And to make some sense out of this... they plan to split the internet in sections and preserve all graphics, bells and whistles, melodies and scripts.
Wouldn't it be a lot better if they would strip the HTML, graphics and leave plain unformatted text with hyperlinks, the words being compressed using a shared dictionary of the words in all pages?
You could fit a lot more information in a lot less space that way, also eliminating most of the useless noise such as having a pretty shadow on that rounded panel.
.. not that it isn't obvious but, the whole reason this service is about to happen, and the only reason we're reading about it on Slashdot is the wow factor of saying "get the internet on your disk".
Should have they said it like "buy our temp files" it's suddenly a lot less interesting.
You can't split the internet in topics and sell it. Noone browses while restraining himself to one topic. When looking up information or researching a topic, we jump from a site to site totally unrelated to any specific subcategory of pages.
As for caching specific sites for offline viewing, well that's something IE, a free product, had for ages.
Nothing more entertaining than NASA TV, this site is totally redundant. On NASA TV you can enjoy incredible features such as:
- an astronaut spending half an hour getting ready to pee in space - demonstrationg of an astronaut writing on a paper in space - an astronaut in space flies around in zero gravity - an astronaut approaches another astronaut in space and they play with water in zero gravity - an astrounaut talks with earth control staff about football - an astrounaut reads shuttle equipment manuals in space (!!!) and a lot more, only on NASA TV!
Dislaimer: I've nothing but admiration for those guys, they show us what mankind is capable of and I wholy respect that. I mean, playing with water in zero gravity, that's cool right? Ok.. ok...
Sony's profits in 2004 are roughly 400 million dollars (not too much, I mean, I have more in my pocket right now I'll spend tonight), and 560 million for 2005.
They had some losses, they've cut AIBO, QRIO and most of their CRT monitor plants, but the rest of the home electronics was profitable and funding the rest of the developments.
We know the moment PS3 is out Sony will be up to the neck in money from licensing deals for PS3 games, accessories and what not.
At the same time XBOX360 was an utter failure because of the shortages, and because Japan didn't like it, while they were testing it with Japan focus group. That's ironic and funny and therefore I rule a failure. Cause I'm like that, I don't base my assertions on sound analysis or anything.
So Microsoft with their poor XBOX360 performance will soon be ailing. Therefore it's obvious, guys:
If scientist ever manage to 100% prove evolution is an actual autonomous process that happens because of natural selection... it kinda still leaves place for creationists to claim God created evolution:)
They've stepped back and adapted numerous times before (from flat earth, women rights, earth centric system, sun centric system, biology, there was also the claim we'll bring on the Apocalypse for researching atoms and subatomic particles/shocking: we're not made out of mud after all/)
So if I come home from work hungry like hell and embrace the whole fridge, does it make me embracing vegetarian diet faster than ever since I also ate tomatoes (beside the pork and chicken)?
As you can see, I'm kinda hungry.. but that's not the point.
writing non-sense that includes two or more huge companies drives eyeballs to his articles!
So insightfull!
BTW if noone has noticed (Cringely didn't) Apple keeps the sales by offering solutions. You buy it, it works.
iPod alone isn't good enough, nor is iTunes alone good engouh. They are together a solution that people choose.
OSX isn't good enough, not are the shiny boxes alone good enough. Even the shiny boxes + OS isn't good enough, you need to add iLife, Logic Pro and so on with the respective targets. Together they all make a solution.
Pull a piece out, and suddenly it's no better than a PC with all its compatibility/hardware/software issues.
The moment OSX is out for PC is the moment people will realize that what makes it a stable and easy to use OS is the limited availability of hardware and software it runs on.
Windows is ugly, rude and scarred, because you can't be otherwise after spending 30 years out in the wild surviving on all kinds of hardware and living with all kinds of software.
I know how it sounds but the guys is pretty good with SQL queries. He can write whole huge queries that get the required data in one pass and much faster than in multiple queries and processing in PHP as the rest of us would do.
