This is not similar to Active Desktop at all. Building applications with the JavaScript language does not mean that the browser will suddenly have access to all sorts of system functions.
There's no having to manually re-indent dozens of lines of code because you needed to add another nesting level and whitespace is part of the language, etc.
First of all, if you don't re-indent your after adding another nesting level, you are making your code hard to read, and if I have to work on it after you, I will hate you for it. This is one of the reasons that Python is so pleasant. It forces people to write decent code.
Secondly, if you're manually indenting each line of code, you should start using a modern text editor.
If Dell was serious about releasing an iPhone 'killer' all they would have to do is resurrect their x50 and add phone support and it would be better than the iPhone except for the interface.
The next president will play a role in dictating funding, telcos, ISP's, piracy...you name it
Congress does that, not the president. The president can propose such things, but doesn't have any power over them beyond the attention people pay to her.
For example, how exactly is he going to move a $7 trillion economy back to the gold standard when there's less than $3 trillion in gold on the planet?
He doesn't want to go back to the gold standard. He wants to legalize competing currencies. If competing currencies were legal, the Fed wouldn't be able to inflate the currency at an irresponsible rate since people would switch to a currency that had a better inflationary reputation.
I agree with you on the pollution thing though, but he'd still make a better president than all of the other candidates in either party. Ending the unconstitutional power grabs by the federal government and returning that power to the states will make government more accountable and reduce the massive waste and corruption we have today.
There's nothing wrong with selling software. My problem is with intellectual property legislation that goes too far, and I think his background makes him more likely to push for that type of legislation. If he actually runs for president, I'll take the time to find out what his actual position on IP issues is.
Most of what you're asking for already works in Ubuntu. When you try to open a file of a certain MIME type that doesn't have an associated application, it searches for a package that can handle it. The way this works is that each entry in the applications menu of GNOME and KDE is generated by a.desktop file that describes the application, including what MIME types it handles. Back when I worked on Ubuntu's application installer, the way we associated a package with a specific.desktop file was by going through the entire repository, unpacking each package, pulling out each.desktop file and making a copy of it that included a key that says which package it was pulled from. It also pulled out the icons referenced in the.desktop files to use in the application installer's UI. The application installer used those new.desktop files to build it's database of applications, so you could query it by MIME type and get the application that handles it, or choose an application to install if there are more than one. They've done a lot of awesome work on the program since I stopped working on it, so it might work differently now.
The problem is that he made his money by selling software, and is likely to favor stronger protections for intellectual property. Just because he understands it doesn't mean he's on our side. Other than that, I think he'd make a pretty good candidate.
Or at least $.05, if allofmp3.com proved anything. Whatever the price point is there's a lot of money being left on the table because the labels aren't smart enough to go after it. To suggest that allofmp3's price point is the optimal one is pretty unreasonable. At $.05 a song, the labels would likely make less off of their back catalog than they do now for $1 a song. Lower price points would definitely help a lot of songs, but allofmp3 isn't proof of that.
Not only that, but since you're having this moment of silence in a public place, you'll be sued by John Cage for a public performance of 4'33" without his consent.
If no one is consulting these patent records for how to solve a problem, we're not achieving a lot of the intended goal.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've seen about the patent system. Not only do people not search through patents for a way to solve a problem, they consciously avoid doing so as to lower their legal risk. The system is completely broken and needs to be fixed.
It seems like everyone realizes what you're saying except the business people and the lawyers. For some reason, they think that content consumption is a zero sum game and that it's only beneficial to them if they're directly profiting off of it. It's not a big problem though. It's orders of magnitude easier for creators to get their work out to the public now, and the internet is getting a larger and larger share of audience attention. If they continue to keep bottling things up, people will just watch the content that's available to them online instead of trying to work their lives around the schedules of the TV shows they want to watch.
Right now, one major thing that keeps Myspace's user base so incredibly high is the lack of a widely adopted technology like OpenID.
