Having Slashdot readers comment on any Microsoft product/security/employee could figureatively be compared to having Dan Rather/CBS making comments about the Republican Party.
How about just taking it for what it's worth? A well-written application that isn't perfect and neither is Gmail.
Personally, I would be thrilled if that was the case, but doesn't Google need ways to return revenue to their shareholders? Wouldn't charging for this service similar to the way mapquest does provide them a steady return on investment?
If you don't feel they would charge for it, then would you figure they would include advertising on the map image? I'd still be thrilled to use the API, even if that was the case.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you 100% that the success of the service is largely due to developer and community support, but it doesn't change the fact they still are in the business of making money.
How does this affect sites like chicagocrime.org or the site that shows listings from craigslist in the google map format? Will google continue to offer their map service free of charge? If so, this could pretty much wipe out every other map service on the internet.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on this, or have any references to Google's response on the future of the API.
Despite the popular belief from the "tech old-folks home", us "young guns" studied archaic languages like assembly, fortran, cobol, and the like. While almost all students at my university scoffed at the notion we would not be entirely devoting our learning to oop languages, we soon learned that oop languages came very naturally, quickly, and were easily understood having already had the knowledge of how a computer architecture works.
Please don't stereotype a younger generation of software developers into a class of lower intelligence and we won't yell at you for driving too slowly in the left hand lane during the morning commute.
This isn't a plug anymore than it is simply a comment related to this article. NIU (Northern Illinois U.) has an extensive mainframe programming class list from which large Chicago businesses (IBM, Hewitt, Morgan Stanley) recruit heavily from for their Mainframe programming needs.
Using the Undergraduate Catalog and viewing the CSCI course listing, you will see which mainframe classes students are required to take.
If any recruiters or IT professionals are looking for good mainframe developers, this would be a good place to start your search.
Squirrel Master: Back up Nasty Nate, this my bitch!
Nasty Nate: Better watch your back Fish! Squirrel Master ain't gonna be there for you all the time. Next time I come for you, I'm gonna want some cocktail... FRUIT!
A web developer will tell you 'yes' Ajax will aid in the slow transition to a cross-platform operating system based on the web. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to actually download security fixes?
A desktop application developer will tell you 'No' because there are certain applications, namely CPU intensive applications like Photoshop, that require the desktops computing computer.
Honestly, this argument is like religion and politics. Nobody is going to actually "win" the argument, but we certainly can get good points from both sides.
In reality, Ajax will probably meet somewhere in the middle, but one thing is for sure, web applications are beginning to behave more and more like desktop applications. It certainly does have it's benefits.
Why not pay the real directors to make a movie specifically about science and then just have the scientist review the movie for accuracy? Terrantino (sp?) directed the season finale for CSI, what could be better?
The description reads more like a persuasive text than an informative one. Might as well throw it on the heap of other soapbox author open source books.
Correct, the outer shell has no distinctive lines to indicate that there is more than one button, but you also realize that there are specific regions which can be controlled, to allow more "areas" or "buttons" to be pressed.
So the question remains, is Apple declaring victory or admitting defeat?
Given our current reputation with the UN right now, I would highly doubt we could get any support on this.
Let's face it, computer crime isn't restricted to only users within the United States. US computers could become infected from a virus written by someone in Russia or China. How do we enforce this law then? They would have to be expedited and tried here, and I doubt that would happen.
Secondly, in order to give someone the death pentalty more than likely they would be need to be tried as an adult. Say "Zero Cool" writes a virus that wipes out half the nations computers, but he is only 12 years old. How then, John Q. Law, do you enforce live in prison or death for this?
The real problem with digital rights and computer crime is that you are taking away boundaries between countries and the crime doesn't have to be commited in the physical location. This makes it extremely difficult to see the who, what, when, where of the crime and even more difficult to punish them once we find that out.
International law will need to change before this could ever become a reality.
They had a machine that sounds almost exactly like this one at the Wired NextFest conference in Chicago. From talking with the device manufacturer the scanner makes three infrared shots:
1. Down to the skin with an infrared device that picks up traces of hemoglobin in the blood.
2. Back up to the camera with that information.
3. Back down to the skin to show the results of the first two steps.
All this happens in a timeframe of 30f/s. The dark colors on the picture are the veins, the lighter color is just the skin the light is projected on since the hemoglobin is the only thing that the camera picks up.
Biometrics are great, but diseases and viruses can cause changes in your biology. Too much reliance on these devices puts you at risk for identity problems in addition to the already documented health issues.
Say someone has a blood clotting disorder, or pulmonary hypertension, or a restrictive blood vessel disease. Any of these could alter the appearance of the veins. Do we just ignore these people?
I've always been a fan of the screen savers but some of the newer people on the show are complete idiots. I'm glad to see he is going out on his own.
My favorite segment had to be the dark tips where Kevin would show how to hack XBOX, sniff network data, ect. Now that this segment will no longer be FCC controlled, I would imagine the segments may be much more interesting.
He may not be far off by going on his own either - MSNBC has an article linked from the msn.com homepage on the proliferation of InternetTV and it's niche market capability.
When someone enters their zip and selects UPS or Fedex it calculates shipping for that individual item. Put in another box for quantity and call it a day.
Provide me the scenario when multiple differing items can be grouped into one box. This case only works when every item is shipped in it's own box. This would be great if that was the real world case, but it is not.
Put a field for zip code and a drop-down of shipping methods on every item page under the price.
