If you've ever tried to make a webpage look correct in all browsers, you'll realise it's not as easy as opening up your fav WYSIWYG editor and making a page. Heck, even if you use plain old notepad and code the whole thing yourself, XHTML and CSS compliant, chances are (well it depends on the complexity of course) it still won't look the same in all browsers. Then add the fact they use a heck of a lot of client-side scripting and technology that not all browsers currently support, and it's pretty amazing that they have it working in the majority of widely used browsers. If it doesn't work in a browser with (sorry, I don't know the stats for Sarafi, I'm assuming it's) around 1% or lower market share, trying to get it to work in that too would most likely break it for one of the more popular browsers.
As a web developer, you try to aim for compatability with the top browser or 2, maybe 3. Trying to get it working in them all would be more work than it's worth.
Nothing does the bare minimum anymore, just look at mobile phones, you'll have a hard time finding a phone that doesn't have games, camera, internet, calculator and all the other junk that gets packed with them. Any why would people make just the bare minimum? They'll never get market share if there are poeple offering so much more for a tiny percentage increase in the cost (or in the browser case, nothing extra at all). Personally, I know if I'm making a program, even if I didn't intend on having as many options, they end up being put in anyway because its not much hassle to do so, and its much more beneficial when it comes to using the program. Like someone has said, if you don't want all the features there are, use linx.
If you go to about:mozilla in any of the Firefox browsers (Netscape too - heck, even IE since it was based on netscape, but it just shows a blue screen), it will pull up a page from "The Book of Mozilla", most of them have references to a great bird rising from ashes, or something similar to that effect. If they were in Netscape then they clearly predate Firefox, however, I believe the names Phoenix and Firebird were probably based around them. Wikipedia's entry on The Book of Mozilla, no doubt it explains it on there, I'm too lazy\busy to read through it.
Never is my guess. This kind of thing may be used for medical purposes, and only to rectify the problem, but I don't think we'll see (well not in our lifetimes anyway) it being used on people who are fine to begin with, no matter how rich they are.
I think the governments wouldn't dare let it happen, could you imagine what it would be like if people get the ability to see at night and through walls, can punch through bank vaults or jump over 10 foot fences, etc. Far too much risk. Heck, just look at some of the things we can do at the moment, cloning, stem cell stuff, etc. and just how many of those have been deemed to never be used for the average guy n gal. Well.. thinking about it, maybe people in the army, secret service and other things would be given certain kinds of this tech to fight terrorism, listen to convos from afar, chase down cars by foot and whatnot.
Well, my bet's on the robot with a soul. But what's the (end result) difference between a human whose parts are substituted by technology and a robot that thinks and acts like a human (I'm assuming that's what you mean by soul)? Surely they're exactly the same thing.
Well maybe not "we" as a whole, but "we" as in one of the human race, already can.. There is a Russian girl whom posses some kind of x-ray type vision. She claims she can swap between normal vision, or the x-ray type vision at will. Yes, you don't have to believe it if you don't want, for all those sceptics, I'll agree it seems a pretty outrageous claim, but despite efforts of scientists, they have been unable to disprove her claims. She has successfully seen into people's bodies and correct one claim that a pateint had cancer, when in fact it was just a cyst. She's going to study medical.
Anyway, back to the article.. this seems like a very very very useful piece of technology, surely it could be ported to other things than eyes, eventually enabling a vast amount of disfunctions to be rectified. And I don't see why it couldn't be modified, as the parent says, to be able to have nightvision, infra-red vision, etc.
I seriously think it won't be too long before Microsoft are in serious trouble over their market share.. Lets just think about it:
Firefox has come along, its much better than IE and IE is starting to lose a relatively large part of its market share. IE was left too long to be fixed up and now MS are paying for it. Google (not like it ever didnt, but still) owns the shit out of MSN search, although MSN is getting better and better. Macs and Linux are much much cheaper and more secure (or less exploits\viruses are made for them, same difference), add that to the fact that Microsoft are going to change the updates to subscription only customers. Gmail whoops Hotmails ass when it comes to email, so theres another big blow to MS (think about the advertising revenue they will lose). IIRC, Microsoft also annonced that they will be stopping access to Hotmail via Outlook for non-paying customers. And in 20xx, out comes Windows Longhorn and then Blackcomb, which will use a completely new Windows API.. the very thing that has kept Microsoft top of the league for so long. Since no apps that run on 9x\nt\xp\etc will run on Longhorn, I think Microsoft are going to really start to lose market share in everything. Recently there's been a lot of stories about OSS software being used by several countries' governments, and the stories about Sun and IBM releasing patented technology to OSS.
Recently I've also been noticing Microsoft have been making other bad business decisions (sorry, none seem to be coming to mind atm) which will no doubt lead to a difficult time for them in the future.
