Just like Google crawls many scholarly archives that the public doesn't have access to, but shows results for them, Google is starting to crawl all kinds of content that isn't typically public. AOL/Time Warner has a ton of content, and they provide a ton of services to subscribers including all kinds of live concert feeds, news sources that typically need to be paid for, videos, shows, streaming radio. AOL is big, bigger than the slashdot group think would have you believe. Google made almost half a billion dollars last year just through AOL users using Google. If Google didn't invest in AOL, Microsoft was going to and that would have knocked out a major partner for Google. This is just Google insuring this large stream of revenue continues from AOL, and also they happen to be able to crawl more data now. Regards, Steve
You've got it 100% right. Yes, Sony is infringing on user's legal rights and the rights of users in other countries who have different laws. Regards, Steve
A) Forcing taxes on the populace is no better. B) The government should not decide how, when , or the quality of how you are treated.
In the U.S. you can at any moment go to a hospital or doctor for something as little as having a headache or a feeling of frustration. This is possible because people work, if you give people things for free they have no motiviation to better themselves. Regardless, the government has no place in healthcare, once you've been treated under the U.S. system you realize the difference in quality and treatment. The U.S. also tends to have better doctors because there is major profit motive. Being handed everything, as many European governments do, is not a good thing. Regards, Steve
The funny thing is, they have been proven wrong. Look at dogs and wolves. Or a much better example. If you take a certain species of squirrel from Pennsylvania and mate it with one in Ohio, fertile offspring will be produced. Take this same squirrel and mate it with one of the same species from California and no fertile offspring will be produced. This species is literally on the border of speciation and there are plenty of other species of animals to reference as well. Unfortunately I can't think of the squirrel's species name off the tope of my head, but if you google around you'll find examples. Regards, Steve
Greenpeace and PETA are no joke. Its true that small numbers from both groups make a bunch of noise, but those who do are absolutely crazy and its not unheard of for them to participate terroristic-like activities. I'm glad to know that our government is keeping tabs on them. Regards, Steve
Fair enough. I've never actually had to use it, but I had read about it and understood it. According to a few quick sites I googled up, font embedding is reported to be supported fairly well. Here is an article on MSDN, another article about implementing it in Netscape 4.01 and IE. My understanding is that Firefox has further extended support for embedding fonts and you shouldn't have to use the work around mentioned in that last link anymore. I think the support is there, just not alot of people have realized its potential, very similar to XMLHttpRequest which was laying around for years before people started to notice that some really cool things can be done with it. Regards, Steve
Did you even click the link?:) You point the font src to a url of say a True-Type font or an open type font anywhere on the internet, the users machine downloads it and uses it without any intervention. Regards, Steve
Ha thats not even the worst part! You can provide your own font face src according to CSS2. Read here for more info. Its absurd using javascript and flash when custom fonts are already handled by CSS. Regards, Steve
Red Hat already survived through the bubble. There was a time when their stock was worth $150 a share. The fact that they survived past that horrible time period for many companies says something about their stability and quality of management. I think Google got into the game right near the end/middle of the bubble, but I'm sure they'll be fine too. I think this time around folks have learned from their mistakes. Regards, Steve
Heh, here is a great quote from Nat Friedman's response. "And probably some KDE developers are feature sluts who never saw a checkbox they didn't love, exposing users to all kinds of broken
features." Its funny because its true. For all the simplicity Gnome strives for, KDE certainly does have some issues with the check boxes and only half-working functionality. Its ashame Linus started this little flame fest, this comes just after a very successfuly meeting of a whole bunch of developers from both camps who met up and discussed how to improve interfaces. Regards, Steve
I guess you've never used the google desktop search app with its nifty sidebar. *That* is information at your finger tips and layed out rather nicely. Regards, Steve
Microsoft's official statement was that it is under 5%, which is still ridiculously too high. 1 out of every 20 XBoxes? And those that do work will still overheat if not properly ventialated or if they are on the wrong surface (that is right from Microsoft's mouth, although its technically true of any computer like system, the XBox 360 is way more sensitive than modern hardware needs to be). Not acceptable. Microsoft should learn how to properly engineer things without putting unnecessary burdens on the end users. A game console should *not* have a light on the front to tell you if its overheating or not... that means they designed it knowing that it will probably overheat some day and that it will be so severe that you'll need to be notified. That is bullshit, I feel bad for the suckers who fed into Microsoft's marketing nonsense and purchased one. Regards, Steve
These ratings are voluntary and given by an organization, they have no legal binding like ratings do in Europe. A study like the one you propose would be a little hard to get accurate simply because of the nature of the study and the time spans required to accurately test any hypothesis. Human sexuality is a very complex thing and not something that younger kids need to worry their minds about, "why this" and "why that"... I guess it really comes down to a matter of oppinion. Most parents, even the Europeans I know, try to shield their kids eyes if something sexual is on the screen. One could argue that explicitly throwing around images of nudity on the screen would devalue the body and also the intimacy of relationships. Over the long term, possibly increase teen pregnancy rates as the act of sex becomes more accepted over younger generations.
