Don't count Macromedia out. Over 98 percent of browsers have the flash player installed -- which is to say that if you design your website in flash (something that taken in moderation might be a good idea!) you have the best chance of having consistent look and feel across browsers. You also have a far richer webforms interface than straight HTML, with one implementation -- which is the aluring goal of the WHAT-WG and the absolutely insane W3C group it is trying to co-opt.
What, you mean like this: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/sta ndards/Ecma-234.htm? Considering that "most" of the core Windows API has remained constant since Windows 95 days, this specification isn't quite as worthless as it's date may lead you to believe. Just like the C# standard from ECMA is unlikely to keep pace with MS's innovations in their compilers...
The pilot has time to respond to the warning. During this time, he is fully in control of the plane. If he heads back out, he maintains control of the plane. If he does not head out, he is assumed to be incapable of operating the plane and is relieved of duty by the automation software.
Just like with any security issue, assuming that the end-user is in complete control of the machine at every time is a mistake. Grandma is not in control of her new Windows XP box. Joe P. Capitain is not in control of his plane when there is a gun to his head.
This is a Good Idea--let's hope the implementors make it a good reality.
Making a short, easy-to-remember URL is more considerate to the Internet community than the ephermeral benefits of using a subdomain of 'tomshardware.com.'
Note: 'all pages' in this context refer to all Slashdot's pages--which are horrid, gory tag soup. Web Standard they aint.
Whatever else may be said about IE, it certainly renders tag soup well.
... had Edward Teller had his way. The Chariot Project would have terraformed part of the northern Alaska coast into a deep-sea base for submarines, using nuclear detonation as excavation tool.
I think a lot of people are trying to get rich on repackaging free information, and are then baffled when people don't want what they provide.
The key, as you point out, is good content: but it has to be better than the already good free content, and that's Hard. It takes talented people and hard work, as well as connections and other intangibles.
WSJ and Jane's are good examples of companies with traditions of providing extremely high quality content for cost--who then take that exact same business model online.
> Which part of the word 'containment' didn't you understand?
Which part of the history of 'appeasement' are you unaware of?
We have no 'peace in our time,' and especially not through feeding brutal dictators small pieces of meat to keep them sated, or waiting for them to die ala Cuba.
It's time we owned up to the fact that we have great power -- and with that great power comes great responsibility. This is not a ticket to blockbuster summer entertainment or free military spending or tyranny of our own; but it does mean that we should take a very serious look at the doctrine of 'international immunity' and consider doing away with it.
This is not about greed. This is about the artist deciding how and in what manner his or her art is to be presented.
An analogous situation would be cropping a painter's artwork when displaying it, so that only the portions you liked were visible. You can do that on your own (when you've bought the painting, say) but presenting it for display or selling the cropped picture is unconscionable. Likewise, these musicians have declared that their albums are the full picture and none have the right to sell only part of the picture.
It's not greed, it's just maintaining artistic integrity.
Turbine Entertainment, who make Asheron's Call (Microsoft's MMORPG offering), have been hiring the people who hack it for quite some time now. Turns out if you are able to hack the system, sometimes you're a bigger expert on it than the people who made it!
(No joke... Todd Berkbile, AC's lead systems programmer now, came from "Todd's Hacking Zone" -- and he's modified some core systems that his predecessors were scared to touch due to flammability.)
A command-line interface is graphical since you see it on your screen;) I think what we really need to be discussing is black box development...
Really, though, a graphical interface adds so much to a design environment. So does a command line. What the debate stems from is the tendency to assume that a programming environment must either be a graphical or a cmd line interface, not some sort of hybrid.
It's a stupid carpenter who only uses nails because he thinks screws are for wussies, the converse also being true, blah blah blah.
AMD has always had a problem with chip supply. That's not going to increase their chances with Microsoft, who undoubtedly are planning some pretty big sales from this monster. Also, the Athlon is priced a bit too high for a console, methinks.
WinCE is remarkably deviant from the standard Windows codebase. It'll be a bit harder than that, methinks. Much easier than porting to Mac or PSX is now, but harder than just recompiling.
What are the chances that the cable companies are going to support this little box? Pretty high, I'd say. The console is truely the only popular and accepted form of set-top, and MS realizes this. Given their obsession with set-tops, this move was a nobrainer.
But, as the first poster said, I'll keep my computer. This doesn't look to be a killer thing hardware-wise; at least, nothing that you couldn't get for the PC. And knowing MS, this thing will run like a PC, none of the traditional advantages of a console. A thought; it might also have the advantage of a PC, the ability to run Linux.
Basically, I think that this console will be marketed on the basis of a fast connection. That's the one advantage that the other consoles don't, and can't, have. Well, that and the GeForce.
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He's not supping with the devil, he's tupping with the devil. Ow.
