This is precisely why homo sapiens should be working on the spatial diversification of mother earth's DNA and not fighting petty little wars all over the globe.
The earth is a womb and the task of understanding, preserving and propogating life, especially intelligent self-aware life, falls to us, the advanced monkeys, since the cetaceans have not really been much help. As someone once said having all your DNA at the bottom of a gravity well, relying on single biosphere for all of your oxygen is not a good long term stategy.
Back in earyly 2004 you said Now, we've done great work with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 and so I feel very confident that when we get the data back, we'll be in great shape there. However, even with the IIS 5 and the Windows 2000 versus the Apache one, once you tried to do more complex things other than just serving up simple Web pages is where you saw TCO advantages move back in favor of Microsoft.
netcraft reports shows a flat to negative growth curve for IIS while Apache increased several precentage points last year. Do you see this trend reversing in 2005?
4. Seamless integration of client and server side (that's what XAML is all about, IMHO). Your webapps will actually run sandboxed.NET code on your machine. Kind of like applets, but the entire webapp will be built out of them. Just think about the possibilities there.
You have heard of XUL haven't you. It's been on the street of years. XAML is XUL minus the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Why MS decided not to go with CSS is interesting if not revealing.
I am developing a cross platform client/server data acquisition controller app right now in XUL and have been quite surprised at its maturity. I like how content, presentation and code are partitioned into separate components - this is well thought out.
With the addition of the xmlhttprequest() capability it is a piece of cake to use apache/cgi and the language of your choice on your server end and xul, javascript and mozilla as your rich client.
Mozilla's XUL approach is vindicated by microsoft's XAML intentions. However the lack of CSS support in XAML is, I belive, a mistake.
I am currently writing a xul client/server application. I am using the xmlhttprequest function. however instead of processing xml data which is very slow, especially when you need to parse a data set several times a second, I started sending data stuctures in javascript code instead. This I believe is what Google Suggest does also.
In addition the server code is written in perl so for storing status and configuration information, I used serialized perl data strucures processing requirements fell dramatically. With serialized scipt you still have the clear text editing and inspection capabilities without the speed and space issues. for example instead of
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people
Why the consistent anti-law inforcement sentiment on/.? It would seem to me the more obvious use of this technology would be for criminals to use it to escape detection.
A while back I had a frustrating exchange with Overture (aka Yahoo) on "Click Protection" on their PPC service. In the meantime I have back engineered their highly touted filter and it is a joke. I could write click bot with a few lines of Perl and a list of proxy servers. My experience has been that they will not pay attention to you until you have goon thru the trouble of documenting the event. Here is a summary of my experience.
Overture claims to provide "Click Protection" for their pay-per-click advertising service. In reality they fail to prevent the most basic and easiest to detect non-authentic clicks - that is competitors clicking on competitors. They do not even filter out a customer clicking on their own links from within the Overture manager. Nor do they provide a method for an advertiser to test their own ad rendered URL's - a necessary function as a means to test the validity of an entered URL.
Since filtering out such clicks would be simple and straight forward using established cookies or session id's - I can only speculate the reasons for not patching this obvious flaw and question the "sophistication of Overtures "Click Protection".
I am currently writing a xul client/server application. I am using the xmlhttprequest function. however instead of processing xml data which is slow, especially when you need to parse a data set several times a second, i started sending javascript code and data stuctures. In addition the server code is written in perl so for storing status and configuration information, I used serialized perl data strucures processing requirements fell dramatically. I still have the clear text editing and inspection capabilities without the speed and space issues.
It seems like serialized script code, such as perl, python, java provides the benefits of xml without the headaches.
Energy independence is a national security issue
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Replacing foriegn oil imports is vital to continued economic growth and ensuring security for any nation or society. A country would be foolish to place their bets on a resource that is dwindling and susceptible to manipulation by foreign interests. The good news is that it is mearly a technical problem but the lead time requires planning and foresight - which in some unnamed countries is sadly lacking.
Anyone interested this topic should checkout the Rocky Mountain Institute and read up on the ideas of Amory Lovins.
I am glad to hear you say this. I have been slogging thru xul and finding it quite powerful. However, I cannot help wondering what am i missing in not going with bare metal GTK+ or QT.
Insighful? come moderators where is your judgement.
