BTW, my torrents used to be slow as well, but after I set my maximum global upload to about 1/3 of my total upstream (you must be using a third-party BitTorrent app to do this, like Azureus), I noticed high increases in download speeds. From what I can tell, your client will be sending so many requests for pieces along with all of its data that it drowns itself out and many of the requests never make it to their destination. And, since no one knows you need those pieces, they never get sent to you. Lowering your global up allows for more headroom.
I couldn't agree with you more. It irks me to see people taking a position to not use the W3C standards. You don't need to encourage that... everybody programs against W3C standards. It's not like there's some magical treasure in coding poorly. Anybody can and does do it.
If message boards want to make it simple for everyday people to mark up their messages, they can do what they've been doing: process the basic markup into valid XHTML code. Any good message board code will clean and validate all of the input, first. Running vanilla HTML or XHTML makes no difference. You are responsible for your site.
I'm aware of the ability to forward, which was the entire point of my post. The point that the grandparent was making isn't that the ability to forward isn't present, it's that forwarding is difficult to do in batches. That's why the checkbox-forwarding functionality isn't redundant. Right now, if for some reason you wanted to, it would take a lot of clicking to move your mail out to a different mailbox.
If you use Gmail, you'll see that every e-mail isn't shown as an e-mail, they're shown as conversations. So, if you're trying to click the checkbox next to a conversation then try to forward it, does that mean you want to forward the entire conversation, just the last sent e-mail, or one of the e-mails in between? It's ambiguous.
It makes more sense to open a conversation displaying each e-mail separately, then allow you to forward individual e-mails.
Maybe later, they will add functionality to not view your list as conversations and give checkbox forwardability. But, then again, maybe they'll just give us POP3 access.
Doesn't the very fact that it's seasonal make BitTorrent a better option, since more files will be available more often?
And BitTorrent is an open solution, so there's more development of the clients going on, rather than the closed KaZaa, who's development stopped at Lite, as far as I'm concerened.
Making a statement about DVD obsolescence is hardly a ground-breaking notion, IMO. And Bill allowing a decade for DVDs to fade is generous, given that the MPAA would most likely love to have it replaced sooner. Copy protection had to be updated soon after the current DVD format went public.
I think that, not just the parent, but people on/. are underestimating a lot of what can be pushed through to the general public now. We've already seen the product cycles for different electronics cut in half. And if Bill had his way, all Microsoft software would be distributed via.net services. Discs are too easy to copy.
I'm not a conspirist, but R&D for getting rid of tangible mediums is top priority for the major tech players. The companies that provide the simplest solution the quickest stands to profit from it by licensing it to other companies. Video on Demand is just one of the rising techs... MS is going to need software-on-demand if they want to integrate your computer with your living room (like they have been).
Sure, this idea might not be reality now, and it might flop in the next decade as well. But, what kind of statement would it be if Bill said, "You know, I was thinking... DVDs may not be around in the next 20 years." People listen and respond to absolute statements, not guesses.
I RTFA, and it doesn't say that Akamai has a diversity of hardware at all, that was talking about BIND:
Paul Vixie, architect of BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) and president of the Internet Systems Consortium, charged that Akamai's proprietary approach to DNS makes it a single point of failure. He added that the 13 DNS root servers, which weathered a vicious DDoS attack in 2002, are even more defensible today than they were back then. The root servers are resilient, Vixie said, because their operators embrace diversity. "We deliberately use different operating systems, different name server implementations," etc...
AFAIK, all of the text that the quote from the submitter is regarding not Akamai, but BIND in criticism of Akamai. He's saying that they would have performed better had they used a more diversified network.
IMO, if I understand what you're suggesting correctly, frames are still not necessary even for web-based applications. I've never used SlimServer, but there are web-driven appliance interfaces that never need to invoke frames to control their backend. AFAIK (and tell me if this is a bad comparison), neither SmoothWall's nor Media Player Classic's (if you were to use MPC to run a media server) web interface felt it necessary to use a framed layout.
I thought about what advantages frames would give you in a web-based application situation. I think that the most practical thing I could see it being used for would be to refresh the current playing song in the top or bottom while you manipulate the config or controls in the main window. If that is the case, then an alternative to the frameset could be coded in a similar fashion to Gmail. It might require heavy Javascript, but all of the form information or whatever could be left in tact while the code goes out and checks for an update on current song information.
But, in a web-based application, the disadvantages of frames are reduced to almost nothing anyway. Everything should be rolling around inside of the frames at that point and if there is ever a need to externally link, it should have been handled and tested properly by the developer.
The worst part about frames was that they quickly became a novelty item for everyone getting a page out there. This was mainly because it was the cheap and easy way to split up your navigation from your content. Because frames were so easy to use, they were often left alone and amateur site designers assumed that their existing non-framed pages could be left alone to work with their new framed layout. The result was framed pages often externally linking to more framed pages and ending up with non-relevant frames over or beside other frames. Nobody was properly breaking their sites frames when visiting a new frame (the proper element to use in an a href tag was target="_top"). In short: framed chaos.
