Will work like the children's toys such as easy-bake oven:
Dip it into icy water, and it will turn hot pink. Wipe it down with a warm wet cloth and it's blue. Bake it in the microwave, and it will light up in all colors of the rainbow.
" It doesn't help, because the system just isn't built for scripting."
Well, isn't the point here that they're adapting the system for scripting? Making more of the features available via command line?
There's a world of difference between a CygWin environment, which you have to install separately and which can run the handfull of specially programmed utility clones, and the built in, "officially blessed" shell which gives you the run of the system.
The only problem though, is that current windows admins aren't too hot on shelling into a remote system to maintain it. So there will have to be a pretty massive re-education effort for the feature to get used.
"We did get a little suspicious when MS representatives asked us to just hand over all of our research papers, but then Bill assured us that it was all going to be taken care of, and showed us the contract on his laptop asking us to click I Agree. The thing was so long and boring, and crammed into such a small window, that our lawyers just clicked "I agree" without really reading through the whole thing." Sendo Officials admitted early Thursday.
"We're still looking over the contract to see the ramifications of the "we owe you nothing" clause."
Microsoft officials declined to comment at press time.
After hearing the news, an RIAA spokesman stated that the accusations were ridiculous. He then twirled his mustashe and broke out in a bout of uncontrollable laughter.
They have the market for their hardware. They are assured distribution in large quantities.
What could not have succeeded in a free economy, can be forced upon users and developers by an all-controling state.
In other words, if they really decide to do this, China of all nations is very well positioned. They'll probably port Linux to their hardware and have a western-free platform pretty soon.
Um... the reason they are distributing a version from 1997 is because Sun sued them to disallow them any further use of Java. I'm not saying Sun was wrong to do so, but this seems weird to me that having locked MS into 1.1 via a court proceeding they are now bitching about it.
Slashdot already checks how long you've had the comment form loaded before letting you post. It also checks that you don't post comments too often by remembering when you posted last and enforcing a cooldown period.
I think that for site editors, there should be a "clue-in" period, of about 10 minutes, starting when they first load the front page, during which they would not be allowed into the submission queue, giving them a chance to read the day's stories so far.
Ideally, there would also be some javascript onBlur handler that maked the timer stop when the page is not in the forground.
In other words - less Tolkien, more dumbed down Hollywood.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the first movie, but it becomes such a better told story with the extended edition, when all the "dramatic/emotional slowdowns" that have been cut from the release version are added back.
After your post, I dread going to the theater on the 18th to see a pure action flick, a James Bond movie with swords and elves. And that would suck, since Lord of the Rings can be so much more than that.
At Quantum Physics' 100th birthday party, a number of notable personalities were on hand.
Republican Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made a birthday speech congratulating Quantum Physics with its 100 year anniversary, and fondly recalled when during the planning stages of the Manhattan project, scientists were considering building a weapon of mass destruction based on Quantum Physical principles.
"I can tell you now, I wish they'd picked Quantum Physics," Lott said, "If they did, I'm sure the world as we know it would be a better place for white people to live."
In other news, Amazon announced that they will be aquiring the patent to a "Method of exercising a cat (US5443036).
In a statement to the press, Jeff Bezos said that the company plans to expand the technology covered by the patent to work on other pets as well. He promised that while Amazon will seek legal protection of the expanded technologies.
"Additionally, we believe that by reverse engineering this particular method, we can come up with some other ways of excersising cats. Potentially much more cost-efficient ways."
It is rumored that some among Amazon.com upper management believe that a method without the use of complicated laser technology is feasible by the end of the decade.
"We will of course pass along the cost reduction to our licensees," Bezos promised.
OK, so all the reflex-requiring games are obviously out of the question here... But I think I'd enjoy playing a nicely paced RPG or a traditional adventure game on this thing while sitting somwhere in a nice and cosy armchair.
And it's probably awesome for those long hours of turn-based strategy gaming. A game of CIV3 anyone?
True, but in this particular case, Microsoft was specifically blocked by Sun from using Java, following a pretty lengthy trial process. The block was placed on them as a company. It's not like they didn't buy the licenses, but they actually had the licenses revoked.
Well, that would be interesting. As far as I remember, Micorosoft lost it's Java lisence back in 97, after Sun got pissed at them for adding Windows-specific functionality. So if microsoft buys Borland, will they not be blocked from developing any of Borland's java products (read: JBuilder)?
Seems like that part of the company will be utterly useless to them unless their goal is to stamp out java IDEs. But we already mentioned Eclipse on this thread.
