So we'll just ignore that the iPod is one of the most successful consumer products ever [...]
I agree that the iPod has been successful. However, some people seem to overestimate the number of units actually sold.
The iPod has currently sold 42 million units. For comparison, the Nokia 3310 cellphone has sold over 100 million units. The total market for cellphones in 2005 was 800 million units of which Nokia sold 265 million.
Just think about the fuss that would be raised if Microsoft used a patent defense against people opening these files with non-MS products on public documents.
It's similar to people using DeCSS in order to watch their own DVD's on their Linux box.
AFAIK this is illegal in the United States and probably other countries too.
Parsing the Java code. I mean, it's not like it's impossible for someone skilled enough to even consider writing such a tool in the first place, but it is a legitimate challenge; it's very easy to get 90% correct but that last 10% can be a bitch.
If I understand the proposal correctly, all editors would be required to parse the Java code, assuming the editor allows you to edit the code as it were Java instead of requiring you to enter the XML directly. So it really only moves the burden from the people who wants to manipulate their code as XML (whoever that is) to the people making editors.
He mentions another important thing that is not explicitly mentions in the list:
6. Whenever I ask the user about something, can I do anything to suggest an answer or rule out impossible answers, e.g. by probing the local machine or the network?
Sun is making StarOffice available free for Danish schools--that's pretty much all the story is.
Actually, Sun's offer is old news. What is interesting, and what wasn't mentioned in the article, is that Microsoft made a similar offer at about the same time. MS' offer did not include the pupils' home computers, but school computers and teachers' home computers were offered an almost free license to use MS Office.
When the two companies made their offers, the initial reaction from the minister of education was that she would not sign an agreement like this with any company, because she considered this to be interfering with the school's right to decide for them self how they run the schools.
But appearently she now changed her mind. And that is actually the story (though it isn't made clear in the article).
Another Danish link:
http://comon.dk/index.php?page=news:show,id=12443
VirtualDub - a video capture/processing utility.
It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Since there is about a zillion porn sites out there it probably won't help a lot to disable Javascript by domain (unless an updated list of domains can be obtained automatically from somewhere).
Instead I would suggest a button on the navigation toolbar (e.g. instead of the Shop@Netscape button:-) that could temporarily disable/enable Javascript in case one should be "locked in". The function is already present in most browsers, but it is just hidden deep down in the preferences-editor.
If you look at it from the mobile networks point you don't calculate in words or conversations but in bits and bytes.
In Denmark SMS'ing appearently is a bit cheaper than in Finland. Here it costs about $0.07 per message. Considering the fact that an SMS message can be at most 160 characters (I am not totally sure that this is always the case), this gives a price of $0.45 per KB, or $459 per MB! This is probably more expensive than sending data to outer space.
In addition, SMS messages are packet switched, hence it does not allocate unnecessary network resources (at least not as many as a conversation).
Compare this price to the price you pay if you use your GSM mobile phone to connect your laptop to the internet. In this case you can expect a bandwith of 9600 baud and the price is about $0.09 per minute. The price per megabyte is here $1.30.
Conclusion: mobile operators would prefer that people used SMS messages instead of talking to each other.
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There is an implementation of this idea (and more) in PEAR's DB_DataObject package:
- dataobject.php
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db
I agree that the iPod has been successful. However, some people seem to overestimate the number of units actually sold.
The iPod has currently sold 42 million units. For comparison, the Nokia 3310 cellphone has sold over 100 million units. The total market for cellphones in 2005 was 800 million units of which Nokia sold 265 million.
Three years passed and two (2) CSS bugs fixed *sigh*
The flickering on Gamespot is due to bug 132337 . This was fixed last week, but I'm not sure it'll make it into Firefox 1.0.
What does it take to make a Windows program Wine-compatible?
- lie about the capabilities and flaws of their products
- use FUD to scare the customers away from competing products
- break compatiblity with competing products so that customers will have big difficulties migrating to them
Even if Microsoft's products were far inferior to competing products, the whole world wouldn't turn their back on Redmond tomorrow.He mentions another important thing that is not explicitly mentions in the list:
6. Whenever I ask the user about something, can I do anything to suggest an answer or rule out impossible answers, e.g. by probing the local machine or the network?
Also, as far as I am concerned, Jon is charged for breaking some law against hacking which is unrelated to copyright.
In your example I'd recommend putting the title tag in the A element instead. The effect will be the same (in Mozilla, at least).
It is not the image that takes you anywhere - it is the link.
VirtualDub - a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Has it been patched for the recently discovered security hole?
http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/
My coffee mug doesn't appear to be affected either - all the more reason to use it ... or what :-?
Since there is about a zillion porn sites out there it probably won't help a lot to disable Javascript by domain (unless an updated list of domains can be obtained automatically from somewhere).
:-) that could temporarily disable/enable Javascript in case one should be "locked in". The function is already present in most browsers, but it is just hidden deep down in the preferences-editor.
Instead I would suggest a button on the navigation toolbar (e.g. instead of the Shop@Netscape button
If you look at it from the mobile networks point you don't calculate in words or conversations but in bits and bytes.
In Denmark SMS'ing appearently is a bit cheaper than in Finland. Here it costs about $0.07 per message. Considering the fact that an SMS message can be at most 160 characters (I am not totally sure that this is always the case), this gives a price of $0.45 per KB, or $459 per MB! This is probably more expensive than sending data to outer space.
In addition, SMS messages are packet switched, hence it does not allocate unnecessary network resources (at least not as many as a conversation).
Compare this price to the price you pay if you use your GSM mobile phone to connect your laptop to the internet. In this case you can expect a bandwith of 9600 baud and the price is about $0.09 per minute. The price per megabyte is here $1.30.
Conclusion: mobile operators would prefer that people used SMS messages instead of talking to each other.
A Danish mobile operator has announced that their most active customers send around 1,200 SMS messages a month!
It turned out that the incredibly high key-rates were generated by a bogus client. Read what happened in Dave McNett's .plan or read how the mystery was revealed by Maxxim Kochegarov from Russian Team.