His first suggestion is eliminate doctype in favor of an element attribute. His second suggestion is eliminating the element language attribute in favor of a meta element. It seems to me this is moving in two different directions. If your goal is to simplify things, be consistent!
This story ran in Saturday's issue of the WSJ. Today there is a big story front and center on the cover that starts with a description of a Malaysia Airlines 777 going loopy and nearly pitching the plane into the ocean. Even after the pilots turned off the autopilot, it didn't give them control back immediately and continued to do its own thing.
The 777 and A380 don't have physical control links between the cockpit and the wings. Even when the autopilot is off, you still have to depend on the computer to fly the plane.
The consequences are staggering. In 2004, the American internet tracking service ComScore revealed that more than 70 per cent of men aged 18-34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month.
Oh no! Porn is available and the consequences are staggering, lots of people (ok, men) look at it.
I'm not saying that there isn't a negative impact on society, but how come these articles never get around to exploring what those consequences are. It makes men depressed? Sure it does, the media is constantly scolding you for doing something with staggering consequences.
Later on the article states:
But the effect of such exposure is almost impossible to quantify.
Thats probably why they didn't bother to try. Whatever they are, I'm sure they're staggering.
Universities don't require students to have laptops so they can use them in class, that is a small fraction of the time spent in univesity. Most of the time is spent studying, and a portable computer gives students the flexibility to form into teams at various locations and work on their studies together. In this regard students operate much like consultants, and I've never met an effective consultant that didn't carry a laptop.
The student that needs to wait until he gets back to the dorm room to do anything on the computer is working a great disadvantage to his peers.
They should have stuck with the chip sets that worked for the DirecTV box and put *something* on the market. They could have come out with this next better box after having a first gen HD box out a year ago.
I think too many people, including TiVo, put too much weight on the TiVo being a better box. Most consumers just don't care, at all. They'll buy Windows 3.1 over MacOS, they'll buy VHS over Beta (Beta was better picture quality if you remember). And they'll settle for CATV DVR's that don't work as well as TiVo, they've never seen TiVo. The market for DVR's is growing and will continue to grow exponentially. Six to nine months is a long time and millions more potential DVR customers will be locked up by the CATV DVRs in that time.
I'm not gleefully cheering the demise of TiVo. I've desparately wanted an HD box for almost a year now since I got an HDTV. My current TiVo is dying and I have to have a replacement. But I've become exasperated from waiting. Look, for years I was one of TiVos famous fanatic fans, but I'm tired and more and more of the loyal users like me are going to start dropping off in the coming months. TiVo dropped the ball, and there is no excuse for it.
No, no, no. They said *early* 2006 last year, see the press release on their site.
No these guys pitched themselves a nice easy 12 month deadline, with a working prototype and an already shipping HD unit (DirecTV), AND MISSED IT ANYWAY!!!
See my post below, these guys are dead, they just haven't figured it out yet...
Maybe if they started shipping these units today they would have a chance at saving themselves. But they're not going to have them ready for another 6 months at least?
They announced HDTV support for early 2006 at last years CES, and that was insanity. How can it take one year, much less two, to develop HD TiVo when the capability is (was) already available through DirecTV. By the time this box ships, the DVR market is already going to be firmly in the hands of the cable companies. Most of the market is going to accept a lesser box for $5.95 a month rather than wait around for the privilege of owning an HD TiVo for $12.95 a month. And thats assuming you believe the TiVo will actually be available this year. Last time we heard from TiVo (they haven't said a word about HD for a year), the HD box was supposed to be available *now*.
I bought TiVo when they first came out, and I've given half a dozen as gifts. At this point I won't waste another dime on them.
My 2006 prediction, TiVo will be bought at an extreme discount by a CATV company, the technology cherry picked for their own products and the TiVo name taken, but otherwise the TiVo will be gone.
When you group all OS specific vulnerabilities against Unix like operating systems into one large non-OS specific category, they out number the still OS specific windows category.
This is as useless as comparing apples to orange groves
When the web was created, there was no need for a.www domain. Email doesn't run on the.smtp domain.
If providers want to have a way to identify sites that are mobile content, why not just have a convention of using mobi.site.com (similar to www.site.com) and by convention mobile browsers can try mobi.site.com when the user types site.com (if site.com didn't return any usable content).
Creating a whole new TLD and setting up body to monitor and police the content? Somebody got seriously bureaucracy happy.
If Massy is right, IE is part of the operating system *and* every function called by IE is part of the public API and documented, then every function in IE must be public and documented. I *know* that isn't true.
You can't have it both ways
You'd think if they were going to get a patent on paying open source developers, they would also get some patents in their core compentency... Clever ways to not pay career programmers by outsourcing overseas.
At the end of a story on the HP-Apple deal, the WSJ reports 'Apple executives say their company has no plans to relent' on the subject of WMA. It also quotes Jobs as saying, in regard to Apples strong position in the player/download market, "I think that favors the largest player, which is us by a mile."
Apple has no incentive to support WMA and every reason not to. If the iPod can play WMA, it becomes the defacto standard and AAC is dead.
...Yeah, I don't see how something like this would bring in tourists....
...Business conventions, however, make a lot of sense. This could also be a good idea for cities working on revitalizing parts of the town....
Baltimore's convention center is right next to the Inner Harbor, I'm sure by tourists, they mean conventioneers. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was one of the countries first successful urban revitalization projects, and still one of the best IMHO (being from Bal'mer, and having not seen any others)
There's a building down the block from me that has wireless set up in the building for about 160 units. They have an outside company set it up and operate it and they get a cut of the revenue. You don't have to do any of the heavy lifting.
