I wonder how on earth are the Intel marketing drones going to market such a bulshit. Because for DRM to work someone will have to buy these chips and:
They are expensive.
They are much slower than the AMD conterparts (benchmark).
They come with two "features" that not even the stupidest ape would want in its processor: 1. the "ability" to NOT be able to run the programs you want 2.the "ability" to get r00ted even without an operating system. Is this really that "Trusted Computing" means?
I think that Intel just shot itself in the foot but didn't notice because they are so high.
Netscape: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Netscape: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You !! Firefox: How are you gentlemen !! Firefox: All your bugs are belong to us. Firefox: You are on the way to destruction. Netscape: What you say !! Firefox: You have no chance to survive make your time. Firefox: HA HA HA HA....
Your mailbox is full of spam... are you not mailing anymore?
The Web is full of spam... are you not surfing anymore?
You are getting spam on your cellphone or even in your snail-mailbox... are you not using them anymore?
Finally, even/. has its annoying adds, reposts and non-relevant stuff.
However, I never heard of someone to completely stop using any of these just because of spam. So, the fact that social bookmarking is prone to attract spam (although so far it has not) is usually not a good enough reason to dismiss it. On the contrary, when spam will happen in social bookmarking systems I will know that the technology is mature enough, enough people are using it and it cannot be stopped.
There is no question but that spamming of these new social tools can and will occur; it almost goes with the territory that social forums will foster such 'parasites' and some instances have been noted already. So far, however, it does not seem to have been a major problem, largely because spam has been drowned out by legitimate use.
Not yet, but stay tuned. We chose the currently available feeds for this beta release of personalized homepages in order to give a good sampling of content from across the web [...]
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It would be interesting to see a neutral evaluation of the three open source app-servers: Geronimo, JOnAS and, of course, JBoss. Judging just by the number of users JBoss should be ahead, but which one is actually better? ... my vote still goes to JBoss but I haven't even tried the others. Should I?
Unlike an oil painting font design should be to some point paralelizable.
MicroPress has been working on this for the last 5 years and they don't seem like a one-man company to me. After looking at their horribly designed site I am starting to doubt even that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would have some reticence at hiring them.
While awaiting the comprehensive set of fonts being made by the STIX project to cover all the symbols in MathML, use the font installers (on the right) to install the fonts on your system if you do not have them already. MIT has developed convenient font installers for Windows and the Mac, following licensing negotiations through this project and mozilla.org staff (especially considering the open-source nature of Mozilla). The respective font owners have made provision for the fonts to be packaged into these installers, with the aim of helping to boost the adoption of MathML into the mainstream.
MathML-enabled Mozilla uses the MIT fonts, but it first maps them to the right entities. This happens in the code because the fonts, although free, are not to be touched or redistributed. Without the right mapping the fonts are useless, and for anything other than standalone applications you cannot perform such a mapping. So I think that you might be forgetting that the main focus of MathML is the Web not standalone applications. The CSS "font-*" attributes don't allow characters to be mapped to different fonts so I doubt that the MIT fonts are of any real use on the Web (unless you are targeting only the users of MathML-enabled Mozilla).
After nearly 10 years of development, the STIX Fonts project is almost complete.
The community is in great need of such fonts. This open source online equation editor is just an example. We had to recommend the use of a shareware pan-unicode font (Code2000) because the only alternative is the proprietary Arial Unicode MS.
Nevertheless, the time it took them to make STIX almost ready looks hilarious to me. Does anybody know how long does it usually take to design such a font?
In August 2002, Agrawal et al. discovered a deterministic algorithm (AKS
) for determining if a number is prime that runs in polynomial time (large polynomial though).
This means that prime testing is not NP-Hard or NP-Complete as many thought (not proved though!) it was. The same can happen to factorization. There is no guarantee that one day some smart guy will come up with a revolutionary idea that would lead many cryptosystems into oblivion. Who knows?
Can I sleep peacefully if my server is running Windows?
