Think this through. No site is going to totally drop outbound click tracking via the old redirect-chaining in favor of this.
It only works in firefox, and only when turned on.
If I were to support it, as a developer, I would set up a 'ping sniffer' on the home page, with a 'ping' attribute to all links. It would track to a page on the site who's only purpose is to add a 'visitorSupportsPing' attribute to the visitor's session cookie. Note that this is only done on the home page, and only when the attribute does not already exist.
From then on, I can dynamically emit either redirect-chained links, or ping-tracked links based on what the client supports.
From that point on, EVERY visitor will still be tracked, it's just their choice to enable ping-tracking and save themselves the redirect. If cookies are disabled, they just get the old redirect-chained method.
One last note. No high-volume site is going to bother to do this, unless it's with a high-performance isapi/nsapi/httphandler filter. The performance hit otherwise would just be too high.
Perhaps society remains unmoved by modern physics because no discoveries with implications of einsteinian proportions are being brought forward.
Where is cold fusion? Anti-gravity? A replacement for hydrocarbons as an energy source? Anything of significance foretorld in the 50's? Any reason for boundless optimism and hope?
I'm not seriously suggesting that these should be the singular goals of modern physics. I am saying that with expectations where they are today, anything less is another yawn moment. It will take a dramatic leap, even if it is theoretical, to make another household name with the emotional connection society has with the name 'Einstein'.
Retarded indeed. On what planet was the MSDE based upon Access? BS. It was based upon SQL7, and had db size and connection limits.
Further SQL 2005 Express is based upon SQL 2005, not even the MSDE. The whole point of Express/MSDE is to allow for sizing an application to run either on a desktop or a SQL cluster in a nearly transparent way.
It wasn't made for development, as developer editions of the full Enterprise edition of SQL 7, 2000 and 2005 have always been available to MSDN subscribers and show attendees. Hell, I'm running a developer ed of 2005 Std on my home machine right now.
We're all using this site with a keyboard that was designed to make you type slow, i.e., prevent mechanical ribbon striker jams.
We're all using this site over an internet protocol that probably isn't perfectly suited our hardware, OS, or connection speed.
In fact, the ONLY real reason we'd have a difficult time using this site together is differences in browser, or device.
The point is that by using common, royalty-free technologies, we can all interact without operational encumbrances, even though there are some drawbacks. This keyboard solves problems less significant than the benefit of a common interface.
I would further predict that the only point something like this will take off is when lcd-faced or e-paper keyboards are introduced. At that point, I can be guaranteed that when I walk up to a foreign keyboard, and my (presumably secure) keyboard preference is read by the RFID reader, that my personal layout goes wherever I do. Until then, this is a worse idea than any other disparate, proprietary format.
If they wanted a DMCA rap for selling mod chips, there were plenty of opportunities. What they have is a copyright infringement case. The only point of choosing this case to prosecute them under the DMCA is for one (or more) of these reasons:
1) To hit them with extra charges that can be dropped in the plea deal. Look for guilty or no contest, unless the EFF gets involved, which they'd be a bit silly to, because of the egregiousness of bundling the 77 titles.
2) To guilt-by-associate the mod scene with these infringers' prosecution.
3) To have case law that can be misquoted in the future as implying that selling/installing mod chips is a violation of the DMCA or copyright law.
Frankly, it's unclear to me what all the fuss is about. I consider myself a devout Christian, but I don't find evolution that difficult to listen to, or even accept.
The Word says: God created the Heavens and the Earth, creatures, and mankind.
I'm cool with that.
Science states that: Evidence indicates that the the universe is still expanding from an originating event from a miniscle mass of particle-energy soup. Proteins, single-celled organisms, monkeys, me.
I'm *mostly* cool with that too. How? In the same way that I believe that God provides for needs, even while I'm at work earning for my needs. In the same way I believe God provides direction, even though I'm making the choices.
The essense of faith is choosing a belief, without respect to evidentiary claims. The essence of science is choosing an understanding based on standing on the shoulders of giants, and current observation and theory.
Which is the fundamental issue, the misapplication of discipline. I don't expect scientific understanding to save my soul any more than I expect my faith to help me discern quantum physics. I don't need Pat Robertson to tell me that the school board is possessed by demons, and I don't need scientists telling me that God is dead. Neither is the other's discipline.
Fair enough, there are announcments for other products to use cell architectures.
The fact remains that IBM has a lot of evangelism to do in order to make the cell architecture a commercial success outside of the PS3. Sucking developers into the fold is part of it.
