Show me a GUI "Hello, world!" that'll run on every platform Java does
javascript:alert("Hello, World!");
Hit the nail on the head. Why in the world would anyone decide the future of a language based on its ability to write GUIs in today's web world is a mystery.
All server-to-server communication is TLS encrypted and authenticated. All wave origins are verified using digital signatures, so, to quote from wikipedia,
Therefore, a downstream wave provider can verify that the wave provider is not spoofing wavelet operations. It should not be able to falsely claim that a wavelet operation originated from a user on another wave provider or that it was originated in a different context.
Thus, spam really ceases to be an issue
DomainKeys does similar things for e-mail.
Waves can be embedded. Blog comment sections can be replaced by waves; forum threads by waves. All comments would appear in your inbox. Email cannot even hope to replicate this other than with the clunky-and-annoying "notify me when someone responds" forum setting.
First, I might not want all this integrated into my e-mail inbox. Second, Facebook (and probably OpenSocial, Google's other thing) does this - integrating forums, discussions, comments, likes into posts, which are arguably wave-like.
You can easily add people to the discussion. The only way to do so with email is to re-forward the whole chain of emails to them and ask them to reply-all; or to include them in the next reply-all and hope that noone else responds first. This is a pretty glaring flaw of email that Wave fixes.
I'll argue it's much easier to scan through an e-mail thread than do a playback on a wave. Real-time playback is cute but I don't have time for it. And reading the wave linearly doesn't help since people can modify things in between.
There are of course a ton of other reasons why Wave was more than just "chat with a couple of features", but these were big. Wave had the chance to completely redo how we communicated, freeing people from having to keep track of 10 different IM networks + email + forums + blog comments.
Google couldn't even integrate GMail with wave. One of the main reasons I gave up Wave was having to keep track of two Google inboxes.
Its a little disheartening to see so many people (even techies) who dismissed it out of hand given how much better it was (with no disadvantages that I can discern).
I don't think people dismissed it out of hand. When it first came out, people lined up for accounts. It just didn't offer anything much in addition to what we had.
Finally, given the above, how can people POSSIBLY be responding "and nothing of value was lost" in an honest to goodness impressive attempt that was completely opened to the public (source for the servers was released!)? Is everyone really that in love with MS Exchange?
Maybe nothing of value was lost precisely because everything has been opened up anyway? Anyone who wants another shot at convincing people that this is a Good Thing(tm), can quite easily do so. I agree that there was phenomenal engineering involved and that may well be used in many scenarios.
This isn't about thought crime, this isn't about proclaiming anyone guilty. From TFA (the Yahoo news one):
selected IBM predictive analytics software to reduce recidivism by determining which juveniles are likely to reoffend. Identified at-risk youth can then be placed in programs specific to the best course of treatment to ensure offenders do not re-enter the juvenile justice system.
So this is about treatment and rehab, not about proclaiming guilt. The persons in question have already been determined guilty, and whats being done here is determine the best course of action.
With the new analytics system in place, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice will analyze key predictors such as past offense history, home life environment, gang affiliation and peer associations to better understand and predict which youths have a higher likelihood to reoffend.
This is totally scientific. Basically, this is the same principle as let's punish a serial killer differently from a person convicted of second degree murder.
Prior to predictive analytics, the organization used Excel for basic analysis on projections for the number of delinquency cases they would take in, which had limited functionality.
So this isn't some brand new evil that IBM is committing. They were already using simplistic modeling, IBM is just providing more powerful modeling.
Google's been pushing offline support pretty strongly on a number of devices.
It would be a real waste if my computer were inoperable if the network were down. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to play chess, or write a document or take notes when I'm on a plane or far away from civilization. Even phones have airplane modes these days.
I wonder if there is any sort of a file system at all on the Chrome OS. If not, it will be raise the bar for writing apps (even with offline mode support) since you simply have to write code to sync data as well.
Why? Because the "orbitals" are actually solutions of the Schroedinger Wave Equation. They are images or a probability distribution in abstract space. Electrons are not clouds or points, they are things we don't really understand but describe by means of quantum mechanics. So I am deeply suspicious of the picture, because there is no physical object of that shape to image.
I completely agree. Besides, from what I remember from high-school physics, how we "see" *anything* is when light falls on an atom/molecule, these electronics get excited into higher than natural states. When they go back to their natural states, they emit a photon that is characteristic of the material (color etc.). Given this, I don't see (pun intended) how it's possible for such a photograph to be taken.
Scientists are always looking for ways to falsify their theories. That is the very essence of science.
It's not the essence, but the method of science. The essence of science is that the universe *is* governed by laws; a statement that most scientists would not accept as falsifiable. As scientists, we are happy to accept that a particular theory is falsifiable, but the conclusion from that is always that "we have to look for another theory", not "maybe there is nothing that explains this phenomena".
Of course, the laws discovered so far have stood up to some pretty heavy scrutiny. I'm just pointing out that it is true that science simply assumes the existence of natural law.
