To the author(s) of the book and everyone else - AJAX is an acronym, for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (or more appropriately, Asynchronous JavaScript + XML). Unfortunately, the book does not recognize this.
More unfortunately, Adaptive Path, the coiners of the original term/acronym also do not.
Although I think Napster has other facets of its business that may account for its eventual demise outside of Microsoft, such as marketing a product that customers don't want -- highly publicized crippling of digital music files.
Yes, instead of joining the MS bashing elite, perhaps we should focus on the fact that the devices suck, the music is crippled, and iTunes and the iPod are better devices. No Napster music on the iPod? Well, no duh your product isn't selling like hotcakes. Music plays on iTunes? There you go...
There are tons of businesses that rely on MS - especially in the web site hosting and development vein - and all are doing quite swimmingly. Let's not follow Napster's lead and blame MS - what a cop out. No no - let's put blame where it belongs, on the shoulders of Napster and its poor choice of delivery systems.
Just like I refuse to blame McDonalds for people getting fat, I refuse to blame Microsoft for another company's failed business plan.
Well, um, learning is kindof a way to support education.
And in computer class, this is fine, when "learning" is related to learning the ins and outs and operations of a new OS. However, when a teacher wants to fire up a program in support of a lesson just taught, they should not have to learn and then teach their students a new OS just to get to the crux of the lesson they taught, which had nothing to do with learning a new OS.
I'm simply stating that the school this person works at seems to already have a degree of investment in Windows - and it's not just Windows, but the applications that run on the OS to support educational endevours (sp?). If they plan to change to Linux, fine, but they need to make sure there are educational equivlents for all software packages all teachers use, that teachers and students are educated on the system outside of the normal classroom schedule, that the change is not disruptive to the normal cirriculum (sp? again, sorry) and that they are making a decision that will still be supported 10 years from now.
Education moves slowly, when it comes to tech. A choice for tech in education is not the same as a choice in tech for a regular business. Education and schools do not adapt as quickly and easily to technology uphevals, and so a switch to Linux simply requires a solid plan, the buy in of the administration, and the resources - because whether or not this costs more/less than Windows in the long run, this will NOT be a zero dollar move, and will have immediate cost implications, especially when it comes to training staff.
I can't help but view this as the fault of the US. Think about it.
Not at all. China wants full and complete control of the internet and how it gives information to it's users. If ICANN had made chinese-character-encoded TLDs available, the Chinese government would have chosen a different method of control.
Make no mistake - this is an isolationary tactic, taking back control of what I'm sure the Chinese government sees as rightfully theirs. If ICANN does not exist in China and is not beholden to Chinese authority, then China does not have enough control and will shun ICANN, no matter how "cooperative" they may be.
Something else that's experience or brand recognition - Windows to students. In the case of Oregon or other schools pirating software, tell me - is the cost of Windows so much that it trumps the pains of introducing a student population of 25,000 or so to a completely foreign computer system? How does this support education?
People who like Apple are hardly going to be swayed to PCs by.Net of all things. There are plenty of programming environments both for desktop apps and enterprise things, such as Objective C, Java and others.
Neither are.Net developers likely to swarm to Macs because of Ruby.
Exactly. And people like me, who switched to Mac at home but still write.NET will not be swayed.
Look, I love looking in to new languages, learning new things - it's why I got into programming to begin with. But unless you start your own business or are the director of IT at your company, you probably program what you do because you're paid to do it. Further to that, the more time you spend in a language, the better you become in that language and the more l33t you are on that platform, in that language, in that OS.
Yeah, I know PHP. I used to know PERL. I know a little Ruby. But I've been writing C# since.NET 1.0 was in beta, and I know it like the back of my hand. I love the language and the framework, and I'm an expert in it. So will something sway me to Ruby? Certainly not at my job, which has millions of lines of code in C#. Maybe at home, but why tax myself when I know C# so well?
So ROR is cool, but I guarentee you that even after a month with ROR, I can still do something cleaner, faster in C# and.NET, just because I know it so intimately.
