I suspect that with the rise of Javascript libraries for interactive content and animation, the ubiquity of Canvas and SVG, the lack of Flash on the mobile Safari platform, and the general annoyance of animated ads and intro pages, Flash is on its way out. Silverlight's prospects for competing in a shrinking market are also dim.
There was a time you could do things with Flash you couldn't otherwise do. I have trouble coming up with anything that fits that description now, however. All we're really missing, in order for Flash to go the way of Java, is for someone to make a web development application that streamlines development with Mootools or a similar toolkit.
He hasn't hurt anyone, his "crime" has no victims other than himself. But of course he'll face jail-time. Prison is the state's way of reminding the people who's boss.
Sony will be in trouble; they will have to compete on hardware specs and exclusive titles the same way the PS3 has to compete with PCs. Nintendo, on the other hand, has shown time and time again, they will take chances and innovate with unique games and hardware to an extent that other companies will not. If the iPhone comes to dominate handheld touch-screen gaming, Nintendo will come up with something new the iPhone doesn't do.
Shouldn't that mean that matter-antimatter annihilation would result in no energy being emitted? If antimatter had negative mass, the net mass converted to energy would be zero.
Agreed. Science is a process (the scientific method, some people here haven't heard of it), and it's meant to be useful. Whether it's "truth" or not is a question for philosophers.
And if Powerset really did parse and "comprehend" the content of each page (which it doesn't, judging by your trial searches), how would it deal with the significant number of error-ridden and unintelligible articles in Wikipedia?
Not to mention non-English Wikipedias, which contain a good deal of information not available in the English one.
The super-rich are tremendously important to the economy, so long as they come by it honestly. They are the only ones who can invest the resources necessary for inventing cutting-edge, unusual, expensive, and risky technologies.
- Paper is a fantastic technology, and hard (but not impossible) to beat for books.
- Reading low-resolution text on a glowing screen sucks for long stretches, and always will suck.
- Electronic paper is a fantastic idea that has yet to be perfected. No, the Kindle is not a good reader. A good e-paper reader will handle all reasonable text and document formats, will be DRM-free, will effortlessly connect and sync with my computer, and will include features like margin notes, text highlighting, dictionary/encyclopedia lookup (think Leopard's pop-up dictionary), and other stuff I haven't thought of -- features that actually make it *superior* to paper books instead of merely equivalent.
The iPod Touch only has 128MB of RAM, and no disk cache. In case anyone missed that the first time: 128. No disk cache. That needs to run both an advanced OS *and* the foreground app while allowing music to play.
Exactly how many third-party applications do the geniuses at ZDNet think they can run at once with less than 128 MB?
It occurs to me that if someone actually wanted to transport a dirty bomb across the US, all they have to do is have a car a few miles ahead containing a radioactive cat, and they'll know for certain if and where there are radiation checkpoints.
That's because there was a lot of prestige in being an uploader. A friend of mine was one of the first in the city to get an experimental ADSL connection -- they weren't selling them to regular customers yet, and I don't think it was even heard of in the US yet. The first thing he did was to set up a massive MP3 server and max out his upstream bandwidth 24/7.
His other hobby was hacking his grey-market satellite receiver.
The lack of Flash could be a pretty good thing as Mobile Safari grows in usage, and web developers begin taking it into account. We could begin seeing real movie websites again, instead of annoying Flash sites; and Flash ads overall will decline so that advertisers lose out on potential clicks from iPhone and iPod users.
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I suspect that with the rise of Javascript libraries for interactive content and animation, the ubiquity of Canvas and SVG, the lack of Flash on the mobile Safari platform, and the general annoyance of animated ads and intro pages, Flash is on its way out. Silverlight's prospects for competing in a shrinking market are also dim.
There was a time you could do things with Flash you couldn't otherwise do. I have trouble coming up with anything that fits that description now, however. All we're really missing, in order for Flash to go the way of Java, is for someone to make a web development application that streamlines development with Mootools or a similar toolkit.
And the editing is outsourced to Romania.
