Will quicklaunch make its way into the 'birds? Will they be able to share a common GRE to make launching of one faster if the other is running?
That's the plan of the XRE and GRE
projects (which pages are outdated and I want updates from!!!)
The idea is to turn the XUL and Gecko rendering engines into a single standalone shared component - much like DirectX. It'll also turn Mozilla into a nice development platform for writing other little apps.
"... One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
Because in 10 years, a PalmOS watch is just a clucky, very outdated piece of plastic, while these will be collectable, a nice reminder for the team members who took part, and, well, basically cool. I say 'well done' since this was obviously oganised by a couple of the guys in their spare time.
Since these are eventually going to be sold to the public I'd hope the team all get their's engraved and/or made unique in some way.
1) Download and Install Tab Extension and restart Mozilla.
2) In TabBrowser Extension Options change two settings: a) in 'Advanced', tick 'New windows opened by JavaScript' and b) in 'Focus', tick Javascript in 'load new tab in background when it is opened by'
3) In Booksmarks > Manage Bookmarks: create a new Bookmark. In the Location type: javascript: function G(UL) { window.open(UL,'_blank',''); } stick it in your Bookmarks Toolbar for easy reuse.
4) open Hotmail and go to your Inbox
5) click that Bookmark you just created (this will replace hotmail's function with your own)
6) click on messages - they should now open in the background in a new tab.
enjoy
As a better suggestion, I wrote a webmail client for ourbrisbane.com which is free sign-up to (5MB storage), W3C compliant (IE and Mozilla), has a good spam filter, and has a preview pane, right-click contextual menus, drag-drop, background-mail checking, folder export (as zip), select and ctrl-click, short-cut keys, searchable list filtering, etc, etc.
Well it actually takes 4 moves, but black only gets to make 3 before losing...I'm guessing the game went something like this:
.. A B C D E F G H 1 |R|N|B|Q|K|B|N|R| 2 |P|P|P|P|P|P|P|P| <-- Black 3 | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | 7 |p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p| <-- White 8 |r|n|b|q|k|b|n|r|
For reference - white in lowercase, forgive me if I've got the ASCII notation incorrect - I always use a board.
White: Standard Opening: King's Pawn(E7) to E5
Black: Standard Response: King's Pawn(E2) to E4
White: Right Bishop(F8) to (B5) (which covers F2)
Black: hum..still just setting up.. ie. brings out a Knight
White: Queen to F6 (attack on F2)
Black: Fails to cover or block F2
White: Queen to F2 (checkmate)
.. A B C D E F G H 1 |R| |B|Q|K|B|N|R| 2 |P|P|P| | |q|P|P| 3 | | |N|P| | | | | 4 | | | | |P| | | | 5 | | |b| |p| | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | 7 |p|p|p|p| |p|p|p| 8 |r|n|b| |k| |n|r|
This opening is used on new players by those that want to totally demoralise them... like many magic tricks, it only works once and sweeping all the piece off the board just stopped you from analysing it so you could work out what happened.
The secret is in the weakness of position F2 - in the starting setup only the king can defend this position, so if you can get two points of attack on it, its toast and the king is still locked in and unable to run.
Chess programs never use this attack as it is so simple to defend against once you're aware of it, one of the easiest of which is just to step forward your pawn at F2 by 1.
If you use this against someone to show off, be nice and explain how you did it afterwards.
If you want to continue showing off - in the next game instead of bring your queen out for the instant kill, you can walk up your right knight to attack F2 (don't forget to step forward your queen's pawn, so your left bishop can protect the knight as it advances - to the beginner it looks like you're just trying to defend your opening pawn).
If they've learnt from the previous encounter they'll block you off, if not you can do a really nasty queen/rook(castle) fork which gives you nice early piece advantage and demoralises your oppenent. You can then just trade pieces off until the end game and use your extra piece to win (or protect your pawns so they can run up and become queens for demoralising effect).
This game will also show you how good your oppenent actually is, allowing you to masterfully retire undefeated by refusing all futher games with them by telling them that the are not yet l33t enough to challenge you.
Um.. MS licensed the tech from Spyglass for IE for a percentage of the sales, then proceeded to give away IE.
Guess what?
That means they paid nothing to Spyglass for Mosaic.
Hmm, does any of that code/agreement still exist in IE? I'm guessing no, but whenever IE became 'inseperable' from the OS, I'd say that it became part of the OS - which the do sell for a profit.
Site seems quite light on details right now - I might check it out once they update the screenshots to show it doing something interesting/unique. As it stands now it just looks like a toolkit for people that don't know how to make full use of CSS.