IF the PC's in question are indeed incapable of running WinXP well then it will just cost less in licensing then LOL no, because then you have to upgrade/replace the PC to modernize the PC to run todays software and so then it will indeed cost far MORE - the person posting the original question was hoping to find a low cost solution to a modern need and as even Micro$oft and its ferverent backers will all agree, linux is moving up the usability ladder and showing up more and more in mainstream life - get used to it LOL
I hope that you don't seriously write like this LOL.
Anyway, don't think that Ubuntu, with a proper, child and teacher-usable IDE like Gnome or KDE with all the modern educational software used to teach children anything requires any less processing power than a clean install of Windows XP. I'm sure that you, in all your wisdom, can install a lean l33t version of Linux with some obscure IDE that requires 10k of RAM, but in reality, any modern OS, be it OSX, Windows XP, or Linux with KDE or Gnome require a degree of computing power that a box running Windows 95 may not have. I can install Windows XP on that box, and it will be dogged slow. I can install Linux, and get the same results.
So if the age of the hardware is an issue, it will be an issue with any OS. He's not trying to turn these in to command-line-only routers or some crazy DIY project - these are desktop PCs for students.
There's MS hate, and there's this. When was the last time MS sued a school, exactly? Never, that's right. Yes, MS did one time threaten to sue when it found rampant piracy in one district, but the gentleman/lady in question is obviously worried about license fees, so has no plans to pirate anything.
When was the last time MS sued to force someone in to a new license agreement, exactly? That's right, never.
We get the fundamental question here - proprietary software costs money. But it's MS's right to charge for their product, just like it's Apple's right, and the right of every software developer out there. Don't piss on MS because they get mad about legitimate piracy.
Free video hosting and the popularity of iTunes is blamed for this phenomenon
"Blamed" as if this is a bad thing. This is a natural occurance in the "everything gets fatter" pipe of today's computing power and bandwidth. Processors are faster, RAM is cheaper, megabit is giving way to gigabit, broadband is becoming more ubiquitos. Speed/storage is cheaper, and will continue to get cheaper.
Let us not all forget the AMAZING release of v.92 56kbps modems. Whoa! 56k is almost double 36.6!
Psha, I say. My cable modem bandwidth has more than tripled in the past two years and I expect it to continue. Servers that can't keep up are just beat. It's the speed/size of progress my friends!
Besides, what is wrong with everything flowing over IP? A single, open system for information flow. Seems relatively natural to me.
They are displaying the entire copyrighted work not an excerpt.
Well, all I really NEED to see is boob. So if Google just want's to show me that particular "exerpt", then all are happy in the end. (A nice rear end is also acceptable as an exerpt.)
This hits it on the head. They are liars, cheats, thieves, monopolists, price fixers (and price gougers), bribers (lobbyists), and somehow, end up costing me more money than the total that I spend on their products through litigation and sponsored legislation.
The RIAA lost nowhere near $5B because even if that number was CLOSE to accurate, it assumes that everyone that bought a pirated DVD would have bought a regular DVD at close to one month's wages in some countries had the pirated version not been made available to them.
And if that extra $0.51 per track is a major obstical to you, you might want to spend more time on education and job hunting that listening to tunes.
That's not cool man. I make a good salary as a developer, and an extra $.51 on the 14k or so tracks I own would equal a cool - and quite cost prohibitive - $7k.
SVG though is important to the website, I suppose I could use something gay like flash or java, but I really wanted this to be a pure site. I thought that it would mean that it was Firefox only. Some friends chided me into trying to make it work with Opera and Konq though...
This is rather pompous, if I may say so. First, Flash and Java serve wonderful purposes. Both can be abused, but done right, Flash is amazing. First, sIFR is about the coolest thing I've come across for using non-standard fonts on a website. It's brilliant in its simplicity.
Secondly, Flash lends itself quite nicely to artistically inspired sites, like photography portfolios.
Third, Flash is the wave of the streaming video future. I know this because I work in the streaming video/media world. Its ubiquitos nature makes it perfect for reaching the broadest audience, and being able to build your own media player interface is brilliant.
