AIR isn't a host for a "website". Its a desktop host for the flash engine that executes SWF files - that is, packaged flash.
Websites can continue to have their needs well served by HTML and JS.
Web applications that need to offer rich client experiences without succumbing to browser compatibility issues can choose to use Flex (which yields SWFs as well). Those same apps can run in the browser and with minimal rework be re-deployed as desktops via the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
The AIR instances will the have the benefit of using connected and disconnected modes (in addition to having desktop icons, file I/O, systray access, etc...).
AIR is an alternate to the browser-hosted flash engine. Its the desktop container for the flash engine.
Toyota sells lots of hybrids. The Camry and Highlander are available as hybrids, and Toyota's committed to having their entire lineup hybridized (as an option) by 2010.
I think "SAME energy" here is jolt's shorthand for "whatever persistent qualities maintain your identity over time", which I associate with the word pattern. That is, while all the material components might be swapped out over time, there is some sameness which remains. The axe who's handle and wedge have been replaced is the same axe in a sense because its pattern has persisted.
But its indeed a philosophical question which hinges on your definition for the equivalence operator. Whether the post-teleportation you == the pre-teleportation you depends on what characteristics are relevant for your notion of equivalence.
Is a copied file equivalent to its copy? For certain definitions of equivalent, the answer is yes. It contains the same information, though it possesses a different identity (as defined by its location).
Pretty trivial with files (and types/objects, etc...), but what about meatspace entities? Can we use the same notion of equivalence? I'd say yes - that two arrangements of matter organized from different bits of material composed in the same way would demonstrate a certain equivalence. My iPod is both the same as and different from yours. My copy of Running Man is the same and different.
So if we answer the "bring along your soul" question by substituting the words "persistent identity" for "soul" and suppose that that identity is described completely by the pattern arranging your bits, then I'd say absolutely your "soul" will be transported. I'd expect a complete transportation would establish a functionally equivalent copy of the source (whether or not the source is destroyed).
That said, I'd argue that "soul" here frames the question in a difficult way to answer (as it carries with it overloaded notions of transcendant aspects which aren't completely explainable from materialistic phenomena, unlike something like "consciousness", which has materialistic explanations (see: emergent phenomena). Whether or not these materialistic definitions of consciousness are correct or not is beside the point - the relevant part is that they appeal only to the physical rather than the metaphysical.
And if humans weren't susceptible to cancer, we wouldn't need oncology.
And if humans weren't always metabolizing away their energy store, we wouldn't need the food industy.
The point being that the computer is susceptible to these unfortunate side effects for the same reason that they're so successful in the first place - being part of an open ecosystem, being able to adapt, being able to interconnect, being able to hide information from users so that they can attend to value-add tasks.
Not that we couldn't minimize the exposure by operating more effectively, but eliminating them via design could eliminate the very utility that's allowed the computer and the networks to be so successful.
TurboTax.com does not host the online TurboTax application - that's the brochure-ware for turbotax. Those servers also do not host Intuit's electronic filing services (which are hosted indenpendently from turbo tax online as well).
The TurboTax web app is hosted @ www.turbotaxonline.com and still runs on Solaris (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.turb otaxonline.com)
I've had excellent success with model-driven development.
The basic process is : create a model that encapsulates the three bigs:
1) Analysis (i.e. requirements, actors, and use cases)
2) Components (object models, system models)
3) Interactions (interfaces and sequencing)
Once your model contains a good description of these three domains, expressing a design document from the model is straightfoward (indeed, many of good modellers will provide excellent document generators). XDE works fine, but my particular favorite is Enterprise Architect
The beauty of treating the design document as an expression of the model is that by changing the model, you change the document.
In a situation where you're doing large scale code-generation from the model, you're living high on the hog - one repository for your solution information, and any number of expressions of that information into the formats you need (requirements docs, design artifacts, codebase, etc...). By actually including the analysis elements of the solution (the requirements, particularly), you can link those requirements to system components that fulfill the requirements. As the requirements change (and, of course, they will), you can evaluate the impact of those changes quickly by tracing the associations.
Its nice, in this era of DMCA, corporate powerbroking, lobbyists, and general mistrust of government persons (as either incompetent or something more devious) to see our constitutional values and the system of checks and balances showcased positively.
I guess I should say thank you.
All these comments are freaking dupes, too
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You'd think all the people clammoring "It's a dupe!" would realize that there are already 40 other comments saying just that...
