Sounds like DeHavilland's experience with building the plane that executed the first airmail service was a lot like a lot of software projects...
Version 1.0 had a lot of bugs:
- engine would crush and trap pilot in minor crashes
- exhaust pipes vented in pilots eyes
- compass only worked in some quadrants
- altimiter didn't work great for 0 - 1000 feet
But version 2.0 worked and the airmail planes went on to carry 775 million letters.
I think one of the reasons why these creatures look so weird is that they may have had the most time of every type of creature to evolve.
No, all creatures have had the same time to evolve. On Earth, that time is estimated to be 4.5 billion years.
Some creatures may have experienced a lot of change during the period, and others relatively little, but we've all been evolving for the same amount of time, my friend.
I remember the first time I saw an old man walking down the street talking out loud to nobody and gesticulating like a spontaneous flying angel. It was the 1970's and schizophrenia was a rare condition that was for the most part kept hidden from mainstream society behind institutional walls.
The bottom line is that the term "reverse engineering" should never be applied to observing the external behavior of a product. To me that term implies trying to figure out how the product works, not to trying to figure what the product does.
Erm... are you sure you can maintain this distinction anywhere outside of your own mental model? How would you go about reverse engineering somebody elses code without "trying to figure out what the product does"?
Australia is a country? I always thought it was some kind of British prison.
Australia is a large, sub-tropical island populated primarily by lesbians. Most of them are fascinated by technical issues and may become uncontrolably lascivious in the company of software engineers and technicians of either sex.
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SVGmaker creates static SVG from any Windows app. You just click File/Print in your app.
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SVG is an image format that can faithfully reproduce a document display context, same like PDF but since SVG is XML you can mark it up by hand in a text editor, script it, transform it, integrate it directly with HTML or whatever you like. And no monopoly controls it.
This is a shameless plug but we are only 5 guys working out of a house, not a monopoly... (yet... ho ho ho).
In the same way that Acrobat can generate PDF out of anything, SVGmaker can generate SVG out of Windows apps.
The 1.0 spec has been out for yonks already and there's an active SVG developer community out there.
Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.
Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker:
Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project
For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).
An SVG document can be UI for enterprise applications integration.
For example, start with this static picture generated from a CAD program.
add some simple polygons and script them to conform with some business logic. Connect to your enterprise applications and databases using various connectors (simulated here) and you get a
UI component like this that integrates with HTML.
Click on components to select them.
Ctrl-Click to select a set of components. Move your mouse over the colored components to highlight data in the html table.
Type a number in at the top right [enter] to see if you have enough components available for manufacturing.
This example was coded by hand in a day and a half. Probably could do another one in 3 hours or so now we got the hang of it.
4. SVGmaker works like Acrobat Distiller (it is a printer driver) but the output is SVG. Consumers can use it to create SVG files from Office apps. But... close your blinds and dim the lights lest the monopoly forces are watching through your window.
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It works for the large manned craft, Earth.
Sounds like DeHavilland's experience with building the plane that executed the first airmail service was a lot like a lot of software projects...
Version 1.0 had a lot of bugs:
- engine would crush and trap pilot in minor crashes
- exhaust pipes vented in pilots eyes
- compass only worked in some quadrants
- altimiter didn't work great for 0 - 1000 feet
But version 2.0 worked and the airmail planes went on to carry 775 million letters.
I don't need a media player with the operating system, just an operating system. That's cheaper, right?
It isn't like he was working at some cool place or anything.
Use your two feet to move around the outside of the display. Keep doing this for as many degrees as you would like to experience.
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Adobe examples
Andreas Neumann's Vienna GIS example
No, all creatures have had the same time to evolve. On Earth, that time is estimated to be 4.5 billion years.
Some creatures may have experienced a lot of change during the period, and others relatively little, but we've all been evolving for the same amount of time, my friend.
These days, society is a lot more integrated.
Erm... are you sure you can maintain this distinction anywhere outside of your own mental model? How would you go about reverse engineering somebody elses code without "trying to figure out what the product does"?
yes, and hot air rises
Microsoft's still got > $42b in cash. What if 10% of the money was released to innovators? What would that do to growth 3 years hence?
Hey Kevin,
What browser are you using?
Do you notice any difference between now and back then?
We don't.
The SVG spec includes rasters. Check these samples SVG images which use bitmaps:
Magnifying glass example (drag the circles around)
Pixelization example
Australia is a large, sub-tropical island populated primarily by lesbians. Most of them are fascinated by technical issues and may become uncontrolably lascivious in the company of software engineers and technicians of either sex.
SVGmaker creates static SVG from any Windows app. You just click File/Print in your app.
Some online demos from SVG Unleashed
here we just drop acid and don't worry about the hard drives.
This is a shameless plug but we are only 5 guys working out of a house, not a monopoly... (yet... ho ho ho). In the same way that Acrobat can generate PDF out of anything, SVGmaker can generate SVG out of Windows apps.
These are examples.
It is really here
This is so good!
It is really here.
This is so good!
Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.
Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project
For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).
Like this interactive logical diagram
Check this awesome mapping example
And this wonderful airport flight management app.
For example, start with this static picture generated from a CAD program.
add some simple polygons and script them to conform with some business logic. Connect to your enterprise applications and databases using various connectors (simulated here) and you get a UI component like this that integrates with HTML.
Click on components to select them.
Ctrl-Click to select a set of components. Move your mouse over the colored components to highlight data in the html table.
Type a number in at the top right [enter] to see if you have enough components available for manufacturing.
This example was coded by hand in a day and a half. Probably could do another one in 3 hours or so now we got the hang of it.
But SVG is more compact. For example, this PowerPoint presentation is 140kb as compressed SVG, compared to the original PPT which was 950kb.
Here's an example.
To create SVG fonts, print anything with SVGmaker.
The free demo creates fonts you can reuse in your own SVG doc.
4. SVGmaker works like Acrobat Distiller (it is a printer driver) but the output is SVG. Consumers can use it to create SVG files from Office apps. But... close your blinds and dim the lights lest the monopoly forces are watching through your window.