Go re-read Neuromancer to see how all this turns out. Every time you turn the damn artificial brain on it's the same deadpan backseat driver.
It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct, a hardwired
ROM cassette replicating a dead man's skills, obsessions, kneejerk
responses....
He slotted some ice,
connected the construct, and jacked in.
It was exactly the sensation of someone reading over his shoulder.
He coughed. "Dix? McCoy? That you man?" His throat was tight.
"Hey, bro," said a directionless voice.
"It's Case, man. Remember?"
"Miami, joeboy, quick study."
"What's the last thing you remember before I spoke to you, Dix?"
"Nothin'."
"Hang on." He disconnected the construct. The presence was gone. He
reconnected it. "Dix? Who am I?"
"You got me hung, Jack. Who the fuck are you?"
I've been running Firefox nightly builds for years. I recently switched from Windows to Kubuntu, found a 64-bit build (I think http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu), and got right back on the nightly rough edge, currently called Firefox 3.6a1pre and codenamed Namoroka.
It's definitely not for most people; you have to watch planet.mozilla.org to track what's going on, you give up on some extensions, and there are occasionally snafus where you have to look at the firefox builds forum on mozillazine to find out what's up and maybe revert to using an earlier browser for a day or so. But by and large nightly builds work. Mozilla's investment in build farms and try servers and test suites means most stuff that's checked in to the trunk is working.
Tip: use/path/to/old/firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager to simultaneously run a second instance using a blank profile to see if it's just the new version or your profile or a particular extension that's causing problems.
We will always consume the most amount of energy we can afford.
Who's "we"? Rather, I spend the most I can afford on consuming less energy, and I'm not alone. Once you have an easy-to-read electricity meter in full view you change your behavior; I stopped lighting my garden and most of my house once I realized how much even my low-voltage and fluorescent fixtures consume. And I bet Prius drivers ride bicycles more than SUV owners. Some people give a damn, join the club.
The idea is/was to do a large scale cleanup and refactoring.
And it's getting done in pieces. Mozilla developers wrote a string of tools (Elsa, Oink, TreeHydra, DeHydra) to analyze the codebase, all open source and some contributing to GCC's rearchitecture to better support plug-ins Developers can then pick specific cleanups and refactoring and identify exactly what code is affected and even do rewrites, though these go through code review. This happens steadily.
... But the smaller, leaner, more approachable codebase goal?.
representation of information as landscapes has been a repeated dead end.
Yup. Gibson saw cyberspace as a spatial representation of different corporations' data. He talks quite specifically of jacking into the VR construct and navigating (via keyboard commands!) between the geometric data of different hosts, "great corporate hotcores" and below them used-car lots and tax accountants, and further out black zones of government agencies. That's just not remotely how the internet works and I doubt connecting to different IP addresses will ever be presented that way.
However, Gibson tosses out dozens of resonant ideas in the Sprawl series (some of which the article mentions), like Zeiss Ikon recording eye implants, simstim, holographic porn, cyber guard dogs, microlights in zero G, rogue AIs, artistic AIs, etc. Slotting slivers of microsoft to know stuff ("knowledge lit him like an arcade game"!), then the transition to biosoft making you nauseous with another's emotions is wonderful. Although Neal Stephenson gets the credit for avatars in cyberspace, Count Zero has an eerily prescient description of virtual worlds like PlayStation Home when it describes Jaylene Slide's pad in L.A. Lots of CZ quotations here and here.
your choice: XHTML, HTML, HTML-looks-like-XML
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So, we should still be ensuring that all tags have matching close tags?
Well, duh, obviously if your document is XML according to its mime type. If it's HTML then it can have matching close tags; from WHATWG's HTML vs. XHTML, "If you attempt to send XHTML as text/html, you are actually just using HTML, possibly with syntax errors."
What will the document header be?
There's a web site that answers such questions.
I have been told that making page uses XML compatible HTML makes for a more predictable browsing experience and also lowers memory requirements.
The first claim is turning off quirks mode and using strict mode in various browsers, a complicated subject. I believe a document authored conforming to HTML5 is always and only strict mode; HTML5 also tries to make browser handling of "tag soup" more predictable. The second claim... {{citation needed}}?
XML mode and separating author/browser concerns
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Now if they implement HTML5 right, and we get the same cleanness that XHTML 1.1 had (Strict only. No transitional shit.), and they add cross-language abilities too (trough SGML), then I'm all for it!
