This hass been AOL's problem all along. On again off again decisions and no follow through. They axed the browser development team only to come back and try it again.
AOL had all the oppurtunities in the world and seems to have managed to squander them all.
Handling of long long words is expected to have a dramatic performance impact on Microsoft Word. Spell checking things like supercalifragilistickexpialidoshus(sp? sorry didn't want to take the time to spell check that, don't have a 64 bit CPU).
Nah, the people at the ideal weight are the ones out jogging and riding bikes, which means they're more likely to get run over. Sitting in front of a computer is far less dangerous.
I use the Ultimate Popup Blocker. The UPB utilizes neural network technology to recognize sites that produce popups. It "remembers" the site and refuses to go there again. It also compares sites about to be visitted with past sites visited and determins if annoying popups are likely. I they are it refuses to navigate the browser to the site.
I've been really pleased with the UPB, everyone should have one.
Yes, and taking the database example sited, I'm sure many companies can foot the expense of hiring on people experienced enough to maintain database engine code.
Regardless of whether you pick open or "closed" source you're going to be at the mercy of someone.
Sure a project can be branched, but you need to have a large enough community to support that. If not, it will wither. Most companies are using open source for the up front cost savings of not having to pay per machine fees on the installed machines.
It would be interesting to see a study on how many companies that use open source software actually give anything back.
One thing to consider is the life of the technology. DAT's, CD's, DVD, and on. Technology advances. I think media should last probably around twice as long as it's in vogue. It's easy enough to create backups of your backups.
At some point it's going to be difficult to find readers for older media. For instance anyone know where you could get a Hawk or CMD drive? I imagine you can probably still get 5 1/4" inch floppy drives, though I've not see any advertised in any mainstream store.
So I think a media's lifetime only needs to be longer than it is popular. Maybe add 50% to that time or possibly double it.
It's the language. If the English language was anything close to reasonable you wouldn't need a spell checker much less a grammar checker. Sure you'd need a typo checker.
I wonder how much this twisted language costs humanity in lost productivity and extra effort. For instance imagine children knowing how to spell any word by pre-school and probably have grammar mastered by kindergarten. We'd have so much time to spend on other things.
So for me it's silly that we need such a tool and/or that it's all that important
Slightly different, but similar thinking with the email. Email might make communications with Dr. Knuth more convenient for both the Dr. and the correspondent, but Knuth sacrifices this ease as a means of filtering.
Good point, I can see the value in it as a filtering tool. If someone isn't going to put forth the effort to print a letter, stuff it in an envelope and mail it, the correspondance is probably not that valuable to him.
I guess my anonymity affords me the filtering I need today. Maybe someday I'll have to resort to Knuth's filtering method;-)
So when did he give up his phone? I find the phone a far worse interrupter than e-mail err email.
Honestly it's interesting that people seem to be unable to ignore such devices. I feel for his secretary, much easier to view and hit delete than opening all those envelopes and tossing them out. Electrons are much easier to get and get rid of than wood pulp.
Hopefully no one in this interview asked him some silly question like "How should I get my software published?" That was asked of Knuth at one event I attended. I guess the person asking the question had no idea who the speaker was.
Yes, Microsoft, Apple, and probably others will make document rendering part of the core OS. Making the browser we know today a quaint piece of software.
Moz needs some innovation to stay out in front. Firefox maybe a better browser, but it's still a browser, saddled with all the deficiencies of a browser.
Eventually we'll enter the world instead of sitting inside viewing it through a window.
I once took a typing test and didn't realize my hands were shifted on key to the left the entire test until after the test. Hey, they said don't look at the keyboard. I tried to convince the teacher to mentally shift all the letters to the right and grade after the adjustment. She wasn't willing and I flunked the test:-(
Observing reduces the scope for fraud (also a reason why the cash tills are always out in the open and viewable by several members of staff simultaneously)... it doesn't remove it, but you have then done the best you can
Well it does eliminate one failure point. I've never actually seen anyone do this, nor has anyone at a restaurant made such an offer to me. But I still don't think it would make me feel any safer.
At least with the credit card companies coming down hard on vendors it makes it more worth their effort to police their own employees.
