If you stopped 100 people on the street in middle America and asked them how to view the EXIF data on a jpeg photo, do you think you'd get more than 4 or 5 people to actually be able to tell you? I knew, and it was still difficult to find.
I think you'll be lucky to get 4 or 5 in 1000 people. 5% is about the number who know what a browser is.
99% of the content of blogs is personal blather or links to other stuff on the web. BFD. News organizations actually -- here's a shock -- gather the news, with people who are paid to do it.
News organisations gather the news from the people who _could_ blog it.
Reporter: "Here we are at the suburbs of Wattsville speaking to John Adams, tell us John when did you first know there was trouble?" JA: "Well I noticed the flames licking over the hill about 2am, so I went ahead and blogged it whilst I phoned for the fire team." Reporter: "You mean the world wide web knew about the fire before the fire department?" JA: "Yeah, maybe, they sometimes take a while to answer the phone. 12 hours later my phone was ringing off the hook as apparently my blog made it to the AP wire. And here you are..." Reporter: "So, the fire swept up the hill here and over towards John's house. Little did he know that it was actually started by aliens doing a fly-by and crashing into some over head cable." Bryan McGill (interrupting): "It was the Tucket kids messing with matches at Smokies barn. Those kids tell a good yarn."
[...] and most importantly for the advertising department to sell some very expensive ad space. [...]
Don't they have standing agreements with advertisers rather like Google ads, where they agree that they'll place so many ad impressions weighted by page number and position? I'd be very surprised to find that they negotiate on every single placement. Perhaps they would re-negotiate a couple of the ads (next to the headline?) but timing is pretty critical too.
So basically they're saying that AP, et al., watch the top blogs (as in your link) and recycles (automatically?) their stories to the traditional newspapers. The traditional media, who as they have people working around the clock, manage to get those stories out from the wires before the predominantly unpaid bloggers get to them.
It appears that "hot air" get over 40% of top political quotes online on average a day before the traditional media outlets?!
Many parts were Made In USA instead of by some faceless penny-scraping OEM in Taiwan.
Many parts were Made In USA instead of some high quality, mass production, low cost, low MTB producing facility in Taiwan. Heck, the only reason the quality dropped is that the market has forced the price down below reasonable levels because they'd rather throw things away than get them repaired.
A cliff, luxury, the fifteen of us kids had to climb one on top of the other in a human tower. Then when there were no more left to climb up the bottom one had to climb over us all to the top.
If we wobbled Dad would beat us with a sledgehammer handle studded with poisonous darts.
I never feel like I'm a character in any game- I'm me. I'm playing a game. I don't want to feel more like I'm a pretend character, [...]
Serious question. Do you have any imagination? If I say imagine you're a trogladite in a territory war, what did you have for breakfast? Can you tell me the story or are you lost in a see of "why?" and "WTF are you on about?".
Playing a good game in part is escapism, make-believe. If a game doesn't somehow take me beyond my current reality in some way (even if that means intellectual immersion or a Skinner Box) then why play? Why not do something productive?
The only reason I'd consider the expense at the moment (I'm saving for a monitor that doesn't require hitting to get it to work and then only show red;/. in black on red is very war-games-esque) is if it means people don't ever talk to me about roads.
But I wouldn't call any parent that got their kids to read a lot a bad one, would you?
No. But letting a child just read _all_ the time and not pay attention to their local environment is also not the best parenting. If you just sit and read all day then your parents need to get you out and about a bit and give you some exercise and interaction with people and life in general.
I keep a compass and a paper map in my car and have thusfar avoided buying a satnav for fear of blunting my orienteering skills gained through my time spent in Scouts. A valuable skill which I'm sure will keep me from hitting the wall when the revolution comes.
A compass? What do you need that for... I thought you said you were a Scout.
You'll be telling me next you need matches to light a fire!?!
I can't afford a GPS, can barely afford a car. I tend to navigate across cities from the memory of looking at a map (if I've had opportunity, it helps a lot) and by dead reckoning - working out geographic north (usually from sun, sometimes from known landmarks, direction of ingress (from straight motorways), occasionally from plant growth or tree moss).
This works, but is not great for pinpointing a specific address... YMMV, actually.
What do you do if you can't get enough satellite signals, or does that never happen?
I've used satnav and find it good for the map and for journey ends.
The spec _does_ have the power to force anyone to comply who wants to be able to say that their product/webpage meets the spec.
The browser market is quite active and web use must be the top reason to use a computer. The browser makers want to be on spec. I think those writing the spec have more power than you give them credit for - perhaps they don't realise that.
If we must serve multiple formats with the video-tag how is it better than a single format with flash?
Thanks for your reply. Just one point I can't help making...
You can - there are any number of free mp4 encoders.