He never really worked or understood AJAX so we had to cut him some slack.. But ya, he's not doing the JS anymore;)
- JavaScript is used to create an SQL query based on what report the user wants. - This SQL string is submitted in a form and executed as an SQL query directly without any checks or anything. - The db user executing the query has enough rights to read / edit / delete all databases on the server. - Everything the query returns is serialised and passed back to JavaScript to parse and display.
That's an actual case in an actual web application, though the guy had long experience with SQL he was new with AJAX apps, so we caught that in the code audit.
Now he knows that's a Really Bad Idea to do, I wonder how many boys and girls out there don't.
"Right. Things marked "not for sale" never get sold on the black market anywhere. Just ask anyone who ever traded food stamps for cash (oh right, you can't do that...)."
Ok, you're right. Let's just forget about everything and stare in one point all day long. That's accomplish more.
Slashdot Mirror
"They've been using non-free free products for years..."
Yea, it's about time Bush invades China and frees those poor products.
And to make some sense out of this... they plan to split the internet in sections and preserve all graphics, bells and whistles, melodies and scripts.
Wouldn't it be a lot better if they would strip the HTML, graphics and leave plain unformatted text with hyperlinks, the words being compressed using a shared dictionary of the words in all pages?
You could fit a lot more information in a lot less space that way, also eliminating most of the useless noise such as having a pretty shadow on that rounded panel.
.. not that it isn't obvious but, the whole reason this service is about to happen, and the only reason we're reading about it on Slashdot is the wow factor of saying "get the internet on your disk".
Should have they said it like "buy our temp files" it's suddenly a lot less interesting.
You can't split the internet in topics and sell it. Noone browses while restraining himself to one topic. When looking up information or researching a topic, we jump from a site to site totally unrelated to any specific subcategory of pages.
As for caching specific sites for offline viewing, well that's something IE, a free product, had for ages.
Imagine a version of Slashdot that you can refresh all day long, but no new articles appear.
You can post comments, but they never show up.
This service is a potential disaster that can drive millions of geeks on the edge of desperation or worse.
Think of the geeks, people...
The TFA is about Firefox Extensions.
The TFA was quickly Slashdotted.
The perfect moment to suggest the Slashdot Firefox Extension:
Slashdot Extension
Generates TFA mirror links and other handy features...
After long, exhausting and expensive research, China has found out how to buy a free product.
First, the scratches and broken screens on iPod Nano and now this!
Nothing more entertaining than NASA TV, this site is totally redundant. On NASA TV you can enjoy incredible features such as:
- an astronaut spending half an hour getting ready to pee in space
- demonstrationg of an astronaut writing on a paper in space
- an astronaut in space flies around in zero gravity
- an astronaut approaches another astronaut in space and they play with water in zero gravity
- an astrounaut talks with earth control staff about football
- an astrounaut reads shuttle equipment manuals in space (!!!)
and a lot more, only on NASA TV!
Dislaimer: I've nothing but admiration for those guys, they show us what mankind is capable of and I wholy respect that. I mean, playing with water in zero gravity, that's cool right? Ok.. ok...
...or you're tired as hell from the cliche "witty remarks" and idioms in the titles?
I mean how about the limb/fin fish fossil link from yesterday. We had titles like "Fish out of water found" and "Fish gets out on a limb".
How retarded is that? How informative it is? I say yaay for search engines.
"One very serious problem in modern processors is clock skew"
Does this make you feel like a P4?
So in short, your next smart clock may as well have a CPU without a clock.
Those damn young'uns and their newfangled clockless clocks.
Sony's profits in 2004 are roughly 400 million dollars (not too much, I mean, I have more in my pocket right now I'll spend tonight), and 560 million for 2005.
They had some losses, they've cut AIBO, QRIO and most of their CRT monitor plants, but the rest of the home electronics was profitable and funding the rest of the developments.
