One of the biggest stumbling blocks of the semantic web (semantic anything, in fact) is Trust: how do you know the other guy is telling the truth? Human beings are very good at evaluating trustworthiness from a website, but when we switch to a web made for understanding by machines, we lose that ability. We need some kind of trust infrastructure wich assigns credibility to sources and so on...
Another stumbling block is common ontologies, i.e. how do we know we are talking about the same thing, this time when the conversation is between machines. For example, bit means a different thing when you are talking about carpentry than what it means when you are talking about computers...
Those two issues remain big problems when it comes to making machines search for meaning.
Having multiple $BROWSER windows in OsX wouldn't be all that annoying since you have Expose.:)
Better than switching between tabs, IMHO.
For the Apple Challenged like me (x86 boxen both
at work and at home) there's this nifty little app called "winplosion" wich mimics Expose exactly, and costs all of US$9.95. In fact, it mimics it so well that I'm surprised they haven't been hit with a C&D from apple.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with WinPlosion. I just found that it is the best Expose clone there is for windows, and, as bonus points, doesn't require you install something like the.net framework. Only requirement is a bit of RAM (I woulnd't use it in 128MB systems) and some _REAL_ 2d acceleration hardware, since it relies in DirectX/DirectDraw to do the thumbnails/animation (a friend tried it with a SIS based integrated-graphics laptop and it sucked:).
You can spec all you want, but I'd buy an apple to get OsX, not for any hardware.
The design is nice too, but OsX is the seller. If apple was still offering Os9, even with top hardware the only people who would buy them would be the apple zealots. Instead, with OsX you get fast expansion of the apple zealot tribe:D
Actually, its nice for the designer to be able to change things around once you actually have something up and running. Java tag libraries and the tapestry frame work are the best examples of how designers can change the page without touching the code.
While I will admit I don't know tag libraries or tapestry (my java experience is mainly with pure java apps/web services, my website experience is mostly with perl and templates), I wouldn't feel comfortable with the designer touching anything but the presentation layer of the application, and I achieve that easily with templates. Does tag-library/tapestry modification change the app logic or does it only change the look/presentation?
has probably the lowest learning curve of any language (read: your designers can use it)
I don't think I'd feel comfortable letting a designer even LOOK at the code. Designers should stick to what they are trained to do and not meddle in what they aren't trained for. You won't see me picking colors and layout
for a website, and damned if I'll let any designer touch any part of the project that isn't a template or stylesheet.
What, me have problems with self-taught people who think they can do SW development? naaaaaah... (real life case: I recently had to modify an app coded by an outside contractor who is self-taught and sneers at "all the time wasted in school": What do I get when I see the source to his app and stand in awe of his 'genius'? Single file, 1600 LOC: one java class, 64 static fields, 41 static methods. Almost half of these methods are lousy reimplementations of stuff that already is in the Java library. What I do with one-liners after 5 minutes of reading the API docs (like date formatting, for example) he feels the need to code into a method with 30 lines. Some genius)
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Worked for me when I was addicted to multiplayer starcraft and got myself within a hair of getting my ass kicked out of the University. I told my friends to drag me by my hair if needed if they ever saw me walking down the stairs that went to the computer lab where starcraft was installed in every computer... it's hard to resist the temptation of hours of uninterrupted 8-way starcraft...
How many "enter room, door closes, lights go out, secret panels open and hordes of demons/imps/whatever enter the room growling in the dark" can the gamers take?
Enter a website that has some kind of streaming video.
POP! A dialog jumps out and says "Microsoft firewall has stopped iexplore from accesing the web blah blah blah: What do you want to do?" (Block/Unblock/Ask Later). (WTF is "ask later" on a firewall?)
Anyway, while me and my friend were thinking about it, the streaming video started playing behind that dialog. Congratulations, you could have been rooted while thinking what to click!
t maintains a certain sort of structural integrity after various kinds of wear, sure. But after just a few folds it develops ugly permanent creases that make it look horribly worn (and make it frustrating to try to get it to lay flat).
Are you somehow implying that paper money does not develop permanent creases? Because I've seen a
fair share of paper bills all but breaking from folding... no just "ugly", but "about to rip in
two". Three different countries' currency.
Michael gets frisked by Sollozzo, goes into the bathroom and gets the gun behind the toilet. Then, he walks out of the bathroom, whacks the police captain and Sollozzo. He stands up, drops the gun on the floor and walks quickly to the door, where he is picked up by a car.
