The irony is they (Sears) shut down their Catalog support after the internet started to really take off. They were in a position to be what Amazon is now, back when Amazon was just books, and already had the infrastructure to support it... Even if they just put their catalog online in 1997 (with telephone ordering/payments), they'd still be very relevant today. "We tried that with Prodigy, the Internet is just a fad."
Well, there are JS bindings (V8 and SpiderMonkey) for a number of platforms/environments... from NodeJS, Synchronet, GLUEscript, and others... the language is actually fairly broadly available outside of the DOM.
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I'm not sure what you are referring to... for the most part extensions to JS the language have been fairly limited in scope... Some of the ES6 stuff being an exception, that has been a work in progress for some time. Most of the ES5 extensions can be shimmed in, and are often abstracted via utility libraries like lodash. The *language* of JavaScript is *NOT* the Document Object Model (DOM) of the browser... People tend to conflate the two, but it's just not the same thing.
Funny, I was thinking parking lots were a nightmare, because they were designed by people who live in areas where the Prius is considered a "large car" and they parking lot is in Phoenix, Arizona where nearly half of all vehicles on the road are full-size pickup trucks.
I would say if you've changed cell towers more than once (not to the same two towers) in a 3 minute timespan (or exceeds 20mph), the phone goes "dead" until stopped for 3 minutes. Only exception would be to an already connected call with a bluetooth, or wired headset already in progress.
In all fairness, the only other site that pushes as much data as youtube is Netflix... Youtube has *MUCH* more variety of content, so caching is less possible, and has thinner margins than Netflix does.
I would think the buggy whip manufacturers also did other leather crafting, such as belts, and even upholstery. As to coach builders, many of them switched over to cars, and wouldn't be surprised if many either merged with, bought out or were bought by the car mfgs...
I don't think that Microsoft is going anywhere, any more than the likes of IBM have... their business may change, but they are deeply entrenched and here to stay, just like IBM and Oracle.. and even if plenty of people don't care for their products... I actually have a lot of likes and dislikes. YMMV
I don't think that ActiveX itself was a bad idea.. Setting the email client to "local" security context instead of "untrusted", and marking activex controls that can access the file system as "safe for scripting" while the browser is allowed to run in "administrator" security context.. those were poor decisions all around.. but having a flexible plugin architecture in and of itself isn't a bad idea.
I would actually really prefer something like this to the tax credits.. unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.. just look at tuition costs over the past two decades for an example of what happens when the government gives, or backs loans.. It creates an artificially high demand that simply causes prices to rise faster than inflation. The same can be said about loans, and insurance in general.. I'm not saying that insurance and loans have no place, so much as there is a serious down side as well.
What's funny is bing has bots that will actually execute and follow through JavaScript requests... last year, I worked to refactor our link structure (normalizing, and reducing variance), this caused a reindex of the site (about 50k urls), however Bing bots went nuts, and because they executed JS, this really affected our unique visitors on our Google Analytics (they don't actually filter bots). It looked like our unique visitors went up by 40% (all from 3 locations, all Microsoft), while our pages per visit plummeted. Bots are necessary, but can be dangerous if you don't account for them.
I have a domain on ms's hosting and it works okay.. I actually like the outlook style interface a little more than gmail.. though I use my gmail account a lot more via web than I do my personal account (mostly use that through the generic mail app on my phone). That said, I really don't trust google, microsoft or apple all that much, they've all done things counter to their user's interests. I have my own email server for my other domains, but getting tired of maintaining it, so a freely hosted solution is the best option for me as long as I can use a regular mail client. MS is the best of those options currently. I have another year on my business connection, and my plan is to have it all on hosted services by the end of the year. I'll still play around with my own stuff, it's just more than I have the time and interest to do these days.
The free live mail for domains is pretty decent... I've switched a few to it, same caveats as google wrt privacy though, and it's an MS thing. But you do get up to 50 mail accounts for free on a domain. I find the outlook interface a little more to my liking, but ymmv. Still use gmail for my primary email...
I haven't ever, and don't believe anyone I know has gotten a job via linked in. I deny anyone I don't know personally. I don't install apps that ask for excessive permisions.. amazing how many flashlight apps you have to look through to find one without spyware.
The problem is we're talking about *OUR* (USA) government... This is a large organization of ever encroaching power over its' people, whose own incompetence as a whole is the only thing that's prevented things from being far worse than they are, a congress/senate full of blowhards that are only concerned about their investments, and getting elected again, and a population that largely doesn't care.
I'd love to see socialized medicine, and a program for supporting the underpaid that actually worked. The proposals coming out including the ACA will not do that. If they were serious, they'd have mandated a minimum base coverage, and that all their clients be charged the same amount for the same plan to all insurance companies without exception.
If they were serious, there would be requirements for all employers to provide coverage to anyone they pay to work more than 5 hours a week.
I don't think that our government as it stands is capable of making actual, sweeping baseline requirements without having layers of bureaucracy and bloated payoffs/pork attached.
