The US isn't all that worried about the EU having the capability, they're worried about an ICBM w/ New York City's name on it...something I don't see coming from the EU in my lifetime.
No, the US is worried about an ICBM w/ New York City's name on it originating from North Korea and riding the Galaleo navigation system all the way even though the US saw the launch and disabled its GPS systems.
The ability to add a src to any tag would be welcome, this would let you set a division with a remote source and of course use scripting to change the src the same way you can dynamically change images right now. Sort of like frames but without any of the limitations.
Of course border: rounded would be a nice addition for rounded corners on a bordered element but you can hack your way around that right now if you know the tools of the trade.
Aside from a few bugs in IE (:hover not working for non-link CSS elements, etc) there really isn't all that much left to do. We're pretty much to the point where if you can imagine it, you can implement it.
Since VRML failed we're pretty much done with HTML/CSS until we get a full motion video internet and need a better way to manage all those phat video files.
The moderators might not necessarilly agree with a post but mod it up because they think it will make for interesting discussion or it raises a question they feel is faulty but widespread and common and would like to see a good rebuttal.
This is actually the mark of a good mod because the points just aren't supposed rewards for good writing, they're ways to bring interesting ideas, questions and answers to the forefront.
I mean if you spend your teens honing your skills by making the freeware open office better than any office production software in existance -- so good EVERYBODY uses it what are you going to do when you finally grow up, get a wife, get an unplanned kid or two and decide you need to finance things like diapers and baby formula?
All your skills are in writing office software but because the office software is free there's no way to make money for it unless you take a minimum wage help desk to support users who don't know how to turn on their computers.
I mean isn't that what open source is working for? The day when you don't have to pay for your OS (linux) , or your Word Processor (open office, abiword), or your graphics software ( gimp ), or your games (freeciv)?
If all the software you could possibly want to use is available for free off the net as open source, just where exactly are the development careers going to be when any Indian slave laborer can mod a few open source modules to form a perfect drop in app?
IMHO the software industry is ignoring a major potential problem. Sure gimp is pathetic compared to photoshop today but in 5 years? Eventually it's going to hit critical mass and be a great alternative to paying $700.00 for a photoshop license. If I were Adobe I'd be tracking every programmer working on gimp and I'd hire every developer on the project that showed a spark of talent and potential -- complete with a hiring agreement prohibiting future development on Gimp.
Nifty little device for parents with pre-teens with more tech know-how than their parents. Some people after all rather care how their children are raised.
Gambling is a Vice and an addictive activity (even has a 12 step program to help recovering addicts whose lives have been shattered just like the 12 steps for drugs and alcohol). There is almost zero difference between the WTO ruling on this case and if they had ruled that Columbia has the right to export cocain.
And taken another way the WTO is weaking the vice laws to the lowest common denominator -- anyone for 12 year old denmark kiddy porn? Given this stupid ruling, it's not a stretch at all for the WTO to rule this is legal as well.
Here's a link to an alpha tester's report. It's a VERY long read but it's also a really, really GREAT read. If you're interested at all in what WoW is and isn't as it starts beta, this is must read material.
Since at least windows 3.1. Media player has been in windows at least that long. It even predates real.
Which is why this is all so stupid. Rip out media player, rip out the browser, rip out the networking, rip out calculator and freecell and textpad and lets all go back to the C prompt.
Forcing MS to remove features may seem like a great deal to linux fanatics who look for every edge for their OS but having courts remove OS features to pander to their own self-serving corporate economic interests will only serve to bite linux in the butt down the road when the software included with linux distribution is deemed to infringe on outside economic interets.
Vehicles in UT2004 = hopping shotgun into a jeep driven by an insane pre-teen with no-motor control who makes a strategic decision to drive halfway across the map to an unlinked power node (the kind you can't attack) and makes the tactical calculation that if you smash the tank head on the jeep will be the winner.
