See, I just don't get this. I keep hearing "Yay! JIT for javascript" but my understanding of JIT is that it really works best for apps that are compiled down to bytecode (like Java applets and SWFs) first.
Am I just missing something? Is there some intermediary bytecode compilation for JS files that is then further enhanced for specific platforms by JIT? And if so, why the intermediary step (JS -> bytecode, bytecode -> machine code) in the browser?
Somebody please 'splain the advantage of dynamic translation for JS to me please?
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The FAQ says "If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service" (emphasis mine) -- I assume Google's blog index is going to separate the news sites from the blogs with that AND qualifier. I can't think of any news sites that ping an updating service, so this should take care of that issue. Pretty clever, actually.
It's Flash, so half of you will automatically hate it, just warning you now. I guess because it's MSnbc, everyone else will hate it, but I think it's kinda nifty.
Well, considering that Microsoft in not just a software company but one of the largest software companies in the world, employing some 55,000 people, I'd say it's relevant. Microsoft doesn't just build software, they give a lot of people -- even gay people -- jobs. Microsoft's hiring practices have been under the microscope before; legislation has been passed in the state of Washington specifically to counter some of Microsoft's employment techniques.
Whether this is worthy of a post on/. is another story...
I live in Seattle, I've got the Comcast/Microsoft DVR thing, it's definitely no TiVo. The recording is often mixed quality-wise (even HD content), the scheduling craps out often (nixed the last four minutes of Sunday's Simpsons) and the interface blows. Which isn't to say it's all bad - when the HD recording works, it looks great and dual tuners are really, really nice.
I'm anxiously awaiting the TiVo version of the box I currently have, though.
Ibiblio is already doing a pretty good job with that. Considering that they're on The University of North Carolina's network, which is about as close a hop as you can be to the backbone, bandwidth is pretty solid. Last I checked, ibiblio has 5+ terabytes of disk space and a super kick-assLVS cluster that should be able to handle just about anything you throw at it.
And correct me if I'm wrong on this, but doesn't Windows even have a user-level documents and settings directory? Seems like a logical enough place to store something like a browser cache.
This strikes me not so much as a browser issue, but as a filesystem issue. It's kind of like saying that BBEdit is insecure because anyone can read the docs you write. Well...yeah, unless you put them in an encrypted folder or some other such thing.
"Be sure to make regular backups of your music files (in your iTunes Music folder) by copying them to an external hard disk or other media. Otherwise, if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you've purchased, you'll have to buy any purchased music again to rebuild your library."
I'm not trying to be a dick here, just pointing out that iTunes isn't the magical jukebox in the sky that geeks on slashdot want it to be. If you're going to start buying DRMed music, you should know what you're getting into beforehand. Blame Apple all you want, but it's spelled out pretty clearly.
Quit pimping your damn blog on Slashdot
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I like Phillip Torrone's stuff as much as the next guy, but I wish he'd stop pimping his fucking website out to up his hit count. I can't help but notice that every story he's submitted begins with "Over at Engadget..."
Dude, if you wanna write about kite photography or search engines, more power to ya, but leave it at that. For the love of God, stop shilling around here, pretending like you have nothing to do with the stories you "find" on Engadget. At least be upfront about it "Hey, I wrote this thing over at this weblog you guys all know about anyway, but my Google Textad revenue is a bit low this week, so help me out, would ya?"
egomania (n) - Obsessive preoccupation with the self.
See: kottke.org
I love weblogs. I really do. What I find utterly hilarious, though, is the A-list bloggers, like Mr. Kottke here, who seem to eschew traditional media at every possible chance while simultaneously fawning for every affection from said media.
Yeah, it's perfectly conceivable that Kottke.org broke this Incredibly! Important! Urgent! Breaking! News! Story! It's also possible that someone else in the studio audience alerted our friends at AP, TV Week, etc. or that even - gasp, horror! - actual journalists who follow this sort of thing were doing their jobs. I certainly remember hearing something about this Ken Jennings fellow before Kottke.org "reported" on his winning streak.