I also dislike the thought that SVG is pure while other technologies are not. SVG is web snobbery if used as you are using it in your write up. SVG serves great purposes, but will only be able to be shared by the few people who use the proper equiptment. It's therefore great for academic studies, high-end illustrations, but is hardly the only pure technology out there.
I would think that as a web developer, you'd be interested in reaching the largest audience possible. I agree that IE6 is a PITA to code for sometimes, but it's really not THAT bad. A few CSS hacks and you have a page rendering the same in IE as Firefox.
But I digress. Go Opera - another good release, and a browser I could get in to if I didn't develop web sites for the masses.
This phrase struck me as particularly poigniant (sp?). Up until now I had simply been infuriated by the assumption that Google and I got internet access for free. Hell, my fees are around $50/month, and I'm sure Google's fees are in the tens of thousands a month. Some free lunch.
But it hadn't really struck me yet that this was censorship wrapped in greed. A company wants more money for nothing, and therefor plans to limit my access to information as a way to basically extort money from other companies.
It really boils down to the one that suffers is the home user. Google can pony up, but may not out of protest. But when all this bullshit about free lunch and Verizon being wronged is taken away, I suffer. My access to information - already a very shaky balance - is threatened, and appears that such censorship will even be made law by our wonderful government.
I've got to stop reading Slashdot. These days, it just gets my blood-pressure up.
They are upset about the public getting new capabilities for free.
My biggest concern is that there is an actual recourse for these agencies that despise the free service. Free online calling is not exactly free - again with the "we pay for internet access" argument that says I've already paid for my data communications line.
However, what's really scary is that it's entirely plausable that pay-for-phone companies could actually get Congress to stop Google from giving out phone capabilities for free. Long ago, making money was a privledge and something to be earned. Now it seems that big business is granted the right to make money and is protected against anyone who may challenge that model by the very government that proports that capitalism needs to be free.
I fear that we have a company that seems to want to give me as much as they can, but may be stopped by pure greed.
Bacteria does not have a nervous system, but its self aware
Really? A bacterium is aware that it is alive, that it exists? A bacterium is capable of pondering the philisophical underpinnings of the concept of self-awareness? "I am single celled, therefore I am" is commonly heard amongst bacteria intellectuals on bacteria campuses?
I doubt that bacteria is self aware. I further doubt that even dogs are self-aware. Comprehension of the current environment in a fashion consistent with the survival of said organisim and that organism's ability to reproduce does not self-aware make.
We have all them things in the UK and the police deal with them fine.
With all due respect, the UK is the size of Texas, which also has its own police force that does just fine. Multiply the size of the UK by oh... 5 or 6 or so, and it might become a bit more difficult.
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Seriously. I know it's Slashdot, but this particular nugget of wisdom - even from beloved Kevin Mitnick - doesn't really count as news.
You invade other peoples' countries and try to take over their energy resources.
Easy. If that were true, we would have been free-basing oil from Iraq years ago.
You topple democratic governments (like in Chile, Iran, Haiti, etc.) and install unelected despots in their place.
Funny, I don't remember Iran being a democracy.
Get your own house in order before you start lecturing other people about what's right and what's wrong.
No country is in perfect working order. But there is a reason that millions and millions still flock to the shores of the US yearning for the freedom that they simply don't have and will never get from where they originate. Na, we're not perfect, and yeah, the current administration needs to be checked, but we're doing OK considering.
You know, we've disagreed on things before, but you and I see exactly eye-to-eye on this.
Despite your "Freak" status in my window;) I also whole heartedly agree with you and find your comment to be quite insightful. (Tentative friendship begins?)
I'd never heard that Franklin quote, but it certainly seems to me that a lot of what he said did indeed hint at what he feared to be the temporary nature of what he had just help craft - or to serve as a warning against what he feared would contribute to the demise of the Republic.
It's just one of those things - power corrupts, and those with power desire more. With people becoming nonchalant towards and lethargic about these government grabs for more power, the fire which held light to things like the Revolutionary War, Vietnam War protests, etc. is all but snuffed out.