What's amazing is that onslaugh is fun despite this:)
In the first place it's thinking like this that will keep mozilla the also ran for the forseeable future. IE has over 85% of the browser market which means you're going to have thousands upon thousands of web pages coded to its idiosyncrocies and the only people who are going to care are the mozilla users who don't get the same web experience as IE users do because Mozilla is upholding some sort of "holy grail".
Want to break MS's strangle hold on the marketplace then you gotta swollow yer pride and match it "feature" for "feature" because joe blow doesn't care about standards all he cares about is the page he just jumped to comes up broken and he's got to drag out IE -- YET AGAIN -- to see what's going on.
As for the global namespace how trivial is it to catch an object reference error and do a behind the scenes getElementById and see if that clears things up? Certainly not hard at all considering how much it would improve the casual user's browsing experience in an IE universe.
The courts have already ruled on the legality of prior retraint -- it's not legal. So the legislature (being led by the nose by the RIAA and MPAA) can look at legislating this all they want but short of a constitutional amendment and the courts will overturn it because there's already a world of precident in regards to this.
But hey, maybe on the 429th page of the "no gay marriage ammendment" they can throw in a few things making prior restraint legal then not only can they monitor your downloads but they can cut off your kids limbs at birth to ensure they never hurt anyone.
A more flexible toolbar (ability to stack toolbars left and right and not just up and down).
If you're going to compete with IE, javascript is the way to go. Start with matching the functionality (IE the ability to reference objects without needing to go through getelementByID the way you can in the MS browser, this will eliminate 90% of the javascript incompatibilities between the two browsers).
3] Realize that as far as the end user is concerned browser rendering technology is done and will be done until there's enough bandwidth for full motion picture browsers (Think tivo on steroids). Adding more features just adds to bloat for very, very minimal gain. To that end the focus should hinge on a better, more intuitive interface -- the more you can make it disappear while still providing easy access to navigation and google the better. And don't forget the art, IE still makes pages look better that definately needs to be fixed.
4] Firefox and Thunderbird are killer apps but Thunderbird especially has a lot of room for improvement. When Thunderbird can piece together split usenet files and handle Y-ENC then it will probably truly have arrived for many usenet junkies. After that you need to out exchange exchange and realize email is a centeral pda application and to that end we need scheduling, address books that sync with our newtons, and help us manage our lives. Indeed, do Thunderbird right and you can really shake up the world because there's a real hunger and need for an ultra powerful email/usenet/scheduler/contact/pda manager.
'The last time you bought a six-pack of Bud Light at the Piggly Wiggly, Anheuser servers most likely recorded what you paid, when that beer was brewed, whether you purchased it warm or chilled, and whether you could have gotten a better deal down the street.' Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Not you -- SOMEONE Yes Bud knows when someone purchased their product but they don't know who and unless they have a survey team out, they don't know why. Stuff like this happens all the time and for the most part it tends to make life better for all of us.
Where we have to worry is when a company starts mining all this data and does track it back to an individual person. When a credit card company or polititical/religious/charity organization can pick up the phone and find out what I watched for TV last night and what books I last bought or checked out at the library, that's when we need to be concerned.
And even if personal data-mining is possible it's no guarantee it will be used. For example, the EZ-TAG scanners on the toll roads you take can easilly compute your average speed between toll booths and issue you a speeding ticket if you were speeding but they don't. Why? Because the toll road comissioners would be voted out of office if they allowed that.
Hmm so Microsoft can't add anything to their product because there's another company already doing the same thing for their product. Yea that's really bright. Lets deny MS the right to improve their OS then Linux will be the defacto OS -- but oh wait, gotta rip out the firewall because norton makes one, gotta rip out the browser because that would stomp on opera. Rip out that media player because we gotta make sure REAL makes money, oh lord we can't forget about real.