It's also just as easily imaginable that you, Jason Kottke, gift to the Jeopardy watching hordes, are the sole source of information on the trials of Ken Jennings and we are all deeply in debt to you and you alone. May we repent now and maybe even start a DropCash campaign to somehow right this egregious wrong.
It's unfortunately all too common to expect this kind of FUD from Microsoft and their mindless proxies, like Thurrott. Of course, when Microsoft says they're all about choice, what they mean is they're all about enabling users to "choose" Microsoft.
They support porn access for kids and have a serious liberal slant and there are so many reasons I don't like them.
Um, what? Porn access for kids? Can you point me to a link where the ALA advocates giving out porn to the kids that walk in their libraries? Google seems to be letting me down here.
And the liberal bias thing - I just don't get it. Most librarians I know support smaller, less intrusive government, which seems pretty conservative to me.
The occasional forays into politics that librarians have made in the past few years seem to be the moderating voices of reason, like questioning the value of having a government mandated censor at the firewall or letting the FBI see what books you check out without so much as warrant. These seem like valid questions to be raised, and if the government were suddenly making your job more difficult, while cutting your funding, I'd expect you to be raising similar questions, as a matter of patriotism.
I've wondered this myself, especially given the "embrace and extend" mentality of Microsoft's past, but ultimatley I'm convinced that Mono on OS X is a good thing for the same reason Perl or Apache on OS X is a good thing. Like it or not,.Net seems not to suck. Like it or not, there seems to be a burgeoning open source community embracing.Net.
For instance, I'm an Actionscript developer. A project I've taken great interest in is ASDocGen, which aims to bring JavaDoc-like functionality to Actionscript. This project is written in C# with the express purpose of being multi-platform via Mono.
In the end, it makes OS X a richer platform to develop on. Rather than be limited to a few tools to do my job as a web developer, I have a vast array of options, from open source web servers to GUI text editors to Photoshop -- I can even open Word docs that clients send me without a problem. Having another tool in my aresenal only makes me a better developer.
Apple has a very strong, committed developer base. They will continue to push great products for OS X. The ability to run some.Net apps will only make OS X better.
This is typical NY Post "reporting", which is to say, fucking terrible. First of all, there's absolutely nothing substantive in the article -- it's full of conjecture, such as "the prices for some of the most popular singles _could_ rise..." (_emphasis_ mine).
Secondly, some of the basic facts are just plain wrong. Take this choice quote:
"The prices for albums - most of which have been priced at $9.99 - allow for some releases to be priced higher. For example, "Fly or Die," the latest album from rock-rap act N.E.R.D., is currently selling for $16.99 on iTunes."
Which version of iTunes are they using? Because the version on my box at work says $13.99. True, this is more than the more standard $9.99, but it's definitely not $17. This is something that would have taken the fuckers at the post all of about five seconds to verify.
This abominable rag, which Rupert Murdoch's idiotic spawn has somehow managed to make even worse, simply needs to die.
In other words, nothing to see here folks, move along, let me know when there's an actual story.
Winning the suit isn't the point, though. I dare say that Luskin has no plans of winning such an inane suit, his only interest is in outing Atrios.
Atrios, the blogger in question, guards his secrecy pretty closely. He has maintained anonymity since he began the Eschaton weblog. It's pretty clear, even from the letter Luskin's lawyer sent, that the real win for Luskin here would be to reveal who Atrios is if s/he doesn't capitulate to Luskin's demands.
Shady and underhanded? You bet your ass. I'm most amazed that the right, who claim to deplore using the tactics of trial lawyers (typical Democratic strong hold), would stoop so low. Wait, no, that level of hypocrisy coming from the rightwingers doesn't amaze me at all.
Um, what the hell are you talking about? As far as political bloggers go, right or left, Atrios is one of the most prolific and well read. But way to go, in typical Slashdot fashion, commenting on something you really know nothing about.
