Sony Ericsson/Sony brought out a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player HBM-30, but its been available to europe for over a year.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/hbm30/
Small portable pla, uses memory stick duo, supports MP3 or ATRAAC and bluetooth function.
No wires, no missed calls - just great sounds Plug in the headphones of the new digital music player HBM-30 and crank up the volume - but never miss a call. Incoming calls pause the music automatically, and transform your stereo into a wireless mobile handsfree without skipping a beat. Hours of music, wherever you go With 10 hours of playback time and plenty of storage options, the HBM-30 records from any standard audio source to give you unparalleled musical freedom on the move. Its excellent sound quality
Sprry may be first by an american compay.. definately not first in the world.
yes.. eclipse is later than the patent, and isnt quite the same thing.
BUT....
Borland Delphi 5 has had that feature since 1999. a Dynamically updated TODO list presented in the IDE, and can be correlated with errors, with priorities..
How do i know? well i am currently on a project developing using Delphi 5, and we use that feature EXTENSIVELY.
it even uses the tag TODO in capital letters, records owners, allows filters, etc. and the todo comments can be stores either in: - a seperate.todo file - embedded in source... blah bla blah..
to view the lsit you click "View -> todo list"
here is the page from the help file: To-do lists: A to-do list records items that need to be completed for a project. You can add project-wide items to the to-do list by adding them directly to the to-do list, or you can embed specific items directly in the source code.
You can right-click in the to-do list to display the To-Do List context menu where you can edit, add, or delete to-do list items.
You can perform the following tasks:
Adding items to a to-do list
Adding to-do list items in the source code
Editing to-do lists
After you create a to-do list, you can display it when the project is open.
To display a to-do list:
Choose View|To-Do List.
The following to-do items are shown in the to-do list:
Items from the to-do file (called project.todo) for the current (active) project
Items in source units that are part of the current (active) project
Items in source units that are open in the editor
You can right-click and choose Filter to limit items that are displayed.
To-do list format
The to-do list has the following columns:
Column Description
Action Item Includes three pieces of information:
Check box Specifies whether or not the item has been completed (indicated by a box with or without a checkmark). A check means it has been done. Done items are shown as crossed out. If Show Completed Items is unchecked, completed items will not appear in the list.
Kind Indicates where the to-do list item originated Items are either entered in the project's to-do list (you see a window icon) or they are entered in the source code (you see a unit icon). This information lets you know where you can edit the item (see Editing to-do lists). If the unit icon for an item is grayed out, that source file is not part of the current project.
Action Item Lists the task to be done. If the item's text is grayed out, the item comes from a source file that is part of the current project but is not open in the editor. Double-click the item to open its source in the editor.
Priority Specifies the importance of the item using a decimal number from 1 (the highest) to 5 (the lowest). The top of the column shows a boxed exclamation point. Specifying a priority of 0 assigns no priority to the item. Module Names the module that the item concerns. This is automatically filled in when you add to-do list items in the source code. Owner Says who's responsible for completing the task. Owner names can be any length and contain any characters except hyphen (-) or colon (:).
Category Indicates a type of task (for example, UI or error handling). Category names can be any length and contain any characters except hyphen (-) or colon (:).
You can sort items by clicking on the column heading, for example, to sort action items alphabetically or by priority. Or you can use the Sort on the right-click menu.
You can also be selective about what items are visible in the to-do list. You can right-click and choose Filter to select items by owner, category, or item type. You can also right-click and choose Show Completed Items to display or hide items that are done.
yes it was.. in 1999 Borland Delphi 5 had that feature.. i know, coz i am coding in it right now.. and we use it frequently... its actually quite handy...
The patent for teh cyclonic vacuum is EXACTLY what patents was designed to do, protect the small inventor.
When James Dyson developed the cyclonic cleaner, he nearly went broke trying to patent it. But that secured him when he set up his company, otherwise large companies like Hoover would have sunk him. He is not a patent parasite either, for he used his patents well, building up a company from scratch and he really took on the big multinationsals (at least here in Britain).
I myself own a dyson cleaner, and we bought that after havign a torrid time with a Hoover "so called" bagless model (the Hoover used a filter, which although was supposed to be reusable for up to 6 motnhs, in reality it had to be chanegd very fequently) The Dyson cleaner was much more expensive than other models, but was far more cheaper to run. even the "lifetime" HEPA filters are washable (just chuck it into the washing machine). Since buying it, we have only had to replace the baseplate twice, and once was done under their (addmittedly good) warranty.
Their customer service is excellent, and polite, and spare parts are cheaper.
All in all we have a vacuum cleaner that outperforms nearly all in the market in its core function - sucking dirt from the carpet. It is reasonably priced when you consider the genuine innovative features it uses and a reduction of ongoing costs, which compares well to kirby which is an over priced metal boatweight that just slaps a lifetime warranty on old technology. And its customer service is top notch.
Without a decent patent system, Dyson simply woudl not have existed, as they simply could not have competed against Hoover et al.
BTW, have you heard about their new washing machine!:)
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While I will admit that Internet Explorer / Outlook Express are a big part of the problem I got hit with a trojan while surfing a Warez site using Firefox 0.8 the other day (On windows XP Prof). I was surfing the site when my Anti-Virus popped up saying I was infected with some trojan, in the end there were eight.class files that it quarantined. Thing is all I did was come into the site, didn't click on anything.