There is an XML mode for HTML5, see HTML vs. XHTML. HTML5 even uses the same xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/" namespace.
HTML5 tries to defines exactly how a browser should handle the billions of unclean documents out there. This will help browser interoperability in the real worldwide web of garbled HTML, and has huge benefits for script parsing HTML because the DOM contents after reading in HTML should be somewhat similar in different browsers.
Despite this, HTML5 specifies very clearly how authors should write HTML. It separates conformance for authors (write stuff correctly!!) from conformance for browsers (there are billions of crappy HTML documents out there, deal with it). Read Why does HTML5 legitimise tag soup?: "Just because browsers are required to handle erroneous content, it does not make such markup conforming. "
Have some faith, the HTML5 spec and its writers are wayyyyy smarter than/. commenters!
During the Clinton administration the government and Detroit 3 set up Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_New_Generation_of_Vehicles , and all three produced 70MPG prototypes. George W Bush scrapped it at the behest of the auto makers and replaced it with the pie in the sky FreedomCar research program. One of the most boneheaded moves in US automotive history. New head Steven Chu is trying to reorient transportation research away from the hydrogen highway fantasy back to more immediate payoff.
The Windows stuff can't be 100% because of things like DBUS are lacking.
No. KDE4 comes with dbus-daemon.exe (plus dbus-launch/monitor/send utilities). It starts when you run the first KDE app, along with kded4 and klauncher, and the first time you save, kioslave. It's quite impressive to see all the UNIX-like trappings of KDE show up. The missing elements are Linux desktop goodness like Plasma and KWin and KRunner.
I use Okular from KDE on Windows as my PDF viewer, I've triied using KPresenter for.odp with some success (it disagrees with OpenOffice about slide masters). I haven't explored the rest as much.
The only DC power standard connector that has a chance is the USB's 5 Volts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power . It's not much power (successive spec revisions seem to have pushed it up to ~ 7 Watts), which in a way is nice because it forces people to make more efficient gizmos (including humping dog flash drives, and tiny lights, etc. from http://usb.brando.com.hk/ ).
http://www.greenplug.us/ has a protocol to boost power delivery high enough to power TVs and such, based around USB.
The tipping point is when devices stop shipping with power adapters, and you just plug them in to the nearest USB hub. They say it's happened in China. Then you start migrating your USB hubs to solar power, your home treadmill, etc. and the power company isn't involved as it's all DC.
[Global warming] has the strange affect of causing the earths average temperature to drop over the last decade instead of rise.
If you're not being facetious...
Denialists keep saying: Hey you clueless sheep, there's been a recent drop in temperatures, so global warming is bunk. But where's the data for this alleged drop?
Anomalies are now provided as departures from the 20th century average (1901-2000). The Annual Global (land and ocean combined) Anomalies (degrees C)...
1998 was awfully hot, then it wasn't so hot for a while but then it got hotter still. Soon denialists will shift to "It's gotten cooler since 2005, so global warming is bunk."
In other non-news, "Swimmers have gotten slower since Michael Phelps' world records in China"
to supply 100% of that with wind and batteries would cost roughly $6.2 trillion dollars
USA spent over a trillion dollars on non-renewable energy a year (DOE reports), much of that goes to clueless klepto/auto/theo-cracies overseas and bastard oil companies. So, spending $600 billion a year to reduce that seems a pretty good deal on economics without even considering the pollution and employment stimulus benefits. Of course that trillion+ is more than just electricity, USA "only" spent 368 billion for electricity in 2006 (RAND report). But a smart grid powered by renewables goes hand-in-hand with switching transportation from fossil fuels to recharging battery and hybrid vehicles.
Andrew Keen might have a point if the employed spent every waking hour slaving away at paid work and the unemployed spent every waking hour rooting through dirt and garbage to survive.
But he obviously didn't read Clay Shirky's post comparing the 200 billion hours Americans "spend" watching TV each year, equivalent to 2,000 Wikipedia-sized projects from scratch, every year.
GPS support in a Web browser via a standard navigator.geolocation API is in a W3C Editor's draft http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html , and implemented in latest Firefox code or the Geode plug-in (with appropriate user privacy controls).
And people are talking about standard browser access to accelerometer and camera.