IBM wants open source dev on cells like MS wants developers coding for Windows. It's an sales tool to convince manufacturers to source their parts.
Given that the only cell device is the PS3, and that sony would sooner slit their wrists than let users write their own code for it, we can only assume that IBM is hoping somebody else will pick up the cell for consumer devices.
Oh please. This will be the last post I make on this, as this will not continue to be a productive dialogue. Your 'liberty is a LIE perpretrated by the MAN' sounds like a ridiculous cartoon.
I won't disagree that the system isn't fair. I won't disagree at all that the large and powerful institutions hold unfair sway.
That said, I simply don't believe that there's an all-seeing, all-powerful secret elite club that coordinates as effectively as you insinuate. It's more likely your 'elite crew' is sitting around bitching about how democrats, unions, and consumer groups are conspiring to destroy capitalism, and take away their right to do business.
1) The FBI is in both cases investigating those with intent to break the law. That includes the fraud, the insiders, and the kiddies. The bank did not have intent here, and (legal guessing mode on) can only by tried in a civil court for negligence.
2) Sort of agree with you here. People want to remain detatched from the responsibility of mantaining their liberty and security so they may erronously place the entire blame others. I keep in touch with my congressman, as well as exercise my right to keep and bear arms.
3) You gave Wachovia your money willingly. And like any contractual relationship with a business, they can bill you for whatever they please. You don't have to agree, and can dispute the charge as well as its addition to your credit report. I wouldn't bet the contract you willingly signed with Wachovia affords you much success here, however.
4) Nope, it'll be all over the news, as its something bad for the sheeple to be afraid of.
Re:Reduce expenses by cutting executive salaries?
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IBM Europe Workers Strike
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· Score: 5, Interesting
In the spirit of comparing european salaries to US, one must consider the current strength of the euro in relation to the dollar. European jobs are more advantageous to cut for an american firm simply by virtue of the exchange rate.
Sounds like a ruse to sell gigabit eth to the desktop, not to mention ridiculously large wan/net uplinks.
I'd settle for video larger than a thumbnail that didn't sound like a 1st gen digital cellphone, thanks.
About two years ago at a company I no longer work at (my choice), after about 5 rounds of layoffs, the CEO calls a meeting, and declares that it is once again time for a RIF. Odd declaration, as this was usually done in private waves on friday afternoon.
He then procees to tell us that the next likely cantidate for reduction was *himself*. Bold, and we respected him for it.
It seems this Opera CEO has now also determined the greatest contribution he could make to the team!
I'm convinced that LIABILITY and AGILITY are inversely proportional.
For instance, why aren't there commercial extreme sport parks, like skate parks? Because there's WAY too much liability. Why aren't there these kinds of activities in local/state/federal parks? Because when the first thing bad happened, there would be an outcry, nanna would whine to her legislature, and someone would be crucified as being irresponsible.
If a piece of commercial software has a vulnerability, the vendor could lose business, and possibly be sued. OSS? Fix it yourself, wait for the fix, or just be out of luck.
Imagine governmental software and the liability to do it perfectly. I mean perfectly, more than most kinds of software development ( except medical, nuclear, etc. ) is ever developed. Then imagine it changing every year for the new tax code. It would take 3 years to get it right.
Just not an exercise that an organization the size/liability of the government lends itself to.
I've used Windows since 3.0. I'm a Windows (.Net) developer. And I agree that the gee-whiz factor will be great. Animations, depth to menus... it'll be gorgeous.
But... It doesn't matter how fast computers get, Windows Explorer Shell always seems to become less snappy, even on fresh installs. XP made the start menu slower than ever as it retrieves nonessential metadata on the shortcuts. Myriad Shell extensions, over time, bring the Explorer UI to a crawl.
Sexy is great, but I have to use it every day. It's just not worth making the UI dog even worse.
VZ: Wi-Fi for every citizen, what a great Idea! PA: Yeah, we're going to give it away to attract
a modern crowd. VZ: Oh, yeah, the billions in infrastructure that
we put into your state, the jobs, tax revenue,
all that stuff, you still want that don't you?..etc...
It's not necessarily 'selling out', or 'paid off politicians', just legit local politics. States and towns have been whoring to business forever, in various incarnations. In the poli minds, it's better to have positive corporate presence than a few towns with wi-fi. Especially since the assets will be trash in 10 years, as wireless high-speed internet supplants it, delivered by none other than VZ.
The fact of the matter is that Tivo isn't making that much money, and is losing market share to new competitors, not to mention fighting an uphill battle with networks, ired by the service.