It's one of those things that I feel somewhat powerless against. I can write my congressmen and local leaders again and again, and show up to the voting booths with conscience in hand and well being of the country and constitution in mind, and despite my best personal efforts, not a whole lot changes.
The poll found that 53 percent of Americans approved of Mr. Bush's authorizing eavesdropping without prior court approval "in order to reduce the threat of terrorism"
Shudder.
Ya know, I guess this is why this country was set up as a Republic to begin with, because as I get older, its becoming readily apparent that the people don't always know what's best for them. Marketing of this "War on Terror" is done so well that people are readily willing to hand over their freedoms for an obviously flawed perception of additional security. Those who rally against this government abuse and overreaching Big Brother attitude are labeled as unpatriotic.
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Damn not previewing. My comment was meant to imply that BEING an acronym, AJAX should be in all caps, just like HTML, XML, etc. Not "Ajax".
More unfortunately, Adaptive Path, the coiners of the original term/acronym also do not.
Unless I'm missing something...
Yes, instead of joining the MS bashing elite, perhaps we should focus on the fact that the devices suck, the music is crippled, and iTunes and the iPod are better devices. No Napster music on the iPod? Well, no duh your product isn't selling like hotcakes. Music plays on iTunes? There you go...
There are tons of businesses that rely on MS - especially in the web site hosting and development vein - and all are doing quite swimmingly. Let's not follow Napster's lead and blame MS - what a cop out. No no - let's put blame where it belongs, on the shoulders of Napster and its poor choice of delivery systems.
Just like I refuse to blame McDonalds for people getting fat, I refuse to blame Microsoft for another company's failed business plan.
And in computer class, this is fine, when "learning" is related to learning the ins and outs and operations of a new OS. However, when a teacher wants to fire up a program in support of a lesson just taught, they should not have to learn and then teach their students a new OS just to get to the crux of the lesson they taught, which had nothing to do with learning a new OS.
I'm simply stating that the school this person works at seems to already have a degree of investment in Windows - and it's not just Windows, but the applications that run on the OS to support educational endevours (sp?). If they plan to change to Linux, fine, but they need to make sure there are educational equivlents for all software packages all teachers use, that teachers and students are educated on the system outside of the normal classroom schedule, that the change is not disruptive to the normal cirriculum (sp? again, sorry) and that they are making a decision that will still be supported 10 years from now.
Education moves slowly, when it comes to tech. A choice for tech in education is not the same as a choice in tech for a regular business. Education and schools do not adapt as quickly and easily to technology uphevals, and so a switch to Linux simply requires a solid plan, the buy in of the administration, and the resources - because whether or not this costs more/less than Windows in the long run, this will NOT be a zero dollar move, and will have immediate cost implications, especially when it comes to training staff.
Not at all. China wants full and complete control of the internet and how it gives information to it's users. If ICANN had made chinese-character-encoded TLDs available, the Chinese government would have chosen a different method of control.
Make no mistake - this is an isolationary tactic, taking back control of what I'm sure the Chinese government sees as rightfully theirs. If ICANN does not exist in China and is not beholden to Chinese authority, then China does not have enough control and will shun ICANN, no matter how "cooperative" they may be.
Something else that's experience or brand recognition - Windows to students. In the case of Oregon or other schools pirating software, tell me - is the cost of Windows so much that it trumps the pains of introducing a student population of 25,000 or so to a completely foreign computer system? How does this support education?
Exactly. And people like me, who switched to Mac at home but still write .NET will not be swayed.
Look, I love looking in to new languages, learning new things - it's why I got into programming to begin with. But unless you start your own business or are the director of IT at your company, you probably program what you do because you're paid to do it. Further to that, the more time you spend in a language, the better you become in that language and the more l33t you are on that platform, in that language, in that OS.
Yeah, I know PHP. I used to know PERL. I know a little Ruby. But I've been writing C# since .NET 1.0 was in beta, and I know it like the back of my hand. I love the language and the framework, and I'm an expert in it. So will something sway me to Ruby? Certainly not at my job, which has millions of lines of code in C#. Maybe at home, but why tax myself when I know C# so well?