This doesnt mean you are infected.
the class files may have been "downloaded" as part of a website's Java applet, but Mozilla (provided you are using the reccommended Sun Java Runtime) should not allow those class files to run outside a strong proxy. But before they can be analysed they haev to be brought down over the network. Your AV software realised these as threats BEFORE you were infected, and if you were not Running an AV, mozilla/Sun JRE woudl have come to a similar conclusion anyway.
There is a way to cause havoc on a Mozilla box, which i see some sleazeball sites doing. They have started putting crap into an xpi. However, Mozilla DOES warn BEFORE it tries to download and install that XPI.
Does the new versions of the JRE cache the JIT comiled native classes? that woudl increase speed further. But yeah, i dont think Java is "bad". I know complex applets can be slow at times to startt up due to the security checks.
No worries, I can see where you initally got confused, btu i think as a generall it is really important to differential the old netscape 4 code (based on NSCA Mosiac) and focus on developing for Mozilla. I know people used to call Netscape Mozilla, but it just leads to major confusion.
I can understand why you thought Netscape 6 was based on the old code, because it was mbased on a VERY early version of the "new" mozilla,before it was complete, and had so many bugs it was notoriously unstable. It was only Netscape 7.0 which was based on the complete and stable Mozilla 1.0 which finally made good the promise. Netscape 6 was a big mistake.
> This version of Mozilla is what I meant by the > less than rosey past comment.
I do understand now that you meant Netscape 4 in the previous post, and i wholeheartedly agree, and so do many others, Netscape 4 was an abomination that deserved to die. But calling it a "version" of Mozilla can be misleading, since mozilla as it stands is a total rewrite and bears little or no resemblance to that peice of "crap" called Netscape Communicator. Even when Netscape released 6, they called it as just "Netscape 6" and not "Netscape Communicator 6" to distance themselves from it.
Mozilla is a name, in the context of this discussion we are talking about the CODEBASE.
Up till netscape 4, although it was "internally" and unofficially called Mozilla, it was based originally on rewritten NCSA Mosiac code. To call that Mozilla is actually false (despite what some people said)
the "real" official Mozilla product and platform is based on the raptor/Gecko codebase.
Being able to type about:mozilla is only a FEATURE that is emulated by the said product. in fact it works in IE too by giving a tongue in cheek blue screen. In fact in 1999 there was a extension for IE by netscpae for IE that gave an intresting message if you type "about:mozilla" in IE with that extension installed!
As for Netscape 5.. yes it was in developement and was the initial mozilla, but it was dumped quickly before it was even a product. so for purposes, it really doesnt exist.
buddy, i am not even upset. just you are talking total crap here. Normally i dont liek to reply to "trolls" but your post was so full of misstruths i think i need to respond.
smallguy78 (775828) on Monday June 07, @01:19PM (#9355651) wrote:
Mozilla became netscape 4 which almost everyone but netscape will agree was a dire browser,
Mozilla did NOT become Netscape 4. Netscape 4 is Netscape. Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 6+ are based on Gecko/NGLayout/Raptor. which was a total rewrite away from Netscape 4 code.
and that has to be the over-riding factor for why people chose IE over Netscape 4,5(6). Nobody who used Windows when NS4 or 5 was out, needed another browser,
Now I know u are talking without a clue. there NEVER was a browser called Netscape 5. it never existed!
I'm not sure what 'ie is loaded with windows' means. It's just a standard exe with a shell extension written in, which anyone can write.
TOTALLY wrong.. its completely the opposite in fact. IE is made up of a number of DLLs (Url.dll, MSHTML.DLL, etc) these DLLs are the core of the browser and get loaded up by windows at startup (when explorer.exe loads). Iexplorer.exe is just a stub code. try deleting it and then type a url in your Explorer window.. you shoudl still be able to borwse the web. delete MSHTML.DLL on the other hand.. bang.. u have crippled.
Now Mozilla is free of Netscape as a project, it's catching up nicely, however in 4,5 netscape/the mozilla engine's support for w3c standards was a lot worst than IE's, which was my original point, however badly I articulated it;)
NETSCAPE 4 was crap.. agreed IE was superior to Netscape 4, which was the most buggiest peice of crap ever created.
Netscape 5 NEVER EXISTED... full stop..
in your original post you said it was MOZILLA that was lot worse than IE, whcih is clearly false.Everyone knwos Netscape 4 was a pile of crap.
Originally Mozilla was going to be based on Netscape 5. However, it never saw the light of day. Instead Gecko, whcih was under development as "raptor" at netscape became the basis for Mozilla 1.0. Raptor/Gecko is FAR better than IE, and is indeed the reference platform, for the W3C, and has ALWAYS exceeded standards support over IE.
Mozilla/firefox etc are ALL based on Gecko.. NOT the Netscape 4 code.. The Netscape 4 code was only used in netscape 4.
Netscape 6 was based on Mozilla 0.9
Netscape 7 was based on Mozilla 1.0
Netscape 7.1 was based on Mozilla 1.4
Please get your facts right. Its obvious you really havent a clue what you are talking about.
