Ajax is nothing special. It's a structured (HTML) document, and it's Javascript to dynamically reload or change parts of it. It's basically an extension to good old Dynamic HTML.
Web 2.0 is about wishy-washy stuff like the Semantic Web and intelligent agents etc., all things that aren't really technological, but rather castles in the sky. Ajax is the simple application of down-to-earth technology to take static web pages a step further.
I've always hated RealPlayer, but on the Mac their product is seriously nice. Most of all, what else would you use to play real-streams on the web?
Real-media is the standard for web radio, so if you like that (and I like to listen to some French radio once in a while, y'know, learning the language), it's real-player or die;)
Basically this is true for most government intervention.
The goal sometimes is a good one, often to protect the little guy. The *real* outcome often is much worse, because politicians (and their brainwashed followers) often don't know jack about economics or reality.
So patents fit in perfectly with all leftist politics: the intent is great, but the real repercussions aren't (and often are opposite).
Not sure. I tried DSL on Virtual PC on my (big) Mac mini, and it was slow as hell, with a not really attractive GUI.
In the past I've been much happier with just Debian or NetBSD, plus WindowMaker or FVWM1. For the slowness of DSL I'm sure you could run a complete GNOME.
Well, clocked CPUs also don't need to consume power when there's nothing to do. Smaller or larger parts of the core can be deactivated when the inputs allow this. The same is true for an asynchronous core.
Also, I presume than even async cores need an external clock to communicate with off-chip entities, say, memory. So in the end the async core only has bigger areas that are timed *exactly*, while clocked cores have a clock that activates the big blocks in the core in time.
I also think that clocked cores are more flexible, when you over- or underclock them or change the voltage, because async transistor timing sure has to be very sensitive to stuff like that...
Of course the ideal CPU would combine both mechanisms, clock certains parts of the core, turn certain parts off when they aren't needed, and clock certain areas "in reverse", to reduce radiation and energy intake in a given moment (i.e. spread transistor switching so it happens on more than one single moment).
Well, even IF Intel creates a cheap PC offer that's competitive with the $100 laptop, Intel *still* won't have a competitive CPU.
Wake me up when there's not just a crippled-down PC that only sells in developing countries, but an actual processor that I can put into my own PC, that runs coolly (on 6-10W like the AMD Geode), and that runs as fast as a normal 1GHz or more Centrino machine.
This is only an Intel marketing gag that they can also create a not too powerful PC at a low price. Maybe it'll make people believe that all Intel CPUs are cheap, when they aren't.
Heh. Well, at least for that you'd have to get an original, unbranded, firmware that doesn't do the far too obvious "click" sound when you take a picture (at least in Europe every phone *has to* have that click sound, so people can't take pictures of people in dressing rooms etc.; I'm not sure about US regulations).
Sony? Ugh! Creative - weren't they the ones who didn't look good at all and were expensive? Archos? Whossat?
iRiver: good devices, but the nice newer ones (like the H10 I almost bought) didn't have Vorbis support anymore, and I want at least one good format (AAC or Vorbis) to rip my CDs to.
So that leaves: Apple.
I don't own an iPod, only a humble cellphone with 30MB memory, but if I were to buy anything right now, I'd have to say Apple's competitors just don't cut it.
But there's nothing inherent that says that in the future they couldn't build awesome devices.
I don't like arguments using the intelligence curve. That's like saying a certain percentage of people would do the Lemming thing, or a certain percentage of girls *will* go with strangers, or people *will* smoke whatever you give them (say, Crack).
I rather believe that everything can be learned, and that current software/hardware systems simply suck, and of course that something like Phishing has to be very *carefully* examined and a good solution has to be chosen that's likely to be noticed by users.
Of course some people will tell you their password or PIN when you phone them, but this sort of stuff could be taught.
"if they had a monopoly in the OS market" (remember that monopolies can only crop up through evil government interaction that actively prohibits competition) "then we'd all be running Windows", as opposed to Linux, Solaris, Zeta/BeOS, Mac OS (me here), or NetBSD.
Well, they could prohibit you, if you sign a contract with the DVD, to redistribute your copy to anybody else. But if you download something, IMHO they should only be able to prosecute whoever offered the illegal copy, because he's the one who breached contract, not you.