Of course, none of this is to say Microsoft are out of it, because with their bank balance, they could change tactics at almost any time and get back into things before its too late. Although I severely dislike Microsoft ('s business practices) and hope they take a good bashing soon, I think we need them, or something like them, for things to run as they are.. Without Microsoft we wouldn't need *as much* F/OSS or other things.
Since were talking about quantum computers here, why wouldn't they be using Quantum Encryption (which non-quantum computers can use too), which would be protecting data with the laws of physics (using quantum entanglement and other things on the actual photons/whatevers sent down the fibre/phone/whatever line).
Seems pretty hard to crack to me, well in fact.. it seems impossible.
Google for more info, I've been pretty breif since I'm not an expert on how it works.
I don't see WHY Linux should have to match this kind of generosity. Microsoft's business practices are, lets be honest, unethical and at times even below the law. Microsoft buy out competition, apply for patents on any ridiculously simple technology (OK, I know that the patent system is a 'get a patent or lose out' kind of thing, but still), malform O/S code to only work on Windows and then charge for it (Java, for example), stuff their own apps into the OS so no other companies stand much of a chance (e.g. WMP, IE - look at how much work has gone into Firefox and how much better it is, yet its been out for over a year and hasnt got a quarter of the usage IE has). Microsoft get rich from all kinds of this stuff. Whats $750,000,000 to Gates? Pocket change..
Clearly I don't like MS's business practices, but I'll give Gates that it's a pretty good thing of him to do. Linux shouldn't have to give this kind of money away because they don't get anything like the amount of money Gates does. Gates may look like a good guy when he does things like this (just as Allen does), but he'll always put business before generosity.
Yea, this is what first came into my head. Classical physics *cannot* explain consciousness, and there are many people who believe that consciousness, and therefore parts of the brain use quantum mechanical processes. Since we cannot yet control and recontruct things on the quantum scale, I sure as hell know I wouldn't want to be the first guy to try this stuff. You'd probably come back out the other end looking ok, but having a head full of useless grey mush as a brain. Memories are a funny thing, I can remember reading or hearing somewhere that nobody knows exactly where memories are stored in the brain, or why. That's probably changed since then, but still, I think were a long way off being able to teleport people, there's no doubt in my mind that it will happen one day though.
An ActiveX plugin for Firefox? Great. Wasn't that among the best things about Firefox? The lack of that stupid whim known as the ActiveX control..
I suppose since it's a plugin it's not really a bad thing, but XP has an automatic update application (I recently bought a new PC which has it, I've never seen it before, so I don't really know much about it) with a little yellow sheild icon in the tray when updates are available. According to an earlier post, it doesn't require Internet Explorer.
No doubt. Everything is on the rise because there's constantly a population rise and once something is widely used, the minority start to use it as well. As well as CD sales going up, and probably pirated CDs and P2P usage going up, this month is the first month (at least here in the UK), that legal music download sites have outsold their shop shelf equivalent. Was on BBC Radio 1 today as I came back from college.
Yea, theres two ways to look at everything. How guillable am I, or how narrow-minded are you?
As many articles state, scientists have been unable to disprove her claims, which seems rather strange for such a thing. It seems fairly logical to me that if people are born with several kind of 'disorders', for example, the story about the german 'superman' baby which could heavy weights with his arm held out straight because he was born with an extremely rare genetic problem which stopped his body producing as much myostatin (the hormone that stops muscles from growing too fast), iirc. There's synaesthesia, where people can taste words when they are said to them, or see numbers and colours when certain other things happen, like a word being said, or a memory. There's all kinds of gifts or genetic 'mutations' that give a few rare people all kind of abilities or strange experiences.
I've read all the evidence I need to believe it for myself, you on the other hand just brush it off without a valid explanation apart from the I can't do it so it can't be done stance. Take it however you want, I'm just relaying relevant information.
I can remember in the news a while back there was a russian girl who was able to see in either normal vision, or a kind of x-ray-stylé vision. Anyway, she was learning to be a medical student and there were several tests done to prove the authenticity of it all, she correctly managed to predict that somebody was going to catch cancer, amonst other seemingly impossible feats. I can't recall the best source so I'll leave a google link so you can read for yourselfs. She seemed to be coping pretty well for someone with xray and normal vision, capabilities to swap between the two easily and learn to be a medical student.
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If you've ever tried to make a webpage look correct in all browsers, you'll realise it's not as easy as opening up your fav WYSIWYG editor and making a page. Heck, even if you use plain old notepad and code the whole thing yourself, XHTML and CSS compliant, chances are (well it depends on the complexity of course) it still won't look the same in all browsers.
