Something I do miss are the "next-previous" functions of the NeXT browser. Current browsers only permit you to follow a link and then to run back and forth over the path you took ("back" and "forward"). The NeXT browser had the additional function of following the next link of the previous page ("next"). That allowed me to make a page which was a list of pages to be looked at and then to walk that "path" with a click per page.
SeaMonkey has View > Show/Hide > Site Navigation Bar that shows buttons in the navigation for this. It's not in Firefox, though there's a Site navigation extension.
"I don't think I've ever read a white paper that actually had much meaningful information in it. Most of it is kind of marketing garbage that people like me write, and that's not that useful."
Indeed. As he says, just let me download the software, and give me a welcome page, a demo site, a tutorial, or sample data that give me a sense of what I can do with it.
Under its coat of spray-on imitation rust and an artful bandaging of silver duct-tape, the geometry of the paper-cored, carbon-wrapped frame makes Chevette's thighs tremble. There's a little double zik as the particle-brakes let go, then she's up and on it.
(Chevette the bike messenger is a precursor to Jessica Alba's Max in Dark Angel.
Continuing in the same vein, not only did HTML/HTTP/URLs link nodes across a network together, it also made the links apparent. There were all kinds of hypertext systems in the 1980s (Hypercard and Notes blew my mind, and OWL and Folio had great insights too) and there was SGML, but when Sir Tim came up with
<a href="some protocol:a host/path/to/resource?some action">the link text<a>
he changed everything. It's easy enough that several million people have Learned It In 21 Days and figured out how to put it in their own documents and programs, and now we're here. Anyone who claims that because analogs of the parts were around, Sir Tim's synthesis isn't earth-shattering, is deluded. He's by far the most significant person alive.
if you want to hear the song the way the band mixed it, they listened to it with a flat EQ
The moment I got decent speakers (Magnepan MG-Is, about $1000) and took the time to set them up, I never touched tone controls again, and like most audiophiles (damn, I just outed myself) the high-end equipment I occasionally buy doesn't come with any tone controls. I hear everything that's going on in the music and it sounds great, except for the crappy mixing and limiting the TFA discusses. The number one thing you can do to improve the sound of your music system is return all the tone controls to flat, and adjust the position of your speakers. Even in a noisy environment like a car, keep returning all the EQ to flat.
The second most important thing you can do to improve the sound is protect your hearing — remind yourself to turn the volume down after you rock out, and carry earplugs (or scrounge cigarette butts and put them in candy wrappers).
I think the SD standard should be updated to increase supported capacity
It has been, SDHC (Secure Digital "High-Capacity"). It replaces the FAT16 file system in the SD spec with FAT32, still patent-encumbered MS file system. 8GB cards are out, some new devices support it and some older ones have firmware updates for it. I don't know whether miCard uses FAT32 or a different file system "to save $40 million in licensing fees " as the article says
http://www.energyinnovations.com/sunflower250.html is the two-axis concentrator. It's a bit worrying that the website appears unchanged since 2006 and commercial trials were supposed to start in 2007. But supposedly Google's going with their subsidiary for a 1.6MW system.
Under Technology their web site describes all the approaches they considered and reluctantly abandoned. Very interesting read.
Firefox 3 should offer apps access to an offline cache. Were Google to add some code for this, Google Apps could run offline. Mozilla developer Robert O'Callahan in an interview indicated: "If Google, for example, were to implement it, Google Docs & Spreadsheets would be available offline."
You put a rel="tag" attribute on a hyperlink to the page on Del.icio.us or whatever that defines the tag. The microformats.org page succinctly explains the benefits of this approach.
It even explains how to encode spaces and special characters. So there's NO issue with the envelope or format, except that Del.icio.us (or is it Technorati?) doesn't like spaces in tag names.
As for the *content* of tags, yeah they're unavoidably a disorganized mess. Eggheads who know about ontology and RDF say they can't work. But they do, sort-of.
People can't even get the terminology right. TFA seems to be talking about "serving" media to a TV, plus some nebulous home automation crap that no one wants. "the market for home servers that will control your entertainment, television, telephony, and your home automation system".