Go read www.mozilla.org
or view a history of Mozilla for more information.
You've obviously never used the 4.x range of Netscape, which most web developers battled with for years, to provide work arounds for broken tables, css, and (not w3c) nice javascript features such as resize bugs.
Netscape 4 is NOT mozilla.. read up.. get the facts.. then come back
http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/netscape4.html This was when IE5 and 5.5 were out, which implemented CSS nicely,
really? ever looked at the situation now? IE has awful bugs in CSS, breaks standards and is a pain....
started up in less than 5 seconds - reasons why it became the dominant browser: it was and still is faster. Even firefox and its claims of speed is still slower.
XMAL is proprietry to MS, and that means a big thing.
Fortunately there is already XUL which is working, stable and in use. XUL is as open as it can be.
however the good thing is the difference between the models shoudl not be too great, and using XSLT stylesheets it might be possibel to make cross platform web apps yet.
But Mozilla has been VERY strict at implementing standards, and following W3C published standards. In fact its central and core to the organisation.
The introduction of Mozilla (and to an extent Opera) was instrumental in W3C ditichign its own browser efforts, as they felt that Mozilla's support for the standards was good enough to use as a reference browser.
Mozilla DOES extend some of the spec especially in CSS. This is allowed by the w3c, provided they are labelled as extesions (Mozilla uses the _moz prefix). And as some of these extenstions are incorporated into appropriate spec (CSS3 and opacity for example), Mozilla deprecates the extensions and provide support for the spec.
What the W3c frowns upon is not the addition of spec, but breaking exisiting spec. If a browser does not implement a spec, it should grafefully degrade. Mozilla does that well. Bugs not withstanding, Mozilla by feature does NOT break exisitng standards to be incompatible with standards developed pages.
Please explain WHAT you mean by Mozillas support of w3c is less than rosy. I am sure many others would like to know too.
Yes, about the WABA system, it was designed to be as lightweight as possible. It initially ran on the original 16bit Palm Devices (i was running stuff on a 2MB Palm III initially). Of course it couslnt say it was a JAVA environment, but they followed as much as they could. BTW, WABA is in general Open source (well it was the last time i looked at it in 2001)
Personally i find J2ME was a bit of a wet fish. It cut off too many features (sound):( ANd what happend was companies such as Nokia and Siemens added classes to give simple things that really shoudl have been included, but they did it in a non standard way. then you had Sony Ericsson who impletented the J2ME spec exactly to the letter.
That way you don't have to keep the java shell persistant, anytime you open a java app in your default jvm it checks for a cache and if it exists loads and uses it. Not QUITE as fast as already having it in ram, but I bet you'd still get a significant performance increase:)
It did keep it persistant!:) and trust me, the speed was excellent! The shell improved the loadup times, as well as general excecution times!
BTW, i do respect and agree with all you said too! I am not trying to start a flamewar!:) I especially agree that in general true compiled languages are better in performance than interpreted.
However there are some intresting scenarios where JAVA being intepreted is more usefull, than a true compiled language. This was the basis for a Middleware that I designed as part of my phd, and believe me it was some really hardcore stuff we were doing, but the key advantages was within the Java Classloader.
We did dable with trying to convert the bytecode into true compiled native code, but it caused issues with some of the dynamic classloading we were doing. the Middleware (GRIDS - Generic Runtime Infrastructure for Distributed Systems) had a feature of being dynamically updated on the fly via thin agent technology, whilst still running. The semi interpreted nature of Java made this very simple. however with the compiled code, we were not able to find a suitable platform independant way of doing what we were trying to do. In the end, the "persistant" caching JIT we were using gave us the speed benifit we needed (and there were versions for Solaris and Win32) and because the optimisations were occuring at the JVM level, it was totally transparent. No need to any recoding or "recomiling", and when placed on a 64 processor Sun Iron, 10 quad xeons, the performance was truely frightening!
i personally like the managed code in Java. I know real programmers are supposed to poo poo at the idea of managed code, but when you are runnign on tight deadlines, anythign that can help matters. As a point of contention, the HLA, which we were tryign to "emulate" with GRIDs took a team of hundreds of programmers 4 years to produce. Grids (even though somewhat less complex) took a team of two 3 months to develop. and when new features were needed, it was possible to incorporate it quickly, and then deploy it immeadiately to the live system, withotu even having to stop the GRIDS service! (dont you just LOVE the Java classloader!)
As i said, i was not intending to start a Flamewar! i do agree with what you said. I hope other people do find our conversation usefull!
There may be some instances where Java performs almost as well as C and some where it performs as well as C++. But there certainly aren't going to be enough for you to make a general claim that Java performs as well as a compiled language.
I didnt make a general claim on java performing as well as a compiled language, I gave a specific instance.
What i didnt mention in that earlier comment was that we were using a special JIT (sorry cannot say more, as it was under NDA, but lets say it was a caching JIT).
the most perfomance issues in Java comes strictly fromt he fact that the whole JRE (in essence a platform itsself, hence the term Virtual Machine) has to load first before the application.
JITs help, bu the help is often limited because the "compiled code" does not remain across consequetive loads.