While I'm sure there's something in the TOS that allows them to do this to their subscribers (myself among them, though I'm building an htpc as we speak), the isn't a great way to innovate themselves out of the pit they're in. The home media toolset they have is innovative, as is the website scheduling. Not because they invented it, it was hacked into Tivo long before, but because they chose to expand consumer choice, and the capability of their offering.
My guess is that either they're going to do this with a partial kick-back to networks as pennance for their commercial skip sins OR they're trying to position themselves as advertiser-friendly as a means to demonstrate growth potential.
Further, they could be getting themselves into hot water with advertisers, particularly if they try to be 'smart' about ad placement (Home depot in a home improvement show, especially one sponsored by Lowes). Gator and Netscape both have/are in trouble for this:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,391191 32,00.htm
Aah. Can't wait for the amateur holo-porn to emerge. Streaming video surrenders.
Re:No, A Dual Joystick Controller Really Is Better
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Halo 2 Released
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IGN has addressed users who would use KBM to gain an advantage. Quote:
"Bungie also created Halo 2 so that the cursor tracking is limited by the game, not the peripheral... the software itself is designed to move at certain speeds and with a particular sense of control."
"Since Bungie has carved Halo 2's speed limits in stone, vertical mouse movement on a mouse and keyboard setup won't multiply the reticule's aim or speed"
I think we're missing the point that Microsoft is backpedaling from it's MCE2003 stance, which was that MCE was ONLY available to MS system builders shipping an MCE-focused device, and that it SHOULD be the hub of the entertainment system.
Both those things have changed. 1) You can buy MCE2005 in oem packaging for any new/old pc. 2) You can leave your pc in your office/study/bedroom (where 99% of the population uses their windows pc already), and use it's media features affordably in the living room. This is important, because MS realized that they were fighting an uphill battle putting not one, but TWO pc's in every home.
The above funny shows that it's ridiculous to spend 1k+ to get an $80 Tivo. Duh. This is for the rest of the non-31137 population that has an xbox and a pc running windows 98, laden with spyware, or wants a new media-capable pc, but not a crippled overpriced mini-box. For them, it's *perfect*, because they already have the hardware.
Just because it may not be a fit for slashdotters doesn't make it a bad idea. No doubt it's no Tivo-killer, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Think this through. No site is going to totally drop outbound click tracking via the old redirect-chaining in favor of this.
It only works in firefox, and only when turned on.
If I were to support it, as a developer, I would set up a 'ping sniffer' on the home page, with a 'ping' attribute to all links. It would track to a page on the site who's only purpose is to add a 'visitorSupportsPing' attribute to the visitor's session cookie. Note that this is only done on the home page, and only when the attribute does not already exist.
From then on, I can dynamically emit either redirect-chained links, or ping-tracked links based on what the client supports.
From that point on, EVERY visitor will still be tracked, it's just their choice to enable ping-tracking and save themselves the redirect. If cookies are disabled, they just get the old redirect-chained method.
One last note. No high-volume site is going to bother to do this, unless it's with a high-performance isapi/nsapi/httphandler filter. The performance hit otherwise would just be too high.
Perhaps society remains unmoved by modern physics because no discoveries with implications of einsteinian proportions are being brought forward.
Where is cold fusion? Anti-gravity? A replacement for hydrocarbons as an energy source? Anything of significance foretorld in the 50's? Any reason for boundless optimism and hope?
I'm not seriously suggesting that these should be the singular goals of modern physics. I am saying that with expectations where they are today, anything less is another yawn moment. It will take a dramatic leap, even if it is theoretical, to make another household name with the emotional connection society has with the name 'Einstein'.
Retarded indeed. On what planet was the MSDE based upon Access? BS. It was based upon SQL7, and had db size and connection limits.
Further SQL 2005 Express is based upon SQL 2005, not even the MSDE. The whole point of Express/MSDE is to allow for sizing an application to run either on a desktop or a SQL cluster in a nearly transparent way.
It wasn't made for development, as developer editions of the full Enterprise edition of SQL 7, 2000 and 2005 have always been available to MSDN subscribers and show attendees. Hell, I'm running a developer ed of 2005 Std on my home machine right now.
We're all using this site with a keyboard that was designed to make you type slow, i.e., prevent mechanical ribbon striker jams.
We're all using this site over an internet protocol that probably isn't perfectly suited our hardware, OS, or connection speed.
In fact, the ONLY real reason we'd have a difficult time using this site together is differences in browser, or device.