Apparently, his financial situation is a tad bit dire, so if you really wanna stick it to the man, you might consider paypaling him a buck. Even better, give the dude a job...
iTunes sharing is based on Rendezvous, which is Apple's way of branding Zeroconf.
There's a linux port here, might be a good first start.
I'll go ahead and warn you right now, though, that if you watch your IP packets between two computers sharing iTunes files, you'll notice that the http stream is encrypted, so that's probably a big hurdle to begin with. Best of luck!
A long time ago, when people were using Mosaic, the proprietor of Eolas invented the plugin technology. He showed this technology to Microsoft who poo-pooed it.
Not quite. The technology was actually "invented" by the University of California -- Michael Doyle didn't invent a single thing. His company simply secured the rights to exclusively license this absurd patent. I'll also point out that no product has made it to market as a direct descendent of this technology -- their simply sitting on a patent, reaping their money.
Eolas also claims exclusive domain over the stylized e in their logo, which IBM licensed for their big e-everything push. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has this asshat made by not doing a goddamn thing?
Furthermore, just because it's microsoft getting fucked this time doesn't make it right, even if it is a dose of their own medicine. This sucks for everyone -- myself, a web developer, included -- even those of us who steer WAY clear of anything from Redmond (I'm a Mac guy).
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My colleague Bob Sullivan (an "actual journalist") takes a look at the Cyber Monday myth over at his blog, Red Tape Chronicles.
See, I just don't get this. I keep hearing "Yay! JIT for javascript" but my understanding of JIT is that it really works best for apps that are compiled down to bytecode (like Java applets and SWFs) first.
Am I just missing something? Is there some intermediary bytecode compilation for JS files that is then further enhanced for specific platforms by JIT? And if so, why the intermediary step (JS -> bytecode, bytecode -> machine code) in the browser?
Somebody please 'splain the advantage of dynamic translation for JS to me please?
The FAQ says "If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service" (emphasis mine) -- I assume Google's blog index is going to separate the news sites from the blogs with that AND qualifier. I can't think of any news sites that ping an updating service, so this should take care of that issue. Pretty clever, actually.
We put together a pretty slick interface for all the different cameras at MSNBC.com
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http://msnbc.com/modules/spaceshuttle/discoveryla
It's Flash, so half of you will automatically hate it, just warning you now. I guess because it's MSnbc, everyone else will hate it, but I think it's kinda nifty.
Well, considering that Microsoft in not just a software company but one of the largest software companies in the world, employing some 55,000 people, I'd say it's relevant. Microsoft doesn't just build software, they give a lot of people -- even gay people -- jobs. Microsoft's hiring practices have been under the microscope before; legislation has been passed in the state of Washington specifically to counter some of Microsoft's employment techniques.
/. is another story...
Whether this is worthy of a post on
Presumably it uses the persistant Gmail cookie to determine your account information.
Actually, you need to be using
an aggregator that supports HTTP authentication.
I subscribe to my Gmail Atom feed with NetNewsWire, works brilliantly.
I live in Seattle, I've got the Comcast/Microsoft DVR thing, it's definitely no TiVo. The recording is often mixed quality-wise (even HD content), the scheduling craps out often (nixed the last four minutes of Sunday's Simpsons) and the interface blows. Which isn't to say it's all bad - when the HD recording works, it looks great and dual tuners are really, really nice.
I'm anxiously awaiting the TiVo version of the box I currently have, though.
Ibiblio is already doing a pretty good job with that. Considering that they're on The University of North Carolina's network, which is about as close a hop as you can be to the backbone, bandwidth is pretty solid. Last I checked, ibiblio has 5+ terabytes of disk space and a super kick-ass LVS cluster that should be able to handle just about anything you throw at it.
I think gutenberg's gonna be just fine.
You might try TextDrive
Fantastic tech support, lots of support for opensource projects, a full ruby on rails implementation. These cats kick ass.