And splitting up MS wouldn't have done jack squat about this. The OS division would have happilly put in virus and firewall protection and you know why? BECAUSE THAT KIND OF STUFF BELONGS IN THE OS! (WoW). Shoot, we can be grateful they didn't split MS up because then the OS division would be all over the place and wouldn't have to worry about bogus (don't let them improve the product!) BS like this.
McDonalds has a competative advantage over its rivals, so lets force McDonalds to offer whoppers to its customers. CocaCola has a competative advantage over its rivals so lets force it to attach a bottle of pepsi to its bottles of coke. General Motors shouldn't be allowed to install dvd players in the backs of minivans because that would infringe on Toyota -- your kids should be whining "are we there yet" instead of watchign nemo and allowing you to drive in relative peace.
MS has competition from apple and from linux and from unix the fact that people choose microsoft over these alternatives shouldn't in any way hamper MS's ability to expand the services in their product.
If you think this is about MS being evil, you're dead wrong. This is about MS having a 10 billion dollar liquid slush fund and governments wanting their piece of that pie.
25meg download for eurotrash propaganda?
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I swear the next time another stupid euroweenie put President Bush in the same context as Hitler we should nuke the whole friggen continent to remind them exactly what it is they're comparing to.
A 25meg download wasted because in the first 10secs the eurowusses have to get their bash US hate propaganda in.
EA has totally squandered the great Origin Legacy. They had rights to the name Privateer, one of the best space-based trading games in the history of video games and released "Earth and Beyond" which capitalized neither on a great brand name nor the experience of Origin so that the game wouldn't suck.
Richard Gariot, the creator of the origin franchise saw the handwriting on the EA wall long ago and bolted. He's now working on Liniage 2.
As far as I'm concerned EA doesn't have the tallent to produce a true successor to the ultima universe. They let a widely popular MMORPG rot on the vine, they failed to captialize on the incredible brandnames of "Wing Commander", "Privateer", and "Ultima" and have let them all die.
Ultima *IS* Lord British, he's the soul of the game and the talent that makes it worthwhile. So don't hold your breath on this one.
so 95% of the pages with javascript and DHTML don't work making mozilla -- useless for the serious surfer.
Until Mozilla stops avoiding javascript and dhtml and actually make it compatible with code written to take advantage of the great and numerous bells and whistles of the IE code, Mozilla won't be ready for prime time.
IMHO of course.
(Waits for someone to pipe up about standards so he can them)
This would have been a lot more impressive if they had actually used java to animate the schematic instead of a static movie. Something along the lines of this...
Yes, "spock's brain" really is orders of magnituteds plotwise, actingwise, and productionwise, but that still doesn't change my opinion that exiter is the best star trek made since TOS.
For all the faults you listed, exeter captured all the stuff the subsequent series and movies missed out on -- camp, cute girls in mini skirts (not nothing to the imagination body suits), a mysterious planet to explore, an actual alien race, a knock-down-drag-out-fight, and they didn't blow up the ship for the 20th time.
Nice when two people with very different views can both be right:)
If I was a mod today I'd definately hit this one up. You've hit the nail on the head. It's really sad when the best trek since the original series was made not by Paramont but by a guy with a digital camera and too much time on his hands...
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
I'll take good knock down drag out fight with an old style, evil, klingon and those futuristic miniskirts over self-introspective psychobable crap anyday of the week.
Sony should terrify MS. The playstation is rapidly starting to evolve into the long awaited "computing appliance" and it doesn't run windows (tho it can run linux).
You're darn right MS will lose billions on xbox and will use it's multi-billion dollar slush fund to line up as many key players on its court as possible because when game consoles start doing word processing and browsing the internet, guess who wants to the OS you use to do it?
Buying vivindi and getting Blizzard (!!!!) and Valve and every fantasy MMORPG (present and near future including World of Warcraft, Eve, and MIDDLE EARTH ONLINE) that ISN'T everquest is just a perfect match from Microsoft's perspective.