I assume you mean MPEG-4 AVC, ie H.264 (MP4 is a wrapper). Some people like not to have to break the law to create standards compliant HTML pages with video; H.264 is owned by the MPEG LA group and can't be used legally without a license.
That means unless you bought your encoding software and viewing software you're probably not allowed to view the content.
Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily),
In Europe the law says that software is not patentable "as such". This then boils down to a requirement for a "technical effect"... which is nearly impossible to define. Merely implementing a known solution in software is not a technical effect. Generally a real physical change has to be made - things like reducing bandwidth requirements for video transmission appear to fit. I'm a bit rusty, it's been about 6 years since I had to know this stuff.
Short answer software patents per se are not allowed, software patents as a layman understands it are.
Image compression tech has always been allowed in the UK, though I couldn't understand why it's not considered just a mathematical method, I can't see why video codecs wouldn't fall in the same space and be allowed (the UK harmonises with European Patent Law on the whole).
There's an inexhaustible supply of work thinking for people who can't or won't. (Sort of like there will always be work for sysadmins, because even here in the future nothing works.) The problem is that the work itself resembles being paid lots of money to dredge through sewage by hand.
it shows Firefox dropping for the first time since September of last year (when Chrome was initially released), but only half a percentage point. IE7 is losing ground to IE8 rather quickly, but IE6 actually gained a half a percentage point since May.
Unless this is actually a nightmare and not RL then IE6 didn't gain any extra users.
In the UK and across Europe colleges and universities have now closed for the summer, maybe some schools (under-16s) too?. If these users are generally using Firefox then that would probably account for FFs loss, the total userbase shrinking would then account for IE6s apparent gain?
The same blip doesn't appear to show for June last year though so I'm probably wrong.
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If you stopped 100 people on the street in middle America and asked them how to view the EXIF data on a jpeg photo, do you think you'd get more than 4 or 5 people to actually be able to tell you? I knew, and it was still difficult to find.
I think you'll be lucky to get 4 or 5 in 1000 people. 5% is about the number who know what a browser is.
99% of the content of blogs is personal blather or links to other stuff on the web. BFD. News organizations actually -- here's a shock -- gather the news, with people who are paid to do it.
News organisations gather the news from the people who _could_ blog it.
Reporter: "Here we are at the suburbs of Wattsville speaking to John Adams, tell us John when did you first know there was trouble?" ..."
JA: "Well I noticed the flames licking over the hill about 2am, so I went ahead and blogged it whilst I phoned for the fire team."
Reporter: "You mean the world wide web knew about the fire before the fire department?"
JA: "Yeah, maybe, they sometimes take a while to answer the phone. 12 hours later my phone was ringing off the hook as apparently my blog made it to the AP wire. And here you are
Reporter: "So, the fire swept up the hill here and over towards John's house. Little did he know that it was actually started by aliens doing a fly-by and crashing into some over head cable."
Bryan McGill (interrupting): "It was the Tucket kids messing with matches at Smokies barn. Those kids tell a good yarn."
Because newspapers are free of spin and opinion masquerading as plain truth?
[...] and most importantly for the advertising department to sell some very expensive ad space. [...]
Don't they have standing agreements with advertisers rather like Google ads, where they agree that they'll place so many ad impressions weighted by page number and position? I'd be very surprised to find that they negotiate on every single placement. Perhaps they would re-negotiate a couple of the ads (next to the headline?) but timing is pretty critical too.
So basically they're saying that AP, et al., watch the top blogs (as in your link) and recycles (automatically?) their stories to the traditional newspapers. The traditional media, who as they have people working around the clock, manage to get those stories out from the wires before the predominantly unpaid bloggers get to them.
It appears that "hot air" get over 40% of top political quotes online on average a day before the traditional media outlets?!
Many parts were Made In USA instead of by some faceless penny-scraping OEM in Taiwan.
Many parts were Made In USA instead of some high quality, mass production, low cost, low MTB producing facility in Taiwan. Heck, the only reason the quality dropped is that the market has forced the price down below reasonable levels because they'd rather throw things away than get them repaired.
That's why I said "appear to" rather than just "doesn't". /Noswaith da./
Why Google when you can ask Slashdot ...
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-it-mean-to-cut-your-teeth-on-something.htm
A cliff, luxury, the fifteen of us kids had to climb one on top of the other in a human tower. Then when there were no more left to climb up the bottom one had to climb over us all to the top.
If we wobbled Dad would beat us with a sledgehammer handle studded with poisonous darts.
Those were the days.
'Course we can't afford the darts anymore.
lol
Twas but a joke: Ngymru/Cymru doesn't appear to have 2 vowels. Isn't-it-though.
World of Goo is great but it doesn't satisfy my frag-lust.
I never feel like I'm a character in any game- I'm me. I'm playing a game. I don't want to feel more like I'm a pretend character, [...]