After years of many site authors putting links up on their pages labeled "Stuck in a frame? Break out of it" (which was just a target="_top" self link) and after many authorites just like Dr. Nielsen warning to not use frames, the popular web pages finally stopped using them and moved on to other annoying practices like triple-columned portal sites and static table-based layouts. Once the popular web pages left frames beaten and crying in the corner, most of the amateur designers followed suit and also abused the table-based layouts.
Now, it seems like we've been waiting an eternity for CSS to enjoy the huge popularity that table-based design has been basking in for way too long. Many sites have gone a long way to further that cause. Namely:
... to name just a few. Oh, and the time you save in loading the framed index page only once can't begin to compare to the time you save loading a single style sheet for layout rather than loading tons of table alignment data.
IIRC, id had to write all of their own shaders for OpenGL, but are definitely not using DirectX. DirectX would have let them use the API's shaders, I believe, but OpenGL hadn't defined theirs yet. So, all of the shaders you see in Doom 3 were written in assembly code.
Refer to this article for more information about the engine.
I agree, Sex is good for just about anyone. As long as you don't require a lot of extra stuff, I would recommend Sex. (I guess I would recommend sex either way:)
I found Safesex to be a pain, though, because of the extra protection. I didn't think it was really necessary.
Obviously, if anyone sees Sex on your work computer, you'll more than likely have some 'splainin' to do.
The fact that a civil suit was won against him, after being found innocent, was disgusting.
You're right, if OJ had been found innocent, it would be disgusting. The criminal verdict wasn't "innocent," it was "not guilty." There's a reason why the legal system uses such terminology. He was found not guilty of those charges because the jury didn't feel that the necessary proof was there. But being "not guilty" in one trial doesn't abjugate someone from all charges in the way that it would for one who is "innocent." That's why there is never an "innocent" verdict.
For everything I've seen, Firefox supports CSS much better than IE. Like a sibling said, IE has become the bane of CSS, hindering true development in a number of ways. Entire websites are devoted to making CSS compliant sites work with IE, not Firefox.
For anyone interested in the tag differences between the two feeds, look at the simplicity of the RSS feed compared to the noticeably more complex Atom feed. The difference will probably enlighten many people, as it did me, about which information is more useful. It seems that they have jammed a whole lot more attributes into each element. The usefulness of that information can be dubious at best, however.
I remember reading that when originally developing The Sims, the development team started out using motion capture for all of The Sims movement. After capturing some motions, they decided to use an animator (I believe Eric Hedman), in lieu of motion capture. The reason they gave was because the animator was able to better animate the Sims than motion capture.
I believe this has everything to do with what this article is talking about. We can pick out the inconsistencies too easily, so it's better to just animate the cartoon people. That's what we expect.
I like this idea. This could be a great replacement for the feeling you get when a physical customer walks into your store.
Is it feasible to just run VisitorVille on a PC or a big screen in your virtual store's office/room? I would enjoy watching a visitor walk around my city, go through various buildings all while I'm writing up product descriptions and working on site design. This could really give you a sense of how your business is growing, as well.
It seems to me that it's highly improbable that the Simpsons will continue 5 more years. Many of the series fans indicate that the newest seasons' writing tends to be watered down. I'll admit that I liked the writing better around seasons 3-7. I think Fox wants to hold onto the franchise until it is no longer profitable or until they make the movie.
I guess all it takes for DC to become more technologically bonifide is me moving out of state.
WiFi hotspots downtown were virtually non-existent for a long time. I don't really think these are going to get used by anyone for business, though. Probably more geared for tourists, like everything in DC.
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now, my Firefox downloads list shows "young_girl.mpg" *delete*
BTW, my torrents used to be slow as well, but after I set my maximum global upload to about 1/3 of my total upstream (you must be using a third-party BitTorrent app to do this, like Azureus), I noticed high increases in download speeds. From what I can tell, your client will be sending so many requests for pieces along with all of its data that it drowns itself out and many of the requests never make it to their destination. And, since no one knows you need those pieces, they never get sent to you. Lowering your global up allows for more headroom.
When RIAA executives go in for a checkup, the dentists pay them! Even with the flouride and X-ray...
At what point are we saying anything Microsoft makes is more refined than "rough?"
I couldn't agree with you more. It irks me to see people taking a position to not use the W3C standards. You don't need to encourage that... everybody programs against W3C standards. It's not like there's some magical treasure in coding poorly. Anybody can and does do it.
If message boards want to make it simple for everyday people to mark up their messages, they can do what they've been doing: process the basic markup into valid XHTML code. Any good message board code will clean and validate all of the input, first. Running vanilla HTML or XHTML makes no difference. You are responsible for your site.
If I had mod points, they'd be all yours, parent.
If you use Gmail, you'll see that every e-mail isn't shown as an e-mail, they're shown as conversations. So, if you're trying to click the checkbox next to a conversation then try to forward it, does that mean you want to forward the entire conversation, just the last sent e-mail, or one of the e-mails in between? It's ambiguous.
It makes more sense to open a conversation displaying each e-mail separately, then allow you to forward individual e-mails.