Wikipedia's semi-orphaned Engine efficiency article says "Modern gasoline engines have an average efficiency of about 25 to 30% when used to power an automobile"
Wikipedia's Electric car article claims "A typical charging cycle is about 85% efficient[citation needed], and the discharge cycle converting electricity into mechanical power is about 95% efficient, resulting in 81% of each kWh is put to use".
That's why battery electric vehicles are a economical+environmental win, even if powered by expensive electricity from a coal plant—much, much more efficient than making a lot of heat and a little forward motion.
If you can shed any additional light on the numbers, please reply. Sure, but put this on a web page, it's important stuff!
abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification in favor of a more limited specification dubbed 'Harmony,' or ECMAScript 3.1.
That is wrong, ES3.1 is the smaller increment and repair of the current third standard, and "Harmony" is new features beyond that. Doug Crockford, who seemed opposed to much of ES4, wrote:
Some of the features that were in ES4 were reasonable, so a new project, called Harmony, is starting which will look at adapting the best of ES4 on top of ES3.1.
I'm not sure where you're getting your kWh equivalent of gasoline but it's not the same as the energy released by burning gasoline. That's good because battery electric vehicles are much more efficient than combustion engines.
Large solar plants have their place, but equally important is local power generation on your or your neighbor's roof. Follow the money to watch power companies and T. Boone Pickens pretend to support this while focusing on government subsidies for vast centralized renewable power schemes
I have three Microsoft Natural keyboards and worry what I'll do when the last one dies (around 2017). MS still sells the Natural Elite that replaced it, but that has the ridiculous diamond pattern set of arrow keys. Their Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 has the inverted-T set of arrow keys but a lot of redundant extra keys, and doesn't feel as good or durable.
Adesso sells Tru-Formâ Mac and USB keyboards with a similar ergonomic layout, last time I tried one it had a squishier action which some may like.
I can type blazingly fast on a "linear" keyboard or laptop keyboard, but it's hard to believe anyone who finds twisting their arms inwards and cocking their wrists outward more comfortable than using a split angled keyboard. I've used a co-worker's Kinesis Contoured Ergonomic that lets you separate your hands even more, but not for long enough to tell if I'd prefer it.
Instead of filling your car with gas, you're using coal/oil power plants instead. I don't see what the true benefit really is.
If you paid any attention at all to this subject over the past 5 years you'd know that battery-powered electric vehicles are far more efficient than blowing up gasoline to move, so even if the electricity to recharge them comes from fossil fuel, there's less pollution and lower costs and higher equivalent MPG.
It's very useful for me to keep backups of all my legally acquired media on a "shared folder", specifically my web site. I kant talk legalese, but that behavior has substantial non-infringing uses.
Can I now put a link on my blog "Archive of my iTunes folder" to remind me where my backups are without getting in trouble? So long as I don't exceed my ISP's bandwidth cap I couldn't care less if strangers (the lazy copyright-infringing bastards!) download the bits.
Is it the hackers fault that Meraki instituted a poor business model? Is it the hackers fault that Meraki...? Is it the hackers fault that Meraki...?
These are all the possessive plural ("the fault of the hackers"), so they need a trailing apostrophe. Is it the hackers' fault that Meraki instituted a poor business model? Is it this hacker's fault that he or she finds grammar has rules hard? It's tough that English is complicated, but its contraction and possessive rules aren't so hard, they just overload the apostrophe and 's'. Try this guide, cheers.
Why, why, why do people submit second-hand links to Slashdot?
The byline of the Seattle Times story is "John Markoff New York Times". 5 seconds with Google's site:nytimes.com reveals the original story with better explanation and more quotes from Sun personnel.
The awesomebar is a real advance. Keep at it, I think you'll come to love it. It started great and continues to get smarter in nightly builds. The frecency (measure of how frequently and how recently) is very good at picking the right URLs. If the wrong things shows up, just enter another sequence from the title or the URL ("news bbc front" OK! {Enter}).
You semi-consciously learn to pick words that work, e.g. I type {Ctrl-L}cairo march{Enter} for mailing list archives, {Ctrl-L}Dash{Enter} for my blogger home page, etc. It's MUCH faster than navigating bookmarks, much better than URL completion, and no need to set up a keyworded bookmark.
(But Slashdotters should drop the shitty "Firefox developers are idiots for not doing it the right way!" attitude if they want busy developers to spend more than 5 seconds considering their bitching.)
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Go re-read Neuromancer to see how all this turns out. Every time you turn the damn artificial brain on it's the same deadpan backseat driver.
