"'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online.'
So? I read that as they support measures to filter the internet. For the children?
It could also be, "Leave and we'll kill your family."
I would assume Google to be a very smart business with smart advisors. In that apparent absence let me provide said advice as it seems to difficult for google to see...
1. Silently step down services
2. If questioned, purport not reading highly intelligent population & user Trends
3. Leave, w/o press release.
4. ???
5. Take potential profit hit on the chin.
"I'm just saying it's a little early to condemn Google before we get more facts"
Nah. They engineered it like a North Korean missile test announcement, when the People's Republic is over due their stipend from --insert country here--.
Don't confuse laid-back with liberal. Australia is laid back, but is also one of the most conservative populaces. There are oasis of left wing attitudes in say Melbourne.
In the US, the Rosa Parks seat-on-a-bus incident took place in the 50's. In Australia the film Romper Stomper is based around events in the 1990's. Consider that film and the Cronulla Riots where average joe office workers left their desks and stormed a Sydney beach all because of an altercation between some immigrants and some life guards. The Cronulla beach riots happened in 2005.
Australia is conservative, not just its adminsistration.
"Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."
The small company I work for is now mired in its own processes. I have no authority to do anything to change that. The positive is that we will not get to the stage of being an attractive acquisition, so jobs are pretty safe.
The downside is all the key innovators ( I include myself) at my work feel stymied.
I would not feel sorry for the strategists at Microsoft, but I would feel sorry for their innovators. Their day cannot be a cakewalk.
Have you had to make a choice like this
Yes we have made a choice. And that choice is to maintain support.
We are an agricultural company at cutting edge DNA profiling for the beef breeds industry. Despite this our clients are farmers. IE 6 runs at 60% of browser share for us.
When noobs don't know what to do and can't define the problem they break out the Agile card.
Problem is managers and CEOs lap up the Agile mantra especially when from a slick salesman. Agile sounds sexy. Waterfall methodology is what stale dinosaurs use.
who would you prefer to meet in a dark alley in a bad part of town - a group of juveniles or a group of congressmen?
Depends what for I suppose. If you go down that alley looking for someone to fill your holes filled in exchange for some workplace benefits, then congressmen would be faaantastic.
My initial time at undergrad university thru to Masters was in German Literature back in the day. Then computers came along and I was hooked by this magical technology(PDP-11 days).
Over the coming years I worked thru a Comp Sci degree, Post Grad work, and more in GIS(info in Geographic Info Systems). All the while also doing part time work back at the old dept teaching German Lit. I have been out of academia and in the industry for 15 years now.
But the Comp Sci gave me research exposure to the Food Research Industry.
Research, scholorships, and funding in the Arts we almost pure in their implementation. Food research and funding was rotten to the core. I have been on the recieving end of table thumping food industry ceo's. You are then told to bend over, take it, then go inform relevant parties of desired outcomes.
Thank christ I am out of that sewer.
In todays world I can only imagine what jewels lie in the communications gold veins and how that drives research.
Hi have tourettes. This manifests in two situations, when ordering at a drive-thru and, oddly, when coming up with a file name. I think I am safe from this attack: whoreShitSlittySlutFuckCrevice.rtf
....said Margaret Frost, of the Scottish American Society in Ohio. "We have had to put up with the US version, which is made from beef and is bloody awful."
Only is the US would you get an Americanized Scottish American Society who expect to buy their haggis. Perhaps at a drive in?.
Elsewhere they make their own. As the post above says..."they have sheep in the US". FFS.
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
In this case it is not so much about performance genetics but environment.
The US uses feedlots and grain based diets. The animals manifest this in receding jaw structure, and poor feet. This comines to put the fat subcutaneously along the back. Upto 3 inches deep compared to the natural grass feed environments such as Argentina, New Zealand etc, where subcutaneous fat may be only 1/2 inch yet will give a higher marbling.
If your concern is about fat then I have a terrible revelation for you. New Zealand exports its beef to the US, where it is mixed with the US subcutaneous fat. That product becomes the small goods base: burger patties etc.
Correction: This doubles the upload time. Changing the value to poll at say 1-5 second seems to introduce unrealibility, yet halves the time taken to upload".
Modern users demand upload progress feedback. Which the HTML spec cannot do. The solution is a bevy of hoary hacks on the server end, usually by using a cache or tmp file callback. The value is then read periodically from the client as a javascript page load in an iframe.
For PHP this is the APC Cache module. You send an id with your file upload form then "Load that page using that ID" till the progress gets to 100%. According to the docs the module can poll at a period of "0 seconds" meaning as fast as possible. This halves upload speed.
On the client end, the old HTML way(no feedback) was a simple form with a submitted page. If you arrive at the submit page then the upload worked. The new way is 50-60k of javascript, which is a collection of fragile code. Yahoo's GUI upload for example. Try moding their code and your GUI *will* fail. The file may or may not upload. br Given the modern web is *all about* uploading user submitted media, I am amazed there arent headlines "Mozilla forgets everything and rebuilds file upload in partnership with Apache...then thinks about HTML 5"
Gates can fix that then Gates is a hero in my book. I don't like his software company and I might not even like the person Gates, but come on people... this is just awesome.