But in the book, Michael sits down at the table before shooting them, disregarding Clemenza's instructions to shoot as soon as he gets out of the bathroom. So, he sits first, he shoots second;)
Standards for metadata have been implemented, people can't be bothered to mark their pages, that's true, but the bigger problem is trust: How do you know that the metadata is true? It is the same as in the web right now, you can't know with no other references if the data is right, alghough, being a human being, you can judge on the quality of the data (i.e. a properly-written study that states that X is better than Y will garner more trust/respect than a document written in "OMFG X is tEh r0x Y is the Zux0rz!!!!111!1111!!1one and onety-one" style) But a computer reading the metadata is another point entirely.
Trust is one of the major stumbling blocks of semantic applications and automatic knowledge management issues.
Not in 100% of cases. What about, for example, a man whose testicles don't produce reproduction-able sperm. Or a woman who has had her ovaries removed and has no eggs to provide. If you suggest that the "able" parent can create an embryo with donated sperm/eggs, why not let lesbians marry and conceive children from donated sperm?
Maybe they can adopt, but adoption is not tied to the gender of the adopting parents. An adopted child will be a child, whether the adopting couple is man/man, man/woman, woman/woman, woman/alien, whatever/whatever.
At least you saw that "this country" was not explicitly named. Most people insterted their own default. ("What? Other countries exist!?! 192 of them!?! Naaaaah...";)
And, of course, you do live in the same country I do, don't you?
Because if you do, you are 100% full of shit. I've developed apps with the local credit-card enabler (transbank) and using it with mozilla is a throw of the dice at best. And my bank's pay-from-checking-account-via-internet app will not work (100% sure) if you use mozilla. Quite a drag, since you get to the payment page (for example) four clicks into a tax-payment process, and you have to do it all over again, with IE.
Before you crack your "mom upstairs" jokes that make you feel so witty, mr. AC, please read what you are responding to.
why? There are no more meaningless that an inverted triangle with red borders for "yield" traffic sign. People already have learned what those symbols mean.
Well, my cheap-ass sony MZR-500 MD player is as easy to operate as I could wish it to be, and its interface can be operated completely one-handed. And that's with a 3 cm x 1 cm screen.
Don't write off Sony's potential offering as "just another mp3 player" before you see it...
Exactly. I've had problems watching tennis at home on my 21" sony. Can't really see the ball, unless they have superb cameras on the venue, or the court provides very good natural contrast (i.e. clay courts wich are brick-red vs green balls)
Yes. I believe it was at $35M. The SCO lawyers haven't reached that yet. I think they'll give up when they do.
Of course they'll give up. Lawyers don't have a problem with pushing frivolous cases and/or putting people on the street, but they don't do it for free;)
(Now here's hoping my wife doesn't read/., being that she is a lawyer and all that... )
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turn the bells n whistles off.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks of the semantic web (semantic anything, in fact) is Trust: how do you know the other guy is telling the truth? Human beings are very good at evaluating trustworthiness from a website, but when we switch to a web made for understanding by machines, we lose that ability. We need some kind of trust infrastructure wich assigns credibility to sources and so on...
Another stumbling block is common ontologies, i.e. how do we know we are talking about the same thing, this time when the conversation is between machines. For example, bit means a different thing when you are talking about carpentry than what it means when you are talking about computers...
Those two issues remain big problems when it comes to making machines search for meaning.
Better than switching between tabs, IMHO.
For the Apple Challenged like me (x86 boxen both at work and at home) there's this nifty little app called "winplosion" wich mimics Expose exactly, and costs all of US$9.95. In fact, it mimics it so well that I'm surprised they haven't been hit with a C&D from apple.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with WinPlosion. I just found that it is the best Expose clone there is for windows, and, as bonus points, doesn't require you install something like the .net framework. Only requirement is a bit of RAM (I woulnd't use it in 128MB systems) and some _REAL_ 2d acceleration hardware, since it relies in DirectX/DirectDraw to do the thumbnails/animation (a friend tried it with a SIS based integrated-graphics laptop and it sucked :).
The design is nice too, but OsX is the seller. If apple was still offering Os9, even with top hardware the only people who would buy them would be the apple zealots. Instead, with OsX you get fast expansion of the apple zealot tribe :D
Then why are LG and Samsung, the biggest LCD manufacturers, named as companies that licence said technology?