This is ridiculous. Basically the ruling appears to state that:
Plug-ins are OK as long they don't load external data
If they do, microsoft can't load it for you without a prompt
BUT you can document.write it in and avoid the prompt
BUT only if the script is in an external file...
So the key point here seems not to be with plug-ins (which obviously pre-date the patent) but plug-ins using EXTERNAL data...
Now this just doesn't make sense. The HTML standard has ALWAYS supported full urls being used in ALL tag that can get data ie. <img src="http://external.com/image.gif"> In fact the HTML standard was written specifically so that it doesn't care if data is local or not.
So in conclusion, why would Chewbacca live on Endor... this just does not make sense... I rest my case
Also one of the main problems Google is currently having with their search results is that too many blogs are ending up in the top results, often ranking higher than the primary site that contains the information that the blogs refer to (due to many blog-users who heavily cross-linking amongst themselves which ups their rating).
To combat this they've already discussed creating a seperate category for blogs to help seperate these.
Good to see them taking a proactive stance -- get enough people using your service and you're suddenly got a category of blogs already identified and indexed.
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as they've always been quite responsible with ads and while its a potential revenue stream I don't think they'll ever be as intrusive as other free sites/services.
From an article I've read before I believe RFID scanners rely on getting a single reply back, more than one and the reply signals can interfer so it asks for a smaller subset until it only gets one response.
ie. Scanner pings for all tags in your cart:
All 20 items reply Scanner pings for tags starting with 0:
4 items reply ping 00 --> 1 item replies (#0042424242 bought) ping 01 ping 02 --> 2 items reply ping 020
021
022
023 --> 1 item replies (#0237777777 bought)
024
025 --> 1 item replies (#0258888888 bought) ping 03 etc etc
Kinda like how hollywood always protrays password hacking tools with those stupid spinning numbers locking in a digit at a time (except quicker and without the cut-shots to the approaching security guard).
Anyway, I'm guessing a blocker tag doesn't stop other RFID tags from responding it just acts like a dumber/broken tag and replies to everything with a garbled signal.
Incidently, this would mean a scanner just has to ping for a unique non-existant number and if it gets back garble it knows its being blocked - so this wouldn't let you drop a blocker into your shopping cart to hide stuff, like other posts suggest, but it would garble anything in the same zone as the blocker. Which leaves shoplifting pretty much the way it is now.
Hydrogen entering an array of titania nanotubes flows around all the surfaces, but it also splits into individually charged atoms and permeates the surface of the nanotubes. These hydrogen ions provide electrons for conductivity. The change in conductance signals that hydrogen, above the background level, is present.
Sounds very similiar to how a fuel-cell works, but instead of pumping through lots of hydrogen to produce as much electricity as possible they're just using a little bit of hydrogen to generate a tiny current (or does it just change the conductivity?).
I want to know what this material does when feed pure hydrogen.
Considering that it's written in JavaScript, that's the understatement of the year.
Actually XUL is written (and parsed) in C, JavaScript is just an abstraction layer on top of the DOM which makes it easier to use (and makes sense for controlling roll-over images, etc), but you can still call through to C/C++
That's like saying Maya is crap because you can write controls for it in MEL (Maya's Scripting language).
Yes, but just wait until Japan performs their secret TSUNAMI ATTAKU - all the computers are for the really cool power-up animation sequence before the butterfly flaps its wings.
-Completely Free--- Public Domain - no copywrite, use however you like
BSD - use however you like, just say thankyou, please...
-Mostly Free------- LGPL - use however you like but give back/make available changes made to this library (keep clear line between end of library and start of app)
-Limits Use-------- GPL - use but product must also be GPL
Open Source(tm) - look but don't touch, or touch but don't sell/distribute, or look but don't write anything remotely like this or we'll sue. (see: Proprietory, NDA)
NDA: look but don't tell or do anything else we specify.
Proprietory - must work out a deal with copywrite owner
Dual License - use determines license (ie. KDE - GPL or Proprietory) ---------------- (Correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above.)
So the question is really, do you want other people to use it your code?, for free or only with permission/fee?, and do they have to share?.
If you really can't make a distinction between where your library ends and where your app starts (apart from the fact that you should probably clean up your code) you can still release the bits you want as LGPL and everyone has to share their additions except you (as the owner of the copywrite). But then if someone else then mixes in their own LGPL code into it you still have to play by the rules of that LGPL if you want to use this new version. Hmm.. ok, maybe its not so simple...depends if you're really just wanting free developers to extend components for you (while keeping other bits your own) or if you just want to be generous and if you get anything back that you can use that's just a bonus.