So ROR is cool, but I guarentee you that even after a month with ROR, I can still do something cleaner, faster in C# and .NET, just because I know it so intimately.
I hope that you don't seriously write like this LOL.
Anyway, don't think that Ubuntu, with a proper, child and teacher-usable IDE like Gnome or KDE with all the modern educational software used to teach children anything requires any less processing power than a clean install of Windows XP. I'm sure that you, in all your wisdom, can install a lean l33t version of Linux with some obscure IDE that requires 10k of RAM, but in reality, any modern OS, be it OSX, Windows XP, or Linux with KDE or Gnome require a degree of computing power that a box running Windows 95 may not have. I can install Windows XP on that box, and it will be dogged slow. I can install Linux, and get the same results.
So if the age of the hardware is an issue, it will be an issue with any OS. He's not trying to turn these in to command-line-only routers or some crazy DIY project - these are desktop PCs for students.
There's MS hate, and there's this. When was the last time MS sued a school, exactly? Never, that's right. Yes, MS did one time threaten to sue when it found rampant piracy in one district, but the gentleman/lady in question is obviously worried about license fees, so has no plans to pirate anything.
When was the last time MS sued to force someone in to a new license agreement, exactly? That's right, never.
We get the fundamental question here - proprietary software costs money. But it's MS's right to charge for their product, just like it's Apple's right, and the right of every software developer out there. Don't piss on MS because they get mad about legitimate piracy.
Or, you know, nicer software, better user interface, less learning curve for the parents and grandparents, better hardware, better industrial design, "UNIX inside ©" etc. IMHO, of course.
"Blamed" as if this is a bad thing. This is a natural occurance in the "everything gets fatter" pipe of today's computing power and bandwidth. Processors are faster, RAM is cheaper, megabit is giving way to gigabit, broadband is becoming more ubiquitos. Speed/storage is cheaper, and will continue to get cheaper.
Let us not all forget the AMAZING release of v.92 56kbps modems. Whoa! 56k is almost double 36.6!
Psha, I say. My cable modem bandwidth has more than tripled in the past two years and I expect it to continue. Servers that can't keep up are just beat. It's the speed/size of progress my friends!
Besides, what is wrong with everything flowing over IP? A single, open system for information flow. Seems relatively natural to me.
Well, all I really NEED to see is boob. So if Google just want's to show me that particular "exerpt", then all are happy in the end. (A nice rear end is also acceptable as an exerpt.)
MOD UP! MOD UP!
This hits it on the head. They are liars, cheats, thieves, monopolists, price fixers (and price gougers), bribers (lobbyists), and somehow, end up costing me more money than the total that I spend on their products through litigation and sponsored legislation.
The RIAA lost nowhere near $5B because even if that number was CLOSE to accurate, it assumes that everyone that bought a pirated DVD would have bought a regular DVD at close to one month's wages in some countries had the pirated version not been made available to them.
Yeah, right.
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That's not cool man. I make a good salary as a developer, and an extra $.51 on the 14k or so tracks I own would equal a cool - and quite cost prohibitive - $7k.
This is rather pompous, if I may say so. First, Flash and Java serve wonderful purposes. Both can be abused, but done right, Flash is amazing. First, sIFR is about the coolest thing I've come across for using non-standard fonts on a website. It's brilliant in its simplicity.
Secondly, Flash lends itself quite nicely to artistically inspired sites, like photography portfolios.
Third, Flash is the wave of the streaming video future. I know this because I work in the streaming video/media world. Its ubiquitos nature makes it perfect for reaching the broadest audience, and being able to build your own media player interface is brilliant.
I also dislike the thought that SVG is pure while other technologies are not. SVG is web snobbery if used as you are using it in your write up. SVG serves great purposes, but will only be able to be shared by the few people who use the proper equiptment. It's therefore great for academic studies, high-end illustrations, but is hardly the only pure technology out there.