Lurk on the forums for a day or so to get a feel for things, it's not a bad place to call ~/
Not only that, but if you're on OS X and you , you can surf truly worry free.
And correct me if I'm wrong on this, but doesn't Windows even have a user-level documents and settings directory? Seems like a logical enough place to store something like a browser cache.
This strikes me not so much as a browser issue, but as a filesystem issue. It's kind of like saying that BBEdit is insecure because anyone can read the docs you write. Well...yeah, unless you put them in an encrypted folder or some other such thing.
iTunes prompty formatted the iPod and deleted my only copy of the music I'd purchased. WTF.
For starters, check out the Terms of Service. Move on to the Apple KB - Backing up your music. Pay special attention to the part that says:
"Be sure to make regular backups of your music files (in your iTunes Music folder) by copying them to an external hard disk or other media. Otherwise, if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you've purchased, you'll have to buy any purchased music again to rebuild your library."
I'm not trying to be a dick here, just pointing out that iTunes isn't the magical jukebox in the sky that geeks on slashdot want it to be. If you're going to start buying DRMed music, you should know what you're getting into beforehand. Blame Apple all you want, but it's spelled out pretty clearly.
How to enable the Apple Remote Desktop client as a VNC server
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Really nice, use it all the time
I like Phillip Torrone's stuff as much as the next guy, but I wish he'd stop pimping his fucking website out to up his hit count. I can't help but notice that every story he's submitted begins with "Over at Engadget..."
Dude, if you wanna write about kite photography or search engines, more power to ya, but leave it at that. For the love of God, stop shilling around here, pretending like you have nothing to do with the stories you "find" on Engadget. At least be upfront about it "Hey, I wrote this thing over at this weblog you guys all know about anyway, but my Google Textad revenue is a bit low this week, so help me out, would ya?"
This torrent is the OLD trailer, not the new one that debut the weekend of Sept 17.
egomania (n) - Obsessive preoccupation with the self.
See: kottke.org
I love weblogs. I really do. What I find utterly hilarious, though, is the A-list bloggers, like Mr. Kottke here, who seem to eschew traditional media at every possible chance while simultaneously fawning for every affection from said media.
Yeah, it's perfectly conceivable that Kottke.org broke this Incredibly! Important! Urgent! Breaking! News! Story! It's also possible that someone else in the studio audience alerted our friends at AP, TV Week, etc. or that even - gasp, horror! - actual journalists who follow this sort of thing were doing their jobs. I certainly remember hearing something about this Ken Jennings fellow before Kottke.org "reported" on his winning streak.
It's also just as easily imaginable that you, Jason Kottke, gift to the Jeopardy watching hordes, are the sole source of information on the trials of Ken Jennings and we are all deeply in debt to you and you alone. May we repent now and maybe even start a DropCash campaign to somehow right this egregious wrong.
It's unfortunately all too common to expect this kind of FUD from Microsoft and their mindless proxies, like Thurrott. Of course, when Microsoft says they're all about choice, what they mean is they're all about enabling users to "choose" Microsoft.
John Gruber unspins the inanity much better than I can.
This "choice" nonsense that Microsoft is FUDing is shamefully disengenuous.
They support porn access for kids and have a serious liberal slant and there are so many reasons I don't like them.
Um, what? Porn access for kids? Can you point me to a link where the ALA advocates giving out porn to the kids that walk in their libraries? Google seems to be letting me down here.
And the liberal bias thing - I just don't get it. Most librarians I know support smaller, less intrusive government, which seems pretty conservative to me.
The occasional forays into politics that librarians have made in the past few years seem to be the moderating voices of reason, like questioning the value of having a government mandated censor at the firewall or letting the FBI see what books you check out without so much as warrant. These seem like valid questions to be raised, and if the government were suddenly making your job more difficult, while cutting your funding, I'd expect you to be raising similar questions, as a matter of patriotism.
Or were you just being disengenuous?
