Google *very responsibly* referes to a great deal of their software as Beta. Because it is still in Beta. You can read more about the concept of Beta *testing* at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage - again, Google, unlike most software companies, takes this concept seriously.
From Wiki: "beta build... is tested through a limited roll-out to a production environment using live data and real users. The beta test is closely monitored by the software testers."
It's right on the GMail logo. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo.gif They take the concept of Beta very seriously. How many Beta products has M$ released and charged out out the nose for it? *all of em*.
Who the fuck uses the word hoi polloi? But anyhow, we are not the masses - we are the technical elite thank-you-very-much that run the servers and applications of the world.
What is it about wirelessly broadcasting your backup drive transfers, mouse movements and keyboard use without encryption to everyone within 30 feet that appeals to you? I could sit a mile away with a directional antenna, sniff all your keystrokes and have a simple packet analizer looking for "slashdot" and could be posting in your name about how you CAN'T WAIT FOR VISTA and are tossing all your Linux boxes! Careful man!
On another note, it seems that the current flavor of the month is Ajax.
Flavor of the last 6 months, to be more exact.
However, this requires that javascript be enabled. Is anyone running into the problem of finding a lot of users are forgoing this technology because they have (or have been told by their company) to disable javascript for security concerns?
I rolled out some very serious Ajax apps to a large corporate hardware server producing customer, a LOT of executitives running Safari, XP IE, XP FireFox, and Opera..... and I tell you man, I'm SHOCKED that I did not see even ONE compaint yet. Without Javascript (and cookies for that matter) the web is a lonely disfunctional place! I wasa afraid like you, I have JavaScript, but it works on all browsers, it's easy to code, and it saves on server load. Go baby go!
Who the hell ever deals with the XMLHttpRequest object long-term over the course of real Ajax development? I simple wrote a few functions to deal with this in my toolkit, or I copy and paste from the last project, and bang, I'm done with XMLHttpRequest. I focus on the XML layer, application level coding, look and feel, database stuff... but I do not spend any real time on the XMLHttpRequest object. WTF is the big deal?
However, I don't see mp3 as the ultimate in digital.
Far from it - tis why I called it a "imperfect transportable mp3 collection" - It ain't the best, but it works REALLY well overall - and I do not see the need for me to ever have to buy the tracks that I have on mp3 ever again.
If my math is right, Jobs will own about 7% of the company.
Your math is way off. He will own 14% of the company. Not a *majority* shareholder, but the largest, and he's not some schmuch, he's a music revolutionary taking his gorillas out of the Pixar hills into the suburbia of Disney! Viva Jobs!
The record company visionaries are seeing the end of the road. In the past, you bought a record. Then an 8-track (only if you were hip). Then cassette. CD. Some moved to DVD, but many are getting mp3s' and the road is at an end. I don't need to move to the next latest-and-greatest way of listening to music. My imperfect transportable mp3 collection will follow me til the end of digital time without need to buy again.
More like Pixar employees running amok around Disney, with Jobs as the largest shareholder as their spirit guide. They are going to take over, just like the Next-tians took over Apples software division when Jobs returned. I For One, Welcome Jobs As Our Media Overlord.
Dude, I practice defense-in-depth. Secure backup, patch mania, anti-virus, anti-spyware, hardware and software firewall, application level patch monitoring, and surf as a non admin. Turning off the net on my main maching via my software firewall at night is only one tiny piece of my entire security strategy.
Even better, use the Kerio Personal Firewall (windows xp), it's free, and there is a button to completely disable the net to that machine. I use it and turn the net off at night before I crash because I prefer to keep my machine running at all times.
A Mundurukú villager in a remote region of the Amazon weaves a basket -- a task illustrating that knowledge of geometry is spontaneously imposed upon many of the acts of everyday life.
How about another possiblity that the villagers are confronted with basic Geometry on a day-to-day basis since birth, and such things were learned out of necessity to live? These folks weave baskets to live and such things require dexterity and a spacial knowledge that is akin to Geometry. Suppose their culture was all about dancing and then food would rain from the sky. If this was the case, they would be great dancers but poor Geomtricians.
Jobs is a cancer survivor. And a Pancreatic cancer survivor, one of the worst forms. My question is, is Jobs up to the extra stress of leading Disney? Or is he dumping pixar to lighten his load, not increase it by coveting a leadership position at Disney? Looks to me that the boy has enough on his plate as it is.
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I stand corrected, my appologies.
I was joking you twit! But still, the phrase "tripled its protection fees" is very mafia-esque.
Google *very responsibly* referes to a great deal of their software as Beta. Because it is still in Beta. You can read more about the concept of Beta *testing* at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage - again, Google, unlike most software companies, takes this concept seriously.
... is tested through a limited roll-out to a production environment using live data and real users. The beta test is closely monitored by the software testers."
From Wiki: "beta build
It's right on the GMail logo. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo.gif They take the concept of Beta very seriously. How many Beta products has M$ released and charged out out the nose for it? *all of em*.
he Ebay subsidiary PayPal tripled its "seller protection fees" for as yet undisclosed reasons
The Mafia uses the same techniques, it's called "extortion" and you goto jail for a long time if you do this.