I would think that as a web developer, you'd be interested in reaching the largest audience possible. I agree that IE6 is a PITA to code for sometimes, but it's really not THAT bad. A few CSS hacks and you have a page rendering the same in IE as Firefox.
But I digress. Go Opera - another good release, and a browser I could get in to if I didn't develop web sites for the masses.
This phrase struck me as particularly poigniant (sp?). Up until now I had simply been infuriated by the assumption that Google and I got internet access for free. Hell, my fees are around $50/month, and I'm sure Google's fees are in the tens of thousands a month. Some free lunch.
But it hadn't really struck me yet that this was censorship wrapped in greed. A company wants more money for nothing, and therefor plans to limit my access to information as a way to basically extort money from other companies.
It really boils down to the one that suffers is the home user. Google can pony up, but may not out of protest. But when all this bullshit about free lunch and Verizon being wronged is taken away, I suffer. My access to information - already a very shaky balance - is threatened, and appears that such censorship will even be made law by our wonderful government.
I've got to stop reading Slashdot. These days, it just gets my blood-pressure up.
Because I paid for it and that's not what I want them to do with it.
My biggest concern is that there is an actual recourse for these agencies that despise the free service. Free online calling is not exactly free - again with the "we pay for internet access" argument that says I've already paid for my data communications line.
However, what's really scary is that it's entirely plausable that pay-for-phone companies could actually get Congress to stop Google from giving out phone capabilities for free. Long ago, making money was a privledge and something to be earned. Now it seems that big business is granted the right to make money and is protected against anyone who may challenge that model by the very government that proports that capitalism needs to be free.
I fear that we have a company that seems to want to give me as much as they can, but may be stopped by pure greed.
Really? A bacterium is aware that it is alive, that it exists? A bacterium is capable of pondering the philisophical underpinnings of the concept of self-awareness? "I am single celled, therefore I am" is commonly heard amongst bacteria intellectuals on bacteria campuses?
I doubt that bacteria is self aware. I further doubt that even dogs are self-aware. Comprehension of the current environment in a fashion consistent with the survival of said organisim and that organism's ability to reproduce does not self-aware make.
With all due respect, the UK is the size of Texas, which also has its own police force that does just fine. Multiply the size of the UK by oh... 5 or 6 or so, and it might become a bit more difficult.
Seriously. I know it's Slashdot, but this particular nugget of wisdom - even from beloved Kevin Mitnick - doesn't really count as news.
Easy. If that were true, we would have been free-basing oil from Iraq years ago.
You topple democratic governments (like in Chile, Iran, Haiti, etc.) and install unelected despots in their place.Funny, I don't remember Iran being a democracy.
Get your own house in order before you start lecturing other people about what's right and what's wrong.No country is in perfect working order. But there is a reason that millions and millions still flock to the shores of the US yearning for the freedom that they simply don't have and will never get from where they originate. Na, we're not perfect, and yeah, the current administration needs to be checked, but we're doing OK considering.
Despite your "Freak" status in my window ;) I also whole heartedly agree with you and find your comment to be quite insightful.
(Tentative friendship begins?)
I'd never heard that Franklin quote, but it certainly seems to me that a lot of what he said did indeed hint at what he feared to be the temporary nature of what he had just help craft - or to serve as a warning against what he feared would contribute to the demise of the Republic.
It's just one of those things - power corrupts, and those with power desire more. With people becoming nonchalant towards and lethargic about these government grabs for more power, the fire which held light to things like the Revolutionary War, Vietnam War protests, etc. is all but snuffed out.
It's one of those things that I feel somewhat powerless against. I can write my congressmen and local leaders again and again, and show up to the voting booths with conscience in hand and well being of the country and constitution in mind, and despite my best personal efforts, not a whole lot changes.
Shudder.
Ya know, I guess this is why this country was set up as a Republic to begin with, because as I get older, its becoming readily apparent that the people don't always know what's best for them. Marketing of this "War on Terror" is done so well that people are readily willing to hand over their freedoms for an obviously flawed perception of additional security. Those who rally against this government abuse and overreaching Big Brother attitude are labeled as unpatriotic.
Shudder.