Well, from my experience making AJAX libraries, the stuff to encode to XML is pretty minimal. It's pretty easy and compact to write code which when you call a function, sends an XML snippet to the server to run a specific function in a specific class, using a few parameters. The real lengthy part is getting the browser to do something with the XML you send back.
This is only a partial solution. The real solution is for sites using AJAX to get away from this habit of requiring hundreds of kilobytes of scrip just to visit the home page. Couldn't you design a modular AJAX system that would bring in functions as they are needed? That way, someone visiting just a couple pages wouldn't have to download the entire library. Have each function in it's own file, and then when an AJAX call is done, make it smart enough to figure out which functions need to be downloaded to run the resulting Javascript. The problem with Google hosting everything, is that everybody has to use the versions that Google has posted, and that you can't do any custom modifications to the components. I think that what Google is doing would help. But the solution is far from optimal.
Mac OSX fixed Mac OS, without breaking backwards compatilbility. What they did was instead of leaving tons of old code in place, they used an emulation layer for the old stuff, and made the new stuff nice and clean. I think eventually they dropped the emulation layer completely.
Seriously. What new features will Windows 7 have. I seem to remember a lot of the same happening with Vista. Tons of promised features, very few delivered. They got UAC, which was so badly implemented that most people turn it off. They got a 3D desktop that hogs so many resources that only the fastest desktop computers on the planet can run it. And they have DirectX 10, which doesn't really add anything that interesting to games, and almost all games still only use directx 9.
Maybe it's only because I live in Canada, and Walmart sells different stuff here, but I can't see why Walmart has such a bad reputation. Sure just about everything is made in China. Sure their staff are useless, and might as well not be there (Yay for self-checkout). Sure they push around the manufacturers and force lower prices. But so does every other major retailer.
Software already has protection through copyrights. You shouldn't get double protection. That's the first problem. Another problem is that the software invention can exist entirely without the computer at all. It can be written down as a set of steps that a human can follow to obtain a certain result. There are no physical items involved. That's why software patents don't make sense. It's also the same reason business method patents don't work. The other problem is that 98% of software patents aren't novel, aren't non-obvious, and also have extensive prior art.
Is there enough reseve power to tear down a coal power plant, and replace it with a nuclear one. There's already a power plant there, so nobody should be able to complain. The Nuclear plant also creates less pollution, in terms of air pollution, and radiation, than the coal plant. I think the land from the old and decommissioned coal/gas plants should be used for nuclear plants. Is the land usable? Is the are required by the nuclear plant the same as the coal plant?
The problem is that you can't patent a mathematical algorithm. Any algorithm that you could come up with for a computer program that would be valid for a patent by virtue of being novel, and non-obvious, would automatically be disqualified on the grounds that it is just a mathematical algorithm.
I was using this technique in 1999. As was just about every other web page. I was in highschool. I remember that a few of my classmates were amazed by my techniques of putting an "img" tag enclosed by the "a" tag. It's such a basic technique used. It's probably been in use as long as both the "a" and "img" tags have existed.
The only reason that the government isn't the expert at tech, or at farming, or transportation, or medicine, etc, is that they don't hire experts. Or when they do, they don't listen to them, of give the experts they have hired any power. There's no reason why the government couldn't hire some technically oriented people or consult with people when drafting laws that affect the internet, or farming, or medical care. There's no excuse for the government coming up with bad laws. You can't just give them slack because they are just a bunch of lawyers.
For the record, Dreamhost supports webmail, via squirrel mail. I used it for quite a while. It's pretty slow an klunky. I currently forward all my mail from dreamhost to GMail. It works a lot better. The interface is faster and easier to use. The spam filtering is many times better, and I'm just more happy in general with GMail. I'm not really disappointed at the mail offerings from Dreamhost. They have a lot of other great features. Good email support would be nice, but even if they gave it a ton of effort, they would have a hard time doing better than GMail.
That should never be a valid fix. I can understand rebooting, or reinstalling a specific application, but reinstalling Windows and every application is not something you should even consider asking your customers to do.
Ask him when the last time was he picked up the phone and called MS and asked them for support? What kind of response did he get? How much did they charge? Then look at the kind of and cost of support available for products like Red Hat. Ask him how what MS provides is better.
Based on the results of the last election, about 49% of the population doesn't agree with the current government. And it will probably be the same problem the next time around. Maybe it's time the US adopted a more sane election and governance system.
That really depends. If you define the IQ scale to be based on every person on the planet, I think that most people in Canada and the US, would be above 100. Especially considering that most IQ tests are inherently biased to the type of schooling we have received. How do you measure the IQ of someone who has no formal math or language instuction? Certainly lacking those things doesn't make one unintelligent, but lacking those things, most people would score quite low on an IQ test.
