maybe they'll start optimizing the compilier for the PPC chips. A post to another topic recently mentioned that [insert gross oversimplification here] x86 will still be the primary architecture for Linux (or any OS really) as long as Intel is the only one spending money optimizing compilers. [end gross oversimplification]
from what I gather from the cnn story, is to make it easier for someone to find the information that they're looking for.
..."You won't have to remember the HTTP address. You can just call a document by its name,"...... "Imagine a company like Boeing having a database of all the engineering documents for the F-22 fighter and being able to pull up documents by their regular names and not their URLs."...
if a company had a database for some set of information, say engineering documents, or phone numbers, or part numbers, or whatever, wouldn't it be fairly simple to just make a web interface to the database (.asp or cgi or perl etc...) so that an end user could just enter a keyword to search the database?
I think that this protocol would lead to sloppier web site design. Yes, I've looked for information before and wound up on a page with alpha(-numeric-)bet soup for a URL, but if the site (inter- or intra- net) was organized better it wouldn't have to be like that. If you needed an annual report, it would be great if you could just go to the company's website and find it in two clicks, or just go right to www.somecompany.com/reports/year.html It seems that whenever I'm trying to look for something that I think is fairly straightforward on a website, I have to jump through multiple hoops to find it.
The Common Name standard could eventually be integrated with e-mail standards to allow end users to send messages without knowing the recipient's e-mail address.
great, mail to John Smith would go to how many people?
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another post stated that the recipie for the brew would be the source code but.... If I were to say, change my share of the beer (digestion?) and redistribute it, would you want it?
I'll post tomorrow re: the 15 mph 'limit'. Somebody I work with has FASTLANE. I was wondering that myself. I have seen neither transponder up close, but from outside a car they appear to look fairly similar. A friend of mine who has been to Europe tells me that they have similar systems there but they are much smaller and drivers don't have to slow down at all.
I commute from Boston to Framingham each day. I used to be averse to passing on the right, but it makes me feel so good. I like to drive between 75 and 80 mph and stay in the left lane. I can't stand people who drive the speed limit in the left lane. If someone is coming up behind me who is moving faster than me, I pull into the middle lane and let them by. I wish that more people did this.
The only purpose that tolls serve is to give people something to do. Most toll plazas are poorly laid out. With FASTLANE open for the length of the masspike (why does their site need Java?), things have not gotten better. FASTLANE has removed one lane (typically) from each toll station that was previously used by people paying with Real Money (TM). At Exit 13, the FASTLANE replaced one of the two 'double server/single queue' lanes (two toll booths in the same lane). Either pike officials realized that the ds/sq system was inefficient, or they aren't really concerned with efficiency. I would like to get a FASTLANE transponder, but I refuse to. I'm waiting until the fall, when, supposedly, the system will be compatible with the EZPass system. EZPass is better (IMHO) for two main reasons:
- To get a FASTLANE transponder costs $27.50, including a refundable deposit. An EZPass transponder requires a $10 deposit, unless you start your account with a credit card, in which case the deposit is waived.
- EZPass is bank agnostic. A FASTLANE account requires a $50 deposit. Unless you are a BankBoston customer and you pay tolls through your checking account. EZPass requires a minimum deposit of $25 for everyone. Both systems require a minimum balance (FASTLANE requires $20). Why do both systems need to have some of my money all the time?
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that FASTLANE needs a corporate sponsor? I have to pay a toll, and the Commonwealth is either taking money from BankBoston, or BankBoston is getting free ads in exchange for some service they are providing the Commonwealth (administration of accounts?) About a year ago, I noticed a FleetBank ad on the reverse side of a toll schedule. I do not need spam in my car.
And what about the areas not frequented by commuters? There are typically fewer toll booths, one of which is now replaced with a FASTLANE. What incentive is there for the people in those areas who don't use the highway that often to get a transponder. Is the goal here to get a "transponder in every car"? For what purpose? Will we start getting speeding tickets in the mail based on the data collected from the transponders (distance between tolls divided by elapsed time equals average speed)?
I could take the commuter rail to get to work but I don't. I would either have to get up earlier than I want to, or I would not be to work at an acceptable time. I also have meetings outside of work that I have to go to and the commuter rail schedule does not give me the flexibility (or reliability) that I need for my schedule. Just today, my roommate was 20 minutes late coming home becuase a lightning strike disabled switching on a four mile section of track, stopping traffic in both directions.
I wouldn't mind being a particle. Travelling at relativistic speeds my commute would take one millionth of a second. I could get eight hours of sleep a night and still go to bed at 1am!
Second, is a KillBot too much to ask for? Preferably one that can fit in the trunk of my car, and help me out with that lovely Boston traffic. Energy weapons only please (consumable ammunition would put it out of my price range).
Or maybe one to ride shotgun and clear a path for me on the 'pike everyday.
- What's that officer? FastLane is for paying tolls?