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The US isn't all that worried about the EU having the capability, they're worried about an ICBM w/ New York City's name on it...something I don't see coming from the EU in my lifetime.
No, the US is worried about an ICBM w/ New York City's name on it originating from North Korea and riding the Galaleo navigation system all the way even though the US saw the launch and disabled its GPS systems.
The ability to add a src to any tag would be welcome, this would let you set a division with a remote source and of course use scripting to change the src the same way you can dynamically change images right now. Sort of like frames but without any of the limitations.
Of course border: rounded would be a nice addition for rounded corners on a bordered element but you can hack your way around that right now if you know the tools of the trade.
Aside from a few bugs in IE (:hover not working for non-link CSS elements, etc) there really isn't all that much left to do. We're pretty much to the point where if you can imagine it, you can implement it.
Since VRML failed we're pretty much done with HTML/CSS until we get a full motion video internet and need a better way to manage all those phat video files.
The moderators might not necessarilly agree with a post but mod it up because they think it will make for interesting discussion or it raises a question they feel is faulty but widespread and common and would like to see a good rebuttal.
This is actually the mark of a good mod because the points just aren't supposed rewards for good writing, they're ways to bring interesting ideas, questions and answers to the forefront.
I mean if you spend your teens honing your skills by making the freeware open office better than any office production software in existance -- so good EVERYBODY uses it what are you going to do when you finally grow up, get a wife, get an unplanned kid or two and decide you need to finance things like diapers and baby formula?
All your skills are in writing office software but because the office software is free there's no way to make money for it unless you take a minimum wage help desk to support users who don't know how to turn on their computers.
I mean isn't that what open source is working for? The day when you don't have to pay for your OS (linux) , or your Word Processor (open office, abiword), or your graphics software ( gimp ), or your games (freeciv)?
If all the software you could possibly want to use is available for free off the net as open source, just where exactly are the development careers going to be when any Indian slave laborer can mod a few open source modules to form a perfect drop in app?
IMHO the software industry is ignoring a major potential problem. Sure gimp is pathetic compared to photoshop today but in 5 years? Eventually it's going to hit critical mass and be a great alternative to paying $700.00 for a photoshop license. If I were Adobe I'd be tracking every programmer working on gimp and I'd hire every developer on the project that showed a spark of talent and potential -- complete with a hiring agreement prohibiting future development on Gimp.
But that's just me I guess.
Nifty little device for parents with pre-teens with more tech know-how than their parents. Some people after all rather care how their children are raised.
Gambling is a Vice and an addictive activity (even has a 12 step program to help recovering addicts whose lives have been shattered just like the 12 steps for drugs and alcohol). There is almost zero difference between the WTO ruling on this case and if they had ruled that Columbia has the right to export cocain.
And taken another way the WTO is weaking the vice laws to the lowest common denominator -- anyone for 12 year old denmark kiddy porn? Given this stupid ruling, it's not a stretch at all for the WTO to rule this is legal as well.
The drive is $250, the blank DVD is $75.00 :-P
Here's a link to an alpha tester's report. It's a VERY long read but it's also a really, really GREAT read. If you're interested at all in what WoW is and isn't as it starts beta, this is must read material.
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http://www.graffe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155
Since at least windows 3.1. Media player has been in windows at least that long. It even predates real.
Which is why this is all so stupid. Rip out media player, rip out the browser, rip out the networking, rip out calculator and freecell and textpad and lets all go back to the C prompt.
Forcing MS to remove features may seem like a great deal to linux fanatics who look for every edge for their OS but having courts remove OS features to pander to their own self-serving corporate economic interests will only serve to bite linux in the butt down the road when the software included with linux distribution is deemed to infringe on outside economic interets.
Google for Recipes -- speak of the devil...
rec.food.recipes @ google
Vehicles in UT2004 = hopping shotgun into a jeep driven by an insane pre-teen with no-motor control who makes a strategic decision to drive halfway across the map to an unlinked power node (the kind you can't attack) and makes the tactical calculation that if you smash the tank head on the jeep will be the winner.
