I think most./ers would be in the same pessimistic boat on this one. You're right, shareholders of both companies are likely to win no matter how this pans out. One thing to think about though is how will employees and customers (users) be affected? My money is going on "adversely".
This was an option in Perfect Dark: Zero and IIRC Gears of War (long time since I played that). You could set "all enemies red/all teammates blue" / "team always blue/enemies normal" / "normal"
Whenever we'd play a game that used the new color schemes it threw people off and they complained like mad. Perhaps these innovative changes get pulled out of more popular titles because the majority of users aren't interested in change...
Though I know I would love to see it appear in Halo. (Red/Green colorblindness is oh-so-cool in Halo or COD where enemies are red on green grass. The radar in Halo is useless most times for me.)
During the mini-feeds debacle, Mark ended up conceding with a comment very similar to this. (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130) If they were really interested in privacy concerns, they would have learned from the first time. To me, it seems like a way to see how far they can push the line before people will complain.
What were we to expect with money to be had? They need something to justify that ridiculous price tag they've given themselves. Users = dollar signs to them. It's funny how every time they add a feature that invades the users' privacy to make money, they release some statement like "Oh, once users calm down, they'll find these services to be useful." Putting in privacy controls and restrictions later means they get away with more and only have to patch what users find out and complain about.
That being said, don't claim malicious intent where ignorance is just as likely the cause.
(Full Disclosure: I was one of the users who has been banned from Facebook for posting negative comments ("spam") during the mini-feeds debacle. So I have some negative bias.)
I agree with your point that what matters most to the user community is how major products implement the standards. However, I think that some major problems with the HTML standard involve ambiguities and other such inconsistencies. If there is "room for interpretation" in the standards, and/or they are complex it will have the effect of inconsistent and complex implementations in the major products.
What needs to happen here is that HTML 5 needs to clarify and simplify the standard to remove those places where we define something in relatives instead of concretes. (This also plagues CSS... for a good example, look at table borders/padding/spacing.) I can't tell for sure since the link is down, but based on the summary I'm inferring that Crockford is interested in stregthening the standards through simplication.
Apache does run on Windows. This seems to be widely overlooked. Everyone's primary reason for running IIS is "We have Windows". Seeing as they are both free, there must be some other reason for not using Apache. My guess would be lacking familiarity of and the learning curve to configure Apache.
In a standard corporate environment where the thought of spending $50,000 has come to the plate, you're probably in deeper than you think. A lot of what you pay for with a big name SAN from EMC or the like is that you're getting serious support and reliable equipment from a well established company. Your homebrew method will almost undoubtedly work... but all equipment fails, and when this solution fails, unless you're picky about getting manufacturer warrantees, then you're going to be losing money to fix the problem. With our EMC/Dell solution, if something goes wrong we'll have a tech with a replacement on site within 4 hours. If your thing fails, can you get an RMA replacement in even under a week?
I'm not trying to discourage you from building this system, in fact I think DIY is a great way to go. However, you do need to take into account how downtime will affect the cost of this device. It is always important to have a failover/replacement plan for when your system goes down because most systems DO go down. (Which is why many of us are even employed.)
A similar idea is part of a multiplayer gametype in Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360) and is just about the only cool part of the game. But yeah, it's ideas like that that make gaming more fun. All too often unique ideas are considered too "new" to implement on a full scale. A sad fact in today's gaming industry. Which is why I give props to Valve for hir^H^H^Hbuying a team of college students for the game Portal. Of course it's a tiny side piece of the new Half-Life episode, but it's more mainstream than most ideas in its genre.
Seriously, VoIP != Windows. The author of the article mentions "flash-virus". He's speaking primarily of what we in VoIP call hard sets. Real telephones that you plug into your network (or use 802.11). Most of them have internal phonebooks that could theoretically be overwritten. Frankly, as an administrator of several hundred VoIP hard sets (Cisco 7940, 7960, 7941) run on Asterisk, I think a more likely fear is that someone writes a virus that trashes all my very expensive phones and cripples my business or uses my VoIP phones to make free long distance and international calls, or as voice-spam relays. The users' phonebooks are of little concern to me.
This is a concept at best. A virus going through peoples' cell phones (which are far more in use than VoIP sets) to do the same thing is even more viable. This is another 'exploit' that relies on people to be completely oblivious to what their technology is doing. I agree that it is a problem, but it has nothing to do with VoIP. A lot of PHBs are already afraid enough of 'voices in the network' without somebody throwing 'OMFG What if?!' at them.