The real "Home Server" is a headless box that holds your gigabytes of local media and provides them to other devices. There's no "control" relationship. That home server is obviously a networked hard drive. They're readily available, the best ones run Linux, but they're so cheap that there's no money to market them. And if the O.S. is free and barely visible, there's little motivation to put SlimServer, a TV format converter, a streaming Web server, etc. onto it. All of those are available for networked hard drives, but are for hackers only.
It sounds like Microsoft is going to take advantage of the confusion and low visibility to sell something much more expensive to people.
Meanwhile there's some kind of box connected to your TV. Call that what you want, but it's not a server. Why are there lots of "Apple TV" posts here?
I mean "completely cover", sorry I wasn't clearer. Your $20,000 3.5 kW probably covers only 100 sq ft, while just the south-facing pitch of my roof is 600 square feet. So it takes a lot of money to completely cover your roof with solar panels, so there's space left over for a separate, usually smaller, solar heat system; and two separate systems is what companies typically install.
And yes, that still leaves the rest of your roof doing nothing with all the solar energy hitting it. As I originally tried to say, once it's cheap and efficient enough, people will cover all their south-facing unshaded roofs with solar panels to MAKE MONEY FAST, and a new day will dawn!!
Energy Innovations has tried Fresnel and is working on mechanically steered 5x5 set of mirrors.
Your box sounds promising but a grid of them requires an elaborate supporting frame? The Energy Innovations Sunflower 250 lies flat on the roof. Your water heat collector adds expense.
Because it doesn't make sense economically. Yes, a combined system would save on roof space and mounting equipment, and would waste less of the sunlight striking it. But solar is so expensive that only millionaires can afford to cover their entire roof with solar heat or electricity, and combined systems cost even more.
I have both solar PV (nine BP panels) and solar heating (european tubes filled with glycol) on my roof, I'm waiting for approvals and final plumbing. The two systems are installed by different trades with different mounting frames and different hookups to your house.
The Holy Grail for all solar energy systems is to be cheap and efficient enough that any company or homeowner with some spare cash and roof space installs or adds on to one. It would be amazing if a combined heat and electric system reached that point, but I think dedicated systems will get there first. A solar electric system using a concentrator has to deal with overheating, so maybe it'll prove economical to do something useful with the waste heat.
Read all the Energy Innovations Technology pages for insights into the difficulties of making a concentrator system reach that Holy Grail, including a Stirling engine design
Now that everybody can copy a file a million times without any quality loss other than the one possibly introduced during sampling, who's to stop people from copying things for free?
Not only did you not bother to RTFA, you didn't read the summary?! You ignore what he proposes/predicts: many countries will have moved to a blanket licensing regime where we exchange music freely, for a couple of quid a month. I think it's a great solution, it ensures that artists receive compensation based on the popularity of their work and encourages sharing instead of trying to control it. The licensing fee should be extended to other digitized creative works: movies, videos, pictures, porn.
(Cue whining from Slashdotters saying "I only use my Internet connection to download source code, I shouldn't have to pay an extra $3 on top of my ISP bill".)
Google Gadgets has a Wikipedia search gadget and a dictionary gadget.
In Firefox I bookmarked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s , gave it keyword 'w', and just enter "{Ctrl-L}w anime" to jump to a Wikipedia article. The %s gets replaced by the rest of what you type in the location field.
It seems SourceForge provides every project an exciting feature-packed navigation bar that points to a bunch of pages regardless of whether you have anything for them!
I've wasted hours clicking through all those links to figure out whether projects have any "meat" to them. I've complained about this horrible misfeature for four years to SF.net, but the idea of a dynamic navigation bar that reflects the actual contents of a project is too hard for their system.
Also SourceForge really needs a blog for each project, and an automatic summary showing historical activity on a project (check-ins, downloads, bugs changing state, etc.). Anything to reveal all the dead lifeless projects!
Where's the *journal* in Dr. Dobbs Journal? It has editors but apparently no one actually edits? I can forgive the lack of "the" articles in the article from I assume a Russian writer, but not the dozens of basic errors.