If you afford to sue every cracker, spammer and virus writer on the planet than the answer is YES. Microsoft does;)
Microsoft is NOT a supporter of the OpenDocument format and it is very hard to believe they could sponsor its development. Only IBM and Sun are listed as "Sponsor-level members" on the OpenDocument TC Page so you would better check your sources before posting.
Is there any guarantee on the quality of the standard itself?
If you expected all OASIS standards to come with a 100% lifetime money back guarantee you will be dissapointed.
This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and OASIS
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE
ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is a common misconception about the capabilities of SVG. Many people think that it can do only one thing: Scalable Vector Graphics -- it's in its name, isn't it? And you cannot blame them for that: this is how they see SVG used these days. But, the same way Flash is mostly used for banner ads and site intros. Does that say anything about the real capabilities of Flash as a application development platform? I used to build apps and small games back in the old days of Flash 5 and I already know that it can be done (probably a lot easier in Flash MX). However, after being involved in real programming I no longer think it is a very good platform for the development of most games -- but it is still a valid choice for most arcade and kids games.
Returning to SVG, with SVG+JavaScript you can do EVERYTHING you did in Flash. Yes, you can develop full fledged applications or games, and a friend of mine is working on a widget library for a SVG editor written in SVG. Can you do a Flash editor in Flash?
With SVG not all things are as easy as they are in Flash (yet). It is a lot easier to build "crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose" with Flash. But, for real application development the complexity is similar. The difference is that with SVG you get to use a collection of open standards and are not tied to one particular platform, vendor or authoring tool while with Flash you are tied to Windows, Macromedia (Adobe Systems now) and Flash.
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PS: Yes, I know that for "crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose" you can also use SwiSH and others. You are still tied to Windows though.
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I wonder how on earth are the Intel marketing drones going to market such a bulshit. Because for DRM to work someone will have to buy these chips and:
1. the "ability" to NOT be able to run the programs you want
2.the "ability" to get r00ted even without an operating system.
Is this really that "Trusted Computing" means?
I think that Intel just shot itself in the foot but didn't notice because they are so high.
Netscape: What happen ? ....
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Netscape: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Firefox: How are you gentlemen !!
Firefox: All your bugs are belong to us.
Firefox: You are on the way to destruction.
Netscape: What you say !!
Firefox: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Firefox: HA HA HA HA
Your mailbox is full of spam ... are you not mailing anymore? ... are you not surfing anymore? ... are you not using them anymore? /. has its annoying adds, reposts and non-relevant stuff.
The Web is full of spam
You are getting spam on your cellphone or even in your snail-mailbox
Finally, even
However, I never heard of someone to completely stop using any of these just because of spam. So, the fact that social bookmarking is prone to attract spam (although so far it has not) is usually not a good enough reason to dismiss it. On the contrary, when spam will happen in social bookmarking systems I will know that the technology is mature enough, enough people are using it and it cannot be stopped.
Although not very good itself, the article gives a lot of good references. For a more in-depth analysis of social bookmarking I would recommend a very interesting article entitled Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata and written by Adam Mathes.
Quote from the article:
There is no question but that spamming of these new social tools can and will occur; it almost goes with the territory that social forums will foster such 'parasites' and some instances have been noted already. So far, however, it does not seem to have been a major problem, largely because spam has been drowned out by legitimate use.
Can I add other news sources or feeds?
Not yet, but stay tuned. We chose the currently available feeds for this beta release of personalized homepages in order to give a good sampling of content from across the web [...]
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This is not a coincidence
(Slow breath in mask)
The Death Star will be built. Resistance is futile!
(Slow breath in mask)
It would be interesting to see a neutral evaluation of the three open source app-servers: Geronimo, JOnAS and, of course, JBoss. Judging just by the number of users JBoss should be ahead, but which one is actually better?
... my vote still goes to JBoss but I haven't even tried the others. Should I?
Unlike an oil painting font design should be to some point paralelizable.
MicroPress has been working on this for the last 5 years and they don't seem like a one-man company to me. After looking at their horribly designed site I am starting to doubt even that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would have some reticence at hiring them.