OMFG, What if someone wrote a virus that relinked your favorites in your browser to point directly at the phishing sites?
Just like VoIP and cell phones and your browser, when you click on a contact or favorite, the vast majority of them show you the underlying value. If you don't recognize that number, end the call. You need to be cognizant of what is happening. It is your fault, not the technologies' fault, if something bad happens due to something like this.
If you were an all powerful dictator of a "rogue" nation... would some BS export ban stop you from getting your plasma screen TV? It's kind of arrogant to think that this will do anything but make a scene about how much good we're doing. As for the wealthy (enough) in N. Korea, they'll continue getting what they want too, or go without and no one will really care. If you think political ideals can be softened or swayed with some of that fine American cognac... then you're sorely mistaken.
My biggest complaint is the fact that it doesn't complete execution on a function before moving to the next. Having to estimate execution time, then using a timer to fire dependant functions is a pain. This would be much better if it were a "jump and link" situation.
I'm not a huge fan of Flash in general. It is too much like FrontPage... A thousand script kiddies to every 1 intelligent user. However, I believe a closer interaction and level of support for scripting languages that are shared between standard HTML pages and embedded objects will simplify (and hopefully speed up) development. ECMA Script is a very powerful tool in the right hands and Flash has some very interesting capabilities when paired with the Flash Media Server or Red5 (OSS)
My 7 cents.
We have very similar policies (host your own servers, allocate resources from IT cluster, surf where and when you please) at Grand Valley State University and a very close policy at Michigan State University. I have friends who verify similar happenings at University of Michigan.
Slashdot Mirror
+1 Kubrick Reference
He's off doing mad sweet remixes of Cosmos with Stephen Hawking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
So what I'm getting from this is that Airbus is 3 Laws Safe(tm) ?
What kind of world do we live in when the children won't think of the children?!
I think most ./ers would be in the same pessimistic boat on this one. You're right, shareholders of both companies are likely to win no matter how this pans out. One thing to think about though is how will employees and customers (users) be affected? My money is going on "adversely".
This was an option in Perfect Dark: Zero and IIRC Gears of War (long time since I played that). You could set "all enemies red/all teammates blue" / "team always blue/enemies normal" / "normal"
Whenever we'd play a game that used the new color schemes it threw people off and they complained like mad. Perhaps these innovative changes get pulled out of more popular titles because the majority of users aren't interested in change...
Though I know I would love to see it appear in Halo. (Red/Green colorblindness is oh-so-cool in Halo or COD where enemies are red on green grass. The radar in Halo is useless most times for me.)
During the mini-feeds debacle, Mark ended up conceding with a comment very similar to this. (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130) If they were really interested in privacy concerns, they would have learned from the first time. To me, it seems like a way to see how far they can push the line before people will complain.
What were we to expect with money to be had? They need something to justify that ridiculous price tag they've given themselves. Users = dollar signs to them. It's funny how every time they add a feature that invades the users' privacy to make money, they release some statement like "Oh, once users calm down, they'll find these services to be useful." Putting in privacy controls and restrictions later means they get away with more and only have to patch what users find out and complain about. That being said, don't claim malicious intent where ignorance is just as likely the cause. (Full Disclosure: I was one of the users who has been banned from Facebook for posting negative comments ("spam") during the mini-feeds debacle. So I have some negative bias.)
For something concrete, try:
function changeStyle(tagType, styleName) {
var items = document.getElementsByTagName(tagType);
for(var i = 0; i items.length; i++) {
items[i].className = styleName;
}
}
call the function with
changeStyle('a', 'someClassName');
This is very possible. Has been for quite a while. http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/classchange.html
I agree with your point that what matters most to the user community is how major products implement the standards. However, I think that some major problems with the HTML standard involve ambiguities and other such inconsistencies. If there is "room for interpretation" in the standards, and/or they are complex it will have the effect of inconsistent and complex implementations in the major products.
What needs to happen here is that HTML 5 needs to clarify and simplify the standard to remove those places where we define something in relatives instead of concretes. (This also plagues CSS... for a good example, look at table borders/padding/spacing.) I can't tell for sure since the link is down, but based on the summary I'm inferring that Crockford is interested in stregthening the standards through simplication.