"If the physics are really realistic, that'd be quite a challenge.'
*nods* well I may need to remove a few design constraints to start with... 'Your design has a 100foot wingspan and can go mach4?!?' *nods confidently* 'and only weights 1 kg!' -- I'd call that a 90% finished product as it only has 1 outstanding bug - now if I can just get some venture capital.
very cool but can I make my own plane and then play with the wingfoil design (and see how quickly I crash)?
Anyone know the format or what is used to create the 'aircraft design data' that gets processed real-time? I'm assuming it requires a high-res model of the plane and a fancy windtunnel simulator.
They support Compact Flash Type1 Cards which means you can swap in a Modem, GPS,Barcode scanner or anything else available.
Cos you just know your Boss is going to NEED a Barcode scanner, well, just as soon as he thinks of it...
PS. I just used google to find the example CF Cards so I recommend looking about for the best buy.
Re:it's about time...
on
SARS Contained
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· Score: 3, Interesting
this flu season should be frightening. everyone will think they have the sars when it's just the flu.
Good, medical centres are now very effective at testing for it. I'm sick (no-pun intended) of people coughing and sniffling at work when they should be at home with companies encouraging this as proper behaviour. Maybe a few will take things a bit more seriously.
Nah, what am I saying, the outbreak is over and besides I can't take a day off - my reports needs to be done!
This isn't Amazon but someone with an Amazon merchant account. Anyone can sign up and use it.
So while they have a case against the person selling the photos I don't think they have one against Amazon itself (unless it was made aware of the fact and failed to take action - which is not the case).
This case is akin to charging a newspaper with theft because someone advertised something that turned out to be stolen in the trading post section or pimping because of the classified section.
The only reason Amazon is the target is because it has more money.
I recently saw an interesting little presentation by Brisbane City Council (Australia), titled 'Living in Brisbane in 2010' which covered their future fibre roll-out plans and touched on what other cities where doing. (Brisbane is a very spread-out city so they're taking a gradual approach and currently pigging backing rollout of fibre on other projects to save costs ie. build a new road, add fibre)
Anyway, what was interesting was they pulled out a little box about the size of my cable box (forget the manufacturer but they looked readily available) which was designed for optical in, and had 2 phone jacks (voice-over-IP), 1 ethernet jack and 1 cable jack.
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Actually Havok is just the (very well written) physics library... the HL2 engine also has graphics, input, audio, networking, AI, etc.
Will quicklaunch make its way into the 'birds? Will they be able to share a common GRE to make launching of one faster if the other is running?
That's the plan of the XRE and GRE projects (which pages are outdated and I want updates from!!!)
The idea is to turn the XUL and Gecko rendering engines into a single standalone shared component - much like DirectX. It'll also turn Mozilla into a nice development platform for writing other little apps.
"... Garo said. "I spent more than $1,000 trying to figure this out " damaging watches, trying different parts, just searching for a way."
Ah, these would be the limitied edition 'Beagle 2' watches.
"... One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
Because in 10 years, a PalmOS watch is just a clucky, very outdated piece of plastic, while these will be collectable, a nice reminder for the team members who took part, and, well, basically cool. I say 'well done' since this was obviously oganised by a couple of the guys in their spare time.
Since these are eventually going to be sold to the public I'd hope the team all get their's engraved and/or made unique in some way.
That's easy - the threat of possibly unstable and/or reduced oil supply
1) Download and Install Tab Extension and restart Mozilla.
2) In TabBrowser Extension Options change two settings: a) in 'Advanced', tick 'New windows opened by JavaScript' and b) in 'Focus', tick Javascript in 'load new tab in background when it is opened by'
3) In Booksmarks > Manage Bookmarks: create a new Bookmark. In the Location type: javascript: function G(UL) { window.open(UL,'_blank',''); } stick it in your Bookmarks Toolbar for easy reuse.
4) open Hotmail and go to your Inbox
5) click that Bookmark you just created (this will replace hotmail's function with your own)
6) click on messages - they should now open in the background in a new tab.
enjoy
As a better suggestion, I wrote a webmail client for ourbrisbane.com which is free sign-up to (5MB storage), W3C compliant (IE and Mozilla), has a good spam filter, and has a preview pane, right-click contextual menus, drag-drop, background-mail checking, folder export (as zip), select and ctrl-click, short-cut keys, searchable list filtering, etc, etc.