[still waiting for EZPass because it's bank agnostic]
I was just reading an article about this over at msnbc. It was more in-depth than the nytimes article. There were a few things that really caught my eye at msnbc
...Sun officials already audaciously refer to MAJC as the most important semiconductor architecture of the next 20 years. In part, that's because the chip is particularly well-suited, they say, to handling the enormous streams of visual and audio data expected in the multimedia age. In addition, MAJC should yield a family of microprocessors that are easy to program using Sun's Java language, that can be used in everything from cheap consumer devices to Internet server computers, and that over time will grow even more powerful, and more quickly, than rival chips...
...Sun, for instance, claims that within several years, it should be possible to generate an interactive computer-animated movie like Toy Story in real time using a single MAJC chip...
As for the JavaScript/images... That is so a non-issue. Look at this ma... [click]... JavaScript off... [click]... Images off... [clickity click]... Junkbuster on...
I'm not whining here. I'm just trying to point out that the amount of content (read: words and numbers) is not being doled out n characters per page out of concern for modem users.
and do you know how hard it is to surf for porn with images turned off?
Ars is one of the better sites (IMHO) when it comes to online content, especially among the hardware/gaming news/reviews sites. Sharky Extreme is horrendous when it comes to the "go to the next page to read more" nonsense. You're lucky if you get three paragraphs to a page. I believe that the reason for this is the operating model of these type of sites: advertising. They generate revenue from advertisers. To make more money, they split up the articles so you have to load a new page - and a new ad - to keep reading. If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate the correction.
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has anyone else noticed this before
"The Onion® is not intended for readers under 18 years of age."
better move it into the 'Financial' bookmark folder
I really liked CDNow and Music Boulevard. Since the two have merged though, I haven't been particularly impressed with the CDNow site. I was there a few days ago and I could have sworn that the "Album Advisor" feature was gone (note: it's there now). I had always been tempted to join a music club, especially after cds came out. There are still some albums that I haven't gotten around to buying on cd yet. One of the reasons that I didn't ever join a music club was because they only made available artists / albums that the club's label distributed (duh.) I'm afraid that the same thing might happen to CDNow. Show up on day to find that you can only buy Sony / Columbia / Time Warner albums.
I wholeheartedly agree that CD prices are too high. Several years ago, I could have gone to a store like Lechmere or Nobody Beats the Wiz in my hometown of (sm)Albany, NY and paid 12 or 13 dollars for mainstream new releases. Both of those stores have since gone out of business. I was talking to my dad not long after both stores were empty and he said that as a result of those two stores leaving, all the other music stores in town hiked their prices back up. It costs less to make a cd than it does to make a cassette yet we get charged twice the price? I can't stand that. As another comment in this thread says, check Best Buy or buy used discs. Go to Newbury Comics instead of Tower Records (lower prices and a better selection). Look for coupons in the paper (Newbury Comics usually runs on in the sunday comics for like three bucks off any regularly priced disc).
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I submitted this last week (on the 2nd iirc) and it didn't get posted. I found this story at Next Generation Online. oh well...
Al Gore is an alien!
but I thought that Motorola was supporting Altivec and IBM wasn't. Are processors going to be available from both IBM and Motorola, or just IBM?
damnit! I meant
microwave -> life buster buster buster
weak. I'll stop now
I love that movie.
Heart attack -> life buster
pacemaker -> life buster buster
microwave -> life buster buster
wasn't that the A-Team?
I think that this protocol would lead to sloppier web site design. Yes, I've looked for information before and wound up on a page with alpha(-numeric-)bet soup for a URL, but if the site (inter- or intra- net) was organized better it wouldn't have to be like that. If you needed an annual report, it would be great if you could just go to the company's website and find it in two clicks, or just go right to www.somecompany.com/reports/year.html It seems that whenever I'm trying to look for something that I think is fairly straightforward on a website, I have to jump through multiple hoops to find it.
great, mail to John Smith would go to how many people?wherever your socks go (you know, the ones that don't come out of the dryer), I bet you'll find a whole lotta HTML tags that disappear from comments.
check it
a third of the year is better? Tax Freedom Day 1999 was May 11, according to the Tax Foundation.
another post stated that the recipie for the brew would be the source code but.... If I were to say, change my share of the beer (digestion?) and redistribute it, would you want it?
I'll post tomorrow re: the 15 mph 'limit'. Somebody I work with has FASTLANE. I was wondering that myself. I have seen neither transponder up close, but from outside a car they appear to look fairly similar. A friend of mine who has been to Europe tells me that they have similar systems there but they are much smaller and drivers don't have to slow down at all.
I commute from Boston to Framingham each day. I used to be averse to passing on the right, but it makes me feel so good. I like to drive between 75 and 80 mph and stay in the left lane. I can't stand people who drive the speed limit in the left lane. If someone is coming up behind me who is moving faster than me, I pull into the middle lane and let them by. I wish that more people did this.