The Johnny says "bet you got this from a chain letter e-mail from you Aunt Flo in Mobile didn't ya" and then goes on to quote the contents of a chain email as if it was fact concerning the footage of the dancing and celebration of palestinians of 9/11. I would suggest you check snopes before spouting next time.
The melting of Ice caps would also create opportunities for beach front property in Nevada. Get the top maps and find the 200 foot above sea level elevation and stake your claim now - or least for your children.
Yes but you are rich! Especially if you live in a first nation, it is all relative. Compared to someone in Somalia you are stinking rich. Instead of buying that portable mp3 player or Playstation you could have spent that money on improving someone elses life considerably less fortunately than yourself.
I just finished reading Richard Dawkins book The Extending Phenotype. A great but challanging book and i would recommend The Selfish Gene first. I wonder what effect wide spread cloning will have on gene replication. Imagine a scientist, or worse an evil meglomaniac, with the capability to clone a human and a specific genetic desposition that expresses a strong desire to clone themselves. These clones as they mature will have a similar strong desire and on and on until before you know it all of humanity will be able to trace their lineage to one of a few original founding clone germlines.
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The article talked about this as if it was a moral issue, but I don't see the difference in spending $50k for a kitten, or $50k for a hummer, or a larger home than you need, or a series of vacations. It is personal decision and I think it is immoral to label someone else as immoral because of the way they decide to spend their money. for them it was important to try to recreate an animal they were attached to, sufficient enough. you make decisions and spend money on things everyday that could have be used to save an animal from a pet shelter.
He is just reporting his experiences with the tool which saves others valuable time. I can offer your own advice, if you despise his comments so much why read them? If I was developer I would take his comments as constructive critism and thank him for the issue list. Are you one of the developers?
Say what your doing in 2008? Consider running for public office - you have my vote. In the not so distant future our decendants will study our history and wonder with amazement how we could be so short sighted that we actually used technology and a considerable amount of our collective intellegence to kill and maimed each other over limited resources.
As linus pointed out, copyrights are for the small guy. Most people do not have the resource to obtain and defend a patent. However many companies have entire dept that are patent machines. Also it is for everyones benefit that creative people are creating and developing not reading the latest PTO newsletter and understanding the nuances of patent law.
Imagine an auv that collects its energy from plankton? It is great idea and I would like to patent it but I think there may be some prior art on this idea.:(
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Today, if you want a consistent software experience, you have little choice but to go with Windows
Which incanation of Windows is he talking about. I would venture to say windows xp and 2000 are about as different as Redhat and Debian.
This is precisely why homo sapiens should be working on the spatial diversification of mother earth's DNA and not fighting petty little wars all over the globe.
The earth is a womb and the task of understanding, preserving and propogating life, especially intelligent self-aware life, falls to us, the advanced monkeys, since the cetaceans have not really been much help. As someone once said having all your DNA at the bottom of a gravity well, relying on single biosphere for all of your oxygen is not a good long term stategy.
we start to see passwords like
ummm so you store or display passwords in clear text where sysamdins can view them? hmmm. whats wrong with that I wonder....
Back in earyly 2004 you said Now, we've done great work with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 and so I feel very confident that when we get the data back, we'll be in great shape there. However, even with the IIS 5 and the Windows 2000 versus the Apache one, once you tried to do more complex things other than just serving up simple Web pages is where you saw TCO advantages move back in favor of Microsoft.
netcraft reports shows a flat to negative growth curve for IIS while Apache increased several precentage points last year. Do you see this trend reversing in 2005?
4. Seamless integration of client and server side (that's what XAML is all about, IMHO). Your webapps will actually run sandboxed .NET code on your machine. Kind of like applets, but the entire webapp will be built out of them. Just think about the possibilities there.
You have heard of XUL haven't you. It's been on the street of years. XAML is XUL minus the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Why MS decided not to go with CSS is interesting if not revealing.
I am developing a cross platform client/server data acquisition controller app right now in XUL and have been quite surprised at its maturity. I like how content, presentation and code are partitioned into separate components - this is well thought out.
With the addition of the xmlhttprequest() capability it is a piece of cake to use apache/cgi and the language of your choice on your server end and xul, javascript and mozilla as your rich client.
Mozilla's XUL approach is vindicated by microsoft's XAML intentions. However the lack of CSS support in XAML is, I belive, a mistake.