I've wondered this myself, especially given the "embrace and extend" mentality of Microsoft's past, but ultimatley I'm convinced that Mono on OS X is a good thing for the same reason Perl or Apache on OS X is a good thing. Like it or not, .Net seems not to suck. Like it or not, there seems to be a burgeoning open source community embracing .Net.
.Net apps will only make OS X better.
For instance, I'm an Actionscript developer. A project I've taken great interest in is ASDocGen, which aims to bring JavaDoc-like functionality to Actionscript. This project is written in C# with the express purpose of being multi-platform via Mono.
In the end, it makes OS X a richer platform to develop on. Rather than be limited to a few tools to do my job as a web developer, I have a vast array of options, from open source web servers to GUI text editors to Photoshop -- I can even open Word docs that clients send me without a problem. Having another tool in my aresenal only makes me a better developer.
Apple has a very strong, committed developer base. They will continue to push great products for OS X. The ability to run some
This is typical NY Post "reporting", which is to say, fucking terrible. First of all, there's absolutely nothing substantive in the article -- it's full of conjecture, such as "the prices for some of the most popular singles _could_ rise..." (_emphasis_ mine).
Secondly, some of the basic facts are just plain wrong. Take this choice quote:
"The prices for albums - most of which have been priced at $9.99 - allow for some releases to be priced higher. For example, "Fly or Die," the latest album from rock-rap act N.E.R.D., is currently selling for $16.99 on iTunes."
Which version of iTunes are they using? Because the version on my box at work says $13.99. True, this is more than the more standard $9.99, but it's definitely not $17. This is something that would have taken the fuckers at the post all of about five seconds to verify.
This abominable rag, which Rupert Murdoch's idiotic spawn has somehow managed to make even worse, simply needs to die.
In other words, nothing to see here folks, move along, let me know when there's an actual story.
Unison?
I'm definitely not going anywhere near that stuff then
Winning the suit isn't the point, though. I dare say that Luskin has no plans of winning such an inane suit, his only interest is in outing Atrios.
Atrios, the blogger in question, guards his secrecy pretty closely. He has maintained anonymity since he began the Eschaton weblog. It's pretty clear, even from the letter Luskin's lawyer sent, that the real win for Luskin here would be to reveal who Atrios is if s/he doesn't capitulate to Luskin's demands.
Shady and underhanded? You bet your ass. I'm most amazed that the right, who claim to deplore using the tactics of trial lawyers (typical Democratic strong hold), would stoop so low. Wait, no, that level of hypocrisy coming from the rightwingers doesn't amaze me at all.
Um, what the hell are you talking about? As far as political bloggers go, right or left, Atrios is one of the most prolific and well read. But way to go, in typical Slashdot fashion, commenting on something you really know nothing about.
Apparently, his financial situation is a tad bit dire, so if you really wanna stick it to the man, you might consider paypaling him a buck. Even better, give the dude a job...
iTunes sharing is based on Rendezvous, which is Apple's way of branding Zeroconf.
There's a linux port here, might be a good first start.
I'll go ahead and warn you right now, though, that if you watch your IP packets between two computers sharing iTunes files, you'll notice that the http stream is encrypted, so that's probably a big hurdle to begin with. Best of luck!
A long time ago, when people were using Mosaic, the proprietor of Eolas invented the plugin technology. He showed this technology to Microsoft who poo-pooed it.
Not quite. The technology was actually "invented" by the University of California -- Michael Doyle didn't invent a single thing. His company simply secured the rights to exclusively license this absurd patent. I'll also point out that no product has made it to market as a direct descendent of this technology -- their simply sitting on a patent, reaping their money.
Eolas also claims exclusive domain over the stylized e in their logo, which IBM licensed for their big e-everything push. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has this asshat made by not doing a goddamn thing?
Furthermore, just because it's microsoft getting fucked this time doesn't make it right, even if it is a dose of their own medicine. This sucks for everyone -- myself, a web developer, included -- even those of us who steer WAY clear of anything from Redmond (I'm a Mac guy).