TV has only been around a few decades, there is no way to verify one way or the other. In the states though, only stations on public air waves typically can't show nudity, other stations do it out policy and respect. At around 11:00 PM though, alot of channels will show nudity simply because most of the younger viewers are asleep. I'm not arguing in favor of one or the other, I myself love porn:) (who doesn't? ) and have probably been looking at it since my early teens with no noticeable adverse affects. The above arguments were to simply point out that there are reasons. I also found it ironic that a European was making fun of American's opting out of seeing sexually explicit material when its illegal or highly frowned upon in most of Europe to mention Nazism, way to try to cover up your past by forgetting about it... at least Americans embrace their mistakes (most of the time). Not to nitpick at Europe, but you guys try to outlaw all kinds of crazy things like religious jokes, guns, and in England (not sure about the rest of Europe) there are cameras on every corner watching you. I don't think either of us have the merits to critique the other, we all have our problems. Regards, Steve
I would prefer more scientists start writing that way. You have to do something to keep people interested or grab their attention, otherwise lay people will never read this kind of stuff. By opening up with a sentence that says this is why you might be interested in reading the rest of this, I could give that paper to someone completely unaware of the field and they'd still probably be willing to give it a go. Now of course we'd run into other problems once the reader wasn't sure what quantum encryption is, but thats beside the point. This article didn't really go into details and equations, just a general overview, in which case trying to keep it interesting is fine. In a worst case scenario, writing papers like that will get more of the general public interested in science. Regards, Steve
They are going to write this off as costs associated with piracy prevention and next year you'll see headlining reports claiming that piracy has cost Sony tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars more than in 2004. Regards, Steve
Well, technically I think they are referring to possibly scrambling or rerouting or blocking transmissions which are traveling through the air or satellites, which would be in their domain. Regards, Steve
And how exactly do the internal speedometers know what street you're on?:)This whole thing is dumb idea anyway, sooo many problems with it its not even funny, not the least of which includes that I don't need my car functioning differently when I'm trying to speed up to avoid a car swerving into my rear. Regards, Steve
Heh, you severly underestimate Red Hat's contribution to the community:) Read this for a truncated list of contributions they've made. Some other products they've purchased and released include GFS, Cygwin, and eCos. They also contribute more code to the kernel than any other entity and in large part maintain and extend glib and GCC (they have a few people on the GCC board and contribute huge amounts of code, in fact many of the newest features in GCC 4.0.x you can thank Red Hat for). Here is another list, but that list is only for projects hosted from that site, so its not complete either, but suffice it to say that Red Hat does a staggering amount for the community, its kind of a shame when people bash them. Regards, Steve
Well the wikipedia article said that he was *briefly* suspected of being involved with the assassination. I hate to tell you, but that statement is most likely 100% accurate. In any high profile assassination, friends and family are always top suspects to start with, and this guy claims to have been a close friend. So this guy probably was suspected, and then for one reason or another shown to not have been involved, now he is just a grumpy old guy complaining about that new technology that those young whipper snappers are using, he wants us to turn it down. The truth is that sometimes the truth hurts, or sucks, or just plain doesn't look good and like any man involved in politics, the natural response to all things negative is to deny it, deny it, deny it some more, and then accuse the accuser to make their credibility questionable and to draw attention away from yourself. This guy just happens to have political and media connections which now he is abusing. Regards, Steve
I must say, you are a true geek through and through. Thanks for an unbiased study and being brave enough to respond to slashdot. Geeks around the world thank you. (As you can see from my username, I am slightly biased towards the competition:) but still found your study to be excellent) Regards, Steve
Here is a cellular automata simulator I've written. Right now I'm working on a simulator for Conway's Game of Life, here. Next I'm doing an interactive whiteboard using AJAX and then I was thinking about a ray caster like the one in the article but a bit more optimized and possible doing textures. The possibilities with <canvas> are pretty significant, I think we're on the verge of a web revolution. Regards, Steve
Slashdot Mirror
Just like Google crawls many scholarly archives that the public doesn't have access to, but shows results for them, Google is starting to crawl all kinds of content that isn't typically public. AOL/Time Warner has a ton of content, and they provide a ton of services to subscribers including all kinds of live concert feeds, news sources that typically need to be paid for, videos, shows, streaming radio. AOL is big, bigger than the slashdot group think would have you believe. Google made almost half a billion dollars last year just through AOL users using Google. If Google didn't invest in AOL, Microsoft was going to and that would have knocked out a major partner for Google. This is just Google insuring this large stream of revenue continues from AOL, and also they happen to be able to crawl more data now.