Who the fuck uses the word hoi polloi? But anyhow, we are not the masses - we are the technical elite thank-you-very-much that run the servers and applications of the world.
What is it about wirelessly broadcasting your backup drive transfers, mouse movements and keyboard use without encryption to everyone within 30 feet that appeals to you? I could sit a mile away with a directional antenna, sniff all your keystrokes and have a simple packet analizer looking for "slashdot" and could be posting in your name about how you CAN'T WAIT FOR VISTA and are tossing all your Linux boxes! Careful man!
On another note, it seems that the current flavor of the month is Ajax.
Flavor of the last 6 months, to be more exact.
However, this requires that javascript be enabled. Is anyone running into the problem of finding a lot of users are forgoing this technology because they have (or have been told by their company) to disable javascript for security concerns?
I rolled out some very serious Ajax apps to a large corporate hardware server producing customer, a LOT of executitives running Safari, XP IE, XP FireFox, and Opera..... and I tell you man, I'm SHOCKED that I did not see even ONE compaint yet. Without Javascript (and cookies for that matter) the web is a lonely disfunctional place! I wasa afraid like you, I have JavaScript, but it works on all browsers, it's easy to code, and it saves on server load. Go baby go!
Remember without us, google are nothing.
More like, without the brainless masses who already have the name Google.com laser-etched into our cerebal cortex, Google is nothing.
Who the hell ever deals with the XMLHttpRequest object long-term over the course of real Ajax development? I simple wrote a few functions to deal with this in my toolkit, or I copy and paste from the last project, and bang, I'm done with XMLHttpRequest. I focus on the XML layer, application level coding, look and feel, database stuff... but I do not spend any real time on the XMLHttpRequest object. WTF is the big deal?
Oh my - a slashdot Ajax articele! Oh wait, haven't we dont this before here? I mean, we have already talked about Ajax as a buzzword http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/159 211&from=rss as well as State-Of-The-Art Ajax-Office apps http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/000223 &from=rss we also got into Ajax on server load http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/23 39256 - now why are we "getting back to basics" and talking about an entry-level IBM Ajax article that has year-old information on already well established techniques?
However, I don't see mp3 as the ultimate in digital.
Far from it - tis why I called it a "imperfect transportable mp3 collection" - It ain't the best, but it works REALLY well overall - and I do not see the need for me to ever have to buy the tracks that I have on mp3 ever again.
If my math is right, Jobs will own about 7% of the company.
Your math is way off. He will own 14% of the company. Not a *majority* shareholder, but the largest, and he's not some schmuch, he's a music revolutionary taking his gorillas out of the Pixar hills into the suburbia of Disney! Viva Jobs!
The record company visionaries are seeing the end of the road. In the past, you bought a record. Then an 8-track (only if you were hip). Then cassette. CD. Some moved to DVD, but many are getting mp3s' and the road is at an end. I don't need to move to the next latest-and-greatest way of listening to music. My imperfect transportable mp3 collection will follow me til the end of digital time without need to buy again.
Think subatomic particles slamming together fast enough to rip open the surrounding fabric of the universe and KA-BOOM!
"animation is, and will remain, at the heart and soul of Disney"
That's right Robert, say it with me, COMPUTER ANIMATION .
More like Pixar employees running amok around Disney, with Jobs as the largest shareholder as their spirit guide. They are going to take over, just like the Next-tians took over Apples software division when Jobs returned. I For One, Welcome Jobs As Our Media Overlord.
I, for one, welcome our new computerizied enviornmental control overlords!
WTF are you talking about?
Dude, I practice defense-in-depth. Secure backup, patch mania, anti-virus, anti-spyware, hardware and software firewall, application level patch monitoring, and surf as a non admin. Turning off the net on my main maching via my software firewall at night is only one tiny piece of my entire security strategy.
To keep the salt air at bay. I live on Kauai and my machines are in a screened office.
No pork because it'll be green and glowing soon.
n ome.ap/ "Researchers to map pig DNA"
It's way worse than that - They are going to maike Pork TASTIER through generic engineering! You want to talk scarry? Check out this article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/20/pig.ge
Even better, use the Kerio Personal Firewall (windows xp), it's free, and there is a button to completely disable the net to that machine. I use it and turn the net off at night before I crash because I prefer to keep my machine running at all times.
A Mundurukú villager in a remote region of the Amazon weaves a basket -- a task illustrating that knowledge of geometry is spontaneously imposed upon many of the acts of everyday life.
How about another possiblity that the villagers are confronted with basic Geometry on a day-to-day basis since birth, and such things were learned out of necessity to live? These folks weave baskets to live and such things require dexterity and a spacial knowledge that is akin to Geometry. Suppose their culture was all about dancing and then food would rain from the sky. If this was the case, they would be great dancers but poor Geomtricians.
Jobs is a cancer survivor. And a Pancreatic cancer survivor, one of the worst forms. My question is, is Jobs up to the extra stress of leading Disney? Or is he dumping pixar to lighten his load, not increase it by coveting a leadership position at Disney? Looks to me that the boy has enough on his plate as it is.
If I can hear music through my sound card, no matter what DRM they put on it, I will be able to rip it to mp3.