Given the choice between the crap we have now, and reverting back to a pre-WWI central government, I'll take the latter. In our history as a country, with our political climate and freedoms, it makes more sense to actually shut down government organizations as opposed to more bloat and spending...
I would, given the chance, cut the size of the federal government by 70%, and cut spending by nearly as much. I would support much simpler laws and organizations in such a manner that required less oversight, and structure.
I would start by stripping corporate personhood as a legal concept, and put limitations on unutilized/underutilized corporate assets. This would force divident payouts that would then be taxed as income, as it should be. The aside to this, is I would eliminate corporate taxes, and implement a simpler VAT system. I would also implement a flat income tax (with the above changes, this would be evenly distributed), eliminating just about *ALL* tax loopholes (exception to inheritance). I would then force budgeting based on percentages of estimated tax revenue. First cut would be towards a target of reducing federal dept to 0 within 50 years. x% towards the pentigon, and three letter agencies. x% distributed to the states based on population, x% based on size (larger areas to cover, park lands, etc). the rest would be cut evenly into a check for every legal resident in this country. No food stamps, no unemployment, no other welfare. (for families, you get a share per person in your family)... The universal payouts would *not* count as income, but would be subject to VAT on purchases.
Simple, less government, able to grow/shrink with the larger economy. I'd also require that any budget overages over 1% require a 75% congressional approval and be limited to 2 years at a time (ie. additional spending for *real* wars).
I have a solution to the skyrocketing medical costs... Reduce the effective protections for patents on medicine, and medical devices. Have forced licensing, and limitations on licensing fees for generic production. Allow import of like medicines from countries with similar quality controls.
There's also the many, many exceptions and limitations in place allowing for the cut-rate stop-loss policies that many small businesses offer their employees.
It's more that people have more need for download capacity than upload capacity, and there are so many channels that can be bound to. Though a modem could technically be setup with more upstream... Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and the like as down streams far outweigh typical upstream requirements. Also, what's so horrible about having some market segmentation between commercial and residential services. I happen to have both a commercial and residential service setup in my home.. my servers are on the business connection with a routed/28 block. Internally, I have a dual network on the same routers, so I just bind an internal IP and external on the servers, and have the firewall allow different relay rules from the non-commercial systems.
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The irony is they (Sears) shut down their Catalog support after the internet started to really take off. They were in a position to be what Amazon is now, back when Amazon was just books, and already had the infrastructure to support it... Even if they just put their catalog online in 1997 (with telephone ordering/payments), they'd still be very relevant today. "We tried that with Prodigy, the Internet is just a fad."
But.. you can use JS outside of the browser.
Well, there are JS bindings (V8 and SpiderMonkey) for a number of platforms/environments... from NodeJS, Synchronet, GLUEscript, and others... the language is actually fairly broadly available outside of the DOM.
I'm not sure what you are referring to... for the most part extensions to JS the language have been fairly limited in scope... Some of the ES6 stuff being an exception, that has been a work in progress for some time. Most of the ES5 extensions can be shimmed in, and are often abstracted via utility libraries like lodash. The *language* of JavaScript is *NOT* the Document Object Model (DOM) of the browser... People tend to conflate the two, but it's just not the same thing.
My owners manual is on a Computer DVD you insensitive clod! How will that help me when I'm on the side of the highway with no computer?
Funny, I was thinking parking lots were a nightmare, because they were designed by people who live in areas where the Prius is considered a "large car" and they parking lot is in Phoenix, Arizona where nearly half of all vehicles on the road are full-size pickup trucks.
I would say if you've changed cell towers more than once (not to the same two towers) in a 3 minute timespan (or exceeds 20mph), the phone goes "dead" until stopped for 3 minutes. Only exception would be to an already connected call with a bluetooth, or wired headset already in progress.
Grog own.. if Shunt try take... Grog bonk Shunt on head!
In all fairness, the only other site that pushes as much data as youtube is Netflix... Youtube has *MUCH* more variety of content, so caching is less possible, and has thinner margins than Netflix does.
I would think the buggy whip manufacturers also did other leather crafting, such as belts, and even upholstery. As to coach builders, many of them switched over to cars, and wouldn't be surprised if many either merged with, bought out or were bought by the car mfgs...
I don't think that Microsoft is going anywhere, any more than the likes of IBM have... their business may change, but they are deeply entrenched and here to stay, just like IBM and Oracle.. and even if plenty of people don't care for their products... I actually have a lot of likes and dislikes. YMMV
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So is your cell phone provider.. unless you've dropped your cellular service?
I don't think that ActiveX itself was a bad idea.. Setting the email client to "local" security context instead of "untrusted", and marking activex controls that can access the file system as "safe for scripting" while the browser is allowed to run in "administrator" security context.. those were poor decisions all around.. but having a flexible plugin architecture in and of itself isn't a bad idea.