He says that the era of producing the standards is coming to an end, not the usage of the services himself...
to quote:
Box said XML Web services are a means to an end. "We have to get the plumbing sorted out," he said. "We have a couple more years of plumbing work, but after that we move on to applications," he said. Box said the "protocol work is starting to wind down, the infrastructure is catching up with protocols and it's time to start thinking about applications."
I (ab)used a Dell Inspiron 7000 (500MHz PIII) as my dev workstation for quite some time (>18 months). I'd work at it all day, then leave it humming so QA could test the installation in the "dev lab".
yes, the dev lab was my laptop...
yes, the company is out of business...
certainly wasn't because of the electric bill, though...
You have to adhere to all of the state (and municipal) standards for e-filing. And each one is different. Pathetically, wretchedly different. Some require piggy-backing of the state return to the federal return, some require fed ack before allowing state filing. Some even require ritual sacrifice (maryland).
I work at Intuit, in the back-end e-filing group, not in the consumer division (TurboTax) but for one of the CPA-grade tax products we produce (Lacerte). The stacks of IRS and state reg manuals we implement each year is enough to make you want to...
...charge people for letting them use the system you implemented.
I do believe that there's a web version of TurboTax that lets you skip the software purchase (but still requires the e-file fee). Or you can buy the software (windoze) and get a voucher for a free e-filing). Or you could STEAL the software and use the voucher!
Sony introduced the MagicGate memory stick to allow them to effect DRM for their MP3 player. MagicGate sticks (they're the white ones) and the standard sticks (they're purplish ones) can be used interchangeably in any sony device (mavica, vaio, dv camcorder, clie, etc..) EXCEPT the MP3 player, which requires the MagicGate stick.
And it sucks. Horribly. Not only does it force ATRAC3, but i limits the number of times you can move certain pieces onto and off of the memory stick, whether you own it or not. Certainly crappy.
But the Clie is awesome. I use the 415 (the b/w version of the 615) and its fabulous. Same resolution, form factor, etc...
My favorite part is the geeky cool body, which is 100% real metal (aluminum), not the polished plastic you get with the handspring edge. The width makes a massive difference over my old visor. Can't turn back now, so hopefully sony won't bend me over by cramming too many DRM initiatives in my devices.
I've used this particular model (Insp 7500) w/ the 15" display for 18 months, and have had absolutely no problems with it (especially not with the hinges, which are still tight, even with that mammoth flatscreen mounted on 'em.
Not that I'm suggesting that there aren't design flaws which probabilistically increase the chances of failure of the hinges...
The problem as I see it is: How easy is it to suggest that the problem lies with Dell, and not with your usage? Do you open it carefully, either from the top center or by holding both corners, or do you insist on lifting a single corner? If you're doing the latter, you can expect much more trouble than just with the hinges...
Really, though, Dell would have the best idea as to whether the problem is a design flaw (as countless other users would be screaming at them), and while I'm not suggesting that they'd volunteer that information, they may well know that the problem is how you're using it, which might be why they're reluctant to help you.
Cause dude, if yours it the only one that keeps breaking, at it breaks 6 times a year, the problem might be with your clunky hamfists.
As for what happened to Sierra....
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They wised up and bought companies to produce the games for them...
Sierra owns Blizzard (Diablo, War Craft, Star Craft...)
I can't believe how many people are talking about how geeks wouldn't survive an infrastructure meltdown or battling about "real" programming.<br><br>
The point of the query, I believe, is what might we do differently if we could do it all over.<br><br>
Instead of the apocalypse, then, just assume that all current technology is licensed away from us, forcing us to recreate the electronic environment we're familiar with...(now that's scary...)
Didn't there used to be a link on the windoze desktop with a "Click here and see a Text-Only Version of the Desktop?"
More to the point, tho...
All of you act like you're not part of the ubermind that knows everything about everyone already (courtesy of the non-local cosmic consciousness junction). The marketers are a part of you people. You have no need to hide from yourselves, do you? Let yourself slip into The Profile.
....or so they say in the atheist church in my neighborhood.
Your language, like your viewpoint, dies from your abuse of the verb to be.
Your arguments extend only so far as you can stretch the meaning of that term. Your insistence that anything "is" this or "is" that completely comprises your stated agnosticism. You who'd state it immoral to project presumptions about what is unknowable carelessly toss the very verb of existence around as if it seemed some mundane quality, some common sensical notion which everyone has innate and perfect understanding of.
Your arguments carry no more weight than those of the flat-earthers, who, by common sense alone, delude themselves based on the seductive, seemingly inerrant nature of the obvious and apparent, those things which seem to need no interpretation (this, btw, is a set for which I have located no elements so far...).