Regards,
Steve
You've got it 100% right. Yes, Sony is infringing on user's legal rights and the rights of users in other countries who have different laws.
Regards,
Steve
A) Forcing taxes on the populace is no better.
B) The government should not decide how, when , or the quality of how you are treated.
In the U.S. you can at any moment go to a hospital or doctor for something as little as having a headache or a feeling of frustration. This is possible because people work, if you give people things for free they have no motiviation to better themselves. Regardless, the government has no place in healthcare, once you've been treated under the U.S. system you realize the difference in quality and treatment. The U.S. also tends to have better doctors because there is major profit motive. Being handed everything, as many European governments do, is not a good thing.
Regards,
Steve
The funny thing is, they have been proven wrong. Look at dogs and wolves. Or a much better example. If you take a certain species of squirrel from Pennsylvania and mate it with one in Ohio, fertile offspring will be produced. Take this same squirrel and mate it with one of the same species from California and no fertile offspring will be produced. This species is literally on the border of speciation and there are plenty of other species of animals to reference as well. Unfortunately I can't think of the squirrel's species name off the tope of my head, but if you google around you'll find examples.
Regards,
Steve
If you think the BBC is any less biased then you've done nothing but show how susceptible you are to their game.
Regards,
Steve
Greenpeace and PETA are no joke. Its true that small numbers from both groups make a bunch of noise, but those who do are absolutely crazy and its not unheard of for them to participate terroristic-like activities. I'm glad to know that our government is keeping tabs on them.
Regards,
Steve
Fair enough. I've never actually had to use it, but I had read about it and understood it. According to a few quick sites I googled up, font embedding is reported to be supported fairly well. Here is an article on MSDN, another article about implementing it in Netscape 4.01 and IE. My understanding is that Firefox has further extended support for embedding fonts and you shouldn't have to use the work around mentioned in that last link anymore. I think the support is there, just not alot of people have realized its potential, very similar to XMLHttpRequest which was laying around for years before people started to notice that some really cool things can be done with it.
Regards,
Steve
You sure about that? IE 5 and 6 support it along with Netscape 4.1x and greater.
Regards,
Steve
Did you even click the link? :) You point the font src to a url of say a True-Type font or an open type font anywhere on the internet, the users machine downloads it and uses it without any intervention.
Regards,
Steve
Ha thats not even the worst part! You can provide your own font face src according to CSS2. Read here for more info. Its absurd using javascript and flash when custom fonts are already handled by CSS.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat already survived through the bubble. There was a time when their stock was worth $150 a share. The fact that they survived past that horrible time period for many companies says something about their stability and quality of management. I think Google got into the game right near the end/middle of the bubble, but I'm sure they'll be fine too. I think this time around folks have learned from their mistakes.
Regards,
Steve
Heh, here is a great quote from Nat Friedman's response. "And probably some KDE developers are feature sluts who never saw a checkbox they didn't love, exposing users to all kinds of broken features." Its funny because its true. For all the simplicity Gnome strives for, KDE certainly does have some issues with the check boxes and only half-working functionality. Its ashame Linus started this little flame fest, this comes just after a very successfuly meeting of a whole bunch of developers from both camps who met up and discussed how to improve interfaces.
Regards,
Steve
I guess you've never used the google desktop search app with its nifty sidebar. *That* is information at your finger tips and layed out rather nicely.
Regards,
Steve
Microsoft's official statement was that it is under 5%, which is still ridiculously too high. 1 out of every 20 XBoxes? And those that do work will still overheat if not properly ventialated or if they are on the wrong surface (that is right from Microsoft's mouth, although its technically true of any computer like system, the XBox 360 is way more sensitive than modern hardware needs to be). Not acceptable. Microsoft should learn how to properly engineer things without putting unnecessary burdens on the end users. A game console should *not* have a light on the front to tell you if its overheating or not... that means they designed it knowing that it will probably overheat some day and that it will be so severe that you'll need to be notified. That is bullshit, I feel bad for the suckers who fed into Microsoft's marketing nonsense and purchased one.