Of course big companies don't bother with moral right and wrong; they go the easy route: lobby whatever coercive state is in place, to implement whatever draconian measures they deem necessary to protect their bloody regime.
No, the only contract a record company might hold is between them and a buyer of their music. Now they are totally free to include whatever they want in a music buying contract, including death penalty for the person who bought the music should they offer it for download to somebody else. But there's nothing that they'd be allowed to do against be, an unrelated third party, if this were a free world.
If they want me to buy *their* music (which I usually do, being a music lover and honest citizen), instead of downloading music from *anybody*, they should offer me a good incentive to do so, such as being nice to customers, and such as maybe offering a *legal* download platform that doesn't completely such (i.e. that gives me all the advantages of a CD, for a lower price, due to lower distribution costs!).
The difference is that the shopkeeper might sue you, while the one you download from won't ever sue you (I assume; since he offered the file in the first place).
This entire law is about unaffected third parties being able to sue it seems.
Hm, I had an iBook G4 @ 800 for over a year, then bought a Mac mini @ 1420. Both have more than 512MB memory.
The mini (with Tiger) feels a little bit slower overall than the iBook, except for applications. There the CPU makes a small difference (such as: starting Thunderbird).
It's weird. I'd also expect that Tiger should be faster than Panther, but it seems like they made it slower.
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They seem to buy or like whatever is shoved in their face by public advertising.
Maybe these people are brain-damaged, after all...
does Web 2.0 have to do with Ajax?
Ajax is nothing special. It's a structured (HTML) document, and it's Javascript to dynamically reload or change parts of it. It's basically an extension to good old Dynamic HTML.
Web 2.0 is about wishy-washy stuff like the Semantic Web and intelligent agents etc., all things that aren't really technological, but rather castles in the sky. Ajax is the simple application of down-to-earth technology to take static web pages a step further.
I've always hated RealPlayer, but on the Mac their product is seriously nice. Most of all, what else would you use to play real-streams on the web?
;)
Real-media is the standard for web radio, so if you like that (and I like to listen to some French radio once in a while, y'know, learning the language), it's real-player or die
Basically this is true for most government intervention.
The goal sometimes is a good one, often to protect the little guy. The *real* outcome often is much worse, because politicians (and their brainwashed followers) often don't know jack about economics or reality.
So patents fit in perfectly with all leftist politics: the intent is great, but the real repercussions aren't (and often are opposite).
Not sure. I tried DSL on Virtual PC on my (big) Mac mini, and it was slow as hell, with a not really attractive GUI.
In the past I've been much happier with just Debian or NetBSD, plus WindowMaker or FVWM1. For the slowness of DSL I'm sure you could run a complete GNOME.
Well, clocked CPUs also don't need to consume power when there's nothing to do. Smaller or larger parts of the core can be deactivated when the inputs allow this. The same is true for an asynchronous core.
Also, I presume than even async cores need an external clock to communicate with off-chip entities, say, memory. So in the end the async core only has bigger areas that are timed *exactly*, while clocked cores have a clock that activates the big blocks in the core in time.
I also think that clocked cores are more flexible, when you over- or underclock them or change the voltage, because async transistor timing sure has to be very sensitive to stuff like that...
Of course the ideal CPU would combine both mechanisms, clock certains parts of the core, turn certain parts off when they aren't needed, and clock certain areas "in reverse", to reduce radiation and energy intake in a given moment (i.e. spread transistor switching so it happens on more than one single moment).
Exactly. Also see the excellent documentary on this, even though it's not scientific:% 3F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil
You can use a native app, even when the website in question. is. being. slashdotted.
/. post only linked to the Pine-vs-GMail article, not to GMail itself.
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Well, even IF Intel creates a cheap PC offer that's competitive with the $100 laptop, Intel *still* won't have a competitive CPU.
Wake me up when there's not just a crippled-down PC that only sells in developing countries, but an actual processor that I can put into my own PC, that runs coolly (on 6-10W like the AMD Geode), and that runs as fast as a normal 1GHz or more Centrino machine.