What is the percentage of pedophiles? Are the any studies that have been done on this? They say that 10% of the population is homosexual. What percentage of the popuplation is sexually attracted to children. And what percentage of those people would follow through on those attactions? Based on the news you hear (sensationalist, I know), it seems to be quite common. But how common is it really, and is it more worth worrying about your child being hit by a car while crossing the street, because somebody didn't stop at a red light?
Which is great for desktops, but what about laptops. You don't have space for 2 drives in a laptop. Sure if you're just doing work on the laptop (and your work doesn't include editing video), you could probably get by with a 64 GB drive. But many people use a laptop as their main computer. For them, 64 GB probably won't suffice.
I've done this before with a HEX editor. Just look for "EXIF", and then copy the following megabyte-ish data segment to a file. You usually get a pretty usable picture out of the data. That's even after files have been "deleted" (AKA, references removed from the FAT).
I'm not so sure I agree. I've had way more RAM chips die than I've had hard drives die. I've only had 1 hard drive die in my personal computers. RAM chips I've had 3 or 4 die. Video cards I've had 3 die. I've seen many network cards go in my life. Countless power supplies. Most of the stuff that does die is the hardware only stuff. I seems counter-intuitive, but when I think about it, it actually makes sense. The hardware parts that die always have very tightly packed circuits, and are very complex. They tend to overheat, or blow a capacitor, just because they get old, or because of dirty power current. Just because you don't see any moving parts, doesn't mean they can't wear out. There's electrons moving through those wires. Incandescent light bulbs don't have moving parts either. Hard drives are actually very simple. Very simple circuits, with all the moving parts encased in an air-tight dust free chamber.
Yeah, but currently the largest SSD are only 64 GB, and cost about $1000. By 2011 will you be able to get a solid state drive that measures 500 GB? Will it cost anywhere close to $100? Probably not. By price comparable do they mean you will be able to get a solid state drive for under $200? Probably, but the capacity will be much lower than a even the high end hard drives they are price matching. You can get a 146 GB, Fibre Channel, 15K RPM drive for under $350. In 3 years, I don't think you'll be able to get a 146 GB flash drive for $350 GB. I also don't know how well it would compete with a high end drive.
Reminds me of the French Canadians. They will often pronounce "hair" as "air", because the H is silent in French. The really odd thing is that some add an H sound where no H exists. One pronunciation I've heard was "ash" pronounced "hash".
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Well, from my experience making AJAX libraries, the stuff to encode to XML is pretty minimal. It's pretty easy and compact to write code which when you call a function, sends an XML snippet to the server to run a specific function in a specific class, using a few parameters. The real lengthy part is getting the browser to do something with the XML you send back.
This is only a partial solution. The real solution is for sites using AJAX to get away from this habit of requiring hundreds of kilobytes of scrip just to visit the home page. Couldn't you design a modular AJAX system that would bring in functions as they are needed? That way, someone visiting just a couple pages wouldn't have to download the entire library. Have each function in it's own file, and then when an AJAX call is done, make it smart enough to figure out which functions need to be downloaded to run the resulting Javascript. The problem with Google hosting everything, is that everybody has to use the versions that Google has posted, and that you can't do any custom modifications to the components. I think that what Google is doing would help. But the solution is far from optimal.
Mac OSX fixed Mac OS, without breaking backwards compatilbility. What they did was instead of leaving tons of old code in place, they used an emulation layer for the old stuff, and made the new stuff nice and clean. I think eventually they dropped the emulation layer completely.
Seriously. What new features will Windows 7 have. I seem to remember a lot of the same happening with Vista. Tons of promised features, very few delivered. They got UAC, which was so badly implemented that most people turn it off. They got a 3D desktop that hogs so many resources that only the fastest desktop computers on the planet can run it. And they have DirectX 10, which doesn't really add anything that interesting to games, and almost all games still only use directx 9.
Maybe it's only because I live in Canada, and Walmart sells different stuff here, but I can't see why Walmart has such a bad reputation. Sure just about everything is made in China. Sure their staff are useless, and might as well not be there (Yay for self-checkout). Sure they push around the manufacturers and force lower prices. But so does every other major retailer.
Software already has protection through copyrights. You shouldn't get double protection. That's the first problem. Another problem is that the software invention can exist entirely without the computer at all. It can be written down as a set of steps that a human can follow to obtain a certain result. There are no physical items involved. That's why software patents don't make sense. It's also the same reason business method patents don't work. The other problem is that 98% of software patents aren't novel, aren't non-obvious, and also have extensive prior art.
I only pay 30 cents for a song on eMusic. So 10 cents sounds like a lot for songs I wouldn't even end up owning.
Is there enough reseve power to tear down a coal power plant, and replace it with a nuclear one. There's already a power plant there, so nobody should be able to complain. The Nuclear plant also creates less pollution, in terms of air pollution, and radiation, than the coal plant. I think the land from the old and decommissioned coal/gas plants should be used for nuclear plants. Is the land usable? Is the are required by the nuclear plant the same as the coal plant?
