I see nothing wrong with some self-promotion, and if ZDnet lets you blog for them then ZDnet is publishing it. Companies don't say things, people do. People will always bag on you but they're not usually doing anything but complaining anyways.
I also think the topic area's very interesting and too often people just think there's this random crowd out there that's doing things in the Valley when really there are a lot more connections than are public. There's also the key factor of money and talent dedicated to ideas that people might have had elsewhere but can't develop.
The only other project that I've seen that looks at this is the old They Rule project (momentarily resurected in SVG as Fat Cats).
Doesn't matter if it makes sense. They just have to say it enough times and someone will rationalize it for them. Happens on blog comment threads and forums every day.
I'll second that. A week or so ago and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled (and seen for that matter). I did not expect this just a half a meter from the shiny place where I brush my teeth.
I think you meant ClearChannel since they do billboards and I can't find ClearCast.
So, no, this is more like ClearChannel advertising their radio stations on their billboards and refusing to sell space on the best billboards (by placement I guess) to any competing radio station.
The reasons I have a computer dedicated to Asterisk are a lot about flexibility and control. I have more say in what happens when someone calls my house, I set up my own voice menuing (or at least I've started configuring it), I can route calls as I'd like to and generally use the resources the way I like.
The fact that my phone service ends up being far cheaper than Vonage and that I can route calls from my cell phone through it is just a really big bonus. Honestly, Vonage is cheap, but until you start shopping for your own DID you don't realize just how much the big phone companies have been gouging us.
Just set up Asterisk. Asterisk is actually not that tough to run once you get past the jargon. I just recently blogged how I set up Asterisk with PSTN termination at home. Since then I've also gotten an unlocked Linksys ATA and I'm beginning to use it as a replacement for my old phone line.
Um, that "vector/plane graphics animation technology" is called SVG. VRML is a whole 'nother ball game. SVG is accessible from the DOM and thereby Javascript. SVG is already in Firefox and getting better with each release. By the time this new VM is available (2008 they predict), it's conceivable that the new VM combined with the SVG implementation that's in place by then could be another option comparable to Flash. Of course developers would probably also have to contend with deploying on whatever WinFX is by then too.
Scripting is separate from the graphics. Maybe having a more closely related VM under the hood will make it easier for people to port applications from Flash to SVG on Mozilla though. I hope.
Literally an order of magnitude, or is that just hyperbole? I've got a 5400RPM hard drive in my laptop and I've considered ponying up for the upgrade (since I'd like to get one with higher capacity as well). Iirc there are some that have slower spindles, like 4200RPM.
It's out of date. And it's not orthogonal enough. For example, there were many tests that early versions of the Firefox implentation failed just because of the mime type for scripts. (The mime type was named in the spec but wasn't approved as a real mim type or something like that.)
Now the spec has just grown too complex for something like an acid test. It's as if you need a test suite for the graphics part of SVG (which everyone wants to implement in browsers) and a separate test suite for the rest (networking and stuff that I guess cell phone makers want).
This how-to implies that reverse engineering "for purposes of interoperability" is legal in many places, but that's just one reason people reverse engineer stuff. With legal limits on what and when you can reverse engineer products, it's definitely possible to be sued for it. And successfully sued if you're violating the law (whether or not you agree with the law).
Those other ones are specific virtual machines with an API specified for a bytecode interpreter. The Windows API is an API for executing natively on specific hardware platforms and it's not made for anyone else to implement - lots of calls are underspecified or aren't specified at all. Not making any value jusgements here, that's just what the difference is.
I never got very far with J2ME. Just from reading the introductory materials - while trying to get a development environment together - the ME part really makes a difference. There seem to be some serious discrepencies between the basic classes available in SE and EE vs ME.
I got the impression that ME is Java in name only.
Zactly. This happened in MUDs and even on IRC. Scripting is lots of fun for people who understand it but really hard to explain to people who don't get it. Really, scripting is a meta-game - a game about the game. That makes it kind of inaccessible and less important to most people.
That said, I'm a coder and I've really been meaning to dig into the Lua interfaces for WoW, even though the functionality there doesn't approach the level you're talking about (afaik).