Then add the fact they use a heck of a lot of client-side scripting and technology that not all browsers currently support, and it's pretty amazing that they have it working in the majority of widely used browsers. If it doesn't work in a browser with (sorry, I don't know the stats for Sarafi, I'm assuming it's) around 1% or lower market share, trying to get it to work in that too would most likely break it for one of the more popular browsers.
As a web developer, you try to aim for compatability with the top browser or 2, maybe 3. Trying to get it working in them all would be more work than it's worth.
Amen!
Nothing does the bare minimum anymore, just look at mobile phones, you'll have a hard time finding a phone that doesn't have games, camera, internet, calculator and all the other junk that gets packed with them. Any why would people make just the bare minimum? They'll never get market share if there are poeple offering so much more for a tiny percentage increase in the cost (or in the browser case, nothing extra at all).
Personally, I know if I'm making a program, even if I didn't intend on having as many options, they end up being put in anyway because its not much hassle to do so, and its much more beneficial when it comes to using the program. Like someone has said, if you don't want all the features there are, use linx.
There's probably a multitude of reasons.
If you go to about:mozilla in any of the Firefox browsers (Netscape too - heck, even IE since it was based on netscape, but it just shows a blue screen), it will pull up a page from "The Book of Mozilla", most of them have references to a great bird rising from ashes, or something similar to that effect. If they were in Netscape then they clearly predate Firefox, however, I believe the names Phoenix and Firebird were probably based around them. Wikipedia's entry on The Book of Mozilla, no doubt it explains it on there, I'm too lazy\busy to read through it.
Never is my guess. This kind of thing may be used for medical purposes, and only to rectify the problem, but I don't think we'll see (well not in our lifetimes anyway) it being used on people who are fine to begin with, no matter how rich they are.
I think the governments wouldn't dare let it happen, could you imagine what it would be like if people get the ability to see at night and through walls, can punch through bank vaults or jump over 10 foot fences, etc. Far too much risk. Heck, just look at some of the things we can do at the moment, cloning, stem cell stuff, etc. and just how many of those have been deemed to never be used for the average guy n gal. Well.. thinking about it, maybe people in the army, secret service and other things would be given certain kinds of this tech to fight terrorism, listen to convos from afar, chase down cars by foot and whatnot.
Well, my bet's on the robot with a soul.
But what's the (end result) difference between a human whose parts are substituted by technology and a robot that thinks and acts like a human (I'm assuming that's what you mean by soul)? Surely they're exactly the same thing.
Well maybe not "we" as a whole, but "we" as in one of the human race, already can.. There is a Russian girl whom posses some kind of x-ray type vision. She claims she can swap between normal vision, or the x-ray type vision at will.
Yes, you don't have to believe it if you don't want, for all those sceptics, I'll agree it seems a pretty outrageous claim, but despite efforts of scientists, they have been unable to disprove her claims. She has successfully seen into people's bodies and correct one claim that a pateint had cancer, when in fact it was just a cyst. She's going to study medical.
Anyway, back to the article.. this seems like a very very very useful piece of technology, surely it could be ported to other things than eyes, eventually enabling a vast amount of disfunctions to be rectified. And I don't see why it couldn't be modified, as the parent says, to be able to have nightvision, infra-red vision, etc.
ah.. my bad, didnt read the last part of the summary - im that stereotypical slashdotter.
Neh, they've already set their eyes on the numbers 0 and 1. They figure that'll do for the next few lifetimes.
Who care's what they patent? There's no chance in hell this would stand up in court, the judge would laugh it off and Microsoft's patent gets revoked.
Is there prior art? Probably.
Is it obvious?
Probably.
Is it capable of winning a course case? AAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA!!!
End of story.
I seriously think it won't be too long before Microsoft are in serious trouble over their market share.. Lets just think about it:
Firefox has come along, its much better than IE and IE is starting to lose a relatively large part of its market share. IE was left too long to be fixed up and now MS are paying for it.
Google (not like it ever didnt, but still) owns the shit out of MSN search, although MSN is getting better and better. Macs and Linux are much much cheaper and more secure (or less exploits\viruses are made for them, same difference), add that to the fact that Microsoft are going to change the updates to subscription only customers.
Gmail whoops Hotmails ass when it comes to email, so theres another big blow to MS (think about the advertising revenue they will lose). IIRC, Microsoft also annonced that they will be stopping access to Hotmail via Outlook for non-paying customers.
And in 20xx, out comes Windows Longhorn and then Blackcomb, which will use a completely new Windows API.. the very thing that has kept Microsoft top of the league for so long. Since no apps that run on 9x\nt\xp\etc will run on Longhorn, I think Microsoft are going to really start to lose market share in everything.
Recently there's been a lot of stories about OSS software being used by several countries' governments, and the stories about Sun and IBM releasing patented technology to OSS.
Recently I've also been noticing Microsoft have been making other bad business decisions (sorry, none seem to be coming to mind atm) which will no doubt lead to a difficult time for them in the future.