Ideally, the entirety of the process that leads to any decision relating to Wikipedia should be visible to the users.
A few private e-mails I do not have a problem with. What could be a problem is if this happens on a large scale equivalent to this alleged "secret mailing list". An obvious problem is that a policy of an organized group is misrepresented as the multiple, independent actions of multiple individuals.
Lets say a user was banned (or his edits rejected, whatever) a hundred times by different people. If these hundred people are truly independent, I could say that this user is probably incompetent. If these hundred people represent a concerted effort, however, I wouldn't be quite as sure and I'd have to balance my beliefs with the possibility that this "secret" organization has something against the user - especially if this organization doesn't even reveal its existence.
It somehow amuses me to think that the United States is spending resources in trying to figure out what I'm saying when I make an international call that has nothing to do with the US. The tapping software itself, AI to detect catch phrases, language experts to worry about translation, AND worrying about the legal issues involved in all of this.
All this because my mother wants to know if I'm having dinner properly or not. By all means, tap away.
Through a marvel of modern publishing, advertising and distribution, millions of people will receive or buy "The Deathly Hallows" on a single day. There's something thrilling about that sort of unity, except that it has almost nothing to do with the unique pleasures of reading a novel: that increasingly rare opportunity to step out of sync with the world, to experience something intimate and private, the sense that you and an author are conspiring for a few hours to experience a place by yourselves -- without a movie version or a set of action figures.
"If you sell me off I shall become more expensive than you can possibly imagine."
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Google is a minimalist company. The Google OS will probably be a basic OS with the ability to check mail, maintain basic documents, your calendar, photos, and your news.
Oh wait... thats already here! Am I the only one who realizes how much we're in the browser these days? When I'm writing in Writely I actually try to Alt+Tab out to my browser... before realizing I'm in my browser already.
The main reason why "proper" encyclopedias can be trusted to contain more accurate data isn't because they actually _do_, it's because encyclopedia companies can actually be held responsible if the information they publish is libelous.
I'm not too sure about this. Have you ever seen the EULA for an encyclopedia? Given the vast amount of dynamic information that an encyclopedia has, I'm sure the authors will indemnify themselves.
Nobody's claiming that Wikipedia is 100% accurate. Even closed encyclopedias though can contain errors. The point is that those errors are less likely to be detected since very few people have access.
I was initially skeptical of Fedora and stayed on Redhat 9 until FC2 came out. Since then, I've used each release of Fedora on a multitude of systems including desktops, servers, laptops (including my Powerbook G4) and I've had relatively little trouble with it. Yes, there were issues like getting the nVidia drivers to work with the first build of FC5 and so on, but nothing that I haven't faced with other Linuxes.
A major problem cited with developing nations is lack of infrastructure - a large part of which is power. By validating and making use of such technology common, it would be far easier to set up shop outside the US.
Parent is right. And too bad, actually. If Microsoft were really to make big gains in avoiding piracy, less people would have Windows, and we'd see a greater switch to Linux and other alternatives - which might make the whole driver / application scene for Linux way better.
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javascript:alert("Hello, World!");
Hit the nail on the head. Why in the world would anyone decide the future of a language based on its ability to write GUIs in today's web world is a mystery.
All server-to-server communication is TLS encrypted and authenticated. All wave origins are verified using digital signatures, so, to quote from wikipedia,
Therefore, a downstream wave provider can verify that the wave provider is not spoofing wavelet operations. It should not be able to falsely claim that a wavelet operation originated from a user on another wave provider or that it was originated in a different context.
Thus, spam really ceases to be an issue
DomainKeys does similar things for e-mail.
Waves can be embedded. Blog comment sections can be replaced by waves; forum threads by waves. All comments would appear in your inbox. Email cannot even hope to replicate this other than with the clunky-and-annoying "notify me when someone responds" forum setting.
First, I might not want all this integrated into my e-mail inbox. Second, Facebook (and probably OpenSocial, Google's other thing) does this - integrating forums, discussions, comments, likes into posts, which are arguably wave-like.
You can easily add people to the discussion. The only way to do so with email is to re-forward the whole chain of emails to them and ask them to reply-all; or to include them in the next reply-all and hope that noone else responds first. This is a pretty glaring flaw of email that Wave fixes.
I'll argue it's much easier to scan through an e-mail thread than do a playback on a wave. Real-time playback is cute but I don't have time for it. And reading the wave linearly doesn't help since people can modify things in between.
There are of course a ton of other reasons why Wave was more than just "chat with a couple of features", but these were big. Wave had the chance to completely redo how we communicated, freeing people from having to keep track of 10 different IM networks + email + forums + blog comments.
Google couldn't even integrate GMail with wave. One of the main reasons I gave up Wave was having to keep track of two Google inboxes.
Its a little disheartening to see so many people (even techies) who dismissed it out of hand given how much better it was (with no disadvantages that I can discern).