This will just be one of those stupid laws that all the Japanese ignore. They seem pretty sensible that way.
He hasn't hurt anyone, his "crime" has no victims other than himself. But of course he'll face jail-time. Prison is the state's way of reminding the people who's boss.
Putting your hope in the Lords, ehâ¦
It's a shame the Queen doesn't do squat for the British people these days, aside from taking up prime real estate and making rare TV appearances.
Yes.
Does it surprise you that most of your presidents have been Constitution-shredding warmongers?
He can certainly impeach the president for going to war without a declaration from Congress, which Bush has done twice.
Sony will be in trouble; they will have to compete on hardware specs and exclusive titles the same way the PS3 has to compete with PCs. Nintendo, on the other hand, has shown time and time again, they will take chances and innovate with unique games and hardware to an extent that other companies will not. If the iPhone comes to dominate handheld touch-screen gaming, Nintendo will come up with something new the iPhone doesn't do.
Due to the non-uniform passage of time, the universe is not the same age everywhere.
Shouldn't that mean that matter-antimatter annihilation would result in no energy being emitted? If antimatter had negative mass, the net mass converted to energy would be zero.
Agreed. Science is a process (the scientific method, some people here haven't heard of it), and it's meant to be useful. Whether it's "truth" or not is a question for philosophers.
It can either be seen as a massive wave or a massive particle, depending on how it's measured.
And if Powerset really did parse and "comprehend" the content of each page (which it doesn't, judging by your trial searches), how would it deal with the significant number of error-ridden and unintelligible articles in Wikipedia?
Not to mention non-English Wikipedias, which contain a good deal of information not available in the English one.
The super-rich are tremendously important to the economy, so long as they come by it honestly. They are the only ones who can invest the resources necessary for inventing cutting-edge, unusual, expensive, and risky technologies.
My opinion is the same as it always has been:
- Paper is a fantastic technology, and hard (but not impossible) to beat for books.
- Reading low-resolution text on a glowing screen sucks for long stretches, and always will suck.
- Electronic paper is a fantastic idea that has yet to be perfected. No, the Kindle is not a good reader. A good e-paper reader will handle all reasonable text and document formats, will be DRM-free, will effortlessly connect and sync with my computer, and will include features like margin notes, text highlighting, dictionary/encyclopedia lookup (think Leopard's pop-up dictionary), and other stuff I haven't thought of -- features that actually make it *superior* to paper books instead of merely equivalent.
"Hilarious" storage? What does that even mean?
I guess a rational response is out of the question, then.
I just wish I could view Slashdot without having to turn up the font size every time. Just because I *can* read 9-pixel text doesn't mean I want to.
The iPod Touch only has 128MB of RAM, and no disk cache. In case anyone missed that the first time: 128. No disk cache. That needs to run both an advanced OS *and* the foreground app while allowing music to play.
Exactly how many third-party applications do the geniuses at ZDNet think they can run at once with less than 128 MB?
It occurs to me that if someone actually wanted to transport a dirty bomb across the US, all they have to do is have a car a few miles ahead containing a radioactive cat, and they'll know for certain if and where there are radiation checkpoints.
Wow... I guess we have to imagine a Beowulf cluster of BD+ virtual machines running Linux now. :rolleyes:
A grisly trade in a black market! The country is in bruins.
I hear the same robots that post Slashdot articles are competing in BattleBots!
That's because there was a lot of prestige in being an uploader. A friend of mine was one of the first in the city to get an experimental ADSL connection -- they weren't selling them to regular customers yet, and I don't think it was even heard of in the US yet. The first thing he did was to set up a massive MP3 server and max out his upstream bandwidth 24/7.
His other hobby was hacking his grey-market satellite receiver.
The lack of Flash could be a pretty good thing as Mobile Safari grows in usage, and web developers begin taking it into account. We could begin seeing real movie websites again, instead of annoying Flash sites; and Flash ads overall will decline so that advertisers lose out on potential clicks from iPhone and iPod users.