Maybe later, they will add functionality to not view your list as conversations and give checkbox forwardability. But, then again, maybe they'll just give us POP3 access.
Doesn't the very fact that it's seasonal make BitTorrent a better option, since more files will be available more often? And BitTorrent is an open solution, so there's more development of the clients going on, rather than the closed KaZaa, who's development stopped at Lite, as far as I'm concerened.
Making a statement about DVD obsolescence is hardly a ground-breaking notion, IMO. And Bill allowing a decade for DVDs to fade is generous, given that the MPAA would most likely love to have it replaced sooner. Copy protection had to be updated soon after the current DVD format went public.
/. are underestimating a lot of what can be pushed through to the general public now. We've already seen the product cycles for different electronics cut in half. And if Bill had his way, all Microsoft software would be distributed via .net services. Discs are too easy to copy.
I think that, not just the parent, but people on
I'm not a conspirist, but R&D for getting rid of tangible mediums is top priority for the major tech players. The companies that provide the simplest solution the quickest stands to profit from it by licensing it to other companies. Video on Demand is just one of the rising techs... MS is going to need software-on-demand if they want to integrate your computer with your living room (like they have been).
Sure, this idea might not be reality now, and it might flop in the next decade as well. But, what kind of statement would it be if Bill said, "You know, I was thinking... DVDs may not be around in the next 20 years." People listen and respond to absolute statements, not guesses.
Let's see Microsoft do that!
Correct me if I'm wrong.
IMO, if I understand what you're suggesting correctly, frames are still not necessary even for web-based applications. I've never used SlimServer, but there are web-driven appliance interfaces that never need to invoke frames to control their backend. AFAIK (and tell me if this is a bad comparison), neither SmoothWall's nor Media Player Classic's (if you were to use MPC to run a media server) web interface felt it necessary to use a framed layout.
I thought about what advantages frames would give you in a web-based application situation. I think that the most practical thing I could see it being used for would be to refresh the current playing song in the top or bottom while you manipulate the config or controls in the main window. If that is the case, then an alternative to the frameset could be coded in a similar fashion to Gmail. It might require heavy Javascript, but all of the form information or whatever could be left in tact while the code goes out and checks for an update on current song information.
But, in a web-based application, the disadvantages of frames are reduced to almost nothing anyway. Everything should be rolling around inside of the frames at that point and if there is ever a need to externally link, it should have been handled and tested properly by the developer.
After years of many site authors putting links up on their pages labeled "Stuck in a frame? Break out of it" (which was just a target="_top" self link) and after many authorites just like Dr. Nielsen warning to not use frames, the popular web pages finally stopped using them and moved on to other annoying practices like triple-columned portal sites and static table-based layouts. Once the popular web pages left frames beaten and crying in the corner, most of the amateur designers followed suit and also abused the table-based layouts.
Now, it seems like we've been waiting an eternity for CSS to enjoy the huge popularity that table-based design has been basking in for way too long. Many sites have gone a long way to further that cause. Namely:
Refer to this article for more information about the engine.
I found Safesex to be a pain, though, because of the extra protection. I didn't think it was really necessary.
Obviously, if anyone sees Sex on your work computer, you'll more than likely have some 'splainin' to do.
I had thought so, too, until I saw the National Spelling Bee on ESPN2.
You know, I forgot about this site, which also deserves mentioning:
For everything I've seen, Firefox supports CSS much better than IE. Like a sibling said, IE has become the bane of CSS, hindering true development in a number of ways. Entire websites are devoted to making CSS compliant sites work with IE, not Firefox.
Observe:
For anyone interested in the tag differences between the two feeds, look at the simplicity of the RSS feed compared to the noticeably more complex Atom feed. The difference will probably enlighten many people, as it did me, about which information is more useful. It seems that they have jammed a whole lot more attributes into each element. The usefulness of that information can be dubious at best, however.
I remember reading that when originally developing The Sims, the development team started out using motion capture for all of The Sims movement. After capturing some motions, they decided to use an animator (I believe Eric Hedman), in lieu of motion capture. The reason they gave was because the animator was able to better animate the Sims than motion capture. I believe this has everything to do with what this article is talking about. We can pick out the inconsistencies too easily, so it's better to just animate the cartoon people. That's what we expect.
I like this idea. This could be a great replacement for the feeling you get when a physical customer walks into your store.
Is it feasible to just run VisitorVille on a PC or a big screen in your virtual store's office/room? I would enjoy watching a visitor walk around my city, go through various buildings all while I'm writing up product descriptions and working on site design. This could really give you a sense of how your business is growing, as well.
Has anyone actually used this product, yet?
It seems to me that it's highly improbable that the Simpsons will continue 5 more years. Many of the series fans indicate that the newest seasons' writing tends to be watered down. I'll admit that I liked the writing better around seasons 3-7. I think Fox wants to hold onto the franchise until it is no longer profitable or until they make the movie.
Just FYI... I didn't see anyone post a link to Google's Press Release about their registration. Maybe I missed it, but there it is.
WiFi hotspots downtown were virtually non-existent for a long time. I don't really think these are going to get used by anyone for business, though. Probably more geared for tourists, like everything in DC.