Discreet elements were gradually replaced with integrated circuits "Discrete elements"
Intel's new "Woodcrest" server chip as only 14 "Woodcrest server chip has only 14"
speculative threading in the vane of to Intel's Mitosis.
new manufacturing technology in the vane of IBM's
in the vane of Sun's UltraSparc "in the vein of..."!
although it's new Efficieon CPU "Its" here is not a contraction of "it is" or "it has", so no apostrophe, also garbled name "Efficeon"
the cores itself would become more simple and less-deeply pipelined (kind of like UltraSparc T1 is doing already). The cores themselves would become simpler and less-deeply pipelined (similar to the UltraSparc T1)
while other cores might be deprived of such capacity He means "capability"
unless a way of frequency increases is found that does not result in the market increase in power consumption "Unless a way to increase frequency is found that does not result in a marked increase in power consumption"
instead are likely to seem them in niece markets "see them in niche markets"
Code efficiency is at all time low and potentially hide at least a order of magnitude performance boost "Code efficiency is at an all-time low and potentially hides at least an order-of-magnitude performance boost"
the role of CPU is likely to diminish with time living little reason for further clock-speed improvement "leaving little reason..." !!
extremely bloated code that out GHz-rated CPUs execute "that ouR... CPUs execute"
there is amble room for software optimization "ample room" !
Quite another alternative to VLIW that is already sprouting profusely WTF?
Crap editing makes text difficult to read, so people won't read carefully, leading to superficial scanning and the decline of RTFA.
Ahh yes, I remember buying a Palm IIIx organizer through Mobshop around 1998. It was as cheap as any other site, and if I could just get 7 friends to buy one, the price would drop an additional $3.74. They even offered to spam my friends for me. This of course is a recipe for having 7 fewer friends.
Mobshop were so pathetically grateful for my business they sent me Christmas cards and swag until they folded. Not a sustainable business model.
Before Amazon and eBay dominated, there were lots of alternative approaches to selling bulk lots of goods on the Internet; for example OnSale.com tried Dutch auctions, reverse auctions, etc. Slate has a good article on the economic theory behind it all.
The problem with such bulk schemes is everyone involved is gambling that somewhere in the supply chain there's a warehouse overstocked with goods, i.e. that distribution is inefficient. I think the real power of such auctions is only apparent when manufacturers sell direct. They reap the most benefit from economies of scale and tailoring production to demand. Imagine if Amazon was just a showroom for purchases built-to-order and shipped directly from the manufacturer. You'd buy an organizer through Amazon for $150 with a firm shipping date from the manufacturer, and a promise that if more people order before then, your price will go down. To motivate you further, Amazon could provide you a spiff code such that if family and friends bought more, you'd get a share in Amazon's slight commission.
I listen to my vinyl on a Rega Planar 3 (25 years old) with the Rega RB-300 arm (15 years old) and a Sumiko Blue Point Special cartridge (10 years old). For me, the sound is often as good as my Linn Ikemi CD player (which cost more), and sometimes much better if the CD re-release was poorly done. It's inevitably subjective because it can't be double-blind -- you know when you're listening to vinyl.
My next purchase is a Nitty Gritty record cleaner, then I'm considering upgrading the turntable to get more enjoyment from my records. Unlike CD reproduction where differences are damn subtle, reading the wiggles in a groove is primarily a mechanical problem that has always been well-addressed by careful, precise, alas expensive engineering.
If you have vinyl, don't ditch it until you've heard it through good equipment. All these models are still in production, or you can buy a second-hand audiophile turntable off craigslist from someone like me.
I rode on a school bus with a slot-loading player for 45 RPM 7-inch vinyl singles. I don't think anyone ever made a changer, but vinyl has been around for a long, long time and a portable mini-jukebox wouldn't surprise me.
Slashdot Mirror
I think he's talking about <link rel="next/previous/contents"> in the head.
SeaMonkey has View > Show/Hide > Site Navigation Bar that shows buttons in the navigation for this. It's not in Firefox, though there's a Site navigation extension.
"I don't think I've ever read a white paper that actually had much meaningful information in it. Most of it is kind of marketing garbage that people like me write, and that's not that useful."