For a man so obviously devoted to qualifying what people may and may not know, and what they may and may not reasonably speak of, I'd suggest an emergency dose of Robert Anton Wilson and his dialogues on operational English (his tome Quantum Psychology, for example).
Your notions of rationality and reality reduce to merely another reality tunnel among the infinite range of reality tunnels. Yet another (arbitrary) grid laid against the continuum.
Sadly, you appear stuck within the confines of your own devices, striving continually to deny the subjectivity of your perspective. As if, at some point, you might completely convince yourself that your perspective was entirely objective, and thus truly qualified for gnosticism.
From within that circle, you're neglecting that the merit of any worldview descends not from any innate "accuracy" (objectivity) it possesses, but rather solely from its contextual usefulness.
Damn Cretans.
Its obvious that the universe is a lying, sneaking, sniveling, prank-pulling sack of shit.
i didn't write this next line...i don't know why it's showing up...
The limitation lies not in the architecture of the browser-server architecture. The limitations are in the browser. There is nothing in HTML which precludes the ability to maintain state. Unfotunately, there's little to support it, either. But what we do have is the luscious and potent DHTML creeping forward. The fabulous cocktail of javascript, CSS, the DOM, and data modeling via XML will truly allow web apps to catch up to, and pass, alternative modes of deployment.
As the DOM rolls on, a common browser event model is being birthed. As events get common support, more events emerge. Javascript, when supported well, is object oriented with dynamic binding. You can create whatever magic state-saver object you want, dynamically, to the extent and capacity required by your particular app and provided by your particular browser (OS be damned).
So, then, original commentor, you either need more clues, or more friends, because your observation is extremely shortsighted (and possible corrupted by the notion that scripting is bad and linux browsers are passable when it comes to reflecting the true intentions and expectations of the web.)
Slashdot Mirror
chances are we've all worked with structures of more dimensions that 16.
such as trees, which are equivalent to jagged arrays with dimension = max depth.
i bet slashdot's comment page markup template has dimension > 16.
i've got a couple maven poms that definitely hsve dimension > 16.
AIR isn't a host for a "website". Its a desktop host for the flash engine that executes SWF files - that is, packaged flash.
Websites can continue to have their needs well served by HTML and JS.
Web applications that need to offer rich client experiences without succumbing to browser compatibility issues can choose to use Flex (which yields SWFs as well). Those same apps can run in the browser and with minimal rework be re-deployed as desktops via the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
The AIR instances will the have the benefit of using connected and disconnected modes (in addition to having desktop icons, file I/O, systray access, etc...).
AIR is an alternate to the browser-hosted flash engine. Its the desktop container for the flash engine.
Toyota sells lots of hybrids. The Camry and Highlander are available as hybrids, and Toyota's committed to having their entire lineup hybridized (as an option) by 2010.
I think "SAME energy" here is jolt's shorthand for "whatever persistent qualities maintain your identity over time", which I associate with the word pattern. That is, while all the material components might be swapped out over time, there is some sameness which remains. The axe who's handle and wedge have been replaced is the same axe in a sense because its pattern has persisted.
But its indeed a philosophical question which hinges on your definition for the equivalence operator. Whether the post-teleportation you == the pre-teleportation you depends on what characteristics are relevant for your notion of equivalence.
Is a copied file equivalent to its copy? For certain definitions of equivalent, the answer is yes. It contains the same information, though it possesses a different identity (as defined by its location).
Pretty trivial with files (and types/objects, etc...), but what about meatspace entities? Can we use the same notion of equivalence? I'd say yes - that two arrangements of matter organized from different bits of material composed in the same way would demonstrate a certain equivalence. My iPod is both the same as and different from yours. My copy of Running Man is the same and different.
So if we answer the "bring along your soul" question by substituting the words "persistent identity" for "soul" and suppose that that identity is described completely by the pattern arranging your bits, then I'd say absolutely your "soul" will be transported. I'd expect a complete transportation would establish a functionally equivalent copy of the source (whether or not the source is destroyed).
That said, I'd argue that "soul" here frames the question in a difficult way to answer (as it carries with it overloaded notions of transcendant aspects which aren't completely explainable from materialistic phenomena, unlike something like "consciousness", which has materialistic explanations (see: emergent phenomena). Whether or not these materialistic definitions of consciousness are correct or not is beside the point - the relevant part is that they appeal only to the physical rather than the metaphysical.
And if humans weren't susceptible to cancer, we wouldn't need oncology.
And if humans weren't always metabolizing away their energy store, we wouldn't need the food industy.