It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct, a hardwired ROM cassette replicating a dead man's skills, obsessions, kneejerk responses. ...
He slotted some ice, connected the construct, and jacked in.
It was exactly the sensation of someone reading over his shoulder.
He coughed. "Dix? McCoy? That you man?" His throat was tight.
"Hey, bro," said a directionless voice.
"It's Case, man. Remember?"
"Miami, joeboy, quick study."
"What's the last thing you remember before I spoke to you, Dix?"
"Nothin'."
"Hang on." He disconnected the construct. The presence was gone. He reconnected it. "Dix? Who am I?"
"You got me hung, Jack. Who the fuck are you?"
who got brave, and installed FF 3.6?
I've been running Firefox nightly builds for years. I recently switched from Windows to Kubuntu, found a 64-bit build (I think http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu), and got right back on the nightly rough edge, currently called Firefox 3.6a1pre and codenamed Namoroka.
It's definitely not for most people; you have to watch planet.mozilla.org to track what's going on, you give up on some extensions, and there are occasionally snafus where you have to look at the firefox builds forum on mozillazine to find out what's up and maybe revert to using an earlier browser for a day or so. But by and large nightly builds work. Mozilla's investment in build farms and try servers and test suites means most stuff that's checked in to the trunk is working.
Tip: use /path/to/old/firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager to simultaneously run a second instance using a blank profile to see if it's just the new version or your profile or a particular extension that's causing problems.
We will always consume the most amount of energy we can afford.
Who's "we"? Rather, I spend the most I can afford on consuming less energy, and I'm not alone. Once you have an easy-to-read electricity meter in full view you change your behavior; I stopped lighting my garden and most of my house once I realized how much even my low-voltage and fluorescent fixtures consume. And I bet Prius drivers ride bicycles more than SUV owners. Some people give a damn, join the club.
The idea is/was to do a large scale cleanup and refactoring.
And it's getting done in pieces. Mozilla developers wrote a string of tools (Elsa, Oink, TreeHydra, DeHydra) to analyze the codebase, all open source and some contributing to GCC's rearchitecture to better support plug-ins Developers can then pick specific cleanups and refactoring and identify exactly what code is affected and even do rewrites, though these go through code review. This happens steadily.
DeCOMtamination proceeds. In each release a few major internal rewrites get in, like the switch to thebes on Cairo and the HTML reflow changes; upcoming is Combined nsImage* & gfxImageFrame and the HTML5 parser.
There's no need to wonder when all the development takes place in the open. Pay attention or don't style yourself as an armchair expert.
representation of information as landscapes has been a repeated dead end.
Yup. Gibson saw cyberspace as a spatial representation of different corporations' data. He talks quite specifically of jacking into the VR construct and navigating (via keyboard commands!) between the geometric data of different hosts, "great corporate hotcores" and below them used-car lots and tax accountants, and further out black zones of government agencies. That's just not remotely how the internet works and I doubt connecting to different IP addresses will ever be presented that way.
However, Gibson tosses out dozens of resonant ideas in the Sprawl series (some of which the article mentions), like Zeiss Ikon recording eye implants, simstim, holographic porn, cyber guard dogs, microlights in zero G, rogue AIs, artistic AIs, etc. Slotting slivers of microsoft to know stuff ("knowledge lit him like an arcade game"!), then the transition to biosoft making you nauseous with another's emotions is wonderful. Although Neal Stephenson gets the credit for avatars in cyberspace, Count Zero has an eerily prescient description of virtual worlds like PlayStation Home when it describes Jaylene Slide's pad in L.A. Lots of CZ quotations here and here.
So, we should still be ensuring that all tags have matching close tags?
Well, duh, obviously if your document is XML according to its mime type. If it's HTML then it can have matching close tags; from WHATWG's HTML vs. XHTML, "If you attempt to send XHTML as text/html, you are actually just using HTML, possibly with syntax errors."
What will the document header be?
There's a web site that answers such questions.
I have been told that making page uses XML compatible HTML makes for a more predictable browsing experience and also lowers memory requirements.
The first claim is turning off quirks mode and using strict mode in various browsers, a complicated subject. I believe a document authored conforming to HTML5 is always and only strict mode; HTML5 also tries to make browser handling of "tag soup" more predictable. The second claim... {{citation needed}}?