I would actually really prefer something like this to the tax credits.. unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.. just look at tuition costs over the past two decades for an example of what happens when the government gives, or backs loans.. It creates an artificially high demand that simply causes prices to rise faster than inflation. The same can be said about loans, and insurance in general.. I'm not saying that insurance and loans have no place, so much as there is a serious down side as well.
What's funny is bing has bots that will actually execute and follow through JavaScript requests... last year, I worked to refactor our link structure (normalizing, and reducing variance), this caused a reindex of the site (about 50k urls), however Bing bots went nuts, and because they executed JS, this really affected our unique visitors on our Google Analytics (they don't actually filter bots). It looked like our unique visitors went up by 40% (all from 3 locations, all Microsoft), while our pages per visit plummeted. Bots are necessary, but can be dangerous if you don't account for them.
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same here.. it's not as good, but it is the closest option I've found.. it works well enough.
I have a domain on ms's hosting and it works okay.. I actually like the outlook style interface a little more than gmail.. though I use my gmail account a lot more via web than I do my personal account (mostly use that through the generic mail app on my phone). That said, I really don't trust google, microsoft or apple all that much, they've all done things counter to their user's interests. I have my own email server for my other domains, but getting tired of maintaining it, so a freely hosted solution is the best option for me as long as I can use a regular mail client. MS is the best of those options currently. I have another year on my business connection, and my plan is to have it all on hosted services by the end of the year. I'll still play around with my own stuff, it's just more than I have the time and interest to do these days.
The free live mail for domains is pretty decent... I've switched a few to it, same caveats as google wrt privacy though, and it's an MS thing. But you do get up to 50 mail accounts for free on a domain. I find the outlook interface a little more to my liking, but ymmv. Still use gmail for my primary email...
I haven't ever, and don't believe anyone I know has gotten a job via linked in. I deny anyone I don't know personally. I don't install apps that ask for excessive permisions.. amazing how many flashlight apps you have to look through to find one without spyware.
The problem is we're talking about *OUR* (USA) government... This is a large organization of ever encroaching power over its' people, whose own incompetence as a whole is the only thing that's prevented things from being far worse than they are, a congress/senate full of blowhards that are only concerned about their investments, and getting elected again, and a population that largely doesn't care.
I'd love to see socialized medicine, and a program for supporting the underpaid that actually worked. The proposals coming out including the ACA will not do that. If they were serious, they'd have mandated a minimum base coverage, and that all their clients be charged the same amount for the same plan to all insurance companies without exception.
If they were serious, there would be requirements for all employers to provide coverage to anyone they pay to work more than 5 hours a week.
I don't think that our government as it stands is capable of making actual, sweeping baseline requirements without having layers of bureaucracy and bloated payoffs/pork attached.
Given the choice between the crap we have now, and reverting back to a pre-WWI central government, I'll take the latter. In our history as a country, with our political climate and freedoms, it makes more sense to actually shut down government organizations as opposed to more bloat and spending...
I would, given the chance, cut the size of the federal government by 70%, and cut spending by nearly as much. I would support much simpler laws and organizations in such a manner that required less oversight, and structure.
I would start by stripping corporate personhood as a legal concept, and put limitations on unutilized/underutilized corporate assets. This would force divident payouts that would then be taxed as income, as it should be. The aside to this, is I would eliminate corporate taxes, and implement a simpler VAT system. I would also implement a flat income tax (with the above changes, this would be evenly distributed), eliminating just about *ALL* tax loopholes (exception to inheritance). I would then force budgeting based on percentages of estimated tax revenue. First cut would be towards a target of reducing federal dept to 0 within 50 years. x% towards the pentigon, and three letter agencies. x% distributed to the states based on population, x% based on size (larger areas to cover, park lands, etc). the rest would be cut evenly into a check for every legal resident in this country. No food stamps, no unemployment, no other welfare. (for families, you get a share per person in your family) ... The universal payouts would *not* count as income, but would be subject to VAT on purchases.
Simple, less government, able to grow/shrink with the larger economy. I'd also require that any budget overages over 1% require a 75% congressional approval and be limited to 2 years at a time (ie. additional spending for *real* wars).
I have a solution to the skyrocketing medical costs... Reduce the effective protections for patents on medicine, and medical devices. Have forced licensing, and limitations on licensing fees for generic production. Allow import of like medicines from countries with similar quality controls.
There's also the many, many exceptions and limitations in place allowing for the cut-rate stop-loss policies that many small businesses offer their employees.
It's more that people have more need for download capacity than upload capacity, and there are so many channels that can be bound to. Though a modem could technically be setup with more upstream... Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and the like as down streams far outweigh typical upstream requirements. Also, what's so horrible about having some market segmentation between commercial and residential services. I happen to have both a commercial and residential service setup in my home.. my servers are on the business connection with a routed /28 block. Internally, I have a dual network on the same routers, so I just bind an internal IP and external on the servers, and have the firewall allow different relay rules from the non-commercial systems.
Considering some of the digital billboards around it wouldn't surprise me if there's already some of that going on.