Don't count Macromedia out. Over 98 percent of browsers have the flash player installed -- which is to say that if you design your website in flash (something that taken in moderation might be a good idea!) you have the best chance of having consistent look and feel across browsers. You also have a far richer webforms interface than straight HTML, with one implementation -- which is the aluring goal of the WHAT-WG and the absolutely insane W3C group it is trying to co-opt.
What, you mean like this: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/sta ndards/Ecma-234.htm? Considering that "most" of the core Windows API has remained constant since Windows 95 days, this specification isn't quite as worthless as it's date may lead you to believe. Just like the C# standard from ECMA is unlikely to keep pace with MS's innovations in their compilers...
Situation: non-issue.
The pilot has time to respond to the warning. During this time, he is fully in control of the plane. If he heads back out, he maintains control of the plane. If he does not head out, he is assumed to be incapable of operating the plane and is relieved of duty by the automation software.
Just like with any security issue, assuming that the end-user is in complete control of the machine at every time is a mistake. Grandma is not in control of her new Windows XP box. Joe P. Capitain is not in control of his plane when there is a gun to his head.
This is a Good Idea--let's hope the implementors make it a good reality.
Making a short, easy-to-remember URL is more considerate to the Internet community than the ephermeral benefits of using a subdomain of 'tomshardware.com.'
Usability trumps, uh, 'DNS purity.'
Note: 'all pages' in this context refer to all Slashdot's pages--which are horrid, gory tag soup. Web Standard they aint. Whatever else may be said about IE, it certainly renders tag soup well.
Greater love hath no undergraduate than this, that he lay down his $30 dollars for the servers of another.
I gotta say, it hurt. That would be a lotta Ramen.
... had Edward Teller had his way. The Chariot Project would have terraformed part of the northern Alaska coast into a deep-sea base for submarines, using nuclear detonation as excavation tool.
I think a lot of people are trying to get rich on repackaging free information, and are then baffled when people don't want what they provide.
The key, as you point out, is good content: but it has to be better than the already good free content, and that's Hard. It takes talented people and hard work, as well as connections and other intangibles.
WSJ and Jane's are good examples of companies with traditions of providing extremely high quality content for cost--who then take that exact same business model online.
Which part of the history of 'appeasement' are you unaware of?
We have no 'peace in our time,' and especially not through feeding brutal dictators small pieces of meat to keep them sated, or waiting for them to die ala Cuba.
It's time we owned up to the fact that we have great power -- and with that great power comes great responsibility. This is not a ticket to blockbuster summer entertainment or free military spending or tyranny of our own; but it does mean that we should take a very serious look at the doctrine of 'international immunity' and consider doing away with it.
This is not about greed. This is about the artist deciding how and in what manner his or her art is to be presented.
An analogous situation would be cropping a painter's artwork when displaying it, so that only the portions you liked were visible. You can do that on your own (when you've bought the painting, say) but presenting it for display or selling the cropped picture is unconscionable. Likewise, these musicians have declared that their albums are the full picture and none have the right to sell only part of the picture.
It's not greed, it's just maintaining artistic integrity.
Turbine Entertainment, who make Asheron's Call (Microsoft's MMORPG offering), have been hiring the people who hack it for quite some time now. Turns out if you are able to hack the system, sometimes you're a bigger expert on it than the people who made it!
(No joke... Todd Berkbile, AC's lead systems programmer now, came from "Todd's Hacking Zone" -- and he's modified some core systems that his predecessors were scared to touch due to flammability.)
A command-line interface is graphical since you see it on your screen ;) I think what we really need to be discussing is black box development...
Really, though, a graphical interface adds so much to a design environment. So does a command line. What the debate stems from is the tendency to assume that a programming environment must either be a graphical or a cmd line interface, not some sort of hybrid.
It's a stupid carpenter who only uses nails because he thinks screws are for wussies, the converse also being true, blah blah blah.
AMD has always had a problem with chip supply. That's not going to increase their chances with Microsoft, who undoubtedly are planning some pretty big sales from this monster. Also, the Athlon is priced a bit too high for a console, methinks.
WinCE is remarkably deviant from the standard Windows codebase. It'll be a bit harder than that, methinks. Much easier than porting to Mac or PSX is now, but harder than just recompiling.
What are the chances that the cable companies are going to support this little box? Pretty high, I'd say. The console is truely the only popular and accepted form of set-top, and MS realizes this. Given their obsession with set-tops, this move was a nobrainer.
But, as the first poster said, I'll keep my computer. This doesn't look to be a killer thing hardware-wise; at least, nothing that you couldn't get for the PC. And knowing MS, this thing will run like a PC, none of the traditional advantages of a console. A thought; it might also have the advantage of a PC, the ability to run Linux.
Basically, I think that this console will be marketed on the basis of a fast connection. That's the one advantage that the other consoles don't, and can't, have. Well, that and the GeForce.