The point is that by using common, royalty-free technologies, we can all interact without operational encumbrances, even though there are some drawbacks. This keyboard solves problems less significant than the benefit of a common interface.
I would further predict that the only point something like this will take off is when lcd-faced or e-paper keyboards are introduced. At that point, I can be guaranteed that when I walk up to a foreign keyboard, and my (presumably secure) keyboard preference is read by the RFID reader, that my personal layout goes wherever I do. Until then, this is a worse idea than any other disparate, proprietary format.
If they wanted a DMCA rap for selling mod chips, there were plenty of opportunities. What they have is a copyright infringement case. The only point of choosing this case to prosecute them under the DMCA is for one (or more) of these reasons: 1) To hit them with extra charges that can be dropped in the plea deal. Look for guilty or no contest, unless the EFF gets involved, which they'd be a bit silly to, because of the egregiousness of bundling the 77 titles. 2) To guilt-by-associate the mod scene with these infringers' prosecution. 3) To have case law that can be misquoted in the future as implying that selling/installing mod chips is a violation of the DMCA or copyright law.
Frankly, it's unclear to me what all the fuss is about. I consider myself a devout Christian, but I don't find evolution that difficult to listen to, or even accept.
The Word says:
God created the Heavens and the Earth, creatures, and mankind.
I'm cool with that.
Science states that:
Evidence indicates that the the universe is still expanding from an originating event from a miniscle mass of particle-energy soup. Proteins, single-celled organisms, monkeys, me.
I'm *mostly* cool with that too. How? In the same way that I believe that God provides for needs, even while I'm at work earning for my needs. In the same way I believe God provides direction, even though I'm making the choices.
The essense of faith is choosing a belief, without respect to evidentiary claims. The essence of science is choosing an understanding based on standing on the shoulders of giants, and current observation and theory.
Which is the fundamental issue, the misapplication of discipline. I don't expect scientific understanding to save my soul any more than I expect my faith to help me discern quantum physics. I don't need Pat Robertson to tell me that the school board is possessed by demons, and I don't need scientists telling me that God is dead. Neither is the other's discipline.
I used to use homesite 4.5... it has a built-in macro to strip the office tags and styles out of html. http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/
Fair enough, there are announcments for other products to use cell architectures.
The fact remains that IBM has a lot of evangelism to do in order to make the cell architecture a commercial success outside of the PS3. Sucking developers into the fold is part of it.
IBM wants open source dev on cells like MS wants developers coding for Windows. It's an sales tool to convince manufacturers to source their parts.
Given that the only cell device is the PS3, and that sony would sooner slit their wrists than let users write their own code for it, we can only assume that IBM is hoping somebody else will pick up the cell for consumer devices.
Oh please. This will be the last post I make on this, as this will not continue to be a productive dialogue. Your 'liberty is a LIE perpretrated by the MAN' sounds like a ridiculous cartoon.
I won't disagree that the system isn't fair. I won't disagree at all that the large and powerful institutions hold unfair sway.
That said, I simply don't believe that there's an all-seeing, all-powerful secret elite club that coordinates as effectively as you insinuate. It's more likely your 'elite crew' is sitting around bitching about how democrats, unions, and consumer groups are conspiring to destroy capitalism, and take away their right to do business.
1) The FBI is in both cases investigating those with intent to break the law. That includes the fraud, the insiders, and the kiddies. The bank did not have intent here, and (legal guessing mode on) can only by tried in a civil court for negligence.
2) Sort of agree with you here. People want to remain detatched from the responsibility of mantaining their liberty and security so they may erronously place the entire blame others. I keep in touch with my congressman, as well as exercise my right to keep and bear arms.
3) You gave Wachovia your money willingly. And like any contractual relationship with a business, they can bill you for whatever they please. You don't have to agree, and can dispute the charge as well as its addition to your credit report. I wouldn't bet the contract you willingly signed with Wachovia affords you much success here, however.
4) Nope, it'll be all over the news, as its something bad for the sheeple to be afraid of.
In the spirit of comparing european salaries to US, one must consider the current strength of the euro in relation to the dollar. European jobs are more advantageous to cut for an american firm simply by virtue of the exchange rate.
Sounds like a ruse to sell gigabit eth to the desktop, not to mention ridiculously large wan/net uplinks. I'd settle for video larger than a thumbnail that didn't sound like a 1st gen digital cellphone, thanks.
About two years ago at a company I no longer work at (my choice), after about 5 rounds of layoffs, the CEO calls a meeting, and declares that it is once again time for a RIF. Odd declaration, as this was usually done in private waves on friday afternoon.