MathML-enabled Mozilla uses the MIT fonts, but it first maps them to the right entities. This happens in the code because the fonts, although free, are not to be touched or redistributed. Without the right mapping the fonts are useless, and for anything other than standalone applications you cannot perform such a mapping. So I think that you might be forgetting that the main focus of MathML is the Web not standalone applications. The CSS "font-*" attributes don't allow characters to be mapped to different fonts so I doubt that the MIT fonts are of any real use on the Web (unless you are targeting only the users of MathML-enabled Mozilla).
The community is in great need of such fonts. This open source online equation editor is just an example. We had to recommend the use of a shareware pan-unicode font (Code2000) because the only alternative is the proprietary Arial Unicode MS.
Nevertheless, the time it took them to make STIX almost ready looks hilarious to me. Does anybody know how long does it usually take to design such a font?
Outside? What's that? Oh, yes, the unhappy place where I can't program.
You call that Outside? If there is a place where you can't program they should call it Inside. That way nobody gets confused.
---- /. ?
Q: How the hell would you call a place where you can't
See what Kaffe, GCJ or Harmony is missing and implement that instead of wasting time bashing Sun.
Harmony has not relesed any code yet. Their initial announcement is dated 06 May 2005. It is a too early to say whether they ever will.
Prime Factorization = The factorization of a number into its constituent primes, also called prime decomposition.
Factoring ~= Factorization
Can you really do prime factoring in a heartbeat then?
In August 2002, Agrawal et al. discovered a deterministic algorithm (AKS ) for determining if a number is prime that runs in polynomial time (large polynomial though).
This means that prime testing is not NP-Hard or NP-Complete as many thought (not proved though!) it was. The same can happen to factorization. There is no guarantee that one day some smart guy will come up with a revolutionary idea that would lead many cryptosystems into oblivion. Who knows?
Allowed HTML: ... <a> ...
Can anyone tell me how do I use that?
<a href="...">...</a> does not work.
Will the 70% (happy) Apache users switch to IIS+Windows2003 after reading such a lame old piece of junk?
Can I sleep peacefully if my server is running Windows? If you afford to sue every cracker, spammer and virus writer on the planet than the answer is YES. Microsoft does ;)
Have you seen how well MS has adopted the W3 open standards for css and (x)html?
You trying to be Funny, right? Just have a look at the weird and wonderful world of Internet Explorer
God knows why, but they are listed.
Microsoft is NOT a supporter of the OpenDocument format and it is very hard to believe they could sponsor its development. Only IBM and Sun are listed as "Sponsor-level members" on the OpenDocument TC Page so you would better check your sources before posting.
Is there any guarantee on the quality of the standard itself?
If you expected all OASIS standards to come with a 100% lifetime money back guarantee you will be dissapointed.
This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and OASIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
What's *not* to like?
It is not not open source and it cannot export SVG.
This is a common misconception about the capabilities of SVG. Many people think that it can do only one thing: Scalable Vector Graphics -- it's in its name, isn't it? And you cannot blame them for that: this is how they see SVG used these days. But, the same way Flash is mostly used for banner ads and site intros. Does that say anything about the real capabilities of Flash as a application development platform? I used to build apps and small games back in the old days of Flash 5 and I already know that it can be done (probably a lot easier in Flash MX). However, after being involved in real programming I no longer think it is a very good platform for the development of most games -- but it is still a valid choice for most arcade and kids games.
Returning to SVG, with SVG+JavaScript you can do EVERYTHING you did in Flash. Yes, you can develop full fledged applications or games, and a friend of mine is working on a widget library for a SVG editor written in SVG. Can you do a Flash editor in Flash?
With SVG not all things are as easy as they are in Flash (yet). It is a lot easier to build "crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose" with Flash. But, for real application development the complexity is similar. The difference is that with SVG you get to use a collection of open standards and are not tied to one particular platform, vendor or authoring tool while with Flash you are tied to Windows, Macromedia (Adobe Systems now) and Flash.
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PS: Yes, I know that for "crappy banner ads and stupid site intros that serve no purpose" you can also use SwiSH and others. You are still tied to Windows though.
C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!