I wouldn't be too worried about loosing JBuilder. After all, Eclipse is better, faster, and open-sourcier. Not to mention it doesn't use godawful Swing(r)(tm)(c)(pi).
I am a Java programmer myself (laugh it up), but Swing just plain annoys me.
It's almost sort of ironic. The IAB site carries no advertising whatsoever, and here on Slashdot, when a story is posted to lament the evils of internet advertising, you get a banner and one of them flash ads blinking in your face.
The method is already in use by some advertisers. It's not widespread, but there's enough prior art out there to stop anyone from getting a patent. I hope.
Besides, if I did patent it, I would just make money on licensing it to advertisers:)
IE 7 is planned to include Popup blocking support. The only big "IF" is wether or not it will be turned on by default. If not, about 80% of the population will keep browsing as they always had.
As far as new ad formats, right on devedge page linked from the artice, you are seeing the future of web advertising.
Instead of popup windows (which are *SO* 90's), we will have popup div layers, positioned to cover the page. Look at Netscape's own popup detection example. They show you how to detect a popup blocker, and open up a fixed position DIV to give visitor a "warning". How long do you think it will take an ad network programmer to figure out that instead of the warning, this DIV can actually be used to show the ad itself?
Better yet, if the window failed to open, you can open the div with an IFRAME in it that points to the same URL. And no popups.:)
Welcome to the future. Doesn't it look a lot like the past?
I agree, but the article author may not be malitiously misleading people. Let me tell you a story:
A co-worker of mine, who is ethnic Chinese went to China this summer, and brought back a buch of these $1 DVDs that the street vendors offer. Among them, was a disc with "Lord Of the Rings" stamped prominently on the cover.
A closer look at the cover revealed, however that for some unknown reason, Tom Cruise has joined the cast of the film, as his picture was front and center under the movie's title.
When my coleague got Stateside and tried watching the movie, he was (only mildly) surprised to find out that the disc actually contained a Chinese-subtitled version of "Willow". A closer inspection of the DVD case showed that the credits on the back of it were cut and pasted from a poster of Disney's "The Kid" - out in theaters around that time.
The moral of the story is that just because street peddlers in China is selling DIV boxes that say "The Two Towers" on them, one should not go assuming that the Chinese cartels were able to successfully pirate the movie.
That's true if you can afford them - they're definitely on the premium side. I never had a problem with them, but once my site started outgrowing the 30 Gigs they allow you monthly by on their standard plans, additional bandwidth became way too costly.
At $3.50/Gig, I ended up paying almost 50% over my base fee for a month of popularity.
As a result, I moved the more bandwidth intensive part of the site off to a cheaper server with beefier specs, and felt the pain right away. These guys have no monitoring included, ignore email requests for support, and charged me a consulting fee when I needed my server backed up and wiped because of a Slapper infection.
Not that I blame them, since it's not really managed hosting they are selling, but the difference in service is tremendous.
If you can afford Rackspace - go for it. I think they even have an option to give you a private net work -- link your servers directly one to the other so intra-server communitation doesn't count towards your total bandwidth cap.
Yeah, I remember back in the day, our computers were powered by squirrels, and you had to keep feeding them every five minutes, and every other monday we would send somebody to the market to buy new squirrels. (Squirresl were 5 for $4.99 back then).
Also, our computer only had three bits of memory, so we really had to write everything down on little bits of paper, which was a problem because our wpare squirrels kept carrying them away and hiding them.
"This interview is over," concluded the irate MS representative after numerous agressive questions.
"I will see you back here next year, for a debate on our Halloween VIII memo, now in development." he proceeded to add.
Sources indicate that next year's halloween memo will require 20Gig for a full install, but will be available as a "web-service" for a small subscription fee.
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Dip it into icy water, and it will turn hot pink. Wipe it down with a warm wet cloth and it's blue. Bake it in the microwave, and it will light up in all colors of the rainbow.
Ain't technology grand?
Well, isn't the point here that they're adapting the system for scripting? Making more of the features available via command line?
There's a world of difference between a CygWin environment, which you have to install separately and which can run the handfull of specially programmed utility clones, and the built in, "officially blessed" shell which gives you the run of the system.
The only problem though, is that current windows admins aren't too hot on shelling into a remote system to maintain it. So there will have to be a pretty massive re-education effort for the feature to get used.
"We're still looking over the contract to see the ramifications of the "we owe you nothing" clause."
Microsoft officials declined to comment at press time.
What could not have succeeded in a free economy, can be forced upon users and developers by an all-controling state.
In other words, if they really decide to do this, China of all nations is very well positioned. They'll probably port Linux to their hardware and have a western-free platform pretty soon.