Now if they implement HTML5 right, and we get the same cleanness that XHTML 1.1 had (Strict only. No transitional shit.), and they add cross-language abilities too (trough SGML), then I'm all for it!
Have some faith, the HTML5 spec and its writers are wayyyyy smarter than /. commenters!
The government has and does fund battery research.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/technologies/energy_storage/
During the Clinton administration the government and Detroit 3 set up Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_New_Generation_of_Vehicles , and all three produced 70MPG prototypes. George W Bush scrapped it at the behest of the auto makers and replaced it with the pie in the sky FreedomCar research program. One of the most boneheaded moves in US automotive history. New head Steven Chu is trying to reorient transportation research away from the hydrogen highway fantasy back to more immediate payoff.
The Windows stuff can't be 100% because of things like DBUS are lacking.
No. KDE4 comes with dbus-daemon.exe (plus dbus-launch/monitor/send utilities). It starts when you run the first KDE app, along with kded4 and klauncher, and the first time you save, kioslave. It's quite impressive to see all the UNIX-like trappings of KDE show up. The missing elements are Linux desktop goodness like Plasma and KWin and KRunner.
I use Okular from KDE on Windows as my PDF viewer, I've triied using KPresenter for .odp with some success (it disagrees with OpenOffice about slide masters). I haven't explored the rest as much.
We've had a 12V standard connectors for 80 years, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_lighter_receptacle#History and apart from recreational vehicles, it isn't happening.
The only DC power standard connector that has a chance is the USB's 5 Volts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power .
It's not much power (successive spec revisions seem to have pushed it up to ~ 7 Watts), which in a way is nice because it forces people to make more efficient gizmos (including humping dog flash drives, and tiny lights, etc. from http://usb.brando.com.hk/ ).
http://www.greenplug.us/ has a protocol to boost power delivery high enough to power TVs and such, based around USB.
The tipping point is when devices stop shipping with power adapters, and you just plug them in to the nearest USB hub. They say it's happened in China. Then you start migrating your USB hubs to solar power, your home treadmill, etc. and the power company isn't involved as it's all DC.
[Global warming] has the strange affect of causing the earths average temperature to drop over the last decade instead of rise.
If you're not being facetious...
Denialists keep saying: Hey you clueless sheep, there's been a recent drop in temperatures, so global warming is bunk. But where's the data for this alleged drop?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/anomalies.html has the graph, here's the data set:
Anomalies are now provided as departures from the 20th century average (1901-2000). ...
The Annual Global (land and ocean combined) Anomalies (degrees C)
1997 0.4615
1998 0.5765
1999 0.3948
2000 0.3631
2001 0.4935
2002 0.5574
2003 0.5566
2004 0.5338
2005 0.6066
2006 0.5524
2007 0.5491
1998 was awfully hot, then it wasn't so hot for a while but then it got hotter still. Soon denialists will shift to "It's gotten cooler since 2005, so global warming is bunk."
In other non-news, "Swimmers have gotten slower since Michael Phelps' world records in China"
Thanks for the rest of the analysis, but:
to supply 100% of that with wind and batteries would cost roughly $6.2 trillion dollars
USA spent over a trillion dollars on non-renewable energy a year (DOE reports), much of that goes to clueless klepto/auto/theo-cracies overseas and bastard oil companies. So, spending $600 billion a year to reduce that seems a pretty good deal on economics without even considering the pollution and employment stimulus benefits. Of course that trillion+ is more than just electricity, USA "only" spent 368 billion for electricity in 2006 (RAND report). But a smart grid powered by renewables goes hand-in-hand with switching transportation from fossil fuels to recharging battery and hybrid vehicles.
If OLPC couldn't ship 'em to donors, what makes anyone think they're shipping them to kids in the '2nd world'?
The deployment map and deployments wiki page giving the status of the deployments is pretty convincing.
Why quote something when your spelling and punctuation is so utterly abysmal that meaning drifts away?
Andrew Keen might have a point if the employed spent every waking hour slaving away at paid work and the unemployed spent every waking hour rooting through dirt and garbage to survive.
But he obviously didn't read Clay Shirky's post comparing the 200 billion hours Americans "spend" watching TV each year, equivalent to 2,000 Wikipedia-sized projects from scratch, every year.
GPS support in a Web browser via a standard navigator.geolocation API is in a W3C Editor's draft http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html , and implemented in latest Firefox code or the Geode plug-in (with appropriate user privacy controls).
And people are talking about standard browser access to accelerometer and camera.