The point being that the computer is susceptible to these unfortunate side effects for the same reason that they're so successful in the first place - being part of an open ecosystem, being able to adapt, being able to interconnect, being able to hide information from users so that they can attend to value-add tasks.
Not that we couldn't minimize the exposure by operating more effectively, but eliminating them via design could eliminate the very utility that's allowed the computer and the networks to be so successful.
TurboTax.com does not host the online TurboTax application - that's the brochure-ware for turbotax. Those servers also do not host Intuit's electronic filing services (which are hosted indenpendently from turbo tax online as well).
b otaxonline.com)
The TurboTax web app is hosted @ www.turbotaxonline.com and still runs on Solaris (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.tur
Unfortunately, this proof only holds true for certain values of good.
I've had excellent success with model-driven development.
The basic process is : create a model that encapsulates the three bigs:
1) Analysis (i.e. requirements, actors, and use cases)
2) Components (object models, system models)
3) Interactions (interfaces and sequencing)
Once your model contains a good description of these three domains, expressing a design document from the model is straightfoward (indeed, many of good modellers will provide excellent document generators). XDE works fine, but my particular favorite is Enterprise Architect
The beauty of treating the design document as an expression of the model is that by changing the model, you change the document.
In a situation where you're doing large scale code-generation from the model, you're living high on the hog - one repository for your solution information, and any number of expressions of that information into the formats you need (requirements docs, design artifacts, codebase, etc...). By actually including the analysis elements of the solution (the requirements, particularly), you can link those requirements to system components that fulfill the requirements. As the requirements change (and, of course, they will), you can evaluate the impact of those changes quickly by tracing the associations.
Decent article on MDD
Intuit's privacy statement.
So hearing what you purchased doesn't qualify as tangible?
The HAVE THE MONEY, DON'T HAVE THE MUSIC to HAVE THE MUSIC, DON'T HAVE THE MONEY ANY MORE transition seems pretty concrete to me...
Maybe its because the British use many of the same units we do...namely miles, pounds, rods, yards, etc...
Its the french and other continentals that gave us SI (systeme internationale) units.
For more info, check this Register article:2 7833.html
.NET implementations of a Pet Store web store.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/
Its got some good benchmarks of real-world, optimized J2EE vs.
Very informative (though obviously, benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt).
Its nice, in this era of DMCA, corporate powerbroking, lobbyists, and general mistrust of government persons (as either incompetent or something more devious) to see our constitutional values and the system of checks and balances showcased positively.
I guess I should say thank you.
You'd think all the people clammoring "It's a dupe!" would realize that there are already 40 other comments saying just that...
Oh, the irony of it all...
He says that the era of producing the standards is coming to an end, not the usage of the services himself...
to quote:
Box said XML Web services are a means to an end. "We have to get the plumbing sorted out," he said. "We have a couple more years of plumbing work, but after that we move on to applications," he said. Box said the "protocol work is starting to wind down, the infrastructure is catching up with protocols and it's time to start thinking about applications."
Sony announced the bluetooth stick at the same time they announced the NR70 in Japan.
Stroll around palminfocenter.com for the info.
Yes, I've done it.
I (ab)used a Dell Inspiron 7000 (500MHz PIII) as my dev workstation for quite some time (>18 months). I'd work at it all day, then leave it humming so QA could test the installation in the "dev lab".
yes, the dev lab was my laptop...
yes, the company is out of business...
certainly wasn't because of the electric bill, though...
You have to adhere to all of the state (and municipal) standards for e-filing. And each one is different. Pathetically, wretchedly different. Some require piggy-backing of the state return to the federal return, some require fed ack before allowing state filing. Some even require ritual sacrifice (maryland).
I work at Intuit, in the back-end e-filing group, not in the consumer division (TurboTax) but for one of the CPA-grade tax products we produce (Lacerte). The stacks of IRS and state reg manuals we implement each year is enough to make you want to...
...charge people for letting them use the system you implemented.
I do believe that there's a web version of TurboTax that lets you skip the software purchase (but still requires the e-file fee). Or you can buy the software (windoze) and get a voucher for a free e-filing). Or you could STEAL the software and use the voucher!
Sony introduced the MagicGate memory stick to allow them to effect DRM for their MP3 player. MagicGate sticks (they're the white ones) and the standard sticks (they're purplish ones) can be used interchangeably in any sony device (mavica, vaio, dv camcorder, clie, etc..) EXCEPT the MP3 player, which requires the MagicGate stick.
And it sucks. Horribly. Not only does it force ATRAC3, but i limits the number of times you can move certain pieces onto and off of the memory stick, whether you own it or not. Certainly crappy.
