively pursue violators. Well they can sue as many 13-year-old girls as they like; but if I were a judge, I'd consider their lackluster (non-existent?) pursuit of illegal CD/DVD copying cartels to mean they really DON'T wish to maintain their copyrights.
You could siege castles/towns in Darklands . Poison the water supply, attack merchants supplying the castle. Eventually the leader and his crew would come out and you had to fight them to take over the town
This wasn't meant as flamebait or anything... Apple has never shown any desire to be the fastest performers on the block. They're more about the all-around experience.
If you take out the desire for top-end performance, AMD has nothing over Intel.
Because apple doesn't care about top-end performance.
"Why do that? Isn't the point of open source the spread of technology ideas? So what if the evil empire uses Apache's server fu? It's their right, just as it's your right."
You mean APACHE uses MICROSOFT's server fu. MS has the patent.
This was a half joke but a half truth. Whenever I hear of a big commercial entity getting the same features as a not-so-commercial entity, I expect they went back in time and filed a patent to steal it.
Did anyone at Apache remember to patent hot-swappable web server modules?
"One more thing...what is up with the picture on the last page of the article? Are those two characters in a romantic embrace???"
No, it's a human pyramid.
Bejeweled 1 (never played 2) always seemed more about luck-of-the-draw than raw skill. It wasn't large enough to really plan out any big moves.
The major threat for a trademark if you do not defend it properly is that it might become a generic word, thus appear in a dictionary and your exclusive rights may not be enforced anymore. ... Once a trademark becomes a common word it is genericized and forever lost.
No, once a trademark is genericized, your marketing managers rejoice - they've succeeded in propelling their own random brand name as the default in consumers minds! Just like "bubba-gump shrimp" - it's a household name.
In the southern states, you don't order a Soda, a Pop, Soft Drink, or a Cola; you order a Coke. Super! Coke is the default word for Sweetened Carbonated Beverage in many southerners minds, and I'm sure the Coca-Cola company loves it. Their brand is so well known and used that people will forget there are other brands offering competing products. But it doesn't mean that a competitor can start selling a product called "Pepsi-brand Coke". Even though the trademark name is genericized and well-known, only the trademark owner may license products to use it, and thus the trademark owner retains all the benefit of the brand's popularity.
What about violent books? I think a kid would get more messed up by reading some Stephen King novels than by playing a game with a naked woman in it.
I made an HTML file (with editplus 2), and pasted into the body.
I opened the local html file in firefox, and... nothing happened.
?
Also, I wonder what happened between him and the firefox developers that made him go public so soon after reporting it to them.
"Not saying WoW is bad (I'm not willing to risk $50 to find out)"
:)
It's worth the risk, provided you can spare the time for all the playing you'll want to do once you try it
"I haven't seen CSS do anything that straight html can't."
:)
Layout and styling is much easier with CSS than HTML, and more straightforward, provided you know CSS. For average documents, HTML is decent, but for more complex desktop publishing type of documents, it gets tedious trying to put everything into TABLE and FONT tags.
"the web was fine before CSS was introduced"
You're not one of those old fogies who surfs with Lynx, are you?
Anandtech said "The mini allows for 100,000 documents/URLs to be stored in a collection, and AnandTech contains approximately 40,000 articles, news and blog entries."
But if each article is 3 pages long on average, that's 120,000 documents/url's right there.
Maybe if you use HTML + CSS... HTML by itself is not versatile enough or efficient enough to represent complex documents.
no, he meant linux updates.
How about running over it with a grain truck when the ambient temperature is -40 (celsius or fahrenheit, your pick)? I can do that with my keys right now and they still work.
At -40 I'd be more worried about that little car even working than about crushing your keys.
At least it's not as bad as SWG which needed maintenance every single morning.
Good advice, but don't try it if you bet with hard cash. Especially at a casino that has a strip club.
Plus he forgot to add an OS that can play those games (probably Windows XP Home for ~$100).
Then again you can do much more with a computer than with an xbox. And everyone has/needs a computer anyway for other tasks, while an xBox is purely for gaming.