Indeed. As he says, just let me download the software, and give me a welcome page, a demo site, a tutorial, or sample data that give me a sense of what I can do with it.
Under its coat of spray-on imitation rust and an artful bandaging of silver duct-tape, the geometry of the paper-cored, carbon-wrapped frame makes Chevette's thighs tremble. There's a little double zik as the particle-brakes let go, then she's up and on it.
(Chevette the bike messenger is a precursor to Jessica Alba's Max in Dark Angel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
Wikipedia had a useful article "Video games that have been considered the greatest ever" that collected and contrasted numerous BEST EVAR! lists, but after a vote they deleted it. Here's a copy, http://web.archive.org/web/20060829040010/http://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_games_that _have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever
Continuing in the same vein, not only did HTML/HTTP/URLs link nodes across a network together, it also made the links apparent. There were all kinds of hypertext systems in the 1980s (Hypercard and Notes blew my mind, and OWL and Folio had great insights too) and there was SGML, but when Sir Tim came up with
<a href="some protocol:a host/path/to/resource?some action">the link text<a>
he changed everything. It's easy enough that several million people have Learned It In 21 Days and figured out how to put it in their own documents and programs, and now we're here. Anyone who claims that because analogs of the parts were around, Sir Tim's synthesis isn't earth-shattering, is deluded. He's by far the most significant person alive.
The moment I got decent speakers (Magnepan MG-Is, about $1000) and took the time to set them up, I never touched tone controls again, and like most audiophiles (damn, I just outed myself) the high-end equipment I occasionally buy doesn't come with any tone controls. I hear everything that's going on in the music and it sounds great, except for the crappy mixing and limiting the TFA discusses. The number one thing you can do to improve the sound of your music system is return all the tone controls to flat, and adjust the position of your speakers. Even in a noisy environment like a car, keep returning all the EQ to flat.
The second most important thing you can do to improve the sound is protect your hearing — remind yourself to turn the volume down after you rock out, and carry earplugs (or scrounge cigarette butts and put them in candy wrappers).
It has been, SDHC (Secure Digital "High-Capacity"). It replaces the FAT16 file system in the SD spec with FAT32, still patent-encumbered MS file system. 8GB cards are out, some new devices support it and some older ones have firmware updates for it. I don't know whether miCard uses FAT32 or a different file system "to save $40 million in licensing fees " as the article says
http://www.energyinnovations.com/sunflower250.html is the two-axis concentrator. It's a bit worrying that the website appears unchanged since 2006 and commercial trials were supposed to start in 2007. But supposedly Google's going with their subsidiary for a 1.6MW system.
Under Technology their web site describes all the approaches they considered and reluctantly abandoned. Very interesting read.
From the much more detailed summary from the Rumbling Edge, 301084: Option to file replies in folder of original message is fixed.
Firefox 3 should offer apps access to an offline cache. Were Google to add some code for this, Google Apps could run offline. Mozilla developer Robert O'Callahan in an interview indicated: "If Google, for example, were to implement it, Google Docs & Spreadsheets would be available offline."
META keywords provides keywords for a page.
The better, more relevant standard for tagging is the rel-tag microformat, http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag
You put a rel="tag" attribute on a hyperlink to the page on Del.icio.us or whatever that defines the tag. The microformats.org page succinctly explains the benefits of this approach.
It even explains how to encode spaces and special characters. So there's NO issue with the envelope or format, except that Del.icio.us (or is it Technorati?) doesn't like spaces in tag names.
As for the *content* of tags, yeah they're unavoidably a disorganized mess. Eggheads who know about ontology and RDF say they can't work. But they do, sort-of.
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People can't even get the terminology right. TFA seems to be talking about "serving" media to a TV, plus some nebulous home automation crap that no one wants. "the market for home servers that will control your entertainment, television, telephony, and your home automation system".