Serious question. Do you have any imagination? If I say imagine you're a trogladite in a territory war, what did you have for breakfast? Can you tell me the story or are you lost in a see of "why?" and "WTF are you on about?".
Playing a good game in part is escapism, make-believe. If a game doesn't somehow take me beyond my current reality in some way (even if that means intellectual immersion or a Skinner Box) then why play? Why not do something productive?
The only reason I'd consider the expense at the moment (I'm saving for a monitor that doesn't require hitting to get it to work and then only show red; /. in black on red is very war-games-esque) is if it means people don't ever talk to me about roads.
But I wouldn't call any parent that got their kids to read a lot a bad one, would you?
No. But letting a child just read _all_ the time and not pay attention to their local environment is also not the best parenting. If you just sit and read all day then your parents need to get you out and about a bit and give you some exercise and interaction with people and life in general.
You need the one that doesn't tell you distances or names, just general time directions like "Its the road on the left 5 minutes past the other road"
Sounds like the wife: "no not that left; over there!, that way ... look out for the thing ..., it's just, oh hang on that's my phone {rummage} ... "
I keep a compass and a paper map in my car and have thusfar avoided buying a satnav for fear of blunting my orienteering skills gained through my time spent in Scouts. A valuable skill which I'm sure will keep me from hitting the wall when the revolution comes.
A compass? What do you need that for ... I thought you said you were a Scout.
You'll be telling me next you need matches to light a fire!?!
"Except in the UK, The Land Of The One-Way Roads, Where Straight Lines Are Forever Banished"
EITUKTLOTOWRWSLAFB
Good lord! I've heard of run-on sentences but a run-on acronym? I'm just glad you spelled it out for us - otherwise I would have been lost for days.
EITUKTLOTOWRWSLAFB, is that Welsh?
It's got more than one vowel, can't be Welsh.
I can't afford a GPS, can barely afford a car. I tend to navigate across cities from the memory of looking at a map (if I've had opportunity, it helps a lot) and by dead reckoning - working out geographic north (usually from sun, sometimes from known landmarks, direction of ingress (from straight motorways), occasionally from plant growth or tree moss).
This works, but is not great for pinpointing a specific address ... YMMV, actually.
What do you do if you can't get enough satellite signals, or does that never happen?
I've used satnav and find it good for the map and for journey ends.
Thanks for your reply.
The spec _does_ have the power to force anyone to comply who wants to be able to say that their product/webpage meets the spec.
The browser market is quite active and web use must be the top reason to use a computer. The browser makers want to be on spec. I think those writing the spec have more power than you give them credit for - perhaps they don't realise that.
If we must serve multiple formats with the video-tag how is it better than a single format with flash?
Thanks for your reply. Just one point I can't help making ...
You can - there are any number of free mp4 encoders.
I assume you mean MPEG-4 AVC, ie H.264 (MP4 is a wrapper). Some people like not to have to break the law to create standards compliant HTML pages with video; H.264 is owned by the MPEG LA group and can't be used legally without a license.
That means unless you bought your encoding software and viewing software you're probably not allowed to view the content.
It would be interesting to write to the MPEG LA and ask for a user license and see what the charges were.
Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily),
In Europe the law says that software is not patentable "as such". This then boils down to a requirement for a "technical effect" ... which is nearly impossible to define. Merely implementing a known solution in software is not a technical effect. Generally a real physical change has to be made - things like reducing bandwidth requirements for video transmission appear to fit. I'm a bit rusty, it's been about 6 years since I had to know this stuff.
Short answer software patents per se are not allowed, software patents as a layman understands it are.
Image compression tech has always been allowed in the UK, though I couldn't understand why it's not considered just a mathematical method, I can't see why video codecs wouldn't fall in the same space and be allowed (the UK harmonises with European Patent Law on the whole).
There's an inexhaustible supply of work thinking for people who can't or won't. (Sort of like there will always be work for sysadmins, because even here in the future nothing works.) The problem is that the work itself resembles being paid lots of money to dredge through sewage by hand.
Better to be paid lots for metaphorically dredging sewage with your hands, rather than next to nothing for actually doing it ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5077475/Is-this-the-worst-job-in-the-world.html?image=1 (image shows a dude cleaning an Indian sewer in his underpants - they have safety equipment but it's too cumbersome and hot to use).
it shows Firefox dropping for the first time since September of last year (when Chrome was initially released), but only half a percentage point. IE7 is losing ground to IE8 rather quickly, but IE6 actually gained a half a percentage point since May.
Unless this is actually a nightmare and not RL then IE6 didn't gain any extra users.
In the UK and across Europe colleges and universities have now closed for the summer, maybe some schools (under-16s) too?. If these users are generally using Firefox then that would probably account for FFs loss, the total userbase shrinking would then account for IE6s apparent gain?
The same blip doesn't appear to show for June last year though so I'm probably wrong.