Jakob Neilsen would have a fit with this one. Maybe on the side bar of the page, but under every item?
An optimal shipping quote cannot be provided until the total weight of all the items you plan to purchase have been finalized.
Law mandates that if the store you are purchasing from has a facility in your state that it must charge you sales tax if you reside in the shipping state.
We are aware that most of these are return visits, so do collect personal information to make it easy for you to customize wish lists and maintain items you were interested in from visit to visit. This is done for both the customers benefit as well as the retailers.
All websites that collect billing information should provide their security payment processor's logo (i.e. verisign seal, ect).
In a perfect world all developers would adhere to standards, but more often than not, the retailer is in charge of how a site is presented and when they make those decisions, the site is a representation of their interpretation instead of the developers.
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How about just taking it for what it's worth? A well-written application that isn't perfect and neither is Gmail.
If you don't feel they would charge for it, then would you figure they would include advertising on the map image? I'd still be thrilled to use the API, even if that was the case.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you 100% that the success of the service is largely due to developer and community support, but it doesn't change the fact they still are in the business of making money.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on this, or have any references to Google's response on the future of the API.
Please don't stereotype a younger generation of software developers into a class of lower intelligence and we won't yell at you for driving too slowly in the left hand lane during the morning commute.
... Arnold could say "It's not a tumah!"
Using the Undergraduate Catalog and viewing the CSCI course listing, you will see which mainframe classes students are required to take.
If any recruiters or IT professionals are looking for good mainframe developers, this would be a good place to start your search.
Nasty Nate: Better watch your back Fish! Squirrel Master ain't gonna be there for you all the time. Next time I come for you, I'm gonna want some cocktail... FRUIT!
Kenny [AOL Engineer]: Here take it!
[walks away with Squirrel Master]
Kenny [AOL Engineer]: I'm somebody's bitch!
Other cool mentions: Mutants, Tradewars, and TeleArena, and all the Trivia games.
He's lucky it wasn't 826 years!
You go girl!
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A desktop application developer will tell you 'No' because there are certain applications, namely CPU intensive applications like Photoshop, that require the desktops computing computer.
Honestly, this argument is like religion and politics. Nobody is going to actually "win" the argument, but we certainly can get good points from both sides.
In reality, Ajax will probably meet somewhere in the middle, but one thing is for sure, web applications are beginning to behave more and more like desktop applications. It certainly does have it's benefits.
Why not pay the real directors to make a movie specifically about science and then just have the scientist review the movie for accuracy? Terrantino (sp?) directed the season finale for CSI, what could be better?
The description reads more like a persuasive text than an informative one. Might as well throw it on the heap of other soapbox author open source books.
So the question remains, is Apple declaring victory or admitting defeat?
What will not, in the end, cause an end to innovation and the internet:
- Spam
- 0-day virus
- Spyware
- Closed source software
- Phishing
- Hacking
- Child pornography
- Internet congestion
- Misleading information
What will, in the end, cause an end to innovation and the internet:
- Patents/Patent Law
Let's face it, computer crime isn't restricted to only users within the United States. US computers could become infected from a virus written by someone in Russia or China. How do we enforce this law then? They would have to be expedited and tried here, and I doubt that would happen.
Secondly, in order to give someone the death pentalty more than likely they would be need to be tried as an adult. Say "Zero Cool" writes a virus that wipes out half the nations computers, but he is only 12 years old. How then, John Q. Law, do you enforce live in prison or death for this?
The real problem with digital rights and computer crime is that you are taking away boundaries between countries and the crime doesn't have to be commited in the physical location. This makes it extremely difficult to see the who, what, when, where of the crime and even more difficult to punish them once we find that out.
International law will need to change before this could ever become a reality.
1. Down to the skin with an infrared device that picks up traces of hemoglobin in the blood.
2. Back up to the camera with that information.
3. Back down to the skin to show the results of the first two steps.
All this happens in a timeframe of 30f/s. The dark colors on the picture are the veins, the lighter color is just the skin the light is projected on since the hemoglobin is the only thing that the camera picks up.
Here is an image of that device:
http://www.quentecafe.com/image.asp?id=277
Say someone has a blood clotting disorder, or pulmonary hypertension, or a restrictive blood vessel disease. Any of these could alter the appearance of the veins. Do we just ignore these people?
No, it just gives them more money to fund more lawyers until they get to their targeted milestone of 0.001%.
It would about as successful as trying to force a childbirth between Jessica Simpson and Pee-Wee Herman.
I've always been a fan of the screen savers but some of the newer people on the show are complete idiots. I'm glad to see he is going out on his own.
My favorite segment had to be the dark tips where Kevin would show how to hack XBOX, sniff network data, ect. Now that this segment will no longer be FCC controlled, I would imagine the segments may be much more interesting.
He may not be far off by going on his own either - MSNBC has an article linked from the msn.com homepage on the proliferation of InternetTV and it's niche market capability.
Provide me the scenario when multiple differing items can be grouped into one box. This case only works when every item is shipped in it's own box. This would be great if that was the real world case, but it is not.
Put a field for zip code and a drop-down of shipping methods on every item page under the price.
Jakob Neilsen would have a fit with this one. Maybe on the side bar of the page, but under every item?
In a perfect world all developers would adhere to standards, but more often than not, the retailer is in charge of how a site is presented and when they make those decisions, the site is a representation of their interpretation instead of the developers.