Even as specific as this wording is, Nokia have been doing that for years. If I hold down asterix on my phone during 'create text message' mode (to get to the symbols menu), then press it again, I get a menu of smileys...
The FAQ says you can upload to a free account from your PC via their software client, once you register you find out that you can only 'sideload' from content that's already Web hosted...
With the PSP firmware adding streaming media client capabilities, I might be persuaded to part with some cash if they integrated with that...
Anyone know how feasible this would be? (I've avoiding upgrading to post-2.0 firmware in order to leave open the downgrade route, so I'm not very clued-up about what's currently available...)
but the editor mentioned the previous article, not you
Indeed, I admitted this - I paid very little attention and just grabbed two anti-Apple stories from Digg, sparing none of the rhetoric, to see how easy it would be to get away with such an attack on a slow news day (provoked by the trupe).
Please explain to me how that's not trolling, since you've successfully argued it's not a dupe.
See above - I'm not sure I'd even try to defend it...
(Just don't tell SuperKendall!)
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Microsoft with all it's billions SHOULD be leading the pack, not playing catch up to other browsers
Yes, just like you go to McDonald's for varied and experimental cuisine, and to small independent restaurants for a bog standard burger...
"This story is not a dupe - it's a different set of measures."
Does that really make it a different story?
Yes, the editor's here think so. A dupe is when no one notices it's been reported before. An article that cites an earlier one is not a dupe, by definition, and by definition it has been considered whether there's sufficient new information to make it worthwhile.
It's the software patents mindset, and we really need to grow out of it.
It's not even new - for aeons it's been common knowledge that naive Mac folks saying WIMP was stolen by Microsoft is ridiculous (both because they weren't the originators themselves, and because they gladly adopted refinements from Microsoft, as in this case), but still we make the mistake over and over...
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Where there's no irony to berating Microsoft for copying Firefox features in Internet Explorer, nor talking about security flaws in Internet Explorer while praising Firefox.
Grow up!
Yes, Firefox is my default browser too... but I try not to let that make me a hypocrite!
There aren't too many websites that make sense to act as service providers. Most websites are simply just informational
Semantic web zealots might say that if something is useful written into a webpage (to be human readable), it's useful to expose it aside from the presentation. There again, they'd probably want you to waste your time, (and 'precious' compute cycles;), or ontological mark-up, not just XML tags...
While you discuss SOA's and the like, you forget... that we are not discussing a SOA
I disagree. If you're supplying data, i.e. something not human readable, over the HTTP stack, you're providing services - albeit more RESTful than SOAP-oriented ones...
Before we drift too far, I'm not saying that one should always use XML (in fact, if you look at my first reply in this article, you'll see that I brought up the point that AJAX doesn't have to imply XML before you did), but if there's any chance that your application is going to drift/develop, or that someone else will want to use your service, then I'd say you should take the time to at least make an XML encoding...
In 5 years the technology will have moved on, all software is disposable.
Sorry, but one of the very first things I did with 'asynchronous messaging and Java' (in 97 back before we got around to making up stupid acronyms) was interface with old VMS systems. Software developers might move on, but very often their software stays around (a lot longer than it was originally designed/expected to)...
No, I was saying the opposite - the difference that service-oriented architectures are making (over the component-based stuff I used to do in the Industry) is that people making these kind of apps can become service providers so much more easily. I.e. not that you'll want to integrate 3rd party components, but that if you write a nice web-app, people will want to use your underlying services within their own apps. Tell me I'm being naive and academic, but this is definitely the case with a lot of the first (or arguably second) generation Ajax stuff - take Google Maps, for instance...
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Oh, for God's sake... do we have to have this stupid joke every time?
The 1984 Olympics were a big deal to me.
A space shuttle? 'Fine, we've had those since before I can remember...'
It's exploded? 'That's a shame, but there are far fewer people than just died on that aeroplane.'
Not that I'm saying I actually said this (or consciously made such a connection), but that was pretty much my attitude (and, I'm sorry, still is).
Even as specific as this wording is, Nokia have been doing that for years. If I hold down asterix on my phone during 'create text message' mode (to get to the symbols menu), then press it again, I get a menu of smileys...
We're only legally allowed to talk about iPods... where have you been?
The FAQ says you can upload to a free account from your PC via their software client, once you register you find out that you can only 'sideload' from content that's already Web hosted...
With the PSP firmware adding streaming media client capabilities, I might be persuaded to part with some cash if they integrated with that...
Anyone know how feasible this would be? (I've avoiding upgrading to post-2.0 firmware in order to leave open the downgrade route, so I'm not very clued-up about what's currently available...)
(Just don't tell SuperKendall!)
It's the software patents mindset, and we really need to grow out of it.
It's not even new - for aeons it's been common knowledge that naive Mac folks saying WIMP was stolen by Microsoft is ridiculous (both because they weren't the originators themselves, and because they gladly adopted refinements from Microsoft, as in this case), but still we make the mistake over and over...
Where there's no irony to berating Microsoft for copying Firefox features in Internet Explorer, nor talking about security flaws in Internet Explorer while praising Firefox.
Grow up!
Yes, Firefox is my default browser too... but I try not to let that make me a hypocrite!
al-Qaeda, maybe? Seriously, this is the most irritating article on Slashdot in days...
Before we drift too far, I'm not saying that one should always use XML (in fact, if you look at my first reply in this article, you'll see that I brought up the point that AJAX doesn't have to imply XML before you did), but if there's any chance that your application is going to drift/develop, or that someone else will want to use your service, then I'd say you should take the time to at least make an XML encoding...
No, I was saying the opposite - the difference that service-oriented architectures are making (over the component-based stuff I used to do in the Industry) is that people making these kind of apps can become service providers so much more easily. I.e. not that you'll want to integrate 3rd party components, but that if you write a nice web-app, people will want to use your underlying services within their own apps. Tell me I'm being naive and academic, but this is definitely the case with a lot of the first (or arguably second) generation Ajax stuff - take Google Maps, for instance...