In addition the server code is written in perl so for storing status and configuration information, I used serialized perl data strucures processing requirements fell dramatically. With serialized scipt you still have the clear text editing and inspection capabilities without the speed and space issues. for example instead ofIt seems like serialized script code, in either perl, python, java provides the benefits of xml without the headaches.
What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people
/.? It would seem to me the more obvious use of this technology would be for criminals to use it to escape detection.
Why the consistent anti-law inforcement sentiment on
For a complete write up see Overture Click Protection Paper
I am currently writing a xul client/server application. I am using the xmlhttprequest function. however instead of processing xml data which is slow, especially when you need to parse a data set several times a second, i started sending javascript code and data stuctures. In addition the server code is written in perl so for storing status and configuration information, I used serialized perl data strucures processing requirements fell dramatically. I still have the clear text editing and inspection capabilities without the speed and space issues.
It seems like serialized script code, such as perl, python, java provides the benefits of xml without the headaches.
Replacing foriegn oil imports is vital to continued economic growth and ensuring security for any nation or society. A country would be foolish to place their bets on a resource that is dwindling and susceptible to manipulation by foreign interests. The good news is that it is mearly a technical problem but the lead time requires planning and foresight - which in some unnamed countries is sadly lacking.
Anyone interested this topic should checkout the Rocky Mountain Institute and read up on the ideas of Amory Lovins.
I am glad to hear you say this. I have been slogging thru xul and finding it quite powerful. However, I cannot help wondering what am i missing in not going with bare metal GTK+ or QT.
Insighful? come moderators where is your judgement.
The Johnny says "bet you got this from a chain letter e-mail from you Aunt Flo in Mobile didn't ya" and then goes on to quote the contents of a chain email as if it was fact concerning the footage of the dancing and celebration of palestinians of 9/11. I would suggest you check snopes before spouting next time.
Say don't compare
The melting of Ice caps would also create opportunities for beach front property in Nevada. Get the top maps and find the 200 foot above sea level elevation and stake your claim now - or least for your children.
what a relief at least we wont have to go thru the year of "the end of unix time".
More like a low SNR signal.
Yes but you are rich! Especially if you live in a first nation, it is all relative. Compared to someone in Somalia you are stinking rich. Instead of buying that portable mp3 player or Playstation you could have spent that money on improving someone elses life considerably less fortunately than yourself.
I just finished reading Richard Dawkins book The Extending Phenotype. A great but challanging book and i would recommend The Selfish Gene first. I wonder what effect wide spread cloning will have on gene replication. Imagine a scientist, or worse an evil meglomaniac, with the capability to clone a human and a specific genetic desposition that expresses a strong desire to clone themselves. These clones as they mature will have a similar strong desire and on and on until before you know it all of humanity will be able to trace their lineage to one of a few original founding clone germlines.
The article talked about this as if it was a moral issue, but I don't see the difference in spending $50k for a kitten, or $50k for a hummer, or a larger home than you need, or a series of vacations. It is personal decision and I think it is immoral to label someone else as immoral because of the way they decide to spend their money. for them it was important to try to recreate an animal they were attached to, sufficient enough. you make decisions and spend money on things everyday that could have be used to save an animal from a pet shelter.
He is just reporting his experiences with the tool which saves others valuable time. I can offer your own advice, if you despise his comments so much why read them? If I was developer I would take his comments as constructive critism and thank him for the issue list. Are you one of the developers?
If they really wanted buzz they would provided a web control.
Say what your doing in 2008? Consider running for public office - you have my vote. In the not so distant future our decendants will study our history and wonder with amazement how we could be so short sighted that we actually used technology and a considerable amount of our collective intellegence to kill and maimed each other over limited resources.
As linus pointed out, copyrights are for the small guy. Most people do not have the resource to obtain and defend a patent. However many companies have entire dept that are patent machines. Also it is for everyones benefit that creative people are creating and developing not reading the latest PTO newsletter and understanding the nuances of patent law.
5 mod point to the person who provide a link or describes how to block the chinese ip net block.
Imagine an auv that collects its energy from plankton? It is great idea and I would like to patent it but I think there may be some prior art on this idea. :(
One freeking fast insect. Lets say the insect was travelling at 10 mph (~15 ft/sec) so in 1/20 of second that is only around 9 inches.