What I did was create a special Java based Shell for launching Java Apps, and with the special cahcing JIT, Java applications ran tremendously faster. Java applications were precomiled when the JAR was installed into the shell, then afterwards whenever the application was loaded it it was native from the word go. Extremely fast, even the notorious Swing.
Of course C++ etc have their place, just dont diss Java because of the percieved "slowness" of a bytecode situation.
i truely appreciate your comments, but please try it out, you may be pleasantly surprised
Yes i have looked at GCJ, and it certainly shows a lot of promise.
My "only" issue personally is the fact that it is not a certified Java implementation, which causes some quibbles with my client, and also the fact that I have to develop/code under Win32 (even though the apps themselves get deployed on many platforms).
Personally i would prefer if people do not natively compile Java apps though. For the fact that it may destroy the write once run anywhere philosophy. It would go back to having different builds for Intel/Amd64/powerpc/Linux2.4/linux2.4/joes funky linux build... etc..
What would be ideal though is having more powerfull "Caching" JIT compilers, which will cache the compiled native code so when next called, maybe in a weeks time, it woudl load the already natively compiled one (of course after perforimg some quick checksum)
Also in the same way, the user could choose to precompile the core API for speed too. Since this would use the standard JIT Plugin Interface, this could work with any JDK/Platform. and it helps maintain the write once, run anywhere ethos.. you compile once.. and deploy.. those with standard JREs will run the deployed app at normal java speeds, cellphoen and other lower memory users may get a larger performance hit due to the possibility of having no JIT (but the program will STILL run). but those who have the latest greatest caching JIT compilers will get great performance.
And this is entirely from the same deployed product.
Not quite.. Although both C# and Java "compile" to an intermediate code, whcih is interpreted (C# uses ICL, Java uses Java Bytecode), both Java and C# have something called Just In Time (JIT) Compilers.
JIT's compile the bytecode into native code on loading of the classes. althoguh thsi could create a small dely on loading the classes, once loaded performance is often very good. I have created some processing software on Java, which i foudn performs almost as well as equivelent C code. In fact i foudn that if we were to code in C++ with all the "safeguards" in managed languages such as C# and Java, performance of Java is sometimes actually better than C++.
A JIT is provided with JRE, however, the JIT can be replaced (on Windows it is a DLL, and the Java Control applet allows you to switch between different JITs, which may perform better in different cases)
Finally there was a product called TowerJ, which takes Java source or Bytecode, and compiles it into a native executable, and althoguh the final product will definately NOT be write once run everywhere, previous tests shows it stonking all over most JREs and even giving C++ a massive run for the money..
That option is not needed. Java is a PLATFORM INDEPENDANT language in which the core funtionality should NOT be tied to a particular platform.
This is EXACTLY what MS did with Visual J++ and their own JRE. This is exactly what Sun fears about open sourcing Java.
If you want a KDE specific version of JAVA, create the appropriate Plug-in/Replacement classes for the AWT/Swing. The current JAVA jre spec DOES indead allow that. Or if you are particularly brave, create new packages such as org.kde.*. The advantage of this approach is that it would run with ANY implementation of JAVA, not just the Sun, or Custom KDE JRE.
A good example of this is WABA, a Java Like language/platform for Palm OS and Pocket PC. It uses its own set of packages (waba.*). However, the best part is, because its built on JAVA specifications, software can be developed and compiled on ANY JDK (I have tried Sun Forté, and Visual Café). This is just by adding the appropriate waba package for Java. This clearly demonstrates the pure power of Java.
Although Open sourcing Java is good, I do understand their fears of forks. And it has happend befor e(MS VJ++)
the NO button had the following feature in STANDBY (similar to MS patent)
one press - show date instead of time for a few secs long press - turn off VERY long press (> 10 secs) - HARD off if the phone crashes. double press (when service software enabled) woudl clear the service logs.
I believe the original P800 (pre 2002) had multiple functions for the Power button, in a similar way. Thsi was not included in the final release, due to the new Multi Function jog dial.
also Nokia Mobile phones. short press of the power button = change profile long press = off.
no.. maybe a smart move. They may not be ALLOWED to treat Claria (gator) as spyware (rememebr Claria's protest that they are not spyware). However, if you look carefully at the toolbar, it is easy to enable the removal of Claria too. its just disabled by default. The move to not remove claira may be more a legal position than a profit descision.
By then telling it on their OWN news story its liek saying.. yes its there, and making the world know that claira filtering is turned off by defult, so people turn it on! And what better way to "legally" say it, than in a news article quoting someone else!
I used to think "Why have tabbed browsing" or "find as you type". Now once i tried those features, i simply cannot live without.
Same with my parents, they may have never had more than one browser window in the past, but now, they use the features well, and are dismayed when they have to use IE.
On normal consumer appliances, its normally unlikely it woudl go wrong, unless faulty, or the person didnt read the manual.
Computers on the other hand can go very wrong, simply by using them
And before someone says that if tehy used it properly, it woudlnt go wrong, well thsi comes to another point... most consumer appliances come with decent manuals that describe ALL features of the appliance. Computers come with a quick start guide that quickly explains how to connect the thing. Probably making them seem a LOT LESS complex than they are.
I once said four years ago that there shoudl be a liscense to use computers. I was laughed at back then. Now with the proliferations of spyware, and viruses.... maybe it wasnt such a dumb idea after all.