But the Clie is awesome. I use the 415 (the b/w version of the 615) and its fabulous. Same resolution, form factor, etc...
My favorite part is the geeky cool body, which is 100% real metal (aluminum), not the polished plastic you get with the handspring edge. The width makes a massive difference over my old visor. Can't turn back now, so hopefully sony won't bend me over by cramming too many DRM initiatives in my devices.
I've used this particular model (Insp 7500) w/ the 15" display for 18 months, and have had absolutely no problems with it (especially not with the hinges, which are still tight, even with that mammoth flatscreen mounted on 'em.
Not that I'm suggesting that there aren't design flaws which probabilistically increase the chances of failure of the hinges...
The problem as I see it is: How easy is it to suggest that the problem lies with Dell, and not with your usage? Do you open it carefully, either from the top center or by holding both corners, or do you insist on lifting a single corner? If you're doing the latter, you can expect much more trouble than just with the hinges...
Really, though, Dell would have the best idea as to whether the problem is a design flaw (as countless other users would be screaming at them), and while I'm not suggesting that they'd volunteer that information, they may well know that the problem is how you're using it, which might be why they're reluctant to help you.
Cause dude, if yours it the only one that keeps breaking, at it breaks 6 times a year, the problem might be with your clunky hamfists.
They wised up and bought companies to produce the games for them...
Sierra owns Blizzard (Diablo, War Craft, Star Craft...)
I can't believe how many people are talking about how geeks wouldn't survive an infrastructure meltdown or battling about "real" programming.<br><br>
The point of the query, I believe, is what might we do differently if we could do it all over.<br><br>
Instead of the apocalypse, then, just assume that all current technology is licensed away from us, forcing us to recreate the electronic environment we're familiar with...(now that's scary...)
Didn't there used to be a link on the windoze desktop with a "Click here and see a Text-Only Version of the Desktop?"
More to the point, tho...
All of you act like you're not part of the ubermind that knows everything about everyone already (courtesy of the non-local cosmic consciousness junction). The marketers are a part of you people. You have no need to hide from yourselves, do you? Let yourself slip into The Profile.
....or so they say in the atheist church in my neighborhood.
Your language, like your viewpoint, dies from your abuse of the verb to be. Your arguments extend only so far as you can stretch the meaning of that term. Your insistence that anything "is" this or "is" that completely comprises your stated agnosticism. You who'd state it immoral to project presumptions about what is unknowable carelessly toss the very verb of existence around as if it seemed some mundane quality, some common sensical notion which everyone has innate and perfect understanding of.
Your arguments carry no more weight than those of the flat-earthers, who, by common sense alone, delude themselves based on the seductive, seemingly inerrant nature of the obvious and apparent, those things which seem to need no interpretation (this, btw, is a set for which I have located no elements so far...). For a man so obviously devoted to qualifying what people may and may not know, and what they may and may not reasonably speak of, I'd suggest an emergency dose of Robert Anton Wilson and his dialogues on operational English (his tome Quantum Psychology, for example).
Your notions of rationality and reality reduce to merely another reality tunnel among the infinite range of reality tunnels. Yet another (arbitrary) grid laid against the continuum.
Sadly, you appear stuck within the confines of your own devices, striving continually to deny the subjectivity of your perspective. As if, at some point, you might completely convince yourself that your perspective was entirely objective, and thus truly qualified for gnosticism.
From within that circle, you're neglecting that the merit of any worldview descends not from any innate "accuracy" (objectivity) it possesses, but rather solely from its contextual usefulness.
Damn Cretans.
Its obvious that the universe is a lying, sneaking, sniveling, prank-pulling sack of shit.
i didn't write this next line...i don't know why it's showing up...
The limitation lies not in the architecture of the browser-server architecture. The limitations are in the browser. There is nothing in HTML which precludes the ability to maintain state. Unfotunately, there's little to support it, either. But what we do have is the luscious and potent DHTML creeping forward. The fabulous cocktail of javascript, CSS, the DOM, and data modeling via XML will truly allow web apps to catch up to, and pass, alternative modes of deployment.
As the DOM rolls on, a common browser event model is being birthed. As events get common support, more events emerge. Javascript, when supported well, is object oriented with dynamic binding. You can create whatever magic state-saver object you want, dynamically, to the extent and capacity required by your particular app and provided by your particular browser (OS be damned).
So, then, original commentor, you either need more clues, or more friends, because your observation is extremely shortsighted (and possible corrupted by the notion that scripting is bad and linux browsers are passable when it comes to reflecting the true intentions and expectations of the web.)
Word.