While I will admit I don't know tag libraries or tapestry (my java experience is mainly with pure java apps/web services, my website experience is mostly with perl and templates), I wouldn't feel comfortable with the designer touching anything but the presentation layer of the application, and I achieve that easily with templates. Does tag-library/tapestry modification change the app logic or does it only change the look/presentation?
I don't think I'd feel comfortable letting a designer even LOOK at the code. Designers should stick to what they are trained to do and not meddle in what they aren't trained for. You won't see me picking colors and layout for a website, and damned if I'll let any designer touch any part of the project that isn't a template or stylesheet.
What, me have problems with self-taught people who think they can do SW development? naaaaaah... (real life case: I recently had to modify an app coded by an outside contractor who is self-taught and sneers at "all the time wasted in school": What do I get when I see the source to his app and stand in awe of his 'genius'? Single file, 1600 LOC: one java class, 64 static fields, 41 static methods. Almost half of these methods are lousy reimplementations of stuff that already is in the Java library. What I do with one-liners after 5 minutes of reading the API docs (like date formatting, for example) he feels the need to code into a method with 30 lines. Some genius)
Ever wonder if the first primitive man who tasted chicken said "Hmmmm, tastes like lizard!"? ;)
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(Python rocks! no, not the language...)
Worked for me when I was addicted to multiplayer starcraft and got myself within a hair of getting my ass kicked out of the University. I told my friends to drag me by my hair if needed if they ever saw me walking down the stairs that went to the computer lab where starcraft was installed in every computer... it's hard to resist the temptation of hours of uninterrupted 8-way starcraft...
I'll stick with my money.
Enter a website that has some kind of streaming video.
POP! A dialog jumps out and says "Microsoft firewall has stopped iexplore from accesing the web blah blah blah: What do you want to do?" (Block/Unblock/Ask Later). (WTF is "ask later" on a firewall?)
Anyway, while me and my friend were thinking about it, the streaming video started playing behind that dialog. Congratulations, you could have been rooted while thinking what to click!
Are you somehow implying that paper money does not develop permanent creases? Because I've seen a fair share of paper bills all but breaking from folding... no just "ugly", but "about to rip in two". Three different countries' currency.
But in the book, Michael sits down at the table before shooting them, disregarding Clemenza's instructions to shoot as soon as he gets out of the bathroom. So, he sits first, he shoots second ;)
(what, me bored? ;)
Trust is one of the major stumbling blocks of semantic applications and automatic knowledge management issues.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Bar brawl between Lemmy and God. Who wins?
Not in 100% of cases. What about, for example, a man whose testicles don't produce reproduction-able sperm. Or a woman who has had her ovaries removed and has no eggs to provide. If you suggest that the "able" parent can create an embryo with donated sperm/eggs, why not let lesbians marry and conceive children from donated sperm?
Maybe they can adopt, but adoption is not tied to the gender of the adopting parents. An adopted child will be a child, whether the adopting couple is man/man, man/woman, woman/woman, woman/alien, whatever/whatever.
At least you saw that "this country" was not explicitly named. Most people insterted their own default. ("What? Other countries exist!?! 192 of them!?! Naaaaah..." ;)
Because if you do, you are 100% full of shit. I've developed apps with the local credit-card enabler (transbank) and using it with mozilla is a throw of the dice at best. And my bank's pay-from-checking-account-via-internet app will not work (100% sure) if you use mozilla. Quite a drag, since you get to the payment page (for example) four clicks into a tax-payment process, and you have to do it all over again, with IE.
Before you crack your "mom upstairs" jokes that make you feel so witty, mr. AC, please read what you are responding to.
Then again, this is /.
100% of online electricity/gas/whatever bill payments in this country are IE-only. Local online credit-card enablers are IE-only.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Don't write off Sony's potential offering as "just another mp3 player" before you see it...
Exactly. I've had problems watching tennis at home on my 21" sony. Can't really see the ball, unless they have superb cameras on the venue, or the court provides very good natural contrast (i.e. clay courts wich are brick-red vs green balls)
(rimshot)
Of course they'll give up. Lawyers don't have a problem with pushing frivolous cases and/or putting people on the street, but they don't do it for free ;)
(Now here's hoping my wife doesn't read /., being that she is a lawyer and all that... )