Take my household for example, I have banned the use of Internet Explorer on all computers. Myself and my sister use Mozilla (Myself Firefox on my computer, my sister uses the suite on her computer).
But my parents do not "understand" mozilla yet. They dont know it. But they still remember Netscape.
I installed Netscape 7.1 on their computer, and set sensible default preferneces, and to be honest, they love it. Its my way of getting them to run mozilla whilst they are "safe" in the knowledge of running a big well known browser.
You must be living in the USA. i Have a p800, and i have never had to pay for a ringtone. these phoes are VERY open as it is. Try a modern SonyEricsson (T610 etc)one day. its as simple as sending a MIDI file via Bluetooth/Infra red or Cable, the software is already free and available. And for bluetooth or infrafed, you dont even need software, as the phone appears as a computer, and simply accepts files thrown at it and vice versa.
as for bringing prices down. i dont think so. over here in Europe, the prices are already cheap. the cost of licensing Symbian is not expensive.
Proprietry software is not a bad thing either. IF it works. and in the case of most symbian apps. they DO work, and use exisiting standards (XML, SMIL, SMS, EMS, MMS, MIDI, WAV, MP3)
Better secuity? well again here in europe. if a fault is found, the phone can be taken to a service depot to be flashed. simple as that.
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Sony Ericsson/Sony brought out a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player HBM-30, but its been available to europe for over a year.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/hbm30/
Small portable pla, uses memory stick duo, supports MP3 or ATRAAC and bluetooth function.
No wires, no missed calls - just great sounds
Plug in the headphones of the new digital music player HBM-30 and crank up the volume - but never miss a call. Incoming calls pause the music automatically, and transform your stereo into a wireless mobile handsfree without skipping a beat.
Hours of music, wherever you go
With 10 hours of playback time and plenty of storage options, the HBM-30 records from any standard audio source to give you unparalleled musical freedom on the move. Its excellent sound quality
Sprry may be first by an american compay.. definately not first in the world.
yes.. eclipse is later than the patent, and isnt quite the same thing.
.todo file
BUT....
Borland Delphi 5 has had that feature since 1999. a Dynamically updated TODO list presented in the IDE, and can be correlated with errors, with priorities..
How do i know? well i am currently on a project developing using Delphi 5, and we use that feature EXTENSIVELY.
it even uses the tag TODO in capital letters, records owners, allows filters, etc. and the todo comments can be stores either in:
- a seperate
- embedded in source... blah bla blah..
to view the lsit you click "View -> todo list"
here is the page from the help file:
To-do lists:
A to-do list records items that need to be completed for a project. You can add project-wide items to the to-do list by adding them directly to the to-do list, or you can embed specific items directly in the source code.
You can right-click in the to-do list to display the To-Do List context menu where you can edit, add, or delete to-do list items.
You can perform the following tasks:
Adding items to a to-do list
Adding to-do list items in the source code
Editing to-do lists
After you create a to-do list, you can display it when the project is open.
To display a to-do list:
Choose View|To-Do List.
The following to-do items are shown in the to-do list:
Items from the to-do file (called project.todo) for the current (active) project
Items in source units that are part of the current (active) project
Items in source units that are open in the editor
You can right-click and choose Filter to limit items that are displayed.
To-do list format
The to-do list has the following columns:
Column Description
Action Item Includes three pieces of information:
Check box Specifies whether or not the item has been completed (indicated by a box with or without a checkmark). A check means it has been done. Done items are shown as crossed out. If Show Completed Items is unchecked, completed items will not appear in the list.
Kind Indicates where the to-do list item originated Items are either entered in the project's to-do list (you see a window icon) or they are entered in the source code (you see a unit icon). This information lets you know where you can edit the item (see Editing to-do lists). If the unit icon for an item is grayed out, that source file is not part of the current project.
Action Item Lists the task to be done. If the item's text is grayed out, the item comes from a source file that is part of the current project but is not open in the editor. Double-click the item to open its source in the editor.
Priority Specifies the importance of the item using a decimal number from 1 (the highest) to 5 (the lowest). The top of the column shows a boxed exclamation point. Specifying a priority of 0 assigns no priority to the item.
Module Names the module that the item concerns. This is automatically filled in when you add to-do list items in the source code.
Owner Says who's responsible for completing the task. Owner names can be any length and contain any characters except hyphen (-) or colon (:).
Category Indicates a type of task (for example, UI or error handling). Category names can be any length and contain any characters except hyphen (-) or colon (:).
You can sort items by clicking on the column heading, for example, to sort action items alphabetically or by priority. Or you can use the Sort on the right-click menu.
You can also be selective about what items are visible in the to-do list. You can right-click and choose Filter to select items by owner, category, or item type. You can also right-click and choose Show Completed Items to display or hide items that are done.
yes it was.. in 1999 Borland Delphi 5 had that feature.. i know, coz i am coding in it right now.. and we use it frequently... its actually quite handy...
The patent for teh cyclonic vacuum is EXACTLY what patents was designed to do, protect the small inventor.
:)
When James Dyson developed the cyclonic cleaner, he nearly went broke trying to patent it. But that secured him when he set up his company, otherwise large companies like Hoover would have sunk him. He is not a patent parasite either, for he used his patents well, building up a company from scratch and he really took on the big multinationsals (at least here in Britain).