I don't know the name of the company they are using, but a little googling should turn one up.
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His first suggestion is eliminate doctype in favor of an element attribute. His second suggestion is eliminating the element language attribute in favor of a meta element. It seems to me this is moving in two different directions. If your goal is to simplify things, be consistent!
The 777 and A380 don't have physical control links between the cockpit and the wings. Even when the autopilot is off, you still have to depend on the computer to fly the plane.
"HAL, please fly the plane level!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"...
Oh no! Porn is available and the consequences are staggering, lots of people (ok, men) look at it.
I'm not saying that there isn't a negative impact on society, but how come these articles never get around to exploring what those consequences are. It makes men depressed? Sure it does, the media is constantly scolding you for doing something with staggering consequences.
Later on the article states:
Thats probably why they didn't bother to try. Whatever they are, I'm sure they're staggering.
The student that needs to wait until he gets back to the dorm room to do anything on the computer is working a great disadvantage to his peers.
They should have stuck with the chip sets that worked for the DirecTV box and put *something* on the market. They could have come out with this next better box after having a first gen HD box out a year ago.
I think too many people, including TiVo, put too much weight on the TiVo being a better box. Most consumers just don't care, at all. They'll buy Windows 3.1 over MacOS, they'll buy VHS over Beta (Beta was better picture quality if you remember). And they'll settle for CATV DVR's that don't work as well as TiVo, they've never seen TiVo. The market for DVR's is growing and will continue to grow exponentially. Six to nine months is a long time and millions more potential DVR customers will be locked up by the CATV DVRs in that time.
I'm not gleefully cheering the demise of TiVo. I've desparately wanted an HD box for almost a year now since I got an HDTV. My current TiVo is dying and I have to have a replacement. But I've become exasperated from waiting. Look, for years I was one of TiVos famous fanatic fans, but I'm tired and more and more of the loyal users like me are going to start dropping off in the coming months. TiVo dropped the ball, and there is no excuse for it.
No, no, no. They said *early* 2006 last year, see the press release on their site.
No these guys pitched themselves a nice easy 12 month deadline, with a working prototype and an already shipping HD unit (DirecTV), AND MISSED IT ANYWAY!!!
See my post below, these guys are dead, they just haven't figured it out yet...
Maybe if they started shipping these units today they would have a chance at saving themselves. But they're not going to have them ready for another 6 months at least?
They announced HDTV support for early 2006 at last years CES, and that was insanity. How can it take one year, much less two, to develop HD TiVo when the capability is (was) already available through DirecTV. By the time this box ships, the DVR market is already going to be firmly in the hands of the cable companies. Most of the market is going to accept a lesser box for $5.95 a month rather than wait around for the privilege of owning an HD TiVo for $12.95 a month. And thats assuming you believe the TiVo will actually be available this year. Last time we heard from TiVo (they haven't said a word about HD for a year), the HD box was supposed to be available *now*.
I bought TiVo when they first came out, and I've given half a dozen as gifts. At this point I won't waste another dime on them.
My 2006 prediction, TiVo will be bought at an extreme discount by a CATV company, the technology cherry picked for their own products and the TiVo name taken, but otherwise the TiVo will be gone.
When you group all OS specific vulnerabilities against Unix like operating systems into one large non-OS specific category, they out number the still OS specific windows category.
This is as useless as comparing apples to orange groves
The actual rabbis that wrote the whole thing down were unavailable for comment.
When the web was created, there was no need for a .www domain. Email doesn't run on the .smtp domain.
If providers want to have a way to identify sites that are mobile content, why not just have a convention of using mobi.site.com (similar to www.site.com) and by convention mobile browsers can try mobi.site.com when the user types site.com (if site.com didn't return any usable content).
Creating a whole new TLD and setting up body to monitor and police the content? Somebody got seriously bureaucracy happy.
If Massy is right, IE is part of the operating system *and* every function called by IE is part of the public API and documented, then every function in IE must be public and documented. I *know* that isn't true. You can't have it both ways
To answer my own question, I suppose you just shoot two beams in opposite directions. Never mind.
If a plasma beam can push a spacecraft at 11.7 km/sec, what keeps the plasma cannon from shooting off at 11.7 km/sec in the opposite direction?
You'd think if they were going to get a patent on paying open source developers, they would also get some patents in their core compentency... Clever ways to not pay career programmers by outsourcing overseas.
At the end of a story on the HP-Apple deal, the WSJ reports 'Apple executives say their company has no plans to relent' on the subject of WMA. It also quotes Jobs as saying, in regard to Apples strong position in the player/download market, "I think that favors the largest player, which is us by a mile."
Apple has no incentive to support WMA and every reason not to. If the iPod can play WMA, it becomes the defacto standard and AAC is dead.
...Yeah, I don't see how something like this would bring in tourists....
...Business conventions, however, make a lot of sense. This could also be a good idea for cities working on revitalizing parts of the town....
Baltimore's convention center is right next to the Inner Harbor, I'm sure by tourists, they mean conventioneers. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was one of the countries first successful urban revitalization projects, and still one of the best IMHO (being from Bal'mer, and having not seen any others)
There's a building down the block from me that has wireless set up in the building for about 160 units. They have an outside company set it up and operate it and they get a cut of the revenue. You don't have to do any of the heavy lifting. I don't know the name of the company they are using, but a little googling should turn one up.