Um... the reason they are distributing a version from 1997 is because Sun sued them to disallow them any further use of Java. I'm not saying Sun was wrong to do so, but this seems weird to me that having locked MS into 1.1 via a court proceeding they are now bitching about it.
I think that for site editors, there should be a "clue-in" period, of about 10 minutes, starting when they first load the front page, during which they would not be allowed into the submission queue, giving them a chance to read the day's stories so far.
Ideally, there would also be some javascript onBlur handler that maked the timer stop when the page is not in the forground.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the first movie, but it becomes such a better told story with the extended edition, when all the "dramatic/emotional slowdowns" that have been cut from the release version are added back.
After your post, I dread going to the theater on the 18th to see a pure action flick, a James Bond movie with swords and elves. And that would suck, since Lord of the Rings can be so much more than that.
Republican Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made a birthday speech congratulating Quantum Physics with its 100 year anniversary, and fondly recalled when during the planning stages of the Manhattan project, scientists were considering building a weapon of mass destruction based on Quantum Physical principles.
"I can tell you now, I wish they'd picked Quantum Physics," Lott said, "If they did, I'm sure the world as we know it would be a better place for white people to live."
In a statement to the press, Jeff Bezos said that the company plans to expand the technology covered by the patent to work on other pets as well. He promised that while Amazon will seek legal protection of the expanded technologies.
"Additionally, we believe that by reverse engineering this particular method, we can come up with some other ways of excersising cats. Potentially much more cost-efficient ways."
It is rumored that some among Amazon.com upper management believe that a method without the use of complicated laser technology is feasible by the end of the decade.
"We will of course pass along the cost reduction to our licensees," Bezos promised.
And it's probably awesome for those long hours of turn-based strategy gaming. A game of CIV3 anyone?
Seems like that part of the company will be utterly useless to them unless their goal is to stamp out java IDEs. But we already mentioned Eclipse on this thread.
P.S. IANAL
P.P.S. Neither am i anal.
I am a Java programmer myself (laugh it up), but Swing just plain annoys me.
Economics plays cruel jokes on us all at times.
Besides, if I did patent it, I would just make money on licensing it to advertisers :)
As far as new ad formats, right on devedge page linked from the artice, you are seeing the future of web advertising.
Instead of popup windows (which are *SO* 90's), we will have popup div layers, positioned to cover the page. Look at Netscape's own popup detection example. They show you how to detect a popup blocker, and open up a fixed position DIV to give visitor a "warning". How long do you think it will take an ad network programmer to figure out that instead of the warning, this DIV can actually be used to show the ad itself?
Better yet, if the window failed to open, you can open the div with an IFRAME in it that points to the same URL. And no popups. :)
Welcome to the future. Doesn't it look a lot like the past?
A co-worker of mine, who is ethnic Chinese went to China this summer, and brought back a buch of these $1 DVDs that the street vendors offer. Among them, was a disc with "Lord Of the Rings" stamped prominently on the cover.
A closer look at the cover revealed, however that for some unknown reason, Tom Cruise has joined the cast of the film, as his picture was front and center under the movie's title.
When my coleague got Stateside and tried watching the movie, he was (only mildly) surprised to find out that the disc actually contained a Chinese-subtitled version of "Willow". A closer inspection of the DVD case showed that the credits on the back of it were cut and pasted from a poster of Disney's "The Kid" - out in theaters around that time.
The moral of the story is that just because street peddlers in China is selling DIV boxes that say "The Two Towers" on them, one should not go assuming that the Chinese cartels were able to successfully pirate the movie.
(Definitely wish I could though)
At $3.50/Gig, I ended up paying almost 50% over my base fee for a month of popularity.
As a result, I moved the more bandwidth intensive part of the site off to a cheaper server with beefier specs, and felt the pain right away. These guys have no monitoring included, ignore email requests for support, and charged me a consulting fee when I needed my server backed up and wiped because of a Slapper infection.
Not that I blame them, since it's not really managed hosting they are selling, but the difference in service is tremendous.
If you can afford Rackspace - go for it. I think they even have an option to give you a private net work -- link your servers directly one to the other so intra-server communitation doesn't count towards your total bandwidth cap.
Also, our computer only had three bits of memory, so we really had to write everything down on little bits of paper, which was a problem because our wpare squirrels kept carrying them away and hiding them.
THOSE were the days...
"I will see you back here next year, for a debate on our Halloween VIII memo, now in development." he proceeded to add.
Sources indicate that next year's halloween memo will require 20Gig for a full install, but will be available as a "web-service" for a small subscription fee.