The real "Home Server" is a headless box that holds your gigabytes of local media and provides them to other devices. There's no "control" relationship. That home server is obviously a networked hard drive. They're readily available, the best ones run Linux, but they're so cheap that there's no money to market them. And if the O.S. is free and barely visible, there's little motivation to put SlimServer, a TV format converter, a streaming Web server, etc. onto it. All of those are available for networked hard drives, but are for hackers only.
It sounds like Microsoft is going to take advantage of the confusion and low visibility to sell something much more expensive to people.
Meanwhile there's some kind of box connected to your TV. Call that what you want, but it's not a server. Why are there lots of "Apple TV" posts here?
I mean "completely cover", sorry I wasn't clearer. Your $20,000 3.5 kW probably covers only 100 sq ft, while just the south-facing pitch of my roof is 600 square feet. So it takes a lot of money to completely cover your roof with solar panels, so there's space left over for a separate, usually smaller, solar heat system; and two separate systems is what companies typically install.
And yes, that still leaves the rest of your roof doing nothing with all the solar energy hitting it. As I originally tried to say, once it's cheap and efficient enough, people will cover all their south-facing unshaded roofs with solar panels to MAKE MONEY FAST, and a new day will dawn!!
Meanwhile I hope you buy a system.
Energy Innovations has tried Fresnel and is working on mechanically steered 5x5 set of mirrors.
Your box sounds promising but a grid of them requires an elaborate supporting frame? The Energy Innovations Sunflower 250 lies flat on the roof. Your water heat collector adds expense.
why haven't I seen yet a combined system
Because it doesn't make sense economically. Yes, a combined system would save on roof space and mounting equipment, and would waste less of the sunlight striking it. But solar is so expensive that only millionaires can afford to cover their entire roof with solar heat or electricity, and combined systems cost even more.
I have both solar PV (nine BP panels) and solar heating (european tubes filled with glycol) on my roof, I'm waiting for approvals and final plumbing. The two systems are installed by different trades with different mounting frames and different hookups to your house.
The Holy Grail for all solar energy systems is to be cheap and efficient enough that any company or homeowner with some spare cash and roof space installs or adds on to one. It would be amazing if a combined heat and electric system reached that point, but I think dedicated systems will get there first. A solar electric system using a concentrator has to deal with overheating, so maybe it'll prove economical to do something useful with the waste heat.
Read all the Energy Innovations Technology pages for insights into the difficulties of making a concentrator system reach that Holy Grail, including a Stirling engine design
Not only did you not bother to RTFA, you didn't read the summary?! You ignore what he proposes/predicts: many countries will have moved to a blanket licensing regime where we exchange music freely, for a couple of quid a month. I think it's a great solution, it ensures that artists receive compensation based on the popularity of their work and encourages sharing instead of trying to control it. The licensing fee should be extended to other digitized creative works: movies, videos, pictures, porn.
(Cue whining from Slashdotters saying "I only use my Internet connection to download source code, I shouldn't have to pay an extra $3 on top of my ISP bill".)
Google Gadgets has a Wikipedia search gadget and a dictionary gadget.
In Firefox I bookmarked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s , gave it keyword 'w', and just enter "{Ctrl-L}w anime" to jump to a Wikipedia article. The %s gets replaced by the rest of what you type in the location field.
Here are some more:
Merriam-Webster dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=DictioIMDB search: http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s
directions from your house (keyword "mapto"): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600+Pennsylvania+A
Yes, this has been done to death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_ga mes_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever does a good job of keeping score.
I bought an N64 just to play Super Mario 64. 3 Shigeru Miyamoto!!
It seems SourceForge provides every project an exciting feature-packed navigation bar that points to a bunch of pages regardless of whether you have anything for them!
I've wasted hours clicking through all those links to figure out whether projects have any "meat" to them. I've complained about this horrible misfeature for four years to SF.net, but the idea of a dynamic navigation bar that reflects the actual contents of a project is too hard for their system.
Also SourceForge really needs a blog for each project, and an automatic summary showing historical activity on a project (check-ins, downloads, bugs changing state, etc.). Anything to reveal all the dead lifeless projects!
Where's the *journal* in Dr. Dobbs Journal? It has editors but apparently no one actually edits? I can forgive the lack of "the" articles in the article from I assume a Russian writer, but not the dozens of basic errors.