He then procees to tell us that the next likely cantidate for reduction was *himself*. Bold, and we respected him for it.
It seems this Opera CEO has now also determined the greatest contribution he could make to the team!
I'm convinced that LIABILITY and AGILITY are inversely proportional.
For instance, why aren't there commercial extreme sport parks, like skate parks? Because there's WAY too much liability. Why aren't there these kinds of activities in local/state/federal parks? Because when the first thing bad happened, there would be an outcry, nanna would whine to her legislature, and someone would be crucified as being irresponsible.
If a piece of commercial software has a vulnerability, the vendor could lose business, and possibly be sued. OSS? Fix it yourself, wait for the fix, or just be out of luck.
Imagine governmental software and the liability to do it perfectly. I mean perfectly, more than most kinds of software development ( except medical, nuclear, etc. ) is ever developed. Then imagine it changing every year for the new tax code. It would take 3 years to get it right.
Just not an exercise that an organization the size/liability of the government lends itself to.
I've used Windows since 3.0. I'm a Windows (.Net) developer. And I agree that the gee-whiz factor will be great. Animations, depth to menus... it'll be gorgeous.
But... It doesn't matter how fast computers get, Windows Explorer Shell always seems to become less snappy, even on fresh installs. XP made the start menu slower than ever as it retrieves nonessential metadata on the shortcuts. Myriad Shell extensions, over time, bring the Explorer UI to a crawl.
Sexy is great, but I have to use it every day. It's just not worth making the UI dog even worse.
I can hear the conversation now:
..etc...
VZ: Wi-Fi for every citizen, what a great Idea!
PA: Yeah, we're going to give it away to attract
a modern crowd.
VZ: Oh, yeah, the billions in infrastructure that
we put into your state, the jobs, tax revenue,
all that stuff, you still want that don't you?
It's not necessarily 'selling out', or 'paid off politicians', just legit local politics. States and towns have been whoring to business forever, in various incarnations. In the poli minds, it's better to have positive corporate presence than a few towns with wi-fi. Especially since the assets will be trash in 10 years, as wireless high-speed internet supplants it, delivered by none other than VZ.
The fact of the matter is that Tivo isn't making that much money, and is losing market share to new competitors, not to mention fighting an uphill battle with networks, ired by the service.
1 32,00.htm
While I'm sure there's something in the TOS that allows them to do this to their subscribers (myself among them, though I'm building an htpc as we speak), the isn't a great way to innovate themselves out of the pit they're in. The home media toolset they have is innovative, as is the website scheduling. Not because they invented it, it was hacked into Tivo long before, but because they chose to expand consumer choice, and the capability of their offering.
My guess is that either they're going to do this with a partial kick-back to networks as pennance for their commercial skip sins OR they're trying to position themselves as advertiser-friendly as a means to demonstrate growth potential.
Further, they could be getting themselves into hot water with advertisers, particularly if they try to be 'smart' about ad placement (Home depot in a home improvement show, especially one sponsored by Lowes). Gator and Netscape both have/are in trouble for this: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39119
Oh dear. Out-house-sourcing.
Aah. Can't wait for the amateur holo-porn to emerge. Streaming video surrenders.
IGN has addressed users who would use KBM to gain an advantage. Quote:
... the software itself is designed to move at certain speeds and with a particular sense of control."
"Bungie also created Halo 2 so that the cursor tracking is limited by the game, not the peripheral
"Since Bungie has carved Halo 2's speed limits in stone, vertical mouse movement on a mouse and keyboard setup won't multiply the reticule's aim or speed"
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/560/560524p1.html
I think we're missing the point that Microsoft is backpedaling from it's MCE2003 stance, which was that MCE was ONLY available to MS system builders shipping an MCE-focused device, and that it SHOULD be the hub of the entertainment system. Both those things have changed. 1) You can buy MCE2005 in oem packaging for any new/old pc. 2) You can leave your pc in your office/study/bedroom (where 99% of the population uses their windows pc already), and use it's media features affordably in the living room. This is important, because MS realized that they were fighting an uphill battle putting not one, but TWO pc's in every home. The above funny shows that it's ridiculous to spend 1k+ to get an $80 Tivo. Duh. This is for the rest of the non-31137 population that has an xbox and a pc running windows 98, laden with spyware, or wants a new media-capable pc, but not a crippled overpriced mini-box. For them, it's *perfect*, because they already have the hardware. Just because it may not be a fit for slashdotters doesn't make it a bad idea. No doubt it's no Tivo-killer, though.