hi guys -- anyone out there an XUL expert? we're hiring! we need someone who can do some GUI work and help us set up a build system for our project. can you contact me at murray@qunu.com ? (there should be 2/3 months full time work here)
>You do realize that to do business on line, you >would still have to give them your pin, right?
not at all.
the technology would be set up so that the merchant would NEVER see the pin. the only way this would work as a secure authorization system would be to completely remove the merchant as the middle man.
interesting article i just found today on all this: http://www.acsa.net/ccuat.org/creditcards.htm
... is that in their attempts to create a CD that fits their aims, the record companies have tried many methods of corrupting the CD format, and then they have tested these by making secret releases into localized markets, sometimes of hundreds of thousands of CDs. Everyday people have then bought these sub-standard CDs, and have been unknowingly testing the record company's new CD protection schemes for them.
For instance, an early release made under Midbar's Cactus format in Germany reportedly had a 4% return rate. These were from people who found that these CDs didn't work on their normal CD players -- let alone in their computers. 4% is a huge return rate when you consider that many people might have found a problem with one CD player but not another, and who might have thought it was the player that was at fault rather than the CD.
Undeterred by these experiences of upsetting their customers, the record companies have continued to develop these formats and test them on an unsuspecting public, either unlabelled or with small or misleading labels. Along the way, problems with these CDs have been found on DVD players, car audio systems, older CD players, PlayStation machines, computers, laptops and several other types of devices.
To add injury to insult, several of these so-called 'copy-protection' formats actually interfere with the error-correction mechanism of the disk. This mechanism is designed to take care of scratches on the disk -- your CD player can fill in over a small number of scratches on the disk because the error correction codes tell it how to. The manufacturers found that by corrupting the error correction codes, they could make a CD that computers would reject, but that normal CD players would still manage to play. The cost of this, of course, is that your CDs are less resistant to scratches (and Philips have confirmed this). This is not too much inconvenience for the manufacturer -- but what about for you?
fired up 0.9 and it never appears and the mouse pointed switches over and over between the arrow and the hourglass as if it's repeatedly trying to load something and then failing.
i *didn't* uninstall my firefox before extracting 0.9 over the existing directory and i know this might well have been my undoing. who knows.
i'm seeing posts here that suggest you really ought uninstall any existing firefox before going with 0.9.
i ended up reinstalling my old 0.8, works fine again and didn't lose my bookmarks! yay! =)
The beauty of Jabber/XMPP tho is that there is the possibility of gatewaying to things such as SIP, so you can have the best of both worlds while
maintaining a single protocol on the Jabber/XMPP side, so there is no need to worry too much about what will become the dominant voice protocol since there is the possibility of interoperability.
unless of course people start taking hold of the jabber framework and building some seriously new, cool apps, which is entirely possible since the framework is totally open and extensible and not controlled by Evilcorp.
people will definately install new killer apps if they have features users want.
XLM's great for those who want to build new, cool apps on top of the basic jabber framework, like we are. it's totally extensible without needing to screw with the protocol.
ever tried building apps with AIM or MSN protocol? i have, and i wish i could take back that month of my life.
we are a small software company developing a new open instant messaging-based support application and i'm sure we are already "infringing" on many patents that would hold NO water if they were actually challenged.
I read somewhere that lately the market price of original Win95 and Win98 CDs have been going up for the first time... um... EVER! (They're going like hotcakes on Ebay too.)
The market's a funny thing. Give your customers crappy features like DRM, and they'll find a way to tel you they're not interested... like back-grading to your previous versions.
You watch... i predict that soon Microsoft will find some way to prohibit the sale of these original CDs. A law will get passed, probably under the guise of national security.
i'm doomed to check 10 different accounts whether i'm downloading the messages using POP or checking them on the server using IMAP.
the difference between the two products is that Outlook/OEX brings all your messages together into one place so you can see a centralized list. correct me if i'm wrong, but you can't do that with TB (unless you write a filter for each account, but then you're still stuck with 10 accounts taking up real estate in the tree!)
as a current outlook expresser who desperately wants to change, i'll cast my vote for a centralized inbox option.. i operate about 10 different email servers and thunderbird by default gives me 10 different inboxes with 10 sets of local folders.
that's just ridiculous.
there desperately needs to a centralized inbox layout option like in outlook/oex. without that, i'm staying where i am.
For those of you who hadn't heard -- Google recently blew minds in the advertisng scene by being voted the most recognized brand in the WORLD -- over Coke, GM, BMW, FedEx, IBM, Microsoft, you name it.
the voters were senior advertising execs. perhaps you saw this news earlier this year. it was truly a shocker to the usual suspects (the suits), as Google accomplished this amazing feat in just a few years and with virtually ZERO bucks spent on advertising.
heard of presence? the 'don't disturb' setting usually prevents annoying IM activity while you're working and sends a nice 'currently working' message back to the sender.
quick and effective identification. can check the online black hole lists for IP ranges to block and you can manually set the thing up to ignore email from any country.:)
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stay awhile..... staaaaaaay foreeeeeveerrrrrrr!!!!
>And you think that your IM service cant?
no. it can't. we run our own jabber server here. =)
no of course he can't.
*sigh*
hi guys -- anyone out there an XUL expert? we're hiring! we need someone who can do some GUI work and help us set up a build system for our project. can you contact me at murray@qunu.com ? (there should be 2/3 months full time work here)
thanks in advance...