We know the moment PS3 is out Sony will be up to the neck in money from licensing deals for PS3 games, accessories and what not.
At the same time XBOX360 was an utter failure because of the shortages, and because Japan didn't like it, while they were testing it with Japan focus group. That's ironic and funny and therefore I rule a failure. Cause I'm like that, I don't base my assertions on sound analysis or anything.
So Microsoft with their poor XBOX360 performance will soon be ailing. Therefore it's obvious, guys:
Sony buyout of ailing Microsoft is imminent.
Respect my authoritah...!
If scientist ever manage to 100% prove evolution is an actual autonomous process that happens because of natural selection... it kinda still leaves place for creationists to claim God created evolution :)
/shocking: we're not made out of mud after all/)
They've stepped back and adapted numerous times before (from flat earth, women rights, earth centric system, sun centric system, biology, there was also the claim we'll bring on the Apocalypse for researching atoms and subatomic particles
"how evolution created a new piece of molecular machinery by reusing and modifying existing parts"
So now evolution "creates" and "reuses" stuff? Why not call it a win-win for both evolution and creationism and go home already.
So if I come home from work hungry like hell and embrace the whole fridge, does it make me embracing vegetarian diet faster than ever since I also ate tomatoes (beside the pork and chicken)?
As you can see, I'm kinda hungry.. but that's not the point.
writing non-sense that includes two or more huge companies drives eyeballs to his articles!
So insightfull!
BTW if noone has noticed (Cringely didn't) Apple keeps the sales by offering solutions. You buy it, it works.
iPod alone isn't good enough, nor is iTunes alone good engouh. They are together a solution that people choose.
OSX isn't good enough, not are the shiny boxes alone good enough. Even the shiny boxes + OS isn't good enough, you need to add iLife, Logic Pro and so on with the respective targets. Together they all make a solution.
Pull a piece out, and suddenly it's no better than a PC with all its compatibility/hardware/software issues.
Your next Britney Spears CD will secretly install critical Windows and IE patches to your PC even if you're not connected to Internet.
What's not to like.
Why? Because people think they're evil and they can't compete without pushing their lawyers and being evil.
But why they can't compete? Because people think they're evil and they can't compete without pushing their lawyers and being evil...
The moment OSX is out for PC is the moment people will realize that what makes it a stable and easy to use OS is the limited availability of hardware and software it runs on.
Windows is ugly, rude and scarred, because you can't be otherwise after spending 30 years out in the wild surviving on all kinds of hardware and living with all kinds of software.
I know how it sounds but the guys is pretty good with SQL queries. He can write whole huge queries that get the required data in one pass and much faster than in multiple queries and processing in PHP as the rest of us would do.
;)
He never really worked or understood AJAX so we had to cut him some slack.. But ya, he's not doing the JS anymore
- JavaScript is used to create an SQL query based on what report the user wants.
- This SQL string is submitted in a form and executed as an SQL query directly without any checks or anything.
- The db user executing the query has enough rights to read / edit / delete all databases on the server.
- Everything the query returns is serialised and passed back to JavaScript to parse and display.
That's an actual case in an actual web application, though the guy had long experience with SQL he was new with AJAX apps, so we caught that in the code audit.
Now he knows that's a Really Bad Idea to do, I wonder how many boys and girls out there don't.
"Right. Things marked "not for sale" never get sold on the black market anywhere. Just ask anyone who ever traded food stamps for cash (oh right, you can't do that...)."
Ok, you're right. Let's just forget about everything and stare in one point all day long. That's accomplish more.
If you don't trust the leader of a project why would you trust an entity created and controlled by him.
"Now if you guys can just make Thunderbird stop sucking, I'd be much happier."
It's open source, download it, make it stop sucking and send it back.
You can't sell those. The green shell is Not For Sale and if found sold that would be a sure sign something illegal happened.
The units that will be sold will be blue or gray.