I don't think people dismissed it out of hand. When it first came out, people lined up for accounts. It just didn't offer anything much in addition to what we had.
Finally, given the above, how can people POSSIBLY be responding "and nothing of value was lost" in an honest to goodness impressive attempt that was completely opened to the public (source for the servers was released!)? Is everyone really that in love with MS Exchange?
Maybe nothing of value was lost precisely because everything has been opened up anyway? Anyone who wants another shot at convincing people that this is a Good Thing(tm), can quite easily do so. I agree that there was phenomenal engineering involved and that may well be used in many scenarios.
For that matter, it's not like they have a real copy of Flash for any phone yet, let alone the iPhone.
Ahem. My Nokia E71 supports Flash.
So this is about treatment and rehab, not about proclaiming guilt. The persons in question have already been determined guilty, and whats being done here is determine the best course of action.
This is totally scientific. Basically, this is the same principle as let's punish a serial killer differently from a person convicted of second degree murder.
So this isn't some brand new evil that IBM is committing. They were already using simplistic modeling, IBM is just providing more powerful modeling.
Google's been pushing offline support pretty strongly on a number of devices. It would be a real waste if my computer were inoperable if the network were down. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to play chess, or write a document or take notes when I'm on a plane or far away from civilization. Even phones have airplane modes these days. I wonder if there is any sort of a file system at all on the Chrome OS. If not, it will be raise the bar for writing apps (even with offline mode support) since you simply have to write code to sync data as well.
Why? Because the "orbitals" are actually solutions of the Schroedinger Wave Equation. They are images or a probability distribution in abstract space. Electrons are not clouds or points, they are things we don't really understand but describe by means of quantum mechanics. So I am deeply suspicious of the picture, because there is no physical object of that shape to image.
I completely agree. Besides, from what I remember from high-school physics, how we "see" *anything* is when light falls on an atom/molecule, these electronics get excited into higher than natural states. When they go back to their natural states, they emit a photon that is characteristic of the material (color etc.). Given this, I don't see (pun intended) how it's possible for such a photograph to be taken.
That needs a much bigger computer, IIRC. Roughly the size and complexity of Earth, its ecosystem and its organisms.
Of course, the laws discovered so far have stood up to some pretty heavy scrutiny. I'm just pointing out that it is true that science simply assumes the existence of natural law.
Ideally, the entirety of the process that leads to any decision relating to Wikipedia should be visible to the users.
A few private e-mails I do not have a problem with. What could be a problem is if this happens on a large scale equivalent to this alleged "secret mailing list". An obvious problem is that a policy of an organized group is misrepresented as the multiple, independent actions of multiple individuals.
Lets say a user was banned (or his edits rejected, whatever) a hundred times by different people. If these hundred people are truly independent, I could say that this user is probably incompetent. If these hundred people represent a concerted effort, however, I wouldn't be quite as sure and I'd have to balance my beliefs with the possibility that this "secret" organization has something against the user - especially if this organization doesn't even reveal its existence.
It somehow amuses me to think that the United States is spending resources in trying to figure out what I'm saying when I make an international call that has nothing to do with the US. The tapping software itself, AI to detect catch phrases, language experts to worry about translation, AND worrying about the legal issues involved in all of this. All this because my mother wants to know if I'm having dinner properly or not. By all means, tap away.
Finally, now maybe people will stop coming to me and asking me to help them with their computers. Then I can rest in peace and do my work.
Why didn't I think of this? Doing shoddy work and actually charging them instead of repairing the stuff for free would've worked better!
Why don't we all install liberation fonts and be done with it?
They're supposedly going to have support for offline applications, e.g. GMail. Should be very interesting.
"If you sell me off I shall become more expensive than you can possibly imagine."
Google is a minimalist company. The Google OS will probably be a basic OS with the ability to check mail, maintain basic documents, your calendar, photos, and your news. Oh wait... thats already here! Am I the only one who realizes how much we're in the browser these days? When I'm writing in Writely I actually try to Alt+Tab out to my browser... before realizing I'm in my browser already.
And all of them negative to some extent. Is this just me, or does this sound odd?
Nobody's claiming that Wikipedia is 100% accurate. Even closed encyclopedias though can contain errors. The point is that those errors are less likely to be detected since very few people have access.
I was initially skeptical of Fedora and stayed on Redhat 9 until FC2 came out. Since then, I've used each release of Fedora on a multitude of systems including desktops, servers, laptops (including my Powerbook G4) and I've had relatively little trouble with it. Yes, there were issues like getting the nVidia drivers to work with the first build of FC5 and so on, but nothing that I haven't faced with other Linuxes.
A major problem cited with developing nations is lack of infrastructure - a large part of which is power. By validating and making use of such technology common, it would be far easier to set up shop outside the US.
http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-dit ching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/
http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/
Parent is right. And too bad, actually. If Microsoft were really to make big gains in avoiding piracy, less people would have Windows, and we'd see a greater switch to Linux and other alternatives - which might make the whole driver / application scene for Linux way better.