>You do realize that to do business on line, you
>would still have to give them your pin, right?
not at all.
the technology would be set up so that the merchant would NEVER see the pin. the only way this would work as a secure authorization system would be to completely remove the merchant as the middle man.
interesting article i just found today on all this: http://www.acsa.net/ccuat.org/creditcards.htm
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the 90's called. they want webmail back.
I gave up on word the day I clicked on a menu and an hourglass appeared. :(
... is that in their attempts to create a CD that fits their aims, the record companies have tried many methods of corrupting the CD format, and then they have tested these by making secret releases into localized markets, sometimes of hundreds of thousands of CDs. Everyday people have then bought these sub-standard CDs, and have been unknowingly testing the record company's new CD protection schemes for them.
For instance, an early release made under Midbar's Cactus format in Germany reportedly had a 4% return rate. These were from people who found that these CDs didn't work on their normal CD players -- let alone in their computers. 4% is a huge return rate when you consider that many people might have found a problem with one CD player but not another, and who might have thought it was the player that was at fault rather than the CD.
Undeterred by these experiences of upsetting their customers, the record companies have continued to develop these formats and test them on an unsuspecting public, either unlabelled or with small or misleading labels. Along the way, problems with these CDs have been found on DVD players, car audio systems, older CD players, PlayStation machines, computers, laptops and several other types of devices.
To add injury to insult, several of these so-called 'copy-protection' formats actually interfere with the error-correction mechanism of the disk. This mechanism is designed to take care of scratches on the disk -- your CD player can fill in over a small number of scratches on the disk because the error correction codes tell it how to. The manufacturers found that by corrupting the error correction codes, they could make a CD that computers would reject, but that normal CD players would still manage to play. The cost of this, of course, is that your CDs are less resistant to scratches (and Philips have confirmed this). This is not too much inconvenience for the manufacturer -- but what about for you?
*still* no way to centralize all my email accounts into one set of folders. or am i missing something obvious?
this happened to me as well. plain old XP setup.
fired up 0.9 and it never appears and the mouse pointed switches over and over between the arrow and the hourglass as if it's repeatedly trying to load something and then failing.
i *didn't* uninstall my firefox before extracting 0.9 over the existing directory and i know this might well have been my undoing. who knows.
i'm seeing posts here that suggest you really ought uninstall any existing firefox before going with 0.9.
i ended up reinstalling my old 0.8, works fine again and didn't lose my bookmarks! yay! =)
we could all get so gooey over webmail again? or is it just me... ? ;-)
haven't found one that doesn't yet.
some links:
3 -January/002541.html
http://www.myjabber.net/
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-jabber
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jabber-VoIP_Client/
http://www.jabber.org/pipermail/standards-jig/200
The beauty of Jabber/XMPP tho is that there is the possibility of gatewaying to things such as SIP, so you can have the best of both worlds while maintaining a single protocol on the Jabber/XMPP side, so there is no need to worry too much about what will become the dominant voice protocol since there is the possibility of interoperability.
you're probably right.
unless of course people start taking hold of the jabber framework and building some seriously new, cool apps, which is entirely possible since the framework is totally open and extensible and not controlled by Evilcorp.
people will definately install new killer apps if they have features users want.
like ours, hopefully! (instant IM support.)
XLM's great for those who want to build new, cool apps on top of the basic jabber framework, like we are. it's totally extensible without needing to screw with the protocol.
ever tried building apps with AIM or MSN protocol? i have, and i wish i could take back that month of my life.
http://www.qunu.com is where we are.
hi all,
we are a small software company developing a new open instant messaging-based support application and i'm sure we are already "infringing" on many patents that would hold NO water if they were actually challenged.
http://www.qunu.com
I read somewhere that lately the market price of original Win95 and Win98 CDs have been going up for the first time... um... EVER! (They're going like hotcakes on Ebay too.)
The market's a funny thing. Give your customers crappy features like DRM, and they'll find a way to tel you they're not interested... like back-grading to your previous versions.
You watch... i predict that soon Microsoft will find some way to prohibit the sale of these original CDs. A law will get passed, probably under the guise of national security.
prof. h.
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
:)
heh
not following you craig.
i'm doomed to check 10 different accounts whether i'm downloading the messages using POP or checking them on the server using IMAP.
the difference between the two products is that Outlook/OEX brings all your messages together into one place so you can see a centralized list. correct me if i'm wrong, but you can't do that with TB (unless you write a filter for each account, but then you're still stuck with 10 accounts taking up real estate in the tree!)
all the best
prof. h.
as a current outlook expresser who desperately wants to change, i'll cast my vote for a centralized inbox option.. i operate about 10 different email servers and thunderbird by default gives me 10 different inboxes with 10 sets of local folders.
that's just ridiculous.
there desperately needs to a centralized inbox layout option like in outlook/oex. without that, i'm staying where i am.
prof.h.
> I wonder if they can all get... Andy Serkis
if?
i think he's already waiting in the studio carpark.
prof.
For those of you who hadn't heard -- Google recently blew minds in the advertisng scene by being voted the most recognized brand in the WORLD -- over Coke, GM, BMW, FedEx, IBM, Microsoft, you name it.
the voters were senior advertising execs. perhaps you saw this news earlier this year. it was truly a shocker to the usual suspects (the suits), as Google accomplished this amazing feat in just a few years and with virtually ZERO bucks spent on advertising.
>> IM is an interruption.
heard of presence? the 'don't disturb' setting usually prevents annoying IM activity while you're working and sends a nice 'currently working' message back to the sender.
problem solved.
prof. h.
spampal does the trick for me.
:)
quick and effective identification. can check the online black hole lists for IP ranges to block and you can manually set the thing up to ignore email from any country.
goooooodbye china!