... CPUs execute"
Discreet elements were gradually replaced with integrated circuits
"Discrete elements"
Intel's new "Woodcrest" server chip as only 14
"Woodcrest server chip has only 14"
speculative threading in the vane of to Intel's Mitosis.
new manufacturing technology in the vane of IBM's
in the vane of Sun's UltraSparc
"in the vein of..."!
although it's new Efficieon CPU
"Its" here is not a contraction of "it is" or "it has", so no apostrophe, also garbled name "Efficeon"
the cores itself would become more simple and less-deeply pipelined (kind of like UltraSparc T1 is doing already).
The cores themselves would become simpler and less-deeply pipelined (similar to the UltraSparc T1)
while other cores might be deprived of such capacity
He means "capability"
unless a way of frequency increases is found that does not result in the market increase in power consumption
"Unless a way to increase frequency is found that does not result in a marked increase in power consumption"
instead are likely to seem them in niece markets
"see them in niche markets"
Code efficiency is at all time low and potentially hide at least a order of magnitude performance boost
"Code efficiency is at an all-time low and potentially hides at least an order-of-magnitude performance boost"
the role of CPU is likely to diminish with time living little reason for further clock-speed improvement
"leaving little reason..." !!
extremely bloated code that out GHz-rated CPUs execute
"that ouR
there is amble room for software optimization
"ample room" !
Quite another alternative to VLIW that is already sprouting profusely
WTF?
Crap editing makes text difficult to read, so people won't read carefully, leading to superficial scanning and the decline of RTFA.
Pirates have "hoards", each a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away.
Ahh yes, I remember buying a Palm IIIx organizer through Mobshop around 1998. It was as cheap as any other site, and if I could just get 7 friends to buy one, the price would drop an additional $3.74. They even offered to spam my friends for me. This of course is a recipe for having 7 fewer friends.
Mobshop were so pathetically grateful for my business they sent me Christmas cards and swag until they folded. Not a sustainable business model.
Before Amazon and eBay dominated, there were lots of alternative approaches to selling bulk lots of goods on the Internet; for example OnSale.com tried Dutch auctions, reverse auctions, etc. Slate has a good article on the economic theory behind it all.
The problem with such bulk schemes is everyone involved is gambling that somewhere in the supply chain there's a warehouse overstocked with goods, i.e. that distribution is inefficient. I think the real power of such auctions is only apparent when manufacturers sell direct. They reap the most benefit from economies of scale and tailoring production to demand. Imagine if Amazon was just a showroom for purchases built-to-order and shipped directly from the manufacturer. You'd buy an organizer through Amazon for $150 with a firm shipping date from the manufacturer, and a promise that if more people order before then, your price will go down. To motivate you further, Amazon could provide you a spiff code such that if family and friends bought more, you'd get a share in Amazon's slight commission.
ShowroomShipDirect, TailoredLeanProduction, and PSC (Personal Spiff Code) are all © skierpage, contact me for licensing.
I listen to my vinyl on a Rega Planar 3 (25 years old) with the Rega RB-300 arm (15 years old) and a Sumiko Blue Point Special cartridge (10 years old). For me, the sound is often as good as my Linn Ikemi CD player (which cost more), and sometimes much better if the CD re-release was poorly done. It's inevitably subjective because it can't be double-blind -- you know when you're listening to vinyl.
My next purchase is a Nitty Gritty record cleaner, then I'm considering upgrading the turntable to get more enjoyment from my records. Unlike CD reproduction where differences are damn subtle, reading the wiggles in a groove is primarily a mechanical problem that has always been well-addressed by careful, precise, alas expensive engineering.
If you have vinyl, don't ditch it until you've heard it through good equipment. All these models are still in production, or you can buy a second-hand audiophile turntable off craigslist from someone like me.
I rode on a school bus with a slot-loading player for 45 RPM 7-inch vinyl singles. I don't think anyone ever made a changer, but vinyl has been around for a long, long time and a portable mini-jukebox wouldn't surprise me.
Google reveals http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html , lots of pictures and info on car record player kits.