Well it actually takes 4 moves, but black only gets to make 3 before losing...I'm guessing the game went something like this:
For reference - white in lowercase, forgive me if I've got the ASCII notation incorrect - I always use a board.White: Standard Opening: King's Pawn(E7) to E5
Black: Standard Response: King's Pawn(E2) to E4
White: Right Bishop(F8) to (B5) (which covers F2)
Black: hum..still just setting up.. ie. brings out a Knight
White: Queen to F6 (attack on F2)
Black: Fails to cover or block F2
White: Queen to F2 (checkmate)
This opening is used on new players by those that want to totally demoralise them... like many magic tricks, it only works once and sweeping all the piece off the board just stopped you from analysing it so you could work out what happened.
The secret is in the weakness of position F2 - in the starting setup only the king can defend this position, so if you can get two points of attack on it, its toast and the king is still locked in and unable to run.
Chess programs never use this attack as it is so simple to defend against once you're aware of it, one of the easiest of which is just to step forward your pawn at F2 by 1.
If you use this against someone to show off, be nice and explain how you did it afterwards.
If you want to continue showing off - in the next game instead of bring your queen out for the instant kill, you can walk up your right knight to attack F2 (don't forget to step forward your queen's pawn, so your left bishop can protect the knight as it advances - to the beginner it looks like you're just trying to defend your opening pawn).
If they've learnt from the previous encounter they'll block you off, if not you can do a really nasty queen/rook(castle) fork which gives you nice early piece advantage and demoralises your oppenent. You can then just trade pieces off until the end game and use your extra piece to win (or protect your pawns so they can run up and become queens for demoralising effect).
This game will also show you how good your oppenent actually is, allowing you to masterfully retire undefeated by refusing all futher games with them by telling them that the are not yet l33t enough to challenge you.
Um.. MS licensed the tech from Spyglass for IE for a percentage of the sales, then proceeded to give away IE.
Guess what?
That means they paid nothing to Spyglass for Mosaic.
Hmm, does any of that code/agreement still exist in IE? I'm guessing no, but whenever IE became 'inseperable' from the OS, I'd say that it became part of the OS - which the do sell for a profit.
Site seems quite light on details right now - I might check it out once they update the screenshots to show it doing something interesting/unique. As it stands now it just looks like a toolkit for people that don't know how to make full use of CSS.
This is ridiculous. Basically the ruling appears to state that:
Plug-ins are OK as long they don't load external data
If they do, microsoft can't load it for you without a prompt
BUT you can document.write it in and avoid the prompt
BUT only if the script is in an external file...
So the key point here seems not to be with plug-ins (which obviously pre-date the patent) but plug-ins using EXTERNAL data...
Now this just doesn't make sense. The HTML standard has ALWAYS supported full urls being used in ALL tag that can get data ie. <img src="http://external.com/image.gif"> In fact the HTML standard was written specifically so that it doesn't care if data is local or not.
So in conclusion, why would Chewbacca live on Endor... this just does not make sense... I rest my case
To combat this they've already discussed creating a seperate category for blogs to help seperate these.
Good to see them taking a proactive stance -- get enough people using your service and you're suddenly got a category of blogs already identified and indexed.
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as they've always been quite responsible with ads and while its a potential revenue stream I don't think they'll ever be as intrusive as other free sites/services.
Who said it has to stay two-dimensional - bring on the processor cube!
From an article I've read before I believe RFID scanners rely on getting a single reply back, more than one and the reply signals can interfer so it asks for a smaller subset until it only gets one response.
ie.
Scanner pings for all tags in your cart:
All 20 items reply
Scanner pings for tags starting with 0:
4 items reply
ping 00 --> 1 item replies (#0042424242 bought)
ping 01
ping 02 --> 2 items reply
ping 020
021
022
023 --> 1 item replies (#0237777777 bought)
024
025 --> 1 item replies (#0258888888 bought)
ping 03 etc etc
Kinda like how hollywood always protrays password hacking tools with those stupid spinning numbers locking in a digit at a time (except quicker and without the cut-shots to the approaching security guard).
Anyway, I'm guessing a blocker tag doesn't stop other RFID tags from responding it just acts like a dumber/broken tag and replies to everything with a garbled signal.
Incidently, this would mean a scanner just has to ping for a unique non-existant number and if it gets back garble it knows its being blocked - so this wouldn't let you drop a blocker into your shopping cart to hide stuff, like other posts suggest, but it would garble anything in the same zone as the blocker. Which leaves shoplifting pretty much the way it is now.
use var to give it a local scope.
ie. for(var i=0; i10; i++) myfunc2(i);
Hydrogen entering an array of titania nanotubes flows around all the surfaces, but it also splits into individually charged atoms and permeates the surface of the nanotubes. These hydrogen ions provide electrons for conductivity. The change in conductance signals that hydrogen, above the background level, is present.