The audience can watch and jump around too, that's a nice first step. The really cool part would be to get some feedback (via Eyetoy and an internet connection). Then the viewers can judge player's performances or the judges on the show could judge players at home... or something like that. The technology's all there, just waiting for the ideas to catch up.
The most obvious answer is that Sony learned from the past lack up update with PS2 linux and furthermore wants to seed a variety of cool downloadable games, which they can take a cut of. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
People learn, animals learn, corporations do not learn. The most obvious answer to me is that Sony got some good press from PS2 Linux (I know I was excited - I had a PS2 Linux mousepad for a couple years). Now they hope to suck in some users that Microsoft just plain won't touch. Seems obvious to me.
PS3 turns out to be a massive failure and 6 months later is bought by Microsoft.
Totally unbelievable. PS3 turns out to be a massive failure and 6 months later Sony's PS3 hardware groupis bought by Microsoft.
Next to unbelievable but maybe enough to let you keep reading.
I hear you. I just left E3, I played the PS3 but I couldn't get near the Wii. The PS3 is fun, but am I going to shell out a bag of money for it? Nintendo seems to know what they're doing pretty well (as long as they don't ditch the GBA in favour of the DS). Get the games out there, make them fun, make them accessible to your market: middle class families with kids. Kids that will pester for every lousy thing they stick Mario in. Mario in a whacked out mushroom trip? Check. Mario dancing? Check. Mario driving a race cart? Check. Mario flossing his teeth? Make it and they'll buy it.
The ChiaPaint thing is amusing, but what's amazingly ironic is that Dan Bricklin seems to be working on an Ajax spreadsheet called wikiCalc. Or maybe you already knew that...
For the record, I have the feeling that if AjaxWrite were a great word processor then people would be using it instead of reviewing it. And it's XUL, not ajax.
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Dude, that pic is not much better.
I see nothing wrong with some self-promotion, and if ZDnet lets you blog for them then ZDnet is publishing it. Companies don't say things, people do. People will always bag on you but they're not usually doing anything but complaining anyways.
I also think the topic area's very interesting and too often people just think there's this random crowd out there that's doing things in the Valley when really there are a lot more connections than are public. There's also the key factor of money and talent dedicated to ideas that people might have had elsewhere but can't develop.
The only other project that I've seen that looks at this is the old They Rule project (momentarily resurected in SVG as Fat Cats).
Doesn't matter if it makes sense. They just have to say it enough times and someone will rationalize it for them. Happens on blog comment threads and forums every day.
Yes, I'm following the same strategy with email...
I'll second that. A week or so ago and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled (and seen for that matter). I did not expect this just a half a meter from the shiny place where I brush my teeth.
I think you meant ClearChannel since they do billboards and I can't find ClearCast. So, no, this is more like ClearChannel advertising their radio stations on their billboards and refusing to sell space on the best billboards (by placement I guess) to any competing radio station.
The reasons I have a computer dedicated to Asterisk are a lot about flexibility and control. I have more say in what happens when someone calls my house, I set up my own voice menuing (or at least I've started configuring it), I can route calls as I'd like to and generally use the resources the way I like. The fact that my phone service ends up being far cheaper than Vonage and that I can route calls from my cell phone through it is just a really big bonus. Honestly, Vonage is cheap, but until you start shopping for your own DID you don't realize just how much the big phone companies have been gouging us.
Just set up Asterisk. Asterisk is actually not that tough to run once you get past the jargon. I just recently blogged how I set up Asterisk with PSTN termination at home. Since then I've also gotten an unlocked Linksys ATA and I'm beginning to use it as a replacement for my old phone line.
Everybody wants a crack at the buzzwords :)
Um, that "vector/plane graphics animation technology" is called SVG. VRML is a whole 'nother ball game. SVG is accessible from the DOM and thereby Javascript. SVG is already in Firefox and getting better with each release. By the time this new VM is available (2008 they predict), it's conceivable that the new VM combined with the SVG implementation that's in place by then could be another option comparable to Flash. Of course developers would probably also have to contend with deploying on whatever WinFX is by then too.
Scripting is separate from the graphics. Maybe having a more closely related VM under the hood will make it easier for people to port applications from Flash to SVG on Mozilla though. I hope.