The only purpose that tolls serve is to give people something to do. Most toll plazas are poorly laid out. With FASTLANE open for the length of the masspike (why does their site need Java?), things have not gotten better. FASTLANE has removed one lane (typically) from each toll station that was previously used by people paying with Real Money (TM). At Exit 13, the FASTLANE replaced one of the two 'double server/single queue' lanes (two toll booths in the same lane). Either pike officials realized that the ds/sq system was inefficient, or they aren't really concerned with efficiency. I would like to get a FASTLANE transponder, but I refuse to. I'm waiting until the fall, when, supposedly, the system will be compatible with the EZPass system. EZPass is better (IMHO) for two main reasons:
- To get a FASTLANE transponder costs $27.50, including a refundable deposit. An EZPass transponder requires a $10 deposit, unless you start your account with a credit card, in which case the deposit is waived.
- EZPass is bank agnostic. A FASTLANE account requires a $50 deposit. Unless you are a BankBoston customer and you pay tolls through your checking account. EZPass requires a minimum deposit of $25 for everyone. Both systems require a minimum balance (FASTLANE requires $20). Why do both systems need to have some of my money all the time?
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that FASTLANE needs a corporate sponsor? I have to pay a toll, and the Commonwealth is either taking money from BankBoston, or BankBoston is getting free ads in exchange for some service they are providing the Commonwealth (administration of accounts?) About a year ago, I noticed a FleetBank ad on the reverse side of a toll schedule. I do not need spam in my car.
And what about the areas not frequented by commuters? There are typically fewer toll booths, one of which is now replaced with a FASTLANE. What incentive is there for the people in those areas who don't use the highway that often to get a transponder. Is the goal here to get a "transponder in every car"? For what purpose? Will we start getting speeding tickets in the mail based on the data collected from the transponders (distance between tolls divided by elapsed time equals average speed)?
I could take the commuter rail to get to work but I don't. I would either have to get up earlier than I want to, or I would not be to work at an acceptable time. I also have meetings outside of work that I have to go to and the commuter rail schedule does not give me the flexibility (or reliability) that I need for my schedule. Just today, my roommate was 20 minutes late coming home becuase a lightning strike disabled switching on a four mile section of track, stopping traffic in both directions.
I wouldn't mind being a particle. Travelling at relativistic speeds my commute would take one millionth of a second. I could get eight hours of sleep a night and still go to bed at 1am!
Or maybe one to ride shotgun and clear a path for me on the 'pike everyday.
- What's that officer? FastLane is for paying tolls?
[still waiting for EZPass because it's bank agnostic]
Stop whining.
As for the JavaScript/images... That is so a non-issue. Look at this ma... [click]... JavaScript off... [click]... Images off... [clickity click]... Junkbuster on...
I'm not whining here. I'm just trying to point out that the amount of content (read: words and numbers) is not being doled out n characters per page out of concern for modem users.
and do you know how hard it is to surf for porn with images turned off?
I doubt that - most of these pages have many images and javascript and other such nonsense. It's all about the (advertising) benjamins.
Ars is one of the better sites (IMHO) when it comes to online content, especially among the hardware/gaming news/reviews sites. Sharky Extreme is horrendous when it comes to the "go to the next page to read more" nonsense. You're lucky if you get three paragraphs to a page. I believe that the reason for this is the operating model of these type of sites: advertising. They generate revenue from advertisers. To make more money, they split up the articles so you have to load a new page - and a new ad - to keep reading. If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate the correction.
has anyone else noticed this before
"The Onion® is not intended for readers under 18 years of age."
better move it into the 'Financial' bookmark folder
I really liked CDNow and Music Boulevard. Since the two have merged though, I haven't been particularly impressed with the CDNow site. I was there a few days ago and I could have sworn that the "Album Advisor" feature was gone (note: it's there now). I had always been tempted to join a music club, especially after cds came out. There are still some albums that I haven't gotten around to buying on cd yet. One of the reasons that I didn't ever join a music club was because they only made available artists / albums that the club's label distributed (duh.) I'm afraid that the same thing might happen to CDNow. Show up on day to find that you can only buy Sony / Columbia / Time Warner albums.
I wholeheartedly agree that CD prices are too high. Several years ago, I could have gone to a store like Lechmere or Nobody Beats the Wiz in my hometown of (sm)Albany, NY and paid 12 or 13 dollars for mainstream new releases. Both of those stores have since gone out of business. I was talking to my dad not long after both stores were empty and he said that as a result of those two stores leaving, all the other music stores in town hiked their prices back up. It costs less to make a cd than it does to make a cassette yet we get charged twice the price? I can't stand that. As another comment in this thread says, check Best Buy or buy used discs. Go to Newbury Comics instead of Tower Records (lower prices and a better selection). Look for coupons in the paper (Newbury Comics usually runs on in the sunday comics for like three bucks off any regularly priced disc).