This is only an Intel marketing gag that they can also create a not too powerful PC at a low price. Maybe it'll make people believe that all Intel CPUs are cheap, when they aren't.
Hm, their new ones look very nice, but much more expensive than the iPods, at least in Germany...
Heh. Well, at least for that you'd have to get an original, unbranded, firmware that doesn't do the far too obvious "click" sound when you take a picture (at least in Europe every phone *has to* have that click sound, so people can't take pictures of people in dressing rooms etc.; I'm not sure about US regulations).
Why there are camera phones? Don't ask me. I'd have bought a phone without camera, but the decent ones all come with one...
I don't think many people use them, though, at least not among my friends.
Sony? Ugh!
Creative - weren't they the ones who didn't look good at all and were expensive?
Archos? Whossat?
iRiver: good devices, but the nice newer ones (like the H10 I almost bought) didn't have Vorbis support anymore, and I want at least one good format (AAC or Vorbis) to rip my CDs to.
So that leaves: Apple.
I don't own an iPod, only a humble cellphone with 30MB memory, but if I were to buy anything right now, I'd have to say Apple's competitors just don't cut it.
But there's nothing inherent that says that in the future they couldn't build awesome devices.
It's spelled and written "base turds," not basterds, you insensitive clod!
I don't like arguments using the intelligence curve. That's like saying a certain percentage of people would do the Lemming thing, or a certain percentage of girls *will* go with strangers, or people *will* smoke whatever you give them (say, Crack).
I rather believe that everything can be learned, and that current software/hardware systems simply suck, and of course that something like Phishing has to be very *carefully* examined and a good solution has to be chosen that's likely to be noticed by users.
Of course some people will tell you their password or PIN when you phone them, but this sort of stuff could be taught.
"Always send your login and password to stealmypass.com?"
Yeeees, I suppose.
Actually, it's not like extortion, but like certification. You're free to get (or to not get) an MSCE, or to become RedHat certified.
There, too, customers might ask if you are certified.
And I'm a Mac user since 2003 (and I also used several free Unices before that), so I can compare.
Windows isn't slow at all. Maybe it accumulates garbage over time and *becomes* slow, but that's another story...
I'm Germany born, raised, and living, but about 90% of web stuff I read is at least English, and probably mostly US content.
I wouldn't want a regionalized web, unless it'd offer me the same international connectivity as now (and why wouldn't it, exactly?).
I'm sure you mean
"if they had a monopoly in the OS market" (remember that monopolies can only crop up through evil government interaction that actively prohibits competition) "then we'd all be running Windows", as opposed to Linux, Solaris, Zeta/BeOS, Mac OS (me here), or NetBSD.
Well, they could prohibit you, if you sign a contract with the DVD, to redistribute your copy to anybody else. But if you download something, IMHO they should only be able to prosecute whoever offered the illegal copy, because he's the one who breached contract, not you.
Of course big companies don't bother with moral right and wrong; they go the easy route: lobby whatever coercive state is in place, to implement whatever draconian measures they deem necessary to protect their bloody regime.
No, the only contract a record company might hold is between them and a buyer of their music. Now they are totally free to include whatever they want in a music buying contract, including death penalty for the person who bought the music should they offer it for download to somebody else. But there's nothing that they'd be allowed to do against be, an unrelated third party, if this were a free world.
If they want me to buy *their* music (which I usually do, being a music lover and honest citizen), instead of downloading music from *anybody*, they should offer me a good incentive to do so, such as being nice to customers, and such as maybe offering a *legal* download platform that doesn't completely such (i.e. that gives me all the advantages of a CD, for a lower price, due to lower distribution costs!).
The difference is that the shopkeeper might sue you, while the one you download from won't ever sue you (I assume; since he offered the file in the first place).
This entire law is about unaffected third parties being able to sue it seems.
Hm, I had an iBook G4 @ 800 for over a year, then bought a Mac mini @ 1420. Both have more than 512MB memory.
The mini (with Tiger) feels a little bit slower overall than the iBook, except for applications. There the CPU makes a small difference (such as: starting Thunderbird).
It's weird. I'd also expect that Tiger should be faster than Panther, but it seems like they made it slower.
No, it's not the future.
He said technology.