I used KDE on FC4 for a while. I found it okay, but I hadn't touched KDE in years. Now I use KDE on opensuse 10.1 and it does seem better configured.
Paper gown?? Do you know how much those things cost? The airlines can't afford to give you that stuff for free - it'll cost you at least a few bucks.
This isn't a very good comparison, car makers change their standard features all the time.
Literally an order of magnitude, or is that just hyperbole? I've got a 5400RPM hard drive in my laptop and I've considered ponying up for the upgrade (since I'd like to get one with higher capacity as well). Iirc there are some that have slower spindles, like 4200RPM.
It's out of date. And it's not orthogonal enough. For example, there were many tests that early versions of the Firefox implentation failed just because of the mime type for scripts. (The mime type was named in the spec but wasn't approved as a real mim type or something like that.)
Now the spec has just grown too complex for something like an acid test. It's as if you need a test suite for the graphics part of SVG (which everyone wants to implement in browsers) and a separate test suite for the rest (networking and stuff that I guess cell phone makers want).
Well I don't know if it's a load of crap. A quick search turns up a couple cases: Blizzard v. BNETD and Mattel sued the makers of cphack (over some kind of censorship software).
This how-to implies that reverse engineering "for purposes of interoperability" is legal in many places, but that's just one reason people reverse engineer stuff. With legal limits on what and when you can reverse engineer products, it's definitely possible to be sued for it. And successfully sued if you're violating the law (whether or not you agree with the law).
Those other ones are specific virtual machines with an API specified for a bytecode interpreter. The Windows API is an API for executing natively on specific hardware platforms and it's not made for anyone else to implement - lots of calls are underspecified or aren't specified at all. Not making any value jusgements here, that's just what the difference is.
I never got very far with J2ME. Just from reading the introductory materials - while trying to get a development environment together - the ME part really makes a difference. There seem to be some serious discrepencies between the basic classes available in SE and EE vs ME.
I got the impression that ME is Java in name only.
Zactly. This happened in MUDs and even on IRC. Scripting is lots of fun for people who understand it but really hard to explain to people who don't get it. Really, scripting is a meta-game - a game about the game. That makes it kind of inaccessible and less important to most people.
That said, I'm a coder and I've really been meaning to dig into the Lua interfaces for WoW, even though the functionality there doesn't approach the level you're talking about (afaik).
The audience can watch and jump around too, that's a nice first step. The really cool part would be to get some feedback (via Eyetoy and an internet connection). Then the viewers can judge player's performances or the judges on the show could judge players at home... or something like that. The technology's all there, just waiting for the ideas to catch up.
The most obvious answer is that Sony learned from the past lack up update with PS2 linux and furthermore wants to seed a variety of cool downloadable games, which they can take a cut of. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
People learn, animals learn, corporations do not learn. The most obvious answer to me is that Sony got some good press from PS2 Linux (I know I was excited - I had a PS2 Linux mousepad for a couple years). Now they hope to suck in some users that Microsoft just plain won't touch. Seems obvious to me.
PS3 turns out to be a massive failure and 6 months later is bought by Microsoft.
Totally unbelievable.
PS3 turns out to be a massive failure and 6 months later Sony's PS3 hardware groupis bought by Microsoft.
Next to unbelievable but maybe enough to let you keep reading.
I hear you. I just left E3, I played the PS3 but I couldn't get near the Wii. The PS3 is fun, but am I going to shell out a bag of money for it? Nintendo seems to know what they're doing pretty well (as long as they don't ditch the GBA in favour of the DS). Get the games out there, make them fun, make them accessible to your market: middle class families with kids. Kids that will pester for every lousy thing they stick Mario in. Mario in a whacked out mushroom trip? Check. Mario dancing? Check. Mario driving a race cart? Check. Mario flossing his teeth? Make it and they'll buy it.
Kevin: All your index.php are belong to us.
Psh. Everybody knows Slashcode is Perl.
The ChiaPaint thing is amusing, but what's amazingly ironic is that Dan Bricklin seems to be working on an Ajax spreadsheet called wikiCalc. Or maybe you already knew that...
For the record, I have the feeling that if AjaxWrite were a great word processor then people would be using it instead of reviewing it. And it's XUL, not ajax.