I myself own a dyson cleaner, and we bought that after havign a torrid time with a Hoover "so called" bagless model (the Hoover used a filter, which although was supposed to be reusable for up to 6 motnhs, in reality it had to be chanegd very fequently) The Dyson cleaner was much more expensive than other models, but was far more cheaper to run. even the "lifetime" HEPA filters are washable (just chuck it into the washing machine). Since buying it, we have only had to replace the baseplate twice, and once was done under their (addmittedly good) warranty.
Their customer service is excellent, and polite, and spare parts are cheaper.
All in all we have a vacuum cleaner that outperforms nearly all in the market in its core function - sucking dirt from the carpet. It is reasonably priced when you consider the genuine innovative features it uses and a reduction of ongoing costs, which compares well to kirby which is an over priced metal boatweight that just slaps a lifetime warranty on old technology. And its customer service is top notch.
Without a decent patent system, Dyson simply woudl not have existed, as they simply could not have competed against Hoover et al.
BTW, have you heard about their new washing machine!
www.dyson.co.uk
Delphi has supported the TODO tag in code too, at least form version 3 (1997) if i am right...
There is a way to cause havoc on a Mozilla box, which i see some sleazeball sites doing. They have started putting crap into an xpi. However, Mozilla DOES warn BEFORE it tries to download and install that XPI.
Does the new versions of the JRE cache the JIT comiled native classes? that woudl increase speed further. But yeah, i dont think Java is "bad". I know complex applets can be slow at times to startt up due to the security checks.
No worries, I can see where you initally got confused, btu i think as a generall it is really important to differential the old netscape 4 code (based on NSCA Mosiac) and focus on developing for Mozilla. I know people used to call Netscape Mozilla, but it just leads to major confusion.
I can understand why you thought Netscape 6 was based on the old code, because it was mbased on a VERY early version of the "new" mozilla,before it was complete, and had so many bugs it was notoriously unstable. It was only Netscape 7.0 which was based on the complete and stable Mozilla 1.0 which finally made good the promise. Netscape 6 was a big mistake.
> This version of Mozilla is what I meant by the
> less than rosey past comment.
I do understand now that you meant Netscape 4 in the previous post, and i wholeheartedly agree, and so do many others, Netscape 4 was an abomination that deserved to die. But calling it a "version" of Mozilla can be misleading, since mozilla as it stands is a total rewrite and bears little or no resemblance to that peice of "crap" called Netscape Communicator. Even when Netscape released 6, they called it as just "Netscape 6" and not "Netscape Communicator 6" to distance themselves from it.
Mozilla is a name, in the context of this discussion we are talking about the CODEBASE.
Up till netscape 4, although it was "internally" and unofficially called Mozilla, it was based originally on rewritten NCSA Mosiac code. To call that Mozilla is actually false (despite what some people said)
the "real" official Mozilla product and platform is based on the raptor/Gecko codebase.
Being able to type about:mozilla is only a FEATURE that is emulated by the said product. in fact it works in IE too by giving a tongue in cheek blue screen. In fact in 1999 there was a extension for IE by netscpae for IE that gave an intresting message if you type "about:mozilla" in IE with that extension installed!
As for Netscape 5.. yes it was in developement and was the initial mozilla, but it was dumped quickly before it was even a product. so for purposes, it really doesnt exist.
NETSCAPE 4 was crap.. agreed IE was superior to Netscape 4, which was the most buggiest peice of crap ever created.
Netscape 5 NEVER EXISTED... full stop..
in your original post you said it was MOZILLA that was lot worse than IE, whcih is clearly false.Everyone knwos Netscape 4 was a pile of crap.
Originally Mozilla was going to be based on Netscape 5. However, it never saw the light of day. Instead Gecko, whcih was under development as "raptor" at netscape became the basis for Mozilla 1.0. Raptor/Gecko is FAR better than IE, and is indeed the reference platform, for the W3C, and has ALWAYS exceeded standards support over IE.
Mozilla/firefox etc are ALL based on Gecko.. NOT the Netscape 4 code.. The Netscape 4 code was only used in netscape 4.
Netscape 6 was based on Mozilla 0.9
Netscape 7 was based on Mozilla 1.0
Netscape 7.1 was based on Mozilla 1.4
Please get your facts right. Its obvious you really havent a clue what you are talking about.
Go read www.mozilla.org
or view a history of Mozilla for more information.
Netscape 4 is NOT mozilla.. read up.. get the facts.. then come back
really? ever looked at the situation now? IE has awful bugs in CSS, breaks standards and is a pain....
IE became dominant partly because it was bundled
IE is faster coz its loaded with windows
check your facts, then come back
XMAL is proprietry to MS, and that means a big thing.
Fortunately there is already XUL which is working, stable and in use. XUL is as open as it can be.
however the good thing is the difference between the models shoudl not be too great, and using XSLT stylesheets it might be possibel to make cross platform web apps yet.
Smells of troll?
But Mozilla has been VERY strict at implementing standards, and following W3C published standards. In fact its central and core to the organisation.
The introduction of Mozilla (and to an extent Opera) was instrumental in W3C ditichign its own browser efforts, as they felt that Mozilla's support for the standards was good enough to use as a reference browser.