How are Myspace and OpenID remotely related? A decentralized social network would be nifty, but OpenID definitely isn't one. In the mean time, better social networks offer open APIs that let you access their friend data.
That isn't the same. Lots of companies do that, but it isn't as useful. To take public transportation from the middle of San Francisco to Google, you would need at least two tickets from different transit agencies, then a shuttle from the train station in Mountain View to the campus itself. That would take next to forever. (I'd give you a link to the trip planned out, but Google Transit isn't available in the Bay Area yet. What's up with that anyway?) With Google's bus system, I assume they have enough demand to hit a couple of neighborhoods and go straight to Google, which takes far less time and hassle.
Free bus passes are commonplace, which is why you don't see articles about it. A private bus system isn't commonplace, which makes it newsworthy. Google is a media darling, but that doesn't mean every story written about them is void of substance.
Manager: So you're telling me that someone already wrote code that performs a task we need done in our software, and they're letting anyone use it for free?
Coder #1: Yeah, I think it's cool that—
Manager: AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! [Manager faints.]
Coder #2: That's the last project on SourceForge that we hadn't used yet. How are we going to get out of work tomorrow?
Coder #1: Hmm... Wanna go grab a beer and start yet another Python web framework?
Coder #2: You're a genius.
To all the fellas out there with geek friends to impress It's easy to do, just follow these steps: One: Cut a hole in a box Two: Stick your chip in that box Three: Make her open the box And that's the way you do it It's my chip in a box
Isn't a book that uses Microsoft Word's.doc format called a Word document?
A document doesn't turn into a physical book until you hit print. The book itself is about the content, not the physical form. Dive into Python is a book that I just happened to read online in web page form.
Most people already use the same email address everywhere they sign up for accounts. OpenID doesn't exacerbate that problem. If you don't want websites to be able to compare login data, get multiple OpenIDs, just like you presumably have multiple email addresses.
There are very few websites I go to where I actually care that much about privacy, such as my bank, and anywhere I purchase things. If all the other sites adopted OpenID, my life would be a little easier.
If you want support, you pay for StarOffice instead. The idea that you can't get support for open source software has been proven wrong many, many times.
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This is not similar to Active Desktop at all. Building applications with the JavaScript language does not mean that the browser will suddenly have access to all sorts of system functions.
First of all, if you don't re-indent your after adding another nesting level, you are making your code hard to read, and if I have to work on it after you, I will hate you for it. This is one of the reasons that Python is so pleasant. It forces people to write decent code.
Secondly, if you're manually indenting each line of code, you should start using a modern text editor.
The interface is the device.
The next president will play a role in dictating funding, telcos, ISP's, piracy...you name it
Congress does that, not the president. The president can propose such things, but doesn't have any power over them beyond the attention people pay to her.
The Athenians thought that was a good way to do it.
For example, how exactly is he going to move a $7 trillion economy back to the gold standard when there's less than $3 trillion in gold on the planet?
He doesn't want to go back to the gold standard. He wants to legalize competing currencies. If competing currencies were legal, the Fed wouldn't be able to inflate the currency at an irresponsible rate since people would switch to a currency that had a better inflationary reputation.
I agree with you on the pollution thing though, but he'd still make a better president than all of the other candidates in either party. Ending the unconstitutional power grabs by the federal government and returning that power to the states will make government more accountable and reduce the massive waste and corruption we have today.
There's nothing wrong with selling software. My problem is with intellectual property legislation that goes too far, and I think his background makes him more likely to push for that type of legislation. If he actually runs for president, I'll take the time to find out what his actual position on IP issues is.
Most of what you're asking for already works in Ubuntu. When you try to open a file of a certain MIME type that doesn't have an associated application, it searches for a package that can handle it. The way this works is that each entry in the applications menu of GNOME and KDE is generated by a .desktop file that describes the application, including what MIME types it handles. Back when I worked on Ubuntu's application installer, the way we associated a package with a specific .desktop file was by going through the entire repository, unpacking each package, pulling out each .desktop file and making a copy of it that included a key that says which package it was pulled from. It also pulled out the icons referenced in the .desktop files to use in the application installer's UI. The application installer used those new .desktop files to build it's database of applications, so you could query it by MIME type and get the application that handles it, or choose an application to install if there are more than one. They've done a lot of awesome work on the program since I stopped working on it, so it might work differently now.