Don't bet against the browsers.
That's why battery electric vehicles are a economical+environmental win, even if powered by expensive electricity from a coal plant—much, much more efficient than making a lot of heat and a little forward motion.
If you can shed any additional light on the numbers, please reply.
Sure, but put this on a web page, it's important stuff!
Original post says
That is wrong, ES3.1 is the smaller increment and repair of the current third standard, and "Harmony" is new features beyond that. Doug Crockford, who seemed opposed to much of ES4, wrote:
Some of the features that were in ES4 were reasonable, so a new project, called Harmony, is starting which will look at adapting the best of ES4 on top of ES3.1.
TopSpin's summary is pretty crappy!
I'm not sure where you're getting your kWh equivalent of gasoline but it's not the same as the energy released by burning gasoline. That's good because battery electric vehicles are much more efficient than combustion engines.
Large solar plants have their place, but equally important is local power generation on your or your neighbor's roof. Follow the money to watch power companies and T. Boone Pickens pretend to support this while focusing on government subsidies for vast centralized renewable power schemes
I have three Microsoft Natural keyboards and worry what I'll do when the last one dies (around 2017). MS still sells the Natural Elite that replaced it, but that has the ridiculous diamond pattern set of arrow keys. Their Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 has the inverted-T set of arrow keys but a lot of redundant extra keys, and doesn't feel as good or durable.
Adesso sells Tru-Formâ Mac and USB keyboards with a similar ergonomic layout, last time I tried one it had a squishier action which some may like.
I can type blazingly fast on a "linear" keyboard or laptop keyboard, but it's hard to believe anyone who finds twisting their arms inwards and cocking their wrists outward more comfortable than using a split angled keyboard. I've used a co-worker's Kinesis Contoured Ergonomic that lets you separate your hands even more, but not for long enough to tell if I'd prefer it.
Instead of filling your car with gas, you're using coal/oil power plants instead. I don't see what the true benefit really is.
If you paid any attention at all to this subject over the past 5 years you'd know that battery-powered electric vehicles are far more efficient than blowing up gasoline to move, so even if the electricity to recharge them comes from fossil fuel, there's less pollution and lower costs and higher equivalent MPG.
People have already refuted and posted links here (and the last 500 times someone who "doesn't see" brings it up), but I'll repeat two: http://www.teslamotors.com/efficiency/well_to_wheel.php and http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2006/08/04/electric-car-cost-per-mile/
It's very useful for me to keep backups of all my legally acquired media on a "shared folder", specifically my web site. I kant talk legalese, but that behavior has substantial non-infringing uses.
Can I now put a link on my blog "Archive of my iTunes folder" to remind me where my backups are without getting in trouble? So long as I don't exceed my ISP's bandwidth cap I couldn't care less if strangers (the lazy copyright-infringing bastards!) download the bits.
Is it the hackers fault that Meraki instituted a poor business model? Is it the hackers fault that Meraki ...? Is it the hackers fault that Meraki ...?
These are all the possessive plural ("the fault of the hackers"), so they need a trailing apostrophe. Is it the hackers' fault that Meraki instituted a poor business model? Is it this hacker's fault that he or she finds grammar has rules hard? It's tough that English is complicated, but its contraction and possessive rules aren't so hard, they just overload the apostrophe and 's'. Try this guide, cheers.Why, why, why do people submit second-hand links to Slashdot?
The byline of the Seattle Times story is "John Markoff New York Times". 5 seconds with Google's site:nytimes.com reveals the original story with better explanation and more quotes from Sun personnel.
The awesomebar is a real advance. Keep at it, I think you'll come to love it. It started great and continues to get smarter in nightly builds. The frecency (measure of how frequently and how recently) is very good at picking the right URLs. If the wrong things shows up, just enter another sequence from the title or the URL ("news bbc front" OK! {Enter}).
You semi-consciously learn to pick words that work, e.g. I type {Ctrl-L}cairo march{Enter} for mailing list archives, {Ctrl-L}Dash{Enter} for my blogger home page, etc. It's MUCH faster than navigating bookmarks, much better than URL completion, and no need to set up a keyworded bookmark.
One of the developers blogged about recent changes, http://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/using-the-awesomebar and invites feedback.
(But Slashdotters should drop the shitty "Firefox developers are idiots for not doing it the right way!" attitude if they want busy developers to spend more than 5 seconds considering their bitching.)