And even if you walk back there, how do you know the thing that's reading your card is on the up and up? Is it really calling a real clearing house? You've been living under a false sense of security if you believe watching everything makes it more secure. Do you believe magicians really saw people in half?
I guess if you're bored and have lots of time to figure such things out then go for it. But for me, if I find a site's ads annoying then I just don't come back. I don't have to worry about if the blocker has blocked real content and broken I site I use.
Sites that dont' get visitted won't be very attractive to advertisers. If the site is good, either advertisers will be happy with non-intrusive adds, or users will pay a subscription.
I was thinking the same when writing another post, XUL could be a part of a solution. Add in some XML RPC type technology and a technology that can cache data for requests in memory or on disk to reduce server requests and make the app more reponsive. Sort of a client side database and you'd have something that would look and feel like a traditional application.
So will it clean my counter tops as well as render spectacular web pages?
Seriously, this is all starting to seem like a huge Frankensteinian monster. Technologies keep getting bolted on trying to get to a better user experience on the web. People want applications, but they like the non-deployment aspects of the web. We really need something new. This is getting too much like VB, trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
I'm tired of spending hours trying to get something done in a web environment that would take me 15 minutes in a traditional client. There should be a better way. There should be something like X-Windows like technology in browsers over HTTP or some such.
It's sad to see that the browser hasn't evoled all that much in the past 10 years.
1. I can setup a system and do quite a bit without having to resort to Googling.
2. It's what I use at work
3. All the games I and my kids like play run on it
4. None of my computers has ever been comprimized.
I've recently retired a system. I'm planning on getting a couple of Linux distros and trying some out. Hoping to see that things have improved from a few years ago when I last tried Red Hat.
I'd be interested in hearing what distro would be best for an old Windows user such as my self.
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Dang you guys took all my lines. Haven't seen this one yet: He's only mostly extinct.
But why would anyone build the software if no one is using it?
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This hass been AOL's problem all along. On again off again decisions and no follow through. They axed the browser development team only to come back and try it again.
AOL had all the oppurtunities in the world and seems to have managed to squander them all.
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I'd hate to see that system crash.
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Handling of long long words is expected to have a dramatic performance impact on Microsoft Word. Spell checking things like supercalifragilistickexpialidoshus(sp? sorry didn't want to take the time to spell check that, don't have a 64 bit CPU).
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Nah, the people at the ideal weight are the ones out jogging and riding bikes, which means they're more likely to get run over. Sitting in front of a computer is far less dangerous.
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Oooh, hydrogen power nano-bots that's the ticket!
I use the Ultimate Popup Blocker. The UPB utilizes neural network technology to recognize sites that produce popups. It "remembers" the site and refuses to go there again. It also compares sites about to be visitted with past sites visited and determins if annoying popups are likely. I they are it refuses to navigate the browser to the site.
I've been really pleased with the UPB, everyone should have one.
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Yes, and taking the database example sited, I'm sure many companies can foot the expense of hiring on people experienced enough to maintain database engine code.
Regardless of whether you pick open or "closed" source you're going to be at the mercy of someone.
Sure a project can be branched, but you need to have a large enough community to support that. If not, it will wither. Most companies are using open source for the up front cost savings of not having to pay per machine fees on the installed machines.
It would be interesting to see a study on how many companies that use open source software actually give anything back.
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No, you have to shake it vigorously on the axis that your hard drive is rotating to get the 3D storage boost.
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One thing to consider is the life of the technology. DAT's, CD's, DVD, and on. Technology advances. I think media should last probably around twice as long as it's in vogue. It's easy enough to create backups of your backups.
At some point it's going to be difficult to find readers for older media. For instance anyone know where you could get a Hawk or CMD drive? I imagine you can probably still get 5 1/4" inch floppy drives, though I've not see any advertised in any mainstream store.
So I think a media's lifetime only needs to be longer than it is popular. Maybe add 50% to that time or possibly double it.
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It's the language. If the English language was anything close to reasonable you wouldn't need a spell checker much less a grammar checker. Sure you'd need a typo checker.
I wonder how much this twisted language costs humanity in lost productivity and extra effort. For instance imagine children knowing how to spell any word by pre-school and probably have grammar mastered by kindergarten. We'd have so much time to spend on other things.