All I know is that in Singapore, caning is an accepted form of punishment. Let's hope in this case they employ that punishment.
The problem is that you can't patent a mathematical algorithm. Any algorithm that you could come up with for a computer program that would be valid for a patent by virtue of being novel, and non-obvious, would automatically be disqualified on the grounds that it is just a mathematical algorithm.
I was using this technique in 1999. As was just about every other web page. I was in highschool. I remember that a few of my classmates were amazed by my techniques of putting an "img" tag enclosed by the "a" tag. It's such a basic technique used. It's probably been in use as long as both the "a" and "img" tags have existed.
The only reason that the government isn't the expert at tech, or at farming, or transportation, or medicine, etc, is that they don't hire experts. Or when they do, they don't listen to them, of give the experts they have hired any power. There's no reason why the government couldn't hire some technically oriented people or consult with people when drafting laws that affect the internet, or farming, or medical care. There's no excuse for the government coming up with bad laws. You can't just give them slack because they are just a bunch of lawyers.
For the record, Dreamhost supports webmail, via squirrel mail. I used it for quite a while. It's pretty slow an klunky. I currently forward all my mail from dreamhost to GMail. It works a lot better. The interface is faster and easier to use. The spam filtering is many times better, and I'm just more happy in general with GMail. I'm not really disappointed at the mail offerings from Dreamhost. They have a lot of other great features. Good email support would be nice, but even if they gave it a ton of effort, they would have a hard time doing better than GMail.
That should never be a valid fix. I can understand rebooting, or reinstalling a specific application, but reinstalling Windows and every application is not something you should even consider asking your customers to do.
That's great, but in some instances, some fixes just need code access. Only MS can provide that for MS code.
Ask him when the last time was he picked up the phone and called MS and asked them for support? What kind of response did he get? How much did they charge? Then look at the kind of and cost of support available for products like Red Hat. Ask him how what MS provides is better.
Based on the results of the last election, about 49% of the population doesn't agree with the current government. And it will probably be the same problem the next time around. Maybe it's time the US adopted a more sane election and governance system.
That really depends. If you define the IQ scale to be based on every person on the planet, I think that most people in Canada and the US, would be above 100. Especially considering that most IQ tests are inherently biased to the type of schooling we have received. How do you measure the IQ of someone who has no formal math or language instuction? Certainly lacking those things doesn't make one unintelligent, but lacking those things, most people would score quite low on an IQ test.
What is the percentage of pedophiles? Are the any studies that have been done on this? They say that 10% of the population is homosexual. What percentage of the popuplation is sexually attracted to children. And what percentage of those people would follow through on those attactions? Based on the news you hear (sensationalist, I know), it seems to be quite common. But how common is it really, and is it more worth worrying about your child being hit by a car while crossing the street, because somebody didn't stop at a red light?
Which is great for desktops, but what about laptops. You don't have space for 2 drives in a laptop. Sure if you're just doing work on the laptop (and your work doesn't include editing video), you could probably get by with a 64 GB drive. But many people use a laptop as their main computer. For them, 64 GB probably won't suffice.
I've done this before with a HEX editor. Just look for "EXIF", and then copy the following megabyte-ish data segment to a file. You usually get a pretty usable picture out of the data. That's even after files have been "deleted" (AKA, references removed from the FAT).
I'm not so sure I agree. I've had way more RAM chips die than I've had hard drives die. I've only had 1 hard drive die in my personal computers. RAM chips I've had 3 or 4 die. Video cards I've had 3 die. I've seen many network cards go in my life. Countless power supplies. Most of the stuff that does die is the hardware only stuff. I seems counter-intuitive, but when I think about it, it actually makes sense. The hardware parts that die always have very tightly packed circuits, and are very complex. They tend to overheat, or blow a capacitor, just because they get old, or because of dirty power current. Just because you don't see any moving parts, doesn't mean they can't wear out. There's electrons moving through those wires. Incandescent light bulbs don't have moving parts either. Hard drives are actually very simple. Very simple circuits, with all the moving parts encased in an air-tight dust free chamber.
Yeah, but currently the largest SSD are only 64 GB, and cost about $1000. By 2011 will you be able to get a solid state drive that measures 500 GB? Will it cost anywhere close to $100? Probably not. By price comparable do they mean you will be able to get a solid state drive for under $200? Probably, but the capacity will be much lower than a even the high end hard drives they are price matching. You can get a 146 GB, Fibre Channel, 15K RPM drive for under $350. In 3 years, I don't think you'll be able to get a 146 GB flash drive for $350 GB. I also don't know how well it would compete with a high end drive.
Reminds me of the French Canadians. They will often pronounce "hair" as "air", because the H is silent in French. The really odd thing is that some add an H sound where no H exists. One pronunciation I've heard was "ash" pronounced "hash".
I'm a Rogers customer also, and I haven't noticed any throttling. I'm constantly maxing out my connection on torrents.