And Gates dances a happy jig as he hears of the peoples reception to his plan.
" Or it would send a user from Iran or Libya to a 'domain name doesn't exist' server."
Why limited to these countries? How about Australia? Remember, this is a country that blocked Wikileaks thru its state sanctioned banlist. Politicians there are on board.
Even Linden Labs(makers of Second Life) have set up servers there(only 2-3 countries to have their servers outside the US). Critics theorize this is little to with technical distributed computing reasons but to be in readiness to self censor their content as LL seems to have had the opinion from Ozzie officials that Second Life in its current form would be "offensive". IE: against the law...like Child Porn etc.
Google needs the tools to "keep sweet" with local authorities. These DNS changes would help them avoid being like Linden Labs situation.
Something occurred to me after I read this. I get a slight twinge that Google is more an Authority, instead of a private corporation. Its odd, If I read "Microsoft investigates..." I envision some staid corporate fumbling about, yet with Google, I feel they are almost Law Enforcement like, with big tenticles of power Joe Bloggs couldnt understand.
Sorry, I have watching "The Wire" on DVD. Its ruined my perceptions on how things (might) work.
On YouTube is a regular poster. He drives around on his farm and does crazy things in cars. Jumping over things etc. Friends come over and do the same. They post the videos to YouTube.
Local authoritys have said he needs a "Movie Studios Licence". His property have been raided. He currently is posting videos from his house mostly these days.
I should add he has a conviction of a sexual nature against a child back in the 80's, so the motivation of autorities might be on that.
Slashdot Mirror
"'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online.'
So? I read that as they support measures to filter the internet. For the children?
It could also be, "Leave and we'll kill your family."
I would assume Google to be a very smart business with smart advisors.
In that apparent absence let me provide said advice as it seems to difficult for google to see...
1. Silently step down services
2. If questioned, purport not reading highly intelligent population & user Trends
3. Leave, w/o press release.
4. ???
5. Take potential profit hit on the chin.
"I'm just saying it's a little early to condemn Google before we get more facts"
Nah. They engineered it like a North Korean missile test announcement, when the People's Republic is over due their stipend from --insert country here--.
Don't confuse laid-back with liberal. Australia is laid back, but is also one of the most conservative populaces. There are oasis of left wing attitudes in say Melbourne.
In the US, the Rosa Parks seat-on-a-bus incident took place in the 50's. In Australia the film Romper Stomper is based around events in the 1990's. Consider that film and the Cronulla Riots where average joe office workers left their desks and stormed a Sydney beach all because of an altercation between some immigrants and some life guards. The Cronulla beach riots happened in 2005.
Australia is conservative, not just its adminsistration.
"Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."
The small company I work for is now mired in its own processes. I have no authority to do anything to change that. The positive is that we will not get to the stage of being an attractive acquisition, so jobs are pretty safe.
The downside is all the key innovators ( I include myself) at my work feel stymied.
I would not feel sorry for the strategists at Microsoft, but I would feel sorry for their innovators. Their day cannot be a cakewalk.
The browsers and their makers should be forced to comply.
And ship'em to gulags if they don't?
Have you had to make a choice like this Yes we have made a choice. And that choice is to maintain support.
We are an agricultural company at cutting edge DNA profiling for the beef breeds industry. Despite this our clients are farmers. IE 6 runs at 60% of browser share for us.
Sorry, but its a fact of life.
What's news here? Microsoft gets vague claims than win7 is killing batteries
No!. Read posts just above yours. Win7 is killing babies!
When noobs don't know what to do and can't define the problem they break out the Agile card.
Problem is managers and CEOs lap up the Agile mantra especially when from a slick salesman. Agile sounds sexy. Waterfall methodology is what stale dinosaurs use.
who would you prefer to meet in a dark alley in a bad part of town - a group of juveniles or a group of congressmen?
Depends what for I suppose. If you go down that alley looking for someone to fill your holes filled in exchange for some workplace benefits, then congressmen would be faaantastic.
loosing?
Like sleeve of wizard?
I have seen paypalwarning.com and I am cautious about this website:
1. Establish online payments business
2. Denounce main provider, and provide big flashy link to the "Recomended Solution".
3. ???
4. Profit!
This site is either a paypal competitor or is done by a paypal hating zealot. I can't tell which.
My initial time at undergrad university thru to Masters was in German Literature back in the day. Then computers came along and I was hooked by this magical technology(PDP-11 days).
Over the coming years I worked thru a Comp Sci degree, Post Grad work, and more in GIS(info in Geographic Info Systems). All the while also doing part time work back at the old dept teaching German Lit. I have been out of academia and in the industry for 15 years now.
But the Comp Sci gave me research exposure to the Food Research Industry.