Regards,
Steve
These ratings are voluntary and given by an organization, they have no legal binding like ratings do in Europe. A study like the one you propose would be a little hard to get accurate simply because of the nature of the study and the time spans required to accurately test any hypothesis. Human sexuality is a very complex thing and not something that younger kids need to worry their minds about, "why this" and "why that"... I guess it really comes down to a matter of oppinion. Most parents, even the Europeans I know, try to shield their kids eyes if something sexual is on the screen. One could argue that explicitly throwing around images of nudity on the screen would devalue the body and also the intimacy of relationships. Over the long term, possibly increase teen pregnancy rates as the act of sex becomes more accepted over younger generations.
TV has only been around a few decades, there is no way to verify one way or the other. In the states though, only stations on public air waves typically can't show nudity, other stations do it out policy and respect. At around 11:00 PM though, alot of channels will show nudity simply because most of the younger viewers are asleep. I'm not arguing in favor of one or the other, I myself love porn:) (who doesn't? ) and have probably been looking at it since my early teens with no noticeable adverse affects. The above arguments were to simply point out that there are reasons. I also found it ironic that a European was making fun of American's opting out of seeing sexually explicit material when its illegal or highly frowned upon in most of Europe to mention Nazism, way to try to cover up your past by forgetting about it... at least Americans embrace their mistakes (most of the time). Not to nitpick at Europe, but you guys try to outlaw all kinds of crazy things like religious jokes, guns, and in England (not sure about the rest of Europe) there are cameras on every corner watching you. I don't think either of us have the merits to critique the other, we all have our problems.
Regards,
Steve
I would prefer more scientists start writing that way. You have to do something to keep people interested or grab their attention, otherwise lay people will never read this kind of stuff. By opening up with a sentence that says this is why you might be interested in reading the rest of this, I could give that paper to someone completely unaware of the field and they'd still probably be willing to give it a go. Now of course we'd run into other problems once the reader wasn't sure what quantum encryption is, but thats beside the point. This article didn't really go into details and equations, just a general overview, in which case trying to keep it interesting is fine. In a worst case scenario, writing papers like that will get more of the general public interested in science.
Regards,
Steve
They are going to write this off as costs associated with piracy prevention and next year you'll see headlining reports claiming that piracy has cost Sony tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars more than in 2004.
Regards,
Steve
Well, technically I think they are referring to possibly scrambling or rerouting or blocking transmissions which are traveling through the air or satellites, which would be in their domain.
Regards,
Steve
And how exactly do the internal speedometers know what street you're on? :)This whole thing is dumb idea anyway, sooo many problems with it its not even funny, not the least of which includes that I don't need my car functioning differently when I'm trying to speed up to avoid a car swerving into my rear.
Regards,
Steve
Heh, you severly underestimate Red Hat's contribution to the community:) Read this for a truncated list of contributions they've made. Some other products they've purchased and released include GFS, Cygwin, and eCos. They also contribute more code to the kernel than any other entity and in large part maintain and extend glib and GCC (they have a few people on the GCC board and contribute huge amounts of code, in fact many of the newest features in GCC 4.0.x you can thank Red Hat for). Here is another list, but that list is only for projects hosted from that site, so its not complete either, but suffice it to say that Red Hat does a staggering amount for the community, its kind of a shame when people bash them.
Regards,
Steve
Don't worry, all the command line tools are there too, a nice GUI never hurt anyone though:)
Regards,
Steve
Works perfectly under Fedora Core 4, I'm just curious to see if Skype 2.0 for Linux will have video support, that'd be great.
Regards,
Steve
Well the wikipedia article said that he was *briefly* suspected of being involved with the assassination. I hate to tell you, but that statement is most likely 100% accurate. In any high profile assassination, friends and family are always top suspects to start with, and this guy claims to have been a close friend. So this guy probably was suspected, and then for one reason or another shown to not have been involved, now he is just a grumpy old guy complaining about that new technology that those young whipper snappers are using, he wants us to turn it down. The truth is that sometimes the truth hurts, or sucks, or just plain doesn't look good and like any man involved in politics, the natural response to all things negative is to deny it, deny it, deny it some more, and then accuse the accuser to make their credibility questionable and to draw attention away from yourself. This guy just happens to have political and media connections which now he is abusing.
Regards,
Steve
I must say, you are a true geek through and through. Thanks for an unbiased study and being brave enough to respond to slashdot. Geeks around the world thank you. (As you can see from my username, I am slightly biased towards the competition :) but still found your study to be excellent)
Regards,
Steve
Here is a cellular automata simulator I've written. Right now I'm working on a simulator for Conway's Game of Life, here. Next I'm doing an interactive whiteboard using AJAX and then I was thinking about a ray caster like the one in the article but a bit more optimized and possible doing textures. The possibilities with <canvas> are pretty significant, I think we're on the verge of a web revolution.
Regards,
Steve