Mozilla DOES extend some of the spec especially in CSS. This is allowed by the w3c, provided they are labelled as extesions (Mozilla uses the _moz prefix). And as some of these extenstions are incorporated into appropriate spec (CSS3 and opacity for example), Mozilla deprecates the extensions and provide support for the spec.
What the W3c frowns upon is not the addition of spec, but breaking exisiting spec. If a browser does not implement a spec, it should grafefully degrade. Mozilla does that well. Bugs not withstanding, Mozilla by feature does NOT break exisitng standards to be incompatible with standards developed pages.
Please explain WHAT you mean by Mozillas support of w3c is less than rosy. I am sure many others would like to know too.
Yes, about the WABA system, it was designed to be as lightweight as possible. It initially ran on the original 16bit Palm Devices (i was running stuff on a 2MB Palm III initially). Of course it couslnt say it was a JAVA environment, but they followed as much as they could. BTW, WABA is in general Open source (well it was the last time i looked at it in 2001)
:( ANd what happend was companies such as Nokia and Siemens added classes to give simple things that really shoudl have been included, but they did it in a non standard way. then you had Sony Ericsson who impletented the J2ME spec exactly to the letter.
:(
Personally i find J2ME was a bit of a wet fish. It cut off too many features (sound)
Nice fragmented J2ME
It did keep it persistant! :) and trust me, the speed was excellent! The shell improved the loadup times, as well as general excecution times!
BTW, i do respect and agree with all you said too! I am not trying to start a flamewar! :) I especially agree that in general true compiled languages are better in performance than interpreted.
However there are some intresting scenarios where JAVA being intepreted is more usefull, than a true compiled language. This was the basis for a Middleware that I designed as part of my phd, and believe me it was some really hardcore stuff we were doing, but the key advantages was within the Java Classloader.
We did dable with trying to convert the bytecode into true compiled native code, but it caused issues with some of the dynamic classloading we were doing. the Middleware (GRIDS - Generic Runtime Infrastructure for Distributed Systems) had a feature of being dynamically updated on the fly via thin agent technology, whilst still running. The semi interpreted nature of Java made this very simple. however with the compiled code, we were not able to find a suitable platform independant way of doing what we were trying to do. In the end, the "persistant" caching JIT we were using gave us the speed benifit we needed (and there were versions for Solaris and Win32) and because the optimisations were occuring at the JVM level, it was totally transparent. No need to any recoding or "recomiling", and when placed on a 64 processor Sun Iron, 10 quad xeons, the performance was truely frightening!
i personally like the managed code in Java. I know real programmers are supposed to poo poo at the idea of managed code, but when you are runnign on tight deadlines, anythign that can help matters. As a point of contention, the HLA, which we were tryign to "emulate" with GRIDs took a team of hundreds of programmers 4 years to produce. Grids (even though somewhat less complex) took a team of two 3 months to develop. and when new features were needed, it was possible to incorporate it quickly, and then deploy it immeadiately to the live system, withotu even having to stop the GRIDS service! (dont you just LOVE the Java classloader!)
As i said, i was not intending to start a Flamewar! i do agree with what you said. I hope other people do find our conversation usefull!
I didnt make a general claim on java performing as well as a compiled language, I gave a specific instance.
What i didnt mention in that earlier comment was that we were using a special JIT (sorry cannot say more, as it was under NDA, but lets say it was a caching JIT).
the most perfomance issues in Java comes strictly fromt he fact that the whole JRE (in essence a platform itsself, hence the term Virtual Machine) has to load first before the application.
JITs help, bu the help is often limited because the "compiled code" does not remain across consequetive loads.
What I did was create a special Java based Shell for launching Java Apps, and with the special cahcing JIT, Java applications ran tremendously faster. Java applications were precomiled when the JAR was installed into the shell, then afterwards whenever the application was loaded it it was native from the word go. Extremely fast, even the notorious Swing.
Of course C++ etc have their place, just dont diss Java because of the percieved "slowness" of a bytecode situation.
i truely appreciate your comments, but please try it out, you may be pleasantly surprised
Yes i have looked at GCJ, and it certainly shows a lot of promise.
My "only" issue personally is the fact that it is not a certified Java implementation, which causes some quibbles with my client, and also the fact that I have to develop/code under Win32 (even though the apps themselves get deployed on many platforms).
Personally i would prefer if people do not natively compile Java apps though. For the fact that it may destroy the write once run anywhere philosophy. It would go back to having different builds for Intel/Amd64/powerpc/Linux2.4/linux2.4/joes funky linux build... etc..
What would be ideal though is having more powerfull "Caching" JIT compilers, which will cache the compiled native code so when next called, maybe in a weeks time, it woudl load the already natively compiled one (of course after perforimg some quick checksum)
Also in the same way, the user could choose to precompile the core API for speed too. Since this would use the standard JIT Plugin Interface, this could work with any JDK/Platform. and it helps maintain the write once, run anywhere ethos.. you compile once.. and deploy.. those with standard JREs will run the deployed app at normal java speeds, cellphoen and other lower memory users may get a larger performance hit due to the possibility of having no JIT (but the program will STILL run). but those who have the latest greatest caching JIT compilers will get great performance.