Sounds very similiar to how a fuel-cell works, but instead of pumping through lots of hydrogen to produce as much electricity as possible they're just using a little bit of hydrogen to generate a tiny current (or does it just change the conductivity?).
I want to know what this material does when feed pure hydrogen.
Maybe not as fast as assembler,
Considering that it's written in JavaScript, that's the understatement of the year.
Actually XUL is written (and parsed) in C, JavaScript is just an abstraction layer on top of the DOM which makes it easier to use (and makes sense for controlling roll-over images, etc), but you can still call through to C/C++
That's like saying Maya is crap because you can write controls for it in MEL (Maya's Scripting language).
Yes, but just wait until Japan performs their secret TSUNAMI ATTAKU - all the computers are for the really cool power-up animation sequence before the butterfly flaps its wings.
-Completely Free---
Public Domain - no copywrite, use however you like
BSD - use however you like, just say thankyou, please...
-Mostly Free-------
LGPL - use however you like but give back/make available changes made to this library (keep clear line between end of library and start of app)
-Limits Use--------
GPL - use but product must also be GPL
Open Source(tm) - look but don't touch, or touch but don't sell/distribute, or look but don't write anything remotely like this or we'll sue. (see: Proprietory, NDA)
NDA: look but don't tell or do anything else we specify.
Proprietory - must work out a deal with copywrite owner
Dual License - use determines license (ie. KDE - GPL or Proprietory)
----------------
(Correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above.)
So the question is really, do you want other people to use it your code?, for free or only with permission/fee?, and do they have to share?.
If you really can't make a distinction between where your library ends and where your app starts (apart from the fact that you should probably clean up your code) you can still release the bits you want as LGPL and everyone has to share their additions except you (as the owner of the copywrite). But then if someone else then mixes in their own LGPL code into it you still have to play by the rules of that LGPL if you want to use this new version. Hmm.. ok, maybe its not so simple...depends if you're really just wanting free developers to extend components for you (while keeping other bits your own) or if you just want to be generous and if you get anything back that you can use that's just a bonus.
ooh, very nice - thanks for the heads up
"If the physics are really realistic, that'd be quite a challenge.'
*nods* well I may need to remove a few design constraints to start with... 'Your design has a 100foot wingspan and can go mach4?!?' *nods confidently* 'and only weights 1 kg!' -- I'd call that a 90% finished product as it only has 1 outstanding bug - now if I can just get some venture capital.
very cool but can I make my own plane and then play with the wingfoil design (and see how quickly I crash)?
Anyone know the format or what is used to create the 'aircraft design data' that gets processed real-time? I'm assuming it requires a high-res model of the plane and a fancy windtunnel simulator.
They support Compact Flash Type1 Cards which means you can swap in a Modem, GPS,Barcode scanner or anything else available.
Cos you just know your Boss is going to NEED a Barcode scanner, well, just as soon as he thinks of it...
PS. I just used google to find the example CF Cards so I recommend looking about for the best buy.
Good, medical centres are now very effective at testing for it. I'm sick (no-pun intended) of people coughing and sniffling at work when they should be at home with companies encouraging this as proper behaviour. Maybe a few will take things a bit more seriously.
Nah, what am I saying, the outbreak is over and besides I can't take a day off - my reports needs to be done!
So while they have a case against the person selling the photos I don't think they have one against Amazon itself (unless it was made aware of the fact and failed to take action - which is not the case).
This case is akin to charging a newspaper with theft because someone advertised something that turned out to be stolen in the trading post section or pimping because of the classified section.
The only reason Amazon is the target is because it has more money.
iChat communicates through port 5298.
How do I know this? Well it told me, and took me to my firewall pref pane so I could click Add and let it through. That's simplicity.
I recently saw an interesting little presentation by Brisbane City Council (Australia), titled 'Living in Brisbane in 2010' which covered their future fibre roll-out plans and touched on what other cities where doing. (Brisbane is a very spread-out city so they're taking a gradual approach and currently pigging backing rollout of fibre on other projects to save costs ie. build a new road, add fibre)
Anyway, what was interesting was they pulled out a little box about the size of my cable box (forget the manufacturer but they looked readily available) which was designed for optical in, and had 2 phone jacks (voice-over-IP), 1 ethernet jack and 1 cable jack.