:)
What's amazing is that onslaugh is fun despite this
In the first place it's thinking like this that will keep mozilla the also ran for the forseeable future. IE has over 85% of the browser market which means you're going to have thousands upon thousands of web pages coded to its idiosyncrocies and the only people who are going to care are the mozilla users who don't get the same web experience as IE users do because Mozilla is upholding some sort of "holy grail".
Want to break MS's strangle hold on the marketplace then you gotta swollow yer pride and match it "feature" for "feature" because joe blow doesn't care about standards all he cares about is the page he just jumped to comes up broken and he's got to drag out IE -- YET AGAIN -- to see what's going on.
As for the global namespace how trivial is it to catch an object reference error and do a behind the scenes getElementById and see if that clears things up? Certainly not hard at all considering how much it would improve the casual user's browsing experience in an IE universe.
Just my take.
The courts have already ruled on the legality of prior retraint -- it's not legal. So the legislature (being led by the nose by the RIAA and MPAA) can look at legislating this all they want but short of a constitutional amendment and the courts will overturn it because there's already a world of precident in regards to this.
But hey, maybe on the 429th page of the "no gay marriage ammendment" they can throw in a few things making prior restraint legal then not only can they monitor your downloads but they can cut off your kids limbs at birth to ensure they never hurt anyone.
A more flexible toolbar (ability to stack toolbars left and right and not just up and down).
If you're going to compete with IE, javascript is the way to go. Start with matching the functionality (IE the ability to reference objects without needing to go through getelementByID the way you can in the MS browser, this will eliminate 90% of the javascript incompatibilities between the two browsers).
3] Realize that as far as the end user is concerned browser rendering technology is done and will be done until there's enough bandwidth for full motion picture browsers (Think tivo on steroids). Adding more features just adds to bloat for very, very minimal gain. To that end the focus should hinge on a better, more intuitive interface -- the more you can make it disappear while still providing easy access to navigation and google the better. And don't forget the art, IE still makes pages look better that definately needs to be fixed.
4] Firefox and Thunderbird are killer apps but Thunderbird especially has a lot of room for improvement. When Thunderbird can piece together split usenet files and handle Y-ENC then it will probably truly have arrived for many usenet junkies. After that you need to out exchange exchange and realize email is a centeral pda application and to that end we need scheduling, address books that sync with our newtons, and help us manage our lives. Indeed, do Thunderbird right and you can really shake up the world because there's a real hunger and need for an ultra powerful email/usenet/scheduler/contact/pda manager.
Not you -- SOMEONE Yes Bud knows when someone purchased their product but they don't know who and unless they have a survey team out, they don't know why. Stuff like this happens all the time and for the most part it tends to make life better for all of us.
Where we have to worry is when a company starts mining all this data and does track it back to an individual person. When a credit card company or polititical/religious/charity organization can pick up the phone and find out what I watched for TV last night and what books I last bought or checked out at the library, that's when we need to be concerned.
And even if personal data-mining is possible it's no guarantee it will be used. For example, the EZ-TAG scanners on the toll roads you take can easilly compute your average speed between toll booths and issue you a speeding ticket if you were speeding but they don't. Why? Because the toll road comissioners would be voted out of office if they allowed that.
Hmm so Microsoft can't add anything to their product because there's another company already doing the same thing for their product. Yea that's really bright. Lets deny MS the right to improve their OS then Linux will be the defacto OS -- but oh wait, gotta rip out the firewall because norton makes one, gotta rip out the browser because that would stomp on opera. Rip out that media player because we gotta make sure REAL makes money, oh lord we can't forget about real.