Research, scholorships, and funding in the Arts we almost pure in their implementation. Food research and funding was rotten to the core. I have been on the recieving end of table thumping food industry ceo's. You are then told to bend over, take it, then go inform relevant parties of desired outcomes.
Thank christ I am out of that sewer.
In todays world I can only imagine what jewels lie in the communications gold veins and how that drives research.
Hi have tourettes. This manifests in two situations, when ordering at a drive-thru and, oddly, when coming up with a file name. I think I am safe from this attack: whoreShitSlittySlutFuckCrevice.rtf
When HTML 5 is out there will be no "Teach yourself HTML 5 in 24 hours".
I have been reading the HTML 5 discussion docs at WHATWG
Here is one DOM of one element:
interface HTMLDataListElement : HTMLElement {
readonly attribute HTMLCollection options;
};
"Teach yourself a half dozen HTML5 Elements in 24 hours - Part 1 of 50/Series 1 of 200)"
....said Margaret Frost, of the Scottish American Society in Ohio. "We have had to put up with the US version, which is made from beef and is bloody awful."
Only is the US would you get an Americanized Scottish American Society who expect to buy their haggis. Perhaps at a drive in?.
Elsewhere they make their own. As the post above says..."they have sheep in the US". FFS.
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
In this case it is not so much about performance genetics but environment. The US uses feedlots and grain based diets. The animals manifest this in receding jaw structure, and poor feet. This comines to put the fat subcutaneously along the back. Upto 3 inches deep compared to the natural grass feed environments such as Argentina, New Zealand etc, where subcutaneous fat may be only 1/2 inch yet will give a higher marbling. If your concern is about fat then I have a terrible revelation for you. New Zealand exports its beef to the US, where it is mixed with the US subcutaneous fat. That product becomes the small goods base: burger patties etc.
"This halves upload speed.
Correction: This doubles the upload time. Changing the value to poll at say 1-5 second seems to introduce unrealibility, yet halves the time taken to upload".
Modern users demand upload progress feedback. Which the HTML spec cannot do. The solution is a bevy of hoary hacks on the server end, usually by using a cache or tmp file callback. The value is then read periodically from the client as a javascript page load in an iframe.
For PHP this is the APC Cache module. You send an id with your file upload form then "Load that page using that ID" till the progress gets to 100%. According to the docs the module can poll at a period of "0 seconds" meaning as fast as possible. This halves upload speed.
On the client end, the old HTML way(no feedback) was a simple form with a submitted page. If you arrive at the submit page then the upload worked. The new way is 50-60k of javascript, which is a collection of fragile code. Yahoo's GUI upload for example. Try moding their code and your GUI *will* fail. The file may or may not upload.
br Given the modern web is *all about* uploading user submitted media, I am amazed there arent headlines "Mozilla forgets everything and rebuilds file upload in partnership with Apache...then thinks about HTML 5"
Gates can fix that then Gates is a hero in my book. I don't like his software company and I might not even like the person Gates, but come on people... this is just awesome.
And Gates dances a happy jig as he hears of the peoples reception to his plan.
" Or it would send a user from Iran or Libya to a 'domain name doesn't exist' server."
Why limited to these countries? How about Australia? Remember, this is a country that blocked Wikileaks thru its state sanctioned banlist. Politicians there are on board.
Even Linden Labs(makers of Second Life) have set up servers there(only 2-3 countries to have their servers outside the US). Critics theorize this is little to with technical distributed computing reasons but to be in readiness to self censor their content as LL seems to have had the opinion from Ozzie officials that Second Life in its current form would be "offensive". IE: against the law...like Child Porn etc.
Google needs the tools to "keep sweet" with local authorities. These DNS changes would help them avoid being like Linden Labs situation.
Probably the motivation that made them write the letter. Females discuss everything.
As the old saying goes...Adversity makes strange bed fellows.
"Google Investigating Chinese Employees"
Something occurred to me after I read this. I get a slight twinge that Google is more an Authority, instead of a private corporation. Its odd, If I read "Microsoft investigates..." I envision some staid corporate fumbling about, yet with Google, I feel they are almost Law Enforcement like, with big tenticles of power Joe Bloggs couldnt understand.
Sorry, I have watching "The Wire" on DVD. Its ruined my perceptions on how things (might) work.
On YouTube is a regular poster. He drives around on his farm and does crazy things in cars. Jumping over things etc. Friends come over and do the same. They post the videos to YouTube.
Local authoritys have said he needs a "Movie Studios Licence". His property have been raided. He currently is posting videos from his house mostly these days.
I should add he has a conviction of a sexual nature against a child back in the 80's, so the motivation of autorities might be on that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Davidsfarm
Vimeo? So You Tube would use flash?
From Vimeo:
object class="swf_holder"type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" data="/moogaloop_local.swf?clip_id=7129398&server=vimeo.com&autoplay=0&fullscreen=1&show_portrait=0&show_title=0&show_byline=0&color=00ADEF&context=user:2433314&context_id=&hd_off=0&buildnum=32768"