Of course, none of this is to say Microsoft are out of it, because with their bank balance, they could change tactics at almost any time and get back into things before its too late. Although I severely dislike Microsoft ('s business practices) and hope they take a good bashing soon, I think we need them, or something like them, for things to run as they are.. Without Microsoft we wouldn't need *as much* F/OSS or other things.
1. use greenhouses for greenhouse-like things 2. ??? 3. profit! 4. buy dedicated satellite
In Year 2349 DARPA ???.
In Year 2350 DARPA Profit!.
Since were talking about quantum computers here, why wouldn't they be using Quantum Encryption (which non-quantum computers can use too), which would be protecting data with the laws of physics (using quantum entanglement and other things on the actual photons/whatevers sent down the fibre/phone/whatever line).
Seems pretty hard to crack to me, well in fact.. it seems impossible.
Google for more info, I've been pretty breif since I'm not an expert on how it works.
I don't see WHY Linux should have to match this kind of generosity. Microsoft's business practices are, lets be honest, unethical and at times even below the law. Microsoft buy out competition, apply for patents on any ridiculously simple technology (OK, I know that the patent system is a 'get a patent or lose out' kind of thing, but still), malform O/S code to only work on Windows and then charge for it (Java, for example), stuff their own apps into the OS so no other companies stand much of a chance (e.g. WMP, IE - look at how much work has gone into Firefox and how much better it is, yet its been out for over a year and hasnt got a quarter of the usage IE has). Microsoft get rich from all kinds of this stuff. Whats $750,000,000 to Gates? Pocket change..
Clearly I don't like MS's business practices, but I'll give Gates that it's a pretty good thing of him to do. Linux shouldn't have to give this kind of money away because they don't get anything like the amount of money Gates does.
Gates may look like a good guy when he does things like this (just as Allen does), but he'll always put business before generosity.
Yea, this is what first came into my head.
Classical physics *cannot* explain consciousness, and there are many people who believe that consciousness, and therefore parts of the brain use quantum mechanical processes. Since we cannot yet control and recontruct things on the quantum scale, I sure as hell know I wouldn't want to be the first guy to try this stuff. You'd probably come back out the other end looking ok, but having a head full of useless grey mush as a brain. Memories are a funny thing, I can remember reading or hearing somewhere that nobody knows exactly where memories are stored in the brain, or why. That's probably changed since then, but still, I think were a long way off being able to teleport people, there's no doubt in my mind that it will happen one day though.
No. The plural or 'virus' is not 'virii', it's 'viruses'.
An ActiveX plugin for Firefox? Great. Wasn't that among the best things about Firefox? The lack of that stupid whim known as the ActiveX control..
I suppose since it's a plugin it's not really a bad thing, but XP has an automatic update application (I recently bought a new PC which has it, I've never seen it before, so I don't really know much about it) with a little yellow sheild icon in the tray when updates are available. According to an earlier post, it doesn't require Internet Explorer.
No doubt. Everything is on the rise because there's constantly a population rise and once something is widely used, the minority start to use it as well. As well as CD sales going up, and probably pirated CDs and P2P usage going up, this month is the first month (at least here in the UK), that legal music download sites have outsold their shop shelf equivalent. Was on BBC Radio 1 today as I came back from college.
Duplicate.
Duplicate.
Bah, damn link.. Here is the correct link.
Haha, the fools!
Don't they know the wheel is patented?
Yea, theres two ways to look at everything. How guillable am I, or how narrow-minded are you?
As many articles state, scientists have been unable to disprove her claims, which seems rather strange for such a thing. It seems fairly logical to me that if people are born with several kind of 'disorders', for example, the story about the german 'superman' baby which could heavy weights with his arm held out straight because he was born with an extremely rare genetic problem which stopped his body producing as much myostatin (the hormone that stops muscles from growing too fast), iirc. There's synaesthesia, where people can taste words when they are said to them, or see numbers and colours when certain other things happen, like a word being said, or a memory. There's all kinds of gifts or genetic 'mutations' that give a few rare people all kind of abilities or strange experiences.
I've read all the evidence I need to believe it for myself, you on the other hand just brush it off without a valid explanation apart from the I can't do it so it can't be done stance. Take it however you want, I'm just relaying relevant information.
I can remember in the news a while back there was a russian girl who was able to see in either normal vision, or a kind of x-ray-stylé vision. Anyway, she was learning to be a medical student and there were several tests done to prove the authenticity of it all, she correctly managed to predict that somebody was going to catch cancer, amonst other seemingly impossible feats. I can't recall the best source so I'll leave a google link so you can read for yourselfs. She seemed to be coping pretty well for someone with xray and normal vision, capabilities to swap between the two easily and learn to be a medical student.