And splitting up MS wouldn't have done jack squat about this. The OS division would have happilly put in virus and firewall protection and you know why? BECAUSE THAT KIND OF STUFF BELONGS IN THE OS! (WoW). Shoot, we can be grateful they didn't split MS up because then the OS division would be all over the place and wouldn't have to worry about bogus (don't let them improve the product!) BS like this.
McDonalds has a competative advantage over its rivals, so lets force McDonalds to offer whoppers to its customers. CocaCola has a competative advantage over its rivals so lets force it to attach a bottle of pepsi to its bottles of coke. General Motors shouldn't be allowed to install dvd players in the backs of minivans because that would infringe on Toyota -- your kids should be whining "are we there yet" instead of watchign nemo and allowing you to drive in relative peace.
MS has competition from apple and from linux and from unix the fact that people choose microsoft over these alternatives shouldn't in any way hamper MS's ability to expand the services in their product.
If you think this is about MS being evil, you're dead wrong. This is about MS having a 10 billion dollar liquid slush fund and governments wanting their piece of that pie.
I swear the next time another stupid euroweenie put President Bush in the same context as Hitler we should nuke the whole friggen continent to remind them exactly what it is they're comparing to.
A 25meg download wasted because in the first 10secs the eurowusses have to get their bash US hate propaganda in.
EA has totally squandered the great Origin Legacy. They had rights to the name Privateer, one of the best space-based trading games in the history of video games and released "Earth and Beyond" which capitalized neither on a great brand name nor the experience of Origin so that the game wouldn't suck.
Richard Gariot, the creator of the origin franchise saw the handwriting on the EA wall long ago and bolted. He's now working on Liniage 2.
As far as I'm concerned EA doesn't have the tallent to produce a true successor to the ultima universe. They let a widely popular MMORPG rot on the vine, they failed to captialize on the incredible brandnames of "Wing Commander", "Privateer", and "Ultima" and have let them all die.
Ultima *IS* Lord British, he's the soul of the game and the talent that makes it worthwhile. So don't hold your breath on this one.
PBS hasn't been interesting since they took DR. Who and Cosmos off the air, maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all.
so 95% of the pages with javascript and DHTML don't work making mozilla -- useless for the serious surfer.
Until Mozilla stops avoiding javascript and dhtml and actually make it compatible with code written to take advantage of the great and numerous bells and whistles of the IE code, Mozilla won't be ready for prime time.
IMHO of course.
(Waits for someone to pipe up about standards so he can them)
This would have been a lot more impressive if they had actually used java to animate the schematic instead of a static movie. Something along the lines of this...
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
Still cool, just not _slashdot_ cool.
Yes, "spock's brain" really is orders of magnituteds plotwise, actingwise, and productionwise, but that still doesn't change my opinion that exiter is the best star trek made since TOS.
:)
For all the faults you listed, exeter captured all the stuff the subsequent series and movies missed out on -- camp, cute girls in mini skirts (not nothing to the imagination body suits), a mysterious planet to explore, an actual alien race, a knock-down-drag-out-fight, and they didn't blow up the ship for the 20th time.
Nice when two people with very different views can both be right
If I was a mod today I'd definately hit this one up. You've hit the nail on the head. It's really sad when the best trek since the original series was made not by Paramont but by a guy with a digital camera and too much time on his hands...
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
I'll take good knock down drag out fight with an old style, evil, klingon and those futuristic miniskirts over self-introspective psychobable crap anyday of the week.
Sony should terrify MS. The playstation is rapidly starting to evolve into the long awaited "computing appliance" and it doesn't run windows (tho it can run linux).
You're darn right MS will lose billions on xbox and will use it's multi-billion dollar slush fund to line up as many key players on its court as possible because when game consoles start doing word processing and browsing the internet, guess who wants to the OS you use to do it?
Buying vivindi and getting Blizzard (!!!!) and Valve and every fantasy MMORPG (present and near future including World of Warcraft, Eve, and MIDDLE EARTH ONLINE) that ISN'T everquest is just a perfect match from Microsoft's perspective.