If Google can make Steve Ballmer right... They really ARE amazing!
Apache does run on Windows. This seems to be widely overlooked. Everyone's primary reason for running IIS is "We have Windows". Seeing as they are both free, there must be some other reason for not using Apache. My guess would be lacking familiarity of and the learning curve to configure Apache.
In a standard corporate environment where the thought of spending $50,000 has come to the plate, you're probably in deeper than you think. A lot of what you pay for with a big name SAN from EMC or the like is that you're getting serious support and reliable equipment from a well established company. Your homebrew method will almost undoubtedly work... but all equipment fails, and when this solution fails, unless you're picky about getting manufacturer warrantees, then you're going to be losing money to fix the problem. With our EMC/Dell solution, if something goes wrong we'll have a tech with a replacement on site within 4 hours. If your thing fails, can you get an RMA replacement in even under a week?
I'm not trying to discourage you from building this system, in fact I think DIY is a great way to go. However, you do need to take into account how downtime will affect the cost of this device. It is always important to have a failover/replacement plan for when your system goes down because most systems DO go down. (Which is why many of us are even employed.)
Good luck to you, sir!
Which is now owned by Sprint and thus not different than Sprint.
From the wikipedia link... emphasis mine
Both DNA and RNA are found in viral species, but generally a species will not contain both.
The grandparent is correct... Don't mention it.
A similar idea is part of a multiplayer gametype in Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360) and is just about the only cool part of the game. But yeah, it's ideas like that that make gaming more fun. All too often unique ideas are considered too "new" to implement on a full scale. A sad fact in today's gaming industry. Which is why I give props to Valve for hir^H^H^Hbuying a team of college students for the game Portal. Of course it's a tiny side piece of the new Half-Life episode, but it's more mainstream than most ideas in its genre.
Seriously, VoIP != Windows. The author of the article mentions "flash-virus". He's speaking primarily of what we in VoIP call hard sets. Real telephones that you plug into your network (or use 802.11). Most of them have internal phonebooks that could theoretically be overwritten. Frankly, as an administrator of several hundred VoIP hard sets (Cisco 7940, 7960, 7941) run on Asterisk, I think a more likely fear is that someone writes a virus that trashes all my very expensive phones and cripples my business or uses my VoIP phones to make free long distance and international calls, or as voice-spam relays. The users' phonebooks are of little concern to me.
This is a concept at best. A virus going through peoples' cell phones (which are far more in use than VoIP sets) to do the same thing is even more viable. This is another 'exploit' that relies on people to be completely oblivious to what their technology is doing. I agree that it is a problem, but it has nothing to do with VoIP. A lot of PHBs are already afraid enough of 'voices in the network' without somebody throwing 'OMFG What if?!' at them.
OMFG, What if someone wrote a virus that relinked your favorites in your browser to point directly at the phishing sites?
Just like VoIP and cell phones and your browser, when you click on a contact or favorite, the vast majority of them show you the underlying value. If you don't recognize that number, end the call. You need to be cognizant of what is happening. It is your fault, not the technologies' fault, if something bad happens due to something like this.
Yes. Specialized chips perform much better than generalized chips (when you throw the right tasks at them.) An example: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/ 13/2030253
That's the idea!
If you were an all powerful dictator of a "rogue" nation... would some BS export ban stop you from getting your plasma screen TV? It's kind of arrogant to think that this will do anything but make a scene about how much good we're doing. As for the wealthy (enough) in N. Korea, they'll continue getting what they want too, or go without and no one will really care. If you think political ideals can be softened or swayed with some of that fine American cognac... then you're sorely mistaken.
My biggest complaint is the fact that it doesn't complete execution on a function before moving to the next. Having to estimate execution time, then using a timer to fire dependant functions is a pain. This would be much better if it were a "jump and link" situation.
I'm not a huge fan of Flash in general. It is too much like FrontPage... A thousand script kiddies to every 1 intelligent user. However, I believe a closer interaction and level of support for scripting languages that are shared between standard HTML pages and embedded objects will simplify (and hopefully speed up) development. ECMA Script is a very powerful tool in the right hands and Flash has some very interesting capabilities when paired with the Flash Media Server or Red5 (OSS) My 7 cents.
We have very similar policies (host your own servers, allocate resources from IT cluster, surf where and when you please) at Grand Valley State University and a very close policy at Michigan State University. I have friends who verify similar happenings at University of Michigan.