The problem is that he made his money by selling software, and is likely to favor stronger protections for intellectual property. Just because he understands it doesn't mean he's on our side. Other than that, I think he'd make a pretty good candidate.
You don't see them because the humor tag is usually encrypted in another one, like "itsatrap".
Not only that, but since you're having this moment of silence in a public place, you'll be sued by John Cage for a public performance of 4'33" without his consent.
Well, there's a pretty good reason for Boston's reputation of puritanism.
If no one is consulting these patent records for how to solve a problem, we're not achieving a lot of the intended goal.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've seen about the patent system. Not only do people not search through patents for a way to solve a problem, they consciously avoid doing so as to lower their legal risk. The system is completely broken and needs to be fixed.
It seems like everyone realizes what you're saying except the business people and the lawyers. For some reason, they think that content consumption is a zero sum game and that it's only beneficial to them if they're directly profiting off of it. It's not a big problem though. It's orders of magnitude easier for creators to get their work out to the public now, and the internet is getting a larger and larger share of audience attention. If they continue to keep bottling things up, people will just watch the content that's available to them online instead of trying to work their lives around the schedules of the TV shows they want to watch.
I feel sorry for anyone who has to give birth to DVDs, let alone backwards.
Sharp edges. Ouch.
Right now, one major thing that keeps Myspace's user base so incredibly high is the lack of a widely adopted technology like OpenID.
How are Myspace and OpenID remotely related? A decentralized social network would be nifty, but OpenID definitely isn't one. In the mean time, better social networks offer open APIs that let you access their friend data.
That isn't the same. Lots of companies do that, but it isn't as useful. To take public transportation from the middle of San Francisco to Google, you would need at least two tickets from different transit agencies, then a shuttle from the train station in Mountain View to the campus itself. That would take next to forever. (I'd give you a link to the trip planned out, but Google Transit isn't available in the Bay Area yet. What's up with that anyway?) With Google's bus system, I assume they have enough demand to hit a couple of neighborhoods and go straight to Google, which takes far less time and hassle.
Free bus passes are commonplace, which is why you don't see articles about it. A private bus system isn't commonplace, which makes it newsworthy. Google is a media darling, but that doesn't mean every story written about them is void of substance.
Manager: So you're telling me that someone already wrote code that performs a task we need done in our software, and they're letting anyone use it for free?
Coder #1: Yeah, I think it's cool that—
Manager: AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
[Manager faints.]
Coder #2: That's the last project on SourceForge that we hadn't used yet. How are we going to get out of work tomorrow?
Coder #1: Hmm... Wanna go grab a beer and start yet another Python web framework?
Coder #2: You're a genius.
To all the fellas out there with geek friends to impress
It's easy to do, just follow these steps:
One: Cut a hole in a box
Two: Stick your chip in that box
Three: Make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
It's my chip in a box
Isn't a book that uses Microsoft Word's .doc format called a Word document?
A document doesn't turn into a physical book until you hit print. The book itself is about the content, not the physical form. Dive into Python is a book that I just happened to read online in web page form.
Most people already use the same email address everywhere they sign up for accounts. OpenID doesn't exacerbate that problem. If you don't want websites to be able to compare login data, get multiple OpenIDs, just like you presumably have multiple email addresses.
There are very few websites I go to where I actually care that much about privacy, such as my bank, and anywhere I purchase things. If all the other sites adopted OpenID, my life would be a little easier.
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That's not a bug, it's a feature to make sure you don't copy that floppy.
If you want support, you pay for StarOffice instead. The idea that you can't get support for open source software has been proven wrong many, many times.