So for me it's silly that we need such a tool and/or that it's all that important
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With FUD like this who needs Microsoft.
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Slightly different, but similar thinking with the email. Email might make communications with Dr. Knuth more convenient for both the Dr. and the correspondent, but Knuth sacrifices this ease as a means of filtering.
;-)
Good point, I can see the value in it as a filtering tool. If someone isn't going to put forth the effort to print a letter, stuff it in an envelope and mail it, the correspondance is probably not that valuable to him.
I guess my anonymity affords me the filtering I need today. Maybe someday I'll have to resort to Knuth's filtering method
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So when did he give up his phone? I find the phone a far worse interrupter than e-mail err email.
Honestly it's interesting that people seem to be unable to ignore such devices. I feel for his secretary, much easier to view and hit delete than opening all those envelopes and tossing them out. Electrons are much easier to get and get rid of than wood pulp.
Hopefully no one in this interview asked him some silly question like "How should I get my software published?" That was asked of Knuth at one event I attended. I guess the person asking the question had no idea who the speaker was.
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Yes, Microsoft, Apple, and probably others will make document rendering part of the core OS. Making the browser we know today a quaint piece of software.
Moz needs some innovation to stay out in front. Firefox maybe a better browser, but it's still a browser, saddled with all the deficiencies of a browser.
Eventually we'll enter the world instead of sitting inside viewing it through a window.
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I once took a typing test and didn't realize my hands were shifted on key to the left the entire test until after the test. Hey, they said don't look at the keyboard. I tried to convince the teacher to mentally shift all the letters to the right and grade after the adjustment. She wasn't willing and I flunked the test :-(
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tegro pagron mockrod drondor
Observing reduces the scope for fraud (also a reason why the cash tills are always out in the open and viewable by several members of staff simultaneously)... it doesn't remove it, but you have then done the best you can
Well it does eliminate one failure point. I've never actually seen anyone do this, nor has anyone at a restaurant made such an offer to me. But I still don't think it would make me feel any safer.
At least with the credit card companies coming down hard on vendors it makes it more worth their effort to police their own employees.
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And even if you walk back there, how do you know the thing that's reading your card is on the up and up? Is it really calling a real clearing house? You've been living under a false sense of security if you believe watching everything makes it more secure. Do you believe magicians really saw people in half?
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I guess if you're bored and have lots of time to figure such things out then go for it. But for me, if I find a site's ads annoying then I just don't come back. I don't have to worry about if the blocker has blocked real content and broken I site I use.
Sites that dont' get visitted won't be very attractive to advertisers. If the site is good, either advertisers will be happy with non-intrusive adds, or users will pay a subscription.
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hartri smarto yargru tegrum
This is where AOL/TimeWarner should of went after the merger. Apparently they were too timid and now they'll pay the price.
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Quafumo duo tradrack fino
I was thinking the same when writing another post, XUL could be a part of a solution. Add in some XML RPC type technology and a technology that can cache data for requests in memory or on disk to reduce server requests and make the app more reponsive. Sort of a client side database and you'd have something that would look and feel like a traditional application.
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So will it clean my counter tops as well as render spectacular web pages?
Seriously, this is all starting to seem like a huge Frankensteinian monster. Technologies keep getting bolted on trying to get to a better user experience on the web. People want applications, but they like the non-deployment aspects of the web. We really need something new. This is getting too much like VB, trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
I'm tired of spending hours trying to get something done in a web environment that would take me 15 minutes in a traditional client. There should be a better way. There should be something like X-Windows like technology in browsers over HTTP or some such.
It's sad to see that the browser hasn't evoled all that much in the past 10 years.
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Dang you beat me to it. I was just going to say that. There is this though: Weapons grade plutonium
Well I use Windows because:
1. I can setup a system and do quite a bit without having to resort to Googling.
2. It's what I use at work
3. All the games I and my kids like play run on it
4. None of my computers has ever been comprimized.
I've recently retired a system. I'm planning on getting a couple of Linux distros and trying some out. Hoping to see that things have improved from a few years ago when I last tried Red Hat.
I'd be interested in hearing what distro would be best for an old Windows user such as my self.
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