And this is entirely from the same deployed product.
Not quite.. Although both C# and Java "compile" to an intermediate code, whcih is interpreted (C# uses ICL, Java uses Java Bytecode), both Java and C# have something called Just In Time (JIT) Compilers.
JIT's compile the bytecode into native code on loading of the classes. althoguh thsi could create a small dely on loading the classes, once loaded performance is often very good. I have created some processing software on Java, which i foudn performs almost as well as equivelent C code. In fact i foudn that if we were to code in C++ with all the "safeguards" in managed languages such as C# and Java, performance of Java is sometimes actually better than C++.
A JIT is provided with JRE, however, the JIT can be replaced (on Windows it is a DLL, and the Java Control applet allows you to switch between different JITs, which may perform better in different cases)
Finally there was a product called TowerJ, which takes Java source or Bytecode, and compiles it into a native executable, and althoguh the final product will definately NOT be write once run everywhere, previous tests shows it stonking all over most JREs and even giving C++ a massive run for the money..
That option is not needed. Java is a PLATFORM INDEPENDANT language in which the core funtionality should NOT be tied to a particular platform.
This is EXACTLY what MS did with Visual J++ and their own JRE. This is exactly what Sun fears about open sourcing Java.
If you want a KDE specific version of JAVA, create the appropriate Plug-in/Replacement classes for the AWT/Swing. The current JAVA jre spec DOES indead allow that. Or if you are particularly brave, create new packages such as org.kde.*. The advantage of this approach is that it would run with ANY implementation of JAVA, not just the Sun, or Custom KDE JRE.
A good example of this is WABA, a Java Like language/platform for Palm OS and Pocket PC. It uses its own set of packages (waba.*). However, the best part is, because its built on JAVA specifications, software can be developed and compiled on ANY JDK (I have tried Sun Forté, and Visual Café). This is just by adding the appropriate waba package for Java. This clearly demonstrates the pure power of Java.
Although Open sourcing Java is good, I do understand their fears of forks. And it has happend befor e(MS VJ++)
An OLD ericsson mobile phone i had...
the NO button had the following feature in STANDBY
(similar to MS patent)
one press - show date instead of time for a few secs
long press - turn off
VERY long press (> 10 secs) - HARD off if the phone crashes.
double press (when service software enabled) woudl clear the service logs.
I believe the original P800 (pre 2002) had multiple functions for the Power button, in a similar way. Thsi was not included in the final release, due to the new Multi Function jog dial.
also Nokia Mobile phones.
short press of the power button = change profile
long press = off.
no.. maybe a smart move. They may not be ALLOWED to treat Claria (gator) as spyware (rememebr Claria's protest that they are not spyware). However, if you look carefully at the toolbar, it is easy to enable the removal of Claria too. its just disabled by default. The move to not remove claira may be more a legal position than a profit descision.
By then telling it on their OWN news story its liek saying.. yes its there, and making the world know that claira filtering is turned off by defult, so people turn it on! And what better way to "legally" say it, than in a news article quoting someone else!
Smart move i think!
I used to think "Why have tabbed browsing" or "find as you type". Now once i tried those features, i simply cannot live without.
Same with my parents, they may have never had more than one browser window in the past, but now, they use the features well, and are dismayed when they have to use IE.
why?
On normal consumer appliances, its normally unlikely it woudl go wrong, unless faulty, or the person didnt read the manual.
Computers on the other hand can go very wrong, simply by using them
And before someone says that if tehy used it properly, it woudlnt go wrong, well thsi comes to another point... most consumer appliances come with decent manuals that describe ALL features of the appliance. Computers come with a quick start guide that quickly explains how to connect the thing. Probably making them seem a LOT LESS complex than they are.
I once said four years ago that there shoudl be a liscense to use computers. I was laughed at back then. Now with the proliferations of spyware, and viruses.... maybe it wasnt such a dumb idea after all.
The advantage is hidden in some cases.
Take my household for example, I have banned the use of Internet Explorer on all computers. Myself and my sister use Mozilla (Myself Firefox on my computer, my sister uses the suite on her computer).
But my parents do not "understand" mozilla yet. They dont know it. But they still remember Netscape.
I installed Netscape 7.1 on their computer, and set sensible default preferneces, and to be honest, they love it. Its my way of getting them to run mozilla whilst they are "safe" in the knowledge of running a big well known browser.
Whats in a name? a lot in the case of my parents.
You must be living in the USA. i Have a p800, and i have never had to pay for a ringtone. these phoes are VERY open as it is. Try a modern SonyEricsson (T610 etc)one day. its as simple as sending a MIDI file via Bluetooth/Infra red or Cable, the software is already free and available. And for bluetooth or infrafed, you dont even need software, as the phone appears as a computer, and simply accepts files thrown at it and vice versa.
as for bringing prices down. i dont think so. over here in Europe, the prices are already cheap. the cost of licensing Symbian is not expensive.
Proprietry software is not a bad thing either. IF it works. and in the case of most symbian apps. they DO work, and use exisiting standards (XML, SMIL, SMS, EMS, MMS, MIDI, WAV, MP3)
Better secuity? well again here in europe. if a fault is found, the phone can be taken to a service depot to be flashed. simple as that.